## Chapter 911 – Otherworld Dungeon

“I have no obligation to speak to a thief like you!!!!”

Lormalza spat as he pointed at me, flying into a rage. I could tolerate anything else, but being called a thief was too much!

“You son of a bitch!!! You need a beating to come to your senses!”
“It is you who needs to come to your senses, you Salberin’s enemy!”

Wasn’t this Salberin parrot tired yet?
What was their relationship, anyway?

“By the way, what were you to Salberin?”
“I was Salberin’s childhood mentor!!”
“Is this guy completely insane!!!!!!!!”
“Why do you say I’m insane!”

To be the mentor of that kind of guy…!

It was a horrifying thought!!!

In my memory, that bastard Salberin was as senseless as the Hylen siblings.

So he ended up being killed by me, but now he’s one with me, getting along well with Bygal and Bulverza.

Anyway, if this Lormalza was that bastard’s childhood mentor, it made sense. A disciple raised by a crazy mentor would become even crazier.

“To be the mentor of such a crazy bastard…! I can’t take it anymore!!!”
“Aaaargh!!! I can’t take it anymore either!! Today is the day I personally execute you, you thief!”

ㅡThwack!

At that moment, Lormalza raised his wand and it glowed.

This bastard!!!!
Was he trying to fight me now!

I immediately looked around.
I couldn’t find the royal army anywhere.

“Alright!!!!”

I answered energetically and immediately kicked off the ground with force, launching myself towards Lormalza.

ㅡWhoosh!

My body, propelled by inhuman leg strength and resilience, flew like a rocket, and I skillfully performed a somersault in the air, extending my leg to accurately kick the guy’s torso.

ㅡThud!!

“Kuagh!!!”

Lormalza screamed as he was hit and sent flying. No matter how skilled a combat mage he was, he couldn’t keep up with my speed as a seasoned warrior!!

But that was the moment.

ㅡTsupat!

Lormalza, who was flying away, used Blink as he was, and disappeared. No, he didn’t disappear. He teleported somewhere!

ㅡSwisss!

I immediately expanded my senses to check all directions.

What a damn cheat-like Blink! If I could use that, I was confident I could kill most guys without even giving them a chance to cross swords!!

Anyway, the guy was spotted right behind me.

“Take this!!!”

Lormalza, who had instantly caught me from behind, shouted loudly.

ㅡFlash!!

The wand he was holding flashed, and a torrent of blue mana shot towards me with fierce momentum.

ㅡChwaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

At the end of the torrent was a head made of magical spheres, and behind it, energy was trailing like a tail. ㅡTsupapat! As it flew, it scattered all kinds of energy in all directions.

It was as if a dandelion full of white seeds was scattering its seeds as it flew towards me.

“You think something like that will work!!!”

Of course, it won’t!

I immediately concentrated the power of mana on my forearms and hands. It was a very simple task, no different from breathing for me.

ㅡTsupat!!

Thus, I created a ki of power, wrapping around my hands and forearms.
And raised that hand blade high.

And slashed greatly.

ㅡChwahak!

In that way, I split the torrent of magic that was flying towards me.

“Huh!”

With a hand that had created a ki of power, I could easily deflect and neutralize attacks made of energy like this. It was easier with a sword, but I could do it with my bare hands.

“How can this be!!”

Lormalza was shocked to see that.

ㅡTsupat!

Then he cast Blink once more and disappeared. When I turned around, he was there. He had moved behind me again and cast another spell.

“Flare Blast!!”

ㅡTutatadadadada!!
ㅡTutatadadadada!!
ㅡTutatadadadada!!

With that, numerous blue mana bullets flew towards me in curves, like disorderly fired homing missiles. From the left and right, as if spreading wings. And they were fired like mortars, falling over my head.

ㅡWhirrrl!

Dozens of mana bullets, each with murderous power, were flying, targeting only me.

Still, Lormalza was a Marquis-level mage, so his combat magic skills were considerable.

But it won’t work!!!

“Unstoppable!!!!”

Immediately adopting a combat stance of the Real Strength Fist, I punched each and every mana bullet that flew towards me, destroying them all.

“Impulse!!!!”

ㅡBang, Pubububububang!
ㅡPubububububang!
ㅡPapat!!

I unleashed a barrage of punches at inhuman speed.

“Dejaaaaaaaaaaaat!!!”

It could truly be called the Heavenly Demon Machine Gun Jab. In less than 3 seconds, the dozens of mana bullets were all hit by my fist filled with ki and shattered, let alone hitting me.

You can’t beat me with something like that!!

“M-magic doesn’t work!!!”

Lormalza, shocked, tried to reload his magic, and just as I was about to kick off the ground to stop him.

“Aigo!!! Please calm down…! I’m sorry!!!”

Baron Hylen’s Metal ran over with a pale face and blocked our path. I wondered what was going on, but he immediately knelt down and begged us to stop.

“You bastard!!!! What are you doing here!!”
“Aaaargh!! I’m sorry! So please, release your anger!!”

Metal grabbed my leg and pleaded.

“Re, release Methyl immediately!!!”

Lormalza, seeing that, grabbed his head and jumped up, shouting. He seemed very surprised, but I was the one who should be surprised now!

“Release what, you bastard!!! I’m the one being held!!!”
“Please, quell your anger!!”

But it wasn’t just Metal. Mr. George was also running over, flapping his eyebrows.

“M-Mr. George!!!! Mr. George is here!!! Is he here to catch me!!!”
“N-no, that’s not it! I’m sorry!! Please forgive us!!!”

