It's Dangerous Outside the Dungeon, Master

Boom boom boom!

“Fire-!”

Boom boom boooom!!!

The spirit of the mountain.

A mercenary corps sent by a nobleman from the South barely managed to hold back his seemingly dull giant body, which was moving at an unbelievable speed.

As the price for materializing in the physical world to use the mass of that huge body, he was inevitably stopped by ballistas embedded all over his body.

-Kuiaak!!

Though he struggled violently with rage, he had no choice but to temporarily undo his materialization to remove the ballistas that had already pierced him.

And that required concentration.

“Well done!”

Swoosh!

Taking advantage of the gap while the mountain was momentarily trapped, Linsia’s curved shot. The characteristic that Rita would have called ‘Hawk’s Talon’ shone.

An arrow that rises into the air then gently changes direction towards the ground and accelerates. The shot infused with magic power succeeded in hitting the mountain spirit’s degenerated third eye precisely.

Bang!!

-Kuwaaak!!!

“We did it!!”

“Retreat! Retreat! Don’t overdo it! If you die, I’ll swallow your money!”

“Captain! What nonsense is that!”

“That’s why I’m telling you to live!”

The mountain spirit writhing in pain.

As its rocky body, over 10 meters tall, started to rampage, it became an unintentional attack that devastated the surroundings.

The mercenary captain pulled his subordinates back from actions where it was clear they would become bloody pulp if they did not maintain composure against those kicks or punches.

-Kaak!!

“How noisy!”

-It is our world that offers itself at the feet of the great hero!

While the mercenary corps quickly retreated to secure a safe distance and chip away at the mountain spirit, higher up in the sky, Alexis Julka, gripping a sword, was drawing the attention of the darkness spirit and Serica with support from Jin Kyung and the mages.

Swoosh!

Whoosh!

Sometimes with sword strikes, sometimes with fire magic.

His appearance handling magic and sword simultaneously, was flashy yet swift, often drawing the gaze of humans on the battlefield.

“You inferior humans…! Don’t run away!”

“Hey, Miss. Are you going to catch even one bug being that slow? I’ll give you lots of love when this is over!”

The vampire’s gaze and emotions as well.

“Hu… man…!!!”

Swish!

“Huh?”

In the midst of battling the human magic swordsman like that, the vampire felt an unpleasant sensation brushing the back of her head and momentarily stopped in place to turn her head.

It was because she felt a signal from her ‘home’.

Swish! Swish!

“…You vile humans…!”

She might have thought it was a mistake if it happened once, but that signal wasn’t just once.

Only then did Serica’s beautiful and fair face distort as she realized what was happening. So hideously that anyone who saw it might have mentioned the Earth slang ‘kaogei’. (tl/note: a truly bizarre facial expression, you might see it often especially in anime/manga. You can try search in google 카오게이 or 顔芸)

The ‘garden’ was being attacked.

Among all the rooms in the dungeon, one of the two she had left after getting rid of everything else.

“W-Wow… Did you see that?”

-Focus.

“Wow, if you properly looked at that, you wouldn’t be able to say such things.”

As Alexis hesitated momentarily seeing that face, the vampire began to exert hidden power even in this situation.

「You dare – my – gardeeen-!!!」

If magic power was temporary strength, the ‘garden’ was one of two elements that formed the foundation and root of her power.

The other one of the two was the dungeon core.

If she lost even the garden, she would fall without being able to gain any additional chances.

Rage was the natural progression.

Grrrrra…!!

-Kuwaaak!

-Kaak!

The two spirits that received her rage and the magic power drawn from it began to rampage while growing even larger.

“Become fertilizer for my domain-!!!”

She herself spread enormous wings made of blood and flapped them once.

Whoosh-!!

“Kuhak!!”

“Ugh…!”

Amidst countless casualties of adventurers and soldiers who weren’t prepared for the area attack from above, Alexis, who had returned to the ground, furrowed his brows in confusion.

