— Volume 10, Chapter 12
237. The fourth return. Earth (4)
“Aagh!”
People fall down screaming. In the front, a man desperately wielded a hammer and tried to make a way, but instead of making a way, he was pushed back by the approaching monsters.
‘shit!’
The man twisted his face.
His name is Choi Tae-man. He was the leader of Busan.
And Busan was the second most destroyed place after Jeju Island at this point.
The reason was simple. All kinds of bad luck existed in Busan.
There were as many people in Busan as it is said to be the second capital, but the percentage of hard mode players was significantly lower than in other regions.
There may be deviations as much as it is left to individual choice rather than a fixed ratio, but Busan is especially big.
Also, as there were few hard mode players, there were a lot of easy and normal players
. And a large number of players have had some sort of say.
Rather, they started putting pressure on hardmode players. It was that you who have the power to protect us.
Hardmode players expressed their disapproval, but their numbers were too few. Still possessing the values of modern society, they chose acceptance rather than confrontation.
And those who had power once tried to wield it over and over again.
Relatively few hardmode players
. and confrontation between players. Dissension.
The quest could not proceed normally. The result was the death of the majority. By the end of the third return, the number of survivors had been reduced to a count.
Kwaaang!
Choi Tae-man hit the monster roughly.
Being promoted as a leader in a ruined situation, he tried to save people somehow.
I somehow persuaded him to kill all the surviving Izzy and normal mode players.
All those who chose confrontation died, and all who remained were those who chose to stand by the sidelines rather than confront them.
Some of them cared about them and even spoke out, so even the hard mode players were outraged.
But it was already too late. Since the absolute number of enemies was small, it was urgent to survive the attacks of the monsters. Eventually, their numbers dwindled.
He looked back as he slashed the monster.
The number of people chasing him had noticeably decreased.
Choi Tae-man’s eyes trembled. It hadn’t even been twenty minutes since we left. But to think that so many people died…
The word annihilation passed through his mind.
Whoops!
The huge monster moved to strike him in the head.
Choi Tae-man barely blocked it. The body
was pushed out.
His eyes sank.
The moment he was about to make a decision, the body of the monster rushing at him exploded.
Beep!
And the monsters were crushed limb from limb like dominoes. The pupils of those who were shedding tears and preparing for death widened.
“Uh huh?”
A man with a cold face appeared among the fallen monsters.
He looked at the people of Busan and muttered.
“It’s a lot less than I thought. I’m sorry I couldn’t have arrived.”
“Who are you?”
“Kang Tae-san.”
People flinched and shuddered. They also knew about Kang Tae-san because they had heard about it in the community.
It is said to be a monster-like being that actually helped the people of Seoul and Gyeonggi-do survive.
Taesan said.
“I was supposed to come down to Busan.”
“But only twenty minutes had passed since the quest started…
“I ran hard. I’m going to sort these out first, so I’m taking a break.”
Hundreds of monsters come running.
“Danger…
Tae-san Choi tried to say something, but Tae-san’s hands shook.
Hundreds of monsters exploded all at once.
“listen.”
Taishan handed them well-cooked corn. People were in a hurry to get scared and get rid of it.
Choi Tae-man also threw away one corn in one minute.
“Are you starving? You must have brought some food from the labyrinth?”
“…That’s true, but it’s been a while since I ate corn
.”
The food in the Labyrinth is hard and tasteless in a pure sense. It was possible to fill the stomach, but it was impossible to enjoy the pleasure of eating.
Choi Tae-man looked at the corn that had not a single grain left.
Taesan took out another corn.
Water formed on his hand, enveloping the corn. Just like that, the water started to boil.
“ruler.” In an instant
, he handed over
the boiled corn to Choi Tae -man.
Choi Tae-man accepted it with a trembling face.
“Is that even possible?”
“I got something recently.”
Thanks to Beatrice’s quest, she was able to exert an influence on nature, and that power was at a level that could interfere with the weather itself.
