Transmigrated as the Novel's Final Boss-Chapter 127:Dungeon Discovery [3]

Planting my feet on the floor to prevent Sage from dragging me any farther back, I said.

"What happened to ’helping’ me?"

Still trying to fruitlessly drag me back up the mountain, Sage harshly spat back.

"I’m helping you not die! A ’thank you’ would be nice."

Turning back around and sighing, she continued, her purple hair resting on my shoulders as she pulled me.

"Seriously, if I hadn’t stopped you, were you going to jump in?"

"...not necessarily."

"Let’s go tell a trusted adult, alright?"

"That wo-"

"Again, another rhetorical question, Jett."

*RUMBLE*

At that moment, the portal suddenly shook, turning a darker black and expanding further while maintaining its oval shape.

If I had to guess, there was a minute left until it overloaded.

I had two ways to protect everyone.

I could follow the main characters around like an adult watching their children, making sure they didn’t get hurt.

But, alongside being annoying, that method came with the flaw that I couldn’t protect the other people and background characters from the demonic beasts.

While I was a demon, a human’s natural enemy, and not from this world, there was no need for innocent people to die.

So, I had chosen the second option.

Rip out the problem at its roots.

This portal dungeon had started everything by breaking apart and releasing beasts onto the unprepared scientists, so it needed to be dealt with.

Like a human single-handedly trying to push a massive boulder, Sage tried to walk forward, but with the strength of a healer, her body didn’t budge an inch.

Sarcastically, I said while looking up at the glass elevator.

"You’re HOLDING ME BACK from dying, you know."

In the most monotone voice possible, Sage turned back, looked down at me, and responded.

"Hahaha, now let’s go before another set of students sees me dragging you around like an old toy."

Raising my head up and staring at Sage’s yellow eyes, I rolled my head and answered.

"Yeah, so I came all the way down here just to sight-see and look at this portal. Now we can go back!"

Letting a dry grin appear on her previously sullen face, Sage finally let go of me, allowing me to drop to the ground, and muttered.

"You’re a comedian."

Stabbing my sword straight downward and embedding it in the ground, I caught myself before hitting the hard floor.

Raising her wand and pointing it at me, Sage muttered intangible words, and a moment later, a green flash blinded me.

A beam, starting at the tip of her wand, shot at my body, enveloping my whole figure in a light green color before disappearing a moment later.

After a second, I stood up and shook my hands, but I didn’t feel any different from earlier.

"Jump"

Confused, I leaped into the air, and like a kangaroo on steroids, I rose about 20 feet in an instant, more than quadrupling my usual vertical.

I could easily grab onto the rock above us and jump from cliffside to cliffside, skipping the staircase entirely.

Then, when I started to descend, it was as if I were falling in slow motion, as it took a solid 10 seconds to fall to the ground.

I had more than enough time to scan everything below me, make a plan, and ready my sword.

As my feet touched the ground once again, no sound or vibration was made despite the impact my body should have had on the cliffside.

Speaking from in front of me, Sage casually explained.

"It’s a rabbit potion. If anything ever happens...just jump. You’re immune to pain and damage from falling from any height."

Reaching into my backpack, I took out a mana orb before throwing it at her.

As a healer, she relied completely on mana for her boosts and heals, so mana capacity was the most vital stat.

I could attack with my sword without any mana, though, so it really was a secondary stat for me.

Catching the light-green orb in her hands, Sage tilted her head and asked.

"Is this a bribe?"

"The first of many."

Pointing the tip of my blade at the portal, I shook my head and opened my mouth wistfully, taking in the sun already beginning to set in the background.

The light-orange sky shone down on the forest

This really could be it.

Jumping into things was so easy that you had nothing to leave behind.

Perhaps that was why I had done so many stupid things, like taking on a powerful djinn, during my few days in this world.

So what if I died?

I had nothing in this world that I cared about.

*RUMBLE*

Expanding to a height and width to perfectly accommodate my figure, the portal rumbled one last time.

Was I really going to risk my life to protect a bunch of nobodies I didn’t even know a month ago?

If I died here, would I be revered as a valiant student who had sacrificed his life to protect his fellow classmates?

Imagine that...a demon being celebrated by humans.

Suppressing a fit of laughter, I turned around and said.

"You really should go warn the scientists and teachers."

The perfect alibi and reason to find the portal.

Sage and I had been simply wandering down the mountain, and this portal had just appeared out of nowhere, surprising both of us.

I had stayed to fight while she went to get backup.

Sure, there were a few holes in the story, but the fact that I had stayed to fight would prove my innocence.

It would also get that teacher who had sabotaged me during the practical off my back.

No way he would try anything against me after this.

*CRASH*

*BANG*

As Sage stepped backward onto the staircase, countless bestial sounds echoed from within the portal.

Then, in the next moment, a small wolf-stout peaked out of the pitch-black portal, sniffing at the air.

The gates had been breached.