chapter 10
10 – The Labyrinth of the Abyss – 3
“Huh!”
Bang-!
“Haaa!!!”
Suddenly!
The Great Labyrinth boasts the lowest level of difficulty among the 5 Labyrinths
Three people from another world were escorted by 5 imperial knights on the top floor of the Great Labyrinth and were fighting monsters.
“Woman from another world! If Alex and Seojun Lee draw the monster’s attention in close proximity, shouldn’t you prepare your magic!”
“Ah…I see…”
The imperial knight sighed.
Lee Seo-yoon doesn’t use magic anyway.
No matter what values she had, Lee Seo-yoon was very reluctant to kill living creatures.
It was an act worthy of praise in Korea, but it was not accepted in a different world full of monsters.
If you don’t kill, you die.
Natural providence.
Lee Seo-yoon has yet to accept such a providence.
“Lee Seo-joon! Take a break for a while. The next monster will only deal with Alex and Lee Seo-yoon.”
“Ha..But Seoyoon…”
“I won’t take any counterarguments. Insert the sword immediately.”
Lee Seo-jun pondered, but saw the knight’s demon-like expression and put the blood-stained sword into the scabbard.
“It’s a monster! Stop Alex!”
“Yes!”
Kung-!
“Easy weight!”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you did well! Lee Seo-yoon, fire your magic!”
Lee Seo-yoon hesitated when he saw the monster unable to move due to being blocked by Alex’s shield.
At the same time, his eyes trembled and his face turned pale.
“Shoot aaa!! Shoot!!”
The knight eventually shouted in anger at Lee Seo-yoon’s behavior.
Lee Seo-yoon felt very stuffy to the knights who had spent their entire lives fighting monsters and killing each other.
You can’t even kill a single monster with that kind of talent! Isn’t it like a pearl necklace around a pig’s neck?
“Ow! Mr. Knight? It’s getting tough!”
“Damn it!”
Suddenly!
In the end, the imperial knight cut the monster’s head, and the battle ended in a bland way.
The knight who cut off the monster’s head strode toward Lee Seo-yoon, who was trembling with a pale face, with a ferocious expression on his face.
Then he grabbed Lee Seo-yoon by the collar.
“Kehehehe?!”
“Woman from another world. Do it right! Next time, if you can’t use even one spell properly… I will leave you in the great labyrinth even if it means being punished by my princess!”
“Kuhhhhh”
The knight threatened Lee Seo-yoon and threw Lee Seo-yoon by the collar.
Lee Seo-joon asked while supporting Seo-yoon Lee who was falling.
“Seoyun-ah?! Are you okay?”
“Huh…Huh…Huh…”
Lee Seo-yoon’s condition looked very bad at first glance.
But no one paid attention to Lee Seo-yoon except Lee Seo-jun.
Lee Seo-joon was enraged at that appearance, but at the same time he hated himself for not being able to do anything.
“Huh…..Mom…Dad…Gaonah…”
Lee Seo-yoon finally started to shed tears.
Lee Seo-yoon missed his parents. He missed his dog who always greeted him at home. More than anything, he missed Gaon Park, who always smiled at him.
“Hmm? Ohhh… It’s a hellhound.”
At that time, the driver in the lead found a large red dog the size of a normal large dog.
[LV 28 Hell Hound]
“Hmm…Is it a little overkill?…No, it’s worth doing.”
The knight glanced at Lee Seo-yoon, who was crying in the arms of Lee Seo-joon, and exclaimed loudly.
“Three people from another world! The Hell Hound subjugation begins! Knights prepare for an accident in a distant place!”
The knight said to Lee Seo-yoon.
“Hell Hound is a monster that is hard to beat with the two of Seojun Lee and Alex….. If you don’t use magic, Alex and Seojun Lee will die. Did you understand?”
“…Heeep…!”
With those words, the knight lured Hell Hound to the three people from another world.
Then, I backed away at a rapid pace.
