episode_0071

As I walked down the hallway, I looked around.

The inside was somehow round and felt like it could collapse at any moment. However, when you look at the wall, it is so unnecessarily solid that there is no sign of that happening.

In some ways, it seemed like the safest place I’ve ever been.

‘What on earth comes next?’

The guy clearly said he would unleash his power in the next stage. Considering that, it was easy to guess that it would be a direct way to inflict damage.

But what exactly are you going to do?

No matter how hard I tried to think about it, it wasn’t a problem that could be easily solved.

‘The most likely thing would be to just fight with force.’

This is not the real world yet.

So it would have been difficult to properly harm me in any way. If that had been possible, it would have been over earlier.

“Oh, this is really frustrating.”

In my opinion, at least, there was no way. After all, unless there was some hidden element, there was no way to attack.

‘Maybe it’s just because I’m stubborn.’

Suddenly, I even had such a question.

I just kept moving forward with my head down, wanting to get rid of this shitty feeling as quickly as possible.

“Look ahead properly. Otherwise, it will be dangerous.”

At that time, Yoo Seora said that to me in a pitiful tone. At that moment, I felt angry because of her tone and raised my head. Then, I tried to say something to Yoo Seora, but for some reason, I lost my energy and just turned my head away.

“Okay, I understand.”

I answered vaguely and looked straight ahead again.

Of course, there was nothing there, just an endless road.

‘Is this it?’

A method that suddenly occurred to me.

It’s about making me walk down this corridor until my mental power is exhausted. So when my mental power is exhausted, it does something to me.

I think there is some basis to it.

It was that moment when I was feeling so proud.

Suddenly, something suddenly appeared and my vision became completely black. Feeling embarrassed, I took a few steps back from where I was and rubbed my eyes hard.

“What the fuck. What the hell is going on.”

Slowly, vision began to return.

Only then did I rub my eyes once more and look around. I looked around the place I was in to see if anything had changed.

‘Has something changed?’

At least to my eyes, I couldn’t see any difference.

I immediately turned my head to check on Yusera. She was rubbing her eyes, wondering if she was experiencing the same phenomenon as me. It seemed like her vision was still black, so she kept blinking hard and rubbing her eyes.

“Hey, hey. It’s Yu Seo-ra. Are you okay?”

I walked up to her right away and checked to see what was wrong. Fortunately, at least to my eyes, she didn’t look too bad.

“Hey, hey! Can’t you hear me? It’s a lie!”

But there still seems to be a problem with the will.

It seemed like she couldn’t hear me and couldn’t answer. I was even worried that maybe she couldn’t even make a sound.

Damn it, really.

I need to think about what to do with this.

Kookung!

Then, from somewhere, a sound of the ground shaking was heard.

I tried to ignore it for a moment, thinking I was hearing something, but the ground shook even harder with a few more thumps. Unable to hide my bewilderment, I instinctively turned my head toward the sound.

When I saw it with my own eyes, I couldn’t believe it even more.

“What the fuck is that?”

Some gigantic creature.

Maybe it seemed bigger than when I went to get the hidden piece before.

A hard-looking scale. A strange dragon-like object was currently approaching with large steps.

‘No, this isn’t reality. So it’s okay, right?’

But strangely enough, I started to feel anxious. So I looked back along the back road I had apparently walked down.

I definitely put my palm against it and even used a dagger to scratch it, so I could confirm that this was really the right place.

And as if my anxious predictions were correct, every trace I left behind had disappeared without a trace.

The possibility that this might be the real world.

As soon as I remembered that, I realized how dangerous the situation was. I immediately grabbed Yusera’s wrist and started running.

“What, what is it! Is that you? Play this! There’s something strange about my current state… … !”

◦ Shut up, but I can’t hear it.

I gritted my teeth and looked back for a moment.

There the dragon was walking, very slowly, but almost as fast as I was running at full speed due to its large size.

Still, at that speed, it should be possible to escape with plenty of time to spare.

Then suddenly a family I didn’t want to think about came to mind.

‘Wait a minute. What if you keep making me run away and luring me somewhere?’

What if I keep running away like this is what that guy wants?

Then I couldn’t help but worry about running.

Not even a single second passed.

I stopped my legs without hesitation. Then I turned around and checked the dragon’s condition again.

Anyone could tell that guy wasn’t someone I could beat.

But I wonder if it wouldn’t be okay to buy some time.

“Whew, that sucks.”

I muttered a small complaint and gathered all my mana with all my might.

Then he lifted Yusera up in a flash.

“Hey, wait! What are you doing!”

Yu Seo-ra, who knew nothing, just shouted. She had a somewhat embarrassed expression on her face.

‘What if this thing I’m holding is fake?’

Strangely enough, negative thoughts kept coming to my mind, but I decided to ignore them for now. The situation itself was too dangerous to worry about.

“Let’s go, shit. Let’s do it.”

I powered up my physical abilities as much as I could with mana and ran towards the dragon. Then, when I was only a few dozen meters away, I jumped up high in the air.

I leap straight towards the wall and kick again to leap over the dragon. I raised my gun in case it attacked.

bang!

They say that most living creatures have fragile eyes. I hoped that was true and just shot bullets at the creature’s eyes as much as possible.

I jumped several times, using mana continuously.

