Chapter 289 – Monsters (1)

“Dojin-ah…… ?”
“Aram.”
“Ahaha, my head is blank….”

Aram, who was suffering from a fever, looked for Dojin with a laugh. I couldn’t even look at Do-jin properly because I couldn’t focus because of the heat.

In the end, when Do-jin approached her first and held her hand, she smiled and closed her eyes as if she was relieved by that alone.

“It’s okay… This much, it’s like a cold. Like that, it doesn’t hurt.”

“…… It looks very painful.”

“Whoop, whoop. A woman also gives birth to a child, so there’s no way she’ll be hurt over something like this….”

Aram kept chanting that she wasn’t sick at all, that she didn’t have to worry.

Do-jin knows why she says that. Her trauma she has is self-sacrifice. The stupid idea that she always believes that if she sacrifices one thing for herself, she’ll be all right.

Even now, she thought that just suffering through this pain alone would solve everything.

“Are you kidding me?”
“Yes?”
“How long are you going to suffer all alone like that?”

It bothers Do-jin that the trauma she thought she had healed still remains. Heck, there’s no way they’ve completely overcome her trauma.

‘When she overcomes her trauma, her abilities her evolve, but they did n’t….’

Because it looked fine on the outside – because there was no problem on the outside. So she was off guard.

Dojin clenched his teeth and looked down at Aram. She thought of when this stupid woman would share my pain, when she would stop making sacrifices.

* * *

“Um-! It’s refreshing.”

The next day, Aram, who was perfectly cured, stretched out her body, which she had been sore from lying all day.

Seeing her heading straight to her bathroom, saying that her body smelled like she had been sweating all day, Do-jin wondered if he should take her to her dungeon today.

‘When I reach level 4, I’ll be in pain again.’

It’s a body cold level. It’s painful, but it’s not painful enough to die. However, just because it is tolerable is not a reason to suffer.

Do-jin says if she suffered less even for a single second, she does. Not just her, she wants everyone she cares for.

‘To do that, how the hell…….’

“Dad.”

“… Bree. Why?”

Towards Dojin, who was making a serious expression, her Bree approached her. Recalling Aram’s condition, he asked in a worried voice.

“Mom… Are you going to die?”
“No? Why is Aram dying?”
“But… My older sister in the basement did that.”
“…… Did you hear?”
“What happened? I’m sorry….”

Bree quietly pricked her ears above his head. Bree, who inherited elven blood, had such hearing that she could hear all the sounds inside the mansion while sitting in her room her.

The room wasn’t specially soundproofed, so Bree couldn’t help but eavesdrop on it.

“It’s okay. Things like that happen, too.”
“Then really… Is mom dying?”
“Why die to die?”

In fact, the way to save Aram is simple. Kill the evil spirits. The first problem is that there is no way to kill it, and the second problem is that there is no way to take it out.

How did the evil spirit sealed in the sword get out? It came out when the sword broke.

Then, what should be done to remove the evil spirits from the body of a person?

‘Aram can’t split his body in half …….’

If only there was a way to immediately seal it somewhere else- then…… I could have saved Aram.

“Really, are you not going to die?”
“Don’t worry. Even if I die, Aram will save me.”

Dojini said that and stroked Bree’s head to reassure her. Bree was also relieved as she rubbed her head at Dojin’s hand stroking her hair.

* * *

Do-jin, who gathered the children, had a meeting about the dungeon raid today. Of course, Sesta was also there.

“I’m thinking of going to the 52nd floor today… Sesta, tell me. Who is on the 52nd floor?”

—… I didn’t make it, how do I know who lives downstairs from me?

“Can’t you just get a feel for it? An opponent who is stronger than you, but doesn’t make a big difference.”

—Ha, even when I was alive. Half of the world belonged to the Demon King. Half the world followed the Demon King. Among them, the one who is similar to me but a little stronger? Can’t you count?

Sesta muttered something like it was annoying, and then started to pick up her ears her. At her uncooperative attitude her, Do-jin gladed at her for a while, then called her to her supervisor her.

Suddenly summoned from her sleep her, Athanasius grabbed the horns of the three stars with her annoyed eyes.

“Leisure, because of a prodigal girl like you, should I not be able to sleep?”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Every time Sesta’s head was hit on the table, purple, non-human blood began to splatter in all directions.

The three stars, dizzy from the shed blood, glared at Do-jin with her hazy expressions on her, but she began to bend over to Arti.

—Hehe, if it’s a monster like me…… I do not know. Wyvern? Steppe orc army?

“…… Orcs are as strong as you?”

─The era is the era. Aren’t humans terribly weak compared to the people of those days?

An era of mystery where anyone could easily become a superman. Indeed, as much as it was in the era of the Great War, when dogs and cows slashed mountains and split the sea, even those who ignored them as Orcs had no choice but to have formidable force.

