Reincarnator

by Stayrr

Humanity has been gradually transported to the Abyss by a bored god to compete against other races and monsters.The problem is… humanity failed. In a last desperate push the strongest survivors chose a comrade to travel as far as possible back in time.

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Chapter 26 – Ticket (1)

Hansoo chuckled at those words as he shook his head.

"I'll refuse. Go ahead first"

Gyucheol couldn't hold it in as he raged.

"Aren't you being too much young friend? And this isn't just my thoughts. We need to move together as nine but what do you want us to do if you enter a dangerous place like this"

Gyucheol's face was on fire as he spat out the words.

Since he knew that it wasn't something he should be saying.

But he held it in.

The thing he had realized as he gained age and as he became a man of the family was that embarrassment was just for that moment and being loud was rather effective.

Who would protect his family if he lets Hansoo go because of his ego and then die afterwards.

His wife and his daughters could not even threaten a fish.

They will probably die as soon as he dies.

Or something even worse.

'It's better to get cursed at'

And there was still a problem if he beat the snake.

Since it can only take a long time for him to fight the snake.

Since then the destruction line that they had created a gap from would catch up them.

And if that happened they had to fight more anxiously.

'You..as long as you come with us and fight then won't be any problem'

Didn't they do good until now.

This wasn't a game, this wasn't the time to worry about killing a strong monster for items or runes but why was he going crazy just because he couldn't fight that powerful looking snake.

They were already busy trying to push ahead.

'Damn. It's not because he's young. He's just crazy'.

Hansoo clicking his tongue as he looked at that Gyucheol.

There were times like this where they opinions crossed.

And he understood as well.

If a man wasn't selfish during times of danger then when would he be selfish.

'But there's no other way'

Since their goals were different there was no other way.

Hansoo shook his head as he walked towards the snake.

"Goddamit! If you were going to act selfishly like that then why are you traveling with us in the first place!"

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders at Gyucheol's words as he spoke.

"I never traveled with you. The way we were going was the same"

"…dammit"

At that moment everybody realized that even though Hansoo had been fighting in the front, he had never traded anything with them.

Though he had taught them a few things discreetly.

Gyucheol, who couldn't hold it anymore, cursed out loud while his wife and daughter looked at Gyucheol with a pitiful expression and him took him away after looking at Hansoo with a resentful face.

They knew that they were alive because of Hansoo but they were sad because of Hansoo acting the way he wanted.

While they were leaving, somebody was watching Hansoo with a regrettable face.

The one who actually stimulated Gyucheol was Hanchul.

He was going to try recruiting him after watching for a little bit longer but he was shocked because Hansoo had said he was going to fight the snake.

It did indeed seem like something amazing will come out if that snake was killed.

But that was only important while they were alive.

They had no thoughts of fighting with that anaconda-like 15m long snake.

If Hansoo had miraculous powers to the point where he could slice it in half then they might've followed him meticulously to gain a little bit of anything.

But they had eyes too.

The snake which was sliding between the trees was quite nimble despite its size and its size broke the branches that were as big as normal tree trunks which showed his strength.

That was not something where they can gain anything out of while Hansoo was fighting it alone.

And they wanted to get away as fast as possible because of these thoughts.

Since it will be bad if they received collateral damage whilst watching Hansoo fight.

They had no thoughts of getting dragged in.

'Well. There's nothing that can be done'

If somebody couldn't keep their lives in tact then that was all they were worth.

The eight others quickly left Hansoo and took off as Hansoo bit onto a cloud snack while chucking at this view.

Then he charged at the Rune Eater Snake.

Kudududk

"Hoo."

Hansoo took out the cloud snack he was biting on and then grasped the rune eater's snake with both hands.

And behind him a giant rune eater snake was laid out dead with its brain pierced through.

'Now there's only five cloud snacks left'

Rune eater snake was indeed strong.

But it was much weaker than the Carnivorous Beast.

And his stats were much more different from then.

He had used colorless energy and used the cloud snack because of limited time but only one was needed

Kachak

And soon the egg cracked open as a small snake that couldn't be imagined to be a baby of that giant snake came out and crawled above Hansoo's wrist.

'Good'

There were quite a bit of Strength, Stamina, Agility and Perception runes gathered on his wrist.

These were stats that Hansoo judged to be not necessary for the moment.

Hansoo started to feed the baby rune eater snake with all the runes he had gathered up.

The rune eater snake didn't realize it's parent was dead as it greedily gulped down the runes on Hansoo's wrist.

The four types of runes on his wrist quickly disappeared as a different type of rune replaced their spots.

'First, raise magic, physical and magic resistances.

His Mana wasn't really lacking.

He had in instead raise these other three stats in order to raise his ability battle powers which were lacking.

Since soon things with abilities will pop out one by one.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength(Colorless): 0.02%

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 84.0

Perception: 85.1

Mana: 58.4

Magic: 30

Physical resistance: 25

Magic resistance: 25.3

'Finally I've gained the eight great stats'

The most basic and the stat that impacted the battle powers the most, the eight great stats.

From now he had to keep raising these stats in balance.

Keiiik!

The rune eater snake which seemed to be content from eating its fill cried out in content as it fell asleep on his wrist

It was indeed the offspring of that giant rune eater snake no matter how you looked at it.

He wouldn't bat an eye during normal battles.

'You just stay asleep'

Hansoo, who had been looking at it cutely, started to walk fast as he saw the destruction line closing in.

"Dad. What do we do…"

"Be quiet please"

While Gyucheol and his Family were left behind on a fork on a road and were struggling, somebody started to appear afar.

Gyucheol nodded after seeing this.

'I knew this would happen'

He was covered in blood but it was Hansoo.

Gyucheol, who had been looking at Hansoo, spoke out.

"Did you perhaps run while fighting?"

It didn't seem like his strength, agility or stamina changed much from before.

If the giant snake had given him runes then a his runes should have increased by a large amount.

And the snake did indeed look stronger than Hansoo so the time that he took was too fast for killing it.

Since the time it took for Hansoo to come back only took around the time it took to smoke one cigarette.

"I killed it"

'Lies'

If he wasn't going to gain anything then why did he fight?

No he did gain something.

Only injuries all over the body.

But it was to his expectations anyway.

Since he guessed that he would at least run before he died.

Hansoo asked the three as he asked.

"The other people?"

The others excluding Gyucheol and the two could not be seen.

Gyucheol grinded his teeth at those words.

"…they went that way."

'and leaving us behind'

He thought of Hancheol's words before he departed.

Since Hansoo isn't here anymore you can't just stay in the back and fight there. Either come out to the front and fight or leave the group here

'That bitch… both this guy and him'

Gyucheol had to choose.

Either to fight in the front.

Or wait until Hansoo came back and then charge through the path with Hansoo in the front.

But he had no confidence to fight in the front.

'Damnit… I should've fought in the front from the beginning'

While the others were constantly fighting, he had been left behind without being able to eat any runes.

And now he could only support from the back, he was not at the level to fight in the front anymore.

And the beasts in front of them would be even stronger.

They at least had Hansoo before, if he had fought in between the others then he would've died rather quickly.

So he decided to wait for just 5 minutes.

Just in case Hansoo would run away from the fight.

'It's a relief'

If he hadn't come then he would've probably had to fight in the front while listening to their hateful words but thankfully Hansoo had come back.

While Gyucheol was thinking about this and that, Hansoo had chosen a different direction than the others.

If that path had been cleared already then the amount of runes he would be able to gain will be significantly lower.

It was better to go somewhere where there was still a lot of things to hunt.

And this path was more compatible with him.

Gyucheol only looked at Hansoo pass by him but did not move.

Hansoo looked at Gyucheol with an amused expression.

"Aren't you moving?"

And Gyucheol relied at those words.

"Didn't you say you were never part of us already. Go ahead first"

"Huh"

These words were correct.

'I can clearly see his intentions but a guy being this straightforward is a first.'

It didn't really matter if there was somebody to fight with or not.

Hansoo laughed as he started to move towards the other path quickly.

And Gyucheol and his family slowly followed Hansoo whilst leaving a gap.

'There… aren't any options left'

He was not at the level of fighting in the front anymore.

He had to push ahead by sticking to someone.

'Surely such an environment like this wouldn't continue'

As long as a similar environment like the first tutorial area came out then they can catch their breath.

Gyucheol started to gaze at Hansoo's back with a feeling of being on a tightrope.

Hoping that he wouldn't get mad and turn his blades at them.

And hoping that he would clear the road well in the front.

Udududk

"Hooo"

Hansoo made a dull expression as he killed the last Kerudal.

This place's difficulty was where nine people had to fight.

It was hard because he had to fight alone.

Since he couldn't use cloud snacks in places like this

'But it's still very good'

[Kang Hansoo] Strength(Colorless): 0.03%

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 84.0

Perception: 85.1

Mana: 58.4

Magic: 35

Physical resistance: 32

Magic resistance: 32.7

He had been monopolizing the runes because he was fighting alone.

And the fights had been getting easier because his resistances were increasing due to his monopolization.

And Gyucheol was looking at Hansoo with a fed up expression from the back.

'…he's getting stronger and stronger'

It didn't seem like his movements were getting faster or his strength was increasing.

But he was gaining a lot less injuries than before.

And because of that he was fighting faster and more aggressively.

He just took an attack that he would usually dodge and then sliced off their necks like that.

And because of this his speed was slower than when he fought together with the other group but he had long recovered the speed back.

'This kinda bugs me…'

He was traveling safely and comfortably.

He just had to pick up a few bloody monsters that Hansoo had leaked.

And Gyucheol was sufficient enough for these.

But the fact that Hansoo has been getting more and more leisurely had been bugging him.

The perfect situation in his head was that Hansoo was so busy fighting in the front and becoming a mess that he couldn't spare any effort to care about Gyucheol himself.

But if this happened he had no solution to when Hansoo became enraged..

'Do I have to run away in the next fork on the road…'

But it was hard for him to clear the road alone.

But the thing that had appeared in front of Gyucheol wasn't a fork on the road.

'…Tunnel?'

A giant tunnel located near the bottom of the mountain.

And in front of it a very familiar existence was located there.

"Are you not on good terms? You traveled whilst leaving some distance between you two. Well whatever, congratulations on reaching the goal."

And then the fairy pointed towards the inner parts of the tunnel.

There was a dormant volcano's crater that could be seen along with few tens of people who had already reached this place next to many weird-looking boats.

Gyucheol cried out in joy after seeing this.

"Uwahaha! Arrived! We've Arrived!"

"Daddy! Thank you for your hard work!"

As if Hansoo and Gyucheol were the last ones, as soon as they entered the tunnel closed with a thunk sound and the fairy which was at the entrance flew in.

"Hello everyone. Welcome to the goal line. Heehee. Let's see… there's 75 alive right now? It's good that not many died. You guys worked hard."

Whilst everyone was grinding their teeth, the fairy smiled as it spoke again.

"Since there's 75 people, 75 tickets should be prepared right?"

And then a ticket with strange patterns started to appear on the hands of the people.

While the people were mumbling about the ticket, the fairy continued to talk.

"If you get on that then you can get on the boat that leads you to the island above. You've done well. I will now tell you how to use the ticket."

Wasn't it just that they had to get on the boat after handing it over.

"Basically the boats you guys will get on is for three people"

"And of course three tickets must be gathered in order for it to work. Isn't it so peaceful? Since its three tickets per three people, there's no need to fight"

Everyone sighed in relief at these words.

Since that meant that all 75 people could go up.

But Hansoo shook his head.

There was no way that this would be it.

And as he expected, the fairy continued to talk.

"But it will be unfair if one person or two people pay three tickets and get treated like three people right? So we prepared something special"

'Goddamit, of course it won't just let us go that easily…'

The fairy made an amused expression as it looked at the people and spoke.

"Firstly, if you hand in three tickets then you can go to any island you want. By the way, if you think that all the islands above are the same then that's a huge misconception. Check the islands map in your pockets."

The fairy laughed and spoke as it saw a few people's eyes shining.

"If you hand in three tickets with two people then you can go together but you cannot decide where it goes. The boat will move randomly"

At the fairy's words, the eyes of the people who were comrades or partners changed.

If they wanted to act together then they had to gather an extra ticket.

"Lastly if you hand in three tickets as three people then you will get off separately. You can go up but you cannot be together. A situation like a family would be very very sad right? I hope if you are in a family of three that you can gather nine tickets to go to the island you want."

"This bitch…"

Gyucheol spat out curses without control.

Nine tickets for three people?

What was this nonsense?

It was hard to even protect one at this moment.

He could see Hancheol and others watching with a fierce look from afar.

And the fairy spoke in amusements without caring for such matters.

"There should be about… 30 minutes left until the island collapses completely? Heehee. I guess only 25 boats are needed. I will separate the boats all around the crater. It won't be fun if you just protect the area of the boat right? Ticket. You just need to gather three tickets with whichever method and then depart! Good luck!"

The fairy disappeared after those words.

And everybody's faces started to stiffen.

It was better to go together and even better if you could go where you wanted.

So it was better the more tickets you had.

If there were 6 in a party then 18 was optimal, 9 was ok and six was a worst case scenario.

The people who had laid their decisions looked around for weak people.

And Hancheol and the others who had been separated earlier looked at Gyucheol's family with a smile.

The other didn't know but they did.

A way to gain three free tickets.

"Goddamnit…"

Gyucheol cursed out.

The boat was next to them.

If they wanted to live then the three of them had to get on the boat at this instant.

But if they get on the boat like that then they would be separated.

Which meant his wife and daughter will die or face an even worse situation.

'Damn..what do I do?'

The fact that they had come this far proved that they were strong.

So there was nobody who could get their tickets stolen by him.

And then Hansoo came into Gyucheol's eyes.

"Hansoo! Please give me your ticket!"

"Hmm?"

As Hansoo looked at Gyucheol, Gyucheol hurriedly smiled.

"If we have your ticket then my wife and I can go together! And then please take my daughter. If you do so then our whole family can live!"

Gyucheol shouted in despair.

Since then he could take his wife with him and protect her a bit more.

And their daughter will be protected by Hansoo so she will be able to live a bit longer despite being separated.

If there are four people with six tickets then they can live a bit longer.

"Please… You can save lives this way! You are strong so isn't a piece of cake to gather two more tickets? You're so strong! Please save our family!"

'Wow…he's not a joke'

Hansoo swirled his tongue at Gyucheol's words.

He had thought that he was very blunt but this was beyond imagination.

'He probably isn't a fool that would grant that right?'

But Hanchul was still worried so he started to run faster.

Since if he did grant that then those tickets would be gone.

"Hurry! Please!"

Gyucheol, who saw Hanchul and the others charge at them,

He had pleaded something that wouldn't even come out because of his ego.

And Hansoo's eyes calmed down in a cold manner as he looked at Gyucheol.

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Chapter 27 – Ticket (2)

Hansoo shook his head.

You need to handle your own problems.

This guy's suggestion was that two other people had to die.

Since the ticket needed for four people was six.

He was asking Hansoo to kill two for him because he didn't have the ability to do so himself.

It wasn't that he didn't but rather these things were something he had to do himself.

They were precious family to Gyucheol but in Hansoo's eyes, the other two were of equal value as them.

Gyucheol grinded his teeth after seeing Hansoo shake his head

But he realized quickly that it wasn't the time to do so.

Gyucheol, who had seen Hanchul charging at him, clenched down his teeth as he striked down on the neck of his daughter.

Smack

The daughter fell unconscious without even being able to scream.

Gyucheol, after lifting his daughter up, took her ticket as well as his dazed wife's ticket and got on the boat.

It didn't even take a second because the boat was next to them.

As Gyucheol grasped the three tickets the boat floated up in the air whilst making strange sound.

And Gyucheol's wife watched this scene in a daze as she mumbled.

"…honey?"

"I am sorry. But I should at least protect our daughter"

If they go as three then they would all die.

Since his wife and daughter would die if they get separated.

But if he went instead then he could at least protect his daughter to some degree.

"You! Are you crazy!?"

The wife, who was in shock, regained her senses and then spat out in rage.

But that at moment something aggressively landed on the top of the boat.

Booom!

"Hey uncle. Stop"

"…Damnit"

Gyucheol made a expression of despair as he looked at Hanchul who was holding a blade onto his daughter's neck whom he was holding.

The boat immediately stopped working as somebody who wasn't part of the boat as well as his ticket got on the boat.

And then everyone realized.

Then you couldn't leave this damned place with just some good luck.

Only people who can protect their boats can leave this place safely.

Hansoo mumbled inwardly.

'It isn't the time to sit around and idle'

He wanted to to stick around and then take some runes after killing a few people but if he dragged his time like that and then got caught by his ankles by others to drag him down then it would be over just like that.

He had to leave as soon as he collected the tickets.

"You should get off with your daughter"

Hanchul, who had taken the tickets in Gyucheol's hands, kicked off Gyucheol and his daughter onto the ground.

He didn't like it but it was a bit too much to kill the dad and his daughter together.

And if he tried to kill them then they would charge at him in a crazy manner which would drag him down.

"You beast! How could you do this!"

As Gyucheol cried out in despair whilst holding his daughter, Hanchul moved his blade closer as he smirked.

"So if you had fought in the front like others then you wouldn't be in such a situation. Uncle knows that you were around the same level as me when you came here right?"

Gyucheol grinded his teeth at those words but could not say anything.

Since these were all truths.

If he had fought in the front non-stop and ate runes then he probably wouldn't have lost the boat this easily now.

Gyucheol finally realized why Hansoo didn't care or interfere no matter how much they fought in front of him.

'…you were the most ruthless one'

He didn't whip others nor encourage others.

He just left them alone.

So they could choose and deal with the problems themselves.

And the fact that he had hidden in the fact with an excuse of defending his family had came back to him in conclusion.

Hanchul, who had been smirking at the dazed and despair filled Gyucheol next to his crying wife, turned his head and then spoke to Hansoo whilst looking at him.

"Hansoo. Let's go together"

"Hmm?"

"I wish for you to be with us. I can gather the tickets for you if you need them"

He hadn't said anything but Hanchul felt as if steam were rising off from his ears.

A wife and daughter who did not do anything.

And Gyuchul who had stayed in the back to defend such people.

A guy who had the strength to fight but only relied on his heals and took runes.

An extremely strong but crazy woman.

And two who were fighting properly but did not catch the eyes.

But because the others in the front were getting trampled by the eyes, the last two was actually rather dependable.

And at the same time, he thought of a game he used to enjoy in the past

A game where you had to make a team with five people.

In order to beat the enemy, they had to do whatever the team did no matter how much you hated it.

It was the same here.

Even if there were a lot of of the nine who were performing useless actions, they had to endure and follow

No, this was actually harder than the game

Since a game would be over just like that if you gave up but here you would just die.

An extremely serious situation.

He had to take useful people but there were nobody who caught his eyes.

No, it actually made his insides twist and turn at the thoughts of these people becoming a person who would be like a family to him after sharing the Symbol.

And Hansoo was naturally an existence that would catch his eyes in such a situation.

He wasn't a superhero or something like that.

'Well. We had originally started at the same place so there's no way he could be like that'

He wasn't an existence like a Deus Ex Machina which could solve the current situation by slashing apart the fairy and then returning them back to their original world.

Since the current Hansoo was also receiving injuries.

But he was very tough.

He was at least much stronger than them and the attitude of how he fought showed that he could trust and leave things to Hansoo.

He felt like a veteran that had lived through decades of battles.

'And if his character's like that then it's not that bad'

He followed the thing he needed to and didn't fall back, he also didn't take more than he earned.

This was why such decisions were made.

'We need people like him'

Someone like him was the type of people he needed to him and Hyunjin.

That was the only way to go through this world in this damnable world.

"Come with us. I believed that you have psychic powers since I've also seen it before"

And then Hanchul showed the back of his hand.

Ooong

A small shining symbol.

A symbol that couldn't be seen until now was shining on the back of Hanchul's hand.

As Hansoo showed a conspicuous color, Hanchul continued talking after believing that he had caught his interest.

"This is a psychic power that was manifested by my friend"

And then Hanchul told Hansoo the fact that he had found out, which was rather lacking informatively because the time they had it for wasn't that long, that Hansoo already knew.

"If I gain the permission of my friend then I can give you this Symbol to you too. And my friend would definitely agree to you"

The talk had already been completed already

If this guy was that trustable then let's give him the symbol first.

It didn't matter what his plans that he had in his mind were.

Since if they receive the symbol, they would become a trustable companion.

"Be with us. We are different from those mediocre people over there. And once you get this we can trust each other completely."

'I know well'

He knew too well.

How could he not.

Hansoo, who had thought of Eres and his other friends, just shook his head.

He could not go beneath a Lord this time.

"I'll refuse"

"Hmm?"

Hanchul spoke out in surprise as if he didn't expect the refusal.

'Why would he refuse this?'

It wasn't that they were tying him down with a contract.

The Symbol was connecting them with credit and connection.

And it was more trustable than a contract because of this and it also shone during times of crisis.

It wasn't a relationship made of understanding, which was like a sandcastle, which would collapse at a slight touch.

It was a psychic power that made a Lord.

He had looked at Hansoo as if his explanation wasn't enough but that was not it.

It wasn't that he was pondering but rather a direct refusal.

'Does he have a reason?'

Hanchul wanted to try a bit more but realized that this wasn't the time to be doing so.

Since others were approaching him after realizing that he had three tickets.

He definitely needed three tickets.

Since he agreed to meet in the Central Island above with Hyunjin.

"Damn. Then there's nothing I can do"

The boat was not rising as if it didn't work if there was more than three tickets.

Hanchul threw a ticket at Hansoo and then spoke as the boat rised up.

"You will probably survive and rise up. Let's see each other again if our destiny meets"

And then Hanchul disappeared quickly with the boat.

"Damn! This is mine!"

"No! I'm the one who's going to take this!"

As Hansoo left the ticket on the ground, everybody was making a huge commotion as they charged at the ticket.

But even within that chaos, Hansoo just continued to stand firmly.

He could interfere and then distribute three tickets at a time.

But if he did that then somebody who had the ability to collect three will lose their lives.

And it wouldn't mean much to save them to raise them up.

Since weaklings who can't even protect their own ticket will just die above.

Since it got harder and harder as things went on.

'In the end, you must take care of yourself'

The fight for the ticket continued after Hanchul had left.

The boats departed one by one.

The strongest people leisurely collected tickets and then rode on the boat alone to go where they wanted.

The people who weren't at that level looked around and then made an alliance as they got on the boat in duos.

And the weakest ones decided that going as a group of three was better grouped up and then rose in the boats as threes.

Soon there were only two boats left.

And somebody approached Hansoo while he was looking at the boats.

"Why did you refuse Hanchul's offer earlier?"

When Hansoo turned around he saw Jimin.

Jimin was rather laid back as if she had already collected three tickets.

Hansoo opened his mouth after staring at Jimin for a while.

"I have my own reasons. For what reason did you come to me?"

Jimin laughed as she spoke.

"I wanted to give you an offer as well. Let's go together"

And then Jimin showed him the black symbol on her hand.

A clear evidence that she was connected to a Lord.

But Hansoo shook his head.

A Deny.

'Well. It's as I expected'

Jimin shrugged her shoulders.

She knew that her offer would be refused he he had already refused Hanchul's offer.

Hansoo was a necessity to her sister but if not then there was nothing she could do.

'But why is he still around here'

Hansoo was just quietly standing in the corner without stealing tickets from others.

'Is he doing this because he feels bad stealing tickets from the others?'

Then there wasn't a failure like this guy.

'I knew as soon as you brought that Gyucheol or whatever guy behind you'

Jimin tutted her tongue.

And if it was really like that then Hansoo was not needed to them.

They didn't need people who weren't determined.

'Well. He wouldn't die at least'

As long as he protected his ticket then the last boat will remain.

So there will not be a case that the boat will leave as long as he held his ticket in his hand.

He would probably go up after gathering the remaining tickets right before the island fell completely.

'Well I'm not interested anymore'

Jimin, who had lost interest in Hansoo, got on a boat and then left the island.

And now there was one boat, three tickets and tens of people left.

The people who had been running away and throwing their tickets because they were afraid of the people on the boats.

In one aspect it was a clear choice.

Since the people who had left were the people who wouldn't only take their tickets but also take their runes.

As the situation got dire, the people who had charged at them died just like that.

The people who had been zealously fighting and gathering runes were not an opponent for people who did not.

But it was right before the island would collapse.

It wasn't the time to hide around anymore.

They needed three tickets to activate the boat and the tickets in their hands would be meaningless without the ticket in Hansoo's hands.

And soon the people who had been hiding the tickets started to run crazily at Hansoo.

That guy was actually much much stronger than them.

Since the people who knew he had a ticket had all been crushed after trying to take him on.

Wasn't the fact that he stayed meant that he would take the last two with him.

Which meant the two people Hansoo chose would go with him.

But the others wouldn't just stay to watch this scene.

The people started to charge at the people running towards Hansoo.

"Damnit! This is mine!"

"You crazy bastard! There's no such thing as yours and mine!"

"Dammit! Please take this and take me too! You have to survive too!"

And Gyucheol was naturally part of this

"Hansoo! Please for the sake of the friendship we had so far! Please! At least take my daughter!"

Hansoo made a sad expression as he looked at them.

Their expectations were wrong.

He hadn't stayed to take two more people.

'…I am sorry.'

These guys weren't cards that were abandoned.

These were people that he had come back to save.

But he could not save everyone.

He could at most only save a few tens more no matter how he struggled within the tutorial area where the influence of the fairy was too strong.

There were too many things he needed to do and he could clearly see how many people would die if he failed to do so.

If he were to be pushed around because of his emotions here then billions of people will die.

He needed three tickets.

Since he needed to go to the Central Island

The only reason why he had stayed was because he had something he still needed to do.

'I will act according to my plans'

He needed to focus on his main mission.

Eres had told him that he was going back to save humanity but that was just the result.

He hadn't come back to save every single human.

He had come back to win.

Becoming strong in the tutorial was just a part of this plans as well as a part of his methods, without this method then he would fail to reach his goals and failing to reach the preliminaries meant failing to see the goal.

If humanity lost again because he took a step back then he had to just kill himself by smashing his head on a boulder.

"I'm Sorry"

"…what?"

The people spoke in confusion from Hansoo's abrupt speech.

Hansoo's expression, which had sadness, started to turn cold.

The reason why he hadn't killed or stolen so far was to stop the stories from spreading.

And he couldn't kill everyone who had seen this just to shut their mouthes.

Eres disagreed until the end.

Are you crazy?! What are you doing?! You're going to do such things when you're going to save them?! What did they do wrong?!

But Keldian kept pushing him back until the end

Those guys have already been weeded out. They would die eventually even if they go up

And he added something else.

And Eres. You know that this place isn't the place where you die if you do something wrong. It's a place where you die if you are weak.

These were people who would fall along with the island.

The people here aren't the people who he would choose from.

These were people who had already been weeded out in this damnable round of game.

And this is where Keldian's suggestion came out.

If they were going to die anyway let's just use them as fertilizer according to our original plans

They had finally reached a consensus after arguing for a while.

He would not purposely kill them.

He didn't feel like it and if he did do that then the people with the Lord's marks would know that he had done it.

And that would be troublesome.

But he was going to devour everybody who had been left behind until the end before he left.

Since these guys were going to fall with the island anyway.

And down below was an ordinary looking but harsh ocean.

If they fall then they would die in extreme pain.

Slowly, bit by bit.

The fairies watched this in extreme amusement.

'I'll at least send you off comfortably'

Kiiiiik!

Hansoo grasped the needle in his hand so hard to the point it crumpled.

The rune eater snake that was around his wrist shouted in glee as if it expected predation.

Then Hansoo charged towards the people making a commotion with a cold look on his face.

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Chapter 28 – Central Island (1)

Hansoo looked at the Central Island that he could see afar from the boat.

An island that was huge even in comparison to other islands.

"You're always out of the expectation. Heehee. Don't worry. We don't spread things like this around"

The fairy looked at the needle on Hansoo's hand which was still dripping of blood as Hansoo looked at the Fairy expressionlessly.

'No regrets'

Killing humans wasn't comfortable even if they were going to die anyway and he was just sending them off in a more comfortable way after judging that leaving them alive would be more painful for them.

But he had no thoughts of hesitating if it was necessary and didn't interfere with his plans.

Since he hadn't come to play hero.

The fairy might have gotten awkward as Hansoo stared at it expressionlessly as it shrugged it's shoulders and started to explain.

"Welcome to the Central Island. You are the last person. We will start now"

And at that moment, everybody who was on the landing area teleported into one place.

"This is…"

Everybody looked around.

A giant castle.

Thousands of people were looking around after being teleported high above the walls.

And soon the fairy which had appeared above their heads started to explain the situation.

"Hello, 1912 participants in the Central Island. I guess I need to explain three things first basically. There are three things of utmost importance on this island. Castle. Demon Lord's Castle and Underground Dungeon."

Everyone made a bitter expression at those words

There was only the underground dungeon marked on the island maps.

The underground dungeon of the central island was filled with beasts with good rewards and that they could get strong and armed quickly.

And that was why everyone had used three tickets in order to come to the central island.

The castle they were standing on was one thing, but what was the demon castle.

The fairy laughed as it continued to speak.

"My explanation was a bit lacking but these aren't lies. Can you see the castle afar?"

At those words everybody above the castle looked at something on the edge of the island.

It was an island but it was so big that they had to focus really hard with their eyes in order to see and figure out that it was a castle.

"That is the Demon Lord's Castle which is your final destination. Well you would all die if a real Demon lord were to come out so we specially prepared a weaker version of the demon lord for you instead.

'A Demon Lord…'

Hansoo chuckled.

He thought of the thing that would be causing a massacre against the other races on the 7th level of the Abyss.

If that thing did really come here then everyone would've been killed off just from a simple breath.

The people here, including Hansoo, were not of the level to kill it even if it was a weaker version.

"The Demon army is largely separated into the demons and undeads. The demons are the ones that give bountiful rewards that you think of. But the undead do not give anything. No item, no rune no anything.

The fairy rested for a moment and then continued to explain.

"And the castle is where you guys are at. There is 1 month. If you can withstand the attack of the Demon Lord and protect the crystal in the center of the castle you will win. You can also win by just taking over the Demon Lord's Castle."

Everyone made a bitter face at these words.

Since they could see the swarming armies on the way to the Demon Lord's Castle at a glance.

When would they have the time to break through them.

It was obvious that defense was easier than offense.

"And finally, I should explain the underground dungeon. You can see multiple entrances on the insides of the castle right?"

Everyone nodded as they looked towards the inner parts of the castle.

There were multitudes of suspicious looking dungeon entrances located in numerous places.

There were entrances on the castle walls and even entrances in the drill hall.

"These are the same as the underground dungeons that you know of. If you hunt in there then the runes will drop like flies and artifacts will drop as well as you knew"

And then the fairy talked about colorless runes and artifacts.

And then everybody's expression changed.

A lot had happened but it had only been 10 days since they came here.

They had become stronger physically but they only at a knife at most as a weapon.

But a chance to earn higher runes and artifacts.

The fairy persuades them to go into the dungeons asap in order to become stronger.

'That damnable thing'

Hansoo sighed.

Since he knew what would happen if things went on like this

"Now. You will need a tutorial right? Since it's only the first day there'll only be about three attacks. There also won't be any demons. Start!"

And soon a large amount of skeletons started rising up at a scary rate outside the castle with clacking sounds.

"Damnit… Isn't that a weak mob that we fought around level 1?"

A person mumbled atop the castle walls.

The skeletons with blue fire burning in their eye sockets or the ghouls who were screaming out terrifying roars were not weak mobs in anybody's eyes.

No, they were actually armed better than themselves who only had a sword at most.

Since they were even wearing armors.

And soon the undead who had formed a battle line started to charge towards the castle door and the castle walls.

"Guard it!!"

And soon the adventures and the undead started to clash with a fearsome energy.

"…We need to make roles."

One of the Lords spoke with a fatigued expression.

There were a few Lords between adventurers.

The Lords had armed their forces and came into the Central island by getting three tickets in order to recruit stronger people.

There were 12 clans and Lords gathered in the Central Island.

They weren't even half of the two thousand people here but it was enough to speak out with power.

Since the other adventures didn't even have anything driving them.

But there were expressions of fatigue on the faces of 12 Lords after the defense had ended.

'Damn…It's really gruesome'

The owner of the symbol on Jimin, Yerin, grinded her teeth.

The attack continued for an hour, then they were given a three hour break only to continue fighting for another hour.

This had repeated three times.

When they first fought, about 30 didn't fight so about 1900 people fought above the castle walls.

1500 fought during the second time above the castle walls.

There were only 700 people left above the castle walls during the final fight.

And thanks to that the castle was almost invaded by a mere tutorial attack.

'Those damnable bastards…'

It wasn't that they had died or got injured.

At first only 30 people had escaped.

The 30 people who had discreetly went below came back completely different after fighting two to three hours.

They had gained a large amount of runes and artifacts in that short moment.

The fairy did not lie to them.

Hunting in the underground provided a way for them to improve very fast.

The problem was after that.

After seeing the 30 people get strong, people who were defending the castle walls had gotten jealous.

The undead who were charging at them didn't drop any runes nor artifacts.

So they realized after one defending wave.

That they couldn't get strong defending the castle walls.

And at that moment around 400 people left.

They couldn't even control them.

Since the entrance to the underground dungeon was everywhere, they just simply escaped during the chaos of the battle.

But it was fine to this point.

Since the conscious that the undead's attack was threatening and that they needed to protect the castle was still alive.

The problem was the third wave.

The thirty who had entered the dungeon while the others had become a mess whilst defending had come out with a complete makeover.

They had fought relatively safely and collected a large amount of runes and artifacts. And the might of these artifacts were indeed very strong.

The people who were below the Lord received the symbols because they naturally had good teamwork and good potential.

They were a level above the others in terms of skill.

But this gap was closed within a few hours.

And the 400 people who had entered whilst ignoring the second wave had also come out stronger.

And this had made people anxious.

They couldn't become strong if they didn't enter the dungeon.

So the people who had become anxious all left during the final wave and then the people left above with good consciences were just barely able to defend the wave.

The first day. Despite it being the tutorial.

They couldn't even imagine how they would defend starting tomorrow.

'Damn..Now it's hard to control them'

The people who had entered first got well along with each other so they got together to create a laughable group called Semi-Basement Union.

If their name was at least cool then it might've been less infuriating but it made them even madder.

And people who had escaped the defense line had been gathering under that group.

They had solved their guiltiness of betraying their comrades and going to the dungeon for their own benefit by grouping together.

They would be treated as traitors around the defenders but there was nothing to be embarrassed about when they grouped with others who had done the same thing.

And thanks to this the Semi-Basement Union had become as strong as the twelve clans combined.

And the root of the problem was that the twelve Lords thought they had to defend the castle and had not entered the dungeon.

They had to hunt in turns even if they had to defend a little harder.

They had focused on defending because they didn't think that the gap would be closed in a day like this but the effect of hunting in the underground dungeon was beyond their imagination.

And they had even created justification.

