_ Volume 7 Episode 18
168. Seoul (2)
Baram Choi guided them. The rest of the people went inside the city hall to rest, and Kim Hwi-yeon and Keum Joong-geun, Kang Tae-san, followed Baram Choi’s guidance and looked around the city hall.
And shortly after looking at City Hall, Taesan and his party realized one thing.
“There are very few buildings that are in good shape.”
Most of the buildings, including the City Hall,
were destroyed.
“It’s all broken. half for monsters. half to the people.”
“People?”
Choi Baram chuckled.
“It’s a world that’s all going to ruin, but it wasn’t a fuss as if I wanted to take it because it was a position with power in the form.”
Kim Hwi-yeon shut her mouth. Come to think of it, their situation was similar.
Easymode players who caused a stir for the first time. Joonghyeok Choi.
He led Easy Mode and Normal Mode and
created a confrontation between each other. If Taesan hadn’t taken care of it in advance, there would have been many casualties.
Next up is Seojangsan in hard mode. He said that people in Easy Mode should be shields in Hard Mode.
Taesan also took care of that in advance, but otherwise, the anger of Easy Mode would have piled up and a riot would have occurred someday.
Without Taesan, their situation would not have been different from that of Seoul.
“Wasn’t your side like that?”
“We…
“Well. There are the strongest human beings, but who will rebel?”
Baram Choi muttered as if he had expected it. The Taishan he saw was not a soft-hearted good man. He was a cold-hearted person who dealt with what was to be dealt with and cut out what was to be cut.
There was no way such a person would watch people fight.
“I envy you. If we had a person like that, we would have died a little less.”
Choi Baram murmured gloomily.
He introduced everyone to the outside of City Hall and said.
“This is our territory. Do you have any other questions?”
“How many people survived?”
When I looked around, the number of people I saw was clearly smaller than those from Yongin. Baram Choi said calmly.
“About 120,000 people must have survived?”
About 50,000 people lived in Yongin.
At the number that was less than half, Kim Hwi-yeon shut her mouth.
“please. please save us really.”
The face of Choi Baram, who chuckled, was full of desperation.
After the guidance, everyone dispersed. The reaction of Gyeonggi-do people who see Seoul was not very different from them.
“I’m hungry…
People in Seoul were starving.
People who saw it quickly made food using simple cultivation. The people of Seoul who received the food hurriedly filled their stomachs.
“Oh oh!”
“This is that simple cultivation! The rumors were true!”
Although they did not know the exact number, the people from Yongin could notice that the number of people who survived in Seoul was significantly smaller than they were.
I also heard that most people died fighting each other and not being able to stop the attacking monsters.
The fear that they wouldn’t be much different from them without Taesan passed through people’s minds.
At that time, Taishan was looking over the horizon from the roof of the half-destroyed City Hall.
“Quite a few died here.”
20,000 starving Seoulites and very few survivors from Gyeonggi-do.
Even if they joined forces, it wasn’t enough to just wipe out the monsters.
After literally risking their lives to stop it, only 10,000 survived in their previous lives and were able to return to the labyrinth.
I won’t let it go like that this time.
And in order to do that, there were problems to be solved.
the next day. People also arrived from Uijeongbu.
Their number was 15,000, far less than the population of Seoul.
As soon as they arrived, a quest window appeared.
[Starting a special quest.]
[Stop the first wave. The wave will start in two days.]
[Condition: Deal with the monsters trying to enter the safe zone.]
[Reward: A difference will be paid when returning to the labyrinth.]
Those who saw the quest window were in despair. There were also those who went crazy over the fact that they had to survive and stop the monsters again.
However, most of the people from Yongin were calm and prepared to face the monster.
“Taesan is here.”
“If we trust and follow Taesan, we can survive.” As long as
they had the mental support of Mount Taesan,
they did not collapse easily. However, the face of Baram Choi, who was looking at the safety area, did not open easily.
“It’s… too wide.”
This quest was a quest to prevent monsters from entering the safe zone.
In other words, it was a structure that had to go around the entire safe area to keep the monsters from entering.
Of course, the narrower the safety zone, the better it is for defense, but the safety zone set this time was too wide.
The safe zone was about 1km in all directions centered on Seoul City Hall. Considering the strength of the monsters, even if 85,000 people surrounded it, it was an area where safety could not be guaranteed.
“This is difficult.”
Baram Choi scratched the sprain.
Baram Choi was not alone in thinking that way. Kim Hwi-yeon also realized the breadth of the safety zone and was having trouble arranging personnel.
If Taishan hadn’t fended off the five-pointed monster in the previous return, they would all have been annihilated.
In reality, they depended heavily on Taesan.
However, it was clear that it would not be easy to stand as a mountain if it was this wide. He was obviously monstrously strong, but he was alone. There were limits to what he could stop.
And Taesan knew that too.
Gosin is trying to kill him. However, there was no way they would give out an ordinary quest. It was clear that he would try to somehow gnaw away at his power and prevent him from using it properly.
So he called Lee Tae-yeon and Kang Jun-hyeok again.
“excuse me. What are you doing?”
Taeyeon cautiously asked Taesan, who was in a different atmosphere than usual. Taesan shook his head.
“Not like that. I’m running out of time now. Do you guys know what this quest is like?”
The two of them shut their mouths.
It is a large area that Taishan cannot handle all by itself.
In other words, the two had to become as strong as possible and assist Taesan.
But they still haven’t learned the ability sword. I couldn’t even get a feel for it.
