Monster Heavenly King - Chapter 54
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54. The Witch’s Forest (5)
Although it wasn’t as vast as Cheonrajimang, it was still a large number.
Moreover, being here means that everyone is an Awakened Person of Level 3 or higher.
They weren’t people to be underestimated.
Rustle.
“Huh?! Who are you?!”
Chae-Ang! Phew!
“Turn it off?!”
We had to thin out their numbers by one before the others arrived.
Fortunately, the other side seemed to have only followed the traces and did not know that he was a skeleton.
The embarrassment of making eye contact.
It wasn’t that difficult for Hyunseong to take advantage of that brief gap.
but,
Kaang!
Not all of them fell with one blow.
Some of them reacted to Hyunseong’s attack.
but,
“What, what is this?!”
“Is this your first time seeing a skeleton?”
Then he was shocked to see that it was a skeleton that attacked him.
In that way, most of the guys were incapacitated by a single hit or a close range attack.
If it were the days of the Heavenly Horse, I would have just leisurely beaten up all the guys who came.
“If only I had a physical body”
Hyunseong grumbles quietly.
Seol-ah, who was in his hand, seemed to be thinking deeply about something, then said as if she understood, making a sound of the sword.
-Isn’t that the same as saying, “If only the seal were released?”
“That and this are different, huh!”
-There’s no difference! Is this it? What’s the Chinese idiom? “Do as you please”?
“That’s not even an idiom.”
-It’s made up of four letters (四字), and it’s an idiom (成語) created by ancient people, so it’s a four-letter idiom (四字成語). Right?
“…Is that so?”
The Confucian dragon inside him was about to writhe, but was persuaded by plausible-sounding words and fell back to sleep.
I always think this, but his gaslighting skills are top notch.
How many users have been sacrificed because of those flowery words?
-back!
“know!”
Phew!
“Ugh?!”
The guy who was stealthily approaching from behind got stabbed by Seol-ah and bled.
More than ten Awakened were defeated, but there were still quite a few enemies left.
‘I can’t run away.’
We’ve escaped the siege, but even if we run away from here, they’ll quickly track us down.
Now is not the time to run away, it is the time to face it.
but,
‘I can’t deal with this many people alone.’
It was a strategy that worked because the enemy did not know the identity or capabilities of their opponent.
As time goes by, if the guys become wary and defensive, you won’t be able to finish them off in one blow, and you’ll eventually be surrounded.
While I was wondering what to do.
Rustle.
The bushes swayed.
Hyunseong was about to swing his sword, thinking that the enemy had come again.
However, the sword that Hyunseong was about to swing was stopped by the presence that suddenly appeared.
And Hyunseong looks around.
“This might be useful?”
Hyunseong cracked his jaw as if a good idea had occurred to him.
* * *
“You haven’t caught it yet?”
Yang Il-do, a member of the Cheonmasingyo and the leader of the tracking unit specializing in tracking, muttered with a sigh.
A villain who not only stole the golem that the leader was supposed to catch, but also killed the teacher.
We followed that trail all the way to the so-called Witch’s Forest, and we ended up bringing hundreds of people just to catch one person.
You still haven’t caught it?
“sorry.”
Even the sight of his subordinate bowing his head and apologizing did not subside his anger.
Only then will the young leader think that he is incompetent.
‘I can’t miss this golden opportunity.’
In his eyes, there was a will to catch the eye of the sect leader this time and become his confidant, or at least secure one of the positions of the sect leader.
To be honest, I thought I had enough skills, but I couldn’t become the leader because of the power struggle within the Cheonmasin Church.
‘I don’t really like the Black Wolf though…’
Even though the position is higher than yours, isn’t it a bit like that for a handyman?
In any case, this operation had to be a success.
“What a lucky guy.”
Yang Il-do had no idea that his target had noticed their encirclement.
While slowly closing in on the encirclement, they must have accidentally encountered one of the pursuers and been discovered.
While I was thinking like that, one of my subordinates came running up to me in a hurry and opened his mouth.
“Captain, we’re in big trouble!”
“Did you miss it?”
“Huh? Oh, that’s not it…”
A subordinate who is unable to speak and mumbles.
It made me mad that this guy, who couldn’t even do a proper report, was my subordinate.
Yang Il-do raised his voice in anger.
“Stop stuttering and report properly! What are the other guys doing?”
“Command, we are engaged in combat.”
“With who?”
“That’s… fighting monsters.”
“Monster?”
Why are you suddenly talking about a monster?
Yang Il-do, who had thought about it that far, realized that this was the Witch’s Forest, which was rumored to have many monsters even on the third floor.
“With just one or two monsters…”
“Ha, it’s not just one or two. There are at least dozens of them, so it’s hard to properly form a siege.”
“what?”
Yang Il-do made a face of incomprehension.
Most of the monsters on the third floor act individually rather than in groups.
But why are they suddenly gathering in a group at this time?
“Nothing’s going to work out. Follow me.”
It seemed like he wouldn’t be able to resolve this situation unless he took action himself.
and,
“What, what is this?”
The place we arrived at was a complete mess.
“Kyao!”
The pursuit team stops the saber tiger from rushing in.
“Stop it!”
“Kill him!”
“Kkieek!”
