Chapter 47

Ogres

How useful would the wound to the left eye be?

No, it wouldn’t be too useful . The monster would become enraged . A wound wasn’t any relief to him . The ogre could easily kill Sungmin’s body in one hit .

Sungmin stood there quietly and waited for the ogre's next move . The ogre stared at Sungmin while covering it eye .

And when it removed its hand, the left eye was back to normal . Regeneration . Yes . ogres had incredibly regeneration skills . That was one of the reasons why the ogre's were one of the strongest predators . A simple wound could easily be regenerated .

“It’s a chimera!”

Lude screamed from behind . It’s regeneration was strong enough to recover an eyes . That was because it was not just an ogre but a chimera .

‘I learned something . One wound can’t do anything . ’

Sungmin nodded . He learned that . It was the first time he fought against a ogre, and a chimera… but he felt glad that he didn’t feel too happy that he wounded it .

What to do next?

The ogre looked back at Sungmin . It was laughing at him . Is this all you can do . That was the voice that was in Sungmin’s mind . The nightmares that he always felt at the Mountain of Mush, the smell that he felt .

The world turned dark . Like when he had the penalty of sight .

When he breathed, everything was gone . He saw the forest, not the mountain . The voices in his ears were gone . There was no smell . The world wasn’t dark .

I wasn’t heavy anymore .

The spear head was shot out towards the face of the ogre . The ogre moved quickly sideways to dodge it .

Sungmin swung his spear sideways . Bap! It hit the ogre's cheek . It was not a killing blow, but just a blow to get a reaction .

The ogre did just that . It was an ineffective attack, but it was angry that he got hit in the face . The ogre swung down his fist at Sungmin . Sungmin switched his hand position on his spear, moved backwards, and swung his spear .

Ran, na, zhe .

It was the basis of the spear technique . The zhe was the stabbing, ran was the spin . Sungmin turned the spear outwards . The first hit with sungmin’s spear and was turned around by the spin .

Bang!

The ogre's hand bounced outwardly . Ran, na, zhe . He sung the spear millions of times . The spear was headed towards the chest that wasn’t blocked by the arm anymore . The ogre twisted his body . The left arm’s sharp fingers tried to slice the spear .

Na, it was the inner spin . When the spear hit with the fingernails of the ogre, the ogre’s left arm was forced inward . Sungmin got back the spear and changed his hand position .

And he swung it downwards . The spear struck the ogre's left knee . Even if it’s skin was hard, there was always a weak point in the skin . The strike broke the bones of the tendon . The heavy body of the ogre moved slightly .

He took back the spear . His aura was swarming the spear . How long would it be before the knee was regenerated . Sungmin didn’t care .

He moved to hunt the ogre . The cha was swung once more . Losing its balance, the ogre tried to swing his arm, but because his left leg couldn’t support him, the arm only sliced air .

Crk! The spear broke through the ogre’s right knees . Sungmin struck it very deep, so the spear came through the other side of the knees . And he divided the spear in half

No matter how strong the regner would be, the ogre would try and take out the spear first . Sungmin took his halved spear and swung it around .

There was no laughing in the ogre’s face now . The ogre first tried to remove the spear that was inside his knee . Sungmin’s body disappeared from the vision of the ogre .

The ogre didn’t see Sungmin, but Lude did . Outside the vision of the ogre, Sungmin moved left around the ogre . When the ogre tried to pull out the spear, Sungmin held up his spear .

Puck!

The spear struck through the armpit of the ogre . It went very, very deep . The spear came out through the shoulder of the ogre .

“CRKKKK!!”

The ogre screamed . It was a different scream than before . It would hurt . Even if it had regeneration powers, the pain was real . Sungmin quickly pulled out another spear from his pocket .

The ogre didn’t regenerate its wound on its leg . It wasn’t able to stand out . The spear in Sungmin’s hand exploded . The spear string danced like it was crazy . The second step of the High Heavens shot out towards the ogre’s body .

