60 – Wh, what is this…!

Quaaa84444444?

“aaa!!”

“Huh-uh-!!”

At the sudden sound of the explosion, all the awakened people waiting were scared and cowered.

“What is this?”

In the forest in the distance, a huge cloud of dirt rose like a mushroom.

Han Ji-seong, the healer who was assessing the location, waved the arm of Kim Dae-won, who was in a state of fascination.

“Hey, isn’t it over there? “That monster… no, the place where Choi Kang-woo went?”

This was the first sentence of the modern-day doppelganger strategy rule.

The person who becomes the main body of the doppelganger is excluded from battle.

In the book, it was explained that the reason was to prepare for the psychological shock of encountering a doppelganger who looks exactly like oneself and thinks the same way, but everyone knew it.

The real reason is that the main character is not helpful in battle, but rather a hindrance.

If the main body had really been helpful, the association would have done whatever it took to use the main body, regardless of the psychological impact on the person himself.

“Well, shouldn’t we go and help?”

Han Ji-seong’s body trembled in contemplation.

Choi Kang-woo dealt with his doppelganger so naturally, Kim Dae-won, who came with him, told him not to worry, and most of all, he was so relieved that he was free from the immediate threat that he forgot the basic strategy rules. There was.

“Ho, ho, if something goes wrong… Wrong…!”

From the beginning, I had to help Choi Kang-woo and work together.

Leaving Choi Kang-woo alone to deal with a doppelganger who has the same specs and thinks the same way, what kind of mistake could be made like this?

“Even now we-“

Kwaaa!!

“aaahhh-!!”

“aaahhh-!!”

As the earth-shaking roar erupted again, the awakened people trembled.

I didn’t know why on earth such an explosion was heard when two tanks were fighting, but this was the clear fact.

If ‘Choi Kang-woo’ dies, it will be the end for them as well.

“Let’s go, let’s go. “Now before it’s too late-“

Kwaaa!!

“Huh oh!”

Dust from repeated explosions rushed to where the awakened people were.

When the situation reached this point, there was nothing more to think about or do.

“Run!!”

The awakened people who caught their gaze ran forward.

I pray that ‘Choi Kang-woo’ has not died yet.

***

“… This is right, right?”

“I can’t hear anything…?”

The awakened people, each holding their own weapons, longswords, shields, longbows, and staffs, gathered together and walked slowly.

The spirit of running with such vigor at first was no longer visible in them.

That’s right….

“I can’t see it at all.”

Isn’t it only when you can see ahead that you have to run fast or not?

“Hey, let’s go quickly…! And if something goes wrong with our Kangwoo…!!”

Tank, Woo Byeong-woo, looked at Kim Dae-won, who was standing at the back and just talking, and gave strength to the hand holding the shield.

‘I want to beat just one person.’

Unfortunately, it has already been revealed that it is not a doppelganger but a person.

Now that I’m on the verge of becoming a B-class awakened person, I can’t just play around with dirty work and get stigmatized as a looter-

“Ah! “I told you to hurry up and go!!”

‘Should I kill him?’

Being a looter might not necessarily be a bad thing.

That was when Byung-Woo Woo was about to look back with a murderous look in his eyes.

“Uh…! Ugh! Excuse me!!”

Lee Seon-ho, the longsword standing next to him, pointed his point straight ahead.

Woo Byung-woo turned his head and suppressed his boiling heart.

“Hey, stop!!”

Immediately, I raised the shield, which had turned into something close to scrap metal during the battle with the doppelganger.

“Four people…!”

Woo Byung-woo asked the human figure on the other side, clouded with dust.

“Who are you?”

Since Choi Kang-woo and his doppelganger were moving along the same path, it was clear that the owner of that figure was one of the two.

It’s either the person Choi Kang-woo or the doppelganger Choi Kang-woo.

Gulp.

The sound of someone drooling echoes in the silence.

The figure that seemed to be standing still raised both hands and started walking slowly towards me.

Jump, bump, bump.

I wonder if he took about five steps like that.

Shapes began to emerge through the dust.

“…Who, who is it? “Would you like to recognize me?”

Whether it was a doppelganger or a human being, their appearance was the same, so there was no way to tell them apart.

Nevertheless, Ji-seong Han looked back at Dae-won Kim out of curiosity, and when he saw his face, his heart pounded! He sat down.

This was because Kim Dae-won, who was staring straight ahead, was as pale as a person who had seen something he should not have seen.

“No way….”

When the anxiety was heightened, a voice was heard from the front.

“It’s over.”

“….”

“A portal appeared over there and I was on my way to pick you up, but you’re already here?”

A calm and peaceful voice.

When Woo Byeong-woo was appreciative of that, Kim Dae-won shouted.

“Shut up, you barbaric monster! How dare you imitate Kangwoo! What a bastard you are! “Did you think we would be fooled by your shallow intentions, you monster?”

Woo Byung-woo, Lee Seon-ho, and Han Ji-seong were shocked at the sight of Kim Dae-won spouting out his anger, even erecting a vein in his neck.

“What, what? “Is that bastard a doppelganger?”

“Well, then Kangwoo…!”

“This can’t be right…!”

The human Choi Kang-woo dies and his doppelganger survives!

As frustration descended among the awakened people, a ridiculous tone of voice was heard from the front.

“… I’m not a doppelganger, I’m a real person-“

But Kim Dae-won was not fooled by those evil whispers.

The Morning Star that Choi Kang-woo was carrying was not visible to Choi Kang-woo standing in front of me.

