Chapter 318

Chapter 318

The bolt aimed at Taycan’s head failed to hit its intended target.

Whoosh!

Taycan displayed animal-like instincts. He moved his head away when the bolt tip was just a hair’s breadth away from his forehead.

“...!”

Chae Hyung-Seok was astonished by Taycan’s display of superb reaction speed by avoiding an attack that was supposed to be impossible to avoid.

“Hey! You almost drilled a hole in my head! What’s wrong with you since a while ago?!” Taycan snapped at Chae Hyung-Seok.

“...”

“Focus! We’re almost there! Just hang in there a bit more! Keep buffing me! It’s almost done!” Taycan shouted and gave a thumbs up.

That was it.

He simply shouted at him a few times but did not get mad at him despite nearly getting a new hole in his head. Instead, he even went as far as to encourage Chae Hyug-Seok with a thumbs up.

‘Is this guy... a retard...?’ Chae Hyung-Seok wondered.

He flashed a sleazy smile and asked, “Keep buffing you? What if I don’t want to?”

“What?!”

“Ha! How dare an NPC act so high and mighty!” Chae Hyung-Seok scoffed and growled in response.

“What are you talking about? Are you high or something?”

“Just shut the fuck up and turn into a ghoul. You have served your purpose, NPC.”

“I have served my purpose...? I think I heard that somewhere...” Taycan muttered before he suddenly remembered what Siegfried said.

“Piss off to your party. I don’t have any business with you. You have served your purpose!”

Those were definitely the same words, but they carried a completely different feel.

If the way Siegfried said it was something like “Stop bothering me, you’re annoying,” then the way Chae Hyung-Seok said it was, “You have served your purpose, so die! You’re nothing but a disposable pawn!.”

“Anyway, you want me to turn into a ghoul since I’ve served my purpose? Why would I turn into a ghoul when the raid is almost over?” Taycan asked while pointing at the Leper King on the ground.

“Because you are going to turn into a ghoul.”

“Why?!”

“You should’ve avoided it properly. Kekeke!”

The reason Chae Hyung-Seok could laugh right now was that the bolt managed to scrape the very top layer of Taycan’s skin. It was a very small scratch, but that was more than enough for the Curse of Decay.

“Why are you doing this...? What are you trying to do... Kuheok...!”

Taycan fell to one knee.

“Grr...! Grrkkk...! My body is... decaying... Ack! Aaaah! N-Nooo! Kwaaak!”

He started screaming as the Curse of Decay started spreading throughout his body.

Bzzzzt! Bzzzzzt!

Sparks flew all around him after his body started decaying.

“Kuheok! I... I need to fight this...! Aaack! Grrrrk!”

Taycan was decaying much slower than the others.

The Thunder God Vajra’s power!

The lightning attribute mana in Taycan’s body was burning the Curse of Decay to slow down its propagation speed. It was still unknown whether Taycan was a Master or not, but it seemed that his mana was fighting back against the curse.

However, that was all he could do.

There was nothing else he could do aside from slowing down the curse.

Of course, that in itself was already quite amazing, but the problem was that the curse was not going to stop simply because it was slowed down.

The one with the heart of a snake...

Thud... Thud...

...Chae Hyung-Seok walked over toward Taycan while holding a mace dripping with Yong Tae-Pung’s blood and brain matter.

“Thank you for your hard work,” Chae Hyung-Seok said with a smile before it turned into a hideous smirk as he added, “Thanks for working so fucking hard for my sake!”

“K-Keuk...! You bastard... Grrrkk!”

“You deserve to rest since you worked so hard, right?” Chae Hyung-Seok sneered before his bloodlust took over his eyes.

He raised his mace above his head and greeted the NPC goodbye, “Farewe—”

“Hey~ Hyung-Seok~” someone suddenly called out to him and asked, “What are you doing~?”

“What else? I’m about to fuck this NPC up,” Chae Hyung-Seok grumbled in response.

“What are you going to do after you fuck him up~?”

“Isn’t it obvious? I’ll kill him and monopolize all of the—”

‘Huh?! Who was that?!’ Chae Hyung-Seok suddenly sensed that something was off, and he abruptly turned around.

“H-Hiiik!” He shrieked as if he had seen a ghost.

Well, technically, he had truly seen a ghost.

A vengeful ghost.

It was the crazy bastard who proudly told Chae Hyung-Seok he was going to chase him until the end of the world.

***

The ghost flashed a spine-chilling smile.

“Hey, my beloved Hyung-Seok~”

Siegfried had his index and thumb fingers shaped into a box like a camera while approaching Chae Hyung-Seok.

It was as if he was filming him...

“Ah, look over here, Hyung-Seok~”

“L-Look where...?”

