– Volume 8, Chapter 23
198. Earth on the brink of destruction (3)
Keying!
A beam is fired. It pierces the earth and makes a hole in the sky.
Taesan evades all attacks and cuts off the monster’s tentacles.
Tentacles move wildly. Since the long-range attack didn’t work, it looked like he was going to move the tentacle itself and hit it, but Taesan didn’t respond. Swing your sword and fist and blow away all the tentacles
.
The monsters are weaker than before.
But that was also the case. He has yet to come close to Lee Tae-yeon.
Because they had weakened each other, the level of the two became somewhat similar.
However, Taesan was fighting much better than in his previous life.
It was natural. If there had been a forced duel, Lee Tae-yeon, who had nothing but plus, would have been able to win without much difficulty against two S-ranks.
In the first place, it was difficult because Taesan in his previous life
was so deformed, but it became much easier if he had such normal power.
The tentacles gather as if the monster is about to give a last stand. The beams form a huge mass and try to pierce the mountain.
[You activated a random Blink.]
Taesan’s body moves right behind the monster.
Drive the sword as it is and slam it into the ground. Pick up another sword and quickly cut it.
The defensive monster tries to stop it somehow, but is repelled by a forced duel.
gurgling…
That’s how monster 5 dies.
[You defeated monster 5. It will be settled after the ordeal is over.]
[Your spirit level has been activated. The mastery of Twisted Spirit Tuning has increased by 11%.]
Taesan immediately rushed at the monster 7. A defensive monster crouches and charges.
Taesan
calmly held out his sword at the charge like a chariot.
[You activate Shedding.]
Quaaang!
The charge is deflected and the monster is pinned to the ground.
There was nothing scary about the defensive type, not the offensive type. In my previous life, I had already spent several days against a more difficult attack type and defeated it without allowing a single attack.
Taesan put strength into the hand holding the sword.
After that, it was just repetition. Avoid the monster’s attack, counterattack, and repeat.
In my previous life, I had avoided all of them even with that meager Easy Mode stat. There is no reason to suffer now.
After investing a whole day like that, Taesan was able to defeat even a defensive monster.
Kwajik.
[You defeated monster 7. It will be settled after the ordeal is over.]
[Your spirit level has been activated. The mastery of Twisted Spirit Tuning has increased by 8%.]
“Ha.”
Taesan laughed.
He defeated the monsters he had suffered so much in his previous life so easily.
Although the monster has weakened, he hasn’t taken everything yet, so after conquering the labyrinth, even if he encounters a real S-class monster, he will be able to defeat it much easier.
“Good.”
Taesan murmured. As a result of the rise in spirit spirit, the mastery of twisted spirit spirit tuning also rose to a very high level. It was a satisfactory achievement.
He defeated two S-ranks.
However, there was no sign of returning to the Labyrinth.
Taesan kicked his feet. I quickly went back to the city and saw people still fighting there.
“Stop everyone! We can!”
Joong-geun screams desperately and brandishes his weapon.
However, it seemed heavy-duty to stop hundreds of monsters. The barrier had been destroyed long ago and people were falling one by one.
‘Is it weakened together?’
Monsters are weakened. If you are a hard mode player as before, you should be able to win without any problems.
Still being pushed back meant that as Afrodia materialized, people also put restrictions on it.
“Profit!”
Joong-geun ran to the person who was collapsing. Although he succeeded in protecting him, the attack of the monster became unstoppable.
As he closed his eyes, Taishan rushed.
[You activate acceleration.]
Kwajik.
Pierce the monster’s head with its huge claws. Give it strength and blow it away. The monster hides itself far in the sky.
“Tongue brother?”
Joong-geun belatedly confirmed the existence of Taesan.
“How did you come? Aren’t you supposed to deal with monsters?”
“I’ve taken care of everything.”
” yes?”
Joong-geun was perplexed. There were two S ranks. They were creatures that could not be guaranteed to win.
However, Taesan, who returned after a day, showed no signs of injury.
“older brother?”
“I’m sorry, but I need to clear things up quickly here.”
Hundreds of monsters attack.
Taesan looks at them and puts her hand on the floor.
[You activated a frozen world
.]
Damn it!
A chill hits. A huge world of ice descends and begins to freeze everything beyond the barrier.
“Wow!”
“Uh uh uh!”
People freaked out and pulled themselves out. Even though they were outside the range of influence of the skill, even though they were strong enough to have survived to this point, their fingers were feeling the freezing cold.
Damn it!
The ice spreads without stopping.
The monsters struggle to escape, but they swallow everything.
Taesan removed his hand from the floor.
Most of the hundreds of monsters that attacked them were frozen. A-class monsters broke some ice and showed themselves, but they continued to stagger as if they were not fine.
‘As expected.’
Most of the general activated skills have a limited target. So weak enemies had to be dealt with manually, but
magic was able to deal with weak enemies at once.
“Are you guys able to deal with this?”
“yes yes. It’s possible, but…
Joong-geun stuttered. The monsters they had been fighting with gritted teeth were all sorted out with just one skill.
“older brother?”
“Let’s talk later.”
Taesan kicked again. He heard Joong-geun’s voice urgently calling him from behind, but Tae-san ignored it. There were more important things now. A
wave
of power has been echoing from the other side.
