482. Western Tehes 1
Tehes in the western outskirts of the Azul continent.
One of the four most polluted areas of the Azul Continent where humans cannot live due to a phenomenon in which the ground rots for unknown reasons.
And until yesterday, Kang Seung-hyun and his party were living in the peaceful Hind Village.
“This is a polluted area…”
“I want to go back to Hind Village.”
“I know yeah.”
He was now at the entrance of Tehes.
“Honestly, I wanted to be a bit more sluggish.”
“Since the situation is like that, there is nothing you can do about it.”
“Stop talking and go inside.”
–
The five people who had been through the mess last night joined their colleagues and explained what had happened.
‘Mayday – Mayday – Mayday!’
‘Hey guys! It’s a big deal!’
‘Jackpot case! Do you know what I saw?’
‘Couldn’t we speak one by one?’
‘They took over Tehes!’
‘That… Sehyung came to Mr. Kang and is trying to steal the manager!’
‘Shin Yoo-jun is the owner of the store!’
‘I’m telling you to speak in turn?’
Everyone was busy talking about themselves, so it was only after a while that I was able to grasp the situation.
‘…that’s what happened.’
After hearing the whole story, Kang Seung-hyun thought for a while and came to a conclusion.
‘I was thinking of going to the contaminated area as soon as possible anyway, but there’s no need to delay any longer. We’re leaving right away tonight.’
Being targeted by Kim Se-hyung and discovering Moirai’s hideout led by Shin Yu-jun are the most important things, but the most important thing is that the guild of dimension movers, ‘Underworld’, is stationed in Tehes, and that he obtained information about the Tehes crack.
‘Honestly, I thought I would be able to relax a bit since I pulled the dimension movers out of the contaminated area.’
‘But I never thought there would be vacant house thieves targeting that gap.’
In fact, even Kang Seung-hyeon did not think that all dimension movers would have left the contaminated area.
Originally, human psychology is because if everyone shouts YES, at least one person shouts NO.
However, it was not expected that an entire guild would remain in place and dominate the contaminated area.
That too, with a special case called ‘crack’.
‘I remember that there was one guy in the bottom of the TOP 10 among the Underworld guild members. Was it not the guild leader, but one of the executives?’
‘really? Wow… I’m glad I knew in advance.’
‘It’s a huge benefit for us.’
Min Soo-yeon said this and looked at something with white fluffy hair next to her.
‘Heh, if it wasn’t for Mr. Alec, we would have gone to Tehes without any information about them, right?’
‘…’
‘Can I praise you more? Mr Alec is great! Awesome! I mean.’
‘By the way, how do you know information that an insider would know?’
‘Because I’m a detective.’
For reference, when Alec was explaining what happened earlier, he left out the part where he said he was caught by Underworld after flirting with Picaros at the restaurant.
‘Then shall we split the party in two? A decoy team to aggro the Underworld and a vessel team to find the manager’s heart in the gap.’
‘No, I don’t think that’s necessary.’
‘I’ll treat you with an alter ego? That’s abuse!’
When Kang Seung-hyeon muttered while fiddling with his chin, Lee Ji-ah shouted in disgust.
‘Because that crack is suspicious.’
Kang Seung-hyun also continued to speak while looking at Lee Ji-ah as if he was dumbfounded.
‘I think it has something to do with the four catastrophes hiding the heart of the Administrator.’
‘why?’
‘If such a monstrosity is not a disaster, then what is a disaster?’
‘How right…!’
Kim Ho-jeong was quickly convinced.
‘Hey question~ Didn’t I say that disasters are invisible to ordinary people?’
However, Lee Ji-ah, who was listening by the side, raised questions without immediately being convinced, like Kim Ho-jung.
‘But since the cracks are visible in the Underworld, aren’t they irrelevant to disasters?’
‘It’s just a guess. Maybe it’s because of Baek Seon-ho?’
‘Baek Seon-ho?’
‘Azul Continent Ranking No. 1 Sword Master < White Preference > is the cause?’
‘…What is your preference?’
‘preference.’
‘I can’t call someone else by that name!’
Anyway, the reason why Kang Seung-hyeon associates the appearance of the crack with Seon-ho Baek was because of his actions.
‘Right now, Seonho is cutting the gods of the Azul continent. I think that’s why the power to hide the disaster weakened and part of the barrier was exposed.’
‘Part of the barrier?’
‘I agree with that. In fact, Baek Seon-ho also said something similar back then.’
Min Soo-yeon nodded and agreed with Kang Seung-hyun.
‘They say killing a god increases the chance of the administrator’s seal being broken, but if that means that the disaster in the Contaminated Zone will be revealed to the world, that’s not wrong.’
‘Well, we’ll find out the truth if we investigate the rift.’
So, Kang Seung-hyeon and his party headed to the western ‘Tehes’ to investigate the rift before digging deep into the rift in the Underworld.
