Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 10



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10. Encounter with humans (1)

“huh?”

Hyunseong looked down at his hands quietly.

It felt like hitting a solid piece of iron.

Rather, the bones in his own hand that had hit him were throbbing.

‘If it was before evolution, the bones in my hands would have been broken.’

Hyunseong turned his gaze to Park Hyeongmin, who was lying down.

I could tell right away that he wasn’t the type of Awakened person that would be on the first floor.

Park Hyung-min, feeling his gaze, starts to get up, staggering.

“This skeleton bastard….”

He was looking at me with bloodshot eyes.

Hyunseong looked at Park Hyeongmin and gritted his teeth.

“I’m asking just in case, can you understand what I’m saying?”

“It’s been making that noise for a while now. It’s not even a baby woodpecker.”

“Ugh, shit.”

I thought I had finally met the person, but I had no idea that such a trap awaited me.

I never thought that we wouldn’t be able to communicate.

Because I was able to have natural conversations with the bosses of the areas I met so far.

No matter how much I said, it seemed like the other person only heard the sound of teeth chattering.

‘But why can I understand what they’re saying?’

If both sides can’t understand each other, I can just say, “Oh, I see,” and give up, but since I can understand what the other side is saying, the situation is even more frustrating.

“If you do this, the transmission won’t work either.”

Because telepathy is literally just transmitting sound, it is not telepathy.

Transmission was of no use unless the conversation itself was communicated.

Park Hyung-min, who had no way of knowing Hyun-seong’s feelings, was emitting a vicious aura toward him.

“You may not understand, but I will warn you. If you attack, you will die.”

‘Wh, what kind of skeleton is that…?!’

Park Hyung-min, who seemed like he would rush in at any moment, hesitated at the momentum radiating from Hyun-seong.

Because it didn’t look like a monster that would be on the first floor.

It felt like I had met the boss of the area on the second floor that I was originally clearing.

“Tch!”

Was his pride hurt by the fact that he was scared by a mere skeleton?

He picked up his sword that was stuck nearby and ran towards Hyunseong.

“asleep!”

Hyunseong, who doesn’t seem to move even as the sword approaches to crush his skull.

Inside the skull, dark red eyes were staring at the enemy until the end.

Park Hyung-min smiled with conversion.

‘What? It’s nothing special.’

Was he just a guy with a strange demeanor, no different from other skeletons?

The moment when you feel relieved that you were worried for nothing.

Hyunseong’s skull was tilted very slightly.

Shhh!

His own sword that cuts through the air with a single sheet of paper.

Park Hyung-min had a blank expression for a moment.

I never thought I would go astray there.

“!? This kid…!”

Park Hyung-min swings his sword faster, the veins on his neck rising.

The speed started to increase more and more.

Soon it became difficult to follow with the eyes, but Hyunseong was still dodging all the attacks by a width of a paper.

‘If you see and avoid it, it will be too late.’

Because the enemy was swinging around with abilities much higher than his own.

If you can’t avoid seeing it, you can’t avoid predicting it.

The crimson eyes glowing from inside the skull were staring straight at Park Hyung-min without the slightest waver.

‘The moment you miss even a little bit of movement, it’s over.’

Where the center of gravity of the foot is placed.

Which way do you want to twist your waist?

How to swing your shoulders.

Even the subtle movements of the wrist and fingers.

By observing Park Hyung-min’s movements, he predicted the attack and avoided it.

“Damn it, why doesn’t it fit?!”

Contrary to Hyunseong’s unwavering spirit, Park Hyungmin becomes increasingly anxious and swings his sword more and more roughly.

The more this happens, the easier it becomes to predict movements.

Hyunseong looked at Park Hyeongmin while avoiding countless attacks.

‘He’s a gangster at the level of a gangster.’

Even though they were attacking in such a haphazard manner and showing an absurd amount of weakness, it was not easy to approach them.

It was like a rampaging angry bull.

If he and Park Hyung-min had the same conditions, Park Hyung-min would not have even swung his sword.

‘It’s fun.’

I was convinced that my choice to return was not a mistake.

In the world of martial arts, there were no longer any rivals, but here, not only monsters, but even weaklings like this could fight him just because they were of high level.

‘If I had met and fought a real Awakened person instead of someone like this…’

Just imagining it made my heart pound even though it wasn’t there.

Park Hyung-min never stopped attacking, even though he was breathing heavily.

Even swinging a sword with bloodshot eyes.

“Die! Die, die, die!!”

If someone were to see it, they might mistake it for a fight between monsters rather than a fight between an Awakened Person and a monster.

Hyunseong clicked his tongue and clacked his teeth at the sight of him not being able to control his own strength.

“It’s been noisy since a while ago. Are you a duck?”

If he had focused his energy on swinging his sword instead of cooling his head and opening his mouth, he might have chipped away at some of his own bones.

Hyunseong intentionally showed his weaknesses, like a matador waving a red cloth at a bull.

“…!”

Park Hyung-min, who is running towards the gap he showed with his eyes burning brightly.

Contrary to Park Hyung-min’s thoughts that he would step back, Hyun-seong instead dug into him.

A distance so close that it’s difficult to even swing a sword.

“shit!”

I tried swinging my sword somehow, but-

Kaang!

It was no problem to block a sword being swung while in an unstable position.

Hyunseong’s crimson eyes were swaying right in front of Park Hyeongmin.