There was something he didn’t understand in the vampire’s words.

“What’s that about? Garden?”

-One of us must have seized the opportunity.

“Fucking dungeon and treasure! They’re after that?! At a time like this?!”

“Is it anything new for adventurers to do that?”

“Whichever bastard it is, I’ll definitely kill them if I catch them! Should throw them to the dogs!”

Alexis struck his own head at Jin Kyung and Linsia’s words, getting angry himself, then retook flight while summoning flames in one hand.

The treasure was a matter for later, the vampire rampaging was the immediate reality.

The regular army was like rivals and clients. If too many died from the vampire’s rampage, the fame adventurers could gain would decrease too.

“These bastards have finally gone completely mad! Retreat slowly while taking them down!!”

Still, the tide of battle had become very favorable for the human side.

The Dungeon Lord’s anger affected all individuals, breaking the balance between madness and combat power.

“You monster…! To give us such a headache!”

Boom!

“Move quickly! Sons of Copzerin! Catch the other one too, and head for the dungeon while the adventurers deal with the vampire!!”

“Oh-!”

The words shouted by Odeline, one of the two senior knights who finally succeeded in smashing the head of one of the abominations that had been spewing green pneumonia.

The knights responded and charged forward.

Crunch!!

“This one, I, Gent Clayma, have slain!!”

“Catch the zombies!!”

“It’s not over yet!”

A moment later, they succeeded in destroying the other abomination that had been vomiting purple liquid as well.

Gent roared while lifting the abomination’s core impaled on the end of his axe, and the knight order, aware that the war wasn’t over yet, turned their eyes towards the small fry.

“Push forward! Push!”

-Kyaaak!!

“Don’t inhale the steam! The poison hasn’t disappeared yet! Mages and priests, focus on purification rather than pushing back!”

Consecutive victories elevate people.

The Copzerin army’s troops raised their morale as they pushed up towards the dungeon. Now the demons’ madness alone couldn’t stop this momentum, this tide of battle.

“Fuck, we’re hearing those sounds while we’re here.”

“Knights are really blockheads. Shall we try to go around too?”

“Let’s do that. Seems like we’ve pretty much won.”

Adventurers and mercenaries also looked for opportunities, checking for corners to withdraw to, confident in their victory.

A path was gradually being created as zombies and greenskins fell one by one or in heaps.

“Is that all!? Miss! Put a bit more effort into it! You should dance, dance!”

“Shut!! Up!!!”

“Such foul language!”

-Illuminate the light. So that darkness retreats! Set the mountain ablaze. O flames!

Swoosh!

-Kuwak!!

-Kaak!!

Meanwhile, the three elite adventurers, wrapped in all sorts of buffs, pushed against the vampire’s main body and spirits, finally driving the two spirits to the brink of collapse.

Now the only one relatively intact on this battlefield was the vampire.

“…Do you think I’ll lose like this?”

The vampire’s two eyes, recognizing this, turned blood red beyond the whites to near her face.

Red energy flickered all over her body and even sparked, a sight clearly ominous at a glance. It was inevitable for humans to see this and prepare.

-Prepare!! O mighty power that even death cannot invade!

“「Defense Barrier」!”

“「Lead us not into evil trials!」”

Looking like she might rush in and explode with power at any moment, mages who heard Jin Kyung’s warning and saw the vampire’s appearance spread barriers all around in preparation.

Fwoop! Fwooop!

“That’s…!”

“Fuck. She’s absorbing them! Stop it!!”

Meanwhile, the vampire shot out two tentacles, stabbing them into the back of the corrupted spirits’ heads.

Veterans who realized what this meant broke away from the protective barriers and flew in as fast as possible. While injection originally took some time, forced retrieval didn’t require much time.

“To think that I would be at a disadvantage because of the filthy acts of humans trying to take advantage while abandoning their comrades…! 「Flower of the Other Shore」!!!”

Letting out a bitter laugh as if dumbfounded, Serica summoned a huge red sphere in the air based on the power she had regathered.

