Broken Ranker Devours Myths - Chapter 55

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 55

Z Team (2)

 

 

 

The moment Lee Hyeon saw the dungeon report for , he intuitively realized it.

‘This is a Quest I can clear most comfortably.’

Finding the real one among thousands of axes would be difficult for others,

but for Lee Hyeon who possessed the Golden Eyes of Truth, it was a piece of cake.

 

[Activating ‘Sacred Relic: Golden Eyes of Truth’ to determine the authenticity of items.]

 

Messages indicating truth and falsehood appeared above the numerous axes.

 

[False]

[False]

……

[True]

 

The real axe was right next to the Mountain God who was wearing a kind smile.

That’s why Lee Hyeon attacked him immediately after pulling it out.

Fortunately, the creature was off guard.

He was able to split it apart very easily.

“……Senior?”

Of course, Kim Min-jeong and the team members looked at him with bewildered faces at the sudden situation,

and Lee Hyeon spoke in an indifferent tone.

“Everyone prepare for battle.”

“Huh……? What do you mean?”

“Don’t tell me you naively thought a 3-star dungeon Quest would end this easily?”

“……!”

Manager Eom Ki-seon hastily drew his half-broken great sword.

 

[Activating legend ‘Baby General Uturi’ to use wings as weapons!]

 

The wings attached under his armpits grew out and wrapped around one arm, then extended to the great sword, transforming it into a complete sword.

At that moment,

Paaaaa……!

Kukuku!

Cursed waves from the dead Mountain God covered the entire mountainside,

“Oh my…….”

“What a truly bad woodcutter.”

“Since you showed honesty,”

“we were going to accept you as our comrade. Kikikik.”

The axes embedded everywhere transformed into Mountain Gods one by one.

All in grotesque forms with white hair and bleeding tears.

 

[Activating legend ‘The Story of Janghwa and Hongryeon’ to overlay killing intent!]

[Activating legend ‘Black Country Fire Dog’ to attempt dire wolf possession dance!]

 

Kim Min-jeong drew her pistol from the holster and loaded bullets, while Chief Seo Ae-ri swallowed specially manufactured pills and attempted transformation.

Crack—

Kuoooo!

Chief Seo Ae-ri possessed a mutation-type legend, just as Lee Hyeon had predicted when he met her in the laboratory.

The difference from Western lycanthropes was that she used dead beast claws as a medium to accept their spirits.

In other words, she could transform into the vengeful spirit of the beast she channeled.

Right now it was a dire wolf.

One that boasted swift yet fierce claws.

Her body stretched slightly longer, and her eyes changed to resemble those of a canine.

“Kikikik.”

“Your spirit is quite impressive.”

“Let’s see if you can remain so confident even after death!”

“Damn it! I knew the axes would turn into Mountain Gods, but the goal was to destroy all of them!? Humanly speaking, you should have told us that from the start!!”

The laughter of the Mountain Gods and Manager Eom Ki-seon’s irritated protest.

Whoosh!

Without anyone taking the lead, Z Team and the Mountain Gods clashed.

No, they were about to clash.

“When you fight, don’t just fight with anything, fight with these.”

Suddenly, axes fell in front of each team member.

Iron axes that looked exactly like the one Lee Hyeon had pulled out earlier.

Questioning looks were directed at him about what this was all about,

“You’ll be able to catch them easily with those.”

At Lee Hyeon’s nonchalant reply, they had no time to ask questions and clashed with the Mountain Gods holding those iron axes.

Bang! Crash!

‘What……? This is really easy?’

‘Why are they being pushed back so easily?’

But the attacks worked too well.

The team members were even more surprised.

‘Didn’t they say each Mountain God was boss-level?’

That’s why their minds went dizzy the moment thousands of axes transformed into Mountain Gods.

They thought they had failed from the first attempt.

But there seemed to be some hidden piece to these iron axes.

‘No, more than that, how can there be multiple real iron axes instead of just one?’

Various questions flashed through the team members’ minds,

“Kaaak!”

“How can you find the real axes so easily!?”

“Hand over those axes!”

The team members had no time to ask Lee Hyeon for reasons and had to clash with the Mountain Gods again.

Crash!

The moment Manager Eom Ki-seon roughly brought down the iron axe, three Mountain Gods were violently knocked back.

“Kahahaha! Once you know the strategy, everything after that is my world! You’re all done for, you bastards!!”

Manager Eom Ki-seon let out a clear laugh and leaped into the midst of the Mountain Gods.

Chief Seo Ae-ri also silently began close combat. Somehow her movements seemed much freer than what was described in the capability report.

“Senior.”

Kim Min-jeong approached Lee Hyeon’s side.

With axe-like eyes no less fierce than an iron axe.

“You deliberately woke up the mountain gods without giving us any warning, didn’t you? To check our combat capabilities?”

Lee Hyeon grinned wickedly.

