I Became The Rankers’ Number One Pick [EN]: Chapter 147

147.

‘No, I can’t get dragged away like this.’

Seo-ah tried to resist as much as possible by pressing the handle of the squeaky hammer, which was buzzing, against the floor.

It was then.

The squeaky hammer that Seo-ah was holding onto, while being dragged away, suddenly stopped as if it were stuck to the floor.

“Huh?”

Even though Wang Cheon-yu pulled harder, the squeaky hammer didn’t budge.

Suddenly, a system window appeared before Seo-ah’s eyes.

[The Mace Squeaky Hammer has leveled up!]

[LV.2 → LV.3]

[Additional Options: Pile Driver, Area Attack (1㎡)]

‘Pile Driver…!’

Of course, there was a limit to how much a level 3 Legend weapon could withstand.

As Wang Cheon-yu pulled with all his might, Seo-ah’s body swayed again. However, she definitely gained something from buying that brief moment of time.

Baek Eun-hee’s splinter flew menacingly, aiming for Wang Cheon-yu’s neck. When Yoo Ji-an and Choi Eun-gyeol even attacked Wang Cheon-yu, she had no choice but to react.

Wang Cheon-yu quickly retracted the chain wrapped around the squeaky hammer and defended himself.

Seo-ah also got up and picked up the squeaky hammer. The squeaky hammer, which hadn’t budged for Wang Cheon-yu, was immediately pulled out in Seo-ah’s hand.

Wang Cheon-yu decided to attack Seo-ah directly, approaching her at lightning speed.

Seo-ah barely blocked Wang Cheon-yu’s hand, which was trying to strike down with a knifehand, with the squeaky hammer.

But the next moment, Wang Cheon-yu’s other hand struck Seo-ah’s abdomen.

Thwack!

“Seo-ah!”

Seo-ah fell to the floor, and Wang Cheon-yu, who was smirking, slowly tilted her head. Before she could even figure out what was happening, her head and torso were separated.

Behind the fallen Wang Cheon-yu was Yoo Ji-an with a hardened expression.

Wang Cheon-yu’s corpse soon turned to dust and disappeared.

Seo-ah clutched her stomach, panting, but smiled and made eye contact with Yoo Ji-an.

“Hurry… go!”

“…Park Seo-ah.”

Yoo Ji-an frowned as if he didn’t like it, muttering, but quickly turned his body again because Jackson’s attack was flying in.

Even if they defeated Wang Cheon-yu, Oscar Jackson and Bachelo were still left, so there was no time to dawdle.

Choi Eun-gyeol also stuck to Jackson with Yoo Ji-an, and Baek Eun-hee looked after Seo-ah.

“Are you okay?”

“Yes, yes. Of course. Now I know why we use good armor.”

“Whew, still, we caught Wang Cheon-yu thanks to you. Stay back for now. I’ll take care of everything and come.”

“Yes, yes!”

Baek Eun-hee looked at Seo-ah with a worried expression, but rejoined the battle. Finishing quickly was the most important thing right now.

After applying a simple recovery skill to her abdomen, Seo-ah went back to the rear of the members.

The Bachelo side was now nearing completion.

It just took a little longer because Bachelo’s stamina was so good, but it was difficult for him to win against Cha Tae-woon and Song Jin-ah, who were both S-class hunters.

Of course, Bachelo and Wang Cheon-yu were both strong hunters in the top ranks of the world rankings.

However, what they didn’t know was that their opponent was also an S-class hunter. They approached thinking they were just high-level monsters, so they were careless and unprepared.

If they had known they were facing fellow hunters, they wouldn’t have been defeated so easily.

“Ughhhhh!”

And finally, before long, Bachelo let out a resentful scream and collapsed his heavy body.

For a sure finish, Song Jin-ah drew a line on his neck with her sharp moon tail. Bachelo breathed his last without shedding a single drop of blood, and he too disappeared.

“Hoo, that guy was really like a bear.”

“Still, it was a good experience.”

Cha Tae-woon briefly shared his impressions of fighting Bachelo. When else would they get to fight so excitingly with a rank 4 S-class hunter like this?

It was unlikely to happen in reality.

Seo-ah quickly approached and reapplied the buff skills to Cha Tae-woon and Song Jin-ah.

“Please join over there quickly! There’s only one left now!”

“I saw you getting hit and flying away, are you okay?”

Song Jin-ah said worriedly, having seen it in the meantime, and Seo-ah nodded.

“Of course, let’s finish it quickly now.”

As if agreeing with Seo-ah’s words, Cha Tae-woon and Song Jin-ah joined Jackson’s team without further ado.

