Cursed item (2)
Along with him, the valley and adjacent trees began to shake violently.
Rustling –
before long, a dark figure appeared through the trees and was caught in No. 1’s field of vision.
Its appearance was a fish-shaped monster like a bipedal fish.
However, the difference is that it is the size of an adult male, and unlike bipedal fish, it has arms.
In one hand, he was holding a heavily rusted sword.
Sang-woo knew about that monster.
‘A fish man?’
FishMan.
It is a kind of ‘fish man’ type monster with arms and legs attached to the head and body of a fish.
Instead of low intelligence, they were ferocious like piranhas.
As a typical carnivorous monster, it mainly lived in coastal areas close to land and lived in groups.
‘Why are there monsters that only exist on the beach in the valley?’
Sang-woo grumbled.
It was worth it.
Although the fish man has low intelligence, it possesses a far superior intelligence compared to bipedal fish and can handle crude weapons as much as it has arms. Therefore, compared to bipedal fish, the difficulty of hunting increases rapidly.
It was a difficult monster that even most E-class hunters could barely deal with alone.
Besides, that fishman didn’t look ordinary at first glance.
Unlike bipedal fish with blurry eyeballs, Fishman’s pupils radiate red light.
The fishman, who seemed unusual, ate the carcasses of bipedal fish scattered on the floor with his mouth and hacked them up with a knife, gradually approaching No. 1.
Fishman finally found No. 1.
Kyaaaaagh!
I flew straight toward No. 1.
‘No. 1 jump out!’
Sang-woo gave the order to retreat.
Like other bipedal fish, the fishman’s mouth with hundreds of sharp teeth was scary, but the rusty sword held in one hand of the bipedal fish was also a problem.
Above all, Sang-woo has only seen the video of the two-legged fish attack.
Without knowing Fishman’s strategy, I wasn’t sure if No. 1 would be able to deal with Fishman.
Following Sang-woo’s instructions, No. 1 immediately turned its back.
Then, they started to run away with the tree between them.
‘… I think I’m going to search. No. 1, a little faster!’
According to Sangwoo’s experience, the remaining distance to the portal is about 2~300m.
However, the familiar skill was on the verge of being cut off soon.
It’s because I kept the skill for too long and ran out of mana.
In addition, it was hard to die because the senses were shared with No. 1.
However, Sangwoo did not end his familiar skills.
Somehow I didn’t want to give up.
‘Even though it’s an alter ego, I can’t just let it die.’
I just didn’t want to see Number 1 die.
In fact, even if the alter ego dies, Sang-woo doesn’t suffer much damage.
Even if he died, he would be reverse summoned and lose only his pistol and sword.
However, that doesn’t mean you have to die on purpose to the fish man.
As if knowing Sang-woo’s heart, No. 1 was determined.
I ran hard, enduring the pain in my legs that seemed to be burning.
‘Mistress is ruined.’
However, a problem arose.
After getting out of the hunting point shown in the BJ Zombie strategy video, the gap between the trees in the forest gradually began to widen.
The trees must be densely packed to kill the mobility of the bipedal fish, but that advantage was disappearing.
And Sang-woo’s ominous premonition came true.
When there was space to jump to a certain extent, Fishman jumped up like bipedal fish do.
In an instant, behind No. 1’s back, the fishman’s stench and gasping breaths approached.
Aaaah-!
‘Ah- I’m so scared!’
The feeling of being pursued like crazy by someone.
Sangwoo felt like he was playing a horror VR (Virtual Reality) game.
However, the difference from VR games is that it is real and it is so vivid that it is scary as if you are going to die.
Then eventually.
puck!
I felt a huge shock on Number 1’s back.
No. 1 falls forward in an instant and rolls around.
Sang-woo was very dizzy because they shared the shaky vision.
Of course, my back hurt more than that.
‘Ugh…. Hold your posture, No. 1!’
Only then did the vision calm down.
However, what I saw in front of me was the mouth of a fishman who rushed at me with its mouth wide open.
A rotten smell lingered in my mouth.
However, that is not what is important now.
Because life was coming and going.
‘Stop it!’
