How to Survive as a Player Chapter 237

#237

“Mr. Baek Do-hyeon, is it possible to search the surroundings with <one-cheok-an>?”

With Baek Do-hyeon’s skill of being able to see through the essence of all things, it may be possible to explore beyond the darkness. Baek Do-hyeon nodded at Se-hyeon’s words and stepped forward. As Baek Do-hyeon stood at the edge of the road without a railing, the moment a white light appeared in his eyes, the air settled down.

When the chilly sound of waves filled the surroundings, Baek Do-hyeon stopped performing the skill and shook his head.

“It’s a narrow distance between skills, so I can’t tell the exact shape.”

“Are you saying there is something?”

“okay. There is something just beyond the range of vision in this direction. and… “There’s something in the sea, too.”

Baek Do-hyeon’s gaze, which was looking beyond the darkness, looked down at the sea covered with black water. The squinted eyes seemed to be looking at something disgusting.

“You don’t know what it is?”

“I do not know. However, in terms of numbers alone, there are about thousands of them.”

Everyone stiffened their backs as if they felt a chill at those words. The things teeming under the vast ocean made me imagine things that were difficult to fathom.

“Let me take a look. “It’s hard to get to the bottom of the ocean, but I think I can do it there.”

Hume, the Lord of the Ironbow Empire, took a step forward, picking up a huge bow. He took out a steel arrow from the quiver on his back, grabbed it, and stood where Baek Do-hyeon was looking.

“<Ink-colored mine>“

As the words spread out like a whisper, Hume pulled the bowstring until his back muscles tightened. The boiling temperature stayed at the tip of the arrow, and Hume gritted his teeth and put all his strength into his back foot.

Incredible prowess emanated from his body. As soon as there was a crackling sound when the floor was touched, the arrow cut through the darkness and was shot out with a booming sound.

Whiing-!

Sehyun bit her tail and watched the light shooting out persistently. The darkness cleared and the surrounding scenery began to come into view.

The blazing light illuminated the surroundings like the sun. It looked like a meteorite was spreading across the night sky. However, the light that was advancing was blocked by ‘something’ and exploded.

The bursting light did not oxidize as is, but instead scattered, shining like a constellation and surrounding the ‘something’ it collided with.

When the world of midnight sun came, only then was everyone able to confirm the reality of the ‘something’ that Baek Do-hyun said.

“goddess… award… ? What a goddess statue… .”

“Maybe that’s the corrupted goddess.”

Sehyun said as she looked at Baekgwang’s young world. Just out of sight, there was a statue of a goddess tilted and submerged in water. However, she was so large that her majesty could be felt even though she was far away.

The statue of the goddess, submerged up to her shoulders in the black water, looked like there were black spots here and there. She seemed to be asleep, exhausted from the harsh weather. The sad look with her eyes closed seemed as if she would be crushed by the strong waves at any moment.

The light that created the midnight sun soon gradually disappeared. However, just before the light disappeared, Sehyeon saw the goddess’ eyelids twitch.

Of course, I could have seen it wrong. Although it was a long distance and it was midnight, the view was not clear, so it was impossible to conclude that something had moved. However, the ominous feeling that had been aroused did not subside.

“… Mr. Hume, please ask me one more time. “I need to check something briefly.”

“I would also like to ask you a favor. “I hope I’m wrong, but I saw the goddess moving.”

Fan held opera glasses in his hand. Perhaps because he was looking at the statue of the goddess, his complexion was darker than anyone else’s.

Fan took out another opera glass from his inventory and placed it in Sehyeon’s hand.

“Sure.”

Hume answered willingly, took out a steel arrow again, hung it on the bowstring, and pulled hard. The arrow, filled with heat, spread rapidly through the darkness, making it impossible to see an inch ahead, accompanied by a strong sound.

As soon as the explosion occurred, Sehyun held up her opera glasses and looked towards the place where the statue of the goddess was. The scene that was so far away was now as clear as if seen up close. However, when the goddess’s face was captured in the glass, Sehyeon’s entire body stiffened.

It wasn’t just Sehyun. Everyone looking at the goddess froze in contemplation, looking no different from Sehyeon.

“!”

The bizarrely curved eyes and slit corners of the mouth are clearly visible even from afar.

The goddess was smiling. So hideous that it’s creepy. Her open eyes were completely black, regardless of the pupils and whites. It was so dark that she felt suffocated just by looking at it.

“Huh, all in a daze… “What are you doing?”

