Baek So-rin -4-
[Huhhhh······]
A sound like air being let out.
The ghostly mass spins around.
A faint light leaked out from the translucent interior.
For a moment, it deflated and disappeared like a punctured balloon.
A cold area that disappears at the same time.
As the temperature quickly returned to normal, my frozen body quickly thawed.
“Okay, are you done?”
“okay.”
I stood for a moment and enjoyed the victory.
There is nothing left where the ghostly mass disappeared.
Instead, I walked back to where I first appeared.
The skeletal hand still sticks out above the ground, and the smartphone held in it sings a cheerful song.
[Three bears live in one house♪ Papa Bear, Mama Bear, Baby Bear♪]
Baek So-rin makes a trembling expression.
“What the heck is that?”
“It’s nuclear.”
“A nuclear power? A magic power power?”
“that’s right.”
“Why is there a nuke attached to my smartphone?”
“That could be true. It’s common for ghosts. And if the nuke hadn’t worked, the power would have been turned off already.”
“Ah, electricity······”
Access your smartphone.
Chijijik!
Magic electricity shot into the air, but was ignored.
I pushed through lightly and looked down at my smartphone.
A smartphone with its screen locked.
A little boy is dancing cutely against a brightly lit background.
It’s an unfamiliar face.
Not particularly cute or pretty.
Just a normal kid.
maybe······
She must be the daughter of one of the laborers buried here.
The laborer would have died slowly, missing his daughter.
Looking at my daughter on the screen.
Your body must have frozen and your breathing must have stopped.
That resentment and anger were condensed into a smartphone and transformed into a magical core.
‘This is a really f*cked up world.’
Dismissed!
Equipped and used extraction characteristics.
As the smartphone splits, the magical core that was connected to it comes out.
Level 3 magic core.
About the size of a fist.
It’s a bit odd for something to stick out of a flat smartphone, but sometimes, magic cores distort reality like this.
“It was a magic core······”
“I told you so.”
“This is my first time seeing a real magic core!”
“You’ll get sick of it from now on.”
Now that you’ve defeated the boss, it’s time to claim your reward.
I moved to the cold storage that I had been seeing since earlier.
A cold breeze pours in through the slightly open iron door.
When I put my hand on the door, it felt like my hand was freezing, but it was quickly relieved when I equipped it with water resistance.
“Why here?”
“Think about it. Wasn’t the sealing condition too weak?”
“Uh······ That’s true. If you break through a wall, it becomes a restricted area.”
“Even if they were blinded by money, they wouldn’t have covered it up so carelessly. If the gold mine is exposed, Galaxy Mall will also be hit hard.”
“sure?”
“It wasn’t this big at first. It was probably just a small pit. It grew over time.”
“Can the forbidden area get bigger?”
“Normally not. Usually.”
Raid the cold storage.
Most of it is junk.
It looked like they had dumped the remaining waste from construction here.
Since they were going to bury it anyway, they probably thought it would save some money on garbage disposal costs.
[Detection][Treasure Hunt]
Countless blue dots appear.
Among them, two dots burn particularly brightly.
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“Sorin. Look over there.”
“Huh? Trash?”
“Uh. Hurry up.”
“yes yes.”
I don’t need to do anything myself.
Baek So-rin dug the ground coolly without complaining.
At first, I took the shovel out of my golf bag because I was going to use the sword.
“What kind of subspace pocket is that? Something keeps coming out of it.”
“What about subspace pockets? Golf bags originally have a large capacity.”
“You’re carrying a gun, water, combat rations, and a shovel… Are you really going to war?”
“We did fight wars sometimes.”
Baek So-rin digs the ground.
Dig hard as I instruct.
Two dots getting closer little by little.
Finally, the last shovel lifted the blue dot, and two treasures appeared one after another.
Swaaaah.
Huhuhu.
A dark and cold air rose and filled the cold storage.
A black star that spreads dark power.
A single, prickly star emitting a cold air.
Baek So-rin trembled and stepped back.
“Excuse me, what is that?”
“It’s a decision.”
“Crystal? This is my first time hearing about it.”
“That’s right. It’s not a common item.”
The origin is unknown.
In Arcane Seoul, the material or exchange ticket is simply called a ‘crystal’.
There were various claims, including that it was a part of the body of a forgotten god, that it was a fragment of another world summoned by an ancient wizard, and that it was an object transformed by the condensation of magical attributes.
‘This is low-level.’
Using this crystal, you can obtain traits or weapons that are good to use from level 3 to level 5.
