The Dungeon Monsters Keep Offering Sacrifices – 180
EP.180 Sacrifice and Bribe
A notification popped up.
– Baalzerith has conquered the dungeon ‘Wandering Maze’. –
– You can dispatch and appoint a manager to the dungeon ‘Wandering Maze’. –
Before Jung Ye-rin entered the dungeon, I had dispatched Baalzerith.
And not long after dispatching her, the dungeon was conquered.
“As expected of a 5-star, huh?”
Park Seo-yun, the assistant manager, reacted to my muttering.
“Pardon? Do you need anything, Advisor?”
“No, it’s nothing. Just talking to myself.”
I waved my hand and went back to my own time.
While everyone was focusing hard on conquering the dungeon, I was taking it easy by myself.
I wasn’t particularly worried.
After all, Maru and Baalzerith were inside the dungeon.
They were far more powerful than most A-rank hunters, so it was safe to say that Jung Ye-rin wouldn’t get hurt or die.
‘Now that Baalzerith has conquered the dungeon too, there shouldn’t be any problems.’
Baalzerith seemed more impressive than I thought.
She wasn’t a 5-star for nothing.
‘Come to think of it, didn’t they say she was vampire royalty?’
There was a time when Baalzerith’s description came up when first selecting a dungeon deputy.
At the time, the description said Baalzerith was royalty.
‘A descendant of the Vampire King....’
If I could utilize Baalzerith well, it would be a great benefit to me.
“Let’s see. It said I could appoint a manager too, right?”
I immediately looked at my smartphone screen.
In the Stone Golem dungeon, instead of appointing a manager, I had moved the monsters to my own dungeon.
That was because there wasn’t much merit to the Stone Golem dungeon.
However, this time I was planning to use the manager function.
– Would you like to appoint a manager to the dungeon ‘Wandering Maze’? –
– The dungeon’s manager can be dismissed and replaced at any time according to the master’s will. –
‘The dungeon seems quite large, and there are A-rank monsters too, so it might be good to manage it.’
Moreover, if the dismissal of the manager was also free, there was no reason not to use this function.
Above all, appointing a manager this time was more like an experiment.
‘I’ll have to use it sooner or later anyway.’
It wouldn’t hurt to know in advance what risks it might bring if I increased my owned dungeons further.
‘If it turns out to be no good, I’ll just move the monsters and give up on the dungeon.’
After organizing my thoughts, I touched the screen.
– You have selected Baalzerith (★★★★★) as the manager of the dungeon ‘Wandering Maze’. –
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“Wow, such fresh blood!”
Baalzerith exclaimed joyfully with a bright smile.
Holding the container filled with blood offered by the hunters in both hands, she peered into it with delight, like an innocent child.
“This flavor, this aroma! It’s been so long since I’ve seen such delicious-looking blood!”
Baalzerith brought the container to her mouth and began to drink the blood with slurping sounds.
With each swallow, her cheeks puffed out and then deflated. A vivid red stain appeared around her mouth.
“Whew... I feel my strength rising. Your blood is truly top-notch! I acknowledge it.”
After quickly emptying the container, she smacked her lips in satisfaction.
She licked her reddened lips with her tongue.
The sight of her licking up the remaining blood clean was like that of a contented cat.
At that sight, Jung Ye-rin’s wariness eased slightly.
Jung Ye-rin and her team members had entered to conquer the dungeon.
At first, they thought it was just a simple Minotaur dungeon, but with the appearance of Baalzerith, all their plans went awry.
And as the team leader, if she were to evaluate this conquest attempt.
‘It’s impossible to conquer with our current strength.’
Even if the Phoenix Guild prepared in earnest, could they defeat this being?
Jung Ye-rin shook her head.
‘That’s impossible too....’
From the start, this dungeon was far too vast for the Phoenix Guild to handle.
It would be considered a success if she and her team members could just escape safely.
But handing over such a dungeon to another guild or the government made even less sense.
‘This is an opportunity.’
Jung Ye-rin’s eyes turned towards Baalzerith.
Though she looked like a mere child on the surface, she was a being who could easily kill hunters with a single gesture.
‘And this dungeon....’
Bones and flesh scattered in all directions, staining the surroundings with blood.
Pieces of flesh rolled on the floor, and blood spurted high enough to almost reach the ceiling.
Without even a chance to scream a terrible scream, one hunter vanished from the world.
“What... What on earth...?”
Jung Ye-rin couldn’t come to her senses after what had just happened.
With just a small gesture, Yoon Tae-kyung had died.
“How unpleasant that a worthless being dared to judge me.”
Baalzerith’s nonchalant demeanor after killing someone instilled fear.
This wasn’t just Jung Ye-rin; all the hunters present felt fear.
Only then did they realize for certain.
The fact that this small, cute-looking girl could kill a B-rank hunter with just a gesture.
That fact struck their hearts with terror.
Still, they couldn’t just stand still here.
Hadn’t the good atmosphere turned gloomy?
“I apologize! Oh master of the dungeon, please forgive the rudeness of my subordinate!”
Jung Ye-rin knelt down and bowed her head until her forehead touched the floor.
Her voice trembled, and cold sweat beaded on her forehead.
Fear and despair intertwined in her heart.
‘I can’t die like this...’
To survive here, the only option was not to offend that being.
“Indeed, you are the most polite human I’ve met so far. I like you!”
Fortunately, Baalzerith smiled at Jung Ye-rin’s quick action.
“I must give a gift to a good human.”
Baalzerith ordered the Minotaur chieftain.
“Bring the corpses of those I killed earlier.”
At her command, the Minotaur chieftain’s eyes widened.
“Moo-meurr?”
Bring the corpses of their own kind?
What a bizarre request. As the leader of the Minotaurs, it was an order he couldn’t fulfill.
“Tsk. You still haven’t come to your senses.”
But that moment of hesitation displeased Baalzerith.
Swish-
As Baalzerith gestured once more, the chieftain collapsed to the floor in pain.
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The Minotaur chieftain’s complexion turned pale.
“I prefer to say things only once.”
Then he remembered that the being before him was cruel and without mercy.
This place was originally a peaceful dungeon.
But suddenly, that vampire appeared and ruined the Minotaur chieftain’s daily life.
‘Are you the one ruling this place?!’
The vampire said that and then began slaughtering the Minotaur subordinates.
Even against an opponent of similar rank, the difference was stark.
In the end, the Minotaur chieftain, the dungeon’s master, had to make a choice.
Whether to resist that intruder along with his subordinates.
Or to bow his head to that being before all his subordinates died.
Eventually, the chieftain came to serve Baalzerith as the new master.
This was how the dungeon came to be taken over.
The deliberation wasn’t long.
“Grrrr, moo!”
The chieftain, wailing sadly, dragged in the corpses of the Minotaurs who were once his subordinates.
They had all been brutally murdered, presenting a horrific sight.
“Moo-eee...”
The chieftain offered the corpses to Baalzerith with tears in his eyes.
“Give one corpse to that praiseworthy human. I’ll handle the rest myself.”
Baalzerith wanted to stay here for a long time.
For that, she needed to offer bribes to the owner of the voice.
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– Baalzerith, the manager of the dungeon ‘Wandering Maze’, offers a Minotaur as a sacrifice to the Master. –
– You are currently conquering and managing 1 dungeon. The time to absorb sacrifices has been reduced by 10%. –
– The time required to absorb sacrifices has been changed from 6 hours to 5 hours and 24 minutes. –
– Absorbing the abilities of the sacrificed Minotaur. –
– (Time remaining: 5 hours 24 minutes) –
“Huh?”
The reasons to conquer dungeons had increased.
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