Salvation Society (What It Used to Be) (2)
After finishing training with Shin Se-yeon, who had a strangely sullen(?) expression for so reason after today's class, Kim Dojun returned ho, ate dinner, and logged into Lantiarval.
In order to et Tia.
'I've already made her feel anger, so now I have to make her feel the remaining three emotions as well.'
With that thought in mind, he logged into the ga.
[Iron-Blood: Hey, you bastard!] (whisper)
[Iron-Blood: Where are you?] (whisper)
[Iron-Blood: I said, where are you?!] (whisper)
He smirked as he noticed Tia, who seed to have been waiting, sending him whispers, and soon began chatting.
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: lol]
[Iron-Blood: Shut up and tell where you are.]
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: lol.]
[Iron-Blood: You're in the village, huh, you bastard. Just wait, I'm coming.]
With just the amazing efficacy of "lol", Kim Dojun once again managed to piss Tia off. Soon, he confird that her character 'Iron-Blood' appeared, surrounded by a halo of light at one end of the village.
The character stood still for a mont, perhaps loading.
However, as soon as he saw her character, Kim Dojun realized it imdiately.
'Did she buy sothing with cash?'
No, in fact, it would be strange not to notice.
Gas like this, to induce players to spend money, always made sure that purchases would show up on their characters.
For example, weapons reinforcing the character's attack power would start to emit blue or red light after a certain level of enhancent, or if you made cash purchases for the character itself, the character's appearance would sparkle.
So, he imdiately realized that Tia had bought sothing with cash—and at this rate, there was no way he could beat her. He instantly opened his inventory.
If he just stood there, the mont Tia's character finished loading, she would chase him down and kill him.
'Of course, there are heavy penalties for PK in town. But judging by how pissed she is, she probably won't care about that.'
On top of that, because Lantiarval's developers were so obsessed with profit, even the biggest penalties could be solved with money.
In other words, if she was set on PK, location wasn't the problem.
But that was okay.
Kim Dojun had already bought items in preparation for this kind of situation.
Tsk—
As soon as Tia's character finished loading and started moving, Kim Dojun clicked on the item he had prepared using the inventory he had left open.
A short loading screen flashed across the monitor, and at once, he was warped to the 'Starting Village'.
As if she had been waiting for him, Tia's character, Iron-Blood, began following Kim Dojun's character.
As soon as her character finished loading, she rushed at 18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan to kill him.
[Iron-Blood: ??]
[Iron-Blood: What the heck is this.]
[Iron-Blood: Why can't I attack????]
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: lol]
Iron-Blood could only bump her character against 18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan but couldn't attack.
'There's a reason I ca to this place.'
Watching this, Kim Dojun smiled to himself.
'This is the only absolutely no PK zone in Lantiarval.'
Starting Village.
As its na suggested, this was where new players appeared as soon as they created their characters; it was called the newbie zone by players.
But why was this place, unlike other villages, a completely PK-immune area?
Of course, it was to protect the newbies who began this ga as infrequently as beans sprout during a drought.
Lantiarval is a dead ga.
However, even a dead ga can't let all the longti water just drain away without replenishnt; if they allowed PK against newbies, the ga would lose its few remaining players for good. So, as a last bit of conscience, the devs made this area no PK.
In other words, it was a asure to try and prolong the ga's life enough to squeeze out as much money from players as possible.
Using this weakness, Kim Dojun had escaped to this newbie town in Lantiarval.
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: lol]
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: You can't hit , can you?]
[Iron-Blood: Ah, dammit!!!!]
Unable to attack, Tia raged in chat.
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: You wasted your money, huh? Feels good~]
[Iron-Blood: You bastard! I'll find you and kill you, do you know who I am!?]
[18yoHighSchoolGirl-chan: Nope, don't know~]
After teasing her for a while, Kim Dojun finally decided it was enough.
[Iron-Blood: You bastard! I'm seriously going to kill you when I find you! I an it! You think I can't find you?]
[Iron-Blood: You son of a bitch!!!]
Once he saw Tia furiously cursing, he turned off the ga with a satisfied expression.
Seeing that it was past 1 a.m., he thought about going to the Salvation Society eting tomorrow and went to bed.
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Salvation Society.
A heretic cult that believed in Gatura of salvation, one that had plunged the world into chaos ti and again.
