Creating Hidden Endings - Chapter 31

[Nightmare’s ‘Scream in Nightmare’ hits the unbreakable shield and disappears.]

[Party leader ‘Lee Jehee’ activates the secret ‘Low Sword’.] (t/n: I’m not sure about this skill name actually the Korean is 비천검 so in case one of you know the real meaning and want to give a suggestion feel free to put it on the comment, I really appreciate it;;)

The scream or something that hit the golden shield made a creepy sound over and over again, but it gradually decreased and eventually disappeared. And at the same time as the skill was extinguished, Lee Jehee, who jumped to the height of the Nightmare with just one jump, threw the sword he was holding and slammed it into the Nightmare’s abdomen.

Lee Jehee, who slowly landed on the ground, ran like an arrow once again and jumped high. Then, Lee Jehee, who gained momentum by stepping on the sword lodged in its stomach, pierced the Nightmare’s abdomen with the remaining sword and soared upward. It was a tremendous force from Nightmare’s abdomen to shoulders.

[‘Nightmare’ was fatally injured.]

“Arrrrgggggh!”

Nightmare roared as if suffering from a fatal injury. Black smoke in place of blood rose from the wound cut by the sword.

When I was playing the game, I said, “Oh, the smoke is too lame,” and grumbled, “Isn’t it better to bleed?” But now it’s rather creepy. This is because the smoke rising slowly seemed more ominous than blood.

While I was frozen by the ominousness, Baek Taera, who came to my side, slapped me on the back.

“Why are you so frozen?”

“Huh, no, that’s…”

“Why? Do you think we’ll lose?”

“….”

“Don’t worry. We won’t lose. No, Jehee Hyung and us won’t lose.” 

That punk smiles and laughs with a confident face. Then, his proud face shone bright, and his pretty features bloomed like flowers.

Those eyes, the expression on his face, were speaking. Believe it, even if no one can believe it, believe it as much as Lee Jehee.

With that trustworthy smile, the stiff shoulders went down little by little, and the tension was released. As Baek Taera said, Lee Jehee, the main character, couldn’t lose. Thinking like that, I was no longer afraid of the roar of the Nightmare.

But it’s still too early to be relieved.

[The ‘Nightmare’ activates the attack skill ‘The Second Coming of Nightmare’]

[‘Nightmare’ descends here as the first effect of ‘The Second Coming of Nightmare’ skill.]

As soon as the status message came to mind, black and long stems popped out of the ground. They pierced the ground at odd intervals and were thorned with hook-shaped thorns that appeared terrible. It seemed that if caught incorrectly, the skin wouldn’t remain.

At that moment, a huge black stem protruding from near the shield struck over the top of the head. 

“Arrrggh!” 

“Look at that voice. You really look like you rented the dungeon.” 

As I sat down in my position, Baek Taera scolded me with a voice full of laughter at my scream and relaxedly folded his arms. As promised by the calm man, the black stem bounced off against the golden shield.

It slowly moved back and wrapped the entire shield in an ominous black smoke.

[‘Nightmare’ begins self-healing as the second effect of ‘The Second Coming of Nightmare’.]

“Everyone, be careful. It seems like mana is being taken away just by going around the stem.”

The party exchanged eyes and departed in unison at the words of Lee Jehee, who stood back after cutting off the Nightmare. However, as seen by the party window, everyone’s mana has already been reduced by half.

Nonetheless, when the wandering stems approached, the status bar showing the party’s mana level was cut away. The Nightmare’s stamina was slowly filling up as it used it as food.

“T, that punk’s blood slowly filling up?”

“Then you can cut it again.”

A bright silver light erupted from Baek Taera’s body, who said so with a relaxed expression. That guy activated his awakening characteristic.

[Party member ‘Baek Taera’ opens the awakening attribute.]

[God, Hua Ta appeared]

[God, Hua Ta activates the awakening skill ‘God’s Vision Chapter 5 – Second Stage Skill ‘Boeum’ of Precious Blood.] 

At the same time as the awakening characteristics were activated, Baek Taera’s eyes, which had been gray, turned red. Four long hands appeared in front of the man’s hand, which flapped the hem of his white cloak with the word “Life” written on it. The seemingly terrifying long needles flew toward the party members and stuck behind each neck.

Baek Taera, holding the long red thread behind the long needle, took out a mana potion with a confident face and began to drink.

[Hua Ta, the effect of ‘Baek Taera’s ‘Boeum’ skill continuously restores party members’ mana by sacrificing ‘Baek Taera’s mana.]

