Chapter 323
Grace raised her staff once again to end the monsters for sure. The wind whirled in front of her staff. She wanted the winds to cut apart the monsters and also fan the flames. However, she couldn’t finish her spell.
Duhp-suhk!
Sungyoon unfurled his wings. He grabbed Grace and got away from the fire pit.
“Mr. Sungyoon? Why….”
Kwahng!
A deafening roar rang out as the stalagmites fell apart.
“They are still alive?”
“I believe so.”
The flames continued to climb the wall of stalagmites as the heat became more intense. This made the spell more powerful than usual. However, it wasn’t enough.
“Still, they suffered a significant amount of damage.”
The monsters finally broke through the wall of stalagmites, and it was a frightening sight. Their skin had melt, revealing their bones in some parts. Despite that, they continued to exude murderous intents.
“They are resilient.”
“They are for no purpose.”
Sungyoon suddenly kicked off the ground.
Kwahhhhhng!
He dodged the whip to the side with Grace.
The whip once again flew toward them, but this time, Tim ran forward to block the attack.
An explosive sound rang out, and Tim’s shield turned red from the heat.
“Are you ok?”
“Yes. We are fine.”
Sungyoon put down Grace.
“We wanted to kill the other monsters first, but it seems we failed.”
Tim looked at the two monsters that were still alive.
“I don’t think they can fight anymore with those injuries. Even if they are tenacious, in that state, it's not of much use—”
Tim suddenly stopped speaking. The effect was slow, but he could see the injuries healing.
“What kind of monsters are those?”
These two monsters had large bat-like wings and horns like the devil. They also had sharp and dangerous eyes.
In many ways, they looked similar to Kevil.
“We have no records of these monsters. However, they appeared alongside Kevil, and we decided to call them Archdemons. Considering their appearance and strength, we theorized that they are elite troops under Kevil's command.”
Sungyoon answered the question.
“So we have to kill them first, right?”
“I would prefer it if it's possible. It’ll make our lives much easier. Therefore, I would like you to stall Kevil with Ms. Emily and Ms. Grace. Can you do that?”
Tim didn’t even need to ask. He knew what Sungyoon wanted to do. Tim looked at Kevil. Like the devil it was, Kevil folded its wings as it approached Sungyoon’s party.
“We’ll be able to do it for a short amount of time. We won’t last long.”
“I just need a moment.”
Sungyoon felt the power slowly rise in his body. He clenched his fist.
“Then please take care of them as soon as possible.”
Tim took up his shield as he got in the way of Kevil. Emily and Grace moved up behind him to support him.
Soon, the fight between Kevil and Tim started, and Sungyoon turned his back on the battle.
The Archdemons were steadily recovering from their wounds. Their bones could no longer be seen as their flesh also regenerated, and their melted faces also recovered.
‘They are small, but according to the report, they are stronger than a Behemoth and a Leviathan.’
It was understandable how they had survived Grace’s spell.
‘Still, it doesn’t change the fact that they are weakened.’
Sungyoon grabbed his sword.
Taht!
He kicked off the ground. Even though he hadn't unfurled his wings, Sungyoon was astonishingly fast.
In a flash, he appeared in front of the Archdemons.
“Koo-roo?”
The two monsters were taken aback, and this provided a good opening for Sungyoon. He immediately swung his sword.
‘Koohk!’
Sungyoon groaned. He was used to it, so he had a hard time controlling his power.
When he moved abruptly, he lost balance, and his sword shook. However, he had done enough.
Kwah-roo-roo-roo-roong!
An ear-splitting thunder rang, as the sword cut through half of the neck of the monster. Lightning poured in through the wound.
Guwehhhhhhhh!
After receiving the attack, the Archdemon let out an odd scream. However, the scream lasted only a moment. The lightning fried its vocal cords, stopping its screams. The thunder had drowned out the scream in the first place, and now, the Archdemon couldn't scream ever again.
The other Archdemon attacked Sungyoon, who had yet to regain his balance. The Archdemon sent its claws toward his face, but he didn’t feel any sense of danger.
‘Slow.’
Sungyoon raised his halberd. Even in his unbalanced state, he was as calm as ever when he swung his halberd.
Suh-guhk!
The Archdemon’s arm flew high into the sky. Its partially melted face distorted further. Sungyoon lowered his halberd and rotated his body to stab the Archdemon’s thigh with the spear blade.
Puh-uhng!
Goo-ehhhhhhhhk!
Its thigh basically exploded.
With a scream, the Archdemon fell.
