Episode 244: A
dark hospital room.
The only light here was the intermittent green light from the heart rate monitor.
Cheet
took off his helmet and looked down at Liuming.
“…hmm.”
It’s like sleeping comfortably.
However, contrary to his seemingly fine appearance, Liu Ming was living a terminally ill life relying on machines for his life.
Swoop-
Cheet lowered her body.
Cheet stared at Liu Ming’s face and spoke to the unconscious person.
“Are you really unhappy too? I will regret it. yes?”
Of course, Liu Ming didn’t answer, but the chart muttered to herself as if she was talking to Liu Ming.
“what?”
Cheet put his ear close to Liu Ming’s mouth as if he heard something and frowned.
“You say the world is unfair? Why are you saying such a thing?”
Cheet sighed, saying it was natural, and then, like a madman, opened his theory of life to the unconscious Liuming.
“Originally, life is unfair. No, the world isn’t fair. You are not the only one.”
Shaking my head.
Chet shook his head with a face that couldn’t be helped.
“Ha, really~ I’m talking about everything I’ve been through.”
Cheet looked at Liu Ming and opened her eyes wide. The sharp teeth and unfocused eyes gave off a somewhat dangerous atmosphere.
“You don’t believe me? Because it’s real. i mean You were born in a slum where you know?”
Each day at that time was an unforgettable memory for Cheet. Even when I closed my eyes, the scenery there was vivid.
“Beside our shantytown. There was a huge building that I couldn’t see the end even if I looked up. Of course, they could have looked down on us at a glance, but…”
The place where Cheet lived was a shabby house made of broken buildings and patched boards. It was a place where water leaked in on rainy days and walls collapsed in gusts on windy days.
“Isn’t that unfair? It’s a very close place, less than 100 meters away. That I have to live through the trash cans they left behind?”
Of course, there was an order to rummaging through that garbage heap. There were no laws in the shantytown. A wild world where it is only natural for the strong to take possession of others.
There, dreams and thoughts about the future were luxuries.
However, Cheet’s fate changed after just one encounter.
‘okay.’
Even that day, Cheat used Blink, an attribute, to steal food
[You bastard! Kill it!]
Stealing using Blink has never failed. However, the problem was that he attempted to steal from the same store.
[Did you know you would get hit again? I was waiting for you!]
The shop owner with a stick was waiting at the location where Cheats blinked as usual.
[I’ll break your limbs so you don’t do this again!]
Thanks to that, the store owner caught the cheat and was about to wield a stick. But at that moment.
[…The child of the shantytown. Well, it looks like he stole because he had nothing to eat. Can you please forgive me with this?]
Suddenly, the man appeared.
plain brown hair.
A face that smiles benevolently.
The man handed the store owner a bundle of money with a booty look on his face.
[If it’s not enough, I’ll give you more.]
[Oh no! It’s enough for the price of food!]
The young cheat laughed as he saw the store owner running away with his tail in an instant in front of the strong man.
[To laugh in this situation. It’s amazing. What’s so funny?]
To the man’s question, the young cheat answered with a natural look.
[That person is no different from the people of this shanty town. Everyone is weak to the strong and strong to the weak. Isn’t that funny, isn’t it?]
The man Cheet met at that time was Rebellion’s captain, 3017, also
known as Nameless.
He nodded his head, saying that it was right for Cheet. He lowered his body and asked a question in a calm voice.
[Then do you want to be strong?]
Do you want to be strong? Why did you ask such an obvious question?
[huh. want to be strong I’ll become stronger and take away everything I don’t have.]
[Taking away?]
[Of course. It’s better to be eaten than to be eaten.]
However, the man who would become the leader of Rebellion seemed very satisfied with Cheet’s answer.
[You are smart. A weak person can’t even complain even if they are unfair. Justice is actually a rule for the strong.]
3017 reached out to cheat like that. Cheat took 3017’s hand. From that day on, Cheet was reborn as a member of the feared Rebellion, not a child from the slums stealing food.
“So… you have to admit it quickly. You’ll have to use any means to survive in this filthy world, won’t you?”
Cheat opened her eyes wide and took out a small piece of ore. Then, he put the suspicious ore that emitted purple light into Liu Ming’s mouth.
“Huh-!?”
At the same time, Liu Ming, who was asleep, opened his eyes wide and twisted his body.
Blue veins sprouting all over the body with a painful groaning sound.
“don’t worry. It hurts, but you won’t die. because it’s over soon By the way, is it also something from another dimension? It definitely works.”
Cheet looked at the ore fragment with a strange face, leaving Ryuming in a desperate situation.
Magic Stone (魔石)
This substance, which has become so famous now, was a substance often used as an illegal ability stimulant by hunters.
