Chapter 89
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 89 - How to Enjoy Vacation (5)
I asked again while shooting the monsters.
“Then what are these monsters? They seem a bit different from the regular monsters, though? They don’t have cores.”
“Of course. Because they’re mutated hybrids of different races.”
“What?”
I twisted my hand in shock. The tiger bastard calmly burned the monster I missed and said.
“First, let’s find a safe place.”
“No, crazy. Why are you saying that after all that yap?”
I argued with him, yet he didn’t respond and just looked for a hiding place.
“Come here.”
“Ha…”
Somehow, when he knocked on a brick somewhere, a secret passage appeared.
What are these guys? Ha-X Potter?
Anyway, I followed him.
“In order to clear my trial, I have to kill Na Yuhan here.”
“It seems that you hold a deep grudge against him.”
“Because he destroyed the tower.”
…Wasn’t that a good thing?
I thought of the tower, which was a headache for many. Park Siwoo, who wanted to go on an adventure, might be disappointed, but still…
Well, yeah. Since Wild Hunter is a group of evil, I guess a tower with monsters pouring out of it is good. I just concluded that roughly.
“Alright… That aside. Na Yuhan is currently protected by his colleagues, so it won’t be easy to kill him, right?”
I thought of the content described in the novel.
Scammer, who wanted to collect six keys to create the right ending, also gathered like-minded colleagues in the process.
I stopped reading halfway through, so I don’t know the rest, but given the nature of the modern-fantasy genre, I don’t think the male lead would suddenly be abandoned by his colleagues. Rather, their friendship would have deepened.
The tiger bastard was silent for a moment at my words and then said.
“Not sure. Some people in their right mind might be like that.”
What, what else is it? I felt a cold premonition enveloping me.
Was there some kind of drift…? Bad ending drift? Was Scammer finally abandoned by the members who realized his true nature?
No, let’s think about that later.
“So? Is there a chance of winning?”
At my words, he held up a weapon that looked like lightning.
“Yes.”
“Then enough. Let’s start by looking for Na Yuhan.”
The tiger bastard took out a map and designated several areas. We searched for Scammer by defeating monsters around those areas.
After looking around for a while, the tiger bastard waved his hand and pointed to one end.
“Black hair, red eyes. And leads people while waving a flag…”
“Do you see him with Clairvoyant?”
“Mmhm. That’s right.”
Na Yuhan, who looked more mature than he is now, should I say?
He was thinner and had a fierce look in his eyes. He was surrounded by people. They seemed to be having a meeting.
However,
“He has no colleagues…”
I muttered unconsciously.
His team members who had gathered while collecting the beads had all disappeared.
To that, the tiger bastard answered.
“It’ll be easier. I’d rather snipe than charge straight ahead.”
“Yeah. I think that’ll be better.”
I suppressed my heart that was somehow becoming heavy, took out my long gun, took a stance, and aimed at Scammer.
After all, this was just an illusion.
The others who had received Scammer’s orders dispersed in unison. Now, he was left alone in the middle of the empty square.
At that moment, I pulled the trigger.
Bang—!
Maybe it was my imagination, but the moment I pulled the trigger, I felt like I had made eye contact with him.
I heard someone clicking their tongue next to me.
“It’s a failure.”
As soon as the tiger bastard grabbed my waist and moved away, an arrow of light flew into that spot.
“Who are you that you’re targeting us?”
I heard a familiar voice. I could see her messy pink hair and young-colored eyes. It was Shin Baran.
At the same time, a slash of light shot out from behind us.
“This is…!”
The tiger bastard quickly stepped on the roof and jumped backwards, avoiding even that slash.
The one who delivered that slash was a man with black hair and blue sapphire-like eyes, Park Siwoo.
“More than that, he looks like a mixed race, but he didn’t mutate into a monster. How is this possible?”
Park Siwoo scanned us with his blue eyes as if observing us.
I quickly purchased two travel tickets and shouted.
“Tornito! Can these guys teleport?”
“No, they must have run here at pure speed.”
Crazy. Whether he looked tired or not, Tornito continued talking while jumping between the roofs.
“The attack they’re making now is probably for suppression purposes.”
I whispered to Tornito.
“If we approach Na Yuhan, we can kill him right away?”
“Right.”
I showed him the tickets and said.