Sungyoon repositioned his feet to regain balance, then grabbed his hammer. However, he wasn’t planning on sending the final blow on the Archdemon with it.
Hoo-oong!
He threw the hammer. It spun in the air. It headed towards Kevil, who was about to bring his fire sword down on Tim.
Kwahng!
The hammer collided with Kevil’s fire sword.
The fire from the fire sword amplified the explosion that erupted from the hammer.
Kevil glared at him. Sungyoon summoned his axe.
He raised it in the air as if he wanted Kevil to see it. Then he brought it down on the Archdemon, who was flopping on the ground like a fish out of water.
Ggeeeeeeek!
Its arm was severed, and the poison spread through the wound.
Kyahhhhhhhhhhk!
The Archdemon flopped on the ground from the pain.
However, this didn’t mean the poison stopped spreading.
Ggoo-roohk!
A foul stench emanated from the Archdemon, and its body started to decompose.
Sungyoon left it behind as if he was avoiding a foul item. He started walking toward Kevil.
He glanced at his watch.
“That was 40 seconds. I’m not too late, right?”
“Of course not! You came really quickly!”
Despite his being scrunched up from the throbbing pain in his arm, Tim enthusiastically welcomed Sungyoon.
Unlike Tim, Kevil’s eyes turned dead serious.
“You are pretty good at using that power now.”
“I’ve used it once or twice.”
It was said that experience was the best teacher.
He wasn’t like before where he wielded this power in ignorance. He had gained too much experience to do that.
‘Still, I can’t bring out the power on command.’
In order to use this power, he still needed a catalyst like Kevil.
“You are using the master’s power, yet you are so confident. How cute.”
Kevil mocked Sungyoon. However, Sungyoon had no plans of losing a battle of words.
“In the first place, the source of magical energy isn’t Grenoid power. I’ll concede that your master uses it better than others. However, are you saying it is your master’s power because he uses it better than others? Even a 5 year old child making such a braindead argument would be berated by an adult.”
Sungyoon let out a small laughter.
“You serve a malformed monster created by humans as master. Is this conversation too hard to follow for a mentally challenged child like you? I’m sorry. I should have considered your mental capacity in mind.”
Ooh-doo-doohk!
Kevil grinded his teeth. This lowly human dared make fun of his master.
However, Sungyoon didn’t stop his taunts.
“You are able to grind your teeth like that? That’s surprising. It seems the Grenoid did give you a modicum of intelligence when it created you.”
“Die!”
Kevil lengthened his fire sword, and he swung it. Sungyoon retreated backwards.
Too-hwahk!
The sword continued to lengthened. It chased after Sungyoon like a snake covered in fire.
The tip of the sword glistened like poisonous fangs.
Kwahng!
Sungyoon blocked the sword with his shield.
Zzuhk!
Kevil opened his mouth. There were red flames roiling in its mouth.
Puh-uhhhhhhhhng!
Flames shot out of its mouth.
It wasn’t like a regular flame where the air and wind made it sway. It shot straight towards Sungyoon.
Sungyoon didn’t even think about it as he dodged to the side.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwahng!
Kevil turned his head.
The flame moved according to its head movement. Everything in the path of the flame was burned and destroyed.
Thick black smoke rose into the air as the fire melted the ground.
“Hoo-ahhhhhhp!”
At that moment, Tim approached Kevil from a blindspot, and he struck Kevil’s jaw with his hammer.
Kwahng!
“Koo-ooh-ooh!”
An explosion occurred within Kevil’s closed mouth.
Kevil groaned in pain as he swung his fist down on Tim. Tim quickly raised his shield.
Boom!
“Oooooooh!”
His elbows and knees bent, but Tim withstood the attack. He was about to bash his shield as a counterattack.
However, Kevil’s tail wrapped around Tim’s ankle before he could carry out the attack.
“Oooh-ahhhhhhhhhk!”
Kevil lifted Tim into the air.
Tim was large, and he wore a heavy armor. Despite this fact, Kevil swung him around like a piece of paper.
Hoo-oong!
Kevil swung his tail, and he sent Tim flying.
Kwang!
Tim slammed into the floor.
“Cough!”
Tim coughed.
“Tim!”
Emily quickly ran towards him.
“I’m...I’m fine. I’m not hurt thanks to the armor.”
He was telling the truth. His body had not suffered any wounds. Of course, his armor couldn’t lessen the force, so he was having a bit of a hard time breathing.
However, he knew it was temporary. This was why he stopped Emily from using a healing spell.
Kwahng! Kwahng!
An explosion rang out as the weapons clashed. After Kevil had thrown Tim, Sungyoon had charged Sungyoon.
