Main Character Hides His Strength

3. Nightmare in Vestiaret

It's been four days since the massive summons began.

There was an ominous fortune in the White Square.

Nearly 1,500 people are isolated in places with no water or food, smelling the rotting smell of corpses from faraway places.

The sound of people's words is no longer heard, and only the ominous gaze is relentless.

Phew!

You hear vinyl crumbling in a corner of the square.

Hundreds of pairs of eyes converge toward it.

A man was pulling something out of his chest.

It was an empty cigarette case.

“Who... has a cigarette...? ”

The man looks around with his empty eyes and speaks in a crawling voice.

A few men slapped the man with bigotry.

There was no one to talk to.

I screamed pathetically, but people didn't even flinch.

After the beating, the man mutters while he falls down.

“I... need a cigarette...”

Kim Sung-cheol carelessly stared at the man's face.

I've seen this face before.

He was an immature man who asked Kim Sung-cheol for a cigarette on the first day of the summoning.

A man with a crooked nose and a bruised pupil should live two days.

Maybe this day won't last.

The despair in my heart seems more severe than the wounds on my body.

Of course, his fate was good for Kim Sung-cheol.

He has much more important things to do.

‘I didn't get any Hidden Quests after all. ’

After leaving the abandoned cathedral, there was no further summoning of the inner circle.

It was below expectations.

I wonder if the other eunuchs will be personally summoned. Each eunuch put it in sight and watched closely, but there was no sign of that.

Instead, it was the legislation of the inner circle that caught my eye.

Internal Affairs built their territory around the training ground at the northern tip of the square and monopolized the training ground facilities.

In the training ground, there was a complex facility, like a rotating wooden blade from the scarecrow, and the inner ministers worked diligently to make themselves sweat on the training ground.

Common Summoners looked at their inner circle and pointed to them as crazy.

“Tsk, tsk. You move your body and urge me to eat right now." ”

“Looks like a group gone crazy. Idiots.”

But it was them who knew nothing.

The inner ministers strengthened differently each day at the training ground.

“Hey, I'm not kidding about the scarecrow beating. How much power did you take? ”

“The sound has changed since 22. 20. ”

“I'm not over 20 yet. I have to work hard!”

Small but obvious differences are opening up one by one.

The difference will appear in the form of certainty in the trials to come.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Kim Sung-cheol was paying attention to the surrounding trends, striking the scarecrow in the corner of the training ground.

There were two notable figures in the inner circle.

Lee Yeo-hoon.

A leadership figure who leads people with an orderly tone of voice reminiscent of an announcer and gives way with a sparkling wit.

And Park Aram.

The man who appeared splendidly from day one had the most powerful supporter of all the inner castes and proved his dominance through the gym.

The more remarkable one was Park Aram.

A good background on this floor means that you are more likely to have access to all kinds of Hidden Quests in the Summon Palace.

However, Park Aram seemed more interested in ash than salt fire.

“Do you have a boyfriend? I think I do. Oh, you don't now? Kick-kick.”

He didn't have any training.

I avoided even the simplest things like hitting a scarecrow.

Instead, when I saw a pretty girl, I worked so hard that it was annoying.

At first, women admired his colorful background and somewhat glamorous appearance, but now they were disheartened by her insincere attitude and innate impulsiveness.

“Oh... why does everyone hate me? Life is short anyway. It's just fun and games. ”

After being rejected by all the women in the inner circle, he turned his eyes to the women outside the inner circle.

There were young women everywhere who looked tired and frustrated, but seemed to bloom like flowers just a little.

Park Aram drools, touching the food in his arms.

“Oh, what do I do? What to do. ”

Seeing Park Sung-cheol who is restless and loitering like an animal in us, Kim soon thought that this man would commit the accident firmly.

The accident happened soon.

Park Aram approached a pretty young woman and left the gate with her, but returned to Park Aram alone.

It was only Sung-cheol Kim who knew what he had done.

“ ……. ”

A corner covered by bushes and bushes.

The dead woman lies naked.

Kim Sung-cheol indifferently stared at the corpse.

The cause of death was clearly marked on the neck.

Strong grip makes you choke to death.

Desperately resisting, there is some blood and flesh under her fingernails, and a piece of food is left beside the body, mocking the deceased.

