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Ho Sung Lee glared at the player.
"I caught her red-handed, so that's all that matters!!"
"But did you see that girl touching your goods yourself?"
"T-that's... !"
Ho Sung Lee knitted his brows.
"I thought you caught her red-handed. What's your proof that she touched your goods?"
"Because she was there! Who else would've..."
"How could you be so careless that a little girl like her could get her hands on them? The way I see it, you're the one who harmed your goods, not her."
"What are you talking about?"
The player huffed and puffed with a flushed face while minding the crowd around them.
"You're taking this bastard's side when you don't know anything! I'll make you into a rag once and for all."
The player gripped onto his whip with heavy breaths and approached Ho Sung Lee.
Ho Sung Lee decided that he had no choice at this point and took out his weapon from the item window.
As soon as the fight broke out, the spectators quickly backed off.
And the employees of the ship were worried that the ship could be harmed or even sink and watched the player and Ho Sung Lee with worry.
There were players who protected the ship as well, but they weren't as skilled.
They couldn't predict the level of the players that boarded the ship either.
And as a result of the death of Pheus, who ruled over Haikman Port City, they couldn't really get involved.
The biggest worry was that the ship could be harmed and sink.
Meanwhile, the player with long hair and a whip charged toward Ho Sung Lee.
Ho Sung Lee turned into a shadow to dodge him, and as for the whip, it made a loud chilling noise just from hitting the air.
And the formation of an Aura took the whip to a whole other level.
It made the spectators twitch from the amount of power.
Ho Sung Lee popped out of his shadow from a fair distance away and said, "Maybe we should stop..."
Ho Sung Lee tried to stop the fight, but the player with long black hair swung his whip as if he had no intention of stopping.
Since he was in the middle of talking, his response time was slow.
Slash!
Ho Sung Lee's left arm ripped with blood spilling into the air.
"Ugh!"
Ho Sung Lee groaned. He grabbed onto his injured arm and stepped back.
His force was substantial.
Even if he was late in putting up a defense, the speed of the whip was faster than before.
And the fact that he hadn't even used a special skill made him feel heavily pressured.
Knowing that the difference between their powers was too different made his body feel drained of energy.
Fighting while knowing he was going to lose was a foolish thing to do.
'I have to avoid him. '
He was the one who started this whole thing.
Although he was too far to ask Min Sung Kang for help, he needed his help if he wanted to save that little girl.
As soon as he tried to head over to Min Sung Kang, the player laughed as if he predicted his actions all along.
"Do you really think I'll let you run away?"
He sensed that he was going to use his skill very soon.
He felt a sense of fear that he hadn't felt yet wrapping around his entire body.
Ho Sung Lee tried to avoid him, but he sensed his body growing stiff as a result of the powerful attack.
At that moment...
Someone grabbed him by the shoulder.
It was Min Sung Kang.
***
"What happened to your arm?"
Min Sung asked in annoyance while staring at Ho Sung Lee's injured arm.
"Huh? Who's this guy? Do you come as a set... ?"
The man with long black hair was at a loss for words.
That was because of what he heard a spectator say.
"That's the man that killed Pheus."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I saw it. I saw him coming out of Pheus' fortress."
"Is that really him?"
"I think so."
"That's good. I hate how he keeps picking on people."
"Yeah. This isn't the first time."
"Like that guy said, I think he's the one who messed with his own goods. It's not like that girl is stupid."
"Tsk, tsk... !"
The man with long black hair heard multiple remarks coming from the spectators.
He couldn't hear anything else.
'... That's the ranker that killed Pheus?'
The man with the long black hair couldn't even sense his nose running.
If that was true, that meant he was screwed, and he couldn't believe that death was near for him.
His head was blank.
Meanwhile, Min Sung heard everything from Ho Sung Lee, and he looked at the man with the long black hair and asked, "Hey. You made his arm like this?"
