Episode 242 No. 88 The Gathering of Villains (6)
The flying fox looked at us with a strange face.
It must be bizarre that these guys who were so serious just a moment ago are now all laughing together.
“… … Are you saying that these guys were caught in a group fire?”
“Let’s get started now. I don’t have time to chat anymore.”
I deliberately cut off the conversation.
I couldn’t waste it since the boost lasted only 5 minutes.
The twins’ faces hardened again, but they seemed to agree that time was wasted.
The two of them simultaneously raised their momentum and scattered their tension in all directions.
– Papapapat!
‘That’s classic.’
The intention is to spread poison widely to take over the space and slowly poison the entire area.
There is also an intention to identify vulnerable opponents and focus on overlapping poison.
But what they didn’t expect was,
‘The poison resistance is S-class.’
I wrapped the wind barrier around my body and jumped head-on towards Bima.
After being hit with a few blasts of tension, the wind barrier collapsed and the poison invaded my body, but I ignored it and clung to the thing.
“This guy… … ?”
Bima opened his eyes wide in confusion.
This is the first time in my life that I have ever met such a reckless opponent.
But I was only a little confused, as he tried to hit me with his sword.
I dodged Bima’s arm just in time to stab him with my Hyun-eum-ok-ma-ji.
– Pook,
‘Just one room.’
Then we moved back to regroup,
“bloke!”
Bima followed along as if he would not let that happen.
As the palm flew towards my head, I tilted my head slightly to dodge, and the long slash that reached my abdomen was deflected by a sapling.
The guy who was about to attack continuously stopped and retreated.
– Wedge wedge wedge!
Shadow blades slashed through the place.
Dang Gyu-young intervened.
A shadow rises from beneath her feet, places a dagger in her hand, and throws it rapidly, repeatedly.
During this gap, I took a quick look at the Sanma side and it turned out that Go Hyun-woo, Jang Moo-geuk, and Chae Da-bin were in charge.
‘That worked out well.’
Since the Bisan Twins are twins and have been together for a long time, they are more difficult to deal with when they are together.
But now that we have a natural structure where we deal with each other separately, I think we can focus on Bima.
– Whaaaaa!
“It’s annoying.”
Bima frowned as he dodged the flying shadow daggers, then unleashed a barrage of energy at Dang Gyu-yeong.
– Papapapat!
Because Dang Gyu-yeong moved nimbly, none of them hit the target, but acrid smoke rose from places where the tension was lost.
Looking at that, Bima had a sinister smile on his lips.
He is a master of poison.
Even if you miss, it is not a loss as it can slowly cover the area with poisonous smoke.
No matter how fast and furious the opponent is, he is still a human and will inhale the smoke little by little, and it is only a matter of time before Dang Gyu-yeong becomes paralyzed and collapses.
‘If there is no poison resistance, that is.’
Wouldn’t it be okay to stand on top of the smoke for at least 5 minutes while maintaining S-class?
Anyway, I thought it was time to go back in, so I said a word to Dang Gyu-yeong.
“Please help me.”
“okay.”
Then he put up a wind barrier and kicked the ground.
– Pot!
The distance between me and Bima was quickly closing.
Perhaps remembering that he had just been stabbed by Hyun-eum-ok-ma-ji, the bastard kept his distance and continued to apply tension.
I followed along without pushing myself too hard and continued to replenish my wind barrier.
As he was doing so, one by one, shadow butterflies began to fly around Bima, and in an instant, they swelled to a dozen or so.
[The Dream of the Shadow Butterfly]
And then all at once, the shapes collapsed and stuck to Bima’s body like a sticky liquid.
“hmm!”
Bima immediately raised his sword and shook it off, but I took that moment to sneak in and stab the jade horse.
– Pook,
Only then did Bima’s face harden as if he had realized something.
The cold air spreading through my blood vessels and my index finger freezing solid.
“… …Hyeon-eum-ok-maji!”
“As expected, you know.”
“You were a master of the Demonic Cult. That young boy has mastered some amazing martial arts.”
“Oh my, thank you. I learned something new too. Would you like to try it?”
The perfect situation to test out your newly learned skills.
As I extended one hand towards Bima, a cold wind blew.
[Chillwind]
[Twister]
-Wheww—
“what……!”
As if he had an ominous feeling, he immediately leapt to the side, but his speed was somehow slow.
Even though I avoided being bound by Twister, I was still slowed down because I couldn’t completely escape Chillwind’s range.
In addition, Chillwind has a second effect, cold reinforcement.
The cold air that has penetrated through the Hyeonumokmaji will spread even faster.
-Whew—
I kept moving Chilwind to chase after Bima, and Bima began to tremble like an aspen tree, perhaps because he felt the cold air.
“These bastards… … !”
Bima, who is still gaining momentum and is throwing poison arrows.
Since he had been continuously accumulating poison since a while ago, it seemed that he expected that one of Nana and Dang Gyu-yeong would fall soon.
-Whew—
The cold wind and the paralyzing tension went back and forth several times.
The more this happened, the more distrust appeared on Bima’s face.
“These guys… … ?”
At this point, you should be starting to see some signs of addiction, but since we’re both moving around just fine, you might be wondering.
“Are you guys saying that you can read and write indiscriminately?”
“Similar.”
Actually, it’s a little bit different from Mandokbulchim.
