CH 166

Hoshi’s bow.

“Oh my god!”

Yoo Ha-eul swung a knife at the parasitic species, making a scream that was close to screaming.

Baek Ho-min and Kang Hae-jin watched her battle from afar. Both felt a little complicated, but Kang Hae-jin’s stomach was a little more complicated than Baek Ho-min.

“Kanglim-ah is a scaredy-cat, so I thought she would definitely struggle more.”

“Five-story parasites reflect other people’s feelings”.”

“Yeah. But I can’t even deal with him.”

“Gasp, giggle, giggle!” Candle, tentacles! That’s gross!”

Would those parasitic species have imagined that they would be cut off by their opponents screaming and whining like that?

Baek Ho-min, who was watching her fight, tilted his head.

“Surprisingly, Yoo Ha-eul is fearless”.”

“No, I don’t think so. It’s really scary to see that constellation Geomuk keeps saying, “It’s useful if you just fix your mind.”…”

“You’re so talented that you can surpass that?””

“The stronger the opponent, the more desperate she becomes.”

The two looked at Yoo Ha-eul again with a complex expression.

Yoo Ha-eul seemed to win by a narrow margin even though she struggled at the same level as the parasitic species on the second floor or the parasitic species on the fifth floor.

I wondered if I could cry up to the top of the tower like this.

“I think I know why Geomuk can’t let her go.”

However, Kang hajin shook his head.

“No, but I won’t last long like that.” I’ve never heard of a hunter whose mental state is shaken lasts a long time.”

“Didn’t you talk about it since you were on the 2nd floor?””

Instead of thinking complicatedly, the two decided to think that they were just Yoo Ha-eul’s characters.

Yoo Ha-eul organized all the parasitic species about 10 minutes later.

When I heard her scream, I wondered if more parasitic species would flock, but nothing was added.

As the number of parasitic species went up, it felt increasingly rare.

“Kanglim, you did a great job.”

“Ugh, hah. I don’t like it anymore.”….”

Yoo Ha-eul stumbled as Kang Ha-jin approached and began to nausea on the floor. Kang hajin patted her back and looked up.

“You’re on the 45th floor soon.” But I think the atmosphere changes a little from here.”

Baek Ho-min looked around. Red crystals were decreasing.

The structure itself was becoming more precarious as the red crystals that were making the ruins like rusty cities decreased.

Even the floor was thinning, and the number of floors and walls with broken or sharp cross sections was increasing. However, the skeleton itself was strong, so it did not fall or anything. There were only a growing number of hunters who were hurt little by unstable ground.

“Come to think of it, don’t you think you’ve seen the style of the building somewhere?””

Kang Hae-jin tilted his head to Baek Ho-min’s question.

“I don’t know.” Was there a building like this in the tower?”

“Isn’t it the same shape as the land that was buried in the dark?””

The answer was heard from behind, not from Baek Ho-min.

It was Haru.

Baek Ho-min approached her with a surprised look.

“Haru? What? You’re speaking in a normal way now”. Did you get out of the shadow?”

“No… I haven’t escaped from the abyss of black salt yet.”

Haru said, pulling a pure gold dog necklace around her neck.

“As the stars over there led, it became easier to control the black salt mausoleum of the abyss. And until now, you have collected the convenience of the stars you didn’t pick up and threw away to reinforce the necklace. As a result, I took a step forward from the abyss to heaven.”

“You’re ending it. I think you’re normal now.”

“It’s not to that extent yet. Sometimes I want to groove and vomit my fur.”

Kang hajin tried to interpret Haru’s words for a while and said, looking at Baek Ho-min.

“You don’t look normal at all.””

“It’s because you’ve never talked to a four-character idiom that’s just cool and ominous, but has no meaning.”

Haru patted the pure gold dog necklace and looked down at the floor.

However, wearing this weakens the power of the abyss’ black salt mausoleum. Instead, there’s another way to use it……”

“No, more than that, what were you talking about earlier?” Land that’s buried in the dark? What does that mean?”

