Episode 45
After catching a glimpse of Lee Chan-taek, I looked at Nuri.
In the last life, Nuri’s first hunting team broke through and the second hunting team couldn’t handle it, so the third hunting team came out and aggro hit Seoul.
Kim Young-hwan did not even step forward to protect the safety of citizens.
So Seoul suffered tremendous damage and many people died.
At that time, it was said that Nuri had a different ‘class’ from other harmful level 8 monsters.
It maintained its intact form and maintained its purity, freely used its breath, and the power of the blade storm recognized as a gift was powerful.
It was a disaster itself as it was a range attack that tore apart a radius of over 50 meters.
So, I tried to take advantage of the common shortcomings of the raptor monsters.
“The head is very hard.”
Even though the attack was successful three times, Nuri did not even flinch.
Rather, he was so angry that he unleashed his will to kill. If you can’t control your anger even after being beaten, it’s really anger management.
Kieee!
It flies up into the sky with a howl.
I tried to fight by approaching him by stepping in the air, but he must have adapted in the meantime and desperately tried to keep his distance by emitting his breath and creating a storm of blades.
Does this mean that the new head is learning? Perhaps because it is the king of bird heads, it has great adaptability.
I activated my intuition. This spiritual gift that I stole from Jeong Da-hyeon has endless ways to use it, and has a mysteriousness that I can’t even tell where it ends.
Using my intuition, I searched for an efficient way to catch Nuri. Mines like now? To do that, you have to get close to him. Since I’m trying to keep my distance using breath and blade storms, I need to change my methods.
Then it’s not a mine, it’s a slash. Then my intuition responds. However, seeing that there is no significant response, I can see that this is not the answer either. This means that Nuri is a difficult monster.
Saying that slash is the correct answer just because it is not a mine is a dichotomous way of thinking.
“I can’t help it.”
I put my hands together when I saw that the distance between me and Lee Chan-taek had increased due to the collision a while ago. Slash Gift activated.
Blood-red force erupted and collided with the storm of its blades.
Pukang! bang! Quagwagwagwang!
As the slash and blade storm collided, countless remaining forces scattered. The ground turned over and a thick layer of sand rose as if a 100m radius had been swept by a storm. I clicked my tongue briefly as I watched Nuri flying higher through the dust.
Bird heads seem to instinctively judge that it is advantageous to be in a higher position. It’s true that it’s starting to get annoying.
“You’re annoying.”
As I stepped on the force and climbed upward, I was met with a storm of blades that poured down without fail.
A storm of blades pounded the thin force one after another. It’s a very annoying gift. Not only was the power of each of the force blades included in the storm not low, but the force drained out as I had to maintain my body in the air as I approached the guy.
It feels like seawater is being quickly pumped into a large basin.
Because it was me, I was pouring out my force, but if it were another hunter, my force might have been depleted long ago.
This may be why the method of defeating monsters by fighting them in groups has become standard.
Kieeee!
As I get closer through the storm of blades, it fires its breath this time. After offsetting that with a slash, I succeeded in getting close to the range.
The bird-headed guy activated his gift even though I arrived right in front of him.
Quad deuk!
When it collided with the force membrane, it cracked, shattered, shattered, and regenerated repeatedly. He tried to increase the distance in this way, but I ended up right in front of him.
I fired a slash with my fingertip and stabbed it in the head.
Quang!
The slash that hit the hard leather never pierced the head. It was an incredibly tough leather, and I could feel the incredible force repulsion.
How hard is it to be able to withstand mines and even penetrate slashes?
Although the slash did not pierce the leather, it did not mean there was no damage.
Kieeek!
After screaming, Nuri’s body tilted and fell to the ground, but barely managed to fly up.
I could feel the guy getting angry. Nuri’s body turned redder and steam rose.
One annoying thing has been added.
The force contained in the storm of blades was even tinged with heat.
If there is a chloride hell, would it be here? The atmosphere was blazing, and the surrounding temperature rose endlessly.
Is this called Phase 2? It was so annoying. Now I just thought I had to finish it quickly.
Whoops!
He loaded a mine right in front of him and hit it. The strong repulsive force remained. But I didn’t feel stronger than before. The thing is that its defense power cannot be maintained for a thousand years or ten thousand years.
Even if I tried my intuition, I couldn’t find an answer with mines or slashes. This means that you cannot end the situation by relying on gifts. If I relied on my intuition any more, I would have exhausted my mental power endlessly, so I locked my intuition away.
Yes, there was only one way from the beginning.
No matter how tough and hard it is, Nuri is also a monster made of blood and flesh. If you keep hitting it, it will inevitably break. So I put aside the slash and started hitting Nuri on the head with a mine in my fist.
By the time he was struggling and out of my range, over 30 attacks had been fired to his head.
Keeeee!
Nuri, unable to hold on any longer, screamed and fell.
thud! Nuri collided with the ground with a loud noise. Seeing that it was still writhing, I could see how tough its vitality was.
“It’s really tough.”
I hit mines more than 30 times and it survived. I don’t think all Level 8 harmful monsters are like this.
One thing was clear. It would be worth it if I made armor out of the skin of a guy that withstood even my mines.
For the first time in a long time, I stood in front of Nuri, feeling empty due to a considerable amount of force consumption.
This is the first level 8 harmful monster I have faced in my right mind. Research will be necessary to effectively deal with the level 8 monsters that will appear next.
“I’m glad I’m alive.”
Nuri trembled as if she heard my sincere words.
*
“Interesting?”
I tried various experiments on the fallen Nuri. The leather was incredibly hard, so I wondered what the principle was, and it turned out to be related to force.
