I Alone Resurrect Chapter 172

I Alone Resurrect Chapter 172

The Master of Lies (1)

The war in the fantasy world. 

Giant monsters.

Dazzling magic.

People armed with steel.

These could be considered keywords that stimulate a man’s fantasy, but they are only so in the virtual world.

The violence and death witnessed in reality are far too heavy and overwhelming for the observers.

“It’s quite a sight.”

Looking at it, Kang Hyeon nodded his head.

“Is this the time to be sightseeing?”

“No, we have to hurry.”

Kang Hyeon looked at the top of the distant temple.

“Is that the boss over there?”

Everyone nodded in response to Kang Hyeon’s question.

“Normally in these games, you just have to take down the boss and it’s over. Fighting the small fries is pointless.”

After pondering for a moment, Kang Hyeon continued.

“We’ll fly there!”

“Fly?”

“Yeah! We’ll attack the boss head-on in close combat. I heard the boss is a mage, right? So we can’t keep our distance! We have to get close instantly and finish it off quickly.”

“An excellent plan.”

Shin Seong-ah clapped her hands and smiled approvingly, as if Kang Hyeon was absolutely right.

“Well, not bad.”

Yoon Na-rae also agreed without much objection, thinking Kang Hyeon’s idea made sense this time.

“Look, there’s a ability user in the offensive team as well.”

At that moment, an ability user who could fly in the air was seen, seemingly having the same idea as Kang Hyeon.

“You see, people have to use their heads.”

-Wiiiiing… Kwaaang!

“Huh?”

A huge magic beam shot from the boss and struck the ability user.

Leaving no trace, the ability user was scattered into ashes, leaving everyone with their mouths wide open.

“Well, let’s just run.”

“That might be best.”

“I actually suffer from acrophobia.”

It seems the plan to fly would have to be postponed to the next opportunity.

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Ippotranslation

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The lizardmen responded to the party’s entry into the battlefield with fierce attacks.

“Why are these things so out of their minds!?”

The lizardmen with glowing red eyes were much more ferocious and powerful than what they had seen before.

“The boss is emitting magic periodically, which is seeping into them. It seems to be some kind of buff!”

Frowning at Yoon Na-rae’s response, Kang Hyeon said, “What kind of buff can be cast on hundreds or thousands of them? Isn’t that cheating!?”

The boss was even casting attack spells while buffing.

“This won’t do. We have to push through these things and get to the boss no matter what!”

It was a logical conclusion.

“How are you going to do that!?”

But the offensive team, which had been struggling without success until Kang Hyeon’s group arrived, was not stupid.

They had been trying to approach the boss all along, but there was no progress until Kang Hyeon’s group showed up.

“Kang Hyeon. Do you have a plan?”

“We’ll just force our way through with power!”

There was no plan to speak of.

“That’s nonsense! How are you going to force your way through with power!?”

Yoon Na-rae shouted angrily, swinging her sword.

“Everyone, stick close behind me!”

Kang Hyeon enlarged the Filthian’s Hammer to its maximum size.

“Yoon Na-rae! Buff!”

With the activation of ‘Wayne’s Secret Technique’ and ‘Giant’s Strength’, and additional buffs, Kang Hyeon’s strength instantly rose to 110.

“Krrrrr!”

After equipping the ‘Warrior’s Last Flame’, the burden on his body had increased significantly.

“Alright!”

However, he had gained tremendous strength in return.

“Let’s go! Just follow me!”

“Huh?!”

It was a sudden statement from Kang Hyeon, but the party quickly understood his intention.

Wielding the massive hammer, Kang Hyeon charged forward, smashing through the lizardmen blocking the way.

The lizardmen hit by the hammer were sent flying with severe fractures.

“Hahaha! Straight to the boss! Kill them all!”

“Aaack! Slow down a bit!”

While Kang Hyeon could just run, the rest of the party was having a hard time keeping up.

Just as they were rapidly approaching the boss,

“Stop!”

Yoon Na-rae suddenly shouted.

“What? Why?!”

