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Sigh! Break!
dump.
After crushing the head of the last remaining deadman, I leaned against a tree. All around, the remains of dead men with their heads smashed were scattered around in a haphazard manner.
Even though I dealt with them one by one, sparing them as much as I could, it ended quickly. It was literally a one-sided massacre. But I wasn’t satisfied. Instead of relieving my mood, I just felt very uncomfortable.
“Tsk.”
He spat on the rubble in front of him, but his instinct to kill was raised even higher, perhaps as a reaction to having been suppressed until now. Her chest was tight and she tried to calm down by taking deep breaths, but the more she tried, the more it seemed to fuel her. Suddenly, it occurred to me that maybe I had no intention of stopping this feeling in the first place.
“Sickness. It’s not a kid’s joke. “I just lost my appetite.”
I had a bad appetite, but eventually I couldn’t overcome the rising fear and struck down the tree next to me.
Boom! Ususoo… .
Even though it was struck with pure strength without any magical treatment, the hard tree collapsed with a heavy sound. Although I felt a little relieved, the life that had already filled my insides did not go away at all.
My companions must have gone out too. I wanted to set fire to this forest, but I held back. Even if I had climbed over the stone wall, I had no idea what kind of monsters there would be outside the forest. I didn’t have time to worry about the kids and retrieve the arrows.
No one will see it anyway. I quickly exercised my feet, controlling the magic I had been putting aside.
Trees, forests, and the surrounding scenery quickly pass by me. The time I had spent so far was insignificant and I was able to arrive at the stone tomb where I was earlier.
As I sensed the surroundings while pulling out the arrows from the Deadmen’s heads one by one, I could not sense any sign of my companions. As expected, he seemed to have left right after I entered the forest.
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight… . “This should be enough.”
I wanted to put the arrow in my pocket, but Ansol might have a seizure if he saw it, so I roughly shook the foreign object away.
‘Then let’s go out soon.’
Since Anhyeon and his group might be right outside, I walked slowly. Before going over the stone wall, I turned my head and looked at the quiet forest.
The forest was the same. It looked the same before and now. In the past, when I left the forest, I didn’t think about anything because I was being chased. As I was just running, I thought I was out of the forest when I missed it.
But now is different than then. I was just staring at the forest for a while. I felt relieved after having laid down a huge burden.
After feeling sentimental for a moment, I jumped over the wall. I wanted to refrain from getting drunk in an uncivilized atmosphere. Because there was something else that was important to me right now.
*
The sight that caught my eye after quickly climbing over the stone wall was far beyond my expectations. Although the road I am currently walking on is bumpy, there are traces of human hands. It’s not noticeable at first glance, but even though it’s not straight, the heavily painted sides give it a uniform appearance.
Below the road was a vast plain with no end in sight. The surroundings were quiet. Only the occasional gentle breeze made its presence known nearby.
Even if you wash your eyes, you cannot find the monster. But the party is also nowhere to be seen. No matter where I looked, even though I could sense some of them with my magic, I could not catch their presence. Suddenly it occurred to me that they had abandoned me.
Since there are three characters with good attributes, the probability of betrayal is likely to be relatively low. However, it was not possible to judge simply by looking at tendencies.
If we were to hold off on the possibility that he would have left me behind, it would have been correct to assume that he had waited for me while I was gone and then suffered a misfortune. There were quite a few monsters that appeared in the rite of passage other than deadmen. Deciding to figure out what had happened, I decided to look for traces of the group first.
Finding clues, or marks for tracking, wasn’t that difficult for me now. As I calmly looked around and followed the stone wall, I found a dirt area with sneaker prints indented in it. It looked like it had climbed over the fence in this direction.
As I walked back towards the direction where the dirt had been swept away, I was able to find traces of where the group had gathered. It seems that after making sure there was nothing around, he waited for me here. As soon as I confirmed the facts, the slight feeling of betrayal that had been creeping into a corner of my heart seemed to disappear like melting snow.
