Chapter 339 – Chapter 339 Yggdrasil (3-47)
After confirming that I was completely separated from Cerberus, I asked them how they were doing.
“I guess it seems to have gone away. It’s okay?”
“Huh… Huh… Yes Yes.”
“Huh… Oh, i’m scared….”
Park Seon-hee and Park Jin-hee were engulfed in the momentary fear they had experienced earlier and were unconscious.
Even though we hadn’t met face to face, it seemed that the monster was a real monster, seeing that it had this level of fear.
Unlike the rambunctious puppies we’ve always seen in the media, the real Cerberus carried death with him.
It was definitely the first time I saw the scene of transforming from a jewel for a while, but I could never forget it.
A being that makes you feel death first before you feel fear.
It gave off such a sense of intimidation that I wondered if Cthulhu existed and was in front of me.
But even so, I couldn’t just sit here in endless despair with my legs trembling.
“Let’s start again. It is important to find someone else quickly.”
“Huh… Yes.”
The two of them wiped the tears from my words and nodded immediately.
‘… Things are bad.’
The boss fight on the 0th floor and the boss fight on the 1st floor were obviously the same in the situation where both were threatened with survival.
But the pressure that came in was on a different level.
Obviously, it felt like shockbee would die if caught, but Cerberus’s face felt like it was being dragged to death.
Thanks to that, the two of them were in a state of despair, and it was clear that the situation would worsen throughout the run.
‘I need a change of mood….’
As she was walking like that, Park Jin-hee, who was walking next to her, started making an annoyed expression.
And it was the same for Park Sun-hee.
I could find out what the two were getting into without asking.
‘Looks like they’re talking bullshit on the channel.’
Unlike me, Han Yeo-reum, Min Ha-yeon, Han-bom and even the trio had quite a few people watching the channels.
This would be a simple and strong application of the appearance aspect.
When beings on the channel first choose a summoner, all they look at is inevitably appearance.
When you read a web novel, you can see it from the cover.
Compared to that, my appearance was a normal one with nothing special.
Is it a location where there is no cover and no title aggro?
I knew I was going to die in the beginning anyway, so it seemed like I went in with the feeling that I wanted a decent guy.
‘Still, the atmosphere has changed. By the way….’
But when I saw this, something immediately came to my mind.
‘Crab kkosu is very quiet?’
It was questionable because the normally noisy nobleman was quiet again.
[Perhaps I left the channel because I was reluctant to watch the boss battle, as I said in the boss battle on the 0th floor.]
“Ah, come to think of it, I went to the beginning of the game last time too, right?’
I thought he would at least say goodbye if he died, but it was so quiet that I felt sorry for him.
‘Well, I’m not really going to die.’
I thought so and started moving forward again.
The cave was made up of solid walls surrounded by huge grayish bricks.
And a hole in the middle that anyone who can see can enter.
“What is that?”
“For now, don’t go in recklessly. It might be a safe zone to use in an emergency.”
“Yes.”
The two women immediately nodded at my words and started snuggling up behind me.
I was terribly afraid of the zombie horde earlier, but if I was a little shy then, now I was really scared and trembling.
Seeing this, I started to worry.
‘How is spring with Hayeon?’
[This is a very unstable state. Min Ha-yeon met Son Hye-eun, and Han Bom is walking around alone.]
‘I need to find it quickly….’
[Although it is possible to distinguish the location, it is difficult to provide perfect guidance without an accurate map.]
I wanted to meet you soon.
I have a GPS called Armonia, so I just need to head there silently, but for the two of us, each step will feel like walking down the road to hell.
Looking at the time floating on the hologram, I began to feel relieved.
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1:40:05
Survivors: 7
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‘But fortunately, I can hold out for two hours. Looking at it earlier, I didn’t feel like I was moving that fast.’
It felt like Cerberus itself was dragging death, so if you didn’t face it directly, you could survive somehow.
It was a moment when I felt so relieved.
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1:40:00
[Eyes of Death], [Nose of Death]
Death’s nose has been activated. Death now begins to detect you not only by sight, but also by smell.
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[….]
‘….’
I feel it while living in the world, but my mouth is always a problem.
And that hologram would have floated not only to me, but also to other people.
As if to prove it, it was because Park Seon-hee and Park Jin-hee looked at the air with surprised expressions, then turned their heads and started looking at me with contemplative faces.
I said after sighing.
“Come on, let’s find it quickly.”
It was the moment I said so.
Drooling. Drooling. Coo kung! Cuckoo coo!
“What, what! What, something is running!”
“Aaaaagh!”
The sudden earthquake caused the two of them to fall over as if their legs were weak in a state of confusion.
Even in the state where the two people became confused, the intensity of the earthquake began to rise gradually, as if they had no intention of stopping.
“Stand up, you two! Get inside me quickly!”
I grabbed the arms of both of them with one hand and began walking vigorously.
The two of them barely managed to pull on their loose legs, grabbed my arms one by one, and started running while struggling.
Stone shards fell from the dark ceiling and even made their way through the hairs of the three of us.
“Ha… Ha….”
I managed to bring the two floundering people into the hole and exhaled quietly.
“Because I came in. You’ll be safe. Yes?”
And I couldn’t pass by the hologram floating in front of my eyes.
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1:39:21
Survivors: 7
[Eyes of Death], [Scent of Death]
You have entered a hole where you can escape death. 21 minutes and 24 seconds left until collapse.
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I expected it to some extent, but I could see that the hole we were in was a space where we could avoid monsters like a safe zone.
However, there was a difference from the safe zone.
‘There is no limit to the number of people, but instead, time matters.’
