White foam trickled from the corners of his mouth.
Shrrrrrr
[System: The Enhanced Vigilance trait has been activated.]
Before I knew it, he was holding a vicious chain in his hand. So much for dialogue; was it straight into battle mode now?
The USB wasnt the issue. I needed to figure out where he got this nonsense from and what had led him to spout such madness.
At that mont, Je Mu-gyeong started to move violently while swinging the chain with ferocity.
Whoooosh!!!
The chain flew through the air as if it were tearing through a wall of air itself.
Holy shit!
Crazy, was this the sound a chain was supposed to make?
[Protective Circle]
[Spell Enhancent: Multicasting]
Transparent protective circles ford at a speed faster than the incoming chains.
I already knew he was unreasonably strong. A single layer wouldnt be enough to stop him.
Crack, crack, crack!!!
I managed to form five protective circles, but four of them were shredded like paper.
Tch, cant we just talk, mask to mask!
From within the sackcloth wrapped around Je Mu-gyeong, two additional arms erged.
A powerful body covered with bursting muscles.
Unlike other test subjects, his four arms were symtrically and proportionately attached.
And each hand had six fingers.
This reminded of the creature I had seen in the pharmaceutical warehouse, the type D biological tissue sample. He looked like that small creature. Well, It wasnt an exact match, but it seed like that monstrous creature could grow into sothing resembling Je Mu-gyeongs current form.
It was inevitable.
If those little monsters were to grow up, theyd turn into Je Mu-gyeongs.
Je Mu-gyeong was the most terrible failure and, paradoxically, the only success among the specins created in the [Ga-5060 Secret Research Facility] disguised as an abandoned hospital.
And what I had secured in the glass bottle was a clone of Je Mu-gyeong. It might be an unpleasant term, but it wouldnt be wrong to call it his offspring.
Anyway, talking was now out of the question.
I had thought it to be the most cost-effective strategy if it could succeed, but the worst outco awaited .
It was ti to set aside any notion of dialogue and proceed with what I had originally intended to do.
I needed to seize the USB that was sowhere on him.
To do that
Use only spells that wont damage the USB while dealing with such an enemy?
I had assured Curtain Call that I could handle it alone, but it was no easy task.
Recklessly unleashing lightning or any other potentially explosive attack could destroy the program contained within the USB.
And that wasnt the end of it.
The sackcloth he was wrapped in was not just for show.
It was an artifact created at the cost of mythical madness and exquisite ritual steeped in the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos.
As long as he wore it, Je Mu-gyeong would possess a strong resistance to magic.
This item was on a completely different level from the local area magic nullification that Leopard from earlier could barely produce.
There are degrees to handicap matches!
I decided to put so distance between us.
If I got caught by that monstrous mass of muscle, I would be instantly reduced to minced at.
[Leap]
Dazzling patterns of light begin to bloom on my clothes.
Paaa
I leaped backward.
A long trail of light followed my movent.
The gap between the creature and widened and I quickly found myself outside the room.
The corridor wasnt particularly spacious, but it was far better than the cramped surgery room, which was no place to fight an opponent like this.
Je Mu-gyeong was montarily shaking with an uneasy expression before he charged at while swinging his chains.
On the additional arms attached to his side, a large hamr and a saw sohow appeared.
Ah, just give a mont to regroup!
[Lock]
Crash!
I used my magic to shut the door.
Then, I poured more magical power into reinforcing the door.
[Hardening]
[Protective Circle]
[tal Heating]
A double barrier was set up on the surgery room door, which began to glow red-hot due to the intense heat forcibly applied to it. Could it hold for a minute? No, perhaps just 30 seconds?
Boom!!!
Damn it, shouldnt he at least stop for ten seconds out of courtesy?
It wasnt just the door; the walls surrounding the door were also torn apart.
Amidst hurling the walls and door, Je Mu-gyeong spouted bizarre words with a deranged expression on his face as if he had gone mad.
I must escape this world I must get out Help Lend that skin!
Ah, yes, thats exactly what I wanted to talk about! Um but what did you say you wanted to borrow?
Skin! The skin! Give that skin! Give your skin!
The sound of chains clattering filled the air as the iron hook flew towards .
Thunder No! [Chains of Domination]!
[Spell Enhancent: Maximization]
[Spell Enhancent: Multicasting]
Seven strands of iron chains ford in all directions, each emitting a dazzling golden light as they seized Je Mu-gyeongs iron hook.
Ugh, quite heavy!
|Stop.|
The iron hook ca to a halt in mid-air with a grating sound of tal. For a mont, Je Mu-gyeong seed taken aback by the unexpected turn of events.
Hey! Je Mu-gyeong! Skin man! Skin!
Ah, I was so rushed that I couldnt form a proper sentence. Before Je Mu-gyeong could say anything else, I managed to complete my thought.
You know what it is! Tell ! What is needed to escape this world?
Thats right, Je Mu-gyeong could know. Because
Yes Yes I know. I can tear through the veil that covers this world and set off beyond that distant sea of stars, to the deep, deep abyss that exists beyond that, to the calm and quiet unknown land beyond that!
Ah, well done! Yes, you can do it, Je Mu-gyeong!
Yes, Je Mu-gyeong possessed a unique ability.