Mr. George also came in front of me and knelt down.

“You crazy bastards!!!”

Seeing Mr. George kneeling and bowing his head in front of me made me feel like a fierce anger was erupting…!!

ㅡSerka!!!!

This was Serka!!!

The feeling I felt whenever I saw that bastard Serka in the past!!! The feeling of wanting to beat him up just by looking at his face…! These two were half the same bastards!!

“Please!! I’m sorry!!! Please stop!!”
“Mr. George…! Ah, that’s right.”

This wasn’t the time for this.

“Mr. George. Didn’t you say it was a big deal? What happened?”
“Ah… that is…”

That suddenly came to mind.

Even so, it was something that made the combat mage unit members, who were in such tattered state, shout that it was a big deal. Did an even stronger monster appear? So they were retreating after suffering unexpected damage?

Of course, I was in a state of extreme anger right now, but because I was magnanimous, I was willing to forgive them if they just satisfied my curiosity.

“Ah, th-that is!”
“Tell me quickly!! Before I go back to beating up Lormalza!!!”
“Why am I coming out there, you thief!!”

Lormalza shouted from over there when I said that.

“Then I’ll beat up Mr. George and Mr. Metal!!!”
“It’s Methyl, not Metal! To think that such a barbaric person is a Paladin…!”

It’s only barbaric to these bastards.

I had a lot of grievances against these bastards.

This is what it means to incur my wrath. Even if nothing else, that bastard Lormalza was still calling me a thief after acting like that to me back then…!!! I hadn’t received a formal apology from this guy!!

Above all, those Hylen bastards brought only a pittance of money as compensation back then.

“I’ll tell you!!”
“Okay. Tell me.”

That’s how I was able to hear the circumstances from them.

They said they were exploring the newly discovered second floor.

They had lost some combat mage unit members in the beginning, but they were gradually getting the hang of it and were able to break through the second floor very easily.

It was just full of the same monsters there, so there was no problem. So they were easily slaughtering the monsters and collecting loot made of rare metal, but then.

Suddenly.

“Boo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo!!!!”

Mr. George roared fiercely.

“T-this crazy bastard…! Has he finally gone completely insane!!!”

He had finally completely lost his humanity!!

“Ah, no!! That’s not it!! I was imitating it!”
“Imitating?”
“Yes! Wouldn’t you know it, this sound suddenly came!”

A huge sound.

ㅡBoo-oooo-oooo-oooo-oooo!!

…It was a sound I remembered.
A roar like a monster’s roar.

“Did a slight earthquake happen by any chance?”
“Yes! An earthquake happened!”
“Hmm.”

It was the same as what I experienced.

“But suddenly…!”

And then, Mr. George grabbed his face and shouted in a serious tone.

“It appeared!!!”
“What?”
“That floating giant monster!!!!!”

A floating giant monster?

“It was very huge!!!”

Mr. George squeezed out his voice while still grabbing his face.

“It was like a giant floating larva… its skin was an unpleasant flesh color like the other otherworld monsters, and it was wrinkled like the skin of the oldest hag, making it extremely repulsive! Above all, it was freely moving with more than twenty disgusting tentacles dangling down… and a mask with a cross-eyed pattern was embedded in its head!!!”

His detailed explanation started to paint an overall picture in my head… huge. Also, a terrifying monster floating in the sky, dangling its tentacles and moving.

And the characteristic of wearing a mask.

Was it the boss of the otherworld monsters?

“We tried to fight it, but it was too much!! The attacks didn’t work at all… and the combat mages were easily caught by the tentacles!! So we ran away! It’s right there on the second floor now!!! We woke it up!!”
“Go quickly and tell the Royal Knights!!!”

I immediately grabbed Mr. George’s hand, helped him up, and shouted while pushing his back.

“Yes!”
“Lormalza!!! What are you doing!! You need to go tell them too!!”
“Yes, isn’t it because of you!! Above all, you’re holding Methyl and George…!”
“Go quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Heok!”

With that shout, Lormalza disappeared with Mr. George and Mr. Metal.

A monster…!

So that’s what it was! Those otherworld beings aren’t just there for nothing! They’re definitely not there for fun!!! It was a bit strange, actually. How could such weak monsters destroy a race that built such a huge palace…!

There was that boss-level monster!!!

I didn’t know how strong it would be, but I knew at least one thing.

I had to kill that bastard.

I immediately went back to the carriage.

* * *

“I see… so that’s what it was.”

Risha nodded after hearing the story.

“It’s only natural for such a race to have a higher-level entity. But to think it looks like a giant larva… it sounds very horrifying.”
“I think so too.”

I nodded.

“So what are you going to do? Are we going to go? Or are we going to wait here until reinforcements come?”

Karin said as if leaving it to my judgment.

Certainly, it had been a while since we sent the messenger, so the Holy Knights and other reinforcements would be coming soon. There was nothing better than dogpiling on a monster you didn’t know about.

“Katt-nim…! We can’t give in to such monsters! If there’s such a monster, we should defeat it with our own hands!!”

Hilde said with her fist raised, as if burning with a sense of duty.

“But it’ll be dangerous…”

Ari was a bit skeptical, but Liz unnie said while grabbing Ari’s shoulder.

“Isn’t that what we do? I doubt there’ll be a problem. The combat mage unit ran away too, right? Then it’s okay. We’re good at running away too.”
“With you unnies, there’s nothing to worry about.”

That’s right.

We even destroyed the Spirit King once.

“Then let’s go.”

We can always run away if things get tough.