Episode 526
526. Episode 526
“Oh my, are you awake now?”
The first thing I heard was Arcana’s voice.
Although Lee Ha-neul was not visible, it seemed that she had provided emergency first aid separately, judging from the empty potion bottles lying around.
“What happened?”
“What happened was, I was ‘lucky’ enough to find Mr. Wolf. If you sleep outside like that, your mouth will turn red~”
When I heard the situation, it was simple.
While other guild members were exploring the trials, she also went around places she had never been to out of curiosity, but she said she didn’t feel much interest.
So he was climbing the ladder faster than everyone else, but just before he passed the 73rd floor, something fell from above.
‘Turrik worked hard.’
Arcana, which literally found Seun by sheer luck.
I really had no idea how far her luck would go.
‘No, in this case, am I just lucky?’
It was a bit suspicious, but it wasn’t something to worry about right away.
Because Se-Woon’s head was filled with the conversation he had with Ruin in the fantasy world just now.
“Take a rest now~ If you overdo it, you’ll get sick.”
“That’s what I was trying to do.”
“Oh, it’s been a while, can I play with Ruin?”
She was the one who played with Ruin every time she arrived at his residence, so even though she felt a little uneasy, she tried to shine her stigmata just in case.
Woof… … .
“……later.”
“Hey, that’s too bad~”
Ruin clearly expressed his refusal.
It’s not that the power of the stigmata has been completely blocked, but it seems that he doesn’t want to reveal it privately in situations other than battle.
“If Mr. Wolf is going to stay, I should stay too~”
“Is there anything you want to do?”
“I’m just as busy as Mr. Wolf. This is my first time handling my own stigmata.”
A strange stigmata pattern glowed on her thigh.
Bad luck. No, it seems more like a stigmata of bad luck.
Although it looked simple, to Seun, it was a stigmata that had enormous potential to interfere with the law of causality.
And personally, I was curious about the abilities of that stigmata.
I wonder how far that causality can be endured in a battle where complete bad luck has struck.
so…….
“I could hang out with you for a bit.”
“Oh my, really?”
I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to cross swords with Arcana.
“I have to get better quickly for that time~”
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It has been five days since Seun entered Diablo’s residence.
As the guild members began to arrive one by one after completing the trials, a loud crashing sound erupted from the center of the residence.
Kaang!!
“As expected, I can’t compete with you with just strength~”
Seun and Arcana clashed sword and sickle.
Seun’s sword was cleverly blocking the intersection of the scythe and pushing her away, preventing Arcana from retrieving her weapon.
She smiled leisurely, gave up fighting back, and let go of the scythe. Se-un also chased after her and tried to retrieve the sword.
“Hehehehe-”
Joker.
In front of Se-Woon, instead of her, a black and white Joker was holding a scythe.
Joker copied the movements that had prevented Se-un from pulling out his scythe, and instead, he held onto Se-un’s sword tightly and let out an irritating laugh.
Meanwhile, the spade card she took out transformed into a sharp sword and aimed at Seun.
Swish.
“Hehehe-?”
Se-Woon also let go of the sword in his hand and opened his palm wide.
– Through internal energy, the sacrificial ritual of Taeeulseomsu-gong, Yan-an Daebi (燕雁代飛) is strengthened.
Kyaang!
Seun’s palm flew up quickly like a swallow and struck the side of the sword.
The technique strengthened by Taegeuk Shingong is a quick fist that focuses on speed rather than destructive power, but it shattered the sword into pieces.
Then, the palm of the other hand followed her movements, but it was not Arcana who was standing there.
“Hehehehehe-”
The Joker, whose entire body was colorful to the point of excessiveness, let out a laugh.
Even though Se-un’s technique twisted his right shoulder and caused it to fall backwards, he didn’t seem to feel any pain.
“You know what?”
Joker’s broken arm.
The joint broke and the bone protruded through the flesh, possibly due to excessive bending of the shoulder.