“It is too difficult.”
Junhyeok Kang complained.
“I also practiced alone, but I can’t get a feel for it. I don’t know what to do…
Kang Jun-hyeok didn’t sit still. Except for sparring with Taesan, he continued to practice swordsmanship and tried to learn the ability sword.
But I couldn’t even get a sense of it.
I wondered if it was really a swordsmanship that could be learned.
However, Taesan had a different idea.
From his point of view, Lee Tae-yeon and Kang Jun-hyeok could have learned enough.
After thinking for a while, he asked.
“How did you guys say you learned how to bewitched and strong?”
“That’s what I’m good at…
“I just got it from fighting monsters.”
The two said with an ambiguous face. With that answer, Taesan was convinced.
Taesan raised his sword.
“This time, both of them run at the same time.”
“yes?”
Until now, Taesan would duel with Lee Taeyeon, and when she got tired of dueling with Kang Junhyeok, the cycle would repeat.
But this time, he intended to duel both of them at the same time.
“And the dueling method will also change.”
Taesan removed some equipment and
changed the weapon to a weapon with low attack power.
“At this rate, you won’t die any time soon.”
[Kang Tae-san challenged Lee Tae-yeon and Kang Jun-hyeok to a duel.]
“Huh?”
Lee Taeyeon hesitated.
The duel up until now has been an equal decision for both sides. And it was done in a non-lethal battle.
But this time both conditions were missing.
“That Taesan-san?” “I’ve been thinking about it
, and there are few reasons why
you guys can’t learn skills.”
Either one has no real talent for the other two.
Or the method itself is wrong.
From Taesan’s point of view, it wasn’t the former.
If so, the method was wrong.
“You said that you learned to bewitched and assaulted unconsciously.”
All learned in extreme situations where they risked their lives against monsters.
It wasn’t anything unusual. Tae San also risked his life and acquired some good skills. It was the law that people could pull everything out only when they were in an extreme situation.
“Then let me do the same.”
“excuse me. Taesan…
It was the moment Lee Taeyeon was about to say something.
Life overtook her. Her face went pale. She quickly raised her sword.
“Avoid. Or you will die.”
Taesan kicked his feet. Lee Tae-yeon felt intuition at Tae-san’s sudden attack.
If you don’t stop, you die.
But even if you block it, you die.
She quickly moved her sword. Looking at the trajectory of the flying sword of Taishan, I twisted the blade to try to shed it as much as possible. It was a clean movement that could not be compared to before.
‘But that’s not enough.’
The two swords collided and Lee Tae-yeon was thrown out.
“Kyaaak!”
“Neither do you.”
Taesan rushed at Kang Junhyeok. Kang Jun-hyeok, who had been watching blankly, hurriedly responded.
However, lightly avoiding his move, Taesan stabbed his sword.
“Ugh!”
[123 damage to Kang Jun-hyuk.]
I mean it.
Taishan was seriously trying to kill them.
Kang Jun-hyeok gritted his teeth and widened the distance
. Lee Tae-yeon also held a sword with a white face.
Taesan jumped in satisfaction with the completely different reaction from before.
First of all, it was Lee Taeyeon. She moved her body with a short spirit at the sight of Taesan rushing at her. Then he threw his sword to block Taesan’s attack.
Taesan spun around to avoid it and slapped her on the neck.
“Eup!”
Her body was about to crash into the ground at the strong recoil. However,
he barely supported his body as he stepped on the ground with his feet and swung his sword using the recoil.
Taesan raised the corner of his mouth and raised his sword. With the collision, Lee Tae-yeon’s arm bounced off.
“Ah…
Taesan kicked her and then turned around and blew away Kang Junhyeok’s sword.
Lee Tae-yeon, who was kicked, ran quickly.
The two joined forces and started attacking Taesan. And Taesan
was blocking all the attacks and wounding their bodies.
Kwajik.
Taesan tripped on Lee Taeyeon’s feet and knocked her down and clashed swords with Kang Junhyeok. Kang Jun-hyeok flew wildly.
Kang Jun-hyeok hurriedly stood up. His heart was beating wildly.
His health was already down to half.
“brother. Wait…
Taesan cut his horse and swung his sword. Kang Jun-hyuk also had no choice but to block it in a hurry.
‘What the hell!’
Junhyeok Kang spat out a curse in his heart.
It was impossible to respond. When the sword collided, it bounced off, and a light attack inflicted three digits of damage.
Taesan muttered as he swung his sword.
“Can you really attack the labyrinth?”
The labyrinth was an absurd place. As you go down the floor, the monsters became stronger faster than the adventurer’s strength.
It was only that I couldn’t feel it because Taesan had become so strong, and from the 30th floor onwards, I had to risk my life against each and every monster.
Even if not to the extent of Taesan, a powerful enemy that threatened one’s life could emerge from anywhere in the labyrinth.
Lee Tae-yeon cleared the labyrinth in her previous life, but that was because she was very lucky. she said too If I go back, I don’t have the confidence to clear it.
Both of them became much stronger than before, but it was far short of what Taesan thought
. Luck was more important than skill itself in attacking the labyrinth with the two of them now.
Even with a small variable, it was Lee Tae-yeon and Kang Jun-hyeok who were very dangerous.
In order to reduce that variable, it was necessary to become stronger.
“If it’s to the point where you can’t even learn a single thing, I’d rather die here.”
As soon as Taesan finished speaking, he drove them away again.
Level up with skill
