Episode 13. Do you have skills too? (One)
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One.
-Goooooo!
The orc roared.
Maybe it wasn’t a roar, but simply a brief growl. But to me it sounded like a long outcry. A whopping 50 seconds! For a little over a minute, the orc’s howl continued to ring in my ears.
“Ugh…!”
Head tearing pain.
-hey. Concentrate hard.
In the infinitely slow time, Bae Hu-ryeong spoke out.
-Don’t be scared by random mobs like orcs! Orcs are ridiculously strong, but their attack patterns are monotonous. As long as you know in advance where it will attack, you can easily avoid it and counterattack. It’s f*cking gum.
“That’s easier said than done!”
-come.
Boom!
The orc swung his club. No, he was swinging. slowly. The club slowly but surely aimed for my head. If I stay still, my head will be smashed in less than 20 seconds.
“f*ck, feet!”
I jumped to the side with all my might. However, my body did not respond as I expected.
‘It exploded!’
Just one step. He could have avoided the orc’s blow by running just one step, but that step was too slow. I felt frustrated. I was so frustrated that I felt like I was going to throw a tantrum.
It’s definitely avoidable! Even though I know clearly where they will attack!
-It can be avoided. Do not give up.
Bae Hu-ryeong spoke softly.
-Focus the Aurors on your feet. Strengthen your leg strength! With the feeling of letting the flow from your heart flow to your right foot, come on!
shit.
‘I’m a ghost, but I live with my mouth open!’
For the first time in my life, I felt like an Auror. How could you concentrate that on your legs? It was really easy to say.
But… there was no other way. I have to try it somehow. Even if I had no fear of death, I didn’t want my head to explode from an orc’s club hit!
‘Move!’
heart flow. It was thinner than blood and somehow felt cool and clean. Would you say it is like a clear stream? I concentrated on the cool sensation of her and tried to send it towards her right leg.
Wiggle.
It was worth the effort, so the Auror’s heart stirred, but…
-Is it harder than you think?
It was difficult.
-It’s because there isn’t a passage in the body for aurors to move around yet. The road isn’t open! If I were to compare your body now, it would be a path deep in the mountains. They say that only when you clear this up to the level of a highway can you finally know how to use Aurors.
“Huh, eup…!”
Even while listening to Bae Hu-ryeong falter, I continued to focus on my right leg. If the heart was a clogged faucet, the right leg was like a cup beneath it. One drop. One drop. Aura dripped from the broken faucet.
-At least now I can feel the aura because I took the elixir. In normal times, it wouldn’t be possible. Tsk. That young lady’s hygiene is really poor, but her skills are clear.
Whick!
The club created wind pressure. It passed through my body in a dizzying way. Phew! A small gust of wind blew where the club passed. The wind blew against my skin, shattering it into pieces. Maybe 1 second. No, if I had been just 0.5 seconds later, my whole body would have been crushed by the stick.
“how···.”
For a moment, I felt relieved that I had avoided the orc’s blow.
“Is that okay?”
The orc purred, the tip of its nose ringing. I guess she didn’t like it. The fact that a weak-looking prey like me dared to avoid his attack. The orc immediately raised his club again.
-Crrrrrrrrrrrrr!
This time, a horizontal slash that tried to blow my back.
There was no time to rest.
I focused my aura on my upper body.
-huh? What’s going on?
“Osol, if we make a road like a highway…!”
It was also difficult. The faucet of my heart was still clogged. There was no sign of the water flowing. My throat was burning and thirsty right now, but at most, a single drop of aura was flowing out.
‘I’m upset, but what Bae Hu-ryeong said is right.’
A path covered in weeds with no people around.
It was an expression that really suited me today.
That’s why I was curious.
If I get out of this level.
If you escape.
“How does it happen…?”
-flaw.
Bae Hu-ryeong chuckled.
-you. When you were killed by Grandpa Marcus, you couldn’t do anything and his throat was slit, right?
It was like that.
I recalled the sight of the crescent moon in the night sky.
Bae Hu-ryeong’s words burrowed into my mind.
-You can think of it as just a clean tree-lined street.
“······.”
avenue.
Such a beautiful blow, just barely. At best, it’s at the level of a tree-lined road.
-Grandpa Marcus still has a long way to go. You don’t need to say anything. It’s a zombie. It’s not that I crave you because my personality is trash, it’s that I crave you because everyone deserves to be desired. Giggling.
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Crack.
I bit my teeth.
-Hmm?
An error occurred.
“Sigh…!”
I laid down on my upper body. Buuuuung! The orc’s club passed through the air above his waist. It was breathtaking. Following the first attack, he narrowly avoided the second attack.
And I had no intention of allowing a third attack.
-What?
I gathered strength in my knees.
-Look at this.
I focused the aura on the soles of my feet. I didn’t just collect it, I tried to bend it as much as possible like a spring. 5 seconds. 3 seconds. 1 second. It was clumsy, but when I thought the Aurors had gathered, I jumped up with all my might.
I raised my sword.
The target is the orc’s uvula!
-Oh?
The monster looked down at me in confusion. I was reflected in his eyes, and the tip of the knife I held was reflected. The sword reflected in my eyes grew bigger and bigger. A split second. My sword pierced his uvula, and the orc’s expression was twisted in pain.
-Craaaaa!
under the evening sky. A scream spread throughout the vast hunting ground.
Just when I thought that was enough.
-Don’t let your guard down until the end!
Bae Hu-ryeong shouted.
-Orc flesh is thick! Focus your aura on the tip of your sword! No, that would be too difficult. Just pour it out like you’re going to hit it!
So I did.
-Kaaaa!
