Genius Corpse-Collecting Warrior - Chapter 8

Sewer Wizard (2)

Uruk! Urururu!

A cry echoed through the sewer passages. It was not a simple howl of an animal.

‘Frogman is a highly intelligent and picky individual even among the lowest level monsters.’

Although they are not a colony like ants, frogmen live in groups, dividing up roles among themselves.

They build a primitive language system, set up their own hunting grounds, and strategically hunt their prey.

In fact, Frogman is a monster that originally lived in the labyrinth. I don’t know how they got here.

All people know is that at some point they started using sewers as their habitat.

And although they were degenerated compared to their labyrinth-dwelling relatives, they were still powerful predators.

Rumbling! Wow!

with a splash!

As soon as one starts running, the others follow suit. They started running, splashing through the sewer slush.

Dallen’s senses quickly scanned their heads.

‘Approximately around twenty.’

This is enough power to annihilate a company of guards.

Dallen glanced back. Penny was keeping her distance from him and pulling out a thin short sword.

I saw him wearing it on his belt, but I thought it was just for self-defense. It didn’t seem like that, seeing as he skillfully held his posture.

‘I guess there’s nothing to worry about.’

but. I’ve been in and out of the sewer for three years, so I can’t even protect myself.

By the time Dallen looked forward again, the group of frogmen had already approached.

Rumbling!

One guy ran up. It jumped a distance of nearly 5 meters with its long limbs.

A leap beyond common sense that even a skilled warrior would not have been prepared for.

Dallen’s response was simple.

He drew his sword horizontally.

Sigh!

climb-!

The Frogman, split into two pieces, top and bottom, passed by Dallen.

The intestines that it had scattered landed like a patter of paint on the slush of the sewer.

That was the beginning.

Rumble!

Waruk!

Frogman rushed in. Dallen swung his sword without hesitation.

I swung horizontally, cut vertically, pushed the shield, and struck their heads.

The frogman’s thin limbs overwhelm the strength of an adult man. It didn’t matter. Dallen’s power was stronger.

Their smooth hide easily repels blades. It didn’t matter. With his superhuman strength, Dallon split the muscles and bones in one go.

Rumble!

Come on!

Perhaps sensing that their prey was stronger than expected, the Frogmen attempted to surround Dallan.

Those who were accustomed to group hunting knew how to put pressure on opponents stronger than themselves.

It would have been similar when dealing with a wizard.

Several of them died from the earth mage’s powerful magic, but those who survived must have circled around, looking for an opportunity.

The pressure of physical and mental strength inevitably leads to fleeting mistakes, and Frogmen are clever hunters who do not miss such mistakes.

Dallen also felt that pressure from behind the monitor.

but.

Kwasik!

Ur-

Dallen’s body right now was not just that of a basic character who was being cornered by a frogman.

Suddenly!

His sword flashed. The one that was returning to surround it was split diagonally.

I swung my shield widely. Frogman, who was trying to jump to the ceiling, ended up in the mud with his legs crushed.

If their strategy is to encircle and then let go, they just need to avoid being surrounded at all.

Dallen’s figure blocking the group of frogmen from the front looked like a living wall.

Suddenly! Kwasik!

I’m slightly out of breath. The muscles of the limbs are tense. Before I knew it, I found myself raising the corners of my mouth.

The superhuman body was satisfied with the intense combat and gave a strange, indescribable sense of elation.

A sensation that we never even thought about when wearing the frail bodies of modern people.

Dallen screamed without realizing it.

“come!”

Rumbling!!

The excited frogman responded to the shout.

It lunges at its prey with its span-long teeth, trying to bite off its neck.

As soon

as Dallen’s sword flashed, his frog’s head floated in the air.

And splash! Stuck in the mud of the sewer.

With that, silence fell over the sewer.

He was the last one.

“Wow.”

Snap.

Dallen glanced back. Penny was walking in with a surprised look on her face.

Dallen found blood on her sword. The blood of black monsters.

Behind Penny, the corpse of a frogman with two broken legs was seen lying around.

“Are you okay?”

“yes? Ah yes! “I can handle at least one frog with a broken leg.”

Apparently, during the hectic battle, one of them passed by Dallen. Seeing that both legs were crushed, it was the guy who fell after being hit by a shield while trying to jump over Dallen.

“You’re still a janitor for 3 years? I even caught two frogmen once. “Please leave it to me!”

