Chapter 345 – Chapter 345 Yggdrasil (3-53)
“Ugh….”
Min Ha-yeon struggled to lift her eyelids little by little, enduring the onslaught of headaches.
She could feel the weight hanging from her brows, but as soon as she came to her senses, she started to open her eyes according to her instincts.
And the reflection in front of her eyes was an underground aqueduct full of gray-colored bricks.
“Ugh… Hey, where are you?”
“Ugh… Gwa, are you okay?”
“Hye… Mr. Hyeeun? Hey, where are you?”
Min Ha-yeon tightened her eyes and began to focus her vision longer.
She was lying down like Min Ha-yeon, and then wrapped her head around her head to regain her senses.
In between, there was also Park Jin-hee, Park Sun-hee and Midsummer.
And Hanbom showed no signs of waking up, lying down and sleeping.
It wasn’t until she looked around that that she remembered something was strange.
None.
“Guardian! Right! Guardian!!”
“Calm down.”
“Hyeeun! Guardian… Hye, Hyeeun, on top of your head….”
“….”
Min Ha-yeon rubbed her eyes for a long time, wondering if she had seen her wrong, then she focused again and looked over Son Hye-eun’s head.
Above her head, an orange gem slowly rotated and floated.
Only then did Min Ha-yeon remember everything.
The shock inflicted on her head at the moment of sudden action alone in an urgent situation.
And when she turned around, the face she saw.
“Stop, please… Here….”
“Yes, we escaped.”
“How could that be!”
In an excited state, Min Ha-yeon grabbed Son Hye-eun by the collar and began to shake it roughly.
At that moment, Park Jin-hee and Park Seon-hee understood her situation and hurriedly ran to Min Ha-yeon, and Son Hye-eun, who was caught by Min Ha-yeon, calmly lowered her head.
In the midst of such a scuffle, Son Hye-eun’s earnest words calmed her hatred.
“I couldn’t put Ha-yeon in such danger. Sorry.”
“Huh… How… Like that….”
Min Ha-yeon couldn’t bear the hatred of the girl who had lost her way and she collapsed on the spot and started crying.
As she was crying endlessly, a fairy suddenly jumped out of the air and started screaming.
“No! What is this! Six humans came out of the exit!?”
While everyone was looking at the fairy with a surprised expression, one of them was not at all surprised by the fairy’s sudden appearance and ran to the fairy and shouted in an urgent voice in front of him.
“One person! Where is the other one!?”
“One person? Heh… Could there be another one?”
The fairy heard Min Ha-yeon’s words and began to grumble, shaking her head.
“Why are you so tenaciously surviving and putting us in trouble…. Compromise in the middle and finish it….”
“… What?”
Min-ha, who was in urgency for Seong Su-ho’s life, also felt her mind go berserk at the grumbling of the fairy.
I’ve been living my life, but to just die….
While the party members were looking at the fairy with hateful eyes, the fairy beckoned into the air and began to mutter.
“Ruler… Time remaining. 20 seconds….”
Everyone hid their dissatisfaction and began to listen to the fairy’s words.
“Fifteen seconds….”
Min Ha-yeon holds both hands and prays in desperation.
“Ten seconds….”
And the party members who put their hands on Min Ha-yeon’s shoulders and close their eyes as everyone wishes….
“Five seconds….”
In the meantime, midsummer smiled faintly and clutched her hand.
And finish.
“End.”
“….”
Everyone began to look around with longing eyes.
However, what was reflected in their eyes were places and people that were no different from before.
Everyone looked around and started crying and lowering their heads.
“Nope… It can’t be….”
“Hayeon-san….”
“Ahhhhh!!”
It was when Min Ha-yeon fell into such despair and howled.
“… What!? Is it an error?”
“… ?”
It was the moment everyone looked at the fairies because they wanted to know what they were talking about.
Wow!
“Awesome!”
“What else!”
Suddenly, a bright light emanated from a corner and began to take away all focus in the other person’s eyes.
However, the light was quickly withdrawn, and the sight of others was quickly restored.
And from the place where the light came out, the voice everyone had been waiting for started to flow.
“Madam… I think it fell through my tailbone.”
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‘Great! It’s also effective.’
Kyaaaaang! Kyaaaaa!!
I let go of the screaming and rampaging Cerberus and started running again.
[The effect seems to be better than I thought.]
No matter how much it was berserk or something, it started to work in my favor thanks to the damage.
And the effective attack method I thought of wasn’t just head-to-head.
‘I have to tie my feet first. If the soles of my feet hurt, can I come running?’
It was to put an arrow into the sole of Cerberus’s foot, which was running right away.
