173 – A Skeleton Called a Salty Stone
Kung―!
……
Watching the light of madness and excitement in the eyes of the fallen orc disappear, rather, my consciousness slowly returned to its place.
Puha―
Is this how it feels when you enter and exit the deep sea so far that you can’t even see the front?
‘Heo-eok… Heo-eok… This, this… This is what happens…’
With a dagger, in a single blow.
Split the intermediate orc warriors into two halves.
Jumping from the sky, not with high-speed flight, just pure power.
The straightly split section of the fallen orc spreading left and right was so smooth that I wondered if this was what I had done.
Sloppy-
‘Hmm?!’
My gaze fell as I felt the soggy by-products on my legs, and then my head turned forward again.
‘Are you over sixty or seventy?’
Countless orcs that surrounded me were lying on the floor with their tongues out, all of them breathless.
‘I’m sure I didn’t do all of this… Goddamn, there’s a gap in my memory…’
The sound of screaming and clashing weapons can be heard from everywhere.
A life-and-death battle was still taking place nearby. But I couldn’t help but stare blankly at the cut cross section of the orc whose blood had just begun to spurt.
Vibration spread as if a motor was attached to the body, and the whole body, starting from the top of the head, gave goosebumps.
Although it is not clearly pictured in my head, the hand holding the sword remembered what I had done, and as it conveyed those cool and sharp sensations, I gradually began to feel it.
It feels like I’ve reached the level I desperately wanted, but that was enough to cheer me up.
A thrill that seemed to last forever penetrated my bones, and a message popped up that I hadn’t thought of in a very long time.
– The level of the attribute [Penetration] Has risen!
– The level of the attribute [Penetration] Has risen!
Penetration Lv.5
– Your swing gains 5% (+2%) Penetration.
‘Wow… Penetration is level 5…’
It was strange that the level of penetration suddenly went up two stages at once, but it was still a question.
How did he cut that shabby orc in half with a dagger less than 20 cm long? Is this the power of penetrating characteristics?
I wonder if there is something other than a power that simply ignores defense…
‘Hmm?’
I inadvertently looked at the dagger, but something at the tip of the blade was quickly disappearing.
‘Suck!’
Even if I tried to manifest that energy again, the mysterious power that disappeared did not reappear.
‘……’
I couldn’t say anything or do anything.
I just wanted to somehow hold on to the senses that had just passed me by.
‘I think I know a little bit…’
That’s enough for now. It’s unfortunate, but I had to be satisfied.
I heard that among the hunters, there are those who miss the enlightenment that came and end their lives in agony for the rest of their lives.
I wondered if something like that would make it that far, but if I had let go of my present senses, I would have hit the ground and lived my whole life regretting it.
The clock started to return to normal quickly.
The white space disappeared as if it had never happened, and all that was left was the fishy smell of orcs’ blood, hunters staggering to the point that they couldn’t control themselves properly while taking their loot, and flocks of unknown birds flocking to take the dead meat.
– ······!
When I turned my sight around, I felt like I heard someone calling me.
Yes. I was standing in the middle of a battlefield, and what I had to do was clear. It was not yet time to stop.
– Kill 10,000 enemies with daggers while stealthed. (379/10,000)
‘When did you get up like this?’
There were only about 150 remaining enemies that came within the wavelength. It was also clustered more than a hundred meters away from where I was.
I want to fall into that sense once more. When I thought so and tried to fly to the place where they are.
“Sunwolah! Here, here.”
All the party members, including Yeon-hee, were staring at me from a distance away from me.
Actually, I didn’t know. But I wanted to run back to the battlefield pretending not to know. However, seeing the look on their faces at me, I decided that I shouldn’t go.
…..
A subtly different atmosphere from usual.
There was no way to know why they were like that.
“It’s okay. Our side is almost all sorted out.”
Yeon-hee gestures to me as if she’s okay. What’s okay? I still have a lot left.
“Because the summoned beasts acted as a wall… All, other people wouldn’t have seen it. Even if you didn’t do that… You wouldn’t have known that you were fighting stealth.”
‘Something you might not have seen…’
After tilting my head for a moment, I finally understood the meaning.
‘Ah, the way I fight? That’s right… I did kill a lot. In that short time, only with a sword…’
A memory came to my mind. Obviously, the stealth was turned off and on frequently to confuse the enemy.
It was different from my intention to openly expose the wizard concept.
Of course, depending on the viewer, it must have been crude swordsmanship and trickery, but I don’t know.
It might have been a sight that made you think it was a threat to someone.
So, it was clear that Yeon-hee covered my battle scene with her summons as an unexpected base.
‘You immersed yourself too much…’
Arin, whose bunny ears are much stiffer than usual, cleared his throat and called out to me, who was still standing in a daze.
“Hmmm- He’s pretty good. But Il-Wol is weird… The one movement that cuts down vertically is neat… It’s unusual. It’s hard to see him using such a big action in a dungeon… Ha , But! It’s still a long way off! Cutting simply shouldn’t degenerate into ignorant cutting with force. Okay?”
“Just… Hard.”
“And what about the middle part? A swordsman headbutt! It’s good to use those thorns on the body. That’s a bit… Anyway, shouldn’t a swordsman do that…? Mo, I don’t know!!”
