환생좌

– STORY –

Original Synopsis: The change that had started in order to rid of a God’s
boredom.
The diary of Kang Hansoo who had come back in order to save humanity
which had been destroyed by this change.

Ekdud’s Revised Synopsis:

A bored God suddenly decides to create a whole new world called the
[Abyss] in order to solve his boredom. Humanity gets forcibly sent into
this world along with other races and creatures where they needed to kill,
adapt, improve and struggle in order to just barely survive. Now, the final
100 remaining humans had all been killed and all their hopes has been
handed over to Kang Hansoo. Kang Hansoo has received the chance to go
back in time into the past to along with the hopes and dreams of all
humanity. This is the diary of Kang Hansoo and his path of saving
humanity.
God was bored. One day, in order to solve his boredom, he created a new world so he
could watch bloody battles between lowly creatures.

Fight and kill, and you will be rewarded.

Be lazy or timid, and you will be left to die.

The god named his bizarre world the <Abyss>, and slowly started to pour in the life
forms he had previously created.

“As we expected, only one person can go back to the past. We might need to take a vote
to see who goes.”

Keldian, who held a golden book and was one of the four people standing in front of a
crystal, muttered this while inspecting the crystal.

<Erkanian’s Space Time Crystal>

A legendary artifact that was said to have the mythical powers to send one back into
the past.

In addition, this was the last remaining hope of humankind, who had entered the
Abyss 50 years ago and had since all perished.

A man standing in the corner, who held a massive sword, spoke out after hearing those
words.

“I’m going. The strongest person should go.”

Keldian laughed.

“Kangtae, you’ve just been lucky and became strong by gobbling up runes and items.
It’ll be much better if I go.”

“Keldian, I acknowledge your intellect, but there were numerous occasions of

disagreement and inner conflict that occurred when you just clowned around with
your intellect. I shall go instead.”

Keldian stared at Eres, who had just spoken, and laughed.

“Eres, you’re too naïve. Think of how much we suffered beneath you. You are disqualified
as well.”

The three who were arguing suddenly stopped and stared off into the distance.

Huge dragons displayed their massive bodies as they flew with incredible speed
towards the speakers.

Eres, the woman who had first spotted the temple holding the Space Time Crystal,
knew that the real owners of the crystal were approaching, and spoke out with a grim
expression.

“It seems like there isn’t any time to argue.”

The fact that the dragons were flying there means that their forces used to buy time
had all been annihilated.

If those forces had died, that meant that their group of 4 was the last of mankind.

The golden dragon race was one of the top ruling classes, even in the Abyss.

It might’ve been a different story if they were all in their peak condition. However,
coming to this location caused them to use too much energy, and they wouldn’t be able
to deal with the dragons.

Eres sighed, her face full of regret, and spoke while looking at the solitary black-haired
man sitting in the corner.
“Although it feels a little disappointing, there’s no other way. Hansoo, you should go.
Does everyone agree?”

At these words, Kangtae and Keldian sighed reluctantly.

“Can I really not go? I have confidence I can do well.”

“…”

“Alright. Don’t look at me like that. Petty bastards.”

Kangtae complained sadly.

Hansoo sighed exhaustedly and shook his head.

“Can’t I stop fighting now?”

It had been 50 years since the Great War started between the original races dragged
into the Abyss.

The survivors had to fight rigorously every day for 50 years.

Just to survive.

‘I’ve fought too long.’

Hansoo shook his head.

At this point, he thought that it might be better to just die like this.

But Eres shook her head firmly.

“You are the one who has to go.”

The four people there, including Eres herself, had only gotten this far because they
were the most outstanding of the 7 billion humans.

They were confident that if they had a chance to go back to the past, they would do
better.

But inside, everyone knew.

‘He’s the one who has to go.’

The ruling races of the Abyss were so strong that even if the three others went back to
the past and had more time, there was no complete guarantee that they could win
against the rulers.

However, Hansoo had started 20 years after the others had, yet he currently stood
shoulder to shoulder with them.

If he had bloomed his unique potential even just 5 years earlier, then they wouldn’t
have been pushed this far.

Hansoo looked at the three and then spoke out.

“Say something, then. I should at least listen to the last words of my friends.”

If it were anybody else, it wouldn’t have mattered, but how could he ignore their
words?

As Hansoo watched the others with a sad expression, Kangtae spoke first.

“Hey. If you have the chance to acquire my previous runes and items, take them and
use them all for yourself.”

“Huh? Shouldn’t I give them to your past self?”

Hansoo asked with a surprised expression.

The amount of items and runes that Kangtae had was immeasurable, to the point that
his nickname was ‘Fate Creator’.

He had so much that there was a huge problem between them.

Kangtae shook his head.

“No, it’s better that you use them instead of me. If you’re going to do something, do it
right.”

Hansoo nodded at those words.

“Eres, what about you?”

“Don’t fling off people who approach you just because it’s annoying, and take care of
them.”

“I will try my best.”

“Oh, come on. You’re going to save humanity, aren’t you? Think about how cool it
would be to be a hero. At least listen to your leader for one final time.”

“Well, if the situation allows it.”

“Sigh…”

Hansoo turned his back to the sighing Eres as he finally asked Keldian.

“Keldian, what about you? Oh, by the way, I have no confidence in using my brain as
well as you did. I don’t know if I can collect all the skills you use either.”

Keldian coldly replied.

“I don’t have much. If you go back to the past… get rid of those ‘cockroaches’ who will
only be of harm during the Great War. And that ‘Light Monarch’… kill him for sure. That
is my request.”

Hansoo nodded, and Keldian smiled with a satisfied look on his face. Then, he lifted
his book up and started mumbling something.

A blinding light exploded out from the Space Time Crystal and covered Hansoo, who
closed his eyes as he started to fade away.

‘It’s time to take a break now.’

They all wanted to go, but at the same time, they wanted to rest.

They didn’t know their true feelings, so they had said no just in case they regretted
their decision.

After all, this chance was literally the last opportunity they would have.

However, since it had been decided and Hansoo had been sent off, they clearly knew
their true feelings.
Now, their minds were at ease.

At the same time, they felt bad for Hansoo.

‘Work it out. We leave everything to you.’

The three watched the disappearing Hansoo as they smiled with mixed feelings of
regret and relief. Soon, the energy blast from the golden dragons swept over them
from above like a storm.
Hansoo’s five senses, which had been frozen from the light, quickly started to recover.

‘It succeeded, but is my head supposed to hurt this much?’

He knew.

He instinctively knew that he had really returned to the past.

Hansoo shook off his headache and checked his surroundings.

‘What time have I come back to?’

He needed to know exactly when in the past he had come back to.

If he had come back too late, then the whole thing would be pointless.

Through his five senses, Hansoo realized that a chaotic situation was occurring.

“Goddammit! What is this? Is there a hidden camera?”

A hundred or so people were standing around and shouting frantically.

The surroundings resembled Gangnam train station, but it currently looked very
different.

The Hyundae building was still standing high, but all the glass had shattered, and there
were weird vines and trees growing everywhere.

The scene looked like a time 10 years after nuclear warfare.

It wasn’t surprising that people fell into panic.

Some were even fighting with each other out of distress.

It was a really messed up situation.

From this, Hansoo knew exactly to what time he had come back.

‘It’s the first moment after we transported to the other dimension.’

The year of his birth had been rather peculiar.

That year, people started getting abducted from all over the world.

At first it was 100 at a time, and then the number continued to increase over time.

The year he turned 20, he also went missing in the real world.

Only then did Hansoo know where the missing people had gone.

<Otherworld>

A mid-way area that was created as the Abyss devoured the other dimension.

The terrain and buildings were like reality, but the contents of the world weren’t.

This place had many beasts that roamed around due to the influence of the Abyss, and
there were people with powers who had come here before them that roamed around.

5 years later, all the people from the real dimension would be transported to the
Otherworld, and after that, the passage that linked the Otherworld and the Abyss
would open, igniting the Great War between them and the inhabitants of the Abyss.

Basically, the 25 years before that were like a tutorial.

It was something that the people of the real world had to go through before entering
the Abyss.

From a certain angle it looked like benevolence, but to Hansoo, it didn’t seem that
kindhearted.

It seemed like time had been given only because it would be boring if they died too
easily.

‘Whatever, it’s good that I’ve returned to the beginning.’

He had earned 5 years of time before the Abyss had opened.

If it was at the moment it opened, he would’ve been in trouble and wouldn’t have been
able to do anything, but this was a very good situation.

Hansoo started checking his body’s condition after he understood the current
situation.

Because no one could move before a fairy came out and started the basic tutorial, it
was good to have a warmup before then.

‘As I expected.’

Tabula Rasa.

All the skills that he knew and the runes he filled his body with were all gone.

‘Well, I can collect them all. Anyways, it should be here now.’

As Hansoo finished his thoughts, something fell from the sky.

‘It’s here.’

Hansoo stared at the creature that appeared.

The palm-sized fairy looked around at the surrounding people and said, in a sweet
voice,

“Hello, everyone. I’m a helper, and I’m here to help you get off to a quick start.

‘Tsk.’

Hansoo, who clearly knew what that satanic midget’s ‘quick start’ meant, inwardly
clicked his tongue.

‘I see… it wants to see us fight already.’

As the fairy appeared and a weird aura spread over the people, the seemingly
uncontrollable situation slowly died down.

The fairy was a very eye-catching existence, even in this abnormal place.

The smiling fairy looked around as the surroundings quieted down and opened its
mouth.
“Firstly, I would like to welcome you all to the Otherworld. You’ve now all been granted
a wonderful chance.”

“Wait. Wait. What do you mean? What’s the Otherworld?”

The fairy stared at the questioning man for a while, then ignored the man as it
continued its story.

“In this place, you are all granted infinite freedom. No matter what you do here,
nobody will punish you. All the rules you’re used to following do not exist here.”

“…”

“And that’s not all. We can’t call that a chance by itself. All you no longer have any of
the physical limits of the past.”

“What…?”

“You all can now become infinitely strong depending on what you do, like heroes from
a movie.”

As the fairy looked at the confused people, its smile didn’t disappear as it opened its
mouth again.

“I will show you a quick demonstration, since I came to hasten the progress.”

The fairy pointed its finger at the man who had shouted out first.

From the feeble and delicate finger, a light beam shot out and penetrated directly
through the man’s heart.

Puuuk

“Ku… Kuuuk.”

“I don’t like people who talk a lot.”

At that moment, everyone realized that the new environment was not entirely favorable
towards them.

“uuuuhp… uhphup.”
“Very good. Shall we continue?”

Then, the fairy flew towards the man’s corpse.

Something weird happened.

Above the man’s body, a translucent and shining symbol the size of a hand appeared.

The fairy grabbed the symbol and spoke.

“This is a <Rune>. Every living organism contains a rune, and if you kill it, the rune
will come out like this. However, what comes out will be random.”

The fairy, who disregarded the terrifying meaning of its words, casually looked around
as it continued its speech.

“Let’s see. This improves the strength of one’s muscles. Who… should I give this to?”

Everyone hesitated.

If they acted out, they might get caught in the same situation as the corpse.

At that point, Hansoo raised his hand.

How much he liked the fairy was secondary.

One rune helped a tremendous amount in the beginning.

Plus, there was no risk involved.

There was no reason to not raise his hand.

The fairy looked at Hansoo and gave a content look.

“Very good. I like your determination. Put this on the top of your hand.”

The rune was absorbed into his body.

From the outside, there was not much difference.

But the fairy looked at Hansoo with a smile.

“Isn’t it amazing? These runes break the physical laws. Your muscles were only able to
lift 117.1kg before, but it has been increased to 122.3kg.”

“…”

As Hansoo gave a nonchalant face, the fairy felt a bit awkward and turned around to
continue talking.

“The reaction was pretty bland. Anyways, there are a lot of different abilities one can
raise, and there are a lot of runes to follow that. In those, there are special abilities that
the science you played around with before cannot explain. Let’s see… it’d be nice to
show something one more time.”

The fairy looked around.

Everyone got frightened and shriveled up from the fairy’s expression of hunting for
prey.

That expression was too accurate.

It wanted to kill another person as an experiment to get another rune.

The fairy shrugged its shoulders as it looked around.

“Let’s stop. I like the number 100. Anyways, keep that in mind. There is nothing bad
about any rune that raises any characteristic. If you want to be strong from now on,
you need to collect a lot of runes. Your muscles won’t improve no matter how many
pushups you do.”

At those words, everyone started to look around and slowly backed up.

If they were killed, a rune would come out and would strengthen someone else.

They could all imagine what would happen in the worst situation.

The fairy enjoyed the weird atmosphere as it smiled contently and opened its mouth.

“If you touch your right ear, you can see which runes you have. Humans seemed to like
things in numbers, so we implemented this 15 years ago. You just need to know that
the average human’s stat is 10.”

At these words, everyone started touching their ears.

[Kang Hansoo]

Strength: 11

Stamina: 9

‘Strength was increased by 1.’

A simple and crappy configuration.

But everyone was like this at first.

It would be weird if normal people had mana.

As one hunted and collected runes, their mana, magic, physical defense and magic
resistance would be added.

It didn’t matter if the hunted were humans or beasts.

“Hmm… he would probably be around 17.”

Hansoo mumbled, as he saw a muscular man in the distance.

A well-trained body.

At this point, he’s a high ranker among these people.

11 and 17 were only different by about 1.5 times, but it was not that simple.

However, he would be in a superior situation in the beginning with that much strength.

It’d be a lot for a woman to have a 3 or 4.

The fairy smiled and spoke as it looked at the commotion.

“The starting line may be unfair… but where you used to live was like that too, right?
Well, I will give you all a bonus, so don’t be sad.”

The fairy touched its butt as it spoke.

Everyone started touching their butts without thinking.

Something was there.

They saw what came out of their pockets, and their faces turned white.

A sharp dagger, which hadn’t existed before they arrived, came out of each person’s
pocket.

Normally, this would have been very reassuring, but the thought of becoming prey for
items and the fact that the person next to them also had a dagger was not pleasant at
all

The fairy laughed as it watched,

“You’ll at least need those to do something. Forget about the past and take the chance
that was given to you. The tutorial I created will begin now, so good luck.”

The fairy disappeared into a hole that had suddenly appeared.

As the fairy disappeared, people started to mumble.

“…A tutorial?”

Everybody was still tense from the words of a murderous being when a sound started
from somewhere.

As everybody was on alert, they looked towards the origin of the noise.

Kyaaak!

Tiny green monsters with deformed looks appeared.

“…Goblins?”

As everyone recognized them from the movies, their faces twisted with fear.

The fairy had appeared and told them something.

It was a tutorial.

It seemed simple, but the words of the fairy could not be so simple.
There were more than 200 goblins

Although there were 100 people and the goblins were only half their size, it was
impossible to stand still with a calm mind.

However, it seemed like the goblins had the same thoughts, as they only stared back
at them fiercely but didn’t approach them.

In this tense situation, somebody quietly spoke from the back.

“Don’t irritate them, and slowly move backwards.”

Everyone nodded at those words.

They all silently came to a consensus.

They saw it in the news.

No matter what you could do, always run away if the opponents had sharp objects in
their hands.

They also had daggers, but who would want to fight sword to sword with those things?

However, Hansoo shook his head.

Those things were really evil-minded. How could they just throw in a few midgets and
call it a tutorial?

“…Huh?”

As they walked back slowly, somebody stopped and moaned.

Somebody got frustrated and spoke out.

“What are you doing? Keep moving. We need to get away.”

The man replied to those words.

“No… this is weird. Something is here. In mid-air.”

“What?”

People started hurrying backwards at those words.

And then they shouted in frustration.

“Fuck! What is this? It’s blocked!”

“Here too!”

People started hitting the wall as they shouted.

At that point, somebody pointed something out.

“Hey… this thing is slowly moving towards us.”

“…What?”

People started leaning against the wall.

They all frowned.

The wall was slowly pushing them back.

Kiiiiiiik!

As they heard the cries from far away, they looked in that direction.

At that location, the goblins were also getting pushed towards them.

As the invisible wall kept pushing them, they grew frustrated and started hacking
away at the void, but nothing happened.

Kaaaaaak!

“Fuck…”

As they saw the goblins staring at them, the people gripped their daggers more tightly.

At this point, they had to fight no matter what.

At that moment, somebody fell to the other side.

“Huh? What? How did you get there?”

“Uh… I don’t know. It just happened to be over here?”

One person got through the clear wall.

And in the air where the man passed through, a number came up.

<49>

“…49?”

As people mumbled, somebody looked around and quickly ran towards that location.

The number changed.

<48>

At that point, everyone had realized the truth.

50 people could leave.

The remaining 50 had to fight with those things.

Suddenly, everyone started running towards the tiny gap.

“Get out of the fucking way!”

“I will go out!”

“Kyaaa!”

Hansoo shook his head at this scene.

If 100 people fought seriously, they could probably win.

Most might die, but at least 20 would survive.

But if this happened, the story changes.

In reality, as the goblins saw the people fighting with each other, their eyes shone and
they started running towards the people.

When Hansoo had first come here, 40 of them had died to the goblins.

‘First, clear up the situation. Then, move to the next stage.’

There were too many things to do.

As he made his decision, his whole body started wriggling around as his muscles
tensed up.
All of the muscles in Hansoo’s body started squirming around at a minuscule level.

His body, which he wasn’t accustomed to due to the time gap, moved quickly according
to Hansoo’s will.

Hansoo, who had readied his body, slowly walked towards the goblins, who were
crazily running towards him.

They were already trying so hard to get to him, so what was the point of him running?

It was important to conserve stamina in order to wield his dagger.

Hansoo deflected a goblin’s swinging sword-arm.

Keeik?

Hansoo, who seemed as casual as someone going out on a stroll through the
mountains, suddenly changed fiercely, while the goblin was flustered.

He released all the strength that he had built up.

All the runes were gone.

All the skills were also gone.

But the same strength, the same stamina, or the same perception had huge differences
in effectiveness depending on how they were used.

The body was basically a tool of battle, and depending on the way the tool was used,
the final outcomes would have differences like heaven and earth.

Hansoo rushed between the goblins and started slashing madly in all directions.
Kiiieeek!

A running goblin he slashed screamed in a beastly manner and dropped down onto
the floor, rolling around.

In the spot where the goblin dropped, two things were left.

A crude Podao, which looked much more threatening than a dagger.

There was also a tiny rune.

Hansoo spread out his right hand, grabbed the Podao, and swung it fiercely as he
grabbed the rune with his left hand at the time same.

At that moment, a part of Hansoo’s body changed slightly.

‘My luck is good.’

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 11

Agility: 10.1

Stamina: 9

As the rune raised agility by 0.1, Hansoo’s status menu changed.

Agility, which wasn’t previously shown, appeared.

In a sense, one’s strength is what made one faster, but agility was a little different.

The user’s time twists and becomes 0.1 times faster, and their reaction speed becomes
quicker, as well as the same movement becoming slightly faster.

As agility rises, the user starts to live in a different dimension.

Every rune stat other than strength and stamina, which were already present in
humans, started at 10 due to the stats not normally being present in humans.

Hansoo moved his new, faster body without hesitation towards the incoming goblins
and started to cut them into pieces.

Sometimes, a rune didn’t come out. When one did, it was small, but since numbers
were numbers, Hansoo’s rune stats rose slowly but surely.

Of course, with his current status, no matter how weak goblins were, killing 200 on
his own was a bit far-fetched.

The Podao was so feeble that two or three swings broke it, and Hansoo had to keep
changing weapons as he fought the goblins.

Injuries rose as well.

The people who saw that stopped and stared at each other.

At this rate, they would all die.

Not from goblins, but from the hands of humans.

Also, they started to have feelings of greed.

It seemed like runes were very important.

But as one person ate it all, they started to feel anxious.

And they gained courage as they saw Hansoo, who only seemed to be a college student,
fight so well.

From afar, his actions looked very sloppy.

The actions were not flashy, but rather only created due to him protecting himself, but
as they saw the goblins falling to those slashes, the goblins seemed very weak.

“Fuck… eyy shit I don’t know anymore!”

“Uwahhh!”

The people ground their teeth, but carefully approached Hansoo’s back and started
fighting.

Kiiiiek!

The goblins stared at the humans who were charging towards them with panicked
looks, but then started fighting with loud roars.

And then chaos started.

“Ahhhhk!”

“Goddammit! Help me!”

They each held one dagger.

They knew they had to fight.

They knew they would get stronger if they fought.

The opponent wasn’t that strong.

But even then, they were just ordinary people.

And the enemies were also armed with weapons, albeit they were a bit feeble, and had
large amounts of killing intent as well.

A lot of injuries were occurring from all directions.

However, even in that chaotic situation, Hansoo continued to kill goblins as he

absorbed runes and slowly walked forward.

Honestly, there was no need to rush and risk receiving a lot of injuries.

He could hide between the people and fight slowly, as if he were peeling an apple, and
kill more leisurely.

But there was a reason why he rushed, despite receiving injuries.

‘There is no time to dilly dally.’

Including this location, there were countless amounts of adventurers.

‘There are probably over 10,000.’

The 100 people here was not everybody.

There are probably a few hundred of these locations just for Korea.
If the whole world was taken into consideration, there were many more.

However, everyone here was a new first year.

There were no adventurers from the previous years.

The fact that they didn’t come here probably wasn’t due to kindness towards the
newbies.

This location would be protected for three months as the tutorial area.

If restrictions like this didn’t exist, all the more experienced would come, kill everyone,
and take their runes.

With only 1 year of experience, a person could kill 100 newbies very easily.

From one point of view, it seemed like the fairy was being benevolent, but Hansoo’s
thoughts were different.

‘How do I say it? It was created to enjoy the chaotic fight between weaklings?’

It seemed like the protection was made because it would be boring if a strong person
came and wiped out everybody.

Whatever the reason, this was a chance.

In 3 months, they would have to collide against people who had been here for 2 or 3
years.

With that in mind, they must become strong, fast.

Due to Hansoo flying around quickly in the front, the fight ended rather quickly.

As the battle ended and the tension was released, some people couldn’t bear the
fatigue and fell onto the floor.

‘About 16 people died.’

This was a much better result than in the past.

If Hansoo wasn’t here, at least 30 would’ve died.

While the 100 people fought 200 goblins, the number of goblins Hansoo killed by
himself was at least 70.
The surrounding people tiredly stared at him.

As the people thought of Hansoo’s mad actions of slashing in every direction with his
Podao and dagger, they started slowly moving away from him, and the fairy appeared.

“Wow. The grade is really good here. Well, from this point onwards, you all should
know how to survive.”

‘Fucking son of a mayfly.’

The people couldn’t curse out loud, so they did it inwardly.

It was rather easy to realize who put up the goddamn wall.

“I will get rid of the wall now. From now, do it just like this. Fighting!”

As the fairy disappeared, people started mumbling.

Hansoo shook his head and then checked his stats.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 14.3

Agility: 10.9

Stamina: 10.1

Perception 11.2

‘It’s not bad’

Hansoo nodded his head.

As he expected, agility runes didn’t come out easily.

And maybe due to the situation being a tutorial, skills didn’t come out.

However, compared to the three goblins he had killed when he started off in the past,
it was not that bad.

He even received perception runes, which increased his overall perception, so this
start was pretty good.
‘I even got something like this.’

Hansoo laughed as he saw the sword with a sharp edge.

<Podao Gained from Court’s Recognition>

This well-balanced and sharp Podao was one of the more useful items obtainable in
the beginning.

It wasn’t a great weapon, but compared to the ones that had lost their edges with a
few swings, it was much better.

With the dagger attached inside and the Podao attached by his waist, his whole body
had multiple scars, as he had rushed in order to end it fast.

Hansoo, who had finished his basic preparations, thought of the things that he needed
to do at the moment.

‘Firstly… I won’t be able to meet them.’

He was a 1st year adventurer.

On the other hand, Keldian, Kangtae and Eres were 19 to 20 year adventurers.

Since they had started 20 years ahead of him, they were probably running far ahead.

So, Hansoo thought of the next thing.

‘Well, telling them about the Abyss is rejected.’

The dimensional corrosion of the Abyss was sped up depending on how much the
corroded dimension knew about the strength, intel, and skill of the Abyss.

It was like ink spreading in the water.

If intel about the Abyss were to spread, the invasion of the Abyss would start earlier.

‘First, strengthening myself is of utmost importance.’

He was here in order to change the flow of water.

However, having the strength to change that flow of water was the start, and was of
utmost importance.
And with that, Hansoo thought of his friends.

Eres, Kangtae and Keldian.

It was planned that they would all return together with him.

Unlike him, who had become strong by struggling intensively, each of their actions
were close to those posted in a guidebook.

And their survival was because of their strength.

‘How did they say they did it?’

They had told him in the past.

How they had gotten strong in the beginning.

Eres told him.

<I gathered people and quickly created a clan. It wasn’t that hard, since I was a
physician.>

‘Rejected.’

It didn’t fit his personality, and more than anything, one needed to be at the level of
Eres to do that.

Next was Keldian.

<That first day with 100 people inside that cage was great chaos. Shortly after the
beginning of the first day, we fought and killed each other, and almost everyone died.
I was the only survivor.>

Then, Keldian had eaten all the runes and he quickly rushed away.

‘In my view, Keldian might have provoked them a little.’

But Hansoo shook his head.

In the words of Eres and him, who had come to save humankind, doing that sort of
thing was absurd.
Also, there was more bad than good in the long term if that were to happen.

If you kill somebody, a rune will appear, but it didn’t mean that the person who took
the rune would have the dead person’s strength added to their own.

Runes didn’t drop in large numbers.

In reality, the man who had died earlier had more than 20 runes together, if you
combined his strength and stamina, but the only thing that was dropped was a single
strength rune.

If you look at it from the point of society, coexistence was the answer. That was the
reason why Eres, who had included everyone, was able to stay as a leader until the
end.

More than anything else, if he were to think of his plans, killing a person to obtain a
rune was forbidden.

It might be different if they were to kill others, though.

‘How did Kangtae say he did it?’

<For me, when I killed the goblins, agility runes started dropping here and there. Even
a regeneration rune dropped.>

‘… This doesn’t help either.’

His luck was too good.

Agility was one of the most useful stats out of the beginning stats.

The increase in reaction speed allowed one to easily dominate others.

And there should be a limit to how lucky one can be, killing a tutorial goblin and
getting a regeneration rune.

The methods of those three did not fit him.

Actually, their methods were a bit lacking.

He needed a way to leap over their standards and rush forward with dominance.
Hansoo knew of such a way.

‘Something like this existed.’

A long time ago, one of his comrades from the Final Brigade had told him.

The tutorial area, where 10,000 people were trapped for 3 months, contained a secret.

In this place, there was a hidden dungeon.

For a beginner, the difficulty was immense. So, attempting to complete the dungeon
would only end in failure. However, just getting to the halfway point would allow one
to have an incomparably immense head start.

His comrade, who had only gotten to the halfway mark after a long struggle, became
strong enough to the point of entering the Final Brigade.

Becoming one of the Final Brigade meant being one of the top 100 strongest humans.

Because of that, the hidden dungeon was one of the most important locations in the
tutorial area.

This world was not fit for mankind to survive, but one thing was clear.

Something that seemed close to impossible would grant a larger reward when
completed.

‘First, I must accomplish that.’

Hansoo set his primary goal.

‘In that case… there is something that I need to solve first.’

There was a hidden piece.

If it did indeed exist, then it would be something that an evil god would have hidden,
something that overpowered and theoretically unobtainable in the beginning.

From what he had heard, the difficulty of the final dungeon located in the tutorial area
was too high for a beginner to clear.

The survivors of mankind were all geniuses, but no one had reached the end of the
final dungeon.

In order to finish, Hansoo would have to collect many pieces.

These hidden pieces were hidden around the tutorial area.

To clear the final dungeon, he must monopolize every remaining hidden piece and
become stronger.

‘Let’s see… the first hidden piece was said to be located in the nearest train station.’

The tutorial was split into two stages.

The first stage was one in which the first 100 people acted together.

For one week, the 100 people would stay in the designated area, and then for 3 months
after that, the second stage commenced in which they would hunt in another
designated area.

When those two stages were over, the protective area would be opened, and they
would be able to meet with the people from previous years.

To his knowledge, there were two hidden pieces in the first stage of the tutorial.

After one week, those two hidden pieces would disappear. He needed to find them
before the week was over.

Hansoo got up and dusted himself off.

‘I’m heading to… Gangnam Station.’

The location of the first hidden piece was Gangnam Station.

By the time Hansoo started heading over there, a chaotic situation had already arisen.

‘I knew this would happen.’

Hansoo clicked his tongue as he heard the screams from multiple directions.

“Why are you doing this!”

“Aaahk! We will go separately!”

“Go where! We need to group in order to survive!”

In the location where the battle ended, everyone was making an uproar.

‘Their opinions probably differed.’

There were a lot of small fights here and there between the people who wanted to act
by themselves and those who wanted to group up.

Normally, if their desires were that different, it would be normal to separate.

There would only be problems if you held onto somebody with a drastically different
opinion.

However, if one side overwhelmingly didn’t want the other side to go for some reason,
a problem occurred.

Since there were over 100 people, there were obviously people who were more
beautiful than normal.

For the same reason, there were also a few who got used to the new world more
quickly.

“Ahh, seriously!”
Suddenly, a group of 3 males and 4 females dashed out and ran towards Hansoo’s
location.

“He… Hey, where are you going!”

‘With their levels of beauty… there will definitely be problems.’

Maybe it was because they were at Gangnam Station and were brought here, but their
appearances were above average.

One was seriously a league above everyone else.

Suddenly, one woman looked behind them and shouted:

“We will act separately! We are going to work with this person here!”

“…”

As Hansoo heard the frantic calls, he frowned.

“Hey! Hansoo! Why are you pretending to not know us? We’re acquaintances!”

‘Oh. Right.’

Hansoo nodded then, as if he just remembered.

Because everyone had died right off at the start, he hadn’t remembered his college
acquaintances.

There was no way he could remember them after 50 years.

He had forgotten already, but after this situation occurred, he started to remember
them bit by bit.

‘Oh yeah, we came with four guys and four girls to get closer to each other.’

From the other side, a thirty-something looking man ran towards them while
breathing excessively and was startled after he saw Hansoo.

‘That guy is… ’

The man remembered.

Hansoo was the guy who advanced quickly as he crazily slashed apart the goblin-
looking beasts.

He was so good at fighting that while the others were struggling with 2 to 3 of them,
he alone killed dozens of them.

‘Does he do some sort of sport…?’

The middle-aged guy, Taesung, kept contemplating.

He understood that Hansoo was strong.

‘And he looks hurt too.’

But, as the fairy had told them before, no one was at an extremely high level yet.

As Hansoo saw the squirming Taesung, Hansoo clicked his tongue.

‘This is why it’s problematic.’

Normally, the people wouldn’t even think of fighting.

The hype of the battle had not yet disappeared.

Their first injuries, their first encounters with violence, and the results gave them
confidence, which could clearly be seen in their excited expressions.

The others were the same.

‘It would be hard to use reason.’

There was really no reason to start fighting with each other right now.

The time in which Hansoo would become angry enough to fight was long gone.

There was no reason to meet this man or stay here any longer.

Hansoo turned and started walking away from Taesung, who was starting at him.

As Hansoo started to walk off, Taesung watched him bewilderingly.

“This bitch, leaving a person in front of him… Hey! Where are you going?!”

Then, Hansoo suddenly got curious and turned around to confront him.

What would this person say to him?

“Is there something you want to say?”

‘Do I set my age as 76 or 201?’

He wondered if he should be formal or informal, but then decided to go with the easier
route.

Due to Hansoo’s words, Taesung looked shocked.

“What? This young bitch…”

‘Yeah. What do I say?’

Hansoo’s previous crazy fighting prowess scared Taesung, who did not want to make
an excessive demand, but he would be filled with regret if he simply let Hansoo and
the young people behind him walk away.

While Taesung was shocked, the man who was standing behind him spoke impatiently.

“We really aren’t bad people either. My name is Giltae. Let’s act together. It seems like
you eight are young, so wouldn’t it be better to work together? It seems that there will
be a lot of times where strength is needed from now on.”

Then, people who agreed with his words gathered behind him.

‘No, it’s not that they agree.’

From the atmosphere, it seemed that they knew each other.

Hansoo stared at the man who had talked to him, as he seemed like the leader.

‘Hmm, his eyes… ’

There were a lot of people like this.

Those who got used to things way too quickly.

No, it would be more fitting to say that they were restricted in the world they had used
to live in.

And now, since those restrictions were gone, they were like fish swimming in water.

Hansoo thought for a moment, choosing between the dying wishes of Eres and
Keldian, and then made a decision.

‘Eres, you are saving a lot of people right now. I will let them go, once.’

Honestly, pulling out the roots that hadn’t done anything yet was not in his character.

Even then, his stats were still pretty average.

He needed to get out, but if he killed everyone here and left, the time for hidden pieces
would be rather limited.

Hansoo replied abruptly.

“Dismissed.”

Having a lot of people wasn’t bad, since it made hunting much easier.

However, people who were like vultures, trying to gobble up everything they can, were
bound to make trouble.

Hansoo, who had finished talking, searched around the goblin corpses and bound two
more Podaos to his waist, and then started to walk away.

The remaining friends looked at each other and then followed behind him.

“This son of a bitch…”

Taesung, who had been watching Hansoo, gritted his teeth and stepped forward, but
Giltae blocked his path.

“…”

As Taesung watched his elder brother Giltae’s actions with a weird look, Giltae opened
his mouth.

“This isn’t the time to be fighting with them. They… can be dealt with after everything
is organized. We must first get this place in order.”

Giltae looked around at the 70 or so people remaining.

The current situation was already chaotic.

A strange place with strange beasts.

And that damnable fairy, too.

Since it was already chaotic, keeping those who would create trouble would only make
it hard on him to control them.

‘First, set the atmosphere here.’

From one point of view, this chaotic period was a chance.

Giltae stared intensely at the location where the group had disappeared for a while,
and then stomped his way into the crowd.

Taesoon, one of the group of friends, stared at Hansoo, who was walking in front of
him raggedly, with a complicated look.

‘I’m not sure if this was the right move.’

But Taesoon shook his head.

If they stayed in there, a real division would’ve occurred.

Humans were scarier than goblins.

Besides, being next to Hansoo made him feel safer.

Logically, it didn’t make sense that being next to one person felt safer than being next
to seventy, but that’s how it was.

‘Anyways… ’

Taesoon knew that this guy was peculiar.

Starting all the way back from orientation at the college, Hansoo had been in a corner,
dazed.
As if he was thinking of something else.

He had also said that he was an orphan.

And from that, Hansoo seemed like a weak target.

The reason why Taesoon had brought him today was because if there was somebody
lesser than him around, Taesoon would stand out more.

‘Tsk.’

But Taesoon didn’t realize that Hansoo was like that.

As Taesoon remembered Hansoo fighting manically in the front, he watched Mihee,

the beauty of the group, with a face full of regret, as she was staring at Hansoo. He then
cleared his throat and spoke:

“Hey, Hansoo! Do you really not remember us?”

At those words, Hansoo looked at Taesoon, and then spoke:

“I think I got amnesia when we got here. I don’t really remember much.”

“Hey, why do you talk like an old man?”

“…Does it show that much?”

Mihee smiled softly at those words.

Hansoo stared at her.

The other three girls weren’t bad, but she had a beauty that stood out.

At that level, living life was pretty easy.

‘… But.’

In the Otherworld, beauty was a double-edged sword.

If you had the confidence to use it well, it became a weapon, but if you aren’t strong
enough, then you would invite all sorts of crooks.

‘Well, she’ll figure it out by herself.’

Hansoo ceased his thoughts and kept moving.

Mihee stared at Hansoo and spoke cautiously:

“Where are you going right now?”

Hansoo had been walking with a purpose from the beginning, as if he knew exactly
where he wanted to go.

Hansoo gave a short reply.

“Inside Gangnam Train Station.”

“Why there?”

Hansoo pondered for a moment.

‘If I travel alone, I don’t need to explain all these things, but this is rather annoying.’

However, since he decided to keep Eres’s words in mind as much as possible, he gave
a curt reply.

“I’m getting a feeling.”

“…A feeling?”

“Yeah. It seems that with the amnesia, I seem to have gained psychic powers. I’m
getting a feeling that I must go to the train station.”

It was too annoying to explain every single thing, and they would probably believe him
if he said that he gained psychic powers.

‘Well, even fairies exist, so if I say that I have psychic powers, they will somewhat
understand.’

Technically, he didn’t really lie either.

If one was extremely lucky, they could get a rune with something called the ‘Sixth
Sense’.

Hansoo, who had organized things simply, continued to walk forward while the others
looked at him weirdly.
His actions had been weird from the beginning, but psychic powers?

“…Is it ok for us to follow that guy?”

Jisun, one of the girls standing behind Mihee, softly whispered to her boyfriend,
Gangtae.

This couldn’t escape Hansoo’s enhanced hearing.

Hansoo smirked as he spoke:

“You really don’t have to follow me. I’m the type that respects personal preferences.”

“…”

Hansoo, who headed forward without hesitation, went down the steps to the twelfth
exit that came into view.

The group made bitter expressions before following after Hansoo.

Honestly, the things humans could do to them were much more terrifying than
whatever a beast would do, and what the fairies were capable of was even more
terrifying.

‘It’d be nice if he really had psychic powers.’

