Broken Ranker Devours Myths - Chapter 73

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 73

First Hunt (7)

 

 

 

[Legend ‘Eight-Foot Demon with Bamboo Hat’ rages violently and unleashes flames!]

 

The legend symbolizing Team B’s leader, Team Leader Park Geon-il, was the Eight-Foot Demon.

The vengeful spirit of a giant who died crushed under a house collapsed by fire remained as a legend, lending him power.

The form of a giant with a face hideously scarred by burns, hidden beneath a bamboo hat, briefly appeared above Team Leader Park.

Team Leader Park thrust forward a spear boasting a length of over 3 meters. Instantly, flames erupted from the spearhead, deflecting the Iron Devourer.

Kwang!!

“Kugh…!”

However, the power contained in the Iron Devourer was formidable, and he was pushed back quite a distance.

 

[Legend ‘Great Serpent of the Shaman’s Tree’ screams!]

 

Team Leader Cheon Do-dam of Team E beside him couldn’t withstand the shockwave at all and was falling backward.

Screech!

Lee Hyeon appeared like lightning above the man’s head and brought down his axe.

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage explodes!]

 

“…!!”

The moment Team Leader Cheon’s eyes widened,

“Damn it!”

Just before the axe could embed itself in Team Leader Cheon’s forehead, Team Leader Park rushed at Lee Hyeon from the side.

Spear strikes spewing crimson flames poured down in succession.

Clang clang clang clang!

Kwang! Bang!

Lee Hyeon pulled back his body while calmly deflecting the offensive strikes with the flat of his axe repeatedly.

Meanwhile, Team Leader Cheon also hastily got up and swung the whip he held in his hand.

Whirrrr!

The tip of the whip, which swept the ground before springing up like a thorn, had a poison needle embedded in it.

“Where do you think you’re going!!”

 

[Legend ‘Jangsan Tiger from When Tigers Smoked Tobacco’ attempts to intervene!]

 

However, the poison needle was deflected by a new Jangsan Tiger that appeared midway. The needle actually broke due to the thick hide.

At the same time, another Jangsan Tiger appeared and bared its fangs at Team Leader Cheon’s side.

Thinking this was dangerous, Team Leader Cheon hastily pulled his whip to forcibly bind the legs of both Jangsan Tigers.

Thanks to this, he could buy time to pull back his body…

 

[Stepping on Eodukseoni’s Steps to attempt a surprise attack!]

 

This time, Lee Hyeon appeared from behind Team Leader Cheon, tearing through the darkness to bring down his axe.

It was like the blade of a guillotine falling.

But this too had to be redirected by Team Leader Park’s spear strike that intervened anew.

Kwarrrrr-

Flash! Flash!!

The precarious offense and defense continued without rest.

The chaotic battle where four people were entangled together without anyone taking on a specific opponent was truly disorder itself.

‘As expected of team leaders… I shouldn’t have taken them lightly.’

Lee Hyeon had thought that with his current senses and experience, he could easily defeat even White Burn’s raid team leaders.

But he was mistaken.

Most of White Burn’s team leader-level members were disciples who had each learned from Mo Jeong-gyeon.

Moreover, with their abundant experience, their depth was definitely not shallow.

‘In that case,’

Lee Hyeon twisted his lips.

‘I have no choice but to crush them with more overwhelming output.’

The stronger his opponents were beyond expectations, the more Lee Hyeon was stimulated.

Crackle!!

 

[Donning Dueoksini’s Collar to attempt a charge!]

 

Lee Hyeon attempted a dash while wearing clothes woven with lightning bolts as warp and weft.

“This bastard!!”

Team Leader Park, who was barely managing to deal with two Jangsan Tigers, deeply furrowed his brow and stomped hard on the ground with his foot.

Bang!

He intended to tear apart Lee Hyeon, who was definitely underestimating him, this time.

 

[Legend ‘Eight-Foot Demon with Bamboo Hat’ violently burns the flames of resentment that follow him even in death!]

 

Sizzzzle!!

Centered on where his footprint was made, the ground cracked over a distance of more than ten meters as flames erupted.

The hellish flames that still clung to him despite the Eight-Foot Demon having risen to become a legend.

No matter how much one could handle lightning, it wouldn’t be easy to withstand these flames that burned the soul.

No, that’s what he thought.

Kwang!!

 

[Dueoksini’s Specter crushes the flames of resentment!]

 

Until Lee Hyeon directly broke through it and arrived.

“…!?”

“Is this all a legend amounts to?”

Lee Hyeon appeared, having swept through the tremendous heat wave and heat.

While coldly baring his fangs fully.

