episode_0156

It’s a situation that I never expected.

I knew that you could cast spells in dungeons, but I never thought that someone other than me would do such a crazy thing.

Well, it doesn’t make any sense at all.

Back then, Sokongyi mobilized all her magic to cast a weak curse on a single dungeon.

I thought it was completely useless because the effect was so weak that it was hard to feel.

“Right. The main heroines were able to generate energy infinitely from their bodies…”

What I didn’t expect was that the main heroines didn’t care about efficiency at all.

They were beings who could pour in the amount of magic that a normal wizard would use in a lifetime all at once.

And this spell was still pursuing its own efficiency.

It didn’t react to others at all, but it would activate like a ghost when I stepped in.

If it was a spell that only applied to me, the amount of magic consumed would decrease significantly.

They really used their heads cleverly.

“But why on earth?”

However, the problem is that their intentions are completely unclear.

If you haven’t mastered the art of madness yet, it’s likely that you’ll end up like this, so let’s move on.

I believed that Yuria and Jill wouldn’t resort to such extreme measures.

After all, I saw with my own eyes that they had turned over a new leaf.

So why would these two suddenly grab my ankle like this?

“Is it because of competition…?”

Maybe the three of them have realized something.

That they have memories of the past.

And that they have been in a relationship with me.

A chill runs down my spine.

If that’s true.

And if the three of them are competing to grab me first…

There’s no answer.

The Three Kingdoms will unfold right here.

The invasion of the Papal Palace that occurred in the previous episode may happen again.

The game, no, the hard difficulty of life will continue to unfold.

“Are they closing the dungeon to cut off my money?”

A sense of crisis overwhelms me.

I thought Time Attack would start by the Four Kings.

But I never expected that this episode would also start with the heroines chasing after me.

Should I run away?

If I run, where should I go?

Should I go to the coastal fortress of the open sea as planned?

I won’t be able to stay there forever, and eventually, I’ll have to come back.

As soon as I anchor, a future where people in black suits rush in and drag me away is vividly depicted.

If those three really go all out, there will be no land in this world where I can show my face.

“This is bad…”

I can’t see a way out.

The only way to escape is to defeat Draken and see the ending.

Now that I can’t defeat the dungeon, defeating Draken is just a distant dream.

As long as Draken receives energy from the dungeon, he will recover infinitely.

Moreover, there is not enough power to confront Draken yet.

A situation where there is no answer in many ways!

Now there are only three options left.

First. Get caught by Jill.

Second. Get caught by Yuria.

Third. Get caught by Yerina.

The only other option besides “getting caught” is “running away and getting caught embarrassingly.”

It doesn’t exist at all.

Among them, the least bad option is to get caught by Yerina, which is absurd.

If it’s Yerina, there’s no need to worry because the success rate is 100%.

The problem is that I don’t know what Yerina, who figured out all the affairs in the 12th episode, will do to me.

But she wouldn’t kill me, right?

I’ll just have to be kidnapped and imprisoned for the rest of my life.

“If you don’t like that… it’s a head-on confrontation…”

And finally, the hidden option.

A head-on confrontation.

Confess to all three of them and avoid the worst situation of being kidnapped and imprisoned.

If luck is bad, the success rate increases and the ending remains the same.

If luck is good, on the contrary, you may see a decrease in the success rate.

It’s a high-risk, low-return gamble.

In a yard where danger lurks in every direction, you must catch even a rotten rope.

“Alright. Let’s go. To face our fate.”

With that determination, as I stood up.

I felt a small force pulling at my sleeve.

Turning around, I saw a nameless creature tugging at my clothes with a small mouth.

“What’s wrong?”

“Ung······!”

“······?”

And then the nameless creature pointed to my bag with its leg.

I wondered what it was trying to say.

It seemed to want to talk about the curse of Cali.

“This is useless. Only magic can be devoured by Cali’s curse, and the curse itself cannot be stopped. The source of the curse is elsewhere, so this won’t work.”

“Ung!”

“That’s not it? Then what is it?”

Frustrated, the nameless creature shook its head vigorously.

And once again, it tugged at my sleeve and led me somewhere.

“······Follow, long.”

“How do you understand me?”

“I don’t know. Just.”

“······.”

