chapter 365
365 – Shattered Pride
However, after walking a few steps, Hyun Woo-seok suddenly turned around and gave us a warning that was not a warning.
“I don’t know if some of you have noticed, but some of them are children who have been trained in a rather unique environment. In fact, I wasn’t planning on showing them to the outside world… But I’ m sure my father will understand some of them.
I’m a little excited to be able to show off to many hunters of Vision, which is praised as one of the top three guilds. I hope you enjoy it.”
“Ha?”
“Oh, no…Is that what you want to say?”
“W-what…?”
We were shocked and speechless at Hyun Woo-seok’s shameless attitude
Hyun Woo-seok left with a wry smile until the end. Looking at him, I couldn’t help but feel confused.
‘I’m saying there are a few more monsters like that.’
What on earth is Hyun Joong-seop, Hyun Woo-seok’s father, planning?
Anyway, that was the last time Hyun Woo-seok wore it.
He turned and gave his signal, and soon the first two sparrers were left alone in the center of the huge sparring hall.
Noh Hayun received several artifacts from Jang Yuchan who came in the morning.
“Hayun, wearing a lot of artifacts doesn’t just increase your combat power. Don’t forget that this is only a one-time thing.”
“Oh, I get it. I guess I’ll buy it now.”
Perhaps the reason she was so confident was because of those three artifacts.
In addition to the rings and bracelets I was already wearing, a necklace and a headband. And even earrings.
They were items so great that it was difficult to estimate their value.
‘Magic amplification, range amplification, critical hit defense, attribute enhancement, field of view expansion… How many options are there?’
Even a vague estimate of his ability was enough to exceed one hand.
On the other hand, the man with a toad-like face who appeared as the first runner of Ilseom was not equipped with any equipment other than a sword.
Nevertheless, my evaluation was slightly tilted towards men.
‘It must be difficult…’
As for the fighting power of the two, Noh Hayun easily wins.
But if you think about the medicine they have, they must be in the middle ages or Hayoon is a little behind.
‘Artifacts can only recover abilities lost in this space…’
Of course, that was also something great.
A level that restores abilities that have fallen by less than half.
Several options assist her.
‘No Hayun may have thought that was enough, but… It won’t be easy.’
“Kkkk… Noh Hayun, the genius wizard of the Vision Guild. Very appropriate as my first opponent.”
“What do you say, something like a lump of scaffolding?”
“These are all muscles?”
“You don’t look like that at all? And how dare you speak informally? Doesn’t Ilsom have any etiquette training?”
“It’s funny that someone who would be second to none would say such a thing.”
“Close your mouth. It stinks.”
“I came here after brushing my teeth?”
“Oh, really!”
Because of the man who talks more than he looks, Noh Hayun acted a little annoyed even before the sparring started.
The visible magic attribute was more stable than ever.
Taeee───
The man’s body disappeared with a signal.
[Ice Field]
Viscount Kwaja─
“Huh?!”
A much wider range than usual.
And the stronger coldness passed by the man.
The man’s pupils dilated as he ran away, and sweat beaded on his forehead.
It looks like Noh Hayun’s magic is so strong that he was quite surprised.
However, Hyun Woo-seok smiled with satisfaction when he saw that he had somehow managed to avoid it.
‘The stadium is too big.’
This was a disadvantageous factor for Noh Hayun because the rules were set so that almost half of this large sparring hall could be used for competition.
If the space had been limited, it would not have been possible to escape like that, so the game might have been over from the start.
When I think about it, I couldn’t help but wonder about Vision’s choice, which only gave Ilseom this favorable situation.
They say it’s to make them stronger, but isn’t that going too far?
‘She deserves to be called a witch … Does that mean she throws a tiger cub off a cliff?’
Noh Hayun’s magical capabilities were already at C level, so even after dodging, the man could not easily close the distance.
However, after avoiding Noh Hayun’s magic a few times for about a minute, he gained confidence and began to demonstrate his abilities in earnest.
“Hehe, I can see it. I can see your future.”
“Again!”
Afterwards, the sparring proceeded in a surprisingly similar way to the practice with Rakan.
[Lightning walk]
Noh Hayun had always seen Arin use it, but dealing with her in person was something else.
She looked taken aback by the man’s movements, which were much faster than expected.
Cheong-!
Eventually, the man’s attack reached the point where it reached her abdomen.
“Hmm?! Ice?!”
However, what the man’s sword struck was Noh Hayun’s alter ego, which had turned into ice.
Noh Hayun appeared with a smile on her side, dozens of meters away, and unlike her relaxed attitude, the flow of her magic, she was a little disturbed.
‘They used that technique from the beginning… I guess they decided that the enemy was too powerful to think about what happened next.’
She shouted at us several times not to worry.
However, even after receiving a lot of artifact effects, she decided that it would be difficult to subdue the man.
In some ways, this may be a natural result.
That’s because the toad-looking man who is now number 1 was the second strongest among the five members of Ilseom.
The man was equally embarrassed.
“······ This skill was not in the data.”
“Unlike you, I am a hunter who grows every day.”
