SWNOVELXO Chapter 82 - "You can never defeat him!"
Chapter 82 “You can never defeat him!”
“Th-that guy is Ra Hui?!”
“Huh? Do you know him?”
“Not just know him, that guy is extremely dangerous!”
Before anyone realized it, there was only one Triad battleship left.
However, upon seeing the appearance of the white-haired, hefty veteran Ra Hui on that deck, Han Jae-won spoke with a tense voice.
“That guy is a genuine powerhouse, a human in my world, whom Han Shin-woo accepted as a subordinate.”
“Ra Hui? I feel like I’ve heard that name somewhere before… Dorothy, do you know anything about him?”
“Eek?! Ra, Ra Hui Zhao-dong?! I know that when the Communist regime first took power in China, he became the first national authority-level hunter of the People’s Republic of China…”
“So what? He’s just national authority-level, right? Shin-woo is national disaster-level. Is this really something to be surprised about?”
According to Dorothy, he was indeed a remarkable individual, but Katarina was also a national authority-level figure in most advanced countries.
And Katarina knew very well the vast difference between herself and Shin-woo, who had undergone monsterification.
“Why are you worried about this?”
Katarina looked back at Han Jae-won, who was sweating profusely by himself, as if she couldn’t understand.
But.
“Katarina! Open the hatch right now!”
“No, you want to go out now that it’s all over?”
“It’s not over! If that guy, Ra Hui, activates that technique now…!”
Han Shin-woo, who degraded future humans to less than insects, not only spared Ra Hui but even granted him a high-ranking position in the kingdom.
Han Jae-won knew very well of Ra Hui’s competence.
He intended to rush out of the submarine and stop the impending catastrophe.
However, there were many lives standing on the deck of the battleship where Ra Hui and Han Shin-woo stood.
In other words.
Kugugugu-!
“What the?”
“Is it an earthquake!?”
“…! No. This is…!”
It was almost as if the condition to consider when he used his ability had already been met from the start.
Inside the shaking submarine, which felt like a massive earthquake had occurred.
Realizing the water had already spilled, Han Jae-won sat down with a grave expression.
“Jae-won, what’s wrong?”
“It’s over… Katarina. We were too complacent!”
“What is it? Explain it properly.”
“Ra Hui! Damn it… We couldn’t investigate the past thoroughly due to the tight security around the royal palace’s executives’ past. I never expected to be caught in this way!”
If they had known Ra Hui was in the Triad fleet.
Although he would have hated it, he would have teamed up with Han Shin-woo from the start to target Ra Hui.
Because Ra Hui’s skill was a domain expansion for a single individual, a ‘Barrier Skill.’
“Ra Hui is a Barrier Hunter, as rare as a Beast Hunter.”
“Barrier Hunter? You mean those who trap enemies in their own world?”
“Yes. And Ra Hui’s barrier… is Han Shin-woo’s worst nemesis.”
“The worst…”
“Nemesis?”
A nemesis to the monster more monstrous than the monster of Jamsil.
Just hearing this, both Katarina and Dorothy were left puzzled.
But Han Jae-won, who came from the future and knew everything.
“I guarantee you. Unless it’s the future, the current Han Shin-woo will be dead or almost dead by the time the barrier is lifted.”
Han Jae-won predicted Han Shin-woo’s defeat as if delivering a death sentence.
***
“The number of soldiers on each battleship is 5,000.”
“…?”
“And now, I will use the lives of the 500 subordinates who survived on this deck as a sacrifice to create a barrier!”
“Krrr…?”
‘A barrier…?’
“Welcome, black beast. I will specially invite you into my world!”
With a single swing of his arm, Ra Hui beheaded all the subordinates who believed in him without hesitation and shouted toward the sky as if offering a sacrifice to the gods.
“Barrier Art – Fair and Impartial!!”
“Tsk!”
At the same time, a hazy mist began to fill Shin-woo’s vision.
‘A barrier, huh…’
His name was definitely Ra Hui Zhao-dong.
He seemed to be an individual whose high-level knowledge didn’t apply, even in the game.
However, when he said the word ‘barrier,’ I couldn’t help but click my tongue in annoyance.
It was just my luck that he was a Barrier Hunter.
‘Don’t tell me it’s another puzzle game start?’
Barrier Hunters.
They had a very troublesome penalty, as they always had to sacrifice something to use their abilities.
Like Ra Hui sacrificing his subordinates’ lives to activate the barrier just now, he was a solo hunter who couldn’t even handle one person on his own.
But once the barrier was activated after paying the price, it showed the OP-level performance, being called the strongest among Hunter jobs.
