The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 337

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟑𝟕: 𝟐𝟔𝐭𝐡 1

Puu-whack!!

The pitch-black blade pierces the Beast King’s jaw, passing through its skull.

“Grrrroooo. . . .”

The Beast King’s fearsome claws stop just short of the enemy’s helmet.

If it had only reached an inch further.

The Beast King stares at its own claws that missed its opponent and rolls its eyes.

“You’re rough.”

The enemy knight in black armor steps on the Beast King’s torso and forcefully pulls out the blade.

Kuaaaaak!!

An unidentified fluid and blood gush out.

Siwoo quickly swings the Dragon Slayer Sword to shake off the blood and flesh stuck to the blade.

“Are you alright, your majesty?”

Kikl, who looks exhausted, approaches Siwoo and asks.

“As you can see. But the Beast King has gotten a lot stronger than I expected. It wasn’t like this before.”

“Yes, your majesty. I heard that after you returned to your original world, he missed his rival and trained to the extreme every day.”

“Rival. . . ? Who?”

Siwoo withdraws the power of ether.

The black armor and the Dragon Slayer Sword return to their minimum size.

“I guess I misspoke.”

Siwoo clicks his tongue and sits next to the Beast King with its skull smashed in and begins to heal it.

The wounds are instantly healed and restored to their original state.

In fact, since this was not an injury but a death, there was no need to heal it at all, but no one stopped Siwoo’s actions.

“Hey, get up!”

Siwoo kicks the Beast King’s body, sprawled on the floor.

“You overgrown cub.”

After several attempts with no response, Siwoo slaps the guy hard on the cheek.

Jjaaaㅡㅡㅡak!!

“Keueuek!!”

The Beast King, who was clearly dead, screams and jumps up from its seat.

However, none of the Beast King’s subordinates or Siwoo’s subordinates were surprised at the sight.

Everyone just looked at him as if it was obvious.

“Huh?! Did I die again?”

The lion-headed Beast King mutters in a thick voice, tilting its head.

“Yes, you died again.”

Siwoo frowns as he looks down at the Beast King, ‘Pantereon’.

“Ohㅡ rival! This is perfect! Let’s compete against each other and see who’s better!”

“. . .Did your head get smashed when I fought you just now?”

“Oh? Did it? Kekekeke! Let’s not worry too much about our personal matters! The second round starts now!”

Beast King Pantereon reveals its sharp claws and charges at its opponent at a fearsome speed.

Each of the five claws is like a sharpened blade, making it easy to block the enemy’s attacks and counterattack.

The supreme being of the beast tribe, Beast King Pantereon.

Strictly speaking, Tirkan, the leader of the humanoid tribe, was also a citizen of Pantereon’s 〈Beast Kingdom〉 in the past.

However, due to the daily quarrels and conflicts between the Beast King’s beastmen and Tirkan’s tribe, Tirkan, who couldn’t stand it anymore, left the kingdom and created a nation.

In terms of ability, Tirkan was slightly ahead of Pantereon, but Tirkan had never won a duel against him.

The reason was Pantereon’s fraudulent ability.

Pperreureureuㅡㅡㅡ!!

Siwoo’s light uppercut shatters Pantereon’s jawbone.

“Ugeueue!!”

Pantereon collapses from the massive impact to its jaw.

Kuung!

Siwoo lets out a deep sigh.

“This crazy bastard never changes.”

“That’s his weakness and strength as a king.”

Kikl nods in agreement.

“How many minutes does it take these days?”

Siwoo asks a beastman soldier watching their battle from afar.

“These days, it takes about a minute. . .”

“It’s gotten a lot faster than before.”

“That’s. . . since the Thunder Emperor disappeared, he’s been practicing every day. . .”

“What is he practicing such a thing for?”

Pantereon, also known as the immortal king.

He was the owner of an ability that prevented him from dying.

However, since it takes a little while to revive, Siwoo healed him in order to reduce the time it takes to revive.

Pajijijijikㅡ!!

At that time, a flash occurred and Pantereon’s head was restored to its original state.

“Huh? When did I collapse again? Oh, my rival! Let’s fight for real this time━kuaak!!”

“You’re annoying, you bastard!”

Siwoo cuts off Pantereon’s words and slaps him on the bridge of his nose with the palm of his hand.

“You’re going too far. . . . I just like to fight. . .”

“Shut up. You’ve died twice by my hand today.”

“But there’s also a saying that a fight is best of three? Just one more time, for the last time. . .”

“That’s only when the score is 1 to 1.”

“Huh? I thought I won the first round?”

“Did your head recover, but your brain still hasn’t?”

Siwoo glares at Pantereon with an annoyed expression.

A dignified mane mixed with black and yellow, and fierce eyes that gleam with a golden light.

In addition, a huge, muscular body and fearsome claws.

However, in Siwoo’s eyes, it looked like a single, foolish lion sitting there blankly.

“Hmph. . . I’ve been working hard to defeat my rival. . .! How about we do just one more round?! If you kill me, you win!”

“Shut up. You don’t die anyway, even if you die.”

“Kekekekeke! That’s why I’ve never been defeated before!”

“You’re on the same level as Pre.”

【𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞!】

“Ohㅡ What’s this, rival? Are you raising a new pet?”

【𝐇𝐞𝐲, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐭!】

“Amazing, rival. Your pet can even talk. How much did you buy it for?”

“It’s free, free.”

【𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡ㅡ𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝! 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞!】

Pre flaps its wings and pecks Siwoo’s head.

Siwoo stares at Pre as if he were looking at a fly, and soon ignores him.

