Episode 186 [ Second Clash – 4 ]
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“…If only the saint is sealed, Steele Rain will never be able to defeat the Necromancer. ”
The person who said that was Steleton, who stood at the center of the Flower of Death – a ‘high-ranking lich’, one of the necromancer’s family members and the representative of death.
“With this, my life can once again regain meaning in this world. I will be remembered as the one who brought that treacherous hero to his end.”
He laughed good-naturedly, and his bony jaw cracked.
His real name is Juan Álvarez, and he was once the 9th ranked Mexican player and a master of ‘summoning magic’, a fairly rare trait.
However, four years ago, during an attack on a gate opened in Amazon, he was ambushed by players who entered with him and thus met his unexplained death.
That was the end of his life.
His name has been forgotten by the world.
No, it had to be that way.
But something strange happened.
It was about a year ago.
Trapped in a dark, nameless space, he felt a strange feeling as if someone was pulling him out, and soon opened his eyes in a basement.
With a body of bones like this…
his current master, a necromancer, exercised the power of death and revived him as a ‘lich’.
– (!) You are a dependent of a specific player. If you do not obey his commands, you will disappear.
Since then, he has served as the Necromancer’s operational advisor to the Legion of Death.
The Necromancer placed him in a key role because he was a former strategy team leader who boasted a 100% dungeon clearing rate during his lifetime and had experience in commanding numerous summons.
As the second-in-command of the Legion of Death, he has conquered numerous dungeons and has been recognized for his efforts, so he is now in charge of the Steele Rain raid.
‘…No matter how thoroughly he prepares, he can’t be more perfect than us. Because we have concentrated all our strength only to defeat him.’
So far, the villain has attempted to assassinate Steele several times, but they have all failed.
But in reality, they were all just tests and reconnaissance activities.
‘All of that was to figure out what kind of weapon that guy had and make the perfect attack at the last moment. Those many sacrifices ultimately became the foundation for our victory!’
He laughed and looked at the battlefield, which was changing to his advantage.
The current situation was going very favorably.
The biggest problem, the saint, was cursed by Grigory Azazel, and as a result, legions of necromancers were escaping in the sacred flood.
Also, the zombie swordsman Kaito Okita was quickly running through the giant’s fortress to finish off the powerless saint.
He was the best swordsman even when he was alive, but when he became a zombie, he became an immortal monster with four arms and wielding four swords.
‘Soon, the saint’s head will be cut off by that guy’s sword.’
Juan Alvarez looked forward to the scene and leisurely looked at it.
But at that moment, isn’t Stillane landing on the giant’s fortress and standing face to face with Okita Kaito?
“her?”
The meaning of that scene was simple.
“Ah, that’s right, since you can’t stop it by just firing your weapon from afar, are you going to throw your body to stop it this time?”
Steele Lane had already defeated Kaito Okita, but now the situation was completely different.
“Yes, no matter how much you destroy it, haha, eventually it will come back to life, cut you down, and then slit the saintess’s head.”
That monster swordsman can no longer be defeated by a single sword.
Bang—!
At that time, with that single blow of the huge sword that Steelerain swung, Okita Kaito was cut in half and fell to the ground.
“Oh—”
But anyway, he would be restored to his original state in just a few seconds, and he did that a few times. In a fight, the swordsman’s characteristics contained in Okita Kaito’s body will find the opponent’s weaknesses. In other
words, no matter how strong Steele is, he will eventually allow a single blow during repeated fights.
But…
Cheeeee——
Strange. Rather than being reunited, the shattered and scattered bodies of Okita Kaito began to burn away with blue flames?
“…Huh?”
That was a phenomenon that appeared when the power of death was extinguished by divine power. And……
–
The ‘zombie warrior blessed with death’ that you were controlling returns to eternal death.
“…Huh? What’s going on! What’s going on?”
He raised his voice without realizing it. His panicked voice rang out through loudspeaker magic.
Lee Hyun-wook stomped on Okita Kaito’s vainly rounded head – his skull – and crushed it.
Then, the moment he raised his head and looked towards this flower of death, Juan Alvarez felt as if he had chickens growing on his spine that he didn’t know he had.
“How come—Stelane, you have that level of divine power…”
This was something that was not in his plans.
No, it was a situation he could never have imagined.
A hole was opened in the sky and holy water was pouring out, which was an unexpected phenomenon, but it was a problem that could be solved somehow by neutralizing the saint. But this… it clearly paralyzed the saint, the subject of the strongest divine power, so why
? Is there a divine power stronger than that?
It was literally an unprecedented phenomenon.
“…Damn, Steele, what kind of nonsense are you doing again?”
However, there was no time to worry about the reason for that mysterious phenomenon, because
the giant sword with deep divine power left Steelein’s hand and started flying towards us like a ballistic missile.
