S-Classes That I Raised to Devour - Chapter 94

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Episode 94. The Madman of This Dimension Is Me (2)
The Sword of Light Efilui had always been an overpowered weapon to begin with. After all, enemies with proper Light Attribute defense were exceedingly rare.
But as if that weren’t enough, when its Rarity Grade ascended to Legend, its base stats shot through the roof—and then it gained the ridiculous option of Armor Penetration.
‘It’s limited to Chaos Species, but Abstract Entities must fall under that category.’
The Armor Penetration effect was far more powerful than one might imagine.
Even if an opponent possessed skin like steel, bones harder than titanium—the option sliced through it all as if cutting soft flesh. That’s why Armor Penetration wasn’t an option that appeared easily on weapons.
Yet it had appeared.
‘It’s possible because the grade is Legend.’
I’d already been amazed at Kalkon retrofitting the old man’s Translation Necklace to handle all languages, but the transformation of the Sword of Light left me momentarily speechless.
“…It’s hardly a gift that gratitude alone could repay.”
“Which is why it’s not free.”
That was actually a relief. If he’d meant to give it for nothing, my mind wouldn’t have sat easy.
“Remember my name, will you.”
“…?”
“Remember that in the Land of Oblivion there exists a Recorder named Kalkon, and tell others of it.”
“Do you believe I’ll be able to leave this place?”
“I’m hoping you will. That’s why I strengthened your weapon. I’d have liked to do more, but the Causality of your world wouldn’t permit it.”
“This much is already more than enough to be grateful for.”
“You who possess courage—this place is one where courage alone cannot carry you through. Use well the fortune I’ve given you.”
With his parting words, like a benediction, I pushed my body through the barrier.
* * *
Not a tuft of grass, not a single stone—just an unnervingly flat, ash-gray expanse.
Walking endlessly down a perfectly straight path without a single curve was psychological torture beyond imagination.
‘To catch up with someone who left six days ago, I have to run at full speed constantly.’
Gripping the handle of the Sword of Light Efilui that Kalkon had retrofitted, I kicked off across the wasteland.
Running at full speed for an hour, cleaving through the air.
At last, a creature called an Abstract Entity revealed its grotesque outline in the middle of the path.
The moment we faced each other, I understood instantly why they’d been given such a twisted name.
The human form had long since been obliterated. Instead, a single element the creature had obsessed over in life had swollen into a tumor-like mass, creating a grotesque silhouette.
‘Now I see why Kalkon said it was impossible to describe in words.’
With no cover or concealment in this place anyway, I didn’t slow—instead, I pushed my speed to its absolute limit to shake the thing off.
But the Abstract Entity glided toward me like a ghost, mocking that insane pace, and cut off my path forward.
A horrible mass—whether limb or weapon, I couldn’t tell—came crashing down like lightning.
I didn’t run. I drew the Sword of Light Efilui on the spot and met it head-on.
Squelch.
The creature’s body felt like mud. Despite the Armor Penetration option letting me cut without resistance, a considerable resistance transmitted through my wrist, heavy and thick.
The moment I finished cutting and moved past it, I instinctively launched myself into the air.
An explosion erupted where I’d been standing. The Abstract Entity had charged in to cover me.
Even though I’d severed a third of its body, the creature moved without hindrance.
‘It’s not regenerating, at least.’
A small mercy—but in that same instant,
something erupted from the middle of the creature’s mangled torso.
An eyeball, bloodshot and bulging.
That grotesque eye came flying at my brow faster than a musket bullet.
Using Irregular Reversal to twist momentum while suspended in mid-air carried too much risk. I immediately deployed a Heavenly Barrier.
Splash.
The moment the eyeball made contact, the golden radiance of the barrier shattered like a lie, and a hole was punched clean through.
I was stunned. This A-Class defense that had withstood the Kraken’s overwhelming mass barrage—blown through like tissue paper by a single eyeball fragment?
I drew the Pistol at my hip the instant I landed, loaded it with Mana Bullets and extra Mana, and fired.
The creature had no concept of evasion or defense to begin with. It stupidly accepted the bullets with its body, and at the result, I let out a hollow laugh.
“It just absorbed them?”
The moment the Mana Bullet touched the creature’s mudlike body, it seeped in like water. It dealt not a single point of damage.
