242. Escape
242. Escape
“Right person, right place, right time” is a phrase that sounds good.
As we were moving into the forest, Setiren said:
“Actually, there is an idiom that is even more effective than that: human wave tactics.”
It was extremely awkward for a foreigner like her to discuss idioms, but what Setiren said was true.
“If you take the entire execution squad with you, you will be able to deal with any danger. But the wise man did not do that.”
“Then it’s bound to attract unnecessary attention.”
“Imok… Are you talking about those who are following us diligently?”
“yes.”
There are those who are closely following us, commonly referred to as the ‘execution squad’.
A procession of hyenas preying on the byproducts of the devil’s execution.
Even though there were elite agents stationed there, on the outside it looked like just a school field trip for students.
“Is it unpleasant to share the profits?”
“Well, it’s a bit painful to lose the byproduct, but…”
In response to Setiren’s question, I expressed the feelings I usually had while doing La Focal.
“I don’t think it’s a good thing that so many lives are lost for no reason due to something that wasn’t planned.”
“Something unexpected…?”
And those who can be disparaged as ‘hyenas’ are most likely ‘severely incompetent.’
They are usually ignored because they are students, but in fact, if you look closely, they are only at level 1 or 2, and even if you do well, they can barely reach level 3.
Although it may be better than the first-year level, there are countless cases where it is worse than the second or third-year level.
It is said that the level is such that one cannot even enter the academy.
Not just elite academies like Guardian, but even other ordinary superhuman academies.
‘That’s why when you reach level 4, you even hear the saying, ‘A dragon can rise from a stream.’
A superhuman rank, level 4, that can be obtained simply by graduating from Guardian Academy.
From level 4, they are treated as skilled superhumans in each city on the front lines, so they are usually not classified as hyenas.
If you’re going to form a gang of thieves, then you’ve formed one.
‘But even a mob like that might be better than nothing.’
[Answer: It might be a minimal time-saving measure.]
In Lafocal, they move around like it’s a game, but it’s not reality.
Although it was very short, I experienced the ‘variable’ thing in reality to the point of being sick and tired of it.
Most of them were used for the better, but there were quite a few cases where that wasn’t the case, like ‘Geusen-dae’.
So I couldn’t just say, “I don’t care whether they die or not.”
“… So you want to reduce unnecessary casualties?”
Seemingly understanding my intentions, Setiren nodded after a moment of thought.
“I think I finally understand you a little bit….”
“Huh? What does that mean?”
“What I mean is, it’s a good thing.”
“… … ?”
It feels like a Zen question from Buddha.
“Anyway, I need to contact you first.”
“Ah. Now that I think about it… .”
It would have been better if you had contacted me in advance.
I was in such a hurry that I forgot.
After rummaging through my pockets, blaming my own stupidity, I sighed when I realized that I had never received a radio in the first place.
“Is it because you came running as soon as I woke up? You’re out of your mind… ”
“Don’t worry, I have the radio.”
Setiren gently shakes the radio in his hand.
“All the knights and priests of the cathedral went out as guardians, so it was essential to take care of it.”
“As expected of the Inquisitor. He is very well prepared.”
“Are you being sarcastic now?”
“You’re the kind of person who hears this as sarcasm… .”
Setiren hesitates as he turns the dial to tune the radio’s channel.
“… So, what is the channel number to communicate with your reconnaissance unit?”
“Huh? Why are you asking me that?”
“That’s because he’s the person in charge-.”
Setiren, who was unable to finish his words, let them hang on.
Her eyes and mine lock.
“… The network number, that thing that was distributed separately. Where did we decide to put it?”
“One for each reconnaissance vehicle…”
Setiren looks down.
Take in the sight of two people’s legs kicking the ground hard.
I found myself sighing without realizing it.
“I came out naked to avoid attracting attention, and this is what happened….”
“Should I go back and get it now?”
“Ah, I’ll pass. I came out with all my style, but there’s no situation more embarrassing than that.”
