Chapter 199
Chapter 199
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 200
Chapter Title: Nayeo-ju Saves the World Part 2 Ch. 20
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The vast plain was an absolutely advantageous battlefield for the minotaurs.
It was the perfect stage for them to accelerate and charge at any moment.
The first victim of their erratic movements was Lee Yu-eul.
"Urk!"
"Lee Yu-eul!"
Jang Su-ho roughly shoved away the minotaur that had been about to trample and finish her off, using his shield.
In the meantime, Lee Yu-eul rolled across the ground to pull back, snatched up her machete that had been flung far away, and hurriedly got to her feet.
"Lee Yu-eul, you okay?!"
"I'm fine! That bastard took a fatal wound to its thigh too!"
Her pride wounded, Lee Yu-eul yelled with veins bulging in her neck, lunging toward the minotaur she'd been fighting moments ago.
But by then, it had already retreated far off, hiding itself among the herd.
"Damn it!"
Just as Lee Yu-eul, unable to contain her anger, tried to charge recklessly,
"Don't get baited by them!"
Lee Yu-chan shouted his warning from afar, where he was firing arrows.
She froze.
At her twin brother's cold rebuke, Lee Yu-eul halted her movement just short of leaping straight into the middle of the minotaur herd.
"Haa, shit."
Lee Yu-eul cursed at herself for nearly losing her reason for a moment.
It bruised her pride, but her younger twin was right.
She'd almost fallen for their shallow trick.
"Thanks, Lee Yu-chan."
In this downpour, there was no way such a voice could carry that far.
Yet she could see Lee Yu-chan smirking with one corner of his mouth.
"Haa, how the hell do we dismantle these little shits."
She hated to admit it, but the monsters were clever.
While one charged like bait to cause chaos, the others scattered the humans and attacked from behind.
Despite their massive size, their speed was incredible.
Even when you could clearly hear their thundering footsteps approaching, everyone was too busy scrambling out of attack range.
"Yu-eul-ah, you alright?"
Han Ji-seong, who had come up beside her without her noticing, asked without taking his eyes off the minotaurs.
"Yeah."
"Good. Then let's attack again."
His calm voice chanted.
"Ice Spear."
In an instant, the rain pouring from the sky turned into hundreds of sharp needles, raining down on the minotaur herd.
Pshhuk! Pshuk!
"Kroooaaargh!"
Their tough hides burst open, black blood spraying everywhere.
Their formation crumbled in panic, and finally, the one that had inflicted a fatal wound on Lee Yu-eul collapsed with a thud.
It hadn't oxidized, so it wasn't dead, but it had taken enough damage to go down.
That was plenty.
"They're all fucked now!"
Lee Yu-eul raised her machete high and charged toward the minotaur herd.
But the curved blade that flashed wasn't aimed at the fallen one.
It was the minotaur near the bushes where Lee Yu-chan had hidden.
The one that already had an arrow lodged in one of its heads.
Slash!
With a chilling sound of severing flesh, Lee Yu-eul grinned.
The sensation at her fingertips told her her attack had already succeeded.
"Mwoooaaar—!"
The minotaur's left leg below the knee was sliced off, and its massive body tilted sideways.
Thud!
Having finally made one roll across the ground just like it had done to her, Lee Yu-eul immediately launched herself at the monster beside it.
Han Ji-seong watched as Jang Su-ho and Seong Yo-na ran over to assist her, then circulated his mana once more.
"Ice Field."
Starting from his hand on the ground, the ice spread rapidly toward the minotaur herd, trailing sharp ice spikes rising thickly like the tail of a meteor shower.
Pshhuk! Pshuk! Pshuk!
"Krooar……."
Eventually, one minotaur that had collapsed on the ground was impaled by the ice field's spikes and oxidized black.
The remaining three, in a panic, scattered in different directions to escape the ground sprouting ice spikes.
But escape wasn't that easy.
"Clap!"
Seong Yo-na's hands slammed together with a sharp clap.
In the blink of an eye, the three minotaurs were back at the center of the ice field.
"Mwoooar……?"
Unable to comprehend the phenomenon, the minotaurs just stared blankly at each other.
They'd definitely reached the edge of the ice field.
Why are you here?
Why are you?
In that moment, forgetting they were even in battle, a massive shadow fell over the minotaurs as they tilted their heads at their comrades.
One finally looked up, but all it saw was the afterimage of something plummeting rapidly.
Thud—!
"Krueng, guk!"
Jang Su-ho's shield, bearing his full weight made of eternal steel, smashed down, folding the minotaur beneath it nearly in half.
After that, it was just following the set sequence.
Pinned to the ground, it couldn't evade Han Ji-seong's attack.
The plain was no longer an advantageous battlefield for the minotaurs.
"Mwoooaaaarr—!"
One minotaur, bleeding black blood, called out to its leader.
But the leader, Kenta, couldn't respond to the call.
No, it couldn't do anything.
"Kuh……."
The dungeon's master, Kenta the minotaur, barely moved his fear-stricken eyes to gaze up at the sky.
Rumble.
The sky was roaring.
As it always did in the Thunder Dungeon.
But this time was different.
The human in front of him raised his right hand high.
Having experienced it once before, Kenta the minotaur knew what that gesture meant and staggered back in terror.
"M-Mwoo……."
Flash—Boom!
A white and blue bolt of lightning shot down from right above its head.
The human clenched his fist in midair.
The next moment, the lightning from the sky was grasped in the human's hand.
Crackle—!
"Mwoooaaar!"
Seeing the blinding electric surge, the leader minotaur bolted away blindly.
Instinct drove it to flee the plain it had dominated and hide in the forest.
But that hope was not to be fulfilled.
Kang Han thrust the lightning in his grip into the minotaur's back with all his might.
"Kreaak……!"
With a death cry like its throat was being strangled, the leader minotaur's massive body collapsed to the ground.
Thud.
The boom echoed across the plain.
"Krea, kre."
The convulsing minotaur, limbs splayed out spasmodically, writhed as it saw Kang Han drawing closer.
Watching the monster with impassive green eyes, Kang Han muttered to himself.
"Three times should do it."
His right hand slowly rose toward the sky once more.
Rumble rumble.
The sky began its long roar again.
"I'll end it quickly."
Crack! Crack! Crackle!
Three bolts of lightning struck in succession, merging into a sun-like blazing surge of electricity.
That was the last thing leader minotaur Kenta ever witnessed.
"Oh, it's over."
Fortunately, the raid wrapped up without me having to lift a finger.
I figured five A-rankers would give them a tough time, though.
"Well, yeah. Those cows really drew the short straw."
For Kang Han, who wields Electric Current, the Thunder Dungeon—where lightning falls endlessly—is practically his home turf.
He probably didn't even use any skills.
And what about Han Ji-seong?
With water constantly falling from the sky that he can freeze, he didn't need to generate mediums for his attacks separately.
That was why we'd slotted the Thunder Dungeon right before the scheduled desert one.
It might be different for other guilds, but for the Justice Guild, the Thunder Dungeon was actually on the easier side.
I had just stood up from the flat rock where I'd been sitting, watching the guild members approach from afar, when a new system window popped up before my eyes.