Chapter 204
Stealth Skill
"Are you going to keep running like a little whore, you stupid bastard? Fine... have it your way. I'll do it at full power."
Sun Jo Woo calmly rolled his neck, producing a faint cracking sound.
In the next instant, the daggers disappeared from his hands.
In a fraction of a second,
everyone felt a suffocating pressure.
A terrifying killing intent began pouring out of Sun Jo Woo's body.
It was not an ordinary killing intent,
nor was it merely a savage one...
It was pure, refined killing intent, horrifying beyond reason.
An aura no ordinary human could possess.
An aura no one is born with...
but one earned only
by making killing one's path, one's refuge, and one's daily reality.
"I'll show you... the majesty of the worst Monarch of Death."
As those words fell, the pressure gradually weakened...
then vanished completely.
And the moment the pressure disappeared...
Sun Jo Woo himself disappeared.
He appeared behind Jang Tae Shik without the slightest warning.
He swung his right hand with overwhelming force.
Just one strike.
It pierced through Jang Tae Shik's chest,
shattered his ribcage,
and sent his heart bursting out of his body,
falling lifelessly onto the ground.
Complete silence filled the area.
'So... that's how it works.'
Sun Jo Woo smiled calmly
and looked at his hand, faintly enveloped in a dark aura.
What he had used was not a registered skill...
but a technique he had created himself.
Concentrating magical power into a single part of the body—
whether the hand or the foot—
then, at the very first moment of contact with the enemy,
that energy exploded like a cannon shell.
A single strike.
It pierced through Jang Tae Shik's moderate defenses,
then targeted his heart directly,
forcing it completely out of his body.
| Congratulations. You have killed the person who managed to escape from you. |
| Reward: Stealth Skill. |
| Stealth Skill:
Conceals the user's body, scent, voice, and even aura almost completely.
No one can sense your presence while the skill is active,
but it has no effect on those who are significantly stronger than you. |
'An assassin... and I get a stealth skill.
Damn...'
Sun Jo Woo smiled with faint sarcasm.
Then he noticed everyone staring at him.
Silent.
Stunned.
Wary.
"Ahem... So, shall we go?"
he said with an awkward, forced smile.
The others began helping the injured.
{Everyone survived this time thanks to Arthur Narin, and another timeline has changed.}
The group continued onward,
but Sun Jo Woo deliberately slowed his pace,
remaining behind... hidden.
"Wake up, you little bastard."
He kicked one of the prisoners' bodies.
The man had been pretending to be dead.
His acting was frighteningly convincing.
But the problem?
He was pretending to be dead...
before the Monarch of Death himself.
The prisoner opened his eyes...
and at that very moment, Sun Jo Woo smiled calmly.
He casually waved his hand.
The head separated from the body.
"Consider it mercy...
or forgiveness...
or perhaps absolution for your sins...
or simply another damned death.
Who really cares?"
His face returned to those calm, profound features.
| What are you thinking about? |
*'Nothing...
Nothing... really.'*
Sun Jo Woo absorbed all the corpses around him,
fed part of the power to Wrath,
and left some of the remains for Astaroth.
Then he looked toward the ghouls that had begun gathering.
He stretched out his hand,
and a dark black cloak enveloped him.
From beneath the cloak's shadow...
four skeletons emerged.
The battle began.
Whenever a skeleton was destroyed,
Sun Jo Woo waved his hand,
summoning another one from the corpses of the ghouls.
After nearly ten minutes,
the battle came to an end.
Only ten skeletons remained,
surrounded by an aura slightly stronger than before.
"Yes... my skill has evolved.
I can now summon ten skeletons instead of four."
He dismissed the skeletons,
then stored the Space Cloak away,
and quietly followed after the others.
After they exited,
Sang Shi Yul and Joo Hee explained everything that had happened to the employee,
and how the situation had spiraled out of control.
Some time later,
an elite Hunter arrived at the scene.
Both Sung Jin Woo and Sun Jo Woo recognized him immediately.
The very same man who had spoken about Double Awakening,
and about the destruction of the magical power core.
*'He's strong...
Perhaps because I had lost my power core before, I didn't notice his aura...
but he truly is strong.'*
Woo Jin Chul spoke with the survivors.
Sang Shi Yul then explained how Jang Tae Shik had been killed, with Joo Hee confirming the account.
Afterward, everyone went their separate ways.
Sung Jin Woo left with Joo Hee.
Sang Shi Yul departed with the two injured members.
And Sun Jo Woo...
returned home.
'So... an S-Rank fool is after my head.'
He sighed
and raised his eyes toward the sky.
A dark sky...
without a single star.
He remembered what Woo Jin Chul had said.
About the S-Rank Hunter,
Hwang Dong Soo.
The brother...
who had been killed inside the dungeon.
"I really need to become stronger."
A few days later,
he received a call from Yoo Jin Woo regarding the first dungeon.
"So... tomorrow."
he said while breathing heavily, barely able to remain standing.
Kyu collapsed before him,
his body drenched in sweat and exhaustion.
"You stupid bastard... your body is ridiculously tough."
"..."
"Fine, we still have time. Have you recovered your strength?"
"Yes, Master."
Kyu slammed his foot into the ground,
rising with an explosive burst of power.
His hand shot toward Sun Jo Woo's head.
Sun Jo Woo avoided it with a calm lean,
but in the very next moment...
Kyu's other fist was already in front of his face.
He barely dodged the blow,
his cheek receiving a slight burn from the speed of the punch.
Lowering his body,
he kicked toward Kyu's leg.
Kyu leaped away effortlessly.
But at that very instant...
Sun Jo Woo planted both hands against the ground,
launched himself forward like a spear,
pierced into Kyu's chest,
and hurled him backward until he crashed into the rock behind him.
The two of them were sparring in front of Sun Jo Woo's house.
A small house...
but the surrounding area was vast,
enclosed by an iron fence he had built earlier.
Sun Jo Woo came to a stop
and spoke with deadly calm.
"4,765 battles."
"4,000 victories for me."
"700 times I almost killed you for real."
"60 times you nearly won... and failed."
"5 times I severed a part of your body."
He looked at him coldly.
"If it weren't for the Miraculous Healing Potion... you'd already be dead, you bastard."
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