I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 342

Bless you (1)

a few days ago.

busan.

Atlas warehouse basement.

“… Once this matter is resolved, shall we go hiking together, Heejae?”

“Hiking?”

I frowned from the start.

It’s not that I don’t like hiking, but it’s obvious what Hong Seok-young is talking about. It’s not something you can call hiking.

Even if it is a real mountain climb, it is a bit… .

“Go alone.”

“What fun is there in hiking alone?”

“Isn’t mountaineering originally a fight with oneself?”

“I’m going there to make friends.”

“Okay.”

There were no other magical locks on the door. There was no sound, so I just broke it open. No matter how late it was, they didn’t even have a single guard in this secret warehouse. I don’t know what kind of confidence they have.

Is this also a trap? Or is it?

Watching the ark turn around, I couldn’t help but wonder if Henry Lehmann wasn’t thinking about anything.

Alex Hope didn’t participate in the operation of the ark, but he was a key figure in some way. Hope said that he didn’t want to get involved in complicated matters and didn’t want to hunt people, so he mainly helped with clearing out dungeons that were needed. Dungeons rich in resources like magic grass. He also said that not all monsters in the dungeons were cooperative.

Even so, the main character Alex Hope was aiming to destroy the Ark, and the rest… Noah Michel and Henry Lehman, the actual operators, were said to be on good terms, even if it was just empty words. What if Alex Hope was added to the mix?

I really don’t understand how the Ark maintains its size…. Is it because it absorbed Atlas, who runs a pseudo-research institute? If so, shouldn’t it be called Atlas, not the Ark?

Henry Lehmann seems more fascinated by Atlas than the Ark?

The more I learn, the more I feel hurt that the world was destroyed by such an organization. Humanity must reflect.

Trap or not, the secret passage underground led even lower. I walked down the hallway, thinking that I had managed to build it, and to my surprise.

“gate?”

A dungeon has appeared.

Yeah, it’s a gate.

No matter how much I looked into it, it was a gate, overflowing with blue magic.

…Why is this here?

No, it could be, but why is it hidden like this?

“… … .”

Hong Seok-young crossed his arms and glared at the dungeon gate. The atmosphere had changed so much that it was hard to imagine that he was the person who had been joking with me a little while ago.

Hong Seok-young spoke without taking his eyes off the gate.

“This dungeon isn’t registered on your watch, is it?”

“I would be surprised if it were true.”

“… Is it similar to how Sem Bloom created the gate?”

“That’s, um. Didn’t you say that you forcibly destroyed the door because the dungeon was going to be destroyed anyway? This dungeon is obviously in a stable state.”

Hong Seok-young raised his finger and tapped the grass.

I thought about the commotion we had caused in the warehouse as we were coming in. And the guy squashed in the backseat of the police car.

There was no need to worry since the police moved around in a familiar manner, but… whether they would be able to enter here again so easily was another matter.

then.

“I think I should go in and check this out.”

“Shall we go in?”

Hong Seok-young and I spoke at the same time.

No further explanation is needed. Hong Seok-young smiled brightly as soon as our eyes met.

We quietly took out our weapons and crossed the gate.

* * *

Since the advent of magic in human history, the laws of the world have undergone a major upheaval.

Cataclysm. There was no other way to explain it.

A new rule has emerged that can explain the world, in addition to the laws of physics.

Along with an unidentified troublemaker called the dungeon.

today.

Busan, an unidentified dungeon beneath the Atlas warehouse.

“As expected, I taught you well.”

Hong Seok-young spoke while eating the emergency food in my subspace.

“Is this the emergency food of the future? It looks much more edible. Which company is this? If we invest in this, will it be released sooner?”

“…Is that what you’re talking about now?”

“I have to do it now. When will I have another one?”

Hong Seok-young also carries food in case of an emergency, but as he said, he only eats his own emergency food, perhaps because he likes the future emergency food.

No, I can’t get this again… I looked at the emergency food with regretful eyes and shook my head. What’s the use of saving it anyway? It would be better to invest in the company like Hong Seok-young said.

I sighed.

“How much longer do I have to wait?”

“Well… I think this hunter might start to think it’s strange since we came in without even telling him there was a dungeon. What do you think?”

“… It’s been about a week since I last contacted Lee Rok, so I wonder if he’ll say something.”

“Smart guy.”

Hong Seok-young muttered something that seemed like a compliment to someone he didn’t know who he was talking about.

I took my eyes off Hong Seok-young and looked ahead.

This dungeon in the underground corridor was huge. Seriously, literally huge. I’ve been wandering around the dungeon for days, and I haven’t even found the core. Whatever Atlas did to this dungeon, or whatever they were trying to do to cause this dungeon, if I just destroy the core, won’t the dungeon disappear?

But I couldn’t find the core. I stared at what was in front of me with weary eyes.

Even strange monsters appeared in this dungeon.

Squeak, squeak, squeak… .

The joints make an unpleasant sound as they bend. It may be just a human prejudice that they are in a direction that they shouldn’t bend, but if they hear a creaking sound, isn’t that a problem for them too? However, the monster impaled on the spear was flailing around and bending its joints here and there.

