Chapter 25

Chapter 25

[Translator – Night]

[Proofreader – Gun]

Chapter 25: The Superhuman with Bare Feet (3)

「What is this...?」

As the Golden Flash emitted a sensory displacement, Hong Youngtae’s expression twisted.

He felt it too, something strange happening to his body.

「You... what are you?」

In a moment of suspicion, Hong Youngtae asked with a doubtful tone.

Hwaeeat!

A gray trail pierced the guy’s face, making a creaking sound.

Creak!

「Ah, damn!」

Yeongwoo thrust the shield into the guy’s teeth without raising his guard.

“What are you doing? Without raising your guard.”

As Yeongwoo withdrew the shield from the guy’s mouth, broken teeth fell to the ground.

Hududuk.

「This... this is insane!」

Hong Youngtae, with an expression of disbelief, covered his collapsed gums with his right hand.

An unbelievable situation.

So far, he had only encountered opponents who couldn’t even properly compete with him, let alone match his skills.

「Who are you to be this strong...? Aren’t you in a position to be punished? Isn’t this cheating?」

“What?”

As Yeongwoo blinked his eyebrows and took another striking posture, Hong Youngtae instinctively took a step back.

“Who said we’re the ones being punished? Where did you hear that?”

「Well, he didn’t exactly say it was punishment, but...」

The guy mumbled, then, when Yeongwoo didn’t follow up with another attack, he subtly extended one foot forward.

「So what I heard was...?」

Next, what the guy did was too obvious.

Swinging his right arm, which had been in front of his mouth, in a swift attempt at a surprise attack.

「We should be able to judge with our own strength, right...?」

Ssyaeeaak!

It was an attack so fierce that the sound alone sent shivers down the spine.

If Yeongwoo hadn’t had the upper hand in senses, his chest might have been torn open immediately.

In terms of strength and arm length, Hong Youngtae had the advantage, so two hits were enough.

“...!”

Yeongwoo, predicting the surprise attack, barely managed to avoid it.

Hwaeeat!

But as a result, the distance between him and his opponent decreased, allowing for many counterattack opportunities.

―Break

―Break

―Break

‘You’re done.’

As Yeongwoo confirmed the sign, Hong Youngtae, who had seen it, had a fearful expression for a moment.

And indeed.

Kwakwakkwang!

A brutal retaliatory beating found its way to the guy.

「Keuk!」

Having been hit with a right elbow and a left sidekick, and finishing with a kidney shot, Hong Youngtae couldn’t hide his bewildered expression as he retreated again.

Before being a mutant, he was a person too.

Since he had never experienced such a level of assault before, the momentum of the judgment and all that vanished like a ghost, leaving only instinctive fear.

「Wait a moment...! I really can’t breathe! Timeout!」

It was truly a rare sight to see a three-meter tall giant struggling irregularly, clutching his side.

Even the Gimcheon City warriors who had been fleeing with all their might stopped in their tracks to watch.

Meanwhile, Yeongwoo, sensing the guy’s spirit had been broken, sheathed the early bird at his waist.Th/e most uptodate novels are published on n0velbj)n(.)co/m

Ssut.

It was to show determination until even a trace of the opponent’s pride was left.

“Come here. I have something to ask.”

As Yeongwoo approached with only one shield in hand, Hong Youngtae’s voice trembled even more than before.

「Why... why are you like this? Ask from right there!」

Jubuk, jubuk.

“What did I tell you to ask anything?”

Even though Hong Youngtae raised both hands to show, Yeongwoo didn’t stop walking.

Jubuk, jubuk.

Continuing to approach until his rough breath touched the strands of the guy’s hair.

Bwooong.

Which one could it be?

‘Damn... Would this guy, who was a mess even in his previous life, speak the truth now?’

Unconsciously, Yeongwoo began to harbor doubts.

However, upon further thought, he realized that, strangely, this might be the real method of teleportation.

Teleportation was a kind of betrayal, abandoning the duty of a mutant and quietly returning.

‘So maybe they made it not easy to betray even if they wanted to.’

For example, a method that couldn’t be executed without the help of the opponent who had been fighting with weapons just a while ago.

Moreover.

[Special Social Worker]

|Return the mutant alive.

In the first place, asking a mutant about a teleportation method wasn’t something anyone could do.

It had to be someone listed in the recommended achievements as a ‘Special Social Worker’ for such an idea to arise.

‘Once again, it’s a choice between two extremes.’

Moreover, this time it wasn’t even officially recognized as a quest.

As Yeongwoo seemed to be in dilemma, Hong Youngtae, with a wide smile, slyly bent his raised right hand and said,

「Ho... how does it work? Anyway, I didn’t lie. If you can’t trust me, that’s your problem, but if you won’t let me go, don’t beat me up anymore.」

Since he didn’t completely fold his hand, the ‘Blue Door’ still existed.

‘Really, so many complications.’

Without thinking about it more, Yeongwoo entrusted his fate to his intuition once again.

“Damn it.”

As Yeongwoo put the early bird back in its sheath and reached out his right hand, Hong Youngtae flinched for a moment.

However, he neither stepped back nor prepared for another move.

If it wasn’t this, he knew that his future wouldn’t be optimistic.

“How this...?”

Yeongwoo, without further hesitation, reached out his hand.

Tub!

Finally, the hand of an ordinary person and the mutated right hand clasped the ‘Blue Door.’

And Yeongwoo realized.

This act was just like a handshake.

「...Huh?」

Hong Youngtae, who held Yeongwoo’s hand, looked at the empty space with wide eyes.

“Why? What’s going on?”

Yeongwoo asked, but there was no answer from the other side.

Shaaaat.

Because it was already fading away.

The body of the three-meter-tall mutant, Hong Youngtae.

「Phew.」

Soon, even the long face of Hong Youngtae, which was making a futile expression, was disappearing from view, and the fluffy texture that Yeongwoo felt in his hand vanished.

“Hong Youngtae? Did he really leave?”

Yeongwoo asked this while facing the empty space.

At that moment, a golden sphere appeared where Youngtae had been.

“Ha.”

It was the same sphere that Yeongwoo had seen when he killed Jang Sunbok.

「You have defeated the mutant.」

「Please choose a reward to complete the process.」

Following that, an instruction message appeared.

If Yeongwoo chose to spread karma to everyone again this time, he could achieve the ‘Golden Horde’ achievement.

Ping!

Then, evidence appeared showing that Yeongwoo had indeed spared Hong Youngtae.

[Achievement Accomplished: Special Social Worker]

|Achievement Grade: Legend

|Achievement Rank: First

‘As expected.’

Holding his right hand, which was covered in cold sweat, Yeongwoo felt that his achievement orientation had become even more robust, forming a sturdy ‘stubborn’ quality.

「The recommended achievement list has been updated.」

‘If one achievement is removed, a new one comes in.’

Yeongwoo, who was quickly learning about this world, sensed that even though he had achieved a lot, there was still something unexpected.

Paaat!

With a bright light, another message appeared.

[You can acquire a new title.]

“Huh?”

Surprised, Yeongwoo read the characters that were lined up one after another below.

-Overwhelming! Many candidates for the ‘Strongest Sword’ have witnessed your prowess. No one will object to the fact that you are ‘Gimcheon’s Strongest Sword.’

[Translator – Night]

[Proofreader – Gun]