The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 100

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 100

As Gwak Ho Young stepped closer, Jang Su Ho’s expression hardened.
“Jang Su Ho, it’s been a while. You’re looking well.”
Jang Su Ho didn’t respond.
Instead, he simply took another step toward me, who stood right beside him.
Jang Su Ho and Gwak Ho Young shared a long-standing bitter history.
“You looked cool at the Gangnam Station Dungeon. I wish you’d shown that side of yourself when you were with our guild. Have you contacted Team Leader Yoo? He would’ve been happy to see you doing so well.”
Team Leader Yoo, Hunter Yoo Jin Rok, had been the guild master when Jang Su Ho belonged to Taesan.
He had trusted Jang Su Ho to the end, even assigning him to rear guard duties.
Until the day when Jang Su Ho, swayed by his close friend Gwak Ho Young’s persuasion, forcibly transferred to the front-line assault unit and eventually lost control, injuring several people.
After that, Jang Su Ho was expelled from Taesan and transferred to the Justice Guild, while Yoo Jin Rok took responsibility and stepped down from his position as guild master.
Hunter Yoo Jin Rok entered the Dungeon a few more times with the title of Team Leader, but ultimately suffered severe injuries and retired.
Naturally, that too was orchestrated by Gwak Ho Young, who had become the new guild master at the time, to completely remove Yoo Jin Rok.
“How dare you speak that name so carelessly.”
As Jang Su Ho growled at Gwak Ho Young, Gwak Ho Young deliberately raised both hands lightly and stepped back.
“Geez, how scary. Still haven’t gotten over that temper? What if you end up hurting someone in the Justice Guild too?”
That bastard.
I grabbed Jang Su Ho’s arm, who was half-blocking my path, and pulled him back as I spoke.
“We’ll worry about our guild members ourselves, so why don’t you go over there and quietly reflect on your failed dungeon conquest, Guild Master?”
“What, reflect?”
“If you can’t manage that, just bury your head in the ground and do it there. Or is it that you’re so embarrassed about failing the conquest in front of the entire nation that you’re wandering around like this?”
“You son of a—!”
Normally, Gwak Ho Young would have laughed it off with a thick face and shot back a retort.
But the impact of the failed dungeon conquest seemed significant, and the way he was trembling with barely suppressed rage was almost comical.
I deliberately scraped at Gwak Ho Young’s pride and turned to Kang Han.
“We’re busy, Guild Master. Let’s not waste time on someone like that and head in quickly.”
“Right. And Gwak Ho Young.”
Kang Han deliberately called out to Gwak Ho Young without even using his title as guild master.
“If you say anything like that to my guild members again, I’ll step in personally.”
“….”
Look at that—he can’t even squeak out a response.
A textbook case of bullying someone weaker while cowering before the strong.
I pushed Kang Han’s back with one hand and Jang Su Ho’s back with the other toward the Gate, landing one final blow.
“We need to hurry. Some guild ahead clearly won’t be able to handle it, and you’ve already wasted so much time. Tsk tsk.”
He probably wanted to smack the back of my head right about now.
Why don’t you try it?
Hit the back of my head and get struck by lightning from Kang Han?

