The Only Enhancer - Chapter 136

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Chapter 136
136 – Blood Golem (2)
2.
Blood Golem.
A magnificent relic of the great war, bearing the epithet of the Crimson Legion.
When that horrifying legacy awakened on Earth, Baya, who had been an Underground monster, naturally expected to struggle.
In terms of level alone, it was a formidable force that could be classified as Disaster Level 8.5.
That was why Baya had once believed she needed to awaken the Blood Golem to defeat Min-jun before her own sealing.
But look now.
The Blood Golem flailing to escape from that massive crater bore no dignity, no grandeur whatsoever.
It was merely a wounded beast thrashing about for survival.
Even its formidable strength and body were nothing but a stone before the meteors falling from the sky.
One arm crumbling away, its entire form half-melted into a grotesque shape.
Normally, one would need to attack with an item of Grade 8 or higher to bypass its protective barrier, but since the barrier had already collapsed and its body was disintegrating, any attack would now connect.
Min-jun hadn’t entrusted this to the executives for nothing.
Boom! Bang!
Whoosh! Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
The eight executives of the Reinforce Guild, firing as they sprinted across the ground, exchanged glances with one another.
Though they had never coordinated their movements before, given their overwhelming ability stats, such synchronization was unnecessary.
Andrew, who possessed the lowest ability stat among them, had a rating of 11.
It was Ma Hyun-seok who closed in on the creature first.
“Hhhhhaaaaaah!”
Drawing in a deep breath, he gripped his weapon—an iron mace—and swung it with tremendous force.
Crash!
He struck the Blood Golem, a creature over a hundred times larger than himself.
The Blood Golem was sent flying into the air by the impact.
A scene that defied comprehension merely by witnessing it.
The size disparity wasn’t merely relative; it was absurd for a creature less than a hundredth of its mass to send it airborne.
-Guuuaaaagh.
Even the Blood Golem, unable to comprehend what had happened, burst from the Lava Crater and tumbled across the ground.
Crash!
The sheer physical force was staggering—the terrain itself shifted merely from the Blood Golem falling.
It was all the more bewildering because the Blood Golem had previously commanded red giants from behind, directing ranged attacks—it had never fought directly like this.
Now there were no red giants to serve as its limbs; it had to fight itself.
Realizing this, the Blood Golem immediately attempted to rise its massive body.
Though countless eyes across its melting form had already closed, did it wish to signal that it still remained intact?
As it raised its body and lifted its remaining right arm, the eyes on its palm—not yet closed—snapped open.
Blood droplets formed on the eyes of its palm, and as they turned crimson, Gwen, standing at a distance, detected the change and reacted.
Gwen gathered her surging mana and swung her staff.
A transcendent ice spell unfolded.
Crack! Crack! Crack-crack-crack!
With a single swing, ice wrapped around my entire arm, freezing the Blood Golem’s right arm solid.
Was it because the arm, heated by lava, froze so suddenly?
The frozen arm rapidly thawed and split apart with a sharp cracking sound.
Indeed, its right arm fractured quickly, deep cracks spreading across the surface.
The next attack followed immediately.
Sizzle-sizzle-sizzle-sizzle!
The moment the frozen layer transformed entirely into steam.
Through that vapor, a blue dragon emerged with gaping jaws, savagely tearing into the creature’s arm.
Crunch-crunch-crunch!
Though the dragon was considerably smaller than the Blood Golem’s limb—resembling a small serpent’s bite—its destructive power was anything but diminished.
Rather, the cracks deepened as it gnawed relentlessly.
The crimson light faded from the eyes embedded in the reddened palm.
Before the Blood Golem could even register its shock.
Though distance still separated them, Andrew retrieved something from his subspace as if such obstacles were irrelevant.
Click. Whirrrrr!
Rapid assembly sounds and interlocking mechanisms rang out as the device attached to Andrew’s arm.
A machine resembling a hand cannon.
A mana gun—conceived by Min-jun, refined with Baya’s technical expertise, and constructed by Andrew.
Andrew, true to his unique characteristic, channeled his own mana into the mana gun and fired.
Whirrrrrrr!
The metallic whine of rapid rotation echoed as the mana gun discharged Andrew’s mana-infused projectile.
It tore through space, appearing before the Blood Golem in an instant, and then.
Boom!
The impact was powerful enough to shake that colossal frame.
While inferior to Ma Hyun-seok’s attacks, for Andrew—a mere Level 5 compared to Ma Hyun-seok’s Level 7—it was formidable.
The power was considerable thanks to Min-jun’s enhancement applied after the magitech construction.
“Wow!”
Using it for the first time in this battle, Andrew himself marveled at the result.
He’d known its pre-enhancement performance, but the strengthened version performed dramatically differently.
At this level, it was more than adequate as a weapon replacement.
The Blood Golem, struck directly by the mana gun, unleashed a ferocious roar.
-Grrrraaaaahhh!
That mana-formed voice resonated through the atmosphere, spreading vibrations far and wide.
The ground trembled at the screech, yet all the executives endured without flinching.
Moreover.
A shadow-like figure suddenly materialized behind the Blood Golem.
The shadow drew a short blade and swung the shadowy dagger.
Slash!
-Krraaahhh!
The Blood Golem shrieked in agony.
A long gash remained across the back of its neck.
For such a massive creature to bear such a wound, the power and range of that attack were beyond my comprehension.
