Chapter 60: Revenge!
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 60: Revenge!
The dungeon's master, the 'Ancient Warrior,' met his end with such composure. I looked at him, fallen, still clutching his sword in his left hand. Unconsciously, a fiery roar erupted from deep within my chest.
“Woooooaaaaahhhhh!”
The roar, whether of joy or gratitude towards him, soon echoed thunderously through the dungeon, and at my voice, the members of the Blood Dagger Clan began to shout, one by one.
“Victory! For victory alone!”
“For Blood Dagger!”
“For Blood Dagger!!”
I had a rough idea when Black Spear helped me, but seeing the roots slowly receding, it was clear the battle was truly over. I could tell that the time spent clashing swords with the Ancient Warrior had been longer than I expected.
I glanced at the two-handed sword, 'Ancient Flame,' in my hand. A weapon I wouldn't have dared to dream of in the past. Naturally, a smile spread across my face.
“Krrr-r-r-rk.”
Once Jung Hayeon's roots had all receded, I could finally look at the Blood Dagger Clan members. Since the humans had been quite strong, I definitely saw a few fallen figures. However, the damage wasn't severe enough to be considered significant.
Unlike other Green Skins, what the Blood Dagger Clan pursued most was survival, no matter what. Still, I briefly thought that I needed to somehow replenish the tribe members whose numbers were dwindling from continuous battles.
“Krrr-r-r-rk! For Blood Dagger!”
Gark, too, was raising his sword high and shouting vigorously. Behind him, Black Spear began to walk slowly towards me, holding Baek Ahyeon in one hand. Baek Ahyeon, dangling from Black Spear, comically seemed to feel no fear at all.
In fact, seeing Baek Ahyeon looking up at me with an expression of profound emotion and gratitude made me feel a little awkward. I nodded towards Black Spear, who had just helped me, as a sign of thanks, and Black Spear, in response to my gesture, thumped his chest with his hand.
“Krrr-r-r-rk.”
Black Spear slowly set Baek Ahyeon down in front of me, and Baek Ahyeon immediately bowed her head to me.
“Thank you! Thank you, my Savior…”
I didn't need to speak. Instead, I slowly gestured to the other Green Skins. Understanding my meaning, the tribe members began to bring the surviving humans over, one by one.
“Ughhh-aaahhh!”
One human, dragged by the Goblin Three Sisters, missing limbs.
The clan master, half of his upper body blown away.
“Ugh… oh… ah…”
The sight of the humans, groaning in pain as they were gathered, was truly a spectacle. The absolute highlight among them was the wind magician impaled on Black Spear's spear.
As Gark, the eldest of the loyal Five Goblin Siblings, pulled the spear from the magician, a high-pitched scream echoed through the dungeon master's chamber.
“Aaaahhh! Aaaahhh!”
They couldn't have predicted what was about to happen, but I knew for certain that terror was etched on their faces. Baek Ahyeon watched the sequence of events, then began to look at me with a bewildered expression.
“Sa… Savior.”
Baek Ahyeon repeated the same words. I approached her, stroked her head, and firmly placed the dagger I held in my arms into her hand. Because revenge was hers, and I couldn't steal her sweetest moment.
Baek Ahyeon nodded vigorously, as if she understood my intention. Instantly, her face was stained with murderous intent. The other tribe members also watched with expressions of amusement. Slowly, Baek Ahyeon rose and then began to approach the man missing limbs.
“Ah… Ahyeon… Pl-please… pl-please…”
A body utterly incapable of resistance. It was striking that, as if saving the best for last, she didn't even spare a glance for the magician who had killed her unni.
“You bastard who deserves to be torn apart… you bastard who deserves to be torn apart. Do you know how much it hurt? Every day… every day…”
He began to tremble, perhaps realizing Baek Ahyeon's state was far from normal, but his actions didn't seem to stir any pity in her. Baek Ahyeon climbed onto him, then slowly raised the dagger, gripping it with both hands.
She hesitated slightly, as if unfamiliar with this. It was probably her first kill. But I thought she would get used to it soon enough. As I nodded towards Baek Ahyeon, who was subtly looking at me, her dagger immediately plunged into the man's eye.
“Aaaahhhhhhh!”
“Filthy eyes.”
Despite her inexperience, she seemed to understand how to inflict the most pain, slowly driving the dagger down. After the dagger was embedded, it rose into the air again, pulling the man's eyeball out with it, impaled on the blade.
I frowned slightly at the somewhat grotesque sight, but I couldn't stop her revenge. Her continued stabbing with the dagger, as if she had gained momentum, was clearly driven by madness.
“Die! Die! Die!”
The thwack of the dagger plunging in continued. After mutilating his eyes, ears, and nose, she moved to his genitals. Baek Ahyeon used the dagger to strip off his lower garments, then began to stab his genitals without mercy. A thwack that was almost pleasant to hear echoed through the dungeon.
“Aaaahhh! Aaaahhh!”
“Die!!”
“Aaaahhh! Save me… save me! Please… no… no!”
Blood kept splattering onto Baek Ahyeon's face, but she didn't seem to care. Instead, she continued to desecrate his body as if enjoying it.
