I Became the Companion of the Gods

123 – EP.26 Grave of Dragons -7

Finally, all victory conditions have been gathered.

Thanks to the hidden ordeal’s reward, I realized all the stories so far.

Even the progress of the ordeal that went up at the same time as Alice’s ordeal was over.

Now that the identity of the tagger has been established, the only thing left is to fight against time.

How are the personnel on the other side? Needless to say

Maybe we can only see one person in the central area.

“Haa… ! Ha… !”

As we continued to run toward the central area, there was, of course, only one person waiting for us.

This means that the last remaining seeker had killed Tia and had come to the central area in advance after finishing the process.

It means going head-to-head with the rest of us.

[I really didn’t think of that. The last remaining tag is Leusis, I didn’t think it would be you….]

[Is that so? I felt better because I felt like I ate this properly.]

[That’s great. So can you get out of here now? It’s on cooldown anyway, so you can’t kill us, right?]

[Certainly I can’t kill you right now. But what if I last for 5 minutes?]

[Do you think that makes sense?]

[Yes, that’s enough. If you do this.]

-Beep beep!!

A new alarm is sent to the map you have.

I’ve already heard it twice during the game, and this is the third sound.

It was an alarm that signaled the beginning of a great ordeal.

During the Great Ordeal, even if you touch the tombstone, dragon words will not occur.

In the end, if you want to banish the tagger, you have to break the great ordeal and touch the tombstone.

Or you have to find Tia’s body somewhere and report it.

[If you’re thinking about finding Lady Tia’s body, you’d better give up. It’s already hidden in a place where you can never find it.]

[Are you really going to go until you go?]

[Yes. Because even for my final purpose, I must win this game.]

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Leaving Yongin, who was desperate for victory, for a moment, I looked at the map.

The northern and southern ends were flashing red.

A great ordeal similar to the one we just did before.

If it was the bell tower and the tombkeeper’s office before, this time there is a difference in location between the tomb entrance and the tomb storage.

It was the same content that there was an error in the tomb management device, so it must be repaired by manipulating it at the same time.

It’s not a very difficult ordeal, but there is a penalty that the survivors will be forcibly defeated if you don’t do it quickly.

I can somehow accept this up to this point.

The real problem was that no matter how desperately I ran, I couldn’t reach my destination, operate the device, and come back within 5 minutes.

In the end, it is inevitable that the killer’s kill time will return.

[I can’t do it, I have no choice but to accept a head-to-head match…. Alice.]

[Huh?]

[You go to the southern tomb entrance. I’ll go north And when the great ordeal is over, just run north, okay?]

[Yeah, okay.]

[Okay. Then let’s go.]

Unlike the original, this game does not end even if it becomes a 1v1 situation.

However, the seeker cannot use Great Trial, and the survivor cannot expel the seeker through a meeting.

The 1v1 situation was the only way to finish the ordeal or kill all the survivors.

In that sense, I had no choice but to send Alice south.

If she’s quick, even if I die, I’ll reach the area of ​​the ancient dragon without any problems.

If her stalker says that she is aiming for her, then I, who is near her, will be tried by her ancient dragon.

I’ve never succeeded in the Trial of the Ancient Dragon, but considering the rapid drop in difficulty, a handicap given to a single survivor, it was worth trying.

[Good. Try running away hard!]

As Alice and I split up and started running, the chaser warmed up once and started running without hesitation.

Where the tagger is headed…… Alice is heading south.

As expected, Leusis chases after the rabbit, probably thinking that Alice is more demanding.

Then I can now go to the tomb storage and fix the device, and then run to the ancient dragon’s area as soon as the great ordeal is over.

‘It looks like it’s been using a lot of brains, but it’s not even going anywhere.’

From the moment I received the reward after clearing the hidden ordeal, I thought of all the variables and came up with countermeasures.

It was clearly assumed that he was using the Great Ordeal as he is now to hinder us.

If it was the original game, I would definitely lose, but in this game, I was more confident than anyone else.