“Snap~ Snap~” Siegfried made the sound before saying, “Yes, this is the picture I wanted. Yes, this is excellent.”

Meanwhile...

“Oops! Don’t do this, Hyung-Seok! You’re being too pathetic!”

Siegfried finally came back to his senses and started throwing punches at Chae Hyung-Seok.

“Hey, buddy. Get up, okay? How can the great and mighty Chae Hyung-Seok kneel?”

“I-I’m sorry...”

“What are you sorry about?”

“I’m sorry for everything I did to you... I’ll apologize for them once again... I’m really sorry, so... Please let me off this once. You know I’m done if that video spreads—”

“So?”

“Just think that you’re saving someone’s life and let me off this once, please? I’m going to be good from now on and not cause any trouble, so please—”

“Fuck off.” Siegfried cut him off and said, “You were having the time of your life ruining other people’s lives, but you’re scared now that it’s your turn?”

“T-That’s...”

“You gave money to the loan sharks and preyed on gamers, right?”

“H-How did you know about that?!”

“That’s what you did to me, right? You put me in a situation where I had to borrow money, and you stole the items I bought using that money.”

“...”

“I heard some people committed suicide because of what you did, and some are on the streets after putting their house as collateral. Meanwhile, you? You were lining your pockets while your victims were suffering at the hands of the loan sharks.”

Chae Hyung-Seok was so shocked out of his wits that he felt like passing out.

‘Just how? How much does he know? How did this bastard know about that?’

His relationship with the loan shark, Ma Dong-Po, was one of his biggest secrets.

However, Han Tae-Sung actually knew about it as well?

“H-Han Tae-Sung! I’m sorry! I’ll stop money lending, too! I won’t do anything of that sort from now on, so...!”

“Nope~ I don’t have any plans to go easy on you.”

“Please...”

“Do you know what one of my life’s goals is?”

“R-Revenge...?”

“Nope. Making you take your own life,” Siegfried said without a single hint of emotion.

“H-Hiiik!” Chae Hyung-Seok felt his heart drop after seeing Siegfried’s face.

A vengeful ghost.

Chae Hyung-Seok could feel an unexplainable amount of malice, bloodlust, and lust for vengeance from Siegfried’s face.

‘This fucker has no plans of letting me off...!’

He realized that Siegfried was not as merciful as he hoped he was, so his brain immediately came up with another despicable plan.

‘If I’m going to be fucked then I might as well take the reward...!’

The Raid Dungeon's clear reward could only be described as massive, so he decided to take the rewards for himself for now and worry about things later.

Seuk...

Chae Hyung-Seok prostrated on the ground once again. He pretended like he was begging while discreetly smearing a crossbow bolt with blood contaminated with the Curse of Decay.

“Haa... What should I do now? Should I play with you a little bit while threatening you? Should I just upload this on the internet? Or should I live stream all this? Hmm...” Siegfried pondered while Chae Hyung-Seok was right in front of him.

Pshwoong!

Chae Hyung-Seok didn’t miss this opportunity as he shot a bolt at Siegfried’s thigh.

“Ack! That stings!” Siegfried jumped and grabbed his thigh, and then he grumbled, “Look at this punk? So you’re fine if I upload the video?”

“Do what you want, you motherfucking asshole!” Chae Hyung-Seok got up and cursed at him. Then, he scratched his head frantically before screaming, “I don’t know what the fuck I should do anymore! I’ll just take the rewards if I’m going to get fucked, anyway!”

“You? How? Ouch!” Siegfried asked as he pulled out the silver bolt lodged in his thigh.

“Do you really think that you can win here?”

“Who knows?”

Chae Hyung-Seok flashed a despicable smile and rubbed the bracelet on his wrist.

Seuk...! Seuk...! Seuk...!

Then, three spirits in the shape of a wolf blocked Siegfried’s path.

[Sirius]

[A wolf spirit.]

[It is quite aggressive, and caution is advised against it.]

[Type: Spirit]

[Race: Spirit]

[Level: 250]

[Remarks: It is immune to Physical Damage, making it the worst enemy possible for Physical Damage Dealers.]

“Grrr...!”

“Grrr...!”

“Woof! Woof!”

The wolves Chae Hyung-Seok had summoned using the bracelet Master of Sirius growled at Siegfried.

“I hope you’re not thinking that you can kill me with dogs?”

“Who knows? Kekeke!”

Chae Hyung-Seok laughed like a madman.

“I can just kill you while you’re turning into a ghoul! Kekeke!”

“Who? Me? A ghoul?”

“Enjoy your last thirty seconds! Hahaha!” Chae Hyung-Seok exclaimed triumphantly with a jubilant smile.