Tearing the Gate Apart - Chapter 76

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Chapter 76.
Taken slightly aback, Ha Gyeong moved straight into his next action.
Whether the enemy numbered one thousand or two.
They were clearly opponents.
So there was no hesitation—they had to be cut down.
Ha Gyeong triggered his skills in sequence.
[Kin Predation skill target locked]
[Objective: Resonance Staff]
Whirrr!
First, he pulled in a massive torrent of Abyss Energy through Kin Predation.
Then he compressed the skill that was dispersing beyond fifteen meters down to a manageable density.
[The Abyss Challenger’s Compression Authority increases the density of Abyss Energy]
Thwack!
Then he’d amplify Transformed Soul Severance twofold and hurl it—the end result.
But Ha Gyeong didn’t swing the Crimson Edge.
‘But is this right?’
If Awakened Ones didn’t operate in the Abyss, the Gates would eventually rupture.
Nine times out of ten, Earth would be plunged into chaos.
There were monsters that remained unscathed even after artillery strikes.
They might have to resort to nuclear weapons—a near-suicidal eradication.
In the end, deploying Awakened Ones was the safest, most cost-effective method.
Ha Gyeong recalled his father’s words.
‘We are not shining heroes. We are solitary warriors who wade through mud to protect the world.’
Soaked again and again in contamination.
Butchers covered in monster blood and flesh, fighting without end.
The world knows nothing of their despair, yet they are the pillars that hold it up.
That was what an Awakened One truly was.
It was a calling that required unwavering conviction to sustain.
Ha Gyeong sank into contemplation.
‘I began this to protect the world, but is it right to kill another human simply because they are an enemy?’
Questions about the very essence of an Awakened One circled through his mind.
But Ha Gyeong quickly reached a conclusion.
‘An enemy is an enemy. If I don’t kill them, I die.’
Even when ambushed in a Dungeon, the opposing force was usually only about twenty strong.
And rarely did they mount a coordinated offensive.
More often, they abandoned their comrades—like the Raiders did.
Perhaps because his opponents numbered in the thousands.
Perhaps that’s why doubt had suddenly crept in.
Ha Gyeong swung the Crimson Edge.
“Tsuaaah!”
[Projectile Enhancement is applied to Soul Severance]
Whoooosh!
A spinning disk thirty meters wide hurtled toward the enemy ranks.
Its speed was too great for the eye to follow.
It seemed to strike the moment the skill activated.
Crack-crack-crack-crack-crack!
The Transformed Soul Severance carved a long groove across the Gate.
Ha Gyeong’s target had been the Ranged Dealers stationed on the jagged edges of the wall.
He’d eliminated the most threatening threat first.
Remarkably, a long furrow had opened in the Gate’s corner.
The Transformed Soul Severance had sliced clean through the Gate itself.
Then Ha Gyeong alighted gently atop the wall.
At that moment, one of the DRC Villains spoke.
“You… you… what exactly are you? A field boss?”
“So DRC tries talking to monsters first?”
“That’s not it, but what’s the difference between what you’re doing and a monster? You’ve killed over a hundred people in just the last moment.”
“That’s a laugh. And these killers who showered me with lethal skills—what nerve do they have trying to appeal to my sympathy—”
Just as Ha Gyeong was about to snort.
The Villains launched a coordinated ambush.
Swoosh-swoosh-whoosh! Boom!
“Get him! Take down that one bastard and we win!”
“Go! Drive him back!”
The surviving Ranged Dealers unleashed a barrage of skills.
Tankers and Melee Dealers tightened their encirclement.
Ha Gyeong parried their attacks with calm composure.
All the while, he edged gradually toward the central staircase.
That passageway, completely sealed with boulders.
If he could just blast it open, his teammates could climb through.
For a moment, Ha Gyeong’s mouth twisted into a bitter smile.
‘I saw it too late. Would it have been better to shove the Transformed Soul Severance straight into that passage?’
But Ha Gyeong’s choice hadn’t been wrong, either.
