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Shadows coming in endlessly.

For about 4 to 5 hours, everyone worked non-stop to remove the shadows.

However, humans had physical limitations.

It was a fairly easy battle for me, who was used to long fights, received two of Sua’s buffs, and had experience surviving in an underground parking lot.

That’s because the hunters around me didn’t get hurt or die, but it was different on the other side.

Screams are heard from everywhere.

Su-ah’s heal was meant to heal the injured, but it couldn’t save the dead.

Leaving behind the hunters who died in this unreasonable war of attrition, the remaining hunters continued to fight for their lives.

The situation continued, with someone collapsing from exhaustion and someone dying instantly from a single blow and not even receiving healing.

After a battle that lasted several hours, the light in the underground parking lot came on.

The noisy cries of shadows and the voices of people who occasionally scream remain silent for a moment.

In it, I ran towards Su-a in the center.

Suah must have been tired like everyone else, and as soon as our eyes met, she sank down in her seat.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m fine. What about you?”

“Thanks to you, I never got tired.”

“Thank goodness..”

Fifteen little fairies appeared above Sua, who was smiling and removing the buff on me.

((Congratulations!! Congratulations on clearing abandoned underground parking lot 1-3!!))

As the little fairy spoke in each country’s language, people walked to listen to the fairy’s story without anyone telling them to do so.

((Wow..!! All groups that challenged 1-3 were wiped out..!! There are 67 people still alive here?!!))

There were 67 survivors alive, and in fact, if it weren’t for the healer named Sua, it was a self-evident fact that we would have been wiped out in 1-3 like the other groups.

No, even if I tried. I would have been the only one who survived.

((Then thank you for your hard work today!! I hope you can return safely tomorrow as well!!))

As soon as the little fairy was seen off, a huge portal appeared before my eyes.

“Can I go in there?”

((yes!!))

He lifted Su-ah, who was sitting, into his princess arms and walked into the portal.

The damp air changes into fresh air with a refreshing breeze.

It was empty.

In front was an empty lot with no one in sight, overlooking the accommodation we were staying in.

“Well, I can walk alone..!”

“My child, who is about 245 months old, is already starting to walk…”

“Let me go..!”

There was no reason to carry Su-ah even though she could walk, so when I lowered her to the ground, Su-ah struggled to stand up with shaky legs.

“Looking at it like this, it really looks like a toddler.”

Then Su-ah glared at me with thinly opened eyes.

It was difficult to see our conversation as people who had risked their lives in a battle just now, but this was our way of pretending everything was okay after clearing the tower in our own way.

One by one, people take the portal and walk to the vacant lot.

Some people were shedding tears, while others were smiling with satisfaction that it was over.

However, all of those people gathered in an empty lot instead of their own accommodation and started to watch someone’s notice.

“Our Sua’s intro is over, people are just starting to notice.”

“You must be seeing your brother.”

“It was dark so you couldn’t see me clearly?”

“So what are you going to do?”

“Can you give me a buff?”

“I think up to 2 are possible.”

“Give me one and use a protection spell. I’ll try to finish it before I run out of mana.”

Although it may seem easier to deal with tired hunters than with tireless monsters, it will be much more difficult to deal with hunters who attack strategically than with monsters that attack with ignorance.

So what if they pressure you without even giving you time to come up with a strategy?

Sua’s magical power is interfering with my body again.

A vacant lot filled with tension.

I was looking at Su-ah, pretending not to care, but in fact, my body was already wary of everyone around me.

If it shows even the slightest hostile movement, its entire body is heated with magical energy, intent on cutting it down in an instant.

People started clapping.

“..?”

“Ah..”

Only then did I realize it.

That I was too sensitive.

The Sword of Frenzy was a side effect of keeping my mind sharp as the battle lasted for a long time.

Some people are clapping, while others are cheering with their hands over their mouths.

There were still people sitting there mourning the loss of their colleague, but most of them realized that the miracle of surviving this day was thanks to Su-a.

“…”

“..Sometimes the world shows unexpected reactions.”

“..Oppa, you talk like an old man.”

We returned to our accommodation amidst cheers and applause from people.

People who don’t really catch us or do anything like that.

They just kept clapping for us until we were out of sight.

I entered the room and checked the touchpad.

