34 – 034. The Succubus Incident (8)

An ecological park full of trees that have not sprouted yet and only bare their bare branches.

-Quaang!!

Nineteen superhumans were fighting in the forest where only the moonlight shined.

-Kwaaang!!

Kim Seong-hak’s great power hit the ground. The fist was covered with a rocky surface.

Petroglyphs. The modest ability to harden the surface of the body.

However, his overwhelming physical ability transformed even his defensive abilities into offensive means. The air trembled and the earth trembled whenever his fists, which were harder than most monsters, stretched out.

“Don’t run away!”

Ryu Tae-hyeon tilted his head at Kim Seong-hak’s remark. That man, in the middle of a life-and-death fight, should stand up squarely. Is he even hoping for such an attitude?

‘If you look at his insistence on a head-to-head match, is he a simple power type? That means there is no answer if you are pushed out of your strength…….’

I measured Kim Seong-hak’s physical ability while avoiding attacks, but there was a limit to just looking at it.

‘Shall we bump into each other?’

The time to worry was not long. Ryu Tae-hyeon, who stepped hard on the ground, threw his fist at Kim Seong-hak’s great grip.

-Quaaang!!

Conflict.

The moment the two fists collided, an intangible shock wave vibrated the air in all directions.

Soon, a smile formed on Sunghak Kim’s lips. It’s a blow that even a B-class monster can’t find a bone. He didn’t even dodge it and took it with his fist, so the bones in his arm must have been broken. I thought so.

However.

– Patter.

It wasn’t Ryu Tae-hyeon’s bone that was broken, but his fist. Bloody, rocky fragments tumbled to the floor.

-Pot!

The two widened their distance. It was the first collision in this battle, to check each other’s physical condition.

“Hmm.”

Red blood flowed from Ryu Tae-hyeon’s fist. However, it was not a big wound. A bit of blood leaking from flesh peeling off the rocky surface. It was only an abrasion. Other than that, just a little bone-chilling.

On the other hand, what about Sunghak Kim? There was no blood, but the rocky material that covered the surface had broken off in half. It was also the part of the fist that was particularly thickly armored for striking. Where is that? When I clenched my fist, a sharp pain rose up. Although the bones were not broken, it seemed that the incontinence had gone.

A look of astonishment appeared on his face. On the other hand, Ryu Tae-hyeon calmly kept his fists closed.

“It’s a little hard.”

But that’s all. A translucent blue aura swirled around Ryu Tae-hyun, who laughed.

His original psychic ability is to strengthen his body.

An ability that perfectly matches the word ‘superhuman’, as it enhances overall muscle strength, agility, reflex speed, and body strength in proportion to the amount of mana invested.

The only downside was poor gas mileage. Normal strength activation lasts only 1 hour. When activated at maximum strength, it lasts less than 3 minutes and the body’s magical energy is exhausted.

However, the talisman of magic absorption he had completely erased the only shortcoming of his ability.

He had activated both body strengthening and mana absorption at close to 100% strength. If it was Ahn Su-ho, his body would not have been able to withstand such overwork, but Ryu Tae-hyun was different. Not only did he have excellent basic physical strength, but his ability to strengthen his body’s durability and resistance to magical power was the perfect match for Talisman.

In addition to that, with his unique insight, he vaguely noticed the energy of ‘magical power’ and incorporated it into his attacks.

Ryu Tae-hyeon’s strike easily stripped Kim Seong-hak of his defense.

Kim Seong-hak was strong. He was strong, but not strong enough to be the protagonist’s adversary.

Taehyun Ryu laughed at him, who still couldn’t escape the shock.

“Why are you surprised that it stings?”

“This bastard…… !”

Kim Seong-hak led a massive giant and ran, and Ryu Tae-hyeon received the charge from the front.

Pababababat! The fists of the two men crossed. Kim Seong-hak, as always, is a one-sided attack that ignores defense. Standing in front of him, Ryu Tae-hyeon focused on avoiding and occasionally put a blow into his gap.

