I Am the Only Non-Returner - I Am the Only Non-Returner chapter 124

124 – Your Worst Nightmare

Although quite a few teams were eliminated, people’s reactions seemed to agree that it was possible.

“This is an ordeal that has nothing to do with an individual’s powerlessness. How do you fight against things like that?”

Of course, there were also groups who ignorantly fought against insects.

Five dragonnies gathered together to protect Ha-eun by wrapping them with their wings, while the remaining eight and Lulu killed any insects that came their way.

As a result, the corpses of insects were piled up like a mountain in the back.

I also tried to catch a few of these to see if it would confuse them, but it was no success.

“Still, if the shelter director has those finger skills, wouldn’t he be safe in the future?”

As Kim Jeong-gi said, he was confident that he could defend against most attacks.

Because half of the consumed magic power has already been recharged.

Kim Hyuna, who nodded her head at those words, extended her fingers and tried to apply her magic, but then shook her head.

“Why can’t I be like you?”

“Well, well…”

I actually don’t know how to answer such a question.

It didn’t seem like there was a difference in application ability simply due to differences in mana.

If I just think that I can do it this way and bend my abilities in a different direction, more than 80% of people succeed, but other people did not.

Euncheol was the only person with similar magical power management ability to me.

Hong Seol and Ling Ling were closer to the type of strengthening existing abilities rather than applying them.

With the humming sound still ringing in my ears, I looked up at the sky and saw the army of bugs that had been tormenting us looking down from the sky and licking their appetites.

But perhaps because the ordeal was over, I couldn’t come down.

Instead, the huge disc saw us again and landed as if urging us to get on it quickly.

There were hundreds of people around us, but the other teams were not willing to get on, so we were the first to board and took a seat in the center.

‘I don’t know how effective the elixir will be, but I don’t think the ordeal will be this bad.’

The prediction that an ordeal that would surely bring a different kind of suffering would soon come was exactly correct upon arriving at the third ordeal.

We were thrown onto a shiny gray-white square structure, and soon something was placed on our heads.

This time too, no matter what I did, it didn’t come off.

“What? Why is this a helmet?”

To be exact, it looked more like a VR experience device than a helmet.

As soon as I typed it, something like a hologram appeared on the front, and a video was playing there.

And that video was a memory from when I was young and got into a car accident with my parents.

Kwiik-kwaang!

By the way, by the way…

Kwiik-kwaang!

By the way, by the way…

‘It’s damn true.’

The first few times, I thought it was okay, but as I kept playing it over and over again, anger started to bloom inside me.

And since then, from the orphanage to high school, I have been using tweezers to accurately pick out and pull out bad memories that I had completely forgotten.

Videos that were often nightmare-like were also replayed.

It’s like a dream where the wife and children are torn to death.

In my experience, I repeated the action for 30 minutes, and the video was so vivid that I was immersed in it moment by moment.

But because I was aware that it was being artificially pushed, I was able to change my focus after a while.

And the warning light came on.

‘This is a bit dangerous.’

When I finally had time to look around, I turned to the uncle right next to me.

My uncle, who seemed to be 10 years older, was muttering something with a gaunt look.

‘What kind of video is this?’

“Re-marriage, please… Ugh no!!!”

“Please stop remarrying!! Stop it!! No!!”

As the horrible video played back, I felt solemn as I watched my uncle let out horrendous screams one after another.

The most terrible image for Pong Pong Nam was remarrying his ex-wife.

My uncle was bullied for ten more minutes.

He eventually threw up his hands.

As soon as I raised my hand, it turned into black smoke and disappeared.

‘That… I can’t help it. If anything, I guess I’ll have to comfort him when he gets back.’

After that, I continued to receive mental attacks, but once I realized that the attacks were intentional, it became bearable.

After that, two more people were eliminated, and even though Kim Jeong-gi was mentally weak, the other one was surprising.

“Why Euncheol…?”

Our cutie Euncheol, who is always full of energy and politeness, was eliminated due to a mental attack.

– Study study study!! Stop talking about your studies!! Stop shaking at the disgusting hypocrisy that says it’s for me!!

That was Euncheol’s cry that I vaguely heard in the middle.

With just that shout, I could clearly see what part Euncheol was having a hard time with.

As three people were eliminated, coincidentally, only the women survived except me.

‘Surprisingly, Lingling and Isabella held up well?’

Of course, both of their eyes were swollen, but it was meaningful that they endured it anyway.

– Hwiyu~

– It seems like it didn’t fall as much as I thought?

By the third trial, more than half of the participating teams had already been eliminated.

“The reward was to give up to 1000th place, so wouldn’t the next one be the last?”

“Dad, I want to go home…”

“Should Ha-eun raise her hand and go home now?”

“What about Dad?”

“I guess I need to stay with Dad a little longer.”

“Then I want to stay too…”

Looking at Ha-eun quietly holding my hand, she was troubled.

Should children continue to be placed in harsh environments that have already gone far beyond the level of child abuse?

“hehehehe, my little contractor seems to have grown up a bit.”

