episode_0094

Gulp.

Jeong Yu-shin swallowed hard.

He had to say something, but his mouth wouldn’t open.

Was he possessed?

When on earth?

“It’s that leather inscription! I knew I felt an ominous energy hadn’t disappeared; he was possessed!”

The dwarven priest shouted.

Jeong Yu-shin’s mouth dropped open.

“Ah.”

No wonder the watchtower exploration took so long.

“Kubo, what should we do?”

Jeong Yu-shin said, stepping forward.

“We have to subdue Mars! If you tear that leather, the possession will be released!”

At that moment.

Mars turned his head and looked at Jeong Yu-shin and the party members. Instead of a tongue, a long earthworm came out of his mouth and flicked around.

“Khe he he!!!”

Mars let out a bizarre laugh and was about to leap backward, when.

Kubo shouted.

“No! We can’t let him escape!”

Jeong Yu-shin ran quickly.

He approached only with his shield and fists, without drawing his sword. Even if he was possessed, he couldn’t kill a party member.

Mars swung a dagger.

Whoosh!!!

It was just a dagger, but the sound of it cutting through the air was unsettling.

‘Come.’

Jeong Yu-shin raised his shield.

Clang!!!

An enormous impact. The dagger not only pierced the shield but also pushed Jeong Yu-shin’s body backward.

Crack, crack, crack.

Weeds were torn out, and long footprints were imprinted on the dirt floor.

“Keuk!”

He gritted his teeth, but a groan escaped involuntarily. His wrist throbbed.

This is possession?

His muscular body, pumped up with constant training, was pushed back by Mars’s single strike.

An enormous strength. A level of power that a pathfinder rat-person shouldn’t be able to exert.

‘Damn it. This fucking maze.’

A curse involuntarily leaked from deep within his chest.

Grinding.

He clenched his teeth.

He couldn’t give up here. The pathfinder was the most important person in the party. Especially in a forest area they were visiting for the first time.

But he couldn’t kill him, nor could he inflict injuries that couldn’t be healed with potions.

A dilemma.

He had to subdue him with only his shield and fists.

‘I can do it.’

How far he had come to get here.

Once he resolved himself, his posture naturally adjusted.

Mars charged again and swung his dagger.

Whoosh!!!

Diagonal. Aiming for his left shoulder.

He quickly pulled his back foot and lowered his stance.

Raising his shield.

One. Two.

Three.

Bang!!!

As soon as the dagger pierced the shield, he twisted his waist and pulled the shield.

Mars chuckled and was pulled along.

Jeong Yu-shin waited behind the shield, hiding his fist.

‘Just a little more.’

Mars’s body was pulled close. His eyes were completely black. A complete state of possession.

He thrust his fist forward.

Thwack!!!

His well-aimed body blow lodged precisely under Mars’s ribcage. The place where the liver and ribs were.

“Keuh eugh!!!”

Mars’s body bent over and spewed black water.

Jeong Yu-shin was covered in the liquid Mars spat out, but he didn’t care.

‘It’s working!’

He didn’t know what that possessed bastard was, but he couldn’t escape the exorcism liver shot.

He abandoned the shield, tackled Mars, laid him down, and climbed on top.

Jeong Yu-shin raised his fist and struck Mars’s head.

Thwack!!! Thwack!!! Thwack!!!

“Come out!!! Get out of Mars’s body!!!”

Kubo rushed over and clung to Jeong Yu-shin.

“Scar! You idiot!!! Be gentle! You’ll kill Mars!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin suddenly came to his senses and looked down at Mars.

Black water was still pouring out of Mars’s mouth.

“What should I do now?”

“Wait! Iron Mask ran to the watchtower!”

“Alone? Isn’t that too dangerous?”

“Iron Mask said he left markers while walking. That’s why I sent him ahead.”

Jeong Yu-shin nodded.

No wonder Iron Mask wasn’t helping him while he was wrestling with Mars; that was the reason.

“S…Scar.”

Mars blinked and stammered.

“Mars?”

Not black eyes. White and black coexisted. They were his original eyes.

‘Could the exorcism have succeeded?’

“No! Don’t be fooled!!! The evil spirit hasn’t left Mars!”

Kubo exclaimed in alarm and stopped Jeong Yu-shin.

“An evil spirit? Wasn’t it something like an outer god of the universe?”

“Wh…what are you talking about? Absolutely not!”

“Then what is this bastard?”

In response to Jeong Yu-shin’s question, Mars’s eyes turned black.

“Heh heh heh. Curious who I am, Scar? I am a servant of 𐒗𐒚𐒥𐒚, 𐒥𐨀𐨩.”

“Keeeuk!!! Ifrit, spirit god of fire!!!”

Kubo stepped back and raised the spirit god’s emblem hanging around his neck.

Jeong Yu-shin also felt a chill for a moment, but that was it. He didn’t twist his body or turn pale like Kubo.

‘What the hell is he talking about?’

He didn’t have time to be curious.