I’ve already decided what I’m going to receive.
I took a small magic box out of my golf bag and ground the two crystals.
“It’s all over, right?”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“Ugh! It’s over!”
Baek So-rin screamed loudly.
Then he grabbed my hand and pulled me along cheerfully.
“Hurry up and go! Ugh, I thought I was going to die.”
“Where are you going?”
“Huh? You said it was finished?”
“The main story is over, but we still need to wrap it up. Are you just going to leave it here?”
“Uh······ Are you sure you’re not going to purify it?”
“That’s right.”
“It costs a lot of money!”
“It’s a little different from the usual purification method. I’m going to use a trick.”
I should say destruction, not purification.
This method can only be used in special situations. It is also dangerous.
The boss of the shopping mall’s forbidden zone, the ghost group, was destroyed, and I also took care of the crystal that was the core.
Two of the three elements that make up the Golden Heat, the distortion of resentment and magic power, have disappeared.
So the gold standard is already collapsing.
Because the speed is so slow, neither I nor Baek So-rin can feel it.
I took things out of my golf bag one by one.
A magic bomb resembling TNT.
It was an object that would deal a fatal blow to the collapsing Geumjeong Station.
Baek So-rin made a tired face as she took out about a dozen of them and stacked them in the underground space.
“Have you really come to war?”
“Don’t worry about it and just get ready to run.”
“Are you running? Why?”
“If you blow this up, the forbidden zone will collapse. Do you know what happens if you get caught up in the spatial distortion?”
“Huh? Why don’t you make a time bomb? Or you can detonate it remotely!”
“This is a low-grade product. If exposed to air, it will spoil within an hour. It will be a dud, so we have to detonate it before that.”
I manipulated my smartphone.
It took me almost 10 minutes just to set up the remote and connect the fuse.
Even with all the production, modification, repair, and trap features mobilized, it was the same.
“Jump!”
“Mom!”
There are about 45 minutes left.
Baek So-rin screamed and ran out.
fast.
I was using the acceleration characteristics naturally as if I was breathing.
I can’t lose to you.
Using both speed and sprinting, he caught up with Baek So-rin in one breath.
“Run faster! If you’re late, you’ll die!”
“Oh, no!”
“I’ll go first!”
“Let’s go together!”
Easily overtakes Baek So-rin.
The writing characteristics and magical power are far superior.
Baek So-rin gritted her teeth as they widened the distance.
“Eww!”
Baek So-rin rushes towards me with me as her target.
Shuaah, the sound of the wind cutting through can be heard and the white noise increases rapidly.
As expected, the combat sense is good.
I nodded my head once and put strength into my legs.
Kuang!
It kicks off the ground and flies up.
Almost a dozen meters or so.
This was possible because the ceiling was high and the passageway was tilted at almost a 30-degree angle.
jump!
After landing, I glanced behind me and saw Baek So-rin’s face turning red.
“Put the pressure down!”
Baek So-rin also jumps!
After landing, he lunges again to catch up with me, then breaks through and tries to sneak up on me.
“That won’t work.”
I activated the Einherjar technique to the limit.
Also, the magical power pumps the heart.
Magic power spreads throughout the body through the magic blood vessels.
The magic circuit becomes hot as if it were on fire.
I felt my body heating up.
Here, the belt glows, magical power is concentrated, and moves perfectly according to my intention.
Tata-tat!
My speed almost doubled.
There was no need to even use charge.
Speed and speed.
With just these two traits, he was able to overwhelm Baek So-rin, who mixed acceleration, dash, leap, and breakthrough.
“It’s foul play! It’s foul play!”
“If you feel wronged, you should become level 3 too.”
“Oh really.”
“If you have the energy to get angry, turn your magic power once more. I’ll go first.”
“Let’s go together!”
How far did you run?
Almost reached the first floor.
The smartphone I was holding started to buzz loudly.
Why, why, why!
I heard the trigger.
“It explodes in 10 seconds.”
“Okay, wait a minute! There’s still time······”
I have about 5 minutes to spare.
But considering the margin of error, it would have been right to detonate it 5 minutes earlier.
“10, 9, 8, 7······”
Countdown begins.
Baek So-rin put strength into her eyes.
I grit my teeth and squeeze out every bit of strength I have to suckle.
It was not yet.
Baek So-rin still has some strength left.
[Thousand-Slayer][Indomitable][Charge]
[Leap][Acceleration][Breakthrough]
The runaway locomotive was never created.
If you leave it alone, it will learn on its own, but there’s no reason to not do it now.
