The Only Enhancer - Chapter 150

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Episode 150
150 – Hunting, Not War (3)
2.
Combat in the heavens.
Min-jun’s battle against two winged Elders of the Sky Realm—though calling it a battle was far too generous, for it was utterly one-sided.
Helmaes and Burnia barely lasted less than ten minutes against Min-jun.
Against the Elders, the final bastion of their strength, and facing two of them simultaneously, he overwhelmed them both in under ten minutes.
Burnia had already crumbled to dust and vanished.
Only Helmaes remained, surveying himself.
His two arms, once impenetrable as iron walls, had long since been severed and no longer regenerated.
Blood spilled from his lips as Helmaes gazed down at his abdomen.
He who had been called the Wall of the Sky Realm now hung there impaled through the belly, utterly helpless.
-…*cough*.
Humiliation. He had never felt such profound shame in all his existence.
Even during the Great War, he had never experienced such degradation, and though he glared at Min-jun with eyes burning with resentment, his vision soon darkened.
“Farewell.”
Upon hearing Min-jun’s final words, he crumbled to dust and scattered away.
All that remained were Spheres of Evolution, equipment, and magical stones.
Though he had obtained Innate Tier 8 equipment, Min-jun collected them with casual indifference.
Of course, a message rang out announcing his first Disaster Level 8 monster defeated, but he set it aside to review later.
The Blood Golem, being an artificial lifeform rather than a true monster, had produced no such message.
Regardless, Min-jun dismissed such thoughts and gazed upon the Sky Holy Ground bursting apart before him.
The Reinforce Guild members gathered together, waging war.
Watching them, Min-jun felt a quiet satisfaction.
He had wondered if deaths might occur in such a conflict, but thanks to Henry and the other healers moving about diligently and casting their skills, there were wounded but no casualties.
Even some ordinary guild members were fighting Disaster Level 6 monsters.
In groups of five, they were more than holding their own against a single Disaster Level 6 creature.
In fact, it would be fair to say they were overwhelming them.
They were handily defeating Disaster Level 6 monsters—creatures that even great powers dared not approach, let alone Disaster Level 5.
The very beasts that had annihilated an entire city in England.
‘I’ve trained them well.’
Truthfully, there had been various opinions at first.
Some had questioned whether Min-jun even needed a guild.
They weren’t entirely wrong.
He didn’t need one.
But the guild wasn’t created for him.
He wanted them to be capable of stopping disasters even without him, and so he had built it.
The ultimate strike force.
And this was the result.
“I’m pleased.”
-They are all magnificent warriors.
-Ehehehe! You speak the truth, sir!
Uldin and Baya spoke with flattery, yet their words rang true.
I never imagined humans, aside from Min-jun, could fight so formidably.
And among them, the executives were truly exceptional.
They overwhelmed Disaster Level 7 monsters in one-on-one combat.
Yes, this was the ultimate strike force Min-jun had always desired.
If all the Sky Realm’s monsters were to vanish like this.
“Now only one remains.”
Min-jun spoke those words with a cold, razor-sharp smile.
It was ironic that I faced the Deep Sea Faction last, despite encountering them first, but precisely because of this, I remained all the more vigilant.
Back then, I was not yet as strong as I am now.
Yet they still refrained from stepping forward for more thorough preparations.
In other words, they were wary of me to that extent.
Unlike the Underground and Sky Realm, who had underestimated me to some degree.
A cautious enemy is always the most difficult to defeat.
‘Then perhaps I should learn more about the Deep Sea Faction?’
With that thought, I watched the war unfold and questioned the slaves of the Sky Realm and Underground.
To tell me everything they knew.
3.
Crash!
A deafening explosion erupted as a winged Sky Warrior was hurled through the dust cloud, wiping blood from his face with a deeply furrowed brow.
With a human visage, his displeasure and shock were laid bare and grotesque to behold.
Ma Hyun-seok, wielding an enormous iron mace against him, shook his head with an unmoved expression.
Though the creature was a Disaster Level 7 monster, he gripped the mace as if it were no match for him.
Philhock, facing Ma Hyun-seok, spat out the blood pooling in his mouth as he beheld this brute of unparalleled strength.
-Ptui!
That senseless steel force was difficult even for me to pierce through.
Precisely because of this, I should have pursued him relentlessly with speed, yet even that proved impossible.
I had thought my speed held the advantage.
Was it Ma Hyun-seok’s exceptional dynamic vision? Or perhaps his overwhelming experience?
I could not break through.
Just as now.
Philhock moved swiftly, manipulating his wings in a spinning motion that cleaved the air, then flew with even greater speed—a velocity unlike any other Sky Warrior.
Among Disaster Level 7 monsters, he boasted exceptional speed, but as he attempted to dazzle Ma Hyun-seok with that velocity and strike immediately.
Screeeeeeeech―――――!
A discordant, colossal metallic shriek rang out.
His hardened right hand, fashioned like a beak, throbbed with pain.
That steel wall, forged from characteristic mana, was impenetrable even to Philhock, a Disaster Level 7 monster. It had caved in considerably, but that was all.
And the moment his attack was blocked, characteristic mana swiftly tangled and coiled around Philhock, seizing him with steel.
Steel of this caliber should have allowed escape, but Ma Hyun-seok was not one to sit idle with his thumb in his mouth all this time.
Crash!
—Cough!
