Chapter 66 – Promise (9)

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“…It is doing that to catch the people below.”

At the same time, Luna Moon’s ring on my finger began to heat up hotly.

It felt as if it was urging me, asking what I was doing not rescuing the commander quickly.

‘Wait.’

I also have no intention of letting the commander die.

It is just that I need a moment to think.

While I was quietly soothing the ring, Lucas shouted in shock.

“Could Your Excellency really be down there?!”

Fortunately, as soon as I confirmed that the Snow Giant’s hand, which was flailing below the cliff, was empty—perhaps because its arm length was insufficient—I spoke to the other two.

“Get off.”

“Yes?”

“I said get off.”

Like trained soldiers, the new officer fellows hurriedly got off the motorcycle following my command, but their faces were still filled with question.

“What are you planning to do?”

“I will lure the guy away, so once it disappears, you guys pull the people below up with this.”

As I handed over the bundle of rope while saying so, Bones and Lucas looked at me with expressions of disbelief in their own eyes.

“I really want to know where this is coming from, seriously.”

While I lightly ignored Bones’s question and started the motorcycle, Lucas asked in a hurry.

“Wait, luring it? What are you going to do? Don’t tell me—”

“I’m off.”

Before those bastards could stop me, I started the engine and sped forward.

The direction I headed was in front of the crevasse slightly away from the Snow Giant, which was straining to fish out the commander’s party.

After dropping to a distance that was somewhat far from the cliff where the commander was, but still visible to the guy’s sight, I jumped off the motorcycle this time too.

I saw the motorcycle, unable to overcome the speed, roll forward and plunge down the cliff.

‘It looks like my shape in a little while.’

I kicked off the snow to stand up and looked toward the Snow Giant.

Looking from the side, I noticed the commander and Plato on the cliff pressing close to the wall and lowering their bodies to avoid being caught by the Snow Giant’s hand.

The leader of Team 2 was lying face down on the ground, bound.

‘The commander is in a terrible state.’

With the commander’s physical capabilities, he could have easily avoided it right before falling, but because he pushed me to safety at the final moment, he probably could not escape himself.

His saving me even while knowing he would fall below must be because he believed I was Luna Moon’s child.

“Sigh…”

This was truly a crazy thing to do, but.

There was no option of not saving the commander here.

Just as the commander tried to save me even in that tense moment, as long as I was also his ‘son’, I had to risk my life to save him.

That was the promise with Luna Moon, and the qualification for me to live as ‘Haydam Goodman’ in this place.

Just then, the wind began to blow in the direction I wanted.

That was, from where I stood to where the Snow Giant stood.

“It’s a good weather to fall.”

I drew the dagger at my waist, lifted my left arm, and sliced it straight down from top to bottom.

As the skin split and blood began to flow, I saw the Snow Giant hesitate in the distance.

It did not take long before the Snow Giant sniffed and looked this way.

On one side, I could see Lucas and Bones running while shouting something at the top of their lungs.

However, there was a limit to a human running across a snowy field.

The Snow Giant left the humans who were irritating it alone and began to run toward me.

It seemed certain that the Snow Giant would arrive before the new officer fellows.

‘Good.’

Instead of fleeing, I stood precariously on the edge of the crack, pulled out a handful of Star Candy, and tossed it into my mouth.

No sooner did it touch my lips than the Star Candy turned into blue particles and permeated into my body, and the long cut began to heal rapidly.

After verifying that the wound had healed, I detonated a smoke grenade beneath my feet, and then shot white shells and signal flares at the fella’s face indiscriminately.

An action meant to draw aggro, not to deal damage.

The Snow Giant, thoroughly irritated, increased its speed and ran over, and.

After firing all the ammunition I had, I began to shoot toward the fella’s feet.

The distance between me and the guy grew closer and closer.

‘Is this not enough?’

Since the bullets were created strictly for anti-monster use, they did not deal major damage to the glacier itself, failing to collapse the ground the Snow Giant was stepping on.

However, collapsing the glacier to send only the guy falling was close to a miracle, and.

My real plan starts from here.

“Can’t be helped.”

I threw the firearm I was holding at the Snow Giant, and the Snow Giant swatted the flying gun away with one hand as if it was laughable.

As soon as the Snow Giant, which had approached almost right before my nose, reached out to grab me, I jumped up above the smoke cloud while tightly clutching the knife in my hand.

The moment the Snow Giant also twisted its direction to catch me.

