novelraw Chapter 148
Chapter 148
Uriel's appearance had completely derailed the plan Lee Shin had in mind.
But Lee Shin, even while watching it, didn't feel particularly disappointed.
If the plan Lee Shin had originally thought of was a cross-country tour on a rattling train, the plan that had been changed with Uriel's arrival was a short-distance run using a jet.
'Thinking about it again, it's really an absurd amount of luck.'
With this luck, Lee Shin, after fighting Baek Hyunwoo and Arachne, had completely erased the original plan of disciplining the houseguests and going to America from his mind, and had decided to stay here for a while.
There was a personal desire to fight Uriel as well, but besides that, there was also the reason that the training plan Uriel had come up with seemed genuinely interesting.
"You're really the best at tormenting people. You can be proud since it's certified by the best assassin in the Pantheon."
"To be honest, I got a little creeped out. How can a person think of something like this?"
"If you want to get hit by me again, just say so. I can hit you as much as you want."
As Uriel raised her clenched fist into the air with a sullen look, Baek Hyunwoo and Arachne trembled exaggeratedly and looked at her with resentful eyes.
While Uriel was seriously contemplating whether to swing her fist at the two.
"This looks fun. I want to try it."
Lee Shin's playful voice caught Uriel's arm.
"Besides, it's certainly a brilliant and efficient method. If we use this, we can proceed with our training and their training at the same time."
"Right? Right? Oppa really knows what I'm thinking!"
As Lee Shin took her side, Uriel instantly changed her expression and looked at the two with a triumphant smile.
Uriel's smile, as she looked at the two, openly showed the joy of her work being recognized.
Well, Lee Shin himself didn't particularly have any intention of taking Uriel's side.
"Sigh, I can't believe there's someone who gets along with Uriel."
"Well, that Hyung isn't someone who would lose to anyone when it comes to having a twisted personality."
As Lee Shin nodded his head after hearing Uriel's plan, the other two also stopped teasing her and checked her plan once again.
"So, we choose two people from the four of us, and those two fight in a deathmatch style until one of them is knocked out?"
"That's right, and the one who is knocked out is left as is, and one of the two who were resting continues the deathmatch once again."
At Baek Hyunwoo's words, Uriel nodded her head and supplemented the missing parts.
"If you jump in right away without a break, you'll have no choice but to face the second enemy in an exhausted state, so you'll gradually become disadvantaged and eventually get knocked out. We'll continue to repeat the fight in that way."
Uriel's eyes, as she explained, were sparkling with anticipation.
"Hmm, two people fighting each other, one person knocked out from losing, and the last remaining one fights those five, right?"
"Yes, that's right."
"The basic premise of the plan is to get knocked out if you want to rest."
As Arachne said with disbelief, Lee Shin stood up from his seat and said.
"But don't you think the effect will be proper?"
"Certainly… I think that's likely."
At Lee Shin's words, Arachne readily nodded her head.
There was no way people with national athlete-level physical abilities could build a proper body by just doing rehabilitation training that patients would receive.
Their current situation was similar to that.
Lee Shin, Baek Hyunwoo, Arachne, Uriel.
All of them were top-tier Players on the verge of the extreme point of LV.3.
Naturally, it was difficult to stimulate their bodies and give them proper training with just any ordinary thing.
Of course, they could also build up their strength by continuously training alone.
But it goes without saying that using this method was more efficient.
The moment another person besides oneself appears, humans are animals that rank themselves and that person, and they are animals that hate to lose.
And the people present here had a greater feeling of hating to lose than ordinary people.
If you gather such people together and make them fight, isn't it natural that they would struggle and try to climb above each other?
"Now, since I also interrupted in the middle, let's have Baekho and Lee Shin-orabeoni fight first. I'm here too, and there are also the recovery potions Lee Shin-orabeoni prepared, so don't worry and go ahead."
"Huh? Lee Shin-orabeoni?"
"Why?"
"No, didn't you call Hyung 'Oppa'? Why did you suddenly change to 'orabeoni'?"
As Baek Hyunwoo looked at Uriel with a puzzled expression, Uriel said as if asking how he couldn't know.
"If I call him 'Oppa', it overlaps with her."
"That's right, it overlaps with me, you idiot."
As Uriel and Arachne rebuked him as if asking how he couldn't know, Baek Hyunwoo for a moment wondered if he was the strange one and just quietly closed his mouth.
"Ah, but before we fight, let me say one thing in advance."
Just as Baek Hyunwoo had closed his mouth, Lee Shin looked at Arachne and Uriel and said.
"What is it?"
"Ah, it's nothing much, I'm just going to put a small penalty when you fight those guys."
"What kind of condition?"
Lee Shin pointed his finger at the five people who were making a plan in the distance.
He could feel some energy shimmering as they were talking using their respective abilities so that the sound wouldn't leak out, but he couldn't hear the sound.
"First, the condition that you have to use a normal-grade weapon when you fight those guys, and the condition that you have to knock out at least one person in one fight."
"Huh? Is there a need to add such a condition?"
Arachne asked.
Although she didn't say it, Uriel was also saying the same thing with her eyes.
This was pure curiosity.
Of course, the two and those five were the same LV.3 in terms of classification.
But the two thought that they could leisurely overwhelm those five even if they faced them alone.
Because the difference in the techniques they possessed was too great.
Lee Shin didn't deny that either.
"But if those guys know the rules, they'll definitely abuse it."
