Solo Leveling - Chapter 190

Chapter 190

Chapter 190: Chapter 190

The TV in the living room was showing the scenes of yet another accident that took place within a dungeon . Those seemed to happen frequently nowadays .

Although no events that could be called truly enormous happened so far, the number of Hunters dying during the raids was on the rise lately, according to the news broadcast .

“I wonder, will my boy be okay?”

His mother, watching the news, recalled Jin-Woo and whispered to herself in a worried voice .

Didn’t matter how excellent a Hunter her son was, there was no helping with a mother worrying about her child’s safety .

Beru, hiding within the shadows to protect this home as per Jin-Woo’s instruction, heard her whispers .

‘Oh, the mother of my king . If my liege meets with an accident that even he can’t survive, then no one in this world can . ’

Beru did his best to suppress the words trying to jump out of his mouth . Obviously, he couldn’t surprise the mother of his liege needlessly, now could he? As his reward, he’d have to suffer in silent frustration all by himself .

He also found the liege’s mother, currently equating his liege against those low-class monsters shown on the TV screen, rather cruel and unkind for doing that . However, he roused up a super-human level of endurance and suppressed his desire to preach the incomparable might of his dear liege to her .

[Next up . We bring you the news on the conference organised by America’s Hunter Bureau… . ]

The scene shown on TV changed yet again to that of a certain American airport as the news related to the International Guild Conference played out . And then, Jin-Woo appeared on the screen as he stepped foot into the airport .

She saw her son walking forward as he was swarmed by the constant explosions of camera flashes . The worried look on her face was soon replaced by a contented smile .

“Jin-Ah? Your brother’s on TV . ”

“Really?”

Jin-Ah abandoned her studies and quickly trotted out of her room . This wouldn’t be the first time, but regardless, seeing her oppa on the TV screen remained a mystifying and welcoming viewing experience to her, even now .

But the thing was – both Jin-Ah and her mom had no idea .

They simply had no idea that there was someone very close, cheering on even more passionately then they did while watching the TV screen .

‘Oh, my king… . !’

Beru’s deeply-moved eyes were firmly fixed on the screen as he watched the clip being played out .

But then, a powerful chill began invading his body out of the blue . Literally, without warning, his body hidden in the shadows began trembling non-stop .

This sensation, hadn’t he felt something similar to this in the past?

When was that?

Beru combed through his memories and finally recalled that moment . Back then, right when the king’s gaze filled with killing intent was looking down on him . It was at that moment .

A feeling of death that could not be avoided . The warning bells rang out loudly via his instincts after detecting the unmistakable stench of death .

The king’s rage he felt for the first time since becoming his Shadow Soldier was so great that Beru’s entire thought process froze up . However, he was still his king’s loyal soldier!

He regained his wits quite quickly .

‘… . My king has been truly enraged . ’

Now that he realised something had happened to his king, he couldn’t just sit around quivering in fear like this . Beru quickly sent a signal to Jin-Woo and tried to engage him conversation .

‘Oh, my king . Please compose yourself . I shall get to your side immediately . ’

The response arrived immediately .

[You… . Don’t make a move . ]

Beru heard the king’s voice which sounded like unchecked rage being compressed into a volatile mass . He could only tremble like a leaf against stormy winds .

‘I shall obey . ’

He could only say that he’d submit to the command, that was all . But at the same time, he became also curious about the moron who managed to earn his king’s wrath .

‘Why would anyone do something so reckless and ill-advised… . ’

To numb the fear, even if only by a little, Beru hid his still-trembling body ever deeper into the shadow .

***

In the city of Busan .

The Knight Order Guild was in the middle of preparing for a raid .

The Master of the Guild, Park Jong-Su, was confirming the raid party members and their current conditions one last time, as the will to make this raid a success burned fiercely within his heart .

“There’s been a lot of accidents happening in dungeons lately . So, everyone – keep your wits about you at all times! Let’s make sure that not a single person gets injured today!”

“Yes, sir!”

The Guild members had become rather docile after experiencing a raid together with Jin-Woo’s summoned creatures . And now, they even sounded properly disciplined, as well .

It was at that moment something strange happened .

The Vice-Master of the Guild, Jeong Yun-Tae, was standing behind Park Jong-Su to nod his head and provide suitable reactions to his boss’s words . But, he discovered something and his eyes nearly popped out of his sockets .

“Heok?!”

Park Jong-Su hurriedly looked behind him .

“What?! What happened?”

Jeong Yun-Tae pointed to the ground and alternated his gaze between Park Jong-Su and the shadow beneath his boss’s feet .

“H-hyung-nim!! Your, your shadow! The shadow on the ground was vibrating… . ”

Jeong Yun-Tae discovered that Park Jong-Su was glaring at him with narrowed eyes and stopped talking right there and then .

“Hey, Yun-Tae? How many times have I told you not to touch booze before a raid?”

“N-no, hyung-nim! I haven’t had a drop of the stuff today! But your shadow, it really did vibrate! Like it was alive!”

