The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 38

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 38

The boss monster battle to clear the Guerrilla Gate had begun.
“Su Ho, you’ll handle initiating combat.”
At Kang Han’s command, Jang Su Ho felt a joy as though he had achieved the purpose of his entire life.
In this combat situation, the guild master had entrusted me with a role.
That meant I had earned his trust.
‘Finally, I can do something.’
I had always been regarded as someone untrustworthy, someone whose back couldn’t be relied upon—or rather, as a bomb capable of creating crises.
Now, even I had been given a role to play.
‘I’ll make it work no matter what.’
With that thought, Jang Su Ho clenched both fists tightly.
And at that moment, Kang Han retrieved something from his subspace and handed it to Jang Su Ho.
It was an iron shield, roughly half Jang Su Ho’s height, scarred and dented in places.
“Brother.”
He didn’t need to say anything more.
Kang Han had been carrying this shield for a long time, just for Jang Su Ho.
“It’s a D-rank item. You shouldn’t rely too much on its durability.”
It didn’t matter.
If the shield broke, I would block with my body instead.
So that our precious people wouldn’t be hurt.
That was the role of Jang Su Ho, the shield.
“Han Ji Sung, prepare your casting.”
“Got it.”
“Lee Yu Chan, find a place where you can hide adequately and locate the weak points where you can deal maximum damage. Lee Yu Eul, you come with me.”
“Yes!”
“Let’s begin.”
Kang Han’s single word was the signal.
Jang Su Ho hefted the heavy iron shield and burst forward toward the Crocodile King in an instant.
Boom—!
A collision sound so tremendous that it shook the entire Dungeon—one that seemed impossible to produce from a person and a house-sized monster colliding.
“Grraaagh!”
The Crocodile King was driven backward, leaving deep claw marks etched into the floor.
Surprised for only a moment that the intruder possessed greater strength than expected, the beast opened its maw to bite Jang Su Ho.
But the human wielding the shield had already retreated several steps back, and its survival instinct blazed red with alarm.
The Crocodile King twisted its body in panic.
But it was already too late.
Whish, whish!
Sharp sounds came from both sides, and blades carved long gashes across both my flanks.
The thick hide kept the wounds shallow, but it was more than enough to ignite the Crocodile King’s fury.
“Roooaaarrr!”
Watching Lee Yu Eul and Kang Han retreat after landing their strikes, Jang Su Ho thrust his shield forward with all his might against the beast’s gaping maw, denying it even a moment to roar properly.
Boom!
But the weight transmitted through the shield felt different than before.
Crack!
The Crocodile King’s thick, razor-sharp claws left four eerie gouges across the iron shield.
In that instant, as Jang Su Ho staggered backward from the impact, the Crocodile King seized the opening and raised its front leg.
That was when it happened.
Whistle!
A thin, whistling sound pierced the air, and an arrow embedded itself in the beast’s pale underbelly.
It was an arrow loosed by Lee Yu Chan, who had positioned himself on a nearby tree.
“Well done, Lee Yu Chan!”
Lee Yu Eul cried out to her brother, then slashed the Crocodile King’s armpit as its balance crumbled.
“Shrieeeek!”
Dark blood dripped steadily from the wound torn open along the curve of the long, curved blade.
The Justice Guild gave the Crocodile King no chance to recover.
Jang Su Ho threw his full weight behind a shield charge
(Charging)
while Lee Yu Eul and Kang Han exploited the opening to thrust their blades in.
Followed by Lee Yu Chan’s ranged assault.
The cunning Crocodile King grew only more enraged as it found itself increasingly cornered.
“Roooaaarrr!”
The Crocodile King had consumed ‘that’ from the Collapsed Temple and gained tremendous power, allowing it to hold out against the invaders until now.
A creature that had clawed its way up from the depths to finally become a king—its fury was saturated with venom.
The three attackers nearby were annoying, but the most threatening was the archer hiding in the trees above, constantly targeting its weak points.
When the third arrow flew toward its most vulnerable spot—its eyes—the beast wasted no time charging toward the tree.
Boom, boom, boom, boom.
With each eerie tremor of the earth, the Crocodile King reached the tree where Lee Yu Chan stood and suddenly spun its body, smashing the tree’s trunk with its thick, long tail.
Crash!
“Lee Yu Chan!”
The leafy tree slowly tilted to the side.
If he fell, the Crocodile King waited directly below with its jaws wide open.
But Lee Yu Chan did not lower his drawn bow.
Instead, he pulled the bowstring even tighter, and the moment the Crocodile King’s face appeared through the rustling leaves—
Ping!
The arrow, loosed from point-blank range, struck the Crocodile King’s eye with perfect precision.
“ROOOAAARRR! SCREEEECH!”
The Crocodile King thrashed about in agony, losing all reason, and Yu Chan, who had fallen to the ground, was sent flying by its tail.
“Ugh!”
Sliding backward, Yu Chan slammed his waist against a thick tree trunk and came to a halt, finally letting out a pained groan.
“That… reptilian… bastard.”
At the sight of Yu Chan, unable to even curl up from the intense pain, Jang Su Ho’s eyes flooded with crimson.
Huff, huff.
In those few seconds as he breathed hot, ragged breaths like an enraged beast, his black pupils were completely consumed by madness.
“I’ll kill it. I’ll discard it.”
Just as the Crocodile King had moments before, Jang Su Ho charged forward.
It was an incredible speed that defied belief for someone wielding such a massive iron shield.
But there was no body charge like before.
Jang Su Ho raised the shield high with both hands.
And then.
“Die.”
CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!
“SHRIEEEEK!”
Against the Berserker’s power striking down with the shield’s sharp edge, even the Crocodile King’s thick hide was helpless.
CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
Each time he brought the shield down on the Crocodile King, black blood drenched Jang Su Ho’s entire body, but he retained no shred of reason to even notice.
The way he swung the protective shield like a madman made him a warrior, not a shield bearer.
While everyone stood transfixed, watching that demonic figure, Kang Han moved with cold precision.
“Lee Yu Chan, snap out of it.”
He gathered the defenseless Yu Chan in his arms and entrusted him to Han Ji Sung, speaking as he did.
“Fall back as far as you can.”
With only those words, Kang Han immediately turned toward Lee Yu Eul.
“H-Han, oppa.”
Startled by her brother’s injury and Jang Su Ho’s berserker transformation, Lee Yu Eul hesitated uncertainly.
Rather than soothe her, Kang Han explained the plan in a low voice.
“Attack from outside Su Ho’s line of sight as much as possible. A Berserker can only recognize one target at a time.”
“Ah, understood.”
“Especially target the wounds Su Ho has already created. And…”
After relaying the strategy briefly, Kang Han charged toward Jang Su Ho and the Crocodile King.
Lee Yu Eul, wiping her dirt-covered face once with a hardened expression, followed in his wake.
CRACK!
“ROOOAAARRR!”
Now the Crocodile King no longer merely endured the assault.
It swung its front claws with devastating force, and repeatedly snapped its jaws, desperately trying to seize and wrench away Jang Su Ho’s shield.
Jang Su Ho, drenched in fresh blood and the Crocodile King’s ink-like ichor, and the blood-soaked monster charging forward.
It was as though two monsters were locked in fierce combat.
Seizing the opening, Kang Han drove his blade into the wound along the Crocodile King’s flank from across where Jang Su Ho stood, while Lee Yu Eul severed its tail.
“Krraaagh!”
The moment the Crocodile King staggered, its tail completely severed down to the bone, Kang Han thrust his sword in again.
It was a desperate strike that sank deep enough to bury itself past his elbow, yet it failed to pierce any of the colossal beast’s vital organs.
But that was far from the end.

