The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 218

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 39

Her eyes were like immense jewels.
The radiance trapped within them—like glimmering light dancing across the depths of a vast, azure sea—seemed to belong to no world I knew.
And the moment Kang Han beheld that magnificent sight, revulsion surged down his spine.
That thing must be stopped.
It must not ascend to the surface, must not escape this Gate.
By any means necessary, it must be contained.
That thing must not exist.
A violent abhorrence unlike anything he had ever experienced set his reason ablaze with crimson fury.
As the revulsion crushed all else into meaninglessness beneath the weight of those eyes, a chilling, overwhelming terror engulfed him.

[
Worship!
]
[
Obey!
]
[
Surrender!
]

As the system window flashed and seized my attention, the seeping dread coiled around my will like a beast on a leash, urging me toward a choice.
Submission or death.
It seemed as though only those two paths remained in the world.
The moment I grasped that this was the creature’s ability, Kang Han’s voice tore from his throat in a desperate shout.
“Don’t look into its eyes!”
The hunters, as if under a spell, hastily averted their gaze from those enormous pupils—but not all of them managed to do so.
“Ah, ah….”
Unfortunately, Sung Yo Na, who had locked eyes with the creature from too close a distance, crumpled to the ground.
“Ugh, huh….”
Robbed of speech, Sung Yo Na clawed at her own throat, gasping for air that wouldn’t come.
I wanted to live.
I wanted to breathe, but each time I tried to open my mouth, it felt as though water was flooding into my lungs.
“Gasp, wheeze.”
My mind knew the truth.
That I had to tear my gaze from those eyes, that only then could I survive.
Yet as if terror had seized control of my body, I couldn’t even command my eyelids.
Each time I strained with all my might to squeeze my eyes shut, my long lashes trembled uncontrollably.
“Ugh….”
It was only when my fingernails, digging deeper, left crimson streaks across the tender flesh of my neck that salvation came.
Ryu Do Kyung’s long hanbok sleeve swept across my vision, blocking it out.
“Breathe.”
“Gasp! Cough, huff…!”
Once Ryu Do Kyung confirmed that I was breathing with my eyes clenched shut, he raised one hand skyward.
Crack—!
The whale shark, which had lunged forward with gaping jaws while I was consumed by terror, froze solid like a stone.
No—it was warping, twisting grotesquely.
Its snout stretched wider, tearing apart; its tail bent backward, folding in on itself.
Snap! Snap snap!
Each time a blue light swept across Ryu Do Kyung’s dark eyes, the monster contorted further with sickening sounds, growing smaller and more deformed.
When the whale shark had finally been torn, broken, and crumpled beyond all recognition, beginning to dissolve like black sand, Ryu Do Kyung spoke to Sung Yo Na.
“Accept the fear. Focus on the revulsion that wells up within you. And choose to fight. Then that creature cannot harm Sung Yo Na in any way.”
“Ugh, yes. Yes….”
Sung Yo Na answered through gritted teeth.
Once my mind cleared, I understood.
That submission and death were not the only options.
It was the moment Ryu Do Kyung, confirming that clarity had returned to Sung Yo Na’s eyes, offered a faint smile.
“Grraaah.”
The creature, having sacrificed one monster to buy itself a moment’s respite, revealed its mouth above the ground.
Without teeth, its enormous hollow maw yawned open grotesquely.
“Grraaaaaaah—!”
The deafening screams tearing at my eardrums were not the primary concern.
“Run!”
Sung Yo Na pulled Ryu Do Kyung into her embrace and activated her spatial compression skill, escaping from the center of the Plaza.
But it wasn’t enough.
Boom!
“Ugh!”
“Gasp!”
As an invisible wall slammed against their backs, Sung Yo Na and Ryu Do Kyung, tangled together, were hurled toward the low Hill beside the Plaza.
“W-what about the others…!”
Sung Yo Na scrambled to her feet and looked around desperately.
The entire Justice Guild had been caught in the explosion—so powerful it could obliterate even the remaining monster in a single blow.
“Ja Kyung!”
Ryu Do Kyung, spotting Ryu Ja Kyung collapsed at the farthest point of the Plaza with a camera still clutched in her hands, cried out.
Sung Yo Na also tried to move toward Lee Yu Chan, who appeared closest to her.
But a sudden realization froze her in place.
The terror that had nearly consumed her moments ago, the vibrations emanating from the colossal statue’s mouth, the explosion itself—none of it was meant to kill.
They were designed to buy time.
“To create an opening…”
As Sung Yo Na’s gaze snapped back to the center of the Plaza, her face drained of all color.
One massive shoulder of the enormous entity had already broken free.
“No!”
With Sung Yo Na’s cry, Kang Han burst forward toward the center of the Plaza.
“Stop it!”
The Justice Guild Hunters scattered across the area followed Kang Han toward the center.
All of them ran with clenched teeth.
But the creature’s face emerged faster than they could reach it.
Crash—!
With one arm and its head now fully mobile, the creature began clawing at the ground with a single hand.
It was desperately trying to excavate itself from the earth that still buried its body.
Crash! Boom! Crunch!
Through the shower of debris obscuring all vision, Kang Han fixed his gaze on the creature’s exposed face.
An indescribable revulsion surged within him, but something far more critical demanded his attention.
The core—a small gem that gleamed with a transparency even more crystalline than the creature’s eerily luminous eyes.
Kang Han, the first to reach the statue, drew out his Silent Blade and shouted.
“Guild Master Ryu Do Kyung!”
Ryu Do Kyung, who had also spotted the core embedded in its forehead, halted his charge and extended both hands toward the statue.
As he channeled all his strength, his clothes fluttered violently around him.

