Episode 177
177. Episode 177
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“Haha, this compatibility is really bad! Since I can’t touch you, all I can do is tie you up in your seat!”
As Se-un ran towards him, the commander made way for him.
Proximity. Among them, dealing with Outer was extremely difficult for her, as she did not use weapons.
It was a great thing that Seun had enough time to fight the first golem one-on-one.
– The third technique of the Blood Wolf Sword Technique, Blood Wolf Attack, is strengthened through internal energy.
– The heat is added to the martial arts according to the secret of the ultimate deep attack.
Kwajik!
This time, we charged straight in without any need for restraint or war of nerves.
Anyway, while fighting the first golem, I figured out the strategy, and I also found out that the stigmata can kill the outer.
The back of my hand is still cold, which suggests that the stigmata have not fully subsided, but anything becomes stronger the more I use it.
A red wolf. No, a wolf with a darker appearance than usual due to stigmata, reached out its forepaws to the golem’s chest.
The golem struggled to tear Seun off, and the black liquid wriggled to protect its host, but an explosion occurred from Seun’s sword before that.
– The power of ‘Fire Burst’ is strengthened according to the Black Tower’s magic.
Boom, boom, boom!!
The fight after that was exactly the same as the first golem.
Remove the outer shell of the Ice Golem with a chain explosion created by Fire Burst, and use the Fire Cannon to burn away the black liquid protecting its core.
Then he raised his sword high and swung it at the nuke.
The golem stops moving, and black liquid starts to ooze out.
Both golems have already stopped.
The only hosts left here were Seun and the commander, but the guy instinctively realized that he shouldn’t approach Seun, so he immediately turned around and flowed towards him.
Slow down!
Did he feel a sense of crisis after seeing his colleague being beaten by Se-un?
The guy moved at a much faster speed than the one he had first caught.
A speed that even Seun has a hard time keeping up with.
I jumped with all my internal energy in my legs, but I fell just short.
That moment.
“Haha, no way!”
Boom!
The outer path was blocked by the fist of an ice golem flying from the air.
The golem hadn’t restarted. The commander had taken the golem’s fist off its body and swung it with only his strength.
The black liquid flinched and panicked for a moment as its path was blocked in an unexpected way.
Above him, Seun’s sword surged forward.
Phew!
– The third ability of the stigmata, ‘@#!%’, is awakened.
Cheeeeek!
The back of my hand, where the stigmata were engraved, became hot with the sound of black liquid burning.
I felt a sharp pain, as if the stigmata were being torn apart, but it wasn’t severe enough to break.
It was painful, but I could endure any pain that was necessary for growth.
The hand holding the dagger tightened in pain, and by the time I had grasped the other hand, which was trembling, I had buried my forehead in it.
Cheeeeee-
The shape of the outer garment completely disappeared.
Before returning, this is an action that neither the player nor the constellation could have done. It is killing the Outer itself that has separated from the host, not the Outer that is devouring the host.
“Wow! Are these the ones that fell from the legendary meteorite?”
“Probably, only a very small number.”
“Haha, I wonder what the main body is like. If it’s awake… … the empire, no, the continent could be in danger.”
The commander looked at me with a calm look in his eyes.
With his unique intuition, he instinctively realized how dangerous the things he had just encountered were.
Meanwhile, Se-Woon quietly raised his hand and looked at the stigmata that were cooling down.
‘The third power… … .’
Although the seal has been partially broken, the name of the power is still unknown.
First, fear.
Second, madness.
And thirdly, an unidentified force that destroys the outer.
At first, I thought that the power was simply determined by the divinity of the enemy I was fighting against, but somehow it seemed to flow in the direction that Seun wanted.
Perhaps, the direction of power is determined by Seun’s will?
Se-Woon, who was thinking like that, put his hand down and regained his senses.
The exploration is not over yet.
Most importantly, the task remains to explore the meteorite itself.
– Predated the ‘Ice Golem’.
– Absorbs nutrients to increase strength by 3 and stamina by 3.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, takes a bite of clean food free of foreign substances and chews it thoroughly.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’, gulps down his prey while enjoying a thrilling headache.
As if to prove that the Outer has completely disappeared, Beelzebub gleefully swallows the Ice Golem.
The statue that previously contained the outer made me nauseous and I couldn’t swallow it.
This proves how completely Seun’s stigmata destroyed the outer.
“Let’s go.”
“Hahaha! You guys don’t seem to get tired!”
Seun moved forward while maintaining his light magic.
The passage, which was already large enough to contain an ice golem, grew even larger, and soon a wide space like a cave appeared.
Unlike before, when there was only pitch-black darkness, a faint light was streaming in from the ice ceiling.
‘This is the center of the lake.’
I’m not sure, but considering the distance we walked from the fortress, it should be about right.
Even though the ceiling was bright, this place also remained dark like ice until now, and the inside was not visible.
“… … There’s something.”
However, Seun and the commander could feel it.
That there is something here that is so nerve-wrackingly huge.
‘Is it this way?’
Unlike the commander who instinctively sensed danger, Seun’s stigmata were reacting directly to the presence of the outer.
Se-Woon followed the path led by Seong-Heun.
The place we arrived at was also in front of a pitch-black ice wall.
Even though he was right in front of his nose, he couldn’t see the inside of the ice at all, so Seun blew mana into his light and brought it closer to the ice.
And then I was faced with a shocking scene.
“This…….”
“Ahem… … .”
The outline of the monster was faintly visible in the pitch-black ice.
