Chapter 348 – Chapter 348 Yggdrasil (3-56)
“Ah… Nope… Nope… This… Nonsense. Nonsense!!!”
Park Seon-hee began to panic while watching the fainting midsummer.
“Go, why are you like that all of a sudden?”
“I do not know.”
Min Ha-yeon smiled faintly and just shook her head.
I know, but I don’t have a reason to tell you, the midsummer’s behavior.
‘Phew… I’m glad I didn’t commit suicide again.’
Actually, that was the part I was really happy about.
If midsummer keeps dying, nothing bothers me more than that.
It seemed to have collapsed, probably because of the mental stress that came in an instant.
But along with the good things, there were also problems.
The three women began to look at the surroundings and Midsummer with worried expressions.
“It’s daunting… I don’t think this will happen.”
“But why are you doing this all of a sudden? Perhaps….”
“Everyone, shall we go back to the first floor?”
It would not normally be a heavy heart to come to the area you first arrive at, especially where the dead roam.
But to make matters worse, it seemed to be feared that it was related to this area because it was like this until midsummer.
‘But… Just by looking at what he does, you’ll know he’s possessed by a ghost.’
To the three people who don’t know why, it could have looked like a human possessed by an evil spirit, like a scene from The Exorcist.
However, going back to the first floor like this was not a good choice.
“Let’s go ahead. If there is even the slightest hint of danger, I immediately return to the first floor.”
“Yes.”
Everyone nodded and answered, and after the answer, they began to look at Han Yeoreum, who fainted.
One of the women who was watching Midsummer sighed and said,
“That… I will lead you.”
It was mid-spring.
In this situation, he is the only person who cannot abandon Midsummer.
Even if they died and returned, midsummer was not so unkind to the point of abandoning midsummer in a place like this.
She said as she raised her hands as she began to speak.
“I will help you too.”
“There’s nothing we can do.”
“How can I move alone? I will help too.”
As the three women rushed in, they immediately left, and thanks to this, everyone indirectly agreed to take Midsummer with them.
With everyone saying that they would take Midsummer with them, I also stepped forward and said.
“I’ll help move it too.”
The moment I said that, Min Ha-yeon stopped right in front of me and shook her head.
“Nope. Suho, don’t do that.”
“Yes? Then what do you do?”
“….”
Min Ha-yeon said she smiled, and she turned to me.
“You are the only one who can lead in front of us. Please.”
“Aha… Okay.”
I put on a slightly embarrassed expression at the fact that women were dragging the midsummer, but I took out my bow and held it right away, and said while taking the lead.
“Everyone… Please follow me well.”
“Yes.”
So we began to slowly move our steps into the fog.
As I moved like that, I realized one thing.
“Here… It looks like a village?”
I couldn’t see anything in front of me because of the fog, but when I looked at the buildings I could see from time to time, they were showing similar shapes to the wooden buildings I saw in the first-floor village.
But even so, they were similar, but not identical.
‘… I’m sure it looks clean, but it has the atmosphere of an abandoned house.’
When I ran my hands through the wooden buildings, they didn’t feel all that old.
“… After all, no one is there.”
“But it’s strange that it’s managed like this….”
The smooth-trimmed woodwork wasn’t quite like a freshly built house, but at least it felt like it was being taken care of.
However, apart from the well-maintained feeling, there was only one reason for the resulting ghost town feeling.
“… Haven’t you found anything so far?”
Even if there was no popularity, there was not too much.
“Yes, and when I asked the channel, everyone said they didn’t know anything because it was their first time coming here.”
A situation where even basic geographic information cannot be provided.
“If you have to, you can use the compass and go to the first floor again. It will be fine.”
Fortunately, the guiding compass worked well here too.
Just in case we didn’t know, we continued to keep an eye on the compass and began to engrave in our heads the routes we had come.
Except for me.
[A total of 40 houses have been found so far. It seems like a larger town than I thought.]
Armonia was carefully checking the route I was taking and making a map.
‘There was also a general store or grocery store in the middle.’
[First of all, accommodation is important. At least finding a safe place to stay….]
Armonia was explaining that to me.
Swoop… Smoothly… Slippery….
“What, what!”
“What’s wrong!?”
“What, what’s gone!”