Waves 1-3 and 4-1 had turned gray.

1-3 are deactivated because we cleared them.

But not 4-1.

The other group cleared 4-1.

I didn’t know what group they were, but it was clear that they were clearing only the easiest difficulty level.

It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand it.

Because life depends on it.

Because I want to live.

I don’t want everyone to die.

Even if you roll in a dog poop, life is good. Who would want to die?

But that’s it.

It was the same with us.

“I’m only picking the easy ones.”

“Yes?”

Su-ah, who came into the room after me, questioned my self-talk.

“Just.. there’s one group I don’t like.”

“What is it?”

“There is a group that just skips the easy stuff, and I think it’s a bit obnoxious.”

“Aha.. I’ll wash first.”

“Yes.”

There was something we agreed on this morning.

I don’t know if I’ll have to stay like this for the next few days, but I decided not to be conscious of the act of washing.

Su-ah started to take off her clothes.

As expected, I wasn’t used to it yet, so I looked out the window.

People still talking among themselves without entering the room.

Someone was comforting them, and someone was trying to communicate by drawing something on the floor.

I was curious about what kind of picture he was drawing, so I took a closer look, and found that it wasn’t exactly a picture, but numbers.

The floor has the numbers 1-4, 2-2, and 5-1 written on it.

Even if the language was not shared, numbers were common to all countries, so it would bring opinions together.

It was a wise choice in its own way.

No matter what choice they made, one thing that was certain was that Su-ah and I would survive.

I didn’t think that the people outside were alphas, no matter what happened.

These are people I don’t know, and even if I get out of here, I will remain a stranger.

At that time, one of the people drawing on the floor looked up and made eye contact with me.

She was the first woman to hold light in her hand in a dark underground parking lot.

She made eye contact with me with an awkward expression and bowed her head to me.

“…”

I didn’t know how to react, so I just smiled out of courtesy and raised my hand and shook it slightly.

Then, she nodded as if she understood something, and began to say something inaudibly, and along with that, the number 5 was greatly emphasized on the floor.

After taking turns showering, we ate carbonated drinks with an unidentifiable refreshing taste and food made by a four-legged creature resembling chicken.

What is there to do here?

Just like memories, we talked about what we did in the past and how we ended up in Comet.

Suah Lee.

He had just become an adult at the age of 20 and was trying to enjoy college life. He was drawn into Hyesung by Soo-yeon, who came to visit him.

Well, since Su-yeon was a returnee, she must have known that Su-a would be such a powerful ally.

As I was thinking about various things, I started missing Seolhee.

I turned on my cell phone that was turned off, looked at the photos taken by Nyamu and Seolhee together, and fell asleep like that.

I woke up in the morning and checked the touchpad to see how people had voted.

The results were truly shocking.

‘5-1…52 people…?’

Last night, Sua and I each voted 2-2, but people voted 5-1.

Then, suddenly, a thought from the past passed through my head.

I extended my hand towards the woman who greeted me yesterday and accepted her greeting as well.

Yes.

He extended his hand and greeted me with five fingers spread out.

‘No, then why do you fold your fingers to say hello?’

I don’t know what happened to other countries’ cultures, but it was easy to guess that something big happened in real time.

We already know that monsters appear on the 1st floor for 1, 2nd floor for 2, 3rd floor for 3, and 4th floor for 4.

However, the 5th floor was the floor we entered and there was no way to predict what would happen.

‘But since it’s difficulty level 1… it must be easy…?’

In some parts, I was worried, but in other parts, I thought it might be a good thing.

After eating breakfast, I waited and my vision changed completely at the same time as yesterday.

We arrived at a place that looked like an entrance. As I quickly exited what looked like an entrance to check out the battlefield, what I saw was a huge stadium.

From the round stands surrounding the stadium to the gorgeous audience seats that seemed to have been specially made for high-ranking people.

This place looked very similar to the Colosseum I had seen in history books.

When you are in an atmosphere where you can’t get any sense of it, and you are wary of your surroundings because you don’t know what monsters will appear. Dozens of people started walking out from the opposite entrance.

On average, there seemed to be more people than us, and the magic levels of the items and people seemed much better.

And they had common characteristics of being Asian,

“What is it like?”

“I am not aware of it.”

“杀还是不杀？”

They all spoke Chinese.