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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 48: Grains of Sand (3)
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“Gasp...!”
The most shocked by the Necromancer Boss's appearance was neither Jun-il nor Hae-il.
“Why's this showing up now?”
It was Ram.
Sure, stories were like fine sand. No matter how tightly you held them, they slipped through your fingers.
But this was wrong from the way the hand was shaped.
Wasn't this practically trying to hold it with a foot?
“What do you think, Ms. Ram? The Boss will definitely try to kill him...”
Right. The Boss would try to kill him.
That was why the Boss had been brought all the way here.
To kill Yulian!
“Why the hell is that bastard dragging Kang Hae-il into this too!?”
But the bastard had misunderstood.
“They didn't seem able to believe the information that it was one person... It was too extraordinary for one person to have done it... Since the two of them are together, maybe they think they did it together?”
“D-damn it! Damn it!”
This was all because of Flashback Energy.
Because of that, Yulian had spent too long with Kang Hae-il.
They had become too entangled.
At this very moment, Yulian had completely blended into the Main Stream.
-Oh, he's here
-Is that the boss?
-ㄷㄷㄷ
-This'll be fun
Countless Constellations who only watched the Main Stream were showing interest too.
“What level is Hae-il now?”
“Twenty-one.”
“...Can he take them?”
“No. They shouldn't even be appearing at this level range in the first place.”
The difference was enormous.
Even as an S-rank, overcoming a gap like that would be too much.
“This... I-if things go wrong...”
Ram could not bring herself to say, “What if he dies?”
If Kang Hae-il died, everything would be over.
The Story setting would shut down too.
The head office had invested this much, and then it would go on hiatus?
She might even be sentenced to a writing ban.
“Nothing will go wrong. The Boss won't act personally. They can't in this situation.”
“Huh?”
“Isn't it obvious? Did you forget who that Boss is? They have a role in the next Main Quest.”
“Ah!”
Ram clapped her hands.
“Right. That bastard... They only sent a spirit body. Whew.”
Ram wiped away a cold sweat.
She had thought the Boss might have crossed over completely.
“Yes. They'll probably only send Thralls. And their power to intervene is still weak, so the Thralls will be weak too. Kang Hae-il can handle them. Corpses burn easily.”
Thralls made from corpses were weak to fire. Unlike Yulian, Hae-il was also strong in one-against-many fights.
This was only a troublesome situation for Yulian.
“It'll be an experience-point event instead!”
Kang Hae-il might even like this.
“Ooh?”
Ram put one foot into Sam's hopeful fantasy.
“That makes sense?”
The more she heard, the more reasonable it sounded.
Kang Hae-il was an S-rank, no matter what, and the enemies were all mindless summons.
“Thralls are easy to deal with! Even if Kang Hae-il has no intelligence, neither do the enemies!”
“Ms. Ram!? Hae-il isn't unintelligent. He just lacks experience!”
“Exactly!”
“?”
In any case, Ram found hope.
“Right. What's the point of killing Yulian? This is an experience-point event for our Hae-il! Heehee!”
* * *
“Are you the sewer rats who raided my hideout?”
The moment that chilling voice rang out.
Whoosh!
Kang Hae-il and Moon Jun-il turned around at the same time, immediately taking guarded stances.
Both had instinctively realized it.
‘This is an enemy.’
‘It's the fucking boss.’
A new enemy had appeared.
Or rather, the Necromancer Boss had.
“Huh...?”
But after turning so quickly and striking a pose, there was no one behind them.
Only a fading soul remained.
“So it was you...”
The soul left those words behind before vanishing.
Once more, no one remained in the cemetery.
-?
-That's it?
-Huh?
-Was that just a soul projection? LOL
-Huh??
The Constellations had tensed up, only to be left deflated.
Kang Hae-il was the same.
“What was that? Was I seeing things? I think I saw a ghost...”
It was an era when Goblins sprang out from everywhere.
Still, it was hard to believe in ghosts or spirits.
But Jun-il was different.
‘That's a scouting Ghost.’
He already knew that high-ranking Necromancers handled spirits too.
That soul from before had no offensive power. It was a Ghost type with exceptional scouting ability.
High-ranking Necromancers never revealed their true bodies.
There was no reason to.
‘They can just send Thralls instead.’
Crack...!
Several graves split open, and corpses rose.
“Grrr...”
“Grrrgh...”
[Ghoul Lv.11]
Ghouls.
It seemed the Necromancer intended to make use of the corpses left at the scene first.
‘There were still this many here?’
Jun-il thought they had taken all the corpses here.
But quite a few remained.
