Stagnant Water of Apocalypse

to peek from the outside, she couldn’t see anything because the vines obstructed her view.

WIth her Perception stat, Hyeon-hwa found the area where people were gathering.
She landed on the ground and saw Sammun-dong Wild Boar, Ma Yeong-Seok and his men looking anxiously at the vine apartment.

“Just what are you doing to let this thing happen?”

“You’ve come?”

“YEAH! I came here because I thought I was going to die of boredom.
By the way, what did you do to let people enter the vine apartment?”

Yeong-seok, who is called Sammun-dong Wild Boar, waved his hand as if to make Hyeong-hwa stop talking.

“Let’s not complain too much.
Do you know how fast they are?”

“Fast?”

“Yeah, they are like loaches.
They ran away from us so quickly.
Hyeon-hwa should have seen it, too.”

When Hyeon-hwa heard it, she felt absurd.
By Yeong-seok’s words, it looks like the intruder entered the apartment by mistake thanks to the member of the Sammun-dong clan who chased after them.

“You’ve killed a decent person.”

“I don’t know if they are decent or not.
What I know is once someone enters that building, they will not survive.
And now, I think roughly twenty minutes have passed?”

“That’s correct, hyung-nim.”

His subordinate spoke, and Yeong-seok licked his tongue.

However, something was strange.
If 20 minutes had passed, they would have already died, and by now, the monsters, who should’ve gone excited as they smelled blood, should have come out.

But nothing happened.

‘Just what the hell is going on inside?’ Yeong-seok said to himself.

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The dungeon we entered while pretending to be chased was indeed a magical field.
We were greeted warmly from the moment we entered by the goblins, who for some reason didn’t use their paralyzing darts.

“What a welcome, they even decided to gather by themselves so that we can kill them faster.” Seokhyun clenched his fist and ran towards the rushing goblins.
After a few punching sounds, the goblins made strange noises and crawled on the floor.

Kiiiiii-!!!

I asked as I put a long knife into the goblin’s back.

“Didn’t you say you are going to take me on a bus?”

“It’s a taxi, not a bus.
Don’t worry, I’ll be in charge until level 20.”

Thank you so much.
Seokhyun showed off his strength as he went ahead.
The monsters, which had been strengthened under the influence of the dungeon, couldn’t even give him a proper response.
They were all lying inches away from the death door after tasting a single punch.
Only the ghouls could hold out for a while, but they also ended up on the floor after 5 punches.

Meanwhile, what I had to do was only stabbing them with the long knife and see my points went up.

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The dungeon was filled with vines and all kinds of strange plants.
At first glance, people might not even notice that it was the inside of an apartment building since the structure had changed a lot.

At that point, a deer, or maybe an elk, popped out of a corner, pounded its head against the wall, then passed out.

Seokhyun looked back at me and grinned.

“Dinner comes to us by themselves.”

Yeah.
Although it was said that elk meat was tasteless, it was still a valuable food in the apocalypse.
I tied the elk’s leg with a rope and threw it over the portal.
If I kill it now, it will be difficult to clean it, so let’s do it later.

Seokhyeon shattered the monsters while screaming out loud as if he was getting stronger when he saw the meat.
But the more we climbed the stairs, the stronger the resistance.

And on one floor, a bunch of hobgoblins appeared and ran towards us.

Kieeeeeek!

There were 5 hobgoblins in total.
Seokhyun jumped at them and threw one guy on the floor, but they didn’t take it lying down.
One of them caught the fist he was making while another guy swung a stone ax towards him.

With that kind of attack, no matter how strong Seokhyun was, he had no choice but to clench his teeth.
It was even more difficult because he had to control his strength so that the hobgoblins wouldn’t die.

Puck, puck!

In the end, Seokhyun was beaten by the hobgoblins and fell backwards.
His body laid on the floor for a moment and looked up at me.

“Please get off here, sir.”