Taesoon, who was mumbling inwardly, went down to the train station and then spoke
to Hansoo:

“Ah! Are you preparing a place to live?”

Hansoo nodded at those words.

Suddenly, Hansoo slashed his Podao downwards.

Kuuuaaaaak

“Unfortunately, there are some friends already living down here.”

Kaaak!

A beastly sound was heard from below as green blood spluttered out.

Taesoon who had seen this was scared out of his wits.

“What is it!”

‘Green Worm’

This place looked like Gangnam Train Station but it was not anymore.

It copied the looks of the Gangnam Train Station but one could look at it as a dungeon.

And Green Worms were one of the most widely spread mobs of the Tutorial area.

They don’t like sunlight so they stay underground and they come out after feeling the
vibrations above ground.

If someone were to be bitten by that somewhat lacking mouth, chunks of flesh getting
ripped off was a given.

‘Well, they still give runes.’

From one point of view, it is very dangerous.

If you get bitten once and fall down you will die without being able to do anything.

But there was an easy way to deal with these guys.

Hansoo ruthlessly hacked down on the heads as he spoke:

“If you aren’t confident then walk on the unbroken granite. If you see somewhere
that’s broken and earth is exposed, stab it with your sword. Oh and be careful of your
hand when you stab.”

Right below the granite was soil, confirming that this place just copied the looks of
Gangnam Train Station.

“…How do you know all of this?”

As Taesoon asked with a suspicious look, Hansoo replied very simply.

“Psychic powers.”

“…”

At those words the seven who had been eyeing Hansoo with a terrified face carefully
walked on the granite as they stabbed the areas with exposed soil.

Kiiieeeeek!

Hansoo shook his head at the way they stabbed the earth ruthlessly.

‘Four of them are useful. Three aren’t quite there yet.’

Surprisingly the females were leading.

Mihee and Jisun were stabbing the earth with clenched teeth and Taesoon and Jisun’s
boyfriend were also stabbing the earth zealously.

But the remaining three were perhaps afraid of the green worms who came out
screaming, they were just watching quietly from the back.

Hansoo didn’t really care about those three.

There was no reason to get upset because they didn’t join in on the fight. Because the
work will eventually fall onto him anyway.

Soon there were tiny runes shining everywhere.

Hansoo was picking the runes that came out from his killings then turned around and
asked with a weird look:

“…Why aren’t you picking them up?”

Then Taesoon laughed awkwardly.

“No, It’s nothing much but… isn’t it better for you to take them all? Even in games we
do something where we give everything to one person.”
Everyone nodded a little bit.

Just because someone assimilated runes, it didn’t mean they would become strong like
superman.

But if at the moment they were to get caught by those beastly things and get tetanus
or something then they would just die.

If they gave all these runes to Hansoo and his protection offers safety, it’s a better
option.

Hansoo shook his head at those words.

“The things you kill, you take.”

This was not his thoughts.

If they were going to become enemies from the start it wouldn’t really matter but if
they are going to travel together they at least needed some rules.

And this was the most basic rule that they followed in order to stay together for
decades when roaming around the abyss.

<You take the runes for the things you kill. If it’s a group hunt then you distribute
according to order and contribution>

‘As I expected due to it being the start… ’

Thinking that they will protect you because they eat the runes is a very flawed idea.

Why would they since we’re friends. Thoughts like if i’m this nice to them they will
reward me with something.

When a situation where one’s life is on the line comes along, a relationship built on
each other’s likes disappear like bubbles.

So far reality is still in check but soon after they will realize it.

A situation where one’s life is in danger isn’t far off in this place.

In conclusion the only thing you can trust is your own ability.
If you are useless you will get thrown off immediately.

They will realize it eventually and once they do they will zealously go for runes and
become red eyed.

The above rule was created because of that.

‘I’m not their babysitter, they’ve got to handle things themselves.’

At that moment Taesoon mumbled softly in the corner.

“Hey look over here. There’s a special rune here.”

At those words everyone gathered around.

Everyone saw it for the first time but from instinct they knew what use this rune had.

“If one takes this then they can use skills huh.”

Taesoon mumbled as he stole glances at Hansoo.

The object gives rise to the desire.

Before, Hansoo coolly said that they should distribute the runes but if his eyes turn at
the sight of these new runes and he says that he will take it, Taesoon had no way of
stopping him.

“Can I really take this?”

Then Hansoo nodded his head.

Hansoo even knew the identity of that rune.

<Ekrool Troll Tribe’s Essence>

‘It’s a pretty good rune at the start’

A rune that made your skin hard and increased regeneration.

A rune which increases both defense and regeneration in the beginning where
survival is important.
And that rune was almost like a passive where learning had no restrictions and didn’t
take mana.

You get more gluttonous but for the benefit you get, it’s worth it.

Food can be stolen once you get stronger and won’t be a problem.

But Hansoo shook his head.

‘I cannot learn skills freely.’

Usually one learned a few tens of skills.

It’s not erasable but there isn’t really anything you need to give up to learn the skill.

The strength of the skill changes according to proficiency and rank but since there’s
no risk of learning there’s no harm in learning it.

Someone with a good sense and a lot of mana sometimes has over a hundred and
Keldian had over a thousand.

And since he was able to use all those skills properly he was one of the strongest four.

Kangtae was the strongest but if they actually fought Keldian was not a joke either.

But he could not be like that.

<Seven Stars>

A nickname given by Eres after seeing his peculiar characteristic.

A characteristic that allowed him to catch up to Kangtae, Keldian, Eres and stand
shoulder to shoulder with them despite starting 20 years late.

And the characteristic that was the deciding factor that made the others send him to
the past instead of themselves.

The time he realized his characteristics was when he first learned a skill.

The first skill he learned was <Dororo lizard’s essence>

But as soon as the rune was implemented to his body he knew he made a mistake
which could not be changed.

<… the amount of skills I can learn is exactly seven.>

To be specific the amount of runes that was allowed for him was seven.

Eres always lamented.

<If you had learned a mid-tier skill like Reinforcement (??) and evolved it then it
would’ve been so much easier on us.>

The limit of seven was a huge disadvantage.

But more so than that there’s a huge advantage to it.

The speed at which the proficiency of the skill rises is surprisingly fast.

At an incredible speed.

And the skill even breaks the limit and keeps on evolving afterwards.

The skill he learned, Dororo Lizard’s Essence which basically just gave fast
regeneration evolved to the point where it was comparable to his immortal technique
he learned.

Eventually the Dororo Lizard’s Essence was like that.

The scrubby skills which he learned as a final resort in order to survive eventually
strengthened as he struggled.

<Ganglion’s Fast Charge> upgraded to the point of Keldian’s Void Ripper and <Anon’s
Vampire Bat> upgraded to the point where it got as strong as Blood Magic.

In the abyss where a strong skill was important, this was a talent of blessing.

And for that Eres firmly told him before he came back to the fast.

Make sure to carefully select before deciding on the seven skills.

And he was thinking of doing that if all went according to his plans.

‘According to my plans… there’s nothing before exiting the tutorial area.’

“Then I’m going to learn it?”

The surrounding friends stared jealously at Taesoon who was very happy.

And soon when Taesoon absorbed the rune a change occurred.

Wriggle

Taesoon’s skin temporarily showed a bit of green then returned.

There wasn’t much change but Taesoon knew the second he learned what kind of
change happened to his body.

The tired body started to have miniscule amounts of vitality flowing into it and the
skin which had been grazed by the teeth of the green worm started to heal.

And a newly appeared stat.

‘A stat called physical resistance appeared’

Taesoon touched his ears.

[Park Taesoon] Strength: 11.1

Agility: 10.1

Stamina: 12.5(+1.5<Ekrool Troll Tribe’s Essence>)

perception:10.3

Physical Resistance: 10.7(+0.7<Ekrool Troll Tribe’s Essence>)

<Skill>

-Ekrol Troll Tribe’s Essence (Proficiency 1.0%)

‘Good’

The proficiency was only at 1% but quite a lot of stats went up

Dumbass, giving me something like this.

If it was him he would never have given it.

Hierarchy should be taken advantage of when it is applicable.

‘I will catch up to you’

Taesoon, who had counted the number of runes, watched Hansoo with a confident
smile.

While Taesoon was doing that Hansoo checked his stats.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 15.3

Agility: 12.1

Stamina: 12.1

Perception:13.2

‘It’s not bad.’

The level where it was not bad but rather it was extremely fast-paced compared to the
past.

Hansoo shook his head as he continued forward.

But at that moment Taesoon came next to Hansoo as he spoke:

“It’ll be dangerous from now on so let’s go together.”

And as Hansoo saw Taesoon steal a glance at Mihee he shook his head.

‘… There’s no way that he’s seeing me as a competitor.’

Actually this much was cute.

In the future one won’t know how it will change.

‘Whatever happens it isn’t bad.’

Even if they split the runes the speed was fast so the rate at which the runes increased
was faster compared to when he hunted alone.

He was worried that Taesoon might be in the way but he was at least working enough
for one person.

With the two as the lead, the eight kept on going forwards.

Thankfully a little bit of light came through half broken down roofs so there wasn’t
much issue in going forward.

Though it was a little hard to see.

Kuaduduk

Maybe it was because they got greedy after seeing a skill, everyone was greedily
slashing down upon green worms but they could still not compare to Taesoon and
Hansoo’s speed.

‘Anyways… that guy doesn’t even have a skill but he’s so much faster than me.’

Taesoon looked at Hansoo with a slightly jealous look.

Due to the new skill he could dash in with a little less fear.

That was the reason why his hunting speed rose.

But that guy ruthlessly dove between green worms as if he was invincible and slashed
down on heads.

‘… No. I will win.’

Taesoon, who could not accept that a guy who was quietly stuck in a corner was much
better than him, was slashing down on green worms even more zealously than before
as he advanced slowly.

Mihee cautiously trailed behind and asked Hansoo.

“…But why are we going downwards?”

Hansoo replied to those words:

“To ride the subway.”

“…The subway?”

As Taesoon looked at the collapsing train station with no electricity, he looked at

Hansoo with suspicion.
Hansoo thought of the words that Minchul, who was part of the final brigade, had told
him.

<In the location where all the people who start are gathered there is always a train
station.>

<All the train stations are different and have a different layout but the fact that they
have 3 floors is the same for all of them.>

<You need to go down to the third floor. There is a train which has yet to depart… you
just need to get on that.>

He asked because it was so spontaneous.

How did you know about it?

And then Minchul grinded his teeth.

<Back then a strong guy wanted to take me and my girlfriend as a hunt… so we madly
ran down and found out by coincidence. Though thankfully I killed him with what I
got afterwards.>

It seemed like a simple suggestion but there was a problem.

This train leaves after one day.

And that’s why it was a hidden piece that needed to be solved by today.

Just falling into a weird place was enough to shock somebody but there will not likely
be someone who will crawl into the third floor of a monster-filled cave.

But just getting to the Final Brigade meant that you were an abnormal person and
there were about four people who knew about this and they all got something
different.

But they all received artifacts.

And they were all very useful during the beginning.

‘Let’s see what comes out’

Eventually Hansoo’s group had their eyes on the entrance that led further down.

Mihee mumbled inwardly.

‘This isn’t… this isn’t Gangnam Station.’

Never had she heard of this entrance while travelling back and forth through Gangnam
Station tens of times.

“Are you really going in?”

When Mihee asked with an anxious look as she looked at the entrance which
permeated a creepier aura, Hansoo merely shrugged.

“I don’t know either. I’m just going by how I feel. By the way anybody can leave or stop
following whenever they want to.”

If one thought about it there was not really a reason to follow him down.

And there was plenty of game around here too.

Since there were many green worms left.

“I’m going in.”

Taesoon said confidently first.

And Mihee, who was contemplating what to do, said while biting down hard.

“I’m going in too.”

‘… She must be feeling pressured.’

Hansoo nodded his head.

She probably understood the situation before.

Someone like her is in a more dangerous situation than others.

Right now, her face was not a blessing but a curse.

If she wasn’t going to slash her face she needed get stronger.

‘Would it be enough even if she slashed her face?’

Hansoo shook his head after seeing Mihee’s body which was almost about to burst.

Jisun and Gangtae, who were a couple, spoke after staring at each other.

“We will stay here. We can just hunt here.”

Hansoo nodded his head.

That was not a bad plan at all.

It’s a good choice to raise your stats while the people higher up are bickering back and
forth.

And one of the three people who were fighting on a small scale, Sangjin who was
following from behind with a scared expression, opened his mouth as well.

“I will go down too”

Everyone made a surprised face at those words but Sangjin just bit his lips and didn’t
say anything.

And with that it was decided that four will stay and three will go down.

Hansoo ruthlessly moved his body downwards.

‘He said… it’ll be here when I come down.’

Hansoo, who had come down to the second floor, looked around.

Before coming here he had heard everyone’s individual tutorial area stories.

They were old stories but due to it being their first impactful experience, everyone
remembered it to an extent.

‘The results… were all different’

The mobs and landscape in the tutorial area comprise of thousands of different kinds
and what was in here was going to be random.
But they all had something in common.

‘As I thought, it exists.’

On the second floor of the train station, a convenience store was always placed there.

As if they were rewarding you.

“Wahhh!”

Mihee shouted as she approached the store.

The lights were off but there were plenty of goods including fresh water inside.

Mihee, Taesoon and Sangjin went in and started to collect some necessities.

“There’s even cigarettes”

What each took were different.

Taesoon took a few kitchen knives that looked like they could be used as a weapon
then found a belt like object to hold them. Mihee blushed as she gathered a few goods
like sanitation pads cautiously in the corner.

Hansoo, who was looking at that, went into one of the corners of the store.

‘It’s closer to a market than a convenience store… ’

Hansoo nodded as he saw pots to bunsen burners and even portable burners.

As Mihee saw Hansoo who was getting ready to boil something in the corner, she asked
with a strange look.

“Anyways, why did you bring those?”

Mihee looked at a pouch in Hansoo’s hands with a puckery face.

Hansoo had cut the goblin leather into a suitable size then brought the blood of the
green worm within it.

Hansoo didn’t reply to those words and started to weigh the items on the scale meant
for mail.
‘It’s been innovated with extreme detail. Anyways it was 800g of green worm blood and
225g of goblin leather.’

Hansoo who had weighed everything with extreme detail, poured the blood in one pot
and then ripped up the goblin leather, put it in the same pot and proceeded to boil it.

Soon, when the blood started to boil, something fascinating happened.

The goblin leather started to melt.

‘Good.’

Green worms, when goblins invaded, bit off the goblins and then sprayed blood from
an injury in its mouth to melt down the leather.

And goblins, to retaliate, evolved to counter this.

If the blood of the green worm was to touch their leather, it would become poisonous.

‘The two species probably lived in the same area for a long time.’

Whatever happened, the poison made this way showed a powerful might in the
beginning.

Hansoo started to carefully smear the dark red liquid onto the blade.

And Taesoon, Sangjin and Mihee who had gathered around watched as if it was
fascinating.

“What is he making?”

Taesoon made a slightly suspicious face as he spoke.

And Hansoo replied very simply:

“It’s poison.”

“How do you know the method…”

“Psychic powers, the knowledge is springing up in my head.”

“…”
‘Seriously, I thought my head was going to explode while memorizing these.’

Hansoo shook his head as he thought of Keldian and the alchemist, Rahiman, who had
grilled him.

Hansoo’s magic stat was very high but just because the magic stat rose did not mean
intellect rose.

Only that the power of the skill increased.

Hansoo’s information that he had painstakingly learned was called <Combination> by

adventurers.

Since even though getting items was important, creating and enhancing them was also
of great importance.

In the earlier years, there were clans or magi who researched these professionally.

Normally a magi like Keldian learned and produced these but the other three in the
group of the last four surviving people, those other than Keldian, went through tons
of stress in order to memorize these.

‘Though only I survived in the end… ’

Hansoo, who was reminiscing the old days, remembered Keldian’s words.

Keldian firmly told him while handing down the combination methods.

<You cannot tell these methods in other places. If the knowledge of the future is
spread, the raid of the Abyss will only hasten, always remember. You are not becoming
Prometheus. This knowledge must only be used in a dire situation with a careful
plan.>

Hansoo, who had thought up to this point, stole a glance at the three who were
watching fervently but shook his head.

They won’t know even if they see.

Since if the correct ratio wasn’t known and the heating time was not done perfectly
then it would be useless.
Hansoo emptied a nearby shampoo container, filled it with the liquid he created, then
applied it to his sword by squeezing the container.

“Is there a possibility that we can use that too?”

Hansoo nodded as Mihee carefully asked.

“Of course.”

And then everyone’s faces brightened up.

If Hansoo didn’t follow up with some more words.

“One application costs either a ½ strength or stamina rune.”

“…Isn’t that a bit too petty?”

Taesoon made an annoyed expression.

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders.

“I could just give it to you if I wanted.”

“…”

“But if you look at it on the long term, it doesn’t seem like a good choice.”

Mihee nodded after thinking about it for a moment.

A one-way relationship will eventually get ruined.

And Hansoo seemed like a good person to know for long term, or at least he did so far.

“I will give the rune to you later. Let me put it on first.”

Hansoo nodded at those words0

“What about you guys?”

Sangjin and Taesoon nodded eventually without a choice.

‘Since we don’t have to give him anything if it isn’t that good. Or just not use it.’

The two thought as they presented their swords.

“Careful when you put it on, since there will be severe pain if it gets on your fingers.”
And at those words the people who were squeezing the shampoo bottles applied the
poison carefully.

Hansoo added something whilst staring into the giant bag latched onto their backs.

“If you walk around outside with such a big bag then you will realise why a lure is
effective in fishing.”

“…”

“If you want to complete it safely then do it like this. You can’t fight with that on
anyways.”

Hansoo gathered a bunch of things then went into a corner where light didn’t reach,
digged a hole then buried it.

Since they had enhanced bodies and swords, digging in the ground was very swift.

Taesoon and Sangjin, who had seen this, started to gather every food item and started
to put them into a large bag.

Then Hansoo shook his head as he saw this.

“If those all disappear, the guys who come here later will chase us with their lives.
Leave some.”

“…”

The two who looked at Hansoo with a dissatisfied face, started to gather necessities
first.

Mihee was checking out Hansoo thoroughly from afar.

‘… I thought he was only quiet.’

He wasn’t only good at fighting.

Every single action was extremely reliable.

Like a professional survivalist.

‘… Won’t a psychic power like that appear for me as well?’

It was weird that he had used the excuse of psychic powers since the beginning but in
a world where monsters and creatures exist something like psychic powers seemed
possible.

Mihee shook her head after looking at Hansoo in a strange way.

She was quick to catch on ever since she was small.

There were countless millions of people who had gone missing but not one had come
back.

Which meant it was likely that they were going to spend eternity in this place.

And for that she had to adapt to this place fast.

‘I… definitely don’t want to die’

No, maybe dying was a better alternative in some situations.

‘If nothing works… ’

This wasn’t the time to look for a man to protect her but a final method was always
important.

Mihee looked at Hansoo with a strange look then followed Hansoo, who had gotten
out of his seat and proceeded to go deeper into the station, while clenching her teeth.

Taesoon kept on asking Hansoo as he saw him walk through the darkness:

“Is there a way for us to get that psychic power too?”

At those words Mihee, who had been staring at Hansoo, and even Sangjin, who had
been following quietly, listened in.

Hansoo nodded at Taesoon’s words.

“Maybe.”

“Really?”

Hansoo’s knowledge of his own future was not due to psychic powers but a few people
who come in the otherworld show special skills that they didn’t have in the real world.

This was called <Traits>.

Keldian gave an explanation about traits in this way:

<It’s probably as they traveled from a manaless or Ki-less real world into this world,
they found a hidden ability in their body.>

People who had a very good personal trait showed a faster rate of growth than others
if they survived the start.

His case was a trait called Seven Stars.

A large variety of traits existed and very dangerous traits existed among those as well.

‘I need to find those guys though.’

Taesoon asked with a weird face at Hansoo:

“Why did you get quieter all of a sudden?”

He didn’t really talk about but he talked even less now.

Hansoo replied very simply:

“There aren’t many things to talk about.”

Hansoo thought of the annihilation of mankind as he answered.

Everyone was at a dried up state without a moment to talk for the last 5 years.

As there were opponents such as the tribes of abyss who seemed to flood them like
water, hope had started to slowly disappear.

And thanks to that a person to talk to rapidly decreased.

“How could he…”

Taesoon clicked his tongue.

‘Was he a loner during high school? Is that why he learned martial arts?’
Well whatever happens as long as there’s possibility for him.

Taesoon, who had always been in the center of the crowd, and who was now in a the
second man’s position wasn’t really used to it.

And it wasn’t pleasing either.

‘A guy like him developed psychic abilities and can do that much, if it appeared on me I’d
shine even more.’

And when that happens he will become the center of the crowd again.

‘Since that guy Hansoo is useful, I should keep him by my side.’

Taesoon walked forward with hopeful thoughts.

“Wait a moment!”

“What is it?”

Taesoon, who was already annoyed due to Hansoo’s slow movement while he checked
the walls and the ground carefully, replied bluntly.

Hansoo ignored Taesoon and searched the surrounding ground.

Monsters are living beings too.

They were dragged along with them into this world but their life habits or markings
existed.

As Hansoo checked the ground he found a mark that looked like something had been
dragged across the floor.

In the tutorial area, the monsters that drag their body across the floor are 17 kinds.

Plus if you take into account the mucus then it is reduced to three kinds.

It isn’t the Black Snail. A unique sour smell was not in the air and the markings are
only on the ground. If it was the black snail you would see the mucus on the walls as
well.

It isn’t Chopped Up Zombies either. Because then the markings on the ground would
be half mucus and half intestines.

Then only one choice remains.

‘Land Mermaid?’

Land Mermaid.

This is actually more like a nickname.

Their upper body was a unique shaped human and their lower body was like a grub,
from one angle it would look like a mermaid that had been dropped onto the land.

To drag their heavy lower body across the floor with their hands, the strength of their
hands was very developed and the paralyzing poison that came out of their lower body
was dangerous.

Their lower body was heavy and the speed of dragging themselves across the floor
was only slightly faster than walking but if you aren’t ready and get shot by the
paralysis poison, you will witness the sight of your body getting ripped apart by these
guys.

Hansoo made an unsightly face after seeing the overall state.

‘This is a tutorial area with a high difficulty’

If every tutorial area’s monsters were different then their difficulties were different as
well.

It’s not an opponent that you cannot win against but it was indeed a problem to deal
with.

The Goblin and the Green Worm are similar in terms of physical ability and aren’t that
bad when dealing face to face but the consequences could be dire if you don’t know
about them.

And because it’s the the first day newbie adventurers not knowing was definite.

When he had first come here, the tutorial stage ended before he came to the train
station so he didn’t know but it was set up with rather troublesome mobs.

‘I guess I need a little more preparation.’

Hansoo stopped and then returned back to the convenience store.

The three who had been following mumbled quietly.

“…It is that psychic power again.”

“You guys come and help too.”

Hansoo returned, gathered all the Soju (Korean Alcoholic Beverage), flipped them
upside down and started to empty them.

Gluglugluglug

‘They did say it would be here… but why is something like this here.’

He did heard it from the team he made the plans with but after seeing the paint thinner
in the corner Hansoo smirked and laughed. (*TL:Paint Thinner is Extremely Flammable
and EXPLOSIVE)

After he emptied the Soju bottles, he filled them with the paint thinner.

‘Is there no diesel around.’

Hansoo just replaced it with a cheaper version and poured some of the sesame oil in
the corner then plugged the top with tissue.

“…Where did you learn how to make a molotov cocktail?”

“If you live in Korea you should at least know this much. We need to make as much as
available.”

When the four made it together, it was done quickly.

Hansoo got the lighters from the side of the counter, handed them one each then
gathered the molotovs in two backpacks and another bag and talked to the three.

“One will throw the molotov and the three will stand in the front. The Rune
displacement will be less for the person on the back who is on the safer location.
Anybody up for it?”

Taesoon, who heard that the rune displacement was low, stood without words but
Sangjin and Mihee raised their hands slowly.

Hansoo looked at the two and spoke.

“Get into a consensus, as to who will throw.”

Sangjin knitted his brows for a moment but since he couldn’t bicker with the beauty
he was about to lower his hand.
When Mihee was about to make a sigh of relief Hansoo threw out another word as a
bonus.

“As a reminder, it will become much more dangerous from now on. Instead of saying
let’s trade during the fight decide carefully now.”

At those words Sangjin, who was about to lower his hands, stopped and Mihee looked
at Hansoo with a resentful face.

Mihee looked at Sangjin with a desperate face but when Sangjin had no looks of
backing down she just gave up.

“Let’s take turns with it.”

“…Alright.”

Sangjin thought for a moment but since he didn’t want to bicker around he agreed
with those terms.

‘Should I just go up… ’

Sangjin pondered for a moment after hearing that it was dangerous but then shook
his head.

It felt like if you followed Hansoo something amazing will come out. He also wanted
to be part of that.

‘It seems like he shares it fairly so… ’

If he lent a hand, would they throw him out.

He did say it was dangerous but he could easily run from the molotov throwing
position in case of danger.

Sangjin gulped his saliva then slowly headed into the darkness.

Kuduk

“Uaaak! Throw it! Throw it this way!”

Taesoon screamed as he saw the monster crawling towards him over the stones.

Hansoo’s poison was very strong.

Even if they were scratched they would still turn and twist around their bodies.

It definitely was worth paying runes for it.

But the problem sprang out somewhere else.

Whilst fighting joyfully, a paralysis poison sketched by his leg.

Taesoon had already been shot in one of his legs so his movements were not
completely free.

‘Goddamit! I fell for it even though I knew about it!’

Even though Hansoo had gone out to the front and showed how they spat it out but
since the look of them crawling over the ground was funny, he was caught off guard.

Thankfully the location he got shot didn’t melt or anything but the mobs who spread
out their long arms and approached in strides were fear itself.

Them, who had looked slow before, are now almost like grim reapers.

“uaaaah…”

Sangjin who had been fumbling around, barely lit the fire then threw it towards the
location where the Land Mermaids were gathering.

Chuuuung!

As the molotov exploded, pieces of flame scattered everywhere.

Keeeeeeeek!

As their skin dried up, they twisted their bodies as if it was painful.

Kudududuk

And at that moment Hansoo ran around between the Land Mermaids and smashed
the heads.

Since the edge was dulled it didn’t cut well but when the Podao was swingged with
enhanced strength, it had no problem getting through the skin and muscle.

One strike One kill.

Honestly it didn’t matter if they didn’t die in one strike.

The poison on the blade stimulated their nerves and gave them insane amounts of
pain.

The Land Mermaids still shot out paralysis poison and stretched out their arms but
Hansoo dodged most of it and the rest he deflected with a piece of goblin leather.

‘Does that guy have eyes on the back of his head?’

Taesoon spun his tongue around as he looked at Hansoo.

As Hansoo finished them off and all the enemies disappeared they finally sat on the
ground as if the tension was released.

“Huuah… Huaahhh”

“Rest a while then bring the runes.”

Taesoon walked towards Hansoo who was distributing the runes though he was tired.

At first he was suspicious that he would cheat them but as he perfectly distributed
them he stopped worrying.

As if he was looking at the whole warfield the whole time, he knew exactly how many
one killed and how much one contributed.

‘Goddamit, it isn’t much.’

After getting shot by the paralysis shot, he fought while dragging his foot so the
amount of runes he acquired was much less in comparison to the floor above.

‘Fuck… the physical difference between us is increasing.’

The one who killed takes the runes.

But the combination of the kills of the three was not even a quarter of what Hansoo
killed.

And thanks to that the speed at which he hunted increased more and more.
As Hansoo’s physical stats rose, it was like he cast off iron chains and was flying
around.

“Eey, fucktard!”

When Taesoon felt something boiling up from this chest, he looked at Sangjin and then
shouted at him in anger.

Sangjin couldn’t even throw a molotov properly because he got scared by a Land
Mermaid that was walking towards him.

Even though he was a friend since he couldn’t even do that properly while they fought
with their lives on the line, Taesoon’s anger exploded.

“Uuuu…”

As Sangjin made a sorry expression Hansoo spoke while looking at Sangjin.

“Come and take the runes. The recovery will be faster after you raise the stamina”

And after Hansoo concluded his words, he started to cut the belly of the Land
Mermaids.

‘Let’s see. If you open the area between their rear end and the belly button… it’s here.’

Hansoo took out the paralysis poison sac from between the slit of the stomach,
carefully shrouded with goblin leather then started to carefully squeeze it out as if he
was making medicine and poured it into an empty shampoo container he brought.

Though it wasn’t useful against the Land Mermaids it was definitely useful against the
life forms of the third floor.

Taesoon then looked at his and Sangjin’s runes by Hansoo’s side.

‘If I take those runes too… I can somewhat catch up.’

Taesoon’s eyes shone as he screamed and marched on.

“Why would you give it to a bitch like him! It’s better for me to take it and fight!”
A sword stopped his way when he stomped towards the runes in anger.

“…Are you really going to be like this.”

“The distribution must be fair. You’re not supposed to touch the food line.” (*TL: Food
line = a way for someone to survive)

At those words Sangjin, who had been trembling in the back, slowly came to the front
and took the runes that were considered his.

Mihee, who was sighing, asked Hansoo cautiously.

“Isn’t it annoying or anything?”

Though they were fighting zealously but to Hansoo it was probably frustrating to no
end but he did not get angry a single time and kept on heading down steadily.

Hansoo merely shrugged his shoulders.

“If it’s this much it could be considered gentlemanly.”

Normal College students. They didn’t even go to the military.

Half were female.

And they were dragged here with no form of preparation.

Will it make sense to fight like a special forces warrior on the first day here against
monsters who want to rip them apart.

To those who were living a normal life before, that was a normal reaction.

If it wasn’t such a dire situation like this they would have never thought of holding a
sword.

‘Well I was crazy in the past so… ’

Even if he knew that he could only learn 7 skills he would have still learned Dororo
Lizard’s Essence.

Because he was not in a situation where he could afford to not learn it.

The days where he ran around barely holding onto his lifeline after learning a Lizard
Essence were still remembered by him.

Hansoo, who had finished his thoughts, looked at the three in front of him.

Hansoo didn’t have any plans about saying anything about things they couldn’t do.

As he lived through the abyss life, he found out that the ones that latched onto your
ankles in the end were not the ones who were scared or weak near the beginning.

Rather it was the ones that were fearless and strong that made problems.

‘It doesn’t matter if they can’t do it”

As long as they have a limit to what they can’t do.

“You aren’t abandoning us, right?”

Mihee watched Hansoo with teary eyes and at those words Sangjin and Taesoon both
jerked.

Because they felt it through their body.

The only reason they can remain friends and talk leisurely like this was due to Hansoo.

Then Hansoo smirked.

‘It seems like they’ve got the wrong idea.’

He never took them in so what would he be abandoning?

“You three are doing well enough so don’t worry. Since we’ve rested somewhat let’s
continue forward.”

These were not empty words, the three were not at the level of grabbing onto ankles.

Even if Hansoo fought alone the speed would’ve been around the same. From another
point of view he was able to move about more freely because the three took away some
of the attention.

If the number of monsters were limited it would be different. The only thing that they
weren’t short of were monsters and the important thing was how many runes you
took in the limited time.
‘Let’s see’

Hansoo checked his stats as he picked up his runes.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 25.3

Stamina: 24.5

Agility: 14.1

Perception: 15.2

‘As I expected’

Though it was random you couldn’t ignore the specialties of the entity.

The Land Mermaids had high strength and stamina. It seemed like he had gained a lot
of strength and stamina in a short amount of time.

‘It isn’t bad’

Rather strength and stamina were more important right now.

Agility and perception runes had a good effect but he can replace them with battle
skills and experience.

But on the other hand the strength to get through the armor and the stamina that
helped with healing and the duration of how long one swings their sword was more
important during the fight.

‘And another thing’

Hansoo moved his hands towards the last stamina rune on the ground anxiously.

And that moment Hansoo’s stamina rose from 24.5 to 24.8.

‘It’s above 50’

The moment the addition of Strength and Stamina rose above 50 the air suddenly
stretched apart.
And that the same time a familiar yet unsightly face came out.

‘A mission has been given.’

Hansoo smiled at the Fairy that had appeared in front of his eyes.
“There’s an adventurer who has gotten over 50 first? Wow.”

The fairy came out of thin air and clapped with its tiny hands.

The three who were standing behind Hansoo just watched this scene in a daze.

Taesoon, who was in a daze, asked the fairy.

“What do you mean 50?”

At those words the fairy smiled and answered.

“It means that the basic strength and stamina combined have gone over 50.”

And then the fairy flew onto Hansoo’s shoulder.

“We always like a person who is active and outgoing. And for that we prepare a small
reward to the most active and outgoing person.”

“Wait. Isn’t it a little unfair then?”

Mihee opened her mouth.

Mihee was a female.

Because she exercised and kept her body in shape her strength and stamina were 8, it
wasn’t a bad start for a female but against males it would get pushed away.

Mihee was dissatisfied but asked quietly and tried to show the least amount of
disrespect.

Since she had seen that cute fairy rip out the heart of a person.

“You don’t need to be that careful. We don’t kill once we start. We don’t kill on a whim.”
“…”

“And to answer the question. It is supposed to be unfair. Life is.”

“Uh…”

While Mihee was flustered the fairy kept talking.

“This isn’t some sort of game. Why do you find fairness? Do you think you can just go
out because there isn’t a balance patch?

“…”

“You were probably also a part of the unfair faces in your world. But then you didn’t
change your face to lower yourself to the average right?”

At the fairy’s bitter words Mihee clenched her teeth and backed off.

The fairy ignored Mihee and opened her mouth while looking at Hansoo.

“Since you were the first one to go over the combination stat I will reward you.”

Hansoo knew what the reward was.

‘3 of any rune.’

It was a reward to the first person who had gone over the combination score of 50 out
of the 100 in the tutorial stage.

But to be honest Hansoo didn’t really have high expectations for this mission.

<Mission>

If you satisfy a special requirement then a reward is given.

From a point of view it is similar to a game but the damnable part is that this mission
thing isn’t really set already.

It was like there was a bank full of problems and the fairy would pick a few then
started the tutorial.
He brought the mission list with 119 missions created through people’s experiences
but he didn’t know which mission would’ve came out.

And this mission was vastly in favor for the person who had a different starting point.

The muscular man he had seen probably had at least around 33-4 of strength and
vitality combined at the start.

But on the other hand he started at 20.

He didn’t expect much but maybe due to his fast progress or something he luckily
received it.

And among the 119 missions this mission had quite a nice reward.

“Tell me 3 of any rune that you want”

‘As I expected’

3 of a stat rune is a large reward if it’s a large and is a small reward if it’s small.

3 strength runes could be gathered with a little bit of effort but 3 agility runes are hard
to acquire as well as giving much more assistance.

But what he wanted was a different rune.

“Is it agility or perception as I expected? Ah. What about regeneration rune? It’s a
consumable but if you take this then you can even heal a hole in your belly. A normal
poison will disappear. Having limbs being cut is a bit far fetched but isn’t it amazing?”

At those words the ones who reacted were the three.

If you receive the three regeneration runes then wouldn’t it be getting 3 more lives?

And Hansoo might even give it to them.

‘He won’t leave us to die, right?’

But Hansoo betrayed everyone’s expectations and spoke of a different rune from his
mouth.

“Do you perhaps have a rune to resist magic?”

At those words the fairy made a slightly shocked face then smiled as it spoke.

“Of course it exists.”

And the fairy pushed its hand into the void without words then pulled out three
peculiar looking runes.

‘As I thought it doesn’t really care much. It worked.’

Basically all these fairies wanted was things to go in an amusing way so they didn’t
really ask much no matter how much you planned things.

And Hansoo, who had gotten much more comfortable, laughed inwardly.

Magic Resistance Rune.

Regeneration rune is indeed good but one could obtain it pretty soon.

But on the other hand physical resistance runes and magical resistance runes are not
something you can acquire in the tutorial stage.

No, Kangtae said it came out of a random mob but then he is an exception since he is
a seriously special case.

‘It’s really some crazy luck’

Magic resistance runes are very important.

There is no such thing as a health point in this world so one fatal strike meant you
were gone.

It wasn’t like a game where if you got hit for 100 damage ten times you would lose
1000 and die.

Increasing vitality meant your recovery speed and activeness rose and not tankiness
like in the games.

And for that physical resistance and magic resistance were more important than
anything else.

Just because you use these two runes didn’t mean your skin got tougher or get covered
with scales or anything.
It had a more essential solution.

The two runes, after controlling their numbers, reduced the incoming attack itself.

‘This is similar to a game’s defense or resistance’

As Hansoo ate the runes, his stats were altered.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 25.3

Vitality: 24.8

Agility: 14.1

Perception: 15.2

Magic Resistance: 13

Magic resistance, which was fixed at 10 from the start and had no reason to be
displayed, showed up as it increased by 3.

Hoo-oong

As his surroundings lashed about he could feel the laws which were applied to his
body getting twisted a little.

‘Good. With this I gain resistance to skills.’

He pondered between Physical and Magic resistance but in the end magic resistance
is the best.

To be honest, in the tutorial area most attacks were physical if you take into account
for the attacks you would receive.

But physical defense can be filled in to an extent with his experience and battle skills
but on the other hand magic attacks with a wide range of attack and a few vicious
skills couldn’t be dodged once they were cast.
There isn’t a beast or human who would use magic with the normal tutorial difficulty
but the place he was challenging were the dungeons with hidden pieces.

