The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 442

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Chapter 442
Chapter 442
Already weakened by a critical blow, I was ambushed and struck at a vital point.
It was only natural that any class without exceptional stamina would collapse under such circumstances.
Thud.
The opponent fell without ceremony.
Witnessing this.
“Cain!”
“Damn it, what happened!”
“I told you to just harass them!”
“Cain’s revenge…!”
The opposing team erupted in shouts.
The others prepared for combat, anticipating their approach.
But the opposing team’s leader, regaining composure belatedly, cried out to his teammates.
“Ignore them and head toward the center of the Island!”
“But, Leader! Cain was taken down!”
“We started this anyway. Besides, what do we gain by rushing the Korea Team right now?”
“But….”
“A little interference is fine, but if we attack recklessly, this becomes a fight to the death. If we lose even one more member here, we have absolutely no chance of winning this match.”
Groan.
“We’ll take our revenge later. Thanks to hunting that hidden named monster, we’ve accumulated quite a few points. Even with four of us, if we work hard, there’s still a chance.”
“Ugh, understood!”
They ignored us and fled toward the interior of the Island.
I thought we might lose time here, but fortunately we avoided the worst-case scenario.
Still, they might return and disrupt the formation, so.
“Yul-ha, I ask that you remain here and protect the formation.”
“Will you be alright alone?”
“It will suffice.”
With that said, I picked up the Eight Trigrams Sword again.
– Using skill ‘Concealment’.
I activated the Concealment skill.
With this, enemies would have difficulty detecting me.
Yul-ha protecting the formation would be more than enough.
Whoosh!
Of course, variables continued to emerge even after that.
The formation needed to be circular, but the Coastline curved inward, and a massive monster blocked the path.
But I couldn’t abandon the strategy.
– Using 4-circle earth magic ‘Sand Bridge’.
I used magic to fill the shallow waters with sand, then drew the formation across it.
Being merely a temporary measure, the sand would be washed away as time passed, but we only needed to endure for the two hours the game would last.
– I activate the skill ‘Crimson Wildclaws’.
“Kwaack—.”
I eliminate any monsters blocking the path.
The same applies to monsters in the surrounding area where I need to inscribe the formation.
Even if the formation merely appears as a mark left by the Eight Trigrams Sword, it won’t be easily erased since it contains the profound mysteries of the Eight Trigrams.
But monsters could potentially cause unforeseen complications, and other competitors hunting monsters might disturb the formation.
So that’s how it goes.
Slash!
I continue inscribing the formation.
Waiting for Tae-ryeon to appear, rushing from the opposite direction.
* * *
At that same moment.
Tae-ryeon’s situation was hardly different from Mir’s.
The path where she needed to inscribe the formation was a mess, monsters appeared, she encountered other competitors—nothing but variables.
But Mir hadn’t paired Tae-ryeon and Jeok-hwa together for nothing.
“Jeok-hwa, boulder!”
“Kyahahaha! That’s nothing!”
Boom!
Jeok-hwa shatters the boulder blocking the path with a single punch.
“Screech!”
The monster blocking the path is crushed beneath Jeok-hwa’s kick.
“Wait, hold on! We didn’t intend to fight—!”
“Kyahahaha!”
“Ugh!”
The players blocking the path are obliterated by Jeok-hwa’s ferocity.
Jeok-hwa clears the way ahead of Tae-ryeon with almost excessive enthusiasm.
Thanks to this, Tae-ryeon can focus on inscribing the formation while moving forward.
‘I can’t believe this strategy was actually adopted.’
In fact, it was Tae-ryeon, not Mir, who had proposed this strategy.
Her secret technique, the Taegeuk Formation, could be deployed in abbreviated form with reduced scale depending on circumstances, or expanded across a large area given sufficient time and effort.
She had proposed this strategy by leveraging that characteristic.
As it happened, this strategy suited the terrain and objectives of this match perfectly, so it was adopted.
However, Tae-ryeon couldn’t help but feel anxious.
‘The island is larger than I expected.’
Monster Island.
Its scale exceeds what I estimated from observing the hologram.
Of course, even so, I should be able to complete the formation within the time limit.
‘But I’ve never created a Taegeuk Formation this massive before….’
The anticipated size of the Taegeuk Formation had grown far too large.
No matter how powerful a sorcerer she was, no matter how countless times she had used the Taegeuk Formation.
I had never used the Taegeuk Formation at such a massive scale before.
The skill description contained no size restrictions, so theoretically it should be possible.
Still, I couldn’t help but feel apprehensive about this in many ways.
First of all.
‘Will it even function properly?’
That was my primary concern.
While the skill description imposed no particular limitations.
Wasn’t the scale simply too enormous?
Thanks to the skill’s assistance, the formation’s geometry was being drawn flawlessly, but I worried whether it would truly activate as intended.
Encompassing an entire island within the Taegeuk Formation’s range.
Honestly, it was an absurd notion.
‘Mana is also a problem.’
The larger the Taegeuk Formation, the more astronomical the mana consumption becomes.
She had switched from mana to Dao Force, and now wielded Immortal Force instead, making her efficiency extraordinarily superior.
But even that wasn’t enough to sustain a formation of island-scale proportions.
Even if Mir possessed abundant mana, it would be the same.
Two ordinary humans couldn’t possibly manage the mana required.
Yet Mir insisted he had a solution and told me to leave it to him, so I proceeded with the operation as planned.
Truthfully, there were many other problems besides this.
‘He said he’d resolve everything, so….’
Mir had spoken.
To trust him.
Such words would be dismissed as fraud from anyone else, but this was Mir we were talking about.
