Corruption Wielder 3: A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure by Aaron Shih

Author:Aaron Shih [Shih, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17: Pity the Fool

Elsewhere, a certain elf was quietly bemoaning the cold when she became aware of two presences approaching her.

“This is not where I would have expected to find you,” Nynn said, amused.

“You can blame Australia for that,” Caiyeri said, her jacket glowing lightly with the mana it was burning to keep her warm. “It was their idea to send scouts here.”

“You’re not Australian,” Wisteria replied.

“You’re not silver,” Caiyeri said in kind. “Weren’t you on the boat?”

“Yes,” the bronze-rank Void Knight said. “I thought about going back to England, then decided against it. Whatever’s waiting for me back home, it’s not my England.”

“I can sympathize,” Caiyeri said. “Though I’m not entirely sure what you’re doing here. To be honest, I thought another nation would get here first.”

The elf was addressing them both from a small tent that was already half-buried by snow. Her Resistance skills largely applied to fighting in corrupted conditions, which helped with her need for oxygen up here, but not the cold. It had taken a number of items to help her survive temperatures more than sixty degrees below freezing.

She hadn’t noticed any problems with this during the trial of the champion, but that had largely been because of Will’s Equilibrium Mantle ability, which stabilized extreme weather conditions. When she hadn’t been protected by that, there had been some strange effect triggered by the corrupted pillars the cultists had used that normalized atmosphere and temperature, preventing their sacrificial materials from perishing from exposure.

All that was to say that right now, she was perhaps not the most equipped person for the top of Mount Everest. Even Wisteria had skills that helped her manage better, and she was a rank lower than Caiyeri was.

“Most other nations are either unaware of the presence of what lies here or are unwilling to risk their best on it,” Nynn said. “This one in particular is infested and is a much more difficult location to access than similar instances elsewhere. I am surprised you chose to make the journey yourself. There are gold-rank monsters on this mountain.”

“Plenty of them won’t bother me if I don’t bother them,” Caiyeri said. “It’s also much easier to kill a monster above your rank when it can’t fly and you have a conveniently massive cliff to push them off of.”

“Point taken,” Nynn said.

“Still, doing this by yourself is brave,” Wisteria gushed. “Caiyeri, right? Your group is full of insanity.”

“I leave most of that to Will,” Caiyeri said. “You’ll notice I haven’t actually gone into the dungeon yet.”

The top of the tallest mountain in the world had been filled with the refuse of avid climbers who had dropped equipment, trash, and bodies and been unable to afford the cost of taking them down, but the system integration had changed that to some extent. There was still trash, but much of it had simply been devoured for material.

Now, at the top, there was a dungeon that didn’t quite fit into the classification that the other ones they’d encountered had.

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