The degree to which the water was summoned and boiled was not a problem. Choi Tae-man made a disgusted expression, but he ate the corn in one go and opened his mouth.
“thank you. I live thanks to you.”
“It’s nothing to be thankful for.”
It was natural for people to save people.
“I have to thank you though. human conscience. We’ve seen a lot of blood because of people who don’t.”
Choi Tae-man smiled bitterly.
“Do you know what our situation was like?”
“Roughly.”
A place that has been annihilated due to confrontation with humans. That place was Busan. Seoul in my previous life was in danger,
but if I had managed to survive, Busan could not have survived at all.
“I heard that Seoul and Gyeonggi-do were similar.”
Easy Mode Player. Joonghyeok Choi. And hardmode players. Seojangsan.
The two created a group for their own purposes and tried to manage others.
And all those problems were solved by Taesan alone.
“If you had been in Busan,
wouldn’t it have solved the problems of Busan and made them survive?
Choi Tae-man, who was muttering with a gloomy face, shook his head.
It’s already past. And it’s a meaningless assumption. I knew from experience so far that paying attention to such things would not help me survive at all.
Choi Tae-man raised his head with a strong expression.
“But with you, we can survive and reach Seoul.”
they can survive That fact
put hope on the faces of
those taking a break .
“well.”
Taesan murmured softly.
Gosin will move. As always.
‘How am I going to come this time?’
Taesan took the people of Busan and
headed to Seoul.
And gradually, other people also came into contact with their respective groups.
Kang Jun-hyeok met the people of Gwangju, defeated the monster, and took them to Seoul.
With Kang Jun-hyeok’s help, they progressed little by little. As night fell and fatigue came, they took a rest.
A woman approached Kang Jun-hyeok, who was on the lookout.
“hi.”
The woman was a leader leading the people of Gwangju. When she was blocked by monsters and
prepared to die, Kang Jun-hyeok saved her.
“Oh hello.”
“Are you putting up a net? You can entrust it to someone else. We have to do that.”
“no. Because this is what I have to do. It can’t be.”
Junhyeok Kang shook his head. The woman’s face was slightly red.
“Honestly, when I heard the story from Huiyeon, I thought it was an exaggeration, but he is really strong… If you are like this, then the person named Kang Tae-san
will be as strong as the story says, right?”
“no.”
“huh?”
Kang Jun-hyeok denied it. The woman was perplexed and he said.
“It must be so strong that it cannot be compared to that.”
He looked out into the darkness with a strange gaze.
“Why are you so strong? Not only that.”
Taesan told them one thing before leaving.
Kurleung.
There was a roar from the other side. The ground broke and a monster appeared.
[Monster 111026 has appeared.]
“Uh.”
The woman’s face hardened.
The monster itself was not new. I’ve taken down hundreds of them so far.
But the monster in front of me was different.
The feeling of strength and power.
There was a difference that even she could tell
.
“You really came.”
Kang Jun-hyeok raised his weapon with a curious face.
The monster in front of you is strong.
But it’s not to the extent that you can’t win if you fight for your life.
“Let’s do it. damn things.”
With the people who took a break, Mount Tai moved.
Monsters appeared and blocked their path, and Taishan tore them apart one by one.
Kwajik.
Grab the head of the rushing monster and give it strength. The head is shaped like a crushed can.
[You activated Deer Walking the Wind Path.]
The wind rises.
The skill of a higher-level spirit synchronizes with the power of the spirit king, sweeping all directions roughly. The monsters are cut to pieces and fall down.
“Ohhh!”
Those who follow burst out in amazement. One by one, monsters that were difficult to defeat were being knocked down with a light hand gesture. A look of respect and envy turned to Taesan.
And an invisible energy from them began to flow into Taesan.
From her experience so far, Taesan
knew that when they gathered, the proficiency of divine power accumulated.
‘I don’t know how to use it.’
Minerva said it was impossible without a godhead, but Taesan didn’t think so. In any case, it was the power he gained. There must be some way, just like Aura.
