The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 83

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 83

The footsteps of Jinseong’s group completely disappeared beyond the cave, and a strange wave rippled across the damp floor of the boss room where silence had settled.

The floor, covered with sticky grime, undulated like a black swamp, and from within it, the head of a man wearing a pitch-black hood slowly emerged.

He smoothly pulled his upper body from the floor as if he were liquid.

His face was hidden in darkness due to the deeply pulled hood, but the chilling aura he emanated was overwhelming in a completely different sense from the S-rank Hunters who had just left.

The unidentified being slowly approached the corpse of the poison toad that lay twisted and dead.

“…This is interesting.”

A mechanical voice that seemed distorted echoed softly against the cave walls.

He reached his hand between the torn circuits of the toad.

There, remnants of the purple mana that Yebichnna had injected still remained.

“To think you could unravel it like this.”

He pulled out a transparent special crystal container from his chest.

When he brought the container close to the corpse, the purple mana remaining inside the toad’s body and the mixed mana residue were sucked into the container as if drawn by a magnet.

Looking down at the gently pulsating crystal with satisfaction, he let out a short exclamation.

“They said it was a treasure that Gangjinseong had hidden away, but to think it would be this much. This isn’t just a simple enchant.”

After securing the container, he began to sink back into the floor.

As if no one had ever been there from the beginning, the shadow slipped away and melted into the darkness without leaving even a trace.

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The scenery outside the window was bizarre, as if foretelling the end of the world.

The pouring torrential rain had already erased the boundaries of the sidewalk, and occasional lightning flashed as it tore through the ashen sky.

At the heavy sound rumbling through the sky, I moistened my dry lips and asked.

“Seondonguk oppa, will they really… attack while Jinseong senior and the others have entered the Gate?”

Seondonguk oppa, who had taken a sip of tea, gazed at the rain streaks beyond his teacup. His usual gentle smile remained, but his eyes were sharply alert.

“I would do the same. For those targeting Yebichnna, right now this place is nothing more than an ’empty house.’ But don’t worry too much. We have the Safe House passive, and above all, South Korea’s shield enhanced by the contract buff is here.”

Oppa deliberately spoke playfully and made a comical expression.

His relaxed attitude put my mind somewhat at ease, but the howling wind outside sounded like a precursor to something about to explode.

We made bets about when Jinseong senior’s group might clear the Gate while watching the clock, and tried to ease the tension by imagining Sohee making a fuss while throwing her orb.

Then, my phone on the table briefly vibrated.

It was a text from Ean, who was in charge of transporting item materials to Sohee’s workshop.

[Due to weather deterioration, we decided to move earlier than scheduled. We’ll arrive in 15 minutes.]

“They’re arriving early because of the weather. They say it’ll take about 15 minutes.”

At my words, Seondonguk oppa’s eyes changed instantly.

His calm expression disappeared, and the chilling aura of the S-rank tank who supported South Korea filled the room.

Time passed and the item transport vehicle arrived. In other words, the moment when the store’s barrier was most vulnerable had come.

I had decided to stay inside the store as planned, but my heart was already pounding as if it would jump out of my mouth.

Soon the rough engine sound stopped, car doors opened, and people began getting out.

After confirming Ean’s face, Seondonguk oppa opened the heavily closed store door and stepped out into the rain.

I watched the outside situation through the window.

The guards began unloading security boxes one by one from the back of the truck.

The rain was so heavy that visibility was blurry, but I desperately hoped those boxes would safely enter the store.

However, misfortune always lived up to expectations.

Whiiiiik—!

A sudden sound of cutting through air tore through the rain.

What was pouring from the sky wasn’t just rainwater.

The raindrops instantly froze in mid-air, becoming thousands of ice arrows that poured down toward the store.

“Barrier!”

As soon as Seondonguk oppa shouted, a massive shield spread from his hands.

The pouring ice arrows shattered into pieces as they hit the golden shield.

But that was only the beginning.

A group of masked figures poured out from the darkness like shadows. And something unbelievable happened.