“Hey, lion. Since I won, your kingdom now belongs to the empire.”

“Kekekekeke! I understand! I will do whatever you command!”

“Really? That’s great. Gather your elite soldiers and have them on standby within 30 minutes.”

“That’s not difficult, but. . . Haven’t you already conquered the entire continent?”

Pantereon asks, tilting its head.

This was because the last country to resist the empire was his own 〈Beast Kingdom〉.

Now, there were no forces on this continent that opposed the ‘Thunder Emperor’.

Siwoo looks at Pantereon and answers, lifting one side of his lips.

“No, I’m going to take you to a bigger battlefield.”

🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸🔸

Hwiioooooㅡ

The desolate wind matches the emptiness of the street.

Buildings with all their windows broken and half-collapsed stand in darkness.

It is desolate and quiet.

Despite being in the heart of the city, there is no sign of life.

Lean trees like skinny moonsticks expose their roots here and there, and the occasional sound of animals crying can be heard.

A shadow emerges on the asphalt that has cracked like a moistureless cookie.

“No abnormalities here.”

A man’s hoarse voice is transmitted through the radio.

He finishes his radio transmission and takes a cigarette out of his pocket.

It was a cigarette he had quit, but he started smoking again two weeks ago.

Not the premium leaf tobacco he used to smoke, but the old-fashioned cigarettes that grandfathers smoke.

In fact, he didn’t even have those, so he had to buy them with his own money.

Lo-an takes a deep drag on his cigarette and exhales a long stream of smoke into the dark sky.

Wook!

At that moment, he felt an incredibly hot sensation in his left forearm.

Lo-an tries to grab his left arm with his right hand.

“. . . Ah, shit.”

However, there was only fluttering cloth there, and his left arm did not exist below the elbow.

Phantom pain, a phenomenon that creates pain as if a severed body part were still attached.

Lo-an presses his bandaged upper arm with his hand.

Fresh blood seeps out of the bandages stained with dried blood.

If he takes a narcotic painkiller, he can endure it, but that’s something he should only take in a ‘critical combat’ situation.

Getting his arm hurt in the middle of a fight and putting others in danger is something he wants to avoid.

“Damn. . .”

Even his head hurts because of the pain.

He takes out a pack of soju instead of a narcotic painkiller from his bag.

It was far inferior in alcohol content to the baijiu he enjoyed in China, but it would relieve the pain for a while if he drank it.

Rustle.

At that moment, Lo-an’s eyes catch a shadow moving in the darkness.

He reflexively materializes his Ruyi Jingu Bang and aims it forward.

“Hyung, it’s me.”

“. . .Si-joon?”

“Why am I excluded?”

“. . .And Samae too.”

Lo-an deactivates his Ruyi Jingu Bang and sits back down.

He sighs inwardly as he looks at his colleagues revealed under the faint moonlight.

Min Si-joon was limping on one leg, and Kang Yeo-hwa had lost one eye and had half of her face covered in bandages.

As the eldest, he felt guilty for not being able to protect his younger siblings.

“Is your arm hurting again?”

Min Si-joon asks, looking at Lo-an’s bloody bandages.

“. . . Just a little bit, it itches.”

“Hey, I told you to take painkillers! And change your dressings more often!”

Kang Yeo-hwa gets angry and takes out bandages and antiseptic from her bag.

Lo-an tries to refuse, but he quietly retracts his arm after seeing her fierce gaze.

“You know what, if it hurts, just take painkillers. If you endure it like this, it will only get worse.

“. . . Samae, but you know.”

“Ah, yes! Hyung, please take your medicine.”

“. . .Hm.”

Kang Yeo-hwa sits down on a nearby pile of stones with an unpleasant expression.

“Noona, is today the 25th?”

“No, it’s the 26th since midnight has passed.”

“Samae. . . Is there any news?”

“Well, there is. ‘Misteltein’ is fighting hard, but they’re short on troops.”

“The demons are annoying, and now strange monsters are appearing.”

It had been 26 days since they encountered a huge monster among the ‘Forsaken by God’ in Busan.

A humiliating escape.

From that day on, demons and Fallen Angels pushed humanity back.

People couldn’t find a way to deal with the situation that occurred simultaneously all over the world.

The UN even put Siwoo on the top-level criminal list on charges of ‘dereliction of duty’ and ‘collusion with the Demon King’ and announced that he was subject to summary execution.

Of course, many hunters, including ‘Misteltein’, protested, but they did not have the capacity to fight on the political front.

In the end, the number ’26’ coincided with the number of days since humanity was counterattacked and the number of days since Siwoo disappeared.

Only a few people knew that he had gone to another world through the ‘Dimension Gate’, and even they didn’t know when Siwoo would return.

“Master. . . I hope he’s okay.

Kang Yeo-hwa mutters as she looks up at the thin moonlight.

“Hyung will be fine. The flow of time is different here and in the other world. . . If we just hold out a little longer. . .”

The moment Min Si-joon continued speaking, Lo-an’s pupils suddenly widened.

“Dangerㅡ!!”

Along with an urgent exclamation, Lo-an’s Ruyi Jingu Bang emits an island.

Kwagagagagagagagagagaga!!!

A huge mass of demonic energy that came into contact with the Ruyi Jingu Bang explodes in the air, destroying everything in its path.

“Kolrok! Kolrok! What the hellㅡ What is this?!”

Lo-an concentrates his gaze in the void, conscious of his burning wrist.

『Ohhohohohohong, I found a lot to eat!』

『They’re all mine.』

『Humans.』

Several higher-ranking devils circle in the air, looking down at them.

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