I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 23

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Episode 23

Episode 23

Narin was horrified.

Because different species suddenly burst out all at once?

No.

Because there were too many living different species?

No.

Because Lee Tae-pyeong started gleefully slicing through the different species as if he had been waiting for this?

Correct.

-Zzzzzzk!

Cyborgs.

Their entire bodies made of machinery,

sharing a single brain called ‘Mother,’

creatures that move through special electrical signals.

Even elves found cyborgs repulsive.

The ‘Mother’ they shared was a program that analyzed, judged, and evolved in real-time.

The fact that they had no emotions and moved only for their species was also something to be wary of.

Cyborgs never let their guard down.

Cyborgs never made mistakes.

Cyborgs were never swayed by emotions.

While there were many species that knew no fear,

it was safe to say that cyborgs were the only species that had the emotion of ‘fear’ itself completely removed.

That’s what made them even more repulsive to deal with.

However.

-Crackle!

-Crunch!

Lee Tae-pyeong was casually separating cyborg bodies from their heads.

As if it had always been his,

wielding the elf’s sword with complete freedom.

-Clank!

The chilling sound of mechanical joints being torn off.

“Huh?”

Cyborgs don’t die just from separating their bodies and heads.

They can only be destroyed by breaking the main circuit in their abdomen.

That is the true death of a cyborg.

Lee Tae-pyeong, who had been instinctively targeting only necks and hearts,

after slicing through three or four cyborgs,

“Ah, this won’t kill them?”

quickly grasped the principle.

‘I need to tell him the abdomen is their weakness…!’

Just as Narin was about to shout.

-Crack!!!

-Snap!

-Smash!

Lee Tae-pyeong was already randomly butchering the cyborg’s body.

He stabbed every place he could stab.

Until the entire body was in tatters.

And,

-Hissss!!!

Smoke began rising from the cyborg’s abdomen.

The main circuit had been destroyed.

“This is it!”

Lee Tae-pyeong shouted in an excited voice.

“So machines do die after all!”

Pure admiration.

Narin felt goosebumps rising on her back.

That was brief.

-Crack!

-Smash!

-Crack!

Having identified the weakness, there was no hesitation.

Lee Tae-pyeong swung his sword like flowing water.

Blade strikes that precisely targeted only the abdomen where the main circuit was located.

At least Narin, being an elf,

could barely follow Lee Tae-pyeong’s movements with her eyes.

To other species,

due to [Killing Time], Lee Tae-pyeong appeared to be teleporting.

-Hiss!

-Hissss!

Acrid smoke filled the surroundings as main circuits were destroyed.

Everything

happened in less than five minutes.

“Cough! Cough!”

Perhaps even a genius killer couldn’t handle the smoke?

While Lee Tae-pyeong was coughing lightly,

“URYAAAAA!!!!”

An unusually large orc charged in.

‘Stupid fool.’

For the first time in her life, Narin felt pity for an orc.

To think she could feel sorry for such a detestable being.

Just how far did Lee Tae-pyeong’s talent extend?

“Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve seen an orc!”

“Die!!!”

“Nice to see you, buddy!”

Lee Tae-pyeong, as if meeting an old classmate he hadn’t seen in ages,

cheerfully,

with a bright smile, charged toward the orc.

-Thunk!!!

The blade pierced through the belly skin, shattered the spine, and emerged from the other side.

“Ah, right.”

“Gaaahhh!!!!”

“Piercing the belly was only for cyborgs.”

“Grrrrr…”

“My mistake, my mistake.”

As Lee Tae-pyeong pulled out the sword,

-Gushhhhh!!!

Blood gushed out from the orc’s belly like a fountain.

“Sorry about that, buddy.”

“Kuh, kuhk…”

“I originally planned to send you off in one blow without pain.”

Tsk.

Lee Tae-pyeong clicked his tongue as if embarrassed.

-Stab!!!

He thrust his sword precisely into the orc’s heart.

The orc stopped breathing just like that.

Unlike with the cyborg, being soaked in blood made Lee Tae-pyeong look even more pleased.

“This is like some kind of sports festival!”

In a way, that was accurate.

Various races.

In various ways.

He was killing them all.

“This is my first time killing one of these.”

The wings of a bat-like pantera were torn apart.

A pair of panteras, unable to fly away and escape, screamed as they fled.

-Slash!

Their heads rolled across the ground.

And so,

Kill, kill, kill, kill…

About thirty various alien races.

Met their fate under Lee Tae-pyeong’s sword.

It took less than ten minutes.

Usually, this final battle.

Is the longest.

And the most fierce!

‘My goodness…’

Throughout it all, Narin held her breath without making a sound.

Fear.

And an even greater sense of awe.

Overwhelmed by both, she couldn’t dare to move.

‘Now I understand why you told me not to interfere.’

With such overwhelming skill.

If Narin had interfered, she would have been nothing but an obstacle.

Narin praised herself inwardly for not being presumptuous.

And,

A brief moment of mourning for her senior elves who met their fate for being presumptuous before this great slaughterer.

“…Is it over?”

Lee Tae-pyeong, standing tall among thirty corpses, asks.

“Y-yes!”

Narin nodded her head vigorously.

And,

-Trickle!

She summoned a water spirit, filled a makeshift cup made of leaves with clean water, and offered it to Lee Tae-pyeong.

Using a water spirit for such a trivial task.

It was something Narin had never done once in her life.

But in front of Lee Tae-pyeong, such things had no meaning.

-Gulp, gulp!

Lee Tae-pyeong grinned and drank the water Narin offered refreshingly.

“Phew, that’s refreshing.”

His tone was as if he had just done some light exercise.

Narin felt goosebumps rise once again.

