“Do you know where we are?”
Simone shook her head at Abel's question.
No matter how much she looks at it, she still doesn't get it. Even if she thinks back to the original story, there was no place where there was only a river in a completely red space.
Abel sighed, seeming embarrassed.
“What should I do? I have no idea. Hmm... Did I come to the Demon World?”
Abel also seemed to feel that this place was not a place where humans could live. That would be the case since it was a place where no sense of life was felt at all.
Not a blade of grass, not a single tree, not even a breath of wind.
It was really like the middle of a desert, with only river water flowing.
“It’s a world where everything is possible, but this place is really... not a place I want to stay for long.”
“Let’s just go around for a bit. After all, it’s a dungeon, right? Something’s bound to come out. How about checking the river first?”
Abel nodded at Simone's words and approached her. Then Simone glared at him and extended her hand, slowly putting some distance between herself and Abel.
“Go ahead. Don’t come behind me.”
“...Do you still doubt me? Don’t you remember who protected you when you lost your mind through teleportation?”
“Even the monster imitating Jace didn’t attack me while I was sleeping.”
Abel took the lead, looking dumbfounded. But no matter how much he thought about it, he still felt wrong, so he suddenly turned around and spoke.
“Hey, you think you’re not suspicious? I almost got beat up by a guy imitating Orkan. You should take the lead. Aren’t you better at taking out that monster?”
“You’re a sword master, right?”
“You’re that necromancer, a first-generation or something?”
“So? You’re saying you can’t take the lead because you’re afraid I’ll turn into a monster?”
Abel kept his mouth shut in response to Simone's question. He couldn't resist the provocation of being asked if he was being scared.
It's not that he's scared. It's not that he's scared, but honestly, isn't it unreasonable for him to be the only one taking the lead while they're both suspicious of each other?
“Are you the one who is afraid?”
It was probably something that the group would have sighed at and said that they were fighting childishly again if they had seen it.
But, well, Simone has her own pride, so of course...
“Am you scared?”
“...”
“Unlike you, I can’t respond quickly to a surprise attack. If I get attacked in one breath, will you take responsibility?”
“So you're telling me you're not a monster?”
“I told you not me either. Just stand in front. It would be better if you were to be ambushed rather than me.”
“...That’s true.”
Is this correct?
Abel stepped forward, saddened by the fact that he had lost even in a childish argument.
'I guess that fool isn't a monster.'
Or maybe he's just a really good imitation of Abel.
Simone smiled as she watched Abel's back, who was unable to vent his anger and whose gait had become rough.
'No matter what, I won't believe it.'
For now, this is good for both of them. It's better to be suspicious of each other and keep some distance between them.
Simone looked away from Abel and looked around.
'I really don't know.'
Abel suggested that this might be the Demon World, but it wasn't. There is life in the Demon World. The Demons are alive and well, and the plants and animals they have bred are growing.
However, the energy of death is greater than that of life.
The river that she thought would be close was so big that she thought it was close, but it was actually much farther than she thought.
“This is just water, right?”
Abel crouched down and carelessly put his hand into the river.
If Orkan and Louis were there, they would have yelled at them and made them pull their hands away, but Simone just left him alone.
In fact, if Abel hadn't done it, Simone would have put her hand in the river too. If there was something, she had to touch it.
Fortunately, the water itself was normal water with no problems. However, no living things were visible in the river.
“What kind of place is this? How can there not be even a single ant crawling around without any poison?”
Abel jumped up and drew his sword.
“Shall we just destroy it all?”
“Is there anything to break? Instead, take a look upstairs. There might be something up there.”
Abel nodded and headed upstream. He didn't know anything, so he thought he should just follow Simone's advice.
It was only after Abel disappeared that Simone began to think seriously.
Honestly, when he was nearby, she couldn't think straight because she was worried that he might change his mind and try to kill her.
"Hmm..."
But even in the midst of all that, somewhere in her head, she was chewing over the strangeness of this situation.
Actually, Simone had been thinking about this ever since she found Janie's notebook in a place that she didn't know if it was a daycare or an orphanage...
'Is this really called Anasis's Dungeon?'
Simone had just looked at Janie's notebook and thought about the possibility that Anasis was possessed by Seo Hyun-Jung, not Anasis.
So then, does this dungeon belong to Anasis, or to the possessed one?
This was a pretty important issue.
'The dungeon is about following the master's footsteps.'
In that case, the possessed person may have been transported to a place in the world where she originally lived, or to another world she passed through.
If so, they had to greatly expand their scope of thinking.
Since they don't know much about the identity of the possessed person, let's first expand the scope to the world where Simone, or rather, Seo Hyun-Jung, lived.
A red world, a space devoid of any life, and a river.
Was there a place like this in Seo Hyun-jung's world? Among them, is a place where the feet of the possessed can reach.
Even so, no place immediately came to mind.
After thinking for a while, Simone was finally able to recall the only place she knew.
'Oh, no way...'
Simone jumped up and looked out at the wide-open river.
A land of death without life, a wide, fast-flowing river.
There is.
A wide river that everyone must pass through at least once.
'But if that's the case...'
