LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 133
Chapter 133
After receiving the call, Choi Yoon spoke.
– Why?
Her tone was curt.
It was understandable.
At one point, she had wished Suho would contact her more frequently, but after he persistently pushed himself to clear gates, she had grown completely tired of him.
Half-jokingly, she even told him not to call her again, and yet here he was, calling just days later, which explained her reaction.
However, Suho, undeterred, spoke.
“Please arrange a gate for me.”
– Another gate?
“Is that a problem?”
– No, it’s not that… You know why I’m reacting this way, right?
“If you help me with this one, I won’t ask again.”
– …Really?
“Yes.”
– Hmm, if that’s the case… So, what are your conditions this time?
Suho explained his requirements, and Choi Yoon nodded in agreement.
– If those are the conditions, it shouldn’t take long to find. Are you sure that’s all you need?
“Yes, that’s all.”
– Alright. I’ll get back to you by tomorrow at the latest, maybe even today.”
“Understood. By the way, have any of the gates I previously asked about shown up?”
– You mean the ones with vampires, poison, and the full moon?
“Yes.”
– Not yet. Should I let you know as soon as I find anything?”
“I would appreciate it.”
– Alright. I’ll check on those as well.
With that, the call ended.
Suho nodded and tucked his phone into his pocket.
Then, after a long time, he activated the Library of Memories.
‘Choi Yoon will handle the gate. Now, all that’s left is finding the right person…’
The moment Suho saw the new trait quest, he had immediately thought of an ideal strategy for it.
That’s why he had reached out to Choi Yoon.
But for this quest, he needed not just the gate but also a suitable person to assist him.
After searching through the Library of Memories for a while, Suho’s gaze stopped at one entry.
‘This person?’
A smile spread across his lips.
He had found someone perfectly suited to the quest’s conditions.
After noting down the necessary details about his target, Suho began preparing for a pursuit.
*
Vroom—
A car drove up an isolated mountain.
It was Suho’s car.
After completing his preparations, he headed to Gwangju in Gyeonggi Province, to a place called Gonjiam.
Following the navigation, Suho finally parked his car at the specified address.
Sindae-ri in Gonjiam.
This small village, with few visitors, had long held a famous landmark.
That landmark was none other than the Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital.
Once a common subject in horror movies and urban legends, the hospital had been demolished long ago, yet it continued to attract visitors like a tourist spot.
But now, even that occasional traffic had disappeared.
The reason was the large-scale gate that had devastated the Gonjiam area years ago.
‘It caused so many casualties before it was finally cleared.’
In any case, it was eventually conquered.
But perhaps due to the high death toll or the traumatic effects of the gate incident, people began to leave one by one, and now Gonjiam had become a place devoid of any signs of life.
Yet the person Suho sought was right here.
Once he reached a point where his car could go no further, Suho stepped out and began ascending the mountain.
The mountain in Gonjiam was eerily silent.
Not even a single bird’s chirp could be heard, and although the sun was still up, the area was cloaked in an ominous atmosphere.
But Suho paid it no mind.
He continued to climb for a while longer.
‘Found it.’
Finally, he located what he was searching for on the mountainside.
What Suho found was a massive wall.
A high wall that looked almost man-made, reminiscent of the affluent neighborhoods in Seongbuk-gu.
Suho walked along the wall, searching for an entrance.
However, after circling around, he found no sign of a gate.
If he hadn’t found it by now, it was safe to assume there wasn’t one.
So he simply scaled the wall.
It wasn’t difficult to climb over it.
The wall was somewhat high, but nothing Suho couldn’t handle.
With a light, nimble leap like a ninja, he landed on the other side of the wall.
And at that moment.
Rumble…
He heard a faint sound of the ground trembling, soil shifting.
A sound subtle enough that only someone with sharp senses could hear it, but Suho caught it.
He turned in the direction of the sound and, seeing what lay in his line of sight, smiled in satisfaction.
“It seems I’ve come to the right place.”
Emerging from the ground.
It was none other than skeletons.
Seeing the skeletons, Suho used Blood Weapon to summon a blood-red sword into his hand and spoke.
“Are you watching me through shared vision? These things won’t be able to stop me, so if you know who I am, come out peacefully.”
No response came.
Only the skeletons, each holding their own weapon, moved toward him.
Suho rested his blood sword on his shoulder and nodded.
Fine.
He hadn’t expected much anyway.
A person hiding out in a place like this wasn’t likely to come out on the first try.
So he decided to force them out.
Suho, his blood sword at his side, took a stance.
[ Cloud Slash has been activated. ]
Swish!
The blood sword swung, tracing a red circle.
Everything within its arc was sliced diagonally, revealing cleanly cut surfaces.
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
…
The notifications flooded his view.
Suho, seeing these messages, was more certain than ever.
