The Artist Who Paints Dungeon-Chapter 69

“Isn’t that a miracle?”

Bisabal smiled brightly and greeted Yoo Seong-woon.

“.......”

“Oh, oh, don’t go out again and come right back in. You shouldn’t do that to people’s faces.”

“Oh, I really don’t want to go in....”

“I believe you know that I’m the one paying your salary. Don’t you?”

“You already came to the door, didn’t you?”

“If you know, why don’t you come in right away, Curator Yoo Seong-woon? The guild leader is waiting.”

Yoo Seong-woon eventually entered the office and muttered as he sat on the employee sofa.

“I really need to save up money and resign.”

“Did you really think that would be possible?”

“If there’s a good reason, shouldn’t you accept my resignation?”

“Remember that I might accidentally forget to accept my resignation letter because I’m so angry.”

“It’s a deep-rooted evil....”

“How can you say such naive things when there has never been corruption in the Republic of Korea?”

“Oh, I really hate that.”

Yoo Seong-woon roughly wiped his tired face with both hands, let out a deep sigh that seemed to vomit out his soul, and then slowly raised his head. His eyes were as red as a panda’s.

“So what are you curious about? I gave you a full report in writing just yesterday, so what on earth are you curious about that you called this poor employee over?”

Bisabal said curtly.

“According to the report, it seems that Geo has not caused any casualties.”

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“Unfortunately?”

“I accidentally got serious. I was curious about how the portrait worked.”

“What do you want me to react to? Should I just clap?”

“So let’s skip this part for a moment, and I have a question about Geo’s portrait.”

“I knew that would happen, so tell me.”

“The part about the dungeon and monsters changing was really interesting, but who exactly is Giovanni?”

“That....”

I certainly couldn’t report this part in writing.

“As you know, the part about ‘Portrait of Geo’ is confidential even within our guild, so I didn’t include it in the report to prevent any possible leaks. Did it feel rude?”

“Who is Giovanni?”

“Yes, that’s what you were like.”

“Giovanni....”

“I’ll tell you, so please wait a moment. I also need to gather my thoughts.”

Yu Seong-un, scratching the back of his neck, continued speaking.

“...I believe it’s one of the ‘Geos’ from another dimension. I was able to confirm this by getting some information while wandering around the virtual dungeon I was dragged to this time, the ‘Temple of the Deep Sea.’”

When Yu Seong-un went around to check if there were any survivors who had fallen elsewhere, he wasn’t just looking for people. If you found a new dungeon, basic research was a natural skill for a hunter.

“As a result, I was able to find traces of a person called ‘Giovanni’. He was probably in his early 30s, a priest and doctor who served the sun god, with blond hair and blue eyes... He matched one of the appearances of Geo that I reported before.”

“Then Geo must have a big connection with the source. It would be qualitatively different from the existence of general sources or monsters.”

“I’m judging that to be the case. After being reincarnated into another ‘Gio’ in another dimension, he would end his life as a human, then return to the portrait to reorganize... After all the maintenance was done, he would be reincarnated again, I think, for now.”

It could have been something that happened simultaneously without being restricted by that kind of time order. It would have been a process that took place between dimensions.

That’s why ‘Gio’s Portrait’ was not a human, a monster, an item, or even a child of the source who was the most veiled.

But that doesn’t mean you can just express it as a god.

“‘Portrait of Geo’ can be anything.”

Like a painter who can express everything with paint and sculpture.

“And that kind of thing, well... how should I put it....”

“I think it’s a hasty judgment, but wouldn’t the word ‘origin’ be the most fitting?”

“...That could be true.”

If Geo wasn’t closely connected to the ‘origin’, which is called the greatest secret in the world, he wouldn’t have been able to maintain his current vast status.

“But I guess it’s fortunate that he didn’t give up his humanity, even though it was a little bit left. I don’t know if I should say that he had great willpower, or if I should see this as one of the origin’s systems....”

Yoo Seong-woon swept his chin and asked.

“Is there anything else you’re curious about?”

“Oh, is it over already?”

“I’m not like a parent who recites fairy tales. If you’re bored, find someone else to talk to. Even though I look like this, I’m busy dealing with the aftermath of this virtual dungeon.”

“I’m sorry.”

Bisabal let out his signature thin laugh.

“You must be busy creating Geo’s identity, right? You’re creating an A-class hunter out of thin air.”

“Even if you belong to a guild with a lot of unofficial hunters, there are more than enough things to explain. We’ll have to convince the association somehow.”

“I’ll take care of persuading the association, so just focus on the basics. They must know about the ‘Portrait of Geo’.”

“Thank you for relieving me of the burden. Thanks to you, I’ll be able to sleep in my bed for the first time in a while tonight.”

