Mirror of Prophecy (1)
1 hour and 30 minutes before Dark Eater appeared.
When we moved to the fortress of Sema Station, many people were waiting with a bonfire in front of the east gate.
When I arrived, Suho Lee clapped his hands and drew people’s attention.
“Come on, everyone, let’s start eating.”
I thought it would be noisy because it was a place where so many people gathered, but whether it was because of Lee Soo-ho’s control or the tension caused by Dark Eater, people were quiet.
Brother and sister and I moved to the place where Suho Lee and the others were seated and sat together.
An appropriately sized bonfire was installed, and various types of food were piled up in front of it.
After grabbing a banana and bread and sitting down, Harin Yoo started talking to me.
“Jun Kang, have you seen Dark Eater?”
“no.”
I hadn’t seen the background in the game since it already started after Dark Eater.
However, from what I heard from the NPC, it was impossible to attack because it was such a gigantic creature.
“I see. By the way, Mr. Kang, what will happen if food remains in the fort?”
“Won’t the fortress be destroyed?”
It wouldn’t attack the creature directly, but since it was such a huge creature, it was only natural that the fortress would be destroyed as it moved.
“Then you shouldn’t be eating right now, should you be checking to see if there’s any leftover food inside?”
That was right.
Where various groups are mixed, there will always be uncooperative people.
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
Among the authority of the mayor, there is a function to forcibly banish non-items from the fortress.
The burden is the amount of coins consumed each time it is executed.
‘A whopping 5,000 coins.’
It’s a waste of coins, but it’s a bargain considering the buildings that will be destroyed when the Dark Eater appears in the fortress.
At my words, Harin Yu nodded and ate the banana I brought.
As I was eating while chatting with people, it was 5:00 AM before I knew it.
I got up, went inside the fort, and pressed the non-item exile function in the miscellaneous function.
[5,000 coins have been consumed.]
When the button was pressed, all the doors to the fortress were closed, and a blue circle was created above the city hall, and they started moving around the fortress at high speed.
Wow!
Food hidden throughout the fort was sucked into the circle and began to disappear.
After 5 minutes, the blue circle disappeared along with the food.
Once again, I opened the permission settings in the system and set the food to the entry limit.
[1,000 coins are required for 1 hour setup.]
It’s a waste of coins, but it’s necessary. There are always impure elements hiding in the majority of crowds.
[1,000 coins have been consumed.]
[Censorship function will be added when 1,000 coins are added.]
*Enable censorship function (1 hour)
[Description]: Impurity molecule detection function.
[Setup]: Non-Item – Food.
[Function]: Remove and record items.
– Item removal and on-site recording when passing through the entrance with the set item.
[Function]: Grants a pillar of light.
– When the censorship button is clicked, a red pillar of light is given to the body of the impure molecule
The impurity molecule censorship function, which was also present in the game, appeared before my eyes.
I can forgive it once because it’s a human mistake, but not twice.
Besides, coming inside with food means that it doesn’t matter if other people die, so that person doesn’t deserve to be here.
I hope there is no such person, but I couldn’t just go over with vague expectations.
[1,000 coins have been consumed.]
[The censorship function has been activated.]
Go out again.
“I’m really sorry. Mayor.”
Suho Lee came to me and bowed his head, probably seeing food being sucked into the castle.
“What. It’s all expected, so it’s okay. Everyone should go inside the fort now.”
I continued without informing anyone that food was set to no entry.
“If everyone brings in food, other people’s lives may be in danger, so check once again and throw it away. If anyone does anything like that, I will expel them.”
I was the first to enter the fortress, and Lee Soo-ho’s guards came in and stood on the left and right of the entrance.
People began to enter the fort one by one.
“Soldier man, do you really have to throw away all this food?”
At the words of an old man, Lee Soo-ho opened his mouth with a warm smile.
“Yes, you can eat the food provided as an item for the elderly, so please take a look at your pocket and throw it away.”
“What’s wrong with this?”
The old man gave all the food he had to the soldiers and went inside.
Most people will throw away food because they recognize the seriousness of the incident, but the elderly who have gone through the barley hill considered it a sin to throw away food, so they could bring it in.
So I was about to step out, but Lee Suho went first.
‘It was good that I made him the chief of security.’