Of course it wasn’t something that lets you get hit 3 times and survive instead of
getting hit once and being gone.

Just reducing the damage to an extent.

But there is a huge difference between getting killed on the first strike and surviving
to land another slash of a sword.

Since regeneration runes are only able to be utilized if you were alive.

This will be of great help to his progress.

The fairy looked at that Hansoo and then smiled widely.

“I have high expectations. Please continue to do well.”

The fairy, who had finished talking, disappeared into the void.

Hansoo turned around and talked as he walked.

“Let’s go. But why are your expressions like that? It seems like you miss something.”

“…It’s nothing.”

It felt like three regeneration runes had disappeared right in front of their eyes but no
matter how shameless someone was they couldn’t say it so they just made pitiful faces
as they walked behind Hansoo.

Kudududuk

‘It’s now the third floor.’

Hansoo, who had gotten rid of all the Land mermaids, mumbled as he looked at the
creepy entrance in the distance.

But Taesoon, who had been looking at him, spoke out.

“But it seems your movements have remained the same since back then…”
Hansoo nodded at Taesoon’s words.

‘He has some keen perception.’

Hansoo showed him his right wrist.

All the runes Hansoo took were gathered just like that on there.

“This can also be gathered like this.”

“Really?”

‘Well if consumable runes existed a mechanism like this should exist. But how do you do
it?’

But then he realized that it wasn’t that hard.

He thought ‘I should gather them… ’ and the moment he moved his hands the runes
that had been getting absorbed into his body turned into a small dot-like symbol on
his wrist.

Hansoo looked at Taesoon and spoke.

“It’s not something that’s very good.”

“Why?”

Hansoo answered as Taesoon asked.

“First it reduces your hunting speed.”

If your stats are high then hunting would naturally be faster.

Since you could get the gathered runes and raise your stats instantly in case where
you feel like you would get pushed back but there are holes in the strategy.

“The second reason is the important one… if you die from a sneak attack while doing
this then all these runes get puked out.”

“The runes?”

“Yeah.”
Usually when one died the rune that came out was only a tiny part of what they had
acquired and the dropped rune was also random.

You could block a sneak attack but dying at the hands of somebody with similar hands
was not a hard task.

And especially during the beginning where one doesn’t have physical and magic
resistances.

If you aren’t focused then you are gone just like that and even if it wasn’t a sneak attack
something like <Erebong’s Poison Sting>, which is an attack skill you can acquire at
the tutorial area, would send you off.

Walking around with a lot of runes on your wrist was basically walking between
bandits with the body to buy weapons and armor on your back.

“Then why do you gather them?”

Hansoo gave a short reply to Sangjin’s question.

“Because we can trade with each other.”

After the tutorial there exists currency which the adventurers had created.

The nine strongest clans created by the existing people.The common currency created
through the agreements from two neutral clans of the <The Nine Pillars>, <Golden
Star> and <Manoros>.

The runes were of too high value so using them wasn’t suitable as currency.

But in the tutorial area where adventurers couldn’t get into runes could be used as
currency to some extent.

Two of the people who cleared this hidden piece told him.

<I did clear it but… there was a requirement. It was that you had to have over 20 of
perception and agility,>

<I was like that too except my strength had to be over 45>

As far he knew that mission was the only mission of a first-come type mission in the
first tutorial area so there was no need to keep raising his stats vigilantly.

If he was in a perilous situation while fighting he could just simply use the runes and
there shouldn’t exist anybody who could kill him anyway.

In this case he could just gather the runes and trade if he was lacking then just simply
wear the artifacts.

At those words Taesoon and the others started to gather tunes.

Hansoo who had seen them gather runes on their wrist shook his head.

“You guys can’t. Just use them as you get them.”

“…Are you looking down on us right now?”

As Taesoon suddenly asked Hansoo, Hansoo clicked his tongue.

‘As I see it he wants to get those runes and trade them to raise perception or agility… ’

If your perception or agility rises then you become better at evading so you receive
less injuries.

Probably from their situation they want to go towards the path where they receive
less injuries.

But how you get rid of the enemies is dependent upon how hard, and how many times
you swing the sword.

If you lack stamina or strength then you will fall before you can get rid of the enemy.

He had no reason to suffer a sneak attack. He had a lot of experience and intelligence.

He was confident physically as well. The techniques were fundamentally different so

he could save runes and fight at ease with the remaining strength and vitality.

Taesoon, Sangjin and Mihee were not at that level yet.

And they were in front of the third floor. They didn’t know which monsters were
protecting the train but it was definitely going to be dangerous.
But Hansoo just shrugged.

‘Well if they go down and get wrecked they will wake up.’

There was no need for a hundred words.

If you get hit by a monster once and scream out you will automatically touch your
wrist.

He who had been fighting against the crazy monarch’s slaves or the demons of the
abyss but came back to the past, to him this much was almost cute.

‘Just maintain around that pace.’

“Well do whatever you want. Let’s go down then. Are all three of you going again?”

The three who had been watching Hansoo pondered at Hansoo’s words.

‘The second floor was definitely hard… but we got stronger. And it was only hard at the
start and we got used to it after.’

The three made their decisions and nodded.

And if they kept fighting wouldn’t they get something like a mission as well.

They aren’t really much in comparison to Hansoo but they are still better off than the
people above.

‘And… We’ve come this far, we cannot let him go alone.’

If there’s something good, they should share it.

The three who had decided followed Hansoo just like that to the third floor.
Hansoo who had entered the the third floor nodded at the light in the distance.

A corridor that stretched far.

In the space there darkness was best suited for, a stationary train made hissing sounds
as it shone its lights in the distance.

And because of that Hansoo didn’t need to search in order to find out what lived in
this place.

There was a snake that shined silver in front of the train sleeping in a curled up
position.

‘Barb snake’

Being soft and squishy, its main diet was normal animals but it also ate Juterium
metals as a secondary source of food.

The Juterium metal that is digested within its stomach gets fused with the special
liquid released inside its body and gets excreted between the scales.

And this mixture dries in the air to cover the scales on its body.

‘This guy is pretty fast.’

The slippery and hard scales combined with its speed makes it hard to catch.

Hansoo looked at his Podao that had its edge almost dulled out.

It was a good Podao out of the ones that came out of goblins and that was the reason
why it survived until now but it was quite lacking to go against those.

‘It might be a little hard with this.’

Paralysis poison is only effective if the blade gets through.

The weight and hardness are important but first you need a sharp edge.

Taesoon, who had a kitchen knife on his waist, backed off after seeing Hansoo’s look
along with Sangjin who also had them.

Hansoo clicked his tongue as he watched Taesoon and Sangjin.

‘These guys need to go through some more socialization process.’

“Try giving them to me.”

One isn’t enough.

They will likely break during the fight.

At Hansoo’s words Sanjin looked at him with a slightly dissatisfied expression.

“…You have yours.”

At those words Hansoo looked at Sangjin with an amused look.

‘It seems like this guy has the same idea.’

Hansoo looked at Sangjin and Taesoon and spoke:

“Are you guys trying to fight that?”

If they were to fight he had no intention of asking them for their knives.

He wasn’t in a hurry and there were probably a few left in the convenience store, he
could just go back and get some.

But unexpectedly they wanted to fight even though he thought that they would say
they wouldn’t want to.

At that moment Hansoo looked at what they could see and knew what these 3 were
thinking.

‘Are they looking down on that thing?’

The Barb Snake was not really a large snake.

Its length was only about 3 meters.

The length was long but its body was smaller than the Land Mermaid.

The Land Mermaid’s length was about 2 meters but it had a lower body that resembled
a grub and these looked more agile.

From a point of view they don’t really look formidable.

But you can’t assume things like that.

This guy was more dangerous than all of the Land Mermaids above combined.

Hard scales and fast speed. Along with the strong muscles that can crush the Land
Mermaid as well as sharp fangs and grip strength that do not fit snakes.

The barb snake was a predator that chewed upon Land Mermaids.

And it was also smart so it went for the weaker ones first.

If these guys were to attack then they would get murdered.

It won’t be a case where they will cry after getting hit once then absorb their gathered
runes, instead their limbs will fall off.

‘How do I handle these guys. There should be a different situation where you should have
greed for runes.’

He had seen these types a lot.

Something that always happened during group hunts.

They will forcibly join the hunt and try to receive some of the distributed goods.

‘Eres was really good at persuading’

But he wasn’t really interested in persuasion.

It was annoying too.

Normally Eres would persuade, Keldian would threaten and control them with carrots
and whips, if a negotiation failed to bloom then Kangtae would walk out to force them
off.

And if that failed to clean things up he went out.

There was no need to see blood for these.

Fun was fun and work was work.

He was annoyed with dealing with kids that were a fourth of his age so he gave them
two options.

“I will give you options. First, I will get out and you fight them yourselves. Second, you
guys get out and watch me fight alone.”

“…”

“How do you want to do it?”

Taesoon got angry at the suddenly different attitude from Hansoo.

‘This bitch, we were hunting well together so far but why is he suddenly like this?’

What his psychic powers were couldn’t be grasped by him but his reaction told him
that what the snakes dropped was rather good.

If they fought together and shared the drops it would be good but why did he need to
get greedy to the point of excluding them.

When Taesoon was about to say something somebody quickly made their decision and
spoke.

“I’ll get out.”

“What?”

The one who had made the decision was not Mihee but Sangjin.

Taesoon, who had been looking at Sangjin with a flustered expression, scowled as he
spoke.
“Hey! He’s being petty and leave us friends out to eat them all by himself!”

‘Friend. It’s a good word.’

He didn’t decide to bicker over it although his idea was that good things were shared
together and hardships were gone through together but it seemed like Taesoon was
using it in a slightly different way.

“I told you to follow me. I never said I was going to take you.”

“…”

At those words Taesoon looked at Hansoo with a dissatisfied expression.

And Mihee, who had been listening, spoke as she nodded.

“Let’s stop. If Hansoo is talking like that then it means it’s really dangerous.”

If he wanted to take everything then he would’ve beaten them down then taken all the
runes.

Even when Taesoon was in danger after he got shot by the paralysis poison from the
Land mermaids Hansoo didn’t talk like that.

From the way Hansoo was acting right now meant that those scrubby looking snakes
were actually very dangerous.

No, since there was only one monster on the whole third floor, there was no way that
thing was not strong.

They had forgotten that for a moment due to greed.

Taesoon, who had started to come to his senses, calmed down then started to take out
the knives by in waist while clenching his teeth.

‘Six of them’

Hansoo started to apply the poison from the Land Mermaid on the edge of the kitchen
knives from Taesoon and Sangjin.

Though that thing ate Land Mermaids it was only because it was all digested within
its stomach that could even digest Juterium. The land mermaid’s poison, which was
almost like a neurotoxin, had to get into its muscles to work.

Hansoo, who had numerous knives dangling from his waist, spoke as he looked at the
three.

“Hunt the land mermaids above. Hunting should be done constantly.”

Taesoon looked at that Hansoo and answered expressionlessly.

“Didn’t you bring us along to take us all the way?”

Taesoon grinded his teeth because he felt like they were used.

Hansoo smirked at those words.

‘How did I not remember these amusing friends.’

He remembered clearly that they followed him in here but it had changed to him
bringing them here.

‘You should really be lucky that Keldian didn’t come here. Ah, Keldian didn’t start here
anyway.’

Hansoo thought of Keldian who was probably wandering around the purple region
and laughed.

If it was Keldian, he would’ve made everyone above fall into a trap and take all their
then started.

And because of that he was pushed out of returning here.

‘He’s always progressing forward but the results aren’t the best.’

Hansoo looked at Taesoon and spoke as he thought of Keldian.

“Go stay above. If you aren’t lucky then your eardrums will pop.”

And then Hansoo charged at the Barb snake.

Keeeeeeeeeeek!
And then a frightening scream was heard and the three who had been going back up
realized at once why Hansoo told them to stay out.

Kyaaaak!

The Barb snake’s whole body squirmed as it expanded out then compressed in an
instant.

And the air that was expanded and compressed exploded out of the Barb snake’s
mouth with an incredible speed.

Paaaaaang

An attack that had slight amounts of Magic.

The power wasn’t that great but it was a shockwave that had an impact that shook the
opponent’s balance by destroying their eardrums and cochlea.

“Uuuk…”

The body of the three, who had been standing by the stairs, swayed for a moment by
the impact force that rang throughout the third floor.

But Hansoo already expected that attack after seeing its stomach and neck area.

‘Good’

The impact came through the hands that had been covering the ears.

But the magic resistance came into play and reduced the damage.

Hansoo, who had succeeded in not losing his balance, quickly moved his hands from
his ears and quickly attacked its momentarily defenseless body.

Body, to be precise the scales were hard but in between the scales there had to exist a
gap from which the melted Juterium mixture came out.

The knife with paralysis poison applied to it went in between the scales.

Kyaaak!

‘Good. Three have been inserted.’

There were 5 major spinal nerves throughout its body that controlled its body.

Hansoo, who had touched the nerve after getting between the scales and its ribs,
quickly backed off.

Kyaak…

The Barb snake, who was decorated with three knives within its body, twisted its body
while making clattering sounds with its scales as if its body was harder to move than
before.

‘As expected, poison is the best in the beginning.’

The beasts and clans in the later stages had incredible amounts of resistance and
regeneration so most poisons basically had no effect on them.

And if they also use skills it gets even harder.

But poison was one of the extremely effective methods against the monsters in the
beginning whose body were smaller and had less resistance.

Even him, if he didn’t have the paralysis poison, would have struggled a lot.

‘Well. It’s easy now.’

He was bitten on his arm when he first inserted the knife but due to him raising his
vitality the wound would heal.

Hansoo charged again to insert two more knives into its body then finished it off by
stabbing deeply within the roof of its mouth with the last remaining knife.

“mmm?”

Hansoo made a weird sound as he looked at the skill rune dropped by it.

The skill rune which shone next to a few stat runes.

[Barb snake’s shockwave] To use this thing he needed mana so he couldn’t use it yet.

But in the case where he gained a mana rune during the tutorial, it would be an
effective tactic in the beginning.

Well the visualization of it coming out of the body was not great but as long as it was
effective.

‘As I expected. Due to it being a rather strong mob the rewards are… ’

And the three who had been standing afar off slowly crawled up and spoke out after
seeing the skill rune on the ground.

“…Are you going to use this Hansoo?”

Taesoon mumbled with a jealous filled expression while looking at Hansoo.

Because the already strong guy would get a skill rune so now he would start flying
around.

‘Damnit’

At those words Hansoo shook his head

“I’m not going to use it.”

He could only use seven so why would he use something like that.

“What?”

Sangjin stood up and shouted:

“Then can I use this?”

If he wasn’t going to sell it didn’t it mean he would give it to them?

Taesoon scowled at Sangjin’s shout and spoke.

“What would you do with it. It’d be better if I…”

“What are you guys talking about. I’m going to sell it”

“Huh?”
“I’m selling it. To the person who brings the most runes.”

“…”

“If you buy it now I will give a discount. 5%”

Hansoo shook the runes within his wrist and laughed.

“…Can’t we do an installment plan?”

“If you guarantee it. Stand together.”

“…”

From his expression, if one person were to ditch then the guarantees would have to
sell all their gear to pay him back.

The three made an expression as if they had chewed on crap.

“Have you decided?”

Whilst Hansoo went to the convenience store to get something he gave some time to
the three of them to decide.

And then Mihee nodded her head.

‘Well. They probably know.’

You can realize just from Taesoon’s situation.

Stats were important but skills were also very important.

If that skill went into somebody up there then the gap they created through diligent
hunting could be crushed in an instant.

And to prevent that a trustworthy person of the three would purchase the skill.

‘In conclusion, gathering up the runes has been beneficial.’

The runes that one person has is rather lacking to buy it but it could easily be solved
by lending.

Hansoo asked while chuckling:

“Whom was it decided to be given to?”

At those words Mihee answered.

“It’s me.”

‘As I expected.’

He guessed somewhat to this extent.

Since Hansoo saw Mihee pick up a mana rune earlier.

No one was there to bicker who killed it so from her taking it quietly, it seemed like
she wanted to hide it.

‘Well the more hidden cards you have the better.’

Whatever happens that skill required mana.

And because of that for Sangjin and Taesoon who had no mana it’d be rather
burdensome for them to invest in the skill rune.

Since they would never know when a mana rune would come out.

But Mihee had already gained mana runes and already confirmed that mana runes can
drop from hunting.

And from her situation where she had already confirmed the performance of the skill,
it would have been very enticing.

And the remaining two probably felt safer giving it to Mihee than giving it to others.

Mihee borrowed the runes from Sangjin and Taesoon while shaking their hands and
then approached Hansoo.

“Good. Here they are. There are three each for agility and perception and seven each
for stamina and strength.”

“Since I said I’ll give a 5% discount I will only take six strength.”

“You’re quite thorough.”

Mihee looked at him with a slightly resentful expression.

With that many stats you could really become strong.

She had fought a few times but you can tell instantly.

Not having runes is getting closer to death.

Though she had gotten a skill, she seemed to have felt a little regret.

And Hansoo looked at Mihee’s expression and chuckled.

“Don’t think that it’s too much. If you get into the habit of getting free things around
here you will die quickly.”

“…”

There is no trade in this world that does not cost in some way.

Whilst chasing costless things the cost will have stacked somewhere else and will
explode.

It wasn’t somewhere like a mart’s food sample corners where no one would say
anything if you eat and run away.

‘Let’s see’

Since the Barb snake was dead and the trade was complete, there was something he
had to finish here.

Hansoo started to look around the train station.

‘The existence of a Barb snake means there is Juterium Ore nearby’

And indeed there was a few orange ores that sprouted out like crystals near the train
station.

Hansoo grabbed them with his hands and rooted them out.

Tududuk

It was very elastic despite it being a metal, it felt like pulling rubber.

Hansoo started to mold the Juterium with his hands.

And the three stared at Hansoo.

‘Spike? Needle?’

Taesoon stared at the Juterium metal that was being molded like clay enthusiastically.

Hansoo left the needle that was molded to about 20cm in the corner, went up to the
barb snake, ripped off the scales and started to rip its stomach open.

Shuuuuk
‘It’s here’

Hansoo made a delighted expression as he saw that the Lysate solution sources hadn’t
dried up.

Hansoo took out all six of the of the Lysate solution sources, then set up the burner
and the pot and started to squeeze them above the pot.

Ploploploplopplop

And soon the pot was filled with a green liquid.

And when the liquid started to boil he started to break apart the scales of the Barb
snake and started to throw them in.

The hardness of the scales on Barb snake’s skin was extremely powerful but it wasn’t
to the point where you couldn’t break it.

‘It’s not good enough for a weapon.’

So he had to make a new one.

In the same way the Barb snake made his scales.

Shockingly, when the hard scales entered the boiling Lysate liquid they all melted
down.

And Hansoo, who had seen the green liquid slowly turn silvery, plopped down the
Juterium metal he made once it turned completely silver.

And soon a change occurred.

Chorurururuk.

The Juterium metal, which did not exceed 20cm and barely entered the pot, started to
absorb the liquid aggressively.

The needle which had an orange tint started to change its color very quickly as it
absorbed the liquid.

And soon the size increased gradually as well.

The needle, which hadn’t reached 20cm before, was already over one meter long and
the width was as thick as a thumb.

‘The end… is a little blunt.’

He molded with all his might but due to it being hand molded as well as the enlarging
process, the tip was a little blunt.

Hansoo held the needle with all his strength and started to grind it with the dull Podao.

Kududuk. Kududuk.

A hardness that barely peeled off when Hansoo used all his strength while sweating
intensely.

‘Yeah. It should at least be that hard.’

Hansoo made a satisfied expression as he was working very hard to grind it.

‘As I expected, you guys are the best when I’m against strong opponents.’

If his attacks went into the enemy easily then cutting parts would be good but once
you go against mobs that have decent amounts of physical resistance, cutting attacks
don’t work well.

If one was confident in fighting up close then rather than long swords that cut, needles
and daggers that stab are much better in going through the enemy’s defenses.

While the area of damage is small and secondary damages such as bleeding is hard, if
you know the weak points of the enemy and have the confidence to stab the weak
point accurately, then the needle is the best.

‘And if I need to go through his defenses when fighting him, it should at least be this
much.’

Hansoo thought of the opponent he needed to go against in order to obtain one of the
two hidden pieces in the first tutorial area.

<Tutorial 1-11>

Number 11 out of 134 weapons that can be created with the materials gained from
the monsters in the first tutorial area.

If you think about the alchemists went through a lot of trouble for a long time in order
to create the best quality weapons out of the low quality materials that you gain in the
tutorial area, it should at least be this much.

If a Rokoko Lizard or Carnivorous sac came out then he could create an even stronger
1-17 or 1-96 but Barb Snake wasn’t bad at all.

It would be rather hard obtaining a better weapon in the tutorial area than this.

‘I should conclude now’

Hansoo, who had grinded the edge to a sharp point, took out the goblin leather he had
saved, cut it into a long piece and then applied the poison weakly onto it.

Chiiiik

Hansoo nodded as he saw the insides of the leather melt slightly and then wrapped
the leather around the handle area of the needle.

As he felt the right feeling of a grip in his hands, he made a satisfactory expression as
he stabbed into the air.

When he uses it later he could apply poison or paralysis poison depending on his
preference then.

“Can’t we buy that?”

Taesoon looked at Hansoo’s weapon with a greedy expression.

If it’s that much then he was willing to buy it with runes.

If Hansoo struggled that hard to make it then it’s hardness was incredible.

As he was dissatisfied with the blades that went dull from a few strikes ever since a
while ago, it could only be tempting to Taesoon.

And then Hansoo shook his head.

From the start you guys cannot use this unless you were high rankers.
Since the area of damage is extremely small.

And something like this would be especially hard for you guys to use.

‘Well, to be honest it would depends on the user so I would sell it… ’

Despite that he couldn’t make more.

“I cannot make more because I used all the Lysate solution.”

“tsk”

Taesoon looked at the bottom of the empty bot and clicked his tongue.

Hansoo left them like that and moved inside the train.

‘So if I get on this then this should move’

He just needed to get on the train and go receive the reward. The battle was over.

The Barb snake was already strong enough but if an even stronger boss came out after
getting on the train, how would a first-day adventurer kill it.

Hidden piece just means it’s a hidden mission and not an impossible mission.

Hansoo went inside the train leisurely and sat next to the pillar of the train.

His favorite spot.

And then he saw someone getting on after him.

Hansoo chuckled as he asked.

“Why are you guys getting on?”

And at those words the three had a slightly befuddled expression.

They were not stupid.

An extremely suspicious train in the very bottom of the train station.

And as if electricity was working in an devastated train station, the lights were on.

A feeling of a jackpot.
Even in games when something like this exists there will be a jackpot.

No matter how one looked it did not look ordinary but Hansoo, who had psychic
powers, went in there.

And even with a comfortable expression.

They have never seen Hansoo lose tension before a battle so the chances of there not
being any battles were high.

Isn’t following him on obvious.

But they were surprised by Hansoo who had never said anything about following him
suddenly saying things.

“This is one person only. Get off.”

“Huh?”

“Only one person can get on.”

Hidden piece is only permitted to one person.

The train was large but it only moved when only one person was on it.

‘It was made so that the difficulty is at where twenty people need to come down to clear
but only one person can get… on’

If a god existed then he definitely had an evil hobby.

“…That might not be the case.”

Sangjin mumbled with a hopeful expression.

And then Taesoon spoke after him:

“And is there a rule which says you have to go? We’ve come here with our own
strengths as well.”

‘Magnetism huh’

As Hansoo glanced at the Barb snake’s corpse from those words, the faces of the three
all turned red.
Mihee was also making an embarrassed face but didn’t really stand on Hansoo’s side
and speak for him either.

‘Aiigo. You dummies.’

Hansoo laughed inwardly.

It wasn’t that understanding did not exist.

They’ve probably got the idea somewhat.

Whenever a chance occurs you need to grab it.

If you miss the chance because you are embarrassed or due to pride then you will
realize that that’s a very foolish act.

The three who were actually talking about it had their face reddened.

They knew that they were pushing it as they were speaking.

‘But they have not realized one thing yet’

“Oh. Of cause such a rule doesn’t exist since there isn’t such a thing as an absolute law
in this world.”

Then Hansoo who was holding onto the handle of the needle grabbed the tip instead.

And in as the bulky handle spun upwards the needle turned into a bat…

Hoong, Huooong.

The bat in Hansoo’s hands cut through the air while making threatening noises.

“You either get out now. Or you deal with me first then talk nicely with your lawyer
later and find me in court. Choose one of the two.”

“…”

Hansoo laughed while looking at the three.

 j

“Damnable Bastard”

Taesoon cursed as he looked at the train that was quickly making distance while
making clunking sounds.

It was extremely alluring. That thing that was at the end of the train station.

And because of that he pondered for a moment.

Should the three of them try fighting him together.

He even thought inwardly.

‘Surely he won’t be too cruel, we’re friends and we’ve come this far together.”

If they fought and won they could take his weapon and if they lose they could beg for
forgiveness.”

Not a bad gamble.

‘And if I take all the runes on his wrist… and even take whatever is at the end of the
station.’

It was basically a jackpot.

The chance of success was low but it was a low risk high return case.

Taesoon, who had finished his thoughts, tried to move his hands towards the kitchen
knife on his waist but gave up as soon as he saw his eyes.

The only reason he was talking over it because they didn’t act out.

‘fucker… ’

He was laughing and the way he was handling the situation was so-so but his eyes
were different.

He was watching enthusiastically with eyes that could destroy someone’s vitality.

As if he was full of expectation to see how it was going to play out.

‘Fuck. Fuck… ’
He felt unfairness as he got scared from just his eyes but he had to get off because he
didn’t have the courage to fight.

“Let’s go up. We should move too.”

Mihee opened her mouth as she looked at Taesoon.

Sangjin and Mihee were making expressions as if this situation was supposed to play
out like this.

Taesoon spat out curses in his mind.

‘You retards. This is why you guys aren’t capable.’

Why are you making such an embarrassed expression.

Anybody else would’ve done the same thing as him.

‘I am not sorry… I am not embarrassed.’

Taesoon mumbled inwardly as he grinded his teeth, raised his body and headed
upwards.
Rattle. Rattle.

The train moved to the next station swiftly.

‘Let’s see… he did say there were multiple stations.’

Hansoo thought of the stories of the four who had acquired the hidden piece.

<If you continue the stations will continue to come out. I went up to the fourth
station.>

<I went up to the seventh station. But it didn’t seem like going far meant better things
were given.>

<Yeah I was like that. I thought I’ll hit a jackpot when I get to the end but there were
only crappy things. Goddamnit.>

<I just got off on the first station and chose. It was Ograng’s Steel Glove… >

<Huh? Mine was Ketil’s Fingernail.>

<My first station was Mirhan’s Helmet.>

If you were to organize the conclusion was like this.

Firstly. As you take the train you will go through 20 stations.

Secondly. The artifact on each station was random.

Thirdly. A station that you’ve passed cannot be returned to and going further did not
mean better artifacts came out.

‘It’s a structure designed to give people mental conflicts’

Hansoo took a glance above.

A map of the train route with 20 stations.

He had to choose well here.

Chiiiiik

There was a platform laid on the center of the empty station with an artifact above it.

‘Let’s see’

There was plenty of time. Since the train won’t move until you get back on.

Hansoo walked up to the platform and checked out the artifact

‘Raroon’s Circlet.’

Hansoo showed a conspicuous color.

It raised the perception stat of the user by almost 10 and it showed the weak point of
the beast on your first encounter with it.

With this the chance that you will struggle against beasts in the beginning will
decrease.

The requirements was that you needed 25 or higher perception but it was well worth
it.

‘The standards are clearly higher.’

Since it was a hidden piece there was an artifact that would help greatly in the
beginning.

But Hansoo shook his head.

This one is dismissed.

To Hansoo who knew every beast’s weak points it was a rather disappointing item.

The perception stat was appealing but finding something else was better.

Hansoo laid the circlet down and got on the train again to get to the next station.
 j

‘This is the twelfth station.’

Hansoo sighed softly.

‘Eight weapons huh… ’

Maybe due to the fact that it was a hidden piece weapon, the quality was good even
though it was a newbie weapon.

There were ones with lightning damage and even a gauntlet that raised the number of
runes.

Since they were of higher quality than the needle he was holding there was nothing
much to say.

But that was the problem.

The fact that they were better than his needle.

In other words the choice was rather disappointing to Hansoo who was holding the
needle already.

‘Will weapons continue to come out.’

Honestly since a good weapon in the start had abilities that were beyond simply
raising stats and skills it wasn’t weird that there were many around.

‘Won’t something like a stepping stone come out.’

Shoes that allowed you to momentarily step on the air <Stepping Stone>.

With this you could have a much more three dimensional battle.

It was a weapon that was hard to obtain even in the second tutorial stage or out of
that, the red stage, so finding it around here would be nice. He had a slight hope that
this would come out but it had yet to do so unfortunately.

Hansoo slowly walked up to the platform and checked the item on it.

A small cigarette pack.

But Hansoo’s eyes bulged out as he saw it.

“Huh? Maniac’s Cloud Snack?”

‘Even something like this comes out?’

The stepping stone instantly disappeared from Hansoo’s thoughts.

This item was that rare.

<Maniac’s Cloud Snack>

A cigarette pack with 20 cigarettes.

But these were not ordinary cigarettes.

As soon as you take a puff your rune stats will start to increase and it will continue to
increase as you keep smoking it.

And when you inhale all the smoke after you finish the cigarette all the rune stats will
increase by around 20% and it will stay like that for around 10 minutes.

It was only 20% on paper, if all your stats were to increase by 20% then it meant your
battle power basically doubled.

And it rose by percentage. This was very tempting.

It meant that as your stats got higher and higher the effects increased more and more.

And whilst smoking it there were moderate amounts of painkiller effects as well as
increase of adrenaline so even without the stat increase your basic combat abilities
rose.

An item that raised your battle power by a large amount for about 15 minutes after
you start smoking it.

‘huhh’

Hansoo rejoiced.

Although you couldn’t use it outside the tutorial area but it was a small artifact that
was one of the best within the tutorial area.
‘This is it’

Hansoo chose instantly.

He didn’t know what kind of artifacts would come out further along but there won’t
be much difference to the earlier ones.

Which meant there was no better choice than this.

Hansoo inserted within the side of his upper body then smiled as he walked towards
the exit.

‘Wait, but I don’t smoke… ’

Hansoo made a slightly perplexed expression due to the unexpected problem.

‘Well. That guy will understand.’

He promised to stop but wouldn’t he allow such a thing like this.

As Hansoo got on the train whilst humming, the train started to move slowly towards
where Hansoo started.

‘Did they all exit’

As Hansoo got off from the train, the train rattled as it stopped its operation and even
turned its lights off.

A silence space with nobody else, Hansoo picked up the nearby cookwares and then
got lost in thought as he started to proceed upwards from the third floor.

‘Let’s see’

Hansoo thought of the second hidden piece.

The first day ended in a satisfactory manner.

Since the first hidden piece was completed, as long as he completes the second one
then he will have gotten all the hidden pieces he could acquire in the first tutorial area.
But he couldn’t do it right now.

The second hidden piece could only be obtained after the fourth day.

Hansoo started to ponder for a moment.

There were two things Hansoo could do before the second hidden piece made its
entrance.

Hunt and collect runes diligently.

Challenge the remaining missions.

‘There’s not much to decide.’

You will naturally kill beasts as you do missions.

He had to aim one of the missions of the 119, no, 118 due to him clearing one.

‘No. A few of them were done on the way to here.’

First beast kill, First one to gain a new rune type and so on… such things were done
on the way to here.

But these weren’t the missions that were officially decided.

The remaining missions were around 110.

Well he had no way of knowing which missions were decided.

There were probably two or three more.

An extremely low chance.

But that wasn’t something to worry about.

‘Do the ones with better rewards first.’

If he did the easy missions then he could do around 30 of them in two days.

Statistically, clearing thirty missions meant there was a high chance that one would
hit.
But that didn’t really mean anything.

The lower missions didn’t give more than a few runes if you cleared them.

So it’s better to do the missions with the best rewards one by one instead.

If you hit then it was a jackpot and if you didn’t then it was part of the hunt so there
wasn’t much to lose.

‘Let’s see… the mission with the best reward.’

And then Hansoo frowned at the reward he thought of.

<A sage stone that was mimicked by a flimsy mage>

The reward itself was amazing.

As soon as you eat it then every stat will increase and not just the ones you have but
every rune in existence including luck by 10 and even heal injuries that could kill.

It was not an object that could be gained in the tutorial stage.

No, this item was hard to obtain even outside the tutorial stage. The red area.

But the requirements was the problem.

‘Who completed a maniac mission like this’

The information in his head was basically things people experienced.

It meant somebody had succeeded.

‘Oh… was it that person.’

Hansoo thought of one of the people from the Final Brigade.

Enbi Arin.

A member of the Final Brigade who went to a prison as a volunteer and got dragged
to this place along with the criminals.
A person who got humiliated as soon as things started and acquired rage as a specialty.
It was a mission she found out after the seven days where she proceeded to rip apart
every single criminal who hurt her, eat their hearts and even tried to commit suicide.

‘… This is dismissed.’

Hansoo clicked his tongue.

He didn’t feel like doing it and to do this he needed to kill everybody which meant the
many missions that required people to live will become useless.

Though he didn’t know if this mission was one of the decided ones but there was no
reason to try.

Hansoo thought of the second best reward.

‘Kill 100 people within one day.’

As a side note, it was Keldian who completed this.

‘Dismissed as well.’

It gave a good skill as a reward but it wasn’t good enough for him to learn and it was
also too late.

He spent quite a while selecting an artifact so the day was almost over.

When he gets out it would probably be nighttime.

Nighttime, something flashed by this thoughts.

In Hansoo’s thoughts it was a mission with a rather good reward.

‘I almost forgot about that. <Selfish Wealthy man’s Food Jar>.’

When the first night is over that chance also disappears.

It was better to do this first than the other missions with better rewards.

‘This is first for now. I should fill up my stamina quite a bit though’

Since while the <Moon> is up, he would become very busy in order to acquire that.
Hansoo felt hungry and headed towards the convenience store.

Humans could definitely become transcendentally strong as they acquire runes.

The best part was that the number was basically being twisted so the efficiency rose
explosively.

It would make sense that one would require twice as much food if your strength is
doubled but the amount of strength increased by runes didn’t need extra food.

The Otherworld’s adventurers could eat and sleep at a similar pace that they were at
in their own world and still maintain their battle powers.

Even if you have the strength that could smash apart mountains.

But in other words if you couldn’t even maintain that much then your battle powers
will sink down tremendously.

In order to maintain the top condition, food, sleep and rest was needed.

And sudden exercise would make one even hungrier faster.

‘Let’s seat first and… hmm?’

Something came into Hansoo’s eyes as he walked towards the store.

The entrance was very different from before.

A completely empty convenience store.

Everything including food was completely gone.

Nothing was left behind.

And the ground was all dug up everywhere.

No, it wasn’t everywhere.

The spots where the food was buried were dug up accurately.

“Huh. Look at these kids.”

They did something this courageous despite the fact that the moon would come up
soon.

Hansoo looked at the scene in front of him as if it was amusing and laughed.

“Ah… Can’t I stop that.”

Mihee looked at the crowd that was moving the goods from the convenience store with
a sad expression.

The seven had gathered together and came back up.

But somehow the rest knew and rushed the store and started to take everything.

‘We’re definitely stronger but… ’

Mihee gulped.

The first thing she checked was the status of the other group as soon as they came up.

And she knew.

‘It’s doable’

The ones above weren’t that strong because they were focused on organizing people.

They were of course weaker than the three below and even weaker than the four
above.

The problem was numbers.

They couldn’t get near them easily but as 10 times the amount of people rushed the
store they couldn’t do anything.

They brought the backpack as they came up but they could only feel sad as the items
they wanted to bring one by one were all taken.

‘ah… ’

Whilst Mihee was making a sad expression, Taesoon was laughing inwardly.
‘They’re doing good.’

Taesoon only gave them 1 intel.

There was a convenience store below.

And like magic, despite them being cautious of him, they all rushed the store, took
everything and moved it somewhere else.

He decided to keep it a secret from his other friends. Since they were friends it would
be troublesome if they get in the way.

Since they had taken everything on the ground, Hansoo had no choice.

Since he would have no food.

And he could use the items within the store very well.

He would probably need the items in the store the most.

And since he couldn’t fight against everyone else he could only join them.

And then he would take the leadership position and ask to share the thing he obtained
in the station.

And after that they would get rid of the group together and take back everything from
the store.

‘You don’t live alone in the world.’

Taesoon had hoped that Hansoo would bring something back fast.
“It’s Hansoo!”

Mihee shouted in glee as she saw Hansoo walking slowly from the station below.

Since they were dealing with the large group over there they could only feel not at
ease but as Hansoo came all the pressure seemed to have been lifted.

‘It’s like some sort of superhero making an entrance’

Mihee felt her heart thumping as Hansoo approached but there was somebody else
who’s heart was thumping.

‘Fuck. I don’t know if it will work out well.’

He had spilled the milk but where was a problem.

The situation where Hansoo beats down everyone including the sixty over there and
the seven of them.

Then he would have basically poked the beast that was sleeping soundly.

It could become a situation where he stole the sleeping lion’s food bowl.

