chapter 69
69 – Forced Breakthrough (1)
“…Okay, let’s finish this simple training. As everyone is taking lectures at the academy, it’s not too long. I believe you don’t have to explain. If you have any questions, please contact me.”
“”Yes!””
“Then, speaking of activities in earnest, the region we will mainly be in charge of our activities will be the northeast region of China. Overall, the level of monsters is low, but the occurrence rate is high and the number of monsters is high, so we organized it to some extent. It’s a place where you have to put your strength into it.”
“If possible, I’ll help with easy things like dealing with rubbish mobs, but in case of an emergency, make sure to stick together as a team.”
Therefore, the club’s activities arrived at a base exclusively for Guardians in China.
“Ohh… These facilities are implemented better than I thought…”
“What are you doing there?”
“Um… Nothing. Let’s go.”
In fact, it is said that the degree of freedom of the game is very good, but it really did not make the entire earth a playable area, so this was the first place I had ever been to.
Until now, except for the academy, I’ve been wandering around in Korea…
For the first time, I was able to appreciate my surroundings with the excitement of traveling abroad.
Yeah, until I first arrived.
“Hey! Monsters are coming towards Gate 3 now. Help us here!”
“This is number 5, and the amateurs made an accident again. Please take care of this one too!”
“Haa… Haa… Hey, where else can I go…?”
“Oh, are you here? One team has already gone to number 3, can you apply for number 5?”
Crazy.
The level of activity is insane.
Since the site itself is so vast and vast, there are so many dungeons that exist.
It didn’t matter where the monster yield was high because other guardians were active, but places where the efficiency was extremely low, such as {Hound Dog] Or [Stone Worm], Were relatively poorly managed, so accidents were frequent. It tended to happen.
So, we had no choice but to keep putting the cover on to do the aftermath.
“Ah… Thank you..! Excuse me, but please give me your name…”
“Oh, my name is Aria…”
“Aria? No time. Next call.”
“Yes….. Okay. Then go inside carefully…!”
Monsters pop up all the time.
I’d like to tell you to clean it up and clean it up so that they don’t protrude a bit, but the number of monsters is not enough to take lightly, so it would be difficult to clean them all up.
In the end, in their situation, the limit was to organize the monsters in the dungeon that were popping out beyond the capacity.
“Yes. Good job. It’s a lot harder than I thought, right?”
“Heh-uh… Heh-uh… Yes…”
“But it won’t be like this normally. It’s the first day, but a lot of accidents happened today. It’s okay to go in and rest now.”
“Thank you……”
When I finally returned to the dormitory with a tired body, I realized that something was seriously wrong.
Come to think of it now, it was odd that no cadets were trying to join the club except for the three of us.
Perhaps the other seniors were paying attention to this insane difficulty.
There were two types of people who remained at this club.
First, people who really want to help people and are full of genuine service.
People like Arya and her brother belonged to this category.
In the first place, it is extremely inefficient to look at money and participate in this club.
They are really good-hearted people.
Of course, they are also part of the club.
And the second was combat fanatics who enjoyed the ongoing battles.
Since the term “Fighting fanatic” Sounds a little strange, let’s think of them as people who voluntarily sent out to train for combat situations.
Their purpose is only actual combat with monsters. It is focused on matching the breath of the team in real situations.
In particular, Yoo Chun-hwa belonged to the second category, and she was also caught up in a battle with monsters.
Arya may have been moved by the fact that she voluntarily took on the difficult area, but she rather joined the forced march of Cheonhwa, and in the end, she said that she was the only one who got stuck in the middle of it.
“Haa… That’s not what I was thinking. There’s no time left at all…? Even the monsters you deal with aren’t the ones that make a lot of money, so it’s too long if you go on like this. It takes…”
On the first day of joining, I seriously contemplated leaving, but there was no other way for me to get more money.
That’s why there aren’t that many opportunities to go out in first grade.
If this is the case, in the end, there are two options to make money quickly.
Winning in terms of quantity, or competing in terms of quality.
At least for now, it’s not an area I can choose from.
In a complicated situation, all I could do was hold onto my messy head, rest the rest of the time, and prepare for the next day’s schedule.
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Even if the next activity day passes like that, and the next day comes.
The situation has not changed at all.
I still deal with a lot of rubbish mobs, but the money that came in was not much.
It’s been a few times that I’ve taken pride in helping people in my own way and tried to win my spirits, but now I don’t even think about it anymore after moving enough to get tired of the beautiful scenery at the beginning.
Really… I can’t help but pay tribute to those who remain at this club.
So today, after arranging several hound dogs, it was time to wait at the branch again to receive the next call.
[Emergency occurs! An emergency occurs! Immediately go to Gate 12 to request personnel! Please as much as possible!]
“What, what…! What’s going on…!”
