The Female Lead Saves the World - Chapter 59

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Yeo Joo Saves the World – Episode 59

The battle was fierce.
Or rather, it resembled four Giant Wingbats hunting down dozens of goblins.
“Keeee-!”
“Kee-ik!”
The piercing cries of the Giant Wingbats circling menacingly filled the air from all directions.
Kang Han furrowed one of his dark brows.
The sound felt as though the creatures were mocking the goblin horde.
“Kruk, kruk!”
“Kyaak!”
Below them, the goblins desperately counterattacked, but they were outmatched.
The spears and pickaxes they hurled couldn’t even reach the high-flying Giant Wingbats, instead falling to the ground and striking their own allies.
Yet the goblins, already consumed by rage and terror, seemed to have lost all capacity for rational thought.
“Something feels off.”
Lee Yu Chan adjusted his glasses as he spoke.
“They’re both C-rank, so why is this so one-sided?”
“Maybe it’s just a bad matchup?”
“That could be it, but…”
Despite his sister Lee Yu Eul’s answer, Lee Yu Chan still looked unconvinced.
“The goblins seem to be panicking excessively.”
Kang Han agreed with that assessment.
Goblins were naturally cunning creatures that, despite appearances, engaged in disciplined pack behavior.
Wildly hurling whatever they held in their hands was far removed from their instinctive nature.
As everyone exchanged puzzled glances, the largest of the Giant Wingbats let out a long cry as if signaling the others.
“Keeee-aaaaak!”
The Wingbats folded their thin, bat-like wings and descended in a flash, each plucking a goblin from the gathered mass below.
And then.
“Are they… drinking blood right now?”
Giant Wingbats typically carry their prey back to their nest to feed.
But these creatures were different.
The four Giant Wingbats soared above the vast Cavern, then opened their maws wide and drove their razor-sharp fangs deep into the goblins’ necks.
“Kruk! Kuk, kuk…”
The goblin whose neck was bitten seemed to struggle briefly, but soon its limbs went limp.
“Chung Soo, check it out.”
“Chungsu, check it out.”
“Yes, yes!”
At Kang Han’s command, Im Chung Soo—his face drained of color—activated his Dungeon Codex skill.

[ Bloodsucking Giant Wingbat ( B )
: Mutant. A Giant Wingbat that evolved through bloodsucking methods and grew stronger. ]

“That’s right! It’s a B-rank mutant!”
Im Chung Soo checked the system window again.
He tried to appear unfazed, but his legs trembled beneath him.
The monsters he encountered in his second Dungeon were incomparable to those that lurked on the Mountain near his home.
They were far more vicious and terrifying.
Would I have to fight creatures like this from now on?
More importantly, was there anything I could even do inside a Dungeon?
I wanted to stitch my own mouth shut for telling Yeo Joo to stop confining me to the Guild and treating me like a child.
Should I suggest leaving right now?
Should I run?
My mind swirled with countless thoughts.
“You can run if you want.”
Suddenly snapping back to awareness, Im Chung Soo glanced to his side.
“Yeo Joo.”
“Don’t push yourself. Besides, the monsters won’t touch you.”
Yeo Joo’s finger pointed ahead.
“Don’t you see? There’s no room for us to even step in.”
“Ah….”
Im Chung Soo’s mouth fell open slightly.
By now, the other Guild members—save Kang Han, who remained to protect the two of them—had already charged toward the horde of goblins.
Leading the charge, naturally, was Jang Su Ho.
“Let’s goooo!”
With a thunderous roar, Jang Su Ho leaped high into the air and plunged directly into the heart of the enemy formation.
“Screech!”
“Shriek, shriek!”
Enraged not only by the Bloodsucking Wingbat overhead but also by the sudden intrusion of a Hunter, the goblins erupted in fury.
And that fury, unlike their response to the aerial threat, spread like wildfire toward the new enemy with feet planted on the ground.
“Growwwl!”
At the signal of their leader wielding a proper iron sword, five of them rushed at him at once.
Yet Jang Su Ho showed no panic.
Instead, he grinned wickedly.
“Perfect—come at me all at once!”

