Chapter 23 – #08. Hidden Peace (2).

#08. Hidden Peace.

[‘Return by Death’ is activated.]
[‘Hard Skin Lv.3’ ▶ ‘Hard Skin Lv.4’]
[‘Agility Lv.1’ ▶ ‘Agility Lv.2’]
─ Welcome. Players.

‘Return by Death’ was activated, and I was summoned to the Colosseum Square again.
It was the first death I had ever experienced, so I was quite shocked.
Especially the scene at the end was absolutely disgusting.

It was helpless.
My level right now is not even an opponent of a second-class samurai.

It seems that he was intoxicated with his pride after winning the battle against the trolls.
Like a Korean party.
As if I could be anything.

‘There were dwarves in the troll days.’

The dwarves helped the ax trolls, and the Korean party took the power out of the club trolls.
Moreover, 2v1 followed by 1v1.
It was a battle where only the opponent had to care.

But this fight was different.
It was the first fight of composition I had ever experienced in my life.
I couldn’t care less about one person.
The moment I looked at one, another came in aiming for my back.
Just as the troll’s resilience couldn’t withstand a long battle, my ‘hard skin’ couldn’t stand a long pincer.

‘The opponent was stronger than I thought. I never thought he would be a second-rate warrior.’

My skills were mediocre compared to second-class samurai who live across the line of fire.
Just like a school bully can’t beat a real gangster.
In similar specifications, those who lack practical experience are pushed aside.

‘The elves were also fucking weak.’

Even if it’s an elf princess from a fantasy world, an extra elf princess whose name I don’t even know can’t be strong.
She’s a weak elf princess, but she’s even been leveled.
She can’t possibly win while protecting her and her schemer.
It was a natural result for me to lose.

Anyway.
It gave me an opportunity to clear my mind.
It gives me goosebumps to think that Dahee Yu is going through something like that.
Somehow get stronger
As soon as possible.

‘Anyway, what is that tombstone… ?’

I don’t remember reading such a tombstone in a novel.
A hidden piece I don’t know about.
The last scene I saw, the black energy emitted by the tombstone was clearly not an ordinary one.
Of course you have to go get it.

‘First. Let’s start with Dahee Yoo.’

It became ‘return by death’.
Episode 8 has started anew.
In other words, it means that Dahee Yoo is dead.
After I died on the first day, I don’t know how long she lived and then she died.
If they had survived long enough, they would have achieved significant results.

─ Defeat the field boss. Any means and methods are acceptable.

I see Dahee Yoo in the distance.
In an instant, our eyes met.
Seeing her smile, it didn’t seem too bad.

After all, because of the ‘self-determination protection’, you can die comfortably the moment you need it.
There is a high possibility that he completed everything he had done in moderation and returned.

Dahee Yu came towards me with great strides.

“Excuse me. Are you Korean?”

It wasn’t the suit girl, but Yoo Da-hee called me.
The approach was the same as the Korean party.
Do you think this method has less impact on the relationship?

“Yes.”
“Me too. My name is Dahee Yoo. I am twenty-two.”

As the number of regressions increases, Dahee Yu skips many intermediate steps.
Would you say you are proud?
The feeling of being free from embarrassment.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t hesitate, the progress is a lot faster.

“This is Jinwoo Kim. I am also twenty-two.”

Letting go of the horse was done as soon as it started.
Dahee Yoo left me and went out of the Colosseum Square.
I followed Dahee Yoo, who was quietly leading.

After following Yu Da-hee around, she naturally discovered Kang Ha-na.
Dahee Yoo was thinking of inviting Hana Kang to join her party.
For smooth progress, you need a reliable colleague.
In that respect, Kang Hana can be seen as a strong and devoted perfect colleague.

“Huh, seup.”

Hana Kang was drooling while looking at her restaurant with her blank face.
She seemed hesitant and hesitant.

Hehe! There… ! Almighty! I am a fan!”
“Yes, four? Ah ha ha! Thank you!”

At Yu Da-hee, who claims to be her fan, Hana Kang struggled with her arms with a confused expression on her face.

“This is just. I’m hungry… !”
“I understand. It can be.”

It’s hard for her to go in alone, so she just kept thinking.
Hana Kang was such a woman.

“Did you say you were my fan?”
“Yeah.”
“Then, I’ll buy you a meal!”
“No way. It’s okay. You only have 1,000 coins anyway. We just eat together.”

Kang Hana wanted to be at this time and tried to drag us into the restaurant.
She was trying to use us as a good excuse.
Does her head spin tight only at times like this?

Dahee Yu moderately refused and followed him.
How do you get it when you only have 1,000 coins from each other?
Compared to the bus driving we will be riding from now on, it is rather a board that we have to pay for.

“No way. I can buy it for you.”
“It’s really fine. This isn’t Korea, it’s the ‘Tower of Struggle’, right? Sometimes they only have 1,000 coins.”

Hana Kang, who was called Almighty by the hero name, hides her timid appearance and plays a bit of an active feeling.
Her tone was exaggerated and forced to raise her tension, she felt that way.

