121 – EP.26 Graves of Dragons -5
To speak of the result of the ordeal, I was robbed. Everything from body to soul to ancient dragons.
The ancient dragon, Bruegel, did not use any special abilities and simply pushed through with a physical charge.
Even so, the rushing speed was beyond imagination, and it was not a speed that could be avoided even if it predicted the future.
The ancient dragon barely avoided it with its future prediction and air manipulation ability, but quickly changed its direction and rushed at it. It was a real nightmare.
After the 5th attempt, I came to a conclusion.
‘f*ck, I didn’t make you wake up….’
The difficulty level was really damn right.
The Trial of the Ancient Dragon, which boasts an extreme hard mode, has no possibility of breaking even if you hold on until the end of the game.
I’m sorry Tim, but this ordeal has no choice but to pass it on to someone else after I die.
‘If other trials are of this difficulty, there is no real answer….’
Quickly give up on the ancient dragon’s trial.
After going back to the crossroads and joining Tia, I tried to cross over to another place.
Unlike me, who quickly gave up and came out, Tia was steadily progressing through the ordeal, so there was no one at the crossroads.
Considering efficiency, it was the right decision to give up joining and leave for the rest of the ordeal, but if I did, it would remain behind in Tia’s memory for the rest of my life, so I couldn’t.
In the end, in a situation where I had to suck her finger until Tia came, what greeted me was not Tia, but the sound of a bell coming from the bell tower to the west.
‘It’s already been 10 minutes.’
A bell tower that is set to ring automatically every 10 minutes.
This means that the seeker can kill one survivor….
“Oh?”
It also meant that the fog on one of the four hills at the corner of the tomb would lift.
And just in time, the fog on the northwest hill where I was located was slowly dispersing.
Dragon Hill.
It is an area where you can check the actions of other players while looking around the entire tomb for 5 minutes, and it is a game element that acts as a CCTV in the original game.
If you go up this hill, you can pressure the tagger to do nothing, and at the same time check everyone’s alibi.
Even though it was only 5 minutes, it was enough time to weed out the liar through a future meeting.
A place you cannot help but go as a survivor.
Tia seems to be struggling with her ordeal anyway, so joining is delayed, so going to the hill for a while doesn’t seem like a bad choice.
And above all….
‘I can’t stand this!’
Climbing a hill for the first time in this first play?
I couldn’t stand it.
I immediately get up from my seat and head for the hill.
I plan to carefully observe everything that happens in the tomb so that the 5 minutes I have decided to climb the hill will not be wasted.
That will give me the decisive say at a later meeting.
The only way I can win without dying is to banish the sorcerers at the point where I can’t overcome the extreme difficulty of the ordeal.
‘I have to figure out the movement of all the players and guess.’
So the best thing I could do as a mere human being was to use the hill.
After running and running for a long time, I entered the entrance of the hill and immediately set my goal for the top of the hill.
It’s a bit difficult because of the uphill, but on the way to the top, I pulled out all the air resistance as much as possible.
If you do it like this, you can reach the top without spending too much energy.
The moment when all preparations are finished and the long-awaited first step is about to be taken…….
I hurriedly turned and ran to get as far away from the hill as possible.
“This crazy… ! Crazy… ! Crazy… !!”
The result of looking into the future before entering, not knowing if there might be someone else on the hill.
“Aren’t you crazy?!”
I witnessed a terrible sight.
It’s a huge fireball falling over a hill.
The hill I was trying to climb was smashed and razed to the ground.
And that was exactly 5 seconds into the future, so as predicted, a crater was flying towards where I was.
Because I saw the future where the crater hits me directly and I get caught up in the explosion and die.
I ran and ran until the aftermath of the crater did not reach, until the soles of my feet became hot.
“Hey! You crazy bastards!! Where’s the hill-breaking thing?!”
-Kwaaang!!
In the end, the tagger used a cheat key to destroy the CCTV.
Please do some work, developer bastard.
***
“Heo Eok… ! Heo-eok… ! Heo-eok… !”
Now, only 10 minutes after the game started, I came to a realization even though it was very early in the game.
No, I realized it a long time ago, but I have come to accept the fact that I had been denying.
‘This is a f*cking game… !!’
From the fact that there is no handicap in terms of individual ability gaps, to the trials of hardcore difficulty, and the intentional destruction of Dragon’s Hill.
The hell was spread out in various ways.
Even though I went through all kinds of humiliation, there was no referee who had to judge fairness, so I had no place to appeal.
A game where only the weakest among the players die.
It was a f*cking f*cking game.
‘Is there a special Nanjuktaek function….’
My desire to retire quickly was like a chimney.
If you think about it, wouldn’t it be possible to commit suicide even if the terrain is destroyed?
It gently picks up a branch lying nearby, breaks it in half, and places it on its neck.
For me, who have died endlessly in training with Fenrir before, the fear of death is minimal.
Furthermore, when I remembered that I didn’t feel any pain even in the battle with the ancient dragon, there would be no pain of self-determination.
So, just sticking a sharp branch into your neck like this will get you out of this f*cking game.
‘…… Let’s stop.’
No matter how bad the game is, you shouldn’t harm the people you play with.
Self-determination here is the same as breaking out after hitting 0/3/0 in an AOS game.
Even more so, Tia, who finished her ordeal from far away, is running this way.
It is also awkward to commit suicide in front of your dragon companion.
[Yuu! I’m done!]
