Chapter 281 I'm the One Who Plugs the Outer God's Hole
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 281
Chapter Title: I'm the One Who Plugs the Outer God's Hole
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"..."
The central plaza fell into silence.
All eyes were focused on Jeong Yoo-shin.
The pupil revealed through the dimensional rift narrowed.
"...Now that I look at you all, there’s a child of Lux Aeterna here, huh? Kuhuhu. Did that detestable goddess whisper my name in your ear?"
"Shut up!!!"
Cian yelled and raised her longsword.
Jeong Yoo-shin got into a stance and glared at the dimensional rift.
'It’ll be disadvantageous for us if we drag this out.'
Even now, the dimensional rift was widening by the minute.
It was a fight that they had to finish quickly.
Cian took a step forward.
"Changeling, it's as Skar said. Go back to the other world!"
An enormous amount of holy power flowed out in streams from Cian's body.
"Hehehe. Try it. If you can."
As soon as Changeling's words ended, the blue liquid flowing down from the dimensional rift boiled up.
The people surrounding the plaza tensely watched the liquid transform.
"Slimes?"
An explorer muttered blankly.
At that moment…
Hundreds of slimes popped out from the liquid that poured down like a waterfall.
"Form a square!!! Don't let your guard down!!!"
Cain immediately stepped in front and shouted.
"Yes!!!"
The Labyrinth Knights took their stances and went in formation centered around the plaza.
The Hellfire, Crystal Rose, and Guardians of Order clans also took their positions in coordination with the city knights.
Jeong Yoo-shin clicked his tongue inwardly.
'Tsk. Selfish bastards.'
The high-ranking clans seemed to have no intention of stepping forward.
He thought they would probably just fight moderately and then run away without looking back if the front line was pushed back.
Why?
It was obvious without asking.
Because they were special.
Unlike ordinary explorers, they had gotten cheat imprints, so it was understandable that they thought that way.
'Still, it's a relief that I kept them on the 20th floor for now.'
In fact, this wasn't the time to worry about others.
Currently, there were only two people closest to Changeling.
Jeong Yoo-shin and Cian.
It was the most dangerous place, and even now, the blue slimes were multiplying.
"Hehehe. All of you, become food for my 'kin'."
With Changeling's words as the trigger…
As if a blue wave was spreading wide from the center of the plaza…
Hundreds of slimes charged toward the formation all at once.
The explorers shouted loudly at their party members.
"Cast your magic!!!"
"Shoot your arrows!!!"
"Priests!!! Blessing magic!!!"
Arrows and bolts, fire and ice, lightning and rocks flew to the square and tore the swarm of blue slimes to shreds.
Kra-booooooooom!!!
Booooooooooom!!!
Flames burned the slimes, and ice spears rained down on them.
Huge rocks flew and crushed the slime swarm, and streams of lightning spread wide among the slimes.
Hundreds of slimes were annihilated in an instant.
It was a moment when the potential of the explorers who had reached the 20th floor shone brightly.
However…
An even greater number of new slimes were created from the blue liquid.
Once again, a wave of slimes crashed toward the explorers.
"Shit!!!"
"They're coming again?!"
The explorers gripped their weapons and prepared for close combat.
Kwaaaaaaang!!!
Hundreds of explorers and knights clashed with the slime wave.
"Kuaaaaaaaak!!!"
"I-It's an acid slime!!! Priest!!!"
"Aim for the core!!!"
"Don't break the square!!!"
Screams and shouts echoed throughout the battlefield.
The explorers weren’t taken down easily.
Among them, the ones who stood out the most were the high-ranking clans and the Labyrinth Knights.
They calmly stood their ground against the slime wave.
But the ones who shone the brightest were just two people.
Jeong Yoo-shin and Cian, who were at the very front.
The two went against the wave of slimes like an island left alone, far away from the square formation.
Every time Cian's Aura Blade flashed, dozens of slimes were annihilated.
Jeong Yoo-shin swung his axe like a madman while back to back with Cian.
He didn't need to mind himself or whatever. Because the surroundings were already full of blue slimes.
Squelch!!!
Crack!!!
His huge axe cut the slimes in two and smashed their hard cores.
