Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 108
Labyrinth 2nd floor (1)
Uru…?
Rumbling?
Between the bushes. Cries of embarrassment spread out.
The frog heads, fully camouflaged, rolled their eyes and expressed doubt.
They had never seen humans fly that high.
Aren’t humans, at best, prey that walk on the ground on two feet, staggering about uneasily, and then falling over with a single blow from a sleeping needle?
Rumbling?
Because it is a monster with a fairly advanced thinking system, it raises doubts rather than fear.
The last chance to escape had passed.
Tuung –
tens of meters in the air. The warrior’s body reversed.
Concentric ripples arise from the toes that step upside down in the air.
Rumbling….
The thundering sound that spreads beyond the image vibrates along the arm and hand.
It was truly a feeling of liberation that I had not felt in a long time.
Dallen looked down at the ground with eyes sparkling with magic light, and a smile filled his mouth.
Swoosh –
The haze that started from the shoulder and ran down the arm gradually became stronger and transformed into a whirlwind.
Rumbling…!
The thunderous sound and flash of light rising from the tip of the sword mix with the crushing energy and turn into a beam of light.
and.
Flash!
Lightning struck the dry night sky.
Blah blah blah!
A storm arises in the middle of the bush.
It was a storm of squishy flesh, sharp teeth, hard bone fragments, and other internal organs, blood, and torn pieces of grass.
The frogmen, whose shades were reversed by the flash of light, were caught up in the storm that followed and their limbs were torn apart.
Rumble!
Roll!
A cry full of embarrassment echoes through the bushes.
The sight of the frogmen hesitating and taking a step back created an optical illusion as if the bushes were retreating.
In the middle of it all.
In a swamp pit with black blood and internal organs strewn everywhere.
Dallen shook off the dust and stood up, holding the sword with both hands.
It was the beginning of the hunt.
Sgak!
The holy sword flashes. My head floated.
The frog head didn’t even realize that its head had been separated from its body, let alone recognizing the attack.
Before the head even touched the ground, Dallon passed by the headless body and swung his sword twice more.
Let’s go!
A sword swung from left to right. Dozens of clawed limbs fly into the air.
Kwazijic—!
Taking one more step, the trajectory is drawn in the opposite direction. This time, intestines and split heads come pouring out.
The holy sword moved without stopping. From left to right. From top to bottom. Raise it diagonally and stab it through the chest.
It was like a dance move. A dance move that brings about the death of a monster, scattering black blood and internal organs.
The first bolt of lightning tore apart dozens of frogmen, and in a short dance that followed, an equal number of frog heads rolled into the swamp.
It was then that the frogmen came to their senses.
Urururururu!
The cries of counterattack echo. It was not a hunt, but a cry to drive away predators that had invaded the territory.
Leaving here means giving up your eggs and nest.
There was no way they could give up their nest and run away with only about a hundred dead.
Crispy!
Suddenly, a frog’s mouth pops out from between the grass.
There was no noticeable sign or usual crying sound.
Amidst the frogman’s unique howl that constantly echoes from all directions, the one that shows its true teeth is the one that approaches silently.
Fist-sized teeth aim for the warrior’s neck. The sharp tip glistened with venom.
Dallen didn’t turn around.
He just quietly moved his lips and moved the tip of his left hand where the sword was placed.
Pararae rack!
And the next moment.
A hatchet surrounded by blue electricity was stuck in the middle of the gaping maw.
Rumbling!
Let’s go!
An ax filled with electricity splits the skull and pops out.
The blackened brain and brain fluid fell out from inside the gaping skull.
The hatchet, like a creature with its own will, began wandering through the bushes and scanning Dallen’s surroundings.
The frogman’s shattering scream follows behind the flashing trail. Dallen also moved again.
It cuts a frogman injured by an ax into pieces and splits the head of a guy in shock from an electric shock.
Black blood and internal organs covered the grass. The blood splashing in all directions made even the protective colors semi-meaningless.
Around that time, the special task force also resolved the confusion and reorganized its battle lines. Executor Sasha Taran shouted.
