Chapter 70 (2/2)

The wasp in front of him wasn’t as tough as it looked. If he considered its strength, it was on the lower end amongst 1-star monsters. It wasn’t even as strong as the crook, which was the first monster he saw. It was an insignificant opponent for Choi Hyuk.

As the wasp died, the purple room rippled and turned black. The black wall split on one side, and the door to the white metallic room, the dimensional wedge, opened.

Choi Hyuk returned to the dimensional wedge in less than 10 seconds. In the white metallic room, the colonizers, who had yet to start, awkwardly stared at Choi Hyuk. Perhaps it was to be expected since he returned in less than 10 seconds.

Looking at their figures, it looked like they were surrounding Penelope and were in the middle of learning fighting tricks.

Choi Hyuk indifferently pa.s.sed them and shouted at the wall.

“Next!”

As Choi Hyuk shouted, the wall swayed and a new notice appeared.

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{Dimensional Wasps’ Nest 1st Stage Boundary Region}

Attack progression rate: 0.000001% -> No idea where the queen’s room is.

Return (Locked)

Food Supply (Attack)

Continue to attack

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From the start, there was only one choice he could choose.

“Continue to attack.”

The door opened again. Afterwards, it was simple repet.i.tion. The wasps were still weak, and Choi Hyuk returned to the dimensional wedge every 5 seconds. Every time he returned, he saw the beginner warriors listening to what Penelope was saying. When he returned for the fifth time, there finally was no one in the dimensional wedge. On his seventh, he saw Penelope who had returned from a wasp room. With her ever innocent face, she greeted him friendlily with round eyes. Choi Hyuk pa.s.sed by and re-entered the wasp room. Returned after slicing through the weak wasp inside. He repeated these actions twenty times.

“How boring…”

This was one of the reasons why it was difficult to attack the dimensional wasps’ nest. The hive, which multiplied like bubbles, wasn’t something he could instantly smash apart simply because he was strong. Even if a strong warrior invaded, he would be unable to make any progress within the endlessly multiplying wasp rooms. Even if he killed and killed, it was difficult to clear the multiplying rooms.

Because of this, they needed an absolutely large number of warriors to attack the wasps’ nest. They needed to attack the wasp hive together and deteriorate its multiplication.

Just then, when he finished his twenty-seventh repet.i.tive attack and returned, there was a change. A new announcement had appeared on the wall.

{Waiting for the 1st Stage Boundary Region Attack to complete…}

The announcement flickered. It was impossible to attack anymore. Choi Hyuk stood inside the room and waited.

Soon, other warriors, who had finished their attack, returned. As they returned one by one, a total of seven people gathered, including Choi Hyuk. The last remaining person didn’t return. During the waiting time, the six, excluding Choi Hyuk, whispered to each other.

“How was it?”

It was Penelope’s gentle voice. It was lively and filled with concern.

“Yes… Maybe it was because of the camouflage incense pouch, but they thought I was a larva and didn’t attack… When I waited and precisely stabbed its neck with the awl, it squirmed then died… However, there was an incident where I was almost cut apart by its teeth as it squirmed…”

The left arm of the man who was speaking was mutilated as blood flowed out. His face distorted in pain when he glanced at his arm. Penelope quickly covered his face, taking his eyes off his wound, and comforted him.

“Shh… Calm down. Don’t look at your wound. That sort of wound will heal by itself if you rest. Because we are awakenees.”

Choi Hyuk began to slowly find her interesting. ‘Are those actions truly out of sincerity?’ Choi Hyuk, who had spent his time amongst Berserkers, found it hard to believe that a colonizer could be so kind.

After pa.s.sing time like this, the announcement changed.

{1st Stage Boundary Region Attack complete. The dimensional wasps’ nest is deteriorating.}

“Ah… Mr. Kimura…”

The moment the announcement popped up, Penelope let out a sad sigh. There were eight people gathered at the start. There were now seven. It seemed that the one known as Kimura had died. Although they were very easy opponents for Choi Hyuk, if he considered that the five were beginners who didn’t even possess 1-star stats but no-star, many more had survived than Choi Hyuk expected. Perhaps it was because of Penelope.

The announcement continued.

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{Dimensional Wasps’ Nest 2nd Stage Outer Region}

Attack progression rate: 0% -> Started to barely estimate the location of the queen’s room.

Return to Earth

Food Supply

Continue to attack

*Warning. If you choose to return, someone in another dimensional wedge will have to face your opponents in your place.

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The attack progression rate had changed from 1st stage to 2nd stage. They had skimmed off the bubbles of the boundary region created through multiplying and had taken a step forward.

Then the possible options they could choose in the dimensional wedge were unlocked.

As expected, the most eye-catching option was ‘Return to Earth’. Then the warning below it. That was the problem.

“… If I choose to return, someone else would have to fight my opponents as well? … Then, in reverse, doesn’t it mean I might have to face double the opponents?”

It was the man who Penelope had sincerely taken care of just now. He said it in a completely exhausted voice. He glanced at his arm which was now barely starting to stanch.

“… I can’t. I suffered from just one, I’ll die for sure against two.”

His voice seemed like he had come to a decision.

Penelope hurriedly grabbed him.

“You can’t. Mr. Alberto. If you give up here, someone else will face even more danger!”

Alberto’s eyes trembled. He looked at Penelope with a tearful face.

“But… Reversely, the other side might give up.”

He was stricken with fear.

“Don’t… Don’t criticize me. There… There are people who haven’t even come here. Why… Why do I…”

He avoided Penelope’s eyes and said,

“Sorry… Return!”

Crunch!

The special effect of dimensional teleportation… s.p.a.ce erased his body as if swallowing him.

“Ah…”

Penelope sighed in regret and the remaining beginners murmured. Like how Alberto had given up, others would have given up as well. They may possibly face double the opponents in this fight. To them, who had only now awakened, this was too cruel.

“Sorry… Return!”:

Another shouted his return.

Although the rest didn’t shout to return… their eyes were wavering.

They may have possibly held good intentions. They chose to fight a battle they could have avoided without hesitation.

However, the problem now wasn’t their intentions but others’. ‘Just because I don’t betray them doesn’t mean that the other side, who I’ve never seen before, can’t betray me. Why is it that I need to be this scared, and why is that I need to die like this?’

A cruel test.

The second dilemma, the game was about to begin.

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