Episode 19 First Battle (2)
Gate.
In the world of this novel, there were two ‘abnormal phenomena’: dungeons and gates.
If you ask the average person the difference between a dungeon and a gate, they’ll probably say, “Dungeons have demons inside, while gates have demons popping out.”
But this was wrong.
Other beings, such as demons or dungeon-born chickens called Red Chickens, could escape from the dungeon.
So, there were often cases where players with taming skills or unique abilities tamed the beasts in the dungeon and brought them to Earth.
however.
The demons at the gate were different from the demons in the dungeon.
The demons of the Gate showed ‘blind malice’ towards us humans, and taming techniques did not work.
In other words, the gate’s demons are much more dangerous than the dungeon’s demons, even if they are of the same level.
When Yeo Ji-hye and I arrived at the scene, the area around Sindorim Station was already a mess.
The demons that had jumped out of the gate were rushing towards the citizens who were out on the streets and had not been able to evacuate in time.
‘[conversion].’
-Tiring-
[Use Aegis’ special ability
shit.
Although I had Aegis and Black Eye in my left and right arms respectively, this was my first proper battle, so I was nervous and my body was shaking slightly.
With an uneasy mind, I looked at Yeo Ji-hye who was next to me, and she had already released her disguise magic and turned into an empress with light yellow hair and a splendid appearance.
‘The setting was that while disguised, one could exert some power, but not fully exert one’s full power.’
Yeo Ji-hye calmly looked around the area around Sindorim Station and then spoke to me.
“Based on the number of demons, it seems to be a ‘wave-shaped gate.’ So let’s move in a way that saves as many people as possible.”
I nodded slightly at Yeo Ji-hye’s opinion.
Gates and dungeons came in many different types.
The ‘wave-type gate’ that Yeo Ji-hye spoke of was a type of gate where the demons’ own ranks were relatively low, but there were a large number of them.
Since the wave-shaped gate has a large number of demons, the standard way to deal with it is to move around to save the citizens rather than dealing with the demons one by one.
Therefore, Yeo Ji-hye’s decision was a very appropriate one.
The demons seen from afar all had the appearance of gray wolves, and judging by the color of their fur, they were probably dire wolves, class D demons.
The individual fighting power of the dire wolves was not that high, no different from that of an E-class beast, but since they usually moved in packs, they were classified as D-class beasts.
Yeah, let’s give it a try.
Anyway, I have Aegis’s fraud-level ability [Guardian], so Aegis will protect me if necessary.
As I ran behind Yeo Ji-hye and looked straight ahead, I was able to spot a woman lying on the ground holding a child, and two dire wolves rushing towards them.
“each!”
Because the situation was urgent, Yeo Ji-hye briefly conveyed her thoughts and quickly charged forward.
I also charged forward with Aegis in front to deal with the other dire wolf, following Yeo Ji-hye’s actions.
The dire wolf I was in charge of jumped up, raised its right foreleg, and then fell towards me, striking its right foreleg down in an instant.
-Tiring-
[Use skill
-bang-
I instantly strengthened my body with magical power, and simultaneously raised Aegis to block the forelegs of the guy who was slamming it down.
Even though I had strengthened my body with magic, I clenched my teeth at the heavy impact I felt on my left arm, then raised my right hand and thrust my black arrow into the back of the guy’s neck with all my might.
-Phew-
As luck would have it, the pitch-black blade of the black sword pierced through the guy’s ashen hide with a slight resistance.
The guy waved his front paws lazily for a moment as if resisting, but when I pulled out the black worm stuck in his neck, blood soon gushed out from his neck like a fountain, covering my face and entire body.
“Ah, thank you. Teachers… sob….”
“Evacuate quickly. Right now, it would be safest to go into any building, lock the door, and hide.”
I was standing there blankly, getting hit by the dire wolf’s blood, when I came to my senses by the sound of Yeo Ji-hye and the old woman talking.
And then suddenly, I turned my head and looked to the right and saw that my right hand was shaking.
shit.
It was weak.
I felt ashamed of myself for trembling over something like this here.
It was clear that in order to prevent the destruction of the world in the future, there would be more difficult tasks and stronger enemies to face, so it was not good to be so weak and fearful already.
-widely-
“Are you okay? Where are you hurt?”
As I was struggling with a serious expression and a sense of helplessness, Yeo Ji-hye came over to me, put her hand on my shoulder, and asked me in a worried tone.
Yeo Ji-hye’s appearance was covered in blood, just like mine, but amidst all that, she was boasting an unrealistic, crazy beauty that even the blood of the devil could not hide.
At the sight of Yeo Ji-hye’s absurdly gorgeous appearance, my complicated feelings were relieved for a moment and I found myself laughing.
“Okay, it’s okay. Let’s move quickly.”
