The Dungeon's First Trap
Even as the forest echoed with the roars of monsters, I remained utterly still.
Yet Karlson’s bloodshot eyes burned with murderous fury as they locked onto me, staring as if he wanted to kill. It was clear he had finally accepted that this was the very limit of what he could do.
Chuckling mockingly at him over and over, I sent a signal to the monster nearby.
The monster dragged a woman who had been struck by an arrow and lay fallen from the hill straight in front of me.
At that moment, Karlson reached out to stop several villagers from rushing forward in uncontrollable emotion.
“Kkheuk…”
The woman, pierced by an arrow, groaned in agony and collapsed before me with a pained cry.
She was not yet dead, but she would soon succumb to the bleeding.
I might have been able to save her if I treated her now, but I had no intention of doing so.
She was not to my taste, and I intended to use her as a warning.
Tear—rip, rip…
While every eye in the surroundings was fixed on me, I tore the woman’s clothes to shreds until her skin was fully exposed.
During this, the woman weakly resisted, but I stepped on her lightly and ignored it.
The surroundings watched my actions in silence.
“I don’t… gulping!”
The woman, now naked and vomiting blood.
Her life was nearly over.
I spread her inner thighs wide apart and, as if to show everyone, thrust my swollen manhood into the gap between her legs.
Crack—.
Forcing her closed labia apart, I violated her from within.
I could feel the hidden onlookers witnessing my actions.
Crack! Crack!! Crack!…
“Kuhuk, kuhk, kuhk, heuk…”
Following my movements, the woman’s body shook weakly like a broken puppet.
Vomiting blood, she gradually lost consciousness, not even resisting but only letting out pained sounds as if water filled her lungs.
Ulk—.
“Kuhit—.”
After several thrusts, I satisfied the emotions I had held back and ejaculated deep inside her.
Even in the midst of struggling for life, her vagina tightened as if driven by an instinct to leave my genes in this world.
While using the woman’s body like a disposable onahole, I felt the weak twitching of her body movements cease.
“……”
She was dead.
Her large eyes had lost all focus, and her slightly parted lips were smeared with blood.
I had no hobby of wasting time, but I ended up doing so anyway.
As I felt her warm body slowly cooling, my interest waned.
The moment the body ceased to function as a woman, it had no more value.
Pong—.
With a light sound, my penis slipped out from between her legs.
I wiped the remaining debris on the glans with a tissue onto the woman’s body to clean it.
This tool no longer had any use.
Squelch—.
After viewing my semen flowing from the vagina as the final satisfaction, I kicked the dead woman with my foot and sent her rolling down the hill.
Dudug… thud, plop…
The weakened body rolled down the hill for a long time before stopping in front of the villagers.
At the same time, their gazes were fixed on the woman’s body, now covered in dirt and semen, naked.
They could not open their mouths; they had witnessed the tragic death of a human who had been alive and breathing until a few minutes ago.
Shock and horror.
The atmosphere of fear and terror overwhelmed the surroundings, silencing their voices.
I found their stunned expressions amusing and decided to wrap up the situation.
With a signal, the monsters hiding in the forest quietly retreated.
The new monster that had been born on the hill was already an adult and dragged the woman’s hair into the dungeon.
“Please… save me…”
The woman, flailing her hands in despair, spoke in a split voice toward the villagers.
The affectionate voice gradually faded as the villagers disappeared beyond the veil.
The shocking aftertaste left a strong imprint in their minds, instilling fear in them as they tried to invade my dungeon.
***
“Uwae…!”
Karlson, watching the villagers clean up the dead, said to everyone.
“Even now, you should return to the village. You need to request help from outside or hire mercenaries and come back.”
This time, everyone listened to Karlson’s words.
The shocking scene from before still lingered in their minds.
The villagers who had been bold now hesitated, checking each other’s eyes.
They were all gripped by fear and about to agree with Karlson’s words when an unexpected rebuttal came from somewhere.
“Help from outside? Captain, I’m sorry, but that’s impossible. As you know, our village is isolated from other villages, so we have no neighboring villages we can rely on. There is no village or lord to lend us strength. Moreover, hiring mercenaries is unrealistic. The precious items have been taken by monsters, and the grain warehouse has burned down, so we don’t know if we can solve our meals tomorrow. We can’t wait until all this is restored. Months? No, at least a few years. After those few years, the villagers who were taken by monsters won’t be alive.”
He was a guard captain and the man who led the guards after Cecilia.
He spoke to the despairing group.
