Chapter 55 - Staggered (4)

Staggered (4)

“Uh…How did you do it?”

Another Awakener stuttered and asked as they stood behind Lee Tae-hee.

The man who helped her protect the citizens and dealt with the monsters froze to the shape of a white monster.

She had run through many missions in a company that she knows by name, but it was the first for such a monster.

“Get people and run as far as you can.”

“But that guy blocked the road…!”

With the Awakener’s words, Lee Tae-hee looked around.

The small alleys on either side were collapsed and blocked, and the monster was wholly hindered in front, so she couldn’t go through.

However, the gate was opened, and there were still many monsters going to the other side.

For a C-ranked Awakener, it was hard to lead the people alone and escape monsters’ horde.

“…there’s nothing we can do. Can you assist me?”

He nodded. “Y-yes! Even I can do that much.”

In fact, it was a life-threatening problem.

“Look at the angles you’d like to catch with your back from behind. Keep a conditioned distance,” Lee Tae-hee told him, but he still didn’t take off his eyes on the monster.

Chaser was just looking at the two Awakeners who watched loomed over them.

It was a hard-to-understand guy on the subject of monsters.

“I’m not going to just pass by quietly,” Lee Tae-hee carefully stepped forward.

As soon as the guy showed up, he quickly signaled him, and Il-hyun might be coming in to join her, but when he saw his lively eyes, it seemed as if nothing was going on.

Besides, the two brothers who were defeated by Chaser might not be able to survive as high-ranking Awakeners if they act quickly.

In the meantime, the arm of the guy whose blood was dripping suddenly flashed.

Caen!

The Chaser’s arms crossed with Lee Tae-hee’s sword—they collided.

The sound was so loud that it rang like a big shock, and Lee Tae-hee clenched it and attacked against the guy trying to press it with force.

And with her expressed instinct—

Jiing!

The gray space made everything slow except Lee Tae-hee.

Suddenly, the Chaser tried to resist between the twisting time axes, but to no avail.

No matter how high-ranked the monsters are, other Awakened people with high ability resistance were impossible to be defeated.

It was not only A ranked assigned instincts but also with a higher level.

In the slow passage of time, Lee Tae-hee twisted the sword and pulled it out.

Then, she slid inward and wielded the sword again.

Wicked!

The Chaser didn’t respond to Lee Tae-hee’s sudden instincts, and he had a long wound on his stomach.

Red blood flowed like a human.

Shit…

However, Lee Tae-hee frowned.

The attack was too thin.

It was a sword that was stretched out to leave the waist intact, but it was all about cutting the outside a little because he quickly escaped.

When she first showed her instincts to him, she should’ve had a significant hit, but it was less than she’d expected.

However, she had to bump back again without even having to chew.

A spark struck whenever the sharp blade and sword collided.

“How…?” The man stared blankly at sight.

Unlike the Chaser, a man who couldn’t even recognize the distorted time flow due to his instincts couldn’t even think about getting into this enormous course.

It was far beyond what she had heard and seen.

However, she couldn’t afford the situation as much as watching.

The Chaser wasn’t sure enough that it would be able to beat his two brothers in a slower time, but that didn’t mean Lee Tae-hee had an edge.

“Okay!”

As the course continued several times, Lee Tae-hee staggered and was the first one to step back.

The speed was also swift, but each attack had enough power to strike the monster’s arm.

However, they are struggling and fighting each other.

It shouldn’t go this way.

Lee Tae-hee, who thought that way, reaped her instincts, and the gray world came back.

“Tie!”

Lee Tae-hee shouted quickly.

The Awakener was awakened by her cry as she extended her hands forward and held something tight in the air.

The blue light came up from Lee Tae-hee’s eyes.

She pulled the sword tightly and shook it, sending off a translucent attack.

The Chaser attempted to avoid the incoming attack, but something was holding onto the Chaser’s body.

Of course, he was weak enough to hold him, so he quickly released it, but instead, he was already too late to avoid the tragedy.

The Chaser noticed that the Awakening of the Awakener on the backside was a bit of a lanyard, and raised his arms reflexively without worry.

As any shock was absorbed by any attack on the arm, the attack from the front was irrelevant.

But this time, it wasn’t.

As the attack approached the nose, Chaser, who tried to stop his arm, instinctively perceived the danger.

The guy tried to avoid the tragedy that shook his body as late as possible.

However, one of the guy’s arms was already caught in the tragedy.

Blood spouted from its shoulder, and the Chaser looked down at his arm as if he couldn’t believe it.

One of his arms, which he could never break, fell off and was rolling on the floor.

The reason it became possible was simple—

What Lee Tae-hee cut wasn’t the arm of the guy, but the space itself.

“Hoo…” Lee Tae-hee exhaled, and the blue energy that filled the air subsided.

Her second reason was to cut the space.

Not much energy was consumed as much as its mighty power, but the effect was particular.

The Chaser staggered for a moment and then halted.

After stopping the blood pouring out of his shoulder, the Chaser stared at Lee Tae-hee.

The mixture’s life is diverse, but the eyes of the guy who could afford it have changed completely.

Then he scattered his blacks like crazy everywhere.

Bang! Quaang!

“Get down!”

The Awakener shouted, and the citizens at the back were frightened and lowered their bodies.

Buildings from all sides exploded, and everything on the street was plowed without floors and cars.

Lee Tae-hee again twisted in time and escaped the attacks without difficulty, but the problem was behind it.

“Aw!”

A citizen screamed as he was swept by a blind sword.

With one leg cut and tattered, he leaned halfway up the floor.

“Stop!” Cried Lee Tae-hee.

Then, he rushed to stop the guy.

A big sword flew straight to her, but she didn’t escape it.

