The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 291
Episode 291: I can’t confirm.
“I will cook it carefully, step by step, just the way you want.”
muttering like that.
A man looking at himself.
The moment I saw those eyes.
Jung-gu suddenly.
‘Should I run away?’
That we must escape from the author.
I was caught up in those thoughts.
And then I was embarrassed.
‘Why did I suddenly…?’
Fighting that man was definitely something he wanted to do.
A thought that came into my mind for a moment.
Even he himself couldn’t understand why he suddenly felt that way.
that.
Originally, it was a kind of instinct that all living things were born with.
The case of humans living in modern society.
I have continued to lead a normal and safe life.
I fell half asleep because I no longer needed it.
Old, outdated instincts.
but.
Jung-gu was a warrior who had been in battle for a long time.
In a fight against countless enemies.
He naturally.
The opponent’s muscle movements and gestures.
Every direction of action and those eyes.
I have observed the intention contained within it.
‘Oh indeed.’
So much experience.
It awakened his instincts that had been dormant because they were useless.
‘He… doesn’t see me as a human being.’
To escape from predators.
The very instinct that we were born with as prey.
He was shouting like this.
‘They’re looking at me… as prey!’
That’s what a hunted person deserves to feel from a hunter.
Fear that takes over your entire body.
The hunter.
A man with cold, empty eyes muttered in a low voice.
“Shop window.”
At that sound.
Jung-gu was shocked and came to his senses.
‘Are you looking to buy weapons?’
It must be stopped!
The weapon he used, a dagger, appeared to be an ordinary store-bought weapon.
The daggers, which were too dull to withstand Park Jung-gu’s attacks, had been attacked by him twice and had lost their blades.
It was difficult to rationally understand why he was so intimidated by those eyes.
When viewed objectively.
The current battle situation was overwhelmingly in his favor.
The fear in those eyes made me stop for a moment.
Reason decided that the advantageous situation must be maintained and immediately took action.
“…for the great struggle!!!”
[Skill – A savage roar rings out.]
[The trait – Intermediate Bravery is temporarily applied during battle.]
[During battle, combat power is greatly increased and the status ailment ‘Fear’ is removed.] A
loud roar .
After overcoming his fear using the [Barbarian Warrior] skill, he immediately stood up.
He lunged at the man in front of him.
Faaah!
OK.
A man who still throws a dagger at him with an indifferent look in his eyes.
Kaang!
It wasn’t difficult to strike that dagger.
All I had to do was hold out the hand that wasn’t holding the ax and flick it with the gauntlet.
‘The throwing power of a small dagger cannot be strong in the first place.’
It wasn’t even the dagger itself that had skills.
It was difficult to pierce his armor unless you were targeting a defenseless vital point.
If it was original.
If I were to swing the large ax in my other hand like this, I would be able to stop that man’s actions.
but.
‘The dagger that bounced earlier… was aimed at my back.’
An attack whose meaning was unknown.
It made it impossible to swing a weapon at the enemy.
at last.
“Shit!”
At that moment he must swing the axe.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed the dagger he had thrown out.
Hereby.
The dagger that was thrown away would no longer be aimed at his back again.
“Shop knife. purchase.”
In the man’s hands.
There was an intact dagger in his hand.
‘Knife? Did you just say kitchen knife?’
It was absurd to learn that the weapon I thought was a dagger was a kitchen knife.
Still, the battle was still going on.
“…Yes, it is a store weapon!”
Even if they say that the advantage of taking away weapons has disappeared.
If that’s the case, it should be seen as an equal situation now.
“Hmph!”
Jung-gu swung the ax again.
The man is just like before.
I held the blade backwards and blocked the attack.
‘I’m not sure… but throwing that dagger is dangerous.’
A dagger that bounces back as if it has its own will.
Earlier, I used force on the ax to push the man away.
This time it’s the opposite.
‘You must not give distance.’
This time, without pushing the enemy away.
He quickly took the ax that the opponent blocked and swung it at the opponent again.
And at the same time.
[Skill – Thrash]
skill was activated.
[The speed of combo attacks increases significantly.]
[As the combo continues, the power and speed of the attack increases.]
A skill that increases attack speed the longer you continue to hit at close range.
If your opponent only defends, your attack becomes stronger and faster.
When it comes to 1:1 close combat.
An ability with unprecedented power.
It was also the most used combat skill by Park Jung-gu, who enjoys melee combat.
In the first place.
As a ‘barbarian warrior’, his specialty was close combat.
I pushed it out earlier to see how it came out.
As long as we’re this close.