And one more thing, the corps…….

‘I’ll have to take a strong guy first….’

That’s how the members were decided. Seoyoon and Dojin, Emilia and Aderangeuro.

Seo-yoon, who had been on an expedition twice in a row, complained, but when she realized that Do-jin was involved every time she went out, she kept her mouth shut.

“Hey, I…… ?”

Then, Aram carefully raised his hand. Taking her with her with her evil spirits in her body would be her great strength with her, but it was n’t enough to bring her to the forefront.

“You are resting.”
“But…”
“You can’t handle tentacles properly yet, can you? And you’re not used to fighting either.”
“Yes… Okay.”

Leaving Aram alone at the mansion, Dojin headed to the dungeon with her children.

* * *

Upon arriving at the dungeon, Do-jin came up with a question as he got on the elevator.

‘This, what happened to the 51st floor?’

The monster on the 51st floor was kidnapped by Dojin. Dream horse, succubus Sesta. She wasn’t weak She was a fairly powerful monster to be able to use the 51st floor alone.

Didn’t he actually summon an evil god into his dream his as a mere succubus? As someone who has experienced that dream myself, if I had fallen asleep, I might have been annihilated on the contrary.

It was only bad that the other party was with Dojin. Since he cuts off all the magic that makes him fall asleep and freezes him with this ability from a distance, there might be a way to deal with it.

‘From the looks of it, it didn’t even look like a made-up fake.’

A dungeon was a dungeon, a space where monsters that followed the demon king in the past were sealed. If you only look at the monsters below the 50th floor, you won’t understand what that means.

Because they had no ego, they were monsters that resurrected even if they were killed.

However, it was different from the rulers of some classes and the 50th class. Even monsters have egos. I have a memory. There is a history.

I wouldn’t be able to create a new monster like this…….

‘You’ll understand when you see it.’

Do-jin first set foot on the 51st floor. The same spacious space as before. No matter how long I waited, no one showed up.

And that fact means that once someone attacks a class, the latecomer gets nothing.

Winner-takes-all. It was a space prepared only for the winner.

‘I’m glad.’

What if they hadn’t come to this level first? Passing through the empty hierarchy, he would slowly wither and die without ever growing up.

It’s like saying that if you’ve just reached the 50th floor, if you’re unlucky, you have to hunt from floors higher than that.

“Well then…… Shall we see who else is trapped on the 52nd floor?”

Saying that, Dojin went up to the 52nd floor. In stark contrast to the white, crazy-looking 51st floor. It was dark, and I couldn’t see an inch in front of me, so a crazy space appeared.

Dojin naturally took out the magic stone from his bosom. Hwaaak-! The magic stone radiated light, illuminating the surroundings.

However, he had no choice but to put out the fire soon after.

‘… No, what is this?’

The moment he turned on the light, Do-jin found hundreds of monsters clinging to the wall and sleeping.

Monsters that look like space monsters, each of which looks quite powerful…….

“… Saw?”
“Yes. Saw. Stick to me I will wipe it out in one go.”

After the children gathered near Seo-yoon, Seo-yoon created a round ice sheet enveloping them. An ice crystal stronger than most diamonds.

Then, he gathers his strength within him and instantly sprays cold and ice thorns in all directions.

─Kieek!
─Kyaaaaaeg!
─Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Monster-like screams can be heard from all directions. While Seo-yoon frowned at the screams, a monster over their heads cooed! Land

“Kiracccccc!!”

The monster seen up close resembled the alien seen in the movie. A repulsive, acid-spitting, insect-like upper…….

“Kieack!”

The aliens, who rushed to avoid the ice thorns from all sides, could not break through the ice curtain that Seoyoon had spread and began scratching the ice curtain with their sharp claws.

They didn’t do much, but the dripping saliva was melting even the ice curtain.

If time passes like this, saliva will come all the way to the inside. Seoyoon wasn’t looking at that with her eyes open.

“All off.”

Above the ice curtain, countless pieces of ice spurt out like a tree spreading its branches. The monster clinging to it, or the monster scratching its claws next to it, became skewers in an instant.

After confirming that all the monsters were dead, Seoyoon slowly dismantled the ice curtain and came out.

“What are these?”
“Hmm… What an awful smell. I don’t even want to taste it.”

Tapping the corpse with their feet, wondering why it didn’t turn into a magic stone, or why the stairs to the next level were not visible, the party felt something falling from above and immediately swung their weapons.

─Keeeee

What fell from above was a small monster. A small monster covered in pale liquid all over as if it had just been born.

As it fell, it was cut into thirds by Dojin and Emilia’s swords, and the monster trembled in pain and died.

Dojin touched the baby monster with his sword and opened his mouth.

“… Young?”
“The fact that the baby fell….”

The head of the party goes up to the ceiling.
There, a monster so large that it could not be compared to the monsters that had died so far was wide-eyed.