How to Survive as a Player Chapter 114

#114

The afterimage of the past disappeared along with the foam after those last words. Now is the time to unfold your crouching body. The king who lost his country let out a long roar.

Cooung-

When I stretched out my crouched legs and waded through the deep black water, the frog man was standing on the charred deck where the fire was rising again.

And in front of him was Sehyeon, who looked very small. The brilliant light was still protecting him. His previously invisible expression was now clearly visible. Eyes wet with tears.

The frog man blinked his black eyes, then tilted his neck and let out a long roar. It was a roar so great that it made the world cry.

Gooooooooo-!!

He was reborn with a shell that could not be pierced by any weapon or skill.

Cooung-

A huge rake came crashing down on the deck. Everyone standing on the deck was confused by the cooing sound and stepped back. Park Seung-gun’s expression was cruelly distorted. Even the mighty magic bullet had no power in front of the steel shell and bounced off.

“Second, the gun… .”

With one huge claw, the enemies holding magic guns were blown away as if blown by the wind and fell to the outer wall of the ship. It was so fast that even hand gestures were not visible.

Park Seung-gun, who was watching this, quickly turned his back and began to run away into the ship. The others were not much different. The frog man just watched in silence as he ran away in a hurry.

And when everyone on deck disappeared, the frog man turned around. The place where I gently touched his hand was where Sehyeon was.

He looked down at Sehyeon with deep eyes. He didn’t move at all. However, when Se-hyeon took a step closer, the frog man bowed his head in front of him.

“Mr. Gagul… Is that correct… ?”

[Grog.]

Sehyeon’s red wet eyes shook. The huge head was stuck close to the ground. As if asking to be petted.

Sehyun wiped her tears with her sleeve and slowly walked over to her and started stroking the hard outer layer. Once, twice, and so on, upon the third contact, countless afterimages began to pass by, just like in the past.

Sehyun read the afterimage slowly, little by little.

What appeared in my tearful vision was a pond that had burned down. No, it was an empire. The frog man was looking at the devastated place with a devastated look.

There wasn’t even a body left. His vision sank and the frog man cried endlessly. It was the end of a king who survived alone.

It was after that that I stopped being able to ‘speak’.

From then on, he started wandering the world. He wandered around the white space, looking for a suitable place and trying to establish an empire again.

<If the Archduke dies… A defeated empire cannot be reestablished.>

I repeatedly turned around after receiving sad words. After countless nights filled with tears, he happened to meet the king of the cavalry empire while wandering around.

The King of the Cavalry Empire extended his hand to him because he was weak.

‘Would you like to come with me?’

She had warm, noble eyes and accepted the frog man as her resident. She was warm in her own way, she thought. However, the place where she was was a battlefield where countless disregard and contempt took place.

The frog man had no choice but to become smaller due to the countless pointing of fingers. I was cut a lot by a shapeless knife.

[Tsk, are you harvesting and growing something like that? The cavalry empire is also out of luck.]

[If they are that low, they must be serving the cavalry empire.]

[I heard that the empire collapsed and they lost their horses… It’s not just a useless animal. Huh, what kind of aphasia do animals have, tsk.]

The frog man always had to walk around with his shoulders slumped. The only place she could be was in a small corner.

The afterimage passed by like the wind and led to my first meeting with Sehyeon. A man with gray hair came into my wide and low field of view. Even the sight of them eating and taking away snacks that no one else had even touched.

‘sorry. You can go. And I enjoyed the snacks.’

Kind words and warm touches that no one had ever given me.

‘Thank you, I will really enjoy it. ‘Do you like feathers?’

It was the first gift I ever received. The frog man liked the direct gaze he gave her, and she still remembered the warm touch of his hand.

The feeling of the cold rain becoming warm was conveyed through my emotions.

The faint heat felt beneath the hard skin whispered gratitude. The man thanked her for everything, and went around the white space again to repay her. Until the last moment, she wanted to express her gratitude.

I’ve been waiting for Sehyun for a long time.

The afterimage slowly flowed until I came here. A little while ago, when he sacrificed his life and used skills to save Sehyeon.

He knew that his powerlessness was a hindrance. He hoped that Se-hyeon would abandon him here, and he hoped that he would get out safely.

And he hoped that his sacrifice would be the last means of repaying the favor.