–
“How do you really live in a place like this?”
Lee Ji-ah covered her nose and mouth with her sleeve and frowned at the terrible stench coming from inside.
“No one lives here.”
“The special forces live at the entrance. And even if I don’t live inside, I go in and out whenever I have a chance.”
“That’s right.”
“If it were me, I wouldn’t work in a place like this no matter how much money I paid.”
“It’s true that the Contaminated Zone Special Forces make a lot of money, but it’s not because of the money.”
If it’s for money in the first place, even if you don’t do that, there’s no way that the head of an aristocratic family in a rich Hind Village would dare to become a knight commander.
“then? For what?”
“I don’t know because I didn’t ask. I am not interested.”
“Set the mood like this bastard knows!”
Lee Ji-ah started to giggle next to him, so Kang Seung-hyun switched places with Kim Ho-jung, who was next to him.
“Ooh, that’s really scary.”
Kim Ho-jung, who was walking beside him, muttered as he looked around.
Even though monsters jumped out of the forests and fields of the Azul Continent, the scenery itself was no different from the forests of Earth, so the forest itself was not scary.
However, Tehes, which Kim Ho-jung has set foot in now, is a rotten tree and a muddy land that has become muddy due to the rotting sound spreading out from everywhere. What is inside it?
It was because the place itself gave you goosebumps just by stepping into it, and it was a scary space.
“The monsters haven’t even appeared yet, so what if I get scared just by looking at the scenery?”
“But the dungeons are narrow. It’s bigger here, so it’s more scary.”
‘Even black beasts are not so lucky. Why did I end up using this kind of crap as a vessel?’
Kang Seung-hyun looked at Kim Ho-jung pathetically, then suddenly remembered what he forgot to say.
“Oh, I didn’t tell you this.”
“huh?”
“The Polluted Zone is half lawless.”
“What is a semi-lawless zone?”
“No matter what you do inside, it’s as long as you don’t get caught by the special forces.”
In a word, it means that the area where the eyes and ears of the special forces can reach is ‘at least’ safe, but if it is not, it is a place where no responsibility is taken.
“Therefore, the unspoken rule that arose among dimension movers is that it is not guilty to strike first in a polluted area.
“What are you afraid of? What kind of battlefield is it?”
In other words, the contaminated area is a legal PVP zone for dimension movers.
“In a place called Contaminated Zone, you can defeat a monster along with a passing dimension mover, but as soon as the monster is defeated, that guy can slap me in the back.”
“Although the reverse is also possible.”
“Are the two of us going to be defeated by a monster together?”
“No, as soon as the monster is defeated, I will slap the back of the opponent’s head.”
“Relentless! Don’t you have any loyalty to the comrades you fought alongside?”
“That kind of thing goes away when the fight is over.”
“too bad!”
Unlike the idiots who enjoy it, the extremely ordinary Kim Ho-jung couldn’t get used to the stories.
“Still, that’s not enough to cross the line.”
“that is?”
“There are some scum who intentionally kill others.”
“what? why?”
“If you play survival survival game multiplayer, you will know, but there is definitely. The kids who don’t survive and kill other users.”
Of course, such tribes also exist in the polluted area.
Fools who deliberately visit the Contaminated Zone to hunt down the weak, such as wounded adventurers or lost civilian party stragglers.
First of all, the official name of Azul Continent is ‘Slayer’, but the deceased dimension movers are called ‘Slayers’, ‘Slayers’, and ‘Suicide Studies’ because they are unlucky.
“No, there are a lot of monsters, so why bother killing people…
”
“I asked that again… wait, that means you met the slayer?”
“Well, they are friends you can often see on bounty books. The contaminated area is a perfect place for criminals to hide.”
“As expected, Yoon Ki-joon. I will slaughter the slayer!”
Lee Ji-ah begged her to tell her more about those days, her eyes shining, but Kang Seung-hyeon ignored it as if it were natural.
“The Contaminated Zone is a different dangerous space than the dungeon….”
“More dangerous. In the contaminated area, you can’t use the escape scroll or the return magic circle, but there is a possibility that a dimension mover will attack you.”
To put it in an analogy, if Portal Dungeon is a small game where only people you know create a server and enter, Contaminated Zone is a large-scale online game where you can encounter an unspecified number of people.
Even PVP is possible anywhere, and once you die, Cassock.
It is truly a level of difficulty that can be called the final content of Azul Continent online.
“And Tehess is currently occupied by the Underworld, which is full of such bastards, and we have to break through them.”
“It’s no different from entering a killer’s den.”
“so.”
jerk jerk.
Kang Seung-hyun, who had been walking ahead, stopped.
It was the garrison of the Admiral of the Knights Templar, a special force led by Hus Iarev.
“We need to get the cooperation of the special forces so that the Underworld can’t easily get out of hand.”
