Chapter 192

Chapter 192

“Kuhh!”

Carter Colt blocked the attack and glanced sideways.

Seizing the moment, Pyohoon unleashed a fist packed with mana, striking Carter Colt squarely in the nose.

Bam!

“Lee Do-jae…!”

Carter Colt, struck by Pyohoon’s fist, didn’t flinch once, continuing to stare only at Dojae and Bedaya.

Ignored by a mere criminal, Pyo-hoon’s blood began to boil.

“You bastard! Where do you think you’re looking?!”

Thud-!

Pyohoon grabbed Carter Colt’s arm, tripped him, and brought him down.

He mounted him, pressing his knee into Carter Colt’s back while wrapping his arm around the man’s neck in a chokehold.

But despite Pyo-hoon’s powerful pressure, Carter Colt slowly rose to his feet.

Hanging Pyohun like a ragdoll.

“Fucking man. Looks like I don’t have time to play with you now.”

“You bastard, seeing how Lee Do-jae’s Bu-gilma went to that woman, it seems she’s the boss over there. How frustrating must it be for us over here fighting you?”

Pyo-hun roared bravely.

His roar was so thunderous that the surrounding monsters flinched and trembled as a heavy mana spread out.

Boom-.

POW!

Carter Colt and Pyo Hoon exchanged blows in a fierce brawl.

Carter Colt, who was already close to the top tier of A-rank.

Though he gained S-rank power by sharing Bedaya’s strength, he was still facing Pyohoon and Kwon Ranhee.

Though they clashed constantly, they weren’t petty enough to let personal feelings divide them against a common enemy.

“Old man Pyo-hoon! Back off!”

At Kwon Ran-hee’s shout, Pyo Hoon swiftly stepped back.

Carter Colt, his face twisted in irritation, tried to pursue Pyohoon but found his feet pinned by Kwon Ranhee’s skill.

Gugugung-.

Centered on Carter Colt soaring high into the sky, the surrounding dirt and rocks coalesced.

Gradually taking on a spherical shape, it cast a massive shadow on the ground.

The massive boulder that shot up in an instant plummeted from 5km above to the ground.

Whoosh-!

“Everyone, get out of the way!”

The boulder plummeted at an incredible speed.

At Kwon Ran-hee’s shout, the Manseong guild members grabbed the Gong guild members and scattered at full speed.

Kwaaang-!

Though not quite a meteor, the boulders obliterated everything within a 100-meter radius, creating a massive crater.

Thud-thud-.

Dirt, rock fragments, and monster corpse pieces flew everywhere.

Seeing this, Manseong and the Gong Guild members naturally assumed Carter Colt was dead.

But Pyohoon and Kwon Ranhee’s faces were anything but bright.

“That damn bastard… Surviving even that…”

“I’ll handle him! You get out of here!”

Pyo-hoon leapt with all his might, diving straight into the swirling dust cloud.

There, Carter Colt crouched low, his entire body shrouded in black aura.

Whoosh-!

Black energy spread in all directions.

Pyo-hoon tried to approach Carter Cold but was repelled by the black aura.

Thud-.

“Grrr…”

Carter Colt bent his knees, his face contorted in pain.

The black aura that had spread in all directions was absorbed into Carter Colt’s body.

But it didn’t end there. The black clouds filling the sky were sucked toward Carter Colt.

His body began to transform.

Crunch-.

Crack-.

Originally, Carter Colt’s body was only half the size of Pyohoon’s, a man of fine muscle, but it gradually grew larger, his clothes bursting open as he became enormous.

His transformation didn’t stop there. His mouth jutted out, then a snout like an animal’s formed, his waist lengthened, his hips spread wide, and a long tail sprouted simultaneously.

And in an instant, black fur covered his entire body.

“What the hell is that?!”

“That form… I’ve seen it somewhere before?”

