[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world":3,"chapter-level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-561":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Level 4 Human in a Ruined World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1848575,2454,"Chapter 561","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-561",561,"\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chapter 561: Elixir (3)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>「Initiating bodily reconstruction.」\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with that terrifying line, heat immediately began to circulate through Yeongwoo’s entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“W–wait, hold on! Shouldn’t you at least ask which leg you’re going to replace?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the system didn’t answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, the area near his left leg, the one where he’d taken off the prosthetic, began to swell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kududuk!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uagh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the patterns engraved on Yeongwoo’s head, which had looked exactly like those of an octopus, started sliding down the nape of his neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Srrrt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Obviously they were moving toward the left leg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwajak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, from the cut surface of his left leg, long tentacles shot out, and while spewing violet veins in all directions, they began to mold new flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swoop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was also when Yeongwoo’s head, which had been closer to an oval, started changing to follow the human shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The texture of his skin, too, was restored at high speed, and the hair that had been ripped out earlier began to sprout in real time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was, quite literally, a rebirth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But because some of his internal organs had also been replaced with Artari’s organs, Yeongwoo was feeling a monstrous wave of nausea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then, soon—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Uwooooorgh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He actually dropped to the floor and vomited out a tremendous amount of bodily fluid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were even unidentifiable bits of entrails mixed into the vomit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey, what the hell are you doing to my body?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment Yeongwoo lifted his head and said that, another irresistible surge of vomit came up from below his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gwaaaaagh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Yeongwoo’s vomit drew an arc and blasted out between the other participants, and everyone yelped and jumped back in every direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— P-please vomit facing the floor!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Madam Kanaph screamed, almost like a shriek, Yeongwoo’s left leg whipped through the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hwaeeeek!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that brief time, the neural connection had already finished, so it was able to move.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, for now it still looked bizarre, like a thick tree root, so there was a pretty big sense of dissonance with the rest of Yeongwoo’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Srrrp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right after that, Yeongwoo’s new leg began some kind of “synchronization.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was trying to adopt a shape as close as possible to the rest of his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skin on the surface rippled several times, trying on this and that texture, and finally it found one similar to human skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— A… amazing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Madam Kanaph, who had been staring with her mouth half-open at Yeongwoo’s leg wriggling, unconsciously let her lips part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was the same for Alden Miras, the chef, and the two one-eyed ones, so for a while a hush fell over the chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gloop, gloorp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like that, Yeongwoo’s left leg repeatedly swelled and shrank on its own for a few minutes and, when at last its shape became very similar to that of a human leg—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thump!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo’s left leg, now with exactly five toes, touched down on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it finally over?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jeong Yeongwoo spoke to his own left leg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since it was now a body part subordinated to him, no answer came back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That damn purple… So you really couldn’t give that part up, huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo wrinkled his nose when he saw that the leg he’d just grown was purple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But aside from that, the sensation really was that of a leg he’d had from the beginning, and there was absolutely no problem moving it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A prosthetic and this, they feel completely different.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheouk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo finally stood up, the wrecked scene around him came into view.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Vomit splattered everywhere, and grotesque violet limbs sprawled on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Funny, they match up as pairs.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when he’d been fighting over strength with the elixir, he’d chopped off no fewer than two limbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just those two monster limbs alone would be enough to activate one escape point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sssk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo lifted his head and looked to the ceiling, he saw that during that time the timer was about to enter the 3-hour mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[04:01:55]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What, 1 minute 55 seconds? The escape time is almost here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo widened his eyes at the timer, Madam Kanaph spoke up with a dumbfounded face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— You’re checking the timer in the middle of all this…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s what we came here for, of course I am.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he pointed at the limbs scattered on the floor like illegitimate children.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay, pick those up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alden, who met Yeongwoo’s gaze, tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— You mean… you want me to pick them up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who else? Is there anybody else here with spare arms?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— ……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were four severed arms and two severed legs on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And one of those arms was Alden’s own, at that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— This is extremely discourteous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s what you’ve been saying from earlier. I’m going to be discourteous again, so grab those and follow me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Yeongwoo added,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, and be careful not to let my arm’s blood touch your skin. It’s poisonous.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Poisonous?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If my blood touches you, it can eat through the flesh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It sounded like a joke, but it was the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay, you two, line up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo gave an order to the two one-eyed ones, who were standing there with vacant expressions, they pointed at themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Us?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Why me…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You want to get out of here, don’t you? In 1 minute the escape point will show up.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Yeongwoo’s words, the one-eyed ones all lifted their heads at once and looked at the timer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they, too, wanted to get out of this horrible dungeon, or, more precisely, away from this horrible hybrid lifeform in front of them, as fast as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Ah, understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Escape… Right. We have to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the timer on the ceiling had already started counting the final seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[04:00:12]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then finally—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BEEEEEEP!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a sharp alert, the hour digit changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[03:59:59]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Okay, everybody, let’s go home!