Chapter 155
Episode 155: Shadow of Insu Village (4)
Hundreds and thousands of fish are looking at me all at once from the terrible hole in the river bottom.
[There were terrible things waiting for you at the place you reached after wandering around Insu Village. It is clearly a place where there was a river, but there is no water. Your magical talents quickly allow you to realize what has happened to this place. Some surreal effect must have caused all the water flowing here to disappear. But that doesn’t matter anymore. The countless corpses you see stimulate your fear.]
Stop, don’t look! You monsters! Don’t look at me! Don’t come any closer! I do not know! I am different from you! It wasn’t me who killed you!
[System: Attempts to resist delirium with mental strength stat. Mental strength test… … . failure.]
It itches under the skin. The skin seems to be torn and scales will sprout. My vision is shaking. itch. My skin itches. Raising my fingernails, I scratch my skin. Ah, it itches. Fishy smell. My body is full of strange things.
Ah ah ah ah ah-
I scream, but foam pours out of my mouth. It’s not visible. dizzy. Feet move. Where are we going? Where should I go now? It’s bubbling. My legs feel weak.
The world spins. Wet mud seeping into the mask. Did you fall? I am crawling in the mud.
itch. My arm itches. The skin peels off and the scales hidden beneath the skin are revealed. ah. My eyes are spinning round and round. A strange-looking village head and village people come to mind.
The words they said are pouring out of my mouth.
“Ph’nglui Mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh Wgah’nagl Fhtagn.”
[System: Due to the effect of ‘Insanity – Fish Phobia’, ‘Status Abnormality – Amnesia’ occurs.]
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I woke up in the wrong place.
He was crouching with his body twisted strangely. My neck and back hurt.
“This place… … where are you?”
The feeling of stone on my back.
An unfamiliar building in front of you.
‘It doesn’t seem like the village head’s house.’
Is it the yard of another house somewhere?
My memories are blurry.
‘Have you lost your memory again?’
Torn hemp clothes. Torn isn’t the problem. My clothes are a mess, soaked in mud and blood.
Additionally, I felt tremendous pain and wounds on both arms. What is this wound?
Ugh, you lost a fingernail, right?
I don’t know if I should say it’s fortunate, but this time I can roughly remember what I saw right before I lost my memory.
“Okay… … . “Well, it’s not a very helpful memory.”
I guess he wandered around the village scratching me with his own hands?
“If I do well, I might actually die during the next madness.”
It’s a good thing. Why did you go all the way down the river to enjoy great wealth and fame?
But it was such a sudden development, wasn’t it?
damn. I messed up because I messed up my feet clumsily.
[! Time limit: The village feast begins in (2) days. !]
A message window appears as if urging me on.
Not even a day has passed yet.
It’s difficult to gauge the passage of time because of the fog, but it doesn’t seem like that much time has passed since I lost consciousness.
Food deuk-
“what?”
A strange-looking bright red creature flies towards my shoulder.
A large snout and a pair of wings run across the bead-like round body.
“Red.”
Red gave the order to follow the villager.
“Why did you come back?”
“Kkiiii… … .”
Red responded with a small sob.
“What did I do? No, don’t do it that way, just share your memories.”
To be honest, perhaps because I made it roughly, my intelligence is not very high. Red, sitting on my shoulder, approaches my ear and opens his mouth.
Grumbling-
Three tentacles flowing out from Red’s mouth.
They penetrate into my ears.
“Uhm. “I don’t feel good.”
As soon as Red’s consciousness is connected, a taste of metal arises in his mouth.
Muscles twitching as if electrocuted, strange euphoria, vision rotating.
I see what Red witnessed.
Villagers climbing the mountain making strange, weeping noises.
Monsters of bizarre shapes that look like they are covered in human skin.
They are a completely different race from the people who were piling up the mud around here.
“So where did you go?”
They entered a wooden house in the mountains.
It is not an ordinary building. It is large and has many rooms. In addition, strangely shaped decorations and otherworldly patterns were placed around the house. Structure conscious of magical effects.
This is a shrine.
“You followed along without missing anything. so?”
There was a prison inside the shrine.
Inside the prison, straw is piled up, and a person can be seen chained. A total of seven people are in prison.
Two guards with disparate appearances guard the prison.
“Was there anything else? “What about my artifact?”
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There was a large door again in the center of the building.
A huge, terrible symbol painted all over the door. And the faint sound of waves coming from beyond the door.
According to the orders I received in advance, I tried to approach the door… … .
“I did it? “What, why did you stop?”
The owner calls. I have to go back.
“Ah, you came back because I called you. You did everything you could, even though you were scratching yourself during the madness. time is? Oh, it’s only been an hour?”
Fortunately, it hasn’t been that long.
one more. Red captured important information on the way back.
“Did you look down at the view of the village on your way to me? Good job. Around here… … . Ugh, is it really in the mountains?”
Although it was information I had already confirmed, I thought it might be a hallucination or delusion.
But that’s not the case. This is not the sea.
‘It’s in the mountains… … .’
To judge the overall structure, it is a village located in a typical Baesan Imsu (mountain behind, water in front) location.
In addition to the dried up rivers around here, there appears to be a river in the distance, but there is no sea.
Dragon King, deep sea, ship. I thought it would be an ocean-themed quest based on the keywords that appear, but strangely enough, it turns out to be inland.
“Then where on earth are we?”
Is it Paju?
“damn. “Mystery and horror are all things I like.”
I feel frustrated if it takes too long.
When will this quest end?
