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◈ The Seven-Time Hero Goes Live ◈
Chapter 59: Villain Appears (3)
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“Yoo Ji-hoon’s Affection Level is plummeting! Kang Hae-il keeps roasting him with fire!”
“...It’s fine. Wait.”
Ram was furious, but told Sam to wait.
What would come if they waited?
Boom!
“There.”
Something had appeared.
[Kerak Lv.28]
[Notaura Lv.23]
[Dabuk Lv.23]
They were commonly called Named Monsters.
It meant monsters with names.
Instead of something like “Goblin Warrior” appearing over their heads, the names they had been given were displayed instead.
“They’re here. The Keno-dap Three.”
Ram grinned at their arrival.
They were monsters Ram had carefully prepared.
Having them appear as the first Named Monsters had been intentional as well.
Sam checked their detailed data beside Ram and nodded.
“They’ll threaten the party, then Kang Hae-il will take care of them. Yoo Ji-hoon’s Affection Level will have no choice but to rise again.”
“First, Ke, No, and Dap all have solid stats and skills. They seem to have crossed over exactly as intended. But...”
There was something worrying Sam.
“But what if Yulian gets them?”
“What!? He’s a Porter right now. It’ll be hard for him to kill them while hiding his identity. They may not look it, but they’re pretty strong.”
“Ah!”
Yulian could assassinate something like a Champion Goblin while disguised as a Porter.
But Named Monsters?
They were not something that could be killed so easily.
“A Porter should just stay out of the way.”
“Oh. He’s really going to get out of the way.”
“Huh?”
“He says he’s going to the restroom?”
“...?”
On the monitor, Yulian was running somewhere, saying he needed to use the restroom.
With an excited look on his face.
‘What is this? Something...’
Ram had a bad feeling about it.
* * *
“GRAAAAAH!”
Kraaaash!
The orc Kerak charged at Kang Hae-il.
From a human perspective, it was like a tank made of protein rushing at him.
Yet Kang Hae-il was not afraid in the slightest.
“Come.”
Fwoooosh!
His upper body blazed fiercely.
Bare hands, a black sleeveless shirt, jeans, and long hair flowing along an elegant jawline.
With savage eyes, his fist collided with the orc’s axe.
KRAAASH!
Mana shockwaves spread out with a roar, destroying everything around them.
-Wow
-Damn
-Oh
-Please win, Kang Hae-il!!
-That’s sick
-This is insane
-They’re screwed
-Look at that scale damn
The people watching the news channels marveled at the sight of a perfect hero.
Even Kerak did the same.
“Hmph.”
Kerak was an elite among orc warriors, one granted an honorable name.
Kerak recognized talent at once.
“I’ll take this one.”
Kerak grinned, baring huge tusks, and climbed down from the wolf.
Facing a strong warrior was an honor for an orc.
“I am Kerak, an honorable orc. What is your name, warrior?”
“Kang Hae-il.”
Crack.
Kang Hae-il loosened his shoulders and stood before Kerak.
“Will you duel me?”
“Fine.”
He accepted the one-on-one duel far too easily.
-What a fucking manly dude lol
-Wait, he’s doing this?
-You thought that through before answering, right, bro?
-?
-Isn’t a one-on-one too much?
Even the Constellations were worried.
“He’s the highest level. Are you sure you can handle him alone?”
Even one of the other Awakeners in Yoo Ji-hoon’s team was concerned.
The other orcs were Level 23, but Kerak was Level 28.
That made Kerak at least two and a half times stronger, yet Kang Hae-il was going to face Kerak alone?
Kang Hae-il nodded as though it was only natural.
“That’s why I’ll do it.”
“!”
The opponent was strong, so Kang Hae-il would handle them.
That was Kang Hae-il’s mindset.
-That’s sick
-Oh damn
-He’d be perfect if he just wasn’t L4GS...
-As expected
-Great Hae-il
-So fucking cool
One of the Awakeners in Yoo Ji-hoon’s team felt it.
‘He really is different...’
An S Rank was different in every way.
“Then we’ll take the rest!”
“You dare call us ‘the rest’?”
At that remark, Notaura and Dabuk climbed down from their wolves.
They were terrifyingly large even on the ground.
Notaura was a heavily built orc holding spinning axes in both hands.
Dabuk was a lean orc wielding a huge crescent blade.
“We’ll sweep you humans away at once.”
“That’s our line, you ugly bastards!”
Yoo Ji-hoon shouted back without backing down.
-Fuck lmao
-Ji-hoon bro’s tough as hell
-“Ugly bastards” lmao
-Ji-hoon is such a face simp
-Why are you insulting me? T_T
-Look-obsessed freak
Yoo Ji-hoon created several ice swords.
“Show them what we can do, everyone.”
“Yes!”
“Our strategy is to wear them down slowly. You know that, right?”
