Episode 58
“…This is a bit harsh.”
– Kiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah…!
Damian raised his eyebrows at the sound that pierced his ears.
It was a voice that I couldn’t tell if it was human or animal.
A deafening cry as if an unknown insect were chirping or scratching a blackboard with its fingernails.
“Master, bastard! It seems a little strange here!”
“Can you see me too?”
“Once the owner took it out, the atmosphere changed! The bunch looks good too!”
And Damian could instinctively guess what this was all about, seeing as the bunch pointed its wings precisely over the swamp.
‘Is it because of this?’
At the same time as the landscape of the swamp changed as if his spiritual eyes were opened after Damian took out the < Sign of Heresy >.
His summons, Munchwi and the new chicks, were also able to see ghosts that they hadn’t seen before.
“It’s a Earth Spirit, but it’s a Earth Spirit…. It’s a strange Earth Spirit.”
Damian wiped his chin as he watched the waves of ghosts roll over the swamp.
It wasn’t a very common case.
Usually, in the case of ghosts with resentment and anger, most of them tried to take their lives with blind hostility toward the living without leaving the place where they were killed.
Unlike the swamp zombies and swamp skeletons, the ghosts in front of him were being sucked into the other side of the swamp at terrifying speed, one by one, as if someone were pulling them by the crotch of their trousers.
– أنا حقا سأقتلك…سأقتلك…!
– سأقتله بالتأكيد…!
– لن اتركهاتذهب ابدا—!
In other words, the ghosts reaching out to Damian were waiting to be led like cattle to the slaughterhouse rather than trying to harm the intruders who had entered the swamp.
“Was this place originally like this? It wasn’t like this before.”
“Pia? Wasn’t the owner the first time here?”
“ok. I was very dead.”
Damian nodded at Mungchi’s words and said.
To put it bluntly, it was nagging.
Damian had stayed in Kirikorum Swamp for quite some time when he was a god in his previous life.
I was able to say that I was very familiar with the terrain here to discover new hidden streets that others had not discovered.
It was not simply the level of acquiring knowledge of AOL or target sites.
It was because he had reached the point where he encountered and experienced various places in the swamp area and learned for himself what kind of place is and what kind of monsters appear there.
“I guess you haven’t been out for at least two months?”
“Don’t lie, master! How can a person live in a swamp for two months!”
“Is it true?”
“Pia?!”
So, Damian had no choice but to narrow his eyes as if he was serious, as if he were deliberately serious, watching the ghosts rising above the Kirikorum swamp, regardless of the mungchi’s flagship young question.
The level that Damian raised in the Kirikorum Swamp in his previous life ranged from level 40 to level 65, and it was because he almost lived by slaughtering monsters in the swamp area to the extent that others would say it was terrible.
“But… I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
“You mean those ghosts, master?”
“huh. Looking closely, it doesn’t seem too threatening.”
Damian nodded his head in response to Mungchi’s words.
It was the reason he was observing the ghosts all the time.
As far as he knows, in this Kirikorum swamp, there are mostly beast types including swamp alligators and undead types such as swamp zombies.
So, it was right that monsters that existed as ghosts could not be found like that.
It was impossible unless the memories of the previous life were changed.
Specters, a kind of ghost-type monsters that float in the air and use powerful curse-type magic, weren’t monsters that could be found in fields such as the current Kirikorum Swamp.
Should I say it’s a monster of a different class in the first place?
However, apart from the fact that the ghosts were chained to the swamp, they were unable to even attack.
Waiting to be dragged to the other side of the swamp by something like that…
“If there is a cause, there is a result. If there is a result, there is a cause.”
with a splash!
It could be said that it was for this very reason that Damian stepped out of the water and began to cross the maze-like sleepers as a bridge.
Although, at first, I thought that the annihilation of the expedition that Hassan was talking about was something that happened by stepping into a hidden street like < The Deep Bog > or < Land of Predators >.
It was because there was nothing more foolish than hastily assuming the annihilation of the expedition now that a strange phenomenon that had not been seen in the previous life was revealed due to the < Sign of Heresy >.
“let’s go. Prepare for battle in advance, just in case.”
“Okay, master!”
Damian passed between the ghosts with the wad perched on his shoulder.
His mind was full of Hassan’s words.
The reason why the expedition, which was dispatched with a total of 20 people, including many silver level adventurers who could sometimes defeat giant monsters, was wiped out.
According to the testimonies of the adventurers who participated in the expedition at the time, the expedition was not killed by PK due to some trap or monster.
As if possessed by a ghost, one or two people disappeared and said that the game was over.
It was said that it was not that he lost his reason due to fear and fear, but rather that his consciousness was blurred as if he was drunk with an unmarried engagement.
That’s why the adventurer’s guild couldn’t point out the beast.
“At first, I didn’t even know I had a game over. Because I was lying in the capsule for about 5 minutes.” “Well…
I think my body got chilly.”
