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Chapter 9
Magos was no ordinary being.
True to the reputation of the entity that would appear in the Sindorim Station disaster 10 years later.
In 2020, right now.
Despite not being fully grown, Magos’s skills experienced during the reconnaissance battle were at least B+ rank.
At this level, even five B- rank Awakeners working together would find it difficult to conquer, with a very high possibility of someone dying in the process.
Without anyone’s help, I fought with all my might from the beginning.
With the goal of definitely obtaining the dimensional stone it would drop and the special means called ‘flower’ that bestows unique talents!
“Can this lowly creature truly kill Magos?”
Magos’s words, which would have been inaudible in the past, were now clearly heard.
This was because Magos was speaking the language of the Nass Continent.
I had the opportunity to learn this language because one of my Nine Lord companions was from the Nass Continent.
The new world that Awakener would later call the Nass Continent or ‘Pan Continent’.
The connection with them would be formed in 2025. Still five years away.
“Just die obediently, you lizard bastard!”
Boom! Boom!
I narrowly dodged Magos’s tail striking roughly beside me and leaped powerfully onto its back.
Magos’s appearance was exactly like an alligator. Perhaps like an alligator known for its agility?
Its main attack patterns were biting and tail-whipping, and getting hit by the tail meant instant death.
That seemingly insignificant tail-whip had the power of a large truck crushing everything.
“…Nass language?”
A surprised Magos rolled its eyes.
It seemed momentarily surprised and curious that communication through language had been achieved.
I casually ignored its reaction and bit with all my might into its nape – a flexible part with relatively weak outer skin.
Chomp!
My mutated teeth that could chew through steel easily tore through Magos’s outer skin, inserting my fangs and canines.
“Krrrraaaah!”
Magos screamed.
Unable to strike me with its short four legs, it tried lifting its tail, apparently planning to use its sharp tip to pierce or push away my neck.
‘Paralytic poison.’
I flowed poison from my magically altered salivary glands directly into Magos’s wound.
The hole I’d made became a high-speed highway for the poison’s injection.
“Kek, cough.”
Magos began making hoarse sounds, seemingly feeling the paralysis spreading from its neck.
I’d injected plenty of poison.
With large monsters, a weak injection would be resisted by their inherent resilience.
It’s like increasing anesthesia for large animals.
Swish!
Magos’s tail swept through where my head had been, with a time delay.
The predictable attack pattern made it easy to dodge, and its tail merely cut through empty air.
‘An attack point impossible or extremely difficult for a normal Awakener…’
I thought, looking at Magos’s nape.
In the previous life, during the Sindorim battle, how much effort had Awakener made to find Magos’s weakness?
Everyone thought its unprotected belly would be the weakest point and would try to infiltrate underneath.
The result was death by crushing.
Awakener died, crushed in pressure similar to an apartment’s collapse.
Even top-tier A and S- rank Awakener died like candies.
But later, after successfully hunting Magos and researching, everyone learned:
Magos’s greatest weakness was its nape – the point of multiple nerve stems and magical amplification.
The part that looked like iron armor, seemingly untouchable, was actually the weakest.
‘Monsters like Magos don’t fall for single-point attacks. Especially lizard and crocodile-type monsters.’
In my previous life, I’d killed countless B+ rank monsters like this Magos.
For me, the question wasn’t whether I could catch it, but how.
I couldn’t waste time, or KSA agents might enter and trace my presence, potentially discovering this special space. I’d rather avoid that.
I don’t want to share my secret honey without reason!
‘Then!’
Leap!
I jumped again and landed on Magos’s nape.
“Krrr! Damn! Curse you! Argh!”
I was in a position directly visible but the furthest from its attack means.
Magos violently shook left and right, releasing an enraged roar.
Fine by me.
The more it thrashed, the more the paralytic poison would spread through its blood vessels.
“Let’s taste some lizards!”
Chomp! Chomp!
Sizzle! Splatter! Slash!
“Krrrraaaah!”
Using my teeth, I forcefully tore the soft flesh hidden beneath its outer skin.
Blood sprayed in all directions, naturally splattering all over my face.
If someone saw me, I’d resemble a demon, mercilessly ripping its flesh.
And the next moment.
Following the torn flesh, I exposed Magos’s blood vessels and white bones without hesitation.
Even creatures called monsters fundamentally followed animal skeletal structures.
Like humans, monsters have weaknesses.
And if you know where those weaknesses are, and possess the power to perfectly destroy them…!
Subduing them isn’t so difficult.
