Strike – Final Chapter (1)
‘Untitled’ is not simply a talent for handling weapons well. If that were the case, what would be different from the Weapon Master?
The talent gap was revealed in battle as it is now.
Noah Park crossed her arms with a dagger, sprinted to the ground and rushed forward. At that moment, a blue light flashed through the cracks in the shield. It is an expression of drunkenness.
Fireballs started flying. As long as it’s hot, it shouldn’t be a problem. However, there was a curse mixed with the magic that was viewed as [under the essence of investigation]. I don’t know what the effect was, but it was obvious that it wouldn’t end with just burns.
As if Park Noah felt it too, he sprinted towards the wall and avoided it without forcing it. And she showed a skillful movement that jumped towards the ceiling.
‘I’m in a state where I can’t eat food, so I must be overdoing it.’
Changsha slammed the ceiling and moved the spear to Noah Park, who was about to approach the wizard. I aimed the Assault Wolf at him. It is impossible to hit the spears hidden by the shield from this angle. then···.
Time slows down when you hold your breath while aiming at the thin spear. I pulled the trigger slowly and very carefully. Taang! The fired bullets slipped through the gaps in the shield and hit the spear.
“Ugh?!”
Whoops! The spear spear bursts, and the side with the spear blade jumps into the air. Changsha panicked at the sudden shock and moved back.
That was a huge mistake.
Park Noah did not miss the gap, grabbed the floating spear and jumped down. Whoops! The heavy spear blade pierced the wizard’s collarbone. One after another, he swung the dagger he was holding in reverse at the other wizard.
“Aww!”
The startled wizard lost strength in his legs and fell backwards. Then, thanks to the irregular movements, he was lucky enough to cut only the tip of his neck and save his life.
“profit···!”
Immediately, a mana rod was drawn on the back of the wizard’s hand. Whoo! A tree trunk that suddenly rose up bound Noah Park’s legs.
“Kill!!!”
The wizard grabbed the cut neck and shouted. The other spearmen in the front and back thrust their spears at Noah Park at once. It was an unavoidable situation.
“···Move.”
However, Park Noah waved her arm on the spot with indifferent eyes.
There was no spear blade to reach her. However, the neatly cut window sills fell to the floor. The dagger forged with soul iron and Noah Park’s skills made it possible.
“Hey, what is this?!”
Although it was Park Noah who was surrounded back and forth by that demon-like movement, the people wearing masks were pushed back by the momentum. The two men with shields, who were paying attention to me, also seemed to have lost their concentration, so they turned their bodies obliquely backwards.
‘… now.’
He ran at a fast pace without missing the gap.
“Where are you looking?!”
“Gagging!”
Quang! I got stronger and kicked the shield with my foot. Unprepared for a surprise attack, the guy was pushed back and fell. The ranks are disturbed by the wind hitting the window that was behind them.
I immediately took the shield and lifted it up.
Aww! Before he got up, he lowered the shield towards his head. The cracked mask dented with the sound of something breaking.
First of all, the guy who did this.
I didn’t have to quickly raise and reel the shield to kill the other guy.
It was because Noah Park, who had caught the other one behind him, had pulled out the dagger that was attached to his neck. He fell to the floor quietly, not knowing he was dead.
Noah Park brushed off the blood on the dagger and brushed away her matted black hair.
‘…you already killed them all?’
Looking ahead, there were only dead bodies left on the floor. It is said that I broke the ranks, but in a short period of time, I defeated two wizards and four spearmen.
Even his legs were tied…
I turned my gaze to Noah Park, who was wiping the blood from her cheek. Noah Park was staring at the dark space where the torch could not reach with her dead eyes that could not see the light.
‘···This is a bit dangerous.’
Probably because Arwell was taken away, he was quite excited.
Just fighting against the enemy does not raise the evil tendency much, but if you are swayed by your emotions like this, you will start to lean towards the evil one sharply. Above all, rational judgment is impossible.
I reached out to Noah Park’s shoulder.
“Park Noah. First of all, calm down.”
oh shit.
As soon as my hand touched my shoulder, Noah Park grabbed my hand and raised the dagger. Luckily she checked my face and slowly lowered her weapon. Park Noah apologized with her tired eyes.
“sorry. I thought there were enemies left.”
“No, what…. Just calm down. Then I thought I would make a mistake.”
Ooh, be surprised. I knew I was going to attack and I was scared.
“Are you juniors who came to apply for…?”