Despite Sang-woo’s instructions, No. 1 could not move.
It seemed that something was wrong with his leg.
It was now unavoidable.
Sang-woo, driven into a dead-end situation, suddenly became angry because of the pain.
‘Yeah, you fucking bastard. You die and I die!’
Just as a mouse bites a cat if it is cornered, it is a situation where it can not escape anyway and will soon die.
Sang-woo conveyed his will to No. 1 to make a last-ditch effort.
Even if he dies, he will fight back until the end and attack the fishman.
Then No. 1 swung his greatsword to block the Fishman’s mouth, then raised the pistol in the other hand and began firing frantically at the Fishman.
bang! bang! bang! bang! …
However, even after being hit by bullets in the eyes and head, Fishman did not die and his chest exploded.
Fishman swung the sword in his hand and blew off No. 1’s arm.
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“Kwaaah!”
Along with that terrible pain, Sang-woo’s Familiar skill was forcibly cut off.
My vision reversed and I could see the ceiling of the motel.
“Uh-huh-huh.”
Sang-woo jumped up from lying on the bed and hurriedly looked at his left hand holding a pistol.
It stuck well.
Even so, the terrible pain of having his arm cut off still lingers like phantom pain, making Sang-woo feel sick.
Most of all, it was probably because he had used the Familiar skill for too long, and his whole body was filled with a sense of emptiness as all energy in his body was drained.
‘I’ll look for it.’
Sang-woo lies down on the motel bed again.
how much time has passed
‘uh? Number 1 hasn’t been reverse summoned yet.’
After a while, Sang-woo calmed down and realized that he still had a connection with No. 1.
But soon after that, the connection was lost.
Number 1 died and was reverse summoned.
‘what. Number 1 lasted longer than I thought. I was on the verge of being eaten.’
For a while, Sang-woo thought of a family.
‘Could it be… did he beat the fish man?’
Sang-woo knew that it was a ridiculous idea.
However, it was judged that there was a possibility that No. 1 had a friendship with Fishman.
‘Or he could have been mortally wounded right now.’
Although the fishman is stronger than the bipedal fish, there is no way he will be fine even after being hit with a pistol at close range.
When that thought came to mind, Sang-woo decided that he might be able to hunt the fish man.
‘okay. Let’s send another clone now to finish it off.’
Sang-woo took a break for an hour to recover his energy.
Then, he managed to gather his energy and use his alter ego skill.
Then, an alter ego appeared in front of my eyes.
At the same time,
[Regenerative power has been opened.]
‘Huh? at las!’
After learning how to unlock the special stat, regenerative power, Sang-woo did not take a single day off (of course, sometimes he skipped it when it was annoying) and did self-injury (?).
The regeneration stat he had been waiting for so long was revealed.
Sang-woo quickly checked the status window.
‘Status window.’
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[Abilities]
Strength: 0.741 → 0.743
Quickness: 0.533 → 0.537
Stamina: 0.687 → 0.688
Endurance: 0.573
→ 0.576 Magical Power: 0.148 → 0.152
Vitality : 0.315 → 0.316
· Regeneration: 0.401
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At the bottom of the ability window, there was a regeneration stat.
The value is 0.401, slightly higher than when Vitality is open.
‘Where did it come from?’
About 99% of people can’t get special stats at all, but Sangwoo belongs to the remaining 1% with regenerative power.
‘Now, if I train my regenerative power, it will go up well.’
When the clones are injured and recover (?), their stats will naturally rise.
Sang-woo imagined a situation in which, like X-Men’s Wolverine, who has the healing factor ability, his regenerative power increased so much that his limbs could be regenerated even if they were cut off.
‘Scars won’t look good anymore. Hehe.’
It was Sang-woo who thought that the use of regenerative power was useless.
In any case, after gaining regenerative power, Sang-woo felt that his body was recovering more quickly, like a placebo effect. I wish I was a little more motivated.
Sang-woo took his eyes off the status window and looked at the newly appeared alter ego.
First, I gave it the name No. 1 again and put on extra clothes.
Since there is no smartphone left, it was not possible to issue commands in real time.
