Han Dae Sung Returned From Hell - Chapter 7

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A quest that appeared in a month!

I was very happy because I had already experienced the usefulness of the quest once.

Except that it landed in an unknown location.

“It doesn’t seem like a dream….”

Not a vague sense, but a very vivid sense of reality.

Although it was not a dream, the situation that occurred itself was extremely unrealistic.

When I closed my eyes once and opened them, I found myself trapped not in a hospital but in a pure white space I had never seen before.

‘Well, there’s nothing surprising.’

Because he has already fallen into an even worse hell than this.

For now, I decided to focus on the quest in front of me.

—–

Advent Quest-2 (In Progress)

‘Body Restoration.’

Difficulty: Low

Content: Destroy the designated target.

Time limit: None

Target: Gandra leather sandbag 0/1

Reward: Memory chip for the Absolute

Materialization: Jade body + 30%

—–

Daesung paid attention to the reward before the content.

A memory chip for the Absolute.

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

However, looking at the ‘for the absolute’ in front, it seems that it will be a compensation that will be beneficial in the end.

There is no time to delay.

I wanted to quickly fulfill the quest’s requirements and collect the rewards.

‘The designated target… I mean, destroy the Gandra leather punching bag.’

Gandra. It’s a really boring name.

In the past, he fought a battle between life and death in the territory of the spirits.

The fighting continued for a long fifteen days, and the war finally came to an end only after the ghost king was killed.

Daesung, who fought repeatedly to the death, was in danger of death.

While I was thinking about it, the status window informed me that there was a spring of recovery in the ancient city of ‘Holy Empire’, right after passing the spirit’s territory.

Daeseong tried to escape the territory with his dying body and head to the Holy Empire… but

the gatekeeper waiting at the threshold of the empire interrupted Daeseong.

The gatekeeper is Gandra.

Daesung also had to fight there for three days.

Gande was a dog.

The oasis was right in front of me, but I blocked it.

It looked so hideous that it had a furry body and more than ten tentacles writhing on its protruding head.

‘Even after cutting off the guy’s head, I couldn’t get out of my anger, so I pulled out his eyeballs.’

It’s all a thing of the past.

Daesung shook his head as he remembered a memory he didn’t want to put down.

Now is the time to focus on the quest.

‘So, where is the punching bag made of that rag?’

Daesung looks around and suddenly feels suspicious.

Whiing –

Suddenly, the floor around me cracked into tile-sized pieces and something came up.

It was a punching bag equipped with supports that Quest had designated as a target.

More accurately, it can be said to be a Gandra model standing punching bag.

Daesung stood in front of the punching bag and crossed his arms.

‘I mean, destroy this.’

I stretched out my arm and slowly swept the surface of the sandbag.

As the name suggests, it is made of Gandra leather, so just by touching it, you can vividly feel its incredible strength.

Even though it was only a model, it felt like I was encountering the real Gandra.

“huh?”

Then, Daesung suddenly looked at his arms stretched out in front of him.

Muscular forearms that look as if there is a thick log inside.

It wasn’t a flimsy arm that looked like it would crumble if you applied too much force.

‘For some reason, I felt a surge of strength in my body earlier…’

Daesung spread his hands wide.

The palms of my hands were covered in hard, thick calluses.

Calluses that will never develop unless you hold a weapon consistently for decades.

That’s not all.

Six strong abs and numerous tattoo-like scars.

And the patient was only wearing uniform bottoms with black bands everywhere.

It’s like –

‘That’s exactly what I looked like in hell.’

He has returned to the rugged, practical body he had back then.

Many men would be envious of this appearance, but not Daesung.

He was not happy at all even though he had a hellish body with the vitality to crush rocks, rather than a weak earthly body that could not even run.

It felt like I was back in hell again, so I felt uneasy.

The pitiful body of the Earth was a hundred times a thousand times better.

‘Status window.’

To check what was going on, Daesung summoned the status window.

For some reason, it felt like the status window would respond with an answer now.

And sure enough, as soon as I issued the command, a status window appeared.

< Han Dae-seong [wearing an avatar] >

* Wearing a virtual avatar.

* The status cannot be displayed because the implementation has not been completed.

* The avatar effect is in effect.

Effect: Reproduces 20% of the abilities of the actual target ‘Absolute One’.

Normally, levels and various abilities would have been displayed, but now it was a little different.

‘Now that I think about it, when I came here earlier, I said they were accelerating the implementation work.’

And the explanation that the status cannot be displayed because the implementation has not been completed.

It was just a guess, but I felt like I would see a clue once I finished the task called ‘materialization’.

And in order to complete the realization, I was told to complete the quest.

Crucially, if you complete the quest, you will receive a reward.

“shall we start.”

Daesung took a pose in front of the punching bag.

***

Puck! puck!

A dull sound of a blow echoed through the air.

“Whoosh whoosh…!”

Daesung steadily managed his heavy breathing and hit the punching bag.

I couldn’t even jump, but when I stretched out my fist for the first time in a while, I felt a bit of refreshment.

