How a Black-Haired Barbarian Survived the Labyrinth in Another World-Chapter 54: Malicious troll

"Ha ha ha ha!!!"

Hans' head exploded.

The young priest was covered in Hans' bones and flesh.

"Ugh... Ugh!"

The blood-soaked ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) priest panicked, unable to speak properly, flailing around.

Dark red tumors erupted from all over Hans' body, covering him entirely.

Without rest, the mass of tumors grew, coalescing into a massive egg.

An elephant-sized egg began to pulsate like a heart.

Thump. Thump. Thud-thud-thud.

The tumor split open, and a long, giraffe-like neck emerged first.

At the end of the neck, a mucus-covered head protruded, with a pair of snail-like antennae growing.

Brrrrrrrr!!!

Several sharp tentacles burst out from the side of the egg.

The body, a mix of yellowish tumors and red flesh, swelled up, but there were no legs.

The smell of rotting flesh wafted through the air.

A chilling silence filled the stomach.

It lasted for a moment.

A massive panic hit the guards.

Some of them collapsed to the floor.

Others knelt, retching.

Some wet themselves and fainted.

There were also those calling out to the gods.

Jeong Yushin stiffened, staring at the giant monster.

Could it be?

Was that the cursed beast?

Jeong Yushin bit his tongue.

The taste of rotting blood filled his mouth.

It was to wake up his stiffening body.

"Is that... the so-called... Unholy Flash? Hans, just how far have you gone?"

The frog beastman, Cork, muttered blankly.

Thick saliva dripped from the frog's mouth.

KWA-BOOOM!!!!

Someone flew toward the monster and landed.

Dust spread from the impact before slowly settling down.

One of the committee members of the Labyrinth City.

Ingrid Redtail.

She planted a huge stone into the ground and stood proudly.

"Snap out of it!!!"

Ingrid shouted loudly.

Her voice echoed through the hall.

The guards, now coming to their senses, screamed loudly.

"Gather the guards!!! Call everyone!!!"

"Raise your spears!!! Prepare for battle!!!"

The guards, who had been panicking, grabbed their weapons and stepped forward.

At that moment.

A thunderous realization hit Jeong Yushin.

Now he understood why the high-ranking committee members were often seen at the labyrinth’s entrance.

Now he understood why the city’s guards were so busy they couldn’t look anywhere else.

The reason was clear.

It was to protect the city.

From whom?

From the high-ranking explorers cursed with the mark of corruption.

The reason there had been no detailed examples of the cursed mark in the beginner explorer classes was now clear.

"Amphu-ma Shipu-hota."

What had once been Hans whispered, lowering his head and looking at Ingrid.

"Hans, you've been completely consumed by the demonic power of Unholy Flash. I'll send you off quietly."

Ingrid grabbed the great sword.

"KEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!"

It howled.

People covered their ears and staggered back.

In an instant.

Ingrid’s great sword disappeared from sight.

Fwooooooooosh.

From top to bottom.

Hans' giant body was torn in half and split open.

Fuh-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

Screeeeeeeeeeeech!!!!

A single downward slash from Ingrid split Hans open, creating a massive crater in the ground.

It felt as though an explosion had occurred, with a powerful shockwave sweeping through the area.

"Krrk!!!"

Jeong Yushin gritted his teeth, bending down. Stones and pieces of flesh mixed with dust and hit his helmet as they passed.

With a single slash, the ground was dug up, and the shockwave exploded outward.

It was the power of a superhuman.

It should be called a supernatural ability.

Jeong Yushin barely managed to lift his head and looked at the source of the shockwave.

An unbelievable sight.

Jeong Yushin's eyes widened.

Hans' torn body was writhing.

Had he not died from that strike?

Such tenacious vitality.

"It's over."

Ingrid lifted her great sword again.

Suddenly, light erupted from Hans' body.

His split body rapidly regenerated, and a red membrane formed, covering him.

"Tch! ‘That mark’ again? You've really got a lot going on, Hans."

