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See (3) ― World Train Platform

“Clog—! Cough—!”

Seong Ga-eul quickly covered her mouth and gurgled.

As soon as she got off the train, acrid smoke engulfed Seo Taesan and her.

“kkieeek―!”

Whoa whoa!

Seong Ga-eul looked around at the horribly collapsed world while Seo Tae-san quickly dealt with the zombies clinging to the train.

Black ash filled with cold wind.

A village that is collapsing, with just enough of its structure to make out its shape, and a huge gray castle that is on fire.

And the rotten blood and traces of a messy battle had already spread around the train platform.

Seong Ga-eul covered her mouth with her sleeve while looking at the corpses of zombies with their heads and necks separated as if they had been cut by something very sharp.

“Vice-priest.”

Seo Taesan kills all the zombies and calls out the pontoon leader.

Seong Ga-eul nods at him and hurries down the platform stairs.

widely-! widely-!

The sound of sparks still lingering at the end of the stairs.

A flame too thick to be a residual fire was still burning the world.

And the raw materials that maintain that firepower are—

“… … .”

It was someone’s corpse.

With trembling eyes, Seong Ga-eul once again scanned the corpses that filled her vision.

A corpse whose head was pierced by an arrow and a corpse already half turned to ashes.

And even the very cleanly mutilated corpses we saw on the platform.

The bodies lying on the ground in very different ways were, of course, signs of battle.

When, with whom and why?

The three most important questions that keep coming back to Seong Ga-eul’s mind as he quickly ponders.

Seong Ga-eul could see the rotten blood that formed a small river even as her face naturally heated up.

Moreover, even with this firepower, there are corpses that have not yet been reduced to ashes.

‘It hasn’t been long since they died and the world burned down.’

If it was a trace of a battle that hadn’t been that long ago, it was clear who did it and why.

‘A wave of circular cults has hit the world.’

If there were no protective shield to block invasion like in Paradise, the zombie wave would have invaded the center of the city in an instant.

The result was this terrible scene she was seeing now.

There were two possibilities suggested by the world, which had become a ruin with no one left.

Either the world was defeated by the circular cult leader, or the world succeeded in evacuating somewhere to avoid the zombie wave.

I didn’t even consider the 0.1% possibility that World won.

If that were the case, they wouldn’t have burned their home base like this and left somewhere else.

The world set up a kind of defensive camp and fought the zombies.

A goal they tried to achieve even by burning their own city.

“… … .”

Seong Ga-eul’s eyes swept across the world again, scanning the highway from the burning gray castle to the world’s train platform.

A blank space carved right up to the platform, as if digging into a huge window.

There was only one past, clearly shown by the countless corpses of zombies piled up on both sides of the void.

‘The world struck Bae Su-jin and opened the way to the platform.’

and-

Seong Ga-eul looked up again at the world platform she quickly passed by and muttered.

‘In the end, I boarded the train I was aiming for.’

World succeeded in evacuating by train, and the circular cult succeeded in destroying the targeted city.

Since everyone who had completed their respective goals had left, it was natural that only corpses and ashes remained in the world that Seong Ga-eul saw.

Although she came to a reasonable conclusion, it was not the situation she had hoped for in the first place.

In the past she looked back on, there was not a single trace of Han Gu-won.

If Han Gu-won had been there, the unfortunate incident of the city burning down due to a zombie wave would never have happened.

Moreover, anywhere in the world she was quickly scanning, there were no signs that Han Gu-won had engaged in battle.

Before the zombie wave and the circular cult hit the world, Han Gu-won disappeared somewhere.

It is clear that Han Gu-won has disappeared somewhere in the world, but that world has become a ruin with not even a trace of people left.

But there is definitely a salvation within this.

… … contradiction.

Seong Ga-eul, who hastily pieced together the past using only visible clues, had too many puzzles that she did not have.

“… … Ah!”

At that moment, strange structures caught Seong Ga-eul’s eyes.

Seong Ga-eul’s eyes sparkled as she looked at the caves clustered close to the world’s castle walls.

“… … Cough! Leader!”

A slight cough escaping even though I covered my pores with my sleeves.

Seong Ga-eul hurriedly called Seotaesan and ran to the only intact structures in the world hit by the fire.

Kiiing!

Seotaesan, which tightly guards Seong Ga-eul as she runs near the castle walls.

Keekeeek!

He dealt with the few zombies that occasionally attacked her without any problem.

Cough! Cough!

The faster you step, the more your heart wants to breathe.

Every time I took a deep breath, I could feel the acrid smoke and ash burning my throat.

Seong Ga-eul somehow covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve and entered the nearest cave.

[We are searching for adventurers trying to enter the dungeon!]

Dungeon.

A system message displayed in front of Seong Ga-eul as she steps into the cave.

Yeah, dungeon.

Seong Ga-eul nodded, her eyes sparkling as the possibilities became increasingly clearer.

[The Hell difficulty clear record holder cannot be confirmed!]

[To enter the Hell difficulty dungeon, you must have cleared the Hard difficulty dungeon 15 times!]

[You cannot enter the World Hell dungeon ‘World Neighborhood Park’.]

Seong Ga-eul, who had stepped into the cave, was thrown out with a message refusing to enter the dungeon.

She returned to the cave entrance again, but the possibilities she had thought were confirmed.

Han Gu-won, who kept giving her amazing items that she didn’t know where she got them from, and the dungeon before her eyes.

‘It’s here.’

One of these dungeons was clearly the place where the Han Gu-won she knew would face danger.

