episode_0080

“What is this!? It’s not just a wound that has healed! My body is overflowing with power!?”

Letel jumps around in place as if he can’t control his energy, his eyes sparkle and his red hair flutters.

“I think I can beat anyone who comes now!”

“That’s a good thing.”

“Oppa! Let me do it too!”

“Is that so? From now on, I’ll just spray everything I do once. It’ll be good to experience the effects.’

Slurp slurp!

As I concentrate my consciousness, the chalice fills with colorless and transparent water.

“hmm…”

It’s not without a price.

Because I felt that my mental and physical strength were being slightly drained.

However, considering the function and effect of holy water, the amount is very small.

It’s an incredibly efficient thing.

Sigh!

“oh…!?”

“wow!”

-Um, does it work for me too…?

The holy water they were drenched in quickly seeped into their bodies, and as soon as it did, the complexion of the group noticeably improved and their expressions became brighter.

I wonder if Rael’s complexion will improve, but one effect is truly surprising.

“This is amazing! It really fills my body with energy!”

“You can look forward to it. That’s not the only power of this Holy Grail.”

“Really!? It’s definitely worth the expensive points!”

“right?”

[Basaglia’s Holy Grail] is not a holy relic that can simply heal and restore.

Purification, defense, creation of barriers, and even buffs such as physical strengthening and mental strength strengthening were possible, and there was even a function to heal and regenerate the soul…no, it even had the power.

The power to completely restore or heal a wounded and worn-out soul.

It is the power I absolutely need, and that is the true value of [Basaglia’s Holy Grail].

“Gulp. Phew…”

After gulping down a glass of holy water, I sprinkled it over my head and savored the benefits of the holy water seeping in.

“…As expected, it’s amazing.”

I let out an exclamation without realizing it.

This is because I felt that my soul, which had shrunk in the ‘space of nothingness’ due to overuse of my summoning ability without knowing anything, was bubbling up like a bubble and rapidly expanding and regenerating.

Now, I think I can use a summon that maximizes my imagination at least once.

A moderate summoning can be done twice, maybe even three times.

Of course, he will vomit blood and collapse, but he will not die because he has [Basaglia’s Holy Grail].

“Very good. Now, let’s find useful weapons. Expensive ones may be difficult, but reasonably priced weapons and armor…”

“Wait a minute. Let’s take that as a point.”

“That’s right. I don’t think there’s any need to use Hangil’s points.”

“huh?”

As Hyung Gyeong and Noeul took a step forward, they twisted their heads.

“But, you don’t have many points, right? You won’t be able to buy strong items with those few points. Rather, I should buy something suitable…”

“How much debt are you trying to make us owe? Did you know that each point is worth over 300 million?”

“That’s right, brother. What are you planning to do by making us into debtors? Wow, are you sure you’re targeting our bodies? I don’t hate you, but…”

I laughed involuntarily at the playful appearance of Noeul embracing my body.

“I appreciate you thinking of us, but to be honest, it’s too burdensome. Normally, you have to do only as much as you can with things like this.”

“Uhm…”

Because Gyeong-gyeong’s voice was so firm, it was difficult to raise a counterargument.

“Do other people think that way too?”

“Of course. We’re not that shameless people.”

“I’ll do as much as I can! Even though I only have 20 points!”

“Let’s see, maybe there’s something good…?”

After thinking for a while while looking at the [Point Shop], they purchased each weapon one by one with the help of [Dog Eyes].

“It’s good. It’s very heavy.”

“After all, an assassin uses a dagger!”

“Oh…isn’t that amazing? I think it’ll be useful.”

“…b-shame…”

Gyeong-gyeong holds a large sword as big as his body.

Saeron has a dagger that gives off an ominous feeling just by looking at it.

Retel is a mysteriously shining scalene polyhedron.

And Noeul… in a succubus costume.

“……”

“Don’t look at me too hard! Even if you look at me like this, this is a really good item!? It’s only worth 20 points, but I can feel my abilities increasing as soon as I put it on!”

Is that something called a slingshot bikini?

The sight of her, barely covering her important parts with elastic purple straps, and wearing a garter belt and tight fishnet stockings…well, it was almost impossible to look at her in the eye.

-That, Noeul. At least wear clothes on top.

“Ah, that’s…I’d like to do that too…”

Sigh!

She smiled awkwardly and made a sound by snapping her fingers, and she returned to the normal shirt and pants she was originally wearing.

“It looks like you can’t wear anything on top of the succubus costume. Moreover, even if you try to force it, your abilities won’t increase…”

-Is that so? Umm…

“Ahahahaha! You have to show off your skin to be able to fully demonstrate your abilities, so Noeul really looks like a succubus! It’s so obscene!”

“…First of all, she is a succubus.”