Above all, if there is the biggest difference between a safe zone….
‘It’s impossible to go out the way you came in…’ Then look at the situation… Sir, fuck….’
I didn’t want to spit out swear words.
But if you watch that scene and don’t swear words, that wouldn’t be more normal.
I said quietly to Park Jin-hee and Park Sun-hee, who lowered their heads and calmed their lungs while staring at the entrance of the hole.
“Two minutes….”
“Ha… Ha… Yes?”
“Never… Head… Don’t lift it.”
“Her… Eww….”
As soon as I warned, a great wind began to rush into the cave.
Whoop whoop!
“Hey!”
“Huh!”
In an instant, the three of us were hit by the wind that rushed in like a typhoon, and our bodies staggered as if we were being sucked into a hole.
Whoop whoop….
This time it was pushing the wind away like pushing us out of a dark hole.
Uhhhhh….
Winds of repetitive patterns….
It wasn’t that the hole sucked us in and spit it out.
It was because of the existence that saw me from outside the hole.
What I see… Fear… No, it was a scene where the presence of death is sticking its nose in to smell us.
The nostrils that might belong to dogs or wolves were struggling to smell us in the hole with green flames flickering.
No, you must already be in charge.
And you will know. That we are here….
Even so, Cerberus made only a snort and showed no reaction.
‘… It’s a truly rare experience.’
I felt like an insect being swept away by the wind blown by humans.
Cerberus, who kept checking as if he couldn’t do anything about what he couldn’t catch, kept sniffing and didn’t leave and stayed.
‘Looking at it, I don’t think we’re going to leave until we get inside, right?’
[It seems so. For now, the hole is like a refuge. It is judged that it is better to go inside.]
I agreed to Armonia’s words and immediately opened my mouth quietly.
“Two minutes… Once I bowed my head… Follow me never… Don’t look back.”
“Huh… Yes…. Heh….”
Haha… Whoa… Ha….”
Park Seon-hee, who was usually full of energy, started to hiccup in fear, and Park Jin-hee clenched her teeth and started following me with her head down.
Cerberus, who had been sticking his nose outside, continued to inhale as if he was sorry we went inside.
Whoop whoop….
Typhoon-like wind pressure continued to hit us, but to us it was only a small part of our fear.
In the face of death, this fear was just a signal to let you know that you were in a dangerous situation, just like being hit by pebbles while standing over a precipice.
We began to move forward, enduring the wind pressure like a typhoon.
After a while, I was able to breathe evenly as the wind pressure finally disappeared.
However, even if they could breathe like that, the memories of Park Seon-hee and Park Jin-hee about their deaths did not disappear.
The two of them couldn’t easily shake off the fear that once dwelled on them, so they sat down and started to cry.
“Um, something like that… Can’t win… I’m sure it’s upstairs too….”
“I hate it, I hate this. I want to go back… Mom….”
“….”
It wasn’t good.
Even if he struggled to live, he closed his hopes for the future and began to search for the past.
I put my hand on the shoulders of both of them, one arm at a time, and said firmly.
“I understand that it is scary. But that doesn’t mean you can’t just sit around here.”
“Yeah, but… There’s a guy like that here… You know there are even scarier guys up there….”
I immediately calmly answered Park Seon-hee’s concerns.
“Right. There could have been a lot of guys like that on top.”
“Well, I don’t like it… I don’t like going up. Just go back to our 1st floor town! Yeah? There must be a way to return….”
I cut off Park Seon-hee who was so frowning and opened her mouth.
“Do you want to be eaten by him?”
“… Yeah? Of course I hate it! That just… Also, how to get back….”
“How are you going to die?”
“That, that….”
I couldn’t bear to say anything behind my absurd words and started to parent.
It wasn’t a part that regressed, and there was no way that Park Seon-hee could know that I didn’t know.
But in the end, when she laid the cushion on her, the words did not come out of her mouth.
“What if….”
“… ?”
“What would you do if you couldn’t get out and you had to stay here with him for the rest of your life?”
“Well, that kind of thing….”
“You don’t know what the world is like. If you get caught by that guy, you won’t be eaten. Do you know if there is a hell in your belly?”
“Hey….”
The two of them began to cry, frightened as if just imagining it was terrible.
“You’ve been through a lot since you came here. If you get caught, you could end up living here with that monster for the rest of your life.”
“Sir, I don’t like… I hate that….”
“Right? I hate it too.”
I smiled mildly and looked at the two of them alternately.
“I know it’s scary. I’ve never seen such a terrifying monster before.”
Perhaps that monster is also weaker than the demon king Garcia I saw in the castle before.
In fact, I had experienced the demon king’s anger for a moment before my eyes, and even then I was able to get a glimpse of what death was like.
‘Compared to the Demon King, he must be a bit weak, right?’
[I can say that. That Demon King is much stronger.]
It was a story that there was no value compared to being the main character of the world.
I began to reassure the two of them by appropriately covering my experience.
“But after all, this is the first time. If you overcome the first time, you will be able to feel a different feeling when you experience it again later. Ah… It was not as big as I thought! I do.”
“Ah….”
The two of them listened to me, took a breath, then straightened their backs and smiled bitterly.
“That… Sorry to bother you.”
“I… Me too.”
“It didn’t bother me at all. Rather, thank you for bringing me back to life.”
“Whoops… Then let’s go fast Others must be trembling differently from us.”
“Yes, there is no one who comforts us like we do. Go quickly!”
I laughed and took my hands off the shoulders of the two of them and opened my mouth.
“Yes, let’s go quickly.”
That’s how the two people’s fears were able to subside for a while, and we started to enter the small hole again to find another companion.
