Chapter 229 – Dragon’s Nest
#229.
Let’s go!
The sword of light swung, leaving an afterimage of platinum, cutting through the hard scales and leaving red lines on the fabric.
The mercenary soldier with a great sword casually counterattacked as if he didn’t feel any pain, but Hirencia easily evaded the attack with her nimble movements.
On the contrary, the leader’s counterattack aimed at the gap in the meantime only increased the wounds.
Three hours had passed since entering the dungeon. I’ve been through a lot of fights during that time, and now I have only one small door ahead of which demonic energy flows out.
If you defeat the dragon soldier in front of you, the dungeon attack will be a success.
– Huap!
-Die!
In the back, the rest of the knights are fighting against the 4 Dragon Soldiers. Sooner or later, I’ll come to join you.
“Vice-captain. I’m glad you’re here. Fighting has become easier.”
“You’re welcome. Even if it wasn’t for me, the attack would have been completed in the end, even though it would be harder than it is now.”
This mercenary soldier with a great sword is the only one who can threaten the leader at the level of 9 stars. As long as they didn’t come all at once, even if it was slow, if they had proceeded step by step, the attack would have ended without much damage.
Hearing Hirencia’s words, the leader shrugged his shoulders without saying anything and bumped into the mercenary again.
While they were having such a fierce battle, Hirencia sensed her terrifying murder.
At the same time, countless feathers of flame rushed through the walls of the dungeon. The target they were aiming for was the leader, who collided head-on with the mercenary soldier and was floating in the air due to the repulsive force.
“Captain. Avoid!”
“This… ! Aagh!”
Kwakwagwagwagwang!
He managed to avoid being hit directly by the explosion, but the leader was fatally injured in the aftermath. Taking advantage of that gap, the dragon soldier rushes in.
The moment Hirencia took her step to stop her hastily, her cold voice called her to a standstill.
“Stop.”
“… Who are you?”
I heard her voice and looked in the direction I came from and saw a woman wrapped in flames. She was a woman with beautiful walls and gold eyes, but the hate in her eyes was terrifying.
The woman twisted her lips and replied with a smile.
“Isabella Martinez.”
“Martinez…”
The moment she heard her name, Hirencia’s eyes trembled. It was impossible not to know the last name Martinez. Because it was an indispensable anecdote when explaining the Shubrans family.
Hirencia, who noticed at once why the woman in front of her was hostile to her, sent her telegram to the leader who was repelling the dragon soldier’s attack.
– Captain. Please bear with me for a little while.
– I’ll never mind her and deal with her. Because she manages to hold on.
As he answered, Hirencia, who confirmed that she was not easily pushed back by her dragon soldier, was somewhat relieved and raised her sword and aimed it at her Isabella.
“I understand why you are attacking me. But I can’t die easily. Sorry.”
“… Rather not. Try your best to resist That way I can kill happily!”
Shu Shu Shu Shoot!
With Isabella’s whisper, her wings spread wide and released her feathers. Embraced with blue flames, they disappeared beyond the walls of the dungeon and flew in all directions at once.
Hirencia raised her aura as much as she could and began to cut through everything.
***
Between the gap where two rocks intersect to form a small space. Gaon, whose whole body was scorched and torn in flames, let out a breath.
“Cuck!”
Blood gushed out and stained his face.
At the last moment, he managed to avoid a direct hit, but was swept away by a secondary explosion and was fatally injured.
Fortunately, the wound is regenerating quickly. Chorin’s shrill voice echoed through the grass bracelet.
– Mr. Gaon! Are you okay!?
“… It’s okay. How much time has passed?”
– About 20 minutes. Do you know how worried she was? I thought she was going to die!
Chorin shouted with a choked voice as if she was crying. Ha-yeon is probably in a similar state to her.
Gaon, who had been laughing bitterly at the thought that she had done something bad to the two of them, moaned as the pain surged through her whole body and then stood up.