The enemy who is an assassin will not be able to defeat him who is a warrior.
“Let’s see how long you can stop it!”
Kaang!
one.
Kaang!
Two cars.
The moment when the opponent blocks his attack twice.
I felt the dagger in my hand about to break.
“…I think you’re very excited.”
If you swing one more time, I will break that dagger.
It would have been possible to cut down the enemy’s body just like that.
“You’d better look behind you.”
“what!?”
Let’s come to our senses from the man’s words.
The presence of cold metal felt from behind.
grasp!
Let’s quickly wave our hands backwards.
An object was seen bouncing off the gauntlet.
I don’t know if it’s a dagger or a kitchen knife.
The weapon he purchased from the store.
‘Where is that again?’
The dagger he first threw was in his arms.
The dagger the man is holding is almost completely broken.
‘Are you sure. There was no time to throw a dagger!’
Where did that dagger come from?
When in doubt….
Floating….
behind the man’s back.
I saw floating objects.
“her. Heh heh…”…
It’s definitely not a normal looking dagger… but a kitchen knife.
but.
More than ten kitchen knives were flying through the air.
That look.
It never felt normal.
‘What is that?’
What comes to mind is:
Occasionally appears in creative works.
No, it is an ability that is considered legendary even among countless creations.
The unrealistic sight of the weapon moving on its own.
Even the spirit of victory that had been boosted by the ‘barbaric roar’ was about to be chipped away.
Crack.
He gritted his teeth.
I shouted, consoling myself as I felt discouraged.
“Why didn’t you just stab me?”
“hmm?”
“If you had stabbed me like that, wouldn’t you have won?”
Daggers flying through the air.
Jung-gu, who I never imagined would have that kind of skill.
‘If I had known in advance, I could have prevented it.’
Such skills were excluded.
The fight just now was clearly his defeat.
but.
Rather, the man informed himself of the crisis.
“Are you ignoring me?”
“Brother Jung-gu, stop now…!”
The other two leaders tried to stop Jung-gu and Yeong-jun from fighting.
“wait a minute.”
The person who stopped them was none other than Shin Young-jun.
It was me.
“Ignoring it. “You’re saying something strange.”
“what?”
Even in your own dissatisfaction.
The man still answered with an indifferent expression.
“What is the meaning of this sparring in the first place?”
“What do you mean….”
What does it mean?
There was nothing like that to begin with.
Because I just wanted to hang out with that guy at least once.
The reason is that it’s just something I brought to my own devices.
Due to the excitement of battle.
It was for a reason that I can’t even remember properly anymore.
“Are you sure you forgot what I told you? “You want to check my skills, right?”
“…okay. It was like that. so? “What does that mean?”
“What does it matter? “This is a sparring match to test my skills, but with the fight we just had…”
I crossed my arms.
Youngjun looks down at Junggu who is kneeling.
“I can’t confirm my skills…?”
“….”
What does that mean?
It wasn’t difficult to notice.
“Hmm, I’m a little sorry about that.”
The man continued speaking while sighing.
“I think it would be difficult for me to fully demonstrate my skills to you.”
“You bastard…!”
“But since you’re asking me to show you my skills, I have to do it somehow… It’s difficult to show even a part of it at once.”
He grabbed Joong-gu’s fallen body and forced him up.
He calmly widened the distance and said.
“Let’s agree to fight as many times as we can. “Then I think I can show at least part of it.”
“….”
“hmm? is not it? “Is it still a bit difficult?”
After picking up the hatchet that had fallen in the corner.
The man leisurely throws it to Jung-gu.
“Anyway, take this. “Let’s continue.”
“…this.”
“Hmm. “First of all, he has died once so far.”
Crack.
Although I felt scared at first.
“Ah, but there is no answer to continuing this meaningless sparring. Hmm.”
“You bastard.”
“Oh, I’ll just kill you 10 times and be done with it. “That would be appropriate.”
Looking down at yourself blatantly.
With that arrogant attitude.
“Now, cheer up and come back!”
“OK.”
“I still have a lot to show, so there’s a long way to go!”
“If you want so…”
Jung-gu.
really.
“I’ll kill you however you want!”
“Haha, you may not be good at fighting, but you’re good at making people laugh!”
With the idea of killing the enemy.
I decided to do my best.
* * *
Clink!
The quiet base of the Northern Branch.
A sudden sound echoes inside.
“What what!?”
“Like that shout from earlier… what happened!?”
A sound like a broken window.
Numerous survivors active in the Northern Branch grabbed their weapons and headed toward the place where the sound was heard.
