Return To Player - Chapter 16

“Yes, alright, then I’ll leave that side to you.”

beep.

When I hung up the phone and turned my back, I found Jisoo staring at me.

“Who were you calling?”

“I just had someone to call.”

I replied casually, but honestly, I was surprised.

‘Haa…She keeps surprising me by appearing out of nowhere like this.’

Is she’s doing this on purpose?

“Why?”

“…It’s nothing.”

No matter what I say, she won’t stop.

“But what is this?”

Jisoo looked at the objects in front of me and gently tilted her head.

An elongated spear and five round rings were strewn across the floor.

“Things we’re going to use in the raid.”

“I know the spear, but what are the rings for?”

“Oh, these?”

I lifted a silver shiny ring. On the surface, it looks like an ordinary accessory, but it’s not.

“This is a training bracelet.”

“For training?”

Abilities are raised not only through points but also through actions such as training.

It just takes a lot of effort compared to using points.

“Yeah. I can control the weight of the bracelet with this gem.”

I opened my palm and showed the bright red jewel.

The color of the gem changes to seven colors like a rainbow, and if you change it to purple, it changes to a weight that can only be lifted by force A.

Where did this come from?

The answer is simple.

‘The DLC shop.’

The DLC shop is a place that contains the best growth boost packages.

The price of this package was only 500 points.

There is only one bracelet in one growth boost package, so a total of 2500 points has gone out.

“If you wear this on your arms or legs, your abilities will naturally increase.”

“Aha.”

Jisoo looked at it with curious eyes.

“But why? Do you want to train?”

“No.”

“Then?”

“To use it on someone else, not me.”

Jisoo pursed her lips with an unreadable expression.

“Five?”

“No, not one.”

The jewels that controlled the other bracelets were in their pockets.

“Are you ready?”

“yeah, I only need standard defense tools and this mace.”

Jisoo said with a smile and raised her hand to make an okay sign.

It looks like everything has already been prepared.

“Then let’s go.”

“To the president?”

“Yeah.”

There is something I have to pass on to Hyun-Kyun.

And I lifted the golden spear.

‘The coating seems to be good.’

After recovering the deformable Orihalcum used for the short sword, I coated it on this spear.

While Hyun-Kyun and his party were preparing, I tried using all of the weapons they had.

This spear is one of them.

“Oppa, You seem to know how to use a spear.”

“Well, I can use almost everywhere there is.”

“Hmm.”

Jisoo looked at me with curious eyes.

She wondered how the hell I knew how to handle these weapons.

‘I can’t tell you though.’

How can I say that I learned it in my previous round?

‘Now that I think about it, how is my teacher doing?’

“Then what’s your favorite weapon? What is the weapon you’re best at”

“You have a lot of questions today.”

“I’m just asking anything that comes to mind.”

Jisoo said bluntly.

Looking at it like this, it doesn’t seem that different from the previous Jisoo.

“I don’t have one.”

“Really?”

“There was no weapon that made me think that ‘this is the one’.”

I’ve been learning this and that, but my talents stayed at a decent level no matter what I learned. I’d say it’s fortunate that I’m not without talent at all.

‘It doesn’t really matter.’

Talent is not essential to winning and surviving.

It’s just more favorable conditions.

In the previous round, I met a lot of talented players.

But in the end, it was me who survived.

Not even a genius with the greatest talent in mankind survived.

I was the one who survived.

‘Besides, this round is different from the previous round.’

My talent is the same, but the inside is different. Unlike in the past, I know how to be strong.

Maybe it’s possible to get the title of ‘strongest’.

It’s still in the distant future, though.

“Oh, you’re here.”

Hyun-Kyun, who was fully prepared, smiled brightly and spoke.

“You’ve got all your equipment right?”

“Somehow, my accumulated points are quite large.”

‘Well, since you’ve cleared the first main quest with a gold level, you’ll get quite a few points.’

‘what?’

An observer was spinning behind Hyunkyun said that. At first glance, it was a movement that was different from other observers.

It’s probably an observer controlled by God, not the GM.

‘It seems that Hyun-Kyun has become an avatar too.’

Which god did he choose?

Hyunkyun’s personality means that it probably isn’t an evil god.

‘I’ll find out after some time anyway.’

It’s easy to know what kind of god’s avatar you are if I know what skills you have.

“Then are the others ready?”

“Yeah, that’s why I came here to talk about leaving soon.”

Hyun-Kyun, who spoke with a bright smile, looked calm on the outside, but his eyes were full of tension.

“Me and Jisoo are moving separately along the way.”

“You’re moving separately?”

“Yes, I have work to do.”

“Ugh.”

Hyunkyun had a slightly worried face. It may not be a welcome situation for him, who seems to have a sense of dependence on me.

“And this.”

I held out the spear coated with the Orichalcum to Hyun-Kyun.

“Why are you giving me a spear?”

“When you meet the boss, put this in the center of the building. If you push it into the floor, it will probably go in. Make the blade face upward.”

If it is a spear coated with Orichalcum, and if it is Hyunkyun who would have raised his stats with points, even a marble or concrete floor would be enough to insert a spear.

“Yeah, yes.”

“And if you can’t kill the boss, lure it towards the spear when I give the signal.”

Hyun-Kyun looked at the spear he had received from me with a confused expression.

