Chapter 72 – 72. Omens

The moment I took a big step into the boss room, the Puppet Master, who was scratching the wooden puppet’s head with a dagger, raised his head.

He threw down the head he was holding and stood up, bending and straightening his knees with both hands outstretched as if to welcome us.

Did you say hello, now?

‘A monster?’

The moment you think that you are better than a person.

The Puppet Master pulled out a dagger from the mat and raised it. At the same time, the wooden dolls scattered around rise up. From having no arms to having no legs.

Failed works that are broken or missing somewhere one by one advance toward us.

In an instant, the queen ant nest came to mind.
Even then, the male ants were protecting the queen. But this time things are a little different.

‘It’s completely different.’

Puppet Master was unusually a boss monster with multiple lives. To be precise, when that body you see now breaks, one of the puppet stones here becomes a puppet master.

In other words, to catch the Puppet Master, you had to kill all the monsters here.

“Don’t spare your skills.”

After saying that to Visurin, I kicked the ground at the approaching broken puppet doll.

No matter how many they are, as you can tell from their appearance, they are weaker than normal puppet idols. In terms of strength, it is slightly weaker than the Orc Skeleton Soldier in Bone Tomb.

There was no way I, who had learned even the Geosimryu against such guys, would struggle.

Thud!!

The puppet doll, which was hit and bounced off by the magic surrounding the sword, becomes a bowling ball and knocks down the others.

The Puppet Master, who disappeared among them, tried to throw a dagger, but even that was swept away by the giant current.

“Found!”

In the meantime, Visurin, who was one step away from the battlefield, shouted. He must have found the Puppet Master hiding among the broken puppet stones.

With a thud, the arrow pierced the puppet stone and pierced the puppet master’s shoulder.

Did you aim for the shoulder on purpose?
If so, I had no choice but to re-evaluate her. Not that it’s useful, but that it’s very useful.

‘Because Puppet Master comes back to life when he dies.’

In other words, if you don’t kill, you won’t be resurrected. In that sense, aiming for his shoulder and restricting his movement was worthy of praise.

“It’s 5 minutes before the end of the exam.”

When the head of a puppet doll without an arm is cut off, a broadcast is played. There are only five left, including Puppet Master.

‘Enough.’

I cut off the flying dagger and broke the neck of the footless guy. When the wind-filled arrow pierces the head of another creeping puppet doll, my sword shatters the broken body at its side.

And last.
If you break the head of a guy with no arms.

“You are left alone.”

Only the Puppet Master was left with arrows stuck in his shoulder and thigh.

Puppetmaster silently raises his left hand holding a dagger. But before that, an arrow shot from behind pierced his left shoulder.

A dagger falling to the floor.
I take a big step

‘Geosimryu.’

Swung the sword

‘Strong current.’

Thud!!

A man’s head falling to the ground.
To finish it off, insert the sword into the nape of the neck and remove the token hanging on the wall.

“The test for Team 32 is over. Recorded 38 minutes and 12 seconds. Thank you for your effort.”

Along with the broadcast, the wall where the badge was hung moved, revealing a hidden door. I let out a long sigh and looked at Bisurin.

“Thank you for your effort.”

“Thanks for your efforts. I didn’t know that the two of us would take the test, but thanks to that, we survived.”

“I heard Bisurin is also good at it.”

Her mouth draws an arc pleasantly.
Responding with the same smile, I came down to the first floor through the door leading to the emergency stairs.

When I opened the tightly closed emergency door, the lobby was noisy for some reason. The venue, filled with excitement instead of tension and noise instead of calm, reminded me of a performance hall rather than a test site.

“Oh, no way! I told you not to come.”

Then, Bisurin’s puzzled voice heard from behind her.
She passed me and ran to the crowd of people.

Following them, a tall man in a suit stood in the center of the crowd.

What are you, a celebrity?
I think I’ve seen it somewhere.

As I was thinking about that, the man saw Bi Surin and made her sunny expression.

– Surin!

-Brother!! I told you not to come!!

-Ah, how can you not come? It’s not anyone else, but my brother is taking the C-level exam. Did you do well on the test?

-I don’t know!

– I’m sure you saw it. Who is the younger brother Let’s go, I’m going to pass anyway, so I’ll have to fill out the guild application.

Are you a brother?
Judging by her attitude, she seems to care a lot for her sister.

Then someone tapped on the shoulder.
Looking back at her, her finger pricked her cheek. Jeong Ha-ryun and Seol Da-jin hid.

“Did your exam go well, brother?”

“It’s not like asking for granted. How about Haryyeon with your sister?”

“If you just didn’t ask for the obvious, why are you asking us?”

“That too. But do you know who he is?”

“…Yeah?”

“…What?”

