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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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To Enchantress, beauty was everything.
So those words, “You’re ugly,” were more insulting and devastating than every curse in the world combined.
Her rage meter had filled to the brim with that single provocation.
But perhaps the taunt had worked too well.
Enchantress ignored Seo-yeon, focusing solely on Yu-jin.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh─!
As if responding to their master’s fury, the tentacles went on a rampage.
Every part of his body tingled.
A tangled mess of red lines filled his vision, targeting his entire being.
He leaped back, but…
Rumble, BANG, BANG!
…even as he fired his pistols continuously…
…the storm of tentacles relentlessly closed in.
‘Ah, damn it, I can’t use grenades!’
He wanted to create distance by detonating a shock grenade in front of her, like he had done during practice.
However, ordinary explosives wouldn’t even scratch Enchantress’s tentacles, let alone repel them.
He would need a Holy Grenade (A+) for that.
But if he used a Holy Grenade, he’d be blown up along with the tentacles.
…There was no other choice.
He had to call for help.
“Seo-yeon, help!”
Seo-yeon, who had been on the verge of severing one of the tentacles, leaped towards him without hesitation.
Like a knight protecting their lord, she pushed Yu-jin back, shielding him from the onslaught of tentacles.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang─!
“Don’t you dare touch Lee Yu-jin with those filthy things.”
Seo-yeon’s sword, fueled by a voice colder than ever before, deflected the tentacles.
But Enchantress paid Seo-yeon no heed, her bloodshot heterochromatic eyes were fixed on Yu-jin.
Enchantress roared in rage.
When did I call her ugly?
I said she was unattractive.
But thinking about it now, maybe I had called her ugly?.
“Your face is a Shubamkwang.”
Enchantress froze for a moment.
Yu-jin and Seo-yeon seized the opportunity, thrusting their sword and firing their pistols towards her vital points.
Clang─!
But their surprise attack failed.
The tentacles, which had also stopped moving alongside Enchantress, sensed their master’s peril and intercepted their attacks.
Enchantress trembled.
The words, “Your face is a Shubamkwang,” had dealt a severe blow.
She couldn’t even speak properly, but that only lasted for a moment.
Enchantress unleashed a furious roar, exploding with demonic energy.
FWOOSH!
The sudden burst of demonic energy sent Yu-jin and Seo-yeon flying backwards.
Of course, they didn’t just passively fly away.
Seo-yeon unleashed sword energy.
Yu-jin, like Hansel scattering pebbles in the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, transferred holy grenades.
Thud, thud, thud, thud.
Instead of silver pebbles, silver grenades landed on the ground at regular intervals.
As soon as Yu-jin landed, he adjusted his stance and yelled to Seo-yeon,
“Seo-yeon, sword barrier!”
“Yes!”
The moment he gave the command, Seo-yeon planted her sword into the ground.
Wooong!
A small barrier, just large enough to shield them, appeared before them.
But it was enough.
Yu-jin, dodging behind the barrier, fired his pistols.
Rumble, BANG─!
A blue flash, accompanied by a thunderclap, shot upwards before curving towards its target.
KABOOM!
The grenade, directly hit by the bullet, exploded.
And with that explosion as a trigger, the grenades scattered across the ground detonated in a chain reaction.
KABOOM, KABOOM, KABOOM, KABOOM─!!
Enchantress, who had been roaring in rage, let out a scream of pain.
Since she had abandoned her recovery, her physical defenses had weakened significantly.
Unlike before, when the explosions hadn’t fazed her, the damage was now fully inflicted.
Whoosh, whoosh!
White flames engulfed Enchantress’s body.
Holy power blazed fiercely, burning away the demonic energy.
To assist those flames, Yu-jin transferred more grenades in front of Enchantress, just enough to not damage their outpost.
And as he pulled the trigger…
Enchantress shrieked his name with hatred and fury…
KABOOM!
…and vanished the moment the explosion erupted.
He knew she wasn’t dead.
She had disappeared a split second before the explosion, but Yu-jin wasn’t worried about where she had gone or where she would reappear.
