Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 128

Chapter 128

Swoosh!
After a single blink, Suho returned back to reality.
And the very first thing that he saw was a pure white lotus flow, rather, an ice flower formed of frost.
A single ice flower bloomed on top of the steaming hot spring.
Within it, Sirka’s small voice emerged.
“…….Suho, I think I just saw my grandfather.”
“What?”
‘Don’t tell me that SIrka is the granddaughter of …….’
At the time that Suho expressed his question.
Crack!
The ice flower surrounding Sirka bloomed and scattered away.
And at the same time, ice crystals lashed around to condense inside Sirka’s hand.
Ding.
[The Heir ‘Sirka’ is inheriting the ‘ITEM: Spear of Ice Tree’ from the King of Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch.]
Krrrrrk!
At that moment, a long ice formed on her hands.
A trident formed of ice.
[Kieek! This energy! Don’t tell me-?!]
Beru, who couldn’t even fathom the experience that Suho just went through, stood before him to protect him.
“It’s okay.”
And Suho hugged him and patted him.
“She’s on our side.”
[Kiek?]
Beru tilted its head while looking at Suho’s face.
But after seeing his face full of conviction, Beru quickly understood the situation.
Sirka’s eyes that were void of focus returned back to normal.
Then, she looked in a certain direction and opened her mouth.
“I can see now.”
Sirka used the Ice Tree spear and pointed beyond the blizzard.
“…….Where ChaCha is at.”
Sssshhhhhh.
At that moment, the blizzard in the forest wrapped itself in the trident.
That energy surrounded Sirka and Suho to elevate them mid-air.
Sirka’s eyes shined and she let out a confident smile.
“Hold tight, we’re flying straight there.”
Fwoosh-
A line of arc passed through the Echo Forest.

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Crash-!
The Scavenger Hunters were amidst devastation and fear.
Disasters were occurring right before their eyes.
The grounds of the freezing forest were screaming and the skies were shaking.
The Scavenger guild were the top guild of the US that tackled on countless dungeons that no other guilds dared to attempt.
But the sight before them was incomparable to any dungeon that they’ve experienced.
No hope for survival remained.
And their sense of hopelessness couldn’t be put in words.
‘A Dragon……!’
The two dragons that appeared in the middle of the forest were actively fighting each other in a fierce battle.
And the hunters that got involved in it involuntarily could do nothing but attempt to escape.
“Ahhh, what on earth is going on here?!”
“Please! Guildmaster! Where are you?!”
“Only if Thomas was here……!”
They all waited for one man as the last sliver of hope.
The strongest hunter, Thomas Andre!
He could solve everything if he came here.
There was nothing for them to do other than pray to whichever god they believed in.
But Thomas that everyone prayed for never came.
Despite the entire forest actively shaking as such.
Despite his S ranked senses should’ve picked up the situation here.
“Ahhh, please, Thomas!”
But there was one thing that they didn’t know…….
It’s not that Thomas Andre didn’t come here, but he was here from the beginning.
They could’ve never assumed that.
But there was one person that knew that fact from the start.
“Kuuk!”
It was Cha Haein.
“Why is that person here……?!”
She’s had a perplexed expression the entire time.
Cha Haein noticed the sudden emergence of great presence in the Echo Forest while she was analyzing the usual activities of the forest.
And she discovered the ice dragon after heading towards that presence.
That devastating monster was similar to the ice golems that the spirits created.
The forbidden area for ice elves.
The other name of the Echo Forest is ‘Forest of Trials’.
The spirits that live in this forest visit those who trespass and bestow them with trials befitting their level.
So the stronger the trespasser, the more spirits would emerge to balance the power.
And those who fail the trial gets lured by the spirits to lose their body.
They fall into the eternal cycle of immortality, completely frozen.
Of course, that only applied to the ice elves.
The ice elves had a strong ability to form relationships with spirits so they could interact with them.
But at the same time, they also found it easier to lose possession of their body.
Humans did not fall in this category.
From Cha Haein’s experience, humans could not form relationships with spirits easily.
So they didn’t have to worry about losing their body due to the trial.
The fact that the spirits befitting the trespasser’s power emerging didn’t change, however.
‘So why?’