Ingrid clicked her tongue and swung the great sword.

SWAAAAAAAH!!!!

The great sword scraped across the red membrane.

A shallow crack appeared.

Something unexpected happened. Hundreds of pieces of flesh shot out from Hans' body.

The pieces of flesh wriggled and began to form human shapes.

Fingers like sharp spikes.

A mouth ripped open.

Sharp teeth.

A worm-like tongue.

And pitch-black pupils.

It was a human shape, but it was much closer to a grotesque monster.

Hundreds of them passed through the red membrane and scattered around.

Ingrid drew her great sword to her waist.

Fwooooooooooooosh!!!

A horizontal slash.

Hahahahah!!!

In a single blow, dozens of them were swept away and flew through the air.

Thud-thud-thud!!!

Blood and flesh rained down like a storm around the magic circle.

Ingrid silently thought to herself.

Hans, who was already in an unmatched position in the labyrinth city with his defensive abilities, had now mutated with multiple marks.

That defensive ability couldn't be dismissed.

But it wasn't invincible.

It would just take a little time to break through that shield.

It had been such an unlucky day for this incident to occur since the first shift.

Focusing on breaking the shield would shorten the time, but Hans’ summoned minions would overwhelm the guards.

The guards would likely have to make sacrifices.

Swallowing her bitter taste, Ingrid swung the great sword.

KWA-BOOOM!!!

KWA-BOOOM!!!

Hans' red shield shook and small cracks began to appear.

Hans wasn't sitting idly by either.

Tens of tentacles, seemingly made from rebar, lashed out at Ingrid.

SWEEEEEK!!!

SWEEEEEK!!!

Ingrid, unfazed, sliced through the tentacles that emerged from the red shield.

While Ingrid and Hans fought, hundreds of ‘monsters’ created by Hans’ body had broken free from the red membrane and were now charging toward the guards.

"Cork!!! What are those 'monsters'?!"

Jeong Yushin grabbed Cork, the frog beastman, by the collar and shook him.

"...F-flash Crawlers. They’re summons of Unholy Flash."

It was a name Jeong Yushin had never heard before.

But that wasn’t the important part. Where they came from didn’t matter.

What he needed to know was their weakness.

However, the frog beastman couldn’t seem to regain his senses.

Jeong Yushin paused, realizing he had become too excited.

Letting go of Cork, he grabbed his longsword.

He’d find out for himself.

Swooosh.

Jeong Yushin unsheathed his sword, watching the approaching monsters.

The armored man and Stone Fist stood beside him.

"Cork is a priest. It's right to guard the rear and protect the healers," Stone Fist, the half-ogre, said as he loosened his muscles.

"What should we do?"

"Ingrid will take care of the high-ranking explorer. We just need to hold out until then. No need for us to take action."

Stone Fist smoothly answered Jeong Yushin’s question.

The armored man, resting his great sword on his shoulder, asked, "Half-ogre, tell us. What should we do?"

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At that moment, a mole beastman shouted at Jeong Yushin’s party.

"Barbaroi!!! Bring your friends over here! Join forces with the guards!"

Stone Fist grabbed the panicked frog beastman and lifted him up.

Jeong Yushin, the armored man, and Stone Fist stepped back, joining the guards.

Stone Fist, due to his size, positioned himself on the defensive flank.

The armored man, Jeong Yushin wasn’t sure where he had gone.

The frog beastman stood among the priests in the rear.

Jeong Yushin stood in the center of the formation.

"Don’t break the formation! Hold the line! We must endure!"

The guards shouted beside Jeong Yushin.

"Shit! We really have the worst luck!"

"How many years has it been?!"

"The committee hasn’t stepped in for almost a year. Get your head together. It’s not going to be easy."

The guards raised their spears and took their positions.

They had been sitting idly, playing games and wasting time just moments before.

Now, in an instant, the battlefield was about to turn into a bloody slaughter.

Hundreds of monsters surged toward the guards.

‘Here they come.’

Jeong Yushin placed his longsword at his waist and took his stance.

