Chapter 1444 – Baekgye
“It’s late…”
“What are they doing down there?”
“Maybe there’s a problem…”
While the team members left in the boss room on the 4th floor were worried, voices of dissatisfaction were heard from one side.
“How long do you plan on keeping me waiting here…”
“That’s right. When are you going to have a hard time? You’re just waiting without a break.”
“We go through hardships and risk our lives together, but we only share information with the leadership and we are left alone.”
“This is no different from before…”
The voices were coming from a few pretty female wizards, but they weren’t speaking openly; they were just grumbling among themselves.
However, the voice was quite loud.
The people around her glanced at the girls with embarrassed faces.
Most people looked puzzled as to why they suddenly said such things, but a few people’s expressions began to harden at their words.
Humans are very simple creatures.
When they are relaxed, they are able to make calm judgments, but when they are tired and having a hard time, they easily believe even nonsensical logic if it is to their advantage.
‘That’s human.’
As the embers that had been lit began to bloom, Erilgear Fault Lucia smiled brightly.
At some point, the number of people complaining increased to more than ten, and Erylgear threw firewood, a new topic of dissatisfaction.
“That’s right. Dre may not know about the tower owners, but I think he looks down on us too little.”
Several people nodded at the cautious words of the influential wizard, who was rumored to be the Emperor’s favorite disciple.
“The tower owners have status and knowledge, so let’s say that. But what about Teiria? What is the difference between us and Teiria?”
A few more wizards were shaken by Erilgear’s words.
There were quite a few wizards who were disgruntled that Dre was giving them special treatment for taking Theiria, in the opinion of her Red Tower.
These were people who had animosity toward Teiria’s sharp-tongued tone, or who were pushed into the political battle with her.
Eryl Gear Fault Lucia struck the final blow as she watched her mood grow stronger.
“Besides, why do you give away the precious items you worked so hard to obtain to the dolls without consulting them?”
“Now that I think about it, it really is!!”
“Up until now, I quietly followed his judgment because it was right, but no matter how I thought about it, it was strange.”
With about 20 people agreeing, Erilgear internally quenched his appetite.
I thought he would agree more, but there are fewer sympathizers than I thought.
‘Not long ago, I had a strong antipathy toward Gwangyeom.’
It seems like only yesterday that I thought of him as my lifelong enemy, saying that he had lost many colleagues and suffered through life because of that man. As rumored, Gwang-Yeom has a temperamental personality, but his abilities are so outstanding that most wizards are fascinated by him.
‘But it’s okay. At this level, I can quickly create my own atmosphere.’
Erylgear was confident.
Her own influence is great, she doesn’t say anything particularly wrong, and everyone is dissatisfied with this situation, tired from continuous battles, so no one refutes her words.
The number of sympathizers can be increased slowly.
And when the number of Erylgear sides increases, then…
It was that moment.
“If you think his judgment has been correct so far, why don’t you keep quiet?”
The people who were complaining all saw a man who had raised his voice.
He is a red tower. A wizard of the charging school. It was a joke.
He was also a man who was frowned upon because he strongly suggested that he be treated differently according to his abilities.
“Oh my. Mr. Noram?”
Erilgear looked puzzled.
The embarrassment I was feeling now wasn’t acting, it was genuine.
‘This man?’
Why would this man, who must have been more dissatisfied with Dre than he was, put himself out there in this atmosphere?
No way. Did Dre save her life last time and had a change of heart?
The man in front of me is a member of the Red Tower, so he is relatively free from Eryl Gear’s influence, and he is also an excellent man who has built up his own influence due to his ability. He had nothing to bow down to, not even to Aryl Gere.
‘But there’s nothing good about losing with me…?’
Noram was a man who never did anything to lose money.
Now that I think about it, he was getting along well with people from a lower school of thought who he loathed for being incompetent.
While Erylgear was thinking about what to say, Noram continued.
“It’s already so hard that I’m dying, but it’s annoying to hear this. You guys. If you don’t have the ability, just keep your mouth shut.”
The dissatisfied people instantly stiffened at such a strong statement.
The female wizards who had been making a fuss at first protested all at once.
“What now?”
“That’s what I said. I want to return it exactly as it is.”
“That’s right! “Who complained the most at first?”
Then Noram snorted.
“That’s right. And since I’ve seen Captain Dre’s skills, shouldn’t I keep my mouth shut and not express my dissatisfaction with him anymore?”
While the female wizards were speechless for a moment, Noram looked around.
“Everyone here is dissatisfied with Gwangyeom, to a greater or lesser extent. At the same time, they recognize his abilities. It feels like they will die if they step out of his shadow, and they are not saying anything because they have treated us fairly fairly. Isn’t that right?”
