Chapter 803 – To the Devil’s Ear
“It’s awesome, but…”
Under the rising sun.
If you look at ten people, nine are fighters. A man with a look that could be said stood with both hands on his waist.
He looked at the city below and muttered over and over how cool it was.
The man whose muscles on both arms swelled up like a log was Haken, who belonged to Maiya’s clan and was called ranker Maiya’s lieutenant.
He watched the rising sun and put the blade of his hand to his forehead and looked into the distance.
A hill that is too high to be called a mountain.
It was a spectacular sight to see the uniquely styled buildings illuminated from above.
“Hey Haken.”
I heard a rising voice.
“Didn’t you see it?”
“Ah. I’m sorry.”
Haken turned his head away from the landscape without a word.
In fact, he’s not the only one, he’s the youngest young man with a cute impression who just joined the clan this time. And the same newcomer, a beautiful girl with straight black hair, was also watching the city frantically, so Maiya dared to warn her lieutenant, Haken.
Haken reflected.
No matter how ‘confident’ everyone was in the exhausted game, they had to refrain from risky actions.
‘It’s such a gloomy place, so it’s nice to see the sunlight.’
More than anything. There was no ‘strange phenomenon’ for that short moment when the sunlight rose.
Haken looked ahead again without a word.
In addition to Haken, a total of 20 people were lined up in front.
At the end of the line were simple sanitary tools such as a sink and shower, but what was curious was that although they were large tools that could be used by several people at the same time, only one person was using them, and others were looking at them with serious faces.
A sight that is incomprehensible at first glance.
“Puha. Pooh.”
The man who was washing his face reached out his hand as if looking for a towel.
Everyone who saw the scene was startled and tensed his muscles.
That moment.
Quag!
Deuk Deuk.
“Ugh, ugh?!”
The arm of the man who had reached out was grasped by the purple, rotten arm.
The sudden appearance of the arm with the arm bent and the bone protruding made the mogol sigh.
“Keu, kuuaaaaa!”
“Suck!!”
Haken jumped out and slammed his fist.
His butt fist is tung. It bounced out with an echoless sound.
Haken is by no means weak.
He was a top user who could be said to be very strong, but he couldn’t help it.
Because he didn’t have enough power.
He can’t exactly do it even though he can put power on it.
If you put more power than necessary… The energy released by the ‘bait’ will lose its meaning.
“Move.”
Maya spat out.
“I do.”
Before she could finish her words, Maya had already run to them and put her hand on her purple arm.
Woo woo woo.
Wave.
The state of internal destruction that only other martial artists can handle was released on the purple arm… And the purple arm exploded from the inside.
Patter.
The scattered pieces of meat soon disappeared like fog.
Maiya clicked her tongue when she saw the user sitting down.
I thought I wanted to punch him in the head, but it was understandable that his concentration was low because he was such a hard worker.
She is the youngest who looks at Maya with her yearning eyes beside her. She and she saw a dark-haired girl.
“You guys are over there. Medical squad. Treat them.”
“Yes.”
As the users in charge of treatment treated him, the injured man’s eyes glowed anxiously.
The users who were treating him were nervous, and Maya frowned at him.
‘What is this… It still looks okay…’
Shuuk!!
Wooooong!!
The man receiving treatment was suddenly enveloped in intense energy and evaporated neatly.
The medical team was startled and backed away.
The dark-haired girl even hid behind Maiya, hissing.
Maiya looked back with his face distorted, and there was a ranker like Maiya who had gone on reconnaissance. O’Brien was standing.
He said in a steady tone.
“You said you wouldn’t hesitate, right?”
“…Yes. I’m sorry.”
O’Brien was right in this.
Even if the outside was fine, it was the moment when the mental protection was destroyed and the heart was about to break.
If left alone, the same thing as the purple arm from before would have happened over and over again.
‘It’s a crazy place.’
Maiya looked at the city under the sunlight she had told Harken to not look at.
A geometric architectural style that is hard to find even in this world.
A track on which floating trains used to travel.
