Chapter 98 – Episode 98 Lee Kang-San vs Kim Si-Woo

After washing my body and changing my clothes, I went to the place Lee Kang-san told me about.
The address he wrote down was Gwangmyeong.
Now it was a vacant lot where the glory of the old city had been lost.
One of the many cities that fell because of the gates.
It was still a city whose ruins had not been cleaned up.
It was the first area to enter the new city after the reconstruction of Seoul, but such a place where the time is still far off.

In other words, it meant that it was a place where people’s eyes did not gather so much.
I don’t know what ulterior motive he had to come to a place like this, but…

‘It’s a problem I’ll have to run into someday.’

The relationship between Lee Hye-ri and Lee Kang-san was difficult to explain as ordinary siblings.
Lee Kang-san tried to protect her Lee Hye-ri, and Lee Hye-ri respected Lee Kang-san and tried to follow in his footsteps.
So the two held each other tightly and relied on each other.
That’s how we’ll be special to each other.

That’s probably why Hye-ri Lee can’t easily step down just by saying that she will take her tutoring.

“Hmm… I guess it was.”

Collapsed apartment.
Broken road.
The dreary air of ruins filled the surroundings.

Caw! Caw!

Crows lined up on the building flew up at once.

A popping sound rang in my ears.

In the middle of the ruins that were once a plaza, stood Mt. Lee Kang.
His eyes looking at me while holding his signature equipment, a giant shield, were unusual.

‘Did he find out?’

I mean, who am I?
Well, with Lee Kang-san’s level of influence, he would have been able to find out if he wanted to know.
When I met the eyes glaring at me, Lee Kang-san opened his mouth first.

“Why did you hide it?”
“I don’t know what you are talking about.”
“I know everything, but are you still going to pretend? Siwoo said that there are many hidden talents in Korea. I was very surprised.”
“…”

I approached Lee Kang-san with my mouth shut.
Perhaps it was because of the huge shield, but seeing it up close, the sense of intimidation was no joke.

“Shadow mask, Siwoo Kim… How can I call you?”
“Please call me Siwoo Kim. That nickname has long since been abandoned.”
“Siwoo, why did you hide it?”

Kangsan Lee, who was glaring at me, opened his mouth first.

“Because no one in Korea sees the shadow mask well.”
“… Are you aiming for it on purpose?”
“You mean teaching Hyeri?”

Li Kangshan nodded his head.

“Please. It was Hyeri who approached me first. She came to find out that she wanted to be as strong a tank as her brother. She tried to say no in her own way, but she was so talented.”
“Is that why you taught me?”
“Yes. What power does a teacher have?”
“…”

Lee Kang-san, who had been silent and thoughtful, spoke.

“What happened to Shin Seo-ah?”
“I don’t want to hear her name here.”
“Why did that woman testify that you killed her comrades inside her dungeon?”
“Why?”

The reason Shin Seo-ah was like that was simple.
He was trying to get rid of me in order to develop a relationship with Choi Woo-seok, the next ruler of Daesung.
I broke up with her less than 3 months after her Rivergate affair.
Because she became the patron saint of River Gate, and she became a hero.
He didn’t even care about the useless shadow mask.
After abandoning me like that, he planned a strategy to immerse me for his own comfort.
I didn’t even know that, and I was foolishly caught in a trap.

‘It’s my fault for trusting her until the end.’

I was fascinated by the words that I brought Daesung’s inside information.

“I guess it was to deepen the relationship with Choi Woo-seok, the next ruler of Daesung.”

Lee Kang-san looked at me calmly and said.

“It is strange. Normally, they would curse at me for being a hypocrite who betrayed their comrades.”
“River Gate, I saw you there.”
“…”
“I mean the back of you blocking all the monsters in front of the wall Shin Seo-ah hit.”
“…”
“I know that a calculating person who would cowardly kill his comrades in a dungeon would never go to a position where he would risk his life. Such people often do things from a safe place where they can escape at any time.”

Lee Kang-san continued to speak while still glaring at me.

“Like someone who closed the gates under your protection behind a huge mana wall.”

What?
She had a hard time managing her expression.
Did you really see
What happened at River Gate?

“I know very well that there is a difference in the actions taken by those who calculate with their heads and those who move with their hearts.”

Lee Kang-san took a deep breath.

“The Kim Si-woo I knew was definitely a man whose heart moved first. But now you are a little different.”
“After getting hit in the back of the head by someone I trusted, I learned that you shouldn’t move only with your chest.”
“You are not wrong.”

Lee Kang-san seemed to divide people into two.
Those who calculate with their heads and those who move with their hearts.
Her favorite style is probably the latter.
Move with your chest

‘Did it look like that?’

