< The Last Nightmare: Survivor (2) >
Episode 118
Outside the hut, there was an eulsi-like scene.
The sky was dark, most of the trees had withered and only their branches remained, and there was an eerie air that made people uneasy.
On the dark, dead ground, stood a scarecrow with a gloomy energy, and on the board hung around his neck was written ‘The Farm of the Forsaken’ in blood.
A crow in the distance didn’t even make a croak, and even looked at this side with bright red eyes.
He seemed to be saying that there is no such thing as ‘fear’ in the game genre for nothing.
Perhaps someone who hates scary things would be reluctant to even take a step.
but.
“Now, let’s check what the map looks like first.”
-Departure~
– The farm is caught. It’s not a very complicated map.
– The survivors go!
It wasn’t a big deal for Do-hyeon, who casually watched horror movies.
Even more so now that he has more than 50,000 viewers!
You have to be afraid so you can’t be afraid.
He strode forward to explore the ‘Farm of the Forsaken’.
‘Let’s see You said you had to perform a ritual to survive as a survivor?’
It is said that the place where rituals can be performed, the so-called altar, is randomly generated throughout the map.
In addition to checking the overall appearance of the map, he decided to find the altar.
As a result of going up to a fairly high place and looking around, the ‘Farm of the Forsaken’ was divided into five areas.
The two-story house area where he is located, the cornfield area, the barn area, the barn area, and finally the granary area – a total of five.
‘Where is the ‘nightmare’?’
When Dohyeon was looking around to see if he would ever see a ‘nightmare’.
“Aww-!”
A woman’s scream was heard from the farthest corner of the cornfield.
There is no one who wants to stand out from the ‘nightmare’ by screaming, so it’s probably better to think of it as encountering the ‘nightmare’.
At the same time, the fourth of the indicators showing the status of others in the corner of the screen turned black.
As Dohyun knew, that was a phenomenon that occurred when being chased by a ‘nightmare’.
This means that the fourth survivor is currently being chased by a ‘nightmare’.
-It’s from the other side hahahaha
-Consciousness in this gap
– When you buy time, you have to perform a ritual
“Shouldn’t we go to rescue the one being chased?”
-K doesn’t know this game well~
– This game is original
– No survival. Losing my hand hahahaha
-SZAㅇ = Stop loss game
Dohyeon shrugged at the viewers’ chat that the genre was not survival but stop loss.
It’s the same spelling of ‘ㅅㅎ’, but it felt completely different.
In fact, there was nothing he could do about it just because he went.
It would be possible to attract attention and run away, but it was impossible to get rid of the ‘Nightmare’.
How can we defeat the systematically invincible ‘nightmare’?
There was no way to win against a ‘nightmare’ that didn’t wear out no matter how good his physical strength was, or that didn’t exist in the first place.
It is said that it will be possible to defeat them if very special conditions are met, but it is impossible to do that right now.
“Then let’s look around a little bit more.”
Anyway, the important thing now is to learn more about the game, so Dohyun gave up going to the rescue.
Rather than saving survivors from the ‘nightmare’, they decided to prioritize exploring the surroundings.
As he was walking around the two-story house to see if there was anything there, he picked up an object that had a strange light on it.
“flashlight?”
It was a flashlight.
A flashlight with an unknown pattern engraved on the emitting part.
The strange light that Do-hyeon saw was flowing from the very pattern.
-Oh my God…Ke ate Tem…!
-But it must have been the lowest level hahahaha
-Where did you eat it? That’s how much you’ve improved.
-Eating the lowest level item is progress.
Dohyun drooled at the reaction of the viewers who were thrilled that he ate a flashlight.
Even though he didn’t have good tempo at Ground Zero, and even if he said he didn’t get any temps he wanted even if he didn’t have Seungyeon’s luck buff on Throne of Glory, that’s a reaction like this.
He was physically crazy, but he laughed bitterly at the fact that the image that he had lost his luck in proportion to it had settled.
But what?
that it is true
‘Let’s see The effect is… Shining a light and stopping the ‘nightmare’?’
It was explained that it was possible to temporarily stop the ‘nightmare’ by shining the light of a flashlight.
There is nothing bad about the item.
Taking a flashlight, he continued his search, and soon succeeded in finding an altar where he could perform the ritual.
It was found while searching the upper floors of a two-story house, and it was not a very large altar.
The stone altar was engraved with a strange pattern in a circle, just like the flashlight that Do-hyeon picked up.
“How do you do this ritual?”
– Just hold out your hand
-ㅇㅇ Interact automatically when you reach out your hand
– When canceling, just let go
At the viewers’ advice, Dohyun reached out to the stone of the altar.