It is a very nice city.
The city in the morning, which had just woken up from dawn under the sunlight, seemed like people would come out and be active at any moment.
But it is impossible.
The only people living in this city are those from Mya and O’Brien’s clan.
This city. Because the magic kingdom was destroyed hundreds of years ago.
Because it is a city full of ghosts and grotesque phenomena instead of people.
“Are there nineteen people left now?”
“That’s right. Phew.”
Haken responds to Maya’s muttering.
Everyone was dying.
“I’ve heard of it beforehand, but this city really is. It’s too much to do.”
“…”
Maiya silently looked at the place where the player who had just died was.
And other users who look at the user with envy.
‘Matan is insane.’
Basically, a place where even users with mental protection go crazy just by staying still.
And where even imagining it causes real damage.
A place where all ‘fearful imaginations’ become reality and attack people.
The ghost town of Matan.
Because of this damn trait, it was hard to do anything recklessly.
Through this expedition, Maiya realized that humans are capable of imagining every little thing.
“I see. I was handed a towel… Hmm. There are cases like this. Ah. It’s time to renew the bait. Did you install it properly? Insurance?”
While Maya was talking to Harken, O’Brien listened to the other users’ thoughts and checked the progress of other tasks, nodding her head.
It seemed that the user who had just died had imagined something like ‘someone who couldn’t be there handed over a towel’.
Magican made that imagination a reality.
Exactly. ‘The Eight Demon Kings, the evil spirits.’ The power of the grotesque brought it into reality.
Maya narrowed her eyes and looked down at the city in the distance.
Where the hell is the evil spirit?
If you think about the case of Askatlov not too long ago, you will feel its presence wherever you are, but, to your horror, you will feel nothing.
If it weren’t for the power thrown as a ‘bait’ on such a subject, it would appear directly to Maiyane’s place…
It’s not the only thing that’s tricky.
Even if there was power thrown as bait, the evil spirits had the sight of all ghost monsters as if it were their own.
If they use more force than necessary, their position will be exposed immediately.
“Hey. Sister.”
The dark-haired girl called Maya friendly.
“If it’s my sister, I’ll be able to defeat the evil spirit…?”
Maiya laughed instead of answering the voice mixed with anxiety.
But her heart was uneasy.
For Maiya, the beautiful city bathed in sunlight gave her a chill.
It was as if the city itself was alive and opening its mouth.
At that time, black birds and white birds harmonized in the sky and chirped.
Maya hurriedly took her eyes off her.
‘There’s no way a bird lives here.’
It’s not just magical phenomena.
It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no safe zone, and there are so many ghost monsters.
It has been a long time since summons and pets, which are said to be the treasures of users, have been eaten and eaten by ghost monsters, and their summons have been canceled.
It is not an environment for wild animals to roam.
Those birds… Must be grotesque.
Annoyingly, magic bullets had various grotesque features not only from the imagination of users, but also from their own.
“Quaaaaagh!”
“?!”
An involuntary scream.
Maiya looked in the direction of her scream.
A user from a clan belonging to Maya. A woman in a white combat uniform was rolling on the ground.
There was already blood on her face.
Now I see that the white bird and the black bird I saw earlier are eating those eyes.
The birds laughed very much like humans and had human teeth in their beaks.
The moment the eyes of the birds bent like a crescent moon.
Pupperpuppung!!
The bird and the user flew away at the same time.
Maiya turned her head away with her jerk.
O’Brien stood there with a carefree face.
“With this, there are eighteen people left.”
“Hey dog…”
Maiya, who was about to swear reflexively, gasped. She took a deep breath.
“…Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.”
Maiya got her attention by scratching her head nervously and clapping her lap.
“Now. Let’s move!!!!”
Investigate Matan’s return route.
This quest, which smelled like a jackpot, boasted of extreme difficulty.
Even veteran users who had traveled to various dungeons and remote areas where survival was difficult were to the extent that they became dizzy.
If it was just dangerous, he would maintain his tension and concentration, but magic bullets wouldn’t even allow that.
