Solo. Nam Sagwang Gets Kidnapped(?)
As the morning sun began to rise, two people who had spent a few hours resting in the pitch-black subway tunnel started a simple breakfast.
While munching on a Subway sandwich Seowoon had stored in his subspace, Nam Sagwang asked,
"Is there a reason to move during the day? This map has a lot of terrain surrounded by skyscrapers—walking down main roads makes you an easy target."
"It's the same at night. And we're heading to the mountains, so it doesn't matter."
"The mountains?"
"Yeah. There's somewhere we need to stop by on the way. If you're done eating, let's go."
After passing through one dark tunnel from where they had been, the two emerged into a brighter station and stepped outside, cautiously watching their surroundings.
As they stepped out, a massive baseball stadium came into view, prompting Nam Sagwang to ask,
"What's that place for?"
"It's for a sport called baseball. A game played with a ball. Professional athletes play it, and huge crowds come to watch."
"I saw something similar in an old game once—an arena where warriors fought for their lives. This looks a lot like that."
Seowoon nodded.
"To build a structure for spectators to watch matches, the basic idea is probably the same."
With that, Seowoon sprinted across the road and into the forest beyond the sidewalk.
"This the mountain you were talking about?"
Seeing Nam Sagwang keeping up and asking, Seowoon nodded.
"Once we're in the mountains, we can block the enemy's line of sight. And there's somewhere important here we need to check out."
Nam Sagwang was deeply curious. Why enter the mountains and skip looting the city full of buildings? What was so important here?
They ascended the relatively low mountain quickly using light-footed martial movement techniques, reaching near the top in no time.
"This place… What is it for?"
Nam Sagwang's eyes lit up at the clearing and the buildings that had appeared in the mountain.
"A military base," Seowoon answered briefly as he hurriedly scouted the inside of the base.
After searching for a while, his eyes locked onto the armory.
With a smirk, he ripped open the locked door and stepped inside.
"So these are the guns those Earth players used, huh."
"Guns like these aren't much help."
"Then why come here at all?"
"For this."
With that, Seowoon pulled out Claymore mines from the corner and started stuffing them into his subspace.
"What are those?"
"Put simply—bombs."
"Didn't we already gather plenty of magic explosion scrolls?"
Nam Sagwang recalled how Seowoon had grabbed every magic explosion scroll he'd seen during looting, and looked at him with puzzled eyes.
"To knock out power in an area, the more explosives, the better."
Along with Claymores, Seowoon grabbed every grenade he could find, then headed toward Samoji Park with a lighter heart.
After descending from the mountain and scouting the surroundings for a while, he headed to the Korea Electric Power Corporation's Nam Incheon branch. He planted nearly five explosion scrolls and, as if that wasn't enough, also placed five grenades with their safety pins pulled and taped to hold them in place.
Once the two retreated far enough and watched from a distance, Seowoon's clone calmly walked up to the scrolls.
-BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM!!
The blast reverberated all the way to the rooftops of distant apartment buildings.
"That should cut the power to this whole area," Seowoon said, watching the KEPCO building collapse in a cloud of dust.
Nam Sagwang shook his head.
"That blast will attract every nearby player."
"Which isn't bad. According to the map, there's a buff monster near Munhak Tunnel. If we deal with nearby players, we might be able to take the buff monster too."
"A buff monster, huh…"
"In a situation like this, both boss monsters and buff monsters can heavily affect the game. If we can go for it, we should."
"You plan to wipe out anyone with the same idea tonight?"
"If possible."
-Whoosh! Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!
Just as their conversation ended, three arrows came flying.
The arrows streaked past their noses in rapid succession, and as soon as the volley ended, both turned to look where they had come from.
Far away, they caught a glimpse of a player wielding a bow, swinging like a pendulum between buildings using a rope.
"That guy again," Nam Sagwang groaned, scowling.
Since they first encountered him, the archer had been a constant thorn in their side, attacking from outrageous distances and angles.
"Not now. Wait for nightfall."
Even after blowing up KEPCO, fighting near the site in broad daylight amid all that noise wasn't a wise choice.
