chapter 314
314 – Overwhelming Presence
She said as if scolding me as she caught her cloak in her own hands and lifted her feet from the ground.
“You bastard. What are you trying to do again? You’re not just an immature kid who scribbles on some historical site, really.”
“Tick…”
“No, it’s not like that. You troublemaker!”
I can’t believe I threw a dagger at Hyun Joong-gil and made a cut on a stone, so I was a total mess…
I was embarrassed to be talking loudly in the air, and it reminded me of a lecturer from my past life who couldn’t dance to me, so I felt a sense of repulsion.
‘I think I’m going to do a lot of mimicking and turn him into a dumb person.’
It’s something I can’t do right now, but I imagined it for a moment.
When I look at her sullenly, she tilts her head for a moment.
As I looked at Yeonsu’s face up close, I suddenly remembered the day we first met.
When he saw me greeting him, he dropped the coffee he was holding and blushed, unable to speak properly.
After that, he couldn’t talk to me properly even when he met me for a while, but after he happened to help me during a dungeon break, he somehow became more active, and after that, he often called me as if he were a servant.
‘… It’s so nostalgic.’
Anyway, feeling at ease because I had insurance, I sat on the floor with my colleagues at a reasonable distance from the huge, sunken crater area.
“Can’t we go to my house now?”
Perhaps because Arin was relieved that everything was over, her ears were back to normal for the first time in a long time.
“It seems like it will take some time to lift the barrier. The person at the center of the barrier has disappeared.”
“If you’re the center, you mean S-class hunter Geum Jae-hyeon?”
“Yes… I think he did something to the barrier. He set up a formula so complicated that even if all the other barrier magicians got involved, it might take several days.”
“Ugh… I can’t do it. I have to go to my younger siblings…”
‘That’s what I was worried about.’
I hope it can be sorted out quickly for Arin’s sake, but as I said, the barrier was the problem.
Transcendents Kim Seon-min and Hyun Joong-gil were able to somehow escape by developing their own territory, but not us.
‘That kid Jogiman can probably do it, right?’
This is because the power of [Cheonnoejang] Shown earlier seemed to have already surpassed even Hyun Jung-gil’s power.
There were very few hunters who had their own territory even though they were not early awakeners, and there was talk that Jogiman would be the first in Korea.
Anyway, a treatment message will also appear. Everyone took a leisurely rest while waiting for the barrier to be lifted.
Yum-
“This is really delicious.”
“Right? It was sold as a limited edition at the market, and it was made using the meat of a flying monster called Tanjarik or Hanjarik-“
Since the market had almost all types of dry food available, the two held a taste test while eating each type.
About 30 minutes passed by and there was no longer any sense of tension in the area.
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‘Uh?! W-what?!’
The nature of the mana in the air shook violently for a moment, heralding a change.
And.
Fuuuuuk──!
– Hehe──!!
A dangerous sound was heard from the place where the by-products left behind by the monster were.
“”?!””
At that moment, the heads of hundreds of hunters turned in that direction.
Where the gaze landed was Park Yong-hwan, lifted into the sky with his body pierced by what looked like tentacles.
– ······!!
Jo Ki-man, who was talking with Park Jin-gon from afar, was the first to react.
Suddenly—!
Jo Gi-man cut off the forearm-sized tentacle that pierced Park Yong-hwan’s abdomen with his hand knife.
With that as a signal, the superpowers gathered in the area all activated their skills in one place.
Puppuppuppuffpuffpuffpuffpuffpuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuffuuuuu!!
The place where the enormous destructive power was concentrated at one point was where the by-products that hardened like rocks were located.
The explosion that came from dozens of overlapping skills was like thunder.
After a split second, the hunters who used the skill quickly left their positions and widened the distance behind them.
‘?! [Absolute reflection?]’
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!!
The superpowers, who had received their skills back exactly as they had been attacked, furrowed their brows as they deployed their own defensive measures.
– Fuck, what is that!! Did you amplify the power of my skill and return it?!
– Nonsense!! Where can I find something like that!!
-He’s dead! A treatment message appeared! Why are you alive?
‘Compatibility higher than Cha Jin-hyuk’s ability…?’
If so, even the top hunters could be surprised.
Even Jo Gi-man looked at the monster that had just broken the stone and crawled out with an expression of incomprehension.
I stretched out my senses as much as I could and wrapped them around his body and the mysterious stone, and only then did I realize.
‘… The stone made by Queen Slime… Was it like an incubation device to create that guy?’
The stone he broke open was wide open on the inside.
It was like a Russian doll, with a stone inside a stone, and a stone inside another stone.
By surrounding it with dozens of layers, we made it so that the existence of that little monster located in the innermost part would not be discovered.
Even my senses were deceived, so the strategy was very successful.
I could see countless magic circuits engraved on each of the surrounding stones.
Looking at it with some sense, it was a structure for ‘Queen Slime’ to store the power received from the outside and transmit it to the inside.