-Kreurreure…
“Oh my god…”
“Heuk!”
Hell Hound is on a different level from the monsters I’ve seen so far.
Until now, I only hunted monsters between levels 10 and 20, but Hell Hound’s level is 28.
It was a powerful monster close to level 30, the starting point for the 2nd job.
-Kreurreureung!!
“sh*t?!”
Hell Hound rushed towards Alex at high speed.
Alex raised a large shield and managed to block the Hell Hound’s attack.
If you hadn’t lifted your shield a little too late, you would have been seriously injured.
“Haap-!”
Lee Seo-joon raised his sword and threw it at the Hell Hound, which was bound by Alex’s unique ability, [Shield Bind].
However, the Hell Hound was not an easy opponent.
-Crurling!
“Ugh?!”
Hell Hound escaped from the effect of Alex’s [Shield Bind] In an instant and bit Lee Seo-jun’s sword with his teeth to offset the attack.
Then, with the sword in his mouth, he stuck out his head and charged at Lee Seo-joon’s ship.
“Wow!!”
-Err..!
Lee Seo-joon flew far away, feeling his organs twisting at the moment.
The stat difference between Hell Hound and Lee Seo-jun is almost 1.5 Times.
In the current situation where even the sword was taken away, it was practically no different from a retirement.
Also, Alex, who hadn’t been knocked down yet, couldn’t pierce the hellhound’s hide because he had no offensive ability.
In other words, Lee Seo-yoon, who used magic, was the only one who could damage Hell Hound at the moment.
“Women from another world! If we don’t use magic right away, Lee Seo-joon and Alex are in danger!”
“Haa…Haa…Haa…!”
Lee Seo-yoon thought.
Surely, if I don’t use magic now, there’s a high probability that Alex and Lee Seo-joon will be seriously injured by Hell Hound.
I wouldn’t die because there were knights, but I could live with a big scar forever.
‘But…’
In the past, when Lee Seo-yoon was young, there was a baby Jindo dog that he raised with lots of love.
One day, Lee Seo-yoon went for a walk with his Jindo dog, and to buy ice cream, he tied the dog to a telephone pole and went to the mart.
However, as soon as he returned from buying ice cream, the scene Seo-yoon saw as a child was a Jindo dog tied to a telephone pole and being stoned by children.
-What are you guys doing!!
At that time, Lee Seo-yoon was also young, so the children who stoned the Jindo dog were older than Lee Seo-yoon.
Thanks to this, her younger children ridiculed her and mocked her, despite her anger at Seo-yoon Lee, who was younger than them.
– What are you?
– Isn’t this dog the owner?
-Kiki! Hey, I thought of something interesting! Hold on to the ashes!
-What are you doing?!
The young children forcibly grabbed her Lee Seo-yoon’s arm and prevented her from moving.
She then continued to sling her stone at the Jindo dog, with Lee Seo-yoon in front of her, who she couldn’t move.
-Kkiing…Kkiing…!
-Kyaaak!!! No!!
-Hee hee! Throw in a bigger boulder!
Eventually, the stoning continued for five minutes, and when the adults appeared, the children started to run away.
– Hey, run away!
– Kiki!
The young children started to run away in different directions, as if they were familiar with the situation, and Lee Seo-yoon, her arm loosened and bleeding, she approached the fallen Jindo dog.
-Ah…
-Kkiing……Kkiing…
The Jindo dog eventually stopped her breath and did not whine anymore.
-No……No……
That day was the first day Lee Seo-yoon witnessed the death of a life.
Since then, Lee Seo-yoon has hated killing her living creatures.
Lee Seo-yoon did not kill because he sympathized with the suffering of living things.
He avoided killing because he thought that if he simply killed a living being for no reason, he would be no different from the children who killed the Jindo dog when he was young.
“Lee Seo-yoon! Shoot me!!!”
“Ha ha… Ha… Ugh…”
Of course, this monster was a hellhound, a canine creature like the Jindo dog that Seoyoon had raised in the past.
