episode_0071

Advance and follow-up units (3) – Cheonwangsan Mountain, Guro-gu, Seoul

The world is going crazy.

What everyone living today has already realized.

Seo Joo-won realized it at this moment.

A thin, thin top floating in the air and myself lightly relaxing below.

Each other’s eyes were busy and the only thought was to kill the other.

Each person’s mana slowly flowing out to him and him.

‘Is this the life I only heard about?’

He made a light joke and deliberately exaggerated it, putting a smile on his face.

The composure contained in that smile will make the viewer feel anxious.

Every reason for action leads to victory and murder.

And Seo Joo-won didn’t think it was strange at all.

Rather, this was an ‘evolution’ that suited the current era.

However, just as only those who escape the chrysalis become butterflies.

Not everyone evolved.

All the humans and awakened people he had met so far were unable to escape the large chrysalis.

‘loneliness’

In particular, all the awakened people I met in Guro-gu were like that.

The fact that they set aside all circumstances and rushed to Seoul is proof that something more precious than anything else lies dormant in Seoul.

The great loss felt by those who have lost something is the emotion that most easily leads to loneliness.

All the awakened people he met were suffering from a vivid loneliness.

Seo Joo-won understood that obvious fact.

But understanding it didn’t mean it was right.

Loneliness was making people sick and preventing evolution.

Seo Joo-won felt utmost pity at that.

That’s why he just healed them.

Don’t feel lonely anymore.

The method was very simple.

He used his appearance as a weapon to smile, be considerate, and praise those who were wary of him.

Being handsome has always been that way.

Both men and women became tolerant and treated themselves with an open mind when it came to their weapons, which had no negative elements.

It meant that he had become weak and sick.

That’s why they died. Seo Joo-won healed the loneliness of the four awakened people he met in Guro-gu.

I thought the idiot I met today was no different.

The 6th awakened person to arrive in Guro-gu.

I thought it would be enough to simply heal the flying awakened person who fluttered like a butterfly.

But as things progressed, he admitted that he was wrong.

He’s an idiot wearing strange white religious clothes.

I didn’t feel lonely. I wasn’t sick.

Rather, just like myself, I was filled with thoughts of killing Seo Joo-won.

Seo Joo-won knew deep down that a moment like this would come someday as he healed sick people.

I thought I would be very happy when that moment came, but imagination and reality were different.

I wanted to kill him.

I just wanted to tear the guy looking down at me from the sky to pieces.

That’s why Seo Joo-won laughed.

She warmed up her body and taunted him with her mouth.

“The baby is scared.”

Han Gu-won did not reply at all.

He simply responded to his provocation with a smile and lowered the hand he was holding.

The thorns that were trembling and aiming at him bombarded the ground.

Seo Joo-won escaped the bombing range by lightly jumping.

Babababababaak!

Thorns followed him like a tail along his evasive path.

You can’t catch yourself with a simple bombing raid.

An awakened person who invested a lot in physical stats was always one step faster than Thorn.

Han Gu-won must have known this as well and stopped the barrage of thorns.

Large boulders floated around the creature, which was illuminated by a thick white light.

Seo Joo-won smiled at the white mana that seemed to overflow outward.

‘Consume more, more.’

The only thing that makes an awakened person an awakened person is mana.

Awakeners who cannot use skills with mana as fuel will simply be eaten by those who have remaining mana.

Han Gu-won’s attack method has changed.

Not with a bombardment of lines, but with a bombardment of surfaces.

Stones occupying all directions suddenly fell in all directions.

Seo Joo-won stopped running and stared at the stone.

And, similar to Han Gu-won, he held out his right hand.

Kiiing—!

The mana distributed as efficiently as possible was expressed through the peripheral nerves to the fingertips.

The right hand, oozing with black mana, touched the stone.

And all the power that transformed the stone into a weapon was taken away.

Han Gu-won’s mana was blocked.

Coo!

The stone that Han Gu-won’s mana was stripped of is just a stone.

The awakened person’s body was not even scratched by the stone sling.

Rather, he jumped using the rock that hit his body and rolled on the floor as a stepping stone.

Seo Joo-won, who invaded the air that was Han Gu-won’s territory, swung his hand so fast that an afterimage remained.

Nettle liquid!

A black, flowing beam of light shot into the blind spot of the shield.

As Han Gu-won hurriedly readjusted the position of the shield, the line and plane collided.

Phew!

The huge shield made of dirt collapsed as soon as the dagger was inserted.