Even after that, every time the elderly came in, Lee Soo-ho asked for their understanding and examined them.
Fortunately, we had enough time.
After a while.
bang!
A roar resounded in the sky, and dark clouds began to gather in an instant.
bang!
There was a roar again and a huge portal was created in the middle of the sky.
[Dark Eater appears.]
A gruesome gray-white hand appeared and ripped through the portal, revealing huge blood-red eyeballs.
Jjiik!
When the portal was completely torn apart, hundreds, no, gigantic round creatures of unfathomable size were floating in the air.
Huge eyeballs, left and right hands, and countless tentacles rising above his head.
Tentacles wriggled and eyeballs with arms began to fall down.
“It’s disgusting.”
“yes.”
Dozens of eyeballs flew around the fortress and flew towards the food, and everyone watched with bated breath.
When a Dark Eater approached the food stacked next to the campfire, the food quickly rotted and spilled to the floor.
“It is really dangerous.”
Harin Yu pointed at the commercial building in front of the fortress.
When a young Dark Eater crashed into a building, the building collapsed in an instant.
“It’s really big.”
It was as Harin Yu said.
Even the cubs are well over 10m.
‘Can I catch it?’
Just in case, I pulled out my gun and pointed it at the Dark Eater, and all the eyeballs around me stopped moving and looked at me.
‘It’s creepy.’
Momentum to run at once the moment you shoot.
When I put the gun back in, the guys started to scatter as if nothing had happened.
It took less than 10 minutes for the young Dark Eaters to roam outside the walls and rot all the food.
All the buildings in the place where they passed were smashed.
30 minutes, not that short, passed.
[Dark Eater has disappeared.]
“and. If there had been food left in the fort, we would have died too.”
It was as Harin Yu said.
“Iknow, right.”
Dark Eater is gone and I hit the censor button.
Then a pillar of light from the sky fell on the head of the man inside the fortress.
A total of 3 fallen pillars of light.
Two men and women in their 20s and one man in his 40s.
‘I warned you so… What the hell are you thinking?’
After explaining the situation to Suho Lee, he arrested them and took them to the plaza.
Once again, blaming himself for his complacency, Suho Lee lowered his head to the people and looked at me.
I nodded my head because the look in my eyes asked me to delegate the case to myself.
When Lee Soo-ho beckoned, his teammates quickly gagged him and laid him on the floor.
“Certainly, the mayor said that bringing in food before entering could endanger the lives of others.”
Lee Soo-ho’s expression was spleen as he spoke.
“Even so, these three men tried to enter the fort with provisions. This is clearly an act that hurts others. I’d like to execute him immediately, but I can’t. It will be decided by majority vote.”
At the word “execution,” people began to murmur, and Yu Harin asked for my understanding and took her sister to the city hall.
“There are 3 options. Execution, banishment, pardon.”
When Suho Lee glanced at his colleagues, they brought notebooks and pens.
“I will not listen to their excuses. Whatever the reason, it was clear that it was an unforgivable selfish act.”
After a while, the counting of votes began, and the result was execution with an overwhelming difference in votes.
When the results were announced, the three men and women struggled in fear, but to no avail.
bang! bang! bang!
Three men and women died, and people stood there without saying anything.
“You have to do your best not to lose your humanity, but you also have to adapt to the changed world.”
Breaking the heavy atmosphere, Suho Lee opened his mouth.
“As you all know, 60% of the city’s population died in less than three days after the apocalypse began.”
“I am still dying. Maybe everyone… No, this is probably the only place in Osan where you can live like a human.”
“Of course, compared to our lives before, it will be difficult because it is not enough, but please refrain from acting selfishly. That is all.”
As soon as Lee Suho finished speaking, the people started to scatter one by one.
Lee Soo-ho, with his shoulders drooping, also greeted me and disappeared with his colleagues.
I was the one who made the board, but seeing Lee Soo-ho solve it instead of me, my heart was heavy.
But on the other hand, I felt grateful that I had a trustworthy colleague.
It was time to take a break and move to City Hall.
“Jun Kang!”
someone called me
A voice you’ve heard
When I turned around, a large man strode over and hugged me tightly.
“Is it Hyungchan?”
The identity of the man was a friend who immigrated to the United States during high school.
“Why are you here?”
Is it because I met a good friend?
The words came out without thinking.
