Chapter 81 – Cranky Tang Tang E-Class Gate Subjugation Operation (6)
You can’t run away from Lava. We had to defeat Lava unconditionally. A growl pierced my heart. I heard Lava stepping on her and dragging my lower body. He was circling around him and recovering his physical strength from the shock he suffered earlier.
It might have been observing us from beyond the shadows. Ichie said.
“What do I do now?”
Senior Yoo Jung said.
“As I said before, we can’t run away. If we start running away, he’ll think we’re weak and come back. The reason I ran away now was because the gauntlet took more damage than I thought.”
As she said that, she leaned her face against my chest. I brushed Yoojung’s hair and looked around. I couldn’t feel Larva’s presence nearby right away. Senior Yoojeong grumbled as she took out her walkie-talkie.
“It must have come in contact with the magic stone, causing confusion in radio waves. She should have turned off her walkie-talkie. It’s my mistake.”
Then I pressed the radio and told the gate team.
“This is the subjugation group. Gate team. Gate team. Please respond.”
“Good reception.”
A brief reply came back from the gate team. Senior Yoo Jung said.
“Gate team. Currently, we have secured magic stones from the boss and are being chased by Lava. How is the dispatch of high-ranking hunters going?”
“Currently notified that the nearest Hunter is 30 minutes away. Two C-class hunters are on their way.”
Senior Yoojeong sighed deeply.
“I was wondering if even an A-class hunter would come. I can’t wait for this one. It took so long I can’t stand it.”
She let out a deep sigh. It seemed that only despair remained. Ichie said.
“If I hit you one more time, can you catch me?”
She pointed to the gauntlet that senior Yu-jeong was holding and asked. Senior Yu-jeong shook her head and said.
“I can’t be alone. I don’t know if I can put this any deeper. To do that, you have to completely pierce her hide.”
I looked at Ichie at those words. In her wit, she ran her own knife around and then looked at me. She looked at my arm with a mysterious expression and she said:
“Supremacy. When the arm is shocked, it builds strength.”
“Yes. Yes.”
Ichie nodded her head at that, and then she looked back at her sword. I felt a strange feeling of uneasiness. Ichie flashed her own blade. She said.
“Soo Hyun-sang. I have a plan.”
“A plan?”
“By the way, Suhyeon-sang has to do this. I have to trust you.”
“Of course I believe. In a sense. What is it?”
When I said that, Ichie hesitated before opening her mouth. After hearing the plan, I couldn’t control my expression at all. It was persuasive, but it was because it was too bloody. Senior Yu-jeong heard that and looked at her ichi.
“Miss Ichie. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better for me to just do it?”
“For firepower, it’s good to have at least one more person. So Suhyeon-san does it, so the two of us charge together.”
“Are you okay. Senior. At a time like this, we have to do something.”
I shook my head at the sight of senior Yoo-jung, who tried to dissuade him. Senior Yoojeong had already consumed a lot of strength with the second gauntlet. This was the time when I, a man with good stamina, had to show something. Manly look. I said, holding out my left arm to Ichie.
“Ruler! That’s right! Do it quickly!”
Ichie drew his sword and approached me. Yet, Lava hadn’t approached us.
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“Ugh! Aww!”
Senior Yoojung was looking at me with pitying eyes. I kept my mouth shut and tried my best not to look at my arms. Ichie carefully placed the blade against my left arm and held it down gently. As my left arm was cut, the damage accumulated on my right arm, and at the same time, blood was pouring into Ichie’s blade.
Ichie was pouring the potion at the same time, as if telling me not to die from excessive blood loss or shock. Every time the potion touched, the cut arm started to reattach, and the blade went into the arm again. Ichie continued to talk to me.
“Supremacy. Are you okay? Doesn’t it hurt too much? If I feel like I’m going to pass out, I’ll stop.”
“Gwa, it’s okay! It’s okay! Ugh!”
It wasn’t okay. My head was dizzy and my eyes kept rolling over. Sweat dripped from his forehead, and his eyes were dizzy. Ichie’s voice sounded like an echo. At some point, the pain stopped and his eyes turned white.
*****
The world was silent. I held my breath and held my arms.
“OMG! Under… Heo-eok… Heo-eok… Turn off, are you done? Why?”
I hurriedly looked around. The Almighty was sitting in a chair and staring at me. She said.
“He’s an amazing guy. Are you bluffing like that and fainting?”
She said that with a giggle. I said in amazement.
“We have to go back soon! There’s a C-class monster out there right now, so at least one more person has to step in!”
“I’ve come in after a long time, so why don’t we stay a little longer? The time to talk with you like this, other than meditation, is very valuable.”
“The Almighty Emperor!”
She said with a grin at my urgent voice.
“It is a joke. Please send it right now.”
When she snapped her fingers, her eyes returned to normal. Ichie and her senior Yujeong were staring at me with round eyes. I turned my head once and said.
