Became a Munchkin Skill Thief

Episode 14 Gaslighting

The Cheonan Ghost.

There is an unusual curse on the master who bears the name of a ghost with a thousand faces.

The curse was simple to explain.

Because the face disappears the moment you touch one of his eight hands.

However, unlike simple things, the effect of the curse was infamous.

This is because breathing becomes impossible when the nose and mouth disappear.

“Eup, ugh!”

Just in time, one of the knights, who was a trainee, was hit by Cheonan Gui’s hand and his face disappeared.

Unable to speak because he had no mouth, he only let out the echo of his vocal chords a few times, then died by tearing off his empty face.

It was because there was no way to live unless the governor was right there.

“Come on!”

But unlike the apprentice knights, Velokin and the other knights were ringing the news of victory.

For a master of 3-star world erosion, the Cheonan Ghost was strong, but not at the level of being able to compete with Velokin and the knights.

“Geee!”

One arm of Cheonan-Gi was completely burned by Belokin’s Ignis.

Amid the unquenchable flames, Cheonan’s ear seemed to grow even more feverish as he swung his arm at random.

The arm strength of Cheonan Gui was enough to lightly bend a person’s body.

Even the expert intermediate level knights couldn’t get it from the front, so they had to evade by rolling on the floor.

Kooung!

But the Velokin was different.

It was because he blocked Cheonan-Gwi’s hand from the front, and at the same time, rather pushed it away.

Thanks to that, Belokin’s sword pierced the gap in the staggering Cheonan’s ears and exploded once more.

Roaring!

“Don’t back down! I’ll make a gap!”

The morale of the knights rose once more in front of that overwhelming feat.

And Balheim was engraved in their hearts once again.

The idea that even world erosion, which is the fundamental fear of mankind, can be prevented with Valheim filled their heads.

“Follow Belokin!”

Guessing victory, the knights shouted and rushed at Cheonan.

Looking at that scene, Velokin received a sense of self-esteem rising again.

As expected, I am myself.

This was Velokin Valheim!

As soon as a proud smile spread across his face, Belokin suddenly remembered Krache.

He was invisible among the knights.

Then, did he die from the hands of the Cheonan Ghost?

If that’s the case, he thought that this mission would be worthwhile, and soon saw Krashu in the distance and regretted it.

But it’s okay.

If you feel the difference between yourself and your strength and tremble in fear of the world erosion, you have succeeded.

However, in Belokin’s eyes, Krashu was not trembling in fear.

He was just staring at something.

And that wasn’t the gaze toward himself.

What is it?

What the hell are you looking at?

A question passed in Belokin’s eyes for a moment.

Juruk!

Suddenly, the sound of something flowing down Cheonan-Gwi’s face came.

Hearing the sound, the moment Velokin quickly turned his head, the reflection in his eyes stiffened his body.

It was because black blood was pouring out simultaneously from all the facial pores of Cheonan Gui.

The moment Velokin realized the symptoms and tried to distance himself immediately.

Craft!

Black sparks flowed all over Cheonan Gui’s body.

Belokin’s eyes widened at an abnormal situation he had never seen before.

But he immediately raised his sword.

It was because I thought I had to kill Cheonan-gwi right away.

“Everybody kill the Cheonan Ghost!”

Bellokin shouted and immediately struck the sword at the Cheonan ear.

Puff!

However, the black body of his black heavenly eye could not be separated.

Even though it contained an aura, it could not be cut.

When Belokin opened his eyes, Cheonan-Gwi’s body began to rise.

At that time, Bellokin was taken aback when he saw Cheonan-Gwi’s body suddenly swell.

He realized that there was no follow-up from the knights who were supposed to follow him.

“What are you doing!”

It was the moment when the knights of Valheim were about to shout at the Cheonan-gwi, asking if they were even scared.

When he turned his head back, the faces of all the knights there were blank.

When Bellokin’s eyes slowly widened as he saw them standing there with blank faces.

“Ugh?!”

He belatedly realized that he had suddenly lost sight in one side of him.

He hurriedly groped for his eyes, only touching his bare skin where his eyes were supposed to be.