***

-Time! It’s time! It’s time! It’s time!

A bell that tells you that the tagger can kill someone after 5 minutes.

I removed my hand from the lever of the device in the storage room.

If you lower the lever in response to the signal from the other side, the great ordeal will end.

However, the fact that Alice, who should have reached the device earlier than me, did not send her signal and did not come, which means that she was attacked by a hunter.

– Beep!

As expected, even though I didn’t manipulate the device, the alarm that the great ordeal was over popped up.

I am the only survivor now.

The fact that I, who was the weakest, survived until the end is funny, but what can I do?

Now that the situation has turned out like this, we have no choice but to do our best until the end….

I jumped out of the warehouse and ran towards the ancient dragon area.

During the ordeal, you will not be attacked by the sorcerer.

Besides, the tagger had to wait another 5 minutes before he could kill me.

It’s no big deal to go to the area of ​​the ancient dragon for 5 minutes.

There is only the headache of having to break through the physical obstacles of the tagger.

“Where are you going in such a hurry?”

“Ugh… ! You came here by using the foggy shortcut.”

In the thick fog that was also installed in the north, Yongin, wearing a mat, slowly appeared.

“Hmm? Did you expect this situation to come?”

“Of course. If you were thinking of leaving me alone, you would have been worried and finished a long time ago. Is not it?”

“You are correct.”

When entering a one-on-one situation, the environment that has been in a forced mute state is released.

Since we know each other’s identities anyway, there’s no point in trying to block the voice.

Anyway, it’s a weird chewy game that didn’t give a damn about the balance, but exquisitely implemented the detailed settings.

“Anyway, for the remaining 5 minutes, I just have to break through your obstruction and go to the place of the final trial.”

“You seem quite confident, right?”

“If you hadn’t been confident, you would have known better that I wouldn’t say these things, right? Miho? ”

“… ….”

Yong-in, who had been talking well until now, shut his mouth at my catch-phrase.

Even then, he raised the corners of his mouth and slowly began to change his appearance.

From Yongin to a beautiful woman with fox ears and a fox tail.

After the complete transformation, the person standing in front of me was Miho, not Leusis.

“Did you even know I was a tagger? West?”

“If it weren’t for the hidden ordeal I discovered by chance, even I would have been fooled.”

“I never thought he would discover the hidden ordeal and even succeed in that short amount of time…. That was something I didn’t expect.”

I think so too.

In a tomb I accidentally found, I accidentally met the soul of a dragon who had gone through the same situation as me, and obtained a reward by shedding tears.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that I wrote all of my fortune today.

“If you don’t mind, may I ask what you got as a reward?”

“It’s not even a huge reward, it’s just a hint.”

“A hint?”

“Yes. I received this as a small hint to tell who the stalker is.”

A long strand of golden tail hair.

With that alone, I immediately knew who the tagger was.

There was no one but Miho who had golden hair.

“It was a simple story. From the first meeting, you pretended to be Leusis and pretended to be dead.”

The real Leusis was probably taken care of by her.

“Everyone touched the tombstone at least once or reported a dead body, but somehow only Leusis didn’t…. If you did, you wouldn’t do it because it would have been known that it was Miho, not Leusis, right? Because even you couldn’t fool the game system.”

“Yes, as you guessed.”

“That’s how you used your hallucination abilities to take care of the survivors without anyone getting caught. In Alice’s eyes, you made it look like you were carrying out the ordeal diligently, and then your main body was killing the survivors. The reason there was no physical or psychological evidence was because of that.”

“Is that the end of Mr. Seo’s reasoning?”

“Yes. You’re not saying you’re wrong, are you?”

“No. There was not a single problem with Seo-Bang’s reasoning. Only….”

“Just?”

“I thought you didn’t know everything about the incident.”

“What… ?”

Miho looks at me with a meaningful smile.

I had been speaking without hesitation until now, but the fox’s smile made me hesitate.

“Seobang-nim, is it really a coincidence that you are the last one left?”

