I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 258

Jirisan Fairy (4)

“… … !!”

My breath is pounding.

I jumped up to avoid the sinking floor. I climbed up to a nearby tree, but the branch I stepped on snapped. Of course, it wasn’t so thin that it couldn’t support my weight.

The other branches were the same. The ground that was rumbling and trying to swallow people was now hard to call land. The sloppy mud that made your ankles sink. This was no longer a floor, but a swamp. A bottomless swamp. A pile of mud that devours people.

The tree that tries to fall down as you climb is also annoying. Even the movements are getting rougher. At first, it was barely able to flinch.

…it feels like looking at a pile of creaking machinery that hasn’t moved in a long time.

I quickly changed the tree I was hanging on to. I avoided the tree that was struggling to throw me off, and went to the next tree, and the next. It wasn’t hard to just hang on.

But if you keep doing this, you will eventually hit rock bottom.

What did Hong Seok-young do when he had nowhere to go in the Siren Dungeon? He used Kim Chae-min, right? I guess I should have brought Kim Chae-min.

If I had known it would be a dungeon like this, I would have brought you. I brought you!

… … And he probably wouldn’t have burned the golem fragments because he was angry.

“Tch!”

Hong Seok-young cut down a tree. He was seen stepping on the falling tree, jumping up, and hanging on to another branch.

“… … .”

This is not the time to be looking at Hong Seok-young. I am in the same situation.

No, but I really feel wronged.

I was just checking to see if the golem would catch fire or not, just in case. How could I have known that its owner was such a sensitive person who would nitpick over such things?

If that’s the case, then you should have made a fuss when you first broke the golem’s head. And when you were going to attack with a barrage of weapons? If you didn’t want the golem to break, you shouldn’t have used it in the first place! You should have stepped forward yourself!!

Are all fairies like that? There are too few samples to understand the monsters called fairies. At best, what Hong Seok-young told me is all there is to it. The only fairy I’ve ever met… The only one who’s close to a fairy is Alex Hope.

When I think of that guy… … .

… … .

Yeah, that’s what a fairy can do. Look at it now.

<#(^%&%$@!>

Wasn’t he screaming and screaming incomprehensible? My head was pounding. It wasn’t enough to impede my movements, but the pain wasn’t pleasant.

The sound that is stuck in my head, whether it is a scream or a shout, is getting longer and longer. Every time it happens, the entire dungeon shakes loudly. The mud on the floor ripples, and trees and vines writhe and reach out to grab Hong Seok-young.

Funnily enough, it had a similar aspect to Kim Chae-min’s magic. It wasn’t as flashy or life-giving as Kim Chae-min’s, but it still felt stiff when I first entered the dungeon. It didn’t feel like it had any life, and it felt like a strange plastic toy moving around. The same was true for golems.

But since it looked like a plant, Kim Chae-min would have enjoyed this dungeon. He might have laughed while forcing his own flowers to bloom in that mud pile. No, he would have laughed.

But unfortunately, Kim Chae-min is not here, and there are only two poor hunters struggling with spears and swords.

“How much is left until the nuke?!”

Hong Seok-young shouted as he climbed higher to avoid the rising mud.

“It’s still far away!!”

“At this rate, we’re going to have to go nuclear. Wait a minute. What’s that?”

“yes?”

I turned pale when I saw the direction Hong Seok-young was pointing.

Hong Seok-young, who was hanging from a tree and trying to break away from the vines that were tangling his ankles, gritted his teeth and shouted.

“That’s a tsunami!!!”

The forest was so dense that it felt like a jungle. Naturally, the trees were tall. Waves as tall as houses, far exceeding the height of the trees, were coming from afar. It wasn’t even water, it was mud. A shadow fell over the forest.

I was dizzy at the sight of a sight I had never thought I would see in a dungeon, especially one with a forest in it.

“gate!”

“…yes?”

“Gate!! Get out of the dungeon!!!”

I came to my senses at Hong Seok-young’s words.

If you get swept away by that, there’s no guarantee that even Hong Seok-young will be safe. Even if you’re the strongest hunter, it’s not even 2 meters high. Mud waves that are tens of meters high… .

What the f*ck!

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I immediately changed direction. Fortunately, the mud waves were moving slowly. I ran desperately, using all my strength.

<$(*&%@!~*>

The fairy’s voice seemed to be smiling as if it was watching us from somewhere. I don’t know if monsters can feel emotions like humans, but even animals feel joy, sorrow, and pleasure, so monsters…

Even so, it’s a monster.

We just gritted our teeth and ran until we saw the gate. The ground and trees that had been blocking our way became a little quieter, as if they knew we were trying to escape the dungeon.

…why?

The blue light of the gate twinkles in the distance.

When I first entered the dungeon, there were definitely trees growing around the gate. As soon as I passed through the gate, I almost hit my head on a tree branch.

but now?

The area around the gate is empty.

There was not a single speck of mud on the ground. The dry earth was rustling. The cracks on the ground were marks from the movement of trees. The trees surrounding the gate were writhing violently as if they were trying to throw Hong Seok-young and me off, but they were motionless.

what?

This is, this is like… .

