Chapter 197 – Nightmare
“Then, let’s go get a massage right away, without having to talk about it with a headache.”
“Yes yes~”
‘…Today, like yesterday, I’m going to end it by caressing my breasts in moderation. And tomorrow, when the dungeon exploration is over, I’ll use the ‘Voodoo Doll’ to make them want to learn the dual hand technique.”
After saying that, her seongil trains her with her color ball at her Ahyeon’s house, just like her yesterday, and then ends the day.
Next day.
‘Whoa… In terms of real time, it’s only been less than a month, but considering the time flow in the game world, quite a bit of time has passed…’
Seong-il is slightly nervous due to her long-awaited dungeon exploration.
A strange feeling that you feel every time you approach the coordinates listed in the government guidelines.
‘Um… I haven’t felt this way before, why? Is it because the level of 『Emotion』 Went up…?’
When she was curious about her last name, Ahyeon Lee familiarly approached the Psionic Security Agency staff standing near the entrance of her dungeon and handed over documents containing proof of her identity and her party members. After confirming it, the staff nodded her head, then pointed her hand towards her entrance and replied.
“Identification completed. Please go in.”
“Thank you. Have a hard time.”
“Yes, good job.”
‘It’s been less than a week since it was made, and the security staff aren’t nervous at all, either?’
Basically, it was possible to subjugate a dangerous mutation before a dangerous mutation occurred because it was easy to explore in a space that was open in all directions and had quite a lot of people. Maybe that’s why the officials had quite a bit of leeway. The party starts entering the dungeon without much trouble.
‘…What kind of place will it be this time?’
A dungeon that I entered with an interesting mind rather than tension. An insidious space begins to unfold before their eyes.
“…What is this place?”
A gloomy space that looks like a huge cemetery. In a gray world where even the ground seems to have rotted away, the group hardens their expressions and mixes their words.
“Um… I can’t…”
“I thought it was an undead dungeon?”
“…An undead dungeon?”
Seong-il, curious about the muttering of promotion, starts asking him questions. Then, the explanation of the promotion that follows.
“Simply put, it’s a world where a zombie apocalypse is about to unfold.”
“…Are you planning?”
“Yes. ‘Scheduled’. I haven’t seen hordes of zombies yet. It’s probably because it hasn’t been activated yet. Well, due to the nature of Stary’s dungeon, if the ‘noise’ increases, there’s a high chance zombies will pop out of the ground… “
Cho Seung-jin, who is one year older than the other team members, has a lot of knowledge about dungeons. At his words, all the team members nodded.
“Then let’s approach the core as stealthily as possible.”
“Okay.”
“And, in a dungeon dominated by undead like this, elemental abilities have a lot of strength, so the promoted senior will do the main dealing.”
“Yes, let’s do it.”
Having made such a plan, the party begins to move forward, walking on the rotten ground.
“…Is this just an open, one-way gray field? There’s no way to go there secretly?”
“Then you just have to go. If you see it, just get rid of it. Isn’t it? Ouch!!”
Oh Yu-joo answers Seong-il’s questions. She then let out a sharp moan, as if she had stepped on something wrong. OK…
“Bake it!!”
Her sharp groan is the trigger, and something that looks like a human hand starts to protrude from the rotten ground everywhere.
Suwook!!
“…Fuck.”
Seong-il curses at the grotesque scene that suddenly unfolds before his eyes.
“Oops! Formation as everyone practiced!”
At Ahyeon’s words, the team members quickly formed a tactical formation as they practiced. Seong-il goes to the front of his teammate as quickly as possible and caresses her glove.
‘Hmm… Although it’s overkill to use an active skill from 『Gauntlet, Indomitable Will』 Right here, I want to see how powerful it is, so let’s try it…’
He decides to use the 『Neutral God’s Protection』 Skill, which doubles the strength of the body that can be used three times a day.
‘Start!!’
Intense vitality felt in the body. Seong-il rushes at the zombies after using the acceleration.
‘Ruler! Shall we play?’
Seong-il beats the torso of a rotting zombie that walks slowly.
Cuckoo!!!
‘…Wow?’
As Seongil hit the zombie’s torso, an astonishing roar erupted. Everyone in the party was shocked by the sound of a grenade exploding.
“Hee!!”
Seong-il tried using the magic on the gauntlet to see the effect of the item in real life, but he didn’t know it would be this powerful, so he looks at his hand in amazement.
