Main Character Hides His Strength

Before entering the sewers, Kim Sung-cheol pulled out another garment from the soul warehouse.

It was a shabby cloak made of leather on the plain clothes worn by the heretics.

“I've never seen you change. ”

Bertelkia suddenly said, seeing Kim Sung-cheol's change.

“You can't smell the clothes you wear often. ”

“Are you saying you're going to wear that rag again? ”

“It's hard to find the clothes you like. ”

Kim Sung-cheol, who had changed his clothes, took his original clothes to the Soul Bank and walked down the slopes to the entrance of the Great Sewers.

Due to the dreadful odor that was getting closer, Kim Sung-cheol had to block his respirator with a cloth soaked in clean water.

It is said that the olfactory smell is easily sensitized to irritation, but if you smell this smell for a long time, you lose your appetite.

As I approached the entrance of the Sewers, I was surprised to see traces of human life everywhere.

When Sung-cheol Kim entered the river, he heard the direction of the filth, and the people in the cave crawled out one by two.

Kim Sung-cheol paused and stared at them.

‘A refugee.No, not a refugee. ’

It seemed to have been living in this horrible environment for a long time, putting the human form on a shell-like basis rather than a human being.

Kim Sung-cheol walked past them to the entrance.

“Ugh... What are they? ”

When Bertelgia trembled and asked, Kim Sung-cheol answered indifferently.

“Long ago in the sewers of Lagranze, there were murderers and malformations, cursed twisters, bandits and vagrants, and other unknown creatures. ”

“These people can't live above the city. ‘

I thought the empire had been cleansed to some degree, but I guess the emperor's reign doesn't even reach the bottom of Lagrein. ”

Across the river, the people living by the sewers have been going through the sewage with long rods.

A cheer burst out of you shortly, and you see a body floating from the city.

Bertelgia didn't like it very much.

A deep darkness welcomed Kim Sung-cheol as he stepped into a large crack in the sewers.

Kim Sung-cheol lit a torch with a lighter that he captured in the Summon Square and walked into the stinking darkness without hesitation.

A few steps later, I heard a noise that made me feel light, brittle and creepy on my head and side.

When I lit the torch on the wall, it was full of horrible insects with very many or none legs, or very long antennae.

“Gaaaaaaah!”

Finally, a scream came out of Bertelkia's mouth.

Kim Sung-cheol grabbed hold of Bertelkia, shaking his body, calmed her down, and quickly left the awful area.

Straight ahead, a faint torched area comes in from a distance. A stream of granite bricks and a long wall of moss appear faintly underneath the torch.

It is the tip of the Sewers.

Heading that way, there are very few insects that frighten Bertelkia.

After some panic, Bertelgia still asks in a dull voice.

“Do Pavloggey Fabre people like that? ”

“Maybe even a favro like that. ”

The entrance to the sewers is blocked with thick iron bars.

There was a side door where people could come and go, but it seemed to rust and warp in the flow of time and not function properly.

Kim Sung-cheol kicked the door out.

With the sound of a large window, the door flew far and wide, and a purring noise resounded far above the stream of filth.

“Isn't it too pleasant? ”

“I used to control my strength, but the door was weaker than I thought. ”

Maybe everyone around here heard it.

However, Kim Sung-cheol didn't care much.

The reason he's sneaking into Lagranje is not to get in, but to reduce the collateral damage.

In fact, nothing happened because of the noise.

The problem occurred elsewhere.

In the vast and complex stench of a maze beyond imagination, Kim Sung-cheol lost his way.

Vertelgia was irritated by the thought of entering the sewers from the beginning.

“You don't even know the way, and you want me to come here? ”

“I thought I'd find a way forward, but that's not so good since it's been built so long. ”

Kim Sung-cheol honestly admitted his mistake.

The bigger problem is that I have lost my way back, and I can't use the way that Kim Sung-cheol likes to break down the wall.

If you break the wall, it may collapse into a single corner of the city.

Now the only way to escape is through a hole in the ceiling.

Fortunately, the work was easier than ever. It's because I've mastered Fly, the magic of flying.

‘If I had known this, I would have done something rash. ’

I was just about to cast Fly.

