The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 204

"Weren't you all busy preparing for your own things?"

Oz said playfully, looking at the faces that filled the chat room screen.

"It hasn't been long since that happened, so it's only natural that we'd gather out of curiosity."

"Haha, I came right away because I was excited to see what kind of fun thing that hyung would do next."

At Oz's words, Uriel and Baekhyun said with bright smiles.

"Hmm, but I don't know why he called us this time. Well, it's not like that oppa has done this once or twice."

Arachne said, eating what looked like potato chips that she had gotten from somewhere.

"Alice unnie, do you know why that oppa called us?"

"Why are you asking me?"

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, Arachne said as if it were obvious.

"Because you're the closest to that oppa, Alice unnie."

"…What kind of nonsense is that?"

At Cheon Yuhwa's reaction, Uriel, who had been listening quietly, tilted her head and asked.

"Oh, wasn't it? I thought you were the closest to that oppa, unnie."

"I thought so too."

"I don't know what these kids are talking about all of a sudden."

As Uriel and Baekhyun joined in and said that, Cheon Yuhwa's face became dumbfounded.

"If we're just talking about being close, I think you guys are closer to him than I am."

"Uhm, it's a little different…"

"Unlike unnie, we just have a one-sided crush on him."

"Right, we follow that oppa around because at least it's not boring when we're with him."

At their chattering words, Cheon Yuhwa felt a headache and held her forehead.

It wasn't this bad in the last round, but she couldn't understand how they had changed so much.

"Anyway, I've just met him a lot, but we're not particularly close or anything."

At Cheon Yuhwa's grumbling words, the nine people who had already entered the room showed the divine skill of communicating through eye contact in the chat room.

-They seem really close, don't they?

-Yeah, in my opinion, they're on the verge of dating. I had an accident with my wife when we were like that.

-It's annoying when he's around, but there's a charm that makes it annoying even when he's not.

-Isn't that just annoying?

Cheon Yuhwa, who had felt something from their conversation through eye contact, was about to interrogate them with sharp eyes when.

"What, the atmosphere is quite lively, more than I thought. I thought some people might not come, but no one is absent. Did something happen?"

At that moment, Lee Shin entered the chat room with his usual light and playful voice.

And he did so while nonchalantly turning on his camera and showing his face on the screen.

"You don't need to know, so mind your own business and just tell us why you called us."

"Hmm, it's nothing much, I just have a few things to tell you."

"Are you planning on telling us what you're up to?"

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, Lee Shin nodded his head.

"Well, I'm planning on talking about that as well. First of all, the first thing I have to say is…"

Lee Shin looked somewhere for a moment as if contemplating how to say this, and then said.

"I have a younger sister."

"…What?"

At Lee Shin's out-of-the-blue words, Cheon Yuhwa's expression momentarily went blank.

It wasn't just Cheon Yuhwa who had that reaction.

Although each was a little different, at Lee Shin's single word, they showed their own reactions, such as their eyes widening, covering their mouths with an 'oh my', or diligently eating the popcorn they had prepared.

And the most intense reaction was from Crowley's screen.

"What did you say!"

"What does that mean?!"

Because Lee Hyunyoung and Lee Sieun, who had been secretly listening to Lee Shin, popped out and shouted, calling out to him.

Regardless, Cheon Yuhwa stared at Lee Shin with a confused look.

Because it was the first time Lee Shin had openly called someone his younger sister, even though he would drag around people he was playing with.

As if he didn't care what they did, Lee Shin gestured to his side without saying anything.

"Is it okay to come out now, oppa?"

"Yes, it's okay."

At Lee Shin's words, Raven walked over to him as if she understood and placed her head on his shoulder.

It was a last resort Raven had chosen to somehow get between the two, as she was jealous that Irehgue was always on Lee Shin's head and never came down.

For reference, she had originally used a method of completely clinging to Lee Shin as if he were carrying her on his back, but when Lee Shin stopped her, saying it was cumbersome, she compromised by just lightly resting her face on him.

"That, that thieving cat…!"

"Smile! Who is she…!"

Well, it probably didn't matter to the two kids who were violently shaking Crowley's screen.

"Ahem, I'm sorry. Our younger brother has committed a great discourtesy."

"Sigh, she's usually so calm, but she gets strange when it's related to Smile."

As Lee Hyunyoung and Lee Sieun were making a fuss, Lee Hyunseok and Lee Jieun, who had received a look from Crowley, stepped forward to try to resolve the situation by taking the two out.

Although their resistance was fierce, when Crowley aimed his gun at the two with indifferent eyes, the two were dragged out of the room with eyes like a dog and a cat going to the vet.

"There was a small disturbance, I'm sorry."

Crowley's single word announced that the situation was over, and the meeting that had stopped could finally begin again.

"But are they really family?"

"I know, right, their eyes are very similar."

At Merlin's and Oz's words, Lee Shin shook his head.

"No, we're not really family, she said she wanted to be my younger sister, so I'm just taking her around for now. Well, it would be more accurate to say she's a younger sister candidate."

"…What, how can such a strange relationship be formed?"

"That part isn't particularly important, so let's move on."

Lee Shin lightly deflected Yeonhwa's words and pointed his finger at Raven.

"First, the spy from another dimension I mentioned before is her. To be precise, she's one of the spies."

Simultaneously with Lee Shin's words ending, Raven, who had spread her black wings on her back, lightly flapped her wings left and right as if waving her hand in greeting.

At Lee Shin's words, everyone who had entered the chat room opened their mouths at the same time and tried to talk or ask questions.

