Chapter 147: Onahole Scramble (2)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 147: Onahole Scramble (2)
This piece of shit terrorist!
I reinforced my entire body with divine power and thrust with all my might.
It was a strike powerful enough to instantly kill any ordinary Awakener from the 50th floor!
Clang—!
He crossed his scimitars in an X-shape to block my spear.
Of course, I never expected to kill him in one hit.
A second and third strike followed, flowing like water!
Clang! Clang!
He deflected the final blow at an angle, then immediately imbued his twin scimitars with a red aura and swung them in an X.
‘Crazy bastard.’
Seeing the energy gathering in his blades, I bent my upper body back as far as it would go.
Whoooosh!!
The red sword aura grazed my chest, flying upward.
KABOOOM!!!
A massive X-shaped scar was carved into the building across the street.
"You ignorant son of a bitch!"
The crime of damaging a building in our peaceful Seoul! I will never forgive you!
Clang!!
‘Ugh… this bastard is pretty strong!’
Every time his scimitars clashed with my spear, a powerful shockwave rippled through the area.
He seemed quite flustered, too, as if he hadn't expected me to be this strong.
Of course, the same was true for me.
To think I had to stack eight buffs just to be on his level… that Islamic temple buff of his must be stronger than I imagined.
We exchanged dozens of blows in the blink of an eye.
Clang-clang-clang-clang!!
The screech of metal and a shower of sparks filled the air.
Slowly, without rushing.
I used the reach of my spear to gradually wear him down.
This was Seoul.
If I could just buy some time, reinforcements would surely arrive, whether from the great guilds or somewhere else!
‘Time is on my side, you bastard!’
"Joining the fight."
And finally!
Reinforcements arrived—not for me, but for him. Three high-ranking Islamic Awakeners armed with scimitars surrounded me!
‘Wait, why are the enemy’s reinforcements arriving first?!’
Before I even had time to think, they launched a coordinated attack from all sides.
Each of them, radiating a menacing red aura, aimed for my arms and legs as if trying to slice off my limbs.
They were planning to turn me into a limbless onahole right here and now!
‘Hoo… here I go!’
There was no other way out of this.
It was a bit of a gamble.
I would use the third stage of Straight Heart One Spear's combustion in a real fight.
I still couldn't properly control the combustion part of this technique. But my lack of control was about how to use it efficiently.
So…
That meant there was no problem with just mindlessly pouring all my energy into it!
"Haaaaah!!!"
I ignored the attacks coming from the other three directions.
Ting! Ting! Ting!!
The ring the Emperor gave me, sensing the crisis, automatically activated <Absolute Barrier Lv.50>.
I just focused on my attack.
"Take this—!!!"
[Straight Heart One Spear]
The first form from Irene's spear manual, of which I had only mastered two-thirds, unfolded.
BOOM!!!
The spear shot from my hand like a cannonball.
Crack!
My wrist dislocated, and the skin on my palm burst open.
But, in exchange, my opponent…
‘Holy shit, he survived that?’
His entire upper right torso and arm were torn away, but he was still alive. Perhaps due to the effect of his holy ground declaration, the bleeding stopped, and he gripped his scimitar with a trembling left hand.
"Grrr, you dare!"
Lee Do-hee didn't know it, but he possessed a blessing from Allah that allowed him to foresee a fatal situation once.
High-ranking Awakeners had more than just simple stats; they had hidden trump cards and variables. This was especially true for those who had grown by leeching off others, which made them difficult opponents.
"Everyone, protect me!"
Two more Islamic reinforcements who had been waiting in the back joined the fray.
I tried to wield my spear with my left hand, but it was a bit much to handle their combined assault.
BOOM!!!
Crack…!
Cracks began to form on the Absolute Barrier.
Soon, they were hammering on the barrier from all sides like a drum, and it shattered in an instant.
‘Dammit!!’
A life-or-death crisis!
But just then, my guild members and the volunteer fighters broke through the Islamic terrorists' summoned creatures.
"Damn it, the plan has failed. All units, retreat!"
The injured Islamic captain fled, and the others prepared to fall back.
But just as I was about to give chase and switch to the offensive…
"Where do you think you're going?"
The Islamic captain's head flew through the air, and I saw a massive glaive swing down.
