Tearing the Gate Apart - Chapter 36

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Episode 36.
Crack!
Ha Gyeong drove the Karambite deep into the Obsidian Titan’s chest.
He hadn’t seen any other way around it.
The crevice was too narrow and unstable.
He’d managed to squeeze his body in, though barely.
And just as he’d feared, the situation unfolded.
“Grrraaaaaah!”
A heavy roar echoed through him, followed by a violent shock.
The Obsidian Titan had begun pounding its chest.
Boom! Boom-boom! Booooom!
Ha Gyeong drove himself as deep as he could.
He was doing everything to avoid a direct hit.
But the damage was unavoidable.
Blood erupted from Ha Gyeong’s nose.
“Hrrgh!”
The world tilted before his eyes.
Nausea clawed at his throat.
The Obsidian Titan’s body was solid stone.
The impact transmitted straight through.
It felt as though his organs were tearing.
Still, Ha Gyeong moved.
‘I can handle this.’
[Activating Spirit Cloak]
[Activating Tyrant’s Bracelet]
Whoosh!
His internal injuries healed at a furious pace.
The nosebleed stopped instantly.
Then came several more impacts in quick succession.
The Obsidian Titan was beating its chest like a gorilla.
Ha Gyeong paid it no mind and crawled deeper.
Then something faintly luminous entered his vision.
Ha Gyeong recognized it by instinct.
‘That’s it!’
A soot-dark crystal with a strange, lustrous sheen.
The Ultimate Abyss Fragment.
He stretched as far as he could, but his hand fell short.
The space was too narrow, and he couldn’t go any deeper.
Yet Ha Gyeong showed no alarm.
‘I’ll draw it out with the Mana Rope.’
A pale gray cord burst from his fingertips.
The Mana Rope, drawn as thin as possible.
Like an endoscope, it snaked inward, following Ha Gyeong’s will.
At last, its tip wrapped around the black crystal.
All he had to do now was pull, and the Ultimate Abyss Fragment would be his.
But then it happened.
Booooooom!
“Hngh!”
An impact of a different magnitude shook his entire body.
He nearly lost his grip on the fragment.
But Ha Gyeong didn’t lose focus.
The artifact’s effect was still active.
He yanked the Mana Rope back with raw force.
The soot-dark crystal snapped perfectly into his palm.
Ha Gyeong let out a cry of triumph.
“Yes!”
There was no time to wonder when to open it.
He crushed the Ultimate Abyss Fragment immediately.
With nothing but his grip strength.
Crunch!
[You have opened the Ultimate Abyss Fragment]
[You have obtained an artifact lost in this Dungeon]
[You are embodying ‘Bung Cheon Kwon’ as a skill]
[Immense quantities of Abyss Energy are being transferred]
Zzzzzzzt!
For an instant, he felt as if his entire body were being torn apart.
The artifact effects had just worn off.
Ultra-pure Abyss Energy flooded through him.
Yet Ha Gyeong’s face went blank.
He felt no pain at all.
Because of the words that burned into his chest.
Ha Gyeong whispered, as if enchanted.
“Bung Cheon… Kwon?”
It was urgent, but his expression could only be dazed.
Bung Cheon Kwon was Ha Gyeong’s father.
It was the primary skill of Lee Tae Heon, the Pathfinder.
Five years of despair and grief flooded through him.
The emotions struck his heart like an arrow.
Before his eyes, the horrors of that time unfolded again.
‘When I first gained Intraspecies Predation, I think I always knew this day would come.’
Just like Uncle Seo Gang Min’s skill.
Father’s legacy must have been sleeping in the Ultimate Abyss Fragment too.
Ha Gyeong rose through the pain and quietly closed his eyes.
He’d tried so hard not to unearth that memory.
But there was nothing he could do.
The wound he’d buried deep in his chest had torn open again.
Yet he couldn’t afford to grieve forever.
Ha Gyeong steadied himself against the wall, ready for impact.
‘I can feel it. The Obsidian Titan’s movements.’
Boom-crash!
