The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 159

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 159

On the way up, I’d been wrapped in vines and hoisted like laundry being shaken out, but on the way down, I descended cradled in Kang Han’s arms, enjoying a ride smoother than any elevator could offer as my feet touched solid ground.
“Phew.”
That was close.
But the relief of being alive was fleeting.
“How exactly did you end up climbing up there?”
“More importantly, why did you leave the Campsite, Yeo Joo?”
Kang Han and Yoo Jin Rok had both asked the most difficult questions to answer from opposite sides.
Maybe I should just climb back up.
“Uh, well. That’s…”
After a moment of deliberation, I decided to use my best strategy.
“I don’t remember very well.”
When a question is hard to answer, feigning amnesia is the way to go.
And I added one more technique to the mix.
“I woke up from the nightmare quickly enough, but I don’t think my mind fully came back. Oh, but then Na Baek Ho suddenly came running this way, so I think I went to catch him…”
“Kyuung?”
Ah, you stay quiet for a moment.
My conscience pricked at pinning the blame on my voiceless Familiar, but I had to survive first.
My plan to sneak back to the Campsite before anyone else woke up had failed anyway, so there was no helping it.
“It’s true that memories can get jumbled after a Nightmare attack.”
Surprisingly naive, Yang Hwa Yeon nodded and lent credence to my lie.
“Goodness, you don’t know how worried I was. I thought my heart would stop.”
Kang Han sighed, placing both hands on his hips.
I felt a bit guilty, honestly.
“Sister, are you hurt anywhere?”
Lee Yu Eul circled around me to check, asking the question.
“No. Just a headache, otherwise I’m fine.”
“A headache means you’re not fine!”
Lee Yu Chan pulled out his share of Im Chung Soo’s potions from the Subspace and pressed one into my hand.
“I’m going to destroy that vine monster.”
Jang Su Ho, clearly furious for some reason, grabbed his dagger and set off to deal with the Green Swamp.
Gentle Han Ji Sung said nothing.
He simply patted my back, saying I’d been through enough.
I thought I’d successfully blame everything on the Nightmare and slip away.
“Yeo Joo, it looks like you went over there too, didn’t you?”
Yoo Jin Rok pointed to the path I had taken to and from the Secret Chamber, asking about it.
Oh right, this guy had a tracking skill.
“Well… I think so? I regained consciousness midway and tried to head back to the Campsite, but I got lost, so honestly, I’m a bit confused about it.”
“That was close. The monsters in this Dungeon aren’t fixed to specific fields. If you’d run into a monster wandering around alone like that….”
Yoo Jin Rok shook his head as if the mere thought made him dizzy.
But the twins, having returned to their usual selves, didn’t miss the opportunity to tease me.
“You did meet one though—a monster. An unkempt ivy vine.”
“Pfft.”
Those bastards!
No matter how right they were!
That was when it happened.
Na Baek Ho, who had been quietly staying close to my side since I descended to the ground, finally caused trouble.
“Woof!”
Baek Ho barked loudly once, then started running ahead as if beckoning me to follow.
The direction was toward the passage leading to the Secret Chamber I had just awkwardly made excuses about.
“Hey! Na Baek Ho! Where are you going!”
“It seems Baek Ho is trying to show us something, so let’s follow him.”
In the end, Kang Han stepped forward first and began walking after Na Baek Ho.
Ugh, this is driving me crazy.
And so we and the Magma Guild eventually arrived at the door to the Secret Chamber.
“Woof! Woof!”
“Baek Ho, is there something here?”
“Woof!”
What could possibly be here!
I already cleaned it out!
It was a rather well-hidden door, but with Na Baek Ho pointing and saying ‘Here it is!’, there was no way Kang Han would miss it.
Click.
With a soft sound, the door to the Secret Chamber finally opened.

