Episode 164. The User (4)
I couldn’t resist at all. It was quite a familiar sensation. A feeling that a far higher price was weighing on .
It felt like a giant hand was slowly falling over my head. The muscles and skin surrounding the bones were torn and splattered everywhere. The intestines spilled, and the heart exploded, but that wasn’t the real thing. He created an image.
He overlaid the image of death on . I could overco it if I didn’t fall into it. It was just a kind of hallucination. However, the problem was that the hallucinations were so intense that they felt real, not fiction.
“Uuh… Ah…”
Before my whole body was completely broken down, I lifted my palm and activated the power. I rembered a figure with that.
A man who was constantly fighting for humanity even if he was stabbed with a sword, his head fell on the floor, and even if half of his body was blown away. A Hunter who was called a living saint and perford amazing miracles. His power dwelled in my body.
Yeah, I wouldn’t die only with that. I had overco more than that. I didn’t die from that kind of thing.
Zzzsssssstttt.
With that belief, the broken body began to be reassembled. It ant that my will was stronger than the Boss’ image. An unquestionable belief soon manifested as power, which restored my body like Zhang Wei’s abilities in my mory.
The image in my eyes gathered, and my muscles grew again.
Strong faith soon produced miracles.
“… This cheap trick.”
The voice of the Boss, as if chewing, rang. At the sa ti, my body floated into the air. I struggled, floundering my limbs in the air. There was no mobility to act. Sothing cramped and I felt suffocation. It felt as if I had subrged into the ocean’s depths.
‘If I can’t get out of here, it’s really over.’
Instinctively I knew it was a kind of world created by the Boss. His body grew at an uncontrollable speed, and his enormous presence looked down at as if crushing . I couldn’t just leave it alone. I would face the end in vain.
“Huh… Emph!”
I swirled my body around and avoided the place in a motion akin to swimming. The Boss’ eyes glowed ferociously like the sun, evidently watching .
“You fool, did you think you could get inside the fence of my house and survive?”
Damn it. I knew very well that fighting in an opponent’s territory was suicide, and I had to drag my opponent out to win. That was why I was a little reluctant to enter the Casino myself.
But what could I do? To deal with soone who rarely exits his territory, the only way to do it was to step up directly.
“It’s stupid. It’s really reckless.”
A great grasp flew in to grab . I could never escape it if I got caught. Zhang Wei’s power or other powers weren’t enough to overco it. It was best not to get caught in it.
‘Or smash it before it approaches .’
The surface of my palm shone. Still, I didn’t jump into that place recklessly. I ca in after making my plan and preparing for it. A strong man who had far-reaching strength and fights within his own realm. If soone heard that, they would wonder why he fought like that.
‘There’s still a chance of winning.’
Proper vigilance and tension. There was a huge gap so that it didn’t even exist, and the enemy didn’t imagine the image of defeat due to the stability of fighting in his own territory. Dealing with such an enemy was a battle with slim chances of winning.
In any fight, a brief, subtle mont determined victory or defeat, life or death. In the process, vigilance was one of the deadliest factors.
Of course, the arrogant and confident Boss would’ve been off-guard. I was sure he must’ve been overwheld since I broke the beads and provoked him. Suddenly, he was no different than a stronger-than-average child at that mont.
A huge hand then approached . The mont I get caught my whole body would burst. Amid that, my concentration deepened endlessly. Ti slowed down.
b Modifier – ‘The Best Hunter’ is activated.}
mories of tearing and trampling objects harder than steel when I slaughtered giants of monstrous size with a small body of fewer than 2 ters awaken in my body.
Yes, so far, I hadn’t been winning against only the weak. Every hour was a close call, and every other day I risked my life. This was no different from then.
Crack, crack, crack.
My concentration had increased endlessly. I kicked the ground once. At that mont, I felt like I crossed the wall. The speed beyond cognition. It felt like electricity had shot through the muscles of my body. My body dug through the gap of those fingers.
“…!”
The Boss’ expression was cracked. I didn’t stop.
“W-What…”
Starting from the palm to the wrist, each power collection was shining. The forces created by imagination awaken in my body. Weapons revealed their teeth one by one.
As I was going through the gap of the Boss’ fingers, I kicked his wrist and climbed up his elbow. The blade of a mirage ripped off his skin and gnawed through it. From then on, it was a battle of images.
He had to be thinking of like a bug; a little pest that could never stand up once trampled upon. However, sotis humans were killed by the sting of small insects.
Sothing called life, in fact, was sothing that ended in total vain.
-Dealing with monsters is a very difficult task.
-No matter how much you build up your strength, it can’t be harder than their skin.
-No matter how powerful the weapon you obtained and how hard you train your skills and characteristics, you are weaker than the teeth and claws of monsters crawling out of the cracks.
