The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 210

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Chapter 210
Chapter 210
Upon receiving my instructions, Kang Ju-hyuk desperately crawled up the White Aquatic Deity’s tongue.
The method wasn’t particularly difficult.
He simply needed to drive his claws into the tongue and climb up methodically, as if scaling a cliff face.
Of course, once he reached the top, the ceiling and tongue were pressed so tightly together that it became rather awkward.
“Haaaagh!”
Kang Ju-hyuk unhesitatingly squeezed his body between the ceiling and tongue.
Carving through the spongy tongue with his claws, he finally reached his destination.
Thunk!
“Hah!”
He drove his claws directly into the heart.
Immediately, the tongue convulsed in agony, and using that moment, he descended and entered the throat.
“Wow, there are monsters here too? And why do these things look so grotesque?”
The moment he entered the throat, parasitic creatures greeted him.
Fortunately, all the parasites were vulnerable to bleeding attacks from his claws, so he dispatched them with ease.
Then, encountering a fork in the path, he ventured down one route on impulse.
“Lagia?”
“Vice Guild Master!”
I found a guild member.
It appeared she was in the midst of battling monsters to destroy the heart positioned at the end of the passage.
“I’ll handle it!”
“Thank you so much, Vice Guild Master!”
With that, Kang Ju-hyuk rushed forward and finished off the monsters.
Indeed, Kang Ju-hyuk.
Though overshadowed by me and lacking presence, he too was one of the champions of the Second Crown.
The moment he identified that the parasites’ weaknesses were bleeding and status ailments including fire attribute and poison, he systematically exploited those vulnerabilities.
Fortunately, the matchup favored him, so Kang Ju-hyuk swiftly cleared the parasites blocking the path.
Thunk!
He even pierced through the White Aquatic Deity’s heart.
“What about the others?”
“The Guild Master said he would distribute personnel at each fork in the path! After that, I’m not entirely sure….”
“I see? Then let’s go check!”
The moment they completed their task, Kang Ju-hyuk and Lagia moved toward the next passage.
Whether by good fortune or bad.
Kang Ju-hyuk miraculously found not the path where I was, but the passage where I had sent guild members.
“Here I come!”
“Vice Guild Master!”
Kang Ju-hyuk rushed forward and helped assault the heart.
Thanks to him, momentum built up and the heart’s destruction progressed rapidly.
And finally, the last stretch.
Entering the final passage, Kang Ju-hyuk gathered all the Guild members together.
“Wow, what is all this?”
“It wasn’t supposed to be this many originally, but they suddenly increased in numbers! If the Vice Guild Master hadn’t come, we would have been in real danger!”
An unexpected situation had arisen.
I had assumed that this level of dungeon could be cleared by the Guild members I’d designated to send here.
I was wrong.
The number of monsters appearing within the Interior of White Aquatic Deity far exceeded what I remembered, and they were stronger too.
Especially since this was the final heart, all the parasites within the body were converging here.
“Wow, this is getting pretty serious?”
“What should we do? Shouldn’t we contact the Guild Master?”
The number of parasites was overwhelming.
Even though the Black Flame Guild members were strong, this was problematic.
Normally, the right call would be to retreat for now.
But.
“No, I bet Mir is probably facing an enemy far stronger and more difficult than this right now.”
“Then how…”
“What do you mean how? We have to do this ourselves.”
That couldn’t be right.
Mir wasn’t the type to give meaningless orders.
Mir must have devised this operation under the premise that the Guild members could destroy the heart here.
If we retreat now, Mir’s entire plan will fall apart.
So no matter what, we have to complete this mission right here.
“Fortunately, I restocked all our consumables before coming here. Mir even helped me prepare them.”
Kang Ju-hyuk pulled out the consumables.
The consumables Mir had matched and prepared for us.
With these, we can do it.
Especially since those parasites seem weak to status ailments like poison and bleeding, making it even more possible.
“Alright, from now on, let’s bring down those creatures as fast as possible and destroy the heart!”
“Yes, Vice Guild Master!”
Boom!
The moment Kang Ju-hyuk threw the consumables and a poisonous mist spread out.
The Black Flame Guild members charged forward to destroy the heart of the White Aquatic Deity.
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The parasitic swarm guarding the true heart of the White Aquatic Deity.
The weapon I drew to face them was.
[ Blood-Starved Spear, Ruin ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form : Spear
Grade : Legendary
Restriction: Level 500 or higher, Spear Mastery Lv 50 or above
Description: The legendary spear of the hero Kelthar, which must be stored in water because it constantly spews flames.
It was Ruin.
True to its nature as a fire-attribute weapon, the moment I drew it from my subspace, cyan flames flickered along the spearhead.
And this was no ordinary fire.
Poison fire.
A weapon that possessed the properties of poison despite being fire itself.
Since both fire and poison were effective attributes against that parasite, there was no more suitable weapon to face it.
Whoooosh!
The swarm hurled its tentacles indiscriminately.
Or could I even call them tentacles?
After all, the swarm itself was composed of countless parasites, and it was those parasites being launched at me.
Well, I could slash through all of them if needed.
“But I don’t have time for that.”
– Activating skill ‘Black Serpent Shadow Dance’.
Time was of the essence.
The ships could only restrain the White Aquatic Deity for so long, so I had to burst its heart as quickly as possible.
So instead of slashing through each parasite one by one, I evaded using Black Serpent Shadow Dance.
