Chapter: 6 Lizards Part 2?
Change of POV: No one
Sung Jin-Woo dropped the backpack on ground, no point in wearing it. Then his eyes gazed at Boss slowly waking up.
"Damn! If I only didn't mention the contract we wouldn't have ended up abandoned !" Yoo Jin-Hoo shouted angrily before punching the stone in front of him, thus shattering it. " If I only kept my mouth shut."
Sung Jin-Woo snorted at that comment before replying with a smirk.
"They would have done it either way. They planned this from the very beginning . Just re-read the contract and feel their presence, it was enough for clarifications." Explained Sung Jin-Woo as he began stretching himself, preparation for what is to come.
"But wa-" Yoo Jin-Hoo was cut of by the hissing sound of the waking up Boss of the dungeon. "Boss is awake! Stay behind me Jin-Woo! I'll buy us time, in the meantime you find another way for us to go trough!" Alarmed Yoo Jin-Hoo was just about to step up in front of Sung Jin-Woo and act as shielder, but he got interrupted by Sung Jin-Woo's right hand, holding him back.
This obviously surprised him. Sung Jin-Woo was supposed to be an E-Rank, yet he is stopping D-Rank Tanker..
"You what do y-!" Yoo Jin-Hoo got gazed at by Sung Jin-Woo's look, which shut him up for now.
"You are only D-Rank, You can't kill that Boss. But's different for me." He declared before slowly to approaching but now fully awake Boss.
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A small cube-like window materialized beneath the Giant Arachnid Buryura, name of the boss is colored Orange, and obviously only Sung Jin-Woo can see it.
With orange name instead of red.
White name means they are way weaker than Sung Jin-Woo.
Orange means they are around same level.
Red means they are stronger than Sung Jin-Woo.
And the gigantic spider in front of him is about the same level.
"This might as well be fun." Sung Jin-Woo chuckled before summoning [Kasaka's Venom Fang] in his right hand. " Oh shit, did I become a battle junkie ? No matter what, some things develop beyond what you expect them."
And of course, Yoo Jin-Hoo heard everything Sung Jin-Woo said and was just about to question him, but..
Sung Jin-Woo disappeared from his previous position and re-appeared near Giant Arachnid's legs.
Several normal swings at the legs confirmed his suspicion.
'Even at my current strength I can't penetrate it's thick skin..' Sung Jin-Woo though, before he had to dodge approaching legs of the boss in front of him.
He leaped and run around the Boss. Waiting for perfect chance to jump on it.
'I already know weakness of this Boss and how to defeat it. That only leaves two things for me to do. Try one thing out and kill it.' Though Sung Jin-Woo as he easily avoided any and all attacks from the boss, not returning any attacks too. Just avoiding it.
And of course, from the sidelines is Yoo Jin-Hoo in his flashy golden colored armor, gaping at what is happening.
And obviously, thinking that Sung Jin-Woo is fake ranker, so from that point of the view he pissed himself. But again that's not important right now.
So shall we return to battle?
"This thing is fast, it's speed and size are it's strongest point for sure beside it's thick skin." Sung JIn-Woo spoke to himself as he narrowly jumped away, and that spot got crushed by Arachnid's leg. " It's strike is vicious enough to crash rocks apart easily."
Their small exchange continued for a minute more.
And just then.
"This is my chance!"
Sung Jin-Woo used the leg that was about to crash my jumping on it and propelling himself at cave ceiling, thus propelling himself once more since he flipped himself in the air, just so his legs would touch ceiling.
And once more propelled himself, but this time directly at his targe, the Giant Arachnid Buryura. His increased speed and strength along with his [Kasaka's Venom Fang] pierced easily eyes of the spider without any difficulty.
And due to Giant Arachnid's level being low, effects of [Kasaka's Venom Fang] were strong enough to affect it.
Paralyze effect was instantly activated, the affect last barely a second on the Giant Arachnid Buryura, but due that less than a second was more than enough for Sung Jin-Woo to slash at the boss two times.
