Chapter 40 – Dungeons

We go around all the rooms and take out three more mimic remnants. First of all, whenever I saw something like a box, I went first and smashed it, and it was useless no matter how perfectly hidden they were. Unfortunately, all three of them vomited were ancient copper coins, ancient trash, and a few ancient debris. These ancient motherfuckin’ children.

“How did the ancients build these buildings?”
“I guess they changed the manpower.”

In my experience, there is nothing that cannot be done by changing the manpower.

There were no more places to see around here. I must have packed something valuable, and immediately moved to the next area. There were several forks and several more entrances to the basement. We agreed to look at this layer more before going down one more layer.

ㅡPud-Pud-Pud-Pud-Pud!

“Giant Batro. Do you live in a place like this?”
“Isn’t that an ancient giant bat?”
“Putting ancient in front of anything doesn’t make you smart, Barbarian Shack.”
“Shit.”

The giant bats flew past us. Elise looked at them for a moment, then looked back and said.

“Can I kill you for a minute?”

It seemed that she was sick of killing something. Because Giant Bats fly, there was no way for us to catch them and kill them. I wonder if Elise uses the divine spell Light Bolt. However, it would be a huge waste for her to use such a spell against only bats, so she decided to stop it.

“For now, wouldn’t it be better to follow them without killing them? They’re the ones who live in their nests here, so if you follow them, something will come out. If they don’t come out, I don’t ‘t think it’s too late to kill them.”
“Hmm, that’s a reasonable decision. Let’s do it.”

Even in the midst of following the bats, I saw a fork in the road, an underground entrance, and an unknown door. It was completely maze-like, and once you started to get lost here, it was easy to search for it.

I stopped and drew a map, but the moment I made a mistake, I wondered if I would lose my way forever and become a ghost wandering the dungeon. I had such an ominous feeling. Well, if anything happened, I wonder if Elise would do something about it. The nuns of the Gwangmyeong Star Cross are very trustworthy.

“The bats are going that way.”

The Giant Bats went into the right corner. As we approached, a strange wind blow. It was a room with a high ceiling. It should be called a room, but it was dark, so I couldn’t see the overall outline, so I didn’t know if it was just a main street.

Bats seemed to flock to the ceiling here. Are you nesting here?

“Oh, there’s something just around here.”
“…It’s a slime.”

Slimes were scattered all over the room. Apparently, it seemed to live on the excrement of giant bats. Elise stared at the ceiling, ignoring them.

“Is there any way? There’s nothing that can be done by hanging that high.”

She was the one who spoke as if she still had lingering feelings for her life. First of all, there were slimes all over the place, so I wanted to be satisfied with them, but somehow slimes didn’t seem to be a very attractive collectible to Elise.

“For now, it might be better to explore the room more, as there might be other things besides the giant bat and slime.
“Ah. I agree.”
“I agree with the opinion of the barbarian shack.”

Everyone agreed with what I said.

“Okay. I think you’d better do that.”
“Then go? Everyone come behind me.”

Because she didn’t know what would come out, this time Meria moved forward with her shield raised in the lead. Copson lit up in the center, Elise on the flanks, and I on the rear, advancing into the darkness.

It seems that this is not a huge room, but a huge road.

“Doesn’t the scenery look a little familiar? Barbarian Shack.”
“Um… It sure looks like I’ve seen it somewhere…”

Copson and Meria said. That was the part that took me a little bit too. This high-ceilinged space felt somehow familiar. Where did you see this?

“It looks like a church at night.”
“That’s it.”
“That’s it.”
“That was it.”

It looked just like a chapel in a church. Elise muttered something ominous. Ossuary Orcota Catacombs. True to its name, this dungeon is believed to have been a facility for storing remains. Then it wouldn’t be strange to have a church built inside.

ㅡShoot it.

“Sound of running water?”

The further I went, the more I heard something resembling the sound of water. Is there even groundwater flowing? Then again the bats flew and whimpered.

ㅡFood Duck!

“Ahhhhh!

Copson exclaimed in surprise. And, as if he was ashamed of shouting, he looked around and laughed awkwardly, which made him feel uncomfortable as if he considered himself a cute existence.

“Such a coward.”
“…Eh.”

Are the bats going there to drink water? Anyway, I wanted to check the sound of the water, so I walked along the sound.

“What else is that?”

As I approached the sound of the water, I noticed something fidgeting in a corner of my field of vision. Are they monsters? I had Copson light them up. I don’t know what it is, but if there are beings of that size moving, it must be a hundred monsters.

—-Sweet.
—-Sweet.

Meria stood in front of Copson and raised her shield her. Copson held the lantern high, and I too clung to Meria’s back her and watched. And we came face to face with an amazing sight.

“Chew goosebumps.”
“My God. That’s something.”
“Can I close my eyes? Can I close my eyes?”

ㅡStupid.

