Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 144



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144. Cheonhodae

Hyunseong takes the items from the owner of the ash and opens the status window.

“Hmm…”

He stroked his chin and was lost in thought.

As I realized that the gap in ability was quite large for every point, I couldn’t help but become greedy.

After looking at it for a while and thinking about it, Hyunseong finally distributes the remaining points.

“I don’t know.”

Boldly give up physical strength and endurance and focus on attacking.

It was a decision made based on trust in one’s own abilities.

Hyunseong distributed all the remaining points like that.

[Name: Kim Hyun-seong.]

[Race: Skeleton King]

[Characteristic: None]

[Level:53]

[Strength: 35 (+6)]

[Stamina: 21 (+3)]

[Endurance: 23 (+2)]

[Agility: 25 (+2)]

[Magic Power: 28 (+4)]

[Remaining points: 0]

Hyunseong picked up a stone that was nearby.

Fuzz.

The shards of stone break so easily that they spill out of your hands.

In simple terms, the difference was only 4, but it felt like a whole other level.

“At this point, I guess I can go straight to the 6th floor?”

-There seems to be a portal nearby. Do you want to go check it out?

“I wonder.”

Since other Awakened players have soloed the bosses that are supposed to be defeated in a party, there shouldn’t be any problem conquering the 6th floor.

If you were an ordinary awakened player, you would need to prepare for various things every time you moved to the main attack floor.

However, the one advantage was that there was no need to prepare anything else since it was a skeleton body that neither ate nor slept.

“The problem is that other than that, there are only disadvantages.”

-If you look into it, there might be other advantages as well.

“I can’t think of anything in particular. For example?”

-Cool?

“… … ”

While sighing softly, I followed Seol-ah’s instructions and headed towards the portal.

Something caught Hyunseong’s eye on the way to the portal.

“huh?”

The corpses of the Awakened were strewn all over the place.

Examining the body, it didn’t seem like it had been dead for very long.

-No, it’s not that he died not long ago. He just died.

“It’s quite large.”

There were not one or two corpses, but dozens.

If an Awakener of this scale had fought, there was no way he and Seol-ah would have not known.

And that wasn’t the only strange thing.

‘There is no trace of the monster.’

The surroundings were in a pretty dire state, but there was no sign of any monsters.

The feeling I got while I was quietly contemplating like that.

When I turned my head to look, one of the Awakened was looking this way.

“This kid…!”

“?”

A guy who glares at Hyunseong with a gaze full of hostility as if he has no intention of hiding it.

Hyunseong tilted his head at the hostility.

He says he’s a monster, but he reacts as if he’s met his mortal enemy the moment he sees him.

-Look at the situation now.

“ah.”

Only then did Hyunseong realize the situation around him.

1. Corpses are strewn all over the place, centered around you.

2. A situation where there are no traces of other monsters in the surrounding area.

For an ordinary awakened person, there would be only one answer that could be derived from this.

-Besides, it’s not really a misunderstanding.

“…What are you talking about? I’ve never seen anyone like this before.”

-Look at that.

The traces Seol-ah pointed out looked somehow familiar.

Because I just fought a guy who left the exact same mark as this.

“Could this be… the things that the owner of the ashes threw away?”

-That’s right. I just kept checking.

“… … ”

Hyunseong was speechless because he was so dumbfounded.

Even though the owner of the ash is a territory boss, he didn’t fight the guy and couldn’t even withstand the aftermath from this distance and died.

He is not an ordinary person, but an awakened person who has conquered the 5th floor.

“I will kill you!”

The Awakened One attacks while Hyunseong is flustered.

The sword quickly pulled from the guy’s waist cut through the air with a sharp sound.

Shhh!

The approaching Tao was like a tiger, ferociously trying to break his own skull.

Hyunseong, who was trying to block the attack by holding Seol-ah, tilted his head without realizing it.

“…huh?”

Because the way he was displaying his skills felt like something I’d seen somewhere before.

Kaang!

“…?!”

The man looks taken aback, as if he didn’t know that Hyunseong would block his attack.

But soon, his eyes became sharp and he continued his attack.

Clang! Clang!

Shhh!

The sword in the guy’s hand swung around, leaving an afterimage in the air as it went by.

Kaang! Chaengjaeng!

Dozens of agreements exchanged in less than 5 seconds.

The man continued to attack fiercely, and Hyunseong watched quietly and blocked them all.

and,

“also.”

-What is it?

“This is the Heavenly Tiger Sword.”

It was a method used by the Cheonhodae (Heavenly Tiger Unit), one of the most prominent units among the numerous units led by the Cheonmasingyo.

That means the man in front of you is a member of the Cheonmasin Church.

‘I don’t think they’ve been tracking me.’

Given the situation and his abilities, it was hard to believe that he was the one sent by the Cheonmasingyo to capture him.

‘Come to think of it, didn’t Sakong-hyeon say that other units would be attacking the 5th or 6th floor?’

-That’s right. Those guys?

But I never thought we would meet like this.

-What a great relationship.

“what?”

-No, I’m not even chasing you, but we meet so often in this vast labyrinth. Isn’t this fate rather than coincidence?

“Isn’t this all your fault?”

-No, it’s my fault here?

“Think about it.”

