Episode 329 Trollscarf (1)
“Hey, by any chance… are there any survivors from ‘those who walk again’? Please help me. Please… My wife is in danger.”
“You have to be careful! Those are people I’ve never seen in town… They might be dangerous!”
At the man’s words, the woman hurriedly covers her mouth and says.
Jaehyun looked around, barely holding back the chills running down his spine.
The draugr was no longer seen nearby.
Apparently, he had been away for a while.
Jaehyun calmed down for a moment and said.
“yes. We are survivors too. He’s a merchant, but he came to sell goods in this village and got caught up in an incident…”
“That child belongs to the chief…”
“The chief has already passed away.”
Jaehyun said in a heavy tone. The man who asked the question bowed his head.
It seemed that the village chief was quite a sympathetic person in the village.
After Jaehyun suggested that they move, he looked at their whereabouts.
Both of them were dressed in shabby clothes, and the man seemed to be a fisherman, judging from the calluses everywhere.
There were cuts on his hands with something sharp, like a fishing hook, so it’s almost certain.
The woman’s stomach was slightly full. It appears to be a pregnant woman, but it seems that there is hemorrhage, judging from the red blood flowing on the side of the leg.
Certainly, the current situation could not be positive for pregnant women.
For now, stability is best.
‘They seem to be a couple.’
Jaehyun hadn’t figured out exactly what the clearing conditions were for this quest yet, so he decided to keep them alive.
Jaehyun was not a heartless person to the point of ignoring those who needed help in front of him.
he asked as he walked.
“Is there a village warehouse near here?”
“If it’s a public warehouse… it’s around here. Near the well.”
“So-so-so-where I think the next Hyde Point will be is also uh-near the well!”
Ratatosque said so too.
Two people, of course. That is, men and women did not recognize Ratatosque at all.
“Let’s go there for now.”
Greung!
“…huh. okay.”
The rest quickly agreed. They first started walking to the warehouse where the well was located.
Avoid the movement of the draug without making footsteps as much as possible.
* * *
Immediately after Jaehyun started to attack Yggdrasil.
The headquarters of the World Radar Alliance has been razed to the ground.
A meeting room where the top leaders gather.
Richard’s expression hardened completely.
“So… Are you saying that Jaehyun Min stole all the top-notch items you hid?”
“……you’re right. I don’t know if you will believe it, but…”
said the raider in front of him, lowering his head.
He was the radar that Richard had previously requested to manipulate the item grade to avoid handing expensive items to Jaehyun.
chris. A craftsman who creates counterfeits and imitations.
Because of this, Richard first let Jaehyun freely take items from the World Radar Alliance on the VVIP floor of the department store.
I thought he didn’t have the ability to recognize the item anyway.
At least, the person with the ability to recognize the value of an item is, to his knowledge, a curator’s guild master in Korea. It was only Baek Ji-yeon.
But, at most, seventeen-year-olds robbed the item?
Is that a good thing too?
“It is true that this is unbelievable news. On the bad side, too.”
Richard said and touched his forehead.
stuff hidden there.
Of course, this was difficult to deal with.
An S+ grade item that is very difficult to use for a wizard-only item.
Richard thought that there would be new beings who could use it.
As far as in the US.
Unfortunately, however, talent like Jaehyun did not come out in the United States. This was the case even when the scope was expanded to the world.
What kind of raider uses magic freely without casting and loses almost no health even when attacked from the vanguard?
If there were such a person, the US would have sent reinforcements even in the battle against Sigrun.
However, the only human capable of such a thing was Jaehyun in the world.
“In a way, it’s like it’s in the hands of the person who will enter it, but…”
Richard felt sorry for the fact that the owner of the S+ grade item was not an American.
Also, he had no choice but to admit that Jaehyun had a better eye than he thought.
I will be a little more careful in future negotiations with him.
He repeated that, trying hard to forget that an item worth more than trillions of won had been taken away.
“The next item.”
After all the stories about the items were organized, the meeting continued in the chairman.
“Recently, accidents in which high-class radars die while attacking are happening all over the world.
