Chapter 78

I Am Not a Reincarnator Chapter 78

Streaming of the Genius Awakened (7)

“Gaaaaah!!”

The man trembled as if his pinky toe had been stepped on, screamed, and ran forward.

“What, what is it?”

“Why is he like that?”

The people gathered in the narrow entrance gaped at the man.

From their perspective, it must have looked like he suddenly screamed and ran toward the hydra, so their reaction was understandable.

‘Wow, this is really effective.’

Oh Jin chuckled as he watched the man, who was running forward with his eyes rolled back.

The technique he had just used was a crude imitation of the skill Vega had used to subdue the Neglish by sending lightning precisely between their gills.

[…Did you just copy that after seeing it once?]

“I practiced while I was hospitalized.”

The practice of controlling lightning minutely for ten days had finally paid off.

[No, just ten days of practice… Hah. Whatever.]

Vega sighed and shook her head, clearly tired of arguing.

“Kerrrrrrrrrk!!!”

The hydra’s gaze focused on the man who was screaming and running forward.

“Aaah.”

The man, who had been screaming, looked up at the hydra with a pale, terrified face.

“S-Save me!! Please, save me!!”

He turned to his party members and shouted desperately.

“Y-You bastards!!!”

But, of course, no one moved.

“Grrrrrrr!”

One of the nine heads moved like a tentacle and aimed at the man.

The giant mouth opened wide, revealing sharp, venomous fangs.

Oh Jin activated the constellation mark of the Hunting Dog and carefully observed the hydra’s movements.

‘Fast.’

Indeed, as a boss among 7-star monsters, its movements were incredibly swift.

Was it just fast?

The head, which must have weighed several tons, was also equipped with sharp fangs, making it clear how threatening it was without even engaging it.

‘But.’

He smirked and gripped his spear.

Compared to the pressure he felt from Ashad Khan, this was nothing.

-BOOM!!

A leg wrapped in blue lightning kicked the ground.

He straightened his bent waist and sprinted forward.

“Kerrrrrrrk!”

“Aaaaaah!!”

The hydra’s attention was completely focused on the man.

He swept his spear low to the ground.

‘Lightning Flame (雷炎).’

He slashed upward roughly.

-Zzzzzzzt!

The spear blade, enveloped in blue flames, pierced the part of the neck with fewer green scales.

“Huh!”

“Kiiiiiiieeek!!”

He swung the spear like a paddle, tearing through the flesh.

Green bodily fluid splattered onto the ground.

“Kerrrrrrrk!”

“Kerak!”

Two of the nine heads moved quickly to target Oh Jin.

-Whoosh!

“Where do you think you’re going!”

Haeun ran over quickly, spreading her arms wide.

Snap!

A burst of flames shot out as she flicked her fingers, wrapping around the hydra’s heads.

“Kerarararark!”

“Ugh!”

The hydra, engulfed in flames, thrashed violently.

“Oh Jin! This thing is too strong! I can’t hold on long!”

“Got it.”

He roughly pulled the spear that had been tearing through the flesh.

Swoosh!

The neck, split in half, dangled.

“Huh.”

He took a deep breath and extended his arm toward the left head that Haeun was restraining.

Clang!

A wire shot out from the gun and wrapped around the hydra’s neck.

His body shot up, following the thrashing head.

‘If I shoot another wire here.’

Clang!

As soon as the wire wrapped around the right head, it began to contract rapidly.

-Boom!

“Kerrrrrk!”

The rapidly contracting wire caused the left and right heads to collide.

A new feature of the upgraded wire shooter allowed the length of the wire to be freely adjusted based on the amount of magic power fed into it, enabling even more diverse movements.

“Good job!! Our Oh Jin is amazing!!”

Haeun smiled and crossed her arms in an X, pulling down.

The flames that had been binding the two heads transformed into sharp blades, severing the hydra’s neck.

“Brat! More are coming!”

Riak jumped high, stepping on the wire.

He swung his front claws at the approaching hydra head, aiming at Oh Jin in mid-air.

-Zzzzzzzt!

The lightning claws viciously slashed the hydra’s eyes.

“Kerrrrrrrrrk!!”

Even as its eyes split, the hydra whipped its head at Oh Jin like a whip.

