How to Survive as a Player Chapter 252

#252

There was not a single candle lit in the dark room. As I walked down the dark road, a large hand approached me. Without saying a word, Ruhak stroked Sehyeon’s cheek, pulled the back of his neck, and held him in his arms.

“… “Everyone was speechless.”

That was the case with all the retainers I met during the day. Without saying a word, he just looked at Sehyun or hugged her with a sad expression and then let go. There were no words exchanged during the process.

“I guess they also needed time to organize their thoughts.”

It will happen. Isn’t this the end you’ve been waiting for? No matter what the outcome of the world is, for the vassals, tonight is the last night to escape from the bondage of eons. I couldn’t help but have deep thoughts.

And it was the same for Ruhak.

“… do not die. “I can’t live if you die.”

Her calm voice was mixed with trembling. As soon as she could speak, a thick hand came under her chin and lifted her head up. And with a humid sigh, our lips touched.

As soon as the tongues that parted the lips and became entangled, the sound of the string fastening the back of the neck being ripped off was heard. A cold hand came through my open clothes, languidly stroking the back of my neck.

“under… .”

Now, just touching his fingertips made my vision dizzy. Sehyeon, who was blinking with blurred vision, suddenly realized that his toes were on the verge of danger. As soon as she started shaking in surprise, Sehyun’s body was pulled up close by thick arms. For a moment, his breath caught and he flinched, and the surrounding scenery began to pass by.

As you can hear, the place where I was hugged was inside the bathroom. The spacious bathtub was already filled with hot water. The bodies of the two people, with their clothes still on, were splashed into the water.

“Ha, ha… .”

The tongue scratched the tip and reached all the way inside the mouth in an instant. Her shoulder was already hurting. Sehyeon pushed Ruhak’s shoulder with a trembling hand.

“a little bit… slowly… .”

It was a fierce and hasty act. My mouth throbbed as my tongue tangled with no time to breathe, and my shoulders trembled as a hand touched my wing feathers. A hand dug into the back of my neck, groping along the nape of my neck.

As soon as their lips parted and their heavy breaths were released, Sehyeon buried her head on Ruhak’s shoulder and cooed. Ruhak kissed Se-hyeon’s newly red ear, caressing her back as if it were shaking from her coughing.

And he whispered lowly in a murky voice.

“Relax.”

Sehyeon’s back stiffened in shock. While his body was shaking due to coughing, his wings stiffened and stood sharp. As the huge black wings spread out and swept the surface of the wings as if stroking, a chilling sensation spread across my back.

Sehyeon leaned on Ruhak’s shoulder, and Field exhaled and stretched his body languidly. He closed his eyes and felt the strong feathers brushing the outer surface of his wings becoming entangled between them.

My body was shaking. It felt like a body ache-like sensation was running down my spine. Between them, I could clearly feel the wing feathers slowly digging in.

“Well… .”

In an instant, a hot pain surged into my throat. Letting out a trembling breath, Sehyun placed her fingertips on Ruhak’s clothes. My vision blinked. Ruhak kissed Sehyun’s shoulder, which was shrinking, several times as if to comfort her.

The sensitive feeling turned into a drowsy feeling of helplessness when Ruhak’s wing feathers were deeply buried where the nerves were. Several times, the heat reached the point where his eyes were crushed.

My eyes, blurred by the heat, shook as if tilting. Sehyeon’s body was pulled closer into Ruhak’s arms as a hand hugged her back tightly.

“… Haha… .”

A sound that I couldn’t tell whether it was a moan or a sob rang in the humid air. Ruhak found Sehyeon’s lips and kissed her every time she lowered her head helplessly. And he woke Sehyeon up with a raspy voice.

There were only faint words. However, there were words among them that were clearly heard.

“You will not die… “Don’t worry.”

At the low whispering voice, Sehyeon stretched out her arms and hugged Ruhak tightly. Ruhak also hugged Sehyun’s back tightly. The beating heartbeat of their contact made his fingertips tremble. Sehyeon slowly closed his eyes while listening to the sound.

As I took a long breath, it began to crumble before my eyes. It was a night when she didn’t even know when she fell asleep. The last thing Sehyun remembered was her shoulders shaking from the chill of the cold water.

