Chapter 50
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 50
Chapter Title: Last-Hit Hunter Ju the Bastard
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Gonghyeok wrapped up his enjoyable time with Lilianne and soared into the sky.
Lilianne had left to gather the nearby demon forces, while Gonghyeok had some business to handle before Poseidon could finish off the T-Rex.
Kra-la-la-!
A Tyrannosaurus charging faster than ever came into view nearby.
Its size had now reached the 30-meter class. It was worthy of being called a walking biological weapon.
The problem was the colossal god chasing after it—a 2,100-meter walking Mount Halla made of seawater.
A palm of seawater plummeted from the sky.
Kaaah!
A brilliant light shone from the monster's nape, and it unleashed an explosive breath upward.
The massive water mass collided with the breath, blanketing the uninhabited island in thick steam.
Salt particles from the seawater and lava within the breath turned into rock chunks, raining down like meteorites.
The Tyrannosaurus leaped through a hole in the center of the palm, bounding over half the back of the hand.
For a mere boss monster, the T-Rex was holding up remarkably well.
But to Poseidon, the Tyrannosaurus was nothing more than a tough fly.
The over 2 km Poseidon actually shrank its body.
Reduced to 200 meters, Poseidon's form became far more distinct.
That Poseidon aimed its spear at the T-Rex.
The trident, which had been transparent until moments ago, turned golden and took on solid form.
Sensing something ominous, the T-Rex unleashed breath attacks in succession, but the trident sliced through them effortlessly and pierced the T-Rex's neck.
The legendary harpoon 'Trident (Τριαινα)' that had felled countless monsters and giants.
The T-Rex writhed in immense agony.
It was due to the harpoon's power to seal a monster's strength.
The belly that had stored lava and gas melted away, leaking acrid smoke and contents, while its diamond-hard scales lost their luster.
And...
"I'll have it, thanks."
He dropped from the sky.
[High-Speed Flight (A-) reaches maximum speed.]
[Limited Skill Severing Demon Wings (A+) activates! Wing slashing power increases by 360%! Breakthrough impact increases by 200%!]
Gonghyeok's wings plunged into the single eye of the T-Rex, teetering on death's doorstep.
Normally, even piercing the cornea would require full force, but with its durability and defenses drastically reduced by the harpoon, the T-Rex was helpless.
Confirming his wings had reached the skull, Gonghyeok activated 'First Sephirot Malkuth.'
The power of Malkuth's guardian angel, Sandalphon, shone forth.
[Archangel Sandalphon's power 'Gigantification' manifests!]
['Fallen Lucifer's Wings' receive this power.]
Empowered by the ability, Gonghyeok's wings swelled in the blink of an eye.
The Tyrannosaurus's skull creaked and twisted.
CRITICAL HIT!!!
Soon, the enlarged wings shattered the cramped skull and jutted out through the T-Rex's crown.
Grrr...
The tyrant that had plunged the uninhabited island into terror met its pathetic end with a brief death rattle.
[You have defeated the uninhabited island's final boss, 'Lava Rock Tyrannosaurus.']
[Raid Contribution: 1st 99.99% Poseidon, 2nd 0.01% Ju Gonghyeok]
[With 0.01% raid contribution, you landed the killing blow.
You have fulfilled 1/3 conditions for the Unique Title 'Last-Hit Thief.']
[Low contribution! You have no rights to select clear rewards.]
[Unbelievable feat! You have achieved 'Subduing a 6th-Stage Evolved Tyrannosaurus'!]
[Rewards: 100 indigo coins and 1 blue coin.]
[You have completed Angel Azazel's quest 'Tyrannosaurus? Catch it if you can!']
[Rewards: 'Punisher Knight's Skill Coinbook (A)' and SS-grade weapon 'Demon-Shattering Hammer Hontar.']
[Reward distribution delayed due to Azazel's absence.]
A tiny Nathaniel appeared beside the rising alert windows.
Her face was filled with shock.
- Go... God... Want to die?
Her eyes turned toward Gonghyeok's back.
A massive shadow loomed over Gonghyeok.
Ignoring it, Gonghyeok retracted his wings and quietly looked up.
