NOVEL NEXT Chapter 297
Doing Well Even if Scattered (6)
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Swoosh-.
Screech-!!
A chilling scream was heard, and another Purple Specter vanished.
Yoo Eun-seol inwardly sighed as she swung her sword.
‘…There are many.’
After falling into the trap called <Maze Touched by Death>, Yoo Eun-seol led her Hunting Team 1 in search of an exit.
And they encountered a massive number of undead.
Although other teams would also face monsters, the area Yoo Eun-seol’s team found seemed to have a particularly large quantity.‘And they’re tricky.’
The types of undead appearing in the area were also a problem.
The ones they’ve encountered so far included Geists, Wraiths, Purple Specters, Black Phantoms….
While all these words mean ‘ghost’, they were given separate monster names in the Holder world due to their slightly different appearances and abilities.
Their biggest characteristic was that physical attacks generally didn’t work on them.
Divine power or magic had to be used for attacks to be effective, and some even had the ability to pass through their opponents.
They were truly monsters that best fit the term ‘Dead spirit’.
Since conventional combat methods didn’t work, even the warrior-class clan members who took the lead found it difficult to avoid struggling.
‘My power too….’
Moreover, the fact that Yoo Eun-seol’s abilities weren’t effective in battles against multiple opponents was also contributing to the unfavorable situation.
Yoo Eun-seol, a top-class assassin.
She exerts great power in one-on-one situations, fitting her class abilities.
Her ultimate skills like [Snowfield Descending Blossoms] and [Thousand Flower Leaf Kill] were single-target skills that dealt a powerful blow to only one target.
Screech-!!
Swoosh-!!
The unpleasant cries of the Wraiths spread again.
Yoo Eun-seol, who had been lost in thought for a moment, soon gritted her teeth and raised her weapon.
In a situation where high-level undead were chaotically moving around and threatening team members,
The one who needed to exert the most strength now was Yoo Eun-seol herself, the team leader and clan vice-master.
“Haap…!!”
The S-grade Holder’s attack descends among the ghosts.
[Footsteps of the Snow Mountain], considered the strongest among footwork-type runes.
And [Plum Blossom Sword Technique], which is closer to aesthetics than swordsmanship.
When these two runes, embodying the aesthetics of martial arts, intersected, the most beautiful sword dance was unfolding on the battlefield.
Although there wasn’t a powerful single blow like an ultimate skill, she shows an intense performance just by utilizing the runes she possesses.
Five, ten, twenty, thirty….
Ghosts in numbers too many to count fell.
If they could fight like this, it seemed they could hunt all those numerous undead.
‘Not good.’
But this was too optimistic an assumption.
Even for an S-grade Holder, strength and magic are limited, and there’s a limit to the hands and feet that can be used.
In this seemingly endless swamp of undead…
Yoo Eun-seol and the clan members of Team 1 were likely to become exhausted.
‘Hmm… I need Jae-hyun.’
She suddenly felt a desperate need for Do Jae-hyun’s help.
With his diverse abilities and solid skills, he was particularly strong in these many-versus-few battles.
He swept through battlefields using highly mobile contractors, and always turned unfavorable battle situations to his advantage by utilizing his multi-skills, which were his strength.
Although Yoo Eun-seol had experienced many party hunts as an unaffiliated Holder… Looking back on all those memories, there was no battle as fast and efficient as the two-person tactics she conducted with him.
‘…I’ve become weak. Having thoughts like these.’
Yoo Eun-seol strengthened her grip on the sword, pulling herself together.
In fact, she had fought in worse conditions, with even less capable team members.
And somehow overcame desperate situations and succeeded in the conquest.
The current situation wasn’t much different from then.
It was just that this was a clan led by her beloved disciple.
The fact that she wanted to protect all its members without a single casualty.
…These factors were causing her heart to waver bit by bit.
Swoosh- Swoosh-!!
Screech-.
The terrible ghosts pounce again.
This time, it’s a group of Black Phantoms attempting a collective attack.
Yoo Eun-seol bit her lip tightly and raised her sword again.
…Or rather, she was about to raise her sword.
“Step away.”
Until that voice was heard.
She felt the strength in her raised sword suddenly drain away.
The face she had longed to see so much…
Appearing along with that briefly heard command.
And then.
Pop- Papap-!!
Screech-!!
Soon after, the surrounding group of Black Phantoms began to be deleted.
Literally ‘deleted’.
The man who entered the seemingly endless horde of ghosts was swinging his dagger, moving through them at a speed almost impossible to catch.
Yoo Eun-seol knew the identity of this skill.
‘Falling Blossoms Aesthetics….’
Judging by the command and skill effect, this was definitely [Falling Blossoms Aesthetics] created by Do Jae-hyun.
[Plum Blossom Sword Technique], known as the Flame Flower version among dagger martial arts.
The ultimate skill that Do Jae-hyun finally created within it.
And it was also the skill that Yoo Eun-seol had set as a condition for joint research when joining his clan <Evil Hunter>.
And now, the completed form of its activation…
Was unfolding before her eyes.
“Vice-Master. Are you badly hurt anywhere?”
Another man approached and asked from beside her.
Lim Hyun, the leader of <Evil Hunter>’s Hunting Team 2.
He was a fellow Holder with whom she had done many conquests when she was unaffiliated.
Although the clan members had been scattered when they fell into the <Maze Touched by Death>, they were now all gathered around Do Jae-hyun.
