S-Classes That I Raised to Devour - Chapter 54

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Episode 54. Knowledge Alone Is Not Enough (5)
Skeleton Soldier. One of the triumvirate of weakest monsters, lumped together with slimes and goblins.
But the Skeleton Knight bore no appearance of weakness whatsoever.
Dark armor, a greatsword forged from bone and tempered in blood.
Though it stumbled as it walked, its blade strikes possessed a crisp, razor-sharp precision.
Chae Mujin rushed into the Skeleton Knight’s guard, and the creature revealed a startling reaction.
A step back, then an Overhead Slash. A judgment too keen to credit a mere skeleton.
Whoosh!
But Chae Mujin dodged as though he’d known it all along. This was no reactive evasion—he was sidestepping what he’d already foreseen.
The Skeleton Knight’s pattern: rush his guard, Backstep, then Overhead Slash.
It wasn’t knowledge unique to Chae Mujin. The orthodox countertactics for Skeleton Knights were documented on Hunternet.
Thus, no matter how high a monster’s level, once its strategy is completely decoded, even lower-level hunters can fight it.
Snap!
The Sword of Light Efilui pierced through the Skeleton Knight’s armor with ease, striking its Life Core.
Shriek!
However high light-attribute advantage might be, the creature didn’t perish from a single blow.
The Skeleton Knight unleashed a Radiant Strike to throw Chae Mujin back—
Crash!
A Large Hammer descended from above, crushing the Skeleton Knight entirely beneath its weight.
“Oh dear, my apologies for the last hit.”
In response to Lee Minji’s apology, Chae Mujin brushed bone dust from his clothes and spoke.
“It’s not a last hit. I should’ve struck it many more times.”
“Really? It didn’t feel right to me.”
“That’s because you’re strong.”
“Me? Come on, you don’t have to flatter me.”
At that moment, drawn by the sound, five more Skeleton Knights converged from the surrounding area.
“Fireball!”
Five Fireballs rose above Chae Mujin’s head, engulfing the Skeleton Knights.
Common flames would inflict minimal damage on Skeleton Knights—
Howl!
But Radiant Fireballs made them writhe in agony.
Kim Yeoul, having naturally joined the fray, received a gentle pat on the head from Chae Mujin.
“Your accuracy’s excellent.”
“E-eh? Thank you very much.”
“Minji, finish them.”
Five Skeleton Knights scattered chaotically, making them tedious to dispatch.
Especially for someone like Lee Minji wielding a massive weapon—the wind-up and follow-through were so lengthy that swift elimination seemed nearly impossible.
Whir-whir-bang! Crack!
Kim Yeoul, preparing Radiant Fireballs in case support was needed, had her jaw drop.
Flowing like water, smooth and seamless, all five Skeleton Knights were dispatched at once.
The secret lay in the Great Rotation. Lee Minji initiated her first strike spinning, and without pause, she continued the rotation, sweeping three Skeleton Knights in one arc.
The final one she stopped her hammer just in time to deliver a crushing blow.
“Wow, you’ve become incredibly strong. It doesn’t seem like just a matter of gaining a few Levels Up.”
To Kim Yeoul’s eye, Lee Minji’s strength wasn’t a matter of sheer speed or attack power.
Mastery.
Her understanding of the Large Hammer had ascended to another tier entirely.
Lee Minji waved off Kim Yeoul’s praise.
“No, no. You disabled them with the Radiant Fireballs, so I just cleaned up. Without that, I couldn’t have managed it.”
“Is that so…?”
“It is. And they’re just common mobs anyway. How strong can the Boss Yorick be? Well, the manager will handle that, won’t he?”
Kim Yeoul had experience hunting a Boss. But Lee Minji didn’t believe it.
Chae Mujin had taken the lead, and Kim Yeoul had supported. She wanted to do the same.
“Don’t get ahead of yourself. To defeat Yorick, we first have to eliminate the Elite Monsters guarding him.”
“Elite Monsters…!”
Stronger than ordinary creatures but not quite at Boss Monster tier—that middle ground.
‘I may not know about Bosses, but if we’re talking Elites… I should pull my weight.’
The Boss Monster would be something Chae Mujin would handle by buffing Deadshot—that’s how it would work.
Operating under this blissful misconception, Lee Minji followed Chae Mujin forward.
* * *
Solo Hunter Ranking 117: Deadshot.
At Level 299, he was the organizer of this Yorick Raid.
He’d assigned the Skeleton Knights that Yorick summoned to other hunters, planning to take the main body himself.
‘Lucky me. I discovered it before the guilds or the Hunter Association.’
There exists an unwritten rule in Boss Raids: the first to discover a Dungeon has the right to challenge it first.
Of course, this right has a one-year expiration and can be transferred.
