Chapter 100
Chapter 100
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 100
Chapter Title: Golden Dragon Knight to the Rescue
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“Whew, atta! You bastards! Go nuts!”
“Then die quietly! You damn bug!”
“Ah! Stop calling me a bug!”
Flutter flutter!
With a shout, Choi Choongseon flapped his wings and took to the air, dodging the sword swing aimed at him and counterattacking.
He still had some leeway, but the situation wasn’t good.
He had to take out that Han Jung-ho to stop the undead horde threatening the city right now. A war of attrition was obviously going to end in defeat, so he’d brought all his remaining forces to finish the guy off—but he’d been overwhelmed by Han Jung-ho, who’d gotten backup Scavengers from China and Japan.
‘This feels wrong. Damn it!’
He wanted to end it somehow, but the black mage Han Jung-ho’s preparations were so thorough that this place was a trap he couldn’t stay in any longer.
Deep down, he wanted to abandon his S-rank pride and run, but fleeing like this would be as good as declaring he had no strength left to defend ‘Gwangju,’ so he couldn’t do it easily.
“Man, that exoskeleton is insanely tough. What’s it even made of? It’s biological, but... I’ve never seen anything that doesn’t pierce even with armor-piercing rounds.”
“He’s still S-rank, right? Hey, Nakamura, do something.”
“I already debuffed him. More than that, that tanker from China... he’s too good.”
The shaman casting spells with talismans from the back marveled at the two martial artists blocking the S-rank Hunter Choi Choongseon barehanded.
They were reinforcements from the Chinese Scavengers, and these two were the core of this trap.
Without them, it would’ve been unimaginable to pin down an S-rank Hunter like the Druid of Beetle—who could fly, had a tough exoskeleton, and monstrous strength in his transformed monster form. They never would’ve been able to step up like this in the operation.
“Binbin! He’s trying to fly! Stop him!”
“Got it! Dianzuo! Don’t get caught no matter what!”
“Chink bastards!”
The two bald men—Binbin wielding a spear, Dianzuo a sword and chain sickle—focused solely on sealing Choi Choongseon’s movements.
Both A-rank Hunters, they had no intention of taking down an S-rank directly. They concentrated purely on restricting him, slipping away the moment he tried to counter.
“Ugh!”
“Nice! Broke through! Oh! Even in bug-man form, it’s blood, not fluids?”
Missing the chance to escape and holding out had led to accumulated damage, and Choi Choongseon’s exoskeleton finally shattered.
No matter how tough, constant hits would eventually cause damage.
Catching a wounded beast with an exposed weak point was much easier.
“Damn it!”
“No running away now!”
“Grab him! S-ranks give huge rewards!”
“Yeah, enough to live off forever! And the EXP is massive!”
With visible damage showing, the morale of the others forming ranks below surged, their gunfire and spells intensifying in support.
Choi Choongseon realized he couldn’t hold out anymore, but he didn’t want to flee.
Not out of pride or stubbornness—it was because running now offered no hope.
‘Whew... it’s over.’
Gwangju was already suffocating under the endless undead swarm, and this was his final desperate stand.
Fleeing would just mean facing scenes of citizens ravaged by Scavengers and undead monsters, and his hometown of decades burning.
‘Damn government... Association, Guild bastards. If only they’d helped when I kept asking...’
He’d sent countless signals to the government and Association, worked to grow his own Guild.
Threatened them in every way, talking about going abroad and such, but one S-rank had his limits.
Plus, the southern front—away from the Slaughter King’s line—was relatively weak in dungeons and monsters, but without him, safety wasn’t guaranteed, leaving no time or way to grow.
‘...Better to sleep eternally here than watch that.’
[Haa~ Gotta do this again. Could just crush them and be done...]
“What the hell?”
With senses far sharper than a normal human’s, Choi Choongseon jolted at the sudden unfamiliar voice.
He looked up toward its source.
There stood a knight in gleaming golden armor reflecting the sunlight beautifully, positioned at the rear of a strange hover bike, overlooking the battlefield.
“What’s that?”
“Huh, when did he get here?”
“G-Golden Demon... no! Golden Dragon Knight!”
Only then did the Scavengers notice Yoo Seongwon, the so-called Golden Dragon Knight, and freak out. Even the black mage Han Jung-ho recoiled in shock.
They’d heard about the Golden Dragon Knight ad nauseam on the news.
Rumors swirled about the guy who’d overturned fortified Sin-Gangnam—which even they couldn’t breach—and crushed one of the Big Three Guilds, the Seoul Guild, head-on.
“Wh-what? Why’s that guy here?”
“Ah, S-ranks are different. Anyway, we’re busted, no helping it. Haa~ Listen up, you Scavengers and trash. I came personally to correct your foolish notion that you seized an opportunity falling for this pastor’s scheme. So steel yourselves and face the swords of me and my knights. Akaron! Rapid descent! Gaulf! Krokbane! You can come out now.”
[Yes, Master!]
[Groooar!]
[Hmm... it begins.]
At Yoo Seongwon’s shout, he and Akaron descended from the sky. Krokbane burst from the forest to join Choi Choongseon, while Gaulf appeared behind the black mage Han Jung-ho—who was gleefully summoning undead—riding an Abyss Nightmare.
