Chapter 238 (1/2)

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Lee Ju-ho followed Su-hyeun as he left the arena. The two of them rode the elevator that would take them to the surface and out of the underground arena and eventually headed straight to the top floor of the Gordon Tower.

“Uh?”

“Isn’t that Kim Su-hyeun?”

“Why is he here? Isn’t it the middle of the matches?”

The tourists that came to visit the Gordon Tower recognized Su-hyeun and gasped in surprise. The top floor of the tower featured a lounge where you could view the entirety of San Francisco.

Su-hyeun paid no attention to the people’s murmurings and continued to walk forward. He excused himself from a brave few who tried to chat him up and headed straight toward the windows.

Lee Ju-ho had to ask. “H—hey, what are you…?”

Clunk—

Su-hyeun opened a window.

Swish—

“Hey, dude! Where are you going?!” Lee Ju-ho yelled out in surprise from what happened next.

Without any warning, Su-hyeun jumped outside.

Lee Ju-ho didn’t possess any skills that allowed him to fly or run in the air, so he couldn’t chase after Su-hyeun. The latter waved his hand once and began moving again.

He activated “Leap” outside the windows and headed toward the roof of the Gordon Tower, which was impossible for people to access.

The tower didn’t have a roof deck. As there wasn’t enough oxygen to breathe up there due to the high altitude of the place, the creation of a roof deck had been deemed unnecessary.

Therefore, understandably, people’s eyes would never reach the place, unless they were looking down from the satellites up above.

“I had my fingers crossed, but oh well.”

Upon arriving on top of the Gordon Tower, Su-hyeun got to see something even more amazing than the vista spreading before his eyes.

“It’s really here.”

A corner of the Gordon Tower’s rooftop that was not visible from below had changed to a yellowish color. It was not just a faint hue but a bright yellow one.

The coloration was so deep that it would not be strange for an outbreak to occur any time now. If the discovery came about a day later, then monsters would have really poured down into the Gordon Tower.

Why hasn’t this thing been discovered yet?

It wasn’t as if locating it would be too hard.

Photos taken from the satellites or the unique energy that leaked out from the dungeon would be more than enough for it to be detected.

At this point, Su-hyeun could even faintly pick up on the existence of the dungeon from below the ground. Meaning, the amount of magical energy leaking out from this particular dungeon could not be considered small at all.

Something’s wrong.

Su-hyeun turned his head.

His eyes caught the view of San Francisco spread out below the tower.

At first, he wondered if he had made a mistake. However, after arriving at the tower and discovering this dungeon, his suspicions began bubbling up nonstop.

“Hey, Miru,” he called out.

The red dragon peeked its head outside, and straight away, it began rubbing its face against him.

If this was any other time, he would have patted his dragon, but now was not the right time for it.

“Fly over there and see if you can find something similar to this. And if there really is one…”

Miru could understand Su-hyeun’s words quite well by now. It seemed that after having spent a long time together, the red dragon had gotten rather used to human language.

After sending Miru off, Su-hyeun remained on the spot. As he knew that the dungeon could break out at any given moment, he had to stay put.

Gya-ong—!

Flap—

About one hour later, Miru came flying in from the distance.

“Did you find any?”

At Su-hyeun’s question, Miru nodded its head.

His expression hardened. He hadn’t been sure, but as it turned out, the dungeon here wasn’t the only one.

“How many did you see?”

As Miru couldn’t speak in human language, it began flying around in circles in front of Su-hyeun instead. It was trying to tell him the number of dungeons it came across with the number of circles that it made.

But then…

Flap—, flap—

Miru, with its wings unfolded, continued to circle around without any hints of stopping soon.

Something had definitely gone wrong here.

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The fifth match of the round of 32.

This particular match had garnered the biggest attention within the round of 32.

It was Gordon Rohan versus Choi Hak-joon.

Although their nationalities were different, they were fellow guildmates in the Paragon Guild, and they were going head to head.

Clank, slam—!

Hak-joon’s sword smacked away Gordon’s spear.

The trajectory of the spears descending from above seemingly had no patterns to them. The target would have no choice but to study each attack with his eyes or sense the approaching presence to parry it.

Buzz, buzz—

Both the speed of the fall and the power behind the spear hits were truly outrageous.

It seemed that Gordon didn’t plan to go easy on Hak-joon. A few of his spear thrusts even took aim at Hak-joon’s vital spots whenever opportunities presented themselves.

Clang—!

Deflecting the spear aiming for his vital spot only brought about another attack with an even greater power behind it.

That earlier spear strike was a feint meant to destroy Hak-joon’s stance. The real deal was this one.

Wuuuoong—

However, right at that moment, a massive amount of magical energy exploded out from Hak-joon’s sword.

Kwa-aht—!

Swoosh, ka-clang—!

One sword strike from Hak-joon, and all the spears falling toward him shattered into pieces in an instant.

That attack was quite powerful, but that wasn’t the end.

Swish— Pah-ahk—

Drip—

A spear brushed past Hak-joon’s side. He instantly twisted his body away and grabbed the spear shaft with his hand. Gordon had dug in very close even before anyone could notice it.

He spoke first. “Not bad, kid.”

“If this is all…well.”

Hak-joon replied with clenched teeth.