Return To Player - Chapter 20

Difference in Class (4)

Kugu kugu kugu.

The ground shook as Orga stepped forward.

The building’s glass windows shattered by the continuous explosions.

Orga, balancing on the swaying floor, shouted toward Sehan.

「What did you do?!」

“It’s bombs. I planted bombs on every floor.”

It is a bomb that Minah installed in the past week at my request.

==
Adhesive Bomb
A bomb that can be activated remotely.
Does no damage to monsters and players.
==

An item that can be purchased from the DLC store.

It is a bomb used to destroy simple obstacles, but it can also blow up the floors of a building.

The floor on which Orga is stepping has not yet exploded, but it will soon explode.

Listening to the increasingly nearing explosions, Orga laughed at Sehan.

「Pathetic! Do you think I would die to mere bombs? Or are you thinking of making me die by falling? It’s no use either way!」

“I know. I know the fact that I shouldn’t try to kill you with Earth’s commonsense.”

In other words, everything on Earth is an object in the game. Monsters cannot be killed with objects.

On subjects that follow the laws of the earth, they cannot be killed.

Which is a pretty outrageous setting.

Elements of the game must be involved, which can damage monsters.

Just like now.

“I wasn’t running around for nothing. Though, it looks like you’re too dull to realize that.”

「What nonsense are you…… Wait, what is this?!」

“Training bracelet. Conveniently, the size is adjustable.”

A silver bracelet was wrapped around Orga’s leg. one on each of the four legs.

「Why this?」

“Why did I put training bracelets on you? I can increase the weight of the bracelet using this gem.”

That was the reason I brought these bracelets.

So that I can fill the gap in power between us.

“The weight can increase up to 10 tons.”

There are four bracelets, so the total weight increase is 40 tons.

“So now experience it for yourself. The ‘difference in weight’.”

I said while raising a shining red jewel.

It turned orange, and then yellow.

「Ahh, ugh?!」

Siik, siik.

Orga’s heavy feet sank.

He couldn’t move and the ground began to crack.

“’The difference is class’ my ass.”

I smiled and lifted the jewel, which has now turned purple.

Kwaaaang!!

「Aaaarggghh!」

Orga’s cries echoed.

The ground he was stepping on was destroyed by a bomb, and Orga’s body crashed into the hole destroyed by a bomb.

The height of the Rome World Tower is more than 500 meters.

Less than half of the bombs were installed on the ground.

However, the body of the basilisk that fell from that height effortlessly broke the rest of the floor and continued to fall.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Concrete, marble, rebar.

「Ooooaah!」

A monster weighing over 40 tons could not be stopped.

‘Do you think I’m going to die like this!’

Orga fell and tried to move his body, but it was impossible.

The weight of the training bracelet was something that even a Basilisk could not handle.

‘Even if I fall to the floor, I won’t die. But these bracelets will break.’

And when that happens, he will surely kill the cheeky human who laughed at him.

Due to the weight of the bracelets, if he falls, Orga will surely be damaged.

But not to the extent that could kill him, he will definitely kill that human.

「That..?」

Something glistened in Orga’s eyes as he was tearing through the rubble of the building and the steel frame that had been by broken the bomb.

A sharp shiny golden spear.

The sharp blade of the spear was aiming at the sky as if it was waiting for him to fall on it.

「What?」

He wondered.

Why is there an upside-down spear there?

‘There are no weapons he can get in the second main quest that can penetrate my scales. There’s no need for me to worry.’

If it was a normal spear, Orga would have been right.

In general, the weapon that you can get in the second main quest is a rusty weapon that you can get by killing goblins and the equipment that you can buy with points at best.

Such a weapon could not inflict a single wound on the scales of a basilisk.

But that spear was by no means an ordinary spear that was plugged in there.

Pachaak!!

His scales tore like a sheet of paper, and the blade of the spear pierced Orga’s body.

「No..ns..ense…」

The Orichalcum-coated spear did not bend even a little, even though it pierced Orga’s body.

Kwakkwakkwa!!

Instead, the ground shattered, and a monster nearby was crushed by a basilisk that had fallen from the ceiling.

It was then that a notification rang out to all the players present in this stage.

At first, Hyun-Kyun thought it was ridiculous.

The spear was installed on the 6th floor of the basement and in the center of the floor as he instructed.

‘Is this going to work?’

And when Sehan gets in touch with Hyun-Kyun, Sehan asked him to direct the boss monster to the vicinity of the spear where it had been plugged in.

On the 6th basement level, the boss monster waiting for those led by Hyun-Kyun was a Beholder.

A monster in the shape of a giant eyeball that flies through the air.

It was a monster that couldn’t be fatally hit even with a desperate attack from Hyun-Kyun’s group.

So, as Sehan instructed, they lured it towards the spear…

“Hyung, what the hell is going on?”

The party who was fighting alongside him started asking why they were doing this, but Hyun-Kyun looked up without saying a word.

Booooooom!!

And a huge hole suddenly appeared from above.

The hole continued endlessly to reach the top of the tower.

“Did he drop that monster from the top……?”

He can only understand that.

Dropping something exactly on this thin spear is not as easy as it sounds.

To be honest, this is a scene that doesn’t make sense.

“Both of them are dead now, right?”

“… It seems like it.”

In front of Hyun-Kyun was a huge pit.

This is the place where a Basilisk, which fell from the ceiling, was pierced by the spear.

The beholder, which Hyun-Kyun and his party were fighting to the death, became a handful of blood and was covered by the huge size of the basilisk.

‘The observers definitely weren’t expecting that.’

Observers which would normally fly frantically through the air were fixed on the corpse of the Basilisk.

