Chapter 191 – The Longest Terror (5)
23. The Longest Terror (5)
The cracks were very small. However, that minute crack brought about a very significant change. Perhaps it was because I had been in this dark and cramped room for quite a long time, so I could have noticed it right away.
‘Obviously, now…’
[The will of the warriors has been broken by the longest fear.]
[The warriors have been wiped out.]
“Ah fuck-foot shit game trash game lucky fuck game!”
[Would you like to create a new warrior corps?]
“Fuck you no!”
After that, not a single thing had changed. So I wondered if I had seen it wrong or heard it wrong, but I didn’t. Minor cracks still exist. And decisively.
‘What next? Then… ?’
Inadvertently, I was comparing the memories of the previous cycle with the current one, and realized that fact one beat late.
Memory is not reset.
I gasped. And involuntarily, I looked around. Then I discovered once again that I was not mistaken. Originally, when it was reset, my position was in front of the bed and behind the computer chair. But I was in the same position I was sitting on the bed.
‘I don’t know why, but it’s an opportunity.’
It wasn’t like the fear bastard had run out of power or created a gap. Obviously, it was reasonable to assume that something was fulfilled without my knowledge or that there was an intervention from the outside.
‘Kaya. Shay. Illumina.’
The faces of my colleagues came to mind. Maybe it was a sign that one of them, who had left on their own before me, was desperately looking for me. However, the blurry faces of the girls made me very sad. How long have you been rotting here? I shook my head. I looked at the mumbling phrase again and at the corpses of the warriors I didn’t want to look at.
‘This is an opportunity. A unique opportunity that may be the first and last.’
Even the fear of not being able to get out of this place is gradually fading, and even though this endlessly repeating cycle feels like the first time every time, it even feels familiar.
The changes caused by the microscopic cracks gave strength to my inertia that had been hardened by fear. No matter how clumsy I was, I didn’t come all the way here. Even when he noticed the opportunity of a lifetime, he was not so helpless that he remained frightened.
“… Ah, the time is a bit ambiguous, so let’s play one more game and go to sleep.”
[Would you like to create a new warrior corps?]
‘No. There is no new corps of warriors, a 2nd corps of warriors. In the game, it’s just one more, two more, three more, but… Not me. I am no longer who I was then. It’s not here where I belong It’s not even where I am Wake. I’m no longer the Han Yujin of that time.’
While staying in this special space for a long time, I repeatedly looked at the game screen with me in the past, and I was naturally immersed in it.
I wasn’t playing a game right now.
If wrong, Rigame was not a free player, but a warrior who had to risk his only life to defeat fear.
“Sweep, to be honest, breaking District 3 with Nodes with this combination was a skill. Okay. Let’s do one more round. The first class failed, but I have to break it anyway…”
‘Is it your skill to break up to District 3 with Nodes with this combination? No no no I haven’t done anything good. It’s all thanks to the efforts of the warriors.’
[Please select a difficulty level.]
“Of course.”
[You have selected ‘The Longest Terror’ difficulty level.]
‘Fuck, what were you thinking at the time… What kind of confidence was it…’
Well, I guess I picked it without thinking.
The longest fear, the number of his goals has now come to an end. Every time I gave up and turned around, I didn’t look away this time.
‘… Fuck.’
I reflexively closed my eyes and tried to look away, but I gritted my teeth and endured. The gruesome corpses on the screen were us. Driven mad with fear, he plucks out his own eyeballs, scratches the floor until his fingernails break, then shatters a vapa, mace, greatsword, and axe collide and intertwine until he manages to find an out-of-control weapon trying to strike his comrades. Aim at yourself, watch it all in vain, then commit suicide…
It was a sight that could have happened from Area 1. It didn’t happen because we steadfastly overcame it, because we thought deeply about each other even in the midst of encroachment.
The Longest Terror This bastard had warned me, nay declared.
This is the end of the warriors who face fear. Bravery, not courage, against something that shouldn’t be confronted, and futile failure, not a great challenge against the impossible.
In the space he created, he constantly chewed on the infinite defeat with fear, and his strategy, which he tried to make him not know why he was trapped in the past, was indeed insidious and elaborate.
‘It hurts.’
The side effects of seeing what I didn’t want to see were significant. I felt like I was going crazy even though I firmly believed that the scene was not true. The dull fear revived sharply. However, my will became stronger.
‘I’m sure you’re still tearing yourself apart while looking at me, you fearless voyeurist pervert?’
There’s no way my teammates could be that crazy. I am the weakest member of our warrior squad. So the scene you showed me is completely false.
It is false.
It is false.
It is false.
Damn-
And even if it does, everything I’m going through right now is a lie.
No.
Even if it’s part of The Long Terror.
The sensations and emotions I am experiencing.
Everything I think
Because all of this couldn’t be more true to me.
If I can defeat you bastards of fear and live with them, that’s the best thing for me.
Shit- shit-
Damn it—
I will no longer be afraid and I will not care.
**
[Terror Oppression]
[The warriors are engulfed in the longest fearful tyranny.]
