## Chapter 1218 – Shurdick Great Desert

ㅡKkiiiiiiik!!

The monster biting my head let out a bizarre noise, spitting saliva as if it had a major complaint. Of course, I had my power wrapped all around my head. There was no way that stuff was going to touch my skin.

ㅡKiik!

The thing even extended its murderous pincers and clamped down hard on my shoulder. Its pincers, almost the size of my torso, were trying to tear my body apart.

But, while the visuals were impressive, it wasn’t really stimulating.

Something like this couldn’t even leave a scratch on my body. The monster was struggling with all its might to move, but I hadn’t budged an inch.

“Alright, I understand your strength.”

Naturally, I raised both hands and grabbed the two large jaws pressing against the sides of my head. If I put strength into my hands now, I could crush them like cotton candy.

ㅡKkwak!

Instead, I grabbed the monster’s jaws and tore them apart to either side.

ㅡKuddeudeudeuk!!

The jaws were easily ripped apart. The skeletal structure of the jaws was pulled out, along with blood vessels, muscles, and green fluid.

With only a biting force of a few dozen tons, it couldn’t stand up to my power.

ㅡKiiiiiiiiit!!

Anyway, the monster screamed.

“Kieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!”

I screamed even louder than it!

ㅡSwaeeeeeeek!

I shot my body forward intensely and bit into the monster’s neck like a vampire!

ㅡJjwaaaak!!!

The teeth of a powerful demigod crushed and pierced through the monster’s chitinous armor. I could feel its armor being shattered in my mouth. Next, I reached its tough muscles. Tearing through all of that, I locked my upper and lower teeth together.

ㅡJjwaak!

A chunk of the monster’s neck flesh disappeared.

Ah, shit.
That tastes awful.
It’s terribly bitter and fishy.

ㅡTuet!

I spat out the monster’s flesh that filled my mouth. *That’s* what you call a real bite, kid.

ㅡKiiiiiiiit!!

The monster with its neck flesh torn off thrashed around.

“Hehehe. The true beast is me, Kim Kat. A scrub monster like you can’t even be considered a beast… you’re just a cute little kitten.”

The monster went wild, struggling to get back into its cave. It was over now. Lightly. Really lightly. As if using a basic attack, I covered my fist with flames.

ㅡBbyororong.

A heart effect rippled from the fist.

“Yeah.”

Good.

This time, instead of using the “power covered on the fist,” let’s put power into the “heart that escaped outside” and apply it to combat.

In other words, a ranged attack.

Application of technique.

A burning heart. I packed it full of my power and launched it externally. The heart that flew off like that would hit the target and explode.

ㅡHwareureureuk!!

Immediately, I used the flames burning in my hand to create a heart the size of my palm.

ㅡCondense.

The heart was still connected to my skin. I filled it with the power of destruction. Until now, I had been fighting with my body covered in ki. Strengthening my body and increasing the destructive power by adding the power of ki.

But what I was about to do was not like that.

It was literally about putting real power into my flame heart.
And launching a ranged attack.

ㅡKiiiiiiiit!!

With the monster’s torso pinned down so it couldn’t move.

The heart that was burning on my palm.
I lightly threw it.

ㅡBbolbbolbbol.

The heart of white flames, condensed with my power.
It flew slowly, like a drunken moth, and fell.

And when that heart touched the monster’s carapace.

ㅡPaaaaaaaang!!!

A brilliant explosion erupted.

White flashes of light spread in all directions.

As soon as my heart touched the monster’s carapace, it exploded like a grenade. Of course, since it was a pure ki explosion, there were no physical fragments. Just a beautiful heart effect that scattered into particles in all directions.

ㅡ…

A ridiculously funny heart.

However, with just that one hit, the monster’s upper body had completely disappeared.

“Hmph.”

ㅡTsupat.

I extinguished the flames that were burning on my body.

“Yeah.”

So, I could apply it like this too.

I found out that I could release power externally.

A new technique that I succeeded with for the first time. But I couldn’t be very satisfied. That explosion just now. It was really nothing. The destructive power was too weak compared to the effort I put in.

In other words, the efficiency was terribly bad.

I packed it full of power, but the damage didn’t come out much. I put in a huge amount of power, but it rapidly lost power from the moment it left my body.

If I hadn’t done it like this and just put the power into my fist and swung it, it would have been dozens of times more powerful.

That was disappointing.

“Well.”

It was the first time I used it.
It must be a matter of skill.

If I could shoot this power out without loss, like I do when I put it in my fist and swing it, I could use it very usefully.

Still.

ㅡCheonma Death Beam.

Maybe.

If I developed this further and further, I might reach that level. The extreme of ranged attacks performed by releasing power externally. That dream level is called the Cheonma Death Beam. A forbidden technique with the power to drop even gods and destroy this world.

“I should keep practicing this.”

As I always say, it’s most important to develop your senses through training and create know-how from the insights you gain there. The development of technology is like that. You have to go through that process to be able to use it in real combat.

Anyway, I unlocked a new technique.

What should I name the technique?
Roughly, Cheonma Destruction Orb? Cheonma Extermination Orb?

Myeolcheon Sura Daebo Orb or Sura Daebo Orb would be good too.

Let’s go with that.

This is really fun.

ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!
ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!
ㅡClap clap clap clap clap!

I turned around and saw them clapping. I had crushed a monster in an instant. But the women standing there could do this too.

