The Falling Yuna (1)
The day of the match had finally arrived. After eating a hearty breakfast, Kang Geon stepped into the arena. The emcee introduced him with every flowery phrase imaginable. All Kang Geon wore was a pair of shorts-style armor, a chest plate, and a pauldron covering his left shoulder. Following Hayes' advice that it was better to show off more since his body itself was impressive enough.
The fervent cheers made even Kang Geon feel excited. He thrust both arms into the air and roared, urging the crowd on. The audience's reaction split in two. Some cheered wildly while others sneered. Most of the mockery came from Kei's fans or those who had watched her previous matches.
The emcee kept babbling as a spotlight focused on the red door on one side of the arena. The crowd held its breath. Then the door opened.
WAAAAAAAAAAH!
The roar that erupted was on a completely different level from the one that had greeted Kang Geon. It shook the entire arena. At last, Kei had appeared.
Even though a mask covered her eyes and nose, it was obvious she possessed stunning features. Her body, clad in hot pants and what was essentially underwear for a top, was breathtakingly beautiful. Her skin was flawless like white jade, her breasts were full and voluptuous, her waist was slender, her legs were long, and her ankles were delicate. She already had an incredible figure, but the high heels made her the kind of woman whose walk would make every man's head turn automatically.
Kang Geon grew incredibly aroused. Her body was so perfect it could make even a top celebrity jealous. He wouldn't know her face until the mask came off, but just from what was visible, there was no way she could be ugly.
“So if I win, I get to do whatever I want with a bitch like that?”
Kang Geon clenched his fist. The gauntlet inside let out a metallic scream as it warped. Kang Geon's weapons were both of his hands. He was used to this from practicing boxing. And the moment he focused his will, the Authority of Domination and Authority of Power activated. Kang Geon instinctively realized this fact.
Kei was actually a Korean, just like Kang Geon. Her real name was Lee Yu-na. She was a member of Muse, the gathering of Korean Inviters. Most Inviters started in the same region as the group they belonged to. For example, Koreans who were summoned to Ferum would begin their lives there in the region called Medilion. Kang Geon landing in Micro was an extremely special case.
Medilion was a commercially developed region with abundant goods, making it as comfortable to live in as modern Korea. It was also home to basic training centers run by Korea’s major Inviter organizations. Like most Korean Inviters, Lee Yu-na had started in Medilion and entered the training center with the other Inviters who had arrived at the same time.
There, she learned the basic knowledge of Ferum and trained in the essential combat techniques. Through that process, Lee Yu-na received the highest evaluations, sparking a fierce recruitment war among Korea’s Inviter organizations.
First of all, her Title was outstanding. Her Title, Archer of Agony, granted her five skills. One of them, Rain of Ruin, was S-class. Since an Inviter’s potential was usually judged by the highest rank of their skills, Lee Yu-na’s potential was clearly S-class.
S-class was incredibly rare. Since it had been a long time since someone like her had appeared, every organization with scouts in Medilion offered her the best treatment they could possibly provide to recruit her.
With her nose held high, Lee Yu-na carefully chose and joined Muse, the organization centered around celebrities. In truth, the groups with the best conditions were Society and Jinilhoe. But Society was centered around chaebol families whose core members were all connected by blood. Jinilhoe, which was centered around politicians, felt too old-fashioned for the twenty-one-year-old Lee Yu-na. She didn’t even consider Cheondo or Hellfire. Cheondo prioritized activities in Ferum over Earth, but Lee Yu-na preferred her current reality. Hellfire was a villain organization. A few foreign groups were the same.
After joining Muse, it didn’t take Lee Yu-na long to become certain she had made the right choice. With Muse’s support, she worked as a magazine and advertising model and even took minor roles in dramas. Her recognition skyrocketed, and her Anstagram followers, which had once been a mere hundred thousand, had long since surpassed one million. Of course, her exceptional beauty and body played a big part in that.
Her connections in the entertainment industry grew as well. She met top singers and top actors that ordinary people could never approach and became close with famous idols. If things continued smoothly like this, her debut as a full actress or professional model was just around the corner.
For Lee Yu-na, whose dream was to live a glamorous life while enjoying the adoration of the public, Muse was the perfect organization.
Yet there was still an unquenchable thirst deep inside her. It was the sadistic urge that writhed in the depths of her heart.
In her teens, she had held back for the sake of her future. How many celebrities had been ruined by school violence? The most she had done was occasionally abuse her power when she had a perfect justification. Her twenties had been the same.
But Ferum was different. In this hierarchical society, it wasn’t wrong for those above to do whatever they wanted to those below. Even if you killed someone, as long as you weren’t caught, you could do anything.
Once she realized this, Lee Yu-na headed to the arena in Aipo. It was a place reasonably far from Medilion, the starting region for Koreans, where torturing and killing people was of no consequence.
In her first match, she had properly dismantled a person and felt a thrill she could never experience on Earth. The sense of elation and emotional high she felt when she perfectly finished a well-prepared stage and received cheers from countless people was similar. Since she could obtain that drug-like euphoria far more easily than by stepping onto a real stage, it was only natural that Lee Yu-na kept returning to the arena.
Even coming once every few months was after holding back and holding back again out of fear that she might get caught.
WAAAAAAAAAAH!
The cheers excited Lee Yu-na. Her spine trembled with anticipation for the human dissection show that was about to begin.
She examined Kang Geon. From the photos, her first impression had been that he was just a big idiot. On Earth, being big usually meant being strong, but not in Ferum, where special powers existed. Even seeing him in person, all she felt from Kang Geon was clumsiness and inexperience. He was clearly a rookie who had never received any combat training. He was undoubtedly one of those ignorant Inviters who relied solely on brute strength.
