The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 219

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟏𝟗: 𝐎𝐚𝐭𝐡 3

As the gigantic gale howled closer, Chae Woo-dam let out a strange scream.

At the same time, the mana and demonic energy in his body began to mix, releasing a terrifying aura.

It was not simply strength, but something closer to a hardened grudge.

The love for a single person, the desperate hopes that had been betrayed, and the frustration that had come when all futures had collapsed, all seemed to have been squeezed into Chae Woo-dam’s heart through a filter.

A viscous, murky hatred.

Siwoo frowned as he saw the intense desire pouring out of him.

To 〈Pandemonium〉, he must have seemed like the perfect prey.

Someone who would fall with just a slight push, but who also had the wrong kind of greed and demonic energy, which would transform into a fantastic madness.

Kwa-kwadadadaduck!

Thorns from all sides began to pierce Chae Woo-dam’s body.

Hundreds, thousands of branches wrapped around his body, forming a giant tree.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The thorns even covered Chae Woo-dam’s face.

Chae Woo-dam, facing the [storm] mixed with gale winds, looked like a giant tree.

Soon, the gale and the tree collided.

Jjeojeojeojeok-!!

The [storm] tore the ground apart, scattering everything with the wind and slowly eating away at the tree.

However, Chae Woo-dam’s tree, which was blocking it, shook precariously but did not break.

After a long while, the gale finally subsided.

Like a giant beast had taken a bite, the form made of thorns stood in tatters.

The tree split open, and Chae Woo-dam emerged from the stump.

“You’re crazy.”

Siwoo murmured sincerely.

He could no longer even call him a human being.

The thorns that pierced his entire body and covered his skin made him look like a doll or golem made of wood.

Chae Woo-dam staggered out of the tree.

His rampaging power had caused his mana and demonic energy to become a mess.

“You gave up being human to revive the dead, and now you’ve even given up your appearance as a human.”

“I. . . I. . . will protect. . . her. . .”

“That’s not protecting her, you idiot. You’re defiling Hunter Kim Eun-ju’s noble death.”

“You. . . you. . . what do you know. . . her name. . . don’t say it carelessly!!”

Chae Woo-dam shouted fiercely, forcing open his mouth, which was blocked by thorns.

Siwoo clicked his tongue.

Until now, he had been controlling his strength, intending to capture him alive and get some information, but seeing his his ravings, there was no need for that anymore.

If their mind collapses, even a Hunter who can read memories would only see a broken mind.

Therefore, he could not use his memory reading skill on him, and he could not even interrogate him, so there was no point in keeping him alive.

Siwoo filled Balmung with mana and swung the sword at Chae Woo-dam.

A single flash of light cut through the darkness.

Kwakakakakakaka!!

However, as the sword strike advanced, branches gathered in front of Chae Woo-dam, blocking Siwoo’s attack.

“I. . . will protect. . . her. . .!”

As the thorns filled his body more and more, Chae Woo-dam lost his reason and became faithful only to his instincts and desires.

【𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫.】

At Pre’s words, Siwoo nodded.

“Because if you have desires, you become a human, but if you’re consumed by desires, you become a monster.”

【𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦.】

“Looking at you, I feel like I’m going to become a monster consumed by desire.”

【𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭?】

“Because I want to kill you.”

【𝐏-𝐏𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝. . .! 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐧’𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥. . .!】

Siwoo glared at Pre, who was pouting, and circulated his mana again.

He felt no pity or regret for Chae Woo-dam.

He didn’t know him well anyway, and he had seen humans who had fallen like this more than once or twice.

Besides, if he pitied him, what about the people Chae Woo-dam had killed?

“Let’s think of it as cause and effect.”

Siwoo’s sharp eyes glinted as he gathered mana in both hands.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

It was reminiscent of a fight between a gorilla and children.

As Choi Dae-soo’s fists swung, human skulls burst one by one, and as his feet swung, upper bodies were broken in half.

The prisoners could not hide their dismay at his appearance, which was literally close to a human weapon.

“Hey! Why are you so scared of just one guy!”

“Crazy, that one guy is Choi Dae-soo!”

“Ugh, so what if it’s Choi Dae-soo!”

Some of them were former Hunters, but there were also many heinous criminals who had only committed crimes against ordinary people from the beginning.

Because of that, awakened criminals tended to look down on Hunters who only dealt with monsters or belittle their abilities.

Most of those who were now chattering after seeing Choi Dae-soo’s mana had never properly fought a Hunter.

Choi Dae-soo laughed as he washed the blood-stained gauntlets in the rain.

“Hehehe. You have guts to come at me. By the way, you guys from Pyeongtaek Prison are pretty weak.”

At that moment, three men who had been watching the fight from a distance appeared through the other prisoners.

“You damn bastards. What are you doing, not being able to kill even one old man?”

“Get out of the way. You’re in the way.”

“Kekekeke. Let’s kill him, let’s kill him.”

Their builds were different from the other prisoners at a glance, and they seemed to have experience fighting Hunters, as they were flawless.

“What? Are you the leaders of this bunch of idiots?”

Choi Dae-soo’s sarcasm made the eyebrows of the man in the lead twitch.

“Don’t be so arrogant just because your ranking is a little higher. We’re not low-ranking, we’re just not ranked.”

As a rule, criminals were removed from the rankings as soon as their criminal records were recognized and were also expelled from the Hunter Association.

This was a method that was applied not only in South Korea, but all over the world.

“Hehehe. You’ve got a mouth on you. Did you take a communication course in prison?”

“You son of a b*tch, you haven’t changed, Choi Dae-soo.”

