The Devil’s Dead Child - Chapter 265
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#Episode 265, A certain player’s sorrow
Since my concentration was broken, I took a walk around the area.
I suddenly checked the time and saw that roughly 10 hours had passed since the last time I checked.
‘One cycle of concentration is 10 hours… . If I do this, there’s nothing I can’t study, right?’
-I was eating alone, thinking the same pointless thoughts, when something clicked and caught me on the tip of my foot.
“… … .”
It was the player’s body.
Tagaros, who was following quietly, said.
“sorry. “I didn’t know how to move this way, so I didn’t clean up after him.”
“uh… It doesn’t matter… .”
While I was concentrating on my studies in my mind, players who had fallen victim to Targaros were scattered here and there.
The inside of the tower could be said to be the environment most similar to the game, but if there was a difference, it would probably be this.
Unlike the monster’s corpse, which disappears after a certain period of time, the player’s body remains.
This is a natural result as there is no restart or logout.
I had passed by it every time on previous floors and was not aware of this fact.
I didn’t feel a belated sense of guilt just because my magic energy was completely gone.
‘Anyway, you and I were slaves to the gladiatorial arena called Rocco 33.’
If you want to get out of here alive, you have to defeat the opponent in front of you.
You just lost the fight.
If you had won, I would have been like that.
So don’t blame me.
… Even if you think of it as rationalization, there is nothing you can do about it.
Because I too feel like I can’t help it.
instead.
The day I leave this gladiatorial arena,
I will definitely cut off the head of the emperor who threw you here.
This was my meditation.
“… “Have you missed anyone?”
“ah… , sigh. “It’s not that they missed it, but that they used the spellbook before they could do anything about it-”
“Do you want to rummage? That’s what you missed. Or did you release it on purpose? “Did you wave goodbye?”
“Oh, no.”
“Tsk… .”
“sorry.”
If you tear up the return order before you even look at it, there is no way to catch it.
… The problem is that Tagaros’ name may have spread among players.
For once, I thought about it from the player’s perspective.
‘If a named boss that you didn’t even know existed suddenly appears and kills your colleagues, of course you’d be scared… .’
A boss whose location is known would be an attractive prey.
This means that a raid team inevitably has to be created.
If you look at this as ‘fishing’, you could say that tagaros is a great bait,
Looking at it calmly, it was impossible for Targaros or me to deal with a raid team organized under the assumption of raid hunting.
At least within the tower.
“Then I guess I’ll have to leave soon… .”
If I look at the frustration I feel now in a little more detail, I can say that it is a kind of wide-area ban effect.
It feels like there is a limit to numbers, for example ’10’.
A person with a strength of 8 or 9 will not feel any discomfort, but a person with a strength of 12 will be forced to feel some pressure to converge to 10, and so on.
However, if I could make progress in my current studies by going outside and be able to break free of the restrictions, I was planning on getting rid of those who were running on the floor above me.
chin!
While I was lost in thought, Targaros gathered the corpses left here and there in one place and set them on fire.
Grumble!
Perhaps, among them, there were players who purchased the order book from Gu Chang-soo.
‘… ‘What is he going to do now?’
I watched the miserable fire and called Targaros.
“Tagaros.”
“yes. “My lord.”
“Demons often make contracts with humans, right?”
The reason I ask this is simply that I wish I had more eyes and ears.
Even if you are in the tower like now, you can see and hear outside.
For example, Gu Changsu,
If possible, Gu Changsu or something… .
Since the player appeared, Targarus could not be released into the human world.
“That’s right.”
“Then what is the difference between a contractor and a dependent?”
Although it was only for a moment, Tagaros looked displeased at just being compared.
“… Subjects became part of the lord through a voluntary oath of loyalty. Contractors beg for their lord’s attention at the cost of their souls. And from the beginning, humans… .”
The gist of what Tagaros said was about honor, forms of trade, and the value of the species.
From the beginning, my question was only about ‘function’.
In fact, even though it was voluntary loyalty, it seemed no different to me since Tagaros also wanted the ‘price’ of family glory.
Still, after listening in silence, there was clearly a difference.
I could also understand why the demons bothered to make a contract with a human who looked like an insect.
‘… So, in the end, it was usury.’
If you think of Magi as money, it is exactly the same.
1. Receive a memorandum of renunciation of body and lend magical energy to ‘Eul’.
2. ‘B’ diligently amplifies the borrowed magic power using seed money.
‘Eul’ invests in jealousy, hatred, and vain desire, and increases his magical power in his own way.
The loan interest is always higher than ‘B’s’ income.
3. In the end, ‘B’ is unable to repay even the increased interest, let alone the principal.
‘A’ retrieves the increased magical energy at the appropriate time and forcibly disposes of ‘B”s life force held as collateral.
‘hmm… . Looking at it like this, it looks like a vicious dog.’
It’s not something people do… .
I decided to lend it to Gu Chang-soo interest-free.
***
After returning to the hotel, Gu Chang-soo was alone and worried.
The place where he didn’t want to be,
It was nothing short of a preliminary coordination between the military and civilian coalition leaders of the investigation team.
The fact that Gu Chang-soo was left alone in the place where important information was exchanged means that he was treated as a member of the leadership level.
In other words, it meant that I would have to continue to encounter Kwon Ha-seon in the future.
‘Why did you just ignore it?’
In a situation where there was enough suspicion, Ha-seon Kwon kept his mouth shut without further questioning.
