137 – 131.Sub protagonist, work-3
Eradicate the Nepenthes in the flower garden and go to the next one.
Prach was clinging to me and bothering me.
“Tell me right now what you were about to say but stopped talking about!”
“I told you it’s better not to find out.”
“I’m curious! This body will not be solved unless the curiosity is solved!”
“No matter how hard I try, I won’t tell you. This is all for you, so take it kindly.”
“Ugh… ! Behave shamefully. I’ll give it up, so tell me where you’re going next.”
“I can tell you as much as you like.”
The next section you will go to is the ‘Laboratory of Oz’.
This section is derived from a children’s book called The Wizard of Oz, and the characters in the book appear as monsters.
But, befitting the name of the laboratory, monsters appear in rather disgusting forms.
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“Honestly, I didn’t want to talk about this too much… ….”
“You will see it in a while anyway, so please let me know in advance. Didn’t this body give up the special questioning!”
“Okay.”
There are a total of 4 monsters in the laboratory of Oz, and they are all monsters that cannot be underestimated.
Headed by Dorothy the Beast, fused with her own pet dog, Toto, her twisted zombie scarecrow, a polearm-carrying tin golem, and a stimulant-dosed manticore.
All of them were extremely picky monsters.
Especially in the case of Dorothy, she was a very difficult opponent as she had the ability to command as well as that of a general in the kingdom.
The rest of the monsters said their overall abilities were comparable to S-class monsters.
The main task of this section was to break the link between the four monsters.
“Even if you fight separately, the difficult monsters are excellent even in coordination.
“That’s why it’s normal to spread out in groups and bear the burden one by one.”
“Don’t you regret not bringing René or Rin?”
“What? Although Pelex’s dungeon is difficult to play solo, it’s not at all impossible to conquer solo.”
“You are overflowing with confidence. Of course, there are countermeasures, so it must be so relaxed, right?”
“Of course. If I didn’t know the strategy, I would have come alone for no reason?”
The Dungeon of Lust and the Dungeon of Jealousy were places that did not appear at all in the original work, so there was a tendency to be swayed in many ways.
However, I could confidently say that I knew exactly what Pelex’s dungeon was.
Therefore, it is perfectly possible to respond to any enemy.
“Here it is.”
“The atmosphere at the entrance is definitely different.”
“As soon as you go inside, the battle will begin, so prepare in advance.”
[Okay.]
Prach came into my hands as he returned from his human form to a demonic sword.
I finished my battle stance and approached the lab entrance.
This is the section where you can really gauge your fighting ability.
I will never be careless.
Wheein-!
An automatic door that is rarely seen in another world.
As soon as I entered the space where there was only darkness, the door was immediately closed.
Soon after, the lights in the room started to turn on one by one, illuminating the stage in the center.
A bright red scarecrow was standing in the middle of the stage.
A scarecrow that didn’t move and kept his head bent at 90 degrees.
As I was staring at it, the lights suddenly started flickering and turning off and on repeatedly.
At the same time, the scarecrow’s location was moving towards me.
It suddenly disappeared when it approached close range.
“Guy, the development is too obvious.”
A scarecrow that appeared behind me in the pitch darkness and tried to bite me.
Without looking back, I grabbed the scarecrow’s head and threw it into the air.
I tried to cut it in two by swinging my sword, but a lion quickly bit the scarecrow and snatched it away.
My sword strike cut through the air like that.
“The camaraderie is certain.”
“Kreurreung… !”
A manticore that lets out a menacing cry as it puts down its scarecrow.
A lion’s body and goat’s horns on its head, and a large bat’s wings on its back. The tail resembled that of a scorpion.
Like the Chimera, it was a synthetic monster based on a lion.
It’s just that, unlike normal manticores, there was a syringe containing a blue liquid stuck in the back of its neck.
Awesome! Cut-!
A tin golem that stands next to the ferocious Manticore.
It was so large that you had to raise your head all the way to see the end, and the Manticore looked like a cat.
A rough estimate of the size of the polearm the tin golem was carrying on its shoulders was 5 meters.
I felt as if my body would be shattered even if I was hit in a place other than the blade.
“Then the one left must be Dorothy.”
“Kiduk! Kidduk!”
From behind the central stage, a girl’s laughter was heard in the darkness.
The form is human, but the whole body is covered with fur, and the hands, feet, ears, nose, and even the snout are in the form of a dog.
It has all the characteristics of furry that are commonly said on the Internet.
She was smirking at me in her light blue dress and her shopping cart tucked under her arm.
It wouldn’t be strange to say that her behavior wasn’t Dorothy, but Cheshire Cat.
[Those guys are the monsters in charge of this area, right?]
“Right. All but one must be annihilated.”
