# 39
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It was already the second time.
Pick –
The monitor in the stands turned off.
“also?”
“Oh what. “The kids at the association are handling things in a really shitty way.”
“Why does a problem arise on the third floor? “I was watching it 104 times.”
The infrared camera installed in the field on the 3rd floor went out.
The audience, who were watching Daesung’s performance with excitement, naturally had no choice but to express their dissatisfaction.
Moreover, Shin Cho-young and Jeong Jin-cheol had also just arrived on the third floor, so their dissatisfaction spread like a fire blown by the wind.
“But it’s obvious even if you don’t look at it. “On this test, number 104 just gave up.”
“The chief minister has been confirmed as number 104… and now it’s a question of who gets the second position between Shin Cho-young and Jeong Jin-cheol.”
“Our clan’s size can’t handle ransom number 104. Among the rest, there are some useful ones….”
“Damn. “Even those who seem useful are still on the second floor.”
Since Daesung has shown such overwhelming ability, it is an obvious fact that large clans will rush to offer the highest ransom ever.
Small and medium-sized clans that did not have as much capital as large clans regretfully went out in search of the remaining rookies.
A person who is dissatisfied because he could not see the performance of number 104. The one who whet his appetite and only then looks for another leading rookie.
Amidst many mixed reactions.
‘Jincheol did a good job.’
Only one of them knew the reality of the situation.
Seokwoo Lee.
He raised the corners of his mouth as he stared at the monitor on the third floor, where the power was turned off.
***
Boom!
The Giant Scorpion’s heavy body collapsed.
Life is not over.
It literally collapsed like a machine that had been turned off.
“what?”
Daesung, who was in the middle of putting the guy on the defensive, frowned.
It’s not just the Giant Scorpion.
Crackling – Pick!
The armor he was wearing also lost its light.
The notification board, which was steadily recording accumulated points, is now full of noise.
‘The control device installed in its center must be broken.’
There was no reason other than a malfunction in the control device for him to collapse even though his life wasn’t over yet.
What’s more, the armor malfunctioned at the same time.
‘Common sense tells us that there is no chance of two things happening at the same time.’
So, the conclusion is one of two things.
The organizer stopped the test arbitrarily.
Or maybe someone else on the third floor was doing something.
‘Someone has done a trick.’
And Daesung placed the possibility on the latter side.
The basis was clear.
A wave of auras was raging wildly in the distance just now.
Because my instincts were warning me that the nature of the wave was unusual.
Daesung
looked at the waves of aura flowing beyond the pitch black.
‘I guess I’ll have to go and check for myself.’
***
I’m crying!
Blood poured out of Shin Cho-young’s mouth after being stabbed in the back like a burst dam.
Jeong Jin-cheol’s right hand penetrated through the hard armor and even penetrated the lungs and skin.
The right hand was full of fur and had sharp claws, reminiscent of a bird of prey.
“Khuk kuhuap-!”
Shin Cho-young’s vision became blurred as blood poured out once more.
Wow!
Jeong Jin-cheol pulled out his right arm that had pierced Shin Cho-young’s body.
At that point, the surrounding area was already covered in blood and a red stream had formed.
“I was lucky.”
dump!
Shin Cho-young, who had a hole in her body, collapsed on the spot.
“It’s so dark and so quiet. It’s the perfect environment to secretly harass your bitch. “It’s almost like heaven prepared a big table for me to eat.”
Jeong Jin-cheol burst into laughter.
And he wandered around Shin Cho-young, who had collapsed in tatters, as if taking a walk.
“Then why did you speak rudely to me from the first meeting and presumptuously get ahead of me? “It’s because you keep talking back and forth like that that you’re in this situation, bitch.”
It was a face of relief.
Jeong Jin-cheol smiled at Shin Cho-young, who was lying on the floor like a person who had lost a tooth.
Pak-!
“Ugh…”
Then he roughly grabbed her ponytail and dragged her somewhere.
Blood lines continued on the floor at every corner where Shin Cho-young’s body passed.
“Hey, if you stay like this at the entrance, other people will look at you in a bad way. “You don’t like that either, right?”
“Huh huh huh….”
“Let’s finish it up, just me and you, somewhere quiet. Do you know what I mean? “What I’m saying is that you lie quietly in a place where no one is around and no one can see.”
Jeong Jin-cheol also did not want to make a big deal out of it.
We had already taken the minimum measures, but we did not want to create additional problems by introducing other witnesses.
He wanted to harass and kill Shin Cho-young as long and slowly as possible.
For that purpose, he pulls Shin Cho-young by her hair and heads into the endless darkness.
“I mean. “I want first place.”
“….”
“I’m going to live in first place and whine. “I’ll be successful, eat delicious food, and hug my wife.”
That’s it.