Min Sung asked the man with the long black hair in annoyance.
The man didn't answer and simply trembled.
He then spoke with a little ounce of hope, "Are you... the player that killed Pheus?"
"Why are you talking about a dead man? Answer my question. Did you do this?"
Min Sung poked at Ho Sung Lee's injured arm and asked, "W-w-w-w-well..."
The player with the long black hair couldn't even look at Min Sung in the eyes.
He stuttered as he wondered if it was safe or the right time to jump into the ocean.
"I won't kill you. Come here."
Min Sung flicked his finger.
The player glanced around before walking over to Min Sung.
Min Sung looked over the player's shoulders and at the little girl that was huffing and puffing on the ground.
"Ho Sung, treat that girl with one of our potions."
In response, Ho Sung Lee ran over to the girl, forgetting about his own injury.
Min Sung then looked at the player straight in the eyes.
But of course, the player didn't look back.
He was sweating profusely as if it was in the middle of the hot summer.
"You were just bullying that little girl just because she's weaker, but why are you acting like that now? Are you scared?"
"..."
The man's breathing became coarser due to the fear.
"Why are you breathing like that?"
Min Sung laughed and continued, "And how did you know if I killed Pheus or not?"
"I-I-I heard..."
The man plopped down on his knees and put his head on the ground.
"Please don't kill me!"
The man pleaded while trembling.
"You're making it seem like I'm the evil one now."
Min Sung's eyes changed.
As soon as energy flowed out of Min Sung, the man on the ground began to float in the air.
The man was prepared to jump into the water as soon as Min Sung tried to take out his weapon.
But since his body was floating in the air, he felt like his heart was going to explode.
He couldn't run anymore.
"Please! Please don't kill me!"
The player screamed with all his might.
He didn't want to die.
He was desperate.
He wanted to live longer, but Min Sung's eyes were cold as ice.
But that didn't mean it was hopeless.
"Just live quietly. Stop causing such a commotion. Don't worry. I won't kill you."
When Min Sung lifted his hand, the player flew over to Min Sung's hand.
"Ugh... !"
As soon as his neck landed in Min Sung's hand, he couldn't speak and simply spat out saliva.
"Cough!"
He couldn't budge as if he was being held by a huge giant.
Before he could ask to be saved once more, a strange energy began to flow into his body.
It was unpleasant.
It felt like insects were crawling underneath his skin.
And along with that sensation, he began to lose sensation in his entire body.
He couldn't describe it as pain.
He just felt like his energy was being drained.
That was how he felt at first, but he realized just a few seconds later.
His vitality.
He realized that his vitality was getting drained... !
'Gasp?!'
He tried to get out of his grip, but he couldn't budge.
There was no way.
The space around him grew dark, and all he could see in front of him was a man that was absorbing all of his vitality.
He sensed himself dying away.
And Min Sung confirmed it himself.
"Thanks for the delicious meal."
He didn't feel like he was killing him so cruelly just to get justice for that little girl.
He was simply a sacrifice for a devil.
"Ugh... Ugh!"
His skin shriveled up and his long hair dropped on the ground. His skin turned dark, and his body went frail.
It was absorption.
He was losing his vitality.
And just when he thought he was dead, Min Sung let go of his throat.
Plop.
The man with the long black hair dropped on the floor as if he was a zombie.
"Be careful from now on."
Min Sung then returned.
He heard the sound of footsteps.
When he turned around, he saw his feet walking away.
Did he survive?
Was he going to live?
The man coughed while getting up.
But as soon as he saw his arm, the man didn't want to believe it.
His arm was nothing but bone that looked like a tree branch, and it was dark and wasted as if it was a rotten tree at that.
The man was so shocked that he lost consciousness and fell back on the ground.
Some of the Beatrice merchants that saw this threw the man's body into the ocean.
Splash!
Along with the sound, the body sank deep into the water.
The merchants than brushed off their hands with faces of relief.
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