Chapter 232 (1/2)

Mido smiled happily when she saw the small map that was being drawn on the wooden board. Perhaps she was the only participant who was a painter. During the time when she was preparing for the trials, she thought about how to maximize this advantage to be selected for the national team. She learned how to observe the terrain and features from hidden explorer NPCs. The fruit of her labor was now appearing.

[You are creating a map of the surrounding terrain.]

[It will take around one minute.]

She climbed up the tallest tree to capture the surrounding terrain in greater detail. She was located in the middle of Hallasan and the surrounding seas that were modeled after Jeju Island. She looked at and drew the shabby buildings in the distance. Currently, half the island was visible to her.

[The Unfinished Wooden Plank Map is completed.]

However, it was enough.

Mido contemplated the half map and started to take a shortcut to the nearest building. The other half of the map would have to be completed as she wandered around. It was time to start.

[Poisonous fog has started to spread from the edge of the island.]

“It has already started.”

Thick poison fog crossed the beach and started to occupy it. The poisonous fog decreased 10% health per second, thus the host said to be careful of it. Mido walked toward a nearby building with no hesitation. It took 30 minutes for the poisonous fog to erode all the island so there was still a lot of time left. Before that, Mido decided to search for another box and scoured the surrounding grass.

Fortunately, there were no ambushes awaiting her. By this time, she had walked for five minutes. She could see the shabby building that she had been aiming for in the distance.

“Ack!”

Suddenly, she heard a scream from the building and a disturbance. It seemed someone was fighting inside. Mido was tense as she tightly gripped her sword.

‘Is it an enemy...?’

She recalled everything she had trained in the past and carefully approached the building. The shadows inside were moving with a rustling sound.

“Ah, the only thing I obtained was the Power Stone.”

The man clicked his tongue and walked out the door. Mido calmed her pounding heart and prepared to launch a surprise attack the moment the man came out. Soon, the man opened the door and came out.

Creak.

Mido swung her sword horizontally toward the man’s head. She condensed all of her training as the sword reached the man’s head...

“Choi Mido...?”

Mido’s sword managed to stop exactly 1cm away from his forehead. She looked at the man in front of her with narrowed eyes. The same was true for the opposite man.

“Oppa, it is you?”

“...Can you remove that sword?”

“Ah, sorry. Haha...”

Mido smiled and concealed the sword behind her. In front of her was Eun Jeonghyeok with a bow on his back.

* * *

There was the sound of searching through shelves.

“There is nothing there?”

“Yes, there is nothing. Perhaps this is it?”

“Look some more.”

“I know~”

Mido decided to search the interior of the building with Eun Jeonghyeok. Fortunately, the two of them were together, but they couldn’t stay here forever. There might be an ambush waiting for them outside, just like what she previously did. The poisonous fog had also crossed the beach and was slowly entering the forest.

‘There is no box in this place...’

Mido was thinking as she searched the area. There were still traces of fierce fighting on the floor of the building, but the user killed by Eun Jeonghyeok had already disappeared. It was said that he first shot with the arrows and finished it off by grasping an arrow and stabbing the neck.

Eun Jeonghyeok had an archer class so he obtained 10 arrows and a bow from the box in the beginning. Of course, the arrows could be reused. There were still 10 arrows in his quiver.

‘By the way, it seems he hasn’t lost his strength in close combat.’

Originally, Eun Jeonghyeok had an assassin type class when he first started Arkstar. Then he received the hidden class ‘Archer of Light’ and changed his class in the middle, but Eun Jeonghyeok still sometimes enjoyed close combat fighting. She heard that it was very thrilling. In any case, he seemed to be born with a natural sense of combat.

“Eh?”Suddenly, she found a wooden box.

“Oppa, I found it!”

Eun Jeonghyeok jumped at Mido’s cry. She was in a shabby room and pointed under the bed. Eun Jeonghyeok calmly pulled out the box and opened it.

[Lowest Health Recovery Potion x2]

[Old Iron Dagger]

“Hrmm. This is okay?”

Eun Jeonghyeok looked satisfied as he held the Old Iron Dagger. It was a bit rusty, but it was still pretty good. He swung it a few times through the air and smiled with even more satisfaction. Then he looked at Mido.

“Can you hold the potions?”

“Yes. Understood.”

Normally, she would’ve said, ‘Why should I listen to you? Oppa, you do it.’ However, Mido strangely felt like she was indebted to him after he was killed by the poisonous dagger in the Colosseum event instead of her. That’s why she thought that she should listen to Eun Jeonghyeok as much as possible after that day.