Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant-Chapter 449

Right after he stepped into the portal, pitch-black darkness covered Su-ho.

Right.

It was like this back then, too.

The boss room here was a world of darkness.

So in his previous life, Suzuki had maintained a light magic spell until the fight was over.

Otherwise, you couldn’t see even an inch in front of you.

But the current Su-ho was fine.

[ By the effect of Original Vampire, you do not receive the restriction effect of darkness. ]

By the effect of Original Vampire, the darkness was inverted, and the world looked like daytime.

At the same time, Su-ho could see it.

The final place where the last boss battle would take place.

‘Nothing’s changed.’

Like Gyeonwoo and Jiknyeo, Su-ho and the boss monster were far apart from each other.

Only, unlike Gyeonwoo and Jiknyeo, who face each other, the boss monster was looking down at Su-ho from way up high.

And the countless floating stones suspended between them.

That was right.

If you wanted to properly fight the master of this place, you had to step on all those floating stones, climb up, and face the bastard directly.

‘What a damn annoying theme.’

On top of that, the boss monster here was a being Su-ho already knew well.

Because Girard, the examiner of the previous test field, was the master of this place.

Su-ho lifted his head and looked at Girard.

Sitting cross-legged like a Buddha, Girard was made of the same material as a gigantic statue, and his face was so vicious you couldn’t tell if he was some kind of goblin or an underworld asura.

And not only that—maybe he really wanted to show off how many fingers he had, but in addition to the pair of hands placed on his crossed knees, there were a whole three more pairs of hands on his back.

‘Still, as a so-called boss, he had exactly two more arms than the Gatekeeper of the Desert.’

Girard was sitting like a sleeping seated Buddha.

There was only one condition to wake him.

To light even a single handful of light in this place filled only with darkness.

The moment light fell upon this place, Girard would open his eyes and pour ceaseless attacks toward Su-ho.

Which was why Su-ho couldn’t help but laugh.

‘In my previous life I had a pretty hard time because of this damned condition. But this time the situation’s a bit different, huh?’

If you had to put it into words, you could say he’d twisted his own fate himself?

Letting out a snort of laughter, Su-ho immediately summoned Guiyeong Spear and threw it toward the distant Girard.

“Go, Guiyeong! Go pierce him!”

[ Throw is activated. ]

Swoooosh!

The thrown Guiyeong Spear flew fiercely toward Girard’s head.

With the effect of Throw, the Guiyeong Spear, which had been flying like an arrow, soon turned into a ferocious beast and charged mercilessly toward Girard’s head, which was comfortably resting with his eyes closed.

Crunch!

[ Shadow Pierce is activated. ]

[ Shadow Shackles is activated. ]

[ Shadow Bleed is activated. ]

The effects were proper.

The darkness laid down to hinder challengers, ironically, became poison and began mercilessly punching holes in Girard’s body.

“Nice, that’s it!”

The first phase of Girard had only one rule.

The moment you lit light in the boss room filled only with darkness, he would pour attacks onto wherever the light fell.

At a glance it sounded like a simple rule, but there were three reasons why it was difficult.

First, most Players weren’t used to fighting in the dark; second, Girard was way too far away; and lastly, third, Girard was stupidly big and insanely tough.

But all of this was meaningless in front of Guiyeong Spear’s special option.

In the darkness under the shadows, Guiyeong Spear pierced through everything, no matter what material it was.

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!

Guiyeong worked hard.

Su-ho watched that scene in a relaxed posture.

Of course, compared to the gigantic Girard, the size of the wounds Guiyeong carved out was on the small side.

But even so, Su-ho stayed still.

‘I’m not some speedrun challenger who stakes his life on cutting clear times, so there’s no need to waste my strength.’

This wasn’t a game, it was reality.

So if he could conserve his strength, it was best to conserve it as much as possible.

Throwing yourself at a problem that would resolve itself even if you did nothing was nothing more than a dumb show-off move.

How much time passed like that?

Kwadududud... crackle!

The sound of cracking and shattering.

The tunneling rally of Guiyeong’s piercing, which had been eating into him like rot, finally—

Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

[ Girard’s arm has been destroyed. ]

—showed off the feat of dropping one of Girard’s arms.

Kwooooom!

One of Girard’s arms, which had been attached high above, fell down and created a huge roar.

At the same time, Girard, who hadn’t budged at all, finally began to move.

Rumble rumble rumble rumble!

“A lowly thing dares to stir up trouble after all.”

[ Girard becomes enraged. ]

[ Girard uses boss monster-grade Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ By {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear does not apply. ]

An overwhelming voice filled the entire boss room.

At the same time, Girard began to move in earnest.

“So you’re finally moving.”

As Girard moved, Su-ho immediately kicked off the ground and began his self-buffs.

[ Blessing is activated. ]

[ Holy Enchant is activated. ]

[ Mana Perception is activated. ]

[ Endurance is activated. ]

[ Enhancement is activated. ]

[ Eye of the Blacksmith is activated. ]

Buff skill effects raged around him.

Now he no longer had to worry about light.

Whether the surroundings were bright or not, whether light was generated or not, that damned Girard was going to start launching indiscriminate attacks anyway.

And Su-ho’s buffs didn’t end there.

[ Sword Aura is activated. ]

Now, a single line had been added to his existing self-buffs.

As Sword Aura was activated, a blue aura began to surge around Su-ho’s Blood Sword.

He did not summon Cheolma.

It was because of the countless floating stones scattered everywhere.

