My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 19

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 19

Episode 19. Mist Blade

As I said, ‘mist’ has physical force.

Having physical force means I can touch it with my hands.

‘Being able to touch it means I can step on it too.’

That’s why I decided to use the ‘mist’ as a foothold to leap across the ravine.

Having jumped over the ravine, I gritted my teeth and controlled the ‘mist’.

Flow out from my arm and head toward my feet.

And condense firmly beneath my feet so I don’t fall.

After barely stepping on the ‘mist’ and leaping again, I repeated the same command.

“Kugh…”

Something warm flows down from under my nose.

My overloaded brain screams that it can’t accept any more commands.

But I have no choice.

If it can’t accept them, I’ll just fall and die.

I bit down hard on the flesh inside my mouth to wake myself up and gave the command again.

Like that.

Like that.

After several leaps, I finally reached the other side of the ravine and collapsed powerlessly on the ground.

“Huff, huff.”

My mouth tastes metallic.

My face is sticky, and my brain feels like it’s burning with pain.

I breathed heavily and covered my face with my hands.

“…I made it across.”

If I had made even the slightest mistake, I would have died.

I did it, but I’m not even sure how I managed it.

After lying spread-eagle and breathing heavily for a while, I slowly sat up.

“But this is a bit strange.”

“Squeak?”

“Think about it. If that was the only exit, how were the Bloody Mantis and Earth Bear there?”

I naturally thought they had walked in there.

But that place was a blocked space with no exit.

How exactly did they get in there?

“Did whoever made the Tower just put them in there?”

I clicked my tongue softly and shook my head as I struggled to get up.

Since I had caught my breath somewhat, it was time to move forward again.

“Let’s go, Cheo-ri. We need to get out quickly.”

“Squeak.”

How long have I been in this cave? I miss the forest of the Tower of Recording that I’ve been seeing all this time.

So I trudged forward along the path.

* * *

Hiding behind a rock, I glanced over to the other side.

There, a single Bloody Mantis stood blocking the passage.

I could just run over and throw a punch.

The Bloody Mantis is no longer my enemy.

I know that, but for some reason I couldn’t move.

‘It’s a bit different from the Bloody Mantises I’ve seen so far.’

The Bloody Mantis standing there now.

Around that creature, an unknown purple haze was rising.

Because of that, its exoskeleton color looked more like a reddish purple rather than blood-red.

Its appearance is the same.

But it’s different.

It carries a dangerous aura somewhere.

My instincts are screaming not to get close.

That’s why I couldn’t easily approach and was just watching that creature from afar.

‘It shows no sign of moving aside.’

But this can only go on for so long.

This is a one-way path.

Unless that creature moves aside, I can’t pass through there.

But even after a long time had passed, the purple Bloody Mantis showed no sign of moving aside.

‘In the end, I have no choice but to fight that creature.’

Damn it.

I don’t know why, but I really don’t want to fight that thing.

The one fortunate thing is that my physical condition has improved while walking here.

I exhaled calmly and slowly got up from behind the rock.

At that moment.

“Huh?”

It disappeared.

The creature with that massive body vanished as if it had evaporated.

The moment I realized this.

“Squeak!”

I heard Cheo-ri’s urgent cry directed toward my back.

Gritting my teeth, I quickly ducked my head following my instincts.

Immediately after, a razor-sharp blade barely grazed over my head.

Crazy.

When exactly did it get here?

I looked at the purple Bloody Mantis that had somehow reached behind me, my eyes trembling wildly.

The creature tilted its triangular head sideways and brought its front leg down toward me.

‘I can’t dodge…!’

Even if I wanted to dodge, my posture was broken so I couldn’t.

Then there’s only one answer.

I threw my fist toward the descending front leg.

At that moment.

“Kugh…!”

Pain like my skin melting away covered my body, except for my right arm.

My right arm wavered for just a moment.

Because of that, the direction of my thrown right arm twisted, and I was sent flying in a strange direction.

Thud, thud, thud, thwack!

After bouncing off the ground several times, I crashed hard into the wall.

It hurts.

Not just my back, but my entire body.

Especially my right shoulder area that doesn’t transform into ‘Black Dragon’ hurts terribly.

I breathed roughly and carefully touched my right shoulder with my left hand.

“…Damn.”

My flesh had melted away.

It’s not an exaggeration – my flesh had literally melted away.

Looking closely, it wasn’t just my right shoulder.

All the parts that had faced that creature had melted away, albeit slightly.

“Kirik.”

Thump, thump.

The creature approaches me as I’m embedded in the wall.

The purple energy flowing from its body is melting everything in the atmosphere it touches.

At that sight, I let out a hollow laugh.

“What the hell is that now.”

Seeing it up close, I’m certain.

That creature is definitely a Bloody Mantis.

It’s just wrapped in that unknown purple energy.

And due to that energy, it’s become several times stronger than an ordinary Bloody Mantis.

I kept my gaze fixed on the Bloody Mantis wrapped in purple energy as I slowly got up.

Until just now, it wasn’t staying still simply because it was annoyed.

It had already noticed me and was waiting for me to make a move.

“….”

Here it comes.

As I got up, I could see the creature’s body trembling slightly.

I need to react.

I need to react and throw a punch.

But.

‘What happens after that?’

I felt it earlier when its front leg clashed with my fist.

The strength of its exoskeleton has also increased several times over.

If it’s that hard, finishing it in one hit like an ordinary Bloody Mantis is impossible.

That means I’d need to hit it at least twice.

‘Will my body hold out until then?’

I can endure the pain.

Compared to burning to death hundreds of times, this is nothing – what couldn’t I endure?