After sighing, Noeul snaps her fingers and her outfit becomes embarrassing again.

Sloshing and sloshing. Twitch, twitch.

“Hmm…”

“hmm…”

My brother and I had no choice but to turn our heads.

Because Noeul, who already has a nice body, was wearing such explicit clothes, I didn’t know where to focus my eyes.

“Okay, now! Are we ready enough now!? Then let’s go hunting again! We must quickly escape from this deserted island!”

“Ah, yes. That should be it…”

“Go, let’s go.”

As the sunset, with her face dyed bright red, hurriedly walks with the sound of high heels echoing, her slender back arches, her large, easy-to-give-up buttocks flaunt their presence, and her huge chest shakes so violently that it can be seen even from behind her back. .

“…I’ll stand in front.”

“me too.”

Unable to bear the embarrassment, Gyeong-gyeong and I took the lead, and No-eul’s face turned bright red.

***

“Keeek!”

“Hyung Gyeong-gu! We’re going that way!”

“Just leave it to me! Huuu!”

Squirt!

A great sword swung with terrifying strength cuts through the air and cuts off the head of a giant monster rat.

Sugaaa!

No, it didn’t just cut off the head, it sliced through the ground like a soft cake and spun around.

“Wow! Oh my god!”

“What’s so sharp? It’s so sharp…”

Although I was not able to acquire sufficiently powerful armament, the power and performance of the weapons I purchased from the [Point Shop] were all horrendous.

“Oppa Gyeong-gu. Didn’t that hurt me?”

“No, you’re fine?”

As he raises his great sword, he flicks the blade as if to show off, and it shines smoothly like a mirror, reflecting the light.

“How much did you say this was?”

“20 points. All I have… Ugh, here it comes. Hangil, please.”

“Yes. Just leave it to me.”

As Gyeong-hyeong, who was lying down, began to moan, the great sword began to shine and was stored in a dedicated sub-space.

This is one of the common features of items purchased at [Point Store].

For some reason, [Basaglia’s Holy Grail] did not enter the dedicated subspace, but instead turned into tiny invisible particles and seeped into my body.

“How many hours did you catch this time?”

“Forty-eight hours.”

“Man, this must be quite painful…”

Gurgling!

When I sprinkle holy water on the body of Gyeong-hyeong, who is shaking and bleeding from his eyes, nose, and mouth, he soon calms down and sighs and gets up.

“Whoa, wow, this is the first time I’ve ever felt this much pain in my life.”

“Well, is it that much?”

Saeron is scared and opens her eyes wide.

“Don’t worry. We’ll treat you as quickly as possible. There won’t be any aftereffects.”

Saeron laughs awkwardly at my words.

“Um, thank you.”

Well, I tried to soothe him in some way, but it seems like this isn’t enough to eliminate the fear of pain.

Well, isn’t that natural?

“Tsk…”

Ordinary pain could be reduced with the power of the Holy Grail, but the pain of catching an animal that had been given time and receiving all the accumulated sensations for that amount of time all at once contained a certain power within itself, so there was no way even with the Holy Grail.

“Whoa, let’s keep going.”

“Are you going to be okay?”

Gyeong-hyeong takes out a great sword from a dedicated sub-space and smiles brightly.

“Even if I’m not okay, I have to do it. If I keep whining that I’m in pain, when will I ever get through this ordeal? I want to go home as soon as possible.”

The sight of him smiling and speaking without any worries, even though his hands are shaking with the lingering pain of pain, strengthens my resolve once again.

“Okay. Let’s go.”

“Leave the tracking to me. I think I will be able to distinguish the unique signs of the beasts that have been given time.”

“That works?”

“Yes. After seeing it a few times, I was able to tell it apart. I can’t explain it, but I feel a peculiar energy.”

Wow!!

When Retel unleashes his power, the wave sweeps through the entire forest.

“This way.”

As she took the lead, we formed our own ranks and followed behind her.

***

Our ‘time hunting’ went very smoothly.

Thanks to Retel, it wasn’t difficult to find creatures given time, and killing them was easy thanks to the weapons purchased from the [Point Shop].

Even as you go deeper into the forest, you can find creatures that are powerful and have a lot of time, so there is no need to kill many of them.

“Kuuu!”

Immediately after killing the animal, which was given 120 hours, an indescribable pain suddenly rose up.

The tiger, covered in sharp, hard thorns like a hedgehog, had its soul and karma shattered by the skill combination of [Mystic Eyes of Condemnation] and [Howl of Despair, Pain, and Grief], leaving not even a corpse left.

“Ugh…!?”

The five senses become overheated and sensitive, unfamiliar sensations rush in, and a large amount of information is crammed into the mind.

“Whoa!?”

– Come to your senses! Hangil!