“Uh-uh—”
The first target was. There were 16 red bone wyverns floating in the sky… and a considerable number of undead legions attached to their bodies.
There seemed to be no way to prevent the interception.
***
Lee Hyun-wook thought as he stretched out his left hand and moved the 100-ton holy sword.
‘……I was lucky.’
That’s the only way I can describe this situation.
While he was going back and forth with the villain side, passing each other’s words and exchanging tricks, an unexpected result emerged from the complicated situation.
‘Holy sword…’
This was not a move that Lee Hyun-wook had prepared, but it was activated by chance, creating a situation close to checkmate.
It is often said that it was as if the goddess of victory had lifted his hand.
– What is that? It’s not the power I gave…
Emilia Müller also felt the power of the holy sword and asked in a surprised voice.
“I don’t know, but it’s a blessing.”
Blessing It was a very appropriate expression.
But I couldn’t just be relieved.
The game wasn’t over yet…
‘You can only win if you know how to use this lucky variable properly.’
Lee Hyun-wook immediately concentrated his metal control on the Holy Sword—Mogley and advanced it toward the enemy camp.
Whoop!
It was shot through the air, and the group of Bone Wyverns in its orbit were scattered in all directions.
However, other undead were hanging all over its body. The giant flying monster wasn’t fast
enough to avoid the giant sword flying at subsonic speeds. The giant sword
passed right through one of the wyverns, scattering its bone fragments in all directions,
like the feathers of a bird that had been shot. It was a refreshing and destructive scene.
The wyverns he saw were trying to avoid the tip of the sword by violently flapping their wings, but with a single wave of Lee Hyun-wook’s hand, the giant sword swung around freely and cut through them one after another. Bur—bur—bur—bur
. ——!
Pieces of white bone and dark red flesh fell into the lake of Ususu—Seongsu again, and some of them evaporated with blue flames before they even reached the surface of the lake. ‘They will not be combined again now.
‘
The enemy would have felt helpless facing a runaway locomotive that could never be stopped.
Although it was only a single weapon, the divine power contained in it was of the highest level, and even though it was only a single weapon, its influence on the battlefield was the strongest.
And further… .
“This is a weapon that can hunt necromancers.”
Hunting It was a performance that could have been the worst match for a Necroman, to the point where I could boldly say that.
Lee Hyun-wook exhaled slowly, feeling a more intense sense of fulfillment than at any moment since his return.
I’ve made a lot of efforts to change the failures of my past life, but I always felt like it wasn’t enough.
But now, I felt refreshed inside, as if I had found the answer.
With this level of power….
‘…you will be able to overcome the current necromancer and even if the necromancer from your past life comes across the dimension.’
As such, the holy sword option attached to the 100-ton Moglei was optimal for dealing with necromancers.
Before we knew it, the sky over the battlefield was filled with flying bone fragments, and now the only thing floating on its own was the ‘Flower of Death’.
Finished cleaning very neatly.
「…….」
The high-ranking lich, who had been chatting with loudspeaker magic just a moment ago, was speechless.
The guy was probably asking his master, the necromancer, what to do, and if he didn’t have another card ready…
‘…he would try to take me out.’
Lee Hyun-wook wasn’t going to let that happen.
‘I barely kicked him out in the first game, but now I might catch him in reverse.’
If we missed this point and went to the third game, it would be a completely different situation, so the risk was high.
‘So, when the opportunity comes, you have to finish it clearly.’
He brought an AD-2 closer and took out the black helmet ‘Quinee’ from it.
As soon as he wrote that,
Lee Hyun-
wook’s figure disappeared from nowhere, and Juan Alvarez, the senior rich man who had been watching him closely, looked around with a bewildered expression.
“…huh? what! “Where did you go again?”
“Brother, I think you just need to be careful with that sword first. It appears that the strange divine power is limited to that one sword.”
A Death Knight standing next to him said that.
Among the four Death Knights, he was the only one with an ego at the moment and was controlling the other three.
Fuuuuuuu——
At those words, Juan Alvarez glided through the sky and saw the enemy flying towards him. He glared at Moglei.
“…Samuel, I will open a portal to escape from this place, so we must stop it somehow.”
It’s virtually impossible to block a giant sword with such overwhelming power. It’s like trying to stop a locomotive with your bare hands.
Even if you hit several magic shields, it will never break through…
But if you’re undead, even if your body gets crushed by that thing, It was such a bold move because it was regenerated.
But now the situation is completely different.
If that thing passes by, you will literally be killed instantly and annihilated.
“But if the four of us put all our effort into it, we will be able to get at least one hit. “Of course, all four of us will perish, but we will try
.” “Okay, while you hold on, I will open a short-distance warp to the death destination open in the water and secure as many bones as possible before returning.”
