Chapter 118
Chapter 118
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 118
Chapter Title: Roulette Jackpot
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When the roulette wheel finally stopped, a smile crept across my lips.
‘Nice.’
A golden light flashed where the dart had landed.
[You have hit the exact center of the roulette wheel.]
[You may select an enhanced item.]
-Enhanced Satanic Necklace
-Enhanced Satanic Ring
-Enhanced Satanic Gloves
-Enhanced Satanic Horn
“Necklace.”
[You have acquired the ‘Enhanced Satanic Necklace’ as a reward!]
[*Enhanced Satanic Necklace: Grants the wearer a Bloodsuck Aura (30%).]
As I slipped the necklace on, a red energy swirled around my feet.
The Satanic Necklace was an item that affected not only me but also my group members and summons within range.
Thud thud thud thud thud!
Kim Yeonhee came running and threw her arms around me.
“Kim Cheonjae!”
“……Feeling better now?”
“Y-Yes! Yes! Yes!!!”
“Then could you get off me? You’re heavy.”
She sheepishly unwrapped her arms and flashed me a bright smile.
“Thanks.”
“Glad you get it.”
“If it weren’t for you, we would’ve been in big trouble. When Satan grabbed me, I really thought I was done for….”
I grinned and headed out of the tower with her. As we descended the stairs, I kept nagging at Kim Yeonhee.
“From now on, listen to Jeongwoo.”
“……I got it. Quit saying that; my ears are falling off.”
“You need to hear it a hundred more times before it sinks in. Players who don’t value teamwork should’ve died ages ago.”
“Hey! I made a mistake, sure, but isn’t that a bit harsh?”
“Nope.”
“……”
“Think about it. I caught on that it was Satan’s doing this time, so we’re lucky. Otherwise, we’d all be wiped out.”
“……”
“We’re a team. No solo actions, ever. Got it?”
Kim Yeonhee nodded reluctantly. She couldn’t argue because I wasn’t wrong.
Well, someone at my level could go solo no problem. But players like Kim Yeonhee, who relied on basic knowledge, absolutely couldn’t wander alone.
This wasn’t some scrub hangout—it was the mid-to-late game territory.
When we reached the first floor, I could see demons piled up outside the door.
Even a rough count put them over a thousand. It showed how hard my soldiers had fought.
And yet, not a single skeleton soldier had fallen to the enemy.
That confirmed it.
No more mid-level or lower demons could take down my skeleton soldiers.
I headed back to the cathedral with the reptilian soldiers I’d summoned earlier.
* * * * *
When we arrived at the cathedral, the battlefield was a total mess.
The north side, where the boss was already cleared, looked fine. The east had some injuries, but nothing major.
After circling from north to east to south, I reported to Ma Jeongwoo.
“Report!”
Ma Jeongwoo grinned and echoed me.
“Report!”
“Kim Cheonjae and one other have eliminated Satan and secured the item. That is all!”
A few Korean male players chuckled. Any guy who’d done military service knew this reporting style inside out and couldn’t hold back the laughter.
Ma Jeongwoo patted my shoulder and eyed the necklace.
“Satanic Necklace, huh.”
“Yeah, I hyper-focused to get this.”
“There was a roulette here too?”
“Yep. I’ve done so many that I could kinda read the spinning wheel.”
“You’re the impressive one for reading it….”
Kim Yeonhee peeked out from behind me and jumped into the conversation.
“I’m here too!”
“……Oh, it’s the tomboy.”
“What? Why am I a tomboy?”
“I went easy on you. If you weren’t with a genius like Cheonjae……”
Ma Jeongwoo teased her, and Kim Yeonhee shrank back behind me with a scared face.
Yoo Sora, finding the scene amusing, giggled as she approached.
“Welcome back?”
“Yes.”
“Yeonhee, you okay?”
Kim Yeonhee poked her head out again.
“Yes!”
“Good. Now everyone, rest up. More demons are coming soon, right?”
Yoo Sora’s kind smile made Ma Jeongwoo back off. I walked with him and continued the talk.
“Jeongwoo.”
“Yeah.”
“Did you check on Michael?”
“Nah, we didn’t go inside the cathedral.”
“……I see.”
I glanced at the cathedral entrance and said to him,
“We should have at least one person guarding inside.”
“……Why? Regular demons can’t enter the barrier anyway. And there’s only one archdemon left this round.”
“Not demons. Something else is bothering me.”
“……Something not a demon?”
Ma Jeongwoo tilted his head. He twitched his eyebrow and gave me a suspicious look.
“You sure you’re Kim Cheonjae?”
“Yeah.”
“Then show me the symbol.”
I smiled faintly and drew one on the ground.