“Yes!”
Booom!
The tanks in the party charged first.
Clang!
Their swords and the orcs’ axes collided, spraying sparks.
One of the tanks even shoved an orc back with a shield.
Thump!
“Grrk!?”
“Right here!”
Slash!
Yoo Ji-hoon’s ice sword stabbed into the orc’s opening.
-Ohhh
-Good teamwork
-Go orcs, kick their asses
-Die, you popular bastards
They fought brutally at the front. Then the damage dealers joined in, and the Mages fired their spells.
Boom!
The party did seem to have the advantage.
They had pushed forward hard at the start with their superior numbers.
But the orcs gradually adapted to the battle.
Clang!
Clang!
Clang!
More and more often, the party members’ attacks were neutralized by the orcs’ strikes.
‘This... Something’s wrong.’
Yoo Ji-hoon sensed something ominous.
Slash!
“Urgh!”
The first injury occurred.
It was a damage-tank party member.
It was not as though they had failed to account for injuries.
“Fall back if you’re hurt!”
At Yoo Ji-hoon’s shout, the party members swiftly filled the gap while the injured member retreated.
“Healer!”
“Yes!”
The healer treated them from the rear and sent them back into the fight.
In the end, their fighting numbers remained steady.
It was a highly organized party.
Some of the watching civilians were Awakeners, and all of them were impressed.
“Amazing.”
“No wonder everyone wants to join Yoo Ji-hoon’s party.”
“With that method, they could keep fighting all day.”
But ordinary civilians who had not Awakened felt differently.
“Kang Hae-il! Kang Hae-il! Kang Hae-il!”
They only watched Kang Hae-il.
The helicopters in the sky gradually moved toward Kang Hae-il as well.
Countless cameras zoomed in.
Of course they did.
“It looks like Kang Hae-il has chosen to face Kerak, the highest-level orc!”
The other ten were fighting two orcs, while Kang Hae-il was alone in a one-on-one.
And that orc was the highest level of them all, so naturally he drew the most attention.
As the reporters discussed the situation among themselves, someone voiced a question.
“But why is it one-on-one? Where did the companion who was with him go?”
Why was Kang Hae-il alone?
There had definitely been a companion with him.
“A companion?”
“The F Rank man.”
“F Rank? What kind of sick joke is that? There’s no such thing.”
“What?”
“There was no companion. Kang Hae-il travels alone.”
“Ah, r-right? It was just a rumor?”
They had no interest at all in the missing Porter.
They had been just as indifferent when Kang Hae-il and the Porter came out of the Champion Goblin dungeon.
An F Rank existence should have stood out.
Was it some trait of this country?
Or was it the storyboard’s meddling?
The spotlight was monopolized by a single exceptional person.
That person was Kang Hae-il.
“Oh! Kang Hae-il just...!?”
Thud!
He landed a clean punch in Kerak’s abdomen.
Kerak was blown back by the immense force and crashed across the boulevard.
KRAAAASH!
The cars left on the street were sent flying, and roadside trees snapped apart. Taxpayer money and property were destroyed.
“WAAAAAAAH!”
But the citizens cheered.
The reporters in the helicopters even high-fived each other.
“It’s working!”
“I think he can drive it away!”
“The battlefield has shifted, too. Kang Hae-il is completely across the boulevard, while the others are fighting at the original location! This lowers the chance of the orcs attacking together!”
-Wow, he’s fucking strong
-He pushed that huge thing back
-An S is an S for real
-This is crazy lol
-Even if I were an S, I’d have needed the restroom after seeing an orc’s face
-Damn
-Please win T_T
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.
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* * *
“Tch...”
Yoo Ji-hoon clicked his tongue as he looked toward Kang Hae-il.
It annoyed him that Kang Hae-il had stolen all the spotlight.
He was fighting well too.
“That damn Kang Hae-il. Kang Hae-il, Kang Hae-il.”
“Don’t move.”
The healer came over and treated Yoo Ji-hoon while trying to comfort him.
Yoo Ji-hoon had been injured as well and had stepped back briefly for treatment.
“It pisses me off. Everyone only looks for Kang Hae-il. I built all of this.”
“At least he isn’t roasting you with fire like before.”
It might not have sounded comforting.
But Yoo Ji-hoon apparently still remembered the burning sensation in his rear, because he nodded surprisingly easily.
“Th-that’s true. It was really hot.”
-?
-Lmao
-They got trained
-What even is this lol
-Ji-hoon...
-You can’t beat Kang Hae-il in the first place lol
Even Yoo Ji-hoon’s Constellations seemed to accept that he could not surpass Kang Hae-il.
But Yoo Ji-hoon, overflowing with ambition, could not.
“I’ll surpass him someday.”
The healer smiled and nodded.
“You can do it, Ji-hoon. You’ll b...”