“You don’t have to. Please be comfortable with me. Let go of the word I am twenty-two.”
“Ah… Is that so, yo… ?”
“Let go.”
“Okay, I will.”

Dahee Yoo did a good job controlling it.
It sounds like you’ve been through this situation before.
In the previous episode, it seems that he abandoned me and went with Kang Hana.

“Haha, I ate well!”
“Sister, shall we wake up now?”
“Yes. Let’s get up.”

After leaving the river and the horse, we took the lodging.
It was a familiar inn, a ‘shelter’.
After that, things went smoothly.
Our regressor had no hesitation.
Eliminate time wasted in the middle.

After taking a room at the inn ‘Shelter’, we just hunted all day.
Die, I caught only Deadman.
Step forward little by little and catch the strengthened Deadman.
The next day and the day after that, we earned coins by catching monsters all day long.

‘Did he get so damn strong?’

Dahee Yoo seemed to spend her last episode frugally.
The power contained in the sword and shield was very different from before.

“Careful!”

From time to time, a thread-like light formed on the blade of Yu Da-hee and then disappeared.
It’s a very weak level, but he learned how to move mana.
It was good to see that he was ahead of me in this area.
Because I don’t know how to use mana at all.

Even against the ghouls, there was no sign of being pushed back.
That’s what the saying is
1v1 was impossible.
Still, it was a huge growth.

‘What the hell did he do?’

I felt like I would lose if I put on a mask and went 1v1.
No, obviously I lose.
Ability, of course, skills, even protection.
There is nothing ahead of me.

Dahee Yoo accepts Ha Na Kang as a party member, but she is putting off clearing the tutorial.
While knowing where the field boss is and what kind of guy he is.
This means that he intends to stay longer on the 0th floor before going up.
For what?

Anyway.

‘There is no time.’

Before Dahee Yoo decides to go up to the first floor, she needs to become a little stronger.
Alright, let’s check the purple tombstone.
It’s a hidden piece that I’ve never read even in a novel, as a gamble.

That night.
I grabbed my equipment and sneaked out of the inn’s Shelter without Yu Da-hee’s knowledge and ran toward the south gate.
Moonlight and streetlights illuminate the village, but from the moment you go outside, you have to break through the darkness itself.

‘That’s why I took care of it.’

I took out the flashlight I had prepared in advance from my inventory.
I passed through the south gate and moved as I remembered.
It wasn’t a complicated move, so it wasn’t too difficult.

‘Found.’

A tombstone tinged with purple.
There are messy letters engraved on it like earthworm poop.
Interpretation is impossible to my knowledge.

From here, I had no choice but to take pictures by reasoning.
Why, black aura.
Of course, did it start to spread then?
Besides, after the black aura spread, I felt a sense of falling somewhere.

“Hmm…”

When I first found it, nothing happened.
It was only after fighting the second-class warriors that the tombstone emitted black energy.

‘Do I have to fight here?’

The elf bookkeeper said that this tombstone had the power to expel monsters.
Then, what is possible is a battle between players, PK.
It meant that the player had to be brought here.

“Am I right… ?”

I approached the tombstone and inspected the inscribed characters.
When the elf bookkeeper was there, he skimmed through it, but now without him, I had no choice but to find out for myself.
Upon closer inspection, the characters that looked like earthworms were crawling began to make some sense.
As if the words of the other races could be understood.
But it was impossible to fully understand.
Just one sentence, at my level, I could clearly understand only one sentence, as if it was this far.

‘Sprinkle blood on the tombstone?’

I definitely understood that.
Sprinkle blood on the tombstone.
There were more sentences before and after, but I couldn’t understand it at all with my level of skill.

I cut my finger and dripped blood onto the tombstone.
Waiting for what would happen.

Ugh-.

The tombstone that was hit by my blood began to radiate dark energy.
The scene he saw before he died was being replayed again.

Kugu Palace-.
“Uh… ! Town… !”

The ground cracks.
As if I had fallen into a swamp, my body was sucked into the muddy ground.
The black energy wrapped around me and swallowed the ground and disappeared.

“Where are you… ?”

When I opened my eyes again, I was inside a strange temple.
In the center of the temple, a black robed figure sat on a throne of bone.

─Are you human? . Players have been visiting frequently lately. But, it’s weaker than the humans who came a while ago… Ho!

Bright red eyes flashed.

─You have divine power. Besides, even the spirit power… Kkeukkeuk. Yes, i’ve decided dude, don’t save me However, by making a contract with me, the name of the great black magician Pluto will be displayed on this ‘Tower of Struggle’.
[Obtain ‘Dark Magic Lv.1’!]
[‘Divine Power Lv.1’, ‘Spiritual Sorcery Lv.1’ are absorbed into ‘Black Magic Lv.1’.]
[‘Dark Magic Lv.1′ ▶’Dark Magic Lv.2’]
“Quaaaaagh!”

The knowledge of ‘black magic’ was forced into my head.
Terrible pain ensued, followed by loss of consciousness.

‘Jinwu… Jinwoo… ! Calm down… It’s Jinwoo!’
“Ouch!”
“Hey Jinwoo! It’s okay?”
“Here… How…”

The inn was a ‘shelter’.