Chapter 60

Chapter 60

Level 2 Player

Full-Scale Battle

Boom!

Slash!

‘Endure. Endure.’

Jucheonguk, who cut down the flying magic attack skills and arrows, forcefully suppressed the desire to run out right now and kill the enemy.

‘Next time will be very different from now. I’ll prepare more thoroughly and properly exterminate them.’

He had looked down on the enemy too much.

‘If only we hadn’t lost all the guys with tracking skills in the first raid.’

He would not have been hit so unilaterally like this.

‘Mana is not infinite.’

Arrows containing all kinds of attributes like penetration, explosion, flame, and freezing, and magic attacks with flame and explosive power.

Since they are all based on mana, there is bound to be a limit. It is frustrating, but if he endures and holds on like this, the enemy will eventually have no choice but to stop the attacks.

“I-it’s over!”

As if that prediction of Jucheonguk was correct, the enemies’ attacks stopped.

“Move at full speed!”

At the same time as Jucheonguk’s words, the elites of the Hwangryong Guild increased their speed.

Then.

Kwaaaang!

Thud!

Thud!

The magic attack skills and arrows that he thought had ended flew. That was not the end.

Thud!

“Keok!”

“It’s an assassin!”

The assassin that Jucheonguk had clearly killed with his own hands revealed itself again and continued the assassination.

‘What? What happened?’

The attacks that continued again the moment he was relieved that it was over inflicted considerable psychological damage not only on Jucheonguk but also on the Hwangryong Guild elites.

‘Don’t tell me they didn’t put in all their power at once? What if the attacks continue like this?’

Then they might get wiped out before entering the city. Jucheonguk’s mind was filled with the thought that he had to return to the city as quickly as possible.

“Run! Return to the city as quickly as possible!”

The most important thing to Jucheonguk was his own life. Once the leisure disappeared, his true nature was revealed.

Jucheonguk prioritized movement over protecting the guild members. While doing so, he conserved his health and mana as much as possible.

Until now, Jucheonguk had consumed considerable health and mana by taking the lead in blocking the enemies’ attacks to protect the guild members. However, he no longer had that leisure.

Once Jucheonguk gave up protecting the guild members, the movement speed became far faster. But the damage to the Hwangryong Guild members increased rapidly.

‘We’re almost there now.’

The city flickered between the bushes. If they go a little more, they can enter the city.

“Huh?”

In front of the eyes of Jucheonguk, who was relieved that it was all over now, existences blocking the center of the path firmly were visible.

‘Those are?’

Among them, two summons wearing pitch-black armor that the guild members had annihilated were included.

‘There’s also a Stone Golem. And that guy is a player. Summoner? Or the summoner’s companion?’

The important thing was the point that the guy who had tightly hidden his appearance until now had finally revealed himself.

‘So now it’s doable?’

Jucheonguk disliked most the fact that the opponent had boldly revealed himself in front of his eyes.

‘Arrogant bastard. I’ll kill him.’

Bang!

Jucheonguk kicked the ground and advanced forward.

“Ugh!”

His head hurt as if it would split. Not only that. His body became heavy and his feet slowed.

‘Curse?’

Jucheonguk’s face hardened.

‘It wasn’t a summoner. Don’t tell me a healer?’

His head became confused.

He clearly thought it was a summoner, but a healer?

‘Is it that summoner’s companion?’

The moment such a question arose.

The opponent drew two swords instead of a staff and rushed toward Jucheonguk.

‘What? Is he crazy?’

Why is a healer drawing swords and rushing at himself, a warrior?

‘I’ll cut off your arms and legs.’

Even if he was not a summoner, he was clearly that companion.

The true identity of the enemy whose even a single strand of hair he had not seen until now was revealed. The thought of killing changed to capturing alive.

Clang!

However, the moment he first crossed swords with the opponent.

“Ugh!”

The loose thought of capturing alive had no choice but to collapse soon.

‘What? That sword?’

Every time he clashed with the sword that had a pure white blade, the aura activated with a skill became faint.

‘Skill Nullification? There was such a fraudulent item?’

Jucheonguk was quite flustered. However, rather than being afraid, he rather burned with fighting spirit.

‘I’ll use that sword well after killing you.’

Although the aura is shaved off every collision, that much can be sufficiently supplemented with mana.

“Haaap!”

Jucheonguk poured a fierce attack while raising mana with full power, thinking of defeating the enemy and obtaining the fraudulent item with the Skill Nullification option.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Sword strikes were exchanged several times. The opponent did not fall behind Jucheonguk at all in terms of strength and speed.

‘Was he not a healer? He clearly used a curse skill, how?’

Confusion visited for a moment.

‘Did he use an item containing a curse skill?’

The confusion that arose in Jucheonguk’s mind did not easily subside.

The opponent was holding two swords. From one sword, brilliant pure white light burst out, and from the other sword, a chilling blood-colored radiance burst out.

That can be.

Because the opponent might have been a warrior who used an item containing a curse skill rather than a healer.

‘It’s clearly a face I’ve never seen before. How can he be this strong?’

