Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 144

Chapter 144

“……Tsk. some dumb idiot broke the barrier.”
An old man who was relaxing on the couch clicked his tongue to look outside the window.
“What?!”
At those words, Hwang Dongsuk, who sat across the old man while drinking some hard liquor, sobered up.
“Fuck! Are the tracking team onto us already?!”
He stood up quickly to observe the situation outside.
The crimson skies.
The bloodstained roads.
And the corpses on it were all walking towards a single direction.
It meant that an outsider entered the town.
Hwang Dongsuk grit his teeth and glared at the old man.
“This is different from what you said! You said that you erased all traces! So what’s this?!”
“Stop overreacting. Only two entered the town. The illusion got broken because they managed to find the demonic spectre. That’s all.”
Hwang Dongsuk relaxed after listening to the old man’s explanations.
“Oh, only two came in?”
“Right. Only two, they are most likely hunters that were passing by.”
“Haha, is that so?”
He smiled a victorious smile.
“Nice timing. Hunters usually have decent weapons, right?”
They managed to somehow escape the prison, but they couldn’t relax just yet.
Despite looting all the weapons from the prison, there were still many without a weapon.
Before they started being chased, it was best to be fully armed.
“How are the skills of those two?”
“Not sure. Since they managed to break the demonic spectre from your underling’s body, at least one of them is a magic based hunter above a B rank.”
“B rank magic user?”
Hwang Dongsuk started calculating things at that.
“Hm, there’s no way that it’s a S rank.’
S ranks are literally a walking corporation.
There was no way that such person would happen to pass through such secluded town.
And the probability of such a valuable asset would come to this town to catch a few villains were close to zero.
That was the same for A ranked hunters. None of them desired to be a bounty hunter.
“Then it’s at most two B rank hunters. The magic user is a little tricky, but I’ll get them with numbers.”
Hwang Dongsuk called one of his underlings outside to command.
“The hunters infiltrated the town. Call everyone that’s resting. They’re most likely two B ranked hunters so we’re going to go all out at once.”
“Y-Yes! I’ll tell them!!”
Hwang Dongsuk smiled at seeing his underling stiffly hurry out the room to rely on his command to others.
“He’s finally acting right. I guess someone had to die for it to happen.”
Despite being a C rank, Hwang Dongsuk still reigned above the villains outside of the prison.
But this was akin to a walking on a tightrope between two cliffs. Never knowing when the rope would snap.
After all, the only reason why the villains still listened to Hwang Dongsuk was because his brother was a S ranked villain.
“Hey, you’re not going to help?”
Hwang Dongsuk asked before he also left the room.
The old man remained relaxed on the couch to answer halfheartedly.
“As you can see, I dislike using my body. Call me if you take care of the intruders. I’ll cast another illusion over the town.”
“……Alright.”
Although Hwang Dongsuk was not completely satisfied, he didn’t add anything else.
He heard the rest of them gather up outside per his command.
“Get your tools! There’s only two!”
After he went outside.
Buzzzzzz-
A bumblebee landed by the window, right in front of the old man that seemed uninterested in everything.
“……You’re here.”
That’s when a smile finally emerged on the old man’s face.