Geo was active in the dungeon named ‘Deep Sea Temple,’ the center of this incident. The only person who noticed the divinity was Priest Kang Seodam, but it was not like he could hide his power.

“At that point, I can’t say that he doesn’t exist....”

“There are so many witnesses, so what can I do? If I had killed them all from the beginning, it would have been much easier to handle.”

“Are you telling me to become a Red Hunter? To be demoted to a 5th-grade citizen? So suddenly?”

“No, I was thinking of Geo. If that were the case, wouldn’t I have been able to appreciate Geo’s attack methods?”

“For now, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that. Geo seems to think of the guild leader as a relatively good person. Please take care of his image.”

“That’s what I do best. It’s one of the weapons that helped me establish the 3rd guild with this weak body.”

“But there are definitely many witnesses. Because the atmosphere was so harmonious, the survivors’ eyewitness accounts are spreading much more actively....”

The survivors were receiving great comfort in the dungeon, and thanks for the ‘Sergio Hunter’ kept coming in to the collection guild.

In this situation, it was impossible to say that there was no such person as ‘Sergio’.

“That’s why the staff members are a little unsettled. The official document that the guild leader sent clearly had an employee named ‘Geo’ written on it, so I wonder if it’s the same person....”

“Of course it’s the same person, right? I don’t remember bringing such insensitive employees.”

“Everyone is guessing. No one is pretending to know because it seems like things will get complicated, but at least the ‘Geo’ in the official document and the ‘Sergio’ of this uproar are the same person.”

“You know everything, but no one talks to me?”

“They don’t want to give you extra work.”

Yoo Seong-woon let out a long sigh.

“Just like me.”

“They pay you.”

“Fucking capitalist society.”

In a world where you can buy a lifespan if you pay money, there was no such thing as labor rights. Yoo Seong-woon rubbed the back of his neck, which was stiff from fatigue, and said.

“But since you already said in the official document that you were an employee, some people thought, ‘Then you must really be an employee,’ and let it slide. Most people thought that the guild leader was trying to hire a monster, not a human....”

“While we’re on the subject, should we try it next time?”

“When you come out like this, isn’t the distrust among the employees deepening? It’s not like people are calling you a ‘crazy guy who only looks at his work’ for no reason. Please take care of your reputation as the guild leader.”

“I’m sorry to say this, but there’s nothing like that. You’re such an interesting person, aren’t you?”

“You should be there at that age, but why aren’t you? Why aren’t you there, really?”

Yoo Seong-woon wiped his face again and continued.

“Anyway, Geo will be officially posted on the collection website soon. Since he is already known to be blond and blue-eyed, Geo will have to move as ‘Giovanni’ if he wants to be active without wearing his cape, but I think Geo will understand that much.”

Geo didn’t seem to have any particular aversion to his personality changing. He nodded his head because he thought that was the essence of the origin, but he was willing to accept it since it wasn’t a big burden for him.

“In short, Geo will now be able to... function properly in human society.”

“Can we go to the amusement park together?”

“... ‘Portrait of Geo’ hates noisy and crowded places, so I would appreciate it if you would refrain from doing so. He is still incredibly gentlemanly toward humans, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t hate rude and mean people.”

“Of course I know. That’s why I was thinking of renting it out.”

“Please, let your lover do that....”

“A lover? Who would go to an amusement park with an old man like me?”

“Then why did you think Geo would go? It doesn’t make sense right now.”

I know it’s just nonsense to see the reaction of Yoo Seong-un, one of my collections, but it was hard to just listen to those words. I was already tired, and my energy was drained.

“Anyway, if you don’t have any more questions, I’ll go now. I have to give Geo the Hunter ID I made this time, and I also have a lot of things to tell him about, like textbooks and such....”

“Oh, wait a minute.”

“What is it?”

“There’s something wrong with the sea.”

“.......”

Yoo Seong-un touched his forehead.

“Beach, by the way... Are you talking about the strange phenomenon I went /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ to investigate before? Right now? Right now, when you’re about to stand up after spouting off a bunch of nonsense?”

Visabal nodded coolly.

“I forgot the poem.”

“Don’t lie, it’ll make me sick.”

However, Bisabal would not stop this kind of prank, even if it was just to enjoy and appreciate Yoo Seong-woon’s own reactions. It was an eternal truth, but it was still easier to give up.

Yoo Seong-woon wisely gave up and sat down on the sofa again.

“So what’s going on?”

“There’s probably no official announcement yet, but if there’s one thing that’s the best among the three major guilds in Korea, it’s the ability to quickly gather information.”

“Oh, yes.”

“I asked about the hot information that the association just confirmed.”

“So what is it?”

“I observed a new dungeon in the sea.”

“... In the sea, a new dungeon... .”

Yoo Seong-woon turned pale.

“... At this time?”