Truly, the person named Jeong Jin-cheol simply hates being left behind by someone.
Become the best in competition and kill those who get in your way.
No matter how dirty the process is, it can be endured.
Because the valuable result of first place will be waiting for you.
“But why is it Shin Cho-young or Vinegar, that bitch who looks like a dog’s bone from somewhere and is bothering me?”
He held back when she passed the first floor before him.
Jeong Jin-cheol himself thought that patience was a miracle even now that he thinks about it.
And when Shin Cho-young overtook him even on the third floor.
I thought, after all, miracles can’t happen twice.
“Who taught me how to sabotage people who are trying hard?”
Chuckle –
A mean mockery echoed like an echo in the darkness.
“Your mother, your father?”
And when Jeong Jin-cheol said those words.
For a moment, he felt the weight disappear from the hand holding Shin Cho-young’s hair.
Pseok-
I heard that sound for a moment, so I turned around and saw Shin Cho-young standing a certain distance away.
Stand firmly on your own two feet.
“….”
Shin Cho-young was standing up even though there was a hole in her abdomen so large that she could clearly see the space behind her.
Jeong Jin-cheol looked at her once and then at his own right hand.
He held a handful of Shin Cho-young’s hair in his hand.
“Huh-huh!”
Shin Cho-young, who suddenly had short hair, opened her eyes through her scattered hair.
She glared at Jeong Jin-cheol, her eyes filled with hatred and resentment, shining like a demon.
“Huh-how dare you put my mother and father in that filthy maw?”
“Hey, you’re really amazing. How can you stand with that mess on? “Are you a zombie?”
“Until I chew you to death, huh!” I won’t fall asleep, you damn bird….”
Kwaang-!
Jeong Jin-cheol narrowed the distance with a single step and drove his fist into Shin Cho-young’s face.
Shin Cho-young’s vision rotated half a circle, and the sound of a bone breaking in her neck was heard.
dump!
Was it really satisfying to see Shin Cho-young lying on the ground, trembling?
Jeong Jin-cheol shook his hand and let out a hearty laugh.
“Are you tired?”
Contrary to the way he spoke, his fingers were covered in blood, as if the punch he just made was no joke.
“Write. What kind of woman is a lump of stone? “The side that hit me also hurts.”
Jeong Jin-cheol turned his gaze to his numb hands.
I took my eyes off Shin Cho-young for just a moment.
And even then, he didn’t expect it.
“Oh, and I keep falling asleep. “If you lie still, I’ll do my best to keep you from getting sick…”
I trailed off and turned my head back to Shin Cho-young’s direction.
The fact that Shin Cho-young is no longer there.
“Escape in the meantime?”
It didn’t take long.
bang-!
“100 million?!”
Until I realized it was an illusion.
In that short space of time, Shin Cho-young, who caught Jeong Jin-cheol behind him, slammed his fist into his side.
“You bitch!”
Jeong Jin-cheol’s eyes rolled back.
It was a big deal that he allowed a blow to the side.
When his center of gravity collapsed, he was unable to make a proper counterattack, even if only for a moment.
“You fucking bastard.”
That set the stage for Shin Cho-young to hit Jeongta once again.
Shin Cho-
young gently placed her palm on his solar plexus.
“Why should I run away when it wouldn’t be enough to chew you to death?”
And the auror was loaded.
Kwaang-!
“100 million!”
Long hit.
A small but extremely heavy Aura thunderbolt exploded into Jeong Jin-cheol’s solar plexus.
bang-!
Jeong Jin-cheol was blown away and hit the wall like a person hit by a large truck.
In the pitch black, dust rose like powder and spread into the air.
The dust spread out and cleared away Shin Cho-young’s messy hair.
Shin Cho-young’s eyes, with her facial features clearly revealed, were shining brightly with murderousness and hostility.
“I got up and this dog. “It’s not over yet.”
“Now I understand.”
Jeong Jin-cheol chuckled with interest, burying himself between the craters that had collapsed behind him.
“Is that the direction your Auror specializes in? right?”
“It’s a specialized direction, so please come quickly. Do you fight with your mouth?”
“Special species that become stronger every time they are hit. “You were like that too.”
The Auras possessed by the Awakened have characteristics specialized for their respective areas.
An auror specialized in attack. An auror specializing in defense. An auror specialized in healing.
Shin Cho-young’s auror is located somewhere between defense and healing.
Her aura expands and explodes in extreme situations, like someone who has been injected with adrenaline just before her heart stops.
That is why the world called that type ‘Indomitable Auror.’
“For some reason, I thought you looked refreshed even though you had a hole in your stomach and a broken neck bone.”
The more you push yourself, the stronger you become.
Now I thought I knew why she was able to get over the first and second floors earlier than me.
