24-Hour Friendly Market, Specializing in Dimensional Items - Chapter 59

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24-Hour Friendly Market Specializing in Dimensional Items Episode 59

Episode 59. Easy and Difficult Things (1)

Seo Jae-hyuk was in a foul mood.

To be precise, he was disgustingly uncomfortable.

Even Seo Jae-hyuk, famous for his dry face that never showed any emotional expression, was frowning slightly.

Several days had passed since they set up base camp in Raycam, but there had been no progress in the strategy.

Raycam was a small rural village near the sanctuary, where simple people lived by farming fields and cutting trees nearby.

Clearly, when they first established the base camp, Seo Jae-hyuk had given orders as the strategy team leader: ‘Do not tell anyone about anything related to the scenario.’

But after one day passed, the strategy team had become heroes who would save Ganashia.

He couldn’t even figure out who had talked.

Seo Jae-hyuk could only accept the potatoes and stew that the villagers kindly offered and give them awkward smiles.

At first, he had gratefully accepted each act of kindness.

But now, when not even a small clue for clearing the scenario was visible, Seo Jae-hyuk was as sensitive as he could be.

“Are you there~?”

Here they come again.

As Seo Jae-hyuk frowned and squeezed his eyes shut, Ahn Yeon-seo beside him quickly stepped out of the tent.

“You don’t need to give us anything.”

“You’re the heroes who will save us, so you need to keep your strength up.”

Hearing the voices from outside the tent, Seo Jae-hyuk let out a small sigh.

He had been annoyed by the crushing expectations even outside the Tower of Babel, and this place was no different.

“Damn it. Our guild’s training room would be better than this.”

While ignoring Jung Min-gu, the guild leader of Take-in, who was loudly complaining for all to hear, Seo Jae-hyuk examined the map once more.

Three regions were marked on the thick oval-shaped continental map of Ganashia.

Prorovel, Raycam, and Probi.

Even though there was no progress in the strategy, they hadn’t just been playing around.

There was information they had diligently collected while avoiding Agemor’s erosion.

There was also the detection magic cast by Go Min-han, Aegis’s mage, who coughed up blood, and the continent’s memories that Han Ro-mi read through ‘Tales of Leaves.’

To put it simply, reviving the ‘Ancient Oath’ – that is, the Kantana Peace Agreement – was one of the major tasks.

They were also getting closer to finding clues about the other task, Agemor’s erosion.

Fortunately, they had even identified that the source of this Black Mist was ‘Probi,’ a coastal village in the north of the continent.

‘Probi…’

Seo Jae-hyuk placed his finger over the region they couldn’t reach due to Agemor’s erosion and sighed quietly.

It was because he recalled the story he had heard from refugees who had fled from Probi.

“There was a man with long, disheveled hair standing on the cliff. I’d never seen his face before, so I asked who he was, and he suddenly said to me, ‘Isn’t hatred such a delightful emotion?’ He was spouting crazy nonsense right off the bat, so I told him to stop talking bullshit, and then he just laughed. You know how you get chills when you see something like that? I was just going to ignore him and leave, but suddenly the man slashed his own arm. Blood was dripping from his arm… and it was completely black. From the next day, fog suddenly started spreading, so I ran away immediately.”

‘That man must be the source of evil.’

It was a conclusion that even Jung Min-gu, who had refused to cooperate at all since entering the scenario, agreed with.

The strategy team concluded that they had to defeat that man to stop Agemor’s erosion.

To do that, they first had to go to Probi.

…Of course, the path to Probi was the problem.

Even going from the nearest village untainted by erosion from Raycam would easily take three to four hours.

Han Ro-mi could use her holy power to create a field that temporarily neutralized the erosion, but she couldn’t maintain that field continuously until they reached Probi.

Moreover, they hadn’t even solved the answers to scenario hints 2 and 3.

While Seo Jae-hyuk was deep in thought, Ahn Yeon-seo entered the tent carrying a steaming pot of stew.

Jung Min-gu immediately shouted angrily.

“I’m sick to death of that damn stew smell! Let’s just go! If we just kill that man, it’ll all be over!”

Ahn Yeon-seo set the pot down on the table and calmly countered.

“Killing that man won’t end the scenario. ‘Arrange a meeting between the two races’ is separate content. The hints 2 and 3 that we haven’t solved yet are probably related to that.”

“So try to solve them!”

Jung Min-gu raised his voice and hit the innocent pot with a clanging sound.

Ahn Yeon-seo, the only one in the Floor 51 strategy team without combat skills, assisted the team using her ‘Situation Analysis’ skill.

However, the ‘Situation Analysis’ skill could only produce rational results when there was information available, so it was useless unless they secured additional new information.

Ahn Yeon-seo, who had been fiddling with her innocent tablet, Chronicle, added weakly.

“It feels like we’re missing one big piece.”

“What piece?”

At Seo Jae-hyuk’s calm question, Ahn Yeon-seo frowned slightly.

“The Kantana Peace Agreement was definitely broken by Agemor’s erosion. Then somewhere in the eroded regions, there must be a place related to the agreement or an object that represents it.”

“So-o. Figuring that out is the lackey’s job, isn’t it!”

Jung Min-gu slammed the table and berated her.

Since Jung Min-gu mainly engaged in close combat, the table made a thunderous sound.

However, the heart of Ahn Yeon-seo, who was targeted, grew coldly calm.

‘Lackey?’

No matter how much she was called Seo Jae-hyuk’s doormat, even a lackey had their own pride.

Paving the way for the great hunters who only knew how to use their bodies was something only Ahn Yeon-seo could do in the strategy team.

The role of gathering and analyzing information to find the best route.

