Chapter 89 – 89. First Peaceful Night
The moment Monday came, a few evolved zombies ran into the mart.
-Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
Revenant’s greatsword is destroying the barricade at the entrance to the first floor.
It seemed that the entrance would soon be breached by Revenant’s fierce attack.
“Fuck… No. No. This is not Fuck!!”
The moment Ha Jin-seong saw the Revenant breaking down the entrance on the first floor, his body trembled. It’s because the situation was similar to last week.
Ha Jin-seong was unable to do anything when he remembered the day when many of the early members of the mart, including Kim Il-woo and Kim Min-jun, died en masse.
In terms of the date right now, it’s been less than a week. No matter how hard I tried to forget it, it was still difficult to completely forget it. Because it’s too recent. It was even more difficult because I was so close to them.
“Fuck… Fuck! We…We are all going to die!”
In the end, Ha Jin-seong fell into PTSD and struggled. Scenes of people being ripped off by the Draug in front of you and a laughing Revenant chewing up the survivor’s head and swallowing it are replayed. There were flashbacks of scenes in which Kim Il-woo exploded, Kim Min-joon was crushed, and Lee Eun-hye was torn apart.
Having done that, Ha Jin-seong lost his fighting spirit after seeing the futility. In an instant, his morale fell to the floor, and he muttered strange sounds while talking gibberish.
Seeing this, Ha Jin-woo ran to his brother.
“Brother! Brother!! Hey fucker!! Wake!!! Why are you doing this all of a sudden!!”
Ha Jin-seong barely raised his head at Ha Jin-woo’s shouting. He looked up at his brother with a dumbfounded expression.
“Ji, Jinwoo..”
“Brother! Wake! It’s crazy?! Why are you screaming all of a sudden!! Wake up soon! There are more people this time. I won’t be fooled like last time!”
Ha Jin-wu slapped his brother on the cheek several times in succession, who was still looking up at his face stupidly. The blow was so strong that blood dripped from Ha Jin-seong’s nose.
Ha Jin-seong was able to come to his senses again with tears flowing from his dizzying shock.
“Yeah.. That’s right.. I must have been crazy for a while. I’m sorry, brother.”
Ha Jin-seong quickly looked around him.
Thanks to Jo Joon’s busy wandering around and enslaving a large number of Awoken people, the number of people is much higher than last week. And the Possession Warrior, a hidden class, and the incredibly strong Dyurahan are also on the first floor, and three Mage classes are on standby. Ha Jin-seong was a little courageous to the number of people who could not lose.
‘Above all, the jet-black wheel is guarding this place.’
It wasn’t enough power to lose to the likes of Draugr and Revenant.
“And brother. There are fewer of them than last week. They didn’t come here to kill each other, they just said that the zombies around them evolved and came here without a hitch. They’re the ones who don’t have a system or anything. We can win enough.”
It was only then that Ha Jin-seong was able to see properly.
The only ones destroying the entrance on the first floor were two draugs and one revenant. It wasn’t like last week that they came mercilessly and smashed everything.
‘They are the minority and we are the majority. They can’t invade this place.’
Ha Jin-seong hinted at himself. My shaky mind has now become a little more stable. Of course, it’s just a temporary solution.
“Are those really all?”
“For now, those guys are everything. You just need to george them. There were only a few of them, probably because the number of zombies in the neighborhood had decreased.”
In the meantime, there were not many zombies near the mart, thanks to the jet-black wheels laying dead eggs on the bodies of zombies. Even the zombies hiding in the sewer were completely eradicated for raiding the sports center, so the neighborhood of Woori Mart where Jo Joon was located was no different from a zombie-free zone.
Thanks to that, fewer than a dozen evolved zombies approached the mart. Even that is dying from the skills of those on the rooftop.
Of course, in return, the flesh of the dead corpses melted and the number of skeletons increased endlessly, but no one had figured it out yet.
“Hey! Ha Jin-seong How long are you going to be dragging around there! Hurry up and pay for your meal!!”