Penny approaches, speaking triumphantly. Dallen laughed lowly and raised his hand to stop her.

“Please don’t come.”

“yes?”

“It’s not over yet.”

Dallen knew the habits of frogmen well.

Even though they have amphibian heads, they are smart hunters.

The evidence is that they followed Dallan and Penny from afar and then ambushed them at their pre-determined hunting ground.

‘The earth mage must have attacked like that too.’

Surprise and surround them and constantly put pressure on their physical strength.

But if that was really all it took, I would have at least been able to find an opportunity to escape.

The fact that the Earth Wizard who used the underground as a battlefield has been neutralized means that this is not the end of what they have prepared.

That moment.

Pi-

Something caught Dallen’s expanded senses. Dallen swung his sword straight away.

Cough!

A paralyzing needle fired in the dark hits the surface of the sword and bounces off, sparking.

Dallen’s left hand immediately let go of the shield and pulled out the ax from his belt before the shield even hit the ground.

Pararae rack!

For a moment, beyond the blurred remnants of the left hand, the ax that has become a disk of light flashes and cuts through the darkness.

Ugh!

Nice shot.

A deathly scream heard from afar. The sound of falling down was faintly heard.

“Huh?”

Penny’s eyes widened.

All she recognized was that something bounced off Dallen’s sword and that his left hand blurred and flashed for a moment.

When she belatedly noticed that the ax was missing from Dallen’s waist, she gaped.

“how…?”

“Monsters are generally clever. This is especially true when it comes to hunting humans.”

Dallen continued, looking into the darkness.

“There were two. “One is running away.”

“Then how…”

“I’ll chase after you right away. “Their nest won’t be far away.”

Dallen picked up the shield. The traces of the fleeing frogman were already moving away.

But Dallon was not impatient. His senses were good enough to chase it even if it got farther away.

“What are you doing? let’s go.”

“yes yes!”

Penny, who was looking at him blankly, hurriedly followed after Dallen’s words.

***

Dallen retrieved the ax from Frogman’s body. I also took the paralyzing needles it was shooting as a bonus.

The form of the paralyzing needle is primitive, but the poison applied there is their blood processed using a unique technique.

For a bag of this, I could get a few silver coins on the black market.

“You’re much more frugal than you look. amazing.”

…It’s better than it looks. What did it look like?

I couldn’t bear to ask that of Penny, who was tilting her head in pure admiration. Dallon answered roughly.

“If you want to make a living as a mercenary, you shouldn’t miss out on these small profits.”

“I guess so. “You must be jealous of civil servants like me.”

“…….”

The two chased down the runaway frogman. The sound of Frogman’s footsteps had already gone so far away that even Dallon could barely hear them.

However, Dallon’s superhuman senses were able to catch the traces left behind by the bastard as he ran away.

And the more he tracked it down, the more convinced Dallon became.

‘He’s the guy I thought he was.’

A heretical wizard who was kicked out of the Magic Tower.

A devil worshiper who rules over demons in the sewers.

He may not be the strongest among the cultists, but he is definitely the one who massacred the most civilians.

‘Delic Valentino.’

Dallen smiled as he recalled the name of the boss mob that struggled in the original.

He once killed his character. Even though it was a scene beyond the monitor, it was so cruel that I could never forget it.

In fact, ever since I heard the name of the missing wizard, I had been wondering.

Wizards who have a direct teacher usually take the teacher’s last name. This is because the surname Valentino was a familiar surname to him.

As I went down to the sewer and examined the traces, my suspicions became confirmed, and now that I had a fight with a group of frogmen, I was able to deduce the entire incident.

‘That guy kidnapped my junior.’

Tommy Valentino. The only disciple of the elder wizard of the Elgaia Magic Tower.

Did you say that even though he was in his early 20s, which was young for a wizard, he impressed an older wizard with his outstanding talent and sincerity?

Why did Delric Valentino kidnap him?

Are you jealous of your junior who, unlike you who was kicked out of the Magic Tower, has continued to be taught by a great teacher?

Or is it resentment toward the teacher who cared so much for his junior but actually abandoned him?

Dallen shook his head.

‘It’s not important.’

The important thing is that you can put an ax in his head.

And it was true that through this, many people who would be killed by this bastard in the distant future could be saved.

