Chapter 184
Jung Si-woo’s new awakening skill with the power of the Chaos wing and Charge left only terrible debris in its wake. The elite monster’s beads were retrievable, but the other monsters caught in the crash disappeared entirely at that moment. Jung Si-woo shuddered at the power he had displayed. Chaos Wing, Wind Run, those two types of overwhelming power needed to create speed, made a simple dash the feat of challenging legend.
“But still, Chaos Cruel…just because you’re making a name for your lethal move doesn’t mean you’re strong.”
“Please do something about these guys, rather than making jokes that we don’t understand!”
Soo Ah-rin somehow came back behind him and screamed. She struggled to replace Caina, who had lost all her energy in controlling the Phantom Bike.
“Huh? Oh…yes, you’re right.”
The outer core had certainly been pulverized. However, thanks to him, the monsters that were forming it withdrew from the group. Now they were frantically rushing toward Jung Si-woo, but there was nothing to fear from the already disorganized charge, and even more…
“There’s no need for us to step up now.”
“What?”
When Soo Ah-rin tilted her head and asked back, a terrible explosion broke out inside the much smaller sphere of the cluster. Hundreds of monsters bounced off the inner core completely.
“Now!”
“Bisset’s attack worked! Open the gap!”
“Blood Cross!”
Jung Si-woo’s collapse was external, but as they were organized inside, the players succeeded in attacking the gaps in the siege!
“Si-woo!”
It was Marina’s voice. Jung Si-woo made the hammer medium-sized, properly removing the monsters around him and securing visibility. She was flying in a straight line to him, flapping her white feather wings faster than the hummingbirds. It looked like tears were forming in her eyes.
“Si-woo!”
“Gasp.”
He thought she would stop midway, but Marina rushed into Jung Si-woo’s arms. He was ready to shake her off right away, but when she saw her eyes shaking quietly, he decided to accept it quietly. It was the expression of a child who lost his parents in the mall.
“I’m glad you’re all right.”
“Yes.”
“Ouuuu…”
Whether Soo Ah-rin growled next to her or not, Marina seemed to make her upset for no reason as she clung to him. It didn’t look like she was always confident. Of course, that didn’t hide the fact that she was the main character of the explosion that just happened.
“Oh, really, Si-woo.”
“Now I’m alive…”
“Mr. Jung!”
“Was he able to enter the Sky Castle Dungeon?”
“Look, you have wings!”
Other players quickly escaped due to Marina’s onslaught. Although they suffered from the unexpected changes in the dungeon, their experiences at the forefront of the dungeon attack seemed to have gone nowhere.
“Get back and do the maintenance! We must disperse them completely before they can be replenished!”
“You’re all out there, right? Let’s gather around Mr. Jung!”
The Players settled around Jung Si-woo in a straight line. The more people gathered, the faster he wanted to separate from Marina, but he remained as still as a statue.
“Si-woooooooooo.”
“Si-woo…Ah.”
Lee Seo-hee and Seria also came straight to him, but they left him with a lukewarm look when they saw Marina not thinking of falling away from him. Jung Si-woo was dumbfounded as he turned to them.
“Don’t just make that weird face. Take her.”
“Please understand. She’s always the one who’s been through everything on her own. But this time it’s…”
In other words, Marina was now a proper mix of joy, gratitude, shame, and resentment toward Jung Si-woo. Furthermore, she showed this to other players, so he had no choice but to keep doing this because he couldn’t find the right time to move away.
“As expected, the rumor that Jung Si-woo was engaged to Marina Bissett was true.”
“This storm is the only thing that’s made me drink a lot of fruitless water….”
The Players were peeking at Jung Si-woo and Marina, who wouldn’t break away from their hug even in the monster-filled dungeon. Jung Si-woo thought of sweeping them all away with the monsters.
“Mr. Jung…”
“Oh…Lee Kang-hoo.”
Then, there was a man sneaking up near him. Kang-hoo, the head of Yong sung Guild, seemed to have consumed more Magic Stones than anyone else Jung Si-woo had ever seen.
“Thank you for your help. If it weren’t for you, we’d all be in trouble.”
“You were at this party, too.”
“Sometimes I’d like to attend a party with a light heart, so I’d hide my identity…”
“Well, that’s enough.”
Lee Kang-hoo was pretending to be decent on the outside and acting polite, but he must be aware that Jung Si-woo recognized his identity from the moment Marina joined the party to protect John Smith. Maybe we should all get through the crisis together, so let’s do well now, even if you’re trying to say something like that…Jung Si-woo didn’t want to participate in such a play.
“I’ll deal with you later, and you’ll be crushed.”
“Mr. Jung, I don’t know why you feel so bad…”
“Don’t you understand? You’re out of the dungeon, and I’m going to take care of it, so shut up for now.”
The air was frozen. Now, no one couldn’t understand what Jung Si-woo said to Lee Kang-hoo. The others sighed at the two strongest players being at odds when the situation was already bad.
“Hey, I don’t know what happened between you two, but it’s not good right now.”
“Thank you so much for coming to our rescue. But without Mr. Jung, many of us would have died. I’ll put aside my personal feelings for now…oh, here it comes!”
There was no more time to relax. When the magic camp was broken, the elite monsters began to divide and lead the regulars. The basic rules of the dungeon had already been broken. All the monsters in the dungeon spread their wings at the call of the elite monsters and flew up, re-forming a truly extensive siege.
