๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐: ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง 2
“‘Search all those who have entered. . . .”
The party’s conversation was cut short for a moment by the menacing text on the gravestone.
If such words were written as graffiti, they could just laugh it off and ignore it, but the fact that they were carved in relief made it a different story.
Without knowing who it was, the moment they realized that the owner of this dungeon was not friendly to outsiders, they felt as if the surrounding air had dropped several degrees.
Not knowing what kind of traps or snares might be triggered, the party raised their magic power to heighten their awareness of their surroundings.
“By the way, that way of speaking is like master’s. It’s very aggressive.”
Kang Yeo-hwa said with a laugh, as if trying to lighten the mood.
“Me? I don’t know how to speak so harshly.”
“Oh, come on~ Don’t kid around like that.”
“Such shameful words should be spoken by a child like Lo-an.”
“. . . I learned that way of speaking from master.”
“Your way of speaking is harsh, Oppa.”
The party smiled at Siwoo’s joke.
Thanks to that, the atmosphere became much lighter.
“Anyway, all dungeons don’t like outsiders intruding, so I don’t think we need to be so nervous.”
“R-Right? I only believe in the President!”
Han Tae-chi rubbed his goosebumps away with his arms and hunched his shoulders.
“I would have gone in even if such a thing was written or not. Isn’t that right, Pre?”
ใ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ง’๐ญ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ก ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ’๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐ง! ๐๐ก๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ !ใ
Pre bounced around on Siwoo’s shoulder.
“As expected~~~ Grandmaster! I think that splendid decision could only have been made by Grandmaster! This unworthy disciple will follow you for the rest of his life!!”
ใ๐๐๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐! ๐๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ, ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐!ใ
“Thank you! Ah, I’ll make sure to offer some to Little Master as well!”
“No thanks. You and your friends can eat them all.”
“Twinkle twinkle Oppa’s spirit is fierce”
“Oh~~ Bring some sausage and beer to this little girl too. . . Ack!”
Siwoo smacked him on the back of the head with his palm for his nonsense.
“What’s with giving beer to a child. You should drink cocoa too.”
“It seems like the high rankers aren’t in their right minds.”
Lo-an whispered to Siwoo.
“Lo-an, you’re a high ranker too.”
“I. . . I’m different, master. Of course, Benedict is a little weird. . . .”
“As expected~~ No one understands me except Lo-an. Let’s, us high rankers, be close for the rest of our lives? I’ll buy you cocoa when we get out!”
Benedict smiled brightly and put his arm on Lo-an’s shoulder.
“Get your hand off my shoulder.”
“Oh~~ Shouldn’t disciples who have the same master stick together? Isn’t that right, Grandmaster, Little Master!”
“Hunter Benedict, be careful. If he doesn’t like you, he’ll kidnap you and lock you in a room.”
“. . . Bossam, let’s forget about what happened in the past.”
“Twinkle twinkle Oppa, friend.”
“. . . Sion. We’re not friends. . . .”
“Bestie. It’s nice to see you.”
As Sion clapped her hands looking at the two’s friendly appearance, Lo-an was unable to shake off Benedict’s hand that was on his shoulder.
Krrrruuuuu . . . .
At that moment, the sound of a wall collapsing could be heard from behind the party who was proceeding inside.
“P, p, p, p, President?!”
“You only need to call me once, even if you’re nervous.”
“The magic concentration suddenly spiked!”
“You don’t have to tell me that. I can tell what it is just by looking.”
Siwoo muttered as he looked at the giant figure moving beyond the thick dust.
Kuuung! Kuuuuuung!
โDeath. Hum. An.
โKweeeeeeek!
At that moment, something flew in at an incredible speed and swung its sharp claws at the party.
Lo-an wrapped his arms around Sion’s body and lowered his upper body, and then Min Si-joon’s magic breathed fire at the opponent.
Hwarrrrrrrruk!!
โKweeeeeek! Kweeeeeek!
The enemy, hanging upside down from the high ceiling, glared at the party with its yellow eyes like a snake.
“It’s a gargoyle!”
Min Si-joon exclaimed as soon as he confirmed its identity.
“Yeo-hwa Si-joon Lo-an! Take care of the gargoyle! Han Tae-chi, prepare the item! Benedict, you and I will take care of the monsters coming from the front!”
Siwoo, who had heard Si-joon’s cry, quickly gave orders to the party.
“Yes, master ah, sh*t! A gargoyle right from the start, what a mess!”
Kang Yeo-hwa clicked her tongue and materialized a bow and arrow made of wind.
Gargoyles were monsters that often appeared as villains in games or movies, but in reality, they were not such simple opponents.
A body harder than steel, a speed that surpassed a hippogriff, and every part of its body, including its claws, talons, teeth, and tail, was a sharp weapon.
Even if it was an average combat hunter or magic hunter, they wouldn’t be able to inflict a single scratch on its body.
In particular, while other monsters would show signs of fatigue if their arms or legs were cut off or broken, gargoyles charged in with the same intensity until their core was destroyed, which was more troublesome.
โKuweeeeeek!
It descended towards the party.
Kang Yeo-hwa aimed her bow at it just in time and quickly flicked the string to tear its flesh.
Magic power filled the large magic circuit, and a magic circle of fierce energy permeated the bow.
[Warrior of the Wind : One Shot, One Kill]
The characters surrounding the arrow flashed brightly.
The fired arrow pierced the gargoyle’s heart at the speed of light.
Peugh!
The gargoyle’s body swayed and fell from the sky to the floor with a loud thud.
“As expected, South Korea’s bow. . . .”
Min Si-joon exclaimed in admiration and then trailed off.
