Chapter 29
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nTranslator : Ekdud
nTL Check : KobatoChanDaiSuki
nChapter 29 – Central Island (2)
nHooong
nHansoo stared at the Podao flying towards him expressionlessly.
nA colorless artifact that increased cutting powers.
nIt was a pretty good one.
nCutting was considered a skill so it was something that required both Physical and magic resistances.
nBut Hansoo stared at the sword expressionlessly.
nIt was easy to dodge.
nBut Hansoo just charged at it.
nIt wasn’t always good to dodge.
nIf you dodge then your balance will fall apart which will slow down your counterattack.
nAnd if you had the confidence to block it completely then it was even less necessary.
nOf course, resistances acted as something that reduce the damage but not as a shield.
nIt didn’t make one invincible even if it was at the colorless level, so getting a severe hit can’t have no damage.
nIf it had only that then he probably couldn’t have beaten the Carnivorous beast.
nHowever, that was only when you get hit properly, in a situation where you can see the attack clearly it was actually hard to even purposely get hit properly.
n‘I can see it all’
nPerception that had reached the colorless stage couldn’t even be compared to the previous.
nA more perfect battle foresight came into his head than what he had when he fought the Carnivorous beast.
nKududududk
nHansoo deflected the side of the blade perfectly with the ring on his finger.
nTong.
nAnd at that moment the
n“Uurk?”
nEven before the enemy could get surprised, Hansoo’s fist had even pushed back the enemy’s blade.
nThen the sword which was dispelled of the cutting magic couldn’t penetrate through his physical resistances.
nTumble.
nSacrifice your own flesh to break its bones.
nA battle style that he had learned while progressing through the abyss.
nYou can’t attack if you focus on dodging.
nThen the enemy will live longer and this will in turn cause your few remaining friends next to you die.
nAs long as you don’t die then you needed to kill them in one strike.
nYou can’t kill if you are afraid of getting hurt.
nSince as long as you survive, you can just heal it back up.
nOne shot one kill.
nHis battle style, which he couldn’t utilize due to his lack of resistances, started coming back as his resistances and Nurmaha’s ring was set up.
nSince he had blocked it was now time for the neck.
nThe blade moved at an extreme speed towards Gukjin’s neck after he had lost his balance.
n“Uaauuuhhh…”
nGukjin felt like his soul was about to depart as he saw the blade that felt like it would cut his neck in two.
nThe damnable increased perception and agility was showing the blade flying towards his neck clearly.
n‘Oh right. I shouldn’t kill them.’
nHansoo came to his senses as he spun the sword around.
nA podao that he had attained in the floors below.
nThis was also a colorless artifact.
nIt wasn’t an amazing artifact but if he hit them like this then their heads would get crushed without resistances.
nHe deactivated the skill on the blade edge and even turned the direction of the swing towards his abdomen.
nIt wasn’t that the abdomen was safer but he had an artifact that he picked up earlier
nIt won’t destroy his intestines since he had even drained the strength from the strike.
nPuuuk!
n“Kuuaaak!”
n‘It’s rather tiring trying to not kill.’
nHansoo frowned but he had to do so.
nIf he carefully whips them then he could send them to the battlefield after healing them.
nHe had to let loose a little bit.
nThis was not the Abyss
n‘I need to save them. They are precious resources’
nThe event in the Central Island was a bit different than the ones so far.
nIt was not something that could be cleared by flying about alone.
nHe had to use as much as he could.
nHe had settled down about the half but the cloud snack’s duration still had around 8 minutes left.
n‘…It’s a little wasteful to smoke the whole thing’
nBut Hansoo threw away his regrets.
nSince he could raise all his runes to colorless stage by tomorrow.
nWhich meant this “guy” won’t be needed anymore.
nHansoo loosened up a little and then charged at the 15 people who were staring at him in fear.