“Yes, the ossified bones are the master’s precious property.”
The Death Knights, who were still barely conscious, raised their shields and a black magic circle rose as they chased the Moglei flying in the sky with blank eyes.
Still, since these guys were certain about their performance, Juan Alvarez decided to trust them and started chanting a spell with his hands joined together.
Wooooow— —
Black smoke began to spread from both Juan Alvarez’s hands.
If this magic was completed, it would be possible to drag all the bones imbued with the power of death in the area and return to the Temple of Death, the Necromancer’s domain.
But—
Kwasik—
‘Huh?’
I heard a crashing sound.
And right in front of him…
He paused the spell and raised his head…
“Gasp!”
Steele was standing on the flower of death, chopping off the head of a Death Knight.
In his hand was the ‘Balisardo’ that Kaito Okita had just used.
And Juan Alvarez felt that a more disgusting energy than anything else was radiating from that sword.
This meant that the Holy Sword effect had moved from Mogley to Balisardo.
‘Does that make sense?’
When Lee Hyun-wook swung his sword, divine silver light scattered along its path, and all the beings of death that touched it disappeared along with blue flames.
Death Knight was no different.
Although they were creatures with a defense power that rivaled that of any existing knight player of at least level 155, their bodies were damaged in a single blow.
“Big—”
If that sword wasn’t a holy sword, it would have easily gained the upper hand by pushing and pushing with the Death Knight’s unique persistent vitality and overwhelming attack power. However, since it was a holy sword, just one
blow would have put the Death Knight in a dying state. They fell in.
Even if they were only allowed to take a single hit, their armor would be crumpled like cheap plastic and their bodies would be dented like tofu.
And above all, Steelein’s swordsmanship skills were considerable.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Snap—
He killed Kaito Okita, the so-called sword saint. As if to prove that defeating him a few times wasn’t just luck, he went through the Death Knights with an overwhelming movement and knocked them both down in an instant. Kwaduk—now there were only two left. “Damn it, stop him
somehow
!
”
At Juan Alvarez’s shout, the two Death Knights blocked Lee Hyun-wook, and he quickly began to memorize another spell.
Gooooo——
Then black energy flowed from the flower of death and gathered in his grasp.
“It only takes 20 seconds! Even that guy won’t be able to survive this one hit.”
Still, no matter how much of a holy sword he was holding, the Death Knight was once the best knight-type player, so it was bound to not be easy to deal with both of them at once. The reason the two were defeated in an instant was
because they approached in a stealth mode and attacked.
That was . As you know, Lee Hyun-wook was also standing on the edge of the flower of death and slowly raised his sword, as if trying to measure the timing.
He opened his mouth.
“I’m sorry, but the reason why this Argetlam’s holy sword enchantment effect is good is….”
Sigh,
at that time, on his right side. An item appeared from the wrist engraving:
“Even if it is not a sword, it can be given the effect of a holy sword.”
As long as it was a single weapon, it could be used by changing the effect of the Holy Sword. The
one Lee Hyun-wook took out was a shotgun – Black Rhino.
The two Death Knights, who were preparing for close combat, looked at each other for a moment as if dumbfounded, then hurriedly raised their shields. But—
Qua—ang——! Qua—ang——!
With two explosions, the shields of the two Death Knights shattered and melted, and with the next two explosions, they flew away like empty cans.
Chichichi— Their bodies were torn apart with the sound of fireworks. Blue smoke billowed out from everywhere.
Qua—ang——! Qua—ang——!
Lee Hyun-wook quickly approached them and fired one more shot gun shot at their helmets, causing them to retire.
Juan Alvarez, who had not yet completed the turning blow, hesitated. I hesitated and took a step back.
“Sadly, so many of my friends have disappeared?”
The moment Lee Hyun-wook sneered and raised the muzzle of his gun, two Pale Notes flew from somewhere and cut off both of his wrists at the same time.
Jump! Jump!
“…No matter what I do, the death march will never end. A greater death will eventually consume you.”
“Well, aren’t you too obsessed with skeleton role-playing and the death march? You’d never have used that word in your lifetime… And you’re not dying now.”
“what?”
“I need you to guide me.”
Lee Hyun-wook held the muzzle of the gun to the guy’s forehead with both hands and used his metal control to pull out the mana messenger from his pocket.
Chik—
“—Spirit King, I want you to clear the way now.”
Then, the lake of holy water that covered the earth split like the Red Sea.
Shootaaaaa— —
The floor there was still a sticky black sludge, a ‘death haven’.
When Lee Hyun-wook looked down at that place, Juan Alvarez smiled wryly as if he had sensed his intention.
