Chapter 77 (1/2)
Other awakeners who had not felt anything until then began to be wary of the unpleasant, shrill sound. But still, the sound was only heard — nothing happened.
“What-what is this sound?”
“Monsters?”
“But it doesn’t…”
Any experienced awakener would know what this sound was. And the awakeners in this place were at least B-Rank. Even if one did not have enough experience in dungeon attacks, everyone in here had experienced the Tower of Trials many times.
“Is it…the sound of armor?” Lee Ju-ho also noticed what sound it was.
Su-hyeun nodded and answered, “Yes. It’s probably the sound of unfixed armors shaking and bumping each other.”
“Why can we hear the armor sound in here…? No, why that is only sound can we hear?”
“It is more than just a sound,” Su-hyeun said.
“Then?”
“They are coming.”
“What?”
In response to an irrelevant answer from Su-hyeun, Lee Ju-ho lifted his head following Su-hyeun’s gaze.
At that moment, Lee Ju-ho shouted reflexively, “It’s coming from above!”
“What?”
“Above?”
Everybody looked up. Soon, they could see a giant shadow and small falling objects.
“Incoming!”
Bam, bam, bam—
Clink, clank—
Numerous armor fell from above. The awakeners quickly scattered in all directions. They had gathered together so far, but there was no choice but to avoid falling armor. In the meantime, some people from the same guild gathered together. It seemed like the colleagues who had been working together for a long time had a similar sense to avoid the enemy.
<> Su-hyeun thought.
He looked around the fallen armor. The only one who did not avoid them was Su-hyeun.
“Hey, Su-hyeun!”
“L-look…!”
Lee Ju-ho shouted to Su-hyeun. Other people were surprised to find the truth about the fallen armor. They had thought it would be monsters wearing armor, but the armor itself was moving when they checked again.
“Ghosts?”
“Don’t be deceived! It might be a trick!”
“Don’t panic! We always have strange things before!”
The guild masters were encouraging other guild members. It looked like there was a reason why they became the guild masters. Su-hyeun, on the other hand, was more focused on understanding the situation than taking care of the awakeners under him.
“It looks like they came…”
Crack—
Su-hyeun punched the armor that rushed to him and looked up.
<<…from the ship over there,>> he thought.
He got an idea about the background and the theme of this dungeon. He looked around the empty armor that surrounded him.
“It is different from the headless knight, Dullahan. Probably…”
Slash—
Su-hyeun cut the nearest armor from top to bottom.
Clang, clang—
The armor broke in the two pieces and fell to the ground. The inside of the armor was empty, as Su-hyeun had expected. At that moment, he quickly checked the small patterns on the inside of the armor.
“It looks like the soul has tied to the armor with some sort of magical device.”
Each armor had a soul in it. And if the soul could be considered as a life, this armor could be called a monster.
<>
The people who had scattered in all directions now looked at Su-hyeun. And then, they saw Su-hyeun’s action and realized what was the moving armor was. It would be easy to handle now. The armor might have looked scary, but it wasn’t all that threatening.
“Do you mind if I leave it to you?” Su-hyeun asked Lee Ju-ho, who was standing far away.
“I don’t mind.”
Lee Ju-ho, who grasped the situation, nodded his head. Su-hyeun grinned and raised his sword. The armor was coming closer to Su-hyeun, narrowing the siege little by little.
<> Su-hyeun counted in his mind.
Purr—!
Whirl, whirl—
Again, the magic was amplified from his sword. The magic that wrapped around Gram shined for a moment. There was a flash everywhere. People could hear a cracking sound around Su-hyeun.
Cling, clang—
Clank, clank—
Much of the armor fell to the ground. About 20 meters around Su-hyeun, hundreds of pieces of armor fell at once. Even though they were empty and weak armor, there were too many of them. Thankfully, Su-hyeun’s sword killed a lot of them at once.
“That is my present before I go,” Su-hyeun said, looking at each of the three guild maters. Then, he jumped from where he stood.
The place where Su-hyeun jumped to was a huge ship that appeared directly above. Kim Taek-hyun, the guild master of the Red Devil, asked, “Are all S-rank awakeners like that?”
Park Mo-young, the guild master of the Gambler Guild answered that question.
“I have no idea.”
They had never seen S-Rank awakeners’ fight. All three of them were also called talented in the A-Rank group. But when they saw Su-hyeun’s ability with their own eyes, it was something hard to believe.
“What are you doing?
Lee Kang-hee distorted his face and yelled to the guild members.
“Sweep them all away!”
***
Swish, bang—
The ship was higher than he thought. In the end, Su-hyeun had to use the Imoogi skill to raise his leap and barely arrived at the ship.
“Wow. It is huge.”
The ship that floated above and blocked the light like a cloud was as big as a small island.
<>
The empty armor fell from the ship, but where did this ship come from? The theme of the dungeon was still covered in a veil.