I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills - Chapter 119

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Episode 119. You’ve Been Abducted

After concluding his business with the Night God.

Krash downed a Potion to mend the wound on his leg, then moved through the corridor.

Before long, he came upon a room.

Inside, scattered Sacred Relics lay shattered across the floor.

She was breaking them exactly as Haring had instructed.

Following the trail of broken relics deeper into the chamber, Krash caught sight of black hair.

The figure wielding a Dagger, smashing one Sacred Relic after another, was none other than Haring.

“Haring.”

At Krash’s call, she spun around sharply.

Her eyes widened slightly as she took in the sight of him.

“You finished?”
“Yes. No need to break any more.”

Haring lowered the Dagger slowly.

A look of relief crossed her face.

It made sense—she had faced the Night God directly herself.

She had felt firsthand just how dangerous a being he was.

If she hadn’t followed through with Krash’s method, she would have been in mortal peril.

It was fortunate she was the obedient type.

“You defeated the god?”
“He possessed less power than the title ‘god’ would suggest. But yes, something like that.”

She regarded Krash with wonder in her gaze.

“Is everyone in Valheim like you?”

Krash shrugged.

“If anything, they’re worse.”
“I see.”

As Haring accepted this without question, a deep rumble echoed from far below.

It seemed Anyx and the Invasive Species descending from above were colliding with something.

With or without the Night God, Invasive Species remained as they were.

They had not lived abundantly enough to pass by prey within reach.

“What else can I do?”

Haring tucked the dagger into her waistband and asked the question.

“We have to join up with them.”

Haring might not have expended much, but Krash had burned through considerable reserves.

His legs were still trembling beneath him—a testament to how much he’d pushed.

Joining Anyx’s group was the only sensible course.

“Oh, and we’re bringing one of the Invasive Species with us.”
“Let’s go.”

The taciturn woman didn’t hesitate—the moment Krash spoke, she moved forward.

He tried to follow, but his legs buckled beneath him.

Thud!

Krash managed to steady himself through sheer willpower, slamming his foot down to keep from falling.

He’d almost sprawled across the ground like a fool.

Haring, who’d been moving ahead, stopped and turned to look back at him.

“Want me to carry you?”
“Can you even do that?”

At the question, Haring moved her hand toward her backside and tilted her head thoughtfully.

“Maybe?”
“Forget it. Let’s just keep moving.”

Krash let out a sigh and was about to take another step when—

His Sixth Sense flared.

-Dodge.

Acting on pure instinct, Krash thrust his hand forward.

It connected with Haring, and the moment his palm struck her—

Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!

The outer wall collapsed, and a spider Invasive Species burst through, spraying webbing at Krash.

‘Damn it.’

Krash cursed silently, leaving wide-eyed Haring behind as the webbing coiled around his body.

The spider Invasive Species snagged him in an instant, hauling him upward.

“Krash!”

She cried out, chasing after him until her gaze reached the hole in the wall.

But Krash had already been dragged far beyond reach.

There is nothing.

She cannot see.

Her eyes trembled violently.

At the same moment, her breathing quickened.

‘No. Calm down.’

She forced herself to steady her nerves.

The current situation had touched upon a trauma from her past.

She had to pull herself together.

He could only be saved by her now.

“Haring!”

In that instant, a voice called out from behind.

It was none other than Anyx and his companions who appeared.

They had clashed so fiercely with the Invasive Species that they looked battered and worn.

Anyx rushed toward Haring and then surveyed the surroundings.

On his way here, he had discovered someone presumed to be a World Erosion Creator.

After restraining that person securely, he hurried inside to search for the two of them, but only Haring was visible.

“Krash is…….”
“……He was taken because of me.”

Haring bit her lip hard.

She had noticed too late, before the spider Invasive Species appeared.

It was because her Detection Ability was weak.

Because her reaction was delayed, Krash, who had lunged toward her, was taken instead.

If it hadn’t been for him, she would have been the one dragged away by the web.

‘In that condition, why did he shield me first…….’

She recalled Krash’s condition.

Even at a glance, Krash’s physical state was clearly abnormal.

Even as strong as he was, he had faced off against a being infused with divine power.

Knowing that, she had tried to escort him and rejoin Anyx’s group.

She never imagined that she would be the one who ended up needing protection.

How pathetic.

Despite all her training, despite growing stronger, she was still being rescued by someone.

It was pathetic beyond measure.

She clenched both fists tight.

‘It’s all right. Haring, I’ll protect you.’

Childhood.

Her blood brother came to mind—the one who had tried to shield her within the World Erosion created by a World Erosion Creator.

And she remembered vividly how he met his end, how he had saved her.

She would not let such a thing happen again.

“Help me. We have to save Krash.”

So Haring’s demeanor shifted.

She, who had maintained a careful distance from Aslan and the group because of her ties to the Empire, was now the one asking for help first.