The moment he realized that he had been cursed, a pitch-black shadow fell over Belokin’s head.

As Bellokin’s only remaining field of vision slowly raised, there was an ear of Cheonan, which was incomparably larger than before, staring down at Bellokin with his arms folded somewhat.

Kwa Kwang!

Lightning rang once.

And one of the white faces that protruded the most was split in half.

The moment when the white teeth and tongue stretched out through the gaps in the cracked face.

“Geee!”

The swampland shook with a roar that erupted.

Soon, following that roar, torrential rain poured down from the sky.

Belokin realized.

The fact that despair amid the erosion of the world hung over it.

“Ah, ah!”

Belokin kicked off the floor and started running.

The swamp swelled due to the pouring rain and at some point filled his legs half way, but it wasn’t the time to care about that.

Die.

Die!

Those thoughts filled his head.

Perhaps it was because of the lack of vision on one side, Velokin just ran with his sense of balance constantly shaking.

Obviously, it seemed like we arrived right away, but no matter how much we ran, we couldn’t see the end of this swamp.

The falling rain kept blocking my view.

The soggy swamp tied my legs.

Kung-kung-kung-kung!

In the meantime, the footsteps of Cheonan-Gi slowly approaching from behind kept choking his mind.

Amidst the erosion of the world, Velokin felt infinitely small.

Then several thoughts popped up in his mind.

He is a Belokin born in Valheim, the strongest family in Staron Kingdom.

But what the heck is this now?

The knights who came with him lost everything in an instant, and he was just running away like crazy, frightened by the owner of the world erosion.

I mean Balheim himself.

Obviously.

Valheim is definitely the strongest.

If that’s the case, then he who belongs to Valheim must be the strongest.

If it’s like this, shouldn’t it be like this?

At that moment, what came to his mind clearly was Charlotte.

Her own half-sister and the star of Staron with a dazzling talent.

If it were her, what would she be like in this position now?

Did he really run away like himself?

Did you personally raise your sword against that monster and defeat it?

Such thoughts kept popping up in his mind.

I was afraid.

I didn’t know what kind of scolding I would receive from my family if I went back like this.

And I thought that the gap with Charlotte, whom I couldn’t catch no matter how much I ran, would widen again.

My place in Valheim is gradually disappearing, and I am afraid that I will be remembered by the world as an idiot who catches up with her sister.

When he was young, his mother, who died, feared that he would not be able to keep his promise to grow up.

The shackles drove Velokin mad.

At that moment, a shadow fell over his head again.

Belocin’s steps were delayed again due to the waist-high swamp, and he was caught up by Cheonan-gwi before he knew it.

When he realized that fact, he hurriedly raised his sword.

The arm of Cheonan Gui, which was much bigger than his own body, was lifted high into the sky.

“Ah.”

It was a very brief moment when a voice came out of Bellokin’s mouth.

Quaaagh!

The lower arm of Cheonan Gwi shattered the swamp, and the water in the swamp rose high into the sky.

Because of that, the swamp area shook violently for a while like a wave.

I couldn’t see Velokin below.

It’s just that the pouring rainwater fills up the place where someone quietly passed by.

＊ ＊ ＊

It wasn’t long before Belokin woke up after that.

My body was heavy.

I was in a mess.

My ribs hurt as if stabbing my lungs, and my body temperature was so low that I lost my mind.

In addition, the clothes soaked up the water of the swamp, so it felt like lead.

The main problem was wearing thick clothes because of the cold.

‘Is it bought?’

It seems that the body moved barely enough to avoid Cheonan Gwi’s attack.

Of course, I couldn’t completely avoid it, so I was caught up in the waves that started with Cheonan Gwi’s attack and lost my mind.

After a while he realized that someone was making his way through the swamp with his arm around his shoulder.

Looking around him with barely clear vision, he realized that those shoulders were very small.

Like, like a child.

And it wasn’t long before he realized who the owner of the shoulder was.

“Eh, Rashu?”

The moment the name was called, the boy’s head turned this way.

There was Krashu there.

