episode_0178

Jeong Yushin forgot about the desperate situation he was in and looked down at his hands.

He could feel it.

An enormous energy was swirling within his body.

“Wh…what is this?”

Is this the taste of divine magic that the generous Priest Mion gave me?

I will never forget it.

The other party members also stood up one by one and looked at Jeong Yushin.

Because Mion’s divine magic filled Jeong Yushin to overflowing and healed the others.

Someone swallowed hard.

What should they say?

His black hair turned golden and fluttered.

Perhaps because his face was attractive, there was no sense of incongruity; it looked as if he had found the perfect hair color.

Moreover, the sight of him emitting radiance from his whole body was as if a spirit god had descended upon Ska’s body.

As a mid-level explorer, he prided himself on having seen many strange sights, but this was beyond anything he had ever witnessed.

The dwarf spoke in a trembling voice.

“H…hey, Barbaroi?”

“What?”

“Ah…nothing.”

“How dull.”

At that moment.

The Lich Prince screamed and stepped back.

“Hoooaaaah!!!”

“Let’s go.”

This isn’t the time for this.

Jeong Yushin grabbed his bastard sword and kicked off the ground.

Physical abilities strengthened by all sorts of buff magic.

Jeong Yushin’s figure stretched out for a moment.

One step.

Two steps.

In just two steps, he reached the Lich Prince.

The Lich Prince frantically swung his bone staff.

Whoosh.

With a flash, the Lich Prince appeared in the center of the village.

Did he use teleportation magic or something?

It doesn’t matter.

With this much power, I could play tag with that guy all day.

[Ice Spear]

Rena’s ice spear flew from behind and lodged in the Lich Prince’s body.

“Let’s go!!! Now’s our chance!!!”

Mick and the lion-kin party, and the dwarf party ran after Jeong Yushin.

Are they intermediate explorers after all?

They weren’t completely clueless.

The entire party escaped the half-destroyed tavern and stood in the center of the village.

The Lich Prince raised his staff and aimed it at Jeong Yushin.

Weeeeeeeng!!!

A black orb gathered at the end of the staff.

Jeong Yushin lowered his body and ran forward quickly.

The black orb flew towards Jeong Yushin.

It was incredibly fast.

But it looked slow to Jeong Yushin. He easily avoided it by stepping aside.

The black orb struck right next to Jeong Yushin and exploded.

Kwaaaaang!!!

Stone fragments scattered, and dust billowed up, obscuring Jeong Yushin’s figure.

The party members who were running forward froze.

At that moment.

Hwaaaaak!!!

Jeong Yushin’s figure soared high, tearing through the dust.

He had the handle of the bastard sword in his mouth and was holding a golden single-edged axe high above his head.

Even the Lich Prince was surprised and stiffened.

Jeong Yushin brought the axe down on the Lich Prince’s head.

“Kheeheeheeeik!!!”

The Lich screamed and waved his hand.

A black barrier was created in an instant.

Jeong Yushin’s eyes blazed.

A barrier?

It doesn’t matter.

I’ll break it.

A downward strike, swung with blood and sweat every day for almost half a year.

It didn’t matter what weapon I held in my hand.

It contained the heart that split the dawn every day.

From top to bottom.

Jeong Yushin’s axe tore through the air and collided with the barrier.

Swaeeeeeeeeeek!!!

Kwaaaaang!!!

The black barrier shattered into pieces like a broken glass window.

Ka-thump!!!

Jeong Yushin’s axe did not stop and lodged in the Lich Prince’s skull.

Kwajijijik!!!

The Lich Prince’s green eyes shone brightly for a moment.

As he twisted the axe he had embedded, the Lich Prince screamed and struggled.

“Ska!!!”

All the party members grabbed their weapons and rushed in.

They surrounded the Lich Prince, who was slowly falling from the sky, and swung their weapons diligently.

Jeong Yushin hung on to the Lich Prince’s head, grabbed the bastard sword in his mouth in reverse grip, and raised it.

Then he struck down.

Kaaaaaak!!!

The bastard sword pierced through the Lich Prince’s head.

The light disappeared from the Lich Prince’s eyes.

The Lich Prince’s body, which slowly fell to the ground, turned to ash and scattered.

Lich Prince.

Subjugation complete.

Jeong Yushin, who had landed on the ground, collapsed.

