chapter 146
146 – 3. The World Only Rest Knows (2)
#144
“Kuuu!!!”
A gigantic figure with a body no different from that of a gigantic truck screamed and crossed the forest. Every time its forepaw was swung, the tree broke and exploded, leaving clear claw marks on the ground.
A white figure hovering around moves as if to make fun of such a guy. It was overwhelming just chasing the shape at such a high speed.
No matter how hard he tried to attack, the giant bear realized that he was too late and started to swing his arms around aimlessly.
Booooong!!
I waved my arms in all directions, aiming for the air, but there was no damage. Only the land was crushed and the surroundings were scattered.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa…!”
After rampaging like that for a while, he let out a heavy breath and stopped the attack, probably tired. As if waiting for that moment, the shadow protruding from his blind spot chewed on the nape of his neck, which was clearly visible.
Pushwooug!!!
In an instant, the sharp attack pierced through the thick fur he was proud of, ripping out the muscle and ripping off the flesh inside it.
“Geuuhuhhhhh…!!”
Blood spurts out and splashes everywhere. Compared to the rough resistance, the momentum was lukewarm. It’s because he’s already done the same thing over 10 times.
No matter how gigantic his body was and how extraordinary his resilience was, the more he lost blood in his body, the weaker he became.
The intense attack just shown was actually the last, last outrage that the wounded animal was capable of.
Wow!
The huge body is slowly collapsing. Breathing was short and rough, and it was so thin that it wouldn’t be strange if it stopped at any moment.
I’ve been holding on until now, but in the end, the amount of blood flowing from his wounds outweighed his regenerative power. In fact, there was no place on the road the guy had passed that hadn’t been stained with blood.
Tadak
Growl, lightly seated in front of such a guy, remained aloof, licking the blood on his mouth and paws. A wild animal’s unique, sharp, lively breath erupted from the giant bear, but he didn’t mind.
It was because the energy of death, stronger than that, was looking after him.
The shadow creeping up from the ground takes the shape of a scythe and fixes the bear’s head. Its appearance was similar to that of a condemned prisoner on the scaffold.
Suddenly!
The shadow passed over the bear’s head. With that, the bear’s life was silenced.
[Dungeon Clear!]
[I obtained [Token of the Forest – Bear] As a reward.]
I checked the system message that appeared at the same time and sighed.
“This is the 5th.”
Approach the body of the dead boss and swing the sword of shadow. Then, no matter how much he attacked, the guy’s fur, which hadn’t even been hurt, split in an instant, revealing his inner flesh and organs.
I extracted only the manastone and the bear bile that emits a light green aura, and handed the rest over to Hive.
The name of the bear that slowly sinks beneath the shadows like falling into a swamp is [Tyrant of the Forest].
He is the dungeon boss of the A-rank dungeon [The Forest Where the King is Seated], And also the head of the Geowoong clan that covered the entire forest.
In this dungeon, various races are located against the background of a forest, and among them, the last remaining entity has a gimmick that awakens as the boss of this dungeon.
The first thing I caught was a monkey whose name was [Woogun of the Forest], Followed in order by the snake’s [Dokgun], The ant’s [Chunggun], And the wild boar’s [Blind Army]. The [Token of the Forest] I collected, including the [Tyrant] Of the bear I had just caught with [Beast King], Came to a total of five.
When I gathered the pieces I had obtained so far in my arms, I succeeded in making a shape close to the original plate by putting together pieces that looked like broken dishes.
Damn it!
I knew it the moment I saw it because it was an item with a strange structure that when overlapped, the parts merged and stuck together as if it had been there from the beginning. That means it has to be put together.
I thought it would be pleasant to put together all the things I collected at once, so I roughly looked at the estimate and overlapped them.
“…Is this not enough?”
Looking at the intaglios of each race I killed in the middle of the disk, it doesn’t seem like a failure or anything like that.
I thought Gomtaengi was finally merged, but it seems that the number was simply insufficient. This dungeon takes up more time than you think because the boss is created only when all other entities die.
So I was going to finish it roughly and go to another dungeon, but the plan went wrong. Can not help it. I have no choice but to turn around one more time.
“Come on.”
I sighed in regret and handed over the green glowing bear that I was holding as a shadow to Growl.
It is an inner layer that must be found in a person who has become a dungeon boss. It contains the energy of the forest, so when consumed, it has the effect of permanently increasing vitality and regenerative power.