Then a dim light streamed down from his hand, and soon it began to slowly fill the round circle drawn by the bizarre pattern of the altar.
Slow enough to feel a bit tedious.
Perhaps it means that one ceremony was completed only when all those round circles were filled.
Since there were six altars needed to escape from the dream, it was possible to guess that it would take quite a long time.
‘Well. The consciousness is quite conspicuous.’
The light shines brightly, and the sound of whispering words continues to come from the altar.
If a ‘Nightmare’ passes by, the rescue is 100% undetectable!
Besides, it is dark around me, so during the ceremony, I can easily recognize even a faint light from a distance.
This means that performing the ritual is possible only with significant risks.
Still, it was impossible not to do it, so it was around the time when I was continuing the ritual.
“···!”
Dohyun suddenly shook her head.
Because I heard footsteps coming from the first floor.
Without delay he ran to the window and looked around, then pulled himself out through the bulge on the side of the window.
It was close to falling, but he didn’t care at all.
-? mmm? What are you?
-Why are you suddenly pretending to be a spider man?
-Nightmare Ohm? I didn’t see;
-I heard footsteps…but it could be a survivor, but I have to;
Do-hyeon’s outrageous behavior made viewers bewildered, no matter what.
Do-hyeon, holding his breath, looked at the signs in the room.
Someone came up with squeaking footsteps and, after a while, reached right in front of the window.
Soon after, a face with a white skull mask protruded out of the window.
‘Nightmare’ looked left and right as if looking for something, but no one was there.
[ΨΚδΤΧ ωψχΕ]
The ‘Nightmare’, uttering an incomprehensible, bizarre language, tucked itself into the window.
And then soon Kwajak! A sound came.
The ‘Nightmare’ attacked the altar and delayed its activation.
‘Wooing
Dohyeon, who had been listening while holding the roof from the window, breathed a sigh of relief inwardly.
He had moved before the ‘Nightmare’ approached, just in case, otherwise he would have been caught.
After a reasonable amount of time, he grabbed the handrail of the window and entered the second floor again.
“I think I’m gone.”
– How did you know it was a nightmare?
– No, it’s not like it’s hidden.
-Ah, this is the ‘sixth sense’…
“Rather than knowing something… Uh, this is a tip my sister gave me. They say that the footsteps of nightmares and survivors are different. Since there is a position, survivors are cautious, but should I say that nightmares are dignified?”
A ‘survivor’ who must avoid the ‘nightmare’.
Conversely, a ‘nightmare’ in which you have to search for ‘survivors’.
Of course, ‘survivors’ have no choice but to be careful wherever they go.
It’s because you don’t know where a ‘nightmare’ will suddenly come out and chase you.
But what about a ‘nightmare’?
Aside from killing under certain conditions, there’s no reason to be wary of a virtually invincible ‘nightmare’ roaming around.
That’s why Dohyun hid as soon as he heard the sound of footsteps.
The owner of the sound of footsteps entering the first floor was confident without even trying to silence the sound.
– Tips for those who know
-Vic knew that too. I knew… but why…
– Crackle
“Sister, um. What should I say. I can’t say I know everything, but should I say that she is a representative person? It is.”
At Dohyeon’s words, ‘ㅇㅇ’ once again flooded the chat room.
Was it because he continued to carry out the ceremony while he was talking with the viewers?
Even though the level of activation of the altar was lowered due to the ‘Nightmare’ attacking once, the round circle was finally filled with the light emitted from his hand.
Ritual completion!
At the same time, the light rising from the altar is erected as if piercing the sky.
As if to inform everyone that the altar here has been activated.
“There was something like this.”
Dohyun quickly left the two-story house in an unexpected situation.
This was to avoid the ‘nightmare’ that would come after seeing the effect of completing the ritual.
While running, two additional pillars of light were erected high in the sky from a distance.
This means that a total of three altars were activated, including Dohyeon’s, and it meant that if the three altars were activated in the future, the game would end with the victory of the ‘survivors’.
Do-hyeon, who was looking for a new altar, suddenly said to the viewers.
“By the way, who knows what the ‘Nightmare’ was? It was a skull head.”
-Wow! Sans!
-If you cover your skull, you’re not a black slayer?
– No, I saw earlier that the skull was white.
– Then you’re a skeleton collector.
Unlike ‘Survivor’, ‘Nightmare’ has several characters.
Each character has a different permanent effect and two special abilities, and Dohyeon was also well aware of it.
However, it was not enough to recognize the ‘nightmare’ just by looking at his face, so he sought advice from viewers.
‘Skull Collector’.
It was one of the ‘nightmares’ that Dohyun remembered.
The permanent effect it has is ‘Pollution Altar.
