The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 71
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Chapter 71
The arrow pierced through the Poison Beetle’s chest precisely.
“Kieek!”
The Poison Beetle let out a scream and crashed to the ground.
Jung Hoon shot three more arrows at it to finish it off.
“What a disgustingly ugly thing.”
Anima climbed onto Jung Hoon’s shoulder and looked down at the Poison Beetle.
[You resist poison.]
[You are not poisoned.]
The Hundred Poison Immunity, which had risen to Epic grade, reacted.
No matter how powerful the Poison Beetle’s poison was, it was impossible to penetrate the hard-earned Hundred Poison Immunity.
“Not yet.”
Only one Poison Beetle had fallen.
The remaining 29 were flapping their wings frantically, trying to escape Namsan.
The poison gas they spread dispersed widely, instantly enveloping all of Namsan.
The trees and grass withered and twisted in an instant from that poison gas.
[The stronghold is being destroyed!]
[Damage: 0.025%]
The stronghold wasn’t just buildings, but the entire natural environment.
[The stronghold is being destroyed!]
[Damage: 0.028%]
As the poison gas spread wider, the stronghold’s damage was rapidly increasing.
“Cough…”
Meanwhile, Ha Jin had been poisoned and collapsed on the spot, gasping for breath.
“Hup!”
In contrast, Yeo Min Ji swung her fist through the air, casting Wind Fist.
For a 3rd tier skill, its performance wasn’t great, but it was sufficient for hunting Poison Beetles.
The shockwave from Wind Fist struck the Poison Beetle directly, and two more Poison Beetles fell.
Moreover, her body had been well-trained through completing her 4th class advancement, so she had no problem withstanding the Poison Beetles’ poison.
“Antidote! Drink it!”
Jung Hoon threw an antidote to Ha Jin and drew his bowstring.
He had to prevent those Poison Beetles from escaping Namsan.
“Kill them all!”
Anima grabbed Jung Hoon’s hair and shouted.
‘I get it, so shut up.’
Thanks to the skill, whatever Anima did would be corrected, but it was still annoying.
He aimed at a Poison Beetle and released the bowstring he had drawn.
Whooosh!
The arrow shot out and lodged precisely in the Poison Beetle’s torso.
Poison Beetles were fast but had ridiculously low defense.
That’s why they only had 6 vital spots.
Since he hit the torso, the Poison Beetle crashed straight to the ground.
Jung Hoon didn’t stop there and aimed at the next Poison Beetle, shooting another arrow.
“@!#!”
Each time an arrow was shot, a Poison Beetle would let out an incomprehensible scream and crash to the ground, and in the meantime, Yeo Min Ji also chased the flying Poison Beetles and brought them down with Wind Fist.
Ten minutes was enough to deal with them.
“Are you okay?!”
Only after the remaining 10 Poison Beetles were killed did Yeo Min Ji approach Ha Jin.
“Phew, I’m fine.”
Ha Jin detoxified the Poison Beetle’s poison with the antidote he received from Jung Hoon.
It must have been quite a good antidote, as an additional detoxification buff was granted.
“That buff lasts for an hour, so you’ll be fine.”
Jung Hoon also approached Ha Jin and checked his physical condition.
Since he drank the antidote immediately after being poisoned, his health had barely dropped.
At this level, he wouldn’t need to use Healing.
[The 2nd Monster Wave has ended.]
[Current stronghold damage: 0.042%]
As the 2nd Wave ended, the thick poison gas disappeared instantly.
“The users really can’t approach, can they?”
“Yes. He’s quite useful.”
“It seems so…”
Yeo Min Ji recalled what had just happened.
Right after the 1st Wave ended, Jung Hoon summoned the monster he had tamed.
And it was a monster that had a human form.
‘I learned Taming. This is a monster I made into my limbs with it.’
At his bombshell statement, Yeo Min Ji and Ha Jin couldn’t help but be shocked.
Especially Yeo Min Ji’s pupils were trembling like crazy.
Who would have thought that he, a Martial Artist, would even learn Taming.
Was it possible to deploy [Strong Will], which practically blocked the system from activating, so extensively?
Just how much potential did this person called Jung Hoon possess?
A thrill ran through her entire body.
‘Hello! My name is Michael.’
However, after the monster’s introduction, she couldn’t help but feel repulsed.
The summoned Michael looked at her with a sleazy expression and approached.
With his sleazy-looking face making a sleazy expression, her whole body cringed.
She felt like throwing a punch right away, but she couldn’t do that with Jung Hoon right beside her.