His hair was all wet and messy in the pouring rain like his, and he looked relieved.

Belokin, whose head was filled with thoughts of Cheonan Gwi and Charlotte, realized belatedly that Krashu had come with him.

“Brother, are you awake?”

“How were you, no, alive?”

“Yes, it is dangerous, so you were originally watching from afar.”

Is that so?

It seems that thanks to that, unlike the knights, he was not exposed to the curse.

But somewhere in Belokin’s heart he didn’t like the situation.

It was because the fact that Krashu was walking with him supporting him kept gnawing somewhere in his heart.

Belokhin’s self-esteem was literally shattered on the previous run.

The fact that he was being helped by Krashu, whom he thought would be under him for the rest of his life, seemed to trample on his last bit of pride.

“All right. I will walk myself.”

Belokin removed Krashu’s arm from his shoulder and took a deep breath.

A while ago, while I was caught up in shock, my breathing was uneven, perhaps something went wrong inside.

Furthermore, it wasn’t normal to come.

But it wasn’t to the extent that he couldn’t walk at all.

Even if he couldn’t walk, he had no intention of getting help from Krashu.

“Brother, your physical condition is not normal. Don’t do that.”

“I said it was done!”

Belokin shouted at Krashu, who was trying to help himself again.

He got angry at how dare you even try to help me, and threw Krashu away.

Then, Krashu let go of his hand as if it had nothing to do with it.

Belokin looked at Krache like that and managed to catch his breath.

‘Yes, your position is just that.’

Anyway, there’s nothing you can do in this situation, so just feel helpless.

It was the moment when Belokin was about to move his steps again, thinking that.

Thump!

Footsteps echoed throughout the swamp.

As soon as he heard those footsteps, Belokin reflexively shrank back.

Because the owner of the footsteps was none other than Cheonan Gui.

“K, Krashu, how far did you get out of there?”

Belokin asked a question to know the current situation.

But Krashu also looked around with a serious expression.

“I don’t know. If you can’t see outside even after walking for quite a while, maybe World Erosion is closed.”

Belokin’s face went white after hearing Krache’s words.

If that was true, it was because it was like saying that he couldn’t go out until he killed Cheonan Gui.

Thump!

Then again, Cheonan-Gwi’s footsteps echoed from afar.

“Damn, damn.”

“Brother.”

At the time Velokin was nervous, Krache called him.

“I have a method.”

“How?”

Belokin raised his head at the fact that Krashu and the like had a way.

Although he didn’t like that fact, Belokin tried to suppress his heart by thinking that he had to live for now.

“Yes, did Velokin-nii hear that I fought Anix?”

Yeah, I remember.

I was still suspicious of Velokin, but there were certainly rumors that he had drawn Anyx.

“The reason I was able to do that was because I learned a secret art from my sister.”

At that moment, Velokin’s body flinched.

It was because he immediately recognized that the older sister Krache was referring to was Charlotte.

“…… Charlotte?”

Krashu nodded again.

Is Charlotte the one to teach someone?

I thought so, but Charlotte and Krache were born in the same boat.

She didn’t even know that she thought Krashuman was special.

And if the fact that he had a draw with Anix was Charlotte’s secret technique, he began to understand.

Her genius was because he had already been through the worst of Belokin.

“You mean you can defeat him with that secret technique?”

“I’m not sure, but I think it’s worth trying rather than dying from running out of stamina.”

Belokin’s lips bit for a moment.

I don’t know what kind of secret technique it is, but Krashu also saw the Cheonan Ghost.

Even so, it was clear that it was a considerable esoteric since he said it was worth a try.

“…… Are you saying that because you have something to ask of me?”

“Your brother’s Ignis can light a spark with anything.”

“Yeah, what about that?”

“I want you to light that flame in my aura.”

Beloquin belatedly realized what Krache was thinking.

It was his intention to defeat the Cheonan Ghost by adding his flame to the secret technique.

“I know you don’t trust me.”

Seeing the hesitant Velokin, Krache opened his mouth again.

“But don’t you believe in your sister’s skills, too?”

And the words that followed were enough to put an end to Belokin’s hesitation.