episode_0268

Johannes looked around.

Naked Eastern District residents were watching from a short distance away.

Johannes sighed deeply.

“Scar, are you alone?”

“I’m alone.”

“You’ve gone completely insane. This isn’t a place for someone like you.”

“You can say that again. The bathhouse is luxurious. It looks good, very good.”

A tattooed man sitting next to him chimed in.

“What a load of crap. You son of a bitch.”

Jeong Yu-shin turned his head and looked at the man.

A familiar face.

It was the guy who got his cheek slapped for sneering last time.

The man stood up abruptly and approached Jeong Yu-shin.

“And suddenly appearing and doing magic? You crazy bastard, do you think we’re a joke?! You son of a bitch, look up straight. Look up quickly…!”

Thud.

The man stopped walking. His body shuddered, and his strength drained away.

He slowly lowered his head. A dagger was embedded in his abdomen.

Before the man could say anything.

Jeong Yu-shin grabbed the man’s shoulder, pulled out the dagger from his abdomen, and stabbed him again.

Thud!!! Thud!!! Thud!!! Thud!!!

“Keu… Keok!!! Keuheok!!!”

The man, his stomach skin tattered, collapsed.

Splash.

Water splashed up.

Red blood spread across the surface of the bathwater.

The man with the sword in his abdomen floated on the water, spitting out blood.

“Ta-da. It was a dagger-disappearing magic trick.”

At Jeong Yu-shin’s words, the burly men who were about to stand up froze.

An indescribable madness had seized them.

The guy Barbaroi just killed had the ‘Ironclad Skin’ engraving.

Such a guy was stabbed a few times with a dagger and became half a corpse.

However, Johannes remained calm throughout.

Johannes swept back his long navy-blue hair and opened his mouth.

“Scar, does it have to be like this? Would you be satisfied if I gave you money? I can’t understand. Why are you doing this?”

“You insulted me.”

“···What are you talking about?”

“Johannes, you knew I was the representative of the small-to-medium-sized clan alliance when you approached me, right? If you just bribe me well, you can easily split and devour the other small-to-medium-sized clans. Am I right?”

“….”

“Scar, you came all the way here alone just because of that one suspicion? You’re crazy. Your mind has been devoured by the darkness of the labyrinth.”

“There are days when my mind wanders, but today is not one of those days.”

Jeong Yu-shin sat on the edge of the bath and continued, staring intently at Johannes.

“Today is a day when my mind is clear.”

Johannes stared blankly at Jeong Yu-shin.

His eyes gleamed with murderous intent.

He came here determined to kill.

Johannes slowly rose from his seat.

“Alright. I’ll go change clothes before that.”

“Do you think I’ll let you go nicely?”

Jeong Yu-shin threw himself into the bath, but Johannes disappeared.

Whoosh.

The space where Johannes had been distorted, and the surroundings shook.

“Ah, damn it.”

Jeong Yu-shin swore and turned his gaze.

Johannes was far away, heading towards the changing room.

In the meantime, the burly guys rushed in.

“You son of a bitch!!!”

“Die, you bastard!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin drew his bastard sword and swung it.

Slash!!!

The severed arm spun around in the air before falling into the water.

Splash!!!

“Kkyaaaaaaak!!!”

A massacre began with screams.

Naked men screamed and clung to him.

He dodged a guy throwing himself from the right.

He slipped the fist flying from the left.

He slammed the pommel into the head of the guy running towards the center.

Crack!!!

The skull caved in, and an eyeball dangled from the eye socket.

“Heueoeo.”

He kicked the floundering guy away, causing a splash.

“Catch him!!!”

He grabbed the mouth of the guy screaming next to him.

“Mweok…?!”

The guy’s eyes widened in panic.

Crack!!!

He grabbed the jaw and tore it off.

“Kkeueeeeeek!!!”

As the facial muscles and lower jaw were torn off, the guy let out a scream as if he were leaving the world.

Jeong Yu-shin looked at the guy’s jaw dripping with blood and threw it into the bath.

“Look at the cavities. His gums are also bad. He didn’t take care of his teeth. Thanks to me, he’ll save on denture costs.”

“You crazy bastard!!! Attack him all at once!!!”

Someone bravely shouted.

However.

Some had already turned their backs and started running away.

“…”

Jeong Yu-shin smiled at the guy who was blankly watching his comrades’ backs.

“Isn’t this a world where you come empty-handed and leave empty-handed? Don’t be too sad that you’re left alone.”

“You son of a bitch!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin rushed at the remaining guys, slicing their arms and legs and punching them.

Curses turned into pleas and screams.

The once clean bath became increasingly red.

Jeong Yu-shin meticulously chopped up the burly men piece by piece with his sword.

How much had he sliced?

“Heuaaaaaaaa!!!”

