Chapter 1222 – 1222. Yggdrasil (8)
The dungeon we entered was a huge flower field.
For your information, when I said huge, I did not just mean the area of the flower garden.
“It’s a tree, a tree…”
It was expressed that way because the flowers are as huge as the trees.
I was mesmerized by a rare sight that is difficult to see in other worlds…
‘Ah, did everyone come in safely?’
I immediately came to my senses and looked around.
‘Whew, welcome back.’
Fortunately, the party members behind me also appeared one after another.
And the party members who came in late also began to admire the flower garden with surprised expressions like me.
“And… “Is that a real flower?”
“Sniff… Breathe! It’s a flower!”
“It smells good, but… “I think I’ll have a headache if I stay for a long time.”
Everyone admired the flower garden and commented on it.
We looked down at the flower field for a while…
“Okay, let’s get going.”
“Yes.”
I started entering a forest covered with huge flowers.
Han Yeo-reum and I took the lead, Min Ha-yeon and Namgung Yu-ha took the rear, and Sister Han took the center position.
I could hear the conversation between Han Bom and Han Ga Eul, who were in charge of the center.
“Well, is there anything that comes to mind?”
“Just check it out…”
Han Ga-eul answered like that and closed her eyes and began to be silent.
And after some time…
“Ha… “I don’t like it.”
I shuddered with a voice of sincere disgust.
Not only me, but everyone also looked at the mid-autumn scene with a puzzled expression.
Hanbom became the representative and asked the questions we had.
“Why? “What did you see?”
“That is…”
Han Ga-eul shook her body as if shaking off the goosebumps that had clung to her body, and then continued the rest of her words.
“Bug… A bug came out.”
“Bug?”
Everyone started laughing helplessly at Han Ga-eul’s words.
Of course, everyone in the party, including me, hates bugs.
However, among them, Han Gaeul had a tendency to particularly dislike bugs.
Even before coming to Yggdrasil, if a bug appeared in the house, he couldn’t catch it himself, so he would scream and call mid-spring and mid-winter…
Hanbom started nagging Han Gaeul, as if scolding her.
“Hey, you’ve been here for over half a year. Just get used to bugs, little by little…”
However, Han Ga-eul actually trembled and spoke back to Han Bom’s nagging.
“It’s not like that. Because it’s not just a bug…”
“Huh? “Are you saying it’s not just a bug?”
“That is…”
Just when Han Ga-eul was about to make an excuse…
Thud… Thud… Boom!
“Ah… “It’s coming.”
It made Han Ga-eul’s mouth shut tightly with a ringing sound.
Thud! Coo! Kuuuuung!
Just looking at it, the vibrations became stronger, as if telling us that a huge figure was approaching us.
The sound that had been pounding in her eardrums before had now turned into an earthquake strong enough to be transmitted through the soles of her feet and throughout her entire body.
And before we knew it, the earthquake had grown so big that the dirt piles on the ground were shaking.
Kuuuuung!
But an earthquake that was big enough to shake a pile of dirt…
Kuuuuu… !
After the last earthquake, it suddenly stopped.
However, no one was relieved or puzzled by the fact that no earthquake was heard.
It was because we already knew why the earthquake stopped.
Han Ga-eul, who was the only one here to laugh heartily, opened her mouth as if teasing Han Bom who was next to her.
“Sister, how are you? “Can even that bug get used to it?”
“…”
Han Bom raised her head so much that her neck was bent, and she just made a disgusted expression without answering.
She wasn’t the only one.
“Ah… I really hate it…”
Even Min Ha-yeon, who has some immunity to bugs, was frowning as if she was disgusted.
Between the huge flower stems, it is presumed that mid-autumn has already arrived…
“I think I hate warts now.”
“… Me too.”
A huge praying mantis that must have been about 20 meters long was waving her disgusting snout at us.
Among insects, the praying mantis is in a cool position, but as it grew in size, it just gave off a lot of disgust, like a giant cockroach.
The giant praying mantis had been watching us for a while and getting its appetite…
Quaaaaang! Quieeeeek!
He started running toward us, leaning out as if he was falling.
“Damage!”
“Oh!?”
The party members who had been distracted by the sight of the giant mantis came to their senses when they heard my voice and quickly avoided it.
Perhaps because the level of all party members was high, it was not difficult at all to avoid the mantis before it arrived.
However, levels did not solve everything.
“Ah!”
The supporters, Han Bom and Han Autumn, were not avoiding the event, but was leaving in a hurry.
After carrying slow-moving mid-spring and mid-autumn on both shoulders…
“Wow!”
“Wow!”
I quickly left the place.
When the party members dispersed like that…
Kwaaang!
The mantis’ huge saw-toothed arm struck the spot where we were, causing an earthquake.
But unlike that intimidating appearance…
“… You seem a bit sluggish.”
The tension we felt began to cool down.
His appearance was so ferocious that I was told to go away from Cerberus…
“I know… Should I catch it?”
Min Ha-yeon must have relaxed at the sight of the languid mantis and asked me with awkward eyes.
