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nTranslator : Ekdud

nTL Check : KobatoChanDaiSuki

nChapter 16 – Altar (1)

nBoooom

nA strong shockwave resonated out of Mihee’s mouth.

nKududuk

nThe carnivorous bird that was heading towards mihee tumbled around after getting entangled in the shockwave.

nAnd in that moment the needle in Hansoo’s right hand and the Katana in his left hand rapidly embroidered the air

nPapapapak

nAn Elite Goblin’s Katana that came out whilst hunting.

nIt 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.

nSince as long as you can slash with it then a weapon that can slash is more comfortable to use then a weapon that stabs.

n‘Goddamit’

nMihee clenched her teeth.

nWhilst she was unguarded for a moment, a bird had flown towards her.

nBut the reason why she clenched her teeth was not because it was dangerous.

nShugak

nMihee smacked her lips as she saw the katana that cut the carnivorous bird in a single sweep.

n“I’ve received help again.”

nShe tried to do it alone but had gained help again.

nHansoo watched her as he spoke

n“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.”

nHansoo then proceeded to divide up the runes on the ground.

nExtremely accurately as usual.

n‘Has it already been two days’

nIt has been two days since the incident occurred.

nIt was almost the fourth day now.

nAnd during this time Hansoo was indulged in hunting without rest.

nMihee checked her runes as she picked up the runes.

nJin Mihee Strength: 27.4

nStamina: 28.8

nAgility: 18.1

nPerception: 21.2

nMana: 18

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nBarb Snake’s Shockwave: 2.4%

nRotating Ring: 2.1%

nThe rotating ring which they had gained during hunting was also something she had bought which Hansoo had obtained.

n 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.

nWith just this much there was nothing lacking because in the real world it would be almost at the level of a superhuman.

nShe can easily beat down somebody with a gun at ease.

nSince she can see where the bullet will be shot by looking at the trigger of the finger and dodge them all.

nNo, if she started a battle in a town it would be even more than that.

nHansoo, who had seen Mihee do this, checked his own stats.

nKang Hansoo Strength: 54.3

nStamina: 55.8

nAgility: 42.1

nPerception: 42.2

nMana: 22

nMagic Resistance: 13

n‘Good’

nHansoo, who had raised up his agility and perception, nodded.

nYou couldn’t compare stats in pairs but strength and stamina, agility and perception had a close relationship with each other.

nWithout 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.

nIf 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.

nThe best solution was keeping all the stats around the same number.

nThankfully he had Mihee who was rather lacking in strength and stamina so he raised his perception and agility while trading their runes around.

nAt that point a small voice was heard in Hansoo and Mihee ears.

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nMihee frowned at the familiar voice

n‘Fairy…’

nHansoo spoke as he looked at Mihee.

n“Let’s go back.”

nMihee nodded at those words.

nBut then she stopped turning around and then asked Hansoo.

n“Do you perhaps have a girlfriend? Ah… would you even remember.”

nMihee had developed quite a liking to Hansoo recently.

nIt was scary at first.

nSince she knew what happened to the people who crossed the line.

nBut after watching for three days, she realized that crossing the line was rather difficult.

nSince it was like an adult looking over a child, it was rather leisurely.

n‘He’s almost like an old man…’

nAnd her mind was much more at ease when she figured that out.

nBecause he felt like someone that would deal with her no matter what she did.

n‘Huh.’

nHansoo smirked at those lovey dovey words.

n‘Now that I think about it, if that Gangtae guy came he would’ve been so happy that he’d have thrown a fit’

nPerhaps if that guy came back, he could’ve set up a harem kingdom.

nBut Hansoo shook his head.

n‘I can’t lose one again’

nHe had too long of a road to travel to do that.

nHansoo organized his thoughts and spoke with a small laugh.

n“I don’t remember.”

nHansoo 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.

n…………………………………

nThe place where they had started was already swarming with people.

nBecause Hansoo had told them how to eat the goblin meat, it seemed like internal fights due to food hadn’t risen up.

nWithout that it was likely that their numbers would’ve been much lower.

nAnd there were some familiar faces out of the ones alive.

n‘They were all alive!’

nMihee 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.

n‘But the situation is a little strange’

nWhilst she was frowning as she saw the weird tension, the air suddenly split.

nAnd a familiar face popped out and shouted energetically.

n“Greetings! Everybody! I’m here today with two very very good news!”

nThe fairy, who had shouted loudly, watched the people as it smiled.

n“The first good news is that if you hold onto 72 more hours then you can get out of here!”

n“…”

nThe people had heard the news but didn’t really make a happy expression.

nBecause it sounded like that even if they had left this place, the place they will go to wouldn’t really be safe.

nNo, since this was the tutorial it was obvious that they were going to a more dangerous location.

nThe fairy laughed at these people.

n“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”

nAnd as the people stared at the fairy, it flicked its fingers.

nKugugugugugu

nSomething rapidly shot up from the small movements of the hand.

nA structure almost the size of a small building.

n‘…Altar?’

