Pollution
Unless it is the death of others, no one can get used to their own death.
Because death comes only once to everyone.
However, after experiencing 999 failures in [Anyone is fine, please help!], Yoo-seong was able to calmly analyze the situation without panicking in the face of sudden death and resurrection.
‘Knights and wizards at a distance. Blocked on three sides except for the front. Aside from being a little tired, he’s in good shape.’
Exactly the same situation as when you started the quest.
Unlike the first round, Yoosung counted the numbers in his mind while lying down without lifting a finger.
And before I could count to three, the terrible pain and nausea came again.
“Uweek!”
Food and blood clots pouring out of the mouth.
At first glance, nothing has changed at all, but Yooseong was able to realize one fact in return for not doing anything.
‘Judging by the use of the word ‘contamination’, it is a situation where you are addicted to some kind of poison. Even if you stay still, the timing and pain of seizures are exactly the same as the first round, so it’s not the kind of poison that slows down the progress if you don’t move or spreads quickly if you move violently.’
If you can’t slow down the venom attack by minimizing your movements, your strategies and tactics will change.
“It looks like the contamination has reached a significant level, but it would be better to just deal with it.”
“Get him from above… … .”
A conversation that wasn’t wrong with the previous one.
Knowing that the conversation between the knight and the wizard continued to some extent, Yoosung was not in a hurry and calmly thought of a plan despite the stabbing pain all over his body.
‘Looking at the fact that he was killed without interrogation, the possibility of accepting surrender is low. If you think about the distance in a situation where you can’t even use your magic power properly, even if you run into it, you won’t be able to go a few steps and you’ll get a hole in your body. Not even a gun. I don’t know if it’s a wizard, but a knight wears armor. I don’t know if that armor can block bullets, but it’s pretty obvious who will win in a gunfight between a person with a bare body and a person with their whole body covered in iron plates. then… … .’
“Oops!”
“Tsk. This is why they are polluters.”
As the knight aimed his gun, Yooseong hurriedly stretched out his arms and opened his mouth.
“Let me tell you! Where are the maps and evidence… … . Whoops! No, I will tell you!”
-what is this? Am I crazy too?
The voice presumed to be that of the client was neatly ignored.
Now was not the time to have a leisurely conversation.
“Where are you?”
“Cool! Promise me before then! If you promise to spare my life in exchange for the map and evidence… … .”
– What crazy! you? another me? What are you doing anyway? Do you think they’ll save you just because you tell them?
Taang!
“Hey?!”
“Do you think you are in a position to negotiate? Whether you live or die is all up to my heart. You’d better talk quickly before I feel any worse.”
“That, so that… … . Whoops!”
“Tsk.”
Yoosung, who seemed to have calmed down, vomited again and hit the floor with his head down. The knight clicked his tongue and slightly relaxed his finger on the trigger.
A momentary carelessness that is bound to happen because he is a person in an absolutely advantageous situation.
And Yooseong didn’t miss that moment and charged forward while activating End of Pain.
“Innoooum!”
In the midst of accelerating accidents and slowing time, the scene of the knight pulling the trigger was visible.
‘It’s unreasonable to look at bullets and avoid them. But I can predict where they’re aiming.’
Taang!
profit!
The bullets fired from the muzzle evaporated leaving only a little smoke the moment they hit the plasma.
“What?”
unexpected situation.
The knight, who was hastily pulling the bolt, hurriedly flung his body to the side at the meteor’s appearance as if he was about to throw an ax glowing purple.
But that was the wrong choice.
The target Yooseong was aiming for was not a knight.
Kwajik!
The wizard with the ax stuck in his face fell to the floor without being able to scream once.
‘The knight is not dangerous. You have a gun, so you just have to be careful with it. But wizards are dangerous because they don’t know what abilities they have or what variables they can create. The first thing to deal with is the wizard.’
Only one article left.
“die.”
A confident smile hung on the knight’s face as he aimed his gun after reloading.
And Yoosung’s face as he gazed at such an article had a smile on his face.
Taang!
There were deafening explosions and flashes of light, but no screams were heard.
It wasn’t because he couldn’t even scream and died instantly.
The second bullet didn’t hit Meteor’s body, it was because it hit the ground.
Yooseong, who escaped the line of fire using a flashlight and reached the knight, gently raised his palm on top of the armor.
