072. Trial on the 10th floor (3)
There was once a man called the Thunder Emperor.
An unidentified hunter belonging to one of the only seven S-class hunters in Korea.
He wore a mask all the time, so no one knew his face and his voice was never revealed properly, and he reigned as a transcendent being.
Whenever the Gate suddenly appeared like a catastrophe even after not showing up all the time, the Thunder Emperor always destroyed the Gate, revealing god-like power.
Then, after always attacking the gate more easily and quickly than anyone else, he threw a tantrum at the hunters who were busy pulling back.
―I don’t know what kind of hunters the bugs who can’t solve this are claiming to be themselves.
At first glance, it can be said to be arrogant, but even though the hunters who were forcibly conscripted escaped for all kinds of reasons, only he fulfilled his responsibility.
He had the right to say such things because he was such a person and no one else.
There was no Hunter anywhere that could even refute such a thunderbolt.
It was worth it.
This is because even in the current hunter industry, it was difficult to find a hunter that was as powerful as the thunderbolt.
If you ask how much that is, the Hunter Association said this.
―In the future, hunters with a brain power level will not easily appear in the hunter industry.
As if unrestrained, he stirred like lightning between rampaging monsters and poured out thunderbolts….
After that, the appearance of slandering hunters who only coveted rights while abandoning the responsibilities that they always had to perform made the thunderbolt into an S-class hunter.
But…
ever since the Tower of Trials was created, the activity of the Thunderbolt, which has always handled all sorts of gates, has decreased.
It was no different, he was brought to the Tower of Trials as helplessly as the others.
Even that is not on easy or normal difficulty, but on the hard difficulty that is notorious for being the most damn right.
Nonetheless, the concussion became stronger and faster.
The more he passed through all the trials, the more he began to regain his former abilities and eventually rose to the top of the rankings.
Although the ordeal of the tower made him difficult, it did not kill him.
It was the same with the integration ordeal.
For Kim Seung-hoon, who is active as a top-ranked challenger in the Tower of Thunder and the current top-level challenger, most of the other challengers were no different from folding screens.
Only one talented challenger, Chun-seok Oh, who was originally an ordinary person, was recognized as a challenger like a challenger
.
Until I saw Han Seong-yoon in the 10th floor of the Tower of Ordeals.
“Kkeuh uh uh uh uh uh…”
Seeing Kim Seung-joon, who had been smirking politics until just now, was bleeding like water, Kim Seung-hoon was genuinely impressed.
“This is different from what I had imagined…”
Originally, Kim Seung-hun assumed that when Han Sung-yoon and Kim Seung-jun were to fight each other, Han Sung-yoon would be hurt too.
Or it was a game where he had to waste that much time or put out a lot of his skills.
But…
‘I overpowered Kim Seung-jun within a few minutes.’
Kim Seung-hoon’s prediction based on the settlement rankings had to be shattered immediately.
It’s nothing different, Han Seong-yoon, who had expected to win after spending quite a bit of time, took down Kim Seung-jun right away without opening all his hands.
It wasn’t killing, it was subduing.
It returned some of the accumulated damage from Kim Seung-jun’s attack and completely subdued him.
Even though he showed more power than Kim Seung-hun expected, Han Sung-yoon was quite relaxed.
In other words, Han Seong-yoon did not do his best.
Oh Chun-seok, who was standing next to where Kim Seung-hoon was sitting and watching the fight, also asked a question as if he was dumbfounded.
“Brother Seunghoon. Do you know who the hunter or Han Seong-yoon challenger is?”
“…I do not know. I’ve never seen a person like that among high-ranking hunters.”
Even Kim Seung-hoon, who had a reputation as a thunderbolt, had never seen such a powerful man.
Oh Chun-seok, who was originally a normal person, seemed to be the same, and continued talking excitedly.
“What… do you have crazy skills like that? Even magic was blocked in an instant with a shield made of magic, and even absorbed some of the blocked damage, accumulated it, and released it as it was. It’s not a wizard on that subject, it’s a melee swordsman.”
“Even the fact that we didn’t fight with all our might is even more frightening.”
“…Yes, as you said, it wasn’t power. It’s just fooling around. that one.”
“He is good at fighting, but his skill composition is strange with a face he has never seen before. Skills that aren’t originally obtained from the tower can only be obtained with aptitude. All aptitudes are playing separately. Shield skills are close to wizards, and swordsmanship and movement skills are close to melee combat.”
Originally, before the Tower of Trials appeared, [skills] were not easily obtainable.
Innate talent controls everything, and depending on whether or not there is aptitude, it is divided into whether or not it can be acquired.
And that’s not all.
Even if you have aptitude for combat skills, the process of your efforts will vary depending on how much aptitude you have.
Someone can barely get the same skill acquisition method by doing it hundreds of times, but someone can acquire it with less than ten times.
Hunter’s world was a perfect talent supremacy.
That was until the Tower of Trials appeared, which allowed them to acquire skills separately.
That means…
“Then, it means that an ordinary person like me who was at the bottom grew up in the tower and became that strong.”
It means that he was just an ordinary person like Oh Chun-seok, but became insanely strong through the reward of the tower.
Even watching him fight, he grew up to the point where he was no different from Kim Seung-hoon.
At that fact, Kim Seung-hoon looked at Han Seong-yoon and smiled softly.