It was striking its chest again, trying to finish him off.
The thing inside it seemed to bother the beast greatly.
Ha Gyeong stared into the deepest reaches of the crevice.
“Stop your whining. I’ll end this as quickly as I can.”
Whoosh!
A pale gray energy gathered in his left hand.
An orb, growing larger by the second.
Tremendous quantities of Abyss Energy and Mana were pouring in.
When it was trembling wildly, as if about to burst—
Ha Gyeong unleashed the demon within.
“Hyaaah!”
With a shout, he thrust his fist forward.
Boom!
Sound exploded, and Ha Gyeong’s body was driven backward.
More precisely, he was dragged along by the fierce recoil surging up his left arm.
Then his vision opened wide.
He’d burst out of the Obsidian Titan’s body in a single motion.
But in that instant—
Ha Gyeong’s gaze locked with the Obsidian Titan’s.
Eyes blazing fiery red.
Anyone who met that stare would feel terror.
But Ha Gyeong felt something different.
‘This bastard… it’s scared.’
If monsters could feel emotions, there was only one reason.
It would be like having a cannon pressed to your chest and fired.
But Ha Gyeong couldn’t follow up immediately.
He was suspended in midair.
The flow of energy had stalled suddenly.
Quickly scanning his interior, he understood.
‘The Abyss Energy from the fragment hasn’t stabilized yet. I used Bung Cheon Kwon in that state—it got completely tangled.’
Bung Cheon Kwon was a technique that consumed immense power.
Its energy efficiency lagged far behind Shamanic Soul.
But its raw might was unparalleled.
A single skill had nearly killed the Obsidian Titan.
Tap!
“Phew…”
Ha Gyeong touched down and steadied his breathing.
He was regulating the scattered flow of energy.
Getting himself ready to fight again.
But it wasn’t easy.
The newly absorbed power was too overwhelming.
Ha Gyeong furrowed his brow.
‘What I need now isn’t Abyss Energy—it’s Mana.’
The fundamental force underlying an Awakener.
Accepting Abyss Energy wouldn’t change that.
Mana was ultimately the key.
But where was he supposed to get it right now?
Then a smile curved Ha Gyeong’s lips.
“There’s a way.”
He walked toward the fallen Obsidian Titan with deliberate steps.
Without any guard.
As Ha Gyeong advanced, the air around them transformed.
The Obsidian Titan, on its side, began to shuffle backward.
A colossal monster backing away from a tiny human.
It was a truly staggering sight.
Soon, gasps erupted from various points.
“Is… is he dominating a Field Boss through sheer presence alone?”
“Fifteen years in the Abyss, and I’ve never seen anything like this.”
“Can a human actually do this?”
The Great Sage’s team members were all veterans.
Elite Awakeners, carefully selected—yet not one could close their gaping mouths.
The result was that astonishing.
But as the silence stretched on—
The Obsidian Titan, still on the ground, swung its arms.
Whoooosh!
Overcome by fear.
It was a desperate, hasty strike.
Normally, such resistance would be futile.
But Ha Gyeong had no intention of dodging.
In fact, he hurled his body directly into the path of the attack.
Boom!
Ha Gyeong’s figure shot backward like a baseball.
Then a regretful sigh came from the back line.
“No!”
“Quick, get heals up!”
Contrary to the team’s concern, Ha Gyeong wore a satisfied smile.
He’d deliberately gotten hit from the start.
[Activating Reactive Mana Armor]
[Impact is being converted to Mana]
If he was short on Mana, he could just pull from the artifacts.
Screeeech!
Ha Gyeong, flung far back, skidded across the ground to a stop.
The Spirit Cloak was on cooldown.
Dull pain spread across his entire body.
Yet his expression had grown lighter.
‘The Mana’s back. Now I can control it properly.’
Soon, Ha Gyeong was wrapped in pale gray flames.
Flare!
The Abyss Energy, which had been running wild, began to align.
Ha Gyeong took slow steps forward.
Each footfall brought him closer to the Obsidian Titan.
He looked like the Grim Reaper, scythe in hand.
