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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Theatre dungeon

Ken, recognizing her, asks for his bag back. But she does not, and asks about how he got all these.

"Ugh..first of all… I have to heal the rest of these." Ken says, groaning from pain because of the injuries in his body.

Slowly his wounds start to knit back together, starting from the blood vessels to nerves to flesh.

 After that, most of his injuries are healed except one in his leg.

"I don't think I will ever get used to seeing someone's body regenerating this grotesquely." Jihye exclaims.

"Even then, it's still better than those stories where the characters regenerate in an instant, and doesn't even feel pain." 

"Don't all of you agree?" Ken says.

[Multiple constellations agree with you.]

"See it? Even the constellations agree with this."

"And… in the future, you have to get used to seeing things even more bizarre."

Jihye looks at him for a moment with a hint of confusion. 

"But… doesn't it hurt?"  Jihye asks.

"... What do you think?" Ken replies.

"Well… it does look like it hurts like hell. Not only do the injuries definitely hurt, but the regeneration in itself looks like it hurts more." Jihye says.

"Of course it hurts! It's claw wounds, bites, and bullets we are talking about. Though, the regeneration doesn't hurt as bad as you think."

"As you might know, we need our nervous system to feel things such as touch, or anything like that, even pain. So, my nerves just heal late, which is why the signals go too late and it also hurts less." 

After hearing all these, Jihye looks at him for a moment and says, "Nerd" and walks away to inform others.

After Jihye is gone, Ken slowly starts to feel hunger. Intense one at that.

"Fuck… did I use most of my energy the last time after my Magic power was completely drained?"

Then he suddenly looks at his hand and finds two bracelets. The ones Sangha gave him when he was unconscious, to recover his Magic power.

"No wonder I felt like my Magic power was recovering way faster than it used to."

Then suddenly someone lunges at him. It was Hyunsung, who was also the most worried about him.

But his tantrum was too much for Ken, who was already in a weakened state, and still had a pretty big injury on his leg.

Lee Jihye informed everyone about him waking up. Gilyoung standing on Sangha's side. 

Ken takes off his bracelets and gives them back to Sangha, even though she wanted him to wear those for a bit longer, so that he could recover more Magic power.

"It is not needed. As I think I have enough to heal the last one." As his last wound on the leg slowly knits back, healing it.

When he tries to stand up. He realises that he can't muster up strength in his legs, nor his body.

[Constellation "The masochist of Joseon" tells incarnation Lee Hyunsung to feed Ken as much as possible.]

Lee Hyunsung nods and walks away somewhere, when he comes back, he had food that Gong Pildu had stockpiled.

Even though Ken wanted to eat on his own, Hyunsung, in the name of feeding Ken, just kept stuffing them in his mouth until there was no more food left.

Hyunsung happily walks away while Ken is just lying down, stomach about to burst open.

"Why… is… he like that? I don't really remember him being all goody-two-shoes."

After a while, he starts to do push ups, then squats, stretches, pull ups. And all kinds of exercise he knew.

When Jung Heewon comes up to check on him, she only gets to see more of Ken's eccentric side.

"What are you doing over there?" She asks.

Ken, finally noticing her, replies. "I was just releasing excess energy. Hyunsung made me eat way too much."

"But… ugh. The things you ate should be taking another hour just to dissolve and turn into energy. So where are you getting the excess energy?" Heewon asks.

"Well.. You can think that it's related to my skill."

He says that and heads towards his bag that Jihye left on the corner. He takes it and strides towards the staircase.

"Seems like everyone is enjoying the view of all this chaos, huh?" Ken says.

Everyone looks in his direction. Hyunsung being what he always has been, becomes happy to see Ken all good.

Suddenly, Gilyoung, who has been quiet most of the time, speaks up. "But… aren't your clothes way too bloody right now?"

Ah, fuck! Why does he always stay silent, and only speaks with the intent to hurt my soul? Ken thought.

"Well… It's not posing any problem for me, so it's fine." Ken says.

"But wouldn't monsters be attracted to the smell of blood?" Gilyoung replies.

Fuck! Again! Why is he like that?! I don't remember my boy Gilyoung being this rude. Ken thought, again.

Ignoring all these, he sits right next to Dokja, and asks. "Am I finally in?"

"Didn't you join us just this morning? Oh, should I say yesterday as it's nearly midnight." Dokja replies.

"I know that you just took me in as a candidate because of what Hyunsung said to you about me."

Hearing this, Dokja gives a light smile and stands up, before heading out, he tells Hyunsung to give some kind of potions at Pildu every 40 minutes by throwing them at him.

After that he heads out. Ken, at first, not understanding what is happening, sees Lee Jihye also running towards them.

Just at that time, a memory struck him.

"Right! The theatre dungeon!"

He leaves the job to Lee Hyunsung and Yoo Sangha, and also chases after them.

After a while, he reaches a place.

[You have discovered a hidden dungeon.]

[It has already been discovered. The discovery achievement cannot be obtained.]

[A new hidden scenario has arrived.]

As he enters the place, the system window pops up again

[Theatre dungeon.]

[Category: Hidden.]

[Difficulty: A]

[Description: Defeat the master of the theatre dungeon.]

[Reward: 4,000 coins.]

[Penalty for failure: unknown.]

"Whoa… this shit is cooler than I expected, kind of gives a horror vibe."

As he wanders around while admiring everything, he comes across multiple posters that have been slashed.

He keeps on moving forward and finally finds 4 people. Kim Dokja, Lee Jihye, Lee Gilyoung, Jung Heewon.

After coming into contact with the poster, a bright light hovers above them and they disappear.

"Did they get into Jurassic Park like this? Uh… I really forgot many things."

As he slowly walks in front of the poster and touches it, the same light hovers above him and suddenly he opens his eyes in a different place.

Without giving him time to rest, he hears a loud roar and sees Dokja and his entire party running away.

"Ah shit. Here we go again."

A T-Rex was chasing all of them.

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