Hoarding In Hell [EN]: Chapter 193

193. Hell Arrives (3)

Park Do-ryeong stopped attacking, seemingly deciding it would be difficult to hit after missing his first shot.

Instead, the black figures narrowed their encirclement. Here and there, Hwan-mama Hunters were visible. Before long, a perimeter was forming, centered around Hyun-woo.

“To move the Omnipotence Alliance team… I wondered if it was a trap, but they really did leave you behind. To expose your weakness yourself, what’s the intention? Digging your own grave?”

Park Do-ryeong spoke without revealing himself.

He no longer seemed to care about hiding.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you’re thinking, our clan members are tracking them.”

“Tracking?”

“Yes. If you don’t resist, you won’t have to suffer.”

Hyun-woo burst into laughter. His laughter echoed through the dense fog.

“I should tell them to spare their lives.”

“If you surrender willingly, I won’t let their lives be wasted….”

Park Do-ryeong trailed off, thinking he was asking to spare his subordinates’ lives.

He clicked his tongue in disbelief.

“You seem quite confident in your subordinates? The trackers have been working with me for over a decade. What about you? Have you lasted even half a year?”

“Against you, that’s enough.”

“What confidence! Did you set a trap or something?”

“What confidence! Do I look like I need a trap?”

Park Do-ryeong said nothing more. He quickly shot shards.

The moment the shards sped towards Hyun-woo’s forehead faster than the speed of sound, he reached out with his left hand without dodging.

With a sharp sound, the shards scattered. As they exploded into fragments, some of the clones were hit and disappeared.

However, Hyun-woo’s left hand, consumed by the Constrictor Yul, was without a scratch.

Hyun-woo let the glass-like fragments fall, looking in the direction where Park Do-ryeong was likely to be.

“If you miss with one snipe, you should stop. Are you going to try again and again?”

Park Do-ryeong didn’t answer. At the same time, the black figures began to charge.

With dozens of clones in front of him, clones armed with rifles mercilessly sprayed bullets from behind.

Hyun-woo smashed the approaching clone while simultaneously pulling out an object hidden inside it. As expected, it was a bomb.

It took no time at all to pull out the bomb and throw it at the rifle-wielding clones.

Dozens of clones were blown away by the bomb that exploded in mid-air.

Some clones charged directly. One of their attacks was heavy. There was one hiding the power of 99 among the clones.

Hyun-woo chuckled.

“I told you not to use attacks that didn’t work before.”

Bang! The ground shook for a moment as Hyun-woo stomped his foot.

As the charging clones flinched, Hyun-woo shot out a spider web. The web soon turned into dozens of chains.

Hyun-woo wildly swung the chains like a whip, eliminating the miscellaneous clones.

But in the middle, there was one that wrapped around with a clanging sound.

“Gotcha.”

At the same time as catching him like fishing, Hyun-woo’s body moved quickly along the spider web.

[Special Ability: Constantly produces ‘Darkness’ attribute spider webs. Can draw out the abilities of the consumed body to the highest level, and the more consumed body parts, the higher the increased stats. If the spider web is in contact with the body, instantaneous movement is possible to any location where the spider web is located.]

The guy didn’t even have time to cut the chains. As the Constrictor Yul’s ability activated, Hyun-woo’s hand almost simultaneously pierced the clone’s neck.

As the clone was torn apart, the surroundings were enveloped in a chilling silence. What broke the silence was Park Do-ryeong’s flying shards.

“Ha.”

Hyun-woo, who let the shards pass at a close distance, sent a mocking smile towards Park Do-ryeong.

His mental strength, not faltering even after his clone was killed in an instant, was commendable.

However, his pathetic intellect, daring to provoke him, was not praiseworthy.

He was already walking down an irreversible path.

With the most important clone eliminated, the other clones were no longer a threat.

The guys shooting bullets were still hiding, but compared to the shards Park Do-ryeong was shooting, they were pathetically slow, and their killing intent was blatant. The guys equipped with bombs were slow to act.

In other words, they were no threat at all.

“Die!”

Without giving him a chance, the Hwan-mama team’s hunters attacked Hyun-woo in unison.

