Chapter 15: Echoes of Isolation

– Are You Alone Again?

1.

[Story mode]

The half-demon, the leader of the demonic beasts, had been pierced through the head.

The fish-like head thrashed violently as the story mode was activated.

[Oh no, this can’t be! I haven’t even gathered a hundred concubines yet. How can I die so foolishly?]

Desperately pouring out the female bodies he had stored within, the half-demon struggled to survive.

Even with half of his brain destroyed, he resisted, unwilling to let go of Hae Eung Eung.

‘How pitiful you are.’

Only the instincts ruled by the blood of the half-demon remained in the body,

and that final resistance began.

[Player mode]

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The half-demon started sprinting toward the surface.

In the dim underground prison, he realized the futility of battling Hae Eung Eung

and instinctively attempted to leverage his physical superiority.

She, too, understood the gravity of the situation.

‘If this monster reaches the surface, it will be too much for me to handle.’

The half-demon, who could swallow countless female bodies and effortlessly spit them out without dying even after his brain was destroyed,

was a rare being that defied the natural order, even in a world full of bizarre occurrences.

In this third phase,

if he intended to finish it off, he had to resolve it before escaping the entire underground prison.

‘Do you know? When there is a high tide, there will also be a low tide.’

While the outgoing force is powerful, the incoming finesse is absent,

unlike the half-demon’s half-hearted assault,

the Hae Nam faction’s Hae Nam swordsmanship encompassed both advance and retreat.

One tactic must contain two strategies.

‘The white wave, surging backward.’

Like the white foam hidden in the blue waves,

those who are caught off guard by the natural ambush find themselves in urgent situations, recklessly defying the natural order.

As the caught-off-guard opponent willingly exposes themselves to danger,

the half-demon’s mindless rush toward the surface

put him in a new risk.

Cling!

Lanterns were set up at intervals in the dark corridor.

As they broke, the oil from the half-demon’s body spilled.

With each charge, the second, third, and fourth lanterns hanging in the corridor shattered.

[Please stop!!!!]

[I’m so scared!!!!]

[At this rate, we’ll all die!!!]

The half-demon’s trophies, realizing the situation too late,

screamed in unison.

– Please stop!!

– We’re really scared!!

– Why do you keep digging into the half-demon’s body and hanging on to it while it runs?! What the heck!!!

– Truly a first-person view of a mute swordsman.

– This is like a horror movie. T_T Unnie, please save us!

The viewers, united in heart and mind with the trophies,

wailed, but the heartless Hae Eung Eung, indifferent to their feelings,

leaped off the half-demon’s body and quickly dashed toward the stairway entrance.

Finally, escape!!

– Wow, the mute swordsman is running away.

– Mute swordsman, you’re now expelled from the manly club.

– Even a man can’t hang onto something like that;;

– Even a man is still a person.

– Uh-oh, something’s chasing me!

<Dongbangjigwajung has donated 10,000 won!>

Pursuit!!! Run away!!!

A biological whip stretched out hastily toward her as she climbed the stairs.

Hae Eung Eung, who was upside down from the ceiling above the stairway entrance, looked down at the whip leading to the surface beyond the entrance.

In her hand was a torch already hanging at the stairway entrance.

Whoosh!

The fire ignited along the oil, spreading flames all over the half-demon’s arm.

The painful screams did not cease.

The cries of countless women echoed, repeatedly assaulting the eardrums.

[Ahhhhhhhhh!!]

[Kyaaaaaaaaaah!!]

[Aaaaaaaahhh!]

A hell of humanity unfolded before their eyes.

A massive arm made of female bodies succumbed to the flames.

The half-demon, with the upper body of a fish, struggled as it frantically pushed against the ground to rise to the surface.

Just a little further.

If they could reach the channel opening inside the sewer,

they could extinguish this hellish fire by merely submerging themselves.

Such hope.

Such struggles.

Such futility.

Hae Eung Eung looked down coldly and raised her sword.

Thrust!

[Noooooo!!]

The half-demon’s body was fixed to the ground.

The desperate struggle, faced with the glimmer of survival, ended only when it finally ceased to breathe.

– The boss of the monster purge three consecutive times was incredibly substantial up to phase three.

– It seems we can throw away the mute swordsman mk2; mk1 is definitely not going down.

– Isn’t this almost a final boss-level battle based on other difficulty standards?

– Ox.

– As an expert in easy mode clearances, the monster leader seems stronger than the final boss.

The viewers raised their glasses in celebration, but—

One thing remained.

2.

[Story mode]

The half-demon was dead.

However, there were survivors in the underground prison.

As the giant half-demon rushed out, the long, collapsed, and overturned corridor revealed a woman calling for help beyond the bent and widely spread prison bars.

[Please save me.]

[I don’t want to die like this.]

[Please.]

The woman, pleading, had her legs pinned under the fallen debris, and her elbow was twisted in a direction it shouldn’t have been.

【Interaction Options】

[Regarding the woman’s plea for rescue, you…]

1. Feed her the half-demon’s blood. (Woman survives)

2. Who are you? (Reveals true identity)

3. (Bestow mercy through death.)

