I Came Back And Conquered It All

Chapter 30

Foreign Race

When I hurried to the place where the rest of the party was, the first thing that caught my eye was Secretary Kim’s blood-stained and torn combat suit and two relatively fine D-class guild members.

“Oh, Team Leader!”

Right after he made a happy expression, he was surprised to see that Park Chang-hee wasn’t with me.

“What about the Expedition Leader?”

I had confirmed that his injuries have already been neatly healed with potions.

There was just a battle here, and Secretary Kim had gotten injured quite a bit, so the red stone reacted, but it looked like he won, anyway. The next thing that caught my eye was the opponent who had died while fighting against him. josei

“Is that…?”

“As the system message saying that the boundary had collapsed sounded, it suddenly appeared and rushed toward us. From now on, all of us must quickly retreat out of the gate according to the government-mandated protocol. You know that, right? However, the Expedition Leader…”

He spoke with a curious expression, but instead of answering Secretary Kim, I approached the fallen creature and looked at it.

Blue scales covered its skin. The overall shape of the body resembled a dog. There were six shiny eyeballs on the front of the head, without even an eyelid.

It looked slightly different from any creature I knew, because this was a creature that had already been modified so much that it was difficult to find traces of the original being.

“···Fuck!”

Another profanity came out of my mouth.

This was because I found a symbol that I could read on the corpse’s forehead. The non-earth text was similar to an autograph left on the work by a craftsman who had completed a classy product.

In other words, what I was seeing was what was engraved by a person who modified this beast. And the name of the races that used these letters was…

“Ersmann, those fucking pricks!”

Ersmann was the one who always stayed at the bottom when ranking the races that we wanted to encounter in the dungeon.

There were many reasons, but to pick three things off the list:

Firstly, when encountering other beings from other dimensions during exploration, they attacked and plundered first if they seemed weak. They had such a unique moral notion.

Secondly, they did not feel appalled at eating the meat of a civilized race, and they possessed a liberal food culture that digested anything well without being picky about race.

Lastly, if the meat did not suit their taste, they had a nasty habit of killing them after harassing them for a long time, instead of eating it quickly and cleanly.

‘There’s nothing good that comes out by facing them. No, we will be 100% attacked at this party level.’

Ersmann’s notoriety was exceptionally high in the dimension that humans were the main population. This was because the meat of most mammals, including humans, were awful to their taste.

“The Team Leader Park Chang-hee decided to move separately. He should have heard the system message, too. We should move quickly. I will explain the details on the move.”

Secretary Kim nodded without saying something, as if he had foreseen something. Even if he didn’t think I had killed him, he would have expected there was a good reason for this.

The other two guild members also stiffly moved. Rather than being convinced of me, who wasn’t the expedition leader, we had to stop all work according to the protocol anyway and withdraw as soon as possible.

We were also on the way back to Earth when…

‘Damn, it’s too late!‘

Mana chunks that gleam from a distance approached us at high speed.

Unfortunately, those who crossed the border were the strongest among Ersmann’s Awakened.

Piii! Piiiii!

With no time to run away further, we were surrounded by a group of foreign races that appeared with the wind in an instant.

The number of opponents in total was sixteen. I clenched my jaw at the misfortune that had befallen us.

‘It’s the worst!’

The Dungeon Gate connected to the Earth was an E-class, and was limited to the number of five, but as it expanded from the other side, the rank and the number of people that could enter increased slowly. It seemed that the ones who corresponded to the rank had all gotten dispatched.

Even if I estimated this with what I could see, no one had an active Mana of below 20,000. When it was measured to the scale of the Earth, everyone was rated S-class. Sixteen guys were all one level stronger than Park Chang-hee.

On the other hand, I…

-Active Mana: 14,500 (+9,700) / 4,800

-Potential Mana: 81,000

It was only this much, thanks to absorbing all the remaining active Mana in Park Chang-hee’s body.

‘There is no chance to win with a head-on match.’

Secretary Kim and other guild members were also nervous and prepared for battle. Holding a weapon, they wrapped the entire body with a Mana shield. It was a natural stance that came up from training.

Ersmann, who I encountered after a long time, was still bizarre and disgusting. A mixed face of cockroaches and stag beetles, and brown skin was covering their entire body. The arms, covered with small sharp thorns, pointed to us. They exchanged their language at high speed while keeping us surrounded.

Piiiiii!

Among them, the biggest Ersmann came forward. Its gaze touched the corpse of the modified life form.

He screamed.

Piiiiiiii!

That, in our language, meant this:

“My baby! Who killed my baby?!”

It didn’t exactly mean that it bore that animal, but that it had lost a loved and endeared modified beast. It seemed that he was the owner of the pattern.

Piiiiiiiiiii!

They looked at us and went wild.

“A monkey? Such a livestock feed dares to do this to my baby?”

Just as the future earthlings would call them cockroaches, Ersmann called humans in a similar manner.

“I will kill you!”

A green bubble swelled in its mouth, expressing feelings of rabidness.

‘It is pissed off. In this way, instead of cruelly playing with us, they will instantly…’

As soon as I said that, mana quickly concentrated in the Ersmann’s chest. I knew what it was about to do, but the time to respond was tight. I began to shout.

“Everyone! Immediately, let disable the Mana shield!”

It was the same as saying to disarm in front of a foreign race.

However, there was not enough time to explain the reasons in detail as much as I could compress it, as short as possible! At that moment, I tried to spit out the next word.

Weeing!

In a short period of less than a second, Secretary Kim’s expression had changed from light of suspicion to a face that was determined to do something, then clenched his teeth and disabled the shield. The Mana that had been released to the outside was collected and stored in the core. He believed in me.

However…

The remaining two guild members did not listen to me. Following the E-class hunter’s instructions who came to the dungeon for the first time today, it would not be easy to discard the protective equipment in front of the enemy.

I yelled.

“If you release Mana, it will at…!”

He didn’t wait for me to complete my sentence.

Booooooooooooo!

His chest swelled, and a black mist emanated from his mouth. It turned out to be a swarm of insects the size of a fly, about thousands or tens of thousands in number.

All of those objects covered the inside of the large cave, with blue Mana enveloping their bodies.

Then…

“Ahhhhhhhhh! Hel…!”

“Ahhhhhh!”

The scream did not even last a few seconds.

The black insect swarm ran toward the two guild members who had not disarmed the Mana shield. It broke through the barrier, tore and dug into the flesh, and ate their blood and meat.

There was no time for Secretary Kim and me to run over and help.

After a brief moment…

Boooooooooooong!

The worms returned to Ersmann’s mouth, and the torn bodies of two guild members remained on the floor.

Secretary Kim turned to look at me with a disturbed expression. Meanwhile, I gave all my attention to Ersmann.