“I came to see my grandfather and got locked up.”
When I saw my friend’s rapidly darkening expression, I realized that it was a stupid question.
“sorry.”
“No, everyone does, but where are your parents?”
He looked around me and asked.
‘Don’t you know?’
Well, since I immigrated 10 years ago, I thought maybe I didn’t know.
“He passed away.”
“when?”
“How many years has it been?”
“uh?”
When I said that it had been a few years, he made an expression that he did not understand.
“I met and said hello to your mother in Incheon a while ago.”
It’s been years since everyone in my family died… What are you talking about?
Since he was talking nonsense, he looked at him with his insightful eye, but there was nothing wrong.
“You must have looked at it wrong. My parents passed away a few years ago. ”
Embarrassed by my words, the guy fiddled with his cell phone and handed it to me.
“I can’t do that… Hey, look at this. Isn’t this your mother?”
Hyungchan handed him a mobile phone with a picture of him and a middle-aged woman smiling broadly.
navy coat.
Checkered muffler.
and black glasses.
These were all too familiar things.
“When is this?”
“I filmed it four months ago in Wolmido.”
“Really?”
The person in the picture was definitely my mother, but I asked again because it was an unbelievable fact.
“Why am I lying? If you press View Information there, the date the picture was taken will appear.”
Check the date the photo was taken.
It was really February of this year, and although she was thinner than I remembered, the person in the picture was definitely my mother.
“Are you okay?”
It was impossible, so I was more shocked than thankful that my mother was alive.
“Uh, sorry.”
As if his head had been hit hard, his vision blurred and his legs gave out and he sat down on the floor.
There were many questions about the death of the family, but I never doubted the death itself because the funeral was also held.
But my mother is still alive
If so, there is a possibility that his brother and father are still alive.
“Hyung-chan, I’m sorry, but my head is complicated, so I’ll go first. Are you going to stay here?”
“uh. yes.”
I wanted to talk more because I hadn’t seen him in a while, but I didn’t have the energy to talk because I was shocked that my family might be alive.
I dragged my staggering body into the city hall and sat down on a bench.
My head hurts from the endless questions in my head.
‘Why didn’t I contact you once?’
Assuming Hyungchan’s words to be true, the birthplace was the biggest question.
When I went to the countryside for practice, it was my mother who contacted me every single day. But if he was alive, why didn’t he contact me?
I thought that maybe he couldn’t remember me, but it couldn’t have happened if he recognized Hyungchan and took a picture.
why? The questions continued to bite after tail and arrived at a conclusion.
to find the mother.
Then all your doubts will be cleared.
But there was a problem.
It is unknown whether the mother is still alive or where she is.
no
There is a way to solve all of this.
A mirror of prophecy.
An item that is hidden on the 4th floor of the tower and tells the truth to the user’s question.
It was used for locating high-ranking items only in the game, but since it is real, you will surely know the truth about your family.
Several conditions were required to reach the 4th floor of the tower, but only one was required.
to reach level 15.
I started to break the advanced essence I had.
[The level has risen.]
[The level has risen.]
[The level has risen.]
Enhance all level rewards.
moved to the top
***
The Tower of Salvation consists of a total of 13 districts, and each district consists of one village and an event area.
People have classified the event area into one floor for convenience.
On the second floor is the Gray Goblin Mine.
On the third floor, the cursed underground water.
On the 4th floor, the labyrinth of Khan and Iphiteus.
There is a boss on the 5th floor.
The entrance condition is level 10, 12, 15, and the boss floor has no level limit.
So, users raised their level in the mainland, hired high-level users, commonly called ‘bus drivers’, and moved on to the next area.
However, there were several fatal flaws here. The penalty increases every time you attack the next floor without attacking the previous floor.
The first penalty is non-refundable.
Second, summons cannot be used.
The third is a 30% reduction in stats.
In other words, in order to go to the 4th floor without attacking the 2nd and 3rd floors, you have to take two penalties.
But it didn’t matter.
Due to the nature of the maze dungeon, it’s not very dangerous if you only know how to attack it.
I reached out and placed my hand on the device that led to the fourth floor maze.
[warning!]
[Two seals are missing.]
[Cannot use return skill.]
[Summons cannot be used.]
I moved my body beyond the portal to the 4th floor.