The Ranged Dealers clinging to the wall had been the greatest threat.
Without eliminating them, the Raid Party would have been annihilated long ago.
Ha Gyeong himself would have fallen under concentrated fire.
‘But how do I break through this?’
This was the reason the DRC Villains’ Gate was so poorly constructed.
Abyss stone was forbiddingly hard.
Since the material was difficult to work, it had been built in this haphazard way.
That didn’t mean it couldn’t be broken, though.
Hadn’t it just been sliced apart by Ha Gyeong’s Transformed Soul Severance?
‘The problem is distributing my strength.’
If he focused on breaking through, he’d have no capacity to fight.
But he couldn’t afford not to try.
Ha Gyeong channeled Abyss Energy into the Crimson Edge.
[The Heart Protector’s will creates an extreme annihilation zone]
Crunch!
He’d cast Dead Zone, completely obliterating the rock.
But one blow wouldn’t be enough.
His teammates were thirty meters away in height alone.
There was no way a hole just two meters in diameter would open a passage.
Yet immediately after, something extraordinary happened.
Boom!
With a sudden deafening crack, someone came shooting up through it.
From the central staircase Ha Gyeong had just opened.
A bronze-skinned man wielding a large Flail emerged, declaring confidently:
“The sexiest forty-year-old man in the Abyss has arrived!”
A burly white man spouting nonsense the moment he appeared.
Ha Gyeong felt he could identify him without even seeing his face.
He called out to Chai.
“Drop the theatrics and start pushing from there!”
“If not now, when else can I get the spotlight? Come on, bro.”
“You’re already getting plenty of it, sir.”
“Right. Then how about we get back to my true genius?”
……
Though he’d dealt a heavy blow, the enemy still outnumbered them dozens of times over.
Yet nonsense kept spilling out unbidden.
In a strange way, it was almost admirable.
In any case, with his teammates joining, Ha Gyeong could finally breathe.
Now he had more freedom of movement.
Ha Gyeong surveyed the enemy forces.
‘Still nine hundred left. And they don’t look weak either.’
They seemed far stronger than what Chai had disclosed.
Well, at that power level, they’d naturally come all this way to cause trouble.
His teammates huddled together, responding defensively.
Meanwhile, Ha Gyeong alone roamed the perimeter freely.
‘This is the only way to find a breakthrough.’
He deployed the Wall String Technique and slipped completely outside the wall.
Then, circling halfway around, he infiltrated the rear of the enemy formation.
One of the DRC Villains who spotted him gasped in alarm.
“Rawang kang lang!”
Whatever he was shouting, Ha Gyeong couldn’t understand him.
It sounded roughly like a warning to watch the rear.
But the warning had come too late.
Ha Gyeong had already closed the distance drastically.
“Huurah!”
He swung the Crimson Edge with a battle cry.
A Temper at the third stage was devastatingly powerful.
And Ha Gyeong was employing deception on top of it.
To the naked eye, his blade appeared merely second-stage.
But in truth, it was third-stage compressed with Compression Authority.
The Villains, unaware, moved to block it carelessly.
Clang!
“Kyaaaah!”
Ignorance exacted a cruel price.
The Crimson Edge shattered the Villain’s weapon in an instant.
His armor tore open.
Of course, Ha Gyeong couldn’t sever the torso outright.
The Artifact’s defensive power was immense.
But he could certainly sever limbs.
The screaming Villain collapsed, spraying blood.
Clang!
“Damn it……”
A Melee Dealer rendered combat-ineffective.
For now, he wouldn’t be moving.
Of course, a skilled enough Healer could reattach severed limbs.
But that demanded enormous time and resources.
Ha Gyeong assessed the situation coldly.
‘Far better than killing. This way, it becomes one plus one.’
He immediately charged the next target.
He intended to maximize gains while the enemies were still reeling.
But his attempt was swiftly cut off.
A lethal tackle struck from the side.
“Die! You monster!”
Crash! Boom!
