Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105 - Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140 - Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142 - Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170 - Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203 - Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208 - Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239 - Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Chapter 263 - Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Chapter 282
Chapter 283
Chapter 284
Chapter 285
Chapter 286
Chapter 287
Chapter 288
Chapter 289
Chapter 290
Chapter 291
Chapter 292
Chapter 293
Chapter 294
Chapter 295
Chapter 296
Chapter 297 - Chapter 297
Chapter 298
Chapter 299
Chapter 300
Chapter 301
Chapter 302
Chapter 303
Chapter 304
Chapter 305
Chapter 306
Chapter 307
Chapter 308
Chapter 309
Chapter 310
Chapter 311
Chapter 312
Chapter 313
Chapter 314
Chapter 315
Chapter 316
Chapter 317
Chapter 318
Chapter 319
Chapter 320
Chapter 321
Chapter 322
Chapter 323
Chapter 324
Chapter 325
Chapter 326
Chapter 327
Chapter 328
Chapter 329
Chapter 330
Chapter 331
Chapter 332
Chapter 333
Chapter 334
Chapter 335
Chapter 336
Chapter 337
Chapter 338
Chapter 339
Chapter 340
Chapter 341
Chapter 342
Chapter 343
Chapter 344
Chapter 345
Chapter 346
Chapter 347
Chapter 348
Chapter 349
Chapter 350
Chapter 351
Chapter 352
Chapter 353
Chapter 354
Chapter 355
Chapter 356
Chapter 357
Chapter 358
Chapter 359
Chapter 360
Chapter 361
Chapter 362
Chapter 363
Chapter 364
Chapter 365
Chapter 366
Chapter 367
Chapter 368
Chapter 369
Chapter 370
Chapter 371
Chapter 372
Chapter 373
Chapter 374
Chapter 375
Chapter 376
Chapter 377
Chapter 378
Chapter 379
Chapter 380
Chapter 381
Chapter 382
Chapter 383
Chapter 384 - Chapter 384
Chapter 385
Chapter 386
Chapter 387
Chapter 388
Chapter 389
Chapter 390
Chapter 391
Chapter 392
Chapter 393
Chapter 394
Chapter 395
Chapter 396
Chapter 397
Chapter 398
Chapter 399
Chapter 400
Chapter 401
Chapter 402
Chapter 403
Chapter 404
Chapter 405
Chapter 406
Chapter 407
Chapter 408
Chapter 409
Chapter 410
Chapter 411
Chapter 412
Chapter 413
Chapter 414
Chapter 415
Chapter 416
Chapter 417
Chapter 418
Chapter 419
Chapter 420
Chapter 421
Chapter 422
Chapter 423
Chapter 424
Chapter 425
Chapter 426 - Chapter 426
Chapter 427
Chapter 428
Chapter 429
Chapter 430
Chapter 431
Chapter 432
Chapter 433
Chapter 434
Chapter 435
Chapter 436
Chapter 437
Chapter 438
Chapter 439
Chapter 440
Chapter 441
Chapter 442
Chapter 443
Chapter 444
Chapter 445
Chapter 446 - Chapter 446
Chapter 447
Chapter 448
Chapter 449
Chapter 450
Chapter 451 - Chapter 451
Chapter 452
Chapter 453
Chapter 454
Chapter 455
Chapter 456
Chapter 457
Chapter 458
Chapter 459
Chapter 460
Chapter 461
Chapter 462
Chapter 463
Chapter 464
Chapter 465
Chapter 466
Chapter 467
Chapter 468
Chapter 469
Chapter 470
Chapter 471
Chapter 472
Chapter 473
Chapter 474
Chapter 475
Chapter 476
Chapter 477
Chapter 478
Chapter 479
Chapter 480
Chapter 481
Chapter 482
Chapter 483 - Chapter 483
Chapter 484
Chapter 485
Chapter 486
Chapter 487
Chapter 488
Chapter 489
Chapter 490
Chapter 491
Chapter 492
Chapter 493
Chapter 494
Chapter 495
Chapter 496
Chapter 497
Chapter 498
Chapter 499
Chapter 500
Chapter 501
Chapter 502
Chapter 503
Chapter 504
Chapter 505
Chapter 506
Chapter 507
Chapter 508
Chapter 509
Chapter 510
Chapter 511
Chapter 512
Chapter 513
Chapter 514
Chapter 515
Chapter 516 - Chapter 516
Chapter 517
Chapter 518
Chapter 519
Chapter 520
Chapter 521
Chapter 522
Chapter 523
Chapter 524
Chapter 525
Chapter 526
Chapter 527
Chapter 528
Chapter 529
Chapter 530
Chapter 531
Chapter 532
Chapter 533
Chapter 534 - Chapter 534
Chapter 535
Chapter 536
Chapter 537
Chapter 538 - Chapter 538
Chapter 539
Chapter 540
Chapter 541
Chapter 542
Chapter 543
Chapter 544
Chapter 545
Chapter 546
Chapter 547
Chapter 548
Chapter 549
Chapter 550
Chapter 551
Chapter 552
Chapter 553
Chapter 554
Chapter 555
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Ongoing, Supernatural Status: Ongoing Alternative names: HR, 영웅; 회귀하다, ______
Total Chapters in book: 555
Estimated words: 1462055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 7310(@200wpm)___ 5848(@250wpm)___ 4874(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 1462055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 7310(@200wpm)___ 5848(@250wpm)___ 4874(@300wpm)
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Chapter 439: Chapter 439
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Ka-pow—!