The closer the test difficulty is to hell, the more advantageous it is for Shin Cho-young.
“This is why masochists are scary, scary. “Giggle.”
bang-!
Shin Cho-young, who could no longer listen, rushed to the ground with the momentum to run and stretched out her fists.
There was a loud noise, and the crater in the wall became deeper and larger.
But Jeong Jin-cheol was no longer visible there.
“When you get beaten up, you become stronger, but when you get beaten down, you become indomitable and naive, and it’s all useless, right?”
As if he was trying to return the same way he had just been treated.
This time, Jeong Jin-cheol caught up with Shin Cho-young.
And without making a single mistake, she struck Shin Cho-young’s side exactly as she had done.
“That’s it!”
Crackling-!
The sound of my ribs twisting seemed to continue for a moment, but then it quieted down.
Instead, there is only the sound of wind like a balloon falling out of a hole in the stomach.
She rolled around on the floor once more, but this time she didn’t fall down and immediately straightened up.
Yes, it should come out like that. Jeong Jin-cheol shouted and ran to Shin Cho-young.
“Would he be able to stand up even if every single branch of his body was ripped off?”
Faba Park-!
Countless repeated hits followed.
A power that Shin Cho-young, who was mortally wounded, seemed unable to demonstrate.
The two fists, constantly fighting, released countless pounding sounds.
“But you know what? “I’m not going to pick on your bitch right now.”
However, no matter how much I struggle using the indomitable Aura as a stepping stone.
At least Jeong Jin-cheol didn’t have any holes in his body. But now she is fighting with her five organs and six parts pierced.
In the face of that fundamental gap, being an indomitable Auror was meaningless.
Quick-!
“Whoops…!”
Jeong Jin-cheol’s fist, transformed like a bird of prey, broke through the barrage of blows and shattered Shin Cho-young’s left collarbone.
The left arm, which had been stretched out with all the strength it had, has now completely stopped.
“I’m going to throw your life away. “Removing the hair branches comes next.”
I still have my right arm left. Both legs are still fine.
Of the four weapons, only one was lost.
Such a simple calculation stimulated Shin Cho-young’s indomitability.
It is not restricted by form. The body goes out before the head thinks.
Burbubbuk-!
Shin Cho-young’s right arm and two legs, swinging wildly like a whip, made the second attack against Jeong Jin-cheol possible.
Every time the two hit each other and fists clash, light flashes in the darkness.
That light, as fleeting and short as a mirage, pushed Shin Cho-young into a trance.
And her ego, located on the other side of her unconsciousness, was now recalling a ‘memory’.
It was a memory of my mother and father.
It was a happy family.
However, during Gate Fracture, her parents lost their lives to monsters.
A huge bridge appeared from the sky and clawed past where they were standing.
When she came to her senses, she found herself standing in mourning at her parents’ funeral, where there were no remains.
From then on, she made up her mind.
I’m going to kill all the monsters in this world.
He will destroy everything that stands in his way.
The nightmare from that time, still alive and breathing in the subconscious, has now become an engine and strengthened Shin Cho-young, who was in a trance.
Kwazijic-!
“Oops, what a mistake. “I have to use my remaining arm, but I stop before I know it.”
However, miracles do not come to everyone who has the will.
A large light flashed, and when I closed my eyes and opened them, I saw the ceiling.
Jeong Jin-cheol’s straight line was right in the center of Shin Cho-young’s face.
And she fell over.
I couldn’t stand up.
My legs were fine and I thought I could still fight.
The damage she suffered went far beyond what ‘indomitability’ can tolerate.
“A toxic bitch. “Whoa…” Jeong Jin
–
cheol’s powerful foot hit Shin Cho-young’s knee.
Shin Cho-young, whose pain nerves were broken, did not even feel pain.
As his consciousness was fading, he caught a glimpse of Jeong Jin-cheol holding his right arm.
It was easy to understand.
The intention is to tear it up like cabbage from the field.
“Hey hey. Do not be sleep. “There’s still a long way to go. You’ll have to cry after seeing your arm being torn off.”
Giggling!
Jeong Jin-cheol’s laughter rang out in the darkness once more.
At a time when the eerie mockery was growing endlessly.
Jeopuk-
Jeok-
“Huh?”
Even while he was laughing uncontrollably, Jeong Jin-cheol was able to hear clearly. It was the sound
of footsteps
.
The sound of footsteps slowly coming towards us from beyond the darkness.
“What are you talking about?”
Jeong Jin-cheol, who was trying to tear off Shin Cho-young’s arm without hesitation, stopped his movements and turned his head to the epicenter of the footsteps.
There….
“Are you the one who made this place look like this?”
At the same time, a harsh voice broke through the pitch-black curtain.
Hwareuk –
An unidentified flame burned quietly in the darkness.