The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 299

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 120

Thanks to Do Kyung’s quick thinking—using telekinesis to lift Won Sang Hoon and evacuate him to the tree where Jung Jin Won waited—they managed to avoid any fatalities.
While Ryu Ja Kyung faced off against the last two remaining wolves, Jung Jin Won descended to the ground with the injured Won Sang Hoon, his clothes already drenched in blood.
Won Sang Hoon’s injuries were severe, and it had taken considerable time to dispatch the wolves.
“Ugh… hah.”
“Forgive me, Uncle.”
Do Kyung didn’t hesitate—he tore away Won Sang Hoon’s clothes to expose the wound.
Blood gushed forth without pause, and the injury was far more critical than anticipated.
They would have to abandon the dungeon conquest immediately and escort him outside the Gate.
If they encountered even one more pack of wolves on the way out, that might not even be possible.
When Won Sang Hoon, grasping the desperate nature of his condition, half-resigned himself and squeezed his eyes shut, that was when it happened.
“Just hold on a moment, Uncle.”
Do Kyung retrieved an intermediate wound-healing potion he’d been storing in his Subspace.
“That’s…”
“It was issued by the Awakeners Association. Let’s use this for emergency treatment first, then you and Ja Kyung can head outside the Gate.”
Do Kyung’s fingertips trembled slightly as he poured the potion bit by bit over the wound.
He’d seen Yeo Joo use it during dungeon broadcast raids, but he harbored doubts—could a single bottle of this potion really heal such a severe injury?
“Ah…”
“The wound is actually… closing.”
Jung Jin Won, watching with a grave expression from the side, murmured in astonishment.
Cheongmun had no healers.
So like most guilds, whenever a core member suffered a major injury inside a Gate, the standard procedure was to use hemostatic bandages to prevent death from excessive bleeding, then transport them to the Awakened Healer Hospital for treatment.
Of course, many didn’t survive that process.
Yet with just one bottle of wound-healing potion—supposedly created through collaboration between the Justice Guild’s S-Rank Potion Master and the Awakened Healer Hospital—the long wound stretching from Won Sang Hoon’s shoulder down his back was visibly closing.
“What a remarkable thing. Does it hurt?”
“Hah… it’s… bearable.”
Won Sang Hoon answered Jung Jin Won’s question with a faint smile.
“To think they could develop something like this. You really do see wonders if you live long enough.”
“Things are changing.”
Do Kyung spoke briefly as he set aside the empty potion bottle.
“The Gates are changing, and so are the Hunters. Clinging to old methods alone won’t keep pace with the times.”
His words seemed to be about the wound potion, but no one missed that Do Kyung was really saying something else entirely.
Four pairs of eyes turned silently toward Park Song Hwi, who stood motionless.
Do Kyung was the guild master of Cheongmun, but command of this raid team belonged to Park Song Hwi.
Do Kyung was demanding a change in strategy from the elder.
“…Sang Hoon, exit as Do Kyung says.”
“No, the potion is working well. I can fight more….”
“Listen to me. Ja Kyung, don’t come back either—take Sang Hoon straight to the Hospital. It’s dangerous to return alone.”
“…Yes, hyung.”
“Understood, Uncle.”
At Park Song Hwi’s resolute words, Won Sang Hoon bowed his head and apologized to Ryu Ja Kyung.
“I’m sorry, Ja Kyung. Because of me, you too….”
“No, Uncle Sang Hoon. Your wounds are still deep—I can’t let you go to the Hospital alone.”
While the people around them conversed, Do Kyung kept his gaze fixed silently on Park Song Hwi.
His wordless eyes urged a change in the plan.
Park Song Hwi held Do Kyung’s steady gaze for a moment, then turned away and spoke.
“We’re suspending the mob hunt. Rather than facing the wolf pack again with three people, it’s better to advance toward the Snowy Field.”
Park Song Hwi conceded a move.
If he’d done this from the start, Won Sang Hoon wouldn’t have been injured, but Ryu Ja Kyung consoled herself that they’d at least achieved their objective, swallowing a silent sigh.

