Episode 59
Sitting at the entrance to the dungeon and watching the enemies run wild was quite a unique form of fun.
It was heartbreaking to see the things in the house falling apart, but they were things I could just buy back with money anyway.
If you think about it, it was actually cheap if you think about it as saving lives by sacrificing furniture.
“Excuse me… How long do I have to keep my eyes closed?”
“We still have to wait a little longer.”
Kang Jin-hyeok, who did not want to be caught in the dungeon, did not allow Lee Hye-na to open her eyes.
Lee Hye-na thought it was because of the smoke from the smoke bomb and obediently followed orders.
“Where the hell did you go!”
“There’s no sign of it going outside, so it could be here! Search everywhere!”
The Titan Hunters desperately searched every corner of the house, but could not find Kang Jin-hyeok and his group.
When they open the door, all they see is an ordinary attic.
The dungeon was a place that only Kang Jin-hyeok could enter.
“It’s so quiet outside. What’s going on?”
Kang Jin-hyeok tilted his head at Lee Hye-na’s question.
“Quiet? Secretary, can’t you hear those people talking?”
“I can’t hear anything.”
Outside, the Titan Hunters were still screaming.
It was strange that you couldn’t hear that loud noise unless you were very deaf.
‘Am I the only one who can see outside from here?’
Just as the monsters were unaware of the outside world, this was also likely to be Kang Jin-hyeok’s own ability.
Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t figure out why he was the only one who had this ability.
Lucia explained that the wizard who sent the dungeon to this world had used Kang Jin-hyeok as his coordinates.
For some reason, Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t understand that fact.
Is that really all?
‘… … There’s no use worrying about it now.’
Kang Jin-hyeok doesn’t know much about Lucia’s world, and he doesn’t really know what magic is.
Even if you rack your brain with that knowledge, there’s no way you’ll get the right answer.
For now, the best policy was to just enjoy the benefits that were given to me.
While Kang Jin-hyeok was lost in thought, the Titan Hunters took an extreme measure.
Since they couldn’t find anything no matter how hard they searched, they gave up on the search and started blocking all the gaps leading to the outside.
“Don’t let even one ant escape!”
“All the broken windows were covered with iron plates!”
When all the gaps between the windows and doors were sealed with duct tape, the only person left in the house was a hunter.
The hunter, wearing a gas mask, held a scroll in one hand and an unidentifiable capsule in the other.
“sparge!”
The hunter shouted out loud as if shouting a slogan and threw the capsule on the floor, shattering it.
And he immediately tore the scroll apart.
Judging from the fact that it disappeared somewhere, it seems to have been something similar to a return scroll.
“What did you just throw?”
Kang Jin-hyeok sat in the dungeon and focused on the object visible beyond the attic.
Green smoke slowly leaked out from inside the broken capsule, quickly filling the entire house.
Even though I didn’t know exactly what it was, I could guess that it was something unusual.
“Could it be something like poison gas?”
It was suspicious that all the Titan Hunters who had been bustling around in the house left without a single one of them.
The hunter who threw the capsule and disappeared was also wearing a gas mask, so it was almost 99% certain.
To be sure of the last 1%, Kang Jin-hyeok asked Lee Hye-na a question.
“Excuse me, Secretary. Do you also handle poison gas on Titan?”
“No. Biological and chemical weapons are strictly prohibited from being possessed or manufactured, as they can cause harm to civilians.”
Kang Jin-hyeok was dumbfounded after hearing Lee Hye-na’s explanation.
‘Then what on earth is that thing that was just thrown at my house?’
No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t look like air freshener had been sprayed.
Kang Jin-hyeok got up to confirm the identity.
“Please stay here for a moment.”
“Yes? Where are you going?”
“Don’t worry, just wait, I’m just going to experiment for a bit.”
Kang Jin-hyeok entered the dungeon and looked around.
He found a few goblins not far from the entrance and his eyes lit up like a ginseng hunter.
“They say even dog poop is useful if you want to make medicine. You guys are always seen everywhere you go.”
Kang Jin-hyeok praised them as truly admirable and beat the goblins mercilessly.
Of the goblins whose heads had exploded, only one remained unharmed.
The goblin lost all will to fight as he saw more than four of his comrades die before his eyes without even putting up a fight.
It was a little pitiful to see him sitting there, struggling, but I couldn’t afford to watch that right now.
“I’m sorry. My safety comes before your lives, so I can’t help it.”
Just as a hunter does not feel any guilt towards any of his animals, Kang Jin-hyeok also grabbed the goblin by the scruff of the neck without any sympathy.
“Squeak! Squeak!”
The goblin struggled with all his might.
But Kang Jin-hyeok’s grip didn’t budge even with the strength of a goblin suckling.
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Lee Hye-na, who was crouching at the entrance to the dungeon, was startled when she heard the sound of approaching footsteps and the goblin’s scream.
“When did you catch that monster?”
“There were a few in front of me, so I just caught one.”
“Do you have the luxury of doing that in this situation? What are you going to do if you get tracked down…?”
“I couldn’t help it because it was absolutely necessary.”
Kang Jin-hyeok grabbed the goblin by the scruff of his neck and approached the dungeon entrance.
‘Lucia could have gone outside if she had held my hand. This one will probably be the same.’
Or else forget it.
Kang Jin-hyeok threw away the goblin he was holding without a second thought, not caring whether it would work or not.