It was a clash of forces where victory could not be guaranteed even in a weakened world as a whole.
When we arrived at the place where the power collided, there was something unknown with Lee Taeyeon.
“Lee Ik!”
Lee Taeyeon gritted her teeth and brandished her weapon. But she
was busy blocking the attack .
Without being able to counterattack properly against the monster, they were being pushed back endlessly.
Hit by the force and thrown far away, she rolled over and barely got up.
She clenched her fists. It was as if there was something important there.
“…haha. What are you doing?”
Taeyeon let out a laugh.
Her arms
were trembling with fear, so you could tell from a distance.
The monster charged again.
She raised her weapon with a face that seemed to put up with something.
A wave of power occurred.
Lee Taeyeon rolled on the ground again.
She looked at her fist. He was contemplating something with a frightened face.
But as before, instead of opening his fist, he raised his weapon and glared at the monster. As
the monster lingered and charged again,
Taesan intervened.
The sword was driven into the side of the monster focusing on Lee Tae-yeon.
Koo Woo-wook.
The body of the unknown monster rebelled as if trying to deflect the blade. Taesan tightened his shoulders and feet and pushed further.
In the end, the monster that could not stand it flew away.
Wow!
“hi.”
“…uh huh?”
Lee Taeyeon blankly looked up at him.
“…Taesan? How…
“My side is over.”
“Uh huh?”
Taeyeon continued to panic. Taesan looked at the inside of her fist that was still unresolved.
There should be Urboros’s bezoar in there.
She held it without using it until she died.
Taesan shook his head.
“I’ll take care of this, so you go and help people.”
“Huh huh?”
“Go quickly.”
[You have activated Amon’s Negative Armor.]
Jet-black power surrounds Mount Tai.
Lee Tae-yeon’s pupils widen.
“…Some magic?”
“Do you want to go see it?”
She looked at him with a very curious expression, but glanced at the apostle and quickly opened the distance.
“Tell me later!”
“okay.”
Taesan smiled.
Lee Tae-yeon left and Tae-san looked at Sado.
[!#$!#’s gaze.]
[You die instantly.]
An absolute gaze without judgment. He turns his hand away from the gaze he had on Taesan in his previous life.
“Take it away.”
[Resistance succeeded.]
Gureuk.
A monster of an irregular body that is distorted in an unknown form.
And the first monster to defeat Taesan. A direct existence that destroyed mankind.
This was his despair.
gurgling.
The monster cried softly. Then something terrible began to invade Taesan’s mind.
Sado was a being whose mind and heart were broken just by facing him
.
Of course, it didn’t work for Taesan. Taesan, lightly shaken off, murmured.
“It’s easier than before.”
Like other monsters, the apostle was also in a very weakened state, probably because he was an old god.
Taesan looked at the negative body with sunken eyes.
Something beyond S-class. People gave the monster the name Apostle.
‘I made a name for myself once.’
It didn’t mean much at the time, but now I knew for sure.
That was truly an apostle of the deceased.
And the old gods were banished from the world and forgotten. Perhaps because of that, their apostles were also distorted.
gurgling.
The apostle’s amorphous body began to expand.
As if it was about to swallow the world itself, Taesan gave strength to the hand holding the sword
.
Irregular solids, like mucus, slowly spread out into the world. One by one, they start taking over the space.
Taesan calmly assesses the situation. Although he was defeated
, he knew what type of attack the opponent had because he had dealt with
an apostle in his previous life .
The apostle’s attack was in the form of taking over the space itself.
It spreads the body of the negative body to the world like a tree spreading its branches. It was an attack that swallowed the entire space with it, making it impossible to evade, and finally swallowing it.
Unknowingly, the apostle’s entire body was covered with an unclean body.
It was like a tree that never stopped growing. It seems like
it needs to be dealt with before it can grow further, but
Taesan didn’t rush at him and rather distanced himself.
Then the apostle stretched out his negative body larger and farther in order to aim for Mount Tai.
It looked like a world tree.
The negative bodies that have spread out like that begin to encroach on the space one by one. Like a maze, the space facing the apostle is blocked.
It was more difficult to defeat the apostle, but Taesan was aiming for this. The apostle
attacks and defends at the same time with
the negativity surrounding him .
Taesan moves his hand roughly.
[You activated Marvas’ Seven Waves.]
Kuuuung!
Black waves crash.
One by one, they carve away the negativity to which they extend.
However, the negativity is rather gaining momentum. It suddenly grows rapidly and blocks Taishan.
And Taesan didn’t do anything.
I just kept my distance, blocking the approaching negativity.
“This cannot kill me.”
That type of apostle has practically absolute defensive power. Even now, having gained more strength than in his previous life, it was difficult to be certain that he would break through the apostle’s defense.
But that was true of the apostle as well. After scattering the negativity like this, Taesan was able to block it all.
So, the apostle had to find another way.
Guguk.
The apostle’s negativity was twisted in an instant.
Things that had been spreading began to return to the apostle again. And the body of the apostle slowly distorted.
Classes come together and eventually become one.
The apostle’s form began to change.
From now on, it’s real. Taesan held the sword with a serious face.
[You have activated Apostle Mode [Rakiratas].]
Level up with your skills.