The shadow lingered for a moment before retreating back into darkness, and as it emerged from the rear, the shadow dissipated to reveal Isabella.
“Hahhhhh.”
She exhaled deeply, recovering from the recoil of her attack.
After enhancing her characteristic, her power had become extraordinary.
Just as the Blood Golem prepared to unleash crimson rays from its eyes toward Isabella, who had retreated—
Something small, wreathed in crimson energy, rushed toward the Blood Golem at incredible speed.
Not small because the Blood Golem was massive, but genuinely tiny in form.
It was Kim Woo-jin.
Woo-jin had enveloped his entire body in his own energy.
That was the characteristic mana of a Berserker.
Without anyone teaching him, he wielded the manic energy like an extension of himself, unfurling the claws Min-jun had given him and struck the Blood Golem with maximum force.
Craaaaaash!
The claws on both hands raked across the Blood Golem like a beast’s talons, and though it hastily blocked with its arms, perhaps because it was already so heavily fractured—
A massive chunk of its arm was torn away.
It looked less like a clean cut from a blade and more like something had been savagely ripped and shredded.
-Kyuuuuaaaaaagh!
The Blood Golem roared in pain unlike any before, and Jung Ji-hwan moved in response.
Whether he had crafted it beforehand or it was part of a skill, a doll that looked identical to the Blood Golem was now in Jung Ji-hwan’s hand.
He hurled the doll skyward, and as it fell back down, he drew his sword and slashed it.
Slice.
The doll’s chest split open in a long gash.
At that same moment, black mist erupted before the Blood Golem, violet light flashed, and something immense carved a wound across its chest.
Sliiiiiiiiice!
-!!!!!!!!
The Blood Golem, struck by an attack far more powerful than any before, couldn’t even scream.
Yet Jung Ji-hwan had also expended considerable energy, for he dropped to one knee where he stood, trembling.
He gasped for breath, drained of strength.
“Hah… hah…”
Jung Ji-hwan, who never showed weakness, looked all the more dire now, but Henry moved toward him.
Grasping his staff, he amplified his mana and cast a skill on Ji-hwan.
“Light’s Circulation.”
An incredible blessing that restored vitality, vigor, and all mental fortitude.
Jung Ji-hwan, who had looked ready to collapse, rose to his feet.
It was an absurd blessing ability, yet no one remarked on it as we pressed the battle.
Just as the Blood Golem prepared to unleash indiscriminate attacks on the officers tormenting it—
Ma Hyun-seok, our tank, stepped forward and drove his warhammer into the ground, causing a massive steel wall to erupt from beneath.
Booooom!
Crash, crash, crash, crash!
A steel wall erupted from the ground in an instant, completely blocking the Blood Golem’s crimson radar before sinking back underground.
Ma Hyun-seok, who had nullified the attack, rushed forward again and struck the creature’s head.
A tremendous sonic boom echoed through the air.
Boom―――――!
-Graaah.
Unable to maintain focus as the world spun violently around it, the Blood Golem had no choice but to collapse, and the executives unleashed a barrage of attacks upon the fallen creature.
They wielded transcendent and ultimate skills without restraint, pounding the creature relentlessly, and though it wasn’t catastrophically damaged, I could see the Blood Golem gradually weakening.
Naturally, the most powerful attacks came from Ma Hyun-seok, who possessed the highest level.
However, the difference between him and the others wasn’t that significant.
In particular, Mary and Gwen’s attacks came right behind Ma Hyun-seok’s.
As a tank, even with a higher level, his damage output inevitably fell short of the dealers’.
Since Gwen had the second-highest level, her mana and various enhancements made her damage potent enough to follow closely behind Ma Hyun-seok.
What was truly remarkable was that Mary dealt damage comparable to both Gwen and Ma Hyun-seok.
Even equipped with tier 7 gear, she was only level 5. Matching the output of Ma Hyun-seok at level 7 and Gwen at level 6 with enhanced characteristics and a unique trait was simply absurd.
Though to be fair, Gwen wasn’t a combat class either, so such a thing was possible.
3.
Min-jun watched the executives’ battle with a satisfied smile.
If asked whether I expected them to perform this well, I would shake my head.
‘I never imagined they’d be this strong.’
After all, I had already heard from the Fairy Elder about what unique traits entailed.
So I had anticipated it to some degree, but not to this extent.
If they’re already this powerful now, what would happen if all the executives received characteristic enhancement?
I couldn’t even begin to imagine it.
‘If I enhance everyone, things will get crazy.’
Well, of course.
After all, unique traits were treated as nobility even in the Fairy World.
And characteristic enhancement was a blessing.
A blessing that only the Fairy King could bestow, one that strengthened innate qualities.
In other words, enhancement was the blessing itself.
‘The Fairy Elder said that originally, fairies only had tank, damage dealer, and healer traits, just like humans.’
Those who received the blessing underwent a coming-of-age ceremony.
Once the ceremony was complete, they were recognized as adults of the Fairy Kingdom.
Fairies with special qualities beyond tank, damage dealer, and healer were among the nobility of the Fairy World.
Since this system was modeled directly after fairy society,
unique traits were essentially equivalent to nobility in the Fairy World.
They had no choice but to be strong.
And indeed, look at how they were toying with a disaster-level 8.5 Blood Golem.
Watching the Blood Golem on the verge of collapse, I spoke quietly to Baya.
“Shall we begin the underground invasion then?”
-I shall serve you with utmost devotion!

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