Chapter 296 – The Cursed Doll
While thinking about this and that, Yoo Yu-yeon moves to her training room.
‘Oh… I was so mad at the moment that I asked to fight, but is it okay…?’
At her rude attitude of her Yuhwa-yeon, her blood welled upside down, and her seongil, who asked her to challenge her in reverse. He feels regret because he wonders if his choice will become a problem.
“…Hmm.”
However, a sense of crisis that is not particularly felt. If he makes a wrong choice, 『Detective’s Intuition』 Warns him, but in this case there was no warning, so Seong-il decides to trust his choice.
‘…Because it wouldn’t work if I acted too passively.’
Thinking so, Seong-il shuts her mouth and carefully finishes class and goes back to her room.
“…So, did you decide to hang out with that senpai? Are you crazy?”
“Well, how about it. Winning is enough.”
“Are you kidding me? That senior is a top-class talent with three abilities! I know you’ve become confident with your recent victories, but with your current skills, you’re no match! Her psychokinesis is especially sophisticated, unlike Choi Hyeon-woo’s…”
“Well? You have to stick around to know, right?”
“Haa… You really…”
“Anyway, I’m going to have a fight with senior Hwayeon for some reason.”
“Why do you have to…! Can’t we just evade?”
“Then I have to leave your team?”
“…”
“I have no intention of accepting such an insolent request any longer.”
“Ha…”
Seong-il’s answer was nothing other than saying that he would fight because of himself. Because of this, Lee Ah-hyun cannot stop his reckless attitude.
“Don’t worry.”
Saying that, Seong-il raises his hand in front of Ah-hyun, who is worried.
“…!!”
Surprisingly, a ballpoint pen floating in the air. When Seong-il sees Ah-hyeon look shocked, she begins to express herself moderately with lies.
“Do you remember the awakening of the shadow ability?”
“…However?”
“I found out that it was a metamorphosis ability based on telekinesis.”
“What!?”
“I tweaked my shadow ability a little, and it became possible to use it like telekinesis. It’s because I can unobtrusively defend against telekinesis, a counter ability to physical enhancement.”
“…”
“I don’t need to be nervous because I’m afraid I’ll be caught like a shadow, so I wonder if it’s worth sticking with Hwayeon-sunbae in this situation.”
“Ha…”
Ah-hyeon instinctively realizes that Seong-il is hiding something. However, seeing him like that makes Seong-il more likely to try to hide the truth, so she nods her head and replies.
“…Okay. Instead, I’ll participate as a spectator during the sparring.”
“Well, like that.”
“Ha…”
“Ah, by the way.”
“Hmm…?”
“Professor Wooyoung Jo. You used to belong to the Heavenly Spirit Guild, right?”
“Ah…? Before you belonged to the government, you must have belonged to Heavenly Spirit?”
“Right?”
“Yes. It’s a famous story. The reason why he was appointed to a high-ranking position in the government was his high performance in heaven, isn’t it a story that everyone in the know knows?”
“Oh, I didn’t know that…”
“…You’re a non-combatant not too long ago, so it could be because you didn’t take the combat theory practice. Anyway, since Jo Woo-young talked about it with his own mouth during the combat theory class, it must be clear.”
“That’s right…”
“Is that still the story? Aren’t you too morbidly suspicious of Jo Woo-yeong? Although he has a lot of cruel aspects…”
Ah-hyun frowns at Seong-il’s excessive suspicion based on past grudges. Her Seong-il answers to her with a serious expression.
“No. There’s definitely something there. My 『Emotion』 Never lies to me.”
“…”
Seeing Seong-il muttering with a serious expression one after another following the previous day, Ah-hyeon also feels something strange.
‘…Does Professor Wooyoung Jo really have something?’
Seong-il’s feelings that he naturally understands by mixing his flesh countless times through the dual hand technique with Seong-il. Because of this, Ah-hyeon realizes that Seong-il really seriously doubts something.
‘…I’ll have to look into it.’
“Wait, where are you going?”
“Hmm? Where?”
“Suddenly talking about that senior, I got a little hot. I’ll warm up and come back.”
“Ha… Yes.”
When Ah-hyeon hears that Seong-il is going to train, she calmly lets him go without any doubt.
‘Whoa… First of all, let’s gather some dungeon cores as well as practice.’
In preparation for a confrontation with Yu Hwa-yeon, who decided to stick with him in anger, Seong-il explores a nearby dungeon to secure a dungeon core for the first time in a while.
‘Hmm… There are three dungeons within a 50km radius…’
Seong-il, who identified the three armies of the dungeon within easy reach with the new law as the “Game Master”. He grasps the status of each dungeon and thinks about which one to go to.
‘Two level 9-10 dungeons that were created less than two days ago. The other one is level 7…’
Seong-il, who only attacked the lowest level dungeons for safety. However, as he has recently improved his skills through special training with Eunwol and various talents, he decides to clear a slightly more difficult dungeon.
‘I can’t just go around the lowest level dungeon forever. Let’s go to the 7th grade dungeon this time.’
As it was originally, it was a 7th grade dungeon that could be entered from the 2nd year with a certain amount of experience. However, Seong-il decides to test his new strength and attack the 7th grade dungeon.
‘I’m going to have to use up all the time left to summon Eunwol right now.’
Seong-il, who stopped time after leaving Black Ball behind in Pineapple House. At this point, he decides to make sure to use up Eun-wol’s summoning time.
‘It’s nice to leave the ball in the Pineapple House and fix the time because it saves the cost of summoning Eunwol…’
‘The problem is that other followers can’t work during that period, so the production of consumables is delayed…’
‘In addition, it’s embarrassing to keep letting go of Eunwol, a trump card that will help me defend against danger when something dangerous happens to me…’
Seong-il, who has captured his thoughts, immediately tries to move to the dungeon he has marked.
