Episode 99
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was pushed back, adjusted his posture one step ahead before the giant scorpion could do anything.
“You used the molted shell as bait? You’re really onto the monster theme.”
The giant scorpion did not attack recklessly but retreated back into its hole in the ground.
And then, not long after, he jumped out from behind Kang Jin-hyeok again.
The giant scorpion rose up powerfully like a fountain and aimed for Kang Jin-hyeok’s body with its pincers.
“Where did you get your story?”
Kang Jin-hyeok dodged the giant scorpion’s attack one step ahead.
The giant scorpion withdrew its pincers that had cut through the air and hid underground without hesitation.
“Are you going to keep coming out like this?”
Unlike when they first met, rather than confronting the giant scorpion head-on, he chose a tactic that utilized his specialty.
Kang Jin-hyeok guessed that the giant scorpion’s intelligence may have increased because it consumed a large amount of magic stones.
‘It’s not just the intelligence. The speed and strength are also different from before.’
The hand holding the baseball bat still felt tingly from the recoil from just a moment ago.
The thickness of the defensive barrier seemed to have become much thicker than before, so it seemed that even a weak attack would not work at all.
Kang Jin-hyeok focused on the floor while waiting for the giant scorpion to reappear.
The giant scorpion moved with as little noise as possible, but it could not completely hide the vibrations.
Kang Jin-hyeok felt a slight vibration as the giant scorpion approached him.
“It’s here!”
Kang Jin-hyeok used some of the MP stored in his baseball bat to emit a thick aura.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who focused his aura on the tip of the baseball bat, hit it straight down on the floor.
The aura that had seeped into the ground sent a shock so strong that it caused cracks in the ground.
The giant scorpion finally couldn’t stand it anymore and revealed itself.
“Huh?”
The giant scorpion jumped out right under Kang Jin-hyeok.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who had lost his footing, rose into the air following the giant scorpion.
The giant scorpion judged that Kang Jin-hyeok would be unable to move in the air and took advantage of that gap.
The venomous needle extended like lightning and accurately pierced Kang Jin-hyeok’s vital spot.
“Ugh.”
Kang Jin-hyeok swung his baseball bat to counter the attack.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was hit by the poison needle, flew backwards and crashed to the ground.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who crashed into the ground kicking up dust, didn’t even feel any pain.
The giant scorpion extended its pincers straight towards Kang Jin-hyeok, who was lying down, and attacked him.
The giant scorpion’s pincers closed the distance between them, hitting the ground like a sewing machine, as it followed Kang Jin-hyeok, who was rolling backwards hard.
Kang Jin-hyeok jumped up as if doing a tumbling and raised his body.
And he put an even stronger aura into the baseball bat he held with both hands.
Kang Jin-hyeok took a full swing to match the giant scorpion’s outstretched pincers.
pop!
A sound like a bomb exploding rang out as Kang Jin-hyeok’s aura and the giant scorpion’s shield collided.
The one who won the match was Kang Jin-hyeok’s baseball bat.
The giant scorpion, faced with defeat, spurted fluid from its left pincer, which burst like a balloon.
“You don’t even realize that I’ve been lenient with you all this time and you’re acting like a troublemaker.”
Kang Jin-hyeok had no intention of showing off his power in front of Cheon Sang-ho.
Although he is a person who approaches in a friendly manner, Cheon Sang-ho is a man who acts as the right-hand man of the association president.
It’s impossible to show everything you have to someone like that.
“There are no eyes to see here. You’d better give up the idea that I’ll look after you.”
The giant scorpion shuddered as if it had sensed Kang Jin-hyeok’s provocation.
However, the incident of them rolling their eyes and attacking without looking back did not happen.
As its intelligence increased, the giant scorpion tried to avoid reckless fights.
With the defensive barrier he had trusted shattered in one blow, the giant scorpion had only one option left.
“Are you hiding again?”
As the giant scorpion went into the ground, Kang Jin-hyeok sighed as if he was tired.
You should know that trying to surprise them like this is useless now.
I didn’t like it at all, as it felt like a waste of time.
“… … What? Why isn’t it coming out?”
Kang Jin-hyeok waited for about five minutes, but he couldn’t feel any sign of the giant scorpion.
Something seemed fishy about the timing being used to lull people into letting their guard down.
“Did it really just pop out like that?”
Kang Jin-hyeok aimed a baseball bat at the hole where the giant scorpion was to confirm.
Lightning shot out from the tip of the bat and traveled through the hole into the ground.
Kang Jin-hyeok was certain that the giant scorpion had escaped from here when he saw that there was no response.
“This damn bug is really… … !”
How many more times do I have to run away before I feel relieved?
Kang Jin-hyeok picked up the flashlight again, his forehead reddening.
And then he started running through the tunnel, chasing the giant scorpion.
This time, with the determination not to miss, Kang Jin-hyeok focused his aura on both legs.
Kang Jin-hyeok stepped forward with such force that it left deep marks on the floor, moving forward as fast as a bullet.
Kang Jin-hyeok took out the radar from his inventory while running through the tunnel.
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It was an object that had been useless when the giant scorpion’s shield was intact, but now it was producing a definite response.
Thanks to Kang Jin-hyeok’s baseball bat breaking the barrier in one blow, the radar was able to faintly detect its trace.
“Okay.”
Kang Jin-hyeok continued to run, following the radar’s guidance.