Simone's expression, which had brightened for a moment with a great realization, turned pale and hard.
If my guess is correct, we need to get out of here quickly, right?
The moment her thoughts reached that point, she began to see something rippling beneath the river.
It slowly rose upward and eventually revealed its clear shape.
Thousands of hands. Bloodless, pure white hands snaked through the water and began to rush toward Simone.
“I thought it was somehow quiet!”
After the tentacles, now it's hands?
Simone hurriedly dodged and shot out mana. But strangely, the attack had no effect at all.
Why doesn't this work? The stronger the mana I exhaled, the less surprised I was...
"Ah..."
That thing is neither alive nor a soul. The mana that infuses life into a being that has already lost both life and death cannot work.
In the rough, deep river, something slowly rippled once again.
The owner of the hand. Thousands of human faces were looking at Simone expressionlessly in the water.
As if they wanted her to join them.
“Ha, isn’t this difficult?”
Who would have thought that I would come here?
“Simone!”
From upstream, Abel was running desperately towards Simone, chased by outstretched hands.
“Hey, what’s wrong? The attack isn’t working! What is this?”
“Why did you come down there? This place is more serious.”
“What are you talking about?”
Simone ran towards Abel as if no further words were needed and hung on his back as if carrying her on his back.
“Run upstream. Fast. If you can fly, fly.”
"...What?"
Abel, who was suddenly carrying Simone, hesitated as if he was flustered, then kicked off the ground and jumped high into the sky.
Simone looked down with a look of exasperation as she headed upstream at almost flying speed.
“Wow... I’m going crazy. What is this, seriously...”
From the sky, the shape of the river was clearly visible.
The uppermost stream flows very gently. There is a gilded bridge there, making it look very safe and beautiful.
But as they went down, the current became rougher and the width also greatly increased.
And at the very bottom of the river where Simone and Abel were, the current was so rough that anyone who tried to cross would be swept away, and underneath the water were thousands and tens of thousands of faces and pure white hands that twisted like snakes.
“Oh my! Where the hell am I!”
Abel shouted in annoyance at the bizarre sight of this place. Simone spoke to him in a trembling voice.
“Samdocheon (Three-way River).”
"...What?"
“This place is like Samdocheon. It’s a place in the afterlife.”
“Afterlife?”
Abel looked down at the river again as if he didn't understand.
Simone's complexion was pale.
The dungeon is about following the master's footsteps.
The dungeon's owner is someone who 'died' and was reincarnated into this world, just like Simone.
If this situation was following in her footsteps in reverse, it wouldn't be strange if this was the afterlife where she stayed before being possessed.
Simone shook her head at Abel's question.
No matter how much she looks at it, she still doesn't get it. Even if she thinks back to the original story, there was no place where there was only a river in a completely red space.
Abel sighed, seeming embarrassed.
“What should I do? I have no idea. Hmm... Did I come to the Demon World?”
Abel also seemed to feel that this place was not a place where humans could live. That would be the case since it was a place where no sense of life was felt at all.
Not a blade of grass, not a single tree, not even a breath of wind.
It was really like the middle of a desert, with only river water flowing.
“It’s a world where everything is possible, but this place is really... not a place I want to stay for long.”
“Let’s just go around for a bit. After all, it’s a dungeon, right? Something’s bound to come out. How about checking the river first?”
Abel nodded at Simone's words and approached her. Then Simone glared at him and extended her hand, slowly putting some distance between herself and Abel.
“Go ahead. Don’t come behind me.”
“...Do you still doubt me? Don’t you remember who protected you when you lost your mind through teleportation?”
“Even the monster imitating Jace didn’t attack me while I was sleeping.”
Abel took the lead, looking dumbfounded. But no matter how much he thought about it, he still felt wrong, so he suddenly turned around and spoke.
“Hey, you think you’re not suspicious? I almost got beat up by a guy imitating Orkan. You should take the lead. Aren’t you better at taking out that monster?”
“You’re a sword master, right?”
“You’re that necromancer, a first-generation or something?”
“So? You’re saying you can’t take the lead because you’re afraid I’ll turn into a monster?”
Abel kept his mouth shut in response to Simone's question. He couldn't resist the provocation of being asked if he was being scared.
It's not that he's scared. It's not that he's scared, but honestly, isn't it unreasonable for him to be the only one taking the lead while they're both suspicious of each other?
“Are you the one who is afraid?”
It was probably something that the group would have sighed at and said that they were fighting childishly again if they had seen it.
But, well, Simone has her own pride, so of course...
“Am you scared?”
“...”
“Unlike you, I can’t respond quickly to a surprise attack. If I get attacked in one breath, will you take responsibility?”
“So you're telling me you're not a monster?”
“I told you not me either. Just stand in front. It would be better if you were to be ambushed rather than me.”
“...That’s true.”
Is this correct?
Abel stepped forward, saddened by the fact that he had lost even in a childish argument.
'I guess that fool isn't a monster.'
Or maybe he's just a really good imitation of Abel.
Simone smiled as she watched Abel's back, who was unable to vent his anger and whose gait had become rough.
'No matter what, I won't believe it.'