Seoyun knows too. That’s a monster that harms people, and it’s a monster that needs to be subdued.
However, it was close to impossible to change Seoyoon’s values, which had been deeply embedded in her heart since childhood.
“Wave…Wave…!”
In the end, the magic that Lee Seo-yoon used after thinking about it was Wave, the weakest magic among the lowest wind-attribute magic.
It wasn’t used for offense, but it was a magic that was used for auxiliary purposes because of its strong pushing power.
Puong-!
-Kreurreu?!
Hell Hound was blown away by the waves that flew towards him.
However, there was no damage, rather, it became an opportunity for Hell Hound to target the wizard Lee Seo-yoon.
-Kreurre!
“Ah…”
Hell Hound rushed at Lee Seo-yoon at great speed.
Alex quickly tried to stop Hell Hound, but Hell Hound’s agility stat was twice as high as Alex’s.
“Damn it! Stop it!”
The knights noticed that the situation was serious and moved quickly, but Hell Hound was already close to Seoyoon.
‘Am I dying?’
Lee Seo-yoon’s kaleidoscope passed by.
From the trauma of the Jindo dog as a child to the fun memories of life.
Lee Seo-yoon quietly closed his eyes, recalling his past memories.
It is to conform to death.
Damn-!
“Hey!”
“…Uh…?”
But the pain that Seoyoon expected was not felt.
Rather, Seo-jun’s scream and the sound of something being chewed could be clearly heard right in front of him.
When Lee Seo-yoon slowly opened his eyes, the swords of the knights were tearing the hell hound’s body apart, and Lee Seo-jun’s right shoulder was ripped apart with blood gushing out.
“Lee Seo-joon! Wake up! Bring the potion, hurry!”
Lee Seo-joon had the highest agility stat among the three.
Using such a high agility stat, he quickly blocked Hell Hound’s way, and as a result, it was Lee Seo-jun, not Lee Seo-yoon, who was attacked by Hell Hound.
“Seo Jun-ah…?”
“Khehehehe… It hurts so much hey…”
Seo-yoon opened her eyes and approached Lee Seo-jun, who had fallen and spurting blood.
Lee Seo-jun took the potion and smiled mischievously at Seo-yoon.
“It’s all because of me…It’s okay if you’re having a hard time…?”
“Ah …. No … I’m hesitant …… Huh …”
“It’s okay…? It’s not the neck, it’s just a little bit on the shoulder… I heard that just applying acupuncture will get better…?”
Seoyun regretted it.
I’ll just use strong magic
If I had killed Hell Hound, Lee Seo-joon wouldn’t have become like this.
In the end, just as he couldn’t protect the Jindo dog when he was young, he couldn’t protect Lee Seo-joon.
It was sad. He also felt very incompetent.
“Oh sh*t… I don’t know how to deal with a woman who cries…”
Lee Seo-joon laughed at Seo-yoon shedding tears.
Then he quietly closed his eyes and muttered.
“If Gaon had had that bastard, she would have comforted her well….
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Ah sippaaal~!
Hell Hound, hurry up!
Now you don’t even get points, and the [Evil] Odds are like beggars!
The texture is like a dog, so I have to bear with it…
[LV 29 Hell Hound]
Oh hellhound again. Even the level is the lowest among the hell hounds you’ve ever found, right?
I’m bored to death.
Just turn it off.
“Wave!”
[Savage Attack is activated.]
-Kooung!
….What
Did the f*ck die? Why are you so weak
Ah, I don’t know, I just wish I had raised my experience points.
But I wonder if there’s an Earth Drake corpse lying dead somewhere? It was crispy and the texture was the best.
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Monster Encyclopedia
[Hell Hound]
-Class 6-7 monsters, instead appearing as 5-class monsters in certain labyrinths.
-A monster with no major threat except for its fast speed and sharp teeth
– Hellhounds below level 30 have significantly lower physical abilities than Hellhounds above level 30.
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