Chapter 454 – Chapter 454 Yggdrasil (4-2)
“Before you leave, would you be able to help me in trouble?”
“Yes?”
As I was about to get up, I heard the gravekeeper’s words and sat down again.
“What are you doing?”
“Hmm… I’m worried that you’re asking a guest who will come at least once in his lifetime.”
“Tell me please. We are too embarrassed to just leave after being treated like this.”
Min Ha-yeon reassured the gravekeeper and eased his mind.
After hearing Min Ha-yeon’s words, the gravekeeper started to talk carefully with his chin rattling.
“Ho-ho-ho… Thank you for saying that. Then, I will tell you.”
The gravekeeper laughed softly and started talking.
“The number of people dying recently is increasing.”
Summoning season.
A grand ceremony in which Yggdrasil summons living beings from all over the universe to climb a huge tower called Yggdrasil.
Once the ritual begins, several hundred people are summoned at once to the Colosseum on the 0th floor and go through a 7-day tutorial process.
Then, go through a boss battle or ignore it, and head to the first floor.
80-90% of the summoned people die challenging the boss fight.
In other words, when Min Ha-yeon and I came to the first floor a while ago, a huge number of people must have died.
“In fact, there are always a lot of people dying during times like this, and it’s always busy, so there’s no big problem.”
“Then what is the problem?”
The gravekeeper paused for a moment, then lowered his head and spoke.
“Among the recently deceased, I have a friend who causes me great trouble by causing damage to other spirits.”
“… Grave Keeper?”
Make trouble for the person who manages this place?
Just by looking at the appearance of the god of death, the gravekeeper seemed like a person with a lot of skills in his own way.
Make such an existence difficult….
“Most of the rebellious friends were able to be killed on the line, but… That friend wasn’t easy at all.”
“Are you strong?”
“Go strong… In fact, I have no idea what kind of ability it is. Actually, the biggest problem is….”
“… ?”
“When faced with a situation against me, he quickly hides in a dungeon.”
“A dungeon?”
I wondered what the problem was, but I could hear and understand him quickly.
“As a native of Yggdrasil, I cannot enter the dungeon. That is one of the rules of Yggdrasil.”
“Oh right.”
There was a rule that the residents of Yggdrasil could not use the dungeon.
It was the same even in death.
“By the way, is there a dungeon here too?”
“There is a dungeon about half a day away.”
“It’s okay if we help, but… If entering the dungeon is a problem, could I ask the deceased among the people summoned this time?”
“Ho-ho-ho… Surprisingly, many of the people who came as summoners did not even know what a dungeon was.”
“Aha….”
Starting with the guy whose head was blown off by a fairy, most dead summoners are bound to die on the 0th floor.
The reason is the boss fight.
Most of them died in the boss fight on the 0th floor, so there were people who didn’t even know the concept of a dungeon.
Yes, there are people who died after entering the first floor or higher, but….
“A lot of people came at once, as if there was a large-scale incident this time.”
“Large incident?”
“Yes. I don’t know the details, but it was not easy to control because a lot of people suddenly rushed in, and finally….”
The gravekeeper pushed her chin forward and gestured for a sigh.
“I took so many friends at the instigation of the friend who put me in trouble.”
“Gosh….”
It was a story that the one who became the leader was a problem, but the other guys who were instigated were also a problem.
I don’t know if it’s because everyone died with a grudge, but it seemed that summoners with some skill got together and formed a group.
First of all, it was a story that a guy who didn’t even know what kind of ability he had was doing damage to other souls by hiding well.
“Yesterday I also tried to catch it somehow, but I ended up missing it except for a few friends.”
“That leader is also a soul after all, right?”
“You’re right. He is the one who died about two months ago and came into this Neo Niflheim.”
“Hmm….”
I said while looking at Min Ha-yeon, Han Bom and the other colleagues.
“Then we will help you.”
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Our group left the village and after a few hours of hiking we were able to reach the cave where the gravekeeper told us that the demon resided.
“This seems to be the dungeon where the evil spirit hides.”
“Ah! There is a red jewel!”
At Min Ha-yeon’s cry, everyone began to turn their eyes to the red jewel marked in front of the dungeon.
There is a red jewel in front of the dungeon….
└Guardian of the Gay Chuck: It’s a common phase.
“Ah, you said that each color has a different phase, right?”
└Guardian of gay dicks: Yes.
Geckosu began to explain the phase to me.
Private Topology, Private Topology (invaderable), and Common Topology.
The way to check each phase is to check the color of the jewel installed in front of the dungeon.
Blue is the individual phase, orange is the trespassable phase, and red is the common phase.
In other words, the dungeon we are facing….
└Guardian of the gay dick: This is a public phase. It won’t be difficult to meet him. Catching is different, buthaha
It meant that it was a meeting place where everyone who entered it could meet.
