Chapter 548 – Splitting the Sky (3)

『Quest』

〈Split the sky.〉

-Upon completion: Rise in rank.

Unlike the two friendly quests I cleared today, a strange quest appeared.

I’m not sure if it’s the sky, but seeing that it appears when someone says it wants to stab someone with a knife, it probably means cutting down the transcendent person who interferes in this world.

And the reward is an increase in rank, and if you clear the quest, you can probably reach level 5.

In order to reach the edge of the transcendental, you have to cut down the transcendental.

‘But because the level is low… It must be low, right?’

If it is Isian’s hierarchy, any dungeon modeled after it belongs to the lower world.

Where is the God who touches the lower world compared to me? While imagining that, I thought that time would pass well if I sharpen the sword of my heart.

“Hey… Yusian, are you from another world?”

Eunseo Choi asked me carefully.

A person who suddenly falls from the sky without knowing the story of a year ago or the history of about a hundred years ago.

Since the gate was already open, and we were being attacked by a huge monster, it was natural to think that way.

‘I’m not hiding my power.’

“It’s an ordeal for me. I want to cut down the guy who is trying to change the world to his will and restore peace.”

“Ah…”

I felt that Choi Eun-seo’s gaze toward me deepened a little.

As she felt a slight increase in divinity, she spoke to Choi Eun-seo.

“I heard all the stories about the past that I wanted to hear. So is this Garam district in the land of old China?”

“Yes. It would have been Hefei City. Before the zombie outbreak, it was mainly a place for farming with slow development, but thanks to that, it became a good place for people to settle down.”

“If it’s Hefei, what is Hefei?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

According to the Han Xian class, is this the land where the Nangong family was located? She doesn’t seem to see her normal self except when she goes to celebrate Namgoong Hyun’s birthday.

Thinking that she had a strange connection to this land, she passed the time until the next monster attack.

*

〈11 : 51〉

“Whoa…”

The raids continued every hour.

It was broad daylight when I arrived at the dungeon, and now, more than 12 hours later, it was dark night.

Huge monsters were running towards the Garam district’s defense wall as if they had taken coordinates, and there was no problem in defeating them.

For an ordinary person, visibility would be limited because it is night, but for me, who can use presence detection-flame, it is not a big problem.

However, the time it takes to defeat the monster wave is gradually increasing.

‘The numbers are increasing.’

Near the wall, a mountain was formed with the corpses of huge monsters.

A corpse so large that if a giant were to pile it up and push it with his hands as if he were playing with blocks, the barrier would completely collapse.

When I see the people of the Garam district, who survived on limited food for a year, crossing the barrier and bringing back monster meat and being happy, I feel fortunate that at least that remains.

‘I don’t think my mana will be able to withstand it when it’s the end.’

It is night now.

The shadows created by the moonlight were everywhere, and if you absorbed the mana of Garam District, you could completely recover and return by moving a little further away and absorbing the mana.

When the day comes, the story changes a little.

I had created a few methods through my training, but they were not suitable for long-term warfare.

If the monsters are coming from one direction, you can exclude other techniques and fight purely using the fire flame magic.

But now, 12 hours later, monsters were coming steadily from all directions, and we couldn’t deal with them at the same time unless we used Yunbo.

‘Shahemoth and Wozniel must be saved for the last quest.’

Because I can’t yet use the technology to reach the transcendent on my own.

“Do you drink coffee?”

While I was looking at the moon at the outpost, waiting for the monster to come, the man commanding from the wall approached me holding a thermos.

“Drink.”

He took out a paper cup, filled it with what appeared to be coffee mix, and gave it to me. I nodded slightly and took a sip.

Because the color was light, the taste was not that strong, but this level of coffee can be considered a luxury now that supplies are scarce.

“It is fortunate that the shelf life of all foods has increased dramatically, perhaps because of a lesson learned a hundred years ago.”

“Is that so?”

I didn’t even know that.

After Choi Eun-seo returned, Lee Tae-seong, the leader of the Garam district, came to ask several times if there was anything missing, but since it was the first time we had met since then, there was still a lack of information about this world.

Anyway, this is a dungeon, not the world I will continue to live in, so I was a bit lazy in looking into it.

“What should we call the thing Yusian uses? Even the person who became a legend would not have been able to fight like Yusian.”

Compared to Isian, the mana in his body is very different.

At that time, Lee Sian’s physical ability was higher, but now I am in a situation where I surpass even his physical ability.

