Murim Login - Chapter 221

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Chapter 221
Ding.
– Achievement unlocked:
[Manifestation of Qi]
has been achieved!
– This is truly an exceptional Achievement! You receive a reward for this accomplishment!
– You can now use
[Spear Technique]
!
– The effect of
[Hundred Poisons Cannot Penetrate]
now dwells within your body!
– You have acquired a substantial amount of experience!
– Level Up!
– Level Up!
– You have acquired 100 bonus points!
The system notifications pierce my ears like echoes, yet my gaze remains fixed solely on the spear.
Crackle, crackle, crackle.
Azure flames dance across the blade’s edge. An electric thrill surges through my spine.
‘I’ve done it.’
Today, I have taken a step toward a higher realm and conquered one of the peaks in the treacherous mountain range of martial arts.
At the same time, certainty crystallizes within me.
‘I can kill it.’
No further thought or words are needed. Only action remains—to transform this long wait into reality.
Yet I was not alone in awaiting this momentous reunion.
The creature with its single eye wide open unleashed a roar thick with fury.
– Kwaaaaaaaagh!
No—it was less a roar than a deafening boom.
Goooooong—
From a maw vast enough to swallow a car in one bite, a tremendous gust of wind poured forth, pressing the ground beneath me. Compressed air exploded, and the weight felt like a thousand stones crushing my shoulders.
‘Air Breath.’
A unique ability granted only to the Dragon Clan.
Had an ordinary hunter faced this from a Named Monster, their eardrums would have ruptured and they’d have collapsed to their knees. But I was not ordinary.
Crunch, crackle.
I pressed forward, enduring the pressure that bore down on my shoulders.
With each step, my ankles sank into the earth and the pressure intensified, yet nothing could halt my advance.
Even if this creature transcended the limits of ordinary monsters, I felt no fear.
‘Because I have transcended them as well.’
At least in terms of physical capability, I had already earned the title of superhuman.
Strength, speed, endurance—in every attribute that determines the outcome of battle, I stand a step ahead of even peak masters of my tier or S-rank hunters.
“Ah, that’s refreshing.”
I lifted my head with a grin spreading across my face.
Upon the massive body towering like a high-rise building, the creature’s crimson eyes—those that had been unleashing Air Breath—trembled as they found my laughter.
“What was that just now? A fan on high speed?”
– KRWAAAAAAAH!
“Turn off the fan. You’re blowing dust everywhere, you bastard!”
With the shout, I swung my spear with all my might toward the sky.
Shiiiiing!
In the instant the blue-flaming spear traced a semicircle and scorched the air, the crushing pressure that had weighed upon my entire body vanished, and I became light as a feather.
‘Now!’
Boom—!
With a single push off the ground, I shot forward like an arrow.
The panicked creature twisted its head and unleashed Air Breath, but it couldn’t match my speed.
Whoosh! Clatter-clatter-clatter!
Armed with nothing but light leather armor and a single spear, I crossed the battlefield like lightning, and before long I stood before the creature.
– Krrrrgh?
In its panic, the creature spread its folded wings wide. But by then, I had already launched myself upward with all my strength.
Crash!
With a violent impact, I soared into the air. Between the strands of hair whipping in the wind, I could see the creature’s knees covered in gleaming black scales—that very spot known as the anterior cruciate ligament.
“You’re getting a medical discharge, you son of a bitch!”
With the cry, I drove my spear forward with every ounce of my strength.
Thunk! Crunch!
The Wyvern’s hide and scales—supposedly impervious to all but the mightiest magic and weapons—split asunder in an instant.
The sensation transmitted through my fingertips was like that of a harpoon piercing through a fish.
‘It’s in!’
The brilliantly burning spear-qi tore through and shattered everything in its path.
Once the spear-point had opened a gap, the rest was simple. Like driving a nail with a hammer, I drove my fist forward, ramming the two-meter spear into the creature’s knee like a spike.
Crash! SHRIEEEEEEK!
Dark blood erupted like a fountain. The creature, which had been about to spread its wings and take flight, shrieked and collapsed to its knees.
– GWAAAAAAAH!
But I didn’t stop there. I planted my foot on the end of the spear shaft driven into the creature’s knee and used its recoil to launch myself upward again.
As I soared several meters into the air once more, a short blade had already materialized in my grip.
‘If I don’t have it, I just pull it out.’
My inventory—both in Murim and in reality—held countless weapons.
They were items I’d purchased at great expense before, but I wouldn’t hesitate to spend ten times that amount to kill this thing.
Thunk!
Suddenly, I recalled my days training the Gecko Technique on the Cliff in Murim. That cliff had been far higher, and there was nothing solid to plant my feet on.
‘Every time I thought I’d climbed high enough, some madman would knock boulders down at me.’
Compared to that, this was nothing.
I drove my short blade relentlessly into the creature’s massive body, climbing higher and higher still.
Thud, thud-thud! Thud-thud-thud-thud!
Before the spear, armor harder than steel, low-level magic, and scales renowned for deflecting blows—all proved utterly useless.
Imagine something the size of a palm crawling across your body, driving nails deeper with each movement. That was exactly what this creature was experiencing.
– Kwaaaaack!
Unable to endure the relentless onslaught of agony, the beast thrashed about with a bestial shriek. It was an attempt to shake me off, but it came too late.
By then, I was already savoring the sensation of weightlessness in the air.
‘Inventory open. Equip spear.’
In the next instant, a sturdy spear shaft materialized in my empty grip.
Channeling my energy through the Ren and Du meridians, over a hundred units of heat energy surged toward the spearhead like a receding tide.
Whoooosh. Crackle-crackle-crackle!
Azure flames enveloped the spear blade without a single gap.
