Chapter 40 – Episode 40- Can You Break Through the Ordeal?

How did the story get the cooperation of Akelon, the leader of the turtle tribe?
The process of obtaining Akelon’s cooperation was carried out as follows in the original work.

‘Overcome our trials. If you overcome it, I will be your limbs.’

Test. Break through the trials that candidates have to go through to become the head of the Turtle Clan.
It doesn’t matter what means and methods are used. Reach your home before the sun goes down today.
Then I will acknowledge you and help you.
Akelon put a condition like that.

Seolhwa bravely challenged the ordeal, and almost lost his life, but somehow succeeded in reaching Akelon’s house.
Akelon was deeply moved by Seolhwa’s spirit of overcoming the ordeal without giving up until the end, and vowed to help Seolhwa wholeheartedly.

Unfortunately, Akelon was killed by Greed’s pirate fleet that invaded shortly thereafter.
Her turtle island, which she wanted to protect, also burned down without leaving a trace.
Numerous turtles were also slaughtered, and only a handful of survivors survived.

Instead, her granddaughter became Seolhwa’s right-hand man and made a significant contribution in the fight against Grid.
Later, thanks to her granddaughter’s machinations, Grid is doomed.
In a way, it can be seen that she avenged the grudge of her dead grandmother and her compatriots.

Jung Gang-rim faced a situation where he had to challenge that ordeal, an ordeal that would become another turning point where he could escape from the end of his own destruction.

“Shit…”

The clothes you are wearing are old military uniforms that have already passed their expiration date.
What I was holding in my hand was a stick as long and thick as Advent was given by a turtle tribe soldier, saying it would be better than going bare-handed.
Apart from these two things, there was nothing given to Kang-rim.

In this state, Kang-rim must break through the forest in front of him and the danger zone where he cannot know what dangers may lurk.

‘I never thought I’d really go through trials.’

Can we break through this ordeal that even the main character’s tales abhor?
Surely, it’s not going to be a bad ending where you die here without breaking through the ordeal?
“Why did this happen? Why did things get so twisted?” Kang-rim swears inwardly.

He spit it out, but Kang-rim had no choice but to take on the challenge.

‘A rotten turtle baby. How dare you take my girls hostage?’

Shortly after she arrived at Turtle Island, Kang-rim fell out with her group.
They were pulled in the opposite direction from the direction her party was going.
She knew roughly where she was being taken, but Kang-rim hoped it wasn’t.

I prayed, but the moment she saw the entrance to 〈 Forest of Trials 〉, Kanglim felt her head tingle.

Instead of telling a story, she faced a development that she had to challenge herself.
Where did the rotten Snow Flower run away? Why are you not doing this!
If it’s the main character, isn’t she supposed to easily overcome trials and tribulations?
Where the hell is she hiding?
In his heart, Kang-rim wanted to bring Seol-hwa right away.

Because she did not want to challenge the ordeal so much that she wanted to do so.
Even in the game, there is a story about her challenging the ordeal, and Advent was keenly aware of how difficult the ordeal was.
She couldn’t break through the ordeal, so she had no choice but to pay bills in the end.
She was able to break through only after wearing quality equipment obtained through billing.

It sounds obvious, but the ordeal was so difficult that people who wanted to make it easy broke out.
And our proud devs never made any difficulty adjustments until the objections were silenced.

At this point, I’m genuinely curious about what kind of spirit he endures.

‘I’ll show you what it looks like if I take her hostage.’

Advent must overcome that ordeal.
Without good equipment or companions.
I thought of running away, rescuing his comrades, and getting out of the island, but

[Grid, look at this.]

After seeing the video sent by Akelon, Kang-rim gave up his thoughts.

[The thing you are holding is one of the ancient artifacts we retrieved from the sea. We can show you what we look like in real time.]

[On the contrary, we can see you.]

A crystal ball with a two-way communication function.
Advent was puzzled when a turtle warrior suddenly handed over this crystal ball.
Why did you give this to yourself?
The moment he saw what was inside, he realized why he gave him the marble.

[Your men are in the cauldron over there.]

Captain Cardian and the survivors were contained in a large black cauldron with bubbling water.
It was so hot that everything was turning red.

A bonfire was lit under the cauldron, and the turtles were working hard to turn the hand fan so that it burned well.

[I’ve set it to a good temperature for bathing now, but if you refuse the ordeal, I’ll raise it higher.]

Akelon warned.

[And when the sun goes down, I’ll turn the lights up higher.]

“…”

[If you really care about your subordinates, you can’t ignore this, right?]

You didn’t put such a bad condition on Seol-hwa, but why are you putting something like this on yourself?
Is it because you are a grid? Since it’s the heinous villain Grid, is it because he wants to see how that grid turns out?

[I want to see if you really have changed.]

Akelon added.

[If you really have changed, please don’t disappoint me.]

“…”

[I hope that what I saw is not wrong.]

“…”

Dot? What else do you mean? Do you know something?
Kang-rim urgently tried to ask, but before that, someone snatched the crystal ball.

“Time is up. Hurry up and challenge yourself.”