“Let’s deal with monsters together now! I don’t know what the misunderstanding is, but we can talk about it together later, and we’ll be able to resolve it!”
“…Ha.”
Lee Kang-hoo persuaded Jung Si-woo as if to appease a forceful child. Indeed, it was an admirable persona. However, Jung Si-woo was dumbfounded and left laughing. He acquired the Jinan skills as a reward for his special achievements and incorporated them into the dragon’s senses. This meant that others couldn’t hide their innermost thoughts from him unless they were good enough to deceive the dragon’s senses.
And this Kang-hoo was underqualified. He didn’t even want to hear his black, rotten, smelly voice anymore.
“You’re talking so out of your own accord, garbage.”
“Hmph!?”
Jung Si-woo vented the dragon’s dignity at him with determination. Lee Kang-hoo’s soft smile cracked.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have anything to talk about with you now or later. There’s no point in arguing. It’s all concluded, and all that’s left is execution. I don’t know what you’re thinking, but now it’s just a little bit of a delay in your punishment.”
“…”
“And one more thing. You said together, but…”
Jung Si-woo threw his hammer into his inventory, raised one arm, aimed at the group of monsters flooding toward them, and opened his palms.
[Argh!]
[Kuuaaaaaaaaaah!]
At that moment, the Dragon’s Vambrace’s acid strike was displayed through his palms. It was already perfectly synchronized with the Chaos scale, so it was possible to embody the Vambrace’s abilities! Sickly green and acidic mana wiped out all the monsters in its trajectory.
“To deal with this dungeon, I don’t need anyone else’s help.”
“…”
Lee Kang-hoo slowly stepped back, unable to say anything more, as the disgusting smell of acid rose faintly in the wake of his attack. Instinctive fear had neatly emptied his mind. Trying to cozy up with Marina and Seria was less important than survival.
“Ha.”
Watching him go back to his colleagues, Jung Si-woo turned toward the group and confirmed.
“By any chance, what have you done? You’re not just going to be beaten, but…”
“Don’t worry about that part because he hasn’t done anything to rashly reveal his desires. However, this time, we’ve talked about the consumption of Magic Stone to the point of persistence. It seemed to be trying to convince us.”
It was a report from Seria. She also opened her eyes wide, wondering if Jung Si-woo, who had no connection with magic, could show such a ridiculous destructive power, but he did it properly.
“The argument was that to counter God’s power; we had no choice but to break human limits with the consumption of Magic Stone. There was no sign of hiding it from us or any other rankers. Of course, we know the folly of the act…since you’re good at controlling yourself, maybe one of the rankers will fall for his argument.”
“Yeah, that’s what it looks like now. Some have already fallen for it.”
Just as those who once claimed to have been blessed by God did, Jung Si-woo didn’t say anything, but Seria blushed as if she was ashamed to look at him. Then Seo-hee butt in.
“More than that, Si-woo. What happened to you? Your wings…”
“It worked out somehow.”
“Yeah, I knew you’d say that.”
“This is all about waking up to save you. I wish you could thank me more gently.”
“Fool, I’m very grateful.”
Lee Seo-hee finally laughed. Jung Si-woo forced her to take Marina, who hadn’t yet even thought of falling away from him.
“Now stop being silly, and fight. I was pretentious to Lee Kang-hoo, but it’s not a technique that I can use very often.”
“Si-woo, you could kill a monster naked and still win…”
“Ouuh.”
At Jung Si-woo’s words, Marina murmured, her face turning red like a tomato.
“Marina, complain later. Now, Si-woo doesn’t know, but you have to be brave in front of the others.”
“Yes, I understand…”
Was it an illusion that Lee Seo-hee looked like Marina’s babysitter? Jung Si-woo smiled bitterly. Anyway, he was glad all three of them were safe. Wait, three of them?
“No, wait, where’s John Smith?”
“I’m here.”
John Smith rose from where no one seemed to be, with tiny bat wings. He was bleeding as if he had been hurt, but fortunately, it wasn’t that deep. Soo Ah-rin, who was burning with anger at the sight of Jung Si-woo and Marina, finally came to her senses when she saw a patient and treated him with her magic. He nodded lightly to Soo Ah-rin, thanking her, before turning to Jung Si-woo.
“Thank you for saving me. I was told that you were the one who sent Miss Bissett.”
“I can’t let someone who helps my father die.”
“As expected, the son of Mr. Justice…and more than that, there’s something I need to tell you.”
Hmm? In this situation? As Jung Si-woo approached him with a tilted head, John Smith whispered to him in a secret voice.
“I don’t see any of the followers who came in with Lee Kang-hoo. They are originally good at disguise and hiding, but I’ve been aware of their appearance and identity since I entered the temple because I have experience….”
“You missed them?”
“It’s likely they’ve gone up in that time with Dungeon mutations. I kept my eyes on the monsters while confronting them, but the others suddenly hid somewhere. I wish my ability had improved….”
John Smith slurred his words. Jung Si-woo could see what he was worried about without hearing the gossip. Jung Si-woo sighed as he looked up and saw the players fighting against the group of monsters, especially Lee Kang-hoo, who was gallantly leading the charge. The of entry into the Crescent Age was the right twist of the whole situation.
“Thank you, Smith. Let’s be careful from now on. Even the followers who hid…and Lee Kang-hoo.”
He thought maybe he’d fight him before they left the dungeon.
