The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 293

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟗𝟑: 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐞 2

Whew!!

The rapier pierced between the monster’s brows.

Ordinarily, it would have been an instant kill, but as if in a final act of defiance, the monster thrust its head in even further.

“Whew.”

Creak!!

At that moment, with a soft sigh, its head hardened like solid rock.

Namir twisted the rapier, extracting the blade, then proceeded to stab the rapier in the same way into the brows of another monster.

In this very certain but simple manner, she single-handedly felled thirty or so monsters from the Reverse Gate.

Choi Sung-il, who had been drawing the monsters’ attention a little further away, felt a twinge of shame.

The others were fighting hard too, but combined they didn’t come close to Namir’s solo tally.

Was this the realm of the super high rankers?

‘𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦. . . 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯?’

Choi Sung-il raised his shield with all his might, his mind occupied with the thought of their unreachable realm.

Clang!!

“Oh dear, Hunter Choi. You seem to have been spacing out a lot lately. Your movements have become quite dull.”

Hayakawa Seigen, who was assisting him, scolded Choi Sung-il in a chiding tone.

“My apologies, elder. I seem to have become distracted due to the inadequacy of my training.”

Seigen met Choi Sung-il’s gaze, then briefly glanced at Namir, who was fighting fiercely on the front lines.

Certainly, for a Hunter, seeing such a figure could not help but arouse feelings of envy and greed.

“Kukukuk. Aren’t the positions of you and the Queen of the half-demon different? The strongest tanker in South Korea is being greedy.”

“That may be so. . . but it’s an instinct that comes from being a Hunter.”

“I understand. But is it something that can be acquired simply? I hear that the Queen of the half-demon has been training under Min Siwoo since childhood. If you received the same training, you could probably reach that level of strength. Would you like to do that?”

At Seigen’s words, Choi Sung-il recalled his past time with Siwoo.

Being struck, fainting, coughing up blood, wounds healing, squeezing out magic power until his dantian twisted in order not to die, bones piercing through flesh, organs bursting. . . .

Compared to everything he had experienced since birth, the training with Siwoo stood out as the most horrific memory.

The excruciating pain known as ‘training.’

That was what everyone who had spent time with him said.

In particular, those who could take up the position of a tanker, such as Choi Sung-il, Chu Ha-min, Lo-an, Choi Kang-yul, and Hans, had to take turns receiving the fists of Gandharva and Choi Dae-soo.

Before training, Siwoo gave only one piece of advice, not a suggestion.

━Even dried squid produces water if you squeeze it hard. Even if you don’t have magic power, squeeze out your magic power to block your teacher’s attacks. And even if you’re injured until you’re about to die, make sure you don’t actually die. Because. . . if you die, I can’t revive you.

The advice was quite effective.

No one died during that crazy training.

Choi Sung-il recalled that time in detail, then looked at Seigen.

“Senior Seigen. . . . I think I’ve been dreaming too big. The Queen of the half-demon didn’t reach her position for nothing.”

“Kukukuk. Do you realize it now? Don’t be too sad, because you are strong even now.”

Seigen tapped his staff on the ground, summoning a horde of tigers made of stone.

Meanwhile, more and more monsters were thrusting their heads out of the Reverse Gate.

“It seems that the monsters are getting stronger.”

Choi Sung-il swallowed nervously, looking at the numerous Hunters fighting the monsters around them.

He sensed a sense of urgency in their movements.

At first, the simultaneous appearance of a zombie horde and a gate had plunged the area into chaos, and many Hunters had panicked and disobeyed orders, acting on their own and getting killed.

In that instant, Seigen had utilized the sand iron and quelled the zombie hordes, calming the situation, while Namir had killed the monsters, tidying things up to this extent.

“Damn it. . . what’s that again?”

At that moment, Seigen let out a sigh as he looked at a newly appeared monster.

Its appearance resembled a giant gorilla.

However, it had the bizarre appearance of four arms and three faces, and each of its four arms held a different close-combat weapon.

Even Namir, who had been fighting other monsters far away, glanced at the monster with a start.

It wasn’t simply because its appearance was strange.

Of all the monsters that had appeared so far, this was the one that exuded the most ferocious aura by far.

Choi Sung-il realized that this enemy was similar in rank to the ones he had faced in the S-rank gate.

“Senior, be careful. If even one of its blows grazes you, you’ll end up dead.”

“I know that much even without you telling me.”

Seigen aimed his staff, waiting for the right moment.

The horde of stone tigers rushed at the ape monster in an instant, followed by hundreds of throwing knives made of iron sand that were thrown fiercely.

Kwagagagagagagagagagagaga!!

“. . . Damn. Isn’t that too much?”

Seigen looked at the monster with a look of disbelief.

It pierced each of the tigers with the weapons in its hands and blocked all of the throwing knives.

Seigen released his magic power, dissolving the forms of the tigers and the iron sand.

“It’s not just some mindless monster━”

“Senior!!”

Ku━━━ung!!

“Ugh, uhh!!”

At that moment, Choi Sung-il reflexively raised his shield, blocking Seigen’s front.

The monster’s axe had swung down with incredible force, as if it would sever Seigen’s body in two.

With such a large body, it had this much agility; this wasn’t like putting wings on a tiger, but more like installing a bazooka in its mouth.

“Hunter Choi!!”