It was the turtle soldier who brought Gangrim.
She covered herself with a shell, so her body shape was unknown, but from her appearance or voice, it was immediately apparent that she was a woman.
The tortoise woman pointed the spear she was holding towards the entrance of the forest.

“If you don’t challenge, your men aren’t guaranteed to be safe.”
“…”
“Do it quickly. The sun goes down quickly here. If you’re late, you’ll lose everything.”
“…Shit.”

No choice but to challenge If you don’t challenge, your women will be in danger.
The resolution to walk a different path from the grid will all go back to nothing.

And, anyway, the Turtles are the ones I have to get my hands on.
If you break through this ordeal and get them, it would be a great reward.
I don’t know why Seol-hwa gave up on them, but Kang-rim didn’t want to waste the opportunity to say that she was a genius.

So let’s do it. Let’s do it unconditionally Do it even if you’re annoyed.
Let’s overcome this ordeal without fail.

‘And I’ll have to eat that damn turtle too.’

Promising that he would be the first to eat Akelon if he broke through, Kanglim proudly entered the forest’s entrance.

●●●

About 2 hours after that.

“Damn it…”

Advent was now in the middle of the swamp.

“How far does this rotten mud swamp go!”

Enduring and enduring, Kang-lim exploded in temper.
Since I keep wandering in the swamp where I don’t know where it ends, of course I have no choice but to explode.
The clothes were already so dirty that I couldn’t tell if they were military uniforms or clothes made of mud.

‘It was mentioned in the game that it was very long, but…’

It’s going to be this long It wasn’t for nothing that Seolhwa declared, ‘I can’t do it anymore, give up, give up!’
It’s normal that it’s hard to walk properly because of the mud, and flying insects attack from all directions to the point of annoyance.
There might be mosquitoes among them, but Kang-rim felt itchy all over and was about to die.

Most annoying of all…

“Ugh?”

They are traps aiming for Kang-rim’s life without even trying, just like the huge boulders flying towards Kang-rim’s head.
Kang-rim managed to escape her trap by twisting her body to her side.

Of course, avoiding it didn’t end it all.

– Coo-goo-goo-goo

“Ser, no way again…”

Suddenly the ground shakes. Kang-rim looked at what was going on and her face turned blue.

“This, this crazy…”

A huge earth-colored wave crashed in with the momentum to eat Advent.

“No matter how ancient it is, what is this…”

As soon as the words were finished, Gangrim was swept away by the waves.

“Wow!”

Jung Kang-rim, being pushed here and there like a drifting small sailboat.
On the verge of losing consciousness, I managed to hold on to the tree in front of me with one hand.
He couldn’t move until the waves calmed down.

“Huh, huh, huh…”

The wave stopped, but it returned to the original point.
Once again, from the point where the swamp begins, Kang-rim is put in a situation where he has to walk again.

“A rotten turtle child. What kind of ordeal is this?”

It’s no different than training people, dogs and pigs!
Advent knew what was causing the traps to come out of nowhere and the waves to come out of nowhere.

‘Does it make sense that something like this can be manipulated as an ancient artifact?’

The Forest of Trials is an artificially created testing ground.
As it was originally, there should be no swamps, no traps flying in and out, and no waves suddenly hitting Advent when it’s not the sea. It should be an ordinary forest.

The Turtles made such a forest into a forest of trials using ancient artifacts.
I don’t know how it was created, but considering that it created a swamp that boasts of extreme difficulty, it’s probably not a simple artifact.

‘How did that baby turtle get through this?’

The former head of the Turtle Clan did all sorts of tricks to keep the next leader from appearing in order to maintain power.
He manipulated the Forest of Trials at will and prevented a winner from appearing.

Akelon ended the tyranny of the former chief.
With only willpower and perseverance, he broke through all traps and passed through the forest of trials.
In the end, the former head of the Turtle Clan had no choice but to give up his seat.

And Akelon is doing the same atrocities committed by the previous leader.
The reason for doing this is simple.

– Since I passed, shouldn’t you guys also pass?

It was a really irresponsible remark that others would be able to because he passed.
Advent sincerely wondered where the arrogant thought that others could do it because he was good enough came from his head.
There is no guarantee that everyone will succeed just by following like everyone else.

‘I have to break through the swamp somehow.’

In the original story, Seolhwa tried to give up halfway due to Akelon’s villainous behavior.
But she figured out a way to bypass the forest by some means.
However, because the method was too radical, he had to fight Akelon, and thanks to winning the fight, he was able to get the cooperation of the Turtles.

Advent, like Seolhwa, was intended to use that method,

To use that means, you have to cross the swamp again.
The chance to use that method comes only when you get out of the swamp.

In other words, you have to go through the swamp to suck honey or not.

“Okay, let’s try again.”

After cooling his head for a while, Kang-rim stepped forward again.

‘Hang in there.’

I will definitely save you.
Gang-rim makes that promise and heads for the swamp…

-Koo-gu-gu-gu-gu

As soon as I stepped out, a huge wave hit Advent.

“You rotten turtle! What if it creates a wave as soon as it’s done…”

Advent was swallowed up by the waves again.