Chapter 102
Chapter 102
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 102
Chapter Title: Nayeo-ju Saves the World
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Wyngkaderus was cunning.
Even as it raged at Kang Han's attacks, it had peeled off a portion of its minions and ordered them to climb the rocky mountain.
It had happened while Lee Yu-chan was momentarily distracted, watching the battle unfolding in the distance.
"Ugh!"
The first target was Nayeo-ju.
A monster suddenly sprang up from between the jagged rocks, slashing at the calf of the one who looked weakest.
"Sis!"
Lee Yu-chan, realizing the situation a step too late, hurriedly loosed an arrow that sent the monster tumbling down the rocky slope. But blood was already soaking through Nayeo-ju's jeans, staining them red.
"Ah, damn it."
He wanted to rush over and check her wound right away, but there was no time for that.
A second and third monster revealed themselves immediately after.
Lee Yu-chan kicked them off and leaped up to the highest rock.
"You cockroach bastards, when did you...?"
The sight of the swarming black monsters climbing the low rocky mountain was enough to trigger an instinctive revulsion in any human.
At least it was fortunate they'd noticed before all of them reached the top.
"Request backup..."
But Lee Yu-chan fell silent upon seeing the situation ahead.
Wyngkaderus itself was now leading dozens of monsters into motion.
No backup possible.
In other words, this place was now entirely his responsibility.
Lee Yu-chan turned his head to look behind him.
He saw a man whose face had gone pale at the monsters' appearance, two civilians still out of it, and Nayeo-ju sitting with a wound on her leg.
'Can I protect these people?'
Fear gripped him.
Nayeo-ju, sensing his state, pulled a bandage from her subspace and spoke.
"Lee Yu-chan, get a grip."
His wavering gaze turned to her.
Even as blood flowed from her wound, she remained calm.
"Think simply. We just have to hold out until the main force has the spare capacity to help us."
Just hold out.
Until the people who could help arrived.
Lee Yu-chan swallowed dryly.
Nayeo-ju was staunching the bleeding with a bandage instead of using self-healing.
"Ah..."
Seeing that, Lee Yu-chan realized.
In that short time, she'd decided to conserve her strength.
For his sake.
Lee Yu-chan pushed up his slipping glasses and turned back toward the sea of monsters climbing up.
"Hoo."
With a long exhale, he drew back the bowstring with all his might, and a long blue arrow materialized.
Whish— Thunk!
"Kyaaak!"
The arrow pierced the forehead of the nearest monster precisely.
His right hand, tracing a graceful arc as it released the string, immediately loosed the next arrow.
Watching the second arrow embed perfectly in another monster's vital spot, Lee Yu-chan said,
"Get lost."
As long as I'm alive, you won't come up here.
Red blood began trickling down Lee Yu-chan's right wrist.
Even with his item equipped, the fingers drawing and releasing the bowstring had burst open again.
He was barely holding on, but his arms and legs were visibly trembling.
"Lee Yu-chan, hold on a sec."
Nayeo-ju limped over and grabbed his hand.
Body Healing
Consumes 56 Stamina to recover target's wounds and health.
Target's health fully restored.
'Ah, I'm gonna die.'
Nayeo-ju gritted her teeth to hide her darkening vision from exhaustion.
The monsters coming in 'waves' seemed endless.
Lee Yu-chan attacking them, and she restoring his stamina each time it depleted—at the cost of her own—were both barely hanging on.
Her leg wound, not staunching well, wasn't helping.
Her fingers trembled finely as she pulled Im Cheong-su's potion from her subspace and drank it.
'Stamina Boost Tonic' consumed detected.
[Warning.]
Drug overuse is dangerous.
'What am I supposed to do?'
Better to collapse from drug overuse than get eaten by a monster.
She swiped away the warning window and asked,
"Lee Yu-chan, you okay?"
"Thanks to you."
His body was healed, but his head throbbed from nonstop aiming. Still, Lee Yu-chan shook off the pain and answered flatly.
'I can't not be okay.'
He was the only one who could protect Nayeo-ju and the civilians right now.
Besides, as his physical and mental strength drained, his capacity to think was fading.
'Until Wyngkaderus is defeated and the others come to help.'
Only one thought remained in Lee Yu-chan's mind.
'Hold out.'
Lee Yu-chan generated yet another arrow—he'd lost count—and repeated Nayeo-ju's words like a mantra.
Whish— Thunk!
Whoooish— Puk!
With his stamina fully restored, the arrows regained their precise trajectory.
To the eye, Lee Yu-chan seemed fine.
But the real problem wasn't depleted stamina.
Throb.
The familiar tingling pain he'd felt before was now spreading through his entire body.
The pain that Nayeo-ju's skill couldn't heal had long since spread from his right arm to his left arm and both legs.
Physiological tears from the agony trailed down Lee Yu-chan's cheeks.
At the same time, with a ping, the flesh of his right fingers burst open again.
Yet Lee Yu-chan didn't stop.
He couldn't.
'Hold out, hold out.'
The prickling pain now reached the top of his head.
Even his eyeballs throbbed.
He clenched his teeth until his lips tore to endure the horrific sensation, and the arrow he loosed pierced the heart of a leaping monster.
'Hold out. And protect them.'
To make matters worse, his mana was depleting, making his arrows flicker and lose penetration.
But the arrows never stopped leaving the string.
If one shot wouldn't kill, two or three would.
"Urk."
Eventually, a groan escaped his tightly pressed lips.
Pain like being scalded by boiling water overwhelmed his body in an instant.
His vision blurred.
The arrows he conjured flickered from lack of mana.
He knew instinctively.
This next arrow was his last.
'Then I'll kill one more.'
As a droplet of blood trickled down his chin, the final arrow left Lee Yu-chan's hand.
"Heuk."
Lee Yu-chan dropped to one knee, hunching over.
The pain turned to ecstatic pleasure lightning-bolting down his spine.
Strength surged into his trembling body.
Yu-chan knew it.
Reawakening.
"Haa, haa."
After catching his breath in silence for a while, Lee Yu-chan slowly stood.
He raised his right hand to draw the bowstring, and three thick blue arrows manifested at once.
Grinning at their radiant glow, he declared to the monsters below his feet.
"You're all screwed."