Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 37



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37. Oak Village (4)

Orcs cleaning up after a battle.

Hyunseong looked at them quietly.

‘The damage to the orcs is minor.’

Scattered on the floor were numerous corpses, most of which were lizardmen.

The lizardmen were less powerful than the orcs and did not have the advantage of terrain, but that was not the only reason.

Perhaps the orcs living here have accumulated the magic of the labyrinth and the experience of the years since the labyrinth was created.

-It seems like your disciples worked hard too.

Brin and Rash showed quite a standout performance in battle.

Thanks to his two disciples, the damage will be less.

“Chwiik! Goblin! You’re amazing!”

“Strong!”

“Wow! Thank you!”

The orcs were initially hostile, but after this battle, they seemed to have accepted Bryn as a comrade.

Brin, who was receiving the thanks, had an embarrassed expression and was scratching the back of his head.

“Keruk, it’s nothing.”

Is it because I’m not used to receiving such gratitude?

Hyunseong, who had been quietly looking at it, tilted his head at something strange.

“Come to think of it, the kids are all talking?”

Of all the monsters he had encountered so far, only the area bosses could speak.

But all the orcs here were capable of conversation.

They can’t all be area bosses.

Raman, who had been listening to the story from the side, opened his mouth.

“Orcs are a race that lives in tribes. It’s only natural that they would be able to communicate.”

He looked at himself with an expression that said, “What kind of idiot is this?”

Although he didn’t express the emotions contained in that expression in his mouth.

‘If you think about it…’

It seemed like the running lizardmen had said the same thing.

I wondered what had happened and wondered what the cause was, but surprisingly, the answer came easily.

-Why, what.

Seol-ah muttered rudely, perhaps sensing the gaze directed at her.

I’m not sure, but I think my guess is probably correct.

“We created an Orc kingdom centered around Lark. I heard you entered the fortress.”

“That’s right.”

“If the orcs had not been able to communicate with each other, they would not have prospered to that extent.”

That was right.

It would be difficult to live in a group if there was no way to communicate.

Seol-ah, who had been quietly listening to the explanation, let out a voice that seemed to say, “That’s amazing.”

-Wow, this guy is incredibly smart for an orc.

‘Are you smart?’

He speaks logically, but when asked if he is smart, his head tilts involuntarily.

Then, Seol-ah clicked her tongue and continued speaking.

-That’s why it’s called ‘Orc Shaman’. Even considering that he’s an Orc Shaman, it’s something that only happens once in a hundred years.

‘… Is that all?’

-Rash is one of the smarter orcs, right?

“……really?”

My voice came out without me knowing it.

When you say it like that, I feel like something really hit home.

If Hyunseong were asked to name the person who best fits the word ‘ignorant’ in his life, he would definitely choose Rashi.

-He has high physical specs and a sense of completion as a warrior.

Is it a position like a barbarian or viking that appears in the story?

If the average orc is really like Seol-ah said, Raman’s struggles must have been quite difficult.

It wasn’t just one or two people, but most of the races, and they weren’t a tribe, they established and ran a country.

Hyunseong approached him quietly and patted his shoulder.

“?”

Raman suddenly has a question mark above his head as if he doesn’t know what’s going on.

Hyunseong shook his head from side to side as if it was nothing and chattered his teeth.

“But, it seems like the Lizardmen leader knew you. You weren’t just inside the barrier, were you?”

“We need food too.”

The land was not large enough to farm and be self-sufficient.

I had no choice but to go out regularly and hunt for food.

It seemed like he entered the lizardman’s territory and fought several times during that time.

“Then they realized we had a safe base and tried to take it away.”

“indeed.”

From the monsters’ perspective, the labyrinth was a place where it would not be strange for them to meet the Awakened and be annihilated at any time and place.

In that respect, this must have been the place I wanted to get to more than any other place.

“There must be other guys besides that guy?”

“Yes.”

The second floor wasn’t just filled with lizardmen and orcs.

They might also attack using the gap in the broken barrier.

“So, how long does it take to restore the barrier?”

“If we take the long view, it will take about a month.”

Hyunseong stroked his chin as if thinking for a moment, then clicked his teeth.

“Then I will stay here and watch over you in the meantime.”

“Is that okay?”

“Because some of it is my responsibility.”

-Not all of them?

‘Some of it is your fault.’

So, Hyunseong decided to stay in the orc village for the time being.

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-… That’s it. Do you understand?

“Hmm.”

Hyunseong spat out a sigh while crossing his arms.

Soon he let out a voice that said he was interested.

“I get the general idea. It’s a bit complicated though.”

Hyunseong was staying at the orc village and learning the basics of magic from Seol-ah while watching over Brin and Rashi’s training.

Learning new skills or anything was impossible, but the knowledge of magic that Seol-ah spoke of was valuable in itself.

Seol-ah muttered in a slightly surprised voice at Hyun-seong’s serious attitude.

-You seem very interested in magic.

People who have achieved success by focusing on one path tend not to easily accept something else.

However, Hyunseong not only practiced martial arts every day, but also showed great interest in magic and showed a quick absorption ability.