The goblin, who had safely passed the boundary between the dungeon and the attic, collapsed inside Kang Jin-hyeok’s house.
“Squeak?”
The goblin, who had been blankly staring at the English alphabet, took a deep breath and showed a change.
“Keeeeeek!!”
As soon as he took a breath, the goblin felt pain as if his entire body was being torn apart.
The more I screamed, the more I had to take in air, and the more I did that, the more the pain grew.
In just three seconds, the goblin fell, blood spurting from every orifice on his body, including his eyes, nose, and mouth.
Now, after 7 seconds, even the body stopped moving.
Even though he’s said to be as tall as a child, he was able to knock down a goblin in just 7 seconds.
I could clearly see how toxic the poison gas that was spread inside the house was.
“It seems that Titan has developed some poison gases without Secretary’s knowledge.”
“Huh? How could that be!”
Lee Ye-na opened her eyes wide, denying that it could be true.
But where she looked, there was only a wall standing there.
Unlike Kang Jin-hyeok, she couldn’t see outside.
“Hey, where am I? What is this wall?”
“I’ll explain later. First, take a look at this.”
Kang Jin-hyeok placed his hand on Lee Hye-na’s shoulder.
Then, she began to see the view beyond the attic that had been hidden by the wall.
“oh?”
Lee Hye-na was surprised to see the strange phenomenon and was alerted when she saw the green smoke filling the house and the corpse of a goblin lying on the ground.
“Gyaaaah!”
The sight of a dead goblin with blisters all over its body was a sight that was difficult for an office worker’s mind to bear.
Kang Jin-hyeok took his hand off her shoulder when he saw Lee Hye-na looking so surprised.
Thanks to the wall blocking the view outside again, Lee Hye-na was able to have time to gather her thoughts.
“Hey, what the hell was that just now? Isn’t that Kang Jin-hyeok’s house?”
“A little while ago, everyone went outside, and one hunter stayed behind and threw the capsule. After that, the house became like this.”
“That, that can’t be… … .”
As the secretary directly reporting to the guild leader of a large guild, Lee Hye-na was aware of the list of prohibited items that hunters were not allowed to have.
The items that were now scattered inside Kang Jin-hyeok’s house were at the top of that list.
“It’s a poison gas that’s a combination of toxic substances, including basilisk venom and arachne venom. That’s for sure.”
Even in that brief moment, Lee Hye-na did not miss the unusually colored spots that appeared on the goblin.
That spot was clearly a danger reaction that Lee Hye-na was familiar with.
“I guess the Basilisk poison wasn’t smuggled solely for the purpose of poisoning Mr. Sangho.”
“Then why would you use such a dangerous thing… … .”
“Why would people use poison gas?”
The advantage of poison gas was that it could easily and quickly annihilate multiple opponents.
With tensions between guilds running high, the intention behind creating such an item was obvious.
“Those crazy guys.”
Lee Hye-na didn’t say anything in response to Kang Jin-hyeok cursing her guild in front of her.
Even she thought this was crossing the line.
“If you use this kind of poison gas, won’t you be detected right away?”
“No… … The scary thing about this poison is that all of it disappears from the body 10 minutes after death.”
“There’s no way such a poison exists in the world.”
“That was until the monsters showed up.”
As Lee Hye-na said, many changes have occurred in the world since monsters appeared.
In the scientific field, too, the table was turned upside down with the emergence of new materials that had never been discovered before.
It was only a few years ago that the industrial sector was in turmoil due to the emergence of new energy resources.
“Fuck.”
After a while, Kang Jin-hyeok watched with his own eyes as the goblin’s corpse, which had been covered in blisters, returned to its normal state.
Not only does it remove the poison from the body, but it also completely erases all traces of it.
There is probably no weapon more suited to the perfect crime.
“This isn’t a situation where you can say anything to a Tyrant.”
“… … That’s right. They and we are on the same level.”
Lee Hye-na had no excuses.
Even if the items did not pass through her hands, she could not say that she was not responsible for the mistakes made by the guild she belonged to.
Lee Hye-na had the opportunity and power to find out the information in advance and prevent it.
But because I missed that, I ended up in this situation.
Lee Hye-na was keenly aware of the fact that she had failed to fulfill her duties as the guild leader’s direct secretary.
“Mr. Kang Jin-hyeok… … No, Mr. Kang Jin-hyeok.”
“yes?”
Kang Jin-hyeok had an ominous feeling when Lee Hye-na suddenly started calling him with a more respectful title.
This was usually a sign of an unreasonable request.
As Kang Jin-hyeok had expected, Lee Hye-na asked for help while bending her waist at a 90-degree angle.
“Please, please. Please help us.”
“No, what am I doing alone… … .”
Just a moment ago, I was pushed back by an S-class hunter.
Even if you hit with an enchanted ability, there’s no guarantee that the method will work again later.
To be honest, I wasn’t confident that my current abilities would be enough to resolve the crisis facing Titan.
However, Kang Jin-hyeok’s eyes saw Lee Hye-na with her shoulders shaking and Seo Sang-ho lying unconscious.
How many people can those who have been betrayed by their guild members trust now?
It’s probably safe to say that there aren’t any.
‘I’m also a total idiot.’
I sighed deeply, knowing that this was a stupid choice.
But I never went back on my decision once I made it.
“Okay, let’s give it a try.”
It’s not like there was no way.
Kang Jin-hyeok still had some cards left that could be used for gambling.