If you cook it properly, you can make it into an elixir that increases your strength, but it’s annoying, so I just gave it all to Growl.
It’s nothing else, he’s the one who stands out ahead of anyone else among my summons, so there’s nothing wrong with regenerating and vitality.
“Kong!”
He deftly took what I threw into his mouth and then swallowed it in one gulp. I’ve already thrown several in the same way, so he seems to have gotten used to it.
“Clear.”
I immediately cleared the dungeon, and as soon as I came out, I crossed the gate and moved back into the dungeon.
After closing the message that popped into my view and putting it away, I contemplated which boss to add next.
“Once you get past the duplicates…the only thing left is rabbits, spiders, deer, and eagles?”
In normal nature, it is normal to have more objects, but this is a dungeon.
I don’t know why, but it started appearing at some point, and it grants trials to those who enter, and if they overcome it, they are rewarded appropriately, and those who fail are ruthlessly fixed worlds.
A crystallization of mystery that can interfere with some parts, but even touching the large-scale frame is unforgivable.
Therefore, only objects limited to trials are located inside the dungeon.
Moreover, it’s been a long time since I figured out all the objects that came out of this dungeon in the first challenge. After comparing the characteristics and properties of each individual, I made a decision right away.
“…Once the eagle passes.”
This is because the race itself is capable of flying in the sky without any skill. Since it basically has the advantage of flying, it seemed to be quite annoying to deal with.
If an eagle gets caught, if you add Kalion and Ceres’ pincers, there’s nothing you can’t shoot down, but it’s better to have an individual that everyone can attack together than to limit the number of summons and overpower them.
Moreover, there are some things that you can’t easily predict the additional skills you get when selected as a boss.
In the case of a tyrant, it was strength and tenacity, but when the monkey became the boss, arms grew in the air, reminiscent of an asura.
It goes without saying that each arm was holding a weapon, as if to live up to the name [Army].
In the case of the snake, he did not allow even a single shot from the projectile and avoided all of them, and he also followed Graul’s movement with his eyes, which had been accelerated by [Subdued].
The ants multiplied in real time and grew in size to the extent that they covered the entire forest in black, but it wasn’t a big problem because there was Kalion, a counter of anti-army firepower.
On the contrary, the most annoying was the boar’s side. It seemed that the guy was invincible only in the rushing attack motion, but even if he received all attacks, he bounced off and did not show any damage.
It was the guy who took the most effort to deal with the damage because he only started to take damage after making full use of the shadow for the purpose of stopping, not attacking, and forcibly stopping it.
Because there is no real answer if the eagle boss is given the ridiculous power of being invincible when in the sky and flying far away.
In that respect, rabbits and deer are the easiest.
The characteristics of the object itself are passable, so it is easy to deal with most situations no matter what skill comes out.
“…Let’s kill everything else first and think about it.”
You can kill the one you meet first and make the remaining one the boss.
After deciding on a policy, I stomped my feet lightly.
It collects only the minimum amount of mana and kicks the condensed mana as if it explodes only in the moment it steps on.
Tooung!
Then, miraculously, the scenery quickly distorts even though no great force was applied. I reproduced Graul’s maneuver using only his overwhelming strength.
But the results weren’t that great. It’s not that it’s bad, but the result I put out is that I can’t see the effect as much as Growl.
If you use too much mana, you will be able to catch up with the output itself, but it seems that it will be difficult to continue maneuvering at the same level as Growl.
It’s not that I’m lacking in ability, it’s probably because I’m not good at moving my body. There are also some that do not have skills related to footwork.
Just like I have [Battle King], Graul has a combat support skill called [Berserker’s Fighting Method].
There is no doubt that the unique gait brought by the wolf species is added to the skill to create synergy.
Since all actions of my body now exist under the correction of [Fight King], I have the confidence to move my body better than most fighters.
However, no matter how desperate I am now, it can be seen that I just end up at the second-rate level.
No matter how good the material is, it’s meaningless if you don’t keep trying. Because it is a skill that can be placed at the pinnacle of struggle, the lack of it was realized even more.
For some reason, my stomach was bloated. He seemed to ask if he could only use this much with his confidence.
“You’re only being arrogant about skills.”
I have my own way. I have my own things that no one else has built up myself.
Although it was impossible to register as a technology on the system due to the insignificant level, it is only a matter of time.
Anything is fine as long as I roll a little harder.
Kulleong!
Put out the sword of shadow by overlapping and spreading your hands.
Swish, swish!