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[Graaaah!]
“Hm?”
Suho was surprised.
All of a sudden, a blue spirit screamed and escaped the body of the villain.
And then, thud.
Beru muttered seriously at the sudden collapse of the body.
[The demonic spectre within this human suddenly got destroyed.]
“All of a sudden??”
[Yes. it seems like they had some type of condition set by a higher demonic spectre. Entities of the realm of transfiguration excel in such skills.]
“So you’re saying that there’s a higher demonic spectre around here somewhere?”
Suho nodded at Beru’s comment.
‘Come to think of it, the guy who made my leveling up system was a sorcerer of the realm of transfiguration too.’
Grand Spellcaster Kandiaru.
The leveling up system that he created was a type of sorcery as well.
Although not to such a degree, higher demonic spectre race could easily create spells that use death as a condition.
‘It seems that I’ll encounter some bigshots trying to catch a few villains.’
“SUng Suho!”
At that moment, a hurried shout from Gang Taesik rang out.
“Hurry up and help! They just keep coming!”
The moment that the illusion got dispelled, the Yamiri village became a scene of an apocalypse movie.
If what came in hordes was a typical undead monster, Gang Taesik would’ve kept his cool, but these ones continued to reattach their limbs no matter how many times they got cut.
Furthermore.
“It seems like the undead here are the original inhabitants of this town! The villains must’ve massacred the entire town!”
Gang Taesik spoke in confoundment.
The assumption that the citizens would be left alone so that they can be used as hostages in a pinch was a perspective of a normal person.
“They’re truly insane. I guess that’s what makes them a villain.”
Really, all the villains deserved to die.
Gang Taesik muttered and smiled cruelly while glaring in front of him.
Then shouted as hacking through the limbs of the undead.
“Usually there’s a controller hidden around here! Use your summons to find that bastard first!”
But there was no need for that.
Uwaaaaah!
Since they showed up themselves.
The villains emerged from all directions to attack Suho and Gang Taesik.
“Hahaha! So you were all here!”
Gang Taesik’s eyes glinted despite the danger.
And smiled towards Suho with a calculating gaze.
“Sung Suho. you did well. You did your part. From here on, we’ll survive in our own ways.”
“……?”
Even before Suho could react to that statement.
Shhh.
Gang Taesik’s appearance dissipated as if it never existed.
Suho’s eyes widened at that.
“Concealment skill?”
[That traitor!]
Beru grit its teeth.
He looked at ease regardless of their situation. That must’ve been why.
But Gang Taesik did not use the concealment skill to run.
“Ack?!”
“W, what? coff……!”
The villains that attacked Gang Taesik together with the undead started to scream out.
And the streams of blood, exploding like fireworks.
“A, an assassin!”
“No one told us about this?!”
“I thought they were magic users?!”
A single concealment skill threw the villains off.
At that moment.
“Tsk. a puny assassin.”
Fwoosh- Boom!
A magic user villain from the back shot out fire magic towards the dying villains.
“Aaaah!”
“why……!”
They escaped together because they shared the same goal. That was it. Not an ounce of camaraderie existed between them.
The villains that got caught up by the unexpected explosion littered the ground.
But it was super effective.
“……cough!”
A short exclaim from Gang Taesik.
And with it revealed a semi-transparent silhouette mid-air.
“Over there! Kill him!”
The villain that shot the fire magic pointed towards a direction and caused the other villains to attack that spot with all they’ve got.
But they forgot the existence of another person due to the confusion of the concealment ability.
“……Sillad.”
An entity sleeping at the sea of the afterlife opened their eyes at the silent voice of Suho.
[King of the Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch is looking at you.]
Suho felt the gaze of that entity and opened his mouth confidently.
“Blizzard’s Blessing.”
[Blessing : Blizzard’s Blessing]
The blessing of the King of the Snowmen, the Blizzard Monarch.
Sillad, the Blizzard Monarch has chosen you as the Shaman.
Shamans can sacrifice their mana to create blizzards.
Fwooosh-
At that moment.
A pure white wind started to blow with Suho as the center.
[‘Skill : Piercing Blizzard’ is used.]
[required mana 100 per 1 second.]
The same blizzard that turned the facade kingdom into a glacier city swept up the Yamiri village.
“W-What the?!”
“What is this?!”
“A blizzard?!”
An overwhelming coldness attacked the panicking villains.
Crack! Crack!
The freezing ice grasped the legs of the villains.
“D-Damn it! My legs……!”
Undead or villains. Everyone’s legs started to freeze over.
“……what is this…?”
Gang Taesik looked at Suho with a bewildered look after his concealment skill got dispelled.
Thanks to the freezing wind, the fire on his body was extinguished.
“You can even use nature based magic. As I thought, you were a druid.”
Gang Taesik nodded as if his predictions were confirmed.
Then when his head turned back towards the villains, his eyes glinted with cruelty.
There were a few that managed to escape the ice. But the numbers were very few.
Since most villains gathered here were between the low and mid awakened.
“You are my prey to hunt now.”
Slash Slash Slash Slash!
Gang Taesik licked his lips and shot out towards the front.
To mercilessly cut through only the fatal weak spots of the villains.
neck.
Carotid artery.
Everywhere that his dagger went, streams of blood followed.
“Uwaaah!”
“Run away!”
The villains that managed to get their legs free from ice started to run away in panic.
However.

[‘Debuff : Blizzard’s Curse’ is applied.]
[Atk spd decreases by –30%.]
[Mvmt spd decreases by –30%.]

They could not escape the blizzard.
Gang Taesik, who was deemed to be Suho’s comrade, was free from the debuff.
He laughed cruelly whilst catching every one of the escaping villains.
“This is why I like fighting with humans.”
Unlike the monsters of the dungeons, humans are truly easy to kill.
He shouted towards Suho with a gleeful expression.
“Sung Suho! Let me teach you something as your senior! Remember this. All humans die! No matter how strong of a hunter they are, that is a fact that remains unchanged……!”
Bam!
At that moment.
Gang Taesik’s head exploded.
“……a puny brat dares to gloat?”
step.
The villain that sent off Gang Taesik’s head grit their teeth to trample on the corpse.
And used that foot to step on Gang Taesik’s corpse multiple times to shout.
“Yes you bastard! All humans die! Did you think that you were an exception?! Huh?? Hahahahaha!”
And growled at Suho with a malicious gaze.
“Now! Only that bastard is left! kill…….”
But at that moment.
“Arise.”
Gang Taesik’s shadow wavered ominous right behind him.