Midsummer Night’s Evil Spirit (4)
As the hallway filled up, dark human-like figures slowly approached.
Ryu Han-bin immediately swung his sword, smashing the corridors and the ceiling.
More parts of the mansion collapsed and crumbled, piling up in the hallway.
“Okay, that should’ve bought us some time.”
However, the evil spirits began to crawl through the fragments.
“Hoo… ….”
“Hoooooo…….”
Unlike before, it passed through the ruins instead of removing it.
Artis and Emil looked at each other.
“It looks like they’ve quit imitating the souls of the dead.”
“They’ve been caught, so they don’t have to anymore.”
Everyone looked nervous.
Their fear had been overcome, but they still had no means of defeating them.
If not even Latna’s four major powers worked against them, what could they do to defeat them?
The evil spirits cast a shadow.
“Keeeeek!”
Ryu Han-bin quickly kicked up the ruins off his feet, leaving them suspended for a short moment in the air and blocking the incoming whips.
‘The whips hit the floors and the walls before.’
It could be possible to block the shadows with them.
Poof!
But the whips easily passed through the ruins and struck Ryu Han-bin.
‘It didn’t work?’
The whips lashed at him again.
This time, he tried to defend himself using his bare fist instead of using things around him.
He pushed his arm forward in an attempt to clash against the weapon using his iron fist!
‘It passed through everything, but it didn’t go through my body!’
The whip didn’t go through Ryu Han-bin before, even though it was aimed at Artis and Emil, and he thought that meant he could use his body to block and counterattack.
But he thought wrong.
The whip passed through his punch and struck Han-bin’s stomach.
A loud cracking sound echoed across the hallway.
As he stepped back, Han-bin furrowed his eyebrows.
‘What’s up with these guys?’
He couldn’t catch the opponent no matter what he did, yet they could hit him at will.
‘There’s nothing we can do but avoid it now, right?’
Emil mumbled as he swallowed his saliva.
“The moment they attack, they seem to have a way to hit only the target. I haven’t heard of a monster with such great ability…”
At least, it was clear that they weren’t up against common monsters.
Otherwise, with such an overpowered ability, it would’ve been infamous.
“What should we do, Artis?”
Artis responded calmly.
“Let’s run away. If we remove the core, they’ll disappear. We don’t have to deal with them directly.”
* * *
The evil spirits were quick.
They floated in the air and could glide through any obstacles in front of them.
It was natural for them to be fast.
However, Han-bin and his party were faster.
“Aaaaahhh!”
Screaming, Ryu Han-bin ran in a straight line.
He stomped forward so hard the floorboards cracked as he charged freely through every obstacle in front of him.
In a sense, he was similar to the evil spirits.
He, too, passed through walls. The only difference was that instead of intangibility, he smashed everything in his path.
Bang! Bang! Boom!
The chaser could safely pass through the walls, but the one being chased crushed everything with ignorant force.
However, it didn’t make sense for the one breaking things to be faster than the one who could glitch through them—that required immeasurable strength to pull off.
“Wow, crazy…”
“Tha’s beyond human power.”
“No matter how legendary a Valtara warrior is, I never thought they would be this powerful…”
Artis, Effir, and Emil all felt dumbfounded as they followed after him.
Everyone had a look of utter surprise on their faces.
Han-bin and his party ran away nonstop as they kept an eye out for the core.
Series after series of ear-splitting noises resounded throughout the ruined mansion, which used to be dominated by an eerie silence.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
How long did they run?
The evil spirits that were chasing were no longer visible.
For now, they had left them behind.
Ryu Han-bin said, looking at where they came from.
“They will follow us soon. We don’t have much time.”
Not only did they run in a straight pattern, but they also left traces behind.
They were easy to find.
“We have to come up with some sort of plan before they get here…”
Effir looked around and tilted her head.
“But what is this place?”
* * *
Han-bin and his party stood in a large stone chamber that was blocked from all directions.
The stone chamber itself was nothing special.
It was just a plain-looking room built with bricks.
However, it had a half-erased magic circle in the middle. Chains and shackles hanged from its ceiling, and half-rotten monster corpses and bones littered all over its floors.
Artis took a closer look at the stone chamber.
“Is it some kind of magic lab?”
Dumbfounded, Han-bin replied.
“Looks like a slaughterhouse to me, though.”
“The two are a little similar in the first place.”
Artis immediately went into an investigation.
Emil also did the same.
The two had a conversation, sprinkling waves of Mana and Prana everywhere.
“Is this place related to the appearance of the Dungeon?”
“It’s likely to be that way.”
When a ‘unique’ place appeared like this in the original Dungeon, it was where the core was often located.
The two shed energy as they continued to search for the core.
After a few moments, Emil spoke, his words carrying uncertainty and concern.
“It looks like this place was used to study the Devil’s powers…”
Artis began to feel nervous.
“Is it the Devil’s Followers? Did Aliens do this?”
“Probably so, but that’s not the problem.”
At that time, Artis had a similar expression.
“I can see what you mean, Priest. But are you sure?”
They both found something similar, but they found it hard to believe.
Effir asked quietly.
“What’s wrong with the both of you?”
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