The gate, which was only A-class when it first sensed the wave, has suddenly risen to an S-class or higher.”
“I still heard the news. No matter how you think about it, this is not something to be taken lightly.”
That is what has been emerging as the biggest problem in the world lately.
It’s not as serious as Red Gate, of course, but the dungeon’s rating has been rising lately. An error occurred in the measurement of the grade, and there were frequent incidents of high-ranking monsters appearing in lower dungeons.
Thanks to this, a number of top raiders have recently left the guild with the assets they have accumulated and are declaring their retirement one after another.
Richard had no choice but to suffer from a headache.
he asked with a sigh.
“What is the alternative?”
“Min Jae-hyeon… With him, it seems possible to clear the dungeon stably. However, I contacted Yeonhwa. I’m at work right now, so I can’t move for a while…”
Richard’s expression crumpled even more at the secretary’s words.
Currently, Jaehyun and his party members are able to reliably handle the highest level gates. And there are only new radars to grow.
Richard’s anxiety only deepened.
Those gathered in the conference room do not speak, but all have one thought.
‘Ragnarok… what the hell does that mean? Alternative dungeons and monsters… What is behind the fields?’
Jaehyun, who knew this properly, was not currently in Midgard.
* * *
The well was farther than I thought.
The well was the same pale rust color as the closet. Hyde Point, which Ratatosk had predicted, was probably also this well.
The inside of the well was already dry, so there was no water.
Hiding optimized terrain means.
However, this was also very narrow, so I had to hide in the same position as before.
Seo Eana blushed for a moment thinking about the situation in the closet a while ago.
At that time, he only desperately hoped that his heartbeat had not been heard by Jaehyun.
As a result of looking around for a while. Jaehyun was able to find a warehouse nearby that was old but seemed to have been frequently maintained.
When he opened the door and went inside, Jaehyun was able to quickly find what he was looking for.
It seemed that things were getting a little better.
“…Jaehyun, this is…”
“Yes.”
Jaehyun nodded at Seo Ina’s tone of understanding and put his hand on one of the sacks deep inside.
It smelled slightly salty from there.
It was. That thing was salt.
Jaehyun thought for a moment about the first time he met Russell.
It is said that he put a wooden fence around the outside of the village and sprinkled salt on it.
The reason was simple. Because they are weak against salt.
Besides, didn’t Jaehyun save Russell’s daughter with salt?
It was none other than the effect of the salt that prevented her from smelling the woman who was holding her breath under the bed.
Jae-Hyun took all four of the remaining sacks of salt, spread a tent made of clothes near the well, and sprinkled it on and around it.
This would have provided a place to hide as much as possible.
Now the rain has completely stopped. If the salt did its job, the draugs would not be able to invade this place.
‘Also, if you use a troll scarf to make it rain, there’s no way… But large-scale magic that controls the weather isn’t something you can use very often. There will be a cooldown for at least half a day.’
If you spend the night here and you see any sign of their raid, you can hide in a nearby well. It was a minimum safety measure.
“Ugh… My stomach hurts…”
The woman who came with me then groaned. The man took her hand.
“are you okay. It’ll be fine… So bear with it a little longer…”
“…Are you my wife?”
Seo Ina’s question. The man nodded.
“That’s right. Because of my greed, having a child at such a dangerous time… I’ve come to this situation. It’s really… frustrating.”
The two were, as expected, a couple.
Of course, Jaehyun didn’t fully trust them even in the middle of it.
But they didn’t even think they had enough power to harm them.
Even if Jaehyun couldn’t use attack skills, it wouldn’t be that difficult to subdue the two humans.
Jaehyun stood up from his seat.
“We have made two tents. I put salt on it so the draugs won’t come easily, but please be careful though. I will keep a vigil.”
“Ah… I’d appreciate it if you would, but I’m so sorry…”
“Please take good care of my wife.”
“By the way, would it be okay if I ask you something?”
The man suddenly turned his head and asked.
When Jaehyun nodded happily, he continued with a relieved look on his face.
“As far as I know, salt only blocks the invasion of draugs, but it doesn’t have the effect of getting rid of the smell. Have you really seen the effect of salt?
