I Became a Gallery Newbie Beloved by Transcendents

I surrounded my body with protective qi before walking forward.

Flash!

A light engulfed my vision.

I quickly crouched behind a rock outcropping for cover.

The blue-green radiance burst three more times.

The rock formation withstood the golem’s attacks three times before crumbling away.

Good.

Mental note taken.

Then I rushed forward. The air rippled with sound and fell away behind me.

I sprang up elastically, rising higher.

I thought I just needed to avoid the beams.

-Target, acquired, eliminate.

The words flowing from the golem’s mouth made me realize that wasn’t the case.

Along with an incredibly brutal action.

After reaching the golem’s weak point at the nape of its neck, something unexpected happened.

Swoosh!

The golem’s shoulders, which I thought only emitted beams, shuddered before a fist extended outward.

I brought forth the Mirror of Transformation and enlarged it.

I absorbed the initial impact with the shield, but the force that followed was too great.

My body floated upward.

Crash!

My body was thrown far backward.

Since I was thrown while surrounded by protective qi, my body remained relatively intact.

No time.

No more time to delay.

Boom!

A mana beam burst gloriously at the spot where I had just been sitting.

Again, just by a hair’s breadth.

[Skill ‘Visual Field Expansion’ level has increased. Lv4]

The trajectory warnings appearing in the golem’s eyes.

Left first, right after.

Keeeeeng!

First dodge the one coming from the right diagonal.

Deflect the beam pouring straight ahead with the Mirror of Transformation.

Fortunately, the golem’s eyes were large; otherwise, some part of my body would have been shattered beyond repair by now.

After evading all the downward beams, I narrowed the distance to the red golem’s vicinity.

The golem was looking down at me from high above.

“This is a bit scary.”

I layered sword energy onto the Great Sword Karnavalt.

Then I slashed horizontally.

The golem’s legs, made of stone itself, crashed to the ground.

The golem’s body settled heavily, shedding fragments.

Without the sword energy, I couldn’t have cut through it.

[Your level has increased!]

[Lv.21 → Lv.22]

Beyond the mist, I could see flashing red lights.

Even after smashing three of them, there were still roughly a dozen more remaining.

I hadn’t entered their range yet, so no beams were coming at me.

I turned my head backward.

“……”

Golems probably wouldn’t come charging from the path I’d already traveled.

Of course, I wasn’t certain.

Maintaining my heightened state of tension, I hid behind cover and took out my terminal.

Title: Almost Died Standing Around Leisurely

Author: oo*

Do these kinds of golems normally appear on the 4th floor?

ㄴ As if ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

ㄴ SewerSwordSaint) They don’t!

ㄴ You got Pandemonium’d

ㄴ As a warrior on Easy difficulty, I only see these guys on floor 35 ㅇㅇ

ㄴ Normal difficulty: 25th floor

ㄴ LightSword) 8th floor.

ㄴ Pioneer) 9th floor.

ㄴ DragonKing) Beltwi- 888!

Wow.

Is this what life is?

ㄴ oo*) So which boss monster appears when these guys show up?

ㄴ ArchMage) The Fire Mother.

ㄴ LightSword) Or the Son of Lightning.

What’s with these mothers and sons?

ㄴ oo*) ? Do golems have genders?

ㄴ ArchMage) I suppose in the eyes of golem engineers, golems might look like their children.

ㄴ Hohoho, my child doesn’t bite people.

ㄴ They don’t bite people, that’s true. They beat them to death.

ㄴ oo*) What’s the strategy for those two?

ㄴ HeavenlyDemon) Those two don’t have weak points at the nape of their necks like other golems. You need to destroy the mana core embedded in the center of their bodies by penetrating their solid body barriers.

ㄴ oo*) How do I do that?

ㄴ HeavenlyDemon) With overwhelming power, of course.

ㄴ Hey, if you talk based on your standards, climbers will be so grateful, won’t they?

ㄴ HeavenlyDemon) Hmm, if you mastered my Destructive Fist technique, you could destroy it easily.

ㄴ That’s not helpful at all, is it?

ㄴ How am I supposed to use something I haven’t learned yet?

ㄴ Inter-dimensional trade cooldown isn’t up yet, right?

ㄴ IceQueen) Frozen… My experience probably won’t be very helpful.

ㄴ LightSword) The answer lies in one of the attacks you’ve already taken.

ㄴ oo*) ?

As if I’ve only taken one or two attacks. Yeah right.

ㄴ LightSword) Sword Energy Explosion.

Sword Energy Explosion.

He meant for me to execute that attack I took from Rainer, the 4th-rank knight, in the Beast Forest two days ago.

ㄴ oo*) How am I supposed to use that?

I’ve never learned it.

ㄴ LightSword) If you’ve thoroughly read Dragon Slaying Sword, you would have seen the Vortex Flow section. That’s the Dragon Slaying Sword’s version of Sword Energy Explosion.

I definitely remember it.

I read it desperately because I wanted to live.

But I’ve never actually executed it.

ㄴ LightSword) Sword energy and aura fundamentally move according to your will. Their versatility varies tremendously depending on your mindset.

I could see the red lights blinking beyond the mist gradually getting closer. It wasn’t just my imagination. I put the gallery terminal back in my inventory.