“Let’s call it training.”

“Do you want to die?”

Of course, it didn’t work on her.

“I’m joking, there won’t be any danger so don’t worry. I’m trying to plan squad strategies too, so please understand.”

“You should tell us these things in advance…, sigh. I won’t even bother. How are you getting more cunning by the day?”

Kim Min-jeong grumbled as Lee Hyeon expected, but she never backed down.

In one hand a magic gun, in the other an iron axe. She took the strategy of binding the mountain god’s feet with rapid fire from the magic gun, then finishing it off with the iron axe.

And…

‘As expected, these guys were originally White Bone Demons.’

Lee Hyeon also slowly picked up an iron axe in one hand and Taotie’s Fangs in the other to join the battle.

Except for Chief Seo Ae-ri who had a sensitive sense of smell, the others didn’t seem to notice yet,

but there had been a strange smell of rotting corpses since a while ago.

 

[You have discovered the secret of the adapted parts in the using Golden Eyes of Truth.]

 

[1. Corpses Disguised as Mountain Gods]

[The true identity of the mountain gods are corpses that died long ago. The place where the axes were embedded was originally a cemetery where corpses were buried, explaining that this place is a public cemetery.]

……

 

[2. Mountain Gods Disguised as Axes]

[The necromancer who controlled so many corpses by disguising them as mountain gods is extremely skilled and very adept at deceiving people.]

……

 

[3. Curse Techniques Bound to Necromancy]

……

 

[All clues have been compiled to reveal the hidden form of !]

[The location of the ‘White Bone Demon’ hidden in the forest by the pond begins to be caught by Golden Eyes of Truth.]

[You have interpreted ■■■■’s myth. You gain some karma.]

[Your rank rises.]

 

「White Bone Demon, huh.」

Son Wukong looked at the white energy in the mountain god’s white hair and chuckled bitterly.

「Because of that bastard, I got scolded by Master in my youth and cursed a lot by those stupid disciples.」

「Kekeke. That’s all past memories, isn’t it senior brother? Just forget about it.」

「This isn’t your business, is it?」

Sha Wujing, who was always confident, slightly turned his head to the side.

The White Bone Demon episode was one of the few episodes in Journey to the West where Son Wukong was wronged.

‘She approached to eat Xuanzang Tripitaka, but when Son Wukong caught her, she left only fake corpses and ran away, then later framed Son Wukong for killing people, wasn’t it?’

Later the truth was revealed and Xuanzang Tripitaka apologized to end it, but until then Son Wukong suffered quite a bit, even being expelled.

All of this happened because the demon called White Bone Demon was extremely skilled not only in transformation arts but also in necromancy,

and here she was performing similar feats.

‘The iron axes were originally items that existed in this dungeon. In reality, there would be as many axes as there are heads.’

That’s why Lee Hyeon had only found the real iron axes and handed them to his team members.

A dungeon that wouldn’t be difficult once the secret was solved.

But…

‘Like during , isn’t there an acquaintance like Sha Wujing?’

Lee Hyeon saw Son Wukong’s small shoulders visible from behind slightly droop.

Even without saying anything, he must have had some hope.

Lee Hyeon also moved quickly, putting his regretful feelings aside.

There were still many places to visit.

Paaaaat!

 

* * *

 

The battle with the White Bone Demon was nothing special.

After all, it was a demon with no particular strengths except for necromancy.

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage erupts!]

 

Where the lightning had swept through.

The skull-shaped demon split in half crumbled into powder.

“Son Wukong… descendant… because of you…”

Pssssss!

 

[You have successfully read and understood the . You have acquired a large amount of ■■■■’s karma.]

……

[Based on ■■■■’s karma, your communion level with Ruyi Jingu Bang increases much higher.]

……

[Your rank has risen.]

[Your rank has risen.]

[All stats increase by 5 to match your risen rank.]

……

[You have cleared all hidden achievement conditions. As an excess achievement, each person is awarded the additional reward ‘White Bone Spirit Summoning Skill Book’.]

……

 

White Bone Spirit Summoning.

The necromancy that the White Bone Demon used to turn thousands of axes into mountain gods.

‘It would work well together with Curse Incantations. Since it uses negative energy, it would probably work well with other additional functions too.’

Lee Hyeon decided to thoroughly examine the White Bone Spirit Summoning later and first threw the skill book into his inventory.

Fortunately, the other party members were also fighting well against the mountain gods.

A moment later…

 

[You have cleared the dungeon.]

……

 

“…Ugh. Finally finished. Maybe because I went wild after a long time, my muscle pain is no joke. At times like this, a can of beer would be perfect.”

Lee Hyeon approached Manager Eom Ki-seon who had collapsed in front of the closing gate.

“What are you doing? We don’t have time for this. Get up. We’re moving immediately.”

“What? Weren’t we going to rest?”

“We have a long way to go. If we want to finish within two weeks, there’s no time to rest. Follow me.”

