This guy wasn’t even someone who joined Thailand’s official announced group this time. When ‘territory preheating’ started in this region, thinking there wouldn’t be people around, he came to tour alone and was playing when he coincidentally absorbed power—a curious guy.
“I came from Korea.”
“Nice to meet you! Sawasdee krap~”
Perhaps uncomfortable with the sudden attention, Diyau unconsciously put up a water barrier.
「Uwayat!」
The cuteness of hitting it himself and being startled, plopping down.
“Wow, amazing! Wow!”
“Incredible!”
Whether the K-response to the water barrier he’d put up all around was pretty good, he soon adapted and showed a water show.
“Wow!”
Clap clap clap clap!
The more explosive the reactions, the more diligently he handled it, and his behavior was quite cute.
This isn’t the time for this.
“You see that stone? It was a water-trait stone. That person already sucked it all up so we can’t recycle it.”
“Yes!”
“For three days, we need to find all stones like that in this half-ruined region. Everyone downloaded the map app, right? When you find one, mark the location and we’ll meet every night to compile them. Like updating navigation.”
This game had free entry and exit and data worked, but due to atmospheric interference causing communication blackouts in some areas, the method of marking crystal sphere locations and then compiling was chosen.
And until discovering the first three crystal spheres, all members traveled together.
“Who sees that stone as jade color?”
“Me!”
“You’re out. Who sees it as blue?”
“Me!”
“You’re out too.”
“……That looks blue to you?”
“……Right.”
“What color do you see?”
“Crimson.”
“Totally intense red…… huh?”
The two muttered confusedly.
“Even looking at the same stone, the color people see differs. The better it matches your constitution, the redder it appears. So yield the green or light green ones to others, and just find the reddest ones you can.”
“…….”
“And today we’ll scatter organizationally to find crystal spheres that match each person.”
“Yes!”
“Person who shouted red! Come out and eat it!”
“…….”
“I’ll say it again, the one glowing red begging for attention is the one that matches you well. Just approach and touch it. Now, everyone to your positions!”
Though I brought residents along, since they looked like ordinary rocks to ordinary people’s eyes, they weren’t much help.
I skipped dinner and diligently went around following the rapidly compiled map, but I didn’t see any stones that appeared red to my eyes.
I was getting anxious. After half a day had passed, the majority of people had already found attributes matching them and germinated their traits.
“Japanese and foreign Espers are coming as a second wave now. They’ll arrive tomorrow, so let’s find plenty for them.”
Even while making excuses about other countries and continuing to gather information, crystal spheres matching me just wouldn’t appear.
My asshole was clenched to death when a Thai girl who had completed germination as ‘space-class’ ambitiously spoke to me. Even in Korean.
“I like K-pop!”
“You like it?”
“Captain oppa, Korea, debut?”
“Well.”
“Well, what does that mean?”
“Maybe.”
“Oh~”
I should rest today and look around again tomorrow.
When I was coming down the night road with my tired body together with the Thai girl whose hobby was [participating in K-pop random play dance].
“Captain oppa job, exploration real?”
“Yeah, real.”
“Oppa exploration, but you don’t know way too much!”
“Wait a moment.”
“Why?”
“Do you see something red over there by chance?”
Something stuck like a bleeding moon in the opposite mountain grave.
So faint I wouldn’t have noticed in daylight, but a vivid red light.
“No, I don’t see anything. Can’t see!”
“You don’t see it in another color either?”
“Can’t see at all! Nothing there! Why, is there something?”
“Go in first.”
“Oppa?”
“I’ll follow soon.”
Even Espers who had already germinated could see the colors of stones during the trait editing period of about 1-3 days right after germination.
Because of that, the girl’s eyes should have been able to see that stone too. But she says she can’t see it.
What I could see not being visible to others’ eyes was perhaps natural.
My constitution was peculiar. The 30-some types of crystal spheres discovered in Ilsan Seo-gu appeared as black stones, and the 60-some crystal spheres I’d frantically searched for today using the map weren’t much different either.
But still, coming all the way to Thailand was the right choice.
Before regression, because the rumor that this place was ‘the announced group’s bonanza’ spread too late, there weren’t many actual users.
I who learned about it belatedly was also very regretful. A reserve of at least 400 types. I thought one of them would surely be mine.
One really was mine.
I walked seeking only that light. Coming down the mountain and climbing up again, finally.
The place I found by shining a flashlight was a crack in a cliff. Fortunately, since it was at a position I could reach if I stretched my hand, I carefully lifted the crystal sphere like handling a sacred object.
Wait, but why is it so small?
Other crystal spheres were much larger than a person’s height. This one’s was like an ostrich egg.
Well, doesn’t matter.
I took off my work gloves. And placed my hand against that which shone closest to blood.
“Haa.”
It seemed like a streak of light convulsed down from the sky.
“Wow, wow…….”
It felt like this?
It was a fresh sensation I was feeling for the first time. A soft power matching my body temperature came surging in smoothly.
A fulfillment as intense as when I kissed Kim Seohyeon.
A moment later, the small stone lost its light. Usually stones losing light from just one use means S-rank, but since this one’s size was small…….
It felt like my quality of life had pierced through heaven from rock bottom. Blood circulated throughout my body, and a sense of liberation beautifully struck and retreated.
[Trait has germinated.]
Finally, the phrase I’d heard only right before death was repeated.
Now, then.
