Future Foresight (1)
The liquid nitrogen tanks that poured down from the empty air all fell onto Flame Soul’s body and shattered.
More precisely, the moment they were thrown from inside Absolute Space to the outside, the containers cracked and rusted, simply spilling the liquid nitrogen contained inside.
Since they were items bought from the All-Purpose Tool Shop, they naturally broke down as they exited Absolute Space… but Seon Yul had actually been aiming for the containers to break like this.
Naturally, in the process, liquid nitrogen scattered everywhere, and that soon cooled Flame Soul, or rather, the lava giant’s body… rapidly along with explosive reactions.
Its entire body temperature had already dropped due to the seawater, and now it had been showered with a storm of liquid nitrogen as well. As a result, the flames that had seemed as though they would never extinguish, coiling around the lava giant’s body, went out here and there, exposing pitch-black chunks of rock.
“Now try using Weakness Detection.”
Even now, still rolling liquid nitrogen tanks toward the Absolute Space entrance below to drop them, Seon Yul spoke to Cheon Li Yu beside him.
Hearing that, Cheon Li Yu immediately looked at the lava giant visible beyond the entrance of Absolute Space and used Weakness Detection.
Ziiiiiiing.
After a brief moment of mental concentration ended, Cheon Li Yu was able to identify the lava giant’s weak points through her Divine Eye ability.
“Th-those… the parts where the flames went out are all showing up as weak points!”
‘Just as I expected.’
Realizing his prediction had been perfectly correct after hearing Cheon Li Yu’s words, Seon Yul poured out all the remaining liquid nitrogen tanks at once and even opened the All-Purpose Tool Shop menu inside Absolute Space.
Then, in the window labeled ‘Liquid Nitrogen Tank (100L)’, he entered the number 1,000 and immediately pressed purchase.
At that moment, about 2kg of mid-grade magic stones were consumed all at once, but in exchange, 1,000 tanks of 100-liter liquid nitrogen began dropping down in droves from the All-Purpose Tool Shop.
After carrying out an additional 200-million-won liquid nitrogen bombardment, Seon Yul moved over beside Cheon Li Yu and immediately began handling the K9X and other weapons.
“Li Yu-nim. We’re going to pour in all our firepower now. Li Yu-nim, find the most critical weak point among its weak spots and pierce it precisely with the railgun.”
“Yes!”
In the urgent situation, Cheon Li Yu answered immediately and examined the lava giant once again.
Meanwhile, Seon Yul quickly set up the K9X and K3 stealth tank and immediately grabbed hold of the GAU-8.
While Seon Yul was doing that, Flame Soul was staggering heavily due to the liquid nitrogen tanks pouring down from above without pause.
Indeed, even at this very moment, liquid nitrogen was being sprayed over the entire body of the lava giant like a torrential downpour, making it extremely difficult for Flame Soul to regain its composure.
Chiiiiiiik, KWA-BOOM! BOOM!
While Flame Soul was unable to gather its senses like that, Seon Yul finished preparing for concentrated fire.
“Let’s finish this!!”
Having completed the preparations, Seon Yul immediately pulled the trigger, and at that moment, the three Absolute Space entrances at the front… whose firing had briefly stopped, once again unleashed tremendous firepower.
Moreover… they were all targeting the rock sections where the flames had gone out, which were effectively the lava giant’s weak points.
Boooooom, KWA-KWA-KWA-KWA-BOOM!
Puff-puff-puff! KWA-BOOOOM! BOOM!
The GAU-8, directly operated by Seon Yul, drove its rounds intensely into the lava giant’s solar-plexus area, beginning to shatter the exposed rock body.
Meanwhile, the K9X and the K3 stealth tank bombarded the weak points around its waist and shoulders, accumulating heavy damage with each powerful strike.
Amid all that, Cheon Li Yu used Divine Eye [Weakness Detection] to determine that the lava giant’s greatest weak point was the glabella, the spot between its eyebrows, the only area in its head where the flames had gone out. She aimed the railgun there.
