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Chapter 872: F-Rank Hunter Jeon Myeong-hoon (11)
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“...You!”
[......?]
Jeon Myeong-hoon is puzzled as he watches Kim Cheol-su suddenly reveal an unusually intense killing intent toward him.
‘Why is he so angry...?’
Shin Ah-young moves her lips at Kim Cheol-su as if using some kind of telepathic skill, and she looks flustered by whatever he says in response.
The next moment.
Kim Cheol-su attacks first.
Boom!
“Hmm...!”
Did he learn it from Shin Ah-young?
Kim Cheol-su condenses mana in midair and creates a spear.
Jeon Myeong-hoon casually knocks the spear aside.
However, his eyes twitch as he feels the recoil from Kim Cheol-su’s spear.
‘What mana... He’s no easy opponent. And until recently, he must have been an ordinary person. Yet his spearmanship is this good? He handles a spear better than that woman, Shin Ah-young.’
Of course, that is all.
If Shin Ah-young is a first-rate spearman who has wielded a spear for a long time, Kim Cheol-su is merely a peak master who has reached Spear and Body Unity.
Clang!
Jeon Myeong-hoon and Kim Cheol-su’s spear shafts collide in midair and bounce apart.
“Urgh, what...!”
[You have good instincts.]
Kim Cheol-su’s eyes suggest that he has gauged Jeon Myeong-hoon’s skill from a single clash. Jeon Myeong-hoon praises him as he watches.
Kim Cheol-su glares at Jeon Myeong-hoon tensely.
[The skill, Heavenly Eye Insight, activates!]
Ding!
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s status window rises before Kim Cheol-su’s eyes.
Skills that allow one to freely inspect another’s status window are originally extremely rare. Even Kim Cheol-su had only barely acquired it after killing Argon, a monster from an S+-Rank Dungeon.
[Name: Jeon Myeong-hoon]
[Growth Potential: F]
[Remarks: A hopeless dullard! (Omitted)...]
[Unique Skill: Crying Out to Heaven LV.MAX (Omitted)...]
[Basic Skill: Mana Cutting LV.MAX (Omitted)...]
[Mana Rank: C-]
[Trait: Mana-Insensitive Body (You are extremely insensitive to mana. It is difficult to sense and control mana.)]
[Overall Combat Power: &$^#$%&)???????]
“Hmm?”
Kim Cheol-su stares at the Overall Combat Power field that appears last.
After crackling for a while, the errors in the field disappear, and it displays his combat power.
[Overall Combat Power: SSS+]
“What?”
He cannot understand it.
His Growth Potential is F, his Remarks call him a hopeless dullard, and he has the Unique Skill Crying Out to Heaven, as well as Mana Cutting, which is rare but not exceptionally so. His Mana Rank is C-, and his Trait is Mana-Insensitive Body.
Then why did the Overall Combat Power field just display an error, and why is his combat power suddenly SSS+?
However, before he can properly assess the situation, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear shoots toward Kim Cheol-su’s head.
Boom!
The air explodes.
In that world of an instant, Kim Cheol-su accelerates his body and evades Jeon Myeong-hoon’s lightning-fast thrust.
‘Create some distance. I need time to open the sections marked omitted!’
After widening the distance a little, Kim Cheol-su looks at Jeon Myeong-hoon’s status window again.
He opens every section marked as omitted.
[Name: Jeon Myeong-hoon]
[Growth Potential: F]
[Remarks: A hopeless dullard! Unless he cries out to heaven, he is a poor man destined to live like roadside trash. He requires society’s assistance and warm concern. His chances of reaching even F-Rank Hunter are extremely slim.
He is the Outer God, Red Vermilion Turning Heavenly Lord. His main body is sealed, and his soul is sealed as well, so humans can deal with him. Subdue him while he can still be dealt with!]
“...! As expected...!”
Kim Cheol-su unfolds the remaining omitted sections as well.
[Unique Skills: Crying Out to Heaven, Lightning Garment, Soul of Thunder Heaven, Breath of the Thunder God, Lightning Spirit Body, Dragon Twister Thrust, Mana Imbuement, Thunderclap, Thunder Spear, Dominion of Lightning, Combat Instinct.]
[Basic Skills: Mana Cutting, Demon-Breaking Spear, Barrier Breaking, External Mana Circulation, Voice of Thunder.]
