assistirfilmes Chapter 455 - Another Protagonist
Chapter 455 - Another Protagonist
Chapter 455 - Another Protagonist
“I’ve come to fulfill the promise that I made to you... and to repay the favor.”
The young man who introduced himself as Kim Tae-Hyun reached out his hand with a bright smile. Oh Kang-Woo also smiled and grabbed Tae-Hyun’s hand.
‘Seriously, who the hell is this guy?’
Kang-Woo couldn’t recall the young man no matter how thoroughly he flipped through his memories.
‘He doesn’t seem to be lying.’
Tae-Hyun did not seem to be fabricating a story to take advantage of Kang-Woo’s fame. In the first place, if he wanted to become famous, he would be aiming for Kim Si-Hun instead since Si-Hun was far more famous than Kang-Woo at least on Earth.
‘Then that means he has actually met me in the past.’
Kang-Woo went through his memories again slowly as he stared at Tae-Hyun’s face. His affable expression was common in Japanese fantasy anime; he was average, neither handsome nor ugly.
‘Where have I seen him before?’
He felt like he would remember with just a little reminder. He traversed through a forest of memories covered in thick fog. Just then, he recalled someone’s desperate screams from the depths of his memory.
"I'm a rogue! Someone, anyone, please let me join your party! I'll provide first aid if nothing else!!"[1]
‘Oh.’ Kang-Woo’s eyes widened. ‘Fucking hell. No wonder I didn’t recall him right away.’
It was such a long time ago. No, that was not the only issue since Kang-Woo would have remembered it if the event had been important. The main reason that Kang-Woo was unable to recall Kim Tae-Hyun immediately was not because it had been so long but because his importance had been so insignificant.
‘Yeah... I once saved him from the Andras Guild.’
Several more memories popped up in Kang-Woo’s head once he remembered the event.
"I'll definitely grow out of being a first-aid administrator and repay you for today's favor!"[2] Findd new stories at novelhall.com
Kang-Woo recalled Tae-Hyun saying those words before leaving.
‘Dayum. What a long-ass foreshadowing.’
Kang-Woo stared at Tae-Hyun dumbfoundedly. No matter how he thought about it, it felt more like something that the author made use of after completely forgetting about it than perfectly calling back a foreshadowing that had occurred over four hundred chapters ago.
“I’m no longer the weak first-aid administrator I used to be! I’ve grown to a point that I can be of help to you!” Tae-Hyun shouted brightly.
Kang-Woo narrowed his eyes for a moment.
‘Grown, huh?’
How could a rogue-class Player who was rejected by even low-level parties have grown faster than even Si-Hun?
‘It doesn’t make any sense.’
It was worse than a new character being introduced in a game that destroyed the balance completely. To make a comparison, it was like seeing a regular high schooler in your neighborhood who played basketball casually suddenly making his debut in the NBA and destroying Michael Jordan. Tae-Hyun’s growth was unreal even if he had come across some sort of strange fate.
“Haha. I’ve never thought of you as weak even once, Tae-Hyun,” Kang-Woo expressed.
“K-Kang-Woo...”
“But how were you able to grow this quickly?”
Kang-Woo scanned Tae-Hyun with narrow eyes, observing his eyes, voice, and every little movement that he made.
“Mm. Well...” Tae-Hyun scratched his head and continued, “I think it was about a month ago. It was when I was exploring a Gate by myself. It was a B-rank Gate in the Haeundae district of Busan.”
B was not that high of a rank for a Gate.
“But an S-rank monster suddenly appeared in the Gate due to the abnormal phenomena occurring in Gates lately... I accidentally fell from a cliff as I was frantically running away.”
“...”
“I closed my eyes, thinking I was going to die, but I luckily managed to survive thanks to being caught by tree roots that happened to have grown out of the cliff walls. And then—”
“And then you came across a strange fate, or something like that?”
“Ah! Th-that’s right! To be more exact, I found a hidden dungeon!”
“...”
Kang-Woo put a hand over his forehead as if he was having a headache.
‘What the fuck? Coming across a strange fate from falling down a cliff? Is this some martial arts story?’