Haru closed her mouth for a moment and looked somewhere with a complex look.

“I mean the land across the river. Southern Seoul.”

“Do dog necklace workshop trainers call it that poetic?””

“No, I’m the only one who calls it that.””

Haru passed Baek Ho-min and went to Yuha.

Yoo Ha-eul flinched, but Haru hit the wall she was leaning on without paying attention to her.

The moment my hand, surrounded by the leather of the shadow masu, hit the wall, a loud crackling sound rang out.

In the black darkness that spread inside the broken glass, the Yueul freaked out and stepped back.

It is said that in the golden age of mankind, the construction method of wrapping the outer wall of the building with glass was often used. Especially in Gangnam, such farming was very popular. There must be quite a few buildings like that in the city now.”

“Oh, I’ve seen it in an alley.” That’s a really hideous object. Why was that so popular?”

Glass is consumable. You can’t last as long as you think.

Instead of getting and inserting glass, which is hard to find, people in the city built bricks or attached open-close windows.

However, it could not have been a normal Molgol because the entire building was surrounded by outer walls.

“It’s now a luxurious building that even pension workshops can’t handle, but it was common then.”

Haru answered without sincerity, but that was not what matters now anyway. The important thing was why such a building was here.

“Anyway, if this is an old-fashioned style…”… Who put this up in the middle of the tower?”

The four looked up at the tower without saying a word.

Moktukgaksi opened their eyes.

What she saw as soon as she opened her eyes were the purple eyes of Platinum Lord, who were very close together.

Mokttukgaksi had convulsions when she inhaled and felt her jaw clogged.

Then Platinum Lord forced something into her mouth. As Potion permeated my throat, I managed to breathe comfortably.

After a while, Moktukgaksi struggled to open her mouth with a cracking voice.

“Continue to be by my side…”Were you there?”

“No. I just woke you up.”

Moktukgaksi recalled the wounds she had suffered before losing consciousness.

None of the criminals he dealt with in Moktukgaksi survived after suffering such wounds.

I wanted to ask you what you were doing, forcing a critically ill patient among critically ill patients to wake up even if you didn’t expect to be by your side.

“I’m arriving on the 45th floor soon.” Moktukgaksi.”

“Is there a problem…””

“If it’s the way it is, it’s not there.” But the 45th floor is not what you think it is.”

Moktukgaksi looked at Platinum Lord with an expression full of questions.

“To be honest, I’m glad you’re in a state of being unable to move for the time being. I think you can’t handle it from the 45th floor. “No, it must be the same for a turtle or a dead man.”

“What…” You mean?”

“What we have encountered so far has been the vague fear of abstraction. However, from the 45th floor, we all encounter a common trauma.”

Moktukgaksi did not know what Platinum Lord was saying.

The guardian of the five-story gate was difficult, but he was not a very complicated opponent.

However, the number of hunters who saw the five-story system was extremely rare after the tower twisted and lost Fort Floor.

Of course, it was not the first time Platinum Lord spoke as if she knew the future.

“Personally, I think it could be the biggest crisis for constellation-class people. So we have to expect a lot from young talent. So I tried to make a new constellation underneath, but it eventually failed.”

“That’s how the constellation was created…”… It’s meaningless.”

“The meaning is given by the people who live, Moktukgaksi.””

Platinum Lord smiled languidly and stabbed Moktukgaksi in the cheek. Moktukgaksi turned her head with an uncomfortable look.

“What’s above…” What'”

“The guardian of the gate on the 50th floor.””

Platinum Lord smiled and said.

“I call it ‘Hodaegi’.”

“When you were in your family?”

“You can call it a good time.”

Platinum Lord smiled, lifted her empty eyes and looked out of the old window.

“It could be called a city-level regression.”

“This is…”

“It’s a new building no matter how you look at it.””

The entrance to the 45th floor.

As I went up the corner along the wall of the collapsing building, the group suddenly felt a complete change in atmosphere.