I was going to give a big blow to the foot itself in the second step, but I decided to slow down more because I was rather angry.
And most of all, the second stage consumed mana so badly that it had to be seen as a last resort.
Armonia gave a signal while Cerberus was tied up for a while and ran.
[Suho, everyone has gone to the exit now.]
‘What? Did Ha-yeon just leave?’
To be honest, I didn’t have a lot of worries about the other characters, but it was questionable whether Min Ha-yeon would go out smoothly.
For some reason, I thought that Min Ha-yeon would force herself to stay if I wasn’t at the party.
At the same time as feeling glad that I went out, I couldn’t help but feel sad that he had just abandoned me.
But as soon as she found out how she got out, she was immediately relieved.
[Her hand, Hye-eun, stunned her and took her out.]
‘I’m glad.’
I didn’t have time to know exactly what the situation was, but I knew that it was roughly resolved.
Now everything is over. Now I had to make a choice.
‘Armonia.’
[Yes, warp right away….]
‘Nope. Wait a minute.’
[… ?]
The original plan was simple.
After I became the bait for the other party members to get out, sending me to the exit through the warp if I fell as far as possible.
If it seemed that running away would fail, Armonia was going to warp in the middle, but fortunately, thanks to the berserk, my arrows were able to work to some extent, so I had more time than I thought.
Cerberus glared at the others again, as if he had judged that it was impossible to remove the arrow stuck in the sole of his foot, and started running.
However, it was noticeable that, apart from running away in anger, the speed had decreased considerably compared to before.
‘Let’s fire a shot.’
[….]
I was curious.
How much damage can I do to that monster with my ability….
There was a big difference between Stage 1 and Stage 2.
The first stage was able to pierce Cerberus’s inner skin, but in the end it did not produce enough destructive power to penetrate.
I was really curious to see how much damage I could do to that monster with my 2nd stage.
I sighed heavily, put the arrow on the bowstring, and focused.
‘Armonia. Prepare for mana exhaustion.’
[… All right.]
I could feel that even if there was a guarantee for safety, they didn’t like it very much.
However, I decided that I had to test it at this time so that I could overcome the crisis in an emergency.
I activated the 2nd stage magic circle right after hanging the arrow on the bowstring.
One line on either side… And two lines….
In the first stage, I had already used it several times and had a sense of it to some extent, but in the second stage, just activating two lines of the magic circle made me feel like my soul was going out.
The moment all the mana was sucked out, Cerberus’ cry and mana recovery from afar woke me up.
Queeeee aaaaa!!
A being that runs to devour my soul.
I started aiming at the most important part of all living things.
The basic and central part in communicating with the world.
‘Shoot!!!’
Focusing on the guy’s eyes, I let go of the bowstring I was pulling vigorously.
And at the same time, a piercing sound that seemed to tear through the walls in the cave exploded, and a huge yellow beam of light came out.
Aaaaa!!
‘Kuuuuu!’
My pupils began to dilate as if a small sun had risen in front of my eyes.
And at the same time as my eyes hurt, I had no choice but to collapse on the spot, feeling a sharp pain that seemed like the muscles in my whole body would explode.
At least I could feel those acute pains recovering as soon as I collapsed.
It seemed that Armonia had recovered.
However, thanks to the tinnitus in my ears, I couldn’t tell the current situation.
I barely got up and started to check the situation, not being able to distinguish the messy sounds that were mixed with various sounds.
“Ha… Ha… Ha….”
The yellow light disappears, and what I see….
Kwak! Kwakwakokang! Kwa Kwah Kwa Kwa Kwam!!!
Kyaaaaa!!! Kyaaaaa!!!!
It was the image of Cerberus, madly crashing into the surrounding walls and going wild.
It wasn’t that he was angry.
I could tell just by looking at him that he was writhing and feeling great pain.
And at the same time, something caught my eye.
‘Yes? What’s on the floor over there?’
Even in this urgent situation, a green glowing figure caught my eye.
[Suho! Ability has been verified. Now Warp….]
‘Nope! Wait!’
[!?]
I ran towards a glowing figure lying right on the ground.
Cerberus was still raging with pain, and fortunately, the place where the shining figure landed was close to me, so I managed to get close somehow.
I managed to reach the glowing shape and pick it up, bracing my wobbly legs.
‘Item?
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*Eyes of Cerberus*
One eye of Cerberus, the gatekeeper of Hell where the dead are enshrined.
Cerberus, an existence that instills fear into those who have already died and have no soul, and binds even free spirits without a physical shell.
By using this item, you can freely control undead and spirit-type races. (However, orders from higher beings, like gods and demigods, are invalid.)
