Haroon

Harun sprints up to the third floor with a connection to the other buildings. Harun climbs up to the entrance, waiting for the rum to follow him. Then I heard someone's voice in the darkness going up to the fourth floor.

“Oh! What a friend you are. I can't believe I have time for this. Apparently he's not Special Forces, considering he's avoiding the body. ”

I was a middle-aged man who asked Harun to buy me a beer. The man's hand, coming out of the darkness towards the moonlight of the connection, holds a fist shaped like the one he just threw to them.

“What's that? ”

“Huh-huh-huh. A new weapon I invented. A chemical weapon that could disrupt neurotransmitters, even functioning smoke. ”

Harun unhooks the buttons on the faceshield one by one. It was hard to breathe because of the intense contortion of the filter with the air purification function.

In the meantime, five people, including wounded rum, came up to the junction.

“Who are you?”

Rum hesitated a little. Your right arm seems to have dislocated your shoulder. Sometimes, when you are shocked too strongly, you are dislocated like that.

“Come here. ”

Rum hesitates, but the man next to him pushes his back forward. After saving him, he was sure that he would not do harmful things to come here.

Harun hesitates and grabs the missing arm and shoulders of the oncoming rum and folds them into his body. I learned that at the Mercenary Academy. Rum's eyes widened as he screamed for a moment. He turned his shoulders and moved as before.

Different colors spread in the five eyes of Harun. But this was not a place for long talks.

“Let's go. There's nothing more to see. ”

It wasn't the physical resistance of Rum and his group that prevented Harun from taking him anywhere else, but the words of a woman who was with him.

“Harun? Harun, right? ”

Surprised, Harun looks back, and in his early twenties, a thin beauty looks frightened at him. She is quite attractive, but doesn't know her at all.

“Don't I know you? We broke a Goblin Dungeon together. ”

“Race?”

That reminds me. A female user who was with Rum when he broke the Goblin Dungeon.

Was he a priest?

I remember it being quite high level. Somehow his face is too different from what he saw there. Eyes and a small nose with a slight tail up without a twinkle. The eyes were too different from the memories.

“Harun never corrected his appearance. ”

It was only after I heard the words of the race with a surprisingly joyful face that I could understand why I didn't recognize her. It was because of Beyond's 10% appearance correction function. Rum barely corrected her appearance as he did, but even though 10% had changed, her face looked different from the sky.

“It's been a while.”

“Thank you for your help. I didn't expect it to save lives in real life, not in a game. ”

“Are you really Harun? How...? ”

Rum licks dry lips with his tongue, touching the folds with his frozen face.

“Let's not do this here. Let's go to the seal. If you don't do it right, Oregon might break into the building. ”

The prosecutor, who appears to be in his late thirties, sheds blood on the sword. He was the best swordsman in the group. As the leader of this group, he makes no hesitation to lead people to the connection.

“I didn't expect to see you here like this. Nice to meet you, Harun. I've been trying so hard to find you, and I can't see you in the game, and here you are in the real world. ”

Rum gripped Harun's hand as he went to the place called the stamp through a complicated connection between the buildings.

“It really was Harun! ”

Once, I only met him briefly in the game, but Rum felt a strong connection to Harun. I was afraid Harun would suddenly disappear because he didn't change his appearance or because he saved himself who almost died.

“Is Bjorn still doing it? ”

Harun nods at Rum's question. His gaze was following the back of those in front of him who were moving complex, but his eyes were dark.

“Where is Harun now? ”

“I was in John Castle and went to the Land of Tranquility when the Dungeon appeared. ”

“Oh, I see! When me and Race sister came looking for you at John Castle, it was already when a lot of people were headed for the Silent Lands. When I asked around about you and found the inn where you were staying, all I could hear was that you left four days ago. ”

“So where are you right now? ”

“I made it to the Plain of Tranquility late, but when I went up to the Land of Tranquility, I was amazed by the frightening northern army and the Elven Alliance. By the way, you do know that the Crown Prince broke the Dark Elves and the Northern Legion and fled the land of Silence, right? ”

“Yes. He's near the man of Paros now. ”

“Ah! I'm going back to John White Paperback now. ”

“I see. I'll see you in the game soon. ”

That said, Rum smiled brightly.

