Replay of EX-class supporting actor from a prestigious school (815)
101. Trace (6)
Ambitious time, top floor of Hwangmyeong Tower.
As time passed, Kim Shin-rok paid more attention to his disciples.
Jeokho was anxious to feed and drink something next to him, but Kim Shin-rok did not drink a single sip of water after the sun went down.
However, since it had only been a few hours, the other tigers, although worried, did not act out like the red tiger.
Meanwhile, a message arrived from the Jin tribe, who seemed to be aware of this situation.
[Yongjegeon] What are you doing, Eui-shin?
[Yongjegeon] It’s rare for you, the nobles, Shinrok, Guk-eon, and Muyeong to gather in one place. I’m curious.
I shouldn’t have read it, but I ended up reading it as soon as I saw my playable character’s name.
As soon as the read processing was done, more messages started pouring in.
Was he constantly watching to see if I was reading the message or not?
I heard that the Dragon Clan has been busy welcoming a new priestess since the Dragon Palace incident, but it seems that Yongjegeon is the only one with nothing to do.
‘Yoon Yeo-rang said she was working on some project with the Yongjok.’
I didn’t hear the details, but it seemed like there was something important going on besides welcoming a new priestess.
It is said that because she was preparing for it, Yoon Yeo-rang was unable to actively participate in the showdown with Geumchanwangchan on April Fool’s Day.
Yoon Yeo-rang seemed busy so I tried to find out if there was a way I could help, but she declined my help, saying she wanted to surprise me.
Anyway, in order to smoothly proceed with the work of the dragon tribe and the priestesses, the dragon tribe may have intentionally left Yongjegeon to just play in the silver mine.
[Yongjegeon] Judging from the fact that Guk-eon and Mu-yeong haven’t come out yet, it seems like they haven’t disbanded yet. However, since they have time to check the device, it seems like they’re in the middle of doing that.
[Yongjegeon] It seems like you two are taking longer than me. I want to meet you again after a long time and say hello, but how much longer do I have to wait?
I think he noticed that I called him to write a replay.
Yongjegun is also an experienced person, so it can’t be helped that he can make inferences so quickly.
If you don’t reply here, they might come in and ask if something is wrong because they read your message and there’s no reply.
I decided to answer honestly, to avoid any confusion and to give no room for argument.
[Me] It might take a long time. I think it would be better to meet you two next time.
[Yongjegeon] It looks like you’re really replaying it. Both of them. ^^
You’re talking as if you’ve checked and figured out my answer, but you probably already knew it.
I knew it was just an unnecessary addition to nitpick, but I still felt upset for no reason.
[Yongjegeon] I’m here, so call me if you’re bored.
[Dragon Removal] (Photo)
[Dragon Jegun] ^^
The photo attached by Yongjegeon showed part of a 24-hour cafe located inside Hwangmyeong Tower.
The photo shows a barely-touched Mint Cafe Mocha and Yong Je-geon’s face glimpsed through the glass window, smiling brightly like the emoticon in the message.
Why on earth are you ordering a drink like that and laughing to yourself when you don’t even like sweets that much?
Is it really that good that Seong Guk-eon and Jeon Mu-yeong became close with the powerful clan, specifically Kim Shin-rok?
“Jo Ui-shin, is it Yong Je-geon who sent that photo?”
“uh.”
“I knew you were around here, but you were stuck in the cafe at the Hwangmyeong Tower.”
“Why that dragon… … .”
Hwang Ji-ho sighed and Kim Shin-rok looked puzzled after seeing the photo displayed as a hologram.
Jeokho seemed to want to call Yongjegeon, perhaps because he thought, ‘If Yongjegeon comes, my son will eat something.’
That was when.
Jeon Mu-yeong’s complexion noticeably worsened.
“Student Jeon Mu-yeong’s ability is unstable.”
Even without using the Insight skill, I felt the surrounding supernatural powers being disrupted.
Kim Shin-rok was anxious, wondering if something had happened to his disciple.
Ji-ho Hwang, who had been examining Jeon Mu-yeong with his gaze turned on, answered calmly.
“Calm down. This is a sign that your eyes are about to open.”
