Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 154



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154

The Zodiac Defenders were busy installing some kind of device.

It was a device created by Ferrel Wayne to prevent the boss of the Trombe Power Plant, Patrice the Thrill, from absorbing power and using it as an energy source any longer.

The two Zodiac Guard engineers, who had been fiddling with the device while groaning, smiled brightly at the summoner.

“Ah, adventurer. Are you here to help?”

“I don’t know if I can help you… but I don’t know anything about machines or anything like that.”

In the game Dungeon & Fighter, the female magician profession is particularly popular.

In many ways, it can also be said that it is one of the professions chosen by users who show various affections.

The most noticeable thing is, of course, the unique cuteness that only female magician characters have among all the characters.

She looks like a girl who is at most about 15 years old.

He is also short, and his small stature stands out even more when he is among the generally tall celestials.

That is, the height of the Zodiac engineers squatting here and working on the facility is similar to that of the summoner Chili Shrimp… … .

“Again, you’re saying that again-”

“But Patrice, don’t worry, I’ll make it work, and please finish the installation here neatly. You can do it, right?”

Summoner Chili Shrimp asks while patting the backs of the Zodiac Guard engineers.

That skillful attitude and speech somehow made Jinseong, who was watching from behind, feel embarrassed.

“Of course. That’s what we do.”

“What you are doing, Adventurer, is like defeating the Thrilling Patrice.”

“Anyway, thank you for your words. Okay, I understand. As always, I’ll take care of everything so you don’t have to worry. After you finish your work well, take good care of the general manager and the director.”

Then the chili shrimp looked back with a pleased smile.

Following behind were Casillas and Jinseong, as well as the Power Station District General Manager Terrorist and the Trombe Power Plant Manager Winners.

In particular, the Imperial Army engineers responded loudly to the statement that they must take the General Manager and the Chief NPC with them.

“Yep! Got it!”

“Just leave it to me!”

It was such a bold attitude.

Especially about Jinseong himself, isn’t it true that he doesn’t ask or inquire about anything in particular?

‘From how far have you gotten in the quest… … Is it time to clear the Trombe Power Plant now? Well, there are a lot of questions, right?’

No matter how many people you’ve met, aren’t they still people you’ve never met before?

In a normal situation, is it okay to react like that when you meet someone who was possessed by Plain: Arad and forcibly transported to the world of the game Dungeon & Fighter, not someone you met on the street or in a restaurant?

‘Right now, even I… … No, not just me, even Vivi didn’t do that.’

Compared to Jinseong himself, Vivi, and even Ah-hang, who had always been tense, alert, and cautious when meeting possessed people, the words and actions of the summoner Chili Shrimp were indeed special.

Chili Shrimp said, stretching his body from side to side as if he was stretching, holding the whip in his hand.

“Then, now that there are no more troublemakers… Chief Ka, let’s finish this quickly this time too. Since we’re going to push all the way to the Grandine Power Plant with overtime work today anyway, I think it’d be better to hurry a little.”

“Don’t make me laugh. I’m lending you my clone, this power, for only a little while. You dare try to manipulate me like that, and you can’t even break the promised time.”

Casillas crossed his arms and snorted.

Although Casillas acted as if he had achieved some small revenge, only one corner of the Summoner Chili Shrimp’s mouth was twisted upward.

“Hey, it’s disappointing when you say that, Manager Ka. We should’ve finished this a long time ago, but we were delayed because you suddenly ‘left without permission’ to that guy over there. I was going to give you one more compliment since you’re the manager, but if you keep doing this-”

“Kuaaaah, I don’t want to hear it! I got it, I got it!”

The attitude of ignoring and mocking Casillas, and the ability to verbally harass him?

[Keep kek kek… … Interesting. Could you have subdued that ignorant guy with something other than a sword?]

Should we say that it is a ‘handling’ that even the blacksmith would admire?

But Jinseong wasn’t only surprised by that.

“Hey, uh……”

Because Jinseong didn’t miss the fact that there was something special in the words that Chili Shrimp had just thrown out.

How long does the normal last?

‘Overtime? That’s something you’d hear in any company… … Were you able to extend the duration? Is that something only a possessed person can do?’

Looking back, how many minutes had passed since Casillas launched a surprise attack on Jinseong?

Since he was summoned from the beginning, he could have rushed to Jinseong himself, so the summoning itself must have been before that.

‘It’s been a while. The original duration is only 200 seconds. Even if you can more than double it with the special privilege of being a possessed person, it’s still 400 seconds, and even that has already passed a long time ago!’

If that’s the case, then it’s normal that Casillas’ summons cannot continue until now!

Jinseong tried to ask that.

However, I was a bit embarrassed to actually call the summoner by his nickname, so I was wasting my time… … .

At that moment, the summoner noticed in an instant why Jinseong was in trouble and spoke first.

“Ah, you can call me chili shrimp. Cute-. No, ‘big’ shrimp~! Here comes a chili shrimp that’s different from the usual shrimp! Ta-da!”

Bing-geur-geur, spinning dance.

With movements that are more like ‘gestures’ than dance.

* * *

“……yes?”

“Hehe, it’s cute when you wink one eye like this.”

“yes?”

“-I heard that people use expressions like “cute” a lot these days… Hmm, I guess you don’t know much about the internet or anything like that.”

“Oh, no, I know. It’s cute, hehe, I know this kind of thing but… ”

Why are you, Summoner Chili Shrimp, doing that? And in this situation, all of a sudden.

Jinseong had no choice but to swallow the words that were lingering in his mouth, unable to bring himself to say them.

“Hahaha, it’s still ridiculous no matter how I look at it.”

Casillas laughed heartily, scratching his belly.

The chili shrimp glared at Casillas.

