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Chapter 40
Shock and Horror.
Throughout the raid on Bazart, it was an emotion felt simultaneously by the four people while watching Kang Shin-hwa.
Bazart, with an appearance similar to a polar bear, was a monster based on unimaginable power.
When hit by Bazart’s so-called ‘clap’ attack, the Awakener ones would die instantly.
No matter how high-end the suit they were wearing, it was due to the bizarre force that would crush everything, suit and all.
So it was an extremely difficult raid, but Kang Shin-hwa effortlessly dodged those tricky attacks.
Bazart’s attack speed was by no means slow.
Kang Shin-hwa’s response was not about seeing and dodging with the eyes, but more like the body knew first and dodged instinctively.
As a result, even though Bazart’s clap attacks were definitely coming out, there was an optical illusion that made them seem half a beat or a full beat slower.
That’s how fast Kang Shin-hwa’s response was.
Because Kang Shin-hwa was definitely drawing Bazart’s attention at the shortest distance, the four-person attack was very smooth.
Especially Jin Bo-mi could focus on the spell that consistently lowered Bazart’s physical defense.
“Battle formation, Honmajin formation.”
Every time the Honmajin formation was laid, Bazart’s physical defense dropped sharply.
If it could be maintained, this high-level spell that could continuously reduce the opponent’s defense without limit was incredibly challenging.
Above all, the spell caster had to focus entirely on the spell without any mental or physical disturbance.
Normally, when such a formation is laid on the ground, the monster would instinctively target the caster, making it very dangerous.
“Where are you going? I told you to play with me?”
“Krrugh! Annoying bastard!”
But with Kang Shin-hwa continuously blocking Bazart’s movements, everything became much easier.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been looking at a monster’s back like this.”
It was the same for Jeong-hoon.
With Kang Shin-hwa holding the aggro as a tanker and fixing Bazart’s head in place.
He was determined to use various techniques from the rear and was breaking down Bazart’s lower body with fierce kicks.
Fixing the boss monster’s head to look only at the tanker was very important in a stable raid.
The problem was that while they theoretically knew this was important, practicing it in real combat was very difficult.
This was something that Jeong-hoon, who was the main tank in the Yanghwa guild’s executive party, could not easily do.
“Was Bazart this easy?”
“It’s not that it’s easy, but Kang Shin-hwa has set up all the groundwork to make the raid easy.”
Yoon Tae-ho and Seo Ye-hee were also amazed.
Yoon Tae-ho was continuously binding Bazart’s two legs using his ice-type skills.
Seo Ye-hee had transformed her magical power into a wolf-shaped summon, continuously biting Bazart’s side.
Right at that moment.
“I shall personally deliver divine punishment!”
“You non-divine bear-like bastard, what nonsense about divine punishment are you talking about?”
Zhiing!
The heated Bazart burst out a red light from its eyes and directly released a laser from both eyes.
“Ah!”
From Kang Shin-hwa’s position, it was a laser being fired almost right in front of him, making it very dangerous.
A killing ray that instantly dissolves everything it touches.
Many guild members had been lost during the raid because of that ray.
It was the reason Seo Ye-hee had stopped the Bazart raid. Because the powerful killing ray was flying without hindrance.
But Kang Shin-hwa easily dodged the ray with a minimal movement of slightly moving his neck.
It was already the tenth time.
He naturally dodged all of the killing rays that were notorious for being the most difficult.
Instead.
“Bear, your balance is broken?”
Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk!
“Ugh! Kuhack! Grrk!”
Taking advantage of the moment when Bazart’s upper body slightly tilted forward to emit the ray, Kang Shin-hwa’s fierce attack followed.
The strike was so fierce that just looking at it made pain feel palpable.
Every time Kang Shin-hwa’s fist, filled with heat, was sharply inserted, Bazart’s torn and burst flesh flew into the sky.
“Master, isn’t this raid almost like a bus ride?”
“This isn’t about pushing through with strength and enduring. It’s about easily avoiding and responding with minimal force because I can predict Bazart’s movements.”
“That’s right. It looks precarious, but in the end, he’s avoiding everything. Surprisingly so.”
Yoon Tae-ho clicked his tongue.
Just as he said, even though Kang Shin-hwa seemed to dodge easily, the time difference was so short that the phrase ‘a hair’s breadth’ would be fitting.
‘I can see and feel the monster’s movements, but my body’s response is still slow. As time passes, the degree of overload increases.’
This was Kang Shin-hwa’s overall assessment.
By directly fighting Bazart, he could clearly realize something.
An SS- rank monster was completely impossible to solo at the current level, absolutely impossible.
The smooth progress of this raid was thanks to his teammates’ appropriate coordinated attacks and consistent deceleration.
Kang Shin-hwa coldly assessed his own level. Rashly desiring more here would be hubris.
He quickly calmed his passion that could have been overwhelming, filled with self-confidence.
‘I see a chance of victory.’
Still, the teamplay with high-rank Awakener who form the core of a guild was clean.
Ranks rarely lie. One could say they typically possess skills matching their rank.
