Broken Ranker Devours Myths - Chapter 77

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 77

Day Goblin (2)

 

 

 

Executive Director Jeong now showed a leisurely demeanor as if he had become some kind of absolute being.

 

[The myth ‘Master of Gloomy Winds’ commands the dead to sortie once more!]

 

[Emperor Fengdu delegates part of his authority to his newly appointed apostle.]

 

Passs-

Simultaneously, with earthquakes, the naturalized army corps rose from the ground one by one.

But they were much more ashen in color than those they had faced just moments before.

“Ahh… No… I don’t want to do this…”

“Please let us rest…”

Those who had clearly been defeated by the Hunters in the underground research facility or thought to have been annihilated in the explosion,

were re-summoned in an enhanced state, swallowing the sulfur fire that Executive Director Jeong had spilled.

 

[The Sulfur Corps has been summoned!]

[An emergency event has occurred. From now on, survive the clutches of Emperor Fengdu.]

 

“Everyone into defensive formation!!”

Tension filled the faces of the Hunters confronting them.

Bang! Kwabang!

Rumble…

As collisions occurred everywhere,

“Do you see? This is the difference between the living and the dead.”

Executive Director Jeong laughed as he deflected the Four Symbols Execution Sword that persistently aimed for his chin with flames.

Hissss!

Though the sulfur fire was torn each time it clashed with the pure yang energy,

Whirr!

Whoosh!

 

[The Golden Headband rotates. It brings more yin energy from Fengdu to fuel the sulfur fire.]

 

Each time, the halo spun more frantically, greatly increasing the firepower of the sulfur flames.

Thanks to this, the Sulfur Corps’ intensity increased each time, and the pressure on the Hunters grew.

Moreover, even if they managed to defeat them,

 

[Sulfur fire has been provided. The sulfur soldiers regenerate again.]

 

They would soon rise anew after receiving the sulfur fire.

“You are endlessly wretched. When you tire and die, that’s the end. But we can get new chances over and over again.”

His sunken eyes, much more hollow than before, were dark as if they contained an abyss.

“So give up now and enter the world of the dead,”

“How pathetic, babbling without even knowing what happens to your own soul.”

Lee Hyeon cut off Executive Director Jeong’s words mid-sentence.

Executive Director Jeong frowned.

“What?”

“You don’t actually think a god would provide you with such power without any price, do you?”

A sneer formed at the corner of Lee Hyeon’s mouth.

“Besides, Emperor Fengdu wasn’t originally your legend either, was it?”

“What are you trying to say?”

“It’s called burning body offering.”

Only then did Executive Director Jeong realize that Lee Hyeon’s eyes weren’t meeting his.

But slightly higher.

The Golden Headband.

“You’re merely burning your soul as an offering to draw upon Emperor Fengdu’s power.”

No, it was even further beyond that.

Emperor Fengdu.

 

[Emperor Fengdu expresses displeasure at a mortal who dares to look upon his face without permission while being among the living.]

 

“A necromancer who hasn’t even thought about what happens when not even the husk of a soul remains?”

 

[‘Sacred Relic: Golden Eyes of Truth’ traces the flow of yin energy and sulfur fire flowing from the underworld Fengdu.]

[Confirmed that the Golden Headband is a medium. The opponent’s pineal gland is excessively damaged and in an irreparable state.]

 

[Marking the corresponding point.]

 

Lee Hyeon grasped Emperor Fengdu’s intentions based on the Golden Eyes of Truth.

“He just wants to test you once. To see whether Son Wukong or Sha Wujing will come out or not.”

“Kekeke. Even while looking at the Golden Eyes of Truth, he’ll be uncertain. Our apostle’s legend isn’t completely ‘Great Sage Equal to Heaven’ or ‘Golden Body Arhat’ after all.”

Son Wukong laughed coldly.

“That makes him even more cunning. He dares to test me? Even the King of Hell couldn’t treat me so carelessly.”

This was precisely why Lee Hyeon had decided he needed to retrieve the Golden Headband as quickly as possible.

“The Golden Headband is also a kind of medium that connects to the heavens. So if we cut off the passage,”

‘The Golden Headband’s function would stop too. I understand.’

That’s why what Lee Hyeon had taken out from his inventory just moments ago was the second earring.

Clang!

 

[Jigui’s Burning Body Offering]

The love of the goblin fire god who went mad with love for his lord and ultimately burned even his own body as an offering sometimes causes wildfires and sometimes prevents disasters, showing a dual nature.

Those whom the fire god decides must be defeated can never escape his wrath.

-Type: Sacred Relic. Earring.