At this level of power, dozens of citizens behind the scene were instantly killed.

Kagagak!

Along with the harsh sound, the monster’s blade touched Lee Tae-hee’s sword.

In the process of the overwhelming force, the sword was forced out, blood spewed out, and the angle was twisted.

Wicked!

Lee Tae-hee, who lost balance, rolled on the floor.

Realizing that it was impossible to take it altogether, she shed the sword and avoided the fatal wound, but the three fingers in her right hand were cut off.

The middle finger, ring finger, and even the little finger were cut in half, and blood leaked from the cross-section.

“Ugh…!”

Lee Tae-hee groaned, holding her trembling hands that she couldn’t control the shaking.

Even if she was already a high-ranking Awakener, she was still a bitter wound for her.

“Are you okay?!”

A surprised man tried to approach her, but Lee Tae-hee raised her other hand to stop him.

The left hand is delicate. It can still catch Black.

Lee Tae-hee stood up, holding her heart.

Fortunately, it was comforting that Manshinchang became the right hand without the sword.

She couldn’t give up and fall like this.

She didn’t even have time to hesitate with the pain.

If she couldn’t overcome it, everyone in this area would feel many or even tens of times the pain she felt.

“Ugh…black.”

“Please……”

Behind her were countless people that stared on her back.

They were innocent people who were living their lives without knowing anything.

Lee Tae-hee again delayed time.

Even in the slow, gray-scale scenery, she saw how the Chaser was quickly rushing to kill her as it aimed and swayed on her wound.

Lee Tae-hee held the sword firmly with the rest of her hand.

I can’t just cut space…

The ability to cut space was a powerful force, but it was also challenging to use.

As Lee Tae-hee, who has not yet fully elicited the potential, the preparations required to use this ability were long, and it was challenging to match with the top monsters as powerful as the Chaser in front of her.

That’s why she had to use both of them at the same time.

It tears up space in accelerated time.

A task that has never been successful in numerous attempts.

But this time, it had to be successful.

The blade of the monster that approaches the heart.

The strength of the opponent should not be encountered, but she didn’t care.

She just needs to pull the sword all the power she got.

Once again, bluish energy filled her eyes.

It extended the sword with all her might.

Just like she did hundreds or thousands of times already.

Wow!

When she came in contact with the blade and the sword, the Chaser’s arm split apart, and the Black didn’t stop even though his head got cut in half.

Pak!

Blood burst like a fountain from the torn guy with space.

The Chaser, who fell, lost his power and stopped moving.

“I did it…?”

Lee Tae-hee, murmured as she exhales with a sharp breath.

She had succeeded in defeating an A-ranked monster alone, and she thought it was impossible even for herself.

The citizens’ cheers came from behind, and Lee Tae-hee looked at the sky with a smile.

However, Lee Tae-hee’s expression changed soon.

There was something strange about the sky.

There was still a force station surrounding the city, and it must’ve have disappeared by now.

“Isn’t that the Chaser’s special ability……?”

In disarray, Lee Tae-hee murmured around.

The Chaser could use this ability to cut down even the station leader, but she couldn’t get out of this place by her own strength even if she recovered quickly.

The gate had already closed, and it spits out all the monsters, and it was unknown that English was ost even though only one ace monster was removed.

Pooh!

“Ah…?”

Lee Tae-hee blankly looked down at her hips.

Suddenly, a pointed tail appeared under the ground, piercing her.

The whitetail moved and lifted her up.

The body was stretched as it was like a fluttering bird.

She tried to squeeze out of her strength with desperate feelings, but no power entered her body.

“Sorry…Ugh…”

People who look had once looked at her incredibly now looked desperate.

Tears leaked through her forehead.

Bang!

Lee Tae-hee’s body was thrown roughly on the floor.

Like a ruined doll, her blood poured out of her pierced hole, which was broken beyond repair, and it formed a puddle on the ground.

And under the wriggling tail from beneath the ground, a monster appeared with arms.

The guy with a big tail with a shape resembling the Chaser looked like a white devil.

The man who saw him slowly dropped the sword he was barely holding.

No more resistance was useless.

The last hope was broken.

* * *

In the middle of the ruins, streets and collapsed buildings were all over the place with blood spots.

Bodies of people who are torn and fattened lay in lines.

Il-hyun ran to discover Lee Tae-hee buried in the gap.

He knelt on my side and looked at the condition, but it was already too late.

As the boat was pierced and messed up, the blood flowed on the floor and formed a river.

A drop of tears fell on her face with her pupils lose.

She had to get up early, but it didn’t happen quickly.

“Ugh!”

Sounds have been heard of the presence of a living person.

Instinctively, Il-hyun pulled a man out of the rubble from a collapsed building.

Il-hyun saw the expression of the survivor’s face—and it was distorted.

“You motherfucker said you could fight it!”

Il-hyun grabbed the fat man who fell down.

It was Park Sang-min from the government team.

With anger, Il-hyun, who was trying to pick him up, stopped.

Park Sang-min was also facing death due to his open chest.

Il-hyun quickly used the transformation ability to heal the big wound.

The wound was quickly blocked by his instinct.

“It’s no use. Hide until rescue comes.”

“Shut up and don’t open your mouth,” Il-hyun roared to Park Sang-min, who was already vomiting blood.

However, as he said, there was no prospect.

Shedding too much blood already looked like a living miracle, and even the internal organs he could see were messed up.

Park Sang-min was already resigned.

Il-hyun released him slowly.

No further treatment was meaningful.

“I’m sorry.”

Park Sang-min, who spoke without asking for help, closed his eyes.

Il-hyun slowly awakened.

All that’s left are the dead bodies of people around him.

“…there’s no place to hide. I have to see the end.”