-Tooung!

However, the power of that blow was extraordinary. The fist stuck in his side shook Kim Seong-hak’s intestines. Finely shattered rock fragments scattered in all directions.

For a moment, an anxious feeling stood on Kim Seong-hak’s face.

His own attacks don’t hit.

The enemy’s attack exceeds your own defense.

Even if the armor on the surface is broken, it can be regenerated with an ability. However, the inner body is not like that. From Ryu Tae-hyeon’s blows, which occasionally aim for an opportunity, Kim Seong-hak’s body was clearly building up damage.

Obviously he is at a disadvantage.

However, a deep smile appeared on Kim Seong-hak’s lips before he knew it.

‘…… It’s a little disadvantageous, but it’s fun.’

How long does it take to fight to the point where you feel like you’re at a disadvantage? Kim Seong-hak liked this sense of tension and excitement in a battle with a strong fighter. His sense of battle, which had been rusted by the heat of battle he hadn’t felt in a long time, began to rise.

He was the so-called slow starter. As his senses awoke, his fists, which had been cutting through the air, gradually began to follow Ryu Tae-hyun’s movements.

‘Has it grown up in a while! No, did it start to adapt to my movements!’

Ryu Tae-hyun’s senses sounded an alarm. However, at the same time, an unknown euphoria was also filled. Ryu Tae-hyeon enjoyed the battle as well.

The laughter of the two people, who were originally warriors, crossed each other. It was a truly bizarre sight. Despite the fact that it was obviously a life-and-death battle, at first glance it seemed that close friends were exchanging sparring.

“aaa!”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield, screams of fear resonated.

The Dawning members collapsed on the floor. A woman with cherry-colored hair stood in the middle of it with her head bowed.

Her two hands held each of her two members who had attacked her just moments ago. Two sturdy men gasped, unable to even breathe, as the slender woman grabbed their throats.

Yuri Cho raised her head. A cold gaze scanned her seat.

At that gaze, the members of the Dawning around her all tensed up.

I will take care of the small fish. Although he declared that, there was no guarantee that his enemies would only fight against him. No matter how strong she is, there is a limit to how many people can physically hold onto her.

However, not long after the battle began, all members except Park Ji-hyeon and Kim Seong-hak gathered in front of Cho Yu-ri.

We had no choice but to gather.

After the battle started, the three members who rushed at her collapsed after less than 10 seconds.

A question passed through the minds of the men surrounding Cho Yu-ri.

Before she went into battle, how did her Jo Yu-ri look at her? From her shaky gaze, to her trembling voice, to her crouching posture. She looked infinitely weak, to the point that her Jo Yuri’s appearance was not even recognized as an enemy, let alone a strong one to be wary of.

But let the battle begin.

The atmosphere changed 180 degrees.

Her body stopped shaking. Her wavering gaze calmed down. The expression disappeared from her face and her eyes radiated a cold glow.

A change as if a person had changed.

Those who didn’t notice the change or didn’t take it seriously are lying on the ground.

-Gulp.

Tension flows on the battlefield.

None of her men surrounding Yuri Cho could move first. Their comrades rolling on the ground had already proven what they would look like after attacking with unreasonable determination.

Suddenly, even the two men in her hands drooped unconscious.

Nine people remain.

Cho Yu-ri, who stood in the middle of it, didn’t say anything.

Without saying anything, she just stared at her men and lowered her stance.

‘If you guys don’t come, I’ll go.’

Her gesture as if to say so forced her men to rush at her.

She rushed.

The charge, which was determined to die, was easily put to nothing.

Cho Yu-ri’s movement through her inexhaustible foes was like an unstoppable wind.

Her attacks using her body, her attacks using her psychic powers, and even her supersonic bullets aiming at her.

None of her men’s attacks hit her.

