How to Live as a Knight After the Ending - Chapter 104



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Episode 104. Enhanced Human (2)

Balud didn’t like [The Mad Bear] very much.

It was the same reason he tried not to show that he was of Northern Norse barbarian descent.

[The Mad Bear] was so savage.

Of course, this trait makes the user a bloodthirsty berserker.

The more you get hurt, the more vicious and powerful you become.

Attack speed, attack power, movement speed, and damage reduction increase in proportion to the amount of blood lost and health lost.

It wasn’t just that effect.

[Frenzy Bear] is ultimately just a general characteristic, but if you go into the detailed skills, there are a lot of different techniques.

Your stamina may not fall below a certain percentage for a certain period of time.

If you continue attacking without stopping, a bonus point is added to the damage.

It was also possible to create a shield proportional to the amount of health lost using the blood lost.

A manly technique that responds only to attacks without avoiding or blocking the opponent’s attacks.

Balud couldn’t help but hate it.

“Lord, die!”

The augmented human emitted lightning from his hand. If you look closely, you can see that the palm that was collecting the lightning has become smooth like metal.

The blood vessels running through his body sparkled with plasma current.

Phage, phage, phage!

The lightning struck Balud’s body again, slowly approaching.

Balud’s body shook violently, but he did not stop.

Rather, the bloodshot eyes in his eyes became darker and stronger than before.

“The reason I hate this technology is because it makes my head spin.”

Unlike his usual cold voice and calm demeanor, his face was distorted with endless annoyance.

“Your vision becomes red, and even the sounds around you become muffled. Instead, all your cells start chattering loudly, telling you to kill the enemy right in front of you.”

“Oh, don’t come!”

“My head is ringing. My head.”

“Don’t come!”

Then another enhanced human stepped forward.

It was a man with short hair, and when he stretched out his arm, it stretched out like rubber and stabbed Balud in the stomach.

Still, Balud did not stop. His expression did not change, as if he did not feel the pain itself.

“So I didn’t want to use this, but it turned out like this because of you guys.”

“This, this crazy monster… … .”

“So take responsibility.”

Balud grabbed the hand that had stabbed him in the stomach and pulled it away.

The enhanced human tried to resist, but could not withstand the power of the berserk Balud.

The body was pulled straight up and flew towards Balud.

Balud lifted his axe and cut off the neck of the flying enhanced human.

Although the neck was not cut off, the body of the enhanced human, unable to withstand the force of the axe, crashed to the ground.

Balud swung his axe at the augmented human.

Continue on.

Without rest.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The body of the augmented human, already a corpse, convulsed every time the axe was struck.

Red blood splattered all over Balud’s body. Balud didn’t even bother to wipe the blood off his cheeks, and stared at the enhanced human who had fired the lightning.

“Monster, monster… …!”

These were not the words of a superhuman enhanced human being.

But anyone would want to scream that same thing when they saw the fist-sized hole in his abdomen twitch and twitch in real time.

The wound healed, the bleeding stopped, and new flesh grew.

It was the result of one of the effects of the trait, which was the increased recovery ability.

Balud grabbed the axe. The axe, which should have been imbued with the aura of frost, was now consumed by red energy.

Toowoow! Balud disappeared from his seat. The enhanced human looked around to find his figure.

Immediately after, he felt a presence behind him, so he turned his body like a sword and tried to shoot lightning.

Crunch.

It was faster to have one arm cut off by an axe.

“Ahhh! Aaaahhhhh! My arm!”

“Good. Cry a little louder. So that the sound in my head disappears.”

A smile appeared on Balud’s lips. It was very creepy to see him do it with his bloody face.

Rather, the augmented human who had been crying out in pain due to fear shut his mouth tightly.

“Aren’t you going to cry any more? Then there’s nothing I can do.”

Balud lifted his axe, then changed his mind and dropped it.

“What on earth… … .”

Kwajik!

Instead, he smashed the augmented human’s face with his clenched fist.

Hit and hit again.

