Chapter 21

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Translated by Jinmu

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Whoosh-

The northwestern outskirts of the city of Edlen.

After finishing their business in the forest, Han-bit and Yeon-woo arrived at a cliff overlooking a canyon.

It was so deep that the flowing river looked like a string.

– F*cking scary;

– Living up to the name Swordsman of the Wind. Shudders.

– Embarrassing to admit, but I peed a little.

– Did a place like this exist?

– Perverts are good at finding places like this. Lol.

The dizzying height was conveyed well to the viewers as well.

Yeon-woo simply stood with his mouth blankly open.

[Quest]

You have heard news regarding Swordsman Balder’s master.

If you receive his acknowledgment, it seems you will be able to learn a very special technique.

Objective: Find the Swordsman of the Wind in the Edlen Forest.

Reward: Linked Quest Unlocked

The Swordsman of the Wind mentioned in the quest information.

True to the viewers’ expression, it was a place that lived up to its name.

“Is this really it? Please tell me it isn’t.”

“This is just the entrance. We have to move further along the path.”

“Ah, there was a path?”

Yeon-woo let out a sigh of relief.

Bending his knees, Han-bit quietly examined the bottom and spoke.

“If you’re scared of heights, go wait in the city.”

“S-Scared? I’m not scared at all. Truly.”

– He’s a total scaredy-cat. Lol.

– Not scared (Save me)

– But where is the path?

– Aren’t you supposed to climb down the cliff?

– Isn’t that trailblazing at that point?

The viewers tried to find the connecting path.

Of course, there was absolutely no way such a thing existed.

‘A lot of them came.’

Glancing back, he could see a large crowd flinching in the forest.

They were the people who had been following them since they left Edlen.

Ding.

[SafetyFirst has registered a 10,000 won Challenge Mission.]

[Bungee jump without a cord. Go go.]

Right then, a message notifying a challenge mission appeared.

“Ay, that’s just a mission telling us to die. Hyung, just skip this one.”

Checking the content, Yeon-woo shook his head as if finding it absurd.

Then another message popped up in succession.

Ding.

[ㅇㅇ has registered a 30,000 won Challenge Mission.]

[Go go together with Loafer.]

“Pardon? Stop joking around! I will absolutely never… Hyung? Why are you opening your eyes like that?”

Yeon-woo, who was genuinely getting angry, looked at Han-bit’s face.

That gaze and smirk were of a situation right before committing an incident.

“Wait. Wait a minute. That’s not it, seriously. If we fall from here… Urk!”

Leap!

Han-bit, who had grabbed Yeon-woo’s arm, kicked off toward the bottom of the cliff.

Plummeting straight down was only natural.

“Uwaaaaaah!”

– Crazy. Lmaooooo.

– He was a good streamer.

– Falling f*cking fast. Lol.

Whoosh!

The bodies of the two people continuously falling.

“Hyunggggg!”

Yeon-woo, who was screaming beside him, was practically crying.

‘We’re here.’

Han-bit continued to check their height while facing the wind.

And right before the bodies of the two reached the ground.

Ripple.

The surrounding scenery suddenly changed.

“Ugh… Huh?”

Thinking he was definitely dead, Yeon-woo snapped his head around while sprawled on the ground.

A structure like a massive cave bathed in sunlight from various places.

Straight ahead, something like a slender stone tower stood tall.

A spiral path continued all the way up from the bottom around it.

– ?

– What happened?

– Why didn’t they die?

– Where is this.

– What’s that over there?

The surprised viewers also tried to grasp the situation.

Standing up calmly, Han-bit looked at the chat window and spoke.

“Mission success, right?”

“… Ah.”

Yeon-woo, who had been spacing out, regained his senses.

Then, looking at Han-bit, he raised his voice.

“Hyung! I thought I was seriously going to die!”

“You lived, didn’t you? Just collect the prize money.”

“… Got it.”

Letting out a sigh, Yeon-woo immediately completed the challenge mission.

Ding.

[Cuckoo has supported 1,000 won.]

[The bastards who were secretly following you are committing suicide in the canyon. Surpassed 300 people.]

– It’s real. Lol.

– Are they crazy bastards.

– A f*ck ton of them came.

– But why did those guys die?

– Explanation Bug Black Dragon, please take the mound.

The donation message conveying the situation outside.

It seemed the players following behind also jumped off the cliff following Han-bit.