“What? Isn’t that a coincidence?”

“It is not a coincidence. The only thing left is the result of my plan going the way it was.”

“You created this situation?”

“Yes. The incident where Seobang-nim accidentally ran into Linus-sama. Did you think it was a coincidence? But in reality it is different. I sent Linus-sama to the West-sama.”

“Nonsense! I know where I am at that time….”

“Didn’t I tell you before? You mean I can know everything about you wherever you are?”

“Well, then you knew where I was throughout the game. Is this sound?”

“Yes!”

“This crazy… !!”

I thought balance was a problem, but there were players who just had their own hacks installed.

That’s also a positional hack to hear scams in this kind of game… !!

No, there was something more important than that.

“Why the hell? We’re on the same team, so why did you send a red dragon to get me kicked out?!”

“Yes, that is the only way to convince others that Mr. Seo is a definite survivor.”

“For that reason, you team-killed the only team member… ?”

“Is that the only reason? That way, there won’t be an unfortunate incident where you are expelled due to someone’s political quality, right?”

Has my pet fox really gone mad?

That’s not to say there aren’t strategies that sacrifice teammates.

However, that was a method used to give one’s team an advantage, never a strategy used to give the other team an advantage.

However, Miho ended up using it as a word for relentlessly abandoning his teammates only to leave me at the end.

Even if you take an enormous risk.

“So, why did you go so far and leave me for the last time?!”

“…… Mr. West. You did it the other day when you went to meet the sea god, right?”

“What, what?”

“Don’t pretend. Did you think I wouldn’t know? Didn’t you do it with that eagle lady? Mating.”

“Oh… ! Ah… !!”

Miho’s expression is turning cold.

Shadows begin to form around her eyes, and the light that permeates her pupils slowly disappears.

‘Joe, you’re f*cked!’

Since she came back, she had been there as if nothing had happened, so she thought that Miho hadn’t noticed.

But it was different in reality. She knew everything and what she kept on her mind.

The fox’s jealousy, which had been kept in that way, exploded at this very moment.

“You know what? In the game we’re playing right now, there’s nothing set about how the tagger kills the survivors. Since the place is a tomb close to death, killing in any way is acceptable.”

A lascivious expression floated on Miho’s cold face.

Because I was anticipating what Miho’s next line would be, I started getting goosebumps all over my body.

“The reason why I only left Mr. Seo? It’s simple. It is to kill Seo-Bang-nim with great effort for a very long time without anyone interfering. In a way that would satisfy me too♡”

“You, you can’t… !”

“Come to think of it, I think I heard that there is a water dragon that died a long time ago from a fortune teller somewhere here? Then, wouldn’t it be possible to recreate such a death here?”

“hehehe!!”

Fully understanding Miho’s intentions, I hurried past her.

If you waste any more time, you will fall behind in the intermittent act of mating under the terrible nightmare time.

A fortune teller? Because I could never accept a death like that.

I ran faster than the me in my memory who had run so far.

We just need to go a little further like this. I just need to get a little further away… !

“It’s already too late! West!!”

-Time! It’s time! It’s time! It’s time!

With the sound of the death bell, Miho pounced on me from behind.

Even though he ran at the maximum speed he could, he was helplessly captured by Miho’s obsession.

“There is no way to escape from me anymore! Now quietly accept pleasure and death. West… !!”

“aaa!!”

“Isn’t the place just as hot at the right time? Then, let’s try copulation that is as hot and intense as the fireballs around us… !!”

Miho looked at me with an expression full of madness.

Feeling her gaze, I should have shuddered at her, but instead of her trembling, I showed her a different reaction by lifting the corners of her mouth.

Then he quietly opened her mouth and told her one thing.

“…… No, unfortunately that won’t happen.”

“Yes… ?”

“Sorry, but this game ends with my victory.”

“Why are you talking nonsense all of a sudden? Winning by holding on tight like this?”

“I’ll explain from now on. The details of the two factors that caused your defeat.”

