Max Level Newbie - Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Over a Mountain and Yet Another Mountain

“Well… How did you do it?”

- Weren’t you watching? It was telekinetic blade technique .

“It was different from the telekinetic blade technique I have seen before…”

Vulcan thought about the duel against Ho-gwang at Act 1, which was a long time ago .

The telekinetic blade technique that the bastard used back then would have been impressive enough for people of the lower dimension to be shocked from witnessing . However, the destructive power that Yur Dong-bin just demonstrated made Vulcan think it shouldn’t even belong in the same class of technique .

Yur Dong-bin said,

- I can’t always bring about such power at any time . It was possible only because I had a long time to focus my power . There is no way to use this during a real battle .

Yur Dong-bin talked about it as if it was no big deal .

Vulcan looked at the calm look on the man and slowly directed gaze to the back .

Bae Su Jin used to have a turtle shell like structure .

The powerful, dorm shaped structure sunk to the ground as if it was hit by a bomb .

That was not all .

A huge crater, five kilometers in size, was formed around the fortress .

Baffled by the power of the technique, Vulcan shook his head left and right .

Asgard’s land was incredibly sturdy because of the protection by the gods, so it was difficult to damage it .

However, Yur Dong-bin’s move completely reshaped the scenery in the area . Vulcan felt like a nobody while standing next to Yur Dong-bin .

‘On top of that, he did it from such a great distance… I wonder what kind of mastery level in internal energy would it take to perform something like this…’

Still shocked, Vulcan kept looking at the fortress and Bae Su Jin .

Looking at Vulcan, Yur Dong-bin said,

- It is not over . Let’s go wrap it up quickly .

“… Pardon?”

Vulcan floated question marks on his eyes . Yur Dong-bin added,

- I was going to end it in one move, but their defense was very strong . I broke their barrier and dealt direct damage to the structure, but that was the end of it . Well… It appears they exhausted all of their power to neutralize my telekinetic blade technique, so they are probably completely spent . You should be able to handle them all by yourself .

“I see . ”

Vulcan looked at the Bae Su Jin’s fortress again .

Only the ground below their fortress was spared from the destruction . The surroundings formed a deep crater, but the center, where the fortress was, had a tall pillar like land mass still left just below the fortress .

Vulcan focused his eyesight and observed the fortress . He could see a few mages crawling out of the rubbles and struggling to attempt escapes .

Vulcan’s eyes caught on flames .

‘I cannot let a single one of them survive!’

These bastards were the ones who were most responsible for the hardship that Vulcan had to endure for the past 100 years .

He could not forgive them .  

Vulcan raised up the Thunder God’s Might, drew his blade and charged in toward the rubbles .

Before long, he even engaged the lightning spirit form .

He was moving so fast that his body appeared to be stretching out .

Watching this, Yur Dong-bin mumbled,

- Looks like he had a lot built up inside .

It was obvious . Bae Su Jin was going to kidnap Vulcan and perform human experiments on him .

Yur Dong-bin grabbed his treasured sword that just returned . He casually tossed it to the air .

Afterwards, he lightly jumped and got on the sword .

Shooooooooc

In leisurely speed, Yur Dong-bin flew toward the fortress .

With the stern face as usual, he watched Vulcan terminating the mages of Bae Su Jin .

Yur Dong-bin thought there was no need for him to rush over to the site .

Even from the distance, he could feel the mages’ evil aura . He was certain that these mages were treacherous .

So, there was no need for him to stop Vulcan . Also, it didn’t look like Vulcan needed his help either .

Mages were all completely exhausted . They were faltering around .

There was no need for Yur Dong-bin to lift a finger .

Like that, Yur Dong-bin leisurely continued his flight while standing on the blade . However, the look on his face suddenly hardened .

- This is…

He turned to look around the building in disarray with rubbles all over the place .

Something was agitating his senses .

Yur Dong-bin showed sharp eyes to determine where it was coming from .

‘Just what is this…’

It was beyond simple villainy . Yur Dong-bin felt something of absolute pure evil that was about to happen to defy the heavens . He put up a serious look on his face .

He thought he was not able to stop this because he took his time getting here .

However, there was no way to turn back what had already happened .

Instead of regrets, he focused his mind and realized abhorrent stench coming from numerous mages .

He got to Bae Su Jin’s fortress as quickly as he could .

Shaaaaaaaaaaak

Yur Dong-bin’s hand was moving at a fearsome speed . It was as if the space itself was erased by his move . Blue light surrounded his hand and brought out a blade that shined with blindingly powerful blue light .

It was burning with unstoppable intensity to destroy all evil .

