Cale group cross the Han River with the sea serpent monster skeletons. They arrived at the Seongsu Station before the time limits run out. After few minutes they heard the notification.
[Main Scenario #2 – Escape has ended.]
[200 coins have been acquired as a basic clearance reward.]
[Additional compensation settlement will begin.]
Cale group was looking outside of the Seongsu Station. Looking at the violet poisonous fog spreading reminded him with the poisonous red fog that he often sees before.
“What are you thinking Dongsaeng?”
“I miss the children and everyone else.”
“We will definitely goings back to our home.”
“I miss them but I also don’t want any of them coming to this apocalyptic world. That’s why we should find our way home quickly.”
- Cale how about strengthening the fiery thunderbolt? The people at this world didn’t need the silver, gold and jewelry right? So can we just took it all? It seems like a great idea. 🔥
“Of course.”
- We also need to search for some artifacts, maybe it will help us found some clues to go back. 🌪
- The God of Death said to find item that will help us to go back, it had a high possibility if it was an artifacts from this world that has a spacial power. 🪨
“Then we just need to walk around.” Cale smile.
They decided to leave the station and go around to steal from the store around the city.
After helping the fans with foods and tell them to close the station door, they walk to the city that full of poison by making a wind barrier by using the Sound of the Wind and wind elementals.
“Choi Han, can you cut that steel door? Don’t worry about the CCTV, I already broke it all. We need to take everything here.”
[Some constellations interest in your activities.]
[Some constellations laugh at you.]
[Some constellations frowned at what you’re doing.]
[Some constellations think that you are stupid.]
[Some constellations think that you are crazy.]
[Some constellations like your greed.]
[Some constellations interest in you.]
[Some constellations watching you.]
“Those constellations don’t know about Cale-nim greatness, how can they understand about that.”
“Shut up Clopeh, just put everything into the sacks.”
They just walked around leisurely while looting the empty stores and banks.
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Cale group gives some food for the fans and tell them to not follow them because it’s dangerous. They also tell the fans to close the station door to keep them safe.
The fans follow their orders, then they thank them for their help and said they farewell.
The fans make a discussion after they’ve left the Seongsu Station.
“They’re really glad! From their looks, power & attitude, everything is very perfect. They are not a human being but a God that descended to earth to give us salvation.”
“I agree, our Young master Cale-nim is the one who helped us to survive so he must be a God of Salvation.”
“I think our Prince charming, Alberu-nim is a God of Light. How can a normal human shine so brightly? I also feel like I see a halo of the ray of hope from him, especially when he’s smiling.”
“Did you see how Choi Han killed those monsters? Should we change his nickname from sword master to Sword God?”
“I want to call Mary-nim as Goddess of Death after saw her skills in controlling those skeletons. She really cool and kind heart. I really respect her.”
“I think that Clopeh-nim is the best, after all he is the one who always gives us that information about them and he even give us the copy data of the earlier record videos that we take together. He is our God of Information!”
“I won’t believe in God anymore and will only have faith in them.”
“That’s right! We don’t need a God when we have our idols who is much greater than any God.”
[Your sponsor sighed at your words and think that you are crazy.]
[Your sponsor was angry at your statements.]
[Your sponsor feels upset hearing your statements.]
[Your sponsor disappointed at you.]
[Your sponsor was worried about your mental state.]
“What! We only chose you as our sponsor because Cale-nim said it would help us to survive. Beside we just chose you as our sponsor because we couldn’t make Cale-nim as our sponsor.”
All of the fans nodded their heads in agreement. Some of them even started to cursing their sponsor for not knowing the greatness of Cale and his group.
[Your sponsor feels speechless.]
[Your sponsor feels helpless.]
[Your sponsor feels depressed.]
The constellations who sponsored some of the fans is really sad because they never had any idea that the incarnation that they chose was this crazy.
At first, they seem normal but when the second scenario started, they became more and more crazy. Some constellations also blamed Clopeh for using incite skill that makes them get crazier.
No one knows what is the truth, but the fans have a mentality of devoted believer or more like some cult fanatics that will grow larger because of the record data that Clopeh give them.
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{Kim Dokja POV}
My body suddenly became heavy as I felt water entering my lungs. Then I was sucked in somewhere. I wasn’t torn apart because I fell with perfect timing. However, I couldn’t lose consciousness here.
I had to stay awake. I needed to wait for a while.
I somehow managed to curl up and hold my breath. 10 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds…I was barely breathing when my hands hit a tangible wall in the darkness.
I could barely breathe after coughing up the river water several times. My level 10 stamina saved me from being killed by hitting the water surface, but the large and small bruises all over my body were very painful.
I controlled my breathing in order to not fall into a panic and turned on my smartphone.
I was worried it might’ve broken in the fall but the power was fortunately okay. It was good that I spent big and bought a smartphone with a waterproof function.
Pahat.
The flashlight turned on and the surrounding scenery entered my eyes.
There were huge walls with concrete by-products floating by. The stomach of an ichthyosaur was more disgusting than I thought.
“Dammit.”
Yoo Jonghyuk’s expression as he let go of his hand without hesitation and got off the bridge was vivid. I expected it but it was more shocking than I thought.
…If I wanted to be his companion, I had to survive.
It wasn’t that I didn’t understand.
Companion. The weight of this word was too great for Yoo Jonghyuk. Since his failure in the first round of regression, Yoo Jonghyuk had never made a real ‘companion.’
It was rare for humans to easily follow the growth of a regressor. As a result, he solved everything alone, was revered as a savior and was naturally lonely.
