Chapter 121 – Before the Strongest in Year 1 ( 8 )
“Huh…”
Shuuu…
A muscular giant who disappears as a group of lights while kneeling down with a groan, a male member of Class D.
Seureung-..
Hiro, who is shaking off his sword once, passes Namsang again, storing it in the scabbard at his waist.
Even Namsang, who was the strongest melee person in class D, couldn’t stain Hiro’s collar.
That buck that buck that buck
Hiro, who walked unhindered toward the inner side of the castle gate, passed through the gate that turned his U-shape upside down.
‘..Mm?’
The moment he crossed the boundary of the gate, Hiro felt something strange.
‘Is it because he’s nervous?’
He dismisses the feeling of deja vu he heard the moment he crossed the door as just a whim.
“Are you here?”
He couldn’t ignore the white-haired girl standing at the top of the stairs.
“Baek Seo-hee… Right?”
“You know my name? Unlike you, it’s not a very famous name.”
Saying that, Baek Seo-hee, who was looking down at her Hiro from the top of her stairs, slowly moved her feet in her shoes and began to come down her stairs.
Again.
“But I’m not careful.”
Again.
“I was completely caught off guard.”
Again.
“Isn’t that too arrogant?”
Baek Seo-hee, who reached 10 steps ahead of Hiro before he knew it, frowned at her and asked.
Seuleung-
“I wasn’t vigilant. I was just doing my best.”
Hiro answered by pointing the tip of her sword at Baek Seo-hee.
“Best? Best is not enough.”
Effort must be made to the point of death, even to the point of death.
Swoop.
Baek Seo-hee slowly raised one of her hands.
Ugh…
As soon as I saw the white aura on her fingertips.
Squeeze…–!
“Ugh?!”
Hiro’s eyes turn black, and the smell she smells and the touch she feels all over her skin disappear.
“Ahhh..!”
-Chaechaeng-!
Even though he was trained as a swordsman who never let go of his sword, Hiro dropped the sword he was holding in the distance as if his whole body was paralyzed.
“It paralyzed all senses except hearing.”
“…”
Klopp..
Hiro, who reflexively swallowed saliva at Baek Seo-hee’s words, realized that all of his bodily senses, including his sense of taste, had indeed disappeared.
‘The ability to control the other person’s bodily senses…?’
“No matter how strong you are, what can you do when all five senses are paralyzed?”
As you said, you can’t even sense the presence.
It is said that you can hear the sound, but it is difficult for a person who has lived using his five senses to grasp everything with only hearing in a short period of time.
‘There must be a fixed range.’
Hiro thought of a way to escape the current situation in his head.
It reminded me of Hyeon-Rang, my homeroom teacher, who said that the ability to limit others like this is mostly followed by circumstances or environmental conditions.
Whoa…!
Gather energy all over the body.
Dig-!
Runs blindly backwards without being seen.
Quaang–!
The shock is transmitted to the whole body when it collides with the wall at the moment, but there is no injury because it is in a state of protecting the body with magic power.
‘Once you get out of the radius…!’
Hiro, who somehow tried to get out of Baek Seo-hee’s neighborhood and rearrange himself.
Turong–!!
“What?!”
Right after I thought I had penetrated the wall, I hit a barrier and failed to escape.
‘Another wall? No, if it was a wall, it would have been broken…?’
“That means being careless. Didn’t you think that you would have expected all of these sudden actions?”
Yes.
Baek Seo-hee even predicted that Hiro, whose five senses were paralyzed, would try to escape to the surroundings.
“Hiya–!”
Right now, at the top of the castle in Class D, Lee Hye-jin was using her full power to use her own ability, ‘Special System – Creating a Barrier’.
The object that Hiro thought was a wall was also the result of Lee Hye-jin’s protective barrier, which repelled all physical forces.
“I… Am I trapped?”
“Yeah. I think I’ve finally understood the situation.”
Baek Seo-hee’s answer made Hiro confused.
Baek Seo-hee’s presumed ability is to extinguish her senses of others and to heal them.
