Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 3



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3. Battle

Hyunseong stood still and quietly observed the skeletons.

‘Is that guy the most annoying?’

A skeleton mage holding a staff, located in the innermost position.

Of all the skeletons in front of me, this one had the most sinister aura.

He is probably the leader of this group.

‘I guess I need to be careful.’

Because skill was an unknown power that even he didn’t know about.

If my strength was at its full potential, then it might be okay, but in a situation like this, I had to do my best.

at that time,

“My subordinate, what you caught, you four guys, huh?”

A voice that is heard with a halting tone of speech.

I flinched and my shoulders shook at the unexpected situation.

I never thought I could communicate with a monster.

I looked at him without saying anything, and he gritted his teeth and muttered to himself.

“Answer, Unable, Subordinate Entity, Authorization”

The skeleton mage muttered as he reached out his hand towards himself.

“Obey, please.”

An unpleasant aura began to surround him along with the voice he heard.

At the same time, there is an unpleasant feeling as if something is gnawing at your mind.

‘Is this an attempt to control me?’

As all emotions were diluted and I became more and more numb, a hatred for living things began to boil up from the depths of my heart.

Hyunseong laughed softly as if he found it funny.

“It’s a pretty interesting power. But—”

The energy that disperses just by concentrating.

My mind, which had been eroding, suddenly became clear.

Was it because he didn’t know that his dominance would be released, or was it because he himself, who had been silent, spoke up?

“What… .”

A bewildered voice came from the skeleton mage.

Hyunseong looked at that guy and his dark red eyes sparkled.

“If this is all you have, then it’s disappointing.”

There was no need to worry.

Wouldn’t the other skeletons nearby be more threatening?

At his provocation, the skeleton mage, whose eyes were sparkling as if thinking about something, raised his finger and pointed at himself.

“good.”

Skeletons approaching with a bone cracking sound at the command they heard.

I tensed my body so that I could move at any time.

Even though he was being controlled, those guys were stronger than he was now.

Then suddenly he realized his condition and started laughing.

‘I’m nervous… .’

How long has it been since I’ve felt nervous before a battle?

Thinking back to when I was in Cheonma, it was a shabby fight to even call it a fight, but I was surprised at the feeling I felt after such a long time.

but,

‘Not bad.’

I didn’t feel any discomfort at all from being nervous around these guys.

Because it was a different kind of fun.

I think I understand why veterans in games put restrictions on themselves while playing.

Hyunseong leisurely walks into the crowd of skeletons and finds himself surrounded.

“What the heck?”

A voice that seemed to say that he didn’t understand English.

Hyunseong just wiggled his fingers without saying a word.

The skeletons surrounding the area raised their weapons as if it was an opportunity.

A skeleton screaming out a window.

You can avoid it by just slightly twisting your body.

Bam.

I pushed his shoulder slightly.

The spear, which had been accelerated by the force it had originally been wielding, shattered the skull of the skeleton behind it.

‘It’s dangerous to confront it directly.’

A situation where if you try to block it clumsily, your own bones might break.

If so, the most effective means would be to use the enemy’s strength.

‘Except for that guy, I feel like I have no self…’

It was easy to avoid the attacks that just involved swinging the sword around randomly.

The skeleton’s eyes pierced through its skull and dimmed, and the remaining bones fell to the floor, pulled by gravity.

Hyunseong swung his sword, grabbing it just before it hit the ground.

Thud!!

A skeleton’s skull flies into the distance with a sound like it’s hitting something hollow.

The body holding the window read the head, paused for a moment, and then collapsed like a sand castle.

“This cool and heavy feeling. It’s been a while.”

Even though it was rusty, it felt new to hold the sword after such a long time.

Two of them fell in an instant, but the skeletons approached without even a hint of hesitation.

‘Is it true that undead have no emotion like fear?’

In the distance, I saw a skeleton pulling a bowstring.

Three arrows rush towards him, accompanied by the sound of the bowstring being pulled back into place.

He raised his sword and looked straight at the arrow.

‘This much is no problem.’

Of the three arrows, only two will hit you.

The trajectory of the arrow flying towards the black surface was slightly distorted.

Just a light twist of the wrist.

But that alone was enough to deflect the arrow.

“Try harder!”

Hyunseong shouted, wielding a sword in one hand and a spear in the other.

Every time the skeleton attacked, I fell helplessly.

At that moment, a skeleton holding a shield blocks his way.

‘I acknowledge your courage in standing in front of me, but… .’

Shhh!

Whirl!

The sword that should have been blocked by the shield twisted like a snake and crushed the skeleton behind the shield.

An attack that borders on the divine.

The shield was a good defensive measure that even a beginner could use to block the attacks of an expert.

“The opponent was bad.”

He himself was not just some expert.

Hyunseong flows between skeletons like flowing water.

In his wake, piles of skeletons continued to form.

“I think this is pretty much the end of it, but what do you think?”

A pair of crimson eyes that just stare at his words without saying anything.

There was a brief silence, broken by the voice of the skeleton mage.

“You, an evolved, inferior entity, subject, so strong, what are you, you brat?”

Hyunseong listened to the skeleton mage’s words and stroked his jawbone, lost in thought.

