Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“I killed someone?” Chu Ge looked at the body on the ground as he was in a daze for a moment.
In the past, when he had swept through an entire Instance Dungeon or half an Instance Dungeon, he had killed a lot of Kobolds, spiders, skeletons, and even a few Bosses. However, the images of these monsters overlapped with the pictures of monsters in the games he played in the past. Therefore, it had not stirred any emotions within him. He even had felt good.
Chu Ge felt that apart from the harsh price of death, it was as if he was playing a holographic virtual online game.
In the game, was it necessary to have a reason to kill these monsters? Did Chu Ge have to bear any psychological burdens?
It was not until he had personally cut down the first human monster, Greymouth, who was a grave robber, and watched him fall to the ground covered in blood that Chu Ge suddenly realized he had actually killed someone.
This had made him feel uneasy.
However, the feeling of unease didn’t come from the fact that he killed someone himself. He was not at all uneasy about it and was even a bit happy.
What had made him uneasy the way he felt. After killing the grave robber, he did not feel the slightest bit uneasiness or nausea.
“Was I born as a homicidal maniac? Am I cold-blooded? Am I the main character in an online novel who kills decisively?” Chu Ge’s mind raced.
Of course, this was impossible. No, it must be because Chu Ge was inside an Instance Dungeon. Within an Instance Dungeon, even human beings were just monsters who looked very much like Chu Ge. They were essentially no different than Kobolds or skeletons.
In the end, Chu Ge thought of such an explanation. However, what made him a bit suspicious was whether or not this was actually the case. Had the situations in these Instance Dungeons created by this Multi-universe Instance Dungeon System really happened, or were they just false illusions?
In terms of personal moral dilemmas and doubt about the unknown, they had made Chu Ge hesitate for a moment.
But soon, Chu Ge smirked. No matter how much he thought about these things, it would be no use. Did his enemy have to be a human for him to stop going through Instance Dungeons? Of course, this was impossible.
Although Chu Ge did not believe that he was a cold-blooded killer, he also did not think of himself as a saint. He was just an ordinary person, a strong and ambitious ordinary person. If he needed to kill someone to gain strength, so what if he had to kill a person? As long as the person had a reason to die.
He would not be punished by the law anyways. Also, in the background settings of the Instance Dungeons, those who were sent into the Instance Dungeon as monsters were generally bad guys, weren’t they?
At least from a human moral point of view, this was the case. Those Kobolds in the past were like that. Those scary skeletons were also like that, and the grave robber in front of Chu Ge was obviously the same. Even by human moral standards, it was not a bad thing to kill a person himself. In fact, he was even helping to get rid of evil and bring peace. Maybe Chu Ge could be regarded as something like helping others for a just cause, a hero role model, and a youth who was outstanding in five areas.
At the thought of this, the only trace of uneasiness left in his heart was eliminated.
“That’s right. I am the hero who was punishing evil and eliminating evil. There is no need to have any psychological burdens when killing bad guys. Besides, the enemy was probably just an NPC who had the appearance of a human being and didn’t have any intelligence to speak of.” When Chu Ge thought of this, he felt that the idea made sense. Without any more psychological burdens, Chu Ge began to touch the corpse.
After he touched the corpse, he suddenly became happy. The tomb raider Greymouth lost only one treasure. It was an amulet tied to a leather rope, with a bronze sign on it that was engraved with a dragon eye design.
[Dragon Eye Amulet (Accessory/Amulet).
Equipment skill: Treasure Tracking. It allows you to find hidden treasures nearby.
Item Introduction: Greedy dragons can always find treasures hidden in the depths of the earth, so it is said that the legendary eyes of dragons can see the invisible light emitted by those treasures. Even if the riches are buried deep in the ground, it still cannot be hidden from the eye of dragons.]
“This is a good item,” Chu Ge thought to himself. With this item, he wouldn’t need to be afraid of not being able to find treasures.
Chu Ge hung the Dragon Eye Amulet around his neck, then immediately noticed that there seemed to be a slight change in the world he saw before his eyes. The world was still the same, but something similar to a golden halo had appeared in his line of sight. The position of this halo was located behind the closed stone door on the right side of the hall. This change made Chu Ge feel as if he had a pair of eyes that could see through everything.
However, he could not see what was behind the door. He could only feel that there was some kind of treasure hidden behind it.
As he walked to the door, Chu Ge became a little excited. He still had no idea what the five runes on the stone door were. Chu Ge first checked his surrounding area and made sure that he was safe. He saw that right above his head, there was a row of small black holes.
“Sh*t, there must be some sort of mechanism here,” Chu Ge thought. If he were to turn the runes himself and had failed to turn them correctly, he would most likely trigger a device or something.
Chu Ge was thinking about this while he took out a long spear from his bag. He stood far away from the stone door and then poked the stone disc that was in the middle of the door. He heard two clicks, and sure enough, more than a dozen sharp spears dropped from above his head. These spears landed in front of the stone door. If he had been standing at the doorway while pressing the disc, he would have died.
“Fortunately, I have played many games in the past, so such an obvious trap would not be able to fool me,” Chu Ge said out loud.
“However, it seems that I won’t be able to open the door for the time being. But this doesn’t matter. Normally, there are no doors in an Instance Dungeon that cannot be opened. The password on this door of the Instance Dungeon will appear in the next course of this Instance Dungeon. I just don’t know if I can find it or not,” Chu Ge thought to himself and decided to continue moving forward.
Although the treasure behind the door was very appealing, what he was really looking forward to was the items dropped from Auguste, the final Boss of this Instance Dungeon, who was a Necromancer Apprentice. Chu Ge wanted to obtain magic. Compared to gold, silver, and jewelry, the power of magic was what he wanted the most.
Through the hall where the Undead Knight was stationed, Chu Ge walked down the stairs into the lower passage of the crypt. The small monsters blocking his way had changed from skeletons to zombies. On the dark passageway, under the light of the lit torches, Chu Ge was able to see seven or eight wooden figures standing in front of him, blocking his way.
These zombies had obviously been resurrected. They were wearing different clothes. Some were dressed in simple and shabby clothes, which made them look like people from nearby villages. Some were well-dressed as if they were the dead people who had been resurrected in the crypt.
Of course, without exception, they had all become zombies.
The response of these zombies was very slow. It seemed like the radar range of these zombies were even shorter than the Kobolds. It was less than ten meters. If Chu Ge were to stand a little bit further than that, then these zombies would be unresponsive.
Chu Ge first drew one of the zombies over with his bow and arrow. The way that zombie attacked was very simple. As soon as it was attacked, it would stretch out its hands and make strange cries from its mouth while pouncing towards Chu Ge.
As for Chu Ge, he naturally would not wait to be attacked. These guys were not some attractive women, so he directly swung his weapon. Zombies obviously had more flesh than skeletons and were as harmless as skeletons. When they were hit by Chu Ge’s attacks, they did not respond. It was only when Chu Ge had cut off the zombie’s head that the zombie fell to the ground.
After cutting down two zombies, Chu Ge noticed that the combat strength of these zombies was extremely weak. As long as they were hit in the vital areas, they would be no threat at all.
Also, Chu Ge still adhered to the principle of being careful and not making a big mistake. Each time he fought and lured monsters, he would set up a snap trap formation beforehand. In case he could not defeat them, he could at least lead the monsters into the traps. However, because the combat strength of these zombies was so weak, these snap traps were never used.