The S-Classes That I Raised [EN]: Chapter 103

Clang! Grrrk!\n\nThe sound of blades clashing and scraping against claws echoed harshly. The Dragonkin’s severed nail regenerated quickly, and thick poison overflowed around it. The poison spread rapidly, covering a radius of about a hundred meters.\n\n‘Melted City,’ it must be that skill. It was an SS-rank poison skill, but perhaps because it was so wide-ranging, my S-rank poison resistance was holding up well. Noah’s support was a big help, too.\n\n‘Riete is amazing, as expected.’\n\nHer strength and speed were clearly lacking. The difference wasn’t small, and normally, it would have been impossible to hold the Dragonkin like that.\n\nBut Riete had pinned down the enemy more perfectly than expected.\n\nCrunch.\n\nHer arm screamed as it couldn’t handle the force of the colliding sword and claws. But Riete twisted her body without hesitation, unleashing a close-range strike skill, a kick filled with dazzling aura. In the meantime, Noah’s healing skill arrived without delay, mending her arm, and the blade rang out again with a cheerful sound.\n\nTearing, healing, breaking, and healing continued to repeat.\n\nIt might look like a reckless charge relying on healing skills. But in reality, it was an injury based on a cold, precise calculation.\n\nIf she didn’t avoid and block, she couldn’t avoid injury. But if it wasn’t an injury that could be healed immediately, it would be impossible to keep blocking and holding the Dragonkin.\n\nTherefore, Riete was hindering the Dragonkin without overdoing it, only allowing injuries that could be healed by Noah’s healing skill within a certain time. She was precisely calculating the Dragonkin’s strength, her own strength, durability, and Noah’s healing power, walking an artistically accurate tightrope.\n\nMy and Sung Hyunjae’s skills were the foundation, but it was impossible without innate combat sense. It was so impressive that I momentarily forgot the resentment I had towards her.\n\n”Noah’s stat share should be magic power.”
\nRiete was enjoying it so much that I thought she would get angry if I interfered, but it wasn’t good to leave her alone for too long. Even an S-rank has a limit to their stamina. And she had a fight with Sung Hyunjae.\n\n”Can you lend me your watch? Does it have a stopwatch function?”\n\nI received the disgustingly expensive pocket watch and wrapped the chain around my wrist so I wouldn’t drop it. I didn’t know the range of Schalos’ Bead’s effect, but even during the last Babar hunt, my clothes and shoes were fine, so the watch in my hand should be safe too.\n\nAnd…….\n\n”You can use me as a shield.”
\nIt nullified all damage. What better shield could there be? I didn’t think about it during the Babar fight because there was no chance of being attacked, but now it was different. It was a serious waste to just have such excellent performance and just listen.\n\nAt my words, Sung Hyunjae murmured with admiration, as if he agreed.\n\n”The double sharing of attack skills continues even if the contact point changes. It’s okay to grab your right hand while holding your left hand, and then let go of your left hand. Just be careful not to let go completely, and you can use it in various ways.”
\nI tested it when checking the sharing skill effect with Noah.\n\n”However, it’s ruined if it’s taken by the enemy. As with Babar, it seems that damage nullification only reacts when a certain level of impact comes in, so it’s possible to just grab or pull it.”\n\nIf it was an item that blocked all external stimuli, I wouldn’t be able to hear, see, or feel anything. That wasn’t damage nullification, but an item that would kill people. How could you endure it with a clear mind when all your senses disappeared at once?\n\n”Fortunately, that guy’s hand isn’t in a shape that can be grabbed normally. If he tries to grab it with his sharp claws, it will be judged as an attack and blocked, so it will be fine if you’re a little careful.”\n\nIf he pulled with a normal hand, he would be pushed back by the force and taken away, but it was impossible with the Dragonkin’s hand structure. Sung Hyunjae, who had been listening to the explanation, grabbed my left wrist.\n\n”Can you dance?”\n\n”What nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden?”\n\n”There’s nothing better than that to match each other’s movements and breathing. Also, dance and martial arts have a lot in common. Like capoeira [a Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music].”\n\nIf we match our breathing, are you talking about something like dancesport?\n\n”I don’t know because I didn’t have a leisurely and relaxed life like someone.”
