Episode 171
171. Episode 171
“I don’t like it.”
“Hahahaha! You don’t seem to have any worries at all! I really like that confident attitude!”
Naturally, Se-un declined her offer.
I don’t know what she meant by making such a suggestion, but Seun’s original goal wasn’t to settle down in a shelter on the third floor.
No matter how well they treated me, I had no intention of stopping here.
Despite Se-woon’s rejection, she didn’t show any sign of being offended. Rather, she put more strength into the arm around Se-woon’s shoulder as if she liked him even more.
‘I can’t believe the Commander likes it so much… … .’
The adjutant who was watching the scene opened his mouth in surprise without realizing it.
He even dropped his saluting hand even though she hadn’t returned the salute yet.
‘Although you originally have a good personality, you’ve never shown such a reaction to an outsider you met for the first time… … .’
Sherri Buchanan. Who is she?
As the commander-in-chief of the Frost Fortress, he is a figure who captivates all the soldiers in the fortress with his charisma alone.
Even the veteran soldiers who had been serving in the Frost Fortress longer than her, and the messengers who came to give orders from their superiors, were mostly intimidated and unable to straighten their backs in front of her.
However, Se-woon was standing tall and proud even though it was his first time meeting her.
From the very first time we met, I received an offer to ‘come under me’.
Similar reactions continued after that.
Se-ri poked Se-woon and asked him several questions, but Se-woon only gave the bare minimum of answers.
Yet, she didn’t show any signs of discomfort.
“Okay, okay! I really like the personality! There’s only one thing left. It has to be skill!”
Suddenly.
She opened the door and pulled Seun by the shoulder.
The adjutant, who had noticed where she was headed, opened his mouth and urgently blocked her path.
“Commander! It’s dangerous!”
“Then shall we do it inside?”
“That’s even more dangerous! You did that last time and you destroyed several facilities!”
“So you’re saying you’re going outside?”
“But outside… … .”
Se-Woon, who was watching the two bickering, couldn’t help but have doubts.
He was clearly the kind of adjutant who couldn’t even look his commander in the eye, let alone talk back to him, so I couldn’t understand why he was talking back to his commander while sweating profusely.
And besides, outside?
After bickering like that for a few times.
The expression on the commander’s face, who had been laughing and accepting the adjutant’s words, suddenly changed.
“Then what do you want me to do?”
“Huh… … .”
The expression on the commander’s face, who had been laughing heartily, hardened.
The surrounding atmosphere suddenly subsided, and a sense of oppression weighed on my shoulders.
Seun could bear it, but the adjutant stopped talking and straightened his posture as if he was out of breath.
Just from that aura of intimidation, Seun could guess her skills.
‘strong.’
Indeed, the commander of the Frost Fortress.
I felt a strength that was incomparable to that of the legion commanders I had seen at the second shelter.
Who would have thought that there was someone this strong in just the third shelter?
As Se-woon’s expression grew heavier, she noticed it too, and she relaxed her composure, laughed heartily, and patted the adjutant’s back.
“Don’t worry, I’ll be down soon! Hahaha!”
“Yes, yes!”
The adjutant barely managed to raise his right hand and assume a saluting posture.
Even if the pressure is gone, it wouldn’t be easy to pull yourself together so quickly. It seems like this isn’t the first or second time something like this has happened.
The reason I was so nervous at first was probably because of her momentum.
“Haha, I’m sorry about that! Our adjutant is a bit of a worrier!”
“Wouldn’t it be better to have soldiers by your side who can withstand the momentum?”
“That worry is something I lack. Those who can withstand the momentum are all empty-headed and that’s why it’s difficult! Hahaha!”
Every time she laughs, the leather surrounding her shoulders moves loudly.
I felt something behind me, so I turned around and saw the polar bear I had seen in the room naturally following me.
Since there was nothing immediately bothersome, Se-woon followed her obediently.
There’s no harm in looking good to her as the commander of the Frost Fortress.
Rather, it may be possible to find a hidden piece of the third shelter that you didn’t know about before returning.
“Here… … .”
I climbed one more flight of stairs, and again a huge door blocked my view.
A thick iron door, completely different from the door to the commanding officer’s office.
There was a wheel-shaped locking mechanism, and I could tell where the cold air was flowing out of it.
“This is the top of our fortress! Haha, look forward to it. The magnificent view from our fortress isn’t something that just anyone can see!”
She put her hand on the lock of the iron door.
Just looking at it, you can’t guess how cold that wheel is, but he fearlessly grabs it with his bare hands.
Beyond just being cold, if it were that frozen, it wouldn’t be easy to open the door… … .
Squeak-
bang!
She turned the wheel and opened the door with such ease.
The ice that had been freezing the wheels turned to powder and fell to the ground in clumps.
Even though it was a cold that made her skin peel off, the palm of her hand that pushed the cold iron door looked perfectly fine.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve felt this cold! It should be this cold to roll over. Don’t you think so?”
“… … .”
“I was trying to keep my room cool like this, but our adjutant kept saying things like, ‘Oh, my room turns into a sauna every time I work out!’”
A jjimjilbang?
As soon as I entered the commanding officer’s office, I could feel the cold air typical of a snowy field, although it was not as cold as outdoors.
Besides, the commander at the time was exercising naked, without even wearing a cloak.
Is it resistant to cold?
If it were any other player besides Seun, he would have been shivering with his shoulders wrapped around his chest just from the cold.
“Kooong!”
