The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 360
Episode 360: Attack Team (4)
“Wow…!”
The president of the association falls to his knees, coughing up blood.
On one side of the head, all of the skin was torn off so that the bones were visible.
His left arm was completely torn off and he was rolling around on the floor.
A condition in which all the muscles in the legs are cut, making it impossible to stand properly.
“Cough…”
Those who dealt with him were also not in good condition.
Of course, everyone suffered serious injuries.
In the case of some awakened leaders and vice-leaders.
Because he was lying on the floor, unable to tell if he was alive or dead.
But still.
“President of the Association…!”
“Why did you betray us!”
Who wins the battle?
It was the attack team excluding the association president.
With a president of the association who has become a complete wreck.
Several people cried and cried.
“It’s a reason…”
Those words.
The president of the association, who was kneeling, smiled and answered.
“If you’re that curious about that, then yes. “There’s nothing I can’t tell you.”
“…!”
“I saw their power.”
An old man continues speaking with eyes full of despair.
“I am the one. “I believed in the power of the awakened.”
“….”
“If only I could become this strong. Don’t you think others can become as strong as me if they just take the time? Then, if all the awakened people fight as one, they can overcome anything… That’s what I thought.”
A united association is strong.
This is the reason the president of the association created the association.
This is how the slogan they shouted in battle was born.
“It was an absurd misunderstanding.”
“What is that?”
“There was nothing they could do to make their power stronger like that. So what should we do?”
He said with a grin.
“The only way to survive is to join the stronger side.”
“For that very reason…!”
People frown.
They are fascinated by the strength of the association president.
There were many cases where I thought that he had as much character as he did his strength.
But the people who were with him knew.
‘He may be a hero, but he is not a person worthy of being called a saint.’
The president of the association is clearly strong.
He was a man who had no hesitation in wielding that power.
If there is someone blocking your path, whatever the reason may be.
A person with a personality that actively uses that power to crush the head.
‘Rather, he is closer to a tyrant.’
Nevertheless, there were many people who followed him.
It was because he wanted to lead others with that power, and there were many people who were helped by that power.
In the end, he did it because it was advantageous for his survival.
As long as there is a good reason.
It was said that he was the type of person who could betray others at any time.
“There is no way the president of the association is sincere.”
“…mister.”
“You may have suffered some other mental attack.”
A man whose life was once saved by the president of the association.
Park Sang-hyun said that and turned his back.
“First, let’s knock out and arrest the president of the association and then somehow stop the monsters that are coming.”
“…leaving aside whether that is possible. “What about after that?”
“I have to return to the association first.”
He glanced at the president of the association, who was lying down with his eyes closed, and said:
“These are the enemies who made the president of the association like that. “It may be a much stronger enemy than you think.”
“….”
“Especially if it has power of the spirit or soul type… We can’t deal with it with our current strength.”
He looked around at the other executives except himself.
“Everyone, don’t forget. We are no longer the small party struggling to survive in that hellish Anyang. “It is a large guild [Gyeonggi-do Awakened Association].”
“We know.”
“We have solved all the difficult battles so far. I have a feeling this time will be different. We need to ask other branches for cooperation.”
Park Sang-hyun continued speaking with ominous eyes.
“The strength of the association is not limited to our central branch. If we borrow the power of other branches, we will be able to solve even the biggest crisis. “For now, let’s retreat and heal the association president’s spirit in some way before attempting an attack again.”
“Treatment. “Are you really sure that this is a mental attack?”
“I’m not sure, but I heard that Han Yi-seo of the Northern Branch is an awakened person who specializes in the spiritual field. “If I get your help, I might be able to find out the exact cause.”
The destination is not far away.
Once we got there, we had to retreat.
“Return.”
“It was like that last time, too. “We only fail these days.”
“How do I explain to others that the president of the association has become like that…”
The expressions on people’s faces were not good.
[Priest] Seong Jin-hye smiled and comforted them.
“But compared to the time of the Demon Lord, no one died, right?”
“That’s true.”
“The side that is blocking the monster will be doing well as long as the number one team leader is in charge.”
A warm divine power is placed in her hands.
He pushed people’s backs with his hands and spoke.
“Everyone, don’t be so gloomy! In the end, being alive is what matters. “As long as we live, we can look forward to the next time.”
“…That’s correct.”
at last.
The attack team blocked the approaching monsters and then retreated as safely as possible.
