Chapter 80 – Cranky Tang Tang E-Class Gate Subjugation Operation (5)
“Gate team! Gate Team! C-class lava! Class C Larva has appeared!”
I looked at Yoo-jung. The monster called Lava stopped eating Strong Boar’s skull and looked in the same direction as me. He touched the floor with his white, elongated arms and began to move his body in the direction of Yu-Jung.
Yujeong turned off the radio, put on the gauntlet, and lay flat on the floor and waited.
Lava lifted his head and started sweeping the bush. I tightly gripped my shield and spear and carefully tried to approach Lava from behind. Senior Yujeong looked at me, shook his head, and pretended to step back.
Lava’s pure white body wriggled deeper and deeper into the grass. Senior Yoojung was waiting. The moment Lava stepped her foot into the grass one more step, she jumped out of the grass like an irritated grasshopper, stretching out her fists. An explosion sounded from the back of the gauntlet along with intense heat.
Bang!
“Look!”
The gauntlet tucked right under Lava’s chin trembled in her. Lava lets out her painful moan and shakes her head. A beat later, she heard the sound of a reload from her gauntlet, and the sharp extension exploded with a loud bounce.
Bang!
Along with the intense heat, Yu-Jung’s body bounced back like a missile. At the same time, Lava’s head shot upward like a boxer’s uppercut. Her bright red blood gushed into the air.
At the same time, a red flash flew from the direction Ichie was.
“Look!”
The light that pushed through Lava’s staggering chest like it was going to rip it apart eventually couldn’t penetrate Lava’s skin and she scattered, leaving her bright red bruises. Lava was agonizing, twisting her whole body with her chin lifted.
Senior Yoojung shouted.
“Come this way!”
A trickle of her blood flowed from her forehead. The senior, staggering and holding her stance, beckoned to us. I followed her words and moved behind her. Ichie was slowly running toward us from a distance.
“Look!”
I heard Lava’s ferocious cries. Her blood dripped from her face as she had been hit by her gauntlet. The monster’s long arms were poking through the bushes and striking the ground. I looked at Yoo-jung’s body and asked.
“Are you okay?”
Yu-jeong’s condition did not look good. There were bloodstains on her face, and she was full of exhaustion. He kept rubbing her shoulders and even frowning at her. Senior Yoo Jung said.
“Lava is a monster. She looks soft, but her body is very hard, tough and ferocious. I think we should dodge here for a bit, and once that monster gets far away, I think we should aim to take out the boss magic stone from Strong Boar’s body and return.”
He looked upright, even though the gauntlet had just landed a decent blow to his chin. As if to vent his anger, he plunged his arm into the ground once more, then suddenly turned around and crawled across the plain and disappeared. The speed of movement was surprisingly agile. For a long time after Lava disappeared, we were still huddled in place. It was only when I couldn’t hear Lava’s footsteps that I carefully poked her head out through the grass and confirmed that there was nothing wrong.
“Senior. Shall we start now?”
“Yes. Please take a look at it as soon as possible. There must be a magic stone near the heart…”
We hurried cautiously toward the Strong Boar’s corpse. I was cautious even when I moved because I didn’t know when and where Lava would shove her face. They say that from grade c, both hunters and monsters have different grades, but I couldn’t get a good feel for it just by listening to the explanation.
While I was slicing the Strong Boar’s stomach, Ichie looked around and asked Senior Yu.
“Larva. Are you strong?”
Strong Boar’s flesh was as tough as his hide, so tearing it off with a knife was a chore. I pricked it properly with a spear to soften the flesh and scraped out the intestines. Violet light leaked through the chunks of meat. Senior Yu-jeong nodded her head and said.
“From C-class monsters, there are many cases where they are C-class because of their bizarre special abilities rather than simple physical specifications. These special abilities are tricky to deal with with D-class. Miss Ichie, have you seen the Minotaur at the exhibition this time?”
“That cow head? Saw.”
“Usually, you have to have such a tricky ability to get a C grade, but Lava got a C grade with just her physical ability. She has tremendous regenerative power, strength and speed.”
Ichie nodded. I pulled the magic stone stuck to my heart like a stone with all my might. The flesh was stuck together so it didn’t come off well. Senior Yoo-jeong, who saw me using the dragon, came to my side. Ichido naturally went to the other side and grabbed my arm.
“If you do one, two, three, I’ll pull it.”
Ichie and Yoojung nodded at my words and gave me strength in their hands.
“One, two, three!”
Oops!
Drops of blood splattered into the air with the sound of flesh falling away. I grabbed a magic stone a little bigger than my fist and collapsed on the floor. Yujeong-senpai laughed a little when she saw that, and Ichie raised a spear and shield and handed it to me. Senior Yoojeong said as she put the magic stone in her backpack.
“Then move quickly. If we hurry as much as we can from now on, we should probably be able to get to the gate around noon.”
