episode_0081

The deeper you delve into the tropical rainforest of a fantasy uninhabited island, the more bizarre and dangerous creatures become.

It was hard to believe that I had lasted a month in a place like this in the past.

“Gruk, rumble…”

The animal resembles a pangolin, but is so large that it can overwhelm a human being, and spews poisonous mist from gaps in its armor-like scales, leisurely cleaning its claws.

[600:00:00]

“How many days is 600 hours?”

“25th.”

“Wow, if I catch that, it’s going to really hurt.”

Saeron frowns and slowly puts his dagger back.

“Oppa Han-gil. So I just have to catch that thing?”

“…No, the order is important.”

Excluding Lael, who was not subject to the test, I looked at Letel, Saeron, Gyeonggyeong, and Noeul and carefully assessed their strength.

“Perhaps a doppelganger will pop out in the order in which the cloning is completed. Then we can kill it…well, I hope no one gets offended.”

I waved my hand to show that I had no malice, and the first thing I did was look at Noeul and Gyeong-gyeong.

“Honestly, I think No-eul and Gyeong-gyeong would be the easiest to kill…what do you think?”

“My feelings are a little complicated because they killed me right in front of me, but it’s true so I have nothing to say.”

“Hmm…”

Noeul simply nodded as if she understood, but Gyeong-gyeong frowned as if he didn’t like it.

It’s a natural reaction.

I probably would have had a similar reaction even if I had heard the same thing.

“Isn’t Saeron there too?”

I shook my head at Gyeong-hyung’s passive but powerful rebuttal.

“If you just look at his combat power, it might be true, but honestly, if Saeron decides to hide his existence, I don’t think he’ll be able to find him. If he misses and barges in when another doppelganger is born… honestly, he’s going to have a hard time. ”

It is no exaggeration to say that Saeron’s abilities were born for assassination and support.

If she decides to hide, no one here will be able to find her, and the ‘Nonexistent Danger’ ability is nearly impossible to resist or avoid.

Of course, it would be okay for me because I have [Cry of Despair, Pain, and Grief] and [Basaglia’s Holy Grail], but other people don’t.

On the other hand, Gyeong-gyeong’s regenerative and superpower abilities were easy to deal with.

It is the perfect subject to examine how doppelgängers are created, react, and fight.

Moreover, if it is a form of cooperation with others… it will be difficult to create variables.

“So, Gyeong-gyeong, I’ll ask you a favor.”

“Ha…I understand.”

After hearing a detailed explanation, he eventually accepted the offer, took out his great sword, and looked at the pangolin monster.

“I’ll give you a buff. You won’t be poisoned.”

As I extend my hand forward, the softly glowing particles quickly gather and turn into a platinum-colored chalice.

“Whoa…”

As I concentrated my consciousness, the holy water that was suddenly filled with water bubbled up and turned into a large amount of steam, and the sight of it sparkling and mysteriously circling around was very beautiful.

“Oh oh…”

“and…”

The steam eventually seeped into everyone’s bodies in a certain amount.

“Good. Shall we try?”

Noeul, dressed in a lewd outfit, smiles confidently and blooms with pink energy.

Unlike before, the energy density is several times more dense and the speed of movement is very fast, so the performance of the succubus costume seems certain.

Anyway, he was shy at first, but now he puffs out his chest proudly, probably because he’s gotten used to it.

Since my eyes go instinctively, I wish I could restrain myself a little.

“Kiruk, kirik…?”

The giant pangolin, enveloped in pink energy, instinctively crouched down and raised its scales, but when nothing happened, it twitched its large eyes in confusion and then slowly fell into sleep.

“I’ll hold on to it. Just hit it with all your might.”

“I’m waiting too…!”

Retel tightly bound the body of the giant pangolin with his spatial ability, and Saeron, who hid his presence, was staring at the giant pangolin so that he could use ‘Nonexistent Danger’ at any time.

…Actually, I couldn’t see Saeron, but I could only imagine that from the voice I heard.

“Phew…then let’s go.”

He cautiously approached and raised his greatsword, the blood on his forearm throbbing and bristling.

“Ssss beenep)”

Even his energy coordination was replaced by abdominal breathing, and he stepped strongly onto the ground and hit his neck with all his weight.

Pagagak!

A large amount of blood splattered.

“…!? Kkkk!”

“What…!?”

“this!”

However, surprisingly, the giant pangolin withstood the sharpness of a great sword that could easily cut through rocks and the incredible power of a sword that uproots trees, and began to scream.

Even though the large sword was stuck halfway through its thick neck, it began to struggle fiercely, crying out for its life.