‘Well whatever. Since nobody knows that it was me who did it.’

Since he spilled it very softly while beating up a guy who had charged at him.

<Since I feel good because I found a convenience store I will let it slide.>

‘Yea. I could just fake it and pretend I don’t know.’

Who would know that he did it?

Taesoon calmed down and stared at Hansoo who was walking from afar.
And Mihee ran towards Hansoo first as he returned.

“You’re back! But there’s a problem! The guys over there took everything from the
store!”

Hansoo chuckled at those words and patted Mihee’s head.

“I know. I saw as I came up. Did you gather the food for us?”

At those words Mihee looked back and mumbled.

“We did but… there isn’t much.”

Since they prepared anticipating they would bring more from the store they didn’t
have a lot of food or equipment.

Since there was a limit to the size of the backpack.

And even more so since they gathered up female supplies and weapons.

But Hansoo didn’t add anything extra.

“Well that could happen.”

And then Hansoo started looked around to everyone.

And his eyes stopped at Taesoon.

Taesoon replied as if nothing happened.

“But it’s good since you’re here we can just take it back from them. It would be hard
by yourself but if we go together and force them they would give it back.”

Hansoo chuckled.

‘Aigoo. This guy.’

But Hansoo didn’t really say much.

“Well. Let’s eat first.”

At Hansoo’s words, Mihee, Jisun, Gangtae went up to the food they had collected.
Since it was set up in a half broken down cafe there were a lot of tables and it wasn’t
comfortable to eat.

And soon the table was filled with canned foods and other edibles.

As Hansoo walked towards it slowly Taesoon threw out something jokingly.

“I mean we got these risking our lives, shouldn’t you eat after paying us something?”

And then the cafe turned silent.

“Hey. Why are you being like this…”

Mihee glanced at Taesoon then talked back.

But Taesoon had no plans to back down.

‘I can’t keep getting dragged around here.’

And he didn’t really say anything wrong.

Hansoo left the food he would eat at the store but if they didn’t bring it then it would’ve
been taken by the gang over there.

In conclusion this was theirs.

And they had brought it with risk but despite him being Hansoo, shouldn’t he pay
something up for it?

And as Hansoo made an amused expression and stayed silent, the nearby friends were
in quite a turmoil.

“Hey if it wasn’t for Hansoo we don’t know where we could be right now.”

Taesoon replied to Mihee.

“But Hansoo told us before also. Liking free things is dangerous. We need to keep it in
check here in order to stay together.”

And at those words Sangjin nodded at the back.

It seemed he had some pent up dissatisfaction from the payments for the poison and
the skills.
“I don’t really have something to give for the food here.”

Taesoon spat out something instinctively at Hansoo’s words.

“Why not. You have that thing you earned in there, we could use it together.”

“What thing?”

The four who didn’t know the situation made a confused expression as Taesoon
laughed and said.

“That guy. He went into an empty space alone. He probably got something from there.
If we use that together our survival rates will increase. Let’s share it. We need to act
together anyway. Don’t do such a trade like this.”

At those words everyone looked at Hansoo.

They didn’t say anything but with the eyes asking why.

Hansoo looked at those eyes and chuckled.

“You’ve learnt well.”

“…what do you mean learn. You talk in an unpleasant way.”

Hansoo clicked his tongue inwardly at that Taesoon.

He did learn but he learnt it in a flimsy way.

‘Well. Since he probably thinks are we’re equal because we’re friends then that should be
normal.’

Basically if one thinks that they’re under then they can’t come out like that but if they
think that they’re on equal grounds then its obvious that they would come out like
that.

But the problem isn’t that.

Hansoo who had organized his thoughts for a moment landed a decision.

‘I guess it ends here.’

Why would Hansoo carry these guys around?

He didn’t really care for receiving runes.

If he killed a few more then they would come out so why would be rather receive them.

This wasn’t a game, a time where he went <HAHAH! I’ve got items and runes! I am
strong! This is fun! I can step on others! Happiness!> was long gone.

Since he had fought too long to do that.

The only reason why he was keeping them was because of what Eres had said.

The reason why he asked for runes is because without doing that then they will make
more and more requests that go too far.

‘Eres, I’ve done all I can.’

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders and stood up.

He wasn’t a stingy person, he wasn’t going to go <You pissed me off so

I.WILL.DESTROY.YOU.> or something.

‘How did Kangtae manage to say things like this. It’s extremely embarrassing.’

Well these guys aren’t really enemies, if they separate then that’s the end of it.

“Well. It’s ok. Stay well. Be strong from now on.”

Everyone was startled at Hansoo’s words as he got up.

They knew that it would become instantaneously hard without Hansoo.

He only wanted to set the mood not make him leave.

And only then they started to make Taesoon stop.

“Why are you being like this? Don’t fight.”

The friends were talking around him but Taesoon landed a decision.

‘Yeah, get lost.’

They were seven. If they act the way he taught them then they could safely gather a lot
of runes fast without moving around dangerously like him.

No, even if he got weaker he didn’t like the fact that somebody was above him.

And that attitude.

It was an attitude that showed someone like himself was not even necessary.

That really pissed him off.

‘Motherfucker’

As Taesoon saw Mihee slowly walk towards Hansoo, he got even angrier and then spat
out.

“Go if you want to go. Principles and principles. If we really give this out for free there
will be no end. I don’t know what you’re thinking but we don’t need him.”

Then there was somebody who followed his footsteps.

“Hey! Jin Mihee! Are you really going? And leaving us behind?”

Mihee clenched her teeth at Taesoon’s words.

‘I must live.’

The reason why the others didn’t move because they didn’t see Hansoo fighting below.

Mihee, who had seen that, knew instantly who was safer to go with.

“I’m going with Hansoo. Can you take me?”

Then Hansoo shook his head.

“I can’t take you.”

“Ah…”

But Hansoo added at Mihee who was in despair.

“But I can’t really say anything about you following me.”

“Phew.”

Taesoon talked coldly at Mihee who was sighing from relief.

“You can’t go. You didn’t pay back the rune. To Sangjin.”

Mihee can’t leave.

Since she has a precious skill.

And if she has a debt she can’t leave like that.

‘And… where will I send you.’

A girl that he had eyes upon since admission.

A situation like this was a great chance.

“Ah…”

And then Mihee made a sad noise as she thought of borrowing runes from Sangjin.

Then Sangjin shook his head.

“It’s ok. I’m following too.”

“What?”

At those words Taesoon clenched his teeth.

‘This guy who was always behind me… ’

That guy’s dad works at his dad’s company.

And that was the reason why he couldn’t leave so far.

He had used him well so far but to suddenly come out like this.

‘Yeah. Get lost, you have nothing to do with me now huh?

Taesoon spat out while clenching his teeth.

“Yeah. Get lost then.”

“…”

The four who were looking at the bickering between Sangjin, Mihee, Hansoo and
Taesoon seemed to be in a turmoil but then decided to stay next to Taesoon and moved
next to him.

Since they didn’t feel right about leaving and since all the food was here.

Taesoon looked at the three leaving, clenched his teeth but then shook his head
instead.

‘No, it turned out for the better’

Now the leadership position has came back to him.

They weren’t at the level of Mihee but the three girls here were pretty high quality and
there was nobody stronger than him.

For hunts he could just watch Hansoo to somewhat figure out the weaknesses and
then go hunt somewhere else.

And all the food was here too.

As long as there aren’t any more problems then there weren’t going to be situations
where their lives would be in danger.

‘After I get strong enough, I can slowly make my way through.’

Taesoon breathed in and out then laughed as he saw the friends who were looking at
his back and not Hansoo’s.

Sangjin looked at Hansoo with a dissatisfied expression and said.

“We don’t really have to do anything? All the food is with them.”

At Sangjin’s words there was some resentment.

If it’s Hansoo then he could probably take it all back.

And he stuck with Hansoo because he thought he would do that.

But Hansoo did not carry anything out.

‘What are his thoughts exactly?’

Sangjin did not understand Hansoo.

Since he didn’t bring out any food.

He had the strength to do whatever he felt but why was he like that.

Hansoo chuckled at those words.

Since he could tell what he was thinking.

‘Well. If they don’t know about the moon… ’

The food they have is useless food already.

Why would he bicker around regarding things that were already useless.

‘It seems it’s almost midnight’

Hansoo looked at the sky.

At the sudden action, Sangjin and Mihee also looked at the sky.

In the middle of the dark sky there was a single round moon floating.

An extremely normal full moon.

And then something weird came into Mihee’s sight

‘… Did I see wrong?’

Mihee made a slit with her eyes and looked at the moon.

‘It was like something flickered on the moon.’

Mihee, who had been looking at the moon, suddenly got the chills all over her body
and almost felt bad.
Blink

‘… The moon blinked its eyes.’

The surface of the moon split open with a crack and then a frightening eye appeared.

The iris on the center of the eye moved back and forth without stopping as it scanned
every living organism around.

“Since everyone’s left, let’s just eat.”

Taesoon said energetically as he walked towards the table.

Jisun looked at Taesoon with a slightly anxious look.

“Shouldn’t we… at least make up? I think we need Hansoo.”

At those words, flames rose up from within Taesoon.

‘That bitch has already gotten lost! Why are you looking for that bitch!’

But Taesoon managed to laugh on the surface.

His situation wasn’t quite well set yet.

If he makes a mistake then they could all leave to Hansoo.

“No. Look at that guy. He has something he had but he’s using it alone. He’s a guy that
would only make trouble if he stayed.”

“mmm…”

Honestly Jisun didn’t like that either.

If there was something good then it won’t even be enough to use it together but to
leave just like that.

And Taesoon who had seen Jisun’s expression, added strength to his voice.

“And all the food is here too. If they’re hungry they’ll come back. Won’t they listen
better then?”
And then Taesoon started to take out the food from the bag.

And at that moment something happened.

“Huh?”

A strand of moonlight came into the room.

As if the light bended.

And as if it was searching for something, searching every corner.

And at the snake-like light that entered the room, the food that had been shone upon
started to burn.

“What is going on…”

Taesoon rushed and checked the rest of the food.

But the food that was stacked was all burnt down without anything remaining.

“Goddamit! How did this happen!”

Taesoon and the remaining four cried out in shock from the strange phenomena that
melted down all the food in the interval of a few seconds.
“Huh? Huuhh?”

Sangjin made a shocked face as he saw the chocolate bar in his hand burn down to
nothing.

One of the few things he took before coming out.

When he quickly checked, the contents of his bag and his pockets were disappearing
at a fast pace.

Sangjin urgently looked at Hansoo and shouted.

“How did this happen?”

And then Hansoo shrugged his shoulders.

“Even if I have psychic powers, how would I know of something like that?”

“Ah…”

Sangjin looked at the emergency food in his hands that had turned into dust and made
a resentful face but then realized something.

‘Is it possible that the other’s food also… ’

As Sangjin quickly looked at the outside of the 2nd floor of the cafe that he used to be
at, he heard shouts from all around.

“What is this! Which bitch planned this out!”

“Goddamnit! Some guy took everything that was piled here! It’s all gone!”

“I’ll kill you!”

A deserted city at a single glance.

A place that seemed very hard to obtain food at.

Everyone had obtained food from the store on the 2nd floor but logically speaking no
one would have thought of going down to the even more dangerous 2nd floor after
getting through the first floor which was filled with Green Worms.

Without Hansoo they would have probably had to starve for another 2-3 days.

And when the food disappeared in such a situation the anxiousness of the people had
exploded.

And even rage.

“Ehh…”

As Sangjin groaned at the chaos afar, Hansoo smiled bitterly.

‘It’s really a god-forsaken world’

Not a single moment will be left in peace.

Firstly, because of that <Moon>, all the foods that one had in possession will burn
down and disappear.

Which meant that it was impossible to stock up on foods and then nibble away at it.

‘That’s why I told them to not take them all. Tsk’

If you leave it in the convenience store that it does not count as being in one’s
possession so it remains.

The reason why he had buried it was to share it with the seven after climbing back up
with them.

The residents of the Otherworld must scavenge food everyday.

No matter if you search for every food within the corners.

No matter if you kill a beast, find a way to get rid of the toxicity and then eat it.

‘If only it ended there’

And soon another change occurred.

White light started to come off from people’s bodies.

As if they were shrouded with moonlight.

“huh?”

Sangjin panicked as he saw his chance and then looked around.

And then he drooled.

They could see where every single one of the 100 were.

No matter if they were blocked by a wall.

The moonlight was showing each other’s locations and was sharing them.

When he turned around, Mihee and Hansoo’s body had moonlight coming off of them
also.

‘Ah… ’

From the feeling of being naked, Sangjin and Mihee clenched their teeth.

There was no way that their location being exposed would feel good.

‘Goddamit’

Hansoo, who had been looking at the two, stood up.

Since the moon has risen, it was time to move.

“Where are you going?”

As the two asked anxiously, Hansoo shrugged his shoulders.

“Gotta do work.”

It was a reward that could only be gained on the first night of the Tutorial and only
when you clear the mission while the Moon was up.
<Selfish Wealthy man’s Food Jar>

The requirements were rather simple.

<Within the 6 hours of the first night while the moon is up, cook up a beast and then
eat it>

The problem was that it was on the first night.

Most people will figure out their situation after the first night and then will zealously
hunt for food. Beasts will naturally come into their views and naturally they will get
their carcasses to cook them around the second day but a situation where one cooks
the toxic beast within the first day to eat it was rare.

The Jar that you obtain after all this is rather simple.

It hid the food away from the eyesight of the Moon and always kept the food inside
fresh.

The name was a jar but it was in the form of a small pouch.

‘And the storage amount is important’

The storage amount was five times the amount of food you eat within 6 hours.

1 person’s worth meant 5 people’s worth of space, 10 people’s worth of food eaten
meant that you could store 50 people’s worth of food.

The fact that you could store food was very advantageous in this situation where that
damnable <Moon> was up.

He had to eat as much as possible.

‘But… I should cook things thoroughly’

It was rather simple but to do that a lot of preparation was needed.

Since you need to get rid of the toxins within the carcass.

‘Cooking huh. It’s been a while.’

Cooking was one of Hansoo’s hobbies.

Since it was one of the things that made the tongue happy as well as being one of the
small moments of happiness.

And it was one of the basics of the basics in order to survive within the Abyss where
the Moon came up.

Bubble Bubble

Hansoo leisurely boiled goblin blood as he was lost in thoughts.

‘The current amount of carcasses in possession are four kinds’

Goblin. Green Worm. Land Mermaid. Barb Snake.

And out of the four, if you cross out the Land Mermaid that you cannot eat even after
you cook it, it leaves him with three kinds.

And out of those the Green Worm’s carcass was rather difficult to detoxify with the
materials you could obtain.

‘The main ingredients will become Goblin and Barb snake.’

In the Abyss or the Otherworld, if you can cook the beasts well then their meat
becomes amazing.

One of the friends told him that <If you can cook Goblin Meat well then it’s better than
most beef> so it’s likely that it’s true.

Bubble Bubble Bubble

Whilst he was boiling the blood to get rid of the toxins within the meat, Hansoo pulled
out the kitchen knife embedded on the Barb snake, sharpened it and then started to
chop the Barb snake up.

The Barb snake has no toxins so you can even eat it right away by making sashimi.

The only problem was that it was hard to catch and that there wasn’t much to eat
because it was mostly hard muscle.

“Mmm”

He took a slice, chewed on it, and then made a content smile as he gulped it down.
‘It’s rather good’

The chewy taste was rather good.

The seasoning was a little disappointing but the texture itself gave satisfaction.

Sangjin looked at Hansoo with a priceless expression.

‘Isn’t this guy just insane?’

He was eating the monster meat in such a leisurely way.

If somebody saw they might’ve mistaken him for eating sashimi by the seaside.

But whilst Sangjin was cursing Hansoo off, Mihee had a slightly different thought.

“…Is that something you have to do too?”

“What are you talking about?”

The one who had answered Mihee’s insensitive question was Sangjin.

Mihee replied at that.

“He could just move away and hunt but he’s doing that instead.”

Hansoo had never done anything unnecessary.

Hansoo who had continuously reminded them of hunting was cooking like that which
meant it was a necessary action.

There was only reason why Mihee thought like that.

<Reward>

She didn’t know what Hansoo’s psychic powers were exactly she could guess
somewhat.

He knew what to do in order to achieve rewards.

Hansoo looked at that Mihee contently.

‘Good’

She was growing up well.

But Sangjin wasn’t really happy at Mihee’s words.

“He would probably just eat it by himself this time anyways.”

At those words Hansoo looked at Sangjin and then answered.

“You guess correctly.”

“…Huh?”

Sangjin was instead flustered by Hansoo’s confident words.

“Goddamnit! What do we do!”

Jisun, who was grabbing onto Gangtae anxiously, yelled at Taesoon.

Shouts were coming from afar.

“Didn’t the ones who went to the store first do some tricks on the food?”

“Let’s first catch those guys! Their food might be different!”

“I can see them over there!”

The reason why they didn’t invade was because they both had something to eat.

Since there was no reason to fight unless they were desperate.

But the situation was now much different.

If their food disappeared like this every night, and they had to find new food every
time then they had no time to idle around.

They could starve to death at a moment’s notice.

And that problem becomes worse as the size of the group becomes larger.

Taesoon looked at the ones running towards him from afar and clenched his teeth.
There was no way to hide either, since that damnable moonlight was showing every
living existence below it.

And then Taesoon realized what that moon had wanted from them.

‘It wants us to kill each other since the board was set huh.’

They could not face that amount of people.

Maybe if their numbers were eight or seven but with just five they had no way of
beating them.

The reason why Taesoon was at ease was because they would have thought that there
were eight of them and wouldn’t rush in thoughtlessly.

And since because they were calm even when it became night like his expectations.

But the fact that there were 5 of them would be discovered at this point.

Whilst Taesoon was clenching his teeth, the girl who was standing quietly in the
corner, Sunmi shouted.

“Instead of staying here, let’s go to Hansoo!”

“What?”

Taesoon momentarily burst into anger and then gazed at Sunmi.

Sunmi was slightly scared by that expression but then shouted.

“Then what do you want us to do! Are you going to fight them with only five of us?”

“…”

Taesoon clenched his teeth at those words.

‘He only has strong confidence’

Sunmi clicked her tongue inwardly but didn’t show it.

Every person had a limit and if they went past Taesoon’s limits in a disadvantageous
situation like this then they couldn’t expect what would happen.
Whatever happened, the strongest of the five was Taesoon.

Sunmi organized her thoughts and then spoke cautiously as if she was soothing
Taesoon down.

“Instead of this let’s cooperate. We aren’t going to Hansoo, we’re just combining our
strength. If we become eight then they can’t look down on us. After we buy time we
can explain that our food has also disappeared.”

“Hoo…”

Taesoon calmed down at Sunmi’s words of combining their strength and not going to
Hansoo for help.

‘Yeah. We aren’t going out to find that guy for help. We’re just combining our strength.’

No matter if it was Hansoo, it would be hard to handle the enraged mob.

He definitely cannot ignore the strength of the five of them.

Taesoon, who had organized his thoughts, stood up and spoke.

“Yeah. We need to help him. Let’s go.”

‘Retard. He seems to still think that this is a world where his father exists.’

Sunmi belittled Taesoon who was holding up his confidence even in a situation like
this but didn’t really add extra comments.

Since there was no reason to make enemies.

‘Damn. I stayed here only because of the food but it was a blow. I should’ve noticed when
that bitch Mihee stuck onto him’

Sunmi clicked her tongue.

She didn’t follow that group because she didn’t want to be pushed back by Mihee.

In this group, without Mihee here, her beauty was at the top and then she could
probably control the two men with ease.

And there was no problem since she usually acted as the leader of the three who were
here.

But it had led to this situation.

‘I have to grab onto a new opportunity.’

Sunmi, who looked at Taesoon who was wheezing out pitifully, thought of Hansoo and
ran as she bit her lips.

But at that moment something flew in from behind with a very fast speed.

“Uwaak!”

Splash

As the mysterious object latched onto his ankles, Taesoon’s ankles were entangled and
he fell just like that.

“Uhh? Uh?”

Taesoon tried to untie the yellow thing that had bound his legs but that thing on his
ankles just got tighter and tighter.

‘Fuck. It’s a skill!’

Taesoon panicked and shouted while looking at this friends.

“Hey! Hey! Carry me and run please!”

But Jisun, Sunmi and others who were looking at that Taesoon, hesitated for a moment
but then abandoned him as they ran.

Taesoon roared in rage as he saw his friends act like that.

“You bitches!”

“Hey now. Why is such a young friend like you cursing like that.”

Taesoon spun his head as he heard the footsteps and the voice from behind.

Dozens of people who had red eyes due to being angry were walking towards him.

These people were extremely agitated from the fact that all their food had suddenly
disappeared as well as the danger they felt from their positions being exposed.

While Taesoon felt the chills on his back from the eyes of the gang that could beat him
at a moment’s notice, the man who had been standing in the very front spoke as he
laughed:

“How is it? It’s called Orun’s adhesive. While you guys were doing things we were also
working. Since our numbers were high things like this dropped.”

“…”

“But why is there only five of you? Where did the other three go?”

He thought that were eight of them but even if he added the ones running away there
were only five in total.

Taesoon rapidly answered at those words.

“I’ll say everything I know!”

He knew a lot of things about Hansoo’s group.

If they hear about that they will be tempted.

And he was rather skilled too.

It wasn’t impossible to join that gang.

At those words the leader of the gang who was standing in the front, Giltae, smiled as
he spoke.

“Such a young guy, I like that you catch on quickly. I’ll take you in. But after we take
care of something.”

And then somebody came out from behind.

‘Fuck… ’

As Taesoon saw the guy who he had beaten up to slip intel while coming out of the
station checking him out like a snake, he gritted his teeth.

“You shouldn’t beat somebody up because you feel like it. Since we’re going to be
together from now on let’s settle things here first”

As soon as Giltae’s words ended, an unbiased violence started.

Puuk!

‘Uuk. Uuuuk!’

He had a skill too but maybe due to the enemy having raised his stats for quite a while
or maybe because he wasn’t on guard, it felt like his intestines were being twisted and
turned.

But Taesoon held back his screams forcefully.

If he screamed then they will enjoy it more and he will become more pitiful.

‘I’ll kill them all.’

Hansoo who had turned him like this, and the four who had abandoned him, he would
kill them all.

Taesoon grinded his teeth at the four lights running and the three lights at the end as
he was getting beat up.

Hansoo mumbled as he saw the lights running towards him from afar.

‘They’re coming.’

<Selfish Wealthy man’s Food Jar>

To be honest this mission had a higher chance of being selected out of the missions.

After seeing the statistics it seemed that this mission had boasted a much higher
percentage than the others.

But he hadn’t seen many people who had obtained this.

The method of obtaining it was simple.

Eat as much food as you can while the moon is up.

But there was a condition.

That you needed to be selfish.

And that it was only given to the one person who had eaten the most.

Since it was a Selfish Wealthy Man’s Food Jar.

He could not share anything he cooked himself.

While he couldn’t hide himself anywhere.

While everybody was going crazy from the disappearance of food.

If you can get through this situation and selfishly hide and eat the food, only then the
Jar will show off it’s powers.

As if it meant that you need to at least do that much to hide the food from the Moon.

‘Anyways, the guy who had selected the mission really had an evil hobby.’

Hansoo laughed at Sangjin and Mihee.

“If you don’t like it then you can leave. It seems like there will be a lot of guests for the
meal.

First night of the tutorial.

The experience and the situation of the tutorial from the people of the Final Brigade
had different but where was a common point.

That nobody went through it with ease.

Something always blew up on the first night.

‘Perhaps I will be able to complete a lot of missions tonight.’

Hansoo started to warm up his body slowly as he chewed on the Barb Snake’s meat.
“Mmm. It’s cooked well.”

Hansoo stabbed at the meat with the kitchen knife that was almost completely dull
and tasted it while chewing on it.

Meat from which the toxins were perfectly removed by being boiled with blood and
having been mixed with the Green Worm’s pancreas.

‘There’s a lot of juices coming out too.’

Hansoo spoke whilst eating leisurely:

“Most of the toxins within the goblin meat disappear if you boil it in goblin blood. Just
don’t eat the intestines or the liver.”

But the weren’t in a situation where they could focus on that.

The moonlight was accurately showing the mob of people charging at them.

Mihee gulped as she saw the people running at them from afar.

“Are you perhaps going to protect us when a fight breaks out between us and them?”

“Mmm. Perhaps if we’re friends?”

Sangjin’s expression became bright at those words.

Who else would be his friends other than them in this place?

He and Mihee had abandoned Taesoon and picked Hansoo!

But Mihee clenched her teeth at those words and spoke:

“…How do we become that friend?”

Hansoo laughed at those words.

“It’s not like a driver’s exam, why would there be a condition to become a friend. You
might have become a friend suddenly at one point.”

You don’t become a friend who can trust each other and protect each other by fulfilling
objectives.

You become a friend by protecting and trusting each other in every situation

‘Just like those guys.’

Sangjin then realized his misconception from Hansoo’s words and then spoke as his
face reddened:

“…But then how do we deal with those guys?”

Hansoo shook his heads at those words.

“You should take care of yourself at least.”

Sangjin was enraged by Hansoo’s careless words.

“Damnit! Then why are we hanging around with you!”

But Hansoo only shrugged his shoulders.

“You should figure that answer out by yourself. The fact is that being with me is more
dangerous.”

“…”

Sangjin clenched his teeth at those words.

That was actually a fact.

They followed after Hansoo and fought down the dangerous train station.

If they didn’t go with Hansoo and instead hung around the bigger crowd it would’ve
been safer.

And Hansoo didn’t have any notion of keeping them safe.

Sangjin watched the people running towards them from afar as he clenched his teeth.

Then he breathed in and out and started to walk over.

“I thought that we could go to the end together but you’re just too much. I thought that
you were my friend but you do not care for me.”

Sangjin started to walk towards a direction after ending his speech.

And thought inwardly at the same time.

‘But… I didn’t do anything bad like that bitch Taesoon so if I come back after removing
myself for a while he would probably take me back in.’

Hansoo laughed at Sangjin who was taking shelter in order to first dodge the terrifying
storm.

‘Seriously huh.’

Once they tie them together in school for a few years, the word friend seems to have
gotten much more common.

Hansoo talked to Mihee as he looked at Sangjin who was leaving.

“Aren’t you going too? That’s the best solution if you want to be safe.”

Mihee shook her head at those words.

“…You won’t take me back in if I leave.”

‘She’s really quick to catch on.’

Mihee clenched her teeth while Hansoo laughed inwardly.

‘This isn’t the situation to look for an umbrella to escape the rain.’

The other friend hadn’t realized the essential truth yet.

They are instinctively looking for a safe place because of the dangerous situation.

And since Hansoo seemed safe they had stayed there.

But Hansoo didn’t have the idea to protect them and they shouldn’t be doing that
anyways.

They should not be looking for safety here. They needed to grow.

They needed to rush their growth.

To deal with the strong predators that will flood them.

And it wasn’t only beasts.

If you did not want to get eaten up by humans you needed to become stronger at a
faster pace than others.

And Hansoo was talking very plainly.

He said he wouldn’t protect them but did not speak of not learning from him.

Didn’t he say it before?

He won’t take them with him but he wouldn’t mind them following.

‘If they rely on something here… they will really die.’

Mihee came next to Hansoo, who was thinking, and started to cook the goblin meat
after boiling the goblin blood.

‘This is a gamble.’

She had too many things to learn.

And to do that she needed to follow and learn from Hansoo, who had psychic powers,
and hunt along with him.

If she could survive today next to him then she had another day’s worth of things she
could learn.

‘I don’t know when an unexpected variable like that moon come out.’

Mihee, who had strengthened her resolve, started to sharpen the knife to deal with the
ones coming towards them.
 j

“Huff. Puff.”

The four who had ran zealously finally ended near Hansoo.

Sunmi made a ridiculing expression as she saw the view in front of her.

‘… Did he come to camp? And why is he using the pot separately.’

Sangjin was nowhere to be seen and only Mihee and Hansoo were left.

The two were boiling something in the pot and were chewing on that.

Sunmi clenched her teeth at this.

‘These despicable guys. These two knew a way of preserving the food.’

It’s no wonder they had left in such a leisure.

These guys probably knew that all the food had burnt down to nothing.

Sunmi, who had been grinding her teeth, breathed in and out and then shook her head.

‘No. This is better actually’

If he knows the method he only needed to share it.

‘And we didn’t do anything wrong like Taesoon right?’

Actually Taesoon being taken by them was a benefit.

That senseless guy was holding up his confidence even in a place like this.

If she was Hansoo she would not let someone who acted like Taesoon alone.

‘Yeah. If you want to go through this harsh world you need a trustworthy friend.’

Her mind was much more at ease after deciding.

And once her mind was at ease, hunger was rising up.

‘Damn. I just realized that I couldn’t get to eat anything.’

She was in a situation of tension for the whole day along with the intense exercise that
she didn’t usually perform made her energy usage much more severe.

And it seemed like that the surrounding friends were in the same situation from their
mouths watering from seeing the meat over there.

Sunmi spoke out after setting her mind.

“Huff. You were here. Could we eat together?”

Hansoo smirked and rose from his seat.

And held the needle as he drew a circle around the area 3m away from him.

Shiik. Shik.

“…What are you doing?”

“Don’t come in.”

“What? Are you seriously going be that petty?”

Sunmi spoke out from utter disbelief.

They weren’t grade schoolers or something, to draw a circle because they bickered a
little.

And they were simply bystanders.

And the main culprit wasn’t even here.

But Hansoo didn’t reply as he went back to his seat and started to chew as he
continued his meal.

Sunmi spoke out after staring at Hansoo for a while:

“If I enter, what are you going to do?”

Hansoo replied softly.

“Oh I don’t know. But from my psychic powers it seems that it won’t be that good.”

“…That bloody psychic powers shows such a thing too huh.”

As Sunmi grinded her teeth, Hansoo just shrugged his shoulders.

“I know other things too. Like if you stay here it would be dangerous for you?”

As soon as Hansoo spoke the four quickly looked behind them.

They had forgotten momentarily from the security and distraction from the food in
front of their eyes.

That they were being chased.

The mob was screaming in rage as they were running towards them.

“Look at those bitches! They are cooking by themselves.”

“I know this would happen! Those bitches are the ones that went into the convenience
store first!”

“You dare to trick us?”

And in front of the mob, there was a half beaten up Taesoon.

Jisun shouted in glee.

“Taesoon! You were saf?”

“Shut up! You despicable bitch! You dare to leave me behind like that!”

Sunmi, Jisun and the others were startled at the enraged shouts that was resonating
through the air.

They were indeed in a hurry but they did indeed leave a friend behind.

But Jisun rebutted in a hurry.

“No it isn’t like that! Listen to me! We were going to come to Hansoo and ask for help!”

“This crazy bitch! You dare say that!”

Taesoon shouted as he grinded his teeth.

By that point he would have been badly beaten up.

If he didn’t beg, and didn’t say he would go under them then it wouldn’t have ended
this easily and he would’ve become minced meat.

‘Fuck… to guys who are weaker than me… ’

There’s no strong against a number.

And that was the reason why he could not forgive them even more.

‘These bitches. I wanted to be together.’

He could not forgive Hansoo, the four bitches and even Mihee who had betrayed him.

And for that he was willing to go through a little bit of humiliation.

Whilst Taesoon was looking over in rage, the shouts of the people were getting louder
as well.

But at that point Giltae came out as he shouted.

“Woah. Woah. Calm down first everybody. The new guy should calm down too.”

It was the words of one person but they were rather intimidated.

‘He has controlled the mob rather well.’

Hansoo nodded at the guy who had spoke to him when he first left.

Since he came with a bunch of scruffy guys who treated him as the boss so controlling
a mob wasn’t that hard.

Since he didn’t seem like a normal person.

Giltae smiled as he looked at Hansoo:

“It’s good to see you again. A young person has such abilities. Where did you get the
meat?”

Hansoo bobbed his chin at those words.

“Why are you looking for meat from me when there’s meat everywhere”

Giltae looked around the corpses that had been stacked around him.
‘… He ate that?’

Giltae hadn’t already tried that out.

Since he ordered a few to try it out.

But that food was not something you could eat.

The toxicity was so strong that the ones who had eaten are still having diarrhea and
were suffering from dehydration.

They will probably die. Since dehydration in a situation like this meant death.

But he was eating that in ignorance.

Giltae organized his thoughts and spoke:

“It seems that the younger brother knows the method of eating it.”

At those words Hansoo nodded as he spoke so everyone could hear:

“If you boil it in goblin blood you can eat it. Go and try it.”

A simple intel such as this wouldn’t hasten the process of the invasion of the Abyss.

Giltae pondered inwardly as he looked at Hansoo.

‘Did they say this bitch had psychic powers… ’

As they approached here, that Taesoon guy had babbled everything out.

That the guy called Hansoo seemed to have psychic powers.

And thanks to that they had all gotten stronger faster and attained the food from the
store.

‘And he obtained something valuable in there right?’

Giltae made his decisions quickly.

He didn’t know what would happen the next day when the distance between them is
spread apart further.

And even though he had established a large group but most of them were normal
people so they were hard to utilize in a fight.

‘If we’re going to fight then today’s the day.’

He had no intention to kill.

Why would he kill somebody with psychic powers.

And no matter if he flew about he was only a normal person around twenty years of
age.

If he receives some beating and some knife cuts he will be in trauma and become
submissive.

And then he can suck out his bone marrow.

‘The fact that he’s in such a leisure is a bit troubling but… ’

But he could figure that out and that would be that.

Giltae, who had made his decision, gave a wink.

“The new guy should go over and take a bite. Talk a little too. I heard you guys were
friend. If you are friends that he should at least give you a bit of meat right?”

Taesoon,who was grinding his teeth, started to walk over proudly.

‘If you indeed have some hidden motives then you shouldn’t be able to act recklessly in
front of this crowd.’

Taesoon took large steps as he headed towards Hansoo’s pot.

And Hansoo, who was watching this, chuckled.

‘I’m sorry that I couldn’t keep it even for a day, this seems like the end of it Eres.’

From the way these guys were acting, it seemed like Eres’ will would be hard to keep.

Since he was closer to Keldian anyway.

There was a reason why he was closer to him.

Mihee, who was watching Taesoon walk over towards the circle Hansoo had drawn,
suddenly felt a chill spike up from behind her.

Hansoo’s expression was changing at a rapid rate.

Well, to be more accurate he was still smiling but the expression was turning scarier
as his eyes were changing.

Deeper and at the same time, colder.

And Mihee knew instinctively when she saw this.

He wasn’t angry.

This was his true nature.

He had simply been holding down on it until now for some reason.

She then realized that no matter how selfish Taesoon and the others acted in front of
Hansoo they had never blocked his way or disturbed him in any way.

And Mihee, who had thought up to that point, urgently responded.

“NO! Don’t come in! Don’t cross that line!”

But then Taesoon grinded his teeth as he shouted:

“You just wait right there.”

And then Taesoon recklessly crossed the line.

Eres and Keldian often bickered with each other even when they started working
together due to differences in opinion.

Eres always said this.

<You shouldn’t make enemies with such ease. Those guys will one day block your
paths>

Keldian said this.

<If you see a enemy in front of you then you must thoroughly crush them. Otherwise
they will grab onto your ankles eventually.>

And because of that their thoughts were unified.

<Don’t make enemies easily. But once you make them make sure to thoroughly crush
them. So they won’t even be able to look at you again.>

And Hansoo agreed with this.

Thukunk

“…huh?”

Taesoon made a confused expression as the foot he had set forward slanted on an
angle.

And he knew instantly.

That the foot he had set over the line had been cut off.

Taesoon fell and screamed as he saw the kitchen knife that seemed to have cut off his
ankles being stuck on the ground in front of his eyes.

“Uahhhhhhk!”
Everyone felt the horror in their hairs and bones as they saw Taesoon roll about on
the floor without an ankle.

The enraged voices quieted down and only silence was left.

The fact that he was strong enough to the point where he cut an ankle off by throwing
a kitchen knife was a problem but it wasn’t the root of the silence.

It was the fact that he had cut off his leg because he had crossed the line.

And that look.

‘Fuck. What kind of college student has an expression like that… what kind of work did
he do?’

Giltae grinded his teeth as he saw his eyes from afar.

As Taesoon saw everyone hesitating, he grinded his teeth.

‘These bitches who were so confident… these sons of bitches!”

He went out believing in these people.

But were acting in such a way!

Taesoon, who was looking at the people with tails between their legs, shouted out
while squirming in agony.

“Guuuaa… Guaa… You dirty bastard! You do this much to a friend just because you
don’t want to give a piece of meat!”

Truthfully it didn’t seem like that was the root of the problem.

But that wasn’t important.

The important fact was that that guy needed to die right now.

And to do that he needed to stimulate the ones over there who were cowering like
dogs with their tail between their legs.

Taesoon spat out an evil shout.

“You guys! Think well! Do you think that the guy who does this to me because he didn’t
want to give out a piece of meat would let you live once he gets stronger?”

And then everyone felt the horror in their hairs and bones.

Those words were right.

The already strong guy had risen up this much in just a day.

And he had obtained a strange weapon as well.

What would happen if he increases the gap in a few days?

And if that happened would a guy who carelessly sent his friend’s leg flying leave them
alive?

“Hit him now! You guys are watching like this because you have no confidence in
winning!”

Giltae grinded his teeth.

They didn’t know if those words were correct.

