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nChapter 101 – Body Enhancement Surgery (1)

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nChapter 101 – Body Enhancement Surgery (2)

n“…It eats those?”

nSofía frowned as she looked at the creature called Margoth in the distance.

nThough it looked rather timid, it towered over multiple kilometers.

nHow vicious and giant does one need to be in order to live by eating up those?

nHansoo just shrugged his shoulders at those words.

n“Don’t worry. We can definitely kill them.”

nIf they follow his plan step by step then in the end they will get to the point where they can kill the Tiradus.

n‘There’s no need to catch it at this moment.’

nThey had to go through a lot of steps before that anyway.

nAnd get the thing they could gain here.

n“Let’s do the most urgent things first.”

n“What is it?”

nHansoo smiled at those words.

n“There’s a specialty here.”

nThe biggest reason why Hansoo wanted to recover this place, the Orange Zone.

nTekilon was dumbfounded.

n“Mmm…You want to receive the Body Enhancement Surgery?”

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nThe combined efforts of the Akarons who envied the powerful bodies of the Gragos that withstood and even drank the lava.

nHansoo nodded at Tekilon’s words.

nIf curing the Gragos was for the people coming over from the previous world then the Body Enhancement Surgery was like a preparation for the next world.

n‘Humans are too weak.’

nThere’s no point in comparing them to Margoths or Gragoses.

nIn short, the physique of Humans was too weak.

nThe fact that they could die randomly was only seen in humans out of all the races.

nEven Elvenheims had resistances, stamina and bones that were numerous times stronger than those of humans.

nEven without the help of the World Tree.

n‘A powerful body that is strong even without the help of the runes is needed.’

nThey would lose their battle strength by simply not eating for a few days and would die if unable to breathe.

nThis couldn’t be solved with runes.

nThe Abyss was as harsh as this sea of lava, Heringsen, was.

nThere were places where meteors fell and places where lightning struck down every time one took a step.

nSome places didn’t have any air and some places had gravity that was several tens of times stronger.

nThough they could withstand them with skills, this meant that they were using energy which should be used as battle strength into surviving instead.

nThey could be at ease when fighting with the races of the Abyss because of this.

n‘We need to… Reconstruct the body of a human as a whole before we advance.’

nEnhance the bodies of billions of humans who would come up.

nIt wasn’t just any body.

nThe Akarons would gain powerful bodies that could even fight against those giant Margoths.

nAnd if Hansoo was to acquire this then it’ll be of great help from now on.

n‘The pressure from the Racial Metamorphosis will decrease tremendously immediately.’

nTekilon nodded as he looked at Hansoo.

n“Your race wouldn’t be able to get as much of an effect out of it since you aren’t the same as our race but there is still a possibility. But… We would need to find the temple.”

nTemple.

nThe house of the priests to worship the Divine Beast, Gragos.

nThe great patriarch who had united the whole Akaron, Mekido, chose the temple as the location of enhancing the body.

nThe temple was located where the most amount of essence from the Gragos flew by.

nAnd because of this it was the most suited location for the Body Enhancement Surgery where they pulled out the essence from the body of the Gragos and integrated it with one’s body.

n‘This is not the place where we used to live.’

nTekilon had looked around the surroundings when they had risen to the sky.

nThis was not one of the 27 colonies they had lived in before.

nBut there were traces of their race.

n‘Thank god. They must’ve crossed over here.’

nIf their race had escaped from the Colony and had crossed over to this Gragos then they would’ve definitely raised a temple and set up the things required for the surgery.

nThough their race had been destroyed after the Body Enhancement Surgery had been invented, the worth of this technology was too high for them to give it up.

nNo, the worth of the Body Enhancement Surgery was even higher since most of the Akarons had died.

nThe problem was that they didn’t know where the Temple was.

nThe Gragos was humongous in itself and they all had differences so it was hard to guess where the most essence was flowing though.

nIt might be deep within the body or between the two horns.

nIt could be near the heart or the stomach which swallowed the Lava.

nTheir race had only found the places where the essence was overflowing after countless years above the Gragos, expanding their numbers and searching every corner of the Gragos.

nOf course they could build multiple temples in places where the essence flew by in smaller amounts but the priests did not allow this.

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n‘Those damned bastards.’

nThey weren’t that favorable to Tekilon who was sided with the Tribe.

nHe wanted to ignore and trample upon them all but then he couldn’t ignore the specialty powers of the priests.

nThe priests that served the Gragos weren’t normal people.

nWithin the system of the Akaron’s tribe where the patriarch and the priest had similar authority, the power of the priest and the patriarch weren’t that different.

nAnd this was the same for the great patriarch, Mekido, so they had used the Temple as the location for them to have their bodies enhanced.

nAnd this was still a huge amount of yielding from the priests.

nAt first the great priest, Karbanam had gone on a rampage that they were dirtying and sucking out the essence of the Divine Beasts.

nThough he didn’t know whether the population of the tribe was higher than that of the priests, there was a high chance that only one Temple was built.

n“First we need to find that Temple. It would be easier if we find members of my race but… There’s nothing I can guarantee.”

nIt might’ve been different if the owners of this place were the Akarons but it didn’t even seem like that was the case.

nTekilon couldn’t guarantee that he could find the Temple in a short time in such a situation.

nHansoo pondered for a moment and then nodded.

n‘There’s a place that might have one….’

nHe wasn’t sure.

nSince the depths of the Gragos was a world of mystery to the humans.

nThe reason why they had found out the existence of the Akarons was not because they knew about every part of the Gragos.

nIt was that there were fights between the Akarons and the humans within the Gragos.

nTekilon mumbled with a tone of worry while looking at Hansoo.

