Chapter 76 – 76. Head Rolled in a Vine (Crystal)

Jang Jo-joon went back to the mart and took Ganghwa-yeong and Lee Eun-ji out and was searching the area again.

In the meantime, Kang Hwa-young sniffed her nose and found a sincere attack group that had been running away from Durahan for a while.

“There… I can smell fresh blood…”

“Let’s go.”

So I chased after them, but they ran away right before they were caught, and Jo Jun suddenly got into a confrontation with Dyurahan.

Joon never thought they would suddenly use teleport. The moment they were engulfed in light, when I shot Abyss Maw, they had already disappeared on the spot.

“Damn it… Motherfuckers…”

Joon never even imagined that he would run into Dyurahan here. Moreover, at the end of a fierce battle with the humans of the raiding group, he had absorbed quite a bit of the magic inherent in the skill, and Dyurahan was already strong enough to call his own horse.

“Ha… Fucked.”

With this, the serious attack team somehow left the Dullahan to Jo Jun and the others and ran away.

The moment Yoon Ji-ho faced the distorted nature of Aim, he was seized with the idea that he had to get out of here immediately. That’s why he never thought of fighting together with Jo Jun or helping Jo Jun’s party. All he thought was that he had to run away.

“Brother, it doesn’t seem like they just got away from you.. First of all, that guy is the problem.”

Ganghwa-young vaguely felt the energy of the escaped raiding party and said that he had to kill the monster right in front of him.

She was instinctively wary of Dyurahan. Instinct whispered that it was quite a monster.

“Fucking bastards… I’m annoyed that I missed it, but dumping trash like that without permission…”

Jo Joon vowed that the next time he ran into the raiding party, he would catch and kill them unconditionally and offer up all of them.

‘Since you gave me such a great gift, I’ll have to repay it with death…’

Even though Jo Joon often forgets grace, he is always on the side of taking revenge.

“Huh… Heh…”

In the meantime, Dyurahan lifted his head and stared intently at Jo Joon, who felt a lot of magical power among the three newly appeared humans.

Red flames shimmered in the skeleton’s eye sockets, and he roughly grasped the amount of magic power Jo Joon had.

Dullahan was instinctively attracted to the possessor of strong magical power, and as soon as he saw Jo Joon, he laughed with his signature airy sound.

Seriously, it didn’t matter what the attacking team was like.

Jang Jo-Jun, who surpassed the magic stat of 700, was the best prey for Dyurahan.

“Huh.. Huh.. Hhhhh..”

“Brother, that’s laughing, right?”

“I’m not the only one who felt that way.”

Joon frowned and raised his hands to release his tentacles.

Dyurahan tried to remove his tentacles as if it were natural, but he couldn’t.

As Joon saw the movement of Dyurahan’s greatsword, he twisted both of his hands at the moment to bring the tentacles together.

The bundles of tentacles from both hands were woven into one, and they were thrust into Dyurahan like a fist, and Dyurahan, who was about to wield the greatsword, quickly stood up vertically to block Aim’s tentacle attack.

As it was, Dyurahan bounced back. Unfortunately, much of the impact was offset by his armor.

Soon, Dyurahan was buried in various skills, including Abyss Maw, which poured from Joon’s hand in succession, and his armor began to shatter.

However, the more the skill was hit, the bigger Dyurahan’s smile grew. Feeling strange about this, Jo Joon hurriedly stopped using his skill.

“What is that bastard..”

“Four.. I’ve gained weight.”

Dyurahan absorbed the magical power inherent in the skill Joon used and recovered beyond what was destroyed, and finally, blood and muscles began to fill the body of Dyurahan, which had only bones.

Soon, Dyurahan became a strong adult man, not a pitiful figure with only black bones remaining. The skull head in his hand was covered with flesh, revealing the face of an unknown man.

It was the face of Gu Gyo-han. The head of Gu Gyo-han, covered in flesh, muttered words of unknown meaning, saying that the neck was itchy and that the neck meant that all necks had to be ripped off.