Her movements were not faster than her bullets. In terms of the speed of her movements before that, she was no different from the men she dealt with.

However, his grasp of the situation and judgment accordingly was one beat faster than them.

Cho Yu-ri’s eyes fluttered in all directions of her. She was not shaken by agitation. In an instant, she surveyed the battlefield and identified any dangers to herself.

‘The muzzle at 11 o’clock. Half a second to launch.’

‘Knife at 2 o’clock. 2 Seconds to reach.’

‘Spiritual power at 7 o’clock. Current response in the hand. Probably a lightning type.’

She grasped the battlefield in an instant and her body slid across the ground.

Her next moment, her lightning bolt aimed at her passed through the air where she was just a moment ago. Shooting immediately after. However, it was only chasing her shadow.

A knife arrived late. Joey Yu-ri already knew. She climbed up her man’s arm as if crossed with a knife, and the blade of her hand crushed her man’s eyeball.

“Keah!!”

Puts up a staggering man who has lost his sight like a shield. Immediately after, bullets fired by his comrades mercilessly lodged in his body.

A rain of bullets. Splashing drops of blood.

Belatedly, they stopped shooting, but their comrades had already died from a barrage of bullets.

‘Suspended due to embarrassment of enemies. Estimated time around 7 seconds.’

Cho Yuri took a deep breath. However, the accident was as calm as ever, rather than ever.

Her superpower is metabolism control.

The ability to control all functions in the body, including hormones.

That ability optimized the human named Yuri Cho into the most suitable form for battle.

Since the pain interferes, the sense of pain is blocked. Fear got in the way, so she castrated her emotions. The muscles and organs of the whole body were active only for fighting, and not a single drop of energy was wasted. His heart pumped blood six times faster than usual, his thinking speed and reflexes improved, and his mind expanded as if he had been drugged.

Everything was under her control, from the single red blood cell carrying oxygen to the cells to the electrical signal passing through the brain.

Cho Yu-ri was a machine. A machine with 100% efficiency optimized only for combat.

She once again swept across her battlefield. Only six left.

The machine made a decision in an instant and moved along the optimal path once more.

At the same time. Another place on the battlefield.

In the middle of the two-colored fog, red and black, Ahn Su-ho was breathing heavily.

***

‘Damn it.’

Breathing heavily, I looked around her. A red mist spreads everywhere. The fog that flowed slowly with willpower eventually gathered in one place and formed the shape of a beautiful woman.

“Ahahahaha! How many times do I have to tell you to understand? Your attacks don’t work at all?”

“What doesn’t work? On the subject of escaping with fog whenever it seems dangerous.”

“I know that! So that means it doesn’t work! Kyahahahaha!”

Grinding her teeth at the words and actions that clearly made fun of her.

As you said, my attack had stopped working at all from a while ago.

The enemy was skillfully watching his liver while dealing with me. While properly avoiding or defending against attacks for containment, he repeatedly avoided the decisive blow with fog. Thanks to this, it was frustrating and crazy.

‘The fortunate thing is that even he can’t attack me when I’m in fog, and it doesn’t seem like I can keep the fog up all the time.’

However, if the attack does not work, there is no way to win. It even has a small regenerative ability. As time goes on, it will be me who loses in the end.

‘Should I take a big blow?’

She remembered the blow that had killed the assassin of the First Dawn, but immediately shook her head.

That special move was a double-edged sword that instantly put you incapacitated the moment it was used. Although Yeo In-hyeok’s musculoskeletal alignment improved the durability of his body a little, even so, the limit would be 2 or 3 times.

I couldn’t waste it on an opponent who wasn’t sure whether such an attack would work or not.

‘If you attack with the power of that ring, you will be hit even if it turns into mist. I don’t know the principle. I went in anyway.’

Before entering the battle, Ryu Tae-hyeon’s words flashed through his mind.

‘…… Damn talented bastard.’