The spear hurtling out of Ares’ hand quickly filled up Su-hyeun’s vision.
Bang—!
Su-hyeun hurriedly swung his sword to deflect the incoming spear. His hand had begun aching from numbness from parrying each attack.
“Just how many damn spears does he even have?” he thought.
It had only been a single breath ago that he had to urgently smack a spear away, yet another spear was instantly in Ares’ hand again. It seemed likely that his spears were not some specially crafted heavenly weapons but ordinary throwing spears that happened to contain the power of Ares.
“A spear can be used as a melee weapon or as a throwing weapon. And in a period as brief as a flash of light, you will often lose your window of opportunity just because you hesitated to throw your so-called valuable weapon,” said Ares before assuming a posture preparing for a throw once more..
Here it comes!
Paaaaang—!
Clang—!
Su-hyeun defended against yet another thrown spear. However, the impact force still lingered in his hand. Just how high was Ares’ Strength stat anyway? These spears contained the level of pure power Su-hyeun had not experienced before.
Ares continued, “For that purpose, there is no reason to use good spears. Rather than enhancing your combat strength, it is far more important to make that decision at the snap of a finger, after all. A good spear will only serve to muddy that decision-making process.”
“Even if that’s true, aren’t you too carefree with your spear wasting right now?”
“I have plenty of spears. Why should I conserve them in that case?” Ares retorted before assuming the familiar stance once more.
Su-hyeun had always been the one throwing spears during his fights, and maybe that was the reason why he wasn’t feeling so great at the current reversal of fortunes, so to speak.
“Since that’s the case…” Su-hyeun began thinking.
Ares finished assuming the stance, and then, another spear flew out from his hand.
Ka-boom—!
The spear tore through the air like a launched missile with the sound that it made, but almost at the same time, a different noise exploded from the opposite side.
RUMBLE—!
“What?!” Ares hurriedly raised his shield.
The impact arrived shortly after that.
KA-BOOOOOM—!
Ares, holding up the shield, quivered and jolted uncontrollably several times. He was barely able to prop himself up by strengthening his leg muscles, which prevented a humiliating spectacle of him getting helplessly flung away.
On the flip side, his arm with the shield required a lot of his strength to prop up.
Ares withdrew the shield, revealing his stunned face. There was a scorched spot in the center of the Temple.
He quietly muttered, “That’s father’s power.”
“Yes. Although it does take a bit of effort to pull off…”
Pazzzzzik—
Another spear emitting an amber-golden light materialized within Su-hyeun’s grip. “I can still create several more of it, no problem.”
Pazik, bzzzzzik—
The spear containing a stupendous amount of power affected the surroundings simply by materializing like this.
Ares glanced at the ashes scattered on the arena’s floor. Those were the remnant of a spear crafted by a fairly well-known blacksmithing god, although that individual was no Hephaestus.
Even so, a god-made spear couldn’t withstand a lightning bolt containing Zeus’s might, which disintegrated it into fine powder. It would be impossible to block the Thunderbolts unless the spear itself was a top-quality item, in other words.
“With things like this, spear-throwing won’t get me anywhere fast,” Ares inwardly mused.
Basically, Ares had lost one of his attacking options. No, actually, it would be more correct to say that one of the methods that proved to be more advantageous for him had now become his opponent’s advantage instead.
“In that case…”
Ares discarded his spear and then unsheathed his sword next. Unlike his spears, this sword was rather gorgeously designed. Its hilt was decorated with gold, while some types of metal in varying sizes and quantities could be seen embedded within the blades, enhancing the weapon’s cutting power.
That was definitely one of Hephaestus’ products.
The meaning behind Ares pulling his sword out was simple—he had chosen to change his battle strategy.