It was a group made up of people who truly believed that one day, all would be grateful for Gatura's salvation—a place that sorcery associations in every country considered an extrely high priority.
Because the Salvation Society was essentially a terrorist group whose next move couldn't be predicted.
Among the Salvation Society's mbers, there were so their sorcerers were especially wary of—the ones who had been given the title of "Sword" within the Society.
Those who held the "Sword" title had high ranks within the Society, and the sorcery they perford in the na of "Divine Power" was extrely difficult to deal with.
And currently, in Korea, five out of the eight Swords of the Salvation Society were secretly smuggled in and hiding out in a safe house in Gangneung.
The Swords of the Salvation Society had been ordered by their leader to kidnap anyone remotely related to Gatura of salvation.
After several days staking out, they had already devised all their plans to be executed within Korea.
"So the operation will be conducted tomorrow."
"Yes, sir."
"Have we confird that the two targets are Han Soyeon and Kim Dojun?"
"That's correct. As ntioned when we first made our plans, brother Four will handle Han Soyeon alone, and the rest of us will take Kim Dojun together."
"I heard he even blocked that one's attack."
"More than that, according to our investigation, although it's only a rumor, he's said to be a disciple of the Explosion God."
"Huh, the Explosion God?"
"That's right."
The five Swords fell silent for a mont at those words.
But then, the only one in formal attire seated at the round table—
"Even if there are such rumors about the disciple of Explosion God, we must handle the task cleanly. Since he's the one who t the Lord closer than anyone, there's much to be extracted aside from punishing blasphemy."
The man known as the First Sword of the Salvation Society declared adamantly.
"Very true."
"No matter the rumors, we cannot leave one who committed blasphemy unchecked. You are right, brother."
The others nodded in unison and agreed.
After a brief pause...
"Then, since there's little ti left, let us all rest in preparation for tomorrow's action."
As the First Sword finished speaking and everyone prepared to rise—
Splurt-!
With the sound of a waterlon bursting, the head of the Second Sword, who sat next to the First Sword, exploded.
"?"
For a mont, everyone wore blank expressions, as it happened so suddenly without any warning.
Yet, true to their reputation as the main force of the Salvation Society, called the 'Swords', the others instinctively realized this was an attack and tried to form a hand seal instantly.
"Aaaargh!"
"My hands!! My hands!!!"
But all of the Swords present had their hands twisted and shattered in an instant.
Blood gushed out in fountains.
And then—
Splurt-!
With another burst, the head of the Third Sword, who was screaming, exploded.
As terror replaced composure in the Swords' expressions—
"Hello?"
Out of the darkness, Han Soyeon appeared.
She slowly approached the Swords' cries, light on her feet.
She stomped on the head of the Fifth Sword—who was grabbing his shattered hands and screaming insanely—crushing it completely.
"S, save !"
The Fourth Sword, seeing this, involuntarily scread and tried to back away.
But as Han Soyeon moved toward him—
"First! Run!!!"
The fear in the Fourth Sword's eyes vanished as he suddenly drew a dagger with his broken hand and leaped at Han Soyeon—as if he had been acting all along.
Splurt-!
But just like the others, he died instantly, his head exploding mid-air before he could lay a finger on her.
Han Soyeon had disposed of four Swords, known as the Salvation Society's main force, in the blink of an eye.
She turned her gaze to the First Sword, whose fingers were mangled like the others.
He had not given up, and, with his shattered hands, was desperately trying to form a hand seal.
He was forming the hand seal for the teleportation scroll in his robe.
Of course, salvation Society mbers did not fear death.
For them, salvation from Gatura was to die.
But there was a difference between not fearing death and letting their life go to waste; so without hesitation, the First Sword tried to escape.
Even during the brief seconds of this fight, he realized—
That there was nothing he could do here.
But then,
Crunch—!
"Keough!"
Before he could complete the hand seal, sothing seed to grab his throat, lifting him into the air.
He saw it—
Sothing unimaginably massive writhing behind Han Soyeon.
His gaze fell to Han Soyeon below.
"Don't worry. I have sothing to ask you, so you won't die 'yet'."
As her voice rang out, the thing writhing behind her—the First Sword, who had never known fear of death, finally had terror flicker in his eyes.
-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=
Damn, maybe Dojun was right...
Mayb Soyeon is a malignant spirit all along.
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