– Volume 3, Chapter 4
54. Earth. Return (2)
Taesan looked at Junggeun’s face.
cheeky face.
Ordinary Ordinary It is a face that will be forgotten in five seconds if you see it on the road.
However, an impressive smile made me feel like it somehow.
Joong-geun scratched his face in bewilderment at Tae-san, who was staring at him.
“Um… Uhm.”
Joong-geun was embarrassed. He saw the man in front of him for the first time.
But I was staring intently. It’s like seeing a face you’ve seen before.
Junggeun cleared his throat. I calmed down and remembered why I had come here.
“City Hall Quest. Did you get it?”
Taesan nodded.
“Would you like to follow me? If you go to City Hall alone, it will be quite difficult.”
Taesan nodded again.
Joong-geun smiled brightly.
“good. Then follow me Oh, is anyone coming with you?”
The ghost was still by Taishan’s side. However, Jung-geun did not seem to notice.
Taesan answered briefly.
” doesn’t exist.”
“great. Stick with me.”
Joong-geun lowered his posture and spread his hands.
[Keum Joong-geun activated Presence Decrease. The presence of Keum Joong-geun and Kang Tae-san has decreased
.]
Decreased presence. It’s literally a skill that reduces the presence. It was a skill that could be obtained by hiding for an hour while avoiding the enemy’s gaze.
Taesan and Junggeun’s presence diminishes in an instant. Joong-geun frowned for a moment.
“Taesan? …no way. no way.”
Having come to a conclusion alone, he speaks in a low voice.
“Slowly follow me. Kill the sound as much as possible.”
Taesan nodded slightly.
Carefully looking around, he stares at Jung-geun’s back as he advances. The ghost opens its mouth.
[I can’t see me except you, but I do. If you are an adventurer, you will be able to recognize it. Why?]
says the ghost, who was touching his face as if he were red.
[Did you come to see him?]
Taesan silently nodded.
He didn’t make much of a connection with others. It was because his personality
was annoying in relationships, but also meaningless.
The person you knew today will die tomorrow. It was a very common occurrence.
Not to mention, he is an Easy Mode player. He was the easiest human being. Everyone he had a crush on or had a good relationship with died.
From a certain moment on, he did not give his heart to anyone who would survive until the end.
One of them was Junggeun.
A human who talked to him at the last moment.
He was a man who never lost his sense of humor even in despair.
The ghost muttered in a puzzled tone.
[hmm. I don’t think you’ll just come out to say hello. I see what I can do with him.]
Taesan didn’t answer. The ghost chatted to himself.
[Well, it’s quite useful. If you’re very lucky, you might be able to go down to the depths.]
He seemed to admit it reluctantly.
After following Jung-geun for about 30 minutes, a buzzing sound was heard. I could feel the presence of many people in the small building.
“everyone. Are you okay?”
“ah.”
“Mr. Junggeun!”
A lot of people came running with a happy face.
people up to a hundred.
None of them had a face that I could remember.
“This is the person I rescued this time, Kang Tae-san. It’s probably assumed that you’re in normal mode, so get along well with each other.”
“Uh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it… but
the person who appears to be in normal mode murmurs softly. The people
around him lash out at those words .
“How many people are in normal mode, how do you know them all?”
“Oh, that’s right.”
The pointed out man scratches his head with an embarrassed face.
“nice to meet you. Get along well in the future.”
Taesan nodded silently.
“Now, let’s move slowly.”
Joong-geun cheers the atmosphere by clapping his hands.
“I think I gathered all the people around me
. Now let’s head to City Hall.”
People’s faces harden. Anxiety flickers on their faces.
“are you okay. everyone.”
Joong-geun comforts them with a confident smile.
“I will protect you.”
They start to move to the Juseom Juseom City Hall.
About a hundred people move slowly. To avoid monsters, move forward as far back as possible.
[what. These.]
The ghost spits out in a timid tone.
