Chapter 71
Chapter 71
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 71
Chapter Title: Misfortune is Coming
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The spiritual entity in the dream offered me two crystal balls.
The red one showed a temporary misfortune that could be changed.
The blue one showed the end of my life, something that could not be changed.
“There’s also the option of not choosing either. It’s your choice.”
Choose not to pick when they’re right in front of me?
That’s not possible.
“I’ll take the red one.”
The reason I chose the red crystal ball is simple.
In fact, it’s not even a choice you have to think about.
No one wants to have their life’s ending spoiled for them.
Knowing the end of my life and living it… especially if I can’t change it and the ending is weird, my remaining days would be agonizing. Wouldn’t it keep replaying in my head, tormenting me without ever fading?
Of course, I might see a good scene, but… considering the chain of events I’ve witnessed, there’s a high chance it’ll be a sad or bad ending…
‘Nothing has ever gone easily for me, so…’
It’s more peaceful not to see it. If I see a bad scene and it gets stuck in my head… I can’t even bear to think about it.
“Everyone else chose the red one.”
The old man cleared the blue crystal ball from the table. It vanished as if turning into smoke, leaving only the red crystal ball, glowing softly.
“Good. Then let’s take a look. The misfortune that will befall you in the near future.”
With the old man’s words, the red crystal ball shone as brightly as a flashbang, showing me a glimpse of my future.
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Bones.
A giant skeleton.
The supermarket collapses.
A headless knight.
Death.
Death, death, death, death, death.
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“Th-this is insane!!!”
Dozens of scenes flashed before my eyes in that short moment.
What I saw… what the hell. It was terrifying. Is this really going to happen to me?
“Hahahaha!!! What did you see to be so shocked?”
I saw death.
Countless deaths.
Mutilated corpses.
They were all… my women… damn it..
“What I just saw… is that really going to happen? Are you serious...?”
“It would seem so. Still, don’t worry too much, as it can be changed. The future changed depending on your actions. And the change has already begun from the moment you observed it.”
“Hoo…”
What I saw.
It was a few brutally cruel scenes.
First, the supermarket we’re using as a shelter is smashed and collapses. The building crumbles, and dust flies up. Also, people are dying everywhere.
I don’t know how many people die at that moment. It passed by too quickly to count. It seemed like almost everyone inside the supermarket was dead, except for a few Awakened.
And what destroyed the supermarket were countless Skeletons and a giant skeleton. There were too many skeletons to count; I don’t know why skeletons, not zombies, are swarming. Maybe skeletons will start crawling out later.
These must be monsters that appear after an update. Just how far is this update planning to go? Skeletons, beyond zombies… At this rate, I feel like dragons or something might show up later, and that’s terrifying.
‘And that giant skeleton…’
What on earth was that monster? I can’t even guess.
It was a giant skeleton, almost as big as a four-story building, far larger than a 3-meter War Boy, with rotting flesh stuck all over it.
A monster the size of a building…
‘It had only one eye socket.’
A giant skeleton with one eye. There’s a part I can guess.
Anyone who’s seen Greek mythology as a kid would know, but the only one-eyed giant I know is Cyclops.
‘Damn it… Are they really sending out mythological monsters as undead now?’
Will a dragon really crawl out later? Please… I sincerely hope that kind of bullshit doesn’t happen.
‘Come to think of it… Kishiria, the Deep-Rooted Patriarch, was also a boss of the Royal Curse Palace or something… This really feels like a dragon is going to crawl out…’
Thinking about it makes my head spin. It means I’ll have to fight a monster on the level of Kishiria later.
‘Still, the Skeleton Giant was a monster that could be dealt with.’
It was the type that just fought with its sheer mass because it was so huge, so it seemed like a killable existence.
In one of the scenes I saw, Aram smashed its head with Grave Crusher. As long as dozens of those things don’t swarm and flatten the ground, we can handle it.
‘The bigger problem is the one that came out after the skeleton giant.’
That was a tall, imposing knight in black armor… a Headless Knight.
The thing that walked out from the gaps of the shattered skeletons instantly turned black, then summoned its armor, sword, and skeletal horse.
I don’t know why it appeared, but if I had to guess, seeing it crawl out from a pile of countless Skeleton corpses, it might be a monster that appears when a certain number of Skeletons are destroyed.
‘It’s all just speculation for now, but… anyway…’
Riding its skeletal horse and charging forward, it wielded a greatsword the size of a person with free rein.
Everyone who barely escaped the buildings collapsed by its giant sword was killed.
Hajin-seong and Hajin-woo were cut in half without even putting up a fight, and even Hwang Su-min and other Awakened were torn apart helplessly.
‘My figure wasn’t seen among them…’
The scenes I saw felt like I was looking down from the sky.
You could call it an omniscient observer’s point of view.
So I could see the area around the supermarket as a whole, but I was nowhere to be found. I only appeared after everything was over and my party was wiped out.
It ended with a scene of me on my knees, screaming in agony… so I wasn’t there when my party was being killed.
‘What happens when I’m not there. While I’m away… everyone dies.’
My slaves… and even my women… all of them.
This is a headache.
Why would I be away? I have no idea. Is it because I’m at the black market?
‘But why do zombies seem to swarm only to me so strangely? Is it because of the Favor of Ten Thousand Demons? Or is my luck stat messed up? What is it? What’s the reason?’
I feel like I’m going crazy. Seeing my women dead as blood-soaked pulp, I’m at the point where my blood vessels might burst from anger, irritation, and stress.
“Hahahaha!!! By your reaction, it seems you saw the worst possible future.”
As I was lost in my own anguish, the old man pulled out a pipe from his pocket and lit it. For some reason, he found it so amusing, puffing on his tobacco and laughing his head off.