“That… Seems to recover the more it gets hit..”

As Joon muttered in vain, Eunji answered.

“You mean the type that has to attack without skill…?”

“Yes. Shit. It’s the first time I’ve seen a kid like that…”

This kind of enemy was also new as a target.

The type that gets stronger the more skills you get.

If it was a normal durahan that was summoned by a necromancer or naturally spawned, it would have already been destroyed because its recovery speed could not keep up with the destruction, but this is an existence created with a special method called the awakening of a bloody choker.

It was a monster that was treated as a ‘player’ at a higher level than normal Dullahans.

It was designed to be close to the counter of mage-type players who use combat methods that focus on skills rather than direct combat, such as aiming.

‘If I wasn’t prepared to destroy it all at once, I should have gone to close combat without using skills.

Joon intended to crush him with his skills as usual, but he would have to spend almost all of his magic to kill him that way.

Although he had already witnessed the monster once in the dream world, most of the memories he had seen at that time were immediately diluted, and moreover, the fact that he was strengthened in such a way was difficult to grasp from only fragmentary scenes.

That’s why you’re right if you don’t know. The world of Apocalypse wasn’t very kind to survivors.

“Under…”

Currently, among Jo Joon’s party, Mer is the only one who is skilled enough to engage in close combat with that monster right away.

If Mer, who was already at the stage of completion in terms of technology, was here, she would probably have been able to cut him in two while blocking Dullahhan’s sword attack with the assistance of his other colleagues.

But unfortunately, Mer was resident at the mart just in case. As you can see, Aim Joon was the worst match against Dullahan, and Hwayoung also did not have the strength to face Dullahan without skill.

Eunji specialized in ambush and ambush, not melee combat, and if she made a mistake and got hit by Dullahan’s sword, she would be cut in two.

“Shall we run to the mart for now?”

“Is that so? Let’s see Mer and Aram and ask for help. If the three of us are going to catch that thing… I think we’ll have to be prepared to work really hard.”

Of course there are ways to kill it.

For example, in the simplest way, if you pour skills like crazy until Lee Eun-ji, Ganghwa-young, and Jang Jo-joon exhaust all their magical powers, Dyurahan will eventually die.

However, Jo Joon dragged this guy to the mart and tried to throw it to Merhere and Aram.

If they used up all their mana beyond 700 here, it would take a considerable amount of time to recover, and if they ran rampant that much, new enemies nearby might target them.

If a new enemy appears in a situation where magic is exhausted, it is quite a headache.

In addition, Jo Joon now knows that his ridiculous luck stat of 666 is not simple luck, but a strange number that brings high school students.

After touring from the black market to the world of dreams, I realized it clearly.

Moreover, now that I am far away from my main mart, I need to save myself.

Because I didn’t want to fight to the death because I was caught by a stern guy for no reason.

Lastly, I wanted to test the performance of Aram’s newly picked hammer. It was because I thought that if I used the booster function, I might be able to crush that crazy monster.

“It’s not an opponent whose skills don’t work, so let’s run away while holding that Skeleton Horse in check as much as possible.”

“Yes!”

“All right.”

Jo Joon, Eunji, and Hwayoung started running away without even looking back.

In the middle, Joon blocked Dyurahan’s head with distorted scales and tripped the front legs of the skeleton horse that Dyurahan was riding with his tentacles. Eunji and Hwayoung similarly kept him in check.

‘There is a guy who can’t be sure of a match even with my amount of magic attribute… After all, skills aren’t everything…’

Today, Joon realized anew that this kind of thing could happen, so he couldn’t just rely on the amount of magic power and play around.

The enemies that will appear in the future are expected to be very diverse. I didn’t know when I would run into an irregular like this again.

This type of enemy requires a strong player with high skills who can slice the enemy without skill like Mer.