At least enough to surround Hae-il and Jun-il.
“Damn. What is this?”
Kang Hae-il hesitated a little as the corpses rose and slowly approached.
‘He was scared of corpses.’
He had not even been able to carry corpses during the Champion Goblin raid.
This was awkward.
Jun-il could not show off his abilities here either.
But then...
“Grrraaargh!”
As the corpses began charging in earnest, Kang Hae-il made his decision.
“Hide behind me, Porter.”
“?”
Fwoosh!
His upper body burst into flame, and in an instant, pillars of fire erupted before him.
Boom!
The corpses burned bright red and fell one by one.
“Urrgh...!”
“Guh...!”
The Ghouls, which had seemed to number in the dozens, were cleared out in an instant.
Jun-il would have had to cut off each of their heads.
‘Did he overcome his fear of corpses?’
Considering how he had reacted back then, it could not have been easy.
As expected of the protagonist, he seemed to grow quickly.
‘And is that a skill he learned recently?’
Kang Hae-il was raising pillars of flame from the ground without even throwing a punch.
He had a ranged skill.
Boom!
“Urk...!”
“Gah!”
Every time a pillar rose, all the nearby Ghouls turned to ash.
It was nearly identical to area-of-effect fire magic, but it had little to no casting time.
Jun-il read the flow of mana, but he could not figure out the principle behind it.
‘They must have put considerable effort into that S-rank.’
Maybe it was an original skill Ram had made.
‘Ghouls won't be enough to stop him.’
Just as Jun-il thought this would be easy for the current Kang Hae-il...
Whooo...!
The Ghost appeared again.
“So it's you?”
The Ghost looked at Kang Hae-il and spoke.
“You burned my subordinates to death.”
“...?”
Kang Hae-il tilted his head, not understanding what it meant.
“What bullshit are you talking about?”
“No need to trade words. Once I kill you, I'll retrieve the orb anyway.”
Hehehe.
With that sinister laughter, the Ghost calmly vanished again.
Kang Hae-il was dumbfounded, but Jun-il was too.
‘It was the mark you inscribed that burned...’
Since Jun-il had burned the Necromancers to death at the end, the Boss had firmly mistaken Kang Hae-il for the culprit.
-ㅁㅊ LOL
-This is how it happens? LOL
-Wow, he's so relaxed even after seeing Kang Hae-il's skill. Was he just testing him?
-LMAOOOO
-Crazy L4GS bastard LOL
-Wow, he just keeps his mouth shut LOL
Having assessed Kang Hae-il's abilities, the enemy changed strategies.
Clatter...
From the columbarium above the public cemetery, that sound began ringing out wildly.
[Skeleton Soldier Lv.17]
Skeleton Soldiers began rushing down.
The sight of Skeleton Soldiers charging down the hill looked just like a war movie.
‘This is...’
Skeleton Soldiers were generally aligned with cold.
Bone-chilling cold permeated them.
Fire-type damage barely affected them.
“Where are you!? Come out!”
Kang Hae-il shouted and raised the same pillars of flame as before.
Boom!
The Skeleton Soldiers only fell briefly before standing again and charging at him.
Kang Hae-il threw a punch himself this time.
Boom!
A single punch shattered a skeleton into pieces.
-Nice
-He's fucking strong
-This is the protagonist
-Damn
-???: Skeleton, return to position.
Boom!
Even without flames coating them, Kang Hae-il's punches were tremendously destructive.
The Skeleton Soldiers swung their swords with considerable ferocity.
Whoosh!
But Kang Hae-il was no longer the same as before.
[Flash Step]
Fwish!
Using the Flash Step Jun-il had given him, he dodged their attacks and got behind them.
“Die.”
Boom!!!
He struck the ground, sending flames shooting in every direction.
The Skeleton Soldiers that had endured the earlier pillars of flame could not withstand this and melted away.
“Wow.”
Clap clap.
Jun-il simply stepped back and applauded.
“Hae-il hyung! You're strong! You're strong!”
Helping carried too great a risk of revealing his strength, and the Necromancer's Thralls did not give much experience anyway.
They were already dead corpses.
-Crazy bastard LOL
-What are you doing, you bastard LOL
-He's doing this again
-At this point, it's on purpose LOL
-He's seriously pathetic...
-If you have any conscience, help him, you murdering L4GS bastard
-Ugh, this bastard should die
Kang Hae-il's Constellations had poured in and unleashed every curse they could.
“Ugh. This is too much for a Porter. Too much.”
Jun-il muttered that as if to provoke them further.
