Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 147



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147. 6th floor

Among the many units of the Cheonmasingyo, the Cheonhwa Unit is one of the strongest despite being comprised entirely of women.

The owner, Yang So-rin, was quite embarrassed.

‘What the hell is going on?’

I rubbed my eyes to see if I had seen something wrong and examined Cheonho Daeju’s body in detail again, but the wounds were unchanged.

It was clearly a trace of the Heavenly Demon Art and Heavenly Demon Sword Technique that he knew.

No matter how much she begged, the opportunity to face the Heavenly Demon was rare, and even less to see its martial arts.

‘That’s right.’

However, the reason why Yang So-rin was certain that the trace in front of her was the Cheonma Shingong was because it was so identical to the trace she had seen while assisting the young cult leader for a while.

If the scar had been even slightly different, I would have thought it was my mistake and passed it off as nothing serious.

‘What happened?’

The most secret martial arts of the Cheonmasingyo are being learned by a skeleton of unknown origin.

Besides, if he was capable of taking down Cheonho Daeju, he was definitely not a skill to be ignored.

She watched the reactions of the Cheonho Corps members.

‘It seems like no one has noticed the Heavenly Demonic Art yet.’

Because he was so helpless, he only recognized it as a type of powerful martial art and didn’t seem to know exactly what kind of martial art it was.

Listening to Cheonhodae’s words, it seemed that Cheonhodaeju had concluded that there was a traitor within the Cheonmasingyo.

‘If I were in the same situation, I think I would have thought the same thing.’

If he hadn’t realized that this trace was the Heavenly Demonic Sect, he would have probably suspected the Dragon Dragon.

However, even if they were the Dragon Dragons, they would never have done the foolish thing of learning the Heavenly Demonic Art and teaching it to a skeleton.

Well then, here’s one possible possibility.

‘Did the Heavenly Demon do it himself?’

Then, due to an unexpected accident, the skeleton that was learning the Heavenly Horse Art escaped.

That’s why we’re trying to recover it by offering a bounty through the Friendship Act.

Her head spun furiously as a plausible answer came to her.

‘Wait a minute. If I do this right…’

Her eyes seemed to be looking further than the opportunities for advancement.

‘Wouldn’t it be possible to obtain the Heavenly Demon Sword?’

Yang So-rin recently realized that her martial arts skills had hit a wall.

I’ve been trying in many ways to break it, but I haven’t even found a clue yet.

As I conquer the labyrinth, I become stronger, but as a martial artist, I can’t help but feel a growing desire to break through the barriers.

The opportunity to obtain the world’s greatest martial art, the Heavenly Demon Art, had appeared before her eyes.

Success wasn’t the problem.

Her eyes sparkled sharply at the thought of a situation where she could become a heavenly horse, a being on the earth beneath her feet.

‘I need to find out more for sure.’

She thought so and gathered at Cheonhwadae.

* * *

“I finally found it.”

Hyunseong muttered as he looked at the distorted void and portal before his eyes.

The portal I was originally going to disappear and after wandering around for a while, I finally found the next portal.

“Isn’t this the level where you can say you’re unlucky?”

Since Seol-ah’s seal was released, it has never taken this long to find a portal.

If it were normal, it would take at most 2-3 hours to move one floor.

However, the portal to the 6th floor took more than twice that amount of time.

-I roughly counted the number of portals detected with detection magic so far. It seems like the number of portals going upward is decreasing.

It seemed like it dropped significantly from the 6th floor onwards.

I hadn’t even noticed it until now, but I never thought it would be structured like that.

It seemed that I wouldn’t be able to completely rest assured that I would be able to move between floors at any time in the future.

“Let’s go in quickly before it disappears.”

If I disappear from here, I wonder when I will be able to find it again next time.

Since it’s already been decided that we’ll go to the 6th floor, it would be better to think about the rest once we get there.

Hyunseong steps into the distorted portal with such thoughts.

Then,

“and.”

The lava that seemed ready to erupt at any moment had disappeared, and a pure white snowfield was waiting for him.

The snow field, touching the clear, cloudless sky, felt like a landscape not of this world.

Hyunseong stared at the sight quietly, his teeth chattering.

“…It’s cold?”

A coldness that can be felt even though there is only bone.

Just a moment ago, I was in a place that was warm, if not hot, and when I came here, the sudden temperature change made my bones ache.

“This isn’t pickling or anything.”

It was a combo of harsh and unforgiving environments.

If it were a normal human being, the sudden temperature difference alone would have been life-threatening.

– Did they say that if you master martial arts to a certain level, you will become invincible in Han Dynasty?

‘To be exact, rather than saying it is a state of martial arts, I should say it is when your internal energy has accumulated to a certain level.’

-So, even if your level is not high, you can still become invincible?

‘That’s true.’

However, since it is impossible to build up that much internal energy unless you eat the elixir like rice, most of those who achieved invincibility in Hanseo had a level appropriate for it.

Seol-ah, who had been asking Hyun-seong various questions about Hanseobulchim, muttered in a voice that seemed interested.

-As expected, internal energy is similar to magical power, but different.

“I told you, the source is gone, but the ending is different.”

Like two rivers.

However, the river may soon merge into the sea.

Hyunseong walked along while talking to Seol-ah.

“It seems like it’s quite high ground, but there are quite a few trees.”

