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“Pfft!” Furface laughed. He had spent ten years confined in this Dungeon and had become prideful of being the foremost expert of the first checkpoint. This had hardened his thinking. “At least ten other people have made proposals like yours.”
Escaping this place had once been his dream. At some point, however, he had stopped dreaming. Too many failures had broken his spirit. Smiling self-deprecatingly, he said, “But that’s impossible.”
“Why?” Cha Jin-Hyeok asked.
“I have a very tough body and tenacious vitality.”
“You look like it.”
“But I’m a bit on the stupid side.” The orangutan Beastkin tapped his head. “The first checkpoint is basically a labyrinth. The path is well-known, so those with a certain level of skill can pass through it, but I can’t overcome the barrier of the first checkpoint’s gatekeeper, the Riddle Sphinx.”
“Why not?”
“The Riddle Sphinx plunges challengers into illusions by posing riddles. Only those who overcome these illusions can move on to the second checkpoint. And I do not have the intelligence to do that.”
“It’s not that your intelligence is lacking, but rather that you were born with weak mental fortitude.”
“Well,...
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