Slice!!
"Looks like there are no hidden cards left."
‘Who the hell are they?’
"Now it's our turn."
"Let's finish this quickly, boss!"
Chinese Awakeners who had been hiding among our allies mercilessly slaughtered the remaining Islamic fighters!
Wielding a variety of weapons like maces, clubs, and giant swords, they eliminated all the intruders and then surrounded me.
"Uh… excuse me?"
‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend…? No way!’
With the death of the Islamic captain, all the summoned creatures vanished like smoke, and our allies surrounded the area.
More people seemed to be joining, and our side had grown even larger than before.
‘That’s right. There’s no winning against a mob.’
"Hehehehe…"
But the men just chuckled, looking completely unafraid despite the overwhelming number of Awakeners facing them.
‘What the…?’
"Everything is in place. Now, behold!"
The man who appeared to be the leader of the Chinese unit began to draw in the surrounding blood.
His name was Zhu Tian-gang.
He was once the leader of the Blood Heaven Gate, a mid-sized guild in China.
At first, he had refrained from contracting with an evil-aligned Constellation out of fear of the Chinese government. But after obtaining a unique stat on the 50th floor, he contracted with an evil Constellation that was a perfect match for him.
That's right.
He was a possessor of a unique stat!
If his vice-guild master hadn't snitched on him, Zhu Tian-gang had enough talent to aim for the vanguard.
As Zhu Tian-gang raised one hand and chanted something, the blood began to gather.
Anyone could feel the sinister energy of black magic.
"It's black magic!"
"Everyone, watch out for the corpses!"
All the blood spilled on this battlefield was being absorbed by him.
China may have been a country that would do anything to catch up to America, but even they had forbidden contracts with Constellations that required human sacrifices.
From all directions, crimson blood flowed toward him as if being sucked into a black hole.
His physique and appearance began to change.
"Khahahahaha!! Yes, this is it!"
He grew to nearly three meters tall, and his eyes and skin turned red.
Horns sprouted from his head, and his fingernails grew sharp.
‘He’s insane…’
He had become a creature stained with a familiar madness. His guild members also transformed, their eyes turning red and their bodies becoming grotesquely muscular.
"Kill the rest!"
Of course, our Awakeners didn't die so easily just because he ordered it.
The chaotic battle began anew.
And the Chinese leader, Zhu Tian-gang, fixed his gaze on me.
His guild members formed a wall between me and my allies, preventing anyone from getting through.
A one-on-one match between him and me had begun.
But as expected, it was impossible for me to defeat him in my injured state.
Whoosh!
"Heek!"
I narrowly dodged the viciously flying glaive.
"You can do it, Do-hee!"
"Do-hee! Dodge well!"
It couldn't be helped.
It was impossible for me to single-handedly defeat a high-ranking Awakener who had learned nothing but murderous combat skills, not to mention his stats.
It might have been different if I had mastered all of Irene's secret manual, or at least perfected the first form, but that wasn't the case.
That meant I had to win with raw stats and a grab bag of tricks, which was never going to be easy, even for me. To make matters worse, my wrist was dislocated and my palm was bleeding profusely, making it difficult to even hold my spear.
On top of all that, my divine power was nearly depleted.
BOOM!!!
"Ugh…!"
‘This crazy bastard tried to cut off my legs!’
It seemed they didn't care as long as they had my torso, planning to take me away with my limbs severed.
The massive glaive swung at my lower body.
I predicted his attacks and did my best to dodge, trying to buy time.
"You're good at scurrying around like a rat! If you come quietly, I'll let you keep your limbs."
"Shut up, you crazy bastard!"
I avoided taking his attacks head-on, focusing on evasion.
Perhaps as a side effect of his physical enhancement, his attacks were less sharp and more reliant on brute instinct, which allowed me to barely predict and dodge them.
But that didn't last long…
Grasp…!
"Kyaa! What is this!"
I rolled to the side to avoid his glaive, only for a bundle of tentacles to suddenly bind my body.
"Kekeke, you finally fell into my trap. You should have just let yourself be caught quietly!"
"Aght, why is this coming from here… Oof!"
In an instant, my entire body was restrained!
"Ugh-eup!"
‘What’s with the sudden tentacles?!’
