Chapter 329 – Chapter 329 Yggdrasil (3-37)
Midsummer kept her head down and muttered inwardly as she walked on.
‘You can’t fucking collect them all in one day?’
By lunchtime, he was inwardly relieved.
It was because even if they worked together to catch monsters, they didn’t come out with anything worthwhile, let alone a token.
After everyone spent a certain amount of time, they expressed their opinions and sought a different direction.
There were also different opinions, such as whether it is an item that comes out when digging the ground, or whether it should be searched through a hole in a tree.
What humans fear the most is when they realize that what they did was meaningless.
For example, in a real game, if you hear that an item comes out of a certain mob, and it does not come out despite catching it, you will suspect that you are being deceived and fooling yourself.
As if you doubt the direction of your study if you don’t get results even after studying….
When the party members were arguing and being anxious, Sung Su-ho’s words and actions eventually stabilized everything.
(Catch that bird.)
A bird running around and running away.
Even in the middle of summer, I thought that bird was strange.
It was at the point where he showed behavior different from the monsters he had seen so far.
And it felt as if Seongsuho had come too.
And when I caught it, the proof came out.
‘Fuck… I want to interfere, but there’s nothing I can do!’
If there were no restrictions, it would have been enough to stay quietly on the first floor, away from Seongsuho.
But he couldn’t leave his side because of the contract along with the items he had to get from him.
To make matters worse, Seong Soo-ho gave Han Ye-reum an order.
(When fighting, don’t be stupid and stick around me.)
(I can fight too!)
(Don’t interrupt, keep your mouth shut.)
(Awesome!)
Because of that, during midsummer hunting, like his attendant, he quietly stayed by his side like a stone.
‘Fuck, I want to kill myself….’
Her desire to die preceded her desire to return.
With that thought in mind, he carefully observed the semicircle-shaped token Seong Soo-ho had given him.
The key to the second floor.
I don’t know how to get the tokens of other villages, but as soon as I got the other one, I thought it would be easy to go up to the second floor.
‘For a moment… Doesn’t that mean you can’t go up if you don’t have it?’
He looked at the class and started to laugh.
‘There is no need to doubt it by throwing it away now. I’ll have to look at the situation later and throw it away.’
While he was laughing at that thought, the chat window just started to come into view.
└She is the most anxious when she laughs.
└ Can you imagine the Hanbom sex scene?
└ Or, do you imagine the Min Ha-yeon sex scene?
└ Don’t just imagine the fuck, show me….
‘Dog-like puppies….’
Midsummer shook her head and began to look around her.
And she muttered with a blank expression.
‘… Where are you?’
***
While eating at the restaurant, we turned our gaze to the sound of the door spreading into the restaurant.
Midsummer stood at the entrance of the inn with an annoyed expression on her face.
Hanbom tilted her head towards such a midsummer and asked.
“Where are you from?”
“… I came to get some fresh air.”
“What is the wind… Aren’t you lost while wandering around alone?”
“….”
At my words, Midsummer frowned and sat down at our table to eat.
I thought I was hungry, but I thought I would just ignore it and go straight to my room, even if it hurt my pride.
Seeing him sit down and eat quietly, everyone turned off their nerves and started talking again.
“What’s upstairs?”
“At first glance, they say that the first floor is more comfortable.”
“No, they said it was a story when there were no inn stealers again.”
As everyone slowly figured out how to go up the second floor, they began to wonder.
In particular, the person who had a lot of curiosity about the second floor was definitely Han Bom.
“I’m all good, so I just want to go up quickly. Annoying here….”
Inn scramble, return.
Thanks to these two things, Hanbom, who spent a lot of her time on the first floor, was filled with the desire to escape.
Everyone laughed at her words thinking only about the inn scramble, but there was one person who refuted her words.
“… Do you really need to go up quickly?”
It was midsummer when I was quietly eating rice.
Everyone looked at him in awe at his words, and Min Ha-yeon became like the representative and opened her mouth.
“It won’t always be here. I’m also curious….”
“Do you know what it is?”
“….”
After hearing Midsummer’s words, everyone began to reflect her uneasy expression.
In fact, Midsummer’s words were not wrong.
All the characters here are lucky to be able to laugh and talk here.
Min Ha-yeon and I would have died long ago in the boss battle if it hadn’t been for the return, and Han Bom would have lost the inn scramble without us.
And the three of them would have died in the boss fight or got caught up in the inn scramble on the first floor.
One might think that all of this was actually solved by luck.
If you’ve been a little twisted, you’ve just won in a Jenga-like situation where everything collapses.
If you go to an unknown place, such a situation could happen at any time.
But I still opened my mouth.
“I have to go anyway.”
“Huh… And what if I die?”
By sarcastic Midsummer, she seemed to be trying to instill insecurities in other people, not in me.
But it’s okay.
“I’ve seen countless babies who died while standing still.”
“What?”
“And I’ve seen the survivors countless times.”
“….”
“By the way… For a guy who stays there saying he doesn’t know what’s there, even if he survives, it doesn’t look like he’s survived. He was just a coward who survived.”
This time I provoked.
Like you stay here and be a coward.
Han Yeo-reum chewed on the tough meat for a while, then stood up with her annoyed expression on her face and muttered as she headed towards her room.
“Hey, are you a coward? It’s funny That’s because you’re not dead yet. Those who are already dead wouldn’t be able to flirt like you.”
The words of midsummer silenced the surroundings, and we had no choice but to finish the meal like that.
..
..
The next day, we left early in the morning and started preparing to enter the dungeon.