What worries me is that you can’t revive in the Tower of Recording.

I’ll definitely collapse and fail to endure during the process of hitting it twice or more.

If that happens, it won’t just be me who dies – even Cheo-ri, who’s wrapped around my neck, will die too.

“Kkyuu!”

Here it comes.

At Cheo-ri’s short cry, I immediately threw my body to the right.

“Kugh…!”

Thud!

The Bloody Mantis strikes down, shaking the ground.

The moment my right foot touched the faint purple energy flowing from it, terrible pain began climbing up from my foot along with my shoe.

Gritting my teeth, I clenched my fist in mid-air.

If close range won’t work, then long range.

[Mist – Shadow of Fog]

Kwagagagak!

A swirling strike shoots forth.

Because its front leg was stuck in the hard stone floor, the Bloody Mantis took a direct hit from the swirling black mist.

However.

“That damn energy…!”

The purple energy blocked the swirling mist that should have reached the Bloody Mantis.

In the end, the Bloody Mantis didn’t even get scratched.

I had no choice but to grit my teeth and throw my body again.

Once again, the Bloody Mantis strikes down at where I had been.

Fortunately, this time no part of me was exposed to its energy.

However, due to moving hastily, pain intense enough to make my vision flicker shot up from my right foot.

“Huff, huff.”

Scraaaatch.

It hurts.

It feels like every hair on my body is standing on end.

I breathed roughly and scraped the cave wall with the Black Dragon’s claws.

Light traces easily carved into the cave wall that leaves marks in clay.

Close range is obviously out of the question.

But I don’t see any possibility for long range either.

What exactly am I supposed to do?

My mind races frantically.

I think of all sorts of methods to break through the situation, then discard each method.

Won’t work.

Won’t work.

Won’t work.

No matter what method I think of, they all point to the same end.

‘Death.’

Right now my mind is accepting this situation as ‘death.’

That’s why I.

“Bullshit.”

I struck my melted right shoulder with my left hand.

Blood splattering in all directions.

The moment a stream of blood touches my face, my mind becomes crystal clear.

Die?

Why should I.

I haven’t even achieved my dreams yet.

I have more days to live than days to die.

And if I’m going to die.

“I’d rather give my body to the Black Dragon.”

Rather than dying in a place like this, I’d rather give my body to the Black Dragon.

I absolutely cannot die.

Even if I die, my grave is not here.

[The Lord of the Twisted Underworld is satisfied with your spirit.]

I can do this.

Nothing in my life has ever been easy.

So I can do this too.

I calmly watched the charging Bloody Mantis.

Once again, it charges straight at me.

It seems like this is all that creature knows how to do.

I stepped back to avoid its attack and looked at the wavering purple energy.

That energy is blocking everything I have.

If that energy wasn’t there, catching that creature would be easy.

Then.

“I just need to tear it apart.”

Why didn’t I think of that?

I immediately stretched out my right hand fully.

Then, I extinguished the ‘mist’ that had been rising from my right hand in an instant.

“Kiik.”

The Bloody Mantis charges as if this is its chance.

I didn’t give that creature my attention.

I just stared intently at my right hand with wide eyes.

‘Compress it.’

‘Mist’ has physical force.

The denser I make the fog, the stronger that physical force becomes, to the point where it can be stepped on.

Then.

‘Limit the area where mist is emitted to just the fingernails.’

If I make the part where mist comes out smaller from the beginning.

In that situation, if the amount of mist is ejected as usual.

Wouldn’t that force become stronger?

[Synchronization Rate 1.8%]

My head throbs as if it’s about to split.

Without even a moment’s respite, all my nerves concentrate here.

One second feels like one minute.

One minute feels like one hour.

In that brief yet long moment, the Giant Mantis’s front leg strikes down.

The moment black fog faintly flows from the tips of my five extended fingernails.

[The application technique ‘Fog Blade’ of ‘Mist’ is generated.]

[Fog Blade]

[Creates sharp and precise fog blades compressed to the extreme.]

Dark black lines began to form above my sharp fingernails.

[Mist – Fog Blade]

I gritted my teeth and roughly swung my right hand.

My right hand cutting through empty air.

Following that, five black solid lines that no longer looked like fog quickly followed the trajectory of my swing.

“Kik?”

Five black solid lines following at very short intervals.

The Bloody Mantis lightly ignored them and charged toward me.

That prey’s attack won’t work.

The Bloody Mantis thought this and didn’t stop its front leg striking down toward the motionless prey.

However, there was something the Bloody Mantis overlooked.

Those stubbornly ordinary-looking black solid lines advance without stopping, no matter what stands in their way.

Even if it’s the purple aura that had blocked attacks.

“…!”

Slash!

A hollow cutting sound echoes.

The five blades that had risen from my fingernails shoot fiercely toward the trajectory they were swung.

Those shot blades pierce through the purple aura.

Pierce through the Bloody Mantis’s exoskeleton.

And only disappear after leaving deep cuts on the cave wall.

I breathed roughly and looked at the Bloody Mantis that had stopped right in front of me.

It stopped.

The purple aura that had been constantly flowing from it suddenly diminished.

Soon after, five diagonal lines were drawn across its body.

“…I won.”

It completely collapsed like that.

With strength leaving my legs, I sat down on the ground.

My head feels dazed.

Even maintaining consciousness is difficult.

I looked up at the sky, focusing only on breathing deeply with my blurring vision.

Then.

“Who’s there?”

A somewhat familiar voice reached my ears.

“You, you’re that human who suddenly disappeared a week ago?!”

With the sound of that voice’s owner running toward me as the last thing I heard.

“Wait, human! Stay conscious-“

I lost consciousness.

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