The skeletons he had just defeated weren’t ordinary skeletons but ‘Rising Skeletons,’ meaning they were summoned by a player rather than appearing as system-generated monsters.
‘Let’s see how long you can hold out.’
Swinging his sword, Suho advanced.
*
How much time had passed?
Boom!
Boom—!
Boom—!!
Crossing over the wall, Suho had turned everything in sight upside down.
In the process, he had cut down hundreds of skeletons and dismantled hundreds of traps.
But still, the owner of these skeletons had yet to reveal themselves.
‘This is really getting annoying.’
Normally, by now, someone would come out, if only out of frustration at the chaos.
But the owner of the skeletons remained hidden.
After advancing for a while longer, Suho finally discovered what the wall was guarding.
A mansion.
No, it was more like a grand mansion.
After a long march, Suho found an enormous mansion that didn’t fit in with the secluded mountains of Gonjiam.
“As if to prove they’re a recluse…”
Shaking his head, Suho stepped into the mansion’s garden, and skeletons hidden around the garden started appearing.
“Hah, really, they’re going all out.”
Suho sighed and swung his sword.
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
[ You have defeated a Rising Skeleton. ]
…
No skeleton could stand in Suho’s way.
After effortlessly cutting them down, Suho opened the massive door of the mansion, towering far above his height.
The dark interior of the mansion was as quiet, eerie, and dim as an abandoned haunted house.
But darkness wasn’t much of an obstacle for Suho.
[ Due to the Original Vampire effect, you are unaffected by the darkness. ]
Thanks to his skill, his vision brightened as if it were daylight, and he activated an additional skill.
[ Mana Detection has been activated. ]
With mana detection, he could sense the skeletons and traps hidden throughout the mansion.
Seeing this, Suho clicked his tongue in annoyance.
This was clearly designed to be troublesome.
‘I’ll be patient. I’m the one in need right now.’
Instead, he decided to pick up the pace.
That guy wasn’t coming out anyway.
It would be faster to drag him out directly.
From then on, Suho accelerated, locating and eliminating every mana-detectable entity in the mansion.
If it was a skeleton, he cut it down, and if it was a trap, he destroyed it.
He started on the first floor, passed through the basement, and was nearing the end of his search on the mansion’s second floor.
‘Only that room is left.’
One room remained.
Located in the farthest corner of the second floor, it was the room furthest from the mansion’s entrance.
Without hesitation, Suho approached the door and opened it.
It was a study.
Filled with enough books to resemble a small library, the back of the room contained the most intense mana he had detected thus far, coiled tightly.
That must be the mansion’s owner.
Suho narrowed his eyes, estimating the height of the crouched figure.
Then, without a moment’s hesitation, he swung his sword.
Swish!
What he cut through was the room’s bookshelves.
Then.
Rumble— Bang!
The slashed bookshelves collapsed, raising clouds of dust.
Suho used his sword’s gust to disperse the dust.
The room remained dark.
The mansion’s owner continued to crouch, using the shadows as a shield, but to Suho, who was unaffected by the darkness, everything was visible.
Suho, keeping a safe distance, spoke.
“Mr. Gong Dawon, I can see you crouching there. I won’t come any closer, so let’s talk for a moment.”
Gong Dawon.
He was the reason Suho had come all the way to Gonjiam for his trait quest.
Gong Dawon was a 1-star necromancer player above level 100, a key figure necessary for Suho to unlock the conditions for Dragon’s Blood.
“…”
But there was no response to Suho’s words.
Suho asked again.
“Mr. Gong Dawon?”
“N-no…”
“Pardon?”
“I… don’t want to!!”
Suddenly, Gong Dawon screamed.
Simultaneously.
[ Player Gong Dawon has used Necro Field. ]
Rumble!!
Gong Dawon activated Necro Field.
Necro Field, one of the wide-area skills, continuously raised undead in a designated area as long as the caster’s mana could sustain it—a terrifying skill.
As a result.
Rattle, rattle…
Screech…
The skeleton soldiers hidden in the study rose, armed with polearms, ready to defend their master.
Suho pressed his hand to his forehead in silence.
“Hah, this is really tiresome…”
This was why necromancers were such a nuisance.
Having had enough, Suho decided it was time to let go of the pretense.
He had been polite enough.
The rejection had come from Gong Dawon, not him.
“I’ve given you plenty of chances.”
With his decision made, Suho swung his blood sword in a wide arc.
[ Cloud Slash has been activated. ]
Swish— Crack-crash!
One slash of Cloud Slash.
With that one strike, the summoned undead were wiped out in an instant.
And then.
“Gah!”
Gong Dawon, too, was cut by Cloud Slash, blood spilling as he collapsed forward.
[ Necro Field has been deactivated. ]
The Necro Field faded.
The situation was over.
Of course, Suho hadn’t killed him.
He had held back just enough.
Suho approached the writhing Gong Dawon, who lay on the floor.