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EP.103 If You Let Your Guard Down, You'll Get Taken From Behind♪
We arrived at the location.
It was the place marked by the coordinates.
Not Nowon-gu, but Jungnang-gu.
A place close to Bonghwasan mountain where the World Tree had grown.
It was an information library that could be said to be at the foot of Bonghwasan.
We arrived in front of the library and looked around carefully. There were no people visible for now.
Ivy glanced towards the World Tree.
"I'm glad we're not going closer to the World Tree."
"Yeah, that's true. But why did they tell us to come here?"
"The reason will probably come out soon, right?"
"Let's go in!"
Since we came all this way.
We decided to go in.
The coordinates must be pointing inside there anyway.
Though we're in a situation closer to the World Tree. Let's not worry about it.
The World Tree seen from here was extremely huge.
A tree rising high as if to cover the entire sky of the world, countless branches spreading in all directions.
And even pink leaves hanging on those branches.
'Wait, pink?'
It was a bit strange.
They're not flower petals, so why are the leaves pink?
Is it because of the color?
Or just because of the mood?
It felt very bizarre.
The leaves seemed somewhat plump for leaves.
Trying to shake off the bizarreness, I entered the library with Ivy.
The interior was very pleasant.
The library itself wasn't large but was cozy.
The first floor was clean and quiet.
It didn't feel like anyone owned it, there wasn't even a trace of people.
For now, there was no one on the first floor.
'Then the second floor?'
They wouldn't have marked coordinates to come to a place like this for no reason.
They said they'd have us do something. It must be on the second floor then.
By the way, this is my first time coming to this library. I've at least heard the name of the sports center next door since it's somewhat famous.
This is my first time setting foot in this library.
'It looks like a two-story building at a glance.'
We went up to the second floor.
As soon as we went up, we saw a change.
Ivy pointed somewhere.
"That... could it be?"
"It's a dungeon."
A notification rang out at the same time.
[2-person team players 'Sung Ikhyun', 'Ivy Araujo' arrival confirmed.]
[This objective: Clear the dungeon before you.]
They had us do something simpler and more ordinary than expected. That's good for us.
"Ikhyun, let's go! Let's take care of it in one go!"
"Yeah, this is easy."
We both entered the dungeon at the same time.
I looked at the dungeon information right before entering.
[Heterogeneous LA Street]
-Composition: Open field, Infinite
-Difficulty: ★4
-Objective: Defeat Named
-Reward: 10000DP, Random Ultra Rare Item x2
※Main composition: All heteromorphs
'What are heteromorphs?'
They sound like monsters I've never heard of before.
And the scenery spread out before our eyes.
Though I've never been on an overseas trip.
And never ridden a plane.
The LA street I often saw on TV, always bustling with people, spread out.
I was surprised. It's my first time in a foreign country.
"Wow...!"
"This is LA? I wanted to come here."
"Ivy, you've never been?"
"Yeah, I wanted to go but never had the chance, and the agency only scheduled me for Asia."
"Those bastards anyway. Let's look around slowly."
"Okay! If it's defeating a Named, there must be something like a boss, right?"
"That's right."
I took out the Iris Sword saying I'd use it this time.
Though it should be the Iris Sword Hong Gil-dong used, its design and atmosphere were very heterogeneous because they were so dark.
'What kind of prank is this? Is it originally like this?'
As we advanced calmly, we heard signs of movement.
Two people came out of a nearby cafe.
What, it was giving apocalypse vibes.
I felt like I might have a brain freeze at the sudden thought of having to use English.
I stopped. It wasn't because of English.
The appearance of the two people was bizarre.
They looked like ordinary American citizens.
But their heads were swollen as if about to burst. They looked like aliens, not humans.
And at the ends of their heads, two eyes protruded lengthwise like snails.
Their ash-colored eyes were staring at us. It felt very unpleasant.
As if recognizing us, the two slowly turned their heads.
Then they rushed at us.
"Are they zombies?"
"Those must be the heteromorphs!"
I ran towards them gripping my sword tightly.
But Ivy was faster.
"Haaat!"
Ivy who was running lowered her body.
As the opponent slowly threw a punch, Ivy planted one hand on the ground.
She lifted her lower body as if dancing and launched a kick.
The heteromorph's neck flew off cleanly.
I swung the Iris Sword while marveling.
I cut off the neck of the heteromorph that was trying to aim for my back.
Just as I thought I had cut cleanly.
The head floating in the air trembled. What?
The two heads that looked like they would fall any moment.
Suddenly shone with a golden light.
"Hm?"
They inflated like balloons, then burst.
"Ah, shit!"
Kwahang!
At that moment, I reached out my hand.
