The Return Of The Genius Ranker Of All Times [EN]: Chapter 28

Part 2, Episode 29.

Dohyun stood tall and nodded.

“Come out.”

“…….”

When no answer came, Dohyun frowned, a clear sign of annoyance.

“I said, come out.”

“……The rumors must be true.”

As if sensing the conviction in his firm tone, users with sturdy builds emerged from behind the numerous trees surrounding them.

“To think stealth wouldn’t work.”

“This is… it feels like a waste of money to have stealthed at such a high cost.”

“Well, does that matter? We stealthed to take you down when there were no other users around, but you came to such a secluded place on your own. How great is that?”

The men, grinning maliciously, numbered over twenty.

Their expressions and voices weren’t just confident; they were arrogant.

Dohyun chuckled at their behavior, as if they had already caught him.

“Don’t you guys have any learning abilities? You’re doing the same thing after seeing your buddies get their asses kicked.”

The villains back in Dem Locke at least seemed to use their brains and try various things, but this… there was just too little effort.

“I’d rather deal with Verze.”

The response to Dohyun’s sincere sarcasm was uniform.

“Pfft!”

“Pwahaha! What is that bastard saying?”

“Oh, my stomach. Look at him pretending to be tough. Puhuhu.”

They burst into laughter as if they were going to collapse.

-How dare they laugh in front of me… who do they think they are laughing at!

-Rizariza!!

Even though Charlie, who was furious, roughly drew his sword, nothing changed.

The men were too busy laughing at even that.

At this point, Dohyun couldn’t understand.

He had caused such a ruckus in the village, and he had broken the record of annihilation at the measurement test, yet he was getting this kind of reaction?

‘Do they have something to rely on?’

Otherwise, their reaction didn’t make sense.

Fortunately, he soon found out what they were relying on.

“Hey, Kaiser. I know you were famous in Dem Locke. I know you did well in the main continent. You were more impressive than expected when you caused a ruckus in the village.”

“…….”

“But you can’t act so cocky here.”

Whether they looked down on him quite a bit, the men told him themselves.

Among them, a particularly large man at the very front strode forward.

“The guys you fought in the village were at best from District 4. We’re from District 3, and we’re on a different level.”

The lawless zone was a huge villain organization.

Perhaps the giant man had the highest rank among those gathered, as no one interrupted him as he continued to speak.

They just watched from behind, grinning maliciously.

“More than anything…….”

The man, who had come right up to him, was a head taller than Dohyun.

As a result, Dohyun had to lift his head all the way to his chin to make eye contact, and the man smirked at that and continued to speak as if it were ridiculous.

“That horn you broke at the measurement test. That was a broken horn, wasn’t it?”

“?”

“You broke a horn that was so damaged that even a District C scrub could break it, and you’re walking around with your shoulders puffed up like you’re really something. I can’t stand it.”

“……?”

This was all new to him.

The horn was damaged? Even a District C scrub could break it?

He was staring blankly, wondering what all this meant, but the man seemed to take it differently, and his face became even more disgustingly sly.

“Why, did you think you wouldn’t get caught? Puhuhu, you should have just kept a low profile. How could you act up in content that we could participate in?”

“Ah.”

Dohyun nodded.

He finally understood the situation.

‘Did Rupallo’s horn lose its function because I received a quest from Rupallo?’

And after that, a user who felt something was wrong experimented, and the weakened horn broke easily.

Perhaps due to the influence of Rupallo’s will, it didn’t emit a golden light unlike during the Annihilation, so of course, those men thought there was an error.

“Ha. So that’s all you were relying on?”

“……What?”

Perhaps momentarily flustered by Dohyun’s reaction, who was chuckling in disbelief, the man’s expression hardened.

And Dohyun’s expression sank even more coldly.

Right. Everyone has a plan.

“Until they get punched in the face. It’s my favorite saying.”

“What the hell is this bastard keep saying since earlier……!”

“And I didn’t understand since earlier… who told you to close the distance like this? Without any fear.”

“……?”

The man tilted his head at the incomprehensible words.

Paah-!

The man’s leg bent sharply from the heavy impact suddenly transmitted to his hamstring.

Dohyun stretched out his arm to the naturally similar eye level,

Paah!

His vision turned sideways along with the feeling of being slapped on the cheek.

His neck seemed to have turned sideways.

Before he could even feel insulted, a barrage of indiscriminate attacks followed.

Thwack! Paak!

Thwack thwack thwack!

His mind went dizzy from the handiwork that massaged him evenly, up and down, for a moment.

Still, perhaps because of his experience as the commander of the 12th unit in District 3, feeling a sense of crisis as his health rapidly decreased, he hurriedly stretched out his fist wearing knuckles, but,

Paak!

Rather, he was countered and his vision flipped greatly.

Seeing the sky, it seemed he had been hit with an uppercut on the chin.

He was momentarily stunned, but only for a moment.

He quickly regained his senses and raised his guard, but it was already too late.

The relentless barrage, like pounding meat for tonkatsu [Japanese pork cutlet], pounded his entire body.

Hooong- Thwack!

The moment he tried to counter even a little, a counterattack struck, so he couldn’t bring himself to lower his guard.

However, if he maintained his guard, fists and feet would strike the ghostly empty spots.

“Shit!”

Enraged, he kicked off the ground and tried to tackle with a dash skill, but it was blocked by a parry as easily as if it were futile.

