Chapter 316 (2/2)
He usually heard that noise when his fist went on to kill a Giant.
“Huh?” Hercules turned his head around, and that was when he saw it.
A Giant collapsed on its back after its face was pummeled by a fist, and the figure of Su-hyeun who threw that punch just then came into view.
“How?!”
Hercules was left momentarily flustered and formed a confused expression.
“What kind of magic did he use?” he wondered.
As he stood there stiffly in disbelief for a bit, a large shadow loomed over his position. He instantly raised his head. After discovering a fist as big as a house was descending on him, he tried to swing his club upward, but then…
Whooooosh—
SLAM—!
Su-hyeun’s foot flew in and powerfully kicked away the Giant’s fist. Accompanied by the sounds of bones breaking, the Giant’s hand was broken into shreds.
Su-hyeun spoke, “Aren’t you being too relaxed? Why are you looking away during a battle?”
“Friend, are you really a magician?” Hercules chuckled in dismay.
At first, he thought Su-hyeun was a magician, but as it turned out, he was wrong.
A magician who could hunt a Giant with bare fists?
Hercules had never seen anyone capable of doing that among the warriors he knew. No, among the entirety of humanity itself.
The only person strong enough to do that was none other than Hercules himself.
“That’s my side profession.”
Clang—!
Slice—
Su-hyeun rapidly unsheathed his sword and sliced a Giant’s leg off.
“It’s true that I can use magic, after all.”
Ruuuumble—
The surface sliced apart by the sword caught on fire, and the Giant collapsed to the ground. The ground rocked noisily as a creature as big as a small mountain fell down. Su-hyeun scanned the remaining Giants.
Only about 10 or so remained now.
Most of them had been dealt with by Hercules already, but with Su-hyeun’s aid, the act of killing the Giants had sped up by another level.
“I guess I have been too disinterested in the matters of the world lately that I have not heard about the news of someone like you appearing here.”
It seemed that Hercules was under the impression that Su-hyeun was a renowned warrior, or a magician, among the human population.
The truth was that Su-hyeun didn’t originate from this world, but he didn’t plan on undoing the demigod’s misunderstanding. Being mistaken like that was better for him since he wouldn’t need to explain at length anymore.
“Regardless of what, his physical strength is better than mine,” Su-hyeun inwardly said.
Su-hyeun glanced at Hercules while fighting against the Giants.
He could tell the difference between them while fighting against the Giants and comparing the results. If the criterion was “Strength” stat and nothing else, then Su-hyeun didn’t even come close to Hercules.
“Did he acquire the qualification of godhood, too?”
A thought abruptly popped up in his head, and he ended up chuckling at that because that would be obvious.
From the get-go, Hercules was the son of Zeus from the Greek pantheon and was also known as a hero that symbolized strength. He was a godlike existence that fought in the frontlines of the war of the gods.
Of course, the myth and reality differed by quite a lot. Just like how it was with Sun Wukong and the Bull Demon King from the tale called “Journey to the West,” this world with Hercules had its differences from the myth Su-hyeun was familiar with.
However, even after considering all that, there was no doubting the simple fact that Hercules was a descendant of a godly bloodline.
BOOM—
The last Giant keeled over to the ground.
Su-hyeun turned his head.
Hercules had taken care of the last Giant a while ago and was observing Su-hyeun’s battle with his arms across his chest.
Step, step—
He then walked over to Su-hyeun, and with a pretty serious expression on his face, he reached out and grasped the latter’s arm.
Grab—
“What are you doing?”
“I was wondering where such strength could come from this body of yours, you see.” While saying that, Hercules continued to touch and grip Su-hyeun’s arms and legs as if he couldn’t quite figure it out. “Truly mysterious. Friend, are you a descendant from the ones above, too?”
“Ones above?”
“I’m talking about the gods. Those who live in a place we can never reach, somewhere far beyond the skies.” Hercules replied and then let go of Su-hyeun’s arm and began scratching his head. “Well…I’m sure you were already aware of me being their descendant. Thanks to that, at least my strength alone isn’t lacking when compared to theirs. Should I say that I’m half-human and half-god then?”
Hercules was Zeus’s son, and what he inherited as the god of lightning’s blood descendant was the strength of a god.
That was something Su-hyeun also possessed.
Of course…
“I’m a human being.”
Su-hyeun’s case was different from Hercules’s.
“At least for now.”
“For now?”
“I’m planning to climb up, all the way up there.”
“All the way up, you say…?”
Hercules raised his head and stared at the heavens above.
The “world” where the gods resided, Olympus, was a world so high and out of reach that just staring at it alone would cause his neck to creak unnaturally. That’s what Hercules believed even though he was a son of a god, even if he was only a “half” as he claimed.
But now, Su-hyeun declared that he would climb up to godhood despite being a human being.
“Your ambition is certainly admirable. I’ll cheer you on then. But I’m not sure how the ones above will respond to your determination.”
“I’ll ask them when I get there.”
Hercules laughed at that. “When I first saw you, I thought you were some kind of a gigolo magician, but as it turned out, you’re a man among men! Friend, I’m liking you more and more.”
Hercules pounded on Su-hyeun’s back with his large hand. Any regular person would have been crushed to death by that, but Su-hyeun could accept the “patting” with a smile on his face.
Of course, it still hurt like hell.
“Before all that, though…” Su-hyeun ducked low to sneakily evade Hercules’s hand and asked, “Can I take care of one business first?”
“Is it number one?”
“It’s nothing like that,” Su-hyeun groaned and shook his head at Hercules’s rather childish question. “Remember when I told you that being a magician is my side profession?”
Shu-wuwuwu—
A blackish fog began flooding out from all around Su-hyeun’s vicinity. Along with the activation of the Necromancer trait, Death Aura began swirling around his body.
“This is my side profession.”
[Dead Summoning – Gluttony]
Su-hyeun’s eyes, now dyed in black, were locked on the corpses of the giants lying on the ground.
“Devour, Gluttony.”