As I looked at Yeo Ji-hye’s face and smiled faintly, she suddenly asked with a pouty expression.
“⋯⋯What is it? What is it? Why are you laughing all of a sudden?”
“Secrets. Men who have many secrets are attractive.”
After making a lame joke to Yeo Ji-hye, I quickly started moving to save the people who had not been able to evacuate.
-Tiring-
[Acquire the skill
[Acquire the skill
***
“Ugh…gasp….”
“You seem to be secretly weak. You need to train harder.”
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Yeo Ji-hye threw a barrage of facts at me, but I couldn’t even breathe, so I didn’t have the energy to refute her.
And seeing Yeo Ji-hye’s terrifying appearance as she mercilessly smashed the dire wolf’s head while wrapping her bare hands in rare ice-attribute magic that was the same color as her eyes, I felt a little scared to respond.
After rescuing the mother and daughter, Yeo Ji-hye and I fought several battles with dire wolves.
Thanks to having acquired
‘In fact, it’s safe to say that Yeo Ji-hye has almost taken care of everything.’
Anyway, since other players who were around the station had joined in along the way, the situation nearby was almost sorted out.
As I was catching my breath, clutching my pounding head in return for recklessly abusing
The man who seemed to be the leader of the three players, two men and one woman, ignored me and passed by, then extended his hand to Yeo Ji-hye and greeted her.
“Hello. Are you the Empress? It is truly an honor to see a celebrity here. I am Hwang Dong-soo, a B-rank player from the first guild.”
“Ah, yes⋯⋯.”
As Hwang Dong-soo spoke to Yeo Ji-hye, he looked at her here and there with greedy eyes full of desire.
Yeo Ji-hye felt burdened by Hwang Dong-soo’s gaze, so she hid behind me and covered her body while answering instead of shaking Hwang Dong-soo’s hand.
When Yeo Ji-hye did not accept his handshake, Hwang Dong-su seemed embarrassed and withdrew his outstretched hand, then began to slyly brag about himself.
“You don’t have to worry about this anymore. The most promising player from Jeil Guild, one of the eight major guilds in Korea, B-rank player Hwang Dong-soo, has come here. The rest of the guys, I will⋯.”
“Let’s take care of those guys quickly first.”
With my breathing back to normal and my recovery somewhat underway, I cut off Hwang Dong-soo’s useless chatter and pointed to a pack of wolves standing tall and watching us from afar.
Among the wolf pack, one had shiny silver fur, unlike the other grey direwolves.
‘In particular, that guy needs to be dealt with quickly.’
However, perhaps because he was upset that I cut him off, Hwang Dong-su glared at me with a murderous look, then looked at the pack of wolves I was pointing at and answered me with a sneer.
“Ha! You’re still young, so you don’t know, but that guy is a Moon Wolf, a C-rank demon. Of course, he’d be a tough opponent for someone like you, but he’s no match for a B-rank player like me.”
Hwang Dong-soo was quite bluffing, perhaps conscious of Yeo Ji-hye who was behind me.
Normally, a C-class monster could be dealt with by five or more C-class players or a single B-class player, but it was not an easy opponent to deal with in one go.
Also, one thing.
There was something that Hwang Dong-su overlooked.
The Moon Wolf in the dungeon and the Moon Wolf in the gate were a little different.
I had to kill that guy quickly before he could use ‘that skill’.
But Hwang Dong-soo didn’t seem to think my words were worth listening to, so he didn’t move and just glanced at Yeo Ji-hye’s face and body.
And then.
Moon Wolf, who had been standing still and looking at us, raised his head up to the sky.
Damn, it’s late.
“Awww~~”
““Awwwww~~!!””
As the Moon Wolf howled, the dire wolves surrounding it also began to howl, and soon the howling of wolves filled the air from all directions.
“What…what is it?”
“What happened?”
The two guild members behind Hwang Dong-soo looked around in panic as the crying echoed throughout the street.
Hwang Dong-soo also noticed that the situation was taking a strange turn, so he turned his gaze away from Yeo Ji-hye and looked around cautiously.
Howling.
A skill that only high-grade wolf-type demons that emerge from the gate can use.
It was an incredible skill that called his scattered subordinates to himself and made them go ‘berserk’.
I quickly looked around in a hurry, grabbed Yeo Ji-hye’s wrist behind me, and dragged her to a place I had just seen.
It is a space between buildings that can accommodate one or two people.
I forced Yeo Ji-hye into the space, turned my back on her, and took out Aegis.
“What is it? Why are you doing that? What’s going on?”
Yeo Ji-hye asked me in a bewildered voice at the reverberating wolf howl and my sudden actions.
“If those guys come with this, stab them from behind.”
But instead of answering, I handed Yeo Ji-hye the black sword and gave her some brief instructions. Then, I supported Aegis with my right arm, which had been idle, and blocked Yeo Ji-hye’s path.
and.