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n“…hmm.”
nJimin, who had been standing next to Yerin, gulped her saliva.
nThe thirty over there could go up against a clan if they combined their strength.
nBut they weren’t even opponents for him.
nHe wasn’t even dodging their attacks.
nShe had thought that he was crazy but she knew now.
nThat he had the confidence to ignore all those attacks.
n‘How high are his resistances…’
nShe had learnt of resistances by chance from a skill.
nIt was so hard to raise that the person with the highest resistances only had around 30.
nBut they had realized that it was better to raise perception and agility to dodge than resistances so they gave up raising them.
nSince it wasn’t that the resistances absorbed all the damage if they raised it.
nBut her thoughts changed completely after seeing Hansoo fight.
nThere was no outstanding stat out of strength, stamina, agility or perception.
nBut his defense, ability to control his body and battle perception were at a level of a different dimension.
nA battle tactic that was minimized in order to cut the opponent’s neck in one strike.
nApproach by dodging and charge whilst blocking with the body until they got into range, then kill them in one shot.
nPhysical similarities weren’t important.
nNo, it was the exact opposite.
nIf the 4 great stats, which were strength, stamina, agility and perception, were similar to him then you would the instant you stand in front of him.
n‘What the hell is that ring also. Where the hell did he gain something like that.’
nJimin mumbled as she looked at Hansoo who had beaten down all thirty of them even before he finished the cigarette.
nThere were no deaths.
nBut the ones alive couldn’t even meet their eyes with Hansoo.
nJimin could figure out why that was the case.
n‘They probably felt like their necks had been sent flying’
nThose guys probably felt like their necks had been cut off.
nSince they would’ve felt like that if they were in their position.
n‘Damnit.. That’s just unfair.’
nJimin made a complicated expression.
nIt wasn’t something that could be solved by raising stat, getting better skill, having psychic powers or having better artifacts.
nShe had realized that it would merely be pearls on a pig’s neck if you couldn’t melt them down into your own battle style.
nShe probably wouldn’t be able to display half the battle power of Hansoo even if she had the same amount of stat, skill, psychic powers and weapon.
nAnd Yerin, who had been standing next to her, had the same complicated thoughts.
n‘What exactly is his psychic power? Did he use a skill?’
nShe had thought that other than psychic powers like hers, no one would be able to be her opponent.
nSince the rate at which one person getting strong could not compare with the strength of 50 or 100 people getting strong.
nThis was a huge misconception.
n‘It exists’
nAn existence that could crush a clan in a headfirst clash alone.
nWhilst everybody was looking at Hansoo with complicated expressions, Hansoo shouted around after staring at the half smoked Cloud snack for a while.
n‘I should solve everything before I burn up the Cloud snack’
n“Starting tomorrow the Semi-Basement Union and the Clan Unions will form an alliance then fight and defend on rotations. This is my opinion and is not the answer so if you have any objections, come out now to talk. If it’s reasonable we shall talk it out. Objections?”
nBut of course there wasn’t anybody who could come out.
nOf course they could probably win if all one thousand of them charged at him.
nBut no one had such thoughts.
nBut from the start, the Semi-Basement Union was a group formed by people whose greediness had advanced a bit far.
nThey knew that the people going first would be crushed to bits so who would go first.
nAnd talking things out.
nThe one thing they wanted to suggest was this.
nLet them hunt a few days more below without rotating.
nThe blade will come flying at them instantaneously and they knew from the way he fought that the ones who went first would get crushed.
nAnd the clan unions behind wouldn’t stand still either.
nThey were already on bad terms.
n‘This is indeed much more comfortable’
nIt was faster and more comfortable to crush down thirty of them as an example instead of going against all of them.
nHansoo, who had trampled upon the masses in one shot, turned around towards the Clan Unions as he spoke.
n“Let’s talk for a bit”
n“…hmm?”
nThey were all anxious as they looked at Hansoo.
nHonestly they had a bit of confidence in suppressing the Semi-Basement Union if they went crazy until now.
nSince the people who had been gathered from understanding were like crumbs unlike them who were like a compact mass.
nBut if that guy acted as the centripetal force and ate all of Semi-Basement Union then they could not look down on him.
nNo, his battle force was very burdensome to them from the start.
nHansoo chuckled.
n“Don’t worry. I don’t have any thoughts of becoming a leader”
nHe hadn’t tied them together in order to become a king.
nIt was better to leave things like that to people with appropriate traits.
nThe thing he needed was his own sphere of influence.
n‘First I will put down the basic rules and system’
nIf these guys fall apart then he won’t be able to roam around because he would be defending.
n‘Of course it won’t last long but.’
nHansoo mumbled as he walked towards the Clan Lords.
