Chapter 204 – 204. I Hate Peace

The never-ending winter night has arrived.

Survivor Kim Eana of Seoul shivered in the cold and looked out her window.

‘It’s dark.’

It was very dark and chilly at night in Seoul, where electricity, water, and gas were all cut off. Even though it is morning now.

‘Really. It’s exactly as written in the book.’

Kim Eana is an awakened person. Although her survival rating was only 15, she still experienced the mini-labyrinth about 7 times.

And she had obtained the same survivor’s journal that Kang In-ho had obtained during her fifth entry into the simple labyrinth.

Survivor’s diaries were items that appeared relatively frequently. Although not everyone can obtain it, it is a book of future prophecy that has been solved so many times that one person out of 1,000 can obtain it.

Through that book, she learned in advance that the winter night was approaching and was able to make a lot of preparations.

Of course, no matter how much you prepare, it won’t be enough.

“Kollock. Oh, fuck.”

Kim Eana frowned at the cough that started yesterday.

How can I catch a cold at a time when the future is so uncertain?

In the worst case scenario, she might collapse from a high fever, so she swallowed the cold medicine she had gotten from her pharmacy last week with water.

She took out some bottled water and drank it to moisten her dry throat.

“Ha.”

She slightly regretted not following the soldiers the other day. It was because of the penalty to her skills that she had.

[Crisis Detection (A)]

[Effect: Detects things that may pose a safety risk in advance.]

[Handicap: Activated at random probability.]

[Penalty: It becomes difficult to activate skills when you are with a colleague.]

The sense of crisis she gained when she first awakened. Thanks to this skill, she was able to save her life several times. However, on the other hand, this skill has become her shackles.

Because she learned the taste of skill, she became distant from others. As a result, she missed the opportunity to follow the soldiers.

There were even so many zombies in Seoul that the military that had taken up residence in Incheon stopped accepting survivors at some point.

According to rumors, it seems that it was already oversaturated and couldn’t accommodate any more people. They must have accepted the limit of the number of people they could manage.

‘But is there a need to build a wall to prevent entry at all?’

Kim Eana stood up from her seat and washed her face.

It’s the third day since the winter night began. The sky was still dark, and the world was cold.

‘Now is the time.’

It’s 4:45 in the morning. It was the time when the gate was created.

‘I’ll have to move around diligently.’

After the winter night came, she went out every day to look for the gate. She was wandering around with the feeling that she would eventually freeze to death if she stayed at home.

“Let’s see… The equipment.”

As Gan diligently explored her labyrinth, she acquired quite a bit of equipment.

[Abyss Watching Goggles: When fed with magic stones, you can see through the darkness for 1 hour.]

[Gravekeeper’s Diamond Shovel: It’s very hard. If you swing at a humanoid enemy, you can push the opponent back even more.] [Durability 452/500]

[Exorcist’s Lantern: When you feed it a magic stone, it emits a soft light. The dead do not try to approach the range of this light. Each lowest grade magicite glows for 10 minutes.]

[Magic Shield Bracelet: Wear it on your wrist and can deploy a magic shield for only 30 minutes to feed the lowest grade magic stone.] [Durability 11/20]

After putting on all 11 pieces of equipment, etc., She left the house.

‘It looks like there’s one nearby…’

She looked at her compass, which she took out of her pocket.

[Compass for gate tracking: Indicates the direction of the nearest gate.]

The compass needle was pointing in one direction. Judging by the fact that the needle did not move even when the compass was shaken, it seemed that the gate had been created quite close by.

You can tell when you get close to the gate because of its distinctive humming sound.

“Uuuuu…”

“OMG. Ahhh…”

She quickly moved in the direction guided by the compass, avoiding the zombies wandering the streets making stupid cries.

After surpassing survival level 10, regular zombies did not level up no matter how many times I beat them, so I ended up avoiding them at all costs.

-Wow…

I guess I walked like that for about 10 minutes.

The noise of the gate humming could be heard from afar.

‘It’s inside the apartment.’

In this case, you had to break into where the gate was. In the unlikely event that I was inside a house with a locked door, I had to break down the front door to get in, but that was quite a difficult task, so I had no choice but to give up.

“Let me see… 3rd floor.”

But luckily, the gate was created on the stairs of the third floor of the apartment. The gate was visible through the staircase window.

The problem is that there are passengers.

‘Chew.’

She identified three men gathered near the gate.

