Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
64. Faith and test (7)
Above ground, in front of the TC Research Institute.
Because everything was shut down with Tao Wonu’s full-blown attack, the surrounding was dark.
In the darkness, Yong Jegeon stared quietly at the building, waiting.
Every time he sometimes felt superpower wave under the TC Research Institute, Yong Jegeon’s smile widened.
‘I want to go see it in person, but it won’t do, right? But wouldn’t it be wiser to wait to hear the story from Junyeol-yi later?’
Clearly, fun things were happening underground.
Yong Jegeon wanted to rush there right now, but he mobilized all reason and endured.
Yong Jegeon was endlessly persuading himself in his head.
‘If I move as I like, there is a high chance Uisin-i’s plan will go wrong, and if so, our Junyeol-yi will also be upset, and in the future the two won’t include me when something happens… no, even if they don’t include me, can’t I include myself?’
Yong Jegeon left behind Kim Sinrok, who came to the Yong tribe’s territory after a long time, and came here.
He had a thought that if he knew it would be like this, he would rather watch the process of Kim Sinrok torturing Cadmus.
However, he soon changed his thoughts.
‘The torture process can be watched later on the recorded video, but this matter won’t leave a record.’
The moment Yong Jegeon made up his mind to keep waiting.
Paaat!
Superpower wave, divided into three streams, shot out from the research institute.
The superpower wave itself wasn’t dangerous, but something bothered him.
‘…it isn’t kids’ superpower wave.’
Then something would happen soon.
When Yong Jegeon smiled widely, while the Demon used his superpower wave, he heard the alarm from the device.
— Beeep!
The satellite that detected an otherworld occurrence sent the warning to the devices around the otherworlds.
PlayerSAT-K captured three otherworlds.
Yong Jegeon also discovered three otherworlds.
Yong Jegeon was certain that the superpower wave, which was released a moment ago, was the reason for the otherworlds’ sudden occurrence.
‘There is no way it’s a coincidence, right? What should I do? I guess they used a skill or Gwangrim I don’t know about.’
Yong Jegeon stared with his mouth agape at the entrances of the otherworlds released by the superpower wave.
Soon, Yong Jegeon detected the cold and poison that started to encroach on the surroundings.
‘… I feel like I shouldn’t approach. Even so, I can’t leave it alone, right?’
Yong Jegeon expanded out his superpower wave and covered his body with it.
The superpower poison, as its name suggested, penetrated through superpowers and couldn’t be blocked by the superpower wave, but Yong Jegeon didn’t guess it.
‘Should I act as a defense team until a Player team comes to attack it?… but doesn’t the otherworld expansion seem to be extremely fast? It would be inefficient to block those otherworlds as a defense team. But I can’t conquer three otherworlds at the same time.’
But Yong Jegeon wasn’t even a bit worried.
‘Seeing how he told me to wait here, he already put down a move.’
Whoosh!
As he expected, the ‘move’ appeared.
As if they came here using the Leap skill, the Ho tribe members appeared from the air.
Those Ho tribe members were people Yong Jegeon knew.
“Cheong-ho’s disciples-ssi. Hi. I guess you have come to conquer the otherworld.”
“Yong Jegeon…!”
Yong Jegeon was happy to see Cheong-ho’s disciples.
It was not because they had exchanges, but because Cheong-ho’s disciples and Kim Sinrok’s relationship wasn’t bad.
Besides Cheong-ho and the musicians, who gave them music that pleased their ears, they treated everyone the same and Kim Sinrok was no exception.
They treated Kim Sinrok like any being that wasn’t Cheong-ho or a musician, and didn’t persecute him as the descendant of the Ung tribe.
So Yong Jegeon made a certain suggestion filled with friendliness and goodwill.
“I also planned to conquer those otherworlds just now, so how about we make a bet who will conquer them first?”
“… What kind of bet?”
“Who will conquer an otherworld first. Because there is four of you, there is no problem with dividing into parties.”
Cheong-ho’s disciples exchanged glances filled with wariness.
“If you conquer an otherworld slower than me, you will tell me the reason you visit the Eungwang Brilliant Light Children’s Home so often.”
“What did you say?!”
“Why that….”
