The Live - Chapter 176
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It was only a matter of time before the sky became dark.
It was only half a day before I met the Black Serpent that escaped the huge trees in the middle of the forest.
The first time they came out of the middle of nowhere, they met a huge mountain range that resembled the Grand Mountain.
The group climbs up the mountain range and looks down at the vast expanse of land stretching down from the summit.
“Heaven……. ”
Royse looks at the distant earth and sky.
Suddenly, it was the earth and the sky that could be seen anywhere. However, the earth and sky looked at the mountain ranges and felt completely different.
It was natural that as time passed, it became night, and it became dark. However, as the group leaves the forest and looks up at the sky, the sky is suddenly surrounded by a red energy.
“I feel cheap. ”
“It’s like the devil’s forest…. ”
Red earth and sky.
It felt like I was coughing up blood. Just looking at the atmosphere, he seemed to be looking at the Devil’s Forest without any trees.
‘This is……. ’
My heart seemed to be beating fast.
Yoon Jae calmly picked his breath. When I closed my eyes, I saw a wide map unfolding in my head.
– Mountains, red stars, heads…….
Along with the map, letters came to mind.
The map was completed gradually. Yoon Jae opened his eyes and looked at the sky from afar.
“Brother? What are you looking at……. ”
“Shh.”
Royce hurriedly covers his mouth as he sets out to shake Yoon Jae’s shoulders.
The others were also looking at Yoon Jae. Regular people hurriedly closed their mouths and looked at Yoon Jae.
How long has it been?
Yoon Jae, who was looking at something for a while, opened his mouth.
“Let’s go down. ”
“What were you looking at? ”
“…… Map. ”
“A map?”
Yoon Jae shakes his head and replies.
“I’m not sure. It’s hard to describe as a map, but it’s sort of similar. ”
“Can you guide me? ”
“Let’s go first. ”
Yoon Jae’s gaze, saying that, was still stuck in one place.
Since then, it was Yoon Jae who led the way. Yoon Jae could not explain the way forward, he moved ahead.
‘It’s not far. ’
Yoon Jae rode without going down the mountain.
How many hours did he walk?
It moves along the long, invisible mountain range, and Yoon Jae stands still somewhere. Yoon Jae’s gaze was over his head.
“What’s the matter? ”
“…… right? ”
“Yes?”
“That star, is it over our heads? ”
Following Yun Jae’s question, the group raises their heads up, following Yun Jae’s gaze.
Stars?
Regular rolled his eyes and scratched his head.
“Umm… what are you talking about? ”
“I can’t find it either. ”
“I can’t find it either. ”
They all said the same thing.
On the other hand, Yoon Jae was looking at the exact same place with a curious face.
You don’t see that? ’
Yoon Jae walked in this direction for one reason.
A particularly bright red star. It was walking along the star.
But they weren’t the only ones moving. Every step you make, the red stars move together and somehow come over your head.
– Follow the mountain range, placing a red star over your head.
The words on the temple.
Yoon Jae remembered the phrase and made a map based on it. The map that was drawn in Yoon Jae’s head was a walk along a huge mountain range.
“Did you find it already? ”
Kim Jin-seok asked if Yoon Jae thought it was strange and pinched the point.
Yoon Jae thought for a moment, then nodded.
“Yes.”
Then, he lowered his head and tapped the standing floor with his feet.
“…… I think I found it. ”
“Down here? ”
“Yeah, maybe. ”
In Yun Jae’s reply, Royce placed his hand on the floor standing with his knees bent. She closes her eyes, focusing, and opens her mouth.
“There’s a space down there. The entrance is not that big, but it’s getting bigger as you go down. ”
“This is the entrance? ”
“Yes, but it’s a little deep. That’s tens of meters. ”
“That’s it. ”
Kim Jin-seok and Elvin moved at the same time. They draw their swords and strike them down in the same position.
Saak –
Fit, Pick-
The sound of something slashing.
The black doesn’t even look right. Royse tilts his head to see what the two of you are up to.
“Hold on tight. ”
Tub-
Yoon Jae gripped Royse’s collar tightly.
“Yes? Catch what…. ”
At that moment.
Curr –
Kwa-nung, Kwa-r –
The ground beneath which the group stands breaks apart and collapses.
Unlike the unbalanced Lois, the other four begin to walk down the rocks lightly.
Shhh…
There was no end to the depth of falling down. When we cut through the ground several hundred feet thick, the ground appeared to be tens of times deeper.
The mountains themselves were made up of giant dungeons? ’
Yoon Jae slowly stepped down while making a horseman’s armor.
