NOVEL NEXT Chapter 83: Wrapping things up
(A/N: Summery chapter to wrap up the fighting, and very soon, it's going to be lemon time xD)
Their fight took a while to end.
It was long, it was bloody…
But when it ended, the winners as expected were Ren and Whitebeard.
It wasn't easy, that was a given, and if you'd ask them both wouldn't want to repeat it any time soon.
In Ren's case, he fought the other five remaining SS ranks, and he suffered heavily against them. Having taken down one and consumed a lot in that fight, he knew the other five would be even worse.
As originally his mana was enough to casually overpower another similarly strong opponent like him. But then, when he was faced with six monsters in that category, he just didn't have the juice, mana, to deal with them all.
Just facing against the second one while he was targeted by the other four was pretty tough for him, and he couldn't come out unscathed from it.
But he did it at any rate.
And then, by the time he took the third one, his reserves were already thinning, and even though he could continue and destroy the fourth, he would be left stranded then, just waiting for them to destroy him and tear him apart.
As such, he decided to forgo the big finishing moves that he could use, and instead, he brought his trusty old weapons to attack physically.
Then that fight took on a lengthier approach to it, as h could no longer use strong attacks that could wrap up a fight quickly.
He could no longer deal his fast powerful attacks and settled for a war of attrition against the scorpions who didn't seem like they suffered the same penalty as him.
They shot acid shots with ease, and those balls full of the acid were very potent and big in size, so Ren was careful around them.
As when an acid shot hit the ground, it ate at it and corroded it rapidly, and he didn't want to suffer the same fate which left a huge crated in the place they hit.
He also focused a lot on not getting hit by their poisonous stingers which he felt an innate sense of danger from.
He knew that if he got touched by that, it would become impossible for him to fight as he was doing now, and he would end up losing.
They also used their pincers, legs, and stingers to attack him, and due to their numbers, he found it extremely hard to dodge the more the fight was prolonged.
Each one had eight legs and one pincer, and they weren't random with their attacks, they were very coordinated, and it made it hard for him, as they attacked where he was supposed to dodge and predicted his moves.
So, by the end, he ended up suffering many injuries as his form was thrown on multiple occasions through the trees when he couldn't dodge.
His form became battered, and he suffered many wounds. But thankfully for him, nothing was too threatening.
Still, his situation required medical attention as soon as possible. And his own medical skill wasn't going to do anything in this situation.
However, as the group members watching wanted to help him, Ren didn't agree, as he wanted to finish his own fight. As long as he wasn't going to die, he didn't want any help. Perhaps like that, his stats would increase even more.
In the end, he managed to triumph all over them, and when he did so, he didn't let his tiredness and wounds bring him down. Instead, he went to check on the old man.
At the time he was hearing many explosion sounds, but then the sounds stopped all of a sudden, just around the time Ren was done himself.
By the time the battered Ren made it through, he saw an injured Whitebeard sitting on the ground, and around him was the dead body of the scorpion boss just sprawled over.
The monster was missing a huge chunk of its upper body as green blood was still leaking from it.
When Ren had seen it, even though he had seen that the old man was in a similar state to him, perhaps even more urgent than him, he once again admired the old man.
The SSS rank monster after all wouldn't even need a second with Ren to kill him.
So even then, Ren thought the old man was very strong for keeping up with it, much less now when he had killed that monster. His trait made him the strongest man Ren had seen so far. The shockwaves that resulted from him were so big they even reached him and he was very far from the two SSS ranks fighting position.
Still, the old man had two holes going through his body which were unnatural.
Ren had guessed that they should be the stingers of the scorpion which managed to puncture holes through the old man's body.
They had gone through completely and left a purple aura on the surrounding flesh. Which is how Ren had managed to guess the holes in the old man's body were made by the stingers.
There were also various other injuries on the old man's body, with blood pouring out of him as he breathed a bit roughly.
But the old mana greeted Ren with a smile and casually grossed over both of their injuries.
The two then sat there and waited for Ace to come back with some people to help them.
It was best done that way since both knew they would only annoy a certain someone if they moved as if nothing was wrong with them.
And that was Tsunade who had been watching them the whole time through the stream.
She had even wanted to come at that time on her own, but it was surprisingly Whitebeard who stopped her.
He spoke about some facts.
The very first of which was, that both he and Ren weren't supposed to be inside of this gate.
And there was no record or video of them entering so that would already raise some questions about that.
And now, as he told her, he could feel the healers and people coming along with Ace, Marco, and a few of his other children.
If she came, that would only add to the chaos.
So Tsunade settled down. She had already known that her disciple had gone to the gate, but since the healers weren't the only ones there, as the old man said, she decided to wait for them at the hospital since Sakura was bound to give them light treatment on stage and then bring them back.
So, she moved rapidly preparing.
And then, with the few minutes remaining, the old man and Ren casually chatted about their fights.
When the heroes and healers finally arrived, things finally settled down.
As the healers applied their magic, traits, and stuff to heal them both, some heroes also turned over to question… Ren.
Who would dare question the old man?
Luckily the old man took pity on him as he replied to their questions.
He explained about their being inside of the gate. How they came to support Ace, and since he was the one saying that, they didn't dare question why they didn't register before entering the gate.
The old man didn't need to explain that, even to their bosses, much less them.
The old man then spoke about how this gate had changed rank and how the monster had become a very strong SSS rank and that he had to go all out against it.
He also told them about Ren's fight and didn't forget to speak well about him, since, in the end, both will be getting some big checks. As for him, he didn't particularly care since he was paid well.
When the questions turned more annoying, Whitebeard finally glared at them making them all shut up.
Ren had been aware that they would get some rewards upon finishing this mission so he asked the old man what he had gotten.
But the old man was in so much haste to save his son that he didn't see that.
So, his reply to Ren was that he would see them later.
He then closed his eyes slowly and immediately fell asleep in that sitting position while crossing his arm and his Bisento still being held by him.
He trusted his sons that had come to take care of him, so he let go of his tiredness and fell asleep.
Ren wasn't much different, had seen Sakura, so he just relaxed and followed the procedures they did.
In the end, the old man and him were admitted to Tsunade's hospital where she worked, and then when Ren felt he was finally settled, he also let his tiredness get the better of him and fell asleep.
He also forgot to check what he had gotten as a reward, but that should be a surprise for when he woke up.
Right then, he just wanted to let his sore body relax.
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