But they couldn’t give up the chance right now.

Even if he didn’t have such thoughts, if he becomes strong enough to easily push them
down with his hands, and if he needs extra runes in order become stronger then it will
become a disaster.

If he were to attack them in surprise during the day, then they would just become a
vending machine that is giving out all their runes.

They had to kill him while everyone was excited, had their weapon and escape was
impossible due to the light coming out of their bodies.

“Prepare yourselves.”

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders at the atmosphere that was becoming sinister.

There was a bit of misunderstanding but the conclusion was the same.

There was no point in persuading the guys who were charging at him with a death
wish.

And there was no reason to take care of them all.

Since an easily set fire is easy to extinguish.

‘One step at the time staring from the ones who crossed over the mountain’

He had to finish in a overwhelming fashion. Since only then the other guys who charge
at him thoughtlessly disappear.

And it seemed that there were some people with skills in that crowd.

They hadn’t hunted much but their body was good from the start so their basic stats
were good.

And to crush those guys his current battle powers were a bit lacking.

‘Cloud snack is a bit wasteful’

He couldn’t use such a thing which he had 20 of.

He needed it to fight the guy blocking the second hidden piece at the <Altar>.

Hansoo absorbed all the runes in his wrist.

Since there was no need to trade runes for the moment.

All his stats like his strength shot up instantly.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 40.3

Stamina: 39.8

Agility: 26.1

Perception: 27.2

Magic resistance: 13
Hansoo stood up from his seat after absorbing all the runes and walked forward after
pulling out the needle.

‘This is going to hurt a little.’

Since it started already.

Before the night ends he will try out every mission with people as subjects.

The fairies were so evil natured that most missions weren’t suited for teenagers to
watch.

But since they started the fight they should at least be punished that much

‘First <Peel off the skins of the 15 people rushing towards you while leaving them alive>…
it seems Enbi Arin did this too. Anyway, it seems I’ll be busy in order to try out all 37
missions with people as subjects.’

Hansoo looked at the people rushing towards him coldly.

Eventually the Moon that was hanging in the sky started to blink as it closed its eyes.

Which meant that it was past 6 o’clock.

As the moon closed its eyes the lights that were stuck on the people’s body started to
disappear.

It had closed its eyes but the moon kept on giving out light as it shone the disastrous
scene below.

“uuk…”

“Guuuk…”

Almost twenty or so people were stuck on the floor with holes in their limbs and were
barely breathing.

Everybody here were people who followed that man called Giltae.

And Taesoon was part of this group as well.

It has already been a while since the others ran away from here in every direction.
And Mihee was watching Hansoo from the side with a disgusted expression.

‘uue… ’

The fight ended rather easily.

The people who rushed him were of no match to Hansoo.

Their experience itself were different.

He knew exactly where to stab and had no hesitation in doing so.

No, even if they had similar experiences and skills, their stats were different.

Hansoo, who had absorbed all his runes, flew around like a flying tiger and gave the
people rushing towards him holes in their limbs one by one.

Hansoo had injuries on his body but compared to those of lying below, it was basically
nothing.

As the people in their front fell down with holes in their body, the people who were
stimulated from the food problem realized that the current problem was receiving
holes in their body and not the food and had all ran away.

And Hansoo, who had been eating food next to the fallen people, stopped eating as the
moon set.

Because he simply ate too much.

‘I think I’ve almost eaten around 3 days worth… ’

One would get bored of beef if they eat a lot but since he ate about 3 days worth his
stomach was about to burst.

As Hansoo looked into the air, the air split apart as a fairy came out.

As soon as the fairy came out, it looked around and then smiled.

“You are doing very well. To even take the second mission.”

And then the fairy handed over a small pouch and explained it.

“This is a pouch that can hide the food from the moonlight. Let’s see… it seems you
will be able to store around 2 weeks worth of food. Heehee. If you leave them in here
then they won’t go bad so use it efficiently.”

The fairy, who had spoken what it wanted to say, disappeared through the air to
somewhere else.

‘As I expected.’

He was expecting a lot because this mission had a high chance of being chosen but his
expectations weren’t wrong.

In the future there will be places such a dungeons where you will starve for a month
because you cannot find food.

This would be of great help in places like that.

Hansoo tied the pouch around the waist and then started to walk somewhere as he
passed between the people lying on the ground.

‘Well. There shouldn’t be a reason to see them now.’

He had experimented with missions with humans as a subject all throughout the night.

It was almost like torture but since they were the ones who started it there was no
reason to hold back.

The conclusion was that they were all fails.

Two missions, since the 50 stats and the Jar mission were completed then it meant
only one or two were remaining.

Since there were over 100 missions and the chances were that one or two missions
remained so it wasn’t that weird.

‘But since I’ve attained the <Selfish Wealthy man’s Food Jar> it’s all good.’

Mihee carefully followed Hansoo, who had completed his meal, and asked in such a
situation:

“…Aren’t you going to kill them?”

Those guys will undoubtedly heal even though the process may be slow.

Since they had lead the group for a while, and had the already high vitality along with
the few runes they had already obtained.

And then Hansoo chuckled at those words.

“What a scary woman you are.”

“That’s not it. I’m saying this because I’m worried about…”

Mihee realized how funny her words were as she finished her talk.

They weren’t his problem already.

Whilst they were healing and laying on the ground, Hansoo will become much more
stronger.

And that gap will become larger as they go on.

No, from the beginning these guys couldn’t breathe when Hansoo walked past them.

It will probably remain as a trauma that lasts a lifetime.

‘Yeah. It’s not the time to worry about others’

But there still remained a question.

“But… what if you kill them and take the runes that are dropped?”

Hansoo shook his head at those words.

If his objectives were just to come back to the past in order to become stronger then
he probably could’ve done that.

But this was just part of his plans.

And another set of plans included him settling the rules of when the humans roamed
around the Abyss in the Otherworld.

After they were merged with the Abyss, in order to get rid of internal disputes and to
combine their strengths, they created rules of unity.

And the most powerful one of those.

<You will never in any circumstance kill a human being in order to get runes>

A rule that needed to be abided by in order to save humanity.

He had followed this rule for a long time.

Killing a man and taking the few runes that dropped never replace the things that one
person could do.

One of the reasons why the humans had been pushed around by the inhabitants of the
Abyss was because during the five years after he came a large number of people were
integrated and naturally the strong started to see the weak people as runes and not
people.

And if he, who had to set up this rule, had killed someone because it was the start then
that would bring a lot of troubles towards the goal he wanted to reach once the rumors
of it spread far and wide.

And it wasn’t that they only left runes behind when they died.

‘There are too many eyes watching.’

Since he had cleared all the missions with humans as the subjects, now it was time to
try missions that were against monsters.

‘Complete as much as I can before the 4th day when the Altar opens.’

When the Altar opens then the requirements for the second hidden piece will come
into play and fill up his time.

And he needed to complete as much as he can before that.

‘Well. Some lucky guys will get to eat them.’

Hansoo left the bodies as he slowly walked towards the beast habitat on one of the
corner of the Gangnam Station.

To a place that looked dangerous at glance.

Mihee clenched her teeth as she followed Hansoo’s footsteps.

Hansoo saw Mihee as he spoke.

“Aren’t I scary?”

Mihee had watched his actions throughout the night without blinking an eye.

And she still followed him.

And at those words Mihee clenched her teeth.

He was scary. How could he not be scary.

She had seen what Hansoo had done clearly.

But that’s how she realized.

‘I just need to not cross the line’

Then she and Hansoo would remain in a mutual relationship where they can talk and
walk like this.

‘Though he is indeed a little scary’

Hansoo chuckled at Mihee whose body was slightly shaking and moved towards the
hunting grounds and Mihee disappeared behind him.

And in the location where they had disappeared, Taesoon was throwing all sorts of
curses whilst lying on the ground.

“Guuu… Kim Gangtae. Park Jisun. Kim Sunmi. Lee Heeji… you bitches. I will seriously
kill you. Seriously. And especially you Mihee!”

Those who had been sucking up to him in the real world had ran away as soon as they
fell into danger without looking back.

‘Bitches… I will have my revenge.’

While Taesoon was grinding his teeth on the ground, somebody appeared above
Taesoon and the others who were laid out.

Taesoon looked up with an inferior expression but then smiled as he saw who it was.

“Sangjin! This is good! Help me out! And kill everybody around here!”

And at those words Giltae, who was laid next to him, grinded his teeth.
“This fucking bitch…”

Giltae made an expression of despair.

Everyone had holes in their limbs. No. It was more like they were all in a very sorry
state due to the torture that went throughout the night.

If that one guy came at them then they had no way but to die like that.

But Sangjin performed a much different action than they expected.

Puuk

“Ghuuk… Sangjin… This bitch. Why me…”

Then Sangjin spoke out as he clenched his teeth and looked towards Giltae.

“You still don’t know? This is a place where you must take everyone when given the
chance. Did you have fun ruling me around upon your daddy’s back? You bitch.”

“Ghuuuu…”

And soon when Taesoon died, a few runes came out of his body.

It was a sorry amount in comparison to what Taesoon had eaten.

But it wasn’t an amount to ignore.

‘There’s even a skill rune.’

Sangjin, who believed his luck was good, took it in glee.

And then he breathed in and out as he strengthened his grip on the Podao in his hand.

Though there was a grudge. Though the situation was special, it was still murder.

His hands were trembling but he clenched his teeth.

He could not let this chance escape by.

There is definitely somebody within the people who ran away who had similar ideas
as him and would come back.
He had to eat up everything before then.

‘I’m just cleaning up the trash.’

“This bitch…”

Sangjin bit down onto his teeth as he walked slowly towards the gangsters who were
watching him with despair.

‘Kang Hansoo. I realized now. Why you abandoned me.’

A perfect predator.

The Hansoo that was shining into his eyes looked as such.

And to those eyes how lame would he have seemed.

He was thrown aside because he was weak.

If he was as strong as Hansoo, no, even if he wasn’t strong as him, if he just just strong
enough so that he satisfied the eyes then Hansoo wouldn’t have driven him out like
that.

And to do that he needed to gain.

‘Just watch. I will become strong. Just like you… ’

And when that happens, Hansoo will only be able to look at him differently.

And if he even leaps over Hansoo…

‘First I will take the place of this guy.’

Sangjin, after looking at the place where Hansoo disappeared, walked towards where
Sunmi and the other friends would be.
Boooom

A strong shockwave resonated out of Mihee’s mouth.

Kududuk

The carnivorous bird that was heading towards mihee tumbled around after getting
entangled in the shockwave.

And in that moment the needle in Hansoo’s right hand and the Katana in his left hand
rapidly embroidered the air

Papapapak

An Elite Goblin’s Katana that came out whilst hunting.

It fell behind in comparison to the needle in terms of hardness but it had a good
balance and had a good edge so it was decent to use as a sub weapon.

Since as long as you can slash with it then a weapon that can slash is more comfortable
to use then a weapon that stabs.

‘Goddamit’

Mihee clenched her teeth.

Whilst she was unguarded for a moment, a bird had flown towards her.

But the reason why she clenched her teeth was not because it was dangerous.

Shugak

Mihee smacked her lips as she saw the katana that cut the carnivorous bird in a single
sweep.

“I’ve received help again.”

She tried to do it alone but had gained help again.

Hansoo watched her as he spoke

“There is a difference between don’t rely on me and do everything alone. It’s obvious
to receive somebody’s help when you use a skill that has a moment of pause. You need
to clearly realize the pros and cons of your skills.”

Hansoo then proceeded to divide up the runes on the ground.

Extremely accurately as usual.

‘Has it already been two days’

It has been two days since the incident occurred.

It was almost the fourth day now.

And during this time Hansoo was indulged in hunting without rest.

Mihee checked her runes as she picked up the runes.

[Jin Mihee] Strength: 27.4

Stamina: 28.8

Agility: 18.1

Perception: 21.2

Mana: 18

<Skill>

Barb Snake’s Shockwave: 2.4%

Rotating Ring: 2.1%

The rotating ring which they had gained during hunting was also something she had
bought which Hansoo had obtained.

<Rotating Ring> which raised the rate of regeneration of Mana and Health didn’t really
show its might during a battle but if one were to look at it’s effect around the whole
day, it made a substantial change.

With just this much there was nothing lacking because in the real world it would be
almost at the level of a superhuman.

She can easily beat down somebody with a gun at ease.

Since she can see where the bullet will be shot by looking at the trigger of the finger
and dodge them all.

No, if she started a battle in a town it would be even more than that.

Hansoo, who had seen Mihee do this, checked his own stats.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 54.3

Stamina: 55.8

Agility: 42.1

Perception: 42.2

Mana: 22

Magic Resistance: 13

‘Good’

Hansoo, who had raised up his agility and perception, nodded.

You couldn’t compare stats in pairs but strength and stamina, agility and perception
had a close relationship with each other.

Without enough stamina then no matter how much strength you have you won’t be
able to use it efficiently and no matter how high your stamina was, if your strength
was low then it was just wasted talent.

If one were to move properly in the sped up time from agility they needed to have high
perception and it wouldn’t matter how high your perception was if your body didn’t
follow.

The best solution was keeping all the stats around the same number.

Thankfully he had Mihee who was rather lacking in strength and stamina so he raised
his perception and agility while trading their runes around.

At that point a small voice was heard in Hansoo and Mihee ears.

<Ah. Ah. Everybody? Can you hear me? Please gather to the starting point this moment
please>

Mihee frowned at the familiar voice

‘Fairy… ’

Hansoo spoke as he looked at Mihee.

“Let’s go back.”

Mihee nodded at those words.

But then she stopped turning around and then asked Hansoo.

“Do you perhaps have a girlfriend? Ah… would you even remember.”

Mihee had developed quite a liking to Hansoo recently.

It was scary at first.

Since she knew what happened to the people who crossed the line.

But after watching for three days, she realized that crossing the line was rather
difficult.

Since it was like an adult looking over a child, it was rather leisurely.

‘He’s almost like an old man… ’

And her mind was much more at ease when she figured that out.

Because he felt like someone that would deal with her no matter what she did.
‘Huh.’

Hansoo smirked at those lovey dovey words.

‘Now that I think about it, if that Gangtae guy came he would’ve been so happy that he’d
have thrown a fit’

Perhaps if that guy came back, he could’ve set up a harem kingdom.

But Hansoo shook his head.

‘I can’t lose one again’

He had too long of a road to travel to do that.

Hansoo organized his thoughts and spoke with a small laugh.

“I don’t remember.”

Hansoo walked towards the Gangnam station they had met at the beginning and Mihee
followed him in a hurry shortly after watching him for a while.

The place where they had started was already swarming with people.

Because Hansoo had told them how to eat the goblin meat, it seemed like internal
fights due to food hadn’t risen up.

Without that it was likely that their numbers would’ve been much lower.

And there were some familiar faces out of the ones alive.

‘They were all alive!’

Mihee felt her mind, which was rather full of worries due to not being able to see her
friends due to following around Hansoo which was rather rigorous, settled down as
she saw them alive afar.

‘But the situation is a little strange’

Whilst she was frowning as she saw the weird tension, the air suddenly split.
And a familiar face popped out and shouted energetically.

“Greetings! Everybody! I’m here today with two very very good news!”

The fairy, who had shouted loudly, watched the people as it smiled.

“The first good news is that if you hold onto 72 more hours then you can get out of
here!”

“…”

The people had heard the news but didn’t really make a happy expression.

Because it sounded like that even if they had left this place, the place they will go to
wouldn’t really be safe.

No, since this was the tutorial it was obvious that they were going to a more dangerous
location.

The fairy laughed at these people.

“I think I know what you’re feeling. But when you hear the next story you will think
that this is a very good news”

And as the people stared at the fairy, it flicked its fingers.

Kugugugugugu

Something rapidly shot up from the small movements of the hand.

A structure almost the size of a small building.

‘… Altar?’

The people made a weird expression as they looked at the new building

It definitely had a similar form to the altars at the ancient aztec grounds.

The fairy laughed as it looked at the people

“It’s a magical altar. There lives a very cute pet inside.”

Then the altar shone bluish as it turned transparent.

The altar was an empty box-like structure unlike its outside appearance.

And the people gulped as they saw the creature within it.

Krrrrrr…

Something that resembled the Alien.

If you discard the fact that the size of it was 15m.

The thing inside the altar was scratching the wall of the altar as if it was pissed at
something.

An even more frightening thing was that every time it scratched the wall, parts of it
would fall apart as it made grinding sounds.

“Can you see it? Its called <Carnivorous Beast>. But our friend here is very hungry
right now. Since there’s nothing to eat in there it wants to come out of there right now.
We starved it for a whole day for this.”

“…”

“As you can see the Altar is very good in terms of looks but it isn’t really useful. It will
probably get destroyed soon. Since its a structure that is faithful it’s design.”

At these words the people made a frightened expression.

Everyone knew.

That the area they were in currently was limited.

If that altar fell then they would all get eaten.

Even if they were to hide, the beast will eat them alive as it chased them one by one at
night.

The people then realized why the fairy said the earlier news was a good news.

Because in other words, after 72 hours they didn’t have to be in the same space as the
monster.
‘Wait it said there were two good news before’

The fairy smiled as it spoke.

“I said there were 2 good news before right? Thankfully there is a way to make him
fall asleep. If he falls asleep then he would naturally stop scratching the wall to come
out right?”

But nobody asked a question.

Since it had shown what happened to someone who questioned it before.

As there were no reactions, the fairy made a dejected expression for a while then
spoke again.

“The answer is very simple. Five a day.”

“…?”

“If you give him five people as food then he would fall asleep. Since its 72 hours you
would need to give him food three times right?”

Everyone clenched their teeth at these words.

‘What the fuck. The number of people who are still surviving is only around 60… ’

It meant that only if they use a quarter of the people they had now then that beast
wouldn’t escape.

‘Damn. Then it’s just better to fight’

As someone had this thought in their mind, the fairy spoke again.

“The choice is yours. Heehee. Give or not give. But I’ll show you this in order to help
you decide”

And then the fairy played a short clip in people’s heads.

“These were people who decided to fight it together. From the tutorials before”

The people who had seen this made an extremely frightened expression.

The beast that was released was basically causing a massacre.

Ruthlessly ripping and smashing.

And the beast that had escaped didn’t just stop after eating five.

The beast that had came outside devoured the humans in a craze.

They had fought with combined strength but every time it ate somebody its health
rose and the injuries on its body healed.

Almost 70 people had charged it but they were all massacred and the ones who ran
away were later eaten.

The beast which had eaten everybody was left alone as if nothing happened.

“…”

Everyone realized what kind of decision they had to make after the clip finished.

One of the people who had seen the clip asked whilst clenching their teeth.

“How do we choose!? The people to go in!”

Then the fairy answered with a strange expression

“Why are you asking me that?”

“…”

“Pulling out of a hat, forcibly chucking them in, figure it out yourselves. You just need
to put them in while they’re alive. No dead bodies”

“…”

The fairy which had emphasized <chucking> smiled as it spoke for the last time.

“By the way you should decide within an hour. If you put in a sacrifice then you will be
safe for 24 hours. And then if you put in more in the next hour after that you will be
safe again. Then be strong for the remaining 72 hours. Bye!”

And then the fairy disappeared just like that.

The people started to mumble.

Their opinions were all heading to one path.

That fighting was impossible.

Which meant there was only one way.

Whilst they were guarding against each other a man spoke out.

“To be fair… how about we pull names out of a hat? We pick 5 on the first day. 5 more
the next day… like that”

Then one person smirked.

“Why do we need to be fair?”

At those words everybody looked at that direction.

And Mihee, who had also turned towards that direction, also drooled.

‘It’s Sangjin… and friends’

The five were emitting a different aura at a single glance now.

The scars all over the body meant that they were converged in battles until now.

‘And it seems there’s something different about Sangjin… ’

His confidence was overflowing. And he was standing in the middle as if he was doing
the work that Taesoon was doing instead.

Whilst Mihee was watching Sangjin, the man who has spoken before frowned as he
asked.

“Then what do you want to do?”

He didn’t keep his formalities from the fact that his opinions were ignored and the one
who had ignored it was a young person.

Sangjin replied to those words.

“Isn’t it obvious that we should throw in the 5 most useless people first?”
Everyone frowned at those words.

They did have a thought like that but it was difficult to speak it out just like that.

Sangjin walked forward as he watched the people and spoke.

“It isn’t the time to idle. We are separated right now but we will leave here in 72 hours!
But what will happen after we get out?”

Everyone started to whisper and mumble.

“Think of the amount of people who went missing! It isn’t simply just around 100. If
we go out then the people who had gone through similar experiences will be crawling
about everywhere. No, we don’t know that an even stronger beast would come out.
We might even have to fight a beast like that!”

Everyone nodded at those words.

Since they were all thinking along those lines too.

There wasn’t a game where the difficulty lessened as you proceeded.

And the chances of meeting people who went through similar experiences like them
was high.

As the people looked at him, Sangjin shouted loudly.

“Of course, to fight with them we need to combine our strength. And it’s obvious we
need stronger people more! Since if when we go out we will need to face stronger
enemies!”

And then Sangjin smacked the building next to him

Boom!

The wall of the building blew off from Sangjin’s fists.

And Mihee who saw this mumbled inwardly in shock

‘When did he get so… ’

She could be certain. Since she had followed Hansoo and hunted along with him she
had grown faster than anybody.

But Sangjin was even stronger than her.

If his strength was that much than his other stats were probably similar.

Whilst Mihee was shocked Sangjin continued his speech.

“So isn’t it obvious that we put in the weak ones first? Hansoo what are your thoughts?”

At those words everybody looked over to the direction Sangjin spoke to.
‘I’m different from that Taesoon guy.’

Sangjin thought inwardly.

Taesoon had met a cruel fate due to him being hostile towards Hansoo due to his
stupid ego.

But he had no plans of becoming enemies with Hansoo.

‘Definitely… don’t want to become enemies’

Sangjin gulped as he thought of Hansoo’s actions throughout the night on Taesoon and
the gangsters.

Instead he wanted to on extremely close terms with Hansoo.

Why would he become enemy with such a useful and powerful friend?

‘I’ve grown this much. How Am I?’

Sangjin was very happy with his current image.

A completely different situation than when he was getting pushed down without being
able to say anything under Taesoon.

His friends who had been looking at Taesoon were now looking at him and everybody
gathered here, and even those older than him, were focusing on him.

And even Sunmi, who he had a crush on all along, was looking at him with a mysterious
expression.

He was not trying to show it in his thoughts but he could feel all the eyes on him.

‘This world is about to become better and better’

As long as you have strength you can stand in the center of this world.

Like a main character inside a fantasy world.

‘Hansoo, with your powers you could probably let somebody around Mihee go’

There are probably celebrities in this world.

If you become stronger then you can take women who are much prettier than Mihee.

If Hansoo was with him then it would become easier.

Sangjin looked at Hansoo with an anxious expression.

This suggestion was perfect in this thoughts.

And if everything went according to his plan Hansoo would probably agree.

Since the Hansoo he knew was a guy who wanted to see results without getting swept
by with sympathy and emotions.

At those words, Hansoo spoke after pondering for a moment.

“Can I give a suggestion? If you follow my suggestion than you guys can all live.
Without sacrificing anything.”

“…What did you say?”

Everyone made a blank face at Hansoo words that sounded like a election strategy full
of hope.

But one person shouted in a hurry.

“Are you trying to say to combine our powers to fight with that thing!? That’s just too
much!”

Everyone nodded at those words.

It wasn’t that the sword didn’t go through.

Since during the beginning of the clip the 70 of them pushed it back a little.

But the problem was after that.

That thing healed as it ate more and more people.

Even if you push it back with numbers, the monster did not get tired whilst the people
were getting chewed up one by one.

Hansoo just shook his heads.

“Did anybody told you to fight? You guys will just get in the way.”

“…Goddamit! Then what do you want to do!? Are you trying to fight it alone?”

As one person shouted in rebellion Hansoo nodded.

“That’s it.”

Everybody was shocked at those words.

‘Did you really get strong enough to the point to fight against that?’

Sangjin bit down onto his teeth inwardly.

He did not have any confidence in fighting that monster.

Even if everyone combined their strength.

But that guy was saying that he will beat that thing up alone.

‘Damnit… Damnit… ’

Whilst his inferiority complex, which was hidden away from his recent earnings of
confidence, started to rise up again Hansoo spoke again.

“I will fight it but it’s hard currently”

While everybody was disappointed at Hansoo’s words, Sangjin actually felt better

‘Yeah. Even if it was you it would be too much’

If Hansoo were to ask him for help then he had the intentions to help.

Of course it wouldn’t be free.

Sangjin spoke with a happy expression.

“Then are you saying we should fight with a small number of elites?”
And then Hansoo spoke whilst making an expression that was asking what he meant.

“I said you will only get in the way”

It might be different on a normal situation but the opponent wasn’t good.

They will all become a potion for the monster.

Crunch

Sangjin clenched onto his teeth inwardly.

Basically he was still not qualified to be part of the hunt.

‘Yeah. It’s possible that I still lack the qualifications’

Since it has only been a short time since he started.

But since he was working diligently, he would probably catch up fast.

Sangjin settled down his anger and asked again.

“Then how are you trying to do it?”

Hansoo replied to those words.

“Simple. If my strength and stamina rose by 30 from this point I can fight him one on
one”

30 of Strength and Stamina.

It was a bit overbearing currently but if he raised his strength and stamina by 30 and
used the cloud snack then he could fight that thing one on one.

Strength and Stamina at 100, Perception and Agility needed to be around 50.

This was the bare minimum line Hansoo chose.

If the strength was lower than that then it was hard to penetrate the armor and if you
lacked the stamina then you wouldn’t be able to hold on until it died.

Your agility and perception needed to be around that in order to sense and dodge its
attacks.
Since it was a estimate that came from a long time of battle experience so it wasn’t
wrong.

A number that calculated the cloud snack into it.

If it were other people then it wouldn’t be close to enough but if it was him then it was
possible.

And there were people who had actually done it.

‘Kwang Goonju’

In reality the only person who found out about this was Kwang Goonju.

And he wouldn’t have known about this hidden piece if Kwang Goonju didn’t tell him
about it teasingly.

‘Well Kwang Goonju’s trait was rather good for these things’

But even this Kwang Goonju barely beat this while he become half a corpse.

It was not something that was there to be killed.

It just wanted them to fight with each other and offer sacrifices.

That was why it was a hidden piece. No one had the thoughts of killing it and that was
the reason why it was hidden.

Even him would have to invest around two to three days in order to reach that point.

But that meant for two to three days, 10 to 15 people would need to be sacrificed in
order to buy time.

But if everyone gathered runes and helped him fill up the runes, he had the confidence
to jump in the altar where that dumb looking beast was in.

“So I have a suggestions. If you guys can push all the stats onto me, I will take
responsibility and kill that thing”

‘And if I do that then the requirements to gain the second hidden piece will be complete’
Whilst Hansoo was thinking, somebody asked.

“Do the 15 people who will be selected to become the sacrifice need to give that rune?
60 runes?”

Hansoo shook his head as he answered.

“No way. I don’t care who gives it to me. As long as that number is satisfied I will go
into that altar right away.”

Everyone frowned at those words.

It had already been 4 days since they came here.

Everyone felt the usefulness of the runes but the runes each person needed differed
slightly.

The weaker ones focused on Strength or Stamina and the stronger ones wanted to
raise Perception or Agility.

And within this weird balance, the rune was used as a form of currency in some way.

Since one perception or agility rune meant they could trade it for two of strength or
stamina.

But not everyone had gathered runes.

The weak ones needed to use runes as they gained even just to raise their stamina a
little bit.

So the weak ones who would’ve been chosen as sacrifices didn’t have any runes to
spare.

But the stronger ones had some strength to spare so they could collect a little bit.

Since they could fight whilst having some runes collected.

But even the stronger ones didn’t have a large amount of them stored.

In order to fulfill Hansoo’s requirements they had to empty their pockets of runes.

Everyone made a reluctant expression.

It wasn’t ok to not give the runes.

Because if they didn’t hand in the runes then it meant they basically wanted to
sacrifice 15 weak people.

But it wasn’t ok to give the runes either.

If the people who would be chosen as sacrifices gave the runes then it would be ok but
the situation wasn’t that clear

The one who were weak enough to become a sacrifice had no runes. But then there
was no time for these weak people to go hunt for the runes either.

The limit was 1 hour and the sound of the altar being crushed was getting louder and
louder at this moment.

Which meant that the people who could spare strength, who wouldn’t have had
become sacrificed in accordance to Sangjin’s suggestion, would have to pay the runes
instead.

And then one of those weaker people shouted loudly.

A person who would be chosen first as a sacrifice because he was weak due to him
hating fights.

“Shit! Somebody please gather the runes and hand it to him! Damnit! Or pick names
out of a hat!”

Sneers were heard from one side at those words.

“What a selfish bastard”

“What did you say?”

The man glared into the corner swiftly.

But the woman didn’t get startled at those sharp eyes and spoke.

Though it was a male against a female, such a man who only had his height going for
him wasn’t a match for her.

She had confidence to go into the high ranks if they started choosing.

Since she tried harder because she was a female and had an unfair disadvantageous
start.

“Isn’t it obvious? Why should I give runes because of you? When there is such a huge
difference in one or two of these? And somebody like you could die anytime so why
what would I trust and lend it to him”

“Euuuu…”

The man couldn’t rebute.

The reason why he was weak was because he was frightened of fights and had hid in
the back.

Four runes meant 40 goblins.

He didn’t have the confidence to hunt that much.

If he were to repay the runes, he didn’t know how long it would take

“And what do you mean picking out of a hat. You might get thrown in there with broken
limbs so don’t act out.”

“Fuck…”

The male grinded his teeth but he could only shrivel up because the Podao in the
woman’s hand was too frightening.

But backing off here meant he was basically being sent into that altar.

So the man shouted once again.

“But then are you saying the weaker ones should just go die? What is this nonsense!
Damnit! Weren’t you all raised in a democratic society?”

And the woman who spoke before spoke again.

“Democracy is good. Then let’s vote for majority”

“What?”

“Majority rules. We will vote. Between those to want to block it by giving runes and
the side that wants to sacrifice. Of cause it will be a secret vote like the democracy you
like so much”

“Kuue…”

“Doing this much means I’ve given you a lot of face. In actuality could you guys do
anything if I break your limbs and shove five of you in there?”

Most people nodded at those words.

They couldn’t say it out loud because of a guilty conscious but that nod meant that
they agreed.

“Ahh…”

The man made a dejected expression at those words.

Since the result was very clear if they went for majority rule.

The order of weakness couldn’t be seen clearly but one could guess somewhat.

Around twenty would know they’re weak and would go against it but the remaining
forty or so would agree.

And since it was a secret vote there was no situation where their guilty conscious
would haunt them.

The man hurriedly looked at Hansoo and shouted anxiously.

“You! Can’t you take the runes from those guys?”

Then Hansoo shook his head.

He did not steal runes. Since it was the result of one’s hard work.

This was one of the rules of the great unification.

Because that was the same as taking the salary of somebody in the streets because
you had strength.

“If not… then can’t you kill a few people and then gain the runes like that! If you kill
around five to ten strong people then the amount of runes you set would probably
come out!”
Hansoo nodded at those words.

Killing stronger people gave more runes then weaker people.

For weaker people, he would need to kill around over fifteen but only about ten or less
of the stronger people in order to fulfill the sixty he set as the goal.

“Well. That is true.”

Then the man shouted in a hopeful voice.

“But then can’t you kill those guys then fight with the runes they drop? It’s better for
ten to die then 15 to di… ahhhhk!”

“This fucking bitch!”

One of the other men who were listening to this got pissed and had kicked the man
who was talking.

That guy was definitely one of the ten strongest people.

He felt anxious whilst he was listening so he rushed out.

He had seen clearly how Hansoo had fought on the first day.

If Hansoo decided to chop down head by head from the top, eat the runes and then
went into the altar, there was nobody to stop him

They had gotten strong as well but this wasn’t something that could be compared with
just the amount of runes.

Their breed was different from the start.

A pig who had gotten a bit of muscle and speed couldn’t fight against a tiger of a similar
size.

And that tiger was probably much larger and much faster. Since it had eaten more
runes since then.

If that Hansoo decided with a lame counting method of <Yeah. Killing ten is better then
fifteen> then all of them would die.
He was listening in leisure because the talks seem to be leaning towards the female
but if it were to go this way then he would be perished.

And when he looked around he felt that everybody was mumbling around.

And then everybody started to shout.

“Damnit! Just throw in fifteen weaker guys!”

“Are you telling us to die! It’s better for ten stronger people to die!”

“What nonsense! Then just kill the people in the middle and take their runes! We are
going to be of help when we get out of here! It wouldn’t account to fifteen if you kill
the ones in the middle!”

Hansoo sighed as he saw the chaos.

Because he knew this would happen

The Moon. Then the Altar.

There was no time to get used to things because the environment was constantly
changing.

And since they weren’t familiar with it they couldn’t back off a single step.

It might’ve been different if they knew that there were flat land behind them but in
this situation where they couldn’t see behind them, they could fall down a cliff and die
if they backed off a single step.

‘I need to do some traffic control’

Hansoo, who had expectations that it would be solved by self control, spoke out.

“Be quiet”

Everybody stood up straight and stared at Hansoo’s lips at those words.

“I will give you a solution”

And then Hansoo started to count.

15 from the bottom.

“One, Two, Three… fifteen like this. These fifteen people are the weakest”

“What?”

The fifteen who had been chosen made a blank expression for a moment and then
shouted in despair.

“No way!”

“Though I have more runes then him?”

But Hansoo shook his head.

He could guess who would win and who would lose at a glance.

It would differ slightly depending on the condition but even if you take all of that into
consideration, the people who would go in were rather obvious.

And at Hansoo’s pointings, joy and sorrow were shown.

The fifteen who were chosen showed rage and felt wronged.

And the fifteen who weren’t chosen let out a sigh of relief because they could save
runes.

And in Hansoo’s words the man shouted in despair.

“You bitch! You’re the same! How dare you throw us off because we’re weak! And those
bastards over there throw lives away because a of a few runes!”
Hansoo stopped his steps.

“Hmm. It seems you are mistaken about something”

Then Hansoo spoke as he scratched his head.

“You don’t get thrown off because you’re weak. If you are weak you simply can’t follow
up with others. Nothing to do with being thrown off”

“…”

“What were you doing whilst everybody was running? It doesn’t matter whether you
rested or did something else but you need to take all responsibility for it in this place”

Those words were driven into everyone’s words.

And that they all realized at the same time.

That they had really entered a screwed up world.

It wasn’t like the modern society where you had a chance of bouncing back if you fail
and fall behind others.

No, it was actually much more cruel.

Since that fairy thing came out from time to time and tries to cut off the tail which was
falling behind.

If you do not want to be cut off, you need to run fanatically.

They had to realize this within the 1st tutorial area.

That this was a world where you needed to be greedy in order to survive.

If you are greedy you will probably receive the curses of others but you will gain the
rights to survive during a decisive moment.

Like this situation.

“Damnit! Damnit!”

The man’s voice of despair could be heard behind the disappearing back of Hansoo.

But Hansoo spoke quietly.

“Listen till the end. I’m not telling you to go in there.”

“What?”

Then was there a different solution?

The man looked at Hansoo with a expression full of hope.

Then Hansoo nodded his head.

“The fifteen will borrow the runes from others. Two of strength and stamina each. And
then give it to me.”

“Hmm…”

“And hunt during the remaining 72 hours in order to pay the runes back to them”

Everyone nodded after pondering for a moment

There was nothing to lose.

Even the people who were left out were feeling a bit off because of the thoughts of
throwing in fifteen people alive into that altar but if this new method were to be
followed they had nothing to lose so everything was solved.

And of course in the fifteen people’s situation, hunting monsters to pay back the runes
is better then going into the monster’s mouth as food.

Since it wasn’t that hard to collect 2 strength and 2 stamina runes in three days.

But then one person mumbled as if he felt he was mistreated.

Because then only these fifteen had to pay the runes.

“…Isn’t that unfair then? 1 per person is fair”

But then Hansoo shrugged his shoulders

“But the one who will be going in is you, you know? Why would the remaining 45 pay?”

“…”

The man who had spoken before shut his mouth at these words but somebody else
spoke up as if he felt the greed rising up.

“But then why are we paying them if you are the one getting the runes? Isn’t the one
who is taking the 60 runes you in the end?”

Hansoo nodded his head.

“I don’t have a hobby in free public service. I can’t force you to do it. This simply a
suggestion I’m giving to the fifteen people. What I suggested isn’t the correct solution
nor is it the perfect solution. I’m just giving a suggestion on what I think is the best
solution. If you don’t think you will be within the 15 people or feel pressured by this
choice, I will just come back in 3 days.”

He could probably gather up 30 runes if he hunted.

The man quieted down at those words.

Because if Hansoo did leave, he would be thrown inside that altar.

“You need to at least be able to pay for the price of your life”

Another person asked as soon as Hansoo finished talking.

It was the woman who was arguing with the man from before.

“Wait! What happens if the ones we lend the runes to can’t muster up the courage to
hunt and cannot pay back? Then we’re losing out on runes.”

The fifteen people were weak because they had no courage to hunt.

They might not be able to return the rune within the next 3 days.

Hansoo replied very simply.

“What are you worrying about? Just chase them down during the night and take it
from them. If it still isn’t enough after that then come to me. I will compensate you”

“…”

He needed to set up rules but rules that would even apply to the ones who can’t keep
promises or take responsibility were not needed.
Since he hadn’t come to preach to them about social welfare.

