This Is Not a Game - This Is Not a Game chapter 167

Drill

All rounder.

The dictionary meaning is a word that means a multi-talented person.

However, the all-rounder Yooseong was thinking of was slightly different from the dictionary meaning of the all-rounder.

‘There’s nothing wrong with having a lot of abilities, but blindly increasing the number of abilities is inefficient. Excluding overlapping abilities, abilities that can be replaced with items or other abilities, and acquiring abilities that can fill in what I lack, abilities with high utilization.’

If I had time to spare, I would have aimed for an all-rounder in the dictionary sense.

However, the current Earth was in a situation where it would not be strange if it perished at any time.

That’s why Yoosung changed his goal.

Not as a person with various abilities, but as a person with the ability to cope with various situations.

That was the all-rounder that Yooseong was thinking of.

[Access to the multidimensional navigation system.]

[The quest observation was successful.]

– 51 death squads who want to escape from the Pandemonium.

-The survivor’s struggle for survival on the 98th floor of the Grouse Labyrinth.

-Wouldn’t it be okay if you were a monster as long as there was love?

-I want to do a raid even if I am an F-level person.

– I want to take revenge on my old colleagues.

-… … .

-… … .

-… … .

This is a long list of quests.

Yooseong’s determination to seriously check the quest had to collapse the moment he saw the name of the first quest.

“Hey, this is still there.”

Most quests disappear from the list in a matter of hours or even minutes.

It was because the client would no longer be able to ask for help, and if he spoke directly, he would die.

Since each quest has a different time multiplier, it wasn’t that there weren’t any quests that remained on the list for a long time, but even so, it was difficult to go through several days.

From that point of view, it could be said that the [Death Squad Who Wants to Escape from the Pandemonium] is a very rare quest.

No, it was good to see that it was unique.

“It’s been about 10 months since I became a user, so it’s a quest that could have been at least 10 months, maybe even longer, but it’s really toxic, reading comprehension.”

Although reduced from 414 to 51, the death squad was still alive and asking for help. This was enough to feel sympathy before being curious.

Yuseong, who checked the information to see if anything had changed, saw the reward that was more colorful than before and the level of difficulty changed from A+ grade to S- grade, and he quietly went back and started checking other quests.

“[I want to get revenge on my old colleagues.] This looks good.”

Notation The difficulty is high, but it is a quest that can be easily cleared if you use strategy rather than strength.

If it had been some time ago, I would have picked this quest without hesitation.

However, Yooseong shook his head.

Until now, I had chosen quests with a focus on difficulty in order to open up the ability level as quickly as possible and get more karma points, but from now on, I had to focus on rewards.

[I want to take revenge on my former colleagues.] The quest may have been easy to clear, but the clear reward was a precious metal, and the client was an ordinary knight and didn’t seem to have any skills to bring, so of course I had to be excluded.

“I have to choose a quest where I can get useful skills… … .”

Yooseong, who had been looking through the list of quests for a long time, sighed while rubbing his eyes.

“This is not easy.”

Finding the skill was much more difficult than I thought.

Items could be guessed to a certain extent, but skills couldn’t.

The only thing that can be known from the contents written in the quest description window is the job of the client, such as a knight, archer, or wizard, and there is no way to find out exactly what skills the clients have or what effects those skills have.

It was possible to roughly guess that a knight has a skill related to close combat, or an archer has a skill related to long distance combat, but that was not enough.

Yuseong realized that it would be impossible to pinpoint the ability he needed exactly, and changed his direction to finding a quest with keywords such as magic or superpower.

It’s not the best option, but it’s likely to be the next best option.

After looking through the list for a long time, Yuseong finally chose one quest.

[It hurts, I hate it, stop.]

-Civilization Classification: H-9

– Civilization Rating: 1.31

-Difficulty: C+

– A pure white world. You can’t remember what your name is, what happened to you in the past, or why you’re here. All the boy wants is to get out of this hell.

-clear conditions

1. Escape from facility: 500,000 karma, unknown liquid x3, psychic blooming potion x1.

– additional conditions

1. Escape with friends: 1,000,000 karma per friend, unknown liquid x10, psychic power permanent enhancement potion x3.

It was a little uncomfortable that the quest description was too vague, but other quests were too difficult or too time consuming, so I had no other choice.

After purchasing the re-challenge ticket and completing the subspace check, Yooseong started the quest without hesitation.

Only a C+ grade quest.

Yooseong, who recently cleared B and A grade quests in succession, did not think about the possibility of failing the C grade quest.

[Begins ‘It hurts, I hate it, stop.’]

[Activate the Deus Ex Machina program.]

[Dimensional coordinates specified and connection of Ariadne’s thread completed.]

[Spirit moves.]

* * *

I can’t see anything.

At first, I thought I was in a dark space, but I was able to realize that I was wearing something like an eyepatch through the feeling of alienation around my eyes.

