The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 127
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127
Chapter 127
Dragon and Tiger Face Off
He could have prepared 「Prism Flare」.
He could have entered 「Eum Emperor」 or 「Yeonje」 state.
Or even just using his existing skills with proper distribution.
A white tiger, at least.
It didn’t have ridiculously overpowered defensive skills like Hyeonmu.
For Kim Jun, who was approaching level 80.
‘It would be a piece of cake.’
Nevertheless.
Kim Jun didn’t draw his sword.
Kim Jun’s current power was enough to hunt comfortably on the 60th floors.
That’s why he had never seen Azure Dragon’s true abilities.
When making it his summoned creature, Kim Jun had unilaterally beaten it into submission anyway.
Azure Dragon couldn’t unleash its full power in that process.
The gap was too large.
But now it was different.
Baihu was one of the Four Guardian Deities, same as Azure Dragon.
It happened to be an opponent of similar rank.
In battle against an existence of the same level.
Azure Dragon would finally be able to reveal everything about itself.
To plan future strategies, shouldn’t he know exactly how far its abilities extended?
Since Nyong Nyong had also made such a spirited decision.
He should protect its pride.
“Mm.”
Kim Jun made his decision.
He would watch this fight.
He would step back from the mountain and observe the scene completely.
*
The peak of Mount Seolbaekhoryeong.
It could no longer maintain its mountain form.
The snow wasn’t just falling, but scattered as if bursting under pressure, and the rocks were cracking before they could even shatter.
Baihu and Azure Dragon.
The Emperor of the West and the Emperor of the East.
Two beings bound under the name of Four Guardian Deities.
Were facing each other without a word.
And.
Nyong Nyong didn’t waste time.
In the time it took Kim Jun to blink.
Energy burst forth all at once from the massive dragon’s body.
Uuuuuung…
.
.
.
Paaaaaaaaaaaaa-!!
Fire.
The moment its breath poured out.
The snow covering Mount Seolbaekhoryeong didn’t melt but was pushed away.
It wasn’t evaporation either.
It simply couldn’t exist in that place anymore.
The snow disappeared.
The cold air was torn apart by the heat.
All the colors that had been on the snowy mountain peak were covered by a single light.
The mountain was struck by fire.
Flames rolled toward Baihu without interruption.
“Is this all you’ve got?”
“Not yet.”
Wood .
The ground revealed as the snow melted.
Suddenly writhed as if breathing.
Swish—!
From beneath Baihu’s feet.
Thick roots burst forth.
It wasn’t just one or two strands.
Tangling, coiling, supporting each other.
They shot up instantly, forming a Forest.
A trajectory meant to seal Baihu’s movements.
But Baihu scoffed.
“「Baihu Slash」!”
Sword energy erupted from his massive claws.
Exactly four streams of energy.
Slash—!
Cutting through even Space itself.
The vines and roots were severed all too easily.
However.
Lightning .
Crackle—
Crackle—
Above the severed vines, the air began to cry out.
Snow melted by fire became water vapor rising to the sky, and shattered wood fragments scattered across the wet earth.
A stage too perfect for electricity to flow.
Baihu’s eyes flinched for a moment.
“!”
“Too late!”
Crackle—!!
Lightning hadn’t struck.
The entire Space discharged.
Using the water vapor in the air as a medium.
Through the roots embedded in the ground.
Along the severed wood fragments.
Electricity spread in all directions.
Like an invisible net enveloping the entire mountain peak.
The mountain peak was completely submerged in blue light.
Blinding brilliance.
And the thunderous roar that followed.
Boom—!!
Baihu’s body was pushed back greatly.
The Rock beneath his feet exploded, and part of the snowy mountain peak collapsed entirely.
‘Not bad?’
An attack with a predetermined sequence from the start.
Azure Dragon had been envisioning this scene from the beginning.
If one possessed various attributes, they would naturally be skilled at attacks utilizing interactions between those attributes.
Creating water vapor with fire and ice.
Creating conduction paths with roots and trees.
Weaving everything together with lightning.
But even so.
Grroooooar-!
Baihu was one of the Four Guardian Deities.
If Azure Dragon possessed multiple attributes.
The attribute Baihu wielded was solely metal .
Though not as much as Hyeonmu, it certainly belonged to the high defense category.
A boss with excellent attack power and high defense as well.
In other words, an existence that could perform both DPS and tank roles alone.
Whoosh-
The thick fog cleared.
From within it, Baihu stood again with murderous eyes.
Though black marks remained on its scales, there were no traces of repeated damage in its movements.
“You still haven’t grown.”
A low, cold voice. As if drawing out hostility known from long ago.
“Don’t act arrogant.”
Nyong Nyong’s response was similar.
Some discord existing between the Four Guardian Deities seeped through.
“Now I’m coming.”
Baihu moved.
Scraaape-
Its claws scraped across the ground.
The moment it approached Nyong Nyong.
“「Tiger Moon Severance 」.”
Its claw rose into the air.
It didn’t swing widely.
There was no process of gathering strength.
Just a single downward slash.
Slice-
The air cried out first.
The next moment, sound followed.
Crack-!!
A trajectory curved like the moon was carved into space.
Based on that line, Mount Seolbaekhoryeong was precisely bisected.
The air was split in two, the flowing energy was divided, and everything that had been touching collapsed belatedly.
