Chapter 5. Dear Friends (1)
Chapter 5. Dear Friends (1)
- Ah ㅡㅡ
- Ah, I'm eating ㅡㅡ
- Ugh
A strange magic circle was drawn on the floor, and in the center of it lay a corpse that appeared to be a villager.
And this corpse was in a cruel state, with both arms and legs tied, the stomach slit open, and intestines exposed.
"Judging by the expression, it seems they died while still alive. And this... there are teeth marks on the intestines.
They probably watched themselves get eaten alive. Looking at this, it seems they practiced cannibalism regularly."
- Uweeeeeeeek!
- Ah, I won't be able to eat intestine soup for a while.
- Just intestine soup? I can't even touch sundae.
- Jumo, go back!
- In the middle of all that, what's up with Sura's observation skills?
"I had many opportunities to see things like this when I was in Murim. The worst of the Magyo bastards used to do this."
- That concept is intense!
- No, but why does it sound like it's true? Is it really not a concept?
While the Tusu were talking, an unexpected person opened their mouth.
[Hmm. What is Murim?]
As Lunance's voice was heard, Sura immediately turned off the in-game microphone and pressed pause.
"Gasp! What do I do! What should I say to Lunance-nim?"
- Karma repayment.
- It's the karma you built up, so endure it with evil and guts!
- Usually, when you talk to NPCs about things unrelated to the worldview, they just pretend not to know, right? But Lunance is someone who even broke the fourth wall, so I don't know.
- Try talking about it seriously once lol. I'm curious.
Seeing the chat, Sura hesitated for a moment before turning off the in-game microphone and unpausing.
"Ahem. You must know the fact that I am not from this place, Lunance-nim."
[I know.]
"In my original world, I lost consciousness for two months, and at that time, I went to another world called Murim. It is a place overflowing with martial artists who possess skills far greater than the knights here.
I was the strongest person there."
- In the middle of that, he says he was the strongest lol.
- Sura's pride MAX lololol.
Sura tried to add a supplementary explanation before Lunance could say anything.
"Uh... this might sound like a strange story, but it's true..."
[...That is an interesting story. I believe you.]
"Pardon?"
[You are stronger than me. I assumed there was a reason of your own.]
[But it is an even more interesting reason.]
[I believe you.]
At those words, Sura's heart became complicated.
He 'was' The World's Best.
Murim Alliance Leader. Leader of the Sadoryeon. Cheon-ma. And the honor gained from defeating others.
But after returning to this Earth, nothing remained.
No martial arts. No close friends. No lovers. No other connections.
Only Yeom Ga-hyeon remained.
Even when he told people this, they all called it a lie or a concept, so Sura's heart had become confused before he knew it.
[Why are you like that?]
"...Just. My heart is complicated."
[You are bland.]
Something surged in Sura's heart, but he didn't show it anymore.
Meanwhile, the Tusu...
- Look at the streamer's immersion.
- Our streamer is thinking about Murim right now, so everyone be quiet lol.
- Real lol. Sura, the god of acting lol.
Sura pressed pause.
"Be quiet before I ban every single one of you."
- Dd-dd-dd Sura announces mass bans dd-dd-dd.
- I'm scared...!
While the Tusu were teasing him like that, Sura's complicated heart was sorted out.
Sura unpaused and continued the game.
"Hmm. First. Where that voice was heard..."
- If you want to walk the path to eliminate evil things! Obtain it!
"Ah... is this it?"
A book stained with blood in front of the magic circle.
It was a book so stained with blood that one couldn't even see inside properly.
[Hmm? This is a Magic book.]
"Pardon? A Magic book?"
[Yes. And a very high-tier one at that. Wash it with water. That Magic book won't even get wet from water.]
On one hand, the Tusu react to Lunance's words.
- Wow, there was a Magic book here.
- Info) The Magic book is the core power of the protagonist of Ancient Booklet 8.
When he dipped the book in water that seemed to have been used for rituals nearby, the blood and the book separated. Soon, when he took the book out, unknown letters were revealed.
"Why is this here..."
[It was probably trying to corrupt it. If you corrupt a Holy-attribute Magic book into an Evil-attribute one, there is nothing that becomes stronger than that.]
Following Lunance's words, the Tusu provide supplementary explanations.
- Info) There are 3 types of Magic books: Holy, Evil, and Neutral.