They were large caterpillars the size of Saemaul children. In my hometown, it was difficult to see children due to the low birth rate, but they were really just larvae. The sight gave me goosebumps all over my body as I felt fear as if a small caterpillar had landed on the scruff of my neck. It was the same for everyone in the party except for Elise.

ㅡ Kkokkokkokkok.

Pulsating flesh, fidgeting wrinkles. A terrible mouth that vomits bodily fluids… Above all, six eyes. Those terrible and disgusting bastards were crawling in groups. It wasn’t moving very fast, but that made it even creepier.

“…A bunch of nasty worms. They’re cursed, evil larvae called [Tooth maggots]. It would be wise to build them quickly and cut them out of the world.”

Are you touching that? I don’t know, but I don’t think you’ll find anything of value in caterpillar corpses. It’s better to just ignore this and take a detour… But Elise’s eyes her were already burning with a desire similar to fighting spirit.

“Is it a dangerous monster?”
“Each individual is nothing special, but it can be a little dangerous if it forms a colony. If you get bitten by that jaw, you will get a big wound.”
“I don’t want to touch you…”
“Still, we have to get past them to check the sound of the water.”

It was as it was said. I didn’t know how much longer I had to stay inside, so if I found underground water flowing, I had to check it first.

“Then I guess there’s no choice but to kill it? Water is important.”
“But there are too many. How can I kill them all?”

While conspiring to kill them like that. A guy who was making a gesture as if he was gnawing something on the floor looked at us.

ㅡ Kyuung?

…Should we say we met eyes? If insects have such perceptual ability, it feels like it would be right to express it that way. The guy tilted his head ☆ with an inappropriately cute gesture. With the body of that hideous, disgusting caterpillar. Goosebumps ran through his body his again.

After staring at him for a few more seconds, he suddenly opened his mouth wide and let out a cry.

—-Kie!
—-Kie!

With that cry as a signal, dozens of tooth maggots rushed towards us. We screamed in astonishment at the iridescent dream-like sight of those large insects crawling in swarms!

Crazy! Fuck!

“Joe, fuck you! Where the fuck is Cesco!!”
“Uh, uh! Barbarian! Barbarian!”
“Kyaaaaa!!”

The one who bravely stepped forward to us was, of course, Elise!!!

“You evil caterpillars!!! Go back to where you belong!!!”

ㅡPeruk!
ㅡQuiec!

She kicked the maggots like a soccer ball, probably not afraid of her larvae her with her small body her. The maggots hit by her boots exploded like bombs with an unpleasant sound of flesh bursting.

Hey Shiva. I can’t just let Elise fight. We immediately broke through the two and joined them.

“Damn it!”

I, too, recalled my memory of playing soccer and applied Taekwondo’s kicking technique (I am Taekwondo 3rd Dan) and kicked the soccer kick. The tips of his toes pierced the gap between the teeth maggots. Gooey bodily fluids spurted out. When he pulled his foot out his, his boot his was covered in all sorts of blood and brain fluid. Shit!

“Khi, chiat!”

Making a cute sound for the first time in her life, Meria jumped with her shield and knocked off the attackers. Then he stabbed them with a knife and killed them one by one. As expected of a learned person, it was an effortless movement. Block, stab I’ve been looking at it well, and if I ever buy a shield, I’ll try to imitate it.

“Hyeop! Main work! Buggering!”

Copson also used all sorts of mysterious avoidance techniques to dislike insects, stabbing them in the back with a bizarre spirit. I didn’t know that bastard had the talent of a dancer.

“Unpleasant… Sticky… Splashes of bodily fluids. This is why I hate bugs.”
“I’m going crazy right now.”

Elise kicked out the toothy maggots with her foot her, and at the same time jumped up and hit them with the Morningster. I stood with her back to back and also dealt her sustained damage with her invincible taekwon kick and her slash her with her sword her.

After slaughtering about 20 of them like that, they also started to run away quickly towards the other side of the darkness, probably realizing that something was wrong with their small heads. It was our victory. Victory without loot. Covered in nasty bodily fluids, we didn’t bother to pursue them.

“Ugh… It’s sticky…”
“Damn it! It’s all over your clothes! What is this… Bur, bug legs?! Hee!”

Meria was in tears and Copson shuddered at her. I was both anyway. I trembled while blowing crab foam.

“I wonder if monsters are flocking to it because it’s around the waterway… Let’s go ahead. Before that, for a while.”

Elise said after coolly brushing off the piles of flesh that had landed on her shoulders. Good night. If there’s running water, I’ll go and wash it off. The party seemed to have realized that as well, and gasped behind Elise.

First of all, Elise took care of the jaws and small claws of the toothy maggots that splattered here and there. She seemed troubled because she couldn’t pinpoint exactly what she had killed.

After looking around while waiting for Elise, we found another strange thing.

“This…”
“It’s a corpse.”

It was the corpse of a half-skeleton man. Perhaps the reason why the maggots were gathered there was to devour it. Judging from the remains of the corpse’s flesh, it didn’t seem like it had been dead that long.