Saved a Heroine From the Brink of Death

78. Reward

#78. Reward

The Hellfire, which was shaped like a giant ball of flame, collided with the Lizardman warrior leader.

The Hellfire that collided with the target transformed from a sphere into a pillar of fire and engulfed the Lizardman warrior.

“Keeeruk-?”

The Lizardman warrior’s scream was short and loud.

It was probably not a scream of pain. All of the organs, including the brain, would have melted away at the same time without any time to feel pain.

Anyway, to conclude, the Lizardman commander is dead.

It was a meaningless ending that made the name of the boss monster of the B-class gate seem meaningless.

‘I’m the one who used magic… but I’m feeling nervous for no reason.’

The appearance of Hellfire was enormous. The huge pillar of fire continued for several dozen seconds after engulfing the Lizardman warrior, burning and melting everything around it before finally subsiding.

It wasn’t the strongest magic in the fire world for nothing.

“The power is truly terrifying….”

“… That’s right.”

Cynthia took my words with a bewildered expression.

“Are you okay, oppa?”

“Huh? Huh. Are you okay? What about you?”

“Me too. By the way… .”

Cynthia paused for a moment and then asked.

“… How are we alive?”

“huh?”

Cynthia’s gaze turned to the pit directly in front of her where the hellfire had burst out. The traces of the pillar of fire remained just a few centimeters away.

Not only the grass, but even the dirt and rocks stuck in the ground were melted. Naturally, the ground turned into liquid and flowed out in strange shapes.

“I just got swept up in magic and thought I was going to die… But there’s no damage…? There’s still heat around me, but I don’t feel anything special…”

It was only after hearing Cynthia’s words that I realized what she was wondering.

Cynthia’s questions were natural.

Hellfire is not a magic that identifies and attacks enemies like the skills in the game.

Hellfire is a magic so dangerous that it can even lead to the death of the caster if there is no proper defensive magic.

“That’s because we have the Absolute Shield on us right now. You know? High-level attack magic also includes defensive magic. That’s why.”

High-level attack magic scrolls such as “Hellfire” ‘absolutely’ have defensive magic built in. The reason is as explained above.

If there is no defensive magic, the caster will also be caught in the magic and go down.

Reality is not a game.

The magic you use can put not only yourself but also your allies in danger.

“… App, Absolute Shield?”

“You weren’t surprised by Hellfire… but you’re surprised by Absolute Shield?”

“…Hellfire? Seriously, the magic you just used was Hellfire?”

“Uh. Why?”

I tilted my head.

Anyone can tell that it’s Hellfire. The crimson flames are a characteristic that only Hellfire has.

“No… I thought it was a bit weak for a Hellfire… I thought it was a deteriorated version or something…”

“… … .”

I’m sorry I don’t have magic power. Yeah… it’s my fault for not having magic power.

It was only natural that Cynthia misunderstood, since it would not have been able to reproduce even 1/10 of the original’s power.

“Then shall we start moving slowly… huh?”

I turned around to leave, but then I remembered something I had forgotten.

‘Wait a minute, wasn’t this guy the one who gave me the Hidden Piece?’

In the original, Lee Soo-hyuk hunted the Lizardman warrior chief and the sorcerer. He didn’t catch them using the regular method like I did, but he made the warrior chief and the sorcerer fight each other by causing discord between them and then struck the final blow.

One of the remaining thoughts was that of a guy with an incredibly sharp mind.

I wanted to try that method too, but… I didn’t know where the sorcerer was and the situation was urgent, so I couldn’t use it.

Anyway, that’s that.

“Sia. I can’t see you very well right now because of the smoke, but… Could you please take a look at that hole over there?”

The fire caused by Hellfire disappeared cleanly as the magic wore off. However, the smoke from the fire remained.

“A hole? Oh… yes!”

Magic power gathered in Cynthia’s eyes. Her eyesight was enhanced.

“Are you checking to see if the boss mob is still alive? Hellfire is raging, so you don’t think it’ll be alive… Huh?”

She rubbed her eyes shut, then opened them wide again.

“What… is there? Hellfire flew away… ?? Even though it’s close to the power of the fire plate… .”

“What do you see?”

“Yes. It’s blurry, but there’s something like a… square cube… ? The boss mob seems to be completely dead.”

‘also…!’

I thought the Hellfire had melted the Hidden Peace, but it seems not to have. If I had left it like that, I would have felt sick for a few days. Phew. That’s a relief.

“Shall I check it out?”

“Are you okay?”

“Yes! It looks like this shield can last another minute. I’ll be back in a jiffy!”

I nodded to Cynthia, and she immediately walked over to the Hidden Piece.

‘Okay. This is it.’

A hidden piece held by the Lizardman warrior leader.

Originally, this was the hidden piece that Lee Soo-hyuk would get, but now it has fallen into Cynthia’s hands.

“Huh, huh…?”