Although it is at a primitive level, Nuri uses the force instinctively. When my attack is directed, the force is instinctively concentrated in front of the affected area to offset the impact.
However, the use of force is not infinite. After being caught by me, it must have lost its strength after going through various experiments, and its hardness is no longer what it used to be.
Then, when the force was depleted, the mines that touched the head began to inflict significant damage.
Kieeek!
Nuri squirmed.
“Did I hit you too much?”
I didn’t have much appreciation for Nuri trembling. If you go around killing people for pleasure, you should be prepared to get beaten too.
I tried using mines and experimenting with leather strength with slashes, and when Nuri was foaming at the mouth, I moved on to the next step.
The question was whether it was possible to tame this guy.
Taming a monster and using it as a pet is everyone’s desire.
In fact, there is a precedent for taming level 1 and 2 monsters through ‘training’ or ‘taming’.
There are many cases where these two gifts become a social problem because they are often used on humans rather than monsters.
It turned out that it was possible to tame monsters, but most people were of the opinion that it was only possible because the level was low. 1 Stage 2 monsters were actually nothing more than slightly ferocious wild animals.
There is no precedent for taming a level 3 or 4 monster that seriously harms humans, so taming it would be virtually impossible.
As the monster’s level increases, its hostility towards humanity becomes stronger and its mental power becomes stronger. Experts say that it is possible to tame this mental barrier by breaking it down.
I thought it was possible to break down this barrier through brainwashing.
Then I could have become an idiot.
“I don’t think there’s much of a difference between a bird-head and an idiot anyway.”
I think the stupid thing is the same.
I thought about brainwashing.
The principle of this gift is to plant my will in the user’s consciousness. The key is so-called gaslighting, which breaks your will and injects you with the keywords you want.
I couldn’t explain it as delicately as the cult leader who was using it. This guy turned his target into a fanatic by creating an environment and using his words.
The brainwashing was so thorough that it eventually led believers to commit group suicide with a single word of cultism.
It’s impossible to do detailed brain washing like a cult leader, so I’ll have to do it my way.
I brainwashed Nuri with the keyword ‘obey.’
Kiek!
The guy who was still conscious resisted. The hostility toward humanity and toward myself that was built into my head became the driving force of resistance.
He is a persistent guy.
First, this driving force must be broken.
I used brainwashing again, paying no heed to Nuri’s resistance. This time, keywords were overlapped and injected.
‘Obey, obey, obey!’
Kyaaaaaaa!
Nuri, who had only intermittently resisted, begins to struggle.
Is this the last stand? It was pretty intense.
Quad deuk!
A bunch of mines were planted on his head to make his movements slow down.
A few more brainwashing keywords were injected into the brain of the weakling boy, but he held on.
This makes people come.
I injected keywords endlessly.
‘I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey, I obey.’
The force drained endlessly, but I didn’t care. At this level, it’s worth giving up and submitting. This guy was pretty persistent too.
If they struggle, knock them down with mines and inject them with brainwashing keywords.
After trying three times and injecting the keyword about 300 times, Nuri couldn’t hold out any longer.
Kirrr!
Intermittent squirming spread throughout his body, and then his eyes rolled over and his movements stopped.
“Dead?”
When I gently tapped my head, I found that my brain was mush. I think the brainwashing was a bit excessive.
“It’s not easy to tame.”
I clicked my tongue and stretched out my hand toward where Nuri’s heart was.
The leather without the force film resisted the slash, but cracked after three attempts.
I grabbed Nuri’s heart. I had just died, but the freshest green blood was sticky and clinging to my hand. When it touches the skin, a tingling sensation spreads. It’s poison. I took the blood into my mouth without hesitation.
“It’s terrible.”
Starting with paralysis, confusion, hallucinations and intoxication began to occur.
It was a familiar phenomenon, so I suppressed it with force. Poisoning is something you experience every time you try to catch a glimpse of a monster’s gift.
Suddenly, I remembered Mandokbulchim. If I had that, I wouldn’t have to go through situations like this. If you tell the Berserker you want it, he’ll go crazy, so I’ll have to find out if there’s a way to copy the gift without killing him.
Meanwhile, Nuri’s gift information began to be copied. There was a blade storm, a breath of fire, and high-speed flight. It was what I expected, so I had no expectations or disappointment.
Breath of fire and high-speed flight were gifts that could not be selected due to species limitations.
Then, all that remains is a storm of blades. When I selected it, the gift started to be copied and then an abnormal phenomenon occurred.
“uh?”
I had to select a gift to delete, but the slash disappeared without any warning. And a storm of blades took its place.
“···no way?”
Cases like this are by no means common. But it’s not rare either.
A phenomenon that occurs more frequently than dual gifts is the gift mixing phenomenon.
It is said that the power becomes stronger when two gifts are combined to become one.
The slash was just absorbed by a storm of blades.
This case was unexpected.
“I need to check.”
I took out a dagger from my pocket. Originally, in order to properly demonstrate the power of a slash, a sword that radiated energy was important.
When the blade storm was unleashed, a force blade that was significantly different from the slash stretched out. The force blade, which rotated so violently that it was messy, tore the targeted rock to shreds.
The rotation of the blade storm is included in the existing force blade, destroying everything it touches.
Is it superficial?
It was the perfect skill to kill an opponent by tearing the outside and insides apart.
Through the gift mixing phenomenon, the strengths of Slash and Blade Storm were exquisitely combined.
“As expected, saving it was the most difficult thing.”
After a while, as if confirming that Nuri was dead, several helicopters and cars began to gather in a flood.