The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 92

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Magic Girl Hunter Decorates the Dungeon! Episode 92
‘The asteroid is approaching, isn’t it?’
Lee Ji looked up at the sky. The asteroid, which had been about twice the size of the sun just moments ago, had now shrunk to a size that could be blocked by an outstretched hand.
Fresh chills ran down her spine.
‘Scary… but!’
Lee Ji ran to the Research Lab Front Courtyard and shouted at Han Ji-hyeok, who stood at some distance.
“Where is Hae-cho?”
“Southwest, about four hundred meters! Seems the Core is somewhere within a hundred-meter radius of there…. Wait. Why are you coming here? I told you to stay in the Research Lab!”
Si-heon grinned while gathering Magical Power in his front paw, momentarily breaking his focus.
“Lee Ji always exceeds expectations, meow.”
“You broke your own orders too! Why do you like it anyway?”
Why did people always spout nonsense the moment they started talking with Si-heon? Lee Ji found it a bit strange, then got to the point.
“I think I can evacuate the eggs. But there are people and animal friends who still don’t know what’s happening!”
“…Right. That Civil Servant who was raising the zebra earlier.”
Just then, a message appeared.
Warning!
The Dungeon is entering Unstable Mode
Dungeon Break in 00:24:59
Han Ji-hyeok cried out.
“Now you understand the situation!”
“Even so. I’ll call the animal friends who can’t read letters here too.”
“…How?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
Saying this, Lee Ji brought her fist to Han Ji-hyeok’s back with a light tap. He startled.
“I really do worry!”
“Han Ji-hyeok, put your focus here, meow! The asteroid is getting closer and closer, meow.”
“Ah….”
The asteroid had already grown so large that an adult’s hand could no longer block it. Strange heat shimmer undulated around its surface. The friction from passing through the atmosphere had scorched its exterior.
The end was near.
…If they just stood still, that is.
Si-heon stepped forward and spoke.
“Gather Magical Power for at least a full minute before firing, meow. We can buy at least one second, meow.”
“Yes!”
Two S-rank Hunters raised their front paws and hands respectively toward the sky.
And in the meantime, Lee Ji—
[Magic Girl Wants to Share Stories!]
“Humans, animal friends. Everyone hurry to the Professor’s Research Lab! A huge meteor will fall!”
At the same moment as her cry, another skill in her skill window blazed.
[Magic Girl Grows Stronger With Companions!]
The ‘Stories’ skill, which normally only worked on beings directly before her, now resonated across every living thing in the Dungeon at this very moment.
Hae-cho’s slightly flustered voice crackled through Han Ji-hyeok’s earpiece.
[What was that voice just now? Even the Capybara who was napping with his belly exposed just sprang up and took off somewhere—how did you do that?]
Han Ji-hyeok swallowed a response admitting his own shock and desperately improvised an excuse.
“That… never mind! It’s my skill!”
[Ah, right, that’s how it was. Okay. How’s it going there?]
“The asteroid is under fire! Together with Si-heon!”
At that moment, a powerful sphere of Magical Power launched from Si-heon’s front paw. The recoil was strong enough to send Si-heon tumbling backward.
Just as he managed to regain his footing, the Mana Projectile collided with the asteroid.
Boom…!
Across the surface of the asteroid, now grown to the size of a dinner table, a shockwave rippled outward from the point of impact.
For a moment, the asteroid truly seemed to stop. The dust scattering around it in all directions proved it.
But that was all. The asteroid did not halt its descent, and Si-heon let out a hollow laugh.
“Quite the punch, meow!”
[Han Ji-hyeok! The asteroid just got hit pretty hard, so? Man, just fire a hundred more like that! I don’t feel like working!]
At the voice leaking through the earpiece, Si-heon spat out a stream of curses before ending with a “meow” for good measure.
Han Ji-hyeok barely held back the comment that maybe they should drop this childish act and fired a practical question at Hae-cho instead.
“Hunter Hae-cho. How are things on your end?”
[Just confirmed the Core’s location! Phew…. Leave someone to buy time. Send anyone with strength left. We need to dig and destroy the Core.]
“….”
[Anyone without strength should crawl here if they have to. The Core… it’s terrifyingly deep.]
Hae-cho’s voice was rougher than ever before.
‘I’ve never seen her this exhausted.’
The aftereffect of using an EX-rank Skill for so long over such an absurdly wide range.