‘…Fuck, this is the level where I’ve raised my inner energy to the extreme level!!’
Seong-il is amazed at the power of the 『Blessing of the Neutral God』, Which shows ignorant destructive power even though he has only raised 1 or 2 stars.
“Gooooo!!”
However, despite such devastating power, zombies without reason began to constantly attack Seongil, who made a roar. He comes to his senses and starts throwing his fists in all directions like a storm.
“Get lost!!”
Seong-il, who was now familiar with the bankruptcy priesthood, constantly spread his fists everywhere like lightning. In the midst of destroying nearly 30 zombies. He suddenly feels his strength draining away.
‘…Fuck!! Both Acceleration and Protection were released at once!?’
Seong-il forgets the penalty for a moment because he is so intoxicated with the excitement of the battle. He flinched and stumbled at the sudden change in his physical abilities. Thanks to this, he is able to give distance to the zombies who constantly attack him.
‘Fuck you…!!’
When the zombie’s hands and teeth, which at first glance seem to be covered with all sorts of unclean substances, try to touch his upper body, Seong-il tenses up and puts his hands together on his chest and takes a guard stance.
“Seongil! Even if it’s hot, bear with it~”
“!!”
Now I hear a man’s voice familiar to Seong-il. And after hearing his voice, a wall of flame spread around him.
‘Wow!!’
Seong-il exquisitely keeps himself out of the flames and marvels at the appearance of the flame barrier spreading around him.
Kuweek!!
As the flames spread in a circle around Holy Day, the zombies started burning in an instant, and soon after, the small group of zombies all started to burn up.
“Ugh…! It’s hot…!!”
Due to the flames spread by the promotion, Seong-il was virtually trapped in a wall of flame. When he is in trouble, Lee Ah-hyun looks at Seong-il and talks to him.
“Hold on a minute.”
After saying that, she stretches out her hands toward her Holy Day. Perhaps when Ah-hyeon tries to use her special skill, spatial distortion, Seong-il shuts her mouth and waits patiently for her action.
Ugh!!
‘…Hmm? Didn’t I hear something like this when I was subjected to space distortion before?’
Perhaps it was because the level of 『Emotion』 Went up? He is puzzled when he hears a sound that is not normally heard in Seong-il’s ears.
While he was thinking that, the flames spread out in front of Seongil’s eyes began to grotesquely twist. Soon, a circular space is secured in front of Seongil’s eyes.
“Come out quickly! It won’t last long!”
At Ah-hyun’s urgent words, Seong-il quickly steps on her steps and approaches her.
‘…I need a new law!’
In the midst of thinking that they should return to the martial arts world sooner or later and learn the new law, the party presses on the dense zombies due to the holy day and starts to eliminate them all.
“Whoa… It looks like it was handled roughly.”
“Really? It’s a newly created dungeon, so it ends quickly.”
Lee Ah-hyun sighed in relief when the situation was sorted out. Seungjin agrees with her words and starts talking to Seongil.
“Ugh… Seong-il asked you to protect the dealer from the vanguard, and she wipes out the enemy alone? Does it get stronger day by day?”
“Really? I thought I was looking at some kind of berserker.”
Of course, it was only using the acceleration and armor magic buffs, but Seung-jin and Yu-ju, who have no way of knowing the situation, admire Seong-il’s appearance.
“But it was too much.”
And Lee Ah-hyun, who cuts his words sharply as if scolding him. In her words, Seong-il, of course. Oh Yu-ju, who summoned the zombies by shouting unnecessarily loudly, is also stingy.
“Oh, sorry about that.”
“It’s good that you’ve gained confidence as your abilities have blossomed recently, but it’s difficult to be overly aggressive.”
As a leader, Ah-hyun warns the team members in an appropriate way so that they don’t become conceited.
Thanks to that, the atmosphere that had been released was tightened again. They relieve their tension and start wandering around the dungeon again.
“Phew… It’s a newly created early dungeon, so there’s nothing special.”
“I will. Brother.”
After blocking 2-3 attacks similar to the group of zombies that suddenly popped out in the beginning, the group naturally entered the bizarre alien building they had seen before.
‘Huh… It’s still an ominous place.’
An alien architecture that feels strangely ominous every time you visit. He starts questioning his colleagues to allay this uneasy feeling.
“This is the same as last time, and when you enter, you feel something ominous.”