Then I turned my head to the voice I heard from behind. Oh Youn-ha and other aspiring heroes, freed from her shackles, were staggering out of prison.
‘Oh.’
Haven’t you seen it before? There was a face I knew. Yoosung Academy’s vice president, ‘Jinga-yul’ approached and said.
“Thank you so much for saving me.”
With a haggard face, Jin Ga-yul swept her scruffy hair back. He was holding another man next to him.
I looked at the people walking out of the room. There are a lot of them, so it will help with power, but this is a narrow hallway. On the contrary, it was difficult to step back and could be a hindrance.
“no. Senior than that.”
He said, pointing to the weapon on the floor towards Jingayul.
“It’s broken here, but there are weapons. There will probably be some upstairs as well. After hearing the commotion, troops are coming through the entrance, so please protect them.”
Although it was an order from a first-year junior, Jin Ga-yul nodded his head coolly.
“I know what you mean.”
“We’re going downstairs right away, so please ask for the other rooms on this floor. There may be enemies, so check it out.”
I only talked about the main body, but that seems to be enough to explain the situation.
“okay. Don’t keep a place to come back somehow. request.”
As we were about to say hello and turn around, Jin Ga-yul called out.
“Before that, I have something to show you.”
Jin Ga-yul approached the corpse and took off the wizard’s robe. The wizard’s left hand was tied with a bandage.
“Can you cut this bandage off?”
At those words, Noah Park cut the bandage with a dagger. spatula. Then the skin was exposed with a foul odor.
“Ugh, the smell.”
When Oh Yun-ha covered her nose, Jin Ga-yul warned her rotten skin with a hardened face.
“Watch out for those guys with bandages on their arms. All those who touched such a hand died leaving behind a Gaeseong Stone. Those without personality just melt away.”
uhm. The body of the one who was just alive cannot be like this. I immediately realized when I saw the skin exposed from the bandages.
‘Crazy guys.’
It was clear that this was a transplant of that monster’s tissue. The curse and texture left on my visible arm was certain. The body made up of monster tissues was in a terrible shape, repeatedly dying and reviving.
“···All right.”
I don’t know how many more of these guys there are. Because most of the devotees wore robes.
‘How many people are hiding this.’
I got up from my seat, trying to hide my anxiety. I didn’t have time to be like this.
It’s noisy outside. The sound of footsteps, which I had never heard before, echoed upstairs. Everyone who had been trapped in the noise got up. Some familiar voices were heard in the hallway.
Dwan said to Astiel.
“Astiel. I hope this is…”
“okay. Rescue is here.”
rumble! Soon the locked door opened. Astiel’s eyes widened when he saw the face of the person who opened the door.
“Oh, Chairman. it’s okay?!”
The person who opened the door also found Astiel and hurriedly approached in surprise.
“Seo Ji-han…?”
“thank god. I thought something had happened this week.”
Seo Ji-han loosened Astiel’s shackles first. I’m glad Astiel is alive. Otherwise, the relationship with the temple would be distorted and the future development would be even darker.
“Has it already been that way?”
“Yes. Rather, the president. Is Aiden here by any chance?”
“Aiden…? Did he get caught too?”
Wow! Seo Ji-han tore off Astiel’s shackles. There were shouts and noises outside the open door. There was no doubt that a battle was going on.
Seo Ji-han shouted in a loud voice to be heard by aspiring senior heroes who were trapped.
“There is a battle going on somewhere else right now! It’s up to you to decide whether to free the other roommates or climb up to secure an escape route! On the other side, we are also liberating where our heroes are imprisoned! Please move carefully!”
Behind Seo Ji-han, other aspiring heroes entered the prison. Among them were members of the expedition. Looking at old friends, some of them laugh bitterly even in this situation.
Seo Ji-han stood up while watching the aspiring heroes unshackled. Astiel also got up and called Seo Ji-han.
“for a moment. where are you going?”
“I need to find Aiden.”
“Then I will go with you.”
Although he was imprisoned, his condition was not bad because he recovered his body every time the shackles were released.
“Dwan. I’ll ask the kids.”
“Do not worry. Everyone must have come to their senses from what happened to them once.”
“···Jihan!”
Then, Noah Park appeared outside the door calling her name. Noah Park gasped for her breath, she said with a panicked face.
“Rian…, I can’t see Rihanna. I’ve been to all the other places, but I can’t find it.”
“What? Aiden?”
