Solo Resurrection

Chapter 123

Popular Star Kergo (2)

Kim Seong-sik originally belonged to a very ordinary small guild called “The Retirees.”

It was a guild where ordinary people who had jobs gathered to hunt safely and earn a moderate amount of money.

While other guild members were satisfied with the gradually accumulating money, Kim Seong-sik was different.

‘How long will it take to level up and become stronger if we fight like this?’

Kim Seong-sik was always dissatisfied.

He wanted to become stronger, faster.

He thought that if he continued hunting safely and earning day by day like this, he would eventually fall behind.

‘I want to be ahead of others.’

At that time, he saw the recruitment notice for the Badass Guild.

‘This is it!’

Kim Seong-sik was confident.

Not much was needed to apply for the guild.

Just determination, perseverance, and guts!

They say that if you endure with sheer willpower, they’ll accept you regardless of level or ability.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Kim Seong-sik left his guild and applied, and was proudly accepted.

He became an official first-generation member of Badass.

Except for Guild Master Kang Hyeon and a few executives, he was the first person to set foot in the guild.

That was Kim Seong-sik.

“You’re saying I can’t defeat a goblin like that?”

He had been slaying goblins to the point of boredom until now.

The goblin brought by the Guild Master would surely be something special, but he didn’t think he would lose.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Kim Seong-sik’s level was 66.

Among the guild members who use swords, he’s one of the strongest, countable on one hand.

Having graduated from C-rank dungeons and currently tackling B-rank dungeons, the highest difficulty, Kim Seong-sik had nothing to fear.

“Now, I’ll explain the rules. No use of magic power or skills. No killing. Try to avoid dismemberment, and it ends when the opponent surrenders or faints. Okay?”

“Keruk!” (Understood)

“Understood.”

Kergo and Kim Seong-sik responded to Kang Hyeon’s words.

“Hey, hey. Want to bet on who’ll win?”

“Obviously Kim Seong-sik. He’s a first-generation member. When it comes to swordsmanship, he’s one of the best, excluding the executives, right?”

“I’m betting on the goblin. If the Guild Master brought him, there must be something special.”

“One vote for Kim Seong-sik. Don’t you know how tough he is? He’s the type who would never surrender even if he’s about to die.”

The guild members were chattering noisily, placing bets with each other.

The betting results showed an overwhelming 80% of the stakes on Kim Seong-sik.

Seeing this, Kang Hyeon quickly ran to bet on Kergo and came back.

“By the way, there’s no time limit, so it ends even if someone collapses from exhaustion first.”

“It won’t take long.”

Kim Seong-sik’s confident statement!

“Yeah. I think so too.”

Kang Hyeon responded with a smirk.

“Then, begin!”

At Kang Hyeon’s signal, Kim Seong-sik kicked the ground hard.

‘I won’t kill you. But…’

Kim Seong-sik’s specialty was relentless chain sword techniques.

Without skills, it would be impossible to withstand his barrage of attacks unless one was at the Guild Master’s level.

“I’ll end this right away!”

Kim Seong-sik’s sword swung at an incredible speed.

Kergo hurriedly defended and gradually retreated.

“Oh, his speed is indeed fast.”

“He swings at that speed without even resting. What’s his stamina stat?”

“Ah… I shouldn’t have bet on the goblin after all.”

Kergo seemed to be on the defensive right from the start.

Seeing this scene, most guild members nodded as if they had expected it.

“For a goblin, you’re holding up pretty well!”

Kim Seong-sik increased the speed of his sword swings even more.

‘I was going easy in case I might kill him, but…’

Seeing that his attacks were being well-received, he thought he could use his full strength.

“Huaaaaah!”

Kim Seong-sik’s sword moved along a sharp trajectory, becoming even faster.

The sound of metal clashing filled the training ground as sword met sword.

Kergo looked like he could collapse at any moment.

“Hey. Kergo, stop playing around and end it.”

At that moment, Kang Hyeon’s voice was heard.

“Keruk!” (Understood)

Kim Seong-sik couldn’t understand.

‘Stop playing around and end it?’

Was the goblin, who looked like he could fall at any moment, actually playing around?

That couldn’t be.

But there was no other way to interpret those words.

Kim Seong-sik’s confusion was quickly resolved.

-Clang!

“Wow! What was that just now!?”

Kergo, who had been only defending, suddenly changed his posture and swung his sword.

With that single strike, Kim Seong-sik’s arms were flung wide open as if cheering.

The surrounding guild members all widened their eyes in admiration, while Kim Seong-sik quickly thought even in that moment.

‘What!? Damn, I can’t end it so pathetically. I’ll dodge first.’

Using the force that flung his arms, he rolled on the ground.

‘It’s not the time to worry about appearances.’

Thanks to this, Kergo’s sword only grazed his side slightly.

