Broken Ranker Devours Myths - Chapter 75

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 75

First Hunt (9)

 

 

 

“……It seems the Great Emperor Fengdu has made his move, Guild Leader.”

White Burn, renowned for standing shoulder to shoulder with massive forces like the Central Hero Committee, the City Cartel, and the Sons of Zeus.

The symbol of this place was the Dungeon Strategy Headquarters, composed of 26 strategy teams.

And the leader who commanded them was none other than ‘Gatekeeper’ Geum Ji-gang.

Though his presence was largely overshadowed by Im Won-young and Executive Director Jeong, he was someone who wielded absolute influence over the team leaders who knew the truth.

True to his nickname as the Gatekeeper, he mainly took on the role of Keeper, blocking those who threw down challenges to Mountain God Mo Jeong-gyeon.

And,

Sometimes he also handled the task of suppressing those whose loyalty to the Mountain God was excessive.

Now was one of those times.

“Fengdu, you say……. Ho? I thought at most Ox-Head or Horse-Face would descend. But the king himself has come down? I suppose they’re quite serious this time.”

Mo Jeong-gyeon let out a laugh while puffing white smoke.

“What should we do? Shouldn’t we step in and stop them now?”

“Stop them? They’ve already made up their minds with determination, so how? Why? Are you planning to go yourself?”

“If necessary…….”

“It’s where the children are playing. If you go, it would be cheating.”

Geum Ji-gang had served Mo Jeong-gyeon by her side for over 30 years, but he still often thought he didn’t understand this person well.

‘Even the Great King Sarasoo seemed curious about the Guild Leader’s thoughts…….’

 

[The Great King Sarasoo sits in the flower garden, lost in deep contemplation.]

 

The Great King Sarasoo was Geum Ji-gang’s legend.

A mystical emperor who could sit in the flower garden he cultivated and observe both the underworld and the world of the living equally.

 

[Great King Sarasoo]

The flower keeper of the Western Heaven Flower Garden, said to be located at the boundary between the world of the living and the underworld. He is also the king of the Western Heaven Kingdom. The various flowers he raised in Gwangcheon Pond touch human emotions and symbolize the revival and birth of life.

-Origin: Myth ‘Tale of Anrakgung’

 

Geum Ji-gang had been taking on the role of monitoring the entire heavenly realm, including the underworld, through the Great King Sarasoo.

He had known that someday the would move the Central Hero Committee, and the Committee would provoke Executive Director Jeong.

For this reason, Geum Ji-gang had expressed his opinion to Mo Jeong-gyeon several times that they should get rid of Executive Director Jeong,

but each time, Mo Jeong-gyeon dismissed it, saying that everything would work out naturally and they should just leave it alone.

In the end,

exactly this kind of trouble had come to pass…….

It was only natural that Geum Ji-gang felt frustrated.

“Why? Do I seem like I’m constantly spouting incomprehensible nonsense like those guys above the clouds, just quietly watching whether the world perishes or not? Are you worried I might become like that soon?”

“……You do know, don’t you.”

“You rascal. At times like this, you should say no.”

Mo Jeong-gyeon grumbled while playfully tapping Geum Ji-gang’s head with her long bamboo pipe.

“Ji-gang.”

“Yes, Guild Leader.”

“People in the world say I’ve become cunning in my old age, but when even you look at me with such eyes, it truly saddens me.”

Geum Ji-gang took a slight step back and bowed his head.

“That wasn’t my intention, but if you took it that way, I apologize.”

“At least you should believe in me. I don’t want to become like them either.”

Mo Jeong-gyeon bitterly put the long bamboo pipe to her mouth.

Whoosh-

“I was waiting for Gyu-han in my own way.”

“…….”

“For a chance to return.”

Geum Ji-gang pressed his lips tightly together.

“But in the end, he goes all the way like that. That stubborn fool.”

“……Executive Director Jeong, no, Gyu-han probably thought it was his way of showing loyalty to you, Guild Leader.”

“It’s loyalty and faith that doesn’t include my will at all.”

“…….”

“Unilaterally pouring out affection that the other person doesn’t even want isn’t affection. It’s just delusion and stubbornness.”

Beneath the white smoke, her deeply sunken eyes were revealed.

“That’s why I decided not to embrace that child anymore. Destroy the world? And then I step in as the savior? Ridiculous. What am I supposed to do sitting on top of ashes?”

Geum Ji-gang finally understood.

If Im Won-young hadn’t made up his mind, someday Mo Jeong-gyeon would have taken Executive Director Jeong’s life herself.