Although Kang Hyeon was annoyed by Yoon Na-rae interrupting the flow, he quickly realized the reason and had to stop.

“The boss is looking this way!”

“Here it comes! Everyone get ready!”

It seemed the target was them.

“Stick close behind me. Yoon Na-rae, deploy your shield!”

Yoon Na-rae was flustered by Kang Hyeon’s order.

“Can I block that?”

“I don’t know! Just try it! If you can’t, we’ll die!”

As soon as Kang Hyeon finished speaking, a massive magic beam was fired at the party.

-Kwagagagaga!

The lightning-fast mahic beam struck the party.

Kang Hyeon’s body with the Filthian’s Hammer was constantly pushed back.

“Uuuuugh!”

Yoon Na-rae also had a magic potion in her mouth and deployed the strongest magic shield she could.

After an eternity-like few seconds, the magic finally passed them by.

“Oh, my aching body!”

Turning their heads, they saw Yoon Na-rae hastily drinking a magic potion.

“Me too, me too!”

Kang Hyeon quickly pulled a potion from his inventory and gulped it down.

“Is everyone alright?”

“Alright? I’m barely hanging on…”

Yoon Na-rae muttered in an exhausted voice.

Doing the same thing one more time could damage their magic circuits, preventing them from using magic for a while.

“Alright, let’s go again!”

Just as Kang Hyeon was about to take off towards the boss again,

“Kang Hyeon. Could you please wait for a moment?”

“What? Why?”

“Just 1 minute. No, 30 seconds, please.”

It was a sudden request from Shin Seong-ah.

‘There must be a reason.’

Although the situation was urgent, Kang Hyeon nodded without a word.

The party gathered around Shin Seong-ah, fending off the approaching lizardmen.

Shin Seong-ah, holding a bow, was staring intently and concentrating, her arms trembling, and a small amount of magic starting to flow out of her body.

‘She must have been practicing.’

Seeing this, Kang Hyeon murmured in admiration.

Shin Seong-ah was the only one in the party who lacked talent in magic. Because of that, she was far behind in the power of her weapon-infused magic, but it seemed she had been working to make up for it.

‘But even so, her magic quantity is too low.’

Her efforts were commendable, but a mere magic-infused arrow couldn’t turn the tide of the battle at this point.

Or so Kang Hyeon thought.

At that moment, Yoon Na-rae approached Shin Seong-ah’s side and channeled her own magic into her.

“Hey! You can’t just do that recklessly!”

Mixing two people’s magic could wreak havoc on the body.

Kang Hyeon knew this well from his experience in killing countless enemies in a similar way.

“I need to concentrate! Be quiet!”

However, Yoon Na-rae successfully guided her magic into Shin Seong-ah without any discomfort.

“Okay, I’m ready!”

-Fwoosh!

A blue arrow was fired.

The magic-concentrated arrow hit the boss’s body.

“Haa, haa…”

Shin Seong-ah looked quite exhausted, having pushed her concentration to its limits in a short time.

But Kang Hyeon doubted that a single arrow could do much.

At that moment,

“Aaaaaaaargh!”

The boss started screaming in agony.

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Ippotranslation

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High Priest Kosik.

Due to his larger build compared to other Lizardmen, he was sluggish, but his two eyes were quicker than anyone else at grasping the situation.

“Your skills are decent. But how long can you hold out?”

He would periodically bombard the Lizardman legion with mass attacks and snipe the ability users whenever he had the chance.

“A mere fly.”

A human was approaching fearlessly through the air.

-Whiiiiing!

Kosik used a powerful sniping spell to instantly eliminate the target.

“So it ends so anticlimactically.”

At first, it seemed to be putting up a bit of a fight, but in the end, it was just a mere human.

They shall pay the price with their lives for daring to invade the holy land.

That’s what he thought.

“A new human, is it?”

Four humans appeared from somewhere.

They immediately broke formation and approached at a terrifying speed.

“Humans. They’ve hidden a trump card.”

Somehow, the leading human was using superhuman strength that defied common sense.

While he didn’t think he would be the one to suffer if they approached, it would be better to nip the variable in the bud.

