131 – Slave Bread (1)
Inside the underground arena.
I opened my eyes wide.
It was a really huge battlefield.
I was busy looking at everything with my head straight. This place, surrounded by pure white linoleum, seemed larger than Jihyeon’s sparring arena. It was the size of a playground. The height is also considerable. How many stories high is this?
‘I knew there was an underground arena, but I never thought it would be this big. How much did it cost to build it?’
I was able to realize the wealth of Heuksanhoe again.
Some people dismissed it as a mere thug organization, but Heuksanhoe was one of the largest corporations in Korea in name and reality.
The monumental tower that Kang Cheol-hwan has built so far is beyond my imagination.
“It’s a sparring ground that my dad made a long time ago for use. It’s designed to withstand significant levels of force. Probably the best in the country.”
If Kang Chul-hwan used it himself, doubting the durability of the arena would be a waste of time.
The fact that it was underground was a bit unnerving, but I thought that it would be possible to withstand quite spectacular attacks in a large arena.
“But I am not at the level where I can handle all my strength.”
Hwaryeon Kang immediately added the sajok.
“Then don’t worry. There will never be a case where I do my best. I don’t want to ruin the arena for nothing. Also, you don’t want the arena to collapse and sink into it, don’t you?”
It’s a sparring arena that’s as wide as a playground, isn’t it?
You can generate enough power to sink it?
Ordinary people would have dismissed it as an absurd joke if they had heard it, but I knew the power of Ganghwaryeon, so there was no reason not to believe it.
Hwa-ryeon Kang spoke confidently with her own mouth, so I really felt like I could touch her with my skin.
“Okay then… ….”
Ganghwa-ryun glanced behind her.
I met eyes with Isol who was standing there.
Lee Sol looked at Ganghwa-ryun with her eyes wide open. Ganghwa-ryun licked her lips at her Isol without hesitation.
“…… Sister watch over me.”
“Me?”
“Yes. Because of the aftermath of the fight, other people can come. If kids like Kang Yoo-jung come, never let them in.”
Lee Sol, who had been silently listening to Ganghwaryeon’s words, put on a slightly regretful expression. Pursing her lips, she grumbled like a playful child at the zoo.
“I want to watch them fight.”
It was quite disappointing.
From Lee Sol’s point of view, the fight between Ganghwaryun and I seemed quite interesting. What was it Fighting is always fun. If I was in Lee Sol’s position, she might have had a pretty exciting look in her eyes.
“I’ll ask you, sister.”
“Ehh. Okay. Anyway, if the president comes, I can’t stop him? Understand?”
“Don’t worry. The reason I asked her sister to look out was just in case.”
Kang Hwa-ryeon made a cynical expression and made a pick and laughed.
“It will be over soon before anyone else notices.”
It will end soon, la.
She seems rather confident.
But she didn’t sound arrogant because Ganghwa-ryun spoke.
If a person the size of Kang Hwa-ryun made such a declaration, it would be confidence, not conceit. In the first place, if you think about Ganghwaryun’s skills, a few seconds are enough to defeat a guy like me. What a few seconds It can be sent to the nether road in one shot.
‘Are you too provocative? It’s kind of funny to think like this now.’
Provocation was indispensable.
But as the time to fight slowly approached, the anxiety was unavoidable. It was after the damn alcohol had almost evaporated. It was fortunate that he woke up from alcohol before the fight, but he did not have the confidence to fight Ganghwaryun with his sober mind.
‘Whoa. This is true I hope things turn out the way I thought.’
Some people say, ‘Everyone has a plausible plan. Didn’t you say ‘until you get hit by one’?
What if things don’t go according to my plan?
‘Ah, I’m a bit nervous.’
I deliberately continued to provoke Ganghwaryun.
It was necessary to stimulate Ganghwa-ryun with a confident face from beginning to end.
First of all, if Ganghwa-ryun is a human with thoughts, he’ll think, ‘Is there really any way for this bastard? It might make you think, ‘I have to be a little careful.
Also, showing weakness to Ganghwa-ryun was a really stupid move.
I had to look at Ganghwaryun confidently all the time and then crush it as if it were stronger.
…… Only then will I be able to control Ganghwaryun with my thoughts.
‘Of course, it may not be as easy as I thought. Oh really. I don’t know.’
Hwaryeon Kang is in a very excited state.
If you think about it in terms of your usual Ganghwa training, it certainly won’t end in one shot.
