How to Survive as a Player Chapter 240

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Se-hyeon also managed to land while clinging to Lee Jae-young’s body. Even though she jumped so hard that her floor trembled, there wasn’t even the slightest crack in her ice. Theo, who jumped down earlier, cast a protective skill down the ice road and added a layer of protection.

“It won’t have as good a defense as Cheolongseong Fortress. “If you apply protection skills any thicker than this, the ice road will sink, so this is the maximum.”

It was a skill that boasted the strongest defense ability, to the point where it was said to be impregnable. Even if his defense power is lower than that, he won’t be broken that easily due to the nature of his skills.

“Ryoma and Theo, please focus only on the ice road from now on. “We will take care of the rest.”

“Please do so.”

With his back turned to Theo, who responded sarcastically, Sehyeon pulled the bowstring toward the huge mouth protruding from the sea. I was already sick of the excessive use of skills.

When I looked down at the sea, I saw a strangely wriggling remnant in the black water. An eerie feeling was intense. The figures swarming under the sea looked like water ghosts reaching out and trying to pull them out.

What if the ice road collapses and falls into the sea?

It was a fantasy I didn’t want to even think about. Sehyun shuddered and lowered herself desperately to avoid the monster. The monster’s wide open mouth barely grazed his hair. The body of a snake with thick scales conveyed the coldness of the corpse.

The people in the combat world, including Jaeyoung Lee, were already slaughtering the monsters that surrounded Ryoma and Theo. Monsters constantly appeared with their heads sticking out of the sea. Several times, there was a pounding sound under my feet, as if I was attacking the ice underneath.

Sehyun drew the bow again. Ice-like rain splashed down on his trembling fingertips. He let go of the bowstring with his firm fingertips. From then on, a long struggle ensued, with him vomiting blood.

“Mr. Fen, avoid!”

“I’ll take care of that guy!”

Kieeek!

“Jaeyoung, behind you… !”

“Shit!”

In a frantic struggle, everyone had their backs and fought fiercely. He couldn’t even remember how he went that route and protected Ryoma and Theo.

I moved my body while struggling to breathe, covered in the blood of monsters, and barely managed to get on the ice and attack. Before we knew it, everyone was breathing heavily over their pale lips.

I felt like I was abandoned in the middle of a storm. The tower from which everyone jumped was already so far away that it became faint. Everyone was breathing heavily from fatigue. Even under my wide-open eyes were dark from fatigue.

Sehyun looked up at the dark sky. He couldn’t tell how many hours had passed. When night falls here, visibility becomes blurred, putting Se-hyun at a total disadvantage. The statue of the goddess, trapped in her mist, has now revealed its faint form. The remaining distance remained as long as the original distance.

As I took more steps, every action I had planned felt reckless.

“Huh, oh oh… . this… I can finish it, hehe… Is that correct?”

Li Jeong asked irritably, wiping the moisture from the tip of her chin. No one could answer. It wasn’t just the combat world that was exhausted. Ryoma and Theo, who were creating the road, also had bright blue faces due to the successive use of their skills. Even the sound of breathing was unusual.

Tira, who had been luring monsters from above, had now come down to where Se-hyeon was and was helping to deal with the monsters, but he had no strength.

Everyone was on the precarious thin ice, breathing heavily. Anxiety as if the ground beneath my feet would collapse at any moment came over me like a wave.

I needed some time to rest. Even just a little bit.

“Wouldn’t it be better to use ‘that skill’ now?!”

“No, that skill is essential to investigate the goddess! “You can’t use it now!”

Sehyun quickly refuted Tyra’s words. The ‘skill’ that Tyra was talking about was Kwak Jeong-han’s ‘Faith’ skill brought by the stealing skill. Now that he didn’t know what was underneath the goddess submerged in the black water, Kwak Jeong-han’s skills had to be saved.

Besides, there was only one chance to use that skill. He couldn’t just take it easy now and hit the ground running at the end.

“Hey, I hope you don’t mean to die like this… yes.”

Fan, whose complexion had turned pale, was panting with difficulty as he wiped away water, not sure if it was rainwater or sweat. The muzzle of the magic gun he was holding missed the target without properly hitting it. My hands, pushed to their limit, were shaking and I couldn’t focus. It was a fight with many restrictions.

Even Baek Do-hyun, who can use the ‘spiritual world’, is currently not using his full potential to save the power to contact the goddess, and Lee Jae-young, who has a large range of activities, was barely fighting like a tightrope walker on a road with only a little space to step on. Neither will work well.