The gentle look she gave at that time was the very thing of fear to Gu Chang-soo.
It clearly meant that he would be watching, and it also felt like he had some plan.
Aaaah!
Gu Chang-soo, who had been stretched out on the bed, got up straight away, messing up his hair.
“You can’t be dragged away like this.”
I didn’t know what the procedure would be, but since he was on the list, it would soon become known that he was one of ‘330414’.
The main axis of the investigation team was, after all, the Yeobin Association.
The problem is that it is a quest that cannot be refused… .
However, even if I could not refuse, I could not perform.
The penalty for failure would at best be that the intimacy would be reset or, in extreme cases, become negative.
okay… . It’s diving.
‘Let’s just disappear like this.’
As soon as I made up my mind, I got off the bed.
But suddenly, a strange feeling of anxiety grabbed hold of him.
Even though the concept of ‘the world in the game’ was not completely erased, I was rather satisfied with the fact that it was reality.
He thought he had found a world where he could finally demonstrate his abilities, but the situation of having to hide in the shadows again shook Gu Chang-soo’s mentality.
‘… … ‘Is there any other way?’
Gu Chang-soo thought that, just for this moment, it would be nice to have a colleague to think about his situation with him.
Since there were no players I normally communicated with, I couldn’t remember any of their IDs.
I thought of my colleague, but why did Han Seongjun’s face pass by?
‘At least that person… You already know I’m a player… .’
However, now it was impossible to contact Han Seongjun.
Gu Chang-soo, who had a bitter taste of food as if he had no choice, quickly began to pack his luggage.
Then, my eyes stopped for a moment on the tower order book that I had not yet disposed of.
“Whoa… . “It’s still too much.”
I was thinking about using the 42nd floor order form to find Han Seongjun, but I wasn’t confident that I could reach the 44th floor on my own.
Gu Chang-soo’s hand, which was stuffing the luggage into the bag again, stopped once again.
This time, his sharp senses were pointed towards the outside of the door.
-No. 813… Is this right here?
-If the information received is correct.
The moment I caught a faint whisper,
Wow!
Gu Chang-su broke the window and jumped out.
-Hey, fuck you! That bastard noticed!
-catch!
Quang!
The sound of a crash breaking through the door was heard through Gu Chang-soo’s ears as he fell.
No matter how superhuman you are, jumping from the 12th floor cannot be without any damage.
Gu Chang-soo stuck the dagger into the wall of the building and slowed down the falling speed.
Let’s go!
It was a wise decision.
This is because I saw people looking up from the ground one by one.
He was also seen putting his hand to his ear as if he was listening to a radio.
Kwakagak—! chin!
Gu Changsu stretched out his hand and grabbed the railing.
“Ugh!”
The falling speed had already decreased considerably, so it wasn’t a big problem.
Around the 5th floor.
Gu Chang-soo pulled himself up onto the railing, broke the glass, and went inside.
“Aaaah!”
The employee who was cleaning the room was shocked and fell asleep.
Gu Chang-soo put his index finger to his lips with the dagger behind his back as if he was holding his back.
“Oh, I’m not a bad person. “I’m running away because someone is trying to kill me.”
Is it because it is sincere?
The scared face remained the same, but the employee nodded and retreated towards the wall.
As Gu Chang-soo passed by her, he stopped and looked back.
“Well, please lend me the master key.”
“… … .”
The employee held out a card with trembling hands.
Gu Chang-soo picked up the card and headed out into the hallway, quickly shaking his head.
A situation surrounded from above and below… .
‘Still, if you want to break through, you’ll have to attack below the rooftop, which has nowhere to go.’
The problem was their skills.
Those who knew exactly the lake and came to visit… .
I thought about whether Ha-seon Kwon might have sent someone behind, but I quickly shook my head.
The personality of Kwon Ha-seon he knew was that although he could wield a weapon without anyone being able to stop him, he was not the kind of character who would do this behind his back.
‘… Then where do they come from? ‘How much do you know about me?’
In fact, the information Gu Chang-soo sensed outside the room was at a level he could handle.
However, the reason I threw myself out the window was because there was no guarantee that they would all be there.
Once Ha-su found out about Go-su’s approach, it would have been too late.
It was thanks to Han Seong-jun that he realized that there was also a state that he could not recognize.
Additionally, it was confirmed by the people surrounding the building that they were not a group of players.
‘Could it be because of the tower order?’
I was careful to be careful, but I didn’t think there was any way to find out.
However, if you are a player, you will not go to the trouble of tracing the IP and watching the CCTV to follow them just for the sake of ‘jumping’.
Attempting a PK at an appointed location doesn’t cost money, but this does.
In the end, is it worth it?
Ordered a sundae from the late 30th to the 42nd floor… .
Are you doing it to this extent?
The value of the order book that Gu Chang-soo felt was not that much.
‘… So that means he’s a non-player.’
Non-player. In other words, the value is slightly different when viewed from the NPC’s perspective.
A typical NPC group would not have been able to even enter the 20th floor yet.
This is because the speed of players conquering high rises is based on experiential knowledge.
In addition, it was a fact that only players had experienced that jumping was dangerous if the skill level was not sufficient.
Anyway, all of these thoughts were just guesses based on the premise that they were aiming for the top order book.
‘Even if it jumps, I guess I’ll have to mess with one guy.’
Gu Chang-su, who came down one floor through the emergency stairs, chose a room with a cleaning service sign and hid inside.
“ha… . “I want to live a quiet life.”