That alone made her head so cramped that she almost hit a rock, but that didn’t matter to Gaon.
“Sorry.”
-I don’t know. You said it’s okay to be alone, what is this? What would you do without me!
“So thank you. Thanks to you, I live.”
Chorin let out a sigh and said, whether her anger had subsided at the soothing voice, or she was drained of energy.
– I just need to know. She’s more than that, can she get out of there?
“… I have to do it somehow. Isabella went to kill Hirencia. We have to stop it.”
-… All right. Then call me if you need me.
“Yes, just in case, be careful.”
With that, contact with Chorin was cut off.
Gaon reminded of the fight the other day, vowing that once this was over, he would go on a leisurely date to help her feel better.
“Are you careless?”
I have never looked down on Isabella Martinez. She just judged that she could win enough without using fake dantian. She says that she’s caught off guard, but if she does, she has nothing to say.
Even if she had in fact given her all, the result might have been the same. It was because the amount of mana concentrated in Isabella’s last attack was far greater than the amount of her Aura she gained by using her imitation Danjeon.
There must have been a chance that she would have been crushed to death by confronting her head-on for no reason.
Gaon thought about this and that, then shook his head.
“Let’s calm down.”
Her excuses to herself are enough. Now she has to find a way to get out of here and help Hirencia.
Of course, this is not the case.
Now he was weak compared to Isabella Martinez. The distance between them is so far that technology cannot make up for it.
Even if I go back like this, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to win.
Of course, Hirencia would not necessarily die if he did not go. She is now a 9-star powerhouse. Even against Isabella, she is not easily pushed.
If it was Hirencia’s genius, it might even become stronger in the middle of the fight and win.
However, that is an assumption when competing purely with skill. Armed with her vendetta against the Shu Brands, the chances of Isabella fighting fair and square were very slim.
In addition to mobilizing all sorts of artifacts, she must have also prepared a spleen to poke Hirensia’s weakness.
We had to come up with a way to win.
However, it is foolish to hope that a helping hand will come down from the collapsed and isolated cave. Ultimately, that means you have to escape yourself.
However, in the current state, where the amount of aura is significantly inferior, it is impossible to crush the thousands of tons of rocks blocking the dungeon’s path.
In other words, on the contrary, if you reach the stage above it, the road will open. She is able to escape on her own and help Hirencia defeat Isabella.
To do so, it is necessary to pierce Baekhoehyeol, which leads to the upper hall.
“I have no choice but to gamble.”
Baekhoehyeol is a blood vessel directly connected to the brain. If you make even the slightest mistake while forcibly digging through such a place, you will immediately become an idiot or a corpse.
It’s a matter of life and death.
Normally, it would be an unreasonable amount of money that would not even be an option, but there is no other way now.
“Whoa…”
Gaon, sitting cross-legged, exhaled a long breath and smashed the imitation danjeon.
Crackle—!
With the sound of an egg breaking, a huge energy was explosively released from the middle.
As if enjoying freedom, it embraced all the energies that swept through the bloodstream of the whole body and rotated it according to the rubella-like structure.
All of the energies caught in the storm blend into one as if they were assimilated, and soon start accelerating.
The speed was so fast that it was difficult to control it, but Gaon’s steel-like will did not waver at all and maintained his immobility.
After raising the speed from limit to limit, the top, middle, and bottom transitions were drawn in a straight line and pulled upward at once.
The energy escaped from the lower court, passed through the middle division in an instant, and collided with Baekhoehyeol located on the way to the upper division.
Kwaaaaang!
In an instant, my hair turned white and I felt a strange feeling that my soul was about to leave the body.
Even in the midst of this, Gaon showed superhuman patience and checked the white blood without losing his reason.
‘It hasn’t been pierced yet.’
The energy was stagnant in a half-buried state. At this rate, he would rather flow backwards and suffer from the coin intoxication.
However, Gaon was not taken aback and pulled out the Seoncheonjingi he had prepared in advance and hit the stagnant energy as if hitting a chisel with a hammer.