He has more skills than expected.
Moreover, although Kim Cheol-su had omitted it earlier, a quick glance reveals that every one of them is at MAX level.
[Mana Rank: C-]
[Trait: Mana-Insensitive Body (You are extremely insensitive to mana. It is difficult to sense and control mana.
Sealed
Sealed
Power of an Otherworldly Entity (The world rejects the Outer God.))]
[Overall Combat Power: SSS+ (This is the highest value the status window can display. From this stage onward, gaps within the same rank are extremely vast, so exercise caution.)]
Just as Kim Cheol-su finishes examining Jeon Myeong-hoon’s status window and lets out a groan.
Rumble!
Kim Cheol-su reacts one beat too late as Jeon Myeong-hoon, covered in lightning, charges at him at the speed of lightning and unleashes a spear strike.
One beat.
He is delayed by only one beat because he is examining the status window, yet Kim Cheol-su’s entire body is torn to pieces by Jeon Myeong-hoon’s strike.
However, the next moment.
[Unique Skill: Immortal Body LV.MAX]
Shrrrrk!
As if time reverses, Kim Cheol-su’s body restores itself.
Jeon Myeong-hoon tries to continue his attack before Kim Cheol-su can recover, but a powerful resistance of mana pushes his spear away.
[Basic Skill: Absolute Shield LV.MAX]
Booom!
A hemispherical shield forms and pushes Jeon Myeong-hoon back.
[So you’re an OP cheat character.]
But the next moment, Absolute Shield is shattered to pieces by Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear strike.
However, in the instant the shield buys him.
In that instant, Kim Cheol-su completes his regeneration and responds to Jeon Myeong-hoon once more.
Rumble!
Kim Cheol-su is pushed far backward by Jeon Myeong-hoon’s strike, flying from Yongduam, where the Gate opened, all the way to Udo Island and crashing into the breakwater at Cheonjin Port.
Jeon Myeong-hoon rushes at him again at the speed of lightning.
However, Kim Cheol-su does not evade and instead thrusts his spear forward.
Rumble!
At a certain level of battle, once one evades, the opponent seizes the initiative and forces them to keep evading. But if one blocks even once, they can seek the initiative again and turn defense into offense.
However, in that instant.
Hearing Jeon Myeong-hoon murmur, Kim Cheol-su suddenly wonders whether his judgment was wrong.
[You should have dodged.]
Booom!
Kim Cheol-su’s mana-condensed spear breaks!
Immediately afterward, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear pierces through the defense Kim Cheol-su activates and punches a hole through his chest!
The shockwave blows away Kim Cheol-su’s entire chest.
[Is that all?]
Now, Jeon Myeong-hoon only needs to keep tearing Kim Cheol-su apart before he can regenerate.
[Immortality or not, as long as it is a skill activated through mana, it must have limits...!]
Absolute Shield and the various defensive skills had caught him off guard for a moment, but now that he knows about them, such things cannot obstruct Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear strikes.
He had intended to swing his spear with enough force to tear him apart in the first place!
However, the next moment.
Though he had anticipated those defensive skills and thrust his spear, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear trajectory bends again under the Absolute Shield Kim Cheol-su deploys.
Booom!
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s diverted spear strike hits somewhere else, and Cheonjin Port’s breakwater collapses.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s eyes widen.
[The opponent activates a Unique Skill.]
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[Jeon Myeong-hoon’s Unique Skill, Thunder Spear, has been stolen.]
Jeon Myeong-hoon gains skills by scratching the world with his spear strikes, driving his understanding of them to the limit and evolving Basic Skills into Unique Skills.
As Jeon Myeong-hoon’s techniques evolve into Basic Skills, they receive the world’s assistance. When Basic Skills evolve into Unique Skills, they receive even stronger blessings from the system, raising their power.
But in that moment, Kim Cheol-su steals his Unique Skill, lowering its output. That is why Kim Cheol-su’s shield can bend the trajectory of his strike.
Crackle...
Kim Cheol-su uses that opening to regenerate his body again.
Crackle!
The mana spear Kim Cheol-su condenses takes on the nature of lightning and becomes a lightning spear.
Cold sweat runs down Kim Cheol-su’s face.
A skill description enters his sight.