“So, it’s a sword this time,” Su-hyeun glanced down at his own sword. Then, while looking at the Thunderbolt he still had in his left hand, he muttered to no one in particular, “But I don’t need to play along, now do I?”
He began smirking deeply.
Right after that, Ares charged straight into Su-hyeun.
Pshuuuuak—!
Sliiiiice—!
He swung his sword downward to perfectly match his forward charge, but it only ended up cleaving the floor apart. Despite the Temple’s tough construction, a long but shallow sword scar was left behind. Ares stopped moving for a moment on the spot where Su-hyeun used to be and quickly looked around to locate his foe.
At that very moment, he sensed a presence above his head.
Rumble—!
Claaaang—!
Ares blocked the Thunderbolt falling on top of his head, causing his legs to buckle for a moment there.
The electrical energy from the lightning traveled down the sword at the same time and briefly paralyzed his hand. However, he ignored that and tried to leap to where Su-hyeun was, only for the latter to kick the air and rise even higher to create more distance between them.
The situation had reversed completely now.
Ares normally used his sword, spears, and shield to fight; he concluded that a long-range battle using spears was impossible to continue and gave up doing that, but now, Su-hyeun was the one throwing a bunch of spears at him.
“This has become a bit troublesome,” said Ares as he shed some cold sweat.
Even if the Thunderbolt couldn’t be thrown around willy-nilly, the destructive power contained in each shot still proved to be considerably lethal even to someone like Ares. No matter what, he had to avoid getting directly struck by one.
With one more danger to look out for, trying to wage close-quarter combat would be very hard to pull off.
“Not only that, but he’s also not too shabby up close, wasn’t he?” Ares recalled when he and Su-hyeun briefly fought in close quarters earlier.
The levels of their skills were quite evenly matched. However, Su-hyeun seemed to possess more trump cards, and this situation was proving to be too disadvantageous for Ares.
“In that case, time to change my strategy, then,” Ares suppressed a smirk from breaking out on his face.
* * *
Rumble—!
The Thunderbolt flashed brightly once more.
Ka-zzzzzzik—!
Kagagagak—!
Ares was shoved far back after he defended against another Thunderbolt with his shield. He was closing in for a melee just now only to suffer a considerable amount of damage from the lightning spear, and then, the distance between them widened even further.
“Fuu-woo…Let me tell you something, every one of these Thunderbolts feels exactly like when father smacks me around,” Ares quipped despite his whole body getting drenched in sweat.
Even Su-hyeun was in a similar state; the only difference was that he had shed less sweat than his opponent.
This battle had been going on for several hours already.
The way it unfolded remained largely the same since the beginning; Su-hyeun used Thunderbolts to create distance and continued to damage his opponent from afar.
When Ares did manage to get close, Su-hyeun responded with his own sword, dropped another Thunderbolt on top of the God of War, or even used his divine Flame to create distance again.
“Even then, I’m guessing you don’t have a lot more left in your reserve, now do you?” For the first time in several hours, Ares smirked again.
He could sense that the might of the Thunderbolt had decreased a lot. Su-hyeun had also become exhausted with the passage of enough time.
“It looks like you sweated a lot more than me, though?”
“A fight on this level is nothing more than a child’s play compared to my battles against the race of giants. I lost count how many times I was driven to death’s doorstep with my breath about to cut out at any moment.”
“Is that so?” Su-hyeun’s lips distorted into a smirk. If one wanted to talk about such a thing, then well, he could totally relate as someone who had already experienced death before. “Why don’t we find out who will be left standing in the end?”
“Very good.”
Whoooosh—
Ares raised his shield and charged toward Su-hyeun. He was going for a body slam here.
Kwa-aaaaah—!
With Ares charging in while tearing the atmosphere apart, he carried enough momentum to completely obliterate a huge mountain. He held his shield up to defend against the incoming Thunderbolt, only to sense something was not quite right, “Why isn’t there any attack?”
The Thunderbolt that came flying in like clockwork suddenly was nowhere to be found, so Ares briefly peeked over the shield to look, but right at that moment…
Fwhoooooosh—
A humongous storm of winds was already concentrating on Su-hyeun’s sword. “Blow away…”
Whoosh—
“Palm Leaf.”
Baaaaaang—!
The huge storm focused on one spot and began mercilessly pounding on Ares’ shield. The wind pressure borne out of an incredible amount of winds succeeded in forcing him back. Ares gritted his teeth and strengthened his grip on his shield.
Pa-zzzzzik—
The next thing he knew, a Thunderbolt materialized in Su-hyeun’s hand.
