Chapter 112
Chapter 112
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 112
Chapter Title: Skeleton King
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Kim Yeonhee sucked on the wound with her mouth and said,
“Now it’s good, right?”
“Yeah, so it was real.”
“What, you think I’d fake it?”
“I just didn’t expect you to be so friendly with me.”
“……The thing with Uncle Yeongi was unavoidable. I’m not a kid—I can understand that much.”
For a high schooler, she sure acts tough. I lightly patted her head before sitting down in front of the stairs.
“So, no issues over there?”
“Nope. Uncle Jeongwoo was just diligently swinging his axe?”
“What about the other players?”
“They’re dealing with demons, but honestly, only low-level ones are showing up, so no one’s really jumping in together or anything.”
“No problems, then?”
“That’s right.”
Good.
Toppling the World Tree is as crucial as defending the temple. It’s not just about clearing the seventh round—it opens the path straight to the tenth.
Boom!
The ground shook.
It wasn’t time for the boss monster yet, and with no major demon resistance, this level of impact could only be Jeongwoo’s axe work.
I lit a cigarette while gazing at the World Tree.
Exhale.
“Just in case, that’s why I sent you, huh?”
“Yeah. He said the second boss might be tough for the Chinese side to handle alone, so help out.”
“……Makes sense. But how are you planning to help?”
“How? Just stab that demon bastard right through with this sword!”
I grabbed Kim Yeonhee’s hand to pull her closer. I wanted to see the dagger that had lightly blocked my resonance wave earlier.
Kim Yeonhee flinched in surprise and shook off my hand.
“W-what?!”
“Just wanna see that sword.”
“Oh…. You should’ve said so. You scared me.”
“What’s there to be scared of?”
I furrowed my brow, and she handed over the dagger.
“Why my sword?”
“Because it blocked my attack earlier. I wanted to see how impressive it was.”
“Oh! That was my skill. Not the sword.”
“Skill?”
“Yeah, we all got special rewards for clearing the sixth round in Mechania. That’s what I got.”
I tilted my head.
“What kind of skill?”
“Hmm…. Is it okay to tell you?”
“You gonna hold back?”
“No, it’s not that….”
“Tell me. We’re on the same side anyway.”
Kim Yeonhee averted her gaze, like she didn’t want to say. Blocking a corpse explosion so easily meant it wasn’t some ordinary skill.
What could it be?
I tapped her shoulder with my scythe and continued.
“Spit it out.”
“……Attack Breaker.”
“Attack…. Breaker? You have that?”
“Uh-huh.”
Attack Breaker.
One of the ultimate skills that can block any attack if you time it right.
The legendary ability that only one person in the entire server managed to obtain—and this girl has it.
I gaped in shock.
“That’s amazing.”
“You think so?”
“Of course. Attack Breaker is one of the top-tier defensive skills.”
“……Really?”
Her lukewarm reaction made it clear she didn’t know much about it.
“You know how to use it?”
“Of course! That’s why I used it earlier.”
“……Sure. But what I’m asking is whether you can use that skill *well*.”
Kim Yeonhee shot me a displeased look.
“I *can* use it well.”
I hope that’s true.
If she has Attack Breaker and can wield it effectively, she’s got a shot at becoming one of the game’s late-stage top villains.
I grinned happily and offered her a cigarette.
“Want one?”
“I’m a high schooler.”
“So what? No laws in this world.”
“……Pass.”
Kim Yeonhee pushed my hand away.
I blew a puff of white smoke right in her face. She coughed and waved it off.
“What the hell!”
“What else? The taste of adulthood.”
“Screw the taste of adulthood! Secondhand smoke is a crime.”
“Yeah, yeah, go ahead and report it. Wonder if hell has any cops.”
“You jerk…….”
My hand froze mid-conversation.
Something from long ago suddenly popped into my head.
Just a casual word I’d tossed out.
Hell and police—that’s what triggered it.
“Wait a sec.”
“Huh?”
“Thinking about it, why haven’t I seen that guy? The one called Hell’s Police.”
Kim Yeonhee scratched her head while looking around, then said to me,
“Hell’s Police?”
“Cerberus. I don’t see that bastard anywhere.”
Cerberus should be prowling hell, but I’d only been seeing the lower-rank Hellhounds.
The masterpiece called ‘Cerberus’ by Beelzebub. Where the hell did it disappear to?
Kim Yeonhee looked like she knew something, her face brightening.
“Cerberus—that three-headed dog bastard?”
“Yeah.”
“That guy’s near the World Tree right now.”
“……Huh?”
“One of the players had it with him. Said he succeeded in taming it.”
Taming.
A unique druid ability. The power to bring animals under your control using spirit energy.
“He tamed Cerberus?”
“Yeah. For sure—I saw it with my own eyes.”
I’d never heard of taming demons before, but if it’s possible, who the hell did it?