“….. It doesn’t happen often at this time of year, what the hell is going on? Please report the situation.”
“That…That’s… It seems that the team that entered the dungeon for the [Strategy] Had an accident. A large number of monsters are pouring out of the dungeon right now, and the raid team seems to be besieged by monsters from the inside. ….!”
[Strategy] Of a dungeon can be said to be the task of penetrating into the depths and destroying the very existence of the dungeon, unlike people who fight monsters in general.
As you penetrate deeper, the difficulty and quantity of monsters change, and you have to deal with the boss monster that exists inside to complete the [Attack].
But something is strange.
“What are you talking about! Do the dungeon capture teams fail? It’s not like they work once or twice, how can a team with an important role of capture cause an accident…!!!”
Literally, attack is the last resort.
Since the spoils that can be obtained from the corpses of monsters are of great help to the development of mankind, there are only a few dungeons that can be raided unless they are extremely dangerous or occur in large quantities.
And that’s why dungeon raids are done more carefully and thoroughly than anything else.
But the fact that the capture team made a mistake can only be said to be strange.
“They say that the amount of monsters is too much compared to the measured result. The level is normal, so there seems to be no problem to endure it… But it seems that the main healer has collapsed due to stamina depletion, so there seems to be a limit to enduring it. This is it.”
“Such an idiot…! Send only the minimum number of people to the rest of the area, and gather everyone this way!!!!”
The person in charge of the leadership of this place shouted loudly and began to summon people.
Our club was also summoned here, and as soon as we arrived, we knew the seriousness of the situation.
“What…? This nonsensical number… It seems like a war is going on somewhere…”
“Normalally, it would appear around the entrance and stop, but to come out to the front like this is…”
Not every monster is strong.
This could be said to be an overwhelming number of violence.
Besides, that monster is [Armor Ant].
The number of monsters that were hard to catch because they were wearing armor with excellent defense increased dozens of times than usual, and people were getting in the way of entering the dungeon.
Many people have tried their best to rescue the team, but the speed at which the armor ant decreases is too slow.
If we continue like this, the internal team will not be able to endure and will eventually self-destruct.
“Damn..!!! It took so long to pierce. How can I last longer?”
“That… I think even an hour will be the limit…”
“An hour?!? Are you kidding me? It takes at least two hours. If you’re in the depths, you can’t even predict how long it will take…!!!”
It’s dangerous.
If we continue like this, it will be too late to stop the rampage in that dungeon.
But there was nothing we could do.
Just follow the other team and focus on clearing the surrounding monsters.
This was all we could do.
‘……But is this really all I can do…?’
But I couldn’t stop the thoughts from running through my head.
Here, a plan that no one else can do, only me, continues to flicker through my head.
But…
No, this is crazy.
Right now I don’t even know what’s going on inside, so there’s no need to overdo it to save a team that might be.
But why, why the hell.
Go ahead and rescue them.
You can do it, it was as if this ‘Kim Ga-sok’ was talking to me.
When the time of endless agony passed, and in the end, when he rejoined the battle without being convinced.
“What are you doing…! Wake up!”
“Aria…?”
“Let’s do what we can to help as much as we can. Come on, come on…!”
Why the hell does she go to such lengths to rescue people?
If this world was just in that game, it would have been nothing more than an embodied AI.
But at least now I know that this world is real.
I know that the game is just a base, a world where people really live and breathe.
“….. Aria. If there’s a way to rescue that team that no one else can, only me… What do you think? Even if it puts your life in danger, I’ll try….?”
“I’m not sure, but is there a way? If so… I want to at least try it.”
Yes.
This is like a moth to a fire.
At least with my own strength, I can’t defeat all of those countless monsters.
But at least, you can try to rescue the team inside.
This plan requires two people.
One person who believes in me and can jump into a dangerous situation with me.
Yoo Chun-hwa is possible, but what I need now is a healer.
And at least, Arya is the only healer who is treated with dignity and can follow me even risking her life.
The other one is…
“It’s my platform to do this crazy thing in earnest… hahahaha… It’s really crazy…”
Worth a try.
In the past, crazy things I could do that I couldn’t even dare to do because I was busy protecting my own life.
“Roughly, you know what you’re going to do, don’t you?”
“Honestly, I’m nervous, but… I’ve done it once before…? I think it’s a roller coaster that lasts a little longer.”
“….. Yes. Maybe it’s possible because you’re that positive.”
The plan must be executed immediately.
Because it’s crazy that other acquaintances will see.
She picked her up, filled up her stamina to the maximum, and looked at those countless armor ants.
You can’t rest even for a moment.
Speed up to the limit I can, and quickly break through the dungeon before they get caught.
“…… Forced breakthrough like this. Hold tight.”
“….. Yes.”
Like that, I took the first step through the tidal wave of monsters.