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time as Yeongwoo said this, a long vertical line appeared in the air above the dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Piaaaat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was probably to mark the location of an escape point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Huh, but… it’s not a triangle this time.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Yeongwoo blinked up at it, beams of light shot down from both ends of the vertical line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Two?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, there were only two escape points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the dungeon space was still very spacious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant, depending on where you were standing, you might not be able to reach an escape point in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That one’s ours! Run!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo pointed toward the beam that had fallen the closest, the one-eyed ones, who had been hesitating in a weird pose, started bolting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ta-tat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chef took off after them, and then Alden, holding an armful of limbs just like Yeongwoo had ordered, started moving too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— The fact that this entire madness is being recorded… I don’t want to believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Alden spoke in a voice filled with misery, Yeongwoo shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Too bad your opponent happened to be me. The Great Typesetter will understand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he tossed Madam Kanaph, who was still hiding her body behind the Aratubank, her prosthetic leg “Little Bird.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hwaet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll give it back. Put it on for now.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— For now…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You never know when we’ll have to cut your leg off again.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After that, he grabbed the back of Madam Kanaph’s neck as she was struggling to put her prosthetic on again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s go. We’re almost done.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>* * *\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second escape point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lucky ones who were going to seize this chance to escape this time were the two one-eyed ones, the chef, and Alden, the third son of House Miras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— So, four in total?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Madam Kanaph’s question, Yeongwoo nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Right.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Then doesn’t that make this the last one?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still slung over Yeongwoo’s back, Madam Kanaph folded her fingers one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— First we sent out two… and now four. That makes six, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yep. And with us, that’s eight in total.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— Oh, then we’re going out this time too?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes sparkled for the first time in a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Yeongwoo’s answer was quite different from what she was hoping for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nope. We’re not leaving this time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— What? Why not?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The minimum number is eight, but we can’t know how many people actually came into this dungeon.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, since Yeongwoo was aiming for an over-clear, he needed to confirm that he was the very last person remaining in the dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Circle’s Aesthetics]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Dungeon Grade: Relic\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Difficulty: B\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Required Personnel: 8\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>| Recommended Personnel: 32\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In theory, this dungeon could have 32 people, no, even more, inside it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Judging from how things have gone so far, it’s probably at most around ten, though.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the very first entrants to this dungeon had been several dozen people, then the earlier escape points should have been activating too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how big the dungeon is, among several dozen people, at least one or two teams would have been near an escape point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If we’re lucky, the ones we’ve met so far are all there are, but if not…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo figured there were probably two, or maybe four, more somewhere in this dungeon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ta-tat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo picked up his speed, the participants who had run ahead of him started getting overtaken one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing, do you all want to stay with me for another hour? Run faster!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo looked back and shouted, not so much encouraging as threatening, the one-eyed ones clenched their teeth and pushed their speed higher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By contrast—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— I… I can’t run that fast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chef from Lagtari was running far behind even the ones scheduled to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he had never trained in martial arts, his movements couldn’t be all that quick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Come on, even if you were born with the body of a cosmic predator, you still can’t run?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yeongwoo had no choice but to rush over to the chef and grab him by the scruff of the neck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwak!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, holding him up with one arm, he started running toward the escape point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You guys are all such high-maintenance types.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Yeongwoo looked at the escape point starting to come into view over there, the chef wriggled his tentacles and let out an excited sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>— That’s it, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah. That’s the only exit that’ll send you back to the expulsion zone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dungeon shutdown was progressing quickly now, but if the one-eyed ones just maintained their pace, they should all be able to make it in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, that was assuming they didn’t die before they got there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While Yeongwoo was watching the one-eyed ones sprinting ahead, he saw a silhouette further back and his eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s… something else?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a place like this, if something was moving, nine times out of ten it was a participant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that participant’s movements were rather rough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the hell’s wrong with him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead of running straight toward the escape point, the guy was trying to jump the one-eyed ones who were running in front.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That bastard!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Startled, Yeongwoo kicked off and bolted forward, and at the same time Alden Miras threw away the limbs he was holding and charged the uninvited guest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kwoooaaat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even from this distance, the clash of their blades was so fierce you could hear the friction, and from the shock of it, the one-eyed ones tumbled to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whoever it was, he was a fighter skilled enough to cross blades with the third son of House Miras.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey! Third Son! What’s going on over there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instant Yeongwoo used ultra-high-speed movement to rush toward the scene, something unbelievable happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zzzeooock!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air of the dungeon suddenly split open, and from inside that tear, blades started pouring down in a shower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter how he looked at it, that was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No way, isn’t that the Sword Mountain?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Translator - Night]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Proofreader - Gun]\u003C\u002Fp>",2009,"2026-06-09T07:04:15.797Z",1,"novelbin.me","a1ba9daa73f3cb993db6da0790400c51d9344d1970ccaa1aa996c25f2b3e9083","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-562","level-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-chapter-560",688,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flevel-4-human-in-a-ruined-world-cover.jpg"]