Thwack!!!

With a sharp pain in his ribs, his body floated into the air.

“Keuk!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin flew away and crashed into a tree.

Thud!!!

Jeong Yu-shin, who had fallen to the ground, writhed like a worm.

“Cough. Keuk.”

He couldn’t breathe.

“Kihihihik!!!”

Mars, with his eyes rolled back, laughed and got up.

Jeong Yu-shin groped around his stomach. A sharp pain. He was wearing light armor, but his ribs were cracked.

[Revenger]

Blue ether leaked out from between the gaps in his helmet.

Jeong Yu-shin staggered to his feet.

Mars charged and swung his fist.

Thwack!!!

The helmet crumpled, and he was thrown back to the ground. His head was dizzy, as if he had a concussion.

“Damn it!!! Scar!!!”

Priest Kubo shouted.

A disaster caused by carelessness. It was a bitter lesson.

Mars’s kick aimed for Jeong Yu-shin’s abdomen.

Whooong!!!

He felt it instinctively. If he got hit by that kick, there would be no turning back.

Jeong Yu-shin quickly rolled his body and avoided Mars’s foot.

Crack, crack, crack!!!

The missed kick shattered the base of a tree.

He sprang up as if bouncing and delivered an elbow strike.

Thwack!!!

The elbow, bearing the weight of his entire body, struck Mars’s head.

Mars’s head snapped to the side.

‘Now.’

Grabbing the shoulder of Mars, who was staggering back, with one hand, he clenched his fist with the other.

‘Forgive me, Mars.’

[Sacred Weapon]

Holy golden light enveloped his fist.

Thwack!!! Thwack!!! Thwack!!! Thwack!!!

Jeong Yu-shin’s fist lodged in Mars’s face several times. Between the eyebrows, temples, nose, cheekbones, he diligently crammed in punches without discrimination.

“Keh-eck! Keck! Keuk!”

Mars trembled as if electrocuted, intermittently screaming, but he didn’t stop.

Finally, when Mars’s eyes rolled back and he became limp like a jellyfish, Priest Kubo stepped forward.

“Scar, st…stop it now! You’ll really kill him!”

He stopped punching. The leather glove was wet with the blood and snot of the poor rat-person.

“Hoo. Okay.”

He shook off the foreign substances on his glove, gently laid Mars on the ground, and took the dagger from his belt.

He didn’t know if the possession was released, but since he was lying still, there seemed to be no need to use his fists anymore.

The moment Jeong Yu-shin felt relieved.

Rustle.

“Goo eee errrrr.”

A strange sound came from beyond the bushes.

Jeong Yu-shin and Kubo’s bodies froze for a moment.

“No…no way.”

Kubo trembled.

“Ah, shit.”

Jeong Yu-shin clicked his tongue and drew his sword.

Something pushed through the bushes and suddenly revealed its face.

Jeong Yu-shin narrowed his eyes after confirming the identity.

A human-shaped monster with a mushroom for a head.

Its whole body was mixed with small mushrooms and spores, and a foul odor permeated the air.

That wasn’t the end.

A tiny corpse, like a baby, crawled out of the ground. A huge mushroom-like thing was attached to its small back, with hundreds of holes drilled in it, from which brown spores leaked like smog.

Eight mushroom-fungus people.

Two mushroom baby corpses.

They all moved slowly, but they were extremely dangerous forest creatures, full of poison. He knew it because he had read about them in a book.

“Kubo!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin stood up and drew his arming sword.

He was stepping firmly on the possessed Mars’s stomach so he wouldn’t escape.

“Don’t worry about me!”

Kubo shouted, raising his staff.

Monsters that had suddenly appeared.

Iron Mask had left to eliminate the leather inscription.

Mars was incapacitated.

He was facing the worst situation.

“Goo eee errrrr!!!”

The mushroom people reached out their hands and charged.

“Fuck!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin cursed. It was a mistake to throw the shield so far away.

Three mushroom people charged at once.

Jeong Yu-shin swung his arming sword.

Slash!!!

A mushroom head was cut off, and thick pus burst out, pouring over Jeong Yu-shin.

A few drops of the thick liquid entered his eyes through the gaps in his helmet.

“Keueugh!!!”

For a moment, his vision blurred, and the membranes of his eyes felt hot as if burned by fire.

[Venom Protection]

[Revenger]

One activated voluntarily, the other automatically.

Blue ether flared up between the gaps in his helmet.

He used Mars’s dagger to block the hand swung by another mushroom person.

Clang!!!

“Keuk!!!”

It was slow, but it had enormous strength.

The dagger cut the mushroom person’s hand in half, but it didn’t seem to feel any pain, as it raised its other hand.

Jeong Yu-shin quickly swung his arming sword, cut off the remaining arm, and struck its neck.

Slice!!!

The mushroom person’s head flew into the air and fell to the ground.

Splatter!!!

Green fluid splattered from the severed neck of the mushroom person onto Mars’s face.

“Kiheheheheck!!!”