I felt popular on the other side of the dark sewers corridor.

Careful and small steps.

The footsteps of a thief.

The footsteps are coming straight this way.

He was coming to see the torch that was floating from afar.

Kim Sung-cheol stopped there and waited for a stranger to come.

Soon, the man with the torch appeared.

In his mid-twenties, he was a man who looked cute but had a huge knife scar on his cheek, making a complex impression.

He had two daggers on his waist in the raid style.

“What? I told you it sounded weird, but he's fine. ”

He glanced back at Sung-cheol Kim and spoke in a light voice.

“What are you doing? ”

Kim Sung-cheol hated a lot of wizards, assassins, and so on, but the bandits were also one of them.

I didn't like the opportunity to sneak out and peek like a cat.

The young thief, Sung-cheol Kim, pointed out that he didn't want to fight with his hands raised with a relaxed smile as if all his knowledge of Sung-cheol Kim was over.

“What a jerk. A buggy's life wandering the stinking sewers. So, what are you doing here? ”

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol shut up for a moment and thought.

‘There is a saying that even dog poop can't be used for medicine. Does that mean you can use dog poop for drugs? ’

Kim Sung-cheol, who had organized his thoughts, said frankly, staring at the thief.

“I'm lost. ”

The young thief who heard the words blew up the fire.

“That's a funny guy. I mean, it looks tough. ”

I don't know about anything else, but the thief seems to be quick to notice. It's because Kim Sung-cheol expressionlessly changed his attitude immediately when he started to feel anger.

“There is nothing free in the world, but seeing someone in trouble and doing nothing should not be done as a citizen of the Human Empire! I'll help you with your humanity like a mother. ”

The thief turns around and walks forward.

Kim Sung-cheol didn't like the thief, but first he was deceived and followed behind the thief.

It's a small gamble Kim Sung-cheol enjoys sometimes.

After a long time of gambling, you seem to have become Pato.

The thief who took Sung-cheol Kim was a den of bandits full of wicked people.

The hostile eyes seemed to dig through Kim Sung-cheol's face with a sharp spear.

“Don't be nervous. These friends here are all good friends, even though they're a mix of ex-cons and murderers. ”

Even the young thief came to my gang because he said he ate 50 points in front of my house.

By the way, not long after that, two men appeared in front of Kim Sung-cheol and blocked him.

One of them was big and the other one was small, and the other one was filling his forehead with tattoos indicating a killer.

The tattooed man said in his voice.

“Give me everything you have. ”

I don't know if they are good friends or not, but they are honest friends.

Kim Sung-cheol thought so and stared at the young thief who was hiding behind the back of two evil thieves.

The young thief shrugs his shoulders as he makes eye contact.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol took out three silver coins from his arms and gave them to the men.

“Is that all? ”

The bandits were not satisfied.

Kim Sung-cheol took out another silver coin and gave it to the thief.

“Is that all? ”

The bandits ask again.

Kim Sung-cheol gave me two more silver coins this time.

“What the hell? Give it to me and I'll give it to you at once. ”

Kim Sung-cheol finally took out another silver coin and gave it to the thieves.

The bandits take the silver coins roughly and smile at each other.

I'm finally satisfied.

Kim Sung-cheol who saw it thought to himself.

‘You're a greedy bunch. ’

It's a long-lived coronation.

They threw a silver coin at the young thief and left.

The smile disappears from the mouth of the young thief.

“No, Brothers! I think my share is a little small, but isn't there some sort of miscalculation? ”

He catches up with the rough bandits.

The price was a bitter fist.

A young thief struck by a heavy blow with a crooked nose and nosebleed in one blow, frowning furiously for a moment and walking toward the dark passageway.

Kim Sung-cheol followed behind the young thief.

He was already robbed in front of the other bandits, so no one cared about Kim Sung-cheol.

The young thief sits dumbfounded on a barrel in the middle of a stream of sewage and listens for drops of water.

“Hey.”

Kim Sung-cheol called a young thief.

The young thief glanced at Kim Sung-cheol and turned his head.

Kim Sung-cheol called the young thief again.

