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“…a plague.”

I cursed at the view of the coastal cliffs spread out in front of me and lay down on the spot.

When I took a quick look, I saw that the eye tattoo was still on the back of my right hand.

“……”

If you see that the shape of the tattoo has changed, something must have changed, but the problem is that you can’t tell what has changed.

“I’m sure they won’t continue to die like that, right?”

As long as there is a shaman, it is a given that the Sahagins come to me.

Then I have no choice but to kill them…then I’ll be attacked by the Sahagin ghost like before.

What is this? Isn’t this completely false?

The feeling of being blocked in front and behind is so frustrating that it’s hard to breathe.

I rolled around on the hard stone floor and thought about various directions, but no clear solution emerged.

No, if you really think about it, it’s a problem that can be solved by running away for a month…

“I wonder if that will work.”

People must sleep.

In other words, there are bound to be some vulnerable times during the day, and if Sahagin comes at that time, you will be stuck and just die.

Moreover, I am not confident that I will survive even after wandering around that dangerous fantasy jungle for a month.

“……”

Eventually, I stopped thinking and quietly closed my eyes.

Let’s turn the hope circuit to what eye tattoos have changed.

Something will definitely be different from before, so you will be able to find possibilities in that change.

maybe.

***

“Ah? Oh wow…I forgot…I fell asleep…”

I woke up awkwardly, stared blankly at the black, rolling night sea, and then slowly stiffened my face.

“What? Sahagin, why aren’t these bastards coming?”

Normally, he should return and come back within a few hours, but there is no news all night long, which is definitely not normal.

“Hmm, it might be a little dangerous to move now.”

The day in the fantasy jungle is dangerous, but the night is more dangerous.

First of all, it’s so dark inside the forest that you can’t see anything.

“I’m hungry, so let’s eat and sleep…”

After cutting a suitable tree and starting a fire, I summoned Bug Berry and Kanpal, had a quick meal, and then took a nap.

Come to think of it, is this your first time staying up all night without a place to stay?

I’m a little anxious… but I just hope nothing bad happens.

***

Something really weird happened.

A real fucking fantasy jungle.

What happens if you just leave it alone?

“Heo, heo, oh, fuck. I thought I was going to die without moving.”

I was still rubbing my tingling arm and panting heavily.

When I looked around, I saw horned wolves lying around haphazardly, giving off the smell of burnt fire.

“Whew…damn fantasy world. It’s really too much.”

These horned wolves were capable of striking lightning strikes.

I was so surprised to see horns flashing and lightning shooting out for a split second that I spontaneously let out a cackle.

“hmm…”

I looked at the eye tattoo on the back of my hand with uncomfortable eyes.

In fact, these wolves were not killed with guns.

The moment I was struck by lightning, the eye tattoo glowed softly and all the surrounding wolves trembled and died.

Under the circumstances, it seems like the damage from the lightning strike was returned…

“The power is strange?”

I tilted my head.

If the electric shock is strong enough to kill them in droves, then of course I also have to be electrocuted to proceed with the next round.

However, there was nothing wrong with me except that my arm felt a little numb.

“Hmm…Could it be that the power was amplified several times and returned to you?”

If so, it is unexpected income.

This is because the possibility of being hit by a physical attack is greatly reduced.

But, it still feels uncomfortable.

The unknown spell that killed me twice helped me, the attack went to all enemies even though no target was specified, and the fact that I felt nothing even though it must have used some kind of eye tattoo ability… But the most What is questionable is that I was the first to notice their surprise attack.

I was obviously fast asleep, but I woke up with a strange certainty that I was going to be attacked.

He even aimed exactly where the wolf was before checking the surroundings with his own eyes.

Well, sparks flew out before the gun could be fired, and the wolves that were hit trembled and died… Anyway, it was as if they sensed hostility or death.

Have some unknown changes occurred in my body?

“Ugh, what difference does thinking make? Good things are good, right?”

