The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 427

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Yeo Joo Saves the World
Part 3, Episode 31

I’d spoken barely above a whisper.
My lips had scarcely moved—just the faintest tremor.
But Sa Ma Young, blessed with keen hearing, caught every word.
And Kang Han, who happened to be walking toward me at that moment.
“….”
An awkward silence settled among the three of us.
I found myself reflecting on my words.
Especially, I felt a twinge of guilt toward Sa Ma Young.
After all, Woo Jun Kyung was Sa Ma Young’s subordinate.
And I’d just called him an X-killer.
‘I really should apologize, shouldn’t I?’
I was gauging their reactions when I finally opened my mouth.
“Pfft.”
“Ahem.”
Sa Ma Young let out a soft laugh, while Kang Han suppressed his with an exaggerated cough.
The sound drew the hunters’ attention toward us.
“It’s nothing. Anyway, whoever brings that thing down from the ceiling gets two purification potions!”
“Ooh!”
“That’s so unfair!”
“Yeah! What about those of us without ranged skills!”
Several hunters groaned and jeered, but I simply shrugged.
“You should’ve saved up beforehand and bought items that let you attack from a distance.”
“Boo!”
The Bio-Mother was essentially on death’s door now.
The fact that it had absorbed three chimeras yet still couldn’t escape its wretched state made that clear.
Its strategy was transparent.
There was clearly a cooldown on summoning chimera swarms, so it intended to keep absorbing while evading our attacks until it recovered enough strength.
Or perhaps it was simply trying to survive until the countdown ended.
Either way, I had no intention of dancing to its tune.
While ranged attack skills certainly provided an advantage, the guild members began devising every conceivable method to reach it.
“Let’s go!”
Lee Yu Eul was attempting to scale the walls and climb upward.
Meanwhile, Lee Yu Chan and Sung Yo Na, who’d been whispering conspiratorially moments before, had already formed a team.
“Are you ready, Yo Na?”
“Yeah! Let’s go!”
Lee Yu Chan hurled the potion bottle high into the air, and the moment his arrow shattered it—
“Haaah!”
Sung Yo Na clapped her hands together with all her might, compressing the space in front of the arrow.
Right before the Bio-Mother’s face.
[ “Kyaaaaaaagh!” ]
Watching the monster drenched in potion shriek, I felt utterly satisfied.
It was like taking a shower in cold soda.
Especially since the Bio-Mother had nearly dealt me a serious blow by stealing and using Sung Yo Na’s space compression skill.
“Oh, it’s not falling off?!”
Everyone’s eyes gleamed with anticipation at the creature’s unexpected reaction.
But the Bio-Mother endured.
Though it no longer seemed to have the strength to crawl along the ceiling and walls.
In the end, it was Han Ji Sung who delivered the decisive blow.
“‘Ice Spear’.”
“Wow, Ji Sung’s really smart.”
I couldn’t help but marvel at the unexpected tactic.
He’d frozen the potion solid and fired it as a razor-sharp ice lance.
Crack—! Thud!
The Bio-Mother plummeted, and Sa Ma Young and Kang Han, who’d been watching intently, bolted forward like arrows.
Crunch, crunch!
Sword and spear pierced deep, turning the Bio-Mother into an insect specimen in an instant.
Mangled and writhing on the ground, it resembled less a beautiful butterfly and more a pest on the verge of extermination.
“Yeo Joo, you can come closer now.”
Kang Han spoke to me after confirming the Bio-Mother was completely incapacitated.
I tried to walk forward leisurely, but I couldn’t.

【 00 : 31 : 54 】

For one thing, there wasn’t much time left before the explosion, but more than anything, I wanted to witness with my own eyes the pathetic state of an SS-rank monster.
“Quite the sight.”
At my words, the creature rolled its single remaining eye upward to look at me.
[ “… I cannot comprehend.” ]
The Bio-Mother, who had been spewing only mechanically refined words until now, spoke.
“Comprehend what?”
[ “Why do you possess such an ability—the key to fulfilling Wakellas’s desire?” ]
“Wakellas’s desire?”
[ “To close the rift, to protect Wakellas’s brilliant civilization.” ]
So it was speaking of the apocalypse.
I approached the Bio-Mother’s shoulder and crouched down to ask.
“Did you create chimeras for the sake of this desire?”
[ “Yes. I was born to fulfill that desire.” ]
It seemed Wakellas had created the Bio-Mother to fight against the apocalypse.
[ “If only you possessed that ability, perhaps Wakellas could—” ]
The creature opened its mouth wide and extended a black tongue like a tentacle.
The hunters who didn’t simply stand by and watch that undulating, slowly approaching appendage were already gathering around me by the truckload.
Naturally, Kang Han was the first to act.
Crackle—!
As golden light flickered across Kang Han’s eyes, the tongue that had been reaching out with lingering intent oxidized into black ash and vanished.
I felt no pity for the creature, stiffened rigid from the shock.
Pity for something that had tried to use me as a sacrifice and obliterate all my people? There was none.
But there was one thing I wanted to tell it.
“You’ve already failed. Probably long ago.”
[ “I… failed?” ]
The Bio-Mother fell silent for a moment, staring at me.
Then, as if realizing something, it closed its eyes.
[ “I see. I had already failed.” ]
Though it was a mechanical voice incapable of emotion, somehow the words echoing through the entire dome carried a sense of futility.
With the words “I had failed,” the Bio-Mother ceased all movement.
As if its purpose had been entirely fulfilled.
I placed my hand upon the Bio-Mother’s chest.

