Life Howling

The sounds coming from the back made me frown. It’s their first time… I guess it can’t be helped.

Damn it.

“Hye-Won and miss Yoon-Ji?”

“You can just call me by my name.”

“Whatever. I want you to stick to the wall.”

I turned around as quickly as I could. I ran towards the staircase entrance, which became a pillar, to put my hand on its surface.

“Basic Divine Light. Basic Divine Light. Basic Divine Light.”

Hwahhk.

The Divine Power within me began depleting rapidly. I guess using this ten times in a row does reduce the amount of power that’s within me.

I know it’ll recover on its own, but it’ll be some time until it’s fully recharged. This was something that I knew very well deep inside.

Damn.

Is this all the Divine Power can do?

“Stick to the wall. And attack everything that comes toward you.”

“Yes, ahjusshi.”

“Okay.”

I turned around after hearing their response. The two high schoolers were still not getting what was going on.

Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.
Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud. Thud.

The steps got louder and louder. I could see some of the guys who were making the steps from the Divine Light I put up earlier.

Skeleton warriors.

A fuck ton of it at that!

Damn!

Is this the dungeon we’re supposed to survive from?

“You guys come here!”

“We, we’re…”

“Hurry up!”

“Okay!”

Two of them got closer.

“You. You guard the girl here with the bow, got it? Guard her. There’s nowhere to run so just do it. And, you. You guard this girl here, got it? You two will be tankers. You know what tankers are, right?”

“T, tankers? From games?”

“Yes, that’s it.”

Although they were dumbfounded, they nodded as if they understood what I said and walked over to the location I wanted them at.

Hye-Won and Yoon-Ji put their backs against the pillar and stuck right next to each other. I placed the high schoolers just where I need them.

Thud. Thud. Clack. Clack.

“The… skeleton looks…”

“What the fuck is that.”

Fear must be setting in them because they were mumbling as their voices began to crack.

“Snap out of it, you bastards! Do you want to die? If you don’t get your shit together, you’ll end up dying right here!”

I raised my flail after yelling at them. Shahhh. I’m further depleting the Divine Power by using Steel Body Technique on my body.

As I felt the power flow through me, I could see the Skeleton Warriors walk past the Basic Divine Light I had set up earlier.

I could see smoke coming from their body, but it wasn’t doing much against them since the light wasn’t concentrated on a single monster like before. They just kept walking towards us.

Damn. If I knew this was going to happen, I would’ve set the whole damn place with the Divine Light like a damn night club!

Hwahhhk!

That’s when it happened. I saw a fireball at the size of my head in front of me. There was about ten of it, and they all began flying in all directions.

Hrrrrr!

The fireballs don’t explode. They just put everything to flame. It spreads the fire on its enemy and burns it to crisp.

kyahhhh!

An unwanted and disturbing screech claws its ways into my ears. It was the sound of the Skeleton Warriors screaming as they fell.

“uwahhk!”

“Ahhk!”

The two high schoolers covered their ears like they could try to stop the noise from going through.

Looking at those two, something came to mind. I turned around and placed my hand on the thin one’s head.

“Basic Blessing.”

Pahht.

A blue-ish light covered his boy. He still had his stupid look on his face like “huh,” as he slowly took his hands off his ears.

“Basic Blessing.”

I did the same for his friend next to him.

“Basic Blessing.”

I guess they were coming back to their senses . 

Puk!

I smacked his head as I yelled something.

“Pull your shit together! Do you want to die!”

“Ah, okay!”

“Weapon up! Shield up!”

I turned my body around and began stepping forward towards the enemies. Hordes of Skeleton Warriors with black smoke coming from their corpses were making their way towards us.

I began smashing my way through them with my flail.

Kazaak!

Their bones were breaking left and right. 

Kyaahhh.

Another disturbing screech as they fell to the ground with smoke coming out from their mouths. They stop moving.

Yeah, my light might not be all that powerful, but it weakens them enough!

Sheek.

I reduced the amount of Divine Power being consumed inside me. I pushed forward by minimizing the Divine Power output in order to maintain the Steel Body Technique to balance the Divine Power flowing in me through the heart.

Tang! Tang! Tang! Tang! Tang! Tang!

I shot my Nail Gun at them. The nails were infused with Divine Power. 

The nails shot right through them; leaving nothing but sparks behind.

It’s effective after all!

Even with all the Skeleton Warriors we’ve defeated so far, it still wasn’t enough. We barely cracked through the ice. They were just going to keep on coming.

Damn. There’s no point to having a long-distance weapon in a situation like this. Do I need to go jack a bomb somewhere? Or, should I just make one?

I threw the Nail Gun aside. I didn’t have time to put it back in the Holy Bag with everything that was going on. 

I gripped my flail again.

“Haaap!”

Kwang!