If it had been looking at him, he might have ignored it. But the target of the gaze he’d been feeling since a moment ago was Jaehwi. Raon, who threw his body toward the wall to protect him, was caught by Jaehwi’s arm that snatched him and was pulled into his embrace as if being sucked in.
“What are you doing!”
Even at Jaehwi’s shout, who rarely raised his voice at him, Raon stared at the wall.
“There’s something there.”
“What do you mean there’s something? If you can’t trust me, check with your watch.”
Raon, who had been trying to break free from his embrace and approach the wall, stared at Jaehwi operating his dungeon watch and the watch itself. The dungeon map had stopped here, and the life form count inside the dungeon was gradually decreasing. Even when he enlarged the map, moved it around, and looked at the data, this dungeon appeared to be completely cleared.
“No. There is something.”
The dungeon-related data, Jaehwi, and even Bbobbo leisurely wandering around tasting minerals were all showing it was over. However, due to the strange sensation he kept feeling, Raon simply couldn’t stay still.
Despite Jaehwi’s action of grabbing his wrist, Raon, who had broken free from his embrace, headed toward the wall. Raon, who turned back to look at Jaehwi following him as if he had no choice, reached his hand toward the wall.
The sensation touching his palm was definitely a wall. Like a common stone wall… But soon he was enveloped in the squishy, sticky thing that could only be felt at the entrance when going in and out of dungeons.
“……”
Instead of a dark and damp cave-like dungeon, an open, verdant meadow entered his view. Only after feeling the refreshing breeze blowing from somewhere brush past his hair and collar did Raon hurriedly look around.
But there was only himself here. At the chill felt on the wrist that had been held by Jaehwi just moments ago, he wrapped his other hand around the wrist Jaehwi had been holding. Then, frozen in that posture, he only turned his head to carefully examine the surroundings.
“…What’s that again?”
Seeing a huge rock that didn’t match the peaceful space, Raon slowly climbed the low hill. Having just been in a dusty cave-like space and then coming out to an open meadow-like place, his mood improved for no reason.
The gentle breeze, the blue sky with pretty fluffy clouds occasionally floating by, even the sound of grass rustling in the wind. He couldn’t believe this was inside a dungeon where they’d been fighting fiercely for their lives just moments ago.
Although what he saw and felt was peaceful and tranquil nature, since it was strictly inside a dungeon, Raon didn’t let down his guard of the surroundings. But aside from plants, there was nothing that looked like a living being.
Surely there must be something with the gaze that had been threatening Jaehwi inside here… And it had intentionally separated Jaehwi and brought only himself here. As Raon looked around in all directions with each step, his footsteps gradually slowed. And when he finished climbing the low hill, in front of Raon was only a huge rock.
He thought he’d be able to find something if he climbed to a high place and could see farther… Exhausted, Raon placed his hand on the stone, leaned against it, and let out a long sigh.
“What is this? If you let me come in, at least show yourself. Or send me back to where I was.”
He tried to operate the dungeon watch he was wearing on his wrist, but whether it was broken, he couldn’t find out anything.
“Hey! I don’t know who you are, but let me out. If you don’t send me back right now, even I don’t know what Jaehwi will do.”
When he shouted loudly, his voice returned like an echo. While waiting for the other party’s answer for a moment and tapping the stone with his fingertips, Raon stopped his fingertips at the strange movement.
Am I mistaken? It definitely seemed like something moved in sync with the tapping…
After staying still for a moment, Raon moved his fingertips again. Lightly tapping the cold, hard stone, Raon stopped his fingertips again. Then he pulled up the corners of his mouth smoothly and smiled.
“It’s you!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the stone he’d been touching with his hand moved smoothly. And seeing the stone’s true form, Raon covered his lower face with both hands.
Fuck. A golem…
He should have been suspicious from the time there was a large stone in a place like this. He should have thought about the fact that this dungeon was metal-type and that what mainly appeared were golems!
Even tilting his head back as far as possible, in a situation where he kept seeing only the golem’s tremendous legs, let alone its face, Raon’s brain began to turn faster than ever. Wasn’t there some intention to both calling him here and revealing itself before him like this? And in a favorable way at that…
No sound was made, but fine stone dust flew, and seeing the golem’s large hand in front of him, Raon swallowed the saliva pooled in his mouth. The golem had deliberately bent down and extended its hand to him.
