Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32 10. Battle of Villains (6)

Kwaaaaang!

The so-called BJ Ppagle. When internet broadcaster Hong Young-tae crashed into the floor, a momentary silence fell over the scene.

Not only Sangju First Sword Dokgo Se-hwan but even Sangju Mayor Kim Hyun-ho couldn’t understand the current situation.

Another mutant suddenly falling from the sky…?

Of course, Young-tae, who had been summoned through the whistle, was equally surprised.

「…Huh? What’s all this.」

He had come with the ambitious resolve to definitely achieve merit this time, but the atmosphere was far from normal.

The giant mutant whose head was already severed, Jung Young-woo, and another First Sword.

「Why…」

Before Young-tae could finish saying “are there two First Swords?”, Young-woo scattered golden light from his eyes and swung his sword.

Swaaaash!

It was aimed at none other than Sangju First Sword Dokgo Se-hwan.

“What, you crazy bastard?”

Though it was a surprise attack, Se-hwan had the advantage in stats, so he could barely block Young-woo’s blade.

Claaaang!

Two silver-white blades met near Se-hwan’s neck area.

Then, finally, an incredible message appeared before Young-woo’s eyes.

「Sense stat has temporarily increased from the existing 480 to 808.」

“…!”

Sense was a whopping 808.

This was the result of stealing the Sense of both the Sangju First Sword and Sangju Mayor.

Now he wouldn’t lose to anyone present in a battle of senses.

“Young-tae! Kill this guy first!”

When Young-woo swung his sword again and shouted this, bewilderment and fear simultaneously filled the eyes of Se-hwan, who was blocking his sword.

“…”

He was shocked by a fact he had never known until now and couldn’t believe even after seeing it with his own eyes.

The fact that there were First Swords in this world who conspired with mutants.

Moreover, that bastard was currently launching a joint attack with a mutant.

It wasn’t his imagination that Sangju Mayor Kim Hyun-ho was still holding out like a fortress in the back.

So in other words.

‘He’s… going to kill me first while leaving the mutants like that…?’

Indeed he was.

A large wolf was already charging with its elongated snout wide open.

‘Damn, am I dreaming right now?’

Se-hwan barely blocked all sorts of attacks flying from both sides while his eyebrows twitched frantically.

His accumulated combat experience was telling him it would be hard to survive this time.

Swaaaash!

Swish!

The beast’s claws and Early Bird’s blade had completely different reach and trajectories, making them too tricky to block alternately.

No matter how much the Sangju Sword Technique assisted, it was Se-hwan himself who had to actually move his body.

“Ugh…!”

Eventually, before even twenty exchanges had passed, Se-hwan’s breathing lost its original pace and fell into an unsightly off-beat.

“Ahhh!”

Se-hwan, who had never dreamed his end would come today, made an ambiguous sound that could have been a scream or a battle cry.

Young-woo also noticed that his opponent had lost composure and threw a dagger toward Se-hwan’s back.

Whoosh!

He planned to retrieve the dagger and strike from behind during Young-tae’s next attack.

And soon after.

Swiiish!

Young-tae swung his heavy arm and charged at Se-hwan.

This was when Young-woo retrieved the dagger that had been embedded in the ground far away.

While doing so, he didn’t forget to swing Early Bird, aiming for Se-hwan’s neck.

Swaaaash!

Since it was essentially a three-sided attack, even Se-hwan, who had shown almost miraculous defensive abilities, had to allow an effective hit this time.

Stab!

He couldn’t avoid the dagger flying from behind.

The dagger that grazed his side diagonally and returned was embedded in Young-woo’s belt, stained with Se-hwan’s blood, and from this point, the aspect of the battle changed.

“Hup…!”

Dokgo Se-hwan’s movements, which had been fighting well until now, became noticeably rougher.

‘Could it be?’

Young-woo, sensing something, pushed Young-tae aside and also stepped back.

Then Dokgo Se-hwan, who had been reflexively swinging his sword, staggered and half-collapsed.

“Uuugh…!”

Se-hwan clutched his side with his shield-bearing hand and contorted his face.

Young-woo was certain.

‘It activated, Golden Punishment.’

「Golden Punishment」 – Legendary Bracelet

【Inflicts pain on enemies.】

That effect of inflicting pain activated when dealing damage to an opponent.

