Episode 7 – Landlord (5)
As I watched the surging wave of monsters, I gave strength to my thighs. The level 15 strength condensed at once and my feet developed a strong propulsion force.
The ground rats ran from all directions and the hard horns of the grolls flew from unexpected places.
My skin, which was tempered by the level 15 stamina, beca bruised and bloody from the grolls’ horns.
[The number one bookmark has been activated.]
Bookmark was activated and Kim Namwoon’s Blackening wrapped around my body. I pushed away all the monsters coming from the front.
Fangs burrowed into my body and a few ground rats bit my thighs. However, I didn’t stop. Run and run again.
Over here. Finally, the original wall was visible. I jumped over the ground rats. There was a green zone for two people shining.
By the way...shit.
[Green Zone 1/2]
There was already soone inside.
“...”
I forgot about the monsters coming from behind and stared at him. There was a guy who should never be there.
“Hey.”
He turned to .
“Can’t you get out? You don’t even need to stay in here.”
“It is difficult. I am tired today.”
I pushed to punch this asshole’s face. I didn’t understand. This wasn’t the ‘third regression’ Yoo Jonghyuk that I knew.
In Ways of Survival, it was written that Yoo Jonghyuk only found the first hidden green zone in the fourth regression... damn, did he know about this place since the second regression and it just wasn’t described? Then why didn’t he originally use it in the third regression?
Grrrr!
There were the cries of the ground rats chasing from behind. It was too late to bla the writer. I could feel Lee Gilyoung’s breathing. I stared into Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes. We spoke at almost the sa ti.
“Take the kid.”
“Give the child.”
Still, it was lucky. The constellations would hear my words.
[Green Zone 2/2]
I moved Lee Gilyoung and the mark of the green zone changed. Now Lee Gilyoung was safe.
“Hyung! Wait a minute! Hyung!”
Lee Gilyoung urgently tried to rush towards but Yoo Jonghyuk’s hand restrained him. I swung my sword towards the ground rats.
[The constellation ‘Bald General of Justice’ has closed his eyes.]
[The constellation Demon-like Judge of Fire is watching you with uncomfortable eyes.]
At the last minute, Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes seed to move.
「 I told you that you would die. 」
The waves of monsters headed towards . Now there were no more green zones remaining.
“I won’t die.”
I ignored the monsters and put a hand in my pocket. In fact, I really didn’t want to use this. I couldn’t be assured that there would be no aftereffects. Now I had to believe in the Fourth Wall.
「 That...? 」
Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes shook with surprise. This bastard, did he find out? Well, I wouldn’t have known this thod without him.
I looked down at the white stone shining in the palm of my hand.
[Specter’s Stone.]
It was an item I gained by hunting specters on the way to Chungmuro.
Hundreds of ground rats started biting at my body.
I was bleeding from minor wounds and the shoulders struck by the grolls’ horns were red with blood. As the durability of my body rapidly diminished, I put the stone into my mouth.
Then sothing like water vapor started to erge from my mouth. The water vapor ford a fog that covered .
[The Welco Prison is activated.]
The ground rats and grolls stopped attacking at once.
Everything around started to distort. The platform, Yoo Jonghyuk and Lee Gilyoung calling out to .
I beca a ‘ghost.’
* * *
「 Dokja. 」
I noticed as soon as I heard my mother’s voice. This was a dream.
I tried not to get caught up in it but it wasn’t easy this ti. The floor sank like a quagmire and swallowed .
[Due to excessive imrsion, the influence of Fourth Wall has temporarily weakened.]
Scenes started to weave in front of , no matter what I wanted.
A living room covered with blood. The cold body of a man. The back of a woman looking down at the body. No. This mory was difficult to rember. I couldn’t rember it.
I shook my head furiously and the scene in front of scattered. This damn trauma...
It was a mory I didn’t want to see.
This was why I was reluctant to eat the Specter’s Stone. The Specter’s Stone temporarily made the user a ‘ghost’ and turned them invisible to monsters. But it has a side effect of causing the user’s trauma to peak.
That’s why I didn’t give it to the other party mbers. If it had been used by soone other than myself, they might’ve turned into a madman.
I had to endure, even if my head was hurting like crazy.
Certainly, the Fourth Wall was a scam. The skill would even be able to eat away at this stone. I wouldn’t see this effect even with the superior ‘ntal Barrier.’ Where was it? If my guess was correct, this skill...
「 Yoo Jonghyuk? Are you Yoo Jonghyuk? 」
I thought a trauma had started again but it wasn’t my voice. It wasn’t a voice created by my mories. I looked back and saw a strange woman.