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The Justice Guild’s atmosphere, which had grown chaotic because of some incompetent fool, sharpened once more at the Gate’s entrance.
Kang Han, Lee Yu Eul, Jang Su Ho, and Han Ji Sung led the way, while I stood at the rear with Lee Yu Chan and the camera crew who would broadcast our strategy live.
“Justice Guild is entering.”
“Please be careful.”
With the Awakeners Association director’s ominous farewell, we surrendered ourselves to the darkly undulating Gate.
The unsettling sensation of submerging into thick, black ink faded quickly.
The first thing to awaken my senses was the thunderous roar of waves.
As I instinctively drew breath, the salty tang of the sea flooded my lungs.
And before I could even open my eyes, the sound I least wanted to hear reached my ears.
“Kerrrgh.”
“Kyaaaah!”
The grotesque cries of monsters, terrifyingly close.
I snapped my eyes open in shock, only to find the beautiful White Sand Beach completely overrun with monsters.
Their forms defied any single classification.
Some had two legs, others five.
Some possessed hard, crab-like shells, while others oozed formlessly like jellyfish, crawling across the ground.
Yet I couldn’t retreat.
The Gate stood directly behind me.
“Damn it.”
Lee Yu Chan beside me gritted his teeth and muttered.
The moment I activated the “Know as Much as You See” skill, countless information windows flooded my vision so densely I couldn’t read them all.
Simultaneously, dizziness washed over me, the world spinning.
“Ugh.”
In the final footage of Taesan’s conquest, the beach had been somewhat cleared.
The monsters that had died and vanished couldn’t possibly have come back to life.
A chill ran down my spine as my gaze pierced beyond the teeming monsters toward the deep, blue sea.
‘Just how many of them are lurking in there?’

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While the other guild members and camera crew froze in shock at the unexpected turn of events, Kang Han immediately swung his spear in a wide arc, scattering fierce electrical currents across the battlefield.
“Kaaagh!”
“Screee!”
Cries of agony erupted from the monsters on all sides.
As they oxidized and scattered black ash, brilliant yellow lightning bolts rained down relentlessly like thunder through the haze.
“I’ll take the right side!”
“I’ve got the left!”
Snapping back to focus at the sight of Kang Han’s assault, Jang Su Ho and Lee Yu Eul shouted their positions and charged in their respective directions.
For a time, the onslaught continued with such ferocity that there was no opportunity for a single word to pass between them.
By the time Jang Su Ho’s shield and Lee Yu Eul’s machete were thoroughly drenched in black blood, it happened.
“Uoooooh— Uuuung—”
As Yungkadeus, floating in the distant sea, released a long, resonant cry, the monsters began retreating one by one like the tide receding.
Yet it was not a complete withdrawal.
Hundreds of black eyes, their owners half-submerged in the shallow waters, remained fixed upon the humans, undulating like seaweed in the waves.
“Lee Yu Chan, take Yeo Joo and head up.”
“Yes!”
Confirming the sound of Yeo Joo and Lee Yu Chan’s footsteps fading as they made their way back to the Rocky Terrain they had barely secured, I swung my spear in a sweeping motion.
Splurt—
Following the arc of the spear’s tip, the blood of fallen monsters traced a long line through the air.
I felt the bloodlust emanating from those concealed within the shallow waves wash over me as I turned my body toward Yungkadeus.
The creature had already moved closer to the shoreline.
It was larger than the maximum size I could summon in simulation training.
Yungkadeus was like a moving island.
With most of its body submerged beneath the water and its shell rising in a rounded dome above the surface, countless parasitic monsters thrived upon it.
They were all subordinate creatures under Yungkadeus’s command.
‘I need to drag it onto land.’
I steadied my breathing and considered my options.
Without a flight skill, it would be impossible to inflict any meaningful damage on Yungkadeus while it remained floating on the water.
That left only one path forward.
I would have to slaughter as many of its subordinates as possible and force its master onto the shore.

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Lee Yu Chan and I scrambled up the Rocky Terrain.
Even though it was just a modest stone mountain, it wasn’t a well-maintained hiking trail—we had to climb using both our hands and feet, practically crawling our way upward.
There were two reasons we risked separating from the group and pushed upward with such determination.
First, the appropriate distance and elevation actually worked to Lee Yu Chan’s advantage as an archer, and second was.
“H-Hunter, over here!”
A whimpering voice echoed from between the rocks.
“We’re from the Justice Guild. Are there any injured—”
I couldn’t finish my sentence.
In the arms of the man who seemed to have called us were two people whose faces and bodies were torn, shattered, and drenched in blood.
One critical injury and two minor injuries, they’d said?
But the condition I witnessed firsthand was far more severe than that.
Upon seeing Lee Yu Chan and me, the tension seemed to drain from the only person still conscious, and thick tears streamed down his face as he spoke.
“Please, please save my friends….”

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