“Do I know you?”

“Of course. I hated you so much when I was a Hunter.”

“Hmm? Now that you mention it, your face looks familiar, you idiot.”

“Don’t forget me, leader of Brawler.”

Choi Dae-soo frowned slightly and stared at the guy’s face.

He definitely had a face he had seen somewhere.

“Judging by the fact that you mentioned Brawler, you must have been active when I was the Guild Leader, but strangely I don’t remember.”

“The [Red Wolves]’s third finger, ‘Yeom Bi’, ring a bell?”

“. . . [Red Wolves]?”

“Hahaha! Now you remember. Well, you shouldn’t forget.”

Yeom Bi continued to speak, not taking his eyes off his opponent even in the pouring rain.

“Wasn’t it the [Red Wolves] that produced the ‘first SS-rank Hunter’ in South Korea? You, who got the title of SS-rank for the second time, shouldn’t forget. These days, they think you were the first.”

“. . . Is that guy here too?”

Choi Dae-soo asked, erasing the laughter he had been wearing until a moment ago.

His expression was much stiffer than when he had faced the four divine beasts, or when he had learned that Chae Woo-dam had killed the association staff.

Yeom Bi realized the tension he felt from him and sneered.

“Of course not. If he were here, you wouldn’t be playing catch with me like this. He would have torn you apart.”

“I guess you still have a grudge against me.”

“Ha. . .! Of course. He vowed to kill you every day.”

Yeom Bi’s outcry made Choi Dae-soo click his tongue.

Anyway, since that guy wasn’t here, no matter how much he talked, it would only be a meaningless quarrel.

“If you have a complaint, tell him to come and talk to me himself. Anyway, if you guys are just yapping, that won’t be possible either.”

“You son of a b*tch. . . I’ll tear you apart instead of ‘him’.”

Yeom Bi charged at Choi Dae-soo with the other two prisoners.

Choi Dae-soo released his gauntlets and immediately materialized a huge hammer.

Jjeojeojeojeojeojeoeng!!

A shockwave that shook the heavens and earth rang out, and one of the prisoners who had been running at him was hit directly by the hammer, his bones bursting out.

However, Yeom Bi and the other one, regardless of the death of their comrade, raised their mana.

Yeom Bi took on the appearance of a large wild boar, and the other one transformed into a toad over 2 meters long.

Uncommon heteromorphic Awakeners.

“It’s quite an odd combination.”

Choi Dae-soo swung his hammer with lightning speed.

Judging from the roar he had made when he had swung it down a moment ago, the weight of that hammer must have been dozens of kilograms, but the way Choi Dae-soo wielded it was like a light stick.

The toad quickly dodged the hammer that was flying towards him with a flap of its wings.

Kwaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ang!!

The hammer that had hit the ground burst into flames and made a tremendous roar.

The surrounding area was crushed, and a mana wave spread out in all directions.

“Damn, your strength is still the same!”

Yeom Bi ran forward with his body as large as a bull and rammed Choi Dae-soo with all his might.

It was as if a dump truck had crashed into him at full speed, and a tremendous shock was transmitted to his very core.

“Keugh!!”

Choi Dae-soo clenched his jaw.

He used the strength in his legs to hold onto him like a wrestler.

If he had been even 0.1 seconds late, he might have lost his balance and fallen to the ground.

Heteromorphic ability users had their physical abilities increased several to dozens of times depending on the appearance of the creature they had transformed into, and Yeom Bi’s ramming power was no joke because he had transformed into a wild boar.

Shweeiiiing!

At that moment, a sharp object shot towards Choi Dae-soo’s eyes like a ray of light.

If it had been a simple dark night, he would have been late to notice it.

However, thanks to the large raindrops that had bounced off first, Choi Dae-soo’s face was alerted to the oncoming attack.

“—!!”

Choi Dae-soo dodged the attack by a hair’s breadth, just by turning his neck like a professional boxer.

Blood flowed from his cheek, where the attack had grazed.

“This toad bastard.”

Choi Dae-soo twisted the corners of his mouth as he saw the front legs of the guy who had suddenly rushed in.

“You dare to try to gouge out one of Yeom Bi’s eyes?”

Kwadadadaduck. . .!

Yeom Bi’s long, hard fangs lunged at Choi Dae-soo’s side.

“Keuk!”

He felt a dull, stinging sensation in his ribs.

It seemed to be cracked.

He kicked the toad’s head, which was pushing in, with his knee.

Jjeoeoreuk!!

A dull sound rang out, and the guy took a step back.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you look so flustered, Choi Dae-soo.”

Yeom Bi wiped the blood from his mouth and taunted his opponent.

“Unofficially, you were the second strongest in South Korea, so I’m sure ‘he’ will be happy to see you struggling like this.”

Choi Dae-soo grabbed his throbbing side and released his hammer.

Today seemed to be a day when things were going crazy.

“Was it Yeom Bi?”

Choi Dae-soo said slowly, fingering his bracelet.

“Unfortunately, I’m still the second strongest in South Korea.”

“What? Hahaha, are you saying you admit that ‘he’ is stronger? You don’t want to be a coward, do you?”

“Hehehe. What nonsense are you talking about? I’m stronger than ‘Jin Do-wa’ now and in the past. It’s just that someone stronger than me or him has appeared.”

“That’s ridiculous!”

Yeom Bi shouted and prepared to rush in again.

“You’ve talked too much. Shall we do it properly now?”

Choi Dae-soo infused his bracelet with mana.

A dazzling flash of light bloomed, and his greatest weapon, the bronze sword of Cheonbuin, the Heavenly Talisman, appeared.

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