Jeong Yoo-shin shouted.
"Where are those hero party bastards?!!!"
At the same time…
Sebastian, Luther, and Gibson hurriedly left the inn and stood in front of the central plaza.
They had definitely been sleeping, but at some point, the central plaza had become a battlefield full of blood and screams.
Luther urgently looked around.
"Where's the Hero-nim?!"
It was impossible to find one person in the wave of blue slimes.
Gibson raised his hand.
"She's over there!"
Far away from the formation…
Two people were fighting in the middle of the pouring slime swarm.
"We have to go there!!!"
Sebastian and Luther gritted their teeth and tried to run to the battlefield.
Gibson clicked his tongue, as if he was dumbfounded.
"Tsk. Priest-nim, how do you expect us to go into the middle of the enemy lines?"
Luther rolled his eyes and glared at Gibson.
"Gibson!!! The Hero-nim is currently out there alone, so what kind of nonsense is that?!"
Gibson shook his head.
"Priest-nim, let's speak frankly. We're all rear guards, who's going to break through and make a path?"
"..."
Luther bit his lip tightly. The guide was right.
Both Sebastian and he were nothing more than rear guards.
However…
"Then are you saying we should just sit back and do nothing here?!"
Gibson pointed to the square.
"I'm saying we should join them depending on the situation. What’re you going to do if we go in blindly and end up becoming a burden to the Hero-nim?"
Luther's lips trembled.
"A b-burden..."
"Besides, the encirclement formation is in a precarious situation, so it's only right for us to help them first."
Sebastian also came to his senses and agreed with Gibson's words.
"Priest-nim, Gibson’s right. Let's watch the battle unfold for now and join in when the situation changes."
Luther turned his head and looked at Cian.
"Kuuuuuuk!!!"
It was frustrating…
But Gibson's words were true.
If nothing else, he didn't want to become a burden to the Hero-nim by losing his reason and acting rashly in an urgent situation.
"I understand. Let's join the formation for now."
"You thought well."
Luther and the party members immediately joined the square formation in the central plaza.
But the situation became more urgent faster than they had thought.
Facing the Outer God's kin that had suddenly popped out, the explorers and the knights had withstood the slime wave several times, but as if they were running out of strength, the front line was being pushed back.
Gibson gritted his teeth and shot an arrow.
Swoooosh!!!
Swoooosh!!!
A hundred shots, a hundred hits. The arrows Gibson shot precisely pierced the slimes' cores.
When their cores were broken, the slimes trembled and melted.
"Damn it."
Gibson spat out a curse.
It was a fight they couldn't win.
He had spent a long time as a ranger going through battlefields.
His instincts sounded the alarm. To run away quickly. That it would be safer for him to take the transfer stone and go to Labyrinth City even now.
At that moment…
A blue slime pounced on an explorer fighting right in front of him.
"Kuaaaaaaak!!!"
He was a vanguard explorer holding a sword, but not only his flesh and innards, but even his bones and armor melted.
"Tim!!!"
The comrade standing next to him screamed and reached out to the vanguard, but it was already too late.
Dozens of slimes rushed at the vanguard and covered him.
The vanguard, covered by the slime swarm, soon melted to the point where not even his form could be found anymore.
"Shit!!!"
The comrade of the vanguard held back his tears and swung his sword again.
However…
That wasn't the end.
A slime wriggled and changed into the shape of the explorer. It was exactly the same as the vanguard who had melted like porridge a moment ago.
It was a bizarre phenomenon.
The explorers fighting nearby looked at the slime's 'transformation' with surprised eyes.
"Tim?"
The grieving explorer even stopped swinging his sword and looked at that sight.
The vanguard smiled and slowly walked over.
"Yeah. Gin, it's me."
"T-Tim? What in the world is this?"
The explorer stepped back, as if he had lost his will to fight.
It was an appearance that had copied the form, abilities, and even the intelligence of the person it had eaten.
Confusion came to the square in an instant.
Gibson's eyes widened. Goosebumps ran down his spine.
'T-This is?'
He was certain.
This was the Outer God's kin he had seen in the Dwarf Kingdom.
The culprit that had destroyed the cities and villages of the Empire!
