Chapter 131

Chapter 131

[Flowering Night (11)]

Help me.

Save me.

Save me, please.

It was hell, that place.

A horror that burned through the world like it would consume anything.

Crumbling ground, collapsing bridges.

The sky was filled with soaring flames and smoke, and monsters emerged from the raging inferno.

The creature glowed with an inner light in the searing heat.

Its eyes were glowing in the heat, and it was glaring at him, a gaze that made him feel the fear of death just by looking at it.

My g-god, shouldnt we get off too?

Lets get out, too.

He could hear his parents voices in the drivers and passengers seats, but he couldnt look away from it.

My body wouldnt listen.

From head to toe, my body was stiff with fear, and there were no tears in my eyes.

Eunha, Euna, lets get out of here.

Its okay, Daddy will chase those bastards away.dont worry

Then, my vision reversed.

It happened so fast.

That in front of me had just struck the leg that had been pulled out from under the water like a whip.

The ground collapsed.

The water rose greedily to swallow the falling debris, and my vision spun out of focus.

The world was now a bubbling mess.

Looking up from the water, where all I could hear was the cries of people and the screams of their families, the world was fucking beautiful.

A symphony of flaming water, bubbling bubbles, and human screams.

And in the midst of the music I didnt want to hear, there was a ding, ding, ding, ding-.

Its okay, Eunha.

Ill protect you.

The world faded to white.

When I woke up, I was floating down the river.

No one was there.

Not my father.

Not my mother.

Not even my sister.

Lies. Its a lie.

A reality he didnt want to admit.

Looming over his fading consciousness was the kraken that had taken everything from him.

A wall he couldnt cross even if he wanted to, a traumatizing reminder of the horror.

Dont be ridiculous.

An unfamiliar yet familiar sensation jolted him awake.

An arm lifted from the water,

You think you can break me?

I slammed it down toward it.

Uki-e-e-ee-eeekkk!!

A sixth-tier monster, the Stygian Gloom.

This monsters fear lies in its ability to blend into the darkness, making it difficult to recognize.

It can control its own size at will. It shrinks when its being attacked and inflates when its attacking.

So when you try to attack its body, you sometimes dont know what youre fighting.

Its like youre fighting a formless terror.

It gets bigger when youre scared, and smaller when youre not.

The only thing that makes it recognizable is its eyes, which are as big and round as the full moon.

The way to attack the creature was to attack its eyes, which could identify its presence in the dark.

The problem is, the moment you look into its eyes, youre faced with your own fear.

No, no, no, no, no, no. Its wrong, p-please, I- Ive paid you back, what more do you want me to do, please, open the door, I dont want to be here, Im scared, please, please, please open the door. I messed up, I messed u-up, Im scared, please dont come, Ill pay it all back with interest, please, please, please, PLEASE, open the door!

No! Never! Dont come. Dont fucking come! I didnt kill him, why do you keep fucking with me!

This cant be happening, this cant be happening, why am I the only one who has to suffer this, why, why my family!

H-hyung. Get a grip on yourself. I brought you a potion, why cant you drink it, drink it. D-do you want to die? No, no, no, no, you cant die. I was just kidding, so dont d-die. Please, p-please, dont leave me alone. Without my hyung, how w-will I live?

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Even if you increase your mana resistance, you cant look him in the eye and fight him, and at some point, fear will take over.

Whooosh.

The wind blew.

It rustled the bushes, and a yellow eye flashed overhead.

It was almost dangerous.

The moment the creature opened its eyes in the darkness, Eunha sprinted away.

I dont know how much time passed.

When the creature first appeared, one of the masked players was unable to resist its mana and found himself staring into its eyes.

The rest of the party scrambled to keep it at bay, but one by one, everyone but Eunha was overcome with fear.

He, too, was caught up in its visions as he drained his mana.

Dont think youll die peacefully.

One-point breakthrough.

With a wall walk, I kicked a wooden beam and climbed up, my rapier clutched in both hands.

The wind swirled around the tip of the blade, turning it into a giant drill and enveloping him.

He stomped his foot. Leaping diagonally, he stabbed the rapier into the air.

The tip shattered the creatures barrier.

For a moment, the big eyes fluttered open.

Tsk.

He felt a rush of air from above his head.

Breaking the spell, he closed his barrier, twisted, and spun in the opposite direction.

Madness.

