“Ugh, you bastard!! I’m going to kill you!! I mean it!!”
The man glared at his flaming ankle with bloodshot eyes, spouting nonsensical words.
As his ankle turned to ash and scattered, the chances of that happening became close to zero.
“……”
‘……’
I could clearly feel Ah-rin’s trembling gaze on me. She seemed to be stupidly biting her lips. It felt like a pathetic voice was echoing in my throat, suggesting it should just stop already.
‘Even after suffering like that, tsk… Yeon-hee and that one too, they’re too soft-hearted.’
But I had to discard such weak thoughts.
We aren’t ordinary people. We are monsters who use miraculous superpowers as easily as breathing.
At the very least, these guys should have been prepared for the childish antics they were pulling. They should have known that they could someday cross paths with someone as insane as me.
“Khihik… my leg… kheeek…”
Seeing the man whimpering over his remaining leg, I recalled the hunter from my past life who had both legs as artificial limbs. He was quite a strong person. Hmm…
Yeah, it wouldn’t be easy for him to sleep with just one leg.
‘I should wipe out all his hands.’
As I made that resolution and approached the man, Heo Min-sol and an unnamed man’s sharp blades jabbed into my body.
“Is it because they’re skeletons? Hahaha!! Stupid bastard, does he think this is a one-on-one duel?”
“Senpai! Right to the rabbit year—! Ugh, why isn’t this coming out?”
‘……’
It turned out these fools had actually learned something from the Ilseom Guild. It was barely a few seconds since I noticed their approach, and yet their swords were already embedded in my body.
Honest stabbing and sharp slicing.
It was a pretty high-quality attack packed with magic power.
Although it wasn’t as good as Baek Ah-rin’s near-mystical footwork, their movement technique was impressive too. They didn’t seem to be exhausting much stamina either.
‘It’s true that Baek Ah-rin has poor stamina.’
But these guys were really stupid. No matter how much I wrapped myself in bone armor to look human, the basic structure was that of a skeleton soldier.
So attacking me with swords like that wasn’t an efficient move. They should’ve pulled out blunt weapons, if not warhammers or maces.
I hadn’t even entered Nargul’s dungeon yet, and they were revealing their lack of experience at a critical moment.
“Gah?! Is this supposed to hurt…? Oh no!!”
Thud—!
“Khugh!”
As I sliced the dagger horizontally across the man’s neck, the flesh opened like a flower blooming along the line.
Then, from the opened line, red blood began to scatter into the air, albeit with a slight delay.
“Senpai!!”
Thud!
“Gwuh…”
The girl named Heo Min-sol was struggling to pull the sword out of me, but after catching a body blow from my left hook, her waist bent backward as if reaching for the sky.
‘Are these truly the fighters? Why are they all so weak?’
Even with just a light jab to the solar plexus, she fell to the ground frothing at the mouth and couldn’t get back up. If I had used [Warrior’s Roar], she might have fainted.
‘You! Our party! How dare you!’
I stomped on the man’s collapsed form and the curled-up Heo Min-sol on the ground.
Pow! Thud!
“Ahh!! Kheuh, my teeth, agh…!”
When his face was empty, I kicked it as hard as I could, sending his corn kernels flying.
When his stomach was exposed, I kicked his abdomen as if I were kicking a soccer ball.
“Kheh… Please, stop, I… can’t breathe…”
By the time the two of them were shaking in shock, with their eyes rolling back, a man’s strained voice sounded.
“Heh… impressive.”
It was Lee Seung-jun, the original leader of this party.
‘Why is this guy just standing there?’
Lee Seung-jun had clearly had opportunities to attack me but didn’t take them. After seeing that magic shield earlier, I had expected he possessed some decent offensive magic as well.
I had hoped to get hit, see how much my bone armor’s magical defense held up, but alas.
“Lee Yeon-hee, can you hear me? Please, just let me handle this. We’re only meeting for the first time today. So my grudges have nothing to do with you, right? And I have other matters to attend to…”
‘So he thinks Yeon-hee is controlling from a distance.’
If his reason for not attacking was to completely separate himself from these fools, he had somewhat succeeded. But he was too quick to switch his stance.
‘Just sitting there watching, and now what?’
Thud—!
“Ugh——!”
I gave Lee Seung-jun a jab to the abdomen as well, of course with half the strength I used on Heo Min-sol.
But even that seemed to cause him immense pain, as he gasped for breath and struggled to pull out a potion from his inventory and drank it greedily.
Not using the magic shield at all was probably just a sign of his unwillingness to get involved.
“Hah… t, are you going to hit me again…?”
He looked up at me from the ground and asked.
I shook my head, and he gave a look that looked like he had aged ten years, collapsing flat on the floor.
‘This guy really lacks a sense of crisis. Lying there with his belly exposed in this situation.’
I hesitated, wondering where he was from, whether he had friends in the nearby party, and what annoying trouble he might bring next.
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