Come to think of it, if the monster in the basement is the boss monster on this stage, what on earth is this Basilisk then?

[You have cleared ‘Main Quest 2’!]

[Your quest achievement level is ‘Silver’ grade.]

[The rewards will be distributed soon.]

The notification rang out and a window appeared.

With this, Hyun-Kyun realized that the second main quest was finally cleared.

‘This time it’s a silver grade.’

According to what he read in the ‘help’ window, the quest achievement level is up to platinum, and below that, gold, silver, and bronze. Further down, they are numbered and rated as 1, 2, or 3.

A silver grade is a high enough achievement, but it was a disappointing grade for Hyun-Kyun, who achieved ‘gold’ in the first main quest.

After waiting for a while, a reward appropriate to silver grade was paid.

The reward wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t comparable to the gold grade either.

It was normal up to this point, but Hyun-Kyun couldn’t help but be puzzled at the next notification window that popped up.

[From the third main quest onwards, the stages will be activated automatically when a certain time has passed or certain conditions have been met.]

“What?”

Of course, players who thought the third main quest was about to begin were puzzled too.

“Does that mean we won’t know when the third quest will start?”

It felt quite empty now that they have no clear purpose to pursue now.

“Hyung, what do we do now?”

“I… don’t know.”

Suddenly, things happened like this, so I couldn’t get a sense of what to do.

First of all, I needed to go back to the subway station and discuss with the others.

‘Huh?’

At that time, the Observers, who were fixed on the body of the Basilisk, moved in unison.

Looking in the direction the observers were moving, wondering what was going on, Hyun-Kyun could see Sehan, who could be said to be the protagonist of this quest, walking towards him.

His expression did not change even when he saw the large pit formed by the fall of the basilisk.

‘What the hell is he?’

I’ve felt a strange sense of incongruity before, but this time it wasn’t normal.

This was not something that an ordinary college student could do.

“It looks like everyone is okay.”

“…Yeah, we’re all right. Thanks to you.”

We did manage to kill it, but to be honest, I feel ashamed.

“It’s all thanks to you listening to what I asked you to do.”

“Honestly, I was a little dubious too, but I couldn’t help it since we wouldn’t be able to kill it with our skills.”

If we hadn’t killed it this way, we wouldn’t have killed the boss monster within the period.

‘If it were them, they’d have killed it already.’

A group of players led by Joo Won would have been able to kill the Beholder.

If Sehan hadn’t been here, the thought that we would have been the ones who died after being pushed out of the competition made me shudder.

‘We can’t go on like this.’

‘We need to get stronger.’

Looking at it that way, it was luck that the third main quest didn’t start right away.

“Hup.”

Sehan pulled out a spear from the corpse of a basilisk that was slowly disappearing.

‘As expected of Orihalcum.’

If Sehan’s stats were at least D, he would have killed the Basilisk by swinging the spear himself.

‘I did this since it wouldn’t work with my stats.’

“What are you going to do now?”

Hyun-Kyun, who was quietly staring at Se-han, asked.

“It said we had some time left until the third main quest, so I’m thinking of wandering around.”

“Wandering around? Where?”

“Just… as far as my feet take me?”

It was necessary to acquire the necessary skills and equipment, and it was necessary to remove dangerous sprouts in advance.

‘Now that things have turned out this way, the GM might be plotting something.’

The big picture won’t be different, but there’s a high chance that it will be different from the previous round in small aspects.

“If anything happens, call me anytime. If I wasn’t doing anything special at the time, I will come help you.”

Sehan tapped the phone in his pocket and said.

Then, after carrying his spear on his shoulder, he lightly turned his back.

It was a little regretful for Hyun-Kyun, who thought that he would continue to go with him.

“Okay, call me if you need any help.”

“Yes.”

Sehan nodded his head slightly and said goodbye to Hyunkyun.

It will probably be quite a while before we see him again.

Sehan smiled at Hyunkyun, who had a sad face.

‘Perhaps he felt it because of this incident.’

That they lack a lot.

‘I helped a lot this time, but I’m not planning to help them forever.’

They have to survive alone until at least the seventh main quest.

If it was Hyun-Kyun, he would surely be able to do it.

‘Come to think of it, who is the god who chose Hyun-Kyun as his avatar?’

Come to think of it, he forgot to ask.

‘If I get a chance later, I’ll ask.’

The day will come when he will find out anyway.

Sehan thought so and headed to the ground.

There is still one unfinished business.

“You were later than expected.”

When I headed to the promised place, Jisoo welcomed me.

“Did you change your clothes? Was it torn?”

“No, it got a little dirty, so I changed into something else.”

Her new outfit was still a black dress, but the design was oddly different.

And on top of that, she was wearing the armor I bought her, but it seemed that the armor would no longer function properly.

‘A normal person would have died a hundred times.’

My tongue stuck out as I looked at the armor that left traces of sword cuts.

“Why are you pretending I’m not here?”

“You kept watching.”

“That’s right…though.”

Minah turned her head around with a new look.

After all, high school students who are full of emotions are hard to deal with.

“Then…”

I looked around and asked.

“What about ‘him’?”

“There. I locked him in there just in case.”

Raising her right hand, Ji-soo pointed behind her, and I saw the dressing room door.

This is because where we are now is an abandoned clothing store.

Sigh.

“Oh, yes. you’re here.”

When I opened the creaking door, a man with dried red blood all over his body shivered.

“You, you….”

He looked at me with shaky eyes as the door suddenly opened.

“How have you been? Park Dong-Kwon.”

It seems that Jisoo has taught him very well.

Looking at the silver bracelet hanging around the trembling Dong-Kwon’s neck, I laughed.