Unbelievable Growth Speed (1)
As White Tiger began drawing on his own body, a black aura started gathering around him.
‘What is that now?’
Startled by White Tiger’s sudden action, Seon Yul stepped back, storing his wire and readying the GAU–19 inside his right palm.
Tsstststst.
The black aura didn’t just gather around White Tiger… it expanded, forming a massive sphere that continued to grow larger.
‘Attack first!’
Seon Yul didn’t know what White Tiger was trying to do, but he couldn’t just stand there and watch. He immediately opened fire at the black sphere.
Wiiiiing, dudududududududu.
Bullets poured out once again.
However, the stream of gunfire released from Seon Yul’s right palm failed to penetrate the black sphere that was still expanding.
‘Is the firepower lacking?’
Judging it ineffective, Seon Yul stopped firing and retreated further back.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang.
Meanwhile, the black sphere that had taken up nearly half of the hotel rooftop began to take shape.
As it gradually shrank, White Tiger’s figure reemerged.
But White Tiger now looked vastly different from before. The most noticeable change was his size.
Kuuung! Kwaang!
Its body had grown more than ten times larger than before, filling the rooftop. It wasn’t just his size…. his entire body had turned black, and except for his face, he looked exactly like the shadow humanoids he had first created.
White Tiger had summoned the body of a colossal being made of shadow mana and fused with it, becoming what he was now.
“Now that you’ve seen this form, you will definitely di-”
Through Black God’s Descent, White Tiger had become a Black Giant. He turned toward Seon Yul to issue a warning… or was about to.
But his warning was never finished.
Puh-eo-eong! Kwaaaaaaang!
Of course, Seon Yul hadn’t been patiently waiting for White Tiger’s transformation. He had neither the need nor the intention to. The moment White Tiger completed his transformation, Seon Yul reopened the Absolute Space entrance he had used earlier to bombard the People’s Hospital and activated the main cannon of the K3 stealth tank.
The round fired from the K3 shot straight and slammed into the Black Giant’s body, sending him crashing down below the hotel.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
Naturally, a single shot wasn’t enough to eliminate the Black Giant.
“Krrrgh.”
Though he had fallen to the ground below the hotel, the Black Giant was still intact. He grabbed the wing-stabilized discarding sabot round lodged in his abdomen and pulled it out with one hand as he rose.
Tssst. Paat!
Even the immense penetration power of the sabot round had failed to punch through his abdomen. The Black Giant’s monstrous resilience far surpassed common sense.
“You insolent little… ”
He ripped out the round and hurled it aside, glaring up toward the hotel rooftop.
But he didn’t know.
The K3 stealth tank’s main cannon could fire once every seven seconds, and Seon Yul had already repositioned, opening another Absolute Space entrance aimed below the hotel.
Puh-eo-eong! Kwa-gwa-gwang!
Another sabot round fell from above the Black Giant’s head.
This time, he raised his arm to block, but the round bored into his arm before exploding.
“Krrrrgh!”
He staggered backward again, having taken considerable damage.
Having been struck cleanly by two powerful sabot rounds, White Tiger couldn’t comprehend how his opponent was launching such attacks.
But what mattered was that despite using Black God’s Descent and transforming into the Black Giant, he was being pushed this far.
‘Am I being pushed back? Impossible!’
After pulling the sabot round from his right arm, White Tiger hurled it toward the rooftop.
Whiiiiiik! Kwaaaaaang!
Launching his counterattack, White Tiger immediately rammed his massive body into the hotel building below, collapsing it entirely.
Rumble, crash, ku-ku-ku-kung.
Just as White Tiger thought this must have inflicted some degree of damage and began searching the rubble for Seon Yul…
A firing sound came from behind him.
Puh-eo-eo-eong! Shweaaaaaak!
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
“Gaaah!”
Contrary to the Black Giant’s expectations, Seon Yul had already descended behind him using a wire. Unaware, White Tiger… no, the Black Giant, was struck squarely in the back by another sabot round.
“You bastard!!!”
Enraged from the relentless blows, White Tiger spun around without even removing the round lodged in his back.
Without considering anything further, he charged straight at Seon Yul.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
In just a few steps, the distance between them closed instantly. Once in range, White Tiger swung his right arm down with full force.
Fwoooong!
Even with hyper regeneration, being hit by this would likely shatter Seon Yul’s entire body and take considerable time to recover.
The Black Giant’s body, infused to its limits with shadow mana, wasn’t merely bigger… it possessed vastly superior defense, recovery, attack power, and speed.
So this counterattack was far more threatening than expected. And at this precise moment, the K3 tank’s main cannon hadn’t yet completed reloading. It appeared Seon Yul had no means of retaliation.
But at that very moment…
Seon Yul’s true intention revealed itself.
The prior bombardments, and even the quick descent to strike the Black Giant’s back… everything had been part of Seon Yul’s design.
A setup to provoke the Black Giant into losing patience and charging in with a direct punch.
And the completion of that design was…
[Absolute Space Entrance Opened.]
Ziiiiing.
The second Absolute Space entrance Seon Yul had prepared above his head opened.
Shooooooot!
Naturally, the Black Giant’s full-force punch did not land on Seon Yul.
Instead, it swung into the suddenly opened Absolute Space, slamming against a wall somewhere within.
Kwaaaaaaang!
His arm plunged almost up to the shoulder into the Absolute Space entrance.
The design was complete.