Infamous Scans

Translator: Anom
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Cha Haein had been flabbergasted for a while now.
She noticed from fighting the ice dragon at a close proximity.
Rather, she could smell it.
The unnatural smell coming from the Ice dragon.
She found out some absurd information after studying the dragon with narrowed eyes.
The existence of a man at the innermost body of the frozen ice dragon!
An old man with white hair.
The strongest man on Earth with a ridiculous amount of muscles unsuitable for his age.
Cha Haein immediately recognized his face.
‘Thomas Andre? How did he become an Ice dragon here?!’
Rooooar-!
At that moment, the Ice Dragon surrounding Thomas roared and swung towards Kaisel.
Bam!

[Groooaaaah……!]
Kaisel let out a tired cry against the dragon.
“Kaisel……!”
Cha Haein looked at the dragon with a saddened face.
It was bad.
The power within Kaisel was decreasing drastically.
Even without today’s battle, Kaisel had been growing weak day by day since long ago.
It had no way to replenish its powers due to the distance between it and Sung Jinwoo.
But with the appearance of an opponent with similar might, Kaisel was growing weaker even faster.
‘If I prolong this, Kaisel will completely vanish!’
If Sung Jinwoo was next to them, Kaisel would be reverse summoned back into the Shadow World to recover its health instead of turning into nothing.
But that was impossible right now.
‘This has to end ASAP. I have to do this.’
Cha Haein got off Kaisel’s back to mercilessly cut through the ice dragon’s body with two daggers.
Krrrrrrack!
With a loud breaking noise, the body of the dragon was cracking and shattering.
But those injuries would be recovered by the surrounding blizzard.
The new spirits were fixing the ice dragon.
‘This will be prolonged at this rate! My only option is to attack Thomas directly!’
The issue was that it was not an easy feat.
That enormous ice dragon was not created of simple ice, but with thick ice imbued with mana.
The defense of that ice was absurd.
And no matter how many times it shattered, its cracks would be mended by new spirits.
If that was a typical ice golem, they could just be completely broken before new spirits could come to fix it.
But due to the dragon’s sheer size, attacking section by section had no meaning.
Moving to a different area to destroy after breaking a section had no use since the ice spirits moved to mend the area before you could completely destroy the next area.
‘So I have to give it all I’ve got to pierce through the heart in a single attack.’
After getting back on Kaisel’s back, Cha Haein exchanged her two daggers.
And brought out all the mana she had.
Fwooooosh!
Skill ‘Sword of Light.’
A technique that is always left as a last resort due to the amount of mana it requires.
The two daggers in her hand started to shine brightly.
‘I only have one chance!’
Cha Haein’s eyes glowed coldly.
“Kaisel! Create a gap!”
[Kraaaah!]
Since they’ve worked as a team for so long, Kaisel immediately understood what she wanted.
Crack!
Kaisel took on the hazards to closely approach the ice dragon bigger than it.
The Ice Dragon let out breaths of frost to injure Kaisel, but Kaisel did not relinquish.
All for the purpose of Cha Haein’s attack to hit its mark.
[Kwaaaaaak!]
‘Thank you, Kaisel.’
Her skill expanded towards the heart of the dragon, towards Thomas Andre at the same time Kaisel let out a cry.
Booom-
An overwhelming wave of mana spread throughout the area surrounding her power.
‘I’m sorry, Thomas Andre.’
All kinds of thoughts erupted in her mind.
Cha Haein had the memories of the timeline that no longer exists thanks to Sung Jinwoo. And she knew who Thomas Andre was.
At some point, he was a national level hunter of the US.
And at the same time, he was one of the strongest humans on Earth and fought bravely to save the world from invasions of creatures from outside dimensions.
But that was the story of a nonexistent timeline.
Now, he was just a normal human.
But the fact that he suddenly appeared here.
And the appearance of heavily armed hunters around here.
With just a few of these clues, Cha Haein could deduce many things.
‘People with mana…… Don’t tell me that the Earth changed like back then while I was here?’
Then…….
What happened to her husband, Sung Jinwoo?
For a brief second, Cha Haein thought back to the moment that she fell in this dimension.
Is he…….
‘Still continuing his fight?’
Is he?
Still fighting there alone?
Krrrrrk-!
Even at this moment, her sword of light was piercing through the enormous ice dragon.
Just a little more.
And her attack will reach Thomas Andre frozen within its heart.
More.
‘Just a bit more!’
But at that moment.
Flash!
The eyes of Thomas Andre, covered in white frost, suddenly opened.
“……!”
Cha Haein’s eyes widened meeting those void eyes with blue spirit.
And he smiled eerily looking at her swords that almost reached him.
[O Great Itharim, lead me.]
―――――――!
At that moment.
The light exploded with a loud ringing.
And that light spread in waves to encroach its surroundings.