\n”Don’t worry. You can learn from now on.”\n\nIs that a worry? I refuse. I ignored Sung Hyunjae’s nonsense and called Noah, who was flying in dragon form.\n\n”Noah! Please lend this human magic power stats!”\n\nNoah turned this way, and Riete also loosened the tightly woven offense and defense and moved towards us. Noah’s eyes, which had come over our heads, were wet. You don’t have to worry that much.\n\n- Are you okay?\n\n”As you can see, I’m fine.”\n\nExcept that I couldn’t use painkillers, it wasn’t even a new level. I had Noah keep Schalos’ Bead for now. It would be troublesome if the healer, who shares senses and uses healing skills with perfect timing, went wrong.\n\nNoah lent me stats and also shared the double attack skill effect. In the meantime, Riete was approaching with the Dragonkin. She didn’t know my skills and items well, but she was moving as if she had planned it in advance.\n\nThe golden dragon moved back to a safe distance, and at the same time as pressing the stopwatch, I used Schalos’ Bead. Ten minutes from now, and seven minutes.\n\nThe Seeker’s Chain rippled with more powerful lightning. Sung Hyunjae took a step towards the Dragonkin, who was just a few meters away, a distance that could be narrowed in an instant.\n\nJust before entering the battlefield, he raised the corner of his mouth towards me.\n\n”Shall we dance?”\n\n…I feel a sense of self-disgust that I regressed to do this. Instead of my answer that he couldn’t shut up,\n\nKrrrrrr!\n\nWith a heavy rumble, light ran across the ground. Unlike Riete, who knew in advance and quickly avoided it, the Dragonkin, who was hit head-on by the lightning strike, was wrapped in crackling electricity all over his body.\n\n”□□□□!”\n\nEven though the skill effect was doubled, it didn’t seem to have much impact. The guy who shouted something scattered poison from his whole body and charged.\n\nSung Hyunjae didn’t avoid the claw-like nails that would have torn Riete’s body to pieces if there hadn’t been a healing skill. He supported his body with my arm, grabbed my wrist with the other hand, and it looked similar to a dance move as he said. Damn it.\n\n”Wow, what is it, honey?!”\n\nRiete, who had avoided, approached again and shouted in surprise. The Dragonkin was also flustered and didn’t continue the attack. In the meantime, Sung Hyunjae took out a long, golden needle-like thing from his inventory.\n\n- Krrrk!\n\nThe Dragonkin, enraged that his attack was thwarted, swelled the muscles of his entire body. Claws, nails, horns, and tail. Even the hard scales and thorns that sprouted here and there, his whole body, which could be called a weapon, exuded an even more violent aura.\n\nOn the other hand, Sung Hyunjae stepped gracefully as if he was really dancing.\n\n”If you just use electricity, it spreads around and there’s a lot of loss.”\n\nThump! The thorny tail end struck my back as I was dragged away as he pulled. Then, as my body spun around, my clasped hands blocked the terrifyingly poisonous nails. As the Dragonkin showed a gap due to the continuous nullification of attacks,\n\nThwack!\n\nThe golden needle pierced through the gap in the scales. The sound of blades colliding, the sound of chains scraping. Riete and Sung Hyunjae simultaneously drove the Dragonkin to prevent him from removing the needle.\n\n”Thanks to you, I need preparation to concentrate the attack power.”\n\n”It’s a really troublesome, ugh, attribute.”\n\nI’m dizzy. My feet touched the ground for a moment, but before I could stand properly, I was pulled sideways again and spun around. What’s the point of knowing in advance how the damn human is going to move? My body can’t keep up.\n\n- Kuaaa!\n\nThe Dragonkin roared and charged like a rhinoceros. The ground cracked and split as if an earthquake had occurred with a simple step. Rumble! The heavens and the earth roared with every movement. But that was all useless. Rather, the gaps in the large movements of the attack only grew larger, and three more needles were stuck in the thorny back.\n\n”But if you can concentrate it—”\n\nAnd on top of that,\n\nCharrr—\n\nThe chain stretched out, and the electricity that minimized the loss ran, swallowing the prey’s entire body through the needles stuck in various parts of the body.\n\n- Kyaaak!\n\nThe flash that was visible on the outside was much more shabby than the first lightning strike. It was just a little bit of electricity that bounced off. But unlike before, the Dragonkin twisted his body and vomited blood.\n\nI, who knew that feeling, reflexively flinched. Even though the pain wasn’t transmitted, my vision flashed white and the feeling of knife-like electricity bouncing around inside my body made my mouth dry.\n\n”It has more powerful destructive power than any other attribute.”\n\nSung Hyunjae said quietly and confidently at the same time. It’s definitely amazing. SS-rank Curse Poison Dragonkin. The race was also a race, but just looking at the skill status, it was a top-level individual that was higher than Babar. Even if it penetrated the scales and directly hit the body, he was able to neutralize such a terrifying opponent in one shot.\n\nBut he wasn’t dead yet. The powerful recovery power he possessed, or the skill, raised its head, although it was temporarily weakened by the attack that stirred the inside like thick poison.