Chapter 199 (2/2)

Gu-gugugu-

Babel glanced at that and muttered to himself, “Faces I haven’t seen in a while. Although, I can’t who was who anymore.”

Wuduk, wu-dududuk-

Crack-!

While still holding the blade, Babel tried to shove Su-hyeun down to the floor.

Piii-iiht-

But even his monstrous strength had no answers for Su-hyeun’s sword. The blade slipped out from the tight grip without much difficulty.

Su-hyeun rapidly took several steps back to create some distance and glanced at his surroundings.

<< The Tower of Babel. Also known as the Tower of Humans. >>

A tower literally built of humans—Babel buried alive people he used to live with in several places of the structure and became an existence that took their strengths as his own.

Meaning, bringing this tower down was a necessary first step in fighting Babel. As long as this structure remained standing, he would possess near-infinite strength.

<< The first task has been taken care of. >>

Gu-ooooh-

Su-hyeun sensed the incredible amount of magical power emanating from Babel and quickly enveloped himself in several layers of defense-related skills.

<< Here he comes. >>

Pah-aht-

Fwooooosh-

A huge fist flew toward Su-hyeun’s head. In that blink of a moment, he lowered his body.

Paaang, kwa-boooom-!

The fist punching the empty air still managed to completely destroy the floor behind him.

That was a truly ridiculous amount of power. Just the concentration of magical energy permeating that fist was enough to almost numb Su-hyeun’s body.

Swiiish, swoooosh-

Crack, split, craaack-!

Babel’s punches chased after Su-hyeun’s figure.

A simple barrage of punches, where not a single special skill was used. But Babel was a step above Su-hyeun in both power and speed.

<< He’s fast. >>

Swoooosh-!

Su-hyeun stared at the fist brushing past right before his eyes.

The impact of getting struck just once would be considerable. If he took a direct hit from that, there was little doubt that he’d suffer a mortal wound.

But, why was this?

<< I don’t think I will get hit by that. >>

Flash-

Su-hyeun moved first.

Fwooosh-

And, just before Babel’s flying fist crashed into Su-hyeun’s head…

Sliiiice-

The latter’s sword dug deep into the giant’s extended arm first.

“Eut?!”

The shocked Babel hurriedly slammed down with his other hand.

Kwa-booom-!

Crack, craaaack-

The fist aiming for that sword hit the floor, instead. The destroyed ground shattered and debris shot up.

Meanwhile, Su-hyeun was already up in the air. Babel’s bloodshot eyes were glaring at him.

At the same time, the giant’s fists began pummeling the air.

Pang, pa-pang-

Pang, papapapang-!

Magical powers shooting out from the barrage of punches flew toward Su-hyeun. At that moment, his figure descending to the ground leaped up higher into the air, instead.

[Leap.] [Leap.]

[Dragon Slaying Spear.]

Only after jumping high enough to reach the ceiling did he pull out the spear tied to his back.

Soon he was right above Babel’s head. He jerked his arm back before powerfully swinging it down—all the while injecting his magical energy into the spear.

[Wave Spear- Explosion Style.]

Swiiiish-

Pahk, papapapahk-

Spears began raining down.

The spears permeated with powerful magical energy rained down and began slicing up Babel’s body. But the giant simply shielded his head and other vital spots and jumped up without even bothering to evade the attack.

Boom-

Swoooosh-

Su-hyeun’s next attack commenced in order to stop Babel, but it was useless. The giant extended his hand to catch his opponent.

Grab-

“I got you.”

Babel smirked while holding onto Su-hyeun’s leg, then tightened his grip. In an instant…

Crush-

Sounds of the leg being crushed came out from the giant’s hand.

But then…

Ruuumble-

Kwa-booom-!

[Doppelganger.]

[Flame.]

Su-hyeun’s body suddenly transformed into a dark blue-colored flame and exploded.

“Keuh-euh…”

Babel furrowed his brows at the sizzling heat burning in his palm.

The moment he chucked his spear, Su-hyeun used his skill and swapped his position with the fake.

“You know, this is strange,” said Su-hyeun.

Ta-dahk-

Babel, landing on his two feet, looked behind him. That’s where he found Su-hyeun with the lowered sword staring back with a face full of confusion.

“You’re a lot weaker than I thought. Even if we’re talking about the very first indigo color… This is very different from what I heard about, you know?”

Su-hyeun’s previous stiff, tense expression had loosened some time ago. On the other hand, Babel’s expression was cramping up, instead.

“What did you just say to me?”

“I said, compared to what I thought, you’re nothing much to write home about. Is it because you can’t get extra power from the tower? You’re way behind me purely in skills, and, besides your physical body, you have nothing else to offer, do you?”

“You even dare to bluff…!”

“Bluff? I wonder about that.”

The corners of Su-hyeun’s lips curled up. At the same time, his sword pointing down suddenly moved.

Splaaash-!

“…!”

Babel’s chest was sliced open and blood spluttered out. His eyes shot up as if he couldn’t believe that actual blood had been drawn from his flesh. He stared at his open wound in disbelief.

“See, I told you.” On the other hand, Su-hyeun, swinging his sword from a distance, was speaking in a clearly mocking tone of voice. “You’re nothing special.”