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Reality (3)
“and?”
“huh?”
“and?”
“Yes?”
Hope blinked.
I see a face of embarrassment. I am the one who is embarrassed by that appearance.
I wondered why you were taking so long, but maybe you were just trying to tell this story. I feel drained for no reason.
“Is that the end?”
“Uh huh…?”
Hope looked at Hong Seok-young in a hurry. He seemed to be saying something about his son being strange again because he was opening his mouth.
But Hong Seok-young was also looking at Hope with a calm expression. Hope called Gamble without saying anything. Why on earth are you so surprised?
“Why, why aren’t you surprised?!”
Even gambling is floundering.
so why….
“An alien race is invading Earth!”
Gamble was starting to get angry, not to mention embarrassed. Hope was Hope, but this woman’s personality was also completely unpredictable. She seemed timid, but she raised her voice in strange corners.
Well, that kind of person could do this with Hope. The phrase he used to introduce himself at first still lingers in my mind. External humanity. There’s no way anyone who could say such a word would be in their right mind.
“Shouldn’t we be a bit more surprised like this and like that?!”
“why?”
“This is reality! This isn’t some movie setting!!”
Come to think of it, Gamble said that he got inspiration even when he saw the broken pension.
Is it because you know what Hope just said that you like it? Or is it because you like the apocalypse setting that you get drawn into Hope… .
I looked at Gamble with pitiful eyes. If he had the skills to properly enter the dungeon instead of just having a half-baked awakening, he wouldn’t have liked such absurd words.
Among the hunters, there are many who have particularly strange personalities. Han Tae-kyung is the only one who stands out, but overall, he is only slightly more unusual than average. At least Han Tae-kyung doesn’t kill civilians or anything. He just takes them to court.
Although they were called witches and pigs and treated as weirdos, Park Seo-hyun and Oh Hyun-wook are both quite well-behaved compared to the average hunter. They don’t even engage in legal battles with civilians. Oh Hyun-wook is also a guild master, so he has a certain degree of sociality, and even Park Seo-hyun, who is uncooperative, pretends to listen to you when you talk to her.
Okay, so let’s think about it.
Why did the hunters’ personalities become like that?
“Where do you think that movie setting came from?”
“yes?”
“Well… I guess it seems like civilians who have never been in a dungeon before tend to consume it out of curiosity.”
Surprisingly, this is still the case in this day and age when dungeon breaks happen as easily as eating a meal.
Is it because dungeon breaks are so stimulating? Or is it because they happen so frequently that I’ve become numb to them?
Or maybe it’s because casualties rarely exceed three digits unless a S-class dungeon like Myeongdong Dungeon explodes. People tend to become dull when they are frequently exposed to tragedy, no matter how tragic it may be.
“Why, I clearly remember there being a movie like that. The world was destroyed by monsters that came out of a dungeon, and the only people left were the survivors… .”
I remember seeing it at the lab. It wasn’t a movie, but a drama. It was a disturbing story. After watching it for the last time, I forcibly erased it from my memory.
Well, if you can completely forget about it, then it’s a computer.
Since I was a human and not a machine, as soon as I put the words into my mouth, a screen I had seen a long time ago came to mind.
“Not a drama? Apocalypse in a dungeon?”
“Oh, yes. That’s it.”
It was a pretty old piece. It was an American drama made in the 70s.
Despite the poor CG, the drama received good reviews. People said it realistically portrayed the survival, struggle, love, and despair of humanity living in a harsh environment.
After the college entrance exam, I suddenly thought of it and watched it again. The content that felt stimulating and philosophical to a child who didn’t know anything was a terrible burden to a hunter who had experience clearing dungeons, enough to make him vomit.
Isn’t that right?
A world destroyed by monsters from dungeons?
From the perspective of the hunter clearing that dungeon, it just felt like I was screaming that it was the result of my failure.
Even I really know that the world will end like that. No, this is not related to this now, so let’s skip it.
Why do all hunters, regardless of nationality, have a unique charm?
At first, out of simple curiosity. Out of childhood pride. In pursuit of money and fame. Or out of revenge. In rare cases, out of a heroic desire to save people.
Hunters who enter dungeons and hunt monsters for their own reasons eventually reach the same conclusion, sooner or later.
Some monsters that appear during dungeon breaks may not die even after 3 months.
One day, there may be so many dungeons that hunters can’t handle them.
Someday, someday, someday… .
Countless somedays follow you like a tail.
The dungeon phenomenon is inexplicable. No matter how much you prepare, there is a possibility that something undefendable will happen.
There are always things lingering in a corner of my mind that I can’t even say out loud for fear of them becoming reality.
There’s no way I could stay sane.
“In the 70s, we made a 10-season drama out of nothing. Do you think the Hunters couldn’t have imagined something like that?”
I could also guess why Hope hadn’t thought of this. They must have been the invaders first. To them, it was just a cruel surprise attack. They didn’t even know what the people being attacked were thinking and holding on.