“Roar!”

The Snow Giant’s foot sank deep through the cloud smoke.

Because I had deliberately hidden the ground with a smoke grenade, it chased me without knowing that the place I had jumped was empty space, and stepped into thin air.

Of course, it was the same for me in that I had jumped down the cliff to trick the guy.

At the same time as I plunged into the smoke cloud, I drove the knife into the glacier.

Scraaaape!

Because the knife did not drive into the glacier in one go, I slipped down the sheer cliff just like that.

The Snow Giant also reached out its arm to hold onto the glacier, but the fella’s shaggy hand could not create friction to reduce speed like I did.

The guy fell down helplessly.

‘Even if it falls like that, that guy probably won’t die.’

Watching the Snow Giant fall, I pulled out another knife and drove it into a crack in the glacier.

Scrape!

Perhaps it caught properly this time, as instead of slipping, I ended up hanging in the air with a catching sensation.

In terms of feeling, I felt like I had fallen for a long time, but looking up, it was not that deep.

“Lord Haydam!”

“Crazy!”

Lucas and Bones, who arrived late, discovered me from above and began to shout something, but because the two bastards were talking at the same time, I could not understand what they were saying.

“Whew…”

Now, I only needed to hold out until those guys pulled me up.

Looking up while thinking so.

The movement of the clouds was unusual.

Above the sky where the blizzard was still raging, a thunderstorm began to gather.

“Could that be…”

I furrowed my brows with an ominous premonition.

As explained earlier, the Snow Giant controls the weather.

This blizzard that had been falling terribly since earlier was also scattered by the Snow Giant to hide its massive bulk.

‘Then that means the Snow Giant also gathered that thunderstorm…’

With a heavy rumbling sound, a golden flash gleamed between the clouds, and.

It was in the very next moment that a streak of lightning struck down onto the knife I was holding.

“Damn it!”

Rather than being fried by the lightning strike, I chose to fall and let go of the knife before the lightning struck.

Boom!

The spot hit by lightning flashed and exploded like popcorn, moving further and further away from my sight.

Evading the lightning was good, but from now on, I was no different from a wingless airplane.

I tried to recall anything in the inventory that might be helpful now.

However, I did not possess items prepared for a falling situation.

Either a miracle had to happen, or.

I had no choice but to pray that this body was sturdy enough to bring Star Candy to my mouth even after falling to the bottom.

However, in the next moment, the one that stopped my fall was neither a miracle nor anything else, but the Snow Giant.

“What…!”

A shaggy hand popped out from the side and snatched me.

While suppressing the scream that burst out at the grip strength that seemed to crush the bones of my entire body, I looked to the side to see that the Snow Giant had discovered a cave inside the crevasse gap, hung onto it, and snatched me.

The guy brought me, held in its hand, to its mouth without hesitation, and.

As I grew closer to the fella, the golden gem embedded in its forehead came into view.

‘Eating is worse than being eaten; it’s better to land at least one blow.’

I barely managed to slip one arm out of the guy’s grip, pulled out a grenade from the inventory, pulled the pin with my index finger, and threw it inside the fella’s maw opening toward me.

Throwing it all the way to its forehead was beyond my capability.

The grenade that smoothly rolled inside the guy’s throat soon exploded, and the fella let out a scream of pain and threw me inside the cave.

“Urgh!”

At the impact of tumbling inside the cave, even I could no longer suppress a groan.

Only after hitting the cave wall was I barely able to stop, and I fumbled at my waist to bring Star Candy to my mouth.

As the wounds healed, the pain that felt as if the bones of my entire body were crushed gradually subsided.

I exhaled the breath I had held back and lay face down on the cave floor.

“Pant, pant…”

I lived thanks to the guy throwing me inside the cave instead of down the cliff.

However, the situation was not good.

Although wounds could be treated with Star Candy, the larger the injury, the twice as long the recovery time took.

The only silver lining was that my body was sturdy enough not to lose consciousness even after enduring all of this impact.

I could not just wait until I was fully recovered either.

Because the guy who threw me into the cave was rushing toward me while letting out a high-pitched cry of rage.

‘This is crazy.’

What were the chances that I could shoot from inside its mouth while being eaten and penetrate the gem on its forehead?

While having such hopeless thoughts, I fled deeper into the cave to avoid the fella for now.

Because stalactites and stalagmites made of glacier grew thickly inside the cave, the Snow Giant, whose movement speed was not fast to begin with, quickly lagged behind due to the obstacles.

