Main Character Hides His Strength

23. Underground Kingdom (3)

It's been a day.

Reports of a massive movement of the Demon Army have alerted a group of punitive units who have been looking for a moment of peace.

Kang Gas Aaron summoned his troops and said,

“As you all know, there was an unexpected horde of horses yesterday. According to Grifon Scouts, the horses have retreated, but we cannot rule out the possibility of an ambush. Therefore, reconnaissance is needed. Find volunteers."

It is not easy to find volunteers in an army of most new recruits.

Aaron's eyes naturally turned to the existing survivors.

Kim Sung-cheol raised his hand.

“Room 34? You're a recruit, aren't you? ”

Kim Sung-cheol shook his head and said.

“I have more time than those guys. And we're walking around together every day. You can count on it. ”

“Really?"

There's no reason to stop me from going out there myself.

Kanggas Aaron scouted Kim Sung-cheol as a scout and found additional soldiers to assist him.

But there are no reinforcements.

The fact that the Horses do not retreat cleanly is because every soldier on the front lines knows it.

There must be a huge number of traps, ambushes, and man-eating horses lurking around where the Horsemen retreated.

If the whole army marches together, only a few scouts will become toys for the Horsemen or feed them to the wild horses.

“Once you've successfully scouted, I'll consider this a successful mission. Who's with me? ”

Kang Gas made a deal that no one in the Punishment Force would want.

Nevertheless, no one stepped forward.

That was a dangerous mission.

In silence, Kim Sung-cheol told Aaron the steel gas.

“I'll be fine on my own. I'll be back in three days. If you don't come back in three days, consider yourself dead." ”

“You volunteered, so even if you succeed in scouting, you won't be able to subtract the mission numbers." Are you okay with that? ”

Aaron, a strong gas, smiles on his floppy face.

Kim Sung-cheol nodded.

“If we don't make it back to reconnaissance, we'll all die, won't we? ”

“You know him well. Yeah. Go. 34. ”

Kim Sung-cheol left the road after receiving signalling scrolls and food and water for the sides of the steel gas.

The other soldiers seemed to be suicidal, but Kim Sung-cheol was really favorable.

‘I don't think I need to get three days' credit. We don't know the size of that dungeon, but in three days, we'll know how much it was worth. ’

Kim Sung-cheol left the road and headed for the dungeon.

As expected, there were plenty of traps and watchers around the dungeon.

Kim Sung-cheol sneaked into the destination, avoiding traps and demons.

Puck!

Then, Kim Sung-cheol stared under a rock after slaughtering a group of demons on the road to the dungeon.

There are only abandoned barracks around the dungeon, but there are no signs of anyone.

The ubiquitous boundary system has been destroyed or lost its function for a long time.

But the pulley to the dungeon is still alive.

But the Horsemen can't just walk away.

You put a mean prank on the pulley.

A trap was set to explode the moment someone activated the sheave.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol didn't touch the trap.

Instead, he sneezes into the gaping hole.

A black darkness struck him, and the tingling sensation of the fall overwhelmed his whole body.

In the endless fall, Kim Sung-cheol caught the light shining in the dark and threw two fists towards the darkness.

Puck!

The solid rock crumbles like a tofu, his arm stuck in more than half, and his body, which was falling, is firmly fixed to the wall.

Kim Sung-cheol pulled out his arm and jumped into a bright light.

It was an invisible corridor.

The walls were properly blended with bricks, dirt and blue moss to create a dark atmosphere, and the smell of the crunchiness that could be smelled at the Charnel House was dug out.

“Here, I don't feel so good. ”

Vertelgia waves in her pocket.

Kim Sung-cheol took out Bertelkia and said.

“You can come out from here. ”

At the end of the horse, Vertelgia protruded out of Kim Sung-cheol's pocket and flew around vigorously expanding to its original size.

“Oh, I want to be refreshed but I don't feel refreshed! ”

“Do you know where I am? ”

At Kim Sung-cheol's question, Bertelkia shakes her head.

“No, I've never been here before. But I've heard of Nahaq, as you call him. ”

“Nahaq? What's that? ”

“They were a group that flourished in the past. It is now extinct and not to be found, but legend has it that they have huge wings flying through the sky and have used the beak engraved with runes to practice devastating magical powers. ”

“Are they different from the joints you see in the Horse army? ”

“Maybe a distant relative? Nahaq is not that inferior. ”

Talking with Bertelkia, Kim Sung-cheol walked one step forward into the dungeon.

Traces of the expedition are everywhere.

Kim Sung-cheol carefully took a step and looked around.

The eyes of truth detect a magical presence beyond the darkness.

A magic trap.

Properties are frozen properties.

If you step on it incorrectly, it will freeze your whole body.

‘This is the work of the Human Wizard. ’

The footprints are scattered around the trap.

There's probably a lot of commotion around here.

The number of human beings in the dungeon is roughly 30 in the footprint.

The sum of the numbers of the expedition and the defenders.

Kim Sung-cheol continued to move forward.

I see blood.

Following the blood trail, you see two bodies left unattended.

The bodies of soldiers.

He must have encountered an enemy that was hard to resist, even though he didn't have the proper respect for the corpse.

Kim Sung-cheol opened his eyes and left the dead body and continued to move forward.

“He's the enemy.”

Bertelkia said briefly.

Kim Sung-cheol also knew.

There is a sticky adversary at hand.

Arm karaz appeared in Kim Sung-cheol's hand.

He stares at the existence beyond the darkness and says briefly.

“Crawl out. ”

Later, something dark appeared.

