The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 426

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 3, Episode 30

One must always be perceptive and observant.
The first clue was that warning message that appeared the moment I entered the Dome.

[ ! WARNING !
The darkness concentration in the surrounding area is abnormally high! ]

The second clue was that Bio-Mother emerged from the test tube and revealed its true form immediately after I used my Purification skill.
Recalling that gleaming gaze I’d met then still sent shivers down my spine.
It was like witnessing the eyes of a predator that had spotted its prey.
Third, the creature absorbed the synthesis-inducing liquid—which elevated darkness concentration merely by being exposed to air—to amplify its combat power.
From that observation, a hypothesis crystallized in my mind.
What if the primary material necessary for chimera synthesis was darkness itself?
And the final clue was those infernal tentacles.
When I severed a tentacle, synthesis-inducing liquid burst forth like a ruptured water pipe, and every hunter pierced by those tentacles experienced a spike in darkness addiction and went berserk.
After that, watching the battle unfold, I became half-certain.
This commander-class chimera required darkness to maintain its combat power and synthesized body.
And conveniently, I possessed a skill that purified darkness.
‘That’s why it called me a sample and all that.’
Having discovered a force capable of neutralizing its core, it must have felt both threatened and covetous.
Perhaps wondering if my ability could make it even more ‘complete.’
The reason I hadn’t attempted to use my Purification skill against Bio-Mother despite such reasoning was simple: the creature was far too formidable.
And more than anything, I couldn’t afford the risk of having my Purification skill stolen.
“Sa Ma Young, you did well.”
I pulled Sa Ma Young into a tight embrace as he lay collapsed on the ground, experiencing his second berserk state in this battle alone.
I felt my clothes growing damp with his blood, but such concerns seemed trivial now.

[ Using skill ‘Dark Purification’. ]
[ Target’s dark addiction rate: ??% ]
[ Target’s special constitution increases purification efficiency. ]
[ High affinity increases purification efficiency. ]
[ Dark Purification successful! ]
[ Current target’s dark addiction rate: 7% ]

“Yeo Joo….”
“Sa Ma Young, are you okay… Ugh!”
Hearing him call my name, I thought I’d regained consciousness and tried to push myself up by pressing against Sa Ma Young’s chest, but failed.
Long arms, their suit jacket now reduced to tatters, pulled me back into his embrace.
Unlike Kang Han or Je Hwa, whose muscularity was obvious at a glance, Sa Ma Young’s physique was often misunderstood by others—but his entire body was densely packed with muscle.
Incredibly dense and firm muscle at that.
Of course, no one would know unless they’d touched him directly like I had.
“Yeo Joo….”
Sa Ma Young spoke with his eyes tightly shut.
“I hurt.”
“You hurt?”
I hurriedly checked his status window, but the addiction rate was only 7%.
Moreover, while I was using the purification skill, the other two healers had already treated all his external injuries.
“…This bastard.”
Smack!
“Ow.”
Ow, my foot.
“Are you really joking around at a time like this?!”
“What kind of time is this?”
Sa Ma Young’s red lips curved into a smile, his eyes still annoyingly shut tight.
“A time when Yeo Joo is embracing me while I’m lying down in front of the entire nation?”
“No, open your eyes and look properly.”
As I pinched his cheek and shook it gently, Sa Ma Young finally cracked his eyes open slightly.
“Look at what….”
“This isn’t a joke. That’s what you did.”
I laughed, pointing at Bio-Mother still stuck to the dome ceiling like a fly, unable to descend.
“What’s wrong with it?”
“Doesn’t it look like ground meat that thawed wrong?”
There was no better comparison than that.
With just a single proper use of the purification skill, it was melting away.
The tissues that had connected and supported its cells were losing their strength.
The left arm I had been holding was in even worse condition.
The collapse that had begun from the left hand had spread up the arm and reached the shoulder.
Thud.
The arm, which had been dangling like a candy cane hanging from a Christmas tree, finally dropped to the ground with a decisive crack.
“I did that… myself?”
Sa Ma Young furrowed his brow at the gruesome sight, yet he couldn’t tear his eyes away from Bio-Mother.
It was hard to believe that an SS-rank monster once so formidable had been reduced to this pitiful state.
“To be precise, it was half-thawed after being hit by my purification skill. But it was only possible because you held it so firmly, Sa Ma Young.”
“Purification skill….”
As he mulled over my explanation, he suddenly burst into a hollow yet deeply satisfying laugh.
His crimson eyes gazing up at Bio-Mother gleamed like rubies.
Indeed, a smile suits a reformed villain perfectly.
I patted Sa Ma Young’s shoulder reassuringly and stood up, speaking.
“So from now on, I’m going to torment that thing as much as you and the Guild members have suffered.”