Miho still stares at me as I collapse on the floor in disbelief.

Even seeing her like that, I didn’t lose her smile.

“First place. As you said just now, we are located in the area of ​​the Fire Dragon. But the place of my last trial is not here, but in the area of ​​the ancient dragon.”

“If it were the area of ​​the ancient dragon, it would be on the opposite side….”

“Yes, but why did I have to come to the other side, the area of ​​the Fire Dragon? Of course, to entice you!”

“To lure me in? There must be no other survivors besides Mr. Seo?”

“You are right. There are no survivors because they are all dead. But, have you ever thought that the me you are holding right now is a fake?”

“No way?!”

“Yes, you are not the only one using hallucination powers!”

There is one more special system and setting in this game.

That is, it completely nullifies the resistance of all participants.

It was because of that setting that I, who had fire resistance thanks to Cor’s ability, was afraid of the crater and ran away.

In other words, even if I am a nine-tailed fox, who is the strongest in hallucinations, my weak hallucinations work in this play.

Because of this, as soon as I came out of the warehouse, I immediately hallucinated Miho.

The me she sees is fake and the real me…….

“You came down to the central area smoothly and came to the area of ​​the ancient dragon through the diagonal road!”

“That, that… !!”

I was relaying my voice to Miho through the fake me who is currently synchronizing my consciousness.

In front of the tombstone of the ancient dragon, the final destination.

“Why was I quietly talking to you when the 5 minute cooldown was running out? It was only for this moment!”

“You’ve been tricking me… !!”

“This game is originally intended to deceive others. Please don’t be too resentful.”

If possible, I’d like you to forget about mixing with Hresbelg, but Miho’s personality makes him never forget it.

“Anyway, it’s over now, Miho.”

I unsynchronized myself, which was fake, and lightly touched the tombstone of an ancient dragon that was now in front of me.

Then a familiar ancient dragon appeared in front of me.

In the form of a tiny hatchling.

“Good!”

You will never be able to win in the form of an adult, but in the form of a young dragon, even I can win.

And the moment the ordeal is over, the winner of this game will be decided.

It was a really tough and long fight.

Play is meant to be enjoyed, but I never thought it would be this hard…….

Resolving to myself that I will never do this f*cking game again, I face the body of an ancient dragon and prepare for battle.

“I won… !!”

***

The Dragon’s Grave Central.

All participants gathered at the starting point of the game and where everyone gathered for a meeting.

From the one who was killed by the tagger to the one who was banished through the meeting.

And at the center of it all was a young man smiling with his eyes closed as if he was happy to win.

“This, I won….”

“Boss… ….”

“Yuu!!”

Two divine beasts hugging him tightly.

But for some reason, their expressions weren’t the ones greeting the winner.

“Tsk tsk, the game ended a long time ago, but I am still dreaming that I am playing.”

“That means that the result of the game was shocking. What a pitiful bachelor….”

“No matter how immortal a game may be, since you’ve been cheated on until you die, it’s inevitable that you’ll have mental problems.”

Three elder dragons far away from them.

They clicked their tongues at the young man or looked at him with pity.

Instantly, they took their eyes off the young man and looked at the fox girl who was smiling brightly next to him.

“Anyway, I never thought that small, delicate fox would grow up to be such a scary child. She’s unexpected…….”

“I didn’t know that the fox was the culprit behind the bachelor’s misfortune.”

“A love that transcends the original race deserves to be blessed, but one side is too pitiful to bless it like that….”

The ship owner thought he had won by using hallucinations.

However, in reality, even his last strategy was already seen through by Miho, and in the end he suffered a miserable death.

The result of the game is the victory of the tag team. The game crashed due to Miho’s overwhelming one-man show.

Since the end of the play was the current situation…….

A young man who can’t get out of a dream that is different from reality and a nine-tailed fox licking his lips.

It was a tragedy when seen up close, but a comedy when seen from afar.

“Good meal, Mr. Seo… ♡”