The heat wave was so tremendously hot that even the two Jangsan Tigers that had been pressing Team Leader Park were startled.

“If there’s nothing more,”

 

[The narrative of scoffs that flames of this level are merely at the level of tail feathers to the Demon King Bungma.]

 

“You have no choice but to die.”

For Lee Hyeon, who had already engaged in fierce battle with Sahon and achieved victory, flames of this degree were nothing.

Kwarrrrrrung!!

The axe loaded with thunder and lightning fell vertically. The blue-white flash threatened to tear Team Leader Park apart in an instant, rolling menacingly.

Team Leader Park’s complexion turned pale. It was hard to tell whether it was from fear or from being illuminated by the lightning.

“You damn bastard!!”

Team Leader Park belatedly gritted his teeth and thrust his spear upward with all his strength.

The flames that shot up from the crack concentrated on the spear blade, adding to its power.

Kwakwakwang!

Gigigigeuk-

The axe and spear blade collided.

“……Kuk.”

Team Leader Park staggered greatly from the shockwave,

and the axe slid up the spear shaft while unleashing a barrage of strikes.

Intense explosions that made one doubt whether metal was truly clashing with metal followed like thunder.

And each time, the sparks that flew up connected in midair to become lightning bolts.

Flash! Flash!!

Kurrrrrung-

 

[Fury Strike (S) attempts relentless bombardment!]

[Stacks are rapidly accumulating.]

 

Team Leader Park swayed back and forth like a willow tree buffeted by strong winds.

‘What the hell is going on……! His magic power isn’t overflowing, so how can he keep up this relentless bombardment without stopping……!?’

The thunder shook his insides causing internal injuries, and the lightning scratched wildly across his skin, leaving burns and cuts in its wake.

That said, Lee Hyeon wasn’t completely unharmed either.

He too was bleeding profusely from large and small wounds inflicted by the spear blade.

There were even frequent cases where he injured himself from his own offensive.

But Lee Hyeon seemed completely unbothered by such wounds.

Even when the spear blade pierced his thigh, he instead cauterized the wound with lightning fire and clung on even more tenaciously.

A madness that treated injury to his own body as nothing.

He looked like a berserker who had gone completely mad for battle.

Chaechaechaechaechaeng!

Kwakwakwakwang-

Puhpuhpuhpuk!!

On top of that, steel balls relentlessly swept through the gaps in the thick white smoke.

Team Leader Park was already gasping for breath with over a dozen steel balls embedded throughout his body.

‘Damn, it……! What the hell is really happen, ing…….’

“Team Leader Park!”

It seemed Team Leader Park would really die at this rate. Team Leader Cheon risked danger and extended his whip between the two Jangsan Tigers.

Whiriririk!

The whip that shot out like a snake wrapped around Lee Hyeon’s right arm, trying to brake his movement,

‘Got it……!’

but failed.

Udddeuk!

“……!!”

Lee Hyeon instead pulled the whip wrapped around his right arm toward himself.

Because of this, Team Leader Cheon had to experience the terrible ordeal of being dragged along instead.

His strength was far too insufficient to withstand the Snow Soul Arm Strength filled with maximum magic power.

And,

 

[The two Jangsan Tigers greedily covet the legend ‘Great Serpent of the Shaman’s Tree’!]

 

Not missing this opportunity, the Jangsan Tigers rushed in like lightning and bit into Team Leader Cheon’s lower body.

“Uaaaak! Aaaaaaak!!”

Team Leader Cheon’s screams didn’t continue further.

The claws of an additional Jangsan Tiger that rushed over smashed his head to pieces.

It was the futile end of E-Team Leader Cheon Do-dam, who was said to boast the most spectacular weapon techniques among the team leaders symbolizing White Burn.

Thuduk!

“……!!”

The complexion of Team Leader Park, who had to watch his colleague’s death from afar, turned even whiter.

‘Do I really have to die like this?’

Seugeuk!

Puuuuu!

“Aak! My arm! My arrrrrrm!”

The axe cut through his left arm and passed by.

The fountain of blood started to spray but quickly evaporated from the high temperature and disappeared.

Terror cast a shadow over Team Leader Park’s eyes.

The shadow of death was approaching right before his eyes.

A Fire Goblin wreathed in blue-white lightning……

The creature that charged like a tireless bull looked no different from a grim reaper in his eyes.

‘I haven’t even spent all the money I’ve saved……! I just got married and had a baby! Why do I have to die!! What did I do wrong to have to go through something like this……!!’

If it weren’t for the weakness that Executive Director Jeong had caught him with, it wouldn’t have come to this.

