Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Boom!
A violent explosion erupted from the center of that attack and shattered the giant hand of the old man.
The space warped along with it and the scenery of the town stopped in that state.
The villains who witnessed that sight held their mouths agape.
“Wha, what the heck is he……?”
“How can that geezer’s skill be so easily……!”
As everyone was panicking and not knowing what to do.
“Get a grip!”
“……!”
An authoritative command erupted from behind them.
“That level of skill would’ve drained his mana! We just have to attack him all at once!”
“……!”
The villains got back on their feet at Hwang Dongsuk’s speech.
It was logical.
Stronger skills required more mana. That was the law.
A B rank, no, even an A rank would’ve drained their mana using that level of skill.
The villains’ eyes were filled with killing intent once more.
“R, right! Let’s get him!”
“There’s only one enemy!”
“Uwaaaah!”
All the villains gathered their mana simultaneously to pierce the skies with their will.
“Right, you bastards! Don’t forget that we’ve consumed good quality stardust!”
Hwang Dongsuk’s shout set their spirits ablaze again.
Tap!
At that moment, Gray and Suho landed on top of that warped space.
And all the villains’ attacks poured into that single spot.
“Kill him-!”
“Growl!”
Gray tore through the villain at the front using its sturdy teeth.
Wham!
“Ack!”
The speed in which the guy’s body flew backwards was faster than them jumping in to attack.
‘Stardust?’
Suho’s eyes flinched at Hwang Dongsuk’s speech to his underlings.
Beru shouted while glaring at the sky where the old man’s hand used to be.
[Young Master! Its presence disappeared!]
“It did. He must’ve retreated.”
Suho recalled the sensation of his fist making contact and nodded.
Furthermore, if that single attack managed to kill the old man, the system message would’ve appeared.
It was certain that the old man was still alive.
“He couldn’t have gotten too far.”
[I agree.]
Beru looked around the warped scenery of the town with narrowed eyes.
[If he got far, there’s no way that the illusion would be maintained. It’s certain that they’re waiting nearby for an opportunity.]
Beru explained their traits that were so often experienced during the monarch war.
[The beings from the realm of transfiguration are naturally scared and cunning. To the point that the king of Demonic Spectres and Monarch of Transfiguration, Yogumunt, hid behind other monarchs to only open up gates and make illusions.]
Facing the demonic spectres now and back then at the war was bothersome no matter when it happened.
Suho asked to interrupt Beru, clicking its tongue in reminiscence.
“So, how did my father break through their illusions?”
[Obviously…… through power.]
Beru grinned at that question and looked at the black energy covering Suho’s fist.
[No matter what kind of sorcery was used to block his way, our lord ripped through all of them with absolute power and will.]
Bam!
Suho bumped his two fists together and grinned.
“Simple and nice.”
Then looked towards the countless villains coming to attack him.
It was his first time fighting against a human. This many at the same time.
Each and every one of them were powerful.
B ranks and A ranks were mixed in the mob.
The beginning of the battle was overcome by Gang Taesik, the shadow soldier who uses concealment skill, but his attacks would prove difficult to penetrate through the defense of a B ranked tanker.
From the surface, he was at a disadvantage.
But why is it?
‘I just don’t think that I’ll lose.’
Overwhelmed in numbers?
With the ability to raise the dead as shadow soldiers, numbers had no meaning to him.
But that method was unusable thanks to the demonic spectre that was observing him.
‘There’s a possibility of itharim being involved in this.’
Then?
Suho looked towards his shadow to speak.
“Esil, come out for a bit.”
Swooosh!
The Demon noble Esil emerged from Suho’s shadow.
“……Where is this? You want me to fight all of a sudden?”
Esil made a bewildered face at the mobs of aggressive humans coming after them.
But it was brief.
The corners of her lips lifted while she spread her arms with an aggressive expression.
“I like this.”
Fwish-
A long spear emerged on her hand.
The Demons are a race that grows with battle from the moment of their birth.
In that sense, battles were more valuable to demon nobles than conversations.
“I can kill them all, right?”
She didn’t bother waiting for a reply.
The ends of her spear pierced through the villains hearts before that.
“Growl!”
Gray shot out to the battle to reveal the sharp fangs and tear through the limbs of the enemies.
Suho too smiled with Vulcan’s Horns on both of his hands.
“Right, Why don’t we cause some ruckus here?”
Despite it all, the overwhelming numbers remained.
But truly…….
‘I can’t see us losing at all.’
[‘Skill : Blade Storm’ is used.]
Kaboooom!
The storms of blade swept through the villains.
‘My skill works best when the enemies are gathered up.’
Once Suho broke the enemies formations with an aoe skill.
