[Episode 03] Sheep Hunt (2)

Choi Hyung-joon, who came down to the first floor, was sweating profusely and was trembling like an aspen tree.

Yu Hye-rin, who was looking at him anxiously, said to him.

“Mister, are you really okay?”

“I, I, I. It’s okay, it’s okay!”

It really didn’t look good at all.

“Mister! Don’t worry! If you were a man, wouldn’t you have been in the army too! OK?”

Choi Hyung-joon answered Kang Deok-soo, who comforted him by patting his shoulder.

“It is exempt.”

“???”

Kang Duk-soo looked up and down Choi Hyung-joon’s body and asked with sincerity.

“With that body?”

With a height of over 180 and a strong physique, even an athlete deserves a nod.

Is this person exempt?

Kang Deok-soo’s confused eyes made Choi Hyung-joon excuse himself.

“Hey, this is all years old. It used to be worse. It’s not muscle.”

“no···.”

No matter how you look at it, it’s a muscle.

“Concentration.”

At that time, the leader of the team, Ha Dong-gun, focused the attention of the team members in one place.

“We start the briefing now.”

The place where they are gathered is the hallway on the first floor.

It was the last operational check before entering the underground parking lot, the base of the goblins.

“The ultimate goal of the sheep hunt is to drag as many goblins as possible to the 30th floor.”

They had already experienced the existence of the transparent wall on the 30th floor.

Right before receiving citizenship, Kang Deok-soo swung a bat to check the strength of the transparent wall.

Thanks to that, I was sure.

“With the power of goblins, you can’t pierce a transparent wall. Conversely, we will be able to attack them from within the walls.”

So, the purpose of this operation was clear.

“To drag as many goblins as possible and lure them to the 30th floor. That is our role.”

Ha Dong-gun pointed to the emergency exit stairs going down to the basement and continued.

“That’s why we target the B1 and B2 layers at the same time.”

Kim Jae-hyeon, who instructed them on the operation, was even thinking of carrying out the sheep hunting operation several times.

Since the goblins are so cunning, he intended to attract as many goblins as possible, even if it was too much for the first attempt.

The operation was simple.

“Divided into two teams, stimulate the guys on the 1st basement floor first, then lure the guys on the 2nd basement floor.”

The core of this operation was that the 1st basement team had to endure the goblin wave until the 2nd basement team came up.

Everyone looked at Hyungjun Choi.

It was also because he was in charge of blocking the goblins by using the emergency exit iron door as a shield on the first basement floor.

The exact reason was not known, but Kim Jae-hyun directly instructed him to leave it.

Certainly considering Hyungjun Choi’s size, it was an optimal role.

Then, Kim Gun quietly raised his hand.

“say.”

“…what if more goblins come in than we thought? . . . Then wouldn’t we be isolated on the 30th floor as it is?”

Gayoung Kim swung the bow in her hand and said.

“If you do, thank you. As long as safety is ensured, I can wipe them all out by myself.”

“Gayoung is right. We have bows, and the goblins blocked by the transparent walls are good targets.”

Kim Geon looked at the party with a face asking if he really thought so.

And then quietly stabbed to the core.

“What about the corpse? …There will be piles of goblin corpses. How are you going to dispose of them all?”

“…”

“… I might end up stuck in a pile of dead bodies.”

When everyone was quiet, Moon Byeong-ho replied with a calm face.

“He will do something.”

And Choi Hyung-joon agreed with those words and stepped out.

“Yes. If he is, he will surely do something. And I don’t think there will be such a problem in the first place. This is an operation he himself ordered.”

Kim Geon looked at the two with a disapproving face.

It was then.

“Kigeek?”

I turned my head at the familiar sound and saw three goblins at one end of the hallway staring blankly at them.

The first to react was Gayoung Kim.

Push!

It was because he had faced the goblins for 10 days, and now his body reacted first when he found them.

“Ki- pretty much!”

hooked!

In an instant, Gayoung Kim’s two arrows pierced the foreheads of the two goblins.

And.

Fuck!

The remaining one was taken by Kang Deok-soo, who ran towards the goblins and swung a bat.

Kim Gun asked with a puzzled look on his face.

“···senior. If this is the case, why did you bring the bow?”

“ah? Is that so?”

Kang Duk-soo brushed off the blood on his bat and continued.

“Stop it without me knowing…”

“uh?”

At that time, Gayoung Kim muttered with a shocked expression.

“…it’s disappearing.”

“yes? what?”

Soon after, Gayoung Kim took out her cell phone and turned on the light.

“!!!”

In the place where the light was shining, the bodies of the goblins were disappearing in real time.

“···This.”

Moon Byeong-ho gave a relaxed smile to the surprised Kim Gun and said,

“Did you see it? He solves it in this way. He answered your question directly.”