“Whoa… Is this…?”
The outskirts of the city arrived after running for a while. This place, lined with horribly destroyed high-rise buildings, feels very hideous as no human beings are felt.
‘Keuk… Judging by the appearance, it looks like there’s a dungeon inside the subway.’
‘How come a dungeon that has been around for 10 days inside Seoul is still not subjugated… I thought it was a completely uninhabited area? If I leave it alone sooner or later, the monsters in the dungeon will pop out into reality, so I’ll have to sort it out quickly, even for the sake of the civilians.’
Thinking so, Seong-il puts his fear behind and starts to enter the shady and half-collapsed subway alone.
‘Ugh… It’s like a ghost is about to come out.’
Fortunately, when he returns, he can use the return door of 『Pineapple House』 And not have to watch this shady scene anymore.
“…Middle Ages?”
Seong-il puts on a puzzled expression when he finds himself standing in a quaint medieval village.
‘Whoa… I learned in class that a strange world sometimes unfolds from level 7 dungeons, but seeing it with my own eyes feels different…’
A well-organized urban scene. Nevertheless, no one is seen inside the city.
‘Looking at the appearance, it doesn’t seem like a simple destruction type dungeon, is it a quest clear type dungeon like that shit?’
Unlike normal dungeons, where you slaughter enemies as you progress through the dungeon and reach and destroy the dungeon core, quest-type dungeons do not reach the core unless certain conditions are met, as well as the infamous type of dungeon that is not easy to get out of. It was a dungeon.
‘Aliens have very vicious tastes. You can just create monsters and attack them, why the hell are you creating a world like this…’
Cursing at the bad taste of aliens he can’t understand, Seong-il calmly takes out his smartphone from his bosom.
‘Usually this type of dungeon has clear conditions recorded somewhere…’
Seong-il tries to figure out the situation according to what he has learned. At that time, he confirms that a message is displayed on his 『Game Master』.
‘Hmm? Is the game master giving you information…?’
『Saving the City』
* Clear conditions:
– Solve the problems that threaten the city. (In any way.)
– The characters in the city do not feel any discomfort with you. Make good use of this.
‘…What? This simple clear condition. You can clear any formula…?’
Absurdly simple clear conditions. However, at the same time, the content is too simple, so Seong-il has no idea what to solve.
“Kkeuh… I wonder if I’ll go around the surroundings… Summon Eunwol in an obscure place.”
In order to summon Eun-wol from a place invisible to others, Seong-il begins to walk carefully alone through the desolate city.
“Stop there!!”
“…?”
When someone shouts at Seong-il in a city covered in smog, Seong-il draws his sword with a wary expression.
“Hmm? What’s the matter?』
‘Just be quiet. I’m figuring it out too.’
When the cursed sword that popped out of his inventory after a long time asked about the situation, he put off answering him and moved towards the voice.
“Stop!! Stop!!”
Pikemen in chain mail entered in front of Seongil’s eyes. They threaten Seong-il with ferocious voices and stop it, but Seong-il feels deep fear in their eyes.
‘Hmm…? What…?’
“Were they scared?”
‘I know?’
Contrary to his ferocious voice, Seong-il silently lowers his sword to show that he has no hostility towards the guards.
“Who… Who is it? You!!”
“…Just a traveler?”
A ridiculous excuse even if you think about it. However, Seong-il believes in the additional options that depend on the clear conditions, and just tries to make excuses as they come out of his mouth.
“Are you saying that as an excuse right now…?”
‘…Fuck, is that a lame excuse anyway?’
At that time, he regretted a little, wondering if his excuse was too lame as the sword said. The guard raises his helmet and examines the holy day while answering.
“Um… This guy… You can’t see the blood in his eyes? He’s not a vampire!”
‘…Vampire?’
Seong-il puts on a puzzled look at the guard’s words. Either that or not, the other two guards approach Seong-il and examine his face closely to see if there is anything wrong.
“Really…? This person is normal…!!”
‘Why are they playing drums and janggu among themselves?’
For a moment, I was puzzled by their attitude that I couldn’t understand at the moment. The guards lowered the spears they were holding toward Seongil and continued their conversation with a relieved voice.
“I’m sorry. Recently, the city was attacked by the Bloody Baron and suffered a devastating blow.”
“…A bloody baron?”
“Haa… That’s the name of a vampire lord who lives in an old castle over there. Out of nowhere, he’s been raiding us for months and enslaving people.”
“…”
Seong-il is even more dumbfounded by the guard’s outrageous words. He thought absently as he listened to the guard.
‘…No, fuck. Is there such a case?’
A characteristic of a dungeon that I couldn’t understand no matter how much I thought about it. However, Seong-il desperately seeks a calm mind and asks them about the situation.
“Um… I see.”
“Are you a mercenary, by any chance… Looking at your armament?”
“Oh, me? Well… You could say that.”
Originally, he would have denied it, but since Seongil is a world with quests, he answered the guard’s words without denying them.
“Oh…! That’s great! Do you have any plans to help our city in the hunt for vampires? Normally, I wouldn’t have opened my hand to you, an outsider… But the city is on the brink of destruction right now, so even ten hands aren’t enough. .”
‘…If I refuse here, I won’t be able to complete the quest, right?’
Seong-il thought so, and nodded his head in agreement.
“…Okay. Let me help you.”
“Well thought out! The pay will never be light!”
“Hmm? Do you really believe in this so easily? Really?”
The sword that was cursed at the guard’s sloppy attitude murmured in an absurd tone.
‘Noisy man.’
