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[Hidden Scenario #73 The Heir's Aid]
Category: Hidden
Difficulty: S
Clear Conditions: Aid the Shadow Monarch's heir in saving the Earth of a distant worldline from the apocalypse.
Time limit: 6 months (it will seem as if you were gone for 6 hours to those in this worldline).
Compensation: ??? and 1000000 coins
Failure: Permanent stay in a distant worldline.
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Huh.
Kim Dokja legitimately didn't expect to wake up after a good rest. Only to be welcomed by a Hidden Scenario panel while in his sleeping bag on the filthy dingy floor of a cave he read about in WOS. Yoo Jonghyuk had come to this same exact cave to collect another companion that had been extremely powerful. He needed that companion for the upcoming Main Scenario.
The author of WOS described them as a tall shadowy figure named 'Greed'. WOS however for once didn't describe or explain what happened during the scenario. It had just swapped the point of view to Kim Namwoon, he really didn't like that part. Why not Lee Jihye or Lee Hyunsung??
All Kim Namwoon did during his 6 hours in the book was bully and slaughter a mob of incarnations for not agreeing with his philosophy. In the end of that he nearly died but Greed sweeped them before he almost kicked the bucket finally in that round.
This was the 276th round for Yoo Jonghyuk, but later on in the round he claimed it was a waste of 6 months to only get Greed. Even though Greed was quite useful. However he ultimately got vaporized by a probability storm by the Bureau for 'making the scenarios too easy' shortly after he was introduced.
Dokja however didn't get the scenario right away like Yoo Jonghyuk did in the novel, so he ended up hanging around for a while, eventually falling asleep.
He assumed it must've been some sort of requirement, but all he did was sleep.. Oh well, not to mention he had already warned the company about his departure for 6 hours. It would have been awkward if he had come back with nothing to aid their progression in the scenarios. Han Sooyoung would've cackled so hard she would almost topple over, while Yoo Jonghyuk would call him a fool. Jung Heewon and Lee Jihye would snort as Lee Hyunsung would try and tell him something encouraging laced with military knowledge. Shin Yoosoung and Lee Gilyoung would also be nice about it, excluding the military metaphors. While Yoo Sangah would just softly smile and welcome him back.
Although his departure earlier was nowhere near as smooth as that prediction..
The children had clung onto his legs and spoke in unison.
"We're holding him down, get him!!"
Lee Jihye produced a bat from somewhere and tossed it to Jung Heewon. She snatched it from the air and a crazed glint shone through her eyes as she snapped it on her other open palm. The Judge of Chaos rose it high, blocking the light from the ceiling from his eyes. His eyes shook at the frightening display.
"Batter up you rat bastard."
As it connected with his head he had one thought.
What the hell??!
He couldn't try and keep his ignorance on what his past actions may have been like to affect his companions like this. Dokja learned that his sacrificial plans have traumatized his companions when he had come back after 3 years and gotten drugged after being thrown around a little by them. However they were to save them, they were the only, more like easiest, solutions to those problems. If he hadn't gone inside the Indescribable Distance and made the contract with the Secretive Plotter, then they all would have died!
He sighed as he recalled himself waiting in the same chair they had confined him to after they drugged him the first time they had seen him in 3 years. Thanks to them using the drug on him frequently because of his demon king powers, he had gained a resistance for sedatives. So the moment Yoo Sangah stepped out after keeping watch on him, his eyes snapped open.
He jerked out of the chair and tumbled limply onto the floor of the room. Dokja leapt to his feet and quickly turned his eyes towards the door.
… Good she didn't hear me.
He zoomed to the window and slid it open. He dove out and activated his status, sprouting his luxurious black wings and short stubby horns. His white dimensional coat billowed around him as he flew upwards and hastily made his escape, somehow going unnoticed by his companions until it was too late.
And now he was here, stuffed in his little sleeping bag in a dark dingy cavern with only a Hidden Scenario panel keeping him company.