I was the one who calculated with my head more than anyone else even when I was active.
Academy Chief 1st place.
To teach the Hunter colleagues who were together.
Attacking a dungeon without a single active skill was impossible without calculating everything with your head.

Strangely, when I met Shin Seo-ah, I would move as my heart led me without even realizing it.
It’s like being possessed by something.

When she asked, she even had a strange feeling of wanting to do anything.
It seemed to Lee Kang-san that she was a person who moved with her heart rather than her head.

“Is that why you called me? NO. Because of 2-2554?”
“No. I know you are not a criminal who will harm my brother, but I have called you here for a different reason.”

Li Kangsan raised her shield.

“I want to test my ability to teach my younger brother.”

A light began to glow from his shield.

“Prove it. That you will be able to teach Lee Hye-ri.”
“Against the number one tank in the world? Without weapons?”
“Don’t be rude. Aren’t you still carrying it in your arms?”

He pointed to the inside pocket of my coat.
A weapon that you didn’t know about.
The Saber of Almais, a weapon used by Shadow Mask in the past.
It was a short sword with a blade less than 1 meter long.
How many monsters were killed with this sword made of a special alloy made of minerals obtained from dungeons.

He was the best colleague who hadn’t betrayed me yet.

“Pass the test… That’s what you mean.”
“Yes. Are you not confident?”

Don’t have confidence
I?
At all.
Rather excited.
Because there was no window to test me who had developed so far.
With my status now, I was unable to deal with monsters or the same hunter.

I was curious because of that.
A skill obtained by attacking Yuara and Lee Hye-ri.

How far can I go after gaining the skills of the two of them?

Lee Kang-san was a good opponent.
Tank 1st.
At least it will be a good punching bag.
I wouldn’t have gambled on winning first place.

“I wouldn’t have come here without you.”
“Then come.”

After speaking, Kangsan Lee raised his shield and took a defensive stance.
An iron wall that seemed never to collapse was built in front of my eyes.

‘It’s hard.’

I couldn’t figure out where to start attacking.

‘I’m out of breath.’

Okay.
If it was the old me.
In the past, I would have fought close combat somehow to break that defensive stance.

“Can you stay still like that?”

I reached out.

Telekinesis.
With the telekinesis she got from Yuara, she pulled him off her feet.
The ground in a radius of 10 meters around Mt. Lee collapsed.

If the target doesn’t move, create a situation where you have to force it to move.

It was a strategy that he would teach Yuara later.
Along with A-class mana, the telekinesis cast in a way that had been tested countless times settled the ground.

“Hut!”

Lee Kang-san was surprised and caught his balance.
Keeping balance even while the ground is crashing down.

‘A monstrous bastard.’

A huge shield instantly turned towards me, and light was manifested.

Whoa!

A huge wave erupted from Lee Kang-san’s shield.

I dodged his attack by bouncing to the side.
A skill granted to Lee Kang-san’s shield.

Are you saying you want to respond to a long-distance skill with a long-distance?

It’s annoying.
In the meantime, he stepped on the collapsed floor and jumped out and stood in front of me again.
Strong defensive stance.

‘It’s hard with telekinesis alone.’

I ran forward.

“I’ve never heard of a shadow mask being able to use skills…”

Lee Kang-san muttered and constantly aimed his shield at me.
I think he’s trying to block my attack somehow.

“Rumors are always lies.”

I ran towards him.
In the end, I needed speed to break that shield.

Maneuver hit.
I ran fast
His eyes narrowed at the speed so fast that he could not see his feet.
Do you know
That this is his brother’s skill.

‘I don’t know?’

You will never be able to think
You’d think it’s just a similar skill.

There were people who misunderstood that Mobility Strike simply increased speed.
But this sounds wrong.
Mobility Strike is a skill that raises agility, but at the same time, it was a skill that also raised strength levels.
Why?
That much momentum is needed for quick feet, and that momentum eventually comes from strength.
That was the reason why archers misunderstood that agility had to be high.
Many people missed the fact that it takes an enormous amount of strength to pull a bowstring.
So is the trigger strike.
Strength that rises with agility.

Lee Kang-san seemed to think so too.

In order to react quickly, the posture was somewhat relaxed.

All I wanted was a brief moment of carelessness.

That was right now.

I felt energy all over my body.

Pod!

In an instant, my body flew away as if being shot.

“Great!”

I hit Kangsan Lee’s shield with a saber loaded with mana.

Kwaaang!

“Cuck!”

With a sound that shouldn’t have come out when the sabers collided, the world’s Lee Kang-san was pushed back.
It was an unbearably strong blow.

