Bam!

The giant monster—or more precisely, what used to be the giant monster—fell, diced into such small pieces that it was difficult to decipher its original shape. The rock-like remnants scattered everywhere like a mountain erupting. Hawa nodded mindlessly as she watched Chi-Woo clap his hands clean.

In the beginning of their time together in the sanctuary, Hawa had doubted at times whether Chi-Woo was really a hero. Now, however, all her suspicions and doubts were gone, and she attributed Chi-Woo’s awkwardness in close-quarter combat to the fact that he wasn’t a warrior; there was no doubt he had in spades all the other necessary skills in battle from aggression to an agile and strategic mind. 

‘One or two of them… I can deal with just fine, but it’ll be difficult for me to take on more than three at the same time,’ Chi-Woo thought while looking at the giant monster he had destroyed. He now knew why Ru Amuh had made the judgment to run away before. Even though Chi-Woo had gotten stronger, he wouldn’t survive if he was surrounded by dozens of these monsters.

‘Should I go down or continue?’ Although he had been worried that the fortress might be crawling with monsters, it seemed unlikely now. No more monsters had appeared after the giant monster despite all the noises he’d made during the fight. Those that had fallen off the cliff with him last time must have died, or there could be some other reason he wasn’t aware of now. Whatever it was, it was more than fine by him.

“Let’s go.” After finishing...