“The dungeon is already the enemy of humanity. There is no hunter who doesn’t know that. At least, any hunter with some level of experience.”
“ah….”
“Just… what you just said is nothing more than telling you what you already know. Whether it’s an escape pod or something else, humans are already struggling to survive in this unknown disaster called the dungeon.”
That’s the reality.
Even if the dungeon really was an alien invasion, unfortunately, nothing would change.
The result is also that the aliens win twenty years later.
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Sandra Gamble was lost in thought.
I don’t know where my words inspired him, but he was sitting on the corner of the sofa with his legs together and chewing his fingernails.
The hard, hardened face finally looked like the Sandra Gamble of Paros I knew, not the California engineer with a timid side.
Hope is also lost in thought.
However, this one is a bit more Busan-like than Gamble.
“I see. Then I understand why the captain and the vice-captain were annoyed with me. I guess I was being too easygoing.”
“lightly?”
“The dungeon is the place I know best, so I joke around and stuff… I suddenly feel sorry.”
No matter how much I think about it, Hope doesn’t seem to know humans as well or as empty-headed as she does. She’s acting like that because Gamble takes care of everything from the side, but isn’t she actually well-versed in human society and has adapted to it?
Hope looked up as I looked at her suspiciously. Her smirk was unpleasant, as if she had read my thoughts.
“So that’s all you have to say?”
Hong Seok-young still had a blank expression on his face. That was more effective than getting angry. He was a person who had a fierce expression even when he was still.
Hope shrugged her shoulders as she met his sharp eyes. She looked at Gamble with a face that seemed to be asking for help, but Gamble was busy with his own thoughts.
“If not, can I ask a question?”
“Uh, um… No, there’s more.”
Hope blinked.
“What are you curious about?”
“Is communication between dungeons possible?”
“no.”
“Then what about you? Can you communicate with those inside the dungeon?”
Hope immediately shook her head.
“No. If I want to talk to someone in a dungeon, I have to go into that dungeon.”
Hope added an explanation.
“If that were possible, there would be no need for Noah.”
“Right.”
“Noah is a proxy. The king told Noah to find a way out, and Noah is moving toward that end. In the process, Noah learned of my existence… . Thinking back, I shouldn’t have pretended to know back then.”
“Pretending to know?”
“There is a magic spell that Noah uses called the King’s Magic. I asked him how he knew about it and then he stopped.”
Hope frowned with a displeased expression. I also sneaked in and asked Hope a question.
“What if I say king?”
“King? The king is the king.”
“Do all monsters listen to the words of that so-called king?”
“That’s not it. The King is the King of our race. He boarded the escape pod and among those who arrived here alive, he is the strongest and highest in status, so other races respect him.”
Hope chuckled again, laughing irritably.
“Even so, since we can’t come out of the dungeon, there’s nothing to respect or disrespect. And there aren’t many races that can talk to humans, right?”
“Are fairies like you one of those races?”
“I’m a human now! But, yeah. Even though we’re fairies, that’s a name given by humans. We’re the most numerous.”
“I guess that’s understandable since the king ran away.”
“… … .”
Hope’s eyes narrowed.
“I have a bad feeling about this. What does it mean?”
“You’re human now? If you were human, there’s no reason to feel bad.”
“That’s true, but for some reason it makes me feel even worse….”
Hong Seok-young ignored Hope’s muttering.
“Don’t you know the exact number? Just your kind.”
“The King might know… but I don’t. Why would it be an escape pod? I don’t even know how successful the escape was.”
“hmm.”
“Besides, there are beasts among those who enter the cradle. Those with low intelligence and strong instincts. I mean, those in low-level dungeons. Because the situation was urgent, they entered cradles that were not exclusively for them. Even I had no way of knowing what was inside the dungeon until I entered it.”
“You brought those things in such an urgent situation that you had to escape?”
“Even if you come to another world, you still have to eat and live.”
So you’re saying it was a food warehouse? I get it.
“That’s why there is an ecosystem within the cradle….”
“Then what about the dungeon core?”
“It’s power.”
“So it stops working because there is no power.”
“The intelligent ones know that they will die if they leave the dungeon. That’s why they don’t go out.”
“Is there any way out?”
“It’s an escape pod. What if there’s no way to open the door? Will I starve to death?”
“Dungeon Break.”
Hope nodded.
“The power isn’t infinite. If it runs out of power, the cradle will collapse. If there were a being that could control the system, they could decide whether or not to keep the door closed… But beasts can’t do that. Boom!”
Hope opened her mouth wide and made a funny sound.
“And the door opens and you jump out. In fact, if a dungeon break occurs, it means there is no power to maintain the dungeon, so there is no need to go through the trouble of destroying the core. It will close soon.”
This is more helpful to us than saying that the dungeon’s identity is an escape pod.
I listened to Hope’s words and then decided to ask the most important question.
“Then which dungeon is that king in?”
“… You’re not going in, are you?”
“I’m not that stupid.”
Hope pouted and spat out.
“france.”
“france?”
“France’s… Mont Saint-Michel.”
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