Six S-class hunters from Korea surrounded Jackson, who was ranked number 1 in the world.

Jackson laughed as if he was dumbfounded.

“Amazing, these monsters… I didn’t know they would be this strong. If I lose, these monsters will devastate the Korean Peninsula and destroy the Earth.”

“What nonsense, we’ll pull out once we catch you.”

Baek Eun-hee also retorted, equally dumbfounded, even though he couldn’t hear her.

“If six people attack at once, the movements will only get tangled.”

Cha Tae-woon said that and glanced at Yoo Ji-an.

“I will take that guy’s head.”

Yoo Ji-an raised the Ruin Blade and pointed the tip of his sword at Oscar Jackson.

“Hyung [older brother or close male friend], did you hate Oscar Jackson?”

In response to Choi Eun-gyeol’s question, Yoo Ji-an said while fixing his gaze on Jackson.

“Everyone, be sure to remember today’s battle. Because it will definitely be helpful someday.”

There was a nuance in Yoo Ji-an’s words that seemed like he was grinding his teeth. It didn’t seem to simply mean the battle experience between S-class hunters.

But there was no time to ask one by one.

Oscar Jackson’s robe, who had come to his senses, began to flutter like crazy. The white robe that Jackson always wore was actually his important item.

His robe had an option to amplify the damage of attack magic by a whopping three times.

A vortex containing sharp moisture gradually spread around him.

Choi Eun-gyeol tried to counter with fire, but it was a storm containing such strong cold air that even his flames disappeared in an instant.

“Ugh, it’s really an amazing magic storm.”

It would be possible to cover it with an even bigger fire, but Choi Eun-gyeol had already continued to use magic through the battle at the amusement park and the gap in the dimensions, so he didn’t have enough mana to draw out that much magic at once.

Because it was such a vast amount of magic, there was nothing he could do right away no matter how much Maker’s mana potion he drank.

Cha Tae-woon was blocking Seo-ah first, and the other S-class hunters were also defending themselves from freezing in their own ways.

Seo-ah stared intently at Jackson in the middle of the storm from behind Cha Tae-woon’s shield. Something seemed to be felt, and the [Emotion Transference Power] was working weakly.

Since the opponent is a monster and a top-level higher being, a human, it may be easier to read.

‘I feel like I’ll know if I get a little closer.’

Out of regret, Seo-ah unknowingly reached her hand out in front of Cha Tae-woon’s shield.

As soon as she reached out, a cold wind brushed past, and her hand froze.

“Gasp!”

“Oh my, what are you doing!”

Thanks to Song Jin-ah who hurriedly came and cast a recovery skill, her hand was safe. If she had given a little shock in that state, her hand would have been broken.

“That guy can’t maintain that for long anyway, everyone just wait a little longer.”

Yoo Ji-an blocked the front with the Ruin Blade and said bluntly to everyone.

And as if everyone knew without saying it, they waited for the storm to subside. Of course, even this waiting required a lot of energy to defend against the cold air.

Seo-ah fiddled with her healed hand and bit her lip.

‘Oscar Jackson is also feeling fear.’

It wasn’t just a waste of effort that her hand froze. It was because she felt a little bit of Oscar Jackson’s emotional fragments.

What was a little unexpected was that the type of fear she felt from him was similar to the black fly she met in the dimensional gap.

“Just a little more….”

She can’t just stick her hand out this time. But Seo-ah had a very strong weapon to replace her hand.

Seo-ah slid the squeaky hammer forward. The squeaky hammer did not freeze even while hitting the edge of the wind with a bang.

It properly proved the value of being covered with expensive poklirium [a fictional metal]. And as Seo-ah wished, the squeaky hammer acted like Seo-ah’s hand, slowly sensing the heart of the owner of this wind.

‘Frustration, fear… Transcendence? No, wait a minute.’

I was wondering why the murderous intent hadn’t been read all along. Then, suddenly, a strong murderous intent was felt, and at the same time, Seo-ah and Yoo Ji-an shouted.

“Get down!”

As soon as the words came out, everyone fell to the ground, and a vast ice storm grew in volume and swept over them.

If they were caught in that storm, it felt like one part of their body would be pierced or frozen no matter how much they defended.

“Ahahahahahaha!”

With a mad laugh, Jackson suddenly shot a snowstorm into the sky.

Then, somewhere in the sky that seemed endlessly high, it made a cracking sound as if it had frozen. The sound was so loud that it felt like the sky was collapsing.

The sight was strange and somehow felt familiar.

‘At that time….’

The snake in the also attacked the sky.

The boss of the parasite in the also wanted to go out through the gate.

“Why! Why don’t you give us the last gate? Why don’t you even give us a chance!”