171. Acceleration (1)
The silence stained with despair lasted only for a moment.
Gary Rick.
“shit…! Was the damn bastard hiding his powers! Everyone, prepare for battle!”
As the man who appeared to be an archer shouted and pointed his bow at me, the situation changed completely.
Hearing his exclamation, the mage quickly backed away and began to lick her lips, and the spearman assumed the vanguard in place of the dead warrior.
At that, I clicked my tongue inwardly.
‘Still, they were challengers with the basics.’
I thought I would be able to
finish off the frightened challengers like this .
The recoil caused by learning the magic circuit hadn’t gone away yet, but it was hard to relax.
‘It can’t be helped.’
Originally, I didn’t intend to put so much effort into it, but…
「The power of ‘Heolcheon Shimgong’ is strongly activated.」
It seemed like it was time to see some of the virtues of martial arts.
After consuming even the divine power to strengthen the Blood Demon Spirit Gong, I quickly used a partial Blood Demon Spirit Gong.
Even though I didn’t know the proper composition, I remembered the senses clearly, so it wasn’t difficult to use.
Chiyi!
Red steam rose from my body like a haze, and I felt the pain subside a little.
The wound didn’t heal right away like the gray blood, but it seemed that the body had been restored to some extent.
But…
‘This isn’t enough.’
Still feeling my lack of strength, I turned my eyes to the blood that fell around me.
The blood shed at the moment Challenger Cals died formed a small puddle.
Srrr…!
Without hesitation, I absorbed the blood with my fingertips and immediately converted it into physical strength.
Of course, this one didn’t show extremely good performance like the Seeker of Blood.
‘Even after this, the feeling of exhaustion is not erased…’
If I had changed my stamina as a blood seeker, the fatigue would have disappeared a long time ago.
As soon as I realized the status of the gray blood and the seeker of the blood, bitterness came over me.
‘As expected, blood demon magic is not a technique that can be used as a mainstream except for blood substitution.’
Compared to the gray blood or the seeker of the blood, the blood demon god was no different from the hemostasis.
Well, in the first place, being able to regenerate the body immediately or absorb blood to replenish physical strength would be a very rare skill in itself, but…
that is the Moorim people’s point of view.
The skills obtained from the tower were so powerful that even the rare skill called Blood Demon Artifact was regarded as a low-efficiency skill and was not used.
But the feeling of regret did not last long.
Wedge liquid!
The arrow shot from the archer awakened my contemplative consciousness.
He immediately swung his sword and succeeded in hitting the arrow without difficulty.
However, before he could straighten his posture, a female challenger who appeared to be a spearman struck out.
Shih!
‘It’s fast.’
The window was bizarrely fast, as if he had obtained a good skill on the first floor.
Even with the stats he had raised through Necromancy and even the Bloodthirsty Deep Gong, he couldn’t easily keep up with his attack speed… It
was extremely annoying.
Even because of the advantage of a weapon called a spear, it is difficult to narrow the distance easily, and it leads to death immediately after being hit because there is no means of defense.
Of course, if you put in the time, it won’t be difficult to defeat the spearman.
However, the problem is the presence of a wizard reciting a spell in the rear.
She pursed her lips in concentration, and the meaning was very simple.
‘It means that as soon as the chant is finished, magic-type skills will fly.’
It would be a very tricky magic as much as he had concentrated his mind on it, but…
In fact, as long as he could defeat the spearman, it was possible to deal with just about any wizard.
Therefore, after concentrating my mind, I stabbed the sword at once as if I was setting fire to the shooting spear.
“Do something stupid…!”
At that, the spearman put on a fishy laugh and immediately rotated the spear as if kicking it out, trying to bounce the sword away.
I had no intention of denying that it was something stupid.
Like she said, I chose the worst hand as a swordsman.
However, that is called the worst for a swordsman with normal skills.
Device Geek…!
There was no need to graft the martial arts seen in the library of the lightsaber.
At this level, it’s enough to use simple reasoning without having to use martial arts.
The rotation of the spearhead, which was trying to kick off a rough attack, was gently wrapped around it as if it were flowing with a sword.
In the first place, with the intention of kicking off the attack, I roughly rotated the spearhead outward
.
‘If you do this, even if you rotate the spear outwards, it will be useless.’
ridicule soon turns to astonishment.
The smile that appeared on the spearman’s lips disappeared immediately, and her eyes filled with amazement.
I couldn’t talk like before, but I could understand the emotion that was buried in her gaze.
‘What you did is the face.’
Well, as a spearman, it seems to have put a lot of effort into it, but to be honest, it was miscellaneous.
Although I hadn’t formally learned martial arts, I bumped into a challenger from the Moorim dimension a few times.
So it didn’t even feel like a special skill to me.
It’s just a level of deepening the basics and dismissing it as an applied level.
‘I’ve seen it so far, how can I not do something like this?’
In fact, among the Moorim Dimension challengers, the weakest would be this woman.
Therefore, without any inspiration, I pushed the blade straight in and…
Chow!
Subsequently, bloody solid lines were drawn diagonally across the spearman’s upper body, and blood spurted splendidly.
「Critical blow!」
「Challenger Rieka Inaba consumes all of her HP and is banished back to her original world.」
Watching Inaba Rieka disappear as a particle of light, I quickly drew my sword.
‘This is the end of the spearman…’
And…
‘I can finish now.’
He quickly manipulated the large amount of blood left by Rieka Inaba and ejected it like a slash.
Boooooong!
It was slower than I thought since it wasn’t a blow using the Seeker of the Blood, but…
“Kk Chloe! It’s a ranged attack! I have to avoid…!”