Poof poof poof. Poof poof poof.
More than twenty gargoyles, which looked like they were flying through the darkness, were flying towards them.
“Sion, stay behind me and don’t move.”
Lo-an pulled out a few strands of his hair and blew on them, hoo.
The hair, which was filled with magic power, began to change shape with a buzzing sound as soon as it touched the floor.
[Monkey King: Twelve Transformations]
Twelve strands of hair, which had transformed into the exact same appearance as Lo-an, charged towards the gargoyles that were rushing in.
“Oppa, so many. You’re crazy.”
Sion said with wide eyes as if she was watching a strange scene.
๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท
“. . . Grandmaster, what on earth is that?”
Benedict asked with a face as white as a sheet as he looked at the monster approaching them while wriggling.
ใ๐๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐! ๐๐ ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ. . . .ใ
“Hey, don’t even dream about it.”
Siwoo frowned as he looked at Frey.
โDeath. Hum. An.
The monster in front of them that could even speak human language was a flesh golem, a horrific abomination.
Other golems are mainly created through natural elements.
Materials such as metal, minerals, flames, ice, and clay gather around an artificial core engraved with a wizard’s magic and form its shape.
However, the flesh golem in front of them was different in its essence.
The materials that made it up were the flesh, bones, skin, and chunks of meat of living beings.
โDeath. Hum. An.
The flesh golem moved its limbs, which were all different in length, volume, movement, and color, and walked towards Siwoo and Benedict.
Even Siwoo’s eyebrows furrowed at its disgusting appearance.
“Grandmaster! I’ve never seen such a golem before! Ugh, it’s dirty! I don’t think my magic will even reach it! I absolutely, absolutely can’t do it!”
Benedict waved his hands as if he was going to vomit.
“Since you said it was cute, how about you deal with it yourself?”
ใ. . . ๐’๐ฆ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฌ.ใ
Siwoo made an ‘I guess so’ expression and held out the ring on his right hand.
“Benedict, block the monster’s attacks with magic so that they don’t reach the other party.”
“Uh. . . I understand. I want to drink cocoa.”
“Han Tae-chi, just give me one item.”
“Y-Yes, President!”
Han Tae-chi handed Siwoo an item that had just been assembled.
Siwoo smiled broadly and began to pour magic power into the ring.
This was Mongolia’s national treasure that he had received from Mongolian President Gantulga after the Mongol expedition was over.
‘๐ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฌ๐บ.’
However, Siwoo had changed the name to a pure Korean word meaning ‘blue dragon’ because the name was too long.
“Come out, Pumirmir.”
A gray horse that had eaten its fill of magic power revealed itself, scattering its blue fur like smoke.
โHehehehehe!
“Good boy.”
Siwoo stroked its forehead and nape and then sat lightly on Pumirmir’s back.
“Hyaa!”
At Siwoo’s command, Pumirmir kicked the ground hard and ran towards the flesh golem.
โDeath. Hum. An.
The flesh golem looked at Siwoo with a strange patchwork face that was neither human nor monster.
Then it pulled out a long bone from its back and held it in its hand, and swung it roughly at Pumirmir, who was running towards it.
Kwagaaaaaaaaang!!
A loud roar rang out and a thick trail was carved into the dungeon floor.
โDeath. Hum. An.
The flesh golem tried to confirm the corpses of Pumirmir and Siwoo, whom it had killed.
“Looking for me?”
However, Siwoo’s body appeared behind the flesh golem, not on the floor.
Balmung raised blue energy and slashed the monster’s body diagonally.
The feeling of bones and muscles being cut was transmitted to his fingertips through the blade.
After cutting its body, Siwoo immediately moved Pumirmir to get far away from it.
Kwakwakwakwakwak!!
As expected, hundreds of bones sprang up from the spot where Siwoo had been standing.
All of them were pointed like knife blades with their ends sharpened.
“Somehow, it feels dirtier.”
The flesh golem was restored to its original form, like clay.
However, its appearance was not the same as Siwoo had cut it a little while ago.
As if a kindergartener had roughly played with clay, the flesh golem’s appearance was crude and bizarre.
“It seems like the coreใ ก isn’t in the heart after all.”
Generally, the core of golems was located near the heart or the lower abdomen.
Since the body’s composition was usually centered around the core, it had to be in the most central part of the body.
However, if the body was reassembled at will whenever it was crushed, it wouldn’t be strange if the location of the core had changed long ago.
“This is why I have to use inventions.”
Siwoo bent his body while holding Pumirmir’s reins.
The horse ran as fast as the wind.
โDeath. Hum. An.
The flesh golem’s abdomen split in half and hundreds of bones protruded like teeth.
And like the mouth of an animal trying to bite and tear its prey, the muscles and bones of its abdomen protruded and tried to pierce Pumirmir’s torso.
Crunch.
At that moment, Siwoo released Pumirmir’s reins and quickly poured magic power into the item that Han Tae-chi had given him and put it into the golem’s torso.
โDeath. Hum. An.
The golem jumped up towards Siwoo, who had jumped up above it, and sprayed dozens of bones and venom-filled blood from its body.
‘๐๐ง ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต. . . ๐ช๐ต’๐ญ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ง๐ญ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ’๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ.’
While he was thinking that,
“Where do you think you are, daring to attack the Grandmaster!!”
Benedict’s magic spread out between the monster’s attack and Siwoo, stopping the golem’s attack.
ใ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ฉ๐ฅ๐!!ใ
“Nice, Benedict.”
While the flesh golem was momentarily stunned, Siwoo’s thunderbolt flew between the monster’s open abdomen.
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