The seawater colossus stared down at him impassively.
"Hmm..."
Gonghyeok paused to choose his words, then addressed Poseidon politely.
"Nice assist."
"......"
- ......
"Ah, not getting it?"
Gonghyeok expressed his gratitude to the sea colossus once more.
"Asst gg."
Kwar-rung!
Coins and materials poured out from the hole in the T-Rex's shattered skull.
Among them was the 'Great Floatstone' Gonghyeok knew well.
Flap.
White angelic wings sprouted atop the demonic wings.
[Generating 'Sephirot Wings Stage 2' with magic power.]
[4 wings generate Ultra-High-Speed Flight (S-) skill.]
[Full-power burst! Zero-to-hundred (60 mph) time reduced by 94%!]
[Pouring remaining magic power into Ultra-High-Speed Flight (S-)!]
Leaving behind black and white afterimages, Ju Gonghyeok vanished into the distance.
Clutched at his side was the ghostly-snatched Great Floatstone.
"Snagged the last hit. Lol."
- Please, just die here, won't you? I don't have the courage to keep living with a lunatic like you anymore...
"Get home and I'll dress our Nathaniel in panties."
- Kill... me...
He spoke leisurely, but the situation wasn't so simple.
A dense net of seawater was already spread before his eyes.
He spun all four wings for a sharp directional change.
But water droplets scattered by Poseidon everywhere floated up around him.
'Activate Sephirot Tree Stage 2.'
[Proceeding to Stage 2 Yesod. Use guardian angel Gabriel's power?]
"Use."
[Yesod's archangel, Gabriel, and his angelic host recognize your existence.
They bestow upon you great power.]
['Holy Water' power is granted to you.]
Gabriel, the archangel who governs water.
Borrowing his power and halo, the surrounding moisture came under Gonghyeok's control.
Poseidon was far stronger in a contest of water dominance, but snatching control of a limited space via surprise was possible.
He immediately dismantled the net under Poseidon's control and slipped out.
But that was just a stopgap.
If Poseidon decided to catch only Gonghyeok without controlling the entire sea, there was nothing he could do.
As Poseidon formed another water prison to close in.
A cheer rang from the hole in the sky.
"All units, surround Poseidon! Don't let him spread more damage!"
It was Lilianne, bringing another heavenly knight and a great demon army.
'So you came, you demon scum.'
Poseidon recalled the water it had scattered everywhere and crunched on the T-Rex's headless corpse.
'Is that all you brought? Pathetic!'
The colossus roared toward the demons.
The shock alone triggered an earthquake, and the surrounding air was pushed away, creating a vacuum.
"What can the two of us do?"
"......Just don't die."
Lilianne and heavenly knight Nerter exchanged awkward glances as they led 4,000 subordinates forward.
'Well. They arrived on time, at least.'
Heavenly knight Nerter from the Dullahan lineage, 3 administrative demons, and their 4,000 demons.
They were forces hastily gathered from one of the few zones where the 3rd floor mission had fully cleared.
And in a few hours, over 10 heavenly knights would gather to subdue Poseidon.
Of course, until then...
'Not my problem.'
The rest was for the demons managing this Babel to handle.
It had nothing to do with him anymore; the matter was out of his hands.
More importantly, what came next mattered more to Gonghyeok.
'Mind reset.'
He calmed his heart.
This was the final part of the scenario he had meticulously planned.
The climactic scene he had poured everything into.
'Activate Great Sage Equal to Heaven 1st ability.'
[Switching used avatar to Great Sage Equal to Heaven (SS).]
[Great Sage Equal to Heaven 1st ability 'Art of Cloning' activates.]
[The number of maintainable clones depending on remaining magic power is...]
Gonghyeok carefully activated the ability to avoid harming the beautiful-tailed girl.
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Steam fog from breath and seawater blanketed the area, but all the hunters clearly felt it.
Earth-shaking events were unfolding beyond the invisible fog.
Salt particles falling from above, un-cooled rock chunks, unknown battle cries, and heaven-rending roars proved it.
"Damn it. I don't wanna die without even knowing what's what."
"No. You hate all deaths, but the one barreling toward you right now is just the most urgent."
