How to Survive as a Player Chapter 241

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It was dark with no sense of direction. I was out of breath from primal fear, and the pulse of my entire body was shaking at the afterimages of the monsters wandering around me. The body sank downwards along with the water that was swallowed without mercy.

Every time I struggled to survive, what I touched was the skin of the monsters, wriggling like cells. Tangled and twisted bodies filled the sea. Every time something touched his fingertips, Sehyun started shaking his hands and feet as if he was fed up.

Perhaps because of the thin air, nervousness and impatience rushed in along with the salty water. After struggling desperately for a moment, Sehyun felt his fingertips stiffen as if frozen by the cold. It felt like his hands and feet were tied by something and he couldn’t move properly.

My panicked mind was filled with warnings. As soon as she realized this, her instinct to live took over. Se-hyeon took out an arrow as soon as possible in his absent mind and caught it.

I had to get out of this, not knowing when it would work.

Se-hyeon gathered his fingertips, which were trembling with fear, and powerfully drove an arrow wrapped with <Purification’s Fall> into the body of the huge monster in front of him. I could feel hot blood pouring through the scales where the arrow had pierced.

A terrible scream echoed overhead. It was like a sound wave. The monster immediately began to struggle fiercely through the sea. He twisted his body through the current, hitting it here and there as if trying to shake off his pain.

Sehyeon grabbed the arrow and endured the angry struggle. However, on the way, he collided with another monster’s body as if he was being crushed and fell down as if he had fainted. Something hot rose up in my throat and I vomited. It was a lump of blood.

The stiff body sank deeply into the black water. My vision also blinked. Perhaps because she was out of her mind, her mind felt like it was submerged in water. The spirit I had been holding on to was slowly disintegrating, as if it had been dissolved in water.

Suddenly, it was as if I saw a faint light in the dark abyss. Sehyun struggled to follow the light through her blurred vision. It wasn’t an illusion. The light was brilliant and swayed like a wave. It was a dark and deep place. The light shaking the body with all its might seemed to announce something.

At that moment, when he thought he saw a figure through the light, a monster with its mouth wide open jumped out in front of Sehyeon from the dark space.

Wedge-

The afterimage of the ferocious charging monster shook as if it had spread on water. Sehyun gritted his teeth and struggled with his hand to get out of the situation. However, his fingertips became stiff and his mind gradually drifted away. The monster’s mouth was already pushing Sehyeon’s body into its mouth.

I was on the verge of being trapped in a pitch-black world. Between the monster’s closed mouth, someone strongly wrapped Sehyun’s waist and pulled her. After that, there was a huge sound of something crashing.

[Mr. Sehyun!]

Before my blurry eyes, there was someone holding Sehyun’s cheek and examining her. As soon as he saw Se-hyeon’s helpless, limp state, he started wading through the water at a frightening speed.

Clap!

Then he broke the surface, jumped somewhere, and landed.

“Mr. Aul, please take care of people around me!”

[Grog!]

He laid down the limp Se-hyeon and immediately began to press down on Se-hyeon’s chest with both hands. After securing his airway and performing artificial respiration twice, a large amount of water mixed with blood came out of Se-hyeon’s mouth along with a harsh cough.

“Call, Cough! Haak, crane… !”

“Sehyun, are you okay?! “Just lie on your side, it’s better.”

The coughing stopped after a while. Only then did Sehyun look up at the person rubbing his back. A strong figure with blue skin and tight muscles. And the huge shark fin protruding from the back made it possible to identify who it was.

He was Kwak Jeong-han. And the huge creature that carried Se-hyun and Kwak Jeong-han was Owl, covered in silver steel.

“Mr. Kwak Jeong-han… I can see it all here… .”

“I’m sorry, Sehyun. It took quite some time to open the door, so we were quite late. “I’m always late.”

“No, lol… . That’s Kwak Jeong-han’s fault… .”

“brother! “Hyung, are you okay?!”

Se-hyeon and Kwak Jeong-han’s heads turned to the side at the same time. There, everyone there seemed quite surprised by Owl’s appearance, standing on the floating ice and glaring with blank expressions.

Jaeyoung Lee stood between them with his whole body held together. He must have been crying so hard, and his watery eyes were bright red.

“Brother, cold… It’s okay, Jaeyoung.”

At Se-hyeon’s words, Lee Jae-young sat down with a look of weakness. A short sigh of relief flowed from Jaeyoung Lee’s mouth. His crying face was pitiful and apologetic. But soon, a scene flashed through Sehyeon’s mind like a scorching fire.

It was like a fan falling into the sea together. Sehyeon quickly turned his head. He wasn’t there. I checked Owl’s back just in case, but he wasn’t there.

“… What about Mr. Fenn? As for Mr. Fenn… !”

