Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 2



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2. I am a skeleton

“Sigh, shit.”

He sighed and held his head.

The once abundant hair was gone, leaving behind not a single strand, and a bare skull could be felt.

It’s been a while since we figured out the situation, but accepting it is another matter.

Who would accept that a human suddenly turned into a monster?

‘System error… ‘

I remembered the system window that came up before I came back here.

Awakening system changes due to forced summoning.

It wasn’t that hard to guess that was the cause.

But I never thought it would appear in this form.

‘Of all monsters, why a skeleton!’

Aren’t skeletons considered the weakest among monsters?

If I had become a human-like, vampire-like monster, I wouldn’t have been this frustrated.

A situation that makes you sigh.

“ha.”

The jaw moved and the teeth clacked.

I hated even hearing this warm sound because it felt like shit.

‘Who do you want me to meet in this state?’

The time he had spent in the martial arts world had been nearly 30 years.

I don’t know how much time has passed since then, but no matter how many years pass, humans and monsters will not be living together laughing together.

There was no point in coming back like this.

[Name: Kim Hyun-seong.]

[Race: Skeleton]

[Characteristic: None]

I looked at the status window again, but the text written in the translucent window showed no sign of changing.

The only thing that has changed is that the notification window that tells you that you have gone out of the system range, which you have been tired of seeing for 30 years in the martial arts world, has disappeared.

“The after-sales service really sucks.”

I waited and waited for 30 years and it didn’t work, so I had no choice but to fix it myself, but it malfunctioned like this.

Shouldn’t the head office compensate for this?

Even underneath it was even more spectacular.

[Level:1]

[Strength: 5]

[Stamina: 5]

[Endurance: 5]

[Agility: 5]

[Magic Power: 5]

[Remaining points: 0]

Abilities befitting its reputation as the weakest monster.

Considering that the initial stats of the Awakened are 50, it is a hopeless level.

Is it that you want me to become a monster and start over with a new mindset?

I’ve been through a lot of situations in my life, but nothing as shitty as today has ever been.

“First of all… let’s move.”

Even if you just sit still like this and complain about your life, your bones won’t gain muscle or flesh.

Even though I was in this situation, I had no intention of dying.

I looked around with the thought that I should do something.

“But is this the right place, Earth?”

It was as if I had suddenly been transported to the world of martial arts, and this time I wasn’t even sure if I had been transported to a fantasy world or if I had properly returned.

While I was looking around for anything that could be a clue, something caught my eye.

It was graffiti discovered on a giant pillar supporting a temple.

“Hmm, that’s Earth.”

Hyunseong, who saw that, nodded his head and sighed in relief.

Because what I found in the graffiti written on the pillar was Korean.

[The Phoenix Guild has arrived.]

[The Tiger Guild came first.]

[Did these kids come back here just to use this? They’re fucking idiots.]

[God is dead – Nietzsche]

N [Nietzsche is dead – God]

[Be thankful there’s no cleaning lady here.]

In addition to Korean, there was graffiti written in a small number of languages, including English, Japanese, and Chinese.

Who would have thought someone would know where this place is just from this graffiti?

This was the world he had lived in, and the place he was in now was called the ‘Labyrinth’.

‘It was about a year before I went to Murim.’

A dimensional gate suddenly appears.

Inside, monsters that people had thought were fantasy actually existed, and people began calling this place ‘the labyrinth’.

There are two representative features of this place called the Labyrinth.

The first was that only those who had awakened the system could enter, and the other was-

‘The whole world shares it.’

The entrances to the labyrinth existed all over the world, but they were all connected from the inside.

It’s a single dungeon shared by the entire world.

Hyunseong looked around the area.

There were countless skeletons wandering around the huge temple, but they didn’t even show any sign of attacking him, perhaps because they recognized him as the same being.

‘It doesn’t look like there’s any immediate danger of being attacked.’

After checking for safety, Hyunseong sits cross-legged in that spot.

