Humanity Itself is Strong - Chapter 5

Crack, crack!

Lee Jin-Seong stabbed it with a combat knife without mercy.

The red monster’s weakness was its large eyeballs.

Lee Jin-Seong broke the blade 90 degrees while pushing his forearm in. The monster lost his eyes and completely destroyed his heart.

The red monster drooped the winding tentacles. Lee Jin-Seong pushed the monster down with his feet.

Flap…

The hunt was simply over.

“Oh, my God……?”

Lee Yeo-jin couldn’t keep her mouth shut.

“How can a person’s strength…….”

I’ve never heard of dealing with a monster without a trick.

At that time, Lee Jin-Seong thought, squeezing the black blood on his arm.

‘Is it about 10 percent less compared to before the regression?’

Before returning, Lee Jin-Seong could not awaken his powers, but his body grew stronger as he trained. Of course, even the system-backed opener can strengthen the body through “status,” but it was no match for Lee Jin-Seong.

‘And this time, I’ll be able to awaken to this ability.’

Lee Jin-Seong is now 16 years old. Only adolescents before the age of 20 have the potential to develop their abilities. Lee Jin-Seong felt his heart beat strangely at the fact. The expectation that he could become stronger excited.

Now, of course, he had to take expensive materials from the monster’s body.

Lee Jin-Seong pulled out two fangs from the mouth of the red monster without dismantling it.

“What is it……?”

Lee Yeo-jin, who came to the side, asked.

“The monster’s teeth.”

Lee Jin-Seong replied, showing his palm-sized fangs.

The poison that this monster vomited is produced from the fangs. The poison is strong enough to melt steel, so it can be a good weapon with a little processing. In addition, if you blow the mana, it will release polar acidic poison, which can be used as a weapon immediately.

At that time, Lee Yeo-jin looked sorry.

“……How’s your arm?”

Lee Jin-Seong raised his black-blooded forearm.

“It’s the monster’s blood. Don’t worry.” “I’m sorry…… for my poor shooting skills…… you could have been in great danger.”

Lee Yeo-jin’s heart felt heavy because she couldn’t help. Lee Jin-Seong replied without much thought.

“That’s all right, you didn’t expect it.” “Oh… yes….”

Lee Yeo-jin was even more depressed by my cold response. I said what I know about the red monster because I wanted to be of any help.

“……As you can see from the murals, this monster once destroyed a world…… but I think there’s only one thing left after the blue God killed them all.” “I don’t think it’s just one of them.” “……Huh?” “Because…….”

Lee Jin-Seong quit trying to tell the future.

‘You don’t have to say it now.’

The monster, later called the “Red Canary,” begins to flourish in our world with the arrival of a black tower. What we’ve got now is nothing but the smallest and weakest of them all.

So Lee Jin-Seong slightly changed the subject.

“You can’t let your guard down until you get out of here. We don’t know where more will come out.” “Oh, yes……”

Then the ground began to shake.

Crurrrush.

When the monster was knocked down, the altar of Purple Heart, which had disappeared to the ground, rose again above the ground.

Lee Jin-Seong stood in front of Purple Heart. Chief Kim asked him to bring it back to him, but Lee Jin-Seong was not their puppet.

‘It’s mine now.’

Since he acquired it, there will be no future death of a regressor by Kim Jun-oh. Lee Jin-Seong took the purple heart in his hand.

He looked into a purple jewel with a heavier weight than he thought. The Mano stone that glistened in purple was brilliant.

“Wow……”

Standing next to him, Lee Yeo-jin exclaimed.

“You really did it…….”

Lee Yeo-jin glistened and looked at the purple heart Lee Jin-Seong was holding. However, Lee Jin-Seong’s mind was not light.

“Should we wake up the blue God?”’

Lee Jin-Seong thought it was very dangerous to revive an opponent who could or could not be beaten.

Moreover, this regression was not at liberty. If I die this time, I don’t know if I’ll really die or if I’ll come back again.

So it would be reasonable not to wake up the blue God.