When the skeleton collector attacks the altar, it is a permanent effect that lowers the ritual progress much more than other ‘nightmares’.
The first special ability is ‘Screaming SkullTotem’.
A total of 3 totems are installed, and if a ‘Survivor’ falls within the detection range of the totem, the totem screams violently to notify the skeleton collector of the ‘Survivor’ location.
Just like the one in front of Dohyun’s eyes.
“ah.”
– I’m screwed hahahaha
– I got caught hahaha
-Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I got this
Dohyeon, who made eye contact with the skeleton on top of the pile of bones he had roughly piled up, was terrified.
But it’s already too late.
aah-!
Because the skull with its jaws open immediately let out a grotesque scream.
It was a cry to inform the skeleton collector that a ‘survivor’ was here.
Do-hyeon, who licked his tongue, started running without looking back.
The reason was simple.
[ΘΞΧ δΕηπχΑ!]
Because I guessed that the Skeleton Collector, protruding from the pile of bones, would run towards him!
This was the second special ability the Skull Collector had, ‘Continuing skulls’.
The ability to instantly teleport to the ‘Screaming Skull Totem’!
When the skeleton collector saw Do-hyeon running away, he started running after him with an incomprehensible cry.
Perhaps “Stand there!” or “I got it, you bastard!” It must have been the same thing, but Dohyun couldn’t understand it.
This is because communication between ‘Survivor’ and ‘Nightmare’ was blocked due to the game system.
– dodge
– That’s cool hahahaha
– It’s terribly fast haha.
– Run away! Hahahaha
They were running away before the skeleton collector came out, but the distance between Do-hyeon and the skeleton collector was slowly getting smaller and smaller.
This is because ‘Nightmare’ moves faster than ‘Survivor’ in the first place.
So that’s the right balance.
Instead, however, the ‘survivor’ is provided with several ways to prevent the ‘nightmare’, but the problem is…
‘Nothing?’
The point is that there is nothing like that in Do-hyeon’s escape route.
Reluctantly, what Dohyeon pulled out was the flashlight she had picked up earlier.
By turning it on properly, he restrained the movement of the ‘Nightmare’ and succeeded in widening the narrowed distance.
However, this was not a long-lasting method, as the battery of the flashlight itself is not very long, and the ‘nightmare’ also has a flashlight tolerance.
– Do you think you’ll be caught like this?
-Is it true that there are no roadblocks for running away hahahaha
-This is how we grow up! Hahahaha
When the viewers burst into laughter at Dohyun’s unlucky appearance.
Do-hyeon’s eyes, who were running away, gleamed.
The house seen in the distance.
This is because they found a single track leading to the second floor there.
One ‘way’.
‘If it’s physically possible right now, it’s possible.’
There was no other way anyway.
You’ll be chased like this and eventually caught.
After making a decision in an instant, Dohyun narrowed her eyes and focused her mind.
The assimilation rate soars, and the physical abilities of the survivors are activated to the limit.
On top of that, the effects of the traits he chose were superimposed, and the possible movements were clearly drawn in his mind.
In that state, he sprinted towards the rock in front of him with all his might.
– No, what are you doing?
-rock! Rock in front!
– Hold on tight! collide-!
At that time, when the viewers were clamoring, Dohyun flew and jumped up the rock.
And then he hung on the branch of a tree in front of the rock, and immediately jumped up with a buoyant force.
As he jumped high, the target was the window of the two-story house in front of him!
He slipped through the window, rolled over lightly, spread his fall, and stood up straight away.
It was the attitude that nothing had happened.
-Nothing happened!
– Unexpected escape route hahahaha
-I thought I was smashing into a rock.
– How do you bounce this off like this?
“uh······.”
Then, on the second floor, I met a man who was a ‘survivor’ who was looking for the altar.
In the eyes of the man who looked at Do-hyeon, who suddenly came in through the window, the intention of ‘What is this person?’ was clearly evident.
For a moment there was an awkward atmosphere between them.
“Oh, yes. Hello.”
But the awkwardness didn’t last long.
Soon, he heard someone coming into the first floor of the mansion, and Do-hyeon knew that it was a skeleton collector.
He quickly ran towards the very window he had entered.
“Then stop me! And here comes the nightmare!”
“Yeah? Ugh!”
Before jumping out of the window, the man who looked back at Dohyun’s words screamed.
It was because he saw a skeleton collector running up to the second floor, who seemed very angry.
Hearing the noise coming from behind, Dohyun jumped off and ran leisurely.
“Now then, let’s go to the next altar.”
– You’ve already measured your hand loss so well;
-I’m afraid of the future…
-The buds of the constellation seem to be visible.
-After all, it’s a game-like development hahaha