While watching the clods of dirt falling down and blowing in the wind, Seo Joo-won counted the number of daggers left in his inventory.

‘Five!’

After jumping to the highest point, he and the dagger fall.

And large objects were floating around him.

He made a shield again and held out his arms as if Han Gu-won, who was watching him, was commanding.

In accordance with his elegant hand gestures, stones with great momentum intercepted him.

‘Four!’

Seo Joo-won spurned the dagger created in his inventory again and avoided the interception.

Seo Ju-won, who was higher than Han Gu-won, threw a dagger.

‘Three!’

Nettle liquid!

Once again, the dagger that was attacking Han Gu-won’s blind spot was blocked by the shield.

However, the shield, which was much larger than the dagger, also lost its appearance and was scattered on the ground.

Seo Joo-won summoned a dagger once more and escaped from there as Han Gu-won held out his hand while staring upward.

Kwaaang!

The stones that had lost their target bombarded each other, making a loud noise.

A defense forced to block the continued attacks and daggers directed at oneself.

How much mana is he consuming compared to himself, who only uses a little mana for daggers and dodges?

War of attrition.

A war of attrition is the best hunting method to take him down.

Pak! Pak!

In the short space we had from the failed interception, we recovered the two daggers that had been embedded in the ground.

He smiled softly as he looked at his mana flowing from the daggers embedded in it.

Han Gu-won cannot take away his means of attack or movement.

‘Four!’

The two daggers, still coated with his own mana, were being struck from the air to the ground.

Seo Joo-won, who had recovered enough daggers to move, repeated the previous battle.

bang-! bang-!

The rocks bombarding the ground and I easily dodge them.

It occupies the air using thorns and rocks as a stepping stone and aims for blind spots by throwing daggers.

It consumes the surface with lines and forces the use of mana.

Although he persistently targets himself for losing the power to leap.

He continued to dodge cunningly using the dagger, a throwing tool.

Stepping on dagger after dagger, he tramples the air, Han Gu-won’s domain.

Kwaaaang! Kwaaaang!

Very surely, little by little, he steals his mana.

“… Haha, haha… ”

A faint gasp heard as he retrieved the daggers stuck on the floor.

The movement of the object has become considerably slower compared to the first time, and now only the bastard’s shield is intact.

And even though he tries to hide it, his expression becomes increasingly blurred.

Seo Joo-won checked his own mana by checking the elements of victory that were finally revealed.

‘About 40%? And six daggers again.’

Compared to that guy, it’s in perfect condition.

Kiiing—!

Seo Joo-won’s whole body turned black and he gazed upward.

Drops of sweat formed on Han Gu-won’s chin as he looked down and slowly fell to the ground.

Tuk!

Now is the time to put an end to victory.

He kicked off one of the rocks that decorated the ground so cruelly and leapt.

Stones that quickly intercept you.

However, it is not as fast as before.

‘Five!’

I kicked away the created dagger and gained acceleration.

Like a bullet fired by a skilled gunner, Seo Joo-won’s body flew towards Han Gu-won.

The guy became even more impatient and waved his hands.

Compared to the elegant gestures from earlier, it was comical yet slow.

Grrr!

As if to prove that his mana was gradually depleting, a clod of dirt that kept losing its shape was blocking his path.

‘Four!’

A lightly thrown dagger cut through a lump of dirt.

Don’t give him the time of day.

He quickly creates a dagger for jumping and gains the power of flight again.

“… 3.”

I started counting down out of my mouth, wading through the wind of dirt that was flowing down at once.

Han Gu-won’s eyes, who must have clearly heard what he said, wavered.

“… 2.”

The dagger thrown by Seo Joo-won, who had a deeper smile, broke Han Gu-won’s only shield.

All the shields that had firmly protected Han Gu-won disappeared.

The only ones left in the air are Seo Joo-won and Han Gu-won.

Unlike himself, who was burning with black light, the white light surrounding Han Gu-won was slowly losing its light.

Seo Joo-won did not let down his guard even as he watched the light of the guy suddenly cut off.

This time, they won’t be able to escape like the first failed surprise attack.

“… … 1 piece.”

I got on the last jumping dagger scattered in the air.

Knock knock knock—

The muscles of my thighs, flexed to their maximum for recoil, screamed.

“… C-c-baaaal!”

While listening to the refreshing screams of the prey, I took aim at Han Gu-won.

A large beam of black light flies like a shooting star at Han Gu-won, who is trying to somehow rebuild his shield.

Sooo!

“… … Zero.”