But since Lee Shin had muted everyone's voice except his own with the host's authority, no one's voice other than Lee Shin's could be heard in the chat room.

"Well, I know you're all excited, but it's annoying, so I'll take questions after the explanation is over."

Lee Shin said nonchalantly without a change in his expression, but this was just a pretext to make them quiet, and he had no intention of actually taking their questions.

'As soon as I'm done with what I have to say, I'll just leave.'

-Still as selfish as ever.

At Irehgue's words, Lee Shin retorted shamelessly.

'You don't know what you're talking about, but games are usually like this, where you're forcibly invited and then no questions are taken. It's in the novels too.'

-Uhm, well, death games usually use that method.

At Lee Shin's words, Irehgue nodded his head as if he understood.

At that, Raven, who was fiddling with Lee Shin's finger that was pointing at her, soon placed it on her head.

It was her own way of protesting, telling him not to ignore her.

Lee Shin, who had become tired from being pestered by the two from above and the side, thought that he had to end the current situation quickly and opened his mouth.

"First, let's have the rest of you listen to her later… I'll just summarize the most important parts and tell you."

Lee Shin glanced at Cheon Yuhwa and then said.

"First, I'm planning on calling the three of them, Behemoth, Leviathan, and Ziz, to Earth."

Simultaneously with saying that, Cheon Yuhwa showed something she seemed to have prepared in advance on the screen.

'Do you want to die?'

A piece of paper with words filled with Cheon Yuhwa's sincerity fluttered on the screen.

And Lee Shin, as always, returned it with a look that said, 'try me if you can'.

"Anyway, you know that there's another world besides ours, right? The three of them, including her, are spies sent by the temple in that world to carry out the orders of the son of God."

"Yay~"

As Lee Shin pointed at himself with his finger and said that, Raven made a 'V' with her hand with a blank expression and lightly waved it.

Of course, it was an action that Lee Shin had made her do.

The hand of Lee Shin, who was patting Raven's head as if to say she had done well, was the proof.

"The spies were sent one by one from the three ducal families, and their objectives are two. One is Gaia's chosen hero. I predict it's you, Cheon Yuhwa, to find you and report you to that side or drag you there."

At Lee Shin's words, their faces flashed with surprise and then became serious.

"And the other is to call the knights and divine beasts of the temple to destroy our forces in order to break down the Earth, which is holding up better than expected."

The original dungeon is created by unilaterally sending fragments of a dimension from that side.

But if they used the jewel, they could create a stronger and more stable gate and send a larger number of troops through it.

-Insolent things.

At Lee Shin's words, Irehgue burned with hostility.

Irehgue's basic personality was 'I am the only one in heaven and on earth', basically arrogant, thinking of himself as the best, and liking to be revered by others.

For such an Irehgue, the existence of the divine beasts, which were treated as divine beasts by the ducal family and had been revered for a long time, was an object of annoying jealousy.

"For reference, there are quite tricky conditions to open the gate and call the knights using the jewel. So it goes without saying that calling the divine beasts is even more so."

It would probably take at least a month or two, was Lee Shin's prediction.

"But I'm planning on helping them, so not only will they be able to call the knights, but they'll probably be done calling the divine beasts by tomorrow. Ah, for reference, I'm thinking of Hong Kong as the location, as I said before."

Lee Shin, who had coolly shown the board he was planning, looked at the ten eyes that were staring at him blankly.

"In other words, it seems that a great monster, including a great monster, and the elite forces of each family will come to Earth and rampage, tehee!"

"Tehee!"

Lee Shin said that and then stuck out his tongue like in a comic, and Raven followed him with a blank expression.

That appearance was extremely infuriating to the people watching.

-Hey, you crazy bastard!

Because Lee Shin had muted them, the sound couldn't be heard, but Cheon Yuhwa's moving lips were clearly saying that.

"Sigh, don't be so angry, calm down."

Lee Shin said that and unmuted Cheon Yuhwa.

Then, Cheon Yuhwa shouted at Lee Shin in a voice full of passion.

"Do I look like I can calm down right now? Each and every one of them is a great monster that has reached the top of LV. 7!"

Cheon Yuhwa's both hands, as she said that, were clenched into fists and trembling slightly.

Because those were the monsters that had played a decisive role in destroying the Earth in the future.

"No, the ones being called this time haven't fully grown yet, so their size is a little smaller and their level is only 6."

"The fact that there are three LV. 6 monsters is a disaster in itself, you know?"

Raven nodded her head and guaranteed that Lee Shin's words were correct, but it was not enough to calm Cheon Yuhwa down.

Cheon Yuhwa's reaction was natural.

Because if those guys, who had city-sized bodies and had reached at least LV. 6, were to exert their power and rampage, the damage would be so great that they would have to worry about not just the city, but several countries being destroyed.

"But it was a necessary thing."

At Cheon Yuhwa's words, Lee Shin said in a nonchalant voice.

At Lee Shin's light but firm words, Cheon Yuhwa stepped back slightly.

"You guys know it too. If the situation continues like this, it'll just be a tail chase."

At Lee Shin's words, they quietly closed their mouths.

"When the dungeon was considered a slightly unusual natural phenomenon, it was okay to just let it go, but now we know it's an enemy's attack. Then of course, the response to it should also be different."

Lee Shin said with a wide smile.

"Let's not just chase them from behind, let's dig a trap in front of them so they can fall and break their noses."

At that, Cheon Yuhwa stared at Lee Shin for a moment, then frowned and said.

"You're just trying to cause a scene because you want to fight, but you're just talking nonsense to make it sound plausible.”

(End of Chapter)