Chapter 213
"Oppa, are you sure you're conscious, your eyes look a little blurry?"
"Yeah, I'm conscious, so don't worry. I can see the uncle with the scythe looking down at me from above us. Oh, I think we just made eye contact. He's waving at me."
Slap- Slap-
At Lee Shin's words, Uriel lightly tapped his cheek with a slightly pathetic face.
"I don't know who it is, but that person shouldn't be seen. And do you really have to joke like that in this situation?"
"Huh? How did you know it was a joke?"
Lee Shin said that and smiled widely.
"Actually, there's also an auntie with a halo above her head, not just the uncle with the scythe. I don't know what it is, but they're both watching me with hawk-like eyes. Am I the type that older women are into?"
"Huh? Oppa, you're joking, right? You shouldn't follow those people! That's the Grim Reaper and an angel aiming for your life!"
"Sigh, calm down."
As Uriel's eyes widened and she shouted at Lee Shin, Arachne lightly hit her head and calmed her down.
"Oppa, stop teasing her."
"What, you're not going to play along?"
At Lee Shin's words, Arachne let out a small snort as if she were contemplating something.
"Uhm~ To be honest, since your condition is what it is, I did think for a moment that maybe you were really seeing something like that~ but…"
Arachne, who had said that much, looked at Lee Shin and smiled playfully.
"Even if it were the Grim Reaper, there's no way an angel would come for you, oppa. That's when I realized it was a joke."
"…You're surprisingly harsh, you know? I'm hurt."
"Your whole body is already full of wounds, what's the big deal?"
Arachne playfully tapped Lee Shin's chest.
"Don't worry. I'll suture your heart's wounds while I'm suturing your body's wounds."
"…I'm the one who's healing the wounds, you know? And oppa, stop with those crude jokes."
"It's a joke I can only make in a situation like this. If I can do it, I should do it now so I don't regret it later."
Uriel said in a sulky voice, as if she were dissatisfied with being deceived, but Lee Shin just smiled playfully.
At that, Uriel's gaze on Lee Shin became slightly sharp.
"Okay, okay, if you're done joking, hurry up and use your inventory to take off the items you're wearing. They're torn here and there and hardened with blood, so it's impossible to take them off by hand."
"Alright, I got it. Just a moment."
Saying that, Lee Shin briefly operated his inventory and took out three bags.
Seeing that, the two's eyes widened.
"Hmm? What are these?"
"If you want to see, you can… is what I was going to say, but you've already opened them."
-Moving as your heart desires, it's like seeing your usual self.
At Irehgue's words, Lee Shin looked at the two with a complicated expression.
"The one in this bag is an elixir… and the other two contain potions and combat rations."
"Oppa, are you going on a trip or something? Why are you carrying all these things around?"
"I was carrying them to refill the food I had in this mask when it ran out. I couldn't recharge while fighting, so I took them out now."
Lee Shin said that and put [Gray Dragon Robe] into his inventory.
Then, the eyes of the two who were looking at Lee Shin became serious.
"It's uncomfortable when you look at me with such serious eyes…"
"Shut up and take it off quickly."
At Uriel's nagging, Lee Shin grumbled and took off [Heavenly Beast's Hide].
Then, the wounds on Lee Shin's body were finally fully revealed.
Right now, Lee Shin's body was accurately described as a cloth on the verge of tearing.
The wounds, which had been barely held together by being wrapped in bandages like a mummy, were about to open up, unable to withstand the slight force of gravity.
At that, Arachne immediately moved her hands.
Dozens of spiderwebs moved simultaneously, dug into Lee Shin's body, and began to suture and connect the urgent wounds.
Unlike when fighting Leviathan, the number of spiderwebs used was significantly reduced, but for Arachne, this situation was even more difficult.
She moves the threads coated with medicine separately and sutures the wounds.
To connect a body that was almost severed, the spiderwebs had to move hundreds of times in an instant.
It was a given that there should be no margin for error, as a major problem could occur if the nerves or muscles were connected incorrectly.
"Hoo."
Where Arachne had finished suturing the wounds, Uriel intensively cast a heal to completely connect the skin.
"Hoo, I've somehow managed to keep him from dying."
"I feel more tired than when I was fighting the snake."
Perhaps because they had poured their strength in a short period of time to prevent the wounds from opening, Lee Shin's appearance had now changed from a corpse to an ordinary critically ill patient.
The two smiled with satisfaction at the results they had created.
After fighting Leviathan, and then doing a job that required a high level of concentration in a short period of time without being in perfect condition, both of them felt their heads spin.
"You've worked hard. Then I'll be going now."
Teok-
As Lee Shin was about to get up, Uriel lightly pressed him down with her palm and stopped him.
"Where do you think you're going when you've just escaped being a corpse? The treatment isn't over yet."
"No, I can move again if I just fill up [Mask of the Glutton] with those and eat them while I'm on the move…"
"Shh-!"
As Uriel's eyes flashed, Lee Shin let out a sigh.
"Sigh. Then what should I do next?"
"There's nothing for you to do, oppa, so just sleep. When you wake up again, I won't stop you from going wherever you want to go."
"Ah, just a moment. Oppa, take this."
As Uriel said that and was about to raise her aura, Arachne intervened and handed something to Lee Shin.
"What is it?"