Everyone made a scared expression at those words.

Because they realized that they couldn’t laze around from now on.

But at the same time everybody made a content face.

Because it was solved without anybody dying in the end.

“There’s one hour left. Let’s start now.”

Everyone started to gather up the runes at those words.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 84.3

Stamina: 85.8

Agility: 42.1

Perception: 42.2

Mana: 22

Magic resistance: 13

Hansoo nodded whilst looking at his Strength and Stamina that had risen by exactly
30.

‘The balance has been destroyed but there’s nothing I can do about that’

To be honest, even though you lose out a bit it is better to balance out your stats by
trading runes around.

But this was an exception.

Hansoo knew instinctively by simply looking at the Carnivorous Monster.

With his current runes, his attacks wouldn’t work properly.

He needed to get his strength over 100.

And he needed the stamina to follow up the increased strength.

Agility and perception was lacking but he would compensate for that with his
experiences and battle skills.

‘It seems I’ll use a ton of these cloud snacks’

In order to go over 100, he will probably need to constantly use the cloud snack that
increased his stats by 20%.

‘But it’s good that it’s an environment where I can fight alone.’

Usually, even Hansoo preferred hunting in groups.

Since in reality the hunting speed was slightly faster when he hunted with Taesoon
before.

But the situation was different.

If there are others it becomes disadvantageous.

No matter how many there were, their attacks wouldn’t work against the monster and
the monster will regenerate its health after devouring the people.

If that guy was released it would’ve been quite a headache.

When Hansoo was about to start heading towards the Altar in the distance, somebody
approached him.

“Hansoo, Mihee. It’s been a while.”

“Sangjin…”

Mihee made a happy expression, stopped, then stole a glance at Hansoo.

Hansoo was looking at Sangjin with a impenitent expression.

“Since Taesoon isn’t here anymore, let’s be together. You too Mihee.”

Hansoo shook his head at those words.

But Sangjin didn’t give up and tried to approach him.

“Isn’t it better being with us? With friends?”

Hansoo stared at Sangjin expressionlessly.

“Once we part, we need to go separate ways”

Hansoo had no thoughts of cutting off their relationship because they didn’t want to
follow him when he went into a dangerous place.

Since being weak wasn’t a sin and he had no confidence in keeping them safe.

But you can’t become friends with somebody who is always looking for chances as
they follow you and then leave because things get dangerous.

This was a problem before strength came into play.

No, being stronger was actually more of a problem.

Since he can’t show his back to them with trust.

There won’t be a reason to see each other again.

‘He’s too much… ’

Sangjin lost his determination from Hansoo’s attitude and made a dejected expression.

Whilst that was going on, Mihee spoke to Hansoo after pondering for a moment.

“I’ll stay here then.”

Hansoo nodded his head.

“That’s not a bad choice,”

Mihee had a bitter expression from Hansoo’s words which he didn’t ponder over.

Since it felt mean that he didn’t realize her crush on him and had accepted her choice.

‘I want to go with him but… ’

She realized as she hunted with Hansoo over a few days.

The gap was growing larger as they went on.

And Hansoo was dashing off at a crazy pace. The hunting grounds were limited and
she was able to follow up because she could hunt in these places but she had no
confidence in fighting against that monster no matter what.

And in the area they move to after killing that beast, it would be even harder to catch
up to him.

So she had to choose around now.

Companions around her level.

If she followed Hansoo like this, and then becomes thrown off after the tutorial area
then she will be alone.

If that happens then it would be better to move as a six by becoming a comrade of five
people.

‘And it’s better to split up now’

She understood Hansoo’s standards whilst fighting roughly.

If she ran away while fighting because things got dangerous then their relationship
will be cut off. Like the five in front of her eyes.

But if they split up now, Hansoo wouldn’t ruthlessly cut her off when he sees her later.

Hansoo just didn’t trust in opportunists, it wasn’t that he didn’t didn’t like somebody
who knew when to stay out and when to stick around.

‘Though it’s a little bit regrettable’

She thought about it before for a short moment.

If she became a couple with this man then wouldn’t she be able to be with him for a
very long time.

Since Hansoo wasn’t the type of person who would throw off his lover.

But she knew after observing for a moment.

‘There is no space in Hansoo’s head for a lover to fit in’

So cleanly split up now and then aim for the next chance.

‘Just wait. I haven’t given up yet.’

Mihee put down her decisions and walked towards Sangjin.

And Hansoo laughed as he watched that.

The five others might be a bit different but he could meet Mihee in the future whilst
laughing.

Sangjin didn’t know how to act after watching this scene from happiness.

He was happy to the point where the depression from being rejected by Hansoo
almost disappeared.

Mihee didn’t choose Hansoo but his side instead.

Didn’t this mean that his side was more trustworthy.

Mihee was extremely fast to catch onto things.

She had judged that he had better potential than Hansoo.

‘Yeah. I’m still improving. I just never had the chances to do so’

Sangjin, who had laughed out loud, thanked Taesoon who was probably in the
netherworld by now.

‘Park Taesoon. I must really thank you’

A girl who he wouldn’t even be able to talk to usually had chosen him.

And in his group there were three girls even if you disregard Gangtae’s girlfriend Jisun.

He felt like he would fly threw the skies from the feeling as if he had set up a Harem.

This was all due to Taesoon.

The only reason why he was able to come this far was he filled the empty space after
Taesoon had died.

Sunmi, who was standing behind Sangjin, watched him pathetically.

‘Seriously. I have to trust this retard and follow him around.’

Would Mihee have not been able to distinguish between and sports car and a trash car
and came here.

She had only come here because she thought she didn’t have the ability to drive around
the sports car.

‘Well that’s that.’

Sunmi decided to let go of past issues.

Since Sangjin and Mihee were the strongest of the six, no, strongest of the mob.

If you don’t account for Hansoo then these guys are the two tops.

And the four of them were also part of the strongest if you don’t count in Hansoo.

If they travel together then they wouldn’t have any difficult times for a while.

And even more so since Mihee probably learned a lot of things from Hansoo.

Whilst Sunmi was making such thoughts, Sangjin was watching Hansoo and not Mihee.

‘Am I not good enough yet’

Sangjin made a regrettable expression as he saw Hansoo’s back as he walked towards

the altar.

He was trying so hard to become a friend but Hansoo didn’t even care about him.

Shouldn’t he at least try to do something together.

Unlike Mihee, he was simply just hitting a wall.

‘Something… I have to show him something more’

It was because he was still weak.

Since he wasn’t a beauty like Mihee so he needed to show something more to Hansoo.
A deciding factor.

But then at that moment somebody called Sangjin.

“Hey friend. Could we talk for a moment?”

‘… Who could it be.’

When Sangjin went over there, a few people were standing there.

‘These people are… ’

These guys were the ones who were speaking aloud during the debate before.

The ones who represented the strong, and the real top rankers if you don’t count for
him and his friends.

“I’m called Suyeol. You’re the leader of those friends over there right?”

“The leader?”

Sangjin’s face blushed for a moment from the words of the thirty-something man, he
then answered shyly.

“We’re all friends so ehh. But for now they’re listening to me well”

“Oh. Nice”

As Suyeol raised his thumb at him, Sangjin giggled from being happy.

Suyeol chuckled at Sangjin acting like that and then continued his words.

“Then are you friends with that guy called Hansoo over there too?”

Sangjin pondered for a moment and then nodded.

“Of course”

‘We’re friends. Yeah friends.’

Suyeol, who had confirmed up to that point, made a satisfied expression as he spoke.

“Yeah? Then I have something a proposal for you, shall we talk for a bit?”

He said whilst stealing a glance at Hansoo who was walking towards the altar.

Sangjin pondered for a moment but then followed him shortly after nodding his head.
Hansoo checked his wrist before going into the Altar.

‘Flying Cat’s Marble’

Something that healed a small amount of health when consumed.

It was something that he had collected diligently while hunting for a few days and
didn’t really heal injuries but it was still helpful.

Since every artifact’s effect differed on how and when you used it.

Hansoo put the marbles in a leather band that he tied on to his wrist.

If you pressed onto the pouch on the band made of goblin leather, than one marble
would pop out.

Since there was no time to take it out from around his waist during a critical situation
so he needed to make something like this.

Hansoo, who had even sharpened the tip of the needle, looked at the bottom of the
Altar.

Grrrrrrrr!

Boom. Boom.

The Carnivorous Beast was smashing the insides of the Altar as if it was about to go
crazy from hunger.

‘Hmm. Goblin poison won’t even work’

Poison would work since its Physical and Magic resistances were low but if you take
into account of its regeneration speed than it was practically useless.

It would be much better to just smear on some Land Mermaid’s Paralysis poison and
then just stab it into where the nerves were gathered.
Hansoo looked down whilst putting a cloud snack up to this mouth after he squeezed
the shampoo bottle and smeared a large amount of the paralysis poison on the needle.

And then he proceeded to inhale all the smoke that came out of it into his body.

‘It’s really been a while. Though it’s really strong’

As the smoke swirled into his body, he felt the number of runes that determined the
laws on his body skyrocket.

84. 85. 86…

And when it went over 100, a change occurred in Hansoo’s body that hadn’t appeared
before.

Crack Crack

Hansoo nodded as he felt the change.

‘Good. I’ve gone to the next stage’

Hansoo checked his current condition.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength(Colorless): 0.01% (Maniac’s Cloud Snack: +20%)

Stamina(Colorless): 0.01% (Maniac’s Cloud Snack: +20%)

Agility: 50.5 (Maniac’s Cloud Snack: +20%)

Perception: 50.6 (Maniac’s Cloud Snack: +20%)

Mana 26.4 (Maniac’s Cloud Snack: +20%)

Magic resistance 15.6 (Maniac’s Cloud Snack: +20%)

‘It’s been done’

A new energy, that was different from what had existed before, swirled throughout his
body.

They show it in numbers in order to make it easy for people to understand in the
beginning in the Tutorial but the runes were actually shown in a progressive way.

Like experience.

It said it was colorless but an aura that emitted a faint light twirled around Hansoo’s
body.

When a color becomes integrated like that then it truly becomes the Otherworld’s
rune from that point on.

In one sense, what they had to do was similar.

Just like how one got strong when the number of runes went up, when the percentage
rose they would naturally get strong.

The fact that you needed to collect runes to become strong was the same.

If there was a difference then it was that when you hit 100%, then your rune will
change into the rune of next stage.

From colorless to red, from red to orange, from orange to yellow and so on.

It rose stage by stage.

And every time your rune increased by a stage, you gained a large benefit.

There was only a very small difference between normal rune 99.9 and colorless rune
0.01% but there is a large gap in between.

Since the aura of activating the rune had grown by a stage.

‘Good’

You needed at least this much in order to get through his defenses.

Since at a glance you could see that it was also using an aura of an colorless rune.

The strength of the monster could be felt much closer when he saw it from above.

‘As I would expect, Kwang Goonju. He wasn’t quite sane but he was still extraordinary’

Even if he had used his trait and skills, even if he had become half a corpse, the fact
that he killed that thing was unbelievable.
That thing was something you will only see around the colorless area, which will
become the background for the 2nd tutorial stage, and only around the mid-late stage
of it.

In conclusion, it was not something that would come out in the 1st tutorial stage.

And it was even more burdensome to him since he couldn’t use his trait and skills.

‘Tsk. I would’ve crushed it to bits if I just learned something around a Troll’s Essence’

But he also had a lot of expectations.

Even he didn’t know what would come out of the hidden piece after he clears it.

Since the only person he knew who cleared this was only Kwang Goonju.

Eres, Gangtae and Keldian all failed.

So he didn’t know what would come out but one thing was certain.

That this damnable world kept pushing people around but the reward itself was quite
clear.

The harder and more impossible something seems the better the reward will be.

And this was a hidden piece that only one person had succeeded in before.

There was no way something scrubby would come out.

‘It would be a jackpot if a Numbering Artifact or Skill would come out’

Double Numbering, no, even a triple Numbering would be a jackpot.

‘Let’s go’

Hansoo, who had finished his preparations, inserted a Flying Cat’s Marble into his
cheeks and jumped down ruthlessly with a cloud snack in his mouth.

The stamina depletion would start now anyways, if you take into account for the
marble’s regeneration speed then it would be helpful to go in biting onto it.

Kuaaaaaahhh!
And soon the giant beast’s roar that was filled with rage blew out from the inside of
the altar.

Kuahhhh!

Sangjin gulped as he heard the roaring cries from afar.

Because it felt like his legs would shake just from the noise.

It wasn’t a problem with strength but rather a problem of breed.

A cry from a predator created to eat humans was shaking their souls.

‘So he’s fighting one on one against that thing… ’

The feeling of wanting to become like Hansoo and jealously, and the wanting of being
accepted by Hansoo mixed around and filled his head.

And that acted as inertia and helped Sangjin’s shaking legs to move.

‘Yeah. If I suceed this then Hansoo wouldn’t be able to ignore me anymore’

Then Sangjin looked behind him.

And behind there were 10 people whom he was speaking to before gathered there.

Suyeol, who was standing in the front, made a slightly fed up expression for a moment
but then laughed as he looked at Sangjin

“It’s good that you chose not to bring your friends right? Your friends could’ve been in
danger”

Sangjin shook his head.

“You’re right. I haven’t thought of your words. That Hansoo could be danger right now.

And then Sangjin remembered that happened before.

Suyeol and Sangjin shared a lot of words.

And there was a question that Suyeol asked.

<We’re going to act together in the future which means someone strong like Hansoo
is definitely needed. But there is something i’m worried about… isn’t this work
extremely dangerous to Hansoo?>

And when he thought of it after hearing that question, there was some logic into it.

There was a similar case before.

Hansoo pushed them back when he went to really dangerous places.

And the fact that he wanted to go alone this time meant that it was really dangerous.

And he had even asked for extra runes.

Hansoo wasn’t a type to lie just in order to scam some runes.

Which meant it was an enemy that he needed at least that amount of runes to go up
against.

‘Yeah. Even if it’s Hansoo, it doesn’t make sense that he will have the upper hand against
that monster’

Sangjin nodded as he answered.

<Yeah. The enemy this time around would be hard even for Hansoo>

Suyeol laughed at those words as he spoke

<Yeah? Then shouldn’t we help?>

<Huh?>

<Think logically. How could we be at a disadvantage when we have the numbers? No

matter how weak we are we can at least be a meat shield or distractors.>

Sangjin nodded at those words.

Like Hansoo said before, it was better the more numbers you had.

The only time numbers would be disadvantageous is when things aren’t clear and they
are wandering around, the people here were the strongest of the 60.

They would be of great help even if they acted like meat shields.
Suyeol looked at Sangjin, who was making a confused expression, as he spoke.

<As I see it, that friend is trying to hard to monopolize everything or something>

<… monopolize?>

And then Sangjin made a slightly dejected face as he nodded.

There is definitely a possibility that that was the case.

It was like that in the train station and even on the first night Hansoo hadn’t shared
anything he had earned himself.

He was pretending to hand out trivial things such as runes, that could be gathered
easily, while monopolizing all the good stuff himself.

<There is a possibility he’s doing that>

<Right? And that’s what I was wondering, we should look for an opportunity and
help.>

<Huh?>

<From our perspective if that Hansoo guy dies it would be a great loss. If that friend
got greedy and then dies just like that it would be too regrettable>

<Hmm… but wouldn’t it be too dangerous?>

As Sangjin remembered the clip he saw earlier and made an astringent face, Suyeol
beat his chest.

<Look. The guy named Hansoo went in alone. What does that mean? It means he went
in though it’s dangerous because it’s doable yeah?>

<Ah… >

<We just need to give a little bit of help. Look how strong we are currently. We might
not be of a lot of help but wouldn’t you be.>

Sangjin nodded at those words.

<Then I’ll go call my friends>

But then Suyeol shook his head.

<No no. We need to hurry. Your friend is already down there. And when we’re giving
help even a second is precious. Do you really want to bring your friends and come
later?>

Sangjin shook his heads at those words.

If Hansoo were to fall in danger before then he would lose an important chance.

‘Yeah, If I help this time… then Hansoo wouldn’t be able to ignore me>

“What are you thinking about? Let’s follow him up.”

“Ah… yes…”

Sangjin nodded his head and then headed towards the top of the Altar and Suyeol
grinned at that Sangjin.
<Racial Skill>

A skill that a race has ever since they are born.

There were two racial skills that the Carnivorous Beast in front of him could use.

<Fear> and <Devour>

It would paralyze the prey with fear and then eat it with devour to quickly regenerate
its health.

The fear which contains the killing intent of the predator was a skill in itself.

Kuahhh!

The Carnivorous Beast’s fear rumbled around the insides of the Altar.

The Fear was basically affected by the individual’s mentality.

And to Hansoo who had fought with the Abyss’s top rank devils, such a thing like fear
was child’s play.

But even then it was still a skill.

His body was honest so Hansoo’s body momentarily stopped and in that small instant
the front legs flew in aggressively.

But at this moment the Magic resistance showed its might.

Hansoo dodged the leg of the beast with only a hair’s length and then then ruthlessly
stabbed whilst its guard was down.

It was the first time fighting this here it was rather common if you go beyond the
tutorial.

‘Anyways, it’s good that it’s not fully grown yet’

If this thing grew more and reached 20m then it can use another Racial Skill, <Vampric
Swamp>.

As it implied, it constantly drained the blood of the nearby lifeforms.

If it even had this, Hansoo probably wouldn’t have came in.

Since you would become a mummy and die a very quick death if you didn’t have magic
and physical resistances.

But even this much wasn’t easy to go against though possible.

‘Second location of Primary Nerves between the joints.’

Hansoo, after applying some paralysis poison on the tip, strained all his muscles and
stabbed between the joints ruthlessly.

Kududuk

Kuaaak!

Due to its very thick shell there was a moment of resistance but Hansoo’s strength
which had reached the colorless rune stage plus his ability to find weak points and the
hardness of the needle made it so that holes started appearing on the black shell.

Due it its enormous size, even when Hansoo shoved in a 1m long needle it went in for
a long while.

‘A little bit more’

Though he had penetrated the skin but there is no point if he doesn’t reach the goal
point.

Since the injury made from the needle was basically the same as a hole where the hairs
grew out of.

He needed to hit the pinpoint.

Kachak

‘It’s done!’
Hansoo, who had felt the needle’s tip penetrate the primary nerve, quickly pulled it
out.

Stabbing it in was important but taking out was also important.

Since if you didn’t pull this out on the right time then you will get ravaged by the
beast’s outrage whilst the needle was still in its body.

Kuahhhh!

As he expected, the beast which had felt extreme pain and stopped for a moment from
paralysis started smashing the ground in order to beat down Hansoo.

Boooom!

But it’s already been a long time since Hansoo moved away from that location.

The sound of the monster’s breath and the sound of bones cracking entered Hansoo’s
ears constantly.

And at the same time Hansoo’s eyes looked over its body.

The images of its squirming muscles, the way the tail held balance and the contraction
of its thigh muscles came into Hansoo’s head and created a three dimensional image
of the monster.

As the image of the monster came into his head, his experience and knowledge merged
with it.

All of this happened in an instant.

And as this happened, the next movement of the monster could be seen on Hansoo’s
eyes.

It wasn’t a trait, martial ability or a skill.

It was simply an god-like ability developed from an immeasurable amount of battle

experience and knowledge.

Since Hansoo could only learn seven skills, the only way for this trait to shine was to
become strong in a different way than others.

And because of that, unlike the strong people who climbed relatively easily, he had to
go through many more times worth of battles and struggles in order to climb up
slowly.

But this had made him stronger after.

Since being able to read the enemy and knowing their next move was an
overwhelming advantage.

Well most high level adventurers could do this do an extent but Hansoo was unique
even out of these people.

<Battle Foresight! I shall give it a name! Calling it Battle Foresight! From now on!>

<Please don’t call it that Gangtae, it’s embarrassing>

Hansoo, who had thought of the past situations with Gangtae, overcome his extreme
lack of perception and agility through reading ahead and pushed the beast back.

Boom

‘He’s still not that easy’

Hansoo barely dodged another attack as he stabbed the needle again.

Puk. Pukpuk.

The needle which had entered its body in an instant, cut off part of the nerve cell
cluster on his skin.

It would now have trouble sensing his movements through the vibrations in the air.

From one angle it would seem like that the fight was very one sided but Hansoo’s
wasn’t in much of an ease.

There was nothing like hp in this world.

In other words, if your magic and physical resistances are equal than being larger
would be a huge advantage.

A human body like his would get shredded even if an attack were to skitch them.

And because of that the high level adventurers basically stacked a lot of magic and
physical resistances on their body.

And these high level adventures who had stacked these would show a miracle like
view where they receive the blow of a monstrous beast with just their human bodies.

But you couldn’t gain those runes or items in the tutorial area so you needed to dodge
every attack.

If he hadn’t raised his strength and stamina, he would’ve gotten thrown off from
exhaustion whilst attacking the monster.

Hansoo quickly pulled out a flying cat’s marble as he stabbed the shampoo bottle tied
onto his waist.

Since he had no leisure to squeeze it out with this hands.

Squirt

As the paralysis poison came out smeared onto the needle, Hansoo quickly stabbed it
again.

Tudududk

It’s regeneration speed had been slowing down at an extreme rate as if it used all the
materials it had stored.

The nerves which had been recovering despite being broken by the needle and
melting from the paralysis poison had stopped regenerating at a point.

And to prove that, it’s movements had become rigid and its senses had dulled.

‘As I expected, fighting it inside the altar is the answer’

If he had fought this while it ate humans after escaping the altar, it would’ve been
much more tiring.

Since the needle’s area of damage was small, eating one human can heal the damaged
nerves for quite a while.

And if that happened even he would have to choose a different tactic.

But if this kept going on, he can lay the monster on the ground and put a hole in his
heart before his stamina depleted.

‘Let’s smoke another one first’

As the effect of the cloud snack disappeared, Hansoo quickly bit into the eighth cloud
snack and then jumped back in to resume the fight.

But at this moment something unexpected happened

“Hansoo! I came to help!”

‘Haha. Look at this thing’

Hansoo chuckled as he heard the voice that came down from the top of the altar.

Suyeol made a fed up expression after watching Hansoo for a while from above.

‘Isn’t this guy just a monster’s spawn’

A physical difference so large that one hit would’ve turned him into a bloody mess.

But Hansoo hadn’t received a single hit and stuck to the monster like a storm and then
proceeded to attack in a one-sided fight.

And he was making the monster into a bee’s hive with that needle.

‘That bitch. Did he do this to scam us of runes?’

This thought was very normal because the fight seems like that he didn’t lack strength
or stamina at all.

Since Hansoo looked very laid back in their eyes.

He was so laid back that he was fighting the battle whilst smoking a cigarette one at a
time.

So they reassured themselves.

‘It won’t be dangerous to help out a little bit down there’

They couldn’t go down because they were scared from the power of the Carnivorous
beast but it seemed like its movements had slowed down a lot.
And wasn’t Hansoo in front of them.

Hansoo was dodging the attacks with ease with a speed that was not that much slower
than theirs.

So they confirmed in an instant.

‘He’s trying to monopolize it’

As they saw him fight it with such ease, it was very possible that he felt greed for
monopolizing it.

Suyeol’s insides twisted and turned.

He couldn’t even imagine what kind of a reward would come out if you killed that
thing.

No, even if the reward wasn’t good a lot of runes would come out

‘As I thought… We have to kill him today. Greedy bitch’

The carnivorous beast was obvious but killing Hansoo would result in a lot of runes.

Since the stronger someone was, the more runes they would drop.

No, he was actually jealous of the items that guy had.

And Suyeol definitely did not want to be trapped in the same space as that guy.

It was like being with a tiger whose stomach was full and not a human.

His personality didn’t seem that bad usually but no matter how timid a tiger is, you
cannot live with it.

Suyeol felt more pressure from Hansoo than from the Carnivorous beast.

The beast was trapped in the altar but that guy was spreading his arms everywhere.

And in that moment the scene from the first night came up in Suyeol’s head.

‘Uuk’

He suppressed the curses that were coming up his throat and then glanced at the guy
next to him.
That guy called Sangjin.

‘Stupid bastard. This is why you gotta have good friends’

He had struck up a conversation just in case he could squeeze out information about
that guy called Hansoo but the talk went way too smoothly.

If that guy called Hansoo wasn’t much stronger then he didn’t really want to come this
far but after hearing it was actually a rather close competition.

Then there is a chance for a third person to take everything whilst these guys fight.

And he had agreed to a plan to kill his friend this easily.

‘If I take care of this guy then everything becomes clean’

After using this guy as a bait in order to divert the beast’s eyes he would just simply
take care of everyone once they are tired.

If he got rid of this guy and Hansoo then only five of their friends remain.

And then he could crush them with numbers.

‘Haa. That girl’

Whilst Suyeol was gulping from the thoughts of Mihee, Sangjin, who was watching the
fight below, shouted.

“It looked like the beast has become slower than Hansoo so let’s go down!”

At these words they could see that the beast, who was originally much faster than
Hansoo, had slowed down to the point where he was much slower than Hansoo.

If the beast had slowed down this much, and if Hansoo fought on the front these guys
could probably dodge the attacks somewhat.

“Let’s go down”

Whilst they were running down after Suyeol’s words from the top of the altar on the
stairways that connected the top and the bottom, Sangjin made an unexpected action.

“Hansoo! I came to help!”

As Sangjin shouted before going down, Suyeol was flustered as he cursed inwardly.

‘This retarded bastard’

As he saw, Hansoo couldn’t spread his awareness to other places due to him and the
monster fighting each other with everything they’ve got.

He thought he could’ve used the element of surprise attack but if they shout from up
above like this wouldn’t Hansoo be aware of this side.

But it was too late to become soft.

And when he saw the fight, there wasn’t much change.

‘Yeah. It probably isn’t the time to care about other things’

Since the beast was getting pushed back it couldn’t pay attention to things like them
and since Hansoo probably thinks that they are backup he probably thinks that he
doesn’t need to care.

‘Good. Good.’

Suyeol slowly walked down as he looked downwards.

The altar was very tall to the point where it reached 30~40m high.

The beast was occupied fighting Hansoo that it hadn’t been able to pay any attention
to them who had already came down to the 10m height.

Suyeol, who was walking down, stopped and talked as he turned around.

“How about we wait here awhile? If we go in now we might become a nuisance.”

At those words, everybody nodded as if they were waiting for it.

But at that moment a huge amount of fear exploded from below.

Kuuuuuuaaaaangg!

As the fear that blew out from below bounced off the insides of the altar and got
amplified, it exploded upwards as it hit everyone’s ears.

Shake
“Kuhuk!”

The power of the fear that was amplified from the altar’s structure was much more
different.

The 11 had expected the fear to be like what they heard from the outside so they were
shaking around without being able to catch their balance.

“Huuuak!”

But these guys were one of the stronger people.

Since they had put up the number of runes, they weren’t around the level where they
would all fall from just a fear.

“Wow… Be almost got wrecked”

While one of them was still shaking as if he couldn’t catch his balance yet, something
unexpected happened.

As if something ran up the stairs like a tank charging from the front.

Kudududududk

“Uuk!”

“Uaaaaak!”

It probably wouldn’t have worked but they were all in a state where their balances
were off from the unexpected attack.

They couldn’t hold onto the thin stairs and had all fallen after being hit by something.

Bududuk

“Kuak!”

Their legs didn’t break since they barely caught their balance due to their increased
perception and agility but they couldn’t clear up their mentality for a while after falling
from a height of 10m.

Suyeol then felt a chill as he looked at one corner.

Krrrrrrrrr

The beast was drooling while staring at them.

While blocking the entrance to the stairs above.

And even had an happy expression.

Suyeol realized something from that expression.

‘Fuck… this bitch. It wasn’t that it didn’t know that we were approaching it’

It wasn’t that the monster didn’t know.

It feigned its ignorance and waited until they came into the range of his fear perfectly

‘Kang Hansoo this bitch. He should’ve told us something like this earlier!’

Hansoo probably knew all about this.

How could he not tell them about this.

No, that wasn’t the important part currently.

‘Fuck… what made us all fall?’

Suyeol hurriedly looked up.

And then made a dumbfounded expression as he saw Sangjin run up the stairs crazily
while covering his ears.

‘Did that dumbass just… ’

It seems he had been blocking his ears alone.

And that was the reason why he was somewhat immune to the fear.

The guy who was pretty much in normal shape had charged up from the front as he
pushed them off.

They had no way of countering it when they were pushed back in terms of stats and
had even lost their balance.
‘Is that crazy bastard trying to run away alone?’

Suyeol felt like his soul was about to escape his body but he quickly regained his
senses.

There wasn’t much of a problem because he was going to fight with Hansoo anyway.

If Hansoo fought from the front and they support from the back, it will still go
according to his plans.

Suyeol shouted loudly as he moved around slowly.

“Hey! I came to help! Let’s combine our strengths and end it quickly!”

And then a voice from above, the top of the stairs where they had come from, was
heard.

“Why should I?”

And then the 10 looked up at the sky in panic.

‘… When did he get there’

Hansoo, who was fighting the beast like a maniac just until then, had already climbed
up that far.

To the entrance of the altar at the top.

Suyeol desperatly shouted.

“What are you talking about? To not kill something that you almost killed already?”

And then Hansoo shook his head.

“I was about to but it failed. Because of you guys. Now his health is going to regenerate.”

The beast’s attack was something that even he was barely dodging.

These guys had no possibility of dodging.

And if that happened he would devour everyone below, recover his health instantly
and cause Hansoo to fall behind on stamina.

Why would he fight in such a situation.

The beast goes for the weaker ones first.

If guys like these guys come he could just simply go out and come back in.

No, it would be easier. Since the ground would be littered with runes.

‘Though there was something I didn’t expect’

Whilst Hansoo was watching somebody outside the altar, Suyeol, who had become
desperate, shouted out.

“You… You maniac! Then isn’t it bad for you too! If this guy breaks the altar apart after
getting healed…”

“I think it’ll be alright”

“…what?”

“Didn’t you guys come into become sacrifices on your own accord? I will send praises
for your samaritanism”

“Fuck…”

They understood the situation finally.

That there was enough sacrifices inside the altar to make the beast fall asleep.

Hansoo had earned 24 hours.

Hansoo could just start all over tomorrow after exiting and sleeping for a day.

He would be able to defeat a foe a second time whom he had already defeated once.

Grrrrrrr

Suyeol made a expression filled with despair as he looked at the beast slowly
approaching him.

And then the beast ruthlessly charged at the 10 of them.

Grrrrrrr!

“Uaaaak!”
“Aaak!”

“Kyaaak!”

And soon the altar was filled with roars, screams and plosives.

“Hoo.”

Hansoo, who had bit on the cloud snack that he was smoking before, slowly walked up
the rest of the stairs after hearing the screams that came down from below
expressionlessly.

And he had met with Sangjin who was waiting at the top expressionlessly with the
look of stupidity from before nowhere be to seen.

Hansoo, who had gazed at that Sangjin, chuckled as he opened his mouth.

“Why did you do that?”

And Sanjin’s eyes became deeper at those words.

Then soon after he opened his mouth.

“Because I finally realized what I needed to do in order to be of a help to you”

Sangjin mumbled as he listened to the screams of the people whom he had thrown in.
Hansoo, who was smoking on the cloud snack, opened his mouth while he looked at
Sangjin.

“What do you seek for?”

Hansoo could vaguely guess.

That this guy had killed those guys for him instead.

If he had the thoughts of getting rid of him then he could’ve just pushed them in while
he was busy fighting the beast.

But Sangjin had helped in a way that he could survive.

By warning him with a shout from above and acting after the beast’s movements had
slowed down.

‘Hoo’

Sangjin breathed in and out as he looked at Hansoo.

He had been thinking Hansoo only until now.

‘I want to follow Hansoo’

This was clear.

This had sprung up from three things: Longing, envy and a pursuit for safety.

But he didn’t know what exactly would happen from now.

But he thought he couldn’t be with Hansoo because he was weak and because of this
he thought that he just needed to become stronger.

But whilst he was pondering over this, Suyeol had approached him.

When Sangjin saw Suyeol and his friends approach him he thought of something.
That this was a trap in order to bring harm to Hansoo.

But he followed just to see hear their story.

If they crossed the line he was going to beat them down.

It was clear that he was the strongest after Hansoo and he had created a large gap
between him and the others.

And so he had thought that he could become like Hansoo.

Maybe not as much as Hansoo but he thought that he could at least beat around 10
people.

But this was a very big misunderstanding.

There only a single number between him and Hansoo in ranking but there was a gap
between them that could not be caught up and smashing down a large group was
something only Hansoo could do.

He understood the moment he got surrounded by the ten people.

That he could not beat them.

But he could not deject them here.

Then they will definitely kill him in a manner so that Hansoo wouldn’t notice.

From the way they were talking it seemed like that they were going to go hit Hansoo
from the back no matter what happened.

Kill him or take him alive then kill Hansoo with him there.

There were only two options.

So he followed.

Since he couldn’t die on that spot.

They had told him to try going to his friends but if he had turned around in that
situation then he probably would’ve been stabbed from behind at that spot.

Sangjin thought of countless things whilst he walked.

How he would get out of this situation.

The anxiousness of possibly dying had calmed down as he walked with the ten.

The thought of him having become a lot stronger had been replaced with the thoughts
of his lack of strength.

These guys were scared of Hansoo so they couldn’t act out in the front and had stayed
behind him.

While they were throwing empty threats at them straightforwardly.

He had to look good in Hansoo’s eyes but if he couldn’t even take care of these ten guys
what could he do.

His head started spinning at a crazy rate while in was in danger.

And at the same time he, who had seemed very big, started to look smaller and
something became clear to him.

Very very clear.

‘There is no way that I can be with Hansoo by becoming strong independently.’

The thought of being approved after becoming strong and then following him was
arrogant in itself.

And the thought of being approved after leading a large group was the same.

He realized after calming down and judging himself objectively.

That no matter how hard he struggled alone or even with a bunch of scrubs, the gap
between Hansoo would only become wider.

No, it was likely that he will become even weaker by being near weaker people.

And at the same time longing, envy and admiration had disappeared and a different
mindset had risen up.

That jealousy or longing was something that he should have only when he had the
leisure to.

The current him was in no state to do so.

If he acted arrogantly just because he got a little bit stronger and get attacked by a
mob then he would just get killed.

He had to set somebody faster than him in front of him as the goal and chase them
zealously.

When his thoughts had cleared up, one thing became clear.

That he wasn’t in the situation to question a lot of things.

He just had to catch up while he was still within his eyesight.

He will approve of me if I become strong… he had been looking at this situation in a

very laid back manner.

‘But how?’

He had already lost his chance.

He had to prove his worthiness in order to catch up to him.

And at that moment he saw Suyeol and the others who were walking next to him.

‘Aha. This is it.’

Hansoo’s existence was fear in itself but at the same time he was a very temping
existence which dropped numerous artifacts and ruins along with his death.

Like a tiger which was scary to no extent but drops a very tempting skin upon death.

People who would want to send Hansoo into traps like these would probably keep
coming up.

If they don’t die then they will bother him without giving up.

So he realized.

How he could get approved by Hansoo.

How he could help Hansoo.

“Hansoo. Use me”

“Hmm”

Hansoo showed a conspicuous color as he gazed at Sangjin.

And then Sangjin bit down on his teeth inwardly.

‘I’ve had the wrong thoughts until now’

Since he had Hansoo were running towards the same goal, he thought that they could
become acquaintances.

Because he was misled by useless thoughts and emotions he didn’t realize the main
point and thought that he just needed to become strong.

But he was wrong.

He and Hansoo had different goals from the start.

While he was looking out to survive day by day, Hansoo was running while looking at
something in.

the distance without stopping.

While they were struggling in order to survive and become stronger, he was acting
with his personal rules.

From dividing runes perfectly from the start to every little detail.

He had to keep moving but he didn’t hurry and always followed the things he had to.

The moment he realized this was when he didn’t kill Taesoon and his friends and just
left them alive.

There was no such thing as being disabled here.

If you don’t cut off their lifeline then they could come back even higher health but even
so he had left them alive and created future troubles.

Even though it would’ve been more convenient to take their runes after killing them.

And it was like that on the altar too.

Though it would’ve been a piece of cake for Hansoo to just take the runes from them,
he had given them the options.
Sangjin, who had pondered his actions for a while, realized it finally.

That Hansoo was ignoring the acts which would bring him instantaneous rewards
because he was looking at something in the distance.

Though it would be of benefit to becoming stronger in the moment, he knew that it

would bring harm to what he wanted to accomplish.

Sangjin didn’t know if this was because of his psychic powers or because he was smart.

But once he figured this out, one thing became clear.

The way he could become useful to Hansoo.

“I don’t know why you don’t kill people. But as I see it, it isn’t that you don’t kill them
because you don’t want to kill them right?”

Even monkeys would realize it.

If he could do that much then killing was a piece of cake.

Which meant there was another reason why Hansoo didn’t kill.

And by leaving them behind, it seemed like that he just needed to not dirty his hands.

Sangjin spoke as he looked at Hansoo.

“Use me. I will dirty my hands instead of you. But then take me with you. No, allow me
to follow you”

Hansoo always acted with a clear goal.

But because he looked at things on the long term, it was likely that he needed to
endure things that grabbed onto his ankles momentarily.

And in that moment, he could do things instead of Hansoo.

