Chapter 95
Chaos of Confusion (1)
“Uwooh!”
“Uoh, uoh, uoh!!”
Normally, just one rampaging ogre is enough to completely devastate the surroundings.
When over a hundred such ogres gathered, it felt like a real earthquake had struck.
“What the hell is this all of a sudden!?”
Kang Hyeon, with all his buffs activated, pulled out Ogre’s giant hammer.
“Huap!”
And he swung it with all his might, as if swinging a baseball bat.
“Uoh?!”
The ogre charging at the forefront from the opposite side instinctively felt that something was wrong.
The angle of the hammer was strange.
It tried to dodge desperately, but other ogres were already pushing from behind.
“It’s already too late, you bastard!”
-Thwack!
The massive body of the ogre hit by the hammer rose into the air.
“Uooooooooooh-!”
“That one’s got some good lungs.”
A scream of agony echoed throughout the forest.
The ogre, grimacing in pain, planted its head straight into the ground.
“This feels like déjà vu...?”
Somehow, the situation felt familiar.
Kang Hyeon tilted his head and then tapped the twitching ogre’s tailbone with his hammer.
“Come on in. Since it’s come to this, today’s treatment is specially free of charge.”
The ogres who witnessed their comrade die in such a horrific manner hesitated for a moment, but soon their eyes rolled back, and they charged in as if nothing had happened.
“Uoooh!”
Kang Hyeon rampaged between the giant ogres, swinging his hammer incessantly.
An Yu-seong and Yoon Na-rae, who had joined the battle at some point, were with him.
-Kwang, Bang!
Every time Kang Hyeon and the ogres clashed, a thunderous sound rang out, and the trees in the forest trembled.
“When will this end? I swear, when I get back...!”
“What did I do!?”
“You sure know when I’m talking about you!?”
In the midst of battle, Yoon Na-rae responded with an irritated voice to Kang Hyeon’s shout.
“Brother. Come!”
Suddenly, at An Yu-seong’s cry, Kang Hyeon frowned.
“What do you mean ‘come’...?”
Kang Hyeon’s body stiffened as he spoke.
‘Don’t tell me...’
An enormously powerful magical energy was approaching.
“Shit...”
It was already too late to avoid it.
Kang Hyeon quickly resigned himself and prepared.
“Kyaaaak-!”
An enormous roar that shook the heavens.
Everyone in the midst of battle stopped and covered their ears.
Kang Hyeon turned his head to look in the direction of the sound.
-Flap, flap!
A giant monster bird, probably about 15 meters long.
Panath, the boss monster that had slaughtered numerous ability users, was gazing at this place.
“When it rains, it pours...”
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Ippotranslation
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“Kyaaaa!”
Panath let out a monstrous cry.
“Uwoh, uwoh!”
The ogres, looking like primitive humans.
“Haah...”
Kang Hyeon roughly ran his hand through his hair.
The three groups glared at each other, locked in a tense standoff.
“What are they doing?”
“They’re in a standoff, obviously.”
“I have eyes too, you punk. I’m asking why they’re in a standoff.”
“Why are you asking that?”
“What?”
An Yu-seong looked at Kang Hyeon as if he couldn’t understand him.
“What are you thinking, unlike yourself? Just blast them all away.”
“I was wrong to ask you. Tsk...”
Kang Hyeon clicked his tongue and continued.
“I just thought of something. Monsters of different species fight each other too, right?”
“Yes. It’s common.”
“Somehow... That boss monster.”
Kang Hyeon pulled An Yu-seong’s ear as if he was about to say something that shouldn’t be overheard.
“It seems to have bad relations with other monsters..!”
“You only noticed that now?”
“What?”
An Yu-seong openly showed a dumbfounded expression.
“I knew that by instinct long ago. Even without skills, can’t you just see it?”
“...”
“Anyone can see they’re growling at each other because they don’t get along, and you’ve been pondering this for minutes.”
“...”
“So, brother, don’t think about things that don’t suit you and just go with your body...”
“Alright, shut up!”
Kang Hyeon, who shouted at An Yu-seong, ran his hand through his hair again.
“Uwowu!”
“Wou! Uwooo!”
“Uwo, uwo, uuu!”
“What on earth are they babbling about? It’s so noisy I could die.”
Kang Hyeon, irritated, cursed at the ogres for no reason.
“Woo, wooo!”
The ogres continued to chatter enthusiastically.
They were clearly having an important meeting, using gestures to communicate among themselves.
If one were to interpret, it might mean something like this:
‘Let’s run away!’