It was Taesan’s job to find it.
While thinking about that, Taesan moved his body. The monsters fell.
‘It’s strong.’
Choi Tae-man admired.
‘But not as much as I’ve heard.’
According to the story, Mount Tai was no different from a living natural disaster.
Wind blows hard mode players away and shatters the ground with just a leap.
It defeats enemies who lose their fighting spirit just by existing.
However, the power that Taesan is showing now was not to that extent.
It was obviously strong and he was a power that could not be approached, but it was the power of common sense.
A certain amount of exaggeration is mixed in. That was Choi Tae-man’s judgment. A monster that terrifies hardmode players in the first place. It was a monster that even the survivors had not heard of. I thought it was probably an illusion in confusion.
Still, it was clear that it was overwhelmingly strong. It was a horse enough to keep them all.
‘Stories gain weight in the first place.’
As he thought so, Taesan suddenly blocked his way. He asked at the sudden deterrence.
Kaaang!
Taesan’s hand moved. His hand collided with something with a harsh roar.
Cadeuk.
A purple orb was held in his hand.
“Uh huh?”
If Taesan hadn’t stopped him, Choi Taeman’s upper body would have disappeared.
Taesan tightened his hand. The sphere shattered and fell.
A gong sounded.
[You activate Mental Acceleration.]
The scenery around you slows down. Expand your senses to grasp the location and distance of flying objects.
purple sphere.
A total of ten were flying. The directions were all different.
Papabak!
Arrows jumped out of Taishan.
he waved his hand A wild wind rose and swept everywhere.
The flying purple orbs were blown away by the wind and arrows.
Kwagwagwang!
The orb pierces the ground and explodes.
“Where are you attacking!”
When Choi Tae-man saw it, the surroundings were just suddenly exploding. He tried to figure it out somehow, but it wasn’t an attack that he could figure out with the power of hard mode.
‘A grade level?’
Quite strong. It was on a similar level to the enemy he risked his life to defeat during his previous return.
‘The distance is at least 10KM or more.’
It was pretty far.
It was not a distance that Taesan alone could not reach. At that distance, it took a few leaps to arrive.
The problem was that there were at least twenty of them.
The purple orb flew in again.
Taesan waved his hand. The rising wind broke the ball’s trajectory.
[You activated the stigma.]
Then stamp your feet. A curtain of wind rises and envelops the people.
[You activate acceleration.]
Kwajik.
The earth collapsed.
Tae-man Choi forgot even the agitation and was stunned at Taesan, which disappeared with Crater.
“What!”
Taesan arrived at a monster that shoots spheres.
The appearance of the monster was like that of a battery.
It was a form only for shooting spheres.
Taesan thrust his sword into the monster
.
[6784 damage to monster 985.]
The monster fell.
At the same time, other monsters fired spheres. The shot orbs collided with the wind barrier.
Kagagagak!
The wind blows the spheres away. A grade-A attack could be sufficiently blocked not by Taesan himself, but by a temporary tent.
Koo Goo Goo!
At that moment, the ground
collapsed in front of the people.
A giant ballista-shaped monster emerged from the collapsed ground.
Kaaang!
The monster rushed. The wind barrier screamed and began to shake.
[You activate a random Blink.]
Kwakdeuk.
Taesan, which moved in front of the people, broke the Valista.
I swung the wind to shake off the purple orb that was shooting again.
Taesan twisted his lips.
“Are you saying you’d rather kill the people around you than me?”
This quest is a quest that everyone scatters.
Then, would it be easier to kill Taesan or to kill the scattered others?
Kosin will choose the latter. Taesan figured it out. Probably, one or two monsters of C-class or higher appeared in other areas.
“I used my hair quite a bit.”
Dozens of A-class monsters.
Monsters that even those who have cleared hard mode have to prepare for death one by one.
But that’s it.
“Did you expect this?”
[You activated a starlight arrow.]
An arrow made of stars was realized in Taesan’s grasp.
Level up with skill