Like a cleans who cleans after Hansoo so he could focus on his own goals.

Since he had already threw away his first chances, this was the only chance for him to
be accepted by him.

“I could only use a method that put you in danger as well because I was weak but I can
make sure that there won’t be a time where I even get close to your line”

Hansoo was special.

There will definitely be guys who will be jealous of and envy Hansoo and block his
path.

And out of those people, there will be guys which Hansoo would leave alone because
of this personal rules and his goals.

He was willing to thoroughly erase those guys.

So Hansoo can focus on his own goals.

And for that he will become strong by following Hansoo around.

Since he, who had followed him for a few days, had become the strongest after Hansoo.

By helping Hansoo to run faster, he, who is also following Hansoo, would also become
faster.

And if he had another small wish he wanted to find out what Hansoo’s goals were.

But this would be completed naturally if he stuck by Hansoo and helped him.

Hansoo, who had been listening to his story, chuckled.

“Even if I say yes, what would you if it’s a situation where you cannot follow? For
example getting pushed off forcefully”

Then Sangjin’s expression froze.

He thought that he was being abandoned.

But his thoughts changed after seeing Hansoo who was smiling in amusement.

‘… there must be something in the 2nd tutorial’

He didn’t know what but he head seen it with his psychic powers.

That they would forcibly be separated in the 2nd tutorial area.

Sangjin clenched his teeth.

“Then… I will become stronger and come find you. Let’s at least go back to our old
relationship.”

Hansoo laughed as he responded.

“Go down”

‘Dammit, is it not possible?’

Sangjin bit his teeth for a moment and then shouted loudly.

“Kang Hansoo! Can’t a person can make a mistake once in awhile! I had to make a
choose something I didn’t have a choice against because I was weak but I’m just
starting! Fuck just try using me! And if I’m still useless then you can leave me behind!”

He wasn’t worthy enough.

He wasn’t enough until now and he wasn’t still enough.

But he gained another chance he had the confidence to do better.

‘Fuck. Just once! Please!’

Hansoo threw down the cloud snack which he had finished smoking and then spoke
whilst looking at Sangjin.

“Don’t misunderstand things. Come here tomorrow around one. I would have killed
that thing below by then”

“Huh?”

“And then take all the runes that are below. You killed those 10 so you should take
them. Well. Let’s see each other later with smiles on our faces”

Sangjin’s expression became bright at those words.

And Hansoo mumbled inwardly as he looked at that Sangjin.

‘Hmm… though it’s a little awkward’

Hansoo thought of what he and Eres talked about in the past.

<You will be acting in a place full of sunshine from now on. But when that happens
there will be restrictions. When you return to the past, you will be heading for a goal
because of a goal but run into an ironic situation where your ankles will be caught.>

Hansoo nodded at those words.

Since that was always Eres’ problem.

And because of Eres, there existed cleaners.

<Punishers>

No, it was a necessity that every sovereign had even if they weren’t Eres.

People who would dirty their hands instead of the sovereign.

And people who would help their owner head towards their goal.

And Eres looked at Hansoo as he spoke.

<To prepare for such a situation, make some Punishers. Those you would move
instead of you>

‘I was actually going to Enbi Arin but… I will see first’

He would need to use the cloud snack again in order to kill the Carnivorous beast.

But it didn’t seem like much of a loss.

Since it seems that a lot of things changed in a small moment.

‘It’s very cheap if it’s just some runes and cloud snacks’

The cloud snack was just something that worked on the normal runes anyway.

It didn’t work on the colorless runes so he couldn’t use it for that long.

Of course he didn’t know how far he could trust Sangjin.

When the second tutorial begins than everyone here would be forcibly separated
around the second tutorial area and they would not know when they would meet
again.

His mind might have changed by the time they meet again.

But investments were always something like this.

An investment of a few runes and eight cloud snacks in order to attain a chance of
getting a decent Punisher was a very good investment.

‘Well. If it fails then there’s nothing I can do about that’

If that happened he could just follow his original plans.

Hansoo, after looking at Sangjin who was going down, started to regenerate his health.

Kudududk

Hansoo cut off the Carnivorous beast’s life as he ruthlessly stabbed the needle into its
heart.

Kuuuhhhh…

It let out a last cry as it fell down.

He had went hunting and had already experience him so he only needed to smoke six
of them to kill it.

The carnivorous beast didn’t drop any runes as if it wasn’t designed to be killed.

The floor was littered with the runes of the guys who had died yesterday but Hansoo
didn’t even take a glance at them as he started to walk towards a corner of the Altar.

The requirements of the Hidden piece was simple in some ways.

To kill the monster before it destroyed the Altar and jumped out.

For it to come out it needed to destroy the Altar but in that instant the chance of
attaining the hidden piece disappears.

Which meant that if you wanted to kill him you needed to kill it inside the Altar where
his fears got amplified.

‘It’s seriously not something that was designed for somebody to kill’

Hansoo went into the room in the corner of the Altar that Kwang Goonju had told him
jokingly in the past.
And in the middle of the room there was a single artifact.

‘It’s not a skill but… ’

He wasn’t that disappointed, if he were to compare an artifact and a skill of the same
quality then the artifact was more useful despite his trait.

If it was useful to a point.

‘Let’s see what they give’

Hansoo had a bit of anticipation as he walked to the middle of the pedestal.

And Hansoo’s face, which did not get shocked easily, started to tremble at a minute
level.

“…Ring of the Vampire King Nurmaha.”

Solo ranking <9>

The strongest artifact which represented Kwang Goonju.

‘Kwang Goonju this guy. I wondered where he had obtained this… ’

Hansoo sighed as he saw this.

<Numbering Series>

The level of artifacts all differed.

There were a lot of different bases to judge but the most important one was color.

What kind of energy it can absorb.

It could be an artifact that shows its full potential only if it uses the colorless energy
in the colorless are or it could be an artifact that only shows its full potential if it uses
the red area or energy of the blue area which came after the red area.

Of course an artifact using a higher quality energy would be of a higher level so the
level of the artifact changed with the color as the base.

Colorless artifact, Red artifact and so on…

Once you separate them into these levels they are further split up into different levels.

Unless it’s an amazing artifact there was no way for it to be worth more than the
artifact of a higher color.

The high quality colorless artifacts were inferior to the low quality red artifacts.

So even if you were somebody who flew around the area you were at you needed to
slowly increase the standards of your artifact in the middle area and then go over.

Since the weapons from the previous stage didn’t really work very well in the next
stage.

But sometimes, very unique artifacts came out.

Growing Artifact.

Their uniqueness was that they went through growth.

Just like an adventurer absorbing runes and changing their tune from colorless to red
and to orange, the artifact also absorbed something and improved its color.

Not every Growing Artifact was expensive

If it wasn’t as good as other artifacts despite you investing a lot into and growing it
than it was better to just find a decent weapon the middle stage before going to the
next stage

But of cause Growing Artifacts also had different levels.

The child of a dragon would be stronger than others at the age of one and be stronger
than others at the age of ten, this gap would only get larger as they grew up.

The Growing artifacts that improved like this and always stayed at the top were called
<Numbering Series>

It was sometimes called <Draconic Series> because it grew like a dragon, these were
the strongest artifacts that even surpassed artifacts on higher levels of color.

From number 1 to 999.

999 items that the Manoros Clan, which were one of the nine pillars, had judged and
chosen out with strictly, the strongest items of the ones found so far.

It didn’t care whether it was a ring, an armor or a weapon.

You put them in a line and then give them a number.

From rank 1 to 9 were solo numbering.

10 to 99 was double numbering.

100 to 999 was triple numbering.

These artifacts were usually famous by themselves but they would get even more
famous depending on who used them.

Because even if a weakling got lucky and obtained these, these would eventually fall
into the hands of the strong.

It was harder and more important to keep the artifacts of the otherworld than
obtaining them.
If you carry around an artifact too good for you than you lose both your life and the
artifact.

And solo numbering <9>, <Nurmaha’s Ring> was one of the strongest artifacts that
got famous because of Kwang Goonju and something that had made him famous.

Nicknamed [Absolute Ring].

‘Kwang Goonju this guy. I wondered where he had obtained this… ’

It was extremely hard to obtain but it wasn’t that only one existed because it was a
Numbering series

Like how despite the strength of a dragon, there wasn’t only one of them.

And that was the reason when the people saw Kwang Goonju cause a massacre they
tried to find the ring in a manner that would’ve flipped the Otherworld upside down.

Since the eight powers of the ring that came out when people were merely sketched
by it turned them into rags

And the high ranker’s weren’t an exception to this

But this thing that could not be found anywhere was actually found here.

‘Well yeah. If only Kwang Goonju had cleared this mission it’s correct that it’s something
that cannot be obtained anywhere else’

The tutorial area couldn’t be entered unless it was at this moment. There was a reason
why the adventurers could not find it even if they wanted to.

‘Very good’

This place did not reward people because you cleared a hard objective.

Since something that is hard to a weak person is easier than anything to somebody
who is strong.

The best rewards come out when a weak person clears an objective that seems
impossible at that level.

Just like the hidden piece where Hansoo killed the Carnivorous Beast.

He had expected something like this to an extent. That the artifact he gained here was
not something that could be easily thrown out in any of the colored regions.

But who would’ve expected a Solo Numbering to come out.

As soon as Hansoo put on the ring the ring shrunk to fit the size of Hansoo’s finger.

<Nurmaha’s Ring>

A Growing Artifact that contained eight powers.

It absorbed runes and growed, and every time it rose a level in color it would unlock
another power.

The current Nurmaha’s ring was a colorless artifact

And because of that there was only one power unlocked.

But Hansoo made a satisfied smile.

‘This is it’

The first power. <Power Destruction>

It wasn’t simply a dispel magic that got rid of skills.

It was an ability that could nullify anything from passive skills to even an individual’s
trait.

Of course it wasn’t that the person who got smacked would become a traitless person
and lose tons of mana.

The Otherworld wasn’t such a easy place.

Just because you obtained a godly sword did not mean that you could become a sword
master and just because of an artifact a rabbit could not become a dragon nor a pig
become a dragon.

And even if such things existed, these things won’t land in the lands of a rabbit or a
pig.

And even if it did land in their lands they won’t be able to use it because of limitations

And even if they could use it, they won’t be able to protect it.
To use it one needed to match the other person’s trait or when they use the trait and
every time you used it it will cost mana, also the destroyed power will eventually come
back.

But the fact that you could cancel the enemy’s powers at the right time and in the right
place was a huge advantage.

Since by the the time their powers come back, they would’ve become a corpse.

It wasn’t just a Draconic Series.

It was called so because it was already amazing at the colorless stage.

And this was a Growing Artifact, this was just the start.

‘It seems like I will need a lot of runes from now on. Though I cannot use it properly yet’

Hansoo touched his ears.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength: 92.3

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 47.1

Perception: 50.2

Mana: 22

Magic Resistance: 13

Though it was in its weakest state it was still a colorless artifact

To use this thing properly, one’s runes needed to be at the colorless stage.

You needed at least one colorless rune and it was better if they were all colorless.

But the current him did not have any colorless rune.

Hansoo pondered for a moment.

To either make a colorless rune first or focus on achieving balance.

There was eight cloud snacks left.

Cloud snack did not work at the colorless rune stage.

Hansoo, who was pondering, made a decision.

‘Make one colorless rune first and then achieve balance’

If it’s an enemy where he needed to use the colorless rune as well as the Nurmaha’s
ring, it would be hard to beat him while his balance was off.

And on the other hand if the enemy did not require him to use the Nurmaha’s ring
then the colorless rune wouldn’t be needed as well.

Hansoo, who had made his decision, started to walk out of the Altar slowly.

‘Not Bad’

Hansoo mumbled as he looked at his stat screen on the seventh day.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength (Colorless): 0.01%

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 84.0

Perception: 85.1

Mana: 58.4

Magic resistance: 13

The strength had remained stationary at 0.01%

He had decided that it was good to make one colorless rune in case of an emergency
and made it but he could not raise it any further.

Once it turned into a colorless rune then it would only increase after taking colorless
runes.

This was the same for Nurmaha’s ring.

Since the colorless rune did not come out on the 1st tutorial area, he needed to obtain
them from the second tutorial area from now on.

Since in the colorless area, which was the basis for the second tutorial area, both
colorless rune and normal runes came out in a good mix.

Since both Strength and Stamina were in demand, hansoo invested by trading all his
remaining strength and stamina runes into agility, perception and mana runes.

Mana wasn’t needed for Hansoo who did not have a single skill but in order to use the
Power Destruction freely it was better to have more mana.

It was a win-win for everybody.

Since agility, perception or mana runes could be traded for a higher price than
strength or stamina so people who luckily found these runes quickly brought them to
Hansoo and then raised their strength and stamina at a very fast rate.

If Hansoo hunted alone then he would’ve never been able to make this balance in time.

‘Well. I couldn’t finish all the missions’

Because he had focused his time on hunting he could not finish all the missions but
this did not matter much.

Since he had obtained something more valuable than that.

Taking everything wasn’t the important part.

You just needed to take the core factors that will keep you above everyone else as you
go up.

Most people thought runes were important but runes weren’t always the core factors
of strength.

Beasts were everywhere so runes could be attained anywhere and since runes were
fair to everybody it was hard to make a difference between others.

Runes were important but the quality trait, skills and artifacts whose strength got
multiplied by runes were more important.
Runes would get stacked even if you just kill beasts weaker than you.

But the three factors above wasn’t like that. Rare things were limited and because of
that gaps would be created.

‘Six cloud snacks are left… I filled the food pouch with Goblin Jerky. The Needle has been
sharpened well too.’

Hansoo checked the people afar as he checked his belongings.

Though they had gone through a lot in a week, it felt short to some people and long to
some people to the point their eyes have changed while some others were still
struggling about.

And in the middle of those people he could see Mihee and Sangjin but he did not make
any gestures to get their attention.

Since they will get separated soon.

‘Well. Let’s greet each other with smiles when he meet again’

A fairy appeared through the rip in the air above Hansoo who was checking this and
that.

“Everyone! You’ve worked hard for a week! You’ve probably guess it by now but there
are many people like you outside!”

“…”

“You will now start the second tutorial! The place you guys will live on from now is
<Sky Road>.”

<Sky Road>

‘… A way up towards the sky huh’

It didn’t matter where they went.

The thing they were curious about was something else.

“How many will live there?”

The fairy smiled at this.

“A little bit over ten thousand I think. You will be there for three months”

“…”

“It will be much more fun when you get there. It was hard until now playing with only
a hundred people right? How fun would it be playing with ten thousand people. You
will make a lot of friends too. Isn’t it fun just thinking about it?”

Everyone’s face crumpled at the fairy’s words.

Even a hundred was this tiring, but ten thousand at least.

And there was a lot of unprecedented things in this one week.

They couldn’t even imagine how many things the fairy would do in that three months.

The fairy spoke after watching that scene happily.

“There’s exactly 10842… you will start with around 10 to 11 people”

Everyone started mumbling about and then quickly started to group with close
friends.

Of course 11 was better than 10.

And the stronger the people, the better it was.

The strongest and most trustworthy ten had to group.

“Miss Mihee! Take me please!”

“Sangjin! I’m pretty useful man! Take me!”

“This bitch! You ignored us until now! Get Lost!”

The fairy laughed at the chaos below.

“Ahahahaha! You don’t need to be like that.”

“…?”

“It’ll be random. Work hard everyone!”

And as soon as those words ended, the remaining 47 were all warped from the first
tutorial area.

To one of the random starting areas of the 2nd tutorial area, Sky Road.
Hududuk.

Hansoo rose out of his seat and looked around.

‘Those evil things’

Why would the fairy leave friendly and strong people together in a group for them be
enjoy.

In the small white room, ten people were looking around.

And they were actually rather calm and composed about it and weren’t shocked. Just
like how people who went through the first tutorial should be like.

Be cautious of your surroundings but do not make it obvious.

But then one of these people grumbled.

“Godammit… there’s only ten”

And everyone made a slightly unsatisfied expression as if they agreed.

They were dropped in an unknown place.

They didn’t know each other but if there were going to be in harsh conditions wasn’t
it obvious that having eleven was better than ten.

The man who complained before talked.

“Well. Let’s at least introduce ourselves. Since we will probably be working toge…”

<Hello. Have you arrived? First, Welcome to the second tutorial area, Sky Road>

Before the man finished talking, the fairy’s voice came out from thin air in the room
they were at.

And as soon as the fairy’s voice came out, everyone didn’t say what they were going to
and instead focused on the fairy.

<Well I must give you a basic explanation but… I don’t think I need to explain to those
who don’t really need it so let’s do something first>

“…?”

Everyone made a confused expression at the fairy’s words.

<As you see right now, some rooms have 10 and some rooms have 11 people. But this
is unfair right? So I think that we must balance the numbers, I’ll explain this
afterwards.>

“…”

Everyone made a sigh of relief.

Their room had 10. If they were going to balance the numbers then they would
probably kill off one person in one of the rooms with eleven people and then start.

And if that happened they might get injured during the fight and even if they manage
to kill somebody off without getting injured then they would be cautious of each other.

But the fairy crushed everybody’s expectations.

<But then if we only kill somebody in the room with 11 it’ll be unfair right? Since there
will be a fight. So here’s how we’ll do it, the room with 10 people will kill off 1 and the
room with 11 will kill of 2. We here respect your choices so come to a consensus by
yourselves.>

“…Fucking bitch of a fly. I wondered why it was moving things along so smoothly”

One person spat out curses while everyone who had been sighing in relief started to
be cautious of everyone else.

And at the same time they looked for the person who was likely to be the weakest to
of all.

There probably won’t be anybody who they can easily.

If they searched then they might find some but most of them had already been
dropped off at the 1st tutorial area.

The people here were people who would not die alone, they would at least stab them
back before they die.

And because of this, it was important to find the weakest person to attack with the
nine and kill them instantly.

Daechul, who was the first to curse, mumbled inwardly.

‘Fuck… there’s no way to know since you can’t judge from appearances’

If they were all normal existences then you could judge very simply from their
appearance.

Since females were generally weaker.

But if you went on like this in this place you neck will fly off.

Since if they had collected runes zealously because they were weaker, crushing any
decent male was possible.

Because of this Daechul instead searched for the existence of weapons.

Since if they didn’t have a weapon, they would be the weakest.

‘The one without a weapon… damn. They all have it.’

Daechul mumbled.

Everyone was gripping intensely onto their well sharpened blade that was shining in
the light.

But in this situation, one person was out of the ordinary.

‘… Who’s that guy holding the needle’

On the waist of the guy standing leisurely in the corner there was a long needle.

‘Is he crazy?’

Daechul swirled his tongue.

That thing was sharp but from one look one could see that it was harder to use than a
blade with a sharp edge.

And unless that guy was at the level of a fencing athlete there’s no way he would pick
such a weapon.

But he couldn’t act carelessly.

Because if he acted with just that as the basis, the chances of danger was too great.

At that moment a female in the corner looked around as she spoke.

“Aren’t we going to act together from now? Let’s try to appeal each other. To show each
other how much they’re worth”

Everyone started to nod at those words.

Since it was still very pressuring to act if they think somebody looked weak.

Because they might be the only one thinking like that.

And if they’re unlucky and get into a one on one then things become even more of a
headache.

But on the other hand, if they were to talk things out in a circle like this, they can
somewhat judge.

As to who was the most useless one here.

Since they were going to act together from now, it was better if they were stronger or
have a unique ability.

But on the other hand, if they didn’t have such merits then they were useless.

Then the nine could just kill them.

And if that happened then they probably won’t get injured.

Daechul pondered for a moment then raised his sword.

It was a little regrettable to show his hidden card but if he hid it and then get ganged
upon because he seemed weak then he would just die.
“I’m called Daechul, I’m not sure if you’ve seen something like this.”

And then a humming sound came out of his hands as a shining energy started to flow
off from the sword on his hands.

And Hansoo’s eyes shone as he saw this.

‘Reinforce’

There was a very unique skill among the runes.

If you learned it then you could raise all your other stats while using your mana.

This was called Reinforce.

The user would continuously use mana while raising the other stats for a set duration.

And a few better ones of those people could infuse mana into weapons like that which
increases durability and sharpness.

Well, the Reinforce rune that could be attained in the tutorial area wasn’t that good in
terms of efficiency but it was better having it than not.

Since it raised the battle power as a whole.

Reinforce was part of the runes that were very useful and high priced even out of the
numerous skill runes.

The people who had seen this looked around cautiously as they fought each other in
words in order to appeal to others.

“I can heal”

“With just that huh. I can…”

They argued as they talked back and forth but since it was a problem with their lives
on the stake so the atmosphere turned darker.

If they lost in this dumb show off competition then it meant death.

But Daechul made an expression of leisure.

‘It’s definitely not me’

It seemed that he wasn’t the strongest.

But the skill he had, reinforce, was better than anybody else’s.

As long as he wasn’t last place.

And that the same time their eyes collected on two people.

It was Hansoo and the girl who first suggested to appeal themselves.

Daechul made a leisurely smile as he spoke.

“I don’t think the lady over there has spoken yet”

Then the girl stared at Daechul as she spoke with a laugh.

“I’m called Jimin. What I’m good at… I will show you now”

Than the girl stood up and started to head towards Daechul.

Daechul’s caution exploded as he saw the girl move towards him suddenly.

Usually it was a walk that would make his heart beat but his heart rate increased for a
different reason at this moment.

“What are you doing? Don’t come close.”

“I said I’ll show you what I’m good at.”

And then the girl pulled out a dagger from her inner thigh.

A blackish dagger that did not look normal.

Daechul spat out curses.

“Fuck! Are you all just gonna watch? This is just a crazy bitch!”

But everyone just pretended to listen.

It seemed like that would start fighting each other, why would they butt in.

It didn’t matter who died out of the two and even if one did not die, injury was sure to
happen so they could just finish them off after.
Daechul, who was looking at this, crumpled his face as he rose the power of the skill
he attained, <SingleWooden Reinforce> to the max.

The 27 mana that was surrounding his body started get converted quickly into
Daechul’s stats.

The strength that was around 45 rose to 50.

Not only Stamina, Agility, Perception were raised but even Magic power, physical and
magical resistances also rose.

One of the advantages of Reinforce, it raised the stats of resistances which were hard
to obtain in the start.

Daechul even added mana onto his sword and swung down with his raised stat.

Kuduk

“Huh?”

Daechul, who had seen the female disappear right in front of his eyes, searched for her
in a hurry but then looked towards his chest as he felt a warm sensation surge out
from the area of his heart

And in that area the girl had already stabbed the dagger in her hand onto where his
heart was.

The girl looked at Daechul as she whispered.

“I’ll use the skill well. It seemed like that your skill seemed the best out of these. And
even so to the point where it didn’t fit your level”

And at those words Daechul realized why she asked them to appeal themselves.

‘Fuck… ’

Daechul fell soon afterwards and Jimin smiled as she saw the numerous runes and the
one skill rune drop from his body like corn.

“My luck is good. It didn’t seem like they dropped on a 100% chance. I will take the
skill? Ah yes, we should share the stat.”
If you monopolize then you will get sick.

Jimin only took the skill rune she wanted and the rest shook their heads while they
picked up the runes on the ground.

‘Crazy bitch. What did she go through in this one week… at least go crazy nicely’

Hanchul, a man who had been watching the girl, clicked his tongue.

It wasn’t that he didn’t have to confidence to win.

But it’ll be tiring if that crazy bitch charged at him because of a few words so he
decided to shut his mouth.

And it seemed like a few others had the same thought as him.

But the fact that that Daechul died wasn’t really unjustified.

Since he had a skill that was too good for his level.

The skill Reinforce did really look good.

But it needed to be used by someone who could use it well.

Even if Jimin didn’t kill him, one of the others would’ve.

Killing the weak wasn’t the answer.

If they killed randomly with no reason then they would attain hostility and die but in
a situation like this where a reason existed, it was basically acting like a thankful
cleaner.

It was best if you could kill somebody strong when there was a reason to if you can kill
them.

Since if you had to kill somebody anyway, it was best to kill somebody who would
spew out the most.

Jimin had lowered them into nine and didn’t want to struggle anymore so she sat in
the corner.

And soon a voice came out of the air again.

<Since this place had turned themselves into nine I will continue the explanation. The
2nd tutorial are you guys are currently at is the <Sky Road>>

Sky Road.

The road to the sky.

<Once this tutorial ends then the real world of adventure will open. Aren’t you
excited?>

“…Crazy Bitch.”

“Bitch.”

Curses were mumbled out from the surroundings.

The fairy’s voice continued in the air as if it didn’t hear those sounds.

<The thing you guys need to do is simple. You just need to keep climbing up for three
months>

Sky Road.

A road where you had to go from the 1000 starting points and head towards the
topmost single area.

There wasn’t only one path.

It was a setup where you would get split up and collide into the people from other
starting points.

Though there was something very unique about it.

<Well. There’s no need for a hundred words. Let’s start.>

And then a large amount of light and wind started to pour in from the outside.

“What is this…”

Everyone made a ridiculous expression as they looked at the outside.

The room they were at was currently floating high up in the sky.

A scene that would turn make an acrophobiac shrivel up.

A vast sea could be seen thousands of meters below and in the distance outside the
white room a large floating island that seemed much larger than Yeouido.

There was a long bridge connecting their room and the island.

A few other rooms just like theirs were also connected to the island and there were
many other islands floating about the same height as theirs.

And the thousands of islands that were floating above them in layers.

The people cried out in gloom as they saw the islands that looked like stairs but too
far apart to be called stairs.

‘It’s been a while’

Hansoo mumbled as he saw the stairs of islands in his view.

<Sky Road>

Move by moving between the islands floating in the air.

And continue to climb higher and higher.

Every island had rewards you could attain and had special rules or beasts.

‘And there’s also a trap’

The thing Hansoo needed to do on Sky Road was simple.

He needed to prepare as much as he can in order to pass the final parts of the dungeon.
(*Dungeon: Mentioned in chapter 3)

He needed to find every hidden piece and important factors as he climbed the Sky
Road.

And the most important thing on the first level of the stairway island was one thing.

He didn’t care about the other things but this was a necessity.

‘First I need to attain <Rune Eater Snake>’

As Hansoo set his goal and started to move out, everybody cautiously moved along the
bridge.
The width of the bridge was short but it wasn’t dangerous because there were side
rails.

And while they were doing so, Hanchul spoke to maybe lighten up the mood.

“Well. At least it feels good, it’s like an adventure. Let’s do well together. If we don’t go
crazy and move cautiously and slowly…”

Kugugugu

Before Hanchul’s words were finished, a faint tremble was felt from the island.

While everyone got shocked and grabbed onto the side rails, a fairy’s voice was heard
from above them.

<Oh. For the record, after a while the islands start falling down started from the one
at the bottom. If you have thoughts of setting up a campfire and becoming friendly
with each other then it might be better to enjoy it in a more mobile form with a hand
held torch>

“Bitch-like Fly”

Curses came out of Hanchul’s mouth as he could not keep calm anymore.
As soon as the people got to the land, the bridge got destroyed.

As the people saw the bridge fall down to what seemed like an endless amount of time,
they made a horrified face.

If they can’t climb up fast enough, then they would fall along with this island.

“Well. The explanations were done earlier so let’s decide what to do from…”

Since it looked like they were all from different tutorial areas and were strangers,
Hanchul started his story.

But before he could finish his words, somebody started moving.

‘… needle?’

The guy with the needle started to walk towards the suspicious looking jungle
hesitantly.

Hanchul shouted as he looked at Hansoo.

“Hello there? Do you know where to go?”

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders.

“It’s a straight line so you just need to go in a straight line. What’s there to think about”

The rest who had seen this made a helpless expression.

Of course there indeed existed a path through the center of the jungle.

An extremely suspicious looking and dangerous looking path where something might
pop out.

‘What is this guy’

But he didn’t seem like someone lame.

As long as he wasn’t somebody who treated their lives like flipping a coin, acting like
that meant he had confidence.

And at that moment a rumbling sound was heard as the outskirts of the island started
to break off.

The exact area that the bridge was attached to just until now.

“…fucking hell.”

It meant that it will not let them rest even for a moment.

The people spat out curses as they followed Hansoo.

It was a straight path anyway, there was no other paths.

‘It somehow feels like I became a lackey’

Hanchul didn’t really feel comfortable but he decided to leave him alone because his
ruthless attitude was rather burdensome.

‘I’ll know once I peel him. Either he’s a faker or has something’

Hanchul mumbled as he followed him.

‘Let’s see. With the central Dormant Volcano as the center of direction… the eighth room
on the left of the lava river, so turn rightwards twice and once left… ’

The <Rune Eater Snake> he needed to obtain was a mutant of <Rune Pattern Snake>

And the place he needed to find for this.

<Rune Pattern Snake’s Forest>

The structure of all 100 of the 1st level of the stair islands was the same.

10 white rooms with the Dormant Volcano as the center and forked roads that
connected 498 beast habitats and everything else.

So as long as you follow the path as you memorized than you could find the forest.

And as soon as the fork on the road appeared, Hansoo smoothly turned right.
‘Well it’s actually the same no matter where you go’

The danger was similar no matter which path you took and eventually you will end up
on the center where you can move to a different island.

If he wasn’t going to find the habitat for the Rune Pattern Snake then he would’ve just
gone in any direction.

Hanchul, who had seen this, asked in confusion.

“Wait. You said you were just going in a straight line before? Do you perhaps know
something else?”

Hanchul asked as he looked at Hansoo who was continuously walking off.

He had tested earlier. To see if he could move to the other roads on the side.

But the creator of this island seemed to want them to only move on the paths so they
could not walk outside.

Which meant they had to go straight.

Which made sense until now when he decided to go right in a fork on the road like this
without hesitating.

Hansoo looked at Hanchul and then spoke.

“I have a psychic power.”

“What?”

What was this nonsense?

Everyone who had been following made groans.

They thought he had some sort of navigating skill because he was walking so confidently.

But to think that he had no plans.

“What nonsense is this? What are you thinking?”

Hansoo sighed as he spoke.

“You just need to go that way so why are you acting like homing missiles.”
“…”

‘Fuck. He’s right. After hearing him for a while’

He didn’t know why he was following that guy like that.

It seems like that the girl called Jimin and everyone else wasn’t weak but were
following his guy without saying anything.

‘My pride suddenly feels damaged. Do I take it?’

Hanchul shook his head.

It was obvious that if one person moved confidently while others were hesitant that
everyone would want to follow that guy.

And more so if the island behind them was getting destroyed one by one.

‘Sure. We’ll go as you say’

It’ll be the same no matter which way they go.

Since that bloody fairy wouldn’t have made some parts of the island easier than others.

Hanchul checked the people in the group.

‘First, there is a self-proclaimed psychic and a crazy bitch’

Everyone seemed normal but there was somebody else that stood out.

First the person with the healing skill.

From his walk and the fact that he had the healing skill, it seemed like his stats were
good.

And the sword that was shining around his waist didn’t look normal either.

He probably wouldn’t attach something to dangle on his waist if he wasn’t going to use
it.

If this were a game he felt like a priest, no, it was more like a paladin.

The rest seemed normal but were even more unique.

A couple and three daughters whom seemed around twenty.

Halchul mumbled after seeing this.

“Huh. People come rather well bunched. Thought it was random…”

They got separated on the first area on random.

What are the chances of the family over there coming together.

But Hansoo knew the reason.

‘Since it’s more fun this way’

There’s no other reason. This was it.

They split up relationships created from understandings but left the relationships
created from affection.

Since bringing them like had higher chances of created more interesting situations.

‘Well. That’s just how they want it’

Hansoo, who had stopped his thoughts, stopped walking as he stopped in front of a
weird looking tree next to the road.

Hansoo pulled out a kukri instead of the needle that he had on his waist, cut a bit of
the wood and then started to chew on it.

“…What are you doing?”

“If you chew on this it gives a slight effect of neutralizing the poison”

“Why do you need to neutralize the poison?”

And then Hansoo slightly pulled on Hanchul’s neck.

Kududuk

“…”

In an instant a 3m long snake that stretched down from the trees bit the spot where
Hanchul was standing.

‘… That was dangerous’

Hanchul got flustered at an extreme speed.

Hansoo chuckled at this.

The one just now was this fast because it was an agility pattern so as long as you are
careful of ambushes then it wasn’t that bad.

‘Rune Pattern Snake’

A unique beast that gained extra stats depending on the pattern on its skin.

The annoying part was that the patterns kept changing.

And if there are mana rune patterns on its body one also needed to be careful of the
poison.

Once you get bitten while it had mana runes up then you will be poisoned with a toxin
that will steadily burn your own mana.

And whilst the mana burned, your magic power as well as health were also affected.

Of course it didn’t burn until you died and the effects will disappear after some time
but by the time the effects disappear, you will have become quite a mess.

The bark of the oak tree which it lived in had some sort of antidote-like effect due to
it being rubbed against its scales but it was best to just not get bitten by it at all.

Hansoo chewed on the oak bark as he spoke.

“Always be careful of being bit while it has mana runes up and attack when it doesn’t
have agility runes up. You can dodge the agility runes if you are careful of ambushes
but it will still be hard to catch.”

“How did you know all th…”

“Psychic powers”

“…”

Hansoo, who had completed his talk, went into the jungle and everyone else stared at
each other but followed him in with frowns as they felt the vibrations behind them
into the jungle where the snakes were.
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Kududuk

“Goddamit!”

Hanchul grinded his teeth at the snake which did not die even after getting hit by his
sword and had bit into his flesh.

It wasn’t that bad because it didn’t have mana runes up but he had failed to kill it with
in one shot because it had physical resistance runes up.

‘Such difficult beasts… ’

They were so strong that his body was full of scars from being bit from these guys
despite having been in here for only a while.

And the way their runes changed was random.

If it changed according to how the snakes wanted or needed then they could at least
see it coming but it was very dangerous due to the random changes that happened at
random times.

He had thought that he could kill this snake instantly just now because it had strength
runes up but then it instantly changed to physical resistance rune, resisted his attack
and bit into his flesh.

His flesh didn’t get bit off because it wasn’t a strength rune pattern but the spikes that
were attached around the snake had turned his flesh into rags.

‘Damn… there isn’t time to regenerate much either’

Since he had some stamina runes he needed time to regenerate but he constantly
heard the damnable island crumble behind him so he did not have the leisure to rest
to recover before moving on.

But there was a bigger problem than the snakes.

“Goddamit! Why aren’t you guys fighting!”

Only five of the nine had been fighting.

The four in the back were just idling about.

Well they weren’t idling to be exact.

Since the guy that looked like the head of the family stood at the back as he slashed off
the snakes that flew towards his wife and his daughters.

The man hardened his face at Hanchul’s rage.

“I’m sorry. Please understand. I must protect my family”

‘Damnit… family means a free pass?”

Then what would happen to the guys fighting in the front.

This was a difficulty meant for 9 people.

The fairy had set the difficulty like this from the start.

But because four people were doing nothing the others were struggling.

If that guy called Hansoo wasn’t flying around next to them they would’ve already died.

Ok. He could understand the family man but why was the guy with the heal, who was
holding a sword, wasn’t fighting too?

“Hey! Why aren’t you fighting!?”

He did not understand.

If he had a healing skill then shouldn’t he fight even more aggressively.

And then Kangmin, the guy holding the sword, chuckled as he spoke.

“I don’t think I really need to fight. I’ll just heal you guys.”

“…”

Hanchul’s rage skyrocketed.

‘This yankee, then why are you holding onto a sword?’

Hanchul started to calm down his mind.

This wasn’t the right time to be fighting.

‘Yeah. Let’s think of him as a healer. A healer.’

Aren’t there healers in games.

But Hanchul had to curse at Kangmin’s words that came out afterwards.

“By the way in order to recieve heals from me then you must bring runes. To heal all
the injuries on you I will take 3 strength runes or 1.5 agility or 1 mana rune.”

“This motherfucker…”

Hanchul grinded his teeth.

Was this something a person doing a team play should be saying.

Which means he, who was fighting in the front, should also receive runes.

He wasn’t fighting in the front because he wanted to.

That was not normal. From what it seemed from the way he acted, the amount of runes
he had wasn’t low.

He was probably good at fighting.

And it would be even harder to beat him once he fought while healing himself.

But then to not fight despite having so much battle powers.

‘Is this bitch not fighting because then we will get hurt more?’

Since if you set your mind to earn runes from healing, that was the easiest method.

It might be an over exaggeration but there was a high possibility.

Kangmin had heard himself being cursed but he laughed as he spoke.

“But shouldn’t you fight more zealously? I think I can hear the island slowly crumble
from behind?”

“Goddamit…”

Hanchul grinded his teeth.

That he had fallen into a very nasty situation.

Regeneration was a necessity.

But he had already been injured even though it was just the beginning.

If he didn’t heal this then his battle powers will fall and the speed at which he got
stronger will slow down because the rate at which he gained runes will also drop.

And if you take into account of the fact that stronger beasts will continue to come out
then healing was really a necessity.

If that guy was asking for excessive prices that he would’ve just killed him.

It won’t be easy but if he were to continue then he didn’t know how to deal with him
once he got stronger than him and continue to treat him like this.

But sadly the amount he offered was a very reasonable price for healing.

It was a perfect amount where he will still profit by not attacking but didn’t ask for too
much.

And to continue the relationship where they profited from each other.

But this wasn’t a situation to make profit of each other but rather a situation where
they needed to combine their strengths.

That guy was holding onto the dangerous situation as if it was a chance but this meant
their lives will get harder.