An inverted cross with two axes drawn diagonally across it.
The inverted cross represented my Necromancer class in the game. The two axes symbolized Jeongwoo’s Barbarian Warrior.
The emblem we’d used when we formed our guild to conquer this game together.
Jeongwoo nodded slowly after seeing it.
“Yep, Kim Cheonjae.”
“Told you.”
“Nah, you were saying weird stuff, so I thought maybe not.”
“It’s not weird, it’s just…”
I looked around to check for anyone nearby and continued.
“The Chinese players are acting suspicious.”
“Chinese? Why?”
“Remember Wang Cheonma?”
“Wang Cheonma? That top Chinese player?”
“Yeah. Turns out he joined this round. He wasn’t there at the start, but I ran into him heading to Satan’s tower.”
“……Really? But how’d he join? The player count for this game is fixed.”
Right.
Something I’d briefly forgotten. The slots are set, so how could extra Chinese players show up?
I pondered for a moment.
It didn’t take ten seconds to figure it out.
“……Maybe they’re not extras.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Not added—they might’ve been waiting here from the start.”
Ma Jeongwoo let out an “Ah!” and looked shocked.
“Yeah, that could be. But why wait for us?”
“Who knows. Maybe they needed numbers to proceed with the event, or they wanted something from this round.”
“Which one?”
“What do you think?”
Ma Jeongwoo rolled his eyes at my question.
Unlike him, who couldn’t pinpoint it, I knew from Wang Cheonma’s earlier actions why he’d stayed.
If the four nations’ players had filled the quota, he could’ve advanced with his skills.
So why stay? The answer was clear.
‘Before we arrived, there weren’t enough people to clear this round.’
Wang Cheonma never acted without reason. He moved solely for his own gain.
If he wanted items from this round, he would’ve jumped into my fight with Satan earlier.
Satanic items with bloodsuck stats were exclusive to this round.
Ma Jeongwoo, after thinking hard, ventured,
“Probably not enough players to run this round?”
“Oh…. As expected of Ma Jeongwoo!”
“What else could it be? If it was items, no need to grind here specifically.”
“Right. The best item from round seven is the Satanic one, but he didn’t follow me……”
“Heh heh…. So there aren’t many players left ahead.”
I gave an awkward smile and wiped my nose.
“Yeah.”
* * * * *
The resting players began to rise one by one.
Some asked me about the next plan.
I shrugged and gave short answers each time.
“We’re just focusing on reaching round ten for now.”
It was true.
If we made it to round ten, I planned to hole up in the ‘Ruined Village’ for a while.
We’d skipped rounds eight and nine, so we needed time to build strength.
The players looked disappointed. I grinned and shooed them off.
Once everyone was gone, Ma Jeongwoo came over.
“We’re still doing the jump, right?”
“Of course. We chopped down the World Tree for that—if it doesn’t work, we’re screwed.”
“Good…… I wanna fight some strong bastards soon.”
“Huh? You’ve fought plenty.”
“Plenty my ass. I spent this whole round hacking trees.”
Our eyes turned to the fallen World Tree. Lava poured from the deep cliff, and the tree spanned across it.
“But who found that method?”
“……Me.”
“You?”
“Yeah, while everyone was guarding the cathedral, I got bored and started whacking the World Tree. Found it that way. Remember? Isaki called me the lunatic hunting Easter eggs.”
Jeongwoo chuckled.
“Yeah, right. Everyone just stared after it fell, but you used it as a bridge to cross the cliff.”
“Well…… I was bored, so I crossed without thinking—”
Whiiiiiing—!
Suddenly, the sound of a gate activating. It was faint, so pretty far away.
Everyone turned toward the noise.
West side.
The third boss was finally heading for the cathedral.
The demons’ commander was about to show.
“Ma Jeongwoo, I’ll check the west.”
“West? Why? Vietnam players are there.”
“Worried, so I wanna take a look. Vietnam’s got the weakest players server-wide.”
“Whatever. I’ll hold here?”
“Do what you want. Sora! Michael! Kim Yeonhee! You three, go inside the cathedral and guard Michael.”
Everyone saluted me.
Like they say, bad habits are learned fast—they copied Ma Jeongwoo perfectly.
I stationed summons around the cathedral, then headed west through the barrier.
Faster this way……
[Remaining Time: 03:01:58]
[System Message]
[The Archdemon of Greed, ‘Mammon,’ is approaching the cathedral.]
[All players participating in Round 7, please prepare for full-scale combat.]
Mammon. Among the seven archdemons, he held an awkward position with middling power.
Even Vietnam’s weak players, having passed round six’s Mechania, should handle him.
“……No way they lose to Mammon?”
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