Park Jong-Su stared at Jeong Yun-Tae with criticising eyes and spat out a long groan .

“This won’t do . Take a day off today . ”

“Hyung-nim! I’m telling you the truth!”

“Okay, everyone! Time to go inside . The Knight Order Guild, let’s do our best today, too! Fighting!”

“Ahh! B-but, hyung-nim…!”

Just as Jeong Yun-Tae’s voice that protested his innocence resounded in the air…

Unbelievable sightings of shadows trembling streamed in from all the spots where Jin-Woo had left behind his Shadow Soldiers . Shadows trembled noticeably as if they didn’t care for the presence of witnesses or not .

But then again, the Shadow Soldiers had no choice but to shiver from the emotion of pure rage their lord was feeling at that moment .

***

– Exchange .

The High Orc soldier disappeared, only to be replaced by Jin-Woo .

‘… . !!’

Hwang Dong-Su’s group froze up like a mouse confronted by a snake the moment this unexpected intruder entered the stage completely unannounced . Especially for Hwang Dong-Su himself, he nearly even forgot to breathe after recognising Jin-Woo’s face .

Meanwhile, Jin-Woo simply strode past the stunned rank S Hunter, as if the latter didn’t even exist, and stopped before Yu Jin-Ho . No one said anything, yet the two Americans standing near the unconscious kid quickly stepped back at the same time, as if they agreed to do so beforehand .

After summoning out a healing potion, Jin-Woo began easing a little bit of liquid down into Yu Jin-Ho’s mouth .

Unfortunately…

[When the remaining HP is less than 10%, it is impossible to recover HP with healing potions . ]

… . The message saying it was impossible to heal the kid’s wounds popped up in his view along with the familiar ‘Tti-ring’ .

Crack .

The empty vial of healing potion shattered in Jin-Woo’s hand .

The ‘Divine Water of Life’ was meant to heal diseases and illnesses . It couldn’t help in matters of physical injuries like this . It was the same principle of healing magic not being able to cure illnesses .

‘I need healing magic . ’

Too bad, the only Shadow Soldier capable of using healing magic, Beru, was currently back in Korea house-sitting . Even if Jin-Woo recalled him now, who knows just how long he’d take to get here…

… . It was around this time that Hwang Dong-Su finally regained his wits and tried to engage Jin-Woo in conversation .

“You… You, what the hell? That Orc, just now… What the hell did you do?”

Jin-Woo didn’t respond to that and simply asked the two men before him, instead .

“Is either one of you a Healer?”

Hearing the word ‘Healer’, the Healer-type Hunter ended up reflexively nodding his head . Jin-Woo pointed to Yu Jin-Ho .

“Heal him . Now . ”

The Healer’s gaze shifted over to Hwang Dong-Su . The latter shook his head . Jin-Woo carefully lowered Yu Jin-Ho’s upper torso back down and stood up .

“Final warning . Heal him . ”

The Healer’s gaze shifted back to Hwang Dong-Su again, but the answer remained the same . So, the Healer stared straight at Jin-Woo and the corners of his lips arched up .

“You see, dude, you should talk to the boss first before…”

He didn’t get to finish his sentence .

Ka-boom!!

Just like how Hwang Dong-Su had done to Yu Jin-Ho, Jin-Woo slammed the Healer’s head on the ground . It happened so fast that no one saw his movements .

Hwang Dong-Su might have been a rank S himself, but he simply failed to even sense Jin-Woo’s attack and only belatedly discovered the Healer lying face down on the ground .

Jin-Woo shifted his gaze to the second of the Americans .

“Are you a Healer?”

This man finally confirmed the face of Jin-Woo walking closer to him and his jaw began trembling in shock .

“S-Seong Jin-Woo?! Hunter Seong Jin-Woo??”

He back-pedalled in panic and began glaring at Hwang Dong-Su before shouting out .

“Mister Hwang Dong-Su! You promised that this matter had nothing to do with Seong Jin-Woo! What the f*ck is this?! Ah?? What is this sh*t?!”

“I asked you if you are a Healer or not . ”

“N-no, I, I’m not . I’m just… . ”

His answer was also abruptly cut off there .

Ka-boom!

Struck by an unseen hand, the man’s head crashed to the ground like his friend’s before him . In the blink of an eye, two high-ranked Hunters had lost their consciousness .

Finally getting to witness Jin-Woo’s real strength with his own two eyes, Hwang Dong-Su felt his heart pounding away like crazy .

It was then .

“H-hyung-nim…”

Perhaps because the ground rumbled loudly twice in a row? Yu Jin-Ho had regained his consciousness somehow .

“Hyung… . nim… . ”

Jin-Woo lowered his body and listened closely to the kid’s voice .

“Hey, Jin-Ho . I’m here . ”

Yu Jin-Ho managed to crack open his swollen eyelids . He barely managed to move the muscles on his bloodied and messed-up face, his words clearly being formed with great difficulty .