It wasn’t that his body was tired. He was mentally exhausted.

“Are you all right?”

The dwarf approached and spoke to him.

“I’m fine.”

“Why didn’t you use that scroll sooner?”

“I received it from an acquaintance priest, but I had no idea it would be this powerful.”

“…”

Everyone came over one by one and surrounded Jeong Yushin.

The lion-kin came over.

“Barbaroi, I lost.”

‘What the hell is he talking about?’

Jeong Yushin looked up at the lion-kin without a word.

“Courage and skill are both outstanding. I owe you my life. Take them. My females.”

Jeong Yushin looked at the female beast-kin behind the lion-kin and opened his mouth.

“What crazy talk is that? Did you suddenly lose your mind?”

“It’s a lion-kin tradition. I heard that the females of the defeated belong to the victor.”

Jeong Yushin listened to Rena’s explanation with one ear and let it flow out the other.

“Rykel? I’m not a beast-kin. Don’t talk nonsense.”

“Oh, really? I thought you were a lion-kin?”

Jeong Yushin left the bewildered lion-kin and got up from his seat.

“The Lich Prince isn’t completely annihilated, is he?”

“Yes.”

“He’s the type of guy who will come back to life if we leave him alone. We have to find that life vessel or whatever it is.”

Everyone nodded at Jeong Yushin’s words.

“What does it look like?”

“It’s a polygonal glass object with a dark red core inside. I heard it’s covered in various curses. You have to be careful.”

At Rena’s explanation, the party members scattered to find the life vessel.

They couldn’t delay.

They didn’t want to face the resurrected Lich Prince again after resting idly.

The party members searched for a long time around the village, but they couldn’t find the life vessel.

Two hours passed.

All the party members gathered again at the collapsed tavern.

Jeong Yushin stood with his arms crossed, staring blankly at the ceiling.

Life Vessel.

A bottle containing the Lich’s life.

Where could it be?

Inwardly, he thought this event would be the appearance of a floor boss.

He found a giant goblin corpse on the 5th floor, so he thought there might be one on the 10th floor as well.

It was a conclusion Jeong Yushin had come to as he had played various MMORPGs.

Was he wrong?

Jeong Yushin stroked his chin.

Come to think of it.

‘Could it be that this is actually a game world?’

What if he had fallen into a game he had never heard of?

He didn’t know what genre it was.

It was because there were so many crazy abilities.

‘Is it a romance fantasy…?’

When he thought of Mion and Karin, it could be possible.

The Barbaroi guys came to mind.

‘It could be a hardcore dark fantasy hentai game.’

There were too many unusual people in the Maze City.

If five people gathered, all five would be suspicious of each other’s origins.

In wuxia novels, they say to be careful of children and old people, but here, everyone had to be looked at with suspicious eyes.

Suspicion.

Suspicion, huh.

Jeong Yushin looked down at the dwarf party.

“Dwarf, what was in that wooden box you guys were moving earlier?”

“It’s nothing much. The Merchant Guild asked us to recover some items they had left behind when they urgently withdrew from the 10th floor.”

“What kind of items?”

The dwarf shrugged.

“I don’t know.”

“Let’s open it up.”

“That’s a bit…”

Now that he thought about it, this Lich Prince had an alien nature when compared to the giant goblin on the 5th floor.

“We searched the whole village, but we can’t find that life vessel or whatever it is. I heard this place was fine during the last Eldritch Wave?”

“…”

Jeong Yushin took a step towards the dwarf.

The smell of conspiracy was in the air.

“Open it.”

“Hoo. I understand.”

The dwarves took out the boxes they had hidden back in the warehouse one by one.

There was nothing special.

There were only dried food, medicine, torches, and miscellaneous necessities. There were a few magical tools, but they weren’t anything worth paying attention to.

But when they opened the last few boxes, there were a large number of leather pouches.

“What is this?”

“Magic stones and spoils from the previous floors.”

“Why did you gather them all here?”

“Usually, explorers resupply on the 10th floor before going down. They exchange magic stones or valuable spoils from this floor for supplies instead of money. Of course, the cost-effectiveness is ridiculously bad.”

“Can’t they carry backpacks with space expansion magic on them?”

“It’s not cheap, and it’s expensive. And how much more can they put in? Even if the prices here are more expensive than in the city, there’s no other way.”

