Episode 69-Phase (9)
We faced each other. The banshee’s debuff hit us. Of course, my character was hit with a debuff, which lowered his health and movement speed.
“—!”
But they were different. I gritted my teeth and rushed first toward that terrible evil spirit that had materialized into reality.
The rings on their fingers were shining softly. The items brought in from Dark Blood, which can be called a completely different world from this sandbox survival game, are showing their effectiveness.
We are helping them by opening up games of various types and genres, but in the end, it is all just reality to them.
‘It doesn’t seem like anything special.’
Even in the game, the banshee was not a very strong enemy if it could neutralize powerful debuffs. That was actually the case.
The banshee screamed and trembled after being hit by a flame bomb fired by Larsen, who had turned into a wizard, by swinging his staff.
Taking advantage of that opportunity, the spear of Rakum, who was at the forefront, pierced through his chest, and unlike the monsters in the game who did not know about running away, Shura, who was scared and tried to run away, kicked the wall and rushed at him, cutting him completely with the dagger he held in both hands and swung. .
Banshee, unable to resist any longer, tried to run away and was cut to pieces by Shura’s sword.
Compared to the hardships we suffered, including inflicting serious injuries on her with a single destruction method found in another game, we defeated her very easily.
Being able to combine elements of different games that would never meet in the original may be the strongest weapon of the people living on screen.
‘The essence of a monster.’
The banshee that disappeared with a scream, like a boss monster that appears in a high difficulty area, immediately dropped the monster’s essence on the spot. I don’t know if it was my mood, but it seemed a little brighter and bigger than the essence of other monsters.
It became even more noticeable when Shura slowly picked it up.
“—, —.”
Shura looked at what he had picked up and slowly approached me, who was in a hurry to eat random food to replenish the stamina lost due to the debuff.
Like the others, the atmosphere was unusual, so I stopped eating for no reason. It didn’t seem like the time to fill it with blood while making gnawing noises.
‘It’s a burden every time something like this happens.’
Shura knelt on the ground with a respectful attitude and offered me the essence of the monster. In fact, collecting and using the essence of monsters is something I have been doing, but after this experience, her attitude seems to have changed something, and her attitude has become more pious.
I know they think of me as a divine being. Varun is deliberately using it to control the tribe and unite them. If you change your perspective, it is natural to think that way.
However, it is also true that every time they show me that they believe in me as an absolute being and follow me, my shoulders become more and more heavy.
In reality, I am an ordinary person who is nothing, so it is not easy to feel at ease when I think that their lives depend on my judgment and my actions.
“The system was roughly as planned. Gather essential resources, acquire skills that will enhance your strength, and craft equipment with special powers. Using each game, we built a system that we thought was essential for residents. Of course, we will have to wait and see whether it goes as planned.”
-I’m about to open my third game, so I’ll keep this in mind.
After getting revenge on Banshee. I chatted with Lee So-yeon while using the essence of harvested monsters to awaken warriors who were unable to awaken and only had talent.
As an advance team member, I give advice based on my experience, and she follows that advice and nurtures her residents. Instead, she received help and used her position in real life to solve problems that I found difficult to solve.
-Disposal is complete. The amount is not small…are you planning on paying in cash?
“I will do it this time.”
Since she didn’t know my face and there was no way she would know my account number, I decided to get the money from the loot in cash. This is more than the annual salary I received when I was working at the company as a new employee.
I was nervous, but I didn’t reveal my identity to her yet, not yet.
Maybe it’s because of the petty fear that still lingers in a corner of my mind. I am still an ordinary person who is one step beyond. I just didn’t want to let go of that fact. If I take that one step, I am no longer safe.
‘So we need to raise it as well as possible.’
When I saw the rain falling on my desktop, I sighed softly as I saw the residents quickly scurrying around to avoid the rain.
In the end, the best I can do is take good care of them. Still, I am confident that I am doing well so far.
Although there were no sacrifices, we are conserving power as much as possible through appropriate resource distribution and investment. Although those who made the investment had outstanding abilities, I thought it was my ability to recognize them.
“…Did I forget something?”
It was at that time that I suddenly remembered something I had forgotten due to some urgent matter. It was a few seconds later that I remembered it while I was dumbfounded for a moment.
Horrified, I reconnected to the game I had closed down a few hours ago.
***
“Uh, where have you been?”
