episode_0007

If my memory and senses are accurate, it was definitely this unidentified eye tattoo that struck the final blow before death.

That’s why I don’t understand the English language even more.

I died once and came back to life in the past, so why do I still have the eye tattoo?

Are you trying to kill me again? Isn’t it enough to kill him once?

“……”

However, no matter how long I waited, the extreme pain I experienced just before death did not come.

“Uhm…”

I lay down and looked blankly at the back of my hand, but that didn’t make my eye tattoo react or resolve my doubts.

I finally gave up thinking and sighed.

“Ha…I need to move.”

The Sahagins, who had identified my location with a spell, would be forming a siege network, closing the distance at every moment.

Even though I knew that, I looked up at the blue sky and drooped.

“……”

It may be surprising, but people are not machines.

Wasn’t he fighting for his life just a moment ago?

I was desperately trying to throw away everything, spitting out all my crazy, intense emotions, so I desperately needed rest.

With the return, the physical wounds and fatigue disappeared as if washed away, but the emotions and stress did not.

“ha…”

Amazingly emotionless.

It feels like it’s empty.

There was no desire or passion to survive, and the anger and hatred towards the Sahagins also disappeared, leaving not a single trace.

It’s so amazing.

When a person’s emotions are pushed into an extreme situation and reach their peak, they fall to this point.

“The scenery is really nice.”

The sky is so high and blue.

The periodic sound of waves calmed my mind and body, and the smell of the sea and nature filled me with refreshingness as if purifying my body.

Is this healing in nature?

I would like to stay like this forever if possible.

“Damn it. They won’t leave me alone.”

However, my nose was sensitive to the fishy smell of sahagin.

“Kkeit, squeak.”

“Kwiik.”

“……”

Tingling.

As the distance between them gets closer, I can clearly feel their gaze reaching every part of my body.

“Ugh, okay…I have to do what I have to do.”

No matter what, I had no intention of dying quietly, so I forced myself to get up.

“Seup, hoo…good.”

I walked towards the dark forest, intending to launch a counterattack before I was completely surrounded by them.

***

It wasn’t that difficult to annihilate the Sahagin who tried to surround me.

On the contrary, it is so easy that it is almost bewildering.

“Why are you so weak? Was it always like this?”

I don’t know if it was my mood, but I was able to clearly see their location and read the timing of their attack very easily.

“Hmm…?”

I tilted my head, but then walked away without much emotion.

The destination was, of course, Sahagin’s lair.

***

Unlike before, it was not that difficult to find the stone building where the Sahagins live.

This is because it is now possible to distinguish the terrain inside the forest to some extent.

Of course, I still got a little lost, but I was able to find it before the sun set, so this would be a remarkable improvement.

“…hmm.”

Subdue hundreds of Sahagin.

This wasn’t difficult either.

The problem in the first place was the Sahagin shaman, so it would have been extremely simple to attack from a place where his attacks could not reach.

Ta-ta-ta-ta-tang!

Exactly five shots to the head.

With that, he lost his life in vain.

He could track me using magic, so he must have been aware of my presence, but it didn’t seem to be a very precise means, so he couldn’t respond to a sniper shot from a distance of several tens of meters.

Moreover, he had not yet been able to engrave a spell to return the damage received.

That was because it was obtained by sacrificing more than twenty humans.

I don’t know when they were caught, but at this point, less than a day after the restart, they were no longer there.

“Okay then…”

Now all that’s left are a few hundred regular Sahagin.

I attacked them in a very simple way.

Barut and Manish were summoned in groups of three and fired guns around the building as they walked up and down the trees from a short distance away, leaving them stranded and trapped.

Of course, the Sahagins did not sit idly by and attacked with the determination of death… but there was nothing they could do against the hundreds of Manish and Barut summoned in real time.

In fact, by messing with his temper, he only hastened his downfall.

So, about two days later, they were completely wiped out.

“…It’s so shabby.”

I don’t know if it can be this easy.

Feeling a little helpless, I waited until Manish dispersed outside the building, then took out Barut with a gun and broke into the building.

“Wow…”

Sahagin’s corpse, which had been eaten carelessly, was lying around, rotting and giving off a disgusting smell, but to be honest, it was a much better place to live than a tree hole, so I had no intention of giving up.

I searched inside to see if there was anything special, but other than crude weapons and disgusting decorations made of bone, there was nothing worth looking at.

After wasting an entire day removing the corpses and cleaning the inside of the building, I ate a quick meal of canpal and bug berries and went to bed in a room located deep inside the building.