That was when it happened.
Slice!
It was literally an instant.
During that brief moment when they had settled their mana and exchanged a few words, Yoo Ji-hoon had let his guard down for just a second.
He had only closed and opened his eyes.
“Y-Yoon-ji?”
There was nothing above the healer’s neck.
Instead, red blood sprayed in a straight line.
The signpost written in blood pointed to one place.
Thunk!
A spinning axe was buried heavily in the ground.
It was the axe thrown by the orc Notaura.
“YOOON-JIIII!”
Yoo Ji-hoon’s eyes went wide.
-Damn
-Huh
-What?
-What the fuck
-That was so fast
-Healers are so damn fragile
-It could throw that too?
No one had considered that an orc would target them from this far away with a ranged attack.
“Khahaha!?”
Notaura chuckled, baring their tusks as if asking whether they had not known.
“I was wondering why you were so persistent. Was that bitch the source of the problem?”
Notaura had identified the healer.
“T-the healer!”
“Yoon-ji?”
“This is insane!”
The party panicked.
The absence of one healer was practically like losing four people.
Most monsters so far had not specifically targeted healers.
Even though Goblins were cunning, they targeted Mages who were lethal to them. Healers were not targets.
‘These...’
The orcs were different.
They fully understood the human side of battle.
It was different from the fighting Goblins had learned through instinct.
They understood humans.
“D-damn it...”
Yoo Ji-hoon had apparently been quite close with the healer, Lee Yoon-ji.
His eyes went wild.
“You bastard!”
Whoooosh!
Murderous cold swept through the area, and Yoo Ji-hoon’s form blurred.
Flash!
A sword strike was swung directly in front of Notaura.
“Huh...”
Notaura casually blocked the attack with a one-handed axe.
Clang!
“Pathetically light.”
Notaura swung the hand axe again, knocking Yoo Ji-hoon away.
Clang!
Yoo Ji-hoon created an ice sword to block it.
“There’s no time without the healer! Everyone, attack!”
With a healer, they could have slowly worn the orcs down.
But not now.
“Yes!”
Every party member charged at Notaura.
“Come on!!!”
As if waiting for it, Notaura slammed a huge foot into the ground.
[Ground Stomp]
BOOOOM!
The ground surged upward and knocked everyone around the orc away.
“!”
“Urgh!?”
Every Awakener was sent flying in different directions.
‘An orc... used a skill?’
This was not a simple physical technique.
It was a skill infused with mana.
The orcs could even wield mana.
Red mana was coiling around Notaura’s body.
And it did not end there.
“Now, Dabuk!”
[Flash Slash]
A slash streaked forward in a straight line.
“!”
Dabuk’s afterimages appeared everywhere.
Slash!
-Huh
-What
-???
-This is insane
The Awakeners’ bodies were cut apart.
Someone’s arm flew high into the air. Someone else’s lower body fell to the ground. Another person’s head rolled across the pavement.
“G-GAAAAAAH!”
Yoo Ji-hoon cried out in despair.
His arm was gone from below the right shoulder.
Thick red blood ran down his body.
Without a high-ranking healer, it could not be restored.
“This is...”
Yoo Ji-hoon’s eyes trembled.
“It’s over. I-I can’t win. Why did that bastard Go Jin-seok say we could win...?”
Go Jin-seok, the powerful Mage in a black robe who had recently joined the party.
Yoo Ji-hoon had trusted those words, and this was what happened.
This was completely beyond anything he had expected.
He could not stand against the orcs at all.
Despair wrapped around his body.
That was when it happened.
“Hey, Yoo Ji-hoon.”
An irritating voice came from somewhere.
“You said you’d met orcs before. Why are you so bad at fighting?”
“...?”
But no matter where Yoo Ji-hoon looked, no one was there.
‘What?’
There was no one around him.
But the voice came again.
“Move aside. I’m landing.”
Landing?
Yoo Ji-hoon unconsciously looked up.
‘!?’
Whoooosh!
Someone was flying through the air.
It was a man on a hang glider.
As he came closer, his appearance became clearer.
A black coat, sturdy combat boots, and a cat mask.
[Villain BGM]
[Playing]
And there was extraordinary music to go with it.
It was L4GS’s perfect entrance.
-That’s sick
-Insane
-That entrance scene damn
-Oh yeah
-Oh yeah
-It’s me! Sajungjae!
-Oh damn
-The showmanship lmao
-Wow lmao
-<(_ _)/ It’s your bro~
-I want the soundtrack
-Fairy Corporation, release this music!
-Now he’s descending from the sky too? lol
-<(_ _)/ It’s me, L4GS!
Footnotes:
“Keno-dap” combines the first syllables of Kerak, Notaura, and Dabuk, while resembling Korean slang meaning something is hopeless or beyond help.
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