Chapter 134 (1/2)
EPISODE 134
Just then, the man dug his blade into Yoo-seong. It went through his abdominal muscles, touching his very core.
This was every hunter’s Achilles heel, their second heart.
“This…”
Liang Yong, the guy who held the blade, suddenly froze.
“Huh?” said Ho Il-cheon, his companion and the current holder of the fifth rank in the Ship Zone.
They were the hunters that Tenz had dispatched to Korea after hearing of Yoo-seong’s return.
“Is there a problem?” Ho Il-cheon asked.
He knew there shouldn’t be. They were running out of time to take the Sky Needle, an item commissioned by Jin Wei-baek. It was an object that Tenz had to obtain at all costs.
Right after Yoo-seong came back, they’d tried whatever it took to take the item away from him.
However, the task was not as easy as they had thought, even for Ship Zone hunters.
Neither Ho Il-cheon nor Liang Yong spoke about their disastrous first encounter with Yoo-seong. This was because of the humiliating realization they’d both had: Oh Yoo-seong was significantly stronger than both of them combined.
Nevertheless, they still had to complete their mission and take back the items that Tenz required. They had no choice. Shortly after Yoo-seong returned from Japan, they had begun monitoring and tracking his movements.
Before long, they found the gap they had long been waiting for.
Oh Yoo-seong had scheduled a CE injection. They knew it was a shameful way to attack, but they had prepared and made plans to take advantage of the opportunity regardless.
It made Ho Il-cheon and Liang Yong tremble silently in shame.
In some ways, it might have been several times more pathetic than when they had grovelled to Yoo-seong before.
They were people who perceived themselves to be more warriors than hunters. For them, even if this plan succeeded, they would forever bear the shame with a scar on their chests.
For that very reason, they could not fail.
However, this time, they were faced with another problem.
Liang Yong groaned. He couldn’t move.
Except for the groan he had just spit out, he could not seem to move any part of his body. And no, it was not because of a muscular dysfunction or a nerve problem.
It was his CE.
With Liang Yong’s hand in contact with Yoo-seong’s core, the Aura currently present in Yoo-seong’s body was flowing through Liang Yong.
“Liang Yong! Say something!”
Ho Il-cheon was starting to panic. Then…
Go-oh-oh-!
The Aura began to flow in a different direction.
Liang Yong could feel it. He could feel the movement of his CE from his core.
It flowed through his veins, through his shoulder, arm, and wrist. Then all of his Aura was concentrated on his hand blade.
However, it didn’t end there…
“Oh my God!” Ho Il-cheon cried out as he realized what was happening.
Not long after, Liang Yong’s body began convulsing.
Ho Il-cheon rushed in to push at Liang Yong’s body with all his might. He had to separate his partner from Yoo-seong as quickly as possible.
Bang-!
Liang Yong’s body slammed against the wall of the injection room. He crumpled to the floor as if his bones were liquid, but that wasn’t important right now.
Considering the situation Liang Yong had been in, what Ho Il-cheon did actually saved him.
“Oh my God… how can you…”
Ho Il-cheon’s voice was shaking.
Likewise, Liang Yong’s body fell and twitched. Dark-red-colored veins stood out on his skin in several places. Liang Yong was barely able to speak.
“The Absorption Method?!” said Ho Il-cheon as his voice trembled.
The Absorption Method came from mainland China, a country known to be the main cultivator of Aura.
The entire country was considered a library of various Tech for hunters all over the world. Yet, there were Tech that were considered to be myths or urban legends within the Chinese industry.
One of them was the Absorption Method.
No one knew the exact principle of how it worked.
However, one thing was clear: it was a Tech that stole CE from another hunter’s core.
No one knew if anyone had been able to use it in China or even if this Tech really existed.
Except Ho Il-cheon had just seen it with his own eyes.
Liang Yong’s body convulsed before him as his CE was absorbed into Yoo-seong’s core.
If Ho Il-cheon hadn’t pushed his colleague away, Liang Yong would have been sucked dry.
“This… this is unreal…” Liang Yong managed to say between bouts of coughing.
His trembling hand moved towards his lower abdomen.
Ho Il-cheon did not even think of supporting Liang Yong.
Go-oh-oh-!
His Aura started to concentrate in both of his hands.
‘We have to end this,’ Ho Il-cheon thought. His instincts and fears whispered it to him.
Yoo-seong was still lying on the CE injector. Both of his eyes were closed.
‘Are you really unconscious? Or are you making a fool out of us?’
No matter how much he thought about it, he knew only one thing for certain.
If they didn’t kill Yoo-seong right now, he and Liang Yong would face a fate more miserable than death.
Yoo-seong was lying down. Ho Il-cheon did not see any Aura coming out of his body.
‘This is the only chance we’ll get…’
Ho Il-cheon had now forgotten about the Sky Needle. It didn’t matter anymore. He concentrated his Aura on both of his hands.
It was the Two-Handed Palm of the Phoenix. In both of his hands, this Tech used a whopping 210,000 Aura. It was a tremendous amount of energy that Ho Il-cheon had never used, even against the most vicious beast he’d encountered.
In Ho Il-cheon’s eyes, Yoo-seong was more fearsome than any monster he had ever encountered.
He rushed forward, with his palms facing Yoo-seong and his arms bent at the elbow and pulled back.
Suddenly, Ho Il-cheon paused.