Of course, Young-woo couldn’t know how much pain this caused.

What was certain was that it was enough to make someone of the Sangju First Sword’s caliber stop fighting.

「What… what’s this. Does it hurt that much.」

Even though it wasn’t a very large wound, his opponent was acting like he was dying, so Young-tae looked at Young-woo with a bewildered expression.

He suspected this guy had used some kind of trick again. Of course, it was true.

“We need to finish him quickly.”

When Young-woo raised his sword threateningly, Se-hwan, who had one knee on the ground, gritted his teeth and raised his shield.

However, with his attention half-distracted by extreme pain, he was pushed back even in a one-on-one duel with Young-woo.

After barely parrying about five exchanges, he showed an opening.

Swiiish!

From Young-woo’s perspective, it was just a simple thrust aimed between the collarbone and neck, but Se-hwan tried to deflect it diagonally and counterattack, but failed to time it properly and his trapezius muscle was pierced.

Stab!

Once the sword properly entered the body, what followed was swift.

Young-woo left the blade embedded in his opponent’s body and drew the dagger from his belt to stab.

Under Se-hwan’s chin.

Stab!

Blood soon flowed down from the metal that pierced through his chin like lightning.

“…Gurgle!”

Nevertheless, since Se-hwan’s body still had strength remaining, Young-woo immediately swung the shield in his left hand to strike his skull.

Crack!

Then Se-hwan’s upper body instantly lost strength and his body slumped to the floor.

Early Bird and the dagger were each stuck in his trapezius muscle and somewhere in his head.

「….」

Young-tae looked at Se-hwan’s horribly mangled corpse and thought of meat skewers or something, but couldn’t voice it out loud.

It was because his body had been disappearing for some time now.

The return time had already come.

「Huh?」

As Young-tae made a confused sound and melted away into thin air, the large shadow he had been casting was also erased.

However, an even much larger shadow still remained.

「Impressive. Is this kind of thing happening in other places too?」

Sangju Mayor Kim Hyun-ho.

He was still looking at Young-woo with the head held in his left hand, his sword still planted on the ground.

He hadn’t moved a single step while two First Swords and some mutant had been tangled up fighting right before his eyes.

Well, when enemies were fighting among themselves, there was no need to interfere.

“I don’t know how other neighborhoods are doing either. It’s only the second day since the Reset.”

Young-woo gave a kind answer, recalling that his opponent was experiencing the Post-Reset World for the first time, just like the previous mutants.

「Two days? Only two days have passed so far…?」

Kim Hyun-ho showed signs of agitation for the first time.

However, his appearance holding his own severed head was still menacing, and after looking around for a while, the attack he suddenly swung was the same.

「Anyway, you’d better disappear now too. You seem like a rather dangerous fellow.」

Whaaaack!

“…!”

Young-woo’s eyes widened as the guy’s sword seemed to be much faster than before.

‘Damn, my Sense decreased when Dokgo Se-hwan died.’

Young-woo’s Sense had now decreased back to 480.

On top of that, Young-tae was gone now too, so he had to carry on the battle alone.

Swoosh!

Young-woo gritted his teeth as he felt the tremendous blade sweep over his hastily ducked head.

‘The only way to increase my power right now would be to get the equipment that bastard has.’

As Young-woo approached the Sangju First Sword’s corpse, Kim Hyun-ho immediately charged and struck down at Young-woo with his sword.

Crash!

“Ugh…!”

This time too he barely managed to dodge the attack, but instead Dokgo Se-hwan’s corpse was split in half and flew up into the air.

At that moment, Young-woo confirmed there was a purple bracelet on the corpse’s wrist, but he couldn’t retrieve it.

「Die…!」

Because Kim Hyun-ho immediately came rushing in, casting shadows all around.

Including the body of the dark horse he controlled like his own limbs, his height reached 5 meters, so for Young-woo it felt like fighting a tank.

‘How did such a crazy bastard appear already?’

Even the Gumi Sword Technique was sending guidance not to directly parry the guy’s sword head-on.

There was no chance of winning in a contest of strength.

Conversely, Young-woo had the advantage in total amount of Sense, so Kim Hyun-ho’s blade also couldn’t achieve any notable results.