In order to defend against the undead's attacks then you must become stronger below

And this justification had been excusing away the guilt that the Semi-Basement Union and the others had been feeling.

'Motherfuckers'

Yerin's beautiful face crumpled.

The justification was good.

And she approved of it.

They couldn't just defend in order to defend this castle.

They had to rotate between defending and attacking.

If they improve too much than they would invaded due to the weak defense and if they defend too much than they would get overwhelmed by the forces getting stronger and stronger.

But when would they actually come out?

The people were now setting camps in front of the dungeons and were going back and forth.

And they were acting like this while their powers were around the same level.

If their strength increased than they could see what would happen very clearly,

'Damn… How do we solve this.'

While the Lords were racking their brains like this a commotion was going on below.

"This bitch! It's a hero of justice really!"

'What?'

They had poked their heads outside the windows with confused looks.

"Bitch. Who are you to be ordering us? We are going to defend the line above tomorrow?"

Seonghoon, one of the original members of the group, shouted aggressively.

A change starting from tomorrow.

What was this nonsense?

Hansoo nodded at those words.

"Yeah. Since we played our fill today, we need to start earning for our own food starting tomorrow. The people who had been defending shall go into the dungeons tomorrow"

"…You damnable fellow"

Seunghoon grinded his teeth.

He was one of the 30 people who had first entered the dungeon.

Why was he acting kind after he had started the whole thing.

And then Koonjin, who had been standing in the back, spoke as he walked out.

"Calm down. We aren't saying that we won't go out. If we hunt for two more days then we can defend it properly after getting stronger. We can trade then. Let's not fight between ourselves"

Hansoo smirked at those words.

By then the Lord clans would have become a huge mess.

'That's why it's difficult'

Then there was no reason to splitting it perfectly like this.

"Dismissed. Starting tomorrow, everyone will go up to fight"

Gukjin crumped his expression at those words.

'This guy had some guts…'

The reason why Gukjin had stopped the fight was because he felt that Hansoo was still very useful.

Since he had been advancing in the dungeon with that weird psychic powers.

They couldn't have become that strong by themselves.

But the situation was now different.

"You were definitely stronger before but… if you come out like this then things might become difficult"

Gukjin looked at Hansoo coldly.

They all had one or two colorless runes originally.

And from today's hunt they had all accomplished in getting over 2 new colorless runes.

And a few people succeeded in making colorless runes for strength, stamina, agility and perception.

And because of this they knew.

Their colorless perception runes told them clearly.

That that guy only had strength colorless runes.

Hansoo chuckled as he touched his ear.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength(Colorless): 0.03%

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 84.0

Perception: 85.1

Mana: 88.4

Magic: 84.5

Physical Resistance: 85

Magic Resistance: 85.3

'Of course I can't win like this'

There was a huge different between one and four colorless runes.

And there were even differences in numbers too.

Hansoo looked around at the thirty people around him.

He didn't like to interfere but they had to at least work their worth.

If the people here who only cared about self gain went crazy then the castle will get destroyed.

"You won't listen if I just talk right?"

"…this bitch."

Hansoo smirked as he put a cloud snack in his mouth.

'There's a lot to do in order to destroy the Demon Lord's Castle in one month, I need to do things properly in the beginning'

They needed to work non stop for the whole month.

And even then it was just a possibility.

The difficulty of the Demon Lord's Castle was that high and because of this it was necessary to clear it.

Since that's the only way to challenge the final dungeon.

This was something that even Kwang Goonju couldn't clear, he just went up after defending fervently.

There was only one person whom he knew that had cleared it.

'Eres. Well I won't be able to clear like you but…'

As long as you reach the destination, that's all that mattered.

Hansoo, who had inhaled the smoke, looked around as he laughed coldly.

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Chapter 29 – Central Island (2)

Hooong

Hansoo stared at the Podao flying towards him expressionlessly.Eripan's Podao

A colorless artifact that increased cutting powers.

It was a pretty good one.

Cutting was considered a skill so it was something that required both Physical and magic resistances.

But Hansoo stared at the sword expressionlessly.

It was easy to dodge.

But Hansoo just charged at it.

It wasn't always good to dodge.

If you dodge then your balance will fall apart which will slow down your counterattack.

And if you had the confidence to block it completely then it was even less necessary.

Of course, resistances acted as something that reduce the damage but not as a shield.

It didn't make one invincible even if it was at the colorless level, so getting a severe hit can't have no damage.

If it had only that then he probably couldn't have beaten the Carnivorous beast.

However, that was only when you get hit properly, in a situation where you can see the attack clearly it was actually hard to even purposely get hit properly.

'I can see it all'

Perception that had reached the colorless stage couldn't even be compared to the previous.

A more perfect battle foresight came into his head than what he had when he fought the Carnivorous beast.

Kududududk

Hansoo deflected the side of the blade perfectly with the ring on his finger.

Tong.

And at that moment the Power Destruction of Nurmaha's ring activated and destroyed the Cutting magic on Eripan's Podao.

"Uurk?"

Even before the enemy could get surprised, Hansoo's fist had even pushed back the enemy's blade.

Then the sword which was dispelled of the cutting magic couldn't penetrate through his physical resistances.

Tumble.

Sacrifice your own flesh to break its bones.

A battle style that he had learned while progressing through the abyss.

You can't attack if you focus on dodging.

Then the enemy will live longer and this will in turn cause your few remaining friends next to you die.

As long as you don't die then you needed to kill them in one strike.

You can't kill if you are afraid of getting hurt.

Since as long as you survive, you can just heal it back up.

One shot one kill.

His battle style, which he couldn't utilize due to his lack of resistances, started coming back as his resistances and Nurmaha's ring was set up.

Since he had blocked it was now time for the neck.

The blade moved at an extreme speed towards Gukjin's neck after he had lost his balance.

"Uaauuuhhh…"

Gukjin felt like his soul was about to depart as he saw the blade that felt like it would cut his neck in two.

The damnable increased perception and agility was showing the blade flying towards his neck clearly.

'Oh right. I shouldn't kill them.'

Hansoo came to his senses as he spun the sword around.

A podao that he had attained in the floors below.

This was also a colorless artifact.

It wasn't an amazing artifact but if he hit them like this then their heads would get crushed without resistances.

He deactivated the skill on the blade edge and even turned the direction of the swing towards his abdomen.

It wasn't that the abdomen was safer but he had an artifact that he picked up earlier Abdominal Bandage of Revival

It won't destroy his intestines since he had even drained the strength from the strike.

Puuuk!

"Kuuaaak!"

'It's rather tiring trying to not kill.'

Hansoo frowned but he had to do so.

If he carefully whips them then he could send them to the battlefield after healing them.

He had to let loose a little bit.

This was not the Abyss

'I need to save them. They are precious resources'

The event in the Central Island was a bit different than the ones so far.

It was not something that could be cleared by flying about alone.

He had to use as much as he could.

He had settled down about the half but the cloud snack's duration still had around 8 minutes left.

'…It's a little wasteful to smoke the whole thing'

But Hansoo threw away his regrets.

Since he could raise all his runes to colorless stage by tomorrow.

Which meant this "guy" won't be needed anymore.

Hansoo loosened up a little and then charged at the 15 people who were staring at him in fear.

"…hmm."

Jimin, who had been standing next to Yerin, gulped her saliva.

The thirty over there could go up against a clan if they combined their strength.

But they weren't even opponents for him.

He wasn't even dodging their attacks.

She had thought that he was crazy but she knew now.

That he had the confidence to ignore all those attacks.

'How high are his resistances…'

She had learnt of resistances by chance from a skill.

It was so hard to raise that the person with the highest resistances only had around 30.

But they had realized that it was better to raise perception and agility to dodge than resistances so they gave up raising them.

Since it wasn't that the resistances absorbed all the damage if they raised it.

But her thoughts changed completely after seeing Hansoo fight.

There was no outstanding stat out of strength, stamina, agility or perception.

But his defense, ability to control his body and battle perception were at a level of a different dimension.

A battle tactic that was minimized in order to cut the opponent's neck in one strike.

Approach by dodging and charge whilst blocking with the body until they got into range, then kill them in one shot.

Physical similarities weren't important.

No, it was the exact opposite.

If the 4 great stats, which were strength, stamina, agility and perception, were similar to him then you would the instant you stand in front of him.

'What the hell is that ring also. Where the hell did he gain something like that.'

Jimin mumbled as she looked at Hansoo who had beaten down all thirty of them even before he finished the cigarette.

There were no deaths.

But the ones alive couldn't even meet their eyes with Hansoo.

Jimin could figure out why that was the case.

'They probably felt like their necks had been sent flying'

Those guys probably felt like their necks had been cut off.

Since they would've felt like that if they were in their position.

'Damnit.. That's just unfair.'

Jimin made a complicated expression.

It wasn't something that could be solved by raising stat, getting better skill, having psychic powers or having better artifacts.

She had realized that it would merely be pearls on a pig's neck if you couldn't melt them down into your own battle style.

She probably wouldn't be able to display half the battle power of Hansoo even if she had the same amount of stat, skill, psychic powers and weapon.

And Yerin, who had been standing next to her, had the same complicated thoughts.

'What exactly is his psychic power? Did he use a skill?'

She had thought that other than psychic powers like hers, no one would be able to be her opponent.

Since the rate at which one person getting strong could not compare with the strength of 50 or 100 people getting strong.

This was a huge misconception.

'It exists'

An existence that could crush a clan in a headfirst clash alone.

Whilst everybody was looking at Hansoo with complicated expressions, Hansoo shouted around after staring at the half smoked Cloud snack for a while.

'I should solve everything before I burn up the Cloud snack'

"Starting tomorrow the Semi-Basement Union and the Clan Unions will form an alliance then fight and defend on rotations. This is my opinion and is not the answer so if you have any objections, come out now to talk. If it's reasonable we shall talk it out. Objections?"

But of course there wasn't anybody who could come out.

Of course they could probably win if all one thousand of them charged at him.

But no one had such thoughts.

But from the start, the Semi-Basement Union was a group formed by people whose greediness had advanced a bit far.

They knew that the people going first would be crushed to bits so who would go first.

And talking things out.

The one thing they wanted to suggest was this.

Let them hunt a few days more below without rotating.

The blade will come flying at them instantaneously and they knew from the way he fought that the ones who went first would get crushed.

And the clan unions behind wouldn't stand still either.

They were already on bad terms.

'This is indeed much more comfortable'

It was faster and more comfortable to crush down thirty of them as an example instead of going against all of them.

Hansoo, who had trampled upon the masses in one shot, turned around towards the Clan Unions as he spoke.

"Let's talk for a bit"

"…hmm?"

They were all anxious as they looked at Hansoo.

Honestly they had a bit of confidence in suppressing the Semi-Basement Union if they went crazy until now.

Since the people who had been gathered from understanding were like crumbs unlike them who were like a compact mass.

But if that guy acted as the centripetal force and ate all of Semi-Basement Union then they could not look down on him.

No, his battle force was very burdensome to them from the start.

Hansoo chuckled.

"Don't worry. I don't have any thoughts of becoming a leader"

He hadn't tied them together in order to become a king.

It was better to leave things like that to people with appropriate traits.

The thing he needed was his own sphere of influence.

'First I will put down the basic rules and system'

If these guys fall apart then he won't be able to roam around because he would be defending.

'Of course it won't last long but.'

Hansoo mumbled as he walked towards the Clan Lords.

"Hmm…"

Guktae, who was one of the twelve clan Lords, smiled in contentment as he saw the view in front of him.

'That guy called Hansoo. He really did something admirable'

All the ruling powers within the castle were divided around the twelve clan Lords.

Hansoo's words were simple.

Being a leader is impossible without your psychic powers. Feed the useful ones as much as you can and get them into your clans while leaving the others under your command

And at those words the others started to hurriedly absorb the remaining Semi-Basement Union's people.

If there was only one clan then they probably wouldn't have gathered this hard.

Since they wanted to fill them up with as many elites as possible.

But they couldn't ignore anybody in this place because they were just mediocre roamers.

They had to decrease the amount of mediocre roamers and increase the number of their clans people in order to not get pushed back.

And in result the number of people in the clans had multiplied to about 1100.

Everyone had recruited people under their clan up to their limit.

So about 800 people were left.

And these 800 people were also divided fairly into the clans.

And after this, every clan had about 90 clansmen and about 70 normal adventurers.

A number that the clan could control.

And after they had completed this process, they agreed to continuously defend and hunt in rotations.

And when the runes and the system that everybody had to keep and follow were set up, Hansoo let go of his influence.

He was nowhere to be seen during hunts and had participated during defense but he didn't have any interest in being a leader.

That's not something I'm good at. I can't catch up to something built with you guys' psychic powers as base.

'Well yeah…'

The psychic powers they had was the strongest point out of all the charisma, power and decision making abilities.

'Though I want to use non-clan membered a bit more…'

Guktae didn't like the fact that he had to treat normal adventurers and his own clansmen the same way.

But he couldn't do anything.

Since they had set up fair distribution with rules clearly and the fact that the Semi-Basement Union had still existed.

'Tsk. It would've been much better if those 30 had been killed then'

They couldn't treat them recklessly since the 30 who had been beaten down acted as the main leaders and looked over interchanges.

Since they might move to another clan and the fact that the number 800 was still a very burdensome number.

'It somewhat feels like raising a worker's association'

Whatever happened there were some leisure now.

Though it was only a bit.

'Hmm… then there's no reason to send them all to defend'

The 1900 gathered here were not grouped stably.

Since there was always friction between clans to clans and clans to Semi-Basement Union in order to gain a bit more.

'I should prepare a little'

Guktae, who had completed his thoughts, went into action immediatly.

Yerin spoke with a cold expression.

"As I saw it the people assigned to defend didn't do so. Didn't your clan have responsibility of the Northeastern side? A few undeads had gotten past the other defense lines because you took out of the defenders to hunt"

Guktae, one of the clan Lords, smiled leisurely as he spoke.

"Oh come on. Miss Yerin. Listen to me for a bit. There's quite a lot of leisure lately yeah? Is there a reason for all six clans to defend the walls?"

Some of the clan Lords nodded at those words.

Yerin grinded her teeth.

'lot of leisure my ass'

These were people who were secretly pulling out defenders during waves to hunt.

She could have ignored them if they defended their spot properly at least.

Since they tried to defend without casualties with small numbers their lines had been pushed back and because of that there were damages to other clans as well.

Guktae laughed at Yerin as he spoke again.

"And look. We have some leisure now but does it make sense that the fairy is leaving us so comfortably like this? The demons are nowhere to be seen yet. We need to prepare for that moment and get stronge…"

"You are talking about some interesting things. Include me too"

Hansoo smirked as he entered the room of Lords and at that moment the expressions of a few other Lords and Guktae froze.

'Well. Two days. It's lasted a while if it's this much'

But it was better to solve anything before the real start of the battle on the third day when the demons come out.

'Kang Hansoo… This bitch. He was nowhere to be seen but why did he have to come now'

Guktae, who had been looking at Hansoo with a slightly anxious expression, shook his head.

It was said that they had to keep the rules no matter what but who could argue him for only this much?

And they had gotten strong in the past few days and their numbers had increased to around 160 from the 50 in the past.

He had also hunted but it seemed like his artifacts didn't have much change and two days of getting stronger won't change much.

Their situations were different from the past.

'You raised us up like this. Let's see what you've got to say'

There was no reason to back down.

Guktae calmed down as he started to look at Hansoo with a cold expression

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Chapter 30 – Central Island (3)

Hansoo spoke as he looked at Guktae.

"I was sure we agreed to abide by the rules. We said that you can take the things you earned while hunting but that we needed to keep a ratio between hunting and defending."

Guktae made a slightly anxious face but then quickly shook his head.

He couldn't back off here.

'Then my rebellion was useless'

They had grown to the point where nothing can shake them.

But this was only possible because Hansoo had given them all the power.

So he was curious.

What did he believe in to hand all the power over to them and raising them like so.

'I need to find what he is believing in'

Their clans were at a level where it couldn't be compared to the ones of the past.

Because Hansoo in front of them had created a safe measure, they could fight faster and have less casualties.

And the non-members under his authority had become closer to him due to his hospitality.

Everything from quantity to quality.

Their power could not even compare to Hansoo when he had crushed the others on the first day.

'Well… This guy did indeed get strong too.'

It seemed that he had gotten strong as well.

As if he had gotten strong by eating the colorless runes from the dungeon.

'Though it's amazing that all his runes are colorless…'

It wasn't that blades didn't go through.

How could the speed at which one person gets stronger compare to the speed of 150~160 people getting stronger.

'And I'm not alone'

At least a few clans had the same thoughts as Hansoo and the defenses will fall if they aren't here.

So how could he attack him in such a situation.

The only reason why they had some leisure was because the 12 clans were defending, and if there is a fight then the defense will break apart.

'But there's still some leisure'

Which meant there exists something that could threaten them.

And Guktae did not like the current situation where he did not know what that could be.

'I need to poke him a bit more'

Guktae, who had finished his thoughts, made a leisurely face as he spoke.

"I mean come on. Friend. Listen. Would that fairy thing leave us like this? It's logical to be getting strong while we have the leisure to do so. You need to have some flexibility in the rules"

Hansoo made an amused expression as he spoke.

"Then why didn't you discuss it with other clansmen? I'm pretty sure it's in the agreement. The ratio of hunting and defense won't be decided by one clan but rather on the consensus of six clans."

Yerin glared at Guktae in anger.

Her clan had taken damage because that guy hadn't followed that rule and acted how he wanted.

Jimin, her precious younger sister, was injured and was recovering.

Guktae mumbled inwardly.

'What would it mean to follow such rules'

The reason why he had discreetly taken out some forces was to be better than other clans.

He knew instinctively.

This place was dangerous but it was a place where they could get stronger much faster than in the other islands.

They needed to create a gap here so they can crush down the others after getting higher.

But if all the clans were to put with the same ratio of clansmen in the fight then what would it mean if there were 11 other clans at a similar level as his?

Superiority was a result of difference.

It hadn't been long since he had come here but he knew something very important.

'I must get strong whenever I get the chance to. Without stopping.'

That was the only way of winning.

'But I can't say it out loud like that'

"It was because it was a decision that came up whilst I was thinking. It seemed like everyone was busy."

It was an excuse that a dog wouldn't believe but that was why it was effective.

'Quickly. Show me what you are believing in'

Does he act like this because he believes he can cut off their necks here?

Guktae knew that Hansoo wasn't somebody dumb.

And there were plenty of guards outside.

He would get surrounded immediately.

But at that moment Guktae, who was making a leisurely expression, froze for a moment.

'Wait. How did he get in here?'

At that moment Guktae felt a chill run down his back.

The location of their conference room was right below the lookout tower for the crystal they had to protect.

This was the safest room where the castle's entirety was visible.

That was why they had decided for it to be their conference room.

Since it would be cumbersome if some crazy few ones caused terror because they don't like how things are.

And they had selected the most trusted people in their clans as guards and had set them up outside.

Three from each of 12 clans to make 36.

The conference doesn't last long so if it wasn't a number that affected the defense and as a Lord, they should have at least this much privilege.

But there was no sound of clashing.

'Did he perhaps crush them all?'

Everyone had been looking at Hansoo with similar expressions.

Hansoo chuckled as he laughed.

"You see, I've gotten a new merchandise these days. To fit the season."

And then Hansoo sent in a bit of mana onto the bracelet on his wrist.

Shshhhhk.

Hansoo's body quickly disappeared from the site.

The eyes of the Lords became cold.

'That is…'

Invisibility.

If that was it then it wouldn't be a problem.

Since their perception stat wasn't that bad to the point where they would lose the enemy because they couldn't see something.

But they couldn't see where he was.

He had disappeared in front of them but they didn't know where in the room he was.

There was something that worked even against their increased perception.

There was a skill that helped with perfect invisibility on that bracelet.

If a weakling had used it then it would've been obvious but they couldn't know because of the bracelet's powers coupled with Hansoo's movements.

Everyone felt chills run down their back.

He had walked through their most trustworthy 36 clansmen.

Despite the fact that they were on extreme alert.

This meant that the amount of the clan's strength wasn't important.

What would it mean if the surrounding army was strong.

It would be over right away if he cut your neck in your sleep.

'…He showed it to us on purpose'

Why would he show something so precious?

Something like that was a hidden card.

But he had shown it to them on purpose.

It meant do things well on their own.

Guktae finally knew why Hansoo wasn't interested in the position of a leader.

'…You just need to take down the twelve of us huh?'

He couldn't control the 2000 people alone.

That was impossible no matter how strong he was.

But that was possible for Clan Lords.

And that was why he had given 2000 people over to the Clan Lords.

Since as long as he controlled the twelve of them, it was like controlling all of them.

Hansoo mumbled inwardly whilst looking at Guktae.

'I got it right on time'

Arangkal's Bracelet

It absorbed the user's mana to give basic invisibility as well as sending out force waves to interfere with the enemy's perception.

And it was something he needed to acquire first in this dungeon of the Central Island.

If this is combined with his movements then most people wouldn't even be able to find him.

Of course it would be useless in battle because of the aura and harsh moments but this wasn't for such times.

He had invested all his time in the dungeon in order to gain this.

'Well. Thankfully I got all my runes up to Colorless.'

Hansoo, who had finished his thoughts, showed himself back to the Clan Lords as he spoke.

"It may happen that a person makes a mistake. We can solve it with talks."

"Then the profit you gained from extra hunting will be shared equally with the clansmen participating in the defense and you can just fix the ratio of hunting and defense tomorrow right? Oh and give payments to the injured for compensation."

This was exactly like it was written in the original rules.

A few Clan Lords grinded their teeth at this but nodded their heads.

They realized that they weren't in a situation to try to show their guts anymore.

But Guktae still looked at Hansoo just in case.

'Shall I provoke him a bit more?'

It hadn't ended yet.

Even if they didn't follow the rules, he wasn't in the situation to attack them.

Since the castle would become dangerous without them.

There was a huge difference between twelve Lords and one person.

And he probably wasn't the only Lord with the same thoughts.

But Guktae shook his head after seeing Hansoo's eyes.

'I can't'

Those eyes weren't those which would let him go.

He was smiling but the eyes were cold.

He had seen those eyes before.

'It was like this before'

Those were the same eyes as when he crushed the 30 people on the first day.

He realized after Hansoo's eyes which were looking for a reason to give a good lesson.

He was looking at it in such a way that if he beat one down in order to show the others then it would be fine.

He hadn't killed them before but there was no proof that he wouldn't this time.

'Just this much for today.'

Udududk

Guktae took a step back after mumbling inside his head.

He couldn't stand the fact that somebody else was above him.

He really really did not like that.

And that was why he wanted to have a stronger power than others.

But Hansoo had clearly shown him who was holding onto his lifeline.

His rage was bubbling but he had to retreat for today.

'I shall excuse you just for a while'

Guktae was a person who firmly believed in the limitations of one person's strength.

The person in front of him was a bit different and that was why he had lost superiority here but eventually a chance will come along again.

The conference ended like so and Hansoo chuckled as he looked at the people walking down.

'Well. Somebody who uses their head is better'

You can't give up on a blade because the edge was too sharp and it might cut you.

It was better the sharper it was.

'Not listening to my words is in the expectations as well.'

There would be nobody left on this island if he cut off their heads because he didn't like them or because they were greedy.

All of the tutorial was full of greedy people, it was just that the degree of their greediness was different.

It wasn't that all of them had turned greedy in just 10 days.

Since 10 days was a bit too short to change one's true nature which they had lived with for decades.

But ten days was more than enough to kill of every kind person who would care for others.

And people realized as others quickly died off next to them.

That encouraging good and punishing evil was only possible in a book or something.

This was not a place where a kind hero of justice would survive but rather a place where someone who would hit that hero from the back would survive.

'Well. Eres was a special case.'

If you searched then a few would exist but then they really needed to be blessed.

Since it meant that they had the luck and skill to keep their kindheartedness whilst surviving.

There weren't many people who weren't greedy in front of death and the people who had survived were learning of these things very quickly.

The game was very long and they could only survive by crushing others on the island above.

So how much would their insides hurt since they had to distribute things fairly in such a situation?

This won't last long either.

So he needed to do something before then.

'The thing I need to get next is…Judgement of Dekrados'

The fairy indeed did not lie.

Since it was clear that this was a land of opportunity.

'It's coming.'

Hansoo looked at the sky.

And soon after, the fairy appeared.

The fairy which had appeared suddenly above the castle.

'Can't it just piss of…'

Everyone in the castle frowned as the fairy appeared.

The fairy greeted everyone as it saw their looks.

"Hi everyone! Aww, Don't frown like that. I'm not here to lay my hands on you."

"If you look at me with such distrustful eyes then you'll hurt me. I'm just here to tell you something which I didn't tell you about. It's not much. If the crystal gets crushed then the whole island will fall. Well. It won't fall right away. It'll fall slowly in about 10 to 20 days."

There wasn't much shock between the people.

Since they had expected as such.

The fact that they had to protect it with all their strength did not change.

The fairy spoke as it looked at these people.

"The actual important part is the second part. You were all comfortable so far right? The undead is… well, just child's play. This team defended better than I thought. The demons will start coming out on this third day!"

"…fuck."

Everybody cursed as they looked at the fairy.

That son of a fly was like a messenger of destruction.

There wasn't a bit of good news whenever it opened its mouth.

The fairy made a slightly hurt expression at those words but then opened its mouth again.

"You guys are too much. Don't you realize how good of a news that the demons are coming out is? This is a really rare chance for you guys!"

Everyone looked at the fairy at those words.

The fairy did mention it before.

That there were extravagant rewards.

But even then it would be all over if they died.

"It isn't some crappy rune or artifact. If you kill the Demons then a mini-crystal comes out. Hehee."

"If you collect the Mini-Crystals then you can trade it for a really good artifact! It is much better than the ones you have. It's obvious that the reward would be better the more you collect right? Look at the catalogue in your pocket for those. By the way there aren't many demons, you need to try harder than the others in order to get the crystals"

Everyone made a sour expression.

Even if they had such things, it would merely be pearls on a pig's neck.

And how would they collect enough from the bits the demons dropped to trade it for an artifact when there's thousands of people?

They might not be able to lay their hands on one after a whole month.

Even if they did lay their hands on it, only the Clan Lords would do so.

'And the thing that that thing will throw at us won't be weak.'

As the people made sour expressions, the Fairy added another thing.

"Oh. I didn't say this yet. There's another use for the crystal."

"As long as you have the crystal, you can leave this island to go to the island above at anytime. Isn't it a really good privilege? The people with it won't need to care if everybody dies either from falling after the crystal gets shattered or from being invaded by demons right? A total of five people can move on. Heehee."

No matter if that giant crystal broke or not.

No matter if the defense line broke apart or not.

They can escape this dangerous situation to a different island at any time.

Which meant that this was a privilege equal to a life.

Everyone's expressions changed at these words.

The story was different then.

The fairy smiled as it looked at everyone's expressions.

"You get it? About how important of an existence the Demons are? Be strong everyone. One demon coming your way for today!"

And the fairy disappeared as a beastly looking otherworldly existence started to slowly approach them.

Everyone started to calculated their risks.

There wasn't enough information yet.

They didn't know how strong the Demon was and they also didn't know how the others would act.

But one thing was clear.

That it was better to get it before others do.

They didn't charge in first but they had no thoughts of missing this chance.

Since it wouldn't matter if they just kill the person who obtained it as soon as they get it.

Everyone knew that the best scenario was to attack them as the one who charged it was was about to kill it so everyone stood still while standing close to each other. *PR Note: Kill Steal!]

Hansoo shook his head as he looked at this scene.

'It starts now.'

A different name for the Central Island that attracted people below with its sweet runes and artifacts.

Graveyard

If you disregard the people who went up using the crystals then the survival rate here was 8%.

And this was only when the defense is successful. Since they would all die if they fail.

And this was all because of that damnable Crystal.

'I must take it so nobody uses it'

If five die in order to attain it and another five go up using it, then 5 more will die from lack of numbers.

Which meant in conclusion, five will live and ten will die.

It was not an object that should be allowed to be set free.

And at the same time it was something he needed to collect.

'I will collect it and exchange it for Judgement of Dekrados.'

Hansoo walked forward after looking at the others for a while and everyone's eyes shone at Hansoo's back instead of the Demon's.

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Chapter 31 – Central Island (4)

The Clan Lords cautiously but quickly set up an arrangement to surround the demon.

But their opinions were split.

Some of them thought,

'That…if we get it, it's good'

The mini-crystal was good whether you used it or collected it.

There were quite a few nice items that could be bought with just two or three of them.

The Flag of Ariknon Hill

It created an aura around the person holding the flag which increased the speed of regeneration as well strength and stamina by 5%.

In the situation where the artifacts and runes didn't have much difference between people, the artifacts that could be gained from the mini-crystals showed a clear difference from other artifacts.

An object that could create differences between Lords.

And five people per one mini-crystal.

This was a significant number even to a Lord.

If 100 were to be released and the clans were to distribute them, it'll still be eight per clan.

It meant that during a serious emergency, they could move with enough forces to act as a basis for a new start.

And there were many other uses for it as well.

But some Clan Lords thought as such.

'Damn.. They can't be spread around.'

The people moving with the mini-crystal will be happy.

But then what would happen to the ones below.

And the clans weren't the only ones here, there was no way for them to monopolize them.

They couldn't make every one of their clansmen escape no matter how many they collected.

'In that case… it's better to defend instead.'

The fairy wanted them to suffer but it did not want them to all die.

This was probably set up so they could survive if they tried hard.

They had to decrease the number of people ascending prematurely as much as possible.

They needed to turn them into artifacts as soon as they got hold of them so they could get rid of other thoughts.

The two types opinion were different but the conclusion was the same.

'I'll obtain it no matter what.'

The twelve Clan Lords made a slightly anxious expression as they set up the formation.

If the clansmen thought as much, the non-clansmen's thoughts were a bit different.

'Fuckers. They just keep trying to suppress us. Do you think we don't know what you guys are thinking?'

Hojin grinded his teeth.

The clansmen and non-clansmen got treated equally and received equal distribution if one were to look from the outside.

But this was only due to the fact that the situation around these few days was quite stable.

They could feel it when they looked at the hunts of the clansmen.

As soon as you receive that weird looking symbol, you start caring for each other.

On the other hand, the clansmen stayed together with them because they thought that the non-clansmen needed help seeing how they were doing but the way they treated them was almost like they were treating potential criminals.

They didn't allow any form of communication between non-clansmen under different clans and they purposely separated hunting grounds between them to stop any form of meetings from happening.

In such a situation, who between their 90 family members and possible 70 enemies would be thrown off first in a dangerous situation.

Even if their battle strength were similar, the non-clansmen would be picked off one by one.

And no matter how one thought about it, this world didn't seem like the difficulty was set such that it was ok for them to just defend decently.

Look at that demon at this moment.

There was no way that that thing would be weak and plenty of them would die from now on.

So they had a lot of opportunities during the next month.

So they had to take care of their own lives.

'But…it would still be hard right?'

At this moment a lot of people, including themselves, had already gotten close to the demon.

Since there wasn't anybody who wanted to charge towards the Demon they just saw.

And the people behind them were more of a problem than the demons.

There probably aren't many who aren't aiming for that crystal.

But they were only taking glances, nobody was able to charge at it.

Logically, they knew that the chances that a crystal drops to them was incredibly low.

There's even a chance they would get stabbed in the back even if they manage to almost kill the demon.

Since even he would do such a thing if he could get the crystal by killing that guy.

'…If somebody was fighting it already there might be a chance for me.'

At that moment something happened.

Kudududk

Something jumped out from the center of the defense formation.

The existence which was charging towards the demon at an incredible speed shouted loudly.

"Get back as much as possible!"

'….that guy is?'

Hojin's eyes shone as he looked at Hansoo who was charging at the demon whilst shouting so loudly to the point where it resonated throughout the whole battlefield.

"Get back!"

This guy extremely dangerous.

'Yeah. Just look like that.'

Hansoo looked at the Lords who were also looking at him from around the battlefield and then dashed out quickly.

'I'll get it.'

The medium-sized Greatsword in Hansoo's hands sliced the air as it made a heavy noise.

Kuuuaaangg!

The Demon, which had been standing still, made a beastly noise as it intercepted Hansoo by swinging its fist.

Keedddddk.

Hansoo's greatsword sliced the skin but could not make a deep injury.

And if that wasn't enough, the area that had been injured was healing rapidly.

'As I expected… even when it's a weaker version.'

Demons.

Clansmen of Evil.

Their appearances were similar to humans.

If you discard the fact that they were 4m tall and had horns growing out of them.

But this guy was an entirely different species from humans.

'I can't let down my guard even for a moment in order to kill this guy.'

It was rather ok until now.

The cloud snack gained as the hidden piece had been thrown out after being used out cleanly.

One had been left over since his runes had been all changed to colorless but he had smoked it deliciously as well so it had been taken care of cleanly.

He had increased his defense and resistance with Nurmaha's ring and the Rune Eater Snake.

Now there wasn't going to be a situation where he would die accidentally from a skill.

But this still wasn't enough.

'Attack power is lacking.'

Showing off his attack power against humans who had low resistances and who couldn't really take hits well as a race was merely a childish act.

Most Humans here were close to being superhuman but their ability to take hits and their defenses were the same as normal humans

A situation where they would die if they got stabbed in their vital parts.

On the other hand, the things he needed to slice apart in order for him to get to the Demon Lord's Castle were Demons. Even if they were weaker versions.

Defense and Resistances aside, their ability to take hits were on a different dimension because they're from a different race.

These guys even had two hearts so they would continue to fight even if you stabbed one of the hearts.

'I need to fight it for around half a day just like the Carnivorous beast.'

rephrase. '

In order to beat it using the decent weapon he was holding that could be picked up in the dungeon, he was holding, he basically needed to wrestle it.

That was why he needed to raise his attack power.

Using the crystals he would get from killing the thing in front of his eyes.

Runes will increase steadily as he hunts but the thing that dictated the attack power were artifacts.

'Hooh'

Hansoo ruthlessly charged at the Demon while swinging the medium sized greatsword in this hands.

All of Hansoo's senses were focused on the Demon.

And the Demon's movements started to form a three-dimensional image in Hansoo's head.

And soon Hansoo and the Demon started to fight whilst creating noises like the storm.

But just a short moment after he started to fight, a movement that he expected but didn't wish for, happened outside of Hansoo's senses.

'Tsk'

Hansoo slightly frowned.

Hojin mumbled as he slowly approached Hansoo.

'Though it's strong…'

The Demon's physical ability was not something he could go up against.

Since Hansoo, who was going against it, looked like a monster.

But aiming for the crystal wasn't something that one needed to be strong for.

'Looking at the situation… don't go too close…'

It wasn't the time to drop his guards yet.

Since it would be dangerous if that thing decided to go for the weaker ones first.

But then there won't be space for him to interfere if the demon died, or was about to die, if he was too far away.

A few people who had similar thoughts as Hojin started to close in the formation that surrounded the demon slowly.

Which meant that they would look for chances whilst Hansoo was fighting.