[What are these weak things? Are these the ones who entered the labyrinth?]
Except for Jung-geun, all of them were weak people. At first glance, there were also those who did not differ much from ordinary humans, far from escaping human limitations.
[I know roughly. That Joong-geun is leading you to your destination. You became one of them.]
“That’s it.”
Taesan gave a small reply.
F-class monsters are weak. But an ordinary human has the power to rip and kill lightly. Izzy and normal players at this point cannot compete.
At this point, it is possible to overcome more than hard players. Among them, only the top players.
Joong-geun was on his way to City Hall with those weak people.
‘It’s literally.’
Joong-geun took them to City Hall from the previous world. Taesan clearly remembered
the outcome .
As he was bored, the girl who had been looking at him from earlier approached him.
“You said you came from normal mode, right?”
A brown haired child with impressive freckles. It was the impression that he had just become an adult.
She chattered loudly next to Taesan.
“I am Ahn Jung-hee. What about my brother?”
brother. I answered with a funny feeling to the formula I heard in decades.
“Kang Tae-san.”
Ahn Jung-hee tilted his head.
“I was a bit of an informed person myself, but I’ve never heard of the name Taesan…
“How many people are in normal mode, how do you know them all?”
In Korea alone, close to 10 million were in normal mode.
To prevent too many people there, it was impossible to know everything because the space was divided under the name of dimension like the game server.
If the dimensions had not been separated,
it would have been impossible for Easy Mode to even enter the labyrinth.
“Still, everyone knows that I am strong. That person, for example.”
There was a man with a muscular tattoo on the tip of her finger.
“He is a fairly strong axis belonging to the executives in the Athens guild. I’m on the dirty side, but maybe because I have Jung-geun oppa, I’m calm.”
A guild made by players. There were both Easy Normal and Hard. It was
n’t just the Athenian guild that existed
. As much as a society is formed when people come together, groups are often created.
There were times when it was expressed in the name of a guild, and there were times when it came out in the name of a revolutionary group.
Of course, Mount Tai didn’t belong anywhere. It was more important to figure out the labyrinth than to play such a silly prank
.
The girl kept talking as if she needed someone to talk to. Then, the question of how Joong-geun came to take them with them came up.
“I was watching a performance.”
Small performances by amateurs. It was a fairly popular band, so a lot of people gathered. Naturally, quite a lot of people showed up when I returned.
“When everyone was confused and wondering what to do, Joong-geun oppa came forward.”
He calmed the confused people down and asked them to go to City Hall together. There were people who objected, asking what you were commanding, but when he said he was a hard mode player and showed a grip that made him bend steel with his bare fists, they shut up.
This group was formed that way. It was not much different from the story Taesan had heard from Junggeun in the past.
Joong-geun, who was walking ahead, raised his hand. Ahn Jung-hee shut his mouth.
[56994258 monsters have appeared.]
Kwuruk.
A black monster with huge limbs appears. People’s faces are horrified. Joong-geun holds the sword with a stiff face.
“Wait here for a moment.”
Joong-geun slowly makes his way towards the monster
. A monster, not yet aware of his presence, wanders around.
Joong-geun stabbed him in the back. [6
damage
to 56994258 monsters]
The monster twists itself. It attacks the middle muscle by moving its huge arms.
Kagak!
“Kuk!”
Joong-geun, who was pushed by the force, gritted his teeth. In the future, he is a player who can win even against A-rank players
, but he is still just getting used to it. Even against a single monster, he had to fight quite hard.
Dodge the powerfully moving arms and stab them.
After a bloody battle, Jung-geun was victorious.
He cleared his throat and told the people.
“I got it. Come over here.”
“Ohh…
“Mr. Junggeun!”
People raised their voices in excitement. They ran to Jung-geun and praised his strength.
Joong-geun smiled and waved his hand.
“For now, keep moving.”
