My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 28

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 28

Episode 28. Burning Forest (Complete)

Having entered the cave, I looked around and made a straightforward assessment.

“The inside is cleaner than I thought?”

I had expected it to be dangerous since the traces of magi led here.

But the interior of the cave I actually entered just had the form of an ordinary cave.

A typical cave with uneven surfaces and rolling stones.

Elpinire also seemed unable to find anything strange, as she had been continuously looking around ever since entering the cave.

“Did you find anything odd?”

Elpinire shook her head.

Nothing at all.

That meant we had to go deeper inside.

As I proceeded deeper into the cave with Elpinire, I glanced at one side of the wall.

Deep scratches on the wall that looked like something sharp had clawed at it.

Those were traces I had left while fighting the mutant Bloody Mantis.

Passing by those traces and continuing forward, we stopped at the end of the cave.

“…”

No, to be precise, we should say we stopped in front of a ravine as dark as an abyss.

Having stopped, I looked down at the dim ravine below.

Dark.

Deep.

I couldn’t see even an inch ahead.

Could we have come the wrong way?

One might think that, but well.

I didn’t think that at all.

Why?

Lifting my head, I quietly stared at the wall across the ravine.

‘I definitely came out from around there.’

When I opened my eyes in the cave, I was trapped with the Bloody Mantis and Earth Bear in a place blocked on all sides.

With Cheo-ri’s help, I realized the space beyond the wall was empty, so I broke through the wall and burst out from there.

Right.

I smashed the wall and burst out.

I barely crossed the ravine by applying ‘Smoke Step.’

But.

‘It’s not there.’

Nowhere across the ravine could I see traces of the smashed wall.

No matter how many times I checked, the wall across the ravine was in pristine condition.

Strange.

That’s why I was certain.

“It must be below.”

Below the ravine as dark as an abyss.

That man who had been consumed by magi would be there.

I should go down.

Just as I was thinking that and preparing to descend.

“…!”

Suddenly, faint magi began erupting explosively from below the ravine.

The concentration of magi was thin.

It wasn’t enough to melt skin upon contact.

But the aftermath of its explosive emergence cracked the ground where we were standing.

“Damn shi-“

The ground finally collapsed.

And so Elpinire and I began falling toward the bottom of the ravine.

* * *

“Whew…”

Crack.

Having avoided falling to my death by hastily driving my right hand into the wall, I glanced around.

“Can you see anything?”

“No. I can’t see anything.”

A voice coming from directly below.

Looking down, I spotted Elpinire gripping my leg with her left hand.

She was protecting me with her mana while staring down into the ravine.

“I knew it was deep, but I didn’t expect it to be this deep.”

We had come down quite a lot.

Even so, the bottom of the ravine was still not visible.

Slowly scraping along the wall as we descended, we were finally able to set foot on the bottom after quite some time.

“…I never would have imagined such a place existed down here.”

I nodded at Elpinire’s words.

While the vertical width of the ravine was wide, the horizontal width wasn’t very broad.

But the scenery at the bottom of the ravine was completely different.

The vertical dimension was the same as what we had seen from above.

But the horizontal width.

Especially the right side.

Another cave stretched so vastly that its end was invisible.

And magi was also flowing out from within that cave.

I took out a tree branch I had picked up along the way in preparation for times like this.

“Cheo-ri. Fire.”

“Kyung.”

Whoosh.

The fire breathed by Cheo-ri, who was perched on my shoulder, transferred to the tree branch.

Elpinire flinched at the fact that the wood caught fire, but she didn’t bother adding any other words.

Using the burning branch as a torch, I began walking ahead into the cave.

“…”

Step, step.

I advance one step at a time.

The further I go, the stronger the disgusting stench lingering at my nose becomes.

On the floor of the cave, wide enough for a subway to pass through, lie the corpses of monsters that died who knows when.

The corpses of countless monsters I’d never seen before, including Bloody Mantises and Earth Bears.

The deeper we go into the cave, the more they increase.

“…Every single one is a corpse that someone has bitten.”

As Elpinire said, the monster corpses scattered about bore traces of being bitten.

Other than that, there were traces of being torn by something or cut?

As we went further ahead, the monster corpses became so numerous they were getting in the way of our feet.

Now some corpses didn’t even show traces of being bitten.

They simply had their upper or lower bodies missing as if they had exploded to death.

As I continued forward, the moment I passed a rock standing alone, my hair stood on end and I stopped.

Then I threw the torch I was holding into the wide cavern ahead.

“Get ready.”

The torch’s light gently filling the cavern.

The appearance of the cavern thus revealed was.

“Kieek?”

“Keeeeeeek!”

Dozens.

No, it was a sight filled with hundreds of monsters.

Perhaps they were still in the process of becoming mutants, as the demonic energy they possessed was less compared to the mutants I had encountered so far.

But even though it was less compared to those others, with their numbers exceeding hundreds, it remained a threatening situation nonetheless.

The monsters stumbled backward in reaction to the sudden light.

Elpinire, who had been given advance notice, lightly leaped toward those monsters and clenched her fist.

[Lord El – Primo]

Thud, crash-!

Monsters swept away by a single punch.

Elpinire, who landed on the ground, immediately fixed her left foot to the ground and lightly drew an arc with her right leg.

[Lord El – Secondo]

A blade of mana shot forth following her foot.

The fiercely shot blade unfortunately only managed to bring down a single monster.

“Tch.”

Demonic energy.

The thick demonic energy rising from all the monsters in this place had blocked the advance of mana.

Elpinire clicked her tongue.

I ran to her side and swept my right hand upward from below.

[Black Dragon – Mist Blade]

Slash!

