Chapter 338 – Chapter 338 Yggdrasil (3-46)
“Everybody back off!”
At my cry, the women who had looked at Midsummer pathetically began to fall with the jewels in fright.
A jewel wriggling in a strange shape.
In fact, it was showing too bizarre appearance to use the expression jewel now.
The existence that was a jewel that flowed like jelly soon began to grow out of control.
“What, what! Uh, what should I do!”
“Ah, mister!”
“Hide behind me for now!”
It was the best I could get off at the moment.
However, my best means soon became obsolete.
The flowing green jewel gradually grew in size, and before I knew it, it grew and grew to a size of over 30m in height.
Most of all, as the size changed, the jelly-like shape also took shape, and I was able to roughly distinguish what it looked like.
The whole body is covered with fur, and the head of a three-pronged dog with thick legs.
I knew what that was.
‘… Isn’t that Cerberus?’
At the same time as he thought, Cerberus, who had a green body in the shape of a three-headed dog, began to howl.
Kyaaaaagh!
As Cerberus roared, not only the air, but also the ground and ceiling began to shake.
Can’t win.
Not only me, but the women behind me only turned their heads upward with trembling expressions.
It was giving a different level of coercion than Shockbee.
As soon as Shockbee appeared, he bit Son Hye-eun’s arm and gave her a momentary sense of intimidation. (Even though it’s a story from the past episode.)
Just by appearing, Cerberus completely extinguished any remaining motivation in us, aroused the thirst of despair, and seemed to kill us in an instant.
It made me feel like I was experiencing death, not fear, just by being there.
While we were all trembling in terror, Cerberus looked around after everything was done, put us in his sights, looked at us for a moment, and then started to howl.
Oh oh oh!
Rumble… !
“Everyone run away!”
“Kyayayak!”
“Aaaaagh!”
Along with my cry, the surroundings suddenly began to darken.
The darkness quickly lifted, and all around me….
“What!? Where are you? And where is everyone?”
It was the same underground waterway dungeon, but Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom were all gone around me.
‘Armonia! Can you hear me?’
[Listen. We are checking the situation now.]
When I heard that Armonia was checking the situation, I looked around and started to be alert.
If earlier it was a dark empty space, where I am now is a maze-like place with huge tunnels here and there.
And just as I was about to come to my senses, a hologram appeared in front of me.
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1:58:52
Survivors: 7
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Along with a timer that kept running out of time, a sign that I hadn’t seen before was appearing below.
Roughly expected situation, and Armonia’s expected answer.
[It seems that all the members who are currently partying with Suho have scattered all over the map.]
‘Ha… Running away again?’
[But it’s strange.]
‘What?’
[The story from the Zodiac said that similar trials existed. However, I don’t understand that they adopted such an extreme survival method even though they don’t know it on the 0th floor.]
It was as Armonia said.
The Shock Bee I met when I came from the 0th floor to the 1st floor was actually very selective.
There was a choice not to have to fight the boss battle.
In comparison, this defense has suddenly turned into a survival game like this, in a state where it is almost broken.
No matter how you think about it, it wasn’t an optional part.
He barely escaped being driven to death by monsters, but this time he was about to die from being bitten by Cerberus’ dog gum.
On top of that, I doubted if Cerberus would be able to inflict a single scratch on Cerberus, let alone win with my level.
‘If I shoot the 2nd stage full power, I’ll be able to do damage, right?’
[However, I wonder if it would be a bigger threat to survival after giving damage like that.]
As Armonia said, catching that being is not the important thing.
It was important to run away from him.
If you shoot an arrow with the determination to kill for no reason, but if you live and run rampant, you are crossing the bridge of death.
‘It’s a survival game after all… It’s a big deal. What should Hayeon and Bom do?’
[I will tell you the location.]
‘Yes? Do you know where it is?’
[As you know, these two are already part of us. I don’t have an exact map, but I’m checking the approximate location and field of view of the two.]
‘Great!’
It seems that the meaning of checking the situation earlier is not seeing the situation of the two people.
In addition, to the location of the trio.
[And we also checked the positions of the three people we put in last time.]
‘Phew…. I did a good job putting him in the group beforehand.’
It was better to proceed in the direction of surviving together as much as possible, as long as we were on the same side.
‘For now, all five of them are still safe.’
But in the end it was still.
If you look at the word survivor, it means that a dangerous moment will surely come.
‘Armonia, tell me. Let’s go there quickly.’
[I will guide you from the nearest one for now.]
I immediately started moving according to Armonia’s instructions.
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..
It was definitely a dungeon in a similar form to the underground aqueducts we had seen so far.
However, it was safe to say that it was a completely different place, although the appearance and atmosphere were similar to the end.
“Hey… The ceiling is so high you can barely see it?”
[Probably because the monster you saw earlier made it suitable for walking around.]
Most of the tunnels were extremely tall, and as Armonia said, there was plenty of room for the monster we saw earlier to wander around.
‘It means that if you get caught in your eyes, you will die….’
It also meant that it would not be easy to escape.
As I passed by, I could see a narrow passage that people could barely enter.
[I think it would be better not to use the aisle for now.]
‘Yeah, it’s too dark, so I’ll only go in in a real emergency.’
Indeed, the feeling of a bug was a moment that could be experienced for a while.
The bugs that sneaked around my house must be my feelings now.
As I was walking for a while, I heard a woman’s voice from far away.
(Where is everyone!)
(Joe, shouldn’t we be quiet? If we shout too loud…)
(But you can’t sit still and wait.)
(Yeah, but…)
It could be seen in the tone and form of his voice, his personality and attitude.
They were Park Sun-hee and Park Jin-hee.
I went straight to the two of them.