Of course, those weaknesses were all things that had developed from associating with Executive Director Jeong.

Things related to the Central Hero Committee.

But that was just a small mistake that occurred because he didn’t know what the Committee was plotting in Korea.

Even though it should be something that could be taken into consideration,

the angry Fire Goblin before his eyes seemed to have absolutely no intention of showing him mercy.

Chaenggang!!

Unable to withstand Lee Hyeon’s axe technique, Team Leader Park’s spear broke in half.

Then came the second dash that followed.

Huuuk!

Paat-

Wearing Dueoksini’s Collar, he pressed his body close to Team Leader Park.

Heat that emitted tremendous high temperature, making the fire energy of the eight-foot fire demon seem like nothing, approached with a whoosh.

Close enough to see the fangs that the Fire Goblin coldly bared.

“N-no……!”

Flash!!

The axe blade spat out blue-white flashes diagonally.

 

[Fury Strike (S) stacks have accumulated. Lightning bolts rain down!]

 

The axe blade instantly sliced through a chunk of the guy’s leg and passed by. No bleeding occurred as it was suppressed by the burns.

And then came another slashing attack.

Twice, three times, four times……

Each time, the falling lightning bolts eventually destroyed all the armor that had been keeping Team Leader Park alive,

and the axe blade that reached under his chin struck his head upward with all its might.

Puuuuu!!

The head that was half-shattered and half-torn rose high into the sky, then fell helplessly to the floor after hitting the ceiling.

Degurureu……

Team Leader Park’s face remained stained with terror.

“Huu…… huu……”

Lee Hyeon exhaled roughly.

 

[Fatigue: 71]

[Rest is recommended.]

 

A sweet metallic scent wafted from the corner of his mouth.

Despite the battle lasting only a few minutes,

his fatigue had accumulated as rapidly as if he had been running through dungeons non-stop for half a month.

‘Unleashing all that rage energy to boost my output at the end really drove up my fatigue. It’s not easy after all.’

Of course, it wasn’t unbearable.

Regardless of the fatigue, his mood was quite refreshing.

The first fierce battle since becoming a Ranker.

The intense stimulation from dancing between life and death seemed to have finally awakened all the senses from his Jet days.

The feeling of returning to his past self.

It was a new awakening.

Moreover,

 

[Ice Jade Heart (SS) activates to quickly cool down the overload.]

[The divine power of the Ruyi Jingu Bang aids in stamina and magic power recovery.]

 

Unlike before, he now had ways to quickly recover his stamina with just a little rest.

“Are you alright, Team Leader Jang?”

“Yes. I’m fine. I just felt dizzy for a moment. Let’s continue.”

“But…”

“I’m really fine.”

Im Won-young looked at Lee Hyeon’s gentle eyes, so different from when he was fighting, and let out a hollow laugh.

“…Team Leader Jang really is an incomprehensible person. Still, it would be better to rest a bit more to reduce fatigue, so please ride on this one’s back.”

Im Won-young patted the back of a nearby Jangsan Tiger.

“Then I’ll impose on you for just a moment.”

Lee Hyeon didn’t refuse even that kindness.

Whoosh—

The Jangsan Tigers carrying the two men ran to the final location.

 

* * *

 

The deeper they went inside, the more intense the vibrations from the Ruyi Jingu Bang on his right arm became.

Bzzzz! Bzzing!!

An even more violent reaction than the Golden Eyes of Truth.

The Ruyi Jingu Bang was searching for the Golden Headband, its long-time partner.

‘Not much left now.’

Then, when they reached the very end of the underground research facility.

‘Here it is.’

The Golden Eyes of Truth and Ruyi Jingu Bang glowed.

Flaaash!

 

[‘Sacred Relic: Golden Eyes of Truth’ discovers the Golden Headband and creates a great resonance!]

[The divine power of the Ruyi Jingu Bang responds to the divine power of the Golden Headband and is drawn like a magnet.]

 

However, Lee Hyeon had no time to pay attention to the reactions of the Golden Eyes of Truth and Ruyi Jingu Bang.

“…!?”

“…What is this terrible stench. What the hell.”

A tremendous stench so bad it seemed like it might paralyze their sense of smell.

There was even poison mixed in.

It was so terrible that even the five Jangsan Tigers growled.

Lee Hyeon and Im Won-young, sensing something was there, threw open the door wide,

and inside they could see a man sitting on a mound formed by dozens of carelessly piled corpses.

It was Executive Director Jeong Gyu-han.

Like Son Wukong from mythology, he wore a circular band on his head… and was dead with his eyes rolled back showing only the whites.

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