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{Kim Dokja POV}
As I watched the surging wave of monsters, I gave strength to my thighs. The level 15 strength condensed at once and my feet developed a strong propulsion force.
The ground rats ran from all directions and the hard horns of the grolls flew from unexpected places.
My skin, which was tempered by the level 15 stamina, became bruised and bloody from the grolls’ horns.
[The number one bookmark has been activated.]
Bookmark was activated and Kim Namwoon’s Blackening wrapped around my body. I pushed away all the monsters coming from the front.
Fangs burrowed into my body and a few ground rats bit my thighs. However, I didn’t stop. Run and run again.
Over here. Finally, the original wall was visible. I jumped over the ground rats. There was a green zone for two people shining.
By the way…shit.
[Green Zone 1/2]
There was already someone inside.
“…”
I forgot about the monsters coming from behind and stared at him. There was a guy who should never be there.
“Hey.”
He turned to me.
“Can’t you get out? You don’t even need to stay in here.”
“It is difficult. I am tired today.”
I pushed to punch this asshole’s face. I didn’t understand. This wasn’t the ‘third regression’ Yoo Jonghyuk that I knew.
In Ways of Survival, it was written that Yoo Jonghyuk only found the first hidden green zone in the fourth regression… damn, did he know about this place since the second regression and it just wasn’t described? Then why didn’t he originally use it in the third regression?
Grrrr!
There were the cries of the ground rats chasing me from behind. It was too late to blame the writer. I could feel Lee Gilyoung’s breathing. I stared into Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes. We spoke at almost the same time.
“Take the kid.”
“Give me the child.”
Still, it was lucky. The constellations would hear my words.
[Green Zone 2/2]
I moved Lee Gilyoung and the mark of the green zone changed. Now Lee Gilyoung was safe.
“Hyung! Wait a minute! Hyung!”
Lee Gilyoung urgently tried to rush towards me but Yoo Jonghyuk’s hand restrained him. I swung my sword towards the ground rats.
[The constellation ‘Bald General of Justice’ has closed his eyes.]
[The constellation Demon-like Judge of Fire is watching you with uncomfortable eyes.]
At the last minute, Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes seemed to move.
「 I told you that you would die. 」
The waves of monsters headed towards me. Now there were no more green zones remaining.
“I won’t die.”
I ignored the monsters and put a hand in my pocket. In fact, I really didn’t want to use this. I couldn’t be assured that there would be no aftereffects. Now I had to believe in the Fourth Wall.
「 That…? 」
Yoo Jonghyuk’s eyes shook with surprise. This bastard, did he find out? Well, I wouldn’t have known this method without him.
I looked down at the white stone shining in the palm of my hand.
[Specter’s Stone.]
It was an item I gained by hunting specters on the way to Chungmuro.
Hundreds of ground rats started biting at my body.
I was bleeding from minor wounds and the shoulders struck by the grolls’ horns were red with blood. As the durability of my body rapidly diminished, I put the stone into my mouth.
Then something like water vapor started to emerge from my mouth. The water vapor formed a fog that covered me.
[The Welcome Prison is activated.]
The ground rats and grolls stopped attacking me at once.
Everything around me started to distort. The platform, Yoo Jonghyuk and Lee Gilyoung calling out to me.
I became a ‘ghost.’
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「 Dokja. 」
I noticed as soon as I heard my mother’s voice. This was a dream.
I tried not to get caught up in it but it wasn’t easy this time. The floor sank like a quagmire and swallowed me.
[Due to excessive immersion, the influence of Fourth Wall has temporarily weakened.]
Scenes started to weave in front of me, no matter what I wanted.
A living room covered with blood. The cold body of a man. The back of a woman looking down at the body. No. This memory was difficult to remember. I couldn’t remember it.
I shook my head furiously and the scene in front of me scattered. This damn trauma…
It was a memory I didn’t want to see.
