novelhk Chapter 323: DEATH MATCHES
Chapter 323: DEATH MATCHES
[LEE SARANG has accepted the
What?
"It’s funny that a freak like you has a human-sounding name," Lee Sarang said mockingly, pushing the monster away with a cold energy blast. "It’s disgusting."
Arken, the monster that looked half-human and half-kraken, was pushed back by the cold energy blast— his skin quickly getting covered by ice caused by the said cold energy blast. It was supposed to be enough to turn that thing into an ice statue.
But, perhaps, there was a reason this monster was called a ’Dungeon God.’
Arken literally slapped his cheeks with his big hands as if he was slapping the ice away, and it actually worked.
The thin layer of ice that covered his body for a moment shattered just like that.
This one is dangerous.
"Lee Sarang, do you realize that you just foolishly accepted a Death Match with me?" Arken asked calmly, acting as if he were a dignified nobleman. "Refusing to accept the proposal of a Dungeon God is akin to accepting a Death Match with me."
"You mean your proposal to turn me into a human pet?" Lee Sarang scoffed. "Of course, I’d rather fight you to death than become your human pet."
"What’s so wrong with being my human pet? I’ll treat you well. Unlike my peers, I won’t raise you as livestock. Since I’m interested in the human world, I’ll treat you like a tour guide. So, how about it, Lee Sarang? Does my offer sound tempting now?"
"There are others like you?"
"Oh, the System didn’t tell you?" Arken chuckled while shaking his head. "Thanks to the humans who betrayed their race to welcome Dungeon Gods like us, we were able to reach the human world safely. And we’re here to claim this world as our new home."
Ah, now Lee Sarang remembered something that Ki Gayoon and Noh Yuno had shared with them before.
About the monsters’ goal.
"Claim our world as your new home or turn our world into your huge feeding ground?"
Arken simply raised an eyebrow, neither confirming nor denying Lee Sarang’s claim.
But she took that silence as a ’yes.’
"You’re planning to raise us to be your livestock— and that’s exactly why we can’t co-exist," Lee Sarang said coldly, opening her palm. As soon as she did, the crystal scythe that she had dropped on the ground earlier flew towards her hand. She immediately grabbed the handle. "If a Death Match is what it takes to stop you, then so be it."
"Ah, what a waste," Arken said, obviously disappointed. "I really wanted to keep you alive, Lee Sarang."
Lee Sarang just stabbed the end of the crystal scythe’s handle into the floor, causing a small crater.
And then hundreds of ice spears emerged from the ground— all headed to Arken.
She slammed her feet against the tiles and flew at the monster, ready to swing her crystal scythe at the monster.
But she abruptly stopped when she heard a loud explosion behind her.
The sound of glasses breaking echoed in the hall— a clear sign that the barrier of her companions had shattered.
The kids...!
Lee Sarang swung her crystal scythe and stabbed the blade into the ground, and then she twisted her body in order to run back to her companions.
However, someone pulled her by the leg as soon as she jumped into the air.
When she looked over shoulder, she saw Arken holding her leg— and the monster suddenly threw her in the opposite direction of where she wanted to go.
Haaah.
She covered herself with Mana, hence she didn’t get hurt when her back hit the wall.
In fact, the impact of her hitting it created a small crater.
But before Lee Sarang could move again, Arken was already in her face.
Now she was trapped between the giant monster and the cold wall behind her.
"Don’t worry about your companions, Lee Sarang. I simply kicked them out of my dungeon," Arken said, looking down at Lee Sarang with glowing golden eyes. "Only natural S-Class Espers are qualified to have a Death Match with a Dungeon God, after all."
"You’re one chatty monster, aren’t you?"
It wasn’t Lee Sarang’s style to talk in the middle of a fight.
After all, Ki Gayoon taught her that only weak and stupid people would talk while fighting.
But she also learned from Noh Yuno that running your mouth when you couldn’t fight physically helped.
It wasn’t like that Lee Sarang had lost already.
I just need time to gather more Mana.
"It seems like you’re more interested in talking than fighting me."
"I told you already, Lee Sarang— I find the human world fascinating," Arken said, tilting his head to one side. "You’re going to die once I start fighting you seriously. And the Death Match won’t end until one of us is dead."
"Am I stuck here until the Death Match is over?"
"Yes. Although your doomed fate is already sealed the moment the Death Match started. There’s no way I’d lose to you in my own domain."
Ah, how arrogant.
This monster is talking in the middle of our fight because he’s looking down on me.
It was annoying, but it was something Lee Sarang could use to her advantage.
"Arken, you said you’re interested in humans."
"Correct."
"Then do you know what makes humans special?"
"No, you tell me."
"Humans can create something called a ’miracle.’"
"What’s a miracle?"
"Making the impossible possible."
Arken paused for a moment, and then he laughed. "Are you saying that you’re going to perform a miracle and kill me?"
Lee Sarang smiled, her eyes probably glowing. "Prepare yourself, Arken— the oppa who taught me how to fight is a crazy bastard," she said, the air around her starting to get colder and colder. "It goes without saying that I only learned bad things from him."
Arken, who finally felt Lee Sarang’s true bloodlust, lost his smile before backing away from her as if he suddenly found her dangerous. The monster blinked slowly, and then he burst out laughing. "This is the first time a human scared me—"
The monster wasn’t able to finish what he was saying because, in just the blink of an eye, his face was almost slashed in half.
Tsk.
If Arken hadn’t moved away the moment he did, he would have two faces by now and not just a huge cut on him.
I should have moved faster.
Lee Sarang pointed the curved blade of her crystal scythe at the monster. "Next time, I won’t miss."
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"Gayoon Hyung?" Yuno asked in disbelief. "What is Hyung doing right now—"
[Esper Kwon Hojun has engaged in a
"No!" Yuno yelled in surprise. "Why is a kid fighting a dangerous being?!"
"Yuno, have you realized it yet?" Jericho asked nervously, and then he looked at Yuno with shaking pupils. "All the Espers engaged in a Death Match with the so-called Dungeon Gods are natural S-Class Espers."
Oh.
If that was the case, then...
Yuno and Jericho both glanced at 17 at the same time.
17 was looking up at the sky with a frenzied look in his eyes, smirking as if he were excited. "I can’t wait to meet this so-called Dungeon God."
What?
Yuno looked up at the sky when a huge shadow fell over them.
And then his eyes widened in shock when he realized that something akin to a pyramid was about to fall on them.
Not another dungeon!
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