The last remaining guy let out a shout that was somewhere between a scream and a cry and rushed in.

He reached out, grabbed the guy’s head, and slammed it against the corner of the bath.

Crack!!!

Blood flowed out.

Crack!!!

Crack!!!

After slamming his head several times, the guy’s body convulsed, and a broken tooth fell out.

Jeong Yu-shin left the convulsing guy as he was and stood up.

“Hoo.”

The once clean bath was now blood red.

Chopped arms and legs, entrails, and thin stool floated on the surface.

Jeong Yu-shin slowly walked out of the bath.

“Hi… Hick!!!”

A dwarf who looked like a body scrubber was trembling, unable to leave.

A young guy without a beard.

A friend who looked a bit like Einhofer.

Jeong Yu-shin approached and gave the dwarf a deep kiss on the forehead.

Smack.

“Don’t work in the Eastern District.”

Shhhhh.

The dwarf pissed himself and collapsed on the spot.

Jeong Yu-shin left the bathhouse and asked an employee standing near the entrance.

“Where’s Johannes?”

“Scar, do you think you’ll get away with these actions?”

“Where’s Johannes?”

“I’m here.”

Johannes, who had already changed his clothes, was standing outside the bathhouse.

Jeong Yu-shin took out a fairy tale book soaked in blood from his pocket, handed it to the employee, and left the building.

Johannes aimed a dagger at Jeong Yu-shin.

“If you’ve come this far, there’s no need for words. I’ll show you the true power of engraving link. You insignificant fly.”

“Bullshit.”

The dagger disappeared from Johannes’s hand.

Whoosh.

Jeong Yu-shin instinctively twisted his body.

Thud.

The disappeared dagger was embedded in his shoulder.

Teleportation.

An engraving ability to move desired objects.

‘Did he move the dagger into my body?’

It was indeed a terrifying ability.

“Too bad. I was aiming for the heart.”

Johannes disappeared from sight.

Once, twice, three times.

Johannes repeatedly blinked, approached right in front of Jeong Yu-shin, and swung his dagger.

Whooosh.

Jeong Yu-shin raised his bastard sword.

Clang!!!

Even though sword and sword collided, instead of a sharp sound, a loud roar erupted.

The strength, enhanced by the ring of power, pushed Jeong Yu-shin far back.

Scrape!!!

The steel plate that reinforced the bottom of the walker scraped the road, sending sparks flying.

Jeong Yu-shin could barely stop by planting his sword in the ground.

“Scar, you’re quite something.”

“…”

Jeong Yu-shin silently pulled out the sword stuck in the ground.

Johannes inwardly smacked his lips.

Only after hearing Scar’s words a little while ago could he understand the Vaisis Clan Leader’s intentions.

Literally.

If he just coaxed Scar well.

He could get an opportunity to devour all the small-to-medium-sized clans under that guy at once.

It would be good to take away the business.

It would be good to catch the clan guys and sell them.

It was a real shame.

‘He’s climbed to that position because he’s quick-witted.’

But he’s just a lowly, mid-level piece of trash.

He’s so arrogant just because he beat that Rex guy from the Beast Clan once.

‘This is your grave.’

Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh.

He moved through space again with three blinks and stood in front of Scar.

He raised his dagger high.

Scar’s gaze was fixed on the dagger.

Johannes’s smile deepened.

[Teleportation]

The dagger that had been raised high blinked, moved through space, and was embedded in Scar’s chest.

“Keuheoeok!!!”

Blood burst from Scar’s mouth, and blue ectoplasm began to burn in his eyes.

He knew what engraving it was.

Revenger Engraving.

Without stopping, he threw a punch and struck Scar’s chest.

Crack!!!

He broke a rib with a single punch.

Scar’s body was pushed backward again.

Scar could only stop by kneeling on one knee and planting his sword in the ground.

Johannes slowly approached and looked around.

The well-off people of the Eastern District, dressed in antique clothes, were watching.

But no one dared to approach.

It was natural since it was an event of the 8th ranked Vaisis Clan.

“Scar, do you understand now?”

Johannes asked, smiling faintly.

His ribs were shattered with just a few punches, and he was pushed far back.

The difference between those who have achieved engraving link and those who have not.

“This is the difference between you and me.”

“Keueok!!! Ptooey!!! Bullshit.”

Jeong Yu-shin spat out blood-mixed saliva and stood up again.

His wrists were aching and creaking.

Fragments of broken ribs were stabbing his lungs, making it difficult to breathe properly.

But.

‘I can handle it.’

He slung his bastard sword over his shoulder and walked slowly.

Johannes’s eyebrows twitched.

“Hmph.”

After blinking a few more times, he reached Jeong Yu-shin and swung his dagger.

Swaeeeeeeee!!!

It wasn’t just a simple swing. It was a strike imbued with strength enhanced by the Power Ring engraving.

