Chapter 135 – Kraken Subjugation (1)

“Goodbye! Turn quickly!! Profit quickly… !!!”

“…….”

“At this rate, Mr. Seongcheol will die!! I need to go back and apply…… !!!”

Ignoring the owner’s screaming voice from the back seat, Eunbyeol did not turn the helicopter’s steering wheel in the opposite direction from the direction to New Guinea.

The moment she made this choice, she was fully prepared to be criticized by her own master, Doshi-hee.

Even though she had only been with Kim Seong-chul for ten thousand days, she was already fully aware of the affection her master had shown him.

If he was really a rattlesnake-like man who came in after his master under the pretext of his love, as he thought, he would somehow secretly deal with it from behind.

Faced with him, at least in front of his eyes, he didn’t seem to ‘pretend’ to love his master.

Seeing that they seemed to be genuinely enjoying her special castle as well as the affection they sent to their master, I was able to confirm that they loved each other with certainty in their hearts.

In addition, I was perfectly satisfied with the condition of the ideal type that my master said like a habit, ‘a man stronger than himself’.

Although it was a confrontation close to foul play, the jumping power he showed in the swimming confrontation was an ability that only non-Awakeners could achieve.

Moreover, this morning, he gathered hundreds of monsters and slashed them at once, and even showed himself free-falling from the air and attacking an S-class monster without hesitation.

It was only now that I finally understood the meaning of the words ‘Irreplaceable person’ that the master kept saying.

There probably won’t be anyone like that.

Even if I searched all the men in the world, there would probably not be a person more suitable for the owner’s ideal type than that person.

That’s why Eunbyeol had no choice but to get away from the island with mixed feelings.

Because what he sacrificed to protect was the life of his master, Doshi-hee.

“Eunbyeol, please…. Please I have to go back….”

“… Do you intend to make his sacrifice in vain?”

“You can’t say it’s a sacrifice…. Seongcheol-ssi shouldn’t die….”

“…….”

In fact, Eunbyeol was also vaguely thinking about it.

It took at least two hours for a round trip to secure the master’s safety, find hunters, and return to the island.

No matter how well you look at it, even if you call Kim Seong-cheol’s skill A-class, that amount of time was enough to fight an S-class monster.

Even if three people including yourself enter the battle, in the end it is the same as three A-rank hunters facing one S-rank monster.

In addition, the attack he mainly used was a method close to stabbing the monster’s vitals with a sharp spit, so there was no way he could deliver an effective blow against the super-large monster Kraken.

“… Even if we go back and apply, there is no realistic chance of winning.”

“I do not care….”

“…….”

“It doesn’t matter if I can’t win…. Even if I die, I will die with Seongcheol…. So please….”

Seeing the owner sitting on the floor of the helicopter without even wearing a seatbelt and spitting out nonsensical words over and over again, Eunbyul felt confused.

As it is, she ignores her will and says that she succeeds in escaping.

If a man named Kim Seong-cheol is not by her master’s side, will she be able to stand up again?

Is it really the right choice to leave him behind, who has already taken up too much of his master’s heart, and save his master’s life?

Eunbyeol has been in the most difficult trouble ever since she started working under Doshihui.

“Goodbye…. Only once….”

“…….”

“Eunbyeol said she would be by my side…. In Dokyung Group, you promised that Eunbyeol would be on my side….”

“…….”

“It doesn’t matter if that’s the case, it’s fine even if it’s the last, so please….”

After she looked back at her master, who was muttering blankly into the air, whether she had shed all her tears now.

Eunbyul said she had come to the stupidest decision she had ever made.

“If you go back and Seongcheol Kim is already in a state where you can’t use your hands, or if you get knocked down by a monster in the middle of a battle….”

“… Farewell?”

“At that time, please promise me that you will preserve my master’s life before anything else.”

Doshi-hee blankly nodded to Eun-byeol, who looked back at herself with her helicopter floating in the air.

“… We will be back as soon as possible. Please fasten your seat belt now.”

He thought that he too would make a foolish choice, but in the end, Eunbyeol was Doshihee’s servant.

She left it because she had promised her the day she was to serve her master.

Eunbyul thought she was doing something stupid, but she had no choice but to turn her helicopter back toward her villa.

She reminds herself once again that in order to serve a fool master, she must be a fool herself.

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Haha….”

It must have been about ten minutes since the full-scale confrontation with the Kraken began.

After all, facing an S-class monster head-on was still reckless.

Since it was in the early stages of the battle, it was possible to use his legs vigorously when his strength was still left, but even that strength was already exhausted.

The Kraken still had seven legs, including one tentacle.

“Should I have been aiming for the eyes from the start….”

If I had stabbed the Kraken in the eye from the beginning by adding the amount of impact when falling, there would have been a chance.

