31The second word overturns the game board (Episode 502)
The dark heavens formed throughout Pandea had some similarities to the labyrinth. It suddenly springs up in an unrelated area, and there are almost no survivors among those who entered..
In the case of Dark Heaven, there have been no survivors so far, but several have recently been discovered who have returned alive..
As a result, there were many groups trying to secure their safety and reveal the secrets of the dark world. And although most people tried to use the secret for the group's ambitions, there were also groups that did not do that..
So did Zodiac, who decided to actively intervene in Pandea's problems..
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
“The status is?”
When Frannan asked, the senior wizard next to him answered:.
“My consciousness returned and my mental anxiety was put under control for now. However, it won't be long enough to talk about it..”
“I get it.”
The tower owners, including Frannan, approached the man sitting on the chair, exhausted after experiencing a rare experience..
“Nice to meet you.”
“flaw… Hehe… I saw the faces of high-ranking people and became successful..”
“I heard you are a survivor of the dark world..”
“…That's right, I came back alive from that shitty place..”
The expressions of the tower owners flinched..
It wasn't because a man who looked like a young man spoke without exception..
“Me, really? I came back alive from the dark world.?”
“That's fine too….”
The man smiled and answered as the tower owners looked surprised..
“I'm fine... No.”
“…….”
“Even now I'm in hell.”
Frannan asked..
“what did you see?”
“death.”
The place where this person was discovered is near the darkness that swallowed up the Free City of Holn. It was a city where there were more people than bugs in the grass on a summer day..
“that day… Was he there that day when Holn was swallowed up in darkness??”
“…okay.”
“What happened to everyone??”
The man spoke breathlessly..
“If you go inside... Lose sight. Exactly, this much. My field of vision shrinks to the size of my palm. that is… I was more scared. I was more scared of not being able to give up on life..”
A little hope sometimes brings greater destruction than a great despair..
“Keep listening. There may be a story related to salvation from the dark world..”
“Kick… Now it's been 2 years?”
“2For years we've been fighting our own way.”
a moment of silence.
The man met Frannan's hard gaze and changed his tone..
“Please excuse me... You did it. They're probably all dead. Because it's a worthy environment.”
“What is the environment inside there??”
“Day and night disappeared, and monsters that appeared from nowhere were swarming. It suddenly appeared and bit the city's residents..”
The man stretched out his fingers and counted the days..
one two.
“The next few days were filled with nothing but screaming. And soon the screams stopped. What followed after that was… The cry of the beast. I've been hearing this for 2 years.”
“how did you survive?”
“My father was a grocery distributor in Holn. Hiding in a warehouse for 2 years... eat and eat….”
“I managed to survive without going crazy..”
“I am lucky. There were a lot of similar houses, so maybe they heard a noise and came... From the next day there was no sound..”
Now I had to ask the most important question..
“How to get out of the darkness?”
“uh… I do not know.”
“Didn't you get out?.”
“Is there a problem with the arm sphere? One day, the place I was in came out of the dark tunnel. So, like a crazy person, I headed to another city..”
Frannan shared brief thoughts with other top owners..
The conversation did not yield much benefit as there were more unrevealed aspects of the world of darkness than revealed parts..
“Ugh….”
Frannan said as the man groaned..
“It looks like you're having a hard time, so I'll tell you to rest..”
“Now, wait… There's something I must tell you.”
When Frannan nodded, the man composed his words..
“Ah, in the dark… something is alive.”
“…what?”
“That guy's voice... I heard it, clearly….”
* * *
It was snowfall that visited Nairo and Falchion. When he entered the Dark Heaven, he decided to move separately from the two knights..
Considering the purpose of entering the dark world, it would have been much better to move separately..
‘But, this reaction….’
The expedition team's carriage, which was said to be heading to Amgu, was not visible. If so, assume it is inside the dark sphere. Kang Seol and his party stepped in because the energy felt within the dark area was not particularly strong..
“In front… I can see ahead….”
“Tongashi.….”
The people in front of me were already covered in tears and it seemed difficult to even have a proper conversation..
Snowfall first had to achieve her first purpose for coming here, so she asked when her crying subsided..
“Have you ever seen a woman named Nairo??”
“By age… ? Nairo Ramen….”
When Falchion looked at Nairo, she raised her hand..