Although it had a fishy smell, it was worth it considering it was the price of ensuring safety.

“Ha…now I just have to hold on.”

I slowly closed my eyes, holding out hope that I could go back if I just held on for a month.

It’s both a relief and a futility.

I can’t believe I’ve been struggling with something so easy for so long… I can’t understand.

***

“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!

As soon as I woke up from the nightmare, I couldn’t control the overwhelming emotions that threatened to explode, so I ended up overusing my vocal cords.

“Heo-eok, heo-eok, hee-eok…?”

I was panting and quickly sweating, and I was embarrassed by the intense emotions that could not be calmed down.

“Hehehe, hehehe, what is it, what is it…”

I hear a voice.

their voices.

“Ugh…!?”

It resonates.

Terrible pain, despair toward death, anger and hatred that felt like it could burn my whole body.

“Aaaahhh…!”

I frowned because the loud voice, as if it was knocking on the inner wall of my skull, gave me an intense headache.

“Ugh, ugh…!”

But what really bothered me wasn’t the headache.

Hot and intense emotions rushing in like a tidal wave.

“Keuuu…!”

Would this be what it would feel like if someone died from a fever?

The pain of my heart and the back of my neck tightening and my stomach shrinking in real time due to the rushing blood flow was beyond my imagination.

The anger and hatred are too much.

“Damn it…what kind of bastards are they…!”

I knew it instinctively.

That what I am feeling right now is not mine.

“Big, big…!”

-Keee! Good!

“Ooh, wow!?”

As I was struggling in pain, I heard a familiar scream and was startled and screamed.

Taaaang!

At the same time, shot.

This is because the sense of danger that if attacked in this state would lead to death suddenly arose.

-Kkeeek!

However, surprisingly, the gun did not work on Sahagin, who appeared.

Rather than deflecting or blocking, it seems as if the bullet passes through.

“W-What!? Get out of here! You bastard! Get out of here!”

Ta-ta-ta-tang!

Because of the headache, I held my head and pulled the trigger repeatedly, but the guy just leisurely approached and aimed the harpoon.

“crazy…!”

To die in vain like this? Now all I have to do is hold on?

-Keee!

As if he was convinced that he too could kill me, he bared his teeth and lashed out with force.

“Ugh…!”

To endure the pain, I gritted my teeth and glared at him with anger and hatred.

Sreuk!

-Kkii?

“…huh?”

However, the harpoon passed through the body in vain.

“This is…what the hell.”

-Kkii? Me?

He kept flailing his harpoon as if he couldn’t believe this reality, but the result didn’t change.

“…Hah, what is this again…”

And only then did I realize that its body was translucent.

I stumbled out of laughter and stood up, reaching out my hand to the guy who continued to act foolishly.

-Quick!?

As expected, my hand also passed through.

“Ghosts? Ghosts? Is that it… Ugh, wow, my head hurts… Anyway, I see all kinds of things. I guess it’s because it’s a fantasy world…”

I was amazed at the non-entity I had seen for the first time in my life, and as I was scribbling my hand a few times, trying to find a solution to my burning emotions and pain, I noticed that the eye tattoo on the back of my hand was glowing subtly.

“…uh?”

-Keee!? Kiyi!

“W-what!?”

Immediately after, the Sahagin ghost, which had turned into dark red smoke, was sucked into the tattoo.

-Keee!

A heavy silence falls as the thing disappears, letting out a terrible sigh.

“What on earth happened…Kuheu!?”

A large amount of wind was knocked out of my lungs by the sudden impact, as if I had been struck by a drum from within.

“Kuhak! Kuhuhuh…!?”

It was an unknown shock that I had never felt before.

I could somehow tell that something was struggling inside me, but the problem was that it had no substance.

A feeling that something, something much more fundamental, is running amok.

“Kwaagak…!”

soul? Am I suffering damage to my soul right now? Because of that goddamn Sahagin ghost you just sucked in?

“Cough! Pugh!?”

I felt embarrassed by the blood that had vomited out.

No, I don’t know what kind of absurdity it is that it affects the body even though it is not being attacked.

“Damn it, what on earth…!”

First of all, I know that this phenomenon occurs because of the eye tattoo on the back of my hand, but I don’t know how to solve it.

“Cough!? Cough!”

As I coughed up blood again, I felt a more intense sense of crisis than ever before.

As I’ve already confirmed, this eye tattoo won’t disappear even if I regress.

In other words, even if you move on to the next round, the same process can be repeated.

“Whoop, whoop…!”

Somehow, something has to be done.

I don’t know what to do, but… I should get at least a piece of information rather than die like this.