When I opened my eyes again in Ruhak’s arms, the world had already been colored by dawn.

***

Contrary to what I expected, the world of the Tower of Test, the hundredth floor, was a distant space with nothing in it. It was like a place with guides. It was a vast, distant place stretching like the horizon, with no sense of distance in any direction.

Sehyeon walked through that endless space, leading the princes along with the top 10 empires. This time, unusual people were also present.

“I didn’t know you could get out of there?”

[The reason our guides were in ‘that space’ was to minimize the consumption of power. Now that the final battle is approaching, there is no longer any reason to be there, so I came out to see the end together with you all.]

“For that reason, the number of people seems to be a little small. Where are the rest?”

[The remaining guides are currently holding the barrier outside. Since you don’t know what the barrier will be like in the aftermath of Mugu, there’s no harm in being prepared.]

Bilwill answered while looking into the distance. A glimpse of the rising sunlight passed through Bilwill’s narrowed eyes. Sehyeon followed the light and turned her head to where Billwill’s eyes were. At the end of Billwill’s line of sight was an altar.

The altar placed between the silver horizons looked like it had been worn for a long time. Sunlight shimmered on something stuck in the ruins.

[This is an ‘armor’ made by our mother, ‘Lyzebuia’, with her own blood and bones. Picking that one is the final journey of achievement.]

It was a pure white harpoon-shaped weapon that was stuck at an angle on the altar. It looked similar to the giant harpoon seen in the Imperium of Imperium, but was so small that it could not be compared to it. At most, it was about the size of a long sword.

Nevertheless, Sehyun felt overwhelmed. He felt like he was facing the sun. With each step he took, his skin felt like it was burning and every bone throbbed.

It wasn’t just Se-hyun, the faces of the top 10 imperial Lords standing around also had stiff expressions. Everyone stepped forward with strength on their toes.

It was the final moment toward achievement. The moment you pull out the weapon, Elix’s history will change. The trigger should have been pulled from the moment I set foot here. There are only 12 hours left.

“… Ruhak.”

Soon after I felt a silent gesture of recognition behind me, a broad back passed Sehyun and headed forward. In order to obtain a weapon, a U-grade vassal, that is, a vassal who has been awakened to ‘Junior Grade’, was required.

Ruhak walked the path that everyone found difficult without wavering. Suddenly, a wind began to blow in the quiet space.

As Ruhak moved towards Mugu, the wind grew stronger. Sehyeon raised his arm to block the wind and looked for Ruhak’s back with narrowed eyes. Beyond the wildly shaking black wings, I could see a solid hand reaching out toward the mug.

“What kind of wind is this… !”

The wind was so violent that it dragged my toes. Ruhak’s fingertips also waved helplessly. However, when Ruhak’s outstretched hand grasped the weapon, a flash of light so brilliant that it engulfed the distant space erupted around the altar.

The light was so dazzling that the world burned white. After that, silence came. A floating, unfamiliar sensation took over my entire body.

When I realized the light was fading and opened my eyes, everyone was looking down at something, not in front of the altar, but floating high in the sky.

That was the image of a planet being swallowed up by ‘Beusbrihel’. The sight of the planet’s people being slaughtered while fighting against hundreds of millions of monsters swarming in droves was vividly recreated before my eyes. I don’t know which planet it is. The planetary people had an appearance they had never seen before.

Every moment was miserable and cruel. The remnants of the defeated soldiers who had already fallen and cried and the soldiers who fought fiercely to protect their hometown until the very end shimmered in bright red flames and disappeared into ashes.

The darkness of ‘Beusbrihel’ swallowed everything. It cruelly ate up not only the mountains and fields, but also all living creatures on the planet, and in the past, even the planet was swallowed up without a trace.

And when everything disappeared, ‘Beusbrihel’ became dark and wandered again in search of another planet.

There were dozens of destructions that I only glimpsed. There were many planets that were swallowed overnight without even realizing it.

In it, there were also the deaths of the gods who fought to stop ‘Beusbrihel’. The gods fighting desperately were not much different from the players fighting today.

The guides here, including Bill Will, were all fighting with all their might, risking their lives.

