The Old Man Is So Good at Acting Like a Loser

＜ 3. Enter the Dungeon (2) ＞

“What is your suggestion?”

Arpan was ready to drag Marco and hang him in the incinerator. Andrea hurriedly spoke to prevent it from happening.

“Your role obviously wasn’t just guiding the dungeon, right?”

“you’re right. Besides that, I have one more role.”

Aside from the tutorials, Arpan’s role was to bestow one blessing on the challengers on the journey.

Remove a basic card from your deck, get a rare card, get an artifact, improve a stat, etc.

Depending on which of the blessings Arpan gave you at the start, the aspect of the game completely changed. Especially in high-level trials, it was almost impossible to solve the game without the good Arpan’s blessing.

Arpan wondered why Andrea was bringing up this story out of the blue.

“I will inform you of the blessing option after incinerating that mortal. Please wait a moment.”

“No no, speaking of that blessing, can’t I choose that man?”

The silence that came as if a rat had died. The guide of the dungeon doubted his ears at the absurd suggestion. Andrea added an additional explanation.

“Make that man a summon card. I will choose to receive that card as a blessing.”

The silence lasted a little longer. Arfan couldn’t answer the question easily. He walked over to the stone chair and sat down again, covering his face with his hand on the armrest.

‘I wonder if that was a very absurd proposal.’

While Andrea was regretting whether she had said it unnecessarily, a small laugh began to be heard. The laughter, which at first was only a gurgling sound, grew louder and louder, and quickly became a deafening deafening sound that reverberated throughout the room.

Arpan was exploding his madness. Arpan laughed for a while while making a strange sound that was neither animal-like nor human-like. He laughed so much that Arpan even wiped away the tears.

“You really exceeded my expectations. To bring in a mortal and use him as a summons? Andrea-sama is the first to do such an absurd thing.”

“That is truly an honor.”

“As a rule, this is nonsense. But it’s such an interesting proposal that I want to hear it.”

Fortunately, the response was quite positive. Marco’s face was that he didn’t know how things were going. Andrea approached to convince Marco.

“Marco-san, I am sorry that I brought you here without asking Marco-san’s intentions. But if he had been on that island anyway, he would have died. I never would have waited for help to come.”

“You are not the first here, are you? Is there really no way to get out of here right now?”

“Unfortunately, that goat head is right. There is no way to get out of here right now unless you throw yourself into an incinerator.”

Marco lowered his head in dejection. It wasn’t very nice to see a man of big size, depressed. Andrea snapped her fingers in front of Marco’s eyes.

“Calm down, Marco. That doesn’t mean there’s no way out. It’s impossible here, but if you help me in that dungeon, I can get out someday. Don’t give up without even trying. Didn’t we survive a dog-like typhoon on that boat?”

“…”

“Shouldn’t you be looking for your daughter?”

Hearing that, Marco flinched. The agonizing Marco finally raised his head. It was a determined look.

“You are right. What should I do?”

“…you have to become a card first.”

“···what? What do you mean?”

The moment Marco said that, Arpan waved his hand in the air.

As if taking a picture, Marco’s figure was stuffed onto a large card. The large cards were gradually reduced to smaller sizes and soon became the same size as normal cards.

Andrea held the card floating in the air in her hand.

‘[Normal] Summon Marco (2 cost): Summons Marco, a slave from Helios.’

“I don’t have much talent in combat and I can’t use magic, but my body is quite strong, so I set it at 2 cost. Since it has a maximum mana of 1, Andrea-sama won’t be able to use it right away.”

Arfan said in a sarcastic tone.

‘It doesn’t matter though.’

It was within the expected range. If ‘summoning a scarecrow’ was 1 cost, but summoning a human was also 1 cost, it would have been even weirder.

There were limited ways to increase mana, but it wasn’t without. Or you can touch a card and make it usable. The fact that I somehow got the summon card was far more important.

Except for the one and only summoner character, getting a summon card in the beginning is very difficult. There are many reasons for such a design.

This is because low-level monsters do not have high AI, so the pattern is twisted just by calling a summoned beast.

It was not known whether this would be the case in real life. However, I had to use all the knowledge I knew anyway.

Otherwise, Andrea will die on the 8th floor just like she did before coming.

‘It’s the same in the dungeon. I have to use all the bugs, tricks, and tricks I know. because···’

Andrea put the Marco summon card into her deck. And tied the rope of the deck to the waist and hung it.

‘This game is a roguelike. Because everything is over when I die.’

This was the real beginning.

“I even gave you a blessing, so there’s no need to waste any more time.”

Arpan hit the wall with an iron rod. The bricks waved like waves and then slowly cracked. The gap widened until a dim passageway was revealed between the bricks.

A feeling of tension that comes all over again. The passage between the walls was like an animal opening its mouth for prey.

