The Only Enhancer - Chapter 195

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Episode 195
195 – The Reinforce Guild Grows! (3)
Though Ma Hyun-seok had claimed victory, his condition told a different story entirely.
Mik’s fists had carved deep gouges into his flesh, melting skin away, and severe burns marked numerous sections of his body.
He had managed to block what could have been fatal blows, but the shallow wounds were far from trivial—and they refused to heal easily.
Even pouring out his ultimate healing skill couldn’t accelerate the recovery, leaving the guild members in a panic. Yet Ma Hyun-seok paid it little mind, his gaze fixed on the fading form of Mik.
Unlike the pure joy that typically remained after a hard-won victory, this time his expression was tinged with bitterness as he looked down at Mik, who spoke to him in turn.
“That was a good fight.”
With those words, Mik vanished, leaving behind only items, magic stones, and an Orb of Evolution. Ma Hyun-seok exhaled deeply, finally settling down to receive healing from his guild members, his eyes closing.
After a moment, believing the bleeding had stopped, he took a breath and rose to his feet.
Seeing Ma Hyun-seok move as though ready to leave immediately, the other guild members cried out in alarm.
“W-wait, Team Leader!!! W-where are you trying to go!??”
“Your wounds haven’t fully healed yet!!!”
“Please, just calm down!!!”
Though they all spoke urgently, Ma Hyun-seok replied to them.
“It’s not over yet.”
If Hik—whom the executives were facing—was in the same state as Mik, the situation could be dangerous.
Most of the executives had reached level 7, but one could never be too careful.
Adding a tank would certainly help.
Yet faced with Ma Hyun-seok’s stubbornness, the guild members all began desperately trying to dissuade him, their faces etched with worry.
In his current tattered state, Ma Hyun-seok could genuinely die if he went out there.
No one was unaware of Team 2’s leader’s sense of responsibility. But that didn’t mean he should push himself beyond his limits.
Who among them didn’t treasure their comrades? That’s why they were trying to stop him.
“Please! Don’t be stubborn! Many of the other executives have also reached level 7 like you!”
“You going could actually become a liability!”
“Rest! Please! We’re all fine! Let us go instead!”
“Please rest!!! If you keep this up, something terrible will happen!!!”
The guild members all stepped forward trying to stop Ma Hyun-seok, but their efforts fell short.
Just as they thought all was lost and despair clouded their vision, someone appeared from the sky and spoke to Ma Hyun-seok.
“Everyone’s telling you to rest—wouldn’t that be wise?”
At the sound of that gentle, composed voice, everyone lifted their heads. There stood their leader, Guild Master Min-jun, descending slowly as he looked down upon them.
Seeing Min-jun, Ma Hyun-seok finally seemed relieved and collapsed onto the ground with a heavy thud.
Observing his exhausted, drained state, it was clear Ma Hyun-seok had indeed pushed himself to his absolute limit.
Seeing this, Min-jun chuckled knowingly.
Conversely, the guild members could only regard Ma Hyun-seok with eyes full of respect.
How could they not admire someone who, despite being driven to his very limits, had immediately wanted to rush to aid the executives?
Min-jun spoke to Ma Hyun-seok in a reassuring tone.
“They’re handling things well over there too. No casualties. You can rest easy.”
“Heh, figured as much, so I’m just sitting here resting? Stop nagging me, heh.”
“Hmm? Where did that person who was nagging me constantly go?”
“Ugh. I’m telling you, I can’t explain it.”
As Ma Hyun-seok groaned at Min-jun’s words as if his head ached, Min-jun chuckled and simultaneously combined healing with the characteristic mana of healing, martial arts, and magic.
Adding a skill on top of that made the effect unmistakable.
Though not perfect, he achieved over 90% healing, and watching the wounds close almost entirely, Ma Hyun-seok expressed his gratitude.
Meanwhile, the fact that Min-jun had given his all yet could only manage this much healing made everyone swallow hard, clearly unnerved.
At this level, it seemed stopping bleeding was barely possible.
While everyone was processing this, Ma Hyun-seok asked.
“Looks like you won as well.”
“Ha, did you think I’d lose?”
“…That’s not what I meant, is it?”
“Well, I know, but it’s not over. There’s still more.”
“…Phew, how much is left?”
At Min-jun’s words, Ma Hyun-seok asked as if he’d already sensed roughly how much remained.
It seemed he’d grasped intuitively that not much was left.
Min-jun scratched his cheek while pondering for a moment.
From seeing Mik die and Decan fall, he’d gotten a rough sense of it.
The lingering traces of spatial magic allowed him to discern where Ursula was hiding.
Roughly a ten-day journey from here—a distance Min-jun could halve with his movement, reaching her location in five days.
And by Min-jun’s bold prediction.
“It’ll happen within five days.”
Ursula wouldn’t wait any longer; she’d come sooner rather than later.
And Min-jun spoke.
“I’m going to kill her no matter what.”
At those words from Min-jun, Ma Hyun-seok and all the guild members felt a chill.
Everyone trembled, barely able to breathe, sensing Min-jun’s true wrath—something none had ever witnessed before.
Even though his killing intent wasn’t directed at them.
1.
At the point when Ma Hyun-seok and Mik separated, with only Hik and the executives remaining, everyone tensed and stared at Hik.
