The Genius Assassin Who Does It All Himself - Chapter 246



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Episode 246 Traffic Light (2)

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A precarious tightrope walk.

Kang-hoo took advantage of the situation where his concentration was at its peak thanks to Park Dong-jae’s buff and strategically hit the green fist.

Looking at the reserve experience points accumulating in a semi-transparent form at the top of the experience bar, I felt strange.

Every time you get hit with a punch, your experience reserves fill up, quickly reaching the end of the experience bar.

After a few more hits, a new line appeared above, and new reserve experience points were accumulated.

The experience points accumulated in advance were enough to raise the level quite a bit.

If you just catch Deseo, it will be converted into actual experience points. Then, it seems like your level will go up to 255.

‘It wasn’t for Park Dong-jae, but this is a monopoly.’

Kang-hoo glanced at Park Dong-jae.

It would be nice if we could all benefit from it, but the effects of the Green Fist cannot be enjoyed without suffering.

Swish.

Within seconds, Deseo changed to a yellow fist. This was probably because he had run out of time to maintain his green fist.

‘It seems like the foundation has been laid just by maintaining a form that is barely able to keep up with the green fist.’

Kang-hoo’s eyes sparkled.

The best situation for an assassin is when he can see through his opponent’s thoughts and plan his strategy in return.

Now, Deseo has hit Kang-hoo with a series of valid blows – that’s what he would think.

So the stakes are high.

In fact, there was a time when Kang-hoo tried to avoid the green fist, but ended up getting hit deeper than expected.

So, unless something extraordinary happened, it was likely that the offensive against Kang-hoo would be maintained.

‘If I hold on a bit longer and then counterattack all at once, then I’ll have a clear timing.’

A picture is drawn.

What if you try to push someone from behind, and the person you’re about to push suddenly avoids it because they knew it was coming?

Not only did the plan of the person who was trying to push fail, but he ended up getting seriously hurt instead.

It’s the same now.

What if Deseo, who has been continuously pressing down on Kang-hoo and is gaining confidence, is attacked with an unexpected counterattack?

Even a single counterattack could seriously injure you, or even kill you. That’s because Kang-hoo doesn’t miss an opportunity.

So I decided to act in time with Deseo’s offensive.

It is a strategy to create a counterattack opportunity by taking advantage of the opponent’s aggressiveness. If successful, it is very effective.

Kang-hoo gave Park Dong-jae the finger signal he had agreed upon in advance. Then Park Dong-jae nodded in return.

During the battle that has been going on so far, there has been a pattern of little Deseos being summoned in the middle.

The battle was easy thanks to Park Dong-jae’s clever use of buffs to harass the little Deseos.

Sometimes, when the little magic-using Deseo appears, I kill him by applying too much mental concentration buff.

The state of mental concentration was so high that little Deseo’s puny brain couldn’t handle it. It was possible to kill him that way.

When the situation actually happened, both Park Dong-jae, who had tried, and Kang Hoo, who had watched, were surprised.

It felt like watching a computer go downhill from overload. That’s how the monster died.

Kuoooo!

Deseo, still confident in battle, charged towards Kang-hoo without hesitation.

Perhaps because his confidence had grown from the previous battles, much of the caution he had shown in the beginning had disappeared.

【Shadow Walk】

Even though Kang-hoo used shadow walking, Deseo didn’t even bother to look at him and just followed Kang-hoo’s main body.

This is because Kang-hoo was already acting as if he had lost his will to fight and was retreating.

The method acting of cutting through the air with a dagger was top-notch.

Some might say that fighting fairly and with force is the true victory.

Well, if you die fighting in a fair manner, is that truly defeat? The dead don’t speak.

A person’s fate is divided into life or death.

Even if you die beautifully, the world won’t remember your beauty. It’ll only remember the fact that you died.

Not being picky about the means and methods.

That has been the driving force that has kept Kang-hoo from winning and collapsing until now. Deseo is no exception.

Right then.

‘It’s now.’

The perfect time to target Deseo from behind has arrived. His center of gravity has shifted forward.

I wonder if there was some kind of internal defense mechanism, but up until now, I had always kept my body’s center of gravity in the middle.

For the first time, his body leaned forward, perhaps because of the confidence and assurance of victory that had led to his activeness.

Pfft!

Immediately, Kang-hoo switched positions with the shadow behind Deseo.

And with Park Dong-jae’s acceleration buff and his own acceleration skill added, he aimed for the back of Deseo’s neck with his leap skill.

【Great Beheading】

Without further ado, let’s put a beheading knife in the back of the neck.

Kwaaaaah!

A scream erupted from Deseo.

No matter how thick the back of the neck was, it could not be indifferent to the sharp blade.

If it were normal, I would have continued with additional attacks after the massacre, but this time I changed my strategy.

Deseo, who I had fought before, was a guy with a good amount of toughness and, above all, a good amount of tolerance for pain.

So when the counterattack worked.

I thought that if we didn’t go straight to the final stage, it could give us a chance to counterattack.

【Blood】

Pufufufu!

The flower of blood is in full bloom.

The moment a burst of blood occurred from behind his neck, Deseo’s head was twisted forward in an abnormal way.

The shock caused my body to be thrown forward, and my vision was also focused on the ground. I lost sight of Kang-hoo’s position.