However, the sharply rising stalactites and stalagmites were dangerous for me as well.

As I ran frantically, feeling something flowing down my cheek, I wiped it to find blood running.

I had probably been cut by an icicle hanging from the ceiling without realizing it.

At that moment, a thought suddenly flashed through my head.

‘Wait, could this be…’

I ran looking at the ceiling like a madman.

The cave ceiling grew gradually higher the deeper I went, and the size of the icicles hanging overhead also grew larger.

All or nothing.

If I cannot catch the guy with the firepower I currently have anyway…

“Hey! You stupid giant bastard!”

After stopping at a suitable spot, I randomly fired toward the ceiling with the gun taken from my inventory, calling the fella in.

When the fella, who had lost track of me and was wandering, heard the sound of my gunfire and began to rush over, the entire cave began to rumble and shake as if it would collapse.

Rather, it was a good thing.

The more the fella ran wild, the more cracks would form on the icicles hanging from the ceiling.

I held my breath and waited for the fella to rush in.

To shoot and drop the icicle right at the timing of the fella’s charge, I could not go far either.

It would be a problem if it fell before the guy arrived, and it would also be a problem if it fell after the guy passed.

“Roar!”

Discovering the guy roughly smashing stalactites and entering inside, I began to shoot, aiming at a giant, sharp icicle on the ceiling.

The guy drew closer and closer, but I did not lower my aimed gun.

The moment the guy let out a scream and raised his arms high.

Crack.

The sound of something splitting echoed through the cave, and a giant icicle that had been settled on the ceiling for ages fell down onto the Snow Giant’s head.

The moment I witnessed the sharp tip of the icicle driving into the guy’s head, the guy’s hand flew like a whip and struck me hard.

“Urgh…!”

Struck by the arm swung by the Snow Giant, I flew and crashed straight into the cave wall.

However, the sound of me crashing against the wall was buried in a louder noise.

Thud…

At the same time as my body flew and crashed against the thick cave wall, it was the sound of the icicle that had penetrated the guy’s head driving into the cave floor.

“Pant, pant…”

The Snow Giant’s movements stopped, but I could not budge either.

‘It seems my spine went wrong when I crashed into the cave wall just now…’

Although I could not wiggle a single finger no matter what, and a terrible pain enveloped my body.

Even so, I had to lift my head to check the guy’s condition.

Because a monster was not an existence that died just because an icicle pierced its body.

‘Please…’

I hoped the gem on its forehead was shattered by being hit by the icicle, but.

When I barely turned my head to look at the fella, the golden gem embedded in the guy’s forehead was still attached, emitting a brilliant light.

The icicle skewering the Snow Giant like a skewer had missed by a hair’s breadth.

I chuckled hollowly.

‘Ha, fuck… I’m fucked.’

Of course, it wouldn’t be able to recover its body and attack me right away, but the same went for me.

Even though all I had to do was bring the combat rations in my pocket to my mouth, I could not budge a single finger right now.

If only I could have killed the guy with the attack just now, things would have worked out somehow…

‘Even if the zone fellas come to rescue me, that guy will recover his body first before the rescue team arrives.’

I let out a sigh and closed my eyes.

I had sensed death.

‘What on earth am I doing, trying to save NPCs.’

But I had a veteran’s pride; I couldn’t just receive help from an NPC and wipe my mouth clean.

Still, dying was not as scary or unfair as I thought.

Not only because I thought I might log out of this game possession world rather than dying.

But because I had thought death would be cold and scary, yet it felt warmer and more peaceful than I expected.

Rather than cold, it felt exactly like holding a warm stone in my hand…

‘…Hmm?’

Opening my eyes wide at an unknown sense of incongruity, I looked down at my finger.

Luna Moon’s ring was emitting a bright light, warmly wrapping around my body.

“What… is it?”

‘Could it be…’

There was only one possibility rising now.

The unknown ego dwelling in Luna Moon’s ring.

I had already noticed long ago that another presence dwelt inside the ring.

However, since it seemed to have no intention of helping me until right before dying to the Snow Giant, I had given up.

But now that I was in real danger of dying, it seemed to have developed the heart to help me.

‘Finally appearing.’

Let’s see.

‘Who on earth is inside the ring.’

No sooner did I think so than the brightly radiating light was sucked into the moonstone embedded in the ring, and.

Something pure white popped out with a plop.