“Though I am bound to this land waiting for an invisible time, even so, I love this world dearly. More than that worthless heavenly realm of theirs.”

Geum Ji-gang realized the meaning of what Mo Jeong-gyeon was trying to say and bowed his head.

A moment of silence passed.

Mo Jeong-gyeon quietly took a few puffs and twisted her lips.

“Now, that’s enough of the headache-inducing talk.”

“Do you have orders to give?”

“Those Tang bastards dared to cause such a ruckus on my land…… I can’t just sit still, can I?”

Geum Ji-gang’s eyes flashed again.

They were the eyes of a reaper who judges those going to the underworld.

“Eight of the strategy teams dispatched overseas have already arrived at their respective operation sites and are waiting for orders. Especially X Team and Y Team are asking when we’re going to start.”

“Those wicked ones. Who did they take after to love overturning other people’s tables so much.”

Mo Jeong-gyeon burst into hearty laughter, saying they seemed like well-raised disciples.

A fact that various intelligence agencies had not yet grasped.

From the moment Magic Dragon infiltrated the country with Ping Xin, White Burn had already been moving underwater.

Several teams, led by the elite X and Y teams, were on standby near the Central Hero Committee’s secret safe houses or overseas branches established in major countries.

Ready to move immediately once Mo Jeong-gyeon’s order was given.

“Aren’t you curious how Chairman Peng’s face will change when all his limbs are severed overnight?”

Since they drew their sword first, this side was planning to pick up an axe and smash their heads completely.

That was White Burn.

And that was Mountain God Mo Jeong-gyeon.

“It’s only regrettable that I can’t watch from the sidelines.”

“Ho ho ho. As I thought, you’re too talented to be stuck here doing this.”

Whoooosh-

White smoke spread in billowing clouds.

Mo Jeong-gyeon nodded her head.

“Tell them to begin.”

“Order confirmed.”

That day,

Following the secret facilities on the Korean Peninsula, 21 Central Hero Committee buildings around the world were raided.

 

* * *

 

[Activating Dueoksini’s Swift Thunder to accelerate both weapons!]

 

Lee Hyeon became lightning and charged forward.

Then he threw all three axe blades.

Whoooosh-

Whooosh-

The three axes flew with fierce air-rending force, covered in lightning,

Flash!

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage erupts!]

 

Kraaaash!!

Three massive lightning bolts struck down in front of Executive Director Jeong.

Dueoksini’s Rage was a strike that unleashed tremendous amounts of magic power.

It boasted power equivalent to a finishing move, so Lee Hyeon usually didn’t activate more than two at once,

but now wasn’t a situation good enough to worry about such things.

The pile of corpses was about to explode.

 

[The myth ‘Master of Grim Winds’ attempts to activate ‘Great Curse: Corpse Explosion Site’!]

 

Detonating all those corpses filled with vicious grudge poison that could even corrode stone?

‘This place was a trap from the start. To catch the teams that came to capture him…!’

This massive underground research facility was already filled with corpses everywhere.

If all of them caused a chain explosion, enormous damage would occur.

Lee Hyeon intended to prevent that damage as much as possible.

Kwaaaang!

At that moment, a massive corpse explosion occurred, mixing with the three Dueoksini’s Rage attacks.

While the hemisphere-shaped explosion hesitated, unable to expand for just a brief moment,

Whoosh!

 

[Drawing the ‘Flame Magic Sword’ to summon hellfire!]

[Imbuing ‘Brutus’s Dagger’ with curse incantations to increase firepower!]

 

From his inventory, he drew hellfire in his right hand and the handle-only dagger in his left, crossing them roughly in an X-shape.

Brutus’s Dagger was now hollow without a blade, but it appeared to have a translucent blade attached.

Remembering its original curse amplification properties, he used it like a talisman.

Thanks to this, the hellish flames enhanced with curse incantations rapidly expanded, cutting across the front of the hemisphere.

The same principle as setting a backfire to eliminate the fire line during a forest fire.

 

[Dropping a fire lightning bolt!]

 

Kraaaash!

Plus new lightning falling from the sky.

The hemisphere shattered completely.

Eventually, the corpse explosion’s firepower couldn’t spread further and spiraled upward into the sky.

A flame storm of tremendous width blew away the entire research facility, piercing through the ceiling and pouring onto the surface.

A tremendous sight like watching a volcanic eruption.

Kiiiaaaaak!

