Lord of the Skill

A Changed Future

“Hah...! Ugh...!!! ”

Rough breathing.

Somehow I feel like I've had the same situation before.

Choi Hyuk-soo stopped walking on the running forest road and shouted.

“I can't run anymore!! ”

Choi Hyuk-soo, who sits limping in sweat, slammed his face to the stream nearby and drank water.

“Phew!! ”

After putting his face back into the water several times and cooling off the heat, he bursts out a mouthful of laughter.

“I'm alive. Hehehe... Hahaha...!! ”

“ ……. ”

Heatless also knelt beside him and wiped his face with water.

The hot heat cools off.

“I thought you were going to die. Really. Well, the quest failed completely... but thanks to you, it was fun. ”

Choi Hyuk-soo tapped the shoulders of the feeble.

Quests.

‘So it was. The reason I wanted to go to the alive...' ’

Missions created when you have previously served in a Flame Spire and have met certain conditions.

There is only one thing in the whole continent, and sometimes it is given simultaneously to all mankind.

The region is unpredictable as well.

Quests acquired in the north may end in the south or sometimes a world mission that encompasses the rest of the world.

Clear conditions are tricky, but you will receive a huge reward and perks instead.

Unique or better rewards, such as Hidden Pieces or Ancient Artifacts, higher tier artifacts, or titles.

Among other things, the most representative.

Seeker of the Sword.

The strongest armor in the SSS class, obtained by Lee Kangho, was also created through a five-part World Connection Quest.

The fever felt bitter when I thought of him.

But also, wait a minute.

The sword keeper is no longer the only armor he sees when he comes back from the brink of death.

“Wow, how did you think of that? I wouldn't be scared if I were you. Khh. That's amazing.”

Choi Hyuk-soo raised his finger and laughed at the coronation, as if there was no fever in the hut.

“…… Great? ”

But fever, which was a great party, was the opposite.

I didn't hear the word "great" from a genius.

I washed my face with a stream and swiped the flowed head and asked Hyuk-soo Choi.

“What do you think the throne is? ”

“…… Yes? ”

Hyuk-soo Choi didn't understand what he was saying.

“War. It's never a hunt or a game. I can't imagine how many sacrifices it would take to behead an enemy and an ally in a tangled battlefield. ”

Heatlessness closed my eyes.

He looks like he's throwing everything out with all his heart.

He said with his forehead down.

“How much beheading a king costs! Hundreds of its sacrifices! The distance that can be reached through the cavalry, past the soldiers, past the archers and wizards, and finally past the SS. ”

When you can't slaughter thousands, tens of thousands of victims.

“Who can pierce it? ”

Right away.

Them.

A creature that has to be shielded and run as a spear.

Fever from the 2nd Swordsman knows that the distance that reaches the neck of the enemy is far worse than anyone else.

“That's war. ”

“ ……. ”

Choi Hyuk-soo stared at the heat without saying anything.

But it's right in front of me.

A distance where we can face each other without any kind of defender.

This is literally a water spout.

Knowing it's dangerous.

Nevertheless.

If you don't.

‘I cannot face the dead. ’

If I let him live, I'll kill two of my friends who are still alive.

15 years since I was 20.

I've experienced enough battlefields to last a century and slaughtered dozens, hundreds…… no, more than ordinary soldiers.

Things I knew because I wasn't strong, things I experienced more desperately because I was ordinary.

Hyuk-soo Choi shakes his head slightly.

The fever took his eyes off of him.

‘It doesn't make sense. ’

Choi Hyuk-soo.

In the future, he is a bookkeeper and now he is called a genius.

He doesn't know the war yet.

‘If it wasn't for me...... would the meeting of the two of them have changed? ’

The minute he thought about it.

“I don't know why you're bothering. ”

Choi Hyuk-soo said, laying facedown on his back, with his arms stacked behind his back.

“…… what? ”

I looked at him this time, surprised by his unexpected reaction.

“It was my mind to take action. God recruited us into this shithole, and our lives have completely changed, but I don't think we need to live with the looks of the world alone. ”

Choi Hyuk-soo said, looking for no heat.

“I don't even know your name, by the way. You haven't even ranked up yet, have you? Life is about that kind of thing, so isn't it funny to bring it up? ”

He looks at the murders in front of him, but he doesn't blink but rather looks at them.

“To carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, you have to be at least that position. ”

Hyuk-soo Choi will not be able to fathom who killed the feeble.

