Chapter 36
Kwak! Kwak!
Mason’s boots, which had been relentlessly grinding away, dug into the ground. At the same time, tendons bulged on his entire body like earthworms.
“Uwaaaaaaaaah!”
As Mason roared, the Horned Gorgon’s body was lifted up.
‘The enemy…’
With Mason’s monstrous strength added to its charging momentum, Mason’s shinbone pierced through his knee and protruded out. Sounds of something shattering could be heard from his waist and shoulders.
However…
“He lifted it…?!”
Simultaneously with Deroa’s shocked words, Mason flipped the Horned Gorgon over.
“Aaaaaaaaah!”
Kwaang!
At the same time as the Horned Gorgon was slammed onto the ground.
Kureung, kureung, kurururung…
The surrounding flimsy buildings collapsed completely.
The impact on the ground was like being hammered.
Then what about the one who became the hammer?
“Kuwoooooeok!”
The Horned Gorgon was basically a bull. It had a physique similar to a bison. Its belly, where the internal organs were concentrated, was soft, and its back, covered in bones and muscles, was tough.
But conversely, if one could break its spine… the bison would suffer a critical injury and be unable to stand again.
Just like the Horned Gorgon!
‘Break it!’
This was the conclusion Mason reached.
With his monstrous strength, which no one else possessed, Mason could launch an attack that no one else could imagine.
Smashing it with physical force!
‘With a battle of strength against strength… destroy the enemy’s body!’
The enemy’s true nature that had been revealed.
The enemy’s fangs that were bared.
Smashing the strongest and most threatening point.
That was the fighting style Mason chose.
Of course, the price was high.
“Cough…”
Aside from his broken limbs, it seemed some of his internal organs were damaged as well.
“Kuwoooooeok!”
The Horned Gorgon, lying on the ground, thrashed around, spewing sulfurous breath.
It was thrashing around, but if anyone got kicked by its hooves, which were larger than a human, it would be instant death.
Not to mention the sulfurous breath!
Even with a broken spine, the Horned Gorgon was no easy opponent.
The ranged dealers were pouring out their damage, but the melee dealers couldn’t easily approach and were trying to circle around to its back.
“Someone hold this thing down!”
The problem was that the Horned Gorgon, well aware of this fact, was trying to cover its back as much as it could.
“Andrei!”
“It’s no use! It’s thrashing too much!”
Andrei tried to take over the tanking role in place of Mason, who was recovering, but even he couldn’t easily handle the Horned Gorgon’s frantic struggles as it fought for its life.
“D*mn it! Healer!”
“I’m healing!”
Mason’s smart cells were already in the process of repairing, and once he started receiving healing, the speed doubled.
Mason waved the healers off.
“That’s enough! Get out of the way! It’s dangerous!”
“But your wounds are still…”
“I’ll take care of that!”
Mason staggered to his feet. Even at this moment, his unhealed wounds were regenerating, but that wasn’t what mattered to Mason.
“Uwaaaaaah!”
Mason flew in like an arrow.
“Come back!”
As he threw himself forward, he stretched out his hand, and the two-handed hammer that had been lying on the ground was sucked into his grasp.
Mason’s hand grazed the handle of the two-handed hammer and grasped the end.
“Aaaaaaaaaaah!”
Wheeing!
Drawing an arc was the tracer of metal. Screaming was the superhuman’s violence. The hammerhead, swung down like a meteor, flew towards the Horned Gorgon’s knee.
Puh-ung! Kwajik!
The moment Mason’s two-handed hammer hit the Horned Gorgon’s knee, it shattered, scattering metal fragments.
Pyupyupyupyupyupeung!
“Keuk!”
A storm of metal fragments engulfed Mason. Like being ground in a broken mixer, his body was transformed into a horrifying sight, a mixture of flesh and metal shards.
The price was the Horned Gorgon’s knee!
The left foreleg of the Horned Gorgon, which had been making its last struggle, was severed.
However, Mason’s destruction wasn’t over yet.
“Uwaaaaaaaaah!”
Mason stomped on the Horned Gorgon’s right foreleg. And he grabbed the hoof and started pulling it in the opposite direction of the joint.
Udeuk. Udeudeudeuk…
“Is he… trying to break its leg?”
“This crazy…!”
The Horned Gorgon screamed in agony and thrashed around.
“Kkuwoooooeok!”
But the screams and struggles were useless.
The blood-soaked giant, drenched in the enemy’s blood and spewing his own from every wound on his body.
Mason’s hand was forcibly bending its leg in a direction it couldn’t bend.
“Kkeueueueueu…!”
Strength, no, savage violence.
The monster, which had been a lump of wildly rampaging power, was being dismantled, meeting an even greater violence. It was being broken, crushed, and screaming in agony.
There was a momentary silence.
The will to k*ll and the will to live had momentarily reached a stalemate.
However, it was only for a moment.
“Uwaaaaaah!”
As tendons bulged on Mason’s body, the Horned Gorgon’s hind legs, larger than a human’s, were crushed with a sickening sound.
Now only the forelegs remained.