\n\nAbove the Dragonkin’s head, who was staggering painfully but didn’t fall in the end.\n\nKwaaa!\n\nWith a sound as if a heavy giant’s hammer was striking, not a thin blade, a sword wrapped in skills was plunged down. It pierced through the weakened dragon’s scales, pierced through the crown of his head, widely cut through the back of his neck, and smashed the spine!\n\nReleasing the handle, Riete’s body somersaulted in the air as if flying backwards. At the same time, she shouted cheerfully.\n\n”Burn the sword too!”\n\nMetal. It was also a top-class weapon that was good at accepting skills. The dance of the chain answered the generous cry.\n\nAgain, the light ran. Perhaps because of the violence of the changed medium, the sword, the electricity snarled even more fiercely and devoured the prey’s entire body.\n\n- Krrrruk.\n\nA listless throat sound, neither a scream nor a groan, was heard. Unless he poured in an elixir, it was definitely over. At that moment, I met the Dragonkin’s cloudy eyes, which were losing light. The guy moved his lips as if to say something.\n\n‘Is there any way to understand him?’\n\nI might be able to get a hint about that guy’s owner. I focused Teacher’s skill a little more on the Dragonkin. Could I penetrate not only the senses, but also deeper inside? There was no resistance because he was dying. There was also a double effect, so maybe. At that time.\n\n[Thank you for coming so actively.]\n\nSomeone’s voice echoed in my head. The moment I thought, ‘Huh,’ my vision went dark. For a very short time.\n\nAnd when I opened my eyes again, I was standing in an unfamiliar place.\n\n‘What is it?’\n\nSung Hyunjae, Noah, and Riete were gone. The pocket watch I was holding was also gone. The translation necklace, the necklace with Schalos’ Bead, and other items were gone. At least the clothes were the same. No, the pants that should have been torn were fine.\n\nAmidst the bewilderment, I looked around. I could see someone standing in front of me. He was close to a human male, but curved horns protruded from his head. And even his eyes were not human. He was wearing an unfamiliar uniform-like outfit, and long, split scars were visible on his neck and exposed wrists.\n\nWhen I used the Sprout skill, information popped up in my head, not in the status window, like in Myungwoo’s smithy.\n\n‘Ancient Dragonkin of Poison and Curse. Stronger than that guy earlier… about SSS-rank? I don’t know the other information.’\n\nHe seemed a little weak to be the owner of the Curse Poison Dragon King. Was he the third pet?\n\nMore than that, where the hell was this? It didn’t seem like my body itself had been moved somewhere. The items were gone and the clothes were fine. Was I caught in a mental skill? It was a type of skill that was difficult to use without preparation, even if the rank was high.\n\n‘Is it because I tried to dig in first?’\n\nIn the meantime, the Dragonkin approached me. His metallic golden eyes, similar to Riete’s, looked down at me as if observing me.\n\n”You interfered with my work again. Thanks to you, the damage is enormous. I temporarily lowered my rank because I forced Bicus to go.”\n\nHe said. Bicus was the name of the Dragonkin I killed a little while ago. And rank drop. Before my thoughts could be organized, I grabbed him by the collar first. Of course, he didn’t budge. Damn it.\n\n”You, did you send Rauchitas [a type of monster] to the dungeon I entered?”\n\n”That was really unexpected. I didn’t know Han Yoohyun would die so futilely.”\n\nThe relaxed voice continued.\n\n”At the time, Han Yoohyun was close to SS-rank. Even in front of the Curse Poison Dragon King, his life was never threatened. I even sent a Rauchitas of an appropriate level on purpose. So only Han Yoojin, you, should have died.”\n\n”What nonsense are you talking about? If you were going to kill me, you could have just sent A-rank, or even B-rank monsters after the gate closed.”\n\n”Do you think the dungeon gate was open at that time?”\n\nThe back of my neck tingled at his words. Before the regression, how much time had passed since I entered the dungeon? It hadn’t been that long, but an hour was shorter than I thought. And.\n\nYoohyun came in alone. Even though he was a guild leader with many healers, assistants, and other hunters. Because he came in alone, it was even more impossible to take care of both the F-rank hunter and his own life at the same time.\n\n”I made a new contract with Han Yoohyun. On the condition that he would let me into the closed dungeon where his brother was in danger. But as long as Han Yoojin, you, were alive, the possibility of Han Yoohyun actively cooperating was low, so I sent a monster that couldn’t protect his brother. Han Yoohyun didn’t even dream that it was us who sent it, so it felt like Han Yoojin died due to a dungeon error. There was no one to resent, and it was because of his own powerlessness that he couldn’t protect him. As an S-rank hunter, he would have craved power and become very easy to handle. But.”\n\nHe sighed and continued.\n\n”No matter how precious his blood was, I really didn’t know that a born S-rank would give up his life.”\n\nHe didn’t intend to kill Yoohyun? Even so, nothing changes. Only the problem of how to kill this bastard is more clearly engraved in my mind.