56. Tiamat
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[The skill ‘Javelin’ has been leveled up. Current Level: 2]
Doyoon lowered the system message in front of him.
The team members looked at Doyoon with their mouths open in astonishment. Do-yoon leisurely passed between them, skillfully dismembered the ogre’s corpse, and took out the smashed core.
A blue magic stone the size of a human head with multiple magic circles drawn on its surface. Seeing that, Leona’s eyes lit up.
“core?”
Doyoon nodded. Apparently, he knows a lot about being a Ranger.
“Somehow, I thought he was a monster, so he must have been a Guardian.”
Leona and her teammates looked at Doyoon with strange eyes.
‘monster…?’
who? You who knocked it down in one hit?
“…how did you do it? Did you have any S-rate abilities?”
The S-rate skill also makes no sense, but there was no other way to explain Do-yoon, who had just graduated from cradle, in order to show the destructive power just now.
“…the items sucked.”
Doyoon was so confused.
In fact, this word was absurd. Even if it was Aer, the gale, if someone else had thrown it, the destructive power just now would have been inconceivable.
Most of the items called Shinbyeonggi (God’s Army), the power of which varies greatly depending on the user’s ability.
Doyoon confirmed that Aer, who had been thrown earlier, had been retrieved back to Nebula’s subspace. It was Nebula’s ability to retrieve marked objects at any time.
For Doyoon, who would often use the javelin, it was a really convenient feature.
“Anyway. Rather than that, let’s talk about what to do.”
Leona noticed that Doyoon was turning around. She decided to just keep her mouth shut about it, and nodded.
After some discussion, the team decided to move on. They witnessed a huge variable called the Guardian Ogre, and needed to investigate further.
Of course, the most important thing is life. At the time of the ogre, it was a very unexpected situation, so I didn’t immediately escape when I heard the footsteps, but from now on, I set a guideline to escape immediately even if a slight danger was discovered.
“Me and Sophie are in the front line.”
Do-yoon stood in the front line in place of the retired Leona and the exhausted Chi Woo-min.
Two new recruits in the front row. It was a ridiculous story, but the team members nodded their heads involuntarily. They didn’t already treat Doyoon as a rookie.
Thus, the march with Doyoon as the starting point resumed.
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After a long march, Leona’s team reached their destination.
Originally, this place was overflowing with good energy, and among the places Doyoon knew, it was one of the three best places. but now.
‘…I can’t feel the aura.’
Besides, the steep rocky mountain beyond the clearing in front of me. I could feel the magic in it.
It was where Enoch’s treasury was.
Doyoon inspected the area closely with his senses. He soon noticed another change besides the energy.
“…”
Do-yoon made plans in his mind and neglected the progress of his teammates.
And the moment they reached the middle of the clearing.
Goo Goo Goo…
The ground started to rumble.
“Uh, uh…!”
“Everyone calm down, and prepare to retreat quickly in case of emergency!”
Leona shouted at her teammates.
The moment she was about to lie on the ground to determine the origin, the ground at the edge of the clearing turned over and something suddenly rose out of nowhere.
“Hey, what is this…!”
They were six large golems, each the same size as the ogres from before.
The guys who had been surrounding the clearing from the beginning began to thump toward the party.
“The retreat is blocked! I can’t get out of the clearing!”
“They move slowly. Let’s calm down and start thinking.”
Leona said in a calm voice, and Doyoon added.
“They will be guardians too.”
“I guess so. Why the hell are the Guardians here…”
“I see a cave in the mountain right in front of me. run over there They won’t be able to come in because of their size.”
Leona thought for a moment. If he did, he would be stuck in a cave, but right now there was no way. I had no choice but to wait for rescue after contacting the guild inside.
The party ran in the direction Doyoon pointed and entered the cave.
That’s how I got out of the golem’s encirclement, and I was relaxing.
“uh…?”
Leona and her teammates felt their eyesight spin.
“This, this… wasn’t in the journal…”
Muttering something, Leona collapsed on the floor along with her teammates.
Do-yoon staggered into the cave, clutching his throbbing head.
‘…It’s disgustingly powerful.’
It was a very high-level mental sleep magic trap that took down the team members.
The cave Doyun entered was a cave with a door to the safe hidden inside.