“Special task force! Won Won-jin!”
At her command, the special task force agents quickly change formation.
It took only about ten seconds for a three-layer firing line to be formed in a circle from the spread formation immediately after the space transfer.
While moving, the loaded long gun tilted its muzzle toward all directions.
The end of the diagonal line is in the middle of the camouflage-stained frogman’s head.
“Fire the first line!”
Ta-da-da-da-da-dan!
The muzzle spewed fire. The frogmen collapsed under a barrage of lead bullets.
Ride it! Ride!
While the first row, which fired, was reloading, the second and third rows continued to pour out lead bullets.
Bjorn’s grenade flew in as if he had been waiting between the gaps between the Frogmen, who had advanced despite the pouring rain of bullets.
“Hehe! Take this!”
Pretzel Gwang! Kkkkwang!
Tyranny crushes the skin. The fragments crush bones and muscles.
The group of frogmen were swept away by the grenade explosion and fell like dominoes.
The battle line was already devastated by three salvos.
Even a monster’s tough skin and solid skeleton would have no way of withstanding the barrage of stray bullets added to it.
“shooting!”
Ta-da-da-da-dan!
After a quick reload, the rain of bullets pours down again.
By alternately firing long guns and pistols, the special task force skillfully narrowed the gap in the barrage.
Nevertheless, the inevitable gap was filled with Bjorn’s fire support, and the corpses of frogmen piled up around the party like a barricade.
At the same time, in the middle of a group of frogmen far away, a mountain of corpses twice that size is piling up.
Even for the large tribe that dominates the swampy area in the southern part of the first floor of the labyrinth, there is a limit to their numbers.
Rumble!
Wow! Rumbling!
Eventually, the guys who had retreated one by one turned around and started running away.
On the way, they even took off their protective clothing and gave up on the strategy of a surprise attack and even resorted to a reckless hand-to-hand assault, but it didn’t work.
The primitive claymores that Bjorn had quickly laid out around the formation rained hundreds of lead bullets into their faces, blocking their final assault.
After nearly half of the frogmen who attacked died, the remaining half fled.
“Phew.”
Sasha Taran sighed and approached Dallen, who was wiping the blood and internal organs off the holy sword with a cloth. She said.
“sorry. My judgment was rash. “The labyrinth is a place that should not be taken lightly.”
She lowered her head.
In fact, it would not have been surprising if they had been wiped out if Dallen and Bjorn had not been there.
Even though I thought I had given the latest weapons to experienced shooters and completed sufficient study with proven strategies and prior knowledge.
The Demon World, a labyrinth where monsters formed an ecosystem, was a place that could turn the elite troops into a pile of corpses in a single moment.
“Now I understand why you asked for such a high price as compensation. “As soon as I complete my mission and return home, I will carry out your requests as quickly as possible.”
“Good.”
Dallen sheathed his sword and stood up.
Maybe it was because it had been a while since I warmed up, but I didn’t feel bad. It was also because Frogman gave me more experience than I expected.
The monsters that grew up in the unique environment of the labyrinth were definitely stronger and tougher than the monsters on the continent.
This meant that there was a lot of experience. It was a welcome event for Dallen, who had been having trouble leveling up recently.
“Are you finished with maintenance?”
“The equipment inspection is over. “If you rest for a while and then move on…”
“Take a rest later.”
Dallon said. He pulled the ax out of the frogman’s head and placed it on his belt.
“It is urgent to close the gap with the starting team. “I got paid to be a guide, so I have to do my job.”
“But the fatigue of battle.”
“You can sleep later at night. “Let’s leave right away.”
After saying those words, Dallon took a step forward.
It was a moment when Sasha, who had hired him as a guide, turned pale.
***
At the southern end of the first floor of the labyrinth.
The entrance to the next level was a gentle cave starting from a hill in the middle of a swamp.
A huge cave that doesn’t feel cramped at all even if sixty people enter at once.