“Hmm? Yes?”
“Yes, can’t you feel it? A strange wave or malice.”
“…Don’t you feel that way? Isn’t it just because you’re anxious?”
“Yeah… That could be it.”
‘Hmm… Is it because of 『Emotion』?’
While he was thinking so, quite familiar enemies began to appear in front of them.
“There is.”
Lee Ah-hyun’s words are short but clear. The party immediately took a combat stance at the horse and looked ahead.
“…Energy Walker, Dougini.”
“Yes. If Seongil and I attack the skin like last time, the two of us should use our special skills to subdue them.”
“Of course.”
After saying so, Seungjin and Yuju hide themselves in a nearby alien building and begin to prepare their special skills.
As soon as they prepare like that, Seong-il silently charges at the energy walker.
At his surprise, the energy walkers start swinging their mechanical arms making a grotesque noise.
‘Slow.’
The energy walker’s attack looks more formidable than before. I realize once again why the promotion ignored them as ‘workers’ at the time of clearing the first dungeon.
‘First of all… As before, I focus only on that part of the machine!’
He knew that Seungjin and Yuju would use their psychic powers to beat the walkers if they continued to beat their materialized bodies anyway, so he ruthlessly beats their machine bodies with his hands wearing long sleeves, unhesitatingly practicing bankruptcy.
Quaang!! Quaang!!
『Wuuuuu!!』
A grotesque noise emanating from the walker’s body. Seong-il frowns at the noise and continues his attack.
That time when I was arguing with Walker for such a long time. An intense electric light hit the walker in a straight line from behind him.
『Kuwo!!』
Directly hit by the intense psionic wave, the walker groans in agony before disappearing leaving only the mechanical body behind.
“Whoa…”
In that way, they succeeded in wiping out all the walkers around them. A familiar scarlet sphere of energy appears in front of them.
“…Does the core come out sooner than last time today?”
“Yeah. The last time the dungeon was made more than ten days ago, but this dungeon is less than a week old at the most.”
“Aha…”
Seong-il thought to himself as he opened the duffel bag he had brought without a word, nodding his head as Seong-il liked it anyway.
‘…Is it okay if I bring my smartphone near the core?’
Seong-il pretends to take care of the core by helping with the promotion, and subtly holds the smartphone as close to the core as possible.
Weeing!!
‘Done!!’
Alarm ringing like crazy on your smartphone like never before. Fortunately, this time, like the last time, it was a situation where the team members did not overhear it, so Seong-il is relieved and uses things.
‘The ‘Mute’ magic effect that can be used in the 『Limited Advanced Invisibility Ring』 Brought from the detective world is considerable. You don’t notice at all around you?’
That’s when I picked up the core with that thought in mind. With the intense stimulation he was accustomed to, Seong-il could confirm that the time around him stopped.
‘…Looks like he’s trying to absorb it.’
Seong-il doesn’t panic as much as before. He knows that this situation is exactly what 『Game Master』 Is trying to absorb the dungeon core, so he waits casually.
This time, energy started to radiate from the core towards the phone in the right pocket. Seong-il begins to look at it carefully.
‘…What the hell is the relationship between the two? 『Game Master』Is this really a ‘skill’?’
If you think about it, there are not just one or two mysterious things, but the ability of the 『Game Master』. While he was thinking for a long time while watching his smart phone suck energy. He realizes someone is calling him.
“Hey, Han Seong-il. What are you doing?”
“Yes?”
“Why are you standing still with your core? You should take care of it.”
‘…Is it over already?’
The core’s energy absorption seems to have ended more quickly than before. Seong-il quickly starts putting the core he was holding into the duffel bag.
So when he starts to take care of the core as he said, Seungjin also shuts up again and quietly starts to organize the core.
“Everyone worked hard today.”
“Ahyeon you too!”
“Haha, I want to go and wash up soon…”
The party cleared the dungeon safely and came out. They finish the exploration work by arranging the progress with the Psionic Security Bureau staff waiting outside.
“Then see you next week!”
“Yes, brother, have a good weekend!”
“Okay, we’ll go first.”
Since tomorrow is the weekend right now, Seungjin leaves somewhere with his lover Yuju Oh. As they leave, Seong-il naturally looks at Ah-hyeon and speaks to him.
“What are you going to do? Do you want to rest today? Or…?”
“…Of course I should get a massage.”
“Yes. Let’s go.”