It was neither a mixture of attributes nor the splendor of technique.
Simple ‘severance’.
However, that severance was not just any technique.
It was the result of pushing a single attribute to its extreme limit.
The attribute of metal .
Taking only the ‘cutting’ nature of it, endlessly refined.
Not diversity, but extreme depth.
Baihu had no need for all the energies of the Five Elements.
It simply refined a single energy.
The single energy called metal .
It had honed that to the realm of divinity.
To the point where a trajectory drawn with a single claw could redefine space itself.
Until reaching the essence of severance.
Therefore, that single point of trajectory.
It possessed a completeness that no defense, no energy could block.
“You’ve been arrogant and presumptuous since long ago.”
Baihu’s voice rumbled low.
“Just because you can handle multiple attributes.”
Those words contained not contempt, but something like the sigh of an old comrade.
“Diversity doesn’t guarantee the measure of strength.”
Baihu took a step forward. The ground trembled.
“Only that which pursues one thing to the very end.”
Once again, claws rose up.
This time more lightly.
Yet carrying an even heavier aura.
“Can be called a true realm, true strength.”
Wooooooong-
Energy began condensing in Baihu’s claws.
There was no mixing in it.
Only the pure attribute of metal gathered to a single point.
The surrounding atmosphere trembled under pressure.
Like struggling before death.
Psssssss-
It wasn’t the precursor to a storm.
It was the storm.
Energy formed a whirlwind centered on Baihu, and the peak of the snowy mountain began collapsing under that pressure.
“The reason you die today is.”
Baihu’s voice rang out clearly even within that storm.
“Not because you became a human’s dog.”
Claws slowly rose. Not a movement toward limits, but the leisure of one who had reached the end.
“It’s because you settled for diversity without even reaching a single realm.”
The cutting line was prepared.
Baihu’s claws were tracing that trajectory.
At that moment.
“I wonder about that.”
A cold, low voice pierced through the storm.
Nyong Nyong opened its mouth.
“Rather than ignorantly digging into just one thing like you.”
Whirrrrrr-
A change occurred in the Azure Dragon’s body.
Its scales gleamed.
It wasn’t a simple concentration of power.
Five different energies awakened simultaneously throughout its entire body.
Fire blazed, water swirled, wind wrapped around wings, lightning flowed along scales, and the vitality of wood pulsed like a heartbeat.
Not separately from each other.
Simultaneously.
And harmoniously.
“Wouldn’t harmonizing various attributes be far more powerful?”
A being that has become a summoned creature.
Fundamentally shares what belongs to the being that has newly become its master.
That starts with experience points.
To ability stats, to portions of skills.
And.
Whooosh-
Even the attributes possessed by its master.
Whoooooosh-
Something began to gather in Azure Dragon’s mouth.
It was not simple flame.
It had no color.
Something that was awkward to even call fire.
Neither black nor red.
It was simply the color of ‘annihilation’.
「Black Flame」.
Kim Jun’s power, where demonic energy and fire energy had perfectly become one.
Was being manifested through Nyong Nyong’s body.
“?! What is that ominous energy…!”
Baihu’s eyes wavered.
Fire, Wood, Water, Wind, Ice, Lightning.
Something that transcended all those attributes.
Something placed above them.
Something.
A flame that would never be extinguished unless the caster withdrew it.
A fire of an entirely different dimension.
Rummmmmmmble…
Swirled in front of Azure Dragon’s mouth.
The waves of 「Black Flame」 alone scorched Baihu’s skin.
“!”
Baihu instinctively twisted its body.
Dangerous.
Death.
ROAAAAAAAAR-!!
It burst forth from Azure Dragon’s mouth.
Jet black.
No, colorless.
No, something that couldn’t even be defined by that, a very deep void’s breath.
The path it passed through.
Everything lost its definition.
The peak that was called a snow mountain.
Was no longer a mountain.
Snow, rocks, trees.
It became impossible to even confirm what they had been.
The world returned to ash.
No.
Not even ash remained.
Existence itself was annihilated.
The trajectory of 「Black Flame」 pierced through all of Mount Seolbaekhoryeong.
And Baihu.
Was in front of it.
“GRAAAAH-!!”
A scream burst forth.
But even that was incomplete.
The moment 「Black Flame」 enveloped Baihu’s body.
The being called ‘Baihu’ no longer remained.
Only.
Ash.
Ash disappearing within the pitch-black flames.
“Like this…”
The final words flowed out.
Even those were swept away by the flames and vanished.
Paaaaaaaa-
The breath of “Black Flame” did not stop.
It pierced through Mount Seolbaekhoryeong.
It burned all the surrounding peaks.
It devoured the mountains below.
And.
It went further.
A straight line crossing the entire 36th Floor.
Everything in the path of that trajectory was annihilated.
The staircase that had been called Cheopcheopsan-jung.
Could no longer be called by that name.
It did not collapse.
It did not crumble.
It was simply.
Erased.
There were no mountains, no valleys, not even rocks remained.
In the place where the trajectory of “Black Flame” had passed.
Only black air swirled around.
Traces of annihilation.
The entire 36th Floor had vanished within a single line of flame.
No color remained in the world.
Only.
Black.
Empty.
Traces of annihilation.
Were carved into the staircase.
“Nyo, Nyong Nyong did well! As expected of my junior!”
“Shut your mouth!”
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