Ryu Tae-hyun may have said it as advice, but I, a dun-jae who is not even a bum-jae, can learn the skill of putting magic into an attack with just that much advice.

I know the concept of magic itself. Every time he used Talisman, he felt the mana sensibly.

However, that is the magic within the body.

Taehyun Ryu’s words to ‘carry out the energy of the ring’ meant to take that magical energy out of the body and put it on the outside.

It is an extremely difficult technique to wrap mana around the body. Ryu Tae-hyeon seems to have learned the trick sensibly without any theory, but it was impossible for me to do the same because I had no talent for combat.

“What do you think?”

While I was lost in thought, the enemy charged me with sharp claws.

Nails swinging in all directions. It was faster than the Assassin or the special task force I dealt with before. Even though he had already activated Morning Star’s breath once, minor wounds increased all over his body.

‘I can’t use the second one yet.’

Unless you know how long the battle will be, you can’t waste the stock that only has 3 fights. At least one stock had to be left in order to make a surprise 4x speed in case of emergency.

But until then, will I be able to hold on?

-Poo-Hak!

Blood splattered from the shoulder blades at the enemy’s blow. The enemy smiled enchantingly as he licked the drops of blood on his fingernails that hung down the road.

“Doesn’t it taste very good? Is it because you are weak?”

“If you don’t like it, don’t eat it!”

Using a dagger as a gun barrel, he activated his psychic powers. However, the enemy easily cut through the smoke lump that did not contain enough weight.

-Took!

Immediately afterward, I unexpectedly compressed and spewed out a large amount of smoke, but the enemy who sensed the threat undoubtedly turned into fog this time and avoided my blow.

Red fog seeped through the black smoke screen, and the enemy’s laughter resonated in all directions.

“Damn it.”

There is no end to this. Should I rather use a special move with this judge? Or should he join Ryu Tae-hyeon in this gap and defeat that big enemy first?

-Sueuk.

At that time, I felt a presence behind my back.

I turned around a beat later, but the enemy, which took shape before I knew it, had already entered deep into my arms.

-Hook!

A long fingernail stuck into the shoulder blade. It’s not an attack. It seemed to hold me tight so I couldn’t escape. So what is the real attack?

The moment I thought so, the enemy’s sharp fangs pierced the nape of my neck.

“Big.”

There was no pain. There was a thrilling pain for a moment, but the pleasure and drowsiness that came immediately pushed the pain away in an instant.

“Huh. It’s not tasty either. That boy named Ryu Tae-hyeon had pretty good taste.”

My knees bend weakly and my body falls backwards. The enemy who climbed on top of it sucked blood from the nape of his neck. The pleasure that grew exponentially every second, and the drowsiness that engulfed the whole body in return, seemed like I would close my eyelids and fall asleep at any moment.

‘If I fall asleep, I will die!’

Instinctively, I grasped the dagger with my right hand. The part of the blade that is not the handle.

“Aww!”

With the sharp pain, the grip was stained with blood. Thanks to that, my mind came back for a while.

I held the blade as it was and raised the red-stained dagger. However, the enemy showed no signs of avoiding. It was probably intended to escape with fog the moment I attack.

That shouldn’t be the case. Even if I drove him away for a while, there was no guarantee that I would be able to recover in the meantime. If I could, I had to finish him off with this blow, or at least injure him.

But how?

Somewhere in between pain, pleasure, and languor, countless fragmentary thoughts flowed into my mind in an instant.

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Let’s attack with a dagger. However, it will escape through fog. Do not do that. You have to break through the fog.

I know how. Put magic power on your attack. However, it is impossible for me.

Should I use a special move? But the distance is too close. Being stuck like this, no matter how much I control my psychic powers, I have no choice but to suffer damage. If that’s the case, at best it’s a friendship.

The hand holding the dagger trembled. Laziness overcame pain by delaying time. The reddish dagger was caught in the distant vision.

