Chapter 152 – Chapter 151 – Beyond (15)

We mingled and made love before falling face down on the bed.

Maybe it was because everyone was working hard, but soon after, the female crew fell into a sound sleep.

Pretending to be asleep, I got out of bed.

“…”

I have various feelings.

An inexplicable feeling surged in my heart.

I looked around the room carefully.

The women who fell asleep with lovely faces, and now my room I’m used to.

I couldn’t take my eyes off it for a long time, as if I had a lingering lingering feeling at the thought that all of this might be the end.

“I’ll go.”

So I muttered to myself.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get out of here if I don’t say it.

I kept muttering.

“…”

I dressed carefully.

After taking Levatein and Balmung lying in the closet, I looked at the women’s camp for the last time.

I wanted to say something for a moment, my mouth twitched.

But I swallowed it all in my mouth and moved on.

Kik, Tak.

The door closes.

After the door closed, I greeted them.

“I’ll be back.”

After saying an infinitely ordinary but infinitely heavy greeting, I left the house.

* *

The time was dawn.

The darkness was half lifted, and the sky was a mixture of gray and orange.

“Did you have a good time?”

Choi Seol-yeon, who was standing with her sniper rifle leaning on her shoulder, looked at me and greeted her.

I replied with a smile.

“I enjoyed it without wanting. It might be the last time.”

A chilly winter wind fills the lungs.

Seolyeon Choi and I started walking down the streets of a city where darkness and light were half mixed.

It was quite tasteful to walk the two of them down a street with no one around.

“Still, my wish came true, I wanted to do that, so I made a fuss, but in the end, I entered the game and did it.”

Choi Seol-yeon must have remembered the old me, and she smiled and told me.

I also remembered myself at that time and laughed.

“Well, yes.”

Did you say you don’t know what the world will be like?

Step inside the game and do things that would have scared me if it was me before.

As I thought about it, many memories came to my mind.

From the day I first met the angel until now, the journey passes by in an instant.

Thinking that maybe the end of the journey could be here, I looked up at the sky without realizing it.

Spring Summer Fall Winter.

It’s the sky I’ve always looked up at, but today’s impression was quite special.

“By the way, are you okay?”

“What?”

Choi Seol-yeon asks me, rubbing the tip of her reddened nose in the early morning wind.

I shrugged.

“Can I go with you?”

“What other nonsense.”

Seolyeon Choi smiles.

“It’s a world I couldn’t save. Rather, I should ask for it.”

“… Is it.”

Although Choi Seol-yeon must have been unable to clear the world due to some intervention.

Looking at her lonely expression, I didn’t ask any more.

Before we knew it, we reached a dimensional rift.

The hunters who were camped near the dimensional rift looked at us.

“Are you here?”

Among the Hunters, Saerom from the Tree Guild saw me and said hello.

He seemed to expect that he would do the same today as he trained by catching the demons that popped out from near the dimensional rift.

“You’re having a hard time today.”

“Ah… Mr. Jo Joon suffers more.”

“Then, I will go.”

“Oh, where are you going?”

Saerom smiled and told me to come and go comfortably.

Seeing my steps go forward instead of backward, her face instantly hardened.

“Eh… Eh?! That… I’ve been there…?!”

Saerom and the hunters around her surround us as if we were talking crazy.

However, Choi Seol-yeon and I continued to move forward.

They couldn’t stop us.

“Jo… Mr. Joon…?! That… Why are you going there?!”

Mr. Saerom has bright green eyes and desperately tries to stop me.

I told Mr. Saerom.

“Because it’s something only I can do.”

Crossed the bridge over the dimensional door.

Even though only one foot was crossed, the sense of separation from this world was clearly felt thanks to the sticky magic over there.

“Whoa.”

I inhaled once and exhaled.

My heart is pounding.

Without looking back, I said it over and over again.

“I’ll be back.”

Leaving that greeting behind, I took one more step.

* *

Demon Dragon Fafnir.

This final boss with demonic energy all over has a unique passive ‘Draupnir’.