‘With this purple heart, you can get a lot of power…… Giving up is the best sol–‘

At that moment. There was a small vibration in my chest pocket.

“Hmm……?”

Lee Jin-Seong took it out.

It was a tarot card that came out. And the front of the painting was clean with margins.

It was then.

Sssss…

Letters appeared, which was only marginal.

+ Name: Purple Heart Rated: Mythology Effect: When used, the user’s potential is converted to “out of specification”. Explanation: Heart of the fallen guardian God protecting the fallen world. When you return the purple heart back to its owner, you will be able to ?? +

He thought while looking at the information on the card.

‘Is this how you give information?’

Unlike other openers, Lee Jin-Seong was not supported by the ‘system’. Thus, when other openers simply acquired information through the so-called System Window, Lee Jin-Seong had to be helped by a teacher or team member.

It’s convenient.

First of all, according to the information window that emerged on the tarot card, the Purple Heart can interact with the Blue God.

In other words, it will not be hostile.

So it’s not a bad idea to meet him.

Then, Lee Yeo-jin asked while looking at Lee Jin-Seong.

“What are you doing………?” “Look at the tarot card.” “……What? I can’t see anything……?”

Lee Jin-Seong pushed the card right in front of her but she saw nothing.

‘Am I the only one who can see it?’

It was time to put the card back in my arms thinking so.

+ You have access to Codex from now on. Do you want to access it? +

The letter appeared on the front of the card.

“Codex?”

Codex is a book with information. He replied because there was no reason to refuse.

“Yes.”

Let’s say that, not the card in your hand. Another tarot card appeared in front of Lee Jin-Seong’s face, technically a tarot-type window.

+ You can now access ‘Lee Yeo-jin’ character information. +

“……What else do you see?” “Yeo-jin, wait a minute.”

With the window up, he looked at Lee Yeo-jin.

“Jin-Seong……?”

Then the type came to mind in the window floating next to Lee Yeo-jin.

+ Name: Lee Yeo-jin Opening status: X Likeability: She has a lot of faith in you. Potential: High Enthusiasm: She was a genius who explored many dungeons at a young age and became an authority in dungeon archeology. However, at the age of 23, while exploring a dungeon, she is brutally murdered by a monster. If she had survived the Dungeon Break, she might be a great help in preparing for the Magic Tower. ……. +

“Oh….”

Although I once enjoyed reading her posthumous book, Myth of the Riddle in the Dungeon. I didn’t know he had this much potential.

Looking for more Codex, there are five different potentials.

Very low, low, medium, high, very high. Furthermore, according to Codex, high and very high are less than 5% of the total population.

‘Good thing I saved your life.’

Lee Jin-Seong was satisfied. Recruitment of outstanding archaeologists such as Lee Yeo-jin would allow us to find all the artifacts of the upcoming historic dungeon.

‘We need to build a good partnership.’

I gave the purple heart to Lee Yeo-jin.

“Would you like to touch it?” “Oh, yes!”

She received a purple heart as if she was waiting. She looked around with a flushed face, took out various equipment, measured and photographed purple hearts. Lee Yeo-jin wanted to hold a purple heart in her hands. Lee Jin-Seong was waiting for her permission to fall.

Lee Jin-Seong looked at her in silence and asked.

“……Where is the blue God?” “Oh! That’s….”

Lee Yeo-jin looked up at Lee Jin-Seong, wearing large horn-rimmed glasses.

“Excuse me!”

Lee Yeo-jin pointed to the black gap on the ceiling where the red canary popped out.

“In fact, I was confused, but I was sure when I saw the pattern on the crystal on the purple heart!”

Then she lifted up a crystal and pushed it into Lee Jin-Seong. Indeed, there was a metaphysical pattern engraved on it.

I checked it when I was interpreting the lithography on the first floor, but I didn’t know it would help like this…….” “…….”

Lee Jin-Seong was looking at Lee Yeo-jin with a blank look on his face. Lee Yeo-jin stopped talking and flustered.

“Ah…! Do we have to go?!” “……are you done with the record?” “Oh, yes, yes!”