-That’s a natural limit. We are inherently weaker than others.
Long ago, the words spoken while I was standing on the Academy’s podium rang in my head. As an Analyst, Jeong Si-woo evaluated Hunters as such. No amount of effort could go beyond the natural characteristics of a monster. However, Analyst Jeong Si-woo had never ntioned despair or failure.
-But we still slaughtered innurable monsters.
-We slaughtered them, and we defended our territory.
-Those who survived the war are the winners.
-We eventually survived, and we will survive to the end.
-Weak but persistent, inherently inferior but growing endlessly.
-Hunters continue like that. We end up slaughtering monsters that are dozens of tis larger than ourselves, and we united together to defeat strong enemies for months and later defeated many things by ourselves.
-That’s who we are.
The Boss was no longer intimidating to . The blade of the Mirage cut and tore his body. In the process, I didn’t allow a single attack.
The Boss beca smaller and smaller. The indescribably enormous body changed similarly to mine. The existence that stood so high that it was hard to see fell into the sa position.
“W…What!?”
Whoong-!
The change caused the Boss to move too much as if he were confused. But I couldn’t have been beaten by such an obvious attack. I turned my body and pierced his chest with a couple of stabs. A thick liquid splashed everywhere.
The image of immortality, the thoughts that had been rooted in the Boss’ head were gradually breaking apart. He was getting hurt and weak. The arrogant giant, who had settled in the ho of the Transcendents, was being bitten to death by a small rabid dog.
“… How did he do this to the Boss so easily…”
“What’s going on right now…”
As the Transcendents’ perceptions looked at that change, my power grew greater and stronger with the shifting public opinion. My image, which was infinitely underneath, rose as if piercing the sky.
A shock naturally accompanied a sudden twist, and a shocking scene was bound to be strongly engraved in your head. In the middle of a dramatic situation, I beca the protagonist, and none of the readers who loved the story thought the protagonist would lose.
“Perhaps…”
Soone imagined that I might win and that unconventional imagination soon spread to many Transcendents. The image of the Boss, who was ruined by great embarrassnt, fell surprisingly fast.
It was a natural phenonon for the embedded stone, which had dominated one place for a long ti, to beco insignificant rolling gravel. The generational change was inherently very sudden. The long-living Transcendents knew it very well.
“This… it can’t… be!”
So did the Boss, who had lived beyond asure. That was why he wanted to deny that situation even more. After all, that flow would only be poison to him. He knew that if that continued, his breath would soon break.
Clack, clack!
There were a lot of wounds on the Boss’ body. The things he did didn’t hurt anymore. His modifier, The Boss, had beco useless. He wasn’t looking down on from the top of my head. He was looking at as an equal.
“Arghh… Aaaaaaarggghh!”
Along with a bizarre cry, the Boss’ body was torn into several branches. It wasn’t what my blade did. A phenonon in which his body itself changed. The surrounding air had changed. With that, the sixth sense warned that it was dangerous.
‘… What image is this-?’
His eyebrows frowned. All the decorations inside the ornate building were broken, and darkness spread over the illuminated place.
At the sa ti, disgusting tentacles rose from the Boss’ body. He was no longer the one who was playing the Ga earlier. It wasn’t a host who tried to seek pleasure and attention from others, but a beast that devoured and swallowed greedily anything it wanted. A ravaging beast ca to life.
“Without… trace… I’ll eat you without a trace. Not to ntion that brilliant cheap trick, the Akashic Records that the Faceless King desires so much, and the world you have!”
It was an unpleasant voice to hear. It slled like sothing putrid. A puddle that had accumulated in one place for a very long ti and had rotted. It slled like I was in a place like that.
“… You want to eat that much? Really?”
Looking at it, I put the Mirage in my waist, and then, with bare hands, I faced the tentacles that were fired at . Anyway, those weapons couldn’t counter the power that he brought out. The physical fight on the surface was over. Currently, it was a battle of Transcendents over existence.
“Okay. Let’s do it, you son of a bitch. You, who are playing with the world and enjoying low-level pleasure, and . Let’s fight and see who is more worthy of Transcendence.”
Pugh-!
His tentacles pierced my chest, and…
Grasp.
My grip pulled in his tentacles. With that, his body was dragged towards .
Splash, splash.
A sticky liquid splashed around the swinging fist. Along with that, the world changed violently.
[Another Transcendent interferes with the user’s ntal world.]
[Another Transcendent interferes with the user.]
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“Yes, give it a try.”
A voice of evil ca out.
“I’m not alone, after all.”
[Power: ‘Link’ has been activated.]
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[The Akashic Records, great stories that were held in vain in a super-dinsional collection of information begins to dwell in the user’s soul.]
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