While Pyo-hoon was flustered, Kwon Ran-hee, looking at Carter Colt transformed into a beast, recalled someone.

“Kang Young-chan from the extermination squad?”

Carter Colt’s form resembled that of Kang Young-chan when he unleashed his full power, though Kang had since vanished.

She had once witnessed Kang Young-chan’s battle by chance in the Dungeon Break region. When cornered, Kang Young-chan had transformed into that ferocious beast form, clearing out all the monsters using only his teeth and claws.

Back then, the Extermination Army had stopped the out-of-control Kang Young-chan at the cost of heavy casualties. Kwon Ran-hee had left the scene, so she didn’t know what happened afterward.

“He’s no match for Kang Young-chan…”

Yet Carter Colt was at least twice, no, three times larger than Kang Young-chan.

The surrounding monsters looked like babies in comparison.

“Kwooooh!”

As Carter Colt roared, Pyo Hoon staggered.

Hearing the roar up close affected Pyohoon, but C-rank and D-rank hunters 100 meters away suffered mental shock and collapsed on the spot.

“Kraaaah!”

Carter Colt leapt up on all fours and bit into Pyohoon.

Then, it lifted him into the air and swallowed him whole.

“Kwaaah.”

Fortunately, Pyohoon managed to grab onto the massive teeth and wasn’t sucked down past the esophagus.

He spread his arms wide, desperately trying to prevent the jaws from closing.

However, the bite pierced his sturdy flesh, tearing a large hole in his side. Blood gushed out from the wound.

“Grandpa!”

Kwon Ran-hee flew backward like a projectile, suspended in midair as she pinned Carter Colt down.

Push-shhh.

Carter Colt’s four legs were driven into the ground, but he ignored it as if nothing happened, tightening his jaws.

“Grr!”

Like a fighting dog shaking its prey’s neck, Carter Colt shook his head violently.

Pyo-hoon desperately clung to its teeth and held on.

“You… you bastard…”

The jaws closed tighter and tighter.

The harder Pyo-hoon clenched, the more blood spurted like a fountain, and his form gradually vanished into Carter Colt’s mouth.

Then.

Clang!

A thick iron chain flew from somewhere, wrapping around Carter Colt’s leg and pulling him back. The massive form that had coiled the chain wrapped around Carter Colt’s neck and fell sideways.

Thud-.

“Kyaaah!”

As his throat was squeezed with all its might, Carter Colt spat out a gurgle and thrashed about.

But his four legs were already firmly sealed by the chains. The thick forearms and upper arms absolutely refused to release Carter Colt’s neck.

“You guys…”

Grasping his pierced side as he rose, Pyohoon confirmed the man wrapped in chains and the woman whose massive frame matched Carter Colt’s size.

It was Young-jin and Ji-yoon.

***

Thud-!

Sizzle-!

Two clasped hands slammed into the top of the Carter Colt’s head.

A powerful electric shock erupted, singeing his hair into frizzy curls.

“Kwaaak!”

Carter Colt thrashed wildly, trying to shake off Ji-yoon perched on his body.

But Ji-yoon, gripping his protruding ears and clinging tightly to his thighs, had no intention of letting go.

“Young-jin!”

At Ji-yoon’s call, Young-jin pulled out a thicker, longer chain.

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

The chain slithered upward like a snake.

It slid smoothly over Carter Colt’s four legs and wrapped around its body. The moment Ji-yoon leaped down, it enveloped her entire body.

Snap!

As Young-jin focused his eyes, the chains clashed together, tightening around Carter Colt with all their might.

Carter Colt struggled to move.

But Young-jin’s ‘Golem’s Core’ emitted an even brighter light, flooding the chains with mana.

“Grrr!”

“You bastard!”

Thud!

Ji-yoon delivered a fist to the head of the writhing Carter Colt.

Then, she mercilessly beat Carter Colt with the oversized iron chain club Yeongjin had crafted.

