Episode 109 Frontal Attack (1)
109. Frontal Breakthrough (1)
“Ugh…”
My head was pounding.
Choi Yeon-hwa, who had been groaning lightly, carefully opened her eyes.
“Where is this place?”
It was my first time here.
A gloomy darkness and a dampness that made my body shiver rose.
Choi Yeon-hwa tried to remember why she was in such an unfamiliar place.
‘During the dungeon practice, some strange people appeared…’
He himself resisted them, but was ambushed and knocked unconscious.
And now.
She was in a place she had never been to before.
As I looked around, I saw several students I had been training with gathered together.
“Are you awake?”
A man carefully examined her complexion.
Choi Yeon-hwa didn’t know his name, but she remembered seeing him coming and going while she was receiving training.
“Where is this?”
“We don’t know either. We just came to our senses… We don’t know about anything else, but we’re sure it’s a prison.”
“That’s right.”
By all accounts, this was a prison.
The narrow room was sealed on all sides with solid cement.
The door was a thick iron door, and the only access to the outside was through a narrow gap in the iron bars.
“What happened to the others?”
“It feels like we’re all being held in separate rooms. I heard Korean a little while ago, too. It was mostly swearing and screaming.”
“A scream…?”
“I think he was caught while trying to escape.”
Choi Yeon-hwa quickly understood the situation.
Those captured here are people with abilities.
Each of them carries a weapon in their inventory, and some even use skills.
There must have been someone with the power to break through and escape from such a stuffy prison in an instant.
“They tortured the people they captured. The screaming continued for a while, and after that, it seemed like no one had any intention of leaving.”
“When you say ‘they’, are you talking about the foreigners who came to the dungeon?”
“Yes. From what I’ve heard, I think he’s probably Russian.”
“russia…”
Hearing those words, Choi Yeon-hwa began to think that this might not be South Korea.
‘They came through the portal back then. There’s no guarantee that the entrance leads to Korea…’
It was time for her to gather her thoughts.
-Clang!
Suddenly the thick iron door opened.
And then two foreigners appeared.
“Follow me.”
A man spoke Korean awkwardly.
Choi Yeon-hwa and the people trapped in the room hesitated, not knowing what to do.
“Follow me!”
“Ugh!”
At that moment, the man kicked the person in front of him.
“Follow me.”
It seemed like the only thing he knew how to say was ‘follow me’.
For a moment, Choi Yeon-hwa was troubled.
Should I take up arms and fight back? But even if I defeat him, there’s no guarantee that I’ll escape from here.
All of the people who were captured together were low-level trainees.
In contrast, they seemed to be quite powerful people.
“For now, let’s do as he says.”
The man who woke Choi Yeon-hwa said.
The people who had been hesitating nodded and stood up from their seats.
As I went out into the hallway, I saw quite a few people gathered there.
About 30 people.
There were 5 people in Choi Yeon-hwa’s room, so people came out from a total of 6 rooms.
Among them were Jeong Dae-han and his subordinates.
“Hello, everyone. My name is Oh Jeong-su. I know it might be a bit confusing right now, but please follow my instructions.”
Waiting for them outside was an arrogant-looking oriental man.
As the familiar Korean language was heard, shouts erupted here and there.
“Where am I?!”
“Who are these people? Send them home!”
“Do you think you guys will get away with this!? Do you know who my father is?”
Oh Jeong-su, who was listening to those words, reached out his hand.
“You there.”
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“Yes, yes?”
“Okay. You. Come here.”
“Why do I have to go out!?”
The man was embarrassed and reacted to Oh Jeong-su’s words.
“You asked me to send you home. I’ll send you home. Come out.”
Oh Jeong-su was now speaking informally. His tone was high-handed and arrogant, but the man was overwhelmed by the atmosphere and couldn’t say anything.
“Приведи мужчину.”
(Bring a man.)
At Oh Jeong-su’s words, a group of white men with strong physiques approached the man.
“What, what is it? Why!?”
The man resisted desperately, but it was no use.
The difference in strength between men and women was more severe than that between children and adults.
They easily subdued the man and brought him in front of Oh Jeong-su.
“Do you want to go home?”
“yes…”
The man, who had lost all courage, quietly lowered his eyes.
Oh Jeong-su, who had been watching the man indifferently, suddenly struck him with a handcuff.
-Tsk!
With that one slap, the man realized his position.
“Ugh!”
Blood gushed out in an instant and his teeth shook.
-Crash, crash!
“You want to go home? Yeah?”
“Oh, no…”
-Tsk!
“You said you wanted to go home?”
The man’s face swelled up in an instant, making it difficult to open his eyes.
The man was now hanging on to Oh Jeong-su’s trouser leg.
“I’m sorry… .”
Even though the man ejaculated, Oh Jeong-su kicked him mercilessly.
“You want to go home? Huh?! Don’t you understand the situation!?”
“Ugh…”
In less than five minutes, the man, who was completely battered, eventually passed out.
“It’s okay.” (Put it away)
At Oh Jeong-su’s words, the men took the man and disappeared.
Oh Jeong-su clapped his hands to liven up the atmosphere and looked at the people.
“Does anyone still have something to say?”
No one raised their head at Oh Jeong-su’s words.
They were all capable, but they were still rookies who had never properly experienced a dungeon.
The enemies were fully armed and even had guns, so I didn’t even dare to think about fighting them.
“Okay. I hope you will follow along when I treat you in this gentlemanly manner.”
**
The place we followed Oh Jeong-su to was a damp square.
