Trap (17)
A sinking feeling in his heart.
Seeing Eugene covered in blood, his heart felt like it was being torn apart.
“Ugh······.”
He quickly ran to him and hugged him, his heartbeat was very faint.
Jill wanted to punch Eugene in the chest and pour out words of resentment right now, but
The situation was so urgent that he couldn’t bring himself to do so.
It’ll be fine even after the battle is over.
After everything is over.
At that time, he would call Eugene and ask him why he got hurt like this again.
Jill made up his mind.
“Entering the dungeon.”
“······?!”
At that moment, the three women were greatly agitated by Eugene’s words.
It wasn’t just because he said he was going into the dungeon.
Eugene’s expression and momentum were unusual.
Eyes that seemed to have decided something.
The three people who knew Eugene too well seemed to know what Eugene was thinking now.
“Why, why the dungeon? The situation outside is more urgent, Eugene!”
“Is the undead legion still inside the dungeon?”
“Yeah······. But there were so many of them that I gave up on the attack and came out. I missed the Great Demon······.”
“The undead legion is the enemy’s energy source. We have to neutralize the legion to stop them.”
“Ah······.”
The four great spirits advancing towards Elvengard.
Eugene said calmly, pointing at them as if they were a natural disaster.
The undead legion must be neutralized.
With the Saintess’s mana in chaos now, it would be a very difficult task to destroy the undead legion that was constantly resurrecting and regenerating.
However, the faces of the three women brightened at the fact that there was at least a way.
However, only Transylvania couldn’t smile.
Because I already understood what Eugene’s words meant.
“Then right now in the dungeon-“
“No, Yerina. You guys evacuate people outside and protect the residents from Luna’s attack. I’m the only one going in.”
“W, what······ what are you talking about? E, Eugene is now······ If you enter the dungeon, the spell will be activated······.”
“······.”
At Julia’s remark, Eugene bit his lip for a moment.
It was as Julia said.
And that curse was exactly what Eugene was after.
Julia’s eyes widened as her extraordinary mind realized his intentions in an instant.
“Ah, no! No! Eugene, no······!”
“I have to.”
“What do you mean? You can’t? What?”
“Eugene is now saying that he will freeze to death with the undead legion in the dungeon.”
“······!”
Julia grabbed Eugene’s sleeve, tears streaming down her face.
Only when Transylvania, who couldn’t stand the frustration, came out, did Jill and Yerina, who had understood the situation, shake their pupils.
To exploit the spell created by the resentment, curses, and obsessions of the three people.
That idea is an idea, but
The three of them couldn’t understand Eugene, who was about to jump into death in one breath.
Didn’t he confess his love just a few hours ago?
Didn’t he promise to draw the future together?
Why on earth such a person.
Why would you say that you would not hesitate to die in front of me?
I know with my head.
No matter how hard I tried with my heart, I couldn’t accept it.
“I’m not going to die. Just now, the underworld······ Huh. I met a being and received some power. I’m thinking of using that to catch Luna. If I enter the dungeon, the spell will be activated and the entire dungeon will freeze, and so will the undead legion. If the legion freezes and the energy supply is cut off, Luna’s transcendent body will have no choice but to enter the dungeon to kill me. Then I will use the power I received from ‘a certain being’ to subdue Luna.”
Eugene felt a tingling sensation in his head as he tried to mention the Underworld God.
It seemed that he could not say it if he wanted to say it.
Since the Underworld God inside seemed to not want it, Eugene decided to refer to the Underworld God as ‘a certain being’.
In fact, the word ‘subdue’ was not an accurate expression.
In the first place, it would be difficult for those who did not know that the Underworld God had descended to the present world to understand that part of the Underworld God’s body was holding Luna’s soul and sending it to the underworld through the gap in the dimension that the Underworld God had opened.
“Then you’re coming out? Are you coming back?”
“Of course. If I was going to die, I wouldn’t have confessed to you.”
Jill’s lips trembled.
Eugene’s rough hand wrapped around Jill’s soft cheek.
She was comforted by the warm warmth, but
Jill felt a strange chill for some reason.
The breath of death.There was no other way to explain it.
“If we delay any longer, we’ll freeze to death here. Can you be sure that Luna will return to the dungeon right away?”
“He’ll definitely come back. He’s a transcendent being that was created using all of his power, and once the undead army is neutralized, the transcendent being will be useless. He has no choice but to come back.”
“Whew… Okay. I understand. I get the logic. Then shall we go in now?”
“What?”
“Let’s go in together. It might be difficult for the others, but I’m somewhat resistant to the cold, so I’ll be fine. Above all, isn’t this cold made of my resentment?”