“… … .”
Setiren also seemed to agree with this.
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As I was pondering a method for a moment, a thought suddenly occurred to me and I raised my left hand, exclaiming, “Ah!”
“Just a moment. I’ll send a text message to the kids inside.”
“Come to think of it, you said that the wise man’s team members were part of it.”
Setiren laughs bitterly, saying he should have thought of that first.
It seems that both Nana and her were upset because of the image of the ‘Forest of the Dead’.
It can’t be helped.
When you say ‘Forest of the Dead’, you usually think of evil spirits like zombies, skeletons, or ghosts…
‘It’s different in La Focal.’
The Forest of the Dead is a place where some incredibly tricky ‘monsters’ roam around in groups without any problems.
And that ‘monster’ is… .
“How is it?”
“Hmm. I haven’t heard back. They’re not even Christians to begin with. Neither of us.”
“then….”
Setiren’s expression gradually hardens.
I, too, couldn’t stop my facial expression from hardening.
“I guess… it seems like he’s in an urgent situation where he can’t even read the text.”
“Are you saying we’re already that deep in?”
“Because they have that much skill. At least two of them.”
“… … .”
If the party that Luna and Ha Sung-jun are in is in such an urgent situation, I can only think of one thing in this case.
If you encounter that ‘horde of monsters’.
“Let’s increase the speed.”
“yes.”
* * *
– Boom!
Lightning strikes.
A vivid purple that illuminates the dark forest.
Luna held back her gasping breath and released her magical power into the air.
– Choaaaak-!
An arrow of blood that shoots out like a bullet, leaving behind a bloody stream.
An arrow shot forward at full speed, about to hit the silvery skull.
however.
– Thud~!
With a very cheerful sound, the blood arrow shot by Luna bounced away in vain.
“eww…!”
Luna, who was shedding regret, quickly hid behind a rock.
– Kwarung!
Immediately afterwards, a purple flash of lightning passes by where she was.
Silver hair fluttering in the wind.
Luna let out a ragged breath as she watched her hair, blackened at the ends, drift away in the wind.
“Haaak, haaak. Oh, I almost died… .”
“are you okay?!”
Lee Yu-jin asked urgently, holding her breath.
Luna nodded her head wildly, lost in thought.
Then I thought back to the days when I trained hard.
“If it weren’t for you, Jinwoo, I might have died here… ”
It wasn’t just that I trained with other colleagues under Lee Seon-hoo.
Training that was repeated through dreams with the help of Park Jin-woo.
And the concept of magical power and the method of control that was directly passed down to him.
If it weren’t for this, I wouldn’t have even been able to react to Richie’s attack and would have just gotten my face pierced.
That fact sent a chill down Luna’s spine.
“Wait a minute, junior!”
Lee Yu-jin shouted urgently and grabbed Luna’s arm.
Luna, startled, instinctively spreads her magic around for a split second.
A strange sensation that is immediately conveyed.
Although no information was conveyed about the ‘enemy’, Luna calmly observed the repercussions of its actions on the surrounding area.
– Bam!
Both judgment and execution were quick.
As Luna kicks the ground while embracing Lee Yujin, a spear of pure white ice and black flames follow behind her.
The moment the two magics overlap, a huge explosion occurs.
– Pubbuck.
Luna gritted her teeth as the rock shard hit her back.
A force powerful enough to shatter even the huge rock under which the two men were hiding.
If they had hesitated for even a second, it would have been them, not the rock, that would have been shattered.
But Luna didn’t panic, and calmly got up.
He grabs Lee Yu-jin’s hand and pulls her, whose face is pale and whose eyes are filled with tears.
“You have to run!”
“Ha, but, where to…!”
“Anywhere!”
The two of them start running like crazy in the opposite direction of where Richie’s magic came from.
– Dismissal, bang!
“Whoa!”
A purple lightning bolt chased after the defenseless back, but it missed its aim and only destroyed the ground before disappearing.
