“Ehhh? Why?”
“What? You don’t have a na?”
Sadness flashed on Seora’s face at once. She felt regretful that she would never see this beauty again.
“But what if I still want to see you? Am I never going to see you again? Is there no way to see you?”
As Seora puckered her lips and grumbled, the man looked at her with a strange smile, thinking it was a difficult situation and what to do with it.
The man approached slowly.
Up close, the man was much taller than expected. Seora had to tilt her head back quite a bit, but she didn’t feel pressured.
His long fingers gently touched her shoulders. At that mont, an unknown emotion blood in his dark green eyes.
“Huh?”
The man left only those words and pushed Seora back. Seora, who opened her eyes wide, stretched out her hand but couldn’t reach the man with an unknown smile.
It should’ve been carpet on her back, but her body fell into the water with a splashing sound.
Beyond the distant vision, the man’s thick lips seed to have said so.
Seora’s consciousness quickly sank deep below the surface of the water.
***
“Ugh!”
Seora’s eyes widened.
Even though she had just woken up, she coughed for a long ti as if she had fallen into the water and was barely dragged out.
Why? Why is it so hard to breathe? Did I dream?
“… Ah.”
The dream. Everything ca to mind with that one word.
A mansion filled with pieces of jewelry and dazzling beauty. The person who looked at with an unknown expression.
Seora let out a sigh. It was an unforgettable sight in a dream.
“Oh, what a sha. I wanted to see a little more. Why did he push to wake up because I sneaked in?”
She was so sad just thinking about it that she wanted to tear off the blanket. Even though it was a dream, she thought it was such a waste that she might not be able to see that beauty again.
“Oh, that scared !”
Seora, lying on the bed and swinging her arms and legs, jumped up at the sudden alarm.
Wait a minute. Why is the alarm ringing? The alarm that goes off in the morning…
“Is that a wake-up call? Well, that ans I woke up a minute earlier…?”
I got off work late yesterday, and now I wake up a minute early today?
Seo-ra was knocked down by the injustice that ca at once after the disappointnt left.
“Naless, handso beauty, couldn’t you wake up a minute late…”
So what if your face is sculpture-like?
It’s useless…
Seora shed a tear out of sadness.
***
Hard ore material covered all sides. There were sparsely growing plants, but even that did not cover the desolateness of this land.
The five unidentified planets floating in the sky and the five-colored ore beneath them were no longer beautiful.
Jarim looked at this scenery for too long.
Really, too long.
“I’m sick and tired of this.”
A high-pitched voice ca out through the crack of her chapped lips.
Jarim buried her body a little more in the huge ore she was leaning against. Once buried in a soft bed, her body had now beco accustod to this hard texture.
When the eyes filled with the desolateness of this land were about to close.
[The system of ‘Planet—Earth’ has encountered an error!]
At the system ssage that appeared in front of her, Jarim woke up.
“The system of Earth…?”
The ssage continued.
[Warning! An error caused a problem with the dinsional gate!]
[Warning! Please correct any errors!]
[Warning! Please correct any errors!]
[Warning! Please correct any errors!]
[The error has not been fixed. Dinsions are warped!]
[The dinsional door that connects ‘Planet-Earth’ and ‘Hang–Ba ██-R’ is forcibly opened!]
[Gate creation is complete.]
“… Ah.”
At that mont, Jarim felt it. A strange wave of mana was transmitted from sowhere in this wide place.
It’s not an illusion. There’s no way I’m mistaken. Indeed, the gate connected to another place other than here was opened.
“Finally.”
Her face, which had looked like an old giant tree, slowly ca alive.
Ah, the mont she had been waiting for so long has finally co.
***
The strange phone call to the association ca right after lunchti when I was most sleepy.
Do Junyoung, who remained sober despite this terrible timing, frowned at the phone call of the dispatched employee.
“You’re saying that the dungeon rating cannot be asured?”
—Yes! Even the mana ter is weird. The gate is plain blue… It’s unusual. I think you have to co in person.
“I’ll be right there.”
Do Junyoung, who imdiately reported this to the association president Song Hanna, decided to request assistance from each guild.
First of all, it could be dangerous because the grade was not asured, so S-class Hunter must deal with it, especially soone whose headquarters is nearby so they could be dispatched imdiately.
So Do Junyoung called Clear Blue’s Han Suwon, Emissary’s Jung Hoyoung, and, most importantly, the Healer Yoo Soo-eun.
“Isn’t L-class supposed to do sothing like this?”
Yoo Soo-eun, who had rushed imdiately according to the agreent with the association, complained as soon as she arrived. Han Suwon also agreed, but Do Junyoung shook his head.
“Hunter Kang Sejun went to deal with the gate that has now occurred in Daegwallyeong.”
“Ayy, how lucky.”
Four S-class Hunters stood in front of the gate. Normally, they should be able to feel the dungeon’s mana coming through the gate.
“I can’t feel anything.”
“I don’t think it’s normal at all. asure again.”
