023. Explosion

Purgatory is wide.

I am not simply talking about prison buildings and gardens. Everything outside the garden is purgatory.

This is because purgatory is a prison where prisoners are confined, and it means a dimension in which prisoners are confined.

It is smaller than the general dimension, but it is definitely one dimension. The only thing built on the vast land is the prison, so I can get a rough idea of how wide the other open spaces will be without thinking deeply.

If you are a normal person, even if you die and wake up, you cannot escape. If you are a warrior wearing restraints, you can wander for months. And if the 10 warriors were freed from restraints.

···I don’t know.

It was the first time that everyone left the garden with their restraints released. He’ll be running desperately, so the speed won’t be too bad.

“Where did you go?”

The fact that Purgatory is wide also applies to Kim Woo-jin. Finding the strong and the determined and running away is another field.

“stop.”

kiing-

beep-

The five heads that had been banging their heads rose with pitiful sounds.

At first I thought I lost the fight. Knowing that it would be unreasonable to ask two demons to win against ten warriors, I tried to give them a piece of dog chewing gum.

However, seeing the unscathed appearance of the two and the smell of monster blood snarling at each other over the discus, I figured out how the prisoners had passed.

“First of all, finding escaped prisoners is the priority, so we’re doing that. Deokgu, come here.”

The three heads came running barking at the same time. Kim Woo-jin thrust in the half-corroded restraints he had brought beforehand.

“Sniff it.”

kuhh?

Deok-gu, who had brought his nose, hesitated at the miasma felt in the restraint.

“How can I pursue you?”

Whoops!

The three heads nodded in unison. I wondered what to do if my nose was paralyzed by miasma, but the magic beast was also a magic beast.

“Chunsik is back. Deok-gu, come with me.”

Kim Woo-jin got on top of Deok-gu.

“If you think you can break out, you are mistaken.”

Among the many magical beasts, he had a reason for raising Cerberus and Orthos.

* * *

Kang Min-sik lay down on the floor where he had roughly spread the leaves. There was nothing to cover, but it was not cold.

Stars were visible in the sky. Even though it was a different world, the night sky didn’t seem to differ much from the earth.

‘Can I really go out…’

To be honest, everything is questionable.

Kang Min-shik never thought of himself as special.

On a day when the rain was pouring downpour, it became a little special only after being hit by a sports car that was running frantically.

‘…God?’

‘that’s right. I want you to become a hero and save the dimension in danger.’

If the fact that the driver is a god and that he can become a hero isn’t special, then what’s special.

‘But why not a truck…?’

‘Trucks are driven by low-class guys who don’t have money. The trend is luxury sports cars.’

accepted anyway. Being hit by a reincarnated sports car unknowingly made me angry, but there was no reason to deny that I could become a special person called a warrior.

He became a warrior, but his life as a warrior was not as smooth and kind as he thought.

It was not easy for Kang Min-sik, who did not know how to use weapons, to adapt to a world without any benefits from civilization.

Training in the kingdom, fighting monsters, and traps in labyrinths and dungeons hurt him countless times. There were so many times that I couldn’t count how many times I crossed the line between life and death.

In the end, he managed to survive somehow by further developing the poison-related abilities granted by the hero’s power, and killed the enemy who endangered the dimension, but it was not the end.

He was given two options. Give up all power and return to Earth, or go to Purgatory…

“Are you sleeping?”

Derkain’s voice interrupted his thoughts.

“no.”

“I can only rest for an hour, so why aren’t you sleeping?”

There was no time to get a good night’s sleep while running away. I only took a minimal break, and the break time was less than 10 minutes.

“I just can’t sleep well thinking I can really go out.”

“Can I ask you one thing?”

“What is it?”

“It’s a restraint. Did you say it was poisoned?”

“Yeah.”

“I also continued to research about restraints in my own way. If you want to break out, the first priority is to release the restraints.”

but got stuck blocked and blocked again. At least he and Sienna made magic tools to release the restraints, but at most four were all.