“Hey, I didn’t faint! Are you okay! Go on!”
“Okay, it’s over. Water phenomenon.”
She said as she showed her eyes burning brightly like her lantern. I looked at my right arm. The right arm was shining brightly. Senior Yujeong squeezed her gauntlet and looked out into the woods. Even in the shadows, Lava’s white legs were shining brightly in the sunlight.
Lava was coming back vigorously, shaking her head. She was red and swollen at the spot where she had been hit with her gauntlet earlier. The bottom of her chin was also tattered, but she still looked like Lava. He opened his mouth wide and let out a strong gleam in his eyes.
“Quaaaaa!”
After screaming, Lava started charging at us fiercely. It was torn on both sides without anyone saying first. Senior Yoojung threw herself to the other side of us and jumped in. Just as Moses parted the sea, the lush vegetation rose to the sky and split. The place where Lava passed had become a deeply dug wasteland.
Lava, who had buried his head in a mound of dirt, raised his head again and caught us by bending his waist oddly to the side. We hurriedly had to duck to the side again. Despite dodging immediately upon seeing it, the shield was swept away by Lava’s torso. Even though the iron and flesh collided, one corner of the shield twisted into a strange shape again.
As if Lava could repeat this over and over again, as soon as he let go of us, he put his arm on the brake and spun his body wide. As the massive body made of his flesh turned around, it knocked down all the trees around him. I could see a red, swollen mark on the right side of his large body. It looked like a target.
Senior Yu-jeong turned around and tried to hurt him.
But he was too fast. We were in a hurry to avoid Lava. The guy was simply ignorantly charging forward, but he was so ignorant that he didn’t even have the courage to stop it. After one more charge, without a sign of exhaustion, we had to dodge once more.
“Uh?”
A violent hand grabbed Ichie’s shoulder. Lava, who was rushing in front of him, suddenly stretched out his arm and grabbed us, who had evaded by his side. He was a man who knew how to use his head. Ichie was dragged helplessly toward Lava.
“It makes sense!”
Startled, I grabbed the spear and tried to run. Senior Yoo-jeong was also shocked and came running with her gauntlet on. Lava was opening his mouth wide. Ichie drew his sword with a puzzled expression. Her eyes were burning, and Lava’s hand was about to hit Ichie like a net.
A shadow formed on Lava’s head. The small shadow formed in a straight line gradually grew larger, and soon changed into a huge cylindrical shadow. Lava, who was about to eat Ichie’s head, raised his head and looked up at the sky.
Bang!
A drum fell from the sky and crushed Lava’s head. Lava struggled, waving her arms in all directions, under the pressure of the drum that fell hundreds of meters in the air. Ichie was thrown backwards from the impact.
Gate instability. It was luck never again. Ichie rose from the floor.
I tried to run to Ichie. However, he came to his senses again at senior Yoo-jeong’s cry. Now that Lava panicked and couldn’t restore her body, the scars left on her stomach were clearly visible.
“Now!”
Ichie took a stance and swung his sword wide. As she swung her sword, a red trail remained and ran forward like a darting arrow. I threw the spear held in my right arm with all my might. The spear was enveloped in white light and flew towards the wound.
“Cut!”
The two lights hit the wound at the same time, and Lava started screaming in agony. The sound of leather being torn was heard. Drops of blood splattered everywhere, the air burst and Lava’s stomach dented with the impact. A thin sheet of skin protected her entrails on her tattered belly.
Dirt and branches were flying everywhere. Through that gap, Senior Yoo-jeong ran. She gritted her teeth, threw her arms back wide, and fired her fists out with the sound of her engines exploding. As if being led by her fist, senior Yoojung jumped into Lava’s stomach.
Without hesitation, it pierced the thin membrane, and the heavy mechanism was buried deep inside the intestines. Blood was pouring out under the white skin. Lava struggled even more in pain as she sought her once again. We started running with all her might, with senior Yoojung heading in the direction she was going to fly.
The sound of a button press was clearly audible to us as well. A compressed explosion sound followed from Lava’s stomach.
Tung!
With a speed incomparable to the boring explosion sound, senior Yoo-jeong was blown away. I jumped as hard as I could toward Yu-jeong.
I narrowly grabbed senior Yoo-jeong and rolled on her floor. Spread out on the floor, we looked up at the sky and breathed. Ichie was running, catching his breath.
“Euuuuu… !”
I heard Lava’s voice. It was not the time to relax. Worried about it, we raised our bodies toward Lava.
Lava’s stomach swelled like her ant queen, then shrank again. Her blood was pouring like a fountain from the hole that senior Yoo-jeong had made. Pieces of intestines flowed thickly along with the blood. Clearing her drum that had taken her head down, Lava beckoned her into the air like a bug, then made her droop.
Senior Yoojeong gave us a thumbs up. I also sat down on the floor in Ichido and held her thumb up.
And we started laughing like idiots. Along with the sense of accomplishment, my energy was drained.