Kuuuuuh-

「Save… save… me…」

「You’ve lived long enough… So die in our place…!」

Lee Hyeon was right at the center of that flame storm.

‘This is quite the ordeal…!’

The flames were one thing, but the curses and poison from the vengeful spirits clinging everywhere were no joke.

 

[Curse Immunity (SS) activates to dispel all curses.]

[Heat Resistance (C) rapidly rises to A-grade.]

[Poison Resistance (B) rapidly rises to S-grade.]

……

 

Even the explosive growth of resistances that had nearly stopped developing.

But Lee Hyeon didn’t stop there, taking several more steps forward against the flames.

Sizzle!!

Tremendous high-temperature heat assaulted him.

Dueoksini’s Collar fluttered as his clothes instantly burned away.

His exposed skin was mangled by burns.

 

[Warning! Ahead lies tremendous poison and high temperatures. Please evacuate the area immediately.]

[Warning! Ahead, the laws of the Underworld, different from the World of the Living, are in effect. The living may be in danger.]

[Warning!]

……

[The situation is critical. ‘Sacred Relic: Ruyi Jingu Bang’ upgrades its self-recovery function to Super Recovery!]

[Divine power circulates actively, forcibly blocking the assault of flames.]

……

 

A world that was entirely red.

Something was caught somewhere in it.

‘There!’

In the reddish vision.

Executive Director Jeong was looking down at the world with emotionless eyes.

As if he were some kind of god.

 

[‘Sacred Relic: Golden Eyes of Truth’ captures the opponent’s location!]

 

This type of skill ultimately came down to how to catch the caster at the center.

‘The firepower is too intense to close the distance to there right now. In that case,’

Lee Hyeon’s lips twisted.

‘I have no choice but to drag him over here.’

Conveniently, there was a suitable skill available.

 

[Summoning the locked fourth Skill Information.]

[You have become a Ranker and gained unlock qualification. Will you unlock ‘Momentum Pull’?]

 

Momentum Pull had the effect of forcibly dragging targets within a specific range to one point.

This skill, derived from a goblin’s motion of pulling up an opponent in a wrestling match,

had the effect of holding down opponents trying to flee in chaotic battles…

 

[Unlocked Momentum Pull (D)!]

[The effect of the additional function connected to the trait ‘Frozen Human’ is added, upgrading it to a new skill.]

……

[Congratulations! ‘Monstrous Pressure’ has been born.]

 

[Monstrous Pressure (A)]

With the unique momentum and monstrous strength of goblins that appear every night to challenge others to wrestling, pulls enemies down to one’s feet.

It acts through invisible ‘pressure’ and ‘momentum’, and the more one resists, the more they get pulled in.

-Type: Skill. Area control.

-Origin: Folk tale ‘Goblin Wrestling’

 

Lee Hyeon stabbed his flaming magic sword into the ground and extended his right hand toward where Executive Director Jeong was.

“Let’s see how long you can maintain that expression?”

 

[Activating Monstrous Pressure (A) to forcibly pull the designated target!]

 

The moment Lee Hyeon put full strength into his extended hand.

Craaaack!!

“……!?”

The sensation of an invisible giant formless hand pressing down on Executive Director Jeong from behind.

Executive Director Jeong finally seemed to sense something and turned his head toward where Lee Hyeon was.

Having been focused only on maintaining the explosion until now, he only just realized that Lee Hyeon had come this close.

 

[ quietly observes you.]

[ lets out a hollow laugh at the combination technique made by tearing off part of her divine authority.]

 

The area control skill [Ice Hand] that the Snow Queen frequently used during the Ice Palace battle.

Lee Hyeon had combined it with momentum pulling, inspired by how it grasped Cheongroe in one handful like a giant’s hand.

As such, the effect was definite.

Executive Director Jeong tried to concentrate his firepower this way belatedly, but,

“Too late.”

Lee Hyeon pulled his right hand inward.

“……!!”

Then Executive Director Jeong was dragged over without being able to do anything, and in an instant the flame storm lost its focal point,

As the flames that lost their way exploded in all directions,

Executive Director Jeong was already grabbed by the collar by Lee Hyeon.

“You……!!”

“Since it’s a body that died once, it doesn’t matter if it dies twice, right?”

At that moment, Lee Hyeon viciously bared his fangs and took Taotie’s Fangs, which he had already retrieved with his left hand,

And drove it straight into the bastard’s right nape.

Grrrrrrowl!!

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage explodes!]

 

Blue-white lightning struck down accompanied by rough thunder.

Puhwaaaak!

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