Chapter 16: The Frog Villain Kim Seung-joon

From what I can see, something is seriously fucked up here.

I mean, isn't it just common sense? Can girls really act like this just from having their shoulders touched a bit?

Things are getting dark and murky again, so I put a cigarette in my mouth.

Kim Seung-joon isn't the problem. Han Soo-ji is manageable somehow. But in Reina's case, it ultimately comes down to Choi Si-woo. That hero with his stupidly common name - his love is what amplifies her power.

"No, this makes zero fucking sense logically."

No matter how I think about it, there's no logic here. Then what's with this Bbeum-mi?

Well, Bbeum-mi's thought process is already fourth-dimensional. Let's just accept that and move on. But then there's Reina.

Was it because I spanked her ass? Is it the spanking?

Did that crazy Hyeonmu Arrow bitch awaken her lewd nature when I spanked her ass then?

"What are you muttering about?"

"Shut up, bitch."

"Ah. Bitch?"

*Slap*

After thoroughly roasting the Flame Spear Bitch Han Soo-ji, I smacked Reina's ass.

"Hnnng."

"Nice and firm."

No matter how many times I hit her, Reina's reaction stayed the same.

Clearly Reina must be a pervert. If she's like this here, won't her power drop drastically when facing Sin later?

Choi Si-woo. Should I pressure him to spank her? If he doesn't do something with Reina, this could seriously be dangerous.

If this arrow girl turns les, the world will be in danger.

What kind of fucked up rule is this.

Should I get them drunk and lock them in a room together? No, that could make things even worse.

Then what about Bbeum-mi?

"Bbeum-mi dear. Do you like me?"

"Hawawa. How embarrassing! White-haired unnie is my ideal type of woman!"

Calling someone like me their ideal - this girl's really lost her marbles too.

At least it's good she's not les.

No, honestly, it makes my head spin having a girl who talks like this say she likes me.

Hawawa! White-haired unnie! I wuv you! Please marry me!

Ugh. I don't even want to imagine it. I guess the only good thing about these two is that they're not heroines, so there's no worry about destroying the original work.

Anyway, while all this chattering was going on, we took out about a dozen goblins whose specialty was eye-rape.

But this bastard Kim Seung-joon still shows no sign of appearing.

"What do we do? This Kim Seung-joon fucker isn't showing himself at all. If we get ambushed in the forest, we're totally fucked."

"Leave that to me!"

"Bbeum-mi dear. What are you planning?"

"Trees are weak to fire! Obviously a forest, which is a party of trees, is also weak to fire!"

While I was dumbfounded by her description of a forest as a "party of trees", chills started running down my spine.

"...And so?"

Though filled with unease, I had to hear the rest of what she was saying. Well, if I didn't listen, I wouldn't have time to prepare either.

"We just need to burn it all! Bbeum-mi! Meteor Collision!"

"What the fuck?"

Despite being in a labyrinth, multiple huge meteors suddenly formed in the ceiling and dropped towards the forest.

BOOM! KABOOM~! BOOM!

It scorched the forest while precisely avoiding us - even the Mongol army's scorched earth tactics probably weren't this thorough.

This is worse than post-Great Cataclysm, non-functioning Seoul.

I've been underestimating Bbeum-mi by focusing only on the heroines. To think she could use such brutal magic despite talking in that ridiculous cutesy way.

Isn't this even more impressive destructive power than Reina's prized Hyeonmu Arrow?

Even I couldn't redirect that with Acceleration. There's no way a woman's strength could redirect such massive meteors in the first place.

"Just where did you make friends with such a monster?"

"...I don't know either."

I think that cutesy speech pattern is infecting me too.

The forest that got scorched like that turned into a clearing.

The piles of ash we see must be the remains of the goblins that were eye-raping us.

We could have gotten at least small Cores if we'd killed them normally. This is quite troublesome.

"Hawawa. Don't embarrass me with praise! Bbeum-mi can't use attack magic for 6 hours after using this skill!"

What? So you're saying she's just dead weight now?

"Fuck, I pray Kim Seung-joon is dead."

Taking dead weight to fight Kim Seung-joon 3-on-1... how would that go?

The opponent is a mutant and has deviated from the original work. In Choi Si-woo's case, his sword itself was the 'Divine Sword' with an advantage against mutants, plus he survived thanks to protagonist buffs.

Ah right, I did something crazy. Now that we've come this far and Bbeum-mi has become useless, I'm suddenly getting scared.

Won't this just end up helping Kim Seung-joon?

"I'm curious about something."

"What is it?"

"What happens if you stab a man's dick with a knife 9999 times at high speed?"