“Then let’s all hurry up! “Other people will be struggling to stop the approaching monsters.”
“yes!”
“Maybe the battle there will be much harder than here.”
The battle-weary people turn their backs.
The moment when the other raiders were heading towards where they were fighting.
“Everyone, prepare yourselves….”
Suddenly,
“Hah… and?”
Park Sang-hyun was moving with his back turned.
A dazed sound escaped his mouth.
‘uh?’
Shake….
The steps I was moving with fell apart.
Visibility suddenly drops.
When he fell to the floor completely against his will.
The last thing that was reflected in my narrowing vision was.
‘Young Master…?’
The president of the association looked like he didn’t even have the strength to stand up until just now.
It looked like Kang San was swinging that great sword.
* * *
[Awakened – Park Sang-hyeon is incapable of combat!]
[The peer ‘Senior Knight’s Shout’ that was spread throughout the battlefield is neutralized.]
Whisper….
“…What!?”
“You must have torn all your muscles!?”
The old man, who I thought had been incapacitated, stood up again.
He turned his back and cut down Park Sang-hyeon, who was moving.
The only person who was able to withstand the association president’s attack in an all-out war.
When Park Sang-hyun fell helplessly.
“Tsk!”
The assassin was the first to react.
It was Jin Sa-hyuk.
Shush –
He kicked the ground without hesitation and stood behind the president of the association at incredible speed.
Then,
he held his head with both hands crossed.
Tduduk…!
“…!”
With strength so strong that it’s hard to believe he’s an assassin.
I broke his neck 180 degrees.
“Oh my god, Mr. Sahyuk!?”
“I may have suffered a mental attack, but you killed me…!”
Anyway, he was their leader.
A person who was thought not to be killed even if suppressed was killed at once.
People were taken aback by that sight.
“I had to do this.”
Despite the confused looks in people’s eyes.
Jin Sa-hyuk said calmly.
“I’m not sure, but even though every muscle in my body was torn, it suddenly moved. Since you never know what might happen, you must definitely end your life…”
But.
Pow!
“…Kahahah!”
An old man who was thought to have died after his neck was broken.
The old man waved his arm.
He hit the assassin holding his neck in the solar plexus with his elbow.
‘…how!?’
assassin.
Jin Sa-hyeok was thinking even as he was flying through the air due to the attack.
‘The right hand holding the weapon was on guard just in case…’
He was not a foolish person either.
The person who was thought to be completely incapacitated rose again.
We were fully alert because we thought there might be an unexpected counterattack.
…What the old man swung was not his right hand.
‘The left arm that Park Sang-hyun cut…’
Something like frost appeared on his left arm, which had clearly been cut.
The frost gathered and moved in place of the severed arm.
“…the president of the association is alive and well!”
“We have to corner it and kill it completely!”
It was shown before.
The unidentified ability to manipulate ice and the sudden enhancement of physical abilities were also quite disconcerting.
He didn’t even show such ridiculous behavior.
Those who realized the situation prepared themselves for battle again.
“Gotcha!”
A leader’s sword attack.
The president of the association is beheaded. The young prosecutor thought to
himself
as he felt the touch of a hand cutting his throat.
‘Of all the swords I’ve ever swung in my life, it was the cleanest!’
He is already a leader-level awakened person who is a strong swordsman.
The greatest blow of his life.
It was a sword so beautiful that even he himself wondered if he would ever be able to deliver such a blow again.
‘No matter how monstrous the association president is…!’
The attack was also effective against that powerful association president.
The old man’s severed head flew through the air.
Wow.
“…uh?”
The president of the association, whose head had been cut, calmly stretched out his hand.
He caught his flying head with one hand.
And then.
Kwasik.
“Kuhhh…!?”
I swung my other hand, which was holding the great sword.
It stabbed the leader, who was staring blankly at the scene, in the chest.
And then.
“…Whew!”
Gugit…
putting his own cut off head into his neck.
An old man calmly opens his mouth.
“As expected, you are a child with harsh hands.”
“….”
“I already thought you had talent. “I never thought I could deliver a blow of this magnitude.”
Frost formed on the cut area.
Hair that would have fallen off comes back together naturally.
People who saw that scene muttered blankly.
“Immortal…?”
After that, the fighting continued.
Those who confirmed the association’s president’s special abilities fought while sparing their bodies to some extent.