[All members of the corps of warriors receive enormous mentality damage.]
[Receives additional damage in proportion to the degree of oppression.]
[Shay Mentality –44]
[The Longest Terror did 18 damage to Shay.]
[Remaining HP 23/41]
[Kaya mentality -40]
[Longest Terror deals 14 damage to Kaya.]
[20/34 remaining HP]
[Eugene mentality -51]
[The Longest Terror did 14 damage to Eugene.]
[Remaining HP 14/28]
[Illumina mentality -44]
[The Longest Terror did 11 damage to Illumina.]
[Remaining HP 13/24]
[Hour of Fear 6/12]
[All warriors’ mentality -5]
“Captain!!! Captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain, captain… !”
“Eugene, Eugene, Eugene!”
“Hendrick… Why did you wake up so late… This fool… !”
‘Shay… Kaya… Illumina…’
“Captain!!! Say something, say something! Yes? Hurry!!!”
“Boo, you must have been conscious, but why didn’t you say anything… No way.”
“I can’t believe it, I’ve been sane at best!”
‘Thank god. It’s really fortunate.’
I don’t know if I should say it’s a relief that the hair is cut off, the skin and bones are in contact with each other, and the wrinkles have increased dramatically… First of all, is there anything that isn’t a gruesome corpse on the screen?
However.
Why is my body not moving? Why can’t you open your mouth?
[Eugene’s mentality has exceeded -100.]
[Fear overtakes Eugene.]
‘Ah.’
Crazy.
You got out at best, but as soon as you got out, your mentality broke into your mantle?
Haha.
[Eugene resists the encroachment of fear.]
Maybe the scene in the monitor started because I went crazy first.
A scene where I go crazy and my colleagues who have gone crazy because of my madness go crazy again and again and again and again and then destroy themselves.
‘No. No no no no I got out They told me to fuck you bastard and do everything, but what if they affirmed it?’
I missed the faces of my colleagues who were holding me and weeping. I can see your face It must have been that their strong mentality made a crack in the infinite swamp and rescued me.
‘It hurts.’
My body didn’t want to do anything, and I wanted to just lie down and give up.
They brought me out of a tight hole, but if I become a stumbling block this time… I guess I really have no face.
Just like Shay and Kaya burned their lives for this fight.
I will stand up again with the determination to burn my everything.
Miss Laella. Miss Justitia.
And Kaya, Shay, and Illumina.
Give me strength
“Fuck the fuck fright.”
[The strong hostility towards the enemy and the sense of responsibility towards the comrades have sublimated into a state of ‘retribution anger’.]
[The mentality does not change during the duration.]
[Your HP decreases by 20% of your total HP every round.]
[All existing debuffs are removed.]
[Speed increases by 1.]
[Attack power increases by 3.]
[Fixed damage equivalent to 10% of damage is added.]
[Critical strike rate increases.]
[When an ally is attacked, it counterattacks with a certain probability.]
[Can be unlocked by entering death or killing the area boss.]
“Captain!!!”
“Eugene!!!”
“Hendrick!!!”
[Amazing. Honestly, I expected it to end this time.]
Surrounded by a dark red aura, I stood up resolutely, and the cheers of my colleagues hugged me mixed with the fucking voice of a fear bastard talking as if it was really unexpected.
“The head is cracked.”
This is what it feels like to forcefully move a body that can’t move… In real time, I felt my vitality and my lifespan burning. 1 minute 1 second was precious. He ran faster than anyone else and swung his blazing hatchet vigorously.
[Crush the head]
[Fatal blow!]
[Eugene deals 90 damage to the Longest Terror.]
[Can only deal 50 damage due to the effect of the Armor of Terror.]
[Remaining HP 158/300]
[Fixed damage equal to 10% of the damage is added due to the effect of ‘Retribution’s Rage’.]
[Eugene deals 9 damage to the Longest Terror.]
[Remaining HP 149/300]
[Reflects damage equivalent to 15% of Max HP to Eugene with the effect of ‘Armor of Fear’.]
[Eugene received 4 damage.]
[Remaining HP 10/28]
[You lose 20% of your max HP due to the effect of ‘Retribution’s Rage’.]
[5/28 HP remaining]
[The effect of ‘Melody of Vitality’ restores 4 HP to Eugene.]
[Remaining HP 9/28]
[Hour of Fear 7/12]
[All warriors’ mentality -5]
“Aaaaa!!!”
—————-!
It paid the price of burning life force. Although, because of the damage limit, I only took half of the original damage, but my stamina was torn due to various effects… Still, if you hit him three more times, doesn’t that mean that he can also search?
Wearing reflective armor or something to limit damage.
“You lazy bastard…”
[…]
The momentum has been revived. That guy also lost half of his blood. I had to lose as much stamina as possible before doing another damn thing with the new phase.
‘Next is Illumina’s turn… The more we attack, the less our stamina is, so I’ll have to tell them to stack the melodies of vitality.’
[Mentality]
Shay: -76
Kaya: -86
Eugene: -112 (retribution anger)
Illumina: -98
“… Holly.”