Chapter 369 – 369. Nicholas Is Messing Around Again
A total of 22 players have entered Hell.
Among them, 10 of the remaining 17 people, except for Jang Jo-jun and his team of four, were the forces of the pantheon, or Nicholas.
That means the remaining seven are pure players who do not belong to any faction.
“Wow.. It’s dark..”
“Damn.. To survive here? For a day?”
“Uh.. Who, who are you?”
“Huh? What else are you?”
And two of those seven coincidentally overlapped spawn points.
The spawn location was not completely random, but about 50 places were set, and coincidence coincided with coincidence, and the two men and women met in hell.
“Wait, wait, wait…! First of all, put the knife in and solve it by talking to us!!!”
“How can I trust you? Know who you are Shut up and take out your weapon. Or will you just kill me?”
“Hey, please calm down..! Shit..!”
A woman who had all sorts of musical instruments begged for help. Then the man whose face was full of scars managed to lower his knife.
No matter how she looked at it, she felt like she couldn’t do anything about herself.
“Whoa.. I’m glad.. First of all, to introduce myself, I’m Kate. As you can see, it is a bard with no fighting ability. Obviously, I came in with all my teammates… But I don’t know why everyone is falling apart. This world is too unkind. Right?”
“I am Antonio.”
“Oh..! It was Antonio. Hey, I’m from England…”
“Stop talking because I’m not curious.”
“Ah.. Yes.”
That’s how the bizarre companionship of Antonio and Kate began.
In fact, Antonio had no intention of accompanying Kate, who looked weak, but she clung to Antonio, saying that she would surely die if Kate went alone.
“My, please..! If I wandered around hell alone.. Hehe..! I will definitely follow you..!!”
“Leave this..!!!”
“Keukeuheu..! Antonio…! Please..!”
“Whoa, whoa.. This damn bitch.. I get it. Okay so please shut up! I mean, don’t be loud.”
“Ah.. Yes..”
Antonio, barely calming Kate, felt his head throb.
This is because a woman with a lot of hands like this was a little too much for him, who lost all his colleagues a week ago and became alone.
“By the way, Mr. Antonio, did you choose the achievement reward?”
“Huh? No. Yet.”
“Then, would you like to choose with me?”
“What..? Hmm…”
Antonio pondered over Kate’s words for a moment, then nodded her head. If it was the same achievement anyway, it was because they could choose different options under the condition that the two continue to accompany each other.
“I’ll pick up a brochure then.”
“I will choose a guide.”
In order to properly grasp the state of hell right away, Antonio picked up a tour guide as a reward, and Kate chose a tour guide.
“Kuuuuu!!!!!”
“Hey, why is this bastard doing this again!!!”
“Sah, save me!!! That, sorry..!! Uh… Uh?”
The summoned guide struggled like crazy, then looked around and finally came to his senses.
“Wait, what the heck…”
“…”
“Hey, who is this..?”
“… Looks like a guide, but he’s crazy.”
Antonio and Kate stared blankly at the guide sitting there.
The guide, who was gradually becoming a specter in a situation where he was dragged into the pillar of the spirit and kept killing and killing and killing, finally came to his senses.
He was chosen as a guide and was able to come to his senses again by breaking away from the pillars of the spirit world.
“Did you guys… Call me?”
“Yeah.. What are you?”
Antonio with a sword.
The guide roughly shoved Antonio’s knife away with his hand and tried to explain his situation and what was happening in hell. He went to get help from two people who called him out.
But just as the guide opened his mouth, something howled in the distance.
-Aaaaa!!!
“This..!!”
“Oh..!”
“It is a beast..!!!”
A guide freezes while standing at the cry of the beast, and the two panicked.
Soon, the guide regained his senses and ran to find a place to hide, and Antonio and Kate hurriedly crawled under the rocks to hide themselves.
“Hey, hey… Antonio… Something fighting…”
“Shh…”
“…Huh..”
The three of them pricked their ears at the sound of getting closer. Then, gradually, the shouts of those fighting the beast were heard.
-Nicholas!! The male and female must be killed at the same time!!