“Ugh—do you think you’ll be able to get in just because we come out of Death’s Destination? “No living being can ever enter that passage.”
“That means I need you.”
“…what?”
It was a huge two-way portal that summoned the necromancer’s undead army.
Lee Hyun-wook knew how to open the vast two-way portal of the death paradise.
Among the black mud, the point that glowed particularly red was the entrance to the ‘portal’. It was not possible to enter without the Necromancer’s approval from the outside.
However, it was different for someone like this upper-level lich who was delegated administrator authority by the Necromancer.
‘I have targeted the Necromancer several times using this method.’
Just as the easiest way to stop Lee Hyun-wook was to assassinate him, in order to stop the Necromancer, it was necessary to assassinate him rather than face a head-on collision. To that end, the Guardian of his previous life had studied a way to penetrate the Necromancer’s
death destination.
Even though he could not get close to the death destination , Even though it was difficult to use the research results properly, Lee Hyun-wook knew how to attack the guy. Thanks to that, Lee Hyun-wook
hit
the guy’s neck with a regular moglai, not a holy sword, and then hit the guy’s skull rising into the air with a metal slab. Then ,
when I stabbed the rest of the body with the holy sword, it disappeared with a gasp.
“Ahh, what are you trying to do with only my head left?”
“Now it’s not the head, it’s the key.”
“What is that now…”
Hung –
Lee Hyun-wook jumped from the Flower of Death, and at the same time, the Moglei with the holy sword struck down, splitting the bizarre flying object in half.
Jaw –
Lee Hyun-wook landed on the ground . I looked up at the sky behind me.
I stood up and saw that
the ‘Flower of Death’, which would later be called Laputa of Death and become the worst nuisance, had turned into ashes and disappeared.
Chic—
“Ah, this is Lee Hyun-wook. Now, please bring my soldiers.”
A few dozen seconds after his words fell, the sky was filled with a roar.
Doo doo doo — —
Four ROK AMT large transport helicopters appeared beyond the giant fortress and passed overhead, dropping something one after another.
They were hanging on parachutes and slowly. It landed on the ground.
Tung— Tung— Tung— Tung—
It was none other than the Living Armor.
There were a total of 55.
When Lee Hyun-wook granted mana to them, the master authority was secured, and the mana circuit on the armor’s surface lit up.
Then, that A slowly moving rectangular object was captured in the distant sky.
It was an orbital drop device called a ‘warbox’, and something was falling from it.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..
It was a total of 10 metal boxes about 5m in size and reversed propulsion just before hitting the ground. and slowed down.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
As soon as they hit the ground, they separated in four directions and there were weapons inside.
Clunk-clack-clack-
And the living armors moved in unison and took out their weapons. He was fully armed. And Lee Hyun
–
wook also stretched out his hand toward that place, and—
wow— a black circular object flew out.
Crash—
When it opened, it contained a lot of ‘Iron Golem Cores.’ However, something was a little different in the center. There was something like a tooth stuck in it.
[Item Information]
– Name: Dragon Soldier Iron Golem’s Core (Craftsman)
– Effect: When mana is infused, it attracts the surrounding metal and becomes a ‘golem’.
That’s right,
Kang Hee-seol said he would make this. It was a dragon soldier.
It was literally a soldier made of dragon’s teeth, but it was slightly upgraded and combined with the core of an iron golem.
‘There are 12 in total.’
When Lee Hyun-wook infused mana into it, the weapon box that fell from the warbox—absorbed the adamant and took shape. Blah blah blah—— A
slender
iron golem with a reptilian head of about 2.8 meters was sculpted.
Grrrr—
“This. All of these…”
Juan Alvarez, who was watching the scene together, clicked his teeth together in surprise.
“Your master is not the only one who knows how to use an army.”
Before we knew it, Lee Hyun-wook’s family members had lined up on top of the place of death.
Although their numbers were small compared to the undead army, they were in a very good condition qualitatively.
Before we knew it, the place of death was slowly disappearing. Now, we had to move before it was too late.
“Now, you take the path . “It’s time to open it.”
“Do you think I would do something like that? Just destroy me—it will be faster!”
“No, you just need to keep your mouth shut.”
Lee Hyun-wook stuck Juan Alvarez’s head in the red-colored area of the death pit.
“Wh-what are you doing? I can’t believe it…”
The guy let out an embarrassed voice, as if he really didn’t know it was going to happen like this .
.
Fuuuu——
But it was already too late.
The black slush writhed, and black hands came out of it in droves.
It may seem repulsive at first glance, but if you jump into it, you can cross over to the other side.
“…I have prepared an army just for this moment.”
When Lee Hyun-wook raised his left hand, a corps of steel armed with sacredness jumped into the enemy camp.
The station invasion has begun.
