Chapter 93 – One Shot

My eyesight trembled, and my legs trembled. My whole body is in tatters and it’s hard to come to my senses.

The monster in front of me seemed to be divided into two or three. I’m already exhausted and it’s hard to even move properly.

My body trembles from the chill.

“I heard the sound and flew right away… It’s a wreck.”

“Haha…”

“Don’t worry, Taeho. I’ll do at least one knight’s share.”

Ia Lin gritted her teeth and glared at her monster. Creates spears in both of her hands, and summons Yetis all around her. Hundreds of yetis rise from all sides of her.

Ia-rin comes down from Bingryong and confronts her monster. I hurriedly raised my fist and led her battered and bruised body.

A slightly frozen and frosted monster aims its blade at me. I did the damage by trying to live or die in my own way… Seeing that you’re still in good shape. I truly understand what kind of monster I am dealing with.

“…Did you fight this guy alone all this time?”

Irene is perplexed.

“Looks like crazy strong…”

Humanoid monster.

Somewhere between ultra high risk and high risk. The enemy, who is currently lacking in my abilities, is glaring at me full of life. I glanced at Irene. Already heavily armed with her ice armor.

Brief confrontation. Let’s make eye contact with each other.

This Arin and her monster disappear from sight.

In an instant, the surroundings are filled with the sound of breaking ice. Swinging her spear around and using supernatural powers, she presses monsters in all directions.

“Ah… Ah, ah, ah…”

“Wait, this is… Taeho’s chess, isn’t it… Yep!?”

The monster handles her sword like a spear and oppresses Arin. Kagak- Kagagak- The sound of grinding ice echoes everywhere. Highly condensed cold air shoots towards the monster. What is Yeti Yeti all rush and attack monsters, but they are not very good. The sound of snow crunching fills my ears.

You must not stand still. If you can still move, I have to help too.

Because it is impossible for Iarin alone.

Run towards the monster Strikes a monster with a knuckle fist. The swaying embankment cracks open.

“Tae, Taeho? Maybe take a little break-“

“Whoa… Whoa… When you came here… Did you see the news or something?”

It moves its heavy body like a rock to the maximum and strikes the monster. There is no sensation in the hand anymore. Broken ribs hit his lungs, making it a little difficult to breathe.

“No. Not at all. One article uhhh!? No…!”

The blade grazes Iarin’s armor.

“Haa… Haa… The monster used the fucking EMP. All external signals were blocked. That’s why. Haa… Haa… The two of us should catch it as much as possible. If we miss it in the middle… Everything… Die.”

Hit the bottom with a kick towards the monster. Let’s hit the limit once again, the dam shakes fiercely. Even as she spoke, I replayed it in my head dozens of hundreds of times.

Please, let it fall Break the dam, explode.

It was repeated without a break.

“Whoa… Whoa…”
“Haha…”

The fierce cold continues to attack the monster. Throwing away the ice spear that was already broken, Ia-rin made a battle ax and cut the monster’s shoulder.

“No, you’re going in…!”

An ax bounces off the monster’s shoulder. Dozens of slashes came out and aimed at Iarin. I gritted my teeth and avoided the blade full of spirit. At the same time.

“Kaha…! Kahak!”

The monster’s fist pierced Iarin’s face. Right before Ia-Lin collapses, he uses her feet to rebalance her, leaving her virtually useless hands alone. She continues to kick her dozens of times at the monster. It’s been a long time since I ran out of magic power. Fighting monsters with only one body.

“Ugh, ah… Ah…”

I can’t count how many of her bones have been broken. I don’t know how much blood she spilled. All I can see is the monster. Kicks non-stop

The people around me alternately look at me and the monster with a frightened expression. Legs are not enough. Clenched her fist again

A series of attacks that burn themselves. The fist, stained red with blood, not flame, strikes the monster.

“Ah, ah, ah…”

Mixing all possible taijutsu and putting pressure on the monsters. Ia Lin also joins in and slams her ice armored fist into her monster. She doesn’t seem to be hit by monsters and avoids her fists between hers.

“Please, look around!”

Ia-rin uses her evil bar and runs towards her monster. As if this wasn’t enough, the two of us are being pushed back. Growth without end.

We need to see the match as soon as possible.

Die like this

After the monster changed her fist in an instant with the blade. Hundreds and thousands of consecutive attacks are fired at the two of us. I managed to roll my body to avoid the monster’s fist. However.

“Keep it, pole!?”

Iarin gets hit by all the monsters’ combo attacks and flies away. Eyes meet with the monster. Flickering eye light.

“Keua, uh, uhh!”

The monsters approached in an instant and fired hundreds and thousands of consecutive attacks. I forcibly moved my body as heavy as a stone to avoid the monster’s fist. Fast. Insanely fast Her fists graze my forehead, neck, side, arms, and legs, squeezing me.

“Ah, uh, ah, ah…”

The monster makes a strange noise and speeds up. He uses his legs instead of just punching, driving me into a corner in an instant. Sweat mixed with blood flows from your forehead. It’s acceleration magic and strengthening magic, and it can’t do anything. Since it has already been scraped to the bottom, there is no way that there will be any magic power left.

All that remains is the body and coming.

Just the tenacity to kill this monster.

Move your creaking body as much as possible to avoid the monster’s combo attack.

Tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands. It replayed in my mind. Breathe in the breath that passes before you die. Think endlessly

Dude, break down.

Come crashing down

Come crashing down

“Please…!”

Come crashing down

The monster’s fist grazed the tip of his nose. I couldn’t bear to dodge the second blow. He was hit directly in the stomach.