It’s not just the eyes.

A sense of heterogeneity was felt in various parts such as the head, mouth, neck, shoulders, wrists, waist, and ankles.

‘… … Are you tied up? By the way, why is my head so throbbing?’

My head hurts as if I had been up all night, and my thoughts are not connected properly.

I was desperately concentrating on the anxiety that I would fall asleep if I stopped thinking even for a moment, when I heard a voice from my bedside.

“Encephalogram check completed. We have reached our estimate.”

“Is this the last test subject for today?”

“That’s right.”

“Ha, I can finally rest. I’ll finish it in one go, so hold on tight so I can’t move.”

‘A test subject? done in one go? Hold tight?’

With just a few words, I could tell that the current situation was dire.

Yoosung, embarrassed by the weight that weighed down his head to such an extent that he forgot his headache, desperately moved his body and tried to break free, but it was too late.

Wheein!

The sound of something spinning.

There was no need to guess what the sound was.

Because it can be perceived through the body.

‘Now, hold on. This isn’t what I’m thinking right now, is it?’

Yooseong screamed at the cold feeling felt on his temple and struggled desperately.

However, only mumbling sounds came out of the gagged mouth, and the tightly bound body could not even move.

After an eternity of time passed, the stopped drill started spinning again.

“town! town! Aww!”

The drill that pierced the temple pierced the skin here and there, digging deeper and deeper.

Yooseong, who was struggling in terrible pain he had never felt before, barely remembered the pain-killing skill he had forgotten about.

‘What! What the fuck, what the hell!’

I struggled desperately, even using the Sura Sensitivity, but I don’t know if it’s because of my brain as heavy as cotton soaked in water or because I was shocked by an unexpected situation, but I couldn’t come up with an idea to break the situation.

And the moment the duration of pain cutting ended, an incomparable pain hit his brain.

Geeying!

The drill that had pierced the skin had reached the skull before anyone knew it.

The feel of cold metal, the rotation ripping and tearing flesh, the feeling of a hole drilling through your skull, the vibration of a drill shaking your brain.

All of them come together to give a terrible pain that cannot be expressed in words.

escape?

There was no time to think about such things.

All he could do was shiver and scream to ease the pain.

I managed to activate Cut Off Pain to buy time to think, but it was limited to just calming my confused mind.

“Ahhh… … .”

As the drill stirred my normally abnormal brain, I couldn’t even think properly anymore.

All that comes to mind are random words and thoughts.

With the sensation of something coming out of the hole, Yooseong lost consciousness.

[Synchronization with ‘K-14’ has been completed.]

[You can use the skills of ‘K-14’.]

[‘It hurts, I hate it, stop it.’ Clear conditions have not been met.]

[Retry 5 times. Quest resolution failed.]

[The number of re-challenges will be deducted once.]

[Begins ‘It hurts, I hate it, stop.’]

* * *

Horrible pain and miserable end that I couldn’t imagine.

For an ordinary person, it would have been a lifelong trauma, but Yoosung, who has suffered over a thousand deaths, was able to calm his excitement and regain his composure with just a few breaths.

‘Let’s think. How can I overcome this situation? martial arts? My whole body was bound, but what kind of martial arts is this? thorny vine? … … . no. The magic power is too weak. It’s impossible to deal with two people. Thousands? Even taking it out, can I put on the glove with one hand?’

I thought desperately.

Anything was fine, so I had to find a way.

Otherwise, you will continue to suffer that terrible pain until you use up all the re-challenge tickets.

“Encephalogram check completed. We have reached our estimate.”

“Is this the last test subject for today?”

“That’s right.”

“Ha, I can finally rest. I’ll finish it in one go, so hold on tight so I can’t move.”

Wheein!

The creepy sound gets closer and closer.

And the moment the cold touch touched his temple, Yoosung took out an item from the subspace and swung it in the direction where he felt the presence.

A weapon wielded using only the wrist while the limbs are bound.

If you think about it with common sense, you won’t even be able to pierce your clothes, but the weapon that Meteor wielded was no ordinary weapon.

Kwajik!

“Quaaagh!”

A bloody smell came along with a desperate scream.

“What, what?!”

Meteor, who threw the weapon he was holding with all his might in the direction where the voice came from, immediately used the thorny vine skill.

‘hurry! ASAP!’

A thorny vine made with magic the size of a rat’s tail.

It can’t produce enough power to knock people down, but it’s capable enough to release restraints.

Yooseong, who used a thorny vine to untie the belt that bound his wrist, immediately took off his eyepatch and looked around.

The first man was killed with entrails spilled down his side, and the second man was crawling toward the exit, bleeding profusely from his thigh.

Yooseong calmly released the restraints, stood up, and picked up the ax that had fallen on the floor.

“Sah, live… … .”

Kwajik!

Yoosung, who had accurately inserted the ax into the man’s head, lay down on the floor that had become a sea of blood.

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