However, Kang Min-sik was different. In just a few months, all restraints were easily released.

“I was lucky.”

“You can’t just call it luck.”

“I can put miasma in my mana. I found the vulnerabilities of the spell imprinted on the restraints with poison and cut the connection points.”

“Even if it’s a vulnerability, the protection magic circle wouldn’t be that weak?”

If it were weak, Derkain would have cut off all restraints right away.

“Even if you ask me what secret it is, I can only say that it has melted in my poison.”

“I just did it and it worked. Right. Thank you for your answer.”

“I also have a question.”

“Something?”

“The warden said. Why is it that they stop us from breaking out so much?”

“Because it is the chief. You call that a question?”

Derkhain made a puzzled expression.

“That’s right, but aren’t we prisoners? If so, I wonder if the warden is something other than a proper warden.”

“Anyway, we’re nothing more than the pawns of the bastards who sent us here.”

“Is that so?”

‘I didn’t think so…’

If so, there is no reason for them to make such a request to Kang Min-shik.

‘If I break out, I’m sure they won’t follow me beyond the dimension.’

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Just imagining it was so terrifying that it made me shake my head.

“Let’s stop talking nonsense and let’s get out of here for real.”

The remaining 10 minutes passed. It’s time to hit the road again

* * *

After taking a short break, the warriors ran without caring about the distribution of their stamina.

Rather than distributing stamina in preparation for the warden’s arrival, it was better to squeeze all the remaining strength and escape before the warden’s arrival.

“We should throw away the idea that the warden can’t find us in the first place. There is no such thing as sneaking here.”

It wasn’t just an extreme environment unfolding. In the swamp, Basilisks spewed petrifying breaths, and in the snowfield, Yetis threw snow with mana.

Numerous monsters blocked their way and battles always left traces.

The warriors who couldn’t afford it couldn’t completely erase the traces.

The warden must come.

The issue was whether to be caught before escaping from purgatory or whether to escape purgatory first.

Since only Gransis had to maintain his stamina until the end, he was alternately carried by several dwarves.

“It feels like your feet are dragging on the floor.”

“I’ll hold on.”

There was a minor problem due to the difference in physique, but it was a small happening.

Deserts, forests, snowfields, swamps, mountains, forests again.

and fell off

“…it’s the first time I’ve seen anything like this.”

“I was dumbfounded when I first saw it. I didn’t know that Purgatory was just a normal dimension, a different quarantine dimension.”

The green earth, which seemed to last forever, also had an end.

The cracks that had been cut as if cut with a blade, and what could be seen beyond them were endless darkness and abyss.

Kang Min-sik stood on the border. Facing the abyss, an endless fear wells up.

“Heo-euk…!”

He clutched his pounding heart and dizzy head and let out the breath he had been holding back.

“… what is this…!”

“Don’t look. It’s because the dimensional boundary is too high-dimensional for us as mere creatures to perceive.”

Derkain slowly moved towards the cliff.

“Floating, falling!”

Despite Kang Min-shik’s screams, Derkain moved forward. I stepped into the dark.

─!

At the same time, with an intense spark, he took a step back and took a step back.

“You understand?”

Kang Min-sik only then recognized its existence. An invisible but insurmountable wall surrounded the world.

“This is the dimensional barrier we must overcome.”

“…Did the dimensional barrier originally exist this close?”

“I don’t know. Twenty years ago, I couldn’t escape this place because of this damn wall. I’m finally back. Grancis.”

“Yes.”

The Dark Elf calmly stood in front of the dimensional barrier. By mixing the by-products of the young plants collected in the botanical garden and the pieces of the spirit plant collected in the barn, he began to draw a magic circle.

“It will take a little while.”

“I’ll hope the warden doesn’t come in the meantime.”

“What if you come?”

“We have to hold out until we break through the barrier. let’s all begin.”

“Yes!”

The dwarves put down all the things they had brought from the workshop. I took them out one by one and started installing them here and there.

“Cannon?”

“Magic gun.”

“Is that a booby trap?”