Originally, he had the ability to glimpse beyond the veil that enveloped the world of [Cthulhu World]. Helistics crazy scientists had infused his body with the DNA of various species and the fluids of abyssal beings, transforming Je Mu-gyeong into a being that was no longer human.
They revealed it to . Those who walk between dinsions and have the wisdom of the abyss and the power of the other world told ! They accepted as one of their own, as part of their kin. They whispered to the way to escape this world! A way to escape from this world where destruction is approaching, where even death itself will perish in the approaching abyss!
So, what the hell is that supposed to an?
The answer that ca after such a long wait was fu*k. It was just absurd nonsense.
A mage who gained infinite wisdom, magic, and madness after gazing into the abyss. The only way is to skin that mage and wear his skin. Thats all there is to it!
At that mont, Je Mu-gyeongs form began to blur. The tension in the chains slackened. Oh, shit!
Before I could react, Je Mu-gyeong had completely vanished.
Reborn through the modifications of Helistic, Je Mu-gyeong beca a monster who could hear the whispers from beyond the dinsions, tear through the veil on his own, and move to the other side of dinsions at will.
A dinsional species created by human hands. That is what Je Mu-gyeong is.
He hasnt moved far.
However, Je Mu-gyeong who was rely a prototype, lacked the energy and magical power to freely leap between dinsions and depart for other worlds. I retrieved the magical power contained in the chains of domination and expanded my senses.
Behind the wall?
I detected his magical power along with the sound of clanging chains right beyond the wall behind my back.
Crack! Crunch!
Before I could do anything, Je Mu-gyeong burst through the wall behind . He was charging at with a creepy large saw that emitted a flashing light.
It was a headlong rush with a large saw leading the way.
Aaah, piece of shit!
With a body boasting a re agility of 8, it was an attack of absurd speed and force that was simply too fast for to properly react.
To naively trust in a protective circle and face it head-on would be fatal!
[The unique effect of the L-rank accessory Carcosas Mask, Dreamy Blur, has been activated.
// Dreamy Blur: Automatically casts Blink spell]
I felt a strange feeling of the mask covering my face pulling away.
The space around twisted. The magic imbued in the mask teleported to a different location in an instant.
The activation of Blink, a top-tier survival spell that allowed for short-distance teleportation in dangerous monts, had saved .
[Blink complete. Cooldown: 864,000 seconds]
His attack sliced through the air in vain.
In the next mont, I found myself appearing right behind Je Mu-gyeong.
With his intended target suddenly vanished, he lost his balance and stumbled forward.
It was an attack launched with trendous force.
He could not overco the montum that pushed him onward and crashed into the wall.is what I thought would happen, but instead, he swung his four arms and pounded the ground.
Boooom!
This recoil stopped his charge in its tracks.
What kind of monster was this?
No, thats not right. He didnt move like this in the ga. He wasnt this strong, nor did he attack so recklessly.
Sothings different from the ga.
It reminded of my last encounter with Lee Chang-hyeok. In the ga, Lee Chang-hyeok transford into an absurd monster by opening the bag that couldnt be opened within the ga.
A strength and madness far different from his ga settings.
This guy must have opened sothing that couldnt be opened in the ga, or seen sothing that couldnt be seen in the ga, right?
And then there were the other recent incidents: the ghoul shaman, Jang Hyeon-deok, and now Je Mu-gyeong alongside Curtain Call.
NPCs deviating from their ga settings. Its not certain, but Je Mu-gyeongs complete breakdown probably occurred around the sa ti as the other NPCs.
Je Mu-gyeong, you crazy bastard! Stop obsessing over your damn skin and tell the real way! How can I escape this world?
You need to hamr a hook into the top of the head, carve a slit in the chest, and start from the mouth to peel off the skin. All these must be done while the subject is still alive.
What are you saying? Are you going to skin alive?
What are you saying! Be reasonable, you lunatic!
Whooosh!
With utter disregard for dialogue, he suddenly hurled a hamr at . This damned bastard.
[Arrow of Destruction]
[Spell Amplification: Maximization]
Crash! Baang!
With no ti to dodge or block, I launched an energy arrow enhanced with explosive power.
Thanks to my precise control over my magical power, the Arrow of Destruction exploded at the perfect timing and angle and managed to alter the trajectory of the hamr.
Agh
Conversely, it could be said that barely altering its course was all I could manage.
But the hamr wasnt the end of it. Before I knew it, he leaped forward with trendous physical force, creating an impact that was enough to shatter the floor.
Boooom!
Good grief
Je Mu-gyeongs massive body, ard with a saw flew towards . Wait, this timing is off; this could be dangerous. This attack carried even more destructive power than the previous charge. Blink was already used up. I had to choose the fastest spell I could activate despite the potential loss
Heaaaaaad!!
At that mont, a bright red flash ca out of nowhere and flew towards Je Mu-gyeongs head
White hair stained and mottled with blood, a cool leather jacket that still managed to shine with a red gloss, and a zanbato sword larger than the giant saw that Je Mu-gyeong was holding.
It was Curtain Call. Just as her overhead strike was about to impale Je-mukyeongs head, he grabbed the hamr lying on the ground and blocked her attack.
Claaanggg!!!
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