Tearing the Gate Apart - Chapter 19

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Episode 19.
Ha Gyeong’s hypothesis was solidifying into conviction.
Walls that felt like blood vessels and muscle tissue.
Larva-like creatures prowling about.
Even the sight of different monsters clashing with each other.
It was as if parasites and an immune system were waging war.
Ha Gyeong stared at the writhing ceiling.
‘What if a massive monster’s body is the dungeon itself?’
It was an absurd notion, but what else didn’t make sense?
In the Abyss, all manner of impossible things happened anyway.
The moment Ha Gyeong grasped the dungeon’s truth.
Crisis struck Dae Hyeonja’s raid team.
“Screeeee?”
The Brood Eater pack suddenly wheeled around.
With them, the Hemovists’ gazes followed suit.
Toward the raid team.
There was only one reason the creatures did this.
Both packs had now marked Ha Gyeong and the team as enemies.
[The Boss of the Abyss Dungeon, Brood Sovereign, senses danger]
[Attack order against the intruders has been issued]
“Shrieeeek!”
“Hissssss!”
Two types of monster swarms fixed their sights on the raid team.
Nearly two hundred creatures swarming them.
And their numbers kept swelling from nowhere.
There was no way this handful of people could repel such overwhelming force.
Not even with the advantage of tight corridors.
The raid team began backing away in measured steps.
Soon, Dae Hyeonja’s voice rang out.
“I thought a five-person dungeon would be manageable, but Incomprehensible Grade truly lives up to its name.”
The tank was holding the front line well enough, giving them a moment’s breathing room.
Ha Gyeong glanced back and posed a question.
“What will you do?”
“Only one option remains—eliminate the Boss with overwhelming speed.”
It was not an easy strategy.
Brood Sovereign had countless subordinate monsters at its command.
How were they meant to breach such a thick defensive wall?
Yet Dae Hyeonja’s tone remained oddly calm.
Ha Gyeong could not help but wonder.
‘Has he given up?’
But what was Dae Hyeonja’s reputation?
Exceptionally skilled at support magic.
An eye for finding dungeons with uncanny precision.
A mysterious way of moving through the Abyss as if it were his own home.
Certainly, he was no ordinary person.
There had to be a contingency even in a situation like this.
Sure enough, Dae Hyeonja spoke again.
“This is a miscalculation on my part.”
Ha Gyeong caught the unspoken intention in those words.
After all, hadn’t Dae Hyeonja formed this raid team himself?
Yet he was admitting defeat before even facing the Boss?
What else could that possibly mean?
Ha Gyeong smiled bitterly.
‘An anxious tank. Ranged dealers with insufficient output.’
Bringing such teammates was his mistake.
Of course, they were all competent enough to hold their own anywhere.
The enemy was simply too strong.
To withstand such a relentless assault?
He needed one more combatant of Ha Gyeong’s caliber.
Dae Hyeonja placed his hand against the writhing wall.
“Let’s escape. I’ll open a path.”
“Is there a way out?”
“Of course. It’s my specialty.”
Dae Hyeonja answered with a smile.
Then a brilliant beam of light tore through the dungeon’s wall.
Crack!
A wormhole large enough for a single person emerged.
Ha Gyeong understood.
Why Dae Hyeonja seemed so mysterious.
With such an ability, he could indeed appear and disappear like magic.
There was no time to hesitate.
The monster count had already exceeded three hundred.
Kim Sangwoo was holding, but if left unchecked, the line would break soon.
Ha Gyeong decided to support the front and cover the retreat.
But that was when it happened.
[Soul Stigma detects traces of a fragment]
A system message flashed unbidden.
And it froze him in his tracks.
‘…How can I leave this dungeon now?’
The Ultimate Abyss Fragment buried in the Bottomless Pit Dungeon.
It had to contain something extraordinary.
Ha Gyeong’s feet came to an abrupt halt.
