“Is it dangerous to go further? Me?”

When he tried to head towards the center of Babelin Castle instead of anywhere else, the sensation in his head intensified. This place used to be where he played every day when he was young.

“If those who cleared these boulders are inside… they must be quite powerful individuals.”

For a brief moment, thoughts crossed his mind on whether to trust his instincts and not enter or to go in and find out who they are. The result…

“Good. I need to confirm who they are.”

It’s none other than Babelin Castle, right next to his hometown.

He can’t just leave it alone like this. He needs to find out why those people came here, what their purpose is, and why they continue to stay in the castle.

“Let’s go.”

He quickly approached the center of the castle, abandoning his slow steps. If his instincts judged that area as dangerous, then there is a high probability that the individual would be in the central tower.

“It’s still quiet.”

It took about ten minutes to reach the center. However, unlike the danger he sensed in his head, there was no sign of any danger approaching him as he came this far.

“But I can’t let my guard down.”

Crack.

He tightly gripped the sword he had prepared in advance, ready to swing it at any moment.

Carefully, step by step, he moved forward toward the collapsed center, just like the outer walls.

Kurur-

The moment he took a step into the center, the ground trembled slightly, as if an earthquake had occurred.

“An earthquake? Now of all times?”

Under the shaking ground, as he was taken aback, soil erupted from the ground, spewing out several strange objects. The objects that emerged from the ground made unpleasant scraping noises as they slowly stood up.

“Grrrr!”

“Keekeekee.”

“…What on earth?”

What should he call this? Bones? Or strangely shaped dolls?

While pondering whether it was unreasonable to call them dolls since they also made strange noises, the unidentified bones swung their arms and rushed toward him.

The size of those bones didn’t seem particularly threatening.

“They’re so dirty! Take this!” Kaiyan exclaimed.

Swish!

Kaiyan swung his sword, delivering a light slash to assess the strength of the creatures.

Clang! Crash!

“…Weak?” he muttered, as the bones shattered with little force, bouncing in all directions.

The creatures were no more than goblins. If that’s the case, then the ones who triggered his senses must not be these bones.

“What on earth…?”

Crack!

“Kieee…”

“Kooorrr!”

This time, as if those bones were just playing around, the ground split open wide, spewing out the same kind of bones in a pile as before.

“…Do these bones give experience points too?” Kaiyan wondered.

Has it been an hour? No, perhaps even more time has passed.

“Sigh… This is so frustrating,” Kaiyan sighed, realizing that despite swinging his sword for over an hour, the number of bones didn’t seem to decrease significantly.

At this rate, Kaiyan would be the first one to fall due to exhaustion.

“There’s no point in continuously defeating these weak goblins. It’s hard to expect any level-ups,” he thought to himself.

Since reaching level 50, Kaiyan had never experienced a level-up by defeating a few monsters. So, to expect a level-up, he would have to defeat at least several thousand of these bone creatures.

“It’s impossible. I need to think of another way,” he resolved.

For now, Kaiyan had a rough understanding of what these creatures were.

The moving bones were undoubtedly undead monsters called skeletons, as he had heard from Mr. Jeff. After all, bones wouldn’t move on their own. (T/N: Obviously they’re Called Skeletons, Who calls a monster: bones.)

The problem is why undead monsters appeared in Babelin Castle.

“Until my last visit, it wasn’t like this. It changed within a few months.”

“Alright. Let’s go inside for now,” Kaiyan decided.

“Kieeeek!”

“Kraaaa!”

Hooong!

Crash!

Kaiyan destroyed the rushing skeletons with his sword, one after another while moving forward slowly.

The source of the intense sensation. Something must be happening in the small tower at the center of the center.

“Here I come! Take this!” he shouted.

Clang!

Rather than knocking down the skeletons like before, he pushed forward with the mindset of breaking through, swinging his sword in all directions. On a battlefield, it would be reckless for one person to take on such a task, but the creatures here were nothing more than skeletons with low combat capabilities.

Even if they attacked while running, it tickled at best.

“Get out of the way, you bastards!”

Crack!

Without using any special skills, Kaiyan used his physical strength to crush the skeletons into a heap.

Now, the distance to the tower was only about 50 meters. If he set his mind to it, he could reach it in a matter of seconds.

Crackle…

At that moment, the ground shook again, even more violently than before.

“They’re spitting out skeletons again? Let them try,” Kaiyan said defiantly.

Even if it means just breaking through, he had confidence that he could push through even if a few skeletons blocked his path.

But contrary to his expectations, what emerged from the ground was…

“Kieee…”

“Crackle…”

“These aren’t skeletons… But those creatures…”

They were in a decayed state here and there, but the newly appeared creatures had their skin turned inside out, unlike skeletons. And the skin they had was so familiar.

“Orcs, Eveluns, Shadow Tigers… and even Red Orcs.”

Crack! Crash! Clang!

“Kroooo!”

And finally, a creature emerged from the ground, slightly late.

“…It’s a bit challenging for a Minotaur.”

From small and medium-sized to large monsters, they kept appearing.

What on earth is the identity of the creature in the tower? But there was one thing that the creature didn’t expect.

Crack!

“It would have been a good judgment if it were someone else… but not for me.”

Because Kaiyan was the player.

If they were creatures that would consume his health and give him a little experience like the skeletons, that would be fine. But defeating medium and large monsters would enable him to level up.

That means his health would be restored.

“It means I’ll become stronger.”

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