Dokja grunted as he stood up from his makeshift bed. He read the window with a blank expression and gave a long sigh.
He had no clue at all what could happen in this other worldline. Honestly, he didn't understand why he wanted to embark on this 6 month journey all by his lonesome, but he felt a kind of gravitation pulling him to it.
Dokja grabbed Unbroken Faith off the ground and latched it onto his belt. Then sifted through his pockets to make sure he had everything he needed.
Once he finished preparing he finally looked back to the Hidden Scenario info.
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[Hidden Scenario #73 The Heir's Aid]
Category: Hidden
Difficulty: S
Clear Conditions: Aid the Shadow Monarch's heir in saving the Earth of a distant worldline from the apocalypse.
Time limit: 6 months (it will seem as if you were gone for 6 hours to those in this worldline).
Compensation: ??? and 1000000 coins
Failure: Permanent stay in the distant worldline.
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Dokja spun to the gaping entrance on the side of the cavern he made a camp of, and strode through it.
As he passed he felt the probability shifted violently making him gasp as he staggered and tried to get himself stable on the stone walls. However the tunnel was a lot bigger than its small entrance and he toppled over on the ground with an 'oomph'.
He grumbled grumpily as he pulled himself up and squinted around in the dark. The [Fourth Wall] giggling at his expense, the brat.
Ideally this heir of the 'Shadow Monarch's should be somewhere near here, but all he saw were clusters of glowing blue crystals that actually helped illuminate the area pretty decently.
Maybe if I hang out there, the heir will pass by eventually.
So he waited.
.. Waited.
… And waited.
The only thing that stumbled upon him was a weird human and snake hybrid. He assumed they were Nagas, because he had fought a couple in previous scenarios. Dokja had asked it if it was the heir of a Shadow Monarch but it's only answer was to screech and swing it's axe around like a maniac, so he assumed it wasn't.
… Hopefully it wasn't..
He carved through the corpse and came across another crystal.. This place and it's crystals…
Dokja shook his head to clear the straying thought and observed the gem. It wasn't the same as the other crystals. The blue crystals gave off more energy. While these also had decent energy, but they seemed to be more malleable. These are good for crafting gear it seems.
Occasionally more Nagas would appear, and he would instantly slay them before they spotted him. Eventually he saw a torch light and he slunk behind the crystals and did his best to hide his status.
There were 2 figures that looked human, but he couldn't be for sure, but…
Oh my god.
That's a lot of shadow monsters.
Is this the heir of the Shadow Monarch??
The army of shadows weaved around the figures with the torch like moths to a flame as the light uncovered a horde of Nagas he hadn't been able to see before.
Dokja was glad he had taken care of the other ones so quickly and quietly.
He watched the Nagas eventually realize their imminent defeat to the Shadow monsters and start to attempt a retreat. However not one was spared as they were brutally massacred by the shadows.
He noted how one of the humans looked shell shocked as they openly gaped at what was happening. They also wore some pretty flashy armor, is that made by the monster crystals?
While the other...
The hell?
Dokja did a double take at the remarkably handsome face he had, he swore that jawline could’ve cut diamonds with how sharp it was. His nose looked like it had been sculpted by the gods, needless to say he was attractive enough to slap Yoo Jonghyuk’s cheeks twice. His sun-kissed skin stuck tightly to well-toned muscles on a lithe body.
Without a doubt he was in the main cast of characters in this dimension, protagonist, antagonist, or whatever he was in the story, he had no clue.
He was too caught up in gawking at the raven’s visage, to see the imposing shadow ant looking creature looming over him.
"I've found a lowly rat, my liege!!!"
He yelped as an ant thing that was composed of black and flaming blue tackled him to the floor and seized him by the neck. It hoisted him off the floor in the infamous Yoo Jonghyuk hold. Dokja choked as his mind whirred on how to escape this conundrum he had just run into.
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