Whoosh!
I deeply inserted my right hand between the blood vessels pouring out.
Whoooar!
Magos’s tail flew with a cutting sound, but I easily dodged by lying flat.
It was a blind spot.
At the nape of the neck, so close it felt like it was stuck right on, while lying face down, even if a few strands of hair might get scraped away, I would not be struck by its tail.
‘Maximum enhancement. Cool transformation.’
I maximized the power in my hand that was thrust into the wound.
The clenched fist gradually hardened, and soon became as rigid as a heated steel ball.
Perhaps I would simultaneously deliver a heaviness and pain to Magos as if an iron skewer had been driven into it’s neck.
“Keuuuugh! Please! Argh!”
Just as expected, Magos’ scream rang out.
Could he have imagined this?
That he would be so completely devastated by a human he had dismissed as a lowly creature when the battle first began?
This is why one must listen to words till the end, and only by fighting can one truly know.
Giving up before even trying is something only cowards do.
Like So Jun-hyun, who got scared by the warning and is just killing time outside the dungeon.
Creak. Creak.
The next moment.
The magical energy emanating from my hardened fist began to simultaneously transform into extreme coldness.
This is the talent of ‘transformation’, being able to change the nature of magical power as I wish.
Right now, an awakener who can consecutively lead body enhancement and attribute transformation in such a short time is rare.
There are dual awakeners with two talents, and triple awakeners with three talents.
But linking them instantaneously is absolutely not an easy task. It requires at least 10 years of skilled practice and training.
“Huuuuh?”
From the back of its neck, Magos began to freeze. The coldness spreading along it’s blood vessels seemed to be rapidly invading it’s entire body.
In human terms, it was like being under complete general anesthesia and freezing.
Essentially, the right to life or death had passed to me. At least, that’s how the visible situation appeared.
But
“…….”
Magos kept it’s mouth firmly shut, seemingly contemplating it’s next move.
‘Flame Surge.’
Magos’ pattern of burning it’s entire body as a fire god, mortgaging the life force of it’s heart.
Precisely the Flame Surge.
A pattern that resets the entire body’s condition, which would nullify my work if left unchecked.
‘If I precisely enter diagonally from this position, I can pierce the heart. I can also avoid all the chest bones blocking the front.’
At that moment.
Whoosh!
I visually confirmed the birth of the Flame Surge starting from Magos’ tail.
The time required for the entire body to be covered in flames is about 5 seconds.
“Hoo!”
With a short breath, I spread open the fist I was gripping in my right hand. And immediately entered transformation.
The magical lung pumped magical power explosively, blasting it only into my right hand like a powerful pump.
The magical power that instantly filled my right hand far exceeded the amount needed for transformation.
Shhhhh……!
With the unique blue-white magical flash, the transformation of my right arm was completed in an instant.
Right then.
Swoosh!
As my right arm sharply changed, I felt it stretching forward.
A protruding reaction seen in the process of the body adapting after transformation. Because the body’s nature had changed.
I used to call this a ‘rite of passage’.
Because of this, whenever I attempted bodily transformation, there was no one around me. Because I didn’t know how my body might react.
Not even Nicolas was there.
It observed me from outside the training room made of triple-reinforced glass. As if I were some experimental animal.
Thud!
“Ugh.”
“Got him!”
Anyway, caught in the rite of passage of right arm transformation was none other than Magos’ heart.
The right arm, stretched out like a longsword’s blade, directly pierced the pulsating center of Magos’ heart.
The green-glowing pupils of Magos quickly began to lose focus.
Certainly, it’s breath had been cut off.
But
Crack! Crack!
The two front legs of Magos, bent in a direction where joints should not bend, grabbed my body.
“Are you trying to die together?”
Seemingly believing he could not die alone before it’s life ended, Magos tried to grab me somehow.
Being grabbed was not a problem, but the Flame Surge was ongoing, regardless of death.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The flames of heat, burning like oil had been set on fire, instantly passed the waist and approached my nape.
If this continues, though I might win the battle, my own life would be in danger.
“Damn lizard, you bastard!”
While spitting out swear words refreshingly, I began biting Magos’ two arms that were gripping my waist.
It was a scene similar to biting a massive pig’s trotter.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
In the meantime, something that fell near Magos’ heart caught my eye.
“Oh…!”
They were three top-grade dimensional stones, each hovering around 900 million won after tax, and the ‘Steel Flower’ containing Magos’ unique talent.
The reward waiting before me was beyond what I had imagined.
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