“Ugh… I want to go.”

Then he started walking with his short legs.

He seemed to be walking in a hurry, but to Jinseong, it only looked like he was being embarrassed.

It’s not just that the stride is ridiculously short compared to the speed at which you can cross your legs, it’s still slow.

‘What on earth were you trying to say? Showing off?’

An incomprehensible self-introduction.

Judging by Casillas’ reaction and Jinseong’s confusion at his own response, this isn’t a skill he’s done once or twice.

Have you ever introduced yourself like that to every person you’ve ever met?

‘… … As expected, the possessed people are, how should I put it, all of them… … .’

Chili shrimp walking without hesitation.

baboon.

And so on.

Why do I feel like he’s not just a great gamer?

‘No, no, now is not the time to think about such things. Why do you keep going so smoothly when your pace is often slow?’

Jinseong shook off his distracting thoughts and quickly started chasing after the chili shrimp.

It was an admirable move that made me slightly change my previous judgment of the chili shrimp.

‘Is it because I’ve been possessed by the same old user? I guess I’ve memorized the maps like Trombe Power Plant? Even I was briefly confused about where the boss room was to go to catch Patrice.’

Naturally, she would be going to face the boss. For the possessed who aren’t even given a mini-map, finding the ‘boss room’ in each dungeon would be a new chore.

Especially in places like factories where there are no clear indicators, it is easy to get confused and lose your sense of direction.

‘By the way, I missed the chance to ask because of that ridiculous introduction, huh… Well, I’ll ask that later. It looks like he’s headed straight to the boss room, so I guess I’ll have to look for the contamination first.’

Jinseong looked around with a bit of admiration and a bit of caution.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the chili shrimp’s pace was so slow that I didn’t have enough time to observe them.

‘The gimmick of the map being shot with electricity crackling around is still the same. If you get hit by it once as a character, your stamina will be drained in succession, which is really annoying.’

If the Kore power plant was a flame concept and the Purz power plant was a lava concept, the Trombe power plant is pure electricity.

Jinseong knows that being caught in the electricity that is sporadically emitted from the downed power lines can cause considerable damage not only to the characters of that time, but also to users currently progressing through the main scenario quest.

In the end, it means that even those possessed by the spirits can suffer considerable damage when hit, so there were concerns that contamination in that area might suddenly attack the chili shrimp, but nothing much happened.

And another surprising thing was, of course, the fighting style.

“Chief Carr.”

“I thought you said you wouldn’t come out to these kinds of people.”

“……Are you really going to be that uncooperative? Are you embarrassed because people are watching, our Car Manager? You even dealt with the mobs so neatly in Korea and Fruits.”

The sight of him having a long conversation with Casillas before the battle was extremely unfamiliar to Jinseong.

Of course, the summoner class wasn’t the only one that summoned Cassias, so Jinseong didn’t have to worry about what would happen after that.

“Oh, it’s noisy. Hmm. Anyway, I won’t move against these guys, not even Patrice, so just know that. It would be worth playing around with something like the Permanent of Nothingness.”

“Oh, okay, then.”

The chili shrimp swung the whip.

It moved quickly as if it was hitting the ground, and in an instant, the marks it made as it scratched the ground began to form a magic circle.

‘… … I just said ‘Hurray~’ and it was summoned. I guess this is different from the in-game situation.’

Just as Vivi, the mechanic of the female gunner class, was struggling, the summoner of the female magician class also seemed to have a subtly different way of using the skills of the character in the game and the possessed one.

‘It’s not just a simple hexagram. It’s a rather complex hexagram with lines running across its interior. Even if you draw it with a pen, it’s a shape that would be strangely messed up if you twisted your hand just once.’

However, looking at his unhesitating whipping and the spirits that are summoned one after another, you can see that he is indeed an expert who has been living here for a long time.

Only after thinking that far did Jinseong realize.

A whip with chili shrimp swinging towards the floor.

‘… … Now that I think about it, whip? There is no whip in the Dungeon & Fighter weapon forms. If there is a whip form that can be used by the spell, the only one is the summoner’s weapon, True Awakening Suppression? The blue whip’s . But that one right now is… … .’

In the game Dungeon & Fighter, the only whip that a character can hold is the .

However, since it is sold for a limited time and cannot be traded, it is not something that even the current true self can obtain at will.

First of all, isn’t it a bit different from the name of the weapon avatar, , in terms of shape and color?

‘A golden glow… … No, to be precise, it was a whip made of light.’

Should we say that it is a light whip made of light, like a lightsaber used by the Ghost Inspector profession, with a slight reddish tint in the middle of a bright yellow light?

────, ────, ────!

While Jinseong was tilting his head, Chili Shrimp summoned three summoned creatures.

One entity was familiar. , a female magician with an appearance reminiscent of Binosh or Kerah from the main scenario in the beginning.

And another one was also familiar to Jinseong.

, the knight covered in black armor stood in front of the chili shrimp, holding a large sword and shield.

“Manager Lu, take care of the monsters over there, and Manager San-.”

But there was another problem.

A knight carrying a shield but wearing somewhat dark blue armor.

A knight with a sinister glare and breath coming out of his nose through his helmet.

A knight wearing blue armor and carrying a halberd and shield.

What is the identity of the summoned beast that has a similar appearance to the Black Knight Sandor?!

The chili shrimp said.

“-Manager, you two take care of this side. Let’s go quickly. We’ll run all the way to Patrice now.”

“Manager Boon… No way-.”

Jinseong was astonished.

I couldn’t help but be astonished.

“-! This is ridiculous!”

One of the skills used by Chili Shrimp is .

Because it was a skill that was deleted due to a large-scale renewal of the Summoner profession around May 2017.