'Hoo.'

Hansoo mumbled inwardly.

Their thoughts weren't wrong.

Since there was definitely a chance that they could go for i.t

But how could the demon's physical abilities be all it has.

There was another frightening thing about Demons other than their physical abilities that was on a different dimension compared to those of humans.

Racial Skill

The problem was that there was no way for him to know what this racial skill was.

Basically, it was random.

Because of this, even Hansoo wouldn't have had thoughts of attacking it without his resistances and Nurmaha's ring.

'It seems like it's not using it yet… it's definitely an area of effect attack'

If it was a single target skill then it would've already used it.

Hansoo, who had been pondering for a moment, made a cold expression.

'Well. Their purpose is clear.'

It wasn't bad to increase the level of alert on others by killing a few of them.

No, it was better to clean off people like these by borrowing the Demon's hands.

Since he wouldn't have any surplus power to escape from fighting the Demon.

Even before Hansoo's thoughts could end, the body of the Demon, which was standing still until now, started to heat up.

It started to prepare this skill because the number of people around it had gotten sufficient.

Huuuuuukk.

And soon the surrounding air started burning, then it became a ring as it exploded outwards from the Demon.

The black flame, which haad spread out in a reddish blackish manner, radiating outwards as it scorched the air.

Hansoo, after staring at the black flame for a while, applied Nurmaha's power, power destruction, onto the sword he gained in the underground, Karkil's Medium sized Greatsword and then swung.

Hoooong.

The Nurmaha had split the black flame just like that.

'As I expected… it isn't something to laugh at'

But Nurmaha's power was not something that one could use for free.

Hansoo frowned as he felt the mana drain out from his body.

If his magic, which increased the might of Power Destruction, didn't reach the colorless stage then he might not have been able to cancel it out and may have just been covered with it.

The wave in front of him had been split but the other parts were ruthlessly charging as it headed towards the others.

"Goddamit! Get back!"

"Uurk!"

The people who had seen the waves of black flame started to hurriedly run back but some unlucky people had been swiped up due to the fast speed of the flame.

The bodies of the non-clansmen that could not escape to the back slightly touched the wave.

Slightly.

But the people who had been touched by the flame cringed as they screamed.

"Goddamit! Uuaaaak!"

The flame instantly enlarged as if it swallowed the person whole.

And the person covered in flames screamed as he rolled about on the floor.

The fairy had only thrown one at two thousand people.

How could such a thing be weak?

The only reason why it had thrown it was because it could still damage them greatly even if it went up against two thousand.

He hadn't raised his resistances for nothing.

But attacks like that which covered a large area was much weaker in comparison to single-target skills.

But this was only the case for him, who had resistances as well as Nurmaha's ring, and the other adventurers who did not have magic resistances had a lot of strength but didn't differ much from ordinary people when it came to flame resistance.

Which meant that there wasn't much difference between them and an ordinary man being swept up by a gas container explosion.

'He was from the blaze descent huh.'

Blazing Inferno's three ringed Demon

This guy's Type was the worst thing possible for people other than him.

It might be different if he was of a different descent but the other adventurers basically had almost nothing they to do against this guy.

The clansmen and non-clansmen hurriedly backed off as they saw the attack that had bursted out.

They had realized that its Advantages were too horrid to do something with numbers.

'Just stand like that.'

Hansoo, after looking at the people who weren't approaching him anymore, charged at the Demon just like that and the others made a reluctant expression as they looked at the Demon and Hansoo

Kududuk.

Hansoo breathed out roughly as he cut off the Demon's head.

'Hooh…'

As Hansoo cut off the Demon's neck, a few runes and a small crystal came out.

When Hansoo grabbed the runes with his right hand, the rune eater snake zealously ate the rune as it distributed the runes evenly.

And as he grabbed the crystal with his left hand it turned into a small symbol and got engraved on his left hand.

The eyes of the people who were watching changed slightly.

They couldn't kill it.

But there were no rules which said the person who killed it had to take it.

As everyone's expressions turned grim, Hansoo, who had seen this, smirked.

"Woah. Don't stare at me in such a scary way."

As everybody looked at him from those words, Hansoo smirked as he spoke.

"If I go up because it's too scary then who's going to fight that thing from now on?"

Of course they could kill it if they charge it with numbers.

Since they could use a special method which would supplement their resistances with skills.

But the fact that casualties would increase was definite.

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Chapter 32 – Central Island (5)

Hansoo shrugged at the glares directed at him.

Of course he had no thoughts of going up.

This was merely a threat.

Since he wasn't to here to pick up a few more runes.

And because of that he couldn't concede any of the crystals that would come out from now on.

"The Lords should have a conversation with me."

Everyone made a bitter expression as they approached him, they disappeared from sight to somewhere else while everybody was watching them.

"Tsk. I'm not sure if it was a good thing."

Guktae mumbled alone after the conference ended.

Hansoo's proposal was very simple.

I shall take care of all the Demons and Crystals from now on

'He's really a special case.'

Guktae actually knew that he would concede all the duties of defense and roam about alone.

Since there's nobody to stop him even if he did so.

It would be just that if he decided to not hunt any of the undead and hunt continuously below and only come back to cut off the Demon's head around the time everybody became a mess fighting it.

Since the possibility of somebody blocking him if he told them he would take the last hit was a question in itself.

Who could block him with such power and invisibility.

But Hansoo didn't do such things.

If that happens the Rules crumble apart. Don't worry. I won't neglige the defense either.

'…What is he thinking? What?'

In conclusion, it meant that he would take over the risk of the Demons by himself.

If you take into account the strength of the Demons, it meant that Hansoo took on a huge burden alone even if you were to calculate for the benefit of the crystals.

From his actions it seemed like he a person who grew impatient because he couldn't save someone.

Though there's nothing bad about it.

'The demons… are peculiar.'

There wasn't enough information because only one had come out.

He didn't know if they all used similar skills or if stronger ones would come out from now on.

Since the problem wasn't strength but rather their Advantages.

It didn't seem like that they couldn't beat Hansoo if everyone in the clan charged at him.

But things like that had really horrid Advantages.

Like rock paper scissors.

It was already hard to kill it due to the fact that it took hits very well but for it to also use area of effect magic.

It wasn't that they couldn't kill it if they used skills and traits but at least a few tens of deaths would occur.

It wasn't a low number even in terms of the whole and if that were to happen every time the Demons came then they might all die off.

So Hansoo's of proposal of him taking over the problem with Demons was not bad.

And the crystal wasn't that tempting either.

'That's just a trap.'

It wasn't really attractive to the Clan Lords who had to save as many as possible from their clans even if the artifacts that could be gained from collecting those were good and even if the crystal could be used in emergencies.

And the reason why they wanted to get it so bad was because it would be very straining if it were to fall into the hands of others.

No one knew what sort of crazy thing a Sovereign who had attained his own safety would do when things became dangerous.

Since they could just escape even if the defenses fall.

'It's just better for nothing to get solved.'

Him monopolizing it all was the best option but this was impossible.

The many Clan lords distribute the crystals.

This was a good plan but it didn't really mean much.

There won't be much profit if you think of the numbers they would lose while acquiring the crystals as well as the fact that these would make it difficult to determine each other's strength.

And there were a few non-clansmen with a bit of strength.

These guys won't hesitate to hit them from behind during the decisive moments of taking the crystal.

Since they could just take the crystal and go up.

In whichever way, it was better if both the demons and crystals didn't exist.

The fact that Hansoo would take everything didn't differ much from the rule which said the drops from a monster which somebody killed goes to that person.

'Though it gets on my nerve that one person gets all the crystals…'

He also looked over the catalogue.

Incredibly menacing artifacts were lined up.

If he had to choose between these things going into the clan lord's hands or Hansoo's hands then he would choose the latter.

Drum of Lempal

'Isn't it crazy. Such a thing…'

An object that you could buy with 15 crystals.

All of your allies within 300 meters had all of their stats increased by 15% even if you were just holding it.

And if you beat the drum, the effects were even more glorious.

One beat to increase the regeneration speed of those who heard it, two beats decreased the perception by 15% but increased strength and agility by 25% and three beats even increased resistances.

You couldn't use it for 5 days once you beat it three times but even the thought of another clan other than his having this was frightening.

And no matter how he looked at it, the worth of this thing was not merely 15 crystals.

The only reason he could think of as to why it had been listed as 15 crystals was one.

It was a price that seemed like could be gained if the clan lords hit and killed each other and fought.

If it was an absurd price such as 100 then he might've given up but 15 was pretty doable.

And it seemed like every object on the catalog was like this.

He didn't know if it was intentional but all the group use objects were much more formidable than self use objects.

As if it was promoting them to hit and receive hits from each other en masse.

'Wicked bastards.'

Guktae clicked his tongue as he thought of the fairies.

Then Sunghoon, one of the clansmen, standing next to him asked.

A person who had gotten the position of a personal guard because he was his friend and most trusted person.

"Then shall we give up making the special force?"

Guktae shook his head at those words.

There was no rule saying that the special forces had to be used against Demons only.

"Please keep preparing them. And… there probably is somebody who has known Hansoo since the first tutorial. Please find them no matter what and gain some intel. Whatever you can get."

Sunghoon wholeheartedly nodded his heavy expression at those words.

And Guktae threw another sentence at that Sunghoon:

"And please go down there and find as many people with special psychic powers."

2000 people.

If you search then they would exist.

Psychic powers that were good against Invisibility.

No, not just invisibility.

He had chosen people based on how good they were against other humans because he had thought power was the most important thing.

This was a miscalculation.

Everything from that Demon to that guy called Hansoo.

Their opponents were not mere humans and problems that would be hard to solve with people who could swing their swords well will continue to come up from now on.

In order to prepare for all sorts of situations, he needed people with vastly different skills and psychic powers.

He had to prepare thoroughly from now on.

'It's ok as long as I do it properly from now on.'

He had met a tiger after looking at deers until now.

Which meant he just had to prepare a way to deal with the tiger.

Since when did humans fight against tigers barehanded.

'Still… it doesn't seem like it'll be hard to leave this island at this rate?'

Hansoo would take care of demons as others dealt with the undead in turns.

He didn't want to acknowledge it but the rules were set up without much commotion thanks to Hansoo.

Casualties would constantly occur but a lot of people could survive at this pace.

'But I should still prepare.'

There was no need to think of the tiger as a friend even if it is helping you.

Guktae started to prepare as he thought of Hansoo who could be anywhere.

"Wow… It seems like a lot more of us would survive than I thought?"

"It seems so…."

Everyone gazed at Hansoo who was fighting fiercely with the Demon in the distance.

At first there was a bit of a resistance when Hansoo said he would monopolize the crystals but after a while it was clear that it wasn't a bad choice.

'Yeah. It's already hard for us to have a look at crystals… It's better for that guy to grapple around with Demons and for us to all ascend together alive.'

20th day of the defense at this moment.

The amount of people alive was a huge number of 1300.

600 had died but if they had gone up against the demon, and if the crystals were set loose, then the number of the people alive and dead would be reversed.

But Hansoo, who had cut off the Demon's neck, shook his head.

'….Now the hidden piece will activate.'

Defensive Battle.

It really didn't suit his personality.

But despite that, he had been focusing on the defense whilst jumping around back and forth and killing off demons constantly.

He was managing with his best ability in order to gain crystals to arm himself and to set up the rules so no internal fights occurred.

He hadn't even taken a step towards the Demon Lord's Castle because he was also taking care of those who were trying to aim for his back.

Since as long as the hidden piece didn't activate, there was no point in going to the Demon Lord's Castle.

Hansoo mumbled inwardly.

'I'm not sure if you guys coming back would have been better instead'

He had seen and learned from watching Keldian and Eres but he could only imitate them and do as well as them.

But Hansoo shook his head.

If it was something that could be solved with one strong sovereign then there was no reason for humanity to have gone extinct.

He had come back in order to do things that Eres couldn't.

'Keeping more than 50% of the people alive by 20th day. I succeeded Eres. But didn't I win this? I saved even more.'

Hansoo had a broad grin.

He couldn't unify them as well as Eres but had reduced the damage from the Demons as much as possible so he saved even more.

And when this happened, the fairy, who couldn't watch the peacefulness of the people, appeared and the hidden piece got activated.

'It's here.'

"Hello! Everybody! It's already the 20th day! The people here have really defended well! Normally there's only around 500 alive by now."

At these words the people made expressions full of pride as they still grinded their teeth.

Since it felt like they fucked the fairy up from the fact that they dodged the hidden motives of the fairy and had defended in such an excellent way.

'If it stays like this…then we can ascend without many problems'

But the fairy grinned as it looked at those people.

"But what do we do. It gets really bad from now on. Everyone, do you even know how to get out of this island?"

Everyone mumbled about at those words.

How could they know such a thing?

The fairy laughed as it spoke.

"Very simple. After a month, a portal will open from the crystal you guys had been defending. You guys can ascend higher through that."

"Huh…"

"But there is a very slight problem. That crystal has a limit. Only 500 people can leave through that crystal."

"What to do? Too many survived. Usually I don't even need to come out… since occasions where more than 500 people surviving don't happen often."

Everyone's expressions started to gain an edge.

The current survivors were 1300.

And if they defend in this spirit then at least 1000 could live.

However, the amount that could leave was 500.

But then the fairy grinned whilst watching these people.

"Don't worry too much. There's a place with a much larger crystal! There's more than enough for all of you to escape through in that place!"

"…where is that?"

As someone asked, the fairy grinned as it pointed to the Demon Lord's Castle which could be seen from afar.

"Over there. It normally doesn't work but… I'll start it up now. Heehee"

Hooooong.

At those words, a grand noise started to resonate from one location within the Demon Lord's Castle and everyone who heard it grinded their teeth.

And at the same time the people started to split up.

And Hansoo also had a cold expression.

'It starts.'

Actually, this was more of a surprise event if you looked at it differently.

It was a hidden piece that didn't happen unless the requirement of more than 50% living by the 20th day has been accomplished.

Since if it was below that, the numbers would reduce to below 500 whilst defending.

Would Eres have gone to the Demon Lord's castle because she wanted to?

Eres didn't know what would come out when he went there back then.

He didn't know what he would gain but it was obvious that more people than if theyf were defending would die.

In a situation where Eres wanted as many people to live by combining their strengths, there was no reason for him to go.

But there was only one reason which made Eres head towards the Demon Lord's Castle in such a situation.

It was all due to this damnable hidden piece.

Eres had defended too well.

And ironically too many people had survived.

While other teams couldn't even keep 200 alive out of 2000 on average, Eres had kept over 1000 people alive before the 20th day arrived.

It was the result of firmly rejecting the mini-crystals and combining the people's strengths.

Actually it wasn't only Eres who had activated this Hidden piece.

There was a few times when people who had gained amazing traits and skills had fought well against the demons and forcefully united the remaining people in order to keep more than 1000 people alive has existed.

And the people standing in front of the hidden piece had to make a decision.

To head towards the Demon Lord's Castle despite the dangers.

Or defend and defend… and have a huge battle royale in order to choose the 500 in the end.

And after collecting all the intel from the Final Brigade, there was nobody he knew who had chosen the first option other than Eres.

It was obvious, since at least 500 could survive even if they didn't go.

And if the 500 people who could live said that they won't go, the remaining people won't be able to go anyway.

Since they won't have enough power.

"We aren't going. It's better to focus on defending."

"We don't have a reason to go either. Instead of everyone dying by going, let's save 500."

The forces split up and grouped up with Clan Lords as the center.

'He had taken these people huh.'

Hansoo started to admire Eres.

And thought.

That he would never be able to become like Eres in his life.

Hansoo walked forward as he warmed up his body.

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'Let's see.'

Taejin, one of the Lords, mumbled inwardly.

He didn't know if the Demon Lord's Castle was dangerous or not.

But he just needed to decide between the two.

Between whether his clansmen could be included within the 500 who would go up or not.

If that was possible then there was no reason for him to go to the Demon Lord's Castle.

'I need to do some traffic control.' (*TL: Where have we heard this before? o.o…)

Let's talk

There was a location where they had gathered one of their clansmen each for quick communication during times of emergency.

And they could talk through these people and voice their opinions.

It was created for an emergency and if this situation wasn't an emergency, what was this then?

And their decisions had come to a consensus through the people who voiced the Lord's opinions for them.

First, we do not fight between ourselves. When we ascend we will go up after making an alliance between the clans

If they fight with other clans so they could take all of their members up with them then they would all die.

If that happened then even 300 of 500 was too much.

The best option was for the twelve clans to fill up the 500 spots one by one to ascend.

If that happened then they could at least take 40~50 people up with them.

They didn't like the fact that all twelve clans ascended alive with similar ratios but it was still a profit.

They had gotten strong quickly by going through the underground dungeon and were armed with artifacts.

They didn't know the situation in the other islands but if they took 40~50 elite members like them then they could still utilize them to an advantage above.

'This is solved for now.'

Once a consensus is met then an answer was set.

Defense

If they defended here then there was no such occurrences where the Clan Lords and their elite members couldn't ascend.

Since the problem between clans had been solved, the problem was now non-clansmen.

'Hmm…there's quite a lot of non-clansmen.'

It was better the more people you had for defense but the story changes once the people who could live was set to 500.

The current total population was 1300.

About 600 clansmen and 700 non-clansmen.

The non-clansmen felt uneasy joining clans after seeing the strange scene where people, who were on bad terms even to the point where they tried to kill each other, unnaturally and forcefully get reconciled through the symbols of the clansmen.

They would guarantee their safety but it was obvious that people will avoid it if they see their free will being controlled in such a way.

And even more so if there was an existence above them called the Lord whom they had to listen to even if they were to command them to suicide.

They might've gone in if the situation was dangerous but the fact that the defense progressed flawlessly also contributed in keeping the ratio of clansmen and non-clansmen.

But there were too many non-clansmen currently to leave them to just die.

If only 600 clansmen are left then the casualties would increase at a shocking rate.

So they had to stop them from going.

But they didn't need to stop them.

"Our clan chooses to defend!"

"Us too!"

Every clan started to shout their choice in defense from all over.

And then all the non-clansmen mumbled.

'There's no way they could leave'

Taejin laughed inwardly.

The weak always had their choices limited.

And now those people had to wait for their choices.

'Bitches…'

Sangtae, one of the people who were in a non-clansmen union, grinded his teeth.

'Dammit… I should've went into a clan when thing were normal.'

But he couldn't go in from uneasiness after seeing the clansmen who had received the symbol.

He hadn't joined a clan because he thought he could ascend without many problems if they defended like this but for such an unexpected event to happen.

'Well. Even if I did go in, I might've been cut.'

500 was that low of a number.

But in such a case, something bad would happen.

There was no way they would leave a spot for the non-clansmen to ascend.

Since they'll be too busy trying to take all of their people.

It seemed like the other non-clansmen who were quick to catch on had realized this already as they mumbled about.

They had three paths they could choose from in that case.

Exclude the clansmen and head towards the Demon Lord's Castle with non-clansmen.

Form an alliance between the non-clansmen and fight the clan for the spot of 500.

And final choice.

Stay with the clans to fight and hopefully wait for the empty spot that may come their way.

'Goddamit.'

Sangtae shook his head.

In reality the two options above were basically impossible.

The non-clansmen adventurers had long been ripped apart by the clans.

The two options above were only possible when they form an alliance and agree with each other to create a clan vs non-clan composition.

But if they only had the choice of choosing from the two above then they would've gathered their strength in some way.

Since they couldn't just sit and die.

The damnable fact was that hope still existed.

'The third option is the problem.'

If they continue to defend then the number of clansmen will go down.

But those guys probably want to fill up 500 completely to ascend.

Since it was better the more you had if you thought of the place above.

Which meant, there will be space where non-clansmen would be able to come into.

A much higher chance than the first two which had the chance of a complete massacre.

'Damn.. can't really do anything then.'

If this happened then as long as they don't think of getting all the non-clansmen to have a fight, they could only get on the good side of the clan unions.

It might be barely possible if the 700 remaining people gathered their strengths but if they were split like this then they had no choice.

'Fuck…As long as we group up then we might be able to do something.'

Actually the main point of this game was very simple.

If they split their power then both sides die.

So everyone had to choose one side.

Either to defend or to attack.

But if one side advocates strongly then the other side could only obediently follow unless they were determined to have a battle royale.

So there was no way for the non-clan powers to win.

Since the clan unions were unified in thought whilst the adventurers of non-clan powers were split up all around.

And even if they were to emphasize that it was more beneficial for the clan unions, they could only get pushed around whilst holding onto a dim thread of hope.

Sangtae shouted loudly after pondering.

'This can't go on like this.'

"Hey! Is there nobody to go with me! Damnit! You know what will happen if you stay here!"

A few non-clansmen fliched at these words but nobody had walked out on their own.

'Damnit…'

But while the Clan Lords were looking at Sangtae with ridicule, one person came out from the crowd and walked up next to Sangtae.

And Sangtae frowned as he saw this.

Since a person that was totally out of the expectation had walked out.

"Why are you all so surprised?"

Hansoo, who had walked out into the eyes of the people, shrugged his shoulders as he looked at them.

"….if you stay here then you will definitely be part of the 500 though."

Hansoo chuckled at Sangtae's words as he spoke.

"Well. There's always personal circumstances. I'm going to the Demon Lord's Castle."

And then one of the non-clansmen shouted with hope.

Everyone knew.

That Hansoo had a strange psychic power.

'Did he perhaps… choose to go to the Demon Lord's Castle because he knows something?'

"If we follow you, will it be safe?"

The reason why their ankles were caught was because they could not even imagine how dangerous the road to the Demon Lord's castle would be.

Since if there was a confirmation for such a thing, there was no reason to stay around here.

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders at those words.

"I don't know. The same amount of 500 might survive if we go there, or maybe even less"

Will more survive if they all combined their strength to head towards the Demon Lord's Castle?

He didn't even know this.

Since there are too many factors.

But he knew one thing for certain.

If they stay here then no more than 500 can survive.

If 600 were to survive in the end, will the remaining 100 peacefully die?

Of course there will inevitably be a collision and the others who aren't part of the 500 will die.

On the other hand, Eres had managed to ascend with 600 people out of 1000 after choosing to go to the Demon Lord's Castle.

Hansoo chuckled as he saw the dejected looks on the people as he spoke.

"But if you aren't part of a clan it's better to go. If you stay here then the ones taking the risk are you so why would you try to stay here."

Even if they were die off the same way, it was a problem of ratio in the end.

Even if the same amount of people die on the way as they would if they defended, once they arrive there then they can ascend together.

But on the other hand, if they were stay and defend and succeed the non-clansmen who aren't chosen by the clansmen would all die.

At those words, the expressions of everybody who had been pondering this turned fierce as the mumbling got louder.

"I'm going."

Taehee questioned Hyunwoo's words which he spoke out after hearing the story.

The Hyunwoo she knew was a safety-first believer.

But then he was risking on such a dangerous looking gamble.

"Really?"

Hyunwoo smirked as he spoke.

"There's something I had found out about him separately."

There once was a movement that went around in order to collect intel about Hansoo.

And as such movements occurred, Hyunwoo became curious as well.

No, this was not only Hyunwoo's question.

Everyone was curious about that guy fighting there.

Since it was weirder to be not curious about that guy who was so eye catching.

And so the rumors of rumors and opinions of opinions combined.

It started from the people who had been with Hansoo since the 1st tutorial area and went up to the people who had seen Hansoo so far where the intel grouped up and got organized.

And the conclusion that came from it.

'He can be trusted.'

Surprisingly they said he was strong from the start.

There were plenty of ways to take advantage of others in the beginning.

He could kill people to pull runes.

Or he could hunt and steal all the runes by suppressing others with his strength.

But he wasn't like that.

No, he was actually extremely thorough in distribution.

He had eaten things to the point where it was close to monopolization but as they heard, he only fought in dangerous places.

Which was the same if you looked at him fighting the demons right now.

'And I like the fact that he doesn't get swept around by useless emotions the most.'

One of the things he hated the most were people who wanted to get carried around.

But as they heard, if they couldn't pay up for their own worth then he did not care about them.

Of course they couldn't confirm just by piecing together rumors.

There was just one important fact.

That others were probably thinking the same way as him.

'The chance has come.'

It has been a while since the rumor of him being rather trustable had been going around.

Since he proved it with his actions rather than words.

He didn't neglect in hunting down the undead while taking down Demons.

And because of that he was worth having as the center.

And they had to group up in order to break the game where the clans were the center.

If they go on with the current situation, the clans won't have to take any risks while they had to shoulder all of the risk.

The non-clansmen adventurers would die off in piles even if they chose to defend.

And the ones who couldn't get into clans would be thrown off in the end.

Hyunwoo shouted loudly as he walked towards Hansoo.

"I'm following!!!"

And then Hyunwoo discreetly poked Taehee.

"Hey. You follow too while shouting loudly."

Taehee chuckled as she shouted.

"I'm going too! Dick-like clan bastards!"

'…you don't have to go that far. Why is this girl's mouth so dirty?'

Well whatever happened, as the two walked out straightforwardly as they shouted, mumbles were heard from all around then curses were heard as well.

"Eyy. Bitches. Being bossed around is annoying!"

"I'm going too! Fuck! There's no way that the fairy would have set it so only one of attack or defense would be easy!"

They weren't heading out because they were just pissed.

Since it was an important judgment where their lives were at stake.

But if they carried on like this then the situation will flow the way the clans wanted after they swing back and forth under the clan's dominion.

They were confident that this was more dangerous than going to the Demon Lord's Castle.

"This crazy…you can't move! It's not child's play, why would you move at such incitements…"

While a clansmen got flustered and tried to stop them after seeing everyone moving and mumbling, something ruthlessly flew down and embedded itself from the sky.

Boooom!

"Huuuuurrk!"

"Why are you blocking them when they're saying they'll go on their own feet. Leave them be."

Hansoo smirked as he spoke.

The Clan Lords turned gloomy as they saw the giant chain sickle which had flown from Hansoo and landed in front of the clansmen's foot.

It was a weapon Hansoo brought back one day whilst fighting the Demons.

They had known what this was.

Since it was on the catalogue.

Judgement of Dekrados

Cost.

60 crystals.

An armament that couldn't even be compared to Drum of Lempal which costs 15.

From the beginning the fairies probably didn't expect that someone who would buy such a thing would come out .

Since they probably didn't think that there could be a guy who could monopolize all the Demons that came out.

"You guys over there should think about it again? Since a man's thoughts can change."

Guktae clenched his teeth as he looked at Hansoo who was talking to them whilst retrieving the chains.

'Damnit… He's the problem again.'

The thing that made so many people move was not the words that Hansoo had spoken.

The core point was the actions and the power that grinded the Demons which Hansoo had shown while defending.

He might've been less annoyed if they struggled to form a non-clansmen union but the fact that this had happened because a guy who didn't do anything and only hunted stepped out and spoke a few words annoyed him even more.

Because the effort in which they put in to gather people and have a power struggle felt like it was being mocked.

'Damnable bastard.'

Guktae was locked in worry as he looked at the 200 non-clansmen who were running behind Hansoo and were increasing rapidly.

'Do I need to pull out the special forces?'

Guktae pondered if he should forcibly shut this situation down with the hidden piece that he had prepared for a moment but he shook his head instead.

If they were to collide in this situation, it would be a battle royale.

'I'll follow your orders for now.'

Guktae started to quickly converse with the other Clan Lords.

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Chapter 34 – Demon Lord's Castle (1)

'Well. It practically became like this.'

Hansoo mumbled as he looked at the scene in front of his eyes.

600 of clan union and 700 of non-clan union.

How would the clan union stay behind if all the of non-clan union decides to go to the Demon Lord's Castle?

The result was already set.

'I should at least do the thing I need to before I leave.'

He couldn't leave a single margin of error.

As soon as Hansoo made his decision, he started to loosen up the Judgement of Dekrados and wildly swung it around.

Charrrrk.

Judgement of Dekrados

The fact that its chain could stretch up to a few hundred meters, the fact that the chain won't break even if a Demon were to pull on it as well as the shape of the scythe were very alluring but the true worth was in its skills.

The skills that Judgement of Dekrados possessed were two.

One was on the chain and the other was on the scythe attached to the end of the chain.

The skill that was on the Scythe was Judgement.

It absorbed the mana of the user and then gave powerful destruction and explosive capabilities gave to the scythe.

It was a skill that was simple, but extremely formidable and faithful towards its objective as a weapon.

It was better than frost skills or explosive flame skills that were uselessly extravagant.

And the skill on the chain was Suppression.

This was not a skill that was activated by spending the user's mana.

It actually activated by absorbing the enemy's mana and the one who got tied by it would constantly lose mana as well as get cursed with Suppression which lowered all their stats.

A formidable artifact that was befitting of 60 crystals.

Actually there were a few artifacts that Hansoo could purchase with 60 crystals but Hansoo had chosen the chain scythe.

Chain scythes were very difficult to use.

And in this world, if the costs were the same then there were as much advantages as weaknesses towards each other.

Difficult weapons often had high specs if they had similar costs.

This was the same for Judgement of Dekrados.

The 2 skills on Judgement of Dekrados were simple but a lot stronger and more efficient than other artifacts.

'Weapon types aren't important.'

Hansoo wasn't really lucky in terms of artifacts.

He couldn't even imagine obtaining an amazing artifact and using it constantly like Kangtae so he used whatever he could get his hands on or had good options.

And the chain scythe was included in those.

The Chain Scythe, which had a higher chance of having stronger skills in comparison to other weapons, was very attractive to Hansoo who didn't really have his traits and skills set up properly and because of that he would use it for a long time.

He had gotten a habit of sustaining such a battle style for over 50 years so he could use most weapons properly.

Which meant that using it wasn't a problem.

Only the options were important.

Hansoo, who had loosened up the chains, used centripetal force to throw the extremity of the chain scythe towards a direction aggressively after the chain had lengthened quite a bit.

Hoooouuuk!

The extremity of the chain scythe flew towards the crystal on the top of the castle at an extreme speed.

The skill which was on the chain scythe, Judgement, activated as it drained Hansoo's mana.

Boooom!

The crystal broke apart as it couldn't withstand the might of the skill on the chain scythe and the people who had seen this shouted in shock.

"What the fuck!! What are you doing!"

Hansoo smirked at those words.

"What's the problem is we're going to advance. If we leave a hole to escape then we'll all die."

A few people made guilty expressions at those words.

These people had thoughts of returning to the castle if they advanced and things didn't really roll out well.

And this tendency was rather strong in a few of the Clan Lords of the clan unions.

But only for a moment.

A clansman who had been sent below came back as he spoke.

"…The dungeons are closed."

"Tsk."

It seemed like the dungeon closed along with the appearance of the fairy.

Which meant that leaving was indeed the better option.

Since they'll just get piled up if they stay here.

Kurrurru.

As the crystal exploded, the island started to shake in a rough manner.

And then the fairy's voice resonated from the air.

Let's see. There's 13 days and 10 hours until the island falls. Heehee. I give my praises for such courageous actions. Be strong until then!

Everyone made a complicated expression at those words but then shook their heads as they headed towards the Demon Lord's Castle.

The road heading towards the Demon Lord's Castle was structured very differently from the ones until now.

Unlike the situation during the defense where the non-clansmen and clansmen were mixed up with the 12 clans as the center, it was now split up between clan unions and non-clansmen adventurers.

It was something they had realized painfully from what they had been doing until now.

That the clan unions can throw them off at any time.

And they needed to group up in order to prevent that.

Of course everyone's thoughts couldn't be the same so there were a few people who went into the clan unions who have caught them in their eyes but there were still about 500 people grouped up separately.

"…So you came to me because of that?"

Hyunwoo and Taehee nodded at those words.

"Yeah. We're just following while believing in you."

Hansoo opened his mouth after looking at Hyunwoo for a while after those words.

"There isn't much that I can do for you."

Hyunwoo chuckled as he spoke.

"Don't worry. I'm not asking you to take care of all our lives. Just stay in that position well."

He didn't long for care.

He was content if Hansoo acted as the flag which everyone could see and follow.

Since they had been pushed around because they didn't have that flag.

There isn't a single person who wouldn't try to improve their future in times of danger in such a damnable world as this.

And because of this, the most important thing was to have enough strength to save themselves.

Since they didn't know what would happen during times of crisis no matter how good of a personality they had during normal times.

And because of that, Hansoo was more than enough.

'And well. Even if we only follow, the surrounding enemies almost get smashed apart.'

Taehee clicked her tongue as she looked at Hyunwoo while he was thinking about this and that.

'…It seems like he has been infatuated.'

Hansoo shook his head as he looked at these two.

'Hmm.'

Though they seemed like they were well bunched up, and though they were just following him aroud, a human's thoughts are something which changes very rapidly in times of crisis.

Towards a safer side.

But Hansoo just shrugged his shoulders as he advanced.

'I just need to do what I'm supposed to do.'

The three gateways they needed to go through in order to get to the Demon Lord's Castle.

Door of Bones, Door of Flesh and Door of Blood.

Hansoo quickened his footsteps towards the first gateway in the distance, the Door of Bones.

Chararak.

The chain, which was a few hundred meters in length, cut apart the air restlessly.

It wasn't only the extremity of the scythe that could be used as a weapon.

The scythe pulverized the enemies as the scythe should and the chain was coiling around the surroundings without rest.

Once the chain suppressed the enemy enough, Hansoo flickered the edge of his right hand to control the scythe and charged forward with a blade and stabbed down at the enemy who was entwined by the chains.

Kuuuuuuaaang!

One of the demons, which had been stabbed by Hansoo's weapon, screamed.

Hansoo didn't just have one weapon.

There were 7 daggers around Hansoo's thighs and there was also a Podao and a medium sized greatsword by his waist.

There weren't any limitations from carrying this many weapons due to the increased strength.

The problem was whether he could utilize all of these weapons or not.

From the Renoperon's red dagger, which Hansoo had stabbed into the enemy Demon, an effective hemorrhage bursted out as blood started to flood.

Kaduk.

Kaduduk.

Hansoo didn't rest there as he started to put injuries all over Demon's body as he stabbed his daggers into its body.

Judgement of Dekrados wasn't used properly just because one used Judgement.

Rather, the true worth of the weapon shone when you were able to use Suppression effectively as well.

And the chain and scythe were restlessly flying around Hansoo's surroundings.

But of course it wasn't alright even if he was Hansoo.

Thorn Hell's Plate Armor Demon

When it received the attack of the enemy, a strange curse injured the body of the one who had attacked them.

Hansoo was holding on with his resistances and Nurmaha's ring but blood was flowing out from his body as injuries occurred one by one.

But if one were to hesitate because of such things, they would receive an even greater injury.

Kuduk. Kududk.

Hansoo ignored the light wounds as he canceled out the curse which activated when he stabbed the heart of the demon with the Nurmaha's ring, took the runes and crystal which had dropped from its body and then flew off somewhere else as he bound up his surroundings with the chain and stepped on it.

Since there wasn't much time for leisure in the current situation.

"Uaaaak!"

"Damn! It's a mage! Kill that first!"

"Aaak!"

Endless screams could be heard all around.

