Resurrection Chapter 68 - Save Heesoo Hyung

After crouching and panting for a long while, Min Gongchan finally felt the pain recede and lifted his head. He gave a brief explanation to Yoon Younghyun, who was watching him not knowing what to do, and the serious-faced Kang Cheoljun.

“I was hit by a killing curse Yaksha fired.”

Hearing those words, Yoon Younghyun’s face turned deathly pale.

“A killing curse? Isn’t that a sudden death curse?”

“It was a sudden death curse, but the mithril blocked some of it. I won’t be possessed right away or anything.”

“Even so, don’t you need to get it exorcised? Since it’s a curse Yaksha fired, you’ll need someone with powerful holy energy to recover.”

Kang Cheoljun seemed to be trying to think of who might be suitable. But even if he were to introduce a suitable person, Min Gongchan had no intention of undergoing an exorcism ritual.

“Why would I get it exorcised? It’s hard to find a vengeful spirit this powerful.”

“If you hold out like that, you’ll eventually get possessed and your life will be ruined! It’s no different from being given a death sentence, so you have to get it exorcised no matter the cost.”

“It’s not a matter of cost. It’s because it’s a waste.”

Yoon Younghyun and Kang Cheoljun looked as if they couldn’t understand what Min Gongchan was talking about. But Min Gongchan knew well that in order to face Yaksha with the body of a mere normal person, ordinary methods wouldn’t work. He had to use every method available.

Wasn’t his a life that would regress by returning to the past if he died anyway? He was tired of racking his brains like this. Resolving to go all out with a do-or-die attitude, Min Gongchan spoke to Kang Cheoljun.

“What you want to know is Yaksha’s whereabouts, right?”

At his question, Kang Cheoljun nodded.

“If what you say is true, then Yaksha isn’t dead and will reappear. If we can know in advance where he is, we could ambush him before he recovers from the fatal wound inflicted by Seo Heesoo.”

“Even I don’t know exactly where Yaksha is right now. But I can tell you his hideouts.”

Min Gongchan brought up a hologram map and pointed out five places where Yaksha might have hidden. To his words that Yaksha would be here if he wasn’t dead, Kang Cheoljun expressed his thanks.

Min Gongchan did not reply to those words. To tell the truth, it was not something to be thankful for. Min Gongchan had told them Yaksha’s hideouts only as a ploy to divert the attention of Kang Cheoljun and the Special Ops Command.

If his guess was correct, Yaksha would appear in a place completely unrelated to the hideouts he had set up. With the thought that he needed to make the necessary preparations before then, Min Gongchan rose from his seat.

“Then, I’ll be going.”

As Min Gongchan turned his back and left the office as if he had no more business there, Kang Cheoljun gave Yoon Younghyun a look. Yoon Younghyun, who had intended to follow Min Gongchan even without his command, showed his displeasure openly. But he couldn’t just let Min Gongchan go as an act of defiance against Kang Cheoljun, so he grumbled as he snatched his jacket and left the office.

Finding him strange, Kim Mina chased him out into the hallway. She grabbed Yoon Younghyun’s arm and bared her teeth as she pressed him.

“What the hell is going on with the situation? Why is the captain listening to a Special Ops member’s orders?”

Instead of answering her question, Yoon Younghyun used the telepathic link unique to the Werewolf Clan to give an instruction.

‘Find out what’s in the basement of the AEA Training Center.’

Kim Mina, who had paused, asked back with a dissatisfied expression.

‘Didn’t you hear what Kang Cheoljun said just now? He said it’s a state secret. If we get entangled with the Special Ops Command for finding out something we shouldn’t out of reckless curiosity…’

‘We’ve already found out something we shouldn’t have. None other than Yitae sunbae’s Resurrection. Since we’re already entangled with the Special Ops Command, shouldn’t we at least know what’s going on?’

Kim Mina nodded reluctantly, and Yoon Younghyun patted her shoulder before running up the emergency staircase at the end of the hall.

By the time he got out to the lobby, Min Gongchan was already outside taking something out of his dimension pocket. Soon, a phantom horse appeared like a mirage in the bright light of day.

Yoon Younghyun was surprised once by the fact that he had a phantom horse, and twice when he saw Min Gongchan, mounted on the phantom horse, immediately pull away into the distance. It was clear he would lose him if he went down to the underground parking lot to get his car, so he burst out with a curse and transformed on the spot.

“Damn it! No wonder I felt like wearing slippers!”

His lower body elongated and swelled with muscle. With a sound of creaking and straining, his pants and slippers burst at once, and fur sprouted thickly.

Yoon Younghyun, who had transformed only his legs into a werewolf’s, kicked off amidst the people screaming in surprise. Then, he started running, smashing the pavement blocks, in pursuit of Min Gongchan, who was already disappearing far in the distance.

