chapter 18
became an academy guard
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[You have entered ‘<DLC04> The end of the waiting’.]
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It is the beginning of the Easter egg contained in <Halloween>, the 4th expansion pack of ‘Hero Name: ZEUS’.
view getting darker.
I was so lost.
When I opened my eyes, I was in the guard room at the main entrance of the academy.
A translucent window appeared.
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[You are the academy’s security guard.
Please refer to the working rules on the desk?]
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I looked out the window and it was dark.
But strangely, the students wandered around as if it were daytime.
Exactly, something that looks like a student.
All the people walking around had clumsy faces.
Like a very old 3D game character, it has eyes, nose and mouth, but it is very bizarre because it is roughly formed.
I read the working rules on the desk.
———–<Working Rules>———–
Academy Security Guard Rules.
Modified in January 2024 (Worker Yoo Ki-tae).
Employees are punctual and must contact the administration when they are away.
Violation of the working rules may have a negative effect on the evaluation of working attitudes.
1) Academy starts at 21:00. After 21:00, please close the school gate so that no one can enter.
2) ■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■ ■■■ ■■■■. ■■ ■■■ ■■ ■■■.
3) Listen to students’ individual requests as much as possible, but ignore the white haired red-eyed girl talking to them. There is no such student at our school.
5) If it rains, lock the security room door and lie down on your desk. Do not look under the desk at this time.
6) If another security guard shows up besides you, you can open the door as it is shift time.
7) If there is a dispute between students while monitoring the CCTV screen inside the guard room, mediate immediately.
8) No one may leave the academy after 21:00. Stop it by any means possible.
4) If number 6 exists, it is false. There is no number 6 in the working rules.
PS. Some rules keep changing or disappear. Workers, please be careful. And the phone is broken, so stop using it.
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The ‘End of Waiting’ dungeon was a puzzle-type dungeon that faced various ghost stories in school and found the source of the ghost stories.
When you enter the dungeon, the party members are scattered.
They are assigned a role at random, and each role has a different difficulty level.
The guard was the highest difficulty among them.
Security guard work rules are a kind of Neapolitan ghost story.
If the death condition is met, an instant death decision is made regardless of the user’s grade.
In other words, even SSS-level users will be killed if they make a mistake.
The positive part is that Park Ha-yeon was not caught as a security guard.
There was a minimum of 2 people, so I couldn’t take them with me, but I’m glad that I, who has clearing experience, became a security guard.
If the other kids had been caught by the guards, things would have been a little more complicated.
It is virtually impossible for children who do not know Neapolitan ghost stories and have no clear experience to successfully break the mission.
In this case, I was planning to finish the role assigned to me in an instant and go out to help the guards.
Fortunately, except for the guard, it wasn’t that difficult, so it wasn’t impossible.
I checked the watch first.
The current time is 21:01.
I went outside and closed the school gate.
It was foggy outside the school and I couldn’t see anything.
Chunkyung Chunkyung.
Suddenly, a student in a school uniform appeared from the fog and clinged to the school gate.
“mister! That’s the perception. Please open it soon.”
I remembered the first working rule.
<The academy starts at 21:00. After 21:00, please close the school gate so that no one can enter.>
“mister? mister! mister! mister. mister. mister.”
He seemed to be saying something loud, but he ignored it and went into the guard room.
No matter how much I did, I had never played the expansion pack Easter Egg Dungeon.
You only have one experience to clear the guards.
So I didn’t know the number of all cases.
First of all, in this Neapolitan ghost story, it is advantageous to do it as FM.
The way to clear the guards is theoretically simple.
Until the girl you saw in the bathroom comes, you just have to pick out the fakes and follow the ‘real’ working rules.
tiri. tiri. tiri.
When I entered the guard room, the phone was ringing.
I put my hand on the receiver to answer the call, but I took it off again because of a sudden feeling of discomfort.
I looked at the back of the phone without answering the phone.
The line is not connected.
I had goosebumps.
“Whoa.”
I sat down and focused on the CCTV screen.
“mister! Open the door! Open the door! Open the door, open the door, open the door, open the door, open the door.”
I heard a strange noise outside, but I didn’t even hear it.
Tick tock.
Time went on and on.
It’s already 23:30.
The phone rang from time to time, but I ignored it.
The CCTV showed only the appearance of an ordinary school.
students taking classes.
student playing basketball.
A student standing in a bee in the hallway.
I was so nervous, nothing happened.
Outside the school gate, there were still students shouting to open the door.
“what.”
the ground is ringing
Tatata.
Dozens of footsteps.
I looked out the window and saw a huge number of students running towards the school gate.
Students running and spewing harsh noises.
“Open the door quickly!”
“Open the door!”
“Otherwise, die!”
“die!”