Judging by the fact that there was no magical power left in the stone, it seemed that its function had already fulfilled its purpose.
In the first place, Queen Slime launched thousands of shells and created a small guy. Was it to buy time?
When I thought about it, even though I had absorbed the power of thousands of hunters, I felt like the attack was lacking.
I thought it was simply a lack of efficiency in absorbing power, but I was preparing something else…
‘It looks like that slime bastard put all his energy into that guy.
And in the end, he didn’t even counterattack properly, but he ‘sacrificed’ himself to protect them.
Sacrifice… This is not good. It’s clearly a dangerous development.’
The debuff skill he received while escaping, Kim Seon-min’s bug, and Hyun Jung-gil and Jo Gi-man’s skills.
The thought of taking all that power and accumulating it and creating that little guy made me feel dizzy for a moment.
As if in remembrance of its mother, the black and turquoise monster was clearly divided into left and right sides and was small, less than 150cm tall.
The lower body was no different from a human, but the upper body was an elongated oval cylinder with dozens of tentacles attached, making it extremely grotesque.
The tentacles on the body were as thick as the forearms of a strong man, and sometimes the ends were spread wide like trumpets.
I don’t know what it was for, but the moment I saw it, I got goosebumps and all I knew was that I had to run away immediately.
But I knew there was no need for that.
‘The mark… I guess it was because of that guy.’
25 flame marks were wrapped around his shoulders like flower buds.
The energy of the flame is clearly visible even from a distance.
The guy also waved his tentacles repeatedly, as if he was bothered by the thing shaking from his shoulder.
Seeing the mark reappearing after the tentacle had passed, the guy quickly became annoyed and started looking around as if looking for someone.
I quickly lowered my gaze and just looked at the floor.
If the distance had been close, it would have exploded right away, accumulating five explosion stacks.
Rattling-
Even though it was late winter, it was warm like spring, and news about the climate crisis broke out every day.
However, as the eerie energy from the guy enveloped their bodies, Yeonhee and Arin’s bodies began to tremble like aspen trees.
‘… That is a great monster.’
There was no doubt about it.
And this was a rare opportunity.
Fortunately, it didn’t show any interest in small things like us that were far away.
‘As long as you endure the energy of that monster, you will be able to grow.’
It was worth taking the risk and watching the trend.
Of course, if he suddenly changes his mind and starts killing indiscriminately, the story will be different.
Still, since we have Yeonsu next to us, the risk of being killed will be low.
‘That little guy… Is that strong…’
A great monster defined as being able to be subdued only when many transcendents join forces.
That monster was a being with that much power.
“Hey Iik!!”
Arin lay down on the floor, covering her eyes, trembling, her ears swollen more than ever, and her fur stood up like thorns.
Yeonhee was reflexively summoning summoners, but her expression looked like a screw was missing somewhere
Even the summoned beasts were de-summoned and disappeared as soon as they recognized the existence of the ‘Great Monster’. Even Shadow Drake did that.
This phenomenon would not have been seen if the flame explosion had exploded right away.
I think there will be a lot of harvest in many ways.
‘Even Geomryong’s summoning has been cancelled? Is it that much?’
Although I felt pressured by the energy it gave off, I didn’t think it was that difficult.
‘… Is it because they killed the queen slime and sucked a lot of smoke into subspace? I don’t know.’
While I was having doubts, Yeonhee’s condition became increasingly strange.
“Ah- I should have increased my control… Ah ah… My, I’m all wrong-“
Yeonhee was repeating those words like a parrot, with her eyes losing focus.
‘It looks like the summons can endure if the control is high…’
Dominance is not simply a statistic for subduing disobedient summons, but it also seems to have the power to withstand an overwhelming enemy.
‘When you think about the monsters you’ll face in the future… These were the essential stats you had to take care of first, right?’
I scolded my past self for thinking that ‘dominance’ was a low priority and looked around.
‘Are the hunters who are standing properly at least from the Park Jin-gon line?’
Jin-gon Park, who was on the verge of becoming S-class, was barely able to hold on, biting his lip with his teeth. Not to mention the hunters below him were all in a groggy state.
[Gyaal?]
Shock—!
When the newborn giant monster spread the tips of its dozens of tentacles like a trumpet and let out a low sound, the shoulders of all the hunters present at the scene shook greatly.
[…? Gyahahahahahahaha!!]
The great monster laughed at the hunters for a while, probably because it seemed so funny, and then repeated the first words it said like a psychopath.
[Gyaal? Gyaal? Gyaal?]
‘Crazy bastard…’
Everyone here probably thought so, but no one opened their mouth.
Overwhelming presence.
It was like watching the huge paws of a ferocious monster waving in front of my eyes.
In the center of the creature’s body, a mouth opened like a woman’s genital organ kept repeating the same words until it suddenly stopped.
[… Gyaa───!!]
Oh my gosh ──!!
– Ugh!!
– Ugh!
The great monster must have been unhappy that we did not react again, so he roared so powerfully that his body was lifted into the air.
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