Deadshot had been fortunate enough to be the first discoverer of Yorick’s Tomb, and immediately posted on Hunternet.
Recruiting hunters between Level 100 and Level 200 to raid Yorick’s Tomb alongside him.
Thus, two hundred hunters gathered at this location.
Deadshot glanced at his watch and activated the megaphone.
“It appears no further hunters are joining us. Let’s commence.”
Leading some two hundred hunters into the Dungeon to seek out the Boss, Deadshot found himself utterly dumbfounded.
‘What lunatic is fighting Yorick before me?’
The unwritten rule was implicit law—breaching it carried no legal penalty, but the hunter community was tight-knit. Violate it, and you’d be branded a pseudo-villain.
Deadshot identified who this madman was.
A lunatic in formal wear inside a Dungeon.
A small, curly-haired mage.
A girl wielding a colossal hammer.
‘Are they here to commit suicide?’
Deadshot, known among all A-rank hunters, was certain these three were not A-rank.
Even if they were, the notion of three people coming to capture Yorick was absurd.
“Arise, my loyal knights!”
Necromancer Yorick activated a Summon Skill. The pattern was summoning one hundred Skeleton Knights at once.
‘I’d rather let them die, but with so many eyes watching, I suppose I’ll save them.’
One hundred summoned Skeleton Knights surrounded the lunatic party. Just as Deadshot drew his signature weapon, his Revolver, to rescue them—
“Tremble! My masterpiece is finally complete! Emerge, Hybrid Knight!”
Yorick deployed a pattern Deadshot had never seen before. Striking the ground wildly with his Bone Staff, the Hexagram of Darkness materialized in the sky.
Splat.
Gelatinous seeds of darkness spat from the void, swelled grotesquely, then split open to reveal their true form.
A human skull crowned with goat’s horns, bat wings, wielding a greatsword wrought of human bone.
“Kahahaha! You shall all be the Hybrid Knight’s first sacrifice!”
Soaring high into the air, Yorick deployed a barrier—a pitch-black field that engulfed both Chae Mujin’s party and all two hundred hunters.
Deadshot had trained extensively before arriving here. He’d practiced issuing commands in a stern voice to hunters hundreds of times.
Combat is about momentum, after all.
Intellectually, he understood: even if unexpected variables arose, panic must be suppressed and offensive orders issued.
But witnessing the second creature Yorick summoned—the Hybrid Knight—his trembling body betrayed him.
‘That… that’s definitely a Named-tier threat.’
Not a soul dared step forward first. Nor did that hold any differently for Deadshot, despite his Level 299.

Then, someone called out without hesitation.
“Minji.”
“Yes.”
“You’ve grown stronger. Charge.”
* * *
The girl wielded the Large Hammer like a twig, overwhelming the Hybrid Knight.
Yorick, hovering above, hurried to redirect his Skeleton Knights. All one hundred he sent at Lee Minji.
Until then, the hunters watched like an audience at a film—
But at Chae Mujin’s roar, they snapped to attention.
“Anyone not fighting—get out of my way. You’re in the way!”
“Y-yes! Charge!”
“We were going to fight!”
The hunters lacked confidence to face the Hybrid Knight, but Skeleton Knights were another matter.
They’d watched strategy videos dozens of times.
“Accept your doom!”
As Yorick, floating above, extended his staff to unleash Dark Magic downward—
Boom-boom-bang! Pow!
A Radiant Fireball and heavy-caliber bullets fired from the ground disrupted his incantation.
Deadshot calculated: dispatch the hundred Skeleton Knights quickly, then everyone would converge on the Hybrid Knight.
Watching Lee Minji battle the Hybrid Knight, Deadshot bit his lower lip.
‘She’s throwing herself out as bait to save two hundred lives!’
A girl who appeared barely past her early twenties. Yet without a moment’s hesitation, she hurled herself into death’s maw to save them all.
Shame at his own cowardice—he who’d fancied himself a veteran—burned in his eyes.
“Don’t let that girl’s noble sacrifice be in vain!”
Deadshot fired his Revolver frantically. Each burst sent a Skeleton Knight’s skull exploding.
Ching!
Empty of all six rounds, he reloaded without hesitation with Mana Bullets—each one worth hundreds of thousands of won.
As he continued obliterating skulls in a trance—
‘The sound… it stopped?’
Sometime, the clash from the Hybrid Knight’s direction had ceased.
‘Damn. I’m too late.’
More than half the Skeleton Knights remained. If he still had to face the Hybrid Knight himself, annihilation was inevitable.
‘As leader, I must take responsibility and press on.’
With his backup weapon—a Dagger—Deadshot shattered a Skeleton Knight’s jaw, then spun to shout.
“I’ll take the Hybrid Knight! While I buy time, finish the Skeleton Soldiers!”
Inspired by the girl’s self-sacrifice, he now stepped forward to buy them precious seconds—
“…?”