‘This is the first time I’ve seen someone so beautiful. Perhaps I’ve been alive all this time just to see you. If it’s alright with you, would you like to join me…’
‘If you don’t want to die, come back quietly.’
‘Yes!’
Fortunately, Jung Hoon cut him off in the middle.
After that, Michael received his orders and went downstairs to scout the surroundings, and before long, noisy sounds could be heard from outside.
And not long after, the noisy sounds gradually stopped.
Michael had chased away the users.
The reason was that while having many people would make monster subjugation easier, chaos would obviously break out as everyone fought to subjugate monsters.
“They’ll come again soon anyway. They’ll definitely break through then.”
The users participating from Seoul alone easily exceeded tens of thousands.
Surely there would be a truckload of users rushing to Namsan right now.
When that time came, it would be impossible to block them with just Michael.
‘I need to solidify my 1st place ranking before then.’
Jung Hoon had two reasons why he needed to take 1st place in this siege.
One was the Capsule.
And the other was Celestial Energy.
They were offering a whole 5% more, so he couldn’t give up 1st place.
‘If I roughly block up to the 3rd wave, 1st place will be a foregone conclusion.’
Jung Hoon knew that this siege would go up to the 4th Wave.
The 3rd would pour out monsters around Lv.150, and the final Wave would feature a massive boss monster at Lv.170.
The problem was that the 1st and 2nd waves were just appetizers, and the real waves started from the 3rd.
So during the 3rd wave, he needed to hunt as many monsters as possible. That way, even if users joined in, he could securely maintain 1st place.
“Jung Hoon.”
Then, Yeo Min Ji approached Jung Hoon and spoke to him.
“Yes?”
Her face was more serious than ever.
“I’ll ask you once more. I really want you to take me as your disciple.”
“Hmm?”
“Please!”
“…Just with words?”
Jung Hoon didn’t readily accept.
Still, Yeo Min Ji saw hope.
When she first met him, she was rejected without any room for negotiation, but now there was room.
That alone was enough.
She spoke with determination that she would never take it for granted.
“Of course not! A deal! Let’s make a deal!”
“Hmm…”
Jung Hoon fell into thought for a moment.
That’s when it happened.
[Gyeonggi Yangju 1% damaged! The siege ends!]
[Jeonbuk Jeongeup 1% damaged! The siege ends!]
[Gyeongnam Gimhae 1% damaged! The siege ends!]
[Chungbuk Okcheon 1% damaged! The siege ends!]
[Jeonnam Hwasun 1% damaged! The siege ends!]
[Gyeonggi Paju 1% damaged! The siege ends!]
…
Even before the 3rd Wave had started, 14 regions had been breached.
Since it was only 1% to begin with, it was a structure that would inevitably be breached if they didn’t start hunting as soon as the Wave began.
In such a situation, everyone was defending the outskirts and got hit hard from behind, so it was natural they’d be breached.
“Wow… Jung Hoon, if we hadn’t come to Namsan like you said, we would’ve been screwed…”
Ha Jin gave Jung Hoon a thumbs up.
If they had opposed Jung Hoon’s opinion and gone to the outskirts, Seoul wouldn’t have been safe either.
The damage wouldn’t have been 0.042% but would have quickly exceeded 1% and the game would have ended.
“It was just luck.”
“To call it just luck… you seemed to know that it would appear at Namsan.”
To call it luck, Jung Hoon had strongly insisted and brought his party members to Namsan as if he had foreseen that a Gate would open at Namsan.
So the word “luck” didn’t fit here.
“I roughly knew it would open in the center.”
“Whoa…”
“Is that really true?”
At his bombshell statement, Yeo Min Ji’s eyes widened as well.
The event content wasn’t shared anywhere.
How could Jung Hoon have obtained that information?
“Do you remember the NPC who sent us to the event location earlier?”
“…Yes.”
It was a level 700 event NPC.
“That NPC was the one who guided me when I participated in the 2nd Job Advancement event.”
“Huh? Really?”
She had never heard of event NPCs appearing consecutively.
Usually, NPCs that guided events in New World were one-time only.
Meaning once they appeared, they wouldn’t appear again.
“Yes. That’s probably why he gave me a hint. He told me to try targeting the center.”
“…That’s impossible.”
An event NPC showing favoritism to a user?
Was that even possible?
Yeo Min Ji was still suspicious, but Jung Hoon casually shrugged his shoulders.
“Then how else would I have suggested going to Namsan?”
“That’s true, but….”
“Anyway, let’s prepare for the 3rd wave. We need to finish this before users swarm in.”