That was the authority Seo Jae-hyuk had given to Ahn Yeon-seo, the permission granted to her in the strategy team.

Stupid Jung Min-gu would have been unable to connect things like Probi or the ancient oath without Ahn Yeon-seo, and would have just quietly withered into black ash.

Just as Ahn Yeon-seo was about to flare up and express her defiance.

“Your words are harsh.”

Seo Jae-hyuk quietly settled the situation.

Jung Min-gu couldn’t say a word to Seo Jae-hyuk and expressed his anger by hitting the innocent table once more.

Ahn Yeon-seo sighed, thinking it was fortunate she didn’t get caught up with a stupid bastard like Jung Min-gu.

Just as the tent was about to sink into heavy silence.

“Huh?!”

A confused voice came from outside the tent.

“W-wait, come out for a moment!”

It was the voice of Lee Min-jung, Wolpae’s vice guild leader, who was standing guard.

At the urgent cry, Seo Jae-hyuk sprang up from his seat as if he had springs on his feet.

Jung Min-gu and Ahn Yeon-seo also hurriedly stepped out of the tent.

Lee Min-jung was covering her eyes with her palm, frowning deeply as she looked at a distant hill.

“Do you see it? That thing over there, it’s moving, right?”

Following Lee Min-jung’s gaze to look at the hill, Seo Jae-hyuk doubted his eyes.

“…You’re right.”

With his vision far superior to ordinary people’s, even better than other hunters’, Seo Jae-hyuk could clearly see the situation on the hill.

Those carrying flags and marching north were definitely humans.

Their expressions showed a determination that anyone could see was preparing for war.

Lee Min-jung urgently pointed to the opposite side and said.

“It’s not just that side either. On the opposite side, in the beastkin territory too…”

Looking back at the distant beastkin territory, everyone was also running toward the north.

This didn’t require serious thought.

It was a scene that could be understood just by looking intuitively.

The two races that had been fighting like dogs were suddenly advancing in the same direction, paying no attention to each other.

“What on earth is happening?”

Just as Ahn Yeon-seo, confused by the incomprehensible situation, was taking out her tablet.

Whoooosh-

Suddenly, a shimmering golden aura appeared from behind.

Seo Jae-hyuk immediately took a defensive stance and drew his weapon.

His thin, thread-like weapon Legato spread out in the form of a net that could ensnare dangerous entities.

The net’s target was the unfamiliar presence behind them.

A golden silhouette appeared soundlessly, floating in the air above their base camp tent.

Everyone silently stared at that figure.

“Greetings, strangers.”

Suddenly, the golden silhouette’s voice echoed through the air.

The voice was somehow even sacred, easing the raid team’s wariness, and Seo Jae-hyuk stopped his hand.

“I am Oerisa, god of Ganashia.”

“…God?”

Atheist Seo Jae-hyuk frowned as he questioned.

He had heard that a god existed on Floor 51, but that god was one who had failed to save this dimension.

There was no reason to view such an incompetent god favorably.

Perhaps sensing Seo Jae-hyuk’s uncomfortable mood, the silhouette claiming to be a god slowly waved its hand.

Golden aura rippled following that hand.

Ahn Yeon-seo, who had been staring blankly at that light, belatedly came to her senses and asked.

“Are you the god of this continent?”

The silhouette slowly nodded its head.

Ahn Yeon-seo, who had pulled out her tablet like a ghost, carefully examined the silhouette.

Though the sudden appearance of a god was bewildering, it didn’t seem to harbor any hostility, nor did she sense any wariness toward the raid team.

“I don’t particularly sense any aggression or hostility, Guild Leader.”

Ahn Yeon-seo whispered calmly in Seo Jae-hyuk’s ear and stepped back.

The decision was for Seo Jae-hyuk, the raid team’s leader, to make.

Seo Jae-hyuk, who had been staring intently at the golden silhouette, put away Legato and took a listening posture.

Only then did the golden silhouette slowly begin to speak.

“Strangers, I have a request for you.”

A request from a god – how troublesome and difficult it must be.

While Ahn Yeon-seo tensed up, the silhouette opened its mouth.

“Help the beastkin and humans, the two races, and drive away the darkness from this land. Ganashia is shrouded in darkness, and only you strangers can end all of this.”

Ah, that kind of setting?

While Ahn Yeon-seo nodded, Seo Jae-hyuk stepped forward.

Perhaps because their previously vague goal had become concrete.

Seo Jae-hyuk’s expression had settled somewhat calmly.

“Do we need to kill that man in Probi?”

“If the man you speak of is Agemor… my child, then yes.”

At those words, everyone in the raid team murmured.

Setting aside the confirmation that the unidentified man was Agemor from ‘Agemor’s Erosion’, he was the child of the god called Oerisa?

While Ahn Yeon-seo, who had suddenly secured important information, quickly input the data into her tablet, Jeong Min-gu let out a scoff.

“What, so now a mother is asking us to kill her child?”

“Ahem, th-that’s right.”

Lee Min-jeong, who had been quietly watching the situation from behind, threw out a comment as if puzzled.

“Didn’t you just clear your throat? Do gods get flustered too?”

“…No.”

The silhouette raised its head as if nothing had happened and called out in a more sacred voice.

“When you complete your task, Ganashia will finally be free-“

“Free?”

“…I mean, will gain freedom.”

The god’s speech patterns were quite strange.

While the raid team looked at the silhouette with suspicious eyes.

Inside Prorovel, not far from Reikam, Hae-won awkwardly rolled his eyes.

Oerisa sighed deeply and said quietly.

“So didn’t I tell you it would be better to just relay my words as they are.”

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