145 – Double Gate
Inside the red gate.
A flesh-ripping chill enveloped his entire body.
‘Is this another dimension?’
Siwoon’s eyes scanned the surroundings. An icy road that stretches in front of snow-covered trees and raised rocks. A snowfield scene unfolded. This is a different dimension, neither the other world nor the present world. It was this world
‘You must be nervous. I don’t know what will come out of here.’
Siwoon’s eyes moved to the two women next to him.
They are looking around with frightened eyes.
He was a magician and a healer. Were their names Lim Ga-hye and Kim Han-byeol? It will be anyway. The equipment they wore was, at best, epic level equipment.
‘And the mister.’
I could see the back of Taeshik with his back bent in front of him. A single dagger is held in his fern-like hand.
Assassin class, Taeshik is not good. One female supporter. The rest of the healers. It is the power of thirteen.
‘Huh.. Jang Se-joon put only the low-ranking hunters in the selection team. Besides, there are four of us in total.’
His intentions were obvious. I will be assigned three lower-ranking hunters, and I will be easily attacking the gate with the superior power of five members, including Kang Hye-ryeong and Jang Yoo-seok, who are the aces of the selection team. Naughty dog.
Wait a minute?
‘No… This is rather a good thing?’
It doesn’t matter if this is the result of touching his heart. This is another dimension. The monsters here will give you a whole new level of experience, and the current team power is the perfect situation for me to monopolize the monsters and ramp up.
It was then.
“There’s something hiding there!”
Gahye shouted, pointing her hand at her tree. Behind the tree where everyone’s eyes are directed… No, something with a white hood on the tree flashed in his eyes.
“Are you a person?”
As Tae-sik monologued while watching that, Si-woon hurriedly shouted.
“We need to deal with that quickly!”
I realized that he was watching us, unarmed and dressed for hiding in the snow. If he sent that scouting bastard alive, he would bring reinforcements.
I immediately used the sprint skill.
[Movement speed increases.]
Shiun rushed like lightning and bounced toward the tree.
‘Weapon change.’
[Swap primary weapon quickly.]
Phishun! Siwoon sprinted and relaxed his hand that drew the bowstring. Thud! The guy hiding in the tree crashed to the ground.
‘… Shooting a bow while running?’
Im Ga-hye looked at Si-woon curiously. Suddenly, he jumps out at a speed that is incomparable to other hunters of the same class and is examining the target’s corpse.
Lee Si-woon destroyed Cerberus with one skill and found the gate ahead by using crows as well. Besides, Siwoon didn’t just use a sword. No matter how much I thought about it, I was puzzled, so I approached him and asked.
“Hey? You said you were blind? How do you handle a bow so well?”
“Now is not the time to ask such questions.”
“Because it’s so strange. Even though I’m blind, I keep my eyes open….”
There are not just one or two things that I am curious about.
Coming to think of it, the blind man’s eyes are open like that is something that will appear in the news.
“I just think I am a little different from others.”
“… ….”
When he met her cold eyes that seemed to say ‘don’t ask me more’, she couldn’t part her mouth any more.
“That friend is different from us, and that is a lot.”
Taesik said.
“… Is that person an F-class like us?”
“If you watch, you will find out. What a great friend you are.”
Gahye fixed her gaze on Siwoon, her curiosity aroused. He immediately takes out his sword and examines the surroundings.
“The estimated number is dozens. The location is underground! Not on the ground!”
Everyone’s eyes went down to the ground as Siwoon shouted.
Moment! Gahye’s eyes were tightly closed.
“Keah!”
When Hye opens her eyes, her something’s hand wraps around her own ankle, her knife cuts her forearm and spills blood. Looking to her side, I saw Siwoon moving her sword. Gahye freaked out and removed her hand that was holding her ankle.
“Concentrate. If it wasn’t for me, you would be dead.”
“Ah, go, thank you.”
This guy is insanely fast. Where did he come to me? He couldn’t even see
It was then.
“Come!”
Siwoon looked at the ground and shouted. Moment! Something popped out one after another from under the ice and pushed the upper body out. They were already drawing their bowstrings.
