The Mythical Hunter has Returned - Chapter 11



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Episode 011

I hurriedly headed to Dugon’s Forest.

One year from now, Beowulf kills the red dragon and becomes a god.

Unlike his heroic epic, in his previous life Beowulf withstood the poison that poured out from the red dragon’s wound and eventually became a god.

It was not revealed what method he used, but I realized it the moment I heard librarian Lee Su-yeon say that he was holding a giant’s sword.

‘He knows how not to get poisoned.’

In the legend of Beowulf, the giant’s sword is said to have dissolved in the poison in the blood of Grendel’s mother, a witch.

The fact that he had that sword meant that the poison had not melted it.

Either way, there would have been a countermeasure against the powerful poison and it would have been used to overcome the dragon’s poison.

However, instead of killing the red dragon right away, Beowulf kills the witch’s son, Grendel, and kills the dragon a year later.

‘After killing Grendel to become stronger, I waited for the time when I could definitely kill the dragon.’

So we have to kill him now.

‘It’s an enemy that becomes more dangerous as time goes by.’

So I quickly moved to Dugon’s Forest, an Abyss located near Seoul.

If it’s even a little late and Beowulf kills Grendel and disappears, I have no way of finding him.

The best course of action is to kill Beowulf, who has become weak from killing the witch and Grendel.

Of course, there is a way for me to kill Grendel first and interrupt his ordeal.

‘Then, when Beowulf comes in the middle, you are helpless.’

Knowing my present and making the most of what I have.

I had to do that.

In a park with a small lake in Seoul, there was a forest with particularly tall trees.

‘Dugon’s Forest where Grendel, the giant in the epic Beowulf, lives.’

A strong magical energy was felt in the forest.

‘It looks like we’ve already arrived.’

There were clearly large footprints on the floor. Ordinary humans cannot leave traces this deep in the dirt.

Seeing that it had considerable weight, it was clearly Beowulf’s footprints.

There was a small sign hanging at the entrance to Dugon Abyss.

‘Ares Guild, that’s good.’

You must be busy fighting Hephaestus by now.

Even if I were to destroy the Abyss, you wouldn’t care.

‘I was lucky.’

I saw a forest radiating a gloomy energy.

Trees that rose together with the creation of the Abyss.

The trees stood tall, forming a maze-like structure inside the Abyss.

There were traces that someone had roughly passed through it.

The cut side was rough, as if it had been cut with a giant’s sword.

Are you not using your own sword, Hrunting?

“Let’s go first.”

During the time I hesitate, Beowulf will be cutting down at least one more monster.

I pulled out the Class A weapon I received as a gift from Eitri, the Sword of the Lonely.

Sreung!

[Sword of the Lonely – Grade A]

[Description: This is the last sword made by a dwarf who lost his brother before he lost his will. It is firm and upright.]

Unlike the poisonous weapon, which has limited durability, it is a strong and unbreakable weapon.

It is the best weapon for hunting down random mobs.

I grabbed my sword and entered the forest.

Ugh!

As soon as I took my first step, my vision began to shake and my vision became dizzy.

“Mental trap… .”

I saw a hallucination before my eyes.

The expedition members who had participated in the final war melted away in a terrible manner.

-Save me… .

-Quaaaagh!!!

I faced the hallucination that appeared before my eyes.

I know this is false.

There’s no way it will appear again.

I think they’re trying to prey on my trauma.

‘It’s not even a guess.’

It was a trap that couldn’t even do the slightest damage to me.

“go away.”

As soon as I looked at them and said a word, the false hallucination disappeared and the forest appeared again.

Since it was not a high-level trap, it could be easily destroyed just by looking through it.

“Was it installed by Grendel’s mother?”

However, it was a spell that could be dangerous enough if you had low resistance to magic or mental acuity.

It looks like he shot someone.

‘Beowulf.’

Grendel clearly came here to escape from Beowulf.

Or maybe there is someone who doesn’t want Beowulf’s awakening.

I walked through the trap and saw.

Many ships have already been cruelly destroyed.

‘They destroyed everything and left.’

Numerous arrows stuck in the wall, traps that lost their functionality due to all kinds of spears being stuck in them, and even a magic circle where various magics were cast.