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n“Hmm…”
nGuktae, who was one of the twelve clan Lords, smiled in contentment as he saw the view in front of him.
n‘That guy called Hansoo. He really did something admirable’
nAll the ruling powers within the castle were divided around the twelve clan Lords.
nHansoo’s words were simple.
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nAnd at those words the others started to hurriedly absorb the remaining Semi-Basement Union’s people.
nIf there was only one clan then they probably wouldn’t have gathered this hard.
nSince they wanted to fill them up with as many elites as possible.
nBut they couldn’t ignore anybody in this place because they were just mediocre roamers.
nThey had to decrease the amount of mediocre roamers and increase the number of their clans people in order to not get pushed back.
nAnd in result the number of people in the clans had multiplied to about 1100.
nEveryone had recruited people under their clan up to their limit.
nSo about 800 people were left.
nAnd these 800 people were also divided fairly into the clans.
nAnd after this, every clan had about 90 clansmen and about 70 normal adventurers.
nA number that the clan could control.
nAnd after they had completed this process, they agreed to continuously defend and hunt in rotations.
nAnd when the runes and the system that everybody had to keep and follow were set up, Hansoo let go of his influence.
nHe was nowhere to be seen during hunts and had participated during defense but he didn’t have any interest in being a leader.
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n‘Well yeah…’
nThe psychic powers they had was the strongest point out of all the charisma, power and decision making abilities.
n‘Though I want to use non-clan membered a bit more…’
nGuktae didn’t like the fact that he had to treat normal adventurers and his own clansmen the same way.
nBut he couldn’t do anything.
nSince they had set up fair distribution with rules clearly and the fact that the Semi-Basement Union had still existed.
n‘Tsk. It would’ve been much better if those 30 had been killed then’
nThey couldn’t treat them recklessly since the 30 who had been beaten down acted as the main leaders and looked over interchanges.
nSince they might move to another clan and the fact that the number 800 was still a very burdensome number.
n‘It somewhat feels like raising a worker’s association’
nWhatever happened there were some leisure now.
nThough it was only a bit.
n‘Hmm… then there’s no reason to send them all to defend’
nThe 1900 gathered here were not grouped stably.
nSince there was always friction between clans to clans and clans to Semi-Basement Union in order to gain a bit more.
n‘I should prepare a little’
nGuktae, who had completed his thoughts, went into action immediatly.
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nYerin spoke with a cold expression.
n“As I saw it the people assigned to defend didn’t do so. Didn’t your clan have responsibility of the Northeastern side? A few undeads had gotten past the other defense lines because you took out of the defenders to hunt”
nGuktae, one of the clan Lords, smiled leisurely as he spoke.
n“Oh come on. Miss Yerin. Listen to me for a bit. There’s quite a lot of leisure lately yeah? Is there a reason for all six clans to defend the walls?”
nSome of the clan Lords nodded at those words.
nYerin grinded her teeth.
n‘lot of leisure my ass’
nThese were people who were secretly pulling out defenders during waves to hunt.
nShe could have ignored them if they defended their spot properly at least.
nSince they tried to defend without casualties with small numbers their lines had been pushed back and because of that there were damages to other clans as well.
nGuktae laughed at Yerin as he spoke again.
n“And look. We have some leisure now but does it make sense that the fairy is leaving us so comfortably like this? The demons are nowhere to be seen yet. We need to prepare for that moment and get stronge…”
n“You are talking about some interesting things. Include me too”
nHansoo smirked as he entered the room of Lords and at that moment the expressions of a few other Lords and Guktae froze.
n‘Well. Two days. It’s lasted a while if it’s this much’
nBut it was better to solve anything before the real start of the battle on the third day when the demons come out.
n‘Kang Hansoo… This bitch. He was nowhere to be seen but why did he have to come now’
nGuktae, who had been looking at Hansoo with a slightly anxious expression, shook his head.
nIt was said that they had to keep the rules no matter what but who could argue him for only this much?
nAnd they had gotten strong in the past few days and their numbers had increased to around 160 from the 50 in the past.
nHe had also hunted but it seemed like his artifacts didn’t have much change and two days of getting stronger won’t change much.
nTheir situations were different from the past.
n‘You raised us up like this. Let’s see what you’ve got to say’
nThere was no reason to back down.
nGuktae calmed down as he started to look at Hansoo with a cold expression
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