「 ...You aren’t Yoo Jonghyuk. I think you are Korean but who are you? 」
A dazzling blonde foreigner. She was a little girl with a short height. The girl looked at for a long ti with an incomprehensible expression.
「 That...I don’t understand. I’ve seen the future a number of tis but I’ve never seen you before... 」
In the girl’s left eye, an ominous red swirl could be seen. The pages flashed in my head. I knew this person. No, there was absolutely no way I couldn’t know her. In this case...
[The exclusive skill, Character List is activated.]
[The character ‘Anna Croft’ is using ‘ntal Barrier Lv. 6’.]
[Character List ignores ntal Barrier Lv. 6.]
[There is too much information about this person. Character List is converted to Summary List.]
[Character Summary]
Na: Anna Croft
Attribute: Prophet (Legend), Savior (Legend)
Exclusive Skills: Future Sight Lv. 5, Past Sight Lv. 4, Insight Lv. 8, Clairvoyance Lv. 4, Advanced Magic Training Lv. 4, ntal Barrier Lv. 6, Lie Detection Lv. 7, Great Demon’s Eyes Lv. 1...
A woman who could ignore space constraints and freely enter the consciousness of other people. A woman who saw the future and tried to design the future of the world. There was only one ‘woman’ with such a way of thinking in Ways of Destruction.
“Anna Croft.”
「 ...How do you know ? 」
Her eyes widened and she glared at .
I replied quietly, “I’m a prophet.”
[The character Anna Croft has triggered Lie Detection Lv. 7.]
[Lie Detection has confird that your words are false.]
Indeed, I couldn’t lie to a true prophet.
「 ...Reveal your true identity. Who are you? 」
Her small lips were tightly closed. It looked as though she was protesting.
I anticipated how the situation would roughly occur. The woman noticed my presence, perhaps because the influence of Fourth Wall temporarily weakened. If Fourth Wall was really the skill I thought it was...
By the way... it was disappointing.
“Do you really not know who I am?”
「 ...Huh? 」
“Didn’t I send you the ichthyosaur’s core?”
Anna’s lips slowly widened.
“You must’ve implanted the ‘great demon’s eyes’ with the power of the core. Right?”
「 T-Then you? You asked for Broken Faith...? 」
[Great Demon’s Eyes.] It was a huge one million coin item that was taken by this woman with a damn diamond sponsor. I felt envious.
「 You! What is your na? How... 」
[The influence of the exclusive skill ‘Fourth Wall’ is slowly returning.]
「 Why... why can’t I see anything...? 」
Her eyes beca blurred. The influence of the Great Demon’s Eyes, which could interfere with the consciousness of others, weakened and her figured gradually faded. I waved my hands.
“Soday we will et. Wait across the continent.”
[The exclusive skill Fourth Wall has been completely restored.]
Anna completely disappeared.
I sighed with relief. In fact, my spirit had been fluctuating back and forth when talking to Anna Croft. It wasn’t very good.
[Due to the skill effect, immunity to Welco Prison has occurred.]
...Dammit, the effect took place too late.
I felt my consciousness clear up.
The discomfort still remained but it was much better than before. I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. I looked at the distinct facts one by one in order to regain my rationality.
I am Kim Dokja. The world was destroyed. Ways of Survival had beco reality. This was...Welco Prison. I ate the Specter’s Stone and was a ghost for a while. If I was a ghost, I wouldn’t be attacked by the underground species.
Yes, that’s right. So... the world looked like this.
In the midst of the landscape that seed like I had eaten drugs, the flow of ti was hardly noticeable. I beca a bit uneasy.
What happened to Yoo Sangah, Lee Hyunsung and Jung Heewon? That Jonghyuk bastard, did he kill Gilyoung? Was the third scenario still in progress? What if there were still ground rats around? Were the grolls circling in order to eat ?
If so...
...Hyung.
...Please.
...Dokja-ssi!
Voices flashed through my head.
[The exclusive skill ‘Permanent Lv. 1’ is activated.]
(TL: Temporary na. The skill hasn’t appeared before, and there is no explanation. The Korean used for it is usually used for ‘perm’. I highly doubt that is right so I went with permanent. I will change if it I get more information later)
Yes, it was ti to go back.
* * *
I breathed out roughly. There was a soft texture touching my cheek.
“Dokja-ssi!”
The fog faded and my vision beca clear. The first thing that I saw was Yoo Sangah’s face. Lee Hyunsung and Jung Heewon’s worried faces also appeared.
“...The scenario?”
“It ended Dokja-ssi. We did it. We did it!”
...I see. We did it.
I looked at the agitated party mbers and tried to move my body. I had remained stiff for a long ti and my muscles barely listened to .
