defeat
defeat.
Even though half of his head was blown off and he even cut off one of his arms himself, Horlu felt one emotion intensely.
excitement. Yeah Horlu was obviously excited now.
How long had it been since he fought a battle to the point where he felt the risk of his life in the first place?
Combined with the characteristics of the Gold Man, his authority shone even more in an enclosed space. In other words, since it was an ability specialized in Mercury, it was common for him to be placed first in a position to block an important base like now rather than being put into the front line.
Furthermore, because of his talent for paperwork, he was never given a role fighting on the front lines.
However, Horlu has always dreamed of fierce battles in the back of his heart.
The days when I secretly grinded and polished myself when others’ eyes didn’t reach me. A strategy to use the power of ‘refreshing poison’ that he enshrines after inducing the enemy’s vigilance by acting as a fair martial artist. The number of trumpets that coated the surface of one’s metal body with the medium of authority, which was reached after days and days of contemplating how to activate the authority fatally.
And an enemy that won’t be broken even after using all these moves.
The current situation was perfect. everything.
Horlu slowly reached his hand toward the floor. The metal, which rose rapidly from the floor, touched his hand and the half-sliced cog head and self-severed arm began to rebuild.
In the first place, all the metal hidden behind the wall was his body. He didn’t die easily until all that metal was used up.
[Whoa.]
A low hum of metal. His cog heads snapped together again and let out a sound.
Marnak stood still and watched as Horlu regenerated his body. No, I had no choice but to look.
He pretended to be okay with Horlu, but in reality Marnak’s physical condition was close to the worst. His almost invulnerable regenerative power. A state in which he was directly hit by an attack that had the only weakness of his regenerative power. In fact, if he had been subjected to Horlu’s authority in a normal state, his physical condition would not have reached its worst level.
However, Marnak had fully activated the Gates of Corruption, which amplified his metabolism, and was paying for the organs that would detoxify the poison inside as the price of the Gates of Corruption.
In other words, while the poison is already spreading rapidly due to the amplified metabolism, even the organs to stop it are half-corrupted by their own power, and even their functions are lost.
“Cool.”
I tried to hold it in, but the black blood that I couldn’t swallow flowed back.
‘killing!!!’
A worried voice told me to run away and buy some time. I had to conserve even the energy to open my mouth and answer. Marnak simply made the Gates of Corruption shine more brightly and accelerated his metabolism even more.
The divine venom that penetrated the body was more excited, and the pain of the organs embracing the price of the door of corruption crumbling at a faster rate stimulated the brain numbly.
At this moment, turning off the door of corruption to try to save one’s life and running away was to push the colleagues who had come all the way here for oneself into the abyss of crisis.
If Horlu goes to his comrades, ignoring himself who has run away, a terrible situation will occur that he does not even want to imagine.
Marnak gripped the bluish sword even tighter and lowered his stance.
[Come.]
A sharp ink-colored blade came out of Horlu’s forearm, who no longer had to pretend to be a martial artist.
The sharp divinity felt from the long blade. Marnak intuitively realized that the power of Horlu was thickly embedded in that blade.
A roar that spurred the place. As soon as Marnak’s body faded, the sound of metal clashing echoed loudly. Horlu admired inwardly as he barely blocked Marnak’s attack.
Is this really the speed that a person poisoned with divine poison can achieve?
Even though it was a deadly poison that would not be strange if a normal person would die instantly within seconds of being poisoned, Marnak was rather running amok with more vigor than before he was poisoned.
Caang! Caang! Caang!
While Horlu was barely able to block the fierce attack, he wondered if his poison wasn’t working.
[Kuh.]
Without saying a word, Marnak’s eyes shimmered violently in dark green.
Kaaang!!!
A different big attack than before. Even though Horlu had parried Marnak’s attack, his arm bounced up and his chest emptied. Marnak did not miss the momentary gap he had barely created.
Let go of the blue sword you were holding like the last line of life. When despair began to fall freely, a dark green sword rose from Marnak’s fingertips.
The ‘Sword of Corruption’, which corrupts everything it touches, has revealed itself. Marnak grabbed the sword of corruption and implanted his power into Horlu’s chest.
[Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!]
Even though the sword of dark green power pierced through hard metal, it was deeply embedded without any resistance, as if digging into a very soft material.
Horlu felt his body collapse from the core in the agony. As he always practiced, he implanted the ink-colored blades attached to his arms deep into Marnak’s body and separated his jagged head from his body.