Kang Eun-jeong grunted as she kicked Draug’s shin. Ha Jin-seong, who was curiously in love with Kang Eun-jung because they mixed their bodies so often, wiped off the dripping nosebleeds and stood up again.
“Okay! It happens!”
Ha Jin-seong, who was determined to fight again soon, shouted as he clenched his fists. His younger sister, Kang Eun-jung, were all cheering him on, but he couldn’t help but stand up.
“Fuck!! It won’t be enough to fight!”
He regained his courage and went forward to fight the draugs that were trying to enter the mart.
The one and only Revenant was being killed by Durahan Gu Kyo-Han alone, and the remaining Draug was being killed by Possession Warrior Lee Hoon and other Awakeners sharing their roles.
Soon Ha-jin Sung was able to help his brother and Kang Eun-jung kill the draugr. Certainly, as the number of Awakeners increased, dealing with them became much easier.
In particular, thanks to the magic of Hwang Soo-min and the two mages who got stuck in the draugr’s head at the right time, he was able to win without a single wound.
“Ha. Haha. No big deal!”
Bright and good at the draugr’s corpse, Hajinseong shouted in his confident voice. The thought that he killed the feared guys with his own hands made his confidence spring up. Grieg tried to forget the disaster of the previous week.
When Ha Jin-seong regained his energy, all the other awakened people gathered on the first floor were full of joy and praised each other and enjoyed the victory.
“Hey, can I have these?”
Son Ha-eun, who was watching the fight then, asked. Ha Jin-seong nodded his head because there was no place to write a zombie corpse.
Then Son Ha-eun asked Dyurahan to drag the corpses of Draug and Revenant to the corner. Then he mumbled something incantation and tried to revive the zombies.
“Ah… Not yet..”
However, as if it had failed, Son Ha-eun let out a sad sigh. It was funny to see the zombies trying to stand up and fall down. Ha Jin-seong suddenly thought that tonight was very peaceful, as if the child was playing alone.
‘It’s good that this week doesn’t come like the last time.
Ha Jin-seong had a happy imagination that maybe tonight might pass as it is. I just wanted this night to end like this.
So he tried hard to carry on his optimistic thoughts. However, as he was forcibly dreaming of a bright future, he heard something strange in his ears.
-Kihihihi.
It was a laugh
Ha Jin-seong felt his hair stand on end at the sound of mocking laughter.
It’s something irritating and unpleasant.
It was like the eerie laughter of a female ghost heard in a horror movie.
“Wait a minute! Everyone, be quiet!”
“Hyung, why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“Shh.. Can’t you hear something? Listen to this. The sound of something laughing, wondering what kind of woman it was.”
“What..? Uh…? Uh. What is this…”
Ha Jin-woo’s expression also became serious.
Something is laughing And the laughter was getting closer.
“Kihehehe.”
Soon everyone on the first floor could hear it.
Something is watching them
I can feel the gaze behind my back.
Everyone felt that something was standing behind their backs.
“What, what!!”
Ha Jin-seong climbed up and looked back, screaming louder for no reason to escape the fear of choking him.
“…”
There’s nothing.
It seemed like something was stroking the back of his neck and touching his cheek. He looked back and there was nothing.
“Poetry… Fuck…”
Soon, Ha Jin-seong swears and turns around again.
“Uh?”
This time, everyone gathered on the first floor disappeared. Ha Jin-seong was standing alone at the mart.
I didn’t feel any popularity. It was as if all the people in the mart had disappeared.
“Ji, Jinwoo!! Eunjung-ah..! Brother Aim!”
Ha Jin-seong was terrified and called his comrades. However, there was no answer coming back.
-Kihehe…
The colleagues I was looking for didn’t come, and instead something that shouldn’t come crawled into the mart.
An indescribable fear ran a chill down her spine.
“What, what…”
A woman with her hair hanging down in her dingy façade was standing close to him before he knew it. It’s like she’s been there all along.
Knock… Knock…
Water droplets drip from the woman’s head.
The woman was drenched in water.
She also had her fingertips stained black. Her skin was strangely pale and her eyes were wide open without focus.
– Huong…
A wind blew from somewhere and extinguished the torches that were burning all over the first floor.