I nodded her head in agreement, and Min Hayeon fired an arrow at the mantis, which raised her serrated arm again.
The arrow Min Ha-yeon shot passed through the mantis’ head like a ray of light…
Kwaziik! Good profit… !
The mantis, whose head had exploded, fell down on the spot with a loud noise.
And after a while, the giant wart disappeared so cleanly that it was doubtful whether it ever existed.
With only the items left.
She all looked at Min Ha-yeon with a blank expression, and Min Ha-yeon shrugged her shoulders and answered with a puzzled expression.
“… Is it easy?”
It was literally so easy.
Through Min Ha-yeon’s words, the party members were able to immediately realize what their position was in this dungeon.
“From their point of view, my sister is just a natural disaster, right?”
“Not only my sister, but also Suho and Yuha…”
From the dungeon’s perspective, we were not at a disaster level such as a flood or landslide.
It would be no different from a mega-disaster like a meteorite or volcanic eruption.
The party members who became so confident…
“Let’s finish it quickly and go out and rest!”
“Haha… Yes.”
I completely shook off the hesitation I had shown earlier and began to break through the flower forest.
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After that, we also encountered other giant insect-type monsters.
From rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles with high physical defense, to giant butterflies that frantically spray paralyzing and poisonous powder…
But all those huge monsters…
“And… “It’s a bit shocking that my sister shot me twice and killed me.”
“Well, I thought I could finish it all in one shot.”
It was dealt with within two arrows from Min Ha-yeon.
For your information, the one that died in two hits was not a monster with high physical defense…
“Fouetchi… It looks like there’s still powder in her nose…”
It was a butterfly monster that sprinkled powder in all directions and obstructed vision.
For your information, I didn’t fire two shots because my vision was obstructed, but I sneezed in the middle and fired one shot in the wrong place.
“Sister, just in case, I’ll remove the abnormal status one more time.”
“Yes… Thanks… Fuech!”
Before we knew it, everyone was going through the dungeon as if they were on a picnic.
At first, the party members hated giant insects…
“Still, I’m glad it’s an insect.”
“That’s right, if something like a centipede appears… Wow…”
Thanks to everyone getting used to it, it seemed like they had completely shaken off their disgust towards monsters.
My heartfelt lighter after seeing those party members.
The reason I felt lighter wasn’t just because the members’ burden disappeared.
‘I’m glad I didn’t make the pact of immortality.’
In the past, I had mentioned the [Pact of Immortality] To my party members.
The ability to become immortal with the condition of becoming my slave if certain conditions are met.
But instead, it is an ability that has a penalty of halving the level.
However, after discussion, we decided that a higher level was more advantageous for survival and withdrew.
And the result…
“Ahhh! Another butterfly!! I really hated it!”
I was able to see Min Ha-yeon feeling like a boss-level monster was a field mob.
Min Ha-yeon seems like she won’t repeat the mistake from before…
“I’m dead!”
Paaaaat! Kwaziik!
Before the butterfly could even flap its wings, her head exploded.
When the butterfly’s head exploded, it fell to the floor and created a huge earthquake.
However, she quickly disappeared, leaving behind only small items that did not match her massive body and the huge earthquake.
Min Ha-yeon, who killed the butterfly like that, smiled brightly…
“Phew… This time… Fuech!”
She sneezed again.
I looked at Min Ha-yeon like that and asked Armonia with a look of concern on her face.
‘Armonia, aren’t you under a strange curse?’
[No. It’s just an ordinary sneeze.]
‘Phew…
Thanks to Armonia’s words, I felt at ease.
With one arrow from Min Ha-yeon, the whole situation was resolved, and we immediately proceeded to explore the dungeon.
However, while proceeding, I heard Min Ha-yeon sneeze again…
“Fouetchi!”
“Hayeon, step back first.”
I pulled Min Ha-yeon, who was standing in front of her, behind her and gestured to Han Yeo-reum.
“Hey, midsummer. “You deal with it for the time being.”
“What? Me?”
Midsummer looked at me with an expression of dissatisfaction at her sudden order…
“Why? “You don’t like it?”
“Oh, no… Ha, I will.”
He was moved to tears by my ridicule and immediately agreed.
I was satisfied with such a midsummer scene and whispered to him so that no one else could hear.
“Yeah, your girlfriend is having a hard time sneezing. In times like this, you should step in as a boyfriend.”
“Keuuuuu!”
Midsummer looked humiliated for the first time in a while.
I admired Han Yeoreum’s humiliated expression, but when Han Yeoreum sensed my sentiment, she turned her head and began to take her lead.
I offered some light words of encouragement to this midsummer.
“Hey, don’t do unnecessary tricks and fight as hard as you can. This will also be included in the evaluation score.”
“Ah… I knew…”
To prevent Midsummer from committing suicide, she gave her orders with the [Pact of Immortality].
After receiving my order, Han Yeo-reum took the lead, and Min Ha-yeon and I started to follow from the rear.
“Hayeon, if you’re tired, should we take a break?”
“Oh, no. Just… Re… Re… Fuech!”
