＜ 4 : Karma system (3) ＞
“Even if you want to run away, doesn’t it look like there’s nowhere to run?”
“👌👌👌….”
Yutenia bit her lip and looked up at the man in front of her.
There was no one to support him now, and there was no one he had to protect.
It’s a strangely absurd world.
Her father is imprisoned even though he sacrificed his life for the weak.
However, even though the thief in front of him was mercilessly killing people, he was still roaming around freely.
“Now, should I decide whether to die here or be sold into slavery?”
“……”
“Isn’t it better to be alive even if you suffer a little as a slave?”
uh huh. An unpleasant laugh erupted from the thief’s mouth.
I didn’t want to hear that unpleasant voice anymore.
Instead of my father’s sweet voice, I have to listen to that smirk.
After all, I only thought that the world was an unfair place.
And the moment she realized that fact, Yutenia had a wish in her heart.
I just wish this world would be destroyed.
“If you have trouble, I will decide.”
After speaking, the thief went straight to Euthenia.
bum bum, bum bum.
The sound of footsteps cutting through the bushes penetrated Yutenia’s ears.
There is no more place to run away.
I had no choice but to accept the fate of this moment.
After giving up everything, Yutenia closed her eyes tightly.
The moment when the thief approached her like that and tried to reach out to Yutenia.
Kwareung—!
Thunder rang out, and lightning fell.
“aah…!”
“ah……?”
At the deafening sound of thunder, Yutenia raised her head and checked her eyes.
An astonishing sight unfolded before her, who had previously denied reality.
A thief who was hit directly by a sharp lightning bolt was lying on the floor.
Perhaps the damage from the lightning was considerable, the thief was biting bubbles with his eyes closed.
For a moment, Yutenia was surprised by the aftermath of the sudden thunderbolt.
Two more lightning strikes soon followed.
“Ugh…”
Kwareung! Quarreung!
In the blink of an eye, the world flickered.
The thief, who was hit directly by lightning, fell to the floor and did not move any more.
A thunderous thunderbolt struck the thief’s breath.
Seeing this, Yutenia was even more startled and looked up at the sky struck by lightning.
In the sky, where the sound of thunder was resounding, not even a single dark cloud could be seen.
The thunderbolt she saw was no ordinary thunderbolt.
“You two, boss? Are you sure he’s dead?”
“There are no clouds in the sky. How the hell…”
The thieves around him also appeared to tremble in fear at the appearance of the dead thief.
Lightning struck from the dry sky and killed the boss.
Although they had been stealing for years, this was the first time they had ever seen such an anomaly.
One of the thieves seemed to have grasped the situation quickly, pointing to the corpse of the headman scattered in ashes and shouting.
“Magic! The magic is clear!”
“Magic… magic?”
“Then you mean that woman is a wizard?”
The eyes of the thieves turned to Yutenia at once.
Wizard. They are the object of fear and awe for those who do not know magic.
There are few people who do not know the old story of a village being destroyed by an evil witch.
The eyes of the thieves looking at Euthenia were full of fear.
However, this was not known even from the standpoint of Utenia, who was stared at by thieves trembling in fear.
‘Someone must have used magic. If so, who the hell used the magic?’
Yutenia turned her head and looked around slowly.
sheer cliffs. dense forest.
Neither of them showed any human form.
There was no one nearby who could have guessed that she was a wizard.
Of course, in the meantime, the fear in the minds of the thieves gradually inflated, and soon even those who threw their weapons and ran away began to appear.
“No, it’s a wizard! Run away!”
“Why are there sorcerers in such a village…!”
The thieves, who turned their backs on Euthenia, screamed and moved towards the bottom of the mountain.
But the thunderbolt that fell from the sky was not satisfied as a single scapegoat.
Kwareung! Quarreung!
Lightning struck again and devoured the thieves who were fleeing.
The thunderbolt that fell with a roar mercilessly judged the frightened thieves.
“Kuh-huh…!”
“Aww! Sa, save me…”
Each time the sky flashed, a new scream erupted from the thieves’ mouths.
The thieves were killed one after another in successive lightning strikes.
Occasionally, there were thieves who were lucky enough to dodge the lightning, but it was useless in front of the lightning that fell in succession.
Among the thieves, with the exception of two people, they all met their death by lightning.
And the last remaining thieves were bruised all over their bodies instead of lightning, and they rolled on the floor painfully and died.
He died more brutally than the thieves who had died before.
Yutenia got up from her seat with a blank expression on her face at the sight of the thieves who had been organized in an instant.
“What the hell is this…”
The opponent was a rogue who was skilled in combat.
Perhaps they had been stealing for quite a long time, and they showed how easy it was to massacre the villagers.
However, even those thieves could not keep up with the successive lightning strikes and collapsed.
Yutenia’s gaze turned to ashes and looked at the scattered thieves.
The thieves whose breath was cut off by the unidentified attack were scattered as ashes one by one.