Deep enough underground to not let a single speck of light in. Yoon Jae examined the inside with magic in his eyes.
‘The structure is similar to that of Karan. ’
The city where humans lived, Karan.
The basement was all filled with giant dungeons. Not only was the difference between the city and the mountain range, but the context was similar that all the underground mountain ranges were made up of giant dungeons.
Shhh – Tak –
Ta-da.
The group climbs down the wall and lands lightly on the ground. Yoon Jae looks at Royse, who was holding her, then drops her on the ground and raises her head up.
How far down are we? ’
The mountain range is thousands of meters high. I came all the way down to the bottom, which means that even the falling height is that deep.
‘Looks like this is the entrance. ’
Only here was a giant dungeon situated deep underground in the mountains, with a hole this high.
There is a thick ground of tens of meters, but there’s nothing that can’t be broken down.
It was distinctive that the entrance to the dungeon would fall from top to bottom.
If a clue had not been given, he would not have even known that the pieces were so close together.
“Whoa, whoa — oh, I thought I was going to die. ”
Suddenly, Lois sits on the floor, wondering if her heart is racing.
Kim Jin-seok and Elvin did something, but they didn’t know that they were going to cut the ground down to tens of meters deep.
“If you’re gonna do something, can’t you just tell me? I’m surprised.”
“Were you afraid of heights? ”
“Even without fear of heights, everyone will be afraid of heights like this. The people here are weird. ”
Royse looks around at the others, bored by Elvin’s question. This time, even the norms that I believed in were not that scary.
“I’ve got all kinds of stuff going on with my brother. ”
Did you notice Royse’s gaze? Normally, he excused himself with a shy face. Royse sighs, muttering that she can’t live.
“This is the right place, right? You were closer than I thought. ”
“I never thought I’d be so close. ”
“What do we do from here? ”
When Royse asked, everyone’s gaze focused on Yoon Jae.
Yoon Jae was the one who led the way here right away. The letters that were left behind in the temple found the way to the place where the pieces were located.
The basement was not usually large. We don’t know how long it will take if we try to search this whole place barefoot right now.
“We’ll have to search them all. What can I do?”
“You don’t know the way? ”
“What navigation am I? ”
“Ah.”
If I couldn’t find my way, I had to make every move. The road ahead is clearly open.
Kim Jin-seok looked at the wide passageway that went inward while looking at the underground wall. I can see a big door, far away.
“Let’s take a break and get moving. Everyone must be tired of rushing across the middle zone. ”
Instead of moving straight away, Kim Jin-seok chose to take a break. Of course, there were objections.
“Is it not moving? ”
It was Elvin.
I had a vigilante for about a day, but no one else was injured, and I didn’t lose a lot of strength.
He thought there was no reason to delay at this point when he discovered the dungeon with the pieces.
“We can’t just move around. ”
But Kim Jin-seok’s idea was different from Elvin’s.
“It’s probably a lot more dangerous than the middle ground. ”
“Is that all? ”
“Do you know why we didn’t recover the pieces in advance? ”
In Kim Jin-seok’s question, Elvin asked with a suspicious face.
“Is it that dangerous? ”
“When I first found out where the pieces were, I and a hundred thousand tried to retrieve them. With ten rankers. ”
Kim Jin-seok said so and looked back at Yoon Jae.
“He’ll know the outcome. ”
“I failed. I only lost one poor ranker. ”
At that time, Elvin and Royse were busy moving on to the clan’s business ahead of the impending war.
Kim Jin-seok and Hundred Thousand, on the other hand, are working with rankers from the White Top Clan to retrieve the pieces.
Recovering the pieces was important.
Of course, the pieces that Yoon Jae needed were the two pieces in the Demon and Angel camp. It was the demons and angels who needed pieces of the human side.
However, it was necessary to recover the pieces, even to prevent them from slipping into their hands.
“There was nothing I couldn’t do if I tried to retrieve it. However, it was a situation that only rankers could lose. that if Kim Jin-seok or 100,000 go wrong, you won’t even be able to guarantee the outcome of the war. ”
More important than the collection of pieces.
That was the victory and defeat of the war.
In the process of retrieving the pieces, pity can’t be worse if you lose a ranker or lose a high-end workforce such as 100,000 or Jin-seok Kim.
No matter how important it is to recover the pieces, it is not more important than surviving.