The wizard, who was so focused on casting the spell, wasn’t able to react right away.
“uh…?”
Kwajijik!
「Critical blow!」
「Challenger ‘Chloe Ribery’ consumes all of her HP and is banished back to her original world.」
The sorceress called Chloe noticed the attack belatedly just before she was hit.
Soon after, blood poured out to a serious extent, and likewise it disappeared as particles of light.
The archer who saw that hesitated in fear, but he had no time.
Tsuaaa!
“Ouch…!”
Immediately after turning the blood spilled from Chloe into a blade and shooting it at the archer, she collapsed with a scream.
[Critical blow!]
[Challenger ‘Eric Anelka’ consumes all of his HP and is exiled to his original world.]
The battle is finally over.
「Labyrinth achievement ‘Unique’ achieved.」
「Labyrinth score +15 points obtained.」
「The skill ‘Charisma (C+)’ is created.」
Corpses disappear with particles of light, creating a sense of reality. It fell somewhat, but anyway, the enemies are now gone.
And…
“I thought all of my equipment would disappear, but surprisingly it wasn’t like that.”
As if it were a bonus, the items worn by the challengers were falling around.
It was probably because the items obtained in the labyrinth could not be taken with them when they were expelled, but I didn’t know for sure.
I didn’t even want to know.
I immediately retrieved the loot that fell on the floor and picked out useful ones, but among them, only one E-class longsword was suitable for me.
That’s nothing to see except for the +7% attack speed option.
“If I had steel eating, I could have grinded it all out…”
I felt a great regret at that.
Other than the longsword, there were some items with a fairly high grade, but I couldn’t use them, so it felt like a gag.
But it wasn’t that there was no way to dispose of it at all.
That should be the case too…
「The Seal of Offering (SS-) exclusive effect, “Offering,” is activated.」
「You can offer your [Talent] [Ability] [Treasure] to the gods.”
Because I still have the seal of offering.
It’s a waste of useless things, but it was a thought to replace them right away.
「I chose to offer [treasure] to the god.」
「Please designate the [treasure] to offer to the god as desired.」
Chloera designated all items as offerings except for the items used by the wizard.
Except for these, the rest were items that no one in the team had to use.
「Received 4 items from herself.」
「Replaces the corresponding items with divine power and accumulates them in the heart.」
Divinity itself has not accumulated that much, but
… It was meaningful in that it supplemented the divine power even a little.
After sitting on the altar and resting for a while, a system message suddenly came into view.
It’s nothing else…
“A new challenger’s team has entered the giant tree labyrinth 2nd floor [Evil God’s Whisper].”
A new challenger’s team has appeared.
「A new team of challengers has entered the giant tree labyrinth 2nd floor [whispers of evil spirits
]
」
Like two at a time.
I had just finished the battle, but another challenger appeared… I
couldn’t figure out whether to call this lucky or bad.
But one thing was certain.
‘I have to kill all the hostile challengers.’
That no mercy would be bestowed on those who showed hostility to me.
I smiled coldly as I held the newly obtained longsword tightly in my hand.
***
Devil.
It was an existence that harmed people for no reason.
Just treating people like bugs and playing with them.
That was the characteristic of demonic beings.
A very arrogant accident that regards them as bugs that can be killed at any time symbolizes the devil.
And…
among the demons, there were also those who were chosen by the evil gods because they specialized in slaughter.
From the beginning, the devil who was born with a huge racial value to the extent that he could regard other races as bugs would raise his rank.
At this time, the devil who was chosen by the evil god and raised his rank over a long period of time is called this.
「Time End.」
Ancient Devil.
“For the rest of the time, no one offered sacrifices.”
…
「[Ancient demon] is summoned from the altar as a class-specific penalty.
」
An overwhelming presence appeared above the altar where the red mist was flowing.
With a shape that looked like a shadow,
and even goat-like horns on its head… The being, like something terrible that flowed from the abyss, raised the corners of its mouth like a crescent moon and gave a goosebumps laugh.
“Khehehe…! It’s been a while in the world where insects live…!”
A voice like metal that fills with despair just by hearing it.
A fearful being shouted as if the only one who could resist was the hero chosen by the gods.
“Ha ha ha! Did the foolish worms deceive the evil god! This Kanizel-sama will judge everything…!”
However, the call did not continue until the end.
It was worth it.
“Ouch! arm arm! my please! healer! No healer!? Even potions are good, so treat them…!”
“Aww! Ancient Devil—! what are you looking at! Kill that goddamn monster bastard!”
“Please save me! I will cooperate with you! So please have mercy!”
Because the inside of the cavity was already a mess before the appearance of the ancient demon.
Someone even made an angry noise at Canizel, as if they feared something else more than the ancient devil.
“Judge the sim… I’ll…”
Carnizl couldn’t raise his voice any longer.
“…”
What is a devil?
It is a very heinous existence that makes fun of and kills people.
However, in that category, the human in Kanizl’s eyes was no different from the devil.
“I heard it’s an ancient demon, but it sure looks strong.”
Far from being scared, from a human holding a bloody sword and smiling…
“It was worth the wait.”
It felt like a predator looking at Canizle like a bug.
And he soon realized.
That the young man, whom he thought of as an insignificant human being, felt divinity.
In addition, the fact that the weight of the divinity is a powerful kind like the evil god he serves.
“Ummm…”
Kanizl was speechless, rolling her eyes here and there and breaking out in a cold sweat.
“Hey…”
And then.
“I’m sorry, great being, but…”
An emotion lingered on the face of Kanizl, who was always feared for being an ancient demon.
It is…
“Would it be all right if I went back for a while…?”
It was horror.