This was why I was reluctant to eat the Specter’s Stone. The Specter’s Stone temporarily made the user a ‘ghost’ and turned them invisible to monsters. But it has a side effect of causing the user’s trauma to peak.
That’s why I didn’t give it to the other party members. If it had been used by someone other than myself, they might’ve turned into a madman.
·····.
I had to endure, even if my head was hurting like crazy.
Certainly, the Fourth Wall was a scam. The skill would even be able to eat away at this stone. I wouldn’t see this effect even with the superior ‘Mental Barrier.’ Where was it? If my guess was correct, this skill…
「 Yoo Jonghyuk? Are you Yoo Jonghyuk? 」
I thought a trauma had started again but it wasn’t my voice. It wasn’t a voice created by my memories. I looked back and saw a strange woman.
「 …You aren’t Yoo Jonghyuk. I think you are Korean but who are you? 」
A dazzling blonde foreigner. She was a little girl with a short height. The girl looked at me for a long time with an incomprehensible expression.
「 That…I don’t understand. I’ve seen the future a number of times but I’ve never seen you before… 」
In the girl’s left eye, an ominous red swirl could be seen. The pages flashed in my head. I knew this person. No, there was absolutely no way I couldn’t know her. In this case…
[The exclusive skill, Character List is activated.]
[The character ‘Anna Croft’ is using ‘Mental Barrier Lv. 6’.]
[Character List ignores Mental Barrier Lv. 6.]
[There is too much information about this person. Character List is converted to Summary List.]
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[Character Summary]
Name: Anna Croft
Attribute: Prophet (Legend), Savior (Legend)
Exclusive Skills: Future Sight Lv. 5, Past Sight Lv. 4, Insight Lv. 8, Clairvoyance Lv. 4, Advanced Magic Training Lv. 4, Mental Barrier Lv. 6, Lie Detection Lv. 7, Great Demon’s Eyes Lv. 1…
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A woman who could ignore space constraints and freely enter the consciousness of other people. A woman who saw the future and tried to design the future of the world. There was only one ‘woman’ with such a way of thinking in Ways of Destruction.
“Anna Croft.”
「 …How do you know me? 」
Her eyes widened and she glared at me.
I replied quietly, “I’m a prophet.”
[The character Anna Croft has triggered Lie Detection Lv. 7.]
[Lie Detection has confirmed that your words are false.]
Indeed, I couldn’t lie to a true prophet.
「 …Reveal your true identity. Who are you? 」
Her small lips were tightly closed. It looked as though she was protesting.
I anticipated how the situation would roughly occur. The woman noticed my presence, perhaps because the influence of Fourth Wall temporarily weakened. If Fourth Wall was really the skill I thought it was…
By the way… it was disappointing.
“Do you really not know who I am?”
「 …Huh? 」
“Didn’t I send you the ichthyosaur’s core?”
Anna’s lips slowly widened.
“You must’ve implanted the ‘great demon’s eyes’ with the power of the core. Right?”
「 T-Then you? You asked for Broken Faith…? 」
[Great Demon’s Eyes.] It was a huge one million coin item that was taken by this woman with a damn diamond sponsor. I felt envious.
「 You! What is your name? How… 」
[The influence of the exclusive skill ‘Fourth Wall’ is slowly returning.]
「 Why… why can’t I see anything…? 」
Her eyes became blurred. The influence of the Great Demon’s Eyes, which could interfere with the consciousness of others, weakened and her figured gradually faded. I waved my hands.
“Someday we will meet. Wait across the continent.”
[The exclusive skill Fourth Wall has been completely restored.]
Anna completely disappeared.
I sighed with relief. In fact, my spirit had been fluctuating back and forth when talking to Anna Croft. It wasn’t very good.
[Due to the skill effect, immunity to Welcome Prison has occurred.]
…Dammit, the effect took place too late.
I felt my consciousness clear up.
The discomfort still remained but it was much better than before. I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. I looked at the distinct facts one by one in order to regain my rationality.
