Chapter 94:

Chapter 94:

Chapter 94

The enemy formation collapsed as I used the terrain to my advantage.

They must have decided to break through head-on, as a swarm of jade soldiers rushed towards me.

They probably realized instinctively that dragging out this fight would be disadvantageous for them.

They were right to choose brute force.

I would have done the same.

“But that’s only because I haven’t shown you my true strength yet.”

You want to fight me face-to-face? That’s exactly what I wanted.

[I activate the title of Knight of No Honor.]

I immediately unleashed the power of my title.

The translucent characters that flowed through my body wrapped around me and formed an armor.

In my right hand, I held the White Lotus that turned into a sword.

In my left hand, I gripped a shield that was created by the power of my title.

I quickly spent some points to engrave two inscriptions on the shield.

There were only two inscriptions that I could apply on the spot: shock absorption and defense increase.

That was enough to deal with them.

“Come on.”

Clang!

I banged my sword and shield together, taunting them.

They stabbed their spears at me, aiming for my vital spots.

I exhaled and swung my shield.

Clang clang clang!

The spears that targeted me were all deflected.

The ones who attacked me staggered back as their attacks bounced off.

I immediately thrust my sword into their gaps.

A jade soldier’s red eyes dimmed as his body collapsed, pierced through his armor and bones.

I didn’t stop there and pushed forward like a bulldozer.

Ting ting!

Arrows flew from nearby and bounced off my armor.

I ignored the trivial attacks and crushed them mercilessly.

The arrows shot from this close distance couldn’t penetrate the armor that was made from stories.

I blocked the dangerous attacks with the strongest shield, and finished them off with the sword whenever they showed a slight opening.

This was the state where offense and defense were one, with a sword and a shield in hand.

The goddess of victory was smiling on my side in this fight.

‘If they had some leeway, they would have kept their distance and restrained me.’

The jade soldiers had no choice but to fight like this because they knew it was meaningless.

And that was what I wanted.

In the end times, one had to be able to fight in any situation and in any way.

That was the only way to survive.

But more than that, what was needed was to create a fighting environment that was unfavorable for the opponent and favorable for oneself.

This was a skill that I had learned desperately in order to live.

I wasn’t weak enough to lose to these ghosts who only followed injected commands and stayed in their assigned places.

Crash!

A jade soldier’s body shattered into pieces as it hit the shield.

Resistance was futile.

I turned them all into guests of hell without missing a single one.

I smashed them with the shield, cut them with the sword, and crushed them with the weight of the armor.

The fallen jade soldiers turned into dust and some of them were absorbed into my flesh.

More points flowed into me than what I had spent using the inscriptions.

‘I wonder how Jia is doing right now.’

After clearing all the jade soldiers, I turned my gaze to Kwon Jia’s fight.

She was a regressor, so she should be doing well, I thought.

But contrary to my expectations,

“Huh?”

Kwon Jia looked quite precarious.

***

Clang!

Kwon Jia couldn’t handle the huge impact and her body was pushed back involuntarily.

She was losing in this intense power struggle against the giant Skeleton General.

She hadn’t been regressed for long, so she hadn’t fully regained her strength yet.

She had absorbed a lot of stories by borrowing points from Yu-hyun, but it wasn’t enough yet.

She was still an unblooming flower against the Skeleton General’s giant.

It was practically impossible to win against him head-on.

Kwon Jia changed her strategy midway.

If she couldn’t win with strength, she would try with speed.

She was much faster than the Skeleton General after all.

But he was a veteran who had lived for a long time, and he had almost no flaws.

His reaction speed was fast and his movements were swift despite his large size.

He easily blocked many attacks that she thought she had landed successfully.

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The Skeleton General was so strong that he couldn’t be easily defeated in a one-on-one fight even by a mid-tier collector.

Kwon Jia barely held on thanks to her long experience of fighting.

If not for that, she might have already died and prepared for the next round.

‘More than anything, he doesn’t get tired.’

That was the scary part of the Skeleton General.

The jade soldiers were the same, they had no limit to their stamina since they were made of bones and armor without any blood.

They didn’t need to eat or sleep, and they never got tired no matter how much they fought.

That pushed Kwon Jia further into a corner.

[How long are you going to run away?]

Boom!

The Skeleton General stomped his foot hard, as if he couldn’t wait any longer.