The guards escorting the transport vehicle and the driver suddenly drew weapons and rushed toward Seondonguk oppa.

“From the beginning…!”

Seondonguk oppa quickly looked back at Ean nearby, but he had already disappeared like smoke.

From the contact about arriving 15 minutes early, it had been a thoroughly prepared trap.

In the desperate moment surrounded by enemies, a smile appeared on Seondonguk oppa’s lips.

It was a composure that didn’t match the urgent situation.

“I was just curious about this. My skills weren’t showing properly in the training room.”

Seondonguk oppa stomped the ground hard.

Kwaang—!

With the shockwave, the rainwater on the ground exploded upward.

In the moment when the charging assassins lost their balance and staggered, a massive golden hammer materialized in oppa’s right hand.

Seondonguk oppa’s action was both precise and overwhelming.

He swung the heavy hammer as lightly as a feather.

Each time the hammer cut through the air, it left a golden trajectory, and the assassins touched by that trajectory flew several meters away without even screaming.

The mana bullets fired by the enemies were blocked by transparent shield fragments circling around oppa’s body and vanished futilely.

The power of the buff was truly tremendous.

Seondonguk oppa moved freely among dozens of assassins, overwhelming the enemies.

When he struck the ground with his hammer, the sidewalk blocks flipped over and shockwaves spread out, causing the assassins to fall like autumn leaves.

Gradually the number of assassins decreased, and just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief.

A figure who completely overturned the atmosphere slowly walked out from the darkness.

His face was hidden from view, but the moment I saw those heavy iron chains wrapped around both his wrists, my heart sank.

Jang Dohun. As expected, he was behind this incident.

“So you finally came out yourself.”

“It’s been a while, Seondonguk. Didn’t you miss your uncle?”

Seondonguk oppa struck down the charging small-fry assassins with his hammer and immediately extended his left palm toward Jang Dohun.

A spinning shield flew from there at the speed of light.

The shield instantly cut through the waists of two assassins blocking the way and rushed toward Jang Dohun’s neck.

However, Jang Dohun was no easy opponent either.

He lightly shook his wrist to swing the iron chain, and the weight at the end of the chain precisely struck the center of the shield, deflecting its trajectory.

“Too slow, Seondonguk!”

At Jang Dohun’s mockery, Seondonguk oppa gripped his hammer properly and charged straight ahead instead of answering.

Each time the heavy hammer and thick iron chain collided, sparks flew, and the aftermath made the windows of nearby buildings tremble.

That’s when it happened.

Jang Dohun’s iron chain, which had instantly extended its length, flew precisely toward the store door.

At the unexpected trajectory of attack, Seondonguk oppa looked toward me in panic, but.

Clang—!

The glass window bounced off the swiftly flying iron chain as if it were made of steel.

“…Oh ho, just as I heard.”

Seeing that Jang Dohun wasn’t surprised, he had known from the beginning that the Safe House skill was cast on the store.

‘How on earth…’

Seondonguk oppa rushed at Jang Dohun, who had momentarily let his guard down, swinging his hammer fiercely.

Jang Dohun was narrowly but completely dodging all of oppa’s attacks.

Perhaps because of this, a sense of ease appeared on Jang Dohun’s face.

But his composure didn’t last long.

“You seem to have forgotten, my main weapon is a shield, Jang Dohun.”

The shield that had flown far away was returning like a boomerang.

Just as Jang Dohun was focused on dodging the hammer, a shield that ambushed him from behind cut halfway through his waist, leaving a deep gash.

“Kugh…!”

Jang Dohun’s body collapsed as fresh blood mixed with the rainwater.

The moment Donguk oppa raised his hammer high, convinced he had seized victory, a thick smoke grenade exploded between the two of them.

“Where are you going!”

When Donguk oppa swung his hammer to clear his vision with the wind it created, Jang Dohun had already disappeared.

“…This is suspicious.”

Taking advantage of the moment when Jang Dohun disappeared, I opened the store door and shouted.

“Oppa! Come inside quickly!”

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