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[It’s been a while]
The great man who escaped from the barrier is rough. Jin took a deep breath.
“Huu huu…”
The great man’s face was as pale as a corpse, and his lips were pale. Cold sweat was running down my forehead.
The great man muttered as he roughly wiped the blood flowing from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.
“…shit. “I feel dizzy.”
The warning Daein gave Balaam right before escaping from the barrier was actually just a bluff.
Due to the aftermath of the fight with Balaam and the recoil of the last used Pacheonmu, Daein’s physical condition was in shambles.
The great man took the potion out of his pocket and drank it.
Gulp.
I felt a refreshing feeling and the wounds on my body were healing. However, the potion only healed the wounds and could not restore extremely depleted mental strength.
That wasn’t the only problem.
“Ugh…”
The great man gritted his teeth and clutched his chest. The power of the Demon King that had penetrated into my body was wreaking havoc inside my body, causing pain.
‘Did I get poisoned?’
Daein recalled the scene in which he was struck by Balaam’s attack several times.
Balaam was a type of demon king who was closer to a wizard than a warrior. He enjoyed creating zombie armies from corpses and corrupting humans to his side with his cunning tongue and magical eyes.
In addition, he was well versed in poison and curses, and in his past life, there were many superhumans who collapsed in vain due to its poison.
“Whoa….”
Tsutsutsutsu.
The great man raised his martial arts skills and resisted the devil’s poison. The pain got worse as the Pacheonshingong and the poison fought inside the body, biting each other.
‘First, I need to go somewhere and get some rest.’
Slurp.
The great man used [Stealth] to hide his presence and move.
Crrrrr….
Kiyayaak!
Perhaps on Balaam’s instructions, the surrounding zombies opened their eyes and searched for him.
The great man stumbled, found an empty house, and entered it. My physical condition was getting worse.
‘I need to do something quickly, starting with the poison.’
The antidote potion I had was of no use against Balaam’s poison. Balaam’s poison was not just poison, but a terrible curse.
Therefore, high-priest level sacred power or an artifact that could replace it was needed.
“…It’s in the truck.”
The great man looked in his pocket and made a bitter expression. He drank the potion on an empty stomach. I think this is better than not eating at all.
“Seup-huu…”
The great man took a deep breath and sat cross-legged. I was planning to use the Pacheonshingong to expel the poisonous energy.
However, even with the unrivaled magic of Breaking Heaven, he could only keep Balaam’s poison in check and could not drive it out of his body.
‘shit. If the Breaking Heavenly Technique doesn’t work, there is a way…’
At that moment, the great man realized that he was learning another world-beating Divine Art that was just as good as the Breaking Heavenly Technique.
This is the Heavenly Demon Divine Art that deals with demonic energy.
The great man stopped performing the Pacheon Shingung and performed the Heavenly Demon Divine Gong. Then, a completely different reaction began to come from before.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
‘do. ‘The poison moves!’
After a while, dark red sweat beads formed on the man’s skin. It was a phenomenon that occurred when poisonous energy escaped.
How much time has passed?
“Whew…”
The great man opened his eyes and took a long breath.
For a moment, black energy flashed in the great man’s eyes and then subsided.
“…I think I’ve taken a breather for now.”
Daein took off his clothes, which were soaked with dark red sweat, and found new clothes in the closet and put them on.
Daein sat down for a moment and checked the current situation one by one.
“I’m almost exhausted from driving out the poison, my physical condition is a mess, I’m so tired that I’m going to die, and…”
The great man pointed his right palm toward the ceiling. And I called out to the hungry ghost in my heart.
He was dissatisfied with the ghost.
‘I’ve been calling you since you were fighting the Demon King earlier, but why aren’t you coming?’
-The ghost did not react.
“hey. “Can’t you hear me?”
I called out to him a few times, but he didn’t move.
The great man muttered in despair.
“You can use the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique, but you can’t use the Spirit?”
I don’t know the exact reason, but it seemed like I had to assume that I couldn’t use the anglerfish for a while.
Daein got up from his seat and looked at the full-length mirror in the house. A man with bags under his eyes was standing there.
The great man grumbled while looking at the mirror.
“What kind of trouble is this?”
Daein found leftover cereal in the kitchen. I poured the cereal into an empty bowl, poured the potion on top, and ate it.
Jeokjeokjeok.
While chewing potion-flavored cereal, Daein looked out the window at the skyscraper.
Googoo googung!
Ominous black clouds were swirling around the entire building. Light flashed once in a while inside the cloud-covered interior.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the building seemed bigger than when I first saw it.
The great man let out a long sigh.
“Well, I’m glad I got out of there alive.”
The cost of fighting the Demon King without any preparation was high.
In my past life, when the Allied Forces were waging war against the demon world, when a demon lord descended, the power of at least one country was mobilized to deal with him.
…and yet suffered enormous damage. Especially at the beginning of the war.
“Well, Balaam over there is not a complete demon lord, but…”
Even so, he is not an opponent so formidable that I would attack him alone.
The great man looked at the skyscraper and made a promise to himself.
‘As expected, other kids need to become stronger than me.’
That way, something like this will never happen again. Right now, there isn’t a place in my body that doesn’t ache.
“Ugh… I’m really dying.”
The great man made a groaning sound and left the empty house.
Now that I have regained some of my stamina, I plan to return to the base camp where the combat truck is located.
However, returning to base camp did not seem easy.
‘shit.’
Crrrrr….
Crrrrr….
Kiyaaa!
Zombies were roaming around filling the city. They searched empty houses and wandered through alleys, looking for something.
It was obvious what I was looking for.
‘You’re trying to find out where I am.’
The great man thought that Balaam must have been properly scared. You can see that they are working so hard to figure out their own trends.
