Ken, exhausted after running for a long time under the poisonous gas, finally reaches the Geumho station.
The poison has already affected him too much, and the condition of his body isn't looking as great as it was.
"Ugh.. Finally… fresh air." He trips on a stair and rolls down until he hits the underground.
"Crap!" He gets multiple bruises in his body.
"Ugh.. I feel like half of the strength in my body is gone…"
"Luckily I'm still way stronger than any human before all these started. Stronger even compared to most of the average incarnations."
Suddenly the blue screen pops up.
[You have entered an area under the second scenario.]
[You are now eligible for the second scenario.]
"Ah shit. Here it goes again." He quickly takes out all of the snacks and any other foods he had in his bag and starts to eat them like a maniac.
[A penalty has been enforced upon
you.]
[You can't store any kind of food here anymore.]
[A penalty has been enforced upon you.]
[You have to pay 100 coins as a midnight payment. If unable to pay, you will be eliminated.]
At that very moment, all of his food from the bag and his hands just suddenly disappeared.
"Luckily I somehow remembered this one detail. Though I was lucky to eat enough to fill my stomach."
Then suddenly a thought struck him.
"By the way, where is the dokkaebi that was supposed to be streaming this channel?"
[Some constellations ask if you just realized that.]
[Some constellations say that sometimes they just abandon a channel and somehow, but rarely the bureau doesn't notice it.]
"So… they literally just kept the stream going and abandoned the management? I don't remember any details like this one."
Before he could think anymore, some people approached him.
"Hey, who are you? Nobody is supposed to be late coming to this place."
Ken hastily replies. "Uh.. I was in a safe zone the whole time and too afraid to go out, and only after my supplies ran out did I come here."
One of the people says. "Acting like a kid at this age."
Ken seems a bit surprised at first, but then realizes the reason.
He takes his mask and cap off and says. "Sorry, but I'm only 15 right now. And 14 years and 10 months to be exact."
His height somehow grew from 5 '2 to 5' 6 after all that training.
I was always kinda conscious about my height and never expected it to grow like this. He thought.
The people looked a bit surprised and then warned him about the situation in the place before going away.
[Some constellations are extremely surprised by your age.]
"Well.. That is the case, did you think I'm 17 or so, huh?"
[Constellation "The dead man who came back" asks if Geumho station is really your destination.]
"Of course not, I'm going to Chungmuro station. But… I think I will rest for a while, the poison affected me a lot."
But he suddenly stands up and says, "Though, who cares anyway."
[Some constellations are worried about you.]
[Constellation "Masochist of Joseon" gives you 100 coins for your willpower.]
He takes off for Chungmuro station, and starts walking on the railway.
After walking for a while, he finds some weird looking monsters.
[Tier 7 subterranean creatures, Ground rats.]
"From where the fuck do these look like rats?!"
He tries to unsheathe the sword he had. But it takes too much time because of his clumsiness.
At that time one of them jumps at him and. A loud thud sound can be heard.
He punches the rat and then kicks it, throwing it away from him.
"Crap! Seems like this is not going to work that way."
He takes the sword, still the sheath on, and starts to use it as a club of sorts.
One of the rats jumps at him.
He uses the sword and hits it on the head and keeps repeating until it's dead.
While that is happening, another rat bites his leg. But he somehow manages to throw it off.
Seeing how much he lacks skills, he just starts to throw punches around.
After a while, the place bloodied, so is Ken. Has already killed all of the monsters there.
Suddenly his injuries began to heal.
"Ugh.. It feels like someone is sucking my energy out. Actually, I should have used more magic power, so it could be level 3 at least."
He gets a quest about cooking rat meat and eating it. He first thought of ignoring it, as he didn't have anything to cook with.
Then he remembers something. "Right! Both Joonghyuk and Dokja got that fire thing from there, so I might also get something."
He keeps on going and finds a hole that leads towards the habitat of the ground rats.
"Damn… there are quite a bit of rats here and… this dark whatever that was called. It sure is way bigger than what I thought it is."
A big corpse of a monster lying there before him.
"I think its name was.. Warden of.. something I can't quite remember."
"But that is not the main reason I came here."
There is a chest there.
"This is where the main cast got the thing to cook those rats."
But before he could head towards the chest another rat attacked him.
But this time he could predict which direction it would come from and kicked it.
Before he could finish it off, a headache started. "I think I really should have rested for a while there."
He somehow shakes it off and kills the rat.
"Ugh.. I feel like… my breath is getting shorter… Did my asthma start?"
".. My asthma is only mild, so it should be the work of the poison. Crap… the poison that entered me is getting more and more serious as time goes by.."
He heads towards the chest and opens it.
[Hand gloves of a thief.]
[Grade: C.]
[Description: A pair of gloves used by a thief. Increases agility by 1.]
"Well.. I didn't get the item I came here for. But better than the random gloves I'm wearing right now."
He takes his old gloves off and wears the new pair.
"I should head to Chungmuro before my condition worsens."
He heads towards the hole he came here from. "Luckily this anime filter… pfft.. Anyway, this thing is actually letting me see some things even in the dark."
After a while he gets out of the place and continues his journey.
He comes across multiple dead bodies of both humans and rats.
But his condition keeps on worsening and he doesn't have the luxury to waste his time here.
He keeps on walking as his legs keep on getting slower and slower.
[Some constellations are extremely worried about you.]
[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" tells you to not give up.]
[The constellation "The masochist of Joseon" gives you 100 coins.]
[The constellation "The dead man who came back" gives you 100 coins.]
[The constellation "Merchant of Venice" gives you 100 coins.]
Even though all that was directed at him, he doesn't notice them as his mind has become too slow for that.
He keeps slouching forward, step by step.
[Main scenario 2.]
[Head to the main base completed.]
[Reward: 500 coins.]
"Did.. I reach this goddamned place?"
His vision has become blurry and he sees a silhouette.
The person is saying something. "Hey! Are you okay?!"
He says something to that person's ear before passing out.