episode_0054

“What…are you…human?”

Jihoon’s eyes, which were full of sadness just a moment ago, now only appear cold and indifferent.

There’s still more information to get from that guy.

But he is not cooperative.

With these two facts alone, Jihoon quickly regained his composure.

That was the reason why, unlike usual, he exploded with all his power instead of using an appropriate amount of internal power tailored to the opponent.

To prevent the opponent in front of you from thinking about anything else, to be completely enchanted by your own strength, to be in fear, and to blow everything you know…

Jihoon’s new brother, who seemed to be taking a step forward, disappears in an instant.

Squeak

The armored warriors summoned by the elf wizard were instantly broken in two and rolling around on the floor.

Neither Kundanil nor the elf could see Jihoon’s attack.

Where did it appear again?

Jihoon makes eye contact with Kundanil again and walks slowly.

The elf, following Kundanil’s instructions, unfolds the transparent shield again.

Sigh

a creepy sharp sound

Jihoon’s white moon gently cuts through the elf’s protective shield.

Previously, all he had to do was pull out his sword energy and create a crack, but this time, he split the defense shield with just one horizontal swing of Baekwol.

Jihoon, who gained strength, became a completely different person than before.

“Tell me everything you know about dimensional travel”

In front of Kundanil, who called himself a king and displayed all kinds of arrogance.

Jihoon chants in a forceful command tone.

“…how dare a human-”

hiss

As Jihoon steps into the wormhole of the space movement skill that unfolds in a split second, his new form arrives right in front of Kundanil’s nose.

“What is this speed…?”

Kundanil could not help but be horrified as he watched Jihoon use his space movement skills using internal energy and footwork.

No matter how you look at it, this was because the speed was not possible with the abilities of the awakened people here alone.

At the very least, it would have been the result of combining the abilities of the two worlds.

Jihoon’s left hand lifts his robe right in front of Kundanil.

Is it because of overwhelming strength?

Kundanil was unable to stop Jihoon’s actions at all and just seemed frozen.

The Kundanil in the robe was a skeleton, a being with only bones remaining.

“…It was truly a monster.”

“Do not dare to name this being rashly to lesser human subjects”

Even though he was frozen in front of Jihoon’s strength, Kundanil could not let go of his arrogant tone.

“Did you say king…? You don’t look that strong, why are you so arrogant?”

It was Jihoon’s honest impression.

From the moment he first encountered Kundanil, he was not that much of a threat to Jihoon.

Except for the fact that he calls himself a king and controls the elves as he pleases.

It was nothing more than a low-level monster.

“I guess…just like this body, you are an [existence of exception] that can cause cracks in Gaia’s system.”

“What?”

“I am a being who must reign over everyone. For me, who controls the minds of lesser beings, I don’t need combat skills.”

At the end of Kundanil’s words, the entire body of the elf who was chanting the spell behind him emits bright light.

The light instantly illuminated the entire castle, stopping the movement of everything it touched.

That powerful force also worked on Jihoon.

Only Kundanil was moving alone in all the silence.

“There is no one in any world who can kill me. All the beings who pointed their swords at me ended up kneeling and swearing lifelong obedience.”

Kundanil approaches Jihoon, who has stopped, and blue magic flows out from his body and envelops Jihoon’s whole body.

The moment Jihoon’s body is enveloped by Kundanil’s magic, the light is captured by the elf again.

dump

The elf falls to the floor and is panting.

Half of his vitality disappeared in an instant.

Kundanil said as he approached Jihoon without even looking at the elf.

“My new minion. Tell me, your king, his name”

“…”

“My-”

“Who is the minion?”

“…?”

The white moon held in Jihoon’s right hand was shining unusually brightly.

“Uh…how…”

Squeak

Kundanil’s right shoulder is cut off by the white sword wielded by Jihoon.

He was staring blankly at his torn off right arm without even screaming.

Squeak

Jihoon swings Baekwol again and cuts off Kundanil’s legs.

It was a way to make it impossible to escape.

However, even though Kundanil lost one shoulder and both legs, he did not cry out in pain or fight back.

“I guess it doesn’t hurt because only the bones remain. Then I’ll just leave the powder.”

“…Why didn’t it work?”

“What? Did you try to control my mind too?”

