novelraw Chapter 150
Chapter 150
Jeobeok- Jeobeok-
Lee Shin, who had finished his short conversation, moved his stopped feet again.
The curved pupils that appeared through the gap in the mask looked at the elite guild members of [Lion] and asked if they were just going to stand there.
Cheok-! Cheok-! Cheok-! Cheok-! Cheok-!
At that blatant provocation, the elite guild members responded to Lee Shin's provocation by putting on their armor and taking out their weapons.
"This is interesting. Outwardly, there's no sense of unity at all. But looking at the way you're surrounding me, you have some kind of system."
Lee Shin looked at the guild members who had surrounded him as if he were appraising them and enjoyed the changed flow of the air.
"Still, if surrounding me is all you've got, why don't you just run away now? Ah, do you need an excuse to run away? Would the fact that your guildmates are lying unconscious in the mountains be enough of an excuse?"
"…Did you touch the other guild members too?"
At Plain's warning-filled words, Lee Shin replied in a voice mixed with a sigh.
"No, I didn't touch a single fingertip."
Lee Shin's words, as he said that, were heavily tinged with a sense of disappointment and annoyance towards something.
At Lee Shin's unexpected reaction, Plain looked at him with a puzzled gaze, but she soon shook off the questions filling her head and put more strength into the hand holding her weapon.
The thought of sending one of the people here to check whether those words were true or not was thrown into the trash can as soon as it came to mind.
"You seem to be looking down on us because we're just standing here."
"I wonder if it's okay to cut off at least one arm…"
"It's the first time I've seen a guy who rushes in so fearlessly since we cleaned up the black guilds."
Because there was no one in the guild who was so soft as to just let such a provocation slide.
In a murderous atmosphere where it seemed like a weapon would be swung at any moment…
Jeobeok-
Lee Shin stepped into their gap with the same playful steps as when he had first walked in.
Hwoooong-
The moment Lee Shin entered their gap, all the members who had been surrounding him swung their respective weapons at him as if they had been waiting.
Although they had put a little mercy in their hands, there was no hesitation in swinging their weapons.
And that mercy was only to the extent of swinging their weapons at his arms or legs instead of his neck.
There was no one so naive as to show hesitation in attacking an enemy who had come to attack their guild master.
"Huh?"
"What?"
That's why they were astonished.
It was clear that they had swung at the enemy in front of them, and it was certain that the enemy was standing in front of their eyes.
Hwoooong-
But the swords they had swung only left behind a hollow sound of the wind.
It wasn't that they had cut through him.
They had passed through him.
As if they had swung their weapons at a ghost.
In an instant, all the guild members' attacks swept over Lee Shin like a storm.
But the person who had been attacked was nonchalant, and the people who had attacked were frozen in confusion.
"Sigh, logically, if you're going to provoke someone that much, you should naturally aim for the neck or the heart, shouldn't you."
Lee Shin said in a voice mixed with a sigh, as if disappointed, and slightly opened the box of his heart, which contained the killing intent he usually kept tightly hidden and made sure never to reveal.
O-ssak-!
At that, everyone present felt a creepy sensation, as if a snake were licking the area around their carotid artery with its long tongue.
It was a chill that any living creature would naturally feel, the chill of having one's life held hostage by the person in front of them, and their bodies trembled instinctively.
Once again, a standoff was created where no one moved, but the inside of it was completely different from a moment ago.
Because it was a situation created not by the guild members to pressure Lee Shin, but by all the guild members being scared of Lee Shin alone.
"Hah…"
Lee Shin carefully examined the guild members who were trying their best not to tremble and sighed openly.
But unlike a moment ago, no one was angry at Lee Shin's behavior.
No, they couldn't be.
"It's powerful, but I've ended up with a rather boring skill."
Lee Shin muttered that and moved his steps towards the dungeon in front of him again.
"Stop…"
"Huh?"
But just before Lee Shin entered the dungeon, a single word someone uttered stopped his steps.
Lee Shin was slightly surprised and looked in the direction the sound had come from.
There, Plain, who was biting her lip so hard that it was bleeding, was glaring at him.
"Wow, I didn't know it was really possible to erase fear with pain, that's amazing."
Lee Shin looked at Plain with a sense of wonder.
But that was all.
"Still, if I were to stop obediently just because you said one word, I wouldn't have come this far in the first place."
With those final words, Lee Shin entered the dungeon.
Teolseok- Teolseok-
"Heok! Heok!"
"Haaaah!"
As soon as Lee Shin entered the dungeon, the guild members collapsed on the spot, gasping for breath and sweating profusely.
With Lee Shin's disappearance, the trembling they had been suppressing had burst out.
"Heo-eok! Heuaaah!"
And it was the same for Plain.
But Plain tried to somehow move her trembling body.
But her weakened body refused to stand up from its spot, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
Kkadeuk-
Plain bit her teeth hard to prevent them from chattering.
Nevertheless, the short distance to the dungeon, which was only a few steps, felt as far as a thousand li.
Kkuuk-
At that sense of powerlessness, Plain gritted her teeth even harder and thought of her guild master.
Although Hercules was someone who always crushed any threat with a smile, and although she had been watching him from the side all this time, now her worries for him were endless.
***
The waterfall falling from above gives a cool feeling just with its sound, and the grass and flowers filling the field give a fresh feeling.
The puddles scattered here and there in the field were filled with green water, making them look mysterious.
"This is cheap. It's the same LV.3 dungeon, but we trained in a place like a ghost's castle, and these guys trained in a dungeon with such a nice view."
Lee Shin grumbled and looked at the two people in the center.
"Hmm? You're… the guy Alice mentioned?"
"Hwaaam… what, that guy?"