“…”
I was worried that I really needed to rest at this level.
“I’m really fine… Just because… Are you okay! Fuech!”
However, Min Ha-yeon refused to let her rest even though she was sneezing like crazy.
So we proceeded through her dungeon while watching Min Ha-yeon sneeze.
Fortunately, Min Ha-yeon’s sneezing gradually decreased, as if to prove that it was just a normal sneeze.
And Midsummer, who was at the forefront…
“Oh, you fight well.”
“Pfft!”
I faced the rhinoceros beetle and began a desperate battle.
Cooooo! Good!
“I’m dying!”
Unlike Min Ha-yeon, who killed her with one blow, Han Yeo-reum was fighting a battle for her life with the beetle, putting her true self to death.
As I was appreciating the decisive battle in midsummer…
“Suho.”
“Huh?”
I came to my senses after hearing Min Ha-yeon’s voice and looked to the side.
“Can you close the channel for a moment?”
“Oh, of course. As soon as…”
└Guardian of the gay dick: aaaaah! Don’t fall for the words of a girl like that…
I immediately closed the channel…
“I don’t think I will abandon myself like that angel… “Kwaek!”
After throwing Loki, who was trying to sound strangely serious, to the side, he deployed sound blocking magic.
As I performed the sound blocking magic, Min Ha-yeon smiled and crossed her arms around me.
Then he hummed and said something strange.
“Suho… “Thank you so much for choosing me.”
It was an odd word, but it wasn’t difficult to understand the intention.
Min Ha-yeon was clearly aware of her position.
If you hadn’t met me, you wouldn’t have been able to kill those monsters in one hit.
If you hadn’t met me, you would have been struggling with points on the 3rd floor, let alone the 5th floor.
If you hadn’t met me, you would have had a hard time competing for the inn on the first floor.
If I hadn’t met you, I would have been on floor 0…
“If it wasn’t for you, I would have been stung by a bee and died a long time ago.”
He would have been killed by Shockbee.
Of course, because there is a return of midsummer, there will also exist a future in which Shockbee does not die.
But that…
“That wasn’t me, it was probably another me.”
It would have been Min Ha-yeon from a different episode than the Min Ha-yeon in front of me now.
The person who had been smiling happily with his arms crossed earlier suddenly began to look gloomy.
At first, I thought he was frustrated by the cruelty of the regression…
“And the me you met… After all, it wasn’t the first time…”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
It wasn’t difficult to understand the intention of what I said earlier, but I couldn’t understand the intention of what I said now.
But I was able to understand that question through Min Ha-yeon’s answer.
“It’s my first time to you, but… “I’ve met several people so far.”
“Ah…”
Min Ha-yeon was still under the illusion that I had been caught up in the return of Midsummer and had become a different being from the previous episode.
“It might be strange to say this now, but… “Sometimes I want to turn my memory and body back to how it was before and start from the beginning with you.”
“…”
In fact, the reason Min Ha-yeon kept her memories of her return was because I secretly took her to the ship…
‘I shouldn’t talk about ships, right?’
Min Ha-yeon did not know that fact yet.
Maybe one day we’ll talk about ships…
[As you know, you must keep quiet until the mission is completed.]
‘Okay…’
Unfortunately, it wasn’t today.
I felt guilty seeing Min Ha-yeon with a depressed expression.
‘Hmm… I was the one who actually deceived him.’
The decisive factor that allowed me to seduce Min Ha-yeon was sincerity.
Making sacrifices while pretending not to recognize the regression.
Through that appearance, Min Ha-yeon was able to fully bring out her strong heart.
‘Let’s be prepared to get hit later.’
I was prepared to be beaten by Min Ha-yeon when I told the truth later, so I kept her true feelings inside.
But…
“Hayeon, I just need you. So, please continue to be by my side.”
On the other hand, I conveyed a different sincerity to Min Ha-yeon.
It was a sincerity that I considered more important than the truth I had hidden.
Min Ha-yeon heard what I said…
“Ha… I thought I was unlucky with men for the rest of my life because of Midsummer… “I guess I was as lucky as midsummer when I met you.”
“Haha…”
I put my arms tightly between my chest and started laughing.
So, Min Ha-yeon and I enjoyed our date as if we were watching a movie about a crazy battle scene in the middle of summer.
.
.
There were only two times that we had midsummer.
The reason was simple.
“Catch it quickly. “Did you delay it on purpose to delay the progress?”
“Ugh… Choi, I did my best…”
“Doing your best isn’t important! You have to get good results…”
“Seed…”
It was because it dragged on too much.
Time is gold.
But Midsummer chewed up that gold like metallurgy.
In the end, after spending two midsummers, I decided that I couldn’t do it…
“First, take the lead, but when monsters appear, get behind me.”
“… Okay.”
I went out myself.
Min Ha-yeon said she would step forward, but I advised her to take a break to prepare for any unexpected situation.
When I joined the battle, the pace sped up again.
And we were moving at such a fast pace…
“… I think this is the last time.”
I was able to discover a huge flower that glowed like the sun.