Bubububu! The strikes didn’t break through the ogre’s body, but it made his fall down backwards . The ogre tried flail its arms and resist, but it was so slow to Sungin… so slow .

He felt the cries of the cicada .

It was the cries that he felt in the Mountain of Mush .

He didn’t want to be a cicada . He may have been a type that was waiting to go out to the world, but Sungmin didn't want to be a cicada . Living in the dark for ages, coming out, crying, then dying . He didn’t want that .

Then what did Sungmin want . What did he want to be .

He didn’t know .

Sungmin couldn’t answer that just yet . Something other than a cicada . What was what . He wanted to surpass Wijihoyun, protect Sogo, see the end of martial arts .

He didn’t know what was at the end . He didn’t know if he could do it even if he spent his entire life on it . But there was one thing he knew . He couldn’t die . He couldn’t do anything if he died . He couldn’t surpass Wijihoyun, protect Sogo, or see the end of martial arts .

Death was nothing . Sungmin knew . He already died before . At the end of death… it was be impossible to come back . There was only one life for humans, Sungmin was lucky, but there wouldn't be a next time .

So he didn’t want any regrets .

He couldn’t die here . Dying just by this monster . Wijihoyun would have easily killed this monster . Sogo would have as well . If he wanted to protect Sogo, he couldn’t be weaker than her . If he wanted to go past, Wijihoyun, he had to go further than the limits .

A cicada couldn’t do that . Sungmin wasn’t one, however . He maybe have been a cicada in the mountain, but Sungmin was something else .

‘I am . ’

Sungmin moved towards the ogre . The ogre that fell down couldn’t stand back up and was moving on the ground . Sungmin held the spear with a nonchalant face .

Sweep .

The spear was shot . The cha that was shot . The left eye . Then the right eye . He felt completely calm . It was strange even to him .

He wanted some gratification, but there was done . Instead of pleasure… it was more of a ‘I should be able to do this . ’

Lude looked at Sungmin through the silence . Sungmin held his spear tightly after taking away the vision of the ogre .

And then many times, many times, he swung it downwards . The ogre’s neck . The skin was broken . The lips of the ogre was bloody . Sungmin moved towards the head of the ogre . Then he repeated the stabbing .

After a bit, the ogre’s body didn’t move . It died . The chimera that was meant to be the perfect ogre . . . died like that

“What… are you?”

Lude hesitated and asked . Sungmin pulled out the spear and answered

“I’m a person . ”

“Are you joking?”

“That’s true . ”

Sungmin bitterly smiled and answered . Sungmin said looking at Lude .

“Can you help me . I have to take the head… but I can’t cut it with the spear . ”

“No, let’s take the entire thing . ”

Lude spit out . He walked towards Sungmin and opened the bag .

“If it’s a body of an ogre chimera, there’s reason to take everything . We need to know what kind of crazy magician put an ogre chimera in the forest, too . ”

Lude put down the bag in front of the body . The body was sucked into the bag .

“I did pass the test, right?”

Sungmin asked . To that, Lude smiled .

“ . . . Did you not hear me? The ogre chimera is like a twinhead . I need to see when I get back, but that was a twinhead type monster . There was no one that caught a twinhead for their test . You… would get a S rank, but maybe even an SS rank .

Sungmin laughed at what Lude said . It felt good that his skill was being shown off . The training at the Mountain of Mush was paying off .

“What crazy person let this loose out here?”

Lude muttred . Sungmin had a feeling . The dungeon of the black magician . He didn’t know where the exact location of it was . If he did, he would check it out .

But in half a year, the dungeon of a black magician was found out . The ogre chimera that was found outside the castle wall . There were many magicians that did the chimera experience, but for something like this, a black magician would fit the type .

‘But when I lived, there was no news of the guild catching a orge chimera . ’

The guild may have ignored the mission in his past life . But if he did, the ogre chimera would have invaded the village . Sungmin wrinkled his face and tried to remember .

“What are you doing? Let’s go back . ”

Lude tapped Sungmin’s shoulder .

“Ok . ”

He nodded .