The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 300

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 2, Episode 121

“Damn it, you didn’t say anything about this before!”
When Bishop Yi had raised the difficulty of the Jeonju City Gate, he’d made a total of three attempts.
And if he’d wagered his own life force with each and every one of those attempts…
“Ugh!”
Bishop Yi clamped down on his roiling stomach and hurriedly bent over the sink, retching violently.
Only after spewing forth such a staggering volume of blood that he feared he might actually die did the nausea begin to subside.
Clatter.
The game console struck against his feet as he staggered, dizzy and unsteady.
In the past, he would have snatched it up immediately, but now, as Bishop Yi stared down at the device with a ghastly pale face, his expression was consumed by dread.
“How was I supposed to… how was I supposed to use this? If it was this dangerous, you should have told me!”
He’d wanted to make a fool of the Justice Guild, certainly, but not to this degree of suffering.
The game console, which had once seemed like a treasure beyond measure, now appeared utterly horrifying.
What if the Vice Cult Leader somehow got his hands on this console?
The mere thought was unbearable.
The console had said it required the life force of ‘Bishop Yi’ specifically.
He could almost see himself now—collapsed at the feet of the Vice Cult Leader, who controlled the Gates as he pleased, his life force being drained away as he coughed up blood.
The Vice Cult Leader was precisely the sort of monster who would do exactly that.
With his hand still outstretched toward the console, Bishop Yi activated a skill.
“‘Shatter.'”
It was an S-rank word command skill, no less.
But the console remained completely unscathed.
Instead, it was Bishop Yi who took the damage.
“Kwaaaaagh!”
Without even a moment to brace himself, he vomited up another torrent of blood and finally collapsed onto the cold bathroom floor, his vision blurring as the console’s screen flickered and blinked before his hazy gaze.

[ The game cannot be stopped. ]
[ Please enjoy your play! ]

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“Ugh, we made it out!”
Lee Yu Eul, the first to set foot on the Snowy Field, threw both hands up with a shout before hurling herself into the snow, burying her body beneath the white expanse.
“Ugh, I hate those wolf cubs so much….”
“Yu Eul, if you stay like that, you’ll get soaked and catch a cold.”
Han Ji Sung emerged from the Forest behind her and tried to stop her, attempting to pull her up, but Lee Yu Eul only rolled across the Snowy Field, shaking her head in defiance.
“No. I’m not moving anymore.”
As Han Ji Sung watched Lee Yu Eul, now lying down and transformed into a snowman, he let out a worried sigh.
“Get up, Lee Yu Eul.”
At the firm voice, Lee Yu Eul brushed the snow from her face, and her vision caught sight of black military boots passing by her.
It was Kang Han.
“If you don’t get up, I’m leaving you here.”
“…Whimper.”
Finally, Lee Yu Eul reluctantly got to her feet and joined the other Guild members walking toward the Mountain, while Han Ji Sung chuckled softly and brushed the remaining snow from her clothes.
Unlike the Forest, where the wolves’ howls—which sounded like barking dogs—had left her ears ringing, the Snowy Field appeared peaceful at first glance.
Crunch, crunch.
For a while, only the sound of footsteps on snow echoed, with no conversation passing between them.
Though Lee Yu Eul was the only one showing it, the others were equally exhausted.
It was the aftermath of continuous combat without rest for several hours.
Yet that peace did not last long.
“Roooaaarrr—!”
A massive white bear, enormous even from a distance, spotted the Justice Guild and charged toward them with a terrible roar.
Kang Han paused briefly and activated ‘Information Viewing Authority’.
It was a new information-gathering skill obtained through Hemeres’ orb.

[ Wendelli Dark Bear ( A )
: A colossal bear inhabiting the Wendelli Territory.
It loves coating its entire body in the blood of its prey, rendering its white fur meaningless.
It possesses a solitary nature and does not form packs. ]