In an instant, darkness came.
“Poetry.. Fuck..”
Ha Jin-seong swallowed his saliva and looked at the woman approaching him. She couldn’t take her eyes off. She thought that if she sold her eyes, she would suddenly be standing in front of him.
-Steel puck… Iron peck…
Strangely, the sound of footsteps was loud.
An unpleasant silence prevails. The fear of being left alone made Hajin-seong feel like he was about to urinate.
Soon, the woman who was slowly approaching him, one step or two, glared at Ha Jin-seong, who was looking at her through the cracks in her loose hair.
Reddish eyes wide open. The woman stared at Ha Jin-seong with those uneasy eyes full of veins. And then she smiled wide.
Ha Jin-seong fell into a panic at the bizarre appearance that could only come out of a Japanese horror movie.
The gloomy waves emitted by the ghosts that invaded the mart shook his mind. Also, for some reason, the temperature on the first floor gradually decreased, and an unpleasant smell spread around.
Soon, the woman moved again and came right in front of Hajinseong.
For some reason, his body stiffened and he couldn’t move.
It’s as if you’ve been pressed by scissors while standing. Even though she wanted to run away, she couldn’t move.
“Why… Why me… Why…”
Ha Jin-seong’s body trembled because of her ghost, which was dripping black muddy water towards him.
Eventually he closed his eyes.
“Caught.”
It was then.
Lee Hoon, who came right behind Ha Jin-seong, snatched the woman’s neck.
“Uh..?”
Ha Jin-seong, who had closed his eyes for a moment, opened them again with a bewildered face.
He thought he was going to die right away, but before he knew it, the ghost in front of him disappeared and the light that had been turned off was turned on again. All the people who had disappeared have returned.
“Haa… Sa, lived…”
Soon Ha Jin-seong sat down.
Everything I had just seen seemed like a dream.
While he was sitting down and gasping for breath, Ha Jin-woo approached and asked.
“Brother. What are you doing alone?”
“Uh? What are you doing? Didn’t we all see a ghost together?”
“Brother. Really, why are you like this today? Brother, you stood there blankly all alone. Did Lee Hoon suddenly fall down when he touched your shoulder?”
“Uh, what does that mean…”
“No… Hyung, just go up and sleep today. You must be tired, but don’t say anything strange.”
Ha Jin-seong was unable to speak in embarrassment. The fact that none of them felt or saw anything further confused him.
‘I’m sure everyone hears the ghost’s laughter and trembles in fear together… Uh… Isn’t it? What..’
Ever since he heard the ghost’s laughter, Ha Jin-seong had been possessed by himself. From the moment he fell into PTSD and struggled, Ha Jin-seong was in a state of being a target of ghosts.
If Lee Hoon hadn’t quickly removed the ghost from Ha Jin-seong’s body, he might not have been able to see tomorrow morning.
‘You attack like this. They’re dangerous guys..’
Possession Warrior Lee Hoon was quietly watching this series of events.
Ha Jin-seong, who had shouted out loud after killing the evolutionary zombies that had invaded the mart, suddenly stood still, staring into the air. Seeing this, Lee Hoon realized that something was restraining Ha Jin-seong.
‘This is bewitching.’
Afterwards, he observed Ha Jin-seong more and decided to cut off the ghost that had clung to him.
Lee Hoon caught the ghost that clung to Ha Jin-seong’s shoulder and scratched Ha-jin-seong’s neck. Ghosts are also souls. It is the doping material for Possession Warrior Lee Hoon.
“Thank you for this food.”
Lee Hoon swallowed the demon he was holding on to when others were not looking. A dark soul was sucked into his wide open mouth.
*****
“Pluto.”
Joon was using his skills on the rooftop to catch and kill the ghosts flying into the mart.
Jo Jun, the apostle of evil spirits, was not possessed by demons. However, some Awakeners on the roof were possessed by ghosts and tried to jump over the railing.
As a result, Jo Joon sent all the other Awoken people down, leaving only his women behind.
‘By the way, do these serve as an offering?’