Junhyuk Kang in the original story cleared Pelex’s dungeon.
However, it was not a complete success.
His dungeon raid was because success and failure coexisted at the same time.
Kang Jun-hyeok’s first failure occurred in Oz’s laboratory.
A scarecrow approaching like an assassin, a manticore that attacks ferociously and dazzlingly, a tin golem boasting overwhelming destructive power, and a girl who leads them, Dorothy.
If you were to name the most threatening being among these, everyone would point to one.
[From the point of view of this body, I think it would be better to deal with that girl first.]
“You also think so.”
[Hmm? Is this body’s judgment wrong?]
“No, not really.”
Even if individuals are strong, if they are not linked, it will have the opposite effect in a group fight.
For example, if a tin golem strikes down with a polearm while the manticore is attacking, it will get caught up in it.
Dorothy was the one who coordinated and commanded to prevent such a situation from occurring.
“If Dorothy is eliminated first, the remaining enemies will be easily destroyed…… I would have thought, but unfortunately, it turned out to be a handshake contrary to our expectations.”
[What do you think will happen to her when you kill her first?]
“As the remaining 3 monsters committed suicide, they couldn’t enter the secret room in the Pelex Dungeon.”
[That means…….]
“Yes, the secret of the dungeon requested by the chairman will never be revealed, and the treasure that might be in it will be buried without obtaining it.”
Kang Jun-hyeok made the mistake of prioritizing the elimination of Dorothy.
As a result, even if the final boss was defeated and safely escaped from the dungeon, readers regarded it as a failure to attack.
Because I haven’t fully acquired Pelex’s legacy.
However, I want to perfectly carry out the dungeon raid that Kang Jun-hyeok was unable to do.
“I will ignore Dorothy as much as possible and deal with the other monsters first.”
[Then you should refrain from attacks with a wide range.]
“Exactly!”
Since I yielded the first attack to the scarecrow, I rushed without hesitation from the start.
Who will greet me first?
Looking at the reaction, the threatening manticore jumped forward.
“Kuwoong!”
A long jump using wings.
Manticore swung his sharp right foot at my shoulder blade.
I raised my sword at an angle and let it flow.
Then a sharp scorpion’s tail came in, but he lightly caught it with his hand and lowered it to the ground.
The time when he was about to stab the Manticore’s neck with his sword after he had successfully subdued it.
I felt a presence behind me, so I rolled over to the side.
The scarecrow’s scythe swept past the place where my neck had been.
It was avoided by a single margin.
As he tried to straighten his posture, a shadow fell over his head, and the tin golem’s polearm attacked.
“My grandson, shall we see how strong he is?”
Chaeeng-! Kagagak-!!
A feeling of pressure from being attacked by the great mountain was applied to my whole body.
It seemed that his body would collapse with the ground, but he hit his arms with electricity and shook off the polearm.
It was a fleeting moment, but I definitely surpassed the tin golem’s sheer strength.
“Prach.”
[Already prepared.]
“Good.”
Prach’s body, imbued with black energy, became enlarged.
It is used for releasing sword energy, but it could also be used as a concept of reinforcement as it is now.
Instead, it is difficult to wield with one hand as the weight rapidly increases.
While holding the handle of the prach with both hands, he rotated his body and swung the prach with the recoil.
A tin golem trying to defend itself by raising its polearm.
You think you can stop it?
I have to show you that’s an arrogant idea.
Quad deuk-!
The sound of tin iron being ground in the sword filled the space.
The tin golem finally grasped the situation and began to backtrack.
I didn’t want to miss it, so I followed closely and slowly cut through the golem’s body.
The Manticore, sensing a crisis among its comrades, rushed at me, but its movements became monotonous.
Dozens of swords fell like rain on top of the manticore and pierced the body of the lion.
It was the replication of the ability of the magic sword absorbed by Prach.
The only thing that can help the tin golem in a situation where the lion can’t move is the scarecrow.
But the time I grabbed the scarecrow’s head earlier, I injected a small amount of blood into his body.
My blood seeped inside the straw scarecrow’s body.
And by the time you reach the center of the body, the abdomen…….
“?!”
Fuhuaak-!
The sharp red thorns like roses bloomed and pierced the scarecrow’s body.
It would not be an exaggeration to call it a sea urchin, so the scarecrow was stained with so many thorns that it died.
“Finish.”
Kwaang-!
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The tin golem, whose half body had been shattered by sword strikes, sat down on the floor and lowered its head.
A manticore that trembles while pouring blood, a scarecrow decorated with gore thorns, and a tin golem that fell powerlessly.
No one could stand against me.
“Are you the only one left now?”
Looking up again, Dorothy’s eyes were filled with fear.