The orc’s screams became more intense. I squeezed out every single drop of aura flowing from my heart, and struck it all with my sword. Every time a drop of aura penetrated the tip of the sword, the monster’s screams became more painful.
-Koh, ah… Crrrrr…!
Faaah!
Blood splattered. The orc’s blood slowly, as if in slow motion, covered my face. I didn’t avoid it. He didn’t even blink. Rather, he struggled to load even a single drop of aura onto the blade.
“die···!”
A very brief moment.
I could feel the tip of the sword piercing the orc’s neck all the way to the other side.
-Grrrrr…rr….
The orc stumbled.
Even the time of stumbling was long. The orc slowly fell backwards. dump! Since I didn’t let go of the hilt of the sword, when the monster fell, I fell as well.
“Huh… wow, wow…! Phew…!”
I looked down at the orc’s corpse and took a hard breath.
It wasn’t just breathing that was difficult.
Throbbing. One step too late, a sharp pain hit my whole body. My eyes were spinning. Without exaggeration, the pain felt like my limbs were going to be torn apart.
“Ugh…!?”
-Does it hurt? Does it hurt? cancer. It’s going to f*cking hurt.
Bae Hu-ryeong flew around me and scoffed.
-You carelessly used Aura on a topic that hasn’t even been properly cleared yet. There’s no way your weak body could hold out! I feel sorry for you.
“Hey, I… pretty…!”
-ah. Still, it was good that the auror was bent like a spring at the end. That was good. I’ll praise you. Aurors always have to use their creativity. A lot of people make the mistake, but the smarter he is, the better he is at fighting.
I wasn’t curious about that kind of thing right now.
“Hee, huh…! Ugh…!”
This pain!
The pain of crushed bones and bursting blood vessels. The only immediate concern was how to calm this pain. Normally, the pain would dull over time, but that wasn’t the case now that time had stretched out infinitely thanks to the elixir. It just hurt. It kept hurting.
I really felt like I was going to die.
-Does it hurt like you’re going to die?
“If you look, you won’t know…”
-Then it will be okay if I really die.
what?
-If you forcibly pierce the aura, the original person will turn into a half-asshole. This cannot be cured even if you take a potion. And permanent scars. So you just made yourself an asshole to kill an orc.
“what···.”
-I told you, zombie. If you didn’t have the regression skill, I wouldn’t have recommended this training method? Grandpa Marcus also takes the elixir, but just sits cross-legged. I don’t attack monsters as ignorantly as you do.
This ghost guy?
-But you go back when you die. It’s a piece of shit! No matter how extreme the training method, my body remains fine. i envy you. I’m so jealous. I wish I had regression skills like you!
and.
How can you be so obnoxious?
Could it be that this guy has a passive skill like [Sniffling] or [No Cheapness]? Otherwise, I couldn’t explain why his personality was so trash.
-It’s a zombie. But if you commit suicide, your kill count goes up again.
“Yes… stand…?”
-There is no need to increase the kill count here for no reason. It’s dangerous to be seen by Grandpa Marcus.
Cooung.
An uneasy sound rang majestically behind me. It was a sound I had heard somewhere, and it seemed like I had heard it not long ago. When I looked back, my uneasy premonition turned out to be correct. A monster that looked exactly like the orc I defeated earlier was standing there drooling.
“shit···.”
The monster was the same, but my condition was not the same. As Bae Hu-ryeong certified, my body is currently half-invalid. My whole body was in so much pain that I couldn’t even lift a finger.
-are you okay! There are plenty of hunters who can’t master auras even if they spend their whole lives, but you got a certain sense of it after drinking an elixir, right? If we keep going at this rate, maybe dying 100 times will be enough, right? A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, and a journey of 100 deaths begins with one death.
Bae Hu-ryeong grinned.
-Let’s go zombies! First of all, 1 death!
At the same time, the orc’s club began to come down. Slowly. Aiming precisely for the top of my head.
I looked up at the club that was right in front of my nose and opened my mouth.
“E… Lai…, Mr. Feet….”
Whoa!
Have you ever felt your nose being broken, your skull being smashed, and your brain exploding, one after another?
Probably not. I’m glad I don’t have it. It really feels like something.
The only comforting part was that I heard a voice as soon as my brain exploded.
[You are dead.]
The world has returned to normal.
To be precise, my sense of time came back.
‘Whoa…’
A pitch-black space.
A place where I stay for a while after I die before returning.
Now, in a place that I had become somewhat familiar with… there was someone floating around that I didn’t want to get used to.
-huh?
It was Bae Hu-ryeong.
-and. What is this again?
‘···A place where you stay for a while when you die. When I was killed by the Flame Emperor and the Sword Saint, I chose a skill card here. Well, I’m going to call it the Underworld for the time being.’
-It’s so f*cking amazing.
Bae Hu-ryeong glanced around the dark space.
-But it’s a zombie. Why am I here too?
‘Do you understand it’s me? It’s probably because you wrote it to me.’
I sighed.
‘If you wait a little longer, you will go back to 24 hours ago,’ a voice says, and then you go back. Oh. I’m also curious as to whether you will return with me or not…’
It was the moment I was about to say, “I’m curious.”
[The skill condition is achieved due to death.]
[Randomly copies Monster Orc’s skills.]
‘···uh?’
-what?
Bae Hu-ryeong and I stopped at the same time. We turned our heads and looked at each other. Bae Hu-ryeong was making a bewildered expression, and my face probably wasn’t much different.
[Forms a skill card.]
Two cards of the same color emerged from the darkness.
I looked up at it and mumbled absentmindedly.
‘···Do monsters also have skills?’
And Bae Hu-ryeong shouted.
-what’s this! It’s a f*cking scam!
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