Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 437

“Keuk, are you curious?”

At Su-ho’s question, this time Alex’s eyes took on a strange light.

“If you’re curious, join us. Then I’ll tell you.”

“Yeah, I figured you’d say that.”

Su-ho nodded.

Good.

With that answer, he understood everything.

Looks like there really is someone behind them.

That was enough.

If those two knew it, then prying out the rest would be a walk in the park.

Su-ho thought for a moment.

“Okay, I’ve decided.”

“Oh, yeah? Then of course you’ll come with—”

Snap!

Cutting off Alex’s words, Su-ho snapped his fingers.

Then, instead of Nguyen—whose snow-white, straight teeth like rice noodles had been so charming—the man reverted to his original appearance.

“Huh?”

“?!”

The instant Nguyen’s appearance changed, Alex and Hex both froze.

Their eyes widened and their hearts pounded.

Their muscles went rigid.

It felt like the blood in their heads went cold, gooseflesh rushed up all at once, and they felt the trickle of cold sweat.

Su-ho smiled.

“Why are you so startled?”

“A—An Su-ho?”

“Yeah, it’s me. You’re thrilled to death to see me, right?”

Chajajak! Boom!

At the same time as the greeting, Su-ho lifted the foot that had frozen together with the ground.

His foot came up with the ice sheet so easily, and the shock shattered all the surrounding ice slabs.

[ Blood Armory is activated. ]

As the skill fired, a blood-forged sword settled into Su-ho’s hand.

He gave it a light swing.

Chajajak! Fwoooom!!

The surrounding ice slabs all shattered and Hiro’s restraints were loosed.

[ You have slain a Wild Rabbit. ]

[ You have slain a Wild Rabbit. ]

[ You have slain a Wild Rabbit. ]

[ You have slain a Wild Rabbit. ]

......

The Wild Rabbits that had been frozen and bound together couldn’t even let out a scream before they were all massacred.

Su-ho shifted his gaze back toward the tree where Alex and Hex were standing and spoke.

“Why are you standing still? Shouldn’t you either run or come at me?”

“Th—th—th—that’s...”

“For the record, ‘I’m sorry’ on your knees isn’t on the menu. Even if you beg till you die, I’m never letting you off.”

“Y—you...!”

Alex ground his teeth.

Then he pulled several drugs from his inventory, smashing the vials almost to pieces and ramming them into his mouth.

“Get ready, Hex...!”

“...Are you serious?”

“Then what, you wanna stand here and die like a dog? I’ll break in head-on, so you keep distance and attack.”

“But...!”

“Don’t chicken out, fuck. He pulled off one-versus-many on stream because the opponents were nobodies. You know the level of Korean and Japanese Players better than anyone, right?”

“...”

Hex’s eyes deepened.

Then he nodded.

“Got it.”

“Then cover my back.”

Alex’s body swelled.

The doping effects of the potions he’d crammed down started to manifest.

“Oh, you’re going to rush me? Good. That’s better. Getting caught while running away is way more embarrassing.”

“Shut up, fucking yellow monkey!!”

Alex charged Su-ho with his trademark Kite Shield held forward.

At the same time he popped every self-buff he could use.

Meaning: right now Alex’s state was as juiced as it gets—as if facing a boss monster entering its second phase, all stats peaking.

He had no choice.

His opponent was the one who had proven to the entire world live on air that he was the strongest Player.

From the start, if he didn’t go all-out, there was no chance of victory.

‘It’s humiliating, but I have to admit what I have to admit!’

He had told Hex that, but in truth Alex was forcing himself to endure his fear.

No matter how much Korean and Japanese Players lag behind America or Britain, taking on twenty of those guys at once is something even America’s flagship Player like him couldn’t be confident about.

So he poured everything into this attack.

“Here I come!”

Alex’s Kite Shield slammed into Su-ho.

Kwahhhh!!

He hit.

There was a heavy sensation across the shield’s face.

Alex’s eyes widened.

Good.

From the feel of it, a clean hit had definitely landed.

Proof: the ground around them sank from the shockwave, and dust gusted up under the wind pressure from the impact. However—

“Is that your best?”

Whoooosh!

With a gentle question, the thick dust cleared.

In front of him stood Su-ho, who had easily blocked the shield with just his left forearm.

Alex’s eyes went wide as if they would pop.

“H—how...!”

“How frustrating for you. You went full doping on top of skills and potions, and your strength is still only this much.”

“W—what?”

“I said it must be frustrating.”

With those words, Su-ho took his forearm off and grabbed the guy’s shield with both hands.

“Watch closely.”

Then, locking eyes with Alex, he began to tear the shield apart with his bare hands—

Like tearing well-fermented napa kimchi by hand.

“Wh—wha...!”

Overwhelming brute force.

Faced with that overwhelming difference in strength, Alex couldn’t say a word for a moment and could only surrender the shield.

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