[ Activating skill ‘Punisher’s Lightning Strike’. ]

Crackle-crack-crack-crack!
“Gaaaack!”
Golden electricity erupted from the sparks dancing in Kang Han’s eyes, surging into the Crocodile King’s body.
The beast’s massive form convulsed and froze, its jaws gaping wide yet unable to produce even a proper scream against the overwhelming current.
Kang Han, both hands gripping his sword as he continued channeling the skill, roared out a command.
“Now!”
In that instant, a torrent of mana converged at a single point.
It was at the fingertips of Han Ji Sung, who had drawn perilously close to the epicenter of battle.
His voice, as cold and sharp as his azure eyes, intoned softly.
“Ice Spear.”
Could something like that really be called a spear?
(Spear)
Lee Yu Eul instinctively rolled aside to evade, her mind racing with the thought.
A colossal lance of ice, as large as the Crocodile King’s head itself, gleamed brilliantly under the scorching light of the Jungle Dungeon’s luminous core as it shot forth.
“Kugh!”
The moment the ice spear’s tip, striking with perfect precision between the beast’s gaping jaws, pierced clean through the opposite side of its skull.
The moment the tip of the ice spear, striking precisely between the gaping jaws, pierced through and emerged from the other side of the head.

You have defeated the boss monster ‘Cunning Crocodile King (C)’.

The system announced victory to all members of the Justice Guild.
Everyone exhaled in relief.
Everyone except one.
A low growl rumbled from deep within.
The Berserker, having lost its target, slowly shifted its gaze.
It was searching for its next prey.
Toward the direction from which that powerful attack had come moments ago—its crimson eyes fixed on Han Ji Sung.
Yet the Berserker’s attention did not linger there for long.
Its focus ultimately settled behind Han Ji Sung.
Upon the figure frantically healing Lee Yu Chan.
The presence that had been unbearably drawing its notice since moments before.
“You… I want… you.”

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