It was a completely different type of magic from how she had only been using blood magic in a tough way until now.

The result of this secret technique soon appeared.

Whoosh-!!

The sphere burst open and followed the vampire’s hand gestures, scattering towards the ground.

“They’re standing up again…?!”

“No matter how tenacious vampires and necromancers are…!”

Then, zombies and greenskins began to rise again where her fingers pointed.

Those who had fallen and risen again this time had not only turned their entire bodies red, but also each bore a red flower that looked like a spider that had died with its belly turned inside out on its .

“Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make bonsai. I’ll kill you all. 「Rose」.”

Although she couldn’t properly resurrect the abominations or spirits.

Instead, Serica, who had left a bright red doppelganger with a red multi-layered flower floating like a halo above its head in front of her, tapped that flower. As a bright red rose bloomed, the doppelganger opened red eyes all over.

“I’m busy.”

-Kyaak!!

Crack-!

While the counterpart stepped forward and made blood bloom like that, Serica turned her body and began to fly away.

To protect what remained before her garden full of memories was completely destroyed.

“That, that one’s escaping!!”

“Where do you…!”

“「Fireball」!”

“「Owl’s Eye」-!”

Linsia’s sniping, Alexis’s ranged sword strike and attacks from all sorts of mages.

However, all those attacks failed to stop Serica’s flight. She was simply flying recklessly, avoiding big attacks and taking small ones with her body.

Fwoop!

“Kuh…!”

Among those numerous attacks, just one.

Even after taking Linsia’s arrow attack, which was somewhat fatal, no one could stop the reckless flight of an elite-rank individual who was flying away unconditionally.

“Damn it!”

“Let’s chase after her!!”

“This is great! Just the remaining treasure in the dungeon and the Lord’s corpse would be incredibly valuable!”

And those who could chase after such an Elder Vampire were personnel capable of flight.

Now the situation had reversed.

Rather, the knights’ feet were tied down by resurrected zombies on the ground, and mages and adventurers who could fly through the sky began to chase after the vampire.

“Mere things like these…!”

“Sir Gent! Those abominations…!”

“What…!”

“Those persistent things…!”

Of course, the knights wouldn’t just watch this scene, but…

The two couldn’t move.

At the place where Gent and Odeline looked back at the call of their subordinate knights, those exasperating things were beginning to move again.

-Clatter…!

-Kuduk…!

The two monsters that had been spewing purple liquid and green vapor.

The abominations were rising again.

This time with all their flesh and muscles stripped off, as bodies made of bone.

Though they probably couldn’t exert elite-rank power like before, they were high-rank individuals with hardness no less than abominations in terms of body.

As skeletal giant soldiers.

-Clack!

-Clunk…!

Corpses that couldn’t be resurrected even by the vampire’s magic all over the place shed their skins and stood up in place, assembling their bodies.

Their abilities were ordinary skeletons no stronger than before but mixed in among zombies with flowers of the other shore on their heads; they were enough to fill out the numbers further.

Of course, the zombies ordered to ‘stop the humans’ didn’t interfere with those skeletons.

In an instant, the path was blocked.

“Others are rising too…!”

“Is she using necromancy too!”

Given what had happened before, this event made everyone assume the vampire must have ‘necromancy’.

To the point where some conscious individuals thought ‘It’s fortunate we discovered this being now and can subjugate it’.

“Rise. Slaves of the vampire kind. It’s time to use your bodies again to protect the path your master will take.”

Of course, the one presiding over this wasn’t the flashy vampire lady as they expected but a woman wrapped in far more noble dignity.

“Push them back-!! They’re much weaker than before!!”

“We have to chase the vampire!!”

“…”

In the eyes of the expressionless woman watching the humans causing chaos filled with desire, there wasn’t a trace of contempt for trampling the weak or the base satisfaction that comes with it.

There was only the expectation of a hunter, or beast, that had almost succeeded in its hunt.