Past Life Returner

Chapter 309

It wasn’t just because of the sound. Yeon-Hee could feel all the murderous intentions toward her from a distance. She was locked up in a prison made of such things. Her corps was buzzing that day too.

“Let’s assume that Odin has eliminated the malice of the System. Then, where did the quest come from? Is it from the System itself? ‘She is not just a danger to everyone. Her presence is the worst of the worst.’ That is what the quest says.”

“There are rumors that Odin’s death revived the evil of the System. Then, this must be the Seven Demon King’s ploy to help the monsters. They are giving rise to an internal conflict. Do you remember?”

“But the reward is unbelievable…”

“It’s awesome, but we can’t covet them. What about the battle?”

“Authorities will judge that giving off one or two boundaries to us wouldn’t mean much. That’s why this has been such a mess. Let’s get in.”

“I agree. Where would be the best place?”

“What do you mean where? Of course, somewhere that guarantees a challenger box. I hope we are not too late.”

People talked about getting rewards rather than stories of dead soldiers in battles. Yeon-Hee had become more sensitive, and she hadn’t eaten and slept much for the past five days. She remained still while looking at the bodies of the Baclans that lay next to her feet after she had slaughtered them.

She listened to the sound of conversations coming from all directions, then began to shake her head vigorously. When she stopped, there was only darkness in her vision.

A frustrating message popped up.

[Remaining time (Revival): 24 days 20 hours 58 minutes 48 seconds]

Yeon-Hee’s heart rate suddenly began to go through the roof, and it didn’t settle down. If she was a civilian, then her blood pressure would have made her explode. When she opened her eyes, her vision was slightly blurred. It was a sign of an emergency.

From then on, Yeon-Hee scampered differently than usual. She stopped for a moment and saw the pieces of monster leather burning on the ground. It was the leftover traces from the people who had had a secret conversation. She noticed that the information written on the leather could be only handled by executives who had the authority to control troops and supplies. Yeon-Hee kicked the fire, and the pieces soared into the air in the embers.

「Item: ??? *8

Stored Location: ??? Golden Eagle Attack Squad, Sione ??? 」

「Item: Insignia (???) *1, ??? (Protection B) *6 , Insignia Barrier C *2

Stored Location: Squad 5 ??? ???? ???? 」

「Item: ??? (Holy Spring B) *1, Insignia (Speed-up B) *1 , Insignia ??? *6

Stored Location: ??? Amanda Attack Squad, Sda[1] Kentaro 」

However, it wasn’t those things that made her heart beat hard. It was because she saw the things on the bottom side of the paper that had not yet burned away in flames.

「Act One, Stage One: Not confirmed.

- I couldn’t find anyone who started the Stage of Advent with her. Also, no one was aware of her activities of the time. There is no data to infer Mary’s identity in the outside world.

Act One, Stage Two: She worked as the leader of the central area. It was confirmed that she attacked the last floor of the seven-floor spire by herself. She was known for being friendly and had a good reputation.

Act One, Final Stage: It was confirmed that she went mad during the stage unification process within the preparation period. Two women, who used to be Mary’s close personnels from Act One, Stage Two, died. Her whereabouts were unknown after ?adness, but she resumed her activities at the end of the Final Stage. However, she wasn’t involved in group work.

- The code name ‘Mary’ would arise at this time.

Act Two, Stage One: She was greatly involved at the end of the Light Pillar attack quest. It was assumed that she secured the insignia Light Pillar during this period. She stopped intervening in group affairs starting from then on.

Act Two, Stage Two: She resumed activities from the middle of Act Two. Since then, she hasn’t secluded herself from society like she did during Act Two, Stage One, and began to reign as the group’s top leader.

- Top leader: A big shot who controlled the guild leader and commanders without securing the guild leader's position.

Act Two, Stage Three: She prioritized completing collection quests instead of corps quests when the Graf Clan invaded the group. Therefore, a lot of damage and complaints occurred inside the guild, but there was no impact on her authority.

- It was confirmed that she has lived with minimal sleep and meals since then.

Act Two, Stage Four: Mary herself believes that she has achieved the most growth during this period. It was always Mary and her attack squad who completed the B-class dungeon quest , ‘Evaporation of Cities.’

- Mary’s attack squad is being operated as a last resort. The guild leader was changed from time to time due to many reasons. Most of them died during battles or in a dungeon.

- People from Revolucion( 30) who joined her corps in Act Two, Stage Five started calling her ‘Evil’ from this point.

- Two big incidents happened that led her to burst into anger. All were confirmed to have happened because they had violated Mary’s orders. No similar cases have occurred since then.

Act Two, Stage Five: Odin joined the group. It was also confirmed that the two defeated the necromancer during this period.

- Odin was presumed to have a superior ability that allowed him to jump over stages.

- Many circumstances were discovered and confirmed that Mary is Odin’s girl.

Basic considerations:

! The general commanders, whose main attributes are related to fire, should be armed with mental protection insignias or high-quality items that have similar characteristics.

! They should have the additional ability to confront Mary’s pet, the King of Kciphos Gundrak. I have included extra information about the pet.

! Mary’s skill ‘Mind Control’ is not effective from a distance, so all attacks must be carried out from afar.

! The best time to attack her is when she is out of her mind.

