The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 214

The moment Uriel's arm shot out a huge wing and completely enveloped his entire body, Lee Shin felt all five of his senses, including his sight, being cut off.

It wasn't a bad sensation.

To put it metaphorically, it felt like the cozy warmth of covering oneself up to the head with an expensive, freshly laundered blanket in a drowsy state of mind.

'Now, if I just wait quietly in here, will it heal me on its own?'

With the final thought that it was like entering an oxygen capsule, Lee Shin completely erased all thoughts about his own body.

Instead, Lee Shin began to ponder other things with his now free mind.

How should I swing my spear to take Ziz's head?

I hope they leave my share until my body is fully recovered, but will it be there?

That Cheon Yuhwa girl was gritting her teeth, so will Ziz be able to survive until I'm fully recovered?

Like a high school boy who has fallen in love for the first time, Lee Shin's mind was constantly filled with images of Ziz and their battle.

If he had his way, he would have wanted to jump out of here right now.

'Hmm?'

While Lee Shin was reminiscing about his past self and checking his own movements, he felt a sense of unease from Uriel's heal.

Although Lee Shin, who usually preferred to move alone, had received a heal from a healer a few times.

Therefore, he roughly remembered what it felt like to receive a heal.

If his wounded body was a desert, a normal heal was similar to the work of forcibly changing the desert into a forest by planting fully grown trees in it.

But the sensation Lee Shin was feeling now was different.

It felt like creating an environment where the desert could become a forest on its own by pouring a large amount of water on the dry desert.

The sensation of healing the body with the subject's own healing power, not with external help, was a sensation that was extremely familiar to Lee Shin.

Because the sensation he felt every time he used [Regeneration] was exactly the same as this.

And that was the problem.

'In my current physical state, if I receive this kind of recovery, it's more likely that I'll become a mummy and die than recover.'

Because right now, there were no water streams that could be drawn from Lee Shin's body.

With Uriel's ability, the amount of energy used and drawn out could be drastically reduced.

But unless you can create something from nothing, a basic level of preparation was necessary.

And right now, Lee Shin's body did not even have that basic level of nutrients.

Of course, Uriel also knew that Lee Shin's body was in the worst condition.

So, in case of an emergency, she planned to absorb the things she had brought and the elixirs, potions, and food that Lee Shin had taken out into her wings and use them as materials to regenerate Lee Shin's body.

'What should I do?'

The problem was that Lee Shin was completely unaware of Uriel's and Arachne's plan.

This was more Lee Shin's fault than Uriel's and Arachne's.

The reason the two had pushed ahead with their work was solely because of their concern that Lee Shin might really die if they delayed any longer.

In other words, if Lee Shin hadn't wasted time with useless jokes, the two would have had enough time to explain their plan to him.

'Sigh, there's no other way. I was planning on eating it later in an emergency.'

Therefore, Lee Shin had no choice but to put the things he had put in [Mask of the Glutton] into his mouth.

Thunder Sound Pill and Jade Flame Water.

Although they were elixirs with names he had never heard of before, his sense, which had been developed by eating elixirs like meals, was telling him.

That among the elixirs he had eaten so far, these were the most effective and the roughest, so it would be better to eat them with determination.

'Well, I don't know what they are, but since their names have 'flame' and 'lightning' in them, I should be able to digest them somehow. It's not like I have any other choice anyway.'

Lee Shin, who had finished his thoughts, took out the two elixirs without hesitation and put them in his mouth.

When he touched them with his tongue, as their names suggested, the Thunder Sound Pill seemed to be a pill made by refining something, and the Jade Flame Water seemed to be a liquid-type elixir like kerosene.

At the same time, Lee Shin, who felt the nutrients being transmitted throughout his body through Uriel's wings, belatedly noticed the two's plan and felt a little dejected, but since he couldn't spit out what he had already put in his mouth, he just swallowed it.

Gulp-

'Thanks to the combination of a pill and a liquid, it was easy to swallow at once.'

Thump-! Thump-! Thump-!

Simultaneously with the two elixirs entering, an immediate reaction occurred in Lee Shin's body.

A blue lightning qi, like a ferocious wolf, raced along his meridians and let out a ferocious roar.

At that, Lee Shin's heart began to beat rapidly with a shock as if it had been electrocuted, and it began to scream.

A melting heat moved along his blood vessels like lava.

His qi and blood, unable to withstand the heat, slowly began to burn, and his entire body's blood vessels melted.

At that change in his body, Lee Shin let out a hollow laugh.

'If I wasn't being treated by Uriel, I would have died as soon as I ate this.'

At the same time, Lee Shin could understand why Cheon Yuhwa had given him the elixirs only now.

If he had received and eaten these elixirs while descending from the sky, not now, his body would have exploded, unable to withstand the energy of the elixirs.

Because even now, with Uriel's help, it was a close call.

Lee Shin focused on recovering his body using [Regeneration] and began to slowly control the energy of the elixirs at will.

It didn't matter how fierce or how hot it was.

If nothing else, Lee Shin's body had an excellent resistance to heat and lightning qi, and his sense and control over qi had risen to a level that far surpassed common sense, moving his internal energy heart method as if breathing.