“Kehek, keruk. Kelkel…”

(What a fool. How amusing. Kelkel.)

Kergo chuckled as he watched Kim Seong-sik rolling on the ground.

“Whew, alright. So you’re quite skilled, huh?”

Kim Seong-sik, who had rolled on the ground and stood up, showed no sign of embarrassment.

Instead, he burned with even more fighting spirit.

In Badass, they say to use any means necessary to win.

Rolling on the ground?

He could do it a hundred times more if it meant winning.

“Huaaaah!”

Kim Seong-sik once again kicked the ground hard.

Simultaneously, he focused all his attention to find the opponent’s weakness.

He could see a total of eight openings.

‘I’ll target them all at once.’

He pushed forward with overwhelming speed.

The fact that this was just a sparring match had already disappeared from Kim Seong-sik’s mind.

His sword swung solely to kill the enemy.

“Keruk, keruk.” (Human. Stupid.)

Facing this, Kergo also swung his sword.

At that moment.

Everyone was astonished once again.

“What is this…?”

“What kind of goblin is this!?”

“It’s like an adult playing with a child.”

Kim Seong-sik’s sword-swinging posture became comically distorted.

Kergo didn’t simply block the sword but skillfully deflected Kim Seong-sik’s attacks.

As a result, Kim Seong-sik’s stance completely crumbled as his force was dispersed.

“Ugh! What is this!?”

With each sword swing, Kim Seong-sik ended up flailing in the air.

His face turned bright red.

“What are you doing?!”

“Keruk, kelkel.” (Funny. Kelkel)

Moreover, Kergo was doing all of this while standing in one place, using only one arm.

“Kuaaaah!”

Finally, unable to contain his anger, Kim Seong-sik used a skill.

Suddenly, Kim Seong-sik’s speed increased even more, and simultaneously, light burst from his sword.

“What? Isn’t that dangerous?”

“Hey! Stop it!”

As one guild member tried to step in to stop Kim Seong-sik, Kang Hyeon blocked them.

“Guild Master?”

“Just watch.”

A very relaxed smile hung on Kang Hyeon’s face.

“Die!”

The sword Kim Seong-sik swung was like a bolt of lightning.

“Keruk.”

Kergo swung his sword to meet it, with a sneer on his face.

Kergo’s sword glowed blue.

Its true nature was sharp magical power honed over a long time.

-Claaang!

Finally, their swords clashed,

“It’s over.”

Kim Seong-sik’s sword was cleanly cut.

“Impossible…”

Looking at the smoothly severed sword,

Kim Seong-sik collapsed right there.

“Kergo. Good job. Let’s go eat something delicious later.”

“Delicious. Kergo likes. Meat.”

“Yeah. You know something. Meat is indeed the best. I’ll buy you some beef.”

After chatting with Kergo, Kang Hyeon approached Kim Sung-sik.

“A bet is a bet, so it’s okay, right?”

“…”

Despite Kang Hyeon’s question, Kim Sung-sik was just staring blankly at his sword.

“Let’s see… Hey! Can someone bring me a pen and paper! And some tape.”

“Here it is.”

“Good. I should write it big so it’s visible… Done.”

‘Jatbap’ written with a thick pen on pure white paper.

It has a very wholesome meaning of rice cooked with pine nuts.

“Sung-sik will be ‘pine nut rice’ for next week. Be careful not to let it fall off.”

Kang Hyeon laughed heartily after sticking the paper on Kim Sung-sik’s forehead.

“Hahaha! It would be a hit if we uploaded it to YouTube. If any of you want to make a bet, just say so anytime. It doesn’t have to be about swords. Got it?”

Kang Hyeon looked around, speaking loudly.

‘I could never do such a humiliating thing…’

Everyone was busy avoiding Kang Hyeon’s gaze.

“Well, if there’s nothing, forget it.”

“Excuse me, Guild Master.”

At that moment, a guild member raised his hand.

“What’s the deal with that goblin?”

“He’s our guild’s swordsmanship instructor.”

“No… I don’t understand how a goblin can be that strong… Is he like a B-rank dungeon boss or something?”

Kang Hyeon smirked at the guild member’s words.

“He’s a C-rank dungeon mob.”

“What…?”

The guild member who heard Kang Hyeon’s answer made a dumb expression.

It was natural not to understand.

Even Kim Sung-sik, who just got beaten, was skilled enough to handle monsters in a typical C-rank dungeon like children.

Kergo had been fighting desperately with Kang Hyeon to survive and for revenge.

He originally had talent in swordsmanship, but to beat the physically overwhelming Kang Hyeon, he had to hone his skills even more, and this is the result.

Kang Hyeon was at a loss for how to explain these processes.

