Tearing the Gate Apart - Chapter 80

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Episode 80.
Park Jeong Jin flew through the air with a scream, yet managed to complete his mission.
He pulled the Dungeon Key from his pouch.
And thrust it into the stone door.
Clang! Rumble-rumble-rumble!
Ha Gyeong then unwound the Resonance Rope, binding his teammates.
Then he threw himself toward the dungeon entrance.
[You have entered the dungeon “Abyss of True Silver”]
[A labyrinth notable for its transforming metallic walls]
[Beware of surprise attacks from Liquid Cores]
[Find and defeat the Relic Colossus hidden in the dungeon’s secret chamber]
[Rank: Extreme]
[Limit: 5 people]
[Reward: Unknown Artifact]
By the skin of his teeth, they’d made it inside the dungeon.
Ha Gyeong turned around with a relieved sigh.
“The escort team will be all right, won’t they?”
“Their position will probably shift. But as for danger… the Bottomless Abyss is never easy anywhere.”
“Meeting up later will be the problem, then.”
“There’s a protocol for when we’re scattered. We can only hope they come through unscathed.”
Ha Gyeong nodded at Dae Hyeonja’s response.
The Abyss was a place of infinite variables.
When had it ever been free of danger?
Given that they’d assembled a team of capable Awakened Ones—
The escort should be able to survive well enough.
Ha Gyeong stared ahead.
‘It’s all silver.’
Floor, walls, ceiling.
Everything was metal.
The description had called it a labyrinth, but it was anything but ordinary.
The corners weren’t sharp angles.
It was rough and uneven.
The form was not standardized.
Perhaps because of that, gauging position felt even more difficult.
Ha Gyeong heightened his sense of Soul Stigma.
‘It’s a small dungeon. If there were an Ultimate Abyss Fragment, I would’ve detected it by now.’
Unfortunately, this time came up empty.
Yet Ha Gyeong’s mind was not impatient.
Hadn’t he already completed the key?
Now three things remained.
Ha Gyeong turned over in his mind what needed to be done.
‘I need to build my strength, gather stronger comrades, and find the Ultimate Abyss Location.’
To do that, he had no choice but to frequent the Bottomless Abyss.
And press ahead with dungeon clears without end.
Ha Gyeong waited for the order to come down.
Soon Dae Hyeonja grasped the Whisperer and spoke.
―From now on, I’ll be calling the shots. However, I think it would be best if you, Ha Gyeong, took the lead. You navigate better than I do, and this is a labyrinth.
“Understood.”
Ha Gyeong readily accepted and moved forward.
In a place easy to get lost, it was right for a tank or melee dealer to take point.
Yet even for Ha Gyeong, this dungeon was not easy.
‘Too irregular.’
Of course, he wasn’t entirely without confidence.
After all, he possessed Soul Stigma—a cheat skill.
Ha Gyeong advanced calmly.
The dungeon structure was strange, but he could progress one way or another.
Traps didn’t frighten him much.
But the moment he turned a corner, an ambush began.
Whoosh! Scrape!
A silver arm suddenly erupted from the wall.
Ha Gyeong instinctively brought up the Crimson Edge to strike.
But surprisingly, only sparks scattered.
The creature that had burst forth remained unharmed.
Ha Gyeong quickly distanced himself from his opponent.
‘What? There wasn’t even a hint of its presence.’
His Soul Stigma sense hadn’t detected it.
He wondered if there was anything left in the realm of possibility.
Soon Ha Gyeong could roughly infer the reason.
‘Was it one with the wall?’
Everywhere was surging silver metal.
A chill raced down his spine in an instant.
Ha Gyeong recalled the Abyss of Parasitism he’d faced before.
‘The entire dungeon was one massive monster.’
Then he’d fought things like parasites, but this was different.
The dungeon was actively attacking.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Soon a chunk of silver metal detached from the wall and took on form.
The same shape and position as all five of his raid team.
The only difference was the metallic sheen.
Hearing the clash—
Dae Hyeonja’s voice came immediately.
―A monster?
“Yes, they emerge from anywhere without warning, so everyone be careful.”
―What do you mean?
“Walls, ceiling, floor—it seems they can move anywhere.”
―Understood… Enemy appearing from the rear!
Dae Hyeonja’s voice was urgent.
Ha Gyeong immediately retreated and swapped positions with Jon.
“I’ll support the rear line.”
“Leave it to me, bro. I’ll hold the line solid.”
“Thanks. See you in a bit.”
Rounding a gentle corner, he saw his teammates locked in fierce combat.
Park Jeong Jin darted left and right, raining arrows down.
Dae Hyeonja and Yu Se Ha supported each other, holding the line.
It looked chaotic, but it was flawless execution.
Ha Gyeong approached the two Healers first.
“Make way!”
[The Abyss Challenger’s Compression authority heightens the density of Abyss energy]
Shatter! Crackle!
The compressed Abyss Resonance struck the Liquid Core’s arm.
Crimson sparks erupted as the limb was severed clean through.
A far different result than a casual swing.
Yet the Liquid Core’s reaction was remarkable.
Without a flinch, it whipped around and hammered out a back kick.
A terrible piercing force whistled past his ear.
Whoosh!
“Ugh!”
Ha Gyeong let out a sharp grunt and tilted his upper body back.
Then he quickly recovered his balance and slashed again.
But his decisive strike was easily deflected.
Clash!