[ Skill ‘Dark Purification’ is activated. ]

The Bio-Mother accepted its final moments quietly, in a way that made it hard to believe this was the same creature I had fought so fiercely against.
As the creature scattered into ash like black petals, I spoke words that Wakellas might have once said to it.
“You did well.”
Perhaps in that final moment, the Bio-Mother’s lips curved into a smile.

[ You have defeated Wakellas’s Legacy, Bio-Mother (SS)! ]
[ Reward items will be given based on your contribution! ]
[ Calculating contribution…. ]

I read through the system messages that materialized one after another, then squeezed my eyes shut with all my strength.
Clenching both fists as tightly as I could, I finally released the sigh I had been holding back.
“We stopped it.”
We had prevented the 6-rank Dungeon Break that would have reduced the entire heart of Seoul to ashes through our own power.

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Somewhere in the Apocalypse Cult Hideout.
“Ha… hahaha!”
Bishop Yi covered his mouth with both hands as laughter burst forth.
“Pfft!”
Yet he couldn’t help but have his cheeks puff out like a pufferfish.
That’s how happy he was.
Eventually, Bishop Yi wiped away the tears that had gathered at the corners of his eyes.
When he had said he couldn’t bear the boredom and asked for a computer or TV, they had only said “electronic devices are not permitted.”
Yet on a large TV screen that had appeared from somewhere, the image of an SS-rank monster turning to ash in Yeo Joo’s hands was being replayed over and over.
“Ha… really, it changed.”
He still couldn’t believe it.
The future shown by the Foresight Skill had actually changed.
“It was possible to change it.”
Bishop Yi, who had been muttering blankly, laughed loudly again with “Aha!” and thought to himself.
It was strange and delightful.
To be honest, he hadn’t blindly believed in the future shown by the Foresight Skill from the beginning.
From small things like spraining an ankle while walking, to large things like his parents’ deaths.
He had tried to change them, but nothing ever changed.
Even when he took a different route, he sprained his ankle elsewhere for a different reason, and even when he prevented his parents’ car accident, the cause of death simply changed from a traffic accident to a gas explosion.
So when he saw the future where the world perished, he let go of everything.
Since struggling to survive wouldn’t change anything anyway, he decided to just do what he wanted during the remaining time and die on an appropriate day.
He accepted it and gave up.
Bishop Yi struck his own head with a thwack sound.
“Fool.”
Even if I couldn’t change it, someone else might be able to.
Just then, the screen showed the Justice Guild hunters laughing together with tired faces.
They had changed it.
“Bishop Yi!”
At that moment, the door burst open with a loud sound as Vice Cult Leader Shin Tae Jung rushed in.
His glasses were gone, replaced by vertically slit pupils and a face contorted with rage.
“Gasp!”
Shin Tae Jung gritted his teeth as he seized Bishop Yi by the collar with brutal force, strangling him.
“You dare lie to me?”
Shin Tae Jung had verified it countless times.
The future Bishop Yi saw could not be changed by any means.
So now Shin Tae Jung was under the misapprehension that the future of the 6th Dungeon Break that Bishop Yi had foreseen was a fabrication.
“How dare you—a wretch like you—deceive me?”
Finally, Shin Tae Jung began strangling Bishop Yi with both hands.
Thoughts raced through the crimson-flushed mind.
For reasons unknown, if the Justice Guild possessed the power to alter its predetermined fate.
‘I don’t want to die.’
Perhaps by preventing the world’s destruction, I could escape death as well.
Having completed his calculations, Bishop Yi fumbled weakly at Shin Tae Jung’s hands around his throat, feigning resistance as he spoke.
“Th-that’s why I, gasp, asked for a computer or TV… didn’t I?”
Like a petulant child who had told a grand lie because Shin Tae Jung refused his request, he laughed.
Bishop Yi would do anything to survive.

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