“In the world I was in, it’s called skill.”

“It’s a skill. Can we humans learn it?”

I answered that question by shaking my head.

“This is quite different from the martial arts you had before. Should I say it is something you can acquire innately?”

My memory isn’t perfect, but I think I’ve had a status window since I was born.

In addition, there were very few people who awakened to quest abilities.

Because there were only eight people in the world who were the same age as me and had quest skills.

“I thought a world without the need for martial arts had arrived. It seems the world is truly unknown.”

“You never knew someone like me would show up.”

“Yes. Honestly, I don’t know whether Garam District is very dangerous right now because of Yu Xian. I’m confused about everything.”

A person who fell from the sky caused monsters to come, and they are fighting to control it.

I can overcome it because I have the strength, but if I were to be in the situation of a person who had to surrender my body to the strong waves, my head would explode.

“It will be okay. I enjoyed my coffee.”

When I handed the paper cup to the man, the man bowed his head and went down to the basement.

“The next 40 minutes or so. I should have stayed with you a little longer.”

〈11:40〉

***

“Doyun hyung.”

Kim Do-yoon, the man who handed Yoo Sian coffee, looked at Lee Tae-seong, who called him.

“Yeah. Nothing special happened.”

“What do you think when you see me? Does he look like my ancestor?”

Lee Tae-seong thought that his ancestor, who had never seen his face, could have come down to help his descendants.

And I asked Kim Do-yoon, who knew people’s inner thoughts well and solved problems that would arise in the Garam district in advance, to take a peek.

“I don’t know. Whether it’s right or not, you’ve been on our side.”

“That’s right. I’m not the only descendant of Lee Sian, but there are so many… I’m sure there are hundreds of relatives I haven’t even seen.”

The owner of radish, Lee Sian, and his wife, Kim Na-eun, had quite a few children.

When the children grew up, much of the previous civilization had been restored, and the number of humans had increased explosively.

Kim Do-yoon asked when Lee Tae-seong thought that he was overly self-conscious about coming down to help himself, one of his many descendants.

“How are people’s mood?”

“It’s night, so everyone is trying to sleep as much as possible, but they can’t. I can feel the fight for their fate continuing above.”

Every time a huge monster approaches the barrier, the basement trembles.

When something like Besamos flaps its wings, wind pressure spreads as if the barrier could be torn apart, and that also had an effect on the underground.

I couldn’t help but feel anxious because more monsters were coming to Garam District in half a day than I had encountered in surviving a year.

“I hope this is the end.”

“If they killed that many people, wouldn’t that be the case?”

Do-yoon Kim approached Tae-seong Lee and lightly tapped him on the shoulder.

“The situation above is out of our hands, so we have no choice but to believe and pray. Were you holding a memorial service at your house every year?”

“I don’t know about my other ancestors, but I do this to my great-grandfather or great-great-grandfather Isian.”

***

〈5:12〉

It was about 8 a.M. And I had to protect Garam District for another five hours.

“I have a lot of time left, but the atmosphere is really bad.”

At 8 a.M. On March 13, it is common for the sun to rise and dispel the darkness.

It was a little after eight o’clock, and the sky was purple.

I thought of a bright morning with white clouds floating in the blue sky, but the purple sky and blood-red clouds seemed to tell me that the remaining five hours would be quite difficult.

White wheel acceleration.

Using one of his white wheels, he slowly rose into the sky so that he could see beyond the barrier.

I sighed as I saw countless giant monsters slowly approaching the barrier from outside the range of presence detection-flame.

“Are monsters from all over the world being gathered here?”

If they were the size of a human, I would be confident that I could kill them very efficiently, but because they were so big, it was a bit annoying to deal with them.

I have been fighting most efficiently by actively using the black wheel and Yunbo, but can I handle that number?

‘I guess I can do it.’

There is one skill that is appropriate to use now that the strange darkness has settled in.

Skill Link-Boost

Dominate Diabol. Demon wheel, five righteousness, black flame demon.

Jet-black flames began pouring down like rain on the heads of monsters walking toward the Garam district’s defense wall.

(Ahaha! Use your bodies as food and burn to death in a pitch-black flame that will never go out!!!)

The black flames that responded to Shahemoth’s emotions immediately engulfed the body of the giant monster and began to burn violently.

It was a little disappointing to have used up magical energy, but you won’t be able to block a large army of monsters more efficiently than this.