Took.
As the cog head fell to the floor and rolled around, Horlu’s body collapsed and disappeared without leaving even a trace.
[Huh.]
The metal protruding from the floor covered Horlu’s cog head, and a new metal body quickly grew.
Since Marnak attacked the cog head earlier and didn’t have much fun, moving his core to the center of the cog head in line with the expectation that he would aim for a different part this time was a golden move.
If the core had been moved to a different part rather than the easily detachable head, he would have been caught up in the collapse of his body and died on the spot.
However, since Marnak had just seen it regenerate around the head’s core, it was really dangerous to be attacked in this way one more time.
A life-threatening crisis. Horlu trembled as he felt his heart, or core, pounding.
Yes, what he wanted was a fight like this.
[good! very good! Very ideal!]
A new ink-colored blade protruded from his forearm with a clanking sound. The cogs that made up his head turned violently.
Marnak was looking straight at him with his eyes shining brightly. Deeply embedded in his chest were two ink-colored blades that he had pierced right before he abandoned his body. But strangely, not even a single drop of blood flowed from his wound.
Horlu met Marnak’s gaze.
[come! Come again! To me!]
Took.
The sword of corruption fell from Marnak’s grip and bounced on the floor several times before disappearing. His knees, which seemed to never break, collided with the floor. The tattoos that burned brightly on his skin lost their light and faded.
‘killing!!!’
Screams to come to your senses. The two blades stuck in Marnak’s chest slipped out and rolled on the floor as the decayed flesh crushed them.
Marnak’s mind was already at its limit.
His brain wasn’t physically enough to hold on to his mind. It’s been a long time since the vital organs and parts of the brain were corrupted and rotted because the door of corruption was activated to the limit for the final blow.
The divinity’s venom, which had newly penetrated his chest, did not do much damage to Marnak’s body, which had already stopped.
Marnak’s eyelids slowly fell as he glared at Horlu.
[…Did the last blow take away everything?]
Puduk.
With the sound of something snapping, Marnak’s rotting shoulders fell from his arms, which he couldn’t grasp.
Horlu slowly moved towards Marnak. In order to finish the opponent who gave the excitement of the tide with his own hands.
‘killing!’
‘killing!’
‘killing!!!’
Marnak’s fading consciousness heard a foreign word among the voices of his mother who noisily struck her ear.
– Detect user’s life crisis. Beginning of the ‘Final Struggle’ sequence.
The black metal threads protruding from Marnak’s right wrist that fell to the floor moved like a living life, covering Marnak’s right hand and aiming at the approaching Horlu.
A muzzle protruding from the back of the hand.
– Fires magic cannons to protect users.
The muzzle emitted light with a monotonous mechanical sound. Horlu, who was swept away by the magic cannon that suddenly protruded from Marnak’s side, bounced off and crashed into the wall.
The artifact of Ceylon, which had created a gap for itself, did not stop there, and stretched out hundreds of black Immortalium threads to sew Marnak’s arms back into place.
– Initiation of minimal long-term recovery necessary for vital activity.
The black immortalium threads roamed around Marnak’s body to create something. Black armor emerged from his wrists and covered Marnak’s entire body. A dark visor covered Marnak’s face.
– Initiation of user’s consciousness awakening.
hooked
Something sharp protruded from within the black helmet and pierced Marnak’s temple, delicately mashing his brain.
“Huh!”
Marnak, who wriggled his whole body as if an intense electricity had passed through it, let out a deep breath and opened his closed eyes.
– Ritual awakening complete.
Monotonous mechanical sound. Marnak listened to the voices and tried to understand the situation.
“What the hell is going on…?”
‘killing!!!!!’
A short but full of complex emotions. With his mother’s short, bold cry, Marnak understood the situation. The fact that Ceylon’s relic forced his body to rise and give him another chance.
Because he had been buried in the training of his body and skills, he had forgotten what he had.
“As expected, items are important in games. cancer.”
With a slap, the long-favored friend came out of his right hand.
Why aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
The Butcher let out a harsh scream as if asking why he had finally found himself. Amidst the harsh grinding noise, several letters were etched into Marnak’s vision.
– 30 minutes 00 seconds remaining operation time for ‘Final Struggle’. It is very likely to cause permanent damage to the user’s body if used more than this.
Marnak turned his right arm a few times before he knew it, and burst out laughing.
“Good.”
[Full body armor made of immortalium, what the hell is this…?]
