Chapter 74: 74
“Master dude!!” Tang-E screamed when he saw Hyeonu get pierced by the spider legs .
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‘Master dude . . . he’s dead!!!’ Tang-E released some lightning bolts angrily . His goal was the spider’s eyes, but the spider wasn’t an easy target . It raised its legs to block Tang-E’s lightning . Tang-E’s Lightning skill was powerful, but it couldn’t break through the solid shell of the mine spider to shock its interior .
“Uwaaah!” Tang-E screamed and charged at the spider . The scene of a 50-centimeter-tall teddy bear running toward a three-meter-tall spider was pitiful to watch . However, Tang-E got bigger as he kept moving closer to the spider . It was Giant Transformation . By the time Tang-E finally arrived in front of the spider, he had become a four-meter-tall bear .
Giant Transformation, which was used for the first time in the real world, showed extraordinary power . Tang-E’s giant paws struck the spider’s leg . The spider’s leg was literally blown off . There was no need for Tang-E to use Roar . He simply imbued lightning in his paws and displayed formidable power .
The spider’s legs exploded like a bomb that had just been detonated . However, the spider wasn’t just passively being attacked . It moved his legs to hit Tang-E while preparing to release poison from its mouth .
Tang-E didn’t know it and once again wanted to use Lightning . The moment Tang-E’s paws moved, the spider’s mouth opened . It wanted to spit poison at Tang-E . Then there was the sound of the air tearing . In an instant, the giant sword energy cut at the spider’s head that was trying to release poison .
[A ruby spider has been killed . ]
[Experience has been acquired . ]
[You have leveled up . ]
[All health and magic power have been restored . ]
[Your fighting energy stat has increased by 1 . ]
The owner of the sword energy was Hyeonu . How was he still alive? Hyeonu had felt a strange feeling at that moment when he was about to pick up the items . Every corner of his heart had felt uncomfortable . So, Hyeonu had instinctively used Blink without thinking . This judgment saved his life . He avoided the spider’s attack just before the leg was about to pierce him .
“Master dude!!” Tang-E turned off Giant Transformation and rushed toward Hyeonu . Running with all his strength, Tang-E threw himself hard at Hyeonu’s chest .
“Ouch . Do you have to hit me so hard?”
“Master dude, are you okay? You aren’t dead?” Tang-E poured out words of worry toward Hyeonu .
‘This is how he thinks of me . . . ’ Hyeonu hadn’t known that Tang-E thought so dearly of him . He had been watching Tang-E fight from the beginning . After seeing what he thought was Hyeonu’s death, Tang-E lost himself in anger and ran toward the ruby spider without fear . Hyeonu felt touched . ‘In the future, I’ll treat him a bit better . ’
At this moment, Tang-E’s mouth curled up within Hyeonu’s sight .
‘Huhu, stupid Master dude . ’
Tang-E knew that Hyeonu had used Blink . He had watched carefully with both eyes and felt the magic power move . It was a thorough performance . Tang-E was one step ahead of Hyeonu .
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At the time when Hyeonu and Tang-E were working to eradicate the spiders, Masked Fighting King was sweeping through the entire Arena community . To be precise, Alley Leader (Hyeonu) was the main character .
[Masked Fighting King, the stage for Alley Leader . ]
[Shocking identity, the emergence of Alley Leader . ]
[The undefeated legend of Alley Leader . ]
People speculated on Romantic Assassin’s unconventional victory march . All the good ranker names came out, but among those names, Alley Leader wasn’t present as his level was too low . He might have crazy control, but it wasn’t to the point where he could overcome the level difference . His fighting ability wasn’t the problem . It was his lack of level, skills, and items .
Then the mask of Romantic Assassin was taken off to reveal Alley Leader . It was shocking . Alley Leader had crushed common sense so far . Level? Skills? Items? Alley Leader seemed to ignore them all . No, he did indeed ignore them . Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to beat those who were dozens of levels higher than him .
-Everyone, did you know? Alley Leader has never lost until now . He’s undefeated . All victories .
-Really? Not even once?
-I went to Alley Leader’s channel to look at the videos, and it’s correct . He is undefeated .
-No way? I won against him .
-Then provide some evidence .
Since Hyeonu became Alley Leader, all his uploaded and live streams had never shown Hyeonu losing . Had he ever lost in Arena? No . The character deletion bets? Of course not . Otherwise, Hyeonu’s character wouldn’t still be here . Simple PK? Many times, it was reversed, and the enemies were the ones caught .
-Wow, he completely cleaned them up . I have goosebumps .
-This seems almost inhuman .
-He won against Reina .
-It is a completely frightening record .
-He destroyed two guilds by himself .
It was as they said . There were two guilds that had disappeared due to Hyeonu’s character deletion bet—Black Skull and Aisis . This could be called an achievement . It was unbelievable that an individual had done it . As interest in Alley Leader grew, Hyeonu’s reputation continued to rise . Until now, Alley Leader was a stock only to those who knew about him . As of today, he became a jackpot stock that everyone knew about . His price hit the ceiling . His value quickly rose like several big hits, not just one .
Everyone was envious of Nike’s foresight and praised Porsche . However, there were others who were different . The sporting goods and car brands that competed with Nike and Porsche had a terrible time and felt jealous . It was impossible to register as a sponsor when they were in the same fields . That went against commercial morality .
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However, not everyone thought the same . This was the case with Cheong Chen, the general manager of Adidas’ Asia division .
“Bring in Alley Leader right now,” he said to his secretary Rudd in a completely emotionless voice .
For Cheong Chen, money was faith . He didn’t care about anything but money and rushed to eat it like a starving man . Even if it was something that others were reluctant to do, he would do it for the sake of money . He was sitting here now because he lived like that .
