Chapter 59
Chapter 59
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 59
Chapter Title: Nayeo-ju Saves the World
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The battle was fierce.
No, it was more like four Giant Wingbats hunting down dozens of goblins.
“Kieeek-!”
“Kiik!”
The tearing cries of the Giant Wingbats as they spun threateningly in flight echoed everywhere.
Kang Han furrowed one thick eyebrow.
The sound felt like it was mocking the goblin horde.
“Kruk, kruk!”
“Kyaaak!”
Down below, the goblins were desperately counterattacking, but it was hopeless.
The spears or pickaxes they threw couldn’t reach the high-flying Giant Wingbats and just fell back to the ground, harming their own allies instead.
But the goblins, already swept up in rage and fear, didn’t seem to have any rationality left to think of such things.
“Something’s off.”
Lee Yu-chan said, pushing up his glasses.
“They’re both C-rank, so why is it this one-sided?”
“Maybe it’s just a bad matchup?”
“Could be, but…”
Even with his sister Lee Yu-eul’s response, Lee Yu-chan’s face remained uneasy.
“The goblins seem way too panicked.”
Kang Han agreed.
Goblins were inherently cunning and surprisingly disciplined in group actions despite their appearance.
Wildly hurling whatever they held wasn’t like them at all.
That was when everyone was puzzled.
The largest Giant Wingbat let out a long cry, like a signal.
“Kkaaaaeek!”
Folding their bat-like thin-membrane wings, the Wingbats dove down in the blink of an eye, plucking goblins from the crowd below one by one.
And then.
“That’s… they’re sucking blood right now, aren’t they?”
Giant Wingbats normally carried prey back to their nests to feed.
But these were different.
The four Giant Wingbats soared high into the air above the massive cavern, then spread their maws wide and plunged sharp fangs into the goblins’ necks.
“Kruek! Keuk, kuk…”
The goblins bitten at the nape seemed to struggle briefly, but soon their limbs went limp.
“Cheong-su, check it.”
At Kang Han’s command, Im Cheong-su, his face pale, activated his Dungeon Guide skill.
“You got it! It’s a B-rank variant!”
Im Cheong-su checked the system window again.
He tried to act nonchalant, but his legs were trembling.
The monsters he encountered in his second dungeon lifetime were incomparable to those near his home mountain.
Far more ferocious and terrifying.
Was he going to have to fight things like this from now on?
No, did he even have a role in a dungeon like this?
He wanted to sew shut his own mouth for telling Nayeo-ju not to treat him like a kid and just lock him in the guild.
Should he say he wanted to go outside now?
Run away?
His head filled with all sorts of thoughts.
“You can run if you want.”
Snapping to attention, Im Cheong-su looked beside him.
“Nayeo-ju sis.”
“Don’t push yourself. Besides, the monsters won’t hurt you.”
Nayeo-ju’s finger pointed ahead.
“Doesn’t look like there’s even a spot for us to step in, right?”
“Ah…”
Im Cheong-su’s mouth fell open slightly.
Before he knew it, the guild members—except Kang Han, who stayed to protect the two—had charged toward the goblin horde.
Leading the pack, as expected, was Jang Su-ho.
“Let’s gooo!”
Letting out a massive roar, Jang Su-ho leaped high and plunged straight into the enemy’s midst.
“Kak!”
“Keuk, kyung!”
The goblins, already dealing with the vampire Wingbats overhead, flew into a rage at the sudden intrusion of a hunter.
And unlike the aerial foes, that rage spread like wildfire toward the new enemy rooted to the ground.
“Krrruk!”
At the leader’s signal, wielding a proper iron sword, five charged at once.
But Jang Su-ho didn’t panic.
He grinned instead.
“Good, come at me all at once!”
A thrill raced through his entire body.
Jang Su-ho channeled the boiling power into his shield.
Kwaang!
Kwang!
Pajijik!
His shield, a supposed defensive tool, had long since become a perfect offensive weapon.
“Kyahak!”
The final scream of the goblin impaled on the shield’s edge sounded like a song.