I am Kim Dokja. The world was destroyed. Ways of Survival had become reality. This was…Welcome Prison. I ate the Specter’s Stone and was a ghost for a while. If I was a ghost, I wouldn’t be attacked by the underground species.
Yes, that’s right. So… the world looked like this.
In the midst of the landscape that seemed like I had eaten drugs, the flow of time was hardly noticeable. I became a bit uneasy.
What happened to Yoo Sangah, Lee Hyunsung and Jung Heewon? That Jonghyuk bastard, did he kill Gilyoung? Was the third scenario still in progress? What if there were still ground rats around? Were the grolls circling in order to eat me?
Voices flashed through my head.
[The exclusive skill ‘Permanent Lv. 1’ is activated.]
Yes, it was time to go back.
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[There are 30 minutes before the third scenario is activated.]
“We are doom.”
Some people get panic as they see the countdown.
“We are different from you guys! We will die if the monsters started rushing here.”
Cale remembered something and chuckles then he opened his mouth to speak.
“Faith is amazing. Isn’t that the case?”
[Some constellations feel excited.]
[Some constellations waiting for your words.]
[Some constellations watching your actions.]
[Some constellations interest in your words.]
[Some constellations eyes shining brighter.]
...
Clopeh and the fans are nodding their heads.
“....Faith?”
The panicked people started to frowned at that word of the 12 years old young boy.
“Do you mean we must pray to God?” One of them asked.
“Is there much to faith? All you need is to have faith in yourself. I won’t tell you to fight for your families, friends or someone you know but I just want you to do what you are supposed to do and survive in this kind of world.”
[Some constellations feel angry with your words.]
[Some constellations interest in your existence.]
[Some constellations like your speech.]
...
The despair started to disappearing from their face, Clopeh and the people that they helped had their eyes immediately clouded over then he smiling with devoted expression.
As expected, Cale-nim, with only few sentences he could make them get their confidence. Clopeh admired.
How can I panicked when I decided that I would protect the frail, cute and kind-hearted angel Naru-nim. I’m embarrassed of myself. But as expected that Naru-nim was an angel that was sent to help us. Most females survivors thought.
I can’t lose to that frail boy. It’s embarrassing to be reminded by that weak boy. Some of the male survivors thought.
Their faith seems to be direct to someone with the the appearance of 12 years old weak young boy.
“Dokkaebi Sir, can you turn off the notification from the constellations until the scenario ended? It really annoying.”
[Hihihihit..., I’m sorry but we couldn’t do that.]
The Dokkaebi said with a sly expression.
“Alright then, I’ll ask for every constellations that watching now. If you just watch us for eight hours without disturbing us, we may choose you as our sponsor. Just watch us carefully and talk to us after the fight has finished.” Cale said.
The barriers are disappearing and the the surging wave of monsters came closer.
Choi Han stood in the front facing the rushing monsters. Choi Han took a deep breath before pointing his sword toward the ceiling. Black aura started to gather around his sword and slowly started to take the form of a black Yong. The black Yong opens its jaw and charge through the battlefield.
Mary took out the monster skeletons from her spatial pocket and control them to attack the monsters that came closer. Alberu hold Taerang in rifle shape and started to shoot the monsters with great accuracy that can be described as one shot one kill. Clopeh also attacking the approaching monsters with his white snake-like aura. The monster corpses started to piles up, some of it turned into Mary skeletons army and killed more monsters.
“Remember the training that we do before, don’t forget about the monster’s attack patterns. If you follow the data, you will survive from this scenario.”
They listening to the young boy who strangely make them feel calmer in this situation.
“Choi Han. You can’t use all of your strength without saving any for when an urgent situation might pop up later. Make sure nobody goes overboard. If the situation gets dangerous quickly get back into the platform.”
The young boy keeps giving his order to control the flow of the battle.
Everyone started to think.
‘If they are not here, I would have died long before this.’
‘We just need to hold on for few hours.’
