Something Keeps Appearing in My Subspace - Chapter 286

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286. Rest of the Dead (4)
“Phew.”
I took a deep breath. Part of me wanted to immediately pull the dragon bones I’d stored in the Subspace and craft the bone dragon, but that would be reckless.
I needed to pay attention to the final warning written on the Wanderer’s Wish item.
-Caution! If you take the wish, all wanderers in this world will become ‘enraged’.
When a Gate issues a warning like this on an item, it means it’s ‘extremely’ dangerous.
I couldn’t dismiss the statement that all wanderers would become enraged. I could already anticipate what that entailed.
“It doesn’t seem like waves anymore—it feels like they’d all resurrect at once and attack us.”
“Yeah. It won’t be easy.”
We still had to endure another 22 hours inside the Gate. Facing an absurd number of wanderers during that remaining time wouldn’t be simple for us either.
I needed to judge this coldly. As a rare hidden item, it possessed considerable potential. But the backlash would be equally severe.
“We should leave it alone for now.”
That was Han Chul’s assessment.
“Right. I’m not sure of the scale, but it won’t be ordinary.”
Considering the Gate’s level range and the waves we’d faced earlier, surviving 22 hours in this open field was impossible.
The guild members shared the same opinion. Despite our desires, we had to follow reason.
“Then should we grab it about 5 minutes before time runs out?”
The timing didn’t matter. I could just ride Yong-yong and retrieve it. Mister subtly tested the waters.
“But aren’t you curious about how angry they’d get?”
“I suppose? What level of anger warrants a ‘caution’ warning?”
“It seems like it’d be intense… but wouldn’t it be worth trying once?”
Looking at the guild members, they all seemed receptive. I was curious too.
“Testing our limits could be worthwhile. But absolutely not in the open field.”
Still, we had to draw a line. Crossing the Gate’s warning could endanger us as well.
“I think it should be safe for a brief moment at the fortress we started in.”
“Understood.”
“Should we call you about 2 hours before then?”
Min-jae’s eyes lit up.
“2 hours?”
“Wouldn’t that be worth attempting? Or not?”
“2 hours seems too tight. Let’s go with 1 hour.”
The guild members nodded at my suggestion.
“1 hour works for me too.”
“Good. Let’s go hard then.”
After that, we quickly formulated a plan.
“We’ll hold out at that fortress, and when 1 hour remains, Mister retrieves it on Yong-yong.”
“Roger.”
“The final hour is the highlight, so everyone test your skills and conserve stamina.”
“Yes!”
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We returned to the Fortress where the Gate had begun and spent the remaining time there.
Wave defense proceeded smoothly. There were four Gates, but they weren’t particularly large.
Once I sealed two of the Gates with the Subspace, Han Chul, Mister, and Min-jae took turns blocking the other two.
Honestly, there wasn’t much I actually did.
‘The Subspace has a 60-meter restriction, after all.’
I couldn’t help with the other side at all. If I went that way, the sealed Gate would open. So my role was simply to block the Entrance.
Occasionally I’d send wind slashes with the Flowing Style Sword, or provide minor support with Scorching or Severance.
It’s odd to say, but it was rather tedious. I had to watch my teammates fight for twenty hours straight.
That’s why my teammates showed consideration for me in between.
-Should we try going outside this time?
Since I wasn’t doing anything, they suggested going out to block the waves like we did at first.
I didn’t bother going out. For this Gate, simply observing the other Guild members’ skills was sufficient.
[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]
Apart from the boredom, it wasn’t bad. The advantage and disadvantage of a survival-type Gate is that the volume of monsters is substantial.
Moreover, as time passed, the waves grew stronger, allowing me to gain two levels.
-Survive. Time remaining: 1 hour 1 minute
And finally, the moment we’d been waiting for approached. One hour remaining. I signaled Mister.
“Go and come back!”
“You need to grab everything and fly back immediately!”
“Got it!”
“Han Chul and Min-jae, watch the Gates!”
With Mister gone, only the two of them remained, so we had to be careful.
-Whoooosh!
Watching Mister fly off, I opened the Subspace. It was time to retrieve all the Red Dragon’s bones.
When I’d placed them in the Subspace last time, I’d put them in a specially ordered giant sack, so there was no risk of confusion.
