CH 371

There was something that was traveling at high speed in the far-off sky, but it wasn’t a creature. Instead, Seong-Il discovered that it was a drone conducting mapping operations[1], and it was hovering from the other side of the hill. Right when he was debating whether to destroy it or leave it alone, it disappeared from his line of sight. Therefore, he forgot about it, but it appeared that the drone had revealed the situation in the tower.

Later on, Seong-Il was pouring some piping hot water into the cup noodles as he was hungry. He pressed the lid of the container down with wooden chopsticks, then looked at the group who approached him. The leader was someone familiar to him.

He raised a hand in greeting. “Yo, long time no see. Kim Ji-Hoon!”

“Hi, how have you been?” the other man responded genially.

Kim Ji-Hoon was accompanied by mercenaries along with some other foreign Awakened. Then, they looked around. After seeing that Seong-Il was not equipped with any weapons, they relaxed perceptibly.

“Did you do that?” Seong-Il asked, glancing at the smoke rising from beyond the hill. Kim Ji-Hoon was looking at Seong-Il and the boundary around the tower behind him.

Kim Ji-Hoon nodded. “We struggled a bit. The magic trap was tricky to get rid of.”

Seong-Il grinned. “Haha. Mary is taking care of all the strong ones around here, so you only had to deal with the weak ones. You shouldn’t have had a hard time with them, buddy.”

“There are ones stronger than them?” Kim Ji-Hoon asked.

Seong-Il pointed. “Look at all these. They make things like this.”

Even from Kim Ji-Hoon’s point of view, the boundary seemed as solid as the one in Act Two, Stage One.

“Is Ms. Mary here?” he finally asked.

Seong-Il commented, “It has been a while.”

Seong-Il’s environment was filled with disposable waste, and there was a secluded area behind some bushes where he relieved himself. Based on that, Kim Ji-Hoon could infer that Seong-Il had been residing in that location and consuming meals there for quite some time.

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Kim Ji-Hoon stared at the boundary. It was impossible to check inside due to the blue curtain, but considering that Mary had to step up for herself, there would have been ‘him,’ too. Holy Knight Ronsius.

[Class: D

Location: Ronsius Holy Knight (Franklin Dukedom, Greenwood Continent)]

Kim Ji-Hoon recalled the passage that he had entered from earlier. The information pertained to a series of passages that functioned as exits on the outskirts of the city.

The association provided private companies with details on multiple levels of passageways that were in the same vicinity as Holy Knight Ronsius, ranging from F to B. The B passageway, the highest level among them, was believed to lead to the area that was protected by the boundary that directly connected to the existence of the Holy Knight.

That was the difference from the dungeons in the Stage of Advent, so it was more accurate to call it ‘passageway’ instead of ‘dungeon.’ If Kim Ji-Hoon were to enter the D-class passageway and eliminate any immediate threats, then he would still be accountable for dealing with potential dangers in higher level passageways if they were not resolved beforehand.

If Mary hadn’t held on to Holy Knight Ronsius, then he would have come to help his city.