n“But it seems like things might get a bit troublesome.”

n“Mmm?”

n“It might be different if the those on the tribe’s side were there but… If those from the priest’s sides are in power then they won’t let us use the Temple.”

nIt wasn’t that he labeled those from the priest’s side as bad guys just because he was of the tribe’s side.

nThe priests were people who emphasized that the Akarons who were higher up on the power scale had to receive the Body Enhancement first.

nWhy would such guys allow a human, who was of a different race, to use the temple?

nThere would be a clash.

nTekilon looked at Hansoo and spoke.

n“I’m saying this just in case but… Let’s be cautious when we act. You are strong but our race is very strong as well.”

nThe who protected the Temples were very strong especially.

nThose who fought in order to erase the enemies of the temples for their whole life.

nTheir strength cannot be questioned since they were warriors who were already powerful but had received the blessings of the Temple and the Body Enhancement.

nNothing much to say since the requirement to be a Garde-Barong was to be able to kill a Margoth singlehandedly.

nThey would be given the rights to protect the Temple and the Body Enhancement set up above it only when they can kill off the parasite living upon the Divine Beast, the Margoths.

nHansoo nodded.

nIt was good to decrease unnecessary clashes.

nBut that was something he would need to worry about after finding it.

n“First I need to get some help.”

nIt was hard for him to search this humongous Gragos by himself.

nHe needed to borrow the strength of an already existing power.

n‘Where shall I go?’

nThe Gragos had numerous powers sectioned in different locations since it was so large.

nA bit of time would be needed just to find nearby information since they didn’t know where they had landed.

nSofía, who was listening quietly on the side, poked at Hansoo.

n“Mmm?”

n“My trait is telling me to go towards a direction?”

nHansoo nodded.

n“Let’s go.”

n“Is it alright to choose that easily?”

nWhen Tekilon asked with a worried expression, Hansoo shook his head.

n“It’s even hard for me to make a decision better than Sofía. Just believe her.”

nHim choosing a direction was heavily influenced by his knowledge of the future.

nBut the things he knew about were only important things, he couldn’t learn of small details like this.

nOn the other hand, the Library supplied them threads of clues that told them about the quickest route.

nSofía, who had gotten happy from Hansoo’s compliment, flew her body towards the direction her Trait was telling her.

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n“Phew… We barely survived. Damn. They all ran away alive. Why did the charge have to come now…”

nKen grinded his teeth.

nHe couldn’t do anything since the clash was something that could happen at any time but the result this time was the worst outcome possible and it was hard for him to not lament.

nIt was too late for him to find those who had ran away in all directions.

nAnd after this those guys would understand the danger and bunch up with their clans.

nThen it would be almost impossible for people like Ken who moved around in small numbers to look for another chance.

n‘And… It’s different from before.’

nKen looked at the Margoths in the distance.

nThe surviving Margoths were constantly puking out the adventurers from the Red Zone.

nThose who would usually come once a month.

nThe reason why they could do something like this was because the Magoth would puke them out once a month.

nSetting up camp in front of this constantly was the same as being crazy.

nSince it was the same as the slothing around that they all avoided.

nActually spending one day out of the 30 in a month was still a huge investment.

nSince their competitors will get stronger during that day.

n‘Damnit.’

nKen made a dispirited expression.

nDid this mean it was impossible for him to get revenge on Amil Stadan?

nAt that time a chill ran down Ken’s spine.

nAnd Ken knew what this sensation meant too well.

n‘Danger.’

nAt that time a jade colored marble cut across the skies and flew towards him.

n‘Damnit!’

nKen hurriedly gathered a black colored light within his hand.

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nA skill which had turned the scout from Lighthouse from the Red Zone into a rotting puddle in an instant.

nThe thing that was good about the Black Deconstructing Light was that it could be applied to every object and creature.

nEverything that got swept by this black light will get the structure broken down and then melt down into a thick puddle.

nBut this was only when they were at similar levels or when he was stronger.

nChujujuk

nThe jade marble that had smashed into him had frozen his whole body.

nKen’s Black Deconstructing Light tried to melt down the ice but the mana and the mastery of the skill on the ice was definitely a level above him.

n‘This is about… 5th year. No, almost 6th. Damn.’

nKen then gave up resisting.

n‘Since they have frozen me, they don’t have thoughts of killing me.’

nIf they wanted to kill him then he would’ve died already.

nIt was better to listen than resisting and be forced into listening.

nBut Ken regretted this decision after seeing the face of the person who had frozen him that was walking towards him from the distance.

nHe should’ve resisted harder.

n“It’s been a while?”

n“…Fuck.”

nKen made an uneasy expression after seeing Sofía approaching him from afar.

nSeeing the gleeful expression, his earlier thoughts had been exposed.

nSince she wouldn’t be making such a happy expression while coming over to beat him up otherwise.

nKen hurriedly shouted.

n“I don’t think you know since you just got here but do you even know what clan I’m from? This isn’t a place where you can act however you want! You will regret this!”

nSofía laughed as she approached while clenching her fists tightly from the urgent shouts of Ken.

n“I know. I can see it clearly. Rerorerore… Huh. Rather gaudy.”

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nThe thing which he belonged to that was seen above his head.

nHansoo laughed as he heard Sofía’s mumbles.

n‘She’s never wrong.’

nRerorerore.

nThough the name was a bit crappy, their strength and influence were real.

nA huge clan which had influence over 28 areas out of the 118 areas that the humans had made up on the Gragos.

nIf they follow this guy’s guidance then they would be able to find some hints.

n‘Well. It seems like that guy will get beat up a bit first.’

nSince he had intentions of killing another human being, he should’ve expected at least this much.

nHansoo shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Ken who was white from fear.

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