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Yes, this is what a Justice Guild Gate conquest looks like.
Sitting within the barrier and replenishing the fluids I’d been lacking, I nodded with satisfaction.
“It’s heading that way! Catch it!”
“Damn, it’s fast!”
“Hey, stop being so slimy!”
The Guild members, who had been breathing heavily in silence until moments ago, became rowdy and energetic.
If you closed your eyes and listened, it sounded like neighborhood kids playing excitedly.
“Yes! Got it!”
“Got it? You missed it completely!”
…Like little kids having a snowball fight.
For reference, what the Guild members were throwing at the monster was none other than purification potions.
Indeed, “purification” was the key point rather than the skill I possessed.
I gave the purification potions to Ryu Sang Eun, who had the most agile body, and told him to spray it on the creature. While not quite as effective as using the skill directly, it was clearly working.
After that, I distributed all the remaining purification potions to the Guild members and instructed them to splash Bio-Mother with them by any means necessary, which is how this absurd situation unfolded.
“Everyone clear out! Yang Hwa Yeon is going!”
Yang Hwa Yeon, who had been in the barrier with us, picked up her share of purification potion and stepped outside, then wound up like a baseball pitcher.
Whoosh— Splat!
“Strike!”
The bottle, no bigger than a pinky finger, struck Bio-Mother’s body and shattered, spraying potion everywhere.
It was only a mouthful or so of liquid, yet it acted on the monster like hydrochloric acid.
[ “Grrrrgh….” ]
As befitted an SS-rank creature, it was holding up fairly well, but Bio-Mother’s condition was utterly pathetic.
Both arms had long since melted away, and only a handful of remaining tentacles were serving that function.
Her once-pale skin had long since turned pitch-black, seeping with synthetic induction fluid.
Yet Bio-Mother had managed to endure this long only because of the chimeras.
[ “Synthetic induction fluid reserves depleted.” ]
[ “Replenishment required.” ]
[ “Chimera summon.” ]
As Bio-Mother’s voice echoed from the Dome ceiling where she’d fled once more, chimeras poured forth from the wall apertures.
But the Justice Guild remained unflustered.
This wasn’t the first time Bio-Mother had summoned chimeras.
“Sa Ma Young, Bang Wi Jin—stand by. Everyone else, eliminate the chimeras first.”
At Kang Han’s command, the guild members scattered in all directions.
They needed to dispatch the minions as swiftly as possible.
There were two reasons for this.
The first was to prevent Bio-Mother’s recovery.
“Damn, I missed it!”
Black tentacles deftly snatched away a minotaur-like chimera that Lee Tae Yoon had been charging toward, and he cried out in frustration.
[ “Synthetic fluid absorption.” ]
Suction-cup-like protrusions bloomed across the tentacle’s surface, reducing the minotaur to a desiccated husk in mere seconds.
Simultaneously, Bio-Mother’s skeletal face—previously showing exposed bone—visibly regenerated.
And the second reason was.

【 02 : 11 : 01 】

“Time’s moving disgustingly fast.”
Because Bio-Mother had accelerated the countdown, there truly wasn’t much time left.
If I had to guess, we had maybe an hour at most.
Fortunately, the chimeras were disposed of quickly.
Mother had only absorbed three of them.
But the nature of the battle suddenly shifted.
“Guild Master, that thing seems to be trying to escape, doesn’t it?”
Ryu Sang Eun was right.
Until now, Bio-Mother had at least seized opportunities to launch sharp counterattacks, but now she merely crawled across the dome’s ceiling like a cockroach.
“Sa Ma Young, you can fly, can’t you? Do something about this.”
Sa Ma Young, who had been looking up at Mother with his hands clasped behind his back and an expression of displeasure, reluctantly opened his mouth at my urging.
“…Woo Jun Kyung.”
“I shall handle it, my lord.”
What could Woo Jun Kyung possibly do?
Did he have some item that allowed levitation like Sa Ma Young?
As I tilted my head in confusion, Woo Jun Kyung drew a folding fan from his waist.
Whoosh—!
With a crisp sound, the fan unfurled and fluttered, and a glass vial containing purification potion shattered in his raised hand.
“Wow.”
Someone among the guild members let out a small exclamation.
The fan merely swayed gently, yet the powdered glass shards and purification potion particles were sprayed toward Bio-Mother, who was hiding high above.
And at that sight, I couldn’t help but recall one inevitable thing.
“…X-Killer?”

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