Humanity Itself is Strong - Chapter 4

Jin-Seong walked fast along the maze of dungeons. There were no discrepancies from the map I had got from Kim. It was a historical site that had already been attacked once, so there were no monsters other than the one monster that appeared.

“Gasp, Gasp….. Can we go slower?”

There was a variable. It was this woman, Lee Yeo-jin’s physical strength was worse than I thought.

But I didn’t send her back alone. I don’t know what will happen if she gets caught by gangsters or something. Even if she’s a little troublesome, I had to take her with me.

I’d rather carry her on my back. I think it’ll be faster. Lee Jin-Seong thought so and looked at Lee Yeo-jin.

“…… shouldn’t archaeologists have good physical strength?”

Archeologists sound like romantic jobs at first glance, but they are one of the top 3D industries. You may have to squat in a 50-degree desert, brush all day, or torch and shovel for years at sites with ice caps that reach minus 40 degrees Celsius. In the jungle, you have to suffer from various poisonous insects and threats from wild animals, and you have to sleep in tents, so it’s usually an archaeologist’s job to have physical strength.

Lee Yeo-jin was upset by my words.

“You’re…… Gasp, a hell of a……Gasp…… You must mean that you have great physical strength?”

Lee Jin-Seong was the top ranker of the group he worked with not too long ago. I didn’t think I was that great.

‘Well, I guess it’s hard for the average person to keep up with me.’

However, not only ordinary people, but even the leading opener could not reach Lee Jin-Seong’s natural physical strength, speed, and resilience. And that was even before Lee Jin-Seong was helped by his teacher.

Anyway, this pace was too much for Lee Yeo-jin now.

“Well, let’s take a shortcut.” “Shortcut?”

Lee Jin-Seong looked around the orange-colored archway. Then he started knocking on the walls.

“Here it is.”

He said that and started kicking the outer wall.

Boom…! Boooom! Boom……!

The shock shook the inside of the dungeon as if it were going to collapse. The outer wall was cracking.

“Oh, my God……!”

Lee Yeo-jin once again covered her mouth in surprise at the sight.

“You broke the wall without any equipment?”’

Lee Yeo-jin, 23, didn’t see any opener’s very often, but she was well aware that there was no powerful opener in the world. Common sense is that you have to use your own abilities, whether you break walls or dig through the ground to exert the power of the opener.

BOOOOM…!

Then, the outer wall collapsed at the end of Lee Jin-Seong’s weight. Lee Yeo-jin had no choice but to stare blankly at the sight of me kicking the thick outer wall.

“Ms. Yeo-jin.” “Hmm, yes?”

Lee Jin-Seong nodded at the startled Lee Yeo-jin. Then Lee Yeo-jin hurriedly approached Jin-Seong.

“Look here.”

Jin-Seong pointed into the outer wall that he broke. Inside the smashed outer wall was a well-like hole that was so deep that the end was unknown.

Lee Yeo-jin, who felt anxious, asked him something.

“……what are you thinking?” “We’re going to jump.” “What?” “It’s not that deep. It’s only 30 seconds away.”

Then Lee Jin-Seong crouched down as if to piggyback on her.

“Well, I’m not going! If you fall down there, you’ll die!” “If you stay here, you’ll be killed by something evil.” “Well, that’s…!”

The expedition wakes up the monster while investigating the site dungeon. And among them, Lee Yeo-jin was the only survivor.

“……okay.”

Lee Yeo-jin, who had been thinking for a while, was on Lee Jin-Seong’s back.

“Well, then take a deep breath for a minute– AAAAAAAH!

Lee Jin-Seong threw himself into the well as soon as she got on his back.

“Gasp. Gasp.….”

Lee Yeo-jin was sweating on her forehead, but she couldn’t wipe it. Her arm had to wrap around Lee Jin-Seong’s neck, and one hand had to carry a lantern.

“Hey, slow down a little…….” Lee Jin-Seong is walking down this narrow well passage with an adult woman on his back, but he shows no signs of difficulty at all. I was just walking down the aisle with both arms and legs on the exterior walls of the aisle.

Lee Jin-Seong thought he’d jump straight to the floor. But he decided not to because he needed to control the speed or else Lee Yeo-Jin’s neck might break.

“Now, wait, stop!”

At that time, Lee Yeo-jin, who was on his back, stopped Lee Jin-Seong.

“Why?” “Here, here, look at the painting!”

