Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 3:
Chapter 3- Level Up!
“Ha . This dungeon is a real dungeon?
He thought it was a slang, but it didn’t seem like it .
His head throbbed, so he pressed his hand onto his temple .
Woojin let out a sigh then he sorted through the message in front of his eyes .
<This dungeon has already been captured . The basic monsters will be summoned . >
It was a sufficiently shocking situation, but Woojin wasn’t shocked . Instead, he felt a feeling of familiarity .
“Isn’t this too similar to the Planet Alphen?”
Woojin had fought fiercely to survive in that place . The planet of Alphen was none other than a game world . No . Should he characterize it as a new world with a game setting?
“Did earth change? Or is it only like this for me?”
Woojin puzzled over it, but he couldn’t come up with an answer . He just wanted to take a subway train yet he had entered a dungeon . By the look of it, earth must have gone through some kind of change in the past 5 years .
“Let’s go back out first . ”
If he can’t ride the subway, then he’ll just ride the bus . As Woojin tried to head back, an invisible barrier barred his way .
<You do not have the Return Stone . >
“Huh . Jeez . ”
Woojin scratched the back of his head . He had no idea what the Return Stone looked liked, so he was in a bind .
“I guess it was locked for a reason . ”
His curiosity made him open this place . He wanted to head back, but now he was complete stuck . He had no choice, but to find the thing called Return Stone to escape this place .
“Let’s see . ”
He had lost his magic . He wasn’t sure why, but his trained body was still the same . Moreover, he had over 20 years of survival experience .
He looked through an out of business store, and he was able to find a coat hanger .
Ggee-reeek .
He easily took out the pole from the coat hanger, which he made into a simple club . However, he was disappointed .
“This is too light . ”
He looked around the adjacent store . In the middle of the mess, there was a hammer .
Boo-oong . Boong . (TLN: sfx swinging hammer)
“This might be useful . ”
Woojin took the hammer, then he swung a chair onto the floor . He tore the back of the demolished chair out . After smoothing it over, he was able to make a decent shield that would be able to take a couple hit .
“Should I depart?”
He didn’t know what the Return Stone looked like, but he had been told the basic monsters had been summoned . He wasn’t sure about his level of preparation, so he felt a sense of uncertainty . However, it was a situation where he couldn’t retreat backwards .
He had no choice, but to go forward .
Woojin walked as he relied on the blinking florescent lights . Then he felt a weird sensation coming from the subway’s restroom . It was a sticky sensation as if someone was watching him .
He stealthily lowered his body . He picked up a piece of tile then he threw it .
Che-eng .
It reacted at the sound made by the tile hitting a glass door .
“Koo-rooo . ”
It let out a grotesque shriek . It had a strange appearance, so much so that one wouldn’t think this creature would exist on earth . It looked like a dog, but it possessed large ears like a rabbit .
It was a creature that shouldn’t exist on earth, but Woojin knew this monster well . He had faced off against this monster countless times at the Planet Alphen .
“Drabbit . ”
“Kwaah . ”
The Drabbit ran in as it threateningly revealed its twin fangs . It used its large hind legs, which composed half of its body, to charge by jumping . It was the Drabbit’s specialty, and its only method of attack .
Boom .
As soon as he blocked with his shield, he swung the hammer .
“Ggoo-rook . ”
As he struck the Drabbit, it rolled onto the floor as it let out a scream . Woojin didn’t hesitate . He ran forward to press down on its neck then he used the back of the clawed hammer to pierce it .
When a familiar monster showed up, he didn’t feel much threat from it, but he couldn’t let his guard down . He had to go for the sure kill when he had the chance to kill it .
This was the basic and essential rule one needed to heed in order to survive against a monster .
The Drabbit’s body sagged as it let out a moan akin to a wind escaping . Afterwards, Woojin hurriedly checked his surrounding . The Drabbit had a characteristic where they traveled in a pair .
As expected, another Drabbit jumped out, and it flew toward him with its scary mouth open . The shield he made out of the back of a chair was already broken from the last attack .
Woojin hefted his hammer then he swung it .
Kwa-jik!
“Ggueeeek . ”
The clawed hammer accurately pierced through the Drabbit’s mouth, and it stuck out from the back of its head . He had timed it perfectly as he used an exquisite thrust to execute a counter .
“How come this feels like a deja-vu?”
Woojin remembered the first time he was summoned to the Planet Alphen . He was so shocked and afraid . However, his situation right now was more favorable than before .
“How is it possible for the monsters of Planet Alphen to show up here? Even this dungeon feels out of place . ”
He felt an unknown sense of danger . The feeling felt too familiar to him .
The message that showed up in front of his eyes, and even the monsters starting to emerge were something that wouldn’t have been strange on Planet Alphen . However, this was earth .
The problem was this was a subway station on earth .
“I guess I’ll level up if this continues . ”
This was one of the reason why Woojin was able to survive on Planet Alphen .
That place was like a game world . No, Woojin might have felt this way since he was a human from earth, who was familiar with games .
It might be that world’s law of nature, but it had felt like a game for Woojin . The only difference was that the world wasn’t a virtual reality . It was real .
Levels had existed, and Woojin had developed into a full level Necromancer . He hadn’t reached the end of the road, but he had met the Dimensional Administrator . So he returned to earth without much regret .
He had lost all of the magic he had accumulated, but he hadn’t cared . He thought his abilities wouldn’t be needed on earth where he didn’t have to worry about dying any more .
However, he found himself entered into a dungeon, and he could only desire after his lost abilities . If it was something on par with the Drabbit, then he could face them without feeling any panic . However, if there were stronger monsters here then it might be too dangerous for him .
The most optimal situation was to earn the Return Stone without meeting a stronger monster .
“If this place is similar to Alphen, a monster should have it or it should be emanating a distinct energy . ”
If it was a stone or an item with an ability then its existence itself should let out an energy . He looked over the two monsters, but they didn’t possess any unique mana gem called Bloodstone .
“These **** are worthless . ”
Woojin left the corpses of the Drabbit where he searched them, and he hid himself next to a pillar . He thought it would be great if a nearby monster would come here after smelling the blood . Even if none showed up, he could restart the search after gathering himself .
“Queereek?”
Two Drabbits showed up, and they started circling around the corpse of the dead Drabbits . They looked like dogs, but their sense of smell wasn’t that developed . They used their hearing to locate the location of other beings .
Crack .
Woojin purposefully stepped **** a piece of tile to reveal his existence .
“Qweeeeee!”
The two Drabbits simultaneously ran towards him, and they jumped towards Woojin .
Woojin grasped the hammer, and he performed a baseball swing .
Puh-uk, puk!
The two Drabbit jumped with a time difference between the two . He crushed the Drabbit’s head in succession . Then a message popped up in front of his eyes .
<Level Up!>