Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 462

The boar as big as a house met an early end, unable to even put up a proper fight against the joint assault with Guiyeong.

That made it all the more exhilarating.

It must have been a card Hera had put a great deal of thought into, yet it had died this pathetically.

On top of that, its grade was a boss-grade monster that used ruler-grade Fear.

There was no notification about it, but even without seeing her, it was obvious how much that woman Hera must be grinding her teeth.

Maybe that was why.

At the same time as Su-ho’s shout, the very next system notifications popped up.

[ ■■ gives you the remaining tasks. ]

[ ■■’s tasks begin. ]

[ ■■’s 5th task begins. ]

The moment the notifications appeared, the Guardian of Erymanthos vanished.

It was a shame.

At that level, Guiyeong would have really liked it.

But before he could take any kind of measure, the rocky field and the boar disappeared, the surroundings shifted, and what appeared this time was a deep furrow.

‘A furrow?’

It was then.

Kwoooooooosh!!

A rough sound came from somewhere.

When he turned his head, he saw a torrent of water pouring down from far away.

Only then did Su-ho remember the 5th task.

‘Cleaning King Augeias’s stables!’

The 5th task was none other than clearing away the filth of the enormous stables owned by King Augeias.

Back then, Hercules had been shoveling the filth when he got fed up and changed the course of a river to wash the filth away.

“Don’t tell me that’s why the river’s pouring in?”

No, but if that’s the reason, shouldn’t I be the one dragging the river here in the first place?

However, before he could even raise such a question, the water rushing in from far away had already surged right up in front of him like a tsunami.

‘Who said I was going to deal with something like this?’

If water comes, all you have to do is avoid it.

Su-ho was in a furrow that looked to be at least several meters deep, but he didn’t care about that at all and threw the Guiyeong Spear out of the furrow.

He planned to evade by using Shadow Movement.

However—

Thunk!

The Guiyeong Spear soared up toward the sky, but the moment it left the top of the furrow, it hit something and, with a dull thunk, came crashing back down.

‘Huh?’

That wasn’t supposed to happen.

But while Su-ho was taken aback, the onrushing current slammed into him without mercy and swallowed him whole.

‘Damn!’

The current was fierce.

It wasn’t just fierce—it was violently fierce.

The instant he was struck by the rush of water, it felt like he had been hit by a dump truck.

For a moment, his head almost snapped blank, but he barely grabbed hold of his senses, extended his Blood Sword to its full length, and drove it into the ground to anchor himself.

Guuuuuurgle!

If he surrendered his body to this insane current, no one knew how far he would be swept away.

So no matter how strong the current was, stopping himself first was the right move.

Su-ho slammed the Blood Sword into the ground and then transformed its tip into a hook, fixing it even more firmly.

Thanks to that, he prevented himself from being swept away by the current, but he still couldn’t control the rapid flow.

‘This is going «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» to drive me insane.’

Dealing with this came first, above anything else.

But there was no option to escape upward through the water.

He had already checked by throwing Guiyeong at the beginning.

‘Then the remaining option is...’

Su-ho immediately activated Blood Armory and equipped the Blood Suit for the first time in a while.

[ Blood Armory is activated. ]

Shuaaaaa!

The blood spewing out from the Great Blood Orb instantly wrapped around Su-ho’s entire body, forming a suit that didn’t let a single drop of water inside.

Su-ho formed hooks on the shoes of the equipped Blood Suit and firmly fixed them to the ground.

Just by taking these measures, he would no longer be swept around by the rapid current.

[ Eclipse is activated. ]

Next, he activated Eclipse.

As Eclipse activated, Ilwol, formed from the fusion of Little Sun and Henry Moon, was summoned.

[ You receive sunlight and moonlight. ]

[ The Runes of the Sun and Moon react. ]

[ The powers of the Sun and Moon are activated. ]

[ You receive the Blessings of the Sun and Moon. ]

[ All stats increase by 2%. ]

[ All recovery increases by 2%. ]

Regardless of the raging current, Ilwol alone floated serenely as it was summoned, activating the Sun and Moon Runes Su-ho possessed.

Su-ho immediately activated the Ice attribute.

[ You use the Ice attribute. ]

[ Only the Ice attribute is activated independently. ]

When only the Ice attribute was activated independently, bluish energies began to gather around Su-ho’s body.

Feeling the biting chill, Su-ho immediately used his next skill.

[ Mini Breath is activated. ]

Kwooooooooosh!!

The moment Mini Breath activated, the Blood Suit opened Su-ho’s helmet, and Su-ho began explosively exhaling the air he had secured inside the suit.

As soon as the helmet opened, the raging current smashed into his face, but the power of the Mini Breath spewing from Su-ho’s mouth was no joke either.

And the moment Mini Breath blasted out—

Chajajajajajajak!

Amazingly, the raging current began to freeze as if it were a lie.

Because Mini Breath had taken on Eclipse’s Ice attribute, it had become an Ice Breath instead of a Fire Breath.

‘Got it!’

If he couldn’t escape and couldn’t cut it with a sword, then he had no choice but to confront it with attributes.

What he had come up with was freezing the water itself.

As he exhaled Ice Breath into the swiftly flowing water, the sheet of ice that began forming from the bottom gradually became a massive ice slab that blocked the entire furrow, which was several meters across.

There was no way the current could smash through the ice slab.

He didn’t know exactly what kind of water this was, but no matter what, it wasn’t powerful enough to break through Su-ho’s mana stat, which had reached the Silver color.

Eventually, the ice slab completely blocked off the current.

Su-ho lifted his head and looked up.

‘Just as I thought.’

It was clear that something transparent was blocking the top of the furrow.

In theory, if he blocked the furrow with an ice slab like this, the pouring water should have overflowed upward, but the dammed-up river couldn’t cross the furrow.

‘And this is supposed to be the boss?’

Some river, of all things?

It was then.

[ A boss monster appears. ]

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