Chapter 49 (1/2)
Like she said, lots of cars were tangled up here and there in front of the mart.
It reminded Sungwoo of the same scene in front of campus.
He thought that this place might have been exposed to the “tutorial” in which nobody could go out until they killed the boss monster, with the entrance sealed. And that tutorial didn’t take place everywhere. For example, Hanho’s parents stayed safe inside the house without being forced to act according to an unexpected quest, and they were safely in the house.
“Well, someone might be inside the mart, right?”
“A place like a mart has lots of daily necessities, so it wouldn’t be bad for them to take refuge there. However, it is so wide that it is difficult to manage unless they are a large group because they never know when the monsters will appear.”
They passed through the mart entrance and entered the ground parking lot.
There were tons of human bodies, goblins, and kobold bodies strewn all over the place. While looking at them, Jisu said, “The more people there are, the more monsters appear, right?”
“Well, it looks like that, as far as I can tell.”
There were more monsters in downtown areas, schools, and apartments compared to the outskirts.
Like she said, it was really possible that more monsters appeared in places where a lot of people resided.
“Therefore, remote places would have less damage, I think. For example, those in the countryside or Jeju Island.”
“Oh, you told me before that your family lives on Jeju Island, right?”
Jisu remained silent for a moment. Oddly enough, she did not bring up anything about her family.
Besides, she didn’t even search for her family on the community bulletin.
“Ah, well…” Her voice faded as if she was reluctant to answer.
So Sungwoo asked cautiously, “Aren’t you worried about your family?”
“I wasn’t at first, but yes, I am now.”
“Then why don’t you post a thread on it?”
She shook her head and said, “No. We were not supposed to contact each other anyway. I think they’re well because they’re on a roll…” Her voice trembled with contempt.
It seemed she had a sensitive family issue, so he didn’t ask further.
Finally, they arrived at the entrance of the mart.
He opened the sliding glass door that was almost broken down…
-You have entered the large-scale dungeon, ‘The Fortress of the Kobold Sorcerer.’
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The entrance has been sealed by magic. Explore your way out of the building.
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“…Huh?’
“This whole place is a dungeon?”
They gazed around here and there inside the dark building.
“Uh! Sungwoo!” Jisu shouted urgently.
For some reason, she was looking down at his feet.
“….What’s wrong?”
When Sungwoo looked down, he saw some green figures drawn on the floor. It was emitting light in the form of a certain pattern. What the heck was this?
‘Magic pattern?’
At that moment, his body was shrouded with light. Then the space changed in an instant, and he was falling down somewhere. He soon saw the floor, so he reached out urgently and touched the floor.
“Oops!”
He fell down, his entire body impacted. However, the impact wasn’t strong enough to injure him.
He immediately raised his head and checked around. It was a warehouse filled with all kinds of boxes.
Rustle, rustle.
Several small shadows began to squeeze their way through the boxes.
“Caught!”
“Oh, good!”
They were brown-skinned monsters, namely Kobolds. A total of seven were approaching him, and their appearances were so ridiculous.
‘What the heck is that?”
It seemed that they put on the clothes from the clothing section that was randomly inside the mart. But since there were no clothes that fit the dwarves like them, there was an error.
It happened that they chose lacy pink dresses with or suspenders with teddy bears on them.
“Lol! Another human has been caught!”
“He’s the third one!”
One of them even put some hard objects in a bra and tightened it with a hook.
‘Oh my… did it wear the bra thinking it was armor?’ Sungwoo murmured.