Chapter 2514 – 2514. The Devil’S Game
We bought the Cleaving Cutter and the demonic ion drink. We spent every last GP we had, but it couldn’t be helped. What if we left it and another participant bought the Cleaving Cutter?
‘It’s better for us to spend all our points and have it than let someone else get it.’
Yoo Jin-myung was going to use the Cleaving Cutter. He was the only one who could use it. I had Ascalon and the Lightning Axe, Shin Do-hyun had guns, and Jo Na-young specialized in stealth assassinations using invisibility. Bae Hyun-soo? He was no help at all. I took the demonic ion drink.
We rested and then moved toward the next passage.
We went through passage 10 and entered passage 12. Nothing special happened. We didn’t even encounter a station worker.
‘I see exit 12 over there.’
The end of this tiresome subway adventure was finally in sight.
I felt a cold wind from behind. I paused for a moment. Cold wind? What were we supposed to do when we felt a cold wind?
“Run, now!”
Yoo Jin-myung shouted and ran. We started running after him. I quickly moved ahead of Yoo Jin-myung. I was already faster than him, and now I was wearing the Wind Sneakers.
‘Wait, if I’m in the lead, I won’t be able to react if something happens to Shin Do-hyun and Jo Na-young.’
I deliberately slowed down to stay behind Shin Do-hyun and Jo Na-young. I was ready to support them if they made a mistake.
The cold wind brushed past my neck. I felt a chill run down my spine. It felt like I was about to be torn apart by a huge beast.
“Ugh?!”
Shin Do-hyun and Jo Na-young were running fine, but Bae Hyun-soo was the problem. He had fallen while running.
‘Should I save this guy? Or not?’
My hesitation was brief. I decided to save him. Bae Hyun-soo’s talent for impersonation was useless, but his game tool was very useful. With the map, we could accurately know the location of other participants within 500 meters.
I grabbed Bae Hyun-soo’s body, slung him over my shoulder, and started running.
“Keuh! Jin-hyung…! Thank you! Thank you so much…!”
“Shut up.”
It was a bit hard, but it was fine. We quickly climbed the stairs to the exit. Before going up the stairs, I wondered what was behind us.
‘Should I take a look? Since Jo-eon is quiet, it must not be dangerous.’
I turned my head to check behind us.
-You saw it?
There was nothing there. Only darkness. No, that darkness was something. I swallowed hard and went up the stairs. Thankfully, it didn’t follow us up the stairs.
We safely got out of the subway. And I realized that this was the same entrance we had used to enter the subway station in the first place.
“I don’t think we should go in there again. Are you all okay?”
“Yeah.”
Everyone was fine except for Bae Hyun-soo, who was bleeding from his nose after falling. Yoo Byung-jin handed Bae Hyun-soo a handkerchief and nodded.
“Good. Let’s take a short break here… and confirm our goals once again. We can say that we’re confirming our wishes here.”
“Is there a need for that? We already know everyone’s wishes, more or less.”
“Wishes can change. And it won’t take long. I’ll start. I wish for my younger sister’s incurable disease to be cured.”
“I, I want to be the best professional gamer in the world.”
Bae Hyun-soo said next. I didn’t really care. Honestly, I didn’t care what Bae Hyun-soo did.
“…I’m going to bring my mother back to life.”
That was Shin Do-hyun’s wish. She was going to be my mother-in-law.
“My wish has changed. Originally, I wanted to be the best idol in the world. But now, I think I can achieve that on my own. My new wish is to use my invisibility ability without any restrictions. If I’m invisible, I can act without worrying about other people’s eyes.”
And she’ll use that ability to have an affair with me. I look forward to the future.
“I… well, it’s money. I’m going to get the maximum amount of money the devil can give.”
Money was a wish I had thought of casually. I didn’t have a specific wish right now. Bring my dead parents back to life? You can only bring one person back with a wish. I can’t bring both of them back.
‘Maybe in the past. But recently, I haven’t even missed my parents.’
I was satisfied with my current life. A life with Shin Do-hyun and Jo Na-young. Honestly, I even liked the devil’s game. I could fully utilize my abilities, and the rewards were fair.
“Yoo Jin-ssi. If you don’t have a strong desire for money… I wish you would make the same wish that Park Tae-san made.”
“The wish to not be punished by the law even if I commit a crime?”
“Yes. Park Tae-san probably wished to rule the dark side of South Korea. But it couldn’t be achieved, and not being punished by the law was the best he could do.”
“That sounds like a decent wish. But why should I make that wish?”