【Flame of Death】

At this point, Kang-hoo aimed for the back of Deseo’s neck and deployed his Death Flame skill.

The purpose of the flame was to cause Deseo as much pain as possible. It would be difficult to kill him in one go with this.

Eww!

Deseo let out a groan of pain as the flames blazing from behind his neck engulfed him.

Not only did he have a wound on the back of his neck, but he was also caught in the explosion, causing problems with his muscles and bones.

With the flesh exposed and even burned, there was no way my body could withstand it.

No matter how much grit and patience you have, this level of pain is out of the norm.

While Deseo’s whole body trembles in unbearable pain, he is filled with the poison of revenge against Kang-hoo.

【Line of Distortion】

Kang-hoo was preparing for the next phase.

The distorted diagonal line, which was pulled to the maximum, was kept taut at an appropriate height.

Looking at the position of the line, it was exactly at the middle point and height of Deseo’s neck.

The next moment.

Gang-hoo reached out to Deseo, who was so flustered that he couldn’t even pinpoint Gang-hoo’s location.

【hijacking】

The kidnapping continues!

As the level of the monsters and hunters you face increases, this skill has been used less frequently recently.

It was still an effective skill against defenseless enemies.

The next moment.

Whoa!

Deseo’s body, which had been kidnapped, was dragged towards Kang-hoo in a horizontal line without any time to properly resist.

If it had been a normal situation, it would have been a stupid thing to do that would have narrowed the distance between Kang-hoo and Deseo.

It was different now that the ‘murder plan’ was solidly planned. The moment Deseo was kidnapped, the situation was already over.

Deseo, who was dragged in while waving his hands in the air, may not have known that the line of distortion was spreading out.

Denggeong!

He was caught in the distorted diagonal line of the sword that was standing upright in a taut state, and his neck was cut off.

The head, cut off in a clean horizontal line, fell limply down the diagonal line of distortion.

Kuung!

Soon, Deseo’s body, left alone, flapped its wings a few times like a headless chicken and then fell over.

【Level has increased significantly to 255!】

A level up message appeared.

All of the reserve experience points I had accumulated previously were converted into experience points, and thanks to that, I hit the jackpot.

If I had cleared the game the normal way without gaining experience, I would have barely reached level 250.

“Brother! Your level has gone up so much!”

Even Park Dong-jae, who had not accumulated any preliminary experience like Kang-hoo, was surprised by the sudden increase in level.

There was no need to even mention the feelings of Kang-hoo, who had openly raised his level significantly.

Shaaaa.

At that moment, spheres of different colors rose into the air from the dead body of Deseo.

It was a completely different effect from items or skill books. It felt like something like a bead was rising.

At the same time, a message was displayed to Kang-hoo and Park Dong-jae.

【This sphere is a reward that is individually activated for each hunter.】

【When you touch the sphere of the color you want, you will be moved to a space where you can obtain a reward.】

【You can only stay inside for 10 minutes, after which you will be naturally expelled from the space.】

‘at las.’

Kang-hoo’s heart pounded.

He succeeded in diverting the large reward that was supposed to go to Jang Si-hwan and Chae Gwan-hyeong to himself and Park Dong-jae.

It is not a concept that ends with simply taking something away.

Because you take one step forward, and your opponent takes one step backward.

As a result, the gap between us has narrowed by two steps. This is a great significance of the process of taking what is our opponent’s and filling it with what is ours.

“Hyung, is this… … real? This is the first time I’ve seen something like this activated as an individual reward. Is this a customized reward?”

“You’ll know once you go in.”

Kang-hoo answered with a smile.

I didn’t want to make a fuss about the good rewards. I thought I’d find out once I got in anyway.

“Why are my hands shaking so much?”

Park Dong-jae’s fingertips, pointing at the bead-shaped sphere, trembled incessantly and could not stay still.

“Come in and take a look.”

“What about your brother?”

“I’ll be in soon too.”

He nodded and pointed to the sphere.

The rewards do not change depending on the specifics.

No matter which sphere you choose, you will still receive a reward specific to you.

“Is this the reward I deserve?”

“Park Dong-jae. I think I said this before. Don’t worry about whether you can have it, but think about what you can do with it.”

“… … .”

“Come in, hurry up.”

“Ugh! Eww! Got it!”

Kang-hoo covered Park Dong-jae’s mouth as he tried to pour out his touching words and pushed him forward.

Pot!

Then, Park Dong-jae instinctively grabbed the sphere in his hand and disappeared from sight in an instant.

Kang-hoo planned to finish stealing the skills from the dead Deseo and then go inside.

I secretly hoped that the traffic light punch that Deseo used was classified as a skill, but unfortunately it wasn’t.

Perhaps it was an inherent trait. A characteristic that one is born with is usually called an inherent trait.

“Let’s see… … .”

First, I looked through the list of skills.

In battle, I only saw the guy’s signal light fist, but when I looked at his list of loot, I saw that he had quite a few skills.

However, Kang-hoo had few useful skills. I can see why he didn’t use them during battle.

But one skill caught my eye. It made me wonder why I didn’t use it during battle.

Was it because he thought he could solve it with his fists? Or was it because he missed the right timing?

【Three-color formation】

Kang-hoo’s gaze lingered for a long time in front of the description of a skill that seemed to have high utility.