She might struggle to destroy the Core alone.
‘If the asteroid slows down even slightly, I need to go immediately!’
For now, Han Ji-hyeok released the Magical Power gathered at his fingertips.
“Huph…!”
The Magical Power, writhing like flame, soon left a rough mark on the asteroid’s surface before detonating.
Crackle-crackle-crackle…!
Not quite as forcefully as when Si-heon had fired, but the asteroid definitely paused for a moment.
Han Ji-hyeok wanted to cheer. But all that came from his mouth was ragged breathing.
“Hah… hah….”
“Good work, meow! Get ready for the second shot, meow!”
“Yes… ah….”
Around this time, the animals Lee Ji had called were beginning to arrive one by one.
Capybara, Snake, Anteater, Seal…. It was like something out of Noah’s Ark—if you ignored the ones without proper pairs.
The Civil Servant came running with his Shirt clenched in the Zebra’s teeth and gasped.
“What’s happening right now? An asteroid? I didn’t even get a Dungeon Break alert!”
Around him, several animals looked around in confusion.
Pegasus, Dog, and Raccoon tried their best to explain the situation, but with so many animals, it wasn’t easy.
Lee Ji immediately used her skill.
[Magic Girl Wants to Share Stories!]
Though the effect of [Magic Girl Grows Stronger With Companions!] had faded, Lee Ji’s voice still reached all the animals and humans gathered together in the Research Lab Front Courtyard.
“The asteroid might fall soon. There’s a Greenhouse in the Research Lab Back Courtyard, so hide there!”
“Greenhouse? No wait, little one. But what’s with that outfit?”
“It’s because of that Hunter! And anyway!”
Lee Ji called out with a small hope in her heart.
“If any brave friends have energy left, come dig with me!”
“Dig…? The Core location’s been confirmed?”
“Yes! Let’s go!”
There’s no time to explain further. Geum-hui grabbed several shovels stacked in the corner of the Greenhouse and ran off dragging them.
Pegasus forced Jun-seo onto his back and galloped away.
He wanted to carry Lee Ji too, but she ignored him.
The body of a transformed Magic Girl was incredibly light! She could run just fine on her own.
And on either side of her—
“Woof! Woof!”
“Screeeee….”
Dog, Mouse, Capybara, and Platypus began chasing after them, each at their own pace suited to their leg length.
The Civil Servant Hunter came rushing over with his Shirt still clenched between the Zebra’s teeth and cried out.
“Argh! Ah, Dad, I’m tired from carrying the younger one around! Can’t I take a break!”
“Hee-hee-hee!”
Zebra ignored the Civil Servant’s cries. Nobody asked him to make a younger sibling.
Lee Ji asked cheerfully.
“You don’t have the eggs anymore! Did you get a younger chick?”
“I did! Really big and sturdy! That’s why I thought I could pass the doctoral exam, but, ah, the exam’s gone?”
“Did the younger one go to the Greenhouse?”
“No! It said it was going to dig first… there!”
About fifty meters ahead. Hae-cho the Hunter was visible, digging through the earth with nothing but Magical Power and her fists.
All around her was nothing but dirt piled up to about an adult’s knee height… until.
A moment later.
Like a small volcano erupting, earth scattered violently as a single Mole shot up from the ground. It was nearly the size of a dolphin.
Even Hae-cho was caught off guard.
“What is that! A Sand Worm? Are we in the DUNE universe?”
Lee Ji quickly called out to Hae-cho.
“Hae-cho! It’s me! Me and the animal friends came to help dig!”
“Ah… so it’s the Dune universe after all.”
On either side of the laughing Hae-cho, everyone positioned themselves toward the Core.
Front paws, shovels, and sometimes hind legs began tearing through the earth.
Meanwhile, far above, the sound of the asteroid colliding with Magical Power continued.
As the asteroid drew closer, fragments of the broken asteroid scattered like meteors around them.
Some of them flew dangerously like bullets toward the area and embedded themselves—
“Yelp!”
The moment Dog flinched at a fragment driven into the ground between his front paws.
Hae-cho rose to her feet and shouted.
“[Oblivion is the Coffin and Cradle of All]!”
An A-rank Skill boasting overwhelming defensive power.
Above the heads of those digging, a coffin-lid-shaped gray barrier began to manifest.
The problem was that the barrier’s shadow blocked the earth—
But fortunately, that problem was soon resolved.

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