As the Labyrinth is a world separated from the earthly continent and has its own ecosystem, it was natural that a variety of indigenous creatures also inhabited these caves.
And it goes without saying that the native creatures were monsters that could chew up humans as snacks.
Kyaaaaa!
A giant centipede sticks out its fangs. Instead of flesh, a hatchet was inserted between the fangs.
Hey! Hey!
A flock of bats with tentacles flew in, and their greed for human flesh was responded to with bullets and axes.
A beetle the size of a large dog that stings.
A twilight that catches its prey with its twenty furry legs.
There are water snakes that hide in cave pools waiting for their prey, and even dark-colored slimes that drop stalactites and crush the victim’s head.
The first floor, where all kinds of monsters were fighting for power, was also a demonic world, but the cave going down to the second floor was a hell itself that even that could not compare to.
If it weren’t for Dallan’s advice and help from the right place in every crisis situation, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the special task force had been wiped out in just one day.
Two full days passed in the darkness, unable to see an inch ahead.
“Maybe the damage to the advance team… may be more serious than we think.”
The second night after entering the labyrinth.
Sasha Taran muttered with a mesmerized expression in front of the bonfire at the camp he had made from the burrows of shellfish the size of houses.
Dallen stopped eating the stew left over from dinner and looked at her.
Fingers biting lips nervously. Eyes wandering in the air.
It is a face that was not visible during the day while exploring the cave. Perhaps he couldn’t show his weakness in front of his subordinates.
Now that everyone was asleep except Dallen and Bjorn, who were on watch, it would have been a time for her to fully relax.
“It won’t be that serious. “Even if we couldn’t do it, two-thirds would have survived.”
Dallen swallowed the stew in his mouth and spoke. At this point, it didn’t seem like a bad idea to comfort him a little.
Even if you are an executive officer of a special task force, you are ultimately human and if you let negative emotions build up, they will explode at some point.
Dallen added calmly to Sasha, who was looking at him with a puzzled expression, as if it was an unexpected answer.
“Because there’s a good guide there too.”
“You mean the information from the crow’s nest? “I heard that you and I have had a few dealings with each other, but I heard that you have no experience coming down to the labyrinth.”
“But there is probably no one who knows more about the labyrinth than the labyrinth city’s intelligence officer.”
And Ilshin’s military power is as good as that of most explorers. I didn’t say anything afterwards.
According to information from Crow’s Nest, not many facts are known to the public about Sienna.
Not only did she know that she was the Witch of Feathers, but very few people knew about her place of origin or upbringing.
The same goes for her own powerlessness.
It is only vaguely known that he can handle a 5-barrel crossbow at a high level and take care of mercenaries who are misbehaving in bars.
Because of this, Sasha still didn’t seem to understand, but she seemed a little relieved, as if Dallen’s affirmative answer had no effect.
At that time, a dwarf who was quietly tipping a bottle of wine intervened.
“So what are you going to do after you go down to the second floor? “We were lucky and reached the second floor entrance quickly, but Sienna and the advance team are still probably ten days ahead.”
“I had the same concerns. I heard that the second floor of the labyrinth is a vast desert area. Unless there is a shortcut, I don’t know how to catch up with the advance team…”
Dallen scratched his chin. He wordlessly extended his hand to Bjorn.
The dwarf paused for a moment and slightly hesitantly handed over the bottle.
Dallen took a sip of the strong drink and gave an answer with a low smile.
“I need to catch a taxi.”
“taxi?”
“No, I guess it would be better to call it a bus this time.”
Bjorn raised his eyebrows as if asking what he was talking about. Instead of answering, Dallon just smiled and tipped the bottle.
A time when all these continents and labyrinths were just a bunch of pixels beyond the monitor.
Just as he did on the first floor of the labyrinth, Dallon often used local means of transportation on the second floor of the labyrinth.
Dallen thought as he saw Sasha’s eyes, which had calmed down for a moment, begin to tremble again as she listened to his plan.
I’m really glad that Lucia, a blonde paladin who is prone to motion sickness, is not on this journey.