Like a parabola spreading across the surface of the water, the afterimage disappeared in a wave. When Sehyeon opened his eyes, the frog man had become smaller. Sehyun sat still and hugged his limp body tightly.

“now… That thought… .”

His tightly closed eyes did not move even a little, but his strong pulse remained in his chest. He didn’t die.

“Even if you don’t… It’s possible.”

The tears streaming down my cheeks were as hot as the flames surrounding me. At the end of my vision, blurred by tears, I could see the charred edge of the deck. The scorching gradually grew bigger. When the frighteningly large scorch stopped, Sehyeon realized that it was a shadow.

The shadows that covered the deck conveyed a coolness that was different from the heat. Sehyeon’s eyes slowly looked up into the sky.

Beyond the deck, the sky is exceptionally blue.

In the pure white sky, there were four huge air fleets blocking the view. There were also countless Celestial Races flapping their wings in the sunlight.

Each time they flapped their wings, the feathers fluttered around. When one of them landed on the edge of the deck with the wind, Sehyeon could see black, straight wings spread out like a border in the sky.

Jet-black wings that are darker than a shadow and larger than an airship.

Each time the ridge-like wings flapped, the sounds gradually died out. There was only one thing I could see and hear.

Sehyeon’s eyes became distorted little by little. Light spread before my eyes, and everything became crushed and blurred. Before I realized it, the tears I shed were soaking my cheeks.

Relief, anxiety, and the adversity I had experienced all came flooding back to me all at once. When Sehyun bit his lips tightly as if to drown out the rising emotions, she felt the warmth of wings wrapping around her back.

The hand that tightly hugged and pulled was different from the cold days of the past. A strong hand grabbed Sehyeon’s neck and head and made her rest on his strong shoulder.

Sehyeon cried endlessly in his warm arms. A sob escaped from my tightly clenched lips. It was as if the dam of emotions I had been holding in had finally burst and started pouring out.

Those days of anxiety. Although he pretended to be resolute, it was actually Sehyun who was more anxious than anyone else. The weakness that could not be shown has finally reared its head.

Sehyeon grabbed Ruhak’s clothes, buried her face in his broad shoulder, and cried as if she was going to collapse. Perhaps that was why the voice that passed by my ear was faint.

“me… .”

It was a bitter voice. The strong arms that pulled her thin waist tightly hugged Sehyun, who was trembling in sadness, deeply. Her wounded wings were covered with black wings, not even allowing the searing heat from outside.

The distant voice spread again in a space where even the air seemed to have become thin.

“… “Never forgive.”

Starting with that voice, black figures began to appear one by one around Ruhak along with a banging sound. The people who crashed down and landed in the deep sky were twelve heroes.

The heroes stood in the hollow for a moment with their gazes downcast. The fingertips holding the weapons each turned white and were trembling.

And when the sunken gaze turned forward, devastating anger was etched on everyone’s faces. The life that I had been trying so hard to suppress came to mind in my black, dead eyes. Despair too.

Euncheong’s cold voice conveyed sadness and warning.

“… Remember. Everything we do from now on will not be slaughter. However, it must be more cruel than ever, and we must kill but not kill. never-“

The eyes, which had always been calm and righteous, were now twisted and wet with tears. But Euncheong never cried. She lifted her sword, engraving the sobs that echoed through her deck into her torn heart.

“Show them no mercy.”

We will save you in the most horrific way and prolong your life in the most cruel way. Heroes should never forget the pain of Lord, who had his wings torn off while alive.

Everyone remembered that moment when their blood ran cold. The hand that was scraping the floor until it bled, the sound of panting without even being able to scream, and even the sight of the whole body shaking while spitting out blood.

I hope this is the final tragedy.

Heroes hoped in sorrow. The steps forward were slow. However, when someone stepped on the debris lying on the deck and crushed it, the heroes began to escape the deck at breakneck speed, as if they were leaping. Instead of the heroes who disappeared with sobs on their backs, all that was left was the crackling remnants of ruins.

There was also sobbing that could not be stopped.

It wasn’t even the kind of crying that made you cry. It was the kind of tears that flowed as if they were being suppressed, held down, and barely released.

Ruhak’s eyes became heavy as he listened to the sobbing. What he felt at his fingertips was an ugly wound with twisted roots.