One of the effects of his talent ‘Sniper’s Sharp Sense (A+)’ was ‘Real-time tracking and behavior detection of ‘enemies’ detected by killing intent’.
He could clearly see her location.
“Haa…”
He exhaled a long breath, calming his nerves.
He tracked Enchantress’s position with his talent and prepared himself to respond.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Like a speeding car, Enchantress zipped around Yu-jin and Seo-yeon.
Red lines flickered in and out of his vision as she seemed to be deciding where to strike.
Then, at one point, his mind went blank and his body felt heavy.
She had cast a charm before attacking, but this too was of no concern.
They were within Noah’s holy barrier, a barrier enhanced by the Holy Spear.
Wooong.
A warm, comforting sensation washed over him, dispelling the charm.
However, he pretended to be under the charm’s influence.
He hung his head and let his arms dangle limply.
Enchantress, as if waiting for that moment, appeared before him.
Yu-jin immediately transferred a holy grenade in front of her.
“You idiot.”
Enchantress gasped in shock as she hurriedly tried to retreat.
But Yu-jin was faster.
He fired at the grenade before she could even move.
KABOOM─!
Enchantress screamed as she was thrown backwards by the blast.
Splash.
Something landed where she had been standing.
He looked over and saw her severed arm lying on the ground.
“Ah… just an arm?”
He had expected a fatal blow or at least a critical injury, considering the grenade had exploded right in front of her.
As expected of a Named, she was incredibly durable, even weakened by the holy barrier and his talent ‘Demon Hunter’s Secret Art (A)’ with its passive effect ‘Demon Hunt (20% reduction in ‘enemy’ stats with demonic attribute)’.
Enchantress clutched her severed shoulder, howling in pain.
He tilted his head, puzzled by her screams.
Why was a Fallen, accustomed to having their limbs severed or crushed, making such a fuss over a single lost arm?
The reason became apparent quickly.
Whoosh!
White flames erupted from her severed shoulder.
While the rest of her body was unharmed, only that area was engulfed in flames, suggesting holy power was seeping into her body.
‘Oh… a weakness discovered.’
Crunch!
Unable to withstand the invasion of holy power, Enchantress tore off her own shoulder.
‘Ah, what a shame.’
She should have left it alone.
The holy power would have slowly purified it.
He lamented her hasty decision and transferred another holy grenade towards her, aiming for the shoulder.
But before he could detonate it, Enchantress vanished.
Her voice, filled with hatred, echoed from all directions.
Her killing intent, vowing to take his life, weighed heavily upon him.
Enchantress reappeared right in front of him, screaming.
Yu-jin chuckled at her reckless charge.
“You’re that upset about losing an arm?”
Upset enough to attack so openly?
“Well, I’m grateful.”
He grinned, transferring holy grenades in front of and behind Enchantress.
At the same time, her tentacles shot towards him with blinding speed.
But they couldn’t reach him.
“You won’t touch a single hair on Lee Yu-jin’s head.”
Seo-yeon, a steadfast shield, protected him.
Enchantress roared, focusing her attacks on Seo-yeon.
Seo-yeon’s sword danced, deflecting the barrage of tentacles.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang─!
Orange sparks flickered in the air as metal clashed against metal.
Unable to penetrate Seo-yeon’s defenses like before, Enchantress cried out in frustration.
Seo-yeon answered,
“Because Lee Yu-jin is behind me.”
So I can’t back down.
…Hearing those words, Yu-jin felt his face flush.
He felt like a damsel in distress being protected by a valiant knight.
As he was thinking this, Seo-yeon inhaled sharply.
Then, with a wide swing, she slashed her sword upwards.
Clang─!
The tentacles were deflected upwards with a clear ring.
At the same time, Seo-yeon created a sword barrier and shouted,
“Lee Yu-jin, now!”
He didn’t hesitate.
He fired both pistols.
Enchantress, seeing the blue flashes and hearing the thunderclaps, hastily leaped off the ground.
She was trying to evade the explosion by jumping upwards, but Yu-jin had anticipated that.
