Chapter 15 Part1 (2/2)

[Yeah, those guys are...!]

[Ah, Captain!]

[Captain's come to save us!]

[Everyone, raise your heads; Paul Zero is here!]

Even in the midst of battle, the undead were quick to notice Lee s.h.i.+n Woo and Jin, who had approached quickly. There were twenty two Pauls that Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had personally named there, and they were fighting fiercely against a group of 300 undead.

Against a group of undead that were at least level 2 or 3! Amongst them, there were even some level 4 undead mixed in; Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was surprised that the Pauls kept fighting and hadn't sustained any casualties yet.

[Paul Zero!]

[Paul Zero...!? Are you perhaps on the same side of these crazy traitors!?]

He didn't know how they had come to fight one another, but for starters, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo decided to help the Pauls. He naturally took out a Melting Double Bone Axe, threw it, and yelled.

”Love! Comes back! [2]”

[How foolish of you to throw your weapon away! Oh!?]

”I said that it would come back, didn't I?”

The level 4 Skeleton Knight at the forefront easily parried the axe, but the axe, which had bounced into the air, flew back towards the knight, as if a rewind b.u.t.ton had been pressed, causing its weapon to spring out of its hand.

[You b.a.s.t.a.r.d. I don't know what cowardly magic you used, but...]

- Kwaaaaang!

However, the Skeleton Knight panicked and the moment it bowed its head to pick up its weapon, the axe blew up in a grand explosion and spewed acid mist everywhere! The Knight, who had been wide open, didn't even get the chance to raise its mana to resist, and was swept away by the explosion and completely destroyed.

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo satisfyingly watched as the following acid mist melted away the undead battalion and yelled firmly.

”Pauls, retreat for now!”

[I understand, Captain!]

[In the time we haven't seen him, our Captain's abilities have improved even further!]

The Pauls were awed at how commanding Lee s.h.i.+n Woo appeared, after taking down the level 4 Skeleton Knight, and retreated from the battlefield. Right on time, Kratia arrived on the battlefield, and gazed at Lee s.h.i.+n Woo disbelievingly.

”You can command the undead? What exactly are you...?”

”Call me Paul Zero right now. Also, there are good undead in this world too, you know. I'll explain later, so take down those undead for now.”

”Paul Zero...? Good undead...?”

[How can this be? She's alive!]

[Ooooh, so it was possible to break free of the curse!]

”!?!?”

Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's words were like a riddle, and Kratia tilted her head; the Pauls who had seen her cheered. Rather than burning with hatred towards the living, they were actually happy to see her!?

”What is happening...?”

Kratia was much too unfamiliar with the Pauls' response, and thought that her understanding of the undead until now had been wrong.

Yet, while confirming that, she turned her head, only to find that a battalion of undead had discovered her, and were yelling in hatred.

[A living person!]

[A person with flowing blood and fresh fles.h.!.+]

[I hate you. That woman's definitely the person who made us like this!]

[Let's make her just like us; we'll rip out her hair, rip off her flesh, and suck the blood out of her!]

Truly gruesome and brutal lines just kept coming. Ironically, their statements set her at ease. With her mind at ease, she cast her magic upon the skeletons.

”Ice Arrow Shower!”

[It's magic!]

[Call our magicians!]

[But our magicians are guarding the walls!]

[Gguaaaaahk!]

The large scale spell that came from a level 6 magician was tremendous! Several hundreds of ice arrows formed into the air, packed tightly, and poured upon the battlefront. Even level 3 skeletons couldn't easily approach, and the level 2 weaklings were just immediately destroyed by the arrows.

'Normally, I would buy time like this and would press my advantage with a more effective spell, but...'

But she didn't have the spare time to do so right now. Why? Because Lee s.h.i.+n Woo would take them all down if she wasted time. At least, that's what Kratia thought; in reality, that's what was currently happening. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo and Jin had already gallantly charged in with Lee s.h.i.+n Woo swinging his giant axe, breaking them into pieces!

”We could've become good friends, too. Sorry, Pauls!”

[Gguaaaaahk!]

[N-Now I'll finally be able to rest in...]

The weak skeleton that had once needed to act in order to barely defeat a Skeleton Soldier didn't exist anymore. Even if Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was trapped in a drill ground filled with level 3 skeletons, they wouldn't be able to handle him.

His long distance explosive attack through Rule of Bone wasn't the only thing powerful about him. He had acc.u.mulated various knowledge regarding magic, and developed a solid foundation for close quarters combat where such magic could be applied. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's axe was now covered in lightning, albeit weak, and the skeletons in the area were brutally burned or crushed.

The rare weapon technique, Bursting Thunder was finally starting to bear fruit!

'But I'm not there yet. When I'm finally able to produce lightning all on my own with my mana, maybe I'll get some kind of hint that helps me with mimicking a golem's mana...!'

He had come here to clear his mind, yet even as he fought, he thought about that d.a.m.n golem. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo smiled bitterly while rotating his arm and swinging his axe.

[Ugh!?]

Then, a Skeleton Knight attacked from behind, and Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's axe clashed with its sword; he shattered the sword without much difficulty. His reaction was only possible because of his exceptional, developed mana senses.

[How is this possible? My sword, tempered with my loyalty to the Emperor, has been...!]

”It seems like you just weren't loyal enough.”

He replied uninterested and cut off the knight's head with Power Slash. Beyond the corpse of the dead knight's crumbling body, he saw the leftover bones littering the battlefield.

The battle was over in the blink of an eye. It was a complete victory.

[1] T/N: Could be a reference to Willian Popp, the soccer player, as the name could be translated as Popp as well. I'm not well versed in soccer, so I'm not sure.

[2] T/N: Apparently, it's a famous quote from the Korean drama ”Stairway to Heaven”.

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