Episode 31
Episode 19. Monsters (1)
‘I came back to the past and just hit and run, but this isn’t bad either. I can see why so many powerful people sometimes mess things up because of their lust.’
Yuma picked up an apple from a stall at Kalam Market and ate it. The crunchy taste was refreshing.
Thinking of the pain she suffered all night, Yuma bought some more apples and ate them.
After that, Yuma slowly moved to the annex of ‘The Rose Society’ that Natalie had told her about.
The Rose Society was a dark group in Haseo, and Natalie was the 3rd boss of the Rose Society.
‘I have done more for my country than my country has done for me. She’s a funny woman.’
Haseo did not have a perfect vertical structure like the Empire, but the security was not good. In particular, it happened very frequently that the people divided their sides and fought.
The reason is the magic.
Haseo and Helga kingdoms were representative countries with many demon caves. Haseo, which has a small territory, suffered considerable damage from the demon cave.
The people of Haseoguk were divided into those who suffered damage from the demon cave and those who did not.
The people who wanted more kingdom troops to be dispatched to the region where they lived slandered and hated each other.
Demon caves were poured out by monsters, but magic stones were poured out as well.
Margul, where both loss and profit are intertwined, has always been Haseo’s most sensitive issue.
It was the Jangmihoe who took on the role of calming the public sentiment with fear on behalf of King Seong.
Bright ones are vigorous, and dark ones are rose circuits.
It was a proverb often heard in Haseo.
“Who are you?”
The gatekeeper of the Rose Association’s annex asked.
“Your master’s mistress. Or your master is my mistress.”
Yuma took out the rose society certificate she had received from Natalie and showed it. It was a proof that a magic crystal carved in the shape of a rose was crafted on a gold disc.
The gatekeeper who saw the proof opened the door without saying a word.
From the outside, the inside of the outbuilding was not much different from an ordinary mansion.
‘There are 50,000 traps set up.’
However, the inside, like an outbuilding in the dark, was set with numerous traps that ordinary people could not easily recognize.
Yuma shook his head and went to find Poin.
“Yu Yuma-sama!”
When Pouang saw Yuma, he ran out with tears in his eyes as if he had regained his long-lost family.
Even after taking the antidote, he was barely awake because of the strong paralyzing poison.
Pouang clung to Yuma and looked around.
When he regained consciousness, he realized that it was an underground space, Yuma was not there, and his last memory was not very good, so he just thought he was dead.
“Oh, Yuma-sama! What happened?”
“A deal was struck with Natalie. Advance payments made in futures trading will also be recovered.”
As if to reassure Yuma, he slightly shook off Puang and said.
“Then let’s go back to the empire. Haseoguk doesn’t want to come back…
For now, Puang didn’t even ask about the terms of the deal or anything, he just wanted to get out of here.
“Okay, I have to go back. Just one more stop.”
Yuma said as she took Puang out of the annex.
“Ah why where again! Where are you going!?”
“hell. I’ll have to stop by the devil’s cave. When it comes to Haseoguk, isn’t it another place famous for its demon cave? ha ha ha.”
Poin stood tall and looked at the back of Yuma’s head as he slowly walked.
“Magul… I mean magul…. magul is not a tourist destination. And was it a place where you could say that Magul went to the next town like that?”
“I am preparing for death, but.”
“If you’re prepared to die, don’t talk so comfortably!”
“I’ll dig up some magic crystals while I’m here.”
Poin didn’t know what to say to the madman.
Let’s go to the demon cave to collect magic stones.
Were the magic stones something that could be obtained with a light heart like raspberries?
Puang grabbed his greasy hair.
“Don’t worry too much. The last ogre to appear in Haseo was caught a few years ago.”
“Isn’t it only an ogre’s problem… It’s
literally a cave where monsters come out and a fissure in the demon realm.
Because it was so dangerous, Magul managed by sending a subjugation party or maintenance army at the national level.
There were many similarities to volcanoes, such as demon caves that had been active since ancient times and now completely lost their function, demon caves where monsters were still actively pouring in, and demon caves where monsters sprang out intermittently.
“Therefore, there will be no monster as strong as my master, so don’t worry.”
“If you are going, Yuma-sama, go alone!”
“Haha, let’s go together.”
There were a total of three demon caves in Kalam. Two were dormant and one was a demon cave whose activity was captured intermittently.
Yuma knew where it was.
It was the demon cave that was used as one of the passages for the demons to enter the human world during the Dragon Horse War.
Starting with Kalam, the demons quickly destroyed Haseo and advanced to the land of the Empire.
At that time, Yuma was convinced that if even the empire had failed, the world would have perished.
‘I’ll have to take a look and leave.’
All the way to the demon cave, Pooang maintained a shit-chewed expression.
The road leading to the cave was guarded by two sentries.
“Puang.”
“yes.”
“You were always tired of my sudden actions, right? I’ll give you a choice this time. Should I use those friends in a traditional way or a somewhat illegal way?”
“The traditional way.”
“All right.”
Yuma proudly walked towards the sentry. The sentries raised their spears to restrain Yuma.
“It is the Magul area. go back.”
“I have to go in.”
“It’s called the Magul area.”
“I’ll pass.”