"Hahaha! You know, the guy Alice mentioned a long time ago! It seems he's come to find us this time!"
"Ah, that crazy guy?"
At the appearance of a sudden outsider, the two stopped what they were doing and looked at Lee Shin.
At that, Lee Shin also looked at the two as if observing them.
A huge blond man with muscles that looked like they were made by melting steel, laughing heartily and tapping his shoulder with a gray club, was Hercules.
On the contrary, a man with a slender body, pale skin, and dark circles that boasted of their realness, yawning and showing the four-colored earrings in his ears, with short gray hair, was Diz.
"Now, what's your purpose in coming all this way, bothering us?"
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't ask slyly when you already know. I'm the only one who does that."
"…Hmm, you're a much more twisted friend than I thought."
"I tend to be like that."
At Hercules's words, Lee Shin shrugged his shoulders.
Watching him, Hercules shook his head lightly, as if giving up.
"Well, fine. It's not the first time I've seen someone like you in my life. I just have one question…"
At that moment, an aura that seemed to press down on the surroundings emanated from Hercules.
"What did you do to the guild members who were guarding this dungeon?"
Lee Shin smiled widely, feeling a pressure as if he had entered the depths of the deep sea.
"If you're so curious, why don't you go out and check for yourself?"
At Lee Shin's words, the corners of Hercules's eyes twitched, and Diz sighed softly and stood up from his seat.
Because he had seen how much Hercules cherished his guild members since the Pantheon, he knew very well how he would come out next.
"Diz, sorry, but please take care of that guy for a bit."
"Hah, I get it, so bring me some potato chips and high-end art supplies on your way."
"Thanks."
While Diz was dealing with Lee Shin, Hercules went out of the dungeon.
Lee Shin chuckled at the two's blatant conversation.
So Lee Shin took out the Night Sky he had hidden in his inventory and smiled provocatively.
"What are you talking about? I was planning on taking on both of you at once from the beginning."
"What did you say?"
"Both of us at once?"
At Lee Shin's words, the two looked at him with dumbfounded faces.
There were countless people who had challenged them, aiming for the name [King].
Among them, there were those who insisted on a one-on-one fight, but there were also many who had attacked with the power of a group.
But there was not a single person who had made the confident remark of taking on two [Kings] at once.
"Ah, I can roughly guess what you're thinking, but I have my own circumstances."
Lee Shin said, recalling his own status.
"You guys don't want to die by mistake either, do you?"
[Status]
Name: Lee Shin
Level: 4
First Path: Mad Dragon
Second Path: Ghost
Strength IV: 65
Agility IV: 90
Sense IV: 83
Intelligence IV: 62
Internal Energy: 102
Status basically goes up faster the more you overcome adversity.
So it was natural that Lee Shin's status had risen so quickly.
Because Lee Shin had a natural sense to know the moment just before he would really die, and he had raised his status by carving his bones every day using [Mad Dragon].
'Well, now that I can turn it on faintly without any burden on my body, I've just been keeping it off.'
While Lee Shin was having a brief thought, Hercules looked at him with disbelief and asked.
"Are you by any chance LV.4?"
"I'd be disappointed if you can't tell even after seeing it."
Lee Shin, who had said that, let his internal energy flow over the Night Sky and created a spear ki more stably than before.
The materialization of ki, the proof of a peak martial artist, was speaking for Lee Shin's words.
"Ah, for reference, don't fight boringly and get scared, okay?"
Pajik-!
Pajik-!
The moment they heard the single remark Lee Shin had thrown with a wide smile, the two raised their auras, with cross-shaped vein marks on their foreheads.
Golden pupils and pupils that seemed to be a mixture of four colors were drawn on the two's foreheads.
"I'll make you realize with your own body what happens when a joke goes too far."
"It's been a long time since I've been this annoyed."
Apart from being annoyed, the two acknowledged Lee Shin.
Because they knew how big a difference a single level made.
That's why they had opened their eyes and taken out their weapons with the intention of subduing Lee Shin at once.
Tuuung-!
Hercules, who had strengthened his entire body with aura, rushed at Lee Shin with sharp, glinting eyes.
A small gust of wind was created in the spot Hercules had passed.
Seuk-
As Diz gestured, the gust of wind Hercules had created and left behind slowly grew in size, split, and assisted Hercules's movements, while at the same time, it raged towards Lee Shin.
And Lee Shin, towards Hercules, who was rushing at him like a runaway truck, and the countless small, split gusts of wind.
Tabak-
He lightly walked in with a wide smile and swung his weapon.
The transparent spear ki had already turned red and was emitting red flames.
That was the beginning.
The flames made of ki devoured the gust of wind like a gentle breeze and grew in size.
'It's gone?'
Hercules, for a moment, was captivated by the sight of the growing flames and lost track of Lee Shin's existence.
Hercules quickly tried to find Lee Shin's existence, which had disappeared as if it had melted into the flames, but there was no need.
Hwoooong-
Because Lee Shin, who had hidden his appearance, had come at Hercules, clad in a blatant killing intent, and thrust his spear.
If it were the original Hercules, he would have taken this attack from Lee Shin with his body and counterattacked Lee Shin.
Because Hercules's fighting style was a head-on approach that used his hard body and monstrous strength, taking minor things with his body and aiming for a big blow.
"Keuk!"
But Hercules chose to dodge the attack instead of taking it.
"What, I told you not to fight boringly and get scared."
"Hah, it's stupid to take something like that naively."
"What is that guy really? Where did another guy like that pop out from?"
The moment Lee Shin's spear had thrust in, he had felt a creepy, sharp killing intent and had unconsciously judged that he should not take this attack.
(End of Chapter)