“Graaaaaaaah!”
A fierce roar tore from the Obsidian Titan.
Powerful sound waves vibrated the air.
Materialized killing intent pierced deep into the lungs.
But Ha Gyeong didn’t stop.
He simply focused Abyss Resonance on the Karambite.
[The Abyss Challenger’s ‘Compression’ authority increases the density of Abyss Energy]
Zzzzt! Flare!
The pale gray blade burst into fierce flames.
Normally, compressed Abyss Resonance would have been equivalent to the second stage.
The authority refined the bursting energy once more.
But now it burned with a radiance beyond even the third stage.
Ha Gyeong understood.
‘I’ve entered a new threshold.’
But there was no time to verify it now.
He didn’t need to anyway.
Ha Gyeong accelerated dramatically.
His form became a single gust of wind.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Each time his feet struck the ground, he seemed to double in speed.
The Obsidian Titan’s red eyes flashed.
It began swinging its massive arms in alternating arcs.
Boom! Crackle-crash!
Ruthless strikes tearing into the earth.
But they couldn’t touch Ha Gyeong.
His directional changes were unmatched.
After evading every strike.
Ha Gyeong appeared directly before the Obsidian Titan’s face.
“I’ll cut through your very soul.”
Ha Gyeong’s eyes had turned pale gray.
The blade, suddenly elongated, pierced straight through the Obsidian Titan’s neck.
Splash!
It continued through its head and shot high into the sky.
Like a deluge after a tsunami.
The shape resembled churning spray.
Graaaah! Booom!
[You have defeated the Field Boss, Obsidian Titan]
[You receive ‘Titan Flail’ as a reward]
The Obsidian Titan, its head split in two, fell silent.
System message or not—it was unmistakably dead.
Ha Gyeong exhaled deeply.
“Phew…”
White breath dispersed like fog.
His heart thundered in his chest.
But his inner being had grown cold and still.
‘Not enough, but I have reserves.’
The Obsidian Titan had been a new threat.
His original objective—
The Frost Bishop—he hadn’t properly begun fighting yet.
In fact, the clearing team was in critical danger.
The Mana Freeze Curse.
The Frozen Repentance was the cause.
The moment the Obsidian Titan fell.
A brief cheer rose from behind.
But the mood quickly deflated.
Everyone understood.
Ha Gyeong fixed his gaze on the Frost Bishop.
‘Now we’re back at the beginning. I need to focus.’
The Obsidian Titan was Unknown Grade.
The Frost Bishop was Incomprehensible Grade.
A thing beyond understanding.
To fell such a monster, he would need an ultimate finishing blow.
Ha Gyeong moved deliberately forward.
‘Restoration Veil can reset the cooldown of one artifact.’
Normally, he would save that for the Tyrant’s Bracelet.
It would let him survive once more, even on the brink of death.
But then Ha Gyeong’s gaze shifted to his left hand.
Father’s primary skill.
The sensation of using Bung Cheon Kwon lingered subtly.
Ha Gyeong clenched his fist.
‘What if I poured all the Abyss Energy I’ve drawn through Intraspecies Predation into it?’
Perhaps the ultimate finishing blow would erupt from his left hand.
Soon, Ha Gyeong began running toward the Frost Bishop.
His target: the left shoulder.
The spot where he’d torn away flesh earlier.
The clearing team’s front line was reviving just then.
The healer’s support and ranged damage had reactivated.
Ha Gyeong called out as he sprinted.
“John!”
Their gazes locked instantly.
John understood immediately what he wanted.
“Boost? Leave it to me. You saw last time, right? I’m damn good at it.”
Of course, if he used Wall Manifestation, John’s help wouldn’t be necessary.
But Ha Gyeong intended to deploy every ounce of his power.
He stomped on John’s brilliant blue shield.
Boom!
Immediately, a sight for sore eyes appeared before Ha Gyeong.
[Intraspecies Predation skill target locked]
[Target: Frost Bishop]
Ping!
A more beautiful sound than ever before.
Tearing the Gate Asunder
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