Hyunseong’s answer to that was simple.

“It’s fun.”

Neither martial arts nor magic.

It was something that had never existed in the world he had lived in.

When the labyrinth appears, swing your sword, use skills, and conquer the labyrinth.

I even had a wild imagination of becoming an idol for the people.

Every man has to do it at least once.

‘Even if I had awakened then, I wouldn’t have had the luxury of doing so.’

He had to be the pillar of support for his younger brother, who was a minor, at least until he became an adult.

In the early days, there was no reason to enter the labyrinth, as more Awakened people lost their lives there than now.

I had the insurance money from my parents’ deaths, and my younger sibling wasn’t sick and didn’t need a lot of money.

‘So I thought I’d just keep going to my job even after I woke up.’

I never thought I would end up going to Murim.

Although he started out as a test subject for the Magical Mind, he didn’t hate martial arts itself.

There were times when I felt like I was having fun even in that prison, at least when I was learning martial arts.

-It’s fun, you know. Feeling fun is also a talent.

No matter how talented you are, if you don’t feel interested in it, it’s only half a talent.

In a field that interests you, aren’t you sometimes delving into even the smallest details that you don’t need to know, and sometimes staying up all night just to do that?

Just finding the process enjoyable could be considered a talent.

‘Of course, the question is how long it lasts.’

It might have been fun at first, but at some point you would hit a wall and get stuck, and as time went on it would often just become a habit.

To be honest, there were quite a few guys better than him in terms of physical talent.

However, most of them became exhausted, burned out, and became complacent.

‘In some ways, even the previous Heavenly Horse.’

You could say that I was facing such a huge wall that I suffered from burnout.

So, to overcome that boredom, you do something extreme.

‘I suddenly feel angry when I think about that kid.’

The great Cheonma saw the realm he had built up surpassing the realm he had attained, and he was so amazed that he closed his eyes in satisfaction until the moment he collapsed.

I wanted to beat him up more, I thought.

Hyunseong stood up from his seat, shaking off the random thoughts that were surfacing one after another.

“Shall we end class here for today?”

-It’s a bit short today, what are you going to do?

“Come to think of it, there’s something I have to go get.”

-Are you going to get it?

Hyunseong heads off somewhere without answering the question.

The place we arrived at was,

-Why did you come here?

It was the river that fought the lizardmen.

Traces of battle visible here and there around the river.

-What is there to take from here… Ah.

Seol-ah spoke as if she had realized something.

Hyunseong nodded, gritting his teeth.

“The item came from that guy. I wanted to check it out.”

At that time, I was more interested in skills and didn’t pay attention because the battle wasn’t over yet.

It just occurred to me today.

-Didn’t it just flow away into the river?

“That could be true, but I came here to check. If it floated away, there’s nothing we can do.”

Hyunseong muttered as he walked into the river.

I was underwater from head to toe in an instant, but it wasn’t a problem because I didn’t have to breathe.

Rather, you should be worried about your body floating due to the buoyancy of your heavy bones.

‘then…’

Hyunseong raised his internal energy.

The body that had been floating unsteadily sank to the riverbed in an instant and found stability.

-What is this? It’s a strange technique.

‘A beggar named Cheon Geun Chu.’

A skill that utilizes internal energy.

Seol-ah let out a voice of interest at his explanation.

-It doesn’t seem like the mass has increased, but has it affected gravity?

‘Hey, to that extent… … Huh?’

Hyunseong stops talking as if he realized something.

It was because Seol-ah’s words sounded somewhat plausible.

‘No, let’s look for the items first.’

You can figure out why you came here first and then think about it later.

With that thought in mind, I continued on and reached the midway point of the lecture.

and,

‘like this…’

This time, I raised my magical power instead of my internal energy.

Magical power that spreads like waves centered on Hyunseong in flowing water.

Seol-ah didn’t react at first to the magic spreading out like a river, but

‘her?’

It soon turned to shock.

Detection that spreads magic power widely.

It was no different from the usual detection using magical power until the magical power spread centered on Hyunseong in the way he had told me.

But after that, magic power flowed along the river.

As if looking over the entire river.

‘This is…’

It was something that could only be done by a great wizard who could delicately manipulate magical powers.

I never thought that Hyunseong, who was a layman when it came to magic and didn’t know much about magical powers, would be able to do it.

Hyunseong didn’t seem to notice Seol-ah’s reaction and just quietly let his magic flow down the river.

and,

‘Found it.’

Something that was finally detected by his magic.

Hyunseong went down the river and headed towards the place where the magic power was detected.

When we arrived at that place,

‘Is it a ring?’

A ring made of metal was sunken.

Did he drop this or was it here the whole time?

There’s no way to know, but it must be useful since it contains magical power.

Thinking like that, I tried to take the ring and go out.

at that time,

‘huh?’

Something sparkling on the riverbed.

Hyunseong approached carefully and picked it up.

And then I noticed.

‘There were two, not one.’

I thought it was one because the magic power was concentrated in one place.

There were two items in total that came out from the boss.

One is a ring.

And the other one is-

‘Long time no see.’

The essence of the boss.