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Exhilaration surged through my entire body.
Jang Su Ho channeled the roiling power directly into his shield.
Crash!
Bang!
Crack!
Belying its name as defensive armor, the shield he wielded had long since become a perfect instrument of destruction.
“Shriek!”
The goblin impaled on the shield’s edge released its final cry—a sound almost melodic.
A song that kept him dancing endlessly.
A spell commanding him to think of nothing but to drink the enemy’s blood with his entire being.
Jang Su Ho gladly heeded that whisper.
Gripping the shield with both hands, he charged toward the goblin leader that had irritated him from the start.
Boom—!
A heavier impact reverberated through the Dungeon’s stone walls.
“Screech!”
The creature staggered, losing its footing.
Jang Su Ho didn’t miss the opening.
He extended his right hand and seized the leader’s throat.
“Gurk, gurk!”
It tried to swing the sword clutched in its grip, but it was already too late.
Caught in the iron grip of an S-rank Berserker Shielder, the neck could no longer pump blood throughout the creature’s body.
The moment the thrashing leader’s iron blade clattered to the ground.
Splurt!
The neck crushed by that tremendous grip burst, and black blood sprayed in all directions like a fountain.
“Hah.”
As the warm liquid dripped across his face, Jang Su Ho’s eyes burned crimson.
“Shriek, shriek!”
“Screech, screech!”
With their leader dead so easily, the goblins descended into panic.
They rolled their eyes left and right, searching for an escape route.
And then they all began running in the same direction.
The only exit the goblins found was the massive Iron Gate where his comrades who hadn’t joined the battle remained.
Yeo Joo was there.
“They’re not getting through there.”
A scorching rage of unknown origin burned hotter in Jang Su Ho’s mind.
“Huff.”
Jang Su Ho drew a deep breath and raised his shield high, its edge sharpened and gleaming.
That was when it happened.
A cold gust of mana swept through the barren Dungeon, followed by a low voice.
“Ice Field
(Ice Field)
.”
Crack-crack-crack!
Han Ji Sung’s hands pressed against the ground, blocking the path of the charging goblin horde, and savage ice spikes erupted upward from that spot.
“Kyaaaah!”
The goblins shrieked from all directions as sharp ice spikes pierced through their feet, bursting suddenly from the earth.
Yet they could not pull their feet free.
Ice that had already climbed to their knees had frozen both legs in place.
Dozens of goblins, transformed in an instant into living statues, instinctively turned to look behind them.
There stood a monster, its entire body stained pitch-black with crimson eyes blazing, baring white fangs in a grin.
Whoosh—!
A shield flew from the monster’s hand in a wide arc.
That was the last sight the goblins ever saw.

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While Jang Su Ho focused on marking the goblin horde, the twins’ gaze turned upward.
Four blood-sucking Wingbats circled overhead, watching the goblins being slaughtered.
They were assessing Jang Su Ho’s sudden display of power.
While the blood-sucking Wingbats kept their attention fixed on Jang Su Ho, the twins quietly slipped along the Dungeon’s wall, flanking from the side.
Before launching the full assault, the Guild Master’s strategy had been simple.

“Target one of the wings.”

Lee Yu Chan’s sharp gaze fixed on the blood-sucking Wingbat’s large but delicate wings.
If even one of those wings was damaged, the creatures would lose their ability to fly.
As a C-rank Hunter, he couldn’t defeat four B-rank mutants alone.
But the Guild Master didn’t step in.
He knew better than anyone that what Lee Yu Chan needed most was real combat experience.
Lee Yu Chan slowly nocked two arrows he’d conjured in his palm onto his bowstring.
It was the maximum number he could fire accurately in a single volley with his current abilities.
Yet as the bowstring grew taut to its absolute limit, not a single distracting thought clouded his mind.
Because Lee Yu Eul was waiting for him across the battlefield.
“Hah.”
With his breathing steady, Lee Yu Chan released the string without hesitation.
Whoosh—!
With a sharp whistle cutting through the air, both arrows struck the leftmost of the four creatures mid-flight.
One pierced the center of its membrane wing, while the other struck the shoulder joint connecting wing to body.
“Shriek!”
Caught off guard by the sudden assault, the blood-sucking Wingbat cried out and lost its balance, flailing wildly.
Lee Yu Chan immediately fired two more arrows in rapid succession.
His targets were the same two wounds he’d just inflicted.
“Damn.”
As the creature thrashed its wings to regain control, the arrow meant for the membrane wing went wide.
But the arrow aimed at the shoulder joint found its mark, tearing a deeper wound.
“Shriek, shriek!”
Thud!
Having lost the flight capability of one wing, the blood-sucking Wingbat finally crashed to the ground.
“Got it!”
And there, waiting for the creature, was Lee Yu Eul.

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