𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟗: 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 (4)
As the thought crossed his mind, Oswald felt a momentary sense of unease.
“What the? Why haven’t the other team members shown up?”
He looked around with a puzzled expression. There were Gold and Silver ranks on the other teams as well. But for them to be absent like this. . . it seemed like something serious had happened.
The bullets in the revolver wouldn’t last forever. . . He needed to come up with some sort of plan before then.
‘𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬. . . 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴. . . 𝘈𝘩! 𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘌𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦!’
The emergency escape system of the magic watch, which is activated when it detects a life-threatening crisis. He wondered if he could use that to inform the outside world about the current situation.
‘𝘈𝘩! 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘱 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮. . . 𝘚𝘩𝘪━’
If one attempts to warp while the warp jamming magic circle is in place, their body will be torn to shreds as it gets stuck in the dimension. In short, while he wouldn’t be killed by Hydra, he would end up losing his life due to the emergency escape.
‘𝘋𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘥𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘐 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵?’
Oswald, who had made up his mind, decided to move from a passive stance to a more active one.
He first put one of the revolvers in his magic pocket and took out a greatsword for bayonet use and held it in his left hand. Then, he opened the Fate Shop and upgraded ‘Swordsmanship Basics Lv. 1’ to ‘Swordsmanship Fundamentals’ by investing 90P, and then to ‘Swordsmanship Proficiency’ by investing another 1,000P.
Just before advancing to the front lines, Oswald called out to Royman.
“Hey, if you don’t want to lose here, you’re going to have to give it your all.”
“Wh. . . What?”
“That’s a real Hydra! Give it your best shot because you’ll lose if you don’t use the Kronen family’s assassination techniques.”
Royman’s expression turned blank at those words.
Oswald quickly charged to the front lines, leaving Royman behind. Even in that moment, Oswald pulled the trigger to help Elsa, who was in danger.
Clang! Clang!
He fired two consecutive shots and blew off the heads of the Hydras that were charging at Elsa from both sides. Then, Oswald, who was standing next to Elsa, cut off the head of another Hydra that was flying at them with his greatsword.
Clang! Another notch.
“Shi. . .”
The greatsword, made of ordinary steel, couldn’t withstand the impact and broke. As he was wondering what to do, Elsa’s back came into view, and Oswald immediately. . . grabbed the back of her armor and lifted her up.
“Ack!”
“Put up your shield!”
As he shouted, Elsa automatically raised her shield as if embracing it, and Oswald used Elsa as a human shield to block the attacks and pulled the trigger, putting a bullet right into the Hydra’s eye.
Boom!
SKREEEEEE!
The Hydra let out a scream and writhed in agony.
Oswald, who had blocked all of the Hydra’s heads that were charging at him using Elsa, waited for another opportunity and aimed at Hydra’s eye again.
In a split second, the crosshairs met Hydra’s eye, and he pulled the trigger without missing a beat.
Clang!
Boom!
Oswald burst both of his left and right eyes . . . then he was charged by the three heads. In the end, Oswald threw Elsa to the back and jumped off the ground.
Whoosh!
Oswald, who had jumped up high in one breath, took out his revolver again from his magical pocket and aimed below. Oswald, who had been gliding for a long time because he had jumped high, attacked the Hydras by pulling the trigger of the revolver as he fell back due to the law of gravity.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
At that time, he cut off half of one head, saying that he would give the only effective blow, and another head quickly removed the head, and the head grew in an instant.
The head that had grown like that opened its mouth toward Oswald, who was right above it, and Oswald made an oops face and was eaten by the Hydra.
“. . . . . .”
It seemed like Alicia’s scream was heard from outside. . . . . .
Going down the constricting esophagus like that, Oswald soon arrived in the Hydra’s fairly wide stomach.
Chyiik. . . . . .
At that moment, a yellow liquid began to form and fall from the stomach wall, and when the liquid touched Oswald’s clothes, it melted with smoke.
“Shit!”
The Hydra’s digestive fluid melted his clothes and touched Oswald’s skin, but there was no major impact. Drake’s skin activated, leaving only minor burns, which were quickly healed thanks to the Troll King’s Heart.
“Huh?”
Oswald smiled slyly at the digestive fluid, which was less than he thought.
“Well, your scales may be tough, but your insides aren’t.”
Then he tilted the magazine, emptied the chamber, and quickly filled it with bullets.
Soon, he put the magazine back in place and immediately pulled the trigger. Oswald, who was planning to use Gun Kata this time, fired bullets in all directions.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Unlike when attacking the scales, the bullets that flew toward the stomach wall easily pierced the flesh and began to rip apart the stomach. As he continued to load and fire, a strong tremor began to be felt in the stomach.
“It’s not enough yet. Come to think of it. . . . . .”
This was the inside of the Hydra, so if he wore the Plague Grimoire here? The Hydra would end up ingesting the plague. Moreover, there were wounds here and there that he had created himself. What if he caused an infection through those wounds?
The moment he thought of that, Oswald immediately put on the Plague Grimoire. The green plague factor that began to spew from the bracelet on his right arm covered Oswald’s whole body in an instant.
Soon, Oswald appeared in the form of a plague doctor’s mask.
【Whuuup. . . Pshuuuu! Whuuup. . . Pshuuuu! 】
The moment he inhaled and exhaled a few times, spraying the plague factor everywhere! Once again, pain struck.
