Genius Salsu of the World to Be Destroyed - Chapter 74
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Episode 74
The knight and Jo Ha-seong caught him as they watched Gap-seok emerge.
“What are you doing, President?!”
“We have to subdue that.”
Gap-seok pointed at the snake with the tip of his chin.
That monster snake that is over 50 meters long.
Ha-seong was terrified when he heard that he was going to subdue it.
“Wait a minute, sir, you’re a healer?! But how do you kill that thing?”
“I didn’t say I was going to kill you. I said I was going to subdue you. So please help me.”
“Yes? Me?”
“And there, Kim Myung-cheol, you too, come here. You help me too.”
The Taoist priest, Kim Myeong-cheol, ran towards Gap-seok.
“What on earth are you thinking?”
“Blow me to that guy.”
“…What did you say?”
Ha-seong and Myeong-cheol exchanged bewildered glances at each other and then spoke in a serious voice.
“…No matter how scared you are, suicide is not the answer, President.”
“No, who committed suicide? I’m going to subdue them! Hey, Kim Myeong-cheol! Do you have a talisman that controls the wind? Give me that!”
“that…….”
“Hasung, you put the shield on me to the max!”
The situation was urgent.
In the end, Ha-seong and Myeong-cheol did as Gap-seok told them.
‘The curtain of light.’
Shh …
Ha Sung placed a protective shield around the deck.
A bright, shining light surrounded the deck in the shape of a sphere.
Meanwhile, Myeongcheol laid out amulets on the floor and made a talisman.
‘Three concentric circles, two straight lines intersecting their centers, three wind talismans and one fire talismans. That should be enough.’
Myungcheol quickly completed the formation by calculating the shape of the formation needed for the current situation.
When this spell is activated, it pushes up any target standing on it with an explosive gust of wind.
After completing the jin, Myeongcheol attached a piece of Boongbok to each of Gapseok’s feet.
Gap-seok asked while looking at the amulets attached to the instep of both feet.
“What is this?”
“This is a wind talisman. If you infuse it with mana, a gust of wind will burst out from under your feet. Use it to change direction in midair.”
“Flying to the target point in one go… … .”
“It’s impossible. It keeps moving.”
As he said this, Myungcheol pointed to the snake.
“Sahaaaaah!”
The giant snake created by the scar continued to rage.
Melting everything it touches with poison.
The damage to Undercover had already become quite extensive.
It had to be subdued as soon as possible.
Myungcheol asked.
“Why can’t we just kill that bastard who created that snake?”
“Then things will get worse. We absolutely have to attack that snake itself.”
Gapseok went up to the gust of wind that Myeongcheol had created.
“Blow it.”
“…don’t die.”
Myungcheol poured mana into Jin.
Phew!
The body of the ship soared into the air with an explosive gust of wind.
Gapseok’s gaze continued to be directed at the snake.
Although it was large in size, its most distinctive feature was the bones sticking out of its body.
Most reptiles have bones inside their bodies.
But that monster snake was the opposite.
A structure in which bones surround flesh.
It was the so-called ‘exoskeleton’.
The most prominent of those exposed bones was the white, round bone located on the creature’s chest.
‘That’s it.’
I absolutely had to touch that bead-like bone.
If you can’t do that, the attack will fail.
Gapseok poured mana into the talisman on his right foot.
pop!
A gust of wind erupted from under the soles of their feet, pushing the deck up once more.
Gapseok’s body suddenly became close to the snake.
And the more it did so, the stronger its venom became.
Chijijijiji… … .
The protective film that Ha-seong had put on also began to corrode quickly.
But I couldn’t stop.
’10 o’clock… …!’
pop!
Gapseok activated the talisman on his left foot once more.
Now the distance between the bead-like bone and the shell is only two meters.
As they got this close, the venom became terrifyingly strong.
Soon, Hasung’s protective shield completely melted and disappeared.
But even though the shield was gone, the deck did not melt.
It was thanks to the self-healing skill he had put on himself and the purifying effect of the unicorn horn necklace that Youngsoo had made and given him before.