“…obediently become my servant. Anyway, this body is only for temporary use. As a ‘being of exception’, I am free from Gaia’s time and space, and I am a king who enjoys eternal life…”

“I have no interest in whether it is an exception or eternal life. Just tell me everything you know about dimensional travel. If you don’t want to die right now…”

“You don’t even know what abilities you have… It’s true that you’re a little strong, but you’re foolish, human. Stargergeek Grandou!!”

Kundanil suddenly shouts

As his cry reached the elf, white light began to burst out from the elf’s body again.

Although it’s only for a moment, the elf’s magic stops Jihoon’s movements.

Jihoon quickly throws his sword at him, thinking that he shouldn’t be hit again.

Sword energy emanating from the White Moon.

The sword energy flew at a speed so fast that it could not be traced with the eyes and cut cleanly through the elf’s chest.

It was then.

Kundanil has two legs and no shoulder. A small wormhole opens on the floor where he falls.

“No!!!”

Jihoon urgently tried to stop him, but before he knew it, Kundanil and the wormhole disappeared in an instant.

“Fuck you!!!”

Jihoon gets angry and swings his white moon towards the direction where Kundanil disappeared.

“Aaaah!!!”

It seems as if he has lost his mind and his senseless cutting does not stop.

at that time

The elf barely raises his head while kneeling and spits out words to Jihoon.

“This…human…thank you…for ending my hell…”

The elf was losing his last breath after Jihoon’s blow.

“I should have found out… I should have caught him, tortured him, or whatever…”

Without hearing any thanks from the elf.

Whether it was anger or sadness, Jihoon was half out of his mind.

But on the contrary, the elf was dying with a wide smile on his face, thanks to the fact that he was free from Kundanil’s servitude, even as blood poured out of his chest.

“Cough…I don’t have much life left…but I’ll try to answer your questions a little bit…”

When Jihoon, who was frustrated, heard those words, he stopped pointlessly cutting and quickly approached the elf.

“Do you know anything about dimensional travel?”

“I was forcibly subordinated to Kundanil, but unlike others, I remained conscious. Hurry…the world tree is calling me to ask quickly.”

“Time!! I knew that dimensional travel was free. But what about time? The 10 years there lasted less than a second here, can Yeonhwa wait for me?”

There was no way the elf would know who Yeonhwa was, but Jihoon, who was desperate, asked him the one thing he was most curious about.

Ji-hoon returned to modern times and searched through numerous materials related to dimensional travel and came up with several hypotheses.

There was only one thing he was worried about.

What if Yeonhwa’s time is over when she returns to Murim after solving the secret of dimensional travel?

What would be the meaning of returning to a world without Yeonhwa?

To Jihoon, secrets related to time were more important than anything else.

“Cough..cough..Time exists intertwined with space, humans. The past, present, and future all exist at the same time.”

“What does that mean? Yeonhwa can wait?”

“Time does not pass. Cough. Just as space does not move, time is also bound to that space without moving. Cough. This means that it is possible to go to a desired space at a desired time through dimensional movement. Cough”

“That…that’s really…”

“Kuuuup…my life is over now. I also saw another human traveling around with Kundanil and traveling through dimensions. Find other ‘exceptional beings’ like you and get help. Once again…thank you…for putting an end to hell for me and my tribe…”

With those last words, the elf lowered his head as if he had taken his last breath.

Jihoon sat down, mesmerized, and pondered the elf’s words for a long time.

***

“Uh…uh…uh!! Dede…Dedekuru!”

Jihoon comes out of the gate.

When the Japanese soldiers saw him, they shouted, and the waiting hunters of Big Number rushed in and surrounded him.

Clothes soaked in blood here and there.

An ecstatic face.

It didn’t look like he was particularly injured, but his condition didn’t look normal at all.

“Jihoon!!!”

Sojung runs towards me like crazy from far away.

Jihoon’s condition is different from usual.

Sojung couldn’t help but be surprised when things she had never seen, such as sadness and pain, appeared on his face, which was always full of playfulness.

“What…what’s going on? What is this…what happened inside?”

Ji-hoon, who was in a daze, recognizes that the person standing in front of him is So-jung and hugs her tightly.

“Yeonhwa…you can meet Yeonhwa. How worried I was that I might have died of old age alone…”

“Yeonhwa? Who is that… Jihoon… are you… crying?”

Sojung could not hide her embarrassment as she felt her shoulders getting wet from Jihoon’s tears.