I Became an Illegal Cheat User – Chapter 28

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Fortunately, Lim Da-hee, whom I was trying to find, joined first.

Following her, Lee Seo-yeon, Park Ga-ram, Noah, Arthur, and 10 classmates whose names I didn’t know yet joined sequentially.

Like that, 15 people gathered.

The fortification became not just smooth, but the zombies and ghouls couldn’t even climb up at all.

To be precise, since Noah and Arthur joined, my rifle barrel stopped spewing fire.

Thud, thud thud!

A huge blue shield appeared in the middle of the path.

Arthur’s defense skill ‘Heaven’s Fortress’ was thoroughly blocking the path so that monsters couldn’t climb up.

So the monsters, as if going crazy from wanting to chew, tear, and taste us above, fiercely pounded even while throwing their whole bodies.

But as the name ‘Heaven’s Fortress’ suggests, not a single scratch was made.

Whoosh!

They just burned magnificently on the ‘Holy Ground’ skill Noah had placed under the shield.

– Kraaak!

– Kkiek! Kieek!

– Kkigik, kkik!

The monsters screamed in agony as they were engulfed in sacred flames, befitting of having magic energy.

In fact, it might not be that they want to eat us, but they were writhing in pain to put out the flames on their bodies.

Anyway, thanks to Noah and Arthur, we were resting very comfortably.

I checked the main quest during the break and as expected, the quest content was no different from the game.

The only difference was that ‘Random Cheat Usage Tickets’ were included in the rewards.

‘If I clear the quest this time and obtain the Random Cheat Usage Tickets…’

Including the ones I had, it became a total of 6.

In other words, I get a chance to draw one more cheat.

‘Sigh… Should I really save them?’

When I obtained the first cheat ‘Super Accuracy’, I had planned something.

Even when I had a chance to use Random Cheat Usage Tickets, I would use them after saving Select Cheat Usage Tickets.

Because that was more efficient… But now that the chance to actually draw a cheat was coming, I really wanted to use them, making the plan seem meaningless.

…As desire whispered wildly like that.

I rather snickered at the desire in my heart and closed the quest window.

‘I shouldn’t be drinking kimchi soup already.’

If it was when I cleared the quest and the tickets were gathered, I might think, ‘Huh? Should I?’

If I did that now when I just checked the quest, even if I wanted to give in to desire, I couldn’t give in.

‘Let’s try a bit harder.’

Consoling my desire that was quickly disappearing as if embarrassed, I checked the time I had set on my smartwatch.

[Remaining Time: 1 minute 20 seconds]

Confirming that the time was almost up, I got up from the ammunition box I was sitting on.

And I opened the ammunition box and grenade box to fill my tactical vest and grenade belt, preparing to move soon.

The timer on my smartwatch was set generously to 30 minutes to wait for classmates who might still be elsewhere.

But seeing that no one else came even though the remaining time was almost up, it seemed that the kids here were all, as Lee Seo-yeon said she was the last one to enter.

Beep, beep.

[The set timer has ended.]

The wait was over.

Now it was time to move.

“Everyone, gather around.”

At my call, all of them stopped what they were doing and approached, even though they had question marks above their heads.

“I’ll explain how to escape from here now, so listen well.”

As I said that, their expressions became serious.

After confirming that everyone had entered listening mode, I started explaining the strategy for this place that was in my head.

“You all probably know how the Other World appears.”

Since it was common sense whether you were a superhuman or an ordinary person, everyone nodded their heads.

“Still, before getting to the main point, I’ll briefly explain.”

The way the Other World appeared.

It was not like the rift in the mock Other World that suddenly changed, but abnormal phenomena occurred first like glass shattering in mid-air.

With that as a precursor, the dimension slowly splits, and a swirling rift appears and expands in size.

The range of expansion is from a minimum of one village to a maximum of one city.

The rift that has expanded to a certain size remains in the appeared region until the core inside is destroyed.

Then, when the monsters expelled from the other world accumulate and become saturated, the Other World begins to erode reality and discharge them.

As such, this place where we suddenly moved from the mock Other World is not a normal Other World.