Kim Geon sighed and made no reply.

***

[Citizen Ha Dong-gun’s credibility increases.]

[Citizen Gayoung Kim’s credibility increases.]

[Citizen Yu Hye-rin’s trust increases.]

······

······

Ha Dong-gun was checking the situation of the party with the eyes of the absolute.

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Just in case, when I opened my eyes, as expected, the trust of the entire party had risen significantly.

Now it was possible to check the message even while using the eyes of the Absolute.

At first, it was rather confusing as the views seemed to overlap, but now it is possible to separate the views consciously, as if using dual monitors.

I thought as I looked at them in amazement.

‘I was lucky.’

It wasn’t intentional, but thanks to the goblins that happened to appear at the same time as Kim Gunn’s remark, a situation that was easy to misunderstand was created.

It was as if I was watching them and then showed the goblin corpse disappearing in response to a question Kim Gun asked.

‘It’s true that I was watching, but.’

Thanks to that.

[Citizen Byungho Moon’s reliability has reached 50.]

[Loyalty is unlocked.]

[Citizen Byungho Moon’s loyalty has exceeded 30.]

[Citizen Byeong-ho Moon has met the conditions for vassal registration.]

Moon Byung-ho’s reliability, which had not been unusual, exceeded 50.

‘In just a few hours…’

To fulfill the condition of a vassal?

Although Ha Dong-gun’s party was showing a rapid rise in reliability overall, it was still far from reaching 50.

What Choi Hyeong-joon’s family and Moon Byeong-ho had in common, who had already met the conditions for vassal status, was that both were in a state of psychological instability.

It seemed that the fact that I personally addressed their deficiency also had an impact.

‘It’s fine anyway. If possible, the number of vassals should be increased as quickly as possible to increase growth… Eh?’

When I checked Mun Byeong-ho’s citizen information window, I couldn’t help but gasp.

『Name: Moon Byeong-ho (Lv. 10)

Reliability: 55 Loyalty: 88

Awakening Ability: None

EXP distribution rate: 70%

Settlement amount distribution rate: 0%

★Quest Grant Exit』

The loyalty level was ridiculously high.

‘what···?’

Of course, seeing Moon Byeong-ho’s attitude, I guessed to some extent.

But even so, I expected it to be around 40-50.

But it’s 88.

‘······Well, it’s not bad.’

Rather, it was a good thing.

It meant that I had someone who trusted me and was loyal to me.

‘The timing to register as a vassal has been decided.’

When he thought of the bright light that enveloped him when he registered Choi Hyeong-jun as a vassal, an idea that might be helpful for this operation came to mind.

***

There was one fact that Ha Dong-geon Party found out after struggling for 10 days.

It’s just that goblins are sensitive to light.

It was fine normally.

If you were always sensitive to light, you wouldn’t even be able to walk around during the day.

It is at night that they are sensitive to light.

It was also the most sensitive when they hid in their sanctuary.

flash

“Kick!”

“Kiki!”

“Quite the amount?!”

An underground parking lot filled with pitch-black darkness, a comfortable haven for goblins, was invaded by an unpleasant light.

“Keeek!”

“Kyaaa!”

The goblins whose rest was disturbed poured out their anger at the sudden appearance of the light.

But the light was just the beginning.

Wedge love liquid-!

Fu-wook!

hooked!

The arrows that cut through the darkness pierced the goblins.

A few missed terribly, but a few burrowed deep into the goblin’s torso.

And some of them even pierced the foreheads of their colleagues.

And.

Flash-!

“What, what?”

A large light source, incomparable to the light from a smart phone, burst out of a man.

That immediately irritated most of the goblins on the first basement floor.

“Keeek-! Kieh-! Kiek-!”

The cries of the goblins spread throughout the cave in an instant.

“Keeek-!”

“Keee!”

“Kieek!”

The cries of the enemy-filled comrades resounded in the cave, waking up all those who had fallen asleep.

Goblins are very weak when viewed individually.

However, these were the ones who knew how to overcome their weakness with the strength of the pack.

There were two things that goblins were most sensitive to, one when their nest was invaded, and the other was when they faced a painfully stinging light on a night when they needed to rest.

Those two cases are happening now, simultaneously.

“Keeek-!”

“Keee!”

Enraged goblins rushed at the uninvited guests, venting mad rage.

“done! Bounce!”

“Team 1 takes cover, and Team 2 goes down the emergency stairs!”

At Ha Dong-gun’s instructions, Hyung-Jun Choi, Duk-Soo Kang, and Byung-Ho Moon, who had been shooting arrows for a while, ran toward the emergency stairs on the first basement floor.

Fu-wook!

While they were out, Ha Dong-gun, Kim Ga-young, Yoo Hye-rin, and Kim Gun, who belonged to Group 1, fired arrows at the goblins.