The red crystals now disappeared like washing, and instead legs and railings made of clean, clean white marble appeared.

Baek Ho-min was surprised and embarrassed by the existence of a “rail” and touched it.

“I’m thinking that the ‘rail’ is the crystal of humanity.”

“It’s not time to care about handrails. Look over there.”

Baek Ho-min turned his head and looked at the place Kang ha-jin pointed.

A new landscape emerged as the top, which had not been seen until now due to numerous ruins and red decisions, opened up.

Neatly built buildings were densely built along the cliff walls.

Numerous bridges and stairs connecting the building were lined up.

Hunters, who had only seen ruins or harsh natural scenery until now, couldn’t close their mouths and looked at the scenery in front of them.

Kang hajin tilted his head as if wondering.

“What’s that? Top?”

Among them, what stood out at once was a huge tower in the center.

A pagoda that rises upside down from the ceiling toward the basement like a huge stalactite.

Baek Ho-min looked at Kang Hae-jin with a surprised look.

“What? You don’t know what that is?””

“It’s familiar to my eyes…”…”

“Are you a fool? It’s Youngjoo!””

Although upside down, Baek Ho-min, who had only been watching from afar for decades, immediately recognized what the tower was.

On the contrary, Kang ha-jin lived only near Yeongjuseong Fortress the whole time, so it was natural that he could not recognize his overall appearance immediately.

Kang ha-jin, who was pointed out by Baek Ho-min as an idiot, lost his temper for a moment, but he had no choice but to accept it.

“Why is Youngjoo in the middle of the tower?”

It was difficult for Baek Ho-min to answer the question.

However, it was not only Yeongju that could not be explained. Lights were lit throughout the city, and moving silhouettes were also visible.

It was not just a vague ruin, but a city where living beings breathe.

It was then. Back Ho-min grabbed the knife reflexively.

“What’s that?”

“Someone is coming”.

Someone was approaching from over the white hallway. Kang ha-jin took out a dagger in no time at a calm pace that he could not hide.

It was a woman with a normal impression and bobbed hair that was approaching. No silhouette was seen hiding weapons in simple daily clothes.

She strode up to the other side of the hallway, where armed hunters roared, without any sign of fear.

With the impression that it seemed so normal, Baek Ho-min was agonizing over how close she had to come to attack.

“Stop.”

Kang Hae-jin opened his mouth as if cutting off Baek Ho-min’s worries. The bobbed-haired woman stopped as she was told. She opened her eyes wide and spoke to Kang hajin.

“Uh… Where are you from?””

“What?”

“You’re not a member of the association”. Are you from another top? Do you have ID or passport?”

Baek Ho-min and Kang Hae-jin looked at each other with embarrassed expressions. I didn’t know what the woman was talking about.

The woman also looked puzzled and pulled something out.

Kang hajin almost threw a dagger, but managed to stop when he saw that what the woman took out was not a weapon.

“Yes, I’d like to ask the person in charge of the expedition.” Yes.”

The woman began to whisper to the object she had taken out.

Baek Ho-min was worried that he had to destroy that suspicious object even now, but no one could get out of this situation.

Even the constellations were expected to respond, but as expected, the constellations did not respond.

“Yes, yes. Oh, that kind of thing…… It would have been better if you had spread the situation earlier…. What? Haha, yes. It’s people like us who get hit. Then I’ll follow the instructions.”

The woman soon hung up the phone and smiled socially at the hunters.

“You can come this way.”

“What?”

“Aren’t you on your way up?””

“That’s true…”…”

“You’re not going to take the stairs, are you?””

“… Is there a staircase?”

“Not all of them can take the elevator, but I’ll guide you to the escalator.”

The woman took the lead and walked, leaving the hunters behind with a blank look. Then, when no one followed, she looked at them again with a strange look.

She soon smiled once again at work with a look of realization, wondering if she had missed something.

“Oh, welcome.” I’m shadowing your visit to Seoul.”