The 31st Piece Turns the Tables

Chapter 502:

The dark heavens formed throughout Pandea had some similarities with the labyrinth. There are almost no survivors among those who suddenly burst out of an unrelated area.

In the case of Dark Heaven, there have been no survivors so far, but several have recently been discovered who have returned alive.

As a result, there were many groups trying to secure their safety and reveal the secrets of the dark world. And although most tried to use the secret for the group’s ambitions, there were bound to be groups that did not.

So did Zodiac, who decided to actively intervene in Pandea’s problems.

Low…

Low…

“What is the condition?”

When Frannan asked, the senior wizard next to him answered.

“Consciousness has returned and my mental anxiety has been put under control for now. But it won’t be enough to talk about for a long time.”

“I get it.”

The tower owners, including Frannan, approached the man sitting on the chair, exhausted after experiencing a rare experience.

“Nice to meet you.”

“Hehe… Hehe… I became successful after seeing the faces of high-ranking people.”

“I heard you are a survivor of the dark world.”

“… That’s right, I came back from that shitty place alive.”

The expressions of the tower owners flinched.

It wasn’t because a man who looked like a young man spoke without exception.

“Really? “You came back alive from the dark world?”

“That’s fine too…”

The man replied, laughing at the surprised looks of the tower owners.

“I’m not okay… I’m not.”

“….”

“I’m still in hell.”

Frannan asked.

“What did you see?”

“death.”

The place where this person was discovered is near the darkness that swallowed up the Free City of Holn. It was a city where there were more people than bugs in the grass on a summer day.

“Were you there that day… the day Holn was swallowed up in the darkness?”

“… okay.”

“What happened to everyone?”

The man spoke under his breath.

“If you go in there… you lose sight. Just this much. My field of vision shrinks to the size of my palm. That… was scarier. “I was more scared of not being able to give up on life.”

A little hope sometimes brings greater destruction than great despair.

“Keep listening. “There may be a story related to saving the world of darkness.”

“Kick… It’s been two years now?”

“For two years we have been fighting on our own.”

A moment of silence.

The man met Frannan’s hard gaze and changed his tone.

“I was rude… They’re probably all dead. Because it’s an environment worthy of that.”

“What is the environment like there?”

“Day and night disappeared, and monsters I didn’t even know where they came from became swarming. “It suddenly appeared and bit the city’s residents.”

The man stretched out his fingers and counted the days.

one two.

“For several days, there was nothing but screaming. And soon the screams stopped. What followed after that was… the howl of an animal. “I’ve been hearing this for two years.”

“How did you survive?”

“My father was a merchant who distributed groceries in Holn. “I hid in a warehouse for 2 years… eating and packing…”

“I managed to survive without going crazy.”

“I am lucky. There were a lot of similar houses, but they must have heard the noise… From the next day, there was no sound.”

Now I had to ask the most important question.

“How did you get out of the darkness?”

“Uh… I don’t know.”

“You didn’t escape.”

“I wonder if there was a problem with the dark tunnel… One day, the place I was in came out of the dark tunnel. So, like a crazy person, I headed to another city.”

Frannan shared brief thoughts with other top owners.

The conversation about the world of darkness did not bring much benefit because there were more unknown parts than revealed parts.

“Ugh…”

Frannan said as the man groaned.

“You look tired, so let’s take a break.”

“Now wait… there’s something I need to tell you.”

When Frannan nodded, the man squeezed out words.

“Ah, there’s something living in Amgu.”

“… what?”

“I heard his voice… clearly…”

* * *

It was snowfall that found Nairo and Falchion. When he entered the Dark Heaven, he decided to move separately from the two knights.

Considering the purpose of entering the dark world, it would have been much better to move separately.

‘But this reaction…’

The expedition team’s carriage, which was said to be heading to Amgu, was not visible. If so, assume it is inside the dark sphere. Kang Seol and his party entered because the energy felt inside the dark area was not particularly strong.

“I can see the front… I can see the front…”

“Tongashi…”

The people in front of me were already covered in tears and it seemed difficult to even have a proper conversation.

Kang Seol had to achieve the first purpose of coming here, so she asked when her crying subsided.

“Have you ever seen a woman named Nairo?”

“By age…? As for Nairo…”

When Falchion looked at Nairo, she raised her hand.

“That’s me! It’s me! “Have you found Nairo?”

“Ah… yes.”