It was a moment I’d waited for so long. I firmly opened my closed eyes and recited resolutely.
‘Status window.’
[Name: Lee Yesol]
[Trait: Esper]
[Characteristic: Exploration new!]
Trait information expanded before my eyes.
[Characteristic: Exploration new!]
“……?”
For a moment I thought my eyes were wrong.
As if punishing me who’d been bluffing as ‘exploration,’ an exploration skill had appeared.
Honestly, since my original goal was resolving the wave cluster in my side, I thought any trait would be fine but…….
This is exactly like divine mischief.
“From fake exploration to real exploration…….”
I was flustered but there was also something immediately good. My pitch-black vision had opened wide.
Is this a nocturnal animal’s vision? It felt like the world had widened by three or four folds.
“Tsk.”
It’s convenient but…… they say human greed has no end, so I was inwardly disappointed it wasn’t an attack-class trait. Since it can’t be helped.
I gave up and looked broadly at the view. Several pure white lights were sporadically shooting up from various places in the mountain.
I quickly realized without long contemplation what those lights were. They were indicator lights showing the locations of crystal spheres containing energy.
Crystal spheres containing strong power had thick light beams, and crystal spheres that had been somewhat used were shooting relatively thin lights into the sky.
This is pretty useful.
I fumbled to pull out my map.
The sudden mental fatigue that came after achieving results……wasn’t it, actually it was because when I became aware that I was alone in the mountains, I got gradually scared.
It was then. A residual image appeared over the map and a template appeared as if tracing in midair.
“What’s this now?”
Slightly startled but sitting cross-legged, I searched to see what other skills there were.
‘Maybe?’
“Map?”
Then a map unfolded showing the entire national park area in one shot. When I reduced the map, all of Thailand fit in one shot, and lands that succeeded in Territory Game, lands that failed, and lands currently in game progress were captured on screen.
At the top of the map was a small magnifying glass function.
First…… finding the way.
[Search from current location?]
“Yes!”
[Please select destination.]
“Barracks camp~”
Navigation appeared before my eyes as if my body had become a vehicle.
While following it and walking, some wooden plank I encountered was blinking as if it were some incredible item.
Along with the guidance phrase [Quick Route].
When I picked up the plank, a targeting point toward the bottom of the mountain was set.
“It’s a bit steep.”
Raising questions about safety, I threw the wooden plank with a swoosh. After the rainbow slide, I’d become accustomed to slopes.
[Remaining distance 0.6km]
How kind. Was the quality of the [Exploration] function originally this good?
Since what I saw before regression was all just glimpses when appearing as a panel on a [Global Unique Occupations] special show, I hadn’t heard about functions like this.
Maybe my rank increased? Secret anticipation bloomed. Since the wave cluster was also resolved, I should get remeasured too.
“Our captain has arrived~?”
At the barracks I arrived at, a campfire was in full swing. People embroidering the night while dragging tired bodies to gulp down roasted survival crops and cool cider.
“This is nice now that the world has changed. Fire-attribute Espers light fires, and ice-attribute Espers cool the cider too.”
“Sawasdee krap~”
Even in the changed world, Kim Jaei was the same. He was out in front of people in Thai traditional costume outfit, wiggling his butt and showing off.
No matter how I look at it, that bastard really must become a celebrity.
I was about to sit down receiving a cider bottle from a Thai Esper who looked happy when Kim Jaei, who just spotted me, grabbed my hand onto the stage.
“This beautiful time of Thai-Korean harmony! Let me present the exploration-class Esper who gathered us here, Captain Lee Yesol-nim! Everyone, applause!”
Ah, really.
Even though I waved my hands saying it’s fine, backing out in this atmosphere was impossible.
“He’s handsome!”
As if by promise, someone played [Pangpang]’s [Future Disco], a senior idol from Planet agency, on the main speaker.
No, this is my dance though…….
Lightly lightly quick quick quick……. My body warmed up sufficiently to the sound of applause. The approaching killing part.
-Deep silence~ Deep silence!
Together with Kim Jaei, I tastefully recreated the choreography of bouncing waists and casually footwork.
-Shut up and eat, it’s delicious! Pangpang!
Slapping Kim Jaei’s butt pangpang!
Creating a frozen motion with the guy who had grabbed his own butt and stopped with a surprised expression, then doing the signature butt-bouncing choreography matching the chorus that came hooking in again.
“Kyaaaah!”
The atmosphere heated up intensely. People who knew the choreography shook their butts together, discharging good feelings wildly.
-Sa-sa-sa-sa silence ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
It seemed like some notification sound passed through the exciting beat. Even while shaking my body wildly, I became slightly puzzled.
‘Huh?’
Was it my imagination……? Movement felt very smooth as if I’d applied lubricant to my waist. My let-down bangs swayed especially fluidly.
My body suddenly became light, so it seemed like I could easily do even the walking or b-boying that Seon Doyu does well.
‘Sniff sniff.’
A good smell was emanating around me as if aphrodisiac had been sprinkled. Then while shaking my body, before long I noticed something異質 and stopped moving.
This sweet flower smell, it seems like the source is me.
Thinking the exploration skill might have activated, I opened the status window.
[Name: Lee Yesol]
[Trait: Esper]
[Characteristic: Dancing Explorer new!]
At that moment I froze.
[Characteristic: Dancing Explorer new!]
“Crazy.”
What the hell is this?
