Chapter 459 – King of Beasts (7)
Come on.
It was a word used to express the destructive mana that a master-class warrior spews from weapons such as his limbs.
In that sense, it could be said that it was only natural that I wrapped my whole body in mana.
I, Kang Buk-ho, is a K-people descendant of Woong-nyeo.
And bears are literally whole-body creatures.
─Kooung!!!
Covering my body with deadly mana with unprecedented killing power, I shortened the distance with Horsha in one month.
The greatsword aimed at my head much faster than before. No, it’s probably because I’m exhausted and my body vision has decreased. But I didn’t give a fuck, I threw a full blow with my only arm.
Boooung-!!
A great sword that reads my stride and pierces my head! However, the moment it touched the black fluorescent aura, it bounced off as if it had received a great repulsive force.
[Defense with aura… ?!]
Horsha hesitated at the momentary clash, swallowing her astonishment.
The function of the aura is an attack power buff. He doesn’t raise defense.
But, what if it was wrapped around the body like me?
Kuwi Yi Ying ── !!!
My magic that was struck by the great sword did not split.
No, he wasn’t even hurt. Rather, the blade of the greatsword that had been attacking was being sharpened in an instant. Like an iron pipe in a grinder, Horsha’s greatsword was shattered, creating a tremendous spark.
‘Aura is to turn mana into a powerful torrent of destruction!’
If so, what does it mean to be in a state where the aura is emanating countless times from the body?
The answer is here.
Wear an aura on your body. In other words, it means I will become a living lightsaber!!
Anyone who has ever played a fighting game will understand. Damn it, the whole body has an attack judgment. It was a balance-destroying character that would not be enough to be called a fucking OP.
Wearing an aura, I am literally a Professor Butcher who crushes anything that touches my skin!!!
[I’m angry, Horsha——!!]
Shaking the ruined city with a roar louder than that of a beast, my fist drew a fluorescent light.
[Oh-!!!]
─ Tu Kou and Ah Ahhhhhka !!!!!!!!
It was a different kind of shock. Even the sound was blown away by the aftermath of the destruction where flesh collided with flesh.
Horsha’s mana coating shattered with a grenade-like explosion from the front, my fist piercing his stomach. As red blood splattered, the strong man’s body, like a macho, turned into porridge.
[Kuhhhhh!!!!]
Horsha, who had been given back as much as she had given, flew back, spurting her blood.
It worked! I tried to catch up with my eyes wide open, but stopped.
[Gehoek… !]
─Crying. The shaken intestines vomited blood in the aftermath of the impact.
It was good that the damage went through the mana of Beast Return, which I couldn’t penetrate at all, but the situation was not good at all for me too. The scar on his chest, which seemed to have been covered with tar, is also reappearing.
It is only a matter of time before this wound bursts.
‘Even so——there’s no time to stop!’
Enduring the pain, I rushed towards Horsha, who bounced away.
Covers the whole body with an aura.
Needless to say how inefficient this is.
Even pure warriors increase the amount of mana as their skills increase, but even such master level warriors become premature ejaculation of mana as if their sensitivity increased 3000 times just by turning on their aura.
Why not wear it all over your body? I wondered if it would take 30 seconds for my mana to run out.
If so, don’t waste another second!
[Kehaaaaa Ah -ah ──!]
─Puck!! Horsha rose wildly, as if the scar on her chest was special makeup. Uncontrollable rage erupted across his face, bathed in the starlight of my aura.
[A monster more like a monster than a monster!!!! I’ll split that body in half this time——!!!]
Horsha was pushed back by the difference in power, but she ran fearlessly. My eyes caught the dash precisely. The coldness that contradicts the overflowing fighting spirit moved my mouth calmly.
[I’m a monster… ? You’re welcome. I am the devil.]
That would be the case with Horsha.
Whether it is good or bad is ultimately up to the person concerned.
And that means that what feels right and natural to professors can be heinous violence to graduate students… !
That is the cruel reality of this world. As Horsha told me, history is written from the point of view of the victors who have power!
We have already come to a place where only death can tell who is right and who is wrong!!
[Oh-!!]
I threw away all my skills and put the only remaining fist on the trajectory of the shortest distance and highest speed.
It was a reckless attempt to recreate fighting techniques with one arm, so I decided to end Horsha and I with a barrage of hooks and straights, leaving everything to strength and speed.
──Once again, a big explosion.
My fist covered the mana of Aura and Beast Return, and collided head-on with Horsha’s sword.
─Peruk!!! The greatsword, of unknown material, was shattered in the blink of an eye and scattered fragments with a heavy sound. I took a fatal step, replacing even the fragments with my aura.
If I had only one fist——I would only hit twice as hard!
[Oh-!! Boo-!! Oh-!! Boo-!! Oh-!!]
[Cheuk-!! Kkeok-!! Big-!! Kkeok-!! Great-!!]
Quaang-!! Kuung-!! Quaang-!! Kuung-!! Quaang-!!
It was a scream and destruction sound as if being trampled by a beast.
The unforgiving beating hit every vital point in Horsha. Her aura-infused fists shredded open like her chainsaw as the beast return mana replenished. Horsha and I ran towards zero.
This is the final blow in name and reality.
On her right arm, which had been cut off, she gathered a fluorescent aura with the rune of ᛒ (Berkanan).
Replacing her lost arm, ‘Shining Finger’!!
[Spit out the filthy blood, Horsha!!]
