Chapter 48. The Wild Forest (5) (2/2)
Seo Jun-Ho wordlessly patted hi for a while, the man wiped away his tears with his sleeve “I didn’t say this earlier, but thank you for helping us”
“No need”
At thatThey saw that it was over, and their faces becarim
“We were too late”
“Huff, huff…I ran as hard as I could…” Seo Mi-Raeeast,” Seo Jun-Ho spoke up
“East…?” The party leader of the survivors asked
“Yes We’re gonna head east and save other Players and hunt the dark elves” The reasoning was sihold was there “If you’re willing, we can take down the eneether What will you do?”
“”
They couldn’t even drea their teammates with only half the party left But Seo Jun-Ho was offering to avenge theether The party leader made his choice
Words were unnecessary He thuainst his chest twice, his eyes full of venoh for Seo Jun-Ho “Then you guys should go north”
“North? We’re splitting up?”
“Yes” No matter how fast Seo Jun-Ho moved, it would be i the Wild Forest was
‘I need parties that will become my hands and feet’
He needed people to cover the north and hile he went east Seo Jun-Ho planned to give that role to his newly acquired Players
The player leader finally spoke “We’ve received great assistance fro star of Korea” He picked up his fallen helm from the dirt and put it back on and nodded “So ill follow you The Blue Whale party will head north”
They became Seo Jun-Ho’s first hand
“Huff…huff…”
A man had collapsed onto the forest floor The hot sun was boring down on hih the trees He could taste rust in his , even if I die…’
He had been running for two days now Hunger and thirst were getting to his refused to move But most i dark elves They put poison on their arrowheads’
He lifted his shi+rt, checking the flesh at his side that was already black Death was right before him In his poisoned state, it was is, which were quick and had sharp noses
“Dammit…” Tears started to spill over He was scared and sorrowful
His teaed around level 28 If the dark elves had ht, he wouldn’t have been injured like this
“Those dirty, cursed monsters!”
But the enemy was crafty They used the cover of darkness to attack their caht If it weren’t for his sunbae’s quick reaction, their entire party would have been annihilated
– Woof! Woof woof!
At that s
‘I don’t want to die! I’th to run away Tears streamed down his face as death approached With shaky hands, he loaded a bullet into a handgun
“If I have to die now…” As the maknae of the honorable Bravo party, he had to take a fewthe bullet…
– Woooof!
A Woldog ca out of the thicket and bit into his left ar bitten, he raised the gun in his right hand and pulled the trigger
Bang!
The sound of a gunshot rang through the forest
“Yes! Guh…” The Woldog fell But just as he was about to celebrate…
– Woof! Woof!
– Woof!
– Wooof!
The cries of at least a dozen Woldogs o pale On top of that, the bite he had suffered just noas also deep
‘So this is how I die’
The last bit of hope in his started to sound more frantic
– Woof! Woooof!
– Woooooof!
“W-what?” He craned his neck, trying to see as going on He could hear people nearby
“The gunshot ca so for…”
“Should be around here…”
‘People…!’
His eyes ide, but he was too tired to make a sound He opted to shoot another bullet into the air
Bang!
A moment later, the dense bushes were cut down, and a familiar face appeared
“I found him! It’s him! He’s our party’s maknae!”
“S-sunbae…” When the man saw the face of his supposedly dead sunbae, he started to sob “Sniff…how did you…I thought you were dead…kuh…”
“Why the hell would I die? And…” The sunbae turned, looking at the people that were approaching It was the sound of dozens of Players approaching His eyes were fixed on the leader “The person you should thank is him, not me”
“That person…who…?” It was the first time the hubae had seen one person lead so many people inside a Gate
“Player Seo Jun-Ho But people have started calling him by a sobriquet”
“Sobriquet…? Players on the 1st floor can have one?”
“Most don’t, but outstanding Players like him should have superb titles”
“What do they call him?”
In only two days, 152 Players had been saved and 436 dark elves had been killed under Seo Jun-Ho’s command The Players that directly witnessed his achieve him by another name
“He saves allies and beheads his eneht