I pressed the trigger and screamed.
“percussion!”
Click.
A small sound rang out.
Then a dull jolt comes from below.
The shockwave shook the world, this little space-distorted world.
The walls, ceiling, and floor ripple like waves.
Your vision begins to spin as your sense of balance becomes distorted!
“Sir!”
A harbinger of world collapse.
Baek So-rin called me desperately.
I shouted, increasing my speed.
“If you don’t want to die, run! Use all your strength!”
“Eww, eww!”
“If you don’t get out in one minute, you die!”
This is dangerous even for me.
I took my mind off Baek So-rin.
I ran without looking back.
On the one hand, I checked inside my pocket.
A space-travel magic chip that was taken out of the golf bag in advance.
If my calculations are off, this will be my lifeline and Baek So-rin’s.
A vertically bending alley appeared.
The speed is so fast that it’s like hitting someone’s head first.
“Eeeeek!”
I grit my teeth and twist my body.
The speed does not decrease.
I strain my eyes to look at the growing wall, then I run towards it in a diagonal line.
Ta-tat, ta-tat!
Jump off the wall!
It runs along the wall, almost standing vertically.
After landing on the ground again, he sprinted again.
How many times have I come across a vertical alley like that?
I ran through it in the same way.
Then your body becomes lighter and you can turn in the direction you want without losing speed at all.
As if ignoring inertia.
[Movement] Acquire trait.
It has a cooldown after use so you can’t fire it in bursts, but it’s a good enough trait.
As I was running, a bright white light caught my eye.
Up ahead, through the Geumyeok exit, fluorescent lights were flickering.
Speed it up even more.
Project all your strength.
Before I knew it, the collapse was right behind me.
I feel it.
Everything is falling apart.
The fleeting disappearance of magic and the disintegration of the world vividly stimulate my senses.
Sound, light, and wind are all completely dissipating.
The back of my neck feels sore.
A feeling that I might be caught at any moment.
Woozikkun!
Collapse overtook me before my annihilation.
The ground collapses with the sound of bamboo breaking.
A crack is drawn as if witnessing a major earthquake.
In an instant, the exit becomes further away.
The ground was collapsing, leaving behind a large chunk that was pulling me underground, into a void of nothingness.
That won’t do!
He gathered his magical power into his legs and flew up.
Landing safely across dozens of meters.
The exit was right in front of us.
“teacher!”
That’s when the scream erupted.
Look back.
A collapsing piece of land.
Baek So-rin jumped up on top of it.
But it is not enough.
As a newly awakened Baek So-rin with little magical power, even if I used the same jumping ability, I could only jump half as much as I could.
Eyes meet eyes.
The world stops.
In a collapsing world, in a disappearing space.
Baek So-rin was looking at me with eyes full of despair.
There is nothing underfoot. There is no springboard necessary to use the leap.
But I didn’t reach out.
Didn’t help.
With his hands in his pockets, clutching the magic chip.
He just gave me a look of trust.
‘You can do it.’
Because I was born that way.
Because it’s a thousand-year-old star.
They are not simply monsters who gain experience from blood and slaughter, but possess mythical talents that grow through endless battles and crises!
Baek So-rin’s eyes are twitching.
The look in his eyes that was filled with despair changes.
A will like an active volcano spreads across his face.
Instead of the lost sword, he clenched both his fists.
Baek So-rin posing in the air.
The four characteristics of dash, leap, acceleration, and breakthrough are intertwined.
Some of the Thousand-Year-Old’s powers are affected.
Thus the third characteristic is born.
[Runaway train]
“Wow!”
Baek So-rin screams.
The voice is as booming as if it had been boiled in a train car.
Steam is emanating from all over the body.
Skin that has suddenly turned red.
The body slides smoothly.
He runs straight towards me like an angry bull.
rush.
Not just any dash, but an air dash.
It is impossible to use it with just the simple rush characteristic, and requires higher-level characteristics such as runaway locomotive or air raid.
He hugged Baek So-rin tightly as she rushed towards him.
A dull shock hit my chest, but it was bearable.
Use that power to fly your body.
As I was passing through the exit and going outside, the forbidden area collapsed.
Phew.
There was no explosion.
No vibration was transmitted.
Only the faint sound of the wind gently wet my ears.
As lonely and desolate as a single teardrop shed by a ghost.
A completely destroyed forbidden area.
Blooms within it.
The trait of a close call.
The final piece of the third-largest warrior character.
It was the moment when [SSR Baek So-rin] was completed.