Cheong-ho’s disciples openly showed their dislike of that.
Even so, they didn’t exactly refuse his suggestion, so Yong Jegeon saw through them clearly.
‘I guess Hwangho-ssi ordered them to cooperate with me. They hate to make a bet with me, but they hesitate worried that if they refuse too outright, I’ll refuse cooperating.’
Yong Jegeon decided to throw a prize that would suit Cheong-ho’s disciples’ tastes.
“How about Jane-yi’s limited album she released on a school festival during her Eungwang School’s student days?”
“Heuk.”
“It’s the one in which Jane-yi wrote comments about her feelings about music with her penmanship.”
“Kwon Jane-nim’s penmanship… feelings…!”
The album limited to the school festival during Kwon Jane’s student days couldn’t be measured by price.
Because it wasn’t sold anywhere and there were only people seeking it out, there was no balance of supply and demand.
Cheong-ho’s disciples stayed up all night and stood in line at the time Eungwang School’s festival limited album was sold, but in the end they failed to purchase it and until now never saw the album in real life.
But he said that precious album had even Kwon Jane’s feelings written by herself.
Cheong-ho’s disciples’ pupils trembled like an earthquake.
But soon Cheong-ho’s disciples shouted with firm voices.
“… We can’t, we can’t!”
“Keuk, how did one of those albums end up in the hands of Game category dragon…?”
“Yong Jegeon was a teacher at Eungwang School at that time, right…?”
“I should have also worked as teacher when Kwon Jane-nim was attending school.”
“I tried to ask Hwangho-nim at that time, but He didn’t agree.”
While Cheong-ho’s disciples despaired, Yong Jegeon smiled ecstatically.
Seeing that face, the tigers felt their fur stand up.
“…”
They refused the suggestion, but Yong Jegeon’s mood seemed so good, it would pierce the sky.
Cheong-ho’s disciples thought they might have made a slip of a tongue, but looking back, there was no mistake.
Didn’t they give up Kwon Jane’s limited album and chose to protect their master’s secret right now?
Yong Jegeon replied like he completely read what Cheong-ho’s disciples were thinking.
“I know very well how much you love the character of Jane-yi’s music. There must be a secret at the Eungwang Brilliant Light Children’s Home that overcome your fan spirit, right?”
Cheong-ho’s disciples cursed inside.
That said, they couldn’t accept that bet, so it was truly suffocating.
When the four tigers belatedly realized they have been played by the Game category Yong’s word games.
Swish!
Someone appeared, leaping even more nimbly than Cheong-ho’s disciples.
Under the moonlight, pretty eyes containing golden light shone.
The one who newly appeared was Hwang-ho in his 20 years old appearance.
“Otherworlds occurred, so what are you doing? I deliberately sent you first.”
“Hwangho-nim!”
“Did You deal with those people?”
“The number of ‘mercenaries’ chasing Tao Wonu was quite higher than expected. They took some time to deal with.”
Hwang-ho recalled all the people, who he dealt with a moment ago, while he spoke.
Mercenaries employed at the TC Research Institute mixed among the security team.
Each one of them was an outstanding Player, and they all had techniques specializing in facing Players like them rather than Enemies.
‘… Even though they knew I was a Jin, they weren’t flustered. Did they expect to face a Jin someday?’
Hwang-ho at first faced them using bō martial arts.
Then the mercenaries were fast to counterattack like they expected Hwang-ho to use bō martial arts.
It seemed like they were even trained against the opponent using the bō martial arts.
‘Those mercenaries even tried to use superpower poison. If this one didn’t unfold and put on the Barrier Art right away, it would be annoying.’
If it was a ‘Bō Martial Art’ skill, there was a Jin that came to mind.
Hwang-ho started to have a guess what was underground.
And it seemed that Hwang-ho’s benefactor underground already noticed it.
“It was a long time since I saw chairman Hwangho-ssi of this age. Do you want to make a bet with me?”
Hwang-ho didn’t address Yong Jegeon.
Instead, he threw a medicine envelope meticulously sealed with superpower paper at Yong Jegeon.
That medicine envelope contained the antidote to the superpower poison, which the head of the Nok tribe[1], Hyangrok was developing.
