Chapter 71: Seoul, Demon, Saint

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Chapter 71: Seoul, Demon, Saint

Translator: FenrirTL

Editor: Saphartlantis

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< Chapter 71: Seoul, Demon, Saint 5 >

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An unexpected attack is always effective.

The element of surprise, an enemy's ignorance of one's tactics, or the introduction of a new concept of weaponry,

When one unfolds an offensive through unfamiliar means, the enemy is bound to lose the ability to respond.

That is why PvP, that is, player versus player, is such a tricky field.'

Once a monster has been conquered, a raid' strategy can be established making it easy to counter in the future, but players, with their creative skills/item combinations and their various tactics, are bound to cause unforeseen situations.

That's exactly why the Shadow Baron's extraordinary portal skill always works.'

In the same vein, when aerial drop devices' sprouted from Lee Hyunwook's hands and lifted into the air, the dozens of miscreants rushing towards the Saint hesitated involuntarily.

"What is that?"

For them, it was an item they were seeing for the first time.

And then from there

Shhhhshhhhshhhhshhhhshhhh!

No one expected that 110 steel marbles would burst out and fly towards them.

"Huh?"

"Damn, take cover!"

It was a shocking scene as if a dozen shotguns had fired 12-gauge shells simultaneously.

"Argh!"

"Gak!"

About half of the miscreants were bloodied by the attack.

However, mere steel marbles aren't enough to k**l players of that level.'

It was too much to hope for destructive power equivalent to a bullet propelled by gunpowder explosion.

Of course, unlike conventional weapon ammunition, these magic metal marbles could certainly neutralize the system barrier,' the most basic defense applied to monsters and players.

But that was about it, honestly, the lethality' wasn't particularly high.

No one knew this better than Lee Hyunwook himself.

After all, the most important thing in the first attack is to shake their focus.'

As expected, many of them guarded against the steel marbles, ducking their heads and covering them.

But the real attack was yet to come.

Lee Hyunwook turned his left palm upward and tilted his right palm downward.

The steel marbles changed direction in mid-air, half moving down and half moving up.

In other words, he positioned them above their heads and below their feet, and then

"Shatter!"

Boomboomboomboomboomboom!

The steel marbles, 4.5 cm in diameter, exploded simultaneously.

It was like dozens of mines exploding from the ground and dozens of grenades bursting in mid-air at the same time, leaving the miscreants no choice but to take an unexpected shower of shrapnels.

"Aaaaah- my, my eyes!

"Argh, my leg, my leg"

Only Okita Kaito was able to sense the attack and leaped backward, swinging his sword.

Whoosh!

The swords gust dispersed all the flying shrapnel heading towards him.

However, there was no other miscreant capable of such a sharp response.

While they were still disoriented, Failnaught fired from Lee Hyunwooks waist.

Swoosh!

The magic arrow flew through the confusion, piercing the necks of the miscreants in succession.

Thunk Thunk Thunk Thunk

Unlike the steel marbles, Failnaught was an item with assured lethality. Some miscreants had managed to block the shrapnels with magical protective barriers, but those were useless against Fainaught, which ignored magical resistance.

With just three linked attacks, half of them had already fallen.

"No, its just the beginning; what does it matter if Ive already taken down half of them? They were the weakest in the bunch anyways.?"

Lee Hyunwook said this as he closed his eyes.

His targets were two aerial drop devices, each containing 30 weapons, for a total of 60.

[Synchronized with Aerial Drop Device (Prototype)Miniature Subspace Creation Device.']

-The following operations are available:

1)Item Storage

2)Item Retrieval

Being mana-connected, Lee Hyunwook could use subspace even without direct contact.

Small Subspace Device No. 1 (Items stored: 60)

-Mogley (Heroic)

-Spear of Achilles (Heroic)

-KG19 (Advanced)

[and 57 other items]

Small Subspace Device No. 2 (Items stored: 60)

-KK11 (Common)

-Plain Longsword (Common)

-Sturdy Spear (Common)

[and 57 other items]

Without needing to check the details, he summoned all of them at once.

Whirrrrr

A subspace portal opened on the bottom surface of the aerial drop devices, and a barrage of various weapons began to fall.

Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh

Just before hitting the ground, the weapons aligned in mid-air,

Quivering intensely as if on the starting line of a race, ready to spring forward any moment.

