Chapter 17 – Episode 17- The Underworld (9)

Above the hallway painted in pitch black darkness.

White dust and objects illuminated by the dim light of a flashlight.

Tog Tok Tok.

The loud sound of our footsteps on the marble fills the silence.

Swoop.

As we pass the corner and enter the corner, we feel a gaze from the corner we just passed.

That creepy yet unpleasant gaze.

Now they stare openly to see if they thought we hadn’t noticed.

Keep your right arm as close to your side as possible and take a posture to draw your sword at any time.

‘Hit first.’

When the opponent’s string of carelessness is stretched, you must enter first.

“Why is that?”

Next to me, Rebecca asks me if she saw my hardened expression.

“Ah.. Late night school is a bit scary haha!”

Rebecca nodded earnestly at my pointless voice and said.

“I see. I’m a little scared too.”

“Me too~”

Betsy Bianca adds with a laugh.

“If I hadn’t come with you, I would have been in big trouble.”

I received Bianca and Rebecca’s answer with a smile that hardened slightly because I had concentrated all my senses behind me.

Can I go now?

The gaze becomes tighter.

In particular, I can feel the creepy eyes on Bianca instead of me.

Bianca, who smiles innocently and looks around, and Rebecca, who is blunt beside her, do not notice this ‘gaze’.

I have to do it myself.

Back.

Grasp the top of the scabbard with your left hand and prepare to push the sword away with your thumb.

Cheer.

When his gaze becomes more sticky and he looks at Bianca.

Now.

Elemental spirit

In an instant, he wrapped the earth elemental around his body and rotated the marble in the hallway that touched his feet.

Whirik.

Just as you are standing, turn around and head towards the corner.

‘It’s over there.’

I can see In-yeong with her hair slightly lowered in the corner.

Maybe I moved too fast, so I couldn’t react yet.

So now is your chance.

‘Spirit Treasure’

Perong!

The wind spirit coils around your toes and pushes the air away.

Flick the back of the nose with the thumb of the left hand, take it over naturally with the right hand, which was placed in close contact in advance, and then gently draw out the sword.

Only now, as if In-young noticed my rush, she starts to move her body in haste.

I’m sorry, but it’s already too late.

Shuuk!

The knife in his right hand slashed horizontally and came in close enough to be able to recognize In-young.

Then what came into my sight.

Fluff.

A small human figure prostrated on the ground at the corner with her hair in pigtails.

“Uh?”

It’s Aris.

Awesome.

In the air, my embarrassed gaze met Aris’ gaze.

What’s the matter?

After putting the outstretched knife into the scabbard by turning the wrist, approach Aris who has fallen to the floor and help her up.

“Aris, why are you here?”

“That…That’s…”

Aris wriggles the fingers of both of her hands and tells me.

“Jojun wanted you to go somewhere without me knowing, so I followed him…”

“Okay.”

Well, I was the one who usually did sex with Aris, but she shook off the touch of temptation and went to another appointment, which made Aris curious.

Even if I was Aris, I might have been curious and followed him.

Then, that gaze just now is Aris?

No. ‘It could never be?’

No matter how suddenly Aris pops out and breaks my concentration, the figure in the darkness I just saw is not Aris.

Because in that sticky yet creepy gaze, there was a clear life.

There must be more ‘something’.

With confidence, I stared at the curved corner.

Rippling

The space is slightly distorted and the shadows are blurred.

“Uh…Uhh? Savior?”

Then, behind her, Bianca stutters and points her finger at the air I see.

I knew it

Yongan doesn’t lie.

So, in that darkness, ‘something’ definitely exists.

The owner of that ‘gaze’ that I had been reluctant from before.

Perhaps the reason why Aris suddenly collapsed here was because I was secretly following us and I suddenly rushed in and the startled figure pushed Aris away.

As if I thought I was staring at it now, the shadows moved more and more.

We faced each other quietly without saying anything, and at the moment when the shade suddenly grew, I drew my sword and lowered it toward the shimmering jet black around the corner.

Woowook!

A tingling feeling that wraps around your fingertips.

Bingo.

“Quaaaaagh!!!”

A shrieking human figure emerges from the darkness.

“This crazy.”

When I saw the figure revealed in the shade, swear words came out without me knowing.

A depressed blue hat and a wrinkled face.

It’s a janitor.

He staggers away from me, bleeding profusely from the blow I just cut.

I’m pressing down on the wound I cut with my left hand, but even in this darkness, the janitor’s blood leaks out.

It was ‘black’, darker than darkness.

What that means is that the janitor in front of me right now is a devil.

Then there is nothing to worry about.

‘You have to kill’

“Spirit Charm.”

Hwareuk.

A bright red flame burns from the blade and pushes away the darkness.

At the sharp cut, the devil hurriedly kicked the ground and tried to run away, but I was already a bit faster.

Perong!

With an explosion of alcohol, the demon’s shoulder blades fly off and slam into the wall next to it.

“Kheuk!”

A demon who vomits blood and can’t stand on a wall where she is stuck.

When you quickly approach and cut off the head of a lying devil.

Jjoong!

The view is reversed with the sound of breaking glass.

The pitch-black darkness escapes from sight in an instant, filling it with an unpleasant crimson light.

Fuck this.

The space of the all-too-familiar crimson world.

It’s ‘the other side of the world’.

Awesome!

Enduring dizziness, I continued to push the sword into the fiend, but unfortunately, in that brief gap, the guy rolled over and slipped out of the side.

Jjoong!

The view reverses again with the sound of breaking glass.

The crimson world escapes and darkness rushes in.

“Savior! He’s a sorcerer! You must kill him unconditionally!”

Bianca hurriedly approaches this side with her golden eyes burning.

