How the Regressed Munchkin Chews Up the Tower - H.R.M.C.U.T Chapter 15 (Part 2):

As Yujin casually spoke, slinging the blood-stained 『Black Wing [A]』 over his shoulder, the thugs swallowed hard.

“S-Sorry, we’re sorry.”

“We messed with the wrong guy…”

“Please, spare us!”

They dropped to their knees, faces pale, begging.

“I told you, didn’t I? Answer well, and I’ll let you off with one arm. So just answer my questions properly.”

“Ask us anything!”

Their desperation was palpable, as if they’d sell their own country to comply.

“Good.”

Pleased with their attitude, Yujin nodded.

“I’m looking for someone. I think his name was Tailon? Something like that. Know him?”

Tailon was a name that would soon be etched into the minds of every player.

“Y-You’re looking for Tailon-nim?”

“He’s…”

The thugs’ eyes darted nervously.

Yujin was terrifying, but Tailon was no less fearsome.

“Don’t know? Guess I’ll have to cut your legs too. We had a deal, didn’t we?”

“I know! We know!”

As Yujin took a step forward, one of the thugs shouted in a panic.

“Then start talking.”

“Just follow the blue doors!”

“…Blue doors?”

“Here, look, like this.”

One of the thugs, with his remaining arm, pointed to his side.

A blue door.

“It’s, uh, a kind of landmark. Follow the path with the blue doors, and you’ll find Tailon-nim.”

“Hmm, is that so?”

It seemed a bit harder to find than in the past.

Still, it didn’t seem like a lie.

“Alright. Thanks for the help.”

Yujin slowly approached the thugs.

“Y-You said you’d let us live…”

The thugs began trembling.

They must have thought that, having gotten his answers, he’d kill them now.

But Yujin had no such intention.

“I’m not killing you. I keep my promises to the letter. But, got any decent items or Coins on you? If you do, hand them over.”

Instead, he extorted them.

* * *

“Oh, this looks like the right place.”

After thoroughly shaking down the thugs’ pockets, Yujin followed the blue doors for a while until a familiar path came into view.

It was still the back alleys, but the atmosphere had shifted.

A heavy, chilling air pressed down on his shoulders, so to speak.

An alcoholic sprawled in a corner, blowing into an empty bottle.

A homeless person sleeping under scraps of paper.

Groups of thugs gambling in clusters.

Their eyes didn’t turn his way, but Yujin felt countless watchful gazes upon him.

‘This place is definitely different.’

The thugs who’d just lost their arms wouldn’t even dare set foot here.

The ones lurking now were on another level.

But Yujin strode into their territory without hesitation.

A sudden silence fell.

The air was suffocatingly heavy.

The thugs still made no move, but their intent was clear: no further approach would be permitted.

Of course, Yujin didn’t give a damn.

*Thud—*

“Hey.”

Finally, someone stepped forward to block his path.

A massive figure.

At least two meters tall, with a frame twice Yujin’s size.

Even the faint mana he exuded was no small thing.

‘Wow, this guy’s gotta be at least Level 20.’

To be this strong on Terra, the 1st Floor.

Just a bit more leveling, and he’d be worthy of being called a Named.

But.

“Move, fatty.”

Yujin wasn’t looking for someone like him.

“…You’ve got a death wish, little one.”

The big guy snorted and reached out.

It was like a giant cauldron lid swinging toward him.

No player on the 1st Floor right now could dodge that gesture.

Except for one—Yujin.

*Swoosh—*

With a fluid step, like water flowing, he moved aside.

That was enough.

The big guy’s hand sliced through empty air, and Yujin, now in his blind spot, drew 『Black Wing [A]』.

*Huuwoong-!*

Like swatting a fly.

A strike without hesitation.

The big guy’s eyes widened.

He realized he could neither dodge nor block it.

The overwhelming power of 『Divinely Blessed Body [S]』 rendered even a 10-level gap meaningless.

Just as the black blade was about to reach the big guy’s side—

“Stop.”

*Kuwooooong-!*

With a chilling voice, Yujin’s movement astonishingly halted.

It wasn’t by choice.

A force too great for the current Yujin to handle had bound his body.

He slowly turned his head to one side.

The alcoholic who’d been sprawled with a bottle in hand was now rising.

Until moments ago, Yujin hadn’t spared him a glance.

But now, it was different.

Despite his small, frail frame, it felt as if an entire mountain was rising.

“That’s enough.”

With an expression heavy with annoyance, the alcoholic waved his hand.

The big guy flew like a sheet of paper and crashed into a corner.

*RUMBLE—!*

Yujin looked at the alcoholic with a slightly sunken expression.

“Looks like you’re my guest, aren’t you, Player Sung Yujin?”

Astonishingly, he knew exactly who Yujin was.

As if expecting this, Yujin sheathed 『Black Wing [A]』 and nodded.

“Tailon. That’s you, right?”

One of the five lords ruling Terra alongside Cupiditas.

“That’s right. I’m Tailon.”

The king of the trash, Tailon.

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