Considering everything Mir had demonstrated thus far, no matter how preposterous his claims sounded, I had no choice but to believe him.
As I continued running.
“Mir!”
I spotted Mir approaching rapidly from the distance.
For some reason, Yul-ha was nowhere to be seen, but that wasn’t the pressing concern right now.
She could draw the formation as expansively as needed while maintaining perfect geometry thanks to the Taegeuk Formation skill’s correction.
But Mir wouldn’t have that advantage.
If Mir made even the slightest error, our two circles wouldn’t connect.
Yet such worries proved entirely unfounded.
Click!
Our two formations connected flawlessly.
But that wasn’t the end.
While the perfect geometry symbolizing power and circulation was the most crucial aspect of the Taegeuk Formation.
Even more critical than that was the center of the circle.
Without the caster—myself—standing at the formation’s center, activating the Taegeuk Formation would be impossible.
And in that moment.
Whoooosh!
Far in the distance.
Sacred light erupted from the center of Monster Island.
The moment I witnessed it.
“Is everyone ready?”
Tae-ryeon unfurled her fan wide and chanted an incantation.
“Thousand-League Shrinking Earth.”
A sorcerer’s incantation version of the teleportation the Sage uses, one might say.
Originally, her distance-shrinking technique could only move herself, but now that she had become a sorcerer, her technique had evolved.
Whoosh!
It became possible to transport herself and those nearby simultaneously.
Thanks to that, not only Tae-ryeon but Mir and Jeok-hwa were transported to where the light had erupted.
What appeared immediately after the transfer was.
“Haha, you’ve arrived. I hope I haven’t kept you waiting.”
“You’ve timed it perfectly.”
Million.
His role was precisely to reach the center of the formation.
In other words, to travel to the center of the island.
Unlike me and Tae-ryeon, he was a Paladin, so he had just arrived at the island’s center and could use his skill to send us a signal.
Even with Tae-ryeon’s “Thousand-League Shrinking Earth,” there were limitations—you had to have visited the location before or have a party member there—so I had sent Million ahead to this place.
Upon arriving at the island’s center like this.
“ROOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHH!!”
An enormously massive monster came into view.
Its identity was none other than.
“As expected, there’s a boss monster at the center of the island.”
The boss monster of Monster Island.
A monster called “Mountain Grizzly.”
Just as the word “Mountain” in its name suggested, a bear boasting a size as vast as a mountain itself.
Mountain Grizzly.
“I didn’t expect it still hadn’t been defeated.”
More than an hour had already passed since the match began.
No, the two-hour game limit was nearly up.
Yet the boss monster still hadn’t been defeated.
Perhaps the teams had started attacking the boss too late, or Mountain Grizzly was far more powerful than anticipated.
It had to be one or the other.
“Then, shall we begin? Mir.”
“Yes.”
However, I had no time to watch the Mountain Grizzly’s defeat unfold.
The island was larger than expected, and I had spent considerable time drawing the formation.
If I didn’t deploy the Taegeuk formation immediately, I couldn’t earn any points.
So.
Whoosh!
Tae-ryeon unfurled her fan with a flourish and began to earnestly activate the Taegeuk formation.
Beside her.
[ Thousand-Year Fox Spirit Fan ]
( Non-tradeable )
Type: Shield
Grade: Mythic
Requirement: Level 1,000 or higher, Taoism Lv 100 or higher
Description: A fan in which the soul of a thousand-year Nine-tailed Fox is sealed. From its nine fan ribs flows the spiritual power of the Nine-tailed Fox’s tails.
I too held a fan in my grasp.
A fan with a 1,000-level restriction, imbued with the Nine-tailed Fox’s power.
With this fan in hand, I leaned against Tae-ryeon’s back, mirroring her movements with perfect precision, as though I were her reflection.
And so.
Shiiiiing!
In the distance.
Light began to flow from the formation that Tae-ryeon and I had drawn along the outer perimeter of Monster Island.
Spiritual force flowed into the magical formation, drawing in mana through that power, then converting the mana back into spiritual force.
Certainly a remarkable feat, but this was merely the beginning.
Now I had to truly pour in the mana.
Or rather, the spiritual force.
However.
“Good heavens…!”
The rate at which spiritual force was being consumed was staggering.
Tae-ryeon’s spiritual force drained away as though the bottom had fallen out of a vessel.
At this rate, in less than ten seconds her spiritual force would be completely depleted, and the Taegeuk formation, unable to be fully charged, would fail to activate.
I had no idea how much mana I possessed, but even so, there was no way the Taegeuk formation could activate at this rate.
Then.
[ Red Eternal Crystal ]
I drew out a crimson crystal in my other hand.
Immediately.
Huuuuuum!
An enormous quantity of mana flowed forth from the crimson crystal.
The mana was converted into spiritual power through the Thousand-Year Fox Spirit Fan I held.
This in turn was transformed into spiritual force by Tae-ryeon’s power and sucked into the Taegeuk formation.
An immense volume of mana.
Even Tae-ryeon was startled by the sheer quantity, but there was no time for astonishment now.
She urgently converted the mana I provided into spiritual force, striving to activate the Taegeuk formation.
And so, from the massive circular formation emerged curved patterns, beginning to form the Taegeuk symbol across all of Monster Island.
Thus, the moment her Taegeuk formation was finally completed.
“Eight Trigrams Taegeuk Formation.”
From her lips came the Sage’s greatest secret technique.
The name of the Eight Trigrams Taegeuk Formation flowed forth.
Whoooosh!
Above Monster Island, the pattern of the Eight Trigrams Taegeuk, resembling the Taegeuk flag, began to manifest.

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