A huge number of undeads and Demons which couldn't even be compared to before.

They weren't really giving large amounts of casualties to people.

Since the demons came in pairs when they charged and since both of them were bound by Hansoo's chain.

And even now, one had just died at Hansoo's hands and the other one was fervently battling Hansoo and his chain scythe.

The thing which had caused the most damage to them were mages.

Skeletal Mage.

It was a weak mob in games but reality was cruel.

Every time skills exploded out from it's hands, even though it was only poison, frost and fire for a total of three elements, it froze people down to their bones and burned their skins.

And the fact that it was long ranged and had an AOE move bugged them more.

Hansoo's chain scythe was turning them into powder whenever it had the leisure to but there were many occurrences where people were screaming here and there after getting hit by the skills.

And the Clan Lords were looking at their surroundings with cold expressions.

It was important to maintain their battle strength before but it was even more important as of now.

Since they could take all of their maintained battle strength up along with them.

In the defensive war, where the defense areas were set between them, their improvements and the damage they received were very similar.

But in a situation like this where they were advancing, it was much more different.

Since no matter how fair you set up the rules, one's actions changed how much damage they received by a lot.

But no matter what Guktae did, he was still the leader of a group.

He had the duty of keeping alive as many clansmen as possible.

Was being greedy that bad?

'We could at least adjust the speed at which we advanced if the Crystal wasn't destroyed. Damn…'

No matter how much of the battle strength he wanted to save, there was a limit to it.

The vibration which resonated throughout the island was getting larger.

The fairy had told them that there were over ten days left but nobody knew if those ten days were enough for them to get to the Demon Lord's Castle.

Playing chicken is only when you can, what sort of meaning would playing chicken have in a situation where you would get massacred anyway if you hid around in the back.

The Clan Lords could only advance forward while accounting for the danger.

'Anyway…Are the demons coming out at similar difficulties?'

Guktae looked at the Demon, which Hansoo was killing, coldly.

He was worried that a stronger demon might come out when they got to the Demon Lord's Castle.

But it seemed like these were at the same level as those during the defenses.

And at that moment a noise came from the ground as another demon came up from beneath.

"Uaaakk! Another one came out!"

"Dodge it!"

Unlike the defensive stage where they had something to protect, this was over as long as you could arrive there.

There was nobody who wanted to go up against the strong Demon.

All the non-clansmen flew away like flies in all directions.

But a few Clan Lords laughed as they looked at the chaos.

'It came out at a good timing.'

I shall test it out first. Go.

If they don't account for their weaknesses then they were a failure as a human being before being a Lord.

The clansmen of Evil and Kang Hansoo?

Those crazy things were jumping about around him and showing off their strength.

Didn't he prepare something for such a situation?

The 15 special forces, which Guktae had been saving, came out.

These were the guys who were armed with the runes, skills and artifacts of other clansmen.

Warriors created to fight monsters with their raised resistances and attack power.

'Though I've been saving them in order to reduce casualties…'

He was going to save them if stronger Demons came out on the way to the Demon Lord's Castle.

But what if they were around the same level?

'If it's that much then they can hunt without casualties.'

They didn't need to depend on Hansoo.

'I'll show you. As to who should really be in the center.'

The thing that they weren't comfortable with wasn't just Hansoo's power.

It was the fact that he was acting as the center of the non-clansmen.

And the reason that he could fight the Demons up front was a large factor as to why he could do that.

Since they believed that it'll be safer if they followed Hansoo rather than the clans.

But if they could fight the Demons then they didn't have a reason to group up with Hansoo as the center.

They was no worry for traitors either.

Since the clans could just take them all in.

'Well. It is just so even if it seems uncomfortable.'

They will soon realize.

That it'll get more and more dangerous and that they had to hold onto a reliable pillar.

And in order to do so, he had left them alone with the mages.

'Let's see what happens…if the non-clansmen that you trust in so much come to me.'

There was no reason to hurry.

They could advance slowly, like water being absorbed through.

"Go."

At these words, the fifteen special forces that Guktae had prepared advanced forward in order to hunt down the Demon.

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Chapter 35 – Demon Lord's Castle (2)

"Huh"

Hansoo chuckled at the movements he felt behind him.

'I wondered what he was preparing so hard for.'

Hansoo nodded.

It seemed like they were well prepared as they employed the method they learned from Hansoo fighting the Demons.

Artifacts that could slow down the movements of the Demons instead of ones that would damage them fatally.

And resistances and buffs to deal with the basic AOE attacks of the Demons.

They had a decent assortment.

Their movements and attacks couldn't follow up to Hansoo's.

But they were filling the gaps with various skills and traits.

'If you do that then you can definitely hunt it safely.'

The opposite method of Hansoo's.

If Hansoo was trying to catch it as fast as possible by taking on the hits while trusting his resistance and his dodges to suppress it down with an overwhelming attack then this method was a safe hunting method in order to receive no casualties whatsoever.

The fifteen special forces were rotating endlessly as they injured the demon.

This was possible because they could withstand the Demon's skills to an extent.

They couldn't reduce the damage like Hansoo but they were compensating it with healing skills.

While Hansoo was about to finish off his Demon, the special forces had also pulled out both the hearts from the Demons.

The people's expressions turned grave.

They had thought that only Hansoo could kill the Demons but the Clan Lords were killing them well too.

And as they started killing the Demons, the other clan Lords pulled out their own special forces that they had hidden and basically crushed the mages apart.

The mages were very threatening to the non-clansmen who didn't have my magic resistance but it wasn't really hard for the special forces, who had magic resistances as well as heals and other skills, to deal with it.

And the most attractive thing was their number.

Hansoo was one person.

That fact did not change no matter how strong he was.

But the sum of the different Clan Lords' special forces were over 100 and they were hunting that much more efficiently.

"…if this happens then isn't it better to just join the side of the clans?"

Somebody mumbled.

Hansoo was strong but he only had one body.

And the non-clansmen were constantly getting injured from the mages.

On the other hand, the Clan unions were advancing while receiving the thorough protection of the special forces.

"Bitches… if they had such things then they should've protected us too."

As one person gazed at the special forces in resentment, a friend next to him, whom he had gotten close to during the defense, shook his head.

"Those words don't even make sense. You think they would protect you."

Why would they protect them?

They weren't even part of the clans.

The friend, who had been talking, looked at the Demon Lord's Castle in the distance.

This was the first day.

There was a long way to go.

Disliked things were disliked things, so he had to decide rationally.

He started to ponder after laying down his possibilities of choices.

Either to stay in the non-clansmen union.

Or shamelessly go under the clan union.

'…it's not that bad?'

The reason why he was worried about being thrown off was because the number that could move through the crystal was limited to 500.

But on the other hand, that problem did not exist anymore.

No, the clan unions would actually welcome them instead.

Since the adventurers who received their symbols would become part of their powers and ascend together.

'Well. Let's at least talk about it. If not then I can just stay here.'

It wasn't bad for them no matter what happened.

If they were denied then they could just follow Hansoo's back.

And if they were welcomed then they just needed to fight under the clans.

And soon multiple people with similar thoughts started to head towards the clans and Guktae smiled inwardly as he saw this.

'As I thought.'

What kind of loyalty would these guys have.

They were just grasshoppers looking around for safe areas.

The only reason they had gone under Hansoo was because he looked quite reliable and because it would be dangerous for them if they stayed behind.

As long as their motives for going under Hansoo were clear, the answer was already set.

'Yes. Come. We will take you in.'

It won't take long.

Until he will be left alone.

'I'm curious. As to how far you can go alone.'

"…The people keep leaving. Is it alright like this?"

Hyunwoo mumbled as he looked at the 300 or so people left

'They're all so amazing.'

Hyunwoo mumbled quietly.

They had split up like this within a day of deciding to group up.

No, if you look at it another way then it might be something obvious.

There aren't many people who have something more important than their own lives.

Especially in a world like this where family, love and faith was hard to maintain.

Hansoo chuckled at Hyunwoo's words as he spoke.

"Well. It's not that bad. If they fight that well."

Hansoo actually thought that the clan unions were rather good.

Those guys, who had set up a way to fight against a difficult enemy with near perfection in 20 days, were actually worthy of praise.

And no matter what happened, it was easier to control them if there were more people in the clan union than in the non-clan union.

In conclusion, this would increase the number of people who would live and even the speed in which they would advance towards the Demon Lord's Castle.

"…But doesn't the fact that they're taking the crystals piss you off or anything?"

Hansoo shook his head at Hyunwoo's words.

The things he had been worrying about until now were two things.

People dying at the hands of demons because they tried too hard to get their hands on the crystals and the people who had gained the crystal ascending just like that.

But such things won't happen anymore.

There was nothing bad about it because the special forces were hunting demons safely and it was only fair for the killer to take the crystal.

And Eres had saved 600 out of 1000 people.

If they advance like this then it meant that the Clan Lords and their core members won't fall into danger.

But why would they leave their gathered powers here and ascend with the crystals?

Actually, if they fought better by buying artifacts with the crystal then it was even better for him.

Since he will be able to arrive at the Demon Lord's Castle with the best bodily condition.

'It'll be so much better if they only did things up to this point.'

As soon as his words ended, Guktae walked towards him audaciously from afar.

"Since we caught it the ownership belonging to us is definite right?"

Hansoo nodded his head.

"Of course. The ownership of the items that dropped from the beast or demon that you killed belongs to you."

Guktae shrugged his shoulders.

'Well yeah. He won't fall for simple things such as this.'

He had thoroughly guarded the crystals from being distributed.

And because of this, if he had said something about it then he was going to show some supremacy with that as the reason.

He was strong but of course they would win if they put their special forces, which numbered over a hundred, in front of them and pushed him back.

And currently the people under him were quickly dropping out.

He thought that once he suppressed him, the 300 people stuck to him will drop off in piles but to come out in such a calm manner.

'Well. It's not that bad.'

It wasn't that bad as he saw the guy who hadn't allowed for his intentions to bend act like this.

'Well. We'll be in more of an advantage as the time goes on.'

There was no need to hurry.

Since the gap will continue to grow.

Once he gathered the crystals and got equipped with artifacts like the Drum of Lempal, the gap will clearly get widen.

"Ey. Fucker."

Hansoo chuckled at Hyunwoo, who was cursing as he looked at Guktae in the distance, and then started to count the number of crystals he had.

'But if I collect crystals at this rate then I can even obtain Justice of Dekrados.'

Judgement of Dekrados was a set item.

If he were to obtain Justice of Dekrados, which he needed 55 crystals for, then he would be able to progress through the Demon Lord's Castle with much more ease from the synergy of the two.

If they advance on friendly terms like this then he might even be able to save more than Eres.

'Though it seems that it'll be hard.'

Hansoo finished his thoughts and then jumped at the Demons just like that.

Kudududk.

Hansoo swung his scythe widely towards the special forces that were slowly approaching the Demon which he was fighting

The ground dug up following the path of the scythe and because of this the special force members stopped their movements.

Hansoo smirked at those special forces.

"Don't really need to help though."

Sunghoon, one of the special forces, grinded his teeth and then spoke out.

"But no matter how I see it, it seems very unfair."

"What does?"

Sunghoon pointed at the corpse of the demon which was on the ground.

"You are catching three at the same time. And with just a chain on you."

Since they had gotten under the clans, they couldn't prevent damage from the mages from reaching the clansmen anymore.

And because of this the Lords split up their special forces.

60 people were fighting the demons with around 12 people to 1 while the remaining 40 were to go up against mages.

But while the 60 were hunting five, Hansoo killed three by himself.

As if he had spat on them already, he tied them up one by one with the chains and then killed them off one by one.

There was a difference in speed due to the fact that they were fighting rather safely in order to prevent injuries from happening to every precious special force member whilst Hansoo was charging in like a maniac without caring for his body.

But even so, they were 60 people.

And not any 60, these were the elites who were created by combining psychic powers, skills and runes by using the resources of the whole clan.

Hansoo smirked as he spoke.

"That's why I first moved to action when you came to kill them. Just like before."

'…damnable bastard'

What had occurred was that he had split up two of the three demons, who were tied up by the chain, to approach another six of them at a time.

He had tied up three but only fought one at a time so they had split up a team to approach the other two which were tied up.

And then this guy just let loose the chains which tied the two up, which of course made the demons go on a rampage, and almost caused one of the special forces to die.

'Damnable…'

It seemed like there were many demons but once they started killing them, there weren't as many of them.

The number of demons which had appeared to them within the past three days was about 50.

While they killed 30, Hansoo had eaten up 19 of them all alone.

And because of this the Lords couldn't keep up their face.

Since they had killed 30 with 12 people.

And they couldn't even get 10 when they fought for 10 days straight.

On whose nose did they want to stick this? (TL: Korean saying describing inadequate things)

'This won't do.'

Sunghoon quickly backed off with a cold expression and then hurriedly walked towards his Lord, Guktae.

'A genius is really a genius.'

He had a gist of it but for their hunting speeds to have that much of a difference.

'Well. The crystals aren't the important things.'

The crystals were bonuses no matter what happened.

Guktae sighed after making a fed up expression then thought of his motives.

He had thought about the past when he read the Romance of Three Kingdoms. (*TL: Whoever does not know what this is, go read it.)

It's already tiring even if three parties of similar strengths exist.

But here there were 12 clans.

It was likely that the stage would get smaller as they went higher and higher.

If they think about organizing things later then it'll be too late.

'Let's see… if you say it takes 10 days then the remaining time is 7 days.'

If you discard the fact that they had to go up against undeads and demons without stopping as they advanced, it was a rather long time.

But it wasn't that long in order to complete his plans.

'I acknowledge the fact that you're strong.'

Acknowledge.

He was really strong.

Even more so than the clan he created with all his might.

And he will think that from now on, there will be times where his individual strength would surpass the strength of a group.

'I really want to take him.'

But he had already looked into this.

As he heard, he had already denied the proposals of other clans.

But everyone probably poked him once at least.

And to his knowledge, he denied all of them.

'It seems like there's a reason…'

He had many things that he kept hidden.

The fact that he didn't ascend despite having crystals was suspicious too.

'Well. Thanks to that there's an opportunity for me'

If I cannot use it then others cannot either.

That was too dangerous.

Even if things were to get dangerous because of his disappearance, he could just escape using the crystals along with his core members and special forces.

Though they had a connection, the level in which the Sovereign and the ones below, the people with symbols, were very different.

A Sovereign wouldn't tell a general to not go to war because he treasures the general.

'There's no need for me to do it personally.'

It'll be over if he made somebody go get hit by the blade and die.

Even better if the blade got damaged.

'Let's see. Somebody who would be the easiest to make him fall into such a trap is… Taejin.'

That guy called Hyunwoo is still sticking around right? Yeah. Tell that Hyunwoo guy beforehand.

Guktae ordered something to the clansmen below through the message as he got up and headed towards Taejin.

Taejin stared coldly at Hansoo, who was standing in front of the giant door made of bones.

Because he thought of the words of another Clan Lord, Guktae.

Hansoo has already agreed to act together with our clan. So tell the special forces to avoid friction with him. I'm telling you this because I'm worried that you are having too many frictions between you and him these days despite you also being one of my secret allies.

And then he said that this fact needed to be remained a secret from others in order to avoid the eyes of the other clans.

'…this bastard. You deny my offer but accept Guktae's?'

Taejin grinded his teeth.

Of course he wasn't dumb and didn't believe right away.

So he had threatened that Hyunwoo guy who was always with Hansoo.

And he found out that there indeed were positive talks going between Hansoo and Guktae.

'It cannot happen. It cannot.'

Guktae already had the most power out of the 12 clans.

It was comparing the height of acorns but a huge difference was created once that guy came in.

Though they were secret allies within the Clan union, how could he just watch things like this when he didn't know what would happen after they went up.

'This bitch…I had left him alone because he was in a neutral position.'

There was a huge difference even if they say that the power between him and the affiliated person were the same.

And it'll be a huge burden once the crystals in his hands go into Guktae's hands.

'I need to make some preparations.'

He fought all the way in the very front.

So a chance will come by if he looks for one.

Especially if it's near that dangerous looking and suspicious door.

'Yeah. You've been quite comfortable up until now.'

Unfitting of this damnable world.

Taejin grinded his teeth after seeing Hansoo and the giant door made of bones in the distance as he proceeded to order something towards the clansmen below.

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Chapter 36 – Demon Lord's Castle (3)

Hyunwoo gulped his saliva as he looked between Hansoo next to him and the giant door made of bones in the distance.

"Hansoo. You at least feel good. Since you can escape during times of crisis because you have the crystal."

And then Hansoo chuckled at Hyunwoo who was looking at him enviably.

"Don't worry. I'm not going."

"Yeah? Well. Logically speaking, you're probably here because you have something to gain."

Hansoo chucked as he looked at Hyunwoo who was mumbling 'Because you'd gone up if that wasn't the case.'

'Well. Those words are right.'

It was better for him to go up then to stay down here since he wasn't a Clan Lord who logically had to save everybody.

Since the hunting efficiency here was rather low.

The only runes that came out were from killing the Demons but the amount they dropped wasn't really satisfying it if you take into account their strength.

Some people who have already fulfilled the requirements of other islands rather quickly were probably already roaming around the most attractive area out of the islands above, The Tower.

Since this fact was already on the Island Maps.

But he hadn't come here for such things from the start.

'Demonic Jade Crystal.'

If he didn't obtain the Demonic Jade Crystal from the end of the Demon Lord's Castle then there was no point even if he got to the end of the final dungeon.

He wouldn't have known its existence without Eres.

Eres wasn't in the condition to utilize it properly but he could pull out all the power from the Demonic Jade Crystal.

He had come here for the Demonic Jade Crystal, the Judgement and Justice of Dekrados were merely part of the process.

'About 21 crystals collected.'

Also, if he were to hunt with ease then he could probably obtain the Justice of Dekrados also.

"It kind of seems like the Clan Lords don't like you much. Is it because you're strong?"

There was no reason to hate Hansoo in Hyunwoo's eyes.

He helped others well, was diligent in his own part of the work and felt very secure because he was strong.

There were basic rules and he was very diligent in following them.

The reason why the non-clansmen had followed him at the start was because of this.

Though they had all split up now.

Hansoo chuckled as he spoke.

"Well there's that but…it's as you say. They just don't like me."

The road was long and they didn't know when an enemy will appear.

If they thought logically then they had to combine their strength in order to defeat the enemy.

But Lords were a little different.

Historically speaking, it wasn't that the kings did not slash off the necks of capable generals because there was an enemy.

Lords instinctively hated people who didn't work in their way.

Lord of a Clan.

As soon as you awake the trait Lord , you realize it instinctively.

That your words became the law and the rules within this household.

He didn't know himself but according to the words of Eres, it was a very addictive and amazing feeling where you are living in the modern society and then getting into a situation where others had to listen to your words.

And they tried to increase the number of their clan because of this.

To increase their influence inside and outwards as well as to apply the rules they created.

The reason why the Lords increased their power wasn't just for survival.

But who would like it when somebody else were to come and then tell them to follow different rules.

It was a different problem from their own rules being right or wrong, he, who was an Executor, couldn't have a good relation with Lords from the start.

'Well they might not be able to judge things reasonably.'

The Lords who had been around for tens of decades were growing impatient because they couldn't kill him.

The fact that the ones who just became Lords were around him and were suppressing themselves was even more amazing.

Since reason and emotion are different from the start.

And when somebody sets their mind on something, they're bound to create some reason for it in their head.

'They still need to grow a lot.'

A new ability.

And a new world where they can use it freely.

It was obvious that they wanted to swing around the fascinating new sword that they had obtained.

And getting angry was normal since they met somebody which their sword, which usually worked well, didn't work against.

But they needed to see more and hear more.

And they had to realize that this was just the start.

And that was why they needed to escape the tutorial area in order to survive.

The most important quality of a Lord wasn't suppressing the other Lord.

Suppressing oneself and knowing how to work with other Lords was the most important thing.

Even Kwang Goonju and the Lord of Dark Angler weren't self-assertive.

'Well. It's a little early for them to know of it. Anyways, I should try a little bit harder.'

What would he do by showing off his strength against baby Lords in the tutorial area.

The people here were people who came from living in the real world and had only been here for about a month.

They might look at him in a marvelous way but if Hansoo wasn't able to do at least this much then Kangtae would've probably went overboard.

His real rivals were people who have been here for a few years or even 20 years while going through all sorts of hardships from square one.

People who had broken through a tutorial like this over 10 or so years ago and had been roaming around the Otherworld for a long time.

His goal wasn't to be ahead of others by 1 to 2 years.

He had to catch up to 20 years between him and them.

Hansoo loosened up the tension in his body as he approached the first gateway, the Door of Bones.

'The time it will take to eat up the rest of the members will be about 3 days… it seems it'll take a while.'

The non-clansmen couldn't follow him.

They will receive more damage than usual as the environment gets harsher if they did not have the commands of a Lord.

And that was why he induced the Clan Lords to absorb them back in.

Since it seemed like most members had been absorbed into the clans, things were doable.

'Let's have a look here.'

They'll have some sort of an image as they see how he deals with the Gatekeeper.

Hansoo smiled at Hyunwoo then slowly walked forward.

Guktae frowned as he looked at the giant door in front of him.

A giant door that seemed like it was made of hundreds of thousands if not millions of bones.

One could see that from the door that reminded of France's Arc de Triomphe, a fearful aura was coming off from it.

'Let's see… the remaining number is 1200.'

100 died in 3 days.

From one's view it was merely a trivial loss.

This was a result that came off from Hansoo and the Special forces fighting the Demons competitively.

If both of them were slugging about then the damage would have skyrocketed.

'Well. Since they have almost absorbed them all.'

As people saw that Hansoo didn't care about keeping them safe and was focused on hunting the Demons, they all ran and joined the clans.

They had all realized.

Though Hansoo can hunt all the Demons with his body alone, that he could not defend them from the attacks of countless mages

If they didn't go into the clans then the special forces wouldn't defend them and then they'll be wide open against the attacks of the mages.

Though the people who had survived from Hansoo hunting the Demons were hundreds, being safer was the better option.

While Guktae was making a satisfied expression, a familiar existence appeared in front of the Giant Door.

"Hello everyone. Welcome to the first of the three doors, the Door of Bones."

Door of Bones

There wasn't any other name that more befitting.

The fairy who had seen the people's expressions nodded.

"It's very simple. Do you see the giant door over there? You just need to get past it."

"…It's closed."

The giant door that the fairy pointed to was firmly closed.

But then climbing the walls that stretched tens of meters next to it seemed impossible.

No, if they were meant to be climbed then why would the door exist.

'We don't even know if the fairy might kill us as an example on the way up.'

Their lives were too precious to test climbing up the wall when they could just talk it out.

The fairy laughed as it spoke.

"Eehee. You need to pay a passing fee."

Everyone made a bitter expression at those words.

"What do we need to pay with?"

The fairy shrugged as it spoke.

"What else. The crystals on you guys. Crystals. Just pay 30. Then it'll be a free pass."

Curses almost exploded out from their mouths.

The sum total they had hunted in the past 3 days was 50.

And there were only about 30 in their possession.

But for them to pay 30 crystals in order to open a door.

Which meant they had to hand over their lives too.

The reason why they were able to plan things about while trying so hard was because they had a backup plan which came from the crystals.

The Tower, which was right above the Central Island, was shown on the Islands Map and was told to have even more opportunities than now.

The reason why the name Central Island was given was because it was an island right below the Tower.

And they, who had already gained a lot in the central island, could still look out for opportunities even if they go up with heavy losses.

But if they lose the crystals then they would have to give up on all of those opportunities.

And the fairy had told them clearly.

That there were 3 doors.

Which means there was a chance that they will get robbed 2 more times like this from now.

Guktae struggled to maintain his expression and then spoke.

"Is there a way to pass without paying?"

The fairy nodded at those words.

"Simple. You need to kill the Gatekeeper."

"…Gatekeeper."

"Yes. Gatekeeper."

As soon as the fairy's words ended, a fearful vibration started to ring throughout the ground.

The origin of the vibration was the door in front of them.

Kadududuk.

Udududuk.

The hundreds of thousand if not millions of bones that had made up the door mixed and intertwined as it turned into something giant.

"…Wolf?"

Somebody spoke out in dismay as they saw the giant wolf that stretched 50m long from head to its tail.

Grrrrrrrr.

Though it was made of bones, there were blue flames burning from its eyes.

And this was from 30m above them.

It was only 30m on paper, it felt like a building was standing up and growling at them.

It didn't even squeak like the weak skeletons.

Since the number of bones that its body consisted of was too many to do so.

The people made fearful expressions as they saw the giant black wolf made of bones that were polluted black.

The fairy laughed as it saw those people.

"Here. There isn't a moon anymore right? If you aren't going to pay then you just need to walk beneath it."

Grrrrrr

The people gulped their saliva as they gazed at the giant Wolf.

"…How about giving 30 crystals?"

"Yeah. How are we going to…"

30 crystals.

A number that could only be gained if they killed 30 demons.

It actually looked as strong as 30 demons.

And that was the problem.

They had hunted 50 of them by killing them 8 or 9 at a time but 30 of them charging at them at once was of a different dimension.

The Clan Lords made bitter expressions as they looked at each other.

There weren't any crystals on the few remaining non-clansmen.

Which meant that they had to pay 30 crystals.

No, another person did exist.

He didn't have as much as them but someone in possession of a lot of crystals.

They looked at Hansoo as they spoke.

"Let's pay the crystals together."

That thing was too burdensome no matter what.

Hansoo shook his head.

"We need to fight it."

"…what?"

Everyone's expressions froze.

'Damn… does he mean it's not worth it.'

Guktae frowned inwardly.

But it made sense that it wasn't worth it.

They were 1200.

On the other hand, he was alone.

It was possible that he would feel wronged if he had to burden part of the 30.

But they couldn't act recklessly.

The situation would become very complicated if he decides to go up when they try to force him with strength.

"We aren't telling you to pay all 30. Just a part of it…"

Hansoo thought quietly inwardly while listen to those words.

'Eres. I really think you are extremely amazing.'

Eres had saved 600 out of 1000 people and ascended.

Surprisingly, Eres managed to have less than 30 deaths before they reached the Door of Bones.

The thousand people Eres had numbered a little less but were much more formidable than the ones here.

Like steel which got stronger as you hammered it, people who were strengthened from 20 days of fighting without rest.

They had good synergy, kept on fighting against the demons and continuously reinforced their Battle Power from crystals.

And the only action that Eres had regretted in the central island.

I shouldn't have paid the crystals to go through it

Eres was scared of people dying while fighting that giant thing so she had paid the crystals she had gathered to pass it.

And because of this, she had to pay crystals on the next gateway too.

Since she had already given the crystals once and could not reinforce their battle powers with those crystals.

And the same with the next gateway as well.

And after she had arrived at the Giant Crystal at the Demon Lord's Castle at that pace, she had lost 400 out of 1000 people during the final battle.

No, It ended with 400 because of luck.

If they pass through something sweetly once in this world, then it'll just come back with interest and Eres had felt this through pain in her bones.

'It seems like I'll need to make some extra explanations.'

Hansoo mumbled inwardly as he saw everyone's frozen expressions.

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Chapter 37 – Demon Lord's Castle (4)

"We're fighting. There's two more gateways after this, what are you planning to do if you give the crystals over to it here?"

"…Goddamnit. You don't know about that."

Taejin clenched his teeth at Hansoo's words.

'Is he out of his mind?'

Just say you don't want to if you didn't want to give the Crystals.

Who in their right state of mind would try to fight that monster.

But he couldn't assert his position strongly because he felt like that was the correct choice.

"Didn't you grind your blade fervently. Then you should at least try swinging it against the strong."

"…Fuck."

Hansoo, who had finished his wards, started to untie the weapons from his body slowly.

Taejin grinded his teeth at this sight.

'Goddamit… Is it really doable?'

He didn't know about other things but one thing was clear.

That Hansoo's fighting ability was simply monstrous.

And when such a person had told him to try and have a bout with it, he weirdly thought that it might be doable.

And he had said he even had psychic powers.

'I'm the crazy one.'

He was actually getting tempted by a point with no basis to back it up.

Taejin clenched his teeth as he flinched at his weirdly tempted mind.

'No. I need to be careful of guys like him.'

When somebody, who was rather good with the sword in the beginning, ambushed him and his friends, they easily suppressed him.

Though he was strong, there were still five including him and his friends.

He had let him go alive because he thought that the speed in which one got stronger couldn't catch up the speed of five.

Since he thought that was the right choice at that time.

The greatest misconception was thinking that he would come back alone next time as well.

But he did not come back alone.

He had brought others behind him.

His friends had all died and he barely survived and escaped.

And when he awakened his trait and gained more power, he killed them all and then vowed.

That it was not ok for him to let people who were as dangerous as him alive.

Hansoo wasn't the problem.

Even if he was perfectly normal, it'll be dangerous if he were to go into a dangerous household.

Especially in a household where it is composed of a Lord's Symbol which was hard to disobey.

One could tell Guktae was dangerous with just a simple glance.

That was why he had allied with him but this decision was something he laid down because he felt that fighting against him was doable.

He didn't like that guy but he didn't mind holding hands with a dangerous and strong guy in order to defend his followers.

But if someone like Hansoo goes under Guktae and heeds his command then it will become uncontrollable.

He had to do his best to supervise the dangers for the people who receive his mark with trust.

While Taejin was pledging to himself within his mind, Hansoo rose from his seat.

'I'll finally get to use this thing properly.'

Judgement of Dekrados which reached hundreds of meters

The gatekeeper was one of the greatest reasons why he had bought this in the first place.

He couldn't control and lead everyone like Eres.

But he could do the thing which he was the best at.

'I'm fighting in the very front.'

And the others didn't have the leeway to choose.

"Let's go. Only people of the special forces level and people whose long-ranged skills reach 250m in range follow. It seems like some of you could do it in combination to your psychic powers. And the healers should be stationed 500m behind."

The Commander's Aura drained the health of the people nearby.

They'll just become baggage if they don't have magic resistance.

"What are you doing. Not coming with me? If you aren't coming then I'm going to drag that thing over here."

"This crazy bastard…"

Everyone was frightened at the sight of Hansoo who seemed like he was about to pounce on it alone.

Hansoo chuckled as he saw these guys.

"Follow the commands properly. You need to at least work for your meals."

Hansoo then charged forward ruthlessly, swung the scythe around and then slammed it down onto the head of the giant gatekeeper.

Boooom!

Kuaaaaaangg!

The gatekeeper, which had its head smacked, roared loudly as it glared at Hansoo while the fairy muttered quietly.

"Eyyy. What is this. They're fighting. Killjoy."

Everyone realized the answer from the from the unsatisfied voice of the fairy.

"Goddamnit… Run!"

"Receive as many buffs as possible! People who have Aron's Arrow shoot it from over here!"

And then everyone, as well as the special forces, started running towards Hansoo's back.

'As I thought… this guy was created with the gatekeeper of the 7th floor of the abyss as the basis'

It was a version which was so weak that it couldn't be compared to the original but the physical structure of it and the skills it used seemed the same.

'Then I can read it.'

Kadudududk

Kuaaaaaa!

The gatekeeper shook his body crazily in order to break apart the chains which were entwining its body.

Of course it was impossible for Hansoo to suppress the strength of the giant wolf by himself.

Since their size and mass were different from the start.

It was a different issue from strength.

But Hansoo was flying between the body and the joints of the gatekeeper as he tied the chain around it.

So that when it tried to swing its body, its whole body would be squeezed.

So that when it tried to run forward, its front and back legs would get tangled up.

Kududududk

The Judgement of Dekrados was constantly draining the mana of the Gatekeeper as it activated its Suppression.

'… It's barely holding on.'

The gatekeeper wasn't average as he expected, the chains straightened as if they were about to snap.

Hansoo limited its movements by loosening and entwining the chains.

He wanted to tie it up into a ball but then it might really snap.

Hansoo loosened and tightened the chains at different times as he tied it up as much as he could without snapping the chains.

Its movements weren't suppressed completely because the chains didn't tie it up completely but its movements were still dulled.

"Dodge the front leg!"

The special forces, who were scattering the bones apart below, scattered in all directions while shouting.

Boom!

Charuruk

As Hansoo loosened up the chains, the beast, which was twisting its body in annoyance, swung the now-free front leg. But this was all as Hansoo planned.

He had loosened up the area which was the easiest to dodge on purpose.

Kirik. Kiririk.

Hansoo was changing the direction of the beast even in such a situation by loosening and tightening the chains.

Kuuuuaaang!

The gatekeeper got even angrier because it felt like it became a marionette but Hansoo didn't care as he continued to twist around its movements as he pulled on the chains.

'Well. I can't move it how I want but…'

It took all of his power to control the chains.

Since a gatekeeper of this level was no joke.

But such a thing like swinging a sword could be done by others.

Kudududk. Kududk.

"Hurry and smash its ankles first!"

"Since the bones come back to connect with each other, shove some things into the location where you smashed apart!"

As Hansoo heard the endless voices from the clansmen of Taejin, he nodded his head.

'They're doing pretty good.'

The Demons use a variety of skills.

And because the special forces had gained a vast amount of experience, they didn't get flustered at the magical sight of the bones combining back and were neutralizing the ankles first.

Grrrrrrr

And at that moment, a weird shockwave could be felt from the gatekeeper's mouth.

And at the same time, the blue eyes in its eyes started to burn up.

'That's a little bit difficult'

If that thing were to burst out then at least half of them would become a mess.

Hellfire

A power that was granted to the doorkeepers in order to incinerate the intruders.

Charururk

Hansoo grabbed onto the handle of the scythe while flying about on the chains.

Kururururu

The scythe in Hansoo's hands started to drain his mana aggressively as it activated the skill, Judgement.

And Hansoo swung it like so and smashed it onto the lower jaw of the gatekeeper.

Boom!

Kwadududk

His neck bones were so thick that the attack, which he poured all his power into, just bounced off its cranium but still made it to face the front from it's original position of being ready.

But Hansoo didn't expect this attack to send its head flying.

His goal was the blue marble that could see seen between the bones he had smashed apart.

'Ignition Stone'

The hellfire could only be let out once the mana from deep inside its body reached up the cranium and met the ignition stone with a violent reaction.

An information was obtained after Keldian and Hansoo realized that this thing was the gatekeeper on the road to obtaining the Demonic Jade Crystal and had personally killed one and dissected it.

Basically, as long as you ripped off the Ignition Stone then the hellfire wouldn't get completed.

Hansoo roughly shoved his hands between the regenerating bones and pulled out the bead.

Chiiiik

An extreme temperature which even made sounds of burning Hansoo's flesh which was protected by his magic resistance.

Hansoo threw the Ignition stone down and then continued to suppress it with the chains with his burnt hand.

One of Taejin's clansman, who was looking at him, asked through the message.

He seems like he's having trouble. It feels like it'll work if we attack now. Shall we try attacking him right now?

The clan member was making a bitter expression as well.

Since the thought of such a guy joining Guktae's Clan and holding his blades at them was feeling extremely dangerous.

But Hansoo was using all his power to suppress the wolf and was having a hard time.

