As I was thinking about what I should do with these quest rewards, Valhalla, along with the few members of the guild, went to the other members' aid. Hadeon, on the other hand, tried to stand up on his own. Even though he seems to have already recovered from his injuries, his expression was dead and his eyes were droopy. I was about to approach them when Mr. Mulligan suddenly blocked my way, "It seems like the situation had been dire." "Yeah, a lot of things just happened…" I replied and scratched my head. A little later, I noticed I was still holding the Satanic Twin Blades."Ah, before I forgot, thank you for lending me the Short Swords, Sir…." I said, "I guess I should return it now…" I tried to hand him back the Twin Blades but he vehemently shook his hands."Don't bother, I already decided to give it to you anyways…" Mr. Mulligan smiled. I was tilting my head as I tried to be confused, when he suddenly mentioned my name, "I know that is you Azriel…." Unable to expect that he'
"Hadeon! Wait…." Valhalla called his attention. On the other hand, Hadeon pretended not to hear her and continued to make himself busy tending to his wounds."Are you purposely avoiding me!?" Valhalla lashes out. Hadeon has never acted like this before, and she seems to have an idea what exactly the reason is, "Ok, let me get this straight… I knew you were the one who called the association," she confessed. Hadeon's face soured as he heard her valid accusations, "Is there something wrong about that? He deliberately acted on his own…. Besides, why are you so overprotective of him now!?" Hadeon proceeded to raise his voice. "Hadeon, that's not the point! The situation is an emergency! You could've died there if he hadn't acted!" Valhalla asked. "That would've been better!" "Hadeon, are you hearing yourself right now…." Valhalla clenched her fist and looked dead straight into his eyes. "What do you want me to do then, thank him!? After he humiliated me in front of the guild?" Hadeo
I positioned the Satanic Blades in reverse grip, indicating that I'm going to take this seriously. At the same time, Valhalla and Hannah distanced themselves, now more determined to use everything in their arsenal to bring me down. I tried to used the to escape.But before we could even escape, a group of NPCs went forward towards us and a familiar NPC greeted us profoundly. "Greetings! I'm Nathaniel von Valenschtein, Challenger's Association's Officer in Charge, and Head Representative of the Monitoring Division. I'm pleased to meet you Mr. Iliac, congratulations for being officially regarded as a Candidate," Mr. Nathaniel monotonously introduced himself. "As for you, Ms. Luvia. I'm glad to have finally met you…."Ivana froze in place for his sudden appearance. However, I find it odd how much she is shuddering in anxiety."I see that you're also here, Ms. Hannah," Mr. Nathaniel, who is supposed to be the most emotionless NPC I know, suddenly gave a lovely smile.I
I tried to locate the origin of the sound and noticed a screen featuring a girl— small and delicate as one seems to be. Her age could be anywhere from 16 to 19. It's striking to say that she's fair in a flawed, accessible way. [Ah, sorry. This is … uhm, you could say that she is the A.I. interface of the system that governs the whole operation of Evangelion.]"The Developer is a man of culture, I suppose," I told myself as I noticed how he was simping on a 2D projection. The artificial interface with the name seems friendly enough to make me less cautious but the mystery behind his motivation to create such a system still baffles me. Well, it's not that knowing his preference will change anything, I simply came here to finally have answers to my questions. [You know, I've been quite curious about you for quite a long time now, even before the Daejeon Underground Subway incident. To be honest, I never thought that you would survive for this long, even after being regard
Today's world was in a constant flux. The people – I mean, challengers, as we would like to call ourselves – are hard-pressed, spending our days fighting against beings we thought did not exist before. Only that we still do not know that this is just the beginning of our constant trial to survive. Five years ago, when a large quake shook the earth, a world-changing phenomenon occurred. Monsters and unimaginable creatures started appearing on the surface of the earth; They just randomly appear here and there. No one really knows the reason, not until recently. We wished it could've been a stunt, we really do. But countless had already died, it was like a flash of a bomb. No one sees it coming.
I opened my eyes and a white ceiling entered my view. My decapitated arm was still there intact like nothing had happened. My mind was hazy, and the bits of memories were interfering with my brain. "What happened?" I asked myself, looking at the surrounding area. "I…. Survived?" Ever since I met the convenience store attendant, Ivana Luvia, I almost never opted to go to a hospital. Though, I still have a sense of familiarity with being treated in a hard mattress inside a hospital, just as I’d be sitting in a chair inside a local convenience store. I moved my body and it is surprisingly light. I almost wanted
"You don't know what happened afterwards?" the CA's agent asked while making doubtful glances at me. For some reason, he seemed to be troubled by the lack of information I gave him. "Like I said I blank out…" I said, leaning on the bed while crossing my arms in dismay. "Well, you might not believe me but the demon found on the subway was in fact an Archdemon. It's true that we don't have much information about it, but we are sure that it's strength is not something that can be defeated even by an A-tier alone…. Much more of a raid composed of 2 C-tier, 5 E-tier, and an F-tier. Given its appearance it could easily be labeled as an S-tier quest." "So you're saying someone was able to defeat the Archdemon?" I asked.
I retraced our footsteps before and I quite remember the route, thankfully the footsteps are still intact within the slightly dried mud and the familiar scent of sewage water reek around the area even now. I finally went down to the 2nd level, somewhere in the side there's the demon corpse. Its horns are already detached from its head, as well as it's heart and some of its body parts. I find my sword sticking out of its lower left chest, they didn't bother to retrieve it, they probably don't expect me to use it again. Well I did, but I guess it will be handy to clean off the monsters here. I anticipated that the demonic imps would rush at me, but instead of imps, shadow