You Have Been Invited to the Auction House of the Gods - Chapter 162

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With a crackling sound, sparks flared up.

 

In front of me, only the charcoal-transformed monster corpse remained.

 

‘What should I do…’

 

I had lost a fairly high-performance dungeon detection dog.

 

I wasn’t worried about the smugglers claiming the Divine Being’s legacy first.

 

Even if I gave them the benefit of the doubt and they passed the Divine Being’s trial, escaping Korea would be impossible.

 

‘Asin Logistics’ surveillance network performance is quite good…’

 

Since Asin Logistics launched, the crime rate didn’t drop drastically for nothing.

 

So what I needed to think about right now was how to escape this labyrinth.

 

There was a separate reason why I wasn’t moving immediately.

 

The terrain had changed.

 

Until now, I had been following those smuggler bastards and mapping the terrain in my head, but all of that had become meaningless.

 

The passages had changed, and new walls of plants had sprouted up.

 

‘Continuing to wander around wouldn’t be bad either, but…’

 

I didn’t bother to rush.

 

The first trial was the same way.

 

Whether this Divine Being fellow was playful, or if there was some profound meaning.

 

I couldn’t just look at what was visible.

 

I could tell just from the first trial.

 

It didn’t tell me whether passing through the Forest of Scarecrows was the trial, or whether reaching the exit was the trial.

 

I thought this time would be similar.

 

Was simply passing through this plant labyrinth the trial?

 

Was passing through this labyrinth the trial, or was reaching the exit the correct answer?

 

At escape room cafes, forcibly creating an escape route isn’t accepted.

 

But what about the Divine Being?

 

That’s when it happened.

 

One of the remaining embers from burning the monster jumped up.

 

The spark rode the wind and flew toward the wall.

 

Hiss.

 

The plant wall caught fire.

 

A hole formed in the wall where the burned part was.

 

The plants didn’t regenerate.

 

‘Were they just ordinary bushes?’

 

Perhaps this place wasn’t a labyrinth from the beginning.

 

Maybe I just saw the grown bushes and, trapped by the concept of a trial, thought it was a labyrinth…

 

“…”

 

‘Idle thoughts.’

 

I slowly got up from my spot.

 

Whatever the Divine Being’s intention was didn’t matter in the first place.

 

I had simply discovered a quick breakthrough.

 

I extended my palm toward the direction the wind was blowing.

 

***

 

“…”

 

After passing through the burned labyrinth, I was momentarily speechless at the scene that unfolded before my eyes.

 

‘That thing is the Divine Being?’

 

“You barbarian bastard, where do you think this is that you dare crawl in here!”

 

“Calm down… Gah!”

 

A man with a sturdy build who appeared to be the Divine Being was kicking the Smuggler Quintuplets.

 

“Calm down, you crazy bastard!”

 

Subordinate 1, bleeding from his nose after being trampled by the Divine Being’s foot, shouted furiously.

 

“Crazy bastard? Yeah, I’m a crazy bastard. Die!”

 

“Block him! Block him!”

 

I couldn’t tell about his reputation as Goryeo’s strongest swordmaster, but all I saw was one rampaging scoundrel.

 

Behind the smuggler brothers who were blocking with their bodies, the Head Smuggler lay collapsed, foaming at the mouth.

 

Judging by how one cheek was swollen up,

 

it seemed a punch… no, a fist had struck his face directly.

 

“I’ve spent most of my life killing foreign invaders.”

 

Each kick was filled with resentment.

 

“But what? Some barbarian bastard with a loose mouth gets my inheritance? Damn it all!”

 

Thwack!

 

‘Is he really that much of a ruffian?’

 

I could understand the Divine Being’s position.

 

After dying while protecting the country his whole life, his tomb was neglected, and if the people who finally came were foreign invaders, it would be sufficiently heartbreaking.

 

‘A vengeful spirit… something like that?’

 

At that moment, The Man turned his head.

 

He looked straight at me.

 

“What the hell are you?”

 

The Divine Being turned his shoulders and slowly approached.

 

“Are you also in cahoots with these bastards?”

 

He could misunderstand.

 

My current attire was quite suspicious after all.

 

If a Black-Robed Figure with a covered face entered his tomb, thinking of them as a grave robber would be reasonable in a way.

 

“Die, you barbarian bastard!”

 

I take that back. Those aren’t the eyes of a patriotic spirit.

 

He’s just a thug who’s dissatisfied with everything in the world.

 

The Divine Being bastard quickly approached in a kicking stance.

 

Then, just before his running start, he suddenly hesitated.

 

“You…”

 

His expression changed.

 

His eyes deepened as he looked straight at me.

 

“Despite being human, you carry the aura of a King?”

 

“Hmm…”

 

My brow furrowed at those words.

 

The King’s aura that Divine Being bastard was talking about could only be one thing.

 

The King of Evil Spirits inherited by me, Bi Hyeong-rang.

 

The Ghostly Energy of the Goblin King.

 

‘This bastard doesn’t look like a goblin though…’

 

“No, it’s not just Bi Hyeong. Why do you have the path—”

 

At that moment, sticky Ghostly Energy filled the space.

