The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 48

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Chapter 48
I swung my legs.
“Ah, let go of this! Then I can actually do something!”
“Kyaaaah?! Kyaaaah!”
The woman gripped my thrashing legs tightly and shook her head frantically.
My body weight was dragging me down slowly, but if she let go, it looked like the Demon Beasts would yank me away in an instant.
Muttering curses under my breath, I touched the Coin Market search bar.
I reached for a ranged attack skill, then hesitated.
‘No, that’s not it. With this many enemies, I’m going to waste coins on a one-time skill? And on some small fry, not even the biggest one?’
I had 1250 coins left.
Since I’d already purchased Strength Enhancement Level 3, what I needed now was either body enhancement like when I fought the centipede, or a weapon that could handle multiple enemies at once.
“A weapon….”
Even in the Game World, I was weak when it came to wielding weapons.
In short one-on-one matches, there were set recommended combinations, so weapons weren’t particularly important, but as battles became multi-person and prolonged, weapons became crucial.
A message window appeared—apparently the Coin Market search bar had voice recognition.
Search completed.
Results sorted by price range matching your current coin balance.
A list of weapons appeared.
“Kyaaaaaaah—!!”
The moment an ear-splitting scream pierced the air, instead of checking the weapon list, I jerked my upper body up.
‘Damn it.’
As I pulled the woman’s body toward me, the Demon Beasts came with her, closing the distance rapidly.
I drove my fist straight into one.
Crack!
The Demon Beast struck by my punch flew backward.
And didn’t get back up.
“….”
This actually works.
So this is the power of Strength Enhancement Level 3—the same force that tore a security window clean out of a brick wall.
The other Demon Beasts, seeing this, hesitated and backed away from the woman.
The woman, barely shaking off the Demon Beasts that had clung to her legs, trembled violently and burrowed into my arms.
“Huff. Sob, sob! Waaah!”
Blood streamed from the woman’s leg—she’d been bitten by a Demon Beast.
My stomach churned.
Seeing her blood-soaked leg, I felt the trauma rising up.
I pushed the woman away and said.
“Run! Now!”
The woman had one thing certain about her—her will to survive and the drive to act on it.
With legs turned to rags, she sprang to her feet and fled quickly through the passage I’d entered from.
I immediately pushed myself up.
The Giant Spider Beast stared at me with an unsettling gaze.
Everyone in the space who could still move freely rushed after the Woman with Child.
“Please, Hunter, help us.”
“Don’t leave us behind.”
A Man with Family nearby and the Woman with Child pleaded with me desperately.
Those trapped by the sticky webbing the Demon Beasts had spun stared at me with anxious eyes, unable to escape.
This tiresome treatment as a Hunter.
At this point, I found myself wishing I’d just awakened as a real Hunter and gotten it over with.
‘It’s coming.’
I selected a favorited item from the Market windows I’d layered across my vision.
Physical Shield 2 seconds (30C)
Whoosh—
The Giant Spider Beast sprayed sticky webbing directly at me.
The pure white webbing from the massive creature descended in thick layers over the hastily activated Physical Shield.
As the shield vanished, the webbing hardened, becoming viscous and slowly sagging downward.
Someone shouted loudly.
“Be careful!”
Combat in any conventional sense was naturally impossible with these legs.
When selecting weapons from the Market, the most critical considerations were whether the blade could pierce the hard carapace of insectoid Demon Beasts and the effective range.
Fortunately, the Market’s weapons were relatively cheaper than Hunter skills.
Many could be used permanently after paying Coins, but since I didn’t mind limited usage time, I selected the best-looking option under 900 Coins.
【10% Rental Discount Active】 Archangel’s Great Spear 10 minutes (1000->900C)
Description: A great anti-demon spear once wielded by an Archangel of the Celestial Realm during war. The blade portion is composed of diamond, and the spear shaft is forged from Orichalcum of the Celestial Realm, optimized for amplifying energy. All combat energy used is amplified by a minimum of 3x or more. After the war ended, it was released for rental, but complete purchase is impossible, and the rental duration is short, making it unpopular. Maximum rental time per session is 10 minutes.
‘This is it.’
Too long to read it all, but the diamond blade was enough for me.
After completing the payment, the spear appeared precisely in my hands without needing to check how to receive it.
The moment I grasped the spear and stepped back, the massive maw crushed through the webbing.
Crunch!
Thick, sharp tentacles that seemed intent on sucking bodily fluids thrashed inside the now-empty webbing before freezing.
The instant our eyes met, I lunged forward and drove the spear through its head.
Squelch—
Kiiieeeek—?!
The Demon Beast shrieked and raised its head, and my body was suddenly yanked upward.
Though it thrashed its head violently, the deeply embedded spear and my formidable Stage 3 strength easily supported my body weight.
My body swayed in the empty air.
Every muscle in my body tensed, and cold sweat beaded on my palms.
“Ugh!”
One slip meant death.
In the brief moment when the raised head of the Demon Beast stopped thrashing, I gripped the embedded spear with one hand and quickly purchased another item.
Having played the Game so much, my familiarity with the controls proved to be a godsend.
I completed the purchase and application in a single moment, pre-touching the location of the confirmation button that would appear during use.
