I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 42

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Episode 42

 

Episode 42

 

-Swoosh!!!

 

If there’s something different about the Lich King compared to other undead,

 

-Kraaaash!!!!

 

it’s that his ‘weakness’ isn’t visible.

 

No matter how much I look,

 

I can’t see the red dot that should be shown by [Execution Eye].

 

-Kraaash!!!

 

Even when the dried leather tears away,

 

and bones shatter to pieces,

 

-Sssslide…

 

they eventually reattach.

 

Powerful magic that I couldn’t imagine or understand

 

was continuously repairing the Lich King’s destroyed body.

 

The more this happened, the more disgust rose within me.

 

-Urgh…

 

For some reason, just seeing undead makes my irritation boil over.

 

It’s not even because they’re hard to kill.

 

The very fact that these crazy things are alive instead of dead is what pushes my rage button.

 

-Crack!!!!

 

I stepped on and broke the Lich King’s arm bone that had fallen off,

 

-Swoosh.

 

then looked up.

 

The jawbone that had been knocked off by my earlier strike

 

was reattaching to the Lich King’s skull.

 

-Flicker!

 

The Lich King’s two eye sockets still burned with blue flames.

 

Wondering if extinguishing those flames would end it, I threw ‘Dan’ at them, but

 

-Whoosh!

 

the Lich King’s eye sockets were just flames.

 

The flickering flames that reignited looked at me.

 

-Star of Death…

 

-You cannot kill me…

 

Ah, should I break that jawbone again?

 

Here he goes with the nonsense again.

 

-If you hand over that power…

 

-I shall end you along with this tower…

 

-Kahahahahaha…!

 

The Lich King burst into mad laughter.

 

What kind of loser behavior is it to ramble on about things only he knows and then laugh by himself?

 

“How disgusting.”

 

I gritted my teeth and,

 

-Thud.

 

threw down the ‘Dan’ and crescent sword I was holding.

 

These won’t work on him anyway.

 

Narin is the same level as me.

 

From what I heard her say, she seemed like a soldier.

 

Then the crescent sword must also be one of the issued equipment.

 

While it might work on someone of the same level,

 

it’s not a weapon that would work on something at the Lich King’s level.

 

As for ‘Dan’,

 

being S-rank, attacks should naturally work.

 

The problem is that I don’t have ‘Jie’ yet.

 

It’s perfect for just smashing orc heads,

 

but even this wasn’t something that would work right now.

 

So what do I have left?

 

“…”

 

Nothing.

 

Yeah.

 

To put it coldly, that was the situation.

 

Thanks to [Thousand Kill Strike]’s defense-ignoring effect, my attacks do connect,

 

but the Lich King’s restoration magic was faster.

 

In other words,

 

one step forward, two steps back.

 

-Glance.

 

Then in the end,

 

there’s only one method.

 

-Clench.

 

Getting stupidly brutal.

 

I picked up the Lich King’s arm bone that had broken off cleanly.

 

-Dangle…

 

Due to the restoration magic’s effect,

 

the Lich King’s purple mana was flowing through the broken arm bone too.

 

The dangling finger bones look unsightly,

 

but well, there’s no other method I can think of right now.

 

-Snap.

 

I gripped the Lich King’s arm bone tightly.

 

Is this below the elbow?

 

The grip isn’t bad?

 

Ah.

 

Is it rude to say something like this about someone else’s arm bone?

 

Though it is a compliment.

 

-Rattle.

 

The Lich King’s arm bone shook, trying to return to its main body.

 

But what’s the point if I don’t let it go?

 

I gripped the arm bone with its good grip tightly and,

 

“Let’s give it a try.”

 

After muttering briefly,

 

-Dash!

 

I lightly leaped toward the Lich King.

 

* * *

 

-Smack!!

 

What on earth is happening?

 

-Smaaack!!!

 

Even the forbidden knowledge accumulated during immortal time,

 

-Craaaaaack!!!!

 

I couldn’t resolve the Lich King’s confusion right now.

 

-Craaaaaaaaack!!!!!!!

 

Relentlessly striking down the Lich King,

 

-Crack crack crack!!!

 

The Lich King’s arm bone.

 

-Crack!

 

-Smack!

 

-Crack!

 

-Smack!

 

Imbued with the Lich King’s magic,

 

with the Lich King’s arm bone,

 

the one beating the Lich King was.