 

Both the Divine Being’s and my gaze focused on one place simultaneously.

 

The Smuggler Quintuplets.

 

Among them, the leader bastard whose half face had become a bruise.

 

In that bastard’s hand was something shaped like a pill.

 

No, it wasn’t a Ghost Stone.

 

But I could sense that it contained a large amount of Ghost Stone.

 

He brought it to his mouth as if trying to eat it.

 

“Hey, you’ll die if you eat that.”

 

The Divine Being growled low in a different voice than before.

 

‘It’s definitely confirmed that they’re related to the Cult.’

 

The Head Smuggler seemed to know that what he was about to consume required great resolve, as his hand was trembling.

 

“I know I might die. But other than Honyuan Dan, I can’t think of any way to escape this situation.”

 

‘Honyuan Dan…’

 

Should I stop him? Or would it be more beneficial to see what effects it has?

 

In my head, a calculator was rapidly clicking away.

 

‘It would be better to take it away and analyze it afterward.’

 

It also seemed like it would be better to keep the Smuggler Quintuplets alive for interrogation while I was at it.

 

But the Head Smuggler’s resolve was faster than my conclusion.

 

“Hey, this—”

 

The Divine Being also sensed something was wrong and urgently reached out his hand, but the Ghost Stone elixir pills called Honyuan Dan went straight down the Head Smuggler’s throat.

 

Kwaaaaang—!

 

In an instant, disgusting ghostly energy exploded from the Head Smuggler as if a bomb had gone off.

 

His body swelled, and the righteous energy scattered into pieces.

 

The Head Smuggler seemed to have lost his reason, his pupils dilated.

 

‘It’s similar to when the gemstone weapons were used.’

 

The difference was that he could enter a rampage state even without having a gemstone weapon implanted.

 

‘The technology has advanced another step in the meantime.’

 

“Tsk…”

 

The Divine Being clicked his tongue.

 

“Let’s have a detailed conversation after we deal with that bastard first.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders at the Divine Being’s words.

 

Thinking it was silent agreement, the Divine Being kicked off the ground first and charged toward the Head Smuggler.

 

‘Shall I see the skills of the man called Divine Being?’

 

I gripped Galmu, which had transformed into the form of the Heavenly Demon Sword, and followed behind him.

 

I could have stepped forward and subdued him immediately, but I didn’t.

 

I was thinking of testing the Divine Being’s skills infused with divine power.

 

The Divine Being’s extended fist struck the Head Smuggler.

 

The sound of air being torn spread.

 

‘He must be A-rank.’

 

It was powerful enough to make the air tremble with just a casual punch.

 

Even so, the Head Smuggler who had taken the elixir pills wasn’t easily pushed back either.

 

‘The power of the rampage has increased.’

 

I moderately fired Karmic Fire without interfering with the two men’s battle.

 

Several more exchanges followed after that.

 

But something strange caught my eye in their battle.

 

‘Why isn’t he using his sword?’

 

Why wasn’t Goryeo’s strongest swordmaster using his sword?

 

Looking at the Divine Being’s expression, it didn’t feel like he was holding back.

 

‘Is there some kind of restriction?’

 

The movements and combat sense I could clearly feel were beyond that level, but the results weren’t.

 

‘Let me observe a little more—’

 

At that moment, the Head Smuggler charged toward me.

 

Since I was only making weak attacks from behind, he seemed to have mistaken me for an easier opponent.

 

The Head Smuggler’s sword shot toward my head, spewing ghostly energy.

 

“Crazy bastard…”

 

I muttered my absurd feelings quietly, then simply ducked my body.

 

Right, he could make that mistake.

 

In a 2-on-1 battle, targeting the weaker of the two opponents first is the standard move.

 

But isn’t there a saying like this?

 

Everyone has a plausible plan.

 

Until they get punched in the face.

 

I struck the Head Smuggler’s face hard with Galmu’s hilt.

 

Bang! A short explosive sound rang out as flames erupted.

 

The Head Smuggler rolled several times before crashing into the floor.

 

I struck his unswollen cheek to balance things out.

 

“…”

 

I felt the Divine Being’s flustered gaze for a moment.

 

‘First, I need to find out how that bastard knows about Bi Hyeong-rang and the goblins.’

 

I also need to learn about the name I couldn’t hear because of the Head Smuggler.

 

I was slowly approaching the Divine Being when—

 

From the Head Smuggler crashed on the floor, Ghostly Energy even stronger than before erupted explosively.

 

“To think he’d use even his innate true energy for a rampage!”

 

The Divine Being spoke with a flustered expression.

 

Then he looked at me.

 

“Tsk, there’s no other way.”

 

The Divine Being made an expression of having no choice.

 

“Since it’s an emergency, I have no choice. I’ll specially allow you to use me.”

 

“What bullsh—”

 

Before I could finish speaking, the Divine Being’s body became blurred.

 

Then its form changed.

 

Not a person, but a sword.

 

In that moment, I understood why the Divine Being hadn’t used a sword.

 

If he was the sword himself, what sword would there be to wield?

 

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