A light blow that seemed unable to tear a piece of paper apart.
However, it was a blow that was more than enough to defeat the knight.
thud!
Blood flowed like a waterfall between the helmet of the fallen knight on the floor.
It may look fine on the outside, but it’s because the inside has been torn apart by the penetrating mirror that ignores defense and inflicts blows.
“Whoa.”
Yooseong took a deep breath and calmed his seething inner air.
Internal energy that was suddenly created in a body that originally had only magical power.
The source was the Qingmokdan, the elixir obtained as a reward from [the youngest disciple of the Jincheon military family].
Realizing that he couldn’t handle magical power properly in the first round, Yooseong put his head on the floor pretending to vomit and secretly ate a piece of Cheongmokdan to gain internal energy in an instant.
‘It’s a little wasteful, but I can’t help it.’
The actual body on Earth can raise its stats as much as it wants with the Karma Shop, but the stats of the client do not change.
Rather than gaining a bit of inner strength right away, it is more beneficial to strengthen the client’s abilities and obtain more rewards by breaking quests that cannot be cleared originally.
– You must be really crazy. Are you hallucinating before you die?
“It’s not an illusion, it’s reality.”
– Or is it a psychosis? I laughed heartily when terminal polluters did strange things and talked nonsense, but now that I’m like that, I can’t even laugh.
“It’s not even a double personality. Wake.”
– No. You can’t make something that doesn’t even have mental illness, can you? So, did psychosis and hallucinations happen at the same time?
“A client who denies existence at all. Is it fresh?”
God, angel, devil, immortal, apostle, etc. I’ve had many experiences called many titles while carrying out quests so far, but this is the first time a client denies the existence at all.
After confirming that there was no one around, Yuseong started searching the arms of the fallen knight and wizard to find useful items.
A gun and bullet pouch were found on the knight, and a pouch containing silver coins and two glass vials dripping with silver liquid were found on the wizard.
“This… … .”
-uh? is it a covenant? hey! Eat quickly before anyone sees!
“A covenant?”
＜Arcon Intermediate Abnormal Status Recovery Potion＞
-Rating: D+
-Type: Potion
-A health recovery potion made according to the recipe of the miraculous alchemist Archon. Unlike general status recovery potions, it exerts a concentrated effect on decontamination and recovery.
– All kinds of status ailments mitigated.
– Stronger effect on contamination status ailments.
The name seen through emotion was not a covenant, but a potion to recover from abnormal conditions, but the important thing was not the name.
As soon as I poured the potion into my mouth, the pain, headache, and nausea began to subside in an instant.
It didn’t completely disappear, but it was enough to endure without using pain cutting.
“It’s much better.”
– Is it the last stage of the last stage that you do not get better after taking the covenant?
Hearing Kuzan’s nonsense with one ear, the meteor that flowed through the other opened the status window.
Name: Kuzan
Occupation: informant
Level: 201
title: braggart
Strength: 161
Agility: 167
Wisdom: 352
Stamina: 187
mana: 573
Internal: 41
Possessed Skills: Contaminated Magic (A), Magic Control (B-), Powerful Digestive System (C+), Pain Resistance (C), Magical Enhancement (C), Stealth (C), Pickpocket (D), Blackmail (D) , mechanical maintenance (D).
Yooseong’s eyes narrowed.
Compared to other stats, the uniquely high magic and magic control skills, A-class skills called contaminated magic, powerful digestive organs, and skills with unfamiliar names called pain tolerance.
I’ve seen quite a few people’s status windows, but this is the first time I’ve seen a status window this unusual.
‘Let’s move for now.’
Worried about a possible pursuer, Yooseong did not go out on the road in front, but climbed over the wall behind him using thorny vines.
And the moment I faced the scenery spread out beyond it, it was frozen as it was.
“You bastard! Do you want to lose?! Can’t you get out of here quickly?”
“It’s something that was secretly stolen from the Eastern Earth! Get out of here without money!”
“A new drug came in this time, how about it? I’ll give it to you specially for half price.”
In the middle of a crowded market, people who want to sell and people who want to buy, merrily tunes, colorful lights, shouts and curses come and go.
No surprises so far.
The problem was the elements that make up the market.
“… … Should we call this steampunk or arcanepunk?”
A massive armor with a rugged design that walks slowly while spewing steam from all over.