[What a tenacious creature!]

Vega, who had been hovering near Oh Jin, extended her hand.

Blue lightning spread like a spider web, repelling the hydra’s head.

“Nice!”

Oh Jin took advantage of the opening and charged, slashing with his spear.

Green scales split, and blood gushed out like a waterfall.

“Kerrrrrk!!”

Thud! Boom!

The hydra, with four of its nine heads reduced to mush, stumbled backward.

“Wow!”

“W-Didn’t the guild say it was a 4-star with the brain?”

“Who is that woman? She doesn’t seem to be at a level that should be here.”

The awakened ones, who had been huddled at the entrance, ready to flee, stopped and stared in amazement at Oh Jin’s party overpowering the hydra.

-What a cool move;

-Did you see the brain’s movement just now? It’s so epic

-That guardian and pet are amazing too

-Where do you get such things?

The viewers watching the live stream also showered praise.

“I will join as well!”

Perhaps seeing that the situation was winnable, Jerry Kim began to rain arrows on the hydra.

‘This is easier than I thought.’

Oh Jin frowned as he watched the hydra retreating.

He had already turned four of the nine heads into rags.

Now, only five heads remained intact.

At this rate, he could turn those five into mush soon.

Then.

“Oh Jin! That thing is regenerating?!”

Bubbling.

The hydra’s neck, which had been split in half, began to regenerate rapidly, as if boiling.

“Yeah. It felt too easy.”

Tsk. He clicked his tongue and watched the hydra regenerating its wounds at an alarming rate.

“Kerrrrrk!!”

The hydra, having regenerated two of the four heads in an instant, roared viciously and resumed its attack.

‘Wait. Two heads?’

Oh Jin narrowed his eyes and observed the hydra.

The heads that had been burned by Haeun’s flames were regenerating more slowly.

‘Do burns regenerate more slowly?’

If so.

“Sis! When I cut the remaining heads, burn the cut surfaces!”

“Got it!!”

Nodding, Haeun stepped back and kicked off.

Clang!

He shot into the air via the wire and slashed viciously with his spear.

-Swoosh!!

The spear blade, enveloped in blue lightning, severed the hydra’s neck.

“Oh Jin, move!!”

Whoosh!

Flames shot toward the severed surface.

As the red flames, moving freely in the air like a living thing, approached the bleeding surface, the hydra’s remaining six heads spewed thick green bodily fluid, covering the flames.

Sizzle!

The flames died down with a hiss and a cloud of smoke.

“Damn! What is this?!”

Haeun shouted, frustrated.

‘It’s guarding against the flames.’

Oh Jin narrowed his eyes as he watched the hydra.

The hydra also seemed to consider Haeun’s flames the most threatening.

‘Then, I need to reduce the remaining heads as much as possible━’

Rumble!

Before he could cut another head, the severed head had already regenerated.

The regeneration took only about five seconds.

It was too fast.

“What?”

It wasn’t this fast before.

“Oh, Oh Jin! This is strange! I’ve never heard of the hydra regenerating this fast… Ugh!”

Boom!!

The regenerated head whipped toward Jerry Kim like a whip.

Jerry Kim stopped shooting arrows and rolled on the ground urgently.

‘Strange.’

As Jerry Kim said.

This was an abnormal regeneration speed.

[My child! The star energy within that monster has suddenly doubled!]

Upon hearing Vega’s words and observing closely, he noticed a faint blue light emanating from the hydra’s body.

“…Damn.”

The phenomenon occurring within this gate.

The coexistence of two holy relics within a single monster had led to this result.

“Oh Jin, this seems impossible?”

Haeun shouted, raising a massive wall of flames to block the green bodily fluid raining from all directions.

“No.”

There is a way.

‘It’s just fast at regenerating, but its durability isn’t strong.’

He had just severed one head with a single spear strike.

‘Then.’

It took five seconds for a head to be severed and regenerate.

“I need to cut all seven heads within that time.”

Then, there would be no way to block her flames.

“…What?”

[My child, even if you do that….]

Haeun and Vega looked at Oh Jin with incredulous expressions.

“There’s no other way.”

If there was no other way.

He would do his best with what he could.

[…I will bless you.]

“Later.”

He shook his head.

