Ch.334[Episode 334] Underworld Zone 3 Hard

The misfortune contained in Area 3 wasn’t limited to just this.

Beyond Park Choonbae’s atrocities and the officials’ safety negligence, a new problem was emerging.

It was all because of a woman wearing a hat labeled “IQ 150+” who was an executive of Mountain Bridge Marsh.

Why was this woman here?

It was because of someone’s request.

The woman sighed as she recalled when she had accepted this request.

…

“Punish the one who insulted me.”

A goblin-like man with shimmering short golden hair ordered the woman.

“…We’re not people who do others’ dirty work.”

The woman looked strangely at this goblin-like… commander who suddenly appeared and gave such an absurd order.

“You’re Mountain Bridge Marsh, aren’t you? Isn’t illegal work your specialty?”

“No, that doesn’t mean I need to listen to you—”

The man immediately growled threateningly at the woman.

The woman made one mistake at this moment.

The mistake of not ignoring the man’s words and engaging with him again.

“Shut up. Shut up and listen to what I say. I command you in the name of the one who created Mountain Bridge Marsh. Do as I say.”

“…Ugh?”

The man suddenly began to take an oppressive attitude.

The woman’s body froze as if turned to stone, and her mind began to fill with the man’s commands.

“What, what is this… Who, who are you?”

“Hmph. Finally becoming obedient?”

The goblin-like man sneered and mocked the woman.

“You didn’t even recognize your true master.”

The woman looked at the man again just to be sure, but the man before her was someone she didn’t know at all.

The man enjoyed her gaze and continued speaking.

“By the way, the technology that created Gacha Land must be amazing? Seeing how even malicious code like you has become a normal person.”

“…Malicious code?”

“Yes. You may not know, but we sent you here to sabotage this Gacha Land.”

That was probably before hacks and cheats were blocked.

The woman was shocked by what the man before her said.

She had felt somewhat out of place in Gacha Land, and now she knew it was because they were illegal resident code.

“Fortunately, the backdoor code we planted remains. Thanks to that, I can now give you orders.”

The man approached the woman with a vile smile.

He fixed her disheveled hat and whispered in her ear:

“So, listen to me. Go and punish the one who insulted me.”

The woman gritted her teeth and glared at the man with vicious eyes.

But the man simply enjoyed her gaze, showing no signs of intimidation.

Eventually, the woman accepted the man’s proposal.

…

After asking the mysterious man a few more questions, the Mountain Bridge Marsh woman learned that he was in Area 3.

Normally, it would have been difficult to narrow it down that much, but fortunately or unfortunately, Area 3 wasn’t very crowded today.

Just a few commanders, a few citizens, and dozens of androids.

The rest of the commanders had gone to Area 4 with just the minimum conditions needed to clear Area 3.

Those remaining in Area 3 were either novices or obsessive commanders searching thoroughly for achievements.

The Mountain Bridge Marsh woman thought that one of the people here must be the “one who insulted” the man.

However, from this point on, it wasn’t easy to narrow it down further.

The only hint was Area 3 itself, and the man had only asked her to do it without providing any more information.

Eventually, the Mountain Bridge Marsh woman came up with the most Mountain Bridge Marsh-like plan.

That plan was to kill everyone in Area 3 once.

“But if I kill them one by one, the system might notice right away…”

The Mountain Bridge Marsh woman thought as she walked for a moment.

As she was planning to annihilate everyone here at once, she suddenly realized she was behind some factory.

“…Where is this?”

The place where the woman arrived was behind a factory located at the back of Stage 3.

At this time, before the factory experienced anomalies due to the official’s misconduct, it was operating normally.

“This seems to be a factory that supplies monsters to the entire Area 3.”

The woman immediately identified the nature of this factory, proving that the “IQ 150+” on her hat wasn’t just for show.

“…This is it!”

And the woman came up with a good plan to annihilate everyone in Area 3 through this factory.

The woman immediately returned to Gacha Land from Area 3.

Normally, a commander’s accompaniment would have been essential, but Mountain Bridge Marsh wasn’t called Mountain Bridge Marsh for nothing.

She could return to Gacha Land through an illegal backdoor.

As soon as she returned to Gacha Land, she hurriedly began to call someone.