The immense power from the giant spread through the ground in all directions.

The whole building shook for a moment, and Kwon Jia had to stop moving to regain her balance.

The Skeleton General took advantage of the opening and swung his sword at her.

Kwon Jia opened her eyes wide and barely ducked to avoid the blade, but her posture was greatly disrupted.

Thud!

He was agile despite his huge size.

Yu-hyun quickly switched his spear to an axe and swung it, but the Skeleton General skillfully raised his sword to block the attack.

Clang!

The Skeleton General wasn’t fazed by the changing weapon.

It was as if he knew it from the start.

He moved his sturdy legs and slowly cornered Yu-hyun.

Yu-hyun gritted his teeth and faced the Skeleton General.

‘He’s strong!’

He understood why Kwon Jia couldn’t finish him off.

He expected him to be strong, but this was beyond imagination.

But he was only trying to buy some time from the beginning!

As he struggled with the Skeleton General, Yu-hyun shouted.

“Get up!”

Hearing his words, Kwon Jia gathered her strength and stood up.

“Grab your weapon!”

She held the broken sword in her hand as if in a trance.

“Fight till the end! If you decided to do it, don’t stop until the last moment!”

His final scream hit Kwon Jia hard.

“That’s right.”

She looked at the Skeleton General with a steady gaze.

“You’re right.”

If she decided to do it, she had to go till the end.

She tried to give up even though she wasn’t completely dead, just because she thought she might die.

That was wrong.

She had to fight.

She had to keep going until the very end.

“Because I have to see what’s at the end.”

Kwon Jia ran towards the Skeleton General. Her movement was much faster than before.

[Huh...?!]

The Skeleton General tried to turn his body as he felt something behind him, but

“Where are you looking? I’m your opponent!”

Yu-hyun, whose armor made of text was broken everywhere, held him back and didn’t let go.

[You bastard...!]

The Skeleton General’s reason cracked for the first time.

He immediately tried to shake off Yu-hyun, but Kwon Jia was faster.

Kwon Jia climbed on his back and stabbed him with all her strength with the broken sword in her hand.

Crack!

[Aaaah!!]

The half-broken sword pierced through his armor and hit his spine.

The Skeleton General screamed as if he felt pain even though he shouldn’t.

He shook his body violently.

Yu-hyun and Kwon Jia were thrown away.

The Skeleton General didn’t even try to pull out the sword stuck in his back.

He glared at Yu-hyun and Kwon Jia through the black smoke.

[How dare you...!]

As he was about to move, another unwelcome guest arrived.

Boom!

The Skeleton General’s body was engulfed in flames.

Yu-hyun turned his head.

The collectors were rushing in from the entrance where he came from.

One of them had thrown a fireball and cheered happily.

“Yeah! Did you see that? He’s nothing but a big guy!”

The Skeleton General’s figure was hidden by the black smoke from the fire.

At that moment,

Flash!

A red light exploded from within the smoke.

Yu-hyun shouted at the collectors immediately.

“Everyone, get away!”

“What?”

“Huh?”

The collectors realized too late that the Skeleton General wasn’t dead, but it was too late.

Whoosh!

The Skeleton General burst out of the smoke and swung his sword horizontally.

There was no obstacle in the building.

The sword cut through pillars and walls like tofu and sliced through the collectors as well.

“Ugh!”

“This crazy bastard!”

Six out of more than thirty collectors died in an instant.

They weren’t weak either, but they couldn’t even resist.

They felt fear towards the Skeleton General who survived their attack, as well as revenge for their comrades who were killed by him.

“This son of a bitch!”

“Kill him! Crush him!”

The collectors who kept their distance attacked him fiercely with their powerful abilities.

The Skeleton General was also injured, so he had no choice but to retreat slowly against their onslaught.

Yu-hyun wondered if they could knock him down.

But the Skeleton General was too stubborn.

[You trash. I’ll turn you all into ashes with my sword!]

The Skeleton General backed off a lot and then headed towards the stake of the Ghost Land.

Kwon Jia realized what he was doing and shouted in panic.

“No! Stop him!”

[Too late!]

The Skeleton General slammed the handle of his sword on the stake.

Crack!

The stake that was half buried in the ground was completely pushed in.

And then.

Rumble!

The Ghost Land vibrated.