Chapter 42 – Kang Cheon-Hu Enters the Dungeon

My S-class hero sister and childhood friend are taken away. – 42 – Kang Cheon-hu enters the dungeon

Jinseok stared blankly at the unfamiliar space for a moment. I had heard of this space where monsters appeared, but this was my first time seeing it in person. Jinseok was mentally overwhelmed for a moment by the alien, two-dimensional scene, which was very different from the landscape of Earth.

“Don’t sit idle, check the standby status, etc.”

Seeing Jin-seok in the driver’s seat staring into space without saying a word, Mi-yeon, who was on the side of the trailer, gave Jin-seok instructions. Jinseok finally came to his senses and activated the observation equipment installed on the trailer.

“Ah, okay. The air quality is good. I’ll activate the radar as well.”

The air outside was such that there was no problem for humans to breathe. Jinseok activated the search radar mounted on the trailer and drove the trailer forward. Although it was called a dungeon, it was a fairly large two-dimensional space.

Rumbling!

Various radars mounted on the trailer created navigation of the surrounding terrain and displayed it on a monitor. Jinseok, who was heading towards the trailer, spotted a group of monsters quite far away.

“There is a group of monsters. The distance is about 1km.”
“How much do you think it is?”
“According to the radar, there are about 100 medium-sized monsters.”
“That’s enough, let’s subdue it and then let’s go. Move!”
“Huh!”

Jinseok drove the trailer toward the group of monsters. There were many cases where groups of monsters were scattered inside the dungeon. By subduing the monsters inside the dungeon, you could prepare for the monsters scattering out when the dungeon collapses.

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Team Valkyrie advanced through the dungeon, subduing the monsters inside the dungeon. Every time he encountered a group of monsters, he would subdue them, and sometimes he would go back and avoid them.

“It’s quite spacious. It’s a large dungeon. It would be impossible to look around it all at once.”

And Jinseok was making a dungeon map by recording the terrain information inside. The size of the dungeon was very huge. It seemed to be at least the size of a Korean province.

“Let’s go back after we’ve drawn up some maps. We’ve been selected as the first priority group.”

Surprisingly, dungeon raids rarely ended in just one raid. No matter how excellent the hero team was, it was not easy to monopolize a single dungeon. Typically, a hero team with superior skills would first patrol the inside of the dungeon, draw up a map of the dungeon, and then collect sufficient information, and then subcontract it to less skilled teams to clean up some areas of the dungeon.

Before the dungeon attack was completed by destroying the dungeon core, many hero teams would go in and out of the dungeon. It was common for multiple teams to join forces to attack an enemy like this.

The trailer of Team Valkyrie, which continues to progress through the dungeon, captures a place where a fairly strong monster reaction appears.

“That looks like a boss monster…”

Boss monsters, generally monsters that were fused with the dungeon core. He was a being who could be said to be the ruler of the dungeon.

“I’ll send a drone to scout.”

Instead of moving forward, Jinseok launched the drone mounted on the trailer and observed the boss monster from a distance.

“That… Is ‘Gigantes’.”

In the video of the drone flying at high speed, a humanoid monster as large as a mountain was captured. The giant had rock-colored skin, fangs sprouting around its mouth, and a large triangular horn sprouting from its hairless head.

It was a giant that looked like a huge rocky mountain. Jinseok thought about Gigantes, one of the giant monster-level monsters he had seen while learning about monster identification. It was a powerful monster on par with the Behemoths and Krakens I had fought before.

“Yes, it is a Gigantes. But it is dormant.”

Gigantes crouched motionless with his eyes closed. If he hadn’t reacted to the monster, he might have mistaken it for a large stone statue or something. Miyeon watched the video and recognized that Gigantes was in a dormant state.

“It’s dormant? So, what?”
“There is no need to fight this guy who is in a dormant state right now. Let’s come more prepared and fight him later. I also checked the dungeon core and the boss monster, so let’s end today’s adventure here.”

Miyeon had no intention of fighting Gigantes, who was in a dormant state. If the dungeon core is destroyed, the space that makes up the dungeon collapses, but at the same time, numerous monsters inside are leaked out.

“Because we haven’t defeated enough monsters yet. If we destroy the dungeon like this, a big disaster may occur.”

