Chapter 440: Dark Awakening - Part 4

Shane Scuf just smiled, and he threw a dagger. It landed at Fang Raon’s feet. It looked like an ordinary dagger.

‘Stab Leon in the heart with that.’ He spoke directly into Fang Raon’s mind. ‘It contains paralyzing poison.’

‘How the hell am I going to achieve that?’

Fang Raon asked.

They had failed to get any proper hit on Leon all this time, and stabbing him couldn’t be any harder. Not to mention he was wearing strong armor.

He would need to stab through his armor, somehow!

‘Figure it out.’

Shane said with a smile.

…

‘Where is Leon?’ Seonwoo Kim aimlessly walked down the swamp. ‘I can’t see anything through the fog!’

It was really foggy. The thick fog made it impossible to see more than a few meters ahead. She could still see the centipede’s massive body.

She doubted Leon was too far away.

She couldn’t even use the chat window to ask for his whereabouts.

Stab—out of nowhere, a spear landed right by her feet. It was a beautiful-looking spear that looked like it was made of silver and gold with onyx encrusted on the hilt.

“Who?” She pulled out her sword and looked towards the tree. “What are you doing? Stop hiding.”

In that moment, a figure jumped down from the tree. The spear flew straight back to his hand. The person had a hood covering his face and a mask that obscured his features.

The mask was strange. It was sometimes smiling, sometimes frowning, but always unsettling. The dark cloak billowed around him as the wind whipped through the swamp.

“You…” The player’s voice sounded strange—a fake voice, without a doubt. “Are my opponent…”

“I don’t have time to waste on small fries!” Seonwoo Kim jumped straight at him and swung her sword down. “I need to find Leon!”

The player lifted his spear and blocked the strike. It was a heavy strike, which sent shockwaves rippling through the air.

“Huh?” Seonwoo Kim was impressed by his strength. “Who are you?”

The mysterious player pushed her back. Then, he shifted the spear into a thrusting stance and charged forward with incredible speed.

“Intimidation!” Seonwoo Kim hit him with her high-level Intimidation. It could stop even Leon in his tracks. “I got you!”

The player was hit by Intimidation. It froze him in place. Seonwoo Kim immediately launched a kill attack.

“Maxima…”

The player just shrugged his shoulders, and the Intimidation was destroyed. He then stopped Seonwoo Kim’s attack with a nonchalant wave of a spear.

‘He even knows the Five Pillars of Power!’ Seonwoo Kim’s eyes shrunk. ‘He is not a normal player!’

The player pushed her back once again.

He had only one reason to be here right now, and that was to keep Seonwoo Kim busy so that she wouldn’t go help Leon. She did not know, but there was a massive effort happening right now to kill Leon.

‘This is all for that one moment…’ the player thought inside his mind. ‘For killing Leon.’

…

Leon spun his sword around and sliced through the spells and arrows as if they were nothing.

“Hah!” Machary lunged at him and gave few hard strikes, but Leon dodged them all effortlessly. “What?”

It hurt him just how easily Leon was blocking all his strikes. Machary didn’t consider himself a weak player, but when going against the strongest player in the world, the difference was obvious!

Rose Records members were just surprised by Leon.

They knew that he was strong, but this was something else.

Leon moved faster than he should. His reaction time was better than anybody else’s. It also felt like he lost less health than everybody else.

A wound that would lose a player 100 HP would only cost him 30. He was more than just strong—he was nearly invincible!

Then, Fang Raon attacked from the back, but as if Leon expected it, he turned around, and deflected the attack with ease.

With a flick of wrist, Leon slashed through Fang Raon’s defenses and gave a nasty sword wound across his chest.

“Ugh!” Fang Raon quickly retreated with a jump backward, and Dogger immediately healed him. “Thanks!”

“No problem…” Dogger chugged on Mana Recovery Potions. ‘Leon is injuring them too much. I don’t have too many Mana Recovery Potions left!’

It was also very early in the Grinder’s Day still, so losing this many Mana Recovery Potions so early was not very good.

“Swallowing Ground!”