The hunters, who had been working together for a long time, were confident that they could take on even high-level ability users.

“Those cheap lines….”

Hyun-woo made a pathetic expression and snapped his fingers right in front of the hunters.

In an instant, Hyun-woo disappeared from that spot. The hunters panicked and hurriedly looked around. Someone suddenly put their arm around their shoulder.

Hyun-woo was laughing with his arm around their shoulder.

“You should say that to someone you can definitely kill.”

The hunter screamed and thrust his spear. A cruel tearing sound echoed, and blood spurted out.

He was convinced that he had stabbed Hyun-woo with the blood that was thickly smeared on his hand, but what was in front of him was a fellow hunter.

The Hwan-mama hunters were stabbing and attacking each other with questioning eyes.

Belatedly realizing that they had been hit by a skill, they tried to resist, but their numbers had already been reduced to less than half.

That was enough. Hyun-woo made the hunters aim at their own necks and then stab themselves in one go.

The elite hunters that Park Do-ryeong had brought were too easily defeated by Hyun-woo’s ‘Domination’ skill.

“Huh? What.”

The last remaining hunter was watching him with a look of astonishment.

Hyun-woo noticed that the opponent was wearing equipment that increased skill resistance.

The hunter quickly decided that he had to retreat for now. But Hyun-woo’s spider web was already wrapped around his entire body.

The hunter was dragged away as soon as Hyun-woo pulled his arm. At that moment, he felt a sharp killing intent once again. This time it was in a different direction.

Hyun-woo threw the hunter in the direction where the killing intent was felt. The hunter, thrown into the air, was pierced by Park Do-ryeong’s shards and scattered.

“You’re ruthless even to your own subordinates.”

Perhaps he was trying to save his subordinate, but it was useless.

Learning from the previous snipe, Hyun-woo was constantly aware of Park Do-ryeong’s location.

Even if he changed his position, it would be slower than Hyun-woo noticing the killing intent, as it was a long-range snipe.

To inflict meaningful damage, he would have to bring out an ultimate skill that he hadn’t seen yet.

“The small fries are no match, Park Do-ryeong. Are you going to keep nibbling like that?”

The remaining hunters hesitated as the hunters at the forefront were defeated in an instant.

It hadn’t even taken a minute for the clones and most of the hunters to be defeated. It was too overwhelming a difference in skill.

Even though they blindly obeyed Park Do-ryeong’s orders, they couldn’t help but feel fear creeping in.

Soon, they received some kind of signal from Park Do-ryeong and tried to retreat quickly. But Hyun-woo had no intention of letting a single one go.

The moment the hunters started to retreat, Hyun-woo followed like a shadow and slammed the head of the hunter at the very back into the ground.

A gruesome sound echoed. Hyun-woo abandoned the corpse and immediately followed the other hunter in front.

The hunters, who never thought he would follow and kill even those who were running away, were horrified and began a desperate escape.

Park Do-ryeong’s shards continued to fly, but it was useless. Hyun-woo gradually killed them one by one, as if devouring them. Some resisted as if trying to hold him back, but it was useless.

“Kang Hyun-woo!”

The moment he was about to kill the last one, a shard was embedded right in front of Hyun-woo’s feet. And shards were fiercely shot at Hyun-woo as if a sewing machine was stitching.

Hyun-woo had no choice but to let go of the hunter he was trying to catch last.

Park Do-ryeong landed with a heavy impact at a close distance. Even though he was wearing a mask, a palpable rage was felt. Hyun-woo grinned.

“If a sniper has to engage in melee combat, it’s over, isn’t it?”

Park Do-ryeong gritted his teeth and took a step forward. At that moment, a black figure remained in the spot where he was standing, like a nailed shadow. He was clearly preparing to fight. Once again, he used a clone.

With a 2:1 confrontation, Hyun-woo had no choice but to move cautiously. But he didn’t forget to finish things off.

“Don’t just leave.”

The hunter who was relieved to see Park Do-ryeong appeared grabbed his own head and twisted it 180 degrees backward.

With a crack, the last remaining hunter became a corpse and collapsed, and Park Do-ryeong burst into anger.