“That's me! It's me! Are you looking for Nairo??”
“ah… yes.”
“…Why, why?”
She became slightly anxious and hesitated to ask, and Kang Seol answered..
“Actually, before I came here….”
A story about a young child I met at a branch of the association, who asked for it out of concern for her older sister..
“My little happiness... You found her sister. eww….”
At the age of shedding tears of wonder that the young life she had to support was actually saved..
“however… Can I go back... Rather, Pavel! Didn't you see Pavel??”
“…pavel?”
“yes I was caught up in this place with a guy who looked like a bit of a nerd..”
“…I can't be sure..”
“ah….”
After calming down a bit, the two look at the snowfall..
I never thought I could see forward in the darkness. The vision I returned to was dark, but it felt different from the night..
It feels like walking down a darkly lit road..
“After leaving like this….”
Neither of them were moved by Nairo's suggestion. Does this mean I have no intention of leaving?.
“…Lord Falchion?”
“colleagues….”
“…no way.”
“just in case… Can’t we just search this area??”
“Wow, I'm crazy. what is that now….”
“I came here that day. If they haven't forgotten their grit, it's clear... You'll be alive like me.”
Falchion looked straight at the snowfall and said.
“At least one guy... Okay, maybe there's at least one guy? These are the guys I personally took care of. At the end….”
Although Nairo understood his feelings, he was shocked when he saw the giant monster's corpse in Kangseol's hands..
“Up, it’s dangerous. There are monsters running around.….”
monsters are dangerous.
So you have to run to get out safely..
A normal way of thinking would have come to this conclusion. However, Falchion was more astute and observant..
“That sound earlier… It was the sound of a monster being attacked. you… Not an ordinary adventurer?”
“…….”
“Tonga sent it... To help me. Don't forget my last mission... It's a revelation.”
Falchion's expectation was that if he could kill monsters in an instant, he would be able to protect the party even if more monsters flocked to him..
The old man’s insight could not be ignored..
Many of the assumptions were clumsy, but the results were correct..
“Does this take a long time? There is a suspicious energy lurking nearby..”
“That's not true, you just have to look at a few places..”
“Hmm….”
Kang Seol put her hand on her chin for a moment and then nodded..
“Of course. Instead, you should refrain from making noise..”
“Now that I can see the future, what's the problem??”
I profit…
Snowfall stepped forward first..
‘…two.’
quite a long distance.
A monster was wandering around.
“Let's go.”
“Thank you….”
“this….”
Naira returned the dagger handed to her earlier to Falchion..
Falchion took the dagger and grinned..
And soon the search became engrossed..
“Is there a place you can guess where it might be??”
“There are a few places around here.”
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
a strange feeling.
The feeling of walking through an empty city wasn't bad, but knowing the situation, I couldn't help but feel depressed..
“First here….”
A distance that can never be reached in a situation where the eyes cannot see. Since I failed this much, I haven't been able to come for two years..
“this….”
“hmm….”
There were lots of corpses..
It was full of rotting and torn bodies..
Falchion found a relatively clean body among them..
“Oh, there you are..”
already dead.
A skull with a speck of broken, rotted flesh on it..
Only the dented armor and the raven seal on the pauldrons indicated that the corpse belonged to the same order as Falchion..
Falchion seemed to have had enough of that..
He neatly collected the bodies of several of his subordinates he found here and brought them into the broken house..
“Someday, I will definitely bury you.”
Falchion looked around a few more places..
A similarly gruesome body was found there too..
“…Thank you. It's okay to go back now.”
“Have you found everything??”
“no… But I don't know if I'll have to stay here longer to find it..”
“Yeah, yeah... We're going back….”
Snowfall pointed somewhere with her finger.
“Let's go there.”
“excuse me? That's a square.….”
A place with open space.
“It's too dangerous!”
“it's okay. It seems like my colleagues are coming over there..”
“You had a colleague. Is it as strong as you are??”
As Snowfall smiled, Falchion felt relieved..
“If so, it's safe. Might as well join in and get out..”
“eww….”
Nairo was scared and didn't deserve it, but he was in no position to insist on it, so he obeyed..
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
The number of monsters felt nearby gradually increased. But it didn't show up.
Jeopuk…
When Kang Seol and his group entered the square, they were all silent..