I flowed mana from the mana heart throughout my body again.

[Mana Body Enhancement Lv.5 – Activating skill.]

I wrapped protective qi around my entire body.

If it weren’t for the senior Transcendent Gallery members, I would have died from the first beam the golem shot.

One thing’s for sure, this damned Tower can only be cleared if I do well.

There’s no easy way out.

Swoosh!

What came flying this time wasn’t a beam.

A gray light flashed from under the golem’s right forearm, and chains surged forth.

I gathered sword energy like a gust of wind and extended it in a straight line.

Slash!

The chains fractured and broke apart.

I threw my body straight ahead.

I fought all day long.

After killing the chain-wielding golem, I eliminated a dozen more golems.

My level rose again; I’m currently level 23.

Before me stretched stairs made of yellow stone.

As I climbed the stairs, I could see ten golems looking up at me from the ground below.

I let out a slight sigh before drawing upon my mana again.

[Mana Body Enhancement Lv.6 – Activating skill.]

With the increase in mana due to leveling up, my Mana Body Enhancement skill also rose by one level.

I was about to go down and dance with my blade again.

Beep!

With a strange sound, the red stone hanging on the wall flickered.

The light that had been shining brightly until just a moment ago went out.

At the same time, the golems suddenly hunched over and stopped moving.

I took out my terminal.

I photographed the golems.

Title: What Are These Guys Doing?

Author: oo*

They look like they’re sleeping or something.

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ㄴ They are sleeping.

ㄴ ArchMage) But if you approach them, they’ll wake up right away.

ㄴ AbsoluteMonarch) When those creatures rested, I also took a rest.

ㄴ LightSword) Rest. If you’re in an environment where you can.

ㄴ ClosedRoomTheorist) Golems sleeping is kind of cute – This world is made of giant closed rooms

That’s one insane comment.

ㄴ SpearKing) If you disturb them while they’re sleeping, they go into rage mode. Gets messy.

ㄴ I’mAnElf) They sleep for at most an hour.

…Is this some kind of mutually agreed-upon rest time or something?

I decided to use this time for a meal.

I took out jeyuk deopbap (spicy pork over rice) and had a hearty meal.

Then I briefly released the tension in my body and took a breather.

Beep!

As the elf senior said, the golems woke up after an hour.

ㄴ LightSword) The moment after sleep ends when they unfold their hunched bodies.

ㄴ AbsoluteMonarch) That moment is their clearest weakness.

ㄴ Pioneer) You said there were ten of them? Take out at least two in that moment. Plan your movements.

This was the advice I saw from my seniors a few minutes ago.

And since entering the 4th floor, I had become even more determined to be a junior who follows the seniors’ advice well.

I held the Black Javelin in my right hand.

[Mana Body Enhancement Lv.6 – Activating skill.]

With full power.

I swung my arm like a whip.

Crash!

The javelin.

It shattered the head of the copper-colored golem at the far end.

Then I raised my protective qi, kicked off the stair railing, landed, and removed the yellow golem’s mana core.

I immediately destroyed the core of the golem on the left with my great sword.

Whoosh!

While taking out one more golem in a straight line, I couldn’t respond to the green golem digging in from the right side.

Wham!

The golem’s fist struck me directly in the ribs.

Even though I was wearing new armor.

Even with protective qi surrounding me, I felt a heavy pain.

Slash!

My body was pushed straight back.

I desperately planted both feet on the ground and endured.

The sensation surged.

The desperation I felt when fighting the Orc Army Commander.

And the intensity I experienced when facing the Kobold King.

I took down ten golems.

Then five more.

After my right shoulder blade was torn by a black golem’s massive hand, I applied emergency treatment with a potion.

Fortunately, I was able to crack one more skull and level up.

Currently level 24.

Now the path was straight.

I kept walking.

Rumble…

The sound of the dungeon being shaken came from ahead.

There was no more path in front of me.

Just a cliff.

From the gap below, blue-white lightning surged upward.

Was this a sign?

A sign that the boss monster would be the “Son of Lightning.”

I took out my terminal and entered the Transcendent Gallery.

Title: High Probability that Son of Lightning is the Boss Monster. Lightning Shooting Out of Gaps

Author: oo*

Any more strategies?

ㄴ Priestess) Inter-dimensional trade with climber gallery ㄱㄱ I can block lightning for you.

ㄴ HeavenlyDemon) This master will give you a fist technique capable of destroying golem cores.

Isn’t the trade cooldown still not reset?

ㄴ oo*) ? How long have I been fighting?

ㄴ LightSword) It’s dawn. You’ve been fighting for six hours since coming down from the stairs.

ㄴ SewerSwordSaint) That’s youth for you, so energetic!!!

ㄴ IceQueen) Frozen… If it had been the Fire Mother, I could have helped you. What a shame.

ㄴ ArchMage) You’ll eventually be thrown into a glacier someday. Your power will be essential then.

ㄴ IceQueen) Frozen! True, it was an essential course even in Hard difficulty! Pandemonium will definitely have it!

The always kind IceQueen senior suddenly seems a bit scary.

Trade with Priestess and HeavenlyDemon. My hesitation was brief.

ㄴ oo*) Inter-dimensional trade ㄱㄱ