【Kyaaaak! 】
Oswald collapsed, feeling tremendous pain due to the enhanced plague factor. Soon, mental level 30, composure level 30, patience level 30, and adaptability level 30 took care of Oswald’s pain and mental state.
Following that, Phoenix’s Bracelet drove out the disease, and the Troll King’s Heart replaced the destroyed cells with new cells.
【Heo-eok. . . . . . Heo-euk, heo-eo-eok. . . . . . 】
Oswald, who barely controlled the pain while gasping for breath, got up again and pulled the trigger.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Was it because Oswald was wreaking havoc from the inside?
SKREEEEE! SKREEEEE!
The Hydra writhed in pain all over its body from the outside. When one of them tried to vomit, Gilgamesh, who appeared out of nowhere, cut off half of its head, making it difficult to vomit.
“Oswald is running wild inside! We have to prevent them from vomiting Oswald!”
“What are you talking about! Let’s rescue him right away!”
Although Alicia argued that it didn’t make sense. . .
“Anyway, don’t worry about safety because there is an emergency escape function!”
Alicia paused for a moment at Yuihan’s cry, but she did not back down.
“I’m against it. We have to get Oswald out!”
Then! Green smoke spewed out of the nine Hydra mouths, and then the Hydras screamed and shook their bodies.
At that sight, Gilgamesh realized that Oswald had put on the Plague Grimoire and shook his head.
“For now, let’s just believe in Oswald and do what we can do outside.”
Gilgamesh immediately gave instructions to the party and attacked the Hydra.
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Meanwhile, outside the dungeon, the number of people returning with the emergency escape function without reaching the boss room was increasing.
Professor Rosen, who sensed the strangeness, immediately investigated through the students.
Listening to the students, it was doubtful that the difficulty of the dungeon had suddenly increased, but there was no problem with the system.
“Come to think of it, I can’t see the boss room?”
There should have been a video storage device installed so that the situation in the boss room could be observed in real time, but it was out of order as if a jamming spell had been cast.
Rosen immediately reported the situation to the headmaster, and the headmaster soon arrived at the training ground with the academy guards.
“Hmm. . . . . . It seems that a warp jamming magic circle has been laid.”
“What do you mean?”
“It seems that someone has played a nasty trick on our students.”
“Isn’t there a way?”
“Either the students overcome the crisis. . . or they have no choice but to enter the labyrinth through the gate from the beginning.”
At those words, Rosen ran straight to the gate without hesitation.
Fwoosh.
“Professor Rosen is quite enthusiastic. . . Well, all of you, go and bring back everyone inside the training ground.”
The guards began to move at those words.
They looked like ordinary humans from the outside, but they were homunculi created by the headmaster. That’s why they were not bribed and only followed the headmaster’s orders.
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Oswald, who had used up all the bullets in his revolver, was now attacking the Hydra’s stomach with both hands. He used his overwhelming strength to stick his hands in the place where the bullets had pierced through and gradually tear them apart left and right.
Thanks to that, the Hydra rolled around as if it was wriggling, and the pressure that occurred as the top shrank and expanded sucked it out.
‘𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘵? 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.’
Oswald tore the stomach more forcefully, and soon a hole large enough for him to escape through appeared, and he immediately crawled out of the stomach.
Thanks to that, Oswald landed on the ribs inside the Hydra’s body.
Next to the stomach, he could see something like a giant lung breathing. He could also see where the heart was, but the problem was that the heart was covered by a bony carapace, making it difficult to attack the heart directly.
Then there’s no choice but to go to the lungs. . . . . .
Although he wouldn’t be able to cause an infection directly from the heart and spread it quickly throughout the body, the lungs were also not as good as the heart, but they were the next best place to supply a lot of blood vessels.
Spread the plague there? It wouldn’t be difficult for the plague to spread throughout the body.
‘𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘺𝘥𝘳𝘢’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. . . 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘴.’
Oswald, who had finally reached the lungs, stabbed his hands toward the lungs and pushed them down.
Puwook!
Then he put both hands into the punctured lung and tore it apart left and right, causing the inside to shake once more. Then Oswald, who exhaled quickly in succession, spread the plague to the wound.
“There’s nothing you can do now.”
He just lay on his stomach and waited for the plague to spread naturally.
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Professor Rosen, who had arrived at the scene.
“Professor!”
“Is everyone okay?”
“We’re fine, but. . . Oswald. . . Oswald. . . He’s been eaten.”
“. . . . . .!!”
No matter how hateful a student may be, he was a student that she was in charge of and managed. Moreover, recently, the Headmaster had told her to take care of him. . . . . .
She immediately emitted an aura blade and was about to charge toward the Hydra when suddenly the Hydras writhed in agony and exhaled green smoke from their nostrils.
After a long commotion, the Hydras finally collapsed, elongated, drooling green snot and green saliva.
“What is this?”
“It seems like he’s made a real mess of things from the inside.”
At Gilgamesh’s words, Rosen quickly cut off all the Hydra’s heads and cut open its belly. Then green smoke spewed out. . . . . .
“Everyone, step back!”
Those who heard Gilgamesh’s cry quickly moved away from the green smoke, and Rosen also stepped back.
Soon. . . an unidentified being appears in the green smoke. . . . . .
The being wearing the plague doctor’s mask soon descended from the Hydra’s stomach and landed on the floor. Rosen was about to attack when the plague doctor’s mask costume turned into smoke and Oswald appeared from within.
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