Chapter 61 – Episode 61- Defeat the Dungeon (4)

The swaying space behind the trees, a dungeon named Goblin Colony.

With Saerom’s support, we entered the dungeon one after another.

When his body touched the shimmering space of the dungeon, an inexplicable, bizarre sensation swept over his entire body, and his vision changed in an instant.

Is it a coincidence? The appearance of the dungeon revealed in the eyes was suitable for recalling the name of the ‘Tree’ guild that arranged the dungeon.

A place full of sparsely existing trees, moss that blooms here and there, and unknown grass brushing your ankles.

And the moist air that brushes against the tip of your nose.

The interior of the dungeon had the appearance of a swamp.

“Huh~ It’s too humid~.”

Maya frowned and expressed her appreciation for the dungeon.

“Yes, it’s not a very pleasant place.”

Violet shrugged and looked around.

Sizzle sizzle-

A black figure fluttered through the trees, and I heard the sound of a bird.

It is a landscape that is believable even if you say that it is not a dungeon, but a jungle from a documentary somewhere.

“Shall we go first?”

According to the information of the dungeon reported in advance, it was written that if you go a certain distance from here, a goblin scout will appear.

So now we have to move slowly towards the specified direction.

He pulled out the iron sword hanging from his waist and proceeded, widening his senses in preparation for an unexpected situation.

Stepping on the ground so soft that the bottom of my feet would fall out, I moved to a certain extent, and something was caught in front of me.

Shuk.

After raising his hand to signal to the party to stop, he put mana around his eyes to strengthen his vision and stare at something.

Gradually, the vision becomes clearer and the shape of something is revealed.

The reddish veins sprouted from the blistered green skin.

It’s a goblin, a devil with bright yellow eyes twitching and drooling.

Looking at the small quiver tied behind his back and the stone knife in his hand, as reported, it was a scout at the entrance of the goblin village.

“Aris, there’s only one person… Is that possible?”

As she turned to Aris and gave her signal, Aris nodded her head and infused mana into her uzi.

Chagjak- Chagjak-

The barrel of the submachine gun Uzi cracked and light emanated from it.

The cracked barrel gnaws away the bursting light and takes on a new shape in an instant.

Its new shape was a sniper rifle with an elongated barrel shining smoothly.

The skill ‘gun conversion’ that Kim Soo-han used during sparring before the previous anti-class battle began.

Within a few weeks, Aris learned a secret trick from Kim Soo-han, who had the potential for a large guild to come and get the contract.

As expected of the main heroine of this game, she has tremendous growth ability, so the speed at which she becomes stronger is exponentially faster.

Click.

Aris tugged on her loading handle, retracting her bolt forward.

After taking a deep breath and looking at the scope, Aris calmly looked at the goblin before pulling the trigger with her finger.

At that timing, I caught the noise around the sniper rifle with the wind spirit, and a silent bullet fired from Aris’ sniper rifle.

Green bodily fluid splattered from the goblin’s head, and the goblin’s body slumped to the ground.

“Nice job, Aris.”

After stroking Aris’ head in her compliments, she crept over to the fallen goblin’s corpse.

Stranger things were found in the goblin’s corpse, which opened a hole in her head and dripped green bodily fluids from her as she rolled her bright yellow eyes.

“What is this?”

The goblin’s nose had been cut off in half.

A cross-section of it that seemed to have been cut with something sharp rather than exploded by Aris’ bullet.

And the wound looks as if it has just been created, with shallow blood scabs clinging to it.

“Look at this.”

Violet, as if sensing something strange, telekinetically rummaged through the goblin corpse and found something of hers, then floated it in the air.

“Isn’t this goblin blood?”

What Violet floated was the stone knife the goblin scout was holding.

The surface of the stone knife, which had a sharp cross section carved out of stone, was covered with dried green bodily fluid, not the bodily fluid that had just been splashed.

“What is it? Were they hitting each other and fighting each other?”

I’ve cleared goblin dungeons countless times, but this is the first time I’ve been in a situation like this.

No matter what, I wouldn’t hurt myself…

Could this be the ‘strange thing’ that happens when the difficulty level goes up?

“Isn’t that a good thing?”

Maya looked back at us, anticipation twinkling in her young eyes.

“Is it.”

Well, it’s not bad if you can get rewards by eating raw even if you can’t get the experience points given by goblins.

“First, let’s go back slowly.”

I glanced at the goblin with the severed nose one more time, and then led my crew and slowly began to enter.

Since the goblin scouts were nearby, the village will surely appear soon after entering this way.

“It’s so… Quiet.”

Violet muttered as she looked around.

It’s definitely too quiet.

The sound of the birds that I heard when I first entered the dungeon, and the noise as if something unknown was moving and passing by…

The more I went into the settlement of this goblin dungeon, the more it gradually stopped.

It’s as if ‘nothing exists’ inside this place.

“Huh? It’s out.”

Aris, who was leading her, quietly raised her finger and taught one place.

A small watchtower made of woven logs caught my eye in the view obscured by trees.

If you come out of that guard post, you have reached the entrance of the goblin colony.

Normally, there are two scout goblins watching over that post with lights on… Wait a minute.

“What is this?”

Inside the guard post, where Mana looked around, there were many traces of goblins, but ‘goblins didn’t exist’.

Does this make sense?

