Damn System

Episode 9

Chapter 2 Promotion Test (3)

When I hurriedly turned my head, another monster and Ethan were entangled.

Ethan’s neck was bitten and his side was ripped off.

Red blood dripped down and soaked the ground.

“That idiot?!”

You get hit so easily?

Scary to question, the strength that was pulling my arm loosened.

The monster I was dealing with jumped at me.

“Suck!”

I swung the tongue wrapped around my left arm right after he hit the ground.

“Kiaag!”

The monster’s body floated into the air.

When he swung his arm as hard as he could, he was able to strike the guy who was entangled with Ethan.

With a dull blow, two monsters and a person rolled like pins hit by a bowling ball.

I immediately switched my weapon to a longsword and cut out the monster’s tongue.

The moment black blood spurted down my face, I was already running forward.

By that time, the weapon in my hand had changed back to a spear, and I threw it at the monster’s back as it stood up with its back to me.

At about the same time, a monster with its tongue cut out pounced on me.

Once again, concentration was heightened and the whole sight began to slow down.

I used my left forearm to block the guy’s claws from below.

Then, the movement of swinging the longsword taken out of the storage box was as smooth as flowing water.

Chew-!

The monster’s chest cracked and black blood spurted out.

I didn’t stop there, I turned my body using the foot in front of me as a pivot.

When the sword in your hand draws horizontally.

wickedness.

With a terrifying sound, the monster’s head floated into the air.

Black blood gushed out like a fountain from the section where the head had been severed.

“Successfully eliminated the enemy… … .」

I was still moving when the message came up.

Towards the guy who was pierced by a spear and crawling on the floor.

My sword rushed towards his head as the black rain fell.

The moment the tainted mana began to be absorbed again, the blade pierced the hard skull.

my body collapsed

“There is tainted magic within the body. Check the chaos level.”

“The mental contamination begins.”

「Purify the contaminated magic power.」

After struggling in pain in the corpses of monsters, I hear a voice in my head again.

“Huh, huh… … .”

After absorbing two rounds of mana, I fell limp to the floor.

The absorption process is too painful.

In this way, it is inevitable to fight against the majority.

There must be magic that is absorbed at every break while fighting.

“This bastard is really… … .”

What game did you make like this?

I couldn’t control the bubbling anger.

Although I’ve never had a good feeling about the system before.

Even so, this was odd.

It’s not my feelings, but I feel like pretending to be mine.

It was uncomfortable, disgusting, and my teeth trembled.

I tried to ignore the voices in my head.

Perhaps because he had experienced it once, unlike before, he was able to somehow suppress his murderous intent.

When I turned my head, I saw Edan covering the wound with his hand.

The first thing I felt when I saw him was annoyance.

‘What if I can’t compete with even one?’

With that skill, moving together would only be a burden.

I answered the question I had been thinking before the monster appeared.

It is better to move alone than to carry luggage.

I was a little worried that I would encounter multiple monsters.

‘Let’s jump out when it seems dangerous.’

I clicked my tongue and opened the status window. Chaos levels rose again.

It just absorbed 62 and 57 mana, bringing the total mana to 311.33.

In that situation, the chaos level is around 38%.

The proportion of contaminated magic power in the total magic power is the chaos value.

‘What if this gets higher?’

Even when I’m only in my 30s, I can’t control my emotions like this.

What will happen if the number goes higher?

While staring at the status window, I gnashed my teeth and took out the cleaning agent.

‘for a moment.’

But this time, instead of eating right away, I had no choice but to hesitate.

There are only 3 cleansers.

Since you’ve already used one, there’s only one left after you eat it now.

‘Does it cleanse everything when you eat it once?’

Or is there a fixed number to purify?

Whatever the answer is, it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to eat now.

I don’t know how many more to hunt in the future.

Contaminated magic power will continue to increase.

Besides, I don’t know where to get this.

“shop.”

I muttered with a heart that I wanted to. It was obviously at the end of the tutorial.

「Shop service is not available on the beta server.」

But this damn system f*cked me like it was supposed to.

Looking back, this cleanser is a necessity.

If the mission continues in the future and you kill those monsters, the contaminated magic will inevitably come with you.