Attack Scenario 1 (Restraint):

There is no way to escape Mary from chasing us. Attack formation should always spread out like the spokes of a wheel. Under the assumption that Mary will target one attack squad, every team must have at least one A-class Restraint insignia. If the restraint is successful, then we should accept the sacrifice of the targeted squad and attack her while maximizing explosive damage.

Probability of success - very low.

Attack Scenario 2 (Mental):

This method takes advantage of the characteristics that attack power increases as psychotic attacks form a coalition. By organizing a separate team of the mental squad in the corps, Mary’s…」

Yeon-Hee ran while holding the leather in her hands.

***

The owner of the leather was one of the executives, and he was in charge of approximately ten thousand Awakened. In fact, he was prepared, but all his insignias did was buy him a little time. He could never escape from Yeon-Hee no matter how far he ran away inside the boundary.

When Yeon-Hee almost caught up with him, he was screaming that she had gone mad. However, the noise vanished once Yeon-Hee got on his back. Her dagger thrust made him powerless, and his shield quickly lost its defense power every time she stabbed him. He tried every means to shake her off, but the more he tried, the more the force from Yeon-Hee’s feet strangled him into submission.

In the end, he was left with bare skin without a protective barrier. There was no one around to help him. This was also because he had messed up the surroundings by overusing the same skills over and over.

“Please…” he begged.

He probably wanted to ask her to spare his life, but her answer was endless stabbing. She was furious and had lost her mind.

Sqwelp! Shunk! Plorkk!

She didn’t stop even when he stopped breathing. When it became impossible to hack him more… When his head fell off, Yeon-Hee looked around for an object to vent her anger. Even at that time, the roar of Kciphos was ringing in the distance. I had no intention of stopping Yeon-Hee. Well... I couldn’t anyway. Her ragged breathing sounded like crying to me.

Yeon-Hee turned toward the boundary on the seventh floor where the Light Pillar was located. It was where executives had to gather after each battle. Yeon-Hee ran precariously as she almost touched the magic traps that were installed all over the boundary multiple times.

It was right before she was about to enter the boundary on the seventh floor. She detected a large-scale movement. The noise from the troops stationed in the first floor and the executives who entered the seventh floor buzzed in Yeon-Hee’s ears extremely loudly. The sounds that she had ignored roared in her ears as her Sense had increased.

The methods that people came up to kill her were all different, but the goals were all the same. Whatever choice she made, I was definitely on Yeon-Hee’s side. Even if it was an abnormal and brutal choice.

However, Yeon-Hee stopped running all of a sudden. The sound of her short breath gradually turned into a painful groan. My view became dark again as she had wrapped her hands around her face. It was then that her heartbeat slowed down. It still pounded faster than usual, but it was back to normal compared to the previous pace.

The Second Evil once rampaged wildly. When she went wild, it took a long time for her to calm down. The information written on the monster leather stated the optimal time for the attack was when she lost her mind, but that was wrong. The guy who wrote it was not well acknowledged with the mental system.

Anyway, Yeon-Hee calmed down in a few minutes. Then, she muttered while looking at her bloodstained hands.

“No, no, no. No… Not here…”

She bumped into many people as she went down the first floor, but there was no battle. The Awakened were on their way to the seventh floor to attend a convocation that the executives held, so there was no specific order to confront her.

There were some commanders who seemed to have worked on the attack scenarios on the leather. Those with rebellious eyes and those who were waiting for orders from higher-ups came up to tie Yeon-Hee up while pretending like they were reporting the situation. However, they often made way for her with their blackened eyes.

Yeon-Hee soon arrived at the boundary of the first floor, where the Kciphos was massacring people. The Awakened there seemed to have no way out of Kciphos’s rampage as they had just finished the fierce battle against the Baclans.

There were people who participated in the battle as emergency power and didn’t actually fight the Kciphos. In other words, they had been recruited separately to kill Yeon-Hee, and they were the ones confronting her pet.

They found Yeon-Hee and shouted, “Are you going to just stand there and watch?”

The Kciphos returned to Yeon-Hee and had many wounds. She held her injured pet and headed in the same direction, toward the outside of the boundary. No one stopped her, and she stopped for a moment while looking at the distant scene after stepping out.

The cloud of dust was dense in the air which reminded me of the sand wind from afar. The Baclans who had left the battlefield were getting ready for the next war. There was not much time left for them.

[Until the first weakening: 23 hours 35 minutes 42 seconds]

When that time passed, their original attack power would begin to weaken. The Baclans also knew that their power wouldn’t be enough to confront Awakened, so it was expected that monsters would launch an all-out attack soon before the time limit ended.

In the midst of the dust, I saw a human shape that the Baclans couldn’t see. She was small compared to them, but tall for a human woman. I was able to see her clearly as Yeon-Hee had focused her attention on that person.

It was Lee Soo-Ah, and she looked the same as before. However, neither the equipment she was wearing nor the language she was wearing was the same. Yeon-Hee looked at her and the endless Baclan Corps then turned her head back.

There were many Awakened looking at Yeon-Hee even on the boundary of the first floor. If Yeon-Hee was absent, there was no guarantee that her corps would succeed in defending the boundary. It was true that Yeon-Hee’s vacancy meant a lot to her group.

She started to step toward the Baclan Corps as if she had finished debating. To be exact, she was moving as far away from the boundary as possible. However, she didn’t seem to have the intention to fight against the Baclans. She was able to erase her presence from the opponents’ eyes, but she didn’t do that. That was also why I had designated her as my Life Vessel.

1. Not a typo ?