Dozens of arrows rained down from all directions. Hunter was defenseless and just looked at the rushing arrows.
It was then.
Quaaang!
Smoke covered the sky with a roar that shook the eardrums.
It was the smoke that covered the dungeon earlier.
“Don’t stand still like an idiot, everyone, move!”
The voice heard in the smoke belonged to Siwoon.
Shaak! Shock! Wickedness!
‘It’s the sound of a knife!’
‘… Could that be the sound of a sword strike?’
You can’t see because of the smoke?
Gahye and Hanbyeol thought without even opening their eyes.
It’s hard to even open my eyes because it covers my vision so far, but the sound of the sword cutting flesh continues.
Let’s clear the smoke using Kim Han-byul’s wind magic…
“This, how could this be?”
“… Are they all dead?”
Dozens of dead bodies with sword wounds were brought in through their trembling pupils.
Pu-wook!
When they looked up, a human with a sword pierced through the back collapsed trembling.
Push! Siwoon drew out his sword and glared at the two with his blood-splattered face.
“What are you doing? Are you here to play?”
“Oh, Mi, I’m sorry.”
“I didn’t expect a surprise attack from below.”
The two sweated at Siwoon’s words.
“Let’s stay alert! The moment they close their eyes, their necks could fly off.”
At Siwoon’s additional words, the two nodded their heads with embarrassing expressions on their faces.
‘If I’m with that man, I can survive here, for sure.’
‘No matter how much I think about it, it makes no sense….’
Siwoon clicked his tongue inwardly.
‘These two are really messed up.’
Healers and magicians, who should be the flower of power, are not even helping.
“Mr. Gahe Lim! If you’re a healer, don’t be blank and do something quickly, right?”
“… Yes? Ah! I’m out of my mind….”
When Siwoon looked down at his body and said, Gahye hurriedly healed him.
“And Mr. Hanbyeol Kim? What if the magician is right next to me? Are you a tanker?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to do well in the future? What, you seem to be the engineering chief?”
When Hanbyeol screamed in embarrassment, Siwoon shook his head.
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“… This friend is just mad at me. Because we just couldn’t do our part. I’m sorry.”
When Tae-sik spoke to Si-woon in a soft voice, Shi-woon shook his head.
“Don’t overdo it. Uncle, I will definitely protect you.”
Siwoon did not forget the gratitude he received from Taeshik during the survival contest. Besides, Taeshik’s wrinkled face reminded me of his father, so I didn’t want to say anything.
“Ah, can I be a burden to you? I need to work even harder, cancer.”
Shiwoon looked down at the ice sheet with serious eyes.
‘The number of people who felt the sound of people with the blind sense used earlier was thirty. However… ‘
Twenty-nine people are currently dead. One corpse is obviously empty. That one guy’s voice was uniquely different. The blind man’s sense duration is over.
“There is still one left! Big!”
“You mean the external size is big?”
“… Also?”
In Siwoon’s retina, the ice under his feet was cracking finely.
“Everyone get back! Hurry!”
At Shiun’s cry, everyone hurriedly retreated. That moment!
Kwaji Jik!
Something has pierced through the ground! In the aftermath, pieces of ice splattered everywhere and the ground shook.
“That, that….”
“It’s too big… It’s dangerous.”
Everyone raised their heads and looked at it. It was as tall as a 10-story building.
It was a stone statue of a giant’s face.
Uh woo woo woo-
A very high-pitched scream poured from the giant’s mouth.
The hunters instinctively retreated even further.
By the way.
Only groaning noises were emitted from the gigantic mouth of the stone statue.
At that time when everyone was confused.
Lim Ga-hye had a bad luck.
‘For now, in this situation, the person I will trust and rely on is that man. I’m just following that man’s instructions.’
“The stone statue won’t attack you? Are you just making noise? Then attack first at this timing!”
Moving his mouth, Tae-sik started to run towards the stone statue, but Shi-woon grabbed his arm.
“You don’t know how the stone statue will react if you touch it carelessly.”
“So, are you going to leave it alone for now?”
“I see something like a hole in a firearm in the eyes of that stone statue.”
“You can see the hole in the firearm?”
