The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 183

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Chapter 183

Episode 183.

[Kyahahaha! You dodge around like a little rat! Let’s see how far you can run!]

‘Of course, what easy mode my ass!’

The thought that this would be easy completely vanished shortly after the battle began.

As expected of a raid, it boasted tremendous difficulty.

Everything about Luidra was beyond expectations from start to finish.

Ruler of nightmares and witch of dreams.

Just from the title, you’d expect a witch who uses dream-related magic, but her main specialty was none other than close combat.

Whoosh- Shuaak!

Every time she swung her massive scythe over 2 meters long, the air was torn apart and vicious rupturing sounds echoed.

Truly a single strike.

The moment you allowed even one direct hit, you’d definitely be cut in half – that was the power behind it.

Whoosh! Whung!

Shuaak- Shuak!

Such strikes poured down endlessly.

They came at impossible angles for human body structure, at ridiculous speeds.

The sight of this mad woman swinging while bursting into chilling laughter was spine-tingling.

Such Luidra used dream-related magic thoroughly only as support.

So was that magic just auxiliary skills?

Half right, half wrong.

[Hidden Raid Boss Luidra uses ‘Lucid Dream’.]

[Luidra’s senses become extremely sharp.]

[Hidden Raid Boss Luidra uses ‘Fairy’s Dream’.]

[Luidra’s body becomes lighter and all speeds increase.]

…

[Hidden Raid Boss Luidra uses ‘Butterfly Dream’.]

[The communion between Luidra and her weapon greatly increases. She reaches the realm of unity between self and object.]

All dream-related skills were buff-type skills that enhanced close combat abilities.

That wasn’t all.

[Due to the unique effect of Nightmare Marsh, all of Luidra’s stats increase while she’s here.]

Just by being here, she was receiving stat buff effects.

An already strong raid boss charging with all sorts of buffs was like a walking destruction tank.

Crackle-

‘Even using Lightning Dragon Descent isn’t easy.’

It was so destructive that even while fighting with Lightning Dragon Descent active, I was being pushed back in speed and strength.

I was barely fighting evenly through parrying and control, but in terms of pure specs, it wouldn’t be strange if I’d been crushed long ago.

‘At this point, isn’t she the Scythe Witch rather than the Dream Witch?’

I seriously suspected her title might be wrong.

Clicking his tongue, Dohyun pushed away the blade he was clashing against with maximum force.

Using that force to leap backward and create distance, his body bumped into a golem that made a “Guh?” sound while looking down.

Slash-!

-My lord, are you alright!

Charlie, who had cut down that golem, asked about his well-being while swinging his sword again.

Guhhh- Slash!

-They revive endlessly, these worthless creatures, I cannot tolerate them approaching my lord!

-Risa risa!

-My lord, leave this place to us! Heup!

Kwaang! Bang!

Heavy roars echoed as metal clashed against metal.

The sounds weren’t coming from just one place.

-Ueoook! Save me! Everyone surround me!

Tap tap… tap tap tap.

-Did you just shake your head? Want to do the duck walk again?

Tap? Tap tap.

-What? This guy is making excuses… Uak! Come to my side first!

Jihad fled from dozens of golems.

And Suffering and the undead surrounded and protected such Jihad.

Bang! Crack- Pop!

Guhhh- Guh!

Among them, Suffering particularly shone.

As if proving that driving Dohyun to the brink of death in the past wasn’t luck, he was engaging in spectacular close combat, breaking, twisting, and bursting the charging golems.

Tap tap tap!

Tap tap!

Suffering performing a one-against-many rampage, and the outlaw undead excellently covering Suffering’s blind spots.

The ghost soldiers overwhelmed the cowering golems with their momentum, while other undead swarmed them all at once, knocking them down and viciously stabbing weapons into them.

An almost obsessive determination to never let go of prey once caught.

-Nice shot!

On the opposite side from Jihad, who was enthusiastically cheering such undead, silver spider webs were being shot.

Pew pew-! Slash!

-Risa risa!