‘He is a broken man. ’

I felt it from the start, but it was crooked somewhere.

It's obvious what happens when a human like that suddenly gains power.

We don't know how many more will die in the future.

Use it quickly and dispose of it.

‘I need to prepare for an event that will keep him warm. ’

Kim Sung-cheol closed his eyes and whispered quietly.

“May the afterlife be happy. ”

He looks back into the dark forest.

The dangers lurking in the forest also saw him.

*

Cabinets gather outside the walls at dusk and dine near the dark forest.

The food is the hard bread received from the smoking room and small beads that turn into a mouthful of water when put in the mouth.

It doesn't taste good, but it's a precious crop here.

Of the 1,500 people who gathered in the White Square, only the inner circle could drink this much food and water.

Kim Sung-cheol listens to a conversation about going out to dinner alone, leaving the street behind the group.

“What are you doing here? ”

“I was a college student. I was dragged here all of a sudden while I was in school. ”

“Sounds like me. I'm a college student, too.”

“Oh, really? What do you do?”

“I went to the note room. ”

"The luxury girl who once accused Kim Sung-cheol said somewhat.

People talk a lot when they eat.

Conversation can also be a source of comfort and encouragement in situations where there is no entertainment.

But soon after, I felt popular in a place.

The members stopped eating together and looked at the direction that felt popular.

It was a group of people.

There are three of us.

Internal affairs exchanged their gazes.

They were the eyes of a terrifying life.

The implicit physician of murder was coming together without a word.

However, the unsuspecting crowd stopped at the entrance of the forest.

“Wow, it's true. Here's something to eat! ”

For a moment, silence came as if someone had shut her up.

After a while, you hear the sound of eating something.

Squeak, squeak.

The sound soon disappeared, and the unsuspecting guests left with a regrettable taste.

“What the hell.”

“I see.”

The heavily poisoned inner ministers resign from their lives and resume their meal and continue the disconnected conversation as if nothing had happened.

However, none of them noticed Kim Sung-cheol's absence.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol gazed carelessly at the red slime pressed against the heavy stone.

The slime's name is Blood Pudding.

A giant species the size of an adult woman, usually green, herbivores, lives peacefully, but by the time it is reproduced, it turns red and attacks everything that is alive.

The problem is that the breeding age of this species is frequent.

Kim Sung-cheol gently pushed away the stone holding the slime.

After the restraint, the blood pudding rushed towards Kim Sung-cheol, who was fierce.

Puck!

Blood pudding exploded in mid-air in one punch.

“Dumbass again? ”

Kim Sung-cheol coldly said towards the slimy red slime that was drifting across the dark forest.

Hundreds of blood pudding gathers beyond the forest.

It's the corpse of a naked woman who was dumped in a pit when blood pudding was collected.

Kim Sung-cheol stood before him like a mountain.

The two of them rushed towards Kim Sung-cheol again.

Boom! Boom!

The results were the same.

Then dozens of them rushed in at once or sequentially.

Red slime splashes all over the place as intense resonance resonates.

Dozens of blood pudding burst.

Literally genocide. At this rate, all the blood pudding in the forest will dry up.

Soon, the blood pudding surrounding Kim Sung-cheol split in half.

The halved monsters passed through Kim Sung-cheol.

It was a simple logic.

Even the monsters without Izzie realized that.

Their enemies are right in front of them.

Kim Sung-cheol firmly rolled his feet and filled the corpse in the pit with dirt, then stared at the direction of the blood pudding.

“Huh? What's that? ”

It was shortly after the uninvited in the forest that the officials discovered the existence of blood pudding.

Curious men, who had just finished eating, approached Blood Pudding.

- It's... dangerous... Stay back...

As they approach Bloodfunding, you hear the Wizard's Telepathy through the Watcher's Eye.

But I was one step behind.

The silent blood pudding flew up high in the sky and struck a man as he looked at them.

“Ugh! H-help! ”

The man's clothes that were covered in red slime slowly dissolved.

“Let go of me! Let go!”

The man standing right next to you attacks Bloodfunding with a swing of his sword. But it didn't work.

The Slime family was inherently resistant to physical attacks, and blood pudding is quite a monster for beginners to deal with.

While the meaningless knife was going back and forth, the slimy fuselage swallowed the man's face as he groaned.

“Glug-ug-ug!”