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‘Wow, is this shit? Should I pluck out the other eye?’
It was the moment when he lifted his bow again towards Cerberus with such high expectations.
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0:01:00
Survivors: 1
[Eyes of death], [Nose of death], [Ears of death], [Houses of death], [Houses of death]
The berserk was dispelled by Death’s agony.
Death’s movement speed is reduced by 200%. Death’s strength is reduced by 300%. Death focus reduced by 500%.
Death Endothelial thickness increased by 50%. Death Armor increased to 40%. Deathsight is increased by 50%.
An escape route has been created to avoid death. If you escape through the exit, it is considered a success even if you do not last for the time limit.
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The berserk modifier disappeared, and the modifiers that had accumulated over the years were set again.
[Suho! Once the thickness and defense have increased, there is a high possibility that the same attack as before will not work. Warp quickly….]
‘Wait a minute!’
That was the moment.
Cerberus’s middle head turned toward me and began to stare at me with one of his eyes.
Her right eye was closed, dripping green tears or blood.
Compared to the earlier run at me recklessly in a state of excitement, now he was showing his senses and glaring at me.
Fortunately, I was able to face Cerberus’s gaze accurately, probably because I was getting used to it.
‘No, is it because one eye was plucked out?’
I was able to carefully observe the form of Cerberus, which I had not seen in detail until now.
The middle head lost one eye and shed green bloody tears while glaring at me fiercely with the other eye, while the other heads on either side had their eyes closed.
The right head opened its nose to sniff the surroundings, and the other left head flapped its ears to show the surrounding sounds.
‘Just looking at it, it seems that the one in the middle is the main one, and the rest are in charge of smell and hearing.’
[Suho?]
‘That guy… Doesn’t it seem like he’s a bit scared, unlike before?’
He was obviously staring fiercely.
However, unlike before, he did not attack hastily.
“Huh!”
Let me quickly raise my bow and pretend to attack.
Hey hey hey!
The middle head got a little frightened and turned its head away, turning the other eye away.
‘Oh oh… If I wait like this, I’ll be able to survive without warping, right?’
[However, the atmosphere is not serious.]
‘Eh?’
As the middle one turned her head and whimpered, the two next to her suddenly started screaming as they thrust their teeth into the middle one.
Krrrrrr! Kyaaaaang!
At first glance, the guys on either side gave off the feeling of scolding the guy in the middle.
‘… Is it mine?’
[Perhaps the visible one feels fear, but the other two are invisible, so it seems that they are not able to accurately feel the power of the guardian.]
Besides, it could have been because the only thing that suffered directly was the middle head.
Now the time is less than 30 seconds left.
It seemed that he would not have to use the warp anyway if he was threatening and wasting time.
‘Phew… Still, this should be enough.’
However… The mouth was always straight.
After the guy in the middle brushed me off, she glared at me again as if she couldn’t help it, and started preparing to attack me.
‘Ha….’
[… Suho.]
‘Let’s match the rest of the eyes even if it’s weak for now.’
In the second stage, I managed to get an eye by using two lines instead of one line of the magic circle.
It would be nice if I could get both, but with the mana I had now, level 2 was no longer enough.
‘Let’s shoot first!’
I confidently let go of the bowstring and shot an arrow at the remaining eye of Cerberus, who was running towards me.
The middle head flinched from the arrow I shot, and closed its eyes tightly.
And then….
Kwajik!
Kyaaaaa!!
An arrow hit over the eyelid.
‘Great. Then…. Yes?’
Cerberus, who had thought he would stop, was speeding up rather than slowing down.
With eyes closed!
‘Armonia!!!!! Warp!!!! Warp!!!!’
It was the moment I thought I was going to die.
Shoot aaaaa!
The colorful colors danced like a dancing balloon doll….
Quadang!
Threw me to the floor
“Ouch!”
I immediately rubbed my ass and muttered as I got up.
“Madam… I think it fell down my tailbone. Gagging!”
While I was grumbling, someone suddenly jumped at me and started hugging me.
I was embarrassed because it was a hug that I was holding in a frantic state, but I soon knew who the woman rushed at me.
“Isn’t that a dream!?”
Haha… I don’t think it’s a dream because my tailbone hurts?”
“You bastard! Ugh….”
“… Sorry.”
I had no choice but to stroke Min Ha-yeon’s head as she hugged me without giving any explanation.
And what I see is a trio of people crying and laughing while looking at me….
‘To make a face like that on a benefactor who saved her, I’ll have to educate her later.’
It was a midsummer figure glaring at me and clenching my teeth.
