I Will Protect You, My Lord Demon - Chapter 1

8 PM.

A sedan entered the empty Hannam Bridge.

In the back seat of the sedan were the President and his personal bodyguard. The President bit his nails. He gnawed so hard that the skin at the ends was tattered.

The bodyguard sighed.

“Calm down a bit.”

“Calm down? Could you calm down if you were me?”

The man immediately bared his teeth and growled. The bodyguard shut his mouth. He knew how big the job the man had taken on this time was, so he couldn’t say anything more.

Virtual reality game Red Scope.

A first-person shooter game boasting excellent realism and immersion, the man was a GM of such a game.

Well, GM was a nice way of putting it, but his actual position was a low-level employee at a large game company. A sad low-level employee who had to do whatever the higher-ups told him to do.

‘Finally, what was coming has come.’

The higher-up had called him in on Monday morning and suddenly acted important. From there, he had a bad feeling.

‘Evan has accepted an SS-class quest.’

He swallowed a groan. It really felt like what was coming had come.

‘I believe you’ll do well as you have until now, but if you get assassinated, you’ll be working overtime for a month. Hahaha. Unfair, you say? Hahahahaha. Originally, you write company but read it as fuck.’

“……”

There was also a sister product that wrote superior but read it as fuck.

He clutched his head with both hands.

“Why me? Why me of all people?”

The GM, who was on the same team as the man and was acting as a bodyguard, patted him on the shoulder.

“It’ll be okay. You know how extremely difficult this quest is.”

He knew.

He knew very well.

He had adjusted the difficulty so that even if he came back from hell twice, he wouldn’t be able to clear it. But was it because overtime was on the line? He couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling throughout the quest.

“Relax your shoulders. Traffic has been controlled for 30 minutes, and there’s not even an ant in this area. We’re almost across the bridge, and there’s no special trick that guy could-”

The conversation ended there.

Bang!

A gunshot rang out right next to him.

“Wh-what?!”

The GM jumped, and lukewarm water splashed on his cheek. He raised his hand to wipe it off and froze when he identified what it was. What he thought was water was blood. The blood of the GM who was in the seat next to him.

His hands trembled. He raised his shaking eyes and looked ahead.

The driver reflected in the rearview mirror smiled, his eyes curved. He held a pistol in his hand, and the muzzle was pointed at the back seat where he was.

“Th-.”

His face was exactly the same as the photo he had received from his superior.

“You son of a bi-.”

Bang!

[Your character has died.]

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Ding!

[Quest completed.]

[Assassinate a VIP. Difficulty SS.]

[Success Reward: Changes to the main scenario. Your name will be reflected in the main scenario. 10kg of gold will be awarded. SS-class weapon box will be awarded. Title ‘Odin’s Eye’ acquired.]

He threw the pistol he was holding into the passenger seat.

The pistol that flew away returned to the inventory. He gripped the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator.

His vision flashed. Numerous notification windows were created chaotically.

[Main scenario open!]

[PVP restrictions lifted]

[Bounty notice for revolutionary ‘Evan’!]

“What?”

Screech!

His vision was obscured. He waved his hand irritably. He almost crashed through the railing and went free diving into the Han River.

“Fuck. At this timing?!”

Updates were usually done after all the users had been kicked out. If it was done like this, there would be more than one or two bugs to fix later, but the reason why they were doing the update now, in this situation, was obvious.

Ding.

[The vehicle you are riding in will be downgraded. 3, 2, 1. Downgrade complete.]

[The SS quest field disappears.]

Vehicles and people began to appear faintly on the empty bridge. They were NPCs. He stepped on the brakes because of a vehicle that suddenly appeared in front of him. He narrowly avoided a collision.

“Wow. Petty. Is a GM allowed to do this?”

Tatatang!

Tutututu!

Moreover, users who had already smelled the bounty began to chase after him.

Gunshots rang out from behind.

