All‑Master Who Regressed to Bronze - Chapter 117
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All Master Who Regressed to Bronze Episode 117
“Uaaaah!!! Uaaaah!!! Kruaaaah!!! Never!!! I will never forgive you!!! Absolutely! Absolutely!!! I will kill you no matter what!!! Absolutely!!!”
Thunder Hammer, who had been split into upper and lower halves by the Heavenly Annihilation Island Slash and turned into a half-corpse, roared in fury.
Though he was split in half, having become an avatar body, his power was transcendentally immense.
He pounded the colosseum floor with both arms, and his severed lower half’s legs thrashed about, revealing unbearable rage.
Watching this scene, Shin Hyeok quietly caught his breath, released Purple Moon, and even released Ilwon, returning all his energy to its original state, then let out a chuckle.
“Your dreams are big. Do you think that’s possible?”
“…Bastard. You won this time, but next time will be different! I couldn’t use my full power because you snuck in like a rat, but if I draw upon the power of the Steel Mountain Range dimension, it’ll be different!”
Thunder Hammer became enraged, perhaps feeling that Shin Hyeok’s laughter was mocking him.
But Shin Hyeok methodically pointed out the reasons.
“You seem to be relying on your Death Prevention Permit, but that’s completely useless, you know?”
“How do you know about that—”
“The Death Prevention Permit literally prevents death within the Dimension Arena. But you’re not playing the Dimension Arena right now, are you?”
“…!”
First reason: the Death Prevention Permit only works within the Dimension Arena.
In other words, it doesn’t prevent death outside the Dimension Arena.
Of course—
“Well, since it’s a Hidden Stage, it might be judged as part of the Dimension Arena.”
“That’s right! This is the Dungeon of the Game: Ravine! It’s inside the Dimension Arena! So of course I can use the Death Prevention Permit!”
The first reason might not apply due to the loophole of it being a Hidden Stage.
Perhaps noticing this, Thunder Hammer’s face, which had turned pale, brightened up.
But instead, Shin Hyeok looked down at Thunder Hammer with an incredulous expression.
“You’re really stupid. Is your brain as small as your height because you’re a dwarf?”
“Bastard! You’re afraid of the moment we’ll meet again! Yes, enjoy your current victory! The day we meet again will be your death day!”
“No, meeting you ends today. That’s a predetermined course regardless of whether your Death Prevention Permit works or not.”
“…What?”
Thunder Hammer, who had been mistakenly thinking that Shin Hyeok feared his resurrection, tilted his head at Shin Hyeok’s following words.
He could understand the statement that it would end if the Death Prevention Permit didn’t work.
If the Death Prevention Permit didn’t work, it meant death here would apply directly.
But why would it end even if the Death Prevention Permit worked?
Shin Hyeok’s answer to this was simple.
“Did you think avatar bodies were all good things? That’s just fool’s gold. A player who couldn’t even become a Challenger becoming an avatar body? And one where dozens of Constellations’ powers are mixed together haphazardly? When your current state ends, will you still be an existence you can call yourself? At least I don’t think so.”
“Huh?”
Second reason.
It was that the fate of Thunder Hammer, who had accepted the Constellations’ power and become an avatar body because of it, was already fixed.
Avatar bodies born by receiving Constellations’ power were certainly powerful, but the penalty was so great that even players of a certain level would hesitate at least once even in desperate moments.
Players are beings who construct their own worlds.
Avatar bodies are created by forcing others’ worlds into such worlds.
In other words, it meant one’s own world becomes contaminated.
Once mixed, even if others’ worlds disappear, their echoes remain.
Moreover, dozens of Constellations’ powers were mixed together?
Then how much ego, how much territory could Thunder Hammer’s world maintain within that?
The answer was ‘none.’
No, there would be some.
About as much as the truffle content in a snack with 0.000000083% truffle content, but there would be some.
But that’s all.
Could an existence that only possessed truffle-content levels in their own world truly be called the original being?
Crack!
“…Kuaaaaaaah!!!”
The answer was right before Shin Hyeok’s eyes.
Thunder Hammer’s mutilated body began to collapse.
Both his lower half and upper half, equally.
Even the collapse of his already severed lower half came to Thunder Hammer as terrible pain.
A clear example showing that physical severance and soul collapse are unrelated.
Shin Hyeok watched the collapsing Thunder Hammer with an expressionless face, then raised his head to look at the void.
No, to be precise, it wasn’t just empty space.
[The Lord of the Red Anvil rages at his avatar body’s collapse.]
[The Forge Master of Lava River glares at you.]
[The Lord of the Steel Army clicks his tongue at the loss of karma.]
[The Leader of Thunder and Cannon bursts with angry roars.]
[The Ruler of Molten Metal rages as hot as molten metal.]
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“Quite a lot came.”
It was a void studded like stars with dozens of messages from the dozens of Constellations who had granted power to Thunder Hammer.
A festival of so many messages that he couldn’t even spare a glance for the collapsing Thunder Hammer.
And that meant one thing.
Kugugugugugugugu!!!
“Kugh…!”
The Constellations’ gazes were pouring down on Shin Hyeok.
It was similar to what he had experienced from the Emerald Orcs’ Tribal Constellations before, but different.