Or was it possible to annihilate it at once with a more powerful skill?

“Everything, everything has come! Mer! Merhere!!”

As soon as Joon arrived near the mart, he called Mer, who was looking around on the roof.

Mer, who recognized at a glance that Dyurahan was coming even before Jo Joon called, took out his scythe and came down.

“Death Knight..! OMG!!!”

Mer screamed and tried to cut down the Skeleton Horse and Dyurahan entirely.

However, Dyurahan nimblely avoided the scythe and jumped off the Skeleton Horse, and the Skeleton Horse was decapitated by Mer’s scythe and fell to the ground.

Aram also called Jo Joon.

Aram, who had been eating on the rooftop for a while, immediately put the bowl down and went downstairs with a great means of conversation in response to the noise outside and Jo Jun’s call.

Bang!!!

Mer lightly dodged Dyurahan’s greatsword and then swung her scythe to push away Dyurahan’s greatsword.

In an instant, his chest was exposed.

“Sister!! Damage!!!”

In the blind spot behind Mer, Aram swung the communication tool that deployed the booster horizontally.

Blue flames spewed from one side of the means of communication, and the hammer, which increased several times in speed, hit Dyurahan directly on his chest.

Kwaaang!!!

As if the Magi couldn’t be absorbed, the armor was shattered and fell out as if it were bursting.

There was no way for him to stand in front of the overwhelming mass.

“Huuuuu!!!”

Dyurahan let out a painful scream and tried to stand up.

But before that, Ah-Reum, who ran down after her sister, swung her twin swords and cut off Dullahan’s arms, and Mer cut off her bastard’s legs.

Thud!!!

“Haa.. How did you knock it down?”

Joon looked at the women who quickly divided Dullahan and looked for the head he had dropped.

“Heh… Heh… Neck… I have to bite it… Itching itching itching itching itching… Heuhah…”

Gu Kyo-han’s head howled, repeating the same words like a broken toy.

“Is this… A living thing… It keeps talking. I think I can make you a slave.”

“Brother.. Isn’t it already dead at the point where your head fell off?”

“Yes? It is, but.”

Joon couldn’t help but feel it.

‘When the jet-black wheel died, it was said that it was killed by five very strong people. That’s almost 100% of the guys in the raiding group from what I saw. And they must have picked up the choker. But when I met, there were only four. So either one of them was already dead by Dyurahan… Or the one wearing the choker became Dyurahan.’

Of course, it could just be that one of the party wasn’t there, but Jang Jo-jun thought that this durahan was probably a member of the capture team.

‘I feel like I can make this guy a slave… The important thing is how to subdue him…’

Jo Jun grabbed Goo Gyo-han by the head and spoke to him.

“Hey. Hey!”

“Ah. Hehe… My throat is itching…”

Of course, there was no way to have a conversation. At that time, the sword possessed by Yang Ji-sang, which was hanging from Jo Joon’s waist, trembled.

“Why?”

[I’d like to see if I could ram myself into his head. As if it were effective.]

“You?”

[It seems that his spiritual body is shaking very much right now… I may be able to touch it a little.]

“Good. Let’s try it.”

Joon inserted Yang Ji-sang’s sword into the cross section of Gu Gyo-han’s severed neck.

Pooh..!

“Ahhhhh!!!!!”

Soon, the head of Gu Kyo-han, who had been stupidly repeating the same thing, screamed.

In fact, at the point of decapitation, there are no lungs for air to escape, so Gu Kyo-han, with only the head left, should not be able to speak or make a sound, but it would be better not to worry about such minor problems.

“Guggugg aaaaan!!!! Aaaaa!!!!”

Gu Gyo-han’s head screamed and drooled.

[The opponent has succumbed to you.]

“It’s okay, it’s done!!!”

Jo Joon hit the forehead of Gu Kyo-han, who was quickly screaming.

Chii profit!!!

“AA AA AA…”

So Joon got a new turret.

A very capable guy.