Chapter 58 – 58. Cheopcheopsanjung

Almost all of the zombies that flocked to the mart were annihilated by Kysyria’s rampage.

Even those who weren’t dead fled in despair at the energy emitted by Myeongwang, so peace came around the mart in an instant.

Instead, Jo Jun collapsed vomiting blood and passed out…

“Brother!!! This..! Brother!!!”

Kang Hwa-young and Lee Eun-ji quickly hugged Jo-jun, who had fallen.

Seong Ha-rin and Han A-ram wanted to get closer to where Jo Jun was, but both sat down and couldn’t move because their bodies were exhausted.

Mer was so busy killing the zombies still climbing up from beyond the collapsed rooftop entrance that she had no time to focus on her aim.

The rest of the women were either exhausted or passed out. At least the zombies were killed in droves, so it was a situation where they could be relieved.

“Can, breath… I need artificial respiration…”

“I’m breathing, so I’m calm. Why is my sister more upset..”

“Ugh.. Sorry.”

Ganghwa-young forcibly calmed Lee Eun-ji, who was flustered, and slowly removed the gas mask from Jo Joon’s face.

“Why on earth were you writing this?”

“Mo, I don’t know. That woman was also writing…”

The tall foreigner who appeared with Jo Joon was also wearing something similar.

Eunji went downstairs and recalled the back of a woman who started taking pictures of zombie warriors by herself.

‘Looks like someone from the black market.. Who is it..?’

Laughter came out at the appearance of a new woman.

A man named Jang Jo-jun brings a new woman every time he takes a second look.

At one point, she even thought that she might be abandoned.

“Fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the body… Right?”

“I guess so. Is it the aftermath of summoning the monster just now?”

“Perhaps?”

The gigantic monster they are talking about is Kissyria.

An existence with the body of an abnormally beautiful woman on the upper body and the body of a grotesquely twisted spider on the lower body.

‘The heartbeat I felt the moment I was summoned…’

Ganghwa-yeong could not forget the monster. The moment she faced her, she realized that she could never be defeated. The overwhelming fear rising from her soul and unable to even move, she recalled that moment and she was horrified again.

‘What the hell did Master bring out…?’

That was a question common to all who witnessed King Kysilia.

Aim cut a part of something deep and dark and released it into my world, and the monster of that abyss tore apart the enemies who were aiming for the mart in one blow.

“Tongue, bro.”

At that time, Ha Jin-seong and Ha Jin-woo approached with a limp.

They gathered Kim Ye-won, Kang Hee-seon, and Han Ah-reum, who were scattered on the rooftop, in one place, and then came to check Jo Joon’s condition.

“Is your brother okay?”

“Huh. Stay alive. You know he’s not one to die so easily.”

“Yeah, that’s right…”

Ha Jin-seong was clearly recognized today.

Without Jang Jo-jun, they are just weak survivors who don’t know when they will die.

If Zhang Jojun hadn’t appeared at the right time, he would have all died. When they realized that Jang Jo-joon’s survival was directly related to their own survival in the future, they naturally worried about his safety.

In Ha Jin-seong’s position, Jang Jo-joon was both a feared master and the only rope to survive in the damn world.

“Please… I hope you wake up safely. Older brother..”

Each had a different purpose, but everyone wished for him to wake up safely.

*****

The hellish night passed and the sun finally came out.

“Keuuuuu…”

Jo Joon woke up and groaned in pain. It felt like every muscle in his body was tense. His bones clicked and the taste of blood still lingered in his mouth.

‘The cost of summoning Kisseria was too great.’

Kisilia herself warned Jo Jun that she couldn’t be resummoned for two weeks.

First of all, raise the level more, and call it when there is an enemy worth fighting against.

‘Damn it… About summoned beasts…’

Even though he thought so, Jo Joon couldn’t say anything in front of the person concerned.

As much as that, Kissyria was an overwhelming presence. Even though she is protected by the evil spirit, she had the feeling that she might be killed if she dared to attack her.

‘More than that…’

He turned her head slightly at the soft touch of her back. Then there was Merhere with her eyes closed.

He was cradled in Merhere’s arms. And in Jo Jun’s arms, Kang Hwa-yeong and Lee Eun-ji were buried and asleep, Harin hugging his right arm and Aram hugging his left arm.

