Chapter 160 – 160

Jo Joon and his friends return to the present day.

Joon went straight to the room where the grandfather clock was without looking for Nick, thinking that he couldn’t find Mei Ling’s existence yet.

The location of the entrance and the location of the grandfather clock were marked with a compass, so he could find them at any time.

Waiting in front of the grandfather clock for the clock to activate, they ventured to time shift once again. Hopefully this time we can go back to the era where the householder was.

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Meanwhile, Nick, who was left alone, took a piece of broken mirror from his pocket and held it up. A broken mirror was reflecting a lonely town in America.

“Hey. Can you hear me there? Hey. No one is here? I told you to keep at least one person…”

As Nick muttered and complained, a man hurriedly ran up to him and stood in front of the mirror. He was a rambunctious man. He could be said to be a man like a bear.

-I’m sorry. There are hordes of zombies in the vicinity.

“What about the damage?”

-Doesn’t exist. Processed everything

“Right…”

Nick has been having trouble with frequent zombie hordes these days. There was obviously something wrong, but I couldn’t pinpoint what it was. I was just a little concerned about whether some of the things I had recently bought were related.

-But why did you suddenly contact me? Are things not going well? Or… Mission failed?

The rambunctious man asked with a worried face, thinking that something must have happened to Nick’s phone call, which he had not contacted in his life.

“No, no big deal… I think I found the cultist. They are even members of the same team as me.”

-What? Really? Haha!! As expected, the good gods said they would encounter it, so it was real… So did you kill them?

“No. If you kill the same group… They say you lose all your powers. I haven’t killed him yet.”

– Huh… That’s a bit disappointing. Sacrifice now, Nick.

“Don’t say anything funny.”

Haha! Just kidding. Then it’s time to get some help. Tell me

“I wanted to hit the back of the head in a non-attack way.”

-How? If you can’t team kill.

“I’m trying to get some shit done in a non-team kill way.”

Nick ordered the man over the mirror to get an item from the camp’s common possession. After waiting for a long time, Nick was able to receive the item passed over the mirror. As soon as the material transfer function was used, the mirror became powder and shattered.

The reason it took so long to receive the goods was that the survivors’ camp headed by Nick was not a place to return to Nick’s dictatorship.

If it was Aim, who blindly enslaved them and treated them like dogs, others would not have dared to express their opinions, but this place was a place where people were united by faith, not by the power of such skills. Therefore, the opinion of the entire organization had to be sought in using jointly owned objects.

I couldn’t act alone just because I was strong. If it did, the production workers would declare a strike.

“Okay… Wait… Bayou…”

Nick thought Bayu was a cultist. There were several reasons for thinking that Bayou was a cultist, but the biggest reason was because of Bayou’s haphazard use of skills.

Like the 777, Nick, who grew up with the full support of the Pantheon, has always fought alongside survivors with classes belonging to the Pantheon. Thanks to that, Nick knew almost all the skills of the classes belonging to the Pantheon.

By the way, Bayou himself introduced himself as a member of the Pantheon, and the combat skills he used were a mixture of Monk’s skills and Inquisitor’s, and he even put the priest’s buffs on himself. In fact, he was using a combination of plausible skills.

He wouldn’t have noticed if it weren’t for Nick, who had seen a lot of pre-mansin classes. Even if he just aimed right away, he just thought he was using various skills, but he didn’t know which class skill it was.

Anyway, for this reason, Nick continued to doubt Bayu, and soon the idea that he might be a cultist gradually changed to certainty.

‘Jun… Is weak… Bayou, who looks strong enough to be similar to me…’

Nick thought of Jo Joon as an apothecary without fail. It was because the scene where Jo Jun drank a communication potion and talked to a man hanging on a hook was very impressive. This is why first impressions are important.

‘Of course, he may be hiding his power… But I’m more suspicious of Bayou who uses a mix of skills…’

Moreover, Nick thought that his nemesis could not have been a weakling who made medicine. For that reason, Nick was thinking of secretly drugging the bayou.

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Choi Seok-ho is trapped in the management office of a mansion full of mechanical devices.

He realized that the entrance to the management office was blocked by a wall and hit the lever several more times to get out, but he still couldn’t get out of the room.

Once the mansion started to twist, it only got more and more mixed like a cube that could never be solved.

“Damn it… Here.. Being locked up and dying…?”

I don’t remember exactly when, but I ran out of food. With little water left to drink, Choi Seok-ho lay alone on the floor of the management office and muttered.

“I don’t want to die… I have to operate the lever…”

With the thought that he wanted to live, Choi Seok-ho tried to pull the lever again. Then the wall broke and cracked. No matter how hard he tried to hit and destroy the wall, which had not been broken, began to crack and crumble.

“What, what… I can’t believe…”

Choi Seok-ho thought that the automata that roamed the mansion had come to kill him. He pulled the lever at will and turned the mansion into a mess, so the automatons must have come all the way here after judging that there was a problem in the management office.