-Okay!! Die!!!!
-Kwagwagwang!!!!!
-Kuaaaaa!!!!!
-Damn it!!! Amir!! Get the timing right!!!
– You have to kill them at the same time!! Damn you curry son!!!
-Mi, I’m sorry!!
“They look like they’re fighting a monster… Shouldn’t we help them…?”
“Are you helping me?”
“Do, agree…”
“I’m sorry..”
At the cold words of Antonio and the guide, Kate took out her instrument and ran out of the rock crevice. In response, Antonio and the guide, who were hiding under the rocks, met eyes. The guide shook his head and said not to go out.
“Haha, that crazy bitch…”
Antonio, feeling embarrassed to be with a guide of an unknown race, decided to just leave.
More than anything, it seemed like the situation would only get weirder if he kept hiding and was later discovered.
“Uhhh!!!”
Kwagwagwang!!!
When I came out, I saw two black, huge beasts and six men and women fighting. Surprisingly, however, the three of them had an appearance that was difficult to see as human.
Antonio felt uneasy at their appearance, but Kate ran forward even more as if she was not at all uneasy. She was like a woman who had interacted with such beings many times.
Anyway, Kate shouted as if to get everyone’s attention.
“I can help too..!!”
‘That crazy bitch..! You’re attracted to me..!!’
Antonio hurriedly approached Kate and stood in front of her.
Kate is blunt, but she takes out her ocarina and starts playing, thinking that the strangely charming Antonio will protect her.
Then her ocarina floated into her air, and she continued her playing on her own. In response, Kate immediately took out a lute and a djembe and sang together.
A strange ensemble soon followed, and those gathered in the place realized that their minds became clearer, their concentration increased, and their physical abilities improved.
Even if a bard has no direct combat ability, he is a level 20 achiever. No one would take a useless woman to level 20 on the bus.
Yes, she was the best supporter.
“Good!! Let’s go!!!”
“Shit..!”
Soon after, the shadow walker, Antonio, joined in and began to beat the beasts. They were able to hunt all the animals that did not die no matter how hard they hit them.
“Haha. Thanks for your help.”
“Oh, no.”
After the battle, Nicholas, wiping the sweat from his brow, came over and thanked Kate and Antonio.
Kate smiled broadly and replied that it was no big deal, and Antonio still looked at the three non-human pillars in disbelief. And even the guide who was hiding behind a rock and looking at the situation.
In a strange atmosphere, Antonio asked Nicholas.
“Rather than that… What the hell are those three people over there?”
“Ah, those people.. Hmm.. Originally, they were the ones who ruled the Infernal Hell. They are called pillars.”
“Originally ruled…”
“Yes. Hell is now in the hands of an evil being. That’s why the difficulty level went up a lot.”
“An evil being…?”
“Yes. First of all, they are players like us. The class is a cultist.. Aka pagan, a man from a very small country in the east.. All those who stand out are hunted down and sacrificed to evil spirits, or made into slaves and used as toys. Regardless of age or gender. If you get caught in his hands, you will have to experience hell alive.”
“What, what..?”
“Also, perhaps in order to achieve the achievement of being an Apostle of Disaster, he is one of the evils that cause disaster himself. It’s selfish… It’s evil, and it’s like the root of all evil.”
“A guy like that really exists?”
“Yes. The beasts you just saw are the ones that humans first entered hell and released. He must have summoned those who came later to punish them without even using their hands… He’s a terrible human being. I doubt if he is human.”
“…”
Antonio was hard to believe. However, his false insight confirmed that there was not a single lie mixed in with Nicholas’ words.
‘I can’t believe there is such a thing…’
Antonio was slightly appalled. Because his teammates also died at the hands of such an evil person.
‘There was another villain like Romerio.. Even the scale is world-class… Crazy.. We have to kill this guy quickly..’
Antonio’s hometown was Italy. And it was a famous Italian gang led by his man, Rome Rio, of the Bendit class, that killed his family and teammates a week ago.
Now, everyone has changed their lives due to Antonio’s revenge, but anyway, Antonio knew very well about the endless malice of humans.