And half of us were trembling with anxiety, and the other half were looking worried.
Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom have already talked a lot with me about regression.
If Midsummer returns again, she spent last night discussing in detail how to proceed.
In fact, Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom were only at the level of worrying.
In contrast, the trio were really anxious because of the uncertainty about the future, let alone regression.
‘I don’t think my worries will be alleviated by doing something.’
Just as I didn’t encourage Hanbom yesterday, I didn’t give them any words of comfort or encouragement.
She couldn’t even talk about regression anyway, and she didn’t think it meant much if she just bluntly said it.
[Still, aren’t they helpful people?]
‘Yeah, it doesn’t help. But if we’re going to stop here, it’s better to stop quickly.’
It wasn’t selfish.
Rather, it was more important to prevent people from getting sick by forcing people to stop here.
For example, the same was true of the women who raised the white flag in the inn scramble.
Of course, they are also beings who have lived in the world dreaming of a brilliant future.
It is to break through the darkness and move forward for such a brilliant future.
However, when the process of moving on is long, some people give up.
It is to crouch still and hold your breath in the moderately safe darkness.
And… Whispering to the person passing by.
There’s nothing ahead… Let’s just stay here….
‘If we stop here, we will only hinder each other, let alone help. Wouldn’t they be grateful if I took them?’
[….]
It could have been important to just put it there, even for yourself.
Fortunately, the triumvirate could not hide their worries and anxieties on the outside, but the point was that they were working hard.
“I… At least I don’t want to be like them.”
“It’s annoying that the channel keeps scaring me.”
“Me too… And I wonder what might be upstairs.”
Despite the fact that each of them had a different personality, they were getting rid of their insecurities in their own way.
I nodded my head looking at those girls.
“Yes, let’s decide here for the last time.”
What we need to decide….
“Do you go via the dungeon, or do you go straight to the village?”
According to the experience of the trio, if you enter the dungeon from the central village, three forks appear several times, but if you enter the dungeon from another village, it is composed of a straight passage to the central village.
It would certainly be convenient to go through the dungeon.
Although the underground aqueduct smelled and was stuffy, it had been proven to be safe.
On the other hand, going to the field had risks.
Red Summoner.
“I… Personally, I think it’s better to be safe.”
“Me too….”
Right from the start, the trio raised their hands towards the dungeon route.
Thanks to the experience of catching monsters several times, I was no longer afraid of catching them.
But the Red Summoner is different.
The moment they get caught, one or two people will surely think that they should be prepared to die.
“Well… Personally, I think I like forests.”
“Me too.”
In contrast, Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom suggested using the forest route.
Once through the dungeon, you had to go to the central village, then enter the dungeon again and move to the passage on the left.
In theory, it would take twice as long.
In addition, it was because of me that I raised my hand to move these two people to the forest.
“I couldn’t see if Suho had all disappeared after the fight last time.”
“Did you really deal with all of them alone?”
“Yes.”
After I dealt with it, I stayed still, and Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom were excited and started to spread my pride.
In fact, if it wasn’t for the red summoners’ level down, even one-on-one would have been difficult.
If it was Boris or Yang Ji-hyun, there is a high possibility that I would have applied it….
The reason I beat them all was purely because of the level down.
The trio listened to Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom’s persuasion and started nodding at her while looking at me.
More than anything, I felt that they felt safe with a talented person next to them.
But here, again, the opposite position emerged.
“You don’t have to go down the anxious path.”
It was midsummer.
“Lets think. Is it important to shorten the time? Or is it important that they all arrive alive?”
“There is no law that you will die just because you go to the forest.”
“There is a chance of dying.”
“….”
On the outside, Midsummer seemed anxious, as if she was somehow trying to instill insecurity in the group.
It’s actually like that, but….
But given the circumstances, it was a reasonable statement.
Nothing in this world is more important than your own life.
It was a situation where the trio could be swept away by the atmosphere even if they were not very reluctant to spend midsummer.
But I wasn’t the only one who would just sit there idly by.
“I will follow the majority opinion. So, if the three of you make a different choice, I’m willing to follow it.”
“Then….”
“But I want you to know.”
“… ?”
“The reason I follow your opinions is because I still consider them colleagues. “
I don’t know what will come out from the second floor.
But what was clear was that there would be far more dangerous beings scattered around here.
“Up to the first floor, there were few dangerous things, but there is no law that says that upstairs as well. Even then, there is no guarantee that I consider you all colleagues.”
“….”
“It may seem cold, but it is the reality. My current choice won’t suddenly change my mind, but the story will change if it accumulates.”
Everyone listened to me and said nothing back.
‘I should have understood this enough.’
[Enough. Rather, if you don’t understand, that’s the person you should throw away.]
It meant that he would ruthlessly throw it away if he thought it would stand in the way of me.
And after a certain amount of silence, Park Seon-hee opened her mouth first.
“To be honest, if you ask me… I’m sorry.”
“….”
“But that’s the reality, and if you think about it, it must have been Suho who was saddened until now.”
At her words, the two women on either side of her nodded as well.
“I don’t like riding on the back with only help.”
“… I don’t want to be a nuisance either.”
Responding like that, Park Seon-hee spoke on behalf of me.
“And above all, it only came to me now.”
“Which one?”
“That we were latecomers.”
We came here a year after the summoning ritual had taken place.
Even the guys in the inn scramble were the guys who escaped the war on the 5th floor.
That story also means that you have already broken through to the 5th floor.
“Eoyoungbuyeong was there every day… It would be really thrown away.”
Recognizing my silence as an answer, the three women laughed.
“Hurry up. To the next town.”