“And the signal is…?”

“I’ll call you on the phone.”

The world got chaotic but funny enough, smartphones and the Internet were still available.

This is possible because the GM left it that way, and there are still quite a few areas that have not been converted into stages.

“Um, yes. But I would like to ask something.”

“Yes.”

“Why do we need to put the spear in the middle of the boss room?”

Hyunkyun asked cautiously. In any case, it’s a natural question.

‘It’s just that the problem is that it’s hard to explain.’

So I had no choice but to say this.

“You’ll find out when you put the spear in.”

“Hoo. Their starting?”

Dong-Kwon just received a call from Hyun-Kyun through his cell phone.

It was news that they had just finished preparing and were going downstairs.

‘Okay, this time…’

How long have I been waiting for this?

“Why did they take a week to prepare?”

So far the other fraction has tried to kill the ‘boss’ at the top of the tower three times.

The problem is that all three times did not yield any significant results.

‘There is a high probability that it will be just as the guy said.’

The damn guy who interrupted me in the first main quest, Kim Se-Han.

I don’t know how he survived fighting against that Minotaur, but it was clear that there is something about him.

Since even my ‘god’ told me to be careful.

‘But this time, he won’t be able to do anything.’

Kim Joo-won’s skills are real.

If Dong-Kwon himself had not been the avatar of the gods, he would not have hesitated to become his subordinate.

‘But, what he did last time…’

It looks like Joo-Won was running away, but it was probably a mistake. He shouldn’t be afraid of anything.

“Hello?”

Dong-Gwon spoke to the man guarding his room.

“What?”

“I have something I want to pass on to your captain.”

On this side, Joo Won was called ‘Captain’.

“What do you want to me pass on?”

“It’s about this quest.”

“What is it, spit it out.”

“I don’t wanna talk here. Let me talk to the captain over there.”

After looking at it for the past few days, this guy has very thin ears.

He doesn’t even need to use his ‘skills’, just a few words and he’ll come over in no time.

“Aren’t the progress of your attacks slow?”

“Ugh.”

“At least it won’t hurt to hear me out. On the contrary, it’ll be of great help to this quest.”

The man had a troubled face. But he also nodded slowly after a moment.

“Alright. If the information you give is useless, you should be prepared.”

“All right.”

“The captain will be back soon, so let’s talk then.”

“Yes.”

Dong-Gwon smiled inwardly.

Even if I had an opportunity to talk to Joo Won, it wouldn’t be easy to convince him.

Joo-Won is smart, and even if he ignores my words, I should be able to persuade him if I use that ‘skill’.

‘This time…’

By monopolizing the rewards, I will get ahead of other idiots.

‘Because I am the chosen one.’

From the first main quest, he became the avatar of a god. He was different from other people.

“….”

But Dong Kwon didn’t know. The fact there was another existence watching him.

The basement of Rome World Tower was like a dungeon.

The place is dark with no lights on.

And monsters attacking from among the mess.

It was difficult to respond easily as they had only been attacking monsters on the street.

“I did a good job of selecting the right number of people.”

Hyunkyun muttered as he scanned the surroundings with a flashlight.

Currently, the number of people in the group is about ten, excluding me and Jisoo.

The others are waiting at the subway station.

“Quick!”

The monster reflected in the flashlight screamed and stiffened.

It was a monster in the shape of a giant mouse.

“Where!”

Hyun-Kyun aimed at the gap and stabbed the monster in the back with his sword.

“Keeek!”

“There’s another over there too!”

The monsters tried to attack from all directions, but each time, they stiffened when the light for the flashlights shone on them and was attacked.

“As you said, it was good that everyone brought a flashlight.”

“Monsters coming out of these dark places are vulnerable to light.”

I said while stepping on a dead monster.

The monster’s name for this gigantic rat is ‘Black Rat’, and as its name suggests, it is a monster with black fur.

It was a weak monster like a goblin, but it had black fur and appeared in places where there was usually no light.

The weak point of these monsters is light.

It has the weakness of instantaneous hardening of the body when the light is directly exposed to the eyes.

“Hah.”

I swung my sword lightly at the black rats that were rushing from left and right and scraped its stomach.

At the level I am now, exploiting their weakness was no longer necessary, so I just stabbed them to death with a sword.

‘…?’

The surroundings were strangely quiet as they were killing the rats.

It felt like everyone was looking at me for some reason, so I asked Hyun-Kyun, who was nearby, wiping off the blood on my sword.

“What happened?”

“…You’re killing them like they’re rats.”

“…? They are rats. What else would they be?”

“No, that’s not what I meant…”

Hyun-Kyun mumbled.

“If you look closely, they aren’t that different from a normal rat. Except for being a little taller and dark-haired.”

“Wow. I’m speechless.”

I smiled at him sighing.

“How far are we from the bottom?”

“Probably about halfway there. The basement has a total of 6 floors, but now we have reached the 3rd floor.”

So, I guess it’s time now. I pulled out my phone from my pocket.

Checking to see if there are any messages I missed.

Woo Woo.

“Oh.”

There could’ve been no better timing.

My phone rang as soon as I take it out.

‘Let’s see…’

When I checked, there was a text message. The caller is Lee Min-ah.

The text was concise.

[We’re going down~]