The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 115
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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 115
Episode 115: Trap (4)
The first strike began with Volcano’s Fury.
He gripped the red side sword in reverse and threw it toward Choi Cheol-min.
Volcano’s Fury became an arrow and struck Choi Cheol-min.
-Stop your useless struggling!
Choi Cheol-min neither dodged nor blocked Volcano’s Fury.
He must have trusted in his body’s durability.
The problem was that this side sword wasn’t an ordinary weapon.
【’Flame Explosion’ activates!】
The moment it hit, the skill activated.
Crimson flames engulfed Choi Cheol-min along with the explosion.
-Kraaaah!
Choi Cheol-min screamed from within the blazing fire.
The outer shell of the area hit by the explosion was completely blown away.
However, only the outer shell was torn off; the muscles underneath were intact.
-I told you it’s useless! You damn fool!
Just as he said, Choi Cheol-min’s body began to restore itself quickly.
Hard outer shell began covering the pulsating muscles.
‘I can’t let him recover.’
Mincheol picked up the hand axe he had placed on the ground.
Then he threw them consecutively toward Choi Cheol-min.
【Skill ‘Helmet Splitter’ activates.】
【35 mana consumed.】
Two hand axes flew through the air, cutting through it.
The outer shell that was just regenerating burst again from the ‘Helmet Splitter’ impact.
-Kaaaah!
Perhaps because his bare flesh was attacked, Choi Cheol-min let out a scream.
-Butcher! You’re struggling to die! I’ll tear out your organs while you’re alive!
With a pain-filled cry, Choi Cheol-min wildly swung his tentacles.
Dozens of tentacles smashed trees and split the ground.
But Mincheol was outside their range.
【Skill ‘Helmet Splitter’ activates.】
【35 mana consumed.】
Mincheol threw hand axes consecutively without concern.
He activated the skill each time he threw a hand axe, but there was no problem.
Thanks to focusing on mana stats recently, his mana pool was abundant.
Enough that Helmet Splitter wouldn’t drain him dry.
Bang- Bang-
Each time a hand axe hit, the regenerating outer shell was destroyed.
Because of this, Choi Cheol-min couldn’t fully regenerate his wounds.
However, the actual damage wasn’t very significant. At best, it prevented regeneration.
‘Damn tough. I would’ve been in big trouble if I’d chosen close combat.’
Among all the strong enemies Mincheol had fought, this one was supreme in durability alone.
Even Colossus would have to yield to Choi Cheol-min in this regard.
‘But my attacks aren’t completely ineffective.’
Mincheol retrieved the dark elongated item with Auto Looting.
Then immediately took it out from his inventory.
【Sacred Light Soaring activates.】
【’210′ mana consumed.】
The moment the flying light hit Choi Cheol-min’s bare flesh.
A chunk of flesh was torn from his shoulder.
Simultaneously, tar-like black and sticky blood gushed out.
-Kaaaaaaah!
This time it seemed quite painful as Choi Cheol-min staggered, clutching his wound.
Murderous intent filled his eyes as he glared at Mincheol.
-Butcherrrrr!
Choi Cheol-min charged forward with a roar.
He moved by driving his tentacles into the ground. The distance closed in an instant.
‘I need to create distance.’
Mincheol used Black Horn Bullet Form to escape.
The distance that Choi Cheol-min had worked to close widened again.
【Skill ‘Enhanced Launch’ activates.】
Mincheol activated the skill of the ‘Colossus’ bracelet while running through the forest.
The bracelet emitted blue light and floated.
Mincheol aimed at Choi Cheol-min with the hand wearing the bracelet.
At that moment, the bracelet disappeared silently and pierced Choi Cheol-min’s abdomen.
Kwang-
With a thunderous sound, the massive body was sent flying.
The impact was so heavy that all the tentacles he had driven into the ground were pulled out.
-Kuk, keuk…
Choi Cheol-min staggered and got back up.