Thanks to this trap, which works organically with memory erasure and various magic intertwined, even the investigation team of the alliance couldn’t find the peculiarity of the cave.
It has been very difficult to identify or respond to these traps on a human level.
And this was not what Enoch had installed.
‘Did an uninvited guest go?’
Apparently, the vault was breached or occupied.
However, even the opponent who could use such high-level magic and the highest level of guardian would not have expected Enoch Rouge Volnik’s out-of-standard mental strength to penetrate magic.
‘No, that’s not all.’
Doyoon felt it. Most of the effects of magic directed at you are being offset.
This was the same phenomenon that prevented the curse during the finance minister and the imp war.
‘Still, this much…’
Doyoon raised the evaluation of the other person to the fullest in his head.
I don’t know the details because he’s not familiar with magic, but it was a level of mental magic that I’ve never experienced before.
‘no way…?’
And as clues were given little by little, the speculation about the identity of the other person was being concreted.
In the first place, with an opponent of this level, it would be right to retreat. At the level of Doyoon now, he is an existence that cannot be defeated even if he wakes up from death.
However, Doyoon did not stop walking. If his guess is correct now, there will be no danger to Doyoon.
After Doyun manipulated the middle engine device to enter the hidden passage, he walked for a long time to reach the entrance to the vault.
‘Barrier.’
The safe was perfectly protected by a very strong barrier. Again, it wasn’t Enoch’s installation.
Doyoon drew his sword.
‘Hyeonsword (顯劍).’
The pure mana of the Divine Beast permeates the sword of Jupiter that embraces the sky. The sword resonated and amplified Doyoon’s mana.
It wasn’t the general sword energy that took on the form of flame, but the spirit energy itself that existed in the form of light. It was Doyoon’s will to slash the existence in front of his eyes.
The sword skill expressed through the sword is an extension of the phenomenon of ‘cutting’. And this does not just mean a simple radius and strengthening of cutting force.
The cutting of the sword goes further and extends to the concept.
‘Cut’ is through the expansion of the phenomenon, to cut the being that cannot be cut with the original sword. That was the true power of the Hyeonsword.
Doyoon raised the brilliantly shining sword above his head.
And the moment I strained my body to cut the barrier in front of my eyes.
Goo goo goo…
‘…yes?’
The vault door opened.
‘…’
The barrier was also opened. It was as if the existence inside the vault was welcoming Do-yoon, asking him to come in.
Do-yoon, who stood and thought for a while, immediately withdrew his sword and moved on.
Rouge Volnik’s warehouse, where various rare elixirs from all continents should have been stored.
However, there, other beings other than elixirs suddenly took their place.
[Welcome.]
A bigamy voice rang in Doyoon’s head.
A huge, magnificent body that fills the warehouse.
Eyes that are tired, but bright. A horn showing signs of age. A solemn aura that can be clearly felt just by standing in front of it.
However, the deep scars that exist here and there on the body, and the strong demonic energy that oozes out from between them and torments the body.
Broken claws and broken horns. Scales that have lost their luster and have chipped teeth here and there.
“…”
Do-yoon was speechless at the sight in front of him.
Unlike 100 years ago, when they were called the most perfect beings under the sky, they are shabby and pitiful.
Do-yoon felt from him the lonely battle of the past years and the deep wounds caused by it.
[The sword.]
However, the being in front of her eyes did not know Doyoon’s inner thoughts and looked at him with very lovely eyes.
[100 years ago. There was a child who fell in love with that sword and begged me to make one identical to it.]
The being smiled at the scent of memories. Deep wrinkles were written on his aged face.
[That half. It’s something I gave as a gift to ease the burden that child was carrying.]
Deep and bigamous, but the trembling of the years was felt in the voice, which even felt quite a bit of longing.
[Also, the skills you demonstrated at the door.]
He met Doyoon’s eyes.
[It’s a level that can be called the tip of a sword that even I can’t dare to copy.]
In his gaze, numerous emotions such as grandeur, pride, and pity came out.
[Nice to meet you.]
The being in front of me had a deep friendship with Enoch in my previous life.
The most perfect being under the sky, and the closest being to the sky.
[The successor of Roosevolnik.]
Dragon Road. It was Tiamat.