“Open them all.”

The dwarf’s eyes widened.

“All of these? There are dozens of bags. When will we ever get them all open?”

“So you’re not going to do it? The Lich Prince might resurrect.”

When Jeong Yushin glared at him, the party members sat down in the collapsed tavern and opened and turned over the bags one by one.

Various strange materials popped out.

As expected, there were various rewards in the maze.

“Amazing. There are so many strange materials that I’ve only seen in books…!”

Rena rummaged through the bag with sparkling eyes.

In terms of gold coins, the value was immeasurable.

The dwarves had sullen expressions on their faces.

Jeong Yushin rummaged through the bag, looked up at the dwarf.

“Is this why you guys were moving around when we weren’t here?”

“That’s right. No matter how much we support the exploration team, which explorer wouldn’t turn their eyes to valuable spoils?”

Certainly.

“Tsk.”

Jeong Yushin clicked his tongue and continued to rummage through the bag.

He searched for a long time, but he couldn’t see the life vessel anywhere.

Jeong Yushin threw the bag down and grabbed his head.

“Damn it.”

Was it all for nothing?

Nothing ever goes right in life.

He was sure he smelled a conspiracy.

It just seemed like a delusion.

He wasn’t a detective, so there was nothing he could do.

He was so dumbfounded that he stared blankly at the hole in the ceiling before getting up from his seat.

“Let’s go. There’s nothing we can do. We have to go back to the city and report quickly.”

The dwarves looked up at Jeong Yushin with blank faces.

“…Are you just going to leave after opening all these bags?”

“Do what you want. I killed that skeleton head, didn’t I?”

“That’s true, but…I feel strangely wronged.”

“I’ll wait for you.”

The dwarf party members gathered again and put the items back in the bags and picked up the boxes.

They must have been strong because they were carrying several boxes despite their small height and were still fine.

The three parties left the village and arrived at the transfer stone.

Jeong Yushin stepped forward and placed his hand on the transfer stone.

Hwaaaaang.

Red and blue portals were created.

The dwarf party went first, followed by the lion-kin party.

Finally, all of Rena’s party members went in.

Jeong Yushin was the last one left.

He felt uneasy.

Even though the subjugation was over, he felt like he hadn’t finished it perfectly.

Besides, he felt left behind because the Barbaroi guys had gone ahead.

At that time.

Jeong Yushin’s body stiffened.

Barbaroi?

Wait a minute.

Jeong Yushin grabbed Rena, who was about to enter the portal.

“Just a moment!”

“Yes?”

Rena turned her head and looked at Jeong Yushin.

“That Lich Prince, he didn’t have a lower body. Was he always like that?”

Rena thought for a moment at Jeong Yushin’s question and shook her head.

“No. I don’t think that’s usually the case.”

Jeong Yushin’s mind raced.

Barbaroi.

Missing lower body.

And the missing life vessel.

Jeong Yushin’s eyes widened.

Suddenly.

Enlightenment came.

No.

Was it a demon (心魔)?

‘These crazy bastards?!’

No way, right?

Could it be?

“Kuh!!!”

Jeong Yushin grabbed his head and staggered.

His rampant imagination disrupted Jeong Yushin’s mind.

“No. It can’t be. Damn it. If they were people…”

He shook his head to shake off the demon. He couldn’t jump to conclusions.

First, he had to report to the guild first.

He decided not to imagine any more.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

Jeong Yushin sent Rena, who had a curious expression, away and stepped into the portal.

After passing through the red light, the refreshing scent of air swirled around his nose.

A breeze that had cooled down a little brushed past Jeong Yushin’s hair.

He saw the sunset hanging over the ramparts and realized.

He had returned.

The party members were standing where they had fallen from the exit magic circle.

They all looked fine, as if they hadn’t received any special seals.

And the feeling of liberation.

Jeong Yushin put his hand on his heart.

Had he obtained a seal?

What kind of seal was it this time?

At that moment.

Light began to emanate from Jeong Yushin’s body.

“Oh, shit? Just a moment! Just a moment!!! What kind of crazy seal is it this time?!!!”

Jeong Yushin waved his hands in panic, but the light emanating from him grew stronger and stronger.

Soon.

Flash!!!

Jeong Yushin’s body was enveloped in tremendous radiance.