-Origin: Folk tale ‘Suijeon’

 

If Cheoyong was a goblin that drove away evil spirits, Jigui was a goblin that spewed and swallowed flames.

The moment he imbued it with magic power, Jigui’s Burning Body Offering flashed with red light.

 

[ purses her lips upon discovering a legend that once tormented her.]

[ is surprised by a legend that gives a similar yet different feeling to herself.]

 

In an instant, red flames swept broadly over Lee Hyeon’s body.

Whoooosh!

 

[Legend has been added.]

[Fire attribute greatly increases.]

[Fighting spirit increases.]

[The firepower of Dueoksini’s Rage greatly increases.]

……

 

And,

Where the flames had receded, the Dokgakgwi Set had already taken its place.

 

[‘Dokgakgwi’s Cloak’ has been equipped.]

[‘Dokgakgwi’s Tiger-Striped Clothes’ has been equipped.]

……

[You begin to embody legends related to Dokgakgwi!]

 

[Strength has temporarily increased by 25.]

[Agility has temporarily increased by 21.]

……

 

[Legends are readjusted according to increased stats. The range of skills and additional functions expands.]

[The functions of Sacred Relics have fully opened.]

 

The red flames soon transformed into blue-white lightning, boasting even more intense firepower.

Flash!!

 

[Legend ‘Goblin Dance Formation’ upgrades to ‘Daytime Goblin Dance Formation’.]

[The Daytime Goblin opens its eyes!]

 

Crackle!!

A storm of power whirled around Lee Hyeon, who had returned to his armament from his Jet days.

Whooooo-

Black armor.

Blue-white lightning contrasting against it.

In an instant, all the sulfur flames that had been approaching were swept outward.

From legend,

It was the moment the Daytime Goblin awakened.

 

* * *

 

A storm of tremendous power.

“……!?”

Im Won-young stopped fighting and turned to look at Lee Hyeon in shock,

“S-Senior!!”

Kim Min-jeong, who saw a scene she hadn’t witnessed since the Gangneung incident four years ago, covered her mouth with her hand.

“Black armor……?”

“The lightning too……. Wait, I feel like I’ve seen that scene somewhere……?”

“Ice Palace! We saw it in the Ice Palace footage!”

“Right. Jet was like that……! Wait, then Hunter Jang was Jet!?”

Regardless of A-Team or Z-Team, all the Hunters present recalled several videos that had once stirred the world.

Although faces weren’t exposed there for security reasons,

The fact that Jet was a mysterious being clad in black armor and blue-white lightning was visible.

Now the Hunters finally felt Lee Hyeon overlapping with the footage from back then.

“Right……. If that’s the case, everything makes sense. How Team Leader Jang could perform so outstandingly in the Monkey Den, and how he got strong so quickly……. Haha. Right. So that’s how it was!”

Manager So Seong-hae even laughed loudly as if a puzzle that wouldn’t solve had finally been solved.

 

[Daytime Goblin]

Originally, normal goblins had a strong perception of appearing at night, so goblins that appeared during the day were considered ominous beings or strange and eerie outcasts from ancient times.

So when people witnessed them during the day, they would say they were ‘bewitched by goblins’ and imagined them as beings of taboo and strangeness.

“If you saw a goblin when the sun was at its zenith, that was a sign that something big was about to happen.”

-Origin: Folk tale ‘Jochiwon Five-Day Market’

 

“Originally, I really didn’t want to wear this until I fully recovered my old stats,”

The heat emanating from Lee Hyeon was incomparable to before awakening the Daytime Goblin’s legend.

The moment he stepped on the ground, the earth beneath his feet was already heating up and white steam was rising.

Hissss!

“But given how things turned out, there’s no choice.”

“Do you think putting on some equipment will change anything?”

Executive Director Jeong stretched his hand broadly in this direction.

 

[Myth ‘Master of Gloomy Winds’ causes a sulfur flame tsunami!]

 

[Fengdu the Great Emperor looks with displeasure at the legend that dares to dispel the darkness he has cast.]

 

Whoooosh!

Just as the sulfur flames surged and were about to engulf Lee Hyeon in an instant,

Crackle.

『Team Leader Im, please take cover.』

Im Won-young was surprised to suddenly hear Lee Hyeon’s voice through the radio, but without delay, he climbed onto the Jangsan Tiger’s back and hastily evacuated.

At that moment,

Lightning with such intense luminosity that it seemed it might blind one’s eyes flashed from the sky.

 

[Dueoksini’s Rage explodes!]

 

Craaack!!

The axe that dropped from the sky split the tsunami right down the middle, and the lightning bolt it brought down boasted tremendous power.

The lightning and thunderbolts that spread from where the axe struck the ground relentlessly tore apart the surroundings without rest, suppressing the sulfur flames.

