Chapter 78

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“Okay… … .”

Park Hyunsoo struggled to open his eyes.

All the joints were broken and he didn’t even budge.

But Park Hyunsoo only laughed.

In an explosion of light he thought he would die, he somehow survived.

It was good to say he was lucky.

No, even if he had survived the explosion before that, the fox could have killed himself enough.

But that life is attached like this.

‘You didn’t kill me.’

[I woke up.]

Then the master’s voice was heard.

I don’t even have the strength to answer.

With his will, he lifted the necklace from his neck.

[clear]

As the divine light enveloped her body, it began to heal slowly, from small wounds to large wounds.

However, the injury was so severe that it did not heal as quickly as before.

“Hey, I think I’m going to live now.”

As the pain went away like a lie, Park Hyunsoo got up.

Every time this happens, I wondered if the item was a miracle product.

When he looked at his right hand, Harley had returned to the shape of a ring and was sleeping soundly.

It seemed that the fatigue of the battle was quite extreme.

“How long has it been?”

[The sun is rising.]

As the teacher said, the darkness had lifted, and the red dawn light was illuminating the world beyond the clouds.

Park Hyunsoo got up when his body was completely healed.

“A fox?”

[excuse me.]

“I’m going to finish it.”

The fact that she is still in good shape means that the fox is also in a state of being unable to move.

Even after regaining consciousness, the fox did not have items such as ‘clear’ or ‘damage reflection’.

Even if you are overwhelmed, in the end, the one who stands to the end is the winner.

“It’s very spacious… … .”

Park Hyunsoo sighed as he looked at the place where the explosion of light occurred.

He had no idea how wide his pit was, the radius itself.

He climbed into the pit and went down.

[He came back as a child.]

Chungyeong looked behind her back and saw the fox girl who had not yet opened her eyes.

The enchanting appearance before was a form of awakening.

“The longer the tail, the stronger the structure.”

Even so, he became so extremely strong that I was deeply embarrassed.

Especially at the end, when you have 8 tails.

If it wasn’t for special circumstances, he would have been torn to death without being able to do anything.

“Among Asian legends, there is a monster called a nine-tailed fox, and that’s exactly what it feels like.”

[The nine-tailed fox seems to exist in this world and that world. Even in Moorim, there are nine tailed foxes. It’s not a legend like the Earth, but an existing spirit creature.]

“Eh?”

Did the nine tail foxes really exist?

If so, it was highly likely that this little fox was also a real nine-tailed fox.

No, she must be a nine-tailed fox.

I don’t know why the tail was shortened.

“If there were nine, it would have been really terrible.”

He wrapped his fist around her fist.

It looked like something he shouldn’t have done because he looked so young, but his opponent was a threat to the Earth.

Saving it is absurd.

Park Hyunsoo was determined and slammed her fist into the fox girl’s head.

“Take it… … Don’t… … .”

towering-

The wind from her fists spread the dust in all directions.

Park Hyunsoo’s fist stopped in front of the fox’s nose.

“Are you telling me not to take anything?”

Anyone who sees it would think he was a predator.“Rather, you are the one who threatens the earth.”

Why do you keep pretending to be a victim?

Park Hyunsoo wanted to ask that.

He raised his fists tight to kill again.

This time, without stopping, I will smash that little head.

“Lee… … . I’m sorry… … . I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you… … .”

“Fuck!”

Park Hyunsoo kicked the dirt floor and spit out abusive language.

* * *

The fox was born to be the owner of the forest from the beginning.

I don’t know why or how he was born.

When she opened her eyes, it was her forest, and all the beasts of her forest worshiped her.

She had no worries about the fox.

She was the master of the forest, so he could do whatever he wanted.

He played with big bears and often ran races with rabbits.

Her tiger gave her her many advices, and her monkey was so talented that she always entertained her.

In the village at the foot of the mountain, humans revered the fox as the ‘god of the forest’ and offered a lot of wealth.

In return, the fox protected the forest along with the humans.

In the past, there was a time when a really large snake appeared to dominate the forest.

He was so strong that he almost died when he only had five tails, but with the help of his forest friends he was able to drive him out.

As time passed, this became more and more frequent.

Each time the fox extended his tail one by one and protected the forest with great power.

He certainly should have done it that day.

The fox had a human friend named Linee.