It was quite frightening to see students running in groups reminiscent of the Unpleasant Valley.
I pulled out my sword and stood in front of the school gate.
‘Finally here.’
I’ve done this before.
A defense game that prevents any student from crossing the school gate.
If even one person passes, I die instantly.
I swung my sword at the student running from the front.
One-way, one-sided.
A student who falls to the floor with the upper and lower body separated.
These clumsy-looking students have the level of D-class monsters.
There’s no way I can receive a blow from my A-class strength and B-class agility.
This time, he stuck a knife to the back of the guy who climbed up to the school gate.
Twisting the knife and pulling it out, the guy drooped.
There was no time to write ‘inheritance’.
1 second was scarce.
I was ignorant of the next target.
The guy who climbs the wall next to the school gate.
He grabbed his leg and dragged him with his telekinetic power.
It fell to the floor and hit the man who was numb.
The sword was slightly bent.
I was worried because it was mass-produced and had been used for a long time.
I thought I had to hurry, even if it was a bit overkill.
“Laura! How do you use magic engraving?”
[Follow me. Overload.]
“Overload.”
A scorching heat emanated from his body.
Enormous magical energy moved around my body, activating the magic engraving.
The geometric patterns engraved on the body began to glow red.
Now, it is possible to develop a higher level of telekinesis.
I spread my telekinetic powers as wide as a net and gathered the students.
It hurt so bad that my brain felt like it was going to explode.
Even this was possible thanks to the operation assistance of Magic Engraving.
‘little bit more… a little bit!’
The students were grouped together in a circle like a cage style.
They were so tight that they couldn’t crawl.
It was disgusting to see clumsy-looking humans come together like that.
I kept my focus and approached slowly.
They cut their heads one by one with a knife.
It didn’t take long for the dozens of headless corpses to emerge.
I took a deep breath and looked around.
All incoming students were blocked.
By the time I hit the last guy’s neck, it was a big deal because the knife didn’t work too well.
I was able to cut it off by beating my neck several times.
The harvest is three orbs of growth.
I just shoved it into my pocket.
I’ll have to give it to Park Ha-yeon later.
A student was still rioting outside the school gate.
“Open the door! f*ck you ram do you know who my father is Open the door!”
Now double bathing.
I got a little annoyed and said something.
“Didn’t your mother tell you?”
returned to the guard room.
rumble- bang.
It started to rain with the sound of lightning.
<If it rains, lock the door to the guard room and lie down on your desk. Do not look under the desk at this time.>
Rule 5.
I locked the guard’s door and lay on my desk.
However, the desk was a bit small, so it was not easy not to look under the desk.
I had to consciously raise my head.
shoot ah
The rain fell so hard that it seemed to pierce the window glass of the guard room.
It wasn’t even summer, but it was raining hard.
Suddenly, I felt a strange aura under my legs.
Something started climbing up my leg.
“Great.”
Without realizing it, I resisted the sound coming out.
It was definitely a hand.
wet hands.
It was caressing my leg.
Then a man’s voice came from outside the window.
There was a window in between, and the sound of rain made it difficult to hear.
“excuse me! ■■ You have to get out of there! I am also a ████ person! I’m Yoo Gi-tae ████, but I’m a ████ person who follows the working rules!”
ignored
<If it rains, lock the door to the guard room and lie down on your desk. Do not look under the desk at this time.>
It should stay like this until the rain stops.
“I think ████ what you are! ■■, the ghost is talking about your body! Then you die!”
Slowly, I began to have doubts.
If it was Yoo Ki-tae, it was the person who was written in the working rules.
I remembered an experience I had cleared in the past.
‘Did there ever be a scene like this?’
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t remember.
‘I guess this is a random encounter type.’
When I was playing, there was no such situation.
If so, the occurrence of a specific event is not determined.
The format that occurred randomly selected from the event list was clear.
‘What should I do… … .’
Now it has become a real gamble.
My body trembled when I was in a situation where I didn’t know the answer, which I was experiencing for the first time.
Up until now, I knew the future that was going to happen.
Thanks to this, no matter how difficult the conditions were, I was not afraid at all.
But now?
‘It was X. What should I do… .’
thump thump.
The sound of knocking on the window.
I had no choice but to listen.
“I thought I looked at the work rules ████, but that ████ has changed! Weird bastards continue ██████! Just believe in that ■■■ Die! Don’t trust the rules! Trust me!”
The hand that used to caress her leg came up to her waist.
Something heavy was on my thigh.
Imagine… maybe the head?
It felt like damp hair.
I had goosebumps all over my body.
ur- bang.
Lightning struck.
‘Shake. Shall I just leave? It’s not like the working rules are always right.’
If you make one wrong choice here, you will be instantly killed.
I truly felt my life threatened.