Chapter 212
"Uriel! Come here for a moment!"
Cheon Yuhwa shouted loudly as she descended from the sky to the ground.
"Yes, I'm coming now, so please wait a moment!"
"I'm coming with you!"
At Cheon Yuhwa's call, Uriel flew to her side with Arachne on her back.
Outwardly, it looked more like Arachne was clinging to Uriel's back than Uriel carrying her, but in this urgent situation, no one pointed out such a trivial matter.
"Huh? Arachne is here too? Well, I guess it doesn't matter."
Cheon Yuhwa, who had muttered that and moved on, held out Lee Shin towards the two.
"Here, you two take him instead of me."
"Okay… woah!"
"Hiee!"
The two, who had nodded at Cheon Yuhwa's words and looked at Lee Shin, were startled and their eyes widened, and they hastily moved their hands.
The light from Uriel's hand enveloped Lee Shin's body and began to heal his wounds, and the spiderwebs from Arachne's fingertips flowed into Lee Shin's body, injecting medicine and beginning to suture his open wounds.
"I thought it wouldn't be a light injury when I saw Alice unnie holding him, but this is much more serious than I thought."
"Wow, it's amazing. No, what on earth do you have to do to create a wound that looks like it's collapsing from the inside like this? No, more than that, is this oppa even alive right now?"
Uriel and Arachne, so surprised, poured out their impressions as they looked at Lee Shin.
Healing and killing, their purposes were opposite, but the two had seen countless people crossing from the realm of the living to the realm of the dead.
In the eyes of those two, Lee Shin's current physical condition had already surpassed the level of being serious or on the verge of death.
Right now, Lee Shin's body was so serious that it felt stranger that he wasn't dead.
"Hey, don't you guys go around making people dead when they're not."
At that moment, Lee Shin, who had been closing his eyes, opened them and said to the two.
"Oppa? Wow, it's hard to believe you're alive, but you're conscious and even talking. Amazing."
"Oppa, are you even human? How can you be alive in this state? And with this kind of body condition, just breathing should be a level of pain that would cause shock death, so why are you so calm?"
"I don't know, maybe because my senses haven't fully returned yet, I don't feel any pain. To be honest, I don't even know if I'm breathing right now."
"You know that's a very dangerous thing to say, right? It means your body is turning into a corpse, doesn't it?!"
"Save the chatter for later."
Cheon Yuhwa lightly waved her hand and cut off the three's conversation.
"You two, restore this one as quickly as possible and then return him to the battlefield."
"Leave it to us!"
"Okay!"
At Cheon Yuhwa's words, the two said with bright smiles.
"I've only been doing buffs or heavy lifting lately, but I'm finally going back to my role as a healer. Don't worry! I'll take responsibility for oppa and make him even better than before the fight."
"I'll also suture his wounds and inject some poison that can be a medicine into his body. It'll be more helpful than nothing."
At Uriel's and Arachne's words, Lee Shin let out a deep sigh and said.
"Ugh, it hurts my pride. I was originally planning on eating it all by myself. But since I've eaten all the elixirs and potions I had in my mask, I can't refuse."
"Wow, you're really something, oppa. Do you really feel like saying that in this state?"
Arachne said as if she were fed up, and Lee Shin let out a chuckle.
"Do you even know what state I'm in right now?"
Even at this moment, all of Lee Shin's senses were being sharpened, as if telling him to cut Ziz's neck right away.
But a sword that has been sharpened too sharply will break simply and futilely from a side impact.
Lee Shin's current state was just like that.
Because his desire to kill Ziz had become too sharp, he felt that if he delayed, he would end up cutting something of his own.
"I don't know what it is, but I'll heal you soon, so just bear with it for a little while. Don't you know me? I'm Uriel, Uriel. I can save everyone except the dead."
"Alright, alright. I don't know what it is, but do it quickly. It's enough if you just restore me to the point where I can swing a spear."
"That won't do!"
At Lee Shin's words, Uriel shook her head firmly.
"I have my pride as a healer too. I'll make you even stronger than your original self and then cast all the buffs, so don't even think about getting up until then."
At Uriel's words, Lee Shin rolled his eyes slightly and looked at Arachne.
Arachne, who had noticed Lee Shin's gaze, smiled playfully.
"Give up, oppa. When she's like that, no one can stop her."
"…She's also a surprisingly annoying personality."
"Excuse me, I can hear you from the side."
Chwajwajwajwak-!
While Lee Shin was talking with the two, Crowley and Diz, who had been unable to avoid the attack due to their depleted stamina, were thrown to where they were by the impact.
"Hah, how annoying."
"It's tough."
The two, who had rolled on the floor grandly, were soaked in poison and blood from the rough battle they had had in the short time they were talking, and were full of wounds.
Lee Shin, looking at the two, chuckled.
"You're in much better shape than I thought."
"You, on the other hand, look more like a rag than I thought."
Crowley, who had answered that, spat out the blood that had collected in his mouth, swallowed a potion, and then looked at Lee Shin and Cheon Yuhwa.
"Why did you drag that one down here? It was already a monster beyond our expectations, and now it's become difficult to even approach it."
"What do you mean, what was I thinking? Of course, I brought him down with the intention of catching both of them at the same time."
Lee Shin said, feeling his strength returning a little thanks to the two.
"Although they're from the same side, they're not in a cooperative relationship."