Crucially, Lee Shin's mental strength was not so weak as to be dragged around by the energy of an elixir that had no proper will.

Lee Shin moved the energy of the elixirs according to the incantations of the [Flame Lightning Tree Heart Art] and at the same time, he absorbed the nutrients and nutrients from Uriel's wings faster through [Regeneration].

Then, Lee Shin's body began to recover at a rapid pace.

New flesh grows, the lacking blood is replenished, and the broken bones are reattached.

He didn't know if it was because his body was half-dead or if it was just a coincidence.

But Lee Shin was able to watch all those changes happening in his body from a step back.

It was a sensation as if his soul had left his body and was looking at his own body.

While Lee Shin was focused on recovering his body and filling his empty dantian.

Wince-

The killing intent that had been baring its fangs inside Lee Shin quietly raised its body.

It didn't do anything in particular.

Lee Shin himself felt absurd that he had to use such an expression for killing intent, but for him, there was no more accurate expression than this.

The killing intent raised its body as if waiting for something and quietly looked up.

Shreureureuk--

And soon, it was connected to something outside of it.

At that moment, the first sensation Lee Shin felt was a sense of distance.

It felt as if he were connected to a huge star shining in the sky with a single thin thread.

The second thing that was transmitted through the thin thread was a shock as if his soul were being shaken.

As if he had seen something he shouldn't have, his mind became distant due to the sensation transmitted through the thread, and his senses began to twist like crazy.

The feeling of becoming a puppet connected by a thread.

If it weren't for the thread, Lee Shin might not have felt anything even if he were in front of it.

No, at the very least, he would have felt a little less.

Just as the saying goes that an ignorant ghost doesn't know a talisman, Lee Shin's current level was too insignificant to be compared to the existence connected above.

Lee Shin hastily tried to cut the thin, dark red thread.

But in a state where just enduring was all he could do, it was impossible to cut the thread.

It was then.

-What, you're already here?

Through the thread, the voice, no, the will of a huge something was transmitted.

Lee Shin, who felt the gaze of the will focused on him, held on to his mind that was about to collapse at any moment.

And after a time that felt like an eternity to Lee Shin, the will was transmitted once again.

-Ah, no. The Thunder Sound Pill and the Jade Flame Water, and in a state where your body is a complete mess, you've grasped the realization of killing intent and have obtained another realization in a complex way, so you're connected like this?

The will of that thing felt infinitely far away, and at the same time, it felt very close.

At the same time, it was strange.

-Hee, this is interesting.

Because from the owner of this voice, Lee Shin felt an overwhelming pressure that was difficult to control, and at the same time, a strange familiarity.

He had the illusion of hearing a twisted laugh coming through the thread connected above.

-Well, fine. Since you've given me an interesting experience, I should repay you.

Was it because it liked Lee Shin's appearance?

Lee Shin felt something slowly flowing into him through the thread along with those words.

It was killing intent.

It was a concentrate of killing intent that wanted to just kill everything in the world.

-It seems you've just barely learned how to kill something, so I don't know if you can withstand it… but if you endure and make it your own, it will be quite useful.

Simultaneously with the will's words ending, the thread connected above was also cut off at once.

Bbadeudeuk--

But Lee Shin couldn't feel any emotion in that situation.

He just focused all his mind and did his best to control the killing intent that had entered him.

Just as a lion that has just learned how to hunt throws away its dull fangs and gets new ones, Lee Shin's soul began to change, controlling and absorbing the killing intent.

The killing intent, which had become incomparably stronger than before, roared fiercely and bared its sharp fangs.

Lee Shin felt the color of his soul being dyed a gloomy black and red.

To withstand the killing intent, his soul is sharpened, and his body changes sharply, following that soul.

Woodeudeuk-!

Bbadeudeuk-!

Lee Shin's body, which was in the cocoon, absorbs everything in it.

The hard bones become soft and melt, and the healed skin bursts, spewing blood.

On top of that split skin, black, dead blood and hardened waste products popped out.

At that, Uriel's wings, as if not allowing any impurities, instantly took them out and helped Lee Shin.

Woowoong-

The cocoon trembled as if it would break, and below it, the black, dead blood and waste products from Lee Shin's body began to collect.

"What is this!"

Uriel was horrified by that change.

At that, Arachne, who had noticed that the situation was not going well, bit her lip and connected her spiderwebs to Uriel's cocoon, pouring medicine into it.

At the same time, Arachne, through the spiderwebs, realized what was happening inside the cocoon and was horrified.

What was happening in Lee Shin's body now was not in the realm of recovery or regeneration.

It was closer to the realm of re-creation that surpassed it.

At that, the two held their breath and paid attention to remember Lee Shin's change.

Because they had instinctively realized that Lee Shin's change now would be a great help to the path they would take in the future.

Kkudeudeuk-!

Addeudeuk-!

Lightning qi gets entangled and settles in the soft bones.

Heat seeps into the torn blood vessels, erasing everything that had been blocking Lee Shin's body and widening the passages.

In that, Lee Shin's soul focused on fighting the huge killing intent that had gone out of its control, so as not to lose to it.

While Lee Shin was continuing his own fight.

Flap-

A witch and a crow came to the battlefield.

(End of Chapter)