People who have replaced parts of their bodies with machines such as prosthetic arms or legs.
Witches and ghosts flying through the air riding wands.
From heterogeneous species belonging to the ordinary axis such as werewolves and fairies to bizarre creatures resembling bugs that are suspected of being intelligent.
It was an unfamiliar world that was difficult for Yooseong, who had only experienced traditional martial arts, fantasy, modern, and sci-fi worlds.
However, Yuseong, who was surprised but not relaxed, noticed the gaze toward him and naturally buried himself among the crowd.
‘Kuzan, guide me to a place where I can hide. No, let’s go to the place where there is the map and evidence that the article said before that. I don’t know what it is, but I think that’s the key, but the first priority is to secure things.’
-Why should I obey you? And the map and evidence cannot be handed over to anyone! That’s a big secret!
‘Since I’m moving your body, I’m you and you’re me, how do you differentiate? And if it’s such a great secret, I should keep it so no one else can find it and steal it. is not it?’
-uh… … . is it? Even if no one else knows, I can tell you.
Kuzan, who was not in a good mental state, was convinced by Yoosung’s nonsense and began to guide the way.
Complex narrow alleys, dog holes hidden among rubbish piles, dusty empty houses, cleverly camouflaged secret walls.
Kuzan’s voice was heard by Yuseong, who was wondering if he was going the wrong way due to the gloomy scenery and vibrating stench as time passed.
– There he is! See that room with a broken window on the 5th floor over there? that’s my house There’s a map and evidence.
“… … Are you hiding something in your house?”
– Then where do you hide it? It’s unsafe to leave it to someone else, and it’s impossible to hide things from prying eyes in this damn city. It’s best to hide it comfortably at home.
“I guess so.”
Yoosung climbed up with thorny vines hanging from the railing and went inside the window only after confirming that no sound could be heard from inside the room.
“… … .”
-Open the door in front and turn left.
Garbage and crumpled papers piled up everywhere.
A bowl of unknown food and wriggling insects.
No matter how much the quest was over, even if there was nothing to see, I couldn’t help but say a word.
“Clean up and live. You live like this and you get sick.”
-party? Ha ha ha ha! Who in this city cares about getting sick? It’s all contaminated anyway. Even if you get sick, that’s where it goes.
Yoosung’s eyes shone.
I was worried about what the knight had said earlier, about the polluted magical power written on the status window, and what the word contamination meant.
“What is Pollution?”
-yes? Pollution is pollution.
“No, explain what contamination is exactly. When it started, how it happened, and what adverse effects it has.”
– Mmm. I never thought I’d be so stupid that I didn’t even know history. I can only explain it well. Pollution happened about 100 years ago now. It was the elves of the Elven Forest who caused the pollution. Oh, go into the bathroom at the end over there.
“Elf? You mean that pointed-eared, nature-loving, vegetarian elf, right? Didn’t you say contamination?”
Elves and Pollution.
It was an unlikely combination no matter how you thought about it.
– That elf is right.
“That kind of elf spread the pollution?”
-uh. According to legend, the elves, enraged at the reality of their people being kidnapped and enslaved for hundreds or thousands of years, waged war on the continent. At first, I thought it would end soon, but the war prolonged as the elves took out their secret weapon. Did you use fire-breathing sticks, steel carriages that blocked all attacks, migratory birds that flew through the sky at invisible speeds, and poison smoke that killed tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye?
Yoosung’s eyebrows twitched.
For some reason, the things Kuzan explained about the elves’ secret weapon felt very familiar.
– Surprised by the new weapon, did all the races join forces to fight against the elves? The weapons of the broken elves were captured and new weapons were made to fight against them, and the elves made stronger weapons to counter it.
“What is it?”
-I don’t know either. Legends say it is a blinding light, an all-consuming flame, and a weapon that sprays deadly poison.
“… … .”
-It is said that several cities disappeared and several countries were ruined in one day. The heroes who couldn’t possibly see that scene gathered and stormed into the Elven Forest where the World Tree was… … . I don’t know what happened, but they say that the pollution weapon exploded in the Elven Forest, and something went wrong, and serious pollution spread all over the world, and the world looked like this. Two steps to the right from there. right. Destroy the ceiling directly above.
Kwajik!
With one punch, the ceiling cracked and two objects fell.
One is an old map, the other… … .
“… … Flower?”
this is not a game