“Not a normal Other World… That means…”

Noah, who roughly guessed what I was trying to say, showed a chilling gaze as if facing the evil he hated.

“The Fallen, those heretics did this.”

To be precise, it was a Fallen worshipper who touched the rift of the mock Other World.

But since Fallen worshippers were no different from prospective Fallen, I nodded my head.

“Yeah, I don’t know how they did it, but it seems they overlaid a real rift on the mock rift we entered.”

“…There is a Fallen worshipper within the academy.”

Perhaps because he had the secret position of a heretic inquisitor, Noah immediately noticed the meaning of my words this time as well.

“As Noah said, I think the same. The only ones who can do this kind of thing are the Fallen or Fallen worshippers.”

Even in the game, it didn’t mention how they manipulate the rifts.

Veteran players and I speculated that it was possible by receiving power and abilities from beings from other worlds.

And whenever there was an abnormality in the rift, it was always them.

“If we can just find out which heretic it is, we’ll immediately interrogate…”

I felt sorry for Noah who was spewing anger, but I would catch that heretic.

I knew who the culprit was that caused the current situation, but since he would bring me big money, I couldn’t tell them.

Of course, after I suck out the sweet juice, I’ll let Noah or Kang Cheol-su know.

“Anyway, since this place is an abnormal rift touched by the Fallen, there isn’t just one core.”

There were a total of five cores in this Other World.

Four sub-cores and one main core.

The sub-cores were located one each in the east, west, south, and north, and the main core was located somewhere in the center.

As I was explaining that, one of the nameless ones raised their hand and asked,

“Then can’t we break the main core first? If it’s in the center, it’s close to here.”

I shook my head at those words.

“Unfortunately, that’s impossible. The main core is surrounded by magic energy until all the sub-cores are broken, so you can’t damage it.”

“…But top student, wouldn’t it be possible with your ability? Your attacks pierce through mana, so I think it would pierce through magic energy too.”

Yeah, that’s right.

As he said, I could pierce through magic energy and deal direct damage.

But the reason I said it was impossible was not because I couldn’t do that.

“…It’s possible.”

“Then…”

“If we do that, we’ll be trapped here forever.”

“…What?”

The Fallen are wicked.

If you break the main core first without breaking the sub-cores in order for the rift they touched,
the rift connected to reality is destroyed.

So when a rift occurs, superhumans first go in and check if there are sub-cores.

Amusingly, this manual is learned after completing this mock training.

But the kids here now were learning through actual combat, not theory.

“Do you understand well why we can’t break it?”

“…”

Nod.

The kid who asked the question nodded with a stiff face.

“Anyway, to break the main core, we need to break the sub-cores first. So, I’ll form teams now.”

The team composition I thought was appropriate was like this.

East – Me, Park Ga-ram, Lim Da-hee.

West – Lee Seo-yeon and 3 others.

South – Arthur and 3 others.

North – Noah and 4 others.

…It was not that I absolutely didn’t want to go with kids whose names I didn’t know.

The balance was right for a team formed by the instructor, Kang Cheol-su, and Lee Seo-yeon, Arthur, and Noah were very strong in force befitting main characters, so there would be no problem in them leading.

“Everyone, take this.”

I took out three flares from my inventory and gave them to Lee Seo-yeon, Arthur, and Noah respectively.

“…You want us to shoot it up when we break the sub-core.”

Arthur, who immediately understood the purpose of the distributed flares, said that while looking at me.

But the moment our eyes met,

“…Eek.”

…Suddenly making a strange sound, he quickly averted his gaze.

Judging by his reddened cheeks, he seemed to have recalled yesterday’s incident…

‘No, why are you recalling yesterday’s incident now…?’

Because you suddenly showed that reaction, the serious atmosphere became weird…

‘What are you going to do with this atmosphere…?’

The 10 nameless classmates looked at me and Arthur alternately with strange eyes saying, ‘What’s with these guys?’

Lee Seo-yeon… stared intently at Arthur with some unfathomable vigor.

And finally, Noah, as if using a flare for the first time, was fiddling with it curiously.

“Hah…”

I let out a deep sigh at the atmosphere that suddenly turned into a mess.

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