Soon, a wave of gray began to cover the streets at a rapid pace.
“… is coming!”
As soon as I finished speaking, dozens of dire wolves with bloodshot eyes spotted me and Yeo Ji-hye and rushed fiercely toward us.
-Bang!-Bang!-Bang!-
-Tiring-
[Aegis’s special ability
-Tiring-
[Aegis’s special ability
-Quick-
“Ugh⋯.”
Aegis’ [Guardian] ability disappeared in an instant.
The damage to my upper body was minimal because I was able to block it with Aegis, but my lower body was defenseless, so as soon as [Guardian] disappeared, a dire wolf sunk its sharp teeth into my leg.
“are you okay!?”
Yeo Ji-hye, who was attacking the dire wolves from behind with her black sword, was startled by my groan and hurriedly stabbed the dire wolf that was attacking her leg with her black sword.
A burning pain surged up my leg, but I gritted my teeth and held on, holding onto my Aegis, because if I fell, Yeo Ji-hye behind me would also be in danger.
““Krrrr… … .””
The only silver lining was that the dire wolf behind them was blocked by the dire wolf attacking from the front, perhaps because it had entered through a narrow gap in the building, and was unable to come any closer, so it only growled and threatened them.
In addition, thanks to the wall of dire wolves’ corpses that was gradually piling up, the situation began to improve little by little, and when they had some free time, they saw Hwang Dong-soo and his group fighting between the Aegis and the dire wolves.
Hwang Dong-soo, who had been so confident, was having a hard time dealing with the dozens of dire wolves rushing at him from all directions like crazy and the moon wolves that had joined the attack. In the end, he pushed the backs of two guild members he was fighting with and threw them as bait, taking advantage of the opportunity to run away to the side.
‘You crazy bastard, you’re selling out your own colleagues?’
Even I, the original carcinogen, was furious at Hwang Dong-soo’s cancer-causing actions, but I was so busy blocking the dire wolves that they were forcibly pushing in that I could only watch the two men and women who had been thrown in as bait being attacked.
“
-Crack!-
at that time.
Suddenly, someone’s voice was heard nearby, and dozens of thorns shot out from the ground and smashed the heads of not only the dire wolves that were out on the street, but also the moon wolf, their leader.
-Tiring-
[The skill
“Working while I’m on vacation… It’s annoying….”
As I turned my gaze towards the direction where the voice had come from, a man who looked to be in his late 30s with a messy blue hair that looked like it hadn’t been washed in a few days, a patchy beard, and a face that looked annoyed by everything was approaching me while scratching the back of his head.
The man walked slowly towards the two men and women who had been attacked earlier.
“Tsk, it’s already too late.”
After a while, he looked at the two people carefully, frowned, and clicked his tongue.
Judging by his reaction, it seemed like those two had already passed away.
“Ugh… .”
On the other hand, I couldn’t help but frown at the burning pain I felt on my injured leg, perhaps because the tension in the situation that had ended in an instant due to the man’s intervention had been released.
I don’t know if it was because of the noise I made, but the man turned his head and looked at me and Yeo Ji-hye for a moment, then slowly walked back towards us and opened his mouth with a pleased expression.
“You’ve worked hard. I’m Hyun Si-Hyeon from the Salvation Guild. You’ve killed a few of these, so I recommend that you tell the association later and collect the reward money. It’s always better to receive the government money when you can.”
Hyun Si-Hyeon gave us some useful information, then looked back and forth between my frowning face and my injured leg, then took out a bottle of red liquid from his bosom and handed it to me.
“Well… it’s not a good potion, but it’s a medium-level potion. It’s something that I wouldn’t mind giving to a young hero who fought hard and didn’t run away, unlike others.”
‘I guess you saw Hwang Dong-su running away.’
Even so, for a mid-level potion, it was a grade 8 item that cost 5 million won.
They just hand over something like this so coolly. Is this really the ‘Salvation Guild’?
Salvation Guild.
In the work, it was the guild that was called the ‘strongest’ among the eight major guilds in Korea.
And the person in front of you is Hyun Si-Hyeon, the leader of Team 3 of the Salvation Guild and an S-rank player.
The unique ability is [Debuffer], which applies a debuff similar to the
As a side note, his nickname was very unique: ‘Hyeon Si-Hyeon even when turned upside down.’
At first, it was called that as a joke, but it was set up that Hyun Si-Hyeon’s young daughter liked the nickname, so it became a nickname.
Anyway, as I was about to apply the intermediate potion Hyun Si-Hyeon had given me to my leg that was still bleeding, Yeo Ji-Hye, who was watching from behind, reached out and snatched the potion away from me, then opened her mouth briefly.
“I’ll do it.”
After saying that, Yeo Ji-hye knelt down on one knee, lifted up the end of my pants, and applied the potion directly to my injured leg.