“Keuuu…

I desperately turned my head, clutching my stomach, which was shaking as if I had been in a concussion.

“…altar.”

At that time, one possibility flashes in my head.

Originally, this eye tattoo was created by a Sahagi shaman.

In other words, he had the means to control this or eliminate the side effects.

The Sahagi shaman’s room contained nothing but hideous bone decorations, so all that remained was a ceremonial altar.

“Ugh, haha…He really won’t leave me alone.”

I staggered and walked with difficulty.

-Kiii! Wow!

-Kyaaa!

“Oh, what the fuck…”

When I saw the ghost of Sahagin who appeared as if blocking my path, I let out a curse.

“Off, off…!”

I cried out helplessly and tried to avoid them, but they didn’t hide their hostility towards me and attacked me. This time, they didn’t even make contact with my eye tattoo, but they were absorbed by the dark red smoke.

“Ughhh!!”

The pain is doubled by the exact number of souls added.

no. This really kills me.

hurry. I need to go faster.

“Cough! Cough!”

Patter, patter.

I moved my legs desperately, blood pouring out every few steps.

-Kkeee!

-Keek!

-Kiiaaaa!

“Oh, please stop coming…”

I asked in a half-resigned voice, but the crazy Sahagin ghosts kept blindly attacking and being absorbed repeatedly.

“Ah, ugh, ugh…!”

I feel that something that makes up me, probably my soul, is expanding irreversibly.

“Gggggaaaa…!”

When I came to, blood was pouring not only from my mouth, but also from my eyes, nose, and ears.

Has one step ever been this heavy?

It feels harder than before I died.

Damn it, I chose a room that was so far away that it was pointless.

“…Ah, ah…”

Still, I arrived somehow.

Although we absorbed more than a hundred Sahagin ghosts during our arrival, we still achieved our goal.

Honestly, I don’t know how I’m alive.

-Kkiik!

“Yes, of course the last one will be you…”

Even as a ghost, I stood on the altar, smiling faintly as I faced the old Sahagin wearing a bone crown and holding a bone staff.

-Quick!

I thought he was going to attack like the other guys, but he kept the distance a long way.

Did you know that if it touches the eye tattoo, it will be absorbed?

“……”

dump!

I had no strength to move, so I fell helplessly on the floor of the altar.

However, contrary to expectations, the altar did not show any response.

Is there really something more that needs to be done here?

Aren’t you asking for too much? Coming this far was literally a killer experience.

-Quick! Squeak! Al, baru-ka!

At that time, the ghost of the Sahagin shaman began chanting a familiar spell.

-Rigle—La Tacula! Kahal—Rigle—ra! Riggle—ra! Kahal—!

However, unlike when he was alive, the altar did not move at all.

Instead, all the Sahagin ghosts that had been scattered here and there gathered together.

“No, this is how you turn off aggro. Damn you…”

-Kiii!

-Keee!

-Squeak! Squeak!

-Kyaaa!

“Knock, squeak, squeak…!”

As soon as they saw me, they all rushed to attack me and were all absorbed by the eye tattoo.

Ah, this is the limit now.

“…Al, baru─ka…”

In the end, all I could do was recite the human sacrifice incantation that I had happened to memorize, as if grasping at straws.

If you die this way and die that way, it would be better to try something.

“Rigle—la…Takula…”

Paaat!

Then, surprisingly, the altar responded.

“Kahal—Rigle—ra…”

Grumble!

“Ugh, turn it off…!”

As expected, my body was on fire.

I never thought I would experience being burned alive twice.

“Rigle—La…Kahal…”

Grumble! Grrr!

“Ahhhh…! It hurts, you damn…you bastard…!”

I cursed from the excruciating pain, but the fire burning my body did not go away.

-Kiii!?

-Kyaaa!

-Kgyaaa!

As the fire burned most of my body, hundreds of Sahagin ghosts that had been absorbed came out at once with a terrible scream.

The sight was like seeing the beautiful Milky Way made up of dense scales.

Hahaha!

-Keeek!

It would have been nice if it just disappeared.

The group of Sahagin ghosts turned into dark red smoke again and seeped into the tattoo on the back of my hand.

-Kkigeeh!? Profit from joining!?

Even the still ghost of the shaman was entangled.

Sssseu…!

“ah…”

The shape of the eye tattoo has changed.

As if eyes had met, a new eye was reflected in the pupil.

“……”

I don’t know what happened.

After confirming that the pain in my soul was gone, I closed my eyes in satisfaction.

[Chances remaining: 5]