Chapter 1001 – 1001. Yggdrasil (7)
“Whoa… “I’m glad it’s not too late.”
“…”
At first, I thought it was a fake Seong Su-ho.
I thought the monster’s intention was to take out all of his last hope and turn it into despair.
But those doubts…
Wow.
“Come to your senses.”
“Aaaaah!”
When Seong Su-ho’s hand pinched his cheek, he was able to completely erase it.
Thanks to the sudden pain, the fear that had been coursing through his body disappeared in an instant.
Seong Su-ho pinched Midwinter’s cheek and removed his fingers.
“Ahhh…”
Midwinter stroked his red cheeks and cried.
Seong Su-ho stands on top of that midwinter…
“I’m sorry I’m late.”
I raised the hand that pinched his cheek and apologized.
And the midwinter that received that apology…
“… But since you’re here, I’ll take care of it.”
I was able to smile brightly and forget about the pain in my cheeks.
Seong Su-ho replaced Midwinter’s smile with laughter.
However, Seong Su-ho’s smile did not last as long as expected.
Seong Su-ho’s expression hardened, and he muttered while clutching the red side.
“Let’s deal with what’s in front of us first.”
“Ah…”
Midwinter followed Seongsuho’s gaze and looked in the same direction.
At that place…
“Kkiheeeeek!” It hurts! It hurts!! “It all hurts!”
A monster that had lost one eye was screaming and laughing.
Laughter mixed with madness.
That laughter began to sprout fear in Midwinter’s body again.
But the fear of midwinter sprouting again…
“Stay close behind me.”
Upon seeing Seong Su-ho’s large back, it rotted again and became fertilizer for hope.
Midwinter nodded his head and answered in a firm voice.
“Yes.”
Midwinter did not just watch Seong Su-ho’s back.
He turned his body and placed his back on Seongsu-ho’s back.
“I’ll let you know if anything comes behind me.”
I already knew about midwinter.
Even if something appears, she knows there’s nothing she can do…
But I was also able to realize one other fact.
‘But you can’t just sit still.’
Although it is small, she must do the best she can.
And the desire to do my best in the middle of winter…
“It’s reassuring.”
It made Seong Su-ho laugh.
As soon as the conversation between the two ended…
“Keeeeek! It hurts! “It hurts!”
The monster stretched out its arms again and began attacking Seongsuho.
The sound of a tremendous onslaught began to echo behind Midwinter.
Shoot! SGENG! SGENG! Shoot!
It wasn’t just the sound.
Shoot! Sasasak!
A strong wind blew so hard that it pushed away Midwinter’s body.
Although Midwinter could not see Seong Su-ho’s fight, he imagined it and admired it.
‘Amazing… I can’t believe I can fight a monster like that…’
Midwinter began to calmly evaluate the level of the monster.
‘Summons can’t be used, and they don’t even seem to die…’
Considering the unfriendliness experienced in Yggdrasil, there was only one conclusion.
‘It’s not for catching that guy.’
In the first place, the quest given in the maze was not about killing monsters.
The idea was to collect soul powder and soul fragments spread across the map, create soul stones, and offer them to the altar.
And the monster that appeared as soon as one soul stone was offered.
The monster was not just an element that interfered with the quest.
‘It was created for massacre.’
An unreasonable gimmick that goes beyond unfriendliness.
It was to the point where one could feel the will not to tolerate even a single survivor, let alone ensure that everyone survived.
“Keeeeek! Eat! Let’s eat! Quick!”
But a gimmick with such vicious elements…
“It’s so noisy!”
Seong Su-ho was blocking with his single body.
As soon as Midwinter understood the significance of the monster’s existence, respect for Seongsuho began to rise once again.
‘If… If he wasn’t there…’
Min Ha-yeon, who has a legendary job.
Namgung Yuha is strong enough to rival Izanka and Ardia.
A spring with tremendous healing power.
Mid-autumn with deceptive foresight.
And she even herself, who has mediocre abilities…
In the middle of winter, I thought of the five people confronting the monster without Seong Su-ho.
And the conclusion…
‘There was no fight in the first place.’
It was a massacre.
No matter how good Min Ha-yeon’s bow skills were, in the end it was only a long distance.
Min Ha-yeon, who is probably the most annoying, will be the first to be noticed by the monster.
Next is Namgung Yuha.
Next is spring.
Next is mid-autumn.
And the last person left is…
‘… I must have cried and prayed.’
Seeing her sisters dead, she probably begged for her life in humility.