“It’s similar. When touched, the inherent magic power causes a huge explosion.”

“How many are there?”

“Most of them were stolen during the last sword inspection, so there are only 5 of them.”

But even five were better than none. It didn’t seem like it would work well for the warden, but if he could delay the time even for a second, it would have done its job.

The traps were quickly installed and the warriors had a moment to spare.

“By the way, if you break out of prison, will you be able to go to any dimension you want?”

“Perhaps it is possible.”

“maybe?”

“Grancis did that. Purgatory exists in the cross-dimensional gap, so you can go to any dimension. He said that if there are connection points with that dimension, we will be able to go there.”

Amado is attached because it is only a theory.

“If you escape, you’re giving those damn bastards a big taffy. It’s a shame not to see the distorted faces in person.”

Certainly, he wouldn’t like it if all the heroes he had imprisoned were released.

At least Kim Woo-jin.

“If that happens, what will happen to the warden?”

“Isn’t it obvious that the future of those in charge who can’t properly manage it?”

“If only. What if the gods send a chase after we break out?”

“that’s···.”

It was then.

aaang!

A huge magic explosion swept the surroundings.

* * *

“You did something stupid.”

Krrr-

Three heads spewed out flames in quick succession. The fired red flame reacted with the magic trap and caused a huge explosion.

Deokgu threw himself into the flames. We reached our destination through the rising smoke.

ten prisoners.

The prisoners who were preparing for battle in preparation for Kim Woo-jin’s arrival were taken aback by his appearance faster than expected.

“Did you think you could get away?”

Cerberus’ sense of smell never forgets a scent once it has been sniffed. The faint reverberation alone is sufficient for tracking.

Even more, purgatory is a limited space, even if it is wide. Catching the escaped prisoners means that it is only a matter of time after all.

“···Intestine.”

“Prisoner number 1077. What a nice axe.”

Eight dwarfs and one human greeted him with a somber expression.

“I don’t remember ever saving something like that.”

“Dwarves are naturally self-sufficient.”

“Is that guy human?”

“It’s not even a job to make a friend while doing it. Dwarves are loyal.”

Everyone had their own weapon in their hand. It is undoubtedly a dwarf.

Behind them was a dark elf drawing a magic circle. Gransys Drama. With space magic as his specialty, he didn’t have to think deeply about what he was doing.

“Do you really think you can get out of here?”

“What happened to the prisoners?”

“You can go and check it out together.”

Kim Woo-jin got off Cerberus.

“Dukgu. Ask the Dark Elves. It doesn’t matter if the limbs are off. As long as you live.”

bruise-

Deokgu went into the forest and hid. Deokgu, a seasoned hunter, will take the opportunity to disrupt the Dark Elves’ magic.

Derkain cautiously glanced at the two dwarves. It was a signal to somehow stop Cerberus. They’ll soon find out that it doesn’t make much sense.

“Come to think of it···.”

Kim Woo-jin’s head stopped at Kang Min-sik, who was looking at the prisoners who were showing speculation towards him.

“All the released restraints were mixed with miasma. I intentionally corroded the spell and weakened it.”

And only one of the prisoners is good at poisoning.

But is it possible that there is simply poison?

no. If it were that easy, the prisoners would have released the restraints right away. Even if it is the strength of a hero, it is not omnipotent.

Kang Min-shik has something. He doesn’t know, very reluctant.

“I have a lot of questions about you too.”

Kim Woo-jin revealed that he was going to live and laughed.

Damn it, Kang Min-sik’s hand that held the sword was getting stronger. My palms were wet with cold sweat.

* * *

It was Kang Min-sik who moved first in the heavy atmosphere.

It wasn’t that I wanted to go out. It was just that he couldn’t stand the suffocating tension and the killing spree pouring toward him.

I feel like I’ll die if I stay like this.

The purple mana is entangled and climbs the sword. A hard yet sharp aura reveals hostility toward the enemy.

Mixed miasma causes everything to rot with just one brush.

“An aura mixed with poison.”