The surroundings, which had turned to fear, showed affirmative nods at his words.
Karlson also agreed to some extent with his subordinate’s persuasion.
He also knew what the male guard knew.
But if the only fighting force of the village, the personnel, were wiped out here or suffered fatal damage, there would be nothing after that.
Surely that monster would lead the troops to attack the village again, and then the village would be destroyed.
Most would die to the monsters, and the remaining women would become mothers giving birth to the monsters’ babies, like just before.
Perhaps something worse than death might torment the remaining ones.
“Captain! We can’t wait any longer!!”
“Correct!!”
“Anyway, we can’t go back! We have to fight!!”
The will that had died came back to life and spread.
It was a good meaning on the battlefield, but for Karlson, who had experience unlike them, it was not.
It was reckless and foolish.
It was short-sighted thinking.
But…
The words of persuasion did not work in front of those who burned their will again and swore revenge.
No choice.
Then, rather.
“Advance.”
Now, it was truly irreversible.
Swoosh.
“Let’s go.”
Karlson, with resolve, drew his sword and led the way.
Following the traces of the monsters that had left behind, an unexpected scene unfolded.
“Dun, jeon…?”
The entrance to a huge cave.
The villagers who had never seen a dungeon before stared at the cave in wonder, but Karlson was not.
As someone who had explored dungeons as a mercenary several times, he was surprised to discover a dungeon in an unexpected place.
The more surprising thing was that the monsters from just before were estimated to be the monsters inside the dungeon.
It was not impossible for monsters inside the dungeon to come out, but it was never common.
“What the hell is that monster?”
Karlson’s mind was filled with questions about the monster that controlled the monsters, beyond common sense.
“No, thinking about this now is meaningless.”
There was no change in the fact that he had to bring the villagers.
Dungeon exploration.
Recalling past experiences, Karlson regained some confidence.
“The villagers who were taken are inside that cave, that is, inside the dungeon.”
“Dungeon?”
“Is that a dungeon?”
The villagers including the guards murmured at Karlson’s words.
Among them, the naive ones even showed excitement at the name “dungeon.”
A dream-like space where treasures and unique items awaited as unknown rewards.
To those who had not experienced a dungeon, it was a romantic word.
“We know you will come, and there is a high possibility of traps being set. So, please listen to my words without fail this time so that the tragedy from earlier doesn’t happen. Understood?”
At Karlson’s solemn words, everyone nodded after checking each other’s eyes.
There was no one who didn’t know that he was a former mercenary who had explored dungeons in the past.
There was no reason not to listen to Karlson’s words, who was the only one with dungeon experience.
“You made a mistake.”
Karlson stared into the darkness of the dungeon and coldly recalled the action the monster from before had done.
“He probably wanted to instill fear in us. He might have even thought of sending us back with that. But it backfired. Thanks to what happened just before, everyone has become vigilant. We are no longer complacent. Now, no one thinks of you as a trivial monster.”
Fwoosh—.
Karlson lit a torch to illuminate the dark dungeon.
“From now on, dungeon exploration—.”
Raising his voice to boost morale, as he took the first bold step towards the dungeon.
Thud.
Whir—.
“……”
With a feeling of something catching on his foot, a heavy presence poured down from above.
Startled, he quickly looked up, and a large blade-wielding plate was rapidly descending.
A trap.
Impossible.
From the very beginning of the dungeon—.
“Captain!!”
The urgent voice from behind.
Thud.
“Ugh!?”
Karlson was pushed by someone and fell to the floor.
Kuuwoong—.
A heavy sound of something large falling to the floor followed.
As the smoke dispersed, the male guard who had pushed Karlson earlier was revealed.
The male guard who had insisted on bringing the villagers from the forest had been trapped in the trap and died instantly.
“Heeik—!?”
Seeing the guard who died without even screaming properly, a villager let out a shrill scream in fear.
The will that had been burned with effort began to turn back into fear.
Karlson sat there blankly, looking at the corpse of the guard who died instead of him with disbelief.
There are traps in dungeons.
Of course.
That’s why he had been cautiously advancing.
But he never imagined that even from the very start of the dungeon, at the beginning of the entrance, traps would be set.
There had never been such a dungeon until now.
It was not based on any logic or reason.
It was like a promise tied to this world that dungeons should be like this.
And just before, that promise was broken.
Common sense had been reversed.
In an unexpected situation, an impossible situation, Karlson felt confusion at the same time as—
He began to feel genuine fear in the dungeon he had stepped into.