They were talking in front of the gate. Because it was so far away, the shape was only blurry and I couldn’t observe it properly.

‘If you shoot to catch those guys, all the zombies will get caught.’

I had no choice but to leave to find another gate, but in order for the compass to point to the direction of another gate, the gate closest to it had to disappear first, so I had to wait a while.

Those three men must enter the gate created on the stairs to find another gate. The compass only points to the nearest gate.

‘No, why don’t those fucking bastards go in, they’re moping around and fucking with me.’

But for some reason, those men didn’t seem to have any intention of going through the gate. They had to get through the gate quickly, so they could find the next gate and leave, but they kept talking, and I was so angry that I felt like I was going crazy.

‘Fuck you bastards… Throw them all away.’

However, the risk was too great to just wander around looking for the gate without a compass. If I forcibly expanded the radius of my activities, I might encounter unexpected dangers.

She was familiar with her neighborhood, but it was full of all kinds of variables if she went beyond that range even a little. Kim Eana thought that there was no place more dangerous than a neighborhood she didn’t know.

‘Huh? What. Those guys.’

As I waited a little longer and checked the situation, three men soon gave up entering the gate and came down to the bottom of the building.

It was hard to hear the conversation because the distance was quite far, but they quickly left to go somewhere else.

‘No way.’

Cases like this occurred frequently.

There were roughly two reasons.

The first is when the entry conditions are not met. If the survival level is too low or the labyrinth has special conditions, there are many cases where you cannot enter even if you want to.

This can be seen as the reason why most people give up on conquering the labyrinth.

‘And the second one is…’

This is a case where the level of difficulty is terrible.

Ordinary survivors do not try to challenge higher than mid-to-high level. What you have to bet on the game board is your life. So, I tried to return to the safest route possible.

‘There are a lot of people who give up even when they reach the top level.’

Of course, there were quite a few people like Kim Eana who took on the challenge. The more difficult the difficulty, the greater the reward. Moreover, if you have a skill that is advantageous for survival like Kim Eana, you can challenge yourself up to the advanced difficulty level.

‘Then.’

Kim Eana looked around her to make sure there were no other survivors and then entered the apartment where her entrance was smashed.

Bang-! Bang!

Wooooo…

The apartment was filled with the cries of monsters that had turned into zombies and were trapped inside the house. In most cases, people were killed by family members who turned into zombies, or they committed suicide and then became zombies. Since I had no intelligence, I couldn’t open the door, so I was stuck inside the house and only had to hit the front door.

‘Let’s see.’

She approached her gate, ignoring the deaths of the dead.

However, the moment she faced her gate, her simple labyrinth gate changed to green.

“Why is this like this?”

It was the first time she had experienced this phenomenon in her life.

Who would have thought that the labyrinth would change before her eyes.

That’s when her skill activated.

“Ugh.!”

Crisis detection tells you not to approach her gate.

The moment I learned that, I felt like I was going to get caught up in something big.

However, the problem is that her second skill activated at the same time.

[Opportunism (S)]

[Effect: Detects things that may be beneficial to survival in advance.]

[Handicap: Activated at random probability.]

‘This is the first time that opportunism has reacted this loudly.’

Kim Eana, who made most of her choices dependent on her own skills, extended her hand toward her gate.

She may be a great risk, but on the other hand, it may also be the opportunity of her life.

[Labyrinth Type: Infinite Labyrinth]

[Difficulty: Not measurable]

[Labyrinth Name: The 12th Temple of the Evil God]

[Access conditions: None]

[Imposition target: None]

[Goal achievement reward: None]

[Capacity: Unlimited]

Information about the labyrinth soon appeared before her eyes.

“Bad body…?”

Other than the name and difficulty of the labyrinth, there were no entry conditions, no number of people allowed, no goals, or anything else.

‘The level of difficulty cannot be measured.’

I knew of the existence of the Infinite Labyrinth through the survivor’s journal, but this was my first time seeing it in person. So Kim Eana couldn’t tell whether this was normal or abnormal.

‘The 12th Temple of the Evil God… It seems dangerous.’

However, since she knew that she could escape the infinite labyrinth right away, she decided to give it a try. There must be a reason why the opportunism skill was activated.

Gulp.

Kim Ina swallowed her dry saliva and entered the ’12th Temple of the Demon God’.

In this way, the 12th apostle of the evil spirit was born in Seoul.