How to Survive as a Player Chapter 14

#14

“Do you think why I put you in the Magic Stone Clan?”

“Because there is a pulpit.”

“I did it because I seemed to know more than others. You think it’s just you, right? Even the little guy is formidable. He’s been accusing me of being an ancient combat type, but he doesn’t even say that he was the type of person who would listen to what I said. Because people who know at least one more thing live better! That’s it, you bastard! But the guy who knows it says he’s about to invite death. Should I just say yes and let him go? “Stop talking nonsense and go train.”

“Did you at least have some affection?”

“You said something like that and fell asleep. If you die too, there will be no one to send Magic Stone! And you son of a bitch, you don’t deserve to die. “If you knew, get out of here.”

After saying those words, Gapjun Kim got up from his seat and turned his back as if he didn’t want to see anything. The strong shoulders that stood behind him looked heavy, as if they were carrying a lot of burden.

Sehyun also gave up on the conversation and stood up.

“I’ll go.”

Gapjun Kim didn’t even accept those words. As he came out of the village chief’s house, the bright blue sky filled his vision. The area around the village was full of fog, but it was a strange sight with only the sky over the village open. It’s a shame that you can see the sky even during the day, but at night, it’s covered in fog and looks like you’re trapped in a dome.

After a while, Sehyun lowered her gaze with a sigh. As soon as I looked down, a familiar doll wandering in front of the training center caught my eye. Since it was not a very large village, I could feel people looking in this direction. An expression that looks like a frown.

They were Lee Jae-young and Kwak Jeong-han, a child who had not yet grown up and a large man with fins on his back. It was still a long time before afternoon. Sehyeon stretched out his feet toward them as the hot sun hit them.

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The return of the second group of magic stones was around the time when the bright red sky turned dark. It was also the time when people who were tired of waiting for Maseokjo began to prepare dinner with expressions on their faces.

When everyone was crouching down in silence and covering their faces in despondency, people came limping from the entrance to the village.

Five people standing where I turned around with someone shouting. Residents who saw them couldn’t hide their sadness and shed tears. I cried on behalf of their hard work and ran to hug them, saying I was proud of them.

In the midst of so many people, Sehyun stood still and looked at the 2nd group of Maseok who had returned safely. They stood supporting each other.

Actually, it wasn’t safe. It looked so disorganized that you wondered if any part of it was intact, and the clothes were tattered and covered in blood. Two of them had broken legs and could not even set foot on the ground. However, their eyes were filled with a sense of accomplishment rather than fear.

Their resolute appearance gave everyone hope. It instilled in me the will to stand up and created an indicator for moving forward.

When I saw Baek Do-hyun standing relatively well compared to others, I realized that my worries were unfounded. Everyone seemed to have different spirits, as if they had leveled up within the tower.

Sehyeon turned his head and looked at the village chief’s house. Kim Gap-jun, who had been dragged out by the commotion, stood there with a dazed expression, holding on to the railing. Even without guessing, I knew he was looking at the members of Group 2.

Kim Gap-jun went in right away, but Se-hyeon saw him wiping his eyes with his sleeve before entering.

The dinner was held in a festive atmosphere. It was a light atmosphere that I hadn’t seen in a long time. Everyone was so excited that they made a meal, and Maseok Group 2 was given all the steamed crabs they had left over from breakfast.

While the meal was being prepared, those who were injured received treatment from an auxiliary woman with healing skills and recovered to the point where they could move on their own to some extent.

Baek Do-hyun was no different. The problem is that as soon as he recovered, he came to Se-hyeon’s place, holding a bunch of crabs and ignoring people’s greetings. As soon as they saw the crab, Lee Jae-young and Kwak Jeong-han’s faces became noticeably distorted.

“You’ve had a good life.”

“Isn’t this a bit too much?”

“I can’t eat?”

“You can’t eat it? why?”

Baek Do-hyeon, who was placing a crab on a clean leaf, suddenly stopped his actions and turned to look at Se-hyeon. It looked like they were going to kill me if I answered one wrong thing. Sehyun shrugged his shoulders and spoke in the same voice as in the morning.

“Shellfish allergy.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Baek Do-hyeon’s face crumpled. However, he also started looking Sehyun up and down for a moment, and his eyes were so pitiful that he was about to die.

Why, what?

“You eat a lot, right? No, Jaeyoung. Eat some of this. “Kwak Jeong-han, please eat some too.”

“Don’t touch me. “I’m going to eat it all.”

“Will you make some concessions?”

“It’s okay, bro. “f*ck the barbarian.”