As he continued to wield the dagger, which was light enough to fit in one hand, as if repeating a mechanical movement, a scarlet light slowly began to appear on the surface of the sword.
Then, as soon as it accumulates to a certain extent, the shape of the shadow changes from a dagger to a thin sword and swings it at the same time.
aaah!
There was a fierce noise, like cutting paper with a blade, and the body of the massive wild boar in front of me was split in half.
If left unattended, the hive will eat it on its own, so I didn’t retrieve it.
Turn the sword of shadow back into a dagger and repeat the swing. As he continued to advance, repeating actions such as decapitating monsters or splitting the body in two, his arms began to tremble and complain of pain.
Even when he didn’t cut the enemy, he constantly swung to maintain the skill effect of [Battle King], So this was a natural result.
I moved my magic and cast a shadow over my entire arm.
I check the sense of incongruity by moving the shadow that perfectly adheres to the arm itself, not the outer surface like clothes.
There is nothing wrong. He immediately moved his arm again.
Chrill!
“Ugh…”
But the half-raised arm drooped with a tingling pain. Fatigue accumulated and I couldn’t move according to my will.
What I did The pumped up muscles of my arms swelled up. After recognizing that, the mana moves again.
“…Whoa!”
If my muscles don’t move according to my will, it’s enough to force my body to move using magic.
Anyway, as long as you’re alive, you can heal at any time, so even if the muscles themselves are ruptured by overexertion like this, it can be healed.
Of course, the pain is my responsibility, but I have often felt this level of pain in my previous life.
Pud Deuk…!
A sound that shouldn’t be heard echoes continuously from the arm.
Because he forced himself to exercise beyond his limit, his muscles started to tear. It can be seen even without X-ray. If the mana is released, the strength in the arm will not go into it, and it seems that the sword in the hand will be lost.
It felt like my joints were heating up and my bones were burning.
Did you say that the most painful method of execution is burning at the stake? In my previous life, I felt it while passing through a Molotov cocktail thrown by an enemy, but my personal impression was that this was more painful.
It is true that causal pain is very painful. The sensation of the flesh being grilled and carbonized from the outside and the cells dying, and the heat being slowly transferred to the inside, causing parts of the body to die in real time are indescribable.
However, this pain was comparable to that intensity. If a burn is an external pain, this is an internal pain.
From the inside of the body, the wear and tear of the body can be felt in real time.
My brain kept sending me a danger signal telling me to stop right now, but I ignored it and swung the sword with only my mental strength.
As a result, the vermilion light surrounding the dagger now turned reddish-red, and the destructive power contained in it was wriggling, wanting to slaughter the enemy as soon as possible.
I didn’t control that power. Be strong enough to be strong. Release that power as much as you can.
My arms are tattered, my shoulders creak, and I complain of pain. Ignore it.
Wields a sword as soon as it sees an enemy.
Puuong!!!
It was closer to bursting pieces of meat from bombing rather than the feeling of being cut with a knife.
So far, I’ve been busy controlling it, but it wasn’t bad to push it with force like this.
At that time, through [Link], I heard a report that Growl had encountered a deer. At the same time, I also met a rabbit.
As soon as a giant rabbit with white fur, the only one in this radiant green forest, looked at me, it immediately turned around and started running away.
That’s right, I would have been sick of it if I had come to hit the head with a death coming right in front of me.
No matter how much a monster is set to kill enemies, it’s an A-rank dungeon, so it’s normal to have intelligence enough to understand the situation.
The rabbit desperately ran away from me, even using a strange skill to accelerate by kicking the air.
Even in the extremely slow vision due to the effect of [Battle Concentration], I continued to see him moving rapidly and advancing, and I gave an order to my heart.
Kill.
[Check the winner of the territory fight.]
[The owner of this mountain is [Rabbit].]
Immediately after that, the system is placed in sight. The huge guy’s body shrinks.
The skeleton of the beast, which was only a beast, is twisted into a form similar to that of a human, and the movement of the four-legged guy changes to two-legged.
Tooung!!
With one kick in the air, the ground shook and the air trembled.
Su-in.
Unlike other bosses, this guy has become an existence that sits on the border between man and beast.
[The boss [Jade Army of the Forest] Has appeared.]
But still he escaped. Didn’t look back. From the guy’s feelings, nothing but fear and fear existed.
That guy noticed it instinctively. He said that the throne he ascended was not won by himself, but by someone else.