“No…!”
Before the female mage could speak emotionally, Noram struck.
“This time, I ask. So what would have happened without Light Flame? Outside, the White Legion, a well-trained army, is trying to kill us, and in this underground area, terribly strong monsters are rampant. What can we do without him?”
“Well, what can we do…! If it were us…!”
“Yes. If it were just us, most of them would have been wiped out a long time ago. I guarantee you that no matter how much time passed, we would not have been able to catch the king.”
Isn’t that what Noram said at the end? He looked at the people standing behind him and they cheered enthusiastically.
“Noram Nari is right!!”
“Ah. I don’t know why people on the same team do this.”
“Captain Dre must be having a hard time too, so let’s all get along!!”
The atmosphere becomes strange.
The moment Eryl Gere gritted her teeth and smiled on the outside, Noram shot at her.
“Erylgear. I know that you are feeling a great sense of crisis right now because you requested to have a body of light flame.”
“…”
Eryl Gere stopped laughing.
Her cold, cold eyes were cruel, but Noram was also a very capable wizard who did as she pleased in the Magic Tower politics.
He was in a position where there was no need to bow down and glared at Erilgear.
“I’m not going to tell you to stop worrying. Don’t instigate it for nothing.”
“Incitement? Speaking of which, yes. I also acknowledge the power of light flames.”
He places his hand on her chest and frowns sadly at her pretty face to increase her appeal.
Her words were echoed by Eryl Gere, who saw that some people actually expressed sympathy.
“He can definitely clear the White World. But what about after that?”
“Back?”
“Don’t you know about the rumors about Gwangyeom? He’ll let us live now because he needs us, but do you think he’ll leave us alone once we get out? We betrayed him because we were lured by compensation or the words of a mere stranger?”
At the end of her words, Eryl Gere looked around and raised her voice.
“Who annihilated the powerful nobles of Sers? He incited the world to root out a criminal organization that was like a persistent weed? Who is that crazy murderer who single-handedly destroyed an empire?”
At Erilgear’s appeal, the expressions around him darkened a little.
That was not just Erylgear’s feeling, but everyone’s anxiety.
We’ll keep it alive for now because we need it, but what if we go out…?
Should they spare us who betrayed us?
That moment. Noram said as if it was no big deal.
“You said that earlier, Erylgear. You give such a good reward to a mere doll. What kind of crazy person are you?”
“That’s not what I said…”
“No matter who said it, that kind of thing is fine. It gives a good reward to the doll. It’s definitely something I don’t understand. And from what I’ve observed, Gwangyeom did such meaningless things quite often.”
The residents of the White World, whom the people here despise and call dolls.
The wizards of the Magic Tower did not care what happened to them, saying that no matter how sad their stories were, they were just created beings.
“Only Gwangyeom had mercy on them.”
“Okay. Are you saying you hate us so much that you would prioritize the doll over us? Or are you saying the doll is more valuable than us?”
Noram put. I laughed.
“Don’t be mistaken. I don’t care what happens to the doll or anything.”
“?”
“What I mean is, he treats a mere doll with whom he has no special relationship, and even though we had an argument once, he doesn’t seem like the kind of man who would kill us who risk our lives fighting together. Do you guys see Captain Dre as that kind of man?”
The women behind Erilgear and the wizards who had been incited flinched and looked at their surroundings.
They seemed to have been persuaded by Noram’s words.
“From what I saw, he was a man with a dirty personality, but no regrets. It’s hard to say that we paid the full price for our betrayal, but, well, I don’t know. At least I think this kind of incitement will actually provoke him. Ah. “
Noram grinned.
“Are you aiming for that? A situation where not only you but everyone is in danger?”
“You…”
Food is great.
Everyone looked up at the sudden sound of wings flapping.
Giant crows and an old man. Before we knew it, the leadership was approaching and descending from the sky.
Among them, of course, was Dre.
Dre was clinging desperately to the back of a particularly large crow, which was trying to throw Dre off by twisting his body.
“Ah, this crazy bird really is!!”
[Keeeeek!]
As the ground got closer, Dre just jumped to his feet.
Widely. Dre, who landed on the ground, looked around and walked towards Erilgear.
Erilgear was shocked and broke into a cold sweat as he unconsciously raised his staff.
‘Since when has it been there? Oh, no way…’
Have you seen the entire situation?
That moment. Sigh!! Dre’s fist hit Erilgear’s head.
“Ahh!”
Sigh! Sigh!
After hitting him two more times, Eryl crawled over and smacked his buttocks.
