“Mohaaaan!”

Liam, Vallington’s supreme warrior, screamed.

War commander Ivan and Mohan.

The two were precious comrades who had spent their entire lives together.

They were the figures who made the greatest contributions to building the Kingdom of Vallington while serving their lord Sara Dunphy.

One died with his spine and head ripped out.

The other died with his head exploding.

Rage rose to the tips of his head.

Kwajik, Kwang!

Seogek-!

Even at this moment, those two despicable ones, Choi Hyun-seok, and Park Hyun-a, were killing his subordinates.

“Krwang!”

“Just hold on a little longer!”

The demon beast continued to sweep through the surroundings and the woman riding on top of it was equally irritating.

‘About sixty warriors remain.’

The ‘First Warrior Unit’, gathering the kingdom’s finest warriors.

More than twenty of them had died, leaving only about sixty remaining.

‘At this rate, we’ll be defeated.’

Liam assessed the situation coldly.

The tide of battle was no longer in their favor.

If they lost any more warriors here, the balance would tip in favor of the enemy.

They needed to deal with the enemy before that happened.

‘This demonic energy… I won’t suppress it anymore.’

He would release everything.

Until now, he had struggled to suppress and control the demonic energy, but he would no longer do so.

Liam entrusted everything to his boiling rage and demonic energy.

***

“Now I just need to deal with you?”

Park Hyun-a grinned.

Her magical power was really at rock bottom now.

Even if she really squeezed, she might be able to use one more high-level spell at most.

Yet she remained relaxed.

‘If I eliminate that muscle head, Choi Hyun-seok, and Abelson can handle the rest.’

In fact, Liam and Park Hyun-a’s physical abilities were similar.

Liam’s combat power is 320,000.

Park Hyun-a’s combat power is 450,000.

There was a difference of almost 130,000 between them, but this was due to the difference in magical power.

It was just a number that came from Park Hyun-a’s overwhelmingly high magical power.

In terms of strength, agility, and stamina alone, there wasn’t much difference between Park Hyun-a and Liam.

So Park Hyun-a fighting Liam without magical power could be considered at a disadvantage.

“We don’t have time, so let’s hurry up.”

But Park Hyun-a had no intention of backing down.

‘I can’t whine just because my strength is a bit lower, how embarrassing.’

With Choi Hyun-seok working so hard, she would rather die than show herself crumbling first.

“What are you doing? At this rate, all your minions will die.”

Park Hyun-a said while breaking the neck of a hero-level undead.

However, for some reason, Liam was quietly keeping his head down.

“Well, fine by me. Stay like that.”

Park Hyun-a thought she should use this chance to reduce the number of other undead.

At that moment.

Kugugugu…!

Tremendous demonic energy flowed from Liam.

At the same time, his skin turned red.

“Huh…? This bastard, don’t tell me!”

Park Hyun-a rushed forward quickly.

That was the precursor to using Plomot.

An undead.

Though she didn’t know how someone who was once human could use Plomot, she couldn’t leave him be.

“Die!”

Park Hyun-a’s sword cut into Liam’s flesh.

‘I’ll cut off his head now!’

Just before her sword could completely sever Liam’s neck.

Paat!

Liam twisted his body to avoid Park Hyun-a’s sword.

As he stepped back, his body had already turned completely red.

Her sword had only cut his skin, unfortunately not reaching any vital bones.

‘Shit… I was so close.’

Park Hyun-a put aside her regret and stepped back while keeping guard against Liam.

“So this is the power of demonic energy…”

Liam repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fist before suddenly kicking the ground.

Tung!

Movement is much faster than before.

A speed even faster than Park Hyun-a.

He swung his sword with terrifying momentum.

Kwaaang!

The ground exploded where his sword touched.

Park Hyun-a frowned while dodging.

‘Shit… Is this déjà vu? Feels like something similar happened recently.’

It reminded her of fighting the pig orc Kadrak.

The difference from then was that compared to orc Kadrak, Liam was a much smarter human.

Moreover, Park Hyun-a’s magical power was depleted.

In other words, it was the worst situation in many ways.

