I’m a Rookie, but I’m an Experienced Professional - Chapter 25

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Chapter 25

Except for a small incident on the first day, the drainage construction was generally going smoothly.

The drainage construction that started in District 9 was designed to pass through Districts 8 and 6, and finally merge with the river outside the city.

“Please dig a little deeper over there. That way the water will flow down properly.”

After carefully checking the gradient and working for a month now.

We finally started work on the outskirts of the city.

Since just digging dirt to make holes could cause collapse, we stacked stones to build walls.

‘This is also precarious.’

If we had rebar and cement, we could make it more solid.

The system shop did sell cement and rebar, but the problem was the price.

‘One bag of cement costs 3,000 points, so we’d need at least 1 million points to use it for drainage construction.’

Rebar was even more expensive.

‘I absolutely can’t buy this.’

Since we just needed to prevent this fall’s rainy season anyway, I cleanly gave up on cement and rebar.

Instead, I filled in the stones without gaps to make the work as solid as possible.

“Hey, miss.”

After the morning work ended and I was sitting in the shade of a tree catching my breath for a moment, Bram Gus approached arrogantly.

“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t understand.”

“What?”

“The relationship between you and the Lord. Anton Brown said you two were lovers, but it doesn’t look that way to me.”

Who’s lovers with whom?

Callix Crowbell and me?

What kind of nonsense is this out of nowhere.

I was so dumbfounded that I was speechless.

“There’s no way the Lord would like a milk-smelling kid like you. Right?”

I’m not interested either.

Although Callix Crowbell was handsome, his personality and other aspects weren’t my type.

Most importantly, wasn’t he the final villain in the novel?

Even if they brought me a truckload of such guys, I would absolutely refuse.

“Why no answer? You two aren’t dating, right?”

“No.”

“Then why did Sir Anton Brown say such a thing?”

Just as I was about to answer that I was curious about that too.

“Aaahhh!”

A desperate scream came from the direction of the drainage construction site.

Bram Gus ran there first, and I followed, running toward where the sound came from.

“Gasp, what is that.”

The drainage construction site was a complete mess.

Not only had part of the stacked stone wall collapsed, but the pit we had worked hard to dig was completely trampled.

As the dust that had risen hazily began to settle, something larger than a house could be seen at the center.

“Wh-what is that thing!”

It was a monster that looked like a mix between an earthworm and a centipede.

Every time its segmented body writhed, mucus glistened from under its dark red shell.

Where its head seemed to be, saw-like teeth were interlocked.

A worker’s leg could be seen caught between them.

“H-help me!”

The worker reached toward us and screamed desperately.

At that moment, the monster suddenly lifted its head. With a dull sound of breaking bones, the worker’s body went limp.

‘Is he dead?’

The sight was so horrific that I stared blankly, even forgetting to breathe.

“It’s a worm!”

Bram Gus shouted.

“A worm appeared! Everyone run! Drop your equipment and flee!”

The workers scattered screaming.

“You too, stop spacing out and get out of here!”

Bram Gus shouted at me too.

Right, I need to run.

Finally coming to my senses, I hurriedly left that place.

I thought Bram Gus would run away with me, but he actually ran toward the monster instead.

What is he doing?

Don’t tell me he’s going to rescue the worker caught by the monster?

‘He must be crazy!’

No matter how precious a colleague is, the most important thing was my own life.

But to go rescue a colleague while obviously knowing it’s dangerous.

I couldn’t understand it at all.

“Seon-ah, don’t be shocked and listen carefully.”

“Your father… the team leader had an accident while trying to save Min-seok.”

…I didn’t want to understand either.

‘Whatever, he’ll figure it out himself.’

I tried to run away without caring about Bram Gus, but strangely my eyes kept going to him.

As Bram Gus ran over, the monster roared and struck the ground hard with its long tail.

Then the ground shook as if there was an earthquake.

When Bram Gus fell because of that, I stopped without realizing it.

My head kept screaming to run away, but strangely I couldn’t move a single step.