“By the way, are you really the commander of the gale mercenaries? Or did you just lend me your name as soon as it came off the air? ”

“Broadcast?”

“Yes! A while ago, Virtual Broadcaster aired a program called Discovery Game People, and you were also named Squad Leader. But Beyond and most of the real-life intelligence organizations, they're mercenaries that you've lent your name to and registered. ”

“Did you?”

I've heard that story from Henny before.

“That's right, then. ”

“What kind of answer is that? If you don't deny it, they're right. ”

“Make yourself at home. ”

Rum thought it was an unfaithful answer, but he could not reveal the truth because he made a secret deal with NPCs.

‘If you want to believe that, fine. ’

Having interpreted his identity appropriately, there was no need to make excuses for Harun who did not want to reveal his identity.

I arrived at the destination while the two of them were talking and walking. At the top of a building on the boundary of District E, it was a rooftop structure on one side of a large roof.

“This is our stamp. ”

The oldest and most skilled middle-aged man opened the door.

"The Seaweed Inspector? That's a real stamp. ’

I had never heard of such a place. It was an unexpected fact for Harun to have a place to teach swordsmanship to these residents because he immediately went to a military school operated by the military.

“Nice place. ”

There were plenty of black robes, wooden swords and protective gear on the walls, as well as stuffed puppets for training at the Mercenary Academy.

Harun smiles joyfully. Though it was indoors and a bit narrow, it reminds me of the days of the mercenary academy. I also liked this atmosphere because he was training his sword.

“It's not a great place, but it was built by a lot of people. Thank you for your help.I 'm Iron. ”

“Harun.”

Harun felt a strong fondness for Iron Hero as soon as he grabbed his rock-hard palm. Looking closely, the thin sword across one side of his face looked a little ugly, but predicting pleasant words and training made him think that he was a natural unaccounted for rarely in real life.

“This is my brother-in-law, Priest, Vailian and Used. Four skilled men. ”

I don't know how long four things have been going on, but they were talented enough to handle Org Dussel on their own.

“It's called bailout. Thank you for rescuing me. ”

It seemed cold to the dry body as a whole, but I saw the feeling of awe with an inquisitive curiosity in the eyes of the tight-knit pedestrian.

“It's called usage. I'll take you to him.”

Since I had long arms and legs, I thought I might have been teased when I was a kid, but I knelt on my knees, wanting to serve as the boss.

“Oh, no! ”

Harun looks down at the use with a face of embarrassment, not saying anything. The gaze of the use of looking up at him as if awaiting permission was full of hot aspirations. Harun twitched his eyebrows slightly as his emotions conveyed beyond his admiration for the strong.

“Usage, what excuse do you have for a mercenary? First, give the savior time to rest and get your permission slowly. ”

“Yes, Execution. ”

As Iron Man's words fell, he raised his body and led Harun to a chair on one side of the stamp.

“But what is your relationship with Harun? ”

At the end of the race, Harun turns his head and the middle-aged man you saw earlier walks into the stamp.

Why is he here? ’

I didn't think that middle-aged man who looked weak would follow me here because he was moving quite fast. Of course, I had no reason to follow, so my surprise soon turned into a panic.

“Haha! I'm friends with Harun. I met him for a beer today and got caught up in it. ”

“Aha, I see. ”

Even though he replied as if he knew, Race did not hesitate to keep an eye on the middle-aged man. It's because friends look too different. The man who noticed that said,

“I want you to shoot the weapons engineer who makes special weapons for this guy's organization. Well, it's strange to say we're friends, but since we've been friends for a long time, we can't just call ourselves traders, we can even get drunk. ”

“Ah!”

Race turns around and walks toward Harun, as if he finally understood.

“Hehe, this is amazing. ”

“What?”

Harun bursts into disappearance and Rum asks.

‘What a great guy. It's really worn out. ’

However, when I saw clear eyes, I did not look like a weak person. Moreover, pretending not to know for a while would be fun, claiming to be the developer of a new chemical weapon that interests me.

“It was a fantastic sword. ”

Rum left before Harun said anything to Iron Man while giving him a cup of tea.