“Kkeuk!”

Park Hyun-a groaned as she blocked Liam’s sword and retreated.

‘I can’t win this. I need to stall for time somehow!’

This is Liam’s first time using Plomot.

It probably wouldn’t be properly controlled, and the duration was likely to be short.

The original plan was for a short battle, but in this situation, they had no choice but to modify their strategy to hold out until Liam’s stamina dropped.

“Hey! Don’t mess with this bastard, take out the minions first!”

Park Hyun-a shouted as she jumped into where the hero-level undead were gathered.

It was to restrict Liam’s range of movement.

However, Liam didn’t care at all.

“I’ll crush everything!”

Whether his subordinates were there or not.

He swung his sword like a madman with bloodshot eyes.

Kwagwagwagwa!

His attack swept away not only Park Hyun-a but other undead as well.

That’s when Choi Hyun-seok appeared.

“Don’t touch my experience points!”

***

A crisis is an opportunity.

After coming to this other world, this became Choi Hyun-seok’s favorite saying ‘The strong prey on the weak’.

This was because Choi Hyun-seok had grown through countless crises.

And now.

In the worst crisis, a golden opportunity had arrived.

▫Name: Choi Hyun-seok

▫Title: Regular Hero

▫Level: 943

* Strength: 290

* Agility: 286

* Stamina: 300

* Magic: 320

* Demonic Energy: 320

A whopping level 943.

He was level 852 just before, meaning he’d gained 91 levels in this battle alone.

“Kahahahaha!”

Choi Hyun-seok laughed like a madman.

There was no more crisis.

Along with Plomot, his tremendously increased stats gave him incredible power.

His current combat power had exceeded 170,000.

Using Plomot on top of that, these half-baked undead heroes were no match for him.

[Level Up!][Level Up!]

The level-up alerts kept coming.

He still gained 1-2 levels every time he killed a hero-level undead.

With over fifty of them left, he could gain at least 50 more levels.

“I’m hitting level 1000 today!”

Hadn’t someone said he might reach level 1000 within half a year at the fastest?

‘Half a year? I’ll finish it within two months!’

Just as Choi Hyun-seok was jumping around excitedly.

Kwagwagwagwa!

Liam appeared with a thunderous noise.

Liam with red skin emanating a ferocious aura.

Choi Hyun-seok wore a shocked expression.

However, what surprised him wasn’t Liam’s ferocious aura.

‘My experience points!’

Two undead had just been swept away by that single strike.

That was at least 2 levels gone.

“Don’t touch my experience points!”

Just as Choi Hyun-seok was about to charge at Liam.

“Hey, you crazy bastard! Come to your senses!”

Park Hyun-a rushed over and pushed Choi Hyun-seok with her body.

At the same time, Liam’s sword fell where they had been standing.

Kwaaang!

Cold sweat ran down Choi Hyun-seok’s back.

He hadn’t been able to properly track Liam’s movements.

Moreover, the power seemed several times stronger than his own.

“Hey! Are your ears blocked!? I told you not to mess with this bastard and take out the minions first!”

“I’m sorry!”

Only then did his drug-like intoxicated mind start to clear slightly.

‘Get it together!’

He’d gotten too excited from leveling up.

Jumping around among the sheep, he’d almost charged at what turned out to be a bear.

“I’ll mark this muscle-head, you just keep leveling up! Abelson! Come over here and help!”

Park Hyun-a shouted as she charged at Liam.

She was trying to prevent him from getting to Choi Hyun-seok.

Choi Hyun-seok bit his lip hard.

‘Older sister is in bad shape.’

He could see at a glance that Park Hyun-a was exhausted, and bleeding heavily.

‘I need to sweep up the others as quickly as possible and help.’

Choi Hyun-seok checked his remaining magical power and demonic energy.

‘About half of the magical power left. Maybe a third of demonic energy?’

He should be able to maintain Plomot stage 1 somehow.

The problem was the remaining demonic energy.

If he ran out of demonic energy at this rate, Plomot would inevitably be released and the backlash would come.

He needed to end the situation before then.

