R4STWH - Chapter 118
Chapter 118
'My quest!'
How dare that evil guy run away to ruin my quest!
At this time when I might have to face Yumi and Zero at the same time, increasing the time for the release of the stat restriction was very important.
Someone might say that it was only 10 seconds, but that wasn’t a short amount of time by any means to determine victory or defeat in a battle.
I opened the window that I had pushed to the corner and checked the success conditions again.
'I've completed the 500 monster defeat……and since Elias is there, the defense will be fine, and Crow will take good care of the saintess…….'
It seemed that there wouldn't be any problem if I left the battlefield for a bit and went to catch the boss.
Looking up at the city wall while collecting the weapons I had thrown, my eyes met with Elias's as if it were natural.
When I mouthed the words ‘I'm going to go take care of the boss’, he nodded in response.
'Did he understand?'
To be honest, I didn't think that Elias would be able to read my lips, but surprisingly, his expression really did look like he understood.
'Looking at how our hearts are so in sync, it's clear that we are destined by a god.'
I decided to completely forget that the god had been so wary of me when I first arrived in this world.
Besides that time, the saintess and the Amern Order had helped me in many ways.
I immediately left the battlefield and started chasing after the boss.
It was very easy to sense the presence of a monster that could be considered nearly S-rank. Because he was leaking his presence so carelessly like that.
He was running away so quickly that he had gotten quite far away in that short time, but even though I had been chasing while finishing off the lingering monsters, I was quickly able to close the gap.
'So this was the dungeon entrance.'
The place that the guy had run away to was inside the dungeon, which could be considered his own base.
It seemed like he had entered there seeking the environment that was the most advantageous for him, but for me, it was actually a good thing.
If he had headed toward the villages where ordinary people lived, there would have been no choice but to have casualties.
I stepped inside the dungeon without hesitation.
You have entered the Dungeon - Season of Longing (A+)
Perhaps because the dungeon had already been enhanced once after it had burst open, there was no separate notification about adjusting the difficulty.
When I pushed the translucent window away, a gray space entered my vision.
While passing by structures that felt somewhat familiar, I checked to see if there were any monsters hiding, but I didn't sense any particular presence.
It was the first time I had entered a dungeon after a wave had broken, so I examined the space with a different perspective than usual.
'Looking at it like this, it’s like an abandoned world.'
Now that I think about it, I wonder how our world was doing.
I was the only living being there, but even I had come to this world.
Could something still wiggle around in the land and atmosphere, which had been polluted so much that nothing could live in it?
It might be possible inside a tower that had been thoroughly cut off from the outside world.
Not immediately, but sometime in the future as time passed.
If the dungeon that had appeared in the Hwidel estate in the eastern Lucendria started in the ruins and headed towards a tower, this dungeon could be said to be the opposite.
There was a closed-off tower that had no way of being entered at the starting point, and as you proceeded through the capture, you would gradually head toward the outside.
Since it was empty without a single monster, I reached what could be called the boss room within ten minutes.
On top of the hill in front of me, the guy that I had been chasing all this time was standing stiffly.
'Is it a demon-type?'
Demon-type monsters often had appearances that were similar to humans at first glance.
If you looked closely, you would feel the differences due to the difference in the luster of their skin, or the fact that they had wings or horns.
When I got closer, he opened his eyes, which had been closed, and looked at me.
The moment his ruby red eyes flickered, I suddenly felt a change in the scent of mana.
No, it wasn't just the scent. It was like it had transformed into a completely different entity; a huge pressure had taken control of the space.
I couldn't help but feel bewildered by the power that I had never felt, even when facing the SS-rank enhanced final boss, the Evil Dragon Ermitar.
'What is this……?'
Just a few seconds ago, he had clearly been just a normal S-rank monster, but now I couldn't even estimate his level.
'I can't win against that…….'
I took a step back without realizing it due to the sense of crisis that I had never experienced in my life.
I had the conviction that I would definitely lose even if I brought Zero, Baeksa, and Yumi.
'What do I do……?'
If that was to be released into this world, it was over. Everyone would die before they could even do anything.
No matter how I thought about it, he wasn't someone who would come out of an A+-rank dungeon.
If it was a disaster of that level in the first place, any world would have been destroyed so easily.
It was when I was staring intently at the guy, no longer taking a step back while biting my lips.
Suddenly, a smile-like expression formed on the boss monster’s face.
And the low and gentle voice that followed was,
[Finally, the time has come.]
It was full of elation.
“Saintess, are you alright?”
Heerin had barely recovered enough to hear Crow’s voice after Ilesha had jumped down to the city wall.
“I’m not alright at all……”
As she felt that her voice was like a bleating goat, Heerin got up with Crow’s help.
If it was the body she had before she was reborn, she would have been throwing up without rest, but now, since she had even awakened, her mental shock had been excessive, but her physical state was soon fine.
“Haa…… I’m alive, I’m alive.”
“That was really…… the first hardship I’ve ever experienced since I was born.”
There had been several moments where she had felt like she was in a crisis since she had met Ilesha, but today’s event was incomparable.
After comforting herself that she had lived, Heerin looked around.
The knights and soldiers on the city wall were all staring blankly at something.
'Why are they doing that?'
If they got attacked by monsters while being like that, they would be greatly injured, so when she took one step closer to the city wall, the monsters, who had also stopped moving like they had, entered her vision.
Even though they had appearances that were completely different from humans, Heerin could clearly sense one common emotion from them.
It was fear.
The target of that fear was showing off a unique presence amongst the swarm of monsters that were crawling around, to the point where it made you wonder where they had all come from.
Every time she lightly swung her double-edged axe, which was so intimidating that it made you lose your will just by looking at it, more than ten heads would fly into the air.
Her momentum was so amazing that most of the guys, having frozen in place by a sense of fear that had even suppressed their instincts, couldn’t move.
“Is that…… our Madam?”
Someone muttered in a small voice amidst the strange silence. Even though it was almost a soliloquy, it reached Heerin’s ears.
'They probably hadn't even guessed it.'
That the duchess, who only seemed weak, was the strongest person in this world.
There wasn't even one excess movement in her movements as she effortlessly handled even a mid-boss like a chicken.
Even from some point onward, she had even started using her other hand to throw weapons, knocking down even the guys who were running away at the same time.
The sky-blue swords of mana that stretched out from her axe looked like they would reach the city walls if she put her mind to it.
“It’s unbelievable…….”
Heerin chuckled to herself among the people who were in shock.
Until now, no one had been able to understand the fear she had for Ilesha, but it seemed like that would be different starting today.
'Finally, someone who will understand me has appeared!'
“I didn’t know that she was this strong…….”
“See, I told you, right? To not even bring up a spar.”
“Really……it’s a relief.”
A while ago, Crow had even dared to request a spar with Ilesha after Ilesha had changed his gold bars into gold coins.
Ilesha had replied that she would do it as if it wasn't a big deal, but…….
'I had stopped him, saying that it absolutely couldn't happen.'
If she had accidentally miscontrolled her strength even once, Crow would have been turned into dust.
No matter how careful they were, it was impossible for a human to mingle with an ant. It was best if the ant avoided them on their own, but who would try to commit suicide like that?
Anyway, Crow had now become one of Heerin’s understanders as well.
“What about the Duke?”
“He is cleaning the city wall.”
When she followed the direction that Crow's hand had pointed at, she could see the figure of Elias sweeping away the monsters clinging to the city wall, as if the word ‘cleaning’ fit perfectly.
As someone who had received a hint about his identity by the grace of god, it was a sight that made Heerin shudder.
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