Perfect Clear(2)

I stood all the way up to look around. 

"Hey do you know where we are?" 

Lee Min-ho asked again. 

"No, you can try asking the others" 

I answered slightly different from last time. 

"Ok thanks" 

He answered and went to other people. 

"F*ck does anybody know where i am... Who the f*ck kidnapped me out of my house while i was sleeping?!Do you guys think I am scared of dying, I will fight all of you!" 

The same middle-aged guy yelled again just like last time.

Ripple! 

The portal appeared again and the immense pressure started again. 

The angel told his speech, dropped the pile of weapons and disappeared.

"STATUS WINDOW!"

The high schooler shouted again, and multiple people opened their status window.

 I checked mine to see if something changed. 

[Name: Taeho Kim] [Level:1] 

[Age: 21]

[Stats]

Endurance: 5

Agility: 5

Strength: 5

Magic: 0

Mana: 0

[Skills] 

- Perfect Clear[X] 

Nothing changed as expected. The question that appeared in my mind was. 

'if i regress do my abilities and stats also reset?' 

Lee Min-ho came with his group towards me.

"Do you want to join our group?" 

Lee Min-ho asked again. 

"No thank you I prefer being alone" 

I answered. 

He went away with the group and the annoucement came. 

[Announcement] 

[1st floor] 

- Clear condition: Kill 1000 monsters [0/1000]

I didn't want to join a group, cause this time I wanted to observe.

Groups were starting to form, and I started to think. 

When you think of main characters with overpowered abilities. 

Regression is definitely one of the best abilities to have. 

Like the famous main characters of the webnovels, I now also have the ability to regress. 

One of the reasons, that make regression so overpowered. Is that even if you make a mistake, its fine because you can regress and fix it. 

Even death is not a problem, cause you can just regress and try again. 

The problem is that I am not sure if 'Perfect Clear' also activates if I die. 

I have a hunch that 'Perfect Clear' also activates if i die, but i don't want to actively test it out.

Last regression i didn't die, but my right eye got injured. 

Which activated 'Perfect Clear' and i regressed back. 

Now the question to ask is 'if i just get a slight injury will i regress back'?

If just a slight injury is enough to activate 'Perfect Clear'. Clearing this tower will become so much more difficult. 

That is the same as having 1HP in videogames like dark souls, cause one slight injury and i will regress. 

After thinking of this problem, I went to the pile of weapons and grabbed a small dagger. 

Looking at the dagger in my hand, i thought of the goblin that stabbed my eye. 

Did i really think one arrow was enough to oneshot it. It must have fallen from at least 10 meters too, and yet it still survived. I have to be more careful in the future.

Time to test my skill. I took the dagger and poked my index finger with enough force to make it bleed. 

Instead of my skill activating, all I got was weird stares from other people.

"hmm"

So my skill dosen't activate if it's a small injury. 

'Should I cut a finger off?'

I dismissed that thought immediately because I didn't want to try it.

'Maybe the injury dosen't count if I am the one that is injuring myself?'

I approached a normal looking guy. 

"Yo, can you poke my finger with this dagger?" 

I asked, and he looked at me with concern.

"Don't look at me like that, you are misunderstanding. It's part of my skill, and it's something like regeneration."

"Oh yeah no problem?"

He answered.

I gave him the dagger and he poked my middle finger making it bleed. 

The skill didn't activate, so I am not the problem. Now i know that the injury was too small, for my skill to activate. 

"Thanks." 

"No problem."

I took the dagger and equipped it and moved a little further away to sit down. 

Last time the goblin stabbed my right eye, and I couldn't see out of it. The skill activated and i regressed. 

So if the injury is severe will I regress?. 

'Should i stab my own eye to test it?' 

"sigh..." 

I sighed, knowing that i wouldn't be able to stab my own eye, cause i was too scared. 

The regressors that i know of, were willing to kill themselves just to regress.

But what can i do? I am just a normal person, and don't have a crazy commitment like those protagonists. 

I lay down looking at the blue sky. 

'but i somehow got the ability that protagonist usually have. Why did the tower give me this skill?'

The problem now is, how do i test if 'Perfect Clear' also activates when I die?

I sit halfway up and look around. 

Most groups have already left and is exploring the forest. 

The people that were left in the field could be categorized into 3 groups.

People that didn't believe that the tower was real.

People that were too scared to explore the forest. 

People that were doing weird things, trying to get some hidden achievement.

I looked at a girl around my age with his pajamas on. 

she was sitting cross-legged in a meditative position, like those characters from cultivation novels.

'Is she cultivating? Is her skill about cultivating?'

"So what do we do now?" 

A girl around my age behind me is asking a question. I look around and see no one else other than me and her. 

"What? Do I know you?" 

I answer in a confused tone. 

"I wasn't talking to you" 

She answers and goes to the pile of weapons. Continuing to talk to herself, or some ghost in front of her. 

She had a cute face and was around 165 cm. She was wearing leggings and a sports jacket. 

She took a sword out of the pile and started swinging. 

In the beginning she looked like some rookie, but her swinging got more and more refined. 

Whoosh! 

Until one slash resonated so loudly that it sent ripples through the air. 

'Does she have a skill related to weapons?' 

But that wouldn't explain why she was talking to herself. 

She sheathed the sword and took out a spear from the pile. 

The same process happened again. Her spear stabbing became faster and faster, until i could only see afterimages. 

She dropped the spear and took out daggers from the pile. 

That process happened with all kinds of weapons, axes, bows, shields and hammers.

After she was done, she equipped a sword, daggers, bow, shield and in her hand a spear around 180 cm, and went inside the forest.

Even kids below my age entered the forest, and yet here I am sitting down and doing nothing. 

By thinking like this, i took out a sword from the pile of weapons. 

The sword that I am holding with my hands. still feels uncomfortable to wield. 

The weight of the sword, the posture of my body it all feels wrong and weird for me. 

With time i will get used to this, cause if there is one thing regressors have... Its time.

I entered the south side of the forest. Last time we went to the north side, where the goblins was up in the trees. 

Maybe the south side is different. With my new knowledge that goblins could be up in the trees. I concentrated intently on the trees. 

I went deeper and deeper in the forest. It was very quiet, almost too quiet. 

Click!

"ah!"

I exclaimed in shock, and dropped my sword which was now on the ground. 

I got pulled upside down towards the trees and was dangling in the air.

'Did i walk into a trap?'

"Do goblins even make traps?!" 

I couldn't help but say outloud. 

I looked up and saw my right foot was stuck in a rope.

Looking down and my sword was on the ground. I must be around 3 meters up in the air. 

If I had something sharp, I could try to cut the rope. 

"My dagger!" 

I pulled out my dagger and tried to cut the rope. Before i could do that i heard a sound. 

Rustling! 

Walking steps on the ground could be heard. 5 goblins with spears appeared in front of me. 

"Maybe we can talk about this haha?"

I laughed awkwardly. 

"krr kra ka krk." 

The goblins said some rapid and unintelligible words. 

"I guess not."

All 5 goblins aimed their spears at me. 

"Isn't that a little overkill guys?" 

I said with a scared tone. 

Swoosh! 

They threw their spears at me, and before i could scream, my vision went dark. 

[Skill activation]

- Perfect Clear[X]

[Returning to the moment you first entered this floor]