Cynthia’s panicked voice was heard as white light burst out of the smoke. It seemed that the Hidden Piece had been absorbed into her.

‘As planned.’

Cynthia was already strong, but now she’s gotten even stronger.

***

Cynthia was embarrassed.

The Lizardman Warrior, the boss monster of the gate. I was planning to take the item that was supposedly a reward for defeating him and give it to Han Seong-jin… but it disappeared in an instant.

‘W, what is going on…?’

She shook her hands frantically, but the absorbed cube did not come out.

‘Illien… What should I do…!’

-Oh, um… Really? Fighting!

Illian, the only hope, expressed her doubts and then quickly disappeared.

“… … .”

Cynthia suddenly became a thief who stole the reward that was supposed to belong to Han Sungjin. Cynthia searched the surroundings to see if there was anything else, but realized that there was nothing except for the cube-like thing she had absorbed.

‘…oh my god.’

While I was feeling so depressed and troubled, I heard Han Seong-jin’s voice.

“Sia! There’s not much shield time left! Come out quickly!”

“yes….”

Cynthia bowed her head and walked forward with a limp.

“What happened?”

“That, that….”

“There was a white light… Could it be the Hidden Piece?”

Han Sung-jin pretended not to know and smiled as he asked Cynthia.

“I’m sorry…!”

“?”

“I just touched it… and it disappeared right away… It’s like it was absorbed into me… and there’s no way to get it out.”

Cynthia felt wronged.

Who would have thought that just by putting your hand on it, it would be absorbed?

“Hmm… really?”

At this, Han Seong-jin tilted his head and said with a sly smile.

“Well, isn’t that a good thing? I don’t really have anything to use it for anyway.”

“Yes? But… if I take it and sell it, I might be able to get a high price… .”

“Do I look like I’m short on money?”

“Still… since you used the Hellfire Scroll, it must have cost a lot… .

“It’s okay, it’s okay. You don’t have to worry about it. But… I think it’s time to move now?”

“Huh? Oh, that’s right.”

“Let’s talk about this later. For now, let’s get out of here.”

“yes!”

Cynthia nodded as if she understood what I meant.

The pillar of fire that just rose and the heat around it. They will feel it and the monsters will rush in.

I treated the guard with a recovery scroll and then handed him a vial of potion.

“Can you move now?”

“Yes, thank you.”

“Then let’s move right away.”

“Yes. I will take the lead.”

‘My bodyguards will also come this way… I should move while leaving some traces.’

Since the lizardmen are intelligent, if you leave obvious traces, there is a chance that they will immediately chase you.

That’s why I moved after applying a ‘tracking scent’ that only the bodyguards could detect to my body.

There is one reason for being so careful.

Because there is still one more boss monster in the Lizardman habitat.

Lizardman Shaman.

A communal boss mob in the Lizardman habitat that uses powerful magic.

Now that I have almost no scrolls, if I run into him I’m in real trouble.

***

Lee Soo-hyuk was tied up with his arms and legs as if he was hanging from a log, and was being transported to their dwelling by the lizardmen. ‘Fuck. Fuck. Fuck… .’

He was lamenting how he came to be in this situation.

‘Where did I go wrong? Should I have held his hand then?’

The man who gave himself the attack scroll.

The guy, who appeared to be a civilian, used a scroll with a location-transformation magic built into it to swap their locations the moment he ran away.

‘… Yeah. I was unlucky. I didn’t know there was a position change scroll.’

I had really bad luck.

I got caught up in this kind of gate too.

I was also affected by a random transfer.

And… the guy who hit the back of my head happened to have a location change scroll.

It’s all just bad luck.

‘Rather than that. If we tease these guys just a little bit, they might be able to escape…’

Lee Soo-hyuk thought as he looked at the lizardmen guys.

These guys. They’re intelligent, but they’re also quite naive.

“I didn’t notice it before because I was so nervous… but looking at it slowly like this, it seems like you’re all handsome!”

“Kruk? What does that mean, human?”

“You are very handsome.”

“Kururuk? Is that real?”

“Yes.”

When Lee Soo-hyuk praised him, the lizardmen pretended not to like it inside, but they listened and urged him to talk more.

“Haha. I’m not the type of person who lies well. Everyone has distinct facial features, so I think they’re the most handsome and manly among the Lizardmen… Is that right?”

“Kekekekeke! That’s right! Human man! You know something!”

‘Good… I guess his guard has let down… Now I can change the subject a little and try to appease him.’

Lee Soo-hyuk smiled with a sense of conversion and tried to continue speaking to the lizardman.

At that time… .

“Keruk? You have a good test subject, keruk!”

A lizardman holding a wooden staff approached the group of lizardmen where Lee Soo-hyuk was and snickered.

“You guys over there! Hand that human over to me, Keruk! If you make him into a chimera, he’ll be a great addition to the clan, Keruk!”

The lizardman sorcerer was looking at Lee Soo-hyuk with greedy eyes.