I Became a Leader in a Wretched Prison - Chapter 21

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Chapter 21

The battle was short, but the results were far from satisfactory.

That was because when the dogs first appeared.

“Graaah! P-please save me!”

“Kyaaah!”

One man was dragged away by a dog, and one woman fell into a hole while trying to escape.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. They won’t die.”

“How can you say that after seeing that?”

Mint spoke so nonchalantly. But anyway, the number of people had decreased.

Helios snapped out of his thoughts and blocked the charging dog.

This was already the third battle.

The remaining people were too busy blocking the dogs to talk separately, but they at least helped each other.

Woof woof!

Kiaaaaak!

It was survival instinct manifested in front of the eerie dogs. The realization that fewer numbers meant disadvantage.

Helios looked around.

‘This floor must also have a specific way to clear it…’

“Hey. Mister.”

The person who called him was the buzz cut man he had just saved.

Despite his innocent face, his speech seemed to carry a military tone.

“I’ve been wanting to ask since earlier…”

As if rest time was approaching, the number of dogs had slightly decreased.

So the Buzz Cut Man was able to point to one spot.

“What the hell is that guy?”

Helios also had the leisure to look up.

“Yaaawn.”

The person yawning was his master.

Mint had settled in a suitable spot by the wall, lying leisurely on her side with one hand supporting her head, watching them.

“Woof!”

Around Mint, things like golden discs were floating gently.

And they were beating up the approaching dogs.

“Whine!”

“Kyaaaaang!”

Yes, they literally sent bodies flying as they beat them up. They even transformed into club shapes when dogs got close, making them easier to hit!

Mint yawned and praised her discs.

“Yeah, yeah, Siri. You’ve worked hard.”

“Kkaeggaegaeng!”

“Oh, Bixby, you’ve worked hard too.”

Helios was at a loss for words.

“Try to survive on your own.”

His master had said this and separated from him right at the start.

Since he had taught him, he should be able to endure this much? Considering that he had come from the 8th Floor to the 20th Floor, it seemed like crazy talk.

In the end, he had proven himself by enduring it.

Anyway, he had thought she would be somewhere easily taking down the dogs.

But he never expected her to be lying there like… like a crazy person. What the hell was that?

“Isn’t that guy your handsome colleague?”

Helios was breathing heavily from the rough movements but couldn’t easily answer.

“What exactly does that person do?”

Honestly, he didn’t know what answer would be good either.

What do you call someone who looks like they came on a picnic alone?

“If it’s not rude, I wanted to ask too – what exactly does that person do?”

The person who approached was a woman.

She was also the only female member who had survived among the current group.

The woman with ordinary brown bob cut hair had an incredulous expression.

“What, what? Why aren’t the dogs moving…?!”

Strangely, as soon as the Bob Cut Woman approached, all the dogs stopped at once.

When the Buzz Cut Man panicked in surprise, the Bob Cut Woman clicked her tongue.

“It’s my ability. Don’t panic, you fool.”

“Ahem, hmm. Calling me a fool is pretty harsh for a man…”

The Buzz Cut Man made a sullen expression that didn’t match his build.

The Bob Cut Woman let out an incredulous laugh, then stopped and questioned Helios again.

“So what exactly does that person do? No matter how I look at it, that’s crazy, no. That’s… extraordinary skill.”

“I don’t know even if you ask me.”

I don’t know what that person does either. At Helios’s blunt words, the woman’s brow furrowed.

“At least it’s a relief that I’m not the only one who thinks that person looks crazy.”

“…That kind of answer in this situation? You’re not exactly normal either.”

Helios briefly wondered if this was how Mint felt.

The feeling she got every time she made his brow furrow.

“Haha, what? What’s going on?”

“Uaaa, I think I’ll live. Huh, wait, why aren’t the dogs moving here? Ugh, they’re coming! They’re coming!”

“Shit! Who brought the dogs!”

As the three people gathered, the remaining people also huddled together.

