I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 41

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Episode 41

 

Episode 41

 

The 30th Floor where undead armies appear.

 

In the early stages, Skeletons and Zombies appear,

 

and from the middle part, wraiths called Wraiths and undead monsters are added.

 

In the later stages, even ‘Death Knights’ appear,

 

and finally on the 39th Floor, the Lich King appears leading all of them.

 

Just like how the shamans on the 10th and 20th Floors each cast curses and disappeared.

 

On the 30th Floor too, the Lich King only casts a curse and disappears.

 

His full appearance, like the previous shamans, is on the 39th Floor.

 

But I.

 

On the 10th Floor,

 

on the 20th Floor,

 

killed all the shamans who should have originally just cast curses and disappeared.

 

Why?

 

Just because.

 

How?

 

Skillfully.

 

‘If I handle the Lich King skillfully too…’

 

I could kill him on the 30th Floor,

 

and obtain special rewards.

 

I already have the [Undead Slayer] Achievement.

 

So it’s not entirely impossible.

 

‘I’ve already obtained mental defense items.’

 

I fiddled with the ear earring.

 

Thanks to meditation, the side effects disappeared,

 

and it’s an item that can recover health and mana if needed.

 

Plus, I have the crescent sword I ‘borrowed’ from Narin.

 

My confidence is soaring.

 

Well then, shall I go in for now?

 

“Entering Babel Tower.”

 

-Whooooooo…

 

A cold wind brushing against my cheeks.

 

Grayish white things, whether snow or dust,

 

fly sharply from all directions.

 

“…”

 

Before my eyes is only darkness.

 

I can’t see anything.

 

However,

 

I could quickly realize that this was an illusion.

 

‘…It was a graveyard.’

 

That’s right.

 

This place is a graveyard.

 

What stretches endlessly over the dark ground are

 

tombstones whose names cannot be read.

 

When the Lich King casts his spell,

 

from beneath those graves,

 

Skeletons and Zombies will burst out.

 

I looked beyond the graveyard.

 

Though nothing is visible,

 

I feel an eerie gaze from the darkness for some reason.

 

-Flare!

 

Rising from the darkness,

 

two blue flames.

 

-Kekekekek…

 

And echoing gloomy laughter.

 

‘…It’s the Lich King.’

 

Two fireballs stare at me.

 

And skeletal bones protruding from the darkness.

 

The tip of that frost-covered finger

 

pointed directly at me.

 

-Finally…

 

Clatter. Clatter.

 

A voice heard along with the sound of bones clashing.

 

-Finally you have appeared…

 

Huh?

 

Is this also a fixed dialogue?

 

Wasn’t the Lich King supposed to

 

awaken the Skeleton and Zombie army as soon as he appeared,

 

pour out curses,

 

and then disappear?

 

‘Finally you have appeared’?

 

-Kihihihihihihik!!!!!

 

Spine-chilling laughter echoes from all directions.

 

-At last…

 

-At last!!!!!

 

With words that could be screams or exclamations,

 

finger bones shake madly in the air.

 

Following them, even the ground seems to tremble.

 

-Well done coming!

 

-Star of Death!

 

A skull gradually revealing itself from the darkness.

 

No, it looks like a skull but isn’t a skull.

 

The skin is just completely stuck to the bones.

 

Would it be better to call it a living corpse?

 

There are places where even the skin has fallen off and only bones are visible.

 

Like the hands,

 

neck, and knees.

 

That is the ‘immortal’ being, the Lich King.

 

As far as I know,

 

the Lich King doesn’t fully reveal himself here.

 

-Grgrgrgr…

 

Just like right now.

 

‘…Something’s strange.’

 

Even someone as unflappable as me

 

could feel it.

 

No matter how tension-free a country may be,

 

I could feel it.

 

the fact that something strange was happening.

 

* * *

 

It had been far too long.

 

He had comprehended all the principles of the world,

 

and through that became an existence that defied all the principles of the world.

 

Yet trapped in this ‘Tower’,

 

he had to continue this play that was worse than a child’s prank.

 

However.

 

The Lich King could not escape the Tower.

 

The same was true for those even greater than him.

 

Continuing this play with no end in sight.

