Chapter 107
Chapter 107
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 107
Chapter Title: Necromancer of the Sword Clan
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Black shadows began to spread out around Shin Yu-hyun.
And from within them, a wolf with snow-white fur emerged right behind his back.
Awoo-!
It was Baekrang, also known as Fluffy.
"W-What the hell?"
"Where'd that wolf come from?"
The Black Night's Wings guild members panicked at the sudden appearance of the massive wolf.
"Fluffy, cut off their retreat."
Grrr. Lick lick lick!
After rubbing its head against Shin Yu-hyun's face and licking him enthusiastically for a while, Fluffy dashed toward the entrance of the 1-star permanent dungeon.
Its form cut through the darkness like a streak of light.
"What the hell is that wolf pup?!"
Cheon Mu-jin gritted his teeth and glared at Fluffy. It didn't look ordinary, judging by its size or aura.
The Black Night's Wings guild members didn't dare approach Fluffy recklessly.
"It's just one more wolf! We're still in the advantage!"
The guild members trusted in their numbers. They figured they could overwhelm it with sheer force.
"You think so?"
But Shin Yu-hyun sneered at them and snapped his fingers.
Bwoooong!
Suddenly, the sound of flapping wings echoed from somewhere.
Right after, something enormous rose up behind Shin Yu-hyun and floated into the air.
A being hovering above Shin Yu-hyun's head, bathed in red moonlight.
It was the Hecaton Hyper Beetle, Chiron.
"What is that? A Hercules rhino beetle?"
"Looks kinda like a Caucasus rhino beetle too."
One of the guild members who knew about rhino beetles chimed in knowingly.
They weren't entirely wrong. Chiron looked like a fusion of the two rhino beetles.
"Where'd that thing come from..."
But the rest of the guild members looked tense. The massive monster seemed to be following Shin Yu-hyun's lead.
"It's not over yet."
"What?"
At Shin Yu-hyun's words, the guild members swallowed hard, their faces stiff with tension.
Those two alone looked plenty strong—were there more?
Fear began to spread subtly among them. If more giant monsters like the white wolf or Chiron appeared, victory wasn't guaranteed.
"Ka-mang-i."
Shin Yu-hyun quietly called for Ka-mang-i.
A small creature popped out from beneath his feet.
And it started climbing up his leg, wriggling toward his shoulder.
"Hey, you...!"
"This bastard's mocking us!"
"What kind of scam is this bullshit?!"
The guild members flew into a rage at the sight of the small, cute shadow slime, Ka-mang-i.
To think they'd been tense over something like that puny, weak-looking slime!
"You mess with our Ka-mang-i, and you'll regret it big time."
"Hmph. I'll slice that slime into sashimi!"
The guild members shouted, glaring at Ka-mang-i and Shin Yu-hyun.
Kyu?
Ka-mang-i's cute little eyes narrowed. It glared at the guild members and let out a menacing growl.
Kyuuuurrrr!
It was trying to roar threateningly, but to Shin Yu-hyun, it just looked adorably lovable.
"How dare a pathetic slime...!"
The guild members dismissed Ka-mang-i.
But they didn't notice the shadows spreading wide behind Shin Yu-hyun.
Clank, clank.
Soon, under the red moonlight, skeletons with blue ghostly flames rising from their eyes began crawling out from the shadows.
"W-What the hell is this now?"
"S-Skeletons?"
"Why are there skeletons...?"
The guild members stared at Ka-mang-i and Shin Yu-hyun in bewilderment.
The skeletons that appeared were five saber units armed with swords and shields.
"So this is your ace in the hole."
"Skeletons aren't a match for us."
The guild members grew bold at the sight of the sabers. Necromancer skeletons were weak, slow, and necromancers couldn't control many anyway.
They didn't know why Shin Yu-hyun had summoned them, but they figured they weren't a threat.
That held true until the number of sabers reached five.
Kyuuuurrrr!
Still pissed off, Ka-mang-i roared cutely once more.
And it kept pulling out the skeletons it had stored away.
Clank, clank, clank...
The five sabers had multiplied to thirty, with another thirty lancers and twenty archers joining them.
"W-What, why are there so many...?"
The guild members stared in stunned silence.
"Told you not to mess with our Ka-mang-i."
Shin Yu-hyun clicked his tongue at them.
"Shit!"
"How the hell are we supposed to deal with that?!"
The Black Night's Wings guild members quickly realized their predicament and turned to flee the dungeon.
But.
Awoo-!
At the dungeon entrance, Baekrang—Fluffy—bared its white fangs, glaring at the guild members.
"Ah..."
"That damn mutt's there too."
Despair finally dawned on the guild members' faces, just like the desperation they'd inflicted on their own victims.
The Black Night's Wings guild had become the same as them.
"Finish them."
Shin Yu-hyun commanded the skeletons.
Shwaaack!
The archers at the rear immediately unleashed a volley of arrows.
The mana-infused steel arrows flew almost in straight lines. The distance to the guild members wasn't far.
"Th-They're shooting!"
"Block them!"