First, there were more Constellations than before, and the magnitude of their anger was different.
Because the Constellations had projected tremendous power and karma into this incident.
Of course, Thunder Hammer paid the price by being torn apart soul and all, and he also paid the backlash, but a loss is a loss.
Most of it went to Thunder Hammer, but even that was a significant loss.
Well, for Shin Hyeok, it was absurd.
First, the Sacheolseok Mine they had been parasitically feeding on was built beneath Earth dimension’s Game: Ravine.
In other words, they had parasitized the Dimension Arena unfolding in Shin Hyeok’s dimension.
Second, those who protected such beings and granted enough power to become avatar bodies were the Dwarf Tribal Constellations.
It was their own doing.
Yet they were venting their responsibility and anger for failure on Shin Hyeok, the victim, which was absurd.
But Shin Hyeok endured their gazes while letting out groans.
“Good, very good.”
He even let out laughter while saying this.
It was natural if you think about it.
This current situation was exactly what Shin Hyeok had been hoping for.
[The Lord of the Red Anvil asks if you’ve gone mad and lets out a hollow laugh.]
[The Forge Master of Lava River sneers at your pathetically weak mental strength.]
[The Lord of the Steel Army licks his lips, saying your body is useful unlike your mental strength.]
[The Leader of Thunder and Cannon…]
[The Ruler of Molten Metal…]
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Of course, from the perspective of the Constellations watching Shin Hyeok, it seemed like he had lost his mind under their gazes.
Kugugugugugu!!!
So they cast their gazes a bit more powerfully.
To see Shin Hyeok collapse quickly.
And at that moment, Shin Hyeok pulled out the move he had prepared solely for this moment.
“Devour.”
Kwadrdrdrdrdrdeuk!
The messages that had adorned the void like stars were swallowed into Devour’s maw.
[Red@ #ru’s mast%r ^$#@$!@^$!@#]
[$#Steel River’s gre%$t one %@$$%^$%#!]
[Iron ^$$@#! master &$#$!^%^#]
[Thunder# and #@! this&% one ^%#$!@$%]
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Messages that began breaking apart in an instant.
The bewilderment felt by the Constellations was transmitted to Shin Hyeok in its entirety.
Feeling the pressure bearing down on him weaken along with the gradually diminishing messages, Shin Hyeok lifted his heavy head and looked at the messages as he spoke.
“Your karma and dignity. I’ll eat them well.”
[^$$#@$!%$#%#$%#@!]
Though the message was now completely broken and unrecognizable in form, Shin Hyeok could clearly feel the rage contained within it, so he lightly waved his hand and devoured even that.
Kwadeuk!
Before long, after devouring all the messages, a message window appeared before Shin Hyeok’s eyes.
[You have plundered part of the dignity of dozens of Constellations.]
[Amazing Achievement!]
[Stat: Spirit Power has increased by 118.]
“Not bad.”
The spirit power gained from devouring the Constellations’ messages amounted to a whopping 118.
More than half the amount of spirit power Shin Hyeok possessed.
Especially—
“Now shall I try the main dish.”
“Ugh, uah, ueoeo… P-please, spare… me…”
Shin Hyeok couldn’t help but smile at the fact that there was still something left to eat.
Thunder Hammer, whose soul was collapsing and dying.
He was no different from a delicacy containing all the power of various Constellations intact.
He would be able to obtain spirit power on a completely different level from merely devouring messages that were just part of their gaze.
And that thought proved to be correct.
Kwadeuk!
The moment he devoured Thunder Hammer, whose mind had collapsed from the pain of his soul breaking apart.
[You have completely absorbed the power of Constellations contained in the avatar body.]
[Unbelievable Achievement!]
[Stat: Spirit Power has increased by 249.]
“Perfect.”
He was able to obtain massive spirit power that couldn’t even be compared to devouring the Constellations’ gaze earlier.
A law that applies to all stats.
The higher stats rise, the harder they become to accumulate.
In other words, gaining 249 after rising by 118 was several times more difficult than the former.
The power of the Constellations that had been sleeping within Thunder Hammer was just that overwhelmingly powerful.
If he hadn’t devoured it, that power would have returned to the Constellations as is.
Of course there would have been losses, but it would have been better than becoming completely zero from Shin Hyeok’s devouring, though that was now just a vanished future.
“Their stomachs must be quite upset.”
Once for creating an avatar through intervention.
Once for sending their gaze to try to crush Shin Hyeok to death.
And finally, once more for failing to recover the power dwelling in Thunder Hammer.
The Dwarf Tribal Constellations who suffered a total of three blows must have incurred truly tremendous losses.
Thinking this way, Shin Hyeok could smile even with his face pale from Ilwon’s recoil and the battle’s aftereffects.
But that wasn’t the only reason Shin Hyeok was smiling.
[You have cleared Hidden Stage: Ravine Underground Mine!]
With Thunder Hammer’s death, the clear condition for Hidden Stage: Ravine Underground Mine had been achieved.
In other words—
[Now beginning reward settlement.]
“Ah, sweet. So sweet.”
It was time to receive the rewards of a Diamond-grade Hidden Stage.
Watching the system fall silent for reward settlement, Shin Hyeok wore a brighter smile than ever before.
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