As Dokja comes back, he sees Hyunsung acting all friendly towards Ken.
"So, you are awake."
Hearing it, Ken looks towards Dokja. He tries to say something, but it's like his voice is gone and his body starts to shake.
Fuck! Fuck myself! Why has my voice stopped?! Fuck! I'm too nervous, my body is also losing its strength! Ken thought.
Dokja takes his friends with him to discuss some kind of plan. Before going back, he looks towards Ken for a while and goes back.
Ken, left standing there thought. Right! If I remember correctly, they somehow started the whole monster wave in one go somehow and had Gong Pildu take them out… and made him their contract slave… kind of.
"But… how did they do it again?"
He ran towards the direction they went and found them. They were discussing something.
"Take me in!" Ken, without any thought asked them to let him join them.
Everyone was surprised for a while and didn't really want to take him in. To convince them, Ken takes the pair of his gloves off and gives them to Dokja.
[Hand gloves of a thief.]
[Grade: C.]
[Description: A pair of gloves used by a thief. Increases agility by 1.]
Seeing this, even Dokja was shocked, as items that increase stats were extremely rare.
"Why are you giving me this?" Dokja asks.
"Of course because I want to be in your team. You wouldn't let me tag along for no reason, would you?" Ken replies.
But just when Dokja is about to say anything, Hyunsung interrupts him.
"I think you should take him in! He made it to Chungmuro station, all the way from Bogwang-dong."
This leaves Dokja a bit shocked, as he thinks about something for a while and gives him the gloves back.
"W-why are you giving it back?"
"You can have it, It's yours anyway." Dokja replies.
"Then does that mean I'm in?!"
Dokja looks at him and answers. "Yes."
He slowly explains the plan to everyone, including Ken.
—***—
Jung Heewon, Lee Gilyoung, Yoo Sangha, and finally Ken.
Jung Heewon, Yoo Sangha and Lee Gilyoung. And Ken, alone.
When the three ask him about why he is going alone, he answers. "I might be bad at fighting compared to everyone, but overall, I'm stronger."
They look at him for a moment and let him off by himself. Before parting ways, he calls out to them and asks. "If it is really necessary… I-I mean, suppose someone tries to kill me, can I… kill them?"
At his question, everyone looks at him with a slight hint of confusion. But after a little discussion between themselves, they let him off.
He goes towards the opposite side of what others were going towards.
As he walks around, he checks the time left until the third scenario starts.
"There are quite a few green zones around… so let's get to work, shall we?"
He walks toward a green zone with 3 people limit and it's already taken.
"H-hey! Get away! This one is ours!" One of the people exclaims.
But without paying any heed to their demand, he walks toward it and takes out the metal skewers he had in the bag.
[Some constellations wonder how you are going to use them.]
[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" says that he finally understands your intention.]
I was thinking about where I will use them, but now is the perfect time for it. He thinks.
He takes multiple of them in his hand and says. "It's really not my fault to be honest."
The people in the green zone shouts at him to get away, but suddenly. Clang!
A sharp sound came and vanished as quickly as it came. He struck the metal skewer he had into the slab.
Suddenly the green zone that was there disappeared.
The people that were inside the green zone were extremely shocked and started to panic. Though, again, Ken really didn't care much.
"Oh. I didn't really expect it to work."
"Was this how the wave came out in one go? Well, why try to remember something that I can't, and is about to happen anyways."
He looks at other green zones that were around, as he picks up the skewer he just struck, he starts to run towards another zone like a madman.
The zone he was running towards, the people saw what he did to the last zone. They tried to retaliate.
But before they could, he struck another skewer into their zone and the zone disappeared.
He ran towards another one, and did the same, and kept on doing it.
"Hahaha! This is actually quite fun! I didn't really think it would be like this!"
He kept on going and striking the metal skewers down. And then just when he was about to strike the last one he had.
It…hurts. The first thought he had was that it hurts.
When he looked at his stomach, one of the skewers he had placed was in his stomach. He looked in front of him.
The man who was holding it and stabbed him was giggling at him. "I know I can't beat you, and you might kill me."
"And this is definitely not enough to kill you. So, I just used the only skill I had."
He looked at the blood flowing out, it was black. He immediately knew what it could be.
"Is it poison?!"
The person had a face that was emanating both fear and joy at the same time. "Y-yes! Even if my skill does not do much, it can poison anyone and will stay there until the target dies!"
This time, instead of striking the metal skewer in the ground, he struck it in the person's head, immediately killing him.
[You obtained 1,234 coins.]
He slowly takes out the metal skewer from his stomach as he thought. It hurts! It hurts! It fucking hurts like hell!
His eyes started to tear up as he finally took it out.
"Huff… Huff… luckily.. I got this not long ago."
[Personal skill: Poison resistance (lvl 2)]
The wound on his stomach quickly heals back. While the poison, still inside his body slowly starts to dissipate.
"Guess that hell was not for nothing."
[Multiple constellations feel exhilarated because of your actions.]
As Ken calms his mind down. He looks around, there are still some zones intact.
"Let's break those things too… this time, while also taking those metal skewers with me back."
After a while, he finally breaks the remaining ones there. The others did not try to retaliate like the man did, as they saw what he could do.
With the last green zone gone, the system messages start to pop up.
[All the green zone in the station has been destroyed, the main scenario's system has been overloaded.]
[The difficulty of the scenario will be adjusted according to the remaining scenario's duration.]
[Main scenario 3]
[Difficulty B]
[Description: All the green zones in the scenario have been destroyed, all the remaining monsters in the scenario will be released. Survive until the duration ends.]
[Duration: 8 hours.]
[Reward: 1,000 coins.]
[Penalty for failure: Death.]