“Stop talking bullsh*t, you bastard! Did you think I couldn’t tell the difference between Kangwoo and a monster like you? “How dare you kill Kangwoo and try to deceive us, you evil monster!”

“….”

“Come on! Let’s kill that guy! Going here or going there or dying is the same thing! “We should rather take advantage of this moment when he is exhausted by dealing with Kangwoo!!”

Daewon Kim was at the back, holding a longbow, and shouted loudly.

There is some truth to that, but Woo Byung-woo, who was frowning in a strangely bad mood, soon looked ahead and became hostile.

“You’re trying to attack me by pretending to be human and closing the distance! “You bastard, come here, your taste will be a little different from before!”

“Come on! Charge! Charge! “Let’s kill that bastard together!!”

“… Die like this or die like that! f*ck it, let’s give it a try!!”

“Don’t worry about getting hurt! “Even if I vomit blood, I won’t stop healing!”

When Woo Byeong-woo, Kim Dae-won, Lee Seon-ho, and Han Ji-seong finished preparing for battle and were about to attack the enemy right away.

“… Is that guy doing that on purpose?”

Suddenly, the doppelganger’s angry voice rang out.

“Huh…?”

Something small and round thrown by the doppelgänger flies in a parabola at high speed.

“Uh, uh-?”

Kang-!!

It hit Daewon Kim between the eyes.

“W-what is this… Huh…?”

In his blurred vision, Kim Dae-won, slowly tilting his head, touched his forehead and found something that had fallen on the floor.

“Potion…?”

Thump-

Leaving Kim Dae-won, who fell down in the same posture as he was about to charge, and the awakened people looking at the intermediate healing potion that fell next to him.

“If you walk this way for 5 more minutes, you will come to a portal, so you can take that bastard with you or leave it as you wish. “Then I’ll go first.”

The doppelganger, or rather the person Choi Kang-woo, turned around and walked away with a grin.

“It’s not like I’m making fun of people, that bastard-“

The dissatisfied voice is slowly fading away.

“… What should we do?”

Only Han Ji-seong’s helpless voice, looking at the fainted Kim Dae-won, echoed in the quiet forest.

***

[The ordeal ends.]

[Measurement of contribution for compensation begins.]

[Trial completion reward 3,600 points]

[Monster Kill Points 5⨉ 400 points]

[Points from defeated monsters are divided according to the number of people.]

[Total reward is 4,000 points.]

When I crossed the portal, as always, I heard system notifications one after another.

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But Kang-woo, embarrassed by the scenery unfolding before his eyes, was unable to concentrate.

“What…?”

I didn’t understand.

Why is the safe zone still empty?

“It’s still an individual safe zone…?”

An empty safe zone where you can’t see a single hair of anyone else’s hair.

He couldn’t be the only awakened person who passed the ordeal on the 40th floor, so it was clear what this scene was trying to say.

It is divided. Again, into individual safe zones.

“Then the next trial will also be a random trial…?”

Kangwoo fell down in his seat helplessly.

I thought the random ordeal that I thought would end once I beat the 40th floor ordeal is not over yet.

“…f*ck?”

You have to overcome trials with people you don’t know, and that’s why the reward for clearing trials is significantly reduced because you don’t receive the achievement for clearing it alone. For the same reason, your ability growth is noticeably slower.

Now everything was so frustrating that I couldn’t breathe.

“… Isn’t this really crazy?”

I thought it could be done with about ten floors.

I don’t know the intention, but I just thought it was okay to go to the tenth floor and moved on.

But.

It was a different problem that the random trials were repeated beyond ten floors and on to the next floor and the floor after that.

“I have to meet people like Kim Dae-won again?”

Just thinking about it made my blood pressure rise.

If only I had been able to use the exit from the tower, I would have just given up on climbing if destruction and such were not planned for the future.

“Haa….”

With the anger rising, I wanted to meet the manager right away and ask him about it.

[Points held: 6,896]

Even he did not allow profits to be cut in half due to random trials.

“aaahhh-!!”

There is nothing we can do.

Kangwoo realized that there was no other way than to just roll as the damn top told him to, and he became angry.

No matter how good I try to think about it.

I couldn’t accept the fact that I would have to continue to meet people like Kim Dae-won.

***

At dawn the next day.

“….”

In front of the passageway to the next ordeal, a portal dyed in pitch black, Kang-woo looked at the portal with a gaunt face.

“It went over, but maybe it wasn’t random…?”

Even though he thought that the possibility was slim, Kang-woo could not give up his regrets.

“f*ck it, I’m going even if I’m pissed.”

After a full day of rolling around in the ordeal and not arriving at the safe zone until after midnight, Kang-woo was quite tired, but after getting minimal sleep, he immediately packed his bags.

With just the determination to check with my own eyes whether the next trial is really a random trial.

“Please-!”

Crossing the gate filled with pitch black, Kangwoo prayed.

Please, I hope you exist alone in this next landscape, and please, I hope it is not a random ordeal.

When a ray of light came down in the darkness and the scenery changed.

[You have taken on the 41st ordeal.]

Notifications from the system were no longer heard in Kangwoo’s ears.

“What, what?”

Noises so loud that system notifications are drowned out, and huge high-rise buildings that should not be visible.

“W-what is this…!”

Kangwoo urgently rubbed his eyes.

“hahahaha! “That’s why I then-“

“Fuha! Hey! Hey, the new guy is here again! hahahahaha! “Look at me cracking open the door!”

Unbelievably, the setting for this ordeal was modern times.

That too is with all awakened people.

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