His posture of hitting the punching bag was reminiscent of a fighter who had trained martial arts for a long time.

It is very difficult to remember the names of people who have disappeared into oblivion.

However, maintaining posture and moving the body are completely different issues.

The ‘body’ remembered how to extend the fist and where to strike to effectively knock down the target.

In the first place, it was unlikely that Daesung, who had been fighting every day for 80 years, would lose his stance after only a month.

puck-! puck-!

Daesung’s huge, rock-like fist pounded the punching bag without stopping.

The speed is so frightening that the average person cannot even follow the trajectory of the swinging arm.

Did he hit him over 10,000 times in less than 5 minutes?

Only then did Daesung stop moving for a moment and gasp.

Sweat dried on his sturdy body, and steam like steam rose.

‘I can’t believe I’m out of breath after doing this.’

It’s a strange level of weakness, considering that I ran 100km without stopping and didn’t get a cramp in my legs once.

‘They said they only recreated 20% of my body in hell.’

This meant that it could only produce one-fifth of the power.

Well, even if I am weaker than before, there is nothing to regret.

However, the problem was that the punching bag in front of me was completely intact.

From the moment he first stretched out his fist until now, Daesung has never moved.

He put his full power into each blow and hit various parts of the sandbag.

The burden on your body will increase, but the sandbag will be destroyed more quickly.

However, despite putting in all of his effort, the sandbag was not even damaged, let alone destroyed.

Even though it is a target with Gandra’s face full of oppression.

I tried to express my sincerity, but it was of no use. Daesung frowned.

‘It’s fortunate that there is no time limit, but…’

How on earth can you destroy a flawless sandbag?

‘If you’re only asking for the result of destruction…’

Daesung thought as he grabbed the surface of the sandbag.

The strategy of tearing and destroying rather than hitting and destroying was chosen.

As he put his grip on each of his finger joints, Daesung’s trapezius muscles swelled up like a balloon.

I tried to tear it apart from side to side… but

it made no sense to simply tear it apart with force even though I was hitting him like crazy.

No matter how much force I applied, the sandbag did not budge.

“Damn it.”

Daesung looked around to see if there was anything like a weapon.

If you have a blade or something like that, you can just tear it to pieces.

Even after washing my eyes and searching, I couldn’t find anything that could be used as a blade.

In this unknown space, there were only Daesung and Sandbag.

In the end, it probably means that you have to solve it somehow with your bare hands.

“It was the same then and it is the same now. 간드라 이 개새끼야.”

Daeseong, who was filled with anger for no reason, glared at the model Gandra as if he were his enemy.

When I look at his top, I wonder if my fist goes up automatically without me realizing it.

Daesung started swinging his fist filled with emotion and hitting the punching bag again.

It’s only 5 minutes.

It doesn’t make sense to give up just because 5 minutes didn’t work.

There will be no time limit anyway.

Even if it seems like there is no progress right now, if you pour in 1 hour, 2 hours… or even an entire day, you will see results.

“Hook, hook…!”

Daesung pounded the punching bag with all his might with bloodshot eyes.

***

About three hours passed after that.

So far, the number of times Daesung has hit the punching bag has exceeded 50 million times.

There wasn’t even a single break during the process.

Rather, as time passed and the more he moved his body, his momentum became fiercer.

The fist, which was already fast, now launched a quick strike with the momentum to leave an afterimage in the air.

Before, every time I felt out of breath, I had to exhale out of my mouth.

But now that my body has adapted, I can hit repeatedly even while apnea.

But that’s it.

“Gandra you bastard.”

What if your breathing becomes stable and your fists become faster and stronger?

There’s absolutely nothing coming back.

The punching bag was fine.

If there’s a change, it’s that the hair on the leather is now at the level of fluttering.

“….”

Will I be able to finish it today? A question suddenly occurred to me.

I wondered why there was no time limit, but I had no idea it would be like this.

‘Whoa… let me think about it.’

Daesung sat down and summoned the quest window.

—–

Advent Quest-2 (In Progress)

‘Body Restoration.’

Difficulty: Low

Content: Destroy the designated target.

Time limit: None

Target: Gandra leather sandbag 0/1

Reward: Memory chip for the Absolute Materialization

: Jade body + 30%

—–

Like the quest I saw before, I thought there might be a clue that could be used as a breakthrough.

But no matter how much I thought about the sentence and read it, I couldn’t find it.

Destroy the designated target.

All I could hear was a message to just shut up and destroy it.

‘Do I have to do it until it works?’

In the end, is grit the only answer?

I felt like I was vaguely walking through a black tunnel, only hearing that there was light at the end.

‘I don’t think just swinging it recklessly is the solution…’

Even if I wanted to use a method other than my fists, there wasn’t a single speck of dust around.

‘There must be a way. There must be some way…’

The quest never gives him impossible missions.

And there must be some meaning in giving this ‘avatar’.

Daesung, who returned to Earth, was forced to return to the body he had in hell…

‘I guess it means going back to that time and thinking about it with that feeling.’

It’s not difficult.