A song urging him to keep dancing.
A spell commanding him not to think of anything, just drink the enemies’ blood with his whole body.
Jang Su-ho gladly followed the whisper.
Gripping the shield with both hands, he charged at the goblin leader that had annoyed him from the start.
Kuwoong-!
The even heavier roar shook the dungeon’s stone walls.
“Kahak!”
The leader lost its balance and staggered.
Jang Su-ho didn’t miss the opening.
He thrust out his right hand and seized the leader’s throat.
“Kruk, kruk!”
The leader tried to swing its clutched sword, but it was too late.
Once caught in the grip of an A-rank berserker shield, the throat could no longer pump blood through the body.
The moment the twitching leader dropped its iron sword.
Puhak!
The throat crushed in an immense grip burst, spraying black blood like a fountain in all directions.
“Haa.”
Jang Su-ho’s eyes reddened as much as the warm liquid splashing his face.
“Kak, kak!”
“Kya, kyahak!”
With the leader dying so easily, the goblins fell into panic.
They rolled their torn eyes side to side, searching for escape.
And then they all bolted in one direction at once.
The only exit the goblins found was the massive iron door where comrades not joining the fight remained.
Nayeo-ju was there.
“Can’t let you go there.”
An inexplicable hot rage heated Jang Su-ho’s head even more.
“Huu.”
Jang Su-ho took a long deep breath and raised his shield blade upright high.
That was when.
A cold surge of mana wind swept through the dry dungeon, followed by a low voice.
“Ice Field.”
"Ice Field"
⟨ Absolute Zero ⟩
Kwagagagak!
Han Ji-seong slammed both hands to the ground in front of the charging goblin horde, and vicious ice spikes jutted up from there.
“Kyaaaak!”
Goblins whose soles were pierced by the sharp ice spears bursting from the ground screamed from all sides.
But they couldn’t just pull back.
The ice had already climbed to their knees, freezing their legs solid.
Dozens of goblins turned into living statues in an instant instinctively looked behind them.
There stood a monster with its body blackened, red eyes glowing, grinning with white teeth.
Hwooung-!
And a shield flew from the monster’s hand, tracing a massive arc.
That was the last sight the goblins saw.
While Jang Su-ho handled marking the goblin horde, the twins’ eyes turned upward.
The four Vampire Wingbats circled lazily, watching the goblins get massacred.
Assessing the power of the suddenly appeared Jang Su-ho.
While the Vampire Wingbats’ attention was fully on Jang Su-ho, the twins quietly skirted along the dungeon wall to the side.
Before proper entry, the guild master’s given plan was simple.
“Target one wing.”
Lee Yu-chan’s sharp gaze fixed on a Vampire Wingbat’s large but thin wing.
If even one of the two wings was damaged, they couldn’t fly anymore.
As C-ranks, the four B-rank variants were unbeatable for him.
But the guild master didn’t step in.
He knew better than anyone that real combat was what Yu-chan needed most.
Yu-chan slowly nocked two arrows generated in his hand onto the bow.
That was the max he could accurately fire at once with his current ability.
But as he drew the bowstring tauter than ever, not a single stray thought disturbed his calm mind.
Because far across, on the opposite side, there was Lee Yu-eul.
“Huu.”
Regulating his breath, Lee Yu-chan released the string without hesitation.
Ssaeeak-!
With the sharp sound slicing the air, two arrows struck the leftmost target of the four.
One in the center of the widest membrane, the other at the shoulder joint connecting wing to body.
“Kiik!”
The Vampire Wingbat, startled by the sudden attack, let out a short screech and lost balance, wobbling.
Yu-chan immediately fired two more arrows in succession.
Aiming at the same two spots he’d wounded.
“Tch.”
The flailing wings deflected the membrane shot.
But the shoulder joint arrow succeeded in tearing a bigger wound.
“Kiik, kieeek!”
Kung!
Having lost flight capability in one wing, the Vampire Wingbat finally hit the ground.
“Alright!”
And there, Lee Yu-eul was waiting for it.