"Is there a power struggle on that side too?"
"There is, but the reason they don't join forces has nothing to do with a power struggle. It's just because they don't like each other."
Lee Shin added, looking at the two's bodies.
"On top of that, in a situation where they're both seriously injured like now, they'll be even more wary of each other. Because they'll be aiming for each other's magic stones to recover their own wounds."
Certainly, as Lee Shin said, even though Crowley and Diz had disappeared, they were not looking for the two, but were glaring at each other with wary eyes.
For a monster, a magic stone is the only potion and at the same time the raw material for growth.
So for them, who were tired from their first proper fight, the magic stone of the one next to them was a mouth-watering prey.
But that didn't mean Crowley was convinced.
"Thanks to that, the difficulty has become much harder, though."
"But we can catch them much faster, right? Try to make good use of the opening created by them clashing with each other."
Lee Shin said in a playful voice, feeling the pain coming from all over his body as his senses began to return.
"I believe you guys can do it on your own."
ZIAAAAAA--!!!
VIAAAAAA--!!!
Simultaneously with Lee Shin saying that, a waterspout erupted and a storm arose.
A storm containing poison raged towards them.
"And looking at you guys, it seems you've been attacking with safety as a priority so far, but you shouldn't do that."
Grin-
"Try fighting by risking your lives and breaking your limits. You know that's how you can go higher, right?"
Crowley frowned at that and was about to say something, but Uriel intervened and stopped the two's conversation.
"Okay, okay, that's enough of the argument! And oppa, stop talking. In your current state, even saying a single word is a life-threatening hard labor."
"That…"
"Shh! I told you not to talk!"
Lee Shin, whose mouth was forcibly covered by Uriel's hand, blinked his eyes a few times in place of an answer.
At that, Uriel smiled with satisfaction and held Lee Shin.
"For now, I'll go and treat this oppa."
And so, Uriel disappeared to a place a little away from the battlefield, holding Lee Shin.
"Just a moment."
At that, the moment Arachne was about to follow Uriel, Cheon Yuhwa called out to her and stopped her.
"Why did you call me?"
"Take this with you and use it to treat that one."
Cheon Yuhwa threw two things that were in her inventory to Arachne.
"What are these?"
"They're things that will help restore that one. Ah, and tell that one that those two are a debt."
"Hmm, okay. Then I'll be going too."
Arachne, who had lightly waved her hand a few times, moved in the direction Uriel had disappeared.
After confirming that, Cheon Yuhwa walked over to Crowley and Diz.
"It was a living hell even with four of us, but now there are only three?"
"Don't think of it so difficultly."
Cheon Yuhwa said that and her eyes flashed.
"It's enough if we just hold on between them and keep poking at their weaknesses."
"You say it so nonchalantly."
"It seems I've been influenced by that guy, Lee Shin."
"…If you say one more word, I'll consider it a challenge to a fight."
The two, who had felt the sincerity in Cheon Yuhwa's words, quietly closed their mouths.
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Uriel and Arachne, who were a step away from the battlefield, laid Lee Shin down and began to treat him, observing his physical condition in earnest.
-You, from an objective point of view, how do you think your physical condition is?
'You know roughly, so why are you asking?'
Lee Shin chuckled and answered Irehgue's words.
'My body is about to die, and I'm just barely holding it together with [Regeneration].'
Lee Shin was forcibly holding on to his life by partially and strongly using [Regeneration] on the parts of his body that were about to stop working at any moment.
'Hoo, it's a relief that I met Uriel before the remaining energy of the elixir ran out.'
-On top of that, it seems it was the right decision to prepare the armor before the fight.
[Heavenly Beast's Hide]
-Unique
-A full-body leather armor made using the hides of various monsters. Because it has undergone a special process, it is light enough to be lifted with a finger even though it is made by layering several hides.
-[Thousand Layers of Hide] Always applied, it boasts excellent defense by layering several hides with various properties.
-[Regenerative Beast] Always applied, it responds to the owner's wounds and releases a strap with excellent regenerative power from the armor, wrapping the wound in place of a bandage.
-[Time of the Hunt] Always applied, from the moment the battle begins, the will of numerous beasts raises the owner's strength and assists his movements.
[Gray Dragon Robe]
-Unique
-A coat made using the wings of a dragon species that is said to have burned ten mountains with a single breath.
-[Scale Clothes] Always applied, it boasts a strength that can repel even steel because it is made using dark red scales.
-[Blessing of the Dragon Species] Always applied, it protects the owner's body from various status ailments such as heat, cold, and poison.
-[Ruler of the Mountain Range] Always applied, from the moment the battle begins, it emits a huge pressure and breaks the enemy's will.
'Certainly, that's true.'
It really felt like the clothes were somehow holding on to his life.
In particular, what Lee Shin had used usefully was [Regenerative Beast].
If it weren't for this function, Lee Shin would have already lost consciousness from excessive bleeding or one of his limbs would have been torn off.
On top of that, it had good compatibility with Lee Shin's abilities.
Because if he just wrapped it with a bandage, he could somehow connect it and use it with [Regeneration].
Lee Shin, who had thought that far, was slightly worried.
'By the way, can I even live?'
Because he was aware that he had overused his body a bit this time.
Lee Shin thought for a moment, then decided to just ignore it.
Since Uriel had said with her own mouth that she would take care of it, he decided to just trust her.