It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Cheolma.

It was just that, right now, rather than performing acrobatic flight on Cheolma, it was far more efficient to step on the floating stones spread all around.

Su-ho lightly stepped on the floating stones and started to run toward Girard.

Then, still sitting in place, Girard began to shoot the seven remaining arms toward Su-ho as if throwing fists at him.

[ Girard uses Dark Crushing Fist. ]

The second phase had begun.

The surroundings were still dark, and the only light was the flashes whenever a skill was used, but even so, Girard punched accurately toward Su-ho.

However, even though he had started moving in earnest, Girard’s butt was apparently so heavy that it stayed glued to his spot.

‘In the second phase all he uses are that damn huge voice and those multiple fists. So I can deal with him easily!’

Stepping on the floating stones and using the double jump of Leap, Su-ho rapidly closed the distance with Girard.

Around that time, the first fist broke through, flying straight at Su-ho.

Su-ho did not dodge it.

Instead, he stepped on a floating stone and soared up, then stepped on empty air once more, increasing the acceleration of his charge toward the fist.

Then he spun his body and swung his sword.

[ Diamond Severance is activated. ]

Flash!

Kwagwagwagwagwagwa!

He spun his body and swung his sword.

In that process, Diamond Severance naturally activated, and Vacuum Style Form 5, imbued with Sword Aura, exploded in a flash for an instant in the pitch-black darkness.

[ Girard’s arm has been destroyed. ]

“What?!”

The result was a brutally clean, chilling severance.

Girard’s fist, which had been hurtling fiercely toward Su-ho, split apart like a bamboo stalk being cleaved, and Girard’s eyes widened infinitely like those of a person who had just witnessed something unbelievable.

Su-ho sent Sound Transmission toward Girard.

If you’re already that surprised by just this much, that’s going to be a problem, you know?

“What did you say?”

After giving a bratty warning, Su-ho immediately stepped on another floating stone and, in the same way, began to destroy the other arms one by one.

Flash! Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

[ Girard’s arm has been destroyed. ]

Tap— flash! Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

[ Girard’s arm has been destroyed. ]

Tap— flash! Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

[ Girard’s arm has been destroyed. ]

......

He stepped on a floating stone, leaped up, and swung his sword to create light.

What followed after that was only the destruction of things being split cleanly in two.

That entire sequence proceeded like a machine, without a single error.

“A rat-like bastard is doing something utterly ridiculous!!”

[ Girard becomes enraged. ]

[ Girard uses Dark Crushing Fist. ]

[ Girard uses boss monster-grade Fear. ]

[ Dragon Blood is activated. ]

[ By the Dragon Mind effect of Dragon Blood, Fear does not apply. ]

Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

The enraged Girard screamed like a madman and whipped his remaining fists around like whips.

But Su-ho had no intention of sweating to dodge them.

[ You enter the Subspace House. ]

Right as he finished casting Diamond Severance, Su-ho fell backward in midair and at the same time entered the Subspace House.

Then, in a posture more relaxed than anyone else, he watched Girard’s frenzy.

But as he watched that scene, he felt a strangely odd sensation.

‘Man, were Girard’s fists always this tofu-like? No, was Girard as a being really this easy to deal with?’

He had known since forever that Sword Aura was an incredible power and that Diamond Severance was a powerful technique.

He had already gone through all of that.

But the one enduring all of that was Girard.

The same Girard that he and his comrades, who were called the strongest of humanity in his previous life, had barely hunted down by forcing their way through together.

Yet the Girard in front of his eyes now was so trivial in difficulty that the efforts of his previous life felt like a dream.

Even if he had entered the Big Gate the moment it opened, and even if he had come in alone so the difficulty was reduced by as much as 90%.

Then should he be thanking the system that had sent him back in time?

‘No, there’s no need for that.’

Su-ho had seen clearly through the Library of Memories.

He hadn’t been chosen and forcibly regressed by the system; rather, because he was the first to master an SS-grade skill... in other words, he had obtained the qualifications and received regression as a special privilege as a form of reward.

‘Which means I have to grow much faster and stronger and move further forward.’

Just as Girard’s frenzy was coming to an end, Su-ho popped out of the Subspace House.

Then, stepping on a floating stone again, he cut down the arm of the bastard that had entered a lull.

[ Diamond Severance is activated. ]

Kwagwagwagwagwa!!

[ Girard’s arm has been destroyed. ]

Just like that, he cut off yet another arm.

Now there were only one pair left.

Seeing that, Su-ho laughed.

‘Now it’s finally starting to look like something worth watching.’

What is he, some kind of super strength monster—why the hell does he have eight arms?

After cutting off the sixth arm, Su-ho retreated far back.

Because the moment the bastard had only two arms left, Girard’s third phase would begin.

Sure enough.

“Coddle you a little and you just don’t know where to stop!!”

Girard’s furious voice rang out, booming.

[ Girard goes into a rage. ]

At the same time—

Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!

Girard, who could no longer hold back, finally began to rise from his seat. And then—

[ Girard uses Dominion of the Desert Ruler. ]

Dominion of the Desert Ruler.

It was something that activated the moment Girard’s third phase began.

[ Girard restores all of his destroyed arms. ]

[ Girard’s health is fully restored. ]

It was also one of the most infuriating skills that had driven Su-ho’s party into despair in his previous life.

But Su-ho laughed.

‘That’s how it was in my previous life.’

Su-ho’s eyes shone.

Because it was finally time to use the new skills of Rage Crusader.