At first, I thought it was the sound of the wind, but Park Seon-hee started shouting that she saw something passing behind her.
The passing of the unknown caused the women to panic.
“Oh, what should I do! Quick!”
“Uh, what should I do!!”
The reason the women had been able to endure so far was because they had grown accustomed to Yggdrasil and had the courage to meet monsters like Cerberus.
But meeting a dead person again was a different story.
When we think of ghosts or ghosts, the actions that come to mind are the actions that lead us to death.
I immediately started calming the girls down again.
“Calm down. Even if a real dead person shows up, there is a way to deal with it.”
“Oh, is it real?”
“I, really? Mister?”
“Yes, so stick to me as much as you can….”
It was the moment I tried to answer Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom.
Smoothly… Smoothly… Softly….
(Are you alive?)
(Not a soul?)
(My God… It’s real… I’m a real living….)
Suddenly, voices swarmed around them, and soon began to appear.
Beings created by the condensation of fog in a foggy place….
And as soon as their appearance was properly caught in sight, the women who had calmed down began to panic again.
“Really!! A real ghost!!”
“Mom! Mom!”
“Su-ho! Hurry! Hurry!!”
Even as they shouted, the ghosts began to gather more and more.
No, rather, it seemed to be approaching in response to the sound.
(How did you guys get in?)
(Let me go… Bring me back to life….)
(Please please….)
The ghosts suddenly came in droves and began to strangle us.
‘I can’t. It doesn’t look like there’s any malice at first, but Ha-yeon and Bom will also be in trouble at this rate.’
I took out the item from the inventory right away while watching Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom cry and panicked.
A green sphere the size of a baseball.
I lifted it right up and stretched out my arm toward the ghost that kept coming toward us.
That was the moment.
Aaaaa!
(Quaaaaagh!)
(Hey!!)
(Cheer!)
A green light emanated from them, and soon the ghosts began to fall to the ground.
The ghosts began to tremble while lying face down on the floor, and I began to admire the items when I saw them.
‘Wow… Is this shit?’
Eyes of Cerberus.
It was an item obtained by shooting an arrow into Cerberus’s eye, and I thought it was crazy just by explaining it, but when I used it myself, I found out that it was an amazing item.
“What, what… What’s up?”
“Mister, what is that?”
After I calmed down all the ghosts, the women began to look at me asking for clarification on the situation.
But right now, there was something more important than an explanation.
“I’ll get over this situation and let you know.”
I approached the nearest large ghost and began asking questions.
It was hazy like fog, but I could tell that he was a human before he was alive.
“Hey.”
(Hee-ik… Yes….)
“Is there some kind of accommodation where we can stay?”
(I… I don’t know…. But….)
“… ?”
(Mmm… I think a gravekeeper would know that….)
I listened to the man’s ghost and immediately turned to the party members and opened my mouth.
“Hey, guide the gravekeeper.”
..
..
We had the experience of being surrounded by ghosts several more times while on the move.
However, whenever I was surrounded like that, I was able to get out quickly by using Cerberus’ eyeball.
We could hear the reason why these ghosts were doing this to the big man who guided us.
(It’s because everyone saw the living…)
There was only one thing the dead wished for.
To live.
However, when the living suddenly appeared, they said that everyone was flocking to it in anticipation.
Above all, I could hear that the spirits in this village were not a threat because they had not long since died or had lived their lives without any problems.
He said that he came to us with the hope that he could live again.
“Is that gravekeeper a ghost too?”
(The Grave Keeper… Is dead, but he’s a bit different from us.)
“… ?”
I was puzzled, but once the gravekeeper was dead, it wouldn’t be a big problem.
During the War of Twilight, it was said that all gods and demigods died, so the Grave Keeper must have been affected by Cerberus’ eyeballs.
As he followed the large male ghost, Min Ha-yeon tilted his head and continued to look behind the male ghost.
Min Ha-yeon, who looked at me for a while, hurriedly approached me and started talking to me.
“Suho… Don’t you think you’ve seen this guy somewhere?”
“Yes?”
After hearing Min Ha-yeon’s words, I began to look carefully.
Clearly, something strange began to appear.
I don’t know if it’s because of the shape made of fog, but it’s because the face shape is close to Asian.
I followed the ghost and started asking questions.