“It’s okay for me too. Someone who came back from the dead should eat it. “You must be feeling low energy.”

They ate it well in the morning, but now, probably because they were full, Lee Jae-young and Kwak Jeong-han looked at Baek Do-hyeon as if they were some kind of uncivilized race and refused. Baek Do-hyeon’s eyebrows twitched at the sight.

“uh? “Does that look like a fish?”

“This is the fish I caught earlier. Sehyun, would you like some meat?”

“I’ll get it! Wait, bro.”

Lee Jae-young quickly got up and ran quickly to the place where a line was starting to form. As Se-hyeon was silently shocked by that agile movement, Baek Do-hyeon’s voice was heard from next to him.

“See you later.”

“when.”

“Before go to bed.”

“Sure, whatever.”

I was already planning to call Baek Do-hyeon first. It wasn’t anything else, it was because I wanted to ask him for something.

“If possible, how about a training camp?”

“I saw you doing it.”

As soon as the topic of training camp came up, Baek Do-hyun reached out for the crab that he had not even touched. I picked up one of his legs, broke the joints in the hard carapace, and pulled it out, releasing the flesh. As I watched him put it in his mouth and chew it, I got the strong feeling that he was eating it for survival rather than for the taste. In reality, Baek Do-hyun’s expression did not change even slightly while chewing.

“brother! “I brought you the plumpest one.”

From a distance, I saw Lee Jae-young running with a large fish on a plate. As I said, it was a plump fish like chicken. Since he was also hungry, Se-hyeon divided it into three parts and shared them with Lee Jae-young and Kwak Jeong-han.

Baek Do-hyeon seemed a bit expectant, but when he realized it, all that was left was the fish head and the half-eaten meat, so that was all he had to give. Of course, Baek Do-hyun refused the head with an annoyed expression, and in the end, he had to chew on crab the whole time.

The dinner we enjoyed as if there was no tomorrow was finally finished after a long time. Everyone knew that it was because they didn’t want to escape the afterglow of today. Still, as night came and the fog thickened, everyone began to go to their lodgings.

And when the rest of the cleanup was finished and the village became quiet, Sehyun quietly crawled out of the dorm. Leaving Lee Jae-young, who had fallen asleep, in the care of Kwak Jeong-han, he crept out and could vaguely see Baek Do-hyeon waiting in front of the training center holding a sword through the fog.

As soon as Sehyeon came down from the cabin, he ran towards there in one step.

“Leave the kid alone?”

“Because it’s a kid.”

Baek Do-hyun had a somewhat disapproving expression, but did not open his mouth any further. He simply pointed to the training center with his chin and ordered us to enter.

Unlike yesterday, there was no one at the training camp. I had familiarized myself with the faces of the 3rd group of magic stones that I would meet tomorrow by looking at them from time to time, but there was no tree that could become as good as the people of the 2nd group. It was intuition and instinct.

“I will tell you in advance, if you can awaken, it would be better to do it today.”

“I guess Mr. Baek Do-hyun has awakened?”

It was said with the meaning of asking where to place instruction, but Baek Do-hyun neither confirmed nor denied those words. The more so, the closer the answer was usually positive.

“… “It looks like you’ve awakened.”

“I couldn’t help it. “If I hadn’t done it, I would have really died.”

“When did you do it?”

“Inside the tower.”

That means it was urgent. Se-hyeon was quietly looking at the ground, and when Baek Do-hyeon came closer, he raised his gaze and looked at him. The calm eyes revealed between the sharp eyes had a different color than yesterday. You wouldn’t know it at first glance, but if you were this close, you could tell them apart.

However, his appearance didn’t seem to have changed at all, so Sehyun had to look at him as if scanning him.

“It looks… “It seems like it.”

“Because I am telepathizing people.”

“So I got caught too?”

“okay.”

“It’s scary… .”

Sehyun just smiled bitterly. Of course, he didn’t reveal his awakening to Sehyeon or anyone else. Sehyun was just guessing by looking at the cross section.

Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had been tricked.

“I don’t have anything to say to each other either, but… It would be best not to say something like that anywhere. “If you don’t want to get hit.”

“Like what. Losing your wits? Or are you telling me to wake up? “If it’s the former, I’d like to tell you it’s true.”

“Oh, yes. I don’t really want to know. “When you’re done talking, let’s go.”

It was a fact that was not good to know. Sehyeon turned his body and walked back the way he came. But as soon as he took a step, he had to be recaptured.

“Do you know that the empire makes one request to the king?”