The cave descended in a vertical shaft.

No matter how fast she was, she couldn’t make it in time alone.

So when she asked, Anyx was already standing before the cave entrance.

At the same moment, he drew a Seed from his pocket.

“Don’t worry.”

Anyx’s crimson eyes blazed with clarity.

“Everyone from Ssang-ah-dan will return safely.”

In that instant, a tree bloomed from his palm and shot upward toward the cave in a burst of speed.

Anyx immediately reached out and grasped a Wooden Branch.

The rest of the Ssang-ah-dan members followed, seizing branches as they rocketed down into the cave.

Haring, catching on to the method of descent, also grabbed a branch and plunged after them.

As she fell, she stared upward at the cave mouth, her lips pressed into a thin line.

With a silent vow that never again—never—would anyone die for her.

＊ ＊ ＊

After Haring’s voice faded in an instant.

Krash’s body thrashed wildly within the webbing.

Already in agony from the Melwha Asura, the pain was becoming unbearable.

And his consciousness kept slipping away.

—Are you out of your mind? I told you to dodge, so why’d you take the hit?

But Crimson Garden’s reproach kept piercing through his ears, and he barely managed to hold onto consciousness.

—I can’t live like this. I can’t survive like this. Blinded by a woman!

That wasn’t it at all, and I wish you wouldn’t jump to conclusions.

Thud!

The moment the vertical tumble ended, Krash rolled across the floor.

‘Get out of here first.’

The instant he registered that thought, Krash drew heat up from within his mouth.

Then, together with the roiling heat, he immediately bit through the webbing with his teeth.

The web caught in his mouth dissolved, and a passage opened.

Krash kindled Ignis at his fingertips in a burst of flame, then tore through the webbing.

The moment he broke free from within the web, Krash couldn’t even land properly and tumbled across the ground.

Crash-bang!

After one full roll, Krash exhaled.

Then he lifted his head, and at the center of his vision lay an enormous corridor—ceiling and floor pierced clean through.

The overwhelmingly vast passage allowed wind pouring from above to create a deafening roar.

Whatever had passed through to leave it like this, one thing was certain: it was something massive.

Likely those Invasive Species the old man said he couldn’t handle.

Along the side of that corridor ran a narrow path—just wide enough for a single person to walk.

Krash himself now stood upon such a path.

“Screeeee?”

The spider Invasive Species noticed the web snap, its crimson eyes flaring as it whirled toward him.

Glancing at the wall, Krash saw holes riddling it everywhere.

This narrow path—these creatures’ highway.

“What a mess.”

Krash brushed the webbing from his body, exhaling sharply.

His body was already screaming—and burning through Ignis like that had made it worse.

Boom!

But another rumble echoed out, showing no mercy to grant Krash a moment’s rest.

Danger screamed through his Sixth Sense, and Krash’s head snapped up.

A massive spider’s silhouette flickered into view above the passage.

The absurdly enormous arachnid filled the entire ceiling of the chamber, its crimson eyes rolling slowly across the space.

It seemed the spider that had carried him here moments ago was merely the offspring—this was the mother.

-What now?

Crimson Garden clicked her tongue.

Even she seemed genuinely intent on calling this dangerous—truly dangerous.

The mother spider’s mandibles cracked open with a wet sound.

“Screeeeeeeeee!”

The entire chamber shook violently at the piercing wail.

Then came scratching sounds from every direction.

By the feel of it, the mother alone was at least 5-Star Tier.

And there appeared to be countless offspring scattered throughout.

“Can you emergency-extract us?”
-Only your head.
“That would make me Durehan.”
-This isn’t the time for barbed jokes.

Crimson Garden snapped sharply.

But Krash answered not with words—instead, he opened the small pouch he held in his grip.

It was none other than the pouch Haring had carried at her side.

Krash had snatched it away in the moment when the spider’s web had nearly claimed him.

-……You didn’t run to rescue that girl—you ran to grab that pouch, didn’t you?

Krash fell silent briefly.

She was right. He had never intended to be taken captive in Haring’s stead.

The moment she was dragged away by an Invasive Species—

the one in true danger would be himself, exhausted from pouring everything into Melwha Asura.

So what Krash had chosen instead was to steal the Poison Pouch from the House of Laggren.

With it in hand, there would be a way to save her even if she were taken.

But then—

he himself had ended up abducted instead.

A mistake born from forgetting that the Invasive Species were drawn to the power of World Erosion itself.

-Bianca, I suppose she’ll be pleased if that boy learns your truth.

Crimson Garden wore an expression of speechless exasperation.

I don’t understand why he’s acting that way again when, just moments ago, he was complaining about saving a woman.

Just as Krash reached into his pouch to pull out a single item, the moment shattered.

Crash-crash-crash-crash!

A violent tremor rippled through the air, accompanied by the sound of impact from behind.