Mars, who had awakened at some point, was laughing like crazy.

He seemed to know that he didn’t have much time left before he was released.

‘Not a chance.’

He secured the dagger to his belt.

[Sacred Weapon]

He made a long iron skewer and stuck it into Mars’s left hand.

“Kuaaaaaack!!!”

Mars let out a bizarre scream that he had never heard before.

‘As expected.’

Perhaps because it was a magic mixed with divine power, it worked well against the evil spirit.

Another mushroom person charged and swung its arm wildly.

Whooooong!!!

He ducked to avoid the mushroom person’s attack and stabbed the dagger into the monster’s left knee.

Thwack!!!

He stuck the dagger deep into its knee, but the mushroom person didn’t even flinch.

Without stopping there, Jeong Yu-shin thrust his arming sword into the mushroom monster’s chest.

Thwack!!!

He released his hand and stepped back.

[Sacred Weapon]

What he wanted was a single-edged axe.

He grabbed it with both hands and chopped off the monster’s head.

Puhahaaaack!!!

Just as the mushroom person, whose head was flying off, was staggering backward.

Jeong Yu-shin quickly drew his arming sword and dagger.

Mars, who had been laughing bizarrely, stared blankly up at Jeong Yu-shin and suddenly bowed his head. It seemed he had lost consciousness.

“I-it disappeared!”

Priest Kubo shouted briefly.

He understood immediately.

He nodded and took his foot off Mars’s body.

Iron Mask, the leader, must have cut that damn leather panel.

He turned around.

Kubo was sweating profusely, waving his staff to block the attacks of the mushroom-headed people. There were about two mushroom people with their heads burst nearby.

He immediately ran to Kubo.

“Kubo!!!”

“Scar!”

Jeong Yu-shin ran over, grabbed the head of the mushroom monster, and slammed it to the ground.

Thud!!!

He raised his foot and stomped on the head of the writhing monster.

Crackle!!!

As the monster’s head was crushed, spores and fluid soaked the ground and spread widely.

Moment.

Whooong!!!

Something tearing through the air and approaching from behind.

Jeong Yu-shin desperately turned his body and swung his sword. There wasn’t even time to see and confirm with his eyes.

Clang!!!

The arming sword broke.

“Shit!!!”

Fragments of the broken arming sword and a cone-shaped object emitting spores lingered in the air for a moment before falling to the ground.

He immediately knew where the cone came from.

Because spores of the same color were billowing out of the huge mushroom on the baby’s corpse.

Jeong Yu-shin threw his body.

Whooong!!!

Whooong!!!

A bizarre cone shot spores and flew at Jeong Yu-shin. It was twice as fast and powerful as a typical crossbow bolt.

He didn’t have a sword.

No.

He did.

The blue longsword on his back. The sword made by Einhofer and Boron.

Click!

He grabbed the sword hilt and immediately drew and swung it. Towards the flying cone.

Whoosh!!!

A speed that was on a different level from a one-handed sword.

The blade, reflected in the fading torchlight, coldly illuminated the dark forest.

Slash!!!

Jeong Yu-shin’s longsword cut through two cones like tofu.

[Sacred Weapon]

He grabbed the spear made of light and threw it as it was.

Whooosh!!!

The spear of light tore through the air, flew, pierced the mushroom of the baby corpse, and stuck into the ground.

Instant death. The baby corpse didn’t move anymore.

Jeong Yu-shin ran and split the remaining baby corpse in half.

Tear!!!

Brown fluid splattered from the cross-section of the halved baby corpse, scattering all over his body.

Jeong Yu-shin lowered his sword and stood in place.

“Huff. Huff.”

The only sound in the area was Jeong Yu-shin’s rough breathing.

Complete extermination.

There were no more moving monsters.

“Kuh-euuhck!!!”

Suddenly, Kubo’s scream came from behind.

“What?!”

Jeong Yu-shin quickly turned his body.

Three human-sized spiders descended from the tree and were clinging to Kubo.

“Shit!!! Kubo!!!”

Just as Jeong Yu-shin was about to run quickly.

Someone jumped in and swung a greatsword.

With a single strike, all three were cut in half.

Kubo, covered in innards and fluid, thrashed his body.

“Iron Mask!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin shouted.

“Hoo. Hoo. I was late. I’m sorry.”

Iron Mask apologized, panting roughly. Jeong Yu-shin immediately shook his head.

“Haa. No. I’m sorry. I should have protected the party members.”

Moment.

A woman walked out from behind Iron Mask.

Brown hair.

A seemingly timid appearance.

She was a member of Ret’s party.

Jeong Yu-shin stared blankly at the woman.

Why did she suddenly appear here?

‘Was her name Brinn?’

“P-please help me!”

Brinn shouted, bowing her head.

Jeong Yu-shin slumped to the ground.

As soon as he solved one problem, another popped up.

“Haa…why can’t I be happy?”

Jeong Yu-shin’s listless voice came out from between the gaps in his helmet.