Ch.4141. An Unexpected Enemy

Seol Yuhwa tried to make up for her mistake.

‘I can do this.’

In a situation filled with confusion amidst the fog, her Brisingamen began to sense the surroundings.

She had been shaken after losing the Brate Saurus, but now she concentrated to avoid making the same mistake again.

Instead of hastily trying to control it, she observed her target. The power of Brisingamen penetrated the fog, revealing everything.

Waves pierced through the fog, mapping everything in her mind. The moment she sensed the targets, she shouted.

“Miyeon! Keep moving backward from there! The monster is moving at 12 o’clock!”

“Yuhwa?”

Just like before her regression, she began to thoroughly explore the surroundings with Brisingamen.

Her Brisingamen was functioning like a radar, helping her grasp the environment.

Without touching anything, Seol Yuhwa moved solely based on the information provided by Brisingamen.

Through the fog where even a step ahead was hard to discern, Brisingamen gradually penetrated the surroundings.

“Come this way!”

In her line of sight were students, peers, and seniors.

Seol Yuhwa led them faster than before her regression while controlling the monsters.

‘I won’t make a mistake this time.’

Last time, she had acted hastily.

‘I said I would save Do Jonghyun.’

She was a woman belonging to the genius class like Aerial and Gu Sanghyun. She turned her mistake into success in the very next step.

Her Brisingamen controlled two monsters.

“Fight!”

She sent them against other monsters to prevent harm to others.

She ran around diligently.

While Oh Juhwan was fighting three monsters, focusing on defense with gravity, she controlled one of them.

As monster attacked monster and Oh Juhwan gained some breathing room, he switched to offense.

“Seol Yuhwa! It’s Brisingamen!”

With a joyful face, Oh Juhwan crushed a monster’s head in one go.

As soon as he switched to offense, a powerful wave of energy froze the movements of monsters in the vicinity.

Then gravity activated, quickly disposing of the monsters.

As Seol Yuhwa began to intervene like this, the chaotic situation started to be resolved quickly.

Less than 10 minutes after the attack began, human screams had become extremely rare.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say things were going really well. Just as in the path that made Seol Yuhwa famous. To reiterate, faster than before her regression.

In a situation where she would naturally become a star if things continued smoothly, an unexpected event occurred.

“Over there, be careful!”

It was the moment Seol Yuhwa spotted someone and ran toward them.

The other person was rushing through the fog.

‘Wait, something’s strange?’

Brisingamen began sending warnings. Her detection suddenly seemed blocked, unable to move any further.

As the fog rippled, Seol Yuhwa instinctively jumped backward.

This choice was correct. An attack that split the fog appeared right before her eyes.

‘Is this a misunderstanding?’

Seol Yuhwa was bewildered when a human, not a monster, lunged at her.

This hesitation ultimately meant that while she avoided the first attack, she couldn’t dodge the second.

“Ah…”

As she belatedly took a step back, she already felt something hot in her abdomen.

She saw a thin thread moving as blood splattered.

“Aagh!”

As she screamed in pain, the blood-stained thread rippled and surrounded her.

The sharpness of that thread and how it was now surrounding and pressing in on her?

‘No!’

A scene Seol Yuhwa didn’t want to recall came to mind.

Something that hadn’t happened before her regression was now threatening her life.

Just as the tightening threads made her final moments seem imminent, a strong gust of wind blew in again.

This wind cut through the threads that were about to tear her apart and fiercely dispersed the fog momentarily.

At that moment, she could see it.

The sound of massive wings that surpassed a giant hornet. A noise like a helicopter right beside her.

Green skin and what appeared to be a tough exterior. An insect preparing to shoot spines from both hands came into view.

“Could it be?”

Seol Yuhwa recalled the insect monster she had met with her brother.

The monster that had strangely just left.

‘It’s different.’

But now the insect had mechanical armor attached to its body that she hadn’t seen before.

Mechanical armor covering only a third of its upper body.

And again it stirred up the wind and moved to fight.

While it was surprising to meet it again, Seol Yuhwa realized one thing.

‘Did it save me?’

Not just once, but twice now. What on earth was this insect monster? Seol Yuhwa calmed her startled heart and stood up.

*

I had detected it with my radar, but it was an extremely dangerous moment.

Seol Yuhwa was being attacked right now.

Why?

This was the only thought in my head. Before the regression, Seol Yuhwa had joined with other instructors to resolve the incident smoothly.

This kind of situation shouldn’t have happened at all.

The moment Seol Yuhwa fell to the ground after being attacked, I changed my card.

To an insect boasting the fastest speed.

[Banchung Sura]

As soon as I transformed, I simultaneously activated acceleration, terrain adaptation, and output limit release devices.

[Banchung Sura]

Strength: A

Agility: SS(+)

Resistance: A

Magic Resistance: A(+)

Energy: S(+)

Mana: S(+)

With increased agility, energy, and mana, I targeted the enemy with my compound eyes.

These threads might be invisible to normal human eyes, but these compound eyes could see through them.

The threads were layered and waiting.

Following their ends, my body moved and my field of vision changed.

These compound eyes could see through the fog and track the blood-stained threads.

“Threads?”

Someone came to mind, but that wasn’t important right now.

I literally charged forward like mad.

[Wind-Cutting Slash]

I cut through the threads pressing on Seol Yuhwa in one go and tracked the target.

Before I knew it, I had flown near the bundle of threads. In this state, I created a wing pulse.

I couldn’t stay still. Not when I knew how those threads moved.

Those threads, as if alive, protected their user and attacked.

I could see a masked man hastily retreating as the bundle of threads flew away.