All the outer shell on his abdomen had fallen off.
‘That’s almost Sacred Light Soaring level?’
Mincheol briefly admired and stopped.
Since he had stopped Choi Cheol-min, there was no need to run.
It was time to focus on attacking again.
Mincheol threw whatever throwing weapons he could get his hands on.
Hand axes, spears, bracelets.
He didn’t discriminate by type. He retrieved them with Auto Looting and threw whatever he could grab from his inventory.
Each time throwing weapons hit him, Choi Cheol-min’s body was chipped away bit by bit.
If he had his outer shell, he could have deflected these minor attacks.
But Mincheol didn’t give him time for the outer shell to regenerate.
【Skill ‘Helmet Splitter’ activates.】
【35 mana consumed.】
【Sacred Light Soaring activates.】
【’210′ mana consumed.】
【’Flame Explosion’ activates!】
Skills ran rampant.
With each explosion, Choi Cheol-min’s screams grew louder.
-Damn it… damn that Butcher!
Then, Choi Cheol-min, who had only been taking hits, showed different behavior.
He wove his tentacles together to surround himself.
‘Is he trying to buy time to recover?’
Mincheol launched Helmet Splitter. But Helmet Splitter was blocked by the tentacles and bounced off.
‘Tch.’
Mincheol clicked his tongue.
These were tentacles that even Mincheol’s twin swords couldn’t cut through.
Helmet Splitter didn’t seem to stand a chance.
‘Then how about this.’
【Holy Light Heaven Strike activates.】
【Mana ‘210’ is consumed.】
As the flash struck the wall, the tentacles burst one after another.
However, Holy Light Heaven Strike ultimately failed to penetrate the wall and stopped.
‘It blocks this too?’
It would be troublesome if the outer shell completely recovered.
Even while thinking of countermeasures, Mincheol’s hands didn’t stop.
At that moment, Sharbahan was grasped in his hand.
And the promised skill activated.
【Skill ‘Wind Severing’ activates.】
The wind blades surrounding Sharbahan cut through all the tentacles.
“Huh?”
The tentacles fell rustling down, revealing Choi Cheol-min’s form.
As Mincheol had feared, the outer shell had been somewhat restored.
-H-how?
The moment he saw Sharbahan, bewilderment appeared on Choi Cheol-min’s face.
Choi Cheol-min crossed his forearms to try to block Sharbahan.
Unlike his torso where all the outer shell had been peeled away, his forearms were intact.
But the moment they touched Wind Severing, his forearms were cut off helplessly.
-…!
Horror appeared on Choi Cheol-min’s face.
And before he could dodge, Wind Severing severed Choi Cheol-min’s upper body.
Sliiice-
From his right shoulder to his left abdomen.
His upper body split diagonally in a long gash. If Mincheol had thrown Wind Severing just a little lower, he would have been completely cut in half.
-Kyaaaah!
A scream filled with pain continued at length.
Mincheol was dazed. Not only did it easily cut through tentacles that even Holy Light Heaven Strike couldn’t pierce, but it even severed the main body?
‘There was a reason Ursongbarsong praised Sharbahan?’
Thinking about it, Sharbahan was obtained by defeating the ‘Successful Golem’, an unbeatable boss monster.
So it couldn’t be an ordinary weapon. It was probably exceptional even among legendary grades.
Then, Choi Cheol-min’s body began to regenerate.
The flesh of the severed parts stuck together. It was an astounding level of regeneration.
‘Now’s the time.’
Mincheol instinctively realized it was time to finish this.
【All ‘Colossus’ within a 1km radius are acquired.】
【’Colossus’ x1 is stored in inventory.】
Mincheol retrieved the Colossus and simultaneously threw it toward Choi Cheol-min.
The flying bracelet embedded itself in the regenerating wound.
However, it couldn’t stop the regeneration. Rather, Choi Cheol-min’s body finished regenerating while swallowing the Colossus.