“Ah, no matter how hard you try, you’re a ghost
What….”
└Guardian of gay dicks: Be careful though. The most dangerous thing in this world is a dead guy. I don’t know what to do.
“But….”
I lightly listened to Geckosu’s advice and looked at the red jewel, but other colleagues noticed and started to worry.
Among them, Hanbom clung to me with the most worried look.
Shaking her body….
“Ah, uncle… Would it be okay?”
After coming to the second floor, Hanbom couldn’t easily show the confident attitude she had been showing.
Her weakness….
“Ear… You’re a ghost! Ah, if it’s a demon, maybe it has strange abilities?”
It was a ghost.
She was extremely afraid of the form of a ghost.
It’s so ironic, that the bold guy is afraid of ghosts, even a healer….
To me, Hanbom looked similar to an exorcist trembling in fear at the sight of an evil spirit.
I reassured Hanbom by stroking her hair, which was clinging to me.
“It’s okay. Even if you say it’s a demon anyway, it’s a guy who was a human like us after all. If it’s necessary, I’ll take care of it.”
“Oh, hee hee…. Well, if you have an uncle, don’t worry.”
Human relationships are so wonderful.
The prickly Hanbom heard this childish line and wandered around with joy….
Seeing this, Min Ha-yeon gave a short sigh and opened her mouth.
“Once you have Suho, you won’t have to worry. I don’t know anything else, but the spirits can’t attack Suho.”
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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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As long as I have this item, I won’t lose to the spirits and undead in Yggdrasil.
No, just by reducing the range, there wouldn’t be anyone on the second floor who could resist me at all.
Just using it will force you to surrender….
I haven’t tried it on the gravekeeper, but I expected it to work well enough.
Still, the reason I didn’t use the Eye of Cerberus on the gravekeeper was because of his goodwill.
‘It’s against etiquette to blindly beam after receiving such consideration.’
[You used it on the village spirits… ?]
‘They bother me….’
We gave eye-beams to the souls who clung to us relentlessly all the way to the dungeon earlier.
It was already dead, but it was art to look like dying happily and parting like the Red Sea.
“And more than anything else, you checked it when you came here. In the end, even in the spirit state, our attack worked.”
As Min Ha-yeon said, although her soul state was special, it could not be said to be greater.
The dead monsters encountered in the form of spirits were also defeated, and the level of the monsters was set to a level appropriate for the 2nd floor.
So what was the level of the monsters on the second floor?
Just in case, I looked at the trio and asked.
“Did you raise the skill to level 10?”
Except for Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom, the three nodded and answered.
“Yes.”
Even though we had just arrived on the 2nd floor, the reason why we easily caught the 2nd-floor level monsters was because our level had already broken through the 2nd floor.
Everyone was able to receive a huge number of points as a reward because they cleared all the boss battles on the first floor.
The points he received were so large that he could easily take basic skills up to level 10.
The reason Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom were quiet was because the two women had already reached level 10 in their skills.
In fact, it would be nice to raise even one more level, but there was a reason why I told you not to raise it by more than 10 levels.
I said while watching the trio.
“If by any chance, when deciding on a protection, if you think it is lacking, please tell me. I will also use the points I have to help your protection.”
“Thanks.”
Starting with Park Jin-hee, the other two women also bowed their heads to thank me.
“Every time I get help….”
“It’s okay. It’s the same team. The more people you can trust, the better.”
At my words, the trio began to smile and laugh.
That’s how I perfectly decided where to use my points, and started looking at other people.
Min Ha-yeon, Han Bom, Park Sun-hee, Son Hye-eun, Park Jin-hee, and….
Looking at Min Ha-yeon, I smiled bitterly.
“Midsummer… You don’t want to come?”
Min Ha-yeon grunted as she shrugged her shoulders.
“Yeah, he said he didn’t want to come, so I just left him.”
In fact, it was more helpful for her not to come.
Even if a guy like that comes, she’ll just be a nuisance….
But he is a regressor.
She wanted to keep it in front of her because every single action in midsummer could trigger a butterfly effect later on.
But she couldn’t bring her by force.
Because her contract, which she had on the ground floor, ended when she was handed her shooting jewelry.
‘Stupid guy… Beat your daughter alone with jewels.’
[….]
I muttered inwardly and opened my mouth.
“I can’t help it. Let’s go in by ourselves.”
That’s how our group started entering the dungeon except midsummer.
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The inside of the dungeon was in the shape of a cave, just like its exterior.
Knock… Knock… Knock….
The sound of water dripping from the moss that clings to the walls was enough to make our nerves stand on edge.
However, the tension I felt when entering the dungeon gradually began to subside.
The reason is….