Dre looked down at her and opened her mouth.
“Don’t be harsh and stand guard properly. From now on, half of you will follow me and half of you will wait here and rest. We will work in turns.”
After calmly summarizing the situation, Dre explained the current situation.
“You must go to the lowest floor, meet the Archbishop, obtain information that is close to clearing the White World, and then go to the 5th floor to find an item called the Egg of Fertility.”
A warning was given that the white army had entered the black land and that they were close, so they had to hurry.
Also, encouragement to try harder.
While everyone was watching and moving in unison, Erilgear suddenly stood up and glared venomously at Dre.
“Do you think it’s just me?”
“What again?”
Dre, who looked back in annoyance, gave Eryl Gear a pat. A wizard standing next to Dre. He pointed to Teiria.
Looking at Teiria, who was shocked, Erilgear spoke sarcastically.
“Do you know why that dirty and shameless woman cares so much about you? Do you think she is such an amazing woman that she will care about you just because you leaked information to her friend, Jeoktapju!!”
Teiria was shocked and broke into a cold sweat.
And before Eryl Gere calls her out. Dre said.
“What? Are you saying that this person also requested body parts from me?”
There was silence for a moment.
Even the cranium hardened.
Dreman was carefree.
“What should I do?”
“W-what…”
Erilgear was speechless.
Did you know? Said Dre, pointing at her as Tayria gave a surprised bunny eye.
“But even though he was big, he was only a finger, and you were a heart. He was even intangible, so I kept my mouth shut and stood guard because I was still annoyed. If I was going to kill him, I would have killed him a long time ago. Why are you so scared now? Come on, everyone! Let’s go.”
Eryl Gear, who was quickening her steps as if she was annoyed… Lowered her head with a smile.
I felt like an idiot.
El, Nelf, and Homun, who were part of her resting group, stared at her coldly.
Even though it was dark on the 5th floor, it was too dark.
Even when I used light magic, it didn’t get brighter.
Visibility was only possible by lighting torches hanging here and there on the 5th floor.
Also, there were many human-sized stone pillars rising here and there, making it difficult to move.
While everyone frowns in discomfort, Dreman says that this is also a gimmick of the game! He said happily.
Cheongtapju followed Dre carefully, as if he was walking on thin ice right behind Dre, and Dre, who was walking at the front with great strides. She looked alternately at Teiria, who looked like she wanted to say something, and spoke cautiously.
“Ah… According to what the Archbishop said, the 5th floor is a paradise of endless undead.”
“Yes. They said that even if you kill them, they will come back to life.”
Dre’s voice was surprisingly calm.
Just in case, Kranium, who was preparing for Dre’s sword near Teiria, groaned. I cleared my throat and got irritated for no reason.
“Ah. What is this darkness? It can’t be revealed…”
Crumbling!!
“!!”
“?!”
“Wow!”
Suddenly the ground beneath her fell.
A dizzying feeling of floating. During that short period of time, everyone used floating magic or kicked up the collapsing scaffolding.
But. Dre fell without any resistance.
“Huh?!”
“Captain?!”
The team members took a look at each other’s faces and then tried to go down the hole.
That moment.
Pot.
Suddenly, a light turned on in the cave. Everyone swallowed their breath.
In a vast space with no end in sight… Black zombies were standing there. It even sticks to walls and ceilings.
What’s unusual is that it just stands blankly looking ahead without any reaction.
“You look the same as the family of the King of Fertility that the Archbishop mentioned.”
Cheongtapju remembered the Archbishop’s words.
He said that the 5th floor has only one space without a separate space, and that space is full of zombies, and the zombies are strong, fast, and even tough, reminiscent of enhanced humans.
What I thought was just a stone pillar turned out to be these zombies.
Jump up.
Dre came back up again.
“Also. “There was a gimmick that lit up the entire cave.”
I guess that was why I fell on purpose.
The team member was inwardly impressed and looked around.
Therefore. If you didn’t know it was a gimmick, did you mean that if the Black King was fine, he would have had to deal with countless zombies in this darkness? In reality, the king was just a husk that couldn’t be killed, and they even had to find an item?
“Under…”
“If it wasn’t for the light flames… There wouldn’t have been an answer.”
“What the…”
Tayria glanced at Dre.
When I saw that his mouth was about to reach his ears due to the exclamations of his teammates, I laughed out loud without realizing it, but then I absorbed it. He took a deep breath.
‘No way. That request. I never thought I knew…’
Dre shouted as Tayria couldn’t raise her head.
“Everyone! Let’s quickly go out and find the egg of fertility!!”
The target is the egg of fertility.
You have to find an egg somewhere in this wide area.