If Baek Do-hyeon had been able to fight with all his might, the battle might not have been as difficult as it is now. Even though he had the power to control dozens of monsters, the reality of having to suppress that power made this situation impoverished.

Looking in front, behind, and to the sides, all I could see were everyone’s faces so white that it wouldn’t be surprising if they collapsed at any moment. My mind was a mess, heated to its limit. The temptation to be comfortable and the reason to remember the purpose clashed fiercely.

However, when the minds that were tearing each other apart reached a dangerous boundary, everyone’s shoulders, who had been gritting their teeth to the point where blood appeared in their eyes, suddenly stiffened.

This was because the monsters’ movements suddenly stopped. The noise that was flooding the surroundings also disappeared, as if it had been erased.

“What is this… .”

I felt a deep sense of discomfort. Through the burgeoning anxiety, I could see monsters disappearing as if they were hiding beneath the sea. Instinctively, everyone made eye contact.

The shaking eyes were clearly visible even in the dark space. It was after that that a faint singing sound began to be heard.

“!”

At first glance, it was just a beautiful song. It was faint and delicate, and even beautiful, as if comforting everyone in need, but everyone who had heard it once knew that it was a bad omen.

The siren’s song was stirring something again.

“… … .”

The vast sea had already become calm. All that was visible was the goddess’s head sticking out in the middle of the barren sea. Her song flowed from the mouth of the goddess. A black hole, gaping like a snake’s den, sat in the mouth of her goddess. It was a bizarre sight.

The song continued until everyone opened their eyes and looked at the goddess as if they were mesmerized. And when the singing voice that had been troubling her mind suddenly stopped, Sehyeon witnessed a flash of light coming from inside the pitch-black mouth of the goddess. At that moment, I smelled the creepy smell of death.

“Everyone bow down!”

Amidst a sharp cry, light shot out without warning. The flash of light fired along with the sound of the wave went across the sea, scratching the surface of the sea.

It was similar to an airship’s magic cannon, but its power was several times higher. The seawater surged above the spot where the flash passed as if a torpedo had exploded. It was an enormous aftermath. And the aftermath created a tsunami and waves on the sea.

Sehyun, who was lying flat on the ice, could see the group of people barely holding on to their bodies by sticking their fingertips through the ice. Everyone gritted their teeth and endured the rough waves.

If only I was at the tower.

I thought about that several times while coming this way. I regretted that choice, thinking that at least it would have been better if I had been there. But when he struggled to raise his head through the rough waves, Sehyun realized that was a wrong idea.

The end of the road everyone has passed.

“The tower… .”

There was a tower there that was half destroyed and collapsing. Numerous monsters were writhing and wriggling beneath the fallen tower, intent on eating the corpses of their compatriots.

It was terrible and miserable. If he had remained in the tower until now, the monsters would have been devouring everyone, including Sehyeon, by now.

What the goddess was aiming for was the disappearance of the safe zone. Or isolation.

“Everyone hold on to me tightly!”

A shout mixed with metal sounds broke into my dazed mind. Sehyeon came to his senses as if he had awakened and looked at Theo, who had driven his sword through the ice. The surrounding area was covered with a huge shadow. Sehyeon’s eyes quickly turned back.

A huge tidal wave, with countless monsters writhing around, was leaning over everyone’s heads. Sehyeon stretched out his hand towards me.

It was Lee Jae-young’s hand.

“Brother, hurry… !”

All scenes flowed slowly. Even the voice that reached my ear was like that. Maybe that’s why Sehyeon’s hand extended towards Lee Jaeyoung was also slow. For a moment, our fingertips touched, then crossed and passed by.

In an instant, the body swayed by the waves was pushed backwards. There was a lot to see in the tilted field of view.

Jaeyoung Lee shouting, Theo biting his lip and giving a look that says he’s late, and the others gathered together in one place and holding each other’s hands. And even the fan sliding backwards with Sehyeon.

The moment I blinked, the once slow world became uncontrollably faster. Baek Do-hyun and Lee Jae-young reaching out for Se-hyeon with startled eyes was the last thing seen in the tidal wave.

“It’s already too late!”

“brother!!”

Cold water touched my back. In addition, the field of vision was soon covered with black water and foam. There were two people missing. Sehyeon and Fan, like this.