– It’s called a snow tree, and it only grows in mountainous areas. It grows by eating the pure and condensed magic power of eternal snow, so it’s hard and has good magic response, so it’s used in many places.

“I have a question.”

-What is it?

“Is this area off-limits too?”

-of course.

“Okay.”

What a dangerous world this is.

Later, when I listened to Seol-ah’s words, it seemed that not only the 4th, 5th, and 6th floors, but also the underground swamp on the 2nd floor and the mountain range on the 3rd floor were forbidden areas.

At that moment, a thought flashed through Hyunseong’s head like lightning.

“If each level is a forbidden zone, are there as many floors as there are forbidden zones?”

-Is that so?

Seol-ah lets out a voice that sounds like she’s been stabbed in the butt.

She then began counting the number of forbidden items.

-Well, there are eight.

“There are many. But why only one?”

-When looking at only the restricted areas in a large area that could be a layer of a labyrinth. If you include restricted areas like dungeons, it increases even more.

“The more I look at it, the more bizarre the neighborhood becomes.”

Hyunseong muttered like that and sat quietly lost in thought.

If only the forbidden areas in a large area were the layers of the labyrinth, I thought that the 8th floor, excluding the 1st floor, or around the 9th floor, would be the last part of the labyrinth.

-Isn’t there someone there who created a labyrinth on the 10th floor?

“Who is who?”

-I don’t know either.

“If there’s someone capable of committing an incident of this scale, then you know them, right?”

-… Is that so?

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t seem to think of such a being.

At that time, while I was making various guesses about the labyrinth,

Boom! Boom! Boom!

He heard footsteps of something huge approaching him.

Hyunseong’s teeth chatter at the sound of someone approaching him.

“Oh my, how long has it been since I came here that I’m being welcomed like this?”

How dare you come all the way here to welcome me, even though we’ve never met before.

I was so moved that I didn’t know what to do with myself.

And then, from far away, a giant is quickly approaching you.

“Poooooooo!!”

It was a huge elephant covered in pure white fur.

If we just look at its size, it’s so big that it could probably compete with the cockroach boss in the 4th floor dungeon.

“No, at this size, you should just ignore me.”

Isn’t it the same as trying to catch a single ant?

A guy looking at himself fiercely.

“That guy looks so angry.”

-You saw it exactly. It’s called a snow mammoth, and I think it thought you were invading its territory.

The guy was running at full speed to destroy the intruder.

Crackle! Crackle!

The sturdy snow tree shattered like a corn stalk when it collided with the snow mammoth.

Hyunseong quietly watched the scene and then asked Seol-ah.

“Wasn’t that a solid piece of wood?”

-It’s hard. A wooden sword made of wood would be as hard as steel, right?

“That sturdy wood breaks like a wooden chopstick?”

-I’m watching too.

“… … ”

-The snow mammoth is just tougher.

Even if it was a thin tree, it would have been okay, but even a tree that was thick enough for a man to wrap his arms around with both hands would have broken.

At this point, wouldn’t it be more likely that you’ll destroy yourself rather than be invaded by others?

While I was thinking like that, the guy who approached me turned his nose up high.

“Poooooo!!”

The cold air that came out of his nose shot up into the sky, then formed pinpoints of ice and began to pour down like rain.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

“What the hell?!”

I expected the awl to fall.

However, its size was unusual.

As the ice picks the size of a person poured down in an instant, Hyunseong couldn’t help but curse from between his teeth.

Boom! Boom! Bam!

The pouring awls smashed trees, pierced the ground, and tore through the earth.

The shaking caused the snow to fall little by little.

If we continue like this, an avalanche will occur soon and Marira will be here.

“As soon as I got here, I thought, what kind of trouble is this…!”

Hyunseong muttered as he stepped on the snow.

Phew!

Snow flurries falling in all directions.

Hyunseong’s body seemed to have disappeared, but he had quickly arrived in front of the snow mammoth’s thick legs.

“Poooo!”

A guy who raises his heavy legs to crush nearby enemies.

The guy’s bumpy soles caught my eye.

“The soles of your feet are scary?”

-It evolved so that it doesn’t slip from the eyes.

“Not to properly crush the enemy?”

-That does have its uses.

If I got stuck there, I didn’t think I would be able to survive even with luck.

Hyunseong looks at the giant foot approaching him.

“Laugh!”

Turned sideways.

Hyunseong starts riding the guy’s body vertically.

Hyunseong, who had climbed onto the guy’s back in an instant, tried to stab Seol-ah into his body.

Kaang!

The guy’s fur was tangled like chainmail, making it difficult to penetrate.

That wasn’t the only problem.

“Tch!”

Hyunseong falls straight from the guy’s body.

I couldn’t stay there for long because of the cold coming from the fur.

If I had tried to stick with it, wouldn’t one of my bones have frozen?

“Wasn’t it the case that someone too tough came looking for you from the start?”

-The snow mammoth is a fairly famous loser even in the Ice and Snow Forbidden Zone.

“So you’re the territory boss.”

Should I say I’m unlucky?

As soon as you arrive, you’ll face the area boss.

but,

“If I catch this guy, I can beat up most of the guys on the 6th floor, right?”

Hyunseong’s crimson eyes sparkled as if he was glad that everything was going well.