A situation where there's a chance if they attacked.

But Taejin shook his head.

No. Focus on killing the gatekeeper.

Yes.

The clan member was rather confused at the changed attitude of Taejin but didn't talk back as he charged onto the giant gatekeeper again.

And soon the giant wolf started to get disassembled one part at a time from the long range skills and the Special forces who flew into it like a swarm of bees.

"It was pretty doable right? Here. Take the runes."

Hansoo chuckled at the Lords as he started to distribute the runes according to the amount of contribution from each Lord.

Taejin stared at this Hansoo for a while and then spoke out.

"Why do you roam around alone? It doesn't seem like it'll be hard for you to make a clan without psychic powers."

That much strength and a weird psychic power.

And a weird aura that radiated from his whole body.

It wasn't that you needed psychic powers like theirs in order to become a leader.

If he's that strong then he could probably create a much larger clan than theirs.

No, even if Hansoo was to continue maintaining the Semi-Basement union and had used his hands a few more times then they would probably be rolling around beneath him.

Hansoo chucked at those words.

When will he raise them and when will he use them.

He needed to run but if he were to take them with him then his back will bend.

And if he wanted to maintain this amount of people at all times in the place he was going to be at from now on, he'd be simply too busy just to fill the holes.

Since they'll die off in hundreds.

"Everyone has their personal issues. You probably have them too."

Taejin stared at Hansoo for a while and then looked at Guktae in the distance.

'This Bastard… set up a trap.'

He wasn't somebody who would stay beneath that Guktae.

Taejin threw out a word after looking at Hansoo for a while.

"Be careful of that Guktae."

He couldn't tell more than that.

Since if he were to say that Guktae was aiming for him and created a dispute, everyone would be in danger.

Since even if Hansoo wanted to do something to Guktae, the other Clan Lords wouldn't just stand idle.

The Lords hated Hansoo and at the same time, felt pressured by him.

They weren't clashing into each other because they agreed of his usefulness, but once he starts acting on Guktae, they will react extremely sensitively.

'But my mind would only be at ease if I at least tell him about this.'

Hansoo smirked at those words and Taejin glared at Guktae while returning to his clansmen.

Guktae clicked his tongue while looking at that Taejin.

'Tsk. So this is how it rolls out.'

He had been found out but it didn't matter.

Since when was the relationship between them good.

And even if he knew, he couldn't do anything about it.

How would a guy who valued his clansmen so much fight recklessly.

'You need to know when to throw things.'

Hansoo was the same.

But one thing was clear.

'It's better to leave him alone for a while.'

He needed time to practice and it was better to not touch him if he could hunt the gatekeepers like that.

Since they could save crystals then.

Guktae, who had judged that it was best to leave him alone temporarily, moved back in between his clansmen.

Kudududk

Guktae mumbled quietly as he saw the final Gatekeeper being eliminated.

'…It's finally here.'

A giant castle could be seen over the carcass of the final gatekeeper.

The Demon Lord's Castle which was only seen in the distance.

A ginormous crystal could be seen in the corner of the Demon Lord's Castle.

'Let's see. About 1000 people left.'

Guktae looked at his wrist.

8 miniature crystals.

It wasn't a large amount because the 12 clan Lords had to share but he could still obtain a pretty good artifact with it.

A Wilderness Lord's Cape which could be used once a day to allow the user to summon 12 protectors he choses as well as raising the speed of regeneration and movement near the user and the Thorn Wood Casket which surrounds the body of the person whom the user touches with thorns could increase the battle powers of the clan by a lot.

But Guktae shook his head.

'Twelve is too many as I expected. And he is dangerous too. It's time for things to end soon.'

It was really the final gateway and the final chance.

"Since we're injured we're resting here first before moving out!"

"We're going into the Demon Lord's Castle after healing as much as possible!"

Guktae started to send a message towards somewhere as he heard the shouts of the Clan Lords.

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Chapter 38 – Demon Lord's Castle (5)

Taejin made a strange expression as he looked at Hansoo who had appeared in front of him while he was looking at the Demon Lord's Castle in the distance.

"That's a dagger that I haven't seen around."

Hansoo laughed as he answered.

"Oh I bought the newest product."

'A dagger and scythe…'

A shiny dagger, which wasn't seen until now, was attached on Hansoo's waist.

A sword with a 30 cm long blade, which had a rather peculiarly long shape for a dagger.

Of course he had many daggers dangling on his thighs but that weapon felt different at a glance.

'…Set artifact?'

He had seen it on the catalog.

Justice of Dekrados

An artifact that showed off its best effect when used in conjunction with Judgement of Dekdrados.

He thought that he was a guy who only used complex weapons just like the chain scythe.

Though there was nothing to say since he used them well.

And he also had many weird things.

'What is that pouch…'

While the people were cooking the strange plants which appeared on the road, food continued to come out from his pouch.

But they weren't really jealous because the food which came out from it was on par with the plants they cooked.

"Can we really not be together above?"

Taejin asked with a regrettable tone as he looked at the Giant Crystal which had gotten rather close to them.

Hansoo chuckled at those words.

"I said follow if you want to follow. I won't take you with me but I won't stop you either."

Taejin shook his head at those words.

He wanted to follow him but he was not alone.

They had gotten a little closer while fighting and because of this he had the opportunity to talk with him.

And he could find out after talking to him for a while.

There weren't many reasons why this guy was trying so hard to become strong.

Just one.

In order to go into more dangerous locations.

His clansmen were strong too but if they were to follow him then they would die off in stroves.

He didn't want to become strong that bad.

The reason why he wanted to become strong was for the protection of the clan but that thing had different means and aim.

'It's a good choice.'

Hansoo smiled as he looked at Taejin.

Since the road which he will be traveling from now on will be even more dangerous.

The things he needed to do in the Tutorial were two.

Clearing the Final dungeon.

And one more.

'A Dark Lord who is bound to be somewhere.'

Dark Lord.

One of the guys he needed to pull out by the roots for the safety of humanity.

Guys who were dangerous to no extent.

No, the reason why they were so infamous was because they had the potential to be so dangerous from the start.

There was one in this tutorial area too.

'I will clash with him properly… in the Tower.'

No matter where you are, you meet in the Tower.

Since clashes were inevitable according to its structure.

Hansoo muttered inwardly as he slowly walked inside the Demon Lord's Castle.

The inner parts of the Demon Lord's Castle was empty.

And a red colored crystal existed within the deep parts of the Demon Lord's Castle.

'It is not… working yet.'

The aura of the Crystal was too lacking to say it was working.

And in front of that Crystal, in the large field which was enough to accommodate for the surviving thousand people, a statue which looked intimidating at a glance stood.

'Is that the Demon Lord?'

While the Clan Lords were frowning, Guktae approached from afar.

Taejin frowned as he looked at him.

'Detestable bastard.'

But even so, he could only agree with his usefulness.

Since his clan showed off the greatest might out of the ones here.

Guktae approached the Clan Lords as he spoke:

"I have a suggestion. We have finally arrived at the final gateway together. It seems like the crystal would work if we break that statue apart."

Guktae looked at the giant statue in the distance and then spoke to the Clan Lords.

"Honestly speaking all of us have seven to eight mini crystals right? This isn't a large number but it is more than enough to preserve our powers."

Everyone nodded at those words.

The amount of mini crystals differed from each other's contributions but it was a number which could at least take 40 of them up with them.

If it was this much, it wasn't lacking to start anew in a new place.

In a place where they could be in a very advantageous situation just by gathering up 10 people, there was nothing to even say about 40 of them.

Since it was a very pressuring number to go against if they weren't Clan Lords like them.

But Guktae threw out a very straightforward talk as he looked at them.

"Let's speak really honestly. In my situation I want to kill off everyone else. It's probably the same for other friends too."

"… Isn't that too honest."

"Let's put all in the open and speak."

Everyone thought inwardly at those words.

Even if they weren't that frank, rejoicing at the reduction of power of other clans was an obvious fact.

Who would like a strong competitor in a world where the fairies were setting up tricks in order to get them to compete with each other.

They might even have to kill each other as soon as they go up.

And the other 11 clans were dangerous competitors and by the time they regret about fighting, it'll be too late.

Everyone wanted it even if they weren't saying it as straightforward as he was.

For the power of others to get reduced in the final battle.

As Guktae saw the expression of a consensus from them, he added in some more words as extra.

"But I don't think we should do that. The reason why we have gotten here together despite hating each other so much was because we were on the same boat. We need each other that much. We need to combine our strengths in order to break through the gateway to ascend."

"What do you want to say?"

Guktae laughed at Taejin's words as he spoke.

"Very simple. Let us all reduce the risk and raise the chances of winning."

"I know that all of you have not exchanged all of your crystals into artifacts in case of emergencies. The same goes for me."

"But think about it. How lame is this. If we just change our crystals into artifacts then the power of our Clan Unions rises by a huge amount. On the other hand, the crystals are an existence which just cut down our battle power even if we have it. Because you won't be able to fight properly as you never know when the guy next to you will attack your back and run away. If this were to happen then we could all die. A massacre."

"Hmm…"

Taejin thought inwardly.

Guktae was a guy he didn't like but there was nothing wrong about what he had said.

Honestly speaking, they had to convert all the crystals in their possession in order to face the giant statue, the Demon Lord, in front of them.

Then the number of survivors would increase.

But the reason why they held onto the crystals was because they felt uneasy.

Since this crystal was a sure escape path.

Gukgtae looked at them and shouted as he suggested.

"So I have a suggestion. Let's all change the crystals we have into artifacts. Whichever artifact you change it to is however the user wants but let's use it all without a single one remaining.

"Kuhmm…"

"Hum…"

"This is a means to get rid of the escape path. Since we don't know what kind of crazily orders the Clan Lord will give after escaping if there's one left. Since there's probably somebody who thinks that it'll be a profit massacring the 1000 people here and surviving by himself.

"Oh. By the way, I'm part of those guys. Can you trust in my clan like this and fight?"

It wasn't an impossible feat.

They didn't know how strong that statue was but if 1000 of them had to fight with all their might, 100 people acting crazily would be extremely fatal.

They could bury everyone here except the five who would escape with the mini crystal.

"…too honest"

"Thank you for the complement. On the other hand, if there wasn't a single crystal left in my hands then I couldn't do such a thing. Because that just means let's just all die. I don't want to die that way. If we all set our boundaries and have our clans fight in those areas with all their might then there will be no instances of being backstabbed. You just need to do your best on your defenses."

"Can't somebody hide the crystals?"

Guktae shook his head.

"We can't hide the crystals because we know the number of each other's crystals too well.

Once we all agree let's buy and show each other. If we compare the number of crystals distributed and the cost of the items on the catalogue, you won't be able to hide the crystals even if you wanted to."

"Hmm…"

Everyone started to ponder at these words.

It's not like there were an uncountable amount of demons and because they had hunted them down employing their special forces together, the number of crystals were clear.

A situation where they knew the number of crystals on each other very well because it was impossible to sneakily move around the special forces to hunt.

According to those words then it was possible to know the total amount of crystals without a single one being left out.

Honestly speaking, it was an obvious thing to decrease factors for anxiety and reinforce their battle strength as much as possible.

Guktae added more words as he looked at these people.

"Think about it. Would the fairy have set the difficulty so that it wasn't possible to win? No matter how much fairy likes for us to die then they wouldn't have put in so much effort like this when they were going to kill us all. They could just simply kill us off and that'll be that."

"Mmm…"

"It means that that thing is possible if we all combine our strengths. Then it means a lot more can survive then you guys escaping with the mini crystals. If you all agree then I'll change first."

Everyone pondered at those words but then nodded.

And they all started to buy artifacts one by one and showed each other.

"I'm choosing the Thorn Wood Casket."

"I'm getting the Ariadnea's Essence…"

Guktae made a content expression as he checked them one by one.

"Good. I'm choosing the Wilderness Lord's Cape. This costs 8 crystals. Everyone should know I received eight… Hansoo you had exactly 59, where did you use them all?"

"… 59 of them."

Everyone thought silently.

If you include the Judgement of Dekrados he bought before then it totals to 119 crystals.

They had known this but confirming it again made them amazed.

Hansoo chuckled as he lifted and showed the dagger hanging onto his waist.

"I used it here. Justice of Dekrados."

Guktae gazed at Hansoo dagger and then nodded with a content expression.

"Though four are left over… is there anything else you're going to buy?"

Hansoo pondered for a moment and then shook his head.

Guktae chucked at that Hansoo.

"You probably don't have a reason to go up. Keep it well then."

'Well. You're probably here because you have an objective left.'

Guktae laughed inwardly.

If he was somebody who would go up for his own safety then he would've left already.

The fact that he had stayed until now meant that he had something to do left.

Anyways, if he decided to not fight and create a chaos or go up then nobody could stop him.

It was better to just tell him to hold onto the escape path and fight actively.

"Well. There's not a single crystal left between the Clan Lords. We can finally focus on the enemy in front of us."

As soon as Guktae's words ended, the giant statue squeaked as it raised its body.

No, it was not a statue.

It was like a living thing having been petrified like a statue.

'It's been a while huh.'

Demon Lord, Barbatoy.

Though it was a weaker version, old memories sprung up when he saw the thing he had fought back then to death with after a long time.

Though it wasn't a good memory.

Just the number of humans who had died by getting ripped apart by his hands was easily over ten thousand.

While Hansoo mumbled inwardly, Taejin shouted loudly at the Demon lord.

"Normal clansmen fall back and special forces, long range and those with healing skills…"

A decision that had been laid because it could be a massacre if the normal clansmen, who couldn't even fight against the gatekeepers, got swept up in the fight against the Demon Lord.

If they couldn't even fight against then they were not of help.

But Taejin, who had been shouting, realized that this wasn't necessary.

Since an enormous amount of undeads started to rise out of the ground in a crazy pace.

"Goddammit… Don't fall back and cover us instead!"

It looked like that they couldn't even get close to the Demon Lord without normal clansmen.

And soon the undead charged ferociously and chaos was created.

And at that moment the fairy appeared above their heads.

"Wow! For one thousand people to have survived! Amazing! You just need to finish it off. First of all, the arrival point, even if you chose the same island, would be different from the mini-crystal to that of the giant crystal so you don't need to worry about getting revenged. Heehee."

It sounded like that they should attack from behind and leave without feeling any pressure since they didn't need to worry about being chased after running away with the mini crystal.

But everyone snorted.

Since they didn't have any mini crystals anymore.

But the fairy's words did not end.

"By the way, it isn't that the giant crystal turns on when you kill the Demon Lord!"

"It will turn on after 30 minutes. So you just need to survive until then right?"

The fairy disappeared with those words and everyone flinched.

It was survival and not kill.

Which meant the clan which fought the hardest would have the greatest loss.

'It's perfect. Really.'

And Guktae laughed as he looked at everyone flinching in the battlefield.

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Chapter 39 – Demon Lord's Castle (6)

Kududuk

"Aim at the neck!"

"Damnit! We're getting pushed on this side!"

The clansmen started to clash against the undead under the command of the Clan Lords.

The sounds of crashing and ripping resonated from all directions.

And within the small gap that the clansmen had created, Hansoo and the special forces started to charge ruthlessly.

Towards the giant statue, no, towards the Demon Lord which was stretching.

And then Hansoo, the special forces and the Demon Lord clashed aggressively.

Kuaaaaaah!

'Maybe because it's a weaker version it cannot talk huh.'

Hansoo muttered inwardly as he looked at the 15m tall human shaped Demon Lord.

'But…As I expected.'

Hansoo clicked his tongue.

The Clan Lords weren't attacking properly.

They didn't have to kill the Demon Lord.

They just needed to endure.

30 minutes.

A time which could be held out if you focused on defending and dragged out the time.

There were twelve clans and anyone who survived were part of the forces they could take above.

It was obvious that everyone wanted to save as many as possible.

And because of this the Clan Lords, despite having the Special Forces out in the front , were just keeping their distance.

The Demon Lord threw a fist along with a rough scream while everybody was not fighting properly.

Hoooong

The giant body combined with the unbelievable speed generated a tremendous amount of wind as it created a humongous shockwave.

Boooom!

"Goddamit!"

"Kuaaaahk!"

Ironically, the Demon Lord, the king of the Evil Clan, wasn't using any skills.

The only thing it had was its overwhelming stamina, health, speed and regeneration.

But this was dangerous enough to the point that every attack from the Demon Lord crushed the people ruthlessly but this just suppressed the Clan Lords from taking action even more.

If he had used an area of effect attack then they might've attacked him because of fear but seeing that he was killing them off one by one, it seemed like they could keep quite a lot alive and then run away through the crystal.

And even better if the special forces of the other clans die off.

"Goddamit! Stick properly! Why are you backing off!"

Taejin gritted his teeth at how the others were acting.

The only special forces that were fighting properly were Taejin's and Yerim's.

These two didn't want to fight at the very front either.

They had just stayed here because it seemed like everything would collapse in an instant if these two were to back off as well.

But the one who was fighting the most actively at this moment was Hansoo.

Since the others were others and he had to kill this thing.

He didn't have the leisure to care about other things anyway.

'Because only then would the Demonic Jade Crystal come out.'

Hansoo was currently fighting close to the Demon Lord.

'It's been a while since we fought. Barbatoy.'

It wasn't Hansoo of back then. And it wasn't the Demon Lord of back then too but fighting it whose attacks and habits were clearly inscribed in his head made it less of a burden for Hansoo to fight.

Barbatoy was a pure physical type.

If he had gone up against someone with a peculiar skill then it would've been very pressuring even for Hansoo.

Of course the basic skill which it had, Speculation, made it so normal clansmen wouldn't be able to come close.

'And that's why the special forces need to do well.'

Hansoo flew around the Demon Lord as he started to tie it up with great vigor.

Kuaaang!

When the Demon Lord applied some strength, the chain made a crackling sound as if it was about break.

'That won't do'

Hansoo pulled out the new artifact he got, Justice of Dekrados.

Charururk

As Hansoo sent in some mana, the single dagger in his hands instantly turns into twelve.

Division.

One of the two skills of the Justice of Dekrados.

The dagger could divide into twelve that had the same durability but once one of them is broken, then the broken copy wouldn't be regenerated even if you were to use Division again.

Hansoo dodged the attacks of the Demon Lord as he stabbed the dagger into the body of the Demon Lord who was tied up with the chain of Judgement of Dekrados.

Puk

Pupupuk

The dagger went through the chain and got embedded.

As it was made as a set item, the holes on each link of the chain were just the right size for the dagger to go through.

The effect Reinforce, which was activated when he used these two artifacts together, started up.

And in this unique form, the chain became even stronger and the dagger sharper.

Hansoo, who had swiftly embedded all twelve daggers, aggresively pulled on the chain.

Kudududuk

As he pulled the chains, the daggers which were embedded along with the chains followed as they sliced apart the Demon Lord's flesh.

Like an electric chainsaw, as the chain which was tied around the Demon Lord were pulled, the daggers started to tear apart the flesh of the Demon Lord.

Kuaaaah!

'It might break.'

As the enraged Demon Lord shook its body, the chain tensed up as if it was about to break.

It was a situation where it couldn't untie the chain because the daggers were embedded deep into its body.

But even if the set effect, Reinforce, was activated, there was still a limit.

'But it doesn't matter.'

Charururk

As Hansoo sent in mana waves, the twelve daggers combined into one and came into Hansoo's hand.

Collection and Division.

It was a simple but very efficient function for the dagger.

As long as there's these two functions then there was no lack of firepower.

As the daggers were removed and the chain was loosened, the Demon Lord started to become even more crazy.

"Uaaaak!"

"Goddamit!"

'Tsk. The special forces need to fight properly.'

Though he had turned it into a mess, it was regenerating at an extreme speed.

Its true might came from that abnormal rate of recovery, ability to take hits, resistance and things like strength, agility and savagery were just the surface of it.

The special forces needed to shove their skills into it and destroy it faster than the speed of its regeneration while he tied it up.

There was a limit to how much one person alone could damage the Demon Lord. But though the Special forces were attacking it, they were doing so in a very passive way and were using safe tactics so the damage couldn't catch up to the regeneration speed of the Demon Lord.

'If this continues then more will die before 30 minutes are up.'

And the Lords were all getting further away from the battlefield as if they had judged that the battlefield was dangerous.

Hansoo shook his head as he saw these signs.

"Bastards! What are you going to command from back there!"

Taejin gritted his teeth.

It was better for the Lords to be in a safer spot.

Since it'll be over for everyone if they die.

But if you wanted to raise the strength of the clan then it was better to command from the center of the clansmen.

It was good to leave things to work automatically but it was also important to look over the situation of the battle to increase the strength of the clan by preserving their numbers and even making them fight forcibly at times.

But the only ones who were fighting in the center of their clans were only Yerin and Taejin.

The ten other Clan Lords, including Guktae, had already backed off into the distance.

The other Lords smirked at Taejin shouting in the distance.

"Why are you fighting in the front like that if you aren't of much help anyway."

"This bastard… if you take the people who protect us then who is going to fight the undead."

One of the Lords laughed at these words.

"We only brought around two per person. Don't be so sensitive. And we already sent the special forces to the front."

While Taejin was gritting his teeth, Guktae shouted while looking at him.

"You guys should come here too since it's dangerous. Rather, it might become a nuisance because they have to protect you."

"I will humbly decline."

Taejin, who had finished his words, controlled his Clan as he charged towards the Demon Lord.

And Guktae made a regretful expression as he looked at such Taejin and Yerin.

"Nine… though it's a little regretful, this is enough."

"What?"

While the Lords were making weird expressions from Guktae's words, the cape that was surrounding Guktae started to shine brightly.

"Fuck.. What are you doing!"

Gultae giggled at these words.

"What do you mean what am I doing. I'm calling some protectors."

Wilderness Lord's Cape.

Once a day, the user can summon twelve designated protectors to himself.

And the thing that had come out of the light were the Guktae's twelve special forces.

Guktae spoke to the Special forces.

"Get them."

As soon as the words ended, the 2 protectors combined with the 12 special forces as they charged at the protectors of other Lords.

Kuadududk

Kududk

"Kuak!"

"Goddammit!"

The eighteen protectors fought back but the power of the special forces were a step higher.

And Guktae's Special Forces were even a step higher than that.

"Dammit!"

While the Clan Lords were calling their forces in a hurry, Guktae's other clansmen started to jump about crazily and started to get a grip on the people's ankles.

Despite the difference in numbers, because they had defended with their lives on the line, the speed of the other clansmen had slowed down and by the time the other clansmen killed off all of Guktae's clansmen and got near, the Clan Lords had long become hostages of Guktae.

Guktae giggled as he looked at the 10 special forces around him who had become a mess.

Two had died and the ten who were alive had become a huge mess, it was still easy for them to cut off the necks of the Clan Lords who they were holding hostage.

'One needs to just protect me. It's very clean.'

One of the Clan lords gritting their teeth as he looked at Guktae.

"You crazy bastard! If this happens then you die too! Isn't your ability valuable to you!"

Why wouldn't they have thought of such a situation.

The only reason why they weren't expecting internal fights between Clan Lords was because if one of the Clan Lords were to create a mess then they would all die here.

What would you do if you take them as hostages.

If you act crazily and create a chaos here, you will get pushed back by the undead and the remaining people will all die at the hands of the Undead and the Demon Lord.

It had already been awhile since the fight had been tilted towards the advantage of the Undeads in the fight in the distance.

They had fallen quickly while the remaining clans were clashing.

Hansoo and the remaining two special forces were stopping the Demon Lord but how would they hold out 20 minutes at this rate.

They don't even have mini crystals.

Guktae giggled as he laughed.

"It doesn't matter if I die."

No, it wasn't that it didn't matter if he died or not.

His job was to get everybody here and die together.

Why would he have gotten rid of all the mini crystals?

"What?"

Was he such a maniac out of maniacs?

And at that moment, one of the Lords, who had a blade up against them, made a pale expression as they thought of something.

"You bitch… you aren't a Lord. Some crazy bastard sent one of the clansmen instead of themself… you crazy bastard! Do you mean that it's ok for you to die!"

Guktae's expression chilled at those words.

Such a way of speaking when they had their fate in the hands of others despite having such formidable power of a Lord.

'There's too much of a difference.'

He thought back of the scene when his Lord had sent him here.

You take these 3 tickets, go to the Central Island and pretend. The others there who have already received the message will treat you as the Lord.

The symbol could be given from a clansmen and not a Lord as long as the Lord gave permission and clansmen could communicate between each other through messages.

The command was very simple too.

Since there was the first command every newcomer of the clan received.

Treat Guktae as the Lord and follow his commands.

If you do this then you can pretend to be the Lord perfectly.

As Guktae, who had finished thinking, gave a signal with his eyes, the grip of the special force member holding the Lord's neck tightened.

Squeeze

"Kuk..Kuuurk."

"What do you mean crazy bastard. He's a much more formidable person than scrubs like you."

And at the same time everyone's expression paled as Guktae laughed coldly at them.

Hansoo made a cold expression as he looked at the chaos occurring behind him

'…Fraud Lord.'

A tactic which used one of their clansmen to pose as the Lord, make them careless and then die together.

Not everyone could do such a thing.

First, if you want to become a Fraud Lord then you need to be able to sustain the same amount of clansmen as the other clans.

Since it'll be weird if a Clan Lord who could command 100 did not sustain 100 people.

Which meant that you needed to be able to control 100 people to reinforce the Fraud Lord and another 100 for himself adding up to 200 people in total.

And you also needed the commanding power to command suicide as well.

Once the clansmen go under the Lord, they create a connection between themselves and there are no occurrences where the Lord cannot order a clansmen because of such connections.

Since clansmen and Lords were in a system of up and down.

But such a command like suicide is hard to make because usually when you give such an extreme command, the symbol will break most of the time.

Of course there are exceptions there as well.

A situation where you raised the trait of the Lord with exceptional aptitude and had your trait become much superior to the point where the strength of your trait becomes much stronger then their soul.

Once this happens then it was possible to command things almost forcibly.

And there was a person who was capable of this in the past tutorial as well.

A guy who showed extreme aptitude beyond the specialties of Lords.

Though the regrettable part was the fact that he was crazy.

'Dark Mad Lord… you've done something huh.'

A typical example that showed that, although a crazy guy is dangerous, a crazy guy with good abilities is even more dangerous.

And at the same time, one of the guys who will become the biggest obstacle in this preparation for the Final Dungeon.

One of the representatives of the Dark Lords.

Hansoo looked at Guktae, who had caused a chaos in the distance, with a cold expression.

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Chapter 40 – Demon Lord's Castle (7)

Though the trait of Lord seemed overpowered, there were still a few limitations.

You could only give limited orders to a strong clansman whom you had given the symbol to.

Since if the order is too extreme then their self-defense mechanisms will activate and break the symbol.

And there was also a limit to numbers.

Due to a few more limitations other than these, even a Lord couldn't show invincible-like abilities in an area of people around the same skill level as him.

But like every other skill or psychic power, the trait's level was the most important thing and few Lords with amazing potential appear from time to time.

People who bloom the trait much faster and use this as a base to start with a huge head start compared to others.

Dark Mad Lord was one of them as well.

While the others could barely control 100 people, he had a powerful control over 200 people to the point where he could order them to commit suicide and had stood out starting from the tutorial.

Though he was a crazy bastard.

And even more regrettable was that this guy was part of his own tutorial group.

Out of the 9000 people who had gotten to the second tutorial area, only 300 people, excluding the 200 of his clansmen, survived due to this guy.

Since he had killed them all.

And with a very simple philosophy as the basis.

Potential rival, if I kill the ones with similar psychic powers as me when they're separated and monopolize the advantages they would've received in the tutorial then I could make the 200 I control much stronger and then pass through the tutorial with ease. This is stronger than a 1000 man army I cannot trust.

A result that came out from a personality that could not trust others, amazing potential and ruthlessness.

He had thought that the real enemy in the tutorial area was not the monsters but rather humans who had the possibility of causing riots, he used this as the basis and had thought to kill off every potential rival.

Usually people prepared and grouped up in large mobs after calculating the fact that they had to fight against the people who had gone missing before them but this guy was not like that.

Everybody who participates in the tutorial could only survive when they go out if they combine their strength? There's no way that would happen.

Make them not able to compete against the people ahead because they can't combine their forces?

Would they have made it so they would survive if they grouped up in a crowd of 3000 but kill them if they roamed around alone?

After setting up the tutorial like this?

If there was some sort of consistency in the fairy's actions then such things won't happen.

There will probably be an area where the people who had arrived earlier wouldn't be able to lay hands on them right away or prevent them from doing so for a while.

An area which would make it possible for the newcomers to be able to rival the people ahead.

And he was a successful man, he had followed the above reasonings and had succeeded in eliminating his rivals with his own power.

And his calculations weren't wrong, he had gained an infamous title by the time he had arrived at the purple area just within 5 years of coming out of the tutorial area.

Lord Slaughterer.

An infamous title which he had received after hunting down Lords fervently due to his personality, which hated Lords to the point where it was weird, despite him being one, along with his notions of destroying possible future rivals.

Thanks to this guy, most of the Lords in the same group as him had died.

He had even killed normal adventurers whenever he saw them with the reason of them having the potential to become dangerous as well.

It'll be tiring once you get there. Since the Dark Mad Lord would act out and you have to clear the Final Dungeon as well. But remember.

The most important thing in the tutorial area is the Final Dungeon. Prepare well for the Dungeon. He is after.

Keldian's words came to his mind.

'Tsk. It'd have been better if we were to fight now though.'

But it'll be a huge loss if he didn't get the thing he was going for while following that guy around.

He might've skinned him off slowly, like peeling an apple, and destroyed him if it wasn't for the structure of the islands but this was not possible since there were set islands which he had to go to.

He had to differentiate clearly between the main mission and sub-missions.

And his path wasn't clear anyway since there were almost no survivors.

Since everyone who had met with his clan had died.

So he had focused on the dungeon first.

But there was one place where his objectives of the Final Dungeon and that guy's path would cross for sure.

Central Island.

A place where the biggest amount of Lords had gathered.

And a place where you could massacre a large amount of Lords if you use a Fraud Lord.

If he had some form of logic then he would've taken the Lords as hostage and would have used their forces but this guy would kill them all since he hated them to no end.

Hansoo had never stopped being on guard against the Tower even when he was hunting.

He had set them up so they grouped and guarded against each other and had always hunted near the dungeon so he could rush back because he didn't know which one of the twelve was the Fraud Lord.

Since the hardness of Crystal was not something somebody normal could smash, it was only because it was him that he was able to smash it apart.

'I had thought that he didn't exist because he didn't come out…'

If I was him… I would probably attack from the back during the most dangerous time. Since that's the only way to kill them all if there are many clans.

It seemed like he had been looking for the final chance like Keldian had said.

And because of this Hansoo had never created a dangerous situation.

Since it wasn't possible for him to act when there was no danger.

'But it's a little too much to do that while fighting Demon Lord.'

He wasn't sure because the decision of using up all their mini-crystals was a very reasonable method but Guktae was the Fraud Lord.

'Let's see. How do I deal with this.'

He couldn't stay away from the Demon Lord for a long time.

If this guy gets released then all the Special Forces would get shredded.

And if he were to dash up there then they just needed to do one thing.

They would make the other clansmen attack him by threatening the Lords held hostage.

'It would be troublesome if that happens. First… I will open a path for you to live.'

Hansoo smiled as he shouted loudly while continuing to fight the Demon Lord.

"Woah. Don't get too excited. Calm down for a second."

Guktae, who was about to order the Special Forces to cut off the Lord's heads, flinched at these words.

'What else could he do in such a situation?'

Guktae had unconsciously gotten curious because Hansoo was such a unique guy.

And the next answer was something which exceeded his calculations.

"Let's trade. You wouldn't want to die either."

Guktae flinched at these words.

Who in the world wanted to die.

He was acting like this because he couldn't go against his Lord's orders.

Hansoo spoke as he looked at him.

"There are crystals on me. I will give them to you."

'Is he crazy?'

What kind of nonsense was this?

Hansoo spoke again.

"I don't know who your Lord is but wouldn't it be better to take those Lords and use them instead of killing them all?"

Everyone nodded at these words.

If they take the Lords as hostage then all their forces become part of Guktae's Lord.

Since there wasn't anyone who wouldn't comply if there was a blade up against their necks.

Hansoo spoke as he looked at him.

"The terms are very simple. First, you take the Lords up with the crystals. Then you threaten the Lords up there and order the special forces to kill the Demon Lord with me. Simple right? Then every force here can go through the crystal and survive."

"Then your Lord is basically gaining nine Lord's worth of forces. And I get to hunt the Demon Lord.

The remaining people could survive. It's a win-win. Even you can live. It was tiring anyway because the others were pulling their forces back."

Guktae clicked his tongue inwardly.

His words were wrong.

Since his Lord had hated Lords to the point where it was weird.

If these guys go up then they would all die.

But the temptation of crystals were too strong.

And something else which was even more alluring.

'If I go up, hunt the Demon Lords with the clansmen of these guys and kill him by attacking his back at the last moment?'

Would they be able to resist if he orders them with blades against their throats.

Take the forces of the Nine Lords up, use them for a while, kill them off, collect their artifacts and runes and give them to Wongyung and kill the Lords too.

'It's perfect.'

But the one who had moved first was Taejin who had been fighting with him.

"Hansoo man. How can you trust him?"

Guktae shrugged at Taejin's words.

It seemed like they have seen through his thoughts already so it was time for him to push strongly.

"Don't trust me then. If you don't want to then we'll just kill the nine according to the plans and I can also just die like that. And the remaining 1000 here would all die. Maybe it's not even 1000 anymore. I'm not sure if you guys can hold out, it seems like there's still 20 minutes left."

"… This son of a bitch."

'Damn retards… getting caught as hostages.'

Their actions weren't to Taejin's liking from the start but he didn't fail to disappoint until the end.

Hansoo chuckled at Guktae.

"I'll take it that you agree then. Take them."

Guktae, who had received the crystals which Hansoo had thrown carefully using the special forces, hurriedly used the crystals and the 10 special forces, 9 Lords and Guktae started to get covered in light.

'Goodness… for it to play out so easily.'

Guktae cheered inwardly as he selected the destination point.

'Destination is… Island of the Tower!'

The light which came out from the mini-crystals soon covered the 20 of them and soon afterwards they coudln't be seen within the Demon Castle anymore.

"… Dammit. I don't care anymore then."

"Don't worry too much. He looked pretty naive. He will keep his promise."

Hansoo, who had shrugged his shoulders, looked up at the Island of the Tower and then shook his head.

'It's done. It seemed like he wanted to live. He would have realized that some things were fishy if he had thought about it for a moment.'

But he had cleared it.

'It seems like I can focus a little bit now. If he is that guy's subordinate then… he would go to the Island of the Tower.'

And it didn't matter because he had already worked on that separately.

Hansoo finished his thoughts and turned around.

Then he started to slash apart the Demon Lord seriously

Hoooouug

The disappeared Lords, Special forces and Guktae had appeared within a dark space while bathing in light.

A location where they moved to if the mini-crystals were activated.