Wiiiiiiing. THUMP!
After finishing target designation, she fired directly at the glabella.
SHWAAAAAACK!
Crack-crack-crack, KWA-AAAAAANG!
The tungsten round pierced straight into the lava giant’s glabella and then exploded.
Struck at its most vulnerable weak point by its most lethal blow, Flame Soul finally failed to endure it… its head exploded.
That wasn’t all. The rounds from the GAU-8 that had been drilling continuously into the lava giant’s solar plexus also finally pierced through the giant’s body.
BOOOOOOM!
Flame Soul, with its head blown apart and its solar plexus pierced through.
Its entire body had been drenched in liquid nitrogen, and even now, the bombardment and gunfire raining down on it did not stop.
Kiiiiiiiiing. Rumble-rumble-thud!
This was the limit.
Flame Soul, transformed into a lava giant, could no longer endure and began slowly collapsing.
It had no remaining strength.
When it had gathered all the Manarava and materialized itself as a lava giant, it had already been fighting at 100% of its power.
In that state, having just taken such devastating consecutive strikes, the flame of Flame Soul… which had seemed as though it would never extinguish, finally went out.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The massive lava giant lost all its flames and fell into the sea as nothing more than a stone giant, and along with it, the Hell Flame Gate, which had been supplying it with lava, was destroyed.
Then the system message announcing the end of the raid sounded.
[You have eliminated the Raid Monster Flame Soul.]
[Calculating your contribution related to the elimination of Flame Soul.]
[Contribution: 71%. A considerable amount of experience and loot will be awarded to you.]
[By eliminating the ‘Surviving Entity’, a large amount of bonus experience and loot is added.]
[You have gained a large amount of experience. Your level has increased (Lv67 → Lv68).]
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“Wow… is it really supposed to level up like this?”
As her level shot up from 30 to 35 in an instant, Cheon Li Yu muttered with an expression of disbelief.
“If you check your mailbox, the loot should have arrived too.”
“Huh…”
“Good work. This raid really was cleared thanks to you, Li Yu-nim.”
“What did I even do? I just followed what you told me to do, Seon Yul-nim…”
“But now that the gate and the mana field are gone… the scenery here looks even better.”
Seon Yul was once again admiring the scenery of the Hawaiian archipelago visible beyond the entrance of Absolute Space.
“Shall we go outside?”
“Ah, shall we?”
At Cheon Li Yu’s suggestion, the two stepped out of Absolute Space.
With the gate and mana field gone, naturally, the monsters had all disappeared as well.
As a result, the Hawaiian islands had become an incredibly quiet place.
Shoooooosh. Splash. Splash.
Only the sound of waves washing onto the white sandy beach could be heard.
Not even a single seagull… something that should normally be common here, was in sight.
“It’s really quiet and nice.”
Seon Yul looked around and kept repeating how nice it was.
“Will people come back to live here again?”
“Who knows. Once news spreads that it’s been cleared, there might be people who want to come back here. But… the U.S. government will probably block it.”
“Why?”
“As you know, islands are hard to respond to when gates appear. So when some countries have islands far from the mainland, they often evacuate the residents.”
“Ah…”
“And we don’t even know when the news that the Hell Flame Gate was cleared will spread. Unless we tell people, others might not know for a very long time.”
“Really to that extent?”
“The accessibility here is really bad. And it’s not a place people have a reason to come to.”
After hearing Seon Yul’s explanation, Cheon Li Yu nodded with a look of understanding.
“Now that it’s come up, how about we rest here for a few days? The scenery is so nice it feels like just staying here would be healing.”
“Would that be okay?”
“Of course. Why wouldn’t it be? First… what was that place in Hawaii that’s the most famous again…”
“Waikiki Beach?”
“Yes! That’s it. Let’s go there.”