“······.”
Yerina stretched out her arms and stood in front of Eugene, reaching out her hand.
Eugene was momentarily speechless.
How should he persuade her?
As he was struggling with this, Eugene took her hand.
“The people outside are in danger right now. They’re all confused and don’t know where to run. It’s hard for Elvengard to protect them all-“
“I don’t care! You’re a hundred times, a thousand times more precious to me than them! I don’t care if they call me a cruel and heartless b*tch! I’m more afraid of you dying than anything else······!”
“Don’t worry, I won’t die. The moment I step inside, the undead army will all freeze, and Luna’s transcendent being, who will return, will be so weak that I can easily subdue it. If I die, it will be because I can’t get out of the dungeon due to the cold······. In that case, Yerina, come in and save me.”
“······!”
“Exactly 30 minutes. If I don’t come out after 30 minutes, after the Great Spirits have stopped advancing and Luna’s transcendent being has returned to the dungeon, come and save me.”
Until now, she had always thought that it was the look in the eyes of someone who was prepared to die.
But as Yerina looked closely into those eyes, she could see a desire to live within them.
I want to live.
Eugene wanted to survive more than anyone else.
Paradoxically, that was why he was willing to risk his life and enter the dungeon.
To save the world.
To be with his loved ones in a safe world.
He was in a situation where he had to walk into the jaws of death in order to live.
“Ugh······. I understand······.”
Yerina couldn’t argue any further and bit her lip.
Now that she had confirmed that Eugene had not given up on life, she had no reason to stop him any longer.
Crimson blood flowed down Yerina’s white chin.
Eugene wiped the blood away with his finger, then kissed Yerina’s lips, which were slowly bleeding again.
“Hmm······.”
It was sudden, but she didn’t hate it.
As Yerina sobbed and continued the kiss, her lips parted.
The bleeding had stopped.
“Julia. I’ll entrust this sword to you.”
“Yes, Net?! Why, the sword······?”
“It’s a special sword. It’s a sword made of the magic of the Great Demon. If you study it, it might help you track down the Great Demon that escaped.”
“N, no! I don’t want it! Give it back to me when I, I come out of the dungeon!”
“Please don’t be like this and take it. I’ll be back. I’ll come back alive, so you can give it back to me then. Okay?”
“Sob······.”
Eugene forced the magic sword, which was stuck in its scabbard, into Julia’s hand as she waved her hand and said no.
If.
She hated the fact that she was preparing for the possibility that Eugene might die and not come back.
Didn’t it seem like she was telling Eugene to die?
But Eugene had already made up his mind.
No matter how much she cried, begged, or clung to him, she couldn’t change it.
Julia had learned this painfully from her past mistakes, so she couldn’t refuse any longer and simply accepted the sword.
“I’ll be back.”
“Promise······ Keep it······. Please······.”
Hugging Julia.
Eugene kissed her forehead hard.
Julia sobbed and rubbed her face against Eugene’s chest.
It was as if they wanted to leave their mark on each other’s bodies.
As Jill watched this scene silently, Eugene noticed it over Julia’s shoulder, chuckled, and approached Jill.
“Eugene······. Can I be honest with you?”
“Tell me.”
“Even if the world is destroyed, I want to be with Eugene. Even if Eugene is the only one who can save the world, I just want to watch the world be destroyed while holding Eugene’s hand. But this is······ too greedy, isn’t it······? It’s a selfish thought that I shouldn’t have as a saint······?”
Jill grabbed the hem of her dress and shed tears like chicken droppings.
She turned away immediately, as if she didn’t want to show her crying face.
Eugene took another step forward and hugged Jill’s frail waist tightly from behind.
“Huh?!””Of course. I would have done the same. We’re not extraordinary people. We can’t help but want to avoid danger and pursue happiness right before our eyes.”
“Yeah… I’m just a selfish woman who was born with excessive talent…”
“I’m a cowardly man who was born with a beggar’s fate.”
“So…”
“That’s why.”
“We have to go…? Even if it’s just to pretend to be extraordinary people…?”
“Yes.”
Eugene thought.
He and Jill were ordinary, very ordinary.
They were just born with strange births and destinies.
They were nearsighted, narrow-minded, selfish, and greedy. They couldn’t be anything but ordinary citizens.
Jill wore a mask to overcome this.
She always tried to be seen as a benevolent saint, not a wicked woman who always harbored envy and jealousy in her heart.
This time, it was Eugene’s turn.
He had always lived as a cowardly regressor who only looked for tricks and easy ways.
But today, he had to be prepared to die.