It was a stance he had learned from Ashur after being thoroughly scolded.

"Kyeeeek!!!"

"Kreeek!!!"

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Like a wave, the Flash Crawlers were impaled on the guards’ spears.

Their lives were so tenacious that they thrashed about even while skewered on the spears.

Jeong Yushin raised his sword and plunged it in.

He aimed for the neck.

These things resembled humans. He anticipated their weakness would be similar.

Fwuuuuuunk!!!

"Kreeek!!!"

The monster’s neck was pierced, but it kept struggling.

It wasn’t the weak spot.

Jeong Yushin quickly withdrew his sword and shifted to an overhead strike.

Downward slash.

Zwoooosh!!!

The monster's skull was split open and it collapsed.

This was the weak point.

"The head is the weak spot!!!"

Jeong Yushin shouted loudly. The mole beastman, hearing him, looked at the monster’s body and shouted.

"The head is the weak spot!!! Guards, aim for the head!!!"

Jeong Yushin fought alongside the guards, swinging his sword diligently.

The guards in the rear blocked the monsters' paths with their spears, while those at the front swung their swords to sever the monsters' heads.

Blood and screams filled the air like a battlefield.

Jeong Yushin gritted his teeth, swinging his sword.

It was the only thing he could do right now.

Whoosh!!!

Thanks to endless training, he split the monster's skull without a single wobble.

Whoosh!!!

Thwack!!!

The smell of rotting blood and brain matter splashed onto Jeong Yushin's body.

Kaga-kaga-kack!!!

After dozens of strikes, the dulled blade sank into a crawler’s skull.

"Dammit!"

Jeong Yushin shook the blade violently.

Dang!!!

The sword snapped.

"Shit!! Boron!!"

"Here, use this!"

A guard from the back threw Jeong Yushin a sword.

Without a word of thanks, Jeong Yushin caught the sword and swung it again.

Despite the guards' hard efforts, the formation was slowly pushed back.

There were only 40 guards to begin with.

Of those, 20 were explorers.

Most of the explorers, frightened, had retreated or abandoned the battlefield.

More than 100 crawlers rushed in from all sides, making it a miracle that they had lasted as long as they had.

Some of them had their necks ripped out by the crawlers.

"Kreeek!!!"

"Dula!! Damn it!"

A cry of despair echoed across the battlefield.

Jeong Yushin didn’t stop swinging his sword.

The fruits of his daily dawn training with the sword shone brightly in his strikes.

Pain and suffering.

Despair and limits turned into fertilizer, holding Jeong Yushin steady.

Like an icebreaker cutting through the sea, only where Jeong Yushin stood was a break in the waves.

Dang!!!

The sword broke again.

[Sacred Weapon]

A greatsword identical to Gilseon’s Zweihander materialized.

Horizontal slash.

Fwoooooosh!!!

Fuh-hah-hah-ha!!!

The bodies of the monsters were torn in half.

Someone threw Jeong Yushin another sword.

He snatched it and swung it.

Screeek!!!

Fuh-ha-hah!!!

The glowing sword cleaved through the monsters' necks.

Flesh and blood flew through the dark sky.

Heads. Heads. Heads. Heads.

In a trance, he crushed skulls and split open heads.

The guards gritted their teeth, but they were gradually being pushed back. Jeong Yushin was becoming more isolated.

‘Should I fall back?’

As soon as the thought crossed his mind.

Boom!!!

Someone landed beside him.

Stone Fist, the half-ogre.

"I'm joining in."

"Got it."

The half-ogre swung his massive fist down.

Kuwaaaang!!!

The ground caved in, and the monster’s fleshy remains flew in all directions.

"Barbaroi!"

The armored man joined in.

Jeong Yushin nodded once at the man. That was enough.

The armored man swung his great sword.

From top to bottom.

Kuaaak!!!

The crawler was split in half, from head to groin.

The three men backed each other up, holding off the wave of monsters.

As expected.

Fighting together was far better than fighting alone.

They barely knew each other's names.

