Still Can't See It? (Part 2)
Here, they knew trying to get angry would only bring harm to themselves. Ji Yu-chan and Hana Rin kept quiet and quickly came up with their own methods.
More precisely, they sharpened their senses to perceive them more acutely.
Before long, the two realized they had been right all along. Their S-class traits were working perfectly.
“Huuu. Spreading mana like the mana detection, the outlines are visible now.”
“Haah. I’m using mana manipulation to make my senses sharper, so I can feel something to a degree.”
Hana Rin spread mana around her like a mana detection spell, analyzing the objects around her. Ji Yu-chan honed his senses to their absolute limit, raising all his senses except sight to the max.
Both methods had become possible since they already surpassed human limits.
Seeing them, Do-hyeon smirked again and spoke bluntly once more.
“What is this? Both of you are doing it?”
“……”
“……”
It was not ultrasonic, but simply following Do-hyeon’s words too closely, and it was already done. They had nothing more to say.
Hana Rin and Ji Yu-chan squeezed their invisible eyes shut as tightly as they could and endured as best they could.
Since the dungeon had to be identified first, Ji Yu-chan spoke next. Hana Rin, who could explore a wider range, opened her mouth first.
“No monsters detected means it doesn’t look like a wipe-out dungeon. There’s no item that should be here the moment we enter, so it’s probably not a defense dungeon either.”
Do-hyeon was slightly surprised by Hana Rin’s analysis.
It was amazing that she could draw such conclusions from nothing special. She really was a mage, he thought.
Ji Yu-chan’s detection range was narrow, so he could not infer anything, but he could perfectly sense everything within his own range.
And since Do-hyeon saw everything, he told them.
“There’s a monster about three meters tall waiting at the end of the passage ahead. It seems like a boss dungeon.”
“Haaah. Of all things, a boss dungeon.”
“Huuu, it’s a boss dungeon, so my luck is terrible.”
“But boss dungeons have the best rewards. Isn’t that good?”
Seeing the two of them sound so pitiful, Do-hyeon answered positively.
Both of them nodded reluctantly.
After all, the best-reward dungeon was indeed a boss dungeon.
But deciding whether they should like it or not was awkward, so both expressed hesitation.
At that moment, Do-hyeon looked at them and said.
“I’ll give the order. Do your best while being careful.”
“Yes.”
“We can’t die.”
Both answered with a resigned mood, but their responses carried a surprising amount of enthusiasm for how they had answered.
As Ji Yu-chan said, they could not die here.
Seeing the two, Do-hyeon grinned like an imp and took the lead into the passage.
Do-hyeon, who could see as clearly as if he had eyes, led. Behind him was Ji Yu-chan, and at the rear was Hana Rin.
They walked through the long passage and finally reached a very spacious chamber.
They did not know why it was made, but the central space was like a colosseum, with the sky open at the top. It was a long cylindrical space inside a tower.
The diameter was about fifty meters, large enough for combat, actually too spacious. In the center of the space, something huge was crouched as if sleeping.
“Sniff sniff, krroooorr.”
Using its large nostrils to sniff the air, it circled around until it precisely lifted its head toward where Do-hyeon was.
They could finally see its face.
A long muzzle, black and ash-gray nose, and fur with a slightly reddish tint. It was a wolf-like monster that showed off its teeth.
It thrust its nose forward again and revealed its face.
Its eyes were empty, sunken pits. Countless scars ran across them.
It was the guide of the blind.
Was he blind too?
Do-hyeon quickly shouted as he looked at the sniffing figure and his thoughts.
“It’s awake! Ji Yu-chan left! Hana Rin right!”
His pronunciation and tone were perfect despite the urgency. Ji Yu-chan and Hana Rin heard it and quickly took their positions.
Even though Ji Yu-chan felt nothing, he only listened to Do-hyeon’s words, raised his mana manipulation, and slid away from the spot by pushing off the ground.
Hana Rin used wind magic and telekinesis to compensate for her weak physical abilities and pulled herself away to the right.
Once they were clear, Do-hyeon leaped into the air and used stealth to hide his presence as much as possible.
The guide of the blind opened its long muzzle, revealing teeth like saw blades, and bit down hard on the spot where Hana Rin and Ji Yu-chan had been.
Kwajeek—
Kwadddddd—
The sound of even stone being chewed echoed. Hana Rin and Ji Yu-chan felt their spines go cold.
If they had been caught in that, they would have died instantly.
Feeling it, both focused their minds on battle.
As they concentrated harder than ever, Do-hyeon rose into the air and cast mana magic on his body, then jumped as a stepping stone in the air while still being chased by the blind guide that was biting the wall.
Kuuuung—
Do-hyeon who landed on the telekinetic platform shot forward like an arrow. He applied sharpness magic to his entire body and gripped the long sword.