Lee Hyunwook picked out just one, the Spear of Achilles, and stored it in his left hand with an Engraving.

Then, as he extended both hands forward, signaling the start,

SwooshSwooshSwooshSwooshSwoosh!

A total of 59 weapons were shot out horizontally.

At their center was the greatsword Mogley.

BurrBurrBurrBurrBurr!

The massive iron mass, with just one linear movement, cleaved six men in half.

The remaining 58 weapons each found their target and charged with their pointed heads.

ThunkThunkThunkThunkThunkThunk!

Like infantry under machine-gun fire, dozens fell in heaps.

Watching this, Peter Clarke and the other Holy Knights could not hide their amazement.

"This this cant be"

"How can he control so many weapons so freely"

Even though he was standing alone, guarding the gap,' his firepower seemed as if it were combined with dozens of others.

And yet, he did not move even a single step while laying waste to dozens of the enemy.

Really, can he hold them off all by himself?'

Peter felt his palms sweat as he looked at Lee Hyunwook's back.

Yes, please prove that I underestimated you Save the Saint'

While he was thinking this, Lee Hyunwook's furious assault came to an end.

Nothing alive moved within his field of fire, and a sea of blood had formed around him.

Now, only Lee Hyunwook, Okita Kaito, and the Shadow Baron were left, staring each other down.

The real battle begins now.'

That's what Peter thought.

It didn't matter that Lee Hyunwook had swept away dozens in an instant; if he couldn't stop Okita Kaito, it was all for naught.

After all, the others were just bait to buy time for the fiend to get close to the saint.

Clang!

At that moment, a single clash rang out; Lee Hyunwook had taken the offensive.

He moved Failnaught to aim at Okita Kaito's back, but the man easily deflected it.

As expected, he's not someone to fall for such shallow tricks'

Lee Hyunwook did not bother to move his ruler slab Mogley.

A fighter of Okita Kaito's caliber would not be hit by such a blunt and slow attack. Therefore, Lee Hyunwook had no intention of showing his specialty of controlling multiple metals to launch at his opponent.

If I focus on that I could lose my head in an instant.'

When facing a supreme swordsman like that, having his focus split would be poison.

Rather than focusing on attacking, he had to be absorbed in defense, move by move, to protect his neck since it was Okita's favorite spot.

That's why Lee Hyunwook concentrated the enhanced sensation from Huginn' solely on Okita Kaito.

"Hey! We don't have the luxury of time, did you not hear me say we only had 5 minutes left?"

Eventually, the enemy's arm was broken, and the bone protruded through the skin.

"Aaaaahh!"

Lee Hyunwook once again mounted the enemy's upper body and began to deliver a pounding.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

The enemy's body was enveloped in Qi,' but it couldn't withstand the punches with hardening applied.

"Cough Ark Ack"

With each hit, Lee Hyunwook's pounding landed on the enemy's face, and blood splattered.

"This can't be"

Carlos, watching the scene, shook his head with his mouth agape.

"No, this can't be happening, Ive waited four years for this moment"

Instead of the Saint dying the Sword Saint Assassin was being beaten to death.

Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!

In that historic moment where the figure known as the Sword Saint Assassin could potentially d*e from being pummeled

Swish Slash Slash Slash!

Suddenly, a shadow crept in and black spikes shot out, forcing Lee Hyunwook to retreat.

Surreptitiously, the glint of something slipping down into the struggling man's pocket from Lee Hyunwook's own was masked by the shadow covering him.

The next moment, that shadow completely enveloped Okita Kaito and whisked him back.

"Ha Damn, Sword Saint What the hell has this come to"

It was the Shadow Baron who had rescued Okita Kaito.

"S**t everythings gone to hell in such a grand way, hasnt it?"

"No, no there's still a chance to break through"

He shook his head in denial, his eyes swollen with rage as he glared at Lee Hyunwook.

Lee Hyunwook just flashed a wry smile at him.

"I may have just beaten you but since it wasnt with a sword, you can keep calling yourself the Sword Saint."

"However, from now on consider me the Sword Saint Beater.'"

Lee Hyunwook said this as he picked something up from the ground.

"And this, Ill keep as a souvenir."

It was a tooth.

Okita Kaito, with a stunned expression, shakily raised his hand to his mouth, feeling for the missing teeth.