The two of them looked startled at the sudden sound of footsteps, but when they saw me, they smiled brightly and started running towards me.
“Thank god! We weren’t alone!”
“Really… I was worried about what to do if I didn’t come to a completely different space.”
“Are you two okay?”
I immediately calmed them down and started explaining while looking at the hologram.
“I think we have to run away for two hours.”
“But… If it was to fight such a monster, I think it would be more comfortable to just commit suicide.”
“I… I’m so scared that I wonder if it would be better to kill myself now….”
They say that the two of them have adapted to this world in their own way, but the Cerberus they showed you earlier shattered their faith.
The Cerberus we saw earlier was so overwhelmingly majestic that it made not only the two of them, but even me, who had seen similar types, lose their fighting spirit.
I had seen a mutant Cerberus in the Devil Castle before, but it was similar to the end, but the level of intimidation was different.
A monster that gives you an intimidating feeling as if you are being dragged to hell just by looking at it right in front of you.
It wasn’t a monster.
It felt like Hell itself existed.
“Let’s find other people first.”
It was the moment I said so.
Thud… Thud… Thud….
The ground began to shake slightly, and Park Seon-hee and Park Jin-hee started looking at me in contemplation.
The identity of the earthquake was known at once.
I quietly opened my mouth to those two with a firm expression on my face.
“First… Let’s go over there.”
I pointed my hand toward the other side where the ground was shaking.
Park Jin-hee and Park Seon-hee nodded while making contemplative faces and began to follow my instructions.
Fortunately, there were no party members in the direction he was coming from, so there was no need to go back.
But I was worried.
‘… I don’t know where it is in midsummer, right?’
[That’s right. I’ll let you know as soon as I run into another person.]
I don’t know anything else, but midsummer shouldn’t die.
Even if Han Yeo-reum was torn apart by the monster, at least Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom had to be right next to each other.
Once we saw that it hadn’t returned yet, we could come to the conclusion that it wasn’t dead.
I prayed fervently.
‘Midsummer… Please survive till the end please….’
We reduced our steps as much as possible and headed in the direction where the other members were.
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Thud… Thud… Thud….
‘What is this! What is this!’
Midsummer hid as if her rat had died, listening to the vibrations coming through the tunnel and covering her mouth.
Hearing the voices of Park Seon-hee and Park Jin-hee, I was about to go to them, but suddenly I heard the sound of the ground shaking, so I looked around in a hurry.
‘It’s not even a fucking rat hole….’
A person could enter, but it was not a hole that could be entered while standing.
The height was low, so it was a hole that had to crawl like a bug after bending over.
As soon as Midsummer entered the space, she began to see a blue hologram floating in front of his eyes.
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1:55:24
Survivors: 7
It’s in a hole where death can be avoided. 15 minutes and 24 seconds left until collapse.
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As soon as Han Yeo-reum saw the hologram, she spat out curse words.
‘What? Can’t you keep hiding in this aisle? A fucking safe zone!’
There was even a setting where a place that was not a comfortable space like a safe zone collapsed over time.
Midsummer looked at the far end of the aisle.
The passageway, covered in endless darkness, instilled a sense of fear to the point of screaming in midsummer’s reason not to go forward.
He couldn’t get into the passage, and he waited there, waiting for footsteps to pass.
‘What if the road is blocked after entering? Just hang around here and get out…. What… What…. What….’
Midsummer was the moment to turn her body around to see if Cerberus had passed.
“Her… Huh… Huh… Huh….”
Khuhu… Khuhu…. Kuh….
His hearing, paralyzed by fear, revived, and in the den midsummer had come in, huge green eyes glared at him with pupils slit vertically.
For the first time in his life, he felt that he had become an insignificant creature.
It wasn’t just a passing monster in a cartoon or game.
An insurmountable existence.
It felt like God was looking down at the mere insignificance of midsummer.
In the middle of summer, the chat window started to fill up with ridicule.
└Are you freaking out just by looking at the mutthaha
└ The guy who usually screams that he will kill us is crawling in front of the mutt.
The beings of the channel treated Cerberus, who looked at midsummer like a small creature, as a small stray dog that could sometimes be seen in the neighborhood.
The beings who just gave points and were annoying.
└ Why are you so afraid of that cute kid?
└ Hey, hey…. You can’t have the same standard as us.
└ㅋㅋㅋㅋ Hey, since he’s us, we treat him with a smile. Basically, he’s a guy who makes even demigods tremble.
It was the moment when fear of them rose for the first time.
‘Sir, fuck… Why isn’t that bastard going?’
Cerberus stared at the midsummer, motionless at all, just staring at him with burning green eyes.
Khuhu… Kreur… Khuhu….
As long as you were here, you were showing your will to never escape.
‘Oh, I can’t…. Let’s go inside At this rate, whether I get eaten by that guy or if this place collapses, I’m sure to die!’
Midsummer got up with a sense of urgency and started running into the den.
The darkness that reason rejected out of fear until recently.
But now, the reason inside him was sentenced to death by Cerberus’ eyes, and his emotions began to control everything.
‘Let’s run away to the other side for now! I just need to hold out for an hour!’
The contract with Sung Soo-ho automatically expires after one hour.
And the jewel that Midsummer wanted so much was already in his hands.
‘Ha, if you hold out for an hour, watch the video, and get eaten by that bastard… Mmm, if it gets eaten!’
Dying and being eaten.
Until now, the above two had been the same return switch to Midsummer, but now he felt a greater fear of being eaten to the point where dying seemed trivial.
“Fuck! Hate! I don’t want to be eaten by a monster like that!”
Midsummer was dominated by the fear that grew up eating reason that had already died, and she ran towards the darkness where she felt the least hope.