As I collapsed on the spot, shedding bloody tears and vomiting blood, Rael, holding the chalice, sprinkled the holy water he had previously filled on me and poured it into my mouth.

“Oppa. Are you okay?”

“Was 120 hours too much?”

“It was the most time so far, wasn’t it?”

“Yes. So far, it’s been 48 hours at most.”

As I was trembling and listening to the voices of my colleagues worrying, at some point, I felt eyes on me.

“…!?”

Creepy, I said.

I got goosebumps.

The reason is because that gaze is very similar to 088’s gaze.

“Kuh, kuh…!?”

Damn it! Damn it!

It instinctively displayed its skills and showed its disgusting muzzle and various colored eyes all over its body.

I had no idea where the ‘gaze’ came from, but I could clearly see what the ‘gaze’ was looking at.

It is my soul and karma.

“Oppa Han-gil?”

“Huh, huh!? This is…!”

Amazingly, my soul and karma were being separated in real time.

Instead of being torn or torn, it expanded in size as if it were copied or split, and eventually it became an eye and attached itself like a leech to my soul and karma.

『……』

Even though it was only an eye the size of the root of a thumb at best, I could sense intense desire and desire from it.

Like a being with an ego─

“…!!”

And only then was I able to figure out how this second task led to the third task.

That’s it.

That is the ‘me’ that appears in the third task!

But why now? The third task hasn’t even started yet!

“No, wait a minute, in the future seen through [dog-eyed] eyes, a separate notification window notifying of the third task did not appear! In that case…!”

“what?”

“Oppa Hangil. What are you talking about?”

Noeul asked with a puzzled expression, but right now confirmation was more important than that.

If my thoughts are correct, the chances of breaking through a hopeless future will greatly increase.

“Rael! You got the least time out of all of us, right? How many days?”

-yes? Ah…I only have 6 hours.

Rael is not subject to trials.

That’s why the hologram window that said [1000 points if you survive the short trial for a month] did not appear, but I was wondering if it would appear if I killed the animal that was given time, so I let it kill it as a test.

Even if I did that, the hologram window did not appear in the end.

“I’ll take a quick look!”

-Ugh…!

As the various eyes of the [Mystic Eyes of Condemnation] rolled and stared at her, she stiffened as if nailed to the air and blushed.

-Well…why are you doing that…?

“…Nothing, either. Then.”

For comparison, I engraved the soul and karma of a healthy Rael into my eyes and then looked back at my companions.

“Who got the next least time!?”

“Uh… it’s me.”

I looked at Saeron’s soul and karma as he hesitated and raised his hand.

Then, I was able to immediately discover the difference without any need for comparison.

This is ‘incontinence’, which is so subtle and blurry that it cannot be noticed unless you look closely.

“Oppa Hangil. What’s going on?”

“…Did I tell you? The third task is to fight a doppelganger who has the same appearance and abilities as us.”

“Yes, I did. Why is that?”

“That wasn’t it. The third task never existed from the beginning and the second task was the last task. The doppelganger was the ‘result’ of the task.”

“…what?”

Everyone’s eyes are on me.

“At this very moment, the doppelganger is being copied in our soul and karma like cells dividing. The task is only a means to complete the doppelganger more quickly. The identity of this summary trial is ultimately the germination of the doppelganger. It was designed to help us grow and then kill us.”

“…!!”

Only then did the companions’ expressions become serious as they understood the situation.

“If we hadn’t escaped from ‘time stop,’ the slowly growing doppelgänger would have killed us.”

“Well, then what about the second task?”

“It’s a growth spurt. The more time we kill creatures, the faster the doppelganger grows. The senses we have accumulated are probably for the doppelganger’s ‘learning’.”

“…Huh? Wait. So what? Do I have to survive 30 days without killing any living thing?”

“No, rather, you must kill the creature as quickly as possible and with as much time as possible.”

“why?”

“Because even at this very moment, these guys are ‘learning’ us. The longer the hunt takes, the higher their ‘completeness’ will be. Of course, the longer it goes on, the lower our win rate will be. Moreover, if we want to ‘kill each individual’, You definitely have to do that.”

Up until now, we have taken turns killing animals as time was given.

I made the worst choice of the worst.

Was this why our doppelgängers appeared all at once in the future seen through [dog-eyed] eyes?

“It was a time attack from the moment the second task began. However, this is also an opportunity.”

The corners of his mouth twitch and he smiles uncontrollably.

Although it is only one piece of information, we have obtained very core and important information that can completely change the future.

As long as you use this well, you will be able to pass the ordeal safely without anyone dying.

Even, so simple as to be vain!

“Retel!”

“Oh, yes!”

“From now on, give priority to finding the beast that you have been given as much time as possible!”

“Oh, I understand!”

In the heightened tension, we each held our weapons tightly.