However, there was a problem.

‘Now that I look at it, my body’s in terrible shape…’

Choi Hyun-seok’s body had already become dull.

His whole body was covered in wounds, and his insides were a mess from maintaining Plomot for so long.

Moreover, having used other fighting techniques during Plomot, it would be stranger if his body was fine.

‘This isn’t the time to whine! Let’s go!’

Choi Hyun-seok clenched his fist.

He needed to deal with the enemies as quickly as possible.

“Rachel!”

“Yes! Hero!”

Rachel appeared in mid-air when Choi Hyun-seok called.

“Cast buffs on me!”

“Understood!”

Feeling strength surge through his body, Choi Hyun-seok gave his next order.

“Can you use healing magic during battle?”

“?? I can, but the efficiency is bad. It’ll waste a lot of magical power…”

“Magical power isn’t important right now. We need to finish everything before demonic energy runs out!”

Rachel nodded at Choi Hyun-seok’s words.

“Yes! Leave it to me!”

Rachel flew up into the sky and used healing magic from a distance.

It was a very inefficient method, but Choi Hyun-seok needed to boost his condition even like this.

“Good! Let’s go!”

He planned to execute a simple principle – defeat the enemy before I collapse.

***

Liam breathed roughly.

“Huk, huk…”

The area around him was completely devastated.

The ground was completely overturned, and trees and rocks everywhere were shattered.

It was the result of being unable to control the rampaging power and dispersing it in all directions.

Even though Liam was Vallington’s supreme warrior, the price of forcefully using an unfamiliar power was steep.

‘The demonic energy is backflowing…’

The demonic energy was rampaging completely out of control.

At times like this, being undead felt fortunate.

If he could feel pain, maintaining sanity would have been difficult by now.

‘Just a little, hold on just a little longer…!’

Liam moved his body desperately.

The enemies before him didn’t look in good shape either.

Park Hyun-a was panting and covered in blood, and Bobo was in even worse condition.

He had almost single-handedly marked Liam while Park Hyun-a retreated.

Though it was a short time, blocking Liam was too much for someone of Bobo’s level.

Only Abelson was in good condition, but Abelson wasn’t even a consideration for Liam.

He could kill her anytime after dealing with the others.

“Still alive, huh.”

Then a familiar voice was heard, and everyone’s gaze moved.

Choi Hyun-seok was walking over sluggishly.

“Finished cleaning up?”

“Yes. It was pretty tough.”

“How long can you hold out?”

“Still got plenty left.”

“This kid. Such bravado.”

Park Hyun-a smirked.

It was amusing seeing Choi Hyun-seok speak so confidently when he was clearly dying.

“Shit. This is like a gathering of defeated soldiers.”

Park Hyun-a said while wiping blood from her forehead.

Liam, Park Hyun-a, Choi Hyun-seok.

All were in tatters.

But it was clear who had the upper hand.

Liam clenched his fist.

‘If only… If only I had a little more time…!’

Liam resented this demonic energy power.

Thanks to not being able to properly handle this unfamiliar power, not only he but his subordinates were annihilated.

This would never have happened with the living First Warrior Unit.

The First Warrior Unit of the Kingdom of Vallington that had terrorized the entire continent alongside Sara Dunphy.

He couldn’t believe they had been defeated by just four people.

“Muscle-head. Give up. You’re already finished.”

Park Hyun-a said, sizing up Liam’s condition.

“You can barely stand from the Plomot backlash.”

“I haven’t lost yet!”

“Men and their stubbornness…”

Park Hyun-a clicked her tongue and turned to Choi Hyun-seok.

“Hey. What level are you now?”

“Level 987.”

“You’ll hit almost a thousand with his last hit?”

“Looks like it.”

Smiles appeared simultaneously on Park Hyun-a and Choi Hyun-seok’s faces.

“Let’s go. Time to finish this.”

“Yes.”

Just as Park Hyun-a and Choi Hyun-seok moved to step forward.

A woman with bronze skin adorned with magnificent jewels, Sara Dunphy, descended.

“You look like you’re struggling, Liam.”

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