chapter 34

After leaving Flora’s house, I headed straight to Mulan. I didn’t forget to grab some Aiolia for Chen along the way. A familiar forest path appeared and whenever the gnolls showed up, I relentlessly swung my dagger. However, there were people who showed up in a group.

20, 30… no, 50? They looked like they were going on a group outing. I even thought they were going on a picnic. They were all men so I wondered what they were doing. Maybe they were going to play on the Windy Hill. By the way, why weren’t they getting out of the way?

“Hey. Hey! Come out! You fu*kers! Why are the big people blocking the road? Shit.”

A man with a somewhat familiar face grumbled as he appeared and slapped the other men on the back. His face was familiar for some reason…

“Cough. Are you the one who touched my little brothers?”

“Brothers?”

“Yes. I heard about it from Four Fires and Six Fires.”

…Ah, right. I felt the strength leave my shoulders. It seemed this was the big brother they previously mentioned. Was the name Supreme Fire Dragon? Damn. Now I was tangled up with weird guys.

“Uhuh, follow me.”

“What? Puhahaha.”

The man burst out laughing. He was so rude. Yes, laugh while he could laugh. I would separate their flesh and bones soon.

[The first apostle, ‘Prometheus,’ is looking forward to the cider.][1]

The place I took them to was the stream. It was where I fought Four Fires and Six Fires the other day. I had kept an eye on it because there was never anyone present. I thought this was enough and turned around. By the way, no matter how I looked, this person was familiar. Where did I see… ah!

“Are you the emergency room dragon?”

“The emergency room dragon…?”

Supreme Fire Dragon’s eyes widened. He seemed to recognize me. How did we end up meeting here? This was such an ill-fated relationship.

“Ah! The damn old man from that time!” This bastard was still impolite.

“Is the dragon hit at that time doing well?”

“Groan…”

[The first apostle, ‘Prometheus,’ is watching the situation with excitement.]

His face was distorted. Perhaps he hadn’t wanted to meet me again. Supreme Fire Dragon said, “Old man, do you have a last will? I was beaten in the past but this place is virtual reality. Hahaha.”

Supreme Fire Dragon smiled sarcastically. His facial expression was still the same. It was dirty. I wanted to punch him.

“Kids, let’s go!”

“Yes Brother!”

Tsk, it ended up like this. His group of subordinates came running over. They were all carrying weapons but the size of their weapons made them seem like they were working hard.

“I told you to respect the elderly yet you are now attacking the elderly.” I pushed off from the ground toward them. My feet moved nimbly and didn’t hold back. The hot sun rose from my toes and they were bewildered.

“…Huh?”

“What is this…?”

“Is this a new suicide method?”

Everyone was caught by the sun’s dance. Before I knew it, the dance was coming to an end and I looked at them.

“Flying Weather Dance.”

“…?”

“Rising Sun.”

[The murderer ‘Seven Fires’ has died.]

[Your fame has increased by 100.]

“?????” If special characters could be placed on people’s head, everyone would have question marks.

‘What is going on now?’

‘What the hell is this?’

I started kicking their asses to wake them up.

“Crazy! What is this?”

“This old man! Aaaaaack!”

“Get him!”

[The murderer ‘Three Fires’ has died.]

[The murderer ‘Fire Four’ has died.]

[Your fame has increased by 200.]

[You have killed three murderers in a short time.]

[Your fame has increased by a further 100.]

…

[The murderer ‘Five Fires’ has died.]

[The murderer ‘Eight Fires’ has died.]

…

Step by step, one after another. I moved lightly. It was like kicking a stone while walking. A huge number of messages were pouring out but I couldn’t see them. It was because I was counting the numbers.

“11th guy!”

Kwang!

“12th guy!”

Kwaang!

“13th guy!”

Kwaaaang!

I kicked their asses and turned them into a pile of ashes one by one. Their faces showed a puzzled expression every time a person died along with my number count.

“You idiots! Use your skills!” Supreme Fire Dragon cried out and I could see the eyes of his subordinates change.

As expected, there was a leader for a reason. Even in this situation, he was looking around in a composed manner. However, I didn’t intend to stay still. “Solar!”

Flames swirled in the air as Solar appeared. Solar was summoned for fighting, not cooking, and let out a white flame. “Greetings, Master!”

“Leave the greetings for later. Burn all the people around you.”

“Playing with fire? So exciting!”

Solar’s body grew as large as a watermelon. My eyes widened at the sight. Did it originally have this type of fire…?

[The sun elemental ‘Solar’ is proclaiming the curse of the sun.]

[Solar is inflicting constant sun damage on targets recognized as enemies.]