A tentacle had already forced its way into my mouth.
I was completely bound and couldn't escape!
"Khuhu… I'll stuff you in there and take you whole. Try to enjoy it."
"Ah-eup…! Keuk!"
As the tentacles slithered under my clothes, my body flinched reflexively.
‘Dammit, I only have one card left…’
And that was to summon the Demon King Liliana.
But summoning a being that couldn't be un-summoned could lead to the destruction of Earth. Was it really right to gamble the lives of everyone on the planet just so I could survive?
Becoming a sex-processing exclusive onahole versus the end of the world.
It was obviously the former, but as I was agonizing over it…
Someone's broad back blocked the view in front of me.
‘Huh…?’
A familiar back.
A sweat-drenched black tank top and shorts, as if he'd just come from a workout.
And a large frame with familiar scars.
I recognized him at once.
‘Choi Tae-soo…?’
Choi Tae-soo, the manager of our guild's training center, who had been held in check by the great guilds and had desperately searched for me in my past life.
He had broken through the encirclement and arrived before me.
"Step aside, kid!"
Zhu Tian-gang tried to cut him down lightly, but Choi Tae-soo's fist moved first.
"This one costs six months."
"What…?"
Whooooom!!!
The air compressed around his fist, and with a massive sonic boom, it struck Zhu Tian-gang in the solar plexus.
THWACK!
His back bent sharply as his body was launched into the air.
"Keoheok!"
"Boss!?"
"Dammit, to think an Awakener like that was still in Korea…"
"Ugh-eup!"
‘Ah, no! Stop, Choi Tae-soo! That technique is…!’
Choi Tae-soo.
There was a reason he had stopped climbing the Tower at the 49th floor.
Publicly, it was known that as a cleric-buffer type, it would be impossible for him to solo the 50th-floor boss. But the real story was completely different.
He had accidentally acquired a very unfortunate trait.
It was a trait that reduced his lifespan every time he used a combat skill.
In exchange, he gained incredibly powerful single strikes, but his aging accelerated rapidly.
At first, he thought it would be fine if he used it in moderation and continued to climb the Tower, but he eventually ran into trouble during an S-rank trial on the 47th floor.
He could have managed it if he were alone, but he had to repeatedly burn through his lifespan to save his party members.
Just like that, he aged drastically overnight and stopped climbing after the 49th floor. Since his buff skills were unaffected, he decided to run the training center to foster the next generation.
That was why, despite being only in his early thirties, he looked like he was in his forties or fifties. It wasn't just that he looked old for his age!
"Hoo… Do not touch his final legacy."
Choi Tae-soo stood calmly in front of me.
His back, seemingly filled with resolve, protected me reassuringly.
‘Crazy… that bastard doesn't have much time left… can't you just let me go?’
In reality, his physical age was much older than he appeared. He was probably over eighty.
As an Awakener's stats increase, their aging slows down, so they are often much older than they look.
Thud…
‘That bastard is still fine after taking a hit like that…?’
Even after taking a punch that cost Choi Tae-soo a portion of his lifespan, Zhu Tian-gang got back up.
"Hmph… You think you can beat me with something like that!"
He had temporarily absorbed all the power of those who had died nearby.
While he hadn't assimilated it 100%, at this moment, he was on par with a vanguard climber from the 70th or 80th floor.
"I see. In that case, here I go again."
Choi Tae-soo's form vanished as if teleporting, reappearing right in front of Zhu Tian-gang.
His fist glowed with a golden light.
"What…?"
[Valzeta Style Straight Punch]
"This one… is a year of my life."
BAAAANG!!
Zhu Tian-gang's body folded in half as he was sent flying.
The shockwave from the impact spread out, creating a powerful gust of wind.
"You came to a place you shouldn't have today."
"Ah, gack…!"
[Pulverizing Fist]
[Howling Wind Fist]
‘Aah… Choi Tae-soo!’
Every time he used a skill, the wrinkles around his eyes and mouth deepened.
[Valzeta Style Chain Flurry Punch]
[Majest Style Extreme Double Strike]
Pow-pow-pow-pow-pow!!!
Under Choi Tae-soo's merciless barrage, Zhu Tian-gang's body was beaten into a bloody pulp, like minced meat.
And for the finale.