“Yes.”
The bag containing the magic stones was much heavier than expected. I defeated the boss and confirmed that there was no threat around me, so there was no need to hesitate. Before the gate gets weirder, we had to get out with this magic stone.
In the distance, the sound of the ground shaking again was heard. It seemed that Lava was returning. We hastily hid in the woods. There were bloodstains on Lava’s face when she returned to the side of Strong Boar, but there were no serious injuries. Lava put her head back into her strong bore, which she had left over from eating, and began to nibble on it. On her side, the red marks left by Ichie a while ago remained, and the skin under her chin was tattered.
Lava, too, was twisting his head carefully so that blood or hair would not touch his chin. If Lava was interested in something to eat, it was best for us to get away quickly in the meantime. Senior Yujeong reached out her hand in the direction of the gate we left.
“We can just go out first.”
If the boss’ magic stone exits the gate, the gate cannot be maintained. In other words, whether Lava was Class C or Class B, we could stop it as long as we got out. It was a bit disappointing to end it by sneaking away like this, but I couldn’t help it.
I crouched down very carefully so as not to touch any branch or weak bark. Behind us, we heard the sound of meat being torn apart. After gnawing at the tough tendons for a while, Lava turned her gaze to the strong bore’s skull and slammed her huge teeth shut like a bear trap to eat it.
I wanted to cover my ears to the terrible, loud sound.
Looking back, Lava had already eaten more than half of the Strong Boar. It wasn’t much of a distance, and he couldn’t predict where it would move. I wanted that monster to go somewhere else quickly. Power went into the hand holding the shield.
Beep-!
An intense noise echoed from Yu-jeong’s back pocket. Walkie-talkie sound. The radio was picking up strange radio waves and making a nervous noise. We stiffened in an awkward posture and looked at the senior at the same time. Senior Yoo-jeong was also white. Lava, who was eating Strong Boar, screamed and looked at us.
“Oh really… !”
Before Yoo Jung could finish a word, Lava’s body twisted and flew towards us. It was terrifyingly fast, as if a bomb had been launched. We split into two sides and dodged Lava’s charge, no matter who came first. Lava’s heavy palm slammed the side of my foot just barely.
Once more, the dirt was crushed and the runway was used to increase the distance from Lava. Senior Yu-jeong fixed her gauntlet again, aiming for a gap in her. Lava, who turned his head around, looked at us. When I met those white eyes, I felt like I was suffocating.
“Uuuuu!”
Lava screamed again and started running towards me. I raised my shield and gritted my teeth.
Kwajik!
The pain came late. My whole body was pushed back and a strong wind hit my back. My ears were deaf and my mind was dizzy. The soft bushes scratched at my feet and fluttered into the sky. The soil was up to the peach bones. I stopped my body, stamping the spear on the floor. In just one shot, the shield made of steel was terribly bent.
“Wow!”
Ichie was confidently brandishing her sword at Lava. The knife, which stabbed the joint precisely, bounced off without even digging into the leather. Ichie, who stopped in an awkward position, looked at Larva with a puzzled face.
Lava stretched out his hands all at once as if to grab Ichie.
Bang!
An explosion sounded along with the sound of senior Yoo Jung’s spirit. The senior’s gauntlet dug into the side of her where Ichie had slapped her. The face of the senior who stopped in the air was distorted. I was running towards the monster again as best I could.
The wounded creature screamed and turned away. One beat late, the gauntlet exploded, sending senior Yoojeong to the ground. With the recoil, Lava was also thrown backwards and fell to the ground. Ichie, who floated in the air, sat down in an awkward posture.
Lava, who fell to her floor, used her own arms to quickly get her into position. I stretched out the spear toward the arm that was outstretched to stand up. The tip of the spear, stained pure white, shone brightly, and pushed me away with an explosion.
Lava flinched at her, then took a step back.
Senior Yoo-jeong staggered and stood up. My legs were trembling. Her eyes were half-closed, and her gauntleted hands were shaking. Senior Yoojeong raised her finger at me.
Once.
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We had to fight in it. Lava growled and scanned her body, then suddenly turned behind her and hurried away.
Senior Yoojeong finally sat down and said.
“I will be right back.”
Ichie looked at Yoojung. Senior Yu-jeong asked Ichie as she smiled as if she was okay.
“Are you okay? In sense? Wasn’t she hurt a lot?”
Ichie’s eyes fluttered back and forth.
“Don’t push yourself too hard. I am hurt.”
“We have to protect Ichie and Suhyeon. Because I am still weak.”
Yujeong sunbaenim said that and stuck out her tongue. She put on a complicated expression with Ichie shut her mouth. She got up again. ‘Excuse me,’ she said as the senior grabbed me by the shoulder. We looked into the forest where Lava had disappeared.
In the forest full of gloomy shadows, growls were heard intermittently.
It was stifling.