He kept alternating between his sword, axe, hammer and halberd to attack Kevil.
However, Kevil deflected all the attacks. Then he flapped its enormous wings to generate wind.
Sungyoon was pushed back a little bit by the wind.
Chahng!
Kevil’s nails grew longer.
It was almost 1.5m long. They were basically like scythes as the nails aimed for Sungyoon.
Kwahng!
Sungyoon raised his shield to block the nails.
Kevil’s snake-like tail had been biding its time. It dodged the shield as it shot towards Sungyoon. There was a sharp barb at the end of the tail.
Boom!
Sungyoon fixed the shield in one hand, and he used his sword to block the tail.
Pah-jee-jeek!
Lighting erupted from the sword, but it showed little effect on Kevil.
‘As expected, the lightning is useless unless it goes through a wound.’
At a glance, Sungyoon could tell that Kevil’s skin was covered in very hard scales.
‘I just have to create a wound, and its game over.’
Sungyoon pushed harder. He made Kevil take a step back by pushing with his sword and shield.
Suddenly, the weapons in Sungyoon’s hands changed.
One hand held a hammer, and the other hand held the axe.
Kwahng!
The hammer clashed against Kevil’s fire sword as it caused an explosion.
Chahng!
The axe stopped Kevil’s nails.
Surprisingly, Sungyoon and Kevil was pretty even as they fought 1 on 1 against each other.
No. Sungyoon held a slight edge.
“You…bastard!”
There was a bit of desperation in Kevil’s voice. Unlike him, Sungyoon rejoiced inwardly.
‘It works!’
His amplified power was beyond imagination. It might be possible to defeat Kevil by himself.
Sungyoon dodged the nails, which swiped at him.
Kevil’s tail shot forward to encircle Sungyoon’s ankle, but Sungyoon brought his foot down on it.
It caused Kevil’s body to become defenseless.
“Hah-ahhhhhht!”
Sungyoon’s hammer appeared in his hand.
Kwahhhhhng!
A massive explosion erupted when the hammer struck Kevil. Sungyoon’s party members were watching the fight nearby. They clenched their fists.
It was clearly a clean blow. It should be a mortal blow.
Sungyoon, who had landed the blow, scrunched up his face.
“Whew! That was dangerous.”
Sungyoon’s face crumpled further when he heard Kevil’s annoying voice.
Duhp-suhk!
Sungyoon unfurled his wings. He grabbed Grace and got away from the fire pit.
“Mr. Sungyoon? Why….”
Kwahng!
A deafening roar rang out as the stalagmites fell apart.
“They are still alive?”
“I believe so.”
The flames continued to climb the wall of stalagmites as the heat became more intense. This made the spell more powerful than usual. However, it wasn’t enough.
“Still, they suffered a significant amount of damage.”
The monsters finally broke through the wall of stalagmites, and it was a frightening sight. Their skin had melt, revealing their bones in some parts. Despite that, they continued to exude murderous intents.
“They are resilient.”
“They are for no purpose.”
Sungyoon suddenly kicked off the ground.
Kwahhhhhng!
He dodged the whip to the side with Grace.
The whip once again flew toward them, but this time, Tim ran forward to block the attack.
An explosive sound rang out, and Tim’s shield turned red from the heat.
“Are you ok?”
“Yes. We are fine.”
Sungyoon put down Grace.
“We wanted to kill the other monsters first, but it seems we failed.”
Tim looked at the two monsters that were still alive.
“I don’t think they can fight anymore with those injuries. Even if they are tenacious, in that state, it's not of much use—”
Tim suddenly stopped speaking. The effect was slow, but he could see the injuries healing.
“What kind of monsters are those?”
These two monsters had large bat-like wings and horns like the devil. They also had sharp and dangerous eyes.
In many ways, they looked similar to Kevil.
“We have no records of these monsters. However, they appeared alongside Kevil, and we decided to call them Archdemons. Considering their appearance and strength, we theorized that they are elite troops under Kevil's command.”
Sungyoon answered the question.
“So we have to kill them first, right?”
“I would prefer it if it's possible. It’ll make our lives much easier. Therefore, I would like you to stall Kevil with Ms. Emily and Ms. Grace. Can you do that?”
Tim didn’t even need to ask. He knew what Sungyoon wanted to do. Tim looked at Kevil. Like the devil it was, Kevil folded its wings as it approached Sungyoon’s party.
“We’ll be able to do it for a short amount of time. We won’t last long.”
“I just need a moment.”