Thanks to this, it was possible to approach a distance that would have melted the player in an instant.
And finally-
‘Got it!’
Thud!
The scapula rests on the sacrum.
A large bead-shaped bone measuring 1 meter in diameter.
Looking closely, I could clearly see the characteristics of this bead bone.
‘This was the center.’
All the bones that make up the snake’s exoskeleton extend from this bead bone, and thus all the bones are connected to this bead bone.
This bead bone was the core of the creature’s exoskeleton.
‘It’s just like Youngsoo said.’
Bam!
Gap-seok used his whole body to embrace the bead bone.
And then the skill was activated.
To destroy the nuke?
no.
‘heel.’
It was to heal.
* * *
The evening before the war began.
Gap-seok asked Yeong-su in a disbelieving voice.
“You want me to heal the core? Then how do I kill that snake?”
“I told you. You have to subdue them, not kill them.”
“How can healing be subduing?”
“That core is connected to every bone in the body. So what happens if we heal that core?”
After thinking for a moment, Gap-seok answered.
“The bones will become stronger.”
“and?”
“And then… what happens?”
“It makes new bones grow more.”
“… Huh?”
“Just as applying ointment to a wound will cause new flesh to grow, applying a healing skill to the core will cause new bones to grow.”
Only then did Gap-seok realize what the core of this strategy was.
“You’re trapping him in bones! You’re making him grow more bones than he can handle!”
“That’s it.”
This is what it meant to subdue, not kill.
“But if by any chance this method fails, can I just kill the snake charmer?”
“Absolutely not.”
“why?”
“The moment the caster dies and the control is released, the snake goes berserk. It doesn’t stop at spitting out venom, but it also sucks the mana out of the surrounding creatures. Regardless of whether they’re friendly or not.”
This was why was given the highest level of danger rating and was sealed inside the armory.
“Anyway, this is the only way to defeat a snake. And there is no one in the wild with stronger healing abilities than you.”
“ah…….”
“The moment the lance is activated, you are the only one who can stop it. Work hard.”
“after…….”
“But don’t be too nervous. If you handle it properly, your reward is certain.”
“What kind of… compensation is this?”
Yeongsu said with a smile.
“I’ll tell you after I win this war.”
* * *
Back to the present.
Gapseok activated his healing skill while embracing the snake’s core.
Shhhhh!
An intense green glow enveloped the core.
The strength of all the bones connected to the nucleus began to increase.
And the next step.
Puddle-
New bones began to grow haphazardly around the nucleus.
The growing bones filled in the gaps between the original bones.
The range of motion in the joints gradually decreased, and as a result, movements began to become increasingly slow.
The snake soon sensed something strange happening to its body.
“Shaaaaak!”
The snake began to writhe and resist healing.
‘Damn it… Get some treatment, you little punk… … !’
If things continued this way, all the bones that had been painstakingly regenerated would break.
Gapseok had a gut feeling.
I think I need to further increase the healing speed, which is already at its maximum.
‘… I didn’t want to use this method.’
Gapseok turned off the self-healing skill he had been using on himself.
He began to heal the snake’s core even more strongly, using the power he had secured in that way.
Kiiing!
The power of healing becomes even more intense.
The bones grew faster and more quickly, strangling the snake.
On the contrary, Gapseok’s body began to be eaten away by poison little by little.
The snake’s venom began to seep in because self-healing was turned off.
Although she had a unicorn horn necklace, the poison was so strong that it was difficult to withstand it with just its purifying power.
‘Ugh… … !’
The armor began to wear away and crumble, and the exposed flesh on the backs of his hands and cheeks began to peel off.
still…….
‘I have to hold on… … !’
If you leave here, you will never get another chance to subdue the snake.
I had to hold on even though I felt like I was going to die.
Somehow.
“Eww!!”
Ha-seong, who was watching this scene from below, tightly gripped the window.
Ha-seong muttered, thinking that he would try to attack the snake if necessary.
“…I should help, right?”
“don’t do it.”
Myung-cheol tried to dissuade him from doing so.