If you are too nervous, a grotesque phenomenon pops out of fear, but when you go comfortably, you have a lot of miscellaneous thoughts and a grotesque phenomenon pops up again.
The grotesque phenomenon that became a reality was so powerful that it could easily kill even users with extremely strong bodies.
They are a long time ago.
Before coming to Elyunar, they thought of themselves as weak ordinary people.
Maya glanced behind her.
Originally, the garden was all 50.
That’s only 18 people now.
In fact, originally, I was going to organize an investigation team of less than 10 people, but this was my first expedition.
In preparation for going through many trials and errors, he organized an expedition of 50 people.
And now, about 90% of ‘Return to Home’ has been investigated.
The progress of the quest informed the progress value.
Fortunately, it was a method in which the system created a map for itself when the user walked inside with their ears, rather than recording it separately.
Even so, a figure of 90% in a few days was remarkable.
But.
At least Maiya and O’Brien… Couldn’t be happier.
The two people with good intuition thought of a possibility and hardened their faces.
‘…Still, it’s a good thing.’
It was a good thing to send 50 people as a test.
All of them were sent with only users with the right to resurrect, and this director’s team did an excellent job as a lab rat.
They verified whether the information Adele had heard from Askatlov was true, and also confirmed how the ghosts appeared.
It’s unfortunate that several people died during that trial and error, but…
“Hey. Don’t mess around.”
Maya suddenly spoke to the man next to her.
The man was O’Brien, walking slightly behind her than Maya.
He kept his eyes on Maiya the whole time, which was a bit embarrassing considering his perks.
“…Because here you have to be most careful.”
Said O’Brien as if making excuses.
“I understand, but I still feel dirty.”
O’Brien has a perk that increases his power the longer he observes the target.
And.
Now, out of 50 people, it was this man who killed most of the users.
Of course, there was no choice but to gather a reluctant gaze.
No matter how much you have to do, killing more than 20 people casually…
“According to information obtained through various routes, evil spirits are more interested in the size of energy rather than the power it emits. That is why I, who has powerful skills that consume little mana and are efficient, is suitable for execution in advance. Haven’t you decided?”
O’Brien reminds me of the fact that we agreed again, perhaps feeling the uneasy stare.
It was as it was said.
It was a quest that could succeed only when he ruthlessly cut down his comrades, so he decided on an executioner and it was O’Brien who was willing to take on the dirty work.
Maiya had nothing to say, so she clicked her tongue.
“Tsk.”
“Besides. Those who were eliminated would rather rather die and be resurrected.”
“…”
I couldn’t deny that.
Putting the demons of magic second, people were gradually getting a taste for what was in the air of this damn country.
It was enough to think that I wanted to be comfortable with death.
Especially when it comes to users who are resurrected even after dying.
“It’s good though. At this rate, I think I can safely complete the quest.”
As O’Brien said.
The ones who have died so far are those who can be called ‘fumbling around’.
They were relatively weak users who had weak mentality and had no choice but to quickly consume mental protection.
Now that the progress has reached 90%, the remaining elites should be able to safely complete the quest.
In addition, users had to find their way, but the system gave them roughly points, so they didn’t get lost.
Maya nodded her head and answered without thinking.
“‘Next’, I’ll have Adele and Faltra do it, and I’ll rest.”
O’Brien walked quietly and quietly put his index finger to his mouth.
“…Shh.”
“…!”
Fortunately, no one heard.
It was because the more I cared about something, the more I came up with an absurd imagination, and that imagination turned into a grotesque phenomenon, so I was half-excited.
It was astounding that this gap-filled state was the most effective way to move in this magic bullet.
Still, I was happy for now.
It’s difficult to think of fearful thoughts after hearing the words and understanding their meaning.
Maiya, relieved inside, led the way down her path.
“…Come to think of it. They say he’s here.”
“Ok?”
It was a sudden statement, but I soon realized that it was a communication from Faltra.
Among them, O’Brien is the only one who has a special skill that allows him to contact outside of magic.