Inside the great ark, the hunters could only despair, pray, sigh, and rage.
Amid them, Soma Sangai stood at the ark's prow, silently peering into the fog.
After standing there a long while, Soma noticed an unnatural shift in the turbulent fog.
In a quiet but precise tone, he chanted the incantation.
"Manipadma. Jvara. Pravartaya."
[Heavenly Vajra Mantra's forbidden spell, 'Demon-Slaying Thunder' activates.]
[The lightning of the mythological thunder god responds to your will.]
"Hum."
Golden lightning gathered in Soma's right hand.
In case it was an enemy instead of Gonghyeok, it was a pre-cast spell to aerial strike the moment he appeared.
Now, just uttering the activation word 'Vajra' would unleash devastating lightning faster than any attack.
Clang, metallic sounds rang out in succession.
The odds of an unwelcome visitor ticked up.
'Whoever it is, can I survive this crisis?'
As Soma prepared to unleash the lightning amid ill omens.
Two shadows burst through the clouds.
A masked killer with demonic wings.
And the northern savior with angelic wings.
Ju Gonghyeok and killer X were exchanging sword strikes like a downpour.
"Boss! It's the boss!"
"That's 'X,' right? Everyone, prepare aerial strikes!"
"Lord Soma! What are you waiting for with that lightning you prepared?!"
"Idiot, the boss and X are clashing right now. You gonna pick and choose who to hit?!"
Soma erased the bewilderment from his face with silence and blankness, lowering the lightning in his hand.
The reason he didn't fire wasn't some humanitarian concern about hitting both.
Savior Ju Gonghyeok.
Killer 'X'.
They were the same single person.
"Those demon wings—definitely from that Outer Mars Askh last time!"
"Yeah. I've seen 'em. The ones that took Patrick and Zhao Xin's heads."
"If the uninhabited island killer X and Outer Mars are the same guy..."
The ark's hunters couldn't contain their fury, stomping their feet.
"Outer Mars, that bastard. Total piece of shit. Grew the T-Rex to screw over the whole island, betrayed his men to kill them all, snuck through the jungle murdering people too."
"Damn, the way you put it, even crazy bastards ain't this crazy."
"Anyway, ranged folks, prep your skills! Melee, brace in case they board the ark!"
In an instant, the great ark turned chaotic as the two winged figures streaked past overhead.
And one item slid down the sailcloth.
"Activate it!"
At Ju Donghyeok's urgent shout, people finally realized.
A hexagonal marble chunk the size of two human heads.
An item window popped up before the quick-handed grabber.
[3rd Floor Great Floatstone (Special)
A massive floatstone carried inside the 'Lava Rock Tyrannosaurus.'
Said to sprout wings after 10 weeks and a crest on the head.
When mounted on a completed ark, it can float the ship in midair.
Capacity Limit - 3,000 people]
"We're saved! It's the Great Floatstone!"
"Wooooh! Slot it in! Hurry and shove it in the ship's core!"
"Don't fumble the hole—shove it straight!"
"Don't crack dumb jokes even in this mess! Ruining the good vibe!"
"Hey, whatever. Pal. Even your pancake face looks pretty right now!"
X and Ju Gonghyeok clashed swords dead-on and flew far from the boisterous great ark.
They stared wordlessly before stabbing each other.
Ju Gonghyeok in the arm, X in the leg.
Behind them, the completed great ark rose high.
Their lips parted in unison.
"GM"
"GM"
[A massive object a quarter the ark's size rapidly approaching from southwest.
The object's target is...]
Hearing the report, their bodies turned toward the great ark.
Stab.
'X' thrust his sword into Ju Gonghyeok's gut, then slammed downward.
Ju Gonghyeok's body smashed through the deck noisily, embedding into the great ark.
As everyone raged and prepared to spam skills.
Boom!
But the fog to the ark's right side exploded with a deafening roar, a massive hole torn open.
"Juuuugoooonghaaaah—!"
Five pirate ships merged into the great ark whale to drop it—the most powerful harpoon ever made.
At its helm stood.
A freak bathed head to toe in blood, 'B.'
[End of Chapter 49 - Last-Hit Hunter Ju the Bastard]