Chapter 17
directed Olim to watch the place where the Lich Lord would reappear when he is resurrected and ordered her to wait for an attack. Afterwards, turned back to the ssage window to reply.
Seo Dawon: Where are you? What about Garam?
Bae Jaemin: Garam is…
Bae Jaemin: He’s really seriously injured
To make matters worse, he reported that Jung Garam had been injured. had an ominous looming feeling.
Seo Dawon: How bad?
Bae Jaemin: I think we should leave
Bae Jaemin: He hurt his arm and eyes, and he’s bleeding a lot
Seo Dawon: The ‘Complete Recovery’ spell isn’t working?
Bae jaemin: My spell is still on cooldown
Bae Jaemin: I’m going to activate the ergency escape, so please approve it
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Seo Dawon: Okay
Seo Dawon: And you? Are you alright?
Bae Jaemin: Yeah
Soon, an announcent appeared: [“Bae Jaemin” has requested ergency evacuation]. approved it and began to ready Garam’s escape kit as well.
“…..!”
But at that mont, sothing felt odd. sharp intuition alerted to sothing approaching from the back.
“Kuh-urk….”
But when noticed this, had already allowed that oddity to approach too close for safety. As if soone had shot a fire arrow into back, a searing pain had shot through spine, and felt my vision grow dim.
Kim Olim, who noticed fall, turned around and roared, “Seo Dawon-!”
All the other guild mbers turned their heads towards at Olim’s shout. , too, managed to stay awake and not faint at the shock of her voice and collapsed where stood.
Perhaps the blow was truly deadly, arms lost all sensation. Sothing was wedged into back…What is it? Is this the boss’s new attack pattern?
“…Just as Lee Do-jin assured . No matter how sensitive my opponent may be, he can’t possibly perceive ‘this’ from the back.” The shadow behind did not belong to a monster. “Hello, Seo Dawon.”
The attacker placed a foot on neck; her frivolous voice that promised violence was one that heard before. The attacker leaned over and made eye contact with my faltering eyes, as if to jog mory.
“Long ti no see?”
“Lim Jisoo! What have you done!” Kim Olim shouted in anger before could respond.
A loud ‘crash’ could be heard not far away. Had Olim thrown her spear at Lim Jisoo?
Lim Jisoo suddenly placed greater pressure on neck after Olim’s attack. Perhaps she wanted to threaten Olim for daring to harm her. She must have expected so sort of flailing from , but, even if she were to break neck, didn’t intend to give her the satisfaction from any unseemly outward show of pain.
Lim Jisoo clicked her tongue while looking at and removed her foot. “You’re still no fun.”
“Lim Jisoo…Have you finally gone insane?” croaked.
Obviously Lim Jisoo and despised each other, but to the point of attacking from behind? With the intent to kill? If news spread that she attacked a guildmaster during a raid, Lim Jisoo’s life as a respected ranker would be over. Had she really gone insane?
Perhaps she was anticipating question–perhaps she read the confusion on face–Lim Jisoo opened her mouth with a triumphant smile. “Seo Dawon. Didn’t I warn you, as your sunbae 1 ? Rember?”
bit back questions as there was no value to answering this madwoman, but Lim Jisoo seed to be intoxicated. She continued as if she didn’t care about response with exaggerated gestures and raised voice.
“I told you to stop putting on airs, stop pretending to be good, and live modestly. This is your karma.”
Her words were nonsense, but felt the atmosphere change as soon as Lim Jisoo finished speaking.
Though could only see the guild mbers’ feet from my prone position, their stance had changed. Sohow the sound of Ragi’s chain sword clanking against itself seed quite creepy.
The Lich Lord’s resurrection spot seed quiet, so sothing else must have erged. And the guild mbers were nervous enough to change into defensive positions to deal with it… wanted to see what Lim Jisoo had summoned, but this crazy bitch crouched in front of , blocking line of sight.
With a deranged smile, she whispered, “First of all…Watch your annoying guild mbers die.”
As soon as those words left her mouth heard a wet tear–the fishy sll of blood assaulted my nose. didn’t hear anyone screaming, but knew–or rather felt–that soone in the guild was mortally wounded or killed.
looked Lim Jisoo square in the eye and said, “Step aside, pig bastard, so I can watch.”
Lim Jisoo’s smiling face hardened; her cheeks twitched. She grabbed by the collar and raised dangling body into the air. “You still don’t understand your situation, do you?”
Then, Jisoo turned her body to the side, as if she were putting on a performance.
knew better than anyone else the present state of the guild mbers. were already exhausted from trying to defeat the Lich Lord and his Death Knights, and Bae Jaemin, the team’s only Priest, had left the dungeon.
Above all, was the guild’s biggest firepower, but was held in Lim Jisoo’s hands, collapsed and useless. had no idea what Lim Jisoo had stabbed into back, but because of it, the mana circulation in my body was disrupted. couldn’t even call upon Mage abilities to change this dire situation.
To drive into this corner…This attack must have been a thoroughly researched and prepared trap that must have been conceived long ago. However, Lim Jisoo could not have accomplished all this on her own; needed to uncover her partner in cri.
Lim Jisoo finally responded to provocations and swept her arms across the battlefield. could finally see our enemy…or should say enemies.
“How do you feel? Two of the nation’s top three guilds joined hands to demolish you Red Lotus eyesores.” Though her tone was flippant, as if she were joking, the battlefield corroborated her words.
Only eight of the Red Lotus guild mbers participated in the raid. Two of them, Garam and Jaemin, were absent, and was captured by Lim Jisoo. Therefore, only five mbers were standing in the field.
At a rough glance, over 50 people were surrounding . Moreover, a good portion of them were guild rankers that were so famous that anyone in country, even those living under rocks, could recognize them.
First of all, the famous [Red Dragon] guild stood out because of the mbers’ cliche uniforms embroidered with red dragons. The guild itself was established by gang mbers; both users and ordinary folk began to call them loan sharks. It is said that the chairman of the group, Koo Kyungman, currently has the most cash in Korea; he was the king of dirty money.
Of course, had no reason to get entangled with a punk like Gu Kyungman who only played around at clubs or expanded his dirty business. And, it wasn’t as if Kyungman had hid the bloodthirst in his eyes when he ca to guild to solicit personal jobs.
But the man had a shrewd brain on his shoulders, didn’t think he’d dare gamble being the Red Lotus’s enemy. Worse, the guildmaster, Kyungman, didn’t send one of his officer underlings but instead ca personally to fight. He stood in the center of a group of Red Dragons, wearing a childish cape (the symbol of the Red Dragon guild master) draped over a body as thin as anchovies.
He was a Mutuga 2, a class that used gauntlets. The gauntlets were always infused with poison, befitting his treacherous nature, and, predictably, he would only use black weapons. After briefly pacing the battlefield, he locked onto one target and began doggedly chasing.
That target was Kyungsik, the alchemist who had just lost his Golem. Koo Kyungman had a nose like a hunting dog; he had correctly chosen the weakest target.
Fortunately, Kyung-sik, who had noticed him chasing, quickly turned to run and narrowly avoided an attack from behind. The chase was montarily suspended when Olim threw a shield at Kyungman. Kyung-sik quickly ran by Olim’s side.
But the real reason for the halt was quickly revealed: Kyung-sik had already fallen victim to the insidious poison on the gauntlet. He collapsed in Olim’s arms, face turning blue and gushing black blood. Olim’s expression contorted.
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