It just kept pounding the innocent ground and raising dust clouds.

Thwack!

Another ‘miss’ occurred and fragments of sidewalk blocks by the roadside scattered in all directions, and at this point Kim Hyun-ho’s composure broke.

「This fucking bastard.」

He was essentially human too, so he had gotten angry.

Besides, he hadn’t returned here to dance with swords all day with some kid he’d never met before.

What he wanted was to punish the public that had judged him.

「This…!」

Kim Hyun-ho, who was raising his sword again with a voice full of rage, suddenly twitched his eyebrows and shifted his gaze somewhere.

‘What?’

At a similar moment, Young-woo also sensed some presence and looked in the same direction as Kim Hyun-ho.

Then.

“Over there!”

“What, what is that? It’s too big?”

People with a considerable level of armament could be seen running over.

Just from their movement speed, it was obvious they weren’t ordinary people, so probably….

‘They must be Sangju City’s Monster Hunters.’

Monster Hunters, the privileged, Hunters, superhumans… actually, it wouldn’t matter what word you used to call them. There were no more standards or norms, were there.

‘What nerve brought them here? Don’t tell me that woman sent them to help her husband?’

Young-woo remembered that the Sangju First Sword’s wife was still alive.

Also the fact that she had disappeared somewhere when he started fighting the Sangju First Sword at the Honeymoon Motel.

“….”

Anyway, it wasn’t important right now.

What was really important was.

Creak.

Kim Hyun-ho had turned his body toward the ‘reinforcements’.

Since fighting like this forever didn’t seem like it would lead to an answer, he was going to kill the small fry first to have some fun.

‘I’m grateful for that.’

Thoom!

Finally Kim Hyun-ho shook the earth as he rushed out to greet the Monster Hunters, and Young-woo took that opportunity to approach Dokgo Se-hwan’s corpse.

To be precise, he went to search the guy’s upper body that had been thrown far away.

Thud!

But something unexpected happened.

“…?”

The moment Young-woo cast a shadow over Dokgo Se-hwan’s head, the guy’s eyelids trembled.

“Huh?”

At first he thought he had seen wrong or it was because of the ground’s trembling.

‘What… he’s breathing.’

Amazingly, he could see the guy’s chest repeatedly rising and falling.

Even though his head was half smashed and his body was torn apart top to bottom, he had been alive all this time.

‘Does that make sense? No matter how high his durability….’

While Young-woo gaped with his mouth wide open, tremendous roars and people’s screams could be heard from behind.

The Sangju Mayor was gleefully slashing through the Monster Hunters.

‘Damn it, time is.’

Young-woo didn’t even have the luxury to admire what was close to a miracle.

He immediately swung Early Bird to completely cut off Dokgo Se-hwan’s breath, then stripped off the bracelet he was wearing.

Tat.

Then the tooltip of the purple bracelet appeared in his vision, revealing the identity of the miracle he had just witnessed.

「Slime Core」 – Mutant Bracelet

【Regeneration dramatically increases.】

Regeneration increase.

This was the reason why Dokgo Se-hwan, who was practically nothing but a lump of meat, hadn’t died completely.

‘No way… there was an item like this?’

However, the surprising events didn’t end there.

「You have acquired and merged with Sangju First Sword!」

…You have reached 3 titles in the Gyeongbuk region.

「You have become Gyeongbuk First Sword (True)!」

…You are currently the only Gyeongbuk First Sword (True) in the Gyeongbuk region.

‘Wait, if this happens.’

In the continuing parade of notifications, Young-woo realized something and opened his eyes wide.

According to the same-type title rules he had seen before, the one who collected the most titles among Gyeongbuk First Sword (True) would be promoted to Gyeongbuk First Sword.

In other words.

‘I’m the only candidate.’

As Young-woo thought this, a notification message was broadcast to all regions in Gyeongbuk.

「The First Sword of Gyeongbuk region has been selected!」

「The current Gyeongbuk First Sword is ‘Jung Young-woo07’. 1st generation, 0 defenses.」

Next, a warning message appeared only to Young-woo.

「All future Gyeongbuk First Sword (True) candidates will receive your location in real-time.」

4th-Class Human of the Ruined World (Serial)

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