As much as she has provoked me so far, it is obvious that she will also provoke me. She’s probably going to play with it to some extent.
But I won’t be careless.
Ganghwa-ryun is not clumsy enough to lose her careless like an idiot.
It’s not like Kang Hwaryeon fought for a day or two. You must be well aware that her carelessness is her greatest enemy.
‘She’ll play with me, but she’ll slowly put pressure on me if I’m not vigilant.’
Based on the information I found so far, I was able to roughly predict how Ganghwa-ryun would behave.
‘Ganghwa-ryun must be wary of me to some extent. She’s just thinking that she’s not alone. In fact, she had once incapacitated Ganghwa-ryun in the past. So let’s try it. Anyway, the f*ck can’t be canceled now.’
Crazy…… I don’t think there will be another crazy thing like this, but I made up my mind anyway.
‘What’s the point of an S-ranked person? He is also human after all. You only need to create one chance. Let’s break it once.’
“Whoa.”
“Hey. Are you ready?”
“Yes.”
“Okay. Then what, that’s it jump in anytime The seon-gong will yield.”
Ganghwa-ryun gnawed at her candy from a short distance away from her, with her left hand in her pocket. The image of Ganghwa-ryun leisurely eating her candy came into my eyes. It was Ganghwa-ryun’s own provocation. What. Does she want to repay her for provoking her so far? It’s very relaxing.
“What are you doing? Do you want to come in?”
“… ….”
He is looking at me quite easily, but I could tell that he was also a little nervous when I guessed from his wary eyes.
That laid-back and unassuming attitude was just a performance to discourage me.
I exhaled slowly and stretched out her right hand toward the strengthening lotus.
Ganghwa-ryun narrowed her eyes, saying, “Huh?” But after a while, Ganghwa-ryun frowned slightly and bit her candy roughly.
“What is it? Is it telekinesis?”
Yes, telekinesis.
Because the ability to handle it the best is telekinesis.
I used all my strength to gather my psychokinesis and restrain Ganghwa-ryun’s body as much as I could. An unknown, intangible force strangled Ganghwa-ryun. Had she been a normal person, she would have immediately gushed reconciliation blood from her chunk of meat.
It was my maximum power of telekinesis.
Thanks to several months of practice, it didn’t take long to pour out the maximum output. Thanks to that, I was able to press Ganghwaryun so quickly.
However, Ganghwa-ryun continued to chew on her candy with her calm and weak expression.
She didn’t care about the restraints of telekinesis.
“Hmm.”
Ganghwa-ryun got lucky as if appreciating it.
“Nothing special. Are you going to see me?”
It’s really relaxing.
He is even calm.
It’s not a pretentious thing, it’s really overflowing with composure.
f*ck.
It really doesn’t work.
Is that really a person?
With this level of power, even high-level monsters can be crushed.
Even though the output was higher than when the eight monsters were subdued, it did not work against Ganghwaryun.
It had the power to crush even steel, but it couldn’t do any damage to Ganghwaryeon.
Considering her ability to strengthen her body, she may have taken it for granted, but she couldn’t hide her astonishment when she saw it with her own two eyes.
Ganghwa-ryun laughed and grabbed the pillar part of her lollipop and pulled it out, then flicked it with one hand.
“Hey. Do it right I am not kidding.”
“… ….”
Do you really think you’re watching your liver?
Ganghwa-ryun maintained her relaxed appearance, but on the other hand, she did not let go of her tension and watched me at a distance.
I also shrugged her shoulders with a relaxed expression like Ganghwa-ryun.
‘I can’t be vigilant because I don’t know my strength. Especially since she had been provoking that she could win all the time. OK, so how about this one?’
I reached out with her right hand and made full use of her telekinesis power to keep pressing the reinforcer, while using her left hand to start using the freezing ability.
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Cold air flowed from her left hand, forming a small frost. Whoa. I blew on it and cold steam came out.
“Is it the freezing ability this time?”
Ganghwa-ryun reacted with a slight surprise. I swung my left hand roughly as if scraping her floor with all my might, and poured out her freezing ability that she had accumulated so far towards her Ganghwa-ryun.
Then the floor began to freeze, and things like pillars of blue ice began to rise like friendly bamboo shoots.
Dozens of sharp and pointed pillars of ice rushed towards Ganghwa-ryun, and Ganghwa-ryun looked at them slowly and bit her candy.
Kwa, kwa, kwa kwa!
Innumerable pillars of ice rose from the floor of the arena with a roar.