Phew-!

“Pretty much!”

Among them, the brightest thing was Kim Ga-young’s bow skills.

Her skill with a bow, which had been steadily trained, pierced the goblin’s forehead with precision every time.

hooked!

The rest weren’t too far behind.

Ha Dong-gun’s archery skills were also unusual, perhaps thanks to his experience of being forcibly dragged to the archery range every time.

Pooh-!

Moreover, the goblins rushing into the narrow passage were easier to hit than expected.

It is also running in a straight line toward the light.

“Leave 1 trillion!”

While Team 1, who had waited enough time, headed for the emergency stairs, Team 2 fired covering fire this time.

hooked!

“Pretty much!”

His bow skills were poor compared to the first group.

Rather, it worked as an advantage.

Goblins who had been hit by arrows in their stomachs, shoulders, or legs collapsed unsightly.

Tuuk!

“Pretty much!”

One after another, the goblins that stumbled upon them stumbled and blocked the path ahead.

Unlike the corpses whose foreheads were pierced in one shot and disappeared, the goblins hit by the clumsy bows served as an excellent obstacle.

“Close it!”

Thanks to that, Ha Dong-gun and his party were able to successfully close the emergency exit door.

cooong!

Immediately after the door closed, countless goblins knocked on the iron door.

Ku-gu-gu-gu-! bang! bang!

“Huh!”

Hyungjun Choi held on to the emergency exit stairs and endured alone.

The strength of the gorilla built into his body firmly blocked the iron gate.

clap – clap –

The goblins struggled to open the emergency exit stairs, but it was useless in the face of overwhelming force.

Surprisingly, Hyungjun Choi succeeded in blocking the power of countless goblins by himself.

Even though it was Kim Jae-hyeon’s order, Kang Deok-soo, who was worried about it, thought that he would also join in blocking the door.

But it didn’t seem necessary.

If Hyungjun Choi alone was enough, there was no need to waste personnel.

All six of them went down to the second basement level.

“Uncle, be patient!”

“Quick- go!”

While Choi Hyeong-joon was holding out alone on the emergency exit stairs, what happened on the first basement floor was similarly repeated on the second basement floor.

“Keeek-!”

I could hear the dizzying sound of a horde of angry goblins pouring into the fire exit stairs.

“Huh, ha. Hmm, ha ha.”

Hearing this, Hyungjun Choi was shaking like a person with a chill.

It reminded me of that nightmare again.

The sight of people dying in front of my eyes, the moment when screams were rampant, came to mind.

‘I have to. It’s something I have to do!’

If you kneel here, you ruin everything.

It couldn’t be.

cooong! thump! thump! Kugoong!

For a moment, the doorknob of the emergency exit turned and the door was about to open.

Each time, Choi Hyeong-jun showed his superpowers and blocked it.

“Huh!”

It was the heavy responsibility that weighed down both of his shoulders that made his feet stand up.

At that time, Ha Dong-gun and his group, who had been to the second basement floor, were coming up the stairs.

“Mister! That’s Okay! now stop!”

“Everybody run!”

Ha Dong-gun and his party ran upwards, shooting arrows at the goblins.

Hyungjun Choi was delighted.

‘All right, all right. Success!’

You no longer have to guard this door.

The moment you step out with a sense of accomplishment that you have accomplished it.

‘-uh?’

I realized that my legs couldn’t move.

The responsibility that weighed heavily on his shoulders while facing fear gave him the strength to endure, but at the same time took away the strength to run away.

“Mister!!!”

“Mmm, go first!!”

“but···!”

“go! hurry!”

Even Kang Deok-soo, who was already at the rear of Ha Dong-gun’s party, was quite far from Choi Hyeong-jun.

The goblins were close by.

Besides.

Quaang!

To make matters worse, the iron door on the first basement floor was also pierced.

“Keeek-!”

“Keee!”

“Kieek!”

Kang Deok-soo, who saw the goblin in madness, did not have the courage to go downstairs.

however.

“Damn it!”

In an urgent moment, what he chose was not survival, but companions.

Fuck!

“Get out of here, you guys! Uncle, hurry this way!”

But at that moment.

Shushuk-

“···uh?”

Hyungjun Choi disappeared.

Then, all that was left was countless goblins lying around.

“…is it okay?”

“Kyaaa!”

Kang Duk-soo sent a full swing at the head of a goblin that was running towards him.

Fuck!

“Keeck!”

Fu-wook!

The fortunate thing is that his colleagues did not abandon him, just like Kang Deok-soo’s choice.

“Ducksoo! Quickly!”

“Uh, uh!”

Under cover fire from Gayoung Kim and Donggun Ha, Duksu Kang started running up the stairs three steps at a time.

‘More, faster!’

Squeezing all my strength, I ran towards the 30th floor.