“I thought my destination was about a kilometer ahead?”

“I do want to drive you there, but the road is blocked and there is nothing I can do about it.
It would be better to run.”

This hellish section of the taxi is so inconsistent.
I had no choice but to get off…

When I loosened my fist, Seokhyun got up tumbling and pointed at the two hobgoblins.

“Let’s see how well we can do it in hand-to-hand combat.”

“I can’t do it better than you, slot two.”

He boo-ed from behind as I pulled out a shield.

“Ah, Kang Seongho, are you seriously using a shield in this sacred and honourable fight!!!!”

“What should I do with their stone ax without my shield?”

I ran towards them and swung my shield just in time.

Tung!

With a dull sound, the stone ax and the club were thrown at the same time.
Even after being hit by the impact, there was no strain on my arms and shoulders at all.
I felt proud and threw my clenched my fist in the face of one of them.
It was an ordinary straight attack, but the result was spectacular; The hobgoblin’s face shriveled up and he instantly collapsed.

“Ohhhh.” Seokhyun let out an exclamation from my back.
In fact, even the hobgoblin standing next to me was surprised.
It was proven that the power of two skills is not a joke.
Therefore, the guy will undoubtedly have a hard time waking up from my punch.

The rest of the hobgoblin, who came to their senses, bared their teeth towards me.

I lowered my body to avoid the incoming club, and then slammed my fist to the chin of one hobgoblin.
Even though the hobgoblin had gigantic size, for me, it felt light.

I landed several more punches at it.
The guy staggered as he became incapable of even opening its mouth.
As the last attack, I lopped it neck off with a long knife.
Then, after dealing with all the fallen ones, I heard Seokhyun applauding.

“What a great show, o hero.
But remember.
They are the weakest of the Four Heavenly Kings…”

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Are you imitating the Great Demon King from some novel or game now?

We dealt with the monsters and kept going up.
The one who dominated the entire dungeon was probably located on the top floor.
As we went up, the monsters increased and the space became narrower.

And finally, we met the guy,

Seokhyun tapped my shoulder.

“Do you think it’s the boss?”

“It’s a little too big for an orc…”

The guy who made a loud thumping sound everytime it made a step was too big to be considered an orc.
It was close to 2.5 meters tall and wore a poorly crafted emeras axe and armor.

Just who the hell made that?

Anyway, it was clear that that guy was the boss of this vine dungeon.

However, even if we killed it, the vine dungeon wouldn’t just disappear, nor a big change would happen.
But as it looks like quite a strong monster, it was clear that it would give us a lot of loot.
That’s enough reason to kill it.

“Leave it to me.”

Seokhyun crouched down, then just like a spring, he flew and attacked the guy.

Puck-!!

Puck-!!

Puck-!!

After a brief struggle, he returned to me with black bruises on his face.

“Come on, let’s fight together.”

This taxi is really inconsistent.

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The vine apartment was like a beehive.
Those who entered had always died.
After that, the monsters inside would pour outside.
Those who had experienced it watched the apartment nervously.
But suddenly, one of the windows on the highest floor shattered.
Then, something flew at them.
Hyeon-hwa, who saw it, stopped it in the air with her telekinetic power.

While it was floating in the air, the identity of the thing was exposed.
It was a bizarrely deformed orc head.

“Kyaaaaakk!” She let out a strange scream and dropped the head to the ground.
Meanwhile, the people behind her start to make a ruckus.

“Hey, isn’t that an orc head?”

“Isn’t it too big for an orc?”

“…”

Yeong-seok clenched his teeth and looked up.
The ones who made the orcs like this were probably the ones who came in dozens of minutes ago.
However, he still couldn’t make sense of how the two could break through all the monsters.
On top of it, he also knows just how scary an orc was.
Even if all the high-level survivors in Miryang gather and rush in, they must fight with their lives on the line to defeat it.

“What the hell is going on…?”

No one could answer his question.