“Here, leader!”

Seong Ga-eul shouted into Seo Tae-san’s back, crushing the zombies that were running towards her.

“There is a cult leader in one of these places—!”

An intuition that resonates in your heart, not your head.

A stronger conviction than ever before boiled in her heart.

Clearly, Han Gu-won is here somewhere.

Kkkk!

The roar of zombies echoing through the world, as if responding to the shouts of Holy Gaul.

“Is that so.”

Doo doo doo doo!

Seo Taesan answered while looking at the zombies suddenly flocking towards the world’s dungeon.

A sudden wave of zombies, much larger than the few they had seen when they arrived in the world, was attacking them.

A scene that flashes through Seong Ga-eul’s mind as she looks into the red eyes of a zombie running towards her while howling.

She bit her lip, recalling the white eyes of the cycle leader as he placed his hand on Brain’s head.

The circular pontiff recognized the positions of the vice pontiff and the knight commander.

Kiiing—!

A clear moving sound resonates in the ears of Seong Ga-eul, who looks so anxious.

The knight commander who stood between the zombies and the pontoon pontoon looked back at the pontoon pontoon and nodded.

“Then, assistant leader, please find the leader.”

I will protect the vice principal.

White armor that protects her like a vast castle wall.

Seong Ga-eul hurriedly turned her head to hear the firm voice that put her at ease.

World Hell Dungeon ‘World Neighborhood Park’

Seong Ga-eul, who was looking at the cave closely, quietly shook her head.

no.

There is no one in this dungeon.

Seong Ga-eul trusted her intuition, which she felt more clearly, perhaps thanks to the skill ‘Unprofitable Reason’.

Cuuu!

A huge impact sound was heard by Seong Ga-eul, who started running to the next dungeon.

It was very awkward to move based on intuition rather than a clear clue, but I couldn’t help it.

From the moment I left paradise, it was as if I had thrown myself into the realm of gambling rather than calculation.

The die was cast—

[We are searching for adventurers trying to enter the dungeon!]

I had to find Han Gu-won before this intuition disappeared.

A proxy message window catches the eye of Seong Ga-eul, who scans the system window with urgent eyes.

[Unprofitable Lv.20]

… …

[Paradise Management Agency (Locked)]

[Exploring the location of ‘Han Gu-won’ again… … .]

There is not much time left.

***

Yoon Ah-young, who was looking at the dark sky without a single ray of light, quickly turned her head.

“Come on, sister! Come, don’t come—!”

“kkieeek―!”

A sister dressed in the uniform of the Salvation Church, or rather, a believer who was now a zombie, attacked the believer who was running away, dragging himself along the floor.

The gap is getting bigger and bigger due to the endless waves of zombies.

“Drivers, please help those sisters quickly.”

Yoon Ah-young hurriedly pointed that place to the knights who were protecting her.

However, the Holy Knights who were protecting her just shook their heads with embarrassed faces.

“… … Holy woman. We-”

“Quickly. Anyway, I’m safe because I’m at the very back.”

“… … .”

“Please go quickly. Don’t worry about me.”

As if to tell them not to worry, Yoon Ah-young once again made them aware of the sacred item she was wearing.

A saint who is no different from having an extra life thanks to the gift given by her religious leader.

The Holy Knights, who could not overcome the stubborn stubbornness of such a saint, nodded.

Pow!

Yoon Ah-young looked up at the sky once again, watching the dark white armor hurriedly leap to fill the gap.

Just like before-

The sky continues to be stained with darkness, where he does not come.

The pitiful eyes trembled as if searching for an invisible light.

“Fuck off~!”

Fuuu!

The center of a fierce battle that can be heard especially clearly even in Daehan, which is filled with shouts and screams.

Yoon Ah-young stared at Shim So-young’s back covered in red blood.

Her shoulders occasionally moving up and down, as if revealing her increasingly intense breathing –

Kwaang-! Kwaang-! Kwaang-!

Zombies show no signs of abating even after throwing their fists again and again.

Killing the zombies and frogs that are flying with their arms outstretched-

Even if you crush all the steroids and thorns created by the counterfeiters that block the way to kill the cult leader’s counterfeit-

Wow!

More difficulties awaited her than what Soyoung Shim solved.

Kiiing! Kiiing!

Her mana fluctuates like waves due to Black Baby’s mana blocking.

Her body, now glowing deep red rather than pink, became a shooting star and pulverized the very ground where Black Baby’s cries were heard.

Cuuu!

Black Baby, leaving no trace as if it had been turned to shaking ground and powder.

Haha! Haha!

Shim So-young, who sunk her fist into the center of the crater, lowered her head and refined her breathing, which became more intense.

Keekeeek!

The howling of zombies is heard again in front of her, and countless thorns greet her when she raises her head.

Shim So-young glared at Byun Byeon, who was quietly looking down at her from the sky, as if he were going to kill him.

A battle with a monster that never ends, like a Möbius strip.

No, he doesn’t change-

Her mana was being eaten away.

However, we cannot neglect Black Baby and focus on that fake.

The more she neglects Black Baby, the more the weight that the friendly Paladins must bear increases rapidly.

As the burden on the Holy Knights increased, there was a high chance that the shield of the Knights defending the square and protecting the Holy Woman would quickly collapse.

Keekeeek!

“When are you going to come~!”

Soyoung Shim shouted as she punched the zombie that had reached her close range.

Yoon Ah-young looked up at the sky again as if responding to Shim So-young’s shout.

“… … Ah.”

A sigh of disappointment flowed across the empty sky.