Gibson looked around with trembling eyes.
Hundreds of slimes were sweeping through the city.
They weren't just ordinary slimes.
If every single one of those slimes was an Outer God's kin.
'It's over!'
It wasn't just a problem of the Labyrinth City anymore.
The Eastern Alliance territory would become a wasteland.
Moreover, the explorers and knights were fighting together, but they were slowly being pushed back.
The strength drained from Gibson's arms.
"Hah."
He had thought that he would see the light after suffering like a dog in the mountains and fields until now and meeting a hero, but it seemed like this was a big mistake.
This won't do.
He had to run away.
At least he had to live.
Gibson slowly backed away and observed the war situation.
He didn't know when…
But Sebastian and Luther were now far away from him, fighting together with the monster women's party.
What about the hero?
Cian was fighting at the very front, swinging her shining sword, and the barbarian was swinging his axe next to her.
Gibson turned his body and ran toward the transfer stone.
He didn't care about the others anymore.
He didn't care what happened to them.
He alone had to survive this hell.
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"Shit!!!"
Jeong Yoo-shin spat out a curse.
It felt like he had been fighting back to back with Cian for a long time, but he still couldn't see the end.
Sizzle!!!
Jeong Yoo-shin's axe had melted from the slime's acidic bodily fluids and wasn’t in a proper shape anymore.
It was a dwarven single-bladed axe that Einhorfer had made for him.
Jeong Yoo-shin swung his axe like a madman and checked on Cian.
The hero was cutting down slimes with the momentum of a one-man army.
Her expression was still calm.
However…
There were small holes here and there in her plate armor.
The front line was being pushed back. Thanks to the knights and high-ranking clans, they were barely holding on.
"Hehehe. Ridiculous. Where did that momentum from just a moment ago go?"
The gloomy voice of the Outer God wrapped around the city once again.
Jeong Yoo-shin gritted his teeth.
His acting ended here.
What was the point if they all died like this?
He grabbed Einhorfer's axe and swung it.
A horizontal slash.
Kwagaagagagagak!!!
The half-melted axe blade tore through the bodies of the slimes gathered in front and smashed their cores.
Sizzle!!!
Clatter.
The axe head, unable to withstand the acidic liquid any longer, fell to the floor.
"Kuhuhu. Mortal, do you think knowing my name will change anything? Gradually admit it. Someone like you cannot plug the 'hole' this body has made."
Jeong Yoo-shin swept up his long hair and reached out toward the sky.
"Skar?!"
Cian turned her head back and looked at the barbarian.
He looked like he had given up fighting.
Dozens of slimes were rushing toward him.
"No!!!"
The moment Cian shouted…
Whoooooosh.
From the sky…
A huge golden coffin fell.
The people gathered in the plaza even forgot about the battle and stared at the golden coffin that was falling from the sky.
Kra-booooooooom!!!!!
The golden coffin crushed and burst dozens of slimes and embedded itself in the floor.
[Eternal Ark]
The treasure of the elves.
A subspace where various items could be stored, and a totem that scattered various buff magics.
Woooooooong!!!
The golden coffin began to scatter strange waves.
Creeeeeeeak.
Jeong Yoo-shin opened the coffin and put his hand in.
Clack.
He took out a repeating crossbow fully loaded with bolts.
And…
A black iron greatsword that seemed to be missing its upper half.
"Skar?"
Cian opened her eyes wide and looked at Jeong Yoo-shin.
She felt that his atmosphere had changed.
From a dependable warrior…
To a single black wolf.
The black wolf grinned.
"Changeling, I'll plug your 'hole' for you."
"..."
A quiet battlefield.
Jeong Yoo-shin's declaration echoed loudly.
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T/N - Damn, now that was cool. The MC’s finally getting serious and he even brought out the coffin. I hope it doesn’t get destroyed in this fight, I actually like its concept. Definitely the MC’s best equipment to date.
So the next to die is Gibson, huh? Also, I feel like Luther’s becoming the most likable now among the hero’s party members, though the bar was pretty low already in the first place. Now, if only that succubus can fix his racist ass, he’ll be good. Sebastian’s still unsalvegeable though.