Several of them were gone.

Urgh Ill Ill k**l you"

But the fact that the Shadow Baron had rescued the Sword Saint meant he had stopped guarding the rear.

"Move it, hurry up!"

Soon, government agents started pouring into Saint Park'.

"Damn, this mess is really tangled up"

The Shadow Baron, supporting Okita Kaito, disappeared using some unidentifiable escape technique.

"Hey wait a minute!"

Carlos was the one calling out.

However, in the next moment, his head exploded.

It was the villains' side eliminating someone they no longer needed.

* * *

[A Holy Field is deployed in the area. (100%)]

With that system message, a white light covered the entirety of Seoul.

And then, in the northern sky near Dobongsan, the red clouds that had bloomed disappeared as if melting away.

As anticipated, the deployment of the Holy Field had stopped the summoning of demons.

"Cough! Cough! Uh"

Emilia Mller seemed to have expended all her energy, collapsing to the ground.

Peter ran to her aid, supporting her.

"Pe, Peter qui, quickly, some alcohol"

Upon regaining her senses and immediately seeking alcohol, Peter sighed.

"Emilia, come to your senses. We were in real danger just now.

"What?"

"If it weren't for Lee Hyunwook, we would have been finished."

At Peter's words, Emilia raised her head and looked around.

"Ah."

A horrific scene unfolded before her eyes.

Everywhere lay a sea of blood.

Only then did the stench of it all assail her nostrils, making her feel dizzy.

"It, it really"

As she turned her gaze, she locked eyes with Lee Hyunwook.

"Ah"

She knew.

Lee Hyunwook had fulfilled her request perfectly

"Oh, are you hurt?"

Blood was flowing from Lee Hyunwook's left hand.

Not just a trickle, but pouring out.

She hurried over to grasp Lee Hyunwook's left arm.

"Ah, I'm fine"

"No. I know better. That wound is not fine."

Hum

Heal was applied, and it was a heal from a Saint, no less. The wound began to close rapidly.

"You mustn't, Emilia! Using more holy power in your condition is dangerous!"

He tried to stop her, but she shook her head.

"Peter, I'm fine. You said it yourself, if it hadn't been for this person, we all would have been dead."

""

Peter stepped back at the sight of Emilia's rare serious demeanor.

"You're right. Essentially, this person has once again saved Seoul and us as well."

Peter looked at Lee Hyunwook.

"Thank you, truly. Honestly I'm ashamed to admit that I doubted you."

As he spoke, he looked around with a bitter expression.

"Damn all of this happened because of my oversight. Now everyone is"

"Peter, I still don't understand everything thats happened, but move the fallen members to the Saint Dome first."

"Oh, could it be?"

"With the power of the World Tree we might be able to save a few of them."

The usually unruly Emilia Mller was saying this with completely clear eyes.

"Is that possible?"

"It will be difficult, but it should be possible."

If it was the combination of a saint and the World Tree, resurrection was possible unless the bodies were too severely damaged.

However, it would be feasible not for the reckless Emilia Mller, but only by a Saint in her right mind

Peter's eyes met hers.

Her pupils were very lucid now, so much so that it felt strangely alien.

"Yes, understood."

Peter nodded and then looked at Lee Hyunwook before stepping back.

Left alone together, Emilia looked up at Lee Hyunwook.

"My gamble paid off, just like you said."

"Yes, we were quite fortunate in many ways."

"I had my suspicions, but to actually see it unfold like this"

A flicker of fear passed through her eyes. It was indeed a relief that the assassination attempt was thwarted, but she could not be at ease knowing that such a disaster had occurred while she was out of her senses.

"Thank you to be honest, I had almost given up."

Lee Hyunwook nodded and spoke.

"Emilia, frankly, you owe me a great debt."

"Oh, indeed a very large debt. One that's immeasurable."

"So, I have a few favors to ask of you from now on. Naturally, youll oblige, wont you?"

She nodded repeatedly.

"Of course. Just tell me what you need."

Lee Hyunwook looked around once and then spoke in a low voice.

"Lets start a secret organization."

"A secret organization? What do you mean by that"

Emilia couldn't help but wear a look of bewilderment.

Lee Hyunwook whispered very softly into her ear.

"Don't we need a team to eliminate the root cause so that something like this never happens again?"