But still.
‘It doesn’t fall down.’
Even if I cut my throat.
Even if I break my spine in two.
Even if I crush my head.
Even if you rip out his brain and rip out his heart.
Even if his entire body is burned by intense fire.
“You’ve become such a monster…!”
The president of the association.
Never fell down.
“I told you, right? “You can try to kill me as much as you want.”
The president of the association said with a grin.
“No matter how hard you try to kill me, I won’t die.”
“….”
“And… as long as I don’t die, time is on my side.”
I was able to immediately grasp the meaning behind those words.
“article… Blind people…!”
“…you!”
While the battle was in progress.
An awakened person runs behind them.
“Why did you come here! “You guys should have been sent to stop that monster!”
“Where is Captain No. 1 going and you…!”
“Chief Joe… Nope.”
That awakened person.
I cried out with tears streaming down my face.
“The captain… was captured by monsters.”
“…!”
“The rest are somehow holding on… but most of them have already been taken by them… I can’t hold on any longer…!”
Dark shadows fell on the faces of those fighting over the association president.
‘The association’s elites have already been wiped out…?’
‘No, we haven’t been wiped out already.’
Although he is overwhelming the president of the association.
A situation that cannot be suppressed.
‘That much time has passed.’
Time passed more than they thought.
Even more so than when I first thought I had defeated the president of the association.
‘The president of the association alone is a ridiculous enemy.’
‘If monsters come here…’
They.
There will be no choice but to be annihilated.
“….”
“Assemblies? What command…”
Originally.
They probably judged that there was no chance of victory at this rate and ordered a retreat.
but.
[Effect being applied]
[Curse of Invincibility]
[This is a curse that the ‘Dark Knight of the Curse’ applied with all his might.]
[Unless the caster of the curse dies or the curse cannot be maintained, those subject to the curse will leave the battlefield. ]
[However, the caster of the curse also cannot leave the battlefield.]
“I was wondering why you cast this curse instead of the [Curse of Decline] that you often use.”
“…I guess this was what you thought about from the beginning!”
The curse that lies beneath their feet.
Even retreat was made impossible.
“Jinhye unni! He’s a priest. How can this curse not work?”
“It’s impossible. The association president’s curse is so strong…”
“That’s it…!”
A situation where there is no answer.
The moment when everyone was about to fall into despair.
“…for a moment.”
One of them.
He found something and shouted.
“Yunseong!”
“…Chief?”
This is the starting point of this fight.
He fell to the floor due to injuries suffered by the president of the association.
One person who had to just watch the entire battle.
Ha Yun-seong.
“Run away!”
“You can’t even run away.”
The Association Chairman’s curse can only be applied once per entity.
“…!”
A black shadow settled at the feet of all awakened people due to the [Curse of Invincibility].
Under his feet…
it didn’t exist.
* * *
‘The [Curse of Invincibility] hasn’t taken hold…?’
Although it was a short moment.
‘Ha Yun-seong is the person who was first attacked by the president of the association…’
‘He was cursed with something else, so he was not subject to the curse of invincibility!’
Those who witnessed the shadow not settling at Ha Yun-seong’s feet quickly figured out the cause.
And then.
“…Everyone move!”
After everyone makes the same decision.
Start moving quickly.
[Priest] Awakened Seong Jinhye approached him.
Put your hands on the body.
[Blessing – Light steps]
[Intermediate divine treatment]
“Mr. Yunseong. “Listen carefully.”
“Yes yes…?”
“You need to run away.”
Pure white light came down from that hand.
Ha Yun-seong, who had a cut on her thigh, made her into a body that could walk.
“You can’t even run away.”
“You have to run away… and inform the association.”
“what…?”
What was the answer to those words?
Ha Yun-seong’s immediate superior and leader.
“The president of the association has fallen for the enemy’s trick!”
“…!
Seo Young-hee shouted, holding a shield next to Ha Yun-seong as if to protect him.
“I couldn’t figure out what the cause of the cold was. “This confirms that it is not an auspicious being… so we must subdue it at all costs!”
“Ha, but.”
The defeat on this battlefield is dark.
maybe.
Everyone here will bow to those monsters.
How dare you run away in such a situation?
“How can you say that…!”
“…in the first place.”
and.
There was an uninvited guest who intervened in the conversation.
“Who said they would send it to you?”