 

“Just die already!”

 

None other than Lee Tae-pyeong.

 

-Crack crack crack!!!

 

The cheerful sound of bone clashing against bone.

 

-Crunch!

 

Added to that, the refreshing sound of bones breaking.

 

If it had been an ordinary attack,

 

the Lich King would have sneered and torn his opponent to shreds.

 

However, this was

 

neither magic nor anything else.

 

Just one-sided violence.

 

Nothing more, nothing less.

 

-Craaaaaack!!!

 

The Lich King desperately tried to block his own arm bone that was striking him

 

with his only remaining arm.

 

-Claaang!!!

 

Eventually the arm bone struck the Lich King’s skull,

 

and the glorious golden crown atop the skeleton rolled miserably across the floor.

 

-Gr, graaaaaah!!!!

 

Finally, the Lich King couldn’t endure it and let out a scream filled with rage.

 

Then,

 

powerful magic energy erupted from his entire body.

 

The only problem was,

 

that ‘entire body’ also included the Lich King’s arm bone.

 

“Oh. Is this a buff?”

 

Lee Tae-pyeong grinned wickedly, then

 

“I’ll put it to good use?”

 

raised the Lich King’s arm bone high once again.

 

-Tremble tremble.

 

As if already knowing its fate,

 

the Lich King’s arm bone trembled and shook in the air.

 

-Whoosh!

 

The arm bone filled with condensed magic power

 

-Craaaaaack!!!!

 

struck the Lich King’s skull directly.

 

-Thud!

 

-Crack!

 

Unable to withstand the force,

 

finger bones scattered everywhere.

 

And,

 

-Clatter clatter clatter!

 

Like corn kernels,

 

the Lich King’s molars, no, his teeth poured onto the floor.

 

-St, stop…!

 

The Lich King’s death throes.

 

However,

 

-Craaaaaack!!!

 

Did he not hear it?

 

-Smaaaaaash!!!

 

Or was he pretending not to hear?

 

-Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

 

Lee Tae-pyeong

 

beat the Lich King

 

until there were no more finger bones to scatter,

 

no more teeth to be pulled out.

 

Until nothing remained.

 

Making dust,

 

no, bone fragments fly through the air…

 

* * *

 

“Phewww…”

 

I wiped the sweat flowing down my forehead.

 

How should I put it,

 

I felt the refreshing sensation that comes after intense exercise.

 

Had I been accumulating some stress lately?

 

Come to think of it,

 

whenever I tried to do something,

 

most things died in one hit.

 

How long had it been since I could beat something up like this without holding back?

 

What was it.

 

When I killed that alien-like thing on the Hide and Seek Map.

 

I think that was the last time.

 

Who would have thought I could feel such pure joy here.

 

My stress is completely gone!

 

Gone!

 

-Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.

 

After downing an entire health recovery potion,

 

I turned my head to look at the Lich King.

 

No,

 

more precisely, at the Lich King’s skull.

 

Thanks to beating him to death

 

until he had no magic power left to regenerate,

 

his torso and everything else had been smashed to pieces,

 

leaving only his skull.

 

And even that was missing several teeth,

 

with his jaw hanging loose.

 

That appearance is also barely maintained through that impressive ‘restoration magic’.

 

-Clang!

 

I rolled around on the floor,

 

kicked the Lich King’s crown far away, then

 

crouched down on the ground and looked down at the Lich King’s skull.

 

“Hey.”

 

-Whash do you wansh.

 

Is it because all his teeth got knocked out?

 

Somehow his way of speaking has changed a lot from the beginning.

 

“Thanks to you, I relieved some stress.”

 

-I’m glad. You’re shtrong.

 

“Now do you feel like having a conversation?”

 

-Of coursh.

 

“Earlier, why. You said something about the Star of Death.”

 

-Yesh. That’sh right.

 

“Tell me in detail.”

 

-The Shtar of Death hash the power to control all death…

 

It was a bit hard to understand,

 

but I could somehow make sense of it.

 

Whether it was Western astrology or something,

 

anyway there’s something called the Star of Death,

 

and it has tremendous power,

 

so if you get that power, you can escape from this Tower.

 

The Star of Death.

 

Could that be referring to the power of my ‘Heavenly Death Star’?