All that remained was to harvest.
[Absolute Space Entrance Closed.]
Ziiing, slice!
“AAAAAAARGH!”
White Tiger’s right arm was almost entirely severed.
Shwaaaaaaak! Blood gushed from the cleanly cut limb.
No matter how high the Black Giant’s defense was, he couldn’t overcome the slicing force of the Absolute Space’s closing entrance.
No matter how strong his recovery, he couldn’t instantly regenerate an arm that had been completely severed.
Even after releasing Black God’s Descent, the loss of his right arm remained unchanged.
In short, White Tiger’s real right arm had been cut off.
The Black Giant staggered back, screaming, and Seon Yul did not miss the opportunity.
Puh-eo-eong!
The K3 tank’s main cannon, now reloaded, fired once more, embedding another sabot round into his abdomen.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwang! Crunch!
“Kuugh!”
Unable to properly respond due to the shock of losing his arm, the Black Giant took the hit cleanly. The round dug in deeper than before.
It still didn’t penetrate through, but with his right arm severed and sabot rounds lodged in his back and abdomen, it was clear his condition was dire.
In moments like this, you never give your opponent time to recover.
Ziiiiing.
Seon Yul closed the Absolute Space entrance used for the K3 cannon and opened another.
From it, he summoned two miniguns and one enchanted GAU–19, focusing his mind.
Wiiiiiiiing! Dududududududududududududududududududu!
Operating three Gatling guns simultaneously wasn’t easy. But because he had closed the subspace used for the K3 cannon, this much was possible.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
Nearly 12,000 rounds per minute rained down on the Black Giant.
In a normal condition, he might have dodged, blocked with both arms, or counterattacked.
But he was no longer in a normal state. He took the barrage without any resistance.
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
Cracks formed all across the Black Giant’s body as it began to fracture.
‘I have… to escape…’
The word death surfaced in White Tiger’s mind.
Deciding he must flee, he separated from the giant body fused with him.
Then he expelled all the shadow mana that had filled the giant body, detonating it outward.
Shwaaaaaaa! Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwang!
The explosion generated by the released shadow mana erased all the bullets Seon Yul had been firing midair.
When the blast subsided, the massive Black Giant was gone.
Only a trail of blood… likely from White Tiger’s severed right arm, continued between the buildings.
Seon Yul immediately pursued the blood trail.
Soon, he found White Tiger in a narrow alley between buildings.
White Tiger, gripping his mana brush in his left hand, was struggling to draw something in the air…
A door.
He was attempting to escape using Real Painting [The Door].
But what he could draw in one second with his right hand could not even be properly sketched with his left… let alone completed.
Tremble tremble tremble.
His left hand shook violently. Despair filled his expression.
White Tiger was completely different from the figure who had first appeared on the rooftop.
“Damn it… Why won’t this draw properly…”
If he could draw the door and pass through it, he could escape anywhere in the world.
Real Painting[The Door] was the single greatest contributor to the White Tiger of today.
If it were a door he had seen before, he could reach it using this ability.
He would imagine the door in his mind, draw it in the air, step through it… and emerge from the imagined door’s location.
Long-distance movement, infiltration, escape… everything had been solved with this one skill.
Thanks to it, he had easily carried out assassination requests and escaped without trouble.
So he tried to rely on it once again.
But…
He had no right arm.
He had always drawn all his Real Paintings with his right hand. Trying to draw with his left, the image wouldn’t form properly.
Still, he desperately attempted to complete the door.
At that moment…
Shrrrk, slice!
Seon Yul’s wire flew out and severed his left hand as well.
“AAAAARGH!”
His left hand fell… along with the incomplete door drawing.
“Kuheugh.”
Collapsed on the ground, White Tiger finally felt that this was truly the end.
But Seon Yul had no immediate intention of killing him.
He needed to uncover the client behind White Tiger. He planned to subdue him and bring him into Absolute Space.
Seon Yul slowly approached the fallen White Tiger.
Yet despite everything, White Tiger stared back with murderous intent blazing in his eyes.
“Grrk, cough… ptuh!”
He coughed up blood.
Once again, Seon Yul silently looked down at him.
“Yeah, fuck… You won. Kgh…”
White Tiger admitted defeat.
“But… we’re going to hell together. KRAAAAH!”
With a killing smile at the final moment, White Tiger unleashed all the shadow mana he possessed into a frenzy.
Black light began leaking from all parts of his body.
Anyone could see it… it was a self-destruction attack.
When White Tiger reached level 70, he had obtained a level perk called Real Painting [Rampage].
This technique involved pre-drawing a Rampage painting on his own body, then activating it at will to force all shadow mana into a berserk state… triggering self-destruction.
Naturally, it wasn’t a technique he ever used under normal circumstances.
But ironically, now that both arms were gone, it was the only skill he could still use.
‘This is dangerous!’
The moment White Tiger said, ” We’re going to hell together”, Seon Yul instinctively created an Absolute Space entrance beside him.
It was his powerful instinct for safety… his intuition.
Because of that, just before Real Painting[Rampage] was fully completed, Seon Yul was able to throw himself into the hastily opened Absolute Space entrance.
[Absolute Space Entrance Closed.]
He shut the entrance the moment he entered.
At the exact instant the portal closed, White Tiger’s Real Painting[Rampage] was completed.
The result was…
KWA A A A A A A A A A A A N G!!!
A massive explosion engulfed all of Samjiyon.
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