Chapter 55 – Episode 55 – Masquerade (6)

Rolling… Rolling…

The stone walls in the black market rang and trembled.

My senses, heightened by feeling, warned me.

‘Something is coming’

The moderator also put down the microphone and acted as if calling a guard with firm gestures, as if he had grasped the unusual atmosphere.

“Miss.”

To cope with what was about to happen, I jumped up from my leather chair and looked back at the chairman.

At my words, the chairman nodded and lowered the black filter that was hanging over the eyes like a decoration to cover the area around the eyes of the fox mask.

It was made as a precautionary measure to avoid being caught by others when using ‘Yongan’ in case of an unexpected situation, but I never thought it would be used like this…

Shit but what do I do?

Since Yongan, which possesses all abilities, uses a mixture of various abilities, it is difficult to identify the president as an individual, but I am different.

Test.

There is no one in this world other than me who can hold and wield a sword.

“Damn it.”

As soon as I was in a hurry, I took off the shirt of my suit, tore it up and wrapped it around my hand.

First of all, I plan to hide my identity by mimicking the most common natural ability with a spirit spirit and engaging in close combat.

If you think it’s too dangerous, take out a knife from your inventory and use it.

Deuk deuk… Dedeuk-!

At the same time as the stone wall shakes, a creepy sound like something being ground gradually increases.

Quaang-!

The asbestos in the back of the black market, which had been covered by a red curtain, crumbled along with the heavy drinking.

The culprit behind the turmoil was slowly revealed behind the gaping hole as the finely shattered stone fragments soared into the air.

“Greureuk-.”

The sound of being forced out of the water came from beyond the stone wall.

Slap, slap.

The liquid that flowed from the other side of the asbestos through the collapsed piles of stones lightly stained the platform.

“Cha.. Participants! Hurry up and run to the entrance!”

The lights decorated on the podium shimmered and shone over the body of the perpetrator beyond the stone wall.

Although they took the same shape as humans, their skin, which scattered and reflected the pouring light, was made of shiny scales.

The grotesquely protruding mouth and side of the cheeks fluttered and moved like tiny wings, as if…

It was like a fish in the shape of a man.

“Kyaaaaagh!”

Starting with a woman’s scream that burst out of nowhere, people’s screams burst out one after another.

“Move away! You bastards!”

The participants hurriedly squeezed each other’s bodies and ran toward the entrance of the black market.

“Participants! This way!”

The staff hurriedly urged the participants to leave the entrance, but I have no intention of leaving.

That’s right, all the strange things that happen in ‘this world’ will be one of the things I’ll solve someday.

If I turn away from this work now to be comfortable, it is certain that it will blow up and attack me in the future.

Because this world is ‘that’ world.

Drool.

The eyes of one of the guys on the other side of the stone wall rolled and scanned the black market.

The dull black pupil, which seemed to be sucked into the round white, rolled and stopped.

The guy’s gaze was directed towards the moderator who had just come down from the podium and was observing the situation.

“Eh?”

The moderator also asked stupidly if he had noticed the guy’s gaze toward him.

“Grrrr-!”

At the same time, the guys on the other side of the stone wall entered the black market at breakneck speed and began to attack the moderator.

Seeing that, I swung my fist at the wine on the table.

Clink-!

The wine glass shattered and the red wine soaked my hand wrapped in a suit, and I set the red cloth soaked in wine on fire with an elemental weapon and ran toward the guys rushing to be the emcee.

“Oops?!

Guards waiting nearby rushed to stop the guys from attacking the moderator.

“Greureuk-!”

When the scaled arms of the guys hit the bodies of the guards, the bodies of the guards could not absorb the impact and exploded.

Poo-!

Red blood and flesh flew into the air with a slicing sound that sounded like hitting meat with a hammer.

“Sa… Save me!”

The emcee, who had blood splattered here and there on a ridiculous mask with a mustache, was even more flustered when he saw that, and started running towards the entrance.

At that speed, it won’t be able to run away for long and it will explode like before.

As if to disprove my idea, behind the host, the fish-man caught up with the host at breakneck speed.

“Aaaaagh!”

Seeing the fish-man’s hand stretched high, the moderator intuited his fate and crouched down.

And soon after, there was a huge bang sound, and at the same time, a dull sound exploded.

In the body of a fish-man, not a moderator.

“Whoa~.”

Arrived slowly.

It would have been too late if I hadn’t boosted my agility with the [Rapid] Buff of the Pleasant Swordsman.

As if the fist he had just inserted into the fish-man’s stomach had gone in properly, the savory taste of it lingered in his hand.

“Keruk-!”

The fish-man, who was punched by me and rolled around, coughed while clutching his stomach.

An unpleasant mucus-like liquid dripped from the corner of her mouth.

“Greuk-! Greuk-!”

I don’t know if it was because they recognized that their colleague had been beaten or that they couldn’t catch the moderator, but all the fish people on the podium turned their attention to me and the moderator.

“Fuck Hmmm.”

Dozens of their empty, black pupils looked at me at the same time, and I got goosebumps all over my body without even realizing it.

Surely there was something lively shining in the eyes of all creatures, but there was nothing like that in their eyes.

Only the heat of longing for something filled the turbid black pupils.

“Arrange! Everyone line up and prepare!”

The shooters and the guards, who have special abilities, took out weapons from their subspace and armed themselves.

“Shoot! Kill them all!”

Drooling-!

Numerous bullets and superpowers attacked the fish people.

However, bullets that did not contain mana could not pierce the skin densely covered with scales, and bullets that contained mana only slightly broke the scales.

“Grrrr-!”