It is a structure that naturally requires a purifying agent.

However, this system doesn’t even tell you how to save it.

The anger that had been building up since earlier was wriggling.

It was as if I was moving to get out of my control without missing this opportunity.

It really makes no sense, but this is the most accurate.

“Sigh… … .”

Forced to suppress my anger, I glared at the white orb in my hand.

The rage, which was impatient to go on a rampage, sharpened my reason.

Originally, I had a bit of an angry temperament, but it wasn’t this extreme.

These mood swings are not normal.

Do not conform to the abnormal voices in your head.

Power went into the hand holding the cleanser.

‘Not now, let’s eat when more piles up.’

Having come to a conclusion after much thought, I gnashed my teeth and got up from my seat.

Ethan also groaned and stood up.

I retrieved the weapons without giving him a glance.

Then, he took out the clothes he had put in the locker and tore them into lengths.

It was because of the wound on his arm while blocking the monster’s claws earlier.

It wasn’t deep, but the flesh was torn quite long and was bleeding.

Continuous bleeding becomes a burden in a situation where you don’t know when the mission will end.

“Tsk.”

I wrapped a piece of clothing around my arm to compress the wound and checked the mission window.

And as soon as he saw the number in front of his eyes, he crumpled his face.

‘6/13.’

The number went up.

Since I’ve caught three, that means the other players have caught the other three.

If the three were caught by the same person, the record would be the same.

I need to move faster.

Suddenly, I was dumbfounded at the current situation where I had to chase the monster with my feet.

How the hell did it get to this point?

I let out a deep sigh, tightened my grip on the spear, and started walking again.

But before I could even take a few steps, I had to stop.

It was because of the popularity felt from behind.

While checking the mission window, it was Ethan who tore his clothes and put pressure on the wound like me.

‘Where is this bastard going to get a free ride?’

I’m trying hard to suppress the murderous intent and rage that soars because of the contaminated magical power.

Because of that, I was in a state of being sensitive as much as my nerves would become sensitive.

As Ethan followed me as if it were natural, the fever surged.

At once, I pointed the spear at him.

Shocked, Edan, who shuddered, stopped walking.

His neck groaned loudly.

“Don’t follow me.”

Even without words, it was enough to convey the meaning.

As evidence of that, Ethan urgently started pouring out English.

It meant something like asking him to take him with him and not abandoning him.

The trembling body clearly showed the fear he felt.

Unlike me, he couldn’t deal with even a single monster properly.

There is no law that the current situation is scary.

I don’t know how he caught the polar bear with that skill.

I raised my stop while frowning.

In a situation where I have to take care of my life and reach the top spot, I can’t take someone who doesn’t help.

After removing Edan, I could feel the presence of him tenaciously following me.

‘This bastard is real.’

The anger that succeeded in getting out of my control even with the slightest provocation was expressed in action.

I threw the spear at Ethan, who was three or four steps away.

The spear stick dug into his feet trembled.

“Huh!”

I took one step at a time, keeping my eyes on Ethan, who fell backwards.

“Don’t follow me.”

The sound of his breathing, as if he had been tuned in to his emotions, was unfamiliar.

I pulled out the spear stuck in the ground.

The urge to kill right here rises.

In order not to conform to it, I had to suppress myself like crazy.

Leaving Ethan behind, the steps became rough.

I’m going to have to get away from that little bastard somehow.

Then there would be nothing to provoke this heavy anger.

“under!”

But I couldn’t get very far and stopped.

It’s because I suddenly had doubts.

Was it really my judgment that I had just shaken off Ethan?

You can’t deal with a single monster, and you’re going to throw away a lump of injured baggage?

Just looking at the words that popped into my head, this seems natural.

Why are you so nervous and in a bad mood?

I clenched my teeth and closed my eyes, taking a deep breath.

Then at some point

“aaa!”

Unable to control the anger that was brewing, I screamed.

Puck, as he swung his fist, the tree next to him broke with a crackling sound.

I was watching the magic sway in my hands.

The color was darker than usual. If it looks like black mixed with red instead of just red, is it my imagination?

The reason I turned around while watching it was because of repulsion.

