Chapter 158 (1/2)

Get In Line (2)

The eyes of the receptionist and mine naturally turned to the source.

He, who had just yelled, had ended the communication and was staring at us.

He constantly huffed as his anger filled his body all the way to the tip of his head.

The devil who saw that sighed shallowly.

The alien pointed his finger at her face and shouted.

“I asked what you’re doing! Are all the other waiting ones retarded? One hundred forty thousand beings are waiting for their turn, but why are you only letting him in right away? Are you kidding me?!”

The devil spoke with an expression that seemed to say she direly didn’t want to answer back.

“Can’t you see this?”

She had the System-Class item, [Priority Ticket], in her hand that I gave her a few minutes back.

The ticket shone in bright gold.

The Union knew that there was a vast waiting queue in the only place where unique skills could be upgraded and helped me not to waste time.

They gave out an item that could only be received by offering one million experience points for free.

It definitely came in handy. However, that man, who picked on her, seemed to dislike what he was currently witnessing in front of him.

He harshly replied as he glared at the ticket in the receptionist’s hand.

“So what?!”

Being ignorant made one brave.

With a colossal body about twice my height, he stared his only eye out.

Growl! A threatening sound of boiling under his Adam’s apple reverberated. Simultaneously, he revealed his sharp fangs.

The devil spoke in a bored voice.

“This temple is managed and controlled by the system. The system sets all rules. I’m just succumbing myself to that.”

In other words, the magic race member serving as a receptionist there was also being ordered around by the system.

Among the magic world residents with no Gates open, there was no ‘user’ assisted by the system. Like Euclid, they had all Awakened their Mana Cores without the system.

That didn’t mean that there was no contact point with the system at all.

A system administrator was the one responsible for binding them to act as dungeon bosses and become in charge of managing important points, just like right at that moment. In the big picture, they were in similar situations.

The receptionist flapped around the ticket and replied to him.

“This item is a ticket that allows one to bypass the existing rules of first-come, first-served basis. If you bring this, no matter how long the line in front is, we have to place the holder in the next order. If you also understand this as a rule….”

A thunderous roar rang once more.

“I don’t want to know any of that!”

He’s a reckless kid, wasn’t he?

The devil’s eyebrows furrowed.

“If you feel it’s unfair, save up a million points and exchange them for the item.”

In other words, it meant that more than 140,000 races were camped there and waiting at that moment alone.

It was a phenomenon that proved how valuable points were to those who started the Main Quest.

Grooowl!

The one-eyed giant’s behavior grew more and more aggressive.

‘Huh? Perhaps that bastard- in here?’

They couldn’t expect that all the races that entered the Main Quest were socially and culturally mature.

It looked like in some civilizations, being strong, loud-voiced, stubborn, and throwing tantrums could solve most things.

And that giant seemed to come from such a civilization.

“Shut it! If you’re going to let him cut in line, I want to get in as well!”

It was a sentence frequently spoken by those who grew up in such cultures.

‘You did it for him, but why not me? Are you discriminating between people?!’

The eyes of the devil became heavily murderous.

“If you obstruct our business any further….”

“If so? What are you going to do?”

Then, Mana began to flow roughly from the giant’s Core. It colored the vicinity with red hues.

‘Crazy bastard.’

He was planning to suppress the receptionist by force.

I was so dumbfounded that I clicked my tongue.

‘He doesn’t know his place.’

He shouted.

“You! Do you know who I am? In my dimension, I’m…”

The receptionist muttered briefly in a dry voice.

“I don’t care.”

At that moment…

Swish!

I bore witness to it.

A colossal amount of Mana spread out from the Core of the devil.

I knew how powerful she was the moment I entered.

Her Mana was about two million.

Four times than mine.

She was a strong being who overwhelmed Lapress, the Elite warrior I encountered recently.

‘Even I wouldn’t win if I were to fight her.’

“Huh… Huh?”

The one-eyed alien looked at the air as if he were baffled. A pitch-black sphere was floating around where his gaze was.

While having caught everyone’s eyes, a horizontal crack slowly formed at the center of the black sphere.

The mouth that had been closed so far had opened.

Sharp fangs and a flicking red tongue-

The devil that summoned the creature murmured.

“This temple is a first-class strategic facility designated by the system. Those who seek trouble or practice violence here…”

Her voice didn’t have a single drop of emotion mixed in.

The alien, who sensed what was about to happen intuitively, shouted desperately.

“W-w-wait!”

The devil replied.

“Executing immediate disposition.”

With those words…

Crush!

Blood splattered everywhere.

Perhaps he didn’t want to die, considering how while arguing, Mana Barrier thoroughly protected his body. The sharp fangs of the spherical monster dug into the skin without mercy anyway.

Crush! Crack!

After a couple of bites, the alien’s body was torn apart and ripped, and it completely disappeared after being consumed by the sphere.

All that’s left was blood marks all over the reception room.

It was a ridiculously fast suppression and a hopelessly simple death.

A thought came to my mind while I was looking at it.

‘He was defeated by deliberately meddling with the dungeon boss that does not attack as long as one obeys the rules. Stupid.’

The devil yawned, causing her mouth to open a little, then flicked her fingers.

At that moment, the ball, while floating, went around the reception room, licking the place with its tongue.

Soon, a clear-cleaning effect better than pouring a strong detergent occurred.

The blood splattered all over the stone structure had disappeared without a trace.

“There seemed to have been a little commotion. Please sit down and wait for a moment.

She spoke calmly after returning the summoned object.

I sat down, behaving myself, and waited according to her instructions.

After a few minutes, the door, which had been closed, opened, and an Awakened came out. He was someone who had challenged the trials right before.

He looked as if he lost everything.

His shoulders were sagging.

There was a deep sense of disappointment in his steps.

The alien, who just finished the challenge, murmured in a sullen manner.

“Shit, I completed none of the three this time as well!”

He went to the receptionist and spoke. As if to mumble.

“I want to challenge the trials.”

The receptionist gestured as she previously did in front of the alien, who seemed defeated, and that time again, the hologram came up.

As he said his name and origin dimension as he was instructed, the Archid text showed him a message.

“145,000 waiting… It increased while I was in there. Damn it.”

He couldn’t overcome the ordeal and had failed. Since he couldn’t complete the quest, of course, the skill upgrade was impossible, and if he wanted to challenge it again without giving up, he had to go back to the end of the queue to start all over again.

“Next, you. Get in.”

My turn came after a short wait.

***

Inside the door was a line of proper altars as a temple should’ve had.

That’s right. There wasn’t only one altar there.