However, the opponent knew it too.

A sword of red flame is created in empty hands.

───!

A shockwave bounced. Kang Min-sik gritted his teeth at the shock of moaning.

Chii Ik-

The scorching heat burns the miasma. The burned miasma turns into smoke and disperses into the air, but the heat swallows it up too.

‘Keugh!’

I already felt it keenly in the first meeting under the guise of counseling. compatibility is the worst

The good news is that you don’t have to face the monster alone this time.

whoop-

The ax fell aiming at the warden’s head with a strong bang.

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Jjaeong, the sword of fire squeezed between Kim Woo-jin and the axe. It was a different sword from colliding with Kang Min-shik. Before he knew it, both hands of Kim Woo-jin were holding twin swords.

“You have two hands, so you have two swords. Then what else would you do?”

The owner of the ax, Dercain, asked. It wasn’t that I was genuinely concerned. It was just an intention to distract him a little by talking.

“like this.”

And Kim Woo-jin matched the rhythm.

At the same time as the short answer, power went into the sword that was simply holding on.

Kagagak, the ax bounced. The poisoned greatsword deflected. In an instant, the two free swords danced. All the weapons that were aiming for Kim Woo-jin’s gap failed to achieve their goal.

The trace drawn by the sword leaves scars. Eating space, crackling, burning flames exploded in all directions.

Aww!

Harm!

The rising flames blew away all the rushing warriors. The heat of the deterioration was hot enough to melt even a part of the aura.

The warriors swallowed pain and moaning and raised their auras to put out the flames.

Kim Woo-jin did not stop it. He stood still and looked down at everyone.

“The fact that you went through that 20 years ago and escaped again means that you are confident, right?”

It sounded like a low whisper, but it stuck in everyone’s ears.

if you are so confident

“Follow me to the rooftop.”

“Where is the rooftop here…”

poop-

* * *

“···sorry.”

Kang Min-sik lowered his head at the cold gaze.

I was careless.

I never imagined that Kim Woo-jin would do such a drip in such a serious situation.

Being from the same district, Korea, only Kang Min-shik could understand and laugh.

However, after the laughter ended, only the coolness remained.

Doesn’t that mean he’s relaxed enough to make jokes like that even with seven warriors in front of him?

I really couldn’t get a sense of it from the time I broke through the beasts, but just how much of a monster is Kim Woo-jin?

‘Derkain-nim was right.’

You shouldn’t fight against Kim Woo-jin. It is best to avoid, run away, and not run into them.

Although it has all become meaningless assumptions now. Anyway, we met and got into a fight. At least until the moment when the dimensional barrier opened, I had to endure and endure.

‘I can hold on.’

There’s nothing wrong with being alone However, there are seven warriors including himself here.

It was Kim Woo-jin who broke through the 16 warriors made up of beastmen and giants, but they and themselves were different.

‘Not different. They’re idiots who haven’t even properly grasped the warden’s capabilities, and Dercain-sama and the Dwarves are at least properly grasping their capabilities.’

There is a clear difference between knowing and not knowing the opponent’s strength, and knowing and not knowing one’s own subject.

Yes, so there will be hope. It should be. It’s not about winning in the first place, it’s just about holding on, isn’t it?

My thoughts were cut off there.

Heh heh heh-

Taking advantage of the gap where everyone’s attention was focused on Kim Woo-jin, an experienced hunter who was looking for an opportunity rushed in.

All three heads erupted in flames at the same time. The huge body kicked the ground like a bolt of lightning.

After the owner, even the dog handles fire. end the world

“Stop!”

The two Dwarven warriors quickly took a defensive stance. However, in that brief moment, everyone’s attention was focused on him, and this time Kim Woo-jin did not miss that moment.

Sea of fire.

The huge mana was twisted.

It was a huge wave. A seething infernal tidal wave of flames.

“hahahaha···. fuck.”

It’s worth doing, it’s a piece of shit that you just have to hold on.

before the tyranny of unreasonable force.

Kang Min-sik let out a dejected laugh.