chapter 20
020. Dormitory Ghost Story
Under a fresh tree, a warm afternoon.
Somewhere down there, the air chilling my spine makes me feel a sense of disconnection.
Squeak-
Kkiik-
A scene that enters the edge of your vision, accompanied by a strange sound.
A woman shaking with her neck hanging from a huge tree.
She turned her head to look, but there was nothing.
‘It’s already starting to show.’
I tried to ignore it and turned my gaze to find the dormitory.
‘It was on the sign, so it must be right here.’
Why can’t I see it?
I look around, but I can’t see anything other than the forest scenery.
The moment I thought that,
The hidden building was revealed as if it had been assimilated into the forest landscape.
There were vines entangled between the old wooden buildings to the point where it was difficult to recognize that they were buildings.
‘Has the tree taken root…? . The building somehow survives.’
Generally, it would be normal to feel creepy, but
Why would I feel creepy in front of my honey pot?
Thinking like that, I approached the door.
‘It’s a sliding door that opens directly from Gakheonheon. It looks old.’
Drurruk-
A door that opens surprisingly smoothly.
I took a deep breath just before stepping into her.
‘It’s a different world from here.’
Mobile dormitory.
This building is actually a kind of dungeon.
There are no actual monsters that can harm the body.
It cuts down on a person’s spirit and makes them see things they shouldn’t see.
‘I’m the one who is the culprit.’
I carefully entered the building.
Unlike the gloomy atmosphere outside, the inside is a wooden building with a cozy atmosphere bathed in warm sunlight.
It is so peaceful that it is inside a dungeon.
‘It’s neat. ‘It’s exactly what I wanted.’
There are a total of 6 rooms.
Of course, according to principle, there is only one room assigned to me.
But what does it matter?
I am the only occupant anyway, and there is no one here to watch over me.
‘In other words, this spacious and neat wooden house came into my possession.’
Although it is shabby, it is still an academy dormitory.
Training facilities and laboratories are also provided.
“I’m not jealous of the special room in Building A.”
I suppressed a rising smile and turned my gaze towards the long hallway.
‘Then let’s evict the tenants who are not moving out.’
A hallway shaped like a long passage.
At the end is a study.
Squeak-
Squeak-
I started walking towards the study.
Irregular noise every time I walk on a wooden floor.
Towards the study
One step.
As we get closer, the atmosphere changes.
Nevertheless, I walked forward without paying any attention.
Continued.
Walk and walk again.
“….”
It’s a long hallway, but it’s about 20 meters at most.
If you have walked this far, you should definitely see the end.
But the study was still at the far end of the hallway.
‘This is a bit novel.’
Besides, it must have been less than 5 minutes since I set foot in the dormitory.
The blue moonlight seen in the window illuminates the hallway.
‘I guess they kicked it out this way.’
A time when the Gadong Dormitory was not a place that only existed for administrative purposes like it does now.
At that time, the ‘ghost story of the mobile dormitory’ was still there, but there must have been students moving in because of the low dormitory fees.
‘No matter how many people move in, it won’t be worth living at all if it has to be like this.’
Ignoring the bizarre phenomena, I continued walking toward the study.
Squeak-
Kkiik-
There is no sound, only the sound of the wooden floor creaking,
The longer I walk, the darker it gets.
—!
At that moment, the groans of a jumbled group of people were heard. A sound that seems to be a mixture of moaning and fear.
“That’s terrible.”
Ignore it and keep moving forward.
Something dark was moving and moving on the wall of the hallway.
Human face.
Painful expressions and terrible movements.
It wasn’t just the wall.
From the ceiling to the floor where my feet stand.
They were mixing, falling and moving irregularly.
‘At that moment, anxiety and fear went up my spine and I ran outside in fear.’
You probably want the same development.
The one who is showing me this scene right now is.
‘f*ck you.’
There is no way.
A student wants to live in a dormitory, but why are you blocking that?
What about students who don’t have money?
Are you growing it outside?
You get out of the house.
‘I’m not sensitive enough to be fooled by pranks like this.’
3 Years of part-time work at a haunted house.
A-X Land Horror Maze is exactly 3.3 Times scarier.
‘No… That part was strangely scary.’
I ignored the black lumps and stepped on them.
No, can I say I stepped on this?
Even if you touch it with your foot, you don’t feel any sensation or sound at all that you’re touching something.
“Isn’t it natural to be welcome?”
Everything I see in this dormitory is just an illusion.
An illusion that cannot cause any harm to my body.