“What is it?”
“Eat it before you enter the otherworld.”
Seeing Hwang-ho and Cheong-ho’s disciples all eat the medicine, Yong Jegeon followed suit.
Yong Jegeon’s expression became subtle.
“… It’s disgusting. Must I endure it and eat it? My insides hurt too.”
“The internal organs will melt a little. I heard it improved since the last time, but it still hasn’t been completed, eh?”
“Will I die if I don’t eat it?”
“If you’re eaten away by the superpower poison, your superpowers will be paralyzed. If you want to fight Enemies without superpowers, I won’t stop you.”
The Jin people, who swallowed the antidote, circulated superpower wave in their bodies to regenerate their organs.
Hwang-ho headed to the closest otherworld’s entrance, while he spoke to the Cheong-ho’s disciples.
“I and Yong Jegeon will take care of one otherworld each. You conquer the remaining one.”
Hwang-ho hastily entered the otherworld.
He wanted to conquer the otherworld in seconds and head underground.
* * *
As if not believing my words that the otherworlds will be conquered, the Demon looked at me with ridicule.
But my words were not a supposition but a fact.
I already knew about the existence of the three Frozen otherworlds before I came here, so it would be strange not to prepare.
‘Without clues left in the Imoogi’s Rise To Heaven, it would be dangerous.’
In the meantime, the letters binding the Demon increased one by one.
I blocked the Demon’s mouth with the letters in the handwriting with a power worthy to be left in the books by old writers.
I spoke to the Demon, who couldn’t tease his mouth any longer.
“Are you waiting for support?”
The Demon didn’t show agitation.
Just before we entered, Hwang Jiho discovered people chasing after Tao Wonu.
Even though they knew of Tao Wonu’s abilities, they were following after him.
If they were Players, who were worthy of facing Tao Wonu, it wasn’t strange to be so confident.
“They won’t be able to come.”
But I didn’t think they would be able to do anything to the head of the Ho tribe.
I engraved the last phrase directly on the Demon’s body, so he couldn’t move any longer.
Pshh…. Psssssst….!
Jegal Jaegeol’s kotodama burned the Demon’s skin.
For a second, capillaries blued in the Demon’s eyes, who felled calmness.
He looked at the phrase engraved on him like a stigma and seemed to steam with hatred.
But after kotodama was engraved on his body, the only thing he could do was to wait to be dragged off to the Ho tribe’s torture chamber.
After dealing with the Demon, I checked on Tao Wonu’s safety.
Now was the turn to head to the next goal.
“… We can’t leave him alone, right? I’ll drag him.”
Did you say drag him, not take him?
There was something strange about those words, but Yu Sang-hun acted exactly as he said.
Yu Sang-hun grabbed the Demon’s ankle and started to drag him across the ground.
While he moved, the Demon hit against the obstacles in the underground botanical garden, that turned into a mess of Enemies and plants, but Yu Sang-hun didn’t care.
‘Because his body is just stiffened, he will feel pain properly.’
It wasn’t my concern what the Demon felt.
When I stopped worrying about the Demon and carefully headed to the destination, Tao Wonu asked.
“You — who the hell…” [2]
Tao Wonu seemed to have tried to ask about my identity, but he quickly shut his mouth.
I guess he judged it wasn’t a good situation to ask about my identity.
After I took the lead and eliminated several purple vines that blocked the way ahead.
We at last reached the destination.
The TC Research Institute’s underground test lab.
It was the test lab hidden in the deepest part of his place.
Uuung…..!
Behind the door made out of the otherworld metal, jolted a superpower wave of ominous light.
“I know you’re inside. Come out.”
I shouted towards the door, towards the lenses that were certainly placed on the door.
Then the door hastily opened.
Clang!
When the door opened, several people in white lab coats jumped out.
And among them was the person I was searching for.
“… Sanghui-ah!”
Among the researchers was Yu Sang-hui.
And an injection needle was aimed at Yu Sang-hui’s throat.
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[1] Nok tribe — nok for ‘deer’.
[2] “You — who the hell…” — polite you.
Translator’s note: Finally, after ages, I get to make some notes, but they’re only assistance notes… this arc is really testing me.
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