Krash turned to look back and saw a tree jutting abruptly from the passageway he’d emerged from moments before.

‘Convenient timing.’

Knowing what that tree was, Krash simply closed his pouch again.

There was no need to use it just yet, it seemed.

The one who had summoned the tree was none other than Anyx.

As expected, Anyx was the first to emerge from the towering wood.

The moment he spotted the spider Invasive Species behind Krash, he immediately raised his hand.

“Screech!”

In that instant, the wood shot upward, piercing through the spider Invasive Species’s body.

It died on the spot.

But Anyx’s gaze didn’t linger on it—his eyes shot upward immediately.

He had spotted the mother spider.

Skitter-skitter-skitter!

The mother spider began crawling down the ceiling.

In the meantime, the other members of Ssang-ah-dan arrived in succession.

“Anyx, can you handle that?”
“I have to.”

Anyx rolled up his sleeves.

Even if the opponent was 5-Star Tier, it was Anyx.

Krash was about to step back, thinking Anyx would manage it without trouble.

“Krash!”

At the sound of his name being cried out, Haring rushed toward him.

She hurried over and seized his collar, checking his condition.

Seeing her urgent movements, Krash blinked.

It was an excessive reaction, though he’d managed to help her.

Haring’s body, still gripping his collar, trembled.

Krash’s inborn instincts stirred at the sight of her.

‘This woman has something on her mind.’

It seemed Haring carried some kind of trauma with her.

And it appeared he’d just touched on it without thinking.

“Haring.”

Krash spoke to her, still unable to calm herself.

“I’m fine. Truly.”

He wrapped her hand where it gripped his collar, and Haring flinched belatedly.

Then, as if coming to her senses, she slowly released the fabric.

“I’m sorry, because of me—”
“That can wait. Right now, that’s the problem.”

Leaving her to compose herself, Krash gestured upward with his chin at the ceiling.

As the mother spider began to move, Anyx immediately raised wooden shafts in the corridor and launched a ferocious assault.

The Ssang-ah-dan members climbed over those wooden shafts and began their own full offensive, though it seemed it would take quite some time to subdue the creature.

“I can’t help. You’ll have to handle this yourselves.”

Originally he’d meant to pull one unit from the Poison Pouch and use it, but things had changed.

Krash spoke as he prepared to manage the situation, and the light returned to Haring’s eyes.

“I’ll take care of it.”

The moment she drew her Dagger and lunged forward—

His Sixth Sense flared again.

“Damn.”

Did this place ever intend to let anyone rest?

Krash’s frown deepened as he looked up.

Thrum-thrum-thrum-thrum—

In that instant, small fragments of stone beneath his feet began to vibrate slowly.

“Krash!”

Haring spun around and rushed back toward him.

“Sir Anyx! Something’s coming from above!”

In the same moment, one of the Ssang-ah-dan members also sensed the anomaly and cried out.

“Screech?”

It was the moment the mother spider finally lifted her head.

Crack-boom!

With a violent noise and tremor, the wall above the mother spider shattered to pieces.

“Everyone, brace for impact!”

Anyx immediately thrust trees skyward, blocking the cascade of stone shards raining down.

Haring split the debris falling toward Krash with her Dagger.

The venom coating her blade cleaved through rock as easily as air.

But that wasn’t the real problem.

Screeeech!

The mother spider’s agonized shriek tore through the air, and her massive form came crashing down directly onto Anyx’s wooden barriers.

Unable to withstand the collision, some of Anyx’s trees buckled under the weight.

Several members of Ssang-ah-dan who had been running across the wooden platforms were suddenly exposed to the falling debris.

Ahhh!
Gahhh!

Screams erupted from the members who couldn’t evade the stone and wood fragments.

It was Elfin and Anyx who shone in that moment.

Despite the falling stone and timber, she caught the plummeting Ssang-ah-dan members with movements as light and graceful as feathers.

Anyx rushed to assist, creating footholds beneath her to halt their fall.

Screeeech!

Meanwhile, the mother spider shrieked in fury, spewing venom toward the ceiling and flailing her legs wildly upward.

The Plaza became an absolute wreck.

Stone shards scattered everywhere, and thick smoke filled the chamber completely.

While the mother spider grappled with something above, Anyx quickly gathered the members and returned to where Krash had been.

As he did, Anyx hastily scanned the ceiling.

Through the haze, something caught his eye.

“. . . This is bad.”

In that instant, Anyx’s expression hardened.

There, gripping the mother spider with four massive arms, was a creature tearing flesh from her body.

Its form resembled a primate.

It was far larger than the mother spider, and countless thin tentacle-like appendages sprouted from its skin, writhing independently.

Its eyes blazed with sickly blue radiance, the pupils lost in the glow, and mere eye contact sent a chill down the spine.

A 6-Star Tier Invasive Species.

Decarabia.

It was the Invasive Species that reigned as the de facto sovereign of this Graveyard.

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