The Only Enhancer - Chapter 107

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Episode 107
107 – The Deep Sea Witch (1)
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Throughout the entire world, there had never been a Tier 7 item until now.
Yet Min-jun had created that non-existent item for the first time.
The first Tier 7 item—the Fragment of Seven Stars.
After that, once Min-jun ascended to Level 7 and crafted new items, there were eight in total, including the Fragment of Seven Stars.
One was a staff that froze the entire waters before Le Havre—the Essence of Frozen Crystal—and paired daggers called Hydra’s Fang, a spear like a beam of light called the Radiant Lance, the crystallized thunder Heavens’ Bow, the sword that occupies space called Fortress, a colossal maul named the Heart of Stars, and finally, the only accessory, the Ring of Trust.
I wanted to craft more, but with this crisis unfolding, I had no choice but to rush here.
Still, I believed this was sufficient for now.
Gripping Fortress, the sword bearing an unsuitable name, I hurled myself toward Jerot.
A sharp slash.
Jerot’s arm was severed in an instant.
Had he not dodged swiftly to the side, his head would have been taken.
Jerot felt it and unleashed his power to retreat further, but it was insufficient.
Another sharp slash!
‘He’s cutting through my attacks!?’
Damn it.
Jerot swallowed hard and ground his teeth.
Certainly, at first, his overwhelming combat experience had suppressed Min-jun.
But now the situation was completely reversed.
Min-jun’s stance grew increasingly stable, and by now—
Before swinging the blade, his elbows and shoulders aligned perfectly as he wielded his arm like a whip, simultaneously twisting his waist, torso, and shoulders.
A sword strike imbued with the formidable power of rotation.
This was no blade one could simply evade.
‘Damn it!’
That flexible arm, bending like a whip, and the terrifying rotational force contained within it made the speed even faster.
And when that speed reached its apex—
A sharp slash!
Blood sprayed from Jerot’s chest, leaving a long crimson line.
I’m dying. I must escape somehow.
But at this rate, death is certain.
‘I’ll scatter my cells, abandon this body, and regenerate through my cells to escape.’
I didn’t consider it humiliating or miserable.
Monsters didn’t lack pride entirely, but now I had to convey this fact to my mother.
In that moment—
From behind, I felt an indescribable presence from the Abyss gazing down at me.
As I felt that profound emptiness, as if my very soul were being sucked into those depths, a voice reached my ears.
-Watch more carefully.
At that voice, like a death sentence, Jerot’s entire body turned deathly pale.
My purpose is no longer escape and survival.
Only one thing remains.
I must show my master—my mother—more information about that creature.
This singular resolve consumed me entirely.
By abandoning survival.
My options multiplied.
I detonate all my life force.
I gather even the life force of my future into one place and scatter it across my body.
Crack! Snap! Sizzle!
Every muscle and scale throughout my body screams with a horrific sound.
Blood vessels bulge and excessive regenerative power spreads across my entire form, revealing a grotesque appearance.
Where moments ago I had resembled human form more closely, now the head of a conger eel and ash-gray scales sprouting across my entire body.
An existence between monster and human.
Min-jun tilted his head as he observed this.
Certainly, Min-jun could now sense Jerot’s aura as well.
Min-jun was one who could distinguish and differentiate between auras.
Yet watching Jerot suddenly burn through all his life force, Min-jun could not comprehend it.
‘What is that?’
An aura far too alien and eerie to be Jerot’s own.
Even Min-jun felt a chill, though it was not quite fear.
It was more of a simple displeasure.
Because of this, Min-jun observed Jerot more carefully.
It seemed.
‘This creature is not the boss after all.’
At first, I thought the monsters had attacked in revenge.
But that did not appear to be the case.
If so, I would need to interrogate this creature.
As Min-jun thought this and looked at Jerot.
Jerot, now taking the form of what could be called a conger eel hybrid, moved with utmost speed to rush toward Min-jun.
Devastating velocity.
Even within this realm where all the world had slowed, it was a transcendent speed.
Even Jerot could barely control it.
‘This should work on him too!’
After exhausting all this power, I will turn to ash and disappear, but that is fine.
If I can leave a meaningful wound on that creature, is that not worthwhile?
The creature rushing toward Min-jun attempted to bite and tear with a fist grown as massive as Min-jun’s body, transforming it into the conger eel’s maw.
But Min-jun simply swung his sword lightly at the creature’s conger eel fist.
Unlike the bending arm, the blade swung with rigid grace, charging forward in a straight line.
Because the trajectory was clear, Jerot quickly perceived it and condensed and reinforced his scales near the blade’s intended destination.
‘With this, I will not be cut!’
Even if it were Vader, my attack would land sufficiently.
Believing so, the moment I extended my strike.
Min-jun’s blade sliced through the scales that had condensed and hardened into a fortress without any resistance.
Shhhhh.
Jerot’s fist was severed as lightly as if cutting through a leaf, and in that instant, he felt a chill and tried to retreat.
His transcendent perception allowed him to sense it all and attempt to pull back.
But.
Only Min-jun moved in that interval.
Recovering his blade after slicing downward through the fist, he spun his body and added another rotation, swinging the sword again.
The sword’s target was Jerot’s abdomen.
He tried to evade by any means, but unlike his transcendent perception, his body wouldn’t move.