As if to prevent him from escaping anywhere, they clung to Jo Joon and fell asleep.

“Ha..”

Aim enjoyed the feel of his hand. Merhere spoke to him as he fidgeted with his fingers and touched Harin’s thighs and Aram’s thighs.

“Are you awake?”

“Huh. Just now. Is it heavier than that?”

“How heavy is it? But this is the first time I’ve ever held someone in my arms like this.”

“Okay? Aren’t you frustrated?”

“Okay. Because humans are too light.”

“Haha..”

Jo Joon smiled at Mer’s warmth. Then he raised his head and looked around for the women who weren’t here.

‘Hee-seon is meditating in her lotus position…’

Kang Hee-seon sat a little further away, basking in the morning sun, and she was meditating.

Jo Jun showed great concentration and decided not to touch Kang Hee-seon, who was meditating.

‘I’m guessing you’re increasing your affinity for nature right now. To quickly make a contract with the spirit.’

Kang Hee-seon did not play very well in this battle, and his heart became impatient. He had to grow stronger to be of any small benefit to the group. In particular, the mass death of non-awakened saints she was quite close with caused a change in her heart.

At that time, Han Ah-reum approached Jo Joon.

“Beautiful.”

“It’s up. After waiting for a long time, everyone fell asleep. The tall unnie over there wiped out all the remaining zombies in her mart by herself.”

“Hey… Really? Mer is great.”

“Nothing. It was easy.”

To Jo Jun’s praise, Mer answered casually.

In fact, she did not feel any difficulties while dealing with evolutionary zombies.

With each swing of her scythe, she helplessly sliced ​​through zombies. Like an angel whose basic stats were over 50 when she was level 1, she was strong. Even though she had a low level, she was able to make up for it all.

“And you? Can’t you sleep?”

“I was exhausted earlier, so I slept to my heart’s content, so it’s okay.”

Han Ah-reum, who had a relatively low physical stat, collapsed from exhaustion before the battle was completely over. As a way of reflecting on that, she voluntarily stood guard over her.

“I see.. Uh. Yewon was there too?”

“Huh! I’m glad you’re okay, master!”

Kim Ye-won, who was looking around with Ah-reum, also approached Jo-jun holding a bloody mace.

She was overjoyed when Joon paid attention to her. She had a severe lack of affection and was always in need of someone’s love or attention.

“Then let’s wake up soon.”

“Huh…”

Joon put the sleeping women on their side and stood up.

“Are you getting up already? You can get some more sleep.”

“Are you okay. They sleep hugging each other.”

“I get it. Master.”

Jo Joon told Mer he could sleep more and got out of the crowd. Even though she’s awake, she can’t stay still forever.

Soon Mer hugged the other women in her arms and she closed her eyes again. Han Ah-reum and Kim Ye-won went to look around the mart again.

“Then let’s see…”

Jo Joon walked around the mart to check his internal condition.

‘I destroyed everything..’

The mart that became a battlefield was very damaged. It wasn’t uninhabitable, but there were so many dead zombies inside that a rotten stench emanated from the inside of the building. Looking at the traces of the battle, I could see how rampant Merhere was with a scythe.

“By the way… I’ll clean this up in a month…”

Aim Joon couldn’t even dare to clean the site without an answer.

Even after the battle is over, it will take another year to deal with the post-war situation. Then the next update will start and the same thing will repeat.

Tired of just imagining it, Joon let out a sigh mixed with lamentation and went downstairs again. And he encountered Brother Ha, who was checking to see if there were any zombies left on the third floor.

“Older brother!”

“Hey. Jinsung. Who are the survivors left? Couldn’t it be all that’s left on the roof? Please. Say no.”

“Ah, that…”

Ha Jin-seong had difficulty talking about the victims of last night.

Half of them were slaves whose names Jo Jun did not even know.

“Then, are you, Sumin Hwang, and Eunjung Kang all left? Ha shit.. You’re really tired.”

“Yes..The rest are all dead.”

Most of the non-awakened people who were caught to use them as workers died, and general class awakeners including Kim Il-woo were also killed in droves.

The Ha brothers somehow survived, but suffered fractures, and Kang Eun-jung was still unconscious, and Hwang Su-min was also injured.