Then, when he saw that the signal had disappeared from the radar screen, Kang Jin-hyeok believed that that was where the giant scorpion was.
“If it disappears from the radar, that means it has regained its defensive capabilities.”
There’s no way I would have poured a potion into a wounded body like a hunter.
The giant scorpion’s chosen method would obviously be to eat other monsters to replenish its strength.
Kang Jin-hyeok hurried to the scene before the giant scorpion’s feeding time ended.
Thanks to running at full speed, almost out of breath, Kang Jin-hyeok was able to arrive at the scene on time.
“Got it.”
Kang Jin-hyeok discovered a giant scorpion biting its prey with small pincers attached around its mouth.
In that short period of time, a considerable number of monsters had been killed and eaten, as there were corpses of hideous appearances all around.
But Kang Jin-hyeok paid more attention to the phenomenon visible behind the giant scorpion.
“Is that… a gate?”
The purple vortex, which was about 2 meters high, looked identical to the gate that Kang Jin-hyeok knew.
It’s natural for a gate to appear when a monster appears, but this time it was different.
The appearance of the Gate is a phenomenon close to a natural disaster that no one could have dared to predict.
But this giant scorpion had anticipated my arrival not once, but twice, and came running straight here.
This was by no means a matter to be taken lightly.
“I need to tell you what kind of secret you have.”
Since it was impossible to communicate with a monster, Kang Jin-hyeok planned to get the answer directly through the giant scorpion’s body.
The giant scorpion also seemed ready to fight again as it stood face to face with Kang Jin-hyeok.
Damn.
The giant scorpion’s back split left and right with an unpleasant sound.
Coming out through the gap that seemed to have been opened by a zipper was the new body of a giant scorpion.
The giant scorpion, having completed its molting phase, showed off its newly sprouted pincers.
Arthropods that have just shed their skin usually have soft skin, but that common sense did not apply to the giant scorpion.
The giant scorpion attacked Kang Jin-hyeok with its newly acquired body.
“I know you won’t escape this time.”
Kang Jin-hyeok used half of the MP he had in his baseball bat.
I wanted to consume them all and turn them to dust in one go, but I needed to know how the giant scorpion could anticipate the gate’s appearance.
The giant scorpion saw a dazzling golden light burst out from the baseball bat held by Kang Jinhyuk.
The giant scorpion hesitated to attack for a moment at the sight of a light more intense than the one it had encountered before.
That brief moment of hesitation definitely determined victory or defeat.
Kang Jin-hyeok swung his baseball bat horizontally with all his might when the giant scorpion stopped moving.
The giant scorpion’s pincers, which had touched the bat, burst open again less than five minutes after sprouting new ones.
Kang Jin-hyeok then stepped forward and destroyed the remaining giant scorpion’s legs one by one.
The giant scorpion realized the seriousness of the situation only after its right leg was completely blown off.
“!!”
The giant scorpion belatedly attempted to counterattack by extending its stinger.
If it had been an outburst made when he was in good health, it might have worked to some extent, but it’s too late now.
The attack, attempted with the loss of both his right legs and loss of balance, was impossible even to graze Kang Jin-hyeok’s collar.
Kang Jin-hyeok even smashed the giant scorpion’s tail into pieces with a bat.
As his aura began to fade after using up all the MP he had drawn from the baseball bat, Kang Jin-hyeok took a step back and readjusted his stance.
The giant scorpion, which had lost its tail, right leg, and both pincers, was barely able to breathe.
Kang Jin-hyeok left the giant scorpion alone without finishing it.
“Let’s see if we can get to the gate even if it ends up like that.”
Even though he left his left leg spare, there was no way a giant scorpion could move with that body.
The reason Kang Jin-hyeok left the giant scorpion alone was because a hypothesis came to his mind.
‘I wonder if this guy is not chasing the gate, but the gate is coming to him in return.’
It’s a possibility that no one else would ever think of.
The reason Kang Jin-hyeok was able to come up with this guess was because he had experienced countless phenomena that were contrary to common sense.
Kang Jin-hyeok, whose stereotypes were completely shattered, quietly watched the giant scorpion for that possibility.
Because it had shed so much fluid, the giant scorpion’s struggling movements became less frequent as time passed.
If I left it like this, I felt like I would suffocate in less than 10 minutes.
“Was that just a thought?”
Just when Kang Jin-hyeok was about to give up and finish off the giant scorpion, something unbelievable happened.
A light appeared inside the giant scorpion’s body and a small gate appeared.
Kang Jin-hyeok was shocked when he saw a group of goblins appearing beyond the gate.
“This is ridiculous… … .”
Kang Jin-hyeok calmed his surprised heart and hurriedly ran towards the group of goblins.
Before the giant scorpion could get ahold of him, Kang Jinhyuk beat the entire group of goblins to death with a baseball bat.
The giant scorpion, having lost its prey right before its eyes, writhe in agony and eventually collapse.
Kang Jin-hyeok walked in front of the giant scorpion that had stopped breathing and raised his baseball bat high.
“Phew.”
Kang Jin-hyeok took a deep breath and consumed his MP to create an aura.
The aura that Kang Jin-hyeok had created with great concentration was thinner than usual.
It was no exaggeration to call the aura surrounding the baseball bat a sword.
Kang Jin-hyeok swung his aura before it lost its form and cut the giant scorpion’s body.
Inside the neatly cut giant scorpion’s body, a green-glowing jewel was sleeping together with the magic stone.