He immediately bit one of the ghosts with the Abyss Maw and offered them to Indicron.
“Dedicated.”
[Hmm.. It’s bland. It is not a very good quality offering. I don’t like it..]
“Aha… I’ll be careful…”
Surprisingly, the spirit body was capable of human sacrifice. However, I’m not too happy about it, but rather embarrassed.
It’s like a butler’s reaction when he receives a present from a cat caught on the street.
‘Uh… Come to think of it, I think I’ve been like this before…’
Right. It was a similar reaction when I tried to offer a soul corrupted to the devil. Still, at that time, he refused to eat at all, and this time, he received it, but he did not seem to enjoy it.
It’s worse than not doing this.
“It’s Eunji.”
“Huh? Brother why?”
“Bring some Possession Warriors to the first floor. Do you know who it is?”
“Huh. Lee Hoon?”
“Uh. Bring him.”
“Okay!”
Soon, Lee Hoon came up to the roof.
“Did you call?”
“Uh. Hey. You are a ghost…”
“It gets absorbed. I already ate a few.”
“Oh… That’s fast. So, can you detect ghosts?”
“I feel it vaguely.”
“Huh… You watch the mart today. Just change the day and night.”
“Yes. All right.”
Lee Hoon, a Possession Warrior, was able to catch and eat even a ghost.
It is said that he can even detect spiritual bodies to some extent, so he can easily catch and kill the ghosts that quietly sneak in and try to explode from the inside. Of course, it will be difficult for him to cover the entire mart by himself, so the need to enter the forest of the missing remains unchanged.
‘Anyway, the demons’ enemies were on our side…’
I think I did a good job capturing Lee Hoon.
Lee Hoon himself seemed very happy. Saying that he can make up for what he has lost, he welcomes the ghosts flying through the air and screaming with open arms.
It looked like Hell Chang, who received a high-quality protein from overseas direct purchase as a gift.
‘Thanks to Lee Hoon, I immediately blocked the attack of the ghosts… Unexpectedly, the zombies are quiet… The corpses that have not been dealt with yet.’
In the update details, it was said that relatively undamaged corpses were revived as skeletons.
‘All the corpses in the sewers will turn into skeletons…’
Zombies had been killed so many times that the population was decreasing, but the corpses were not properly disposed of, so the area around the mart would soon be full of bones.
‘I can’t lay eggs on a skeleton… And the jet-black wheel becomes useless.’
The strength of the jet-black wheel lies in the enormous number of offspring. And to give birth to a baby, you have to lay an egg on a zombie or a human body, but now there are more skeletons than zombies on the streets, so the effectiveness of the jet-black wheel seemed to drop a lot.
“Haa.. After all, nothing lasts forever.”
It is time for a new summoner. And I got a new skill as I reached level 16.
‘Observation of chaos.’
[Chaos Observation: You can look into chaos by consuming karma. You can communicate with the existence of chaos.]
If Abyssal Observation allows you to contract with the Beings of the Abyss, Chaos Observation allows you to contract with Carshinax’s minions.
‘Furthermore, the permanent contract skill has been upgraded…’
[Permanent contract (2): You can make a permanent contract with the beings of the other world and use them as summons. The number of slots increases as the Observation skill increases.]
The moment you learn Chaos Observation, your Permanent Contract skill has been upgraded. A total of six summons can now be signed with permanent contracts. The important thing is that the slots of Abyss and Chaos are separated.
Three beings of the abyss, three beings of chaos. This contract can be
Right now, the only ones I’m contracting with are Kysyria and the Jet Black Wheel. I want to fill all of these slots tonight, even if it means consuming all the karma I’ve collected.
‘Of course, this is also luck, but…’
The reason I haven’t gotten any summons other than Kysyria and the Jet Black Wheel up to this point is that few beings respond to me even when I use Abyssal Observation.
Even if there were some people who reacted, there were a few cases where they weren’t worth wasting a slot on.
My luck is 666, but it’s surprisingly fast that a useful guy can’t get off this much.
‘Tonight, please…!’
I used Abyssal Observation while praying for gacha luck.