“I’m holding you, so calm down and attack me one more time! Come on!”

“Ugh! Damn it! This guy’s neck muscles caught the great sword…Hyaaap!”

As the purple poisonous fog spewed out, Gyeonggyeong felt a sense of crisis and pulled out his greatsword with all his might.

“Kaaa!”

Squeak!

With extreme concentration, he hit the exact same spot, and this time the giant pangolin’s head fell off cleanly.

“Whoa…”

“Haaa…”

Just as I was about to relieve the tension, thinking that it was all over, a large amount of poisonous fog began to pour out and settle over the area.

“Back off! It’s okay because of the Holy Grail, but there’s no benefit from inhaling it!”

“Ugh…!”

“I can’t move because of the sensory buildup in my oral cavity!”

“Damn it…I can’t! Everyone, tense up! The doppelgänger will appear right away!”

Damn it! Damn it!

With [cries of despair, pain, and grief] and [demonic eyes of condemnation] manifesting throughout my body, I looked at the soul and karma of the older brother with tense eyes.

Bubbly! Boom!

The size of the rapidly divided soul expands in real time to take on the shape of a person, and the weakly accumulated karma is given minimal causality to determine the reason for its existence.

“Keuuu…!”

The guy seemed to be aware of his situation and tried hard not to fall away from Gyeong-gyeong’s soul, but the power of the constellation that created him, or the ordeal, gave him independence as if he would not allow it.

“…!!”

“It’s out!”

“Attack!”

“Wait a minute! I don’t want to fight! So just save my life…!”

The doppelgänger who appeared naked rolled his eyes like crazy and humbly begged for his life, but soon gritted his teeth and clenched his fists as if there was nothing he could do.

“Suuunn  be spoken of…!”

“Hwaap!”

I, who had watched the entire process of its creation, did not hesitate at all, and Retel, Saeron, and Noeul did not hesitate at all, perhaps due to their experience working in the Management Bureau, and Rael simply followed my words and appeared to attack blindly.

“Kkkk!!”

First, the skill combination of [Mystic Eyes of Condemnation] and [Cry of Despair, Pain, and Grief] hit him.

“Keuuu!? K, haaap!”

“what…!?”

But surprisingly, the doppelganger withstood the attack.

Although blood was dripping from the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the arms and legs were trembling, that was the general striking effect of the [cry of despair, pain, and grief].

“ah…!”

Immediately after, I realized why the skill linkage did not work properly.

For a person whose soul was turned over and transformed into a physical body, there was nothing that could be called a soul, and karma was almost non-existent as it was a newly created being.

In other words, a skill combination that would be considered a special move for a normal being ends up being a minor blow to a doppelganger.

“You damn bastard!!”

Pop! Pudddeuk!

The doppelganger, who had pulled out a tree root from his entire body, hit the ground, causing the overturned ground to scatter in disarray.

Quaaaang!

“Whoa!?”

The guy who was running towards me at an invisible speed collided with Rael’s telekinesis the next moment and was thrown away.

“Go to sleep!”

“Hmph!”

“die!”

Only then did Noeul, who caught the creature’s appearance, emit a pink energy, and Saeron, who had approached from behind, swung his dagger and Retel twisted the space.

“Aaaah! I will survive! I will definitely survive and continue my life!”

Pop! Pudddeuk!

“What!?”

“what…!”

With a roar that was full of emotions, the thing covered in brown tree roots resisted the surface of the water, threw away the dagger, and separated its limbs to escape the enveloping space.

Wow! Pop!

As countless thick and strong tree roots overlap, its body swells to three times its size in a split second.

“Gaaa!!”

Quang! Purge!

“Crazy! My spatial skills aren’t working properly!”

“Those aren’t ordinary tree roots! They’re the roots of the ‘Guardian Tree’, a supernatural entity that is eroding Gyeong-gyeong’s body!”

“I know! But… there was no saying that the ‘Guardian Tree’ was this strong!”

Kwaja Jajajak!

When Letel used the [Luminous Trapezoid] to distort space, the thick legs of the doppelganger that had become a tree monster were cut off at once, but the roots were immediately regenerated, so it did not even stumble.

“No, it was like that…!?”

Honestly, I was looking down on it.

Even if I let my guard down, I have nothing to say.

I never imagined that my skill combination wouldn’t work, and I never knew that I would pay the price for overlooking that Gyeong-gyeong was not an ordinary person but a human being invaded by a supernatural entity called ‘Guardian Tree’.

“GOOO!!”

The doppelganger roared and waved its arms as if it had lost its intelligence.

Cheerily! Wood-dud-dud-duk!

Its massive weight and strength were threatening, but the scariest thing was the rhizome that could pop out at any time and from any place.