The steel mallet struck his head directly, melting the steel as his body ricocheted backward.
Bouncing across the ground like a skipping stone, carving massive craters, he was hurled back before finally embedding himself in the earth.
Why does that damned mallet hurt so much every time?
Even Transcendence doesn’t work against it.
Because both that damned Ma Hyun-seok and that damned mallet he wielded were weapons of a human who had reached Transcendence. I was actually being pushed back.
Watching this, Philhock couldn’t help but furrow his brow in frustration.
I wanted help from the others.
But I couldn’t get it.
All the others were fighting on the brink of death as well.
So somehow, I had to overcome this myself.
With that thought, Philhock rose to his feet and roared out.
—I’ll kill you before I fall!
Boom!
The air shattered as Philhock moved with blinding speed.
Once again, he moved swiftly and extended his hand toward Ma Hyun-seok.
His dagger transformed into the shape of a powerful beak, becoming the head of a bird in both hands.
Seeing the creature approach rapidly, Ma Hyun-seok erected a wall of steel once more.
This time too, it aligned perfectly with Philhock’s trajectory.
He moved at a speed that transcended perception, yet somehow Ma Hyun-seok responded.
But this time would be different.
He forced himself to change direction with great effort, evading the steel wall.
Since Ma Hyun-seok’s power couldn’t surround his entire body with steel walls, if I avoided this one, I could land an attack.
But what was this?
Ma Hyun-seok stood facing me as if he had known all along.
And he swung his mallet toward the fist I extended.
Crash!
The moment they collided, all of Philhock’s buffs vanished.
It was one of the effects of the Heart of the Star that Ma Hyun-seok wielded.
With his remaining hand, he reached out again, attempting to pierce Ma Hyun-seok with his dagger.
At that moment, Ma Hyun-seok’s eyes blazed as he cried out.
“Heart of the Star.”
With that quiet shout, the mallet glowed crimson, and Ma Hyun-seok’s steel aura coiled around it, amplifying its power.
The mallet, now of immense weight, swung down and shattered Philhock’s dagger.
Clang!
As if that weren’t enough, it crushed my arm as it swung, and immediately I burst backward in pain, retreating swiftly.
I never imagined the buffs would be dispelled, nor did I expect him to use a Transcendence technique in that instant.
Since Philhock was also a Sky Warrior who had reached Transcendence, I moved quickly to evade the remaining attack.
But the Heart of the Star activated.
Thud―――boom!
Simultaneously, the mallet infused with the Heart of the Star seized him, and he couldn’t move.
And toward Philhock in that state, the mallet extended forward.
Glowing crimson and ready to pulverize everything—the Heart of the Star, not merely a mallet, surged toward him.
-No, this can’t be!
With searing heat and transcendent weight crushing down, the Heart of the Star—which obliterated only its target—spread across him, and with each heartbeat, his body crumbled to dust and vanished.
What remained were a Tier 6 item, an Orb of Evolution, and a Magic Stone.
I picked them up and let out a soft chuckle.
There was a time when I trembled at the mere sight of a Tier 6 item like this.
What’s more unsettling is how recently that was.
Chuckling softly, I muttered to myself.
“Far too simple.”
When I fought Lava Hunchback back then, at least there was some semblance of a fierce battle.
Somehow, despite this creature being stronger than Lava Hunchback, I felt nothing remarkable.
‘I’ve truly grown stronger.’
The fact that all of this was thanks to Min-jun left me honestly bewildered.
I couldn’t even fathom where his limits truly lay.
It was beyond imagination.
‘Next time, perhaps the executives gathered together could even take down a Disaster Level 8.’
With such thoughts, I moved to assist the other executives.
As I joined the fray, the situation quickly came under control.
It took less than two hours before not a single monster remained in the Sky Holy Ground.
4.
While the Sky Holy Ground was being swept clean.
Far away in the Mariana Trench located in the Pacific Ocean, among the gathered Deep Sea monsters—or more precisely, Ursula bit her lip and exhaled a long sigh.
-So they’ve been completely annihilated after all.
I told them their strength wasn’t enough.
They wouldn’t listen, and now look at this mess.
Honestly, I was so disgusted that hives broke out across my body, but I endured it regardless.
After all, only the Deep Sea faction remained.
In a way, this was fortunate.
Ever since I first saw Min-jun, gathering all the Deep Sea shamans and uniting them had proven decisive.
Even the Elders who once dismissed my words now trusted me.
And besides.
-‘It’s almost time now.’
Even I, promoted to Disaster Level 8, still had room for improvement.
But now it’s different.
Those fools are gone?
It no longer matters.
These were comrades who could no longer be produced—comrades enhanced by the Monster King.
Creations of the Monster King that could never be made or born again.
Yet now, everything had changed.
If this alone succeeded….
—We shall serve a new king.
Ursula gazed around with an alluring smile, observing the geometric patterns sprawling in all directions, their intricate interweaving forming a magic circle of staggering proportions.
—It is time to birth our king anew.
In that same moment, System Messages began flooding Ursula’s vision.
[Abnormal access detected.]
[Reinforcing protective barriers.]
[Barriers breached.]
[Fairy Elder’s essence forcibly extracted.]
[Fairy Prince’s essence forcibly extracted.]
The plan had succeeded.
The Fairy Prince’s benevolence is stolen from him.
The plan succeeded.

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