[ Skill ‘Gravity Enforcement’ activated. ]
[ Skill ‘Wind Pressure Control’ activated. ]

The creature’s movements, which had seemed on the verge of shattering the entire ground and raising its upper body, gradually slowed.
“Grraaaagh!”
With each struggle from the creature, the veins in Ryu Do Kyung’s neck became increasingly pronounced.
Grinding his teeth so hard that his gums bled, crimson blood trickling from the corners of his mouth, Ryu Do Kyung cried out desperately.
“I can’t… hold much longer! Hurry!”
In the Underwater Dungeon environment, with all electricity-related skills sealed away, Kang Han’s only remaining weapons were his silent spear and the raw power of his body.
Kang Han drove the tip of his spear, channeling all his strength, directly into the creature’s core.
Clang!
The spear rebounded with a sharp metallic ring, but it had achieved something.
A minute scratch now marred the creature’s hard surface.
Jang Su Ho, catching that subtle change, brought his shield down upon the core.
“Hrraaaagh!”
Boom!
Crack!
A deep indentation formed across the core’s surface.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With each strike of Jang Su Ho’s shield against the core, the creature’s resistance grew more violent.
“Nngh!”
Finally, Ryu Do Kyung’s body shook violently.
He had reached his limit, unable to withstand the statue’s overwhelming brute force alone.
“Let me help!”
Sung Yo Na, drawing upon her last reserves of strength to aid Ryu Do Kyung, compressed the space around the statue.
As the two skills overlapped, the statue’s movements froze once more.
But that was not all.
Crack, crack.
Fissures began spreading across the massive hand that clung to the ground, trembling violently.
An immobilized arm and a crumbling core.
Sensing mortal danger, the creature opened its maw wide.
It intended to hurl these troublesome beings far away once more.
Yet even that proved beyond its control.
“Grraaaa… ack.”
Han Ji Sung’s frigid mana froze the creature’s dark maw solid in an instant.
Boom! Crash!
Kang Han and Jang Su Ho struck the core in rapid succession.
Clang! Clang! Clang—!
“Just… a little more.”
The core began fragmenting and crumbling into smaller pieces.
The brilliant radiance that had blazed so intensely began to fade, bit by bit.
“Its power is weakening!”
Ryu Do Kyung cried out.
At last, the finish line drew near.
Crack—!
It was the moment when the sharp tip of the Eternal Steel Shield finally pierced deep into the core.
“Danger!”
Kang Han shoved Jang Su Ho away with force.
Jang Su Ho, who had been focused solely on destroying the core, was caught off guard by Kang Han’s sudden action and tumbled backward.
And in the next instant.
Boom!
The frozen statue’s maw exploded open, and razor-sharp shards of ice erupted outward.

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