“Kwaaa!?”

“Dangerous!”

Just before Sunset was caught up in a rhizome the size of her trunk and was pulled up, Retel cut off the space, cut the root, and rescued her.

“Thank you…!”

“Damn it! We don’t have enough firepower…!”

There was nothing lacking in terms of defense.

Retel’s spatial ability, Rael’s telekinesis, and my [Basaglia’s Holy Grail] barrier creation ability were able to easily block the huge root attack.

However, we also did not have the overwhelming offensive power to finish him off.

Let’s go! Kwaja Jajajak!

Retel swung the space itself, cutting off the limbs of the giant tree monster and crushing its entire body, but the creature with incredible strength and regenerative power stood up in an instant and attacked us.

No, it was even swelling in size in real time.

How big do you want to get?

“Whoop, whoop…! Hangil…!”

At that time, Gyeong-gyeong, covered in blood, stumbled and grabbed my shoulder.

“Oh!? Hyung-gyeong! Are you okay!?”

“No, it’s not okay. I’ve never been so sick in my life. More than that… give me some treatment. And give me a buff.”

“Oh, yes! I understand!”

Slurp slurp!

I quickly sprinkled holy water on him to heal him and apply a buff.

“Whew…! I can finally live. Is that another me?”

“…huh.”

Gyeong-gyeong looked at the doppelganger, who had grown rapidly in real time and had now become a giant tree monster over 10 meters tall, with complicated eyes.

“Okay…if all the erosion goes on, will that happen to me too…?”

I had an idea what he was seeing in the monster, but I didn’t dare say it out loud.

“Okay. Then let’s go kill him.”

He draped a huge greatsword over his shoulder and smiled.

“Hangil. Ask Retel and Rael to attack as strong as possible. Oh, and also ask them to use Saeron’s abilities.”

“Is there any way?”

“Of course. That’s none other than me, right? I know best how to kill me.”

Crack.

He taps my shoulder and smiles reassuringly but fiercely.

“Please take care of me, Hangil.”

“…okay.”

Hearing words that seemed to acknowledge me as a colleague made me smile and my fighting spirit increased.

“Hyaaap!”

Tukwaaang!

The next moment, he hit the ground, rose high in the sky, and raised his greatsword above his head.

“Retel! Rael! Attack while protecting the older brother! Saeron! Use ‘non-existent danger’!”

“What kind of method is there!? I understand!”

-Haaaab!

Quad deud deuk! Kwaja Jajajak! Pakakakakakakak!

“Guooo—!?”

A large number of broken pieces of wood fly in all directions due to Retel and Rael’s fierce attack.

Pudddeuk! Clap la la la rock!

“Guooo!! Guoook!?”

The doppelganger attacked the two women with a roar and tried to check the approaching Gyeonghyeong as if flying, but the doppelganger’s head turned.

“Gooo!”

Papapak! Kwakwakwak!

Then, as if it was afraid of something, it started randomly attacking places where there was nothing.

“Hyaaa!!”

Immediately after, the great sword swung in a bold manner cut off the tree monster’s head.

“Keuuu…!”

The great sword penetrated as much as half of the huge head, but eventually stopped due to exhaustion.

“What are you trying to do?”

He was holding onto the handle of the greatsword and looking at him anxiously as he hung there, when he climbed onto the sword and burrowed into the split head of the tree monster.

“Uh, huh?”

“Dude! You fake bastard!!”

Sigh! Pop! Wood clatter!

He extends numerous tree roots from his body and uses his incredible strength to spread his rapidly regenerating head wide on both sides.

“Kaaah!

Inside, the body of the doppelganger, whose shape had become unrecognizable, was screaming and struggling, with tree roots protruding randomly through its entire body.

The animal instinctively tried to protect itself by wrapping its roots around itself, but when the roots protruding from Gyeonggyeong’s body grabbed hold of the animal’s roots and squirmed, they withered as if all the nutrients had been drained out of them.

What on earth did you do?

“Retel! Rael! Now…!”

“Hwaaaap!”

-Ugh…!

Quad deuk! Kujijijik!

Before the old man could finish shouting, the doppelganger’s body was compressed to the limit and turned into a small dumpling, which was shattered and scattered.

Slurp…!

“haha…!”

“Are you done…?”

Fortunately, the doppelganger died, and the huge tree roots also turned into powder and scattered without a trace.

The silence that came suddenly.

“Uuuu…!

“Hyung Gyeong-gu!”

“Gyeong-gu! Are you okay!?”

But before we had time to relax, we had to run to Hyung Gyeong, who was growing tree roots all over his body.