She pointed to her real brother, who was leaving the exam hall with Bi Surin, and both looked dumbfounded at the same time.

What is it and why

“Brother, you really don’t know, do you? Are you kidding me?”

“Uh…Isn’t it?”

“You really don’t know?”

“I think I saw it somewhere, but I can’t remember.”

After saying that, Dajin Seol sighed deeply and took out her smartphone and showed her a picture. There, Visurin’s older brother, whom he had just seen, was floating.

“Wall Tower Lord. You really don’t know?”

“…Was it the owner of the tower?”

I appealed to the lovers who were repeating sighs while looking at me with pitiful eyes.

“…Maybe you don’t know. Every day, all I think about is Ha-ryun and my sister.”

Of course, I thought of my mother-in-law.

Hehe…”

“If you can’t even talk… Uhh.”

Fortunately, it seems that the aegyo goes over in one go.
By the way. Then, did that crazy bitch named Yoo Je-ah do that to the younger sister of the owner of the tower?

‘He’s dead.’

I do not wish you good luck.
It’s not even worth it.

While I was thinking about it, I told my lovers about Bisurin and Yoo Jea.

“Okay again. Did you do that to the younger brother of the owner of the tower?”

“Umm…Why is that?”

“I don’t know. Besides, it was quiet until the test started? But suddenly…”

Continue talking and leave the test room. While I was heading to my room in a taxi, the topic of conversation shifted from my party members to theirs.

“Have you changed?”

“Yes. I suddenly shouted “Transformation,” And the armor just came out.”

“She thought she was dying of laughter. A human who was so shy that he couldn’t even talk to us until just now suddenly changed his weight! God! Because of this…It hurts.”

“It’s because my sister doesn’t know what. Originally, when a man transforms, he should hold as much weight as possible.”

But the word “Transformation” Should be said quietly, like talking to oneself.

That person was a bit wrong.

“Brother, give me a jacket.”

When I entered the room while talking about it, Jung Ha-ryun took my jacket as if it were natural. At this level, it was safe to say that she was just a wife.

“Oh. I’ll take it to the dry cleaners.”

“Yes. I get it.”

At my words, she returned the clothes hanger to its place and rummaged through the pockets of her jacket to pull out the contents. I’ve been talking with Seol Da-jin about the C-class celebration party.

“Hey, if you pass C grade, where would you like to go to play?”

“You want to go play?”

“Uh. You’ve never gone out to play since the three of us got together. So, let’s take this opportunity to go on a trip with the three of us.”

Not a bad idea.
I nodded and looked at Jeong Ha-ryun.

“Haryeon-ah, how are you?”

“I like it! But brother.”

“Yes?”

“What’s that?”

What she held out was none other than the patron saint’s Lubrica. It was said that I could get help from a patron saint, so I put it in my jacket pocket just in case, and Jeong Ha-ryun took it out and asked what it was.

No, not exactly.

The red text on the note was asking what it was.

“Uh?”

It was the first time that writing appeared on Lubrica.
I got it from Jeong Ha-ryun. This was written on the note.

《I found the caster.》

‘Let’s get lucky?’

It was an unfamiliar word, so when I looked it up on the Internet, all I could find was an evil ghost or a person possessed by evil spirits.

A person possessed by an evil spirit or an evil spirit.
Among the people I met today, there is only one person like that.

“Are you really possessed by a ghost?”

“What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“You know that crazy bitch I was talking about earlier. I wondered if he might be a brat.”

“You said you did it because you were possessed by a ghost? So, are all the hunters who have been to the Cursed Meadow crazy like her? Rather say it was possessed by the devil.”

I heard that too.
As Seol Da-jin said, there was a place where ghost monsters appeared among the C-level gates.

“Sister, what is the cursed meadow?”

“A C-class gate on the battlefield. Are there ghosts out there?”

“Hey, hey!?”

“What. Hey, Ha-ryun is afraid of ghosts too?”

“Ah, no oh no… No oh… Yu, I’m not afraid of ghosts, ears, or ghosts…”

I laughed at the trembling Jeong Ha-ryun and looked at Lubrica again. Dajin Seol said it was nothing special, but there was no way that the item he picked with 3,000 points would give fake information.

‘Well, even if I leave it as it is, it’ll be robbed by the owner of the Wall Tower.’

Still, in case you don’t know, it would be better to report it to the church. Just looking at it, it seems to be related to the church side. Of course, I don’t know if you’ll believe me just because I report it.

The next day, I borrowed a passerby’s phone and sent a text message to the number written on Examiner Choi’s business card that I had received before.

After briefly explaining the crazy things Yu Je-ah did, she added that she seems to be a brat.

“Thank you.”

I handed over 10,000 won along with the borrowed phone and walked lightly to the hive battlefield where my lovers were waiting.