In the darkness, it flickered like a comet’s tail, and I was the comet itself.
“Where do you think you’re running?”
With a soft murmur, I became one with the spear and plummeted downward with devastating speed. My target was the creature’s foreleg—or rather, what could be called its wing.
Blinded by agony, the beast had no means to stop the meteor.
Crack, whoooosh!
The heat energy, blazing like a miniature sun, tore through hide and scale, charring flesh. The wing, spanning some thirty meters vertically, was cleaved in half along the spear’s path.
– Krrgh…!
This was likely the first time it had ever experienced such excruciating pain. The crimson eyes of a creature that had lived its entire existence as a predator widened in shock.
– Kwaaaaaaaack!
I landed lightly on the ground, my gaze cold and unwavering as I stared at the beast.
A fifty-meter colossus writhed within the billowing clouds of dust.
“Does it hurt?”
– Kwak! Kraaaa!
“Is that all?”
Compared to what it did three years ago, this was nothing.
A single wingbeat had shattered bodies beyond recognition. Heads crushed in its talons vanished without a trace. Those swallowed by its massive maw—not even their corpses were ever found.
That was when I first understood.
Just how much blood and organs a human body contained. How cruelly one could be made to die.
“I wouldn’t be satisfied even if I chewed you to death, you bastard.”
An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth.
It dies here, at my hands. And it will die most miserably—exactly as I have imagined countless times.
“Now it truly begins. Stop your pathetic whimpering and get up.”
Whoooosh.
Wind rose in the wake of my swung spear, sweeping away the dust.
The beast, caked in blood and grime, glared at me through ragged, labored breathing.
– Krrgh.
Dozens of blades embedded throughout its body, and blood cascading like a waterfall from its gaping wounds.
The Wyvern’s signature wings—only one remained intact.
Though still massive and imposing, the creature no longer bore the dignity of a Dragon Clan descendant or a named monster.
– Grrrrr….
Eyes brimming with resentment and murderous intent bore into me.
The emotions radiating from that gaze were unlike anything I’d ever encountered from a monster before.
“Open your eyes properly. Otherwise, I’ll pluck them out first.”
The moment I tossed out those words and took a step toward the creature.
– Hu… man.
“…!”
A single word that made me doubt my own ears.
My feet froze in place. Without thinking, my eye twitched involuntarily.
‘What did I just hear?’
But I hadn’t misheard. The creature’s jaws moved, and clearer pronunciation flowed out.
– I… want… to… die… by… your… hand.
The monster was speaking.
That very ‘monster’ was.
A sound like a moan escaped between my parted lips.
“This is absurd….”
– From… now… on… it’s… different.
As the words ended.
The red creature’s eyes transformed into a complete crimson hue.
And….
– Heal.
Whoooosh.
Mana began converging around the creature.
* * *
‘One-Eyed’ Karus.
That was the name of the Black Wyvern.
To earn that name, he had overcome countless crises. He fought not only monsters but humans as well.
He repeated battles hundreds of times over—winning meant obtaining food, losing meant becoming food.
That day in the past was no different.
Until the moment he lost one eye to a human.
‘How dare they—how dare a wretched human, less than an insect!’
Karus burned with rage, and in that same moment, he made a vow.
He would kill that human who had stolen his eye. And if he couldn’t find them, he would slaughter other humans again and again.
Then one day, after repeating endless battles and carnage, he suddenly came to his senses and found himself possessing enormous size and strength.
‘Why? Did I grow stronger fighting humans?’
It wasn’t long before Karus understood. His growth came not from battling humans, but from devouring other monsters.
Each time, something within his body grew progressively stronger.
‘What did the humans call this again? Ah, yes.’
Magic stones.
Once Karus understood the source of his power, he began hunting for magic stones.
I devoured monsters of the same ilk, but what truly captivated me was the magical equipment they possessed rather than their flesh.
‘So this is how humans utilize mana stones.’
The more mana stones I absorbed, the sharper my intellect became and the greater my strength grew.
As a descendant of the Dragon Clan, Karus possessed exceptional intelligence befitting a Wyvern, and at last I could step into a new realm of power.
‘Magic, then. Shall I learn it?’
I established a new lair in an unnamed Wasteland, slaughtering anything that might interfere, and devoted myself to the profound study of magic.
It was then that I sensed the intrusion of humans.
‘The mana stones I consumed before haven’t even been fully digested yet….’
Knowing I remained incomplete, I resolved to exercise patience.
When a few humans dared approach my lair, I intended to ignore them.
‘Until I caught that one’s scent.’
‘My eye! That human who took my eye!’
My singular eye blazed with fury as I immediately crossed the Wasteland.
Using one of the humans I’d deliberately spared as a guide, I finally confronted him.
‘I’ll kill him! I’ll crush every bone and devour him whole!’
But he was formidable. Even I, having absorbed over hundreds of mana stones, was pushed back helplessly.
Yet I still possessed one final technique.
– Heal!
Whoosh.
My wounds sealed and the bleeding ceased. I couldn’t restore all my tattered wings, but this was sufficient.
– Die. Human. Scum.
Jin Tae-kyung’s jaw clenched, his eyes wide with shock.
Having already experienced his devastating speed firsthand, I chanted without hesitation.
– Slow!
Even with but a trace of dragon’s blood flowing through my veins, I was Karus.
Five layers of Slow magic wove themselves around Jin Tae-kyung’s body.
– Kahahaha!
I erupted in triumphant laughter as I beheld him moving at a crawl, when—
“Agility plus one hundred points.”
– …?
Whoosh.
I blinked. In my massive eyes, a spear blade wreathed in blue flames filled my entire vision.
“What are you staring at, you bastard.”
Crack!

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