It was the same for the thieves who fell with bruises all over their bodies.
“It’s disappearing.”
The blackened remains of the thieves scattered and disappeared like a fantasy.
There were no more traces of thieves around here.
There was only one thing left in this place, where the commotion had passed.
Seeing the thieves who had completely disappeared, Yutenia thought of a single existence in her mind.
“–god.”
No matter how much magic you use, a corpse is bound to remain.
However, the mysterious magic completely took away the remains of the enemies.
As if all life was taken back to where it was supposed to be.
There was only one class that could do this, she thought.
An almighty being who will be watching her from the distant sky.
In short, they were called gods.
“I… wasn’t alone.”
tuk.
A stinging sensation came from Yutenia’s head as she looked up at the sky.
As a child, it felt similar to when her father placed honey chestnuts.
The affected area hurts. Tears welled up from my eyes.
Still, Yutenia had a faint smile on her lips.
Because now she realized she wasn’t alone.
“Thank you.”
Yutenia folded her hands neatly to express her gratitude towards the sky.
A clear sky without a single dark cloud.
There, the second honey chestnut did not come to Euthenia.
* * * * * *
“Ah, there’s only one left.”
While holding back the morning yawn that was about to come out of my mouth, I looked at the screen of my smartphone.
At the bottom of the game turned on, various messages were floating.
These were the messages that came to mind while attacking the group of thieves.
Of course, the message was that most of them used magic, and the karma was raised by defeating the character.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
– Karma increased by 1.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
– Karma increased by 1.
– Karma increased by 1.
I used the ＜Lightning＞ magic to quickly knock down the bandits that were grouped together.
＜Lightning＞ is a powerful skill that deals 15 damage with just one use.
It didn’t take long to defeat the few bandits.
However, even with a powerful skill, it is impossible to avoid the consumption of magical power.
At the end, the magic had to move the floor or fingers in a hurry to defeat the thief.
Because I moved my finger nearly a hundred times, my finger, which I had been hitting quickly, hurt.
Thanks to that, I got 5 karma, although it wasn’t completely in vain.
“Still, if I just get rid of him, it’ll be over.”
I shifted my gaze to the last remaining character.
In the middle of the screen, a figure of a character standing up from his seat and looking around was seen.
It was a character who had just been sitting on the floor with a crying emoticon floating on it.
Is it because I defeated all the bandits nearby?
Now she got up and cried.
I don’t know what happened between the bandits and her.
But now that I have led the thieves chasing her down the Nether Road, she will be able to face the end in peace.
“You go too.”
The moment I touch the head of the one remaining character.
The speech bubble floating above the character’s head became strange.
I looked carefully at the flickering speech bubble above the character’s head.
There, emoticons of various contents were being output alternately.
– (sadness)
– (pleasure)
– (thank)
– (sadness)
– (pleasure)
She cried, then smiled and thanked, then cried and laughed again.
I couldn’t help but be puzzled by the emoticon pattern I saw for the first time in my life.
So far, the patterns that the characters clicked on me have shown have been fairly consistent.
or a question mark suddenly floating above your head.
Or just show a crying emoticon.
However, this character was showing a peculiar side of crying and smiling.
“Is there a problem with AI intelligence?”
The finger that was trying to click on the character one after another hesitated for some reason.
A character who expresses gratitude after being attacked.
He’s one of the most unique characters I’ve ever encountered.
It would be nice to earn karma by getting rid of this character, but you never know when you will meet such a character again.
After contemplating for a moment, I withdrew my finger as I approached the character.
“Well, it’s okay if I save one.”
Even then, my fingers that I was hitting are still hurting.
It will be fine to play while watching this character for the time being.
If you change your mind later, you can use ＜Lightning＞.
When I lifted my finger and looked at the screen, the character that was floating the speech bubble began to move.
And as soon as she started moving, a new message appeared at the bottom of the screen.
– [Eutenia High Lost] has acquired the ＜Cultist＞ trait.
– Karma increased by 1.
At the newly emerging message, I looked at the screen with a puzzled face.
This time it was because the karma was increased by 1 even though I didn’t kill the character.
In the message window, it was written that he had acquired the ＜Cultist＞ trait.
Utenia High Lost.
I don’t know whose name it is.
However, there was at least one character that I could guess.
“Euteenia High Lost…is that her name?”
The figure of the character who is left alone on the screen catches the eye.
A gray-haired female character who slowly started climbing the mountain.
It seems that her name was Yutenia.
As this character acquired the ＜Cultist＞ trait, I gained additional karma.
You can acquire Karma without defeating the character.
It was the first information I had learned through Utenia.
“Still, the hunting will go up faster.”
Of course, that’s only 1 karma.
A certain character might acquire the ＜Cultist＞ trait, but it was impossible to repeat this over and over again.
No matter how you think about it, character hunting is the most efficient.
So I immediately started moving the screen to find the next prey.