-Whiiiiing…

Kosik prepared the same spell he had used to snipe the airborne mage a moment ago.

But this time, he had amassed far more magical power.

“Die.”

-Kwaaaang!

The purple magical beam shot at the humans at an incredible speed.

Kosik didn’t bother to confirm their deaths.

They were clearly dead, after all.

He turned his gaze again and prepared the next spell.

“The time for mass attacks is almost up.”

Casting repeated mass attacks would result in severe side effects after the magic ended.

It could even turn him into an idiot or cripple him. 

But he didn’t care, as there were plenty of warriors to replace them.

“Fighting until the warriors die is an honor.”

Just as he was about to release the mass attack again by gathering magical power, an arrow came flying from somewhere.

Kosik always kept a magical shield around himself, so he didn’t pay it much mind.

‘Hmm?’

But contrary to his expectation, the arrow smoothly penetrated the magical shield and lodged itself in Kosik’s waist.

It felt like a slight prick, like being pricked by a needle.

‘This is no time to be concerned about an arrow.’

Since the damage was insignificant, he ignored it and tried to use magic.

But then, blood suddenly gushed out of Kosik’s mouth.

‘Oh no!’

The arrow had struck the exact location where the magical power had been gathering just before casting the spell.

Due to the magical power being severely tangled right before using the spell, several circuits responsible for circulating the magical power had ruptured.

“Kraaaaagh!”

Kosik let out a hoarse scream from the intense pain he felt in his body.

“High Priest! Are you alright!?”

The sorcerers around Kosik approached and examined his body.

“Get away!”

Kosik roughly shook them off.

“Who dares!”

As he quickly surveyed his surroundings, he saw the four humans who had approached him earlier.

“Still alive!?”

He couldn’t fathom how they survived his magic.

Not only that, but they didn’t seem to be heavily injured.

“Grrrr…”

Kosik’s body trembled with rage.

“I’ll give you credit for that little trick.”

Kosik, with a contorted face, summoned the sorcerers.

“The humans over there. Eliminate them by any means necessary. I don’t care about collateral damage to our kind.”

“Understood.”

At Kosik’s command, five sorcerers began barraging Kang Hyeon’s group with magic.

Meanwhile, Kosik examined his own body.

“Ugh! Of all times, to be attacked just as I was about to cast a large-scale spell.”

Normally, he wouldn’t have cared about such a pathetic attack.

But the arrow had struck precisely at the moment just before the large-scale magic was about to be unleashed, causing his magical power to go berserk and resulting in his insides being completely ruined.

“Grrrrrr…”

For a regular mage, it would have required at least a day, or even several days, of intensive treatment and rest to recover from such injuries.

But he was the High Priest who served the great Krokta.

By meticulously manipulating his magical power and repeating the healing process, his internal injuries began to stabilize in no time.

“I’ll make you die a painful death.”

In just under three minutes, Kosik had recovered from most of his injuries and turned his gaze towards the humans.

“Still alive, are you.”

“Apologies, they are stronger than we expected.”

The sorcerers he had entrusted the task to were instead being overwhelmed.

“Get out of the way. I’ll finish them off myself.”

The humans had approached to within about 500 meters.

Kosik relentlessly bombarded them with magic.

-Kwang, Bang! Kwaring!

Spells of fire, lightning, and blade-like winds poured down, as if he would not forgive those who dared to injure his body.

“Still alive?”

Yet the humans stubbornly endured.

They were clearly wounded and exhausted, but they still stood firmly on the ground.

“How interesting. Let’s see if they can withstand this as well.”

Kosik gathered magical power, intending to deliver the finishing blow.

This was a level of magical power far beyond what he had used so far.

The humans won’t be able to endure this.

Just as the spell was about to be realized,

“Wait!”

A human shouted in a tremendous voice.

Kosik was about to ignore it and use the spell, but the following words made him stop.

“I know the location where the legacy of Krokta is hidden!”

His long-cherished wish. No, the long-standing aspiration of all Lizardmen.

It was coming from the mouth of a human.

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