All ships had been destroyed.

‘Is it already over?’

That shouldn’t happen.

After breaking through the mental trap, I entered deeper into the Abyss.

My steps became faster.

I guess it took about 20 more minutes to go through the traps that Beowulf had not dismantled.

thud… ! thud… !

The ground shook.

“Oooooooh!!!”

A roar was heard.

Quaaaang!

There was the sound of a blunt object hitting the floor.

It smelled like blood.

It’s still fighting.

Beowulf and the giant Grendel.

‘It’s in there.’

At the end of a forest path where even the sky is obscured by trees, there is a hero I must kill.

The hand holding the lone sword gained strength.

My body trembled from the heightened tension I felt right before the battle.

I predicted the flow of the fight with my highly sensitive senses.

thud! thud… . Wow… .

The vibration gradually became weaker.

This is evidence that the giant’s power is fading away.

It was clear that the fight would end with Beowulf’s victory, as in the myth.

What I’m aiming for is Beowulf’s neck, exhausted from the fight.

When I reached the end of the road, I saw

A gigantic giant, well over 3 meters tall, shaking the earth and swinging his club back and forth.

The giant’s appearance was hideous.

The eyes were asymmetrically crooked, the nose was snub-nosed, had sharp teeth, and the skin was full of all kinds of blisters that made you sick just by looking at them.

A monster that displeases others just by its appearance.

That guy’s whole body was broken in various places by the giant’s sword held by Beowulf.

“Well… . sick. it hurts… .”

The giant Grendel was falling.

The last struggle before collapsing.

But his club could not reach Beowulf.

thud.

With one last swing of his club in the air, the giant Grendel died.

It wasn’t the same as the story in the myth, but the hero overcame the second ordeal anyway.

“Who are you?”

As soon as I killed the giant, Beowulf, who was holding the giant’s sword larger than his own body, asked without even turning to me.

“customer.”

“I’m a guest… .”

Beowulf, who was speechless, turned his head and looked at me.

“You are such a rude guest, sneaking in without the owner’s knowledge. “Sprinkle it on until you live.”

Beowulf, a hero wearing armor with no cracks visible.

Even at a glance, you can see that it is a great business. And what was even more impressive than the all-white blonde hair was the beard covering his chin.

A thick beard that seems to show what it means to be a rough Viking.

The blood of the giant on his armor and face further doubled the brutality.

He glared at me, holding a huge sword in one hand.

I felt alive.

“Say it. “Why did you come here, and who are you?”

‘shit.’

The guy was healthier than I thought.

Contrary to expectations that he must have used a great deal of strength to kill Grendel and his mother, he showed no signs of fatigue at all.

He wasn’t someone who would fool me just because I hid it, and he wasn’t someone who would just let me go because I was deceived.

“… “Beowulf, I have come to kill you.”

“You came here yourself to kill me? Who sent it? Jjompang of Asgard?”

“well.”

“okay. “I’ll ask them directly after I kill you.”

The guy picked up the giant’s sword.

I felt overwhelmed by the momentum alone.

While holding the sword of solitude, I smoothed the handle of the sword worn around my waist.

‘Just one gap.’

All you have to do is find the gap.

If I can hurt its body with my solo dance, it will be my victory.

‘Even if you have resistance to poison, you won’t be able to withstand the hydra’s poison now.’

If that were the case, I wouldn’t have been able to train myself for a year.

Now that Beowulf is not perfect yet, this is my only chance to kill him.

Beowulf.

A mythical hero who is strong enough to tear off a giant’s arm with just his grip and even killed the legendary monster, the Red Dragon.

A man who is considered an idol by Vikings due to his flamboyant and thuggish personality.

His sword came right in front of my nose in an instant.

‘fast.’

I threw myself and dodged his attack.

Quaaaang!

There was a huge impact on the floor, and the ground trembled.

“You’re pretty agile.”

‘fast.’

Isn’t this a foul to have this kind of speed despite wearing heavy armor?

Just avoiding it was difficult.

Even though it had not yet become a legend and became stronger, it was very powerful.

Whoa!

This time, a horizontal cut.

He bent down and quickly ran forward.