In the end, it was Bima who ran out of time first.
His feet, which had been moving and sending out tension while being chased by Chillwind, stopped in place.
After being hit twice by the Hyeon-eum-ok-ma-ji and doubling the cold with Chil-wind, his entire body ended up freezing.
Then the ground beneath his feet turned pitch black, and countless long shadow thorns rose up and pierced his body.
– Pfft pfft!
“… … !”
Bima couldn’t even scream, and just glared at me with bloodshot eyes.
And then he fell down, pierced by the shadow thorns.
“Ouch!”
Sanma screamed when he saw the sight.
Soon he was trembling with anger.
“These damn bastards… …!”
Then, he started to gain more momentum than before and spread his power in all directions.
– Papapapat!
A desperate determination to take one or two people with me as companions even if I collapse here.
Go Hyun-woo barely released the tension and took a couple of steps back.
“Ugh… … !”
Up until now, he had been pushing back against Sanma with the help of Jang Moo-geuk’s combined attacks, Chae Da-bin’s drones, and poison resistance, but when the bastard charged in with the intention of planning a two-faced attack, he began to be pushed back helplessly.
It will be difficult for Go Hyun-woo to hold out, so it will take a while to bring him down.
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Another problem is that the duration of the amplification is less than half.
There was no benefit to prolonging the battle.
‘It’s over quickly.’
I winked at Dang Gyu-yeong.
Then, Dang Gyu-yeong disappeared beneath my shadow, and I also moved to Sanma’s square as stealthily as possible.
And then I took a step forward.
[Ghost without shadow]
It felt like invisible footprints were being left between me and Sanma, similar to when I was taking the test.
As I followed those footprints, my body slid forward as if I were a ghost.
Soon, Sanma’s back got close, and I stabbed Hyeon-eum-ok-ma-ji in the head.
– Pook,
“… … !”
Only then did Sanma turn around and look at me.
His eyes were wide open, as if they were going to tear apart, and he didn’t notice until I was right there with him, squeezing him hard.
Perhaps because he was so surprised, he looked away for too long.
It was enough time for Dang Gyu-yeong, who had jumped out with a shadow leap, to pounce on the guy and grab him, and for Go Hyeon-woo to slash diagonally with his magic sword.
– Crunch!
Then Jang Mu-geuk’s voice was heard.
“Excellent.”
– Phew!
A long and thin sword like an awl pierced through Sanma’s upper body and came out.
He waited for an opportunity like a murderer and then delivered the final blow.
Jang Mu-geuk looked at me as he pulled the sword out of the collapsing body of the mountain horse.
“Is that a ghost shadow? Not only is it fast, but its stealth ability is also amazing. I lost track of it for a moment even while watching it. The rumors I’ve heard are actually lacking.”
“I’m really looking forward to getting such a chance.”
Go Hyun-woo also added a word.
In reality, I entered the dungeon after seeing the ghost story, and since I even tested its performance right before my eyes, my anticipation couldn’t help but explode.
But for now, it seemed best to put the story of Ghostly Nightmare on hold for a while.
“Thank you for your hard work. Let’s start with detoxification first.”
A state where poison has accumulated without anyone knowing.
Although Ko Hyun-woo and I possess [Baek-Dok-Bul-Chim], we cannot block the poison used by the B-rank mid-boss poisoner.
Also, [Poison Resistance] only reduces the damage taken while poisoned, and the poisoning itself cannot be helped.
Even though it is an S-class, it has clear limitations.
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In addition, [Amplification] will end soon and poison resistance will drop from S to B, so damage will start coming in faster.
If you fly all the way to Buyeo, you might collapse and vomit blood.
The poison must be dealt with before that.
I asked Dang Gyu-yeong.
“Do you have an antidote? Or just use this.”
In my hand I was holding the standard elixir I had received from Angel Gapdu.
If nothing else is available, I was thinking of sharing this.
But Dang Gyu-yeong immediately dissuaded me.
“Why would you use that? It’s a waste.”
Then he takes out a few antidotes from his inventory and hands them out.
“As expected, you have it.”
“Of course. But I was the direct descendant.”
Although he is not familiar with the vision of the Tang family, he was once a direct descendant, so he has extensive knowledge of poison and carries an antidote.
I used that knowledge to poison the dimensional crow.
After I finished dealing with all the poison, I turned my head and saw two small boxes lying where the twins had fallen.
[Villains’ Gathering Random Box (B)]*2
I unintentionally participated in the boss rush and got rewards.
Let’s distribute these later too.
Dang Gyu-yeong looked into the distance and spoke with a half-worried, half-uneasy expression.
“But I guess Peng Mi-ryeong stopped them? Judging from what they missed.”
“I guess so. I wonder if I’ll hear from you soon.”
As expected, after a while the communicator rang like a ghost.
Dang Gyu-yeong exchanged a quick glance with me, then pretended not to know anything and asked me into the communicator.
“Uh, why?”
– I’ve got a bit of a problem.
“What, did something explode somewhere?”
– … … Yeah, 2 teams.
A complicated feeling came out of Peng Mi-ryeong’s low voice.
I think it was Team 2 that faced the Bisan Twins before us.
Judging from the contact they are making, the damage seems to be quite extensive.
‘I already caught it.’
Of course, there was no reason to tell you that fact in advance.
Because we have to hold the sword hilt.
The supporters eat it all