-Mm! Well done. Let’s match our timing again.

-Risa!

Charlie easily sliced through golems as Eliza spat webs to slow their movement.

While Jihad’s undead legion was positioned overall to block the golems, these two moved around like midfielders, coordinating to take down golems.

Thanks to that, within the small circle formed inside their ranks, there was no interference at all.

Swoosh.

That was the stage where Luidra and Dohyun were currently battling.

In the black and white battlefield with combat unfolding on all sides, the seductive woman with a scythe, Luidra, and Dohyun were fighting spiritedly – that was the current structure of the battlefield.

[The death golems that were sleeping in Nightmare Marsh are rising.]

Calling only one enemy into the room while summoning an entire legion herself – even if conscience exploded, it couldn’t explode like this.

-Oh, here we go again. Suffering, you can do it, right? If not, it’s 500 duck walks?

…Tap tap.

-Mm! Try to regain your strength. Just trust us, my lord!

-Risa risa!

No, leading a legion as befitting a raid boss was understandable.

But wasn’t it too much for that to be an immortal legion that revived no matter how many times they died?

Dohyun sighed at the continuous series of frantic repeated battles.

‘This place is also a mess.’

Naturally, he hadn’t expected much, but seeing how things were flowing, it seemed this time wouldn’t be easy either.

Far from easy, Dohyun’s side was actually at a disadvantage.

Unlike the legion of infinitely reviving enemies, this side had the limitation called mana.

[Luidra’s health is below 20%.]

[Phase 2 is activating.]

Moreover, while his own health had already dropped below 50%, hers was still at 20%.

Just looking at numbers, his was higher, but considering the amount lost, Dohyun’s was overwhelmingly more.

Unlike Dohyun who had lost half his health, she had only worn down a mere 10%.

The mana situation was similar.

[Remaining mana is below 50%.]

[Available uses of ‘Lightning Movement’: 1 time.]

All his skills consumed tremendous amounts of mana, so he had been gauging the timing to unleash his full power, but even just that had already consumed half of it.

Since it was a solo raid with no information available, he had briefly observed the patterns…

‘This should be enough.’

But that was now over.

He had learned that aside from her unique spatial authority and legion, she was a case that focused entirely on close combat.

He had already confirmed all the patterns.

There was no need to gauge any further.

“Now it’s my turn.”

As Dohyun muttered with a raised corner of his mouth, Luidra hesitated and frowned.

[…Laughing? Have you lost your mind, Apostle of Prophecy?]

“I can finally beat you to my heart’s content, so of course I’m laughing. Shouldn’t I be?”

[…Pratel’s fate is truly pitiful. To think their only hope, the Apostle of Prophecy, is such a weak being that he doesn’t even know he was being toyed with.]

To her words that seemed genuinely pitying and sarcastic, Dohyun responded by activating the skills he had been holding back.

[Using Sword Aura.]

[Using Striking.]

[Mana will be consumed per second.]

Sword Aura that increased the attack power and cutting ability of all swords, plus Striking that boosted physical attack power.

[Sword Aura is affected by Darkness Shroud and gains darkness attribute.]

[Additional effects of darkness attribute are applied.]

[Activating Ice Current.]

[Mana is consumed per second and lowers the temperature of air currents in a certain range.]

On top of that, Darkness Shroud and Ice Current that provided armor reduction effects and stealth.

Crackle-

[40 seconds remaining for Lightning Dragon Descent duration.]

With Lightning Dragon Descent also active, this was Dohyun’s full power.

His white hair fluttered as sparks flew around his body, the lowered temperature pierced coldly through his skin, and Heavenly Transformation surged with dark sword energy, emanating an ominous aura.

[You have quite many interesting tricks. It seems to exceed the scope of abilities one apostle should be able to use.]

“You’re not the only one.”

As soon as he deployed all buffs and saw his mana drastically drain, Dohyun immediately charged forward.

There was no time to waste exchanging words with her.

Jihad and Charlie, who were fighting the golems tooth and nail, already had their mana drop below 50%.

