(Chapter 67)

"Hold up..."

Sung Jin-Woo hurriedly said making the three confused.

He didn't even have time to enjoy the notices of his level going up four times in a row, as his eyes were currently fixed to the very first message.

'Oh, my god.'

Sung Jin-Woo's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

[You have defeated your enemy.]

"This wasn't the boss monster..."

His shocked gaze shifted over to the giant sagged on the ground, with no focus to be found within its dull eyes.

Followed by the three and exclaimed.

"This giant's power is already incredible that was on another realm compared to other baby giants! Now, it's just a normal mob!?"

Han Sen stops imagining the real boss if this giant that making the first giants that he encounter to be babies, in now just a teenager.

Shyrveen and Yang Manli looks at each other while the former felt the overwhelming aura of this giant that even left Jin-Woo surprised too.

No matter what, they can tell that this giant looked, sounded, and smelled like a boss, yet it was apparently not.

They trusted Sung Jin-Woo that trusting the System's message clearly said that this thing was just a 'regular' monster.

It was then, that the four of them heard Yoo Jin-Ho with excited voice calling their names with Yoo Soo-Hyun on his side but Sung Jin-Woo raised his hand quickly to stop them before looking at the three.

"We know."

Shyrveen nodded and grabs Han Sen as he used his ice wings and Yang Manli with her Beast Soul Wings to get away from the place.

Then Sung Jin-Woo ordered the former ant king to fly and he tried to extract the shadow of this giant.

But he was confused about why he can't extract the giant.

[It's impossible to perform Shadow Extraction on the target.]

Just as that thought worked its way into Sung Jin-Woo's brain, suddenly, the air all around him trembled.

Even Shyrveen, Han Sen, and Yang Manli felt it.

Sensing yet another change taking place, everyone hurriedly raised their guards up.

Beru also sensed the danger only a beat slower and quickly increased his overall body size to stand guard before his King.

"Kiiieeehhk!!"

A powerful gust of wind assaulted them right afterward.

'Ugh.'

Sung Jin-Woo's forehead creased up.

The stormy winds violent enough to rip out trees, roots and all, swept all around him, but then, they abruptly slithered off to somewhere else.

The commotion died down almost instantly.

Beru decided that the situation had been normalized and stepped away from Sung Jin-Woo's front.

Meanwhile, the latter surveyed the surroundings only to gasp out in pure shock.

'How could this be!?'

What suddenly 'attacked' him just now weren't some gusts of wind.

No, what he mistakenly thought as storm winds were simply the horrifyingly disgusting and bottomless magic energy the dead Giant possessed.

That massive amount of magical energy clawed and swept everything in the vicinity away as it moved entirely elsewhere.

'What about the others!?'

Sung Jin-Woo hurriedly turned to look behind, just to see five ice cubes that melted right away showing everyone.

And thankfully, the kids were unscathed due to Igris and Tank shielding both Yoos even though Shyrveen's ice shields are enough.

Sung Jin-Woo sighed in relief.

'Huu...'

Now that he found more leeway to search his vicinity, Sung Jin-Woo quickly snapped his head in the direction where that vast magic energy had disappeared to.

'...'

It was deep within the Gate.

The black 'barrier' blocking the Gate had shattered a long time ago during the dungeon break.

The interior of the Gate, which was the inside of the dungeon, could be seen clearly from the outside.

The air itself seemed to cry out softly.

Sung Jin-Woo thought that he had experienced all sorts of trials and tribulations in his life so far, but even he had never seen nor heard of a bizarre event like this one before.

'Something else is in there.'

His Perception Stat was telling him as much.

Sung Jin-Woo stared at the interior of the dungeon, his eyes progressively getting narrower and narrower.

Whatever was waiting for him in there, the moment that he recognized its presence, the hair on the back of his neck all stood right up.

A deathly chill came knocking and goosebumps broke out all over his body.

As if it was resonating with the crying air, his heart began beating faster and faster.

"Hyung-nim..."

Before looking back at Shyrveen that nodded, and went to stare at Han Sen and Yang Manli.

"Brother Sen, sweety. Stay here."

"But-!"

Han Sen tried to voice out his complaints, he wants to join inside and share the burden of the two, but he was interrupted by Shyrveen after thinking for a couple of seconds.

"No... If something is happening and we can't deal with it, you both are still here to intercept that things that might slip from our grasp."

Han Sen and Yang Manli looked at each other before nodding to Shyrveen and Sung Jin-Woo.

"... Alright, darling... You both must be careful at all."

"We will."

Both men nodded and Sung Jin-Woo was the one to first to go inside.

As Sung Jin-Woo entered, the Gate that revealing both sides became a normal Gate again, the familiar swirling of Mana like a water of Red Gate can be seen again.

Shyrveen was stunned after seeing this happening and tried to touch the Gate but nothing blocks his hand that made him sighed.

He thought that it is blocked again and Sung Jin-Woo is trapped alone inside just like what a Red Gate will do once activated.

Sung Jin-Woo saw the hand of Shyrveen and sighed in relief too but he was confused because Shyrveen didn't reappear for whole ten minutes before shrugging his shoulder and summoned his shadow soldier.

'He might be pulled by Yang Manli for something...'