The sun was just rising over the horizon, so I enjoyed the majestic view for a while before preparing breakfast.

***

“…What on earth is going on?”

After adequately filling my stomach, I headed to their den to check on Sahagin’s movements, of which there was still no news.

What greeted me was a stone building with no one in it.

“……”

There was really no one.

Sahagin too, Sahagin shaman too.

“…??”

Did you move as a group?

“…There really isn’t one.”

I carefully looked around the inside of the stone building, but I couldn’t even find any traces of Sahagin.

What this means is that I couldn’t even smell the fishy smell.

Rather, it was thick with dust, as if it had been empty for a long time.

It’s as if the Sahagins never existed to begin with.

“But there is an altar.”

I felt strangely relieved to see the altar standing firmly in its place.

“……”

In the ominously quiet building, I stared blankly at the altar for a while.

“The cause is probably…this, right?”

I lifted the back of my hand and looked at the dark red tattoo of an eye.

In the previous round, I sacrificed the souls of all Sahagins and myself.

I don’t know what the meaning is, but seeing as the tattoo remains even after death, the Sahagin’s death as a sacrifice was probably valid as well.

In other words, it ceased to exist from the beginning.

“……”

So, the 4th time… no, the 3rd time? In any case, the same goes for the twenty humans sacrificed by the Sahagi shaman.

Actually, I was quite looking forward to meeting them, but if their existence itself disappeared, it would be better to just give up.

“Whew. It’s actually a good thing for me… isn’t it?”

If all the Sahagin who bother to track or hunt me have disappeared, the difficulty level is significantly lowered.

As long as I don’t leave the stone building, nothing dangerous will happen as long as I’m careful.

There is no need to supply food separately as Manish, Khanpal, and Bug Berry are sufficient for food.

“……”

However, the problem is that Sahagin’s ghost was not the only thing sacrificed in the previous episode.

I offered myself as a sacrifice.

In that case, I should also have ceased to exist.

But how is he still alive like this?

“Uhm…”

Since there is nothing I can figure out, the frustration is only building up.

“Ugh…let’s eat something.”

I didn’t have the motivation to kill Manish and get meat, so I just had kanpal and bug berries for a meal.

***

The next day was a surprisingly peaceful day.

┗[G-666: I don’t know why humans are so weak. If you do something, you die…]

┗[G-088: Uh-huh, if you say that, you’ll be in big trouble. How many humans are there in the community? Rather, aren’t the majority human?]

┗[G-666: That’s another surprising thing. The percentage of weak subjects actually becoming constellations is the highest…]

“It looks like the constellations are of various races…”

It’s so peaceful that I re-read comments I’ve already read several times because I’m so bored.

It still wasn’t much help, but it wasn’t a bad thing to kill time by imagining various things.

“Whoaaaam~”

Perhaps because the last few days were so intense and difficult, sometimes I couldn’t resist falling asleep, but at those times, I just went to my room and fell asleep.

When I first fell asleep, I was worried that I would experience the same inexplicable pain as before, but fortunately, that didn’t happen.

And so day after day, life on a dry, boring but safe uninhabited island continued.

Occasionally, I would carefully look around the outside of the stone building, and around the second week, an unexpected bit of luck came.

“Ooh, wow…gulp! It’s delicious…!”

This is where ‘Heanna’ was discovered.

Heanna was a vine plant as thick as a little finger. It was an amazing plant that, when cut, a transparent liquid poured out like a waterfall.

But what was more surprising was the taste of the liquid.

It tasted exactly like the ionic drink I used to drink where I lived.

As someone who had been replacing drinking water with the sweet, highly viscous juice of bug berries, the refreshing, clear texture and refreshing sensation was thrilling.

“Haaaa… I never thought water would be this precious. When I get back, I’ll have to drink 5 liters a day.”

After rolling around for a while, hugging the summoned heanna stem, I looked up at the ceiling of the building blankly and fell asleep at some point.