Only after seeing the blood and the form disintegrating beyond recognition did the rising madness subside.

Balud tried to wipe the hot, pungent blood off his cheek with his hand, but gave up and shook his head.

“ha.”

Although he had cleared out three, there were still six more augmented humans left.

And Ossian was now fighting six at the same time.

But I wasn’t worried. Even though the enhanced humans weren’t weak, Ossian was much stronger than them.

‘I don’t want to admit it, but.’

Looking at Ossian, who was wielding a sword with starlight now and displaying his swordsmanship with restraint, I had no idea that he would lose.

“Kwaaah!”

The augmented human grew larger. His muscles swelled and hair grew on his body.

Ossian clicked his tongue inwardly as he looked at the sight.

‘Do all enhanced humans have their own unique characteristics?’

Enhanced humans are beings who have undergone artificial biological evolution through genetic modification.

If you look at it in a similar way, there are mutants, but there are differences.

Mutants are born with a limited set of abilities.

On the other hand, enhanced humans were created postnatally, and each enhanced human possessed multiple abilities and characteristics.

They manifest the beast’s factor, have excellent physical abilities and regenerative powers, and also use mutant-like superpowers.

“Stop!”

The moment Ossian was about to swing his Holy Light Sword, one of the enhanced humans shouted.

The voice pierced through Ossian’s body.

A kind of mental attack that interferes with the opponent’s mind. However, Ossian easily shook it off.

The sword flashed, and the head of the enhanced human, which had grown into a gigantic body, was swallowed up in the starlight.

Phew!

The ground suddenly rose and tree trunks rushed towards Ossian like hawks.

It was almost at the same time that starlight appeared over Ossian’s shoulders.

Nebula Silk.

Ossian, cloaked, circled around in his seat.

The tree trunks were cut down in one fell swoop, oozing a greenish fluid.

The fluid was acidic, but even that acidity had no effect on Ossian’s nebula silk.

“Get back!”

One of the augmented humans shouted at Ossian.

The moment the sound wave that came out of his mouth with a scream was about to hit Ossian, Ossian disappeared with a pure white light.

“It disappeared?”

His head, which was trying to look around, could no longer turn and fell to the floor with a thud.

The female enhanced human who had been firing psychic waves from the side glared at it.

As he was about to attempt another mind-interference attack on Ossian, Ossian’s leg kicked the female enhanced human’s knee.

A body collapsing with legs that are broken and cracking.

The Holy Light Sword that fell on him stabbed his heart.

But perhaps because he was an enhanced human, he didn’t die right away just from being stabbed in the heart.

The moment he was about to burn his heart by raising the starlight, the enhanced human who had been emitting psychic waves raised both arms and grabbed Ossian’s ankles.

Ossian swung his Holy Light Sword without even laughing and cut off the arm.

Before the enhanced human who was rushing towards him could even approach, Ossian turned around and swung his sword.

The enhanced human, whose head was blown off by the intense white flame, could not overcome inertia and ran past Ossian before collapsing.

“Ugh! Huh, how… … .”

The enhanced human’s eyes widened at the fact that even his desperate attempt to sacrifice his own life was useless.

A look that simply cannot be understood as to how a human being can possess such power.

Ossian had no intention of answering that question.

Just as he was about to take his last breath, the head of the enhanced human who had been firing psychic waves fell to the side.

Is he dead?

Ossian seemed to have lost interest and took off his Holy Light Sword and Seongun Silk.

His gaze turned to Aaron and his teammates.

From the beginning, they only trusted in enhanced humans, and their numbers were extremely small.

Only five, including Aaron.

They were so overwhelmed by Ossian’s power that they froze, unable to even think about running away.

“Yeah. You guys stayed.”

Ossian slowly approached Aaron.

Aaron’s body trembled. Having just seen what Ossian had done, he could not dare look him in the eye.

“Please, save me!”

Aaron fell flat on his face.

