Yu Junghyeok wakes up in Chungmuro Station, his sister is sleeping close to him. Hwang Bori, the healer, approaches and examines him.
Hwang Bori : "Well you seems fine, except for your hand..."
Yu Junghyeok : "Is it broken ?"
Hwang Bori : "It might be hard to listen but... It's worse than that. Your bones are shattered into so many pieces, It won't be able to heal."
Kim Namwoon arrives : "Finally awaken ? It's been an entire day !"
Yu Junghyeok, trying to ignore Hwang Bori's words : "Lower your voice, she is asleep."
Kim Namwoon : "Yeah, she is cool. She is a pretty straightforward but... It's kind of nice to do not having to mind what you say."
~What is he talking about ? This guy never filter is words.~ Yu Junghyeok tells himself.
He then turns back to Hwang Bori : "What about her ?"
Hwang Bori : "She is completly unharmed, nothing to worry about that."
~Now that my head is clear, I remember that strange car appearance from before.~ Yu Junghyeok realizes.
Him, back to Kim Namwoon : "And what about the Baseball guy ?"
Kim Namwoon : "What do you think ? He met his constellation in the afterlife ! HahaHa !!"
~Afterlife ? According to the Dokkaebis, most constellations are Mythical Figures. So even if they existed, they are kind of dead right ? I don't know... What exactly is a Constellation in the first place ?~ Yu Junghyeok asks himself.
Lee Hyunsung and Seyna Kim walk up the stairs leading to the Healer's room where all injured people are being treated.
Lee Hyunsung : "Junghyeok ! I heard you were waken up."
Yu Junghyeok notices Lee Hyunsung is now wearing the Baseball guy's cap, he then assumes that it must give some sort of effect exactly like Geumho face masks.
Seyna Kim : "Are you feeling alright ?"
Yu Junghyeok looks around him, now that he found his sister and calmed down. He realizes the friends he made along the way and smiles.
~The apocalypse... It's not that bad after all when we have people around us, I feel like they are family.~ Yu Junghyeok thinks.
[...]
[8 days later]
Our main trio is outside, fighting a three meters tall Gorilla monster whose body is partially covered in metal plates.
Lee Hyunsung's arm grows ten times bigger and lends a powerful hit on the monster.
[skill
[stigma
~This creature is too smart and too big to be correctly provoked by my skill, but if I hit him too, he will for sure focus on me.~ Lee Hyunsung thinks.
[
The recently unbreathable poison fog disappeared four days after the beginning of the Fourth Main Scenario leaving the outside filled with big monsters. Most fighters are now farming coins and leveling up outside when they are not busy killing each others for flags.
Yu Junghyeok sliced his back open from its neck to its tail.
The monster shouts because of the pain : "GrooaAA !!"
Kim Namwoon appears right under it and pierce through its jaw with his enchanted knife, killing it.
[Skill
[Skill
[Skill
[You received 300 coins for killing a Tier 7 Iron Gorilla]
~Nice ! Thinks to my team I can avoid using my powers too much and preserve myself.~ Kim Namwoon thinks.
[
They are now strong enough to kill numerous Tier 8 monsters all alone for 100 coins and to beat the rare Tier 7 monsters outside by teaming up for 300 coins and a lot more through constellation support.
[Some Constellations are impressed by your team spirit]
[You received 400 coins]
[Five Constellations are currently interested by you for the next sponsors selection]
~Supporting Constellation...~ Yu Junghyeok thinks.
Even if they are grinding monsters together, Yu Junghyeok feels a gap growing. From the beggining he's skills were not adapted to a swordman and he felt to uncomfortable fighting with his bare fists. Moreover, Lee Hyunsung and Kim Namwoon both have a Supporting Constellation allowing them to obtain stigmas even more powerful than most skills. Kim Namwoon's Amplification works really great with his aura skill and Lee Hyunsung now has a second stigma, even more powerful than before and he recently obtained a new skill thanks to his attribute evolution.
~I can't even level up some of my skills because they reached level 10 which appears to be the maximum... The only thing I can improve right now are my stats.~ Yu Junghyeok complains in his head.
The three of them decide to take a break at the nearest store in order to find something to eat. Yu Junghyeok goes to the toilets and find it completely destroy. The floor is nowhere to be found and the hole leads to a dark tunnel.
Because of his need to keep up, Yu Junghyeok doesn't tell his teammates and decide to go looking into it the next night.
They safely reach Chungmuro and the night soon begins. Yu Junghyeok stays awake until everyone of his comrades are deep asleep and leaves the station.
Guard : "Yu Junghyeok ? Where are you going this late ?"
Yu Junghyeok : "I'll be right back, don't tell anyone I leaved."
He then runs to the store, avoiding every monsters thanks to a piece of cooked ground rat he kept in his pocket.
[You ate a special dish]
[The Tier 9 Ground rat effect is active :
[Effect duration : 120 minutes]
~The food effect got better when Seyna's skill leveled up~ Yu Junghyeok notices.
He reaches the toilets and jumps into the Tunnel. This one is different from the others since it's not a subway, instead it looks like it was dug by monsters even if it doesn't appears to be any ground rats here.
Yu Junghyeok walks a bit and find himself in a larger underground area. There are spiky rocks everywhere and two giant eggs in the middle of the room.
~What in the world laid that here ?~ Yu Junghyeok asks himself.
Suddenly, the walls begin shaking and it looks like the rocks are moving.
Yu Junghyeok soon realizes the rocks aren't rocks, they are spines. The spines of a large creature, a big lezard-looking monster.
A system message appears in front of him.
[A new Sub Scenario appeared]
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[ SUB SCENARIO :
DIFFICULTY : C
CLEARING CONDITION :
-Kill every
TIME LIMIT : None
REWARD : ???
PENALTY FOR FAILURE : None ]
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NAME : Junghyoek Yu
AGE : 28
COINS : 1000
SUPPORTING CONSTELLATION : None
ATTRIBUTE :
PERSONAL SKILLS :
STIGMA : None
OVERALL STATS :
[Stamina Lvl 15], [Strength Lvl 15],
[Agility Lvl 17], [Mana lvl 1]
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NAME : Namwoon Kim
AGE : 19
COINS : 950
SUPPORTING CONSTELLATION :
ATTRIBUTE :
PERSONAL SKILLS :
STIGMA :
OVERALL STATS :
[Stamina Lvl 14], [Strength Lvl 17],
[Agility Lvl 20], [Mana lvl 12]
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NAME : Hyunsung Lee
AGE : 29
COINS : 1150
SUPPORTING CONSTELLATION :
ATTRIBUTE :
PERSONAL SKILLS :
STIGMA :
OVERALL STATS :
[Stamina Lvl 17], [Strength Lvl 17],
[Agility Lvl 10], [Mana lvl 1]
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