The car, which had become an ordinary sedan from a ceremonial vehicle, was helpless against the pouring bullets. The tires burst. The car lost control and crashed into the wall. He opened the door and jumped out.

The car that hit the pillar of the overpass exploded. Fragments of the car body flew out and hit the windshield of the car following behind.

[You have committed murder. Murderer stat increases slightly.]

[You have committed murder. Murderer stat increases slightly.]

It was a notification he had never heard before.

It seemed to be a newly updated feature as PVP was unlocked. He liked this.

“From now on, if someone picks a fight, I can just beat them up without having to bother applying for PVP. Very good.”

While the users hesitated, he kicked off the ground and ran. He crossed the road and approached a motorcycle that was stopped at a traffic light.

The rider, who was standing awkwardly, looked at him with uneasy eyes. He smiled sweetly and pulled the trigger towards his forehead.

[You have committed murder. Murderer stat increases slightly.]

“He’s getting away!”

He pulled the motorcycle’s accelerator to the limit. The tires burned, giving off a terrible smell.

Tang tang!

Tang!

He entered the overpass to avoid the pouring bullets. He drove straight up the road and took out dynamite at the entrance of the Namsan Tunnel. He pressed the button and threw it back.

Bang!

Kwang! Bang!

The entrance collapsed with an explosion that echoed throughout the tunnel. The lights sparked and went out, and stones and debris fell from the ceiling.

He glanced back and saw the completely collapsed tunnel entrance.

Click. Click.

He tried to turn on the lights, but for some reason, they didn’t turn on. He clicked his tongue and raised his head. He focused on the light from the tunnel entrance on the opposite side.

Each time he quickly passed through the completely black space, the circular light grew larger and brighter.

It’s outside.

With a strange sense of exhilaration, he thought so, but then something blunt caught on the tire.

Thud!

His vision turned upside down.

Before he could even realize what was happening, the world was spinning wildly.

A notification sound rang.

Ding.

[Your character is temporarily ‘stunned.’ 36 seconds, 35 seconds, 34 seconds until you wake up…….]

Fortunately, the damage was low. He anxiously counted the seconds in the darkness where he couldn’t see anything.

Damn it, what did I get caught on? Could this be the work of those GM bastards too? I hope nothing happened in that short time?

He had countless thoughts in just 30 seconds.

[0 seconds. The character wakes up.]

He opened his eyes wide. As soon as he straightened up, he took out his pistol and guarded his surroundings.

He froze. He quickly looked around like a meerkat. But the scenery he saw didn’t change.

“What is this.”

What he was standing on now was not asphalt but wet soil. In the place where the tollgate should have been, there was a tree wrapped in vines, and behind it was a colony of mushrooms the size of people.

He couldn’t move for a while. It was a forest.

It was an ancient forest made up of lush grass, moss, and large trees, where even the paths that animals traveled were not easily visible.

He let his arms hang down. Then he suddenly came to his senses.

“Damn it, that’s right. Tunnel 1 was an unopened area.”

He was confused with Tunnel 2, which had opened recently. He raised his hand and touched his face. He was momentarily filled with self-loathing. He wasn’t a rookie who had just started the game, but he was so excited that he mistook the map.

“But how did I get in here?”

Originally, if a character entered an unopened area, they would be annihilated. It wasn’t dying. It was annihilation in the literal sense.

As soon as he thought that far, the back of his neck felt cold. Wow, shit. I almost died after completing the SS quest.

He breathed a sigh of relief.

I don’t know what kind of bug it is, but thank you for now.

Once he calmed down, his whole body ached. It was because of the injuries he sustained from falling off the motorcycle and rolling around. It was fortunate that his physical stats were maxed out, otherwise, his soul and body would have been separated.

He took out a potion and drank it.

The red potion tasted like cheap strawberries. He threw the empty bottle away. He changed his tattered suit into combat gear and said.

“Is this Namsan?”

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