I was on the verge of boiling over with anger at the sight of the old man laughing happily while I was being deadly serious, but he’s an unknown god. If I recklessly provoked him, I might suffer a fate worse than death.
I suppressed my anger internally.
‘This is not the time to be angry.’
The scenes I just saw… I need to deduce when the tragedy will occur.
‘Was the cherry blossom blooming?’
The trees in the scenes I saw were still not blooming with cherry blossoms.
Then it must happen before March ends.
‘What about the equipment we were wearing?’
It seemed the equipment hadn’t changed either.
Eun-ji was still holding her Chain Scythe, Aram was with her Short Sword, and Aram was still with her Hammer…
‘Wait, what Ha-rin was holding…’
It was a Claw.
Originally, Ha-rin was holding an axe, but in the scene I just saw, Ha-rin died with Claws on both hands, not an axe.
‘And…’
The three figures that lingered around Hee-seon noona… weren’t those elementals?
Then, it seems the invasion will start after Ha-rin gets the Claw and Hee-seon noona finishes her contract with three minor elementals.
‘And if the update history says Skeletons appear, I should definitely be on high alert from that point on.’
After a moment of consideration, I roughly deduced the timing of those damn monsters’ invasion.
After Skeletons appear, Ha-rin gets the Claw, and Hee-seon noona finishes her contract with the elementals, I must not leave my spot.
‘I need to be more careful with my body from now on.’
If I recklessly eat anything claiming to be good for my body and get into trouble, it’s all over. If the invasion starts while I’m out of my mind, it’s game over.
‘Still, the future has changed now that I’ve found out… I can’t just let that damn miserable future come to pass.’
If I keep my mind straight, I can prevent it.
If I just spam all my skills and fire my Signal Gun at that Headless Knight, it’ll eventually die.
If it doesn’t die, I can just tear the Guardian Cloth and summon Zic or summon the Deep-Rooted Patriarch.
I was vowing to do my best to prevent this misfortune when the old man, who had been quietly smoking, spoke as he exhaled smoke.
“It’s about time for you to go back.”
“Ah, yes.”
“But do you know the most basic property of dreams?”
“Huh? What’s that…?”
Another new keyword. Is there some complicated rule like at the black market?
I already have a million things to think about, so I wish he’d stop with the complicated and difficult topics.
“It’s nothing special. Dreams are forgotten once you wake up.”
“Yes…?”
“The way you came to me was through a dream. So, as soon as you wake up, your memory will become hazy, and if you’re not careful, you might forget everything you experienced in the dream.”
“W-wait a minute!”
Forget everything?
I have to remember. That shitty future I saw…
Only then can I prepare…
“It was nice meeting you. I hope to see you again at the end.”
Saying that, the old man clapped his hands.
Immediately, the space warped and was sucked in toward the old man.
Whoosh!
My consciousness was cut off instantly.
I woke up from my sleep.
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“Ugh…”
Squelch, squelch, squelch…
“W-what is this…”
My body is aching… What is this feeling, as if I haven’t slept at all? And this smell…?
It’s a… strange, lewd, and sticky scent of flesh…?
“Ahn…♡”
Squish, gulp…
“Ughk…!!!”
Instantly, a feeling of climax surged from below, and my body shuddered violently.
At the same time, I stretched my legs out and shot a full load of semen.
And the woman who didn’t miss a single drop, grabbing my dick and drinking up the pouring semen…
“W-what the hell!!”
It was Yewon.
With her blonde hair trailing and tears streaming down her face, she was sucking my dick… Why is she crying while sucking it?
“Why… why am I the last one… Ugh…”
I don’t know what she means by ‘last,’ but unlike usual, she clung to my dick as if she’d never let it be taken by anyone else and sucked it down like she was trying to devour it.
“W-wait…!! I, I have something I must not forget!! Ughk…!!!”
I couldn’t even get a word out before her huge chest smothered my face.
This heaviness and bulk… is this Mer?
“You’re awake. Good, did you have a nice dream?”
I hear Mer’s voice. I try to answer, but as I open my mouth, Mer’s nipple pops right in.
The soft, pliant texture made me instinctively start sucking on her breast.
‘Th-this isn’t right! These crazy women…! What did they do to me while I was sleeping!!’
Based on the amount of semen I feel soaking everything, it seems I was thoroughly milked without any mercy.
Of course, it’s nice. It’s not bad. No, to be honest, it would’ve been better to do it while I was awake, but… being taken the moment I wake up is also quite…
“Ughk!! Puhah…! W-wait… hold on!”
Even as this is happening, my memories are gradually becoming hazy.
Even the daily nightmare I first had is now completely blurry, and I don’t even remember what the dream was about.
No, what was I trying to remember?
“Hm? Oppa is awake…? Haam…”
Eun-ji, who was sleeping naked beside me, clung to me.
With women all over me, making me feel good, my mind is about to go blank.
So I shouted. Before the dream I worked so hard to see evaporates, I shouted out the contents.
“Everyone, listen carefully! We’re all going to die soon!”
I think I skipped a bit too much of the middle process…
“What kind of sleep-talking is this… Oppa…”
I spoke quite seriously, but it didn’t register at all.
They just think it’s my sleep-talking.
“No, no!! We might all die!! So, the reason is…”
“You had a scary dream. Don’t worry.”
Mer even gently stroked my head, as if to comfort me.
Feeling so cozy, my eyes are trying to close again…
“Ack! Skeleton Giant! Dullahan! Ha-rin’s Claw! Three Elementals!!”
Eventually, I shouted out whatever came to mind. Before I forgot the dream.