Then Lee Yeo-jin lit the lantern on the wall just around the corner. There was a mural painted with natural paint.

“What is a mural doing in a place like this……?”

At that moment, Lee Yeo-jin took her eyeglasses out of her arms and looked into the painting.

It was a picture of a crowd praising a blue-colored God.

“Oh, my God, this is what I was looking for!” “……what you were looking for?”

Then Lee Yeo-jin on Lee Jin-Seong’s back shook her body and hurried him.

“Hurry, hurry, look at the next mural!”

Jin-Seong slowly climbed down the wall.

Then in the peaceful world, red tentacle monsters appeared and began killing people wildly. God and man fight, but they lose to the red flock.

“……it’s the story of a sleeping creature in this dungeon. I couldn’t recognize the murals anywhere else because they were erased or blurred, but this……!”

She seemed thrilled and speechless, and took out her phone and began to take pictures.

“Is that so?”

Lee Jin-Seong became interested from her words. Then the painting continued.

In the following painting, the blue God evacuated his people to a safe world. The God remains alone in the world and fights with the red flock for an immeasurable period of time.

And eventually, the blue God was defeated by the last red monster. The purple heart is taken away and the God falls asleep forever.

Lee Yeo-jin, who took the picture, said.

“……and this blue God will be asleep here.” “……in this place?” “Yes, I don’t know if it’s really a God or not, but at least it has played some sort of God-like role.”

Lee Jin-Seong thought about the monster of the dungeon he had knocked down. The monster is guarding Purple Heart, which resembles the red monster painted in the mural.

“……what happens when you give the heart back to the blue God?” “There is a prophecy that the God who has recovered Purple Heart will be resurrected. And grant a wish to the person who returned the purple heart back.” “……Hmm.”

Lee Jin-Seong began to agonize here. Originally, he was going to take the purple heart instead of giving it to Kim Jun-oh and use it himself.

“Is it really going to grant you anything you want?” “Uh… I don’t know……in fact, I didn’t think it was any different from other historical dungeons until I encountered that red monster…….”

The historic dungeon was nothing else.

There are dungeons that appeared after the “cataclysmic” incident. Each dungeon contains its own magical objects, and after a certain period of time or certain conditions, it causes an outbreak that releases the inner magical objects to the outside. As a result, in the early days of unpreparedness, monsters poured out onto the ground would be severely damaged.

In any case, dungeons that could identify traces of unfamiliar civilizations were sometimes found, which were called “historic dungeons.” In these historic dungeons, rare objects were found that had never been identified. However, unlike ordinary dungeons, these artifacts were hidden tightly, so they used to hire archaeologists to investigate the inside of the dungeon and solve the mystery. Archaeologists were able to study another civilization, and dungeon owners were able to find artifacts, so they were able to win each other.

Lee Yeo-jin continued.

“There were prophecies in other historic dungeons, but I’ve never seen a living demon pop up.”

Until she was attacked by a red monster guarding the Purple Heart, Lee Yeo-jin had never thought about what she meant by prophecy or wish.

Lee Jin-Seong thought calmly.

‘Should we find the blue God? Will he be alive? If alive, is this blue God an ally or an enemy? How can he help me?’

Of course, it was simply for him to have a purple heart, but he didn’t want to make a hasty decision.

“……Let’s go first. It won’t be too late to think about it after finding the purple hearts.” “Yes, yes!”

Lee Yeo-jin is starting to get excited.

“The Blue God… Maybe we can meet for real. This has never happened in the history of archaeology!” “…….”

I felt that Lee Yeo-jin’s passion for learning was extraordinary.

Took.

And before long they were able to land on the floor. Lee Jin-Seong handed her the rifle he was carrying in front of him and strode through the darkness.

Click.

And Jin-Seong pressed a button made of amethyst. It’s bright everywhere.

“Wow……? How did you know that?” “I saw a sparkle, so I pressed it.”

In fact, I looked back on my previous memories. Lee Jin-Seong took the lead in walking down the lit aisle.

After a while, they were able to reach a huge cavity. Lee Jin-Seong looked inside.

There was dry blood and corpses all over the floor.

“…….”

Lee Yeo-jin’s face, who followed behind, became noticeably pale. Lee Yeo-jin could not immediately see the bodies of her colleagues because only she survived. Lee Jin-Seong, who noticed the smell, said first.

“It’s not your fault.” “……What?” “You were just lucky.”