- Wow, to think there was a Holy-attribute Magic book here.
"Hmm. What should I do with this..."
[Learn it.]
"Learn it? This?"
[Try reading it once.]
"Uh... uh? Why can I read it?"
- Ah lol that's the current protagonist's power.
- That's right lol Sura was a newbie, right lol.
Sura began to read the Magic book, and the metaphysical words inside the book began to be read.
It was the story of a hero who slays demons.
When he finished reading the book, someone's voice was heard again.
- Can you bring death to the demons and achieve a great feat?
"Uh... yes. I will do it."
According to Lunance and the Tusu, it seemed right to learn this, so Sura answered without hesitation that he would.
Then, the book rose with a bright light, and the letters contained within it floated up and were absorbed into Sura.
A moment later, Sura succeeded in absorbing the contents of the book.
[You have acquired 'Magic: Slayer of Demons'!]
When Sura entered the skill window through the menu window, one magic was clearly established.
[I, having vowed to eliminate evil things, that vow shakes the whole world.]
- It gives higher damage to Evil-attribute characters!
- You can use 'Blade that Destroys Evil'!
- You can use 'Evil Detection'!
- Wow, 3? If it's 3, that's the maximum, right?
- This is huge. This will be essential.
- Wow, I should get this later.
Sura, who had pressed pause for a moment, asked the Tusu.
"Does the main quest originally start with obtaining magic?"
- It's true, but you don't get something this good!
- Yeah, at first they just give you one ability.
Sura, who had been talking with the Tusu, came out of Wig's house.
Looking around for a moment, Sura sat near the wall of the building and leaned his body against the wall.
"Phew."
Sura thought that Roland and the party would bring the people to a safe place soon.
As if that thought was correct, a moment later, Roland and Mistel could be seen in the distance.
"Suraaaaaaaa!!!"
"Hey! Sura! Are you okay?"
As they came running in a hurry, Sura waved his hand to let them know he was alive.
"Suraaaaaa! Thank goodness! Thank goodness!"
"Roland! Stop hugging me!"
As Roland rushed at him and hugged him, Sura tried to push him away, but ended up patting his back.
Beside him, Mistel watched the two and smiled.
"Uban is taking care of the people. That's why Roland and I came."
"Yeah. Let's go. Let's return."
As the three were returning, Roland asked as if he had thought of something.
"Come to think of it. Sura. Did you take the strange orb that Wig was holding?"
"Ah. That's right. It's probably near the village entrance. Let's take it and go. If we give it to General Sallin, she'll know what it is."
The party took the strange orb from Wig's corpse at the entrance.
In the midst of that, it was a bonus that Roland looked at Wig's corpse with curiosity.
After leaving the village and walking for a while, Uban and Arianne could be seen.
"Ah! Sura-ssi!"
Arianne ran over and grabbed Sura's two hands.
"Thank you so much! Really! I thought I was going to die for sure!"
"Don't mention it."
As Sura said with a smirk, Arianne also smiled brightly.
"Good. You were alive."
Uban approached and spoke.
"Well. Yes. Uban-ssi. How are the people's conditions?"
"As you can see, everyone is fine."
While the party was talking like that, Sura tried using the magic.
It was because there was something he wanted to check just in case.
'There might be a demon follower among them.'
Even if Arianne had filtered them, there might be demon followers remaining among them.
It was really just in case.
"I, having vowed to eliminate evil things, that vow shakes the whole world."
"Huh? Sura. What are you saying?"
Even at Roland's question, Sura finished casting the magic.
A bright light appeared around Sura and wrapped around him.
"Ohho! This is... Magic! I am seeing something very precious!"
At Uban's exclamation, the party finally realized that Sura was casting magic.
Meanwhile, Sura used 'Evil Detection' among the functions of the magic.
'Evil Detection'
Then, a bright light leaked out from the people.
Fortunately, everyone except one was wrapped in bright light.
'...Roland?'
Only Roland was colored pitch black.
- What is this. Roland?
- What?? Why only Roland??
- Wow, it's so black you can't even see it?
Sura, who had pressed pause for a moment, started talking to the Tusu.
"What is this. Why is Roland?"
Roland was definitely a helpful and kind being to Sura.
That he was an evil person. Sura couldn't believe it.