It was a creature with green mucinous skin that constantly shed the head of a bird, the body being a human.

There were no eyes and no nose, but the monster acted as if he was looking at Kim Sung-cheol.

Like a normal person.

Kim Sung-cheol knows what it is.

‘You're a slave to your master. ’

I'm not the one who can't win.

But I don't want to face the enemy.

Kim Sung-cheol said briefly with a hammer.

“Piss off.”

“ ……. ”

The mucous monster stares at Sung-cheol Kim standing tall, then turns around and disappears into the darkness without a sound.

“What the hell is that? ”

Bertelgia, who was hiding behind Kim Sung-cheol's back, suddenly popped out.

“An abyss. ”

“Abyssal Fall? ”

Kim Sung-cheol nodded.

“When you meet someone weaker than yourself, you try to drag them to their own grave. Humans and Mages.”

And the dead.

Where the abyss lies, only silence flows like death.

“Ugh... I think I know what you're talking about. ”

Vertelgia trembles once more.

“Did those soldiers just do that, too? ”

“I don't think so. Those who are dragged to the Abyss will be erased from this world. Not even a corpse. ”

“So there are other monsters? ”

Kim Sung-cheol nodded and thought to himself.

‘Perhaps the abyss was drawn to me by the great power that was in my body. You haven't shown up in front of the expedition. ’

Kim Sung-cheol remembers what the expedition had previously reported to Willie Gilford.

Moreover, if they encountered the abyss, not one of them would have survived.

Kim Sung-cheol had experienced how terrifying the abyss was.

He's not your opponent right now.

Kim Sung-cheol continued to move forward.

The soldiers' bodies are still found.

One phrase, two phrases, and ten phrases.

Kim Sung-cheol found traces of intense fighting around the place where the bodies were scattered.

The magical flame burns the floor, and the sorcerer's sword slashes through the walls, and there are fragments of broken spear blades lying around the floor.

Strangely, though, the monsters that the soldiers fought couldn't be found even after washing their eyes.

It was strange.

If there had been a battle of this magnitude, there would have been some clue, but I don't see anything.

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol stopped hiding his mannerisms.

He pulls out a torch from the spirit vault and lights it. He strikes the dungeon with a loud footstep to be heard.

Then, surprisingly soon, there began to be some annoying noises around Sung-cheol Kim.

Kim Sung-cheol was able to see the monsters roaming beyond the darkness.

Both legs, arms, and wings.

Together, they were the bodies of twisted joints walking on six legs.

“ ……. ”

The body of a silent join rushed towards Kim Sung-cheol like a fly.

A head with unfocused eyes brutally pecked at Kim Sung-cheol.

Kim Sung-cheol's arm split open the air.

Puck!

After a devastating blow to Arm Garaz, Joyne's corpse disappears from its position to dust.

Then, Kim Sung-cheol seemed to know why there was no corpse of magic.

‘This dungeon stinks of corpse dust. ’

Dozens of Joyne's corpses crawled like a centipede, aiming for Kim Sung-cheol.

“Ugh! I want to go back! ”

Bertelkia hides in Kim Sung-cheol's pocket.

Kim Sung-cheol's hammer became more active.

Boom! Boom! Puck!

The monstrous magic could not be the opponent of Kim Sung-cheol.

They turned to dust and disappeared, and the surviving horses fled into the darkness.

Tranquility returns to you in the dungeon where the witches disappeared.

After the fight, Bertelkia looks out of her pocket and opens one of her pages.

“What's that? ”

On her page was a brief map that looked like it had been drawn with a fresh pen.

“I've made a map once. ”

“A map?”

“Yes. This dungeon, it never seems small. ”

Kim Sung-cheol agreed with that.

But he had a way of breaking through the dungeon lightly.

Puck!

The wall in front of you shatters and creates a big hole.

Beyond that hole lies another passageway.

Kim Sung-cheol walked through the passageway and hit the wall again.

He repeated the same task over and over again.

Until the end of the dungeon.

“Hmmm...”

Finally, a sigh comes out of Bertelkia's mouth as he paints a map on his page.

“It's really comfortable when you're strong, right? Huh?”

“ ……. ”

Kim Sung-cheol fixed the hammer and started drilling north this time.

When I smashed about 4 walls, a cliff appeared in front of Kim Sung-cheol.

The faint, dark side of the ridge is lined with a green fog that cannot be seen beyond.

Kim Sung-cheol threw a rock and heard a sound.

It's quite deep.

Kim Sung-cheol thought so and turned.

“But what good is it to drill a hole like this? ”

Bertelkia suddenly asks a question.

“Make your own path. It's easy to get lost in a maze like this. ”

If you don't have a path, you can create one.

It's an attack on Kim Sung-cheol's dungeon.

Moreover, if you beat the dungeon in such a noisy way, you can summon a creature that cannot even be found.

Jubbuck.

Soon, I felt a sense of intelligence.

It is a human initiative.

Kim Sung-cheol put Arm Garaz into the Soul Warehouse and waited for someone to appear soon.

Beyond the darkness, a female wizard appears surrounded by a transparent mist.

Beneath her feet are five homuncles wrapped in armor.

Kim Sung-cheol noticed her existence, but he pretended not to know and stared blankly ahead.

She took the time to observe Kim Sung-cheol.

Kim Sung-cheol's appearance, Bok Sik Sik, armed, and stats.

I snuck in and checked everything I could see.

After a thorough scouting, the female wizard took off the magical veil and revealed herself in front of Kim Sung-cheol.

“Who are you? ”

Mimi Azrael.

Commander of the Investigation Force.