Seo Joo-won, who holds the last dagger in both hands, becomes a throwing dagger himself.

The huge flaccid dagger pierced the flimsy shield and quickly reached close range of its prey.

‘I won!’

Seo Joo-won thrust his dagger into Han Gu-won’s left chest as if he were toasting victory.

What kind of expression is that bastard making at this moment?

Are you crying? Or are you embarrassed and unable to even react?

I shuddered from the joyous laughter and kept my eyes on him.

Kiiing—!

Han Gu-won was smiling at himself.

Along with the all-too-familiar apparition sound, Han Gu-won’s body is once again bathed in bright light.

It was the realm of instinct.

Seo Joo-won kicked away the dagger he was holding and was thrown to the ground.

Nettle liquid!

The familiar sound of a wave went past me as I fell to the ground.

The daggers, which were obviously coated with his own mana, instead attacked him.

Kwaaang!

My waist lifted slightly from the impact of being thrown to the ground like a meteorite.

“… Wow! ”

His head shook with a dry cough due to the recoil that even the awakened body could not easily withstand.

‘Well, what is it? what! What on earth was that?!’

Before I had time to organize my thoughts, a white light flashed in the air.

Phew!

Something got stuck in Seo Joo-won’s left ankle.

Seo Joo-won’s pupils shook violently along with his own blood, which he had not seen in a long time.

He also screamed as the pain rushed through his entire body one after another.

“ ◦ Ahhh!

Deep! Deep! Deep!

The daggers he used came back to him.

Right ankle, both wrists, belly button and testicles.

“… Off, off, off—!”

The pain was so intense that I couldn’t even scream.

Only silent cries kept coming out of my mouth.

A voice was heard from Seo Joo-won, who was struggling in pain that was making his head dizzy.

“Thank you. Seo Joo-won.”

“Crrr!”

“For using all my mana!”

I knew it when I saw Han Gu-won emitting a bright white light like the first time.

Rather, it is you who is caught in a war of attrition.

“… Oh, how!”

“Seo Joo-won. I told you so. You too will die soon.”

“Uh, how! Ciiibaaaal! How can you Mana! How eh! ”

Han Gu-won had no obligation to answer for that terrible injustice.

Seo Joo-won.

As long as he turns on the awakened people and commits murder as a joke.

He saved people, received their prayers, and built a house.

The black flame bloomed by the skill called Nullification cannot burn down a forest made up of numerous trees.

The reason why humans formed groups, created tribes, and founded countries.

An absolute proposition handed down from ancient times.

Individuals cannot defeat groups.

Seo Ju-won was singular, and Han Gu-won was majority.

“Keuuu!”

“Why do you have such good skills?”

It really is a skill that would be a waste to kill even when a moment like this comes.

Seo Joo-won stared into the air with a frown on his face.

From earlier, I was concerned about the sight of Han Gu-won raising his right hand to the sky.

Why, why doesn’t anything happen?

But why?

Are your hands slowly coming down?

“Can you hear me?”

At the same time as Han Gu-won asked, a small dot appeared on the blue sky.

Seo Joo-won’s eyes trembled slightly as he watched the dot getting bigger.

Kurrr

Following Han Gu-won’s hand, the sound of thunder shook the sky.

The lumps of rock that were clumped together were hitting the head of Cheonwangsan Mountain like a meteorite.

“Uuuu!”

Seo Joo-won struggled in pain and pulled out the dagger from his wrist.

As my face was hit with blood fountains gushing out as if my arteries had been damaged, I scraped up all the mana that was available.

“Ugh, ugh—!”

Tap – tap – A dagger covered in black mana flew through the sky.

The dagger collided with the stone that was slowly hitting the ground.

Tuk!

Han Gu-won’s power to control the meteor disappears.

The white light disappeared and the stone fell to the ground using gravity.

Kurrr!

Seo Joo-won actually relaxed his body as he saw the meteorite quickly covering his entire field of vision.

Han Gu-won’s voice was heard by Seo Ju-won, who had given up everything.

“The baby is scared.”

“… Fuck.”

That short swear word became Seo Joo-won’s will.

Cuuu!

The stone that hit the mountain head shook the mountain itself.

A message rang out to Han Gu-won, who was watching the dust slowly covering his entire field of vision.

Tiring—!

[You have taken on an awakened person.]

[Acquire 1000 faith.]

[Absorbs the inventory of the slain awakened person!]

[The slain awakened person will be robbed of Guro-gu’s dominance!]

[Awakened Han Gu-won’s Guro-gu domination rate: 4.5%]