The drops of blood that spurted out from the wound were as precise as if they had been aimed at.
“I found out during the last ordeal that I can put a ‘stigmata’ on my Joker too~”
“Ugh.”
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It flew towards Se-un’s pupil.
I was able to prevent blood from entering my eyes thanks to my hasty closing of my eyes, but Arcana’s attacks poured in while my eyes were closed.
Bad luck, or bad luck.
Her stigmata slightly distorted causality even in the midst of combat.
When you move your foot, a hard rock pops out and blocks your movement, or the weapon you are taking out from your weapon chest gets caught on something and stops, or like right now, blood spurts into your eyes.
Those minor misfortunes piled up and changed the course of the battle.
Even so, the battle won’t be overturned by bad luck alone.
“And when it comes to swordsmanship, I’m not pushed back either?”
Her power wasn’t just that of bad luck.
No, in the first place, that stigmata was a power that arose after meeting Se-un.
Having previously reigned as a high ranker, her sheer brute force was enough to stand against Seun even without relying on luck.
‘Clover J.’
The character contained in Jay of this card, originally called Club, is none other than one of the Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot du Lac.
He was a prosecutor also known as the Knight of the Lake.
Kyaang!!
Just as Seun had used Mammon’s Noble Phantasm, Lancelot’s power was imbued into her body.
The card changed into Arondite, the Noble Phantasm known as Lancelot’s weapon, and collided with Aphelion, which Seun had taken out.
It was such a strong blow that I don’t think I would have been able to withstand it if it weren’t for Durandal or Aphelion blocking the attack just now.
Meanwhile, strange laughter was heard from behind and beside Se-un.
“Hehehe-“
“Heeheehee!”
Black and white and color. Two Jokers swung their scythes at Seun.
My eyes were closed by the spurting blood, Ana’s powerful sword strikes from in front, Joker’s attacks from behind and to the left, and even as I stretched my feet to the one remaining opening to my right, the ground dented by the battle hindered my quick movements.
A moment when the balance is lost.
Se-Woon unleashed the magic he had been casting for this moment.
– The Treasure Trove of Greed has been opened.
[ Anti Magic Shell ]
– Counter magic that interferes with the surrounding mana and breaks and prohibits magical phenomena below the caster’s level.
Chit-
The card magic she uses.
No, they were already transformed and deformed, so they were not technologies that could be called magic, but in the end, all of them were phenomena created by applying mana.
If you forcibly shake the surrounding mana, all of those phenomena will disperse.
“Hi-Hi…….”
The two jokers disappeared, leaving only faint smiles behind.
“As a swordsman of the 8th circle, don’t you think that you are being too much?”
The Arondite she was holding returned to its original form as a card and fluttered as it fell to the floor.
I immediately threw the window forward, but she had already run away.
“I have a rough idea of what it feels like.”
Stigmata of misfortune.
It’s not perfect yet, but I can get a rough idea of how that bad luck works.
Even the guidebook for the journey to identify the weaknesses of any opponent you meet has yet to find her weaknesses or loopholes.
However, it was not an unconquerable target.
A battle that only considers the worst variables.
And if it was an overwhelming force that didn’t rely on luck, it would have been enough to conquer her.
The moment Se-Woon was about to start fighting in earnest, his stigmata glowing crimson.
“Seun-ssi-!”
A familiar voice was heard from far away.
When I turned my head, I saw Diablo’s guild master, Yu Seo-ah, running towards me.
‘I thought you’d be the first to arrive.’
For some reason, Yu Seo-ah, who had not shown herself until the other guild members arrived, has finally appeared.
Moreover, even from a distance, her condition was not normal.
“……are you okay?”
“Huh? Oh, this is it?”
Seun waved his hand, ending the fight with Arcana, and approached her.
All of the equipment he was wearing, except for his sharp twin swords, was broken and shattered.