Of course.
Splash—
I couldn’t dodge every attack.
Even though Black Serpent Shadow Dance was a hidden skill I learned from the Hunter Master, it wasn’t the ultimate movement ability.
It was simply difficult to evade everything.
So the minor attacks, I.
[ Gruesome War Armor ]
[ Gruesome War Helmet ]
[ Gruesome War Boots ]
….
Blocked them all with my Unique-grade defensive set.
The parasite’s attacks inflicted various status ailments like weakening and bleeding, but its raw physical damage wasn’t particularly high.
With proper armor, I could withstand a few hits.
I approached the swarm while using Black Serpent Shadow Dance to evade only the critical strikes.
“Screeeech—!”
The swarm deployed parasites and sprayed acidic liquid to block my approach, employing every trick at its disposal.
But ignoring all those attacks, I drew closer to the swarm.
– Activating skill ‘Black Insect Flash’.
I thrust Ruin forward with all my strength.
Squelch!
Of course, I didn’t strike randomly.
The center of the swarm that I had observed when defeating it during my First playthrough.
I drove my spear toward what I presumed to be its weak point.
Even so, having faced this creature only once in First, my strike wouldn’t be perfect, but it didn’t matter.
– Using the unique skill of ‘Blood-Starved Demon Spear, Ruin’: ‘Spear of Fire and Poison’.
Even if I didn’t strike with perfect accuracy, Ruin’s unique skill would resolve the problem.
Crackle!
Toxic flames erupted from the tip of Ruin’s spear.
Poison and fire.
Two entirely different forces merged into one, burning the swarm while simultaneously poisoning it.
And one more on top of that.
– Using 3-Circle fire magic ‘Fire Burst’.
Boom!
I detonated the magic with an Arcane Blade from the spear’s tip.
“Screeeeeeeeee-!!”
“Shrieeeeeek-.”
“Hisssssss-.”
The swarm could no longer maintain its form and began to disperse.
Not that it mattered.
Once they scattered, their bodies were already burning while poisoned.
After quickly disposing of them, I headed toward the true heart of the White Aquatic Deity.
The barrier was nearly completely dissolved.
Just one more layer needed to be peeled away.
Before I could even worry about whether the Guild members might fail or be delayed.
Whoosh.
The heart membrane of the White Aquatic Deity completely shed away.
Evidence that Kang Ju-hyuk and the Guild members had succeeded in their mission.
Thump!
The White Aquatic Deity’s heart beat even more violently.
With the barrier that protected it gone and an intruder standing before it, had it grown afraid?
It didn’t matter either way.
The conclusion was already predetermined.
[ Using Black Flame Transformation. ]
[ Borrowing the power of ‘Black Flame Dragon, Luknir Desperato Ignockton’. ]
My body merged with Luke, enveloped in black flames.
Thanks to acquiring Luke’s fangs and horns, the black flames grew deeper in hue, and fangs and horns forged from black flame materialized upon me.
Along with it came a sense of overwhelming power.
In that state, I drew forth the weapon capable of dealing the greatest damage to the White Aquatic Deity’s heart.
[ Heart Breaker, Ridil ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Dagger
Grade: Mythic
Restrictions: Level 1,000 or higher, Sword Mastery Lv 100 or higher, Agility 4,000 or higher
Description: A short sword said to have been used by the hero Sigurd when he slew the legendary evil dragon Fafnir and extracted its heart.
Ridill.
Its effect was to inflict tremendous additional damage when attacking an enemy’s ‘heart’.
With such a colossal heart right before me, there was no weapon more effective than Ridill.
Reaching directly in front of the White Aquatic Deity’s heart, I
– activated the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
Slash!
I immediately severed the heart.
A Mythic-grade weapon with a level 1,000 restriction that dealt additional damage to hearts.
The damage that struck was astronomical.
Thump!
Yet the heart still beat.
Because the White Aquatic Deity’s health was so immense, the heart’s health was equally staggering.
Rumble!
The ground shook violently.
No—beyond mere shaking, it tilted left, then right, repeatedly.
Rumble rumble rumble!
It began tilting completely vertical.
‘Did I miss?’
Likely, the ropes and chains had all snapped under the White Aquatic Deity’s thrashing.
Freed from its restraints, the White Aquatic Deity had immediately plunged into the sea.
But instead of falling, I drove Ridill into the fleshy wall to anchor myself.
Since Ridill’s duration was expiring and it was becoming inactive, I used the embedded blade as a foothold.
Whoosh!
I leaped toward the heart once more.
Then.
[ Ominous Great Sword, Iduz ]
– activated the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
Slashed.
[ Ruinous Demon Sword, Egeking ]
– activated the skill ‘Black Serpent Swimming Shadow’.
Pierced.
[ El Cid’s Sword, Colada ]
– activated the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
Slashed again.
Until the heart’s health was completely depleted.
Meanwhile, I could see seawater rising from far below.
If the White Aquatic Deity succeeded in diving to the Deep Sea at this rate, its health would rapidly regenerate due to its nature.
From this point on, it was a race against time.
Would the White Aquatic Deity reach the Deep Sea first?
Or would my blade shatter its heart before then?
With that thought in mind,
I slashed through the water.
I continued to wield my weapon relentlessly.
“Uuuuoooooooo—!!”
Then, a cry—whether a shriek of agony or a threat—reached my ears from the White Aquatic Deity.

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