“why?”
“If we attack now, everything the Director has done will be in vain.”
“It just seems like it’s a waste of time in real time… … ?”
“No, look carefully. The snake’s movements are getting slower.”
“ah……?”
“The president said, it’s not about killing, it’s about subduing.”
Myungcheol’s judgment was correct.
Because if Ha-seong attacked here and broke the snake’s bones, Gap-seok’s efforts would have been truly in vain.
Card grab-
After a while, the snake’s entire body was completely covered in bones.
The bastard’s black flesh was nowhere to be seen.
The snake completely stopped moving, as if it had been petrified.
Gapseok let out a long breath.
“Hoooo… … .”
It’s over.
At the same time, Gapseok felt all the strength leaving his body.
It was because I used too much force.
Bam-
The body of the gabseok fell off the snake’s body.
The distance to the ground is at least 20 meters.
The moment when it becomes clear that if you fall like this, you will be seriously injured.
widely!
Junyoung jumped up from somewhere and snatched Gapseok’s body out of the air.
“Oh… Oh my… … .”
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Junyoung settled lightly on the ground while carrying the cargo.
All the Undercover people who had been watching anxiously cheered.
Meanwhile, Cardinal Seurat’s expression became thoughtful.
“No… my snake… our only chance of winning… …!”
No matter how much mana was injected into the wound, the frozen snake did not move.
On top of that, my mana was depleted, and the aftereffects of the forced release of the Golden Ring’s potion had not subsided.
In the end, he came to a conclusion that was both obvious and selfish.
‘Let’s run away.’
If he, the commander in chief, runs away, this army will completely collapse.
But his desire to survive made such grand judgments impossible.
Sorya stretched out his arm and gathered his remaining mana to open a portal.
That moment.
Shukak!
“Kwaaak!”
The outstretched arm was cut off.
The culprit is the humans who have already approached him.
These were players with a horrifying appearance, their skin peeling and melting here and there due to the venom spewed out by the snake.
Those who harbor a grudge against Sora as deep as the depth of their scars.
They raised the weapons they were holding.
“S, save me… … !”
Sora’s cries had no effect.
Swords, spears, axes, and maces.
All kinds of weapons began to stab and crush the iron.
An elf who regarded humans as insects met his death looking like a trampled insect.
And the situation for the rest of the elves was similar.
The massacre continued.
But the outcome was already decided.
In short, if the ultimate goal of this operation was not ‘annihilation’.
And if only the resentment against elves wasn’t so high as it is now.
This battle would have already been over.
But since that wasn’t the case-
“Kill them all!”
“Trampl them all!!”
The massacre went on for much longer than expected.
* * *
But even in the midst of all this, there were elves who were lucky enough to escape this hell.
Archbishop Ambil and his men, who barely managed to open the portal just before they died, did so.
It was a narrow escape through exquisite timing amidst the chaos of thousands of troops.
This is Eldrunia, an empty lot near the Great Temple.
It was a place often used as a portal movement point.
The elves who escaped through the portal were sprawled out on the grass in the open space.
Although no one was unscathed, it was a miracle that anyone survived in these circumstances.
“Everyone, gather around.”
At Ambil’s direction, the survivors gathered in one place.
There are eleven survivors in total.
One of them asked Ambil.
“What do we do now?”
“We must report to the Dharma King and prepare a counterattack.”
“If it’s a counterattack… … .”
“His Holiness the Pope will decide the method of counterattack. We will simply follow it.”
“… I will be punished for my defeat, right?”
“The war is not over yet. Don’t think about rewards or punishments. Everyone, stand up… … .”
Shukak.
At that moment, Ambil’s head fell.
As Ambil’s body fell, the figure of the killer standing behind it was revealed.
“human being……!”
Yeongsu said, wiping the blood from Ambil on his sword.
“I told you to get rid of them all, but what if you leave behind this much residue?”
“How could a human being… … come here!”
“Oh, and don’t worry about the report.”
Youngsoo’s sword blade flashed.
“I will report the news of your defeat to the Great Temple on your behalf.”