Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 143

Chapter 143

“……!”
Gang Taesik instinctively turned towards the presence behind him to block the attack.
Boom!
and shouted from the sheer bewilderment of confirming that it was in fact, corpses that attacked him.
“how can corpses……?”
The entire situation was bizarre.
The corpses of villains that he himself decapitated were moving about to attack him.
fshhhhhhh.
Furthermore, the head that was rolling on the ground floated surrounded by blue energy to reattach itself back on its body!
“Undead?!”
Gang Taesik, albeit flabbergasted, reacted fast.
With agile movements, he lowered his body and swung his dagger towards the mobs.
Slash!
If the opponents are unkillable, then it’s common sense to get rid of their mobility.
At Gang Taesik’s movements, the enemies all lost their legs.
But the blue energy reemerged to attach the limbs back together.
[Groaarr!]
“What on earth…….”
Gang Taesik grit his teeth and took a step back from the undead that continued to reattach their limbs back together no matter how many times he cut them.
And in that brief moment, three of the undead simultaneously attacked him.
Tap!
And Suho’s hands, unmoving until now, grasped the corner of the broken stalls on the ground to swing.
Crash-!
……!
The enormous convenience store stall took the three undead monsters together with it and crashed on impact.
“Huh.”
Gang Taesik looked at Suho with an odd look.
“You, you’re quite strong for a summoner…….”
He never expected much combat aid from Suho.
Since his role as a summoner had already been accomplished by leading them to the criminals.
But this amount of strength?
‘Is he a druid class?’
Lately, it’s been kind of a trend to categorize hunters with game classifications based on the skills they possessed.
And among them was ‘druid’.
The druids of the games could be largely categorized into two groups.
Either they support from the back while their summons attack from the front.
Or they do close ranged combat together with their summons.
Seeing what he just saw, Suho was most likely the latter, a position between summoner and a tanker.
‘…… he might be more useful than I thought.’
Gang Taesik snapped out of his thoughts to look towards the direction that the undead crashed.
Physical attacks couldn’t kill the undead after all.
[Grr.]
And as expected, the undead rose among the rubbles looking unscathed.
Furthermore…….
[Groaarr!]
[Groaaaaarr!]
The earlier commotion must’ve attracted more undead as they started to gather outside of the convenience store.
“What on earth have we gotten ourselves to? We just came here to catch a few villains!”
Gang Taesik let out a bewildered laugh.
The burning convenience store.
The undead that continues to fight no matter how many times their limbs are severed.
It was akin to a scene of an apocalypse genre movie.
Actually, the zombies from movies could at least be killed.
These things continued to move despite being cut countless times.
Gang Taesik readjusted his hold on his dagger and shouted.
“Sung Suho! Let’s get out of the building for now! I’ll leave the front to you!”
“…….”
But no reply came from Suho.
Currently, Suho was recalling the ‘Blood Crazed Tyrant’ he met at the demonic realm.
If the tyrant was a type of parasitic demon that wore the corpse of a demon as armor, then those zombies also felt as if they wore the corpses of humans as armor.
‘Don’t tell me its an apostle of Itharim?!’
However, it felt different somehow from before.
‘Furthermore, there’s no name tags on their heads.’
Which meant that those undead were not typical monsters.
On top of it all…….
“Uwah, Uwahhhh……!”
“…….”
Suho’s gaze fell towards the villain that’s been bothering him for some reason.
He was still bleeding inside of the shield, but was in a convulsing state after seeing what became of his comrades.
“A, Again! In the end we will end up like………!”
‘Right. This one first.’
Suho’s eyes narrowed while shouting towards Gang Taesik.
“Gang Taesik-ssi!”
“What? I told you to come here!”
Gang Taesik was occupied from fighting off the mobs of undead coming from outside.
“Can you stall some time for me?”
“W, what?! I’m a dealer! Not a tanker…!”
Flabbergasted Gang Taesik.
Even as a dealer, a B rank hunter could absolutely handle this many opponents alone.
Suho confidently approached the villain inside the barrier.
“Hieee! Don’t come near me! I said stay away!”
“Hey.”
The villain flinched and made himself look even smaller at Suho’s approach.
“Come out for a sec. Let’s have some talk.”
“N, no! Don’t come near me!”
Wham!
Suho’s fist impacted with the transparent barrier.
But the shield was sturdy.
The villain within the shield shouted confidently at that.
“D, do you think you can break through my shield with just that?! This shield will never fall until my mana runs…!”
Wham!
“Hiccup.”
The villain trembled once Suho punched the shield again.
But the shield remained firm which gave the villain more confidence.