Choi Seok-ho prepared his mind and pulled out his dagger. Then he climbed to the ceiling of the room and clung to it, waiting for enemies to break through the walls. He thought that if he did well he might be able to get out.

-Kwagwang!!!

Soon the wall burst out. A few people stood on the other side of the wall.

‘What…? Aren’t they dolls…?’

Choi Seok-ho thought that he might be able to get help from them, and he carefully searched for it on the floor.

“What. I don’t think this is the family head’s room either?”

“Yeah.. Huh? There is a person.”

Three men entered the room. It was Jack who had Mei Ling, Jang Jo-jun, and tentacle hands, respectively.

“What are you?”

Jang Jo-joon spoke to Choi Seok-ho, who was looking at them with a dumbfounded expression.

Choi Seok-ho soon started to introduce himself with his tears dripping down his face. He thought he would die at the hands of automatons without fail, but when the same player appeared, he was very excited.

Even meeting Koreans with whom I can speak can make the current situation feel like a miracle.

“I-I am.. Heeup… My name is Seokho Choi.. My job is an Assassin… But I never thought I would meet a Korean here..”

Choi Seok-ho hugged his face and cried. At that time, Joe’s face was extremely distorted.

“Are you Korean?”

“Yes.. Koreans…”

“Can’t you?”

“Yes?”

“I’m the only Korean… I guess…”

“Uh, what is that…”

Joon remembered. Among the jewelers managing Asian servers, there is only one jeweler in charge of Korea.

“What are you?”

And the gothic-dressed jeweler in charge of Korea chose Jo Joon as the champion. That’s why Jo Joon had to be the only Korean who entered Jeon-yul’s mansion.

“Yes..? Well, what do you mean by that…”

Choi Seok-ho did not understand Jo Joon’s words.

Soon, Joon used his skill at Choi Seok-ho. Tentacles erupted from his hands and wrapped around Choi Seok-ho’s limbs, twisting his limbs as they were.

“Quaaaaa!!!!”

Choi Seok-ho let out a scream. At that time, Joon approached Choi Seok-ho.

“Hey.”

“Shut up…”

“Hey. It doesn’t hurt Don’t be a jerk, check your limbs.”

“Uh..?”

Only then did Choi Seok-ho realize that he was not sick at all, and he was able to check the twisted limbs.

“This, what the hell is this…”

Oil was dripping from his twisted limbs. There were also springs and mechanisms sticking out.

“He’s already been replaced.”

“Kyo, to hear you were replaced… That’s what the heck…!”

“Whew… Do you remember how you got into the mansion?”

“Yes? That, that… Uh…?”

“Your memory is strange, isn’t it?”

“Uh.. I was running away.. To this room..”

“Everyone said so. He made me careless and then tried to attack.”

Joon grabbed Choi Seok-ho’s head.

Then it just melted away.

The automaton that kept changing the structure of the mansion and preventing intruders from going to the room was destroyed. Now the mansion will stop transforming.

“You rotten dolls.”

It had already been a day since Cho Joon and his party moved over to the time zone of the the house ruling period. In the meantime, walking around the mansion, Cho Joon and his friends were able to find out a few things.

One of them was the fact that some of the dolls crawling out of the mansion were reading the intruder’s memories and acting as if they were also drifting survivors.

They were the kind of security dolls that pretended to be human and sneaked among intruders to attack. Joon tried to capture one of them and brand him a slave. However, they were not even branded as slaves because they had owners.

The fact that they couldn’t enslave them was unpleasant, but what made them even worse was that they considered themselves to be real human beings. Without knowing that they are nothing more than marionettes being manipulated.

“Rather than that, I think this room is the key… Let’s find a way to go to the room.”

“Yeah.. But there are so many levers.. Was it changing the shape of the mansion here?”

“I guess so.”

Choi Seok-ho, who was being manipulated, thought that what he was doing was struggling to escape from here, but in reality he was the gatekeeper who was preventing Jo Jun and his party from going to the room.

“I-over there…”

Then Jack found something in the room and called Jo Joon.

“Why?”

“Hey, here… There’s a hole…”

Joon went to where Jack was. There was a small hole in it. It looked just like a keyhole.

It opened the way to the house, and in order to open it, you had to find the housekeeper’s key first. And the family head’s key was something that could be obtained in the era of the immortal family…

-Click.

Jo Joon, who has Dohwang’s master key, immediately inserts the master key into the keyhole.

Soon, a part of the wall opened and a mirror connected to the room appeared. The mirror was reflecting the family thread.

“I thought if I passed this, I could go directly…”

Joon pushed Jack in as an experiment.

“Wait a minute!!!”

Jack was sucked into the mirror as it was, and soon the reflection of Jack looking around awkwardly was reflected in the mirror.

He didn’t look dead. There didn’t seem to be any pitfalls.

“Let’s go too.”

“Wait, wait…! Kyaa!!!”

Joon kicked Mei Ling back and jumped into the mirror.