Each strike would cause Paralyze effect to last less than a second more, and Drain would cause Spider to loss 1% HP per second the more it strikes it.
And in less than two dozen slashes, the Giant Arachnid Buryura fell down as it's HP diminished to zero after full force strikes of Sung Jin-Woo and Drain from [Kasaka's Venom Fang]
[You have defeated [Giant Arachnid Buryura]!]
[LEVEL UP!]
[LEVEL UP!]
[LEVEL UP!]
"So I'm level 23, nice." Sung Jin-Woo said to himself softly as he stood up, but not before collecting daily rewards for [Full Recovery] just in case.
[Full Recovery[!
And all tiredness and fatigue he accumulated till now disappeared. As if he didn't just fight the boss of the dungeon.
Change of POV: Sung Jin-Woo
I huffed a sigh of relief after this action.
I stood up from the corpse, then I walked up to it's back neck area looking or where Essence Stone was supposed to be.
"Let's see.." I used my dagger to penetrate the are where Essence Stone was. And after several seconds or so, I found it.
It's a blue-like shaped Star Crystal, pale blue through. I rolled up my right sleeve before pulling it out.
"But my favorite tracksuit is now drenched in green blood.."
I muttered before sighing, thankfully Sung Jin-Woo had several dozens of different tracksuits packed in his room, every single one is same but with different colors. The one i'm wearing now is black colored one.
Let's send this baby into {Inventory}, thus I sent my Essence Stone into {Inventory} before looking at my dagger.
'No matter what someone says, this daggers looks too cool, it will be phenomenal weapon for some time but I will change it to a sword soon, after all. I don't plan to be Assassin like Hunter, but sword user, something like Goto Ryuji.'
I cast one more glance at cool looking fang turned dagger before sending it into {Inventory}.
But.
"Why are you staring at me like that? I don't bite and I won't hurt you." I looked at Yoo Jin-Hoo who approached me with that shady scared smile while holding backpack on his back.
"Rea-ally?"
I nodded.
"What, did you expect me to be serial killer or what?"
He just turned his head away with that wary smile, not daring to confirm my words.
My eyes twitched.
"We don't have much time to begin, this Dungeon will crumble any time soon, we should get going.." I sighed before switching the attention away from this topic.
Those guys should arrive.
"Give me a bottle of water."
I kind of ordered him to do, he without a question took one from the backpack before handing it to me.
I drank the entire bottle before throwing it away.
"Today should be your first lesson, do not plainly trust any Hunter who you work with. There honest and good ones like me, or bastards like them." 'Them' is obvious on who I was referring to. "And Imagine if I didn't sign up, and instead you were trapped here with weak E-Rank."
He nodded before his shady smile dropped as he cast downcast gaze on the ground. Ashamed perhaps?
"I-I understand..."
"And they also planned to strip your equipment off too once you were dead, that equipment you are wearing should be worth some sum. How much is it?"
"It's 200 Millions of Won..."
I nodded.
But just then, main event arrived.
Hwang Dongsuk and his group of bandits whose names I already forgot arrived from the hole on the left side of Cave.
"Unbelievable !" Shouted that Mage guy.
"They defeat C-Rank Boss by themselves? How much that Boss must have been weak?" Was the one with crossbow.
"Check that rich kid's equipment, it probably was strong enough to help him cross the chance of defeating that spider." Was the guy with dagger, the one who looked the most average on the street.
"It doesn't matter, we will still kill them." Was the main villain of this whole arc, Hwang Dongsuk, as his face spread into sadistic grin, threatening to split his face in half.
Sadistic Bastard.
They jumped from the hole before slowly approaching us, seeing that, Yoo Jin-Hoo took position in beside me, but not before throwing away that backpack and equipping his shield and sword.
'He is prepared for fight this time. I see, he is grateful.'
"Ok so shall we go with the flow. Yoo Jin-Hoo, I researched a little bit about your family, you are a rich kid So let's make a business contract. Kill that E-Rank and join us, otherwise you both will die here." Hwang Donsuk proclaimed as his eyes shone with evil intent, no wonder they both are brothers, resemblance in their personalities are very similar.