Now that we had an idea of ​​the situation, it was time to check our own bodies.

“Phew… As expected, everything is gone.”

The energy of the Heavenly Demon God that had filled his entire body was nowhere to be seen.

It is a natural result, since the body is gone.

It wasn’t a big hit as it was expected.

“How do I do this?”

Hyunseong stroked his chin while sitting cross-legged.

A being that cannot even breathe.

There were no blood vessels or muscles, and not even a single blood vessel through which energy flowed.

‘I wonder if I can properly practice the mind method with this body…’

But that doesn’t mean I couldn’t try.

I breathed as if I had a nose to inhale, bronchi to move air, and lungs to hold the air.

and,

‘I feel it.’

The dense energy that fills the labyrinth.

However, I couldn’t accept it into my body.

I was breathing as if I had a complete body, but in reality I wasn’t.

‘But, I can’t give up like this.’

Hyunseong began to feel energy through his bones rather than his breath.

As if breathing through your skin.

How much time has passed like that?

‘Okay!’

The energy that had been floating around him seeped into his bones, just a little bit.

Hyunseong did not miss the opportunity and immersed himself in his own world to utilize the energy that had seeped into his bones.

‘Just a little more, just a little more!’

At first, the energy that had not even thought of moving began to move little by little.

The speed started to get faster and faster, and although the body was not there, it started to run as if it was there.

Since there were only bones, not even a speck of dust existed, and small energy raced through his body, which was like a pure white sheet of paper.

‘The body is just a vessel. What matters is the contents. If you don’t have a body, create a vessel with your will.’

As the energy grew more intense, Hyunseong’s concentration also continued to sharpen, and he fell into a state of no-self.

* * *

How much time has passed?

From inside Hyunseong’s empty skull, dark red eyes sparkled.

‘… succeeded.’

There was no flesh, no muscle, no blood vessels.

Although his body consisted of nothing but bones, a danjeon containing very weak energy was created in the place where there were only spine and ribs.

‘I never thought it would really succeed.’

Danjeon, which does not exist but exists.

It was a result that was hard to believe even after doing it myself.

I couldn’t help but sigh in relief at the satisfactory results.

‘There is no law that says you have to die.’

If this had failed, my body would have been reduced to nothing but bones and rolled around.

I wanted to decline twice, as I had experienced being beaten so many times in the martial arts world.

‘however….’

Hyunseong looked down at his own pure white hands, which were nothing but bones.

An unfamiliar sensation felt through the breath of a non-existent body.

I felt like I found something there.

Hyunseong, who had been lost in thought for a while, soon shook his head and chattered his teeth.

“I don’t think I’ll be hanging on right now.”

If it was something I could catch but couldn’t, I would have hung on to it, but it felt like I had only discovered something that was far away.

This is a problem that can be solved slowly in the future.

It wasn’t something I could do right away.

“Well then, let’s get used to the new body.”

Turn your shoulder, which is nothing but bones

Dalgrak.

A sound heard while muttering.

I felt my shoulders lighten as I heard the sound of something falling.

When I turned my gaze, I thought it might be because of my mood.

“… … Is it a real price?”

He saw his own arm bones rolling around on the floor.

All you did was swing your arms around as if you were stretching?

Are you saying that your arm bone fell off because of that?

‘Hey, no way.’

Even though it was the weakest monster, that couldn’t have happened.

Hyunseong carefully picked up the fallen arm bone and returned it to its original place.

‘Surely this won’t stick, right?’

Just as such ominous thoughts crossed my mind.

I felt a faint force pulling my arm bone from my shoulder area.

A subtle feeling, as if weak magnets were attracted to each other.

‘Rather than saying it’s stuck, it’s more like it feels like it’s about to fall off.’

I turned my shoulder again, and felt a rattling sound, as if warning me that if I turned it just a little harder it would slip out again.

‘… … Is there such a body that is so trashy that it cannot even be recycled?’