Let’s say high stats can happen if one diligently raises levels and has great luck with items.

However, the opponent’s swordsmanship skill was at a level that was hard to accept no matter what.

‘What on earth is his identity?’

When he first saw the appearance of using two swords, he thought it was a stupid person who only had superficial style. However, as a result of directly facing him, the evaluation changed 180 degrees. The opponent’s swordsmanship skill had reached an immensely high level where the word perfect naturally came out.

To the point that Jucheonguk could not even dare to discern the end of that realm.

Slash!

A red line was drawn on Jucheonguk’s cheek. That was the start.

Splat!

Red lines were drawn here and there on Jucheonguk’s body that had been fine.

‘How can this be?’

Jucheonguk’s two eyes were dyed with confusion. It is not that the stats are falling behind. Strength and speed were rather one level above the opponent for Jucheonguk.

Although there is the fraudulent item with the pure white blade that the opponent is holding, that can be overcome to some extent by pouring mana.

Nevertheless, the reason he is being pushed unilaterally like this is simple.

It is because the pure swordsmanship skill of himself and the enemy itself has a difference as great as heaven and earth.

‘I’m falling behind in pure swordsmanship skill?’

Jucheonguk overcame all kinds of adversity and survived. And he rose to the position of guild master of the huge guild called the Hwangryong Guild. It was possible because he had good luck, excellent skill, and determination.

However, Jucheonguk’s greatest weapon was not high stats or good skills. It was precisely the swordsmanship skill he had trained since he was on Earth.

Jucheonguk had excellent swordsmanship skill to the point of having experience winning large and small martial arts competitions in China.

That excellent swordsmanship skill was Jucheonguk’s greatest weapon and grew even more as he experienced life-or-death actual combat in the Tower. Until now, Jucheonguk had never once thought that he was falling behind in swordsmanship skill in fights with other players.

But now it was not.

Clang!

The pure white sword body swung by the opponent sticks to his sword blade like glue and interferes with his movements.

Slash!

Aiming for that gap, the sword with a blood-red sword body flies like a snake and grazes past the left arm. If there was no difference in stats, the left arm itself would have been cut off by the attack a moment ago.

‘Damn it...’

The two swords swung by the opponent pour a fierce attack as if they are separate living beings with other egos. Then suddenly they combine strength, bind Jucheonguk’s sword, and then dig into the gap created like that like a snake.

Jucheonguk felt as if he was not fighting one enemy but simultaneously fighting two enemies who had learned combination techniques and moved as one body.

This is not the end.

Pwaak!

A small wound opened larger and then rapidly corrupted while emitting a foul smell.

It is the effect of the Worsening skill and Corruption skill.

‘What happened?’

The opponent is using excellent swordsmanship skill and warrior skills, plus dark-type healer skills.

‘For now, endure until reinforcements come.’

Jucheonguk believed that the Hwangryong Guild members would definitely come to help him.

“Guild Master!”

That prediction of Jucheonguk hit the mark. Some of the Hwangryong Guild members belonging to the direct party came out as support.

Kwaaaang!

Clang!

However, they were soon blocked by the summon holding a large shield and the summon holding a greatsword. Other Hwangryong Guild members also had their feet bound by the Stone Golem.

‘When did it decrease this much?’

While frantically running away, the number of surviving Hwangryong Guild members had dropped below 30.

‘And why are those guys acting like that?’

The Hwangryong Guild members who ran to help Jucheonguk were only 3 people. The rest were moving little by little toward the city while struggling to block the flying magic attack skills, arrows, and curses.

‘Don’t tell me these bastards are trying to abandon me?’

Those blocking the front were in a situation where Jucheonguk and the direct party members were blocking. If they just avoided the flying magic attack skills, arrows, and curses, they could escape without difficulty.

“Grinding teeth!”

At the betrayal of the guild members he believed in, his teeth ground on their own. However, the reason the Hwangryong Guild members made such a choice was because of the actions Jucheonguk had shown before.

He increased movement speed without caring whether Hwangryong Guild members died or not. From the Hwangryong Guild members’ perspective, they had no choice but to think that Jucheonguk had abandoned them.

Thud!

“Keok!”

“It’s an assassin!”

One of the Hwangryong Guild members who was moving while struggling to break through the barrage of attacks died. The shadow assassin’s assassination had begun.

‘Well died. Damned bastards.’

A guild member of the Hwangryong Guild where he was the guild master died, but Jucheonguk felt joy instead of anger. Those who betrayed him deserved to die. However, the reason Jucheonguk felt joy was not simply an emotional reason.

“If you scatter, you’ll all die! Join up! If you stick this way, the magic attacks and arrows will also stop! I’ll block the assassin!”

At Jucheonguk’s shout, the Hwangryong Guild members who were trying to escape hesitated.

Thud!

“Aak!”

In the meantime, another Hwangryong Guild member lost his life to the shadow assassin’s dagger.

Hwareureuk!

Kwaaaang!

Shushushuk!

Pukpukpuk!

Meanwhile, magic attack skills and arrows continued to fly.

“L-let’s go.”