In the underground passage, filth caught fire on the ground.

As smoke thickly spread, even the pillars and ceilings made ominous noises.

Carrying the woman, there was no way to escape.

– The hidden NPC must be saved, no matter what.

– If I feed her blood, will she become a monster sister?

– Will a giant also appear?

– Finally, the madness of the giant-worshipping cult. lol

– If I reveal her true identity, I might learn the backstory. – The executioner didn’t even reveal their true identity; will I do that?

– It’s crossing the line to go through all that trouble just to kill her.

– Who else would come this far if not the mute swordsman?

– If the head of the team doesn’t see it, no one will.

Despite the uproar of the viewers, Hae Eung Eung had to make a decision.

Would she let the woman live as a half-demon, or let her die as a human?

‘I also had to make a decision for the defective products of the poison king.’

Women who had lost their innate powers and health,

addicted to poison, even having their appearances ruined.

Recalling that solemn feeling,

Hae Eung Eung made the same decision.

[(Bestow mercy through death.)]

As she aimed her sword, the woman’s eyes shook violently.

For a moment of hesitation,

there was a determined will behind a single tear.

[At least let me go without pain.]

The woman’s wish was granted.

As she severed the neck, something caught her eye.

A leg pinned under the debris.

A thin line, like an umbilical cord, extended from there.

That line led to the monster leader above ground.

‘She was no longer human.’

She had taken many women for herself.

But she had never been loved by anyone.

The secret of the monster leader.

That was the woman trapped in the prison.

Had she corrupted someone who was originally human?

Or had she created her ideal type using the trophies she had corrupted?

Or was the monster leader a being created by a woman who had become a half-demon?

The truth could not be known.

She had erased the chance to know the truth with her own hands.

‘After all that has happened, am I alone again?’

Feeling loneliness, Hae Eung Eung.

The chat window, which she could not see, was burning fiercely like the underground prison.

But what value could there be in something invisible?

Still, it wasn’t entirely a futile act.

At least, there would be no more suffering half-demons or trophy women in the blood-soaked sewers.

[Field Boss Monster Leader Defeated]

[Challenge Achievements]

[Defeat the boss before a higher entity is born. (Achieved)]

[Complete both the sweep and defeat in one attempt. (Achieved)]

[Sweep Rank: SSS]

[Defeat Rank: SSS]

[Challenge Rank: SS]

[Overall Rank: 8★/3★ (+500%)]

[MORE THAN PERFECT]

[The base difficulty of the next field increases by one level.]

The time when her heart was heavier than her body had ended.

The woman who had resolutely accepted death.

The half-demon, who had rampaged to the end even with a destroyed brain.

‘I can now understand the resolve of the tutorial field boss executioner.’

If the blood of a monster can create such a brutal disaster,

then this ominous blood should not exist in this world.

At this moment,

for the first time, she vowed.

To kill all the monsters that exist in this game.

And to free all those cursed beings who bore that blood through death.

– Please, let’s see the story together!!

– If you’re going to make a grave, don’t kill her in the first place!!

– I killed her, you murderer! How can you not save even one person?

– So cold…

– Am I feeling déjà vu from the first stream, or is it just me?

Instead of bodies burned to ash,

a grave made from the ashes placed in the blade-shaped grave.

Silently overlooking the grave for about five minutes.

– RIP

– Press X to pay your respects.

– XXXXXXXXXX

– (Not a pause screen)

– Look at the rapid X clicks. lol

– How can I stand this when the screen won’t change?

– Please, the next field, please, the next field, please, the next field.

– (Frustrated emoticon) (Frustrated emoticon) (Frustrated emoticon)

– (Flame emoticon) (Flame emoticon) (Flame emoticon)

– (Snoring emoticon) (Snoring emoticon) (Snoring emoticon)

– I knew it. That pop-up window for the public certification is showing up, so it must be installing. There’s no other explanation.

– Oh

– What nonsense. lol

Once was enough for the evil deed.

There’s no way I would fall for the same trick twice, thought the viewers, trying to hide their anxiety.

In response to their patience and prayers, the mute swordsman acted.

Ending the game.]

Mute Swordsman has ended the broadcast.]

Instead of the blood-soaked sewers now reduced to ashes,

3800 viewers were thrown into the vastness of space.

– I feel like I’m going crazy.

– Is this the timing for the broadcast end? This is too much!

Hey, you wicked person!!!

– I’ll hold my breath until the head of the team opens the door.

– Do you see that floating corpse? That’s the one who held his breath after the first broadcast.

– This is really infuriating.

– Other broadcasts at least change the ES settings, but we’re stuck in space again. lol

– The most infuriating ending space for the field boss selection. – Can someone email me how to change the settings? lol – I emailed three days ago to be a chat manager, but they still haven’t read it…

– Teacher, you’re the mute swordsman, not the illiterate swordsman, please read the email!

– Our teacher is not the mute swordsman, but the massacre swordsman. Please speak correctly!

– Massacre Swordsman lololololol

– lolololololol

– It’s funny, but I’m angry.

– Even if you ignore me, please just press the email!

The viewers’ frustrating cries

still lacked the power to reach the mute swordsman today.