Chapter 733 – 733. Survival
Is this what a fish on a cutting board feels like?
Is there anyone who understands how I had no choice but to jump in even though I knew I would die?
Rather than giving up, I held on to the puppet with the intention of dying together.
Determined not to die alone, I did my best to grab him by the leg of his pants and dragged him into the pit.
‘I don’t feel any power.’
I couldn’t feel any power within me, including magical power or divine power.
It has returned to the state it was in before the disaster occurred.
It’s as if time has gone backwards.
“Were you this weak?”
My body was like a piece of trash with no muscles to be found.
I don’t feel any vitality, and my body is rotting from chronic fatigue.
I’ve lived like this my whole life. I had a good time.
I forced my weak body to stand up.
I have often experienced losing my power.
It’s no different this time either. Because I already know my weaknesses.
“Where am I?”
It is presumed to be an ascender’s brazier, but this is not certain information.
There was nothing around. It was an endless space of nothingness.
It looks white or gray depending on your perspective. Maybe black.
“There is no exit.”
Maybe I’ll wander around here forever.
I may have already ended when all my power was taken away.
Let’s walk first. I might be able to find something.
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I walked alone for a while.
I walked and walked blindly without knowing where to go or where to go on a road that had no changes.
So I found a building.
“This is…”
This is the old Jugong Apartment where I lived before the disaster.
It’s a building I haven’t seen in a really long time. I approached the apartment.
“The entrance password is the same. Huh.”
I headed home as if possessed.
I entered the password and went inside.
“Wow.”
My beloved room.
I lived in such a narrow and stuffy corner of the house.
Once again, life before the disaster felt so miserable.
“Still, I have to do what I have to do.”
I searched the room and took out a military bag.
The items I used remained the same.
“Bring a kitchen knife.”
I took along items that could be used as weapons.
Starting with a frying pan and a kitchen knife, I also brought a baseball bat.
At that time, I didn’t have proper weapon skills. I was struggling against zombies.
Fortunately, I survived easily thanks to my awakening as a cultist, and now that I think about it, I don’t think it would be strange at all if I died at any time.
“Farming is over.”
I went out of the house again.
I got weapons and some food.
I kept walking again and again until something appeared again.
“Wow.”
After walking for about 3 hours, I saw our supermarket.
The supermarket that Eunji and Harin took over after escaping from the apartment.
I met Aram and Areum near the mart, and I also met Hwayoung at our mart.
In the beginning, almost all the women I met were at our supermarket.
I remember living at a supermarket as my base for a while.
Brothers Ha Jin-seong and Ha Jin-woo had originally taken over our mart.
There were quite a lot of supplies, so there was no problem with more than 100 people holding on.
The dogs of the good gods also came to the mart and were killed by the black cockroach.
I remember Yewon being treated like a saint because she was in a class called Saint Maiden.
Zombie waves were also prevented several times at our supermarket. He killed a lot to survive.
If it’s a memory, it’s a memory. Where I lived before survival became a joke. A place where every day was truly a crisis.
“I have to farm.”
I went into the mart.
There was no one else, and I was the only one moving.
I packed some more food and changed my clothes.
After carefully taking care of the Chinese cutlery and hammer, I went out.
The next place will probably be…
“It must be a girls’ high school.”
Around the time our supermarket was hit by a zombie wave, and we decided we needed to move our base, we took over Hyoseon Girls’ High School located on the ridge.
There were a lot of awakened people there, so I remember getting a lot of workers to serve as a foundation.
And we were able to solve the food crisis. I remember that it was probably after the occupation of Hyoseon Girls’ High School that I began to become obsessed with recruiting technicians.
‘After this…’
They created an entrance to the abyss using a cracked ankh, fought a battle to conquer the abyss, and defeated Nicholas and Hero’s forces. Then, they continued to grow their base and even took over the United States. I remember that they later expanded into Japan via Busan.
After occupying North Korea, we entered a new phase.
Received information about the Golden Armada and the Emperor. After that, I worked hard to awaken evil spirits to fight against them.
After a continuous journey, I surpassed the state of transcendence and reached semi-immortality. I continued to fight in that state, and eventually became a god and earned the qualifications of an ascendant.
“It was eventful.”
After stopping by Hyoseon Girls’ High School and resting for a while, I went into the abyss and came out.
I moved and moved along the trajectory of my life.
I also go to the Forest of the Missing.
I also heard the catacombs.
Furthermore, after passing through the Tremor Mansion and the Black Market, I entered Sesha’s Tower and the Dimension of the Gap.
After meeting the gods and the Pandemonium, I arrived at the first place again.
We arrived in a space of nothingness. And there was also a puppet standing there.
“Are you… Alive?”
“I know. Are you alive?”
“Huh… Huh…”
The puppet looked at me and laughed as if it were absurd.
“I don’t know how to get out of here.”
“Me too.”
“Then again.”
“I guess so?”
I wandered around this space for several days. Maybe it’s been around for years. I spent a long time alone here with my sense of time distorted.
No matter how much I wandered around, there was no escape. So there are only two ways left.
Either commit suicide.
Or kill the enemy in front of you.
Of course, suicide is the last resort.
The puppet and I took out our weapons at the same time.
That guy and I are like that.
All the strength we both had is gone.
Neither I nor he has magical powers or skills or other abilities.
You literally have to kill him with purely physical attacks.
The same goes for him. Since he couldn’t use any tricks or tricks, he had to kill me with the awl he also had.
Over the past few years, I have been wandering around here and growing up. So that you can fight at any time.