There was quite a commotion, but everyone naturally took charge of the dogs and began exterminating them again.

Standing back to back made it somewhat more comfortable.

Helios alone felt something strange.

‘The number of dogs has increased again.’

It should definitely be rest time soon, but just when the number of dogs seemed to be decreasing, they increased again.

He felt a chill at this fact.

If they continued like this without rest, endlessly facing the pack of dogs, only death would remain.

“Kiiiiing!”

Helios, who had just eliminated a dog, raised his head. Strangely, Helios had felt a gaze directed at him throughout the fight.

That gaze naturally belonged to Mint.

Since it was a gaze he had felt from the 1st Floor, he couldn’t help but know.

Why could he feel only that person’s gaze so clearly?

He didn’t know.

What was certain was that it felt reassuring. Enough to fight without thinking about his back.

‘What?’

Mint, who had been lying down, was slowly getting up.

The discs that had been flying around her disappeared one by one.

The two people’s gazes met in mid-air.

Although they were quite far apart, it wasn’t difficult enough to make out Mint’s expression.

He felt Mint speaking to him like on the 1st Floor.

‘Helios.’

Lip movement.

‘Be tense.’

He understood without difficulty.

“Something big is coming soon?”

At the same time as Mint’s words, Helios remembered something he had forgotten.

‘The holes in the Wall…!’

So far, the pack of dogs had come up from holes in the Ground Floor and charged. Then what role did the holes in the Wall serve?

At the same time, goosebumps rose on his back.

‘Meaning they must have a role.’

The moment he felt this, Helios instinctively opened his mouth and shouted.

“The holes in the Wall! Be careful of the holes! Something is coming!”

“What?”

“Something’s coming!”

“Damn, shit, speak, speak properly!”

Various voices could be heard, but they were drowned out by the sound of the charging pack of dogs.

Helios had shouted, but even he couldn’t understand what was what in the situation.

‘The Bridge…’

So looking down during the busy moment was just a coincidence.

A shadow had fallen under the Bridge!

‘Behind!’

Something targeted him. Helios instinctively turned around.

The spear traced an elegant curve as it sliced through the air.

Thunk!

A sensation of piercing something soft and fluffy, unlike the dogs, was felt at the spear tip.

Whoosh—.

Helios saw something golden scattering like feathers.

“…Straw?”

It was straw.

At the same time, Helios saw a silver diagonal line approaching him.

‘…A sword!’

By the time he realized it, it was too late. The sword had come right up to his nose.

Before Helios could even hold his breath, something approaching him was torn apart with a rip. Someone had protected Helios.

“Haa, haa…!”

Helios roughly exhaled the breath he had been holding.

His nose tickled from the debris and dust that had spread widely through the air.

Feeling a stinging sensation, he stared downward.

On the ground lay the cause of the attack against him.

Surprisingly, it was a scarecrow.

One that was holding a sharp dagger in its hand, no less.

The moment he saw the dagger, Helios touched his own neck.

If. If he hadn’t noticed the shadow, the strange presence at first….

And if there hadn’t been someone to block the sword that came flying afterward….

A chill ran down his spine involuntarily.

“…Scarecrow.”

“An assassin befitting the wheat field, right?”

A familiar voice came from beside him. When he turned his head, his master was standing there at some point.

“You did quite well.”

She was the owner of the hand that had rescued him.

A languid smile with unreadable intentions.

Looking at that innocent-looking face, a chill ran down his spine once again.

It was a different sensation from the chill he felt when seeing the scarecrow. He couldn’t tell what was causing this tension.

“That thing is the true boss of this floor. Can you notice and respond to attacks targeting your back even during intense combat?”

“….”

“This is what the Tower is saying.”

Mint casually drew her finger across her neck.

“If you can’t, you die.”

Helios’s pupils shook slightly.

His eyes soon turned toward the others.

Four people had survived. The two who died lay motionless, crushed beneath the scarecrow.

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