We fell into the water together. I couldn’t remember the shape of the fan I saw the moment it fell. No, she only remembered struggling to live alone. Se-hyeon’s slightly trembling eyes turned to Kwak Jeong-han.

“Mr. Fan… Mr. Fen is still in the water!”

“I know. “If it’s Mr. Fen, someone has already gone to rescue you, so you don’t have to worry.”

Calm words cleared up my jumbled brain. Sehyeon, who was breathing heavily, lowered his gaze and looked below the surface of the water. The shadows of the hideous, writhing monsters were like tangled threads. After the song, all the monsters did not appear on the surface of the water.

So it was more dangerous. Because it’s not at a level where you can see it and avoid it.

“He is just as strong in water as I am.”

The sharp eyes conveyed relief. At the same time, the sound of sparks was heard from somewhere. Sehyeon saw dozens of rays of light extending out like threads in the sea.

When the shape that stretched out like thin ice flashed like a flicker, a noise that tore the world apart came from under the sea.

It was a thunderbolt. Lightning spread out in dozens or hundreds of directions under the sea, as if taking control of the entire sea. Beneath the churning sea, monsters writhed and writhed in pain.

As the lightning disappeared into a faint afterimage, a large number of monster corpses appeared on the surface of the water. The number was easily dozens.

While everyone was watching the scene in fascination, someone jumped out of the sea and landed on Owl’s back. A limp fan was lifted and carried on his shoulder.

“Tsk! Oh, they attack you like that. Yeomso, I saved it.”

An arrogant man with a harsh tone and a firm chin approached Sehyeon with a calm expression. He was Lord Numan of the Heavenly Ancient Empire, whom I had only seen in passing before coming here.

Now I understand what Kwak Jeong-han said about being strong in water. Numan was the only empire among the top 50 that could use the ‘Thunder attribute’ skill.

“… Even Mr. Numan… “Are you here?”

“Do you have any complaints? “If I can’t come because I’m scared of something like this, where will I live?”

Numan snorted wetly and placed the fan on his shoulder next to Sehyeon. Fan’s appearance was not as good as she thought. Numan rolled up the hem of her skirt with a confused expression.

“By the time I rescued him, he had already been bitten once.”

Fen’s face was pale, with his eyes closed as if he were dead. One side of his body was torn horribly. All of the limbs that had been horribly torn off were mechanical, but the organs were different.

It was the only part of his body that was not a machine. The blood flowing out from the horribly bitten heart and lungs mixed with the oil leaking from the machine and dripped onto the floor.

“… Mr. Fen.”

Sehyun stretched out her hand to Fen’s face. He was excessively pale. As if he was going to die soon.

“… Mr. Fen. Wake up, Mr. Fan… . Mr. Fen!”

Sehyeon immediately took out a potion from his inventory, drank it, and cast a skill.

“<Will to Heal>“

[Skill cannot be cast due to low will.]

My lips were bitten tightly in anger that had nowhere to go. Sehyun suppressed the mounting confusion and took several deep breaths while holding on to Fan’s free hand. As she calmed herself down and her mind was pushed to its limit, her breathing gradually cleared up.

And while holding Fan’s hand tightly, Sehyun whispered the skill again.

‘<Will to Heal>’

[<Healing Will> cannot be used due to a skill conflict with the target.]

This time too, the skill was not cast. Sehyun’s wide-open gaze turned to Fan’s face. Skill conflict. The faint sound of breathing aroused an eerie feeling of anxiety.

The siren’s song began to sound again in the open sea. One by one, she raised her head in silence and looked somewhere. Black tears pouring down the goddess’ cheeks splashed by the waves. The goddess was singing her sorrow with a pitiful and bitter expression.

It was like a song praising wailing.

***

[Mr. Fen! Can you hear me?! Come to your senses! Instead of rejecting it, accept it!]

All of the road players looked at the sight of doom-predicting destruction with their heads raised in the white space where the guides were. The silence was gloomy. Some people closed their eyes in despair.

Everyone seemed to have a premonition of the end.

“… “It’s over.”

“Without an engineering empire… “The battle ahead will be difficult.”

When an empire falls and dies, the products it left behind are erased from Elix without a trace. This was the reason why the entire empire implicitly did not regard the Engineering Empire as its enemy. The moment Fen dies, all the work he left behind will disappear. Also unfair.

In that case, Elix would lose his greatest means of fighting the gigantic enemy. It wasn’t just the players’ lives that were at stake in this fight.

This was nothing short of a test to see if there was any possibility of fighting ‘Beusbrihel’.

And many players saw the recklessness of that possibility in Fan’s death. The possibility of establishing a faint framework was only a torture of hope. The castle that I thought was solidly built was actually a sloppily built Jenga. Even if you pick just ‘one’, the excellent tree collapses.

And currently, that ‘one’ was the fan.