Since I've already attacked once, there's nothing stopping me from doing it two or three times.

"Wouldn't it be better to just give him a sex change operation?"

"Depending on the situation?"

In the original work, Kim Seung-joon doesn't survive.

Of course, Choi Si-woo, being the righteous character he is, spares Kim Seung-joon. The meaning was to live and work hard. But following the Black God Church's doctrine, Kim Seung-joon dies and his Core is retrieved.

If he's going to die anyway, wouldn't it be fine for us to kill him?

If we can't subdue him, that would be the best option.

"Blegh!"

"Why are you suddenly being gross?"

While we were walking, Reina suddenly started throwing up.

Don't tell me she's having morning sickness.

"How can there be this much demonic power flowing? Isn't this supposed to be a practice dungeon? Urgh!"

Demonic Power. Something that flows in dungeons and gates - during the Great Cataclysm, the world was endangered by demonic power flowing out from gates.

Demonic Power affects humans' magic power control, and prolonged exposure to this demonic power can even turn people into mutants.

Normal humans usually feel their skin tingling, and get headaches and breathing difficulties. But recently, dungeons with enough demonic power to affect people are hard to find.

If any exist, they'd only be in closed dungeons and gates that have existed since the Great Cataclysm.

In other words, it's impossible for demonic power to be flowing here.

This didn't happen in the original work either, so I'm certain.

"Ugh. This is disgusting."

"Good thing I wore a demonic power absorption suit underneath just in case. But Yoo Eun-ha, why are you so fine?"

"Me? It's my innate ability."

It was definitely Affinity. This is seriously sweet.

For example, it means I can endure extremely cold places or extremely hot places all through Affinity. So what about places overflowing with demonic power?

"Just how many innate abilities do you have?"

"Reina. That Reflection I used on you doesn't actually exist. It's more like an ability to adapt to environments? Something like that."

"Ha, so you deceived me?"

Reina narrowed her brows, saying she was disappointed.

Seeing that, I shook my head with an awkward smile.

"The fool is the one who gets fooled."

"This isn't the time to chat! With demonic power this thick, we don't know what monsters might appear!"

Hmm, that's true. If demonic power is overflowing, it's also evidence that there are monsters.

There might be strong monsters nearby. If it's a monster we can't handle, running away quickly would be the smart move.

"If we'd known this would happen, it would have been better to stop Bbeum-mi from using Meteor Collision and just kill the goblins ourselves as we moved forward."

"Well, you didn't tell me so what can we do."

Though the surroundings are scorched, if we'd known demonic power would overflow, we should've stopped her from using it and just used it here.

Even if the demonic power is visible to the naked eye, I can see through it all with my eyes. The problem is that Reina and Han Soo-ji seem quite anxious.

"Oh, there's something at the center of the demonic power."

"Indeed. Looks like something that might be Kim Seung-joon."

If I were to explain Kim Seung-joon's appearance now, he was what you'd call a shrimp. And wearing glasses with a typical extra face with sports-cut hair, fitting for an early villain.

The reason I'm explaining this is because that creature in the demonic power ahead looks too thick to be Kim Seung-joon.

Did he put everything into physical enhancement? Looking at it that way, you could say the demonic power is flowing from Kim Seung-joon's body.

"Wait, something's off."

"Gr.grrrrrr."

"Ah, disgusting."

What was in that demonic power was Kim Seung-joon transformed into something like a goblin.

No, did his face originally look like a goblin? Come to think of it, his looks were treated like goblin-adjacent.

Honestly speaking, if someone has a goblin-like face and a shrimp body, isn't even nice personality-wise, and obsesses over the Divine Sword while worshipping weird things every day, I'd avoid them too.

The guy slowly walked out of the demonic power and showed that annoying face of his to us.

"Choi Si-woo. Yoo. Eun. Ha. I'll never forgive you."

Maybe it's because he was exposed to demonic power for so long in the Goblin's Labyrinth? His nose and jaw protruded out and his eyes changed to look like a toad's.

In short, it's disgusting.

What kind of horrible hybrid is that? What sins did his parents commit in their past life to give birth to something like that and eat seaweed soup?

Ah right. This is a novel and a dream. Geez.

Anyway, seeing him obsess so pathologically is truly pathetic.

"Why the fuck are you so obsessed with the Divine Sword?"

"My deceased father was a Divine Sword user candidate, so naturally that hero's position belongs to me, his son! Would Choi Si-woo and you bitches understand my feelings!"

In short, fucking nonsense logic.

He's beyond saving from the start. Then I'll have to send him off.

"I, Yoo Eun-ha, will send you bastard to join your father."