“Get out first!”

Hong Seok-young grabbed the back of my neck and threw himself toward the gate.

Just before leaving the dungeon, I saw the mud wave that had been chasing us. Instead of maintaining its shape, the wave split in half and slowly collapsed.

As the waves crashed, mud rained down on the dungeon. Instead of a blue sky, the sky was studded with stars, but there was a single black dot in the sky, like a black hole swallowing up the stars.

No, he’s a little guy.

No, it’s not a person.

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fairy.

Instead of hair, thorny bushes sway. The body covered in mud is difficult to recognize.

<_)&@$>

But those shining golden eyes were looking straight at us.

* * *

“… … Huh? You’re already out, why do you look like that?”

…ello, Bonnie!

Han Tae-kyung, who had been slumped in his camping chair, jumped up when he saw us. A child’s voice flowed out from the tablet PC. Even in my daze, I could clearly hear the name Bonnie.

Don’t you ever get tired of watching that damn animation?

“What… Did you go to the mud festival or something?”

“Han Tae-kyung.”

“yes.”

“quietly.”

“yes.”

Han Tae-kyung kept his mouth shut as he felt that Hong Seok-young’s mood was not good.

I staggered to my feet. Mud was dripping from my head. I felt dirty.

I reluctantly pushed my head back, as I had to look ahead. The feeling of my hair being stuck in the mud was dirty. I didn’t want to know.

I shook the mud off my hands, gave up, and sighed. When I looked to the side, Hong Seok-young had the same expression on his face as I did.

“All licenses must be returned.”

Hong Seok-young muttered fiercely. I moved away from Hong Seok-young. Han Tae-kyung had already run away far away.

“You crazy guys… What is this? You may not know that fairies exist. But you don’t know this?”

“What… we didn’t know at first either.”

Everyone is tolerant of their own faults, but you should still speak clearly.

Hong Seok-young glared at me.

“Whose side are you on!”

“On my side.”

“Then you should take my side!!”

“What side is there here…?”

I gestured to Han Tae-kyung. Han Tae-kyung, who was a little weird but not bad-headed, immediately noticed what I was looking for and came over to retrieve water and a towel from my luggage.

Since I couldn’t wash my body, I just roughly washed my hands and then roughly dried my face with a towel.

“What are you going to do?”

“How to do it.”

Hong Seok-young washed his hands with a face that seemed unsure whether he should be angry or disappointed.

“Since there are fairies, we have to catch them… We have to catch them.”

“A fairy?”

“how?”

“Hmm… I usually catch them before they start messing around like that, but I don’t think that’ll work this time.”

Hong Seok-young said nervously.

“If I had heard that there was a fairy, or rather, an unidentified monster, I wouldn’t have gone into the dungeon like that. I would have found it and killed it first.”

“Wasn’t that something that came out of Europe?”

“That’s better.”

“You shouldn’t believe the report. It was complacent.”

“We didn’t notice anything strange until we caught the golem. That shows how cunning it is.”

“Can you hear me?”

I frowned. There was something I felt before I left the dungeon.

“And, um. That guy. I don’t think he had any intention of killing us.”

Hong Seok-young opened his eyes wide.

“I’m good at….”

I breathed magic into my sword. Flames shot out along the blade. The mud dried in an instant. As I swung my sword in that state, the mud fell off.

Only then did I glance at Han Tae-kyung. Hong Seok-young, realizing his mistake, let out a loud cough.

“Explorer, did you notice that too?”

“… It would be strange if you left the area around the gate so empty and didn’t notice it. And that mud. As soon as we started going towards the gate, it slowed down.”

“I told you so.”

“yes?”

“Fairies are clever.”

Hong Seok-young gritted his teeth.

“Quite a few hunters have been coming and going from this dungeon.”

“Well… that’s right.”

“The monsters that the hunters encountered were golems. There are many of them, but they are not that threatening. However, there are apples in this dungeon… .”

“Are you saying that you knew that I wouldn’t raid the dungeon since it wasn’t dangerous?”

“maybe.”

Hong Seok-young looked straight at me. He didn’t say anything because Han Tae-kyung was there, but I thought he knew what I wasn’t saying.

You’re trying to say that the fairy in that dungeon might be from the future.

“… … .”

Is it possible that the reason my sister came into this dungeon and came out was because she saw a fairy?

No, that doesn’t make sense. My sister didn’t enter this dungeon to collect apples. She went in to conquer the dungeon and failed. Even if she was young, she wouldn’t have had a hard time with that golem.

What about fairies?

However, the hunter who conquered the dungeon after that was much less skilled than my older sister. Even worse, the dungeon had already turned into a desert by then.

Why? Was it because there were no fairies back then?

“First of all… I can’t just leave it like this.”

“That’s a given.”

“But you can’t just go in.”

“of course.”

“… I don’t think even Mr. Kim would be able to deal with that kind of mud.”

“hmm….”

Think about it, Woo Hee-jae. It’s your job to find a strategy with limited resources.

“Excuse me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?”

Han Tae-kyung opened his mouth without giving up.

“Can I go into the dungeon?”

Fantasy, contemporary,