The two headed toward Waikiki Beach.
Before they knew it, Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu ended up having an extremely private vacation, monopolizing one of the most beautiful island chains in the world… the Hawaiian archipelago.
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The famous Waikiki Beach.
Not just Waikiki Beach, but Waikiki Beach that had gone untouched by human footsteps for five years.
Two people lay peacefully on that beach.
They were even wearing swimsuits.
The swimsuits had been left in an abandoned department store that collapsed five years ago, so they looked a bit old, but since the packaging had never been opened, they were clean.
“This place is seriously the best.”
Cheon Li Yu, possessing a body and face that perfectly suited the word ‘flawless’, lay on a sunbed taken from the storage room of the ruined department store and muttered while sunbathing.
When people had hurriedly left five years ago, many things were left behind in the city, and there were quite a few items more useful than expected.
On the empty Waikiki Beach, the two had placed two sunbeds and two parasols, lying there enjoying what could truly be called a moment of leisure amidst busyness.
Food could be eaten inside Absolute Space anyway, and the only regret was that they couldn’t lie on the sunbed while drinking a cold can of beer.
‘I should leave one Absolute Space entrance here for the time being.’
Seon Yul thought Jeju Island had been nice, but this place felt like a resting spot several levels upgraded compared to Jeju in many ways.
So until a situation arose where all four Absolute Space entrances were needed, he thought he’d keep the fourth entrance fixed here and come whenever he wanted to relax.
“Would you like to swim together?”
Cheon Li Yu slightly lifted herself from the sunbed and asked while looking at Seon Yul.
“Ah, I-I… I’ll… go in a bit later.”
Startled, Seon Yul couldn’t answer properly.
Cheon Li Yu smiled faintly and stood up, walking alone toward the sea.
Watching her, Seon Yul tried to calm his heart, which kept pounding on its own.
‘W-what’s wrong with me?’
Seon Yul, who had loved nothing but safety all his life, had no dating experience, so he had absolutely no idea why his heart was suddenly beating like crazy.
A beauty acknowledged by people all over the world.
A body without an ounce of extra fat, perfectly matched with a bikini swimsuit.
And a smile far more beautiful than all of that.
Honestly, at this point, it might have been stranger if Seon Yul’s heart hadn’t been racing.
After resting enough at Waikiki Beach, the two looked at the sun setting far away and thought it was about time to go into Absolute Space for dinner.
“Li Yu-nim, for dinner let’s have T-bone stea…”
Just as Seon Yul turned toward Cheon Li Yu and was about to say something…
Suddenly, Cheon Li Yu’s body trembled violently, her head tilted back, and at the same time, both her eyes turned completely white.
Paaaaaah!
A powerful wave of mana burst from her body.
At the same time, her body began floating in midair.
‘Hm?’
Not knowing what was happening, Seon Yul got up from the sunbed and watched her.
About a minute passed like that.
The woman who had been floating in the air, releasing mana waves, fell back onto the sunbed.
Thud.
“Haaah!”
Returning to her normal appearance, Cheon Li Yu landed on the sunbed, gasped sharply, and sprang up.
“Li Yu-nim. Are you okay?”
“Huff… huff… yes… I’m okay.”
“What just happened all of a sudden?”
“Well… It’s been a really long time since future foresight appeared.”
“Ah…”
Hearing the words ‘future foresight’, Seon Yul finally understood what had happened earlier.
“But it was very different from the future foresights I’ve experienced until now.”
“What was different?”
“Normally, the more a future foresight was related to me, the less accurate it became… but this time everything in the vision was entirely related to me, yet it was extremely clear.”
“Hm, maybe it’s because the level of your Divine Eye ability increased?”
“That might be the case. Anyway… it wasn’t very good.”
“You mean the contents of the vision weren’t good?”
“Yes. And it’s even related to you, Seon Yul-nim.”
“Related to me, too?”
“In the future I saw…”
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