When Theo appeared, everyone was staring blankly at the place where the light had disappeared for a long time. As the cold silence disappeared, one by one they turned to Theo.

It was then that a faint singing voice rang out over the chilly sea.

Sehyeon frowned unconsciously at the sound of scratching his ears. The sound that spread like an echo and swept across the sea was strange and dreamy.

“Siren’s… “It’s like a song.”

It was only after someone muttered as if possessed that I realized that the surroundings were extremely quiet. The song was a sound coming from the goddess.

“Step back.”

“Brother, come here!”

“Fall back!”

The voices came all at once. Sehyeon was grabbed by Lee Jaeyoung’s hand and almost pulled backwards. Everyone looked around in a fighting stance, as if they had sensed something.

The quiet darkness lasted for a moment, and the sound of lapping waves began to pass by my ears. The sound became frighteningly loud as the surface of the sea began to swell.

Se-hyeon suddenly remembered something that Baek Do-hyun had mentioned earlier about the ‘thousands’ of animals submerged in the sea. Something that seemed to be drawn to the sound of singing was rising one by one from the surface of the sea.

It was a shadow the same height as the tower. While there were dozens, then hundreds, everyone gathered in one place with their backs to each other. The strange singing voice stopped being heard at some point.

Someone swallowed heavily. It had to be that way.

In front of everyone with their backs to each other, there were thousands of shadows surrounding the tower. The shape was like a snake, and the monster’s shiny eyes were full of life, as if they were ready to bite at any moment.

“… “I think I should step down for now. What do you guys think?”

A small, muffled voice echoed among the group. It was a fan. Li Jeong’s voice followed immediately after that.

“There is no guarantee that you can survive even if you enter the tower. It might be better to just fight than to show your back.”

“When I used Ilcheokan earlier, the refreshing energy of the goddess still remained in the tower. “We’ll have to try, but it’s highly likely that the tower is the only safe area.”

Everyone looked at the entrance of the tower with hopeful eyes at Baek Do-hyeon’s words.

“… I’ll use the protection skill, so everyone run and enter the tower. “I tell you, Tyra should go in first.”

Everyone responded to Theo’s threats with silence. Then he slowly lowered his body and prepared to run to the entrance of the tower.

“<Cheolongseong>!!”

The shout erupted without warning. As expected, as soon as someone made a move, thousands of monsters floating on the surface of the sea opened their mouths and began to attack like a swarm of bees. What blocked the way for the monsters rushing in with the sound of a scream was a huge iron wall rising above the clearing.

No empire in Elix could break the <Iron Fortress> of the Protecting Empire. It was the same for Sehyun. Although the Defense Empire had weak attack skills, it boasted Elix’s strongest defense skills. The reason he was able to rank 6th in the empire rankings was thanks to his defense ability that no one could penetrate.

That’s why everyone was able to run behind him. The person most likely to live here was no one but Theo.

Theo quickly made his move only after everyone entered the tower. Only after he narrowly escaped the monster’s bite and slipped into the tower did the monsters’ swarm-like movements stop.

As Baek Do-hyeon said, the inside of the tower was a safe zone.

“That’s Apophis.”

“Rather, it is Leviathan.”

“Wouldn’t that be something you can eat in the Monster Empire? If you eat 300 in the morning, 500 at lunch, and 300 in the evening over the course of two days, I think you’ll be wiped out… .”

Lee Jae-young was immediately disgusted by Lee Jeong’s words.

“Wow, that thing is too big! You eat first and then speak! And how can you eat three hundred, you little pig!”

“I don’t know why you screamed in my ear? Huh, really… The wolf cub is very naughty. Isn’t that right, Tyra?”

“Theo, I don’t think this is the time to fight, right?”

Of these, the only serious ones were Sehyeon, Fan, and Baluk, who were currently head to head.

“What we need to find is the uncontaminated self of the goddess. But, when the midnight sun came by earlier, she looked around through her opera glasses, and there was nothing to step on.”

“Isn’t it possible that the intact self remains in the contaminated goddess?”

“Even so, if there is no way to approach the contaminated goddess, it would be impossible to contact her. The only person who can fly here is Tira, but the person who really has to go is Baek Do-hyeon. Baek Do-hyeon must contact her directly to perhaps be able to speak to the goddess’s self.”

Fan and Baluk’s gaze was fixed on Sehyeon’s wings. If I were to translate it literally, it was an expression that asked why you can’t come out, but Sehyun didn’t feel like answering, so he just passed it on.

It was around that time that Ryoma, who had been sitting quietly listening to Sehyun’s story, spoke up.