Chapter 30 Why he shouldn’t be here b 3}
His fingers and toes were pulled out, and his ears and nose were ripped off. But the shock didn’t kill him.
Lee Chang-hoon was a challenger that surpassed ordinary people in every way.
“…”
However, if the bleeding continued, it would be difficult no matter how strong a challenger you were, so Yoon-seok collected some waste materials to create a bonfire. Then he heated an iron rod in it.
Lee Chang-hoon’s face turned even paler.
“…What, what are you going to do?!”
“Aren’t we supposed to stop the bleeding?”
Yoon-seok rubbed his fingers and toes with the heated iron rod.
“Argh! Argh! Argh! Stop! I’m sorry! Stoppppp!”
Although he screamed like crazy, he wondered if he would make it even if the bleeding stopped. When his nose and ears become the next target, Lee Chang-hoon couldn’t scream or cry any longer and fainted.
Yet Yoon-seok woke Lee Chang-hoon up. It was time to wrap up.
“Ha, don’t do it! Seriously, please. D-don’t!”
Yoon-seok grabbed Lee Chang-hoon’s head. Then, he poured the burning waste into his ear. He struggled weakly, but Yoon-seok was able to ignore it due to his immense physical strength.
“Ahh! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhhh!”
Lee Chang-hoon screamed. Although it is incomparable to his face, Yoon-seok’s hands were also on fire, so he could sense somewhat what pain he was going through. But he remained expressionless. This much pain was nothing. In other words, the days where he was bullied by them were more painful for Yoon-seok.
Shortly, Lee Chang-hoon’s screams stopped. He died from burning alive.
“…”
Yoon-seok was calm even though he’d done such a horrendous thing with his own hands. His heart rate was normal. He once tried to tear his body apart while training with b Blood Pact}, and when he fought the Heavenly Devil at the start, he had been repeatedly stabbed. His mentality wasn’t weak when he decided to break his fingers and toes.
What he did was reasonable. Lee Chang-hoon was trash which carried a grudge and tried to kill his parents.
‘I would become like him if I were not powerful or sharp enough.’
Yoon-seok was able to protect his parents and punish Lee Chang-hoon only because he was strong. The strong prey on the weak. Whether it was the Tower or here, you would be eaten up if you weren’t strong enough.
‘There is too much trash in this world.’
Yoon-seok thought he should grow stronger. There was too much trash in this world that was stronger than him. In cases like Kang Hyung-woo and Lee Chang-hoon, trash was unavoidable. Like a car accident, it happened unexpectedly as they stepped all over others’ lives with their dirty feet. In previous years, there was a bare minimum of being protected under the law, but the modern world itself was a chaotic mess.
If what Ragna predicted were true, monsters would begin to enter the real world. There would be a time where force became greater than law.
‘It’s not over once I return; I have to prepare for the next one.’
His return to stop Lee Chang-hoon’s revenge. Thanks to this incident, he had a stronger sense of purpose. He wouldn’t escape from the Tower but accept everything and grow stronger. Enough to not get bullied ever again and protect everyone he loves.
「Returning in 13:27:04.」
After checking the remaining time, Yoon-seok used the skill he prepared.
‘Dismantlement.’
Magic spread evenly over Lee Chang-hoon’s body and began to gnawing away at it rapidly. Indeed, the adjective completely was worth it. Three minutes later, not even a sliver of bone remained. Yoon-seok wanted to get out of there quickly since he finished cleaning up the mess.
But then, in the abandoned site where no presence was detected before, an intruder entered.
“…?”
An abnormal signal caught within the scope of the twenty-five-meter radius search. The color indicating danger or enemy was red. However, it wasn’t a human.
The outline resembled a wild dog.
‘Huh? Is it an abandoned dog?’
A moment of thought struck Yoon-seok’s mind. It was strange enough that a dog appeared in a place like this, and it wasn’t just a normal dog. The size and shape were similar, but the dog had three tails. Yoon-Seok quickly turned around and checked its identity with his eyes.
He confirmed it. This dog creature was one of the monsters Ragna mentioned.
‘Did it come after smelling blood?’
Yoon-seok reached for his waist out of habit and grew embarrassed when he realized there was no sword. At some point, the wolf had approached with ten meters.
“Growlllllllllllllllllll!”
The wolf bent its front feet as if it would leap at any second. Yoon-seok leaned his upper body in a defense position in response. But something unexpected happened.
Crackle!
Electricity blasted from one of the three tails. Regardless of his defense, yellow lightning hit him.
‘What? That’s it?’
The sense of frustration that he was attacked first with a hasty expectation was also over with the short thrill after being shot. He was troubled by the blatant attack for a second but ended with nothing more than a brief sense of tingling from being electrocuted.
「Magic Resistance was successfully achieved.」
He finally knew what was going on after reading the late announcement.
‘Let’s catch it first.’
Yoon-seok immediately ran to the wolf. Realizing the attack was ineffective, the confused wolf raised its tail again to strike a second blow. But…
His abilities combined with the additional skill of b Heavenly Body}, Yoon-seok, having achieved agility of D Rank, was a few steps ahead.
Boom-!
As Yoon-seok’s body stopped mid-air, he swung his hand. He was bemused by the scene that followed. He didn’t expect the wolf’s head to explode without having the time to react. Plus, he wasn’t even using his left-handed sword that amplified his strength.
‘Except for using strange abilities, it’s no different than a wolf. Are monsters like this…?’
He felt somewhat empty after refining his goals and dealing with the creature. He changed his mind about Ragna’s words that only challengers could deal with monsters, where magic and sword skills would work on them.
‘If guns don’t work…’
Then the Earth would be overrun by monsters. Yoon-seok focused on something else.
‘She said monsters started appearing one year after challengers showed up, but already…?’
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