“At this time.”

Bisabal grinned.

“Do you remember something?”

“No way... Is this a place related to the ‘Deep Sea Temple’?”

“It seems to be the same dungeon.”

Bisabal agreed.

“A few brave hunters from the association came to check the inside, and they said that the deeper you go, the more similar the environment becomes to the temple.”

“It’s just like what I saw in the ‘Deep Sea Temple’. Was there another dungeon connected to it?”

I sighed.

“If there’s even an abnormality in the sea, then is it really a villa dungeon? Is there a... temple?”

“No, it’s just a normal entrance dungeon.”

“It must be so big.”

One of the characteristics of the entry dungeon is that its scope is unlimited. Among the entry dungeons confirmed so far, the largest one inside is as large as a country. It is also as large as Russia.

That is why the entry dungeon is the most stable, but it is also known as a dungeon that is more cumbersome and troublesome to conquer. This is especially true when it is expected to be extremely large like this one.

“The ‘deep sea temple’ that I confirmed seemed to be a mixture of a temple and a research center. The hunters’ reports that you mentioned stopped at the temple shape, so the place we saw was probably much deeper... deep underground.”

If that is true, then this guy, Eunha, didn’t he just throw people there to die?

‘It is common sense that the survival rate decreases as you go deeper into the dungeon.’

Anyway, I could never get used to the monster’s hatred and malice.

“Oh, the Eunha that I reported to you about....”

“I couldn’t find it after your survival. It probably remained in the dungeon or changed its form. It is highly likely that it changed its form to resemble a human child in order to take on the appearance of a prospective priest during the initiation ceremony.”

“I see.”

Perhaps it was because it decided that it would be difficult to pretend to be human now, as ‘Eunha’ disappeared.

Bisabal asked.

“Didn’t Geo show any other confusion about that part? It seemed like he cared for her in some way.”

“... ... .”

“It wouldn’t be shocking if the cause of this incident was actually Eunha.”

“That part... seemed okay.”

“Hmm.”

Bisabal tilted his head and showed interest.

“It seems like you knew, right?”

“... We don’t know how far you’ve organized your personality, so we can’t say anything, but judging from the fact that you didn’t show any particular shock or surprise after that... .”

“Did Geo know what Eunha was from the beginning?”

“Isn’t that the only way to interpret it?”

No, I didn’t know.

Geo in the dungeon just didn’t think about anything, and Geo who came out and found out about Eunha’s identity didn’t show his confusion because of his stiff facial muscles.

The certainty that Isser and Eunha in ‘Giovanni’s’ memories were the same person came after escaping the dungeon.

“Since this is a dungeon where humanoid monsters rule, I would like to know a little more about ‘Giovanni’, who could be called the key to peace. Is that possible?”

“I’ll try.”

“Oh, and....”

“What else?”

“.......”

Bisabal looked at Yoo Seong-un as if he felt sorry.

“According to the hunters belonging to the association, they witnessed ‘Gi’s Portrait’ in the sea dungeon I just mentioned.”

“... Yes?”

“To be exact, it wasn’t ‘Sergio’ but the figure of ‘Black Cloak’. The hunters belonging to the association managed to escape with the help of a tall man wearing a black cloak over his head... .”

“Oh please... .”

Yoo Seong-woon grabbed his head.

“Please, I’m surprised that I can handle it... .”

“Oh my, how pitiful.”

“Eww... .”

He could see the future of working overtime.

Of course, Geo didn’t do this because he wanted to have fun.

“I didn’t know there would be other people in the dungeon I went to see my mermaid students’ faces.”

“Kurururuk.”

“Even if he’s a versatile dad who can even bake sweet potatoes with paint, he can’t predict all futures.”

Geo thought of the sturdy hunters he had encountered in the places he had visited, thinking, “Of course, there would be no one in that dungeon by now.”

They looked quite scared.

“Just like when the employees of the Collector’s Guild encountered me at dawn.”

“Kung.”

“They seem like very smart elites, but those healthy employees are scared....”

“Kung-kung.”

“...Scared....”

“Kung-kung-kung.”

“.......”

To be clear, Geo knew how to grasp reality.

He also found out that there was a ghost story called the ‘Black Cloak’ in the Collector’s Guild. It was partly due to the prank of the guild leader, Bisabal, but it was also largely due to the employees who believed it seriously and were terrified.

“...Ah.”

A black cloak standing alone in the hallway of a company where everyone had left work, and a black cloak suddenly appearing in a dungeon where there should be no people and showing them the way to survive.

Geo felt a sense of deja vu at the incredible synchronization. Only then did Geo regain his sense of reality and said, “Oh no.”

“...Did I have an accident?”

“Kur.”

“God of Heaven and Earth.”

That’s how it happened.

A painter drawing dungeons