My Game Friends Were Foreigners in Mythology

16 – How to get a Fallen Lady (34213412)

Dive…

“Crazy…Where are we?”

I woke up in an unfamiliar place with a puzzled expression on my face.

I must have passed out after reading the ‘Necronomicon’ and getting all my SAN readings sucked?

Throubling, floundering.

“What is it?”

As I tried to get up from the floor, I felt a strange feeling of floating and expressed my doubts.

A feeling of being resistant to all actions.

Feels like drowning in water and struggling.

“What is it?”

Growl, growl.

“Isn’t that real water?!”

When I came to my senses, I was really swimming in the water.

But how do you get your voice out and how do you breathe?

And here…

“What is this place?”

A strange temple made up of incomprehensible structures.

A place that looked flat turned out to be sharp when I looked closely, and a place I thought was ground turned out to be empty when I stepped on it.

I don’t know if my eyes are wrong or if this space is wrong, but it was a space that far surpassed my brain.

And a long stretch of road as if to come to this place.

“… Ha.”

The back is blocked, the only way forward.

I don’t know what’s there, but I had no choice but to go there.

Turb.

“Damn…”

It was difficult to even move a single step because of how high the water pressure was.

It’s fortunate that my physical ability is at the level of Class A. If I had been Class F like before, I would have exploded to death.

But even class A doesn’t have gills. How do I really breathe?

Turb, tumble.

With every step I took, I could see how DX Gonball got stronger every time he practiced 100x gravity.

It’s so hard, even if you don’t want to be strong, you’ve become stronger.

– Sasasak.

Awkward.

At that moment, the sound of something moving suddenly came from the side.

I couldn’t figure out what it was because I was barely able to see in the dim light.

However, it was clear that the size was ignorantly large enough to make such a clear sound even underwater.

‘…’

Feeling a moment of fear, I walked forward at a faster pace than before.

The stone floor of the temple was the first feeling in my life.

No, maybe this is the right stone.

In the dark like that, I walked endlessly.

Endlessly, just endlessly.

[SAN figures 140 / 165]

Did it take about 10 hours?

No, maybe not even an hour.

Damn it, the whole concept of time has been shattered.

How long is this temple?

I tried to strengthen my body with SAN values, but strangely, I couldn’t use SAN values like magic.

In other words, I couldn’t do anything right now, and all I could do was walk until the end of this long hallway.

When the hell does this hallway end?

* * *

“…”

Leaning on the pillars of the temple, I began to rest in a daze.

A week feels like a long walk.

[SAN figures 30 / 165]

Now my mind can’t stand it anymore.

You need to take a little break to replenish your SAN level.

Where the hell is this?

Any backroom? I don’t even know why I’m here

Even here, with the dimly permeating light, I could barely grasp the direction, but I couldn’t see the things around me properly.

In other words, it meant that there was a high possibility of going insane slowly because there was no stimulation coming into the brain at all.

‘Let’s rest for now.’

I think it would be better to stop thinking about it and take a break.

Anyway, the SAN level is so low that I keep having negative thoughts.

You’ll feel better if you take a deep breath.

* * *

f*ck! f*ck!

“f*ck!”

Another long time passed, and I slapped my face with all my might.

My prediction was correct. As time passed, the mind became tired of the numbness.

That’s why I tried to stimulate him somehow by forcibly popping his face.

“Huh…Huh…”

It is still worth enduring.

I just need to give the stimulation myself, and if it’s hard, I just need to take a break.

It’s just that it’s been a month already, and it’s strange that I don’t have any appetite at all.

“…”

Turb, tumble.

So I walked again.

Walking down an eternal corridor with no end in sight.

* * *

“Heo-eok, hee-eok, hee-eok!!”

Tadadadadak!!

Ignoring my legs screaming for me to stop, I ran for an hour.

Pug, pug!

Even so, he did not stop stimulating his body.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

I used to be able to count roughly, but now I’ve given up counting.

My wish is only one.

‘When the f*ck ends!!!’

Please just let this hallway end.

– Sasasak.

Again.

Another rustling sound came from the side.

I thought it was something huge before, but it wasn’t.

That thing was huge beyond my imagination.

I’ve been running like this, but I keep hearing a flinching sound.

So that means it’s something longer than the distance I’ve run so far.

“f*ck, yes…”

Turb.

I stopped in my seat with resignation, looked around and said.

You never know when it will end.

‘It’s a gamble.’

At the same time, with all my might, I ran out of the corridor and ran towards the sound.

As I expected, that leads to the end of this hallway.

If you ride this, you’ll know how far the corridor is.

Tatta, clatter, clatter!

After about 30 seconds of running, I can already see something.

Then I met eyes with ‘it’.