As expected, the creature rushing toward them had its snout and front paws discolored with blood, dark and grimy.
Kang Han drew his spear from his back and shared the information he’d gathered with his guild members.
“A-rank, a Wendelli Dark Bear. I’ll be back shortly, so please recover your strength.”
A single A-rank monster was perfect for testing the Silent Spear’s new functions—abilities he hadn’t yet had the chance to use against the packs of Snowy Field wolves.
Against the massive monster charging across the vast Snowy Field, the lone human appeared impossibly small, yet no trace of unease stirred within Kang Han.
Thud, thud, thud!
“Roooaaar!”
Evading the Dark Bear’s right-paw strike with ease as it roared, I drove the Silent Spear deep into its belly.
The massive claws twisted the spear shaft after it penetrated the thick hide—something no ordinary swordsman could have even scratched—and sank deep into its abdomen.
Then, with a sharp *ping*, two small blades in reverse orientation shot out from just below the spear’s head.
“Screeeee—!”
The Dark Bear convulsed in agony as its insides were torn apart, letting out a horrific shriek.
It was pure instinct—desperately trying to expel the spear from its body.
I didn’t resist that movement; instead, I withdrew the spear I’d driven so deeply inside.
Crack!
The reverse blades caught on the hide as the spear pulled free, and with a wet spray, the Dark Bear’s black blood poured across the snow.
“Grrrrgh….”
Already mortally wounded from that single strike, the Dark Bear tried to turn and flee, but in doing so, it exposed its back completely to me.
Thwack!
The two reverse blades, which had slid smoothly into the spear shaft on insertion, now caught firmly against the monster’s insides when I gave the shaft a slight pull—I could feel it lock into place.
Rather than withdrawing the spear, I channeled a powerful electric current directly through it.
Crackle-crackle-crackle—!
A devastatingly powerful electrical discharge erupted through the spear blades, far exceeding the energy I’d invested, and the Wendelli Dark Bear began to incinerate on the spot.
Whoosh, thud-thud-thud!
I swung the spear broadly to shake off the monster’s black blood, then quietly furrowed my brow.
The Silent Spear had always been a fine weapon.
It had compensated well for my still-fluctuating and unstable abilities.
But the Silent Spear, which had been entrusted to Jung Je Hwa’s hands for a time, had now returned as an artifact that far transcended the realm of a mere weapon.
As a hunter, I should naturally have been delighted, but my feelings were far more complicated.
Unaccustomed to examining my own heart, I couldn’t determine whether this strange emotion stemmed from the abilities manifesting through the new Silent Spear feeling utterly foreign to me, or from the fact that it was none other than that man who had crafted such a magnificent artifact.
“Once you’ve rested enough, we’ll move again….”
In any case, I composed myself behind my usual expression and turned toward my guild members to speak, when I suddenly fell silent and fixed my gaze on the forest-Snowy Field boundary in the distance.
And moments later, the forest expelled three hunters, three camera crew members, and roughly ten wolves.
“It looks like Cheongmun is being chased?”
Han Ji Sung was right.
Cheongmun’s condition, being pursued by the wolves, didn’t look good at all.
Though they were mounting some counterattacks, only Ryu Do Kyung seemed to be moving without impediment; the other two were limping from their injuries.
They lacked the strength to shake off the Snowy Field wolves on their own.
“Couldn’t we go help them?”
Sung Yo Na asked carefully, her worried gaze fixed on them.
As Kang Han nodded his approval while observing Cheongmun’s struggle, Yang Hwa Yeon stepped forward.
“Ryu Do Kyung, Guild Master! Come this way!”
Cupping both hands like a funnel, Yang Hwa Yeon called out loudly and rushed toward the Cheongmun Guild, conjuring a massive fireball in her right hand.
Whoosh—!
Like a pitcher hurling a baseball, the fireball streaked through the air at tremendous speed and struck the wolf pack with perfect accuracy.
“Yelp, yelp!”
Just as she had demonstrated in the preliminary round, the moment the flames took hold, they spread according to Yang Hwa Yeon’s will, and the wolves found themselves helpless before the advancing inferno.
Sung Yo Na used her spatial compression skill to dash forward at high speed, blocking the creatures that were targeting Cheongmun’s wounded.
By the time Kang Han and the remaining Justice Guild hunters arrived, Ryu Do Kyung—who had burst the last two Snowy Field wolves using telekinesis—was breathing heavily and collapsed onto the snow.
“Th-thank you….”
Ryu Do Kyung, barely managing to offer his gratitude, hastily retrieved two bottles of trauma treatment potion and tended to the wounded elders.
“Uncle, haa, here….”
“Ugh.”
Park Song Hwi, whose injuries were relatively minor, poured potion onto Jung Jin Won’s leg where a chunk of flesh the size of a fist had been torn away by the wolf’s bite.
Soon the blood that had been pouring out ceased, and new flesh began to fill the wound.
Only after confirming that Jung Jin Won’s condition had improved did Park Song Hwi pour potion on his own arm to treat himself, then spoke to the Justice Guild.
“I can’t say thank you. It was unnecessary meddling, after all.”

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