“Whew. Whether I’m crushed to death or burst to death…”
Raon climbed onto the golem’s palm. At the same time, as his body rapidly floated up, he squeezed his eyes tightly shut and clung firmly to the palm.
Kreung.
When the feeling of being on an elevator rising at insane speed disappeared and he heard a beast-like sound, Raon opened his eyes that had been squeezed shut and straightened his body that had been lying flat.
“Ueok. Fuck!”
Raon, who was startled and fell on his bottom because everything he saw before his eyes was red, let out a curse involuntarily. Only after catching his breath that had stopped for a moment and blinking his eyes a few more times did he realize that the red thing he was seeing was the golem’s eye.
“Wha… what! What. Why. Me. Why…”
There were many thoughts in his head, his heart was urgent, and his brain was blaring warning sounds, so instead of properly completed sentences, only strange words popped out of Raon’s mouth.
‘Take me too.’
It wasn’t heard with his ears. It just sounded. No. Should I say it came into his head?
“What?”
‘I want to go too.’
The sound heard again was like a mid-to-low tone voice echoing in a cave. The golem’s red eyes, which he’d just thought were red, changed colors variously depending on the light. Sometimes more red, sometimes seeming strongly orange-ish, it was like looking at a very beautiful jewel that wasn’t one color but various colors.
“Where? Where are you going?”
‘It’s boring here.’
“You want to leave this dungeon?”
It was problematic to take this huge golem out just because it said it wanted to leave, but generally when the dungeon master was completely destroyed, the dungeon took the path of natural extinction after a certain time passed.
So at the fact that the moment he took the golem out of here now, an A-grade or higher steadily regenerating metal-type dungeon would disappear, Raon’s pupils trembled. How much money is this, and on top of that, since it was a dungeon where uncommonly seen golems came out en masse, there was no better place than this as a training location for center teams.
Raon, who had been spinning his brain quickly, tapped the golem’s palm he was sitting on with an awkward smile. First of all, it was certain the golem wouldn’t harm him, and from the way its speech was clumsy and a bit slow, its intelligence didn’t seem very high either.
‘It’s boring.’
Whether it was really bored and languid, the golem’s eyes, repeating the same words, faded. How should I put it? It seemed like it was trying to show some pitiful appearance while begging to be taken along.
“You seem to be this dungeon’s master, but if you leave, this dungeon will disappear.”
‘That’s right.’
“I need this dungeon!”
As soon as he recognized that a dungeon beneficial to him in many ways because it regenerated would disappear, Raon ended up raising his voice without realizing it. Then the golem’s eyes dimmed even more.
What the. You… This is like the look I saw when Bbobbo acts cute when it’s at a disadvantage.
“But why were you behind here? If you’re the owner, you should have appeared at the end at least.”
Somehow feeling like the knife handle had come into his own hand, Raon went a bit stronger.
‘…Scary.’
“Huh?”
‘The flashy one is scary.’
…So it hid here and made it seem like the dungeon was cleared because it was scared of Jaehwi? It seemed naive, but its survival instinct is strong?
“Then, me?”
‘Good.’
Ah… Am I perhaps a being loved by dungeon monsters? So that’s why monsters just pass by me or pretend not to see me.
“Was it you? Did you tell the dungeon monsters not to attack me?”
‘That’s right.’
Having learned the answer to the sense of dissonance he’d felt while wandering inside the dungeon, Raon let out a deep sigh and adjusted his awkward posture to sit properly. Sitting comfortably cross-legged, Raon just stared blankly at the golem’s eyes that constantly changed light.
Bbobbo had unknowingly entered his bag and somehow ended up being brought out, but this big golem, how? Moreover, was it even possible to tame a golem? Just carrying around Bbobbo already attracted attention. No, to begin with, the very fact that such a huge golem could go outside didn’t make sense.
With each step it took, the ground would crumble, and there was no space for a golem to rest.
‘Don’t you keep a Gem Kitten?’
So you’re asking if you’re the same as a Gem Kitten? That one is small enough to fit in my shirt pocket.
Kukoong-.
Raon, who had been talking with the golem, at the ominous sound and vibration that suddenly came to the peaceful space, quickly raised his head and looked around. In the blue sky that had been filling half of the spring hill-like space, lightning was striking out of nowhere.