She was a young girl of ten years old, and although she had a big age gap with the fox, the two got along very well regardless of their age.

That day too, the fox was watching the forest with her linen on her back.

‘I will give this land to the king.’

A dark-skinned human appeared in front of the fox.

However, the essence felt in black humans was not human at all.

The terrible ominousness contained in it made me feel a crisis that I had never experienced before.

The fox told Rine to run away.

‘But… … Iris is… … .’

A fox called Iris said it was fine, and he would definitely protect him, so don’t worry, he let the little girl run away.

That was her last meeting with her Linen, and she and her forest were ‘plundered’.

* * *

“… … .”

Iris looked at the rising sun in the middle of the sky and blinked her big eyes.

She recalled her memories before she lost consciousness.

She opened her tail up to 7 times to kill the humans who came to loot the forest again.

With her much weakened, from her 7’s on she had a lot of trouble.

But 6 was difficult, and 7 was enough to kill her, so I took her risk.

In fact, she’s overwhelmingly driven humans, and with a little more it’s not hard to kill them.

But a human wore her head.

There was nothing she would normally do, but her reason was paralyzed by anger.

Then a fatal attack flew in, and countless times she opened her tail one more.

After that, I couldn’t remember her.

“How did it happen… … .”

Iris rubbed her eyes and looked around her.

When she sees her alive, is the other person dead?

She was correct that she was dead, since otherwise there would be no reason for her to keep her alive.

She struggled to get up from her seat.

Her resilience was innate, but her body was so shocked that her consciousness was blown away.

“The forest… … Protect the forest… … .”

“Hey.”

Then, a human voice was heard from behind.

Iris’ pupils were torn vertically, and sharp claws sprouted from her hands.

She tried to run straight to the enemy.

“Ugh… … .”

Her legs lost strength and she sat down.

Park Hyunsoo clicked her tongue at the fox who couldn’t move properly.

“Now, even if you attack me a hundred times, you will die more than a hundred times.”

“kill… … . Kill the intruders!”

Her pointy fangs and the beard that grew on her cheeks made her a pointless beast.

It looked like a cat, standing on her four legs and puffing up her tail hair.

Iris asked.

“Why didn’t you kill me?”

There would have been dozens of chances to kill her while she was unconscious.

If he didn’t, he meant that there was a reason to keep him alive.

Park Hyunsoo looked into her lively eyes and spat out an answer.

“I do not know.”

“… … what?”

“I do not know. I just didn’t kill it because I thought it would make me feel like X.”

Iris couldn’t understand what humans were saying.

You didn’t kill me because you thought you’d feel bad?

What does she mean by leaving the enemy?

Before that, she came to loot the forest, do you think she would be able to take the forest without killing herself?

“Don’t be shy! No forest! It’s my forest! Our… … It’s a forest… … .”

Water drops formed on the fox’s large eyes.

Seeing that he was about to burst into tears, Park Hyunsoo scratched his head as if annoyed.

“What do you mean by that?”

“what?”

“Aren’t you the one trying to mess up the world I live in?”

“… … What world do you live in?”

Iris tilted her head.

She could not continue to understand what humans were saying.

She was going through this hardship so that the forest would not be looted again.

He had no interest in other people’s world.

“why me?”

Park Hyunsoo wanted to rip off his hair when he saw the fox answering with a blank expression on his face.

I remembered the words she had uttered during her fight.

Were those words really true?

If not, she might have been cheating with her amazing acting skills.

[It’s not a deceiving expression.]

Chungyeong looked at Iris’s expressions one by one and was convinced.

Although she is not an expert in contemplation, it was not difficult for her to know whether she was sincere or a lie just by looking at her face.

“Then why are you here?”

“Hey you! A guy named King!”

“king?!”

Park Hyunsoo’s expression hardened when the word ‘King’ was mentioned in her mouth.

King’s comment itself was not a problem.

She was the owner of the portal, and also the S-class portal.

As with the ceremonial dragon, it wasn’t hard to guess that she had contact with the King.

The problem was that she was against the King.

“Tell me more.”

“What a strange sound! You are me, my forest! my friends!”

“I am the man who will kill the king!”

Park Hyunsoo exclaimed, with a blood in his eye.

“… … lie. to deceive me.”