My spine crawled with chill. If Kalkon hadn’t strengthened the Sword of Light, I would have had no way to damage this thing at all.
“Thank you!”
With a shout, I used the Taishan Pressure Strike in a double action to close the distance quickly. Right now, ranged combat held no advantage whatsoever.
I concentrated, blocking each of its attacks with deliberate care. Since I couldn’t pinpoint where its critical point was, I slowly shaved away at its body.
“Here!”
At last, I severed what I believed to be its neck. Simultaneously, the ground beneath me caved inward and a blade shot upward.
There was no time to activate the Heavenly Barrier. I pulled my body backward using Irregular Reversal.
My robe was grazed. The fabric that touched it lost all color and crumbled to powder.
“This isn’t about losing memories or anything—this just kills you outright.”
There was no follow-up attack. Whether what I severed as the neck was truly the neck or actually its critical point, the Abstract Entity simply crumbled to dust and vanished.
I sifted through the remains out of curiosity, but no item had been dropped.
“Hm…”
My stamina was still excellent, but my overconfidence had been slightly shaken.
Thanks to the Sword of Light, I seemed capable of handling one creature.
But what about two or more? Could I defeat them without taking damage?
If I took a hit, could Healing Light even save me?
‘I’ll need to test that when I encounter them next.’
Fortunately, the next target was also an Abstract Entity wandering alone.
However, its combat style differed markedly from the last one. As if facing a master of spear technique, it extended long and whip-like, unleashing erratic thrusts that made it extremely difficult to close the distance.
Yet I was able to dispatch it safely, because during the battle I happened to discover one fatal weakness.
Boom!!
When the Grenade I’d thrown at my feet detonated, the creature that had been charging wildly stopped dead.
The flames and shrapnel had absolutely not dealt damage.
It was the physical vibration and shockwave caused by the explosive—that was the trait that induced temporary wide-area paralysis in their gelatinous bodies.
I tried stuffing a Grenade into the creature’s abdomen and detonating it for an internal collapse, but the detonator suffocated in its mudlike body and never ignited at all.
‘The problem is I’m running low on Grenades now.’
I’d brought thirty Grenades, prepared for the Great Water Prison assault. I’d burned through about half of them there.
The remaining Grenades weren’t exactly plentiful, but since I didn’t know how long this path stretched, I couldn’t call them abundant either.
‘I need to save them for truly critical moments.’
If I got caught in multi-enemy combat, I’d use the Grenade’s shockwave to stun a wide area, then grind through their formations with the Sword of Light in one breath.
With a solution in sight, my confidence returned, and I picked up my pace again.
* * *
An ash-gray hell where the boundary between day and night had collapsed.
I couldn’t even gauge how much time had passed or how far I’d come.
Nothing had changed.
A straight path. A desolate, colorless wasteland.
The Abstract Entities that appeared occasionally, like rest stops on a highway, had become a strange comfort.
I found no trace of the Hunter who’d supposedly left ahead of me. A thought occurred to me.
What if one of the Abstract Entities I’d killed was actually him?
‘Whether that’s true or not, the fact remains I must keep moving forward.’
Run, rest, fight—I repeated this cycle dozens of times over.
Crack!
A sharp report echoed from beyond a distant ash-gray ridge.
Bullets don’t work on Abstract Entities. That’s why I’d stored them away in my shadow pouch long ago.
Yet I was hearing gunfire.
Crack!
Another report tore through the air, and my senses snapped fully awake.
This was no illusion. Someone beyond that ridge was genuinely firing a weapon.
I immediately gripped the Sword of Light and sprinted toward the source of the sound.
The moment I crested the ridge, I finally found him—the Hunter who’d left six days before me.
He was locked in a bloody struggle against three Abstract Entities.
Just as Kalkon had described, at first glance the figure cut an utterly alien appearance.
A helmet adorned with rabbit ears. A thin metal full-body suit worn beneath. Like a futuristic warrior who’d stepped straight out of a cyberpunk setting.
Yet the weapon he held was decidedly analog and brutal.
A five-chambered large-caliber Revolver blazed. The magnum-class report that erupted point-blank was no different from a tank cannon.
Boom!!
The problem was that this brute force dealt not a single scratch to the Abstract Entities.