And she would have been eaten by a monster.
But such a terrible future…
‘If he wasn’t there…’
Everything went wrong due to the presence of Seong Su-ho.
Seong Su-ho single-handedly stops the monster set up to slaughter the summoner.
I could feel the passion in saving people.
I felt friendship watching them save their sisters.
I felt affection as he saved himself.
And what I feel for Seong Su-ho right now…
‘The reason he’s not there… I don’t even want to imagine it.’
It was sincere.
Rather than just feeling passion, friendship, and affection on the surface, I felt their true feelings.
I have felt passion and friendship many times before.
Like Min Hayeon, Han Bom, and Han Autumn, I felt it with her family, and even with her close friends.
But affection was different.
Even if others shout out true love every day, you will never know what true love is unless you love yourself.
As such, until now, Midwinter only knew of the existence of emotions such as affection and soothing, but she had never felt them.
She thought it was just a feeling of being weak and dependent on others.
But Midwinter was able to realize it at this moment.
‘What is weak… It was me.’
She was afraid that she might get hurt if she trusted her for no reason.
A fear that she had never experienced before had been lingering in Midwinter’s heart for her entire life.
And she was able to completely overcome that fear with just one person.
Shoot! SGENG! SGENG! Sasak!
“Kiheeeee!” Stop! It worked! It’s not fun!!!”
“I’m not having fun either! “You bastard!”
Midwinter woke up to a shout coming from behind her.
‘Oops! There’s no time to think about anything else right now…’
Then she stared into the darkness again.
The opponent was a monster who created a strange doll-like being modeled after Seong Su-ho.
It’s not weird if they do strange things in the back…
‘… Huh?’
As I gazed like that, something burst through the darkness.
At first I thought it was one of her older sisters…
‘Uh… Uh oh… Huh!?’
It wasn’t her sisters.
Huge size.
It’s also a huge thing covered in brown.
As soon as…
“Hey, it’s the Minotaur!! Behind!!”
“What!?”
The Minotaur had appeared.
The Minotaur appeared in this warm place with pure white snort.
That Minotaur…
Mmmm!!
It began charging toward midwinter, raising its horns.
‘I-I have to deal with it!’
Seong Su-ho is currently busy dealing with monsters.
In other words, it was Midwinter who had to stop the charging Minotaur.
But…
‘Oh, no! On my own… !’
There was a time when I caught a Minotaur without a holy guardian.
But that was the result of joining forces with Namgung Yuha.
Even fighting with Namgung Yuha and catching the Minotaur took only about a minute.
Midwinter had no power to stop the Minotaur charging so recklessly.
However, Midwinter shook his head and took a stance.
‘Does it matter if I get hurt or die now?’
Midwinter took a stance, prepared to die, and prepared to jump into the Minotaur.
After preparing like that, the moment you are about to rush forward…
“No!”
“Ugh!”
Seongsu-ho tightly wrapped his arms around Midwinter’s waist and turned his body around.
In the middle of winter, the visible world suddenly began to turn upside down.
“Hkyaaaaak!”
Midwinter was a woman with a strong heart who rode the dangerous rides that made others vomit while smiling.
The speed was so great that she felt nauseous.
In the eyes of midwinter, who once experienced the world turning upside down…
“Huh…”
Before we knew it, the Minotaur had become half, and Seongsuho was…
Shoot! Ssasasasak! SGENG! SGEG!
She faced the monster again and began to fight.
Seong Su-ho shouted to Midwinter while fighting the monster.
“Just tell me what the monster that appeared is! Never fight!”
Midwinter looked intimidated and nodded her head at Seongsuho’s words.
“Ah… Okay…”
She knew better than anyone else that she couldn’t deal with him in the first place.
But…
‘Wouldn’t it have been more helpful if I had older sisters?’
Since she couldn’t really help, she felt bitter.
But the bitterness was short-lived.
Midwinter shook her head from side to side before coming back to her senses and focusing.
‘Wake. She’s in no position to think about anything else right now. And she wants to help…’
In the middle of winter, she made a promise as she watched her ice drake emerge from the darkness.
‘You can just go out and improve your skills later!’
Midwinter shouted with that promise.
“It’s Ice Drake!”
.
.
Seong Su-ho shouted, swinging the red side widely.
“What time is left?”
“10 seconds! “Two of them will be revived in 10 seconds!”
Dealing with just one monster seemed daunting.
Okay… I was somehow able to deal with one or two.