-Uhahah! You stupid bastard! Wasting your weapon like this!
Choi Cheol-min shouted gleefully.
He seemed happy to have eliminated one of Mincheol’s weapons.
At that moment, a message only Mincheol could see appeared.
【Skill ‘Shock Release’ activates.】
The Colossus exploded from inside his torso.
A pure white explosion covered the entire world.
* * *
When wrapped in tentacles, past events flashed through Choi Cheol-min’s mind.
-P-please spare me! I don’t want to die!
-I-I’ll never tell anyone! Please!
The scenes he had witnessed when he previously offered sacrifices.
-What? You want to live? If it were me, I’d rather curse a storm and die coolly than beg for my life so pathetically.
Choi Cheol-min looked down at the pleading sacrifices, intoxicated with superiority.
The feeling of watching death from a safe place was simply the best.
-Aaah! Kuaaaah!
-The tentacles! With thorns! Thorns are in my body! Aaaah!
The statue’s method of absorbing sacrifices was horrifically cruel.
First it wrapped the entire body with tentacles, then changed the tentacles into thorns.
The sacrifices died with thorns pierced throughout their bodies, having all their bodily fluids drained.
-Ugh, how brutal.
Choi Cheol-min even enjoyed that.
The victims’ resentful gazes.
Their screams filled with pain.
-That’s what you get for following me around carelessly, you idiots.
Though he was just a low-ranking member doing menial tasks in the Hope Society, this moment was different.
He was the victor, the predator.
He stood in a different position from those idiots.
Both figuratively and literally.
“Butcher! Save me!”
But now the situation was reversed.
The once pleasant memories now acted as poison.
He remembered exactly how the victims died and what screams they made.
Now it was his turn to go through that same process.
“Agh! Kuaaaah!”
The tentacles constricted his entire body. It felt like all the bones in his body were being crushed. It seemed like his organs would burst from his mouth.
But the real agony was just beginning.
Countless thorns sprouted from the surface of the tentacles.
The thorns pierced through muscle and bone all too easily, reaching his internal organs.
“…!”
The pain was so excruciating that he couldn’t even let out a scream.
The problem was that even this wasn’t the end.
Body fluids began being sucked through the thorns.
It felt like a bomb had exploded in his head. Choi Cheol-min floundered while trapped in a swamp of agony.
‘Qu, quickly kill me….’
Eventually, Choi Cheol-min reached the point of desperately wishing for death.
“Ugh, ughhh….”
“Graaah….”
His companions weren’t much different.
With their eyes rolled back white, they only let out beast-like cries.
At that moment, memories from the day he received his briefing flashed through Choi Cheol-min’s mind.
The seonbae who had done this job before him had grabbed Choi Cheol-min and earnestly pleaded with him.
-Remember this. Once you offer a sacrifice, you must wait five days before the next one.
-You also can’t offer more than two sacrifices at once.
-Offering sacrifices more than five times a month is also forbidden.
When Choi Cheol-min asked why, his seonbae made a stupid expression and answered like this.
-I don’t know either. Hope Society isn’t kind enough to explain every reason to low-level members like us, right?
-But I heard something from a previous seonbae. Hope Society apparently tried various things to uncover the Hidden Stage’s secrets.
-The team formed back then wasn’t made up of low-level members like us, but promising candidates. But one day, they never returned.
-An entire team disappeared from the Tower? That means they died. After that, Hope Society established the rules I mentioned.
Those rules had been broken.
Then it was time for whatever had devoured Hope Society’s promising candidates to appear.
‘Bu, Butcher… you, you won’t be able to return alive ei, either.’
Choi Cheol-min was pleased by that fact.
At least he could take the Butcher as his companion to the grave.
His wish was immediately granted.
In a way he never could have imagined.
【’??’ is satisfied with the sufficient sacrifice.】
【’??’ regains its original power.】
【’Idol of the Abyss’ desires a more superior sacrifice.】
The idol began emanating ominous magical power.