Thwack! Thwack thwack thwack!

Rather, only his weaknesses were exposed, and he was hit even harder.

‘This, wasn’t this bastard a swordsman base?’

Why the hell was he better at punching than himself, a martial artist?

He had always been the one beating people up in reality, so he was too insulted to have ever been beaten like this anywhere else.

But this was only natural.

“Who told you to give me distance?”

Among the enemies who faced Dohyun in the Dem Locke era, those with considerable skill had one thing they paid attention to as essential: not giving Dohyun a favorable distance.

Except for that guy Gugu, it was the same for anyone.

‘Even the Sword Saint.’

Since he proudly made a choice that everyone else didn’t make, it was a very natural result that he was getting beaten up.

But he felt wronged.

“How can I not close the distance when my job is a martial artist…….”

It was just that he closed the distance because his job was a martial artist.

But Dohyun wasn’t patient enough to listen to that injustice.

[Thousand Transformations is transformed into ‘Euncheol Shield’.]

“……Heok!”

The moment he opened his mouth, he was hit by a shield that he didn’t know when it had changed into, and he floated into the air.

[Thousand Transformations is transformed into ‘White Lion’s Snowflake Sword’.]

[Using the 4th Form of the Byran Swordsmanship, One Sword.]

And then, a fierce slash.

At the same time as the illusion of being cut in half, Dohyun’s back kick stretched out, and his huge body flew away.

Kwaang!

His body, which had been helplessly embedded in a tree without even twitching a finger, scattered like dust.

[You have killed player ‘Deuram’.]

[Player ‘Deuram’ has been identified as an ‘Evil Doer’. The preemptive attack penalty does not apply, and Karma does not increase.]

[Player ‘Deuram’ has been identified as an Evil Doer with an extreme Karma level.]

He was dead.

“?”

“V, Vice-Captain?”

“What is this…….”

Ten seconds.

That was the time the two fought.

No, would it be more accurate to say it was the time he was unilaterally beaten?

‘……No way.’

‘The captain died without being able to do anything like this?’

‘There, there was no mention of that level……!’

‘The measurement was an error, so how did this happen…….’

Deuram, the second-in-command of the 10th unit in District 3 of the Lawless Zone.

He was unilaterally defeated by a newcomer who had just entered the game without even landing a single attack.

It is said that when people experience something too absurd, no words come out.

Shhh-

Even though the vice-captain had died, no one opened their mouths.

They were just blankly staring with their mouths open, completely넋을 놓고 있을 뿐 [넋을 놓고 있다 (neogeul nohgo itda) means to be in a daze or to be stunned].

The forest became as quiet as a graveyard.

“Come in.”

“…….”

What broke the cold silence was Dohyun’s low voice.

Why was it?

They were clearly the ones surrounding him, but when that man took a step closer, their bodies froze like hyenas facing a lion.

Twitch.

Instinctively taking a step back, they realized.

‘……Ah.’

‘We’re screwed.’

They had seriously misunderstood something.

They had messed with someone they shouldn’t have messed with.

And when they realized it late, it was really too late.

[A mark is created.]

Dohyun’s figure disappeared, and the chilling sensation felt from behind was the proof.

* * *

Swish- Thud-

“Keheok!”

“Kuaaaak!”

The battle was one-sided.

The men who had lost their will the moment the vice-captain died were too busy running away without any formation or anything.

Dohyun just had to chase after them one by one and kill them.

Swish-

[You have killed player ‘Barga’.]

[Player ‘Barga’ has been identified as an ‘Evil Doer’. The preemptive attack penalty does not apply, and Karma does not increase.]

[Player ‘Barga’ has been identified as an Evil Doer with an extreme Karma level.]

One guy at a time.

He would definitely cut off their breath, and then chase after the fleeing guy and pounce on him.

“Th, th……!”

“This monster-like bastard!”

“Shit, get out of the way!”

Is this how herbivores feel when they are running away from a hungry beast?

They didn’t have the thought of fighting against the situation of being preyed upon by a predator.

Only the instinct to run away dominated their minds due to overwhelming fear, without even knowing that it was an act of approaching death themselves.

Swish-

“Sixteen…… three more to go.”

Dohyun was able to easily sweep away the men like that.

But there are always those who are relatively sane everywhere.

‘F, fuck……!’

A man trembling behind a tree, Kayan, was like that.

He could tell without looking at the situation.

Swoosh- Swish-

Kuaaaak!

The sound of flesh being cut and the screams of his comrades that he heard in real-time were gradually getting closer.

He chose to hide instead of rashly running away.

As a result, whether he was lucky enough not to be seen, or whether he was being prioritized to deal with the fleeing men, he was fortunately still alive.

‘A greenhorn who only caught District 4 scrubs and is all high and mighty? Just a newbie at best?’

Tell them not to talk nonsense.

Where does that look like a newbie level?

At that level, even if he fought the captain…….

No, even if he fought the captains of the upper units in District 3, not the lowest unit, the 10th unit, he would be just as good.

‘……It’s dangerous if he gets any bigger.’

The scariest thing was that that bastard only had days left to get stronger.

Whatever the case, it was true that that bastard was a newbie who had just entered the game and hadn’t even transcended yet.

If he’s such a monster now, what if he transcends?

‘……Crazy.’

Thinking about what kind of monster he would be when they met next time, he felt a chill run down his spine for a moment.