Kang-Woo couldn’t even laugh. He organized his thoughts and then asked, “... Could you give me more details about this hidden dungeon?”
“Mm. I’m not sure exactly what it was either. A message saying that I entered Nostrian’s Will appeared as soon as I entered the hidden dungeon, and then I immediately passed out.”
“...”
Kang-Woo had never heard of anyone named Nostrian.
‘Are they an outer god?’
He had nothing to go off of at the moment.
“I found this around my neck when I woke up,” Tae-Hyun said as he raised the necklace on his neck.
The ornament of the necklace was about half the size of a palm and had strange symbols on it. In the center of those symbols, an eye that gave off an unpleasant feeling was engraved.
‘It looks like the Time Stone thingie.’
Kang-Woo nodded and paid attention to the upcoming battle. The others thought so as well, mainly thinking about how long Tae-Hyun would be able to last against Si-Hun.
“Then, let us begin,” Si-Hun said.
Their duel finally began. Si-Hun stretched out his arm and created a formless sword. He gripped the sword and leaped forward, leaving afterimages along his path. Si-Hun lightly swung his sword at Tae-Hyun after arriving in front of him in an instant.
Clang—!
“Hup!”
Tae-Hyun took out a dagger from his waist and blocked Si-Hun’s attack. Si-Hun did not falter and spun to attack again.
‘Heavenly Dragon Rampage.’
He used a sword technique without hesitation to end the battle as quickly as possible. Hundreds of sword attacks aimed at Tae-Hyun, all real attacks made of formless swords.
Clang, clang, clang—!!
“...!”
Tae-Hyun parried every single attack aimed at him, leaving Si-Hun in shock.
“What the...”
Si-Hun did not stay shocked for long and went on the offensive again.
Clang! Clang! Claaang!
However, none of his attacks were able to even graze Tae-Hyun. Si-Hun added feints now and then but Tae-Hyun perfectly parried his attacks with just a dagger.
‘What’s going on?’
Si-Hun’s eyes were filled with shock. Tae-Hyun’s movements were not exceptional nor was he a better martial artist than Si-Hun. No, Tae-Hyun’s movements were just fast; they were poor in terms of quality.
‘So how...’
How was he able to deflect every single one of Si-Hun’s attacks?
‘It’s as if... he knows the future.’
“Haap!” Tae-Hyun shouted and charged at Si-Hun.
Translucent light particles that looked like scattered crystal fragments poured out of Tae-Hyun’s necklace. He held the dagger in a reverse grip and swung it down. Si-Hun calmly raised his sword to block the attack.
Claaaaang!
“Kurgh!”
The formless sword shattered in an instant as if a wooden sword collided with a steel sword. Si-Hun quickly jumped back as his hands were numb from the impact.
“Fuuu.”
Si-Hun’s eyes sank deeply and he bit his lip anxiously.
‘... Divinity.’
That was the only thing that could shatter a sword made of condensed sword energy so easily.
“...”
Si-Hun clenched his fist tighter. He knew how overwhelmingly disadvantaged one without Deific Essence was against one with Deific Essence.
“Fuuu, haaa.” Si-Hun took deep breaths and turned to look at Kang-Woo watching the battle.
“Thanks... for staying as my little brother.”
Kang-Woo’s words echoed in his head.
‘I can’t lose.’ Si-Hun gritted his teeth. ‘Not when hyung is watching.’
Si-Hun’s eyes set ablaze with passion.
Riiing.
[Raising Player Kim Si-Hun’s assimilation with the Martial God!]
A clear bell chime rang in his head.
***
“...”
Kang-Woo frowned aggressively as he watched the battle. He stared at Tae-Hyun who was overpowering Si-Hun.
‘He kinda gives off the protagonist energy as well.’
If Si-Hun gave off the aura of a Korean manhwa protagonist, then Tae-Hyun gave off the aura of a Japanese light novel protagonist.
‘You know, the trope of the worst class actually being the strongest. Fucking hell. Why are there so many goddamn protagonists? What about me? Huh? What about me, goddammit?’
Kang-Woo wanted to be a protagonist too.
1. Refer to Chapter 13. ☜
2. Refer to Chapter 20. ☜