The sentries cursed at me. One of them reached out first and pushed Yuma’s shoulder.
Yuma twisted the sentry’s wrist and hit him on the back of the neck.
As the colleague collapsed in an instant, another sentry stabbed the spear.
A supply spear with a wooden handle.
After breaking the spear with the blade of her hand, Yuma stunned the sentry in the same way as before.
“Let’s go, Mr. Puang.”
“It’s a very traditional method …. It’s a diplomatic problem that could escalate if we know that we are imperial people.”
“Diplomacy? Haseo and the Empire are not in a diplomatic relationship.
Between one side looking at the other “Ha. Then what was the somewhat illegal method?”
Yuma took out the pipe Natalie gave her from her chest and held it up.
“It’s paralysis poison. I learned something this time.”
Yuma and Puang left the fallen guards behind and moved toward the demon cave.
“When the shift guards come, the soldiers will probably follow. Let’s quickly pick up a few magic stones and leave.”
At the entrance to the demon cave, the space was distorted into darkness. Even at first glance, a common space that caused a sense of discord and incongruity was spread out in front of the party.
Poin was reluctant to enter.
It was because the devil’s cave was completely different from a normal cave, so you didn’t know where something would pop out.
In addition, the sense of heterogeneity felt in the space itself made Poin’s heart infinitely heavy.
Yuma forced Puang into the cave.
As soon as he entered the demon cave, Yuma realized that this was a different world completely cut off from the outside world.
Looking outside, I could see the leaves blowing in the wind. However, there was no wind and no sound could be heard inside the demon cave.
It’s just an unpleasant sound.
Yuma was also the first demon.
Yuma took out Ascalon and started to go inside the demon cave.
“Puang-nim, please stick with me and follow me. You could die if you’re squeamish
.
Sukyeong!
Yuma swung Ascalon sideways. Something the size of a human head broke in two and fell helplessly.
Pouang was startled and reflexively clung to Yuma with his hair standing on end.
“Aaaagh!”
Belatedly, Puang screamed.
Yuma picked up the monster that had become a corpse and examined it.
“Well, let’s see. This looks like a spider…
Yuma looked at the monster that had been cut in half and said. Black, thick blood dripped from the corpse and dripped to the ground.
Poin couldn’t even look properly.
“Shh! Shuiik!”
Two monsters identical to the ones you just killed raised their front legs and threatened Yuma and Puang.
It was a spider-shaped monster slightly larger than a human head or a small ball.
“Oh.”
Suddenly, memories of the Dragon Horse War came to Yuma.
“Puang-nim, hurry up and run. Wait at the entrance to the maul.”
“Why are you doing that?”
“It seems to have been followed. It’s cellove.
I think I just killed a cellove bastard.”
writing! writing!
Ascalon, wrapped in an aura, split the two baby Selobs in half.
“Just now. The mother must have noticed, so hurry up and run away.”
“Uh… ugh you crazy bastard! I’ll go out and get someone!”
Puang shouted at Yuma and ran out of the cave.
Yuma yelled at him not to do that, but Pouang didn’t hear and ran in a panic.
‘I didn’t know there was a cellove.’
That’s why I brought Poin. Because I thought Ou and other high-level monsters wouldn’t appear.
At most, I thought that low-level monsters such as orcs and trolls and goblins would appear, but Cellobran.
During the Dragon Horse War, Selove was a monster that was literally a symbol of massacre.
At the time, the number of humans killed by the Selovs, who were ruled by the demons, was uncountable.
The cellove, which looked like a huge spider, ate humans while moving very fast, unsuitable for its size.
‘It’ll be like I just came to look around and then I’m going to take care of things that will become a headache for Haseo-guk.’
Yuma started running towards the inside of the cave.
If there was a cellove, the possibility of other monsters existing anyway was remarkably low. The lower species monsters in the same demon cave were nothing but Selobe’s meals or snacks.
It needed a lot of space. The spot where Yuma had been standing until just now was an unfavorable position to fight Selove.
In the deepest part of the devil’s cave, there was a cellove’s nest. The rope-thick white spider web was entwined and fixed in the air in the shape of a disk.
There was no figure of Sellove on the pile of spider webs.
‘I must have been very angry because the baby died, but where is it?’
Yuma looked around, alerting his senses and nerves.
The inside of the demon cave was full of heterogeneous darkness and visibility was not good.
Yuma found Selove, aiming Ascalon in all directions.
Yuma raised his head, looked up at the ceiling, and hurriedly adjusted his posture.
Cellov was aiming for Yuma while clinging to the ceiling.
A thick strand of spider web came out of Cellov’s thread hole and shot like an arrow into Yuma’s chest. It was a spider’s web as hard as an iron chain.
Yuma was able to slash the spider’s web with his Ascalon.
‘It’s nothing compared to Yugire’s iron arrow.’
But that was just the beginning.
Soon after, Salove’s webs flew towards Yuma in a barrage. It looked like a rain of arrows falling vertically from the ceiling.
Can-can-can-can!
Yuma quickly swung his sword away. Each shot was not as powerful as Yugire’s iron arrow, but it was quite powerful.
At that time, a cobweb that he couldn’t get out of because of his dark vision hit Yuma’s chest.
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