“We’re entering the final phase!” Kang Shin-hwa shouted.
It was time to enter the last stage among the five phases they had predetermined in the pre-raid briefing.
* * *
Ten minutes later.
“Damn, my suit has become a rag.”
I threw the old man Hwang’s reinforced suit, which had completely lost its durability, into the corner of the dungeon.
Until about 95% of the raid was complete, magic management was precarious but manageable. However, in the final moments, as Bajat went berserk and caused a rampage, blocking it caused the suit to become completely tattered.
20 billion won.
The price of an expensive house had instantly evaporated.
“I’ll get revenge someday… Ugh.”
The raid ended in a happy ending. Bazart couldn’t withstand the continuously accumulated damage from his teammates’ linked attacks and his heart stopped.
“Wow! We finally took down Bazart!”
“More accurately, we’re more like those who added a spoon to the table Kang Shin-hwa had prepared,” came Jin Bo-mi’s cheer and Seo Ye-hee’s cold assessment simultaneously.
This was intentional.
Perhaps after today, Bazart would not be easy to raid without me.
Because I was playing the master key role, balancing the entire raid.
Without perfectly capturing aggro and having the sense to control Bazart’s offensive, the smooth raid today would be absolutely impossible.
‘This is the most ideal scenario.’
While I couldn’t do without my teammates, from their perspective, the raid would not even be possible without me.
Taking care of the flower while clearly establishing my share – that was the purpose, and it seemed to have succeeded.
Something was rising from near Bazart’s dead chest.
‘Transcendence Flower.’
As expected, a flower appeared according to the first raid’s special privilege.
I had no change in expression because I already knew the flower would appear.
“Wow, a flower really came out!”
“What kind of flower is this? This is my first time seeing a drop right before my eyes!”
“It really looks like a flower.”
However, since not every boss monster drops a flower on the first raid, everyone seemed surprised.
“I’ll eat and tell you. Before storing the corpse separately, could you quickly check the dimensional stone?”
After naturally redirecting their attention to the dimensional stone, I immediately and without hesitation threw the flower into my mouth.
While the Steel Flower had tasted like sweet chocolate before, the Transcendence Flower tasted like a sour lemon.
Flower flavors varied wildly – some could taste like rotten food waste.
Of course, these are not experiences from actually eating them. Absolutely not.
The next moment…
‘The effect is being immediately reflected.’
After a brief information analysis through the tongue, the Transcendence Flower, which entered the stomach, was finely shredded and its inherent power spread throughout the body.
Where the Steel Flower had felt like physical reinforcement, making the body more robust, the Transcendence Flower was completely different.
In the brain, it felt like a refreshing and clear sensation, bursting like a firecracker, similar to a peppermint candy.
‘This refreshing feeling. Though it’s been a while, it still feels really good when experienced again.’
I gladly accepted the flower’s energy without reservation.
Numerous memories and thoughts were neatly organized and stacked carefully in the memory space.
Memories that might have been unintentionally forgotten during regression were rekindled, becoming vivid and clear again.
‘Computational ability increased.’
Compared to after the brain transformation, it was merely a drop in the bucket, but I could feel a sharp rise in intelligence.
Even when combining fairly high numbers and performing complex multiplication calculations in my head, it didn’t feel difficult at all.
But that wasn’t all.
‘Concretization of trivial things.’
The change went further.
It was a reorganization of countless visual information that had been casually overlooked.
The clothing, expressions, and appearances of people I briefly encountered today while coming to the K-1004 dungeon emerged clearly.
It was like data that wouldn’t evaporate, as if a special memory storage device had been installed in my head.
“Ugh.”
Perhaps because of this?
As memories that were quietly buried or about to disappear came flooding back, an intense headache arrived.
It felt exactly like the unpleasant headache one gets when suddenly stopping a daily coffee habit.
“Are you okay, Kang Shin-hwa?”
Jin Bo-mi immediately rushed over with concern, even though I had only let out a brief groan.
“I’m fine. It’s just the flower’s effect. I had a slight headache for a moment.”
“I’m so jealous! Eating a flower is a lifelong wish of mine, but it’s not easy.”
If it were easy to eat, the flower wouldn’t be so rare.
The flower is a means of developing one talent.
From an Awakener person’s perspective, it’s tremendously valuable because a single talent becomes dual, and dual becomes triple.
‘Hmm.’
While looking at Jin Bo-mi, I felt all aspects of her appearance being organized into a single, clear dataset.
Not as precise as a machine, but an instant scan of her height and physical structure occurred.
This is a preview of brain transformation.
After brain transformation is complete, it becomes possible to scan the human body truly like a machine.
Anyway, I acquired another skill.
While not a skill that can be visibly used in practice like ‘Steel Reinforcement’, my intelligence was enhanced to the level of being called a genius.
‘The world is wide, and there are many flowers to eat! Just chattering doesn’t mean I’ll retire early!’
My fighting spirit blazed.
Thus, a week after regression, I became an Awakener with pentuple, no, hextuple skills.
An unstoppable rapid growth
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