Arin shook her head as if she really didn’t understand. Doesn’t she just need to kill Morrow Garden? It could be a swordsman’s unique tenacity to subdue his opponent only with his sword.
“Ahem…”
Her face was the same as her teacher who scolded her not to be arrogant and to be more diligent.
I know how to imitate a master, but…
The rabbit beastman who comes up to me and pats me with his fist and shows a smile is cute even on the battlefield. I want to touch that ear sometime. It’s going to be incredibly loud
I still felt like my mind was floating about 50cm in the air, but I didn’t miss Yeonhee’s muttering.
“Sunwolah…”
“Just right?”
“You can’t go too far alone…”
“???”
“You have to give me enough room for me to follow…”
“……”
It was only after hearing Yeonhee’s voice that had calmed down a little that she realized the sense of incongruity she felt with the party members.
They witnessed the moment I came close to enlightenment, and the emotions they felt at that time must have been as mixed as joy.
It was an unusual moment even for oneself to feel. You may have noticed that in the eyes of others, it is not the usual discovery that comes from exploring.
If I were a human, I would have reacted to them somehow, but I don’t know how to congratulate myself in the strange position of being a human-like monster.
The fortunate thing is that everyone, including Yeonhee, is full of talent. So you must be thinking you can somehow catch up.
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Looking back on my past life memories, I couldn’t do that.
There were times when I hid envy and jealousy deep in my heart so deep that even I couldn’t recognize it, and there were times when I comforted myself by saying that it was okay because there was another possibility called a sense.
As time went on, it was comforting that I tried to overcome my ugly side.
‘The things I did back then weren’t in vain.’
When you are capturing a strange sense of achievement.
Kwa Kwa Kwa Kwam!!
At the place where the orcs were gathered, something like a huge rock burst out, presenting us with a choice.
“The other side is still in full swing. Shall we go to support?”
“Let’s go slowly while recovering magic. Now that Ilwol has a buff, I think I’ll be able to run in a little while.”
“Hee hee… You want to go again? I’m getting bitten.”
Poof-
I threw a brown bottle of Irmana’s lake water at them one by one. It’s something I made in advance in the morning.
“Huh? What does it mean to give this now? Drink this and go fight right away? Are you even trying to pretend to be a supervisor who makes us do things…!”
“Clack!”
“Whoops… Ilwol won’t act too hard.”
“Huh… There’s nothing I dare say that I can’t say to my master!”
Arin, who was pretending to be solemn, drank water and produced an empty bottle, and others joined in.
“Kyaha! This tastes better than most drinks! Give me more!”
“Give me more!”
“Crack!”
“No, just give me another bottle! Doesn’t that keep coming out of that kettle anyway?”
Nod-
“Wow, so!”
‘No. Keep leaning on something like this. There is no such thing as an item and you have to fight and your skills will grow faster.’
I firmly shook my head and pointed to the location of the last remnants of orcs.
“sh*t… Janwol. Mosquito. Salty. Scrooge.”
“Because he cares so much, he’s bald!”
‘What, what! How rich I was! A bald attack on a skeleton…!’
“Oh… That’s a bit harsh…”
“Then, Ms. Yeon-hee, please take it. That water. I think it would be comfortable to have three bottles at a time-“
“Ah… Not me…”
Yeon-hee was walking slowly with her arms held by Joo-a and A-rin.
Joo-ah saw through Helen that Yeon-hee was weak against such smirk-type attacks, so now she is starting to use them.
“Yeah… I’ll tell you…! Please let it go. We have to fight…”
“Hee hee – did you promise?”
“Thank you! So, shall we go for a run?”
The things I wanted… Taking Yeon-hee as a hostage. I can’t help but give it to Yeonhee when she asks for it.
We slowly ran towards our goal. A lot of monsters flocked to the area we were in because of ‘Cracked’ and ‘Spotted’, and Arin and I performed more than expected and were already in the finishing stage.
The summoned beasts diligently packed the loot, and Ham Eun-young’s singing voice on Lizard 4’s shoulder made even the hunters who were sitting nearby wake up.
Hundreds of orc corpses lined up and down the hillside.
Those, too, were collected by the summoned beasts.
‘Hey… How many bombs are there?’
It wasn’t normal for her to drool while looking at the monster’s corpse, but to me, they all looked like lifelines that would protect Yeonhee and me.
After putting all the corpses in the inventory, we started to speed up and arrived at a point where well over a hundred orcs were sitting in the highest area of the hill.
By the highest area, I was referring to the starting point with the old fort that was broken down and left empty in places.
Originally, the height would have easily exceeded 10 meters, but the destroyed wall seemed to be less than 7 meters tall.
As I roughly grasped the situation, I saw a guy standing on top of a pile of fallen stones and fighting the hunters.
‘That bastard. That’s him.’
It was the child who threw the ax while I was distracted for a moment. An Orc warrior with skills somewhere between intermediate and advanced.
It’s only natural that the strongest survives to the end.
– Purruk… Whoop… Whoop…
Seeing that he was drooling bloody saliva, he was also in a state of exhaustion. When we joined, the tide turned sharply, and he wouldn’t be unaware of that either.