‘Why?’

Don’t tell me I want to save Bram Gus?

That rude person who looks down on me for being a woman and even sexually harasses me?

‘That’s ridiculous.’

Right, that’s ridiculous.

When I gritted my teeth, my frozen legs began to move.

I was about to run away again when the construction site that had become a battlefield came into view.

A week’s worth of hard work had all gone down the drain.

‘If it collapses more here, I won’t be able to finish the drainage construction before the fall rainy season.’

Then the wish ticket would be gone too.

Although the monster’s appearance wasn’t my fault, there was no way the Lord would consider such circumstances.

“…I have to stop it.”

I gripped tightly the shovel that was lying on the ground. Sweat and dirt clumped together on my palm.

“This isn’t about justice or loyalty.”

I muttered to myself as if putting myself under hypnosis.

“This is all because of the wish ticket.”

Engraving that fact in my heart, I charged at the monster approaching Bram Gus.

The monster wrapped its long tail tightly around Bram Gus’s leg.

Approaching from behind, I struck down with the shovel with all my strength.

Thunk-!

“Ugh.”

A dull recoil like striking a hard rock was transmitted, and my wrist tingled.

Kiiiaaaaak-!

Fortunately, the attack seemed to work, as the monster writhed its body while making bizarre sounds.

“Hurry and run!”

I grabbed Bram Gus’s arm and shouted.

Whether he had injured his leg, he limped but ran desperately.

However, the monster quickly regained its senses and followed us, making the ground tremble.

My breath rose as if it would tear my throat. My toes grew numb and my vision shook.

“Ahhh!”

Eventually, my legs gave out and I lost my balance, falling forward.

Kieeeek-!

Ah, it’s too late.

Even without looking back, I could tell the monster had arrived.

Is this the end?

Just as I was about to squeeze my eyes shut, sensing death, a sharp light flashed by.

“Kiaaaak!”

Soon after hearing the monster’s agonized scream, I slowly opened my eyes.

As I slowly turned my head while catching my breath that had risen to my chin, I saw a man holding a sword.

Sticky slime dripped from his sword.

“…My Lord?”

The man’s identity was none other than Callix Crowbell.

Why was he here?

When my voice trembled slightly in surprise, he glanced at me briefly.

Then he rushed toward the monster writhing in pain.

As he approached, the monster swung its massive tail.

But Callix Crowbell easily dodged it. Then he held his sword vertically and drove it down into the monster’s tail.

When I had hit it with the shovel, it hadn’t even gotten scratched, but now it split like paper.

As the tail was severed, dark red fluid spurted up like a fountain.

“Kkeek, kkeeeek!”

The monster screamed and violently writhed its body.

Because of this, the ground shook and dusty dirt clouds rose. The pit we had carefully dug was buried in dirt again.

“Tsk, how annoying.”

Callix Crowbell clicked his tongue, then leaped up to the monster’s head in one bound.

And he precisely pierced the monster’s head with his sword.

As he applied force and came down, the monster’s body was split in half.

At the horrific sight that would only appear in horror movies, I reflexively squeezed my eyes shut.

Thud, I heard the sound of the monster collapsing.

…Is it over?

I cautiously opened my eyes.

The monster lay on the ground split in half, and Callix was indifferently wiping the blood from his face.

He wasn’t injured anywhere, and his breathing wasn’t even disturbed.

‘To defeat that terrifying monster so easily.’

He truly was like the final boss from a novel.

If he’s this strong even before being consumed by magic and turning dark,

just how strong will he become when that time comes?

I was curious, yet didn’t want to know.

Callix Crowbell, having cleanly wiped off even the slime from his sword, looked back at me.

The moment our eyes met with his red pupils, my heart sank with a thud.

Was it because the novel’s content of him turning dark and rampaging came to mind?

I felt an eerie sensation, as if he might kill me right now.

“D-don’t come closer!”

So when Callix Crowbell tried to approach me, I reflexively shouted.

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