Those staying here were tanks Isabella, Mary, and Bella. Dealers Jung Ji-hwan, Kim Woo-jin, Evan, and Natalia. Healers and support were Andrew, Gwen, and Henry.
Ten executives in total stared at Hik, all tense, though only Gwen and Bella maintained composed expressions.
Hik, observing them, tilted her head slightly as if displeased.
Her gaze fixed on none other than Bella.
She clearly sensed the aura of a monster similar to her own kind, yet it wasn’t precisely a monster’s aura.
It felt chaotically mixed, one might say.
The base appeared to be monster flesh and energy, but within it dwelled the power of fairies, the strength of humans, and the power of the system all intertwined.
Frowning at this chaotic amalgamation, Gwen issued a command upon observing Bella.
“Bella, combat form.”
As Hik tilted her head in confusion at that distinctive drawling voice and pronunciation, Bella’s true form burst forth from that place.
The scorpion’s exoskeleton dyed a deep blue, wrapping her entire body like armor. Her lower body transformed into a horse’s hindquarters like a centaur, one of her hands morphed into a spear, and her head became a dragon’s helm as if swallowed by a dragon.
The combined power of Bella in this form was in no way inferior to Hik’s.
Judging purely by the aura he emanated, this creature was unmistakably comparable to a Calamity Level 8 being.
While his rank itself warranted classification as Calamity Level 7, his presence rivaled even that of Level 8 calamities.
Should he cross even the slightest threshold, he would inevitably ascend to Calamity Level 8.
Witnessing this, Hik’s expression twisted into a scowl.
So such a creature existed.
Infuriated by the sensation of this mongrel-like wretch toying with monsters of his own caliber, Hik concentrated his mana to unleash a torrent of spells in frenzied succession.
In that moment, someone’s eyes gleamed as they observed those magical formations.
“Ah! Exactly as the Guild Master instructed!”
With cold sweat streaming down his face, Evan wielded his newly awakened Grand Mage skills with absolute conviction—Dispel, a technique capable of nullifying any magic he could comprehend.
With this power, he obliterated more than half of Hik’s spells.
As over seventy percent of the magical barrage vanished, Hik regarded Evan with the gaze one reserves for monsters.
He had suspected the man possessed magical expertise, yet he could never have imagined such proficiency.
Hik unleashed spells he believed Evan could not decipher, but Bella raised a grotesque shield lined with teeth that devoured magic, swallowing every assault whole.
-You mongrel bastard!!!!!
Hik gnashed his teeth in indignation.
Though subordinate to Decan, Hik harbored supremacist inclinations that made his fury inevitable. Had Bella not been present, the battle might have proceeded with restraint, but the revulsion welling up at her—a being tainted by multiple conflicting powers—shattered his composure.
Moreover, the fact that his magic had been neutralized not once but twice weighed heavily upon him.
As he lost reason and began to cry out, a colossal dragon forged from lightning materialized before him, its maw gaping wide. Hik recoiled in shock, hastily weaving defensive spells into the air.
Yet even as Evan, drenched in cold sweat, unleashed Dispel to its fullest extent, Hik could not defend completely and found his shoulder savagely bitten by the lightning dragon.
-Aaaaaaahhhhh!
Clutching his agonized shoulder, Hik vanished through spatial displacement, reappearing in midair as he prepared to cast—when a sinister, chilling presence erupted from behind. He spun around with reflexive speed.
There stood a woman with disheveled black hair, her eyes and mouth stitched shut, releasing a bone-chilling laugh—”Kehehehe!”—as she tenderly caressed a doll bearing Hik’s likeness, stroking it with utmost affection.
The moment Hik, a creature born from the Deep Sea, laid eyes upon her, he perceived it.
An extraordinarily potent transcendent curse.
No matter how formidable Hik might be, exposure to a transcendent curse would leave him defenseless.
He immediately attempted to break free from the curse, but it was already too late.
As Hik tried to flee, the woman with wild hair tore open her stitched eyes, blood tears streaming down her face as she released a horrific shriek.
Kiiiiieeeeeeeeeee!
The threads sealing her mouth snapped apart with sickening tears, vile black blood dripping as she tore out the doll’s throat.
Simultaneously, an identical wound manifested upon Hik’s neck, and he vomited blood.
-Gack! Aaaahhhhh!
His throat nearly torn asunder, he managed to erect defensive magic at the last instant, preventing complete severance.
Evan, unable to identify the defensive spell, mercifully could not dispel it.
Hik ground his teeth at the sight of these wretches and attempted to cast again, but the woman with wavy black hair materialized before him, her dagger flashing. He twisted his body, taking the slash across his shoulder rather than his throat.
As his shoulder tore ragged with a sickening sound, Hik reached his limit and moved to unfurl a colossal magical formation.
Yet Evan somehow detected it and dispelled it instantly. Woo-jin appeared, his crimson claws flashing with lethal speed as he raked across Hik’s chest.
Torn as though savaged by a beast, Hik shrieked and thrashed desperately, but the matchup was hopelessly unfavorable.
Before Hik’s eyes, a bomb materialized, and Andrew, witnessing it, detonated the charge.
Booooooooom!
Amid the deafening explosion, Hik’s hair singed and wild, he glared at them and screamed.
-I’ll slaughter every last one of you!

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