“It is you. Are you cheating on me now? It looks like a nine-tailed fox, but as far as I know, nine-tailed foxes are… … .”

“no! I don’t do that!”

I didn’t even say what I was doing, but Iris screamed in a rage.

“I… … It’s inevitable… … . I have no intention of enchanting anyone… … .”

Her tail and ears drooped.

Looking at her like that, I could be sure that she wasn’t the type of person who could lie to her.

It’s not that she didn’t trust her mentor, but it was also true that Park Hyunsoo couldn’t easily trust the enemy she fought for her life.

“Tell me how you got here.”

Iris stared at Park Hyunsoo terrifyingly, then pouted her lips.

She also seemed to believe to some extent that Park Hyunsoo was hostile to King.

After hesitating, she took the first chance.

“It was a sunny day.”

* * *

After all the talk, Park Hyunsoo was sitting on a tree, organizing his thoughts.“It’s looting.”

[They are funny.]

Come to think of it, Jerye-yong said that he was planning to descend his world on Earth.

But he felt like a cooperative relationship with King.

On the other hand, Iris was unilaterally deprived of her own world, that is, her forest.

As a bonus, she was also trapped in a portal.

‘Is the situation different?’

The ritual dragon is a being that has reached transcendence.

Park Hyunsoo didn’t know exactly what ‘Transcendent’ was, but he knew he was incredibly strong.

And the King, whom he described as incredibly strong, was also highly likely to be a Transcendent.

“Is it because I’m in the right class?”

[The fox was far behind compared to the ritual dragon.]

Eight Tails was a shock to Chungyeong as well, but unfortunately it was not possible to enter the realm of transcendence.

I don’t know if I can pull out the last tail, but after listening to her, it seems that 8 is still the limit.

“What should I do in this case?”

Park Hyunsoo, who had heard all of Iris’s story, was out of the way to think for a moment.

she was a victim

Unfortunately for her, she was very unhappy with the King.

The misfortune was still ongoing.

If he kills Iris here, she will die in her despair.

But if she doesn’t kill the planet, the world is in danger.

Although the condition of ‘male only’ was attached to ‘one person’, it was an S-grade portal.

I had no idea what would happen if that kind of thing was opened up.

She knew she had to kill her with her head, but she couldn’t, when she knew the truth.

“At a time like this, how would it have been if I had been Haksen?”

If he had been crazy about power, he would have killed Iris without any hesitation.

For his own purpose, it was possible enough for him who could not even distinguish between the two sides.

But unfortunately, Park Hyunsoo knew that unlike Haksen, it was ‘righteousness’.



No, I got goosebumps thinking about becoming Haksen before that.

He doesn’t want to be that terrible guy.

“… … If you can open the portal.”

[But didn’t you turn the mirror over there?]

“If there is a door through which you can enter without tools, wouldn’t there be an exit door?”

There was no exit here, as in Fragments of Paradise.

Only by killing Iris will there be an exit.

But, wouldn’t there be a way to find the exit without killing it?

[Don’t do anything reckless unless you have expertise in that area.]

“It’s not reckless.”

[What do you mean?]

“There is one thing I felt before, and if I had a very strong power, I might be able to break the wall that separates the other world from reality.”

He broke up with the ritual dragon and, following his advice, absorbed most of the mana that made up the Fragments of Paradise.

Those mana were the source of composing the other world.

In other words, it meant that the portal was a space made of mana.

It didn’t seem like an unfounded idea.

[indeed.]

Chungyeong also shook his head with a persuasive expression.

“It’s hard on my own.”

Park Hyunsoo didn’t understand what he was doing or why he had to do it this way, but he walked quickly to where Iris was.

‘I don’t want to be swayed.’

I didn’t want to be swayed by a guy named King.

I don’t know what plan he came up with, but I wanted to smash it from the front.

“Hey!”

Park Hyunsoo called for Iris, who was squatting under the giant tree.

She glared at Park Hyunsoo with her alarmed eyes and her vigilant eyes.

Either way, her Park Hyunsoo stopped in front of her and opened her mouth.

“Help me. Get out of here.”

“… … what?”

“Escape!”

Iris blinked her eyes at her word of escape, but soon got up from her seat and grunted her ass, she asked.

“Bar, how?”

“I’m just going to smash it.”

with all my might to die

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