The Hwangryong Guild members who were trying to extract themselves separately joined Jucheonguk. Because their own calculations stood. If they engage in close combat, they cannot recklessly launch magic attack skills or arrows due to the risk of hitting allies.

Also, Jucheonguk’s battle situation looked somewhat even. That was why it seemed that if they joined, they could immediately break the balance.

‘Idiots.’

However, the reason Jucheonguk called the Hwangryong Guild members who betrayed him was not to protect them.

It was merely to use them as bait to create a gap for himself to escape.

“Yaaaa!”

“Die! Die!”

Once the Hwangryong Guild members who had no choice but to give up escape joined, Jucheonguk secretly checked the situation. When he fought alone, it was precarious to the point where he did not know when it would collapse, but with the support coming, a little leisure had arisen.

Jucheonguk had no intention of using that leisure to check the assassin that looked like a summon.

‘Now.’

Jucheonguk did not miss the gap that appeared momentarily and threw his body just like that.

Tak!

Whoooosh!

The body of Jucheonguk who used the leap skill instantly jumped over 10 meters and left the battlefield.

Thud!

Dudududu!

Jucheonguk who left the battlefield activated the sprint skill at the same time as landing and began running toward the city at a terrifying speed.

“T-that bastard is running away alone!”

“Hey! You trash-like bastard!”

Slash! Splat!

“Aak!”

“Ugh!”

Once Jucheonguk left, the Hwangryong Guild members remaining on the battlefield collapsed in an instant.

***

‘I didn’t know it would be to that extent.’

Jin-su momentarily made a hollow expression at the appearance of Jucheonguk quickly escaping. Before regression, he had experienced numerous battles. However, cases where the leader runs away first during battle were extremely rare.

‘It’s not even a completely one-sided battle situation.’

Jucheonguk was strong. The total of his stats was below Jin-su, but the strength and agility stats that can be called a warrior’s main stats were higher than Jin-su or the summons. Although the skill level was lower than Jin-su, that level of weakness could be overcome with numbers.

Also, even if the numbers had decreased, 24 elites of the Hwangryong Guild remained. If they fought risking their lives, the possibility of winning was at least about half.

‘Well, there is the condition that I don’t re-summon the annihilated shadow summons with the Bracelet of Shortening.’

There is no way the escaped Jucheonguk would know that fact, right?

‘He was a proper piece of trash at a level beyond salvation.’

Nevertheless, seeing that he became the guild master of the huge guild called the Hwangryong Guild, it seems he had been hiding his true nature well until now.

Tak!

Jin-su threw his body and replaced items from his inventory.

Creeeeak!

Jin-su drew the bow with all his strength.

Twang!

The arrow containing the penetration skill flew toward Jucheonguk’s back.

Whoosh!

Jucheonguk twisted his body and dodged the arrow.

Shushushuk!

Jin-su continuously launched arrows.

“Grr!”

Crack! Kwaang!

Thinking that dodging any more was impossible, Jucheonguk turned his body and struck down the arrows. Then he showed the art of striking down arrows while running backward.

‘His skill is certain.’

However, because he was running while stepping backward, the movement speed slowed sharply. Along with that, the shadow archer who had somehow caught up stuck next to Jin-su and launched arrows.

Shushushuk!

Once the flying arrows doubled, Jucheonguk’s feet slowed and his hands became busy.

Whoosh!

Meanwhile, the shadow assassin who had closed the distance threw a dagger toward Jucheonguk.

Clang!

“This damned!”

Once the shadow assassin’s dagger was added to the arrows shot by Jin-su and the shadow archer, Jucheonguk’s footsteps gradually slowed.

‘Shackles of Restraint, Body Weakening, Twisted Footsteps, Worsening, Corruption.’

Once Jucheonguk entered the curse range, Jin-su replaced the weapon from bow to staff from his inventory and successively cast movement speed reduction curses and cast the Worsening and Corruption skills.

‘Flame Barrier.’

And he even used a mage skill to block the retreat route.

“This son of a bitch! What are you! How are you using skills of multiple classes!”

Jucheonguk, who saw the appearance of Jin-su shooting a bow, then casting curses, and even using magic, let out a scream with eyes that seemed unable to believe it at all.

“That’s something you don’t need to know.”

Jin-su, who closed the distance, replaced the weapon from staff to the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword and swung them just like that while loading plenty of mana.

“Just die quietly.”

Jin-su swung the Baekcheon Divine Sword and Blood-Sucking Sword at the same time.

Clang!

Jin-su and Jucheonguk collided head-on. Jucheonguk barely blocked Jin-su’s attack.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

However, the miracle-like thing of Jucheonguk, who had chosen escape because he was already falling behind in skill, defeating Jin-su did not happen.

Jucheonguk resisted desperately, but he gradually began to be pushed unilaterally.

Splat!

Then, along with a spray of red blood, the right arm of Jucheonguk that was holding the sword flew off.

“Aaaak!”

A desperate scream burst from Jucheonguk’s mouth. However, that scream did not last long.

Slash!

Because the neck of Jucheonguk was blown off just like that by Jin-su’s sword that was swung afterward.