They didn’t even know what marks they bore or what lives they had lived.

What mattered was surviving together.

"Me, me too! Ribbit!"

The frog beastman hurriedly ran with a staff.

Jeong Yushin grabbed Cork by the collar and threw him back.

"Ribbit!"

Jeong Yushin, the armored man, and Stone Fist formed a triangle with Cork in the center.

"Use any magic!" Jeong Yushin yelled.

"Ah, okay!"

Cork, the frog beastman, started chanting.

The three men fought valiantly with their backs to each other.

Stone Fist swung his hands and feet, crushing and tearing through crawlers.

The armored man meticulously swung his great sword, cleaving the crawlers in half.

Dang!!!

The sword broke again.

"Hey!!!"

Jeong Yushin gritted his teeth.

No matter how good the sword was, after dozens of strikes splitting the solid skulls of the monsters, it couldn’t hold up.

In a desperate move, he struck Cork’s chin with the pommel.

[Sacred Weapon]

A golden trident appeared in his empty hand.

It looked like the deformed sword he'd seen at the tavern in the East District.

Screeeek!!!

The jagged blades shredded the crawlers' bodies, tearing through flesh and bone.

The golden trident, now covered in tendons and organs, dissipated into particles, scattering through the air.

One of the monsters jumped out and bit Jeong Yushin’s shoulder.

The sharp teeth pierced through his leather armor, sinking deep into his shoulder.

[Revenger]

The mark activated.

Jeong Yushin's eyes blazed with blue fire.

He swung his fist and struck the crawler’s mouth.

Bwaaaam!!!

His left hook broke the crawler's jaw, shattering its teeth.

Seemingly dazed from the blow, the monster collapsed, and Jeong Yushin pinned its forehead down with the pommel.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Once. Twice. Three times.

The forehead caved in and crushed, and the monster's eyes popped out.

"It's been a while, Kaal."

The young leader from the beginner party.

He resembled the friend whose head was crushed by the hobgoblin’s club.

Jeong Yushin greeted him warmly and kicked him aside.

The crawler with the crushed forehead collided with another crawler charging from the front, sending it rolling across the floor.

Throwing his broken sword aside, Jeong Yushin activated the mark.

[Sacred Weapon]

A golden one-edged axe.

He grabbed it with both hands and twisted his waist to the limit.

‘Ainhofer.’

Horizontal slash.

Zwoooooooosh!!!

In an instant, eight monsters were torn apart and ripped to pieces.

The golden axe scattered into particles, vanishing into the air.

A little space had opened up.

He turned his head and looked at Ingrid.

Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!

Ingrid was battering the tentacle attacks coming from all directions while pounding on the red barrier.

Cracks were forming in Hans' red shield.

Still far from breaking.

What kind of shield was it that even Ingrid, who was close to a superhuman, couldn’t destroy in one go?

Currently, Jeong Yushin's party was in a precarious state.

Could they last longer?

I don’t know.

Once Cork finished casting his magic, he would slowly fall back, thinking of regrouping with the guards.

"Okay, okay!"

Cork, the frog beastman, raised his staff high.

[Aqua F]

Unfortunately, Cork’s magic failed to manifest.

"Save... Save me!!!"

A bull beastman, covered in blood, screamed as he rushed toward Jeong Yushin’s formation.

"Hey, hey! Look out!"

The armored man shouted, startled.

The bull beastman shoved past him and quickly burrowed into their formation.

Cork, mid-casting, was knocked down under the bull beastman.

"Protect... Ribbit!!"

The frog beastman, crushed by the bull, screamed.

The spell failed.

The magic scattered.

"Dammit, you crazy bastard!!!"

Jeong Yushin shouted, furious.

Their party, hastily formed without prior discussion, had managed to hold their ground.

But now, this damn bull beastman barged in, disrupting the formation in an instant.

The balance of the defense wavered, and the armored man staggered.

A few crawlers passed the armored man and lunged at the bull and frog beastmen.

A new danger had arrived for the party.