The scout guarding the entrance to the Goblin Colony is not at that most important post?

“Didn’t they really hit each other, Jo Jun?”

Aris spoke to me in a trembling voice.

“Is that possible?”

I was dumbfounded and asked Aris back.

“Since the ecology in the dungeon is different for each demon, wouldn’t it be possible for a goblin with intelligence to cause a division within the tribe due to a battle for rank?”

Violet pondered, then spat out an answer.

“This is a hypothesis that has never happened before.”

However, Violet, who answered, was still looking at the guard post, frowning, as if she was still confused.

“It might break easily.”

Maya laughed like an idiot.

No, usually when unpredictable situations like this happen, they usually go ‘in the wrong direction’…

She stopped walking stealthily, hiding her presence, and strode out into the goblin colony.

The appearance of the goblin colony is gradually revealed.

A door made of wooden harpoons wide open with an empty guardhouse.

And the inside of the village that can be seen beyond the door is a tent made of tents and various structures, but there are no goblins anywhere.

“Is this possible?”

I went through the door and inside the empty goblin colony, I murmured.

Judging by the leftovers on the bonfire, the goblin must have been here an hour or two ago.

But why?

Did you suddenly disappear in an instant?

It’s not even a fight within the village.

There was not a single bit of disorder in the battle to be seen, it just really just vanished in an instant.

“Look here. Looking at the footprints on the floor over there, it seems that all the goblins here have moved to one place?”

Violet, who was looking around, beckoned us as if to come here.

When I went there, I came in to see many goblin footprints on the ground that was more damp than the rest.

The goblin’s footprints were moving towards one place.

“Something is strange, Jo Joon?”

Aris asked me with a firm expression if she sensed something unusual.

Hehe~.”

Unlike earlier, when Maya was also delighted, she was staring at the goblin’s footprints with a tear-stained expression on her face.

“Everyone, let’s be nervous and follow the footsteps.”

Something has definitely happened.

And that something is obviously not going to be good for us.

I clasped my fingers holding the knife even tighter, sharpened my nerves, and followed the footsteps.

Slap. Slap.

As I followed my footsteps, the ground gradually became thinner, and the moisture that brushed my nose grew thicker.

Could it be that these footprints are all approaching the ‘waterside’?

After walking for a while, a huge well appeared in front of our eyes.

When I saw a well as big as the goblin colony I just saw, I uttered a curse word without realizing it.

“What the fuck…”

“Huh~! What the hell is that…?!”

When I first saw it, I didn’t even know it was a well.

Why?

In that hole that should have been filled with water, all the ‘goblins’ that weren’t water were stuck there.

The goblins, who pushed their heads into the huge well, filled the well with their own bodies without moving.

“No, this…”

Violet is also puzzled by this grotesque phenomenon and is staring blankly at the well, not knowing what to do.

It was then.

Suddenly, a goblin stuck in a well trembled and shook its body.

Then, the legs of the goblins who were stuck in the well moved one by one and began to shake their bodies in line with the trembling.

Like leaves swaying in a gale, the goblin’s legs strangely swayed in unison.

‘Spirit Slash.’

Sensing that something was about to happen, I suddenly hit Mana and slashed the Spirit Charm.

Kwagwawang-!

Part of the goblin mass fell apart with an explosion.

Flesh exploded and green bodily fluids scattered in the air, but still, the guys trembled and stopped for a second.

“Pour all dill!”

Something happens

Seeing that, I was even more convinced.

I gritted my teeth and cut off the spirit sword.

‘Sweet sword dance’

It is not just a single slash, but draws spirit slashes of different attributes in the air five times, each carrying a trick of pleasure.

Violet lashes out with a psychic whip, and Aris unleashes several rounds of mana bullets from her submachine gun.

Maya also cried and steadily applied buffs to us.

Did our attack work?

A bunch of twenty-twenty goblins melted away.

Flesh flowed and green bodily fluid gushed out, revealing the white bones hidden within.

“Are you done~?”

Maya wept and uttered her forbidden words.

And the flesh of the goblin bunch, which melted as if by hearing that taboo word, quickly came together and began to take on a certain shape.

A bunch of goblins that were put together quickly without a chance to use their hands.

The look of the newly matched goblin group was the look of the devil I had seen a while ago.

Strewn scales and twitching gills on his cheeks.

A bizarre fish-man with a human form, but with the appearance of a fish.

No, it’s a fish goblin now.

A fish goblin rose from the pond, glistening green scales.

It stares at us with bright yellow eyes, then spreads its protruding snout.

“Do..D.. Turn..Re..Give me…”

Stuttering, broken but clear language reached us.

Words that mean to give back.

“What is it?”

My teammates were confused and didn’t realize the meaning, but I immediately realized it the moment I heard it.

‘What the fuck.’

A stone that I secretly swallowed when I went to a masquerade.

He is asking for the return of the stone with the mysterious hieroglyphs written on it that he secretly put in his inventory due to his fraudulent performance.

Hopefully this will go on like this…

Didn’t I tell you not to eat it?

Regret covered my eyes, but I had no choice, because if I spit out what I had already eaten, I would get sick.

“Everyone prepare for battle!”

Now that it’s like this, it would be a better decision to kill that guy and get the reward.

Absolutely not because 93 billion stones were a waste.

Never.