“Wait.”
“Yes?”
“If we clear out those creatures, don’t we have a fighting chance?”
True, Brood Sovereign was a difficult Boss to face.
But would it be stronger than the remnants of an Abyss Lord?
No matter how he thought about it, that seemed unlikely.
Wasn’t this a small-scale five-person dungeon?
Dae Hyeonja nodded at Ha Gyeong’s words.
“Without such overwhelming numbers of subordinates, it would be a winnable fight.”
“Good. Then I’ll create the opening.”
“What?”
Dae Hyeonja questioned him.
Ha Gyeong had mowed down Brood Eaters with ease before.
As if they were mere trash monsters from the Abyss’s outskirts.
But the enemy’s numbers were still multiplying.
Worried gazes turned toward Ha Gyeong.
Of course, he paid them no mind whatsoever.
‘Which target I set for Kindred Predation is clear. The question is whether I can withstand its Abyss Energy….’
Ha Gyeong squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them.
The front line was Kim Sangwoo’s responsibility anyway.
If anything went wrong, Dae Hyeonja would heal him.
In the worst case, he could escape via the wormhole.
‘Push forward. If I hesitate out of fear and attempt nothing, I’ll never grow.’
Ha Gyeong steeled himself.
[Kindred Predation Skill Target Selected]
[Objective: Consuming Abyss]
Screeeee!
A sharp sound pierced his ears.
Simultaneously, a vivid ashen aura surged around Ha Gyeong.
His teammates could not hide their alarm.
“Ugghhh?”
“W-what enormous pressure…!”
“Fall back, now.”
At Dae Hyeonja’s cry, the team pressed themselves against the wall.
The sensation was deeply unpleasant, but unavoidable.
To escape being caught in the terrible force swirling around Ha Gyeong.
His expression was grotesquely contorted.
Massive Abyss Energy pierced through every fiber of his body.
[Responsive Spirit Cloak Activated]
[Immunity to pain granted]
[Force exceeds physical tolerance threshold]
[Responsive Spirit Cloak Deactivated]
Even the pain-transfer function of the Responsive Spirit Cloak proved useless.
A sensation of his body crumbling flashed through Ha Gyeong’s mind.
He seized his wrist hard.
[Tyrant’s Bracelet Activated]
[Body recovers rapidly]
Whoosh!
‘This should give me room to breathe.’
Sure enough, the suffocating pain began to ease.
Recovery was outpacing the breakdown.
Ha Gyeong fixed his gaze on Brood Sovereign.
‘If I can finish the Boss with this power, nothing could be better. But the distance is too great.’
Besides, it had hidden itself completely.
Its focus was entirely on incubating eggs in the rear.
That’s where the Brood Eaters were continuously spawning.
Ha Gyeong gripped the Karambit’s handle with both hands.
It was a weapon meant for one hand, but he had no choice.
Without this, the trembling wouldn’t stop.
He managed to speak through gritted teeth.
“…Move.”
“What?”
Kim Sangwoo, thinking he’d misheard, tilted his head.
He was occupied holding the front line, so it was understandable.
Ha Gyeong clenched his jaw and roared.
“Get out of the way!”
Then he swung a blade extended to fifteen meters.
He deployed a participial form of unprecedented length and power.
Kim Sangwoo, startled, threw himself flat against the ground.
The posture was awkward, but perfectly sensible.
Ha Gyeong’s horizontal strike obliterated everything in its path.
Screeeeeech!
An ashen flame-blade swept across the battlefield.
Monsters struck by the participial form froze in place.
For but an instant did they regard Ha Gyeong with bewildered eyes.
Then their upper bodies and lower bodies separated, scattering across the ground.
Splurch!
Mangled monster corpses filled the corridor.
Ha Gyeong gasped for breath.
“Huff! Huff!”
The sudden hyperventilation came from the strain of channeling such tremendous force.
His vision swam.