The Kang Geon who had received such an evaluation from her was still leisurely admiring her body. A beautiful female form never got old no matter how many times he looked at it.
Feeling his sticky, greedy gaze, Lee Yu-na lowered the tip of her spear with a look that said, Go ahead and try if you dare.
The spearhead split into two prongs with a hole in the center. The spear with a trigger was actually meant to hide her identity. Lee Yu-na’s main ability was summoning and firing magic bullets. Using that openly would inevitably reveal who she was. So she had come up with this spear modified to look like a gun. It was to disguise her ability to summon and fire magic bullets as simply shooting a gun.
Lee Yu-na pulled the trigger. At the same time as the ceremonial motion, she summoned a magic bullet inside the spear and fired it.
Kang Geon swung his hand as if swatting away a fly. The magic bullet bounced off. The gauntlet shattered, revealing his bare hand.
Using cheap crap like that.
Lee Yu-na had finished her assessment. Just ten shots and she would be able to knock him down and dismantle him. Even if that judgment was wrong, she had the S-class skill Rain of Ruin. She wouldn’t lose.
She fired another shot. This time she deliberately aimed for the shoulder. Hitting the head or chest might kill him too quickly.
Clang!
Kang Geon casually swatted it away with his bare hand.
He must have a defense skill. How about this, then? Piercing Pain.
Piercing Pain was a skill that increased the penetration power of magic bullets and inflicted tremendous pain on the target they struck.
Boom!
The magic bullet fired, and Lee Yu-na expected to hear a terrible scream any second.
“What?”
Her prediction was completely off. The magic bullet enhanced by Piercing Pain was caught in Kang Geon’s hand. And with ridiculous ease. The fiercely spinning magic bullet couldn’t even scratch his skin.
Crack.
When Kang Geon applied strength, the magic bullet was crushed like tofu.
Is it a skill that strengthens his hands? Still, if he can catch my magic bullets, it’s not just high defense!
Growing tense, Lee Yu-na loosened her body while keeping a close eye on Kang Geon.
Now brimming with confidence, Kang Geon wore an even thicker smile as he looked her up and down. Just looking at her body made his cock twitch. Imagining spreading her legs wide and shoving his dick into her most secret place made his cock half-hard.
The cameraman zoomed in on his bulging pants. When the main screen displayed the half-erection in close-up, the audience burst into laughter.
Kang Geon’s attention was drawn to the laughter, and Lee Yu-na didn’t miss the opening. She quickly closed the distance and fired a magic bullet enhanced with the skill Explosive Bullet.
Boom!
The magic bullet spread out like buckshot. The spread was wide enough to cover Kang Geon’s entire body.
This should be impossible to block with just his hands.
Kang Geon covered his face with his hands. The finely divided magic bullets swept over his entire body.
After confirming the result, Lee Yu-na bit her lip. Only his armor and shorts had been blown away. Kang Geon was still completely fine.
“Are you done?”
The language that came out of Kang Geon’s mouth made Lee Yu-na flinch in shock.
Korean?!
If you understood the language the opponent was using, you could tell what language it was and where they were from. Some people used Ferum’s native language to hide that they were from Earth. Lee Yu-na decided she would never open her mouth. If it was discovered that she was Korean, the situation would spiral out of control. Even if she lost and was raped, as long as her real identity wasn’t revealed, there would still be a way out.
“That massage felt pretty good.”
Kang Geon rolled his neck from side to side. Crack, crack. The sound echoed. He lowered his stance and kicked off the ground. Sand shot high into the air as Kang Geon’s body rocketed forward like a cannonball.
Lee Yu-na didn’t stay still either. She immediately fired an enhanced magic bullet.
[Unquenchable Black Flame]
The magic bullet struck Kang Geon in the chest, and black flames clung to him. It was a flame that would continue burning and inflicting pain until Lee Yu-na’s mana ran out.
“It’s warm!”
Kang Geon charged while still on fire. Lee Yu-na thrust her spear to block him, but Kang Geon grabbed the spear at an astonishing speed, closed the distance, and drove his fist into her abdomen.
BOOM!
It sounded like a massive drum being struck. A fist-shaped bruise was left on her pure white belly.
“Kuhuk!”
Lee Yu-na dropped her spear and was sent flying. The refreshing gut punch made the cheers grow even louder.
“This punching feels great. Let’s get some more in.”
Kang Geon casually patted out the flames on his chest with his hand. The Unquenchable Black Flame went out ridiculously easily despite its name.
In the meantime, Lee Yu-na endured the pain and regained her composure. She still had a skill she hadn’t used yet. The S-class skill that had given her S-class potential.
The mana inside her body surged out in a rush. Magic bullets were summoned ten meters in the air. Ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred. The dark, destructive projectiles filled the sky. It was a powerful wide-area skill capable of turning an entire village into ruins. And the advantage of this skill was that it could also be used as a single-target attack.
All the magic bullets pointed toward Kang Geon.
Kang Geon faced the darkened sky. It was a sight like a natural disaster, yet strangely, he felt no fear at all. It was thanks to the Authority of Power he possessed. The Authority of Power helped Kang Geon maintain a clear mind without being consumed by fear no matter the situation.
That wasn’t all. The Authority of Power was telling him that an attack like this couldn’t harm even a single hair on his body.
Shuuuuuuuuuuu!
The magic bullets rained down fiercely. Kang Geon kept his eyes wide open and entrusted his body to the Authority of Power. The Authority of Power did not avoid the Rain of Ruin. It simply spread both arms wide and stood as still as a mountain.