A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 176

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Chapter 176: Sin (1)

“That’s the person.”

I looked at the silver-haired bishop. He was surveying the inside of the church with a calm expression.

“A bishop of the Goemin Sect. He’s also the fox mask I first encountered at the Blue Dragon Branch, who killed several Awakened in Japan.”

Lee Cheong-ryu let out a “ho” sigh while stroking his chin. He still showed no signs of tension.

Whether that would work in our favor remained to be seen. Originally, a bishop wasn’t the kind of existence you could face leisurely.

“Bishop, you must escape! These are the ones trying to frame and destroy us…!”

The evangelist caught in chains shouted. I should have gagged her mouth too.

“Shh. You be quiet.”

Then the bishop brought his hand to his lips. And in an instant…

Thwack!

A cluster of light appeared and struck the evangelist.

It wasn’t my power, nor Lee Cheong-ryu’s skill or Hong I-jo’s ability. This was definitely an attack cast by the bishop.

“…!”

My surprise was brief. The evangelist who took the attack went limp and fainted. It wasn’t power a Non-Awakened could withstand.

‘What the hell…’

He knocked out his own believer?

“First, she must be punished for carelessly opening the church door. Ah, this is why stupid ones are…”

The silver-haired bishop shook his head disapprovingly.

“Really now. Can’t even use proper judgment.”

Ah, right. Not surprising at all. Getting shocked over something so pointless at this point would be stranger.

They were always like that. I gave Lee Cheong-ryu a slight nod as a signal.

“Here.”

Lee Cheong-ryu opened a gate. And from within, a sharply forged divine sword revealed itself.

Swish.

I gripped the divine sword and took a combat stance.

“I had my doubts. I never thought you’d actually track me down here. Why do you keep stirring things up?”

The bishop pressed his forehead as if troubled.

“Since it’s come to this… Fine. I have no choice but to respond. Whatever it is you want, you won’t be able to achieve it anyway.”

He smiled with confidence. It was the smile of a certain strong person who had never been defeated despite fighting me countless times.

Today, I would definitely capture that guy.

“Divine Descent Ritual.”

The sound of waves can be heard.

“Dragon King God.”

The Dragon King is divided into the Four Sea Dragon Kings of east, west, south, and north.

Unlike the Dragon King from the folk tales we know, shamanism views the Dragon King as four entities. This time, among them…

“West Sea White Dragon King.”

The white dragon of the West Sea shall come.

| Young vessel. |

The Dragon King God’s voice echoed in my head. I barely managed to keep from collapsing on the spot.

“Kugh…!”

Such an exalted rank. Befitting a divine spirit who held the West Sea beneath him.

| My wait has been so long that I was counting every grain of sand in the West Sea. |

The voice with its heavy cadence seemed to shake my brain. I gathered myself and replied.

“…I greet you for the first time. Master of the West Sea.”

| The true masters of the sea are originally the children who live there… I would prefer to be called a manager, so to speak. |

“Yes. I misspoke.”

Now I understood. How much the Mountain Lord had been looking out for me.

‘Of course, the Dragon King God’s rank is higher than the Mountain Lord’s, but still, they’re both gods under heaven. Yet it’s this difficult to accept.’

Unlike the White Dragon King, the Mountain Lord seemed to have deliberately suppressed his rank. How kind of him.

But I had to endure it. Only then could I finally defeat the bishop this time.

‘All this time I’ve been going through dungeons to increase my mana wasn’t just to enhance the power of the divine spirits I’d been summoning. I needed gods of higher rank, like the Dragon King God.’

Now that I’d finally succeeded in performing the Divine Descent Ritual for the Dragon King God. There was no time to complain about how difficult it was.

| Indeed. That lowly being preaches suffering. |

The Dragon King of the West Sea looked at the silver-haired bishop through my eyes.

“Yes.”

I pointed the Spirit General Sword at the bishop.

“…You’ll have to come with me. This church is closing down as of today. The reason for closure would be a tsunami, I suppose.”

The bishop shrugged his shoulders. Then he spread his fingers and shot another cluster of light.

Bang!

The shot cluster of light grazed past me. It brutally destroyed the church structure behind me.

“Business was thriving at its peak, what do you mean. This is unfair. I won’t just stand by quietly.”

“Of course you’ll struggle. Even knowing it’s all pointless.”

I wore a crooked smile.

“Whale Wave.”

A great wave like a whale.

Massive waves wrapped around the Spirit General Sword. The waves that rose like a waterspout obscured the bishop’s vision.

[Status Window]

Name: Eun Hae-dam, White Dragon King

Grade: ?? Grade

[Stats]

Health: 10(+276/287) Strength: 10(+256) Agility: 10(+275)

Mental Power | 189/200 Mana | 540/551

[Skills]

Whale Wave (S) lv.max

Raging Seas (S) lv.max

Dragon God (P) lv.max

I swung the Spirit General Sword. The bishop drew light clusters to block the attack.

But that was like a candle before the wind. There was no way to completely block the fierce waves.

Shuggeuggeuk!

While the bishop endured the Whale Wave, I glanced back.

‘Is it roughly finished?’

Believers were being moved one after another through Lee Cheong-ryu’s Gate.

While I drew the bishop’s attention, Hong I-jo and Lee Cheong-ryu were escorting the ordinary believers.

Swoooosh—

I swung my sword once more. The bishop reached out and split the wave.

“Tch.”

The wave split into four parts and passed by the bishop.

But I wasn’t disappointed. I could just attack several times. Besides, this time…

‘I’m not alone.’

“Lee Cheong-ryu!”

The moment I swung my sword. A gate created by Lee Cheong-ryu appeared beneath my feet.