“Hahahaha! I guess even our Kung-yi is excited because it’s been a while since we’ve been outdoors!”
As Se-woon hesitated in front of the door, the polar bear that had been following behind pushed Se-woon away and ran forward.
The snow was up to my knees, but that seemed to make it even more enjoyable.
We moved along the path that Kung-yi had made while playing.
Looking down from above, the scale of the fortress felt even larger.
As we approached the end, we saw a particularly prominent snowdrift.
They were cannons, cannonballs, and various siege weapons, but they seemed to have been covered with cloth to prevent them from hitting the eyes.
It wasn’t just a simple rooftop concept, but this place was also an attack facility prepared to deal with monster attacks.
And below that.
“Hahahaha! I’ve only heard about it, but seeing it in person is truly spectacular!”
Seun’s last attack.
Traces of the ‘Dragon’s Breath’ recreated through Hroti were spread out.
‘It’s connected here too.’
The sand city of Skabe, which was the second shelter.
It was usually a background similar to the 10th floor trials, but it was not actually connected to the results of the trials.
Common sense tells us that if the trials were unconditionally connected, the walls of Skabe would collapse if the players failed to block the attack.
But Se-un’s ordeal was different.
Whether it was because of the hidden quest or the high achievement, the results of the ordeal were connected to the shelter.
It’s the same now.
For some reason, the 20th floor trial that Seun had conquered and the situation at the third shelter, the Frost Fortress, were connected.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, looks at the slowly emptying table and says with satisfaction that it was the best dinner ever.
The sight of the lake directly hit by the ‘Dragon’s Breath’ was truly horrific.
Whether it was because of the breath or the power of gluttony, the monsters in front of the lake had completely disappeared as if it were a lie, and the ice on the lake that had been so solid had been mercilessly shattered.
Beneath the broken ice, monster corpses were floating in heaps.
Perhaps, it was not a monster that was directly hit by the breath, but a monster that was stunned or died from secondary damage when the ice was shattered by the impact of the breath.
A black aura flows out gently above it.
Remnants of the breath still remained in the lake.
It seemed that this was the reason why other monsters could not come near the walls even after the monsters disappeared.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, discovers prey that has not yet been placed on the table.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, is frustrated by his prey cooling off, scolding him for his impatience.
‘I wonder if it’s still available.’
It’s getting colder, and in this kind of terrain, even if you leave it for a long time, the monster’s corpse will not rot.
Perhaps, as soon as the remnants of that smoky breath disappear, new monsters will appear and prey on them.
In that case, it would have been better to feed it to Beelzebub and get a little more mana.
– Designated the entire ‘Ice Lake of Despair’ with the power of gluttony.
– The fangs of gluttony swarm the monsters!
Se-un raised his hand to indicate the broken part of the lake.
Fortunately, the conditions for using the power of gluttony had not yet been released, so the fangs of gluttony appeared and began chewing up and swallowing the monsters that had risen from between the ice.
The 20th floor of trials and the third shelter.
I thought it might not work because it was the same space but separated by the system, but fortunately, the power of gluttony was manifested absentmindedly.
It seemed that the final ordeal and shelter were connected when certain special conditions were met, and Se-un seemed to have satisfied those conditions one after another.
“Oh oh?”
The commander who was watching this with Se-un opened his mouth in admiration. He realized that the current situation was Se-un’s doing.
“Is it magic? I don’t think it’s magic. Anyway, you’re amazing! You’re the man I recognized at first glance!”
The power of gluttony.
At first glance, it was no ordinary power, so it was understandable to be suspicious, but she only briefly admired it and then heartily patted Seun on the back.
If it weren’t for his size, behavior, and his bold personality, he looked exactly like Kang Han-cheol.
‘Wait a minute, if it was Kang Hyeon-cheol… … .’
At that moment, an ominous feeling came to my mind.
The current situation where she had to come out, or the adjutant who was desperately blocking her path. The adjutant’s incomprehensible remarks about how many facilities had been destroyed.
All of these things are connected with the actions of the commander who appears to be strong and iron.
“Okay, then! Let’s get started!”
Flutter!
The commander took off the black cloak he was wearing on his shoulders.
A polar bear that had been playing and digging through the ice behind him suddenly runs up and takes the cloak.
Naturally, she took off her cloak and was dressed in the same shabby clothes she had seen in the commanding officer’s office.
I wondered if she was in her right mind, standing there in this cold, dressed like that.
“ha…….”
Se-Woon, who understood the meaning of her actions without her having to say anything, straightened his posture as he faced her.
Even though he was a senior, he was tired from climbing five floors.
First of all, I’ve just finished dealing with the remnants of Francis Hamel in the Ice Castle of the Test, and I’ve just poured out all my mana and crossed the lake.
Fatigue was building up and he wanted to take a little rest, but Top didn’t seem to want to allow Se-woon to rest just yet.
“The best way to get to know someone is to bump fists! Don’t you think so too?”
Gentlemen.
Although she had refused to enlist from the very beginning, she soon began to view Se-un as her own soldier.
Of course, Se-Woon had no intention of enlisting, so he shook his head and focused his gaze on her movements.
“Kooong!”
The moment the polar bear wearing black fur over his head sat down in the middle and howled loudly, she ran towards him, kicking away the snow piled on the ground.
He’s the type of person who just throws a punch at someone as soon as they meet him.
The more I saw him, the more he reminded me of Kang Han-cheol.
fantasy,