“I’ve never heard anything like this. This…”
Hunters’ city, in front of the association. Naru and Dune, who had finished hunting mutants for the first time, looked around in great confusion.
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The bipedal raccoon that was guiding them suddenly disappeared. This went against common sense, as it was said that when you go to another world, various incarnations of God will guide you.
“Take it easy. “I was planning on resting anyway, so I guess I should rest on my own.”
Naru finally regained his composure and shook his head. They thought that he would not abandon them, so if they rested here and spent some time with work, he would come back.
Upon hearing those words, Dune looked around with a somewhat relieved expression.
Looking around calmly, it was a truly mysterious place for those who had only seen grassland tribes all their lives.
Aside from the fact that it was a city created by people who made it their business to catch monsters, they had never seen a place where so many people lived together.
“Uh, I don’t know where to go. “Isn’t it a bit awkward to keep standing here?”
“okay. “It would be a good idea to move.”
Standing right in front of the hunter association, they attracted the attention of others. Although their appearance was not that unusual, the two people felt burdened and tried to walk to get somewhere.
“uh?”
But there was someone who recognized them. The two surprised people were taken aback when they saw her with wide eyes looking directly at them.
“Are you by any chance the girl and the raccoon’s companions? “It looks similar.”
Tina immediately remembered Riena, whom she had met a few days ago.
“As expected, there was a party. The grade will be raised soon. “That girl has enough skills to catch a blue drake.”
“Well, first of all, let’s drink it gratefully.”
Tina accidentally recognized that they were Riena’s group and headed to a nearby store with them. They accepted the drinks she bought for them, as it was their first time meeting them, and slowly tasted them while holding large wooden glasses.
“Oh oh…!”
At the same time, both were amazed. It was not only cool ice that I had no idea how it was made in this muggy weather, but also an intense sweetness that I had experienced for the first time in my life.
This juice was one of the very simple items that appear in this game that provides various contents other than simple hunting, but there is no way they would know that fact.
“Hey, can’t we get more of this?”
“Of course you can buy more. If only I had money. And, as you all know, that money is earned through hunting.”
Tina, amazed by their reaction, smiled and pointed to the store owner who was getting ready to sell the goods.
‘If only I could take this to the village.’
When they heard the word money, they searched their belongings. before he quickly quits the game. This is because I gave them each a coin just in case.
It was an experiment to see if the gold used in this world could be turned into items, but he left without being able to retrieve it.
“what. That’s it? “You can’t buy it with one coin.”
“In the end, you have to earn more. “Keep catching those monsters.”
The two people’s eyes sparkled at Tina’s words. Until now, they had fought monsters out of a sense of duty because God had chosen them, but at this moment, another desire stirred in their hearts.
It was a fairly healthy desire. It was a desire to earn money by working faithfully so that I could buy cool fruit juice and give it to people in the village.
“okay. “If you work hard, you can buy something like this at any time.”
Tina, who, contrary to her rugged, hairy and rugged appearance, laughed out loud at the country bumpkins whose eyes sparkled after drinking a glass of juice, said that she would see them again when they met, and prepared to leave.
“Are you going hunting too?”
“yes. I’m of a high rank, so there’s no point in catching small fish. I heard that a new species presumed to be of high rank was discovered nearby. They say it’s like a scorpion with a black carapace, and they say it’s killed several people already. “Catching a strong new species will help increase your rating.”
She nodded to Dune’s question. Tina, who is by definition a high-level hunter, touched the arrow with an expression of anticipation.
“…You are a bold woman.”
“She’s a female warrior.”
Afterwards, Naru and Dune watched her in a daze as she left, waving her hand.
Just as Riena grew herself based on her faith-related experiences in the Dark Blood world, meeting Tina was an unexpected opportunity for them as well.
It was also an opportunity sufficient to shake and destroy their fixed values and worldview.
‘I was playing well.’
It was at that moment that he remembered them, which he had forgotten, and accessed the game again.
He heaved a sigh of relief when Naru and Dune were found unharmed, so he picked them up and returned them to the village.
“My mouth is already itching. “Isn’t it raining right now?”
“I’m sure you’re going crazy with curiosity.”
As soon as they arrived at the village, they grinned and ran to the residents waiting for them.
It was a culture and custom already established in the village to tell what those who had been recognized by the guardian deity and had the privilege of going to other mysterious worlds had seen and experienced.
The stories, sometimes exaggerated and even boastful, were passed around again and again and turned into legends.