Chapter 151: The Acquired Abilities Are Getting Better and Better

Episode 151

Now that he knew the secret, defeating Isaac was only a matter of time.

Kim Jinsung gathered all his strength into his fists to finish him off.

‘I’ll attack continuously and crush his head.’

He was determined to kill Isaac and absorb his ability.

To prevent any unforeseen circumstances,

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▶ You have used the skill ‘Ability Seal’.

▷ The target can no longer use mana or abilities.

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He used Ability Seal on Isaac and threw his fists with all his might.

Just as his fists were about to connect with Isaac’s face,

“……!”

Kim Jinsung’s eyes widened slightly.

Isaac had suddenly vanished into thin air.

His fists swung through empty space.

‘What?’

He was puzzled, but he instinctively jumped back.

At the same time, something whizzed past his nose.

It was Isaac’s fist.

“Damn it…!”

Isaac cursed under his breath, clenching his teeth.

He seemed frustrated that he had missed his chance.

Kim Jinsung, who had narrowly dodged the attack, looked at Isaac with a surprised expression.

‘I didn’t expect this.’

He was most surprised that Isaac had used a skill despite being under the effect of Ability Seal.

And he hadn’t sensed any mana movement from Isaac when he disappeared and reappeared to attack.

‘It must be a very good skill if I couldn’t even sense it, even though I’m much stronger than him.’

It couldn’t be a simple stealth skill. It had to be a skill that completely masked his mana from detection to explain the situation.

In other words, it was at least a skill similar to his own stealth trait, ‘Covert Approach’.

Isaac disappeared from his sight again.

“…Oh dear.”

Kim Jinsung said, flustered, and heightened his guard with a tense expression.

Isaac, observing him, quickly moved behind Kim Jinsung while remaining invisible.

After confirming that Kim Jinsung hadn’t noticed him, a triumphant smile spread across his face.

‘Hehehe, I thought he was different, but he’s nothing special!’

He thought to himself and slowly reached for Kim Jinsung’s head with both hands.

He was going to break his neck, just like he had done to Akuma.

Just as his hands were about to reach Kim Jinsung’s head,

“……?!”

Isaac’s eyes widened.

Kim Jinsung had suddenly vanished like smoke.

…Or rather, it felt like he had turned into smoke.

Because the moment Kim Jinsung disappeared, thick smoke filled the area around him.

‘What is this?!’

Isaac, surprised and sensing danger, tried to jump out of the smoke.

But he was a step too late.

**Crackle! Boom!**

Dozens of powerful lightning bolts suddenly struck him from within the thick smoke.

“!!”

“Whoa!”

“W-what’s going on?!”

Even Pablo, Ricardo, and the other executives from both clans were startled and jumped back as powerful static electricity filled the warehouse.

After the prolonged lightning attack ended,

the charred body of a man lay in the center of the spacious warehouse, his eyes wide open.

Kim Jinsung, who had reappeared, was standing right in front of him.

“No…!”

Jason screamed, a cry of despair that represented everyone on the Slaughterhouse side.

On the other hand, the Boko Haram side erupted in cheers.

“Yeah!!”

“That’s it, Alopsky!”

“Kill all the rest of them!”

Their cheers were filled with more intense emotions than ever before, perhaps fueled by the shock and sense of loss they had felt when they lost Akuma.

Kim Jinsung, listening to their cheers, kept his gaze fixed on Isaac’s corpse on the ground.

‘He died from the lightning attack alone because he wasn’t wearing any armor.’

He wouldn’t even dream of finishing off an opponent with a lightning attack under normal circumstances.

Even the weakest clans in the B district wore armor that could defend against elemental skills.

But this was an unarmed duel, where everyone was fighting without any armor.

So he had tried it, and it had worked.

‘And even if I can’t sense his mana, I can still tell where he’s moving.’

It was true that he couldn’t sense Isaac’s mana when he used his stealth skill. But that made it easier to track his movements.

All he had to do was observe the movement of the only mana-less space within his controllable range.

‘It might have been difficult to notice if this were a chaotic battlefield with many people fighting…’

Unfortunately for Isaac, this was a one-on-one duel, so he could focus on him alone. That’s why he had been able to figure it out so easily.

‘Thanks to that, I gained a very good ability.’

He checked the notification that had appeared before him.

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▶ You have defeated an evildoer.

▶ Acquired 185 Beast Karma points.

▶ Acquired the opponent’s comprehensive trait ‘Veil of Blessing’.

▷ Veil of Blessing: Grants the following traits and permanently stored skill:

– The ‘Veil of Blessing’ now protects the user for 24 hours.

– The ‘Veil of Blessing’ will always protect and nullify the enemy’s attacks and control skills. The Veil of Blessing will then disappear momentarily and regenerate after 0.25 seconds.

– Channeling mana into the ‘Veil of Blessing’ will grant the user invisibility with the ‘Covert Approach’ trait. Invisibility is dispelled upon attacking.

– Permanently increases Intelligence by 100 and all other stats by 90.

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‘So that’s why the ‘Ability Seal’ skill I used earlier didn’t work.’