However, some of the guys who kept getting hit seemed to want to take damage, and some of them who were looking at me and the moderator twisted their bodies and started running towards the guards who fired bullets and supernatural powers at them.

The rest of the guys started running to this place ignoring bullets and abilities.

“Ha… Fuck.”

After greatly condensing the power of my calves, I spurred the ground and jumped out at them in the same way.

Hwareuk-!

The fire wrapped in my fist burned brighter with the elemental machine, and I lifted the protruding jaw of the first fish man that attacked me.

It wasn’t just kicked up.

The description of the pleasure of the ‘Pleasant Swordsman’, who was transferred this time, was not limited to just one sword.

From simply using chopsticks to a single step.

Any act of moving the body could contain pleasure, and I, who had been a good swordsman so far, tried to be aware of and feel the subtle sensation from time to time.

And the fist I just raised up contained the essence of the pleasure I had so far.

Jump-!

It was a fist that he swung very lightly on the outside, but its destructive power was extraordinary.

A fist on its chin shattered all of its scales and consumed the exposed flesh within with roaring flames.

“Huh-!”

It’s not over yet.

The number of guys attacking me still has 5 left.

He naturally retrieved his outstretched fist and twisted his front heel to the side to give his body rotational power.

‘Meditation.’

A simple skill to contemplate myself.

At first, I thought it was a garbage skill, but it wasn’t at all.

When I used meditation, all my senses were pushed out and my consciousness was lifted.

It feels like taking a step back and looking back at myself.

Where I’m looking now, where the force is heading, how the enemy is attacking me.

All of that was ‘seen.’

He took a deep breath and accelerated his body.

Puck-!

In an instant, I jumped into the arms of the approaching guy and slammed my fist into his chest briefly.

His chest caved in and the scales shattered.

I turned around and hit the guy next to me with my fist.

Pew-!

At just the right time, another guy next to me was engulfed in huge flames.

‘President Nice.’

I thanked the president for supporting me from behind, and kept my fist close enough to touch the last remaining guy before using the skill.

‘Fast dance’

His body flashed, and five fists extended out one after another and hit the face of the fish man.

“Keluk-!”

The guy’s face turned bright red, and then he fell to the floor with a thump.

I let out a breath with the feeling that the distant sensations returned to my body in an instant.

“Whoa…”

First of all, I dealt with all the guys who attacked me.

Looking around, the guards struggled and fought, but somehow had the upper hand against the fish men.

These fish people had excellent physical specifications, but they had a fatal flaw, so they couldn’t break through the guards who were determined to attack them.

That downside is right there.

‘Melee and stupid.’

The people with special powers flash their abilities and somehow push the fish people away, and the shooters pour out mana bullets with all their power.

With just that alone, the fish-man, whose body was only hard, was slowly losing his scales and dying.

If these fish people were smart to some extent, they would avoid them or hit the wall and aim for blind spots.

And I know better than anyone else that melee characters who charge ignorantly without intelligence are the food of long rangers.

“Umm… Is it somewhat organized now?”

I caught my breath and looked around, thinking that the guards would finish off those fish people on their own without my help.

By the way, what the hell are these babies?

I watched closely the guys lying on the floor.

The body covered with green scales and the gills protruding from the side of the cheeks are covered over the human body.

“What the fuck is it?”

A pup with a peculiar appearance like this is ‘never seen’ in the game.

How on earth did it appear in this black market?

I was watching while hitting the body of a fish human with my toe, but suddenly I heard a scream in front of me.

“Quaaaaagh!”

Hearing the host’s screams of pain, I hurriedly turned my head and looked ahead to see a long, white snake-like body stretching out from the gills of the fish-man I had just defeated, tearing off the host’s arm.

“This crazy.”

After putting a spark in her elbow and dipping it as hard as she could, she cut off the snake and hurriedly approached the host.

“Aww-! Aww!”

The presenter, whose wrist had been ripped off a little too late, crawled on the ground writhing in pain.

“Just be patient.”

I saw a snake biting off the host’s wrist, stopping the bleeding by using the elemental spirit device.

No, if you look closely, this is not a snake.

It is an insect.

The black guy’s eyes were the compound eyes of an insect, and the mouth that bit off the host’s arm was shaped like an insect’s jaw.

“What the fuck is this?”

Disillusioned with this bizarre series of shocking events, I slapped the insect on the head.

At that moment, something rolled out of the corner of his mouth inside the shape of his tongs.

“Eh?”

That object is a stone.

A stone fell from the corner of his mouth, a ridiculous item that doubled water attributes and increased affinity enough to make ordinary people without special abilities look like superpowers.

“Kiik-! Kiik!”

As if he had strong vitality, when he suddenly dropped a stone, he went on a rampage and clattered his mouth to pick it up again.

“Fuck-!”

After I pushed him away with my fist, I thought as I looked at the pebbles on the floor.

Could this be the reason why I ran into the moderator in the first place?

It’s pretty credible.

These fiends resemble stones and fish with water-related abilities.

The related things in the middle do not come to mind, but it is clear that they are somehow related within this ‘world’.

“Hmm…”

I glanced around.

All the participants have left the black market, and the only person inside is the guard.

And all the guards are busy dealing with those fish people.

Then…

Sneak

I took out a stone and put it in my inventory.

It’s not because I want to have this stone.

It’s just that I don’t know what kind of disaster will happen if I, the player, don’t have this stone that has a bad effect.

Yeah that’s all

Stung by my conscience, I looked around and made eye contact with the chairman, and the chairman smiled brightly as if affirming me and nodded his head.

Cancer, the good president acknowledged it, so this is not a crime.

It will.