“Keuuk…!”

It vomits bright red blood onto the floor and flies away.

I can’t see in front of my eyes black. That anything invisible eyes don’t open

Alive but not alive, a walking living corpse. A corpse covered in skin.

Death.

Between land and river.

The boatman looks at me.

“…Huh-!”

Awesome-

I open my eyes at the sound of the walls collapsing. The sound of breaking, the sound of collapsing, the sound of falling.

The sound of running water.

The dam bursts.

The overwhelming amount of flow, enough to swallow the ground, started from the chest and covered the whole body.

I feel the strength of my whole body being forced back. The water damage that started from the chest is transmitted to the fingertips and toes.

Steam rises above my head. An overwhelming power that cannot be controlled.

“Haha…”

Get up slowly

Look at the devil

“Ah… Ah… Ah…”

The monster looked at me in bewilderment and took a step back.

What I need right now

Only.

One shot.

Strength in the legs, strength in the waist, strength in the chest, strength in the shoulders.

And.

In the fist, power.

Just one punch.

“Ah.”

The clouds part

At the end of the death sentence, the monster’s body explodes and its upper body flies away into the sky. Only one shot. The surrounding outer walls are caught in the storm and ripped away, and stones and dust are swept away in the aftermath.

All that was left was the lower body of the monster. Even that withers die off

“Tae-tae-ho…!”

Iarin comes to her senses and looks at me.

Just one shot.

I poured everything into one shot.

Won not just enduring. My fist. With my own strength.

“Haha…”

As soon as the tension is released.

The field of view narrows rapidly.

Already, my stamina is exhausted.

He collapses from his seat due to the force of the release. Then, inside the body of the monster.

Discover grayish white clay.

With the rapidly narrowing field of view, stop.

Close both eyes.

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The closed eyelids slowly open. I squinted my eyes at the pure white light. My ears are full of tinnitus.

Raise your body The body that should be stiff because it is not so heavy. It moves fine Let the tinnitus that bothered your ears gradually clear up. She realizes where she is.

Hospital.

And sobbing.

Looking down, my brother and mother are looking at me with tears in their eyes.

“Hey, heuh, hey, hey, hey, he’s awake!”

The younger sister’s tear-stained face approaches right in front of her nose.

“Tae-ho, are you okay?! Can you see my mother?!”

“Huh… Oops, brother…”

“Uh, uh…”

“Tae-ho. First of all, huh? Don’t move too loudly? Mom, you’re worried…”

My mom grabs me by the shoulders and forces me back down. The blurry vision slowly returns to normal.

“Hey, heuh… Oppa. I can’t even contact you all of a sudden…!”

My brother hugs me tightly and cries loudly. I patted him on the back saying he was fine. Barely fall from the side That’s right, I see…

“Money…?”

“Ah, that’s… Yerin paid for all the hospital bills…”

“What?”

Are you Yerin?

“Sister?”

“Ugh… He said he’s sorry he couldn’t do anything, just a lump sum…”

“Ah… How much did it come out?”

My brother approaches and whispers in my ear.

“…What?”

Did you pay that much? Mind is dizzy

“What about Iarin?”

“Since Arin’s older brother can’t move… I rode Bingryong and brought her here.”

“You flew?”

“Yeah. And then I watched my older brother… When my mom and I came, I said hello and left right away.”

“Na Yeon-ah.”

“Huh? Why brother?”

“What date is it today?”

“…October 18th. Oppa.”

“What?”

Weird.

My body was in such a mess that I was completely healed after only one day?

“Your brother will be a bit embarrassed too. That’s actually… Seol-ah came to visit you.”

Eyes meet with brother.

“I heard that he was healed with magic while crying. That’s why he healed so early.”

“What?”

“They repeat endlessly that they were wrong, and they say that they fixed it somehow… Oops. Why did Seol-ah run away? I’m not the kind of person to do that…”

I am also in doubt He’s my best friend… Like a flashback, yesterday’s events pass by.

A red-hot face. A trembling shoulder. A figure shivering while covering his face with both arms.

It’s definitely different from the usual seolah. A mix of excitement and fear.

…Fear?

Come to think of it… You ran away last time, right? It was low risk then. Come to think of it, it was similar back then… No. It’s on a different level from then. No matter how much Seol-ah was afraid of monsters, there was no way she would run away from a life-threatening situation like this, as someone who had been by Seol-ah’s side for more than two months. Seol-ah is not that kind of person. Never.

A person who is upright enough to lash out in front of Han Ye-rin, runs away in front of a monster?

There’s something I don’t know.

Otherwise… Unexplained. Unless there’s ‘something’ so big that it won’t come even in the middle of a fight, and you’ll try to ignore that your friend is in danger. Not explained I don’t understand why Seol-ah would come to the hospital… She’s interested in me as a friend to the point of fixing my body, but running away.

“Did you know he ran away?”

Look at your brother

“Yeah. I’m sure there’s no one I don’t know in Korea?”

“…Huh?”

Her brother grabs the remote control and turns on the TV hanging on the wall.

Protesters carrying signs gather in front of Gwanghwamun.

[We want fairness! Not status! With skill! Pick an article!!]
[Knights, crazy knights, get out of Korea!!]
[No more, no less, do as much as Kim Tae-ho!!]
[Awaken the academy! Awaken the academy! Awaken the academy!]

Both eyes light up.

Hundreds more than before, no. The thousands of protesters are urging the academy to wake up. Everyone is full of anger and screaming in all directions.

“Ah.”

All the wicks burn out, but in the end.

Korea.

It exploded.