Chapter 441 – 441. Hidden Routes
4th floor of the Catacombs. Hidden root.
Unlike other places where you can’t feel any energy of life, there were lots of moss and unknown plants growing in the hidden route.
It was like the ruins of the Aztec civilization, which was so old that it was devoured by nature.
“The air is damp.”
“Yes.. It’s heavy.”
Sora Nanase and Ah-reum Han were diligently wandering the hidden route avoiding the 2-meter-tall undead.
The hidden route they reached was much more difficult than the previous 4th floor.
Even the barbarian undead and beast-type undead that were roaming around right now were monsters that a level 20 player could hardly touch.
“What floor is this on?”
“We fell on the second floor, so maybe the third or fourth floor?”
“Because the 5th floor is the last floor… You couldn’t have fallen on the 5th floor, right?”
“Hee-ik.. How can the two of us beat the boss mob? It’s impossible.”
Nanase Sora shakes her head and expresses her fear at Ah-reum Han’s hypothesis.
With tears in her eyes, she pulled out of her pocket the necklace of her husband’s bedtime and held it up.
There were two necklaces in her hand. It was an item that Ha Jin-seong had bought another from the peddler who came to the base while Jo-joon Jang was away last time.
“Looks like everyone is still up there.”
“That’s right. It would be nice if it had come down to at least the second floor.”
One of the necklaces So-ra was holding informed the location of Lee Eun-ji and Lee Eun-ha, and the other indicated the location of Son Ha-eun and Keker Joe.
In fact, Jojun Jang told them that it would be good if they cooperated to attack the catacombs.
However, they felt a sense of competition in their own way, and as a result, despite the necklace of the couple, they each agreed to go downstairs and spend the night with Joe, who reached the 5th floor first.
“I didn’t know it would be this scary. Whoops.”
“I know. If I had known this was going to happen, I would have just joined right on the first floor. Ha.”
Ah-reum Han and Sora Nanase never imagined that they would fall into such a strange place.
It’s nominally on the 4th floor, but this place was actually on the 4.5th floor.
-Koo-gu-gu-goo…
“Ugh… Again.”
“It’s been a mess since before.”
The girls couldn’t figure out the identity of this roar, but it was actually the footsteps of the graveyard guardians entering the second floor from the first floor.
The graveyard guardians ruled by Son Ha-eun were entering the lower level, cutting and killing all the survivors from the first floor. You will probably encounter Lee Eun-ji and Lee Eun-ha, who are entering the third floor soon.
“For now, I keep going around… But I don’t know where this is.”
“Did you draw a map?”
“I’m sorry. It got twisted from the middle.”
“Ah. Ugh Ahh. No. Let’s not be angry. Whoa. Yes, it’s okay Things like that happen, too.”
“Huh… I’m sorry.”
Yeah, now the two of them are lost. I couldn’t see a way to get out of it because I entered through a hidden route.
“From now on, I’ll just go wherever I feel like going.”
“Yes..”
They moved on. The map was useless, so I decided to keep wandering around to find my way.
Not knowing what is sleeping here.
“But gradually… Isn’t it a bit bleak? The way we are going… Is it the right way?”
“It’s bleak, it’s just this space itself. I’m not sure if it’s the right way, but… I’m on my way avoiding the zombies as much as possible, so maybe this is the right way?”
“Is that so? I guess so? I will.”
“What. Don’t you believe me?”
“Oh, no. Believe. I believe. Sorry.”
“No. What are you apologizing for?”
“Haha..”
Sora Nanase had vaguely sensed it from earlier.
After receiving her blessing, she was a little sensitive. She is talking about a spiritual energy or existence.
That’s why I kept feeling that they were going on the ‘wrong path’ rather than the exit.
“Hmm.”
On the other hand, she felt nothing, no. On the contrary, Han Ah-reum, feeling attracted by something, just silently moved forward.
For some reason, it seemed that if I went all the way this way, something would come out. It felt like that. I couldn’t think of any other way.
Perhaps it was this bizarre space that attracted her.
Maybe something in her deep slumber took an interest in her.
Maybe she got caught up in her unknown causal attraction.
Just like Han Ah-reum, she kept moving toward a point like someone possessed by something.
It was then.
“Ugh…”
“What, why?”
“Go, my heart…”
Sora Nanase sat down clutching her chest.
At the same time, flames began to rise from her body.
She was the same as the day she first got her shin.
In an instant, her body was roaring, engulfed in pure white flames and exuding unapproachable heat.
“This..!!!”
Where there is light, the guardians of the tomb appear for the king’s rest.
Han Ah-reum immediately drew her sword and raised her magic to deal with the soon-to-be guardians of the graveyard.
“What.”
However, contrary to her expectations, the graveyard guardians did not appear.