My body instantly disappeared through the gate, and the bishop was momentarily flustered by the unexpected situation.

“…Haha!”

I couldn’t hold back my laughter. I passed through Lee Cheong-ryu’s Gate.

The position where my body reappeared was behind the bishop.

Swish—!

I swung my sword once more. Clang. The light cluster shot by the bishop blocked my sword.

However, unlike before, his defensive gesture was hasty. It was certainly a quite heavy blow that caught him off guard.

“—Cheap tricks!”

The bishop shouted this and fired light clusters randomly. Lee Cheong-ryu’s gates appeared simultaneously.

I hid inside them, dodging the bishop’s attacks.

‘Lee Cheong-ryu is matching my rhythm.’

This was an improvised combat method. Therefore, there was no time to practice coordinating with him.

Nevertheless, Lee Cheong-ryu created gates in exactly the right places, as if he could read my attack directions.

Clang!

I unleashed my next attack in sync with his support. The tip of the Spirit General Sword cut the bishop’s silver hair.

“—!”

The bishop couldn’t maintain his balance amidst the chaotically appearing sword paths.

In just a few seconds, it was impossible to prepare for all the attacks stabbing from every direction.

“Hoo…”

He suddenly stopped moving. After taking a deep breath, he swung one arm widely.

“Damn it!”

I cursed under my breath.

| It’s a breakwater. Stand back. |

The White Dragon King warned. I leaped back with a jump.

Shwoooooo—

It was a cluster of light like a thorn bush. The silver-haired bishop created a sharp sacred territory centered around himself.

That sacred territory became a breakwater that blocked the Dragon King God’s waves.

“At this rate… I can’t break through.”

The standoff continued.

“Move aside.”

“—?”

The sound of flapping wings could be heard. Soon, with the sound of chains clashing against each other—clatter—Hong I-jo joined in.

Kagagagang!

Hong I-jo extended his black iron chains and struck the bishop’s cluster of light.

‘It’s… breaking.’

The bishop’s cluster of light crumbled with a shattering sound.

Did the attack work? Against that bishop, another hunter’s attack was effective?

“Effective.”

“…!”

“It is.”

Hong I-jo retrieved his chains. In his hand was attached the talisman I had given him.

Then it really was…

“…The bishop is a spiritual entity, isn’t he.”

I clenched my fist tightly.

“So you’ve seen through that far?”

The silver-haired bishop swept back his disheveled hair. He regulated his breathing and smiled brightly again.

‘On the surface, he’s no different from a human at all…’

He bled and breathed. He seemed like a perfectly ordinary human.

Then Hong I-jo focused his gaze on the bishop.

“…Can’t see.”

“…”

“Possibilities.”

[Skill]

Bird Survey (P) lv.8

— The places a bird’s gaze reaches are distant.

While standing in the present, one can see the opponent’s future, that is, the degree of their future development possibilities.

Hong I-jo’s Bird Survey couldn’t see the bishop’s future. Right. Whatever his outward appearance, now it was truly certain.

The bishop… was a spiritual entity.

He was already a dead person.

No future could be seen from a dead person. It was the same context as why I couldn’t read the bishop’s Four Pillars.

[Status Window]

Name: ?

Grade: ?

[Stats]

Health: ■■■ Strength: ■■■ Agility: □□□

Mental Power | ■■■ Mana | □□□

[Skills]

? (S) lv.■

? (S) lv.■

? (S) lv.■

Four Pillars / □□□

A being with no name, no fate. That was the bishop’s true identity.

‘That’s why only I, only with my spiritual power, could reach him.’

I clenched my fist tightly. Though it was an identity I had somewhat expected, the shock was still a shock.

“…To think I have to arrest a dead person. How contradictory.”

“Doesn’t matter.”

Hong I-jo spoke in a calm tone.

“Criminal. Must be punished.”

…Right. That’s all there is to it. Nothing changes. Whether that guy is a spiritual entity or a living person. Criminals must be punished.

I nodded.

“Yes.”

Hong I-jo leaped toward the bishop. Using the church’s high ceiling as his sky, the red bird flew through the air.

He finally reached the bishop’s front.

Grab.

Hong I-jo’s grip seized the bishop’s pale face.

“Flying Wing Bird.”

[Skill]

Flying Wing Bird (S)

— A bird that has lost its love flies in search of its mate.

Touch the opponent to judge them. Depending on the weight of their ‘sins,’ the caster loses a specific part of their body.

His skill that judges sins was cast.

Hong I-jo was a top-tier S-rank Hunter. If the attack connected, rendering the bishop unable to fight wouldn’t be difficult.

“This is…”

As I let out a short sigh.

The silver-haired bishop smiled until his eyes curved.

“How contradictory. How do you intend to judge the sins of the dead?”

With those words, a brief flash of light flickered.

Lurch.

Hong I-jo staggered. He clutched the area around his eyes and stepped back.

“…Hong I-jo?”

I called his name with a trembling voice. I felt a terrifyingly ominous energy gnawing at the back of my neck.

Drip.

Drip.

Blood as red as his wings fell to the church floor. It was blood flowing from Hong I-jo’s eyes.

‘Was the skill reflected? Because the bishop is a spirit?’

It seemed Hong I-jo’s skill couldn’t judge the sins of the dead.

But…

Depending on the weight of their ‘sins,’ the caster loses a specific part of their body.

…That Hong I-jo had sins? That he who catches criminals had committed enough sins to lose an eye? It didn’t make sense.

“Whale Wave!”

I unleashed waves toward the bishop while approaching Hong I-jo.

“…It hurts.”

He was covering one eye. I couldn’t hide my confusion.

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