He had transferred another holy grenade above her head the moment he fired his pistols.
Enchantress screamed in shock.
She had jumped up to avoid the grenade, but there was another one waiting for her above.
Her tentacles shot towards the grenade, but she had overlooked something.
He had two guns, not one, and he had already fired before she even noticed the grenade.
Enchantress saw a blue flash and a lightning-infused bullet, entered her vision.
She saw it reach the grenade before her tentacles.
A single word escaped her lips.
And with that…
KABOOM─!
Explosions erupted above and below Enchantress, engulfing her in white flames.
Her cries of pain echoed from within the flames.
Yu-jin transferred more grenades, but…
Throb!
“…Ugh!”
A pain, as if his heart was being squeezed, shot through him.
He examined his body and realized his mana was almost completely depleted.
It seemed Seo-yeon was in the same state.
“Haa… haa…”
She leaned on her sword, her face pale as she gasped for breath.
He placed a Spirit Energy Pill in her mouth and raised his gun.
He then fired blindly into the white flames, aiming for the barely visible Enchantress.
Rumble, BANG, BANG─!
Thunderclaps echoed.
Crackle─!
Blue flashes traced their path, disappearing into the flames.
Click!
The slide locked back, indicating he was out of bullets.
He hurriedly tried to replace the magazine with a fresh one from his tactical vest…
Swoosh, sizzle…!
“…Ugh!”
One of Enchantress’s tentacles wrapped around his ankle.
The tentacle, burning and melting from the holy power, tightened, threatening to crush his foot.
He gritted his teeth and tried to replace the magazine.
As he pulled back the slide to chamber a round…
Swoosh, swoosh!
Enchantress’s remaining two tentacles wrapped around his wrists.
Crack…!
“…U-ugh!”
The pain, like his wrists were being crushed, made him drop his gun.
He tried to kick her with his remaining leg…
Stomp!
…but her foot slammed down on his leg.
Enchantress chuckled hoarsely.
Yu-jin smirked at her words.
“Only two left? Since when?”
“We’re not the only ones here, are we? How can there be only two left?”
Right, guys?
As he said those words…
Swoosh─!
Something flew from the outpost at high speed.
But that speed seemed slow to Enchantress.
Grab.
She caught it easily.
It was a spear, seemingly belonging to Lim Da-hee.
But several grenade belts were tied to the shaft.
Yu-jin grinned.
“It’s over.”
“Yeah, it’s over.”
Enchantress looked at him with an uncomprehending expression.
He kindly explained.
“Because we have Arthur.”
As Enchantress echoed the name…
Swoosh─!!
Something else flew towards them, at a speed unlike the spear from before.
Enchantress, who had been looking down at Yu-jin, raised her head in shock.
She threw away the spear she was holding and reached out towards the incoming object.
“Whoa there, you can’t just touch that.”
After all, Arthur’s exclusive weapon, Excalibur, was…
…as befitting a weapon bearing the title of “Holy Sword”, untouchable by anyone except its owner.
And as befitting a weapon with the title “Holy Sword”, it possessed a devastating effect against enemies with the demonic attribute.
Its sharpness doubled against enemies with the demonic attribute.
Snap.
Enchantress’s wrist fell to the ground.
At the same time, Excalibur pierced her chest, separating her from Yu-jin.
Then it slammed her to the ground, pinning her in place.
Sizzle…!
Enchantress thrashed on the ground, writhing in pain from the holy power emanating from Excalibur.
Her tentacles wrapped around the sword, trying to pull it out.
But it wouldn’t budge, as if fixed to the ground.
Yu-jin got up and looked towards the outpost.
He saw Arthur standing on the barrier, her face pale as she extended her hand.
It seemed she was maintaining the ‘Meteor Fall’ skill.
Yu-jin picked up the spear that had fallen to the ground.
There were three grenade belts tied to it.
Each belt held eleven grenades, making a total of thirty-three grenades.
He chuckled, imagining the looks on the faces of his classmates who had carefully filled the belts with grenades.
Then he plunged the spear into Enchantress’s chest.
Enchantress screamed hoarsely.