The man's face melts in his suffocation, shining evenly between the mucus in the translucent slime.

“Ahhhh!”

The man wields his sword, throwing it aside and running away.

“What's going on? ”

Suddenly, the rest of the group realize something unusual has happened.

Suddenly, the forest is filled with red slimes.

Fear only comes to mind in the eyes of the inner ministers.

It was only Park Aram who was unconscious.

“What? What's going on? ”

Park Aram's burial is useless, cheerful tone, and her inner ministers start racing towards the forest exit like crazy.

Park Aram also woke up when he realized something was suspicious. A man sat with his back in his eyes.

A man wearing a two-and-a-half year old military top in ugly jeans.

‘Ah, that stinking prick. ’

Park Aram approaches him, though he doesn't want to deal with him anytime soon.

“Hey, there. What's going on...? ”

At that moment, his vision turned yellow.

When I woke up, what I saw in his eyes was a full-grown grass. I could also feel the soil rising from the ground.

Wh-what? ’

I couldn't even remember what happened.

But then he felt intense pain in his ankles.

“Ahhhh! Fuck! What the hell!”

The ankle was broken by something.

When he barely reached out his arms and raised his torso, what flashed into his eyes was a lot of blood pudding that slowly crawled towards him.

“Ah… ah…!!! ”

The slippery body of blood pudding climbed onto Aram's sneakers.

Push-

When Park Aram saw the fibers melting, she turned her eyes white and foamed at her mouth.

At that moment, a magic circle appeared in the air.

“Ice bolts. ”

A young woman dressed lightly in a magic circle appeared with a staff.

A woman wizard with red hair and ice-cold eyes.

As she shakes her staff, a chunk of ice pops out and freezes the blood pudding she was about to swallow.

“Oh, my God. Really. I got caught by an annoying asshole. ”

The young woman spit on Park Aram's face and swung her staff again.

A devastating ice storm froze and crushed the blood pudding everywhere.

“Hah... What should I do with this bastard? I can't kill him. ”

The mysterious woman stared at Park Aram with contempt, then forced him to open her mouth and feed him a healing potion. Then she opened the enchantment camp and disappeared.

It really was the appearance and departure of the lightning bolt, but there was one who watched from beginning to end.

“ ……. ”

It was Kim Sung-cheol.

"Dolores Winterler. At least a mid-level wizard. ’

There are few skilled wizards in this world.

Therefore, they are treated preciously.

An intermediate wizard skilled enough to handle the spare parts of the military guild.

The argument that putting such a person on the inside as a nanny is such an important character.

Kim Sung-cheol picks up Park Aram as if nothing had happened and returns to where the group is.

*

The next day, Park Aram goes deep into the forest, leaving the group without anyone noticing.

In the woods, the head of the training center was especially waiting for him.

“I've been waiting. Great Human!”

The dean of the training room led Park Aram to the steep cliffs surrounding the forest with a staggering gait.

Beneath the cliff is an entrance to a hidden cave among the trees.

Park Aram stared at the entrance of the cave without saying anything, then went inside and ran out of the cave in an hour.

“Huff-puff... Damn... It's too hard. This.”

“Kick-kick! Good man! There's no need to rush it! Come back tomorrow and challenge and you'll be well on your way! ”

Kim Sung-cheol appeared at the entrance of the cave where Park Aram and the executive officer disappeared.

“ ……. ”

He goes into the cave without hesitation.

The glowing text flashed before my eyes.

[Footsteps of Child Hero Vestiaret]

[You enter the dream world of Vestiaret.]

[What dream do you want to see of the Seven Heroes?]

[The difficulty of the exam varies depending on your dream.]

There were six types of dreams, but they are said to be more difficult as they go down.

[One Summer Day Dreams]

[Spring Dog]

[Dreaming of the day when I couldn't sleep until dawn]

[Childhood]

[Memories of the Civil War]

[Nightmare Forever]

“The Seven Heroes Vestiarera. ”

Seven heroes.

Legendary figures who once saved the other side.

However, they had the courage to name themselves after the second of the five impending disasters.

I thought of cynicism in Kim Sung-cheol's mouth.

He chose one of the six dreams.

[You dared to choose the eternal nightmare of Vestiaret, the seven heroes.]

Prepare to face death in eternal darkness!]