“…!?”

For a moment, Manager Eom Ki-seon’s face changed strangely.

But Lee Hyeon didn’t look at his face and moved immediately.

Time could be tight if they wanted to conquer all fifteen dungeons.

 

[You have entered a new dungeon.]

 

* * *

 

After that, the forced march began.

 

[You have entered the dungeon!]

 

[Dungeon ‘Hansel and Gretel’]

[In a forest lived a poor woodcutter couple. They had siblings named Hansel and Gretel……]

……

 

[You have cleared the dungeon.]

[Additional rewards are given for exceeding objectives.]

[‘Player: Jang Lee Hyeon’ has taken 1st place in contribution share……]

……

 

On the second day too,

 

[You have entered the dungeon!]

 

On the third day too,

 

[You have entered the dungeon!]

 

The fourth day was the same.

 

[You have cleared the dungeon.]

[Additional rewards are given for exceeding objectives.]

……

 

Lee Hyeon really kept his promise.

He entered dungeons without missing a single day.

And cleared them.

While consistently recording achievements that exceeded objectives.

 

[You have entered the dungeon!]

 

And Lee Hyeon always took first place in contribution share.

Because of that, they couldn’t properly express their complaints. Lee Hyeon was working the hardest at the front.

But from the 6th day onward, one common thought began to emerge in the party members’ minds.

‘We’re going to die like this! From exhaustion!’

Even Manager Eom Ki-seon, who initially said it was good to fight a lot, started showing signs of fatigue from the 8th day.

So Kim Min-jeong suggested as a representative that they should rest since continuous combat was severely draining their stamina, but,

“You’ll need potions. I brought plenty of magic power and status ailment potions, so don’t worry.”

“……”

Potions of various types came out in abundance from who knows where he got them.

Even Large Capacity Potions that were hard to obtain even at White Burn. (Later they found out he had gotten them from Lieutenant General Lee Gun-san’s house.)

So they tried changing tactics.

However,

“You want to eat proper meals? I figured as much and brought plenty of Emergency Rations of various types.”

“……”

“You want to sleep in a soft bed? I have thicker sleeping bags. Should I give you this?”

“……”

“There’s no Safe Zone here? It’s fine. If you have this [Plum Blossom Brazier], it has the effect of blocking monster approaches for about 4 hours.”

“……”

Sometimes their sleep time even decreased instead.

‘Damn it! What the hell is that inventory! It’s not Doraemon, what the!!’

Like a certain cartoon’s magic pocket, something kept popping out whenever they mentioned anything, and now it was getting scary.

‘……It obviously looks large capacity, but where did he get such expensive stuff…… No. Let’s not think about it.’

Kim Min-jeong instinctively didn’t think deeply about it, feeling like she’d get involved in troublesome matters.

Finally, on the 11th day.

“Aaaah! I can’t! I can’t do this anymore! How can you keep working to death like this! Can’t even sleep at night!”

Manager Eom Ki-seon, who had exhausted himself early on, collapsed on the ground with a gaunt face.

“Didn’t you sleep for 3 hours yesterday?”

“How is that sleeping!”

“You can sleep even after you’re dead.”

“What kind of old-fashioned…!”

“I’ll handle the overtime pay claim with the company, so let’s go in.”

“Aaaah! Really! I said it’s hard!”

This was already the umpteenth repeated work stoppage.

Lee Hyeon didn’t even listen with half an ear each time.

Since he was so strong, he would just lift Manager Eom Ki-seon up and throw him into the Gate.

So they thought it would be the same this time, but,

“Alright. Let’s rest.”

“Huh? Really?”

Manager Eom Ki-seon looked at him with a bewildered expression.

A face wondering if there was some other trick.

Kim Min-jeong and Chief Seo Ae-ri, who were having cup noodles for their first meal of the day, naturally looked at Lee Hyeon too.

They looked like they were seeing war refugees.

Lee Hyeon chuckled and shrugged his shoulders.

“Right. If the great ASTRA is only this much, what can I do?”

“……!?”

Manager Eom Ki-seon shot up.

Lee Hyeon threw a rotten smile at him.

“ASTRA isn’t much either.”

“……!!”

Manager Eom Ki-seon stood up with a red face.

“What do you mean not much! Let’s do it! What’s so hard about some dungeon clearing!”

“Right?”

Watching Manager Eom Ki-seon fuming and Lee Hyeon grinning,

“……”

“……He got properly provoked.”

Kim Min-jeong and Chief Seo Ae-ri put down their cup noodles with deep sighs.

 

* * *

 

On the 15th day.

“Waaaah! Finally!”

The party was able to enter the final dungeon looking like beggars.

While everyone was shouting hurrahs and shedding tears of joy,

“……Where is this place?”

Son Wukong’s gaze trembled somehow as he looked at the scenery lush with flowers and fruits.

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