- Gyahahahahaha!
At the look on Su-ho’s face, as if he had let go of everything, the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth burst into wild laughter.
But the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth should not have done that.
Truly enraged, Su-ho raised his hand toward it.
[ Weakening is activated. ]
[ Seal of Pain is activated. ]
[ Enrage is activated. ]
[ Blessing of Rage is activated. ]
[ Curse of Rage is activated. ]
A downpour of skills.
But the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth was still overflowing with composure.
- Gyahahaha! What a pointless thing you’re doing!
[ The Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth uses Filth Breath. ]
Bwoooooooooosh!!
With a full-on mocking laugh, the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth used Filth Breath.
As the Filth Breath, made even stronger by the effect of Rage, ca crashing down on Su-ho, he likewise began to counter it head-on with a skill of his own.
[ Mini Breath is activated. ]
Fwooooooooosh!!
Within the parted Wave of Filth, Su-ho began spewing Breath as if pouring out all of his anger.
There was no attribute change.
He breathed it out with the sa Fire attribute as before.
- Gyahahahahaha!
The Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth laughed.
It was still full of leisure.
No wonder—its filth was not only slly and dirty but also had a powerful toxicity that drastically reduced the target’s strength the mont it made contact.
That was why it was so confident.
However—
Kwoooooooooooooosh!!
The scale of Mini Breath grew.
In that instant, the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth’s eyes widened.
A bad premonition began to creep over it.
And most ominous premonitions tend to co true.
It thought it was just in its head, but at so point, its Filth Breath was clearly being pushed back.
- What the—!
It tried to squeeze out more power, belatedly.
But by then, it was already far too late.
Kwoooooooooooooosh!!
- ?!
Bwoooooooooooosh!!
The massive Breath beca a tidal wave and crashed down over the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth.
The Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth hurried to escape.
It tried to employ its characteristic regenerative power as well.
But for so reason, its body did not recover.
- What is this!
And that was the end.
[ You have successfully slain the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth. ]
[ You have leveled up. ]
[ All stats have increased by 1. ]
[ You have acquired 1 bonus stat. ]
[ You have successfully completed the 5th task. ]
Brief notifications floated up.
Just like that, the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth was entirely burned away and vanished in the flas of Mini Breath.
Fwoosh.
Only then did Su-ho, having blown away the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth, exhale shortly and gather the flas, like blowing out a candle.
“Fuuuu...”
Even so, his anger did not subside easily.
Su-ho sighed and shook off his surroundings.
“For a piece of trash that was nothing special, it was really disgusting enough to kill .”
Sotis, sothing that soils your mood is more fatal than sothing that hurts.
This had been one of those tis.
In that sense, if this was what Hera had been aiming for, then it was Hera’s victory.
Su-ho scrubbed his body thoroughly with mana and waited for the next stage.
“Ugh, I’m sure I washed everything, but it still feels like so of it’s left.”
He never wanted to run into sothing like that again.
Before long, the surrounding scenery changed.
[ ■■ gives you the remaining tasks. ]
A system notification.
Now it would be the 6th task’s turn.
What was the 6th again?
He rembered.
‘Hunting the birds of Stymphalos.’
Hunting those crazy birds made of bronze.
That was the 6th task.
‘If my mory’s right, Hercules wore the hide of the Nean lion when he took them down.’
Then I should at least wear the Blood Suit.
No matter how strong they were, they wouldn’t be tougher than his mana.
It was around the ti he was thinking that.
[ ■■’s task begins. ]
[ ■■’s 6th task begins. ]
The next task began.
At the sa ti, the scenery changed, and Su-ho was standing atop a cliff with the sea below. And at the sa ti—
[ A boss monster appears. ]
A boss monster appeared imdiately.
Fwoooooooosh!
The wind blew harshly.
Su-ho narrowed his eyes, and at the sa mont, sothing enormous began to reveal itself from below the cliff.
They were the Bronze Birds of Stymphalos.
“Of course.”
As expected, the Twelve Labors of Hercules were proceeding faithfully along the original tale. But when he saw the bronze birds, Su-ho montarily doubted his own eyes.
“Those things... why are they so big?”
He hadn’t seen wrong.
The bronze birds rising up from below the cliff were, without exaggeration, insanely huge, like so phoenixes.
And it wasn’t just one or two.
Could they have co out wrong?
- Bronze Bird of Stymphalos Lv.???
- Bronze Bird of Stymphalos Lv.???
- Bronze Bird of Stymphalos Lv.???
......
No.
They had co out just fine.
Their naplates were accurate, and since there was nothing particularly different about them, it seed all those dozens of birds were counted together as a single boss monster.
‘It’s not the first ti the boss mob hasn’t been just one, but still...’
Well.
In the original myth, it had also said that Hercules handled dozens of birds by himself.
At that mont, the bronze birds all began to screech at once.
- Kyaaaak! Kyaaaak!
[ The Bronze Bird of Stymphalos uses ruler-grade Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, the Fear is not applied. ]
[ Due to the effect of ruler-grade Fear, all buff effects on Players are removed. ]
As expected, ruler-grade again this ti.
It was fine.
He could just cast his buffs again.
Su-ho patiently waited for the Fear to pass, then imdiately re-applied his buffs.
[ Blood Armory is activated. ]
[ Blessing is activated. ]
[ Holy Enchant is activated. ]
[ Mana Detection is activated. ]
[ Endurance is activated. ]
[ Enhancent is activated. ]
[ Blacksmith’s Eye is activated. ]
[ Sword Aura is activated. ]
All right, now how should I cook you lot?
He was just thinking that.
- Kyaaaaaaaaak!!