But when he turned, the Hybrid Knight was gone.
The surrounding hunters stared at him as if asking, ‘What are you doing?’
“That person killed the Hybrid Knight.”
“And now she’s going after Yorick.”
Following their pointed fingers, Deadshot’s eyes found Lee Minji.
Yorick, having ascended to a height equivalent to five stories.
Even with a hunter’s superhuman physiology, no single leap could cover fifteen meters.
Yet Lee Minji accomplished it. With the colossal hammer in hand, she’d soared fifteen meters skyward.
Yorick, naturally, didn’t watch passively. As he fired Arrows of Darkness to shoot her down—
“Fireball.”
From the ground, a Radiant Fireball intercepted the small, fast-moving Arrows of Darkness with perfect precision.
Burst!
“Ah!”
“No!”
The watching hunters gasped. The blast’s shockwave had driven Lee Minji backward.
“Kahahahaha! Die!”
As Yorick, cackling madly, aimed a Spear of Darkness at the falling Lee Minji—
Crash!
A tremendous sound split the air, and a massive iron mass rocketed forth, striking Yorick’s face dead-on.
Using the shockwave to twist mid-air, Lee Minji had wrung out her centripetal force and hurled the hammer.
“Guh…!”
Yorick couldn’t even finish his death cry as his skull shattered into fragments.
Before the overwhelming mass-weapon, even a Boss Monster’s defenses crumbled like glass.
Deadshot, gazing up from the ground, felt his disbelief turn to open-mouthed shock.
‘She twisted mid-fall to calculate the recoil, and threw that massive, heavy hammer with such precision?’
Lee Minji had executed an attack that seemed possible only in imagination.
Nor was that all. The Barrier of Darkness that Yorick had deployed crumbled, and the Skeleton Soldiers reverted to mere bone scraps.
The meaning was unmistakable.
“Yorick is… dead?”
“The Raid is over?”
“That can’t be right. Maybe another new phase?”
“Stay sharp!”
All two hundred hunters present, and Deadshot himself, found it impossible to accept.
Even if Yorick was a mage, he was still a Boss Monster. A single hurled hammer couldn’t possibly end him.
Then, Lee Minji—who had vanquished both the Hybrid Knight and Yorick—wiped the sweat from her brow and spoke.
“Phew, Elite Monsters are really taxing.”
The hunters lost all capacity for speech. Elite Monster? Yorick is a Boss Monster. Not some Elite.
“How much stronger is the Boss Monster Yorick than that one?”
Asking Chae Mujin, ignorant of what had transpired.
Suddenly, she noticed hundreds of eyes boring into her and her expression hardened with displeasure.
“Why are you all staring?”
Unable to contain themselves any longer, the hunters cried out.
“You just defeated Yorick!”
“And a completely unseen attack pattern appeared!”
“That Hybrid Knight—no A-rank hunter could beat that thing…”
“Wait, you’re not even a Solo Hunter. You’re wearing a Certified Hunter badge!”
“A Certified Hunter?”
“Was she an A-rank sent by the Hunter Association?!”
“That explains it!”
Every hunter assembled here was either Solo or Guild-affiliated. They’d mistaken Lee Minji for an A-rank Certified Hunter.
Lee Minji waved her hands, correcting their misunderstanding.
“I am a Certified Hunter, but I’m only Level 77. How could someone at my level defeat a Boss Monster in a Level 200 Dungeon? It doesn’t make sense.”
Lee Minji turned to find Chae Mujin. He’d said it was an Elite Monster, after all.
His word couldn’t be wrong.
But neither Chae Mujin nor Kim Yeoul were anywhere to be found.
“Huh? They were just here…”
Surrounded by hunters, Lee Minji contemplated how to explain—
Though that deliberation became unnecessary.
[‘Necromancer Yorick’ has been vanquished!]
[Beginning Clear Contribution settlement.]
[1st Place: Lee Minji—Clear Contribution 49.1%]
[2nd Place: Chae Mujin—Clear Contribution 28.5%]
[3rd Place: Kim Yeoul—Clear Contribution 12.9%]
[4th Place: Deadshot—Clear Contribution 9.5%]
[5th Place: …….]
[Settlement Result: Player Lee Minji selects first from six rewards. Chae Mujin, Kim Yeoul, and Deadshot shall select in order thereafter.]
[Large-scale participation with zero casualties. Reward grade increased by one tier!]
[Boss Monster Hybrid Knight defeated. Reward grade increased by one tier!]
[Two Boss Monsters vanquished simultaneously. Bonus 500% experience gained!]
[Reward Grade: A]
Lee Minji had not defeated a single Boss Monster.
The Hybrid Knight was also Boss Monster-tier.
That is, she had felled both creatures—including Yorick—in their entirety.

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