Chapter 361
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 361
Chapter Title: Sealing the Rifts
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Truly, thank you.
The pain in his back was gone, and even his sealed abilities had returned.
Lee Yoo-chan expressed his heartfelt gratitude toward Lee Na-yeon.
Its fine. More importantly, we dont have time.
Yes?
I mean we need to clear this place quickly and move on to the next one.
Ah.
Right.
He was in the middle of carrying out the avatar quest, wasnt he?
To stop the invasion, they had to close not just this portal, but all the others as well.
Then lets hurry.
Yeah, got it.
He had a ton of questions for her, but she didnt seem like the type to answer them right now.
So Lee Yoo-chan followed behind her.
It mustve been an expensive potion, because the pain in his back had lessened considerably.
As he fiddled with his back with his hand, Lee Na-yeon noticed and smiled as she replied.
Its a top-grade potion.
T-Top-grade?!
A top-grade potion.
It cost a whopping 200,000 points to buy just one.
No way shed use something that precious on me.
Does she have a thing for me?!
A single hypothesis popped into Lee Yoo-chans head.
But shes a bit older for that.
Even giving her the benefit of the doubt, she was in her late thirties.
That meant she was at least ten years older than his twenty-seven.
Older women arent really my thing.
Lee Yoo-chan pulled out his smartphone and checked his face in the camera.
A pretty handsome mug.
Hed had nonstop relationships since school days thanks to his smooth talk and social skills.
A woman like that? He could easily seduce her.
A woman at that level, casually using top-grade potions like its nothingshes gotta be loaded.
Totally possible!
Lee Yoo-chan grinned as he trailed after Lee Na-yeon.
At that moment, she turned her head and beckoned him.
See that forest over there?
The spot she pointed to was the entrance to a dense woods.
Yeah? What about the forest?
No way shes luring me in there?!
You dont feel it?
Lee Na-yeon narrowed her eyes as she asked.
Is she signaling she doesnt like the innocent act?
Lee Yoo-chan nodded with the most relaxed smile he could muster.
Ah, yeah, I feel it.
Good. Mind covering me, then?
Yeah?
Cover me. There are dark elves lying in ambush over there.
Oh.
Only then did Lee Yoo-chan realize his mistake, and his face flushed bright red.
Lets move. No time to waste.
He dashed toward the forest as she slipped behind nearby cover to set up for sniping.
Shit, total misunderstanding.
Good thing she didnt catch on.
If she had, it wouldve been black history materialhed be kicking the blankets for years.
Then again, maybe its because shes over level 2,000? She spotted the dark elf ambush right away.
Unlike her, Lee Yoo-chan only sensed their presence once he got close to the forest.
He activated Sword Shield, raised his sword, and slashed down from above as if tearing through the air.
The sword strike engulfed the forest entrance with a whoosh of parted wind.
Tch.
Sharp-eyed human, arent you.
The hidden dark elves revealed themselves.
As they nocked arrows toward Lee Yoo-chan.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Gunshots rang out in succession.
Gah!
The dark elves let out death cries as they crumpled to the ground.
Every one of them had their heads pierced clean through.
The sight of their skulls exploding was gruesomely nauseating, but his high mental stat compensated, leaving him unfazed.
Bang! Bang!
More shots followed.
A dark elf still lurking in ambush, waiting for an opening, took a bullet through the tree and straight into its skull.
Only after the entrance guards were wiped out did Lee Na-yeon finish sniping and join Lee Yoo-chan.
Any injuries?
He vigorously shook his head at her question.
None!
All hed done was draw the dark elves attention.
Shed taken them all out.
Good. Then lets keep moving.
Yes!
Jeong Hoons expression was hardened.
Logos mustve added a level amplification device for the invaders.
Yeah. No way that guy would sit still.
He wants you to rush into the divine realm. Once youre there, youll have ways to block the invasion.
He wants to erase Tenebris somehow.
No, more likely, he just wants to get rid of the one who humiliated him.
Master, we cant hold out like this. What do we do?
Thanatos asked with a grave look.
No portals had hit zero yet, but closing them all was practically impossible.
Its fine. If hes playing dirty, Ive got plans of my own.
Right now, in Seoul, his mother, Fenrir, and Michael were each handling their zones, wiping them out diligently.
In the meantime, Jeong Hoon had been preparing something: normalization.
As the dimensions lord, he had intervention rights.
Fixing damaged code was beyond him, but tweaking intact code was doable.
Once they cross into Earth, the amplification effect gets auto-deleted.
On top of that, slap on max-level debuffs to massively weaken them.
Deleting amplification effect.
After investing quite some time, the amplification effect was easily removed.
Adding debuff.
Level Reduction
All Stats -50
Add the debuffs too.
This should be more than enough to repel the invasion.
Done now?
Thanatos nodded with an impressed look.
Perfect!
Bzzz-
Just then, a call came in from Yeo Min-ji.
She mustve finished the 6th trial.
Perfect timing.
With her joining after clearing the 6th, shed be a huge help.
Yeah.
Hoon! Im super late, right?
Her voice over the smartphone was incredibly bright.
She succeeded.
Anyone could tell from her tone that it was a win.
Congratulations.
Eek! That obvious?
Yeah.
Hehe, took forever, but succeeding feels great.
Glad to hear it. I was worried when it dragged on that maybe you failed.
Of course I had to succeed! Ill fill you in on the details later. But can you explain whats going on right now?
Quick on the uptake, as always.
Yeah. As you can see, the dungeons are gone. Red portals have taken their place.
Red portals?
Its an invasion. Theres a timer on eachclose the rift before it hits zero, or you get invasion penalties.
Oh my god Close all these within the time limit?
Yeah.
No choices here.
Like dungeons, do they keep spawning more?
Nah, I dont think so.
Red portals stopped spawning once they reached a certain number, as far as he could tell.
With the amplification deletion and debuff addition rippling out worldwide, the portals were already starting to dwindle.
No new ones since, so eliminating the existing ones should stop the invasion.
Got it. Ill focus on taking these out, then.
Thanks.
The call ended.
Jeong Hoon stood up.
Oh? Heading out?
Yeah. Jobs done here. Time to focus on wiping out the invasion.
Fenrir and Michael were hard at work blocking invasions.
With Jeong Hoon and Yeo Min-ji joining, they could really pick up the pace.
At that moment.
Lee Na-yeon and Lee Yoo-chan had used the radar to target a portal with little time left and entered.
Probably a bunch of other avatars headed there too. Well link up with them and move together.
Better efficiency in groups than scattering.
And the ones guarding this place werent monstersthey were humans.
Helmeted and armored sentries.
Fortunately, Lee Na-yeon reacted fast enough to stop them from signaling.
Rifling through their belongings afterward, they found something buried: the corpse of an avatar, cold and still.
How could they do this to a fellow human, even if theyre the enemy!
Enemy or not, this was too much.
Lee Yoo-chan trembled at the sight of the body.
It was so mangled it was unrecognizableonly the floating info window revealed it was a Korean.
Lets pray for their rest.
Lee Na-yeon gathered the bodies, buried them quietly, and offered a prayer.
Their levels were early-to-mid 900s.
Not low by any means, but the reason they fell was simple.
No one beats a gang-up.
What do we do?
The portal guards were humans like Lee Yoo-chan.
Imperial knights hed faced to death in the game.
Average level 500, but their numbers overwhelmed two avatars.
Even ones over 900 had met gruesome ends.
Even if Lee Na-yeon was over 2,000, could she handle that many?
No need to worry. Well just blast through with firepower.
Yeah, got it.
Lee Yoo-chan nodded at her confident words.