A dagger stained red.

A dagger stained with my blood.

The blood that was originally in my body. Likewise, the magic power flowing through my body.

I know the way magic flows. It flows through the blood vessels throughout the body centered on the heart. And blood also flows through the veins.

When bleeding occurs, mana is also drained. In other words, blood has magic power. Know. This is the original setting.

An enchanted bloody dagger.

Therefore, a dagger imbued with magical power.

‘……… Ah.’

A brilliant idea in a short-circuit accident.

I manage to hold on to the spirit that is gradually sinking below the surface and focus on it. With only Talisman activated weakly, he contemplated the inside of his body with a concentrated mind.

The mana that was spread in the air was absorbed into the right hand. The magical power that climbed up his right arm and reached his heart went back down his right arm along the blood vessels. Then, with the blood flowing from the wound, it lingered on the dagger for a very short time before dissipating again into the air.

Feel the magic. The magic of the heart, the magic of the right arm, the magic of the right hand, the magic of the blood flowing inside it, the magic of the blood that flowed out of the wound.

Compared to the magic power inside the body, the magic power of the blood exposed to the outside was infinitely weak. Could it be that the spilled blood is dead, so it cannot possess magic power? Or is it simply because of exposure to the atmosphere?

I don’t know why. In the original work, such detailed settings were not mentioned. However, the blood that flowed out was clearly, even weakly, possessed of magical power.

However, it was too weak. It evaporates in an instant, so it is very weak.

It is natural. Surrounding one’s body with mana is an extremely difficult technique. If the technique could be reproduced by at least covering the weapon with blood, it would not have been treated as a difficult technique.

“Ha.”

But fortunately. Coincidentally indeed.

Without any talent for fighting, the only thing I was overflowing with was that magical power.

-Shooooo!!!

Activated Talisman. Without force control, at maximum strength. In an instant, the mana that had risen above the limit passed through his heart, escaped through the wound on his right hand, and eventually reached the blood on the dagger.

Hold the blade tighter. More blood flows The exposed mana evaporates in an instant. However, perhaps it was because the amount was so large, more mana than before remained in the dagger.

The enemy is caught off guard. He kept a close eye on my dagger, but did not see it as a threat. The moment you get attacked, you’ll think it’s enough to run away with fog.

In that case, I’m just taking advantage of that carelessness.

After a while, as I lowered the dagger, the enemy grinned and changed his body into mist.

The dagger was stuck in the formless fog, and the fog split along the blade like a flowing river.

The next moment.

-Kyaaa!!!!

Screams echoed everywhere. The whole fog that spread everywhere seemed to scream. The fog, which had been grotesquely wriggling, gathered around, and soon formed the shape of a woman bleeding profusely.

“Oh sh*t! Why did the attack work?! What the hell have you done! No way, no way you’re like that man!”

The enemy who had been shouting in agony stopped for an instant.

“…… What?”

I managed to stand up while overcoming the drowsiness that engulfed my whole body. However, as if the enemy didn’t care about me, he just stared blankly into space with an expression stained with astonishment.

No, I wasn’t looking into space. The enemy was clearly watching something. It was clear that the pupils, which constantly moved left and right, were looking at Something invisible to me.

“………… What’s this? Really? No, eh?”

The enemy’s eyes turned to me. There was no hostility or anything in that gaze. There was only confusion and bewilderment.

“…… Ah. No, what are you talking about uh? It makes no sense. Is that a lie? But it doesn’t make any sense that memories, memories are lies…….”

I couldn’t understand what the enemy was saying. It seemed that the enemy also did not understand.

He looked at me with an expression that he couldn’t even understand what he was saying, and then he looked at me with all those questions.

“Hey.”

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Looking at me, he carefully asked a question.

“What the hell are you talking about…… ?”

With eyes as if they were witnessing a terrible truth that should not be known.

“………… If this world is a novel, what kind of bullsh*t is that?”

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