It was then.

The moment Park Do-ryeong was about to charge, lightning spread from the sky. And a streak of lightning struck the ground.

The lightning that spread with a roar pushed Park Do-ryeong away in an instant.

Park Do-ryeong shook off the tingling electricity.

“That’s enough, Park Do-ryeong.”

Lee Ji-tae was glaring at Park Do-ryeong in the midst of the crackling lightning.

***

“To deceive my eyes and not give up your ambition, I was a fool to trust you even for a moment.”

As Lee Ji-tae scattered the Pacheon Sword [likely a powerful artifact or skill] on the floor, lightning lightly flared along the ground. Park Do-ryeong sighed deeply and said.

“You shouldn’t be here.”

“I attached a supervisor in case you did this. I didn’t expect you to attack Kang Hyun-woo as soon as you entered Pyongyang. I’m glad I rushed over without being late.”

“To protect Kang Hyun-woo? That’s ridiculous. That guy has already killed more than ten of my subordinates.”

“I know.”

Lee Ji-tae answered without wavering.

“You guys did something like a rogue act. Even if you are killed in self-defense, it can’t be helped.”

Hyun-woo laughed. It seemed that even Lee Ji-tae couldn’t let it go a second time.

‘It wasn’t all a bed of roses.’

But Park Do-ryeong seemed to have judged differently.

He sighed and slowly moved to the side. Each time he moved, a black figure smoldered in that spot, like a nailed shadow. He was clearly preparing to fight.

“Lee Ji-tae, to win in this game, you have to get your hands dirty.”

“What game are you talking about? Does killing people look like a game to you?”

Lee Ji-tae recalled what General Min So-ha had said.

What you guys are doing is a game, but when people die there, it’s not a game.

Lee Ji-tae tried to keep that in mind. But Park Do-ryeong answered calmly.

“It’s a game.”

Park Do-ryeong raised a shard and aimed it at Lee Ji-tae.

“You’re a good guy, Lee Ji-tae. My eyes weren’t wrong. That’s why you have to be the winner. I’ll get my hands dirty with the blood you don’t want to be stained with.”

And he slowly turned the end of the shard towards Hyun-woo.

“I heard a report about what this guy did in the Cheonggye Dungeon just a few months ago. That guy’s growth rate is abnormal. He is an anomaly and an obstacle to the future we have decided. Lee Ji-tae. He will either become your greatest enemy, or he will kill you.”

Despite Park Do-ryeong’s warning, Lee Ji-tae still answered calmly.

“I know.”

Hyun-woo’s eyes also lit up at Lee Ji-tae’s answer. Lee Ji-tae continued his answer.

“I am listening to the whispers of the star that goes ahead. Do you think I wouldn’t know that Kang Hyun-woo could become my greatest enemy?”

“Then you know why you have to step back here.”

But Lee Ji-tae drew the Pacheon Sword on the floor and took a step forward.

“You have a short-sighted view, Park Do-ryeong. You always have.”

That was what Park Do-ryeong had said to Lee Ji-tae.

This time, Lee Ji-tae was glaring at Park Do-ryeong with a contemptuous expression and snapping at him.

The long-standing hatred and disgust that had been building between the two was ignited by Hyun-woo. There was already a powder keg of conflict between the two.

“If you say that people should live kindly and protect what they have to protect, are you a foolish and ignorant person? Is being selfish and arrogant a condition for a winner? That’s like saying let’s all go to hell together.”

“You still don’t know what….”

“Park Do-ryeong, I didn’t choose the star of justice or the most shining star. I was chosen by the ‘star that goes ahead.’”

Park Do-ryeong flinched.

Until now, he had believed that Lee Ji-tae was just foolish and acted kindly.

But Lee Ji-tae was saying something different.

Lee Ji-tae scattered the Pacheon Sword long and wide to the side. Lightning began to flare along the surrounding walls.

Lee Ji-tae glanced back at Hyun-woo.

“I have seen more than you think.”

In the flashing light, Lee Ji-tae’s eyes were dyed golden.

“Today is the last day you look at me like a kid, Park Do-ryeong.”