Chapter 70
Helkor.
One of the Administrators of the Underworld's 5th floor and the gatekeeper of Area B-24.
For a moment, he thought he'd misheard.
He stood there blankly in confusion until the skeleton knight before him repeated himself.
"I'll say it again."
"I've captured Lee Suhyeok, the intruder who entered the Underworld."
"We need to descend immediately, so step aside."
He had captured the intruder?
That made no sense.
Of course it didn't.
Even they had only just received the report and rushed here.
And Lee Suhyeok wasn't some ordinary Player.
He was someone who had drawn the attention of exalted beings known as Constellations.
A mere Player who had even killed a Constellation's subordinate.
...In that short amount of time, he arrived before us and captured him too?
Helkor hadn't heard anything about another Administrator being dispatched.
Just who was this skeleton knight?
Only then did he properly look at the human in the knight's grasp.
The face matched the image they'd just received.
Lee Suhyeok.
Which meant this really was an Administrator dispatched from below.
And that appearance...
He resembles the Death Knight who was annihilated.
At the very least, he must've come from somewhere below the 2nd floor.
Helkor lowered the bladed foreleg he'd been holding at the knight's neck.
Then he bowed immediately.
"...My apologies."
"I wasn't informed that an Administrator had been dispatched from below."
The assistant Administrators and deceased souls nearby looked startled when Helkor suddenly bowed.
"L-Lord Helkor. Even so, shouldn't we verify his identity before letting him through-"
"Silence!"
Helkor snapped around.
"Unless you want your head removed right here...."
The Underworld had only one absolute rule.
Never disobey a superior, no matter what.
The moment Helkor spoke, a terrifying aura spread throughout the area.
His shoulders began trembling.
The murderous pressure was so overwhelming it couldn't even be compared to their own.
If he really came from the lower floors, his Rank must be extremely high.
And this is probably only a fraction of it....
If I resist him here... I-I'll die....
Then Kim Jeonghyeon came running over with an awkward smile.
He had served as the labor foreman of the 5th floor's second sector.
Why is that bastard naturally standing behind him too?
"I'm taking him with me."
Helkor froze.
"W-Why would you take a mere deceased soul with you?"
"Surely the dead are forbidden from leaving this flo-"
"Are you questioning an order given by Him?"
The skeleton knight's voice turned cold.
"Someone like you?"
Rrrrrrumble!
The murderous pressure intensified.
Helkor's knees hit the ground.
It felt as though his very existence might be erased.
One wrong word here...
And not only Helkor, but everyone present could die.
"N-No, that wasn't what I meant."
"My apologies...."
"I'll open the gate immediately...."
Creeeak.
The door opened.
And until it closed again, no one moved.
BOOM.
Step. Step.
They were now walking through an Administrator passage.
Kim Jeonghyeon followed behind and looked around in disbelief.
"Hah... I seriously can't believe I actually got through there."
He stared at Suhyeok.
"What the hell have you been doing outside?"
"I've never even heard of an item like that."
It was the same kind of Replica Doll Suhyeok had used to deceive Choi Wonseok on the 11th floor.
Ordinary detection abilities had almost no chance of seeing through it.
[The consumed ‘Replica Doll (Unique)’ disappears.]
At that moment, Leon revealed himself and sighed in relief.
"Phew. My heart nearly stopped back there, nya."
He grinned.
"Still, watching them panic was satisfying, nya. Puhaha!"
Kim Jeonghyeon blinked.
"You're showing yourself openly now?"
Leon shrugged.
"I only need to hide from the others, nya."
Kim Jeonghyeon abruptly stopped.
His lips trembled as he pointed at Leon sitting on Suhyeok's shoulder.
"H-How are you here...?"
"Since when have you been traveling with him?"
"No, forget that. Is this even possible...?"
Leon scoffed.
"You're dead and you're still this curious, nya."
"If you don't know something, just live without knowing it, nya!"
He sighed dramatically.
"Seriously. No wonder you died. Pathetic, nya."
LMAOOOOOOOO
That's way too harsh lol
Rough translation) Dead bastards died because they couldn't read the room
I-Is that really trueee?
The scary part is he didn't say a single thing that's actually wrong ;;
After the situation settled down, Kim Jeonghyeon spoke with a confident expression.
"From what I've overheard from the Administrators, we should reach the entrance to the 4th floor soon."
He smirked.
"Well, if we do the same thing as before, getting through the 4th floor should be eas-"
"No."
Suhyeok cut him off.
"That won't work."
[Trait ‘Clown (A)’ deactivates.]
[Player Lee Suhyeok returns to his original appearance.]
"W-Why did you suddenly undo the disguise?"
Kim Jeonghyeon's eyes widened.
"Lee Suhyeok, we're still inside the passage!"
"We're almost at the 4th floor...!"
Leon snapped.
"Shut up already, nya!"
"You think he's doing this without thinking, nya?"
"Honestly, dead people panic over everything, nya!"
Kim Jeonghyeon stopped.
He exhaled shortly, rubbed his face, and calmed himself.
"...Haa."
"Sorry."
"I got too worked up."
He looked at Suhyeok.
"So is there a reason you had to drop the disguise?"
The Underworld wasn't some sloppy place.
Deceiving their identity might have worked once on the 5th floor.
But there was no guarantee it would keep working the deeper they went.
If anything, they would notice much faster.
And more importantly...
Messages Suhyeok had been ignoring continued appearing.
[The Constellations of the Underworld murmur in displeasure at your actions.]
[‘Father of the Wealthy Night’ informs you that the first time was amusing, but there will not be a second.]
[‘God of Death’ advises you to be careful.]
...Hades.
I thought he'd left the channel.
So he really was watching everything.