“Hey, what did you do to die? Seeing that, you don’t look that old, do you?”
(Mmm… The head…)
“… ?”
(His head exploded and he died.)
“… Ah!”
It came to mind at that moment.
“Ah! That person!?”
A giant whose head exploded while fighting against a fairy in the Colosseum.
And as soon asheheard his words, he started talking in a whisper, as if he thought of Min Ha-yeon and the trio as well as me.
“If we die after being summoned, we will come here too….”
“Ugh… I don’t want to stay here.”
“I have to live really hard.”
Seeing the afterlife with your own eyes was a different experience.
You may be relieved that life exists even after death, but on the other hand, you are also afraid of the fact that you will be confined here for the rest of your life.
As we walked under the guidance of the giant, we were able to arrive at the huge castle before we knew it.
“Wow… I can’t see it very well, but it seems a little big?”
(This, the gravekeeper is here. That, then I’m done….)
“Hey, where are you going?”
(Yes? Oh, didn’t I guide you?)
“Please do more of what you are doing. Let me meet you in person.”
(Huhhhhh….)
Unsuitable for his size, the giant covered his eyes with both hands and began to groan.
‘I don’t think I was like this….’
With a stocky physique, he was showing a different side to the point of wondering if he was the guy who was telling the truth in front of the fairies.
I didn’t let him go easily even though I looked at the giant.
Maybe he guided us to a strange place with the intention of harming us.
Geohan took the lead and began slowly entering the castle.
And he met the gatekeeper in front of the castle.
(You can’t enter or leave this place! Buy, buy!?)
“Move.”
(Kuuuh!)
And even the guards inside….
(It’s an intruder!)
“Move.”
(Kuuuh!)
And even the giant who guided us….
“Move.”
(Hee! Me, why am I….)
“Oh sorry. I made a mistake because they all looked the same.”
All the spirits spread to the left and right like Moses parting the Red Sea in front of my Cerberus eyeball.
Seeing me like that, Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom started to worry.
“Are you okay?”
“Isn’t that too extreme?”
“It’s okay. You have the ability to use it at a time like this.”
In fact, there were two reasons why I used my abilities without thinking.
The first is to make sure that the ghosts living here are engraved with a relationship between superior and inferior so that they do not bother them.
Second is….
“Hi-Hi… There’s nothing wrong with ghosts.”
“I know. I was really scared earlier, but with Suho, I’m not worried at all.”
It was to boost the morale of the party members.
It’s good to be vigilant to some extent, but it won’t work if you’re too scared.
Finally, after walking, we arrived at the guest room of the castle.
I commanded the castle guards while poking Cerberus’ eyeballs.
“Now, hurry up and bring that gravekeeper or something.”
(Oh, I see!)
The guards who directly received the eyeball effect turned their backs and left this place as if they were running away.
I walked around the waiting room and asked the giant.
“By the way, didn’t you say you were a gravekeeper? Do you think your position is higher than you thought?”
(Myo, the gravekeeper is the administrator of this place. It is safe to say that the lord… And furthermore, the king.)
It was unexpected.
‘When I heard only the title ‘gravekeeper’, I thought that I was a lowly person with a slightly shabby look….’
First of all, the gravekeeper meant that he was different from other ghosts.
[Surely, Suho’s ability should be as effective as the dead.]
But the fact remained that he was dead after all.
‘If these eyes don’t work because you’re not a ghost or an undead, you can just leave here.’
I started looking around the waiting room and waiting for the gravekeeper.
And not long after….
Turd… Turd… Turd….
“… It seems to be coming.”
“….”
Everyone began to stare at the guest room door, nervous at the sound of footsteps.
What is clear is that he is a distinctly different being from the giant next to him.
‘Footprint…. It means it has a body.’
Turd… Turd………….
And the footprints stopped in front of the door.
It was quiet for a while, then the door suddenly opened wide and a cheerful man’s laughter was heard.
“Welcome to Neo Niflheim! You living ones!”
“… Uh?”
While everyone was silent for a moment, distracted by the cheerful man’s voice, Hanbom noticed and opened his mouth.
“I… I think I saw that in a movie.”
Whole body is made of bones, wearing a cape, holding a huge scythe….
“Aren’t you a reaper?”
It was a real death.