For now, this is good for both of them. It's better to be suspicious of each other and keep some distance between them.
Simone looked away from Abel and looked around.
'I really don't know.'
Abel suggested that this might be the Demon World, but it wasn't. There is life in the Demon World. The Demons are alive and well, and the plants and animals they have bred are growing.
However, the energy of death is greater than that of life.
The river that she thought would be close was so big that she thought it was close, but it was actually much farther than she thought.
“This is just water, right?”
Abel crouched down and carelessly put his hand into the river.
If Orkan and Louis were there, they would have yelled at them and made them pull their hands away, but Simone just left him alone.
In fact, if Abel hadn't done it, Simone would have put her hand in the river too. If there was something, she had to touch it.
Fortunately, the water itself was normal water with no problems. However, no living things were visible in the river.
“What kind of place is this? How can there not be even a single ant crawling around without any poison?”
Abel jumped up and drew his sword.
“Shall we just destroy it all?”
“Is there anything to break? Instead, take a look upstairs. There might be something up there.”
Abel nodded and headed upstream. He didn't know anything, so he thought he should just follow Simone's advice.
It was only after Abel disappeared that Simone began to think seriously.
Honestly, when he was nearby, she couldn't think straight because she was worried that he might change his mind and try to kill her.
"Hmm..."
But even in the midst of all that, somewhere in her head, she was chewing over the strangeness of this situation.
Actually, Simone had been thinking about this ever since she found Janie's notebook in a place that she didn't know if it was a daycare or an orphanage...
'Is this really called Anasis's Dungeon?'
Simone had just looked at Janie's notebook and thought about the possibility that Anasis was possessed by Seo Hyun-Jung, not Anasis.
So then, does this dungeon belong to Anasis, or to the possessed one?
This was a pretty important issue.
'The dungeon is about following the master's footsteps.'
In that case, the possessed person may have been transported to a place in the world where she originally lived, or to another world she passed through.
If so, they had to greatly expand their scope of thinking.
Since they don't know much about the identity of the possessed person, let's first expand the scope to the world where Simone, or rather, Seo Hyun-Jung, lived.
A red world, a space devoid of any life, and a river.
Was there a place like this in Seo Hyun-jung's world? Among them, is a place where the feet of the possessed can reach.
Even so, no place immediately came to mind.
After thinking for a while, Simone was finally able to recall the only place she knew.
'Oh, no way...'
Simone jumped up and looked out at the wide-open river.
A land of death without life, a wide, fast-flowing river.
There is.
A wide river that everyone must pass through at least once.
'But if that's the case...'
Simone's expression, which had brightened for a moment with a great realization, turned pale and hard.
If my guess is correct, we need to get out of here quickly, right?
The moment her thoughts reached that point, she began to see something rippling beneath the river.
It slowly rose upward and eventually revealed its clear shape.
Thousands of hands. Bloodless, pure white hands snaked through the water and began to rush toward Simone.
“I thought it was somehow quiet!”
After the tentacles, now it's hands?
Simone hurriedly dodged and shot out mana. But strangely, the attack had no effect at all.
Why doesn't this work? The stronger the mana I exhaled, the less surprised I was...
"Ah..."
That thing is neither alive nor a soul. The mana that infuses life into a being that has already lost both life and death cannot work.
In the rough, deep river, something slowly rippled once again.
The owner of the hand. Thousands of human faces were looking at Simone expressionlessly in the water.
As if they wanted her to join them.
“Ha, isn’t this difficult?”
Who would have thought that I would come here?
“Simone!”
From upstream, Abel was running desperately towards Simone, chased by outstretched hands.
“Hey, what’s wrong? The attack isn’t working! What is this?”
“Why did you come down there? This place is more serious.”
“What are you talking about?”
Simone ran towards Abel as if no further words were needed and hung on his back as if carrying her on his back.
“Run upstream. Fast. If you can fly, fly.”
"...What?"
Abel, who was suddenly carrying Simone, hesitated as if he was flustered, then kicked off the ground and jumped high into the sky.
Simone looked down with a look of exasperation as she headed upstream at almost flying speed.
“Wow... I’m going crazy. What is this, seriously...”
From the sky, the shape of the river was clearly visible.
The uppermost stream flows very gently. There is a gilded bridge there, making it look very safe and beautiful.
But as they went down, the current became rougher and the width also greatly increased.
And at the very bottom of the river where Simone and Abel were, the current was so rough that anyone who tried to cross would be swept away, and underneath the water were thousands and tens of thousands of faces and pure white hands that twisted like snakes.
“Oh my! Where the hell am I!”
Abel shouted in annoyance at the bizarre sight of this place. Simone spoke to him in a trembling voice.
“Samdocheon (Three-way River).”
"...What?"
“This place is like Samdocheon. It’s a place in the afterlife.”
“Afterlife?”
Abel looked down at the river again as if he didn't understand.
Simone's complexion was pale.
The dungeon is about following the master's footsteps.
The dungeon's owner is someone who 'died' and was reincarnated into this world, just like Simone.
If this situation was following in her footsteps in reverse, it wouldn't be strange if this was the afterlife where she stayed before being possessed.
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