“So the pieces in the Demon Forest gave up retrieval? ”
“I didn’t give up. But it’s an additional problem, so it’s just slowed down a bit. because what we need is a sculpture here. ”
“Does that mean you’ll find it later? ”
“We should. I think we’d better have it. ”
It is not yet known what the pieces are made of. It was something you couldn’t confirm without holding the piece in your hand.
But it was clear that it was a qualification and a clue to get the Holy Grail.
‘No, it’s not just a clue. ’
Pieces.
The temple said it had special powers.
“That was when we recovered the fragments over here. ”
Kim Jin-seok received Yoon Jae’s words.
Elvin, who did not know about the dungeon with the pieces, asked as if he was wondering about Kim Jin-seok’s voice.
“Is that all? ”
“Well, maybe……. ”
Kim Jin-seok looked at the others and replied.
“Maybe a few people will die here. ”
* * *
Tadak, Tak –
Blubber-
You climb up the cliff and burn the dry branches from above the mountains to make a campfire.
Kim Jin-seok wandered around for a long time and had quite a bit of homelessness. I’ve learned a skill in the fire family to make campfire more comfortable.
Though my body may not be damaged during the cold season, the reason I was going to rest was to recover to my best condition here.
After avoiding the heat with a campfire and covering the floor with yoga, a reasonable place was created to do homelessness.
“What are you doing? ”
Seeing Yoon Jae sitting sideways on the wall, the regular person who was lying asked.
Normally, he rubbed his eyes and opened his mouth before Yoon Jae’s answer came back.
“Another diary? ”
“Just looking through the cracks. ”
Yoon Jae was reading the diary on a campfire. The others didn’t even realize they had just fallen asleep.
“You’re amazing, too. Seeing it every day. ”
“Is that so?”
“What did you write there? Now I’m starting to wonder. ”
“I’m not looking at other people’s diaries. ”
“I know that. ”
“Aren’t you sleeping? ”
“I closed my eyes for a moment. ”
Normally, he said that and turned around, changing the arm he was cutting.
“If you look at the diary, don’t you remember the old days? ”
“Me, of course. ”
“So you’re not in trouble? I was just, like, thinking about something really good, and then it was painful. ”
“Why?”
“Now’s not a good time. It was a long time ago, because you realize that all that good stuff is now just something you can only imagine. ”
“More painful because it looks contradictory? ”
“That’s it. So I probably… would’ve put it all away if something like you happened. so that the good things that used to be good don’t stand in front of my eyes. ”
It was a sudden word.
There have been many times when he brought up a diary in front of regular people, but this was the first time he had brought up a story like this.
Maybe he was careful.
“Painful, of course. I wouldn’t be bothering you. ”
Parting is as painful as being happy.
The bigger the happiness, the more pain I felt when I missed it. When Yoon Jae lost his family, he felt it more frustrating than anyone else.
“But still, if two of them come out of the dream, it’s not so good. ”
“Still having dreams? ”
“Well, come on out. That’s all I can think about. ”
“Isn’t it hard? ”
“I’m not running away. ”
I didn’t understand the meaning of Yoon Jae’s answer as soon as I was regular.
Yoon Jae added, “It must have been hard for you to say.”
“It’s just… … you know. Hard to remember, turning your eyes, forgetting in your head, stuff like that. You’re a coward and you’re sorry to your family. And I’ve never been happier to think about them as much as I’ve been miserable. ”
“Happy and miserable? ”
“So I wrote. This journal.”
Yoon Jae empowered his hands to hold the diary.
“When I first started using this, it was really hard to bear. But as I write it, I still feel like I’m talking to my wife and daughter, and I think back to the past, and I’m forgetting at least now. And then I kept writing. ”
“I’m still using it, then? ”
“No.”
Yoon Jae shakes his head.
“Not right now. It’s different from back then. ”
“Do you really believe we can meet again? ”
“Yes, I do. ”
The mysteries of the other side ignore common sense.
For a moment, the gaze that had returned to normal returned to the diary. Yoon Jae muttered, biting his lips.
“… Already, I’ve seen a miracle. ”
“A miracle?”
Normally, he tilted his head to see what that meant. He seemed to want a more detailed answer, but Yoon Jae turned to the diary again.
Are you talking about being in this world? ’
Normally, Yoon Jae thought that the word “miracle” refers to the world itself.
It would be a disaster for someone, but it could be a miracle for Yoon Jae. Regular understood that, then closed his eyes again and asked him to sleep.
Sarak-
Yoon Jae slowly read down while keeping his eyes fixed on the diary.
The diary reopened.
‘I was here. ’
After the war with the demons.
In the new diary, he wrote his story that had been passed on to the Demon Faction since then.