nThe people made a weird expression as they looked at the new building

nIt definitely had a similar form to the altars at the ancient aztec grounds.

nThe fairy laughed as it looked at the people

n“It’s a magical altar. There lives a very cute pet inside.”

nThen the altar shone bluish as it turned transparent.

nThe altar was an empty box-like structure unlike its outside appearance.

nAnd the people gulped as they saw the creature within it.

nKrrrrrr…

nSomething that resembled the Alien.

nIf you discard the fact that the size of it was 15m.

nThe thing inside the altar was scratching the wall of the altar as if it was pissed at something.

nAn even more frightening thing was that every time it scratched the wall, parts of it would fall apart as it made grinding sounds.

n“Can you see it? Its called . 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.”

n“…”

n“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.”

nAt these words the people made a frightened expression.

nEveryone knew.

nThat the area they were in currently was limited.

nIf that altar fell then they would all get eaten.

nEven if they were to hide, the beast will eat them alive as it chased them one by one at night.

nThe people then realized why the fairy said the earlier news was a good news.

nBecause in other words, after 72 hours they didn’t have to be in the same space as the monster.

n‘Wait it said there were two good news before’

nThe fairy smiled as it spoke.

n“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?”

nBut nobody asked a question.

nSince it had shown what happened to someone who questioned it before.

nAs there were no reactions, the fairy made a dejected expression for a while then spoke again.

n“The answer is very simple. Five a day.”

n“…?”

n“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?”

nEveryone clenched their teeth at these words.

n‘What the **. The number of people who are still surviving is only around 60…’

nIt meant that only if they use a quarter of the people they had now then that beast wouldn’t escape.

n‘Damn. Then it’s just better to fight’

nAs someone had this thought in their mind, the fairy spoke again.

n“The choice is yours. Heehee. Give or not give. But I’ll show you this in order to help you decide”

nAnd then the fairy played a short clip in people’s heads.

n“These were people who decided to fight it together. From the tutorials before”

nThe people who had seen this made an extremely frightened expression.

nThe beast that was released was basically causing a massacre.

nRuthlessly ripping and smashing.

nAnd the beast that had escaped didn’t just stop after eating five.

nThe beast that had came outside devoured the humans in a craze.

nThey had fought with combined strength but every time it ate somebody its health rose and the injuries on its body healed.

nAlmost 70 people had charged it but they were all massacred and the ones who ran away were later eaten.

nThe beast which had eaten everybody was left alone as if nothing happened.

n“…”

nEveryone realized what kind of decision they had to make after the clip finished.

nOne of the people who had seen the clip asked whilst clenching their teeth.

n“How do we choose!? The people to go in!”

nThen the fairy answered with a strange expression

n“Why are you asking me that?”

n“…”

n“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”

n“…”

nThe fairy which had emphasized smiled as it spoke for the last time.

n“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!”

nAnd then the fairy disappeared just like that.

nThe people started to mumble.

nTheir opinions were all heading to one path.

nThat fighting was impossible.

nWhich meant there was only one way.

nWhilst they were guarding against each other a man spoke out.

n“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”

nThen one person smirked.

n“Why do we need to be fair?”

nAt those words everybody looked at that direction.

nAnd Mihee, who had also turned towards that direction, also drooled.

n‘It’s Sangjin… and friends’

nThe five were emitting a different aura at a single glance now.

nThe scars all over the body meant that they were converged in battles until now.

n‘And it seems there’s something different about Sangjin…’

nHis confidence was overflowing. And he was standing in the middle as if he was doing the work that Taesoon was doing instead.

nWhilst Mihee was watching Sangjin, the man who has spoken before frowned as he asked.

n“Then what do you want to do?”

nHe didn’t keep his formalities from the fact that his opinions were ignored and the one who had ignored it was a young person.

nSangjin replied to those words.

n“Isn’t it obvious that we should throw in the 5 most useless people first?”

nEveryone frowned at those words.

nThey did have a thought like that but it was difficult to speak it out just like that.

nSangjin walked forward as he watched the people and spoke.

n“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?”

nEveryone started to whisper and mumble.

n“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!”

nEveryone nodded at those words.

nSince they were all thinking along those lines too.

nThere wasn’t a game where the difficulty lessened as you proceeded.

nAnd the chances of meeting people who went through similar experiences like them was high.

nAs the people looked at him, Sangjin shouted loudly.

n“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!”

nAnd then Sangjin smacked the building next to him

nBoom!

nThe wall of the building blew off from Sangjin’s fists.

nAnd Mihee who saw this mumbled inwardly in shock

n‘When did he get so…’

nShe could be certain. Since she had followed Hansoo and hunted along with him she had grown faster than anybody.

nBut Sangjin was even stronger than her.

nIf his strength was that much than his other stats were probably similar.

nWhilst Mihee was shocked Sangjin continued his speech.

n“So isn’t it obvious that we put in the weak ones first? Hansoo what are your thoughts?”

nAt those words everybody looked over to the direction Sangjin spoke to.

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