Chapter 227 – Dispatch Missions (7)
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The moment we crossed the gate, a sticky and unpleasant air greeted us.
It must have been a cave in an unknown location, with torches hanging on the left and right of the long aisle. I felt a little dark because the interval was long.
“Are these… Human footprints?”
Choi Tae-soo muttered as he saw the faint footprints on the floor.
Although it seems that a considerable amount of time has passed, the footprints of a person are clearly visible.
“You’d better be careful.”
Park Hye-ji was nervous at the appearance of the scenery different from the space we expected.
I thought there would be a wide expanse of nature like a normal gate, but I thought there would be a place where people rode traces.
It wasn’t that there weren’t such gates, but they were usually ancient ruins. However, the place we entered was a place that felt like it had been occupied until recently.
Strange characters engraved on the walls made it clear that they were intelligent beings.
“The letters are somehow familiar.”
Choi Tae-soo looked at the letters written on the wall and muttered.
“Do people live here? I’ve never seen letters like this before… “
Characters that have never been seen on Earth, which means that they are from a different dimension than ours.
And, those letters were too familiar to me.
It was a letter that was forcibly learned to use the Arcane Swordsmanship.
“O existence that started from darkness, the lowest person calls to the deepest darkness… What did you write after that?”
After that, it was written in a different script from the imperial language, so I couldn’t read it. The only thing I could recognize was this, and the rest were a mix of specific characters.
“Can you read these letters?”
“A little bit, I can’t read the rest of the text.”
“Do you know anything about this?!”
Park Hye-ji came closer with an expression of interest. Choi Tae-soo was also not talking, but he seemed to be concentrating on this side.
“I don’t know the posture. It’s a letter I learned about because of the swordsmanship letter I received the other day.”
“The swordsmanship book..?”
“Looks like you succeeded in learning it after all.”
“I haven’t fully mastered it.”
“Why are you talking about me but me?”
The moment Park Hye-ji tried to argue, he felt a presence from afar. We hid ourselves in a dark space close to the wall.
“Hmm… I heard a strange noise.”
“Did you eat something wrong? My body looked empty from the last time.”
“Did you not hear? I must have heard people talking here.”
“What kind of madman came all the way here? It’s not that demons are playing.”
“I heard it clearly… “
“You’ll get scolded if you’re late, so follow me.”
“Weird… “
Why are the guys in places like this always covering their faces?
At least, unlike the guys wearing hoods, the men wearing white masks looked at me for a moment before slowly disappearing.
By the way, seeing him sticking close to the wall with such a huge body is awkward.
“There are people.”
“It’s the first time I’ve seen an intelligence like that inside the gate..”
Even though the other dimension beyond the gate was always inhabited by monsters.
Looking at their faces, they didn’t look like they were hunters like us, so the two of them were making serious faces.
‘Looking at the imperial language, it definitely seems to be on Freya’s side. Do you know what happened, Makina?’
Again, I can’t tell you more about this.
[“The lower dimension is correct. It’s just… The axis of time is slightly distorted.” ]
The axis of time is twisted?
Then, isn’t it the world of the time zone I went to last time?
Is it the time when the mankind I met back then has been defeated, or is it the time when they just started to appear? It was a completely unknown situation.
If we’re at a point where we’re defeated, we’ll be in trouble if the guys here cross over to us.
I don’t even know if it’s actually related.
‘I wonder if this has something to do with the destruction.’
After that, I tried to ask Makina more. She just kept silent as if she couldn’t answer this time either.
There seemed to be no other way to find out than by bumping into it directly.
The special gate I discovered this time, or should I call it a dimensional rift? It feels different from the existing gates.
Maybe this is also the influence of that guy.
“It seems to have completely gone. Hmm… What do you think I should do It’s Hyeji.”
“I don’t know either. It’s the first time I’ve met a human inside the gate… “
The one inside the gate was obviously an enemy of mankind, so I just had to defeat it. However, in the current situation, it was difficult to determine whether they were enemies or not.
“It wouldn’t hurt to search and decide a little more.”
For now, I decided to search this suspicious place further.
The people I met decided to go in the direction of subduing and not killing.
The place where the rift we crossed over was located in the hallway close to the warehouse.
There was no way to enter from the outside, so it seemed to have disappeared without a doubt.
We decided to temporarily store items that could make noise in order to sneak in.
Park Hye-ji put an enchanted cloth on top of our items piled up in the corner of the warehouse.
The moment magic was injected, the fabric reacted to the floor and wallpaper outside and slowly began to change color.