That’s not natural Since all the guardians of the graveyard have become slaves in Son Ha-eun’s hands, there is no way they can come out.
Of course, Nanase Sora and Han Ah-reum, who had not even dreamed of such a fact, were just very embarrassed by this situation.
“Isn’t it coming out of here?”
“Mo, I don’t know.”
“Her. Hmm. Let’s hide somewhere for now. I’ll get caught up on this.”
The fact that the Guardians of the Graveyard did not appear did not mean that the problem was gone. There are still dozens of barbarian undead and beast-type undead roaming around here.
Furthermore, lighting a light in the dark catacombs was nothing short of protesting for death.
“Here, come in.”
“Yes..”
The two soon found an empty room and went into it. Thanks to Sora Nanase’s body being set on fire in the middle, they were able to avoid going to the room where ‘it’ slept.
It could be seen as an arrangement by the sun god to protect Sora Nanase, who became her own incarnation.
Maybe.
However, the problem is that the ancient god Amaterasu does not protect her until she is full.
After all, he was the god of Sora Nanase.
“It’s hot.”
Sora Nanase was unmoved by the heat, but Han Ah-reum, who came in with her, was to die for. For some reason, he thought that the flames were pushing him away.
Feeling repulsed by this, Han Ah-reum eventually told Sora Nanase to be alone for a while and tried to leave her room.
“Yes…? I’m here alone…”
“Uh. Wait a little bit I’ll be right back.”
In fact, Han Ah-reum wanted to go to a place where she felt a strange attraction from a while ago.
That’s why she continued to move in that direction, and despite Sora Nanase’s words, she carried through her will. She wasn’t the way she usually was.
Even the undead were nowhere to be seen on her way.
It was as if she had cleared her way, as if to come find her.
Sora Nanase continued to sense her strange fear and reluctance, but she did not dare to express her opinion.
It wasn’t easy to give her opinion because it didn’t help anything right away. No matter how much the same colleagues, there is a hierarchy of their own.
The voice of those who are not helpful is naturally lowered. And among Jojun Jang’s women, Nanase Sora’s right to speak was as low as Lee Eunha’s.
Thinking that she was of no help, she stopped talking about herself a lot, and as a result, Sora Nanase’s opinion was naturally ignored.
Unlike Kim Ye-won, who had been holding onto the concept of being a loner from the beginning, and received the protection of her Hilde, Sora Nanase, who was a foreigner and had no one to call her friends, quietly, without anyone noticing, her presence was declining.
The same was true of Meiling. She is an American like Anna, and she is treated well because she is so talented, but she was originally an enemy, and her Mei Ling, who has a strange sensibility to foreigners, has a feeling that she is slightly different.
This was the sadness of her concubine line. At least her Mei Ling has been getting along well with her concubines Ella and her sister Bella lately, but Nanase…
Terrified of her anyway, just following her arm, she couldn’t quite articulate this reluctant feeling of her own.
That’s why it can be seen that Amaterasu blocked it in the middle. Even Sora Nanase was taken out.
If we go together, we will be in bad shape.
“I’ll be back soon.”
“Yes..”
Sora Nanase wanted to tell her not to go, but she couldn’t hold her. It seemed that the flames coming out of her body would injure Han-Areum.
Moreover, going outside in this state will only harm you.
“If you ever get lost… Here.”
Sora Nanase stretched out his hand. A blue butterfly that came out of her hand landed on her armful shoulder and was absorbed as it was.
“You will know where I am.”
“The guiding butterfly. Okay. I will be back.”
Han Ah-reum nodded her head and went out.
Sora Nanase, who had been staring at the door of her room for a long time, where her arms had escaped, closed her eyes for a moment as it was engulfed in flames. She didn’t understand why her body was suddenly burning.
She just continued her meditation until her flames were extinguished, at least relieved that she had someone to protect her.
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“Hmm.”
Han Ah-reum, entrusting her body to the beating of her heart she had felt earlier, moved in one direction like a possessed person.
For some reason, there were no undead on her path, and thanks to this, Han Ah-reum was able to reach her destination quickly.
“Here you are.”
After another 30 minutes or so, she finally reached the end of the hidden route.
-Kiik…
She opened the big door. Soon, crumbs and dust fell from the door, revealing a closed room.
“Ah.”
She saw
A corpse sitting on a chair in the distance and the sword the corpse had.
It was a pitch-black sword.
Han Ah-reum felt a great desire. It felt like I had to get that sword right away.
One step. Two steps.
She moved forward So she reached for the sword the corpse was holding. She couldn’t stop Her sword was calling her.
I had to have it unconditionally. I couldn’t rot such a ghost in a place like this.
[You were led by my sword. Young swordsman in blue.]
Just before Han Ah-reum’s hand touched the sword, her corpse opened her eyes.
The Black Demon has awakened.