Vega’s blessing was a last resort.

He would try everything he could, and if it still didn’t work, he could receive the blessing later.

And most importantly.

[But if you get hurt in the process….]

“Vega.”

He spoke softly.

“When you are restrained by the law, isn’t it very painful?”

[That.]

He didn’t need to hear the answer.

He had seen her writhing in pain many times when she was restrained.

“It’s the same.”

Just as she wished for him not to get hurt.

He also wished for her not to suffer.

‘At first, she was just a target to boost my morale.’

But now, she had become an irreplaceable warmth in his life.

[My, my child.]

Vega looked at Oh Jin with a face as red as an apple.

“Please assist me. Riak too.”

“Hmph. I was going to do it anyway.”

Though her tone was brusque.

For some reason, it didn’t feel unpleasant.

“Alright.”

He lowered his stance.

The time limit was five seconds.

Within that time━

“Exceed.”

He would sever all seven heads.

-Zzzzzzzt!!!

Blue lightning enveloped his body.

-BOOM!!

He kicked off the ground forcefully and shot into the air.

‘First one.’

Swoosh!

The spear blade, enveloped in blue flames, split the hydra’s head.

‘Two, three.’

He kicked off the severed surface and cut two more heads.

“Kerrrrrk?!”

The hydra urgently pulled back its remaining four heads.

Clang! Clang!

He shot wires to wrap around two heads.

“Five.”

Crack!!

The explosive lightning that flowed through the wires burst the two heads.

‘Time remaining.’

2 seconds.

‘Damn it.’

The remaining two heads were already far away.

Even if he ran now.

He couldn’t make it in time.

‘Faster.’

He concentrated all his magic power into his legs.

To the limit.

No.

Beyond the limit!

“Haaaaaaaah!!”

He roared and kicked off.

Blue lightning enveloped his entire leg.

No.

It went beyond just enveloping━

His legs momentarily became ‘lightning’.

-Ding!

[You have acquired a clue to ‘Lightning God Body (雷神體)’.]

[The skill ‘Exceed Lv2’ has advanced to ‘Exceed Lv3’!]

The lightning surged explosively.

His body shot forward at an incredible speed, as if he had jet engines on his feet.

-Swoosh!!

“Kiiiiiiieeek!!”

All seven heads were severed.

“Sis!!!!”

He turned in mid-air to look at Haeun.

“The rest is up to me!!”

Giant fire dragons emerged from Haeun’s arms.

This time, it wasn’t just one.

A total of seven fire dragons rose from her arms.

“Ugh!”

Haeun touched her left eye, which seemed to be in pain.

A grotesque vein covered her left eye and extended over her cheek to her neck.

“Haa, haa!”

Rough breaths escaped from Haeun’s mouth.

It hurt.

She felt a crushing pain as if her eyeball was being pressed.

‘But.’

This level of pain.

Compared to the immense pain Oh Jin had endured, it was nothing.

‘If our Oh Jin could endure it…!’

If she couldn’t endure this, she wouldn’t be his sister.

“Die, you bastard!”

Whoosh!!

A massive flame erupted.

The dragon’s eyes glowed ferociously, targeting the decapitated hydra.

-Sizzle!!!

The seven fire dragons wrapped around the severed necks of the hydra.

The smell of burning flesh filled the tunnel with a hiss and a cloud of smoke.

-Boom!

The hydra’s massive body, over 20 meters long, fell to the ground.

“Haa! Haa!”

“Good job, sis.”

Oh Jin approached her, who was panting heavily.

“…Good job? I just landed the final blow, that’s all.”

“It’s not something you can say so easily, you know?”

She may have said it was just the final blow.

But in reality, she had only one second to act.

‘It took four seconds to cut all the heads.’

In the remaining one second.

She had to burn all seven severed surfaces.

In a sense, she had it tougher than he did.

“C-Cough! Whatever, I get it.”

Haeun coughed and turned her head away.

“…What?”

Then.

Oh Jin’s eyes widened as he noticed something.

“Sis, that….”

He pointed to her chest.

“What about my chest? Is it amazing? Hehe. I know, bastard.”

“No.”

What is she talking about.

“It’s glowing.”

“…The chest?”

“The constellation mark, damn it.”