I’ve heard that it’s the weakest of the monsters, but I never thought it would be this bad.

I thought that even if I brought some body with no talent in the martial arts world, it would be better than this.

Hyunseong snatched the axe from a nearby skeleton.

Dalgrak.

The skull of the guy who had his axe taken from him was facing this way.

He seemed to be looking at me quietly with his bloodshot eyes, and then he reached out his hand.

‘They’re not basically hostile, but if you interfere, they recognize you as an enemy.’

The axe that Hyunseong swung precisely shattered the skeleton’s skull, and it flew far away while maintaining its momentum.

With his own hand bones.

“… … ”

It was a mistake to think that I could withstand the inertia of the swinging axe when it would come off just by turning my arm.

Isn’t that absurd?

‘Let’s think of it as a blessing that we know now’

If I had known about the battle situation with other monsters or Awakened beings that might occur later, I would have been helpless and suffered.

In this state, just blocking an enemy’s attack could result in your bones being broken.

‘If things continue like this… this is really the worst.’

Even if you practice for thousands of years and accumulate internal energy, you won’t be able to exert any strength if the vessel you’re holding is this trash.

A feeling of uneasiness began to creep up from deep within my heart.

At that moment, I thought so.

[Level up.]

The voice of the system is heard.

Hyunseong was blankly staring at the translucent system window that appeared before his eyes along with the sound.

I hurriedly opened the status window, wondering if I had seen it wrong.

[Name: Kim Hyun-seong.]

[Race: Skeleton]

[Characteristic: None]

[Level:2]

[Strength: 5]

[Stamina: 5]

[Endurance: 5]

[Agility: 5]

[Magic Power: 5]

[Remaining points: 1]

Really leveled up.

Hyunseong, who saw that, cheered without realizing it.

“Yeah, levels. There were levels!”

This is the first level I’ve reached in 30 years since awakening.

It was a message I had never seen before while I was in the martial arts world, so I had completely forgotten about its existence.

“thank god.”

Hyunseong breathed a sigh of relief.

I almost despaired, wondering if I would have to live the rest of my life with this piece of garbage, but if I could level up, it would be a different story.

He put back together his own bones that had been blown away with the axe.

‘It just so happens.’

Even though he was a Heavenly Horse, there was no way he could become strong overnight at this point, having lost everything.

You may become stronger faster than before, but it will take a considerable amount of time to regain your original strength.

Until then, we had to rely on the system.

‘I don’t think there will be any problem with leveling up.’

Looking around, I saw that there were a lot of guys in the huge temple who didn’t even care about my existence.

Hyunseong stroked the axe with his reattached arm, his bloodshot eyes sparkling.

“All the monsters are gone.”

* * *

“Not bad.”

He muttered as he looked at the pile of bones strewn on the floor.

Although his arm bones fell off dozens of times while swinging his axe, he was able to knock down most of the skeletons nearby.

[Level up.]

[Name: Kim Hyun-seong.]

[Race: Skeleton]

[Characteristic: None]

[Level:5]

[Strength: 5]

[Stamina: 5]

[Endurance: 5]

[Agility: 5]

[Magic Power: 5]

[Points remaining: 4]

Because the level was so low, it went up quickly.

But even taking all this into account, it was still ridiculously weak.

A bleak situation where even if you invest all of your remaining points, you won’t be able to raise even one ability score above 10.

‘Should I first raise my abilities to strengthen this pitiful body?’

As I look at the status window and think about my future growth direction, a rumbling sound resonates.

Because they were undead who knew no fatigue, they really came incessantly.

“Oh my, this time you’ve come up with quite a variety of items?”

From skeletons holding swords, spears, and bows to those holding staffs.

It clearly had a ‘role’.

It’s probably a monster that’s one level higher than your current self.

‘Then, let’s take a look at our seniors’ skills.’

Bloodshot eyes gleamed from inside the skull.