His appearance, wearing traditional Titan attire with his hair flying wildly, was reminiscent of Eurabia.

“Gurgle…”

Carter Colt let out a death rattle.

Black smoke billowed heavily from his body.

Ji-yoon stopped the beating and leaped back.

Whoosh-!

The smoke was so thick that the area around Carter Colt plunged into darkness, as if night had fallen.

Whoosh-!

The smoke flew off in one direction and vanished.

Where the darkness lifted.

There lay Carter Colt, unconscious and collapsed.

Thud-thud-.

Crunch-!

Pyohoon clutched his side.

With a pale face, he walked toward Carter Colt and stomped down hard on his neck.

His head was twisted at an unnatural angle, his neck crushed flat.

Carter Colt’s eyeballs bulged as if about to burst, and thick, black blood flowed from his mouth and nose.

Thud-.

Pyo-hoon lightly grabbed Carter Colt’s leg and flung him forcefully out of the pit.

And now, monsters approached the corpse of Carter Colt.

“Kyaaah!”

“Karak!”

But an invisible force descended around Carter Colt’s corpse, flattening all the surrounding monsters like pancakes.

“Can I take this one?”

The only body that hadn’t been flattened, Carter Colt’s, floated up and flew toward Kwon Ran-hee.

“You bitch! That one’s mine!”

“Hmph, finder’s keepers? And if you’re going to argue over whose it is, shouldn’t you ask these two guardians?”

Kwon Ran-hee, arms crossed, gestured toward Young-jin and Ji-yoon.

Before anyone noticed, Young-jin had shed his chainmail golem armor, and Ji-yoon had returned to her original size.

“Is that the problem right now? We need to go help my brother and Eun-hee!”

“But… can we really help? Over there is completely…”

Ji-yoon’s flustered expression drew the gaze of Young-jin, Pyo-hoon, and Kwon Ran-hee in one direction.

The side where Dojae and Bedaya are fighting.

The scene unfolding there was so immense it made one question whether it was truly South Korea, or even a place on Earth.

***

Fireballs rained down from the sky, while pillars of flame erupted from the ground.

In the midst of this pandemonium, which made one wonder if this was what hell itself looked like, Dojae and Bedaya clashed fiercely.

“Ahh… The more I see it, the more I crave that power…!”

Shapeless red masses formed around Bedaya and attacked Dojae.

Some staggered after being struck by fireballs, while others were shattered by Wang Gol-i’s spear.

The skill, ‘Golem’s Domain’, created space exactly as Dojae imagined it. The things within it possessed physical force, not mere illusions or phantoms, but were tangible realities.

Crack!

However, every time Dojae and Bedaya clashed, the space collapsed, gradually revealing the original space.

Maintaining the ‘Golem’s Domain’ was becoming too taxing due to their clash.

Even so, Dojae couldn’t release his skill. If not for this newly created space, everything around them would be destroyed. Bedaya’s force and the crimson masses she conjured were simply too powerful.

Swoosh-!

The red mass in the form of an orc vanished under Eunhee’s ‘Black Seven Thousand Li Whirling Blade’.

The power of the ascetic Han contained within her sword could deal effective damage to Bedaya’s summons.

Shuuuk-!

“Thank you…!”

An elf who had quietly approached and thrust a hand behind Eun-hee was struck by Elatra’s spear, sent flying, and vanished.

Wanggol gave Eunhee a slight nod before retrieving Elatra’s spear and hunting down the red masses.

And then, for a moment.

How long had Dojae and Bedaya’s fierce battle been going on?

“Boring.”

Black smoke seeped into Dojae’s domain.

Bedeya looked outside with a stiff, frozen expression.

“It’s lost its appeal.”

Bedeiya sucked in the black smoke.

Bedeiya’s aura grew uncontrollably vast.

Crack-.

Dojae’s ‘Golem’s Domain’ caused a crack.

And before anyone could react, the hellish space returned to normal.