“It’s probably because they don’t have this.”

Han-bit showed the cloth with the green sword emblem drawn on it to the camera.

It was the item received from the swordsman.

“Wasn’t that just a piece of cloth?”

Yeon-woo asked as if he found it fascinating.

Shaking his head, Han-bit said.

“This is like the Spirits’ territory, and this is the admission ticket.”

“… Spirits?”

“You’ll understand when you see. Let’s go meet Balder’s master first.”

“Where is the master?”

“He’s right there.”

Han-bit pointed towards the top of the stone tower with his finger.

At the very peak, the shape of a person could be seen very faintly.

“That’s the Swordsman of the Wind? Then we just have to climb that path and that’s it?”

“Once we climb it, it’s over. Let’s go.”

“… Eh?”

– That’s it?

– Then isn’t it a weak-ass skill.

– Hyped it up with Spirit’s territory and whatnot.

– Do you think that’s real? Lol.

The doubt blooming at the overly simple method.

Yeon-woo followed behind Han-bit, who was walking ahead.

“Hyung, by any chance is it an insignificant skill?”

“Why? Because it looks too easy? You were screaming like you were dying earlier.”

“Ah, that’s different. If the condition is to just follow the path, isn’t it easier than other skills?”

Yeon-woo, who had high expectations for the skill, couldn’t hide his disappointment.

It seemed he had wanted a fascinating scene to appear.

Standing before the entrance, Han-bit stopped his tracks and asked.

“Do you want to go first?”

“… Why all of a sudden?”

“Seeing it from the inside is quite a spectacle. It’ll probably be captured better if you film it yourself.”

“Really?”

Tempted, Yeon-woo took a step forward with a somewhat brightened face.

And the moment he advanced a few steps.

Swish!

Something brushed past his cheek.

“… Huh?”

Yeon-woo, who froze on the spot, creaked his head around.

An iron arrow was embedded in the opposite wall.

“Urp!”

A beat late, the surprised Yeon-woo quickly scrambled back.

Standing behind Han-bit’s back, he raised a voice full of grievance.

“Hyung! What is that thing!”

“Thought you said we just had to follow the path? Isn’t it easy?”

“Ah, seriously! You did that knowing, didn’t you?”

– F*ck it was a trap. Lol.

– ???: Isn’t it easier than other skills?

– Ah lol. Easy to die.

– Can’t you just see it and dodge?

– No no, just take the hit gently.

Watching the chat window, Han-bit took out his bow from his inventory.

“Why the bow?”

– Frontal assault. Shivers.

– Isn’t he going to shoot the master and drop him?

– Crazy. Lol.

Thwip.

Quietly nocking an arrow, Han-bit drew the bowstring.

Twang!

As he released his hand, the arrow flew at a rapid speed.

The location it stuck into was the inner wall of the spiral path.

Twang!

Twang!

“… What are you doing?”

“Let’s go. You follow a bit behind me.”

“Pardon?”

Having shot a few arrows, Han-bit calmly moved his steps.

He had already passed the path where Yeon-woo was standing.

“Don’t tell me you dismantled the traps?”

“Follow closely. If you fall, you can’t come back up.”

“What does that… Hyung! In front!”

Rumble!

Along with Yeon-woo’s voice, a massive boulder came rolling from the front.

Raising his hand, Han-bit looked at the floor and shouted.

“Fire Burst!”

Kaboom!

The stone floor crumbling along with a massive explosion.

Crash!

The rolling boulder plummeted straight down through the hole.

– It’s Rank 2 yet it’s insane;

– Ah, because of Rashten. F*ck.

– Information) The Rashten employees also fell off the cliff to come here.

– At that point isn’t it an obsession?

The news about Rashten prominently caught his eye.

It seems they were all ultimately kicked out by Atsbel.

“Let’s go.”

Leap!

Jumping over the collapsed path, Han-bit began ascending the path again.

Glancing down, Yeon-woo swallowed his saliva and followed behind.

Twang!

Kaboom!

The dismantling of traps using the bow and magic continued incessantly.

After using up all his arrows, he just advanced holding his sword.

Swish!

Swoosh!

The flying arrows, iron maces, harpoons, and the like couldn’t reach Han-bit.

Because he barely dodged them with minimal movements.

Following from a distance, Yeon-woo asked with a dumbfounded expression.