“I can’t even see Ellen…”
Seo Ji-han heard that and covered her face. Come to think of it, even though she has come all the way here, her perk of ‘her companion in her life’ is not activated. Aren’t you supposed to be in a dungeon?
“shit···. Let’s move quickly.”
“Wait a minute, you guys.”
Astiel summoned Park Noah and Seo Ji-han and gathered divine power. And he used his divine power that he had saved so far and gave him a blessing.
Seo Ji-han asked, feeling the warm energy surrounding her body.
“Can the president use divine power?”
“uh. Apparently, the longer I stay in this area, the more I can control my power.”
As a result of checking each time the shackles were released, the movement of the divine power gradually became free as time passed.
Apparently, in proportion to the strong restriction of suppressing all the power of those who entered this sanctuary, the condition that the suppression weakens as time goes by also depends on it.
Of course, it was only the divine power within the body, and the divine power once consumed was not recovered in this sanctuary.
“…it moves.”
Seo Ji-han felt the mana move easily. This was enough for him to use magic.
“Noah, are you?”
A mana rod is drawn on the back of Noah Park’s hand. Now that you can use ‘Sik’ and other magic, the battle will be much easier. Astiel saw it and headed out into the hallway.
“There is something you haven’t checked yet. Follow.”
Seo Ji-han and Park Noah followed Astiel’s guidance and ran deeper inward. So a few minutes to go.
Soon after, when the privilege was activated, Seo Han stopped walking. I stopped running to see if the others felt it too, and looked at the Inkigayo approaching in front of me.
“What are you guys doing…?”
A sharp, neutral voice comes from the front. Noah Park raised her dagger and Seo Ji-han rolled up her sleeves.
The light of the torch only revealed part of his body. A masked man with bandages was walking.
The mask spoke in a shrill tone.
“priest. I hope my friends will save me… Now, who are you guys looking for…?”
Noah Park shouted with a posture that seemed to run away at any moment.
“Rian. Where’s Rihanna?”
“Rian? What is it? I don’t know.”
“…this bastard!”
In response, Noah Park took a step forward and the mask immediately swung her arm forward. A chain was clasped in the mask’s hand, and someone with silver hair was pulled out from behind by the chain attached to the shackles.
Seo Ji-han looked at her and called her name.
“Aiden!”
“ah···. It was also Jihan.”
Aiden smiled mischievously even in this situation. Seo Ji-han turned his gaze away from Aiden and looked at the mask.
“Are you going to have a hostage play?”
And the mask did something unexpected. He released the chain he was holding in his hand, showing his empty hand.
“Take him. It seems like everything is already ruined.”
As the bondage was released, Aiden approached this way cautiously. Indeed, the mask did not show any movement even when Aiden came to this place.
Seo Ji-han looked at Aiden with [under investigation of the essence] with a hopeful feeling, but he did not do anything strange such as a self-destruct trigger on his body.
“…for what purpose?”
When Aiden, who approached Seo Ji-han, asked a question, the mask answered with a sputum-boiling voice.
“It’s the purpose, as I said before…. My purpose is still the same. Killing Liu and freeing him from that life. Aiden. I know that you use ‘blue flame’ that burns everything. If that’s the case, it might even burn immortality. I refused, though…”
Astiel asked carefully as he loosened Aiden’s shackles.
“Aiden. Can you do that man’s request?”
His slender wrists still bound in shackles were swollen and red. Aiden touched his wrist and shook his head.
“No, it’s a bunch. From what I’ve heard, it’s not just a complex of curses, it’s also a symbol of religion. What if the host of the curses disappeared? Curses come on me or pass on to others, and the same thing happens over and over again.”
“Is it possible to kill immortality?”
“that. I’ll have to do that, but…”
“Then let’s do it.”
At Astiel’s words, Aiden, Seo Ji-han, and even Park Noah turned their eyes to her.
“President? What am I talking about…”
“don’t worry.”
Astiel looked at the mask for some reason. Astiel with a solemn expression unlike usual opened his mouth.
“…because I will bear the curse.”
right!
“Ouch!!!”
Astiel gave a flurry of shock at the shock he felt in the back of his head. Tears welled up because it was so painful. When she turned her head, Seo Ji-han, her angry expression on her face, was staring at her.
“…please don’t do golbin sounds?”
“no···. talk.”
“It sounds like a story.”
“Hey…!”
When Seo Ji-han raised his fist again, Astiel reflexively covered his head and shrugged.