Sungyoon felt the power slowly rise in his body. He clenched his fist.
“Then please take care of them as soon as possible.”
Tim took up his shield as he got in the way of Kevil. Emily and Grace moved up behind him to support him.
Soon, the fight between Kevil and Tim started, and Sungyoon turned his back on the battle.
The Archdemons were steadily recovering from their wounds. Their bones could no longer be seen as their flesh also regenerated, and their melted faces also recovered.
‘They are small, but according to the report, they are stronger than a Behemoth and a Leviathan.’
It was understandable how they had survived Grace’s spell.
‘Still, it doesn’t change the fact that they are weakened.’
Sungyoon grabbed his sword.
Taht!
He kicked off the ground. Even though he hadn't unfurled his wings, Sungyoon was astonishingly fast.
In a flash, he appeared in front of the Archdemons.
“Koo-roo?”
The two monsters were taken aback, and this provided a good opening for Sungyoon. He immediately swung his sword.
‘Koohk!’
Sungyoon groaned. He was used to it, so he had a hard time controlling his power.
When he moved abruptly, he lost balance, and his sword shook. However, he had done enough.
Kwah-roo-roo-roo-roong!
An ear-splitting thunder rang, as the sword cut through half of the neck of the monster. Lightning poured in through the wound.
Guwehhhhhhhh!
After receiving the attack, the Archdemon let out an odd scream. However, the scream lasted only a moment. The lightning fried its vocal cords, stopping its screams. The thunder had drowned out the scream in the first place, and now, the Archdemon couldn't scream ever again.
The other Archdemon attacked Sungyoon, who had yet to regain his balance. The Archdemon sent its claws toward his face, but he didn’t feel any sense of danger.
‘Slow.’
Sungyoon raised his halberd. Even in his unbalanced state, he was as calm as ever when he swung his halberd.
Suh-guhk!
The Archdemon’s arm flew high into the sky. Its partially melted face distorted further. Sungyoon lowered his halberd and rotated his body to stab the Archdemon’s thigh with the spear blade.
Puh-uhng!
Goo-ehhhhhhhhk!
Its thigh basically exploded.
With a scream, the Archdemon fell.
Sungyoon repositioned his feet to regain balance, then grabbed his hammer. However, he wasn’t planning on sending the final blow on the Archdemon with it.
Hoo-oong!
He threw the hammer. It spun in the air. It headed towards Kevil, who was about to bring his fire sword down on Tim.
Kwahng!
The hammer collided with Kevil’s fire sword.
The fire from the fire sword amplified the explosion that erupted from the hammer.
Kevil glared at him. Sungyoon summoned his axe.
He raised it in the air as if he wanted Kevil to see it. Then he brought it down on the Archdemon, who was flopping on the ground like a fish out of water.
Ggeeeeeeek!
Its arm was severed, and the poison spread through the wound.
Kyahhhhhhhhhhk!
The Archdemon flopped on the ground from the pain.
However, this didn’t mean the poison stopped spreading.
Ggoo-roohk!
A foul stench emanated from the Archdemon, and its body started to decompose.
Sungyoon left it behind as if he was avoiding a foul item. He started walking toward Kevil.
He glanced at his watch.
“That was 40 seconds. I’m not too late, right?”
“Of course not! You came really quickly!”
Despite his being scrunched up from the throbbing pain in his arm, Tim enthusiastically welcomed Sungyoon.
Unlike Tim, Kevil’s eyes turned dead serious.
“You are pretty good at using that power now.”
“I’ve used it once or twice.”
It was said that experience was the best teacher.
He wasn’t like before where he wielded this power in ignorance. He had gained too much experience to do that.
‘Still, I can’t bring out the power on command.’
In order to use this power, he still needed a catalyst like Kevil.
“You are using the master’s power, yet you are so confident. How cute.”
Kevil mocked Sungyoon. However, Sungyoon had no plans of losing a battle of words.
“In the first place, the source of magical energy isn’t Grenoid power. I’ll concede that your master uses it better than others. However, are you saying it is your master’s power because he uses it better than others? Even a 5 year old child making such a braindead argument would be berated by an adult.”
Sungyoon let out a small laughter.
“You serve a malformed monster created by humans as master. Is this conversation too hard to follow for a mentally challenged child like you? I’m sorry. I should have considered your mental capacity in mind.”
Ooh-doo-doohk!
Kevil grinded his teeth. This lowly human dared make fun of his master.
However, Sungyoon didn’t stop his taunts.
“You are able to grind your teeth like that? That’s surprising. It seems the Grenoid did give you a modicum of intelligence when it created you.”