As Yeo Ji-hye’s careful and gentle hands caressed my legs, I felt somewhat embarrassed and ashamed, so I scratched my cheek.
Hyun Si-Hyeon, who was watching this, stroked his beard and muttered something incomprehensible, saying, “Wow, this is a good time.”
Meanwhile, as the situation ended, citizens who had been hiding inside the building began to come out onto the streets one by one, and the streets began to fill up with people.
“Oh, it’s Hyun Si-Hyeon!”
“It’s real! Let’s take a picture.”
“Crazy, should I ask for an autograph?”
As the surrounding people’s attention turned towards us, perhaps because of Hyun Si-Hyeon’s presence, Yeo Ji-Hye suddenly stopped applying the potion, flinched, and stopped, then her shoulders began to tremble slightly.
As I looked at that sight, I suddenly remembered Yeo Ji-hye’s disposition, so I quietly took off my shirt that was appropriately stained with blood, sweat, and the scent of Casa’s perfume, and gently covered it over her head.
Then, Yeo Ji-hye raised her head and looked at me with a strange expression for a moment, then calmed down a bit and began to concentrate on applying the potion again.
Why are you glaring?
Is that because my shirt smells like sweat?
-Tiring-
[Player ‘Kim Baram’s’ unique ability
[You have gained the favor of the character ‘Yeo Ji-hye’. You will receive 100 VP. Yeo Ji-hye’s favorability toward Kim Baram is currently ‘Interested’.]
[You have gained the favor of the character ‘Yeo Ji-hye’. You will receive 100 VP. Yeo Ji-hye’s favorability toward Kim Baram is currently ‘Interested’.]
Twice?
Do you really like the smell of sweat?
***
Whether it was because the potion was more effective than expected or because Yeo Ji-hye had applied it so meticulously, the wound on his leg healed quickly and although there was still a tingling pain, he was able to walk without any problems.
By the way, Hyun Si-Hyeon, who was talking to us, left first, saying that he had something to take care of because of the gate.
And Yeo Ji-hye and I avoided the crowd of people and went inside a building that seemed to have few people.
“What are we going to do now? First, to receive the reward money, we have to wait for the association staff to arrive at the scene.”
“⋯⋯.”
When Yeo Ji-hye didn’t answer my question, I turned my head to the side and looked at her.
Yeo Ji-hye was staring at me with my shirt tied over her head like a match girl, and for some reason her cheeks and ears were flushed red.
Why is that?
Do you have a fever?
I absentmindedly reached out and placed my hand on Yeo Ji-hye’s forehead, feeling worried.
Then Yeo Ji-hye flinched, took a small step back, and opened her mouth.
“⋯Ha, don’t do that⋯.”
what.
Are you really sick?
At Yeo Ji-hye’s embarrassed reaction, I tilted my head as if it was strange.
There was a brief moment of silence before Yeo Ji-hye held out her small, white palm and spoke in a voice so small that it was hard to hear unless you listened carefully.
“⋯Cell phone.”
“Huh? Why the cell phone all of a sudden?”
When Yeo Ji-hye didn’t answer my question and just kept silent, continuing to pressure me with her silent gaze and outstretched palm, I had no choice but to take my cell phone out of my pocket and hand it to her.
She snatched my phone away like a cat stalking its prey and started manipulating the screen to call someone.
-Tiring tiring-
Then, the phone rang for a moment from Yeo Ji-hye’s skirt pocket and then stopped.
As if her business was over, she handed the phone directly into my palm, stared at me with her sky-blue eyes for a few seconds, then took a deep breath and opened her mouth.
“You didn’t forget our promise, did you? New content.”
“Ah… That’s right. But isn’t it a bit different today? Your clothes are all covered in blood.”
“Right. That’s why I saved my number on your phone. I’ll call you later.”
Ah… I see.
It’s a bit annoying.
“Instead, you get to keep the reward money or whatever.”
“Okay! If you contact me, I’ll definitely answer and help you out!”
At my reaction of surrendering to capitalism, Yeo Ji-hye laughed as if she found it ridiculous.
Then, as if she had more to say, Yeo Ji-hye wiggled her long, thin fingers and glanced at me.
It might be my imagination, but I felt like Yeo Ji-hye’s pale face had turned even redder than before.
-Sabak-
There was an awkward silence for a moment.
Yeo Ji-hye took a step closer to me with a determined look in her eyes, then reached out and grabbed me by the collar, pulling me toward her.
Then she put her crimson lips to my ear and whispered softly.
“Thank you for today. Jinyong Joo oppa.”
-Pak-
With those words, Yeo Ji-hye pushed me away with both hands and ran out of the building.
… … We’re in big trouble.
I’m not Joo Jin-yong, and I’m not your older brother.