Ha Gyeong quickly drove the Crimson Edge downward.
Yet he couldn’t stop the man’s charge.
Even with the blade buried in his shoulder, he kept driving forward.
Ha Gyeong flooded his grip with Abyss Energy.
Suddenly, immense repulsive force erupted.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle-crackle!
“Gaagh? What—what is this?!”
The Villain Ha Gyeong had grabbed thrashed about in agony.
Humans took severe damage from Abyss Energy by nature.
Eventually, the man released his grip.
Now Ha Gyeong could freely swing the Crimson Edge.
Slash! Crunch! Rip!
Once again, he severed the man’s limbs.
He cut one off, thinking the man might try something else.
Then hacked away all four to ensure he couldn’t do anything at all.
Then he immediately moved to find his next target.
As Ha Gyeong’s rampage continued, the mood on the battlefield began to shift.
“N-no, no!”
“Retreat! That monster’s coming this way!”
“Hold the line! Hold it!”
“Stop complaining and hold it yourself, then!”
……
The DRC Villains moved like a school of sardines.
They fled frantically whenever Ha Gyeong appeared.
Everyone was seized by terror.
As a result, their command structure collapsed into chaos.
Even when they tried to deploy favorable Tankers, soldiers refused the order.
Incredibly, a 900-to-35 battle was gradually tilting in their favor.
Ha Gyeong ranged in and out of the Gate, relentlessly targeting the rear.
‘I have to wipe out the back lines. Especially the Ranged DPS.’
He’d sent a hundred archers at the wall’s edge to their deaths.
But Ranged Dealers made up roughly one-third of the raid force.
Over two hundred remained.
Without eliminating them first, there could be no victory.
Ha Gyeong deployed the Wall String Technique once more.
Tap-tap-tap-tap!
But the Villains’ response was improving with each attempt.
They predicted where Ha Gyeong would emerge based on sound.
And they’d set deadly traps in wait.
Whoosh! Crash!
“Huh?”
Ha Gyeong suddenly found his entire body bound tight.
A three-pronged throwing cord with metal weights at the ends.
A Sticky Bola.
Originally meant to bind the legs, but this specimen was oversized.
Moreover, it carried a potent debuff.
[Sticky Bola impedes movement]
[Movement speed drastically reduced]
Then a bronze-skinned, massively built man emerged, grinning wickedly.
“Finally caught you, you little rat.”
“Your Korean is nearly native-level. Do all Villains learn the language of their assigned country before deployment?”
“What nonsense. I have this to thank.”
He tapped something mounted on his shoulder as he spoke.
A device resembling a Whisper unit.
Apparently it provided real-time translation.
Come to think of it, it made sense.
Weren’t these people a coalition of Villains from five Mekong River Region nations?
Communication would be impossible without a Translation Artifact.
‘Minor details aside. First things first.’
Ha Gyeong moved to cut the Bola’s cord with the Crimson Edge.
His opponent immediately barked an order.
“What are you waiting for? Get him!”
“Yes!”
Swoosh-swoosh-swoosh-swoosh-whoosh!
Every manner of skill came streaking toward Ha Gyeong.
But the cord was so resilient.
It barely cut at all.
So Ha Gyeong had to block the incoming assault first.
‘Lucky timing. If all the skills focus on me, that’s actually good.’
He quickly extended his left hand forward.
[The Abyss Challenger’s Distortion Authority inverts the space]
Crack!
The countless skills pouring down on Ha Gyeong vanished in an instant.
Then, with a grand resonance, a violet disc formed.
Deep in the enemy’s rear lines.
Boom!
“Huh? What’s that sound?”
The DRC Villains turned stupidly to look.
Immediately, a gate of hell opened at their backs.
Shriek! Boom-boom-boom-boom!
But at that very moment.
A massive Iron Wall dropped down, severing the Distortion Authority.
Whoosh! Boom!
Then a colossus of a man stepped out from behind the Iron Wall.
“So Korea has some capable fighters after all.”
Ripping Open the Gate
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