The ultimate technique Choi Tae-soo had created himself.
[Choi Tae-soo Style Secret Art: Heavyweight Punch]
Choi Tae-soo's right arm swelled to the thickness of his thigh.
And he swung that monstrous arm with all his might!
BOOOOM!!
With a sound like a cannon firing, Zhu Tian-gang's body exploded.
His upper and lower body separated and flew in opposite directions.
"…"
Behind where Zhu Tian-gang had been, the road and buildings were carved out in a perfect circle, as if a giant drill had passed through.
"Ah…!"
With Zhu Tian-gang neutralized, the tentacles' grip loosened, and I was free.
Once his buff ended, the remaining Chinese fighters were surrounded by hundreds of Awakeners and quickly subdued.
"Hoo… are you… okay?"
For a moment, the past flashed through my mind, and I almost spoke informally before quickly switching to polite speech.
"Hmph, this is nothing. Are you alright?"
Choi Tae-soo replied without turning his head, acting nonchalant.
‘Look at this bastard, trying to act cool in front of a girl. He must be over 100 now.’
I could see strands of white in his hair.
At only thirty-two years old, his actual age was over one hundred.
Then and now, he had never hesitated to spend his own life to save others.
‘A truly, foolishly kind man.’
The remaining Chinese remnants were being cleaned up.
It seemed that not only my guild and the viewers, but Awakeners from various other guilds had joined forces to help.
Yes, if it ended like this, one could consider it a rather heartwarming conclusion…
"Kuaaaaargh!! I won't forgive you, bastards!! I, I am not someone who will end here!"
Zhu Tian-gang, now just an upper torso, screamed with his eyes wide open, tears of blood streaming down his face.
"Shit, just kill him already!"
A familiar, ominous feeling.
And as always, my ominous feelings were never wrong.
Blood began to pour from Zhu Tian-gang's eyes like a flood.
"Lord Zo Agdra!!! Devour me and descend!!!"
"What…?"
The rest was in Chinese so I couldn't understand it, but I had definitely heard the name Zo Agdra before.
The Outer God that the Abbot and the Heavenly Demon had barely managed to defeat on the 14th floor.
"Ah…"
Zhu Tian-gang dissolved into a pool of blood and rose into the air. Not only him, but all the blood spilled here and even the other Chinese fighters turned into blood and ascended.
Then, about thirty meters above the ground, a massive rift opened, stretching down to the earth.
Something emerged from the hellish, crimson space.
Krrrrrck…!
A giant hand emerged first, prying the rift open from both sides.
Everyone rushed forward to stop it, but then…
They froze.
A single, large, dragon-like eye with a vertical pupil.
As it stared down at us, an overwhelming pressure froze everyone in place.
‘It’s not an Outer God… but, fuck!’
It looked like a servant of an Outer God, but its presence was immense. It finally tore the rift completely open and appeared in the middle of Seoul.
A thirty-meter-tall, one-eyed monstrosity.
THUD!!!
The world trembled with its every step.
It was something more than just its size.
‘A monster? Can you even call that a living thing? A Steel Cyclops?’
Its entire body was covered in what looked like steel plates, and its large eye was slit vertically like a dragon's. I was filled with the fear that it would shoot a laser at any moment and vaporize us all.
"We're fucked…"
At my muttered words, everyone else wore a hollow smile as if to agree.
Vweeeeeee!!!
A massive amount of energy gathered in the Steel Cyclops's eye.
One wrong move, and Seoul could be wiped off the map.
But just then, someone floated into the air and blocked its path.
"Burn."
I heard his quiet words, and blue flames erupted from below, engulfing the Steel Cyclops's body.
"#!¥≠⧠░▒⟟⟟ERR⟟▒░░≠Ξ!#"
With an incomprehensible scream, the Steel Cyclops melted in the fire.
‘Wait, those blue flames?’
They were very familiar, and very unpleasant.
A chill ran down my spine.
Someone slowly descended in front of the Steel Cyclops's corpse.
His identity was none other than…
The supreme leader of the great guild alliance, who had just finished conquering the 80th floor.
Baek Do-hyeon.
He habitually swept back his curly gray hair and walked over nonchalantly.
"So, you're Lee Do-hee."
The corners of his mouth curled up into a chilling smirk.