“S-Say that if you spare my life, I’ll give you everything I have. B-If you go back outside, I’ll even use my connections in the Archaeological Federation to reward you! So please!”

The sight of him shouting in a tearful voice was so pathetic that it made one feel sorry for him.

The same was true for the team members that followed.

“Please save me?”

“yes yes!”

“You were trying to kill me just a moment ago, and now you’re begging me to spare your life because the odds are against you?”

“Th-That’s something the enhanced humans did on their own! Th-Those guys are out of control, so they won’t listen to me… …!”

“And yet, while they were trying to kill us, he was watching from behind, laughing as if he found it amusing.”

Ossian remembered all the expressions they had on their faces.

You say it’s good when people try to kill you, but when you try to kill them, you say it’s ugly and empty?

“You guys are not honorable at all.”

“That, that’s why… … Get out of here, you fucking bastard!”

Aaron, who was crouching, threw the capsule at Ossian.

Even if he hired an escort, he, as an explorer, had the means to save his life.

The capsule, which had been activated at close range, released a strong electric current in a radial direction before Ossian could react.

Balud opened his eyes wide in surprise at the sight.

That was a much stronger magic than the lightning he had received from the enhanced human.

At least a 3-star lightning series. If you get hit by that at close range, even Ossian won’t be safe.

But where the current had passed, Ossian was still standing intact.

If you look closely, you can see that it’s not completely fine, and the clothes are burned and there are minor cuts on the skin.

But if you’re hit by a 3-star magic, isn’t that a normal level?

“Uh, how… … .”

Aaron muttered in disbelief.

How can a person be hit by magic at close range and not die?

Aaron rolled his eyes. Before he could say anything, Ossian’s sword cut off his tongue.

Aaron covered his mouth with his hand. Blood flowed down his hands.

“Don’t open your filthy mouth any more. My ears will rot.”

“Eww! Ewww!”

Aaron looked at Illua and shouted something.

His eyes were begging for his life.

Illua looked at Aaron like that and then quickly turned his head away.

“Our employer thinks the same thing.”

“Eeeeeep!”

Aaron stretched out his arms to try to stop Ossian, but it was no use.

His sword cut Aaron’s vital points with precision and speed.

The same goes for Aaron’s teammates who were trying to escape from beyond.

Anyway, they were people who hung out with Aaron and committed evil deeds.

There was no need to show mercy.

Balud approached Ossian, who had now completely cleaned up, and asked.

“Are you okay?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Didn’t you just get hit by the magic stored in the capsule?”

“That’s right.”

“That’s why I asked if it was okay.”

It was okay. Of course, it wasn’t like there were no impacts.

To be honest, Ossian was also secretly surprised.

‘I was this strong.’

He knew that he was not an ordinary person, as he had strong physical abilities and great endurance.

But he didn’t die even after being hit by magic.

‘Of course, if I get hit with something like this a few times, it would be dangerous for me too.’

Just learning that I could hit it with my body once or twice was a huge gain.

“If you have that much talent, why have you been avoiding it until now?”

With a body that strong, it seemed like he could easily do some reckless things.

But Ossian has so far fought by blocking with his sword or avoiding attacks.

Although he occasionally managed to block attacks with his Nebula Silk, these were limited to wide-ranging attacks that were difficult to dodge.

Balud didn’t understand that. He thought, “Why bother with something this strong?”

Ossian answered the question as if it were a natural question.

“Wouldn’t it be strange if you didn’t avoid it when you could?”

“For something like that, it seemed like you were obsessed with avoiding it to an extreme.”

“No matter how big the country is, it hurts when it gets attacked like this.”

This time, Aaron, who was pretending to be cowardly, didn’t expect that he would launch a surprise attack in such a situation, so he was hit.

If I had known, I wouldn’t have accepted it.

Come to think of it, that’s what happened.

Who likes to be sick?

The same was true for Ossian.

Although his body was clearly that of a strong knight, his spirit still had traces of a 21st century petit bourgeois.

“I don’t like being sick.”

“… … .”

“… … .”