“…Why why?”

She became slightly anxious and hesitated to ask, and Kang Seol answered.

“Actually, before I came here….”

The story is about a young child I met at the association branch who asked for this out of concern for her older sister.

“My little happiness… I found my sister. “Ugh…”

At the age of shedding tears in wonder at the fact that the young life she had to support was actually saved.

“But… I can go back… More than that, Pavel! “Have you not seen Pavel?”

“… Pavel?”

“yes! “I was caught up in this place with a guy who looked like a bit of a goofball.”

“… I can’t be sure.”

“Ah…”

After calming down a bit, the two looked at Snowfall.

I never thought I could see forward in the darkness. The view I came back to was dark, but it felt different from the night.

It feels like walking down a darkly lit road.

“Once we leave like this…”

Neither of them moved to Nairo’s suggestion. Does this mean that I have no intention of leaving?

“…Lord Falchion?”

“Colleagues…”

“… No way.”

“Just in case… I wonder if we can at least search this area?”

“I’m crazy. What is that now….”

“I came here that day. “If they hadn’t forgotten their grit, they would definitely be alive like me.”

Falchion looked straight at the snowfall and said.

“There’s at least one guy… right, there’s at least one guy, right? These are the guys I personally took care of. “At the end…”

Although Nairo understood his feelings, he was astonished when he saw the giant monster’s corpse in Kangseol’s hands.

“It’s dangerous. There are monsters roaming around…”

Monsters are dangerous.

So, to get out safely, you have to run away.

A normal way of thinking would have come to this conclusion. But Falchion was more astute and observant.

“That sound earlier… it was the sound of a monster being attacked. “You… are not an ordinary adventurer, are you?”

“….”

“Tonga sent me… to help me. “It is a revelation… to not forget my final mission.”

Falchion’s expectation was that if he could kill monsters in an instant, he would be able to protect the party even if more monsters flocked.

The veteran’s insight could not be ignored.

Many of the assumptions were clumsy, but the results were correct.

“Is this taking a long time? “There is a suspicious energy lurking nearby.”

“That’s not true. You just need to visit a few places.”

“Hmm….”

Kangseol put her hand on her chin for a moment and then nodded.

“Of course. Instead, we must refrain from making noise.”

“Now that I can see ahead, what’s the problem?”

Kkeiike…

Kangseol stepped forward first.

‘… two.’

Quite a distance.

A monster was wandering around.

“Let’s go.”

“Thank you….”

“This….”

Naira returned the dagger handed to her earlier to Falchion.

Falchion took the dagger and grinned.

And soon the search became engrossed.

“Is there a place you can guess where it might be?”

“There are a few places around here.”

Jeok…

Jeok…

A strange feeling.

The feeling of walking through an empty city wasn’t bad, but knowing the situation, I couldn’t help but feel depressed.

“First of all, here…”

A distance that could never be reached in a situation where one cannot see. Since I failed this much, I haven’t been able to come for two years.

“Oh my…”

“Hmm…”

There were many corpses.

It was full of rotting and torn bodies.

Falchion found a relatively clean body among them.

“Oh, there you are.”

Already dead.

A skull with a single piece of broken, rotted flesh on it.

Only the dented armor and the raven seal on the pauldrons indicated that the corpse belonged to the same order as Falchion.

Falchion seemed to have had enough of that.

He neatly collected the bodies of several of his subordinates he found here and brought them into the broken house.

“I will definitely bury you someday.”

Falchion looked around a few more places.

A similarly gruesome body was found there.

“…Thank you. “It’s okay to go back now.”

“Have you found everything?”

“No… but I don’t know if I’ll have to stay here longer to find it.”

“That’s right… we’re going back…”

Kang Seol pointed somewhere with her finger.

“Let’s go there.”

“excuse me? It’s a square over there…”

A place with open space on all sides.

“It’s too dangerous!”

“it’s okay. “It looks like my colleagues are coming over there.”

“You had a colleague. “Is it as strong as you?”

When Kang Seol smiled, Falchion felt relieved.

“Then it’s safe. It would be better to join in and get out.”

“Ugh…”

Nairo didn’t deserve to be scared, but since he was in no position to insist on it, he obeyed meekly.

Bukbuk…

Bukbuk…

The number of monsters felt nearby gradually increased. But it didn’t show up.

That…

When Kang Seol and his group entered the square, they were all silent.

“This is….”