“It looked so fantastic. ”

“The sword is moving so fast, it doesn't go away. It looked to me like the sword was dancing. ”

Rum said that the race was also received with a trembling voice. What I just saw was still vivid in front of my eyes.

The location of Cowan Union S.

“Team Leader Kang, is the SS10 capsule still sending out any communications? ”

With a well-groomed mustache, the old man's face was soft, but his voice was stiff.

A middle-aged man with cold blue eyes answered his question.

“Yes.”

“Did you destroy the imprint? ”

“Not at all likely. Even though SS10 is built through a different path than normal capsules, and it has significant levels of artificial intelligence, it cannot be eliminated unless Guia's stigma is extinct. ”

“I think so, too. But I'm strangely uneasy because I've never seen such sudden signs of disappearance. ”

“I think it's been completely destroyed. Regular communications, as well as survival signals, are not detectable. ”

“Hmm. Looks like it. I would have sent a message no matter how urgent an SS class with self function might be. Is the owner a civilian? ”

“Yes, Elder. ”

He was amazed at the thoroughness of the leader, who was able to understand all these details.

“How did you do so far? ”

“In terms of the rate of development of the level of judgmental criteria in the game, the data sent by SS10 was different according to the actual level of development of the body. I was also the fastest awakener for the environment outside the barrier. ”

“Inspiring.”

“Yes, it's unmatched. He enjoyed soloing, not even interacting with other users unusually, so there was not much data available, so the detailed play model was not yet known, but the pace and aspect of its development was noteworthy. ”

“Hmm.”

The old man twitched his thick white eyebrows with a murmur.

“Last time I checked, SS10 flew into the arms of S-A1. Then we'll find out through S-A1. ”

“Despite the success of impersonating civilians and SS10 to a secret base controlled by S-A1, S-A1 also lost communication with SS10 abruptly. ”

The old man's face became a little stiffer in the report from the head of the river.

“Were you attacked by a mutant creature? ”

“That's what it looks like. because otherwise neither of them would be able to send a surviving signal. After this incident, we carefully analyzed the existing data on the base and found that there were not many effective defenses other than locking down the base. I don't know if the base itself is too old and combat cyborgs, but it turns out it's impossible to build because of the lack of materials and parts. ”

“What about the civilian's survival? ”

“I checked with the Union Government. Fortunately, the chip that was implanted into his body was believed to be functioning normally. It looks like he's leaving the base and staying at Union Residence. ”

“Don't forget to always be careful with the use of cables. Neckwall and the other elders of the Senate are watching. ”

“It's an organization unrelated to our Glory Gaia, and it's not for the Elder to be concerned about, but it's extremely cautious. ”

The leader who heard the report until then hesitates and opens his mouth.

“Is this a situation we should summon? ”

“Yes.”

“Should we do what we say? ”

In response to the elderly's question, Team Leader Kang was unable to give an immediate answer and thought for a moment. The old man's voice confirms that he has a particular interest in the lens of a civilian.

“As has been the result, I do not think I will follow orders from the organization. If you dissect your entire body and give it to a cyborg instead, anyone will reject you. Unfortunately, we no longer have a way to build the SS-capsule in our possession, but we need to stop the experiment and summon it to find out more about the changes in our physical abilities, as well as the environment we've been playing and the details of it. ”

The old man did not open his mouth for a long time as if he did not like the answer. Because of this, even the famous river team leader, Glory Gaia, was sweating deeply.

“SS10 and he's related to Cheol, so I wanted to watch a little more, but I couldn't do that. Summon him.”

“Yes. Mithra Jo will be back in three days, and then we'll be on our way. ”

“I see. With Mithra's teammates, I was able to avoid the tentacles of other old men. By the way, what about the base? ”

“Once there is room for recovery after dispatch, the next iteration will give SS21 an opportunity. ”

“Do it. Well done.”

After the report, the Team Leader left the room with a soft impression and greeted the old man who nodded.

The old man's eyes brighten as if he were reminded of distant memories.

‘Cheongil, I'm sorry I didn't do what you asked. But the rest of the Humans need to find a way to live. I'm so sorry!'

To Be Continued