“Hey.”

“Why?”

“Your promise is wrong. ”

“Fool's a fool. ”

The young thief smiled and said.

Kim Sung-cheol stared at him and took out a silver coin from his heart.

The eyes of the young thief who saw it reminded me of this.

He reached out and tried to steal Kim Sung-cheol's silver coins.

It was a quick gesture, but it looked like a joke to Kim Sung-cheol.

He said in a bold tone, avoiding the thief's hand trying to catch silver coins.

“If you tell me how to get out, I'll give you this silver coin. ”

“No, he looked fine and he was deceived! I'll show you the way if you give me Silver Coins. ”

“You said the cheater was an idiot. ”

At Kim Sung-cheol's words, the thief jumped over the barrel, making the impression that he had been stabbed.

“Come with me. Where do you want to go? Outside the sewers or in Ragranje? ”

“Of course it's in Lagranze. ”

“Against Ragranje? It's pretty dangerous there. One Silver Coin is not enough to go that way. ”

“Is two coins enough? ”

“Three. Three coins and I'll show you to the entrance to Lagranze. ”

The young thief thought it was a good negotiation elsewhere, but in Kim Sung-cheol's eyes, it was just this one and that one and it seemed inexpensive.

Kim Sung-cheol nodded his head and asked the young thief for guidance. Then the thief named himself.

“Babin's quick hands. ”

Kim Sung-cheol didn't reveal his name.

Then the journey back to Ragranje resumes.

Kim Sung-cheol asked Babin for his current location.

“Is this below Ragranze? ”

Barbin shakes his head.

“Not exactly. This is underneath the old branch. ”

“Old school.”

“It's an old street from the days of the Kingdom of Ruthegium. I don't know of anyone who's a novice in Lagrange, but nobody lives in the Old Town. ”

“Really?"

Kim Sung-cheol surprised me.

Eight years ago, he left the capital because there were quite a lot of people living in the old city.

Most of them were poor and had nowhere to go, but some of the old nobles of the old kingdom also lived in the land.

“The emperor has declared it a cleansing area. All kinds of heretics have been cultivated there, so they threw them out so that no one can live at all. ”

“Then where did everyone who lived there go? ”

Kim Sung-cheol's question was resolved shortly after.

There was a village of people in a gummy, smelly vacant lot that didn't have a single ray of sunlight.

There was a feeling of helplessness that was almost impossible for most of the old and sick people to feel.

‘It's no different from the old days. ’

More than 10 years ago, Kim Sung-cheol's past passed by like a drawing.

“Now, if you go straight from here, you'll find a passageway to the capital. ”

After a few more marches, Barbine stared at the dark passageway with anxious eyes.

Kim Sung-cheol gave him all the silver coins he promised.

He picks up the money and laughs.

“I'm sorry I lied to you earlier! It was done by my brothers. ”

“Never mind. ”

“You're refreshing. I'll tell you one more thing as a prize. ”

Barbin squints at the inside of the passageway with his fearful blue eyes.

“I know you didn't come all this way to tell me, but to be honest, I don't think we should go any further. ”

“Is there a reason? ”

“The monster lives. Beyond.”

“Monster?”

“I don't know exactly what that is. There are rumors that the Emperor has solved it, but the important thing is that no one has ever met the monster and survived. ”

Babin said as if he was afraid to talk about the monster itself.

Of course, it's nothing to Kim Sung-cheol.

“Even if I die, I don't know. I warned you.”

After hearing the warning of the young thief, he made his way forward without hesitation.

Immediately, in the darkness, a metal shaft forms a boundary.

It was robust and well maintained compared to what was at the entrance.

Kim Sung-cheol stared at the iron gate in front of him.

In front of the iron gate is a red paint word that reminds me of blood.

[Imperial Sewers Restricted]

Beyond the iron gate, a grim and strange cry faintly echoes.

Surprisingly, I've heard it before.

Kim Sung-cheol recalled the strange shaped soldiers he saw in Aquaroa airspace.

"The true identity of the monster is the Salvation Army?" ’

Not sure, but worth checking out

Kim Sung-cheol opened the iron door and walked into the darkness.