“With Ilwoo. Minjun too?”

“Yes.. They are all dead, brother.”

“Ha.. Shiva.”

At the thought of dying too many times, Jo Joon collapsed and became angry. It was to the point of giving goosebumps why the zombies were attacking only the mart.

‘Eunji and Harin and other harem members survived, but most of the others were killed by zombies. Labor force.. My workers..’

In particular, the deaths of Kim Il-woo and Kim Min-jun were painful. Both of them raised to level 15, so the special zombie class was a power that was easy to catch and kill, but it was changed by the evolved zombies.

“They both died in vain.”

Now, the basic conditions for survival have become awakened. Even if you are not a hidden class Awakener, the difficulty has risen sharply to the point where it is very difficult to survive. Thinking that it would rise higher in the future, Jo Joon felt gloomy.

‘I don’t know what the hell this is. Zombies whose main purpose is to destroy the living quarters… The level of difficulty is absurd.’

Zombies should be stupidly chasing people, so I thought it was a bit too much to focus on destroying bases.

“Hyung-nim, maybe we should be fine now?”

Jo Joon had no alternative to present to Ha Jin-seong’s worrying question. All I could do was sit down and hold my throbbing head.

“Well. I’m not sure either. If there is a survivor camp other than ours… Get some slaves there. Clean out the mart… No, should I continue to live in the mart? Ha..”

“There are still many things left. There is enough food. Isn’t it a waste to throw away the mart?”

“I know. It’s worth throwing away. Ah.. When do you clean it up really?”

Brother Ha said he would visit the first floor and then left again.

“Brother!”

“Oh, Eunji. Woke up.”

“Yes! Everyone woke up! Shall I take you down?”

“Uh, no. I will go up.”

Jo Joon, who went up to the roof, was welcomed by everyone and talked about the future with them.

“I looked at the supermarket and there was no answer. Zombie corpses everywhere. If you want to clean it all up, you won’t even have a chin with us.”

“Then… You must need more slaves?”

At Eunji’s words, Jo Joon nodded his head.

Then he immediately presented a conspiracy he had been thinking of in a meaningful voice.

“Right. But that’s another unsettling thing… Don’t you think zombies are flocking here too abnormally?”

Kang Hee-sun answered his question.

“Okay? I just joined…”

Kang Hee-seon hadn’t experienced the destroyed world yet, so he couldn’t feel it well. However, Harin, who had been fighting the zombies that had been invading the mart until this point, had a slightly different impression.

“Um… I’m sure… There are a lot of people flocking to the mart.”

“Right. When I saw it… It seems like some kind of coordinates were stamped here.”

Han Ah-ram, who had been quietly listening to their conversation, asked.

“What are you talking about..?”

When she asked what she was talking about, Jo-jun told her that Jo-joon was still just an assumption.

“I think a divine being, whether a good god or something, has designated this place as an attack point. It’s just a simple family, but I can’t understand why these crazy zombies are creeping in in groups where I’ve settled.”

Kang Hee-seon asked what the gods were doing this time.

“Seonshin… This is what I said the other day. What is a god? No, is there really such a thing as God?”

She sometimes heard Jo Jun talk about God, but she never understood what he was talking about.

Why are you looking for a god in this ruined world?

Just as Jo Joon was about to answer Kang Hee-sun’s question, Ye-won Kim, who sat close to him and patted her shoulder, responded.

“There is a God.. He definitely exists. But is the good god really good? I don’t know if evil spirits are just evil beings. Anyway, there is a god. Talking to some odd players. I don’t even give orders.”

Yewon Kim’s voice as she answered calmed down for a moment.

At one time, she was the one who monopolized the attention of the gods, but the moment her defeat was confirmed, she was mercilessly abandoned, because her sadness came.

Kang Hee-seon nodded shyly at Ye-won’s calm answer and asked Jo-jun again.

“Uh.. First of all, there are people called gods. Are you saying they messed up?”

“Yes. But it’s just cerebral. It’s not accurate. It seems that raids are frequent only here. I also felt it when I went to Daiso last week. No other place has been raided this far. They only crawl like crazy to the mart.”

While Jo Joon was talking about the conspiracy theory, Eun-ji, who had been having doubts, asked.