Sharp teeth like saws glinted ominously inside the wide-open mouth.
A body sharper than a shark and smoother than a crocodile.
If I had to make a metaphor, it reminded me of a dinosaur like the Mosasaurus that ruled the Earth’s seas in ancient times.
Even so, most of its body was covered in black liquid, and Seun’s light could only illuminate very few areas, making it difficult to determine its exact shape.
‘As expected, it was an outer.’
Although the host was different, the sight of the creature being devoured by the outer was just like the wild boar monster I had seen just before the return.
Although he was frozen in a state where black liquid was dripping down, the sense of oppression and peculiar discomfort could not be hidden.
“This is… … the worst.”
The commander hardened his expression, hiding his trembling arms.
Rather than being scared, she instinctively realized the danger of the being in front of her because her animalistic senses were more developed than others.
A small amount of black liquid that was eating away at the ice golem.
That alone made the Ice Golem much more powerful than it was originally.
Moreover, even that was limited in strength due to being trapped in the ice for a long time.
But what about the existence before your eyes right now?
It was a monster that looked so powerful that it was hard to guess its strength even without its outer garment, but black liquid was flowing out from all over its body.
If such a monster were to awaken, as she said, it would not be a problem for the empire, but rather the continent itself.
From the player’s perspective, the third shelter that would have provided solace to their tired bodies is destroyed.
No, beyond that, the entire lower level of the tower might shake.
‘Perhaps the monster sealed in the sandstorm of Skabe is similar to this one.’
Could it be that each shelter has one of these outers sealed away?
But why?
There was so little information that I could barely understand anything.
One thing is clear… … .
‘It’s impossible to deal with this guy as of now.’
Even Se-Woon, who had become stronger through the power of gluttony, even with a weapon manifested through the power of greed, and even with the power of jealousy to narrow the gap, it was impossible to deal with the outer in front of him.
Although it is said that there is a third power of the stigmata, it is still extremely weak.
Se-woon turned his back, his mind engraving the guy’s appearance in his mind.
And at that moment, something strange began to happen in the community.
Kururur-!
The floor is shaking. No, the entire room is shaking.
Seun’s stigmata emit a crimson light, indicating the source of the vibration.
Flash!
“Ugh!”
When he turned his head, the reptilian eyes with vertically slit pupils were looking at him.
The commander took a deep breath without realizing it.
In that solid ice, the black liquid that had been frozen as it was flowing down from the outer body, starting from the red pupils, starts to stir.
‘shit…….’
Why?
There was no way the guy’s seal could have been released naturally.
If that was the case, it would have been right for the guy to wake up on his own before Se-un regressed.
No matter how high up the floor he reached, there was no way Seun hadn’t heard the news that the Outer had woken up and was causing a ruckus.
‘Could it be because of me?’
Se-Woon raised his hand and looked at the crimson stigmata that were rippling.
I thought it was simply a power that could kill the Outer, but since the seal hasn’t been completely released yet and its identity is unknown, this stigmata may have stimulated the Outer.
Damn!
A single line of gold was engraved into the exterior of the black ice.
Starting with that, thread-like diagonal lines were engraved all over the floor and walls, and the trembling of the entire room became increasingly severe.
If the guy wakes up like this, the third shelter will collapse without a trace.
Seun could save his life by challenging the next floor right away, but in my experience, the Outer could move freely between floors of the tower.
If that guy can move freely around the tower, the tower may collapse before the Third Great War even begins.
However, Seun had no way to deal with the guy as he was now.
‘What should I do?’
As I bit my lip while looking at the stigmata, which had become even blacker, the entity that had been sleeping inside the stigmata revealed itself, fluttering its black feathers.
“Seriously, you’re a never-ending source of trouble.”
Mamon, the goddess of greed. She has appeared.
Chorrrrrr!
As she reached out, hundreds of black chains appeared from the ice and wrapped around Outer’s body.
The red eyes widened in anger, but the chains tightened around Outer’s body.
Then, the intensity of the earthquake that had been shaking the community also decreased significantly.
“I wanted to take my time and enjoy the lower floors, but it’s already too early to close the curtain.”
Her outstretched hand was scattering like ash.
To begin with, the appearance she has revealed now is only a very small portion of the divinity left in Seun’s stigmata.
As I said last time, it was not the divinity left behind to exert power.
She is now using all the strength she has left in her stigmata to hold onto the outer’s movements.
“What are you doing? Why don’t you fix it quickly?”
The hundreds of chains were also slowly disappearing as her body disappeared.
The more this happened, the more the outer showed its anger and tried to open its mouth wide.
The vibrations that had begun to subside began to intensify again, and the outer’s mouth began to open.
‘Conservative’.
What are you talking about?
The worry didn’t last long.
“thank you.”
“Don’t be thankful. I will take the price.”
– The power of ‘Ice Field’ is strengthened according to the Black Tower’s magic.
– The stability of the ‘Ice Field’ is strengthened according to the magic of the Blue Tower.
– The ‘Ice Field’ becomes more solid according to the magic of the Yellow Tower.
Knock knock-
Numerous diagonal lines created by the outer’s desperate struggle.
In the meantime, a cold air began to settle in and the diagonal lines began to become sharp.
“G-G-G-G-G-G!”
Finally, the roar of the outer ringing like a welcome echoed through the remaining diagonal lines.
Dddddddddddd-!!
An even thicker layer of ice formed on top of the black ice.
fantasy,
