chapter 433
433 – Yeonhee Turned Into Stone
‘Why is it so dark?’
Even though I opened my eyes, I couldn’t see a single light, and I couldn’t see anything.
Lee Yeon-hee instinctively tried to call ‘Castle’.
‘I can’t summon it?!’
Lips that don’t fall off as if they’re coated with glue.
‘?! ‘I can’t even move my body?’
My whole body was as hard as stone and I couldn’t do anything.
– You have fallen into the [Gargoyle] State.
– Damage received is reduced by 90%.
– Movement speed is reduced by 95%.
– [Invincibility] Has been activated.
This was her first time doing something like this, so she was very embarrassed and tried to relax her body by circulating her magic power in her body.
After a while, my body began to move little by little, as if my efforts had helped a little.
‘Ugh… It wasn’t just the movement speed that slowed down.’
She slowly crawled forward with her hands that couldn’t move properly, hoping to catch something.
The fear that things might end up like this forever combined with the pitch-black reality to create a sense of dread.
Yeonhee’s eyes suddenly got red.
‘Don’t cry. He said that no matter what happens, you must not lose your cool.’
I don’t know what the hell happened before she came here, but she continued to stretch her hands with superhuman patience.
And after a while.
Tuk-
“?!”
She felt something touch her hand.
Shocked, she screamed with her slow-moving mouth, and something in response to the sound began to emit a soft light, and soon the entire area was slowly filled with green light.
“Me…What?”
It was clearly a small tree, but as my vision gradually expanded, I realized that it was only a part of a huge tree. A small and cute tree looks like the main body…
(Uh… Hello?)
“Kya… Evil!”
Trees talk, right?
To be precise, the message was being conveyed directly to the head rather than being spoken with the mouth.
Yeonhee was surprised, but she was able to quickly adapt because she had been communicating with Ran and other humanoid summons.
“What are you…? Where are you…?”
It took ages to even say a single word, but Yeonhee clearly and clearly asked questions about what she was curious about.
(Wow! Can you hear me? Haha- I’m excited. But why are you talking so slowly? Are you playing some game I don’t know about?)
The tree did not answer the question, but just danced, shaking its branches. It was a strange tree. But somehow it didn’t feel dangerous at all.
(Let me introduce myself! My name is Laney! The amazing tree of possibilities!)
“A tree of amazing possibilities… Huh? Wait. This smell…”
A scent I’ve smelled somewhere.
Yes, this was the scent that Ilwol often smelled.
‘······ No way.’
I vaguely heard it while making love with Ilwol.
In the dark space, there are friends with whom you can communicate.
After hearing that, I thought I would like to see the world Ilwol lives in at least once.
And I wanted to find out what kind of friend he was, putting his body odor on my lover.
I thought it might be a dryad I had only heard about.
A tree-type monster with a human appearance.
These are the guys who lure male hunters with the appearance of attractive women and suck the life out of them.
I didn’t think that Ilwol was doing something like that without his knowledge, but I had a feeling that it might be the human heart.
‘It was a real tree…’
At that moment, Yeonhee felt defeated and a little pathetic about herself.
‘That’s a good thing, but have I really entered Ilwol’s space?’
So where is Ilwol? How did I come here…
At that moment, something passed through her mind and Yeonhee, who had goosebumps all over her body her, quickly checked the information on the earring her her her her.
[Enchanted droplets of a forgotten ancient kingdom]
– Perk: Immediately transport your partner to the safest place you think.
– Number of times perk can be used: 4/5
“1 decreased. Ah… No. Ilwol!”
I finally remembered that there was a flash of light and I was grabbed by something.
If so, it would mean that Ilwol activated her abilities to save herself.
Lainey, who had been calmly listening to Yeonhee speak, was astonished as soon as she heard Ilwol’s name and asked.
(Why Ilwol? What happened?!)
Lainey flapped her branches as if asking her to speak quickly.
Yeonhee actually regained her composure as she saw the tree struggling even more than she did, and after thinking for a moment, she told Lainey the truth.
“No… Nothing happened yet. It wasn’t broken…”
Lee Yeon-hee tried hard to console herself.
Nothing will happen. Everything will be fine.
“But are you Ilwol’s friend here?”
(No, is it true that nothing really happened to Ilwol?)
“I’m sure.”
(Phew – that’s a relief.)
Lainey pretended to sigh in relief and then stretched out her torso and said.
(Yes! I am Ilwol’s friend! Who are you? Are you Ilwol’s friend too? How did you get in? Her grandfather said this is a place where no one can come in.)
Grandfather? Who else could that be? Well, I said they were friends, so it wouldn’t be surprising if there were other strange beings.
“It seems like Ilwol activated an artifact and sent me.”
Yeonhee shook her earrings and showed them to Rainie.
The friend Ilwol spoke of did not detect any uneasy energy, and rather seemed to be full of vitality and energy, so there seemed to be no reason to hide it.
(Ah, what is that energy?)
When Rainie felt the energy of Yeonhee’s earrings, she started and took a step back.
‘This person was Ilwol’s master?!’
Laney felt like her body was shrinking and something was falling out of her. She wondered why she was like this, but no matter how much she thought, she couldn’t figure it out.
‘It’s such a pretty child… Ilwol can’t help but like the owner.’