Why?
‘Ah.’
His body was slower than his perception.
Then why.
‘How is that bastard able to move?’
Min-jun, completely free within the transcendent perception, moved and sliced through the abdomen.
Clang.
Blood erupted as Jerot coughed up blood.
He tried to regenerate but couldn’t move.
This place was cursed by time.
A realm where the entire world moved slowly.
And what Jerot was experiencing now was an even more transcendent world beyond that realm.
He couldn’t even dare to touch Min-jun who existed there.
Min-jun moved again and swung his blade.
Crunch.
Watching the fragmenting sword strike, Jerot turned his gaze toward Min-jun while coughing blood.
Could he defeat that monster?
He couldn’t even imagine it.
Just as Jerot was about to close his eyes.
Fwoooooooosh!
Something like black ink erupted from Jerot’s heart.
Something that pierced through and burst out of the heart.
The moment Min-jun discovered something bursting from the heart, he retreated backward.
Using Blink, that speed was incomprehensibly fast, and as considerable distance formed between him and what burst from the heart.
Only then could he see what it was.
“A woman?”
The ink that looked like a black silhouette took form, and that form smiled brightly as it looked at Min-jun.
As the form of a woman burst from his heart, Jerot made only pathetic sounds like a puppet on strings.
When Min-jun uttered those words, the woman’s form smiled bewitchingly and spoke.
-So you recognize me.
“Hmm, and it can speak.”
-The human on the other side was dull as a stone. But you, boy, you’re different.
“But can you normally manifest like this?”
-Since it’s my energy, I suppose it’s possible.
“That means….”
-Yes, this child is one I created.
At the woman’s words, Min-jun’s expression grew grave.
Which meant.
‘At minimum, a Disaster Level 7.’
A monster with transcendent power.
Unable to even imagine such a thing, Min-jun swallowed hard.
But he wasn’t worried.
Because that creature couldn’t appear here immediately.
For some reason, I could be certain of it.
It was merely intuition, but the intuition of someone with power like mine was reliable.
It was bound to be quite accurate.
-I can hear the sound of your thoughts from here.
“Hmm, talkative for a monster.”
-Hehehehe, and you humans dare wield such excessive power. A human bearing their strength.
“….”
Min-jun didn’t ask hastily or react.
He simply remained silent.
-Seeing you stay quiet, I’ve struck a nerve. Boy.
“…So what do you want?”
-I’d tear you apart and kill you this instant, you descendant of theirs, but we haven’t fully recovered our power either.
At the seductive voice, Min-jun rapidly assembled the information.
Their power?
Descendant?
There weren’t many possibilities that came to mind.
But there was something I could infer.
That voice that emerged when I used Seven Strengthening before.
It didn’t appear when I used Seven Strengthening again, but I could definitely sense it.
How could I forget that being, like a fairy.
If this monster was referring to that one.
Perhaps I could extract more information.
Having reached this conclusion, Min-jun looked at her and smirked.
“I’m not sure why you think I’m a descendant.”
-What did you say?
“Why don’t you figure that out yourself?”
-Wait, you’re saying they’re still alive!? Them!? No! That can’t be! In that war, surely—
Min-jun simply gazed at the woman without reacting to whatever she was saying.
The woman narrowed her eyes as she looked at him and spoke.
-Today ends here, but don’t let your guard down. Someday I’ll tear you to shreds.
“Just know that when that time comes, I won’t be alone.”
-…Don’t think we’ll hide forever. The Deep Sea, the Underground, the Heavens will come for you….
Unable to finish those words, Jerot’s strength crumbled, and his body scattered like ash, leaving behind a Rank 6 item and an Evolution Orb.
Min-jun collected both and placed them in his inventory.
That made three innate Rank 6 items obtained this way.
The Evolution Orbs were the same.
But because he’d learned information far more valuable than such things, Min-jun couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
A war between monsters?
And on top of that, the existence of fairies appearing during some unknown enhancement—their identity still a mystery.
This was getting far too complicated for his head.
But it was fine.
‘I’ll unravel it slowly.’
And he wasn’t alone in this anymore.
Besides, from what that Deep Sea Witch was saying—
‘It seems the Association Chairman is fighting quite well.’
Giving him the Rank 7 item before he left was definitely the right call.
Especially that massive war hammer that suited Ma Hyun-seok perfectly—the Star’s Core.
The moment he obtained it, Ma Hyun-seok’s combat power increased by at least fifty percent or more, no exaggeration.
A tank, yet stronger than any dealer could ever be.
And sure enough.
Min-jun received a call.
It was Ma Hyun-seok, the former Association Chairman.
“Yes, Chairman.”
-Ahem, well, now that I’m stepping down from the Association, I was thinking you might call me by a different title.
“Hmm, but I can’t exactly call you grandfather, can I?”
-Ugh, anyway, I’ve caught the bastard.
“Oh! Well done. So did a Rank 6 item drop?”
-No… literally speaking.
“Pardon?”
Min-jun asked in confusion, and Ma Hyun-seok carefully explained further.
-I succeeded in capturing him alive.
“Ohhhhh!”
This was turning out to be a much bigger haul than he’d anticipated.
Min-jun smiled at the thought and nodded to himself.
“Then I’ll head there right away.”
An opportunity to obtain the information he’d been missing had finally arrived.

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