Then he proceeds alone for he can't wait anymore as his heart is beating faster and faster.

Outside.

Shyrveen stop on his tracks and willed his Mana and Genes to overwork and reappear beside Yang Manli and punched through the empty space that soon.

There was a big, hulking man of over two meters tall standing on that empty space that appeared too at the same time while in a slashing motion towards the neck of Yang Manli.

This dangerous sense of wild beast oozed out from the man wearing some sort of leather clothing.

No, rather than just some 'sense', this man was a wild beast personified.

Yang Manli was stunned after the sudden event happening beside her and her body and mind remembered the fear of seeing the Super Dreadcrown Leviathan creature as she stares so seriously at the big claws that closing on her.

But Shyrveen blocks it after summoning Esmund as a staff and push back the man far enough to make some spaces between them.

As the man stops sliding on the ground, Shyrveen looked at the cold bodies of Yoo Jin-Ho and Yoo Soo-Hyun that he can see the empty hole on their chests.

Han Sen was stunned too and the fear envelopes his heart and his body can't stop shivering.

'... This man!... His-! Ugh! Shit!...'

He slopped down on the ground and felt a tug on his right shoulder and soon was thrown away by Shyrveen towards the place where Yang Manli was thrown too.

They tried to calm down their bodies first before joining the battle again.

But because they already experienced the Super creature that can be compared to a small hill, their recoveries are much faster from the past.

"Well, well, well... I didn't know that I will meet someone like you as I passed by this place."

The man in question smirked after crushing the two hearts of the humans before crossing his arms on his chest as he scrutinizes Shyrveen.

"You're strong... !!!"

But he was interrupted by the flying iced pole with a sharp pointed end aiming at his forehead.

He was forced to shut his mouth and stepped on the side and decided to grab the pole but as he does so, the said pole disappeared and the danger sense again reappears on his forehead.

Shyrveen meddles with the Beast Soul Treant, Esmund to be a spike and throws it with his bulging right arm towards the man, with the expectation to dodge, he didn't stop his inertia and spins 360 degrees and recalled Esmund to throw again to the forehead of the man in just a second.

The man tried again to grab the spike with a faster response this time, but was interrupted again that made him irritated too much and disappeared towards the person who fired the arrow.

As he sent his killing intent towards this foolish woman, he used the intimidation to paralyze the human on her position as he slashes horizontally with tiger claws.

But he was stunned after seeing his claws only passed through her body and she disappears completely from his senses.

He was confused about how something like this was possible from someone like him.

He is the Beast Monarch, and so every living thing's presence can be detected by him if he decided to concentrate seriously.

However, before he can immerse himself into his senses, the same arrow reappears aiming at his chest.

He a Monarch, have a pride not to dodge, but as the Beast Monarch, he is inclined to follow the bestial instinct that told him that it is dangerous if he didn't dodge.

"You insects! Stop irritating me, the Monarch of Beastly Fangs!!!"

The Beast Monarch blocks as he grabs the arrow with his left arm and exerts more pressure but only to be confused because the arrow isn't affected, no dents or signs of being bent, or even a single crack.

His interest was piqued but it disappeared from his grasp and the same presence of archer was in his senses again and he disappeared in his place.

"Sweety!"

"Manli!"

Shyrveen and Han Sen shouted after seeing the man moved so fast that they doesn't have enough time to respond.

The Beast Monarch reappeared on the front of Yang Manli that pulling her bowstring and was shocked and didn't have enough time to use the glyph again to be in an incorporeal state, and soon was cut off of her head from her body, splashing her bloods before the head and body fell on the ground.

Shyrveen summoned Apollyon to use its tail to smash the Beast Monarch before reappearing on the unguarded Beast Monarch's right side waist.

The ground cracked after blocking the tail, but the Beast Monarch was stunned from such force that rivaling his strength from this 'small' scaled lizard.

Shyrveen willed the ice to be transparent as much as possible for it will be more durable if it is, to be a glove that has spike before punching.

But the Beast Monarch decided to transform into a werewolf after sensing the danger on his right side because he can't push back, even just a millimeter, the tail of the scaled lizard.

And that's when the Beast Monarch felt a pain on the waist as he skids on the ground from the impact.

The distance was made but Han Sen reappeared on the Beast Monarch left side that putting his guard down as Han Sen takes advantage of that.

Beast Monarch was dazed for a second after seeing the golden minotaur holding two katanas that coming down towards him in a cross slashing motion.

"Brother Sen!"

Shyrveen shouted again after seeing his sworn brother to be killed just liked his sweety and disappeared in his place.

But he doesn't have enough time to save Han Sen as he saw the Beast Monarch's left hand that blocks and grabs the katanas and shattered the blades after his right hand became the blade itself and stabs towards the chest of Han Sen.

Han Sen's chest was penetrated by the Beast Monarch, and his last thought before limping down on the ground that was now a pool of his blood was.

'... Shit!... (4 Stars) Sacred-Blood Armor was nothing but like a bread before this man!... Ugh!'

Shyrveen reached them and released the ice realm in full power forcing the Beast Monarch to casually step back away from him while smirking.

He encased the four bodies in ice coffins before pushing them far enough for not to be included in the fight...