“……!”

“……!”

“……!!”

 

[ frowns as she sees the lightning that once severed her arm in the past.]

 

A strike that was nothing short of a disaster.

As it instantly extinguished the firepower of those intense sulfur flames, everyone was shocked,

 

[Myth ‘Master of Gloomy Winds’ brings more yin energy!]

 

Whiiiiing!!

Executive Director Jeong instinctively accelerated the halo’s rotation to maximum speed, sensing that additional attacks would follow.

At that moment, Lee Hyeon appeared behind Executive Director Jeong, emerging from the shadows accompanied by hot wind.

Dueoksini’s footsteps.

And then came Fury Strike Bull Rush.

Kwakwakwang!

“Where do you think you’re going!!”

Executive Director Jeong deflected the axe with a hand blade condensed from gray mist.

He didn’t retreat even a single step.

Even though Lee Hyeon had grown stronger by awakening the goblin’s legacy, he seemed to be demonstrating that he still couldn’t match him.

However,

Lee Hyeon didn’t care.

Whish whish whish whish…!

He swung the axe repeatedly.

Like a goblin performing a dance.

Flash! Flash!!

 

[Lightning strikes down!]

[Fire lightning pours down!]

 

Popopopopang-

Chwaak! Chwaak!

He felt the axe cutting through something. Each time lightning poured down, he also felt something being severed.

‘…What the hell!’

As the fierce battle intensified, Executive Director Jeong gradually realized that the sulfur fire’s power wasn’t being replenished.

As if someone was cutting off the flow from somewhere…

‘Could it be!?’

Only then did Executive Director Jeong realize that Lee Hyeon’s mysteriously glowing eyes were precisely observing the passages through which negative energy flowed.

The bastard wasn’t just looking at the Fengdu Emperor.

He was reading all the directions of divine power flowing from him.

‘…He was cutting off the passages. That’s why the firepower… What kind of eyes are those?’

 

[The Fengdu Emperor suspects the opponent’s eyes.]

 

Moreover, Executive Director Jeong had been feeling hunger for a while now.

The feeling of his body gradually withering away.

His magic power was also… running out.

Lee Hyeon’s words about him merely offering sacrifices to minor gods came to mind.

‘No! I am…!’

At that moment when ripples first spread through Executive Director Jeong’s mind, which had remained calm since awakening as an apostle,

Kwakwakwakwa-

The sulfur fire and lightning became complexly entangled with each other, producing only continuous explosions and flashes of light, when

Paat!

Lee Hyeon suddenly stopped blocking Executive Director Jeong’s hand blade and let go of his axe.

Then he thrust his right hand deep toward the halo.

Executive Director Jeong tried to draw in sulfur fire to pierce through Lee Hyeon’s back.

Now that his attention was focused on the halo, this was the perfect opportunity to eliminate him.

However,

Pueok!

“…Keuk!”

Suddenly the Four Symbols Execution Sword burst through his abdomen.

“You shouldn’t let your guard down, Executive Director Jeong.”

“…!!”

Where the sulfur fire had greatly subsided, Im Won-young had somehow approached close enough to attack.

The other Jangsan Tigers and Spear Ghosts were also thrusting their spears.

Pupupupuk!!

 

[The pure yang energy possessed by the Four Symbols Execution Sword interferes with the operation of negative energy.]

 

While the bastard hesitated, Lee Hyeon succeeded in grasping the halo.

Kwaak.

The halo shook as if it would shatter.

 

[The Fengdu Emperor asks what exactly your identity is.]

[The Fengdu Emperor asks why you don’t use the legacy when you’re clearly connected to Son Wukong…]

 

The Fengdu Emperor’s messages continuously appeared before Lee Hyeon’s eyes,

But Lee Hyeon didn’t answer.

There was no need to.

 

[The Ruyi Jingu Bang attempts to make contact with the Golden Headband.]

 

Ppagak.

Jjeoeoeong!!

When he clenched his fist harder, the Ruyi Jingu Bang and Golden Headband resonated.

Son Wukong’s divine power seeped into the Golden Headband, deleting all traces related to the Fengdu Emperor.

The rotation… stopped.

Ttiring!

Ttiring!

 

[The connection between the Golden Headband and the Fengdu Emperor has been forcibly terminated.]

[The Fengdu Emperor is forcibly ejected with penalties.]

[The Fengdu Emperor can no longer observe you.]

 

[Congratulations! You have obtained the Golden Headband.]

 

Chiiiiik!!

Looking at the Golden Headband violently emitting steam from severe overheating, Lee Hyeon’s Golden Eyes of Truth

Filled with joy.

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