"It's a container with elixirs. It says 'Thunder Sound Pill' and 'Jade Flame Water'. I don't know what they are, but they seem to be very good elixirs."
"Hmm, really?"
"Yes, and Alice unnie told me to tell you to put it on your tab."
At Arachne's words, Lee Shin put the elixirs in his mask, thinking he would eat them when his body recovered a little.
"Now, then, I'll start the recovery, so oppa, just focus on completely recovering your body from now on."
Uriel said that and placed her hand on Lee Shin's chest.
[Angel's Cocoon]
Hwaaaa-
As soon as Uriel's hand touched Lee Shin's chest, huge wings popped out from her palm and enveloped Lee Shin's body like a cocoon.
Seeing that, Arachne smiled slightly.
"As expected, you're using this."
"Well, of course. You also expected it, so you put in that elixir, didn't you?"
At Uriel's words, Arachne replaced her answer with a playful smile and lightly moved her hands.
Then, thousands of spiderwebs moved and created a huge spiderweb around them.
"If you need anything, tell me, and you focus on the treatment. I'll make sure you don't get caught up in it and die, at least."
Arachne said that and looked at the wing cocoon that Lee Shin had entered.
Strictly speaking, what was happening in there was probably not treatment.
Because that was not a technique to heal the body of the subject inside the cocoon, but a technique to raise the subject's regenerative power.
If they had simply chosen to heal Lee Shin, they could have improved his condition faster.
But they chose this method.
Because they thought that even if it was a bit of a gamble, the top priority now was to raise their power somehow.
"It's very difficult for me to use this technique in this state. But it would be a shame if oppa lost his stats after going through so much trouble, so I'm being considerate."
Uriel, who had muttered that, smiled slightly with anticipation of how much stronger Lee Shin would be when he came out this time.
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"This one…"
Baekhyun said to the other party members with his choker as he tore Behemoth's body with his claws.
"It's tough, but it's much more manageable than I thought."
"I'm sure it's not as hard as I thought."
"Certainly."
At Baekhyun's words, Hercules and Yeonhwa agreed.
Hercules smiled and concentrated his strength on the hand holding the club.
A force strong enough to shatter a mountain in one blow was concentrated on one point of the club and swung at Behemoth.
A piercing impact pierced through Behemoth's hide.
On the other side, Yeonhwa swung her sword and peeled off Behemoth's hide.
It wasn't that Behemoth was weak.
Just by shouting with magic power, it could shatter a city, and every time it moved its foot, it caused an earthquake.
If it wanted, it was free to make huge awls pop out of the ground or make huge rocks soar into the air.
But the compatibility was not good.
Behemoth had no ability to inflict an unavoidable attack by calling a storm or to slowly take away the opponent's strength using water and poison.
Behemoth's roar shook their heads dizzily even if they blocked their ears by moving their qi, but that was all.
The earthquake attack that shook the ground was avoided by getting on top of Behemoth or flying into the air.
At that, Behemoth, trusting its own hide, attacked them by dropping rocks on them, but that was also useless.
They would somehow widen any small gap and dig into it, avoiding Behemoth's attacks and attacking it.
A skin tougher and harder than iron armor, a huge body comparable to a mountain range, and a wide-range attack using a huge amount of magic power were Behemoth's strengths.
But that was only an advantage against a large number of weak enemies, and it was not the power needed to face them now.
Right now, Behemoth was literally a punching bag that was taking their attacks.
No, in a way, it was more accurate to say it was a puzzle.
Because Baekhyun, Hercules, Yeonhwa, and Merlin were all raising their concentration in real time to solve the huge problem of Behemoth, testing their own solutions, and growing more and more.
In that, Behemoth realized that it was being slowly hunted by them.
It was a sense of crisis that Behemoth, who had lived a life as a predator that was always revered, had felt for the first time.
Behemoth's battle was to take everything and at the same time destroy everything.
But at the root of that fighting style was the insurance of its own absolute safety.
Of course, it wasn't that they were inflicting significant damage on Behemoth now.
The damage Behemoth was feeling now was all a mental sense of crisis, and the physical damage was so minor that it could only be called a scratch.
And yet, Behemoth felt uneasy.
The blow Hercules had struck a little while ago was the biggest damage, but the other three were also gradually finding ways to inflict damage on its body.
Behemoth, who had realized that it was being hunted, tried various things and sought a solution to escape this situation, but it was useless.
Something more revolutionary than a shabby struggle was needed.
Something of a level that could rapidly increase its power.
ZIAAAAAAAAA--!!!
VIAAAAAAAAA--!!!
At that moment, Behemoth's ears heard the cries of the two from afar.
He didn't know the reason, but the two, who had a similar power to him, were together and were showing hostility towards each other.
At the same time, their appearance, using their respective powers to check each other, was no different from that of a wounded beast.
The moment he saw the appearance of those two, Behemoth realized.
A way to turn this situation around.
Kuuung-!!
It is possible if he eats those two.
Of course, it was a method he would not have thought of normally.
Because although they were wounded, it was much easier to deal with these four than to deal with those two.
But desire made Behemoth's feet move.
Those two are wounded, while he is almost unscathed.
On top of that, he thought he could shake off these bugs in that storm of poison.
BEHAAAAAA--!!!
How much could he grow if he ate those two?
Greed boiled.
And when he came to his senses, Behemoth's feet were already breaking the ground and running.
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