The Liquid Core’s newly regenerated arm blocked the blade.
This time too, it was half-severed.
But the attack didn’t land as cleanly as before.
Likely because Ha Gyeong’s stance had been unstable.
‘Its recovery speed is incredible. And its reaction isn’t like a living creature.’
The liquid metal weapon from the Terminator movies.
It felt like the T-1000.
The Liquid Core transformed its arm into a blade.
Then spun and began to swing it.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Attacks both faster and more precise than expected.
Ha Gyeong parried with the Crimson Edge, gradually retreating.
‘Is this really an ordinary monster?’
Given it was Extreme rank—
The monsters here were on a different level.
The medium Extreme dungeon he’d cleared with Kang Woo Jin.
It was as difficult as the Abyss of Proliferation.
The only difference was the scale of the battle.
The difficulty was distinctly higher.
Ha Gyeong kept his blade active, composed.
‘I can beat it. I’m growing accustomed to its movements.’
The Liquid Core’s attacks were quite unfamiliar.
An ordinary person couldn’t spin like that endlessly.
And the rotation was too fast to see any openings.
Yet Ha Gyeong deftly parried each blow.
His retreat shifted to advance.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
Each swing of the blade rang out sharp and metallic.
Like the noise from a traditional smithy.
With each collision, the Liquid Core’s movement slowed.
Ha Gyeong’s strength and Abyss Resonance were overwhelming it.
‘This is… incredibly satisfying.’
Each clash with the Liquid Core sent a sense of liberation through him.
The urge to keep fighting erupted like a volcano.
Lost in that trance, swinging his blade—
Shatter!
The Liquid Core’s body finally shattered completely.
Unable to withstand the impact.
It crumbled into fragments.
Ha Gyeong smacked his lips.
“Ah! That was so good. Why’d it have to die?”
Then his gaze suddenly met someone else’s.
It was Yu Se Ha, who had stayed in the rear supporting Park Jeong Jin.
“Er… um…”
“That’s not what this is.”
“Ah, right.”
“But honestly, I feel like I need to pummel something. I’m very insufficient.”
“Surely you don’t mean me?”
“As long as the body’s sturdy, anyone will do.”
“What?”
“Joking. I’ll handle the one on Park Jeong Jin. Go support Jon up front.”
“Ah, understood.”
Yu Se Ha’s face showed slight fatigue as he quickly moved positions.
Ha Gyeong chuckled and approached Park Jeong Jin.
“I’ll finish up here.”
“Will you be all right alone?”
“Of course. If I set up at that gentle corner, I can support both directions.”
“All right, I’ll head over there.”
With Park Jeong Jin gone—
Ha Gyeong was left with two Liquid Cores.
“Good to see you, punching bags. I hope you last longer than the one who went down first. I’m in quite the mood.”
The Liquid Cores answered not with words, but with blades.
Perhaps because they’d seen what befell their kin.
Their attack pattern was entirely different.
This time, blades sprouted from the knees as well.
Having to defend below was annoying, but Ha Gyeong didn’t mind.
‘If anything, I prefer it. More things to hit.’
He faced eight blades raining from both sides.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Clang! Clang!
A superhigh-speed clash began, almost invisible to the eye.
The Liquid Cores’ attacks were as fast as light.
Rotating, each spinning four blades.
They’d already broken the sound barrier.
The afterimage of rent air carried death’s dread.
Yet Ha Gyeong’s response was ice-cold.
‘I see it.’
The opponent’s attacks crashed down in the blink of an eye.
Arriving in a fantastic arc.
Yet not a single blade could pierce his defense.
Ha Gyeong was far slower than the Liquid Core.
Deafening metallic shriek!
The roar rang out relentlessly.
At first, it was pure defense.
Simply blocking eight blades occupied all his effort.
Yet gradually, Ha Gyeong’s movements were changing.
Spin! Crackle!
A decisive strike piercing through the barrage of blades.
The Crimson Edge gashed the Liquid Core’s forearm.
The entire arm erupted in a single blow.
Like the first Liquid Core beaten to scrap metal.
Just like that one.
Of course, its entire body didn’t shatter.
But its tremendous rotation ceased.
Ha Gyeong wore a triumphant smile.
“That’s it.”
A thrilling exhilaration pierced through his whole body.
The enormous Greater Water Dragon coiled within Ha Gyeong’s being.
Abyss energy began to uncoil and rise.
As if ready to ascend.
Ha Gyeong hacked the Liquid Core to pieces.
Shatter-shatter-shatter-crackle!
In truth, the result wasn’t surprising.
While the one with the blown-off forearm defended—
The pressure on Ha Gyeong halved.
So what came next was inevitable.
On the basis of widened freedom of movement, Ha Gyeong went wild.
‘My control over Abyss energy grows easier by the second.’
It felt as though his Resonance ability was increasing in real time.
The clash with the Liquid Core was producing that result.
To break down such a hard monster, Abyss Resonance had to be equally dense.
Because of his Compression authority honed to the Extreme—
Ha Gyeong’s blade was undergoing transformation.
Shhhh!
The Abyss Resonance vanished with a deflating sound.
The Crimson Edge, now showing no energy signature.
At a glance, it looked like he’d simply turned off the Resonance.
But Ha Gyeong was constantly feeding Abyss energy into it.
‘What is this?’
In the instant of doubt—
An unexpected system message appeared.
[You have reached a new Realm]
Tearing the Gate
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Morae-toph
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