The blade pierced toward the being who was standing behind a large rubble .

Kwaaaaaang!

* * *

“Kuuuaaaak!”

“You son of a bit… . . Kuhuuk!”

Vulcan arrived at the base in an instant .

He quickly disengaged the spirit form and raised his Heavenly Lightning Blade to chop off the mages who were still stunned .

There was not much resistance .

To start with, the difference in strength between most mages and Vulcan was too great . Also, most mages were completely depleted of their mana . They would have had difficult time to form even a simple Hellfire .

A few mages shot magic at Vulcan’s back in attempt to ambush him . However, Vulcan made examples out of them by killing them in even flashier methods, and such attempts stopped .

Eventually, nobody was crawling out of rubbles, so Vulcan now had to search and destroy them .

Kwadudududk .

“Kurrrhuk… Ku . Khuk!”

“So long . ”

Surguk… .

One bastard had 822 level . Vulcan figured this one might be one of the bosses . He drew the bastard out of the ground and chopped off his head .

Vulcan was going find another one and feed his blade to him . However, he realized this was inefficient .

‘… Should I just focus my energy like Yur Dong-bin and explode it at once?’

Of course, it was not going to be as powerful as the move by Yur Dong-bin, who was at level 999 . Still, instead of searching and killing the mages one at a time, Vulcan thought it might be better to maximize the Thunder God Blade and strike it to the ground from the sky .

“All right . ”

Having made up his mind, he used magic and went up to the sky .

Vulcan started to pour in his mana and Demi-god power into the Strengthened Heavenly Lightning Blade .

Pazuzuzuzuzut

The Thunder God Blade grew to incredible size .

The sight of it conjured up fear in mages who were in hiding . Some tried to quickly break out of the rubbles and escape, but they became dust after being struck by the Destructive Cores that were formed from Vulcan’s hands .

Gulp…

After seeing it all, the mages couldn’t do anything . They had no choice but to stay in the rubbles and watch the Thunder God Blade’s size grow .

‘Shit!’

Rex Ruburo was one of such mages .

Through a crack in the rubbles, he took a quick glance at Vulcan who was glowing in golden light and then spewed out curses .

Fortunately, they were able to stop the blow that was almost as powerful as an attack by a god . However, that first attack could not be the end . As he expected, Vulcan the bastard charged in immediately afterwards and started to slaughter his subordinates .

‘Well, I don’t care about them dying, but…’

The problem was that he had no way of escape .

The original plan was to recuperate some of his mana and escape while Vulcan was busy fighting other mages . Now, Vulcan was going to wipe the floor with a big move instead, so that plan was no longer an option .

Rex Ruburo was shaking as if he was suffering from a seizure .

He was too infuriated and frustrated about the situation .

‘Ku… So, that’s the only option left…’

Rex rolled his brain to think if there was a way to escape the current predicament safely .

However, there couldn’t be such a way .

In the end, he reached the conclusion that he had to use an incredibly dangerous method . He scratched his head hard enough to cause bleeding and sent telepathic message to his blood brother .

- Little Brother .

- Yes, Big Brother .

- I am sorry .

- Pardon? What are… Khuuuuuk .

That was the final conversation between Rex Ruburo and Marake .

Marake lost consciousness after feeling sudden pain behind his back . Like that, he rapidly lost his vitality .

As if he was under some ancient curse, he dried up completely like a mummy .

All life was sucked out of him, every last drop of it . Marake was not able to regain his consciousness . He became a corpse .

He was not the only one .

There were about a hundred other mages who were still alive . They all started to bring their hands behind their neck in pain and lost consciousness . In the end, they all lost their lives after having their energies drawn from them .

Energies from one hundred high level mages…

In an instant, they were absorbed by Rex Ruburo’s body, which swelled up into muscular form like a body builder .

Afterwards, powerful lights could be seen in the man’s eyes .

He was beyond comparison to what he was only a moment ago . Rex shook his body .

“Huuuuu…”

He screamed in pain . He absorbed huge amount of energy that was beyond his ability . His body was not able to handle it .

Rex Ruburo could be considered the most powerful human, but even he was having a difficult time . The power he absorbed was that huge .

There was going to be unavoidable side effects after this as results of attempting something so beyond his capacity, but there was no other way .

Rex thought about the move that destroyed the fortress’s defense system .

Thinking about it, he thought that he would not stand a chance unless he took a risk as great as this .

There was no time to stand behind safety margins .

This was why Rex chose to absorb the strength from even Marake, his blood brother .