But before he could counterattack, he was blown away by a giant worm that rose from the ground.
There was even a guy locking swords with a giant mantis, and a team of nearly ten pursuers were on the hunt for a blood bear that had become violent after smelling blood.
A scene where it looks as if monsters and humans are at war.
This was the first time Yang Il-do had seen such an absurd sight.
‘This kid attracted a monster!’
No matter how foolish his subordinates were, they would never have provoked the monster first.
And there are a lot of them.
This means that their target feels threatened and they have brought all the monsters around them to survive.
‘Damn it! Where is the target?’
Although he had already escaped during the chaos, Yang Il-do looked around to find traces.
Then I discovered something unusual.
I’m taking down the pursuit party with the guys among the rampaging monsters.
‘Skeleton?’
One skeleton.
In fact, Yang Il-do, the leader of the pursuit team, did not know who the target was this time.
I just received information that someone had stolen the golem that the cult leader was going to catch and defeated the teacher.
‘I thought the traces were strange, but could it be a skeleton?’
So, that means the skeleton defeated the golem and even defeated the teacher of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
It was something that was incomprehensible from a common sense perspective, but the situation before my eyes told me so.
‘Damn it, I can’t go back here like this.’
The only order from Woo Ho-beop, who was assisting the young cult leader in the labyrinth, was to track the traces.
I even warned him not to rush in, but he got blinded by the ball and ended up going in anyway.
If it succeeds, it may be different, but if it fails, it will not end with a simple reprimand.
‘I have to catch that thing somehow.’
Killing was not allowed.
Even if you kill the skeleton, take it, and say that this guy did it, it will sound like a story with no credibility.
Yang Il-do pulled out his sword and flew towards where Hyeonseong was.
* * *
-You’re doing it hot.
Since I can’t handle it alone, I’ll have to bring in monsters.
From the monster’s perspective, isn’t it no different from being forcibly dragged into a fight after being nearby for no reason?
“We live together helping each other when times are tough. We’re both monsters.”
-Isn’t it a bit one-sided to say that they’re the same monsters?
In the opposite case, you say you won’t help.
While talking to Seol-ah, I could sense that there was hostility directed at me.
Yang Il-do approaches him in the middle of a chaotic battlefield.
“It looks like the boss has finally been kidnapped.”
Hyunseong also wiped the blood stuck to Seol-ah and looked at Yang Il-do approaching.
“He even talks… This is it.”
Yang Il-do smiled as if he was glad to see Hyeon-seong.
The labyrinth appears, and the existence of speaking monsters has never been known anywhere.
If so, wouldn’t it be possible to make up for my mistake by taking this rare, if not unique, monster with me?
‘The dead guys aren’t that important anyway.’
Just a teacher, and a bunch of guys who can only go up to the 3rd floor.
This level of manpower was overflowing within the Cheonmasin Church.
A monster that speaks in front of you would be more valuable than hundreds of dead teachers.
“Put the pressure down!”
A sword swung with a loud roar.
It came rushing towards me, cutting sharply through the air.
However, Hyunseong avoids it as if it is not worth fighting against.
“…?”
Hyunseong drew a question mark above his head, perhaps sensing something strange.
Yang Il-do continued to attack, but he never stopped him and instead watched him closely.
And soon after, I discovered something outrageous.
“This crazy guy?”
The swordsmanship that was performed with a fairly realistic sword was the swordsmanship of the Cheonmasingyo.
If you only have really simple recipes like Pacheondo, then it might be okay, but if you go deep into swords and swords, they are completely different martial arts.
But what kind of thing is this, holding a sword and practicing swordsmanship?
I avoided the attack of Yang Il-do, who was swinging his sword vigorously, and gained some distance.
“This kid! He just keeps dodging fatally…!”
“No, it’s because you don’t have the skills to do it properly.”
If you had good skills, you would have blocked it if you couldn’t avoid it.
However, Yang Il-do’s attack was so pathetic that it was a shame to even block it.
Why is this guy called the captain?
“Hey, let me ask you one thing.”
I tried to hold back, but I felt like I couldn’t cut down the guy in front of me without asking.
In response to Hyunseong’s question, Yang Il-do raised a question mark above his head.
“Why are you practicing forensics?”
If he had intended to provoke himself, it would have worked really well.
I thought it was a new kind of psychic attack.
However, Yang Il-do looked like he really didn’t know the answer to his question.
“…? What are you talking about?”
A question that makes you wonder if the other person is just saying something to waste time.
Hyunseong decided to explain each and every one of them as if he was frustrated.
“No, why are you holding a sword and using sword techniques?”
“… … ?”
Seeing the expression on her face that said she still didn’t understand English, Hyunseong asked cautiously, as if he couldn’t believe it.
“I’m asking just in case, but do you know the difference between a sword and a sword?”
“What are you talking about? Aren’t swords and daggers the same thing?”
“…Okay, I understand.”
Hyunseong clicks his teeth as if he knows something is wrong.
I thought it was an inevitable fact that the martial arts world would change over time.
but,
‘That has its limits.’
You don’t know the difference between a sword and a sword.
Yang Il-do had just pressed his own seizure button.
The eyes blooming inside Hyunseong’s skull were burning brighter than ever.