“I never thought the Ascendant’s Brazier would be a space like this.”
“I guess it means stabbing and cutting them to death as they are raw.”
The guy nodded his head at my words.
It was still difficult to recognize his face, but he seemed somehow detached.
“It’s different from what I imagined. “I will kill you and escape.”
The guy rushed at me. There was no need for any further conversation. I spent a long time here, and it seemed like that guy also spent a very long time.
We wielded weapons to achieve each other’s goals.
It’s slow. It’s extremely slow. However, my body was slower to respond to that slow guy’s attack.
I never thought that such an ugly dog fight would be my final battle.
Isn’t it? Maybe it’s the fight that suits me best.
Because I always behaved like a dog. I guess it means rolling till the end.
Let’s try it.
“Huh!!!”
A puppet came in with an awl pierced into the eye.
After struggling to avoid it, I grabbed the guy’s arm with my left hand and struck him in the face with my right hand, which was holding a kitchen knife.
Wow!!
“Off!!!”
It felt like I wasn’t used to the pain.
Good night. Because I’m used to pain.
“Huh!! Die!!”
The guy got excited and lunged at me again, and this time I was able to knock him down more easily.
The movements are obvious. You have less experience falling from rock bottom than I do.
I just knew. This guy has lived his life just mistreating his boss until now.
I did not properly understand Eul’s fighting methods.
Farming is also poor. You tried to kill me with just an awl? There is no way.
I am the person who cut off hundreds of zombie heads with a kitchen knife.
Good luck!!!!
I cut off the guy’s arm.
Blood spurts out. The guy took a step back, startled by the blood pouring out of his arm, and I continued digging towards him.
Me too and that guy too. Both of our weapons have short reach. We have to dig in and stab each other like crazy.
“Holy shit!!!”
I stuck a kitchen knife into his trapezius muscle. I aimed for his neck, but I made a mistake.
In return, he stabbed an awl into my left side.
If he had turned a little further, he could have slit his throat. Sick. The stuck awl was very painful.
“Where!!!!”
Before he could pull out the awl again, I pushed him down and knocked him down. Even if it hurts, I have to endure it.
It hurts like crazy, but I endure it until the end. Because this is not the time to whine about being in pain.
You’re used to being in pain. You got used to the pain. So let’s endure.
Ignoring the pain, I climbed on top of him and punched him in the face.
His eyes and nose were blown out and his teeth were pulled out.
A puppet that can’t come to its senses.
I put a kitchen knife in the guy’s mouth.
With the feeling of something breaking, the guy struggled and tried to stop the knife from going in further.
“This bastard.!!!”
Even as the kitchen knife was digging into my mouth, he finally pulled out the awl stuck in my side and stabbed my stomach like crazy.
The awl went in and out of his left thigh and stomach.
It’s terrible. It hurt so much that I died. But I guess it hurts more for you to have your mouth cut open with a kitchen knife and your tongue sticking out than it hurts for me, right?
Haha!!! Asleep!!! Search!!!”
When I thought that the bastard struggling under me would be in more pain than me, dopamine and adrenaline secreted like crazy.
Yes, it is exactly true that other people’s pain is my happiness. Hurt more. It hurts, and I die.
“Die!!!!”
I pressed down on the kitchen knife with both hands. The kitchen knife, which could no longer go in because it was stuck in the bone, went deeper and deeper when I put my weight on it and pressed it down with both hands.
“Huh.! Haaa!!! Considerate!”
A puppet begging for his life without being able to pronounce words properly because his tongue was cut off.
I didn’t stop.
He placed his left hand on the end of the kitchen knife handle with his hand spread out, and then struck the pine lantern in his left hand with his right hand. This way, you can insert the knife more easily.
Like carving marble by hitting a nail with a hammer.
Until he dies.
Until the kitchen knife penetrates this bastard’s head.
Bang! Bang! Boom!!!!
I hit the back of my hand and drove the kitchen knife into it.
Wow!!!!!
Soon, the tip of the kitchen knife came out through the back of the guy’s head.
It penetrated. The puppet no longer moved.
The surrounding area was stained red from the blood that he and I shed.
It has become a sea of blood.
Red. Infinitely red. It was full of bloody smell.
“Haa. Haa. Fuck.”
The side was torn apart.
The crushed intestines are slightly oozing out due to how much the awl was pierced.
It felt like the taste had gone to not only my kidneys but also my liver.
“Oh… Fuck…”
I collapsed.
There was no strength left to move.
This is a real dog fight.
I don’t have a semi-immortal body and I can’t use the growing flesh.
I could feel the blood slowly leaving my body.
Will I be left like this and die?
Is this the ending?
“Out of the two, if you kill one, you have to let the other one live, you damn bastard…”
He said, coughing up blood.
Is it really going to end like this with both me and the puppet being left behind?
Am I going to burn up like this and become fuel in the Ascendant’s furnace?
My eyes gradually closed.
In a situation where it was better to hold on, I hoped for salvation.
However, there was no response.
‘Life is free. Fuck.’
After all that shit, I have to die in pain like this instead of happiness.
If I had known it would end like crap, I wouldn’t have fought so hard.
[Achievement achieved! ‘Survival’]
[Achievement rewards are given.]
[It is the final reward. I hope you decide carefully.]
As I was dying lonely, a notification window appeared in front of me.
It’s not even the new status window system created by Machina.
It is not a fantasy shown by evil gods for me.
“Ah.”
The owner of this space.
The creator of this dream.
He spoke to me.