“Hmm.”
There was one minor problem—I had no idea how the Red Dragon’s bones were structured.
I could roughly identify the skull, but I had no idea where the other parts should go.
“Is it like this? This must be the spine, right?”
What worried me slightly was whether the Red Dragon would revive correctly based on how I’d arranged them.
For instance, if the legs ended up where the tail should be and the tail where the legs should be, wouldn’t reviving it be pointless?
‘Will something go wrong if I just leave it like this?’
-Negative. You need not worry about that.
Fortunately, Chun-bae eased my concern. When resurrecting with dark magic, there’s no need to match the bone structure and arrangement perfectly.
If that were necessary, Dark Mages would have to study anatomy before magic.
“This should be enough.”
After scattering the bones roughly, I waited for Mister to return. There was no need to verify it visually.
[You have touched the Desire of the Dead. All the Dead grow furious!]
As the item description had indicated, the Gate’s message had warned me first.
“Prepare for battle!”
Mister would arrive riding Yong-yong, so I didn’t need to worry about that. In the meantime, we had to hold the line.
“How severe do you think it’ll be?”
Min-jae spoke with a mixture of tension and curiosity. In truth, the past twenty hours hadn’t been particularly thrilling.
As time passed, the monster waves that emerged grew progressively stronger, and the quality of the Dead certainly improved.
Not only did their numbers increase, but the proportion of high-tier monsters like Liches, Death Knights, and Dullahans rose as well.
However, the actual difficulty of combat was higher during the early stages when we fought in the Open Field after entering the Gate.
-I can handle this side alone, you know?
-Same here! I think even just Yong-yong could manage it without me?
The Fortress wasn’t there for nothing. Mister and Min-jae both possessed exceptional skills in one-versus-many combat.
As long as I controlled two directions, there was no real danger.
“Well, if all the Dead are growing furious, maybe all the waves we’ve faced so far will come at once?”
Thus, alongside the tension about what the Dead would do next, there was also anticipation.
I would soon discover just how severe that ‘fury’ of the Dead truly was.
-Boom!
At first, it was the same as before. A single wave beginning to spread from the distant ashen sky.
“Here it comes!”
“Prepare for battle!”
After entering the Fortress, I only needed to watch outside. The ground inside the Fortress wasn’t ashen bone dust but ordinary earth.
However, the wave didn’t end there.
-Boom!
-Boom!
-Boom!
-Boom!
Four consecutive booms.
The Guild members’ expressions stiffened slightly. But it didn’t stop there either.
-Boom!
-Boom!
As the waves resonated, the ashen bone dust outside the Fortress began to writhe and churn.
“This… this is insane.”
Min-jae gasped. There was no helping it. The previous waves had summoned countless Dead, but you could still see where it ended.
This was different.
-Grrrraaaaahhh…!
Outside the Fortress, the number of risen Dead was beyond counting. They stretched to the horizon’s edge.
“Um, doesn’t the ground seem to have gotten a bit lower?”
It was Lee Shin-hee speaking. Now that she mentioned it, I could see the difference too. Those bone dust particles were reconstituted into Dead with each wave.
With numbers like these, it was only natural that the outer terrain would sink.
“Prepare for battle!”
The guild members were momentarily stunned by the absurd numbers, so I quickly organized the situation.
Min-jae snapped to attention at my shout and prepared his magic. I hastily opened a Subspace as well.
“S-should we have done this when there were thirty minutes left?”
It was Min-jae, who had suggested the initial two hours, expressing regret.
“Huh?”
Our battle preparations suddenly became meaningless. The spirits weren’t advancing toward us.
“They’re heading that way?”
“Are they following the spirits’ desires?”
To be precise, every single spirit had turned its body toward the direction Mister had flown. In that moment, I could find the answer to this Gate.
“Wait—if we just fly around following the spirits’ desires, doesn’t that clear the Gate?”
Lee Shin-hee seemed to have the same thought as me.
“I was thinking the same thing. Though we could also use it differently.”
“Differently?”
I watched the spirits turning toward the direction Mister had flown.
“They’re all experience points.”
If Mister could lure all these creatures with Yong-yong, it would be equivalent to giving us an immeasurable leveling opportunity.
In game terms, it was like an experience point burning event.