To the point where I firmly believe that there is no creature as evil and cruel as man in this world.
“The guy who killed people and made offerings to them… And enslaved them… Was even strong…”
“So we need help. In order to hunt him down, the powerless must band together. In order to deal with the giants..”
“…You want help..?”
“Yes. I want you to help me. Because you are strong We alone are not enough.”
Antonio grabbed Nicholas’ hand. It was because he needed to kill such a madman quickly, once he realized that there was no lie in Nicholas’ words.
“What do you plan to do from now on?”
“First of all… I have to go see the being called the Pillar of Stinginess.”
“Pillars of stinginess..?”
“Yes. He probably has the most troops right now. And… He must know something about the Pillar of Indolence, which must have the notes of a sage.”
“What else is the sage’s memoir..?”
“It is a treasure that can manipulate the environment of Hell. There are a total of three treasures in hell… One of them, the trumpet that awakens the beast, is held by a heathen, and the other one is an unknown pillar. Anyway, 2 out of 3 we need to get our hands on. We need to make the pillars of stinginess, indolence, and pride on our side so that we can deal with the mad cultists.”
“Bo, it’s complicated… I get it first. Move quickly.”
“Yes. Then..”
“Hey, hey, wait a minute. I have a colleague with whom I originally planned to act.”
“Is that so? How many are there?”
“There are about three of them. All three of them are British.”
“Then let’s do a search for them as well. Let’s move for now. Soon the specters will gather.”
“Hey, wait a minute…! Take me too!!”
“What is that again…?”
Nicholas, who was about to move, and the guide who had been hiding in the rocks popped out in front of the people.
“Bah, that cultist you just mentioned… I know it well…!”
“Yes…? Heretic… You know Jang Jo-jun?”
“I-I don’t even know the name… I know the person who engraved the stigma on my forehead… Kkeuuaaaaa thing..!!!”
The guide knelt down and grabbed his head.
One of the three basic commands instilled in him, ‘no betrayal’, gave him the pain right before his death.
Merely thinking of betraying Jang Jo-jun did not trigger a penalty for disobeying orders, but speaking or acting directly did trigger a penalty.
“This, this..!”
“It’s a stigma… It’s a slave’s stigma…”
“Everyone get out of the way.”
Nicholas defeated his party and stepped forward.
Soon the holy sword was in his hand.
“Free the slaves.”
He swung his sword at the guide, and the sword passed through the guide and cut through the stigma.
The slave’s brand was cut off.
[Warning!!! The slavery mark is lifted!!!]
Hehe…!!!”
“Whoa…”
The skill called ‘Sword of Slavery Liberation’, which was activated by changing 100 magical powers, had no special effect, just a simple effect of being able to release this slave state.
Nicholas, whose level dropped due to the penalty given by the operators last time and who got the ‘opportunity to grow again’, immediately chose and learned the newly organized skills of the predecessors, and these were only skills to counter Jang Jo-jun’s skills.
The sword of freeing slaves was one of them.
“Are you okay now?”
“Ah, yes.. Yes.. Haha.. Haha..! The feeling that binds my soul… Is gone..!”
“I’m glad you did.”
Soon the guide got up from his seat and finished the story he was going to say a moment ago.
He told me everything from Jang Jo-joon’s appearance and skills to the appearance of his henchman, Croy.
He also recounted all the information about the wandering doctor he knew.
“Putting a corpse into a strange hole to create infinite troops… Carrying around a new head that has been remodeled…”
“Anyway, even a cultist with a trumpet can’t control these beasts.”
“Yeah, that’s right.. He definitely… Ordered the beast to be put in order.”
“Whoa.. This situation is interesting. He says he is panicking at the disaster he called… Let’s continue moving for now.”
Nicolas and his companions began to move in search of the stingy pillar with a smile of repentance at the news that Jang Jo-jun could not control the beast either.
They won’t know
The fact that Zhang Zhaojun has already met the Pillar of Pride and entered the throne, and he has obtained the ruling plan of the Yellow Dragon, which can dominate beasts…