In reality, it may not have even been night, and the fact that the hallway looks long only makes it seem that way.
Even so, no student would want to live in a dormitory like this.
If you think about it, the culprit of this phenomenon must have achieved his own goal.
Tuk-
I stopped walking when my head hit something that looked like a hard wall.
The study seen in the distance has disappeared,
What you see in front of you is the door of the study.
‘We have arrived.’
I had already reached the door of the study.
The culprit that caused the dormitory to look like this lies within.
“And that’s my treasure.”
I grabbed the doorknob of the study and opened it.
It’s just an empty study with nothing to see there.
“It can’t be possible.”
I lightly cut my palm with the dagger I had prepared.
“Turn it off…”
It hurts so bad.
As soon as I came to my senses, I began to see the true appearance of this room.
“I found it, my talent.”
What was there was an open book floating in the air in the exact center of the study.
The pages were turning by themselves as if something was at work.
She is a girl who stands silently in front of him as if she is guarding him.
‘This is a bit creepy.’
That book is the culprit.
A skill book containing skills to create illusions that have no effect in reality.
That book is the power that maintains this dungeon.
‘Without an owner.’
She is a girl who stares at me silently as if telling me not to come closer.
That girl is the owner of that skill book.
No, it is a welcome from the owner.
The real owner would have died long ago.
This girl is simply the image of the owner created by that book.
The myth of Ashter that Seonghyun Lee obtained and the empty skill book I obtained.
Although there are not always skill books in dungeons, skill books with narratives so great that they remain in book form always create dungeons.
‘It’s the same with this guy.’
Just as the narrative of Ashter myth created a dungeon called [Tomb of Myth].
The book in front of me also said that this place was turned into a dungeon.
By the 8th round, Seonghyun Lee had only obtained a total of 8 skill books.
Excluding Ashter and the empty skill book, only 6 remain.
This is one of them.
‘This may be a little different from the others.’
The girl in front of me was the owner.
Of course, she is an ordinary girl who is not a hero or has any great achievements.
This is a dungeon created by that girl’s skill book.
‘So it would have been inevitable that it would remain as a parasite on reality.’
The skill book itself has no name and is torn and tattered.
Lee Seong-hyeon realizes the existence of this skill book in the third episode.
Then ignore the girl and get the skill book.
This is the 4th episode, so of course you already know.
As I approached the skill book, the girl shifted her position and stretched out her hand as if to block it.
“Don’t worry, I have no intention of doing anything.”
It’s an illusion, so there’s no way you’ll understand what I’m saying.
Even though Seonghyun Lee obtained this skill book in the 3rd episode, he does not intend to visit this place again in the next episode.
‘Because it’s copper.’
Of course, the power of the skill obtained through the skill book is the same as the skill of the owner who owned the skill book.
There is no way that this girl, the owner of this book, has great skills.
The reason why her skill book was able to remain.
It is ‘sacrifice’.
The most noble act a human can do.
With that narrative, her story remained in reality.
At a time when there was confusion about the treatment of hunters, an incident in which six academy students were murdered by a C-grade degenerate hunter.
It seems that security at the academy was not the same as it is now in those days.
The girl sacrificed herself by hiding her younger siblings in her dormitory to attract the attention of that C-rank hunter.
If you look at it up to this point, it must have been a noble sacrifice.
In the end, her C-Class Hunter raped and murdered her, and then brutally killed her remaining five children as well.
Of course, the traitor was arrested in an instant.
However, because the location of the body was not revealed until the end, the remains were not recovered.
This is the background to the closure of the operational dormitory and the story behind the creation of the dungeon.
‘Of course, that’s not all.’
No matter how great the sacrifice may be, it cannot be compared to the story of a hero.
The reason her skill book remains like this is because the content of her skill book was an illusion, and she was able to create something resembling a dungeon without actually having the shape of a dungeon.
The girl’s strong resentment,
And it is because of the will to protect the ‘movable dormitory’ where the ashes of his beloved younger siblings are located.
In other words, it is because of the skill book that could not be finished due to the girl’s strong lingering feelings before her death.
‘Even taking that into account, it ended up being an incomplete skill book.’
Now that it has become a dungeon, it is showing absurd illusions, but when you actually get that skill book.
‘D-grade skill [Subtle illusion]. This is what I get.’
At most, the ability to create something like a flower in the palm of your hand.
Lee Seong-hyeon will never come here again.
But why am I trying to get this?
Because I know a way to complete this incomplete skill book.
“Just wait.”
He said, pointing at the girl with his index finger.