I look at it and transform the sword. Insert the bladeless handle into the scabbard.
“Sure…”
Slowly lower your body. Exhale to the limit, compressing, compressing, compressing again.
Rejects the presence of impurities other than mana within the body. It condenses the power that is about to explode at any moment.
Every time I did that, the recoil filled my throat with blood, but I didn’t care.
The moment it reached its limit
Clap
I put my hand on the scabbard trigger.
[The boss of the dungeon refused the position of king.]
System messages blared loudly, obstructing my vision, but I didn’t care.
The goal is the whole mountain. If you can’t see it, it’s enough to put everything in front of you as a scope.
The mountain itself is drawn at the same time as the newly crowned owner of the mountain.
‘Not enough.’
The power was insufficient. Add an image
In that world, I was the only ‘human’, a ‘hunter’ who hunted those who had given up being human and turned into monsters, and a ‘god of death’ who delivered a certain death.
Because the people who faced me killed everything without mercy, no matter what they prayed for or whispered.
I killed, killed, killed, and killed until the day it was determined that I was the only one left alive in that world.
The world helped me and constantly sprinkled white powder resembling snow.
Thus, I was the ‘Grim Reaper’ to them.
Click
The sound of something engaging echoed in my brain. [The Harvester] Reacts. As if responding to that, [Subdued] Adds strength.
He gladly continued. As the shadow stretched, the shadow’s clothes on my body changed into something that was no different from rags.
A sword was placed on top of it, as if it had penetrated my body, and at the same time, they melted and changed into the shape of a robe.
Took
Ashes fall from the sky. It blended into the robe, and white lines were engraved on the black clothes.
Everything is dying one after another.
The white powder falling from the sky turns the mountain white in an instant.
The leaves died, the trees died, the blades of grass died, and finally the earth died.
At the end of the end, only me and my summons are intact.
“Cool…”
Blood flowed out. It felt like my body was about to break.
I continued. It was to overwork the body. If you don’t pick the mulberry this time, you don’t know when this opportunity will be given again.
Lee Se-rin’s gaze, which was looking at me in real time, turned very ferocious, but I ignored it.
Perhaps he didn’t like the way I abused my body without protecting it.
So what?
Now this is my territory. This body is also mine, and I am the only one who can do what I want in this world.
A realm of ‘rest’ only for me, where only I can be seated.
Don’t dare step into the realm of ‘me’ on the subject of ‘noise’ beyond cognition.
Drop!
At that moment, Lee Se-rin’s gaze was blocked. Hayes was influenced by my image and blocked the world.
Thanks to the external pressure to pierce it, I felt a strong repulsive force, but with this, a noisy thing finally disappeared.
[The hidden condition has been achieved.]
Oh, and then there was one more noisy thing.
…My job hasn’t changed. As if marking the end of their lives on the list of the underworld.
[Dungeon Clash…]
“[Line].”
Suddenly.
Cut.
[…Lear.]
The system message that was placed at the same time as the scenery in front of my eyes was fragmented. The white snow splits and the world is also broken into pieces.
[Check Beyond the limit.]
[A climber related to Already exists.]
[Failed to acquire tinnitus.]
[The size of the image becomes wider as a compensation.]
“… Tsk.”
I couldn’t cut the loudest one. Still, some achievement was achieved. I also completely caught the clue about the [Image] I wanted the most.
…In exchange, it was shattered by about 30% of its lifespan, but since there is no abnormality in the soul, it will be replenished someday.
“…”
The mana is empty. It was the first time I felt magical exhaustion after obtaining [Subdued].
The exhaustion wasn’t a joke, I lay down on the ground. The white world slowly disappeared.
With no means to maintain Heize’s magic power, Se-Rin Lee’s stinging gaze, which had been blocked for an instant, pierced her.
A system message reminding me that I had cleared the dungeon reminded me of when it was restored, and I eagerly asserted myself.
…Everything goes back to normal.
Except for those who have already died, everyone.
Summoned beasts rushed to my side.
“Ki-ing…”
“You were very beautiful. God.”
Grawl sat down next to me and Echidna healed my damaged body and made me lean on him at the same time.
“That’s right.”
Carlion cleansed my dirty body with [Divinity].
The rest were located in their respective positions, ready for any enemy to appear at any time.
I burst into laughter at the sight of the guys moving autonomously for me even though I didn’t give a separate order.
“…Let’s take a break.”
Ignoring the system message that kept urging me to declare clear, I closed my eyes for a while.