 

That was the fate of all beings trapped in the Tower.

 

Should he be grateful that at least his reason remained?

 

Just as he had in life,

 

the Lich King continued his research to escape the Tower.

 

Perhaps even more fervently than when he had sought immortality.

 

But no magic formula,

 

no tool, no power,

 

none of it was of any use.

 

There was no way to escape the Tower by any method!

 

Only,

 

endlessly killing those who climbed the Tower,

 

or being endlessly killed by those who climbed the Tower.

 

One of the two.

 

Only that cycle repeated infinitely.

 

Within that cycle, the Lich King realized.

 

A truth that only a being who had indulged in death beyond imagination could perceive.

 

True death.

 

If he could obtain that power,

 

he could kill the one who trapped him in the Tower,

 

and escape from the Tower.

 

And then, he would reign as the Lich King once more.

 

However, obtaining the power of ‘true death’

 

was not such an easy task.

 

The ‘Star of Death’ that disappeared at the same time the Tower appeared.

 

Only by knowing the whereabouts of that star

 

could he obtain the power of true death.

 

There was one problem.

 

Trapped in the Tower, he could not search for the Star of Death.

 

He could only wait for the Star of Death to reach this place someday.

 

Perhaps for a time close to eternity!

 

Repeating hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of millions of destructions and regenerations,

 

his existence worn down and worn down,

 

until now he was on the verge of being unable

 

to even think about ‘true death’ or the ‘Star of Death’ anymore.

 

Right at that moment.

 

Appearing with a very small glimmer,

 

one human.

 

The Lich King doubted his own eyes.

 

A red light so bright

 

it was blinding!

 

An overflowing aura of death that surpassed even his own,

 

accumulated over thousands and tens of thousands of years!

 

‘The Star of Death!’

 

He had finally found it.

 

If he could peel away that shell

 

and take the power of death.

 

Finally, he would be able to escape this Tower!

 

-Grrrrrrrrr!!!

 

The Lich King tore through the restrictions binding him

 

and revealed himself from the darkness.

 

Flesh fell away

 

and bone was exposed.

 

But such things had no meaning.

 

-Rise, you who have rejected death!

 

Rotted hands pierce through the earth and rise up.

 

Corpses poking their heads out between crumbling tombstones.

 

Half-decayed zombies and,

 

-Clack!!

 

skeletons with nothing but bones remaining.

 

-Creak…!

 

The minions of death that struggled to raise their bodies

 

await the Lich King’s command.

 

-Kill.

 

* * *

 

“Gasp!”

 

On the 30th Floor, skeletons and zombies should definitely appear.

 

No,

 

‘only’ skeletons and zombies should appear.

 

But what is this in front of my eyes right now?

 

Dozens of skeletons and zombies.

 

And behind them, revealing themselves,

 

-Kiiiiiii…!

 

specters and,

 

-Grrrrrr…

 

undead monsters,

 

-Thud. Thud. Thud.

 

and Death Knights.

 

Not just one or two.

 

Combined, they easily exceed a hundred.

 

One hundred fifty,

 

no, two hundred?

 

‘What the hell is this…’

 

What kind of situation is this!

 

I looked around in panic, but

 

Unfortunately, this was the actual situation.

 

Just in case, I should try to return first…

 

“Damn it!”

 

I can’t return.

 

Only a notification window filled with unreadable characters appears.

 

What the hell is this supposed to be.

 

-You.

 

-Today.

 

-In this place.

 

-Will die.

 

The Lich King’s eerie voice

 

echoes throughout the entire map.

 

And then,

 

-Shwaaaaaaaak!

 

So intense it’s visible to the eye,

 

swirling purple mana!

 

‘It’s a curse…!’

 

The Lich King’s curse.

 

But it’s different from what I expected.

 

At a glance,

 

this wasn’t the curse he originally casts.

 

-Sssssssk…

 

-Sasasasak…

 

The whispers faintly heard in my ears are

 

-Whiiiiiiik!

 

canceled out by the quiet forest wind sound coming from my earring.

 

Thanks to avoiding fear, confusion, and madness.

 

-Swish!

 

I was able to quickly draw my crescent sword.

 

-Glint!

