Chapter 35

“Eh. why?”

<The place where I live has no name, and I, as its owner, also doesn’t have a name.>

“What? You don’t have a name?”

<Yes. Maybe it’s because all of this is just your dream. How amusing. You don’t know my name, so we won’t see each other again.>

Sadness flashed on Seora’s face at once.

It’s a pity that she would never see this beautiful person again.

<Are you sad? You’ve only seen me once. It’s just a coincidence that you and I met, so there is nothing to be sad about.>

“But what if I still want to see you? Are you really never going to see me again? Is there really no way to see it?”

As Seora puckered her lips and grumbled, the man looked at her with a strange smile.

He was in trouble, he wondered what he should do.

<I’m not sure about that either. Actually, I never thought I’d see you like this.>

The man approached slowly.

Up close, the man was much taller than expected. She had to tilt her head back quite a bit, but it didn’t feel pressuring.

His straight fingers gently touched her shoulder. At that moment, an unknown emotion bloomed in his dark green eyes.

<……But maybe it’s better to not to see each other again.>

“Huh?”

<So, wake up from this dream. It’s not good to stay here long.>

The man left those words and pushed Seora back.

Seora, who opened her eyes wide, stretched out her hand, but she couldn’t reach the man with the unknown smile.

It should have been a carpet behind her back, but instead her body fell into the water with a splashing sound.

<Goodbye.>

Beyond the distant vision, the man’s thick lips seemed to have said so.

Seora’s consciousness quickly sank deep below the surface of the water.

***

“Gasp!”

Seora’s eyes widened.

Even though she was just waking up, she coughed for a long time as if she had fallen into the water and was barely dragged out.

Why? Why was it so hard to breathe? Did she have a dream?

“……Ah.”

Dream. That one word reminded her of everything.

A mansion filled with jewelries and dazzling beauty. The person who looked at her with that unknown expression.

Seora let out a sigh. It was literally a sight she would never forget in my dreams.

“Oh, it’s a shame. I wish I looked at it a little more. But did he push people to wake them up just because they intruded?”

Thinking about it made her sad, so she tore off the blanket.

Even though it was a dream, it was a pity that she would never see that beauty again.

“Oh, gosh!”

Seora, who was lying on the bed and stirring her arms and legs, jumped up at the sound of a sudden alarm.

Wait a minute. Why was the alarm sounding now? The alarm goes off in the morning…….

“Is that a wake-up call? Well, that means I woke up a minute earlier……?”

She already left work late yesterday, and now she woke up a minute earlier?

The regret left and Seo-ra collapsed in the chagrin that came at once.

“Nameless, handsome beauty, please wake me up one minute late……”

If that face is a sculpture.

Of course not……

Seora shed tears of sadness.

***

Hard ore materials covered all sides.

There were sparsely growing plants, but even that couldn’t hide the desolateness of the land.

The five unidentified planets floating in the sky and the five-colored ore beneath them were no longer beautiful.

Jarim has looked at this scene for too long.

Really, too long.

“I’m sick of it.”

A high-pitched voice came out through the cracks in the chapped lips.

Jarim further buried her body on the huge ore she was leaning on.

The body that was once buried in a soft bed had now gotten used to this hard feeling.

Right when the eyes that seemed to have taken in the desolateness of the land were about to close.

【The system of ‘Planet—Earth’ has encountered an error!】

At the system message that appeared in front of her, Jarim quickly got up.

“In the Earth’s system……?”

The message continued.

【Warning! An error caused a problem with the dimensional gate!】

【Warning! Please correct any errors!】

【Warning! Please correct any errors!】

【Warning! Please correct any errors!】

【The error has not been fixed. Dimensions are warped!】

【The dimensional door that connects ‘Planet—Earth’ and ‘Plan■■—Bh■■■■r’ has been forcibly opened!】

【Gate creation is complete.】

“……Ah.”

At that moment, Jarim clearly felt it. A wave of strange magic that is transmitted from somewhere in this wide place.

It wasn’t an illusion. There was no way to mistake that. a gate connected to a place other than here had been opened.

“At last.”

The face, which looked like an old giant tree, slowly began to come alive.

Ah, the long-awaited moment had finally arrived.

***

The strange phone call to the association came right after lunchtime, when people felt the most sleepy.

Do Junyoung, who was still in a good spirit even during this terrible time, frowned at the phone call by an dispatched employee.

“Did you say that dungeon rating cannot be measured?”

-Yes! Even the magic meter is weird. The gate is plain blue…… I am scared that it might be serious. I think you have to come in person.

“I will come right away.”

Do Junyoung, who immediately reported this to the association president Song Hanna, decided to request assistance from each guild.

First of all, it could be dangerous since the grade was not measured, so it had to be an S-Rank hunter, especially a person who can be dispatched immediately because their headquarters is nearby.

So Do Junyoung called for Cheonglang’s Han Sueon, his assistant secretary Jeong Hoyoung, and, most importantly, Yoo Sueun, a healer.

“Shouldn’t something like this be the business of an L-rank?”

Yoo Sueun, who immediately ran over due to the agreement with the association, complained as soon as she arrived.

Han Sueon also agreed, but Do Junyoung shook his head.