However, the ore that Cheet fed Liu Ming was not a metaphor, it was really different.
This was an ore received through a contract with a demon from another dimension through 3017’s ability, Eternal Dimension.
They were demons, a species living in a different dimension, not the demonic beings that hunters often think of.
Udangtang!
Liu Ming twisted and fell off the bed.
“what. does it hurt that much? It’s strange, I could stand it.”
Let’s look at Chet with a face that he can’t understand. Liu Ming grabbed Cheet’s foot with a painful face.
“Please save me…”
Cheet scratched her head with a troubled face at Ryuming’s appearance. Rather, he made a request.
“No matter how painful you are, you can’t die? Then your brother will try to kill us?”
Cheet sighed and said calmly to Liu Ming, who was lying on the floor with an insensitive face.
“Then we have no choice but to kill your brother.”
Horror in one word.
After waking up from a long sleep, Liu Ming trembled in unknown pain and desperately looked for Ryu Jin.
‘Oppa….’
* * *
Gaon’s first place.
The fact that Adela Ortensia was strong was well known to Leon.
‘Has this person… become stronger?’
But this battle was truly overwhelming. Adela took less than a minute to single-handedly destroy the team that advanced to the semifinals.
Great! jump-!
Frozen contestants shattered.
Saaa!
Watching the spectacle scattering into particles, Adela gave an order in a calm voice.
“…Let’s move to the coordinates Sofia sent us earlier.”
Tring!
However, Leon shook his head at the message that appeared soon after.
[Bianca Academy]
[Sofia dropped out]
“I don’t think that’s necessary. Sophia is already…”
Adela wasn’t surprised to hear that Sofia had been eliminated. Rather, after a brief silence.
“…okay.”
I looked up at the sky.
“Well, it looks like they’ve already met you from over there. It won’t matter.”
Dark clouds gathered in an instant and the sky turned dark. Leon shouted as he held up his artifact, the Sunsword.
“Holy Light… Strike the Earth!”
Hwaaak!
A bright light surrounds Leon holding the sun sword. Dark clouds spread over the area except for that area.
Cooggem-
“Is it destiny? As soon as I just eliminated Bianca. I didn’t expect to see you again like this.”
Kim Eun-ah looks so confident in what she believes in. Soon after, Leon’s face turned blue at the appearance of ‘something’ that appeared in the dark clouds.
“That’s that…”
The dark clouds dissipated, and what was visible was Sumire riding the Bone Dragon and the undead army escorting the surroundings.
Sumire bowed her head to Adela and greeted her casually.
“hello. Mr. Adela!”
Even if it was a game, as long as it wasn’t a life-and-death battle, Sumire, whom I hadn’t seen in a while, said hello.
nod
Adela also bowed her head in response to Sumire’s greeting.
“After this match… are you coming back to Gaon? Velvet is looking forward to it.”
“Well, I did complain about missing Velvet.”
At the words of Sumire and Adela, Adela, who had just miserably eliminated three contestants, nodded with wide eyes.
“Velvet wants me… of course.”
Indeed, Adela’s appearance without hesitation. Sumire smiled and said, “Please take good care of me.” Instead of saying hello, she confidently shouted the name of the skill.
“Summoner Link!”
[Summoner’s mana is transferred to the summoner.]
[Summoned beast: Bone Dragon]
[87% of your mana is converted into Bone Dragon’s energy.]
Saaa!
At first, Sumire’s purple mana showed off its power. However, soon the mana turned red and permeated towards the dragon.
This is Velvet’s mana that Adela can’t live without. It had a fundamentally different structure from the mana of ordinary hunters.
[Mana with high assimilation rate has been transferred.]
This is the strongest attack prepared by Sumire for Gaon’s former ranker Adela. It was velvet mana on a different level from the dark breath he had used so far.
Gee-!
Thanks to this, the space around the Bone Dragon that created the sphere was distorted as if haze had risen. Concentrated mana weighed heavily on the atmosphere.
“Dark Breath!”
Kwaaaang-!
Along with Sumire’s command, the Bone Dragon emitted a mass of pure mana towards Adela at maximum output. A mana bomb that will devastate not only the forest but also the entire area.
“This one!”
Leon, who was far away, managed to escape. The Dark Breath swept Adela away with its authenticity.
The concentration of mana that makes your skin tingle just by being next to it.
‘There’s no way I can withstand an attack like that…’
Even that Leon lost his fighting spirit and stiffened up, but the elimination message he had been waiting for didn’t come to mind.
cooong!
The result of the dust storm clearing and slowly revealing itself. There, Adela, who blocked the Dark Breath with ice, looked at Sumire.