“Yeah. Right. It’s me. I need something.”

The woman spoke with someone and then hung up.

Shortly after, the woman attempted to meet with someone.

He was a man in a suit with pale skin and sunken eyes, constantly adjusting his tie while holding a briefcase in one hand.

The woman approached him and uttered the agreed-upon phrase.

“It’s been a while.”

“Ah, nice to see you. Are you—”

“Prepare for unexpected results. Yes. I know.”

“…I see. One moment.”

The man remained silent for a moment after the woman’s words, then opened his briefcase and handed something over.

It was a kind of USB, which looked very ordinary on the outside.

“…Is it reliable?”

“Yes. Have any of the items I’ve provided you so far been faulty?”

“No, they haven’t.”

The woman nodded at the man’s words.

The man was someone who procured all sorts of illegal items for Mountain Bridge Marsh.

The fact that he had been dealing with the woman until now showed how remarkable his abilities were.

After handing the USB to the woman, the man immediately stood up.

“I hope our next transaction will be good as well.”

After saying that, the man vanished from the spot.

“As I always feel, quite eerie.”

The woman shook her head, looking at the spot where the man who had suddenly disappeared had been.

Although they had been trading for a long time, he was a man with many questionable aspects.

But that was that, and this was this.

The woman looked carefully at the USB in her hand, then got up and headed back to Area 3.

And from far away, a man was watching her intently.

“The time has come, hero. Time to wake up from your slumber…”

While muttering mysterious words.

…

The woman headed straight for the factory that existed behind the stage.

By inserting this USB into the factory, her plan would be realized immediately.

Just as the woman was climbing the hill to go behind it.

She spotted some familiar figures in the distance.

“…Sir Dominic.”

The woman knew that man’s face well.

“Sir Dominic. Sir Dominic. Sir Dominic.”

The woman kept repeating Sir Dominic’s name.

As if to say, “You again?”

“Why is it that whenever we plot something, Sir Dominic is there?”

The woman was becoming irritated by the continuous coincidences that seemed implausible even in novels.

How many times had their schemes been thwarted by Sir Dominic?

The woman wanted to rush to Sir Dominic right away and demand if he had come to interfere with their work again, but fortunately, she managed to suppress that impulse.

For now, inserting this USB into the factory came first.

“…It seems this ill-fated relationship will last a long time.”

The woman bit her lips, having suppressed her impulse but not her anger.

Then she sighed.

“The fortunate thing is that he doesn’t seem to be related to our plan.”

That’s right.

Although Sir Dominic was in Area 3, the woman didn’t think at all that Sir Dominic could be the “one who insulted” the goblin-like man.

“…I pray we don’t meet as enemies this time, Sir Dominic.”

The Mountain Bridge Marsh woman said as she headed toward the factory.

Hoping that Sir Dominic wouldn’t stop Mountain Bridge Marsh’s operation.

…

Back to the present, Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica had succeeded in capturing the drake.

“…Impressive.”

Sir Dominic stood on the fallen drake’s corpse with one foot up, panting.

If one were to think about whether anyone had ever drained Sir Dominic’s stamina this much, it would be clear how threatening the drake was.

“Did, did you defeat it?”

Captain Elang, watching the scene, looked at the fallen drake in disbelief.

“Now, now that we’ve defeated it, the stage is over, right?”

Captain Elang was more excited about the round ending soon after defeating this powerful enemy than about actually defeating the enemy.

Captain Elang jumped up and down with joy.

Sir Dominic and Sir Dominica looked at Captain Elang intently.

Captain Elang flinched at their gaze but firmly declared, as if unable to go on:

“I’m, I’m not doing any more. It’s too hard, I can’t go on!”

“No, we weren’t going to suggest doing more—”

“I won’t do it!”

Captain Elang shook his head firmly.

Sir Dominica closed her mouth at the sight but then opened it again as if she had to say what needed to be said.

“That’s not it, look behind you.”

“What?”

At Sir Dominica’s words, Captain Elang instinctively looked behind.

There was a gate behind Captain Elang, and when he saw it, his face immediately froze.

“It seems it’s not over yet.”

Sir Dominica said to Captain Elang, but he couldn’t hear her properly.

How could he?

Right now, from the gate, an enormous number of…

drakes were pouring out.