Second Story Online: Aiming To Become The World's Number 1. Ideal Witch

Stepping into it, a little walk changed the atmosphere in the woods. The west end felt even dimmer somewhere, but as expected. The darkness is the same. But as I lost color, the grass trees around me were shaded from deep green to close to grey. It even comes out white fog.

"I thought it was a dark forest... now it's a white forest"

Well, wasn't the name of this forest definitely called the Dusk Forest? Shouldn't I change my name? Walking with that in mind, Nil, riding on his shoulder, looks at the neighborhood softly from earlier on.

And as if I were going to tell you to go home now, turn your neck a hundred and eighty degrees over and over to show the back.

"Don't worry so much. I'll be back as soon as I find out... there's a white mist, but I'm lost."

I notice you try to answer that there isn't. Until now I knew what would happen if I went in either direction and where there would be an exit. And yet they don't come out right now. Turn right and you don't know what's ahead of your white vision. If you turn left and tear those white trees apart, you don't even know if there's an exit.

"You're lying."

Unexpectedly open the map. That's where I noticed. The open map is black. It just said no data in white letters. [Gazetteer] Skills not working.

"You're in trouble"

I thought it was a woodland I knew on my own, but apparently it wasn't.

"I should have listened to your advice."

I shook my neck left and right as if Nil could even sigh on it.

Now, what should we do? Not if you're exploring. In the meantime, I tried to turn back the way I came straight, but I wasn't supposed to be walking that far out of the west.

[Gazetteer] Is it this white fog that doesn't work your skills? I looked into this fog and it seemed like a magical tangle. Even though, the dusk forest is a place where the forest itself gets lost like a maze. In addition to that, a magical mist that confuses the direction. The difficulty to escape is greatly increased.

"When this happens, there's only one way to get out."

There will have been many players who have taken that means in this forest. As a result, this forest became known as the Forest of the Dead. Finally I understood exactly how they felt when I fell into it, too.

"Shall we return to death?"

I wonder what you're saying to yourself. If it's real, you won't be back from death.

But this is a game. No matter how many deaths you die, you will live again.

I'll just take a look at the inventory to see if there's anything. Should I even eat poison grass? You can't, at the poison grass level, they erase it with my [poison resistance]. What a mess. Should we even make a level of poison that exceeds this?

"This is..."

I was just trying to find out how to make poison pills and I get my eye on one item. That's something I stumbled upon a long time ago and forgot to exist.

[Mysterious poison: A special poison created by the village chief of Berry Village. an unknown substitute that is a very powerful poison but has no idea how to make it]

Very powerful. Drinking this is going to make it easy to get back to death....... but I'm also worried. This is the substitute I got on that epic quest.

It's something I got on that special quest, so I'm afraid if I drink it, I'm really going to die. Because death during that quest was real death. At least if it's a character...

"No, you don't. I'm still alive."

I'm Chloe. Then you have to play her whenever you want.

Close the inventory without removing that poison. It's not like her to go back to death.

"If you keep walking, you'll take the exit one day"

You may not be able to keep walking without help. But I can't believe she stayed still... because it doesn't suit me.

"If you say you are inhibited by magic fog...... turn it off!

Canes on the ground to unleash magic. The fog around me clears up just a little on the impact of [Darkburst]. I thought magic was magic, so I shot him. Apparently, you got an idea.

I just couldn't erase it all. I just got a little better vision around here. Still white ahead.

Again, it doesn't seem to disappear unless you suppress it even at the origin of this white mist. But if you open your eyes with a little magic...

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Something popped up scratching the guts and the grass. Photographed in white vision are red and black somethin 'and big beast claws. Sounds of effects like zakri echoed in my ear. And the red effect scatters.

My own HP that was at the edge of my vision just like that. That disappeared in a flash. Vision gradually loses color and becomes gray. Even my colour taste disappeared further from where it was originally white.

This is a performance that comes out when you die. I mean, I must be dead.

It was an event that happened within a moment, so I still don't know what it is. Because I'm in a state of death. Nil is de-subpoenaed and disappears.

Beyond that vision. Descriptions that I said I would transfer to the specified location and ahead of the remaining transfer time. I thought I saw a grey figure.

"Hey, what was that?!?

I shouted that out loud when I went back to death. Thanks to you, people in the square are looking at me. I don't care about that. What is that more than that? That monster that scraped my HP in a flash.

It's an anomaly, even though I'm struck by a wizard and vulnerable to losing HP that way. Must be a high level monster...... is it like a boss monster?

And that shadow. I was surprised there was someone other than me there. And I'm alone. Maybe there was someone else there, but I don't know that.

In the end, I went back to death. I'm losing a little money and experience when I check. Rumor has it that if he dies, he drops items very rarely, but I'm glad that hasn't happened. Apparently that's not the case if the person you killed had stealing skills.

One thing I can say for now...... you don't want to get any closer over there. At least until you're a little stronger.

"You knew this was going to happen to Nil... what's wrong?

The re-summoned nil is as small as ever. I used to move my feathers so many times that I couldn't calm down, shaking my little body like that. And I care very much about a certain direction. That direction was just there [Dusk Forest], wasn't it?

"... Nil, you knew that existed, didn't you?

Nil shakes his head to deny it when he shrugs.

"That's crazy. Didn't you stop me because you had that presence?

I shake my head again as if it wasn't. And I feel restless and dull again.

... does that mean that presence was unexpected to Nil as well? I still don't know what kind of place that place is, but I guess it's a place you shouldn't normally be in to think about based on how Nil is doing. That monster and the shadow in such a place.

"You don't have enough information to think about."

Nil seems to know something, but he can't talk, so he can't help it. Because if we go back to the woods to find out, we'll go back to death.