‘It’s good that I marked all of the members when they joined . ’

The marks were placed to keep the members in line and use them in a pinch . However, Rex never thought the day would come where he had to resort to this utterly reckless method .

However, having come this far, he had no other way .

Rex Ruburo’s gaze headed toward Vulcan .

It seemed Vulcan also noticed Rex’s amplified power . Vulcan looked very shocked .

Rex breathed roughly and gathered strength at his feet so he could charge at Vulcan .

However, Yur Dong-bin was a step faster .

Kwaaaang!

“Kuuuuuk!”

Rex Ruburo crumpled his face like a demon from hell as he got thrown off to the distance .

He overexerted himself to force his body to come to a stop and locked his gaze upon the man who just struck him .

The man had long grown beard . He was a semi-transparent existence who wielded a blade that exuded blue light .

It seemed seeing the man solved a question that Rex had . He said,

“I see . I do not know how you did it, but you were borrowing the power of an Enlightened God . Not just anyone, but the Greatest Battle God…”

He looked at Vulcan and turned his gaze to Yur Dong-bin .

There was a stark difference in the powers felt from their existences .

Rex figured it must be Yur Dong-bin who destroyed his fortress in a single blow .

The man smiled .

‘It might be hard to beat that Enlightened God bastard, but… If it is Vulcan, I think I can handle that? Once I end Vulcan, doesn’t that mean that deadly bastard will go back to the Enlightened World as well? I think this is doable?’

As if he found a breakthrough the falling sky, Rex smiled big .

He thought he didn’t even stand 20% chance of surviving this, but now, it felt like he stood over 50% chance .

‘I need to hurry… Before the power leaves my body, I need to kill Vulcan and go to recuperate my body . All right… I can do this . Let’s go!’

Rex Ruburo brainwashed himself to inject confidence .

Meanwhile, Yur Dong-bin was looking at the man with displeased eyes . With infuriated look on his face, Yur Dong-bin said to Vulcan,

- His evil knows no bound… Without hesitation, he is defying the heavens directly with his treacherous ways . I must eradicate him right this instant for the betterment of this world!

“As I told you before, these guys are seriously rotten . ”

Vulcan responded with a casual look on his face .

However, unlike his appearance, Vulcan was actually quite anxious .

It could not be helped .

Vulcan checked Rex’s level through the SYSTEM .

It was astonishing . It defied common sense .

[Enhanced Human Mage Rex Ruburo]

[871Lv(+150)]

‘… With those numbers combined, that’s over 1000 . Isn’t this dangerous?’

Vulcan always thought that a four-digit level belonged to only the Gods .

The level that Rex currently had was not his true strength, but he still temporarily achieved that height through malevolent ways regardless . Vulcan was screaming inside .

It seemed Yur Dong-bin noticed this .

He said to Vulcan,

- Don’t be frightened .

“… Pardon?”

- I said do not be frightened . At a glance, he may look powerful, but it is all falsehood . If the world’s greatest sword was given to a child, do you think the kid would be able to wield it to its full potential? I shall defeat him myself .

With that, Yur Dong-bin took a step forward and stood in front of Vulcan to protect him .

Looking at Yur Dong-bin’s semi-transparent body from the back, Vulcan could feel a great sense of security .

It felt like he just took a step into a strong castle .

Vulcan had a faint smile on his lips .

‘That’s probably true… The sudden change in level is over 100 . Does that mean there will be a difference in the caliber that cannot be covered by simple increase in stats?’

Vulcan was not at Yur Dong-bin’s height, so he was not able to know for certain . However, just from the look on his face, it looked like Yur Dong-bin was capable of winning this battle .

However, Vulcan couldn’t just relax and watch .

It was Yur Dong-bin who was able to fight Rex, not Vulcan .

If that bulging muscle bastard ignored Yur Dong-bin and charged in after Vulcan, then that was going to lead to a very difficult situation .

‘Of course . If Yur Dong-bin defeats that bastard in a single strike, then that won’t happen…’

It seemed that was not the case .

Through Yur Dong-bin’s semi-transparent body, Vulcan looked at Rex Ruburo and agonized over this .

‘Is this going to be all right?

Should I runaway, far away from here? Until the battle is over?’

Vulcan shook his head .

There was a more certain way .

‘I’m not going to like it, but… I still have plenty to spare, so…’

Vulcan opened the inventory and feed a huge amount of Vitality Marbles to Kina Kina the beast bird .

Kina Kina was panicking and screaming as if it was fearing its stomach might burst from eating so much marbles . Vulcan looked at the beast bird with pity in his eyes .

Vulcan said in a quiet voice,

“Enlightened God Summon . ”