“This….”
“It's terrible... Woo-eup….”
mountain of corpses.
Rotting and shredded human corpses piled up like a mountain..
The monsters we encountered earlier all had only weak intelligence, and they didn't look like they were going to build a mountain with their corpses like trophies..
‘…There's something.’
Jeopuk…
Jeopuk…
At that time, someone greeted me brightly..
“found!”
“…Karen.”
“You came.”
Karen and Karuna were taking some adventurers with them..
“pavel!”
When Nairo shouted in surprise, Pavel came running..
“By age! You were alive.!”
“Ugh….”
They cling and cry as if they will never fall again. It was a sight that will never be seen again in the dark heavens..
Karen and Karuna gathered at Snowfall..
“A little suspicious?”
“The owner will appear soon.”
“where….”
Grumbling…
When Karen lit a spark, the mountain of corpses began to burn in an instant..
This looked like a flare.
Or it could have been a declaration of war..
The meaning of the declaration of war was simple..
Just that we came here.
Soon, a gale of tremendous force was felt..
“…come.”
Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!
The person who appeared after destroying the building came swinging a blade. The attack aimed at Snowfall's neck was stopped by two knights..
Taaaaaang-!
“uh? It's fast?”
When Karen expressed surprise at the other person who quickly left, the other person also laughed..
“This is what I'm going to say. Ha ha ha ha ha! You finally came?”
Snowfall asked the person who turned around while looking at the mountain of corpses..
“Are you the owner of this place??”
“That's right, it's me. I made this place like this! How about it, cool?”
maniac.
I didn't want to deal with it, but I had to find out the origin. That was Snowfall’s original purpose for coming here..
“Did you create this dark phrase??”
“uh… this? What's similar? Because I also woke up with this demonic energy..”
Kang Seol noticed that the other person's appearance in the light was unusual..
Animal ears, sharp teeth and snout. And yet he had a human body..
“Waking up from the dead is really cool... You can turn back the boring ending?”
“…what is the purpose?”
“slaughter.”
The person who looks back and smiles.
“It's simple?”
“I like it because it’s clear.”
“Let's compete! how is it? You want to kill me?”
“I can't figure out if he has a clue or not. what kind of game?”
“What was the purpose of such a wonderful decoration? To call out guys like you..”
Crrrrrrr…
Crumbling…
Monsters covered in fur began to appear here and there in the square. These are all the guys who started wandering around the neighborhood..
“Yes, monsters….”
Nairo and his companions retreat hesitantly..
“Kahaha… For some reason, I only saw it from afar..”
The other party revealed his identity.
“I'm a dunker. I came back to become king. I must have filled my stomach... I needed someone just as skilled as you, so it worked out well..”
“…why?”
Dunker laughed..
[Blade Tooth Dunker appears.]
“Eat you, I'll be king.”
“Right.”
Kang Seol assessed the opponent’s skills. If we had met him before the war, he would have been strong enough to have been in the middle ages..
“To be honest, my first death was a little weird. The opponent was bad. If it weren't for that guy, I would be king..”
The immortal unleashed these terrible beings all over the world. With only the desire to reach heaven,.
“Damn you son of a bitch….”
“huh? what you said to me?”
Srrrrrrrgh…
Dunker's sword, both blades studded with his own teeth..
When Karen saw the situation and looked at Kangseol, Kangseol said:.
“Do it yourself.”
“good! Then I'll just worry about this one..”
Whirling…
“heartbreak, wake up.”
sreung…
heartbreak said.
【I dozed off!】
“I slept for a long time.”
【I dozed off for a long time!】
As Kangseol stood there with his sword drawn, Dunker grinned and prepared to attack..
And it didn't move for a while.
“…what?”
His face became so cold that you could feel that the wolf's face also had an expression..
“why me… Like this?”
Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss For…
A strange energy began to rise from Kang Seol’s body..
Black energy was released and encroached on the surroundings..
“You're not very tactful..”
2One year is enough time for the person who stole the crown to become the real king..
“ah… iced coffee?”
Whioooooooo…
[Snowman uses Power: King of Shadows.]
……
Partszzzzzt…
Paaaaat-!
At the same time as the power of snowfall was unleashed, Dunker hid himself in a pack of beasts..
“Damn it! … king!”
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