“The Grand Game is not our final goal. We need to think about what comes after. I want you to become the king who rules the night, the dark side of South Korea. The devil’s game will be held again, and this is also preparation for that. Of course, it will be difficult for you alone. So, I will assist you.”
The devil’s game would be held again. The devil’s game had an impact on the world, whether good or bad. We couldn’t just sit back and get caught off guard.
“…So you want me to achieve Pang Chun-soo’s goal. To become the Night King, Sung Yoo-jin. Not bad. I’ll do it.”
“Thank you for making the decision. I swear to be loyal to you.”
“Okay. We’ll talk about that later…. What’s the next plan?”
What was urgent and important now was not after we made our wishes. Right now, it was more important to win the Grand Game.
“We need to kill as many competitors as possible.”
“Why?”
“If all the wishes of the Grand Game participants are fulfilled… the world is likely to become a mess. Also, if Pang Chun-soo and his gang’s wishes are fulfilled, our situation will become difficult. They won’t leave us alone.”
I understood. For our peaceful future, we had to kill Pang Chun-soo and the other enemies. And the other participants who might make unpredictable wishes.
If everyone worked together, everyone could achieve their wishes? Knowing what each individual’s wish was. If a wish that was on the level of destroying Korea, if not the world, was fulfilled, wouldn’t everyone be screwed?
“We need to attack Pang Chun-soo right now.”
“…Right now? Wouldn’t it be better to attack the other guys? Pang Chun-soo’s gang is a group that has prepared thoroughly.”
“Do-hyun’s words make sense. But that’s why we need to attack Pang Chun-soo now. Now, when they haven’t started farming properly after joining, is when they are the weakest.”
Yoo Jin-myung held up the Cleaving Cutter. What if Pang Chun-soo’s gang had weapons like that? Just imagining it was terrifying. Pang Chun-soo’s gang had at least 10 members, and all of them had a certain level of combat power. Even if they didn’t have the Cleaving Cutter, just having weapons like guns would be a headache. They would also have game tools and abilities.
“The identity of the devil, the weapon to kill the devil, the Cleaving Cutter… and even you, Yoo Jin-ssi. We have all the conditions for victory. Now is the opportunity.”
“Do you think they’re still in the tower?”
I asked. Just like we had moved immediately after joining, they were likely to have moved immediately after joining as well.
“If I were Pang Chun-soo, I would use that place as my base. It’s easy to move in any direction, and since their forces are large, they don’t need to be wary of other participants. The tower is noticeable, so other participants are likely to find it… and they can propose to them to join and increase their forces.”
“That’s true. We need to move now before Pang Chun-soo’s forces get any bigger.”
The team members looked a bit tired, but they weren’t so tired that they couldn’t move. We had only been in the subway station for about an hour.
If we rested for a day just because we were a little tired, it would be a headache if they armed themselves. We carefully headed to the tower in the center of the city.
When we got about 500 meters closer to the tower, we checked Bae Hyun-soo’s map. We confirmed that there were 23 opponents through the map.
“Even if it’s Pang Chun-soo, he couldn’t have brought more than 20 subordinates to the Grand Game. It seems he has drawn other participants into his forces.”
“Fighting head-on would be crazy.”
“Yoo Jin-ssi. How many people can you fight at the same time?”
“If they’re ordinary guys without abilities, I can handle 10 at the same time. Of course, that’s assuming they don’t have guns.”
“Unless they have storage abilities, they won’t be fully armed with guns.”
“Should we sneak in and assassinate them?”
“No. There’s a better way.”
Yoo Jin-myung looked at the map and pointed to the tower.
“Look. The tower is similar to the Tokyo Tower. According to this map, 17 of the 23 people are on the observation deck, not on the first floor. If we kill the 6 guards on the lower floor… we can control the first floor.”
“Even if we take control of the first floor, what if they come down all at once in the elevator? We’ll have to fight 17 people at the same time.”
“Then things will end easily.”
Yoo Jin-myung looked at Shin Do-hyun. Shin Do-hyun nodded and took out dynamite from her subspace. Shin Do-hyun looked at Yoo Jin-myung as if she couldn’t believe it.
“…I can’t believe we’re actually going to use this. How did you even get this?”
“I got it through a Chinese broker I recently met. It’s impossible to blow up the entire tower, but we can blow up one elevator.”
“They can come down the stairs.”
“We can monitor them through the map. Fortunately, they don’t seem to have a map.”
We looked at the map, made a plan, and moved.