Lee Shin looked at Eun Yeonwoo.
Eun Yeonwoo, as if he had heard Lee Shin's words, glared at him slightly and then quickly turned his head away again.
Watching him, Lee Shin smiled.
"They'll probably go all out and try to drag it into a war of attrition. In a 'just in case' situation, they won't hesitate to run away, and besides, since they're in the position of waiting for an attack, they can also set traps."
"Ah, so that's what you mean."
Uriel nodded her head as if she understood.
"It might be different if you're in perfect condition, but it won't be easy to play hide-and-seek with those guys right after waking up from being knocked out."
Those who had heard that far smiled slightly.
"Hunting right after being knocked out… nice. My body has been feeling sluggish lately, so it's good to have something fun like this sometimes."
Arachne also looked at the five as if it were fun and licked her lips with her tongue.
"It's the first time I'm fighting Yeonwoo and Hyunseok. I wonder if they've changed a lot from before."
Baek Hyunwoo smiled beamingly, as if in anticipation.
"I should organize my recovery supplies in advance."
Uriel smiled with satisfaction, as if there was a reward for her work.
"Ah, for reference, since it's no fun to just do it, let's have the one who gets knocked out the most say 'I'm a loser who doesn't know how to fight' three times in front of the other three."
Jjeojeok-
At Lee Shin's single remark, the three's faces hardened as if they had never smiled, and they looked at each other.
'I'm going to say that in front of this guy?'
'I'll win even if I die. No, I'll win even after I die.'
'I must not lose.'
And so, a hell disguised as training was created.
And a week passed.
***
"Haaaah…"
Cheon Yuhwa was lying on the floor in a mess, gasping for breath.
As a side effect of using her aura excessively, her body was trembling and her head was ringing as if it would break.
To be honest, it was a wonder she hadn't fainted right away.
Aura basically continues to flow as long as a person's mental strength is not depleted.
But it's not something that can be achieved by just continuously training one's mental strength.
Just as a person moves their body through their mind, aura is created through a faucet called the aura heart.
In other words, if you're not careful, your body can be strained and you can die from your own aura, an absurd thing to happen.
'If I keep doing this, will I be able to become LV.4 tomorrow or the day after? Then the power I can use will increase at once, and the completeness of my techniques will also go up, so there should be no problem.'
"Ah, it's already time to go out."
Cheon Yuhwa, who had been resting while thinking about various things, checked the time and then slowly got up, composing her trembling body.
A dungeon was certainly the best environment for training, but it wasn't the best environment for handling work.
Because once you enter a dungeon, all kinds of communication, including radio waves, are basically cut off.
So Cheon Yuhwa ate her meals outside the dungeon and received various reports from Kim Jaehyun.
'What will come out this morning… I hope something sweet enough to replenish my energy comes out.'
Just as Cheon Yuhwa was thinking about a mountain of pancakes drizzled with sweet maple syrup and a cafe latte and came out of the dungeon.
Kim Jaehyun, who was waiting under a sunshade with the sweet food Cheon Yuhwa had been thinking of prepared, said with a smile.
"This is a breaking news."
"…Do you have to tell me this news when I've just come out from a hard training session?"
"I'm sorry, but I'm also busy handling the guild's work."
Cheon Yuhwa grumbled that he wouldn't lose a single word and took the phone Kim Jaehyun held out.
Although she grumbled a little, she had no real intention of not taking it.
Now that most of the work was resolved, there was only one piece of news with the word 'urgent' attached to it.
'Thinking about it again, it's absurd how those guys gathered in one dungeon. Well, from my perspective, should I be glad that I'm getting reports right away like this?'
Cheon Yuhwa thought positively and answered the phone.
"Hello?"
-Ah, is this Noona?
-Huh? Are we connected? We're connected.
-Oh, I didn't know, but you can use this artifact even while on the phone.
Simultaneously with the phone connecting, a boisterous sound spread from the other side of the phone.
'Judging by the fact that even the miscellaneous sounds from the surroundings are coming through, it seems they're using a speakerphone.'
Cheon Yuhwa smiled lightly while having such miscellaneous thoughts.
"You guys are still on good terms."
-Hey, what do you mean good? I'm the one putting up with these two.
-What are you talking about, I'm the one putting up with you.
-Sigh, you're both really kids.
Cheon Yuhwa smiled at the three's reaction.
She knew this reaction would come, but she wanted to poke them once for no reason.
Cheon Yuhwa smiled and cut a piece of pancake, putting it in her mouth.
She always enjoyed a quiet meal, but it wasn't bad to feel a boisterous atmosphere like this.
'But now I should get to the main point.'
"So what's the reason you called?"
Ttuk-
As Cheon Yuhwa brought that up, the guys who had been so noisy instantly closed their mouths.
Judging by the sound of something being tapped, it seemed they were passing the buck on who should talk.
'I can't help it. I'll have to pick one from this side.'
"Baekho?"
-Ah, right, that is… it's about Lee Shin-hyung…
Baek Hyunwoo, who had been chosen in the draw, cursed his fate and forced his unwilling mouth to move.
"Yes, it would be that guy. What is it."
Cheon Yuhwa drank a glass of milk and tried to calm down as much as possible.
She thought she might really get indigestion otherwise.
-So, to put it simply, Hyung ran off to another place.
But despite those efforts, she couldn't help but sigh.
The madman who had been cooped up in a dungeon for a while and had been quiet had started to move again.
(End of Chapter)