After the appearance of the Demon Lord, the meaning of this passive, which doubles the power every 9 days, was clear.

Catch the final boss before the 9th is over.

But in Fafnir beyond, countless hours have already passed.

Fafnir’s power, which has become strong enough to devour the world, is in a state of ‘class’, and is still increasing from time to time.

So I had to go now.

It’s suicidal to give that guy any more time to swallow the by-products he spits out and amplify his power.

“Whoa.”

Walk through a world filled with dark demonic energy.

Simply exhaling and exhaling makes breathing tremble.

As I walked through this world, I realized once again how much of a monster Fafnir here is.

“Kick…?”

As we were walking down the street, a masked ghost hiding in the dark looked at us.

The guy wearing a hideous mask and shining red eyes saw us and rushed at us.

Taang-!

I was hit by Choi Seol-yeon’s railgun and fell out.

“Save your strength as much as possible. I’ll go through Fafnir by myself.”

Choi Seol-yeon tells me, thrusting cooling bullets into her steaming sniper rifle.

I started walking again with the Levatein I was about to pull out hung around my waist.

A land covered with demonic energy.

A world full of darkness without sun and moon.

As if Choi Seol-yeon was familiar with this place, she proceeded without hesitation.

“It’s terrible.”

Choi Seol-yeon nodded her head at the answer she muttered involuntarily.

“Right, it’s a damn place.”

“Are you okay?”

Choi Seol-yeon laughed at my question.

“There’s no way it’ll be okay, I couldn’t die, so I was impatient. But thinking that it’s over today somehow feels kind.”

“Yes?”

“Yes.”

As soon as I finished saying that, dozens of demons rushed at me.

Choi Seol-yeon casually disposed of all the demons at once and then told me.

“It’ll be out soon.”

As Choi Seol-yeon had said, she could see the Demon Castle over there.

And the darkness that sits above it.

There was no sky.

There was only darkness.

The darkness had form.

As if to prove it, the darkness moved a little towards us.

“Driving me crazy.”

I expected it to some extent, but when I actually faced it, it was more than I expected.

The darkness was torn apart, and orange eyes flashed between them.

The pupils, torn vertically, were looking at us.

‘You foolish ones.’

The darkness whispers to us

‘Are you foolishly inviting death?’

At the sound of a wet snake’s tongue licking my ear, I grabbed Levatein.

Red glows in the dark.

As if relying on that light, I lifted Levatein up.

“Stop shaking your mouth, you lizard.”

Let’s put an end to it.

I gritted my teeth and strengthened my fighting spirit.

‘…’

The darkness remained silent at my words, then fell to the floor.

Two orange eyes protruding from the sticky and creepy mass of darkness look at me.

‘You… Something is unpleasant.’

At those words that Fafnir uttered, I responded in a fit of spirit.

“What are you talking about?”

Fafnir, a dragon, but lost his form due to greed.

Knowing that if I peeled away the darkness that covered that guy, all that was left behind was a piece of red flesh, and I was stunned.

‘… Can’t you feel it? Right.’

Muttered Fafnir.

Darkness wriggled and came upon us.

It starts now.

I had a hunch.

“Whoa.”

Grabbing Levatein, I gazed at the darkness beyond.

My character is questionable.

It is to continue looking beyond, to the end, and to wonder.

So, by facing that darkness, I covet beyond it.

The darkness that had been moving little by little came upon us in an instant.

Choi Seol-yeon, who was next to me, gritted her teeth, thrusting her sniper rifle forward and using a decisive weapon.

‘One last shot.’

Instead of not being able to shoot bullets for the next hour, the blue bullets of the more powerful shooter than anything else advance towards darkness.

The darkness that was attacking us was stopped by a blue bullet.

The blue bullet spun like a top, breaking through the darkness and revealing the flesh inside.

That was it.

Only Fafnir’s scales were peeled off, but the flesh inside it was unscathed.

“…”

So now it’s my turn

That buck

Moved the footprints

Towards me, the darkness comes over me.

I looked into the dark.

No, I looked beyond the darkness.