“Huh, behind me already? Bone Shield! Damn it! Protect me! You lot!”
[You must be the enemy leader. Can’t ignore someone begging to die in such an eye-catching getup.]
“J-Jeez! What’re you doing? Take him out quick...”
Han Jung-ho barked orders, but the Scavengers trembled at the intimidating presence of the abyssal knight Gaulf glaring down from horseback.
The undead, unaffected, advanced to shield him, but the Abyss Nightmare trampled them effortlessly and broke through.
“J-Jeez! I gotta run...!”
[Once you’re in my range, that’s not an option, Necromancer.]
“Uwaaaak!”
Crunch!
Gaulf smashed through zombies and skeletons, shattered the protective Bone Shield, then charged and effortlessly severed Han Jung-ho’s head.
A normal person? He’d ignore. But knowing he was a necromancer, the veteran Gaulf stabbed the heart of the corpse and incinerated it with abyssal magic.
[No matter the form, necromancers’ tricks are the same. Heh heh... Anyway, got the enemy leader’s head. Just mop up the remnants now.]
“Eek!”
“Sp-Spare meee!”
“Run! Get outta here!”
With the leader’s head flying in an instant, the nearby Scavengers scattered to save their skins.
Having seen even an A-rank leader get owned, they knew they were helpless.
But Gaulf wheeled his mount, chasing relentlessly for even one more head.
“Krokbane, guard the longhorn beetle gentleman! Akaron, wipe out the remnants! I’ll handle the rest...!”
“Idiot bitch! Kill!”
“Huh? Chinks? Why’re there Chinks here?”
Clang!
Binbin’s spear clashed with Yoo Seongwon’s Titan pile.
Hearing Chinese and facing the glare, Yoo Seongwon was startled.
He knew the Scavengers had mobilized on this pastor’s offer, but he hadn’t imagined Chinese Scavengers would be involved too.
“Run!”
“Huh? That one’s Japanese? These guys are more global than I thought.”
Crunch!
Yoo Seongwon deflected the man called Binbin’s spear and swung vertically, bursting his head while noting the Japanese guy.
The ultra-fast assault gave no time to dodge.
He had to block, but the overwhelming strength difference snapped the spear, sending the head flying.
“...Binbin! Gasp!”
“You’re next. Baldy Two.”
Shiiiing!
Aiming the bloodied Titan pile at Dianzuo, who sweated coldly realizing he was the target—even if he didn’t understand the words—the man bolted.
For reference, the other Scavengers hunting Choi Choongseon had fled the moment the Golden Dragon Knight appeared, long ago. Only those nearby had been caught and killed by Yoo Seongwon, Krokbane, or Akaron.
‘This is that... Golden Dragon Knight? And all members S-rank... it-it’s real?’
He couldn’t believe the sight, even watching it. The situation felt unreal.
No reason for the unrelated Golden Dragon Knight to come save him, yet here he was.
It was like a dream he couldn’t distinguish from reality.
[Big beetle... how’s your... condition?]
“Atta thingamajig... ah, no! I’m fine. So...”
About to lapse into dialect, Choi Choongseon switched to standard Korean.
A lifelong Gwangju native, he’d learned it deliberately for meetings in Seoul, where they constantly dragged him as the ‘S-rank.’
[I am... Sir Krokbane.]
“Sir Krokbane, why on earth is that gentleman here?”
[Do not know... I only... follow... master’s will... So... I protect you.]
Thud!
Choi Choongseon eagerly questioned the dragonkin slightly larger than himself, but Krokbane wasn’t the conversational type, which was a shame.
Still, safe under his watch, he poured potion on his shattered shoulder exoskeleton for self-healing. By the time Yoo Seongwon returned, he’d finished treatment.
“As expected of provincial riffraff—nothing special. Was surprised by the Chinks and Japs, but they weren’t much either.”
[The black mage was underwhelming too. Contractor, it was too easy. Should I have stayed in the city instead of Seom-myeol?]
“Gaulf, anyone’d mistake you for some other monster with that look. Anyway... you okay? I mean... Hunter Choi Choongseon?”
Their sudden appearance was nothing short of salvation.
But Choi Choongseon realized he was saved, yet the crisis wasn’t over, and the city’s assault continued.
“Huh? I mean... really... thank you! B-But the city right now is more...”
“Already left people to defend the city. No worries. Word of these guys’ deaths should spread soon—they’ll retreat. Anyway, can you still move?”
“Ah! Still good.”
“While the sword’s out, guide us to wipe all these Scavenger undercities. You’ve gathered the intel, right?”
“Ah... uh, yeah! Hold on, lemme drop the transformation first... phone...”
Stunned by Yoo Seongwon’s proposal but sensing the truth in it and his knights’ eyes, Choi Choongseon reverted to human form.
He pulled his phone from inventory, accessed his database, and dug up the data.
“Here! Got it! Neo Sinan Undercity—biggest Scavenger den in this Jeonnam area. So...”
Burning with resolve not to miss this miraculous opportunity the government and Association had ignored, Choi Choongseon began detailing the Scavengers’ territories, influences, and bases to Yoo Seongwon.