The epicenter of the sound is the center of the base.
It was the place where the group’s leaders mainly worked.
and.
There….
“That’s….”
“It’s not Captain Jung-gu!”
The man who oversees the combat positions of their group.
Lee Jung-gu was lying on the floor, bleeding all over his body.
Looking at the shards of the broken window.
There was a high probability that it was none other than the double sphere that broke the window.
The best warrior in the group.
He was bleeding and collapsed as if he had fought with someone.
in other words.
“It’s an enemy attack!”
“Everyone gather your weapons and form a tactical formation…!”
A battle that took place within.
Combat positions, of course.
Non-combat awakened people also hastily gathered their weapons and prepared to face the enemy.
“Everyone shut up!”
“Captain?”
Although he has a somewhat arrogant personality.
Their battle leader was gentle towards his group members.
He spat out harsh words and stopped the awakened people who were about to raise their weapons.
“It’s my fight… Any bastards who get in the way will be kicked out…!”
“…What is this?”
When group members are panicking.
Two other leaders ran out from inside the building and spoke to them.
“Put away all your weapons!”
“This is an agreed upon sparring!”
“It was an agreed-upon sparring…”
Those words.
People’s eyes shift.
“Is that what it looks like?”
Blood spilling all over my body.
Jung-gu is breathing heavily.
The strongest man in the northern base.
I couldn’t even remember the last time I saw him like that.
but.
I looked closely.
‘There were no fatal wounds…’
The countless amounts of blood only left slight scratches on the body.
There were no fatal injuries.
If we say that because it was a sparring match, no fatal injuries were inflicted.
I can understand it to some extent, but…
“What kind of sparring is this where the captain is giving his all!”
The energy rippling around Jung-gu’s body.
The combat workers who saw this shouted as if it was nonsense.
Shimmering around his body.
A strange energy in the shape of a giant warrior.
‘A skill that the captain only uses when he is giving his all… There is no way he would use that in a sparring match.’
Just as you thought.
Now Lee Jung-gu.
[Skill – Power of the Ancestral Spirit]
[Skill – Savage Cry]
[Skill – Surging Fury]
Use all the skills he can use.
It was crashing into the enemy.
but.
Nevertheless.
“Eight times with this one.”
“Know!”
The man who appears opposite him is.
He climbed over the broken window and came down to the ground without any injuries.
“Hmph!”
Toward that man.
Jung-gu grabs his weapon and rushes in.
Right before swinging that axe.
It appears that the posture of swinging the ax was a fake.
He raised his foot and struck the ground the man was stepping on.
[War Stomping]
Knocking down everyone who steps on a large area.
A powerful skill that warrior classes can obtain.
As the stance is overly blatant.
It had the disadvantage of being difficult to use openly in 1:1 battles.
This is Jung-gu, who has gained experience through long battles.
He knew how to use skills by mixing appropriate fakes.
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!!!
“Ugh!”
The awakened people gathered around.
When you lose your balance due to a strong earthquake.
Shook.
A dagger hovering near the man’s feet moved.
The man used the dagger as a stepping stone in the air and moved his body over it.
‘what…!?’
It is said that it is an earthquake strong enough to knock down even awakened people.
It has no meaning unless your feet touch the ground.
As it has great power.
A skill that has the disadvantage of increasing the caster’s vulnerability.
Aiming for that loophole.
Okay.
The man who dug in.
A small cut was made on Jung-gu’s neck.
“Nine times.”
“Doing such strange… things…!”
“Please wake up. “There is still a long way to go.”
At that look.
Jung-gu thought to himself as he gritted his teeth.
‘What on earth do you mean?’
I expected the opponent to be strong.
Because I recognized the author as a strong enemy from the beginning.
I deliberately induced the battle because I wanted to fight against such a strong enemy.
Nevertheless.
‘It’s not fun at all.’
Even though it was a fight he was looking forward to.
Only anger wells up in my head.
I didn’t feel any joy.
‘is it.’
Only then.
There was one thing I could realize.
‘What I wanted was not a fight with a strong person.’
In this fight now.
He couldn’t feel the slightest pleasure.
okay.
What he had hoped for was not a fight with a strong man.
‘An opponent similar to me… or a little stronger.’
With someone like that.
Dividing the battle with some degree of give and take.
That’s exactly what he wanted.
The very weak essence
of what I myself called fighting spirit….
And I thought.
What is happening now.
That it was exactly the opposite of what he really wanted.
‘A joke.’
A person with overwhelming skills.
It was a one-sided prank.