It was an inexcusable fact that he was the type of person who caused many accidents.

“I admit this too.”

However, not only the Cheonmasingyo, but also the Murim Alliance and the Blood Cult.

When he was in the martial arts world, the guys he had gradually encountered over the course of 30 years had now all appeared in a short period of less than a year, and had become his enemies.

“Could this acceleration be your fault?”

-That, isn’t that just because you didn’t finish things properly in the past?

“No, what else do you want me to do here?”

He was summoned as a test subject and killed Cheonma, destroyed the Murim Alliance, and virtually exterminated the Blood Cult.

I don’t think anyone else could do this better than me.

“At this point, shouldn’t you be in charge of at least one?”

-I’d like to help, but as you can see, I can’t live without my users.

“… … ”

I was seriously thinking of asking Seoian if there was any magic that could give a sword a body.

If Seol-ah could work on her own, it would be more convenient in many ways.

Hyunseong sighed softly and muttered softly to Cheonho Daewon.

“For your information, I didn’t do that.”

If it were you, it wouldn’t be so unfair.

It would have been difficult if they had killed themselves in the aftermath of the fight and then blamed themselves for it.

You can’t fight while considering everything in the world.

“…! Don’t lie! What other monsters are there here besides you!”

But, I didn’t think I could trust him.

I said it because I thought maybe it could just be overlooked, but it was as expected.

In the end, it seemed like we had no choice but to stick to the methods we had been using before.

“Let’s take care of this quickly and leave before the others arrive.”

If there’s one guy, there’s a chance that other Cheonho-dae guys will come too.

but,

-I think that might be a bit difficult.

“Ha, my luck is just not helping.”

It seemed like I was a step too late.

It was scary to say that I felt the movement coming this way.

A situation where you have no choice but to fight since you are already surrounded.

-That’s because you’re wasting time.

In fact, the Cheonho Daewon in front of me wasn’t that strong.

If you fought properly, it wouldn’t even be a matter of ten seconds.

However, Hyunseong wasted time trying to find out about the guy’s martial arts skills because he was familiar with them, which led to this situation.

“From now on, whenever we meet, whether it’s Cheonho-dae or Nabal, let’s break the earthenware pot first and leave quickly.”

I never thought a moment of curiosity would lead to such trouble.

That’s how Cheonhodae appeared.

At the appearance of the same side, the guy quickly stepped back and relayed the information he had found out to the main character.

“A skeleton with considerable martial arts skills… That’s the guy you put a bounty on in the church.”

I received it, but I didn’t think we’d meet, so I didn’t tell the agents.

I never thought I would see this.

“Are you the leader of Cheonhodae?”

The man seemed to be thinking deeply about something, then quietly opened his mouth.

“Who is behind you, Skeleton?”

“…what?”

My skull tilted at the sudden, unexpected sound.

However, the guy shook his head as if he had understood Hyunseong’s reaction differently.

“I guess you have no intention of talking.”

“No, I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“You raided our supply base and thought that excuse would work?”

“Distribution…?”

As the story got to that point, I felt like I had a rough idea of ​​what was going on.

These guys are lying around right now.

These guys were there to deliver supplies to the Awakened fighting on the front lines.

‘It’s weak because they focused more on mobility than combat power.’

Even though it was an attack by a realm boss, I couldn’t understand why the Awakened One on the 5th floor couldn’t even withstand the aftermath and collapsed.

-So, to sum up the situation… You know your own martial arts, and you also know the organization chart of the Heavenly Demon Sect, so you’re not just a simple skeleton. On top of that, you’ve cut off your supply, so rather than thinking you’re acting alone, you probably think someone is controlling you.

It’s possible that the skeleton is on the 5th floor and uses powerful martial arts skills.

However, the fact that they are a Cheonho-dae is something that monsters cannot know.

Someone must think they have a partner.

‘And, that collaborator knows a supply route that is only known within the Cheonmasin Church.’

Given all these circumstances, Cheonho Daeju thought that there had to be a traitor within the Cheonmasingyo.

“I don’t know who he is, but he’s a clever guy. Did he tame a monster? As far as I know, no one has acquired that trait yet.”

The fact that they cut off their supplies means that they did not like Cheonhodae.

Then is it the Dragon’s Tower or the Heavenly Flower Tower?

A thought suddenly crossed Cheonho Daeju’s mind as he pondered over it.

‘If you think about it…’

I heard that the Cheonmasingyo put up a bounty, and that it was a directive of the Friendship Law.

In other words, it would be more appropriate to think of it as an order handed down from Heavenly Horse.

‘The Heavenly Demon also wants to find the traitor.’

If that’s the case, then we absolutely had to capture that skeleton here.

If Ma-ryong-dae and Cheon-hwa-dae are the culprits, then this is a great opportunity for them to step on them and fly high.

“Cheonho-dae, prepare for battle!”

If it was just a matter of fighting and taking him down, it would have been enough to do it alone, but this time, I had to take the enemy alive, who was nothing but bones.

Killing and capturing.

There was no need to say which one was more difficult.

Srrrrung!

At Cheonho Daeju’s words, the awakened ones all took out their Tao.

“Subdue, don’t kill!”

“Jeonmyeong!”

At the direction of the Great Lord, Cheonhodae rushed towards Hyeonseong.