[The 3rd Monster Wave begins.]
Not long after, the 3rd Wave started.
Once again, a gate was created above Namsan, and this time Level 150 Half-Moon Bears poured down.
* * *
At that moment.
The 3rd Wave monsters were Half-Moon Bears.
And there were as many as 1,000 of these bears.
Hundreds of Half-Moon Bears poured down, all heading toward the barricade where Michael and Kim Bong Gu were stationed.
“Shit, Half-Moon Bears? We’re fucked. Shouldn’t we be running away?!”
Kim Bong Gu bit his lip as he looked at Michael.
“There are too many for just the two of us to stop…?”
Michael muttered blankly.
[Lv.150 Half-Moon Bear]
They were all level 150.
This is really fucked up.
How are we supposed to stop that?
He wanted to abandon the barricade and run, but he couldn’t because of Jung Hoon’s orders.
“No… you need to make sense. I don’t know about this!”
This was a fight with no chance of winning.
Kim Bong Gu gave up on a frontal battle and turned his back.
Then, he noticed numerous vehicles rushing toward Namsan.
‘We’re saved!’
If that many users joined the fight, subjugating the Half-Moon Bears wouldn’t be impossible.
“What? Those Half-Moon Bears?”
“It’s already the 3rd Wave! If we don’t kill them quickly, we’ll be at the bottom!”
Users hurriedly got out of their vehicles and rushed toward the Half-Moon Bears.
“Roooooar!”
[Half-Moon Bear uses ‘Intimidation’.]
Over 300 Half-Moon Bears roared and activated their ability.
When they used Intimidation, the users’ bodies froze instantly.
Their muscles were paralyzed by momentary fear.
In that gap, the Half-Moon Bears pounced on the users.
They say bears tear people apart.
[Life force is rapidly decreasing!]
[Life force has dropped below 80%. Recovery is needed.]
As the Half-Moon Bears bit and clawed at them, the users’ life force began draining rapidly.
“These fucking bear bastards!”
“Heal! Heal!”
Healers urgently cast heals, and users who recovered from paralysis fought against the Half-Moon Bears.
Initially, the users were at a disadvantage, but as time passed and more users joined, the Half-Moon Bears began dying one by one.
[Stronghold is being destroyed!]
[Damage rate: 0.212%]
During the battle, the stronghold damage rate exceeded 0.2%.
In all of Seoul, just a bit of chaos at Namsan caused over 0.2% damage.
The reason was that when the Wave occurred at Namsan, the stronghold’s range narrowed around the gate.
It was the same for other regions.
This was why the 1% threshold was reached so quickly.
“Grooowl…!”
The battle finally ended when the corpses of Half-Moon Bears filled all of Namsan.
“Phew, that was tough.”
“Bears are bears, I guess.”
“That was really damn hard.”
The Users’ breathing was rough.
They had competed to take down even one more Half-Moon Bear.
[Damage Rate: 0.233%]
The current damage rate of the Stronghold was 0.233%.
“Phew, shall we head up now?”
“…Let’s do that. Hey, walk a bit further away.”
Kim Bong Gu and Michael tactfully moved their steps.
Since they had broken through, they needed to go report to Jung Hoon.
Just then, one User suddenly shouted loudly.
“Huh? Hey, you bastard! Don’t you have something to say to me?”
He was the User who had been cursed at by Kim Bong Gu earlier.
“Idiot, go suck a dick!”
Kim Bong Gu flipped him off with his middle finger again and quickly ran up.
“You son of a bitch! Stop right there!”
The User chased after Kim Bong Gu.
Seeing this, the rest of the Users also rushed up together.
Above, Half-Moon Bear corpses were piled up like mountains.
“What is all this?”
At a rough glance, there seemed to be hundreds of them.
Who on earth had hunted all these monsters?
Just then, one User shouted loudly.
“It’s Yeo Min Ji!”
At those words, everyone’s gaze turned to Yeo Min Ji.
She was currently facing off against a Half-Moon Bear.
From the looks of it, she must have hunted all these Half-Moon Bears.
“That’s amazing….”
“A ranker is indeed a ranker, I guess?”
“But she caught all these by herself?”
No matter how much of a ranker she was, everyone’s level was adjusted to 150 here.
Yet the fact that she had subjugated this many Half-Moon Bears in such a short time was unbelievable.
“Grooowwwl!”
And then, they noticed some Martial Artist pummeling a Half-Moon Bear nearby.
“What’s that about?”
Return of the Greatest All Master (Serial)
Author │ Yeon I Yo
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ⓒYeon I Yo 2024
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