I heard that applying it to the human body is not very effective, so it is not used often and is only used for wooden fences.”
“I’m sure it must have been because I used it to protect Mr. Russell’s daughter a while ago. I will be vigilant in the future, so you don’t have to worry too much.”
Jaehyun said softly. Basically, there are certain parts of the witch beast’s habits that you can’t understand unless you experience it yourself.
It is highly likely that the information about the beast that the two couples, who are not professional hunters, know is only a piece of information.
If so, what should I do?
You just have to believe what you see.
Jaehyun had saved Russell’s daughter a while ago, and that was the one thing he could be most sure of.
After a while. Jaehyun stood guard and checked the skills he could currently use.
First of all, a light flash and items that increase defense excluding attacks.
The problem was that the latter case didn’t mean much.
If you get hit by five in this field, you will surely die.
The time when one hit already. If so, it means that Jaehyun now has four coins left. The same goes for Seina.
‘It would be nice if there were a few skills that could be used on the other side rather than defense…’
However, no matter how much I washed my eyes and searched, there was little to no use.
It was when Jaehyun sighed and looked at the skill window.
Bassrock.
‘this…!’
He felt something approaching silently from somewhere and gripping his arm.
who walks again
Draug appeared.
“Everybody wake up right now!”
Jaehyun screamed as he felt his physical strength decrease by another 1/5.
Seo In-na, who was resting inside, the girl she brought with her, Poppy, and Ratatosque, who had been hiding, jumped out of the tent.
In the meantime, Jaehyun clenched his fists and threw the draugr away with strength.
But then, the worst thing I could have ever imagined happened.
The draugr pushed by Jaehyun fell into the well, making it impossible for Jaehyun and Ina Seo to use hide points.
The moment Jaehyun was sold at a glance, the Draug’s attack from behind gnawed at his shoulder again. He was a different guy from the guy I was dealing with earlier.
Jaehyun’s eyes narrowed.
‘With this, all remaining HP is 2/5.’
two cars.
It has become a situation where you can lose everything with just one mistake.
Seo In-na also kept her lips tightly shut while looking at Jae-hyun’s stamina.
“Inaya! now!”
The two draugs in front. At that time, Seo Ina threw the salt bag she had hidden in the tent at them, as Jaehyun had instructed.
Following.
Jaehyun threw a large stone he picked up from the floor to hit the bag exactly, and with a short bang, the bag exploded and the contents spilled out.
Aaaaa!
A scream close to that of a draugr is heard.
It was so gruesome that it was hard to hear.
The two monsters flinched for a moment, then slumped as the salt kept digging into their bodies.
Jaehyun was sweating all over his body, but he didn’t show it as much as he could and let out a deep sigh.
Seo Ina asked with a worried expression.
“…Jaehyun-ah, are you okay?”
“uh. Don’t worry… no. This is something to be concerned about.”
Even in that situation, Jaehyun joked and said that, but Seo Ina’s expression was not good.
Then Ratatosque frightened and pointed to one side.
“Hey hey hey—look over there! After and after—the tent the other person entered was broken!”
At those words, Jaehyun and Seo Ina’s eyes instantly turned to one side.
A tent with two couples. The place had completely collapsed, and through the gap, I could see the hands of the two people who had collapsed, bleeding.
Red liquid dripped from the ring finger of her wedding ring.
Jaehyun felt his head go cold.
helpless
Jaehyun felt a terrible futility and drew Seo Ina’s wrist and held Russell’s daughter’s hand.
and headed to a place.
“I understand now.”
“…huh? What are you talking about?”
“I knew the sullae. So… let’s go finish this goddamn tag game.”
* * *
At the moment Jaehyun and the two young couple’s house was raided, an unknown magic power was sensed from the village chief’s house.
It floated in the air, then gradually coalesced and began to seep into one side.
yet.
Hard!
An all-too-familiar scream began to be heard, accompanied by the eerie sound of bones snapping together.
Aaaa…!
The village chief suddenly stood up and murmured.
“I will kill you… I will never… forgive you…”