To Yoo Jonghyuk, ‘humans’ were only subordinates or enemies.
Thus, this was a test. If I wanted to be in a equal position with him, I had to solve this much alone.
…Well, this was when looking at it from Yoo Jonghyuk’s viewpoint.
“A companion like you…crazy psychopath.”
I barely doggy paddled to a floating styrofoam panel and raised my body onto it. Thanks to the warmth of the stomach, I wasn’t cold. However, the problem was from now on.
I closed my eyes and played the message log that I heard.
[You have failed to clear the scenario.]
[Paid settlement will begin.]
[100 coins have been reduced for the channel usage fee.]
[The constellation ‘Prisoner of the Golden Headband’ has nodded at your exciting remarks.]
[100 coins have been sponsored.]
[The constellation ‘Demon-like Judge of Fire’ nods are your coice.]
[100 coins have been sponsored.]
[The constellation ‘Secretive Plotter’ is disappointed in your rash remarks.]
There were quite a few messages. In addition, a few exposed constellations sponsored me. Maybe it was due to the final conversation between Yoo Jonghyuk and I.
I felt a little down as I read through the messages of the constellations one by one and collected the coins. If I had picked one of these constellations in the first Sponsor
Selection, this might not have happened.
But there was no regret in my choice.
After encountering Yoo Jonghyuk directly, I was certain.
The Great Sage the Equal of Heaven might be a sponsor of the highest quality but he wasn’t enough. I needed more than just ‘sponsorship’ if I wanted to confront Yoo Jonghyuk.
And I would gain it from here.
The walls of the stomach growled and small waves rose inside. The sea commander seemed to be moving somewhere. I turned on my smartphone and calculated the time.
According to Ways of Survival, the ichthyosaur started to secret stomach acid around three hours after ingesting food.
In other words, I didn’t have much time left.
[Haha, it is sad that things turned out like this. It was very interesting.]
There was a sound effect before the dokkaebi’s voice was heard.
“…Dokkaebi?”
[Yes, that’s right. You don’t seem panicked at all?]
“I knew you would come.”
[Hrmm. It sounds like you were waiting for me?]
“Of course, I have been waiting.”
Light turned on and the dokkaebi appeared. I couldn’t tell for sure from his expression alone, but this guy was clearly interested.
I deliberately spoke calmly. If I was pushed here, I wouldn’t be able to eat my meal.
“Are you doing to take coins from me?”
[…Coins?]
“You have to take coins in exchange for me failing the scenario.”
[Hmm, not your life?]
“If it was my life, you would have written ‘death’ in the failure results column, not three question marks. Doesn’t this mean there is room to negotiation?”
[…Hahaha. How interesting.]
In fact, there was a loophole in my words. The scenario message was ‘Failure: ???’. This literally meant that the penalty of failure was unknown. It was just my assumption that it was in exchange for coins.
Nevertheless, there was a reason why I was so certain.
“Am I wrong?”
It was because I already knew about this scenario. The dokkaebi hesitated for a moment before nodding.
[You are right. Amazing. That you could determine this point with such a clue… as expected from someone who is attraction the constellations’ attention.]
The dokkaebi’s tone was filled with sincere admiration.
[As you said, you can survive this sub scenario if you pay coins, even if you fail.]
“How much?”
[Pay 5,100 coins. Then I will let you live.]
I looked at how many coins I currently posessed.
[Coins Possessed: 5,100 C]
I couldn’t help smiling. This jerk was messing around right now.
“That is too much.”
[Haha, then won’t you die? It is up to me to accept the coins or not. If you do something wrong then I can just end it here.]
“Then kill me.”
[…Huh?]
“Kill me.”
[······.]
“You can’t kill me?”
The dokkaebi didn’t move. It was natural. He was having a lot of fun with me right now. Furthermore, he wouldn’t have come down here to see me if he had been planning to kill me. For this guy, I had to survive here or I at least had to die miserably.
[Haha. You are really making me angry. Look, now…]
The dokkaebi’s flat-shaped eyebrows wriggled furiously. It was time to stop the taunts and get to the main point.
“Low-grade dokkaebi, Bihyung. How are the activities of a streamer?”
If there was a crack in the face, it would look exactly like this. Dokkaebi Bihyung showed confusion for the first time.
[H-How do you know my name?]
“You haven’t been enjoying broadcasting lately, right? The constellations are too stingy.”
[W-Who the hell are you? How does a human…]
Bihyung’s horns shook. It was natural. An ordinary human couldn’t know about the Star Stream system. But I wasn’t an ordinary human.
[A few constellations have doubts about your existence.]
[The constellation Secretive Plotter’s eyes are shining at your plan.]
From now on, it wasn’t a story for the constellations.
I mouthed to Bihyung, “How about we talk after you close the channel?”
Bihyung was worried and closed the channel.
[#BI-7623 channel is closed.]
Once the constellations left the channel, Bihyung showed his true colours.
[Feel free to speak. You, how can an ordinary human know about the Star Stream broadcasting?]
“That isn’t important.”
[Huh?]
“Bihyung, do you want to be ‘king of the dokkaebis’?”
[What now―]
“Don’t you wish to be the best streamer in the network, surpassing Dokgak and Gildal?”
Bihyung’s complexion was changing.
“Dokkaebi Bihyung, sign a contract with me. Then I will make you the king of the dokkaebis.”
<to be continue>
Author's note: I am glad that I can finish this in 3 hours. I hope you enjoy the story.