Chapter 177 – Doom Seeker (5)
For a moment I doubted my eyes.
I wondered if my optic nerves had lost their sense of taste because my head was soaked in too many pleasures.
So I rubbed my eyes and hit my head a few times, but what I saw in front of me was still the same.
Elena and Seoyeon are the party that attacked the ‘Coral Reef Cave’ where the seeker was hiding.
“… Is that so?”
After barely admitting that fact, dizzy thoughts run through my head.
Perhaps one of the two or both of them might be “People with qualities.”
“After vacation, the two of them suddenly started going out together…”
Starting from vacation, photos of the two of them together began to be uploaded frequently in the group chat room where the entire team was gathered.
We met once, and we got to know each other well, went to dungeon raids together to earn money, and while playing together, we were learning various things and getting to know each other.
At that time, it simply didn’t seem like it at all, but I thought it was not a big deal, saying that there are sometimes people who are surprisingly compatible… , In fact, what if that wasn’t it?
“Maybe they found out each other’s identities by chance and held hands…”
That possibility cannot be ruled out.
Of course, the number of possibilities the two have is too many.
There is a possibility that they came here by chance to clear the dungeon, and there is also a possibility that only one of the two is a ‘person with qualities’.
In order to be certain, we have to close some of the multi-pronged possibilities.
The best way to do that is to follow them.
“Mr. Jian.”
“Yes.”
“Can you check other people’s dungeon access records?”
“Uh… , Unauthorized viewing of other people’s dungeon access records is illegal unless there is a special reason…”
Oh, it was.
It was obviously illegal in name.
High-ranking officials in the association were ignoring it.
“Hmm… , Then it must be difficult.”
How to do this.
If there is a “Qualified person” Among the two, you must know their path unconditionally.
Only then will we be able to detour without overlapping and heat up the searcher elimination.
The moment the routes overlap, not only will one side be in vain, but they will also raise doubts about each other’s identities.
If possible, it would be better if only I had those doubts.
“Yeah… , That.”
While I was in trouble, Ji-an Yoon asked me in a worried tone.
“Is that what Dojin really needs right now…? ?”
“Uh… , Should I say, if possible, to the extent that it is absolutely advantageous to me.”
If it’s necessary enough to have to do something even at a loss, that’s not the case again.
However, it would be of great benefit to me if I could figure out their route in real time through reading records.
Hearing my answer, she nodded her head with her hard face.
“All right. Then… , I will take a look.”
“… Because it’s illegal I don’t want to leave Jian with any disadvantages.”
This is sincerity without a hint of lies.
Instead of this, you can’t force the person who would become my office wife, no one else, to do something that can be solved with gums, right?
“Mr. Dojin…”
It must have been very touching for her.
Heh heh, I didn’t mean to, but I got caught by a lucky punch.
She draws a light smile on her blushing face.
“You don’t have to worry too much. I have a close friend in the immigration department. If you ask that friend, she will be able to recognize it without fear of getting caught.”
And then she hurriedly continues her words.
“Of course, if that friend refuses, I have no choice.”
“… Can I ask a friend to do something illegal?”
“Yes, it will be fine. I have helped you once before.”
An extremely tempting proposal.
“Then… , Shall we make a light request?”
When I ask her a little bit of her embarrassment in a clumsy tone, she laughs.
“I’m going to call you in a minute.”
She gets out of her car and calls somewhere.
I hope it goes well.
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After eliminating another explorer from the C+ grade dungeon ‘Little Ruins’ on the outskirts of Busan, Yoon Ji-an, who was waiting, approached me.
“Seon Seo-yeon and Elena’s dungeon access records have been updated.”
“Where are you?”
“It’s a ‘stinky sewer’ located 12km from here.”
“The stinky sewer…”
Even just hearing the name, the stench stings your nose.
Zoom in on the mini-map to compare the dungeon marked with the explorer’s location and the dungeon she mentioned.
The moment you recognize that the two positions are exactly right, the marking disappears from the minimap.
In other words, the searcher hiding in the stinky sewers has been removed.
“Oh, it has been updated again. I just finished the attack and came out.”
“Also…”
One thing seems to be certain.
It is absolutely no coincidence that the two are attacking a dungeon in Busan far from Seoul.
And that the two or one of the two would be a “Person with qualities.”
“It’s embarrassing, really…”
There are a total of 504 humans with the “Person with qualities” Trait.
At first glance, this may seem like a large number, but it is really only a very small number.
Because, those 504 people are not based on Korea, but on the basis of the whole world.
The current world population is 5.5 billion.
In other words, two or three very few people out of 504 out of 5.5 billion belong to the same university and the same team.
And that’s not all.
“… If you’re not careful, you could become a father and daughter.”
If Seo-yeon is a “Person with qualities,” The odds are even more twisted.
A father and daughter who were swapped bodies meet at the same university and form the same team, even though the two are two of 504 people who have the “Person with qualities” Trait?
“This isn’t even a third-rate fantasy novel…”
Even if it’s a third-rate novel, if there’s that much coincidence, it’s not just a novel, it’s kindling fire, kindling fire.