‘Does it have the ability to make it impossible to go outside?’
However, it continues to show off new abilities.
If the Namsang I met outside was a melee type, the remaining two were only special type buffers or elemental types.
Considering that elemental abilities use abilities of natural attributes, Baek Seo-hee’s abilities couldn’t have been so diverse.
Actually, this was Hiro’s mistake.
The combination of Elemental, Proximity, and Special is a classic combination, so Baek Seo-hee’s team was originally a team of one melee and two special.
This illusion started from the fact that Lee Hye-jin was holding a large crossbow.
Wow…!
A red aura surrounds Hiro’s body and covers it.
“You’re trying to withstand it with a magic shield?”
“…”
Hiro did not answer Baek Seo-hee’s question.
Jerk… Jerk…
Hearing is the only sense allowed, so we observe Baek Seo-hee moving only with sound.
Sound of footsteps. The sound of rustling collars. Even the sound of her clenching her fists.
Dig-!
Hiro’s mind clearly pictured the figure of Baek Seo-hee charging her ground and lowering her stance.
‘I can’t miss it..!’
If you miss it this time, your hearing will also be paralyzed.
Wow..!!
Hiro raised his sword blades.
Wedge–!
She drew a diagonal line toward Baek Seo-hee, who approached.
Swish-!
‘Did you avoid…?!’
Baek Seo-hee, who slashed her head with a quick movement, received her attack with her shoulder.
Squeak–!
That alone caused enough damage that Baek Seo-hee’s shoulders were cut off.
“Suck-..!”
Baek Seo-hee takes the posture of Kwonbeop without the slightest hesitation-
Whoop—pain—!
“Kyaa?!”
As it was, I raised my fist with black energy toward Hiro’s abdomen.
In an instant, a shock wave exploded behind Hiro’s back, with enough power to make his body float!
It was unbelievable that it was the destructive power that came from Baek Seo-hee’s thin arms.
It was a body that applied muscle compression techniques learned from Baek Seo-yang, a healer belonging to Baekga, so its strength is many times greater than what it appears.
Tap-!
“Hehe..!”
As soon as she saw her Hiro grabbing her belly and kneeling down on her knees, Baek Seo-hee also quickly retrieved her severed arm and distanced herself from her Hiro.
Wow..
“Whoa…”
Place her arm on her severed section and quickly restore it back to normal.
“I can’t believe he’ll attack me in that state… I was careless too. Restricted.”
Baek Seo-hee spoke with her tired face and immediately limited even Hiro’s hearing.
Beep—
Hiro lost his hearing along with his tinnitus.
“…Haha..”
Hiro couldn’t get up easily from his kneeling position.
Losing all five senses?
It was a shock, too.
“Strange…”
Hiro moves his trembling fingers one by one and puts on a puzzled expression.
‘All of my body’s strength is gone…!’
The magic is the same.
However, the physical abilities that are strengthened with magical power disappear like a pot with a hole in the bottom.
“It’s great… It’s really great, isn’t it?”
In front of the bewildered Hiro, Baek Seo-hee clenched her fists several times and made a shocked expression.
“Among the powers I’ve taken so far, I’ve never had this level. How the hell did you get this power?”
Even though there is no way an answer will come from Hiro, whose five senses are paralyzed, Baek Seo-hee is surprised by ‘Hiro’s power’ and asks a question.
Shuuu…
Right now, Hiro’s red energy was rising above Baek Seo-hee’s fist.
It was no different than proof that the power that Hiro was strengthening was flowing into Baek Seo-hee.
So, how is Baek Seo-hee robbing Hiro of his power?
The answer to that question could be said to be because of the black and white energy that Baek Seo-hee had in her hands.
Baek Seo-hee was a multi-talented person who could be called a mutant among special-type abilities.
‘The ability to restore the body and numb the senses of a target within a certain space’.
‘The ability to rob the target’s physical ability’.
Baek Seo-hee possessed those two abilities.
What Cheols was trying to warn was also that Baek Seo-hee should never come into contact with her two abilities.