The group of monsters that Elpinire couldn’t cut down were sliced apart by the black mist blade.

At that sight, Elpinire’s eyes widened.

“Human. You could do something like this too?”

“You said you’d call me by name.”

“…Sorry. I’m just too used to this.”

Well, it doesn’t really matter anyway.

I shrugged my shoulders and passed by Elpinire, throwing a punch at a giant wolf-like monster charging from the front.

“Hup!”

Boom!

The monster exploded, unable to withstand it.

Thanks to the robe I was wearing, even though I made direct contact with the demonic energy, I was completely fine.

If it’s like this, it won’t matter if I get close.

I raised the corners of my mouth and took a step toward an Earth Bear charging with demonic energy, pulling my fist back.

[Mist]

Black mist rising from my right hand.

No technique was needed.

Just simply.

I compressed the black mist fully onto my right hand.

After compressing the black mist to its limit and strengthening my right hand, I threw a punch toward the face of the charging Earth Bear.

[Synchronization Rate 2.3%]

Tap.

My fist lightly touched the face of the Earth Bear that had been charging with its mouth wide open.

And then.

[You detonated the fully compressed mist simultaneously with impact to create a powerful shockwave.]

[The application technique ‘Rampage’ of ‘Mist’ is created.]

An explosion of power with absolutely non-light force engulfed the entire area.

The surrounding monsters were swept away along with an explosion loud enough to make my ears ring.

The ones at a distance were fine, but all the ones nearby were swept away without leaving a trace.

“Urgh…”

The moment I threw the punch, my body floated backward.

The power of ‘Rampage’, which I used for the first time, was so strong that even I, who threw the punch, was pushed back by the recoil.

I quickly corrected my disturbed posture and compressed mist onto my right hand again.

[Mist – Rampage]

Boom!

The black mist explosion burst forth once more.

Monsters swept away.

Pushed back by the recoil, I gritted my teeth and regained my stance.

‘…This puts quite a strain on me.’

After using it twice, my shoulder was throbbing.

Damn.

Perhaps because only my right hand transforms into the ‘Black Dragon’, the connected shoulder hurt like hell.

‘Rampage’ wasn’t a technique that could be used multiple times.

But now was a time when I had to use it multiple times.

‘Monsters keep pouring out.’

There were already over a hundred monsters just in the cavern.

Even though I had swept away all those monsters, other monsters were still crawling out.

If I hesitated even a little here, those monsters would trample us in an instant.

Furthermore, they would escape the ravine.

This wasn’t just my situation.

Elpinire was also throwing punches and swinging kicks at the monsters without rest.

Move.

Instead of doing other things, take down even one more monster.

We didn’t say a word to each other, but we both reached the same conclusion.

That’s why I gritted my teeth and threw another punch.

[Mist – Rampage]

With a feeling like something had snapped, my right shoulder trembled incessantly.

It seemed like I couldn’t put much strength into it, but I bit down hard inside my mouth and forcibly raised my arm that wouldn’t go up.

“Kraaaah!”

Boooom!

My fist exploded once more.

A massive explosion swept through the space.

My fist wouldn’t rise anymore.

‘Natural Healing’ was activating, but the amount of accumulated shock was too great compared to the healing speed.

I ground my teeth reluctantly and reached into my pocket.

The rough texture of a bottle felt at my fingertips.

Did I already have to drink this?

At the moment I was about to take out the bottle after brief anguish.

“…Huh.”

For some reason, I felt like the pain in my right arm had gotten somewhat better.

I widened my eyes and glanced to the side.

There, Elpinire had approached my side at some point and was breathing roughly while injecting mana into me.

“Save that for later.”

“…Thanks.”

Thanks to Elpinire, I could move again.

Being able to move meant I could swing my fist again.

“That’s enough.”

That was sufficient.

I hadn’t even hoped for the pain to disappear completely.

I roughly clenched my fist with my right arm that was starting to move again and threw it forward.

[Haze – Rampage]

* * *

How much time had passed?

How many punches had I thrown?

When my entire body’s mana was depleted, and my shoulders, unable to endure any longer, burst open and became tattered rags.

Finally, the wave of monsters that had been surging forward stopped.

“Human. I’ll heal you, so come over here.”

“It’s fine.”

I shook my head.

Healing?

Of course it would be nice to receive it.

However, Elpinire was also in a very exhausted state.

If Elpinire, who didn’t have much talent in healing, treated my arm now, she might use up all her remaining mana.

In that case, it would be much better to just trust in ‘natural healing’ and leave it alone.

Besides.

[Synchronization Rate 2.5%]

While dealing with the surging monsters, my synchronization rate had reached 2.5% before I knew it.

As the synchronization rate increased, ‘natural healing’ seemed to be affected as well, and the healing speed became much faster.

At this rate, the bleeding would stop within 5 minutes, so there was no need for treatment.

I stared straight ahead while red blood flowing down my right arm dripped onto the ground.

Without any exaggeration, monster corpses piled up like a mountain.

Where on earth had so many monsters crawled out from?

To get that answer, I crossed over the mountain of piled monsters and moved forward.

A hill.

What awaited us there was a hill.

We climbed up that hill slowly.

Like that, like that.

By the time the bleeding from my right arm stopped due to ‘natural healing’ and I could move it a little.

We had arrived.

The end of the hill and simultaneously the end of the cave.

And.

“….”

The same place where I had opened my eyes when I re-entered the Tower of Recording.

“E-E-E-Elpinire. Don’t, don’t c-c-c-c-cry.”

“….”

“We c-can meet a-a-a-again-.”

Along with the thick demonic energy filling one wall.

In front of a man with his lower body melted into the wall, missing one arm.

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