Activating a barrier meant that he could trap his opponent within his domain.
A world he created.
A world where he could do everything to his advantage.
Therefore, if a Barrier Hunter activated their ability, it was usually normal to lose the will to fight and start begging for one’s life.
But who am I?
‘Let’s start the barrier strategy~.’
In the game
I was the one who retained the newbies who almost quit by sharing the barrier strategies.
“Krrrk…?”
‘It’s been a while since I used my brain… huh?’
I was about to strategize each part with the feeling of playing the Tsukuru puzzle game in VR version.
“You’re here?”
I was in the middle of a tranquil sea.
Above, a beautiful Milky Way spread across the sky, and I faced Ra Hui in the middle of a place resembling a paradise.
“Normal Barrier Hunters hide their bodies after activating the barrier and slowly torment their enemies within their world. But my world is different.”
As he said.
Even if a barrier is activated, once the body is subdued, the barrier’s puzzle strategy disappears as well.
Normal Barrier Hunters would usually hide their bodies.
I tilted my head and looked at Ra Hui, thinking about this.
Tadadadak-.
“Krrk?!”
He was fast.
Ra Hui moved as if he had my level of stats.
I was taken aback and quickly fell backward as he kicked me in the face.
“Krrrk…?!”
“Phew. Surprised? Of course, you would be. With my original stats, it would have been impossible to harm you.”
Tuk. Tuk.
I felt my face, which was burning hot.
And then, I realized I was bleeding from my nose for the first time since I had monsterified, leaving me speechless.
“This is the power of my domain – Fair and Impartial. In this place, the stats of both individuals become equal, all set to 1.”
“Krrrk?!”
‘All stats 1?’
“Hehe. Yeah, as you might have guessed, in this world, we’re only as strong as ordinary people. But!”
Swoosh!
Bang!
As I got up, Ra Hui boasted by showing off flashy martial arts moves, warning a mere monster like me.
“A monster with the same stats as a human. Your only advantage, overwhelming strength, is nullified in this world.”
“……”
“Hehe. I will soon kill you in this helpless state, black beast.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Ra Hui’s Shaolin flying kick attacked the beast of Jamsil once again.
***
The fighting style of monsters was indeed simple.
If they had claws, they scratched, and if they had teeth, they bit. It was the pinnacle of brute force without any technique.
However, even so, the reason elite hunters always struggled against monsters of the same rank.
It was simply because of the overwhelming difference in physical abilities between humans and monsters.
And this world equalized the physical abilities of the two species to ‘1’.
Like a legitimate arena that strictly adhered to rules and weight classes.
The owner of this world, Ra Hui, could use this Fair and Impartial barrier for 500 seconds by sacrificing the lives of 500 subordinates who survived on his battleship.
Thus, for almost 8 minutes.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
“Haha! How’s that! This is Chinese martial arts imbued with 4,000 years of history!”
As always, he enjoyed beating up a monster reduced to an ordinary human, who could do nothing but take the hits.
“This is the Praying Mantis’ Tanglangquan! This is Shaolinquan! This is Taijiquan!”
The monster, unable to raise its arms, bent over and continued to get beaten.
Ra Hui laughed as if he would collapse from amusement, seeing the monster, who had sunk nine battleships, unable to even lift its head.
Indeed, a monster is a monster.
Even if it had a human form, this Fair and Impartial barrier truly shined here.
The characteristic of a humanoid monster was its overwhelming strength despite its small stature.
However, within this barrier, its abilities were the same as an ordinary human.
Here, it was just a weakling who had never properly fought with its fists.
Ra Hui planned to end the fight by focusing on the monster’s face, solar plexus, sides, and abdomen.
“Haha! Why can’t you counterattack, you bastard?!”
One minute.
Two minutes.
Three minutes passed.
“You bastard… huh…?”
Around the 5-minute mark.
Although the opponent was just taking hits and he was overwhelmingly superior, the
only thing that had changed was that he was exhausted from moving his body at an ordinary human level.
“Huff… huff…”
The monster remained standing despite taking countless hits, even after its scrotum had been kicked.
“……”
“Is… is it dead?”
Ra Hui, now completely worn out, tried to check the monster’s condition after seeing it still standing, drooling blood and saliva.
Then.
Siiing.
“?!”
Like a battle maniac pleased to meet a worthy opponent after a long time.
“Wha, what…?”
The black beast stared at him with a creepy grin, as if asking if it was over already.
At that moment, Ra Hui began to sweat not only from exhaustion but also from instinctive fear.