Life Howling - Chapter 35

My mace collides with his sword. I could feel the vibrations throughout my arm. 

Even though I struck him as hard as I could with my mace, the Undead Knight seemed perfectly fine. 

Kek. The difference in power is too great.

Hwak!

The Undead Knight struck his Long Sword down to the ground. I quickly took a step back in order to dodge his attack. 

As I took 3 steps back in order to regain my stance, the Undead Knight is raising up his Long Sword again with one arm.

Don’t tell me you could use that sword with just one arm!

Kek! Damn it!

Kwang!

I barely dodged the sword by moving to the side. His sword struck the ground and dug itself in from the force, sending out a large shockwave.

“Heup!”

I gripped my mace tighter and aimed for his arm again. I wanted to hit him where his joints were since it’s almost impossible to break through his tough armor. Not to mention, going toe-to-toe with this guy in bare strength. So, the best thing for me to do right now is to limit his movements by crushing his joints.

Kwang!

A loud noise was let out when my mace made impact. His arm seems to be slightly twisted from the attack. Parts of the metal surrounding his joint shatters and falls off to the ground, and when I had picked up my mace again….he grabbed his sword and swung at me.

“Kek!”

I barely dodged it. I wonder if it’s because I’m underestimating him? 

Hwahhk!

A fireball came out of nowhere and exploded on his body.

Kwerng!

The explosion wasn’t big, but it was enough to push him back a few steps. Soon after, brightly lit arrows were flying towards him. 

The arrows weren’t strong enough to inflict hard damage, but we were making progress. He was getting pushed back.

Looking at how things were turning around, I ran towards him in full force. 

We need to kill him, but how?

Kwang! Kwang!

First, I attacked the same joint that I hit earlier. The joint was completely smashed in, and through the broken skin, a black smoke was making its way past the bones.

Smoke. Smoke. Smoke!

Yeah, there’s smoke. That smoke is what makes that Knight move!

If that’s the case…

Shweekkkkk!

The Long Sword was making its way towards me. From up to down, it was trying to make contact with my shoulder. But, I refuse to back down.

You bastard! Today is the day ou die!

Kwang!

I placed my mace on my shoulder and ran straight towards him. Before his sword could touch me, it caught my mace first which drove it into my shoulder with its sheer weight and force.

“Kuwahhhhk!”

I screamed while getting closer to him as much as possible. Then, I released my mace from my hands, and reached for his head where the fire was still lit inside.

Hah!

I got my hand inside. I touched his ribs just under where his neck bone is, and I grabbed onto it as if my life depended on it. With the other hand, I grabbed onto the joint which had broken earlier.

“Take this!”

Hwakkk!

I unloaded all of my remaining Divine Power onto him.

Kywahhhhhhh!

My head begins to ring from his screeching. Not just me, everyone around me grabbed their head and fell to the ground in pain.

I couldn’t bear holding on, but I had to. I had no other choice, but to even if all my strength was gone…

Wait, I have one more skill left…

“Life absorb!”

I don’t know if you have any life in you, but I’ll take whatever you got!

Hwaak!

I could feel cold energy coming in from the hand where I had grabbed onto his arm joint. As for the hand that grabbed onto his rib, it was dissipating his black smoke from within his body.

Kyahhhhh!

Screeching continued. His hand is reaching out for me.

Puuk!

He got my jaw. For a brief moment, I almost lost consciousness from the pain.

Did you think I’d fall off just from that!?

Kadekek!

I tore off his spinal piece and reached even deeper.

The Undead Knight slowly stops trying to grab at me. He, then, stops as if he had powered down and falls to the ground.

But, I didn’t stop there. I went over to pick up his Long Sword.

“Kehk.”

I couldn’t shake the excruciating pain in my shoulder. I placed my hand on my shoulder.

“Basic Heal.”

Pahht.

“Basic Heal.”

Pahht.

“Basic Heal.”

Pahhht!

The wound had almost healed completely after I had used heal about six times. I was still feeling sore, but it was bearable. 

I went on to pick up his Long Sword. It weighed a ton. It felt as if it weighed about 15kg. I picked it up with what strength I had left in me to strike it down on his shoulder.

Kwazeeek!

His shoulder breaks in one hit. 

I picked up the sword again to aim for his other shoulder. Then, I went for his legs.

Kwazeek!

The Long Sword went through his body like it was nothing. 

After I had finished, I turned to look at Hye-Won.

Hye-Won, Yoon-Ji, and Sung-Hwan just looked at me like a deer staring at headlights from an oncoming vehicle.

“Hye-Won, set him on fire.”

Nods.

She lends me her hand after nodding. Soon, the pieces of the Undead Knight was lit on fire.

Hwrrrr!

I stared at the burning pieces of him for a little bit before heading over to one of the high schoolers.

“God damn it.”

I couldn’t stop blaming myself for this kid dying on me. He still had his eyes open. What the hell is all this? Just why do we have to get dragged to this place and die like this?

Who the fuck made this game!

“Is...he dead?”

“Yeah, he’s dead.”

“No….”

Sung-Jin approaches slowly and grabbed onto Sung-Hwan. 

“Sung...Sung-Hwan, wake up you stupid!”