I crouch down at the place where the group was gathered and slowly look at them one by one. If you have an experienced ranger or trapper, you will be able to deduce everything that occurred, including when, where, how many people, and why. Of course, that is impossible for me. All I could do now was to use all my sharp eyes and abilities.
Stretch your eyes and compare the footprints one by one. First of all, after I noticed what appeared to be the sneaker marks of the group members, I decided to look at the rest of the marks other than those. The footprints were so intense that it seemed like they had been doing a shuffle dance as a group, so it seemed like it would take some time to identify them. Suddenly, an anxious thought passed through my head, but I reassured myself that it was too early to jump to conclusions and continued to look.
After enough time to drink a cup of tea, I was able to complete the analysis. I stood up with my legs stretched out. Except for what appeared to be the party’s footprints, no strange marks were found. To be honest, there was one dent where my foot stepped. However, it was difficult to determine whether they were part of the group or not because the sneaker pattern was overlaid on them.
There was no sign of the ground being dragged, so it was definitely not a dead man. It occurred to him that it might be a boss monster, but he immediately shook his head. It had only been about half a day since I started, and there were separate conditions for the boss monster to appear.
As I pushed the idea of boss monsters to a corner, nothing really struck me that made me think this was it. In the end, there was only one way left. Even though I knew it wouldn’t work, I started awakening the magic circuit.
In an instant, I activated my third eye with an explosive force of magical energy. What I was going to do from now on was something different from simply checking the other person’s user information.
Even I didn’t expect that it would be possible to create this level of magic so early, but since it was a race against time, I couldn’t think of a way to do it right now. If we just mess around and say we’ll use magic detection to find them, if something happens in the meantime, I won’t be able to guarantee their lives.
The phenomenon I am currently trying to examine using my third eye is not the present but the ‘past’. Of course, this unique ability is so outstanding that it can even consider abnormal dimensions if the conditions are met. Therefore, seeing the future and past at the current level also depended on one’s ability.
However, when a single worry was about to cross my mind, a scene flashed through my eyes and I naturally focused on it.
Pajik!
“Tsk… !”
I only saw it for one second, but the scene on my retina was distorted and a huge shock hit my eyes. My eyes were burning like they were burning with fire. Even as I reflexively rubbed my eyes, I let out a bitter laugh.
It was only 1 second. I only saw one scene from the past for one second, but my third eye was forcibly canceled. After some time had passed and the pain in my eyes had subsided, I muttered in a defeated voice.
“under… . haha. Even with 96 magic points, the limit is to last only 1 second… . “I’m going crazy.”
I thought it couldn’t be possible, but my magical ability couldn’t withstand the overdrive of my unique ability. I was once again reaffirmed how high-level the third eye was, but at the same time, I felt disappointed.
Looking at the past is treated as the same as seeing the future. It was a completely different problem from simply predicting the future. Still, I thought it would be possible if I did well as the Third Eye had reached S Rank, but the 2 ranks down due to forced manifestation seemed to be holding me back. In the end, even though I received a 1-level increase correction through Hwajeong, it was only possible to examine the entire phenomenon in the present, and it was still too early to deal with the past and future.
The pain was gradually decreasing, but my vision was blurry right now. It seemed to be an aftereffect of the magic being canceled and the magic rebounding. Fortunately, as time passed, the objects I could see gradually became clearer, so it did not seem to be a permanent loss of vision.
I took an unintentionally risky move, but luckily I still managed to save one thing.
Although it was only one second, I was definitely able to see the ‘past’. I sighed deeply, recalling the scene that had just appeared on my retina. When I managed to get out of the forest by gathering only the stones, a more difficult task was waiting for me.
I would understand if it was because I didn’t have the strength, but the reality that I had to endure it even though I had the strength made me even more depressed. If it doesn’t work out, it might be a rite of passage or something, but it was a last resort.
For some reason, I felt like I was crossing mountains.
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