Luna held onto Lee Yujin’s hand tightly, who had screamed involuntarily, and scattered her magical power around her.
Then, I think of the two people who broke up just before.
‘There’s no chance of winning in this situation. We have to join as soon as possible… .’
Luna thought back to that day when she had seen the monster from hiding, the lich that was scattering purple lightning indiscriminately.
A monster that was barely caught after much struggle, including the efforts of Yoo Hyun-seong and Park Jin-woo.
There are currently three of that kind chasing us.
‘I don’t know the exact rank, but it’s definitely much stronger than before. I can’t fight all three of them at once while protecting Senior Lee Yu-jin…’
Lich is not just a simple monster.
It should be assumed that he is a powerful and ruthless ‘battle wizard’.
Not only the Richie chasing Luna, but also all the Richies that Ha Sung-jun and Kim Ji-hee are dealing with.
‘Six elite battle magicians, at least level 4?’
A cold sweat runs down Luna’s spine.
Ha Seong-jun, an elite magician, and himself, who uses ‘blood’ as a medium.
There’s also Kim Ji-hee, a thief with a dagger, and Lee Yu-jin, a member of the Department of Necrophilia.
Six Lichs is a force that can never be dealt with by just four people.
‘If I were alone, I could probably deal with two of them…’
Luna, who had been making cool judgments, was startled by the cool sensation she felt in an instant and reflexively scattered her magic around her.
At the same time, twist and bend your upper body.
– Crunch!
– Kwagagak-!
Spears and arrows of pure white ice brushed past shoulders and lodged in trees.
Despite the distance, the thin vapor flowing out from there cools down my hot skin.
Luna gulped at the feeling of the freezing air that could be felt without any filter even from afar. She felt a renewed sense of gratitude for the experience she had gained through Leah’s clone, and she sped up her slightly slowed pace.
It was a time when I was running in a zigzag pattern like that for a long time.
“Ugh… road… here… is this it…?”
Luna’s nonstop running pace begins to slowly slow down.
Luna looked back at Lee Yujin, who was breathing even harder than she was, and cried out.
“I don’t know the way…!”
“Ugh! Gasp! Gasp! Heh heh heh. Gasp- gasp-!”
“Oh, what should I do? I think I got lost….”
“Haak! Haauk. Heuk! Gasp-! Gasp gasp. Gasp-.”
There’s something strange about Lee Yu-jin’s breathing.
Luna looked puzzled at his extremely irregular breathing.
“What, what did you say? No, what you said was right…?”
“Huh-! Huh-!”
Lee Yu-jin shakes Luna’s hand left and right as if he is frustrated.
She lifts her empty hand, extends her index finger, points forward, then turns it sharply to the left.
Luna’s eyes widen in surprise.
“Huh? Do you know the way…?”
– Nod.
Luna’s face brightens at the rough nod.
Soon, Luna began to move quickly following the direction that Lee Yu-jin was pointing to.
– Ta-da-dak! Ta-da-dak-!
– Crack- Crack-
A sound like cutting through blades of grass, cut through the sound of hard running.
It was the sound of Richie walking through the grass.
‘No matter how much I run, the distance doesn’t increase… .’
Luna glanced behind her.
“Gasp gasp gasp gasp!”
Lee Yu-jin is seen running around, struggling, as if she is on the verge of death.
I’m so sorry to say this, but Lee Yu-jin was literally a burden to me at the moment.
Even though it was a department of necromancy, it didn’t deal with anything, and it couldn’t cast spells on the dead who had already returned from the dead.
‘If it were Jinwoo, at a time like this… what would he have done?’
In that tense moment, Luna thought about the first thing that came to her mind.
I imagined the decision Park Jin-woo would have made in this situation.
‘I have no choice but to make a decision.’
Luna, clenching her teeth, slowly slowed down her running speed.
Then, that’s right, Lee Jin slowed down his pace without any questions.
Soon, the two stopped in their tracks, and Lee Yu-jin placed her hand on his shaking knee.
