Chapter 22 (2/2)

“I don’t see them there…”

“Right. It’s completely empty.”

It was too strange. All he could see was about twenty orcs.

‘No way…are they going to take them hostage as their last resort?”

It seemed that those stupid orcs would try it, but he could not think of any other thing at the moment.

“Ugh!”

As he walked one step closer, the orcs knelt on the hostages. Then they picked up their axes from behind.

Sungwoo stopped again.

“Ahhhhhh! Help! Please save us!”

The hostages shouted in panic. Jinsok was crying with his head down.

Sungwoo sighed, looking at him.

“Come on, Sungwoo!”

Daesung called him, his voice trembling with urgency.

“Please save us! Sungwoo, can you do it? Yeah? please!”

Sungwoo looked at him and the boss orc alternately. The boss orc was murmuring something while sitting cross-legged, with black smoke rising from his hands.

At a glance, its action was suspicious.

“Come on, Sungwoo!”

“Shut up!” shouted Sungwoo.

Daesung stiffened, with his mouth open wide.

“You’re so stupid, but the biggest problem is that you are greedy about your title without knowing that you’re stupid. You’ve put other people at risk like this.”

“…”

“You messed up everything by doing whatever you wanted, and you got what you wanted, right?”

“What the heck…”

“I’m sorry, but you can’t do it anymore here. Well, I don’t have to say sorry.”

Coldly and realistically, Sungwoo now started to attack the orcs, followed by the skeletons.

At that moment, Daesung’s head was cut by the orc’s axe and rolled down. Sungwoo did not feel guilty because he brought it on himself.

“Geh?”

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But right after that, the orcs put the axes on their necks and cut them.

What? Were they suddenly committing suicide? Red blood gushed from their necks, and their heavy bodies collapsed all of a sudden.

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“Ugh? What the heck are they doing?”

“Oh my…”

And finally, the boss orc, sitting cross-legged, opened its eyes. Its yellow pupils faced Sungwoo.

-Strengthened boss monster ‘Lesser Black Conjuror Orc Chief’ has appeared.

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At that moment, black smoke came out of its body. Without any time to escape, unknown smoke quickly filled the gym.

“Ugh! Cough! Cough!”

“Argh! What the heck is this? It’s strange!”

“I suddenly feel so weak… Ugh.”

And people who inhaled the smoke began to fall one by one. The only thing that was visible in their blurry sight was a warning message.

-You are sliding into a state of ‘confusion’ by the Breath of the Abyss.

-You are sliding into a state of ‘powerlessness’ by the Breath of the Abyss.

-You are sliding into a state of ‘stiffness’ by the Breath of the Abyss.

-Your mana is constantly burning.

“Argh….” Hanho opened his bag and hurriedly took out a potion. It was a ‘C-class antidote,’ an item from the potions package. To the best of his memory of the item description, the potions could rescue him from this kind of ‘abnormal condition.’

Gulp- Gulp-

“Kuuuuh…”

Hanho felt the symptoms of paralysis quickly disappearing. He hurriedly took out another bottle to give to Sungwoo.

“Sungwoo! Where are you? Take this quickly…Ugh?”

He finally found Sungwoo, but he felt something strange.

“Take care of Jisu, please.”

“Uh, what about you?”

Not affected at all by the smoke, Sungwoo was walking forward with a pleasant smile on his face.

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“What the heck…”