Yoo Jin-Hoo's hands trembled as he gritted his teeth in anger. And his resolve clear in his eyes, as he stepped forward, in front of Jin-Woo and taking his position as Tank.
"Really? Is that the answer you want to give me?"
Hwang Dongsuk's question was meet with weary silence before he shaked his head.
"Cho Kyuhwan, kill them." He ordered, Yoo Jin-Hoo immediately tensed up after hearing that.
"Are you sure? That armor might get damaged too much..."
"It doesn't matter, see it doesn't have even a scratch from the boss, meaning it should be fine while he is cooked underneath it." Hwang Dongsuk shrugged his shoulders while pointing at Yoo Jin-Hoo.
[WARNING!]
[Emergency Quest!]
[Defeat Hunters! 0/6]
[Failure: Death]
[Reward: Skill: Bloodlust]
I noticed {System's} warning just in time as yellow fireball was cast at me and Yoo Jin-Hoo, but with my speed and strength, I was more than enough capable to side step while pulling Yoo Jin-Hoo with me.
And fireball flew beside us before hitting random Mana Crystals behind us and exploding them.
"What!"
"Cho Kyuhwan, you need to aim better. How did you miss them so much? " Questioned Cross-Bow user, but sadly for them, they didn't notice much.
For them, since the distance I and Yoo Jin-Hoo moved was minimal just to avoid the fireball, it wasn't great enough for them to notice something wrong, and since I'm way faster than them, it was easy.
"Wh-" But Yoo Jin-Hoo did notice indeed.
"Stay back, I'll kill them for this. An eye for an eye. This is the survival of the fittest.." I whispered to him before I sprinted off.
Or rather disappeared as it looked like that to everyone here.
Just one moment I was with Yoo Jin-Hoo, next moment i disappeared. Then third moment, I cut off Cho Kyuhwan's head off, causing fontain of blood to erupt from him.
Now of course this caught attention of everyone of them.
I killed someone for first time.
I killed someone who could think, who is alive.
But is not a Magic Beast, nor a Monster..
Then it clicked inside my head.
Yes, those guys are monsters, each one of them killed dozens of people each. They can't be categorized as Humans.. The only difference between them and Kamish is that Kamish was stronger and has Stone Essence in planted in him.
I felt small amount of regret erupting from inside me, but I squashed it.
I knew what would happen, I knew what I would need to do. And his world is survival of the strongest, and I certainly I'm not a good guy..
My face split into a grin, as blue aura flared around me.
"Oh I'm gonna enjoy this." I spoke before deflecting several arrows shot at me by the crossbow guy.
"What!"
"How did he disappear and appear here in front of us!"
"He can't be E-Rank!"
"Where did he hid his weapon from!"
I dodged swings of the afro haired guy and the most average from the group.
And with two simple swings, I cut of their throats, leaving them to bleed out slowly and painful while 'Drain' and 'Paralyze' work on them.
"You killed them! You monster!" Screamed the crossbow guy as he literally started crying and shooting several arrows at me.
I run at his direction till I was in front of him and I stabbed him several times in the stomach.
"You literally killed dozens of people by now, and now you crying since it's your turn? Shut up, hypocrite.." I kicked his falling body as he began foaming blood from his mouth " When you kill, be prepared to be killed too."
Then I glanced once more at two remaining people of the group I will kill soon.
"True hunts begins now, what was I again? Weakest Hunter of all Mankind?"
"Keek!" Screamed Goo Juntae " Fake Ranker!"
And heads flew.
Chapter Word Count: 2079
{Stats}
[ Primary Character: [Sung Jin-Woo] [Equipped]
[Secondary Character: [Querehsha] [Expand]
[Level: 23]
[Titles: Goblin Slayer [Expand] ]
]Job Class: None]
[HP: 4,600]
[MP: 230]
[Strength: 55]
[Vitality: 33]
[Agility: 33]
[Intelligence: 33]
[Sense: 33]
[Un-Added Points: 3]