It would be natural for a monster reminiscent of a crustacean to appear in a dungeon with a seaside scenery. Rather, it was fortunate that it wasn’t something coming from the sea. As you can see in Tati’s dungeon, even the strongest hunter will die if they can’t breathe.

But… the question now is, is that really a monster?

“… Mr. Kim should come.”

“I’ll come over and talk to Mr. Kim first. What do you think? Does that look like a monster to you?”

Hong Seok-young took out a communist spear from the subspace. He stuck it into the body of the monster that looked like a crayfish, and collected his own spear that he had stuck there at first.

Creak… .

The arms, which look like crab legs, move around wildly. The reason I call them arms is because there are hands at the end of the legs.

Five fingers, with nails attached to them.

hand.

Hong Seok-young cut off his arm.

Even after being torn off from the body, the arms flapped for a long time. Transparent blood, sparkling like gold dust, scattered around. I frowned.

“I don’t know.”

“Are they the same as those guys outside?”

“They had a more monster-like appearance though….”

It was by chance that we discovered the passage leading underground.

The ocean looked wide, but the forest was also incredibly wide. I thought it would be better if the nuke was somewhere in the forest rather than the ocean, so I cleaned up the beach and went into the forest.

At this point, I already had the feeling that I wouldn’t be able to get out of this dungeon any time soon. As Hong Seok-young said, there was a high chance that Kim Chae-min would come looking for us, so I left directions on the floor. I was worried that the guy would see it and come back, but since he hadn’t come in yet, I thought it would be okay, and Hong Seok-young also had the opinion that it wouldn’t matter.

“They looked like lobsters.”

“… Don’t explain it like that.”

“After we leave the dungeon, should we go eat some lobster?”

“Can I not go to the US? I said I can’t spend much time in Korea.”

“… … If you were in trouble, you shouldn’t have asked me for help!”

Hong Seok-young turned away from my gaze.

“Anyway, this makes me feel more uncomfortable than the guys outside. Even you feel the same way, teacher.”

“Well… I guess I should say that it doesn’t taste like killing. It doesn’t feel like I’m slaying a monster. In fact, those guys can’t even move properly.”

With joints that bent and twisted at will, it was difficult to even support my own body. I squinted.

The magic around the monster in question is strangely silent. It’s so silent that there’s no magic at all. It’s as if there’s a vacuum around that area.

I still kicked the arm crawling on the floor with my foot. The physical connection to the body was severed, but the magical power that connected it like a thin thread still remained. I cut that magical power thread with my sword.

Bam.

Only then did my arm become quiet.

This is a monster? I don’t know. If this is a monster, then it’s some kind of group, and there should be someone who actually controls it. That makes more sense.

I can’t leave the dungeon of unknown identity in the arms of an organization with an unparalleled reputation. I still don’t know where the core is.

In the end, we regretted not bringing a wizard, and we were just eating emergency rations in the dungeon basement… .

“uh?”

I raised my head.

“But why?”

“The magic just now….”

It shook. It was the magic of the dungeon that had been so quiet that it was eerie. Suddenly, it started shaking like crazy.

“horsepower?”

“The movements have become strange.”

The identity of the wriggling magic was quickly discovered, because a single plant root was poking out from the ceiling of the basement.

A root as thin and fragile as the magic thread of a monster that had just been cut off.

And the familiar magic it holds.

Hong Seok-young also found out.

“Ah. If this is it… .”

The weak roots quickly grew. The roots became stems, and small buds formed. It was a red rose.

“It’s Mr. Kim!”

“Mr. Kim? You came quickly. I thought it would take a little longer.”

“You could say I came late.”

“That’s different from what I said earlier….”

“They are all like that.”

The rose petals flutter. It is Kim Chae-min’s magic, so it is natural that it resembles Kim Chae-min, but somehow that face comes to mind right away. I will yell at him in annoyance, asking what he thinks of a magician.

I shrugged. Although he said so, Hong Seok-young also seemed pleased to see Kim Chae-min.

“I guess I can finally solve this situation.”

Strange creatures that you can’t tell if they’re monsters or not, and a well-hidden core.

If we use Kim Chae-min’s magic instead of running around and exploring this dungeon on foot, it will save time and we’ll be able to properly investigate what it is.

Well, and he’s a great wizard. Hong Seok-young and I weren’t too worried about Kim Chae-min, who came alone to this suspicious dungeon. We had cleaned the dungeon on our way here, and Kim Chae-min wasn’t such an incompetent wizard that he would get lost in a dungeon like this.

but.

When the roses blooming on the dungeon ceiling suddenly withered and withered. And then bloomed again repeatedly.

I realized that I shouldn’t have been so easygoing.

In the future, it was because I completely forgot the fact that the place where Kim Chae-min died was near the sea.

The roses bloomed and withered at regular intervals like signals. As expected of an old-time hunter, Hong Seok-young was strong in the analog side. Fortunately, if I had been alone, I wouldn’t have noticed what it was right away.

“… It’s Morse code.”

“Morse code?”

“The names are similar.”

Hong Seok-young’s face becomes distorted.

“Henry Lehman.”

Without looking back, we ran out of the basement.

Fantasy, contemporary,