“Hunter Kang Sejun went to deal with the gate that has recently occurred in Daegwallyeong.”

“Come on, you’re lucky.”

The four S-rank hunters stood in front of the gate. It would be normal if they can feel the magic of the dungeon coming through the gate.

“I can’t feel anything.”

“I don’t think this is normal at all. Measure it again.”

As Jeong Hoyoung made a chin gesture, an official from the association hurriedly approached her and brought the magic meter to the gate.

At that moment, a surprising message appeared before their eyes.

【Warn■■■! Dung■■■ r■■k meas■■■men■ n■t po■■■ble!】

Everyone opened their eyes at the list of broken letters.

“Is that too strange?”

In the 12 years after the cataclysm, countless dungeons were created and disappeared repeatedly, but they could guarantee that they had never seen something like this.

It was the same for Do Junyoung, who reads the weekly report published by the World Dungeon Management Organization (WDO).

With all that said, there was a high chance that what was happening was not normal.

The four men checked their equipment so that they could fight at any time.

“Let me say it again. Our goal is to look inside and reorganize for a proper raid squad in the future. Combat should be avoided as much as possible unless special circumstances arise.”

Do Junyoung, who clearly stated that the purpose was exploration, not attack, entered the dungeon with the three of them.

The name of the dungeon appeared before their eyes.

【You have entered the Grade ■ dungeon ‘Plan■■ Bh■■■■r’s tomb’】

***

and around that time.

【Administrator: (｡ﾟ´Д`ﾟ｡)/(._. )】

After a long absence from work, Seora, who had been happily dozing in the afternoon, stirred up the game by a message from the administrator that came out of nowhere.

An emoticon that comforts you while crying. It was so ominous that it gave her goosebumps as soon as she saw it.

‘What?’

Seora stared at the administrator’s message with the eyes of an earthquake.

‘When was the last time Administrator Beth-ssi comforted me?’

Probably around the time where she blew the head of an S-Rank beast in one shot and received the nickname headbang……

The day she met the man that came back five times!

‘Ahh! Lizaliza-nim. W-what’s going on this time?!’

【Administrator: (﹏)】

‘It has nothing to do with Liza-nim?’

【Administrator: __φ(．．;)】

‘Isn’t that emoticon weird? Did you do it or did you not? Talk to me!’

【The system administrator protests that he didn’t do it.】

【Probably.】

“……”

Chills. An ominous feeling flew like a dagger and pierced her heart.

What was happening this time? Hopefully it wasn’t a regression issue again. She wanted to believe that.

Although that was the only moment the administrator comforted her, She wanted to believe that it would be different this time.

【Administrator: (¬_¬);;】

But Elizabeth-ssi betrayed her beliefs. Saeora’s face turned blue.

‘Y-You have to be fixed with an exorcism!’

If she could solve this bad luck with an exorcism, she was more than willing to get rid of her own sword.

Please, She was begging, she hoped Jeong Hoyoung would come with a skilled shaman soon.

***

【You have entered the Grade ■ dungeon ‘Plan■■ Bh■■■■r’s tomb’】

When the broken system message was exposed, the faces of the four people who entered the dungeon hardened.

“It’s a good thing that a blind blade flew this way, but it’s still not reassuring.”

Everyone agreed with Han Sueon’s whisper.

“It’s a tomb. Were there ever any dungeons with such words that were safe?”

“No, there wasn’t.”

The name of a dungeon represented its characteristics.

For example, the grade 2 dungeon ‘Cradle of the Harpoon Snake’ was named such because it was a place where the boss beast was born.

Then what about the dungeon called the tomb? Especially one that didn’t have a grade.

“We must be careful so it doesn’t become our tomb.”

The dungeon was full of stone debris, perhaps it was an ore area. But not a single thing was intact.

In some cases, the cut surface was clearly exposed, in others it was destroyed by an external force, and in others, traces of something had been left behind.

“One thing is for certain. This is a tomb for ores.”

Jeong Hoyoung, who was good at analyzing, tracked the traces left on the ore fragments. Her face was not very good.

“The sword cuts aren’t neat, so it’s not a blunt weapon. Unique traces remain in most ores.”

“Most of them, so there’s a good chance that this scene was created by one person.”

“One person smashed this number of things? Darn, I have bad luck.”

Yoo Sueun grumbled saying she shouldn’t have come.

As soon as he entered the dungeon, Han Sueon, who had a wide detection ability, whispered softly with his index finger on his lips.

“Shh. I can feel footsteps.”

The four of them immediately lowered themselves and placed their hands on their weapons.

Unlike them, the enemy had been running with a terrifying force showing it had no intention of hiding their presence.

To the extent that everyone could visually identify the enemy.

Four people opened their eyes wide.

“Who sneaked over to the gate before we came in?”

“No, by my command, the gate was shut down completely.”

“Then what’s that running thing? Are you saying it is a humanoid monster?”

Yoo Sueun pointed at the enemy.

It was a woman with pale skin, tall height, fluttering red hair, and golden eyes staring straight at their side.

The enemy who ran clearly took the form of a normal human being, and not the form of a mysterious creature that they had seen so far.