He scattered the remaining mana in his rapier toward whatever was attacking from above.

The slender stinger did little damage.

Eunha fell with the barrier intact.

He couldnt nullify all of the impact.

Rolling on the ground, he lifted his head.

The position of the eyes had shifted.

When he met the yellow eyes, he furrowed his brows.

For a moment, his body trembled.

He almost lost consciousness.

Celestial Step Technique. Celestial Step Technique.

One-point breakthrough.

He withdrew the mana stored in his rapier.

Naturally, the power of the magic he had imbued in the rapier weakened.

Jumping onto a tree branch, he fell towards the fleeing creature with narrowed eyes.

Youre quite annoying, you know.

Violent Venom

The creature screamed.

The toxicity drawn out with the remaining mana penetrated its body.

Blood gushed from the wounded area, and the creature reversed the blood it had shed.

The moment it reversed the blood, everything came to an end.

All that remained was a chain that spelled out death for the creature.

It was over.

Covered in the reversed blood of the creature, Eunha finally caught his breath.

He looked around and saw that the monsters were all dead.

This was the result of the Violent Venom.

Not a single monster had survived.

These guys are dead too.

Eunha frowned at the players on the ground.

Unable to escape Stygian Glooms spell, they had fallen victim to the Violent Venom.

I needed these guys to help me figure out their location.

Luckily, I had the approximate location stored in my head.

At the end of this path, beyond the valley, the monsters should be moving.

If I recover my mana and deploy my sensors, I should be able to get a sense of the flow.

All I need is Oh Yeon-jung.

Eunha confirmed that Oh Yeon-jung was alive and well. An A-grade supporter would have been able to deploy a barrier to protect only herself.

But as it turned out, Oh Yeon jeong was hiding in the nearby bushes.

Did you think you could escape?

Behind, behind!

Eunha sneered.

But then she shook her head, trembling with fear. Raising a finger, she pointed over his shoulder.

He felt a little uneasy.

He glanced back.

.

Keiiiieeeeeeeeeeee

A giant monkey, covered in blood.

Stepping out of the trees, the Stygian Gloom was reaching for him.

It wasnt dead yet?

It didnt make sense.

It couldnt be alive, covered in poison.

He made a grunting sound and stared at the creature as it approached.

There was no focus in its eyes.

It was already dead.

Only the single-minded determination to kill him was moving its body.

The poison had consumed its entire body.

All that remained was the mana that made up its organization scattering and disappearing.

Bastard.

There was no time to drink the potion.

His physical abilities had deteriorated rapidly since the Gift had been removed, and he lacked the mana to use magic.

I couldnt even run. Even if he tried to run with what little strength he had left, he knew hed be crushed by the wrist reaching for him.

Shit.

The body corrupted by Violent Venom shuddered violently.

It didnt stop there.

For some reason, the structure broke down into small pieces, forming a wave that began to wash over him.

No. If he were swept away here

Monsters are coming up from the bottom of the mountain.

If he were swept away by the wave, he would flow down below the mountain and be surrounded by monsters.

I had to hold on somehow.

Oh Yeon-jung!!!

Eunha called to Oh Yeon-jung, who was at his back.

If she deployed the barrier, the waves could be blocked.

Good.

When he looked back, she had already deployed a barrier around herself.

From within the barrier, she smiled broadly.

Here it comes!

Without any other choice, he clenched his teeth.

He quickly raised one hand to cover his head and tried to use the remaining mana to create a barrier somehow.

The mana that flowed out of his body scattered into the air before he could form the barrier.

He was out of mana.

He hastily searched his handbag.

I had to find a mana restoration potion.

Come out, come out!

Bodies raining down overhead.

A sea of blood splashing before his eyes.

The stench was right there, and the blood level was rising up to his head.

Where is it!

Finally, the wave swallowed the area.

Eunha gritted his teeth to prepare for the impact.

His vision flashed white.

Eh?

Time passed, but the shock didnt come.

When he was swept away by the wave and instinctively closed his eyes, Eunha slowly opened them.

What is this?

A protective spell unfolded around him.

Flower petals that had blossomed in the darkness, taking on the form of trumpet flowers, were protecting him.

As the wave made up of the remains of monsters turned into mana and disappeared, the flower petals in the air lost their luster and became faint.

In the place where the flower petals had vanished, a white handkerchief fluttered.