The melee combatants, feeling safe, rushed to the back of the Horned Gorgon, stabbing and slashing repeatedly.
Beams poured down like a torrential rain, and magic held the monster in place.
The Horned Gorgon screamed.
As if begging for its life.
As if pleading for forgiveness.
It cried out like a lamb.
However, it had chosen the wrong opponent.
Mason.
He didn’t know mercy. No, he had forgotten mercy.
The man whose world had been shattered, shouldn’t he have the right to shatter the enemy’s world?
His rage was fierce and righteous.
Just like the violence that future science had left him with!
As Masika Karembe shouted, Mason threw himself forward.
The Horned Gorgon’s left horn, half broken and cracked.
Mason reached out his arm towards the horn.
Ppajik, ppajik. Ddudeuk!
Mason raised the broken horn upside down.
“Woooooeok!”
Pook!
The Horned Gorgon’s eyeball, and the brain beyond the eyeball, were pierced by its own horn.
There was no death rattle.
It just trembled, stretching out its shattered limbs.
It belonged to the victor. The earth-shaking roar belonged to the victor, not the tragically fallen loser.
“Hu…”
Shattered armor and crushed weapons. Limbs in tatters.
But victory was victory, and a great victory was a great victory.
Mason raised his fist high.
“Uwaaaaaah!”
It was the moment when ‘Destroyer’ Mason stood at the pinnacle of the player world.
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That night.
As the dismantling team began their work, Mason slowly patrolled the area, standing guard.
The surrounding mobs had already been slaughtered before the raid, and now that the Horned Gorgon was dead, there was even less of a threat.
Even if there was, the sensors installed around the area would scream before the people did.
Nevertheless, Mason patrolled the area, not letting his guard down.
Mason wanted to notice enemies faster than the sensors, and when he did, he wanted to be prepared instead of panicking.
So he had to stand guard.
If he could trade a little boredom for the safety of his teammates, there was no reason not to take that deal.
“Hu…”
The night air was cold. But it wasn’t the kind of coldness that made you huddle up. It was a refreshing coolness that filled his lungs.
Mason walked. Outside the camp, looking at Seoul in the darkness, as if someone had spilled ink all over it.
“Boss.”
The voice from behind him was familiar.
Mason turned around.
Andrei was standing there, holding two cans of beer.
Andrei threw a can of beer, and Mason caught it.
Chik!
Beer foam overflowed from the can.
Mason took a gulp of beer.
“Hu.”
Andrei emptied his beer and said,
“We should have a feast on the night of victory. How can we do that without the main character?”
“We shouldn’t let our guard down on the night after a battle.”
“Sung Kijun?”
“Yeah.”
Andrei chuckled.
“It’s fine to respect him, but don’t use him as a standard. He’s a man out of time.”
“Then which era does he belong to?”
“The Middle Ages. Not the real one, but the medieval knightly literature in stories.”
“Not just any knight from the Middle Ages?”
“Knights in those days were only slightly better than bandits. Or should I say, they were bandits given knightly helmets to make them slightly better?”
“You speak as if you’ve experienced it.”
Andrei shrugged.
“Because I have.”
“Really?”
Mason looked intrigued.
“I’d like to hear more about that.”
Andrei chuckled.
“I was a Viking, and I boarded a longship with my friend. During my long life, I was sometimes a merchant, sometimes a raider, but sometimes a knight serving a king, and sometimes a guard serving an emperor. Throughout my long life of over a thousand years, I can count people like Sung Kijun on one hand.”
“You were a Viking? Not Russian?”
“Some of my bloodline became Russian. I’ve never been to Russia. I just borrowed the name.”
“…Can you tell me more?”
“When I have time.”
Seeing Mason’s eyes sparkle, Andrei chuckled.
“If you like listening to old stories, why don’t you go to the Heavenly King? She’s even older than me.”
“Yekaterina has lived longer than you?”
Mason looked intrigued.
Come to think of it, it was rare for him to have a casual conversation with Yekaterina. He went to see her when he had business, and the conversation ended when the business was done.
“Yeah, that wouldn’t be bad.”
Mason looked at the shattered Horned Gorgon.
“Anyway, the fight is over.”
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After the battle.
Rumors spread faster than people, and data flew faster than rumors.
“…What is this?”
Those who received the brief battle log had dumbfounded expressions.
“So, you’re saying the raid leader, who is also the main tanker, lifted the Horned Gorgon and threw it, breaking its spine?”
“And then he broke and twisted its legs, and then killed it by stabbing its brain with its own horn?”
People looked at each other and chuckled.
“These guys have a knack for making people laugh.”
The strength stat of Steve Queen, the strongest combatant of mankind, was 23. Even without the intervention of cores or auxiliary equipment, he was a monster who could lift several tons with his three major lifts.
Of course, Mason Park’s strength stat on paper was several times higher than that.
In other words, it was only a few times higher.
The Horned Gorgon was one of the largest monsters in existence.
To say that he threw, broke, and twisted such a Horned Gorgon with pure strength… was not a common thing.
No, they didn’t believe it.
Until the camp vehicle returned to a point where the internet connection was restored and they could watch the battle video.
