Chapter 90: A Feast of Extreme Misfortune

A monster from the 7th floor appeared in the 5th floor underground city.

The mana it emitted shook the surrounding area, and the dungeon trolls, who had reigned as masters of the garden, began to flee in terror.

“Gi-giant. It’s a giant!!”

“Ah… Aaah…!”

The heretics sat down, losing their will to fight at the appearance of the giant.

They never intended to summon a giant here in the first place.

They had planned to pull out one Watcher from the 6th floor crystal cave and control it.

But they failed to realize the persistence of those trying to regress, and some being from the 7th floor waiting for an opportunity sent the giant up.

To increase the mana concentration of the 5th floor.

To make it easier for monsters from the deep layers to come up.

The giant was a perfect mana mass and a monster optimized for terraforming the surroundings.

The masters of the 7th floor mocked the heretics who were screaming in fear while looking up at the giant.

“Kyaaah!!!”

“This is crazy!!! Why is a giant here!!!”

The altar in the garden district where the heretics had gathered exploded.

The sacrifices were all consumed by black flames, and through the flames, monsters from the 7th floor mocked the heretics.

If you received the labyrinth’s blessing and gained a second life, you should have quietly clung to the labyrinth and lived like a parasite.

How dare you try to manipulate the labyrinth as you please?

You humans. How dare you, you lowly insignificant insects.

-Kihehehehe!!!!

If you opened the door to the lower floors without knowing your place, pay the price.

Since you drank from the poisoned chalice. Spew blood in all directions and die.

It was a malicious rejoicing.

Countless demons dreaming of regression were watching the heretics.

The heretics, without knowing anything, pulled out a monster not from the 6th floor but from the 7th floor or above.

They had no idea how many people they had sacrificed to bring out a monster from the lower floors.

The only thing certain was that the heretics couldn’t control the Cyclops.

The giant, freed from control, looked around.

Insects.

It’s full of insects.

Small, weak, dirty, and ugly insects were looking up at it.

Their faces were terrified.

The fleeing pests looked very delicious.

Grumble.

It’s hungry.

This place has a low mana content.

It’s hard to breathe.

Hungry and frustrated.

Anger welled up, and the giant swung its hand.

Kwaaang-!!!!

The heretics’ outpost in the garden district where they had been trembling was shattered, and corpses flew to the edge of the garden district, damaged beyond recognition.

Splat-!!

The corpses of heretics flew to the wall of the garden district and were crushed like meat patties.

In this small, cramped city, the giant howled and rampaged.

“Kuaaaaaaah!!!!”

The Cyclops is a simple, brute creature.

Though evil and arrogant, it’s not very intelligent.

It’s just a mid-boss level monster from the 7th floor that fights relying on its brutally powerful physical abilities, overwhelming innate mana, and the brute strength of both hands.

It wasn’t highly intelligent, just a monster with an absurdly high physical level.

Unmatched.

The heretics couldn’t even stop the Cyclops’ steps.

“Fuck!! The trolls are escaping!!!”

“Get out of the way! Idiot! Don’t block the trolls’ path!!!!”

“Kyaaaah!!!”

The dungeon trolls, feeling extreme fear at the appearance of this absurd monster, broke free from the heretics’ control and began to flee, smashing everything in their path.

The heretics fleeing with them were pushed and trampled to death by the dungeon trolls, and the giant trampled the corpses of the dead heretics again.

The garden is collapsing.

With the appearance of a giant incompatible with the underground city’s specifications, the garden was being destroyed, and the aftermath spread throughout the entire 5th floor.

Even monsters from other districts came under its influence. Monsters enveloped in madness began to rampage. They broke free from the heretics’ control.

This is what a 7th floor monster is like. It exerts influence just by existing.

This is why even Platinum Badge holders don’t want to go down to the 7th floor.

The monsters crawling out had such broken power balance.

It wasn’t an area made to be conquered in the first place.

The 6th floor and below are endangered species protection areas. It’s not a place humans should approach.

“So-someone help me… Hueuk. My body… My body won’t move.. Fuck..”

“Wh-what do we do about th-this…!!!”

“Mom…”

It wasn’t just the dungeon trolls that fell into fear.

The nine adventurers also screamed, stiff from the Cyclops’ intimidation.

Those who made eye contact with the one-eyed giant all trembled and couldn’t take their eyes off its pupil.

The giant’s binding spell.

The giant’s intimidation that binds the prey’s body. Those with low mental strength find it difficult to break free from this intimidation.

‘This is crazy.’

Among the adventurers who had fallen into panic and couldn’t move, only Sion could move.

It wasn’t just because he had high mental strength like the inquisitors.

It was because the binding of the three villainesses tied to his heart was stronger than the giant’s binding.

[Until you enter the deepest part and resolve our grudge. You cannot die.]

“I know. I know…!”

Sion slapped his cheek once and moved again.

He ran past the Saint who was glaring at the giant, picked up the vine beans planted in the ground, and put them in his pocket.

This place will soon be devastated. Then the vine beans will surely die too. It’s a waste. It would be better to plant them somewhere else.

Kwaaang-!!!!

The ground shakes again.

Every step the giant took shook the 5th floor underground city. Moreover, it threw and smashed everything it could grab.

The impact reached below the floor division, and sinkholes formed in various places as the ground collapsed. Debris thrown by it flew in all directions, destroying the garden district.

“Saint! What do we do!!! Saint!!!!”

“…”

The Saint was at a loss for words at the giant’s appearance.

It wasn’t because of fear or terror.

It was because it was absurd.

How could the situation have gone to hell like this?