‘A normal person who can grow to the same level as a top-tier hunter…’
Kim Seung-hun’s laughter contained surprise as well as interest.
It was the moment when one of Korea’s top hunters became interested in someone else for the second time.
***
“Kkeukkeuheouheouk…”
I slightly frowned at Seungjun Kim crawling on the floor like a bug.
It was because he realized that the damage of the thunderbolt emitted by the counterattack shield was stronger than he had thought.
I temporarily reduced the size of the shield and concentrated energy in a small area to maximize attack efficiency, but… ‘I
thought it was just enough to suppress movement for a moment and deal moderate damage…
‘ I didn’t even imagine that I would be able to subdue it once.
It was quite a surprising result, perhaps because it was an attack that Kim Seung-jun decided to die for.
‘Well anyway, seeing him crawling makes me think he’s going to die soon.’
Seungjun Kim, with a hole in his abdomen, was dragging himself to somehow get away from me.
Someone might feel sorry for the sight of Kim Seung-joon’s
strong will to survive.
It was the same with the managers who were watching me.
「The manager ‘Iron-blooded Lord’ is proud of the contractor’s performance.」 「
The manager ‘Gourmet’ is shocked at your overwhelming battle.」
「The manager ‘Baekhak Geomseon(白鶴劍仙)’ I enjoyed watching your performance, but I feel a bit sullen at not using my sword skills.” The
iron blooded lord seems to have accepted my victory as if it were his own situation, and he is even flattered.
In the meantime, Baekhak Geomseon became sullen as if it was regrettable that he did not use the sword skill, the power he had sponsored.
Well, to be honest, I also planned to use swordsmanship, but Kim Seung-joon was defeated before that, so I didn’t have anything to say.
If I had known that Kim Seung-jun would be easily defeated, I would have cut his throat right away without looking at this and that.
It was then.
“This inventory…”
Kim Seung-jun, who was crawling on the floor, suddenly opened the inventory and took out some potion from it.
Apparently, he took out a recovery potion to treat the puncture in his abdomen…
‘I can’t let him do that.’
As soon as I saw that figure, I quickly moved my steps and stepped on Kim Seung-jun’s hand holding the potion.
Kwajik!
“Quaaaaaaagh!”
“It would be better if you stop screaming now.”
“My Jebaaal… Let me use some potions…”
Kim Seung-jun, who was driven to the brink of death, swayed his hands in the air and uttered a sound close to pleading.
It’s to the point of doubting whether the guy who tried to kill me with politics until just now is the right one.
But even when I saw it, I didn’t feel any regret.
It was natural.
“I thought it would be all right if I tried to kill someone and prayed like that…”
I’m not a saintly man, but I’m not an absolute wicked person either.
As much as I have a mindset close to that of an ordinary person, my will was clear.
“Don’t you think it’s too late to survive?”
Heat heat, heat heat.
The right response is for those who tried to control others by force to control them with the same force.
“Challenger Kim Seung-hoon and challenger Chun-seok Oh.”
I spoke to the two challengers who were looking at this scene with cold smiles.
“From now on, even if something bad happens, I don’t want you to help the challenger Kim Seung-joon. Could you please cooperate?”
At those words, Kim Seung-hun calmly nodded his head as if he would not care.
“…there is no such thing as cooperation. After all, he is a scumbag who tried to harm others with his politics. take care of it.”
After that, Oh Chun-seok was a bit late, but he kept his head down and told me to do as I pleased.
“You can do that. Whatever the outcome, he was the one I tried to kill.”
In the end, they accepted it more readily than expected, probably because they both intended to deal with Kim Seung-jun.
Normally, the Tower of Trials challengers I’ve seen would have made a fuss about taking even some of the items worn by Kim Seung-
jun …
Rather, it was the momentum that would have helped me if I was on the defensive.
Of course, it was because Kim Seung-jun was a vicious challenger that he was able to obtain cooperation so easily.
Now that we have received your cooperation, there is no need to hesitate any longer.
Kkeuddeuk…!
“Turn off heo heo! bone! My bones are broken…!”
I immediately smashed Kim Seung-jun’s hand bone, picked up the potion that had fallen on the ground, and read the explanation window.
「Quick recovery potion」
「Grade: C」
「Recovery potion made with special alchemy after grinding troll magic stone.
」 .」
「However, the concentration at which [Troll’s blood] is activated depends on the amount of potion taken at this time.」
“I was going to use a pretty good potion.”
After reading the phrase that the concentration at which [Troll’s Blood] is activated depends on the amount of potion taken, I immediately opened the stopper and spilled it on Kim Seung-jun.
Chi profit.
As a few drops of potion fell on the punctured abdomen, Kim Seung-jun, who had been trying to stop his movement as if dying, flinched and began to move.
“Why, why…”
Kim Seung-jun muttered as if he couldn’t understand it, but it wasn’t because he felt sorry for Kim Seung-jun or to take him as a member of the team.
“Seungjun Kim, let me make a suggestion.”
It’s not different that I gave him even a little bit of potion
.
Just like he said to Kim Seung-hoon and Oh Chun-seok, let’s share the things he took after killing me.
I was also paying him back in the same way.
Of course, in reality, this is the only option to delay Kim Seung-jun’s death.
You know that I will not keep this promise, but…
There was only one option for Kim Seung-jun to choose.
“You decide.”
Kim Seung-jun, who was only a loser, was not given a choice from the beginning.