“Ah… ugh… ah…”
He must have cursed his own tenacious life force. But after Baek Ahyeon slit his belly open and tore through his intestines, even those sounds ceased.
“Ugh… oh…”
With that sound, the man, now almost a corpse, slowly stopped breathing.
It was only natural that the surviving humans watched the scene with pale faces.
The wind magician's expression, in particular, was quite a sight. As much as she knew her own wrongdoing, she was clearly uneasy. She must have wondered why Baek Ahyeon wasn't being attacked by the monsters, and why the monsters were helping Baek Ahyeon, but I figured the terror looming before her would continue to obstruct any rational thought.
Baek Ahyeon brought her face close to the man's, as if to confirm he was dead, then began to move again. She had confirmed he was dead. Her next target was the clan master. The man, with half his upper body completely gone, slowly began to speak as he watched Baek Ahyeon.
“Ah… Ahyeon, let’s not do this… We were good, weren’t we? You remember how good I was to Hana, even after she died? Huh?”
“You bastard…”
“Huh? Ahyeon…”
Just in case the man tried to resist, the Goblin Three Sisters held his body down. He kept shaking his body as if to resist, but with his dying body, it was impossible to shake off the sisters.
Baek Ahyeon continued to mutter as she climbed onto the man this time. With her small body, Baek Ahyeon slowly climbed onto him, then muttered in a low voice.
“Do you know what unni always used to say?”
“……………”
“She said she wanted to kill you… every day… not missing a single day… she told me.”
“It would have been so good if unni were here…”
“Ugh… ah…”
Baek Ahyeon slowly raised the dagger again. As if he already knew his fate… he squeezed his eyes shut, but there was no way Baek Ahyeon would let that stand.
“Open your eyes.”
The moment he reflexively opened his closed eyes at her chillingly echoing voice, her dagger plunged into his eye.
“Thwack.”
“Aaaahhh! Aaaahhh!”
He tried to block the descending dagger with his remaining arm, but the Goblin Three Sisters weren't just watching. He couldn't move, as if he were tightly bound.
“Die! Die!”
Her actions—stabbing the dagger into his arms, legs, chest, and even into his mouth to cut off his tongue—would be no exaggeration to say they would make an ordinary person's blood run cold. Despite how difficult it must have been, she continued to wield the dagger.
“Ugh… eek…”
A scream that couldn't even be called a scream. A body that could no longer be called human. The blood-soaked man continued to groan, trying to avoid the dagger, but Baek Ahyeon's dagger kept plunging down. Each time the sickening sound echoed, Baek Ahyeon continued to mutter.
“Filthy hands. Filthy mouth. Filthy eyes.”
While she was on top of him, wildly swinging the dagger, something seemed to occur to her, and she subtly began to rise. Comically, Baek Ahyeon reached out her hand to the Goblin Three Sisters, who were holding hammers, and the Goblin Three Sisters, seeing this, looked at me with bewildered expressions.
As I subtly nodded, they made a krr-rik sound, as if understanding, and handed Baek Ahyeon a hammer. It was clear she probably lacked the strength to properly wield it, but she somehow managed to lift one of the Goblin Three Sisters' hammers.
And Baek Ahyeon's hammer, raised high into the sky,
fell precisely onto the man's crotch.
“Ugh!!”
The hammer continued to fall onto the man, whose eyes were wide open. Even after his crotch was completely shattered, her hammering didn't stop. I could see his limbs slowly caving in. The more the man died, the more his strength faded, the worse Baek Ahyeon's expression became. She didn't want this festival to end. She didn't want this sweet time to be over.
In the end, she tried to cauterize the flowing blood with fire or swung the dagger and hammer away from vital points as much as possible, but eventually, he couldn't hold on much longer and died, spitting blood.
All that remained was the wind magician, Kim Mina. Trembling with an anxious expression, she began to shout at Baek Ahyeon.
“You bitch… you bitch… You don’t know the grace of being raised… and you stab us in the back like this? You ungrateful bitch who doesn’t know the grace of being fed and sheltered until now!”
“……………”
Baek Ahyeon, of course, didn't answer her. She merely stared silently at her final victim, her eyes gleaming.
“You shouldn’t be doing this to us… huh?”
It was astonishing that even with her dying body, she kept running her mouth. She didn't seem to fully grasp her current situation. However, as Baek Ahyeon, completely drenched in blood, slowly walked closer, the magician gradually began to hold her tongue.
“Think again… huh?”
“……………”
“It’s not… it’s not because Hana died, is it? We couldn’t help it… When you go on expeditions, things like this happen, don’t they?”
“……………”
“If this expedition succeeded, I was going to properly take care of you… We’d go back to the city together… huh? Oh? Can you… can you talk to those monsters for me?”
Baek Ahyeon kept her mouth shut, offering no response. She slowly climbed onto the magician and began to raise the dagger again. By this point, it was natural to assume she wouldn't be spared. Finally, the magician screamed and began to shout at Baek Ahyeon.
“You… bitch… you bitch! You bitch who doesn’t know the grace of being raised! You filthy whore… you slept with monsters, didn’t you… you bitch… you bitch!”
“Not a monster…”
“…………”
“A Savior.”