“Hyung, did you memorize all of them? Are things like that in the novel?”

“How could I memorize all that? When I feel like I’m f*cked, I dodge.”

“No…”

– The f*cked-sensing method. Shivers.

– Is it possible to see and dodge?

– Is his kinetic vision a cat’s?

– As expected of King-Cat.

– If he was a dog, he would’ve already paved the whole road.

He reacted playfully, but in fact, it was true he memorized all of them.

Or rather, one could say it’s impossible for him not to know.

Crash!

When he passed the final boulder trap.

He finally reached the end of the path.

“So long, so long.”

With a leisurely complaint, Han-bit stepped onto the peak of the stone tower.

In the center, a white-haired old man was sitting cross-legged with his back turned.

[Swordsman of the Wind, Asla]

“Do not approach.”

A low voice heard even before he could move his feet.

Han-bit simply slumped down on that spot.

“Hyung?”

“You sit too.”

– Camping ON

– He’s prickly;

– Just looking at his back, you can tell he’s a f*cking master.

– Let’s rebel.

– It’s time to utilize chuunibyou.

Reading the room, Yeon-woo also took a seat on the floor.

“It seems I’ve finished the test you prepared?”

“…”

The swordsman didn’t answer Han-bit’s words.

‘I really suffered a lot.’

That man, Asla, has anthropophobia.

Approaching him forcefully only results in getting banished from this place.

When he didn’t know the circumstances and the solution, he barely learned the technique after being banished for nearly a month.

And 10 playthroughs later.

He possessed Asla’s body.

‘I know what’s inside you the best.’

Possession inherits all the thoughts and experiences of the original owner of the body.

Although tremendous confusion washed over him, humans were adapting animals.

To the point where he could grasp the designs and locations of the hundreds of traps.

Slide.

Han-bit pulled out a bottle from his inventory.

And wrapped the cloth given by the swordsman around it.

Roll.

The bottle rolled with a light release of his hand.

Spinning around, it lightly touched the old man’s hand.

“Liquor?”

Simply dropping his gaze slightly, he figured out the content.

After staring at the bottle for a moment, the old man spoke in a cold voice.

“Clear it away. I no longer drink liquor.”

“Then roll it back this way.”

“…”

– ?

– Why is there no answer.

– He told you to roll it back?

He remained silent even at Han-bit’s words.

Then, pretending he didn’t hear, he gazed far away.

‘As if a dog could quit eating sh*t.’

The liquor he started drinking under the pretext of overcoming his anthropophobia.

However, the drinking that approached addiction, he had no intention of fixing at all.

Because that old man just simply likes alcohol.

His disciple, Swordsman Balder, unnecessarily took a huge influence from that.

“Aren’t you going to drink?”

“Hmph. Do you think my will would be broken by this mere liquor?”

“You’re going to drink again in the evening anyway.”

“… Ahem.”

– Lmaooooo

– Got caught.

– Prohibition (3 hours)

At the tip of the fingers of him clearing his throat, the liquor bottle was still touching.

Han-bit pulled out another bottle and rolled it to the old man.

Roll.

“Have a drink. I bet they’re all drinks you’re tasting for the first time?”

“I have tasted all the liquors of the world. There’s no way a fledgling could satisfy me.”

“Just drink it for now. If you say you don’t like it, I’ll just go back.”

“…”

At the continued insistence, the old man’s fingers wriggled.

Glancing at it, he spoke as if he had no choice.

“Fine. If I do not like it, scram immediately.”

Pop.

Snatching up one bottle, the old man popped the cork.

“Mmm.”

Smelling the aroma, his back twitched.

The old man slowly bringing the bottle to his mouth.

The cautious first sip was soon swallowed down his throat.

Gulp.

“…!”

At that moment, his body swayed as if heaving.

The old man, who hugged the bottle to his chest, quickly picked up another liquor bottle from the floor.

– Grandpa?

– Embracing the booze bottle is hilarious. Lol.

– ???: Clear it away.

– ???: I no longer drink liquor.

The viewers began to laugh at the actions differing from his words.

The old man, who wouldn’t know of such things, solely concentrated on the alcohol.

Gulp.

“…!”

Testing another drink, the old man’s back trembled even more heavily.

Gulp.

Gulp.

He began to chug down the alcohol consecutively, swapping bottles.

And when all the bottles were emptied, he slightly turned his body.

“… Is there no more?”