“By the way… Oppa… Who is this?”

“Oh sorry. Come to think of it, I haven’t properly introduced myself yet. Let me introduce you. This is Merhere, a former angel. I brought something from the black market.”

Jo Joon introduced Mer, who was wiping the blood off the scythe, to everyone without a word.

Then Ganghwa-yeong, who was wiping the blood off her head, asked.

“Are you an angel? What about the wings?”

“Hey. Hwayoung. That’s a sensitive question.”

“Oh, sorry…”

“Okay. Lost while falling Even the halo on her head.”

“Aha..”

No one asked why she fell.

It was because Merhere expressed the nuance that she didn’t want to know more than that, and everyone noticed that she had a situation.

“First of all, let’s find another mart or a place to live in this neighborhood. If you like it, move it there. If you don’t like it, get some survivors.”

“Great. Then let’s go out…”

“For a moment. Master. Excuse me. Who is coming One person.”

“What?”

The moment Lee Eun-ji was about to tell her to go out energetically, Seong Ha-rin sensed something.

Then Ganghwa-young, who was immediately blowing her nose, frowned at her and said.

“Hmm.. Strange smell.. Is that a person?”

“Before that, it’s suspicious that you’re walking down this street alone.”

Everyone realized that the human approaching was not an ordinary person.

If you’re walking alone on these crazy streets where special zombies roam and names crawl out, you’re probably a ridiculously strong person.

As Jo Joon and his party waited nervously at the entrance of the mart, soon two men approached the mart.

‘Two people..? Why two? I said there was definitely one Harin?’

At the same time as questioning, Joon shouted.

“Stop there!”

“Oh! All right! Calm down!”

One of the two men who approached raised his hand, indicating that he had no intention of fighting.

‘Suspicious people. Kill or enslave.’

One of the men approaching was a large man with a helmet covering his face and holding a bayonet, and the other was an elderly gentleman in a suit that had not a drop of blood on it.

“There are many people who are still alive! We are out of the Central Conference!”

“Central Association? What are those bastards doing?”

The moment he awakened his magical powers, thinking that he might be the helper of the good gods.

The old gentleman in a suit answered Jo Jun.

“We are the largest all-weather survivors’ camp, where the Hometown Association, the Alumni Association, and the Alumni Association come together as one! The government has already lost its function and all that remains is a way for us to come together! Now, let’s all join the central association! I don’t ask for much! If you pay only 500 coins as tithing every week, everyone can live together happily!!! By the way, if there is a non-awakened person, his or her family or acquaintances will have to pay for that person as well!”

The central meeting was a gathering of survivors.

It was also a very suspicious group.

Jo Jun reached out his hand right away before he could hear the suit man’s words.

There is no point in further conversation. They had to be captured and enslaved in order to have genuine conversations.

“Rruhe.”

Tentacles fly straight towards them.

“This. Do something stupid You’re doing shit in good faith! Hurry up and stop it!”

“Chur uh uh!!!!”

At the command of the suit man, the helmeted man holding the greatsword let out a grotesque cry, cut off the tentacles that spewed out, and ran toward Jo Jun and his party.

“Ha!!”

“Where!!”

Han A-ram and Seong Ha-rin ran forward at the same time.

Kwajajak!!

The ax and hammer cut through the air, blocking the greatsword wielded by the running man and smashing his helmet.

“Uh… That bastard… What is it…”

What was in the helmet was a zombie’s colossus.

It even looked like a war boy, a special zombie.

‘Somehow he’s grown up… No, more than that, how do you control War Boy?’

With many questions crossed, Mer Here, who ran after him, swung his scythe and killed War Boy, then swung his scythe at the man in the suit.

“Keep it off!!!”

The suit’s arms flew up into the air, and he let out a wild scream.

“Kuaaahahahahahaha!!!!”

Soon, the blood-spurting suit man’s scream turned into madness, and he broke the glasses he was wearing.

“I politely invited you. Cut off your arm?”

In an instant, the bloody flesh and dark red aura exploded from his body and threw the approaching Merher back.

Merhere, who jumped out, said with a frown.

“That son of a bitch… It smells familiar.”

“What is that?”

When asked about aim, Merhere bit her lip.

“Devil… It’s the devil’s smell…”