No matter how fast you are, there are bound to be gaps when swinging a sword larger than your own body.

He moved nimbly and swung his sword, aiming for gaps in the armor.

Cough!

An arm suddenly appeared and deflected the sword.

I didn’t slow down and just caught up with Beowulf.

The guy hasn’t retrieved his sword yet.

Without missing the opportunity, I aimed at the back of the guy’s neck exposed by his armor.

“Ugh!”

Beowulf bowed his head and rolled forward.

“Tsk!”

Beowulf, who dodged my attack, used the same force as his horizontal swing and struck the spot where I was standing just moments ago.

If he hadn’t thrown himself a little faster, he would have been crushed and it would have been a hand-to-hand fight.

“haha.”

After running a few times, I was already out of breath.

With my current stamina, a long game is impossible.

‘3 minutes to go… .’

After thinking about it, I cast the skill I stole from Peripetes, Courage of Arrogance.

Duration is 5 minutes.

A skill that increases health, attack power, and damage resistance by 15%.

‘If this is the case, the extent of being brushed aside is… .’

One car can survive. No, you have to hold on.

Take advantage of that moment.

I aimed for Beowulf’s neck several times.

Because that was the only weak point that the Sword of Loneliness could pierce.

Beowulf parried and blocked my countless sword swings.

Once again, the giant’s sword struck the floor.

Phew!

Unlike before, his sword stuck in the wet ground.

It was not a coincidence, but an intentional avoidance.

Avoiding Beowulf’s attacks, I looked for the softest floor possible.

The dirt floor is so soft that your feet get stuck in the ground, like mud.

After dodging several attacks, I found a location where I could escape as soon as I stepped on it.

“Hoo?”

That moment when the sword-wielding guy there was embarrassed by his stupid voice.

I closed the distance with all my might.

While he was retrieving the giant’s sword that he had hit on the ground, I had already gotten close to him.

“You’re doing quite a bit!”

Because Beowulf swung his sword so urgently, he was unable to accurately hit me who was running towards me.

Let’s go!

“Wow!”

It was clear that if it had not been shed with the Sword of the Lonely or the resistance-increasing effect of Courage of Arrogance, the arm bone would have been crushed.

After checking the condition of his arm, I grabbed his back again.

No matter how strong you are, there will always be a weakness if you target the back.

I once again aimed my sword at the back of the guy’s neck.

Beowulf rolled forward due to the same attack.

“also.”

That guy’s movement was my target.

I threw away the sword of solitude, pulled out a poisonous sword from my belt, and stabbed it through the gap in Beowulf’s armor as he rolled forward.

“Koheook!”

Even heavy armor covered with numerous iron plates has gaps.

Even if the gap is so small that it cannot be seen, if the movement becomes more intense, the gap will widen.

No matter how strong the heavy armor is, the gap is an inevitable weakness that can never be protected.

What I wanted in this fight with Beowulf was to induce him to expose his weaknesses.

If you create the awareness that you only need to avoid the neck, movements will naturally become unified to protect the neck.

In this way, Beowulf exposed his own weaknesses.

A stab trained by killing countless monsters in a past life.

My stab had a special sharpness that wasn’t present in other attacks.

An attack that killed even the God of Destruction of this world.

Beowulf’s expression distorted when he saw the poisonous dance piercing through the gap in his armor.

He tried to swing the giant’s sword, but it was too late.

Because stabbing is much faster than swinging.

Faster than he thought, a little slower than I expected. The poisonous dance stabbed the guy in the armpit.

A simple stab.

However, the wind blowing from the sword forcibly opened a gap in the guy’s heavy armor and pierced right through his heart.

“Wow… .”

The poisonous sword tore the hero’s heart.

“Oh, no… . Me, I haven’t met her yet… .”

The poison spread throughout Beowulf’s body.

A deadly poison that can kill even gods, and cannot be withstood with inexperienced resistance.

The sword pierced his heart, so even if he had poison resistance, he would not have been able to avoid death.

Phew!

He pulled out the sword that pierced his heart through his armpit.

thud!

Beowulf fell to the floor with his skin turning purple.

I was worried about its resistance to poison.

‘It’s not that big of a deal.’

A hero’s epic story has come to an end.