Horlu couldn’t hide his embarrassment. The ability of that armor to revive a user who was as good as dead was even more surprising than the plain Immortalium armor. But the surprise was short-lived.
Why hey hey hey!!!
The immortalium saw blade spinning at high speed broke the blade protruding from Horlu’s arm. Marnak no longer needed to be faster and stronger than Horlu. Besides, for some reason, even the divine poison that had penetrated his body had completely disappeared.
a few bumps. Horlu threw away his blade, which was being ruthlessly sharpened, and took a big step back.
[This makes no sense! Isn’t that thing so absurd!!!]
Marnak laughed.
“What kind of trouble did I go through collecting this? You have to do this to pay off the bill.”
[My perfect battle! My perfect ending! Do not be insulted in this way! Never!!!]
When Horlu’s hands collided, his real body, this space itself, began to move. With his signal, wild divinity rushed in, and sticky poison rained down from the ceiling.
shoot it
In the black poisonous rain, Horlu prepared his final technique.
[Stop dying cleanly for a perfect ending! Marnac!!!]
Horlu shouted harshly as he clenched his hands.
[Foot!!!]
In the poisonous rain, the space itself made of metal shriveled, and everything around it became an awl aimed at Marnak, and the space itself began to warp. Its appearance resembled the camouflage of a predator that dissolves its prey.
– Searching for the best response to annihilate the enemy… A
low mechanical sound hit Marnak’s ears.
– Recommended to use ‘Amplification of Work No. 6’. Would you like to amplify?
It was the first time he heard it, so Marnak didn’t know what it was, but he answered.
“okay.”
– Start of amplification of work No. 6.
“uh?! Wait a minute!”
The armor that protected Marnak’s body quickly disappeared and gathered around the butcher in his grasp. The armor moved away, revealing Marnak’s body, tightly stitched with black immortalium threads.
Because the armor was missing, Marnak was exposed to the rain of divine poison pouring from all sides without any protection. A pang of pain ran through Marnak’s body.
‘Hat killed?!’
“Go armor! Give the armor back! hurry!!!”
A dry mechanical sound answered Marnak.
– Decryption is possible later. Destroying the enemy is now a priority.
Ceylon’s 6th work ‘The Butcher’ spewed out a huge roar unlike any before. The clumps of immortalium held together by the Butcher continued to swell as they covered the Butcher’s body, revealing the Butcher’s true form.
Why hey hey hey hey!!!
Four saw blades rotating at high speed. The size of the greatsword, which had grown larger than most, was not suitable for normal humans to use. However, the black armor extending from the butcher’s handle covered Marnak’s right shoulder and managed to balance its weight.
– 5000% increase in the output of Work No. 6. Now grind the enemies that stand in your way. User.
Marnak barely managed to get back the oyster that had run away for a while, and burst out laughing.
“What good. Why don’t you try it?”
bang!
Marnak kicked off his seat and stormed into Horlu’s place, brandishing an amplified butcher. Horlu quickly pulled himself out of the space inside his body. The metal space that had been cracked for a moment filled up in an instant when Horlu pulled his body out.
Marnak swung the butcher without hesitation.
Why aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
[What is this…]
Rough roar. The amplified butcher instantly grinds everything he touches and grinds Horlu’s space into whole spaces, then chews up and swallows Horlu’s body that he couldn’t take out.
Horlu couldn’t even scream like that, and he was crushed to death.
Marnak brushed off the butcher once and spat out a languid word.
“ha. It was hard.”
At that moment, Marnak heard a low voice in his ear.
– Confirmation of extinction of risk factors. Five seconds until the end of the final fight sequence. From now on, use all your resources on body restoration. Users, brace yourself for the stinginess to come. We recommend putting something in your mouth to avoid biting your tongue.
“What…”
Cowardly, even in the middle of the warning announcement, because of the time that passed, as soon as Marnak heard all the warnings, a violent pang of pain hit Marnak’s brain as it was. In an unbearable agony, Marnak collapsed on the floor like a puppet with a thread cut and hit his head on the floor.
***
“Huh!”
As I managed to hold on to the mental cord I had let go of in pain, my body was tied to something and swayed up and down regularly. Looking at the slowly moving wall, I was being picked up by someone and moving.
When I turned my head, I saw a familiar purple hair.
“…Pearly?”
“Yeah. Did you wake up at the perfect time? I was trying to wake you up, but I mean! Now, just cross that gate and ‘God’s vessel’ is waiting for us! How are you excited! Huh? huh?”