I felt like my steps were a little unsteady, but my left leg was pale and limp.
“I can hold out somehow. At first, I treated it with a potion made by Sky Seed, but later on, even that became difficult.”
Even the sight of Kang Han-cheol following her was even more impressive.
The armor was completely gone, and only the tattered pieces of equipment barely covered his lower body, and the exposed flesh was all blue.
In some areas, necrosis has already begun.
Even taking a single step would be incredibly painful, but Kang Han-cheol was walking with an indifferent expression and looking down at Se-woon.
“It’s a duel. I’ll join too.”
“……What happened?”
“That’s because, somehow, I started clearing the same dungeon as Mr. Hancheol.”
As if she had been waiting, Yu Seo-ah began to explain.
Since Lee Ha-neul had not yet arrived at the residence, the temporary statue was healed by using the healing magic of the two.
However, Se-Woon, who was listening to the explanation, was surprised and stopped using the recovery magic without realizing it.
“Eight hells?”
“Yes, the first one was Albuta Hell, and the one we found on the 83rd floor was Nirabuta Hell. The names are a bit difficult, aren’t they?”
Seundo also knew that this was a dungeon.
That makes sense, because the dungeons that Se-un is currently conquering are none other than the Eight-Year Hell.
If it were the Eight-Hand Hell, it would be the exact opposite dungeon to the Eight-Yeol Hell.
‘Places I couldn’t find either?’
Even before the return, when I had explored all of the areas of the Demon Realm using the guidebook of the journey, and even now, when I was roaming the Demon Realm without hesitation with overwhelming power.
Based on the memories before the regression, I was able to find the Eight-Year Hell, but I was unable to find the Eight-Hour Hell.
So, even though it is called the Demon Realm, I thought that the Eight Heavenly Hells would not exist.
It’s amazing that Yoo Seo-ah and Kang Han-cheol, who aren’t even part of the Exploration Team, found that hidden dungeon.
– The constellation, ‘The Crowned Spider’, is strutting its stuff.
– The constellation, ‘The Old Man Riding the Crocodile’, boasts that there is nothing that can hide beneath his feet.
It looks like the two Demon Kings helped out in some way.
‘Is this a place that can only be found with the help of the constellations?’
– The constellation, ‘The Crow with its Head Down’ pretends not to know.
– The constellation, ‘The Hungry Prince’ whistles that there is not much to eat in the Hell of the Eight Heavens.
Judging from the reactions of the drinkers, it seems my guess was correct.
I wondered why they didn’t tell Leviathan, even if Mammon or Beelzebub didn’t know, but maybe if her powers had been restored…
– The constellation, ‘The Serpent Surrounding Time’, worries about you, saying that the Eightfold Hell alone is difficult enough.
Didn’t you send a message like this?
“So, has there been any progress?”
“yes!”
First, we treated all the parts that were necrotic due to frostbite as quickly as possible.
However, since it would be much better to receive detailed treatment from Lee Ha-neul, Kang Han-cheol’s sparring was put off.
When Go Chang-seok comes, we’ll have to get all new equipment.
Then, Yoo Seo-ah nodded to Se-woon’s question and took out the sword on her waist.
The center of the longsword and dagger.
It was a sword commonly called a short sword, and was similar in size to the sword she usually used.
Above all, the murderous coldness flowing from the blue blade proved that it was no ordinary weapon.
“It’s a sword I got from the Nirabuta Hell. I also got the material called Hell Ice, so I’m planning to ask my grandfather to make it when he comes!”
“Good.”
I checked and it turned out to be an S+ class weapon.
It is said to be a weapon that contains the cold energy of the Eight Cold Hells, and it seems that it can refine the cold energy to the extreme to create the ultimate skill.
“Oh, and this too.”
What she then took out were two seals.
I realized it as soon as I saw them.
Although different from what Se-un had obtained, these were also signs that could be considered the core of the Eight-Hand Hell.