“It’s terrible… ugh….”

A mountain of corpses.

Rotting and shredded human corpses piled up like a mountain.

The monsters I encountered earlier all had only weak intelligence and didn’t look like they were going to build a mountain with their corpses like trophies.

‘…There’s something there.’

Jeopuk…

Jeopuk…

At that time, someone brightly greeted me.

“found!”

“…Karen.”

“You’re here.”

Karen and Karuna were taking some adventurers with them.

“Pavel!”

When Nairo shouted in surprise, Pavel came running.

“With age! “You’re alive!”

“Ugh…”

They cling and cry as if they will never fall again. It was also a sight that would never be seen again in the dark heavens.

Karen and Karuna gathered around Kangseol.

“A little suspicious, right?”

“The owner will appear soon.”

“Where…”

Rumbling…

When Karen put in the embers, the mountain of corpses began to burn in an instant.

This seemed like a signal.

Or it could have been a declaration of war.

The meaning of the declaration of war was simple.

It’s just that we came here.

Soon, a gale of tremendous force was felt.

“… come.”

Kwahiah ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The person who appeared after destroying the building came swinging a blade. The attack aimed at Kang Seol’s neck was stopped by the two knights.

Taaaaaang-!

“uh? “Is it fast?”

When Karen expressed surprise at the other person who quickly left, the other person also laughed.

“This is what we will say. Ha ha ha ha ha! “So you’ve finally come?”

Snowfall asked the person who turned around while looking at the mountain of corpses.

“Are you the owner of this place?”

“That’s right, it’s me. I made this place like this! How cool is that?”

maniac.

I didn’t want to deal with it, but I had to find out the origin. That was Snowfall’s original purpose for coming here.

“Did you create this dark sphere?”

“Uh… this? What’s similar? “I too have awakened along with this demon energy.”

Kang Seol noticed that the other person’s appearance in the light was unusual.

The beast’s ears, sharp teeth and snout. Yet, it had a human body.

“It’s really cool to wake up from the dead… to undo a crappy ending, right?”

“… What is the purpose?”

“Slaughter.”

The person looking back and smiling.

“It’s simple, right?”

“I like it because it’s clear.”

“Let’s compete! how is it? “Do you want to kill me?”

“I can’t tell if he has any sense or not. “What kind of competition?”

“What was the purpose of making such a wonderful decoration? “It’s to call out guys like you.”

Crrrrr…

Crrrrrrr…

Monsters covered in fur began to appear here and there in the square. These are all the guys who started wandering around the area.

“Demon monsters….”

Nairo and his companions hesitantly retreat.

“Kahaha… I guess I just watched from afar.”

The other person revealed his identity.

“I’m a dunker. I came back to become king. I must have filled my stomach so far… I needed someone just as skilled as you, so it worked out well.”

“… why?”

Dunker laughed.

[The Blade-Tooth Dunker appears.]

“I will eat you and become king.”

“Right.”

Kang Seol assessed the opponent’s skills. A strong man who would have been in the middle ages if we had met him before the war.

“To be honest, my first death was a little weird. The opponent was bad. “If it weren’t for that guy, I would be king.”

The immortal unleashed these terrible beings all over the world. Only with the desire to reach ascension.

“Damn you bastard….”

“Huh? “What did you say to me?”

Srrrrrrrrr…

Dunker’s own teeth were jammed into the two blades of his sword.

When Karen saw the situation and looked at Kangseol, Kangseol said.

“Do it yourself.”

“good! “Then I’ll just worry about this.”

Whirling…

“Wake up heartbreak.”

Sreung…

Bitan said.

【I forgot to doze off!】

“I slept for a long time.”

【I forgot to doze off for too long!】

As Kang Seol stood there with his sword drawn, Dunker grinned and prepared to attack.

And it didn’t move for a while.

“… what?”

His face became so cold that he could feel that the wolf’s face also had an expression.

“Why am I… like this?”

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A strange energy began to bloom from Nangseol’s body.

Black energy was released and encroached on the surroundings.

“You tend to be oblivious.”

Two years is enough time for the person who stole the crown to become the real king.

“Ahhh?”

Whioooooo…

[Snowman uses the power: King of Shadows.]

…

Partszzzzzzzz…

Paaaaaaaa!

As soon as the power of snowfall was unleashed, Dunker hid himself in a pack of beasts.

“Damn it! … king!”