The most difficult thing when dealing with the undead was that it could not be stopped unless the part was completely destroyed or if it was not destroyed at all.
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Of course, there are also those who feel pain because there are various types of undead.
Such was the case with the Flesh Golem that I had faced in Isabelle Gaudi’s dungeon in the past.
But the two of us who are now running towards me were never of that kind.
In other words, it means that he never hesitates even if he gets hurt, and that there is no point in attacking vital points.
It was the only way to shatter it purely and literally.
“ね… !”
And although I am ashamed to say it with my own mouth, it seems that me and Hyunwoo Choi were special to Han Sooyoung.
Me and Hyunwoo Choi.
As she sent them out first, she should have expected the fact that there would be a separate process for them.
And above all, it should have been expected that she must have taken some action when she saw that the branches of the World Tree had had a valid impact.
Wow!
The dagger of the Yado slashed the neck with precision, but a sound as if it had been struck by an iron plate resounded.
The other me, who had no expression on his face, immediately swung his fist towards me.
He raised his arm to block it, but felt the pain as if it were crushing a bone, and immediately flew back.
“What is so hard… Ouch!”
It was aimed straight at the neck and managed to block the attack that flew in.
Choi Hyun-woo, wielding the back of his sword, looks at me with his inorganic eyes like glass beads.
Then he immediately grabbed the sword and swung it straight toward his left leg.
It was blocked by pulling out Henir’s shadow.
A cold sweat was running down my cheeks at the thought that my limbs might be cut off at the moment.
“… … .”
Future Han Soo-young was just watching me fight from afar.
If she had helped, I would have been suppressed in an instant, so this was honestly fortunate.
Let’s widen the distance.
First of all, it was necessary to buy time to recover mana while consuming the power over there.
As I started backing away, another me who had been following me abruptly stopped moving.
For a moment, Han Soo-young came to mind and looked at both sides in a hurry, but there was nothing wrong.
Then what is it?
I was thinking like that.
“… … .”
Choi Hyun-woo was taking a stance to swing his sword as if he had become a hitter with his blade lying flat.
And when the other one supported my body on the blade as if performing a stunt, I swung it with all my might.
It flies in this direction like a cannonball.
Before he could react in surprise, he passed by and swung his dagger.
In a rush, he crossed two daggers to block it, but there was the sound of something shattering and the pain felt like a broken wrist.
“Cuckoo!”
Missing Yado’s dagger, which was smashed and had only the handle left, he curled up backwards as it was.
There was one gun left, but the fact that he had already lost one of his main weapons was also great, and more importantly, the fact that his posture had collapsed was fatal.
The guy immediately aimed at my shoulder and fired a dagger.
If Henir’s shadow had not struck him along the way, his right arm would have been really severed.
“ね… !”
Just as I was rolling out of my body, a dagger flew at me with a fierce force.
The shadow of Henir, who had just woken up and turned into a clone, couldn’t get rid of it, and the branch of the World Tree had no energy to spare because it was gathering magical power.
He clenched his teeth in the pain to come, but the pain he was prepared for did not come.
“Khhh, huh… !”
It was Han Soo-young.
She, who had been quietly recovering from afar, was reaching out towards her.
Since her specialty was space-type magic, I could tell that she protected me by some means.
My teeth clenched at the thought of having her overworked again.
“… … !”
Henir’s shadow rose by his own will.
The shadow of an extrovert, just like me, dyed black, swelled up menacingly and let out a silent scream.
Immediately, he ran towards another me.
And I had to deal with Choi Hyun-woo, who approached me right away.
In a rush, he had even pulled out Nidhogg’s fangs that he had hidden inside his body.
However, things turned out quite differently than expected.
He must have been like that before.
It’s good to compete a lot with people other than yourself, and if you keep competing with yourself, you’ll get used to it.
It was definitely what he said.
In terms of his physical abilities, he did not feel pushed at all, even when he was confronted head-on with him, who was at the top of the worldview.
Rather, I felt a sense of freedom.
Even Choi Hyun-woo from another world, who had already died and became an undead, was still Choi Hyun-woo.
His swordsmanship, attack patterns, habits, trajectories.
I knew everything without realizing it, and my body was reacting first.
I did not rush, calmly, continued my attack towards only one place.
He didn’t take any major injuries, but the marks continued to overlap due to my skill, the mark of hunting.
And when I superimposed the markers in one place nearly ten times, I burst the markers at once.