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[ “And so two members of Cheongmun Guild exit the Gate, forfeiting the match!”
“What a shame! Hunter Park Song Hwi must have been in quite a dilemma. Losing a buffer deals a serious blow to the raid team’s combat power!”
“Ah, we’re seeing many viewer comments saying ‘Isn’t three people too dangerous?’ What do you think, Hunter Lee Kyung Pyo?”
“There’s certainly merit to that concern. This Gate that opened at Deokjin Lake has unusually high monster density. The prediction system should have caught something of this magnitude, so it is rather strange. However, since what happens inside a Gate is so unpredictable and unexpected situations arise frequently, I do hope our hunters can push through just a bit longer!” ]

The commentator and caster covering the Round of 16 match seemed to accept the situation without much concern.
But I knew far too much to simply let it go at that.
Somewhere along the way, night had fallen and darkness consumed the world outside. I exhaled a sigh while gazing out at the blackened landscape when Ryu Sang Eun thrust a sandwich he’d bought from the convenience store toward me.
“You should eat something, at least.”
“I’m not really hungry right now. I’ll eat it later. Thank you.”
It wasn’t just empty words—I genuinely had no appetite whatsoever.
My body felt heavy, my head throbbed dully. It was clearly the stress.
“Huh? You barely touched lunch earlier either.”
Even as I smiled reassuringly at Ryu Sang Eun, who was showing genuine concern, the events of the day refused to leave my mind.
Bishop Yi and Mollig.
The two of them had joined hands.
Given that they’d moved in secret, it didn’t seem the Apocalypse Cult was directly involved.
And the reason Bishop Yi had come to Jeonju alone was probably—
‘Increasing monster population.’
It was a method Mollig had frequently employed when raising the difficulty of Gates within the game.
Bishop Yi had clearly been given the means to use that ability.
‘I should have stolen that damned game device.’
Regret came too late now.
What mattered was how I responded going forward.
I lowered my phone, which had been displaying the Association Director’s number.
I’d hesitated for a moment, but decided not to inform the Awakeners Association just yet.
If I told Association Director Ji Jung Hwi, the situation could be contained quickly.
‘But then things would spiral out of control.’
The right approach was to move quietly on my own first, and only seek help if that proved insufficient.
I’d always anticipated Mollig’s involvement.
His silence all this time had been the real oddity.
I intended to test a plan I’d prepared in advance for how to deal with him.
Besides, Bishop Yi wouldn’t be able to control Gates freely and without limit either.
The law of causality applied within Gates.
Even Mollig, the administrator, wasn’t exempt from that law.
So how could Bishop Yi, a member of a world destined for apocalypse and an outsider to this one, possibly use that ability indefinitely?
“I wonder if he even knows it’s not free.”
No matter how I thought about it, I doubted Mollig would have explained such details.
By now, he’d be suffering for it.
I tore open a teleportation scroll and chuckled softly, recalling Bishop Yi’s mocking expression.
Serves him right, absolutely.

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Crash!
After tearing the scroll to escape Jeonju City and using the teleportation service to return to the Apocalypse Cult, Bishop Yi bolted straight into the restroom attached to his dormitory.
“Hack! Ugh!”
Gripping the toilet bowl and retching violently, I initially thought my eyes were deceiving me.
I had assumed the teleportation’s side effects were merely severe nausea, but what spilled out was a dark crimson mass of blood.
“Why… blood… Urgh!”
Only after retching several more times did the nausea finally subside.
After turning on the sink and hastily rinsing my mouth, I collapsed onto the bathroom floor, my trembling hands fumbling to retrieve the gaming device.
The monochrome dot-matrix screen displayed the text “Jeonju City A-Rank 2213 Glacier Dungeon.”
Upon pressing the confirmation button, a new message appeared.

[ Would you like to execute a new random game to increase the Gate’s difficulty? ]

And beneath it, a single line of explanation I had never seen before.

[ To execute the game, the life force of player ‘Bishop Yi’ is required. ]

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