“I told you it won’t work! Why don’t you use your time for better things?! Do you really think that my shield will break just from a bare fist……?”
Wham!
“There’s …….”
Wham!
“N-No way…….”
As Suho’s punches became more powerful, the villain’s voice became smaller.
Just why was that?
There was no way. Truly not.
Not a chance that his shield will break just from physical damage.
“No way my ass.”
Suho smirked and raised his fist again.
To envelop his fist with a black energy.
“It will break if I hit it harder than the shield.”
And then. Wham!
Shatter!
“……!”
The villain’s eyes widened comically in that instance.
The shield that he so prided on shattered to create a hole.
Suho’s hand reached inside that hole to grasp the villain by his collar.
“C, cough?! How on earth……?”
“hey.”
Suho singlehandedly lifted the villain and glared at him.
“Come out.”
“P, please spare……!”
“Stop acting too, won’t you?”
Suho stared into the eyes of the villain, futilely struggling against his hold.
To be more specific, into the being that was beyond that.
“Didn’t I tell you to come out? Stop hiding inside him.”
Suho smiled brightly.
“…….”
As soon as the sentence ended.
Halt.
The expression of the trembling villain vanished without a trace.
“……Ah.”
The villain cocked his head at an unnatural angle to stare into Suho’s eyes.
“How did you know? How did you know? How did you know? How did you know? How did you know? How did you know? How did you…….”
Wham!
“Ah, my bad. I hit you by accident cuz I was scared shitless.”
Once Suho punched the guy’s head, the relentless mouth got shut.
Then spoke again with its pupils dilated.
“……y, you’re more scary.”
“Stop those things before I become even scarier.”
“How did you know?How did …….”
That mouth that attempted to speak the same sentence again got shut once Suho lifted his fist.
‘How did I know?’
Suho’s gaze fell above his head.
[???]
The name tag filled with question marks.
Among the villains that they encountered in the convenience store, only this person had a strange name.
Which is why Gray attacked him first.
“Beru.”
Once Suho spoke, Beru immediately answered.
[No sign of Itharim exists. But rather…….]
Beru knew most races from fighting countless battles with Sung Jinwoo, and there was only one race that fit the category.
[must be the demonic spectre race.]
“demonic spectre race?”
Demonic spectre.
Literally meant evil spirits.
[Yes. They typically refer to monsters of the ghost category, and sometimes are referred to as transfigure race because they live in the realm of transfiguration. And since they lack a physical body, they do not die from physical attacks.]
“As I thought.”
Suho nodded and surveyed his surroundings.
He thought it was weird.
With this amount of fire, the fire sprinkler of the ceiling should’ve been activated.
Suho tightly grasped the collar of the demonic spectre race and spoke.
“I don’t know where the illusion started, but you better dispel it right now.”
“N, no, I will die if I do that.”
The demonic spectre being shook his head with all it’s got.
But Suho had no plans to get fooled twice.
Since that expression must be another act of his.
Suho’s hands got tighter.
“Should I just kill you right now?”
“Lies. Lies. You can’t kill me anyways……”
At that moment.
[‘Skill : Killing Intent’ is activated.]
“……!”
The demonic spectre shivered once their eyes met.
And an earthquake erupted in his pupils.
[‘Effect : Fear’ is activated.]
[Enemy’s stats will be reduced by 50% for 1 minute.]
Just what was this feeling?
The demonic spectre felt as if his body was submerged underwater.
And then he saw.
The abyss deep within the dark shadows behind Suho.
“W, who are you? Just how can you live with such death beneath you?”
The demonic spectre felt himself getting smaller and insignificant before Suho.
Not only because he was exposed to the killing intent skill.
But because as a spiritual entity, he felt as if he’d be swallowed up by the bottomless abyss behind Suho.
“……I, I got it.”
The spectre ended up accepting Suho’s demands from fear.
And at that moment.
Fwoosh-!
The illusion from the center of the convenience store disappeared.
Revealing the hidden town.
“Blergh. What the hell is this?”
Gang Taesik, who was fighting with the undead, frowned.
Pungent scent of blood suddenly emerged along with a devastating scene before him.
Countless bloodied corpses littered the streets in front of the convenience store.
The previous peaceful looking Yamiri town was… already in ruins.
A massacre was sure to have taken place even before they got here!
“Were we under an illusion by chance? I didn’t hear anything about the villains having such skills??”
Suho glared at the demonic spectre and grit his teeth.
“Fess up. Everything that happened here.”
“T, that…… Graaaaaagh!”
The demonic spectre who was about to confess everything suddenly started to scream.