"Let's move. If that archer found us, others will too."
With those words, the two leapt over the rooftop railing.
They dashed along the outer walls of buildings as if running on flat ground, heading swiftly toward the nearest subway station.
"Persistent bastard."
The archer, Spider-Man-style, shot alternating cables from his back to swing after them, firing arrows all the while.
"Don't mind him. He won't follow us underground. He can't pull that trick in the subway."
It was Seowoon who first hurled herself down into the underground passage marked "Yeonsu Station."
As expected, once they entered the tunnel where the subway ran and threw on their cloaks of concealment, the presence of the two melted perfectly into the darkness.
-Fwaaah! Tti-ti-ting!
But Seowoon's expectations were completely off.
Just as the two were catching their breath, an arrow carrying an intense blue sphere shot toward them. It struck the wall and exploded into dozens of shards of light, scattering in all directions.
Though shattered into tiny pieces, the light only grew brighter, filling the tunnel with a blue glow.
With their forms inevitably exposed, Seowoon irritably shoved the cloak of concealment back into subspace.
"That bastard!"
Namsagwang charged toward the direction the arrow had come from, and this time, Seowoon didn't stop him.
If the enemy had pursued them this far, fully aware it was a two-on-one situation, then they absolutely had to kill him.
'Did he think we were weak?'
Entering this place with just a bow, under a low ceiling no less, was practically a suicide mission.
As the enemy drew his bow tightly beside the stairs leading upward, Namsagwang charged at him, with Seowoon close behind. That's when Seowoon caught sight of a faintly visible cord trailing behind the enemy.
It looked like he was deliberately sticking close to the stairwell wall to hide it.
'Would Crown really push in a 2-on-1?'
As that thought flashed across her mind, Seowoon shouted,
"Fall back!"
At the same moment, a golden-glowing arrow shot from the enemy's hand.
Namsagwang hesitated briefly at Seowoon's command.
Given his reflexes, he could have retreated in time. But he was certain he could finally kill the guy who'd been annoying them nonstop.
That certainty became a fatal mistake.
Instead of backing off, he drew his blade, aiming to cut down both the golden arrow and the enemy—but the arrow split into five midair and came down on him like a trap.
Though he slashed at them with his aura-imbued blade, the golden net of arrows didn't break.
And Seowoon saw it.
As the golden net wrapped around Namsagwang, the cord attached to the enemy's back also began to glow with a golden light.
The moment she rushed in at full speed, stretching out her hand to stop them, the enemy and Namsagwang vanished in a dazzling burst of golden light.
Seowoon couldn't even begin to think of chasing after them as the two vanished like beams of light.
-Ding! You have been captured by an irresistible arrow. You cannot resist until transport is complete.
Along with that notification, Namsagwang was dragged away at a ridiculous speed, completely dumbfounded.
The only silver lining was that even the guy dragging him didn't seem able to attack during the process.
'Where the hell is he taking me?'
Just as Seowoon was about to chase after them and burst out of the station, the stairs split clean in half like an earthquake had struck, flipping the ground.
Seowoon swiftly retreated, eyes narrowing.
'Earth Quake.'
A 6th-circle spell—not all that impressive on its own. But the timing was the real problem.
To attack right at this moment… that was no coincidence.
From behind the broken stairs and escalator, a short robed man ran at her, using the wall as a foothold, and Seowoon charged to meet him.
-Whooosh!
A pillar of fire erupted from the ground, blocking her vision, but Seowoon trusted her body to push through it. A flaming boulder came crashing down like a meteor.
-Boom!
Seowoon shattered the rock with a hand wrapped in aura, but her face twisted in frustration.
On the man's shoulders sat two toy-like dolls—one red, one blue—chattering nonstop. Something about them was off.
And not just the dolls—his magic, too, was unlike any mage she had fought before.
'It feels stronger somehow.'
It wasn't just her imagination. The same spells hurt more now than they did when facing a skilled mage like Kichan.
Shaking off the pain in her wrist from smashing the flame rock, Seowoon backed off slightly, brushing her hair back.