“Ah, I don’t know! It’s a long story, just treat him well from now on. Since communication doesn’t work, education will be conducted only through sparring. It will be on a reservation basis, so if anyone wants to do it, tell Han Jae-moon.”

“Yes…”

It was the moment Han Jae-moon’s workload increased by one more task.

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Ippotranslation

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The next day.

Kang Hyeon headed to the Item Research Institute with Kergo.

It was to talk with Jeong Seo-bin and incidentally show Kergo around the world.

“This is called a car.”

“Kang Hyeon. Car. Crappy. Ugly.”

In the meantime, Kergo had learned many bad words from Kang Hyeon.

“You little! You’re disrespecting my Bentley 3. Despite its looks, it runs well, you punk!”

“Kang Hyeon’s words. Difficult. Crappy.”

“If you keep talking nonsense, I won’t buy you beef anymore.”

“Kang Hyeon is cool. Car is cool.”

It was when Kergo was quickly adapting to human society.

-Thud.

Someone crashed into Kang Hyeon’s car while waiting at a signal.

“Shit! Who the hell is it!?”

“Shit. Shit. Bad guy.”

Kang Hyeon, who had been shouting that seat belts could go to hell, naturally headbutted the steering wheel.

“This piece of junk doesn’t even deploy airbags!”

“Kergo hurts.”

Unfortunately, in just 1 minute, Bentley 3 went from a well-running car to a piece of junk.

“Man! How do you drive? What if you stop so suddenly?!”

Kang Hyeon’s blood pressure rapidly rose at the shouting from outside.

“Hoo, let’s calm down… If it’s a civilian, I’ll scold them a bit, if it’s an ability user, I’ll just half-kill them.”

Either way, he meant to teach them a lesson.

Kang Hyeon roughly opened the door of Bentley 3.

“Do you know who I am? I’m the brother of the Taeshin Guild’s Guild Master. You’re dead now. Aren’t you going to crawl out quickly!? Huh!?”

The shameless man who had crashed into Kang Hyeon was now kicking Bentley 3 with his foot.

-Bang! Bang!

“Crawl out quickly, you bastard!”

The car shook left and right every time the man kicked it.

Unable to bear it any longer, Kang Hyeon got out of the car.

“Whose brother did you say?”

“Uh…?”

The man’s eyes shook as if there was an earthquake when he saw Kang Hyeon.

“Are you… Mr. Kang Hyeon?”

“Yes, I’m Kang Hyeon. And who might you be?”

The man rolled his eyes here and there at Kang Hyeon’s words.

“I… I’m sorry. I drank alcohol in broad daylight.”

“You look like an ability user. What was it earlier? Taeshin Guild? Guild Master?”

“No! I’m just a civilian, I have nothing to do with ability users!”

Kang Hyeon’s notoriety was already famous.

Even if it wasn’t Kang Hyeon specifically, there was an unspoken rule among ability users that ‘the Badass Guild should not be messed with.’

They were all eccentrics who somehow always got their revenge.

“I heard it all earlier, where do you get off talking nonsense?”

It was when Kang Hyeon was frowning deeply.

-Crash!

Suddenly, there was a loud noise from the Bentley behind.

When he quickly turned his head, he saw Kergo who had come out after smashing the Bentley’s door.

“Kang Hyeon. Kergo opened the door.”

Kergo had broken and come out because he didn’t know how to open the door.

“Is that… A goblin? Is it?”

The man who saw Kergo wondered if his drinking had been too much.

Originally, goblins are about 160cm tall and don’t have particularly well-trained bodies.

But the goblin in front of him seemed to be at least 180cm tall and had muscles and sword scars all over his body that looked like they might burst.

It didn’t seem like something a level 10 man could handle, at least.

“You bastard! How can you break it like that!?”

“Kang Hyeon. Don’t hit. Sorry! Kergo hurts!”

While the angry Kang Hyeon rushed towards Kergo, the man hurriedly made a phone call.

“Quickly… Answer quickly!”

Today, the dial tone seemed endlessly long.

“Finally!”

The phone finally connected.

-What’s the occasion? You’re actually making a call.

“Brother, help me. I’m screwed! You need to come quickly!”

-What happened?

The person on the other end was Lee Baek-seo, the Guild Master of Taeshin and the man’s older brother.

“I got into an accident, and it was with Kang Hyeon’s car. And then a monster goblin jumped out from there. I might die! Shit, come quickly I said!”

-What nonsense are you talking about? Are you drunk again? What’s this about Kang Hyeon and a goblin?

“Shit! Just come quickly! Do you want to see me die!?”

While the man was on the phone, Kang Hyeon, who had dealt with Kergo, was approaching.

“Haa… Shit. Today’s fortune is bad.”

Kang Hyeon’s muscles all over his body were twitching as if they might burst.

Judging by the veins popping on his forehead, he was clearly very angry.

“Brother. Please come quickly…”