Record of a Thousand Lives Chapter 15

Chapter 15.  Record of a Thousand Lives

The Ultica Ruin was deep and wide.

Kang Yoonsoo walked the complicated maze like interior of the Ruin.

Although there lurked a lot of dangerous traps and was a difficult place to find a way, he went through safely.

“How do you know the way inside such a complex terrain of the Ruin?  The location, too… I mean, I think I know, now that…  You won't even answer to such questions, right?”

“Yup.”

Shanette inflated her cheeks slightly.

“I knew that that was what you would do.”

When they reached the end of the Ruin, they saw a white s.h.i.+ning gate.

The gate emitted white light as if it has been carved out of ivory.

Beyond the gate, there was a room where the Ruin's treasure was placed.

However, a reliable monster was guarding the gate.

“Karrrreung….!  Roork!”

The head of the wolves.

The monster that desired the moon light.

It was a werewolf.

An ordinary werewolf had the gripping power to crush the head of a bull in only one hand.

However, the monster that was guarding the gate appeared to be much more vicious on the outside than the ordinary werewolves.

White light appeared to flow all over its body, and its claws were as sharp as the saw teeth.

[The white wild beast (boss, level 104) has appeared.]

A monster with over the 100 level.

It was a monster which was on a different plain than the ones he has faced so far.

Although it was almost as big and tall as 3 meters all around, its evenly distributed muscles made it very agile.

“Rityek.  Urenokr!”

The white beast knelt down and moved on its fours.

It happened only in a blink of an eye.

The long and sharp claws whipped Kang Yoonsoo's façade.

Chichang-!

In no time, taking out the long sword, Kang Yoonsoo pushed away the claws.

However, there was no way he could be a match.

Kang Yoonsoo's hand appeared to be twisting, and the long sword bounced out of his hand and to the back of him.

The difference in their powers was one sided.

“Dangerous!”

Shanette hurriedly approached as she raised her scythe.

However, waving his hand, Kang Yoonsoo refused her help.

“Karrrreung….!  Urenokra!”

Roaring loudly, the white beast wielded its long claws on its both front paws.

Sheeweek-!

The sound of the sharp bluish lethal weapon cutting though the air was scary.

The claws brought with it the destruction of the whirlwind as the beast wielded them in crisscross fas.h.i.+on.

However, Kang Yoonsoo was able to dodge all those attacks.

“Urenokra!”

The white beast roared, and in its frenzy, it whipped around his claws and powerfully crashed its teeth together.

There came a series of rapid attacks, but none of them was able to land clearly on Kang Yoonsoo.

Kang Yoonsoo's movements weren't fast and simple.

He already knew the paths of the oncoming offensive maneuvers.

Boowoong-!  Boowoon-!

He dodged all of the white beast's attacks with minimal efforts.

The claws of the white beast were only able to graze the ends of his collar, pants, and hair.

He did not even make any mistakes such as getting tripped or pushed to a wall.

That display even made Shanette to doubt as to what she was seeing.

The difference in the physical powers was so great.

Yet, as if he had already estimated the paths of the attacks, Kang Yoonsoo was able to dodge the deadly attacks with a few seconds in between.

The white beast was not able to overcome those few seconds.

“Lakildrag-!”

After roaring loudly, the white beast leered down at Kang Yoonsoo.

There was nothing else to do, but accept it.

No attacks were working on this b.a.s.t.a.r.d!

Turning his head, the white beast fixed its attention to Shanette.

“Karrrrreung….!”

If nothing was working on Kang Yoonsoo, then it's only natural to change the target.

Panicking, Shanette raised the scythe.

It was the moment when the white beast was immediately rus.h.i.+ng to tear her up.

“Lokr.”

Startled, the white beast came to a stop.

Lokr meant 'look here' in werewolf language.

The white beast's attention was again turned to Kang Yoonsoo, and he took out a bright s.h.i.+ny stone from the backpack.

It was the moonstone that has been refined at the workshop in the Kellyine territory.

“Werewolves are infatuated with moonlight.”

The moonstone emitted soft moonlight.