[Unique Skill: Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome (A manually activated skill. You may steal a desired Unique Skill from an opponent. The opponent cannot resist. It may be used up to seventy-two times. Affinity, understanding, and growth potential for all attributes related to the stolen skill increase by 300%. Current available activations: 70/72 -> 69/72.)]
Ding!
[Unique Skill: Thunder Spear (Creates a spear of lightning. Piercing power increases by 10,000%. Gain additional lightning-attribute attack power. The power of lightning paralyzes opponents. Absorbs nearby lightning to increase its power.)]
Ding!
[Due to a skill acquired through Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, affinity, understanding, and growth potential related to the lightning attribute increase by 300%.]
Kim Cheol-su’s eyes shine as he gains understanding, affinity, and talent for the lightning attribute.
For a Unique Skill, it is not particularly excellent, but its attack power is respectable.
Before meeting Jeon Myeong-hoon, Kim Cheol-su had stolen only two Unique Skills.
[Immortal Body], which prevents him from ever dying.
[Heart of the Demon God], which gives him near-limitless mana.
After that, he had planned to choose carefully before stealing skills. Honestly, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s Thunder Spear is not a skill that particularly appeals to him.
‘It couldn’t be helped. He’s too strong. If I’m to weaken him even a little... I have to steal a Unique Skill!’
Right after that.
Kim Cheol-su charges at Jeon Myeong-hoon and activates Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome again.
Thoom!
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[You have stolen the opponent’s Unique Skill, Combat Instinct!]
Kim Cheol-su steals another of Jeon Myeong-hoon’s Unique Skills.
Once he steals Combat Instinct, the world seems to slow down, and the sense of how to fight feels as though it is right in his hand.
He can predict every one of Jeon Myeong-hoon’s actions, and he gains confidence that he can block, evade, or deflect any attack.
Kim Cheol-su fills his voice with mana and lets out a lion’s roar.
[Give up! You can’t defeat me, urgh...!]
Crunch!
The next moment.
Kim Cheol-su’s jaw is shattered by Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear shaft.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s following strike tears Kim Cheol-su’s body into an X shape.
[Argh!]
[My body is like this, so I speak by vibrating mana. But why are you even screaming with a lion’s roar?]
After tearing Kim Cheol-su’s body apart, Jeon Myeong-hoon begins pouring spear strikes onto him again.
Booom!
Kim Cheol-su’s body is knocked north of Udo Island, sent flying toward the South Sea.
Jeon Myeong-hoon chases after Kim Cheol-su at the speed of lightning, continuously raining attacks upon him.
Kim Cheol-su is continuously torn apart and screams without even having time to seize the initiative.
‘W-Why!?’
It makes no sense.
He clearly stole Combat Instinct, and he stole Thunder Spear too.
Then why can he not even gain the initiative and is being pushed back again?
‘This can’t be happening! I need the initiative... I need to seize control of the battle!’
However, Kim Cheol-su has no opportunity to activate any of the skills he tries to use.
‘To make an opening... Damn it...!’
Of Kim Cheol-su’s skills, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome is the one that has helped his growth the most.
Kim Cheol-su begins using that Unique Skill defensively.
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Thunderclap!]
For an instant, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s movements slow.
Kim Cheol-su’s affinity, understanding, and growth potential for the lightning attribute increase by another 300%.
At the same time, he realizes that he can accelerate instantly at lightning-like speed. Gripping his spear...
Thududududu!
He is beaten by Jeon Myeong-hoon again, and his whole body is torn apart.
Booom!
Before he knows it, Kim Cheol-su crashes into the rocks of Sinseondae in Hallyeohaesang National Park, Geoje City. He tears through the terrain, collides with a museum, and vomits blood.
‘Damn it, wasn’t this skill his main weapon!?’
Crackle!
Kim Cheol-su glares at Jeon Myeong-hoon, whose body is already transformed into lightning as he charges at him again.
Still, Thunderclap gives him at least enough time to think.
‘He hasn’t weakened at all! But that body... There’s no human body within that lightning. He’s completely become lightning itself! He must be powerful, but if I steal the skill that sustains that lightning transformation, I think I can inflict a fatal wound on him!’
Combat Instinct teaches Kim Cheol-su a plan for victory against Jeon Myeong-hoon.