Miyeon was acting according to the general dungeon strategy. Before she hunts boss monsters and destroys the dungeon core, she usually hunts enough monsters inside the dungeon to clear the dungeon, and then she attacks the boss monster.

“Kkekekeke. It’s a Gigantes. It’s a good hunter.”
“What?! U-that?!”

At that time, the video camera of the reconnaissance drone communicating with the trailer captured the image of a human floating around Gigantes. It was a face Jinseok would never forget. That’s right, it was strong weather.

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“W-Kang Cheon-hu! W-When did you come in here?! W-What on earth are you trying to do?!”

Jin-seok observed Kang Cheon-hu’s appearance with a drone camera, and she was surprised by the unusual atmosphere. Wind and electricity, Kang Cheon-hoo’s special abilities, were swirling around his body. Kang Cheon-hoo’s blonde hair stood straight up into the sky with sparks. Kang Cheon-hu was ready to fight Gigantes right away.

“Jinseok! Turn on the drone’s speaker! I have to stop Kang Cheon-hoo!”

Miyeon hurriedly walked through the passage between the trailer and the driver’s seat and shouted as she crossed over to the driver’s seat. Just by looking at her video, Mi-yeon realized that Kang Cheon-hu was trying to attack Gigantes. Kang Cheon-hu clearly had the ability to destroy Gigantes, but it was clear that if she destroyed Gigantes now, there would be serious consequences.

“Ugh! Okay! Here’s the microphone!”

Jinseok quickly listened to Miyeon’s instructions and turned on the speaker installed on the drone. She turned on the speaker and at the same time handed the microphone to Miyeon. When you speak into the microphone in the trailer, the sound comes directly through the drone’s speaker.

“Gangcheonhu! Stop it!”
“What? This voice? Is it Miyeon? A drone? That mark is Team Valkyrie. Hehe.”

When Kang Cheon-hu heard Mi-yeon’s voice, she looked towards the drone and smiled bitterly. When she heard Miyeon’s voice coming from the drone and saw the mark attached to the drone, she became aware of the existence of Team Valkyrie.

“Can’t you stop right now?!”
“Isn’t it the duty of a hero to exterminate monsters? I’m just exterminating the monsters right in front of me.”

Miyeon tried to stop Kang Cheon-hoo, but Kang Cheon-hoo was still showing a shameless attitude. She still had an arrogant and brazen attitude, as if she had no qualms about what she did after Kang Cheon-hu.

“If Gigantes is destroyed, this dungeon space will collapse. There are still many monsters. If the monsters pour out, you know what kind of damage will occur.”

Miyeon’s persuasion was rational. When you destroy a dungeon, numerous monsters will pour out at once. Although it is small, the artificial gate is left open, so a situation will arise where the monsters inside the dungeon will immediately rush out through the gate, like a balloon bursting. If so, military personnel or researchers waiting outside could have suffered serious damage.

“Hmph. The guys outside right now will be attacked by monsters pouring out of the dungeon. But they’re a monster-fighting special force, right? Shouldn’t we be prepared for that?”
“W-what?!”

Jin-seok was angry at Kang Cheon-hu’s shameless attitude. The monster response special unit currently stationed outside was the unit that Jinseok belonged to, and all of its members were Jinseok’s colleagues or successors. As Jin-seok, he could not help but be disgusted by Kang Cheon-hu’s attitude of sacrificing the unit he belonged to without hesitation.

Wow!
“Jinseok. Calm down. I will persuade Kang Cheonhu.”
“Ugh. Ah, okay.”

However, the moment Jinseok was about to get angry, Miyeon stopped him by grabbing his shoulder. Jinseok gritted his teeth to control his anger and accepted Miyeon’s restraint.

(It’s frustrating, but even if I say it, it’s obvious that that bastard will just ignore it.)

In any case, it was clear that no matter how angry Jin-seok got, it would not have any effect on Kang Cheon-hu. This is because Kang Cheon-hu treated Jinseok as nothing more than rolling trash.

“If you try to attack now, I will stop you.”
“Kkekekeke. His personality is still the same. He’s really belligerent.”

Kang Cheon-hu smiled bitterly and glared at the drone’s camera screen. Her eyes, after a sharp river, seemed to see right through the drone camera.