‘……So that’s how it is.’
Demon taming must be one of the system’s hidden Easter eggs.
I let out a hollow chuckle.
One of the key pieces in my plan had been snatched by an ally—not ideal, but not a total loss.
* * * * *
My minions were auto-hunting demons, and with Kim Yeonhee guarding the temple interior, it was safe.
Thanks to that, I could close my eyes and nap for a bit.
I was so exhausted that the moment my eyelids shut, I slipped into a dream.
I wandered the darkness for a while.
I saw the PC version of ‘Land of Ruin: Last Game’ that I’d played back then.
Just like my current mindset, I dominated endlessly inside it.
I crushed all the seventh-round bosses effortlessly and rocketed to the fifteenth—the so-called final round—in no time.
All by myself.
Reaching the final round, I faced Lucifer, the invincible one, once more.
This time was different from before.
I knew all his attack patterns, even his final self-destruct, so dodging was a breeze.
The post-apocalypse world.
I gazed upon it as the game ended.
Just a dream, though.
It felt like scribbling furiously on a blank canvas, then flipping to the next page.
A new beginning.
-Kim Cheonjae, Kim Cheonjae, Kim Cheonjae!
Kim Yeonhee’s voice called out.
I slowly opened my eyes to find a hologram system message floating in front of me.
[The great demon symbolizing sloth, ‘Belphegor’, is approaching the temple.]
[All players who participated in the seventh round, please prepare for full-scale combat.]
[Time remaining: 07:59:58]
‘……Already?’
I’d only blinked, and two hours had passed. Kim Yeonhee looked at me with worry.
“Kim Cheonjae! You okay?”
“……Yeah. Just dozed off.”
“But why were you screaming?”
“Screaming? Was I screaming?”
“Yeah!”
No way—that was a good dream.
I cracked my neck and stood up.
“What’d I scream?”
“Just ‘Agh!’ or something.”
“No idea why, but sorry for startling you.”
“……You sure you’re okay?”
“Yeah.”
She eyed me with concern. I averted my gaze and looked at my summons fighting up front.
Not a single soldier had fallen.
“Skeleton Soldiers, all assemble in front of the temple.”
At my command, the skeleton soldiers lined up.
I counted them off, then tapped each head in turn.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Tap.
V-shaped selection markers appeared over their heads. After tapping all the skeleton soldiers, I muttered quietly,
“All-in combination.”
The bones of every skeleton soldier detached and gathered in one spot.
With a clatter, the bone fragments fused together, forming one massive entity.
※ New recruit: Skeleton King (83%)
Level: 83
Health: 10000/10000
Mana: 0/0
Stamina: 55 Attack: 55
Defense: 55 Speed: 55
▶King’s Power (Mana cost: 0)
-The Skeleton Master’s special aura spreads across a 300m radius ahead.
(Weakens enemies and strengthens allies.)
▶Universal Bone Combination (Mana cost: 0)
-Uses body parts to create weapons suited to the situation.
(The created weapon’s strength is proportional to defense.)
Over eighty skeleton soldiers had merged into one.
Precisely eighty-three.
Easy to tell, thanks to the Skeleton Master’s 83% completion rate.
A lightning-shaped red aura crawled across the ground from the master’s feet.
It marked the extent of his aura.
-Kieeeek!
The Skeleton Master pulled three bones from his side and assembled them into a long spear.
[Skeleton King creates ‘Steel Bone Spear’.]
‘……Good.’
He was combat-ready.
Kim Yeonhee gawked at my Skeleton Master and exclaimed,
“W-Kim Cheonjae. What’s this guy? Never seen him before.”
“I’ve only summoned him a few times myself. Skeleton Master—the lord of all skull soldiers.”
“Lord of the skull soldiers?”
“Yeah. I prepped him for the second round boss.”
As a veteran of the seventh round, Kim Yeonhee got it immediately.
“……Oh! You made him for the demons coming up now.”
“Exactly. Pure firepower-wise, separate units might be better. But this guy’s the most efficient for this fight.”
No sooner had I spoken than the demons charging the temple changed.
No more imp or Hellhound trash—now it was mid-tier demons, armored like medieval knights.
Not mindless zombies or skeletons, but an undead legion capable of siege weapons and tactical maneuvers.
[System Message]
[Belphegor of Sloth has arrived near the temple.]
[The powerful demon aura begins to shake the land.]
I could see the undead demons swarming toward the temple.
“Kim Cheonjae, see that woman up there?”
“……Yeah.”
At their vanguard was a young woman in an antique dress.
A pure white dress singed by hellfire, clutching a bouquet of wilted flowers.
“……Lich.”
The immortal witch.
Belphegor’s vanguard captain.
She approached the temple with a joyful face, like she was at a festival.
“Kyahaha! Finally, I get to taste human blood again!”
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