Yoo Eun-seol answered, not hiding her surprised expression.
“…As you can see. Have all the other clan members gathered as well?”
“Yes. The Clan Master found all of us. He’s truly amazing.”
Lim Hyun’s voice and eyes were full of trust.
Along with him, her gaze turns towards the front where the battle was taking place.
There was Do Jae-hyun, freely maneuvering between the ghosts with two short swords filled with divine power.
And seeing that sight, Yoo Eun-seol felt a sense of relief wash over her without realizing it.
It was truly amazing and surprising…
But it made sense because the subject was Do Jae-hyun again.
“That’s right. Really…”
…Jae-hyun is an incredible disciple.
Swallowing those words, Yoo Eun-seol smiled at the corners of her mouth.
The clan master and clan members had all gathered.
Now it was time to leave this infuriating trap.
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Ippotranslation
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There was no lie in Ripley’s words about designing the trap herself.
Following the magical exit she created, truly different spaces and new types of undead revealed themselves.
The first place we arrived was the area where Holder Lim Hyun and Team 2 were, but we couldn’t go directly to where they were, so we had to walk a bit after entering.
“Is this area also one that goes around in circles like where I was?”
A question that came up out of curiosity while walking.
Ripley shook her head in response.
“That trap was only set for the area you were in, Do Jae-hyun. The trap in this point is a huge pit in the middle. If you fall in there, it’s hard to get out even if you use all your physical strength and magic power.”
“What?”
Crazy.
Then we need to hurry and rescue them.
“Don’t worry. No one has been detected yet.”
Ripley reassured me, wiggling her fingers.
“And here, they’ve already met other humans.”
“Met them?”
“Yes. Unlike the area you were in, Do Jae-hyun, many other areas are connected to each other. Even so, to get to the final area, you still need to find the mediating place.”
When I asked her for descriptions, it turned out to be members of Team 3.
It seemed that Team 2 and Team 3 members had succeeded in finding each other.
“What’s this final area? Is that a trap too?”
Ripley answered that question with a grin.
“I don’t know!”
“…You don’t know?”
“Yeah! I just made it according to the request. There’s no special trap there, but I don’t know what’s there. But you have to go through there to get out of this maze. That’s how I designed it.”
Ripley put her hands on her waist as if proud of it.
Seeing that, I shook my head and moved forward.
As expected, despite her tremendous abilities, her personality and way of speaking were just like a mischievous little sister.
“What’s with that expression?!”
And she approached me again with her forehead deeply furrowed.
“Ripley. I have one more question.”
“Yeah! Go ahead.”
…It was easy to subdue her.
I asked the question I’d been most curious about since we made the contract earlier.
“Doesn’t my divine power bother you? Other necromancers all refused to contract because of the divine power.”
A high recovery score of 76.
And [Madness of Faith].
There’s even the [Silver Moonshadow] rune.
Divine power so pure it could almost be called that of a knight.
Naturally, without the [Dark Covenant] rune, such intense manifestation of divine power becomes something undead avoid.
That’s why I hadn’t been able to contract with a single necromancer until now, and Ripley, being a vampire, would also fall under the undead classification, so it should have been the same for her.
“Yeah! I’m the noble Count of Beltaine. That level of divine power isn’t enough to interfere with the contract.”
“……”
And the answer was simple.
…That level of divine power.
I thought I had become quite pure, but it seems for Ripley, it wasn’t yet at a level that would impact the contract significantly.
‘Well. At least it’s not bad.’
What she implied was significant.
It meant that the undead I’d encountered so far weren’t able to surpass my divine power, and also that Ripley, who did surpass it, was that much stronger as a contractor.
The contract made by chance was turning out more and more positive.
“M-Master!”
“Are you alright, Master!”
Anyway, Ripley and I soon arrived where the clan members were.
Just before falling into what Ripley called the ‘pit trap’.
As expected, the gathered clan members were from Teams 2 and 3, and fortunately, there were no casualties.
That’s how we slowly found the scattered clan members.
“Camilla? Call me Father one more time.”
“Oh, Do Jae-hyun. I’m quitting. Being a team leader is tough.”
Starting with Park Jin-woo’s Team 5, who said they encountered Death Knights and Lich hordes.
“Burn endlessly! Burn! Burn…!!”
“J-Juyeon. Stop it, they’re already dead. No, you can only use ultimate skills once anyway.”
Team 4, who said they met enemies with the same tendencies as themselves.
…And my lovers who seemed somewhat off.
“Jae-hyun, you managed to find everyone after all.”
“You’ve worked hard, Master.”
Finally, the ‘Ghost Zone’, said to have the largest number of monsters in this maze.
To Team 1 with my master, who had been struggling alone to protect the clan members.
Like putting together a broken puzzle, I managed to find all the clan members, and fortunately, there were no casualties among the elites of <Evil Hunter> even in this extreme situation.
“Let’s go, Ripley.”
“Okay! Then we’ll depart~”
Under the guidance of the brightly smiling Ripley, we were able to enter the ‘final area’ of the maze without bloodshed.
And then.
[You have reached the end of the ‘Maze Touched by Death’. This is the convergence point of the magic that operates the area. If you input magic into this point, you can escape the ‘Maze Touched by Death’.]
With the information window appearing before my eyes-
“It’s been a while, Do Jae-hyun.”
-And a very familiar face I’d seen many times before.
At the end of the maze, that guy was there.
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