The enshrining of the vicinity with its delicate moonlight was causing werewolf's instinct to awake fiercely.

The boss monster, the white wild beast, rushed.

“Caricradi!  Urenokra!”

The white beast attacked Kang Yoonsoo.

Kang Yoonsoo dodged the monster's fierce attacks with small movements.

Lowering his upper body, he dodged the claws path, and he took out the rock steel daggers from his bosom.

He threw all of the remaining daggers at the white beast.

The shallowly piercing the beast, the daggers were buried between the white beast's muscles.

Kang Yoonsoo spoke quietly.

“Shanette.”

“Yes?”

“I'm hungry, make me some soup.”

Was it something that anyone could say while fighting a boss monster.

It has never dawned on Shanette that she would live a day in which she would have such a thought, in her life.

It has never come to her mind that she would be leisurely making potato soup at a Ruin where monsters could appear, let alone with a ferocious boss monster before her, at that.

Shanette said from the camp fire.

“Kang Yoonsoo, the soup is ready.”

“Wine too.”

“We're out of wine.”

“The front pouch of the backpack.”

“This is honey wine.  Did you always have it?”

“Stole it.”

“…..From where?”

Kang Yoonsoo did not reply.”

Holding a bowl of soup and wine bottle tightly in her hands, Shanette asked.

“You stole it from Hermione lord's warehouse, right?  I can tell from its packaging.”

Kang Yoonsoo nodded his head without a word.

Only then Shanette gave the bowl of soup and the honey wine to Kang Yoonsoo.

“Don't do that from next time.”

For some time now, Shanette was getting used to Kang Yoonsoo.

She also filled her bowl with soup, too.

Shanette looked over yonder as she sighed.

“Should I give him some soup, too?”

“No.”

“Kareeeung….”

The white wild beast breathed heavily, unable to control its own body.

With the after effects from having rapidly attacked for many hours, the beast was not able to command its body.

On the other hand, Kang Yoonsoo did not even shed a drop of sweat, and even breathed evenly.

Unlike him who moved minimally while dodging the attacks, the white beast ran out of stamina due to having quickly moved to its limit.

On top of that, the daggers, which were thrown by Kang Yoonsoo, were strategically piercing the beast such that they were causing enormous pain.

“Urenokr!”

The white beast could only cry out, unable to even stand up.

The moonstone was lodged at the top of the tall column of the Ruin.

The white beast could only stare at the moonlight that was emitting from that moonstone which has been placed there, personally, by Kang Yoonsoo.

The white beast cried out loud with wrath.

“Urenokr!”

Shaking her head, Shanette asked.

“What does Urenokra mean?”

“Your father's d***, b.a.s.t.a.r.d.”

Shanette's expression was one of unbelieving one.

“I thought that it meant 'I'll tear you up.' Since the beast kept repeating it.”

“That's not the beast's nature.”

For some reason, Kang Yoonsoo spoke as if he has known the white beast very well.

After finis.h.i.+ng the soup and cleaning up, they got up from there.

Kang Yoonsoo moved towards the white gate.

“Caricradi!  Urenokr!”

Gnas.h.i.+ng his teeth, the white beast wailed loudly.

Not paying any attention to it, Kang Yoonsoo opened the gate.

Kirreeek…..

The gate opened easily even without putting much of an effort.

The difficulty level was not this low at the ruins in the first place.

The boss monsters normally brought its underlings, and the gates would usually be tightly closed.

The closed gates would normally open once the boss monsters have been killed, in normal situations.

However, the Ultica Ruin, which was one of the easiest ruins in the continent, only had one boss monster, and the gate also opened without even killing the monster.

That's because that was how easy the Ultica Ruin was as far as the difficulty level was concerned.

As soon as the gate opened, the bright light shone.

Shanette was impressed.

“That must be the treasure of the Ruin!”

It was a tall and expansive room.

From the large altar came the gloriously bright light.

Although it was blinding, Kang Yoonsoo slowly walked up the altar.

On the top of the altar, an item was visible on top of it as if it has been placed there as a sacrifice.

Kang Yoonsoo took the possession of the Ultica Ruin's treasure.