In that instant.

Scar’s pupils, which were emitting streams of blue ectoplasm, narrowed.

He swung his bastard sword a step ahead of Johannes.

Clang!!!

The roar of steel clashing against steel. The arm of Johannes, holding the dagger, was flicked up.

“What…?!”

A parry?

‘A, a crazy bastard!’

Without batting an eye even at a blow aimed at his neck, he noticed the gap in the swing of the dagger and accurately deflected it.

It’s not something you can do with a sound mind.

His heart turned cold.

Scar instantly switched to a half-swording stance and swung the pommel.

Whooosh!!!

A strike aimed at his temple in close combat.

Johannes used Blink to retreat.

Scar wiped the blood flowing from the corner of his mouth and smiled.

“Wow. You dodged that one.”

Johannes intuitively felt it.

‘I mustn’t fight for long.’

That guy has the Revenger Engraving. If he allows even one attack, he will recover his body again.

It would be a prolonged fight.

Currently, there were more than a few eyes watching this fight from afar, so dragging it out wouldn’t help.

It would be a disgrace to the mid-level, upper-rank explorer who achieved engraving link.

Besides.

That mixed-blood Barbaroi bastard.

After a few sword strikes, he instantly read his opponent’s breathing and deflected his sword.

It’s a frightening and terrifying talent.

What’s even more terrifying is.

The boldness to parry without batting an eye in a life-or-death situation.

‘I’ll kill him.’

Johannes took out ten daggers from his pocket.

[Teleportation]

The ten daggers on his fingers disappeared.

Whoosh.

The daggers moved through space.

A silent strike of death.

Scar instantly threw himself and rolled, but several daggers were embedded in his body.

Johannes disappeared.

Whoosh.

Whoosh.

Whoosh.

From far away, Johannes repeatedly blinked and quickly approached.

Jeong Yu-shin gritted his teeth.

Sacred Weapon.

He wouldn’t use it.

As Johannes traversed through space, the sound of rushing wind grew stronger.

Whoosh.

Johannes reached right in front of his eyes in an instant.

At the same time, a tremendous gale blew, and the hem of Scar’s coat fluttered wildly.

Johannes swung his dagger.

“Die!”

Swaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

The dagger tore through the wind and aimed for his neck.

Jeong Yu-shin widened his eyes and gripped his sword.

‘He’s coming.’

The movements of Johannes’s brachialis, biceps, and triceps.

He read every single detail, from the angle of his elbow and his breathing to his gaze, and found the optimal path.

One.

Two.

Three.

Now.

He thrust his bastard sword.

Clang!!!!!

As a roar and shockwave erupted.

Jeong Yu-shin’s body was flung away like a bullet, smashing through an entire building and crashing into it.

“Heoeok. Heoeoeok.”

Johannes breathed heavily and looked down at his dagger.

A dagger with a broken blade. A shallow touch.

He was certain.

That guy was not yet.

Dead.

Johannes shouted.

“Scar!!!”

Scar staggered out from the collapsed building.

“···Why are you calling me?”

Scar’s condition was severe.

The bastard sword was broken.

His coat had become tattered.

One arm dangled at a strange angle.

Blood was flowing from one side of his head, as if it had been torn open when he crashed into the wall.

Nevertheless.

Johannes was angry instead.

“Why!!! Why aren’t you using your engraving ability?!! Use the Sacred Weapon!!!”

Jeong Yu-shin wiped away the blood that was oozing out and chuckled.

“Keuheuhe. Teacher, you must have a lot of thoughts, right?”

“…”

“Keueeek!!! Ptwheeeeet!!! Teacher is probably thinking this. ‘Could this guy have gotten an even better, overpowered engraving than the Sacred Weapon in the labyrinth?’”

Johannes’s eyes widened until they tore.

Jeong Yu-shin spread his arms wide. His pupils gleamed with an eerie light.

“Oh my. You have a good eye. That’s right. If you admit just this one thing, Teacher, I’ll tell you about the engraving I acquired this time.”

“…”

“You pretend to be a big shot, but you’re just the same trash as the other Eastern District parasites. A wretched piece of trash that exploits others, sucks their blood, and prolongs its life.”

Gritting.

Johannes gnashed his teeth.

How dare a lowly, mid-level explorer who hasn’t even achieved engraving link.

Mock a member of the 8th ranked clan in the Eastern District?!

Blood vessels stood out in Johannes’s eyes.

“Scar!!! You son of a bitch!!!”

A voice full of rage echoed through the streets.

Jeong Yu-shin swallowed the blood and smiled wickedly.

‘Good.’

Lies and suspicion, insults and sarcasm, became invisible blades that mercilessly tore apart Johannes’s composure.

Jeong Yu-shin slowly picked up the longsword that had fallen to the ground.

‘You’re already dead.’

You pathetic bastard.