Rurrrr
A thunderclap rang out in his head. A strange sense of release shook his soul, along with a shock as if his brain were really struck by lightning.
“Turn it off… !”
When you open your mouth, energy flows backward. I strained my chin and pierced through the white blood and retrieved all the energy that was hovering in the top tier.
Finally reached 9 stars.
A state that is said to have perfected the body. It can’t be said that there are no side effects as long as I was forced to do that, but it didn’t bother me too much.
Right now, I just went up a notch and focused on the fact that a new path has opened.
‘As expected.’
Gaon raised his hand and focused his aura there.
Then, the energy from Hadanjeon formed a storm and was compressed to a very small size. The wind generated in the air wrapped around it and added flesh to it.
This is of course something you can do once you reach 9 stars. However, the compression rate of that energy was beyond imagination. The power to pulverize a huge rock was contained in a sphere of storm that was barely narrow.
“As expected. When I completed my body, I jumped over the realm at once.”
If up to 9 stars is the realm of the body, then from 10 stars it can be said to be the realm of the soul. It means that no matter how powerful your physical abilities become, your achievements are meaningless.
And Gaon’s soul was trained to such an extent that he had already reached 11 stars in his previous life.
Therefore, the moment the body was completed, it was necessary to reach 10 stars very naturally in order to be able to use enlightenment intentions.
‘Compression.’
This was Gaon’s intention.
“I have a little headache… That’s enough.”
The aftermath of the shock had not completely gone away, and the dull pain remained, but at this level, escaping from this place and defeating Isabella would not be too difficult.
Gaon applied his will to the sphere of the storm, which had changed from the size of a millet to the size of an adult man’s fist, and changed it into a long spear.
The power of this spear, in which about one-third of his total aura was compressed, was unusual.
Gaon put his hand on the rock in front of him.
Doo-woong-! Doo-woong-!
Vibration is felt. The impact echoed from somewhere spread like an echo and was transmitted to this place along the solid wall.
The epicenter of this shock must be the place where Hirencia and Isabella are fighting right now.
Gaon stepped back as far as he could and took his mask out of his pocket, which was fortunately intact, and put it on.
I didn’t intend to hide her true identity from Hirencia for the rest of my life, but I was somehow reluctant to tell her now.
He straightened his posture and raised his concentration.
As he adds his will, wind is created around him and instantly wraps around his body and spins. He pictured a storm, gradually increasing its intensity, and then began to let out a fierce roar.
And when everything was ready, he stretched out his left foot, pushed it off the floor, and charged forward vigorously.
The completed body exerts unparalleled power. Gaon, who was shot out with an afterimage in an instant, threw out his spear just before colliding with the wall.
Quagga gagagak—!
The rock was easily shredded like a radish. The moment the spear was thrown, the compressed storm spewed out in a spiral airflow, cutting everything in front of it and opening the way.
Gaon used Poongwolbo to shed all the repulsive force and moved at a speed that transcended the speed of sound.
Rocks that had lost their support layer collapsed and threatened him, but by the time they fell, they had already advanced hundreds of meters.
In just three seconds, he was out of the collapse zone. But he didn’t slow down at all, he accelerated further and headed towards the epicenter of the growing explosion.
Crushing everything in the way, only going straight. He only thought of the shortest path leading to Hirencia.
And when he broke the eighth wall, he finally arrived at the battlefield.
“You are… A masked man?”
“Are you alive? Rather, how here… !”
The two show conflicting reactions. Gaon looked at Hirencia, who was scorched and cut here and there, and opened her eyes wide.
Memories from past lives pass by quickly.
Of course, there are some differences from that time, but as a place is a place, I had no choice but to think of that time.
Gaon, who felt the trauma of the past come to life, couldn’t hold back the anger soaring inside to the point where he wondered himself.
‘Kill.’
The moment he had the intent to kill, a storm descended into the cavity.