Kim Jinsung looked at his body.

He couldn’t see it, but a thin, peculiar membrane was covering his entire body.

It seemed to be the ‘Veil of Blessing’.

‘Is this the level of ability required to be the second-in-command of a clan in the B district?’

He had thought the defense-ignoring skill ‘Kill’, which he had obtained from defeating Bruce, the leader of Hunter Team 1, was very good, but the ‘Veil of Blessing’ he had just acquired seemed even better.

And the ‘Mana Seal’ skill he had obtained upon entering this continent… It seemed like he was only acquiring useful skills compared to the ones he had obtained during the Colosseum survival.

He was starting to look forward to the rest of the duels even more.

‘I wonder what kind of abilities Jason and the other executives have.’

He looked at Jason with anticipation in his eyes.

Jason, who had been glaring at him with murderous intent, turned to the side and gestured with his chin.

“Go, Gustavo.”

The man called Gustavo looked at Jason silently, then reluctantly walked forward.

“…Phew…!”

Kim Jinsung watched silently as Gustavo warmed up, letting out nervous sighs.

‘He’s the third-in-command of Slaughterhouse, right?’

Gustavo was in charge of managing all the slaughterhouses owned by the Slaughterhouse Clan.

The fact that he was entrusted with managing the slaughterhouses, which were Slaughterhouse’s main source of income, showed how much Jason trusted him.

‘I heard he’s an executive with exceptional physical abilities…’

He recalled what he had vaguely heard from Dangote.

Suddenly, Gustavo ripped off his shirt and threw it aside.

His bare upper body came into view, and

‘…This guy also enhanced his body.’

Kim Jinsung thought to himself as he saw Gustavo’s grotesquely bulging muscles.

His upper body, covered in bulbous muscles, looked no different from the muscle pigs of the ‘Nature Animal’ Clan he had fought before.

It was as if Gustavo’s body was the unbulked version of the Nature Animal Clan members.

“Aaaaaargh!!!”

Gustavo suddenly roared.

At the same time, his entire body started turning red.

His skin, his hair, and even his eyes.

His bloodshot eyes, in particular, were a familiar sight to Kim Jinsung.

‘Kang Min-hyuk’s eyes looked exactly like that when he went berserk.’

“Be careful!!”

Dangote’s shout came from afar.

“Never underestimate Gustavo when he’s in ‘Berserker’ mode! You have to give it your all!”

As he heard those words, Gustavo moved. He charged towards Kim Jinsung.

‘……!’

Kim Jinsung was startled.

Gustavo’s charge was much faster than he had expected.

If he hadn’t been mentally prepared, he wouldn’t have been able to dodge the incoming punch by twisting his body.

That was the beginning of a one-sided onslaught.

Gustavo threw punches at an incredible speed, and Kim Jinsung was barely able to block them.

‘Ugh… This is no joke.’

Not only the speed, but the power behind each punch was also immense.

His combat power was on par with Kim Jinsung’s current state, where he couldn’t use ‘Dark energy’.

No, in terms of pure physical strength, he might even be stronger.

He now understood why Dangote had warned him not to underestimate Gustavo.

‘And he seems to be retaining some of his sanity.’

Unlike Kang Min-hyuk, whose eyes had rolled back with bloodshot whites, Gustavo was constantly observing Kim Jinsung’s movements with his eyes.

It was proof that he still had some control over himself.

‘But it’s still just a berserk state.’

Kim Jinsung, who had already experienced it once, knew the biggest weakness of a berserk state.

It was vulnerable to mental attacks.

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▶ You have used the skill ‘Confusion’.

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“Ugh…?”

Gustavo suddenly stumbled and lost his balance, and the accuracy of his punches plummeted.

He missed Kim Jinsung, who was standing still, four out of five times.

Kim Jinsung easily dodged all the attacks and was able to place his palm on Gustavo’s head.

**Thud!**

Gustavo’s skull exploded, sending fragments flying in all directions.

“……!!”

Jason’s eyes widened in shock.

He was so stunned that he just stared at Kim Jinsung without even screaming.

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▶ You have defeated an evildoer.

▶ Acquired 185 Beast Karma points.

▶ Acquired the opponent’s skill ‘Berserker Transformation’.

▷ Berserker Transformation: Increases all physical stats by 100% and enters ‘Berserk’ state. Grants immunity to all physical status ailments.

▶ Acquired the opponent’s trait ‘Cold Heart’.

▷ Cold Heart: Grants permanent immunity to the ‘Berserk’ status ailment.

▶ Permanently increases Strength by 90 and Stamina by 75.

▶ Do you want to delete an existing skill to acquire the ‘Berserker Transformation’ skill?

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‘…So he didn’t lose his sanity because of the ‘Cold Heart’ trait.’

Kim Jinsung was more interested in the ‘Cold Heart’ trait than the ‘Berserker Transformation’ skill.

With this trait, he wouldn’t lose his sanity and go berserk when his stamina was low, like he had during his fight with Shin Woong.

“Now then…”

He looked at Jason, who was still in shock, and asked,

“Who’s next? Is it you?”

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