Was he enraged by my words? He finally charged at us.

"Bbeum-mi stay in the back, Reina support with Spirit Arrow, and Han Soo-ji and I will take him on the front line!"

At my command, Bbeum-mi scurried to the back, Reina drew her bowstring, and Han Soo-ji took out her Flame of Purification Spear.

And I too drew my heavy sword and aimed it at him.

Acceleration? Physical Enhancement? No good. I can't be sure we can win against him, so right now it's just my individual capability. I have to fight him with just Physical Enhancement.

Kim Seung-joon who was charging jumped like a frog and swung at us with the huge claws on both hands.

CLANG!

This isn't normal. With a body that must weigh well over 100kg putting its weight into it, it feels like I'm being pressed down.

Maybe because I was flustered? His face twisted hideously as he put more strength into those claws to push me back.

"Don't forget about me!"

Han Soo-ji thrust her Flame of Purification Spear from the side with good timing, but only managed to graze him. He jumped back like a frog again and landed.

"Kekeke. First I should deal with that Han Soo-ji. Gweeeek"

After briefly retreating from Han Soo-ji's surprise attack, he spewed something like gastric juice towards her.

Of course she wouldn't get hit and Han Soo-ji dodged, but whatever he vomited must have been oil since it caught fire just from touching the Flame of Purification Spear.

"Damn. Can't use fire."

"Can't you control it?"

"Sorry. I haven't reached that level yet. I'm fine but I might friendly fire during combat."

Can't be helped. Then we'll just have to deal with this somehow.

We still have the numerical advantage with Reina's Spirit Arrow.

Should I use Acceleration and Parallel Circuit after all?

"Bbeum-mi dear. Does this sword have any special properties?"

"Hawawa. That sword is magic immune!"

"Magic power?"

Come to think of it, Kim Seung-joon has a phase 2.

If this frog is phase 1, then phase 2 is like a goblin. More precisely, if phase 1 is goblin-adjacent looks, phase 2 is a goblin itself.

Though I'm wondering how we'll get to phase 2 when phase 1 is already this tough.

Among us, I know the most information about Kim Seung-joon. Then we can't let Reina and Han Soo-ji recklessly attack and just help Kim Seung-joon.

At least as far as I know, this dungeon didn't have demonic power in the original work.

Which means it must be Kim Seung-joon.

Then Reina, Bbeum-mi, or Han Soo-ji could die.

Considering the future, I can't let them die here.

After crossing blades several times, I feel that this is too realistic. Well, since it's realizing a novel in a dream, I guess it would be similar to reality.

"This won't work."

We're not landing any effective hits against Kim Seung-joon.

Reina only invested in archery so close combat is impossible. Han Soo-ji barely covering is all we've got. And Han Soo-ji can't even unleash her prized Flame of Purification Spear's ability so it's killing us.

"What?"

"Reina and Han Soo-ji fall back. I'll handle this bastard myself."

Fighting him alone is best.

"How are you going to do it?"

"I can't let you get hurt. It's better if I face him alone."

Though his body got stronger, he's still stupid.

If I use that point, I might be able to catch him.

"Come at me you dickless bastard."

Acceleration Parallel Circuit

At that moment. My head was filled with text.

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Suddenly my whole body was filled with disgust.

As if I'd experienced this once before, 'my body' is disgusted seeing that thing.

That is a monster. Not a mutant but just a monster. It must not be left alive.

I gripped the sword in my hand tighter and ran towards the frog that was blankly standing there not noticing me and struck down.

No wounds appear. The opponent is a very hard frog. But I must keep hitting it.

[HateFrogs]

A physiological disgust towards this frog struck me. I hit and hit and hit again.

The frog couldn't properly resist me.

There's no way a mere frog could keep up with this speed.

"You. You damn bitch!"

The frog's claws grazed my side, but I just slightly tilted my body and this time hit its flank.

[A talking frog is disgusting. Must kill it. Kill it.]

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Suddenly my body moved like crazy hitting this frog again and again.

Cracks started appearing on his body at some point.

Yes. Let's kill it quickly. Must kill it. It has to die. Only then will I not suffer.

When the frog moved its front legs to defend where it was hit, I ducked my head and struck its lower body.

My body is tingling. Must end this quickly. If I don't end it I'll die from disgust.

CRACK!

Finally the cracking frog's body started breaking.

Physical enhancement has its limits after all.

I gripped the sword with both hands and aimed for the frog's tteokbaegi this time.

"W-wait. Wait, s-stop! No!"

[The frog speaks. I hate frogs. So I smashed it]

CRUNCH!

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