"Dodge, you idiots!"
They scrambled in panic, dodging or blocking the archers' steel arrows.
Some even hid behind their comrades to avoid the arrows.
"Pathetic trash."
Shin Yu-hyun sneered coldly at the sight.
Even so, Cheon Mu-jin and the other executives managed to block the archers' arrows decently enough. They were 4-star superhumans, after all.
But that all became meaningless the moment the sabers moved.
The sabers pressed forward with kite shields at the front.
Following behind were the lancers with their long spears.
"D-Don't come closer!"
"Get the hell away!"
The guild members fought back with terrified expressions.
But the sabers compressed them with kite shields and swung their gray-glowing swords.
Clang! Puk puk!
"Keurk!"
They could deflect or block one or two gray swords from the sabers, but not the long spears thrusting in from behind.
Three spears stabbed out of sync from three directions, piercing a guild member's solar plexus and side.
Such scenes unfolded everywhere.
And that wasn't all.
Shin Yu-hyun silently raised a finger and pointed at Cheon Mu-jin.
"You bastard!"
Cheon Mu-jin scowled and charged at Shin Yu-hyun.
Seeing this, Shin Yu-hyun lowered the finger he'd been pointing at him.
The moment he did.
Bam! Shwaaaack!
With a sound of air tearing, something massive plummeted toward Cheon Mu-jin.
"Damn it all!"
Cheon Mu-jin halted mid-charge toward Shin Yu-hyun and crossed his twin swords.
Ice Sword, Frost White.
Flame Sword, Crimson Blaze.
Rare-grade twin swords, each imbued with ice and fire attributes.
Shwaaack!
Cheon Mu-jin swung his crossed twin swords in a cross shape.
Shwaaaack!
Ice and fire blades crossed and flew toward the Hecaton Hyper Beetle, Chiron.
Kududuk!
But the ice and fire blades didn't hold up long before being shredded.
Chiron was descending with its spinning horn leading the way.
"Damn it!"
Cheon Mu-jin scowled and yelled at the sight.
Immediately after, Chiron crashed into the ground.
Kwaaaang!
A massive shockwave explosion erupted outward.
Dust clouds rose several meters high, and the impact center was left in ruins.
Some guild members nearby got caught in the shockwave and flew back screaming.
Moments later, as the dust settled, the center where Chiron had landed came into view.
"Cough!"
Cheon Mu-jin, who had taken the shockwave head-on, was vomiting blood and on his knees.
In front of him stood Chiron, proudly raising its horn.
'It's over.'
Shin Yu-hyun surveyed the surroundings.
With their guild leader Cheon Mu-jin on his knees, resistance was pointless.
"Wipe them out."
Shin Yu-hyun gave the indifferent order.
The skeletons' eye sockets flared with intense blue ghostly flames.
Slash! Slash! Puk puk!
"Kaaaaak!"
"M-My leg! My leg!"
"M-My eyes...!"
What followed was hell on earth.
Shin Yu-hyun knew all about the Black Night's Wings guild.
He had information from his previous life, and somehow, Schuub had investigated them thoroughly.
Thanks to that, he knew their crimes.
Like with Kim Sung-hoon, they targeted people desperate for money due to family illnesses or injuries, or those short on living expenses, luring them with promises of big bucks and getting them to borrow cash.
Then they pushed gambling or slapped on heavy interest, piling up massive debts.
'The real problem was when they couldn't pay.'
Shin Yu-hyun glared coldly at the guild members.
If debtors couldn't repay, the guild harvested eyes, kidneys, or other body parts before killing them, then dumped the bodies in dungeons as "missing persons."
So.
"You all die the same way."
Shin Yu-hyun said in a frosty voice.
Guild members with limbs severed by the sabers writhed on the cold dungeon floor, groaning.
They'd bleed out eventually.
Just like the unfortunate souls these bastards had murdered.
Not long after, none of the Black Night's Wings guild members were moving. All dead.
All that remained were about twenty roadrunners they'd kept alive for racing in Gyeongju.
"Make sure to gather them all up."
Shin Yu-hyun ordered the skeletons to clean up.
They were to collect the artifact equipment used by the Black Night's Wings guild members.
Most were common, versatile gear, so using it wouldn't raise suspicions of ties to the guild.
'Some are customized, but a little tweaking will fix that.'
No one would recognize them then.
Kyu!
While the skeletons handled cleanup, Shin Yu-hyun petted and played with Ka-mang-i.
In the meantime, one skeleton saber sauntered over to where Cheon Mu-jin had fallen.
It was Saber No. 1.
Saber No. 1 looked down at Cheon Mu-jin.
Even after vomiting blood, Cheon Mu-jin had fought Chiron but couldn't last, succumbing to the ultra-vibration wave and collapsing.
Beside him lay his twin swords.
Ice Sword and Flame Sword.
Saber No. 1 stared silently at the twin swords. Then, with a resolute expression, it dropped its own gray longsword and kite shield to the ground.
Clang!
It picked up the fallen Ice Sword and Flame Sword.