Chapter 62 : Captain Object
Chapter 62: Captain Object
-Keoheoheng!
Pajijik!
The elite wolf monster’s roar echoed across the hillside as three lightning bolts were fired simultaneously.
Since they stood surrounding Baek Woohyun in a protective formation, the lightning bolts originating from them also targeted him from all directions.
At first glance, it was a terrifying attack that seemed to leave no room to dodge.
However, attacking from multiple directions didn’t automatically guarantee a hit. Especially since Baek Woohyun had already prepared himself.
Even a surprise attack would have been difficult to land, let alone a frontal assault when he was ready to respond.
He calmly calculated the paths of the lightning approaching him, then instantly visualized the trajectory to slice through them all at once.
Huung-!
Soul Eater traced the exact trajectory Baek Woohyun had visualized in his mind.
The three lightning bolts were torn apart by the destructive blade, and the elite wolf monsters’ first attack was thwarted disappointingly easily.
But despite his perfect response, he slightly frowned.
The remnants of the lightning that flowed through the metal Soul Eater transmitted a tingling pain to his grip.
Of course, thanks to the supernatural ability resistance from [Perfect Being], even this wasn’t much damage.
At most, it felt like a static shock?
If the lightning bolts had been more powerful, they might have completely paralyzed his grip, but then this Reverse World’s danger assessment grade would have been higher than F+~E+.
It meant the remnants of the supernatural ability technique had penetrated the supernatural ability resistance provided by [Perfect Being].
-Keoheoheng!
-Keuheoheng!
Realizing the lightning didn’t work, the elite wolf monsters charged in unison.
The remaining common entities too!
The sight of wolves larger than tigers charging from all directions, determined to bite at least once, was quite intimidating.
Though Baek Woohyun, who was being targeted, didn’t care at all.
“──!”
Far from being intimidated, Baek Woohyun boldly advanced and swung Soul Eater.
A slash as fast as the lightning bolts fired at him earlier, yet far more powerful, targeted the elite wolf monster in the lead.
It died with its head and nearly half its body split, unable to even think of dodging.
Still, it wasn’t a completely meaningless death.
By receiving the first slash with its life, it created an opportunity for the comrades charging behind.
It was just unfortunate that seizing the created opportunity was a separate matter.
-Keuheng!
First, the wolf monster that charged right after failed to seize the opportunity.
Though it aimed for Baek Woohyun’s forearm and charged from his blind spot, it passed by futilely as he took one large step back.
As if he had eyes on the back of his head, Baek Woohyun dodged the attack and immediately delivered a sharp blade to its flank.
The blade that dug in with a puuk! sound pierced straight through the wolf monster’s heart.
With its insides completely torn up and its heart sliced in half, the creature twitched for a moment before collapsing limply.
Unless it was one of the insect-type entities famous for tenacious vitality, surviving such a wound would be difficult, so it was a natural result.
‘Two left.’
-Keoheng!
However, Baek Woohyun had no time to rejoice despite defeating two wolf monsters—one elite included—with just two attacks.
Many wolf monsters still targeted him. Moreover, two of them were elite wolf monsters watching for opportunities to fire lightning bolts.
If he relaxed even for a moment, wolf monster fangs would immediately be driven into his body all over.
He readjusted his stance and pulled Soul Eater from the wolf monster, then swung it in a wide arc.
The trajectory carved in the air, the split wolf monster, the spurting blood.
It was a scene he’d witnessed several times since the battle began, but one thing stood out as slightly different.
“──!”
That was Baek Woohyun’s movement handling Soul Eater.
Until just before, he had displayed incomprehensible swordsmanship that seemed to ignore the physical law of action-reaction, wielding the greatsword over 2 meters as if it weighed nothing.
But now, he was clearly being affected by Soul Eater’s weight. In other words, his body was also being swung as he swung it.
One could say it changed from the realm of ‘Why does that work?’ to a level where people would say ‘Well, that makes sense…’
Huuuung-!
The problem was that the result created by this became far more terrifying than before.
Baek Woohyun didn’t just stop at being affected by Soul Eater’s weight—he converted it entirely into swinging force and imbued it in the blade.
This meant centrifugal force was added to the 2-meter greatsword being swung with superhuman strength, so how powerful would that be?
Kwajijik!
Truly overwhelming destructive power!
Soul Eater went beyond slicing through the wolf monster and completely crushed it to pieces. It happened because the force contained in the blade was far too powerful.
Moreover, such attacks didn’t end with just one. The enemies’ resistance couldn’t stop him, and he had no intention of stopping either.
Baek Woohyun’s storm-like slashes continued. With the momentum to tear apart every charging wolf monster.
Of course, the wolf monsters didn’t just take it lying down either. They tried to find any gap to stop the storm that was Baek Woohyun.