Gray would bravely get inside of the enemy area to body slam or sweep the villains with its huge paw.
While Esil would pierce through every heart of the enemy using her spear after Gray creates turbulence in the battlefield.
Their collaboration was akin to a well trained attacking team.
Suddenly, Esil cocked her head.
“Hm? Why are their heads being cut off?”
Fwish
Splash.
Groan.
There was even an invisible shadow soldier that continuously ended the lives of villains since a while back.
“……You got an interesting soldier there.”
Esil shouted with a joyful expression.
“Hey Suho! These guys right here! They’re a whole bunch of nobodies! They don’t even know how to use their powers properly!”
Suho just found that out as well.
After experiencing the fights with the villains of Jisan Prison, their battle experience was severely lacking compared to their mana ranking and skills.
And that reality was felt by the villains themselves.
“I, I surrender!”
“Please spare us!”
The ones that completely used up their mana started to surrender by having both of their hands above their heads.
A few even wailed for mercy and knelt on the ground.
‘……These guys?’
Suho realized an odd fact after reading the mood.
Tap.
Suho’s steps halted in that spot.
And sharply shouted towards the villains all throughout the area.
“Kneel!”
[‘Skill : Killing Intent’ is used.]
……!
There were a few that could resist the skill.
But what about this one?
Suho shouted again with even greater killing intent.
“Look around you! Your leader has run away!”
“……!”
“……b, beared geezer! He dared to?!”
The villains were flabbergasted.

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Meanwhile.
“Huff Huff Huff!”
Hwang Dongsuk mercilessly ran the other direction after commanding his underlings at the frontlines.
‘Stupid bastards! Like that’s possible!’
All the while laughing at the stupidity of his underlings that fell for his tricks.
‘This is why you need real life experience,’
The world deems Jisan Prison as the facility with the most heinous criminals, but Hwang Dongsuk who used to reign in that facility thought otherwise.
A villain?
The world’s worst supernatural criminals?
‘Shit, they’re all full of shit.’
Their label was indeed villains, but the reality was that most of them had no experience in fighting using their abilities.
‘They all got caught by Woo Jinchul, that bastard, before they could use their abilities.’
Really, that Woo Jinchul bastard was something else.
The moment that the villains actually started to attempt to commit a crime, Woo Jinchul would somehow show up in that location to subjugate them.
With the S rank Choi Jongin at the frontlines.
His brother only managed to escape because he was a S rank, most of them were arrested without being able to resist.
So due to that, most villains of Jisan Prison didn’t have much real life experience.
Using their abilities properly and gauging the ability of opponents. None of these skills could be developed.
Which is why they believed the lie that they could win in numbers as long as the opponent was not a S rank.
‘Dumb bitches! Well, I guess that’s why I could manipulate them as long as I did.’
Even that came to an end now.
‘Over 50 died already.’
Over 500 escaped, but a single morning reduced that number by 1/10.
It could be thought as having an entire 9/10 still remaining, but the truth was different.
Since 6/10 out of 500, so around 300 of the villains chose to rebel against him to break away from the group.
The number of his followers were less than 200 and from that number, he lost 50 of them. Continuing to lose them even at this moment.
‘There’s only about 150 left, and they’re all about to die today.’
It was really troublesome.
Honestly, it was bound to happen eventually.
The only reason why he managed to reign supreme within the prison was thanks to his younger brother.
Which was the same reason why he was able to convince over 500 prisoners to escape the jail.
This is the lie he told them to escape from Jisan Prison.
-if we escape, my brother will visit me!
-Ohh! Does that mean that we’ll be an S ranked villain’s subordinate?
-Of course, you shitheads!
S ranked villain Hwang Dongsu will be their ally.
This lie moved the hearts of every villain within the prison, and every single one of them participated in the jailbreak.
However.
‘There’s no way that bastard will come to my rescue.’
Despite creating a ruckus of a jailbreak, Hwang Dongsu did not show up at Pocheon.
One by one, the villains started to become nervous.
They caused all this from their trust in one person, but the said person failed to show any signs of showing up…. So their trust in Hwang Dongsuk continued to decline.
The fact that Hwang Dongsuk’s past of being a swindler played a big part in it.
And then, last night.
A group declining to follow Hwang Dongsuk formed and he had no basis to stop them.
Actually, he didn’t even have the power to stop them.
Without the fame of his brother, Hwang Dongsuk was only a C ranked villain after all.
‘But it doesn’t matter.’
Hwang Dongsuk smiled knowingly to open the doors of the hideout of the ‘Old Man’.
“Old man! Things are bad…! Gasp!”
His body froze in that place.
Buzzzzzz-
There was someone else in that room with the Old Man.
Countless bees collected to create a silhouette of a woman.