179 – peaceful daily life (5)

I was briefly angry at the familiar flavor, but the restaurant was definitely a restaurant.

There was a reason people waited in line to come.

Soft texture and moderate seasoning.

Pollack braised with the right seasoning.

He provided the best flavor that fish can look like.

The mouth was happy and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Moon Ga-eun and I had a delicious meal and enjoyed the peace and daily life that we hadn’t seen in a long time.

“Haa- I’m happy.”

Moon Ga-eun smiles like a hamster while filling her mouth with braised pollack.

I asked him with a smile.

“To be happy just because you ate some good food, isn’t the standard for happiness too low?”

“what. Originally, happiness is not far away. You have to start looking for it in a small place. Don’t you know what’s going on?”

“Ah, admit it.”

I unconsciously nodded my head.

As Moon Ga-eun said, happiness is not far away.

Eating delicious food and doing fun things.

It was actually happiness that could be found in everyday life.

“… And it’s good to eat together.”

Following that, Moon Ga-eun continues her speech as if mumbling.

I couldn’t hear the words properly, so I asked again while gathering my brows.

“uh? what? I didn’t hear you.”

“Ugh, I can’t hear it at times like this. annoying.”

“No, you said too little.”

“He said he was happier eating with Chi-Cola, why?”

“It’s not. It was something else, obviously.”

“Oh, I don’t know. Say what you were talking about earlier.”

… Awesome.

It was embarrassing, but Moon Ga-eun didn’t seem to want to talk about it anymore, so it suited the urgent topic change.

what I was talking about earlier.

Our main conversation topic from the moment we entered the restaurant.

This, too, was part of the operation the day before yesterday.

In the media, only the academy, the large clans, and my performance are featured as headlines, but…

In fact, at the time of the operation, the remaining party members struggled even in the back.

Our search party members fought fiercely against the overwhelming number of ＜villain＞ clan members.

I was rather curious about the story about them.

“ … … Then did you really catch Cha Soo-yeon by yourself?”

The biggest topic among them is, of course, Cha Soo-yeon’s suppression.

The highest holder among A-rank holders.

＜Villain＞ He is one of my top 3 executives.

It was so amazing that my friends and I caught such a woman.

“yes. At first, Chae-eun opened the way with her ultimate skill, and Park Jin-woo infiltrated as I supported her there. The finishing attack was done by Juyeon.”

“Does Chae-eun have an ultimate skill?”

“uh? yes. didn’t you hear?”

I didn’t hear it at all.

Kim Chae-eun was the type who liked to exalt others, but didn’t like to show off herself.

A cautious mindset that contrasts with an active and bright personality.

So, let alone the ultimate skill, I only heard about the arrest of Cha Soo-yeon.

‘I heard you got a new rune… .’

I knew that Kim Chae-eun had a new rune.

[Frozen battlefield].

The main rune of Jeong Seon-yeong, who is said to be the most skilled in the ice attribute.

I heard that she succeeded in acquiring a much more advanced epic rune in [Freezing] by following the runes of her master.

‘Chaeeun was an acquired talent.’

Kim Chae-eun, who did not stand out in the original work, was a holder whose abilities were acquired.

Independent of the runes obtained during awakening, when new enlightenment is obtained and a higher grade rune is obtained.

There was only one such case in the original work.

Song Hyun.

The son of the Song family, and the holder who first introduced the method of acquiring the [Sword] rune to Korea.

He was a representative holder with an acquired talent for runes, and because of that, in the latter half of the play, he possesses powerful runes and shows off their high utilization and grows into a strong person.

Kim Chae-eun succeeded in acquiring a new rune this time and even acquiring an ultimate skill.

It seemed that she also possessed a fairly outstanding acquired talent, not inferior to the advanced talents.

“Anyway- I was able to catch the notorious Cha Soo-yeon because everyone did so much better than I thought. It’s great, and it’s cool.”

Moon Ga-eun said with an awkward smile.

Then, he rummaged through the boiled pollack with his chopsticks again.

It seems that I feel a sense of incongruity for some reason.

I spoke to him with a laugh.

“You are great and cool too. Why are you talking like someone else?”

At that moment, Moon Ga-eun’s body stopped.

The chopsticks, which had lost their way, naturally stopped.

Then he turned his gaze to her characteristic embarrassing face.

“What, what are you saying? I was just helping out.”

“The archers, then, do something to help, what do you do? Are you going to hit hard like a wizard? Are you going to tank like a warrior class? Originally, it’s a line that specializes in support.”

“… I don’t even have an ultimate skill.”

“Do you really want to get mad? Ultimate skills aren’t everything. How many other advantages do you have?”

In the first place, Moon Ga-eun is also the holder of the top rank in the 1st grade archer class.

It was only a matter of time, but he was never a holder lacking in talent compared to others.

However, the talents of the friends I hang out with are outstanding enough to be counted on one hand, especially in the case of Kim Chae-eun, who has been showing a sudden rise recently…

I thought that Moon Ga-eun might feel a sense of impatience.