Every Gate has two sides. The stronger and more numerous the enemies, the harder it becomes, but it also directly connects to our growth.
The guild members immediately grasped my meaning.
“If we gather them all and unleash Yong-yong’s breath, Dragon Scale Piercing Spear, Min-jae’s dissolution beam, and things like that….”
“Considering those numbers, I can’t even estimate how many levels we could gain.”
I should have tried this from the start if I’d known. Though I suppose we made the right call.
Honestly, if those numbers had come straight at us with intent, I would have struggled too.
The terror of overwhelming numbers is inescapable. My Subspace can only block two directions, and it’s impossible for the other guild members alone to hold back that many.
Actually, at those numbers, the Castle Wall would have been meaningless. If they swarmed us, they’d pile up like in some zombie movie and climb right over the wall.
That nearly happened earlier, in fact.
The skulls on my side were trying to climb over each other up the blocked wall. I swept them away with Incineration and Severance, though.
“For now, we should wait until Mister gets back.”
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The wait didn’t take long.
“Krrraaawww!”
I heard Yong-yong’s roar from a distance. And then Yong-yong appeared in the sky over there.
“Kraaawww!”
Yong-yong seemed somewhat irritated by the abundance of spirits.
“H-hey! What do we do about these things?”
Mister seemed rather flustered.
“It’s packed over there too!?”
“Skulls everywhere! There’s barely room to stand! And there are things like Death Knights swarming over there!”
It seemed higher-grade monsters had spawned where the spirits’ desires were located.
Well, at this scale, it made sense there would be some attention attached to it.
If I had secured the Wish of the Dead back there, I would have had to face an absurdly massive horde of enemies in the Open Field.
But we had an ability that the others lacked—we could fly through the air.
“If I ride on Yong-yong, I can lure them away!?”
“Lure them!?”
“These things only follow Mister! I’m going to set up an explosion!”
“Ah!?”
It seemed Mister finally understood my intention.
“How do we pull them?”
“Toward the front of Min-jae! So he can land his magic attacks cleanly! And Mister, you can throw Dragon Scale Piercing Spear too!”
I planned to keep the two gates toward the Fortress blocked. Even if things seemed fine now, there was no telling what might happen.
If these creatures suddenly changed their target, it would be troublesome for us as well.
“Let’s do it!”
But it seemed my worries were unnecessary. Perhaps I had been overthinking things.
The effect was remarkable. Twenty minutes into the herding hunt, and these creatures showed no sign of losing aggression.
We were hunting safely.
At first, when we started, we were surrounded by skeletons on all sides, so I wondered if drawing aggro even mattered—but I was overlooking something crucial.
-Zzzzzing!
-Kwaaaang!
I had underestimated the power of Mister and Min-jae’s area-of-effect skills. They would sweep through a wave, and then another would rush in.
The cycle matched almost perfectly with our mana recovery rate, so there were no constraints whatsoever.
[Your level has increased.]
The effect was immediate.
“A level up in just twenty minutes!?”
“We really did hunt a lot.”
And just like that, another level up. At this level, gaining three levels from a single Gate was absolutely not an easy feat—yet here we were.
When about fifteen minutes remained, it was hardly strange that my Guild members and I began thinking the same thought.
“We have fifteen minutes left. Should we try summoning the Red Dragon?”
“Not a bad idea! Mister!”
I called out to Mister right away.
“Let’s do it!”
“Got it!”
Mister hurried over on Yong-yong and threw the Wish of the Dead to me.
“Hold on for a bit!”
The spirits that had been following Mister and Yong-yong were all approaching the Fortress.
While maintaining the Subspace barrier, I activated the Wish of the Dead.
[You activate the Wish of the Dead (Grade A).]
[You resurrect the Red Dragon.]
It happened in an instant. From beyond the Fortress walls, pale gray dust swirled inward, clinging to the dragon bones I had laid out.
And the bones I had placed began to rise into the air. It took less than ten seconds for the Red Dragon to fully stand.
And then—
A true dragon had been resurrected—one far more massive than Yong-yong, who had yet to reach maturity.
“Krrrraaaaaahhh!”
The moment I laid eyes upon it, only one impression crystallized in my mind.
“Absolutely magnificent….”

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