[ The Bronze Bird of Stymphalos uses ruler-grade Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, the Fear is not applied. ]
[ Due to the effect of ruler-grade Fear, all buff effects on Players are removed. ]
Ruler-grade Fear rang out again.
At the sa ti, all of Su-ho’s buff effects were dispelled.
“Huh?”
Was it because there were several of them?
Furrowing his brow, Su-ho cast his buffs again.
However, right after he reapplied them—
- Kyaaaaaaaaak!!
[ The Bronze Bird of Stymphalos uses ruler-grade Fear. ]
[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]
[ Due to the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, the Fear is not applied. ]
[ Due to the effect of ruler-grade Fear, all buff effects on Players are removed. ]
They used ruler-grade Fear once more.
And only then was Su-ho able to realize it.
“This is insane.”
The dozens of bronze birds were going to use ruler-grade Fear in rotation, as many tis as they had heads.
It wasn’t a coincidence.
Hera had probably trained them.
‘She really never runs out of tricks.’
So for this turn, would he have to do it without any sustained buffs?
It certainly seed that way.
‘And on top of that, things like Weakening or Enrage are inefficient to use one by one with that many of them.’
In the end, there was only that option left.
Su-ho raised his Blood Sword again.
At that, the bronze birds also began their attack on Su-ho.
[ The Bronze Bird of Stymphalos uses Punishnt of Bronze Feathers. ]
Shweeeeeeeesh!!
A shower of their bronze feathers ca blasting out.
Wow.
In the myth, he’d thought they would co at him directly and attack with bronze beaks and talons, but they were attacking cheaply from range?
Clicking his tongue, Su-ho swung his sword.
Kagak!
Batting away their feathers wasn’t particularly difficult.
Even if there were dozens of them, Su-ho was not soone who would let them slip through.
Su-ho deflected or dodged the feathers to divert their attacks, and in the gaps in between, he diligently thrust his own attacks in.
[ Cloud Slash is activated. ]
The first Cloud Slash.
His aim was precise, and the length of the sword strike was more than sufficient. But—
Kakang!
The mont the slash of Cloud Slash struck the bronze bird, rough sparks flew, but ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) the bronze bird remained completely unscathed, still flapping its wings as if nothing had happened.
Su-ho furrowed his brow.
‘So this is what it ans to be a boss monster.’
In that case, he would have to strengthen the sword strike itself even more.
Su-ho used his skills in quick succession.
[ Enhancent is activated. ]
[ Cloud Slash is activated. ]
[ Enhancent is applied. ]
[ The power of Cloud Slash becos even stronger. ]
The strengthened Cloud Slash flew with ferocious force and detonated against the bronze birds. However—
Kakang!
Even this ti, the exploding Cloud Slash only sent up sparks and could not inflict any damage.
It was due to the bronze birds’ powerful defense.
Seeing that, Hera’s lips curled upward in satisfaction.
Now what will you do?
The buffs you’re so proud of and your sword strikes have all beco utterly useless.
On top of that, since darkness did not fall here, the Guiyeong Spear you’re so fond of was nothing more than an ordinary spear.
Cheolma?
Naturally, she had prepared counterasures for that as well.
The mont Su-ho rose into the air on Cheolma, the bronze birds would all attack Cheolma first and smash it to pieces.
She had prepared related skills too.
The bronze birds were, after all, boss-monster grade.
With the corners of her mouth raised, Hera watched Su-ho.
And sure enough, having confird that even his enhanced Cloud Slash didn’t work, Su-ho’s brow also sharply furrowed.
However, it wasn’t long before a broad smile blood on Su-ho’s face.
“Wow, so this is where all the opportunities co rolling in.”
Hm?
Why is he smiling?
This ti, Hera’s brow furrowed.
But Su-ho did not use any additional skills.
He simply kept dodging the bronze birds’ attacks while repeatedly using Cloud Slash to no effect.
Had he given up?
That was the only way it seed.
No wonder—Hera was relentlessly controlling the bronze birds, never allowing any openings.
She had no intention of leaving the fight in the bronze birds’ autonomous hands.
She had decided never to do that again after the Great Spirit of Centuries-Old Filth.
Kwoooooosh!
Kakang! Kakang! Kakang!
Kwooom!!
Exchanging attacks back and forth.
It wasn’t a aningless war of attrition.
Hera controlled the bronze birds as best she could.
And the sa went for Su-ho.
That was why the only things being destroyed were the surrounding terrain and objects.
But ironically, even though Su-ho hadn’t landed a single effective hit, he showed no sign of boredom or exhaustion and just kept swinging his sword.
Watching him, Hera narrowed her eyes.
You bastard, I don’t know what you’re plotting, but in the end, the one who collapses from exhaustion will be you.
And so, the long, very tedious battle between the two sides began.
An eternal battle unfolding in an infinite space where neither the sun set nor the moon rose.
How much ti had passed like that?
[ Cloud Slash is activated. ]
Kakang!
Another Cloud Slash detonated against a bronze bird.
Sparks flew again, and it did not deal any heavy damage.
But for so reason, Su-ho’s eyes, which had been wearing almost the sa expression all along, suddenly glead.
It was clearly rooted in joy.
And the very next attack in succession detonated against a bronze bird.
Kakang!
Seeing the sparks fly this ti as well, the corners of Su-ho’s mouth slowly curved into a smile.
“It’s here.”
Su-ho swung his sword once more.
And a very slight part of the bronze bird’s feathers split.
At the sa ti, he was able to see it.
[ ■■ smiles at your tenacious effort. ]
The notification for Void Striking Style that he had so badly wanted to see.
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