Rather, Lulu was smiling happily as she looked at Ha-eun.

‘Lulu is there too… Well, she said she would be there.’

In the end, the remaining seven people climbed back onto the disc that had fallen to the floor.

– ·········.

– Ugh…

Looking at the devastated faces of the other team members, I could see how difficult this stage was.

Few people were sitting properly, and many were lying on the floor with their eyes tightly closed and trying to force themselves to sleep.

And another space where we landed after flying for a while.

When we got down to the ground, glass walls piled up on all sides, creating a space similar to a shelter.

An octagonal glass space.

We were trapped inside, looking around and being on alert.

“You’re not going to trap them and drown them, are you?”

“What about the wall? Can’t you break it this time?”

Quaaang!!

I approached the wall and hit it hard with my fist, but it didn’t move.

Shrugging my shoulders, I returned to the center of space and immediately felt cracks forming everywhere.

Wooow-

Just as I said, a line the width of my arm was drawn in a straight line, separating the team members one by one into a straight path.

The figures of the people began to blur, and the cracks on the other side began to become more and more clear.

Noisy-

Even if I can’t hear it clearly, I can feel the team members feeling confused.

What is the being I hate the most?

‘I don’t know… I don’t particularly hate people or monsters…’

If it had been 21 stages ago, of course I would have picked the host, but as a year has passed, the hatred has been greatly diluted.

I was sick of monsters, but I didn’t have any particular feelings.

After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly remembered the thoughts I had recently when I was trapped in a dimensional gap.

‘No way…’

At that time, Lingling’s angry voice was heard.

And the growling cry of a black leopard.

‘Lingling is the bombshell Lee Jung-shin, and Director Ahn is probably the host because he suffered greatly during the parasitic bug.’

I couldn’t guess the rest.

Moreover, isn’t Isabella from another world?

“Is there an implemented counterpart? So you’re saying there may not be one?”

In fact, some people, including Lingling, had entered the battle, but Isabella and Ha-eun, including me, did not show up.

It was understandable that there was no one they hated.

The moment I felt relieved that I didn’t have anything like that in mind.

“Ha… I expected it.”

With the message, the straight passage where there was a crack expanded infinitely, and a being crawled out through the crack that had become endlessly huge.

“A person wandering the gap?”

The first monster encountered in the stage, a huge monster with an appearance very similar to the one wandering the gap, appeared.

‘Move, sprout, please move…’

My whole body was trembling like crazy, as if I was in a fight, and my feet didn’t come off as if they were glued to the floor.

I took my feet off using only my muscular strength, and immediately left the spot with maximum speed.

Saaagh!

“f*ck!! Crazy!!”

And as soon as I left, the space where I was was cut out, like pudding being scooped up beautifully with a spoon.

“It’s an event!! What kind of event is this, you crazy bastards!!”

In a moment of urgency, a curse word came out.

I couldn’t even recognize the moment that guy was moving.

He just felt like he had to follow his intuition and get out quickly.

And the result was a scene where space itself returned to nothingness.

[Give me your insight plan-Give me your insight plan-]

“Keuuu-“

When I heard the eerie voice, I felt like someone had entered my head and was holding me down with a lighter.

I felt like I had to do something.

‘If things continue like this, I’ll die soon.’

The option to raise your hands and surrender was temporarily erased.

That monster in front of me is a doll-like being born of my hatred.

Even though he was incredibly strong, his pride wouldn’t allow him to immediately surrender to a guy like that.

Spooky-

The body reacted more than the head.

I felt a sticky feeling pulling me from the floor, so I forced myself to shake it off and dodge to the side.

Saaakㅡ

‘It was just a small difference… Did I get a punch in the back? ‘You can’t feel anything?!’

I focused my magic on the back and looked, and found that there was no physical damage.

It seemed as if his mind was temporarily affected by the disappearance of his senses, and he decided that he had been damaged.

A chunk of space where it hit me disappeared like a piece of a puzzle.

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After dodging, he moved without a moment’s delay.

I ruled out clumsy deception and ran the shortest distance in a straight line.

Trusting the defensive power of full armor, I pour all the magical power I have into my fists.

Condensation Condensation Condensation-

Keee profession

A shriek of magical power spreads out in all directions from the right hand.

The magical power condensed into one point glowed as if it was begging me to be released.

With the effects of lightning and matchlessness on my back, I turned into light and reached the guy’s face.

In the meantime, his gaze followed my movements.

I got goosebumps. I wondered how great this guy really was.

But his body threw out the fist that was waiting as planned.

The watchman also stretched out his fist at the same time.

aaa!!

A huge explosion erupted, and the body flew hundreds of meters and crashed into the wall.

And then I glared at the watchman in front of me.

The thing was cracking and splitting apart.

Jeokjeok, jerk-

Kwajangchang!

‘Hmm? ‘A sound?’

I wondered if it would make a sound like this if I were nearby when an extremely large piece of glass was dropped from hundreds of meters in the air.

I immediately covered my ears due to the huge noise, but then opened my eyes and understood the situation.