“Sheesh!”

Originally, he was aiming for his exposed legs.
However, Kangsan Lee, who reacted in that brief moment, hurriedly blocked his leg.
Also Lee Kang-san.
It was a fight that would have ended with the loss of a leg in a single blow if it had been a joke.
Lee Kang-san, who took a stance, immediately swung his shield.
Did you think it would be bad if you just defended yourself like this?
For the first time, I started actively attacking.

“It’s serious.”
“Because I don’t think I can look at it.”

His shield collided with my saber.
Lee Kang-san is a short-term tanker, but that ability alone did not make him the No. 1 tanker.
Skillful provocation, overwhelming wide-area shield, and shield attack.
The energy and waves fired from the giant shield, and the destructive power generated when swinging the giant shield with both hands.
A short-legged tanker capable of solo play.
That was Lee Kang-san.

“Phase 2.”
“Treat people like boss mobs and don’t talk to them.”
“Physical is a monster, so of course you have to treat it that way.”

It seemed that I had to do my best.

A huge shield came crashing down on me.

I activated the maneuver strike again.

Moving quickly, Lee Kang-san’s attack flowed.
The secret of the Cheonryu sword method he taught Hyeri.

The flow of mana that started from my body and the body strengthened by the maneuver strike skillfully shed the shield of Lee Kang-san, which hit me like a meteorite.

“Who wouldn’t know!”

Lee Kang-san blocked the flow of mana flowing through his attacks with only his strength.
Is it because of the experience of Lee Hye-ri?

‘I thought so.’

I was the one who survived that dungeon without a single skill.
If I would have given up reading it once, I have already searched several times.

After stopping for a moment, Kangsan Lee’s shield bounced upward like a rubber ball.
It was a technique that used a kind of force recoil.
A skill that goes beyond spilling the opponent’s power and uses it.
The stronger the opponent, the stronger the counterattack.

“Kuheussok!!”

Lee Kang-san’s muscles twitched and tendons protruded.
With a vicious expression on his face, he somehow managed to retrieve his bouncing shield and slammed it down at me.
It was a really great power.
He was going against the flow of the Tenryu sword method with only his strength.
However, I did not stand still.
Like his shield aiming at my head.
I also thrust my saber through his neck.

Wooooo!!!

A huge wind blew up.

Kangsan Lee’s shield stopped right in front of my nose.
The shockwave gently wrapped around the bridge of my nose, cutting it horizontally.
There were also drops of blood on the nape of Lee Kang-san’s neck.

“Haha.”
“As expected, he is the number one tanker, his strength is considerable.”
“It just…”

I asked how strong it was to deflect Lee Kang-san’s shield.

“This is a skill I will teach Hyeri in the near future. I did a little demonstration with my guardian beforehand.”
“Heh, heh heh…”

Li Kang San smiled and put down the shield in her hand.
I also drew the sword at the same time.

“It’s a draw… It’s an unexpected win. I thought it was strong, but I never thought it would be this much.”

After speaking, Lee Kang-san bowed his head.
It was a deep folder greeting so that the crown of the head was clearly visible.

“I’m sorry. Mr. Siwoo Kim. I sincerely apologize for the parts that I doubted and investigated behind the scenes.”
“It’s okay. That’s because she values ​​her little brother.”
“I have no face.”

Li Kangsan smiled shyly and scratched her head.

“Don’t worry about the problems that arise during the investigation. I will take care of everything.”

After her words, Li Kangsan gave me a business card.

“This is a sign of apology for the disrespect I have committed.”
“It’s a business card.”
“If you need anything, please contact me. We will do our best to help with anything.”
“Are you serious?”
“Yes, that business card is your proof.”

After her words, Li Kangsan bowed his head once more.

“I will take good care of my brother from now on.”

And he left

Lee Kang-san leaves.

“Shit.”

I bit my lip.

Tie.

I thought I could win if I just got the skill.
Because of my experience so far.
But a draw.
Isn’t it too much of a goal to not be satisfied with a draw against Lee Kang-san, the top tank?
No.

‘Lee Kang-san didn’t fight with all his strength.’

In the first place, for him, this fight was a test.
On the other hand, I fought him with all my might.
It was a draw, but what if we fight with all our might later?
Odds are 7 to 3.
I am 3

It was difficult to become 3 against Lee Kang-san.
Daesung has Choi Woo-sung, the strongest in Korea, and has surpassed tens of thousands of hunters belonging to Daesung.

‘It’s not enough yet.’

I needed to raise my stats more.
I had to become stronger.
To win against Daesung.

“I will win somehow.”

Looking at the back of Mt. Ligang, I strengthened his will.