If it was who I thought it was, attacking would be dangerous.

Because he was stronger than Sung Minwoo whom I had faced with my awakening card.

At this moment, as I hesitated, threads moved around me.

But my SS-rank agility wasn’t just for show.

When those threads tried to surround me, I shot upward.

Pure speed. I was about to pass through the thick fog.

After emerging where there was no fog, I changed direction. While the opponent’s thread attacks covered all directions, there was one weak spot.

Above the head. Not that it wasn’t defended, but it was looser than other areas.

I aimed at him and descended.

Using this speed, I would strike him from above.

I deliberately sprayed needle attacks in front and would finish with a final blow.

As the needle attacks embedded in the ground and he dodged and defended, I could see it.

With the short duration and considering the difference in our abilities, I needed to end this with one strike.

Cutting through the fog, my compound eyes spotted him.

With the needle attacks falling in front and the threads focusing their attention there, this was the timing.

I moved toward his head with Wind-Cutting Slash.

My field of vision changed from the air to above his head in less than 0.1 seconds. I broke through his defense with Wind-Cutting Slash.

After the flash passed, my hand had clearly cut through something tough.

The sound of threads unraveling was like something burning.

Wind-Cutting Slash passed through, perfectly splitting his face in half.

“Got it…”

But something wriggled in the split head and began to reattach.

The mask fell off, and before me was a face twisted with rage.

Bong Junseok.

An instructor of the intermediate class, known by the nickname “Psycho.” I had already figured it out from his ability, but seeing him in person, I froze.

Why?

In a moment of confusion at a situation I had never seen even in the future, threads were already coming toward my wings.

“Argh!”

With the pain of my wings being torn, I crashed to the ground.

“You fucking bastard. You want to die!”

The voice of the psycho instructor was getting closer.

But as the signal for trait adjustment release came, things were turning even more unfavorable.

I could transform into a dinosaur, but there was the issue of control.

What if I went berserk? As I was caught in this fearful imagination, with his threads approaching me, it happened.

“Aagh! You crazy bitch!”

Suddenly, Bong Junseok screamed and clutched his head.

Clutching his head?

“Instructor Bong Junseok. So you were the culprit!”

I heard Seol Yuhwa’s voice behind me.

Wisely, Seol Yuhwa didn’t rush in or anything like that. Instead, she loudly announced Instructor Bong Junseok’s betrayal.

And as I looked at her, our eyes met.

“…”

She didn’t say anything. But at least she didn’t interfere with me using Brisingamen.

However, support from other instructors in the fog was slow to arrive.

Instead, threads surrounded both me and Seol Yuhwa.

“You’ll die here, and Seol Yuhwa, you’ll be the traitor. I’ll kill you along with that insane monster.”

Just as the threads were about to attack us again, a massive sword plunged into the ground in front of me.

The moment the handle adorned with a lion emblem proudly emitted light, the threads were blown away pathetically.

“This is…”

Another strange event. Today has been full of unexpected situations.

This sword is the most famous sword in South Korea, no, the entire world.

A sword that cannot be mistaken.

The great sword of the Lion Heart King. And before me appeared South Korea’s strongest Jaeger.

“This is quite an interesting situation.”

A confident smile that always exudes pressure on opponents appeared before me.

“A win-win situation.”

“Dokgo Jun!”

Bong Junseok was backing away.

“Bong Junseok. So you were the mastermind behind this. Attacking your colleague and plotting this? I’ll judge you. I won’t tolerate anyone associated with monsters.”

“Dokgo Jun…”

Hesitation was evident in Bong Junseok’s voice. But soon, he began transforming into a monster right before our eyes.

“A human monster? You’ve been hiding well, pretending to be human.”

No, he’s a monster-human. The human monster is your Jaeger, the third-in-command.

But I couldn’t tell him such things.

I hurriedly tried to move, but Dokgo Jun’s sword passed in front of me.

“Where are you running to? You’re clearly not an ordinary monster, are you?”

I’m screwed. Who could escape if Dokgo Jun was determined to catch them?

But in this situation, Bong Junseok laughed maniacally.

“Dokgo Jun. I’ve been conducting interesting experiments with monsters all this time. Using test subjects… And I’ve become stronger.”

His clothes completely tore as his human form disappeared. His size grew enormously, transforming completely into a monster with tentacles.

But Dokgo Jun was smiling. Bong Junseok didn’t seem to like that smile.

“I’ve become stronger, almost SS-rank. Power to surpass you, an SS-rank.”

“How annoying.”

The two clashed, and the outcome was decided in 10 seconds.

“Why… Why…”

Bong Junseok, with only his upper body remaining, looked shocked.

During those 10 seconds, there were three exchanges, and each time, Bong Junseok was overwhelmingly defeated.

It’s a fact that becoming a monster-human makes one stronger. But Dokgo Jun was on a different level.

[Smoke Screen]

Taking this opportunity, I set off a smoke screen and fled.

Running far away? No, that’s not it. I pretended to escape in the smoke and fog, but actually released my transformation.

In other words, I took a risk right near Dokgo Jun.

“Huff… Huff…”

With my heart pounding, Bong Junseok screamed.

“I’ll kill everyone. I’ll blow this place up!”

I don’t know what happened after that voice. Dokgo Jun shouted something again, and then it became quiet.

The fog cleared after about 2 minutes had passed.

Having retreated as far as possible, I could see Bong Junseok’s corpse with only one arm remaining when the fog lifted.

This is South Korea’s strongest Jaeger.

Even if you obtain power of the same SS-rank, the caliber differs from person to person.

With all this confirmed, the incident came to an end.