That statement meant that he was at the bottom of the evolutionary tree, but it also meant that he was a being capable of evolving.

“Well? Well, what’s certain is that you can defeat your guy without evolving?”

“Yes, guy, kill him, I’ll give it to you.”

The skeleton mage’s voice was laced with anger.

As the guy lifted his cane,

Clink, clank.

The bones of the skeletons scattered across the area rolled around as if they were alive.

A large number of bones began to gather in one place, as if they were moving in a swarm of insects.

and,

‘What is that?’

Skeletons stacking two towers.

It wasn’t long before I realized that it was the ‘leg’ of something huge.

“Wow?”

A voice mixed with admiration escaped me without me realizing it.

A giant golem made from skeletons joined together.

I never thought I would see such a sight in person.

‘Moving skeletons alone were the realm of fantasy, but who would have thought that we would see a golem made of skeletons?’

I wasn’t this surprised even when I saw the blood poem that the Blood Cult boasts about.

The illusion of smelling blood coming from a nose that is not there just by looking at it.

Hyunseong could only exclaim in admiration at the sight that was almost unrealistic.

‘There are certainly many things I don’t know about the system.’

I just woke up, but I haven’t been able to use it properly.

However, these were not things that could simply be called witchcraft or sorcery.

With that thought in mind, he picked up his sword.

It was surprising, but what was in front of me was an enemy that had to be defeated.

He’s also the most annoying guy I’ve ever met.

‘The basic weight class difference is too big.’

If I had enough internal energy, it might be different, but now the weight class difference is a factor that cannot be ignored.

“I will kill you and make you my legion.”

A golem two heads taller than him approached with heavy steps.

The bone golem approaches with a heavy thud.

I looked at the guy and racked my brain to figure out how to attack him.

‘A half-assed attack won’t do.’

You will have to mobilize everything you have now.

I raised my internal energy, which was as small as a grain of rice.

Just that alone made every bone in my body creak and scream.

‘What the hell.’

Hyunseong grits his teeth and concentrates.

In this state, you won’t be able to properly swing the sword, let alone perform a proper maneuver.

then,

‘There is only one way.’

A bone golem that approaches you and swings its arms as thick as logs, trying to crush you.

Hyunseong’s crimson eyes were capturing the guy until the very end.

Kuung!!!!

A heavy noise was heard and a thick cloud of dust rose.

He glanced at the giant skeletal arm that had passed right by him.

‘If I had been hit, I would have literally lost my bones.’

The bones might have been broken here and there and become a part of the golem.

The skeleton mage who was watching the situation from behind had a question mark above his head.

I confirmed that Hyunseong had avoided it and ordered him to launch a follow-up attack, but the golem did not listen to my orders.

“what?”

The moment I was wondering what was going on with the guy, a change came.

Bam. Bam.

One, two.

There was a sound of something falling, and the bones that made up the golem, which looked like a huge castle, began to pour down in torrents.

Dalgrak. Clang. Clang.

“how?”

There was a note of confusion in the guy’s voice.

He probably didn’t expect that the golem he created would fall to the ground in one blow without even being able to function properly.

“Well, what do you think will happen?”

If you are in a situation where it is difficult to even swing your own body, focus everything on the point rather than the line.

It was an attack on the place where the energy was most concentrated.

If there was a martial artist here, he would have said this.

The path guided by a sage.

Chosik, which means a god who points the way, is one of the three elements of heaven, earth, and man, and refers to humans.

‘Well, it was just a stab.’

A simple stabbing without any hint of a twist or a turn.

However, because it was simple, its power was stronger than anything else.

“Well, is there anything else you want to show me?”

As Hyunseong took a step closer, the skeleton mage took a step back.

Emotions that had been numb to anything but hatred for the living and becoming undead were awakened within him.

horror.

He was afraid of Hyunseong, who was a lower being than him.

“You bastard, what the hell are you?”

Are the teeth chattering because they are speaking, or because they are tinged with fear?

Hyunseong approached the skeleton mage and whispered a word.

“I am the one standing on top of the heavenly horse. I am the heavenly horse.”

Those were the last words the skeleton mage heard before losing consciousness.

Hyunseong, who was quietly looking at the collapsed skeleton mage, finally realized that the battle was over and let out a sigh of relief.

“Whoa, I thought I was going to die.”

He gritted his teeth and tried to brag that there would be a next time, but his bones were creaking.

I had only the strength of a grain of rice, but I couldn’t even withstand that strength and my bones were cracked.

If the stab had not hit the nucleus exactly, his own bones might have been shattered before he could make the next attack.

A message that comes to mind at that moment.

[Level up.]

Rather than being pleased by the sight, Hyunseong frowned.

But there was no sign of a frown.

‘No, shouldn’t it go up a bit more?’

Starting with the Skeleton Mage, the guys below him were clearly monsters of higher rank than him.

I’ve caught dozens of those guys, but all I’ve done is gained one level.

I thought it was too much.

“It’s a bit difficult if leveling up is this slow… huh?”

The system window caught Hyunseong’s eye as he muttered as if he was complaining.

His eyes were not leveled up, but rather looked slightly downwards.

There is-

[You have reached the level where evolution is possible.]

There was a system message written that I had never seen before.