Now I wish someone could explain it to me.
‘But the good news is… … .’
Unlike me, who was wandering around in the wrong place, Red was doing his best.
“Red, you worked hard. “You have done a lot.”
“Kkiyi!”
Red is happy and makes a loud noise.
“Yeah, but I don’t just go around being stupid either.”
There is something I saw.
“So, let’s check what you found later, and then let’s get a guide.”
I kissed Red’s wings again and gave him a new command.
Food deuk.
Red is flying again.
“You’re better at your job than I thought. Should I extend its lifespan and use it for many purposes?”
Red, who flew over the village and wandered around for a few times, soon found the person I told him about.
Unlike the villagers who smeared their houses with mud out of exhaustion, there was a dirty old man leaning against a nearby wall. Obviously, drinking is taboo during a party, but people are swaying because they are drunk.
‘It was inconvenient to attract people because it was in a prominent location.’
Red landed on the floor next to the old man.
At the right time, I activated the magic targeting Red.
[Small fantasy]
[fascination]
I created a soju bottle by covering Red’s body with an illusion.
“Ugh… … ? Alcohol… … ?”
An old man picking up a red tooth with a dazed expression.
“Why is there a soju bottle here… … ?”
is it so. Drink it all up.
“Huh?!”
Instead of soju, Red’s body goes down the old man’s throat.
“Ugh. Ugh… … ”
The old man’s eyes turn bright red. And then he walks around in a zombie-like posture.
After dragging him to a place where no one could see him, I approached the old man.
“Young Master. “I would like to ask you something.”
‘I’m a bit of a mess, though.’
Masks, mud, and even blood.
Even though I look grotesque to anyone who sees me now, the old man still looked at me with bright red eyes.
He has a hazy expression, as if he is hallucinating. Now I am set up to look the most ideal and desirable appearance that the old man thinks.
“Similarity… … “A nobleman?”
“yes. “Where am I?”
“Yeah… … . “It’s Insu Village.”
“Ugh. Where is Insu Village? “Is this the place to dig?”
“Paju… … . “It’s in Eoryong-ri.”
“Eoryong-ri?”
Where is it again?
I scooped up some information from my memory, which had a stat of 30 Intelligence and had holes here and there.
“what?”
I don’t remember much information about Eoryong-ri. It was also lost along with other information on this quest.
However, I was able to remember where Eoryong-ri was located.
Because I could think of all the other place names in Paju. There is only one part with a hole.
But the location of this hole is… … .
“Surely, this is beyond the Great Wall?”
Northwest of Chopyeong Island.
So, it is a no-entry area that can only be reached by crossing the Imjin River and the Great Wall.
How did you get here?
“Why am I here?”
The old man hesitated for a moment, not understanding the meaning of my words. His red eyes twirled for a moment.
“You asked the wrong question. “What does Yusa do?”
“If I tell you that, I will die…” … .”
You’re severely brainwashed. I spoke again while sending magical energy to Red, who entered the old man’s body.
『I want to talk about quicksand. This isn’t a secret leak. Just talking to myself. You are talking to yourself.』
“I suddenly want to talk about quicksand. This isn’t a secret leak. Just talking to myself. I’m talking to myself… … .”
The old man repeated what I said with a blank expression and continued.
“… … There are two quicksands. One is the baby infants that will be sacrificed. The real Yusa comes in to make a wish to the Dragon King. You idiots. “I didn’t even know it was a lie.”
It’s a wish. I don’t think Kim Shinhwa of the past would have wanted that.
“Tell me more.”
“This time, after being introduced by Yongsu, a shaman wearing a mask came to us, saying he would do similar work. He was a guy wearing a strange mask with four eyes. “He brought seven people as living sacrifices, saying they were baby quicksand.”
who? Are you saying I slaughtered seven live people as sacrifices?
“seven… … .”
Are these the people Red found earlier?
No matter how much Kim Shin-hwa did in the past, I don’t think he would have captured and imprisoned an innocent civilian. I’d better check further.
“Who rules this town?”
“The thing that rules this town is… … . What rules this town… … .”
The old man’s face turns pale.
It’s a dramatic change. It was as if the drunkenness that had filled the old man’s face and the magic I had cast had all disappeared. The old man cups his face with his trembling hands.
“The thing that rules this village, the thing that rules this town, the thing that rules this town, the thing that rules this town… … . Heh, heh… … . Hehehe… … .”
An old man convulsing and rolling his eyes.
“Ugh, hey old man, calm down.”
No, it would be useless to say this.
“calm down. Take a breath. Nothing happened. No one bothers you.』
“Ji, calm down. Soo, take a breath… … . No one, no one bothers me. You can’t kill me. my son honey… … . iced coffee… … . “It won’t bother anyone.”
I don’t know what it is, but it seems to have a deep story.
I feel sorry for the old man, but I don’t want to know that story. He was probably eaten by those monsters or became a sacrifice.
“Say it again. The name of the thing that rules this village.』
“What rules this village… … Poetry, God… … . Dragon King of the Yellow Sea… … .”
“Dragon King?”
“Ba, father of the seas, great twin of the deep… … .”
Jjiiiing-
A sudden headache. To have a headache.
The old man ended his sentence with a look of despair.
“Daegon (大鯤).”
no. no.
‘It’s not Daegon, it’s a different name, isn’t it?’
Like a spell that has become a dialect, that is a distorted name.
I remember.
The correct pronunciation is… … .
“[Lord of Cloudy Waters]. Dagon (????????????).”
fantasy,