In the first place, it was about dying with a single side swing from Seong Su-ho.
But the problem was numbers.
“It’s coming again!”
“Pfft!”
Before I knew it, the number of monsters that had come had increased to fifteen.
They were all monsters that had been awakened in the beginning.
Okay… There was no problem killing the monsters that kept appearing.
The real problem is playing.
“Play two again!”
A situation where you fight a huge face monster in front, and boss monsters keep coming in from behind.
Seong Su-ho also decided that it would be unreasonable to continue dealing with him like this.
Even in the middle of winter, I was able to roughly understand Seong Su-ho’s intentions.
‘You probably kept in touch with your sisters like me, right? That means the sisters are currently collecting soul powder and fragments…’
The idea was to hold the monster here while the other members created the soul stone.
However, it seemed like it would be too much for Seong Su-ho to waste time on his own.
Seong Su-ho recognized the situation and shouted.
“Midwinter, hold on to my waist tightly!”
“Ah! Yes!”
Midwinter was momentarily embarrassed, but quickly hugged Seongsuho’s waist tightly.
Seong Su-ho coolly swings his side even though the middle of winter is holding his waist tightly.
Midwinter was once again amazed by Seong Su-ho’s appearance.
‘Amazing… It’s really amazing…’
It’s a difficult situation even if you fight using your whole body.
However, Seong Su-ho was countering the ceaseless onslaught even though he felt the interruption of midwinter.
Seong Su-ho, who was exchanging defense and defense like that…
“Hold on tight!”
“Uuuuu!!”
Suddenly, he hugged Midwinter tightly and started running.
The direction of running is…
“I… Over there!!!”
It was a place crowded with giant face monsters and boss monsters on the other side.
Keekeeeeek! Mmmm! Pretty sweet!
“Aaaaah!”
The boss monsters that had just been revived were rushing toward Seongsuho and Midwinter.
It’s a situation where anyone can be caught by monsters and die.
“Hold on tight!!”
However, it seemed that Seong Su-ho had no intention of being caught quietly.
Seong Su-ho sprinted, hugging Midwinter tightly in his left hand and swinging his side with his right hand.
Shoot! Suddenly!
Seong Su-ho swings the huge side with one hand, which is too strong even when held and swung with both hands.
As a result of swinging several times and charging at the boss monsters…
“Huh! Huh!”
I was barely able to get through the boss monster and reach the other side.
“Huh!”
Seong Su-ho is breathing harder than usual.
“Well, run away now…”
“No! We need to hold these guys here as much as possible.”
“?”
Of course, I expected Seong Su-ho to run away.
However, instead of running away, Seong Su-ho took out his items from the inventory.
The item he took out was a bow.
A bow that is not different from the bow that Min Ha-yeon was holding.
Seong Su-ho shouted as he cast a shining arrow on his bow.
“Cover your ears!!!”
“What?”
Midwinter instinctively followed Seongsuho’s orders and covered his ears.
I asked only after covering my ears.
“Well, what are you going to do… ?”
It was the moment to ask that.
Paaaaa
As the arrow on Seongsuho’s bow went forward, a huge beam of light rushed forward.
A loud noise that could damage your eardrums even if you were covering your ears.
“Hiaaaaa!!”
And the sun-like ray of light that flew away with a roar…
Kyaaaaa!!
Devoured the boss monsters.
Midwinter looked horrified and internally cheered.
‘If that’s the case! If that’s the case, it’s definitely a monster!!’
The expectation of being able to kill the monster.
Even if you can’t kill them, there is an expectation that you will be able to deliver a critical hit.
The monster that looked at such expectations…
“Kuheeeeek!”
It opened its mouth wide enough to swallow all the boss monsters.
And then…
Kwahiah ah …
I swallowed the beam of light into my mouth.
“What… What is that…”
Midwinter is embarrassed by that appearance.
A beam of light that radiated like the sun entered the monster’s mouth, and the monster that swallowed the beam…
“Kuhhhhh… Keck… Wow…”
After gagging a few times…
“Khehehehehe! Delicious! “It’s delicious!”
He started running toward Seong Su-ho and Midwinter with an extremely creepy smile.
However, Midwinter quickly came to his senses and took his stance.
‘Are you okay. This situation must have been fully taken into consideration. ‘You must be preparing for the next attack by now, right?’
Midwinter looked to the side with a face filled with anticipation.
And Seong Su-ho, who was standing next to him…
“… Crazy.”
He was making a puzzled expression that he had never shown before.