[Using Lightning Movement.]

Crackle-

Dohyun’s form disappeared as he became a streak of lightning.

[…!]

Sensing the electric current from behind, Luidra instinctively spun her body and swung her scythe.

Crash! Whoosh-

Sparks flew as sword and scythe collided.

Even with all those buffs, the sword was overpowered and deflected.

However, Dohyun used that force to spin his body like a top and delivered a back kick.

An irregular attack.

But despite being caught off guard, Luidra easily blocked it with the handle of her scythe.

Swish- Thud!

Then came the destructively descending scythe.

[Ice Current’s effect slows Luidra’s movement.]

[Target’s rank is high, resisting Ice Current.]

[Slightly slows movement.]

Dohyun didn’t bother resisting that force, instead flowing to the ground and diving inward.

Though it couldn’t give full effect, the slight slowdown from Ice Current made it easier to dive in.

Black thread was wrapped around Dohyun’s hand.

By the time he had rolled past Luidra’s chest to the opposite side, Luidra’s scythe and legs were already entangled in the black thread.

[Fuse – Thread attached.]

[Using Fuse – Explosion.]

—-!!

And then came the silent black explosion.

This was the fuse he had been saving for this moment.

[Urgh…!? What is this now!]

‘As expected, the first fuse always works.’

As he had felt when fighting Suffering, highly intelligent bosses were particularly flustered when first encountering this fuse thread.

Well, no matter how much combat experience a named boss accumulated, she was a hidden raid boss.

How often would she have encountered Dobong?

It was natural that she couldn’t imagine a fuse coming from the swordsman-based Dohyun.

Stagger-

The moment Luidra faltered from the unexpected blow.

Dohyun grinned and raised his sword high.

[Activating Fierce Strike Slash.]

[The sword is imbued with the energy of Fierce Strike.]

And so the sword strikes poured down.

First strike, second strike, third strike, fourth strike…

Luidra, beaten like a dog on a hot summer day, rolled on the ground.

[Kugh…!]

Each time the sword cut her, that strange energy pushed her backward, making it difficult to regain her collapsed posture.

Whoosh-!

Thanks to that, Luidra, who had allowed four attacks in an instant, finally came to her senses and swung her scythe, but…

Swish.

Dohyun stopped mid-approach, halting precisely at the distance where the scythe barely grazed in front of him, as if measured with a ruler.

This was one of Dohyun’s specialties – stop moving.

-How can you avoid getting hit and strike so definitively?

A question asked in an interview during his Demroc days.

Dohyun had answered like this back then.

That no matter what enemy it was, they would inevitably be in a defenseless state while swinging and missing.

Just dodge and attack during that moment.

Slash-!

Clang!

‘Just like now.’

Induce the enemy’s attack, dodge it, then land a counter.

That was Dohyun’s fighting style when facing enemies stronger than himself.

[Prolonged exposure to Ice Current causes Luidra to fall into frostbite status.]

[Target’s rank is high, resisting frostbite.]

[Afflicted with mild frostbite.]

It was already his confident field, but if it was an attack slowed by parts of the body stiffening from Ice Current, no words were needed.

He was confident he could succeed several more times, but there was no need.

Against intelligent humanoid types, it would only work once or twice at most.

‘Once is enough.’

And that one opportunity was more than sufficient.

Having grasped all the patterns, it was enough opportunity to pour out his full power.

“I told you, didn’t I? Now it’s my turn.”

[Ah…]

A man holding his sword high with the corners of his mouth curled up.

And before him, a raid boss kneeling in an awkward position.

[…Huh?]

By the time he thought their positions seemed to have somehow switched, the strange light dwelling in Dohyun’s sword had already been dyed an even more threatening color.

[Five Strike stack state.]

[The power of fierce strikes intensifies, increasing stun duration and knockback strength.]

[Damage is amplified.]

‘Should I give him a good beating with my club after such a long time?’

Taking a deep breath, Dohyun brought his sword crashing down.

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