Seigen called out to him in surprise.

Sparks flew from the shield that met the axe.

The monster’s other three arms also showed signs of moving.

“S-Senior!! Quickly!!”

At Choi Sung-il’s cry, Seigen raised his arm instead of his staff and aimed at the monster’s head.

Cheolchaeng-!!

His arm, which had been cut off by Yuuto and replaced with machinery, spread out in all directions and fired special iron sand.

Puung-!!

The fine particles of iron sand, which sprayed out like mist, wrapped around the monster’s face at Seigen’s command.

━Kkeueueueok!!

The iron sand, which sought out the monster’s most vulnerable flesh and orifices, completely tore apart the muscles, nerve tissue, and brain inside its face.

Its three arms flailed about in the air as it had lost its sense of direction, and its entire body toppled sideways.

“Gasp. . . gasp. . . senior, that was really scary.”

Choi Sung-il swallowed nervously as he looked at the monster’s corpse.

“Can’t you kill them all that way?”

“When they’re clustered together like throwing knives and maintain a steady form, it consumes less energy. It’s more difficult when they move about individually like now.”

Seigen shook his head as he retrieved the sprayed iron sand.

“Are you okay?”

At that moment, Namir approached and asked them.

“We’re fine. Is the Queen of the half-demon alright?”

“I’m still okay for now.”

Namir answered Choi Sung-il’s question.

However, judging from her ragged breathing and heavily depleted magic power, she must have been exhausted as well.

It was unknown how many more monsters remained.

‘𝘞𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩, 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥.’

Choi Sung-il looked around.

The Hunters who had been assisting them were already absent-minded from their battles with other monsters.

Their role was practically over, since even stronger monsters would be appearing from now on.

“You guys should go to a nearby city and recover first, and prepare for any possible overflow of monsters.”

At Choi Sung-il’s order, the other Hunters moved without complaint.

In fact, rather than not being helpful, the more dangerous thing was getting in the way of their allies during battle.

Especially in a fight like this, where their lives were on the line, if they became even a momentary hindrance to their comrades, it could put countless lives in danger because of that one thing.

The Hunters were well aware of that fact, which was why they stepped aside so as not to become obstacles.

“Kukukuk. They’re all quite perceptive. I was wondering what kind of complaints they would make.”

Seigen said in a joking tone.

“They’re also professional Hunters. They wouldn’t let something like this get to them. The ones we need to worry about are ourselves.”

“This old man doesn’t have much time left anyway, so it doesn’t matter. I’m worried about you guys, who have a long way to go.”

“I’m fine too. Thanks to master Siwoo, I survived, so I have no regrets. If there’s one thing I wish, it’s that I could see master’s face one more time.”

Namir murmured as she brushed the dirt off her rapier blade with an expressionless face.

“The Queen of the half-demon has reached the realm of detachment.”

“Having lived under threat of death since I was a child, because my very existence is harmful, I’m not that afraid of death. The only thing I fear is master.”

Half-demons had to live their lives clinging onto life while being subjected to constant death threats and actual threats.

Therefore, some were like Namir, who had become detached from life, while others became consumed by endless rage and harbored only hatred for the world.

Kurururung.

At that moment, the gate shook, showing signs that another monster was about to emerge.

“Whew. I don’t know about anything else, but I agree with the part where the scariest person is Hunter Siwoo.”

Choi Sung-il forced a smile and held his shield forward.

The darkness of the Reverse Gate rippled, and something huge slowly revealed itself.

Namir and her party felt their bodies stiffen.

The being that revealed itself had the lower body of a snake and an upper body that seemed like a mixture of a snake and a human.

『It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a human.』

The strangely shaped being raised its huge, scale-covered body as it looked at them.

The powerful demigod race, the Naga.

The mythological being from India glared with murderous eyes and flicked its long tongue.

Neither Seigen nor Choi Sung-il could even breathe properly.

They had memories of feeling this way before.

It was the absolute terror they had felt when they first entered the S-rank gate and encountered the devil, Balok.

The realization that there was such a thing as a different dimension.

『How should I eat you? Should I eat you raw, or would you be tastier if I tore you apart?』

The Naga didn’t even consider them as opponents to fight, but rather thought about eating them first.

It was Namir who first bridged the gap between predator and prey.

Swoosh━━!!

The rapier pierced the Naga’s brow with lightning speed.

A true Lightning Flash.

Thud!

“. . . Kuak!!”

However, the rapier’s blade didn’t cut the Naga’s skin at all, and soon the Naga’s right fist shot up high into the sky.

Kwang━━!!

Powerful demonic energy stirred up the surroundings, creating a strong wind.

[El Cid’s Shield: Tenfold Curtain]

The shield that Choi Sung-il manifested crumbled in an instant, becoming so deformed that it was difficult to recognize its shape.

『Oh? You’re not dead. Should I hit you harder to kill you?』

The Naga glanced at the three of them before gathering even more demonic energy in its fist.

‘𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴. . . 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘵!’

Choi Sung-il gritted his teeth and gave his companions a look that told them to run.

『Kiki. It’s too late.』

However, the Naga’s fist was much faster than they had anticipated, and. . . .

━━━━━!!

At that moment, a single vertical beam of light fell from the sky, tearing through the Naga and the Reverse Gate in one go.

“Ha. . . can’t you fly properly?”

【𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐮𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝!】

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