- No, why ask us;;
- Roland is originally a disposable character who dies, so we don't know either.
- Roland has more than one or two suspicious points.
- That's right. Durandal. And the fact that he learns Sura's swordsmanship strangely well. And the fact that he came out as an evil person in this Evil Detection.
- That's true? Come to think of it. General Sallin barely learned it, but Roland learned it similarly, right?
- Suspicious, Roland!
"...Hmm. Should I just leave him for now?"
- Eh. What are you going to do if you get backstabbed later.
- Why don't you just try attacking him.
There were many opinions from the Tusu that Roland was unsettling, but Sura's sixth sense was strangely not saying so.
'Something. He feels like he's on my side?'
Sura's sixth sense could not be ignored even in Murim.
Crossing the line between life and death, Sura's sixth sense evolved to be strangely sensitive.
Sura trusted that sense.
"Hmm. Isn't it more fun to get backstabbed later?"
- Ah, that is true lol.
- Even if Roland backstabs him, I think Sura could win.
- Come to think of it, he even beat Lunance lol.
Having persuaded the Tusu like that, Sura resumed the game.
"Phew. Fortunately, there are no demon followers here. I used it just in case there were any demon followers."
"Ohho! It must be a function of magic. That's a relief."
Only then did the party feel relieved.
Everyone seemed to have been worried in secret that there might be more demon followers.
"Let's go to Mopran for now. We'll meet General Sallin there and help you settle down."
"Let's do that. I'll be seeing Sallin in a while."
With Uban's words, the party set off on the road back to Mopran.
'I think I got caught.'
On the way. Roland thought to himself.
'But he's not saying anything?'
Roland looked at Sura for a moment.
Sura smiling as he looked at him.
Roland looked forward again.
'Does he trust me?'
Trust?
Roland sneered.
In that hellscape he had lived in.
Trusting someone could not be tolerated.
'Interesting...'
This feeling. It wasn't bad.
Roland started to like Sura a little.
[That. Damn thing.]
Lunance's voice was heard from somewhere, but Roland ignored it.
"Uban. Were you alive?"
"Keuk keuk. Sallin. Thanks to you, I almost died."
"What a shame."
Sallin and Uban met and talked to each other.
Through the conversation, they received permission to settle the villagers in Mopran, and priests and knights were dispatched to the demon follower village, Morcan, to begin an investigation.
As a result, they succeeded in grasping that the demonic claws of Garuan Mafras had reached this village.
"Well. That's the story. These demon followers had reached out even to such an outlying village."
A few days later, Sallin, Roland, and Sura were training and listening to the progress of the case.
As a result of that day's quest, Sura was appointed as a knight and received knight armor and some gold.
Even after being appointed as a knight, he remained a kind of free knight, not a knight of the lord of Mopran.
It was a bonus that the lord of Mopran was disappointed.
Just as Sallin was about to give a new main quest, the game was paused.
"Ha... I will do it up to here today."
- Ah, you played a lot today. Good job.
- Real, the story progression was a steal. Good job.
"Then I will go. T-bye!"
With that, Sura ended the streaming.
"Thank you."
Ga-hyeon, who came out of the capsule, approached Su-han.
Meanwhile, Su-han seemed to be lost in thought, as if he were worrying about something.
"Ga-hyeon. That thing about you going to another world when you were in a coma. Is it true?"
At Su-han's words, Ga-hyeon nodded.
"It sounds like crazy talk, but it's true."
"...Phew. I'll believe you now."
"You didn't believe me until now?"
"It was half and half?"
Saying that, Su-han sighed.
"You looked a bit complicated in the middle of the broadcast. Do you think I wouldn't know? You're so sincere about it, so I'm going to really believe you now."
It seems Su-han decided to believe him properly after seeing Sura's reaction in-game.
"...Thank you."
"Hey. That aside. If you really went there, do you shoot things like palm blasts too?"
At those words, Ga-hyeon shook his head.
"That. I checked once before. Qi doesn't gather. It didn't seem to work."
"That's a shame. I wanted to see a palm blast."
"What palm blast. Should I show you even in virtual reality?"
"Oh. Is that possible?"
"Of course. Even just Chivalry was the same as handling Qi."
"Wow. Show me sometime later. I'm curious."
"Yeah, yeah."
The two's idle conversation continued for a long time.