Episode 422. Hwadong Dungeon Exploration (3)

An unidentified cadet blocking the entrance to the dungeon.

There was almost no magic power to be felt.

Seeing the cadet staring blankly into space, it would be reasonable to assume he’d wandered into the dungeon by chance.

The Iris Guild’s investigation team was momentarily flustered by the sudden appearance of the suspicious person, but they quickly grasped the situation.

And seemingly thinking the same as me, one guild member approached the cadet.

“Hello. Are you a cadet from Victoria Academy? How did you get in here?”

“….”

“Don’t be alarmed. We don’t intend to harm you. We just want to know how you got in….”

Just as the female guild member approached the cadet with a smile.

The male cadet, wearing a sinister smile, took a step forward.

Simultaneously, the female guild member lost her balance and collapsed as if fainting.

“Ha, haa-eut….”

“…What?! Angelina!”

“Angelina collapsed!”

The woman called Angelina collapsed simply from the male cadet getting close.

The guild members behind her seemed surprised, but they didn’t seem to have seen the details.

“Just now, clearly….”

I, who was activating ‘Clairvoyance’, confirmed it clearly.

The moment Angelina collapsed.

She was rubbing her thighs with an ecstatic smile.

It wasn’t the face of someone being attacked.

Gulp.

‘…This is strange.’

Tension spread among the guild members, and I glared at the man before me with a serious expression.

For some reason, an immense hostility burned in my chest.

It felt like I couldn’t let that man live right before my eyes…

“Her body is decent, but her face isn’t my type.”

The male cadet muttered, looking at Angelina’s fallen face.

Only after hearing that did the puzzle pieces in my head click into place.

‘Apostles. They definitely said there were Apostles.’

The fiends I captured had said the Apostles were coming soon.

If that guy is an Apostle….

“Hey. Snap out of it.”

Thump- Thump-

I kicked the fiends I’d been dragging along while speaking, but the two remained unconscious and couldn’t get up.

Damn it.

If I’d known this would happen, I should have treated them a bit more kindly.

“D-Dr. Kang Hyorin. What should we do?”

“…I’ll handle this. Everyone step back.”

The terrified guild members looked at Dr. Kang Hyorin.

As Kang Hyorin was about to act as the Korean Branch Manager, Irene blocked her path.

“No, I’ll go.”

“Irene-nim? No, there’s no need….”

“It’s fine. I’m the strongest.”

Irene pushed everyone back and stepped forward.

While it wasn’t necessarily the best plan for the strongest among them to go first, her expression was grim.

It was natural, given that an Iris Guild member had fallen right before her eyes.

She’s more dedicated to her work than she looks.

“Surrender while I’m being nice. I’ll treat you well if you do.”

“…Hmm.”

The male cadet looked at the approaching Irene and frowned as if looking at a bug.

“You’re quite my type, but… you’re not a virgin. If only I’d met you a little earlier. If you had offered me your virginity, I would have doted on you.”

“W-What did you say?”

Irene blushed at the sudden sexual harassment and glared at him.

We, listening tensely from behind, were just as surprised.

The male cadet ignored the flustered Irene and looked around.

“The fiends are captured… that crazy bastard seems to have already escaped… and there are no women I like here, so there’s no reason for me to be here.”

The guy didn’t seem to have any particular business in this dungeon.

Thump-

Simultaneously, my heart pounded.

‘Premonition of combat sense.’

“Sky-Piercing Bow, deploy.”

I unconsciously deployed the Sky-Piercing Bow and the Rune barrier.

At the same time, an unidentified, unpleasant aura struck the guild members, including me.

It felt similar to when I saw Chiron’s teleportation.

An unpleasant and gloomy, unsettling atmosphere characteristic of the Underworld.

I reacted quickly to the opponent’s attack, but I didn’t have enough time to block it all.

In the end, everyone except for the guild members near me was exposed to the aura.

“Kueueueuk! Ah, aahk!”

“Heeung….”

“Ah, ahaang….”

The guild members exposed to the aura slowly began to react.

They trembled violently and then started firing magic at the remaining members.

“Wait, Esther! What are you doing!”

“Susan! Stop!”

“Kim Seojun has gone crazy!”

I quickly assessed the situation.

The guild members exposed to the aura had lost their minds.

It was probably the Apostle’s special ability.

If my guess is right, it’s probably an ability like ‘Charm.’

Even though I deployed the Sky-Piercing Bow, it wasn’t an attack by magic power, so I couldn’t cure the guild members already affected by Charm.

“Fuck, this is really absurd….”

I controlled the magic power within the Sky-Piercing Bow to block the incoming magic and gave an order to the confused guild members.

“It seems like the opponent’s magic. Don’t panic and just subdue those whose eyes have glazed over.”

“…Understood. Everyone gather around me!”

Fortunately, the remaining members quickly regained their senses and, centered around Dr. Kang Hyorin, gradually subdued the guild members affected by Charm.

Actually, there were few guild members attacking this side.

Most were rolling on the floor, tearing at their hair while affected by Charm.

My guess is that only inexperienced people are properly affected by Charm.

‘What kind of ability is this.’

The annoying part is that men are included too.

I approached Irene, who was rolling on the floor right in front of me.

“Irene-ssi. Get up. The guy escaped.”

“Ah, aahp… Heuk….”

Irene was writhing on the floor, seemingly in pain.

