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 Reikam, but there had been no progress in their strategy.

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

Clearly, when they first established the base camp, Seo Jae-hyuk had given orders as the strategy team leader: ‘Don’t 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 who was beside him hurriedly stepped outside the tent.

“I told you, 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 all. I’d rather be in our guild’s training room.”

While letting Jung Min-gu, the guild leader of Take-in, complain loudly as if for him to hear, Seo Jae-hyuk examined the map once more.

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

Prorovel, Reikam, and Probi.

Even though there was no progress in the strategy, it wasn’t like they had been just playing around.

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

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 encroachment.

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 encroachment 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 people get chills when they see something like that? I was going to just 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 to stop Agemor’s encroachment, they had to defeat that man.

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 unaffected by encroachment from Reikam would easily take three to four hours.

Han Ro-mi could use her holy power to create a field that temporarily neutralized the encroachment, 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 pot of steaming stew.

Jung Min-gu immediately shouted angrily.

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

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

“Killing that man won’t end the scenario. ‘Seek the meeting of 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 struck 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 without securing additional new information, it was useless.

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 slightly frowned.

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

“So-o. Finding 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 targeted Ahn Yeon-seo’s heart grew coldly calm.

‘Lackey?’

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

Paving the way for the great hunters who were all about physical prowess 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 granted to Ahn Yeon-seo, the permission given to her in the strategy team.

Stupid Jung Min-gu would have been unable to connect things like Probi and the ancient oath without Ahn Yeon-seo, and would have 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 striking 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 and look!”

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

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

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

Lee Min-jung was shading 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 own eyes.

“……You’re right.”

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

Those marching north with flags were definitely humans.

Expressions that anyone could see were filled with the solemnity of impending war.

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

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

Looking back, far in the 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 the confused Ahn Yeon-seo was taking out her tablet at the unknown situation.

Whoooosh—

Suddenly, a shimmering golden aura appeared from behind.

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

The thin weapon like golden thread, Legato, spread out in the form of a net that could bind 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 when—

“Greetings, strangers.”

Suddenly, the voice of the golden silhouette echoed through the air.

At the voice that eased the raid team’s wariness—a voice that was somehow even sacred—Seo Jae-hyuk stopped his hand.

“I am Oerisa, god of Ganasia.”

“…God?”

The atheist Seo Jae-hyuk frowned as he asked back.

He had heard that a god existed on Floor 51, but that god was one who couldn’t 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, examined the silhouette thoroughly.

Though the sudden appearance of a god was bewildering, it didn’t seem to harbor any hostility, nor could 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 took a step 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 two races, beastkin and humans, drive away the darkness from this land. Ganasia 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 the previously vague goal had become concrete.

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

“Should we 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 mysterious 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 sneer.

“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, Ganasia 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 her eyes.

Oerisa let out a deep sigh 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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