I raised my claws and swung the aura like a beast’s jaw.
Kwaaaaang—-
The finger of light dug into the chest of Horsha, who had stopped in a groggy state.
It was an ultra-high energy attack reminiscent of a nuclear fusion reactor. There was no way for Horsha’s bare body to survive even in the beast return, and that’s why in my hand, a heart that looked no different from a human’s was ripped out.
… Pop!!
The weak heart could not withstand the destruction of the aura and exploded.
Patter…
After all the buffs disappeared, I returned to being a one-armed man and was covered in red blood.
He knelt down on his heavy knees in the posture of swinging his arms and passing by. Breathing heavily, she turned around to find Horsha, who had lost two-thirds of her breast and had not collapsed.
[… It’s my defeat.]
Horsha saw the ceiling blocked in her ground.
[I thought I might use an aura, but… There was no book left in the book saying that it could be wrapped around the body and fought like that. The defeat is a lack of knowledge.]
[… It’s a similar situation, a baby. If I had known there was another basement, I wouldn’t have been stabbed by you there.]
… Beetle.
I picked one of the rocks of Stonehenge and sat on it. It was because the wound in his chest was so painful that he had no confidence to move.
But it was a contradiction indeed.
This is because the two beasts, who gained wisdom through evolution and awakening, eventually awakened the instincts of savage beasts and coveted the blood and flesh of their enemies. The saying that humans are also animals is quite literal.
And Horsha, who abandoned the regenerative power of the beast, could not avoid death.
[Heh… If the ending comes to an end, is it such a futile corporation?]
His eyes swam in empty space, as if he could see the death god who had visited him.
I said while chasing where that gaze was chasing.
[… Did you? History is rewritten by the winners.]
I have no desire to sympathize with this bastard. Because the feeling of pity didn’t exist on the pick-up list of emotions that would be good for a professor slayer to turn to an evil professor.
So it’s not really sympathy.
[Just as the countries of your ancestors have been forgotten, the countries of this era will be forgotten someday.]
[… …]
Horsha looked at me as if she wanted to hear what she had to say. Her appearance changed 180 degrees, but her eyes seemed to have returned a bit of the vertigo she had shown before the fight.
[However, living as an archaeologist, there is one fact I learned from various experiences and history studies.]
I said, running my hair through my blood-soaked hands.
[That’s right, there are no eternal secrets in the world.]
An archaeologist is a job that seeks the secrets of history.
How many ruins will be forgotten and hidden in this different world?
And how many other past missing links are waiting to be revealed under the sun in those ruins?
Traces of the past that were forgotten or wanted to be forgotten.
Those who seek it and travel backwards through time.
That was us archaeologists.
[No matter how well you try to hide it, no matter how hard you try to forget it, the past is revealed to the world through someone else’s will or your own mistake.]
How many people in another world live with secrets, and how many people have been exposed to the secrets they wanted to hide?
So did the enemies I fought.
From the abductor of the Cream Something Circus to Conand and Horsha.
Those who were hiding their shame or malice, their secrets were exposed in my hand. It’s like a captured evil time capsule that you buried in the root of a tree as a child.
[… And in fact, there is nothing different about me.]
Didn’t most of the fake identities I created end up being discovered by someone?
A secret is not something that can be hidden forever.
Just as life is promised death from the time it is born, it was only natural that secrets would eventually be uncovered from the time they were created.
[… There is a forgotten history, but there is no disappearing history. Everything is the same Whether it’s sin or achievement, it’s all like that. That’s why we humans are repeating a similar history.]
Pooh…
Taking a deep breath, I smiled.
[In any case, there was no one like us in history.]
[… Heh heh. Haha!]
Did he even like my joke? Horsha let out a laugh that didn’t show her spirit at all.
[Kuh… After promising to open a new era, was it a repetition of the past… Yes, it was…]
─Cool.
Vomiting his blood, he said, losing the light in his eyes.
[Indeed… Then… Even if you can’t handle it…]
The man who dreamed of such a new era lost his life.
Standing firmly on his feet with his eyes closed——in the depths of the earth, lower and darker than the vast sky he wanted to obtain and the territory of the past he had regained.
At the end, there was a seriousness before discussing the good and evil of the man named Horsha.
[… …]
I made the sign of the cross lightly and used the rune of ᚨ (Ansuz).
Raised the soul of Horsha with the Rune of Requiem. His soul, with his eyes closed with a peaceful face as if he had no regrets left, was not a green-skinned monster, but a sturdy warrior.
─Tuk.
I tapped him on the shoulder as a tribute to the loser.
As soon as I touched him, his soul turned into light and disappeared.
Where does the human soul go when it dies? It is an unknown territory even in this fantasy land.
But the punishment of the dead is not my business.
The living only deserved to punish the living.
After all, aren’t the emotions that the living have for the dead that eventually return to the living themselves?
That is why people hold ancestral rites and pray for the rest of the dead.
Those who die and find rest, or those who will be judged in the world after death. Even if you resent those who no longer exist, it is ultimately up to the living to be hurt or heartbroken.
Was it like that?
I could calmly say goodbye to the evil professor.
[… Congratulations on your graduation. A man who was once a graduate student.]
– Hwareuk.
A thinly bloomed blue flame attached to Horsha’s body.
The warrior’s corpse, standing upright in the corner of Stonehenge, burned and radiated light for a long, long time, as if illuminating the ancestral homeland locked in darkness.
And I took the heat with my back and walked into the darkness.