“There are no monsters?”
It was because, as Park Jin-hee said, even after 30 minutes of exploring the dungeon, I hadn’t seen a single monster.
Everyone was in the dark, so he didn’t act leisurely, but compared to before, his neck and shoulders were relaxed and he was looking around.
“Wouldn’t there have been monsters in the first place?”
I shook my head and answered Park Jin-hee’s words.
“No. I heard that there are monsters in this dungeon too.”
The world of the dead was not the exclusive property of the intelligent.
It was said that when the monsters in Yggdrasil die, they live on the second floor in a spirit state like humans.
However, unlike ordinary humans, they act according to their instincts as they did when they were alive….
“Because the items I have are also effective against monsters. Everyone, please relax in moderation.”
“Yes.”
The Eye of Cerberus also worked on monsters.
However, unlike humans, the effect was a bit disappointing.
Monsters lived by their instincts, so they often reacted immediately to Cerberus’ eyes and ran away.
You could openly catch them and give them orders, but it seemed impossible to give specific orders like an intelligent body.
I stopped, looked around and opened my mouth.
“Let’s rest for a while.”
“Yes.”
With Min Ha-yeon’s answer, all the women around her began to sit down on the rocks while slowly lowering their brightly shining lanterns.
If you don’t know if it’s walking in an ordinary cave, we have now entered a cave where evil spirits live.
There was nothing wrong with taking frequent breaks.
It wasn’t because I entered the dungeon to earn points, but because I came after receiving a request to eradicate it.
But even when everyone was sitting down to rest, I stood up and looked around, standing guard.
As I looked around like that, Hanbom came up to me and started pulling my arm.
“Mister, just sit down and rest.”
“Because I am fine. I am resting.”
Rather, if it was an ordinary dungeon, there was no need to be so nervous.
But the opponent is an unknown evil spirit.
I don’t know how to run, so someone had to be vigilant like this.
More than anything else, I had no choice but to stand guard.
I said to Hanbom and the other women.
“Don’t worry about me, rest. The important thing in the current mission is the item I have.”
“Whoa… I see. If it is difficult, please tell me.”
The other girls, including Hanbom, nodded at my words and started taking a break.
All the other women knew. The fact that there is no place more compatible with me than Neo Niflheim….
Like Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom, the trio will never forget what I helped them in the future.
If I do something like this, they will definitely repay you later.
I knew that no one was going to take advantage of me just because I was out there.
Especially in mid-spring….
I whispered quietly into Hanbom’s ear.
“Go back to your inn and release me.”
“Heh… It might be harder because of me?”
I laughed at her words in the middle of her spring and urged her to rest while pushing her gently.
After spending midspring like that and looking around her, this time Min Ha-yeon came up to me and started looking at me with her eyes.
“What did you two talk about?”
“Yes? I didn’t say anything.”
“Really?”
“… No.”
I felt like I would get scolded if I lied, so my sincerity came out without my knowledge.
‘I am a man… A man who can’t lie….’
[Wasn’t it like eating a lie?]
‘….’
I never thought the day would come when I heard such cheap words from Armonia’s mouth. It seems like the two of us have become close friends….
After Min Ha-yeon heard my playful reply, she smiled and opened her mouth.
“Sung Soo-ho… First impressions can change like this.”
Haha, even after getting close, if you notice, you’re not a lover.”
“Hmm… I’m a lover….”
Min Ha-yeon and I weren’t dating publicly, but we were secretly dating.
In fact, I wondered what it meant to be official now.
Han Bom already had a threesome relationship with Min Ha-yeon and me, and the trio must have already guessed our relationship.
At least it was because of the midsummer. Only to torment the midsummer….
No matter how much Min Ha-yeon hated midsummer, she wanted to go this far.
I smiled brightly as I recalled the midsummer days when I cried at Min Ha-yeon and myself.
‘I’m usually good at it, stupid guy….’
[I think Suho should do well now.]
‘Yes….’
Now I was in a position to be careful.
I didn’t know anything else, but I had no intention of abandoning Min Ha-yeon and Han Bom.
No matter how subordination was at stake, I did not want a relationship in which I was bound by subordination with the two women.
I really really want to be with you walking side by side….
Even for the sake of such a relationship, he had to be careful when making fun of his cock from now on.
When I was so alert, Min Ha-yeon started to sigh.
“Ha….”
“What’s the matter? Are you feeling unwell?”
“That is….”
Min Ha-yeon paused for a while and began to notice her trio.
The three of them were having a conversation, exchanging stories about divine protection.
In the middle of our conversation, a woman glanced at us, noticed our gaze, and quickly began to focus on the conversation again.
The woman who noticed that….
“I have to apologize to Hye-eun, but it’s not easy….”
It was Son Hye-eun.