“Die!”
Kevil lengthened his fire sword, and he swung it. Sungyoon retreated backwards.
Too-hwahk!
The sword continued to lengthened. It chased after Sungyoon like a snake covered in fire.
The tip of the sword glistened like poisonous fangs.
Kwahng!
Sungyoon blocked the sword with his shield.
Zzuhk!
Kevil opened his mouth. There were red flames roiling in its mouth.
Puh-uhhhhhhhhng!
Flames shot out of its mouth.
It wasn’t like a regular flame where the air and wind made it sway. It shot straight towards Sungyoon.
Sungyoon didn’t even think about it as he dodged to the side.
Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwahng!
Kevil turned his head.
The flame moved according to its head movement. Everything in the path of the flame was burned and destroyed.
Thick black smoke rose into the air as the fire melted the ground.
“Hoo-ahhhhhhp!”
At that moment, Tim approached Kevil from a blindspot, and he struck Kevil’s jaw with his hammer.
Kwahng!
“Koo-ooh-ooh!”
An explosion occurred within Kevil’s closed mouth.
Kevil groaned in pain as he swung his fist down on Tim. Tim quickly raised his shield.
Boom!
“Oooooooh!”
His elbows and knees bent, but Tim withstood the attack. He was about to bash his shield as a counterattack.
However, Kevil’s tail wrapped around Tim’s ankle before he could carry out the attack.
“Oooh-ahhhhhhhhhk!”
Kevil lifted Tim into the air.
Tim was large, and he wore a heavy armor. Despite this fact, Kevil swung him around like a piece of paper.
Hoo-oong!
Kevil swung his tail, and he sent Tim flying.
Kwang!
Tim slammed into the floor.
“Cough!”
Tim coughed.
“Tim!”
Emily quickly ran towards him.
“I’m...I’m fine. I’m not hurt thanks to the armor.”
He was telling the truth. His body had not suffered any wounds. Of course, his armor couldn’t lessen the force, so he was having a bit of a hard time breathing.
However, he knew it was temporary. This was why he stopped Emily from using a healing spell.
Kwahng! Kwahng!
An explosion rang out as the weapons clashed. After Kevil had thrown Tim, Sungyoon had charged Sungyoon.
He kept alternating between his sword, axe, hammer and halberd to attack Kevil.
However, Kevil deflected all the attacks. Then he flapped its enormous wings to generate wind.
Sungyoon was pushed back a little bit by the wind.
Chahng!
Kevil’s nails grew longer.
It was almost 1.5m long. They were basically like scythes as the nails aimed for Sungyoon.
Kwahng!
Sungyoon raised his shield to block the nails.
Kevil’s snake-like tail had been biding its time. It dodged the shield as it shot towards Sungyoon. There was a sharp barb at the end of the tail.
Boom!
Sungyoon fixed the shield in one hand, and he used his sword to block the tail.
Pah-jee-jeek!
Lighting erupted from the sword, but it showed little effect on Kevil.
‘As expected, the lightning is useless unless it goes through a wound.’
At a glance, Sungyoon could tell that Kevil’s skin was covered in very hard scales.
‘I just have to create a wound, and its game over.’
Sungyoon pushed harder. He made Kevil take a step back by pushing with his sword and shield.
Suddenly, the weapons in Sungyoon’s hands changed.
One hand held a hammer, and the other hand held the axe.
Kwahng!
The hammer clashed against Kevil’s fire sword as it caused an explosion.
Chahng!
The axe stopped Kevil’s nails.
Surprisingly, Sungyoon and Kevil was pretty even as they fought 1 on 1 against each other.
No. Sungyoon held a slight edge.
“You…bastard!”
There was a bit of desperation in Kevil’s voice. Unlike him, Sungyoon rejoiced inwardly.
‘It works!’
His amplified power was beyond imagination. It might be possible to defeat Kevil by himself.
Sungyoon dodged the nails, which swiped at him.
Kevil’s tail shot forward to encircle Sungyoon’s ankle, but Sungyoon brought his foot down on it.
It caused Kevil’s body to become defenseless.
“Hah-ahhhhhht!”
Sungyoon’s hammer appeared in his hand.
Kwahhhhhng!
A massive explosion erupted when the hammer struck Kevil. Sungyoon’s party members were watching the fight nearby. They clenched their fists.
It was clearly a clean blow. It should be a mortal blow.
Sungyoon, who had landed the blow, scrunched up his face.
“Whew! That was dangerous.”
Sungyoon’s face crumpled further when he heard Kevil’s annoying voice.
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