Drinker?

It was said that the hidden world would be closed by killing the caster.

Then, can we end the other world scenario here?

“Kuhhh!!”

As if crawling on the ground, the demon runs away by pushing off the ground with its left arm.

Drooling!

From behind, as if Aris had noticed the situation to some extent, she sensibly shot the demon’s knee as it fled to Uji.

Thanks to that, he stumbled and slowed down. Then.

“Baljutsu – Flame Flower”

I have to put in a skill that will put my power in a short gap.

Remembrance.

Mechanically step your left foot back and balance your weight with your right foot.

And crackling.

A blue current burns with a slight glow in the darkness.

A solid red line connects me and the devil.

Chuck.

Sucked into the scabbard, along with the clear sound of the sword, flowers bloom in solid red lines.

Perong! Perong! Perong!

The darkness of the pitch-black hallway bursts out, and bright red crimson flames gobble it up.

As if swallowing the darkness wasn’t enough, he bites off the body of the devil, the final destination.

Pew!

With a roar, the devil’s body bursts in half.

“OK!”

Watching the demon’s body explode, I let out a cheer.

Is this the end of the other world?

What kind of cake is this?!

“Savior!”

Bianca, who had approached me before I knew it, looked at the ground in front of me with an urgent voice and shouted.

“Look ahead! Those hands!”

Yes?

Hand?

Turn your gaze and look down.

His charred hand wriggling, leaving only his wrist, scribbled something on the floor in his own black blood.

“Damn it!”

I don’t know what it is, but at this time, ‘that kind of thing’ must be blocked unconditionally.

I hurriedly drew my knife and tried to cut off my finger.

Jjoong!

My eyesight was filled with crimson light.

“You can’t move!”

Bianca shrieks.

“It’s the last push! If you affect the other side even a little here, you’ll be trapped in our other side, so you just have to stay still! 10 seconds! Hold on for 10 seconds!”

10 seconds?

I thought 10 seconds would be fine.

Device gig.

Until I saw an old tree twisted into a human shape at the end of a hallway filled with crimson light.

Why is that?

It shouldn’t come out of here.

Gigg.

2 seconds.

The stump with nothing on the face turns around and looks back at us.

And our eyes met.

Not with me, but with someone behind him

5 seconds.

As he stretches out his arms, his twisted tree trunk stretches out.

8 seconds.

The tree trunk rushes frantically toward my back.

This direction.

It was definitely Aris at the end of the corridor.

And this blow.

Aris never ‘can’t stop’.

‘Spirit Slash!’

A swift blow wrapped in a water spirit cut through the stem.

“Savior!”

Ten seconds passed with Bianca’s shrieking scream.

And everyone but me disappeared from the underworld.

“Her…”

He let out a sigh in a low voice.

Device Geek!

An old tree that makes a twisting sound and turns toward me.

Why is that thing coming out of there?

It’s a junk mob that needs to go over at least 8 stages to catch it, right?

A sloppy human figure made of crumpled tinfoil, with the whole body twisted around a tree trunk and a single stump on the head.

That’s a ‘dry old tree’.

At first glance, it seems to be made of wood, so its fire attribute is its weakness, but as its name suggests, it is so ‘dry’ that it is rather a tricky fiend whose weakness is its water attribute.

As tricky as it is, he’s the one who ‘can’t come out’ in this second scenario.

“Player.. Player.. Neim…!”

An angel jumps out from the side.

Sparks are bursting from the body of the angel who is making a serious expression.

Correspondingly, the words the angel speaks to me are delivered to me in rare cases.

“This… This! It’s a big deal… Yo! I’m not waking up alone… Sina… Somehow…!”

Then, as the angel stretches out its crackling arm and pretends to hand me something, the ring interface comes to mind.

[Skill: Spirit Land is activated.]

“I.. Can.. Can… So far… Because of causal…Yul…”

Dig!

The angel disappeared without a word.

Do you think this is a big deal?

So far, since I entered the game, the angel hasn’t even interfered with me in any way.

Even if he seduces Bianca using a story he knows in advance, even if he plans to end the underworld in advance.

But ‘now’ was the only angel that interfered with me.

If so, that old tree that I can see right now is not all there is to it.

If it’s ‘at that level’, I can escape this other world without getting hurt enough.

Perhaps the big thing the angel said was because of the boss in this underworld.

The boss of Hellmode’s second scenario…

Whirik.

Spin his knife and catch it in reverse.

Giggi Gig!

A dry old tree charging at me with a grotesque noise.

I clicked my tongue and the bright red electric light quietly turned on in the crimson world next to me.

I shot the spirit slash at the fire hydrant.

Perong!

A stream of water bursts out with an explosion.

‘Spirit’

I catch the stream of water bursting out with my fingertips and scatter the water to the far end of the hallway with the help of the wind spirit as much as possible.

And as soon as I felt several drops of water hanging over the window at the end of that hallway, I

Kwap.

I rolled my hands and froze all the water droplets scattered in the air.

Damn

All air constricts and exhales cold air.

The dry old tree that was approaching me hesitated and stiffened due to the sudden coldness.

Now is the best time to kill him, but ‘there’s no such thing as time.’

Is it really dangerous for an angel to say this?

End with as quick a decision as possible.

“Baljutsu – Flame Flower”

Leaving the stiff, withered tree alone, he performed a claw-sculpting technique—yeomhwa (焰花)—from end to end of the hallway.

Swoop.

The red solid line continues and will soon bloom.

Perong! Perong! Perong!

And at the same time, the window contracted by the cold expands and shatters due to the strong heat.

One thing I will do from now on.

Just like clearing in the original game world.

Break all the windows in the school to escape this ‘underworld’.