'Perfect.'

Two Lords had survived but it wouldn't be easy for them to survive either.

Since he would give the orders now.

"It seems like you would need to comply for now. Hurry and give the order. First attack the Demon Lord and once you kill it, attack Hansoo."

The special forces pushed the blades against the Lords' necks.

"Tsk."

The Lords nodded despite clicking their tongue.

They couldn't do anything else because they were held hostage but it seemed like he wouldn't kill them.

They could always look out for chances as long as they were alive.

'Dumbasses.'

And this was why his Lord was trying to get rid of them whenever he had the chance.

He could already hear their eyeballs rolling about. (*TL: Korean Saying for planning things out)

While Guktae was smiling, a man's voice was heard behind them, who were on the ground.

"Huh. Look at these guys."

When they turned around quickly, a person with a weird mask was approaching them.

"Who are you?"

The man smiled as he was about to speak out his name but then stopped.

Then there would be no point of putting the mask on.

He had disguised himself in order to not show the relationship between him and Hansoo.

'But they really did come? He had told me that they would come if I waited here.'

The man spoke out after mumbling inwardly for a while.

It's not like the psychic power is being marvelous only once or twice.

He just needed to do what he needed to do.

"Mmm… no need for names. We won't be seeing each other for long anyway."

'I just need to cut off their necks and take the things that come out right?'

Kudududk.

"This crazy bastard!"

Sangjin, who had cut off a Lord's neck with one swing of his sword, laughed coldly at Guktae who was screaming.

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Chapter 41 – Demon Lord's Castle (8)

Sangjin laughed as he thought of the conversation he had with Hansoo before they got separated in the first tutorial area.

If you really have thoughts of doing things properly, don't go to the Central Island and instead go to the Long-legs Island next to it and gain the Shadow Technique. You need to do … And then get to the Island of the Tower fast and wait at the … for me. If some people say my name then let them live and if they don't then kill them. If nothing comes out by the 32nd day then just move out.

Sangjin made an astonished expression as he swung his sword.

At first he wasn't sure.

Since nothing had happened despite it being 3 days since he started waiting here while hunting.

But they had really come.

And in a very weird way too.

'Is it teleportation?'

Sangjin didn't really know about that but he believed in the words of Hansoo.

'It's probably that psychic power again. And it seems like I won't have to worry about whether I should kill them from the way they're talking.'

He didn't know their identities but everyone here had to die with one order from that guy over there.

Sangjin started to hack crazily at the clansmen who had appeared in front of him in a mess.

Ssssgggk

"Kuaaaak!"

"Ahhk!"

'Well… though there's a lot of them, they're a total mess.'

And the might of the skill Shadow Technique that he obtained from the location Hansoo had told him was amazing.

'It might've been a little hard without this.'

A large amount of runes, skills and artifacts dropped every time he slashed.

These were people of the strongest special forces and Lords with expensive artifacts.

It was reasonable for them to drop a lot.

Sangjin used a moment of carelessness to slash one and then stole the weapon of another only to swing it around crazily.

"This crazy bastard! Who are… kuuk!"

"Talk too much."

Guktae tried to run backwards but his head was cut off in the end.

'It seems like a few things these guys drop seem more valuable than the others.'

Sangjin shrugged his shoulders as he looked at them.

He wasn't really tempted.

Since the Shadow Technique was a great gift by itself.

'But he had told me to keep these things. Let's see. Since they came before the Earring of Seven Siblings he had told me to get, the next is…'

Sangjin smiled at the shadows swaying around him and then disappeared into the dark forest after picking up all the artifacts and runes.

Kudududk

"Dammit! Keep the formation!"

"Fuckers! If you want to live then hold on more! Hold onto another 5 minutes!"

The people had cleared up and were chopping apart the undead crazily.

And the two clans were throwing attacks ruthlessly around Hansoo.

Their numbers had decreased rapidly in a short time and only 600 were left.

'Dammit… Is it almost done now?'

Taejin took a deep breath as he thought of what happened earlier while grinding his teeth.

Right after Guktae went up.

People's symbols disappeared and the control over them had disappeared.

And the chaos that had come after.

It wasn't that the people turned into emotionless puppets after receiving the symbol.

It's just that they would act normally and only when they receive an order from the Lords would they move to follow the orders the best they could.

They had known the current situation clearly and had realized what they needed to do in order to survive as soon as the symbol disappeared.

They started to struggle in order to buy time while creating distance between them and the Demon Lord.

Taejin had wondered what this scene was at first.

'Did Guktae kill them all? Then… Why did he take them up?'

There were tons of things that were unclear but this wasn't the important part.

Hansoo, Yerin and Taejin started to repair the formations quickly.

And they had reached the current situation.

About 400 people were chopping apart the undead crazily and Yerin and Taejin's clans were assaulting the Demon Lord whom Hansoo had tied up.

The two clans were fighting much better than he expected.

The two clans were made of special forces who had filled up the spots after they had sent out part of the normal clansmen.

A decision which was made due to the dire situation.

If the special forces didn't participate in the fight then they would all die.

They had slowly increased to number around 130 but Guktae's special forces had left and a few had died so the remaining 100 had been absorbed into Yerin and Taejin's clans.

In a normal situation they had to receive the symbol with an agreement from both sides.

And the special forces were actually reluctant to join the clans.

Since they will be ordered around by others and will have to fight against the Demon Lord.

If only Hansoo didn't speak to them:

If you don't fight now then I'll fall back too. Shall I run around for 15 minutes?

15 minutes was enough time for that thing to smash apart the remaining 600 people.

So the special forces received the symbols almost by forcing themselves.

Since they realized that there was no other way.

And as Hansoo and the two clan Lords blocked off the Demon Lord completely, the remaining non-clansmen started to fight against the undeads.

They couldn't run away anyway and fighting undeads was much less of a burden.

With the two thoughts of it being doable and there being no other choice, the people started to fight much more actively in the front.

Kududuk.

Udududk.

"Hold the line for a little longer!"

Taejin shouted urgently as he looked at the almost-killed Demon Lord.

It was much easier to fight since the Clan Lords saving their own bodies had disappeared and their special forces were now under them.

While Hansoo was pulling the Demon Lord's aggro and suppressing it, the 100 special forces controlled by the Clan Lords were assaulting it with attacks.

If they continue at this pace for 10 more minutes then they could kill it without problems.

But Taejin's mind was urgent.

Since 10 minutes was too long of a time.

'Dammit… the Crystal will open up soon.'

The only reason why they were able to focus on the fight with the Demon Lord was because the non-clansmen were blocking off the undead that the Demon Lord summoned.

What would the non-clansmen do when the crystal opened up?

Would they simply go Oh, we shall kill the undead for the hard-working clansmen?

They will all run away while they are fighting against the Demon Lord.

They couldn't back off before they could kill the Demon Lord anyway.

Hansoo and the two special forces were in a balance with the Demon Lord so if one of them were to back off then the remaining two will suffer greatly.

They would get picked off one at a time then.

And the others will all escape during that time.

At this moment a giant ray of light shone in the distance.

'Fuck. If it's going to open at least open quietly.'

A light had come out from the Crystal which was so large that wherever one was in the island they could see it and know the portal opened.

And at the same time the Crystal that was embedded on the ground floated up as a black hole, which could be identified as a portal with a glance, opened up in the center of the Crystal.

The people who had seen the hole stopped.

They glanced at each other and then started to madly charge towards the Crystal.

"Fuck! Don't Block it!"

"Daaammitt! I'm going up!"

Chaos.

Casualties were occurring during this time but the people were heading towards the Crystal fervently anyway.

'Dammit…'

As the non-clansmen stopped focusing on the undead, the remaining undead started to slowly gather around the Demon Lord.

"Dammit… do we really have to kill that thing? Let's get out!"

Hansoo shook his head at Taejin's words.

If they leave recklessly in such a situation then they would receive a huge amount of casualties.

If they run towards the Crystal then the Demon Lord would chase them and kill off everyone who was focused on running away.

It needed to be finished off now.

Hansoo chuckled as he saw them.

Taejin sighed roughly as he saw this.

"Dammit… Then take the Demon Lord in front of the crystal! Wouldn't the non-clansmen have to fight against the Undead then?"

If their escape route was blocked then they would come to their senses and attack the undead again.

But Taejin soon realized that such a thing would be hard to accomplish.

It would take too long to drag the Demon Lord in front of the Crystal in the distance with no casualties.

And on the other hand if they were to bring the Demon Lord in front of the Crystal before the non-clansmen left then the amount of casualties would become huge.

If too many of the Special Forces die then the Demon Lord would become too hard to kill even if the undead problem was gone.

Hansoo laughed at these words.

Since he never thought such a thing wouldn't happen.

It isn't possible to bring the Demon Lord in front of the Crystal.

But the opposite was possible.

As I saw before… When the Crystal activates it floated up in the air. You can bring it then.

"Wait for a moment."

Hansoo, who had thought of the words of Eres, grabbed onto the scythe part of Judgement of Dekrados which was tied onto the Demon Lord and then started to run towards the Crystal at an extreme speed.

Papapapak.

Endless amounts of daggers were thrown out of Hansoo's hands and Hansoo jumped from dagger to dagger as he charged towards the Crystal.

The undead tried to attack from below but the height at which Hansoo was running was too high.

And soon he arrived at the Crystal and then started to tie up the Crystal with the chain after laughing at the people running towards it.

"Uhh….Uhhhh? What are you doing!"

"Hey!!"

Hansoo spoke as he looked at them:

"Let's combine our strengths guys."

As soon as his words ended the Demon Lord shook his body with an enraged scream.

Kuuaaaangg!

And then the Crystal, which was floating in the air, started to get pulled by the immeasurable amount of force and started to fly off.

If the Crystal was embedded on the ground then the chain would've snapped.

Since the Demon Lord's strength was that fearsome.

But the chains didn't snap because the Crystal was floating in the air and the Crystal, which could not resist the strength of the Demon Lord, flew towards it.

Kuuuung

'It's hard. It won't break with this much then. I wonder if I can take it closer.'

Maybe it was due to the fact that it could transport more people, the Crystal in the Demon Lord's Castle was much sturdier than the Crystal at the Castle.

Hansoo followed behind it as he pushed it.

And when the Crystal neared the battlefield he untied the chain around the Crystal.

Hansoo laughed because if you take into account the Crystal's hardness then it was safe from destruction from the Demon Lord but it was in a location where one could not recklessly run into the portal.

"No free rides. Work your worth."

Hansoo ended his words and then charged towards the Demon Lord again and the faces of the non-clansmen who were heading towards the Crystal turned dark.

Since it looked like they would get swept up if they tried to go for the Crystal.

No, the people fighting there wouldn't allow them to do so in the first place.

Taejin sighed as he looked at this scene.

Since now it looked like they could kill the Demon Lord.

'We're finally going up. Did Hansoo say he was going to the Island of the Tower?'

Wherever they went they were able to leave this damnable Central Island.

Taejin stared at Hansoo but then threw away unnecessary thoughts as he focused at the Demon Lord in front of him.

"Hmm… Guktae died."

As one guy muttered while sitting on top of a giant beast, the woman next to him smirked as she spoke:

"I told you already. Don't place your trust in such half-wits."

Why would they sent a guy like him when they had plenty of people with ability?

"No. He did a good job. Far beyond what I had told him."

Guktae had done more than he asked.

Only an unexpected event occurred at the last second.

"Heh?"

While the woman made an expression of curiosity, the guy, Wongyung, laughed as he shook his head.

"It's nothing. We'll meet eventually. Let's not worry about it and focus on what we were doing."

'Are Hansoo and that masked guy related in some way?'

Lord Wongyung mumbled inwardly but then shook his head.

Guktae did tell him that the location which one arrived at using the Mini Crystal was fixed.

But how would Hansoo know the location of such a place and send somebody of his own there.

There was no possibility of such a thing.

If Wongyung had such an information then he would also have done that.

'Well. It doesn't matter.'

He didn't know about the guy with the strange mask but he would soon meet that Hansoo guy.

"Let's prepare ourselves."

The woman who was standing next to Wongyung nodded and then shouted loudly:

"Surround this area and prepare your skills! And then hide! Until they all cross over!"

Wongyung's clan which was made of 100 people.

They only had 85 currently because 15 were somewhere else but their battle power was much greater than normal clans.

Since while the others were killing beasts in a fair manner, these guys were killing people and had stolen their artifacts and runes.

And the people who come up from below would be a huge mess.

They couldn't lose such a great opportunity.

'I wasn't like this originally… it seems like I've changed after I've gotten the Symbol.'

The woman finished her thoughts as she asked Wongyung:

"Anyway, did you say that they would come this way if you wait here?"

"At least the people coming up from the Central Island will?"

It seemed like the Warp gates to the Tower was different for every island below and were spread around the Tower Island.

But if his calculations were correct then the Warp gate which connected with the Central Island below was this one.

Since it looked like the Warp gates were set up so the path was a straight line from the Island of the Tower to the other island.

Others were like that too.

Not everyone will come here but there'll be quite a number who will.

Since going through the Island of the Tower was the most efficient according to the Islands Map.

'Tsk. If he had taken care of everything below then I wouldn't have to do such a thing…'

He wanted to kill them off one by one by waiting in front of the portal but then if a clansman came up the others below would know of it and everyone would stop coming up.

It had become much more tedious because two Lords had survived.

They had to wait as much as they could and then kill them off when enough people grouped up.

'Well… I can't kill them all but…'

It wasn't bad for something you could gain by waiting a little bit.

They just needed to kill as many as they can and then go into the Tower.

Since there will be plenty of chances.

'I'm not sure how many will come up but… hurry and come. It'll be nice if that Hansoo guy is there too.'

Wongyung laughed coldly.

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Chapter 42 – Tower (1)

Kurururu

Taejin sighed as he looked at the shredded corpse of the Demon Lord.

'We finally killed it one way or another.'

Another chaotic situation would've occurred if runes came out so he was worried but no runes came out thankfully.

The undead all turned into dust and flew away after the Demon Lord died and the people who were up against the Undead all crashed down.

'Around… 500 people? A lot survived.'

If you take into account the event in the middle and when everyone ran trying to save their lives, quite a lot survived.

'Tsk.'

He didn't like the non-clansmen over there but the fact that random lives had not been lost was not bad.

At that moment he could see Hansoo, who was searching around the Demon Lord's corpse, approaching him with a complex expression.

Taejin made an expression of confusion as he looked at him.

"What's wrong?"

Then Taejin looked at the bloody red marble in his hands.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength (Colorless): 20.8%

Stamina (Colorless): 21.1%

Agility (Colorless):16.7%

Perception (Colorless): 17.7%

Mana (Colorless): 15.7%

Magic (Colorless): 15.7%

Physical Resistance (Colorless): 15.7%

Magic Resistance (Colorless): 15.7%

'It's not bad.'

Hansoo nodded.

If you take into account the fact that he had raised Nurmaha's ring by feeding it runes then it was a number which wasn't bad for a month's work.

The normal runes were prepared for the tutorial stage from the start so they rose fast but increasing the experience on colorless runes was not easy.

Making one of the runes into a red rune within the three months of the tutorial was a great feat.

Because having one red rune meant that you are a Beginner who has the prerequisites to travel the red area.

And the Demonic Jade Crystal in his hands had a close relationship with these runes.

Demonic Jade Crystal

It increases all of your runes into 99.99% the second you eat it.

An amazing hack of an item.

The difference between 99.99% and 0.01% was like heaven and earth even if they were the same colorless runes.

And that was why raising the experience was hard also.

But of course there are shortcomings with it too.

First, it only lasted a single day.

And the second fault on it was a bit more extreme.

After that day all the runes will drop to 0.01% and he needed to start all over from there.

It was most similar to a forbidden medicine that exploded your potential like those from old martial hero stories.

And because of this he couldn't use it randomly.

Only 1 chance at using this item.

The Final Dungeon, and from there, the third gateway.

'Turn all my runes into red runes… then use it.'

This is the most efficient way to use it.

Only colorless runes and normal runes came out in the 2nd stage of the tutorial.

And because of this the perfect situation one could be in is getting 8 red runes at 0.01%.

Basically becoming an Expert. This means an adventurer whose runes had all reached the red stage.

But that was still a bit lacking.

And that was why this thing was needed.

If he uses this then he will become a Master whose runes are all at the peak.

And there aren't any risks either.

Since he started at the 0.01% anyway, he will just be going back to where he was.

'I must save it until then.'

There was no need to focus on raising the runes.

Since there was another plan for that.

He needed to focus on other things before that.

Like this Demonic Jade Crystal.

'Just gaining this in the Central Island means success.'

And it was even better since he had gained the Dekrados set.

But there was still another problem.

Hansoo put away the Demonic Jade Crystal as he spoke to Taejin and Yerin.

"We hunted together but only this came out. I really need this. I can't share it with you but I can give you anything else we gained from the hunts so speak out what you want. Both of you."

He needed to distribute things fairly.

He couldn't give away this item but he also couldn't ignore the two clans who had hunted the Demon Lord together with him.

Taejin and Yerin looked at each other for a while and then chuckled.

"Just take it. We would've all died without you anyway. We even gained more special forces thanks to you."

A few of their clansmen had died but their overall strength had increased by far.

Since they had filled 50 of the 100 people limit with special forces.

"Mmm…"

Hansoo pondered for a moment and then spoke to the both of them:

"What are your plans from here onwards?"

Taejin and Yerin said very simply:

"Go to the Tower."

Hansoo shook his head at those words.

He wasn't sure if the Dark Mad Lord was going to wait in front of the entrance above.

'But that guy probably knows about the situation in the Central Island.'

He should also know that Guktae had died.

Which means that he could assume that a lot of people from here would survive and come up.

He might've prepared something or he might not have but he couldn't ignore the dangers due to unexpected chances.

Since he will be an entirely different existence from the previous clans.

Full frontal fights would not be easy.

'Let's see… I cannot let them do something good for him.'

Hansoo looked around at his surroundings.

"… Nobody's coming?"

Changhee, who was standing next to Wongyung, asked.

'Is there a possibility where this guy is wrong.'

He could make mistakes because he was a human but it was rather wondrous since they had never seen him make a mistake.

Before Changhee could finish her thoughts, a single person appeared from the giant circle in front of them.

But Changhee clicked her tongue.

Since it was a familiar face.

'Dislikeable guy.'

That guy over there was hard to trust because his attitude changed back and forth too fast.

'Well. That was probably why he acted as the person close to Hansoo.'

Changhee spoke out to the guy who had just come up, Hyunwoo, as she looked at him.

"Didn't you say you had a friend called Taehee?"

Hyunwoo shrugged his shoulders.

"She was just for cover anyway. What's there to call a friend when we had only seen each other a few times. She died on the way."

While Changhee was clicking her tongue, Wongyung asked Hyunwoo while staring at him:

"But it seems you're alone. Did the rest die?"

Hyunwoo shook his head at Wongyung's words.

"Nope. Exactly 531 people survied."

"… But none of them came to the Island of the Tower?"

It might've been different if they had all died but for that much to survive and not come to the Island of the Tower.

The Island of the Tower was a very alluring location.

Hyunwoo sighed at those words.

"That guy fucked it all up at the last moment."

Then Hyunwoo thought of the words which Hansoo had said to the people at the last moment.

If you guys are thinking of going to the Island of the Tower then think about it very well! It looked very sweet on the Islands Map but remember that it was just like that for the Central Island as well!

"… No one would come if they hear that. But is there really a chance for nobody to come like this?"

The thing about a person's greed is that it usually did not work out the way they wanted but for none of the 500 plus people to have come.

Hyunwoo added a few more words at that:

"It's because they all know what happens if they ignore his words now. He's really a talented fellow."

Wongyung clicked his tongue inwardly.

The people who had survived there would probably be much stronger than the ones who had gone through other islands.

This was the perfect chance since they would be a mess from fighting the Demon Lord and the undead.

'Well. If it didn't work then there's nothing I can do about that.'

If Hyunwoo spoke out then he would only arouse suspicions.

"Did you check where the Hansoo guy went?"

Hyunwoo shook his head.

"I don't know about that but I did see him going into the Crystal."

Wongyung shrugged his shoulders as he rose from this seat.

"Well, that's enough then. Since we did everything we needed to do here, let's go into the Tower."

Hyunwoo asked at these words:

"Doesn't your heart ache? We got nothing out of the Central Island in conclusion."

Wongyung spoke as he laughed.

"What's there to have a heartache over. It was one failure out of many. And we killed a lot of the Lords too."

"And according to my senses… the thing we'll gain from the Tower will be much greater."

The Islands Map never lied.

The thing they would gain from the Tower would be much sweeter than the thing they would gain from the Central Island and wouldn't be comparable in terms of quantity and quality.

'Hansoo that guy… I'm disappointed.'

He didn't know about others but he felt like that guy would come up at least.

But for him to dodge him like this.

'There probably won't be much difference huh.'

That guy probably didn't know since he hadn't gotten to the Island of the Tower yet but everyone eventually gathered to the tower and there would be more instances where they would collide.

Meeting him then will just be the end of it.

'Though we won't meet for a while… I should at least give warnings. But this guy… why doesn't he have any distinctive features?'

Wongyung sent a message to the 15 people in other places.

Be cautious of a guy with a chain scythe and a dagger and report at once you spot him. Finish off what I asked and then come into the Tower. I'll see you above.

Wongyung, who had sent messages to the people all around, shrugged as he spoke.

"Let's go."

At those words a large amount of people started to walk slowly towards a location.

Towards the giant black tower that pierces the skies in the center of the island.

A long while after the circle shone as it spat out another person.

Hansoo, who had come out of the circle, checked his surroundings.

Clear signs of people.

It was definite that a clan was waiting for people here.

Hansoo smirked as he looked at these.

'I knew this would happen.'

The Dark Mad Lord always liked to be doing something so he wasn't good at waiting.

A very diligent guy from a point of view.

Though the fact that he was working diligently on crazy things was the regrettable part.

He had used Arankal's bracelet to pretend entering the crystal and then waited nearby while hiding.

Though they could've spotted him if they looked hard enough, they probably didn't expect him to do such a thing in a situation where they were trying to get into the portal.

He had fooled that Hyunwoo guy like that.

'Who would get fooled if you stick around like that at all times…'

While that guy was looking around at him he was doing the same.

The result was that he was very suspicious.

It might've been different if he didn't know about the Dark Mad Lord.

But that wasn't the case.

Anyways, Hansoo had waited until everybody left, healed his body completely which was exhausted from fighting the Demon Lord and then came through the Crystal.

Since this amount of time would've been enough for them to have left.

'It's too tedious to go around.'

Hansoo then looked towards the Tower in the distance.

The final level as well as the stage of the second tutorial.

The Tower in the center was piercing the clouds up above and many islands were floating around the tower.

And like branches of a tree, black bridges from the tower extended to connect to those islands.

If you were to start at the island where the tower was standing then you could sweep up from below but even if you were to start at the nearby islands you would eventually go into the Tower.

This was why he pondered going to other islands but then he might not be able to gain what he wanted.

Since if he went to other islands he will start at a different floor and not on the first floor.

'Let's start.'

He was going to prepare faithfully for the Final Dungeon.

Since this was his 1st target.

And the Dark Mad Lord was going to be included within it.

Hansoo grinned as he organized his gear.

'I'm not sure if that Hyunwoo guy remembered my physical traits well or not.'

Hansoo pushed down the Justice of Dekrados deep within his thigh.

At the same time he shortened the length of the chain on Judgement of Dekrados as much as he could, wrapped it around his waist once, fixed it firmly onto his back and then covered it with his cape.

And soon it was almost like the two weapons disappeared.

Hansoo then proceeded to grab onto a sword he had picked up randomly before coming in here.

A decent level Podao that a dead adventurer was holding onto.

Hansoo's image instantly turned into a mediocre level which you could find anywhere.

Well Hansoo's image wasn't what caught the eye in the first place.

But this wasn't enough.

Hansoo quickly moved out.

Since there was a place he agreed to meet that guy.

After a while a very familiar face came into view.

"Hey. Hansoo!"

Hansoo laughed as he spoke.

"Thanks."

Sangjin grinned.

"It's a win-win. Anyways… here it is."

Sangjin handed over a small earring.

An artifact which Hansoo had asked for him to get along with the Shadow Technique.

Earring of Seven Siblings.

It absorbed the user's mana constantly as it changed the user's appearance.

To one of the seven which was saved onto it.

'Saved some time thanks to him.'

Hansoo put on the earring on his hand.

And as he inserted mana onto it his face changed.

No, not only his face but his whole body made crackling sound as it changed.

Sangjin made a scared expression as he looked at this.

"Is it okay for you to do this?"

Sangjin had actually used this before.

Since it was much more charming than the mask.

But this wasn't something where one could change their face however they wanted.

It was something which changed their whole body onto one of the seven saved images.

Of course the battle power decreased and Sangjin, who had realized this, gave up using it and put on the mask.

But Hansoo shook his head.

"This is good enough."

He needed to do at least this much. He couldn't fool the enemy just because he had changed the face a little bit.

Since the adventurer's perception was too high for that.

Since that was basically covering one's nose with a biscuit and then saying that they have disguised themselves.

They would be found out by other adventurers who had memorized the shape of their entire body.

He needed to change his whole body structure as so.

'It does decrease my battle power but this is enough.'

This wasn't the important part.

Hansoo made an expression so cold that it was fearsome.

'Everyone should remember me to some degree by now.'

The 500 people of the Central Island remember him.

The clansmen of the Dark Mad Lord remember him.

Rumors about him would be spread far and wide.

He does not kill people.

He sticks by the rules.

He tries to fight in the front and also tries to save as many people as he can.

This much was enough for him to create an image.

'Eres. This should be enough.'

And now it was time for him to keep Keldian's last will.

'Dark Mad Lord. Until I come find you… keep doing well.'

Hansoo laughed coldly at the tower in the distance.

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Chapter 43 – Tower (2)

Hansoo who had sent off Sangjin looked at the tower in the distance as he got lost in thought.

'It's seems like I will need to play hide and seek. He's a real talent huh.'

Hansoo clicked his tongue.

They could choose because the structure of the tower was unique.

To either move in small groups or in large groups.

And a fitting difficulty and reward is prepared from that.

Normal clan lords would try to move by combining all their forces.

Since they had done so until now and since it was safer this way.

But this guy was different.

There isn't enough time for us to kill off everyone else by moving around in a big group. Separate and move with a mindset of killing 10 people per one person. Monopolize the chances that would be given to 10 people and then take the runes from those corpses.

With such thoughts he splits up his clansmen and then mixes them in between other adventurers.

A method that was possible because he was confident in each individual member's abilities and because they could communicate with each other no matter where they were in the tower.

It would actually be eye catching if they were to move in groups but moving in small killer squads allowed them for them to pretend they're normal adventurers between other people and then wipe them off during decisive moments.

People who had died from the Dark Mad Lord's small killer squads had numbered over a thousand in the past and these killer squads had monopolized around 1000 people's worth of artifacts and runes and had reached a point where they could openly massacre people and no one could do anything to them.

Since they were all separated he had to find and kill them off one by one as he climbed.

There was no need to look out for his image because he had transformed himself, but he hadn't done this to just kill normal adventurers to turn them into runes.

He had changed in order to get as close as he could to the Dark Mad Lord, who knows of his appearance, to cut off his neck in a single swipe.

'It won't take that long.'

Hansoo thought of this and that and laughed coldly as he slowly walked towards the tower.

After a long walk the people inside the Tower greeted Hansoo.

"A newcomer has come. I'm called Suhan. What about you?"

Hansoo made a befuddled expression at the words of the man in the front.

'Ah. I have to choose a name.'

Since he was a different person he had to make a separate name.

Since he wasn't Kang Hansoo anymore.

Hansoo laughed as he spoke his name.

"My name is…"

"Is that the tower…"

Chulman frowned as he looked at the giant tower in the distance.

How hard had it been getting to this point.

Chulman looked around him cautiously as he walked.

At the same time he glanced at the giant tower in front of his eyes.

Giant Tower.

Many entrances existed in all directions but not many differences could be seen.

'… Do I just need to go in?'

Chulam chose one of them and then headed in carefully.

The passageway was long which was befitting of the giant tower.

As he followed the tunnel in, a giant circular plaza came out.

'…This is?'

Chulman checked his surroundings instinctively.

Hundreds of entrances had surrounded the plaza and a few of them already had closed doors.

And above the entrance there were various numbers.

Some said 1 and others said 50.

Some big ones even said 80.

Similarities between them was that to the inside of the entrance was not a passageway but rather a small room.

'What is this…'

But that wasn't the only peculiar part.

People who had grouped up in the corner.

'9 people.'

It was only 9 but he couldn't let his guards drop.

Whilst Chulman was on guard the guy in the very front spoke out as he looked at him.

"Don't be so anxious. We're meeting each other for the first time here too."

The others couldn't drop their guards but had their curiosity perked at these words.

What was the reason for 9 strangers to group up.

And the fact that 9 people were mixed into the group was also strange.

"Why are you gathered so?"

The man who was standing in the front, Suhan, replied at Chulman's words.

"I'm called Suhan, well… since you're alone I can guess to some extent. There's really nobody you can trust huh?"

Chulman frowned at these words.

Correct.

He had felt this while going up the other islands.

That there was really nobody he could trust.

No, this damnable fairy had made it so.

He didn't resent it.

They only had one life, who in the world would give up their life for somebody else.

Since he was like that too.

Suhan smiled as he looked at Chulman.

"But what do we do. It seems we have to group up again no matter what. You're the tenth person. It said we needed one more person."

While Chulman was making a confused expression, the fairy appeared in the sky.

"I welcome you to the tower. Heehee. This is a land of opportunity. Of course everywhere in the tutorial is like that but this place is even more so."

And at that moment a small map had appeared within Chulman's hands.

'This is…'

Information about the hundreds of doors nearby was written on it.

2 Man Room: Arunan's Crown, Kokulka's Elixir (Closed)

9 Man Room: Seven Stripe Cape, Karun's Doll…(Closed)

10 Man Room: Roropin's Sharp Hook, Circlet of Kiladerape…

47 Man Room: Kelpin's Sub Equipment, Sword of Akin…

80 Man Room: Divine Wrath, Sword of Lightning…(Closed)

80 Man Room: King's Sword…(Closed)

By pressing it he could even read descriptions about the options on these.

'… King's Sword? Diving Wrath? They even give this? Isn't this a bit too much.'

While Chuman made a flustered expression the fairy smiled as it spoke.

"This is a friendly care for you guys. You've seen instances of people moving in large groups in the islands below right?"

Chulman nodded his head.

'Damn… that's really out of the norm. How do you want us to go against such things.'

Clan Lord.

Their psychic power was fascinating itself but it was also very superior.

50 to 100 people moved about in groups, how did they expect them to win against that.

He had gone through two islands on the way here and one of them had a Lord on the island.

It was an island that could hold 100 people but the whole time while he was there the island was basically controlled by the Lord who lead 50 people.

"I was watching from above but phew. How would the people traveling alone live from such sorrows? So we prepared this for you. This way you won't be in a disadvantage because you lack numbers right?"

He realized it then.

What the 2 Man Room and 3 Man Rooms meant.

A game which could be played with 2 people, a game which could be played with 3 people.

'Clearly… if you were to do this then the chances of going against clans go down substantially.'

It seemed like large rooms such as 80 Man Rooms were rooms that clans had targeted and entered.

Since it was that dangerous but had enormous rewards to go with it.

The 2 Man Rooms or 3 Man Rooms seemed like they were all closed due to people coming ahead but rooms such as 10 man rooms were still left.

'This is what they meant when they said when they were waiting for me.'

They wanted to go into the 10 Man Room but they couldn't because 1 was lacking.

But Chulman looked at the fairy with an extremely suspicious expression.

'These flies are friendly huh?'

How could they be.

But at that moment he heard Suhan's voice calling at him.

"There's no point of pondering over it. Since the lowest one right now is the 10 man Room."

As if the people ahead of them had similar thoughts, all the 2 Man to 9 Man Rooms were long closed.

'Well… Since they could enter by gathering for a small time it would've been filled up quickly.'

He was alone.

The 10 Man Room was the least burdensome.

If he missed this chance and were to enter a 11 Man Room with a group of 3-4 people then it would be extremely hard on him.

'There's no way that it wouldn't have set something up.'

Chulman nodded his head as he went into the room which had 10 written on the entrance along with the nine people.

As 10 people got into the room the doors made a grinding noise as they closed.

Kuguguguuung.

And soon the small room with 10 people moved about aggressively as it started to dig deep into the tower.

Kyaaaaak!

Kudududk.

Chulman cut off the neck of the Beast which was charging at him.

The beast which had the shape of a red ant spat out a rune after having its head cut off by Chulman's black medium sized Greatsword.

'Let's see. Did he say we should get the things from whatever we killed ourselves?'

He didn't drop his guard against the nine of them even whilst he was hunting.

At the same time he was inspecting them the whole time.

'First… it seems like these guys know how to play as a team.'

Maybe it was because they were cautious of each other or they had decided that it wasn't the time for them to fight each other but a clear rule was set between the 10 of them.

The two basic rules which said that they had to fight in the front and distribution of runes and artifacts were according to their contributions.

'As I expected… there's a difference in levels.'

The three which were composed of two men including Suhan and a female were really strong.

Since it looked like the 7 others could not beat these three.

'That guy called Youngjae is strong too…'

The four including himself were at a decent level.

There were three of them who were weaker than him.

'Thankfully there isn't anyone who wants to take over because they're strong… and the girls are fighting well too.'

Being a female did not mean they were weak.

No, the fact that their poisonous aura could be felt at every swing of their sword showed how hard it was to get to this point.

But then a thought came up in Chulman's head.

'… This is too simple.'

Of course he didn't mean the difficulty itself was hard.

Since if it was that easy then it wouldn't have taken them a while day to get here.

Just like the name of the 10 Man Room, the difficulty was set so 10 people needed to work well with each other in order to clear it.

It would've been hard on them if they had 8 or 9.

The difficulty played a huge role to the fact that they were all keeping by the rules while advancing forward.

If it was too hard or too easy then the relationship between the people would be much worse than it is now.

Since a person would have separate thoughts when they were in dire situations or had leisure.

But because of this they felt much more at ease.

'The fairy didn't set anything up?'

While Chulman was surprised Suhan swung his sword while shouting energetically.

"It seems like all ten of us could survive this way? Let's stay strong!"

Chulman nodded at these words.

'Yeah. Let's first focus on advancing forward.'

Who would enjoy killing and stealing things from them.

If they could combine their forces then doing so was the best.

They would all become zealous since their lives were on stake.

And have their own circumstances.

Just like him.

'Damn… I'm not sure if I can find Suhee.'

Chulman grinded his teeth.

He had to survive and find his daughter who he had separated from during the ticket stealing wars.

His daugher Suhee and him, the two of them weren't strong enough to gather three ticket so they had to get a third random member and go up with three tickets.

Since they would've lost their tickets and died there if they had remained a bit longer.

It had been a month since he had been separated with Suhee.

Insecurities rose up from deep within but he couldn't do anything.