Lee Yeo-jin looked like she was about to cry at my words, but she didn’t want to show such an unseemly appearance. Instead, she pointed her finger inside the cavity and said.

“The purple heart is over there.”

In the middle of this huge room was a mano stone the size of a purple fist on top of a crystal emitting a subtle glow. Lee Jin-Seong said, taking the dagger out of his arms.

“Yeo-jin, stay out here.”

Lee Jin-Seong said, pointing to a corner of the wall.

“I’ll deal with the monster, so shoot if you need to.”

Saying so, Lee Jin-Seong shot a bullet.

Originally, if it was history, two gangsters would have supported Lee Jin-Seong when he fought the red monster, but now it was only Lee Yeo-jin. Two gangsters were quite trained riflemen, but Lee Yeo-jin wasn’t.

At that time, Lee Yeo-jin managed to lie face down on the floor with a magazine shot.

‘……you know how to shoot.’

But Lee Jin-Seong did not expect it.

“If you think you’re going to hit me, don’t shoot at all.” “Oh, yes, yes, yes……!”

I could hear her rigid voice.

Lee Jin-Seong knew its weakness because he had already killed it once. With the dagger out, he silently approached the altar. It was the moment when he reached out to the purple heart.

Kugugung!

The altar, where the purple heart was placed, suddenly fell to the floor and disappeared from view.

Cieck……!

Soon after, the ceiling cracked from side to side with a terrible cry.

Lee Jin-Seong looked at the open ceiling.

It was a moment as if the darkness had wriggled.

Oh, my God!

Black liquid poured out of the gap. It was a poison aimed at Lee Jin-Seong exactly, but he easily avoided it.

Whoops…!

The pouring poison soaked the floor, and instantly melted the stone floor and dug in.

Kiehhhhhh!

Numerous red tentacles began to pour out of the black gap, stirring through the darkness.

Boom……!

It was only when the pulsating flesh appeared as if the red flesh had been glued together.

A monster with lots of winding tentacles and big red eyes in between. This monster was one of the monsters that destroyed the blue God’s world.

Wooosh, the monster swept casually over the poison he poured out.

“Then…”

Lee Jin-Seong walked across the red flesh, winding his red tentacles.

Whoops!

Immediately, the red monster’s thick tentacles fell toward Lee Jin-Seong. Lee Jin-Seong daggers out and cuts down the thick tentacles.

Took, crunch…!

This star has cut off tentacles that could pose a threat while keeping a moderate distance. At a time when tentacles were reduced, he rushed to the monster.

He avoided the tentacles, like sticks and spears, and approached them in an instant. The moment he finally tried to stick the black knife into the big eyeball.

Crunch!

At one moment, one of the main tentacles still left wrapped around Lee Jin-Seong’s knife.

‘Hmm.’

Lee Jin-Seong recalled what he learned in the past.

At that time, gangsters cut off the tentacles that tied Lee Jin-Seong’s body with supportive shots. These tentacles were so powerful that without supportive fire, Lee Jin-Seong would have been killed.

But now we can’t expect such a support shot. Of course, Lee Yeo-jin took a pose with a rifle, but he didn’t know if that would be helpful. The tentacles of the monster soon wrapped around Lee Jin-Seong’s arms as well as his legs, waist, and shoulders.

“Ji, Jin-Seong!”

So it looked like a crisis to put it simply. Lee Jin-Seong, whose whole body was tied up, came to his open mouth. The mouth revealed fangs like saw blades. But Lee Jin-Seong laughed.

On the contrary, it was a desired situation.

He was weaker than before. But Jin-Seong was already a veteran of numerous battles. Lee Jin-Seong opened his mouth like a monster.

Crack!

Started biting the tentacles on the forearm.

Crack, crack! Kieh?!

With the main tentacles already cut off, Lee Jin-Seong’s arms quickly became free when he bit off the rest of the tentacles. Lee Jin-Seong didn’t miss the moment and stabbed the dagger in.

The tiny tentacles wrapped around Lee Jin-Seong’s superpower floundered, broken, and burst with a sound.

And

Squeeze!

The flashing blade penetrated the red monster’s eyeballs.

Kieh-eh-eh-eh-eh!

The tentacle monster screamed in agony.

Lee Jin-Seong muttered, spitting out the flesh in his mouth.

“My clothes are going to get dirty.”

Crack, crack, crack…!

Combat knife, of course. Lee Jin-Seong’s forearm penetrated the monster’s eyeballs.