Soon after, new messages appeared.
【’Idol of the Abyss’ selects the sacrifice with the deepest grudge against the target.】
【’Idol of the Abyss’ absorbs your memories and knowledge.】
The ominous magical power enveloped Choi Cheol-min.
When he came to his senses, he had fused with the idol.
‘What is this? Wh, what happened to me?’
His bewilderment was brief.
Choi Cheol-min trembled at the enormous power surging up from within his body.
A sense of omnipotence that he could do anything washed over him.
The omnipotence eventually transformed into rage. The rage eventually focused on the Butcher.
-Butcher, I’ll kill you!
There was no need to contemplate how to use this power.
He could handle it naturally, as if he had possessed it from the beginning.
-Ugh, uhahahaha! Power… power overflows!
Every time he swung the tentacles, the ground split. The forest was cleaved. Choi Cheol-min trembled at this tremendous power.
-Did you see? This is my power! Now no one will be able to ignore me! Even the executives will bow their heads to me!
But everything was Choi Cheol-min’s delusion.
The situation completely reversed when the Butcher began throwing weapons.
A spear imbued with light, an exploding sword, a hand axe that embedded like a rock, and so on.
Each time he was hit by a weapon, his body was carved away. Terrible pain followed.
‘What is this?’
Amidst it all, Choi Cheol-min felt deep confusion.
‘Why can’t I kill that bastard even with this power?’
This power must be the very existence that had made Hope Society’s promising candidates never return.
With such power, how could he not kill a single person?
No, it wasn’t just that he couldn’t kill him.
He was being one-sidedly pushed back.
‘This can’t be! This shouldn’t happen! I’ll kill him! Definitely! By any means necessary!’
But no matter how much he burned with determination, nothing would change.
Choi Cheol-min was helplessly battered by the weapons the Butcher threw.
And in an instant, the outcome was decided.
【Activating skill ‘Shock Liberation’.】
A white explosion.
Nothing was visible. There was no pain.
However, when he regained consciousness, Choi Cheol-min was rolling on the ground with only his head remaining.
There was nothing below his neck. His entire body had been shattered to pieces.
The omnipotent power had vanished without a trace.
Step.
Then, the sound of footsteps was heard.
The Butcher, who had approached at some point, placed his blade tip on Choi Cheol-min’s forehead.
‘No. I don’t want to die.’
He was desperate, but no voice came out.
Tears overflowed, but they weren’t expressed outwardly.
Crack-
The blade pierced through his head.
At the same time, his consciousness was severed.
* * *
【You have defeated the ‘Idol of the Abyss’!】
【You receive 100 additional ability points!】
【30 ‘Lucky Coins’ are granted!】
As soon as he killed Choi Cheol-min, messages appeared.
“Ugh, my shoulders are stiff.”
Mincheol said while rotating one shoulder.
He had strained himself slightly from throwing projectile weapons non-stop.
But for injuries sustained against such a formidable enemy, it was negligible.
“It would have been terrible if I didn’t have throwing weapons.”
The Abyssal Idol was strong.
If he had to fight in close combat, there would have been no clear answer.
However, it had poor compatibility with Mincheol. He could continuously deliver powerful attacks from a distance.
【You have cleared the Hidden Quest ‘Choice of the Abyss’!】
【Not only did you uncover the secret of the ‘Gray Forest’, but you also eliminated the source!】
【Rewards are greatly enhanced! Special rewards will be granted!】
Messages appeared one after another. Mincheol opened his Inventory to check the Abyssal Fragment.
【You have obtained ‘Abyssal Fragment’!】
【Abyssal Fragment】
-Grade: Unique
-Description: Proof that you hunted the abyss. Show it to a specific organization to receive appropriate rewards.
“Oh?”
An exchange item with Unique grade?
Anticipation appeared on Mincheol’s face.
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