‘Steal every Unique Skill and eliminate the phenomenon sustaining that lightning transformation! Then I win!’
The next moment.
As Kim Cheol-su tries to face Jeon Myeong-hoon, Jeon Myeong-hoon’s knee strike sends him through the museum. He is knocked north from Geoje Island and skips across the waters of the southern coast like a stone.
Bang! Bang! Booom!
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s attacks strike Kim Cheol-su without end.
Even while being beaten, Kim Cheol-su begins stealing Jeon Myeong-hoon’s skills.
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Dominion of Lightning!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Lightning Spirit Body!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Breath of the Thunder God!]
‘Of the remaining Unique Skills, two are related to lightning!’
Kim Cheol-su extends his will toward Jeon Myeong-hoon’s Unique Skills, [Lightning Garment] and [Soul of Thunder Heaven].
The next moment!
Thoom!
[......!?]
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Dragon Twister Thrust!]
A completely unrelated skill enters Kim Cheol-su’s status window.
In that instant.
Jeon Myeong-hoon drives Kim Cheol-su all the way to the Oryukdo Weather Observatory in Busan and speaks.
[I think I roughly understand the flow of your Unique Skill. Complete defense is still difficult, but... I think I can twist its direction.]
Booom!
Kim Cheol-su’s body crashes into Oryukdo and bounces back into the air.
[You sure are tenacious! Is it because you are this dimension’s representative?]
[Urgh...!]
Bang!
Before he can react again, Kim Cheol-su is struck by the spear shaft and sent flying past Oryukdo toward the sea.
However, the next moment.
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Soul of Thunder Heaven!]
[Ha...!]
Kim Cheol-su laughs and speaks.
[How many Unique Skills do you even have!? Twist them as much as you like! I’ll just steal them all!]
[Oh...?]
Jeon Myeong-hoon grins, takes his stance, and strikes Kim Cheol-su with lightning-fast speed again.
Kim Cheol-su activates every lightning-related skill of Jeon Myeong-hoon’s that fills his soul.
His lightning affinity, understanding, and growth potential have risen enormously.
Knowledge, understanding, and talent regarding lightning overflow endlessly in his mind.
‘Just one more...!’
That is when it happens.
‘...Huh?’
Kim Cheol-su’s eyes fill with shock.
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s status window, which he has been peering into through Heavenly Eye Insight, changes.
[Unique Skills: Crying Out to Heaven, Mana Imbuement, Lightning Garment.]
[Basic Skills: Mana Cutting, Demon-Breaking Spear, Barrier Breaking, External Mana Circulation, Voice of Thunder.]
Ding!
[Unique Skills: Crying Out to Heaven, Mana Imbuement, Lightning Garment, Voice of Thunder (NEW!), Demon-Breaking Spear (NEW!), Barrier Breaking (NEW!)]
[Basic Skills: Mana Cutting, External Mana Circulation.]
[What!?]
Kim Cheol-su panics.
Kim Cheol-su’s skill steals Voice of Thunder in an instant.
However, he is still bewildered.
‘Basic Skills are upgrading into Unique Skills? T-This has only happened once, when I risked my life in an SS+-Rank Gate. Ah-young said it was theoretically possible for a Basic Skill to evolve into a Unique Skill, but it was so close to impossible that it would require a miracle...!?’
As far as he knows, aside from himself, the only person who has evolved a Basic Skill into a Unique Skill is the SS-Rank Hunter and leader of Nature Guild.
Elizabeth, a Hunter of national authority who had been Earth’s strongest before Kim Cheol-su appeared.
Even then, she had not evolved an attack skill, but a support skill with the strange purpose of Understanding Philosophy.
Elizabeth’s hobby is collecting philosophy books, so everyone understood it.
Kim Cheol-su himself had evolved a mana-related support skill into a Unique Skill based on his immense mana.
‘But he evolved attack skills into Unique Skills?’
Booom!
As he flies from Busan to Ulsan Bridge in Ulsan City, Kim Cheol-su bites his lip.
‘Does his understanding of attack skills rival Senior Elizabeth’s love for philosophy, or my understanding of mana!? Damn it! But it’s fine. Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome still has plenty of slots to steal with! Even if he evolves them, I only need to steal them all!’
Crackle!
At the instant Jeon Myeong-hoon attacks.
