Hunter Academy's Battle God

Chapter 81

Booooom!

As the golem collapsed, a gust of wind formed as it hit the ground and tossed YuSung’s hair into the air.

‘…So the gatekeeper was a rank 4 boss monster.’

He was clearing the dungeon at record speeds. While every other member of the party was still working on clearing their first rooms, YuSung had already demolished his third one.

He stared at the golem and thought, rather insensitively: 

‘This dungeon might be too much for the current Sumire.’

He had yet to know that the girl had obtained the witch’s fragment.

Rumbbbble!!

The wall slid open after the monster was defeated, letting YuSung continue on.

The passageway wasn’t very long. One could see the button placed at the end of the hall from its entrance.

‘Will the next location open up if I press it?’

It was more of a complicated setup than he’d thought it would be.

The Castle of Phantasms was built like a maze. However, YuSung had easily seen through all of the traps that had appeared in front of him without any trouble. Of course, his keen gaze hadn’t missed that one, either.

‘…Where’s something I can throw?’

YuSung picked up a piece of broken-off brick that he found on the ground and took a stance.

Whoosh!

He threw it at the button.

Thunk!

His shot was a bullseye.

Rmmmm!

The passageway rumbled open, then immediately closed itself back up again. If he had pressed the button with his hand, he would have been trapped in there.

YuSung, however, already had experience with various types of traps that the Fist King had set up back on Martial Spirits’ Mountain.

‘Well… I disabled all of the traps. Time to head back, I guess.’

YuSung turned back around to face the way he had come through. As it so happened, he could feel a rumble in the distance. A new passageway had definitely opened.

* * * *

That was the first time that someone had attempted to overwhelm the Castle of Phantasms with numbers. The undead filling its corridors had already become Sumire’s underlings due to her [Witch’s Veil] Skill.

And the ones in charge of leading them were YuSung’s skeleton and the death knight.

“C-clack!”

“Des… troy! Master’s… enemies!”

Stompstompstomp!

The undead mob rushed the golem, footfalls creating a great racket. The enemy was being chipped down bit by bit.

“If your… blade breaks hit… it with your head! If your… head breaks! Bite it with… your teeth!”

The skeletons cheered at the death knight’s war cry, rattling their jawbones together.

“Claclack!”

“Clack, clack!”

The golem, a being created using advanced technology, had its mana core embedded in its head. At the moment, it was emitting a red light.

Vmmm!

“Destroy… The… Intruders!”

Zzzzzzzt!!

Lasers shot from its eyes, sweeping across the ground.

Pabababat!

Any undead hit by the attack instantly melted under the golem’s gaze. 

However, its ultimate move was useless.

“D… descend upon this place, army of darkness.”

Sumire, an actual necromancer, was using her ring in the corner of the room to constantly summon more undead. She was a veritable undead factory, considering the large amount of mana she still had left in her reserves.

“Claclaclack!”

“Gohhhh…”

A magic circle appeared in front of Sumire, summoning skeletons and ghouls. She lifted her ring up into the air and began to chant, a purple-tinged aura emanating from her body.

“D-darkness… conceal the sun!”

Of course, there was no sun in the sky there, as they were inside the castle’s interior. The black clouds spewing out from the ring, however, still did their job and strengthened the undead.

Wshhh!

“Guohhhhh!!”

“Power is… gushing out… from my bones! This is the… blessing of our… master!”

“Clack!”

The undead enthusiastically cheered, drunk on Sumire’s power.

However, that wasn’t the end of it. 

A pair of red eyes suddenly appeared in the mass of black clouds, then it began moving along the ceiling as if it had a life of its own.

‘Is… is this because of the power I got earlier?’

Sumrie watched the cloud move in wonder. The power she had obtained from the witch’s fragment had strengthened her Fog of Despair.

Whoosh!

The black cloud flew around, following its master, Sumire. Normally, the Fog of Despair would dissipate rather quickly, giving it a short activation time. However, that weak point seemed to have been completely taken care of.