Through Taeshik’s dark eyes, he couldn’t even see anything inside the eyes of that stone statue.
‘Ah… This friend’s eyesight was amazing.’
Already learned during the exploration dungeon that Siwoon’s eyesight surpassed that of humans. But if that stone statue is condensing power for bombardment right now, wouldn’t it be best to destroy it now? The moment you ask this question.
“Thousands and tens of thousands of lines are connected to every corner of the giant’s body through the fire holes in the eyes of that statue. These are probably the lines that act as sensors. My gut feeling is that we don’t have enough firepower to deal with.”
Siwoon solved the question with words.
“Does that mean that when we strike, we attack?”
Siwoon nodded and pointed with his hand. Everyone’s heads moved in the direction Shiwun’s hand pointed.
“That is..!”
Taesik’s eyes widened to the extent that his wrinkles were smoothed out.
* * *
At that time, in front of the barrier gate.
The four hunters were looking at Sejun Jang with suspicious eyes.
Sejun, he gave instructions to wait and not enter the gate. It doesn’t even tell you why.
“An hour has passed.”
Sejun’s upbringing of stealing a watch was relaxed.
Seeing that, Hye-ryeong widened her eyes.
“Hey! How long are you going to be stuck here waiting? Shouldn’t I tell you why?”
She seemed to agree with her question, and her Yoo Seok also opened her mouth.
“Engineer Captain. Please give me a reasonable reason.”
“A reasonable reason?”
Sejun opened his eyes wide and closed his expression as if he were going to say something. Seeing that, Hye-ryeong bit her teeth and approached Se-joon right in front of her nose.
“… The people who just entered must be in high school right now, so it’s right for us to help or to quickly break the gate on the other side and release the barrier, right? Uh? Do you know what you are doing is an abuse of power?”
Hyeryeong shot at him. Even if the engineering commander is in the position of commanding the team, this mission is a serious one. If the engineering captain leads the team members as he pleases and there is a loss of life, the responsibility goes to the engineering chief.
“We shouldn’t waste electricity.”
“… What?”
When Hye-ryeong asked, Se-joon grinned.
“Lee Si-woon said that. You shouldn’t waste your team’s energy.”
“Are you trying to play puns with me? If you continue to do as you please, I could be scolding you for being in the audit department.”
Sejun twisted the corner of his mouth and gestured towards the three gates as if laughing.
“In the first place, the barrier gate in the middle will open even if you close only the red gate on the left or the gate on the right.”
“What the f*ck! You did that too. The barrier will be broken only when the two gates are closed!”
“… You’ll find out if you watch it. If four people entered that gate, they would clear it and come back, right? So, are we replenishing our strength against the Black Hunter? You’re putting into practice exactly what Siwoon Lee said earlier, right now.”
Kang Hye-ryeong clenched her fist and tried to run to her, but Yoo-seok grabbed her by the shoulders.
“f*ck! Don’t you let go of this? Do you want Shiwoon to get hurt too?”
When Hye-ryeong sighed and told Yoo-seok, Yoo-seok shook her head. For any reason, the penalty for assaulting the engineering chief in a dungeon is at least license suspension. Knowing that there was no way for her at the moment, Yoo-seok comforted her.
Sejun looked at it happily and thought.
‘I’ve already been provided with information.’
A powerful foundation is spawning behind Sejun. There is something I heard from a rotten figure in the association as a bribe.
Of course, what I still wonder is that the deceased figure knew there would be three gates. However, that’s not something to worry about.
“… ….”
Jung Yeon-hee was speechless. Her expression was meaningful.
The rest of the hunters just watch the situation.
“If you go out of the dungeon, be prepared. And I’ll go in alone right now. I have to go in.”
Hyeryeong said. I was worried about Siwoon Lee. Because even that guy could be dangerous with that power.
The moment Hye-ryeong Kang went to the blue gate with a huff! I felt life in the back of her neck and turned around. Sejun’s wand was pointed at him.
“I didn’t tell you. Did I get special powers for this mission? That authority….”
Sparks flashed from the magic wand.
“If my teammates disobey my orders, I can kill them.”