Chapter 217 – Kang Seong-Gi, the Strongest Player in Korea (38)

The woman picked up the tool Baek Seong-hoon had thrown from the floor and sighed deeply.
Baek Sung-hoon asked her.

“What is your name?”

I didn’t expect an answer, but the woman spoke slowly.

“Oxana…”

It was a tone that evoked a feeling of mystery as much as the appearance.
However, Baek Seong-hun was not interested in how beautiful her appearance was or how sweet her voice was.

“Now, tell me how to use it. How are you doing?”

Baek Sung-hoon felt his heart throb with anticipation.
He hadn’t quite figured out anything yet, but he had a feeling that if he could handle a soul, he would radically change his life.
Being S-class is not enough.
Before Kang Seonggi appeared, there was nothing wrong with just having the ability he had now, but now he wanted a much stronger power than that.
With any luck, he could have even greater aspirations beyond becoming the number one player in Korea.
A smile came to his lips at the thought that he could get that clue.

Oksana held her tool in her hands without her strength.
It seemed she already knew how to use the tool she had, even though she didn’t teach me.

Shuuk-

With the sound of air escaping, a soul trapped inside the tool escaped.

It belonged to one of the two hunters who had just died of a broken neck.
I couldn’t tell who it belonged to, but it had somehow escaped through the place where one of them had been absorbed.

It was something he had gained by killing people, but Baek Seong-hun thought it didn’t matter much if he lost it.
It belonged to the dead anyway, and the soul was not to be sold anywhere.
Even if it turned out to be a lot of money, he himself was not interested in money.

“Come on. What are you going to do with it?”

Oksana put her tools on the floor and raised her hands.
Light shimmered on her palms, just like hunters radiate courtesy mana.

As she used her powers, her pulsing and moving spirit responded.

Oksana looked at Baek Sung-hun with her sad eyes.
Baek Seong-hun was already obsessed with her near-mad expectations, so he urged her out loud.

“Quickly! Show me! How are you doing?”

Oksana moved her hands gracefully as if in a traditional dance.
Then the spirit held in the air by her began to move.
When the spirit approached him, Baek Seong-hoon was startled and stiffened.

“Yes? What are you doing?”

The man who had just been clamoring to show me how to do it, now said the opposite.

Oksana did not stop moving her soul.
The spirit continued to move and eventually reached Baek Sung-hoon’s body.
Like a sponge sucking up water, Baek Seong-hoon’s mana spontaneously manifested itself and absorbed the soul that was close to him.

Swoop-

Baek Seong-hoon looked down at the place where his soul had disappeared.

“What? What did you just do to me Where did it go?”

But he didn’t have to listen to the answer.
Because his body immediately reacted.

“Ugh!”

Baek Seong-hun felt an unfamiliar spirit moving inside his body.
As blood moves along the veins, it naturally found its way to the heart.

“Ah!”

Baek Sung-hun widened his eyes in terrible pain.
It is an existence that can damage S-class hunters, and its skills are not common.
He wondered if he might have just made a big mistake.
He glared at Oksana with bloodshot eyes.

“You you…”

But the pain didn’t last as long as expected.
The heart that absorbed all the soul began to beat wildly.

Beating, beating, beating,

It kept getting stronger and then slowed down again at some point.

Thump… Thump… Thump…

He realized
What Oksana did to herself.
The soul absorbed through the heart was ejected again through the way it came in.

Cheep,
The mana flowed through her whole body and reached her toes, fingers, and every single strand of her hair.

“Ugh…”

Baek Sung-hoon grabbed his chest.

The pain I felt as my soul was absorbed was only about 30 seconds.
The feeling I felt after it was over was the exact opposite.

Hunter says he feels the greatest joy at the moment of growth.
However, since S-class hunters barely grow after awakening, it was difficult for him to feel that kind of sensation.

The same goes for Baek Sung Hoon.

I realized that this is a sensation that I had never had a chance to feel before.

Growth.

He absorbed the soul and it became part of his mana.
Since one Hunter’s worth of mana permeated, it was as if she had grown greatly all at once.
Growing up so easily and so quickly.
After awakening as an S-class hunter, he is now experiencing something he never expected.