It was an attack that relied on too much luck, so of course I didn’t try it, but looking back, I might have had to bet that much luck to beat this guy in the first place.

“Great!”

Whiik. With a sound, I caught the tentacles flying towards me and blocked them once.

I just recklessly tried to cut it, but after being hit by it and bouncing off, I realized it was best to defend myself.

Besides, the Kraken wasn’t the only thing to be concerned about right now.

‘Kwajik! Kwajik! Kwajik!!’

He stepped on the Krael crawling on the floor countless times with his shoes and took care of it over and over again.

The number of times I’ve already killed these guys by stepping on them is too many to count.

The greatsword had to be used for defense against the Kraken’s attack, and the flame magic, a long-distance check, had to be used to prevent the B-class monster Dust Kelp from approaching.

Of course, even that has now reached its limit and can no longer be used.

“Ahh… !”

My body, unable to completely defend against the Kraken’s attack, rolled on the floor.

“Ouch… !!”

At the same time, the corpse shells of the Kraels strewn on the floor pierced my body.

I want to use recovery magic, but of course I can’t use it.

All the powers I use for swordsmanship, magic, and healing seemed to share the same history.

To put it simply, my internal power was the sum of energy, magical power, and divine power.

So, not being able to use energy means not being able to use magic, and not being able to use magic means not being able to use divine power as well.

At least, there were swordsmanship skills and basic magic that could be used without using internal strength, but most of them were skills that stopped at level 1 or 2.

These catch tricks are probably all there is to buy time against the Kraken.

… In the end, is it this far?

I thought I was fully prepared from the moment I jumped out of the helicopter, but it seems that I still have a lot of lingering attachments to life.

Or maybe he pretended to be determined from the beginning.

It doesn’t matter. That’s because I put a lot of effort into it.

In a world where men can’t be awakened, he somehow awakens, and even imitates a hunter, albeit for a short period of time.

It is a life that ends with meeting many people and saving someone’s life at the end.

To be honest, this alone was a life I had hoped for.

It was a future I had never dreamed of until I got the awakening ability, so it was probably an undeserved honor for me.

… But.

“Even if I have to search here, I will definitely take you as a road companion.”

I fixed my mithril greatsword while staring into the eyes of the guy hidden in the bridge.

Soon after, one of its legs flew from above to strike me down.

If I stayed still, I would be crushed to death, but I didn’t avoid it this time.

Running away anyway won’t solve anything.

Holding the greatsword in a straight posture, I glared at the tentacles flying towards me until the end.

I could pick up a slightly unnatural trail of tentacles approaching to crush me from above.

It’s faint, but it looks like it’s been lightly cut by something.

I could grasp at once that it was a trace of my failure to cut down.

I swung my sword precisely at that part of the wound that hadn’t healed yet, and this time I felt that something was being cut from the blade.

As proof, my body hadn’t been squeezed between my legs and the floor yet.

Before the thought that the sword had worked properly entered my head.

“… Wow!”

My body was knocked forward by a second tentacle flying from behind.

Fuck. Two at a time is a foul….

Once again, my body rolled onto the sandy beach full of kreal shells.

“You’re really filthy persistent….”

Six legs left.

If I could somehow cut down one or two more, I would be able to risk my life and death to where the eyes are.

Even though four legs were cut off, the resistance was still strong, so it was the same as being in an awkward situation.

In addition, it was a big problem that one tentacle remained among the legs that had not been cut yet.

You can’t approach it unless you cut off that longest, sleekest leg.

The problem was that I was so exhausted that I couldn’t cut even one normal leg, let alone my tentacles.

“Haaaaa… !!”

Ignoring the screams of the muscles and bones in my body, I managed to get my body up from lying down.

And, that was all.

Since I didn’t even have the strength to hold the sword properly, let alone slash the tentacles, all I could do was get up from my seat using the mithril greatsword as a staff.

Even that was going to roll on the floor again in the next attack of the flying guy.

Did Doshi-hee and Eun-byeol escape properly?

‘To-do-do-do-do….’

The sound of the helicopter carrying the two people still seemed to reach my ears.

“… Mr. Iron! …… I will!”

The faint but already longing Doshi-hee’s voice seemed to linger in my ears.

As I was thinking stupid thoughts like this was a kaleidoscope, I heard the sound of the helicopter’s engines and the sound of her voice getting a little bit louder.

“Mr. Seongcheol! I’ll support you!! Wake up, Mr. Seongcheol!!”

Along with Doshi-hee’s clear voice, an arrow flew in a straight line from the air to my side.

“…… Uh?”

Before I could grasp the true nature of the blue flash, the flying arcane arrow got stuck in the tentacle that was approaching me, and at the same time, the Kraken’s tentacle wriggled as if in pain, then rolled inside of itself in an instant.

… It wasn’t a flashlight.