It soared high, almost reaching the ceiling of the arena.
It was a freezing attack at my maximum power.
He even praised Seoyoon for being amazing.
He explained that with this level of ability, it would be quite useful in real life. Of course, compared to Seoyoon’s freezing ability, it was new blood, but I was still quite satisfied.
It was clear that he could kill most monsters in one shot.
It was truly an overwhelming spectacle.
But…….
“At that level… ….”
It was only for a moment.
A moment enough for a crab to blink.
At that moment, Ganghwa-ryun nodded her head alone, as if he had grasped her ice pillar, and then moved her right hand to take the so-called ‘dark night’ posture.
‘What is it? Just a night?’
I wondered what it was doing, but Kang Gang-ryeon looked serious.
With her thumb firmly anchored to her middle finger, Ganghwa-ryun aimed her fingers at the chunks of ice pillars that came crashing into her.
Oh no way?
“I wonder if this amount of power will do.”
With those words.
“Ah. In times like these, you should say something like this.”
Hwaryeon Kang smiled.
“Smash.”
She jokingly babbles absurd lines and slams into the ice pillar.
“…… !”
Then kwaaagh!
The sound of thunder that shook my ears filled the arena.
In addition, wind pressure reminiscent of a storm raged, not only obstructing the path of the ice pillars, but also breaking several ice pillars into a mess.
Of course, she couldn’t break all the dozens of ice pillars, but most of them cracked and thumped to the ground! I collapsed, and the wind pressure emitted by Kanghwaryeon attacked me as if that wasn’t enough.
“Ugh?!”
I was unable to overcome the overwhelming wind pressure and backed off a few meters.
A few ice pillars could not maintain their original shape and were shattered like glass and scattered in all directions by the wind.
Beyond the twinkling pieces of ice, Ganghwa-ryun kicks and laughs with a mischievous expression.
“How is it?”
As if mocking me, after taking the same stance she just did, she blows a ‘hoo~’ like her gunslinger.
“Do you feel better now?”
I know even if you don’t say that.
What is the gap between me and Ganghwaryun?
I’ve sparred with Jihyeon, Seoyoon, and Yerin several times, but it doesn’t make sense to not know the gap between S rank players.
But I only did it once.
I once defeated Jihyun.
Of course, I didn’t knock it down by sparring.
It was at the time that I touched Jihyun’s body to absorb her power.
I thought it would be okay, so I used my absorption ability as strongly as possible, but contrary to my expectations, it took away all of Jihyun’s physical strength beyond absorbing all of her power.
At that time, Jihyun was completely incapacitated.
In other words, if you can only make contact, you can defeat even S-ranked people. If only we could make contact, that is.
‘It’s a headache.’
However, contacting them is not an easy task.
Because if you have the level of Kanghwaryeon, you can evade my attack at a speed so fast that I can’t keep up with you.
Hwa-ryun Gang was very wary of direct physical contact with me.
It was because I had a memory of completely subduing him through physical contact with Ganghwa-ryun in the past.
Though they were saying things like saying that words don’t work anymore, that it’s useless, etc., I was able to notice the alertness and anxiety that lay dormant behind them.
If it’s not an attack that can be counteracted with certainty, such as the telekinesis ability and the freezing ability, it probably won’t hit even one.
Also, even if he was deliberately beaten by Ganghwa-ryeon and made physical contact, it was obvious that he would already be incapacitated the moment he was hit in the first place.
You just saw it.
I blocked my full-powered freezing ability with just one night.
f*ck. What kind of bastard is that? The moment you get hit with something like that, your whole body will explode.
No, the same applies to defending.
It is certain that the body parts of the guards will be ripped off.
‘If I’m prepared to get hit, I might be able to make physical contact somehow, but I’ll be on the verge of death with just one hit.
If Ganghwa-ryun attacks me with the thought of killing me, I will not be able to avoid death no matter what I do.
I’m sure they’ll launch a formidable attack, but they’ll harass you without attacking enough to kill you in one hit.
It would have been quite disappointing if it was normal, but it’s rather good now.
The more Ganghwa-ryun drags out time, the more opportunities will arise for me.
“Hey. Why are you so still? Are you scared?”
“No. Just say something.”
I picked and laughed.
“It wasn’t much more than I thought.”
“What the f*ck?”
Ah.
A mistake.
I inadvertently provoked him again.
Of course she intends to continue provoking her.
So wouldn’t it be better to provoke in moderation?