Eventually, Choi Hyun-woo’s shoulder part was smashed, revealing the inside like a sponge.
now.
I immediately planted the seeds of the world tree in him and generously infuse the mana accumulated over the years.
Even a huge rock will eventually crack and break due to the plants rooted inside it.
I don’t know if it could be a similar case, but at least the results were similar.
In an instant, Choi Hyeon-woo’s body was destroyed, and branches of the world tree pierced through his body.
This wasn’t all I was aiming for.
If I could express the ability of the branches of the World Tree that took root in my body in one word, it could be called absorption.
And the branch of the world tree that took root in Choi Hyun-woo’s body was no exception.
It immediately devoured all the mana that was in the guy’s body, and immediately cut off the connection with Han Soo-young, and it remained in a stiff, stiff posture.
It was so terrifying, I looked away and muttered.
“For once.”
I immediately ran to support Henir’s shadow.
Henir’s Shadow has the same physical abilities as mine, but it has a characteristic that halves physical attacks and has a stronger body than any other armor.
To put it simply, it was said that he was stronger than me in terms of simple hand-to-hand combat.
And even though my undead were different in detail, there was no difference between me and me.
As soon as I joined him, like Choi Hyun-woo, a branch of the World Tree took root in his body and stopped moving.
“Huh… . Huh… .”
After a series of fierce battles and squeezing out mana, it feels as if the inside of my body is screaming.
Barely enduring the pain as if my internal organs were torn apart, I just looked at Han Soo-young.
She still showed no action.
“Did you even give up?”
“No way.”
I asked in anticipation, but she shook her head slightly.
“An uninvited guest appeared and was blocking it.”
and.
“… I was able to find a face I missed along the way, so I was just immersed in the sentiment.”
At her words, I could tell that Choi Hyun-woo had arrived.
However, Han Soo-young was looking at me as if it was a good thing.
“It’s strong. It’s a little hard to say, but Jihyuk in my world was only like you when he was about to die.”
“… It’s kind of embarrassing for you to say that.”
“But I’m serious.”
She said so and shook her head slightly.
“But it’s still not enough. Yes, it is only comparable to an active-duty hero.”
“… … .”
she whispered quietly.
“My intention to stop you hasn’t changed yet.”
“How are you going to stop me?”
Having confirmed that the roots of the World Tree have taken root thinly and widely around us, I answered that way.
Necromancers are called one-man corps, and they are extremely specialized in attrition and long-term warfare, but the combat power of the main body is lowered that much.
When all the undead she actually dealt with became incapacitated, her power had been reduced by nearly half.
“Did you raise the Undead you had gathered to block the other side? And since I’ve already taken control of the land around here, I won’t be able to generate magical powers to raise corpses.”
“… … .”
“Of course, if you want, you can immediately summon the undead. But before that, Nana Henir’s shadow will reach you first. … Necromancers have particularly low combat abilities, so if you stick to them, they won’t be able to subdue you.”
When she spoke with such pretentiousness, she made an expression that seemed to somehow miss her.
“You’re right.”
“then… .”
“But Jihyuk, there are a few things you overlooked.”
Han Soo-young said so and gestured slowly.
But nothing happened.
It was time to think so.
Henir’s shadow was crushed in an instant without even resisting.
* * *
“Be arrogant as a microscopic thing.”
There’s no reason why I can’t reach out to someone like you who isn’t Jihyuk.
Han Soo-young muttered quietly.
It was only then that Yoo Ji-hyuk realized that the shadow clone had been reverse summoned with a bizarre sound one beat later.
“… what.”
Yoo Ji-hyuk looked at Henir’s shadow seeping under his feet as if it was ridiculous.
Henir’s shadow that has been reverse summoned cannot be used for a while.
However, it was the first time he had seen him being reverse-summoned in this way, so he seemed even more shocked by the fact.
Han Soo-young, who saw that, immediately thought that he had been too harsh.
But she soon made up her mind and muttered blankly, as if she was talking about something unrelated to her.
“I’m not bragging, but nobody in my world could beat me.”
“… … .”
Yoo Ji-hyuk stood still and began to listen to her story.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t move clumsily since he had just seen it like that.
“… It was the only individual body that became the highest-ranked wanted, and only the city that was destroyed by me surpassed the triple-digit number. The country has also been overthrown several times. The association collapsed, and the villains couldn’t keep their heads up. monster? They also killed themselves by throwing themselves into the sea and cliffs to avoid me.”
“… … .”