As Hwang Ji-ho said, Jeon Mu-yeong soon regained stability.
Everyone’s condition always gets worse and then improves right before waking up from the replay.
Considering that the period of deterioration in his condition was shorter than the period of his death, it seems that Jeon Mu-yeong’s moment of death was short.
When watching the playable character through the game, it was impossible to know how long he would last or how long he would close his eyes in pain, as he would immediately become inoperable if he suffered a fatal injury.
‘It’s fortunate that the painful moments were short.’
I don’t intend to do anything about the topic that has pushed me into a nightmare.
Soon, Jeon Mu-yeong opened his eyes.
As soon as Jeon Mu-yeong opened his eyes, he quickly got up.
“Kook-eon, hyung!”
Jeon Mu-yeong looked for Seong Guk-eon first, as if the tigers and I were not even in sight.
Jeon Mu-yeong immediately discovered Seong Guk-eon, who was still sleeping, and approached him.
After confirming that Seong Guk-eon’s ability, breathing, and pulse were normal, Jeon Mu-yeong staggered as if his body had lost strength.
Before collapsing to the floor, Kim Shin-rok supported Jeon Mu-yeong, whose legs had lost their strength.
“Professor Kim Shin-rok… … ?”
When Jeon Mu-yeong met Kim Shin-rok’s eyes, he made a blank expression.
He looked at Kim Shin-rok as if he was seeing something unbelievable, then turned his head.
I finally feel like I have some free time to check out my surroundings.
After Jeon Mu-yeong saw me, he muttered as if he had remembered everything.
“… … I see. That’s right. That was a dream using replay.”
Jeon Mu-yeong’s eyes turned red and then gradually returned to normal.
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However, even after Jeon Mu-yeong regained his composure enough to stand on his own, he did not push Kim Shin-rok’s hand away.
As soon as the replay started, he seemed happy to have the teacher who had lost his life by his side.
It took quite some time for Jeon Mu-yeong to calm down, but even during that time, Seong Guk-eon did not wake up.
‘The two people died with more time difference than expected.’
The replay ends when you meet your death in the nightmare.
Comparing the time in the nightmare with the current time flow, it seems that Seong Guk-eon lived at least a few more days.
Maybe not a few days, maybe a few weeks.
* * *
Seong Guk-eon wandered in the darkness for a long time.
Anywhere there was no darkness was hell.
Seong Guk-eon sensed that his body’s sense of time had become strange.
‘There’s no way that as much time has passed as I felt. My physical abilities haven’t deteriorated compared to the time I thought had passed.’
Something was playing with Seongguk-eon’s senses.
Seong Guk-eon realized that he had been swallowed up by a psychic power.
‘Wasn’t he caught up in another world? Was he affected by someone’s supernatural power? Either way, he must have expended a lot of energy to kidnap and isolate me and Muyeong. It wouldn’t have been right to use that kind of power to get rid of two people.’
If you just wanted to kill a congressman, there were many easier and simpler opponents.
There are not many lawmakers who share the same views as Seong Guk-eon, but they do exist, so if it was an action to eliminate political enemies, it would have started with other lawmakers.
It didn’t seem to be purely political in nature.
It seemed that the opponent had a separate reason for going after Seongguk-eon even at great cost.
Creak… … .
The darkness disappeared and hell came into view again.
Those who could not keep the promise of Seongguk-eon were crying out.
The moments that Seong Guk-eon had regretted kept repeating, and he returned to the times when he felt guilty and responsible.
If Seongguk-eon had not been immune to skills that attacked the mind, if he had not had eyes that were touched by the protection of a higher being, if his will had weakened even a little, he would have been swallowed up by hell.
‘This is a power that attacks the mind.’
There is a limit to how much power or strong skills can be used to deal with abilities that attack the mind.
Once swallowed, it is impossible to fight back with physical force, so a different method of dealing with it than normal superpower combat was needed.
First, we had to clearly recognize the method of attack and find a clue to destroy it.
‘It’s the same pattern as the last attack. I destroyed it, so why did I get caught in the same attack again?’
The way to destroy this hell was simple.
Reclaiming one’s self from vague and blurred memories, and choosing again without changing the choices one has regretted in the past.