He raised his middle finger at her and leaped back.
As soon as he did, golden mana surged from Excalibur, creating a small ‘Heavenly Fortress’ around Enchantress.
He took out a Holy Grenade from his inventory.
Ping.
He pulled the pin…
“…Ugh!”
…and used Transfer, squeezing out the last of his mana.
Whoosh.
The grenade vanished from his hand.
He collapsed, dizzy from mana depletion.
But his gaze remained fixed on Enchantress.
Enchantress shrieked his name.
And at the same time…
Flash!
The Heavenly Fortress filled with light.
KABOOM─!!
Rumble, rumble, rumble─!
The ground shook violently from the deafening roar of the explosion.
After a while…
…the light, the roar, and the tremors ceased.
And… Enchantress had vanished without a trace.
Yu-jin lay sprawled on the ground, a peaceful expression on his face.
He checked the quest window.
“Ha, it’s over.”
Just as he said those words…
KABOOM─!
Something burst out of the ground next to him.
It was Enchantress.
A grotesque, monstrous figure with tentacles sprouting from her head.
“…You’re really persistent.”
She hadn’t been this tenacious in the game.
Was it because this was reality? Or was she simply that desperate to kill him?
Whatever the reason, her obsession was truly nauseating.
Enchantress, using her tentacles to stab the ground, slowly crawled towards him.
She giggled, her torn lips stretching into a grotesque smile.
Yu-jin chuckled at her words.
“You won? My ass, I won.”
After all…
The time remaining on the quest window…
…was zero.
And the completion of the quest meant…
“Lee Yu-jin is right.”
…reinforcements had arrived.
Enchantress, her head trembling, looked up at the voice coming from above.
Yu-jin also turned his gaze upwards.
There…
…a woman with long black hair stood in midair, clad in a black suit and coat, a cigarette dangling from her lips.
Enchantress, her face contorted with fear, stammered the woman’s name.
Kali.
Leader of the 9th Extermination Unit.
A top-rank hero standing on the threshold of transcendence.
And her epithet was…
“Destroyer”.
“It’s been a while, Enchantress.”
Kali exhaled a plume of smoke, her eyes cold as she looked down at Enchantress.
“You targeted something you shouldn’t have, so I came myself.”
Kali’s gaze shifted towards Yu-jin.
Her eyes, previously devoid of emotion, now flickered with something else as she looked at him.
“Well done, Lee Yu-jin. Leave the rest to me.”
Kali said, stroking the ring on her right index finger.
As she did…
Swoosh─!
…hundreds, no, thousands of weapons materialized in the air.
And those weapons… were all firearms, each aimed at Enchantress.
“Enchantress, I have many questions for you.”
Kali tossed away her cigarette, continuing,
“So unless you want to die right now, stay still.”
Enchantress trembled at her words, but she didn’t speak.
She stayed silent, as Kali had commanded.
‘Wow, holy shit.’
He knew the leader of the Suppression Squad’s weapon varied depending on the player’s chosen weapon…
…but this was beyond imagination.
No, to put it bluntly, it was fucking awesome.
How did she summon them? Was it an item?
And how was she even floating in the air? Telekinesis? It had to be telekinesis, right?
Yu-jin couldn’t contain his excitement as he watched Kali, his role model.
Kali, noticing his gaze, chuckled.
“Shall we close this rift first?”
She then stroked the ring on her left index finger.
And… holy shit, what was that?
“…M-missiles?”
Five missiles materialized in the air.
Judging by their silver glow… they seemed to be made of silver and holy power, like the Holy Grenades.
Snap.
Kali snapped her fingers.
The missiles shot off in different directions.
From their trajectory… it seemed they were heading towards the rift’s cores, as she had said.
After a while…
Rumble…
…a deafening roar echoed from afar…
Flash.
…and a blinding light, as if the sun had exploded, flashed.
And following that…
KABOOM─!!
Five mushroom clouds bloomed on the horizon.
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She is .. Atomic
you forgot to add holy
Phew, a woman after the MC’s own heart huh.
She’s an American for sure