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“What… is this place?”
I muttered in surprise.
Me, of all people—the one who had already gulped down the potion in the Secret Chamber.
“There was another hidden door in this concealed space.”
Han Ji Sung looked around with curiosity as he spoke.
According to the records, this Maze Dungeon had only one secret.
The permanent stamina-enhancing potion I had drunk.
Yet there was another hidden space.
And it wasn’t a cramped room like the one where the chest had been.
The empty cavern was vast enough to accommodate the Justice Guild’s expansive Simulation Training Ground.
“It seems like wind is blowing in from somewhere over there.”
Yoo Jin Rok, drawing upon the keen senses unique to a Tracker, pointed in one direction.
But there was only a black wall in that spot.
“Since there were already two hidden doors, finding one more wouldn’t be surprising.”
“Another… door?”
I was genuinely flabbergasted.
A triple layer? When two was already excessive?
Was it even safe to open that door?
That’s what I was thinking.
The moment Yoo Jin Rok touched one of the bricks, a tremendous sound echoed from beyond the wall.
Rumble, thud.
It was the sound of some massive mechanism moving.
Simultaneously, the wall that formed one side of the cavity began to shift.
Like an automatic door opening—silent and swift.
And beyond it, a tiny figure was crafting something.
“What… is that?”
At Yang Hwa Yeon’s startled exclamation, it jumped and turned around.
The moment our eyes met with that mole-like creature.

[ Hidden Route Discovered! ]
[ The true master of the Maze Dungeon greets you! ]

An unexpected notification filled my vision.
I quickly checked the information on the “true dungeon boss.”

[ Mollig ( C )
: Administrator of a lower-tier Dungeon. ]

You—why are you here?

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“Huh? It’s running away!”
Lee Yu Eul cried out as she spotted the Hidden Boss suddenly bolting forward while the hunters were caught off guard by the system window that had materialized.
Flash! Boom!
Kang Han unleashed a lightning strike, but the creature nimbly dodged the attack and accelerated its escape.
Crack!
Han Ji Sung’s Ice Spear was equally too slow by a single step.
Confirming that their attacks couldn’t match the Hidden Boss’s speed, the hunters simultaneously broke into a sprint.
The gap between them and the Hidden Boss narrowed in an instant—a speed that ordinary people couldn’t even track with their eyes.
“Eeeek!”
The creature let out a bizarre shriek, flailing its hands desperately at the empty air.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Walls descended from all sides, and in the blink of an eye, a maze materialized in what had been empty space.
“Is everyone alright?”
“The film crew seems to have been blocked from entering the maze?”
The initial shock of the sudden situation quickly faded.
In that moment, Yoo Jin Rok, who had planted a tracking mark on the Hidden Boss, pointed toward the left passage of the maze and spoke.
“That way. We need to find it within five minutes.”
It was the limit of Yoo Jin Rok’s real-time tracking skill as a C-rank Tracker.
“Five minutes is sufficient.”
Kang Han replied tersely and scooped up Yeo Joo in his arms.
“Let’s go, Yeo Joo.”

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Cradled in Kang Han’s embrace, my body was comfortable, but my mind was in complete turmoil.

[ Mollig ( C )
: Administrator of a Lower-tier Dungeon. ]

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That one, which even had a separate name, had definitely been mentioned in the 【Sejong Records】.
An entity that revealed the secrets behind the phenomenon after mutant Gates began appearing in earnest.
‘But this bastard was hiding here?’
I was just trying to chug down a potion.
Things were spiraling out of control.
Meanwhile, Kang Han—having reclaimed most of his S-rank capabilities through my intervention—tore through the Maze Dungeon at a speed that made it impossible to properly identify his surroundings.
“Huff, huff.”
It was only when ragged breathing began erupting from Yoo Jin Rok’s mouth.
“Eek!”
We encountered Mollig, fidgeting anxiously in a dead end of the maze.
Up close, he looked far too pathetic to be called a hidden boss of a Dungeon.
Large for a mole, perhaps, but that was all.
His fur was sparse and patchy, and his eyes were merely a faded whitish color, as if they’d atrophied.
And the moment Kang Han set me back down on the ground, he flailed his hands at empty air again.
But this time was different.
Boom!
Before the wall could come crashing down, Kang Han hurled lightning and shattered it to pieces.
Confirming that Yoo Jin Rok safely protected me from the stone fragments crumbling to dust in midair, Kang Han turned his gaze back to Mollig and spoke in a low voice.

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