“This is the first fact that Jihyuk overlooked. It’s true that Necromancers have weak combat abilities, but that doesn’t apply to me.”
And as she beckoned, the ground carefully dug up, revealing the hidden branches of the World Tree.
She looked at it with a dissatisfied gaze, but covered it with soil again.
“Jihyuk already knew that you were using this kind of method. Mana was slowly restored, but I could also see the flow and reverberation of mana in my eyes.”
I got goosebumps at her words.
Although Yoo Ji-hyuk didn’t know much about magic and mana, he knew at least about the world tree.
The magic of the World Tree was the magic of nature itself.
Therefore, it can never be detected without some means.
And that was true even for most of the Seven Devils.
She was saying that she had accomplished something that even the Seven Evils couldn’t.
“… Knowing that, I let it go. Because I didn’t want Jihyuk to see you suffer more than necessary. And above all else, the fact that I, as a wizard, are trying to compete with the control and control of my magical powers is just too absurd.”
Even as she said that, she smiled as if she missed her.
“You don’t know, but once upon a time… .”
Han Soo-young, who had said that, immediately shut her mouth.
She had once faced Yoo Ji-hyeok during a match at the academy in the past, and was fooled by the same bluffing she had just done before and lost out of the blue.
I don’t know how many minutes I cried at that time.
Han Soo-young, who was about to talk about it without me knowing, suddenly.
Yoo Ji-hyuk, who is living and breathing right in front of his eyes, and Yoo Ji-hyeok, who shares the memories with him, were able to notice the natural and cruel fact that he was a different person.
It was so sad that I couldn’t stand it.
Secretly, the two of us drank beer at the academy.
Unexpectedly, he realized that he was weak to alcohol and was ashamed of the fact that he had given an injection.
It was revealed that Yoo Ji-hyeok used all of the dumpsters.
The one who told me that he was not of this world and that he had to return someday.
What I confessed while hugging him, saying it didn’t matter.
After Nam Hyeon-hwa died, he hugged and comforted himself, who was in despair.
I cried and cried that the world had gone away in his arms.
He struggled to mediate between Choi Hyun-woo and he fought so hard that he never had to fight again.
We went to the valley to catch fish, and the spicy soup he made was so delicious that Hyeonu Choi and I were surprised.
Lying with him, looking for the constellations in the night sky.
I went to the zoo with him and got hit by a shower.
In a karaoke room to escape the rain, he laughed out loud at the fact that he had a great tone.
After going to the jjimjilbang, both of them fell asleep and couldn’t return in time.
When he was in class, he secretly gave himself snacks in his hand.
Holding hands with him, walking with him, under the same sky, dreaming of a future like that.
The food he likes, the music he likes, the clothes he likes, the smell he likes.
His smell, his scent, his sound.
memories with him.
Now she was the only one who remembered everything.
It was so sad that I couldn’t stand it.
The tears that I thought were already dry begin to fill up again.
“ah… .”
When he finally realizes what happiness is, he sees the bodies of him and Choi Hyun-woo, who are cold.
The one book she saw in her eyes as she was cleaning up after losing her family and lover in a single moment.
Who can blame her for opening a forbidden book with the secret recipe for reviving the dead?
Han Soo-young smiled and closed her eyes.
Wiping the tears running down her cheeks, she said quietly.
“… Sorry, sorry.”
She muttered quietly as she uttered words she did not know she was apologizing to.
And she thought again.
I thought I had to stop it somehow.
It is enough for me to go through such a thing, and I will never see Yoo Ji-hyuk and Choi Hyun-woo die like that again.
She thought so.
“Finally, the third.”
she muttered quietly.
And the space around her began to vibrate.
“The fact that I forgot that my specialty is space series.”
When she finished speaking, new undead appeared one after another.
And Yoo Ji-hyuk’s face, who realized that they were all familiar faces, gradually became colored with contemplation.
Laura Hartmann, who was called a paladin and fought a dragon alone for the sake of her comrades.
Evangeline Lohengrin, called the Great Witch, is the youngest member of the hierarchy.
Joo-hyuk Ahn, the owner of the Green Hub and saved the city alone.
Reiko Fujiwara is said to be the landowner of Japan.
Li Wuwei, the hero of salvation and the incarnation of the female dragon.
Last but not least, Lee Myung-jun, who was the envy of all heroes, led the hammer.
They were the guild masters of the six guilds and members of the ten rivers.
Yoo Ji-hyeok held the dagger quietly, thinking that only Han Soo-young and the others should be spared.