Although she was Rainie, who was reborn as a tree and lived a very short life, she had an absolute aesthetic sense, so she knew right away that Yeonhee’s appearance was aesthetically excellent.
‘Ilwol… Is the owner of my one and only friend. I need to be good to you!’
Laney, who was confused for a moment, soon came to her senses and raised her tension again.
(You were Ilwol’s master! Right? Right?)
“That’s right. By the way, I didn’t know that the friend Ilwol was talking about was such a wonderful tree!”
(Puh-ha-?! You have really good eyes! Shall we make it shine a little more? Then you will be able to see the roots and stems that extend further!)
“That’s amazing! “Can you show me?”
(Hahihi- wait a minute!)
After Rainie lifted her energy and radiated enough light to brighten up the entire area, she showed off her amazing body to Yeonhee.
Even though she was showing off, somehow, a part of her heart she felt sore.
The more I talked to her, the more polite she became and her, her beautiful voice, so I felt more envious than afraid.
I envy you? Okay! This is a feeling of envy!
‘Amazing… I have these feelings too?!’
Laney accepted with her whole body emotions she had never experienced before, and she felt the urge to meet more diverse people.
‘For that to happen, we have to get out of here. Of course I love this place so much! Still, I want to go out into the wider world!’
Lainey felt such a longing, and at that moment, little by little, a change came to the roots that had been endlessly expanding into the dark space.
“Rather than that, Ilwol has been living in such a dark place.”
Yeonhee knew that Ilwol enjoyed coming here, but at the same time, she felt sad.
‘There is a world of difference between coming on your own and coming after death.’
If Ilwol dies, she will be forced to come here, so she has one more reason to protect Ilwol.
She slowly lowered her body from the cat position and laid down on her floor.
The [Stone statue] State lasts for a day, but it seemed difficult to adapt to this state for just one day.
Since she could not breathe quickly, the tightness in her chest continued to grow.
‘Master Ilwol doesn’t look good. Is it because my body stiffens?’
Rainie, who was staring at Yeonhee, who had made her feel new emotions, thought for a moment, then ripped a leaf larger than Yeonhee’s head from her body and gently placed it in her mouth her her her her.
“Huh? This… What-“
Yeonhee was biting the leaf that Lainey gave her.
However, due to the unknown energy flowing from the leaves, the frustration that was weighing down Yeonhee’s heart was suddenly broken open.
“Wow!”
It is not for nothing that it is called a tree of possibility.
Yeonhee became curious about the tree, and the two slowly talked to each other and had time to get to know each other.
Ilwol was always busy concentrating on training, so Rainy had little time to talk to anyone.
However, thanks to Yeonhee, who had nothing else to do but talk, Rainie was able to chat freely.
Woooooung──
And the more it happened, the more Laney’s thirst grew.
A desire to be with them and to walk through the world they live in.
A whole day passed like that, with no one knowing what the outcome would be later.
* * *
‘Hmm… Now that the mimicry is gone, I feel a faint connection with Yeonhee.’
I arrived in Korea within a few hours, using the White Knight Guild headquarters building where Jogiman is located as the coordinates.
I ran straight home just in case.
But Yeonhee was nowhere to be seen, and of course neither were the summoned beasts.
When I saw the empty house, I felt dizzy for a moment and collapsed on the floor.
‘Phew─ If Yeonhee can’t call me… I guess I’ll have to go in.’
In fact, it’s not like I haven’t tried to cancel the summon myself.
I kept trying it every time I practiced swordsmanship, and I sometimes felt a little itchy sensation.
‘It failed anyway.’
It’s a good thing that Rainie will be next to Yeonhee.
There is no telling how long she will survive in that terrible darkness.
‘If we have to, we have to go there even if we have to commit suicide.’
Of course, once we go in, we still have to figure out how to get Yeonhee back here, but we needed to get back quickly just thinking about food and drink.
Wearing the earrings again is a last resort and I’ll have to find another way.
I raised my upper body, crossed my legs, and entered meditation.
Since I’ve never tried to cancel a summon in a situation as urgent as this one, I’ll try one last time and if that doesn’t work, I’ll have to take special measures.
‘Cancel the summons… Cancel the summons…’
I imagined the door of summoning and desperately hoped and hoped to go to the dark space.
But.
‘It’s not working… Damn it.’
Even if I exerted as much concentration as I could muster, nothing happened except an itchy feeling.
In the end, I had to find a way to return, even if by force.
‘Even if it means taking my life…’
So where would it be most efficient to go and die?
Activating [Blast of Insanity] Still required a preparation process to raise magical power.
Of course, it was less than a second, but in the face of an overly strong being, a situation could arise where you could only run away for your life and not be able to come together in that short period of time.
It was a comedy about life, where you have to consider efficiency even at the moment of death, but it was right to get what you can.
‘Shall we catch the great villain Haserin? ··· No, she doesn’t have to self-destruct, she will be able to overcome it soon ··· It would be okay for her to head to the high dungeon. ‘
If you self-destruct in a place crowded with monsters that are higher than Class A or higher than Class B, you will be able to gain a lot of experience points, level up several times, and expect to activate [Kleptomaniac].
‘Oh, that’s right. I think it would be nice to go to the Temple of Light.’