He could only search fervently.

Swinging the sword about crazily, the location of their goals could be seen.

A clearly different place in comparison to the jungle-like environment around them.

Chulman sighed a breath of relief.

"It seems like we're almost there, Old man."

Chulman looked to the side towards where the voice came from.

A girl who was swinging the sword diligently besides him.

One of the three weakest people.

'Did she say she was Minhee. Hoo…Suhee is just about that age too.'

Chulman sighed.

Because thoughts of Suhee sprang up again by looking at her.

"Yeah. But it's good because evil people don't exist here."

Minhee shook her head as she spoke.

"You don't know by looking at them from the outside."

Chulman grinded his teeth.

It was just as she said.

There might be somebody who was looking for a decisive moment.

'And… will it finish like this?'

There might not be any evil people.

But when a situation changes, the people turning evil wasn't even a big deal.

Chulman, who had been lost in thought, flinched as he looked at the location where they had arrived at.

'… There isn't just one door.'

The doors which were laid in front of them weren't just one.

Exactly 10 doors for 10 people.

'This doesn't feel good.'

Chulman and the others frowned.

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Chapter 44 – Tower (3)

At that moment the fairy appeared above everyone's head.

While Chulman frowned, the fairy quickly started to babble:

"Hello everyone. Congratulations on clearing a room. Heehee. It was decent enough for 10 people to clear right?".

Everyone unconsciously nodded at these words.

It took about a day for them to get through one room.

And runes had come out too.

The fairy spoke as it looked at these people.

"Well it's exactly at the difficulty for 10 people. But isn't the reward a bit too lacking for a day's worth of work?"

Everybody flinched.

'Looking at it again….'

They had ignored it because they were hunting the beasts whilst being on guard with the nearby people but it seems like the beasts they had killed had not dropped a single artifact.

'This is a bit troublesome.'

Artifacts and skills were important beyond anything else.

Runes did not create a substantial gap and even if there was a gap it was still possible to catch up to it.

But a good artifact or a skill was different.

Chulman had an incident where he collided against somebody of similar skill level as him.

A guy who tried to rape a woman.

Thoughts of his daughter enraged him and made him collide against him.

Of course he had calculated that the guy would realize their skill levels and then refrain from colliding against each other.

But this was a misconception.

They were at similar levels in terms of strength but a huge difference was made at a decisive moment due to their artifacts.

He had almost died because his sword had broken apart after colliding against that guy's sword a few times.

If you take into account the fact that the difficulty of the Tower would continue to increase then the level of one's artifacts could not stay stationary.

The fairy smiled while looking at the people trapped in their thoughts.

"Come on everybody. We aren't that heartless. We've prepared it right here! Since it has taken around one day the rewards should be around this much right?"

The fairy pointed towards the entrance.

The people who saw this stopped for a moment.

Artifacts were placed in front of the 10 doors.

Artifacts that were listed under the 10 Man Room on the map.

Roropin's Sharp Hook

Circlet of Kiladerape

Haul's Glove

Chulman asked the fairy:

"Do we just need to take one of them then?"

Ten people. Ten doors. 10 variety of artifacts.

It was quite an obvious choice.

The fairy grinned at these words.

"How could that be. Only one out of those 10 doors will open."

"…One? Then ten people would go through one door but only one artifact will be given?"

The fairy smiled as it spoke again.

"Could you first check the standards of those artifacts?"

Everyone pulled out their maps as they started to check the options of the artifacts.

And then flinched.

'… Why is there so much difference?'

Haul's Glove, which was in front of the door which said 10 was pretty good but it was something one could achieve by working just a bit harder.

And 10 of them existed too.

On the other hand, the single Roropin's Sharp Hook which was in front of the room with 1 or two of Circlet of Kiladerape in front of the room with 2 were at a level which couldn't even be compared to something like Haul's glove.

An overwhelming difference in power.

The fairy laughed as it saw this.

"The figure listed in front of the door isn't a number. It is something that tells you about how many could survive. The number of people leaving this room alive hangs on your decisions. Heehee."

"It's not bad to choose the 10th door and leave together in a nice manner with Haul's Gloves. Though I wouldn't recommend it due to the structure of the tower."

"Fuck…"

It wasn't just a problem of this moment.

He would just be dead meat if he was to take the Haul's glove and was to face a crossroad of choice like this and meet somebody who had killed off the other nine and had gotten something like the hook.

Chulman cursed out loud as he gripped the sword in his hands.

The moment they started to move away from each other Suhan shouted out.

"Wait! Come to your senses! Isn't it a safer choice to get through the next level together as ten!"

Everyone flinched at these words.

Of course it was logically better to have nine comrades than a single weapon like that.

And even more so if you take into account that you were the one who might die during the fight.

The fairy smiled.

"I don't know. Heehee. Is it okay for you guys to be at such a leisure when this is just a start? After this room…"

Suhan aggressively glared at the fairy as he shouted.

"Shut up."

Everyone flinched as they got away from Suhan.

'That guy. What are his thoughts. To go up against the fairy…'

Chulman looked at Suhan with a worrying expression.

He felt bad for him because though guy's personality was pretty good, he was about to get killed by the fairy.

But the fairy didn't act out and instead made an amused expression as it spoke:

"What an aggressive man. Can I really not speak about it then?"

But then a man in the corner spoke out.

"No. Please continue. I must hear this out."

The man looked at Suhan as he spoke.

"You shut up instead. Shouldn't we at least hear what is about to come. If you aren't going to take care of all our lives then don't cut off important intel. Do you want to die or something."

"… This bitch."

Suhan glared at the man but he could not swing his sword.

Because that guy was one of the three strongest along with Suhan.

If they fight here then they would be helping them to choose the eighth room.

The fairy continued to talk.

"It might not be bad to go along with ten people but you will cross against the people of other rooms. Though the number of people you would get tangled up with depends on the room."

Everyone became serious at these words.

If they choose Haul's glove then all ten of them could survive.

But going together at this moment did not guarantee them going together next round.

'No. It'll be good if we don't become enemies then.'

This was proven by previous experiences.

And what if the people they meet in the next room had also been in a 10 Man Room but chose the 3rd or 4th door?

What if they were from a 40 Man Room and had chosen the 10th door?

If you start at similar starting points then the level of artifacts was the most important part.

If they head off like this then they have to go against people who are armed with much more powerful artifacts.

Everyone's expressions turned cold.

A definite decision to increase their chance of survival in this damnable structure.

Keep on choosing the low-numbered door and arm themselves.

It might be hard in the beginning but once they grasp the advantage the gap will continue to increase.

But even though everyone had such thoughts they couldn't move thoughtlessly.

Since there was no guarantee that they would be part of the winning side even if they felt greedy.

Suhan spoke cautiously whilst looking at everyone:

"Wait! If we fight here then we might receive injuries and get hurt! If we go into the next room in such a situation then it'll still be dangerous! It's just better to go as ten…"

"Oh. All your injuries would get healed as soon as you go through the door. We should at least give that much as service when you fought so hard to take over. Heehee. Having a limb cut off is okay too so fight well."

"This damnable…"

While Suhan was flustered from the fairy's words, Youngjae looked at Suhan for a moment and then smirked.

"Why are you trying so hard to survive all together. Quite a funny guy."

"What?"

Before Youngjae's words ended, a woman started to walk towards Youngjae's side.

Suhan narrows his eyes.

Mijee.

One of the three strongest along with Youngjae.

"What is…"

"I just like the idea on this side. Let's do it simply. Those who want to be with us stick here. We can organize it roughly. Even if it isn't the 1st or 2nd room hmm… 4? 5th room sounds good?"

'Damnit… it seemed like they were talking quite a bit on the way here…'

Chulman grinded his teeth as he looked at Youngjae and Mijee.

They didn't predict things up to this point but had shared some part of their thoughts.

Suhan grinded his teeth and shouted at the scene in front of him:

"You crazy bastards! Why are you doing this when we can end it without fighting…"

Youngjae laughed.

"We could end it without fighting. But it seems like if we were to do so here then we would get eaten by those who had fought and won. That's what I've had to go through."

"Fuck…"

While Suhan grinded his teeth, Youngjae clicked his tongue inwardly.

"It's going to take all day."

As soon as his words ended, Youngjae rushed out and swung his sword around him.

Kwadududk.

Ududuk.

"Kuaaaak!"

Chulman, who had been off guard, had his wrist cut off.

He had tried to dodge backwards because he wasn't that dull but his wrist had flown off because there was a bit too much difference from the start.

Everyone who had seen this started to crazily head behind Suhan.

They had all realized.

That they would all die if this was to continue.

That guy was a maniac.

"You bastard!"

The opponent was two.

But it was two of the three strongest people here.

'Damn… and that guy was hiding his true strength.'

Chulman grinded his teeth as he looked at Youngjae.

He had known that he was strong but for him to be this strong.

One could see how much muscle they had by looking but there was no way to find out about the number of runes they had before they get into a full head on clash.

If one were to hide their skills like that then there was no way to know.

They would not be an opponent if they didn't group up with Suhan as the center.

Youngjae smirked as he saw this.

"Damn. It's the opposite effect. I had done it to get you guys to this side. Then there's only two people along with this lady?"

It was a very disadvantageous situation from one point of view but Youngjae didn't show it as he charged towards Suhan.

And a sword fight had occurred after the other people had also charged in.

"This bitch! Die."

"You fucker! Getting blinded by the artifact!"

Youngjae and Mijee were strong but Suhan was not a pushover either and they also had an advantage in numbers.

And everyone, excluding Chulman who was rendered unable to fight, started to send off a bloodthirsty aura from all around.

No. There was still another person who was not involved in the sword fight.

"Hey Minhee…"

"U…uuu….."

The child who had barely held a sword up against the beasts was scared out of her wits and could not get near as the people started to clash with each other.

Chulman who had been clutching onto his wrist looked at her with a sad expression.

Words of her having to help out had came up to his throat.

But he couldn't say so after seeing a child who was so scared.

'Damn…Youngjae this bastard…'

Chulman tried to heal his wrist with all his strength but it seemed like he won't be able to for a while because the ligaments in both of his hands had been cut off.

And soon after the fight had ended.

"Kuuu…"

"Kuuk…"

The result was that Youngjae and Mijee had won.

The skills which Youngjae had hidden was really much higher than the norm.

They had both become bloody but the others could not even stand and were all rolling about the floor with painful expressions.

Mijee grinned as she looked at that Youngjae.

"Hoo… you fight well. But why didn't you try to kill any of them? Is there a reason?"

Everyone had fallen to the ground but none had died.

Of course they had their wrists cut off and had suffered extreme injuries so they were unable to fight but they were still alive.

Youngjae laughed as he spoke.

"There's a reason for this. Anyhow…"

At that moment Youngjae's expression froze frightfully.

And then he pushed Mijee away.

"What are you…"

And in the spot where Mijee had fallen from, a sword had flown past it with extreme speed.

And the sword continued to swing as it stabbed Youngjae.

Mijee was able to dodge barely but still had a deep wound on her shoulder and Youngjae's abdomen was punctured from that.

"Kuuuk…"

Youngjae mumbled at the handle of the sword which had gone through him.

A speed which was not even comparable to the fight before.

Youngjae coughed out some blood as he looked at Minhee who had thrown the sword.

"You… your skills… why did you stand still if you were this good?"

Minhee laughed coldly as she answered:

"No reason for me to act out when you are doing the work I was going to do for me. It's a first meeting somebody crazier than me."

Lord. I've cleared this place easily.

Minhee laughed as she sent Wongyung a message.

She had been looking for a chance but it was quite burdensome because the three were quite strong.

And this was why she was going to look out for chances for a while.

In order to aim for their backs when an even more dangerous situation occurred.

The fairy had set it up but she had clicked her tongue and given up.

Because it didn't seem like a fight would happen.

But then that Youngjae guy started to fight with them.

'I've blown my nose without even touching it.' (*Note: Korean saying meaning "Something was done without me having to do anything")

This was why greedy people were good.

It was hard to go against ten people even for them.

But there was a reason why they had gone in one to two at a time.

Since there was no need for them to fight them all alone.

Things became really easy if one or two people like him existed.

While Minhee was laughing quietly, Youngjae mumbled coldly in front of Minhee.

"You guys really have too much patience. For you guys to come out only when I do this."

He had always felt it but the problem with these guys was the fact that they had too much patience.

That was why they would only come out when one had set up everything.

It was going to be even more dangerous from now on, it'll be troublesome if he proceeded without taking care of such things.

'Tsk. Though it'll heal… it hurts like hell.'

As soon as the room opened everybody would get healed.

Of course there's nothing they could do about the ones who were dead.

"What?"

Even before Minhee could react, a dagger which had come out from around the thigh pierced Minhee's chest.

'It's the second floor now. Let's see each other soon.'

He would just kill off small fry like these on the way.

The real goal is the guy whom he would meet on the third floor.

Hansoo laughed coldly as he thought of the Treasure Hunt that would happen in the next room.

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Chapter 45 – Tower (4)

Everyone made a confused expression.

'What is going on…'

But Chulman just sighed.

What was the point of thinking such things.

They were going to die soon anyway.

It didn't matter whether he died from Minhee's hands or Youngjae's hands.

At that instant, something flew over at a very fast speed as it smashed his head.

Puuk!

'Dammit…'

Chulman fell unconscious as he felt his senses fade away.

Youngjae, who had gotten the 8 others unconscious by throwing the daggers, walked up and chose the 9th room.

Suuuururk.

As he chose the Dagger of the Princess trapped in the Tower in front of the 9th room, the door opened and the injuries of the people inside the room disappeared.

Hansoo chuckled at the people laid around on the ground with all their injuries healed and then started to loosen up his body.

'Though they're a bit strong… one is easy enough'.

The underlings of the Dark Mad Lord are strong.

Since they had not only monopolized the runes of others, but skills and artifacts as well.

But that differed from person to person.

And one person could be taken care of simply by releasing the hidden strength.

If it doesn't work out then he could just take a blade, kill them off and just heal afterwards.

Since that was his battle style anyway.

'Which means… this girl's artifacts are mine.'

Hansoo chuckled.

There was no need to run around from place to place in order to gather artifacts in the Tower.

Since the underlings of the Dark Mad Lord will make their way to him by themselves.

Simple.

They will set some things up and bring artifacts up with them.

And he just needed to cut off their heads and take those.

Hansoo took the runes and artifacts that came out from her body and then showed a conspicuous color as he saw an item.

'Seven Stripe Cape… to wear something like this.'

Hansoo made a slightly astonished expression.

If she had activated this and fought then it would really have been annoying.

Seven Stripe Cape

An amazing cape that increased the defense against seven different kinds of weapons.

'It was hard enough fighting without the powerful artifacts but this is great.'

This was a huge help in his situation where his stats had decreased and where he could not use the Dekrados set.

And even more so if you take into account of the fact that he would fight against other humans more often.

The underlings of Dark Mad Lord will suspect him with it but they won't be able to confirm.

Since it isn't the only one of its kind despite it being hard to obtain.

Hansoo who had prepared some things started to ponder about his future plans.

'There's two stages left.'

If he goes through two more things then all the preparations for entering the Final Dungeon will be done.

The first one of those.

A well-imitated Philosopher's Stone.

All the artifacts that are currently equipped on him are colorless ones.

Including the Seven Stripe Cape and the Dekrados Set.

But his runes will become red during the Final Dungeon.

And of course he could only fight the enemy if he prepares red gear.

'But that's impossible.'

It was quite obvious actually.

How would he gain red gear in the colorless stage?

To do that he needed to gain a growing artifact like Nurmaha's ring and then feed it with a lot of runes to make it red.

It would impossible to cover his body with such artifacts.

But the thing that made it possible was the weaker version of the Philosopher's Stone.

If you turn it into powder and then apply it, the quality of the energy a weapon could absorb increases by one level.

Though it's not like a new skill is unlocked like with the growing artifacts, the simple fact of it being able to absorb the red energy and not the colorless energy was still a huge improvement.

'Though there's a time limit… it's good enough.'

If you take into account of the size of that Philosopher's stone then he could probably turn all his gear into red artifacts while he is inside the Final Dungeon.

'I'm going to the room of the Treasure Hunt.'

This was a hidden piece which could be obtained in the 50 Man Room of the 2nd floor, at the Treasure Hunt.

If you go to the 2nd floor from the 1st then another circular plaza appears and one would get into a group there again.

As Hansoo moved, his whole body made crunching sounds as it changed again.

Soon Youngjae had disappeared and a completely different Hansoo had appeared.

He had knocked the others unconscious because of this.

'I can't get found out yet.'

Minhee had died in a single strike.

Even if the messaging system existed, it was impossible to send the message about something happening suddenly.

But unexpected events still happen.

In order to accomplish the final level properly he couldn't get found out by the clansmen of the Dark Mad Lord yet.

'Let's see… What should my name be this time?'

Hansoo pondered for a moment and then made a simple decision.

'Let's do Chungjae.'

Hansoo chuckled as he started to walk into the darkness quickly.

Kududududu

The giant room which was filled by 50 people started to move with a small noise.

These were all people who had accomplished the room on the 1st floor.

It had taken a whole extra day to collect 50 people.

These people were mostly not part of any clans.

It was actually quite reasonable since most clans had gone up to the 2nd floor right away from the start.

Since most people here were people who had come up after clearing the mission on the 1st floor.

'Those guys have come too.'

Hansoo laughed inwardly as he looked at Suhan and the others who were looking around the room.

They were confused because the person who had come up before had disappeared.

'Well. They would probably think that I went into a different room.'

There were other rooms than this one on the 2nd floor.

They would probably think that he had gone into one of those while they were unconscious.

While they were thinking about this and that, the fairy's voice resonated throughout the room clearly:

"The thing you guys will do this time is the Treasure Hunt!"

"The rule is very simple. You just need to search through all of the limited space here and find the treasure!"

Everyone frowned as they looked at the map and the view they could see outside of the room.

'… It's too wide.'

Though it was of limited space, the size of the Treasure Hunting area was almost half the size of Yeouido. (Yeouido is about 3 km)

A bit too big for 50 people to roam around in.

"You just need to find this."

While they were having numerous thoughts, a small spherical marble appeared in front of their eyes.

A pretty normal marble, though it did shine.

As everyone made strange expressions the fairy laughed as it spoke:

"The treasure itself isn't an artifact but rather an exchange ticket. If you bring this to the center then I'll exchange it for you. Since there's a lot of different articles it'll be fun pondering over it too. I'll show it to you in advance."

Artifacts were shown row by rows in front of their eyes.

It seemed like they varied from number 1 to 50.

1 artifact on number 1.

And 50 of the same artifact on the 50th number.

It was an obvious thought but it seemed like that the lesser the number the more precious it was.

Everyone looked at the 50th one.

Kurutan's Golden Bludgeon

The artifact which you could gain 50 of was just a bit better than the weapons they were holding.

A useful artifcat but not really at the level of being eye-catching.

"As you see it the 50th one is… well, still useful. Though it's not as good as the 1st one. Which artifact you would exchange for is up to you."

Everyone's gaze had already been focused on the 1st item even without the words of the Fairy.

Inkaron's Golden Cape

An item which boosted Charisma, Charm, Luck by 15 and the 8 base stats by 5% too.

The other options were amazing too.

If you take into account that runes would be very hard to gain from now on, the price of this item was not even comparable to the other ones.

Even if it wasn't the 1st item, items up to number 10 were pretty amazing and items up to 30 were items that were a bit hard to gain by hunting.

"Only when you bring the Treasure and exchange for the price in the center the door to the next room will open. No one can leave before that."

Not being able to leave was something they had already heard.

They had come in here after taking that into account.

The situation wouldn't be different in other rooms as well so it was just better to start as soon as possible when 50 people had gathered.

And who knows?

They might find the treasure if they're lucky.

"Then let's start! Heehee."

With those final words the room clunked and stopped.

And a giant jungle had appeared in front of them.

'Hmm…'

The people glanced at each other and then separated into the giant jungle.

Being in a team was not always the best option in such a place.

Actually it might be harder to find if you are grouped.

But just before everyone was apart to separate, the fairy's voice resonated throughout the air.

You didn't think that you'll just need to have some luck and find it first right? Heehee. The treasure is guarded by protectors. Which means that you'll be able to find the treasure if you kill the protectors one at a time right? This is my small gift to you. Since it'll be too hard to find without this information. One of the 128 would be protecting it.

And then the images of the protectors appeared in air.

All 128 of them.

Everyone saw this and then frowned their faces.

'Fuck. It's not something I can kill alone…'

They realized instantly.

Though they had gotten quite a bit of skills and runes, it was not something they could solve with just that much.

It was at the level where they at least needed about 5 people to hunt it down safely.

The people who were dispersing flinched.

Since they did not have any confidence in fighting those things alone.

But there was no need for all 50 of them to group up.

One person shouted loudly in the center.

"Is there anybody who would go with me?"

Everyone started to size each other up as they started to group up in tens or so.

The good thing about this treasure hunt was that multiple people could share the result.

Since they couldn't do anything alone, it was better to group up and act together.

There were actually a few people who weren't interested in the treasure among the crowd.

Since it seemed like it was better to hunt for runes in the time where they would fight to earn some crappy thing.

'And as I heard the explanation earlier, it seems like normal beasts gave artifacts too.'

It seemed like that the beasts were pretty good in giving out runes and artifacts in this place.

Which means the artifacts around the level of those in 40 to 50th spot were faster to earn through hunting.

At that moment a voice was heard in the air.

Oh Yeah. There's one more thing, I promise this is really the last thing. It's because it'll be a bit boring if there is no tension, and I feel like there's some people here ignoring the prize.

It doesn't matter who finds the treasure but everyone without a prize in their hands will die before they leave. Remember this. There's only one treasure but if the person who finds it exchanges it for Inkaron's Gold Cape before anyone can stop it then everyone else but that person would die right? Ok be strong! The time limit is 2 weeks!

It meant that no matter how strong they were they would all get massacred if one crazy guy exchanged the treasure for only one artifact and left this place.

Everyone's expressions turned hard.

Lord. I feel like I might be able to massacre everyone if I'm lucky.

Wongyung nodded at the clansman's words.

Look for the chance as much as you can.

"Then… we should start too."

"Uuuuaaak!"

Wongyung laughed in joy whilst looking at the room which was already in chaos as he moved his steps.

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Chapter 46 – Tower (5)

While everyone was being cautious of each other and mumbling about, Chulman cursed out loud.

"Damnable bitch of a fairy…"

2 weeks.

If they don't find the treasure within 2 weeks then they would all die.

Since no one will have the prize they needed to exchange the treasure for in their hands.

And 2 weeks, or 14 days, was definitely not a lot of time in order to kill all 128 of them.

If they're unlucky then the last protector might give the treasure too.

Since the fairy would do things even worse than that.

It seems like around 10 people were needed for them to get through the protector and gain the treasure without any casualties.

Which means they needed to at least hunt 2 protectors a day with 5 teams of 10 people.

If you take into account the time needed to rest after a hunt, 50 people had to hunt non-stop in order to kill all the protectors.

Since the dungeon with the protector they saw from the images the fairy projected did not seem easy at all.

At that moment a person in the very corner of the 50 shouted out loud.

"Let's hunt by dividing into 5 teams of 10. One team can account for 2 protectors a day."

Everyone turned towards him at these words.

'Those guys are…'

All 50 of them weren't that simple.

But these guys were eye- catching even with just a glance.

One of the two most dangerous households.

'…A clan. And only 10?'

It wasn't that they walked around with the words of 'Clan' written on their foreheads but there was a huge difference in the actions between clansmen and non-clansmen.

Because non-clansmen would constantly be stealing glances at each other while clansmen are only looking out.

The unique thing about these guys though was the fact that they only had a very small amount.

'Only ten….'

A miserable size compared to other clans.

It was reasonable for them to not go to the second floor right away and start at the 1st floor and even participate in the treasure hunt with such size.

Though no one could understand why they only had 10.

'They're still dangerous.'

Suhan mumbled inwardly.

Since there is a clear difference between clansmen and non-clansmen even if their numbers are the same.

At that moment another voice was heard from the corner.

"I agree. 10 people will take care of 2 a day. This seems like the right choice. If you aren't able to follow then compensate for it."

One of the other two teams that caught the eyes.

They didn't look like the clans here but something else caught the eyes.

They were all holding a precious-looking artifact.

'…Did they kill off the rest in a 30 man room and come up.'

Their aura alone was mighty.

Whatever happened, as the 20 people who looked like the strongest of the 50 agreed, the others fussed around as they nodded their heads.

They didn't like following those people's orders but the fact that they would all die if they did not find the Treasure was right.

They needed to think about it after they find it.

Since the fight will be from that point on.

If they conflict with each other and don't find the treasure then it'll just simply be a massacre.

About 10 people got into teams and then disappeared in multiple directions.

And Hansoo also watched the people dispersing and then walked towards the dungeon of the Protector.

'I will accomplish the hidden piece first.'

The hidden piece he had as the goal was Detective King.

The requirements were very simple.

Kill 32 protectors by yourself and then collect the corresponding marbles which aren't the treasure.

There were marbles behind the protector.

128 in total since there were 128 of them.

Only one of the marbles was a shining marble and the ones who didn't shine were normal marbles.

If you collect 32 of them then they will trade it for the Philosopher's stone.

Kangtae had accomplished this in the past.

Something he had gotten while collecting them just in case.

'It's easier to be alone in order to accomplish it in a short amount of time'

Though it was easy when said, the difficulty of the dungeon of the Protectors wasn't that easy.

He will only be able to collect 32 if he releases the transformation and use his true body to progress quickly.

Hansoo quickly threw his body towards one of the dungeons of the protectors.

Another Protector has died! Congratulations!

The people who had accomplished the dungeon made a tired expression as they heard the noise resonating throughout the island.

People cursed out loud.

"What is this. They don't give out anything…. despite it being so hard"

There were quite a bit of beasts on the way.

They had given quite a bit of runes and artifacts for the 10 people to share.

As if they were telling them to hunt them instead of going to the dungeons of the protectors.

But then they won't be able to finish the 2 dungeons the team needed to accomplish a day.

And that was the reason why everyone proceeded towards the dungeon even while they were smacking their lips.

They had some expectations actually.

So many runes and artifacts were dropped but the dungeon of the Protector was said to be even harder.

It was obvious that they expected an even greater amount of rewards.

But the result was only a huge amount of disappointment.

They had broken through the dungeon after a long time but the amount of dropped runes and artifacts were minimal.

And they so were hard that it was hard for them to accomplish two a day if they wanted to do it without taking any injuries.

If this was the case then they could only focus on killing the dungeons of the protectors.

"Damm… but there's nothing we can do. We all die if we don't find the treasure."

"Yeah true…"

If they were unlucky then the treasure will come out when they hunt the 128th protector.

If they aren't able to find the treasure while leisuring about then they won't even be able to get the reward.

They would just all die.

"Ugh. Let's go."

While they were complaining and spitting words out one at a time, one of the people walking in the front turned around and spoke.

"Can I say something?"

Everyone looked at the person standing in the front.

"Well, to introduce myself simply I am called Chulman. But the name isn't important… there's just something I want to tell you."

As everyone's eyes focused, Chulman opened his mouth:

"Let's think. Even if we were to find this treasure could we take this to the altar safely? And is there a meaning even if we were to take it there?"

Everyone made a skeptical expression.

They didn't speak out but they knew.

They were confident in themselves but two teams out of the five, who had gone a different way, were at a different level.

If they were to move about in teams of 10 and find the treasure and those guys decide to take them away forcibly then they would only get it stolen from them.

And the few hundreds meters of the area around the altar were barren so it wasn't even possible to sneak up there.

And as the fairy spoke before, the news of the treasure being found will be spread all around .

Even if they wanted to exchange the treasure for rewards, they will only get suppressed by the people who would rush their way there.

Since they needed to go to the altar where the fairy is in order to exchange the treasure for the reward.

Or, they might have everything stolen even if they got there safely and exchanged the treasure for the rewards.

There was no rule saying that every artifact had to be distributed evenly even if they chose to exchange for 50 of them.

If they steal it all then nothing is left in their hands.

Chulman spoke out as he looked at the people mumbling about.

"Do you all understand? This is a tactic that can only be accomplished if we work together but if we stay like this as the weaker ones then we may all just die. Though it's important to find the treasure, we must take into account of the aftermath after finding the treasure."

They needed to go through three stages in order to survive in this place.

Obtain the treasure.

Get the treasure to the altar and exchange it for the reward.

Take the reward and walk out.

The requirements were already set.

Battle Strength

If your battle strength is weak then you would lose your head even before you got to the altar where the fairy was.

And even if you were able to get to the Altar safely, you won't be able to choose the number of the reward.

Since people would be charging at them in order to take the limited rewards from all around.

There's no way that those guys will let them go since they will just die if they don't acquire those.

In order for the people with low battle powers to survive, they needed to exchange it for 50 of Kurutan's Bludgeon to fit the number of people and spread it all around.

'No… you can still die with that if you are unlucky.'

Since there was no guarantee that each person will get one of the 50 Kurutan's Bludgeons.

If you are weak then you might just die from the acts of evil people.

Since they can steal it for fun and go out with it.

But if your battle power is sufficient?

There wasn't even a need to look for the treasure.

'Since they can just steal it from the guys who come to the altar in the center after finding it.'

The aftermath of them finding the treasure was more important for them to survive.

Chulman raised his spirits as he saw the people get shaken and continued to speak.

"Of course everyone needs to combine their strengths in order to find the treasure. But does everyone need to try to hard to find the treasure? It's hard for us to get through two dungeons in a day but the teams we saw earlier can even clear 4 in a day. Though casualties may increase."

Everyone nodded.

Since those people were at a different level from them.

It was possible for them to clear four in a day if they hurried.

Though casualties will happen one by one.

Chulman nodded as he spoke.

"Those guys will clear the protector's dungeons much faster than us. What do you think those guys will do after they accomplish their quota?"

"Of course they will…"

Everyone expressions turned solemn.

They didn't have any leisure but those strong guys had to leisure to even hunt.

Their gaps will increase even more.

"It isn't the time for us to search fervently. We just need to pray that one of the two strongest households don't find it fast. Since only then would they hurry and search for the treasure by sacrificing bits of their strengths at a time. And during that time, we must get stronger. In order to prepare for the aftermath of them finding the treasure."

They were weak.

It would just become even more dangerous for them if they find the treasure like this.

But if they were to do the following then the distance in the gap will become shorter which means that they will be able to ensure their own safety to some point even after they find the treasure.

"But… isn't there a possibility for them to chase us down and vent their anger on us?"

Though the island was wide, they could still find each other if they set their minds to it.

Though they won't meet each other while they fight, if there isn't any announcements of dungeons being cleared then they will come and find them.

Chulman shook his head as he spoke.

"How would they know who did and who didn't when there's five teams."

Everyone nodded.

If they lie and act normally then they would be able to get through it.

"And by the time they find out and come to us, we'll have become quite formidable as well. If we clash then they also would get injuries and won't be able to clear the dungeons of the protectors, would they be able to fight us in such a situation?"

Everyone's expressions turned cold.

Correct.

It was not time for them to let their guards down.

The aftermath of finding the treasure was more important than actually finding it.

If they have weak battle powers then they won't be able to escape their fate of their game being stolen after their hunt.

The point was that it didn't matter who tried harder.

It was who is stronger.

The people who had heard Chulman's words nodded with a frozen expression and then changed their direction towards the hunting grounds from the direction to the dungeon.

Chulman also clenched his teeth as he advanced forward.

'I must survive in order to find Suhee.'

He couldn't let his life be in the hands of the strong.

There will be no point of shouting about for fairness when you didn't have the strength to even ensure your own rights.

Chulman slowly walked forward with clenched teeth.

Kudududuk

"Hooh."

Hansoo stretched his body as he looked at the back of the protector that he had smashed.

'It's more convenient to move about alone as I thought'.

His battle power will decrease if he were to act with others because he won't be able to release his transformation.

Another protector has died! The treasure hasn't been found but be strong!

The fairy's voice resonated all around as Hansoo touched the marble he had attained after killing the protector.

'It's a blank as I expected.'

A marble which did not give off light.

But this was actually more important for Hansoo than the actual treasure.

As Hansoo touched it, it got absorbed like a rune into his left wrist and turned into a symbol.

'It's the fourth one.'

If this pace was to continue then collecting 32 in 2 weeks wouldn't be hard.

Since he will be able to get through about four in a day if he didn't go overboard.

But on the other hand, it was hard for him to do more than four.

Since going overboard meant that the strength he had remaining to use the next day will decrease.

They might really not be able to find the treasure if the other's don't crush through the dungeons well.

'Then it'll be a massacre'.

One day had passed.

Logically speaking 14 fireworks should've been made combined with his since they had decided that they will do two per five teams for 10.

But the actual number was only 10.

Which meant that somebody didn't accomplish their quota.

And the time between each firework was getting longer and longer.

Which meant that they were getting lazier.

They are definitely being lazier and have more leisure since 10 was being filled up without them hunting for themselves.

'Hmm… these actions are obvious.'

This place would be very easy to clear as 50 people of a clan but getting massacred wasn't that hard when 50 different people with different thoughts and strengths gathered.

'It's time for me to move.'

Solving the situation in this place was actually quite simple.

It didn't matter whether there was an underling of the Dark Lord's or not.

He just needed to turn into his real self and crush them all.

He was more specialized in catching people than beasts anyway.

The beasts could take quite a hit but the people here will puke out blood just from the dagger he threw, because of their limited health.

There was no way for the people here to beat him who had the Seven Stripe Cape and the Dekrados Set.

Then he would tell them to kill the protectors of their quota.

Then he just needed to take the treasure to the altar, from whoever found it, and that'll be the end of it.

'But… then the earring is a little bit regrettable.'

He hadn't transformed to kill off a few tadpoles.

And there was no problem even if he didn't release his transformation.

Since he had already found someone to act on his behalf a long time ago.

Hansoo disappeared after activating Arankal's Bracelet.

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Chapter 47 – Tower (6)

"These damnable bastards… it seems like they aren't doing this properly…"

Lord, Gyungmi grinded her teeth.

One of the clansmen below sighed as he heard those words and spoke:

"Isn't it easier if you just take them into the clan from the start. Why don't you take clansmen around with you?"

Gyungmi frowned as she spoke:

"It's already tedious for me to bring you guys along. No, this psychic power doesn't fit me from the start. Goddamnit. Why did something like this appear."

The clansmen shook their head as they saw Gyungmi say such things about her psychic power that others were dying of jealousy from.

"Do you know how shitty it feels when you gain a connection to a random person and then have him die? It might be different for somebody who isn't close or something."

"And I hate the most the fact that I can tell somebody to fight instead of me in times of danger. The nine of you is too much already."

"Damnit. I'll only recruit strong ones from now on."

'She's really a different kind.'

They clicked their tongue while looking at Gyungmi.

But nodded their heads at the same time.

'Well… with those battle powers…'.

It was ok for her to feel as if they were annoyances.

They didn't know what the hell she had picked up below but she was really strong.

Gyungmi was a Lord but she definitely wasn't like Cao Cao or Liu Bei.