Yet even so, Ha Gyeong quickly assessed the battlefield.
‘Most of the subordinates are gone. Only Brood Sovereign remains.’
Even the eggs on the verge of hatching lay shattered.
Now only a true Boss battle awaited.
But Ha Gyeong could not move.
The Tyrant’s Bracelet’s effect had worn off, and his internal injuries ran deep.
Both his Abyss Energy and Magical Power reserves had bottomed out.
He glanced back unconsciously.
Dae Hyeonja hastily collected himself from an stunned expression and spoke.
“F-from here, we’ll take over.”
“I’m counting on you.”
Honestly, he’d done enough—
More than enough.
He’d single-handedly eliminated over three hundred subordinates.
Soon, the raid team’s counterattack began.
Dae Hyeonja and three other Awakeners engaged Brood Sovereign in combat.
The start was remarkably smooth.
As the queen of an insect swarm, Brood Sovereign’s combat prowess was underwhelming.
Of course, for an Incomprehensible Grade Boss, that meant it was weak.
Certainly not something to take lightly.
As the fight dragged on, Ha Gyeong’s eyes gleamed.
‘An opportunity. I’ll slip away now.’
He followed where Soul Stigma led.
On the verge of exhaustion, his body felt poor.
But moving should pose no problem.
The signal grew steadily stronger.
Ha Gyeong’s heart began to race violently.
[Soul Stigma detects traces of a fragment]
[Signal has become clearer]
The Consuming Abyss was genuinely labyrinthine.
Moreover, its structure was entirely unlike a standard maze-type dungeon.
Which made navigation all the more difficult.
The signal clearly came from this direction, but—
A dead end forced him to take a long detour.
Still, Ha Gyeong managed to find his way.
‘Here!’
The signal struck his spine like a lance.
Ha Gyeong instinctively drew the Entrenching Tool.
But he had to pause.
“I can’t dig here…?”
The Consuming Abyss was the interior of a colossal creature of unknown nature.
The floor was packed with blood vessels and muscle tissue.
Flesh-pink tissue twitched sporadically.
Ha Gyeong drew the Karambit instead.
Damaging the floor would naturally cause the dungeon to convulse.
From the creature’s perspective, it would be like something biting it.
Surely it would jump in alarm.
But he had no choice.
Ha Gyeong gritted his teeth.
‘To find the Ultimate Abyss Fragment, I have no choice. I’ll be as fast as possible.’
Rip!
He deployed Abyss Resonance, but the blade extended only twenty centimeters.
Both his Magical Power and Abyss Energy were critically depleted.
But he could still tear through.
Ha Gyeong drove the blade in with all his strength.
Squelch! Riiiiip!
Tearing it wide open, deep into the tissue, something gleamed.
A dark crystalline object.
The Ultimate Abyss Fragment.
Ignoring the blood gushing forth, he stretched his arm.
‘Reach. Please!’
Only when he’d pushed in past his shoulder did his fingertips brush something hard.
Ha Gyeong seized it and wrenched his arm free with everything he had.
Splash!
“Got it!”
His face blazed with triumph.
Honestly, the odds of an Ultimate Abyss Fragment being here were very high.
It had appeared in every high-grade dungeon he’d cleared so far.
But it never grew old.
Poison for others, but for Ha Gyeong—a stepping stone to rapid growth.
He moved to open the Ultimate Abyss Fragment immediately.
But that was when it happened.
Kuguguguguuu!
The entire dungeon began to shake violently.
Ha Gyeong’s expression darkened rapidly.
‘The creature’s rampaging, as expected.’
He’d need to use the wormhole Dae Hyeonja had created soon.
Yet Ha Gyeong kept his eyes fixed on the Ultimate Abyss Fragment.
Indifferent to the dungeon’s convulsions.
He swung the Karambit swiftly.
“Absorption comes first.”
Crack! Sizzle!
Tearing through the gate—
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