But my assumption was proven spectacularly wrong.
Whoosh!
What erupted from the Revolver wasn’t ordinary lead bullets.
Where the bullets struck the mudlike body of an Abstract Entity, fierce flames exploded.
The second round that followed in quick succession pierced another creature’s head. This time, not fire—but cold that looked freezing just to observe.
‘Can you enchant bullets with Attributes?’
The timing to intervene felt ambiguous. Rabbit seemed capable of subduing all three Abstract Entities single-handedly.
Then, having emptied all five shots, Rabbit snapped open the Revolver’s cylinder to reload.
While the five spent casings clattered to the ground, Rabbit began manually loading five Special Bullets one by one into the chambers without even a speed loader.
My breath caught watching this. Such leisurely reloading in the middle of combat—it was madness.
‘What about the third creature—doesn’t he reload for it?’
I tried to believe Rabbit was making a calculated play, accounting for the remaining creature’s trajectory.
Crash!
The Abstract Entity that kicked off the ground and launched itself moved one beat faster.
Rabbit was sent flying through the air by the headbutt that caught him directly.
For reasons unknown, I could no longer simply watch. I hurled one of my reserved Grenades and rushed toward Rabbit.
Boom-boom-boom!
The Abstract Entities froze momentarily from the Grenade’s shockwave.
In that moment, Chae Mujin checked on Rabbit.
The suit’s chest area had turned gray and cracked. That was all I could discern.
“You conscious…?”
Before I could finish speaking, an Abstract Entity freed from the shockwave scraped a leg honed like a scythe toward my throat.
Slice!
I cut it away lightly with the Sword of Light, then tapped the rabbit helmet’s head to snap him awake.
Twitch.
Rabbit came to and suddenly grabbed my collar. But seeing the charging Abstract Entity, he rolled his body sideways.
I rolled across the ground with him still gripping my collar. I threw another Grenade to disrupt the advancing creature.
As the charging Abstract Entity stiffened from the shockwave, Rabbit opened his inventory and pulled out a brutally enormous Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle.
Thunk.
The barrel of the Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle settled onto my shoulder. Absurd as it was, I hastily defended my entire body with Mana and plugged my ears with my fingers.
Crack-crack-crack-crack!!
A sound like the world was being split apart.
The insane recoil of the Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle felt like a hammer driving into my shoulder, and my eardrums ruptured—blood gushed from my nose and mouth in crimson torrents.
Yet the power was tremendous.
The Abstract Entity struck directly withered and desiccated without even a death cry, then scattered into a handful of ash that dispersed into the air.
With only a single Special Bullet expended, Rabbit immediately discarded the sniper rifle and switched to reloading the Revolver.
In the meantime, I charged toward the remaining two monsters, my body soaked in blood.
I had no time to tend to my wounds. The creature that had been trapped in ice finally shattered free.
The Abstract Entity deformed its body into a net-like pattern and descended upon me. The range and speed were unavoidable, but I welcomed it instead.
Slash!
I now cut through the creature’s body like paper, where before it had been like tofu.
I abandoned all thought of precision, focusing only on speed. Since I couldn’t locate the critical point, I just tore it to shreds as though mincing garlic.
Whether the Abstract Entities possessed camaraderie or whether it was mere coincidence,
at that exact moment when the other creature that had been engulfed in flame opened its grotesque maw to swallow my back,
Crack!
Rabbit’s reloaded Revolver fired the bullet directly into the creature’s open jaws.
Through some insane principle, the raging flames within the creature reversed and exploded outward, consuming its entire body before oxidizing without a trace.
Slash!
After finishing the creature that had transformed into a net, I gasped for breath.
Though I’d never let the Abstract Entities land a direct hit on me, the recoil from that insane Anti-Materiel Sniper Rifle—which I’d absorbed with my bare body—sent my bones and joints screaming in agony.
Then I heard Rabbit’s footsteps thudding steadily closer from behind.
“Are you hurt…?”
More concerned about the wounds visible through the damaged suit, I turned to look back.
A cold Revolver muzzle was aimed precisely at my heart.
Surely he wouldn’t actually fire.
Before that brief moment of carelessness could even end,
Crack!
A report tore through the air, and light from his muzzle flash drove into my chest.

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