In this way, this world will take another step back from destruction. The longer he does this, the longer he will survive, and maybe he will be able to find the wish stone at the end of the labyrinth and return to Earth…

“Mr. Dallen?”

“hmm.”

Dallen stopped walking. He turned his head and saw Penny looking up at him.

“Are you okay?”

“…It’s okay. “Your thoughts have deepened.”

Dallen expanded his senses for a moment. Fortunately, there were no problems.

His outstanding senses and incredible intelligence allowed him to track the trail on his own even while he was lost in thought.

The destination was just around the corner.

“I think there’s someone over there.”

Penny said. The place she pointed to was the end of a long passage.

The exit at the end of the passage shimmered with faint light.

In a sewer where there is only pitch darkness, light is no different than proof that someone is there.

“Who on earth is in a place like that?”

“Who could it be?”

Dallen laughed lowly.

“He must be the person we are looking for.”

“Then the kidnapper…!”

Dallen nodded. He walked without hesitation.

The passage was gently downhill, so small waves broke at my heels with every step I took.

As I passed the end of the passage, the view cleared up.

Kurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

;. The destination was a vast, hemispherical cavity. A place where numerous sewer passages gather and spit out the sewage they have been carrying.

Sewage poured from dozens of channels in the wall and gurgled down the moss-covered wall.

The cavity where the rotten water gathered looked like a swamp.

The only places you can step on are places with high terrain, like islands. And there is only a long walking path that crosses the hemispherical cavity.

The very center of that common.

There was a wizard on a high altar.

‘It’s been a while.’

It was just as Dallan remembered. A stained dark brown robe unique to the Elgaia Magic Tower. A silver mask with a greatly exaggerated mouth shape.

The wizard, whose short physique was not fully covered by his ample robe, looked down at Dallen and Penny and opened his mouth in an uncomfortable voice.

“Who are you? “Who touched my research specimens?”

Dallen shrugged.

“Is it strange to kill a monster that attacks while taking a leisurely stroll?”

“It’s strange. “Normal people don’t come for a walk deep in a sewer like this.”

The wizard added, scratching his arm obsessively.

“I didn’t even come to the nest to chase after the runaway frogman.”

The wizard stopped scratching his arm and started twitching his hand. Then, bubbles bubbled up from the swamps everywhere, and green, smooth-skinned monsters began to emerge.

“Uh huh?”

Penny stepped back, looking embarrassed.

As far as the eye can see, there are already dozens of them. No, I didn’t know there would be more than a hundred.

A group of monsters this size, or a wizard who seemed to be handling them, was a disaster in and of itself.

‘The moment something like this is released into the city….’

People are massacred. The guards will not be able to resist and the city will fall.

The moment her face turned white as she imagined the burning bronze zone.

chin.

Dallen’s hand naturally supported her back.

“…….”

Penny looked up at Dallen. There was no movement on his face.

No, rather, it felt as if the corners of his mouth were rising slightly. Penny somehow felt like she could read that expression.

derision. Relieved. revenge. And hope.

I felt firmness in the arms that supported my back and the large, thick hands. This man could probably fight a giant.

The number of frogmen seemed to have already reached three to four hundred.

‘This person might be able to deal with no matter how many come.’

With that thought in mind, Penny managed to calm her startled heart.

Sigh.

When Penny seemed to be out of her confusion, Dallon withdrew his hand from her.

He smiled slightly. He was a janitor with a strong mind for his young age.

The wizard was looking this way with interest. Dallen casually placed his hand on the head of the ax and spoke.

“I came to look for someone. “It looks like your pet frogs have kidnapped a wizard.”

“…Tsk. Did the old man send it? “Without coming in person.”

“gaffer?”

“No, it’s okay.”

Dallen’s eyebrows twitched. Why is this guy just saying what he wants to say?

“The wizard you are looking for is in my hands. “I hid it in a safe place.”

“Are you alive?”

“Not yet. Actually, he’s healthier than me. “I have someone I need to show you.”

“Then that’s it.”

The wizard tilted his head slightly.

“What happened?”

Dallen didn’t answer. He immediately pulled out the ax and threw it.

The hatchet cut through the air with a fluttering sound and instantly flew right in front of the wizard’s nose. The wizard, startled, tried to shout out something.

“Enaxa—”

Clink—!

Before the wizard could speak properly, the sound of something being shattered into pieces was heard.

Pow!

The ax that had disappeared from Dallen’s belt sprouted on the wizard’s head.