I grabbed Ivy's wrist and activated my shadow ability.
A heavy boom sounded from behind us. We became shadows and seeped into the ground.
For a moment it felt vaguely like we had fallen into water.
Then we rose up again.
Ivy swallowed dryly in surprise.
"Huk, what was that just now?"
"It's my ability. Anyway, these guys are dangerous."
"Yeah, they look like ugly aliens, but they explode just from having their heads blown off!"
"Close combat seems a bit dangerous."
I took out a gun.
Ivy confidently raised her fists.
"Hit&Run! We just need to do it well!"
As expected, she's always full of confidence.
She shines on her surroundings like the sun.
Looking at her, I felt my confidence rising too.
"Let's go."
"Okay!"
The strange thing is these guys don't give point or skill rewards.
They're fucking vicious.
'It's exactly the same as back then.'
I remembered the bodyguard time and felt a bad taste in my mouth. Is there really a need for this?
We continued advancing like that, encountering and defeating several heteromorphs as we went on.
As we dealt with them, it seemed we were getting used to the heteromorphs.
As we were going for a while, we heard a call for help.
"Help me!"
I was startled.
Though it seemed to be speaking English, it sounded like our language.
A woman had collapsed and was soaked in blood.
She was pitifully asking for help.
Ivy ran right over.
"Are you okay?"
"Uk, please, save me, heuheuk, there are strange things around..."
We decided to watch for now.
Ivy supported the woman and helped her.
The woman with a pale complexion shed tears.
"Haah, thank you."
"Were you alone?"
"I had a partner, but they got caught in an explosion, heuheuk."
The woman was crying as if wronged.
Anyway, we have something to do.
"Let's keep going for now."
"Okay."
As we were about to go somewhere, the woman immediately panicked.
"Please, don't go towards that factory! I'm begging you!"
"What?"
"There's something huge over there. Something really scary!"
That makes me want to go even more.
She's tempting us first.
"Don't worry, we came to resolve that!"
As Ivy reassured her, the woman just shed tears.
We set our direction towards the factory.
America is basically a large landmass.
So it took quite some time no matter where we went.
No wonder Earth is the channel owner's main map. Channel owner's cheat map!
The road to the factory was quiet.
There was nothing there.
After arriving at the factory and looking around, I shrugged.
I was about to take out the Lightning badge wondering what would come out.
'There's really nothing?'
It was quiet to a strange degree.
What, she said there was something scary.
I turned my head to ask the woman where it was.
"Huh?"
The woman had changed.
Her head lengthened upwards and swelled, and she was grinning while hugging Ivy from behind.
"Huhahaha! How stupid! Humans are so easy as expected!"
"You...?"
As Ivy turned around in bewilderment, the woman aimed at me.
"Hey, you. Don't move. The creatures living on this planet are all stupid? Getting drawn into unnecessary relationships!"
Well, this was within expectations too.
Too honest.
"You're the boss?"
"Boss? I don't know what you're saying but don't do anything rash..."
"Then die."
[Heroes signal: Lightning!]
"Cast off! Change stream!"
I transformed and ran right away.
I narrowed the distance in one breath while pushing my speed to the limit.
I cut off the woman's neck with a knife hand in one go.
"Ivy!"
"Yeah! Thanks!"
Both I and Ivy ran. We ran.
We moved away from the factory at tremendous speed. And the head left behind exploded.
At the moment we moved away, the factory was caught in the explosion and burst completely.
A blockbuster-level chain explosion like you'd see in movies occurred.
We retreated like that and caught our breath. Whew, that was close.
"We survived. Fufu, to think there would be such a twist. But it was within expectations!"
"Yeah."
[Objective cleared!]
[Exiting!]
We received the dungeon rewards as we exited like that.
I gave everything to Ivy.
"Take it, become stronger with what you have!"
"Hiing, thank you. We came all this way, shall we go to the rooftop?"
"Sure. The weather's nice too."
We went up to the rooftop together.
It was a really peaceful atmosphere.
It should have been.
"Huh?"
Ivy pointed at the World Tree. Her hand was trembling.
I looked at the World Tree wondering what it was.
Leaves were falling. Like cherry blossom petals on a spring day.
I was about to ask Ivy what it was. But I saw it.
The fallen leaves suddenly transforming into monsters.
An impossible thing happened.
Now that I look at it, the shape of the leaves resembled hearts.
Ah, I see.
So that's why it felt strange when I saw it earlier!
"What is this...?"
"This can't be!"
The generated monsters stood up one by one. They each roared and ran off in all directions.
And the peaceful daily life.
Changed to screams and wails of death.
This atmosphere I thought would be peaceful, that peace plummeted in an instant.
As expected, it was the apocalypse.
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