***

There was a happening that confirmed two functions of the tattoo drawn on the back of the hand.

I was attacked by a golden beetle that pierced the target by launching its hard body like a bullet, but surprisingly, it realized that it was going to be attacked even before it attacked and was able to avoid it.

Sensitively detects hostility or murderous intent and recognizes attacks in advance.

This is the first feature of the tattoo that I identified.

The second function was to return damage.

And that’s several times as much.

You don’t know how embarrassed I was when the golden beetle that gave me a small scratch split in half and died.

It was so strange that one almost suspected that the invisible man was wielding the sword.

Although the existence of a tattoo itself is very uncomfortable and unpleasant, there is no need to think negatively if it makes you safer.

***

Although there were some unexpected happenings, the days passed smoothly and had already reached a month.

“What happens now…?”

I swallowed dryly, feeling a tension that I had not felt in the past month take over my entire body.

With the constellation community turned on in one corner of my field of vision, I glanced again at the only posts I could read.

[G-666 Title: How long can humans from Earth 44 survive if they are trapped on an uninhabited island on Earth 69?]

[Content: (Picture of an ordinary human) If you bet 1000 points, don’t you think you would grit your teeth and survive for a month?]

“hmm…”

And on the other side, I displayed a hologram that I named ‘Quest Window’.

[1000 points if you last a month on a deserted island]

[Chances remaining: 5]

There was no writing anywhere that said, ‘We will take you back to where you used to live,’ but it was intentionally ignored.

Because it seemed like it would be too despairing to take it seriously.

“I don’t know what the point is, but as long as I can go back, it doesn’t matter what the point is.”

I licked my dry lips and looked up at the sky.

The thin crescent moon was shining brighter than ever.

“I think it’s almost past midnight now…”

Just as I was muttering nervously, a hologram appeared.

[Obtain 1000 points!]

[Point shop is open!]

“…What store?”

I burst out laughing without realizing it.

This is a development I’ve seen a lot of times… First, I looked at the list of types spread out in front of me.

[Exchange points][Purchase items][Purchase skills][Purchase physical abilities]

[Remaining points: 1000]

“Is it really like this…”

I clicked buy something.

[Small Sword: 1 point]

[Handkerchief: 1 point]

[Perfect Club: 10 points]

[Perfume of Temptation: 15 points]

It’s a mess with no reference point.

[Skill purchase] was the same as [Physical ability purchase].

“Wow, but this is so cost-effective…”

[Purchase physical abilities] was divided into [Strength], [Dexterity], [Dexterity], [Intelligence], [Wisdom], [Intuition], etc. When I clicked on it, I saw that the points were doubled every time I increased one point. .

“……”

After looking at it for a while, I sat down.

“In the end, you can’t go back…?”

Do I have to live in this world for the rest of my life? Is it okay for constellations to be so irresponsible?

As a defense mechanism to keep my mind from being destroyed by extreme despair, my eyes continued to scan the letters and my fingers scrolled through the point shop, but the content did not enter my mind.

“…uh?”

But at that time, the hologram window moved randomly.

It was as if he was reacting to my words.

[Dimension Travel Ticket: 200 points]

“…Ha, ahahaha…Aren’t these pure thieves?”

I verbally criticized this unknown person, but I couldn’t control my overflowing heart, so I put a smile on my face.

Kuuk!

[Would you like to purchase a dimension travel ticket?]

“…Yes! Of course!”

[Remaining points: 800]

As the points decreased, the blue paper fluttered and landed.

There was only one line of text written on the plain paper.

[How to use a dimensional travel ticket: Please clearly state the location and time zone of the place you wish to visit!]

“…Seoul, South Korea, June 16, 2030, Earth 44.”

Paaat!

The next moment, a dazzling light emanated from the ticket.

“…ah.”

Tall buildings and lots of people.

Roads and cars.

Dizzy signs and music.

When I came to my senses, I had already returned to where I lived.