“Don’t be...pleased.”
“Huh?”
“Only one day has passed. Yesterday was the third day...”
Lee Hyunsung caught as I tried to get up.
“Dokja-ssi! It isn’t possible. You haven’t slept at all.”
“What ti is it now?”
“It is 8:30 a.m. 30 minutes have passed since the scenario ended.”
8:30... fortunately, not too much ti passed. By the way, there was a face missing.
“Where is Gilyoung?”
“Ah, Gilyoung...”
Before Jung Heewon spoke, I already discovered where Jung Heewon was. Lee Jihye and Yoo Jonghyuk were looking down at Lee Gilyoung a few steps away.
...No, what was that bastard Yoo Jonghyuk doing?
At this mont, I rembered how Yoo Jonghyuk was surprised when he saw my party. Don’t tell , when Yoo Jonghyuk used Sage’s Eyes...?
“When... you have chosen? Obvious never...before.”
Due to the aftereffects of using the stone, Yoo Jonghyuk’s voice wasn’t heard properly. Then Lee Gilyoung started talking.
“It is okay.”
“...You really won’t go with ?”
“Yes.”
“You can beco much stronger with than with him. You still won’t go?”
“Yes. I won’t.”
“...Stupid kid.”
Yoo Jonghyuk frowned and looked my way.
[Exclusive skill, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint stage 2 has been activated!]
「 ...Lucky guy. He will be helpful so let’s keep him a little longer. 」
I wanted to say sothing but I had no energy in my body.
“Dokja hyung!”
Once he discovered that I woke up, Lee Gilyoung rushed towards with swollen eyes. Yoo Jonghyuk’s thoughts still rang in my head.
「 There is no ti to delay. I have to finish the attack today. Otherwise... 」
...Attack? What was he talking about?
I had to think... Damn, I’m too tired. As I relaxed my body, the softness of the thigh I was lying on touched my cheek again.
“Yoo Sangah-ssi...”
“Y-Yes!”
“Sorry, I’m going to sleep a bit...”
Then I fell sleep. It was a sweet sleep without any dreams.
* * *
I woke up two hours later.
[Hey, how long are you going to sleep?]
I opened my eyes at the loud and unpleasant voice. This ti, the texture against my cheek was much thicker and harder than before.
“...Ah, Dokja-ssi woke up.”
Smiling lips. Jung Heewon was looking down at .
“Yoo Sangah-ssi took a break. We didn’t sleep well last night.”
I turned my head and saw Yoo Sangah sleeping against a wall. Jung Heewon smiled.
“By the way, is Lee Hyunsung’s thigh comfortable?”
I turned and saw Lee Hyunsung drooling.
“Today in the morning... the on-call officer will conduct the duties...”
...I thought the height of the pillow wasn’t right. It turned out to be Lee Hyunsung’s thigh. It was an army pillow with a bloody sll.
“Dokja hyung...”
I felt a heavy feeling on my stomach and looked down to see Lee Gilyoung leaning against and sleeping.
The mont I carefully raised my body, I heard Bihyung’s voice.
[Haha, you are awake? Then take this.]
ssages poured into my ears.
[The constellation ‘Demon-like Judge of Fire’ is sad about your trauma.]
[The constellation ‘Abyssal Black Fla Dragon’ is interested in your past.]
[The constellation Secretive Plotter is wondering about your mother.]
[The constellations have sponsored you 1,800 coins.]
...Sons of a bitches. They were trying to steal a peek at my past.
This wasn’t the end.
[You have endured Chungmuro’s night without the green zone.]
[You have accomplished the ‘Never-ending Dawn’ achievent at Chungmuro Station!]
[You have earned 1,000 coins as an achievent reward.]
[Coins Possessed: 22,650 C]
I had achieved the target amount. I didn’t experience a hard night for nothing.
This ti Jung Heewon asked. “What should we do today? Like yesterday...”
“No, not today. That only works for one day.”
Of course, if we were lucky then we might be able to find the randomly generated green zone. Unfortunately, there was no detailed description of the location of the green zones on day four in Ways of Survival.
“Then...”
Jung Heewon’s expression beca dark. But it was unnecessary worry.
“Today we will completely end the third scenario.”
“Huh?”
I carefully laid Lee Gilyoung and got up.
It wasn’t originally planned but I couldn’t wait after hearing Yoo Jonghyuk’s thoughts. Yesterday, he had no choice but to buy ti. However, the story was different today.
“I will drag out the land owners.
“...How?”
Jung Heewon asked and I looked at Lee Hyunsung, who was sleeping deeply.
“I have to use the secret weapon that I saved.”
Now it was ti to change the owner of Chungmuro.
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