“Ah…”

He looked at Oksana with her amazed eyes.
Until recently, Oksana had been nothing to him.
I wasn’t even sure if she was a real soul mage.

Dubious.
If she didn’t show her abilities and she didn’t show what she wanted, she didn’t hesitate to kill her.

By the way,

Haha!”

Since Kang Seong-gi appeared, Baek Seong-hoon had no time to feel better.
Irritability and tantrums always followed him.
At this moment, I felt it break open all at once.

Haha!”

I was good at not telling Argentinian soul magicians about how I got Gang Dong-gwon’s soul.
He himself figured out what its use was.
Fortunately, there was a soul magician in Korea, and with her and the tool to steal her soul, he could become infinitely stronger.

“Oxana.”

He affectionately called her by name.
As soon as she thought that it was helpful to her, her beautiful appearance caught her attention.
Although he never thought about getting married, he thought that if he kept Oksana by his side and used that ability only for himself, there would be nothing wrong with getting married.
From what I heard, it seemed that he had lost his ego while going through unfortunate events.
Then it would be easier to handle.

“Yeah…”

Oksana still had a sad expression on her face.
Instead of looking at Baek Seong-hun, she answered while looking at the dead bodies around her.
All of them had become like mummies.
Unless he was familiar with them, he couldn’t tell who it was just by looking at the corpse.

“Why? Are they pitiful? Are they the ones who tried to sell you out?”

When Baek Seong-hoon thought of keeping Oksana by his side, one thing suddenly bothered him.
Even so, he had no desire to keep a woman who was already dirty by his side.
If that was done by things that were no different from bugs.

“Are you…”
“Yeah?”

Oksana had a puzzled look on her face, not even guessing what Baek Seong-hoon was going to ask.
Baek Seong-hun thought he had no choice but to ask directly.

“Have you ever been raped by these guys?”
“Rape…”
“Did you have sex with these guys?”
“No! I didn’t!”

Oksana was startled and shook her hands wildly.
Looking at her expression and behavior, it was clear that that was not the case.

She would have thought she was a woman who could make a fortune, but she wouldn’t have dealt with it.
It’s not too late to use her other side, even after she proves she doesn’t have her powers.

“That’s good.”

Baek Sung-hoon smiled benevolently.

“Now, show me again.”
“Yeah?”

Oksana was surprised by his request.

“Why? You just did it. Is there a limit to the number of times she can use her abilities per day? Is it because your abilities are still immature?”
“That’s… No.”
“Then what is it?”

Baek Sung-hoon asked angrily.
He had connections with a South American soul mage organization and was involved in drug trafficking.
I have seen a lot of people unintentionally addicted to drugs.

At that time, I couldn’t understand their mad craving for drugs.
It was pitiful to see him throw everything away because he was addicted to that drug.

But now, I think I can understand.
If the drug makes you feel a similar sensation to growing by absorbing your soul.
He himself would probably hang himself to feel it even once more.
Like right now

He wanted to feel the pleasure of growing up by absorbing another soul.
He was so exhausted that his whole body was itching.

“What’s the matter? Why are you making that face?”
“It’s dangerous…”
“What?”
“If you absorb too much at once…”

Baek Seong-hoon could see that Oksana was genuinely worried about it.
After all, it was about absorbing someone else’s mana, but if you said there were no side effects, that would be strange.

But she had something that Oksana was overlooking.
The fact that she is an S-class Hunter.

Even when I just absorbed the soul, I only felt uncomfortable for about 30 seconds.
At that level, you could absorb dozens of them a day.
No, I thought I had to do that.

You can grow without end.
If only there was a tool that could extract the hunters’ souls and a person with the ability to absorb them into himself.

“This time it is.”

Baek Seong-hoon took out another mana absorbing device from his inventory.
It was a specially designed device for extracting S-class souls.
Even in the South American soul magician organization, Baek Seong-hoon did not expect Baek Sung-hoon to do it, but it was a tool given to him in the hope of extracting it if there was a chance.

Baek Seong-hoon handed Oksana a soul extraction tool containing Kang Dong-kwon’s soul.