Eyes that glow brightly in the dark, like the suckers of a kraken, clinging to something long

“f*ck you!”

I punched him in the eye and smashed it.

[SAN number 1 / 170]

As soon as it was destroyed, a bright light poured out from beyond.

As if bewitched by the bright light I hadn’t seen in a long time, I headed inside.

And.

“When will Hyunseong log in…”

In there was someone sitting in front of a computer playing a familiar RPG game.

Hair flowing like seaweed and a color that reminds me of a hikikomori.

“I don’t think I’m good at games these days…Are you tired of me?”

‘Hyeonseong?’

If it’s Hyeonseong…That’s my name?

And that voice was also a voice I heard a lot on voice chat.

It’s good, but it’s a timid voice that drains the listener’s energy.

‘Cthulhu?’

This was obviously Cthulhu.

But why is Cthulhu here?

“Huh?”

Then, as if she noticed me, she turned the chair and looked at me.

“I was wondering why Rruye kept getting wider…”

She got up from her chair and slowly approached me.

“How did the human mind get in here? Did you even read the Necronomicon?”

Cthulhu touched his chin and pondered.

“No, Nyarlathotep must have the Necronomicon… Then how?”

After thinking for a moment, she shrugged her shoulders and put her hand on my head.

“It doesn’t matter. If I just break it down properly, nothing will happen…?”

She put her hand on my head and looked at my face and was startled.

“Ehh?! Tongue, why is Hyeonseong…”

She then covered her face and screamed at her.

“I-I’m so ugly right now… Now, wait a minute…”

Turning her body around, Cthulhu’s clothes disintegrated, and her clothes changed into some kind of dress.

It was a dress that felt like a princess in the deep sea.

“Well, but…How did you get here?”

Slowly.

[SAN figures 170 / 170]

As she lightly stroked my hair, my SAN level, which had worn down to the point of madness, rose all at once.

The authority that Nyarlathotep had accomplished. Could Cthulhu have done that?

“Cthulhu…Where is this?”

“…You can’t believe…You didn’t know where this place was…?”

“I didn’t want to come here.”

When I came to my senses, I was finally able to talk to Cthulhu.

“You can’t…You, have you met Alathotep?”

“I’m living with you right now…”

“This foxy b*tch…”

Cthulhu bit his fingernails with an annoyed look on his face.

“So, then he… Gave you the Necronomicon to read…?”

“If it’s the Necronomicon…”

A long time ago, before I came here, Nyarlathotep gave me a book.

After reading that, I’m here…Ah.

“No way?”

“You, Lord, have you read the phrase that the dead Cthulhu waits dreaming in his lair at R’lyeh…?”

Come to think of it, I think I read it last.

“Damn…Nyarlathotep, if you want to tell this b*tch, you’ll have to tell him straight…”

Said Cthulhu, spreading his fingers.

“Now, listen carefully. When you read that passage from the Necronomicon, your mind will move to this place…”

Is the mind shifting?

Is that why I never felt hungry and was able to breathe underwater?

“There’s only one way for me to get out…It’s only for me…”

Cthulhu said with tears in his eyes.

“Chi, I don’t want to let you go after meeting you for the first time… But I’ll let you go because you worked hard…”

Finally, she closed my eyes and said.

“Goodbye…”

That voice was somehow very vague.

* * *

“Heo Eok!”

“Woke up.”

Nyarlathotep, who was sitting on my lap, said.

Her expression was tinged with some subtle concern, but at the same time, there was a sense of relief.

But why is she holding a stopwatch in her hand?

“It happened in exactly 5 days and 7 hours. I thought it would be easy to figure out how to escape… Well, in about 5 days, it’s just a matter of time.”

5 Days?

“I was locked there…For about five years.”

“…What?”

Nyarlathotep said with an uncharacteristically puzzled expression.

And I could see that her surprised expression made her look dumber than I thought.

“Cthulhu, you crazy b*tch…”

After muttering that, she swallowed her saliva and hugged me tightly.

“Why is this?”

“I’m sorry. I didn’t expect time to pass so slowly there… I guess I didn’t know because the last time I went there was 1,000 years ago.”

“…”

To be honest, I have no idea.

Strangely, it was because the time there felt like a dream.

In my dream, it just felt like someone else’s story, whether it was a year or 10 years.

Is it because only the mind moves? It was just a bit of a long dream for me.

If this felt like reality, I’d be mad at you by now.

More than that…

“How many days have passed?”

“Five days.”

5 Days have passed…You mean you left Iris alone for 5 days?!

“Crazy!”

[12:35 P.M]

I saw that it was still lunchtime and hurriedly got out of bed.

Ding-dong.

-I…Is this Kim Hyun-seong’s house…?

At the same time, the doorbell rang.

It was Iris’ voice.