All other means of communication had long since been cut off.
O’Brien would discreetly call the outpost twice a day to inform them of the situation.
“What? Who are you talking about?”
“This is Dre.”
“…They came?”
Maya said in a hoarse voice.
But O’Brien noticed that it was a very sweet voice for Maiyachi.
“It’s too late to join now, and as you said…”
“…”
There was no back talk, but it would be nice to be with him during the ‘next’ route investigation.
He is a man with a special soul who never loses his fighting spirit and spirit in any hopeless situation.
But I feel insecure.
Since he is such a man, if he sees himself in despair, wouldn’t he become more desperate?
Just like Maya now.
‘…What are you thinking?’
Doesn’t this make him look like he’s afraid of himself?
Maya took a quick stride forward to brush off his thoughts.
According to the quest map, it will soon lead to the next return.
Soon the trail came to an end.
Pah ah
And the users were standing in a bustling city, not a trail or a forest full of bushes.
Nothing special.
The well-paved roads seen in this city were not roads.
Wrong place to walk. I used to come out to places that didn’t care about the street, such as on the other side of this city or in the middle.
Truly magical.
I was confident that I would not be surprised by anything that came out because I had already experienced it a lot.
But… I couldn’t help but be speechless now.
That would be too.
The scene unfolding before my eyes was a very lively one.
Waggle.
The streets are full of people laughing, getting angry, or having a conversation.
At a nearby fruit shop, the owner of the vendor noticed Maya and said,
“Ohhh? That sexy lady. I really like apples. How about one?”
As soon as he started soliciting customers, other merchants raised their voices as well.
“Your muscular oppa! I really like the fish today!”
“Haha. Are you adventurers who have been to dungeons?”
Everyone rolled their eyes.
I can not understand it.
The second half of the second half of Matan’s Ear.
Why… Is there market pain in this second half?
And beyond.
What is that splendid royal palace?
Maya clenched her fists.
It’s just an illusion anyway, you can put it away.
But O’Brien stopped it.
‘Please leave it to me.’
‘Chit.’
O’Brien, who tries to do everything himself.
Of course, Maiya also thought that it was better for the thoughtful man to lead the group rather than the mere self.
It was something we discussed and agreed upon at first.
Still, there was something I didn’t like.
Maiya clicked her tongue and backed away, and O’Brien approached the fruit shop owner with a smile on his face.
“Hello.”
“Ohh. You’re a decent man… Are you a stranger by any chance?”
‘Even strangers know.’
O’Brien asked with a kind smile.
“Haha. We came from a little far away, but by any chance, where is this place?”
“Ah~ tell me what are you doing?”
The man laughed haha.
“Of course it’s the capital of the Magic Kingdom! It’s Magic!”
“I see. Then…”
O’Brien hesitated, then asked what year it was. The merchant answered without hesitation this time, too.
A few hundred years ago.
“…”
Goose bumps appeared on the arms of the users.
And before he could even say the next word, something strange happened.
“…Uh?”
“What is that?”
People pointed to one place.
It was… The sky.
A huge dot was rapidly falling towards the ground.
The point was… The black morale was fluttering.
Users hardened.
What is this aura?
These powers.
Oh god… The last demon king.
Or, an overwhelming aura that made humans feel less than worms… That I had only felt from the Kaiju.
Aaaaa
The dot landed far away on the ground.
Coo coo coo. The earth shakes.
And blooming in the distance… The absurd ‘mias’
Aaaaa!
Screams from far away.
Panic.
The moment when people who have not yet grasped the situation are about to approach what is going on.
Aaaaang!!
The being that was a dot soared into the sky.
However, this time it stopped at a height where everyone could see its majesty.
Users who saw something flying in the sky widened their eyes.
“…Dragon?”
Maya muttered blankly.
It was.
Under the sun.
No, under the darkness where even the sun is dyed with black fraud. The black dragon’s red eyes flashed.
“…Am.”
“…?”
The merchant next to him got scared and let out a scream-like shout.
“It’s a Plague Dragon!!”