There were a lot of Koreans gathered there, and most of them seemed to be in similar situations.
‘What is that?’
Meanwhile, Choi Yeon-hwa was busy looking around.
A giant machine I’ve never seen before.
People with countless needles stuck into their bodies and machines attached to them.
Among them was Jeong Dae-han’s group, who used to be Choi Yeon-hwa’s friend.
They had bizarre devices stuck all over their bodies, showed clear signs of being beaten, and seemed to have lost consciousness.
“Now, from now on, you all need to tell me in detail about your status window. If you lie, you can see the people over there, right?”
Oh Jeong-su pointed towards the machine device.
“You’ll end up like those people over there. Those things stuck in their bodies aren’t for health checks. They’re ‘items’ that have been specially processed. Do you know what happens to those people later?”
Oh Jeong-su looked around at the people with a sinister smile.
“They will suck your magic power until you die. They will suck every last drop out of you and then sell you off to various places. But since you are a person with abilities, you can sell it for a pretty high price, which is good.”
People’s faces turned pale at Oh Jeong-su’s words.
“If you don’t want to end up like that, please follow my instructions. Come forward one by one and tell me your physical stats, skills, and abilities, and then step onto the machine in front of me.”
People did not dare to think of opposing it.
He just quietly walked forward, checked his status window, told me his stats, and climbed up onto the machine next to him, repeating this.
The machine was a large cylindrical device that displayed numbers like a scale as people stepped on it.
Oh Jeong-su recorded it diligently along with his physical ability.
‘That number… is proportional to the magic power.’
Choi Yeon-hwa, who was looking at the number closely, quickly realized what it was.
It’s a horsepower meter.
It was clear that there was a certain proportional relationship between the horsepower figures people spoke of and the numbers displayed on the machines.
“next.”
Before she knew it, it was Choi Yeon-hwa’s turn, and she stepped forward to check her own status window first.
▫Name: Choi Yeon-hwa
▫Title: Indomitable Will
▫Level: 7
▫Detailed Ability:
·Strength 12 (+1)
·Agility 18 (+1)
· Stamina 14 (+1)
·Magic Power 12 (+1)
·Additional stats: –
▫Unique Ability: Sword Protection
▫Ability: Intermediate swordsmanship (D), low-level martial arts (E)
▫ Skill: Acceleration (B), Descent of the Sword Demon (B)
A fairly fancy stat window.
Although I have no experience in dungeons, I was able to grow by passing the tutorial up to stage 5.
Thanks to this, her level was slightly higher than that of those around her, who were mostly 2 to 4 levels.
Not only that, she had quite high scores compared to people of the same level.
It was a difference in talent, but also a difference in the effort that had been put in consistently since childhood thanks to liking sports.
“Call me.”
“Level 3. Strength 9, agility 12, stamina 10, and magic power 13.”
Choi Yeon-hwa deliberately called out the numbers excluding magic power as low as possible.
“You’re pretty good. What about your skills?”
“There is only one lowest level of swordsmanship.”
“Okay. Come up here.”
Choi Yeon-hwa climbed up onto the machine like everyone else.
Then a number came to mind and Oh Jeong-su nodded as he wrote it down.
“next.”
**
Early morning.
Bandarenko sighed after staying up all night with his eyes wide open.
“Kang Hyun…”
Because the last battle with Kang Hyun wouldn’t leave my mind.
If we meet again, can I win? I ask myself, but he already knows the answer.
“Can’t win.”
He was overwhelmed by Kang Hyun.
It’s just an excuse to say that you were too flustered to perform to your full potential.
“Is he really dead?”
Originally, I wouldn’t have had such worries.
Because I personally confirmed that Kang Hyun was dead.
But the last one was the problem.
Not long after Kang Hyun died, his body disappeared.
Without even dropping a single item.
The original ability user drops all items in their inventory when they die.
“If that’s not the case, then he might be alive.”
I’m sure his heart stopped, but you never know.
It was such a chaotic time, and Kang-Hyeon might have been carrying some sort of item that could be transported somewhere right before he died.
“Phew…”
If he were alive.
So if he comes here in any way, is there any way to stop him?
‘I, who couldn’t even handle one Kang Hyun properly…’
That was when.
-dripping
There was a knock.
“Come in.”
The one who opened the door and appeared was Oh Jeong-su.
A fairly useful man among those recruited to take over Korea.
Now that the Gangshin Guild has collapsed and Kim Jun-yong is dead, he is effectively their only connection to Korea.
“What’s going on?”
“This is a report on the Koreans who came this time.”
“Is there anything special?”
“No. The magic power measurement has been completed as scheduled, and we have started extracting some of the ones with strong resistance right away. The rest of the personnel will begin leveling up tomorrow.”
Bandarenko nodded silently.
“Okay. Okay, that’s it…”
“Wait a minute. I have something to say.”
Bandarenko caught Oh Jeong-su as he was about to leave.
“Be careful not to let any of these people die.”
“yes?”
Oh Jeong-su was taken aback by Bandarenko’s sudden words.
Normally, those who have been captured would level up by any means necessary, investing all their stats into magic power.
After that, when it reaches a certain level, it is used to extract magical power, and the conventional method was to not care at all about casualties in the process.
“I told you to make sure no one dies.”
“Okay. Is there any special reason..?”
“We should use those guys as bait to negotiate with Korea.”
“If you call it negotiation…”
“You don’t need to know that.”
“All right.”
Oh Jeong-su bowed his head without saying a word.
“Anyway, I plan to kill them all once the negotiations are over. But before that, make sure they all stay alive.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