As Jung Hoyoung gestured with her chin, an official from the association hurriedly approached and brought the mana ter to the gate. At that mont, a surprising ssage appeared before their eyes.
【War■! The ra■ of the ■ngeon is not stable!】
Everyone stared at the list of broken characters.
“That’s weird.”
In the 12 years after the cataclysm, countless dungeons were created and disappeared repeatedly, but everyone was sure that they had never seen anything like this before. It was the sa with Do Junyoung, who read the weekly report published by the World Dungeon Managent Organization (WDO).
That said, there was a high probability that what happened here was not normal.
The four people checked their equipnt, ready to fight at any ti.
“Let say it again. Our goal is to look at the situation inside and reorganize the raiding party properly in the future. Avoid fighting as much as possible unless there is a particular situation.”
Do Junyoung, who clearly stated that the purpose was exploration, not attack, entered the dungeon with the other three. The na of the dungeon appeared before their eyes.
[The ■kened has entered Level ■ dungeon ‘■■’s Tomb’.]
***
And around that ti.
[Administrator: (｡ﾟ´Д`ﾟ｡)/(._. )]
Seora, who was dozing happily on a workless afternoon after a long ti, was startled by the sudden ssage from the administrator.
An emoticon that comforts you while crying. It was so ominous that it gave Seora goosebumps as soon as she saw it.
‘What is it?’
Seora stared at the administrator’s ssage with shaky eyes.
‘When was the last ti the administrator comforted ?’
As soone who had blown the head of an S-class beast in one shot and even gotten a repulsive Headbang nickna because of it…
It was the day I t that guy who has returned in ti five tis!
‘Ahh! Lizaliza-nim. W-What’s going on this ti?!’
[Administrator: (✖﹏✖)]
‘It has nothing to do with you?’
[Administrator: __φ(. . ;)]
‘Stop talking in weird emoticon. Did you do it, or did you not? Say it!’
[The system administrator protests that they did not do it.]
[Probably.]
“…”
How cold. An ominous feeling flies like a dagger and sticks in my heart.
What happened again this ti? Hopefully, this isn’t a returnee issue again. Seora wanted to believe that. Although that was the only mont the administrator comforted her, she wanted to believe that this ti would be different.
[Administrator: (¬_¬);;]
But Elizabeth-nim betrayed that belief. Seora’s face turned blue.
‘Exorcism! I need to do it!’
Exorcism? Seora thought if she could solve this misfortune, she was willing to do the blade dancing herself. Please, I’m begging you, I hope Jung Hoyoung will find a good shaman soon.
[T/N: It actually ntioned the item, Jakdu, aning straw cutter, refers to the shamanic device on which a shaman performs the blade dance to demonstrate her spiritual powers. So Seora is saying that instead of letting the shaman does it, she is willing to do it herself as long as she can get rid of this ‘misfortune’.]
***
[The ■kened has entered Level ■ dungeon ‘■■’s Tomb’.]
When the broken system ssage was shown, the faces of the four people who entered the dungeon hardened.
“It’s good that we’re not going blindly, but it’s still not reassuring.”
Everyone agreed to Han Suwon’s whisper.
“Is there any dungeon with the word ‘tomb’ that is safe?”
“No, there isn’t.”
The na of the dungeon represented its characteristics. For example, the Level 2 dungeon ‘Cradle of the Harpoon Snake’ was the birthplace of the boss monster, so the na ‘cradle’ was attached.
Then what about a dungeon called ‘tomb’? Even if it did not state its rating.
“We must be careful, so this place won’t beco our tomb.”
The dungeon was full of stone debris, and it looked like it used to be an ore zone. But nothing was intact.
So were visibly cut, external forces destroyed so, and so left traces of sothing stuck.
“One thing is certain. This is a tomb of ores.”
Jung Hoyoung, who was good at exploring, tracked the traces on the ore fragnts. Her face did not look very good.
“The cutting marks aren’t clean enough to assu they were made with a sword, but there isn’t evidence of a blunt weapon. These unique traces remain on most of the ore.”
“Most of it. If so, there is a high probability that only one person created this spectacle.”
“One person did all of this? Aish, what rotten luck.”
Yoo Soo-eun murmured, thinking that they had co for nothing. At that ti, Han Suwon, who had a wide detection ability, put his finger on his index finger and whispered softly.
“Shh. I can feel footsteps.”
The four of them imdiately lowered themselves and placed their hands on their weapons.
Unlike them, the enemy was running with a terrifying montum, as if they had no intention of hiding their presence to the extent that they could all identify the enemy with the naked eye.
The four people opened their eyes wide.
“Who secretly crossed the gate before we ca in?”
“No one. The gate is completely closed under my orders.”
“Then how do you explain that person running toward us? Are you saying it could be a humanoid monster?!”
Yoo Soo-eun pointed to the other party.
It was a woman with pale skin, tall stature, fluttering red hair, and golden eyes staring straight at them.
The running enemy was not in the form of a monster they had seen so far but in the form of a normal human being.
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