At most a month ago.

Isn’t that also the body and mind that I have had for 80 years?

Nowadays, his sense of being in hell is more vivid than his sense of being a person on Earth.

Daesung closed his eyes and thought.

‘Did I overwhelm the barbaric beasts with just pure power?’

no.

A variety of scheming schemes developed by intelligent human beings.

And cool-headed analysis.

What is this guy’s weakness? What is this guy’s ‘compatibility’….

The main factor that brought such analysis to fruition and brought victory to his hands –

‘skill.’

It was a skill.

This is the guy who made Daesung not just a strong person, but a truly superman who can control other abilities.

Skills could usually be acquired with beads that drop with a certain probability when killing a demonic beast.

Or, there were times when I just learned it by chance.

‘The fact that this body now can only reproduce 20% of who I was back then…’

Daesung looked at his palm in silence.

‘Anyway, this means it’s possible to use skills, right?’

Daesung closed his eyes and slowly focused inward.

They said that the status is not displayed because the implementation has not been completed. However, the magic was felt the same, just not visible.

Magical power, a tangible energy that trains the body and enables the use of skills.

I could feel the flow of magical power flowing faintly throughout my muscle fibers.

‘possible.’

I was sure.

The existence of magical power means the existence of skills that cannot be subtracted or subtracted.

Daesung wondered what skill he could have that could destroy that damn sandbag.

The skill he mainly used while in hell was blood demonization.

Blood demonization has the effect of temporarily amplifying the magical energy flowing throughout the body.

As long as he could endure the fatigue after the skill was released, there was no opponent for him while the effect lasted.

“Now that I think about it, it was thanks to blood naturalization that I was able to kill Gandra while he was dying.”

Daesung decided to write Blood Naturalization.

“Blood naturalization.”

The moment I recite it like that.

A system appeared before my eyes.

< Skill Information >

Blood Naturalization Lv.10(Max)

[Turns the user into a half-human, half-horse character.]

[When activated, consumes a certain amount of HP per certain amount of time.]

[The attack power of all statuses and skills increases by 300%.]

The effect was activated as soon as the system showed skill information once.

thud-!

A loud noise, reminiscent of a collision with a truck, came from inside my body.

The blood and magic power in my body began to bubble up like distilled water.

“Whoosh whoosh…!”

Daesung was breathing heavily.

Blood naturalization brings enormous burden and aftereffects to the body.

It is truly a process of gaining strength in a short period of time that can only be achieved through training for close to 100 years.

Gooooo –

When I activated the blood demonization, the color of the steam rising from Daesung’s body changed to red.

[‘Blood Demonization’ is activated.]

[Turns the user into a half-human, half-demon.]

[When activated, a certain amount of HP is consumed per certain time.]

[The attack power of all statuses and skills increases by 300%.]

Black water A bright red pupil flashed in the middle of the white eye.

Originally, you had to hold on to the strings of the opposite sex while using it, but now there is no need to do that.

Since I was only able to reproduce 20% of the skills, the burden would have been reduced accordingly.

So that means it can only produce 20% of the power, but…

“It’s enough.”

Daesung said this in a very low voice, as if another voice was layered on top of him.

Since it is a skill I have used a lot, I know it best.

Even if it only has 1% power.

Blood Naturalization is by no means a skill so weak that even a punching bag like that cannot be destroyed.

Chuck –

Daesung takes his stance.

“…!”

The moment I violently swung my fist and hit the punching bag.

Not really.

bang-!

The sound rang out.

A tremendous roar, similar to what would be heard when a missile directly hits a bomb shelter!

“….”

Shuuuk –

White steam rose from the punching bag.

In the middle of the Gandra model.

It’s empty so there’s a hole in it.

“….”

Daesung looked at the quest window.

The fanfare sound effect that was heard when the quest was completed was not heard.

The hologram still said ‘in progress’.

“Right.”

Daesung nodded as if he knew what it was.

“What I mean is to destroy-”

Chin.

He said, grabbing the head of the Gandra model with his clumsy hands.

“I mean, just throw away the crap.”

After wearing the Blood Demonization, he threw away his usual sense of reason and became even closer to his destructive instinct.

Therefore, emotional expressions are bound to be richer.

Daesung had a rare, cruel smile on his lips.

***

Boom! bang-! bang-!

Binge drinking continues in succession.

Who would recognize that loud noise as simply the sound made when hitting a punching bag with a fist?

bang-! bang-!

1 minute… no, 30 seconds was enough.

Puzzle-!

At exactly the 16th hit, the punching bag rose in the air and shattered into pieces.

Rubble was scattered everywhere and at the same time, boom!

A fanfare rang out announcing the completion of the quest.

[The Absolute One has met the clear conditions!]

[The quest has been completed and the realization work is making progress!]

[Current realization rate: Jade 40%]

[Reward ‘Memory Chip for the Absolute One’ has been provided.]

[Reward Information]

Name: Memory chip for the Absolute

Category: Other

‘This is an SD card containing the memories of the Absolute. It restores some of the memories of the Absolute.’