Thanks to this, the mana of the party members began to rise rapidly. The party with the long needle in them had no worries about running out of mana. Because the infinite blood transfusion pack appeared.

But that— It looks painful just by looking at it. Hua Ta’s skill was introduced as painful even in the game. It’s a relief that he didn’t use it on me. The party fighting with that kind of thing looked amazing.

As soon as Mana recovered, something black passed by Baek Taera and rushed to Nightmare. And the black figure quickly lifted a huge ax and began axing furiously.

[Party member ‘Han Chorok’ opens the awakening attribute.]

[Berserker appeared.]

[The Berserker activates the awakening skill ‘Berserk’.] 

[‘Nightmare’ self-healing fails due to Berserker’s attack.]

With a single strike, black smoke rose right from Nightmare’s body. A status message came up from Nightmare stating that the self-healing failed because it couldn’t withstand the continuous, non-stop slashing of the ax. 

“As expected, Han Chorok!” 

While Chorok was pleased with the compliments for a short moment, Nightmare did not stop and started the next attack.

Nightmare’s eyes, which were only recognized by Sora, came close to me and headed for Han Chorok, who was swinging a huge battle-ax like crazy. It made an ominous growl as if it was ready to attack immediately.

Hana, who was covering me from behind, saw it and immediately used her awakening tribute.

[Party member ‘Kim Hana’ opens the awakening attribute.]

[Dongmyeong of Goguryeo appeared.] 

[Dongmyeong of Goguryeo activates the awakening skill ‘Gongon Ilcheok’] (t/n: Gongon Ilcheok’ (건곤일척) meaning stake everything one has on.)

A blue light flowed through Hana’s body this time, and her black eyes were dyed blue.

Hana, who placed her foot on the back of the crossbow that appeared in front of her, drew a long bow, and blue energy swirled in front of the white arrow. The arrow that left the group in that state was aimed directly at Nightmare.

An arrow with huge energy hit Nightmare’s heart and pierced it. There was a huge hole in Nightmare’s chest. In addition to the hole Hana made in the previous battle, Nightmare’s body was torn.

[‘Nightmare’ was fatally injured.]

What was surprising was that Nightmare was still alive after being hit by it. That brat was still holding on to whether it was an S-grade for nothing, and prepared for the next attack.

[‘Nightmare’ activates the attack skill ‘Lucid Dream’.]

And before that punk could cast the skill, Lee Jehee was one step ahead and activated the skill.

[Party leader ‘Lee Jehee’ activates the secondary skill ‘Levitation’.]

[Party leader ‘Lee Jehee’ uses a hidden skill to activate the ‘Overlap Skill’.]

[Party leader ‘Lee Jehee’ activates the skill ‘Geomgi’.] (t/n : swords used in a sword dance.)

Lee Jehee used his hidden skills to use two skills at once. Magically floating, he grabbed the two swords he had taken from the Nightmare and lowered his shoulders. His shoulders, which were comfortably lowered, swayed slightly with each deep breath he took. Then he raised his arm and drew a sword in succession against the air.

Then, a black sword in the shape of a sword rushed towards the Nightmare. The sword, which flew through the air with a terrifying force, gradually increased in size.

The sword, which became a person, vibrated all the air around it and cut off the shoulders of Nightmare. Nightmare lost both arms in an instant.

[‘Nightmare’ was fatally injured.]

[The fatally injured ‘Nightmare’ fails to activate the attack skill ‘Lucid Dream’.]

[‘Nightmare’ has become incapable of combat due to a fatal injury.]

…No, isn’t it the rule of thumb not to attack while transforming or memorizing spells?

The Nightmare is unable to fight without even using hands thanks to Lee Jehee, who first activated the skill before the attack skill was completed.

It looked like he had no morals, but the important thing was that Lee Jehee was on our side. If the opponent is cheap, it’s something to swear at, but the cheapness of our side always brings victory.

In fact, victory was completely tilted towards us.

Isn’t this really winning?

To the point where I thought so, these crazy guys were driving huge S-class monsters with their natural connection like flowing water.

At that time, Sora, who confirmed that Nightmare was incapable of fighting, stopped praying and got up. At the same time as the prayer was stopped, the golden shield disappeared, but the dazzling armor still wrapped around the body. Sora’s face showed a sense of pride.

“Is it finally my turn? Now, if you’ve run wild enough, everyone back down. Don’t get caught up and hurt, and all those who don’t have faith are subject to my judgment.”