 

The Lich King explained more,

 

but since magic isn’t my specialty, there were far more parts I couldn’t understand.

 

Anyway, the key point is.

 

The power I possess

 

is much stronger than I thought.

 

Literally capable of killing ‘anything’…

 

That was the Lich King’s explanation.

 

‘If that’s the case, there shouldn’t be any problems with my future life either.’

 

Not only China’s Special Floors,

 

but I won’t have to worry about conquering the Tower after that either, right?

 

Of course,

 

under the premise that I steadily raise my level.

 

Breaking through the 30th Floor, 40th Floor, 50th Floor smoothly…

 

Ah, won’t I become a national hero or something?

 

Like Choi Mu-ryeong?!

 

“Kuk kuk kuk…”

 

As I unconsciously smiled at the pleasant imagination,

 

-Hii, hiiiik…

 

The Lich King’s skull rattles in terror.

 

Ah, this is awkward.

 

This thing called the Tower.

 

It’s nothing special, huh?

 

Who knows.

 

I might become the top floor conqueror…

 

Hahaha!

 

This is getting too ahead of myself.

 

I’ve only just conquered the 30th Floor,

 

the top floor is still too early, too early.

 

“Ha, this is really…”

 

Is it okay for things to go this smoothly?

 

I thought I’d struggle a lot even on the 30th Floor.

 

There was no need to worry?

 

“Thank you.”

 

I made eye contact with the Lich King and grinned.

 

His jawbone starts trembling.

 

-Th, then…

 

“Yeah.”

 

-Thank you! Thank you!!!

 

“I’ll kill you right away.”

 

Pat pat.

 

I stood up from my spot, brushing off the bone dust on my clothes,

 

-Thank you for killing me!!!!

 

-Craaack!!!!

 

I trampled on the Lich King’s skull that was already half-cracked,

 

-Smaaash!!!!

 

As he wished,

 

I killed the Lich King.

 

-Whoooosh…

 

The shattered bone fragments turn to powder and scatter away.

 

And,

 

-Ding!

 

With the cheerful sound of coins stacking up.

 

A reward box falls before my eyes.

 

“Oh, it’s diamond?”

 

Is it because I killed the Lich King?

 

Even though I thought it took quite a bit of time, I didn’t expect a diamond to come out.

 

-Click.

 

When I open the box, I see a shoe.

 

Ooh!

 

Blink movement!

 

Looking closely, the sole of the shoe is translucent.

 

-Bzzzz…

 

No, it’s not translucent, the sole is vibrating.

 

This is pretty good?

 

I didn’t have shoe items either.

 

I immediately took off my sneakers and equipped the [Echo Walker].

 

-Bzzzzzz…

 

When I equipped the shoes, the vibration changed a bit.

 

Does it change to match the wearer?

 

Reading the description, it says magic cannot pass through.

 

I just need to be careful of that?

 

Let me try using blink as a test,

 

-Bzzt!

 

With a short vibration, my body instantly teleports.

 

The movement range is about 5 meters.

 

The range is shorter than I thought, but even this is something.

 

It should save quite a bit of stamina too.

 

“Nice, very nice.”

 

After thoroughly testing [Echo Walker],

 

I picked up the ‘Dan’ and crescent sword I had thrown to one side.

 

Time to head back now.

 

-Thud.

 

Just as I turn around,

 

something catches on my toe.

 

-Roll roll roll roll…

 

That’s,

 

-Glint!

 

the Lich King’s crown.

 

It looks like it’s made of gold but doesn’t shine,

 

rather it’s a worn-looking crown.

 

When I pick it up and examine it, various colored magic stones are embedded around its circumference.

 

They all seem to be different types…

 

‘This would be useful to take too, wouldn’t it?’

 

Then of course I should take it.

 

I put the Lich King’s crown into my inventory.

 

Now that I won’t be short on money,

 

I probably won’t need to sell it.

 

Should I use it for trading?

 

Hehe.

 

I thought I’d barely be able to clear it,

 

but I even killed the Lich King.

 

And got some nice rewards too.

 

Now I just need to go back,

 

and pull a ‘big brother’s here’ on Choi Mu-ryeong.

 

I’m really curious to see

 

what kind of face Choi Mu-ryeong will make when he sees me.

 

“Keke keke…”

 

With the laughter that the Lich King had feared,

 

“Return.”

 

I left the 30th Floor.

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