“Tsk…!”
Seo Young-hee hurriedly stood in front of him.
It cannot block the power contained in the old man’s great sword and bounces away.
The moment when Ha Yun-seong’s body was about to split in two.
Kaang!
“…You’re really bothering me to the end, Sahyuk!”
“Who can say…”
The assassin appeared without even being able to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth.
Jin Sa-hyeok’s dagger forcibly changes the path of the sword.
“Hmm…!”
The president of the association tried to cut down Jin Sa-hyuk.
Paang!
[Pushing Arrow]
“…Are you doing that to your brother, Jihan?”
“How long are you going to drag my brother-in-law along because you’re so drunk and crazy!”
Gunnery leader Jang Ji-han fired the shot with trembling hands.
Pushing the association president’s body back several meters.
[Fire Pillar]
“I… I don’t have any magic power… I can’t keep this up for long, so hurry up…!”
The gap that formed between the president of the association and Ha Yun-seong.
A wall of fire fills the wall.
When the Association leader tries to reach them through the wall of fire.
Wow.
“Run away!”
“…Bah but!”
Jin Sa-hyuk.
He grabbed Ha Yun-seong’s neck.
“This is not a request, it is an order!”
grasp!
“It is our role to fight here! So you must assume the role you played when we were defeated!”
Jin Sa-hyuk shouted as he threw the person he had caught with all his might.
“There are still many people left in the association!”
“…!”
“So that they can take our revenge…!”
Ha Yun-seong, who was thrown out by Jin Sa-hyeok.
I focused on the command I heard while flying in the sky.
“So that they… can survive the battle ahead…!”
In his head.
Only one command was engraved.
“I’m telling others what I saw here…!”
* * *
While my eyes were blurry.
Ha Yunseong thought.
‘I thought I should tell you… but I couldn’t open my mouth because of this curse.’
After somehow surviving and returning.
He wanted to tell others what he had been through.
[Blade of Silence]
Due to the influence of the curse.
He couldn’t open his mouth.
It doesn’t even appear in the status window.
A curse that prevents one from saying anything harmful to the president of the association of his own volition.
-The president of the association will be holding on!
‘…He’s the president of the association.’
The moment when he wants to reveal the truth he knows.
Dozens more after that.
No, it happened hundreds of times.
‘I’m sorry… I’m sorry…’
every time.
Yunseong gritted his teeth and suppressed the words that were about to jump out of his throat.
but.
It wasn’t because I was afraid of death.
‘Not yet… not yet.’
When you abandon people and run away to survive alone.
When I was given a mission from those people.
Yunseong had made a promise.
‘Still… no.’
It is a given that he will die if he breaks the restrictions of this curse.
then.
‘Just once.’
When you feel most confident.
When it can cause great damage to the president of the association.
‘Okay… right now.’
That he would open his mouth.
* * *
“I never thought I could beat the president of the association in the first place. Nevertheless, the reason I came here… was to be sure.”
“What is that…?”
“You probably only get one chance to speak, so listen carefully.”
He felt the blades approaching to pierce his heart.
I grabbed my chest and opened my mouth.
“The Chairman of the Association… the first item he obtained after forming a party…”
“…?”
“You said the item you got as a reward was a knife.”
I heard that too.
The president of the association formed the second fastest party in Korea.
I received a sword as a reward.
“There didn’t seem to be anything special about that great sword.”
Of course I am.
I thought that the great sword he was wielding would be the reward.
but.
“…no.”
I guess.
Looks like that was my mistake.
“I’ve heard it from executives. “The reward the president of the association received at that time was not a great sword like that.”
“…then?”
“dagger!”
…dagger?
“The reward they received was a dagger. “The president of the association took it.”
“…!”
“But at some point, the dagger became invisible. “Even the executives didn’t know where it had gone, but now I’m sure.”
Wow!!!
Let’s start opening our mouths.
He felt the blade nestled in his chest begin to pierce his heart.
Nevertheless.
“Cough…”
Yunseong spit out blood.
I grit my teeth.
“Here.”
He said, clutching his chest.
“In the last fight and in the current fight… the president of the association didn’t care at all whether his head was blown off, his heart was ripped out, or his brain was smashed. But…just one place!”
The only person who witnessed the president’s battle more than once.
“In the middle of the chest!”
“…!”
“You managed to protect that place…!”
The fact that I knew because it was him.