A massive dog’s mouth appeared under Leon. This time around, Leon just destroyed it with Maxima. He looked straight at Rock then.

“That doesn’t work!” Leon jumped towards him. “Old fart!”

“Old fart?” Rock grinned, and then a page turned in his grimoire. “What about this? Dogalypse!”

A spiraling portal appeared before Leon. At that moment, hundreds of dogs—small and big—jumped out of the portal.

They all attacked Leon furiously, as if they were all rabid dogs, with the only purpose in their lives being killing!

“Archangel’s Great Rabbit Hunt!”

Leon, furiously, swung his glowing white blade across the air. It was as if he had cut through reality. The dogs were swept by the white light and annihilated!

Just like that, Rock’s all-out attack, Dogalypse, was destroyed!

“What a monster…” Rock smirked. “Even that wasn’t enough.”

“I am Leon D. Hart.” Leon spread his arms wide with a proud smile on his face. “I am the strongest there is!”

‘What a humble guy.’ Fang Raon thought mockingly. ‘But he is indeed the strongest. We are all exhausted after fighting him for close to half an hour.’

The discussion he had with Shane was still echoing in his mind. He told him what he needed to do, but the question was, how the hell was he going to do that?

He glanced at Shane, still sitting on the rock, and he was actually smoking a Bliss Pipe, like there wasn’t a care in the world.

But he knew that Shane was keeping a close eye on the fight.

Shane gave him something, secretly. It was a dagger with paralyzing poison. The problem was, it needed to hit a person’s heart to take effect.

Usually, attacking one’s heart was already enough to kill somebody, but not someone like Leon, who had already reached level 8.

With Leon paralyzed, it would be easy to kill him.

‘He has armor…’ Fang Raon thought, but then he remembered something. ‘I am such an idiot. Of course, I can do that!’

Leon deflected the attacks from Miranda and Waylen. He looked insanely casual, like he was just having a stroll in the park.

“Hey, Della Rose.” He looked at the pretty girl. “Once we are done here, why don’t we go out on a date? I know a beautiful place over at the 47th floor.”

“No.” Della flicked her beautiful hair back. “I am taken by someone already.”

She then showed her engagement ring. It was something she purchased from a store on the 50th floor after getting a real ring from Fang Raon.

She tried to look for something identical in Black Online and found one somewhat identical.

It just made her happy to look at the ring, and she also wanted to wear a ring inside the game.

“What?” Leon looked disappointed. “And I thought you were a pure girl. You’re just like everybody else.”

There were three things he liked in life—money, being admired by others, and virgin girls.

His opinion on Della flipped upside down. He even became angry. Then, with a wave of his sword, he pushed everyone away from him.

“I am taking your guild and life then!” Leon jumped straight for Della. “Archangel’s Proud Slash!”

“Light Mirror!”

Della cast the beautiful mirror in front of her, and Leon smashed his sword right into it—he even used Maxima.

However.

Light Mirror could deflect everything. Even Maxima. It was the perfect counter that she created just for Maxima!

The attack flew back at Leon, but with his inhumane reflexes, he dodged his own attack by twisting his body out of the way.

At the same time, he swung his sword and scratched Della across her cheek. A tiny drop of blood dripped down her face, and she winced in pain.

“Della!” Rock shouted. “Everyone help her!”

Everyone tried to go help their guild master, but then Leon stabbed his sword through the ground, and white light spread across the ground.

It pushed everyone, except Della, away from him.

He then leaped towards Della. She just watched in a shock as the sword came from her. She knew she couldn’t defend against this.

‘Is this how it ends?’ Della thought. ‘My guild…’

But at that moment, a flash of black appeared in front of her. Someone stepped between her and Leon. It was a young man, the love of her life.

“No!” Della screamed.

The sword stabbed through Fang Raon’s chest. It was a killing blow. Nobody could survive this attack.

“Huh?” Leon scoffed. “Are you the one she is engaged to? Good job, you just killed yourself, dumbass.”

“…”

Fang Raon coughed out blood, but then, his blue eyes turned black, like he was being possessed by a demon.

[Blackened Immortality Activated!]