‘If I can’t strengthen my body… I won’t be able to wield a sword, right?’
No matter how much Hiro possessed skills that surpassed that of a student, he could not do anything in a state where strengthening of the body through magic was limited and the five senses disappeared.
“It’s really great power.. Really.. Budeuk..!”
Baek Seo-hee, who was constantly admiring, gnashed her teeth at the end and made an angry expression.
“How can a combat-type person gain this much power…?”
A word mixed with envy and remorse.
In Baek Seo-hee’s voice, there was jealousy that could not be hidden.
‘No matter how hard I try, I can never reach it…’
The ability to seize the power of others. Of course it’s great.
However, as they grow more and more, combat-type abilities move closer to super-high speed.
How can I contact them and take away their power?
“…Kim Hiro. I envy you.”
A very old resentment, not simply personal feelings, flows from Baek Seo-hee’s mouth.
A bag of healing.
A family originating from a hero called a saint a long time ago.
For hundreds of years, the Baekga continued to exist as a healer family.
If you recall that healers are usually treated at parties and called the aristocratic class, Baekga has always been in an environment where other families or factions receive preferential treatment.
He earns money by providing the healing arts he developed, and earns money by using the family secret medicine craft.
There was no problem in establishing a company based on enormous goods and forming a guild.
‘..Baekga has no power.’
But there are some things that money can never buy.
The ‘force’ that makes other forces possessed by other 10 families besides Baekga recognize them as the strongest.
The Baekga, which started as the Healer family, did not have that power.
Since Baekga’s blood itself had a trait that manifested special healing abilities, few people were born with combat-type abilities, and even if they were born with them, the development of their magic was slow.
In order to solve this situation, Baekga mobilized all means.
He mixed blood with other battle-specialized families and brought strong men into his family as mercenaries.
However, all of those means were useless.
After the strong talents hired by the family grew to a certain extent, they returned to other high-ranking families or guilds with a vision of combat power to become stronger.
In the case of mixing blood with other families, ironically, the blood of the hundred families was so thick that the more generations passed, the more it returned to the origin of the specialization of healing ability.
An ironic situation occurred in which Baekga, who valued pure blood, could not develop because of the Baekga’s blood.
‘There is no future in Baekga..’
It is almost impossible to become a 10-girl with a healing ability rather than a combat ability.
Like the ancestors of hundreds of families who were called saints, it cannot be recognized as a 10th place unless it is a power close to a miracle that restores hundreds of thousands of people at once.
The 10th ranked healer who has a connection with Baekga also possesses special healer abilities and reinforcement abilities at the same time.
In addition, in the current era, potions made by leading pharmaceutical companies such as Cheols Pharmaceuticals were replacing healers.
‘If things go on like this, the hundred families will be reduced to just one wealthy healer family rather than a top 10 family..’
Baek Seo-hee, who is the only one with powers similar to her fighting abilities, has had to shoulder all of that burden since she was the age of a head as the heir to the Baek family.
Baek Seo-hee must reach the 10th rank as a mutant and successor of the Baek Family because there are no special combat skills within the family.
But.
‘Impossible…’
I was trying to die every moment without end, but I also knew deep in my heart that it was an unattainable goal.
“At this level of growth, you’ll definitely rise to the top of the rankings. Maybe you’ll reach the next 10 girls!”
That’s why Baek Seo-hee was angry.
He was born as a combat-type person and even has this talent.
“Such power! It’s more desperate for me than you. But why!”
However, at the same time, he thought that he was not lacking in talent as a person of ability, and that he was making more efforts than anyone else, including Hiro in front of him.
“Why do you have this power…? Why do our hundred families… Have no power?”
You cannot reach the pinnacle of strength with your abilities.
Speaking with a sad expression and voice, Baek Seo-hee approached Hiro with the red energy she had stolen.
I was thinking of ending this angry situation with Hiro.
“I didn’t want to write to people.”
..But at the next moment, Hiro raises his head with his golden eyes dyed red like blood.
Fire up..!
A single red horn sprouted from one side of its head, oozing red flames.