-Gulp.

And fear struck her once more.

Lee Tae-pyeong was still holding the elf’s sword.

‘If Tae-pyeong-nim kills me too…’

Excluding Lee Tae-pyeong, there was exactly one alien race left.

Narin herself.

What if Lee Tae-pyeong killed even Narin, the last one remaining?

Naturally.

He would be able to obtain a new reward.

Survival battle annihilation reward!

When her thoughts reached that point, she felt a chill beyond mere creepiness.

If Lee Tae-pyeong decided to kill her and obtain the reward?

There was no way for Narin to stop it.

She could only.

Face death…

“Hey.”

Just as Narin unconsciously stepped backward.

“What are you doing?”

Lee Tae-pyeong looked at Narin.

Lee Tae-pyeong’s particularly chilling smiling face!

Lee Tae-pyeong approached Narin as she backed away.

Still holding the elf’s sword, with hot blood still dripping from it.

‘Am I going to die like this…?’

Narin trembled without realizing it.

And she tried to change her mindset.

If she were to die at the hands of a slaughterer with such overwhelming skill…

Perhaps that might be an honor.

-Grab!

The moment Lee Tae-pyeong grabbed her shoulder.

“Gasp!”

Narin swallowed her breath, anticipating the cold blade that would pierce her heart.

However.

“Hurry up and get over here, you fool.”

Instead of her heart being pierced.

Lee Tae-pyeong pulled Narin by the shoulder.

“There’s no time.”

Lee Tae-pyeong pointed to the flames approaching behind them, tongues flickering.

Only then did Narin come to her senses.

‘He’s not going to kill me!’

The god of slaughter even possessed mercy!

‘What a truly amazing person…!’

Before she knew it, hot tears were flowing from Narin’s eyes.

* * *

-Whoooosh!

The flames blazed with such fierce intensity they seemed ready to cover even the sky.

“Hey, are you sure this is really safe?”

“Don’t worry.”

Don’t worry?

When we’re on the verge of burning to death?

“Look.”

“Huh?”

“The World Tree has already sprouted.”

Where Narin pointed, a green sprout was indeed growing vigorously.

Emitting a gentle light,

the sprout grew rapidly like the beanstalk from Jack and the Beanstalk.

“Whoa.”

Amazing.

So this is the World Tree!

-Rustle.

Branches spread out in all directions,

and the sprout had become a massive tree in no time.

Wind blowing through the glowing blue leaves.

That refreshing breeze

calmed the fiercely raging flames.

-Crack, crackle.

As the flames disappeared,

the Blue Forest was nowhere to be found.

All that remained was

ruins covered in gray ash.

“This Wrath of the Sun thing is incredible.”

“It’s not entirely bad.”

“Huh?”

“Because new life sprouts where death has passed.”

As soon as Narin finished speaking,

as if waiting for this moment, green sprouts began emerging from the colorless ruins.

Grass and flowers, bushes and trees.

Following the blowing wind, a new forest was being created.

“…”

New life sprouts where death has passed, huh.

Something about that bothers m…

“Tae-pyeong!”

Just then, Narin called out to me urgently.

-Flash!

When I turned my head, the World Tree was emitting a dazzling light.

I instinctively closed my eyes and opened them again.

“Reward boxes.”

There were brilliantly glowing reward boxes.

Narin’s was a gold box.

Mine was a platinum box.

“A, a platinum box…!”

Narin exclaimed in admiration.

“You’re truly amazing!”

Such flattery.

Since this wasn’t my first platinum box anyway,

I casually opened the box.

-Click.

Weapon.

Weapon.

Weapon.

Please let it be a weapon!

-Sparkle!

What came out of the box was some kind of grass.

Revival Herb?

The description was simple.

It can revive the dead.

No.

Why would I revive something I worked so hard to kill?

This is a ridiculous item.

Ugh.

I was hoping for a weapon.

“R, Revival Herb…!”

Meanwhile, unlike my indifferent reaction, Narin was shocked beyond words.

Narin looked back and forth between me and the Revival Herb with a soul-drained expression.

“What’s yours?”

What she held in her hand was an arrow.

Wow. An arrow for an elf?

That’s an amazing item.

A weapon that gets racial buffs!

Ugh, this is annoying.

Why don’t I ever get weapons!

“R, Revival Herb… Revival Herb…”

Whether I looked at her with envious eyes or not,

Narin just muttered “Revival Herb” like a crazy person.

“Tsk…”

What a waste.

If I had just killed everyone, would it have been a diamond box?

Would a diamond box have given me a weapon?

Such a waste…

No.

That’s not right!

I decided to spare Narin from the beginning.

Since I already opened the reward box anyway, why would I kill her now!

Calm down, Lee Tae-pyeong.

“Phew…”

I made a friend, so that’s good enough.

Narin and I are similar levels.

We might run into each other somewhere again.

For an elf, she doesn’t seem like a bad person.

She seems to respect me quite a bit.

If we meet later, she’ll definitely be helpful.

I did the right thing sparing her.

“Revival Herb… Revival Herb…”

…Did I really do the right thing?

Anyway.

Leaving the dazed Narin behind, I put the Revival Herb into my inventory.

Well, I’ll probably find a use for it someday.

Or sell it.

Actually, it doesn’t really feel like a good item.

Even if I were to die.

A dead me wouldn’t be able to take out the Revival Herb from my inventory and eat it.

No.

I have no intention of dying in the first place!

No intention of dying!

Ugh.

I got nothing good again this time.

When exactly will I be able to get a weapon?

Other people get them just fine!

“Revival Herb…”

Leaving Narin, who was still muttering, behind me.

“Hey, I’m heading back first.”

I returned just like that.

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