She felt more like Lu Bu.

The clansmen here were strong but they would all get pummeled until they turned into rice cakes even if they were to all fight her.

'It isn't that her skills, runes or artifacts are out of the ordinary or something…'

Of course she was above average compared to ordinary adventures.

But Gyungmi's battle power couldn't be explained with just that.

Since she had mixed up everything above amazingly and melted it down to one battle style.

They wouldn't be able to show one third the strength of Gyungmi even if they had the same things.

"But what are you going to do? They're still trying to do the chicken game. And if they continue to hunt like that then they will really become formidable. The other dangerous 10 also get on my nerves as well."

"Tsk. Damnable guys. We should've set the mood in the beginning…"

Gyungmi clicked her tongue.

Since she couldn't do anything about getting angry despite her understanding the reason behind it.

If this were to continue then they would need to go kill three to four protectors a day.

And this would only bring them harm.

If the others hunt and raise their strength fervently in that time period than the gap between them will become immeasurably closer.

'My head hurts. There's something that bothers me too…'

This is why even though she foresaw something like this would be happening, at the moment she brought her clan out fast as if she was fleeing from something.

At that moment, the air sliced apart as somebody came out of thin air.

Everyone flinched.

Since they didn't even realize that someone had come out.

"You bastard… who are you!"

The clansmen shouted coldly as they held up their blades.

Hansoo who had come out of thin air, and had the look of Chungjae, smiled as he spoke:

"Nothing much. I'm just here with a proposal."

"Proposal?"

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders.

"It's a really good proposal on your part too. You guys just need to listen to me. I'll let all of you escape this island alive."

Then Hansoo explained what he was going to make them do.

Things he would've done himself if he had the power.

One of the clansmen spoke quietly with a helpless expression:

'Did he lose all notions of fear or something.'

It seemed like he was pretty talented.

Since they couldn't spot his camouflage.

But it didn't seem like he could maintain that during a fight.

And it felt like he could kill one to two of them but that was his limit.

What would such a guy have as his basis for him to act about so?

'…is he trying to get a sneak attack?'

They had never seen somebody trying to act as a captain just by relying on a simple sneak attack from behind.

But Hansoo just smiled.

It would be simple if he were to just release his transformation and show them but then some trails will be left behind.

But there's still a simple solution without going to such an extent.

Since he had come here from the start because of that.

'Well. If it doesn't work then I'll stop the transformation for a moment.'

His goal was not being found out by the underling of the Dark Mad Lord anyway.

And these guys are of the same clan so the chances of the Dark Mad Lord's forces being mixed in here is none.

"Not you. I'm talking to your Lord. Let's have a talk with me. The lady over there."

Hansoo looked at Gyungmi, who was standing quietly behind the clansmen, as he spoke.

'Sixth Sense stat. I don't know where she had attained such a valuable thing but she should be able to see it somewhat.'

He had understood somewhat since she had been looking all around her at the surroundings ever since he was here.

Sixth Sense

It was a different stat from perception, not part of the 8 general stats.

Perception increased the 5 senses one had but the sixth sense was basically the same as a psychic power.

It was something he had given up looking for because it was too hard to find in the tutorial area.

Gyungmi looked at Hansoo in cold sweat.

'Fuck… that was the thing.'

Gyungmi grinded her teeth.

Since she finally understood why he felt the chill run down the spine since a while ago.

A sixth sense stat which she had attained at the beginning.

It raised a person's battle power beyond the limits.

Since it allowed one to sense things others could not sense.

And something was moving about behind Hansoo's back in her eyes.

'To come up here with something like that… fuck.'

She knew instinctively.

That was just a shell.

There is something much more fearsome hiding beneath it.

She didn't know what that thing was but if that thing showed itself and decided to kill them all then… they will all die.

Gyungmi breathed in and out and then spoke:

"…Can't you just do it alone with such abilities?"

She didn't know what he was hiding but it was extremely dangerous.

With that much he didn't need them, he just needed to go out and sweep them all under him.

And just kill them if they didn't listen.

Hansoo smiled at those words.

"Everyone has circumstances. I need someone to fight instead of me."

'Since I can't get found out yet.'

Gyungmi sighed and then spoke to Hansoo:

"Even we can't beat all 40 of them. It seems like you won't be fighting. What are you planning?"

If such a thing was possible then they would've fought at the beginning already.

"What's the problem? There are weaker ones roaming about in groups of ten. Beat up all the weaker ones separately and get them into your clan."

He hadn't acted out because of this until now.

Since it'll become more convenient if they spread out.

'One day… should be enough for them to get separated enough.'

To leave a Lord in leisure behind to travel in groups of 10 separately.

Symbols were gained from the agreement of both sides but he had never seen anybody who had not agreed with a blade up against up throat before.

"I don't know what you don't like about it but put them into the clan for now. And do whatever you want with them afterwards. Though there's 10 of them who are a bit dangerous, I wonder if they'll act out if there's 40 of you guys."

'…He's a bit annoying, shall I have a go at him?'

But Gyungmi shook her head.

Her sixth sense had saved her too many times for her to do so.

And that sixth sense was warning her clearly.

To listen.

"… Let's go."

Everyone nodded as they headed somewhere.

Hansoo smiled as he saw this.

'That's done.'

This is easy for them to get massacred if all 50 are separated but at the time same it was easy to clear if all 50 combined.

They just needed to make the clan, kill the protectors in leisure and attain the treasure.

'…I can see the ending coming around.'

If he gains the philosopher's stone here then he has gained everything necessary to go in the dungeon.

Then only one stage is left.

The two weeks will go by fast.

Hansoo laughed as he disappeared in order to kill the protectors as well.

"It seems the time has come for us to separate."

Gyungmi made a tired expression as she looked at the people around her.

Almost 50 people.

They were mostly her clansmen now.

'…I'm tired.'

It was even more tiring because she was trying to not get any of them die due to that useless connection.

Though some weren't part of her clan.

'The four over there.'

Gyungmi looked at the four, who were of different quality, in the corner.

Lord couldn't give symbols to other lords.

And Lords could not give symbols to people who had already gained symbols from a different clan.

Which meant that if the giving of the symbol didn't work then it would mean that that person was a Lord or part of a clan.

And because of this, these four caught the eyes.

'Well there's nothing really special about them.'

Our clan has 84 people but the room they entered had 80 as the limit so we could only separate from the Lord.

It wasn't that they all believed their excuses.

But what was the point when they were going to separate anyway.

She just needed to take care of her own clan.

"Let's all go our own ways."

Gyungmi changed the treasure into 50 Kurutan's Bludgeons, gave it to each and everyone one by one and then ordered them to suicide.

Crack.

"…uh?"

Gyungmi's psychic power isn't strong enough to order them to suicide.

Everyone else other than her original clansmen had their symbols broken as soon as she gave the order.

And at the same time they, who had escaped from the clan, all looked fiercely at each other but then ran towards the exist after giving up.

Since there was no need to fight after having guaranteed their safety.

'Well. This is a good end from one point of view.'

Though things had progressed half forcibly, everyone had survived as the result.

Since they had repeated the hunt for Protectors of the Dungeons faithfully under the order of the Clan Lord.

As the people who were thinking this and that made their way to the exit a giant door in the space that trapped them opened with a rumbling noise.

And a slightly different view from before had appeared in front of them.

"… maze?"

Many separate paths had appeared in front of their eyes.

And the fairy appeared in front of their eyes.

"Everyone here has survived. Heehee. Congratulations. You will now get sent to the starting point of the third floor. There's nothing hard, you just need to follow the path. If you follow the crossroads, you will arrive at one the of hundreds of starting points.You can group up and follow your friends who arrived earlier or go separately when you get there."

Everyone shrugged their shoulders as they disappeared into the paths.

Though it wasn't like being moved into a room, it didn't really matter.

Gyungmi looked at Chungjae with a suspicious expression but then shook her head as she took her clansmen into one of the numerous paths.

'Hmm… shall I go too.'

It didn't seem like the four there would move before he did.

Hansoo, who had the appearance of Chungjae, smirked as he walked towards the starting point.

And after a while he activated Arankal's Bracelet and hid himself completely.

Then he very carefully returned to the starting point.

As he expected these four, who had said they were part of the other clan, were standing in the same position despite the others leaving one by one.

'When are they going to move. Hurry up and move.'

Hansoo looked at them with great patience.

And soon when everyone else had disappeared, they seemed to have received orders from somewhere as they started to ruthlessly go through the paths.

Hansoo smiled as he saw them.

'Hurry and guide me. To your captain.'

Even if he found them painstakingly and then kill them off one by one, the Lord will slowly regenerate his strength as well.

There was only one solution to this tedious situation.

To cut off the Lord's neck in a single strike.

But he had no way of knowing where this guy was.

1st and 2nd floor were impossible and the only possible third floor still had a few hundred starting points.

It was not possible to search through each and every one of them.

But at a single time, he had a single chance.

A chance which appears when the special structure of the tower and the dangers of the third floor combines.

If I miss that time then it will really be hard to catch him. If that happens then I'll just gain everything we discussed and prepare first and then kill him at the very end after clearing the dungeon.

If the Dark Mad Lord had arrived to the third floor, and had seen the environment of this place then he could only gather all of his clansmen to a single spot.

The third floor was the place where they let them taste the harsh reality of the Otherworld.

It was not somewhere where tricks worked.

Since his head was good he had probably realized that he had to gather his clansmen in order for him to act around in such a place.

And the people in front of him will guide him.

To the Dark Mad Lord who could be in one of the hundreds of starting points.

If Hansoo had revealed his identity here then that cautious guy would've split up all his clansmen to other places.

Since if that guy had seen the third floor, he would want to only use his own forces and prevent any possible mishaps from happening in order to get through the third floor…

But Hansoo himself had to meet him and that was where the earring came into play.

'It's the final stage.'

He had gained everything he needed with the philosopher's stone being the last.

The only thing he needed now was some fancy gear and plenty of runes.

He would've actually had to run around the whole tower according to the original plan.

Since it'll be hard for oneself to have a full setting of gear and runes.

But there was a way for him to solve it very simply.

Since the people who have been running around the whole tower for him will gather in a single place.

People who would have such an amount that even he wouldn't be able to gather alone.

'Dark Mad Lord… Let's see your face, it's been a while.'

And once he finishes them off then all the preparations are complete.

For entering the Final Dungeon.

The final stage of the preparation wasn't some beast.

It was the Dark Mad Lord himself.

'I'll use all my strength.'

Because in that place, only he and they exist.

Since there was no way the Dark Mad Lord would let random people who started at the same place as him alive.

He could use all his strength since rumors won't be spreading anyway.

Hansoo slowly disappeared into the darkness as he followed the others.

And then somebody appeared in the place where Hansoo disappeared.

"… You really want to follow?"

One of the clansmen looked at Gyungmi as they shook their head.

To pretend to go up the road in order to follow him.

'And how the hell did she even find him. Is it that sixth sense thing…?'

Gyungmi smirked as she nodded:

"Aren't you even bit curious? As to what kind of thoughts he has?"

"… Just with that alone?"

"Well. We'll find out when we get there. And if the path we were following and this is the same anyway then there's nothing bad about going this way."

And then Gyungmi followed the pathway towards the place that the sixth sense was pointing to, where the dangerous aura was radiating from.

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Chapter 48 – Tower (7)

'It's been a while.'

Hansoo mumbled quietly as he watched the flaming environment around him.

The third floor which imitated the Red Zone.

They called it the Red Zone because it used red energy.

But there were other reasons as well.

An eternally blazing world that had received the punishment of the gods.

And that was why it was called the Red Zone.

'Erviang… this was your world huh.'

He didn't' know back then.

Even right before the invasion of the Abyss.

'We were just frogs in a well.'

But he, after getting through the Abyss, knew now.

How the Otherworld which was comprised of seven colored zones was structured.

If such a thing called a God existed then it was really a vicious thing. Humanity was a very lucky race if you take into account what happened to Erviang's race, who were space-time travelers.

Hansoo shook his head.

'It's not time to get emotional.'

This was just a fake which copied the Red Zone.

It didn't even have half of the dangers.

'Shall I go.'

This guy will probably be stuck at The Cross.

He just needed to end him there.

Hansoo continued his steps through the flaming landscape.

"It's amazing."

Everyone who was advancing faithfully under the orders of Wongyung swirled their tongues around.

Everything in their surroundings was burning.

The strange-looking buildings which belonged to some other race were blazing and numerous beasts were moving between the buildings without end.

'Damn… all of the area on the third floor shouldn't be like this right?'

That was not even reasonable.

It wasn't to the point where they were getting burned to death but the non-stop heat kept attacking their throats and lungs.

And the beasts that charged at them were so strong that even his clansmen were barely blocking them.

Due to the whole environment burning there wasn't any water to drink either.

One of two things will happen at this rate.

Either die from the beasts or die from dehydration.

'…The world outside the tutorial is always like this?'

The fairy had told them.

That the third floor was like a glimpse of the world outside of the tutorial.

And added something else too.

Once you reach that point we don't really interfere.

At first he was really relieved.

Since even he wasn't comfortable with the fairy who brought evil rules endlessly.

But he was slowly realizing something.

'…It's not like it's not interfering but more like it doesn't need to interfere?'

If it was such a harsh environment to the point where they didn't need to interfere then they simply wouldn't.

Since they will die by themselves.

Wongyung, who had been advancing through the dried up landscape, shook his head.

'There's no way.'

There was no way that they would leave them all to die.

Wongyung was confident.

The strongest power in all of the Tower was him.

If a power like his was suffering this much then all of the others might just die out.

There was no way that they would've set the difficulty so.

Kudududuk

'First advance forward.'

Wongyung solidified his thoughts as he advanced.

And soon a giant Cross appeared in his view.

"…What is that?"

"Isn't it pretty?"

The fairy, which had appeared without anyone noticing, babbled.

Wongyung slightly frowned at those words.

It was a disgusting-looking cross even at a single glance.

And on that cross, human faces were coming out and going back into it non-stop.

Like people who were trapped within a giant cloth.

And then Wongyung rubbed his eyes after seeing an extremely familiar face.

"….Huh?"

The fairy smiled as it spoke.

"Can you see some familiar faces?"

Wongyung ignored the fairy's words as he inspected the cross after walking closer to it.

And then made a expression of fear.

"Is this cross…"

"Mmm… I don't know what you're thinking about but shall we say it's right? Heehee. Correct! All the information of those who died in the tutorial are in there! Oh my. Two were just added."

Wongyung slightly closed the gaps of his eyes.

"But what is the meaning of this?"

He knew that it was definitely disgusting.

But what did this mean to them.

"Reflect our actions while looking at the dead?"

The fairy shook its head.

"The cross will look very very pretty after you hear my words."

"That is the Cross of Reincarnation! You can revive someone of those who participated in the tutorial who had died!"

Wongyung made a expression of fright.

They did look like beings close to gods.

But for them to be able to effect those who had already died.

"What is this nonsense… Can you guys even control the dead?"

The fairy smirked.

"That's a bit too hard at our level. It's just a copy that we brought on the way here."

"… a copy?"

"Yes. We made a copy of all of you when you came here and saved it within that cross. And that cross uses that as the base to create a copy."

While Wongyung's eyes were flickering the fairy made a smile as if it knew that would happen and spoke.

"Though it's a copy, their strength and memory will be the same as the real one before they came to this side. Woudln't this be amazing if it's a loved one? Heeheehee."

"It can revive the dead?"

Wongyung's hands trembled.

'…Really?'

Wongyung's memories rewinded at an extreme speed.

The reason why he had came to despise other Lords.

This was all because of that guy he had met in the start.

Actually there was somebody else who had manifested the power of a Lord before Wongyung in the 1st tutorial area.

And that guy had taken control of his daugher with the symbol and played around with her then killed her by using her as a shield during a dangerous moment.

How much he had despaired over this.

He had created a much bigger power after he had manifested his power as a Lord.

Since his psychic power was much greater than that guy's.

And he thought after ripping that guy to shreds.

That the reason why he was given this psychic power was a sign from the heavens to rip apart all those other Lords.

And one more thing.

He needed a lot of strength.

Why?

Since his son, who went missing 5 years before him, might be alive.

He needed much more strength than he has now in order to find him.

Since his son would be much further ahead than him if he was alive.

He couldn't catch up the 5-year gap to his son with some average amount of power.

He basically needed strength to plow through and advance forward.

It didn't matter to him if his actions were something that would cause him to get cursed by others.

Since the ones who curse him aren't the ones who would find his son for him.

Everything was playing out very well.

But for such a thing to happen to him!

Wongyung touched the cross with trembling hands.

As soon as his hands touched it, thousands of people who had died in the tutorial appeared in front of his eyes.

And many of those who had died by his clans existed as well.

But that didn't matter.

Since his only interest was his daughter.

While he was flipping through the catalogue, his daughter Ahee came into his eyes.

"Ahh…ahhhhh."

Wongyung shed tears of joy.

He could revive Ahee!

Without any memories of pain, with the body and memory before she had come here!

Though her body would be weak, that did not matter.

He just needed to protect her.

'Thank you. God. Thank you.'

Wongyung asked the fairy in a hurry.

"How can I revive them?"

The fairy smirked as it spoke.

"Simple. Just put someone in here."

The fairy pointed towards the bottom of the giant cross.

A deep hole that looked like a grave.

"What?"

"You need ingredients in order to make something new. Put someone else in for the person coming out. It's pretty simple that way."

Wongyung hurriedly looked around.

He just needed to put the weakest one in.

Then there will be no problems.

At his orders, a guy who had been panting from an injury slowly dragged his body and walked towards the hole beneath the cross.

While Wongyung was rejoicing at that sight, sounds of the fairy clicking its tongue were heard.

"Nono. Can't do that. You can't do that. You can't use a clansman. It becomes too easy then. We didn't want to see something like that. You can't use tricks."

"What!!!! What do you want!!!!"

Wongyung screamed out unknowningly.

The fairy smiled coyly as it spoke:

"It's not that hard. You just need to put someone else who isn't part of your clan in here. Then your daughter lives too. How good is it? Hehehehee. It's really chaotic in other places about now but it's a problem here because it's all one clan. Ah. Another one added to the cross."

Wongyung despaired at these words.

How would he find somebody in his deserted land.

Wongyung asked the fairy just in case.

"Damn… Is there another chance like this in the future?"

He didn't believe that only they will be on the path from now on.

If they meet others then they could just catch them then revive Ahee after inserting them into the Cross they will find later.

The fairy shook its head.

"No. This is the end of the privilege. Chances don't come that easily right? As we see it, it's not fun when people have leisure. You need to be a bit of a crisis. If you leave after visiting this place once then you can't use it again."

"Goddaaamitttt!"

Wongyung spat out a scream of despair.

They were already behind because they had to gather all their clansmen who were spread all around.

The people who had started off were probably going through some other path somewhere else.

And what would a person with some basic sense think when they see the view of the third floor.

Would they go around some roundabout way and group up with other people in some other starting point?

Or would they think to go through his hell-like place by themselves.

And they couldn't wait forever in this place.

Since they couldn't get anything to eat or drink in these blazing plains.

He couldn't send out his clansmen when he didn't know what could happen from now on.

But then Wongyung's expression turned cold.

'Maybe.'

He didn't know what was ahead but he had somewhat organized on the way here from the starting point.

If he send some clansmen to wait in the starting point then some random guys might pop out.

And then he just needed to catch them before they went into other paths.

At that moment one of his clansmen shouted loudly.

"Lord! Somebody is coming this way over there!"

"What?"

Wongyung opened his eyes wide and looked towards the starting point.

And he could see a person walking towards them from the starting point.

'How could this be. Thank you. Oh god.'

Wongyung, who wasn't even religious, prayed to god.

No, there was no way such a thing would happen if there was no god.

God had given him the power to find his son and a chance to revive his daughter.

If god isn't looking after him then what was this?

Soon Wongyung's mind which was filled with glee calmed down.

That guy couldn't run away after seeing this place.

Definitely not.

He had to catch him no matter what and throw him under the grave.

Since that was the only way to save his daughter.

'I don't know who you are… but thank you.'

"Catch him!"

As soon as his order came down, his clansmen charged towards the man walking towards them from afar.

Hansoo quietly mumbled inwardly as he looked at the people charging at him.

'Dark Mad Lord. First rate Dark Lord.'

The sins he had caused were too many to list.

Of cause this was all a thing of the past.

His situation? He knew too well.

Since he had heard all of his screams of despair before he died.

He knew why he hated Lords, why he tried to increase his strength crazily and how he had become a first rate Dark Lord.

He had to leave behind his daughter here because he couldn't find some other non-clansman here.

And he, who had been enraged by this, caused a massacre in the tutorial due to the urgent thoughts of him having to find his one remaining son.

He had done so until now but in greater amounts from this point onwards.

And he had caught up the gap of 5 years but went crazy after finding out that his son had died and then flipped the Otherworld upside down.

As if he was trying to relieve the rage against the world which had killed his son and daughter by venting it on the inhabitants of the world.

His circumstances were regrettable but it could not excuse him for the things he had done so far.

'But you won't feel unfair from this. Since you will get to revive your daughter if you win here.'

He had come to the Dark Mad Lord and the Dark Mad Lord had come to kill him.

It wouldn't be bad for him.

Since if the Dark Mad Lord won in this fight, he would be able to use him as a sacrifice to revive his daughter.

That was all he needed.

And soon his Justice and Judgement of Dekrados exploded out with his body as the center.

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Chapter 49 – Three Gateways (1)

Kududududk

The chain scythe flew around with Hansoo as the center non-stop.

And at the same time the dagger ripped through the air.

"Kuuuhk!"

"Goddamnit!"

Wongyung grinded his teeth as he heard the screams of his clansmen that came from every direction.

'Goddamnit… he's too fast.'

He knew who he was up against after the fight began.

The guy who had messed up their plans as a whole at Central Island.

He wondered why the guy who he had thought went to a different island was here but decided that it didn't matter.

Since if his skills were the same as when he saw him then, it wouldn't be hard to catch him with his clansmen.

Why would he have set up the net on the path up from Central Island if he thought that a full frontal clash was not possible?

He had prepared it because he was confident in winning.

And the biggest reason.

That guy, for some reason, did not use any skills.

And that was why he thought that he could win in a head-on battle.

And their gears weren't even comparable to others, they also had increased their battle strength by consuming other adventurers climbing the tower.

Nothing much to say about their teamwork too.

But this was all a huge miscalculation.

'Why did he go to a different island if he was that strong?'

There was nobody to stop them when their clan swung their sword.

Nothing much to say about the guys who were caught off guard since they worked from the dark.

But that was simply arrogance.

Thinking about it, it had only been two months since they got here.

It just didn't feel that short because they had experienced a lot.

No matter how many people they sliced apart for two months, they were still humans.

On the other hand, if there was a thing called a human butcher, he was sure that that guy was him.

It felt like he had gone through countless years of work where he killed people.

Keeping distance with his much higher stats as the basis.

Keeping an eye on the whole battlefield and moving in directions where he wouldn't get surrounded.

It had naturally turned into a structure where they all chased his back.

And then he would ruthlessly slice apart those who chase him with his chain scythe and his dagger.

It wasn't that his attacks were weak even if he threw them from afar.

There wasn't a single case where his attacks did not hit a fatal location.

An attack which flew into a spot of sure-kill.

And because they couldn't not defend, the gap they barely closed widened while they defended.

Their artifacts were unique and strong ones as well but his scythe and dagger were so strong that every time they clashed weapons, their weapons would break along with their bones.

'Goddamnit…'

It was hard to hold him down even if they poured on skills because his resistances were high and every time they used a decisive skill, the skill would break as a light shone from his right hand.

'Goddamnit… will we be able to catch him before his stamina runs out?'

But Wongyung didn't really see much hope.

The time when the most amount of stamina is consumed is when someone goes through attacks as well as defending actions.

But he was barely defending and only pouring out attacks.

He didn't know much but if his stamina was at the same level as his strength or perception then those movements won't stop until all of them got ripped apart.

Kudududk

"Uuaaaka!"

"Those with charging skills hold him down first!!"

There were a few who could stick close by him.

Clansmen who had charging skills.

Wongyung had regarded this skill very highly and had distributed this skill to his clansmen who had high defense and resistances.

They were basically charging warriors.

They had high defenses and resistances to go against their weapons and ripped the enemy apart after getting close to the enemy with their defensive artifacts.

He had 20 of these guys.

'If we can just tie him down then we can kill him.'

It wasn't that blades did not work against him.

Since he was bleeding from the occasional blades that got to him.

Which means that they could kill him as long as they can surround him and hold him down.

'Goddamnit… He would've died if he had come up through the portal.'

But these were meaningless complaints.

The only thing he could trust in was them.

Maybe it was due to the fact that he had raised them with great care but the charging warriors were going through the endless chain scythe and dagger and had gotten quite close to Hansoo.

"Die!"

Chwaaaak

A blade was ruthlessly getting close to Hansoo.

But Hansoo already had every information about this guy in his head.

Though it was hard to read the rune stats of a leisurely guy, he could clearly read the stats of someone who was fighting with all their strength.

The images endlessly came one after another until the enemy's next movement was drawn in his head.

Hansoo followed those movements as he slashed at the side of that guy's sword with his dagger.

Kudududk

His strength was not average and Hansoo's hand, which held the dagger that deflected the sword, trembled as it started to bleed.

And the attack which Hansoo had deflected sliced into his own shoulder.

Even if you can completely dodge or defend against an attack, you shouldn't do so.

Since if you focus on defending or dodging the attacks of those who stick close to you, you will just get slowed down.

And then you will just get surrounded by the enemies who are charging at you.

'Then you just die.'

Even if he allowed them to attack he could not let them close the gap.

Kudududk

The attack bore deep into his shoulder as it started to bleed.

But he backed off quickly even in such a situation and strongly pulled on the chain scythe.

'And… I'm not really losing out either.'

"Kuuuhh…"

Hansoo held the chain scythe, which had cut through the guy's artery, and swung the chain scythe all around him again as he started to repeat the tedious work.

Of course there were a few things he didn't forget to do.

First, absorbing all the runes that were dropped as well as using the dropped artifacts for defense and offense.

Second, slashing the Justice of Dekrados from time to time at Wongyung while mid-battle.

His core was being a Lord.

And if Wongyung had any form of survival instinct, he will pull some forces towards him in order to defend against the daggers that flew to him.

And of course when the clansmen who should be attacking fall back to defend him, he gets a bit of a breather.

'…I guess I cannot let the clansmen live.'

The guys who were under orders charged in like zealots.

Wongyung was ordering his clansmen even more ruthlessly as his life was starting to get threatened.

So that they would bite if their arms were cut off and act as a meat shield if their necks were cut off.

He was also losing health as well.

There was no space for him to go easy.

'Dark Mad Lord… Let's stop here this time.'

Hansoo made a cold expression as he tore through the Dark Mad Lord's clansmen at an intensified rate.

"Goddamnit… goddamnit."

Wongyung made a soulless expression at his massacred clansmen and then shouted at Hansoo while grinding his teeth.

"You bastard! What do you have against me to the point where you would go this far!"

He didn't know back then.

But he knew now.

That this guy was going after him ever since Central Island.

He didn't know how Hansoo had known of his existence but he was definitely moving around while targeting him.

And he could not understand this.

"You bitch! Why are you doing this to me when I haven't done anything wrong to you! Huh? We aren't like sworn enemies or something, why are you chasing me this far, what sin have I committed! Is it because I killed people? Huh? Is that it? Or because I didn't follow the rules that you spread around?"

He could've saved his daughter if he had a little more time.

And he could've found his missing son with this strength.

But all of this had been blocked off.

Because of this one guy.

And he could only think of one thing.

The uncanny rules that he heard from Guktae.

'This damnable guy… what is he for him to set such rules at us?'

Hansoo shook his head at those words.

"I'm not killing you because you broke the rules."

He wasn't killing them because they broke the rules.

It didn't make sense to apply these rules to those who didn't want to be with him from the start.

This was the same thing as getting hold of an American and imposing Korean rules to them.

In these kind of cases, you could solve it by splitting up like Taesoon did in the past.

He also didn't have the leisure to chase them all down and kill them off because they broke the rules.

Setting up the rules is after uniting everyone.

It was a future plan and he had to find a different method to solve that.

How would he govern over all those people?

"Then why are you…"

Wongyung became absent-minded at the unexpected answer.

Hansoo muttered quietly.

'You guys are just stepping stones.'

There were a few things that he needed to do in his plans.

If his plans were only uniting all of humanity, why would he have come?

Eres or Keldian would've come instead.

There were a few things he needed to accomplish in order to solve the Prohibited Region and this stood far above anything else.

Even if he had to kill off everyone in the tutorial area in order to accomplish his set plans then he would've done so.

He didn't think that small sacrifices for bigger things were right but he didn't hesitate if it was needed.

But because they didn't want this, they had set up a plan which had the least amount of casualties.

But the thing was, even if they tried to reduce the amount of casualties there were occasions where casualties were needed to catch up to their difficult goals.

And because of this, they reduced the targets who would be sacrificed.

Deciding who had to die in order for them to get to the next stage.

The guys who would have no other choice than to die even if they left them alone.

Or those who had the possibility of causing the most amount of damage to humanity or committed the most sins, those who would have their death called for by others when they found out later.

This occasion of Three Gateways was like that too.

No matter how much we calculate… you can't get to the level of clearing the dungeon just by hunting. Since that Dark Mad Lord exists we will use him. Don't go easy on him. Receiving orders? Doesn't matter. Does the number of people who die by his hands change?

It hadn't been two months yet and the time that they had calculated at which he would go into the Final Dungeon still had a month left.

No, just like how Keldian said, it wouldn't be possible for him to get to the level of clearing the dungeon even if he was to hunt for a month.

And because of this he needed a stepping stone to get into the Three Gateways and these guys were just chosen to become those stepping stones.

In conclusion, he hadn't come here to give them judgement because they had broken the rules, they weren't dying because he was right and they were wrong.

'Ah. Maybe that's a bit too far.'

Since the number of people who have died in these guys' hands won't change.

"Don't think about it too much. Isn't it easier to think that you tried to kill me and we clashed because of that? Truthfully speaking, I think that's enough of a reason."

"You were just running towards your own goal and I the same. We just clashed while doing so and the one who got crushed was you this time. You have crushed others so well up to this point, why are you making an expression like you're suffering an injustice?"

Wongyung made a lethargic expression at those words.

'This guy is just like me.'

He had been fooled.

He had thought that when he tried to lead everyone in Central Island, that was his true character.

He thought that he was like a Hero who was advancing forward in the world which was collapsing.

But that wasn't it.

That was just the image which he was holding up.

This was his true character.

He was just like himself.

Like how he could kill countless number of people in order to achieve his goals, that guy could also do that with no hesitation.

Except he was much thorough than himself.

Hansoo suddenly thought of Kangtae's words as he looked at Wongyung.

Wow! If everything goes according to the plan then you would become an amazing hero!

…You don't become a hero by catching evil-doers.

Nono, Listen. I'm saying that you can become an amazing person of superiority. If you do things properly then wouldn't you look like an awesome leader from the outside? Girls will be falling all over you too. It should be me who goes.

…You definitely cannot go.

Wongyung made a focusless expression but then sighed as he realized that this was the end.

Since his sanity had come back after his death got guaranteed.

'Well. This might've been set already when I started killing people.'

He had constantly killed people as he got stronger.

With the sole reason of finding his son.

And at the same time he thought of this.

Because he was strong, he could treat others as sacrificial lambs.

And this world did not have any rules or society to stop that but rather encouraged him.

And this was the result of that.

'I could eventually be stepped on or eaten by somebody else like this too.'

From a point of view this insecurity had pushed him farther than his desire to find his son.

'It came much faster than I had thought.'

Wongyung sighed deeply as he spoke while looking at Hansoo:

"…You won't save my daughter even if I asked you?"

He could only save his daughter if he were to put in a normal human being.

It didn't seem like that guy would do something like that.

And when Hansoo shook his head as he expected, he sighed as he spoke his last words:

"If you find my son please look after him. Though it's a little bit too much to ask when you are trying to kill me."

Hansoo shook his head as he spoke at Wongyung who was explaining his son's characteristics.

"There's no need for that."

"But if my plans work out well his fate may be changed."

"Goddamnit. What are you talking about untill the end…"

Then Hansoo's dagger aggressively sliced past Wongyung's neck.

Hansoo looked at the dead Dark Mad Lord with a complex look and then got up while shaking his head.

'Just do some clean-up and move out.'

There wasn't much time.

Hansoo looked around at the hundred plus corpses around him and then looked towards the starting location where he had come from.

"Hnng.. Damn. When can we go…".

Gyungmi, who had been standing at the starting point with her clansmen, grinded her teeth.

While they were chasing him, they were caught by him when he suddenly changed his path and rushed towards them.

The fact that they stuck too close because she was afraid of losing him was the mistake.

'Damnit… did he expect one or two people to follow him from the start?'

As soon as Chungjae saw them he spoke out.

Good. Kuhuuu. Set up a barricade here. So nobody else can go past here.

…Why should we?

I will forgive you for following me if you do that. Block them well.

She had followed out of curiosity but that curiosity did not win over her fear.

Since it felt like an 'Accident' may happen if she didn't listen.

It had been over half a day of waiting here.

'Damnit. Should I just go?'

But before Gyungmi finished her thoughts, a blood-covered Chungjae was walking over from afar.

"What. What did you do?"

Hansoo, who had the appearance of Chungjae, looked over at Gyungmi with a cold expression and then nodded his head.

'She really didn't follow.'

If she had followed him to where he had fought then those traces couldn't be hidden.

Since there would be traces of the soot that filled up the whole of the third floor.

'Then… it's ok.'

Since she wouldn't be able to figure it out even if she went.

"It's better to not know. You've done well so go on your way now."

As soon as he finished those words, Chungjae disappeared into the paths.

And then Gyungmi narrowed her eyes.

'…That's towards the outskirts of the tower?'

Gyungmi made a strange expression but then shook her head.

She had been stuck here for too long anyway.

It seemed like he wanted to hide something but then it might really become dangerous once she tried to pry into it.

'…It doesn't seem like he's the type that would let the person who figured the thing he tried so hard to hide go.'

She was curious but she couldn't not distinguish between fire and water.

If he had stopped them from following him it meant that he didn't want to show them anything but if he were to chase them down while they pried into it…

'I don't even want to think about it. Stop thinking about it. Stop thinking about it.'

There were things that she needed to keep as a secret even if she knew about them.

Gyungmi took her clansmen as she proceeded forward at a very fast pace.

And after a while a giant cross could be seen.

Her sixth sense had told her instinctively.

That something happened here.

But her only clue was her sixth sense.

He had cleaned up things so well that nobody would've known that anything happened without the sixth sense.

'Well. It's nothing I need to know about.'

While Gyungmi was trying hard to suppress her curiosity, the fairy appeared in the sky again.

"Oh my. People came again. Then shall I start the explanation? About this cross right? Oh no. It increased by three more."

Gyungmi made a suspicious expression as she looked at the fairy.

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