Ares clenched his teeth when he spotted the Thunderbolt visible just below his shield. “This punk, he suddenly changed his—”
Up until this moment, Su-hyeun always hurled a Thunderbolt whenever Ares tried to close in on him and created an extra distance that way.
However, he suddenly changed his tactic. He then relied on the Palm Leaf, not the usual Thunderbolt, to generate mighty wind pressure to disrupt Ares’ sense of balance.
If Ares was aware of this ahead of time, or if he had detected even a hint of what was about to come, then he would have never lost his balance like this. He would have probably made plans to deal with the second attack, too.
Unfortunately, Ares couldn’t respond to the unexpected second attack, which happened to be another round of Thunderbolt.
Ares’ whole body was now airborne from the Palm Leaf’s mighty winds, and he clenched his teeth as he witnessed the lightning spear leave Su-hyeun’s hand.
RUMBLE—!
Kwa-zzzzzzik-!
The Thunderbolt snuck under the slightly raised shield to slam into Ares’ torso, but at the same time…
Stab—!
A single spear came flying from out of nowhere and pierced deep into Su-hyeun’s shoulder.
“Kugh…!” Su-hyeun staggered from the impact.
The moment he fired his Thunderbolt, Ares also threw his own spear. Their timing was almost a perfect match.
Ares wasn’t the only one who got caught unawares just now. Su-hyeun also ended up overlooking the potential counterattack after their battle unfolded in a fixed pattern until now because Ares had not thrown a single spear during the past few hours.
“I let my guard down.”
Su-hyeun, having fired many Thunderbolts up to this point, was in a fatigued state. On top of that, the battle was fought in the same pattern for a while, so he ended up forgetting about Ares’ spears.
“Is this what he has been aiming for?”
Just like how Su-hyeun was biding his time and waiting for an opening to manifest by changing the attack pattern just once, Ares had also been holding onto a trump card.
Thanks to his carelessness, Su-hyeun now had an extra hole in his shoulder. Of course, Ares was also suffering from grievous injuries.
“Keuh-euh…This certainly stings.”
Pazzzik, bzzzz—
Ares distorted his torso while enduring the pain. He was already greatly exhausted by this battle, so the Thunderbolt ended up shocking his body, halfway paralyzing him.
Even if he belonged to the group of gods that possessed ridiculously strong physical bodies, there was no way he would emerge unscathed after getting struck directly by a Thunderbolt with how exhausted he was.
“So, how about it? You think you can continue?” Ares began walking over to Su-hyeun while quivering and twisting his paralyzed body.
Even though he was obviously exhausted, the light burning in his eyes was still going strong. It even seemed to be burning fiercer than ever before.
This fight was reaching its climax, it seemed.
Su-hyeun asked back, “Are you seriously asking me that in your current state?”
“Well, you also have a new air hole in your shoulder, after all, and it seems that you are not aware of this, so let me clarify it for you. This level of injury is nothing to me.”
It didn’t look like Ares was bluffing, either.
His body must have been truly monstrous because, during their brief verbal exchange, his paralysis seemed to have come undone.
At this rate, he would only go down for the count after getting struck by a few more Thunderbolts.
Puu-wuuk—!
Su-hyeun yanked out the spear in his shoulder. It had really been a long time since he got wounded to this degree. To him, the level of pain was just as intense, but his pain tolerance was quite extraordinary, to begin with.
Also…
“Even then, it seems that I still hold more trump cards than you, Ares.”
[The trait, “Hero – Immortality,” is activating.]
[Vitality and stamina will rapidly recover. The abnormal status, “bleeding,” will partially heal.]
[Physical abilities will be greatly enhanced.]
Sizzle—
Su-hyeun’s wound rapidly closed up, and all of the sweat pouring out from his body nonstop evaporated and became a fog of moisture.
Ares’ brows shot up at this unbelievable spectacle.
It sure had been a long time since Su-hyeun had to rely on this skill. What had taken even longer to happen was a battle like this one where his stamina and energy were almost completely depleted, and he was even injured during the battle itself.
Squeeze—
Su-hyeun clenched his fist tightly.
This much was already good; he could get back to fighting in this state.
“The duration is around 15 minutes,” he thought.
Once that was over, the skill’s effects of temporarily enhancing his stamina, as well as stemming the bleeding, would vanish. Even then, 15 minutes should be more than sufficient to put the exclamation point in this battle’s climax.
“Well, then…”
The scale that had been balancing itself precariously had suddenly tilted to one side.
“Why don’t we continue?”
Total Chapters in book: 555
Estimated words: 1462055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 7310(@200wpm)___ 5848(@250wpm)___ 4874(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 1462055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 7310(@200wpm)___ 5848(@250wpm)___ 4874(@300wpm)
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