Once again, this skill was really a scam. It was a message of hope for me and despair for my enemies. If they didn’t have resistance to fire then they would probably be chased until death. The disaster had begun.

“Stone’s Wrath…”

[Solar has inflicted 50 sun damage on the target.]

“C-Crazy! My skill has been canceled!”

“Ack! My skill!”

“What is this fireball?”

“Take care of that first!”

All of them had melee classes. It wasn’t possible for them to shoot a bow from the distance. This was a disaster for them. It was the same even if they escaped with much difficulty.

“Take this!”

Hwaruk!

“We can’t deal damage because our weapons don’t have the water attribute? This is a scam!”

These were the last words of Ten Fires.

[The murderer ‘Ten Fires’ has died.]

Looking away, I could see a bunch of equipment. An unprecedented greed swelled inside me at the sight.

…I needed to buy the lotto today. It was a moment of real concern.

I had been merciful enough to spare the two men at that time. Of course, I asked Cer to bite at them but that was inevitable. Ashes flew in a miserable manner.

“Unbelievable!”

“This is ridiculous!”

“What the hell is this old man?”

At some point, the kicking stopped. In the end, all that was left was Supreme Fire Dragon. He didn’t seem to know what had happened. He rubbed his eyes for a moment. Then his face turned red and he started charging at me with his greatsword.

“C-Crazy! This old mannnn!”

It was worth looking at his vicious tenacity. However, it was up to there. The larger the weapon, the greater the gap that was created… well, this guy wouldn’t know that. Why did he choose such a big weapon? Tsk tsk.

“Kuock!”

…Look at this guy? A leader was definitely a leader. He had more defense than his subordinates. He should’ve died in one blow but he had two-thirds of his health left. Well… it was still a piece of cake. One blow or three blows was the same in front of a pupa.

I told him, “You should’ve increased your agility.”

“Ugh. Shut up!”

Supreme Fire Dragon swung the sword again. There was no need to use Keen Insight. Now that I opened up RIsing Sun, that guy’s greatsword was as good as still.

“That’s right! Be hit! Shiiiiit!”

…Tsk tsk, he was going to explode. He had already lost his sense of reason.

Supreme Fire Dragon rolled in reaction to the explosions. He bit his lips.

I declared to him, “I will fix your bad habits today.”

“Kuooh! Shut up! Burning Firesword!”

The nearby gavel was thrown away. I could see flames surrounding the greatsword. The greatsword swung toward me and the sword energy flew.

“…I have to use Keen Insight.”

However, Prometheus had a different idea.

[The first apostle, ‘Prometheus,’ says to just hit him.]

“Really?”

[The first apostle, ‘Prometheus,’ wants you to blow him away with a kick.]

“I see.” I listened to his words and rushed toward the sword energy. The incoming flames of sword energy seemed like it would tear everything apart. Suddenly, the sword energy and my right foot collided, creating a huge explosion.

‘Yeeeeeees!’ For some reason, I imagined Supreme Fire Dragon raising his greatsword and shouting this. He probably thought I would die… but he would shut up soon. It was because I was a bit stronger.

[The sun attribute is much higher than the fire attribute.]

[The sun has swallowed the fire.]

[The sun energy has been charged by one.]

I smiled and started running through the smoke. Supreme Fire Dragon continued to fire the sword energy like he couldn’t believe it but it was useless. I just kept going through the explosion.

“Shiiiit! Get lost! Get loooost!!”

The sun grew by eating the flames and burned more magnificently. The sword energy was merely a great prey for the sun at my feet. It was like a runaway locomotive on the verge of exploding.

“C-Crazy…!” Supreme Fire Dragon showed a dumbfounded expression.

I felt exhausted and it seemed like it was time to finish this. I spoke my final words to him. “Goodbye, Dragon.”

I spun three times in the air and kicked out, causing a huge firestorm to rush toward Supreme Fire Dragon’s face. He shouted his last hurrah, “This! This is ridiculouuuuuus!”

A huge explosion shook the forest.

[The murderer ‘Fire Dragon’ has died.]

[Your reputation has changed from ‘normal’ to ‘good standing.’]

[You have killed 50 murderers in a short time.]

[An unbelievable achievement! You have killed 50 murderers in a short amount of time.]

[Title, ‘Serial Killer of Justice,’ has been acquired.]

[From now on, you can deal 50% more damage to murderers.]

I wished him good luck. After a while, I started harvesting the equipment that had fallen nearby. I added a moonwalk like Michael Jackson.

“Ba dum tss. Ba dum tss.”

[1] Cider= slang for a situation that is refreshing