I thought there might be a way for monsters to communicate, but that wasn’t it.

But this creature, unexpectedly, was stubborn.

Until now, it had followed me silently wherever I went, clinging to my clothes without complaint. It had never expressed an opinion like this before.

What kind of conviction did it have?

“Ung!”

“It’s useless, that’s why you’re saying that. The curse imposed on all dungeons. Probably interfering with the other world through the dungeon core… Huh?”

At that moment, my thoughts reached the other world.

I discovered something strange.

Very strange.

The same curse effect was appearing in all dungeons.

Surely those creatures didn’t go to all of Galia’s dungeons and curse them one by one.

It was clear that they had succeeded in interfering with the other world through the dungeon core.

But originally, that shouldn’t have been possible.

Draken’s power should have prevented intrusion.

So how did they connect to the other world… Ah.

“Did Draken’s power get revoked?”

My mind cleared up.

The recent great upheaval a few days ago.

I seemed to know the true nature of the changes that had occurred to all the monsters in the world, and to Linda.

It was none other than Draken who had revoked his power.

That’s why the slightly enhanced power of the monsters seemed to return to normal and weaken.

The weakening of the dungeon core network security made it possible to connect in reverse.

“Let’s go. There’s something I want to try.”

If that’s the case, this is an opportunity.

By connecting to the other world in reverse, I could spy on Draken’s scheme.

If luck is good, I might even find out his weaknesses.

I hurried back to the dungeon and headed towards the dungeon core.

[The monsters in the dungeon are strengthened by the blessing of the holy maiden Jili.]

[The monsters in the dungeon have a weak poison due to the curse of the witch Yulia.]

[The dungeon is filled with coldness due to the grudge of the Ice Lord Yerina.]

In an instant, the dungeon turned into a snowy landscape.

The monsters all became so strong that it was overwhelming.

As it was a Red Star dungeon and there was no separate boss, I was able to quickly reach the core.

“Let’s try…”

First, I placed my hand on the dungeon core and felt the flow of magic and mana inside.

Closing my eyes.

I focused on the flow of information.

‘I don’t understand anything…’

But even without any obstacles, I couldn’t figure out how to connect to the other world.

I just don’t know.

I thought I could use the dungeon core as a kind of portal to investigate the situation in the other world.

But no matter how much I looked at the pattern, it seemed random and I couldn’t grasp it.

Meanwhile, the cold created by Yerina was piercing my bones in real time.

My lips cracked, and my corneas dried out.

If I didn’t leave right away, I would die.

The sense of urgency rang in my mind.

But just a little longer.

A moment when I was about to continue my hopeless investigation.

On the back of my hand, a small hand is placed.

“Here.”

“······?”

It’s Nameless.

Nameless, who has transformed into a human form out of nowhere, grabs my hand and leads me.

As I stand there dumbfounded.

Nameless adjusts my posture and whispers in my ear.

“I’ll show you.”

Magic······!

The flow of mana and magic aligns, and suddenly my vision undergoes a drastic change.

The meaningless flow of signals quickly transforms into the form of electrical signals and directly strikes my brain.

Not visual or auditory signals.

If I were to describe it, it’s a sensation that seems like a combination of countless senses intertwined at once.

Even though countless indistinguishable sensations come together all at once, my brain orderly organizes and accepts them.

Perhaps what Nameless showed me, by transforming it to fit the human body, is a sight that I cannot see.

“Ah······.”

And at the sight shown by Nameless, my body trembles.

How should I express this?

It feels like forcibly compressing an incomprehensible cosmic landscape into human eyes.

But even with just that, there was a lot of information I could gather.

Currently, the otherworld is in a state where energy supply from the dungeon has been completely cut off.

Draken has rendered both the monsters that were subcontracted for energy and the dungeon unemployed by sharing his power.

So what is he doing with the power he has collected?

The answer is simple.

Instead of descending into our world from the otherworld, Draken is pulling our world into the otherworld.

He is using strong forces to collide the two worlds and merge them into one.

And the speed at which this is happening is not slow at all.

Although we do not perceive it as a dimensional shift.

Even if it’s delayed, within 10 years, the two worlds will become one.

“Ah······!”

The world destruction that was supposed to happen in 1000 years.

Has been brought forward by 10 years.