That's why I might be able to tell this story, but fever felt like a punch.

‘Yes, I had forgotten for a while. ’

The main purpose of the trip after obtaining the Hallway Stone at 3 Nodes.

The fact that I momentarily forgot about the shocks of Lee Kang-ho's hidden past.

‘I decided to be strong. ’

The fever was low on Choi Hyuk-soo's face.

“Phew……. ”

People who can talk like this in situations like this.

Something that a criminal would never think of.

Is that the difference between you and Choi Hyuk-soo?

‘The fangs in your pockets will eventually pop out. ’

Definitely different from myself.

Since killing Lee Kang-ho, it's clear that he hasn't stopped trembling.

“That's why I have to admit to you. ”

It was then.

Choi Hyuk-soo's words slightly startled me.

“I admit it. That you're great. ”

“…… what? ”

I never thought of that.

“It looks reckless, but I keep seeing things. It's different when you think you're being chased for something. That's why I wanted to see more. I don't know what you'll do. ”

He shrugs slightly.

“That's why I saved it. Well, of course, if you're this reckless, you might die with a knife. ”

Recognized by geniuses.

“I just beat a D ranker with an E ranker. If anyone's ever been here, there's a law that says it's impossible. You broke it. What if you become an S ranker like that? Or more……. ”

A feverish chest was struck lightly with a fist.

“Sounds like fun, I guess. ”

Normal self.

“Of course, this is as far as we go. ”

The fever rises.

It was stupid.

Yes, he was only an E ranker.

“It's dangerous to fight them again when you're tired. It won't be easy to lose track of them, but that doesn't mean there's no way around it. ”

Choi Hyuk-soo made a plan at that moment.

Safest place to be.

Or the most dangerous.

“There.”

He points forward with his hands raised.

“Flaming Spire. ”

A tower surrounded by flames that appears to be waiting.

“It's where I have to go anyway, but I don't think you'll die there. Safest place to be. ”

Was it a coincidence that I met him and headed for the spire with him, or was it fate?

He twists his chin slightly, placing his hand on the seamless shoulder.

“Phew, don't forget you owe me. We'll meet again someday. ”

“Choi Hyuk-soo.”

“Yes?”

Turning around, he turns his head to the words of inferiority.

“If the quest from the spire is related to the authenticity of the strikeout……. ”

At that moment, Choi Hyuk-soo's eyebrows twitched.

Heatless pointed in the opposite direction to which Choi Hyuk-soo was going.

“About a full night east of here is a class D blue rock shaft. Maybe……. I'm not sure, but maybe I can find a clue there. ”

A tunnel made of rocks with Class D dungeons and a brain property.

It reminds me of when the soldiers of the spearhead cleared the area as a unit.

Choi Hyuk-soo shakes his head to the left and to the right as if he had lost.

“This is it, won. I was trying to get out of here in style, but it's like I had help. Hehe, I feel like I'm losing money. ”

“There is a city called Trammel. ”

The fever said as if it was passing by quietly.

Just like Hyuk-soo Choi, he was walking towards the spire.

Choi Hyuk-soo paused for a moment and smiled at the heat of walking without looking back.

I know what that means even if I don't have to explain it.

Like an old colleague.

Turning around, he raises his hand lightly over his head, saying,

“From Trammel.”

Heatless also nodded.

“Yes."

He looks at the sparking spire and says in a low voice.

“From Trammel.”

* * *

Jubbuck, Jubbuck.

Ugh.

Choi Hyuk-soo, who was walking alone in the forest, stopped walking at the moment.

And I looked inside where there was no heat that had already disappeared.

“ ……. ”

His hesitant face pauses, trying to say something.

Just like I remembered to forget.

“I……. ”

Slightly open eyes.

“When did I tell you my name...? ”

* * *

Tsk... tsk... tsk...

The fire is extinguished and the heavy air surrounds the shattered hut with ashes.

There's only one person there.

“ ……. ”

Lee Jeongjin looks down at Lee Kang-ho's corpse.

Cripple.

His lips were moving strangely while gazing at Lee Kang-ho.

Laugh.

Surprisingly, Lee Jin-jin's mouth went up to look at the corpse.

A faint golden light flows out from between the deeply slashed shoulders.

He said in a loud voice.

“Well, I'll use this one. Brother.”

Five months to go.

The continent has already begun to change.