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Name: Kim Yitae (The Golden Emperor’s First and Only Apostle / The One Protected by the Dragon)

Profession: Magic Swordsman

Level: 50

HP: 157785

MP: 278866

Patron God: Golden Emperor

I opened my skill window and had a moment of reflection.

My level was now 50. It had been 48 before, so I had only gone up two levels.

It could be called leveling up faster than others, but with Heesoo hyung next to me, I couldn’t be satisfied with this much. While Heesoo hyung, who was in his late 50s and had a hard time leveling up, had jumped a whole 5 levels, I had only gone up 2.

I frowned and rolled my eyes, this time opening the skill window. There were almost no newly unlocked skills, and this time too, it was a magic-related skill that was unlocked, not a swordsmanship-related one. The swordsmanship line skills all required unlocking, to the point where the profession of Magic Swordsman felt meaningless.

‘This is probably why the Golden Emperor is angry.’

If I were a magician, it wouldn’t matter if things stayed this way, but I was, for all intents and purposes, a Magic Swordsman. The reason Magic Swordsmen were in the spotlight was because they could single-handedly take on the roles of a ranged dealer, a melee dealer, a buffer, and a healer.

Although all professions became all-rounders as they grew stronger, Magic Swordsmen were welcomed everywhere because they possessed such characteristics from the beginning.

Monster hunting was literally a life-and-death job, so it was easy for injuries or deaths to occur. If that happened to be the one and only ranged dealer or healer, a hole would form in the battle line and the rest would also be in danger, but if there was one all-rounder like a Magic Swordsman, they could fill in any position, so everyone preferred them.

I, who had been sitting cross-legged on a cot, shot up. I lifted the tent flap and crossed the base camp, exiting through a narrow path behind the cave.

This cave, where I had set up a safe house, was open at the front and back. As it was a hideout set up inside a dungeon, there always had to be an escape route since you never knew what might happen.

The place where the path led out to was a wide courtyard like a back garden. It was surrounded by a dense forest, so this place was not visible from the outside.

The forest was not a scenic place like a pine forest or a birch forest. It was a forest teeming with carnivorous plants, and this courtyard was a place I had painstakingly created by clearing out the carnivorous trees.

Originally, I had cleared the forest up to the outside of the stakes, but in that short time, they had crossed over the stakes. The carnivorous plants had a strong reproductive ability, so if you weren’t careful, they would quickly cover the cave entrance.

Thinking I needed to do some weeding sometime, I walked a few steps and found Park Sigyeong sitting on the ground with his mouth agape.

“What are you doing?”

At my question, Park Sigyeong flinched in surprise and then looked back at me. For some reason, he looked me up and down from head to toe, then turned his head back to its original position and opened his mouth.

“None of your business what I’m doing…”

I gave the crown of his head a light tap.

“Your words are short, new generation.”

“Can’t you tell what I’m doing just by looking? I’m watching Mr. Heesoo!”

As Park Sigyeong said, in the middle of the field, Heesoo hyung was in the middle of exerting his energy.

He had no clothes, so he was wearing only a pair of jogger pants with his upper body bare, and his revealed body was a magnificent sight. There wasn’t an ounce of fat, and his proportions were also perfect. It was to the point where you couldn’t do it like that even if you were told to sculpt it with your hands or draw it in a picture. He truly looked like he had walked out of a myth.

Because he was doing push-ups with only one hand while doing a handstand, his body was even more visible. It was indeed worth watching with one’s mouth agape. At some point, I too had forgotten my business and was watching the scene with my mouth agape.

Soon, Heesoo hyung, who had switched from one hand to one finger, continued doing push-ups with sweat dripping from his whole body. The muscles spread evenly from his spine to his waist were like a tightly interlocked stone wall. The veins flowing from his shoulder down his arm were distinct, and not only his arm but also his finger was unshakeably firm.

He continued doing push-ups with one finger without even counting the number. Park Sigyeong and I watched that sight again, never tiring of it. As we were standing there blankly in a daze, Park Sigyeong spoke as if sighing.

“To see Mr. Heesoo training again. I can die now with no regrets.”

I glanced down at him and replied.

“You have to see him reach max level, don’t you? It’s still too early to die.”

“Are you serious about that? About making Mr. Heesoo max level with Resurrection to get rid of the Black King.”

“Yes. I’m serious, that’s why I rescued Heesoo hyung from the Demonic Lair.”

After saying that, I hesitated for a moment before asking Park Sigyeong.

“What on earth happened in the Demonic Lair? Several of the White Goddess’s apostles went together. You weren’t there, were you?”

At the mention of the Demonic Lair, Park Sigyeong’s expression visibly darkened.

The reason Heesoo hyung, who had been a Paladin, ended up in the Demonic Lair was because of the White Goddess’s expedition.

As many people served the White Goddess, the competition to gain her favor was quite fierce. The apostles who followed the White Goddess’s creed of pursuing mercy and justice vied with each other to practice good deeds.

Of course, that much was not enough to receive the White Goddess’s attention.