[Really? Result?]
[Success!]
Tia is smiling cheerfully, making a V with her two fingers as if she is very happy.
The baby dragon’s behavior was genuinely cute, so I reached out to stroke his head a lot.
In contrast to Tia, I returned my outstretched arm to my pathetic self for having given up on the ordeal.
[Good job! Then let’s go to our next destination. Isn’t it better to win?]
[As soon as!]
[So where should I go next?]
[Gwangryong!!]
[It’s Gwangryong….]
Open the map and check the location.
Gwangryong’s area located at the southern end of the northeast.
It’s okay to go all the way along the main road to the east, but the route via the central area wasn’t too bad either.
[Let’s go through the northeast shortcut from the central area.]
[Arather!]
[And Tia, there’s one thing I should tell you in advance….]
[Huh?]
[Let’s break up there when we arrive at Jungangji.]
[Why?]
[The places I need to go are the entrance to the tomb and the giant dragon’s area. Wouldn’t it be better for the survivor team to split up and overcome the ordeal to win?]
[uuu, alas… !]
Perhaps she wanted to hang out with me throughout the game, Tia didn’t hide her expression of regret.
Although she felt sorry for Tia’s miserable appearance, she couldn’t help it.
Since I gave up on one trial, I had to somehow clear the other two.
That way you won’t be called a troll.
I believe that Tia will also understand this.
[Then shall we go?]
[…] … Huh!]
Still, I held Tia’s hand so that she wouldn’t be disappointed and moved forward to her.
Tia regains her energy and takes a clear step.
Holding Tia and her hand, I headed towards the center of the tomb.
[Tia, do your best in the remaining trials.]
[Yes! Yuu too!]
The starting point of the game is back.
I first escorted Tia to the diagonal road at 2 o’clock.
We exchanged greetings brightly until the end and watched Tia enter the diagonal path until the end.
Now, Tia is going to go straight ahead and enter the Gwangryong’s area at the fork in the road to carry out her ordeal.
And since Tia’s next ordeal was at the gravekeeper’s office, there was no need for her to face me again along the way.
If we ever see each other again, it’s probably only during a great trial created by the seeker or during a meeting.
‘I should go soon too.’
Two trials left, one abandoned.
I hope the remaining two won’t be a f*cking ordeal, and I walked towards the south.
You can reach the giant dragon’s area by going along the diagonal road in the 4 o’clock direction.
However, it hadn’t been long since his soul had been stolen by an ancient dragon, so he was reluctant to go to the giant dragon for some reason.
So this time, after going from the entrance of the tomb in the south in a little special way, I want to head to the giant dragon’s area.
In other words, giving up the diagonal road and deliberately using the main road.
Considering the efficiency, it was not good not to use the diagonal road, but the northwest trial was abandoned anyway.
Therefore, no matter where I went first, whether it was the entrance to the tomb or the giant dragon’s area, there was no problem at all.
So I entered the main road to the south, a wide street with no special features.
However, the lack of characteristics is limited to survivors.
Because there was a thick fog instead of a fence in one of the fences that prevented crossing over.
This is called the shortcut of the fog, and it was a means of transportation that only the seeker could use.
It is said that there is a shortcut to the mist in each of the main roads in the four directions and one in each dragon area, and you can come out wherever you want.
In other words, if you use the northern fog shortcut, you can teleport to the south.
It was a device that gave the tagger tremendous mobility in this game where he couldn’t fly.
The only place where there is no shortcut to the fog is the diagonal shortcut that divides the area from the central area.
As a survivor, I can’t help but be reluctant to travel on the big road.
You never know when the tagger will come out of the fog and try to kill you.
Just like now.
[Ah… ?]
[Um… ?]
A bright red dragon leaping out of the fog.
I encountered a dragon called Linus.
[Oops… ! Were there any passengers? This is completely unexpected!]
[I will. I was genuinely surprised too….]
[Heh heh! Is it! Then young man, take care of the rest of your business!]
-Slurr!
The red dragon hesitantly returns to the fog.
At that moment, something was updated on the map I had.
In the original list of trials that should have been only three, one more paragraph was added for the first time, increasing the total to four.
It meant that one of the survivors had fallen and the ordeal of the dead had been passed on to me, and at the same time, the kill cooldown of the seeker had begun.
“Ha… ! hahahaha… ! Ha ha ha… !!”
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Looking at the fog, I let out a lot of silent laughter.
Then I slowly turned my body backwards and, without hesitation, ran towards the tombstone in the distance.
It was only then that a huge vibration and the sound of the ground came from behind me.
Without stopping running, I looked back and saw a nervous dragon chasing me.
The dragon who unintentionally put on a fog show in front of me, tries hard to stop me.
As I touched the dragon’s tombstone one step faster than that, I echoed the dragon’s words throughout the tomb.
In the next three minutes, everyone will gather in the central area and the meeting will begin.
[I-I can’t believe it… !]
Grandpa Linus, who had been arrested in vain due to an unexpected situation, knelt on the ground and was devastated.
I patted the dragon on the back and expressed my sympathy. As a victim of the same bullsh*t.
In the original game, when you teleport, you can observe the situation outside and come out.
However, there was no such thing in this game.
A structure where even the tagger couldn’t tell who was beyond the fog.
If you take a shortcut through the fog without thinking, you will be caught without context like you are now.
‘As expected, it’s a f*cking game! Performance sure!’