He aimed to pierce the blind guide like a real arrow.
But the blind guide smelled the approaching attack before the stealth wore off, crouched, rolled, and dodged the spot.
Srureung—
Do-hyeon’s body became a single arrow and flew. The wall it hit was perfectly sliced, leaving a long slash mark, but the blind guide had already moved.
It was a powerful strike, but Do-hyeon ignored it and shouted while charging mana.
“Ji Yu-chan! Left side!”
“Got it.”
With Do-hyeon’s shout, the blind guide that had curled its body like a ball to dodge the attack passed by Ji Yu-chan’s side.
At that moment, Ji Yu-chan heard Do-hyeon’s order and poured mana into his body and sword to the limit, using both mana manipulation and swordsmanship to the extreme.
The mana-filled sword left a blue trajectory in the air and swung toward the blind guide like a long line.
The sound came.
Seok—!
They clearly heard the cutting sound, but Ji Yu-chan felt the sensation on his fingertips and shouted.
“Shallow!”
“Dodge!”
They had cut it, but the fingertip sensation was shallow.
Indeed, the amount of blood splashed on Ji Yu-chan’s senses was quite small, so after the strike, Ji Yu-chan quickly moved away as Do-hyeon said.
Then the blind guide screamed in pain.
“Krroooerung!!!”
It was not a cry soaked in pain but a roar close to a roar.
Just a moment ago it had lunged its saw-like teeth at the spot where Ji Yu-chan was, and the floor was chewed to pieces.
Kwajik—
Kwaddok—!
Kwaddok—!
Stones were chewed from the blind guide’s mouth and flew everywhere as fragments.
It gave up on smelling and let out a low, growling howl.
At that moment, Do-hyeon, who used ultrasonic waves, launched ultrasonic waves toward the howl and blocked the blind guide from locating them.
While the blind guide, which had lost one sense in an instant, was unable to move, Do-hyeon shouted while repeatedly disturbing its hearing with ultrasonic waves.
“Hana Rin, nine o’clock direction from where you are standing!”
“Yes! I’m going!”
Hana Rin answered quickly and used the stone spear she had used before against Stone Wizard.
Unlike before, it was a much larger stone spear.
Perhaps because it was a large spear.
A single stone spear appeared in the air instead of several.
She did not stop there. She sharpened it further with sharpness magic.
The massive stone spear became sharper than ever, and then wind magic was overlaid with telekinesis, spinning it at high speed.
Siiei—!
The sound of high-speed rotation echoed through the chamber as the spear plunged down.
The rotational force cut the air faster than anything, and the propulsion was not just falling but flying like a cannonball, falling toward the blind guide as if it were a giant bullet.
Kwaaaaa—!!!
It was a spear that fell like a giant meteor, but the blind guide barely twisted its body at that moment and avoided the fatal blow.
However.
Surureuk.
Even the hole pierced through its side was huge, and the blood flowing from the massive wound exceeded the common sense of any living creature.
As the monster’s blood spread throughout the chamber, the blind guide finally turned its head toward Ji Yu-chan, who was not far from it, and sniffed precisely.
And Ji Yu-chan faced the monster’s head.
He could not see it, but he could clearly feel it.
“!!!”
Ji Yu-chan, paralyzed like a prey facing a predator, tried to regain his senses, but it was useless.
Even though he knew he had to dodge, his body refused to move.
It was the mana pressure taught by countless instructors that he could not break through.
At the moment the blind guide opened its mouth toward Ji Yu-chan, Do-hyeon fired one of the stealth spells he had cast.
The magic that moved to attack immediately revealed itself.
The blind guide, which had no eyes, could not see it but could clearly feel it.
Siieiieeeing—!
It was exactly the same high-speed rotating stone spear as the one Hana Rin had shot.
No, it was even more ferocious, flying faster.
The blind guide revealed its saw-like teeth and bit down on the flying stone spear with all its might.
Kwadddddddddd—!!
Kwagagagagaga—!!
The blind guide that bit the rapidly spinning stone spear with its saw-like teeth.
However.
Chaeeng—!
A sharp sound of something breaking accompanied the blind guide’s teeth shattering into pieces.
The stone spear that did not stop rotating rushed straight into the monster’s mouth.
Kwaddok—!!
With a short and concise sound, a huge hole appeared in the blind guide’s neck as if it were pierced through the side, piercing through the body.
The blind guide that was pierced from mouth to end could no longer hold on and turned to dust.
“Huu, huu.”
“……Haaah.”
“Haha, we won.”
The fierce battle had not lasted long but was intense.
Do-hyeon’s party felt their vision return in an instant.
With the sensation of having truly won, a treasure box appeared at the spot where the blind guide had died.
It was now the time for rewards.