And Lee Yeo-jin put her writing instrument back in her bag. Lee Jin-Seong looked up at the black hole and said.

“Now we’re going to see the blue God.”

Lee Yeo-jin liked it like a child going to an amusement park.

“All right!”

To climb the perforated ceiling, Lee Jin-Seong broke the stones and made it look like a staircase. Of course, it was not meant for him, but for Lee Yeo-jin.

The space in the ceiling was total darkness. It wasn’t hard to find a goal.

“There’s light!”

This is because there was a huge object crouching on the floor that spewed blue light where Lee Yeo-jin pointed out.

“……I guess that’s the blue God I saw in the mural.

Lee Jin-Seong walked ahead in the dark, wary of his surroundings.

‘It’s dead quiet.’

The only signs in this vast darkness were Jin-Seong and Yeo-jin, who were walking.

Lee Jin-Seong raised his sixth sense to the fullest, but this space was literally empty. And before they knew it, they arrived in front of a giant blue object emitting pale light.

It looked like something in a human form that rolled up to the side.

He had a head like a human, but he had no features on his face, and he was lying sideways with his arms and legs crouched up. The blue God’s body was scrawny.

“……I think it’s completely dried up.”

Standing in front of the remains of the blue God, Lee Yeo-jin put her hand on the finger of the God, which was as big as a pillar.

“…….”

Lee Jin-Seong walked to the face of this dead lying God. He fiddled with the purple heart in his hand and thought about it for the last time.

Lee Jin-Seong once again picked up his card and looked at Purple Heart’s explanation.

+ ……. When you return the purple heart back to its owner, you will be able to ?? ……. +

What is this question mark? An unexpected phrase kept poking through Lee Jin-Seong’s head.

A stronger idea came to mind.

He wanted to know.

Lee Jin-Seong’s desire for knowledge was second to Lee Yeo-jin. He was so curious about what this blue God would be.

At that time, Lee Yeo-jin, who was quietly standing next to him, said something unexpected.

“Do we really need to save him?” “Yes……?”

Lee Yeo-jin said with a smile.

“This is a dead God, whose story has been completed…… I think it would be rather painful if we forced him to come back.” “……What do you mean?”

Lee Yeo-jin looked up at Lee Jin-Seong and said.

“The world he protected, the people all died…… I think it’s cruel to be left alone in a strange world…….” “…….”

Lee Jin-Seong was really touched by her words. He recalled his life before his return. It was a hell of a life to find meaning other than surviving day by day until the age of 20.

“……it’s possible. But it’s not fun to live.

Killing people. There was nothing else Lee Jin-Seong could do. He killed and killed, and there was no one left around.

“But do you know this? Even those who curse their lives…….”

Lee Jin-Seong strode into the hands of God.

“They want to strive to survive.”

People who want to die in the pain of life want to survive like others when they face death. It’s not because they don’t want to live, it’s because their life is frustrating.

Lee Jin-Seong put the purple heart in God’s hands with such a personal thought.

Whoo…

As if in response, the purple heart began to emit purple as soon as it touched the finger of the blue God.

It’s shining.

A subtle but powerful light began to radiate from the body, which they never thought could shine again.

The purple heart is drawn into the palm of God as if they were attracted to a magnet. Lee Jin-Seong did not reject the power and let the purple heart go between his open fingers.

Coo-goo-goo-goo…

Then the pale, scrawny hands slowly began to clench its fists.

“Woo, it’s moving!”

The giant’s body, which had a large body just now, began to shrink around the purple heart that glows in purple.

Whooo…

And with a low resonance, the pale-skinned God’s body began to turn into a human-sized body.

It emerged as a doll with a white silhouette.

“……Is, is it resurrected?”

Scared Lee Yeo-jin clung to Jin-Seong’s arm.

Jin-Seong also looked at the silhouette of a man without saying a word, but he could see that the blue God was not hostile to them.

Instead, the white silhouette, which regained its heart, smiled lightly.

They can’t see its eyes or nose. It was like saying thank you.

And

Tsusu ssusu sisu sisu…

The white silhouette contracted again, becoming a small card, and floated in the air.