I could feel the difference if I checked it closely, but it seemed quite plausible because the room was dark.
It was a warehouse that kept strange stone statues and accessories, so it felt like not many people were going there.
“Is there anything like that?”
“It’s not a bad piece of gear to stash luggage. If you connect the magic stone, the duration will be long, so it won’t be much of a problem.”
If you start using such equipment, it’s only a moment to break billions.
Hunters didn’t cost a lot of money for nothing. I don’t know if you just use weapons and armor.
If you start using magic tools like that, you have to spend as much money as you earn.
“Do you have any equipment to hide in?”
I wasn’t the one who packed the bag, so I didn’t know what was in it.
It was because Kim Jeong-ho and Park Hye-ji only moved what they had packed.
Well, you can’t go to someone else’s house and search for things, and it can’t be helped.
“Although I brought a camouflage hood… It seems to be of no use here.”
Park Hye-ji muttered as she lifted the green frog-printed hood.
In general, I thought it would be a jungle with thick grass and trees, but I didn’t know that a cave like this would come out.
“Haha. Or why don’t you two wait here? By myself… “
“Grandfather!”
“I can hear you even if you don’t speak so loudly.”
Even if it was inside the warehouse, there was a risk of being caught saying it out loud, but Choi Tae-soo had already opened the curtain.
He was just an old man who looked like he could destroy anything with his fists, but his mana control ability was very delicate.
‘Well, that’s why they call it a monster.’
“You. Be careful not to get caught.”
“I think you should be most careful.”
“Who cares about whom!”
“Then let’s take a look. What are you doing here?”
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Men in strange masks passed ahead, patrolling.
They passed by with a yawn, as if they hadn’t thought at all that there would be such a big old man and two people hiding nearby.
“Haam… I’m dying of exhaustion, but why are they patrolling… “
“For the lower end like us, we have to get rid of it from above… So when is your next shift?”
We propped ourselves up on the wall with our arms and legs waiting for them to pass.
The only place to hide in such a narrow passage was the ceiling. At least it should be said that the height of the ceiling is about 1.5 times higher than that of a typical building.
There was no need to raise your head indoors, so it was a good place to hide.
Except for the fact that it’s hard to stay upright. I heard a rustling sound somewhere, so I turned my head to see Park Hye-ji, who seemed to be in an unstable posture.
‘I think it’s about to fall.’
The moment Park Hye-ji corrected her posture, a small stone crumb fell behind them.
The moment the boulder fell, the three of us stopped breathing for a moment so as not to even breathe.
When I noticed with my eyes, Park Hye-ji looked at me and made a face of regret.
‘I wonder if this will take a while.’
They also turned their heads to check behind them, as if they had heard the sound.
“Hmm? Didn’t something fall just now?”
“You can’t see anything? There are only crumbs of stone.”
“I must have heard wrong. Let’s go.”
‘Phew… ‘
We let out a sigh of relief as we watched the passers-by.
Confirming that it had passed to the point where we could no longer see it, we descended from the ceiling.
“What are you doing? I almost got caught because of you.”
“What…What are you saying? You can make a mistake once.”
“Haha. Doing this makes me think of the old days.”
“Once upon a time?”
“Okay. When I was younger and dealing with the villains… “
“Inside our gate.”
Feeling like she was about to start talking about her past, she cut her off lightly. There’s no time to talk inside the gate when it’s not out here.
‘No, why are you looking so sad? Park Hye-ji has a sad face… ‘
Just as I was about to pass by, the door suddenly opened in the hallway. Two guys that pop right out before we can even react.
“Huh?”
“There was a door over there.”
“Who are you… !”
The moment they were about to scream, Choi Tae-soo, who ran faster than light, struck them on the back of their necks and knocked them out.
Accurate blows with no margin of error. The guys collapsed without even screaming.
“Hmm… “
It was just a place that looked like a wall, but was there some kind of magic applied to it?
We looked at the two fallen guys and shut up.
After dragging the stunned guys into the room, a normal space appeared.
“Looks like these two guys are the only ones here.”
If you wear that hood and mask, they won’t recognize you.
I started taking the hoods and masks off the stunned guys.
“What are you doing?”
“Let’s disguise ourselves. I don’t think I can tell them apart anyway.”
“It’s a disguise. That’s a good idea.”
It smelled a little, but in this disguise, I looked just like them. There should be no problem with this.
“I… How do I get out of here?”
“… “
There were no major problems except for a little wandering around because I didn’t know how to open the door.