It didn’t seem like sexual pleasure, but rather physical pain.

Since she was close to the opponent, she must have received a strong shock.

‘Is it ‘if I can’t have it, I’ll destroy it’?’

I placed my hand on Irene’s suffering body and infused it with magic power.

As I touched her body with magic power, the pain seemed to lessen, but there was still no sign of healing.

“Ah, aahk… Keuhp….”

“Irene-ssi. Please bear with it for a moment.”

I quietly looked at Irene, then placed my hand on her chest.

The soft touch of her breasts enveloping my hand.

I moved my hand.

Even through her clothes, the texture was supreme. Truly blessed genes.

After touching her breasts for a moment, there was a ‘Tak-‘ sound, and a tingling pain shot through the back of my hand.

“Y-You crazy bastard. Trying to do that even here. Even so, this is….”

“Doesn’t it hurt now?”

“…Huh?”

Irene, who had slapped my hand away, checked her own condition.

The pain she’d felt moments ago seemed to have vanished instantly.

‘I figured as much.’

Since he was a guy who cared so much about virginity, it seemed like the ability would disappear if another man touched her.

Even for an Apostle, casting Charm without any conditions is too overpowered.

“Th-That guy…?”

“He escaped.”

“…… Haa.”

“It hurts. My hand hurts so much.”

“Sorry. I didn’t know that was the intention. I naturally thought it was sexual harassment….”

“It’s okay. I was half-doubting it too.”

I chuckled wryly and looked at the empty dungeon entrance.

His presence felt weak.

But I couldn’t properly grasp that strange aura.

It seems certain that the man was one of the Apostles.

“Are you okay? Taehyun-ah?!”

“Sehee, Kim Sehee! Snap out of it!”

The cleanup of the remaining guild members seemed mostly finished.

Irene went to check on the remaining guild members, and I continued pondering.

The Apostles summoned by Pandemic.

Considering Chiron, the first Apostle, it can be inferred that the other Apostles are also children of the Demon King.

And I know the children of the Demon King.

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[ Hell’s Rascal Summoning Contract ]

Are you the one who summoned Hell’s Rascals?

Choose one of the four Rascals.

1. The demon butcher shop owner crazy for human flesh, Lucifer

2. The Underworld Academy’s virgin-bombing, Golden-Haired Incubus

3. F-rank mercenary for 20 years. The potential of a veteran who’s never won a battle, the Centaur

4. The 50-year-old spinster and master web-weaver, the Succubus

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Hell’s Rascals.

That’s a term for the Demon King’s children.

That guy must be the virgin-bombing, Golden-Haired Incubus.

“This is absurd….”

What are they trying to achieve by summoning that kind of unpleasant guy as an Apostle?

I sighed deeply.

His combat power wasn’t high, but he’s the enemy of women.

No matter what, I can’t let him get close to my women.

“…I need to get out of here quickly.”

I quickened my steps toward the guild members.

I need to clean this up quickly and get outside.

Otherwise, something unpleasant might happen.

*

Inside a professor’s office at Victoria Academy.

A ‘Busy’ sign hung on the door, and inside, a man and woman were having sex, making lewd sounds.

It was a blond man in a cadet uniform and a female professor.

“Ha, haak. Ah, y-yes….”

The female professor moved her hips in pursuit of pleasure, her pupils dilated.

Squelching watery sounds echoed through the office.

After a short time spent together.

The blond Incubus pushed away the female professor obscenely grinding her hips on top of him.

The female professor naturally fell to the floor with a thud, but nevertheless clung to the Incubus’s thigh again.

Her eyes were fixed on his hard penis.

“Go clean something up.”

“Y-Yes….”

The Incubus paid little attention to the female professor.

She was just a woman to take minimal essence from and discard anyway.

While the female professor buried her head in the Incubus’s groin, he nodded while looking at the list she had provided.

“What an interesting world… I wish I had been born somewhere like this.”

He was very surprised when he, who had given up his position as the Demon King’s successor and gone into hiding, was summoned to the human world, but he adapted quickly.

The man who summoned him introduced himself as Maestro and said the human world needed chaos.

There are countless powerful beings in the Underworld.

He still didn’t know why he was summoned instead of them, but the more he thought about it, the more grateful he felt towards the man.

A world without ‘her’ was like heaven to him.

Here, he could start over from the beginning.

“Besides, there are many pretty humans…. Hmm?”

The Incubus, who had been blankly scanning the list of female students at the academy, stopped his hand on one spot.

First-year, Class A.

He slowly examined the female students of Class A.

The Incubus’s eyes gradually widened as he looked at the list.

They were truly beauties capable of overthrowing cities.

There were four women so beautiful that they could start a war in the Underworld over just one of them.

The Incubus couldn’t hide the excitement filling the depths of his chest.

“Get off.”

“Ah, ah-eung.”

The Incubus pulled off the female professor clinging to his crotch.

He couldn’t waste his vital energy on a woman like her.

He then left the professor’s office.

In his hand was the list for First-year, Class A.

The Incubus race fundamentally needs to obtain vital essence.

Vital essence is the measure of power.

The more beautiful women an Incubus takes, the stronger they become.

Among them, the vital essence of human women is top-grade.

“If they’re virgins, I can absorb immense vital essence. If all four are virgins, I too could again….”

The Incubus clenched his fist tightly with anticipation, his muttering quietly dissipated into the air.