If you slip it into a piece of burning firewood, it will burn very brightly, yes.
But there is such a thing in the world.
It is said that sometimes reality trumps fictional fiction.
… I feel bad because somehow I feel like that.
“If Seoyeon is really a ‘person with qualities’…”
Obviously, since I was the 504th ‘person with the quality’, it means that Seo-yeon unconditionally acquired that characteristic ahead of me…
All kinds of thoughts knock on my head.
When did he acquire that trait, and why did he not say anything to his parents, me and Juhee?
Is it because your parents are not trustworthy, or is there another reason?
Now meaningless, fleeting thoughts keep confusing my head.
“Whoa!”
I know.
It’s like I’m not the guy’s father or anything.
Still, is this unavoidable?
I’ve been living as a guy’s father for 20 years, how can I cut all the strings at once.
“Do-jin, where shall we go next?”
“Ah.”
I suddenly come to my senses at Ji-an Yoon’s question.
Okay.
Now is not the time for this.
It’s time to act before you think to get an edge in this fucking competition.
It is not too late to organize your thoughts after this time is over.
“Wait a minute.”
Immediately enter the new destination into the navigation.
All seekers in Busan have been eliminated.
Out of a total of 20, I killed half, and Seoyeon and Elena killed six.
So what about the other four?
It was eliminated by a party that accidentally entered the dungeon.
Because of that, I realized another variable.
That the seekers could be eliminated by those who entered to raid the dungeon normally.
So, you have to be more diligent.
Especially late at night or early in the morning when dungeon raids are rarely done.
“Mr. Jian.”
“Yes.”
“I’m sorry, but for three days, we’ll take turns sleeping.”
“Do not worry. You won’t die if you don’t sleep for three days.”
Yoon Jian raises his strong arm and answers confidently.
I said lightly fiddling with her strong arm.
“After we finish, let’s go do what we did in the car earlier.”
“Hot… !”
Her nostrils widen slightly, and hot breath pours out.
And then I grabbed the steering wheel tightly.
“Then, I’ll be right there!”
I started stepping on the full accelerator.
… Help me.
* * *
“Kwaaaaa!”
“Kyaaaaah!”
Two gray-skinned seekers attack Kim Do-jin in unison.
A sword on one side, a bow on the other.
I struggled for a while because of the fantastic combination of short and long distance and the difficulty of the B-class dungeon.
「Aegis.」
The cold air pouring from the shield, manifested by the signature magic, turned the tide.
Fast!
While the seeker wielding a sword on his shield is frozen and unable to move, he inserts his sword into the heart of another seeker who is shooting arrows at a certain distance.
Kwakdeuk!
It was a sword that another explorer dropped while freezing.
One explorer whose heart had been pierced collapsed, and another explorer who had just pulled his body out of the ice pile screamed and charged.
“Kwaaaaagh!”
The opponent who lost the sword became weaker than ever.
The shape of the technique that was clear just a moment ago disappeared completely, and only reckless punches followed.
“No matter how good a sword is, you should have learned some other martial arts.”
Even if you mainly use swordsmanship, you have to prepare for situations where your sword is stolen or you cannot use it.
But this explorer couldn’t.
That was the great cause of the defeat.
Puff!
After killing one seeker, he picked up the sword that had fallen and returned it to its original owner.
In the heart, not in the hands.
“Kruck… !”
With the sound of seething phlegm, the seeker overlaps on the spot where my comrade fell.
After picking up the two magic stones that fell on the ground, Kim Do-jin left the dungeon.
“Oh, it’s cold.”
As the cold wind hit his sweaty body, the cold began to set in.
As she took out extra clothes from her bag stored in the back seat and put them on, Yoon Ji-an approached her with a slightly worried expression.
I guess something happened.
“Mr. Dojin.”
“Yes?”
“Seon Seo-yeon, there seems to be a problem with Elena’s party.”
“… Is it a problem?”
“It’s been five hours since we started raiding the dungeon, but we still can’t get out…”
Kim Dojin’s face hardened.
“… Where did you say the dungeon the two of you entered?”
“This is the B-class dungeon ‘Frigid Forest’. The monster that appears is an ice troll.”
Ice Troll.
A troll whose body is covered in pure white snow.
Unlike the existing trolls, which are A-class, because their bodies are frozen, their unique regenerative ability is reduced.
Both strength and agility aren’t great, but the skin color itself is a protective color in snowy weather, so if you’re careful, you can respond enough.
‘I don’t feel very well…’
A bad picture is drawn in my head.
If they were ambushed by the ice trolls while eliminating the searchers, no matter how talented the two were, they wouldn’t be able to escape easily.
“How long will it take from here?”
“If you use the free pass lane, you can get there in about 30 minutes.”
It may be raining.
It’s just that the dungeon clearing time was delayed to be sure, and it might be that they were slaughtering all the ice trolls without difficulty.
However, I don’t know if the opposite situation might have happened as well.
“… Let’s go right away.”
In the end, he decided to check the condition of the two himself.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to calm the beating heart of an anxious heart.
