[The twelfth seal on the returnee, Myung Ilsang, has been lifted.]
[The thirteenth seal on the returnee, Myung Ilsang, has been lifted.]
[The fourteenth seal on the returnee, Myung Ilsang, has been lifted.]
Just as all three of them came across Ilsang with these notifications popping up. A purple beam of light started forming around his fingers again.
As he attacked the people who had answered his questions not long, Dokja, Sooyoung and Ken also had to immediately move away to save themselves.
Unlike before, where the beam was neither strong, nor big. This time it was not only really big, but also strong enough to decimate whatever that was in front of it.
"What… how are we supposed to defeat him now?" Han Sooyoung said, kind of in a despair seeing his firepower.
But even at that moment, Dokja acted like a pragmatist and was saying things like getting better rewards if he is stronger. While, him being stronger only kept on making Ken's body stiffen up more.
Ilsang was still looking for any survivors who had survived that attack. Then suddenly. "I found you! You are still here! Huh? Oh, you are those people from the hunter's association.
Good, I was looking for you guys anyway. You really ruined my plan for a glorious return, right?"
As all three of them tried their best to run away, Ilsang was still babbling nonsense like he always does.
"Teach a lesson to some S grade incarnation, beat up some cocky coalitions, make love to pretty women.
I was planning to turn over a new leaf. But look at what you guys did, I look like a villain now.
What are you going to do about this?!"
Even as they were desperately running as fast as they could, Ilsang still easily catched up to them.
With one punch from both of his fists, he was able to smack both Han Sooyoung and Kim Dokja really far away.
Just as he was about to attack Ken, Ken grabbed his hair again. Knowing what Ken was about to do, he grabbed Ken's arm in order to push him away. But he had used too little strength knowing Ken is weaker than others physically.
[Strength (lvl 31) > Strength (lvl 60).]
[Constitution (lvl 34) > Constitution (lvl 60.]
[Agility (lvl 29) > Agility (lvl 60).]
[51,900 coins have been used.]
[Your stats have reached the limit set by the scenario.]
[Some of your stats surpass the limit set by the scenario.]
Ken grabbed Ilsang's hair as hard as he could before banging his head against Ilsung's, then immediately followed by an elbow strike to the side of the jaw, then the temple, then another uppercut to the jaw.
Unlike the last time, Ken had integrated more moves this time. Without giving Ilsung any time, Ken grabbed his head again and did a knee strike directly at Ilsung's face.
Ken quickly formed a fist, closing his hand as tightly as possible then saying. "Release." Immediately followed by a punch directly at Ilsang's chest. Which would have normally smacked him far away, but Ken had grabbed him by his hair.
And again, Ken grabbed one of Ilsang's arms, leaned his back against Ilsang and threw him on the ground as hard as he could. Even then, Ken didn't want to take any chances and started stomping Ilsang's head, which was hard as hell.
Blood was flowing out of the catastrophe's head, but suddenly Ilsang moved and grabbed Ken's leg.
Before Ken could realize anything, Ilsang was already smacking him on the ground repeatedly.
Ken couldn't understand what was happening, he was pretty sure Ilsang shouldn't be able to move with such intense disorientation, but he did.
As Ilsang lifted Ken up by grabbing on his neck. He asked. "You actually are way stronger than I had expected. How did you do that? No, no, no. I should be asking… How is your broken arm fine again?"
Then he immediately smacked Ken on the ground and asked him again.
"You really gave me a hard time. Look at what you have done, my entire face is covered in blood. Do you know how bad I must look?"
He paused for a second before asking again. "Do you know what a human's biggest vital point is after the brain?"
Unlike the other times, Ken instinctively replied to him, since he could feel something bad was about to happen.
"W-What?"
[The fifteenth question has been answered.]
[The fifteenth seal on the returnee, Myung Ilsang, has been lifted.]
Ilsang lifted Ken, still holding him by his neck, and said. "It's the heart, dumbass!"
Before Ken could do anything, he felt a sudden, yet unbelievably intense pang in his chest. As Ilsang threw him away, Ken's vision started to become blurry at a fast rate.
His ears were ringing and his head felt extremely heavy. He was coughing, coughing up blood. He was having a hard time breathing and it felt like he was going to throw up.
The nervous system in his entire body was running at full power, almost like it's on fire.
And the worst feeling… he could not feel anything in his chest. Like something is missing in there.
At that moment, countless questions kept popping up in Ken's brain in a short period of time. But there were two questions that came at last, yet stayed the strongest.
First being. 'Am I about to die? But death is supposed to be painful… way more painful than anything I have experienced… right… it is ORV, so death shouldn't be… as bad."
And the second being. "When am I going to finish my novel? It only had six chapters before I was transmigrated here. I had planned for five volumes with five hundred chapters each… it meant there was about to be two thousand and five five hundred chapters…
But I couldn't even get past chapter ten… I am an author… a half-assed one at that… is my desire to create a new story really not sincere that I didn't deserve the author attribute?"
—***—
"Hey. What was your name again?"
"It's Ken. Kennedy to be exact."
"Ah, right. Anyway, what was it about you saying that you were an author or whatever the first time we met?" She asked, a bit curious.
"That? Yes. I'm an author… a rookie to be exact, it has been barely half a year since I started writing."
"Then does that mean you have the author attribute?" She asked, a bit perplexed, since she never saw Ken use the avatar skill at all.
"That? I don't have it. I guess the star stream thought that my sincerity to create a new story wasn't enough." He replied while scratching the back of his head, since he didn't know anything better.
"Hmm… so that is how it is. Guess all authors aren't sincere with their stories." She muttered under her breath before looking at Ken again.
She looked at him for a while with a suspicious look on her face before saying. "That simply means you truly are a third rate author."
This simple thing was enough to hit Ken's nerves and make him start chasing Sooyoung. She really did that on purpose, since any author will be angered when they are called that.