Chapter 43

# 43

43. Prologue (2)

I immediately drew my sword.

I don’t know who. Even now, right in front of my eyes, I couldn’t recognize my proper appearance.

But one thing I can say for sure is that this bastard is directly related to the cause of my coming here.

“I finally met you.”

An unpleasant voice like scratching metal pierced my ears.

I put strength into my right hand holding the sword. The palms were stained white.

‘...I want to kill him.’

The blood and sweat I shed.

And the hellish battlefields we went through.

It was all because of this guy.

Even though I couldn’t see the figure, the voice was as clear as this in my mind.

I took out my shield and put it on my left hand.

take a slow breath

power I don’t have.

Desperately weighing tactics to kill him. Compare my level and skill and opponent’s ability. Suddenly, a strong headache crept into his head.

‘Damn it...’

I couldn’t see the answer.

Right now, I am a level 10 with 1 star. I was just a hero with five or six low-level skills. On the other hand, its power could not even be measured. I clearly remembered the ability to annihilate a Diora party made up of 6 stars and 5 stars in less than 10 seconds.

I corrected my distorted vision.

It was in a place close to me, but I couldn’t see it, surrounded by a strange fog. What appeared to be the man’s mouth wriggled.

“Aren’t you going to run at me? You must be resentful.」

“If you’re going to make noise, send it back.”

“It’s good, it’s good. Indeed, if he hadn’t had that level of self-control, he would have died sooner.”

His arms were wavy and he clapped.

The headache got worse. I took a step back and took a position where I could swing my sword at any time.

“Are all hero promotions like this?”

“Can’t you? you are special This place is a gift for you. This is my stage prepared for you, the glorious ranker of Pick Me Up.”

The fog that covered the field dissipated.

Through the fog, the figure appeared.

‘...female.’

More like a girl than a woman.

Her near-perfect features and body remind us of dolls. The girl, wearing a light black dress, slowly walked towards me. The fairy who brought me here flew around the girl.

“I don’t know how to introduce myself.”

“You can understand it as a bitch like a dog.”

“That’s a bit troublesome.”

The girl smiled picturesquely and snapped her fingers.

A luxurious chair covered with leather seats appeared. The girl sat on it and looked at me.

If you look closely, it looks very similar to Isel.

I had a hunch that Isel’s body would grow and become exactly like that after several years of growth.

The girl smiled slightly as if she noticed my gaze.

“I don’t resemble Issel, Isel resembles me. He’s just a clone of me. He’s 100 million and 479th. Oops, isn’t that similar to the number of downloads of Pick Me Up?”

“...what are you?”

“Finally the question came up.”

The girl laughed and pulled out a business card from her bosom.

The business card the girl threw lightly spun and landed in my hand.

[Co-CEO of Moebius Co., Ltd. @※☆]

[010-6666-5555]

The name field is overpainted with special characters.

“Are you kidding me?”

“Because there are not just one or two names. I use them appropriately depending on the situation.”

I folded the business card, threw it on the floor, and trampled it with my foot.

“Excuse me.”

I imprinted his true face in my eyes so that I wouldn’t forget it. And he spoke.

“so?”

“Why are you telling me that?”

“I ask for your cooperation.”

“Cooperation?”

“Save the world with me...”

I took the dagger from the back of my belt and threw it.

hooked

The dagger neatly pierced the girl’s head.

Black blood gushed out from the cracked forehead.

“I was wondering what you were talking about, but you talked dog bullshit and fell asleep.”

“Think carefully, Loki. Is the answer yes or no?”

With her forehead split, the girl smiled leisurely.

I answered.

“X.”

Out of nowhere, call a place like this, make them go through hardships, and then cooperate?

I will look at all the crazy bastards.

I muttered as I prepared for battle.

“I won’t cooperate with you. You scumbag. If you’re going to kill me, kill me. I’ll let a knife through your head.”

“You talk too much. It hurts. Huhu, huhuhu...”

Tuk.

The dagger stuck in the girl’s forehead was pulled out by itself.

The wound that had been bleeding black blood healed in an instant. Blood spilled on the floor and dug into the girl’s shadow. I suppressed the urge to run at him and chop him up.

‘ha.’

I slowly discharged the heat overflowing from my head.

I have a skill called calm. The initial anger subsided to some extent, and I was able to look at the situation calmly.

‘Now I can’t kill this bastard.’

I’m 1 star.

It’s only level 10.

The skills were insignificant and the imprint was not open.

‘Not yet.’

If you kill it, after you grow more power.

No matter how strong he is, if it’s a boss monster, there will definitely be a strategy.

Close your eyes and open them.

My head became much clearer.

I said.

“I don’t want to talk to you. Send me back.”

“I’m sorry. I spent a lot of interference to call you to this place.”

The girl continued with an expression of not being sad at all.

“Loki, I think highly of you. More than any Master in Pick Me Up. Even the rankers in front of you are nothing but fireflies in front of the moon compared to you. Do you know why? because it was done.”

The girl snapped her fingers.

A hologram appeared in the center of the field.

[Believe in your bond with the master hero.]

“You know where this sentence comes from, right?”

Know.

It was part of the guide that appears when clearing the tutorial.

“You were the only one who truly embodied the meaning of this sentence. Out of 100 million Masters, you were the only one.”

“What are you saying.”

The girl snapped her fingers again.

The landscape changed once again. Hologram letters slowly emerged in an unfamiliar background.

[Floor 80.]

[Mission Type – Mixed]

[Objective – Unknown.]

“Do you know where it is, Loki?”

The girl smiled.

“This is the 80th floor stage of Niflheim, six months ago.”