And finally I was able to land on the ground.

Luckily I managed to dodge past the dragon. I haven’t been hurt yet.

The passage was narrow compared to the size of the dragon, so I guess it would take some time for it to turn around and come back to us.

“What, what is it? What’s going to happen from now on?”

Still, the only thing that remained was a bewildered expression of helplessness and helplessness. I wondered how I could talk about this, and decided to use Mana right away.

If you use this well, you will be able to have a good conversation.

So I went down and wrote the letters on her body with mana.

“Wh, what is this! What is this! Da, is it you? Is it Kim Seo-jin? Is it the Kim Seo-jin I know?!”

“Fuck, read that text!”

She still couldn’t hear my voice and it seemed like she didn’t understand the situation properly.

I decided to run with her in my arms, while continuing to write using mana.

“Huh? Is this a letter? Is it a letter? Can’t you speak?”

“Can’t you hear me, you fucking idiot!”

Because the situation is so urgent, I find myself getting excited without even realizing it.

I calm myself down as much as possible and start writing slowly again.

“Hmm, you wrote something like, ‘From now on, you have to figure out how to escape on your own. If you use mana, you should be able to see ahead to some extent’, right?”

As expected, she was able to understand the meaning as soon as she realized that it was a letter. I replied that it was correct by rewriting the letter as ‘ㅇㅇ’.

I lowered her to the ground for Yusera, who I thought would understand now. She slowly stood up, pushing on the ground, as if she still couldn’t see.

I pointed her arm in the direction I was going to run. Thinking that she would understand at least this much, I immediately picked up my dagger and gun.

We’ll have to deal with it somehow anyway.

I decided to stay behind and see if I could fight this opponent.

“Okay, wait a minute. What about you? What happens to you? No, more than that, what’s the situation?”

I finally used mana for conversation.

“Huh? What is that?”

“Then run now!”

I hit Yusera’s back hard and made her run faster. She still had a puzzled expression on her face, but it seemed like she decided to follow what I said.

‘At least there won’t be any way.’

Because right now, there’s no other way for her to do anything but follow my orders.

Of course, since it was a will, you would doubt what I said. In particular, you would doubt whether what the person named Kim Seo-jin said was true.

Still, I was quite relieved that he was following me. Thanks to him, I was able to fight a little better.

“Come on, you little shit.”

I grabbed the dagger, put my finger on the trigger, and fired the bullet.

bang!

The first thing I’d do is find out if the guy has any weaknesses. Most of the time, the weak points would be in places that are hard to hit, like the back of the head or something that can’t be seen from the front.

So I used my mana to see how he would react.

‘Damn. It doesn’t seem like there’s much of a difference.’

Is running away the answer after all?

Just as that thought crossed my mind, the guy suddenly starts shaking violently from side to side. It looks like he’s struggling, and as a result, the wall cracks and collapses.

“What the hell!”

The ceiling cracked and huge pieces of rock fell towards me. I stepped back to avoid getting hit as much as possible and looked for a place where I wouldn’t get hit.

And yet I didn’t stop pulling the trigger.

But why is he suddenly doing that?

“This kid, no way.”

Are you just going to turn around quickly and be this annoying?

Could it be that there really was a weakness in the back? Many questions went through my head, but in the end, there was nothing I could do.

It’s a headache in many ways.

“What the fuck is there really nothing.”

Apparently the guy said there were steps.

Then there must be a next step, so there must be a way to solve it somehow.

“Should I just run away?”

At least when I attacked it, there was no weakness.

At the same time, the dragon guy seems to have a somewhat impatient personality and tries to move quickly. When he walks, he actually looks leisurely.

‘I have to remember this first.’

First of all, let me just say that I understand that there is no way.

Since things had come to this, I thought it would be better for me to run away.

‘Let’s find a way later.’

After making that promise, I started running right away.

I just felt dizzy for no reason.

Time passes.

I was running with all my might, so I was pretty tired. I felt like I needed to take a break because I couldn’t move properly.

I sat down for a moment and looked around.

“Now that I think about it, Yuseo is running properly, right?”

Are you still not able to see?

With such questions in my mind, I decided to think for a moment. What could Yoo Seo-ra be doing right now?

‘You wouldn’t have run so fast if you could see.’

No matter how hard I tried, she would have run slower than my full speed. Especially since she has a personality where she would try to conserve mana as much as possible, she would be even more careful.

‘Then no matter how much I think about it, wasn’t it something I should have caught up with?’

With that thought in mind, I fell silent for a moment.

I jumped up and started running again. This time, I used my mana to run at full speed.

‘I hope nothing happens!’

*

There is nothing visible at the moment called Yuseo.

It seemed like I couldn’t hear anything, so I could tell that it was a dangerous situation.

Especially since Kim Seo-jin isn’t even by my side, I have no way of doing anything.

In that situation, only mana was available, so I was using that.

That alone is enough for Yoo Seo-ra to move safely. Kim Seo-jin probably knew that, which is why he just let her go.

But it seems like this wasn’t expected.

Use mana to look ahead.

There, two giant orcs, presumably, attack Yusera violently.

‘Should I retreat?’

I even had that thought.

If only I had at least shown my eyes, I could have easily won.

‘What should I do with this?’

Only worries come and go in my head.