Next to one of the massive support pillars, a few strands of her hair naturally drifted down—right as she launched herself at the man to draw his focus.
-Ka-ka-kang!
She traded a few blows with the enemy, who didn't hesitate to clash his staff against her aura-imbued strikes. Seowoon frowned.
She had no idea what that staff was made of, but it remained unscathed even after taking direct hits from her blood-hardened bones charged with aura. That wasn't normal.
Moreover, from just a brief exchange, the man clearly realized that Seowoon's aura only reached her fingertips.
He was precisely using his staff to deflect Seowoon's attacks. His martial ability was far from weak.
'He's focused only on blocking my aura?'
-Boom! Boom! Boom!
As soon as distance opened up between them, gust hammers surged from his staff with waves of mana, tearing apart the interior of the station.
-Fwoooosh!
At the same time, a flame—riding the wind—expanded rapidly and flew toward her.
'His casting speed is weirdly fast.'
It was like she was fighting two mages at once. That's how fast the spells were coming.
As the spreading flames cut off her movement, a bolt of lightning—an Electric Arrow—blazed through the air, leaving behind a trail of afterimages.
-Crackle!
-Swaak!
Out of dozens of arrows, two finally broke through the barrier, grazing Seowoon's shoulder and leg with an electric sting.
-Thud!
Instinctively, Seowoon stepped on her true energy, pushing the psychic energy out of her body, and briefly faced off against the enemy.
He was definitely not an easy opponent.
His knowledge of both magic and martial arts was deep—enough to say,
'A battle mage. That fits perfectly.'
At some point, Seowoon had abandoned magic herself. It might be a matter of preference, but instead of investing coins in magic, she poured them into items that boosted martial arts and stats.
That was far more efficient.
As her proficiency grew, that tendency became even stronger.
By contrast, Kichan leaned more toward magic than martial arts.
No matter what path they chose, as they leveled up, the coins required naturally increased. So Seowoon and Kichan had clearly decided on their own routes.
But the mage before her chased both rabbits—martial arts and magic.
He defended with martial arts when close, focusing on status-affecting spells, and when distant, unleashed relentless offensive magic.
Unable to find a weakness while being worn down in this drawn-out fight, Seowoon's lips twitched into a faint smile.
'Now!'
-Kukung!
At the moment she shouted internally, a heavy vibration resonated and the brightly lit station darkened.
She had once heard that since subway stations could serve as shelters in emergencies, their auxiliary power was very thoroughly managed.
So, clutching a magic scroll, she secretly sent out a clone.
As soon as the clone vanished activating the magic scroll, she pulled out the cloak of concealment from subspace and wrapped it around herself.
With sudden vision cut off and the enemy's energy disappearing, Seowoon habitually activated Carmen's Eyes; green light glowed in the mage's eyes.
-Kakang!
Seowoon suddenly closed in and blocked the mage's attack as he thrust his hand forward, making the mage's blood run cold.
The moment the mage's eyes flared like he'd had enough, Seowoon—who had been right before him—vanished like a ghost.
And right next to him, the enemy reached out a hand.
The mage blocked it with his staff, but a question clouded his eyes.
'Why isn't she using her aura? Has her energy already run out?'
It made no sense. There was no way a martial artist with enough aura to fight would be out of energy already.
At the same time, the fierce energy coming from behind made the mage's hair stand on end.
Turning his body a beat too late to raise his staff, Seowoon's blood-hardened bones had already closed the distance.
-Crunch!
Her hand pierced through his chest, clutching and bursting his heart. Blood trickled from the mage's mouth and nose.
Without a groan until his eyes dimmed forever, the mage's corpse vanished, replaced by a wooden box.
-Ding! Jin Seowoon—Crash (killed with aura). Survivors remaining 139/150.
"What's her connection with the archer? They don't seem like a duo."
If they were a duo, they wouldn't have come at her one-on-one like this—they'd attack as two against two.
But it was suspiciously convenient that he appeared just as Namsagwang was being kidnapped(?) and blocked the way.
'What are you doing? Finish up properly and come back.'
Since no alert popped up, Namsagwang was neither killing nor getting killed at the moment.
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