“Wow. What was that just now?”
“Did you see it?”
“Yeah. Aura… no. Did you put power into the aura and just throw it away?”
“Similar.”

The women who had been watching from behind from beginning to end came up to me. At first, when I stuck my head in, they wondered what I was doing, but after watching everything, they seemed to be nothing but impressed.

“The realm of magic… wasn’t it almost that level?”
“Is that so?”

Magicians process mana drawn from the circles built in their hearts into spells and launch them externally. But what I used just now was just pure ki manipulation. The feeling of emitting ki from within the body and launching it directly outside.

“But it’s a little different. Like this.”

ㅡHwareureuk.

I created a heart in my hand again. As expected, it was really easy because it was the second time I did it. I put power into the heart I created like that and made it float in the air.

ㅡPaaaaaaang!

A white sphere was created with a light explosion. I put in quite a bit of power, but I had already figured out the ratio, so it was easy to control the output.

“I throw something that condenses my power and explode it.”
“Just become a magician, wow. Ah. But the explosion is still the one I taught you, right?”

That’s right.

The feeling of exploding energy was entirely thanks to Liztina teaching me the technique. I’m using this technique she taught me very usefully.

“Yeah. That’s exactly it. All explosions are that feeling.”
“As expected. I raised you too well.”
“Kat is really omnipotent!”

A satisfying new technique test.

“Hey, Blackie, why did you eat that again?”
“No. I didn’t eat it. I spat it out. I was just trying out the biting force.”
“You’re a real beast, really.”
“Call me Beast Kim Kat.”

You have to test everything like this to become a true warrior. Look. I realized that biting attacks are also amazing. Every single cell in my body is a weapon of destruction.

“Hehehe, Kat. You were so wild, it was so cool.”
“Right?”
“I think unni’s senses are a little weird.”
“It’s not weird.”

There’s no way this is weird.

“Still, that monster was one of the most dangerous among the desert monsters. But you took care of it so easily.”
“It’s a matter of course, Cloudy.”

As I was looking around the scene, I noticed Karin and Liztina creating aura and trying to manipulate it.

It seemed like they wanted to try to do what I did.

“Ah, shit. This isn’t working.”
“Hmm… It’s natural that Karin can’t do it, but it doesn’t make sense that I can’t…”
“What?”

I guess I have to be the teacher now.

“Hehehe, I’ll tell you when we rest somewhere.”
“Now you’re giving lessons to your noona.”
“It’s the right kind of teaching.”

Anyway, I’ve done pretty much everything I can do. I saw the monster and tested the new technique, so it’s time to move again.

ㅡKwang!

I kicked off the ground and soared high into the sky.

After soaring up.

ㅡTukwaaaang!

I kicked off the ground again in the air and shot my body even higher. In that way, I instantly rose to an altitude of several hundred meters.

“Hmph.”

In that state, I looked around. Only endless desert terrain was spread out. But in the distance, I could see a city. I could see a moving merchant group. I could see an oasis. I continued to rise and put the appearance of the ground into my eyes.

It’s really wide.

Wow, but shit, my eyesight has gotten so good. Everything down there was so clear that I could see it all so clearly.

Anyway, I have to find and kill real monsters in this wide place that can’t even be compared to the one just now. Exploration missions are really difficult. Finding something is the hardest thing. First, let’s go to the next resting place and use the crystal.

ㅡKwang!

I landed softly.

“Father… I’m just surprised now.”
“Aria. This isn’t surprising. It’s natural.”
“I feel like you’re going to become an immortal being.”

Immortality.

That’s also natural.

* * *

In that way, we went straight down towards the central region of the desert. Cloudy did the guiding, and the destination was an ancient ruin in Cloudy’s memory. First of all, it was said to be the closest place to our location.

“If it’s an ancient ruin, isn’t it already looted?”
“Yeah. It will be. I’ve been there before. But maybe we can find something hidden with the power of that crystal.”
“Hmm, that’s certainly true. Even though it’s an open ruin, there may be secrets left. By the way, what was inside?”

To Liztina’s question, Cloudy wiped her lips as if recalling old memories, specifically, as if looking for memories from decades ago.

“…Beetles came out from underground.”

What?

Beetles?

“Beetles? Cloudy? What are you talking about? Beetles?”

Scara…? Be?

“Hmm… They were man-eating beetles, and those the size of the palm of your hand swarmed in groups and ate a person in an instant. I remember running away after seeing that.”

Cloudy’s escape memory.

More than that, man-eating scarabs…!

Mummy!
It’s a mummy!!!!

“Wh, what? Unni? Small insects ate a person?”
“Ugh! That’s too gruesome a story, Cloudy-nim! It’s creepy!”

Listening to that story, an impulse boiled up in my chest! Scarabs! I have to shout Imhotep right now! I feel like the word Imhotep is engraved on my heart right now! Is it because it’s a desert! There were exactly monsters!

“Crazy…! Man-eating beetles!!!”

Liztina was also shocked.

“Hmm… This lady also has resistance to cruel things, but even so, the idea of man-eating beetles swarming and eating people… I don’t really want to imagine it.”

I was also shocked.

ㅡAaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!

The figure of my younger sibling screaming from the depths of my memory comes to mind. Man-eating scarabs! The sight of a person being eaten by beetles in an instant was truly shocking!

“Imhotep. Imhotep. Imhotep.”

I couldn’t help but chant Imhotep as if possessed by something.

“Kat?”
“Let’s go, Cloudy. To that ruin.”