But there was no hesitation. Andrea took a step. Arfan said in a very excited voice.

“I wish Andrea good luck on her journey. You won’t have to face me for a while.”

Andrea stopped walking and turned around. Then he smiled and fired at Arpan.

“Is it really so?”

Arpan tilted his head with a hint of incomprehension. Andrea lightly gestured toward Arpan.

“See you later. Tell the bastards who sent me here to keep an eye out. I’ll show you how the dead person plays the game.”

*

The passageway lined with bricks was wide and stretched out. It wasn’t too dark, with torches hanging sparsely from the walls. A swollen shadow swayed every time I passed by.

Halfway through, Andrea found a card that had fallen on the floor.

‘Yes, there was this.’

The minimum mercy that the dungeon bestows on challengers who start their adventure. Arpan’s blessing and this.

‘[Basic] Stick (Equipment Card): A stick made by cutting a hard tree.’

‘…Well, it’s better than fighting with bare hands.’

Andrea looked around at the stick cards. It was the same illustration as seen in the game. The indomitable crusader and the reversal barbarian both wield this stick equally at first.

‘But how do I mount this?’

In the game, it is said that you can click it in the deck list, but in reality, I did not know how to summon and equip it.

‘Could it be that.’

Andrea looked around in embarrassment for nothing, even though she knew there was no one there. After making sure that no one was there, Andrea exclaimed.

“Equip the stick card!”

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Nothing happened.

Embarrassed, Andrea scratched her head. Also, reality is different from cartoons.

The answer was surprisingly simple. I flipped the card over to see if there was a button anywhere, and without thinking, I touched the surface of the card with my index finger.

‘Ah, that was it.’

There was a pop and smoke rose, and the card turned into a stick. Andrea picked up a stick and swung it around. It was a stick that you would pick up while hiking, and there was nothing special about it.

‘A normal person would write it and throw it away without thinking.’

While playing the game, there are times when a card that seemed useless to anyone has an unexpected function. Andrea recalled the joy of discovering another way to use the stick.

After following the passage some more, I finally saw a door. Finally, we enter the dungeon in earnest.

As I gulped down my saliva and prepared to open the door, I heard a loud voice from somewhere that echoed through the aisle.

‘start. There are times when even an indomitable warrior who has overcome any adversity is a newbie just starting his journey. When I was most excited, most nervous, and most ignorant. Challenger, will you be able to successfully complete your journey and look back on this moment with a smile?’

‘Buff [Beginner’s Luck] is applied. Resistance and luck increase by 3.’

Andrea burst out laughing. It was the same narration as the phrase that appeared during loading when the game was first started.

When entering a floor with special buffs or obstacles, a guide would appear during loading. It wasn’t bad for Andrea anyway. Information about that floor is a very important part in a roguelike game where the location and event change every time.

‘It’s delicate in a useless place.’

Complaining, not complaining, Andrea opened the door.

As expected, the monster greeted Andrea.

‘The slime on the first floor is a national rule.’

Due to the nature of roguelikes, dungeons have different forms each time. However, there are certain rules in between. Except for special cases, most of the monsters on the first floor were slimes, which was one of them.

It is a monster that is not difficult to catch at all. It does not have highly acidic slime, does not take physical damage, and does not split in half, as some games describe.

…unless it’s the 25th ordeal.

[Trial Stage 1: Damage from normal monsters becomes stronger.]

[Trial Stage 11: Damage received by normal monsters is reduced or becomes immune to specific damage.]

[Trial stage 21: A new pattern is added to normal monsters.]

The slime that grew up after eating the ordeal becomes a monster that attacks with strong acidity, is immune to physical attacks, and even splits in half when its physical strength is low.

Of course, Andrea thought it was normal slime.

‘The number of objects is three. One is a spiny slime, the other is a regular slime. The size of the room is a little narrower than the waiting room, let’s see… Yeah. There are two torches on each side of the wall.’

When Andrea finished grasping, the slimes also felt the presence. At that moment, the deck opened by itself. Andrea quickly put her hand into the deck and drew a card.

The drawn cards are Strike, Strike, and Defense. These are obvious cards considering the composition of the deck.

Turn 1 has started.

Andrea used a blow and tossed the other two away. Power went into the hand holding the stick with a tingling energy.

Physical damage could not be inflicted, but physical attacks were not meaningless at all. Considering Andrea’s low strength, I had to use this card at least.

The slimes in the corner crawled over. It was a little faster than walking, but it was threatening enough in a small room.

A normal slime headed in the same direction as Andrea. The rest crawled toward the other wall. Divided into two groups, each facing the wall on either side.

It was as Andrea expected.

‘As expected, the pattern is the same as the game.’

＜ 3. Enter the Dungeon (2) ＞ End