My Second Life in Another World

"Yes, Dok-ja said the faster they know about the surroundings the better," Queresha answered.

"That is correct, Which way did they go?" Haru asked as he nodded.

"Myeong-Dong station," Queresha said as she saw the small smile on Haru's face.

"Well, I'll look in the opposite direction, I'll be back in an hour, So…" Haru paused while looking at Queresha.

"You can leave that to me," Queresha smiled as Haru left the station alone running towards Dong-guk University.

"You guys start moving quickly we have a lot of things to do in order to improve this base up to standard," Queresha said making the people work faster as currently there was not a single idle person on the station.

"What happened here?" Hyun-sung's eyes widened as he looked at the bodies in front of him. The dead bodies were still warm suggesting that it hasn't been long before they were killed.

'Yu Jung-hyuk happened, and it looks like this group was planning on attacking Chung-muro as soon as the barriers went down,' Dok-ja thought while looking at the bodies that had sword wounds all over them.

Ji-hye had also come to this same conclusion as she looked at the bodies.

"Should we go back and tell others about it?" Hyun-sung said as there might be danger moving forward.

"That would be a total waste, let's just charge ahead, I the Vanguard will take the lead," Nam-woon didn't even care about the dead people and started to walk forward.

"The Myeog-dong station is just a little distance away from here, we should look at it before going back," Dok-ja patted Hyun-sung's back as he also thought this would be a better action.

"…Ok, Nam-woon get behind me," Hyun-sung could only agree as he went ahead of Nam-woon so he could stop any unexpected attacks.

"Why do you expect the vanguard to be hiding?" And Nam-woon wasn't having it.

"But if you are ambushed…" Hyun-sung was about to say more but Nam-woon spoke faster.

"I know I could die, But that doesn't mean I am afraid of death, I dance with death with every single step I take, I am no stranger to this as this is how it has always been," Nam-woon said arrogantly walking forward.

'How tough was your life before Nam-woon?' Hyun-sung wondered as he took everything he heard at face value.

'I didn't see a flag among the bodies here,' Dok-ja ignored the two in the front as they walked down the tracks until they could platform lights of Myeong-dong station.

On the way to the platform, they found more bodies of people scattered around the tracks and even on the platform, with fresh blood dripping from the wounds.

Here they finally found a living person.

"So, you came here after all," Jung-hyuk said looking at Dok-ja.

"Did you kill them?" Dok-ja asked Jung-hyuk as the two were standing in front of a dead body.

Hyun-sung, Nam-woon, and Ji-hye were looking around the station to scout the area.

'They must've attacked him the moment they saw him, I need to get to the bottom of the people responsible for this,' Dok-ja saw the red flag wrapped around this person's head, Chung-muro was targeted right now and things were going haywire.

"You seem to catch on quickly as usual," Jung-hyuk said as he seemed to know what Dok-ja was thinking.

"So, Are you not going to take this?" Dok-ja asked pointing at the flag since that was what Jung-hyuk needed right now.

"No, You can have it," Jung-hyuk said.

'Is he not taking this because it is too close to our base,' Dok-ja understood the reasoning and this was the best outcome for him.

"Anyway, What you do with it is up to you," Jung-hyuk said as he left Myeong-dong station without looking back.

Dok-ja was thinking deeply about what to do and in the end, he picked up the flag.

[You have become the Representative of 'Myeong-dong' by taking the Red Flag.]

[Current members left: 1]

Dok-ja saw the numerous notifications that appeared in front of him as he felt the sudden surge of power in his body.

'Ok, one of the main reasons I wanted to come here is done,' Dok-ja was grateful that he was able to do this easily, but things were only to get harder from this point on as Ji-hye came down to the station.

"Did Master leave already?" Ji-hye asked not seeing Jung-hyuk around.

"Yes, he needs to do a lot of things so he left in a hurry," Dok-ja smiled as he hid the flag.

"Ahjussi, You are really suspicious," Ji-hye narrowed her eyes looking at Dok-ja who just smiled in return.

"Dok-ja-ssi there are a lot of supplies here that could be of use, we should get back fast and bring some people to move them," Hyun-sung said as he came down as well.

"Good Work Hyun-sung, Ji-hye can you go back and alert the base, we'll stay here and see that it doesn't get stolen," Dok-ja quickly gave everyone new tasks.

"Well, alright," Ji-hye nodded and left the station after giving Dok-ja a side-eye.

'Nam-woon is also sitting here now,' Dok-ja was more relieved that this guy wasn't kicking up a storm right now.

"Hyun-sung I'll look around the station, so call for me if something happens," Dok-ja said and Hyun-sung nodded.

"I'll be on the lookout here," Hyun-sung smiled as he went down on the tracks to keep an eye out for enemies.

'Ok, I need to find where the flag pole is,' Dok-ja thought as he went up the stairs to look around, a few minutes later after he had searched the whole station.

'That…Damn bastard, I should've known he was up to something,' Dok-ja's face twitched in anger as he couldn't find the flagpole for Myeong-dong station at all, even after he looked around thoroughly.

In the end, he did find a place where it seemed like the flagpole was previously, why did he think like that?

'To think you could uproot a flagpole by breaking the ground around it,' Dok-ja massaged his forehead as it seemed that Jung-hyuk had taken the flagpole with him, which meant…

'He can assimilate my flag into his if I try to get in his way,' Jung-hyuk was holding Dok-ja's flag hostage.

This situation can be nulled, if Dok-ja gives this flag to Haru and it gets assimilated into Chung-muro's flag, but...

'He knew I won't do that, The chances of me being able to get another flag isn't something I'd like to bet on, I can't do things as Jung-hyuk does,' Dok-ja knew that Jung-hyuk could easily just walk into another station's base and take it over for himself in less than a few hours.

And that was what Jung-hyuk was going to do, this would be easier than fighting Haru and Queresha for the flag of Chung-muro.

But Dok-ja knew he couldn't do that, he didn't have the necessary skills and power to do that. So that is why he decided to keep this flag even with the demerits. This would also be helpful to him in a number of ways but that'll have to wait for now.

'And I don't really have to guard the flagpole the protagonist is doing it for me,' Dok-ja's flagpole was in one of the safest places in Seoul.

"Dok-ja-ssi Ji-hye came back," Hyun-sung came up to call for Dok-ja.

"Alright let's go back quickly," Dok-ja said as he went down to the platform with Hyun-sung following him.

***

[Currently, there is no group occupying Wang-Simni Station.]

[Are you sure you want to take over the station?]

Haru plugged the flag into the flag holder and pulled it out again. Then a flag that was the same as the one he had appeared in the flag holder.

[You have occupied Wang-simni Station.]

[A station that has been occupied can't be taken from you unless the 'main base' or flag is taken away.]

[Currently Occupied: Chungmuro (Main Base), Haeng-dang, Wang-simni, Sin Geum-ho.]

[The achievement points of the red flag are rising.]

Haru defeated a group that was occupying the Cheong-gu Station, they were only 15 people so it was very easy and he sent them back to Chung-muro as they were now part of his group.

And he also got the two stations that were under this group. Haru wanted to check if the stations they passed by had this flag pole or not, because if they did then he'll have free stations.

Well, that wasn't true since it seemed like there were some conditions for the flag pole to appear on a station. Leaving that aside for now…

'As I thought it appeared,' Haru thought as his flag's color changed from red to Navy and new panels appeared in front of him.

[Your influence has expanded by taking over a new station.]

[The hidden scenario has arrived!]

[The new king candidate has started to walk along his road!]

[The King's Road has begun!]