I didn’t want to be easily swayed by this tainted magical power.

I took a quick step, and it wasn’t long before I saw Ethan.

At first, I couldn’t even go that far.

Ethan, who had been wiping away tears while clutching at the spear as it was in the state of steaming his buttocks, found me and jumped up quickly.

Watching a guy bigger than me sniffle made me feel annoyed again.

“I’m going back, really… … .”

It feels like the swearing has increased since this game started.

I waved my hand, frowning.

Following the tears, Ethan started making strange noises such as whoops, whoops, whoops.

Even so, the way he came towards me seemed pitiful and pitiful.

I let out a long sigh and tied the cloth around his neck and side again.

* * *

After accompanying Edan, there was only one monster found.

Of course it was me who killed him.

My score was 4 in total, and the mission count had gone up to 11/13.

‘I shouldn’t have someone who caught more than me.’

The system said that compensation was differentially distributed.

It is natural to give the most to the 1st place.

The system made sure that differential payments were made according to grades from the tutorial.

If you do it wrong, you may lose the first place.

I went around diligently, grinding my teeth with a nervous heart.

But it never got any faster.

Because of the continued bleeding, Edan’s physical strength dropped rapidly.

At some point, I couldn’t even walk properly, so I had to carry it.

“What am I doing now… … .”

I was dumbfounded to see myself carrying an injured person on my back in this situation.

I should have just thrown it away. Even the voice that lingers in my head whispers to just kill Ethan.

I don’t know why you’re taking on this high school student.

“Sorry… … .”

Ethan apologized intermittently while breathing heavily.

Fortunately or unfortunately, each time it happened, the will to kill was broken.

Of course, I couldn’t help the boiling anger.

“Ah-oh!”

That time when I took out my anger on the trees around me and moved on.

I caught the faint sound and changed direction.

As I quickly ran in the direction from which the sound came, I saw another monster.

The newly discovered monster was hanging out in front of a white wall.

‘What is that again?’

Looking at the rugged rocks on the outside of the wall, it looks like the entrance to a cave.

Then, feeling my presence, the monster turned around and opened its mouth at once and let out a scream.

“Kyaaagh!”

I frowned as I quickly scanned the monster.

A large hairy animal and a human corpse were piled next to the monster.

Looking closely, there were long bloodstains all around.

Just like dragging a corpse.

‘why?’

I wanted something strange, but I didn’t have time to think deeply.

That belligerent monster won’t wait for me to finish my thoughts.

As soon as I put Ethan down, the monster kicked the ground.

I also ran towards him.

As the distance narrowed to a certain extent, the monster opened its mouth wide.

Now, it’s to the point where I’m not taken aback by the patterns of the guys sticking out their tongues first.

I boldly grabbed the monster’s tongue and closed the distance.

Eventually, when the guy came within range of the spear.

A window appeared in the hand that was not holding anything.

A cool sneer formed on my lips.

If you know that the blade is dangerous, you can hide it and stab it.

hooked

“Keeek!”

The monster couldn’t avoid the spear stuck in its stomach.

However, as if he would not be easily defeated, he pushed through while holding on to the spearhead.

“This strong baby!”

With a spear inserted in his abdomen, the guy who got close to him kicked his leg.

A heavy blow pierced my side.

Right, there was the sound of something breaking.

It looks like the ribs are out.

“Kuk!”

The moment the body was pushed aside, the neck was seized.

I put magic on my right hand and lifted his arm.

Wooddeuk.

Bone shattered in one fell swoop through the black fur.

Suddenly, my feet lifted off the ground and I felt a sense of floating.

He wrapped his tongue around my leg and lifted it up.

The legs go up and the head naturally falls down.

I hit the back of my head on the ground, and my body flew right through the air.

The direction I flew towards was the white wall where the monster had been standing just a moment ago.

just a few seconds

Meanwhile, the monster turned around and was running.

While floating in the air, I took out the longsword left in the storage box.

And the moment your back touches the white wall.

「I found the hidden mission paper.」

「The characteristic ???? is detected.」

“The entry conditions have been met.”

「Enter the Hidden Mission.」

「Purifying agent (×5) will be provided.」

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