 

And then,

 

countless red dots spread before my eyes.

 

All of these are weak points visible thanks to [Execution Eye].

 

-Spot!

 

I quickly threw my crescent sword.

 

-Swish!

 

The crescent sword flew spinning and

 

-Crack!

 

the skull of the skeleton charging at the front,

 

-Crunch!

 

was blown away completely.

 

Thus began [Killing Time].

 

In an instant,

 

everything slowed down.

 

-Shwooo… ooo… ooo…

 

The curse and,

 

-Die…

 

even the Lich King.

 

‘Why can’t I return?’

 

It doesn’t matter.

 

If I kill them all,

 

I’ll be able to figure out what’s going on.

 

-Thwack!

 

I cut off the skeleton’s skull

 

and pulled out the sword embedded in the ground.

 

-Crack!

 

I stabbed the eye socket of the zombie right next to me.

 

-Stab!!!

 

I also thrust into the throat of the Wild Beast that was just opening its mouth.

 

-Tok.

 

After confirming the sound of the skull cracking,

 

-Crack!!!

 

I drove ‘Dan’ like a stake into the cracked spot,

 

-Scrape!

 

then slashed the ankle of the horse carrying the Death Knight with my crescent sword.

 

-Click!

 

All of this happened in less than a second.

 

-Swish!

 

From then on, everything was easy.

 

Thanks to [Execution Eye], I could clearly see every weak point,

 

so I just had to stab them with Dan.

 

Plus, thanks to the [Undead Slayer] Achievement, critical hit rate increased by 50 percent.

 

It feels like every hit is a critical hit.

 

-Kiiiiik!

 

-Grrrrrk!

 

After steadily chipping away at their health with critical damage,

 

-Slash!

 

-Scraaaaaaash!!!!!

 

if I use [Fatal Strike] once with my crescent sword,

 

-…!

 

-…!!!

 

those with 30% health or below kindly die instantly.

 

Then [Killing Time] activates again.

 

-Tick…

 

The weak points glowing bright red,

 

-Poke…

 

I stab them as I see them.

 

-Tick…

 

Chip away their health and finish with [Fatal Strike]!

 

-Poke…

 

Undead falling like rain.

 

It’s like autumn leaves in the wind.

 

It’s definitely a different feeling from

 

the orcs and trolls I faced on the 20th floors.

 

Why is this less fun for me?

 

Since they’re just bone fragments and rotting flesh,

 

is it because there’s no satisfaction in stabbing and cutting?

 

Anyway.

 

As I repeated that action in a trance,

 

-Crash!!!

 

First, I swept away all the zombies and skeletons.

 

Undead Beasts and Death Knights remained,

 

but those were manageable anyway.

 

However, the problem now was…

 

-Shuuuuuuu…

 

The Lich King’s ‘curse’ that was already nearing completion.

 

What the item Narin gave me could block was

 

mental abnormal states like fear, confusion, and madness.

 

I couldn’t tell how it would fare against attacks beyond that.

 

Already, strand after strand of the curse was flying toward me.

 

In that case,

 

-Swish!

 

Before getting hit by the curse,

 

I’ll kill everything here,

 

including the Lich King.

 

Then

 

the curse would be useless too.

 

I smoothly and quickly pulled out the crescent sword

 

that I had thrust into the Undead Beast’s heart.

 

And then,

 

-Shuuuuu…

 

Dodging the curse that rippled toward me,

 

-Swoosh!!!

 

I began slashing through the remaining bastards.

 

-Kragak!!!

 

Severing the Death Knight’s neck,

 

-Shaaaak!!!

 

Unleashing [Fatal Slash] on the pack of Undead Beasts.

 

After getting drenched in rotten blood and swinging my sword like mad,

 

before I knew it,

 

-Grooooooo…

 

Only the Lich King remained.

 

Even though my speed was increased by 1000%,

 

-Tick…

 

The Lich King’s burning eyes slowly but surely followed my movements.

 

-Tok…

 

The remaining [Killing Time] was

 

exactly 1 second.

 

That was enough.

 

I held the crescent sword in one hand,

 

and ‘Dan’ in the other hand,

 

and lunged toward the Lich King.

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