Since the zombies don’t move, half a day will be enough.
Those left at the playground were very quiet in an awkward atmosphere.
Elman smiled and praised Noram.
“It seems to be true that the magicians of the Red Tower are superior.”
“Ah, that… Thank you.”
The Grise family is very famous and strong.
Noram, who had seen the beautiful and charismatic noblewoman Elysia at a ball she had worked hard to attend, smiled awkwardly.
Eryl Gere, the person who started the situation, was sitting hugging his knees.
This was when many of her people, including her Elle, were looking at her with her unkind eyes.
Pop! Pak pak pak!!
The crows raised their heads all at once.
The Ma Bing tribe and the red monsters soon raised their heads upward and opened their eyes.
“Uh?”
“What?”
The moment the wizards muttered, surprised by their reaction, the old man shouted.
“Warrior!!”
[Awesome!!]
The boss on the second floor, whom Dre called a fucking crow, flew up.
He flew at a very high speed and soared upward.
After an aerobatic flight that narrowly passes transparent walls and floating rocks. The crow soon reached the playground, a hidden space on the second floor.
“Ah…”
“Ugh…”
The children, who had returned from crows to human form, were trampled and groaned by iron-clad feet.
Also, many crows and many of their compatriots are wounded and lying down.
White beings are shaking off the blood of their compatriots from the curved daggers.
They were all dressed like assassins, and they were even riding a white dragon twice as big as a wyvern.
An organization that punishes traitorous white legions or pursues criminals.
They were called the white judges.
Sigh! Puck!
“Huh! Ugh. Evil…! Sick…!”
And. He grabbed a child who couldn’t even speak and gave him a peck. A particularly strong white being that punches its stomach with its fist with moderate force. The guy wasn’t knocked out, he was just swinging his fist to hurt.
The crow’s eyes were filled with hatred.
The white being. It must be completely destroyed.
How dare such a being exist. He touched his colleague.
Even. Even for children who are just growing up.
[Kkiss!!]
The crow’s charge.
Those called the White Judges calmly swung their swords at the crow’s cry.
Papa papa phat.
White sword energy flew sharply, and the dragons also fired their breath.
While the crow was skillfully flying and dodging the attack, a child’s voice was heard.
“Ha, Hadi Mahe…”
A child resembling a Mabing tribe who does not even look like he is 10 years old and cannot speak properly.
The white judge slaps the pleading child’s face! I kicked it.
The child fell unconscious without being able to respond.
Leader of the White Judges. The guy grinned at the crow glaring at him. He laughed.
[Disgusting creatures. Did you just kill the cub?]
[Kkisssss-!!]
A frenzied crow swooped down.
White judges, aiming for that moment, attacked from the side.
Kang! Kakang!
A crow that accelerates even faster by deflecting daggers and swords with just the flap of its wings.
The leader of the White Judgment seemed shocked by the power beyond his imagination, but then he grinned and picked up the fallen child and held it in front of him like a shield.
[What a talent…!]
Kkakkkk!!
Immediately after pressing the brakes in the air, the white dragons rushed at the crow and bit it.
[Kyaaa…!!]
The crow resisted, but the swords fired by the white judges struck the crow without mercy.
The white army in the black earth was weakened by the black energy. Nevertheless, the white power they gave off suppressed the crow’s power. The crow couldn’t use as much strength as usual.
The crow felt bitter.
Ah.
A long ago.
If it was a glorious old time that I can’t remember…!
While the crow desperately wanted the past, the leader of the White Judges laughed at him.
[Kkkk. Dirty beings kill their babies to continue their disgusting legacy, and then pretend to be merciful while pretending to be living things? This is a mortal sin.]
The White Judge held the curved dagger to the child’s neck.
The crying child was shocked, but the white judge did not stop.
[That guy is special. It seems like he’s the boss. I don’t think I need any more of this trash. Purge everyone.]
The white judges all raised their swords.
The child whose sword fell. Aim for the crows.
The crow tried to call his men by roaring, but even his beak was bitten by the dragon.
And. The white judge’s sword hit the child’s uvula…
Wow!!
Space sword.
Puff puff puff puff puff puff!
The white judges were blown all over the place by the shock wave of the sword energy spread everywhere, and the arm of Daejanggyeok, who had aimed the sword at the child, slithered away. I slipped and fell to the floor.
[Ah, ahhh!!]
While the white judge grabbed his arm and screamed, there was a thump. A man who must have gone down to the 5th floor appeared.
The crow looked at him blankly.
“I don’t mean to say that children are absolutely precious and must be protected, but… I think you guys are being a bit harsh.”
Dre is here.