“S-ranks should pay more taxes~”
-True LOL
-He's a Porter, what do you expect? LOL, for real
-Fuck LOL
-Crazy LOL
-So annoying LOL
-The guys in Kang Hae-il's stream are blowing their tops LOL
-You fucking bastard
Ignoring the outrageous reactions pouring in, Jun-il observed the flow of demonic energy as closely as possible.
‘Where's the Boss? Are they far from here to begin with?’
The demonic energy flowed through several separate branches.
It was a method involving several steps, meant to avoid being tracked.
‘That bastard was really a modern person?’
The Boss was far too skilled for someone who had been a modern person until recently.
The Boss was probably, like that Elf from before, a being who had crossed over.
‘Over there?’
After Jun-il noticed that much of the demonic energy was gathering somewhere, he watched in that direction.
Hum!
He poured mana into his eyes to zoom in, but there was no need.
‘Huh?’
Thud!
Heavy footsteps resounded from the forest.
Birds shot upward in alarm, and something enormous rose to its feet.
Several times taller than the trees, broader than a royal tomb...
[Patchwork Corpse Golem]
[Lv.30]
A massive Golem made by fusing corpses together.
Its level was a staggering 30.
“...”
Only then did Jun-il realize it.
All the corpses gathered in the hideout were over there.
-ㄷㄷㄷㄷ
-Gasp
-Crazy
-That's terrifying
-It looks fucking disgusting ㅠㅠ
-Wow
-How are they supposed to beat that???
-What is that??
-Holy shit
Creaaak...!
The Patchwork Corpse Golem creaked toward them with a chilling sound.
“What... is that?”
Kang Hae-il swallowed dryly and tensed up.
“They say it's a Patchwork Golem.”
“I can see that.”
-Fuck LOL
-LOL
-Get over there already if you aren't going to help
-You fucking bastard LOL, are you mocking him?
Whoosh!
A massive arm made of corpses swung down.
“It is still just a corpse.”
Kang Hae-il did not dodge at all, instead throwing a punch to meet it.
Kang Hae-il's fist collided with the Patchwork Corpse Golem's fist.
Boom!
Flames and demonic energy collided.
A tremendous shockwave spread through the area.
Every remaining Skeleton Soldier collapsed, and even Jun-il, who had been watching, staggered as he momentarily lost his balance.
-ㄷㄷㄷ
-Wow, fuck
-Is that really the Kang Hae-il who used to be such a loser? This is making my chest swell
-Gasp
-So this is why Hae-il hyung was baiting attention the whole time ㅠㅠ
-This is insane
It was truly an incredible battle.
It seemed like the perfect development to show how much stronger Kang Hae-il had become.
‘Let's calculate when to land the finishing blow.’
For L4GS, it looked like a very simple situation where all he had to consider was when to steal the kill.
But then...
“!”
Kang Hae-il suddenly stopped.
He froze with a snap! as though he had lagged out.
Naturally, the Patchwork Corpse Golem threw a punch at him.
Kang Hae-il could not dodge at all.
Booom!
Kang Hae-il was sent flying roughly twenty meters or farther before crashing down.
“What?”
Jun-il pressed a hand to his forehead, genuinely dumbfounded.
Why did he take that hit?
That blow had looked dangerous.
“Fuck. Hae-il hyung! There's a limit to being this bad...”
Muttering that, he ran closer.
-Crazy LOL
-What was that? LOL
-Fuck, Hae-il hyung!!
-He's teabagging even here ㄷㄷ
-Then you do it, asshole
-L4GS, go
-“We're a temporary alliance” << Is this happening?
What if Kang Hae-il ended up dying like this? Wouldn't that be the end of everything?
Jun-il ran toward him, secretly taking out every Skeleton Soldier blocking his way with Mana Punches.
Boom, boom...!
“Damn it...”
Jun-il bit down on his lip.
What even was a first-run Hero?
How could he be this incompetent?
‘He's in danger.’
Thump!
The Patchwork Corpse Golem prepared to pound the fallen Kang Hae-il.
“Dodge! What are you doing!? Dodge!!”
Why was he acting like that?
Why was he lying there blankly, muttering something?
Had he really lagged out?
Those thoughts crossed Jun-il's mind, but as he ran closer, he finally heard the reason.
“...Father.”
“!”
-?
-Holy shit
-???
-Huh?
-Gasp
-ㄷㄷ
That was it.
At the very center of the Patchwork Corpse Golem was a man's face, embedded there as if by fate.
A man's face, twisted in rage as he tried to kill Kang Hae-il.
“Ah... Father...”
It was Hae-il's father.
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