“There’s a recipe that’s perfect for keeping kids like you quiet.”

Hyunseong clenched his teeth and swung his hand, which contained both internal energy and magical power.

In addition to that-

‘[acceleration]!’

Boom!

It struck Park Hyung-min in the face with a loud noise and knocked him to the floor.

Park Hyung-min was lying on the floor, his eyes rolled back and he was trembling.

Hyunseong muttered, shaking off the stiff bones in his hand.

“The mat is better than I thought. Is it a tank?”

Or maybe my attack power is still lacking.

It was the best attack I could do, but Park Hyung-min only fainted and his life did not seem to be in danger.

Hyunseong, who had been quietly looking at Park Hyeongmin, groaned and clenched his teeth.

“Okay, what do we do now?”

I thought it would be possible to evolve further from Skeleton Knight.

But, even if it evolves, can it escape the category of a skeleton?

If you ask him, Hyunseong can’t be sure either.

‘The final evolution could be something like the Skeleton King.’

If that happened, his plan to naturally mingle among humans would never even get started.

There’s no way we can have a conversation just because we’re wrapped up in armor.

While I was thinking like that, I suddenly felt a gaze.

“What the heck, that kid was acting all cool and then got beat up by a skeleton.”

“No, it’s that skeleton that’s weird!”

“That skeleton looks a little different from the other guys… Is it some kind of subspecies?”

“Even if it’s a subspecies or something, even a territory boss wouldn’t be that bad! What is that?!”

The three Awakened ones who had come with Park Hyung-min were guarding him with their weapons in hand.

But there was no way I could rush in so rashly.

Because what was in front of me was not an ordinary skeleton, but something that had the appearance of a skeleton.

“Shouldn’t I run away?”

“Will the undead let us go? The moment we turn back, it’s over.”

“Then, we must fight.”

“Are you out of your mind?!”

“There is no other way?”

“… … .”

Yoo Yeon-hee glared at Hyeon-seong, putting strength into the hand holding the sword.

The two men hesitate and follow her, each lifting their weapons.

‘They say they caught Park Hyung-min, but since there are three of us, we’ll be able to handle it somehow.’

I didn’t think I could win.

But, if you do it well, you might be able to run away, right?

Hyunseong looked into her eyes and cracked his jaw as if he found it amusing.

“I will acknowledge your perseverance.”

Surely, I would not have thought that he would fight me after seeing that fight just now.

A look that shows the will to survive, not the determination to die.

‘A guy like this won’t survive long.’

Because even in death, he tenaciously finds a way out.

However, it seemed that not all three of them thought the same thing.

The two people behind Yoo Yeon-hee made eye contact and nodded their heads.

“Jump!”

As soon as he pushed her back, he started running without looking back.

Yoo Yeon-hee barely regains her composure and looks back in a hurry.

“Hey, you guys…!”

Before she could finish speaking, she felt something, a breeze passing by.

At the same time, two Awakened people suddenly fall down while running.

And, Hyunseong was standing in front of the two people who had fallen.

‘Oh, when did that happen?!’

I turned my head and looked ahead, wondering if another skeleton had appeared.

However, all that was in sight was Park Hyung-min lying on the ground.

The skeleton that had been in front of them just a moment ago passed them by in an instant and caught up with the two of them.

‘What kind of ridiculous speed is this…?’

He didn’t even see it, let alone notice it passing him by.

When Hyunseong looked back, his eyes met with crimson ones.

It was creepy and gave me goosebumps all over.

‘What should I do?’

When there were three of us, I thought there was at least a chance of running away.

But now that I’m alone, even the possibility of running away has disappeared.

Now that it’s come to this –

‘This is a do or die situation!’

Even if defeat was certain, we couldn’t just do nothing and let it end like this.

He threw down the weapon he was holding in his hand.

The moment the sword flew and caught Hyunseong’s attention, Yoo Yeonhee picked up Park Hyungmin’s sword and ran.

and,

Kaang!

The moment Hyunseong knocks away the sword he threw.

I swung my sword with all my might.

The target is Hyunseong’s bridge.

If I could break even one of his leg bones, I might have a chance of escaping.

It was a sword that I swung with that thought in mind,

visor!

Hyunseong who easily counterattacks attacks.

She couldn’t stand the recoil and just collapsed.

‘What kind of skeleton has strength?!’

I expected it to be stronger than a normal skeleton that would fall over if hit lightly.

However, Hyunseong’s power far exceeded her expectations.

It’s surprising how such strength can come from a body made up of nothing but bones.

The moment she was about to get up,

Sling.

I had no choice but to stop moving as the sword came right up to my neck.

Yeonhee Yoo swallows and gulps.

I had a gut feeling when I saw the crimson eyes shining inside the skull.

‘It’s the end.’

She thinks like that and closes her eyes tightly against the pain that will come.

However, as time passed, nothing happened.

I opened my eyes slightly to see what was going on, and what I saw was a small object with a smooth cross-section and a rectangular shape.

‘Smartphone?’

It was a smartphone.

That too, he had.

Before he could even begin to question when it had fallen and why it was right in front of him, the lock was released by his own face.

The sword that had come right up to his neck had disappeared, and what he saw before his eyes was-

Knock, knock, knock.

There was only a skeleton, tapping away at the LCD screen with its bare hands.

Yoo Yeon-hee stared blankly at the scene, forgetting her own situation, and then opened her mouth.

“Is this a dream?”