Hardened Fist 15 seconds (300C)
When I activated the item, my fist blazed with crimson energy, burning fiercely—utterly unlike the centipede Demon Beast whose fist had glowed with a subtle luminescence.
I struck the creature’s eye.
Kwaa—ang!
My amplified fist didn’t merely shatter the compound eye; it completely obliterated the creature’s hard skull and punched clean through.
The Giant Spider Beast, which had been charging toward something, staggered and crashed its head into the cave wall.
Crash—!
“?!”
When I looked back at the impact against my head and back, I saw the cave wall.
Someone below was screaming as if I were the one injured, and my already aching head throbbed even more intensely.
My fist, which had been driven deep into the creature’s skull, pulled free.
“Ugh!”
I grasped the spear with both hands and shoved it deeper into the Demon Beast’s head with all my strength.
The creature’s movements, which had been slowing like a wound-down toy, grew even more sluggish.
‘This bastard’s brain is crushed.’
I was lucky.
The brain had been located inside the compound eye I’d struck first.
Like insects whose heads are severed, the colossal Demon Beast convulsed for a long while even with its mangled skull, before finally losing strength and slowly collapsing.
As the tension drained away, my body grew progressively weaker.
“Huff, huff….”
They said the Gate didn’t contain only insectoid Demon Beasts, yet I had to run into these filthy, repulsive creatures.
Both my hands were completely soaked in centipede and spider ichor.
When I’d struck my head against the cave wall, my shoulders and back had collided as well, and various parts of my body throbbed and burned.
Now I could see blood flowing.
When I tried to buy a 50-Coin fatigue recovery potion, I had exactly 20 Coins remaining.
Purchase impossible.
Though my Coins had been drained brutally, considering I’d nearly died the moment I regained consciousness, it didn’t feel entirely wasteful—a price for my life.
The foul stench emanating from the Demon Beast’s shattered head assaulted my nostrils.
‘…What happened to my brain?’
Whether from a concussion, my stomach churned and my vision swam.
Looking down, I saw small Demon Beasts swarming below, having noticed the death of the massive mother creature directly beneath me.
If I descended, they would tear me apart.
I crouched low, gasping for breath, clutching the spear that would soon vanish.
My head and body ached throughout, and my t-shirt and sweatpants were drenched in sweat and filthy spider ichor.
Blood trickled down the back of my neck, as if the back of my head had split open.
I didn’t know what I looked like, but judging by the expressions on people’s faces—as if they might weep—I must have appeared quite battered.
‘Damn it. When the hell are those Hunter bastards coming….’
Pay up, you bastards.
I finally succumbed to the encroaching dizziness and collapsed entirely onto the dead Demon Beast’s head.
The world spun in dizzying circles.
Even as pain radiated through my body and my head throbbed with vertigo, I found myself oddly amused—a delirious laugh bubbling up unbidden.
‘I’m kind of impressive.’
I’d eliminated a Demon Beast without even awakening as a Hunter.
The spear I’d purchased from the Coin Market and my overwhelming physical strength had allowed me to fight while minimizing strain on my injured leg.
‘…But am I seeing things?’
Something was on the ceiling.
From the faintly visible, writhing lines, black smoke drifted down—triggering a strange sense of déjà vu.
I recalled the black pixels I’d seen when I caught the centipede earlier.
‘And that smell…’
Beneath the stench of spider viscera, another odor pierced my nostrils.
A burnt smell.
From the Central Deepest Cave where this colossal spider seemed to have emerged, an acrid odor was seeping out.
Then.
Urgent voices and footsteps echoed from somewhere.
“This way!”
“H-hurry! Quickly!”
“He just collapsed! He’s on top of that enormous Demon Beast!”
“Damn. What do we do.”
“Hunter, please don’t die.”
The survivors I’d eliminated the Demon Beast for were now fussing over me with concern.
It was oddly touching.
Following the cacophony of previously silent survivors, a familiar voice resonated sharply through the cave.
“Joo Hyun-soo!”
It was an absurdly sudden entrance, but thinking about it, it wasn’t entirely unexpected.
Baek Hee-an was a Hunter, after all.
I caught a glimpse of Hwang Beom-young as well.
I wondered why he was here, but since we lived in the same neighborhood, Hwang Beom-young’s House wasn’t far from this location.
‘Damn bastards. They got here fast. Anyone could’ve shown up.’
As Baek Hee-an lifted me and carried me out of the Gate, I heard Hwang Beom-young muttering behind us.
“Even if it’s just a D-Rank Gate, he beat the boss monster bare-handed alone? He’s definitely a Hunter. I’m the idiot for believing otherwise.”
So it really was a boss monster.
“Ugh.”
Think whatever you want.
I was so dizzy and in so much pain that I wished I’d lost consciousness, but I remained stubbornly aware.
The smaller Demon Beasts had fled deeper into the cave and were no longer visible, while Hunters who’d just arrived continued pouring into the Gate.
“The internal structure seems strange…”
“Why are the magic stones like this…?”
“After confirmation…”
They were chattering about something, but I couldn’t hear them clearly.
The relief of being alive washed over me, and with it came a tidal wave of belated worries.
‘My apartment…. The deposit….’
As the tension drained from my body, thoughts of money flooded in, and exhaustion crashed down like a wave. I lost consciousness and fell asleep during the ambulance ride.

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