“It’s a teleportation item. Just tear it while thinking about where you want to go.”
Blood spurted out from his cheek in an instant. It seemed as if the arrow Shin Baran had shot had grazed his cheek.
“I recommend you just let yourself be caught!”
At the same time, he took one of my tickets.
“Let’s go.”
Whoosh!
He tore the travel ticket. His body disappeared.
Hey!
I also tried to tear the ticket quickly while falling through the air.
“I’m sorry, but that won’t work.”
However, my wrist was caught in Park Siwoo’s hand first.
The ticket slipped out of my hand. As if she had been waiting, Shin Baran shot an arrow and burned the ticket. I closed my eyes tightly, bracing myself for the impact of the fall.
Thud—!
I heard the sound of me hitting the ground, but there was no pain. When I opened my eyes, my eyes met with Park Siwoo’s, who was embracing me.
He looked at me and opened his mouth.
“There’s a lot I want to hear from you too.”
Shin Baran approached me and took my gun.
Damn it. I should use the Story Twist or buy a suitable item when I have a chance. I gritted my teeth.
“You just used your spiritual power, right? Are you a soul from another world too?”
But soon my eyes widened. What did he just say?
“Or—”
The moment Park Siwoo was about to say something else, the whole world was engulfed in light.
Soon, the feeling of his hands holding me and his voice disappeared.
“Are you okay?”
I heard the tiger bastard’s voice.
His lightning-like weapon slowly began to turn into dust and scatter. It seemed that his weapon had reached the end of its lifespan.
“Yeah.”
He turned his back on me at my words.
“Then let’s go.”
I picked up my gun, which had fallen to the floor, then followed him silently.
We soon arrived in front of a newly-created door.
There were ten patterns on the door, yet only two of them were lit up.
The tiger bastard spoke when he saw it.
“Once the others clear the trials, the door will open with a light coming on in the pattern.”
He then slumped down on his seat. I sat on the right side of the door, opposite the one he was sitting on.
For a while, silence fell between us.
After organizing what had happened in my head, I asked him a question.
“Why are you trying to kill Na Yuhan?”
He answered.
“Because what he’s doing is trying to destroy the tower.”
“…Isn’t that a good thing? If the tower is gone, monsters won’t come out anymore—”
“No, the tower is essential to us. It can’t collapse.”
“Um… Well, alright. Let’s say that’s true.”
I changed the subject because I didn’t think his thoughts would change.
“Do you know about the ‘Keys of the Six Races’?”
“Yes. Did you hear it from the Player?”
“Yeah.”
I thought about it carefully, and then thought about what the Wild Hunter did in the novel.
“Are you going to collect the keys?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“To save everyone.”
I racked my brain.
Given the ‘future’ I just saw, I can guess why Oracle told Scammer to collect the keys. Probably to collapse the tower.
It seemed like it was supposed to go that way.
But did something go wrong somewhere along the way?
What on earth?
Or maybe that was just the process of getting to the correct ending…
My mind was getting complicated.
“What are you going to do with the keys?”
“I’m going to release the six seals of the tower.”
“…What?”
I couldn’t understand what he was saying even more.
As mentioned in the novel, in the game, the Wild Hunter would release the seals of the tower, and monsters would burst out of it, causing a ‘catastrophe.’ The main story was about overcoming that catastrophe and resealing the tower.
However, no user had cleared the ‘catastrophe.’ I asked him with a subtle expression.
“Saving everyone, is it like… killing all those people and sending them to heaven?”
“How could that be?”
He stared at me as if he found me pathetic at my words. No, I mean, you were the one who said that nonsense first. I also looked at him with cold eyes.
He let out a deep sigh and said.
“I guess I should explain to you how the Tower of Desire is structured.”
At that moment, there was a sound of stone scraping and the door opened slightly.
It was only then that I realized that all the patterns were lit up.
At the same time, a system alarm appeared.
[Story Fragments have been added.]
Why all of a sudden?
Drrrrr!
While I was momentarily distracted by the system window, the door began to open quickly. I could see the scenery inside the dungeon.
As soon as I looked into the empty space, Tornito spoke to me again.
“Why are you helping the Player?”
At those words, I turned my gaze to him. He seemed to have been gazing at me the whole time, as our eyes met straight away.