“Hwang Dong-Su… little brother… Hwang Dong-Seok… . Be careful…”

Jin-Woo looked at Yu Jin-Ho breathing weakly with a helpless expression before stopping the kid’s words .

“Shh . It’s fine . Don’t speak anymore . ”

“Hyung-nim… . ”

Yu Jin-Ho grabbed Jin-Woo’s hand as tears pooled on the edges of his eyes .

Jin-Woo quietly asked .

“Can you hold on for a little longer?”

Nod, nod .

It became harder to speak so Yu Jin-Ho made do with a nod to answer the question .

Jin-Woo carefully let go of his dongsaeng’s hand and slowly got back up to his feet, before shifting his gaze back over to Hwang Dong-Su .

However, Hwang Dong-Su didn’t back down and shot a glare right back . His legs were weakly trembling from the pressure of Jin-Woo’s murderous eyes, but he was not someone who’d cower and run away .

In the meantime, Jin-Woo’s coldly-flickering eyes were getting closer and closer . Hwang Dong-Su did his best to look unruffled and raised his voice .

“It was you, wasn’t it? You killed my older brother, Hwang Dong-Seok . Am I right?”

Hwang Dong-Su’s scared face grew closer with every step taken . And then, a certain someone’s face who enjoyed being strong against the weak, but remained weak against someone stronger, overlapped with his face in Jin-Woo’s view .

That caused his glare to become even colder .

Meanwhile, Hwang Dong-Su cried out .

“Answer me!! Seong Jin-Woo, didn’t you murder my brother and his team?!”

Jin-Woo stopped right in front of Hwang Dong-Su’s nose and replied .

“Ask him after you meet him again . ”

Grit .

Hwang Dong-Su punched with his fist wrapped in bright light . He was aiming for Jin-Woo’s face . Unfortunately for him, the latter simply ducked lower to evade that and shoved his own fist deep into the former’s stomach .

“Keo-Heok!”

Just one hit and Hwang Dong-Su vomited out a mouthful of blood .

***

“Stop the car!”

“Sir?”

“I said, stop the d*mn car!”

Thomas Andre roared out and the car he was riding in came to a sudden halt . As the vehicle in front carrying their Guild Master came to an abrupt halt, the chasing cars ferrying the Guild members all hurriedly came to a stop as well .

Screech, screeech… .

Loud noises resounded out from everywhere . Completely disregarding that…

Boom!

… . Thomas Andre kicked the car’s door away and climbed out in a hurry so he could glare in a certain direction . His expression crumpled into a vicious scowl .

“D*mn it… . ”

The elites of the Scavenger Guild, often referred to as the world’s best, jumped out from all the halted vehicles .

“Master, what is it?”

“Did something happen?”

Thomas Andre answered briefly to all the hurried questions from the Guild members .

“It has already begun . I’ll go ahead, so hurry and follow after me . ”

“Sir??”

What had already begun?

Before anyone could ask him for an explanation, though, Thomas Andre bent his knees . The muscles on his legs expanded powerfully and the asphalt on the ground began melting down . Other Hunters naturally took two, three steps away from him .

Ka-boom!!

Thomas Andre exploded up from the ground and in an instant, disappeared from their view .

***

‘Something is… . coming . ’

Something strong, that was .

Just as Thomas Andre had sensed Jin-Woo’s powers, the latter also sensed the former’s presence . So, he stopped moving his punching hand .

His other hand was still grabbing onto the collar of Hwang Dong-Su, who now was suffering from just as many grievous wounds as Yu Jin-Ho .

Ka-boom!

A part of the disused factory’s ceiling caved in and through the open gap, one of the four remaining Special Authority-rank Hunters in the world, Thomas Andre, flew in and landed on the ground .

Since he knew that a guest was arriving anyway, Jin-Woo wasn’t surprised in the slightest as he calmly took a look at the landing zone .

Thomas Andre stood up straight and quickly confirmed the situation .

He first saw Yu Jin-Ho, then Jin-Woo, and finally, the end of Jin-Woo’s hand . His gaze moved in that order, until stopping at Hwang Dong-Su .

Right away, Thomas Andre’s forehead creased up . Jin-Woo’s incredible magical energy emission had completely masked Hwang Dong-Su’s presence and he couldn’t initially sense it .

Thomas Andre took off and discarded his sunglasses .

“Hwang Dong-Su… Is he still alive?”

“For now . ”

Thomas Andre resorted to using simple English and enunciated each word loudly so that Jin-Woo, someone who might be not familiar with the language, could hear him clearly .

“Let him go . If you do that, we’ll forget that today’s event had ever happened . I’m asking you for a favour . ”

Jin-Woo strengthened his grip on Hwang Dong-Su’s collar and asked .

“What if I don’t want to?”

“Then, well . A favour won’t be a favour anymore . ”

One of the most powerful Hunters in the world bared his fangs .

A regular Hunter would start p*ssing their pants right about now . However, Jin-Woo’s own aura didn’t lose out to Thomas Andre’s .

“Come, then . ”

< Chapter 190 > Fin .

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