The harsh afterimage illuminated all the paths the goddess and her guides had gone through. When she finished the long, journey-like story, an altar suddenly appeared before her eyes.

A brilliant light pierced my vision. It was a short, intense light that resembled the rising morning sun. The light faded as if absorbed by the grasp of Ruhak, who was breathing heavily. The scene shown by the weapon in Ruhak’s hand was an afterimage containing hundreds of millions of years of time.

The ‘final notice’ announcing the end seeped into my vision.

[You have successfully conquered the ‘Last Door’.]

[All achievements have been achieved.]

[All achievements have been completed and the barrier of ‘Tower of Tests’ will soon disappear.]

[Preparing for the ‘final battle’. All road players are advised to prepare for the final battle. Remaining time: 11 hours 59 minutes 45 seconds.]

No one opened their mouths. All she did was look into the distance, filled with determination to fight, and not know where she was.

Sehyeon also raised his gaze and looked into the distance. The weapon in Ruhak’s hand felt like it was stabbing my vision in a particularly painful way.

Ruhak’s calm gaze seen through them made me take a long breath.

***

There are 12 hours remaining. Because many empires had already prepared for battle, it did not take long to prepare their weapons. With the help of guides, a ‘portal’ was created in front of each empire to allow movement to the battlefield, and the entire empire moved to the battlefield, dragging their airships and troops.

All preparations for today have already been completed. The super-sonic bombing airships that filled the sky and the more than 200 magic weapons that filled the battlefield like giant trees stood still, looking straight ahead with determination. In addition, the entire empire’s army was equipped with a camp.

Through hundreds of simulated battles, the empires have already figured out which situations are advantageous and which terrain and locations are suitable for their fighting skills. This place where they stand now was the line and camp that would protect their lives.

[This is all ready.]

“Yes, this is also coming to an end.”

Sehyun answered while looking at the fan reflected on the wall of the airship. There was a view of the interior of another airship connected by communication equipment. The right and left sides were the same.

“What about Mr. Baluk?”

[All preparations have been completed here. As expected, several empires that did not participate in the last mock did not show up.]

“… Aren’t these empires that didn’t acquire the <Fear Block> skill until the end? “Even if you come, it won’t be of much help, so it might be better not to come.”

Among the 2,000 empires that fill the endless battlefield, there will certainly be some that have not yet arrived. I didn’t look closely, but I saw a few camps that were different from those I usually see during mock battles. It was a place where there were empires that did not achieve much growth.

I had no intention of blaming them. I saw through many mock battles that they tried their best, and I know that in the end, they were held back by the growth they were unable to achieve.

There was definitely something in the world that no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t get it. I didn’t even know if it was a good thing. If other empires die to save them, their absence may be better.

[The monster must be beyond that fog.]

Sehyun nodded silently at Baluk’s words. In front of where the former Grand Army was currently standing, there was a thick fog that was thick enough to block the view, like a barrier. ‘Beusbrihel’ will be beyond the fog.

Perhaps because we had not yet faced the reality, there was little tension on the battlefield. Sehyeon lowered his gaze slightly and looked toward the deck of the airship. On the deck there were archdukes standing against the wind.

The kings of the current top 10 empires, as well as all empires, had formed compatible teams and boarded the same airship. Approximately three kings were on board one airship, and on Se-hyeon’s side, there were four in total: Baek Do-hyeon, Lee Jae-young, and Tyra.

The same was true for Fen and Baluk. The airship on the right communication imager had Fan, Rijeong, and Theo, and the airship on the left communication imager had Baluk, Hume, and Ryoma on standby.

Here the kings are not sent into battle. If a king dies, the empire will fall, so the kings had to protect their lives no matter what. Therefore, unfortunately, in this fight, the kings of the empire could only provide fragmentary help, such as observing and judging the situation from the airship, issuing orders, and using skills.

Of course, the anti-aircraft men will be deployed to the battlefield as soon as the battle begins. Leave nothing behind.

“… Yoo Si-un.”

[yes!]

Sehyeon’s airship was an exception, as it was connected to another airship’s communication device at the back. It was an airship ridden by the Celestial Race Federation.

“Are all Celestials ready?”