For me and my women, not for anyone else.
“I’ll be back.”
“Yeah… I’ll wait…”
Eugene buried his nose in Jill’s cleavage.
He took a deep breath and fell.
Transylvania, who had been standing back, unfolded her arms and approached Eugene.
“Are you going to come in with me? Anyway, everyone will be scared when the murderer appears, so I don’t think it will help to induce evacuation.”
“This bastard… You’re going to spare your women and freeze me to death. I’ll just escort you inside.”
“Just kidding. Jill and Juliana will escort you. If they get hurt when you come back, I’ll resent you a lot.”
“I see. I can’t ignore the request of my only remaining friend.”
Transylvania smiled and shook hands with Eugene.
The two of them exchanged a strange conversation with their eyes.
Finally, Eugene let go of her hand and stood apart from the four of them.
Eugene, who was about to turn around, hesitated for a moment, then looked back and shouted.
“I’ve never regretted meeting you guys! I won’t let you regret meeting me either! I love you!”
With that,
Eugene ran towards the dungeon without even listening to the answer.
He intended to hear the answer after everything was over.
“Why… why didn’t you ask me if I was going to go in?”
Mijung asked, running busily beside Eugene.
She wondered if he had forgotten her because he wasn’t interested in her.
But her face lit up with joy at Eugene’s next answer.
“You’re where I go, and I’m where you go. Why? Don’t you want to go in?”
“…No, that’s not it. That’s right.”
One heart and one mind.
That was the perfect word for it.
The two of them no longer needed to ask each other’s consent.
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.
.
[The monsters in the dungeon are strengthened by the blessing of the saint, Jill.]
[The monsters in the dungeon have a weak poison due to the curse of the witch, Juliana.]
[The dungeon is cold due to the grudge of the Frost Lord, Yerina.]
“As expected…”
Clatter!
As soon as I stepped on it, the ground beneath my feet began to freeze.
The air suddenly became cold.
My breath came out of my mouth.
Now it’s time attack.
I looked at Mijung and nodded at the same time.
We quickly began to raid the inside of the dungeon.
“Ignore all the undead!”
“…Yeah!”
As if they had been waiting, the undead horde rushed in, but it was useless.
The cold that had already begun to fill the dungeon had eroded the undead, making them dull.
It was a route that I wouldn’t have been able to pass through if there hadn’t been any cold, but it was really quick to reach the 2nd basement, avoiding the undead that were gradually freezing.
“My guess was right.”
I could see the magic being slowly drawn out of the undead and heading towards the outside of the dungeon.
I could feel the flow, but I couldn’t stop it.
Is it because my level as a warlock is too low?
No, even if Gwiho or Sogong came, they wouldn’t be able to stop it.
Luna’s transcendent body had already reached the peak as a warlock and necromancer.
I gave up on blocking the flow of magic and continued to head inside.
I cut down the undead blocking my way with my old sword.
The pieces of the undead that fell off rattled and tried to stick back together.
But they couldn’t because of the cold, and they just curled up.
I leisurely passed thousands, no, maybe tens of thousands of undead that seemed to be moving in slow motion and quickly reached the last room, the room where the dungeon core was located.
“Hmm?”
But the state of the dungeon core was strange.This is just an ordinary magic stone no matter how I look at it?
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Even if the connection between the dungeon core and the other world has been severed.
This is Luna’s exclusive dungeon, so it should at least be connected to Luna.
If that’s the case, then this is······.
“A decoy.”
When I use clairvoyance magic to examine the floor, I find an empty space.
I use telekinesis to break the floor, revealing a huge space.
This is the real dungeon.
The altar where Luna performed her transcendence appears.
“Has Beelzebub already escaped?”
The inside is completely empty.
Only the altar and the glowing dungeon core are there.
The fake dungeon core above can be destroyed, but this one must be left alone.
The sorcery that works on me only works inside the dungeon.
If the dungeon core is destroyed, this place will no longer be a dungeon, and the cold air will disappear.
“Is the freezing finished?”
At that moment, the sound of the undead moving around above stopped.
They must be completely frozen and hardened like statues.
Since the undead have been neutralized, the flow of magic has naturally stopped.
Now Luna’s transcendent body is just a can.
The great spirits must have also been freed from the brainwashing and stopped attacking.
I imagine Luna’s face, bewildered and not knowing what to do, and sit on the altar.
“Come on, Luna. This time it’s your turn to attack.”
“······Grrr.”
It’s a sh*tty dungeon when it comes to attacking.
But when it comes to defense, there’s no place more solid than this.
I exhale a white breath and smile, hugging Misery.