“However, he belongs to Nike, not anywhere else . This is a place we can’t bring him to . ”
“Then remove the main sponsor . Can’t you do this?”
Rudd said nothing in response to Cheong Chen’s words . This was what he meant . The main sponsors were mostly managed by the streamer’s management unless there were some special cases, which was why Cheong Chen’s words were outrageous . However, Rudd was just a secretary . Cheong Chen was his boss, and he had to follow his boss’ words .
“I understand . I’ll approach him,” Rudd replied reluctantly .
Cheong Chen’s expression softened slightly . “Then I’ll wait until the next meeting . ”
Adidas started making plans to take Alley Leader away from Nike .
Nike screamed happily, not knowing that Adidas was aiming for Hyeonu . Emails and phone calls arrived constantly . All of them had the same content .
-I want to form a sponsorship agreement with Alley Leader . Please connect me with him .
The staff were contacted for two hours and were out of breath . Finally, the communications stopped, but the staff became even busier . It was time to sort out the contracts . They started sorting them out depending on the industry and the amount of money .
All the bold proposals were in Kale’s hands . Mercedes-Benz, Rolex, Armani, Hermès, Bottega, and so on—all of the famous brands known by name sent proposals .
“It is the first time I’ve seen so many proposals . ” Kale’s mouth was open with admiration as he scanned all the proposals . He took a long time to sort them out . Then after the cleanup, Kale sent an email to Hyeonu . “Um . . . They have contacted us, so what thoughts does he have?”
Kale hoped Hyeonu’s thoughts would be positive . Otherwise, things would be complicated . At this moment, Kale was reminded of the phone call he had with Hyeonu a few days ago . Hyeonu had simply responded and seemed to have no interest in Kale’s words .
“Don’t tell me . . . Surely he won’t just do it casually?”
Kale desperately prayed that this wasn’t the case .
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Hyeonu was unaware of the outside situation and did his best to level up . The Mine Spider’s Lair was sufficient compensation for a B-grade quest . This dungeon was atypical with low-risk and high returns . Compared to his effort, the results were significant . In other words, Hyeonu was sucking up honey right now . Moreover, it wasn’t just ordinary honey . It was royal jelly . He just had to decide if the end of the honey was to clear the dungeon by hunting the boss monster—the giant spider—or just a quick level-up .
“Right now, it is more important to kill the spider in front of me . ”
[Master of Combat is activated . ]
[Your stats have increased . ]
[The stat ‘fighting energy’ has caused your stats to rise . ]
[The other party is stronger than you . ]
[Your stats have increased . ]
[Mindset of a Murderer has activated . ]
[All stats have increased by 15% . ]
Hyeonu rushed toward the spider with blue eyes in front of him . Once Hyeonu pulled out his half-sword, the other half that was naturally broken was revealed . It was made by Hyeonu’s imagination using sword energy and was in the shape of the Dwarf’s Sword that Hyeonu had used so far .
Hyeonu swung the complete sword at the blue-eyed spider, which was called the sapphire spider . The hard spider’s legs were sliced like they were rotten radishes . Hyeonu didn’t stop after cutting off the spider’s legs . He aimed his sword at another leg of the spider attacking him .
It was a form of rash impulse . He was curious to see if he could stop it . ‘Isn’t just once okay?’
The result was disastrous . In exchange for stopping the sapphire spider’s attack, Hyeonu was trapped in a corner of the mine .
Tang-E moved the moment the sapphire spider raised its legs again . “Master dude!!”
Tang-E’s Lightning skill was now getting close to real lightning . It slammed into the sapphire spider’s legs that tried to attack Hyeonu . For normal sapphire spiders, Tang-E’s lightning just caused some stinging . However, the legs had been cut by Hyeonu, so the lightning caused damage that was several times more painful for the sapphire spider . The sapphire spider screamed . It was a scream full of pain .
At this moment, Hyeonu’s shaking body moved again . Right then, the sapphire spider suppressed the pain and moved its legs quickly . This time, the sapphire spider’s entire body shone blue .
‘A special pattern . ’
“Shit!”
A single flapping of wings created a big typhoon . His small move earlier created big trouble . Hyeonu had hunted spiders for more than two days and had only seen it once .
‘The ruby spiders are fire . The sapphire ones are ice . ’
This light would contain a deadly chill .
“Tang-E! Aim one more lightning bolt at the head . ”
At Hyeonu’s request, a lightning bolt shot toward the sapphire spider’s head . Then something strange happened at this moment . The blue light that spread from the sapphire spider’s body formed a shield . The shield successfully blocked the nine falling lightning bolts, but this was Hyeonu’s goal . The real move was Hyeonu’s sword, not the lightning . Hyeonu used Blink twice and appeared in front of the sapphire spider . The moment the blue light disappeared, he cut the spider’s body in half .
[A sapphire spider has been killed . ]
[Experience has been acquired . ]
[You have leveled up . ]
[All health and magic power have been restored . ]
[Your fighting energy stat has risen by 1 . ]
“Phew, something big almost happened,” Hyeonu sighed . His curiosity almost caused a catastrophe .
“Master dude, why did you try to block it with your body instead of using Blink? Are you crazy?” Tang-E started nagging as he approached Hyeonu, who was sitting down .
“I know . ” Hyeonu couldn’t refute Tang-E’s words . Rather, he accepted them . This was clearly an accident caused by Hyeonu’s curiosity . “Tang-E, are you tired?”
“You have to ask? Now I feel like I have black fur from all the dust covering it . ” Tang-E brushed his body, and dust flew out .
“We should get out of the dungeon . ”
Finally, Hyeonu finished the beekeeping and moved to wipe out the hive .