‘No. If we run now, we’ll die.’
‘That’s right. We’re gathered. This is our chance to take it down.’
Panath was like a completely mad fighting rooster.
The one that had come down to the ground was continuously stabbing its huge beak into the floor.
-Thud thud thud thud!
At a glance, it might have looked like a giant chicken pecking at feed, but the results were horrific.
Every time the beak struck the ground, monsters were being torn apart regardless of their type.
“Keeeeek!”
But the monsters hadn’t lost their fighting spirit.
Normally, they would have been busy running away from Panath, but today was different.
Even they had gone berserk and were charging at Panath.
“Why are they responding so intensely?”
This wasn’t the situation Kang Hyeon had intended.
Kang Hyeon had actually thought it would be a success if he just managed to divert Panath’s attention.
If Panaths and the ogres fought due to his provocation, that alone would achieve the goal.
“Kaaaa-!”
The start was good.
Panath went wild from the attacks of Kang Hyeon and An Yu-seong, and as expected, the ogres charged towards Panath.
“It was good up to that point...”
The problem was what came after.
As the battle unfolded, other monsters started to join in one by one.
“I guess they had a lot pent up.”
From Kang Hyeon’s perspective, it seemed the monsters thought this was their chance.
A chance to defeat the tyrant of the forest and bring peace.
-Boom!
From somewhere, an unknown monster crashed next to Kang Hyeon.
“Sigh, it’s chaotic... Should I just run away like this?”
He had set the stage, but something didn’t feel right.
There was no focus, and the creatures weren’t particularly interested in him.
“Honestly, I could probably just leave now and come back tomorrow to catch whoever survives.”
“Hahaha!”
“That one seems to be enjoying it.”
An Yu-seong was really going wild like a fish in water.
“Argh! I don’t know. Let’s just clean this all up and leave.”
At that moment, Kang Hyeon spotted the huge log the ogre had been holding.
As if prepared in advance, the end of the log had been sharpened quite keenly.
“Hnngh!”
Kang Hyeon lifted the log and looked at Panath.
“To clean up, I guess we should deal with that chicken head first?”
Kang Hyeon’s muscles bulged as if about to burst as he held the log.
Muscles taut like rubber bands stretched to their limit.
The log cracked under the grip that exceeded its limits.
“Die!”
With that shout, the muscles that had been stretched to their limit were released.
-Whoosh!
An incredible gust of wind arose simultaneously.
The huge log became a single bullet and was fired.
But unfortunately, it just grazed the creature and fell to the ground.
“Tch, missed.”
Although he hadn’t thrown it with great expectations, Kang Hyeon felt a bit disappointed when it missed.
“Phew. Then shall we move properly?”
Just as Kang Hyeon was speaking and stretching his body...
“Kiiiaaa-!”
Panath let out another terrible scream.
And an enormous amount of magical power began to gather in its open beak.
“Huh..?”
Kang Hyeon was momentarily confused as he looked at the creature.
“Why...?”
Their eyes met.
For some reason he couldn’t understand, Kang Hyeon was certain.
His eyes had met with those of the Panath, who was holding fire in its mouth.
“What is it? Why?!”
-Hooooooo
Panath didn’t answer Kang H yeon’s questions.
It just kept gathering magical power.
“Why are you suddenly looking at me?!”
-Fwooooosh!
And then the flames erupted.
The fire Panath breathed out engulfed the entire area where Kang Hyeon had been.
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Ippotranslation
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“Cough, cough!”
The goblin Gerson was running frantically through the forest.
“Kiaaaa!”
Panath’s cries could still be heard. It was clear that it was about to have a showdown.
“Grrr...”
Today wasn’t the promised day.
Nevertheless, his comrades had rushed towards the source of the sound.
It was unavoidable since the ogres, their most important fighting force, were gathered there.
“Cough, cough!”
Gerson was fleeing, leaving that battlefield behind. He was running as hard as he could, until he was out of breath.
“Cough...”
Gerson knew that running away was cowardly.
But he wanted to live.
Looking back, he could see Panath showing its might even from afar.
Charging at that tyrant of the forest was nothing short of suicide.
They must all be crazy.
“Cough?”
That’s when it happened.
Something brushed past Panath’s side.
And it was quickly flying towards this direction.
Gerson squinted to see what it was.
“Keek?!”
A log.
It was a huge log!
Why a log was flying through the sky didn’t matter.
He had to dodge quickly...
-Boom!
That was goblin Gerson’s last memory.