People were as careful as possible. I held my breath and lowered my posture. However, as more than a hundred people moved, the monster had no choice but to catch it.
While Joong-geun was fighting one of the hired monsters, another monster appeared.
gurgling.
“Hey!”
“Mr. Joo Joong-geun!”
Even Joong-geun doesn’t have the energy to answer. When it is revealed that he is unable to help them, hundreds of people run away screaming.
Parent monsters aren’t that strong. If all of them work together, they can win without any problems, but they are busy running away in a hurry.
[…]
The ghost watches with a very displeased look. Taesan picks up stones scattered on the floor.
“Hey!”
Ahn Jung-hee screams and runs away. The monster was about to hit her on the head.
Kwajik.
The monster hits its head on a small stone and flies away. It rolls on the ground and disappears with a loud sound. People who were running away in a hurry open their eyes wide at the monster that suddenly disappeared.
“How are you?”
“what?”
People stutter. Joong-geun, who managed to defeat the F-rank monster, comes running in a hurry.
“Where did the monster go?”
“We don’t know either. It suddenly disappeared.”
” yes?”
Embarrassment appears on Jung-geun’s face. He looks around, but doesn’t really see the monster.
“Who knocked you down?”
“There was no damage window. There is no one who can defeat him…
It is a monster to catch even the hard mode heavyweight. The only ones here are easy or weak even in normal mode.
Joong-geun glanced at Tae-san.
Taesan stood expressionless. As if the current confusion and fear were nothing, he even looked bored.
‘ no way?’
Just in case, he shook his head.
Tae-san said he had met the monster, but Joong-geun
thought he had avoided it by hiding his appearance. Only at the top of the hard mode can you guarantee a 1:1 victory. And there was no way Jung-geun didn’t know about those people.
“Um… let’s move on for now.”
In the end, with the question unanswered, Joong-geun heads to the city hall.
The path was iterative. When a monster appears, Jung-geun fights it. The rest just watch from afar. Occasionally, Tae-san throws a stone to drive them away.
After repeating that several times, the ghost finally couldn’t stand it.
[These worms!]
An angry voice spreads. His voice resounds loudly, but all he can hear is Tae-san. There is only one.
[How can there be such useless people! Not even willing to fight for their lives, let alone the will to do something on their own! They’re like worms who
just leave it to others !]
A voice filled with anger.
Taesan was also the first to hear a torrent of emotions. If people could hear the ghost’s voice, it would stiffen them.
[These guys entered the labyrinth? Don’t put on your clothes.]
A voice like a beast resounds.
[This is an insult to us. It is unacceptable that these kind of guys challenge the labyrinth.] Those who gave up fighting
must look very disgusting to the ghosts who risked their lives to break through .
Taesan waited quietly for the ghost to calm down.
[…I don’t understand.]
The real ghost muttered in an annoyed tone.
[Strength is not a problem. No one is strong from the beginning. Everyone gets stronger while fighting for their lives.]
It was as the ghost said. Taesan was not strong from the beginning. He risked his life against Big Rat and challenged Hage-Ha until now.
[But these guys have no will. They don’t try to do anything themselves, and they don’t try to get information and knowledge. I’m in a hurry to just run away. Those who were weak like this survived until now?]
“Don’t be like that. After all, I’m weird.”
They are from the ordinary world. The fight to the death is the story of creation. Those who quickly grasped the situation and moved forward were very few. Even more so
, it was only natural that they would focus
on escaping rather than fighting as the existence of Jung-geun protected them .
‘It’s not a merciful world enough to spare such people, though.’
Taesan looked at Junggeun. He was comforting people who were struggling.
“yes yes. It’s okay. Cheer up a little more.”
Keum Joong-geun.
One of the few players Taesan is friends with.
He was comforting people. On
his first
return to the previous world, Joong-geun led about 100 people to City Hall.
And the only one who arrived was Junggeun.
Level up with skill