I was so drowsy that I didn’t even know when I fell asleep…”
In this way, except for the fact that all the members of the expedition lost consciousness without even knowing a mouse or a bird, there is almost no characteristic or phenomenon that can be inferred from a thoracic beast. It was no exaggeration to say.
“This time, you will have to be extra cautious. If you try to take it off,
you might end up attaching a lump
.” All evil is like a hungry ghost, so if you can’t swallow it, you’ll be swallowed up.” “
Maybe they see you as the most delicious prey.
”
If you run into someone who will.”
“Get out of the spot immediately and run away without looking back.” “
If you delay even a little.
” I mean.”
“… Jeop.”
Damian licked his lips, remembering the words of Karen who had warned him.
Already, the super sense, the < Sixth Sense >, was ringing the alarm bell.
The more you go inside, the more you cross between the ghosts.
A chilly feeling as if an unknown coldness was gradually creeping in.
[Notice: The < Sign of Heresy > shines!]
[Notice: The < Aura of the Dead > reacts with the < Sign of Heresy >!]
Tring!
And with the system window that appeared in front of his eyes, Damian saw < Aura of the Dead > suddenly escape from the inventory and fly away in a single stream of smoke.
Finally, I was able to find out where the < Sixth Sense > sounded the alarm.
“That’s…”
Passing through several puddles and land, he disappeared among the colonies of dead trees that looked like huge graves.
Therefore, it was an abandoned cow at the far end of a swampy area where no one was looking for it.
“The Lake of Oblivion…”
Gooooooooo!
Then Damian’s lips spoke the name of a forgotten place.
* * *
“…found.”
shhh!
After Damian disappeared, a black silhouette of a figure landed on the ground above the swamp.
It was a black haired ponytail user.
A black mask that covered the entire lower part of the eyes, silvery silk fishnet tights that exposed the curved body, and iron armor that protected each joint above it.
At first glance, her equipment didn’t feel like looking at a Japanese female ninja, and the black haired ponytail user narrowed his eyes as he looked around the desolate Kirikorum Swamp.
“An hour… no, half an hour ago.”
Kunoichi gold coins.
It was the same user that Damian and I had met at Summon Gate.
‘I’m sure you were here. It’s as broadcast.’
Geumhwa rubbed her fingers in the soggy soil with her knees pressed to the bottom of the swamp.
It was as if he was feeling something.
I couldn’t guess what the principle was, but it seemed like I could get some information just by hitting the soil with my fingers.
Soon, the gold coin brought it to the tip of her nose and began to breathe deeply like a fox that found its prey.
“Huh… Huh…”
It was because there were traces of a man she had consistently pursued.
“Are you sure. The bastard’s smell… I can’t believe it!”
Gold coin shrank as the familiar body odor flowed in.
It was an unexpected reaction.
The joy of holding onto Damien’s tail was brief.
Suddenly, the gold coin’s body trembled against its own will, and the gold coin shook off the dirt on its hands as if it had been struck by lightning.
He hurriedly crouched down, wrapping his arms around his forearms.
“Ugh… ugh…!”
It was because the moment he smelled Damien’s body odor, the trauma that was imprinted in his brain arose, and the memories of the past shut up like an ebb and flow, and his body reacted in its own way.
“Never… let me go…!”
Crunchy!
The trembling of the whole body did not think to stop, so the gold coins gnashed their teeth.
It was a look that seemed to pierce the desolate swamp.
The man who gave her a defeat that she never knew was defeat.
The man who humiliated her so much that she couldn’t be washed.
And…
“To me… how dare… such… ugh…!”
Geumhwa grasped her forearms in response to her body’s response to another seizure, while feeling the crimson eyes that had been looking down at her with emotionless eyes rise again clearly.
I don’t know about the other people at Summon Gate at the time, but Damian’s eyes when she told me to take them all off were the kind of eyes she’d never seen in her life.
Because Geumhwa felt that such an irresistible submissiveness was born in Damian’s eyes that he would never want to admit.
“I see you still don’t understand the situation well.”
“You go to the goal after that. If you keep trembling without knowing the subject.」
「Take off everything you have and go. Then I’ll let you go without pain.」
「Give me everything you have. Can’t you hear me?」
So, of course, the gold coin couldn’t recover the will that had been broken even now, due to the overwhelming shock it received from Damian at the time.
I had to suffer from a trauma so intense that I couldn’t control my own body right now.
“…in (忍).”
Wow!
As the gold coin reached out, a faint light shot up from the floor.
It was the footsteps that seemed to have been sprayed with fluorescent dye.
It was not possible to know all of Damian’s whereabouts, but at least it was a tracking technique that allowed us to guess what the most recent movement was and where it was headed.
[Kunoichi]
[Grass bugs]
And the gold coin follows the trajectory pointed out by < Ninjutsu: Grass Bug >, and roughly remembers how his enemy crossed the swamp and where he headed. could be drawn on
‘northwestward.’
It was a place where the sleepers located in the deepest part of the Kirikorum swamp area were intertwined and looked like a labyrinth.
“Wait. I will definitely kill you this time.”
flash!
Before long, gold coins shone through the fog.