– Bam!
Luna roughly releases the hand she was holding tightly.
Lee Yu-jin, startled by the shock, looks up at Luna with wide eyes.
“I’m sorry, Senior Lee Yu-jin!”
Luna shuts her eyes tightly and opens them again, shouting.
Lee Yu-jin, who had a premonition of the future, slaps away the outstretched hand and shouts.
“Excuse me!”
“Ugh! Huh?!”
Suddenly, the view changes up and down.
Lee Yujin was struggling, but Luna was blocked by an evil force that was much stronger than she had expected.
Only then does Lee Yujin realize that her expectations were wrong and she lets out all the strength from her body.
“You have to endure it even if it’s uncomfortable…!”
“Yes!”
Lee Yu-jin nodded her head wildly, her body resting on Luna’s shoulder like a burden.
After a while, Luna half-bent both knees and-
– Bam-!
It shoots forward like a bullet!
“Heekyaaaaah!”
“Be careful not to bite your tongue…!”
“Heukkeukyaak!”
Branches, blades of grass, and the like block the path ahead, but a translucent red curtain spreads out like a barrier to block them all.
Lee Yu-jin held onto Luna’s body tightly and gritted her teeth to keep herself from biting her tongue as she said.
“Ugh…!”
It was unfair.
What on earth did I do wrong to deserve this?
‘I didn’t know this place became the Forest of the Dead! I didn’t know that!’
A place where six Richies hang out together.
Lee Yu-jin shed tears of regret at the unexpected level of the Forest of the Dead.
‘I should have just gone when my junior Ha Sung-jun told me to go back…!’
I was called an expert for nothing and showed off my knowledge, and this is what happened.
Lee Yu-jin, who had been regretting it over and over again, opened her eyes slightly at the speed that was gradually slowing down.
Just then Luna shouts.
“Where should I go?!”
Lee Yu-jin immediately focused his mind.
Luna is guided by the strange sensation she felt after entering this forest.
“Uh, oh, right, side…! 15 degrees, diagonal, line…!”
“yes…!”
– Pfft!
The sound of the air bursting out is loud, as if it were trying to create a sonic boom.
Lee Yu-jin kept her magical power as evenly distributed as possible to prevent the strength from escaping from the hand holding Luna.
‘I wonder if I’m going to die like this.’
The sad thoughts that keep coming to my mind as soon as I finish my work.
Lee Yu-jin screamed with her teeth clenched, then suddenly focused her gaze on the change in the hand that was holding Luna.
[Please live]
[Don’t die, Eugene!! Run away!!]
[Look at how fast it is, lol This is why the Olympics were ruined]
[Is 6 Rich really true? Is this something a student can handle?]
[Of course it won’t work so I’m jumping out, you piece of shit, lol]
[If I die here, will I become a zombie or a skeleton? Is the death scene broadcasted in real time?]
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[Currently Viewing: 1,247]
‘Wow, a thousand people…!’
Lee Yu-jin swallowed absentmindedly.
For her, who had always kept a double-digit figure, numbers in the thousands were like stars in the sky.
With a thousand viewers, you can make a living from broadcasting.
Although it was just a bubble created under special circumstances, the desire to live suddenly soared.
‘A thousand people are watching my broadcast…!’
That was when.
– Bbambarabam~!
[‘Hyunja TV’ donated “1,000,000 won”.]
“… … !!”
A single line of chat enters the wide-open eyes.
[Hold on a little longer]
“Wh, what did you say just now? Huh?”
“…Just hold on a little longer.”
“Huh? Who, who?!”
Lee Yu-jin smiled broadly.
Then he stretches his hands forward and shouts loudly.
“Go about 30 meters and then turn 20 degrees to the left! There’s a cliff ahead, so you have to jump at the right time!”
“So who-, ah! Senior Lee Yu-jin, hold on tight! If you don’t, you’ll lose it!”
“Huh? Gyaaak!”