“I can’t stand it if you use your mouth like that.”
“Who can stand it? “You little toad?”
“What the fuck?”
What the man is talking about is probably that there were some instructions to subdue Noh Hayun and not inflict fatal wounds.
No matter how much Ilseom is preparing something hidden, he won’t have the courage to offend the transcendent ‘witch’.
“Good. Let’s go to the end. I’ll make you realize that you were wrong.”
Hung─
“?!”
Afterwards, a game of hide and seek continued between Noh Hayun and the man.
A man who follows Noh Hayun at high speed as she leaves behind her
The spacious sparring space was an advantage at this time.
If it had been a narrow space, Noh Hayun would have been caught right away as there wasn’t enough room to move.
Whoosh whoosh-
“Ugh…! My head…”
As time passed, like Rakan, the man gradually slowed down and his face became distorted in pain.
It was a structure in which anyone who faced that skill for the first time had no choice but to be defeated.
Then the man turned his head and looked at Hyun Woo-seok, and Hyun Woo-seok nodded his head and allowed something.
Wagjak-
“Huh? What is that? Isn’t it possible that a member of the Great Ilseom Guild is using an abnormal item like an evolution tree?”
When the man took something out of space and put it in his mouth, Noh Hayun pretended not to notice and scolded him.
However, the people on the Ilseom side were not shaken at all.
It seems like he came out with his mind firmly prepared in advance.
A haze of smoke rose from the body of the man who had taken the medicine.
The body seems to have swelled slightly, and the quality and quantity of magical power have also slightly increased.
‘It wasn’t just about increasing physical ability…’
“Evolved water? Kkeukkeuk… It’s different from those artificial ones. Haa – it’s amazing no matter when you drink it.”
“Hmph! It’s no use! You’re already in my Icicle Symphony-“
Quang! Kwakwakwakwak!!
“What?! You can never destroy it?”
The man who drank something immediately began to explode into an ice clone, and Noh Hayun reacted in disbelief as she watched the clone designed based on the man’s magical power explode.
A man who keeps chasing Noh Hayun while bursting ice.
“Ah, ice spike!”
At that moment, Noh Hayun’s legs stumbled and broke sharply.
This is because the man’s fist landed squarely in her chin.
Once her momentum was broken, Noh Hayun literally became a punching bag.
Puff puff puff! Pow!
“Kuuuuu of of of been the lily…!”
Nevertheless, she did not give up.
She tried to distance herself somehow by using magic, but it ultimately failed and she fell to the floor.
The fact that the swordsman used his fists instead of his sword was a method that a normal Ilseom would never use.
“It’s a crude skill that can be clearly seen even by a swordsman. Do you think that the ice created based on me from a while ago will continue to work? Stupid bitch.”
The man stepped on the fallen Noh Hayun’s back her, immobilized her and held the sword to her neck her.
“Can I cut it?”
Then Hyun Woo-seok slowly raised his hand and signaled to stop.
“Ugh… Damn it… !”
Noh Hayun, who turned her back on someone and was even trampled, deprived of her right to life and death.
It was probably the most humiliation she had ever experienced in her life, so it was natural that her eyes were bloodshot and her shoulders she was shaking.
‘Maybe they were sent to experience something like that…’
Didn’t ‘The Witch’ want Noh Hayun to break once and for all? If you think about it that way, this situation makes a little sense.
[The first match is a victory for Ilseom.]
“Ugh… Ugh…”
A towel was covered over the face of Noh Hayun, who was brought to our camp.
Looking at her shaking with her fists clenched, I could clearly see how humiliated she was.
It was a game that was clearly overwhelming at first, but after he ate something strange, the game quickly went downhill.
“We will formally raise the issue of drugs later. It seems shameful to use such an item in a sparring match between C-rank hunters.”
“Dead men don’t speak.”
“… All you have to do is win at any cost…? Can we see those words as a declaration of war against the vision?”
“I don’t know why it’s received that way. I guess you didn’t see what we just had in our hands.”
“Well- we’ll see later if I can be treated so harshly even after death.”
“······.”
Representatives of both camps, Jang Yu-chan and Hyeon Woo-seok, were sitting side by side on the podium, and no one around them could even approach them because they were so dangerous.
And seeing Hyun Woo-seok choosing only the right words to punish, I was convinced.
‘I’m really thinking of changing the game. Maybe the kids here aren’t the strongest in the shadow organization.’
Hyun Woo-seok may be concerned about the guild’s honor and reputation, but in the end, the people above him are probably trying to raise the bar because of money and power.
‘I understand why Joong-gil was in agony.’
[Hunter Kim Gun-seop from Ilseom continues. Please come out as the next leader of the vision.]
“Hey! It’s not Vision, it’s the White Coat Federation!”
[··· The second sparrer of the White Coat League appears.]
A Vision executive immediately requested a correction after realizing the intention to force a confrontation between Vision and Ilseom.
We were also equally uncomfortable.
‘I guess they’re trying to drive me that way because I don’t even think about losing.’
I snorted as I climbed onto the sparring hall with Yeonhee.
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