Since as long as he took things they will lose something.

‘Bitch. The healer is all that huh’

He wanted to just sit and stoutly declare that he wasn’t gonna do it but he knew that
was a crazy act as he saw the island and road slowly fall bit by bit far behind him.

As he saw it, this guy had understood his worth in that instant and laid down these
calculations.

Or he had done something like this in the 1st tutorial area as well.

He had somewhat of an idea how this yankee had gained runes and gotten strong.

He probably wouldn’t heal you because you threaten or torture him.

Since if he was somebody who will do that then he would’ve become a mess during
the 1st tutorial area and would not have had the time to negotiate like this.

‘Fuck… ’

It wasn’t that his skill rune will drop with a 100% chance even if you killed him.

And the worth of the healing skill was too high to bet like that

And especially in a time limited situation like this.

“Are you just gonna leave that alone?”

As Hanchul talked to Hansoo whilst grinding his teeth, Hansoo just shrugged his
shoulder.

He didn’t particularly intrude even if they fought or didn’t fight.

Since it will all eventually return to him.

“Here are some runes. Please heal my wife”

As he saw the family man hand over the rune he gathered and asked to heal his wife
who was slightly injured, Hanchul grinded his teeth.

It would usually be a very warming view but Hanchul’s situation was too dire to look
at it in such a way.

The others also stared at the four coldly as if it wasn’t just Hanchul’s thoughts that
were like this.

‘A shit hand. I pulled a real shit hand’

He had thought that the psychic guy was the weirdest one but it seemed that he was
the best hand he had now.

A crazy bitch. A heal seller and three harmonious family members.

Hanchul’s face expression turned cold.

And at that moment a voice flowed into Hanchul’s head.

<How is it? Kang Hanchul? Is the place you arrived good?>

Hanchul answered as if this was all normal.

<It’s shit>

<Have strength. It seems like that we can meet each other at the top. Make sure to
survive and come up. And keep as much alive as you can. We need to raise our numbers
and recruit as many strong people as we can.>

‘I don’t know… if these guys are worthy enough to take’

Hanchul ended the conversation as he thought of it only and did not send it as a
message and then grinded his teeth.

<I’m not sure if you can survive until we meet again. I’ll see you later>

Hanchul, who had finished the conversation with his friend and leader Hyunjin,
started to walk as if nothing happened.

He had thought that he was criticizing Hansoo but Hanchul believed in the existence
of psychic powers.

Since he had already seen somebody with such an ability like his friend, Hyunjin, and
even benefitted like this.

But there was a guy watching Hanchul.

‘It seems like there’s already somebody who had bloomed the sovereign’s trait It’s rather
quick’

Trait <Sovereign>

A trait which Eres and Kwang Goonju had.

A trait which made them into a leader and the leader becoming a trait, a trait that
made somebody into a <Sovereign>.

Hansoo showed a conspicuous color as he looked at the small symbol that appeared
for a moment and then disappeared on the back of Hanchul’s hand.
While Hansoo was making such thoughts and advancing forward, one person
cautiously spoke as they looked at their surroundings.

“It seems like the number of snakes are decreasing?”

Everyone nodded at these words.

It was something they had felt for a while.

Thankfully their speed of movement had increased and they had made quite a
distance from the part of the island that was crumbling.

‘Good’

Hansoo nodded his head inwardly.

Since the lack of Rune Pattern Snakes meant he had almost reached the habitat of the
Rune Eater Snake.

As soon as the snakes had disappeared they looked at each other while catching a
breath.

Their entire bodies had been healed cleanly.

Since Kangmin’s healing was rather effective despite the disputes.

Kangmin looked at Hansoo with a mysterious expression.

‘He didn’t receive any heals… ’

There was no way to not get injured no matter how strong you were.

And the only reason why he had been able to survive was because he had put himself
in such situations.

And Hansoo was like that too.

Injuries all over the body.

But there was a clear difference with Hansoo.

‘Just how much stamina does he have’

Kangmin rolled around his tongue.

It wasn’t fast enough to see with the eyes but his injuries were often gone while they
were walking.

He had thought that he had mistook what he had seen at first.

And he had been dodging all the big injuries that would be of harm during a fight.

He wasn’t sure because he didn’t look close but he could guess somewhat.

He had made sure to not get injured on his joints and muscles and if he was going to
get bit then he made it so the parts of the body that wouldn’t hinder him was bit.

Even if his skin were to be all scratched off.

It would hurt much less to get bit around the thigh or buttocks but he had been
dodging injuries in important areas as if every part which helped him fight was
precious.

And he had been doing so by getting hit all over the body whilst dodging fatal wounds
and healing himself with his high stamina.

At once glance he looked like a normal college student but he was fighting like a beast.

As if he was fighting by squeezing every bit power out of his entire body.

‘… Is he like a mercenary or something?’

The skin would hurt a lot but it healed fast so it was the right choice.

But this choice would be hard for a normal person to make but that guy was not afraid
of getting hurt.

No, he had even shown that if he could kill the enemy by getting hurt, then he chose
to do so.
‘It seems like the sales won’t be that good’

Kangmin frowned slightly.

Amazing was amazing and obstruction was an obstruction.

If that guy didn’t exist than the others would’ve been hurt more but due to him fighting
so well he had to set the price of healing low.

Since if there was no demand, the prices will drop.

But at that moment, something appeared in front of Kangmin whom had been thinking
of this and that

‘… What is that?’

A humongous tree that couldn’t even be compared to the trees until now had appeared
in front of them.

And the surroundings trees had been broken and smashed to create an open area.

While everybody was cautiously looking at their surroundings in this new area that
was a bit off the road, Hansoo was looking at the top of the tree.

‘There it is.’

<Rune Eater Snake>

A giant snake of 15m that had coiled upon the tree.

It had become the leader of the Rune Pattern snakes by eating them and absorbing
their runes.

Most mutant Rune Eater Snakes became strong like that and acted as predators.

A monster that couldn’t even distinguish its own clansman and only saw them as food.

And because of this, other rune pattern snakes did not live around it.

‘But that one is useless’

That one was useless.

Since due to its size, if you gave it 3 runes it will eat all of those 3.
It was only useful while it was a baby, when it did not eat much and would puke out
two when you gave it three would it be useful.

But since it was only useful for three months, he just needed to release it after that.

Hansoo nodded as he thought of the rune pattern snake’s egg somewhere within the
tree.

‘Let’s go’

He had fought in the most dangerous areas for 50 years and had never encountered
an enemy who he could leisurely dodge and whom would send only so-so attacks at
him.

Foresee the enemy’s movements?

There were much more enemies that moved faster than one could foresee.

And because of this the fighting style of giving flesh and hitting bone had been deep
embedded in him.

Since as long as you kill the enemy, regeneration was possible.

But his tactic was only possible when you could receive their attacks to a degree but
due to his resistances being rock bottom low, it felt like he was fighting with chains all
over his body.

And he seemed strong right now but later enemies who know how to use skills and
their traits properly will appear.

He had a bit of an advantage in stats and artifacts but there was a huge gap in battle
powers that came from skills and traits.

Since that girl called Jimin had already grasped her fighting style a bit.

He had to take the advantage before he could earn skills and to do that a Rune Eater
Snake was a necessity.

‘If I take this then everything becomes easy’

The family man, Gyucheol, cautiously spoke as he saw Hansoo warm up his body.
“Do you really have to fight that thing?”

“Hmm?”

“Isn’t that something you don’t really need to kill?”

Hansoo nodded at those words.

The Rune Eater Snake was too high of a difficulty for people who came out of one week
of the tutorial.

And that snake which ate three and spat out two was a scam to others who needed the
strength, stamina, agility and perception runes.

And because of this he had diverged from the path a little bit.

Since there weren’t any snakes here so as long as you were careful you wouldn’t run
into rune eater snakes or rune pattern snakes.

The others who had already seen this stood far away as they looked at the tree with
worrying expressions.

“You don’t have to fight. I’ll fight it alone so go over there where it’s safe. Or you can go
first”

Gyucheol shook his head at those words.

“No… I’m saying let’s go together”

Gyucheol almost spat out something he had been thinking for a while.

‘How would we advance if you die’

Gyucheol knew.

That the reason why it was ok for him to just protect his wife at the back was because
Hansoo, who was in the front, was fighting well.

He knew. That if you don’t fight yourself here then you will eventually die.

But even though he knew this in his head, how could he send his wife and daughter
out after seeing them bleed after getting slashed by swords.

There might be a chance that a place where his family could be safe might appear if
they continue like this.

And for that he needed to live a little bit longer.

‘And because of that I must go with that person’

If that guy dies then he would need to step out and fight.

Because if he doesn’t then the defense line will crumble and they would all die.

But then if he died like that, who would protect his family.

He wasn’t in the situation to put up with danger.

‘And isn’t it very greedy to try to kill that snake which you don’t need to, to the point of
soloing?’

Gyucheol, who couldn’t spit out such words, tried his best to make a pleasant smile as
he spoke.

“What would happen if you died fighting that thing. It looked dangerous at a glance,
let’s just continue and not waste your strength on that thing. Shouldn’t we continue
forward while the gap is still large.”

Everyone looked at Hansoo and Gyucheol at those words.

Hansoo chuckled at those words as he shook his head.

“I’ll refuse. Go ahead first”

Gyucheol couldn’t hold it in as he raged.

“Aren’t you being too much young friend? And this isn’t just my thoughts. We need to
move together as nine but what do you want us to do if you enter a dangerous place
like this”

Gyucheol’s face was on fire as he spat out the words.

Since he knew that it wasn’t something he should be saying.

But he held it in.

The thing he had realized as he gained age and as he became a man of the family was
that embarrassment was just for that moment and being loud was rather effective.

Who would protect his family if he lets Hansoo go because of his ego and then die
afterwards.

His wife and his daughters could not even threaten a fish.

They will probably die as soon as he dies.

Or something even worse.

‘It’s better to get cursed at’

And there was still a problem if he beat the snake.

Since it can only take a long time for him to fight the snake.

Since then the destruction line that they had created a gap from would catch up them.

And if that happened they had to fight more anxiously.

‘You… as long as you come with us and fight then won’t be any problem’

Didn’t they do good until now.

This wasn’t a game, this wasn’t the time to worry about killing a strong monster for
items or runes but why was he going crazy just because he couldn’t fight that powerful
looking snake.

They were already busy trying to push ahead.

‘Damn. It’s not because he’s young. He’s just crazy’.

Hansoo clicking his tongue as he looked at that Gyucheol.

There were times like this where they opinions crossed.

And he understood as well.

If a man wasn’t selfish during times of danger then when would he be selfish.

‘But there’s no other way’

Since their goals were different there was no other way.

Hansoo shook his head as he walked towards the snake.

“Goddamit! If you were going to act selfishly like that then why are you traveling with
us in the first place!”

Hansoo shrugged his shoulders at Gyucheol’s words as he spoke.

“I never traveled with you. The way we were going was the same”

“…”

“…dammit”

At that moment everybody realized that even though Hansoo had been fighting in the
front, he had never traded anything with them.

Though he had taught them a few things discreetly.

Gyucheol, who couldn’t hold it anymore, cursed out loud while his wife and daughter
looked at Gyucheol with a pitiful expression and him took him away after looking at
Hansoo with a resentful face.
They knew that they were alive because of Hansoo but they were sad because of
Hansoo acting the way he wanted.

While they were leaving, somebody was watching Hansoo with a regrettable face.

The one who actually stimulated Gyucheol was Hanchul.

He was going to try recruiting him after watching for a little bit longer but he was
shocked because Hansoo had said he was going to fight the snake.

It did indeed seem like something amazing will come out if that snake was killed.

But that was only important while they were alive.

They had no thoughts of fighting with that anaconda-like 15m long snake.

If Hansoo had miraculous powers to the point where he could slice it in half then they
might’ve followed him meticulously to gain a little bit of anything.

But they had eyes too.

The snake which was sliding between the trees was quite nimble despite its size and
its size broke the branches that were as big as normal tree trunks which showed his
strength.

That was not something where they can gain anything out of while Hansoo was
fighting it alone.

And they wanted to get away as fast as possible because of these thoughts.

Since it will be bad if they received collateral damage whilst watching Hansoo fight.

They had no thoughts of getting dragged in.

‘Well. There’s nothing that can be done’

If somebody couldn’t keep their lives in tact then that was all they were worth.

The eight others quickly left Hansoo and took off as Hansoo bit onto a cloud snack
while chucking at this view.

Then he charged at the Rune Eater Snake.

 j

Kudududk

“Hoo.”

Hansoo took out the cloud snack he was biting on and then grasped the rune eater’s
snake with both hands.

And behind him a giant rune eater snake was laid out dead with its brain pierced
through.

‘Now there’s only five cloud snacks left’

Rune eater snake was indeed strong.

But it was much weaker than the Carnivorous Beast.

And his stats were much more different from then.

He had used colorless energy and used the cloud snack because of limited time but
only one was needed

Kachak

And soon the egg cracked open as a small snake that couldn’t be imagined to be a baby
of that giant snake came out and crawled above Hansoo’s wrist.

‘Good’

There were quite a bit of Strength, Stamina, Agility and Perception runes gathered on
his wrist.

These were stats that Hansoo judged to be not necessary for the moment.

Hansoo started to feed the baby rune eater snake with all the runes he had gathered
up.

The rune eater snake didn’t realize it’s parent was dead as it greedily gulped down the
runes on Hansoo’s wrist.

The four types of runes on his wrist quickly disappeared as a different type of rune
replaced their spots.
‘First, raise magic, physical and magic resistances.

His Mana wasn’t really lacking.

He had in instead raise these other three stats in order to raise his ability battle
powers which were lacking.

Since soon things with abilities will pop out one by one.

[Kang Hansoo] Strength(Colorless): 0.02%

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 84.0

Perception: 85.1

Mana: 58.4

Magic: 30

Physical resistance: 25

Magic resistance: 25.3

‘Finally I’ve gained the eight great stats’

The most basic and the stat that impacted the battle powers the most, the eight great
stats.

From now he had to keep raising these stats in balance.

Keiiik!

The rune eater snake which seemed to be content from eating its fill cried out in
content as it fell asleep on his wrist

It was indeed the offspring of that giant rune eater snake no matter how you looked
at it.

He wouldn’t bat an eye during normal battles.

‘You just stay asleep’

Hansoo, who had been looking at it cutely, started to walk fast as he saw the
destruction line closing in.

“Dad. What do we do…”

“Be quiet please”

While Gyucheol and his Family were left behind on a fork on a road and were
struggling, somebody started to appear afar.

Gyucheol nodded after seeing this.

‘I knew this would happen’

He was covered in blood but it was Hansoo.

Gyucheol, who had been looking at Hansoo, spoke out.

“Did you perhaps run while fighting?”

It didn’t seem like his strength, agility or stamina changed much from before.

If the giant snake had given him runes then a his runes should have increased by a
large amount.

And the snake did indeed look stronger than Hansoo so the time that he took was too
fast for killing it.

Since the time it took for Hansoo to come back only took around the time it took to
smoke one cigarette.

“I killed it”

‘Lies’

If he wasn’t going to gain anything then why did he fight?

No he did gain something.

Only injuries all over the body.

But it was to his expectations anyway.

Since he guessed that he would at least run before he died.

Hansoo asked the three as he asked.

“The other people?”

The others excluding Gyucheol and the two could not be seen.

Gyucheol grinded his teeth at those words.

“…they went that way.”

‘and leaving us behind’

He thought of Hancheol’s words before he departed.

<Since Hansoo isn’t here anymore you can’t just stay in the back and fight there. Either
come out to the front and fight or leave the group here>

‘That bitch… both this guy and him’

Gyucheol had to choose.

Either to fight in the front.

Or wait until Hansoo came back and then charge through the path with Hansoo in the
front.

But he had no confidence to fight in the front.

‘Damnit… I should’ve fought in the front from the beginning’

While the others were constantly fighting, he had been left behind without being able
to eat any runes.

And now he could only support from the back, he was not at the level to fight in the
front anymore.

And the beasts in front of them would be even stronger.

They at least had Hansoo before, if he had fought in between the others then he
would’ve died rather quickly.

So he decided to wait for just 5 minutes.

Just in case Hansoo would run away from the fight.

‘It’s a relief’

If he hadn’t come then he would’ve probably had to fight in the front while listening
to their hateful words but thankfully Hansoo had come back.

While Gyucheol was thinking about this and that, Hansoo had chosen a different
direction than the others.

If that path had been cleared already then the amount of runes he would be able to
gain will be significantly lower.

It was better to go somewhere where there was still a lot of things to hunt.

And this path was more compatible with him.

Gyucheol only looked at Hansoo pass by him but did not move.

Hansoo looked at Gyucheol with an amused expression.

“Aren’t you moving?”

And Gyucheol relied at those words.

“Didn’t you say you were never part of us already. Go ahead first”

“Huh”

These words were correct.

‘I can clearly see his intentions but a guy being this straightforward is a first.’

It didn’t really matter if there was somebody to fight with or not.

Hansoo laughed as he started to move towards the other path quickly.

And Gyucheol and his family slowly followed Hansoo whilst leaving a gap.

‘There… aren’t any options left’

He was not at the level of fighting in the front anymore.

He had to push ahead by sticking to someone.

‘Surely such an environment like this wouldn’t continue’

As long as a similar environment like the first tutorial area came out then they can
catch their breath.

Gyucheol started to gaze at Hansoo’s back with a feeling of being on a tightrope.

Hoping that he wouldn’t get mad and turn his blades at them.

And hoping that he would clear the road well in the front.

(Y)

Udududk

“Hooo”

Hansoo made a dull expression as he killed the last Kerudal.

This place’s difficulty was where nine people had to fight.

It was hard because he had to fight alone.

Since he couldn’t use cloud snacks in places like this

‘But it’s still very good’

[Kang Hansoo] Strength(Colorless): 0.03%

Stamina: 88.8

Agility: 84.0

Perception: 85.1

Mana: 58.4

Magic: 35

Physical resistance: 32

Magic resistance: 32.7

He had been monopolizing the runes because he was fighting alone.

And the fights had been getting easier because his resistances were increasing due to
his monopolization.

And Gyucheol was looking at Hansoo with a fed up expression from the back.

‘… he’s getting stronger and stronger’

It didn’t seem like his movements were getting faster or his strength was increasing.

But he was gaining a lot less injuries than before.

And because of that he was fighting faster and more aggressively.

He just took an attack that he would usually dodge and then sliced off their necks like
that.

And because of this his speed was slower than when he fought together with the other
group but he had long recovered the speed back.

‘This kinda bugs me… ’

He was traveling safely and comfortably.

He just had to pick up a few bloody monsters that Hansoo had leaked.

And Gyucheol was sufficient enough for these.

But the fact that Hansoo has been getting more and more leisurely had been bugging
him.

The perfect situation in his head was that Hansoo was so busy fighting in the front and
becoming a mess that he couldn’t spare any effort to care about Gyucheol himself.

But if this happened he had no solution to when Hansoo became enraged…

‘Do I have to run away in the next fork on the road… ’

But it was hard for him to clear the road alone.

But the thing that had appeared in front of Gyucheol wasn’t a fork on the road.

‘… Tunnel?’
A giant tunnel located near the bottom of the mountain.

And in front of it a very familiar existence was located there.

“Are you not on good terms? You traveled whilst leaving some distance between you
two. Well whatever, congratulations on reaching the goal.”

And then the fairy pointed towards the inner parts of the tunnel.

There was a dormant volcano’s crater that could be seen along with few tens of people
who had already reached this place next to many weird-looking boats.

Gyucheol cried out in joy after seeing this.

“Uwahaha! Arrived! We’ve Arrived!”

“Daddy! Thank you for your hard work!”

As if Hansoo and Gyucheol were the last ones, as soon as they entered the tunnel
closed with a thunk sound and the fairy which was at the entrance flew in.

“Hello everyone. Welcome to the goal line. Heehee. Let’s see… there’s 75 alive right
now? It’s good that not many died. You guys worked hard.”

“…”

Whilst everyone was grinding their teeth, the fairy smiled as it spoke again.

“Since there’s 75 people, 75 tickets should be prepared right?”

And then a ticket with strange patterns started to appear on the hands of the people.

While the people were mumbling about the ticket, the fairy continued to talk.

“If you get on that then you can get on the boat that leads you to the island above.
You’ve done well. I will now tell you how to use the ticket.”

“…?”

Wasn’t it just that they had to get on the boat after handing it over.

“Basically the boats you guys will get on is for three people”

“…”
“And of course three tickets must be gathered in order for it to work. Isn’t it so
peaceful? Since its three tickets per three people, there’s no need to fight”

Everyone sighed in relief at these words.

Since that meant that all 75 people could go up.

But Hansoo shook his head.

There was no way that this would be it.

And as he expected, the fairy continued to talk.

“But it will be unfair if one person or two people pay three tickets and get treated like
three people right? So we prepared something special”

‘Goddamit, of course it won’t just let us go that easily… ’

The fairy made an amused expression as it looked at the people and spoke.

“Firstly, if you hand in three tickets then you can go to any island you want. By the way,
if you think that all the islands above are the same then that’s a huge misconception.
Check the islands map in your pockets.”

The fairy laughed and spoke as it saw a few people’s eyes shining.

“If you hand in three tickets with two people then you can go together but you cannot
decide where it goes. The boat will move randomly”

At the fairy’s words, the eyes of the people who were comrades or partners changed.

If they wanted to act together then they had to gather an extra ticket.

“Lastly if you hand in three tickets as three people then you will get off separately. You
can go up but you cannot be together. A situation like a family would be very very sad
right? I hope if you are in a family of three that you can gather nine tickets to go to the
island you want.”

“This bitch…”

Gyucheol spat out curses without control.

Nine tickets for three people?

What was this nonsense?

It was hard to even protect one at this moment.

He could see Hancheol and others watching with a fierce look from afar.

And the fairy spoke in amusements without caring for such matters.

“There should be about… 30 minutes left until the island collapses completely?
Heehee. I guess only 25 boats are needed. I will separate the boats all around the
crater. It won’t be fun if you just protect the area of the boat right? Ticket. You just need
to gather three tickets with whichever method and then depart! Good luck!”

The fairy disappeared after those words.

And everybody’s faces started to stiffen.

It was better to go together and even better if you could go where you wanted.

So it was better the more tickets you had.

If there were 6 in a party then 18 was optimal, 9 was ok and six was a worst case
scenario.

The people who had laid their decisions looked around for weak people.

And Hancheol and the others who had been separated earlier looked at Gyucheol’s
family with a smile.

The other didn’t know but they did.

A way to gain three free tickets.

“Goddamnit…”

Gyucheol cursed out.

The boat was next to them.

If they wanted to live then the three of them had to get on the boat at this instant.

But if they get on the boat like that then they would be separated.
Which meant his wife and daughter will die or face an even worse situation.

‘Damn… what do I do?’

The fact that they had come this far proved that they were strong.

So there was nobody who could get their tickets stolen by him.

And then Hansoo came into Gyucheol’s eyes.

“Hansoo! Please give me your ticket!”

“Hmm?”

As Hansoo looked at Gyucheol, Gyucheol hurriedly smiled.

“If we have your ticket then my wife and I can go together! And then please take my
daughter. If you do so then our whole family can live!”

Gyucheol shouted in despair.

Since then he could take his wife with him and protect her a bit more.

And their daughter will be protected by Hansoo so she will be able to live a bit longer
despite being separated.

If there are four people with six tickets then they can live a bit longer.

“Please… You can save lives this way! You are strong so isn’t a piece of cake to gather
two more tickets? You’re so strong! Please save our family!”

‘Wow… he’s not a joke’

Hansoo swirled his tongue at Gyucheol’s words.

He had thought that he was very blunt but this was beyond imagination.

‘He probably isn’t a fool that would grant that right?’

But Hanchul was still worried so he started to run faster.

Since if he did grant that then those tickets would be gone.

“Hurry! Please!”

Gyucheol, who saw Hanchul and the others charge at them,

He had pleaded something that wouldn’t even come out because of his ego.

And Hansoo’s eyes calmed down in a cold manner as he looked at Gyucheol.

Hansoo shook his head.

You need to handle your own problems.

This guy’s suggestion was that two other people had to die.

Since the ticket needed for four people was six.

He was asking Hansoo to kill two for him because he didn’t have the ability to do so
himself.

It wasn’t that he didn’t but rather these things were something he had to do himself.

They were precious family to Gyucheol but in Hansoo’s eyes, the other two were of
equal value as them.

Gyucheol grinded his teeth after seeing Hansoo shake his head

But he realized quickly that it wasn’t the time to do so.

Gyucheol, who had seen Hanchul charging at him, clenched down his teeth as he
striked down on the neck of his daughter.

Smack

The daughter fell unconscious without even being able to scream.

Gyucheol, after lifting his daughter up, took her ticket as well as his dazed wife’s ticket
and got on the boat.

It didn’t even take a second because the boat was next to them.

As Gyucheol grasped the three tickets the boat floated up in the air whilst making
strange sound.

And Gyucheol’s wife watched this scene in a daze as she mumbled.

“…honey?”

“I am sorry. But I should at least protect our daughter”

If they go as three then they would all die.

Since his wife and daughter would die if they get separated.

But if he went instead then he could at least protect his daughter to some degree.

“You! Are you crazy!?”

The wife, who was in shock, regained her senses and then spat out in rage.

But that at moment something aggressively landed on the top of the boat.

Booom!

“Hey uncle. Stop”

“…Damnit”

Gyucheol made a expression of despair as he looked at Hanchul who was holding a

blade onto his daughter’s neck whom he was holding.

The boat immediately stopped working as somebody who wasn’t part of the boat as
well as his ticket got on the boat.

And then everyone realized.

Then you couldn’t leave this damned place with just some good luck.

Only people who can protect their boats can leave this place safely.

Hansoo mumbled inwardly.

‘It isn’t the time to sit around and idle’

He wanted to to stick around and then take some runes after killing a few people but
if he dragged his time like that and then got caught by his ankles by others to drag him
down then it would be over just like that.

He had to leave as soon as he collected the tickets.

“You should get off with your daughter”

Hanchul, who had taken the tickets in Gyucheol’s hands, kicked off Gyucheol and his
daughter onto the ground.

He didn’t like it but it was a bit too much to kill the dad and his daughter together.

And if he tried to kill them then they would charge at him in a crazy manner which
would drag him down.

“You beast! How could you do this!”

As Gyucheol cried out in despair whilst holding his daughter, Hanchul moved his blade
closer as he smirked.

“So if you had fought in the front like others then you wouldn’t be in such a situation.
Uncle knows that you were around the same level as me when you came here right?”

“…”

Gyucheol grinded his teeth at those words but could not say anything.

Since these were all truths.

If he had fought in the front non-stop and ate runes then he probably wouldn’t have
lost the boat this easily now.

Gyucheol finally realized why Hansoo didn’t care or interfere no matter how much
they fought in front of him.

‘… you were the most ruthless one’

He didn’t whip others nor encourage others.

He just left them alone.

So they could choose and deal with the problems themselves.

And the fact that he had hidden in the fact with an excuse of defending his family had
came back to him in conclusion.

Hanchul, who had been smirking at the dazed and despair filled Gyucheol next to his
crying wife, turned his head and then spoke to Hansoo whilst looking at him.
“Hansoo. Let’s go together”

“Hmm?”

“I wish for you to be with us. I can gather the tickets for you if you need them”

He hadn’t said anything but Hanchul felt as if steam were rising off from his ears.

A wife and daughter who did not do anything.

And Gyuchul who had stayed in the back to defend such people.

A guy who had the strength to fight but only relied on his heals and took runes.

An extremely strong but crazy woman.

And two who were fighting properly but did not catch the eyes.

But because the others in the front were getting trampled by the eyes, the last two was
actually rather dependable.

And at the same time, he thought of a game he used to enjoy in the past

A game where you had to make a team with five people.

In order to beat the enemy, they had to do whatever the team did no matter how much
you hated it.

It was the same here.

Even if there were a lot of of the nine who were performing useless actions, they had
to endure and follow

No, this was actually harder than the game

Since a game would be over just like that if you gave up but here you would just die.

An extremely serious situation.

He had to take useful people but there were nobody who caught his eyes.

No, it actually made his insides twist and turn at the thoughts of these people
becoming a person who would be like a family to him after sharing the Symbol.

And Hansoo was naturally an existence that would catch his eyes in such a situation.
He wasn’t a superhero or something like that.

‘Well. We had originally started at the same place so there’s no way he could be like that’

He wasn’t an existence like a Deus Ex Machina which could solve the current situation
by slashing apart the fairy and then returning them back to their original world.

Since the current Hansoo was also receiving injuries.

But he was very tough.

He was at least much stronger than them and the attitude of how he fought showed
that he could trust and leave things to Hansoo.

He felt like a veteran that had lived through decades of battles.

‘And if his character’s like that then it’s not that bad’

He followed the thing he needed to and didn’t fall back, he also didn’t take more than
he earned.

This was why such decisions were made.

‘We need people like him’

Someone like him was the type of people he needed to him and Hyunjin.

That was the only way to go through this world in this damnable world.

“Come with us. I believed that you have psychic powers since I’ve also seen it before”

And then Hanchul showed the back of his hand.

Ooong

A small shining symbol.

A symbol that couldn’t be seen until now was shining on the back of Hanchul’s hand.

As Hansoo showed a conspicuous color, Hanchul continued talking after believing that
he had caught his interest.

“This is a psychic power that was manifested by my friend”

And then Hanchul told Hansoo the fact that he had found out, which was rather lacking
informatively because the time they had it for wasn’t that long, that Hansoo already
knew.

“If I gain the permission of my friend then I can give you this Symbol to you too. And
my friend would definitely agree to you”

The talk had already been completed already

If this guy was that trustable then let’s give him the symbol first.

It didn’t matter what his plans that he had in his mind were.

Since if they receive the symbol, they would become a trustable companion.

“Be with us. We are different from those mediocre people over there. And once you
get this we can trust each other completely.”

‘I know well’

He knew too well.

How could he not.

Hansoo, who had thought of Eres and his other friends, just shook his head.

He could not go beneath a Lord this time.

“I’ll refuse”

“Hmm?”

Hanchul spoke out in surprise as if he didn’t expect the refusal.

‘Why would he refuse this?’

It wasn’t that they were tying him down with a contract.

The Symbol was connecting them with credit and connection.

And it was more trustable than a contract because of this and it also shone during
times of crisis.

It wasn’t a relationship made of understanding, which was like a sandcastle, which

would collapse at a slight touch.
It was a psychic power that made a Lord.

He had looked at Hansoo as if his explanation wasn’t enough but that was not it.

It wasn’t that he was pondering but rather a direct refusal.

‘Does he have a reason?’

Hanchul wanted to try a bit more but realized that this wasn’t the time to be doing so.

Since others were approaching him after realizing that he had three tickets.

He definitely needed three tickets.

Since he agreed to meet in the <Central Island> above with Hyunjin.

“Damn. Then there’s nothing I can do”

The boat was not rising as if it didn’t work if there was more than three tickets.

Hanchul threw a ticket at Hansoo and then spoke as the boat rised up.

“You will probably survive and rise up. Let’s see each other again if our destiny meets”

And then Hanchul disappeared quickly with the boat.

“Damn! This is mine!”

“No! I’m the one who’s going to take this!”

As Hansoo left the ticket on the ground, everybody was making a huge commotion as
they charged at the ticket.

But even within that chaos, Hansoo just continued to stand firmly.

He could interfere and then distribute three tickets at a time.

But if he did that then somebody who had the ability to collect three will lose their
lives.

And it wouldn’t mean much to save them to raise them up.

Since weaklings who can’t even protect their own ticket will just die above.
Since it got harder and harder as things went on.

‘In the end, you must take care of yourself’

The fight for the ticket continued after Hanchul had left.

The boats departed one by one.

The strongest people leisurely collected tickets and then rode on the boat alone to go
where they wanted.

The people who weren’t at that level looked around and then made an alliance as they
got on the boat in duos.

And the weakest ones decided that going as a group of three was better grouped up
and then rose in the boats as threes.

Soon there were only two boats left.

And somebody approached Hansoo while he was looking at the boats.

“Why did you refuse Hanchul’s offer earlier?”

When Hansoo turned around he saw Jimin.

Jimin was rather laid back as if she had already collected three tickets.

Hansoo opened his mouth after staring at Jimin for a while.

“I have my own reasons. For what reason did you come to me?”

Jimin laughed as she spoke.

“I wanted to give you an offer as well. Let’s go together”

And then Jimin showed him the black symbol on her hand.

A clear evidence that she was connected to a Lord.

But Hansoo shook his head.

A Deny.

‘Well. It’s as I expected’

Jimin shrugged her shoulders.

She knew that her offer would be refused he he had already refused Hanchul’s offer.

Hansoo was a necessity to her sister but if not then there was nothing she could do.

‘But why is he still around here’

Hansoo was just quietly standing in the corner without stealing tickets from others.

‘Is he doing this because he feels bad stealing tickets from the others?’

Then there wasn’t a failure like this guy.

‘I knew as soon as you brought that Gyucheol or whatever guy behind you’

Jimin tutted her tongue.

And if it was really like that then Hansoo was not needed to them.

They didn’t need people who weren’t determined.

‘Well. He wouldn’t die at least’

As long as he protected his ticket then the last boat will remain.

So there will not be a case that the boat will leave as long as he held his ticket in his
hand.

He would probably go up after gathering the remaining tickets right before the island
fell completely.

‘Well I’m not interested anymore’

Jimin, who had lost interest in Hansoo, got on a boat and then left the island.

And now there was one boat, three tickets and tens of people left.

The people who had been running away and throwing their tickets because they were
afraid of the people on the boats.

In one aspect it was a clear choice.

Since the people who had left were the people who wouldn’t only take their tickets but
also take their runes.

As the situation got dire, the people who had charged at them died just like that.

The people who had been zealously fighting and gathering runes were not an
opponent for people who did not.

But it was right before the island would collapse.

It wasn’t the time to hide around anymore.

They needed three tickets to activate the boat and the tickets in their hands would be
meaningless without the ticket in Hansoo’s hands.

And soon the people who had been hiding the tickets started to run crazily at Hansoo.

That guy was actually much much stronger than them.

Since the people who knew he had a ticket had all been crushed after trying to take
him on.

Wasn’t the fact that he stayed meant that he would take the last two with him.

Which meant the two people Hansoo chose would go with him.

But the others wouldn’t just stay to watch this scene.

The people started to charge at the people running towards Hansoo.

“Damnit! This is mine!”

“You crazy bastard! There’s no such thing as yours and mine!”

“Dammit! Please take this and take me too! You have to survive too!”

And Gyucheol was naturally part of this

“Hansoo! Please for the sake of the friendship we had so far! Please! At least take my
daughter!”

Hansoo made a sad expression as he looked at them.

Their expectations were wrong.

He hadn’t stayed to take two more people.

‘… I am sorry.’

These guys weren’t cards that were abandoned.

These were people that he had come back to save.

But he could not save everyone.

He could at most only save a few tens more no matter how he struggled within the
tutorial area where the influence of the fairy was too strong.

There were too many things he needed to do and he could clearly see how many
people would die if he failed to do so.

If he were to be pushed around because of his emotions here then billions of people
will die.

He needed three tickets.

Since he needed to go to the <Central Island>

The only reason why he had stayed was because he had something he still needed to
do.

‘I will act according to my plans’

He needed to focus on his main mission.

Eres had told him that he was going back to save humanity but that was just the result.

He hadn’t come back to save every single human.

He had come back to win.

Becoming strong in the tutorial was just a part of this plans as well as a part of his
methods, without this method then he would fail to reach his goals and failing to reach
the preliminaries meant failing to see the goal.

If humanity lost again because he took a step back then he had to just kill himself by
smashing his head on a boulder.
“I’m Sorry”

“…what?”

The people spoke in confusion from Hansoo’s abrupt speech.

Hansoo’s expression, which had sadness, started to turn cold.

The reason why he hadn’t killed or stolen so far was to stop the stories from spreading.

And he couldn’t kill everyone who had seen this just to shut their mouthes.

Eres disagreed until the end.

<Are you crazy?! What are you doing?! You’re going to do such things when you’re
going to save them?! What did they do wrong?!>

But Keldian kept pushing him back until the end

<Those guys have already been weeded out. They would die eventually even if they go
up>

And he added something else.

<And Eres. You know that this place isn’t the place where you die if you do something
wrong. It’s a place where you die if you are weak.>

<… >

These were people who would fall along with the island.

The people here aren’t the people who he would choose from.

These were people who had already been weeded out in this damnable round of game.

And this is where Keldian’s suggestion came out.

<If they were going to die anyway let’s just use them as fertilizer according to our
original plans>

They had finally reached a consensus after arguing for a while.

He would not purposely kill them.

He didn’t feel like it and if he did do that then the people with the Lord’s marks would
know that he had done it.

And that would be troublesome.

But he was going to devour everybody who had been left behind until the end before
he left.

Since these guys were going to fall with the island anyway.

And down below was an ordinary looking but harsh ocean.

If they fall then they would die in extreme pain.

Slowly, bit by bit.

The fairies watched this in extreme amusement.

‘I’ll at least send you off comfortably’

Kiiiiik!

Hansoo grasped the needle in his hand so hard to the point it crumpled.

The rune eater snake that was around his wrist shouted in glee as if it expected
predation.

Then Hansoo charged towards the people making a commotion with a cold look on
his face.