‘Go to the place where No. 1 died earlier and check if there is a fishman. If there is a fishman, hunt fishman; When monsters appear, I hunt them on my own.’
With that in mind, he gave the order all at once and sent No. 1 back to the hunting ground.
When No. 1 went out to the motel, Sang-woo felt very hungry.
‘Should I order something to eat while mana is recovering?’
Sang-woo started looking for a delivery app on his smartphone.
* * *
Sang-woo, who ordered jajangmyeon and chicken to his stomach and fell asleep, woke up booth.
Rubbing my sleepy eyes, I looked at my smartphone and saw that it was 4:00 in the morning.
I was asleep for almost 10 hours.
‘Oh, I slept too much.’
Still, when I woke up, I felt refreshed to see if my body had recovered.
How much mana was recovered, and the feeling of lethargy disappeared a lot.
Sang-woo cautiously used the Familiar skill toward No. 1.
Then, the vision of No. 1 appeared in front of my eyes.
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I saw a dark forest.
It was a bipedal fish dungeon.
The first thing Sang-woo felt after using the Familiar skill was the feeling of ‘it hurt’.
‘Ugh, is No. 1 injured again?’
I felt pain all over my body.
When I ordered No. 1 to scan my body, I noticed minor scratches on my arms and legs.
And several monsters in the peripheral vision caught in the process of sweeping.
Most of them were bipedal fish, but there were also dog-shaped monsters with no eyes and huge mouths.
It was a monster dog commonly found in any portal.
As No. 1 was put on standby in the monster habitat, it seemed that he had a fierce struggle against the monsters that came after smelling the blood that flowed from the monster’s corpse.
Fortunately, looking at the bayonet and pistol in his hand, it seems that all the equipment that must have been spilled on the floor was recovered.
‘It would have been ruined if there had been a variable, but it’s fortunate.’
So Sang-woo was relieved and tried to bring No. 1 back.
‘I’m going to have No. 1 come back and call the porter and the monster carcass collection team.’
However, among the monster corpses scattered on the floor, a different shape was seen.
A monster that is bigger than other bipedal fish and has arms.
It was Fishman.
‘The fishman died?’
Sang-woo moved No. 1 with a surprised mind and anticipation.
I don’t know why the fishman with bullet marks everywhere died, but he was dead with his mouth coughing up green blood.
‘Wow, no, I’m only F grade, so you caught this? It’s crazy.’
Sang-woo couldn’t help but be surprised.
It was because even the E-class hunters managed to capture the monsters they were dealing with as clones.
‘Did you kill the alter ego as it died? Anyway, the alter ego skill is amazing.’
With a proud heart, he ordered No. 1 to examine the fishman’s corpse with a great sword, but something caught his eye.
The rusty sword in Fishman’s hand.
‘Oh right. There was that.’
Even if it was a rusty sword, most of the items found in the portal were valuable.
Because it is not a commodity of the earth.
‘This is my first item.’
With that thought in mind, Sang-woo ordered No. 1 to pick up the rusty sword.
The fishman held the rusty sword so tightly that he was able to sever the fishman’s fingers and rakes with the greatsword and pull the sword out of his hand.
Looking closely, it is about 1 m long.
And No. 1 finally got the sword in his hand.
That was the moment.
[I was caught in the abnormal condition ‘Rage’.]
And then I heard an unknown sound.
“I need blood, kill me, save me, attack me, kill me, rage, chew me up, I need death, let the darkness consume you, become evil, surrender to madness, accept death, attack me, hate it, need blood, kill me, save me, attack me, kill me, rage, chew me up, need death Bones Darkness consumes you Become evil Surrender to madness Skeleton Accept death Attack attack Hate Need blood Kill Kill Save save Attack Kill Kill Rage Forgive Chew Eat Death Need death Dark consume you Become evil Surrender to madness Accept death, attack, hate it, need blood, kill, save, attack, kill, be angry, chew, eat, need death, darkness swallows you, tears of blood…” Dozens of hundreds of
voices suddenly began to be heard.
The hallucinations began pouring like crazy into No. 1’s brain.
‘what. This is fucking noisy.’