‘Even a weak young boy can do it, I’ll also able to hold on.’
‘Let’s all work hard.’
‘We will definitely be victorious.’
‘I need to survive for witnessing those beautiful view. I want to write a story about Naru-nim and Bob-nim forbidden love. Should I make a novel or doujin? I really glad that I can see how close they are fufufu...’
‘I need to survive and go to Seongsu Station to meet them. They are my reasons for living.’
‘Bodyguard Hyung-nim is teaching me to be a strong person, I should never disappoint him with shameful fights.’
‘I need to do my best because if I didn’t, I don’t know what they will do to me.’
‘I want to help that kind Robbed Nona, she is the only angel in this place full with predators like scary women group.’
The survivors’ eyes looked full of energy, most of them were full of hope with their own different determination and motivation.
“We will definitely be victorious; we just need to hold on for few hours.” One of them shouted.
“Don’t drop your guard down! Keep your focus, the monsters were still alive. Don’t break the formation.” The young boy reminds them.
They keep fighting for around more than six hours without having rest. The fatigue started showing from those who attacking the monsters.
Suddenly everybody saw an unbelievable thing happened in front of them. They saw the weak young boy started to walk gracefully to the front line. Then they see that the monsters stop moving and start to look at the young boy warily. Cale was using Dominating Aura to scared and stunned those monsters, he decided to do this to help the survivors to get stronger so they could survive in this world. He also remembered how vicious Alberu, Choi Han and Mary looked before the scenario started as they reminded him to not use his power.
At that short time, Choi Han, Alberu, Mary and Clopeh attack the stunned monsters and quickly killed them all. They quickly snapped from their shock and attack the stunned monsters.
The monsters’ corpses keep piling up and start to become a barricade that slow down the monsters that came closer, it also helps them to defend themselves.
They keep fighting until they heard the notification.
[You have endured Gyeongbokgung’s night without the green zone.]
[You have accomplished the ‘Never-ending Dawn’ achievement at Gyeongbokgung Station!]
[You have earned 1,000 coins as an achievement reward.]
They felt relief, some of them fall down because they feel that they lose all of their power and tension after fighting the monsters for eight hours.
The notification from the constellations also start to appear in front of them.
Cale group get the most notification from the constellations that asked them to take their sponsorship.
“I only say that I might chose a sponsor after the scenario is cleared. It’s just the first night, there’s six more days until the end. So, I won’t choose. Why can’t you understand?”
[Some constellations are angry at incarnation ‘Cale Henituse’.]
[A bounty scenario has occurred!]
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[Bounty Scenario – Assassination Commission]
Category: Sub
Difficulty: C
Clear Conditions: The constellations of Channel #GIL-4735 have requested to kill a certain person. Please kill ‘Cale Henituse’ of Gyeongbokgung Station.
Time Limit: 15 minutes.
Compensation: 2000 coins.
Failure: None.
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“Cale Henituse?! That famous supermodel is here!”
The female survivors started to get excited.
“Ha..., they are really stupid and poor. They only give 2000 coins. That is only a small change to me.” Cale started to insult those constellations that put the bounty.
“They are really stupid, they forgot that they know you as Naru Von Ejellan.” Alberu added.
But after they said that some light orb shine above Cale.
“Dongsaeng, I think they heard us. But I still think that they’re really stupid.”
Cale sighed and turned back his appearance.
Everyone shocked and just stuck in their place.
“WOW, it’s the real Cale Henituse!!!” one of the fans screamed.
They look at Cale and the other who turned into their real appearance. The fans were getting more excited.
One of them shouted. “Anyone who dares to touch our Young master-nim will have to get punishment from us. If you dared to move one step, we’ll take you as our enemy.”
Looking at the scary female survivors with their killing intents that makes them feel weak, the survivors who was blind by their greed realized that this bounty scenario was a scam and it was something that impossible to do. Then all of the survivors started to cursed those constellations who made that bounty even after the time limits run out.
<to be continue>