‘Luckily, Balaam won’t run out right away. The problem was…’
How to get through the crowds that filled the city.
‘You have to be careful when going.’
Slurp.
Daein used [Stealth] and moved his body as unnoticed as possible by the enemy.
Normally, I would have used my light attack and sprinted at once, but I couldn’t because my energy was almost depleted due to burning the poison.
‘In times like this, be calm.’
The great man managed to escape among the zombies that filled the streets.
Sometimes I held my breath and waited for the enemies to pass, and sometimes I threw stones to the other side to open the path.
Fighting was only done when it was truly unavoidable.
Quad deuk!
The man who broke the neck of one of the zombies carefully placed it on the ground.
‘Whoa…’
I was out of breath quickly as I continued to move in a tense state. My internal strength was severely lacking, and my body continued to heat up, perhaps as an aftereffect of the poison.
I wondered if Daein had ever been in such bad shape after returning to the past.
“Huh…”
The great man felt dizzy and leaned against the wall for a moment. My vision was blurry and things were shaking.
Susssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss….
As my concentration became distracted, even [Stealth] began to loosen.
Among the zombies walking around the city, some with good sense looked in the direction where Daein was.
Crrr….
Crrr….
Among them, there were not only humans but also zombies made up of monster corpses. One of them was a bear as big as a two-story building.
Crrrrrrr….
The bear approached with its teeth bared. A huge figure that fills the alley. The great man looked back with the intention of retreating.
…The back was also blocked by zombies.
Sreung.
The great man drew his sword and sighed softly.
“…The kid is going to nag me a lot again. “Why did you come so late?”
At the same time, Daein’s [concealment] was released.
Kyaaaaa!
The giant bear found its prey and rushed towards the man. The great man raised his sword with a difficult movement.
He narrowed his eyes and glared at his enemy.
‘It cuts off the head with one blow and runs.’
If you muster up all your strength, you could probably run for about 5 minutes.
‘Let’s run and scream.’
If we’re lucky, the warriors of the Heavenly Demon Church who are searching the area will probably hear the sound and come.
“Whoop….”
Kyaaaaa!
In an instant, a huge bear arrived right in front of me. After dodging the giant paw, the great man climbed up the creature’s body and decapitated it.
Damn…!
It was shallow.
The attack stopped halfway through the bear’s neck, and the zombie opponent felt no pain.
The giant bear roared and swung its front paw.
Whoa!
The great man could not avoid it even though he was staring at it. Instead, he barely stretched out his right arm and spoke.
“shield.”
Ugh!
[Guardian’s Bracelet] glowed and formed a translucent shield. The giant bear’s front paw exploded above him.
-Phew!
The person bounced tens of meters and fell after hitting the wall of the building. Zombies came rushing in that direction.
“Cough… Damn. shield.”
The great man vomited blood from his mouth and opened his shield.
Zombies’ attacks rained down on the shield. Daein used all his remaining magical energy to maintain the shield.
Jeok Jeok Jeok Jeok-!
The shield cracked and repaired repeatedly. The great man stood up with enthusiasm and spread his shield.
“Aaaah!”
Daein used his shield like a shield to drive away the zombies.
Damn it!
Jjaeang-!
The moment the shield reached its limit and shattered, the guardian’s bracelet also broke into two pieces.
However, the great man had no time to worry about the broken guardian bracelet. There was no time to rest as I was cutting and stabbing zombies like crazy.
At some point, the zombies that were attacking Daein retreated and formed a wide siege net.
Crrrrrrr….
The zombies in front moved to the left and right, and the giant bear that had blown away the giant reappeared.
The great man said, breathing heavily.
“Ha… is it you again?”
Crrrrrrr….
The giant bear stood up on its hind legs. Then its height doubled in an instant.
Wow!
The great man looked up at the roaring bastard and frowned. My vision was so blurry that I could see the bear’s head in two.
“hey. “Does your neck hurt?”
It was when the great man grumbled and raised his sword.
“manager!”
The great man was so embarrassed that he laughed. I wondered if this was Zuma Light or something.
No, that’s still true. Why does that voice sound like that?
“Now it sounds like nonsense. “I can hear all the voices…”
“I’m the team leader!”
“…?”
It wasn’t nonsense. The great man turned his head in the direction from which the voice came.
And soon I noticed a huge golden mass approaching.
And at a tremendous speed.
-Quaaaaaang!
Kuweeeek!
The giant bear that was threatening people bounced away like a light car hit by a dump truck. To a large person, it looked like a scene from a cartoon.
“…Wang Guho?”
When Daein called his name in a dazed voice, Wang Guho hugged him tightly.
“manager! After all, he was the team leader! “I’m glad you’re alive!”
“…Ouch! Hey, tell me about this. “I’m going to die because of you, you bastard!”
As the great man struggled in the arms of the now gigantic Wang Guho, the zombies that came to their senses belatedly roared and rushed at him.
Kiyaaa!
Kiyaaa!
But the zombies no longer posed any threat.
―Kwaaaaang!
With just one stomp of Wangguho’s foot, the zombies fell down, and with a single swing of his fist, more than a dozen of them turned into blood clots and flew away.
Wang Guho, who instantly devastated the surrounding area, said while carrying Daein on his back.
“manager. I’ll get out of here for now. “There is a safe place I know.”
Maybe it’s because the tension has eased. Daein could barely hear what Wang Guhao was saying.
“Wangguho. “You man…”
The great man muttered, hitting Wang Guhao on the hard back of his head.
“…A long time.”
“Yes! Me too!”
Tuk.
The great man’s palm weakly touched the back of Wang Guhao’s head and then slid down.
“…….”
The great man peacefully lost consciousness.
[It’s been a while] End
ⓒ Ganjjajang