Kim Cheol-su uses Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome twice in a row.
He is becoming more proficient with Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome as well.
Both uses target [Lightning Garment], but Jeon Myeong-hoon strikes and twists the world’s flow, causing him to gain [Demon-Breaking Spear] and [Barrier Breaking].
‘Barrier Breaking is already a Basic Skill, but it is now also a Unique Skill... Damn it.’
Kim Cheol-su grits his teeth, letting out a groan at having filled slots in his Sealing Tome with middling Unique Skills rather than useful ones.
‘But it’s almost over...!’
Jeon Myeong-hoon’s spear strikes Kim Cheol-su’s jaw again.
In that instant, endless question marks rise before Kim Cheol-su’s eyes as he steals another skill.
[???????]
Ding!
[Unique Skill, Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome, activates!]
[You have stolen the Unique Skill, Majesty of the Thunder God!]
Kim Cheol-su looks into Jeon Myeong-hoon’s status window again.
And he has no choice but to be shocked.
[Unique Skills: Crying Out to Heaven, Mana Imbuement, Lightning Garment, External Mana Circulation (NEW!), Authority of the Lightning King (NEW!), Imperial Crown of the Thunder Lord (NEW!), Heavenly Punishment (NEW!)]
[Basic Skills: Mana Cutting, Roar of the Thunder Beast (NEW!), Judge of the Thunder House (NEW!)]
He can understand new Basic Skills appearing.
One can obtain them by killing monsters in Gates, acquiring skill books, receiving the support of a special Constellation, visiting special areas in special Gates, or obtaining artifacts...
Or one can create a skill through personal effort.
Of course, even Kim Cheol-su, who overflows with talent and potential, could only gain a new skill through effort when he desperately wished for one, so the difficulty is immense.
Still, however difficult it is, it is within the realm of possibility.
But...
‘What is this, why...! How...!’
[How are you evolving skills into Unique Skills one after another!?]
Kim Cheol-su screams.
It is the first terror he has felt since awakening.
[That’s why it won’t work. Don’t rely on things like skills too much.]
Jeon Myeong-hoon smiles faintly.
Then he begins crazily thrusting his spear at Kim Cheol-su.
He thrusts, thrusts, thrusts, thrusts, thrusts, thrusts, and thrusts again!
Thududududu!
Holes form in Kim Cheol-su’s body.
At the same time, Immortal Body fills them.
Feeling holes open throughout his body, Kim Cheol-su activates Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome even faster.
The remaining uses of Kim Cheol-su’s Mysterious King’s Seventy-Two Sealing Tome rapidly decrease.
‘No, even if I steal them, even if I steal them... He keeps creating and evolving skills...!’
The speed at which he steals cannot keep up with the speed at which Jeon Myeong-hoon creates new skills.
However.
The instant the skills Kim Cheol-su has stolen from Jeon Myeong-hoon exceed thirty.
Rumble!
Kim Cheol-su activates all thirty skills at once.
Crackle!
Lightning dyes Kim Cheol-su’s entire body.
[Aaaaargh...!]
Rumble, rumble!
He is continuously pushed back.
From Ulsan to Gyeongju, from Gyeongju to Pohang.
He continues north through Yeongdeok, Uljin, and Samcheok. Passing Ulleungdo and Dokdo and entering Japanese waters, he unleashes his own talent.
Lightning-related affinity, understanding, and growth potential that have blossomed based on the skills stolen from Jeon Myeong-hoon.
Based on all of it, Kim Cheol-su gains enlightenment in lightning.
His talent has blossomed excessively in only one attribute, yet Kim Cheol-su instead realizes something.
‘Not scattered talents, but a single talent! A single line of skills! Yes, I can become even stronger this way!’
He accepts lightning throughout his body and finally enters the same realm as Jeon Myeong-hoon.
Rumble!
Kim Cheol-su leaps over a wall within the world of lightning.
The entire world blesses Kim Cheol-su, raising his talent and rank!
Kim Cheol-su’s body undergoes Spirit Transformation and becomes lightning itself.
Kim Cheol-su finally becomes a lightning spirit just like Jeon Myeong-hoon and grips his spear.
[I won’t lose now!!!]
Thudududududu!
And Kim Cheol-su is beaten by Jeon Myeong-hoon again.
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