The two remaining elite entities fired lightning bolts, and the common entities charged in, ignoring even being sliced by the blade, as if trying to stop him with their lives.
Kwajijik!
……But even that was meaningless.
Before the natural disaster that was Baek Woohyun, the wolf monsters’ resistance was simply in vain.
Just as ordinary users were miserably defeated upon meeting him in PVP, the moment they faced him, their future was already determined.
Even elite entities were no exception. It was just a matter of whether it took slightly more effort or not.
“Huuuu-“
When Baek Woohyun finally stopped of his own volition, before him lay only corpses sunk in a sea of blood as usual.
In the end, he had slaughtered both the elite wolf monsters that had appeared so confidently and the common wolf monsters that had survived so tenaciously.
Meanwhile, there wasn’t a single wound on his body. Making the efforts of the wolf monsters, who tried to bite him even at the cost of their lives, seem futile.
‘It should appear soon.’
He’d killed enough, so the conditions should be met.
Baek Woohyun shook off the blood on Soul Eater and waited for the boss entity to appear.
Given the affection for comrades—or their pack—that the wolf monsters had shown, he thought it would appear soon.
Aoooooo—!
Indeed, Baek Woohyun’s expectation was correct. A massive howl could be heard from afar.
A roar filled with chillingly intense killing intent!
But there was no sound responding to the howl that sent chills down one’s spine just from hearing it. Because all those capable of responding were already dead and scattered about.
The howl presumed to be from the boss entity was reduced to merely a means of confirming its comrades’ annihilation.
“Be careful. It must be incredibly angry.”
“Yes.”
Baek Woohyun nodded at Kim Hana’s advice. He thought the same.
The wolf monsters seemed to live in packs as wolves do, which meant they had affection for their comrades.
Surely the boss entity would be the same, so one didn’t need to say how enraged it would be upon realizing the pack’s annihilation.
Keureurung!
Ujikeun! Kwajik!
“······.”
‘It’s coming.’
Soon, with a faint rumbling like thunder, something began descending from the hilltop toward where Baek Woohyun stood in a straight line.
Since the trees growing along the hillside were breaking and falling in sequence, one could roughly estimate how fast the descending entity was.
Additionally, from how many trees fell at once, one could also gauge what kind of size it had.
The boss wolf monster that landed before Baek Woohyun with a kuung! sound was so tremendously large that it was hard to think of it as a wolf.
It looked even larger than the boss entity he’d seen before, the scorpion monster, so it was easy to think of it as comparable to a two-story building in size.
Its silver fur with a faint blue tinge was different from the other wolf monsters that were merely gray, and its claws as large as its body were very threatening.
-······.
The boss wolf monster slowly looked around.
The tragically torn and crushed corpses—and even Baek Woohyun standing atop them.
Even though it was a beast with intelligence not reaching human level, the scene made it painfully clear what had happened here.
“······.”
-Keureureureu
The boss wolf monster’s red eyes burned with killing intent. With the will to absolutely tear apart the enemy who killed its comrades.
Intense electricity crackled and surged from the horns on its head, larger and sharper than those of the other elite wolf monsters.
Since it looked ready to charge at any moment, Baek Woohyun held Soul Eater at an angle. So he could charge and slash at any time.
-Keoheoheoheoheoheng!
The boss wolf monster charged with a roar that seemed to shake the entire Reverse World.
Unlike the elite entities that simply fired lightning bolts, it was completely wrapped in electricity, which made its charging speed incredibly fast.
Fast enough to be astonishing that such a large body could move so quickly.
It felt like the moment one realized it had kicked off the ground, it had already reached right before one’s nose, so anyone with slow reaction speed would have been swept away without doing anything.
“──!”
Of course, that didn’t apply to Baek Woohyun.
He had easily handled even enemies far faster than this in the past.
While the enraged boss wolf monster certainly exceeded its usual speed limit, even that wasn’t enough to push him back.
He swung Soul Eater toward the sharp claws of the approaching boss wolf monster trying to tear him to shreds.
Kaang-!
The claws and Soul Eater collided with a metallic ringing.
At first glance it looked like an equal clash, but the one at a disadvantage was Baek Woohyun. Given the boss wolf monster’s size, even with similar strength, the relatively smaller he was bound to be pushed back.
Moreover, the lightning wrapped around the claws played a part in pushing him back. Being a boss entity, the lightning was far more powerful than the elite entities’, meaning it dealt more damage to his grip.
“Tsk.”
Huung-!
Baek Woohyun’s eyes flashed white as he clicked his tongue.
He took a step forward and swung Soul Eater again. It was a slash imbued with such superhuman strength that the blade seemed to bend at first glance.
It was the same attack that had instantly killed even elite wolf monsters earlier, but the boss wolf monster clearly proved why it was a boss entity.
It batted away Soul Eater’s blade with its forepaw, deflecting it.