This was an absurd level of misfortune beyond words.

It even felt like the labyrinth itself had stepped in to plunge her and her party members into the abyss.

From the moment they entered the underground city until now, bad luck had been following them continuously.

She thought she could endure most misfortunes, but she was wrong. This was too much even for her.

‘Can I win against the giant?’

To the question of whether she could defeat the giant alone, the Saint was confident she could win.

However, the Saint herself wouldn’t be in a good state either.

Fighting a giant in a labyrinth where heretics roam and falling into a near-death state? That was nothing short of suicide.

“Saint!! Hurry!! The situation is getting weird!! Orders..!!!!”

“Porter. Just… be quiet for a moment.”

Sion, who had been shouting at the Saint, closed his mouth.

The Saint calmed Sion down, then ran her hand through her hair and looked at her team members.

Rosie and Paramel had completely fallen into panic.

Especially Paramel, the youngest and weakest among the inquisitors, was expressing fear at the nightmare of the 7th floor, and Rosie was also trembling at the giant’s roar. Even though they had the potential to become Platinum Badge holders, they weren’t adventurers who had actually gone down to the 7th floor.

So it was natural for them to fall into panic like this. Rather, the porter who was moving and speaking normally was the unusual case.

“If I get out.. I must retire..”

Meanwhile, Sasaro decided to retire for sure once this journey was over.

The inquisitor job wasn’t something an old man should do.

At that moment, Raphael, standing next to Sasaro, gripped his weapon tightly and tried to run towards the giant.

“Raphael! Stop!”

“Ah. Aah. Saint.”

Raphael, who had been raising his fighting spirit captured by wildness, quickly returned to reality.

The moment Raphael clashes head-on with the giant, he’ll be crushed. Yet Raphael tried to run.

Because his heart was pounding, ordering him to kill the giant.

The barbarian’s unique giant phobia was suppressed by Raphael’s civilized reason.

“Now, from now on…”

The Saint ordered.

She shouted at her subordinates who had fallen into panic.

“First, Raphael, kill the adventurers who can’t move due to panic! Sion, collect the corpses! Sasaro, Rosie! Heretics are coming! Prepare!”

The Saint judged that the adventurers couldn’t escape this place alive.

She immediately ordered Raphael to kill the adventurers, and Sion, understanding the Saint’s intention, put all the scattered luggage into his spatial pocket and then picked up the adventurers dying by Raphael’s hand.

“And Paramel!!!”

“Yes!!!”

“Get your mind straight and kill the heretics..”

The heretics were approaching.

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“Th-this fucking!!!!”

Meanwhile, Max rolled his body forcibly to escape from Raphael’s grasp, watching his companions die before his eyes.

He didn’t want to pay 200 gold coins even if he died. No, he couldn’t.

Even if he died here, it was better to be trampled to death by monsters than to owe a debt to the religious order.

“I can move so don’t touch me!!!”

“Then quickly kill or wake up your companion next to you!”

“Fuck fuck fuck!!!!”

Max felt like his head was about to burst.

When he resolved to die instead, he was able to break free from the giant’s eyes, but that was the limit.

His head was spinning and blood was pouring from both nostrils.

It was a powerful mental attack.

“That fucking giant bastard.. I.. I think I’m going to die like this!!!!”

Max took out a dagger from his pocket and stabbed the back of his left hand.

Blood gushed out, and the pain brought him back to his senses.

“Hail!! You old man!!! Wake up!!!”

Max slashed Hail’s thigh with the knife.

As blood gushed out, the middle-aged adventurer Hail exhaled the blocked breath and sat down.

“Let’s grab Roka and run!!!”

“What about the Saint’s party!?”

“I don’t know, fuck!!! Just run!!!!”

Hail and Max escaped.

Max thought he didn’t know what kind of misfortune he might suffer if he stayed with the Saint.

Yes, he had lost his judgment. He couldn’t think properly, and his usual hatred for the religious order impulsively made him run away from the Saint.

As Hail, Max, and Roka disappeared beyond the grass of the garden district, and four adventurers lost their lives to Raphael and were sucked into Sion’s spatial pocket.

The heretics arrived where the Saint’s party was.

“There’s the Saint!”

“Kill her no matter what. If not, at least stab her. Even if we die! If we can just kill the Saint, it’s worth it..!”

The heretics swung their weapons towards the Saint even in their crazed state.

The confusion intensifies.

Paramel and Sasaro swung their weapons at the charging heretics, and Rosie guarded Sion’s back. And in that gap, Sion saw something.

“Huh?”

A huge boulder was flying towards this place. It was a rock thrown by the giant.

Kwaaang-!!!

The enormous mass crushed everything in front of Sion’s eyes as it passed. The heretics were all swept away and turned into mincemeat.

It’s a mess. It felt like we’d really die if we stayed here. No matter how strong the inquisitors are, they can’t block that. In the face of overwhelming mass, humans were just insects.

“Porter!!!”

“Ye-yes!!!”

“We’re going to retreat to the central district!!! Take out the oil bottles and throw them behind!”

“What? Ah! Yes!!!”

Sion followed behind the inquisitors and threw oil bottles in all directions. He threw, dropped, and fired oil bottles as much as he could.

As much as possible. As far as possible. He threw them in all directions to make them catch fire as easily as possible.

Just as his arms were starting to hurt, the Saint shot something behind her.

“Die all of you!!!!”

The Saint shouted and lit holy fire.

The flames spread to the garden.

The flames that would engulf the giant, dungeon trolls, and terrified heretics blazed on without any sign of diminishing.