I declared, tapping my chopsticks on the table and putting them down.

“I can’t. You are special training during vacation.”

“Special training? What a special training all of a sudden.”

“There is one advisor who is perfect for you.”

Of course, Moon Ga-eun has the best teacher in Korea named Moon Jeong-hyeok.

However, Moon Jeong-hyeok is often busy with clan work, and the role of mentor and advisor is completely different.

A shrine maiden from a Japanese clan who told me to contact her whenever needed.

Maybe it’s her…

I thought he would become a great trainer for Moon Ga-eun.

* * *

A crack created by glaciers, a valley of death.

Crevasses.

somewhere in Antarctica.

Into the crevasse, made in an uninhabited remote area…

A man was entering.

An ashen haired man with a jet-black aura covering his body.

He is the only man to survive, leaving alone on Gijang Island in Ganghwa Island.

I was Hwang Seong-yeon, the vice-master of ＜Villain＞.

gugg-

Hwang Seong-yeon moved on a crevasse.

In that dangerous terrain where falling would be fatal in an instant, he was climbing the wall using demonic energy.

That’s an action beyond the concept of parkour.

It was similar to a kind of [levitation] magic.

Had it gone down that long?

In the darkness of the dark cliff where nothing can be seen, Hwang Seong-yeon crawled in to find a space.

A small hole in the middle of a crevasse.

It was the entrance to a special hidden cave.

Caen-

gugg-

“Whoa… .”

Seongyeon Hwang, who dragged herself toward the entrance using her demonic energy and entered inside using her sword as a support.

He brushed himself off in the cave, gasping for breath.

Like a ‘dungeon’.

A special space that can only be accessed by injecting magic power, and seems to be configured similarly to a dungeon.

However, this place was clearly a space that existed in ‘reality’.

Hwang Seong-yeon walked through the dark space with no light at all.

Maybe 10 minutes have passed.

The person he was trying to meet soon showed up.

And the deformed voice you hear.

“Are you here?”

Hwang Seong-yeon made a light for a moment and looked at the person in front of him.

However, he covered his entire body and face with a deep robe, so he couldn’t see any part of his body except his hands.

Hwang Seong-yeon frowned and replied to him.

“You still don’t show your face.”

“There is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s probably a face that even Hwang Seong-yeon won’t like very much.”

I didn’t like it or didn’t like it, and I wasn’t really curious about it in the first place.

For Hwang Seong-yeon, what was important was not that kind of appearance.

The man in the robe continued, pointing at himself with a hand gesture.

“By the way, hasn’t my Korean improved quite a bit? Pronunciation and content, everything has become cleaner.”

“… Right. Did you learn language runes?”

At Hwang Seong-yeon’s question, the man shrugged.

“hahahaha. It can’t be. We, Ludenark, always derive new results through research. I was able to add Korean to the translation magic by melting the human brain sent by Hwang Seong-yeon into essence along with the mana stone. Thanks to that, natural communication like this is possible.”

A man tossing the fact that he conducted a biological experiment as a light joke.

At that psychopath-like laugh, Hwang Seong-yeon murmured in a low voice.

“… What a boring story.”

“Oh. I heard the news. Hwang Dong-yeon was arrested. I heard that it is your younger brother, but you must be heartbroken.”

“I don’t really have that kind of feeling.”

“hahahaha. is that so? But I’m heartbroken. He was a necromancer who applied with great ambition in Ludenark.”

It was true.

An undead army created by Hwang Dong-yeon.

If the material and manpower support had been brought from ＜Villain＞, the entire research process to create him was borrowed from the man in front of him.

Having lost all of them and returned, in fact, even with ten mouths, there was nothing to say.

However, Hwang Seong-yeon was not interested in such a complicated internal situation.

“Are your plans disrupted?”

“at all. No problem at all. The key to our plan is Hwang Seong-yeon, the true owner of the demonic sword Dine Slip, rather than that summoner.”

Anyway, it was because there was nothing that deviated greatly from the contents of the contract between the man and Hwang Seong-yeon.

widely-

Seongyeon Hwang sat with her back on one side of the cave.

And slowly, he brought out the main topic.

“I found the dungeon you mentioned. A place where you can feel the thick smell of blood, the smell of wolves, and strong magic power.”

“Oh oh-! Is it really?”

“… But I was unable to enter. Unlike other dungeons, it seems to require special items.”

“Ah, no problem with that. It’s important that you found it anyway. Because someday, when that dungeon opens, Hwang Seong-yeon should be able to catch up.”

The man who made a fuss and gestured here and there…

Soon, he stopped looking at Hwang Seong-yeon.

I couldn’t quite see it, but somehow I had a feeling that his face would be full of smiles.

“The important thing is Lycan. Those lesser wolves are not going to be freed. As long as they remain subordinate to our Ludenarch, the plan will be successful.”

At the man’s words, Hwang Seong-yeon also nodded quietly.

In an Antarctic crevasse.

A special cave covered in darkness.

in it

Truths that have not yet been revealed to anyone…

It was pouring like a whirlpool.