It seems simple, but it wasn’t easy to change my mind after finding myself in a hell of regret.
But this pattern was repeating itself.
‘Once the mental attack is destroyed, the initiative should come to this side. However, after being trapped in the darkness again, my memories become blurred and I keep falling into hell.’
It was a thought that sent a chill down my spine.
If everything was meaningless, there was only despair.
But Seong Guk-eon had no intention of giving up.
I thought, fought, and resisted endlessly.
After going through several hells, Seongguk-eon realized.
“I see. It’s not like my attack was meaningless.”
While destroying Hell several times, Seongguk-eon saw through the identity of a greater darkness.
The recurring hell was in a great darkness.
Because my senses were distorted due to the mental attack, I was slow to notice anything.
“You must be using your superpowers twice to fool my senses. You’re using your mental attacks twice. Your superpowers must be quite large, so this is completely pointless.”
Squeak… … !
When Seongguk-eon saw through the darkness, a crack appeared.
‘It’s strange. I don’t feel like I’ve been mentally attacked.’
I tried to counterattack by destroying the mental attack, but strangely enough, I was unable to counterattack.
Even though Seongguk-eon didn’t attack, the opponent’s mind was shattered.
It felt like I was fighting a non-existent ghost.
Kkieeee… … .
Soon the cracks widened and the darkness disappeared.
We finally escaped the darkness, but Seongguk-eon was still trapped.
The place where Seongguk-eon is now is not the present world.
‘Is this another world? No, this is not a normal other world. This is the ‘Garden.’
Seong Guk-eon was physically close to his limit.
I was planning to use the moment when my opponent was weakened by a mental attack to request rescue, but device communication was impossible.
And before Seongguk-eon’s eyes, there were beings with extremely powerful powers.
“I was thinking of kicking out the congressman who had become a wreck, but it seems like it would have been quicker to just get rid of him like he said. Even the power of the fortune teller can’t do it.”
“While dealing with that human, several gardens that were maintained by the power of the Unsa collapsed. What are we going to do?”
“It’s okay because things outside are going as planned. You can make excuses.”
There were twins I saw before I was swallowed by subspace.
The twins were talking innocently, their backs turned to the huge brazier.
Something in the roaring brazier and an unusual power were felt from the twins.
Seong Guk-eon looked at his opponent with eyes that had been protected.
‘It’s a Jin tribe. The one burning in the brazier is also a Jin tribe.’
I couldn’t figure out why something that looked like a jinx was on fire.
But it was clear that when those twins clashed with strength, Seongguk-eon was a force that he could never match.
Instead of fighting, Seong Guk-eon decided to take a different path.
‘… … I have to leave it to you.’
Someone will notice your disappearance and start tracking you down.
According to the twins, it seemed like they were trying to do something, but they believed that players who didn’t fall for their tricks would come looking for them.
I should have left at least some more traces.
Seong Guk-eon operated the device invisibly to leave records and clues, and quietly activated other devices he had in his possession in addition to the main device.
“If you can’t kill the mind, you have no choice but to kill the body.”
The power of the twins overwhelmed Seongguk-eon.
Seong Guk-eon resisted, trying to record the surrounding situation and the twins’ conversation for even just a second longer.
“Don’t waste time, kill me quickly!”
“Just wait, that guy keeps avoiding me… …!”
Seong Guk-eon’s Gwangrim trait of being unable to exert his power on his own, as well as being in a state of low stamina and power, meant that he could not hold out for long.
However, Seong Guk-eon performed incredibly well in the final battle.
If you think about it, it was the same when we destroyed darkness and hell.
Since then, Seong Guk-eon has been moving forward with the most efficient moves to increase his survival time.
Until Seongguk-eon’s strength gave out and he collapsed, he made his best move.
‘I promised I wouldn’t do it alone… … .’
Just before Seong Guk-eon closed his eyes, his ambitions as a politician, his life goals, and the things he had not achieved began to fade away.
After the thoughts that had always been on my mind passed by, a thought that had been pushed to the back of my mind came to mind.
Seong Guk-eon quickly recalled those who had gone before him, one by one, and then closed his eyes, thinking of his teacher who had left before his disciples.
