From Today, I'm a Player

Chapter 129: Set Pt. 4

Bang! Crash! Bang!

Everyone was nervous in the midst of the heavy explosions.

They continued to shake the entire pyramid, the home of the Nile.

‘Set has finally lifted his blade.’

As someone who was aiming for the throne, he had stayed silent. But, now, he had finally taken up his sword and begun to act.

Lee Jun-Kyeong had a good idea as to why the man was taking action now.

'It must be because of me.’

Horus.

It must have been because of his actions to save the Hunter.

The situation would change, and it would become difficult for Set to be the ruler of the Nile if Horus woke up.

The legitimate heir would return, and the Nile, combined with the power of Horus, would become too much for Set to overcome.

That was why he moved now.

‘Moreover, there wouldn’t be a better time than now.’

There would be more of their troops here than expected in order to protect Horus. Lee Jun-Kyeong wasn’t sure what had happened to Bastet or Numek, but most likely, under the influence of Isis, instead of the Nile’s forces fighting amongst themselves, they would all side together to confront Set.

Tremble.

Once again, Won-Hwa inserted an array of silver needles.

Shhh.

Lee Jun-Kyeong followed up by infusing an incredible amount of mana into the needles right after.

Boom!

With the activation of Galdr, the weight on the needles from the mana was increased, and the ground of the pyramid under Lee Jun-Kyeong’s feet began to crack.

Powerful mana began to enter Horus’ body through the silver needles and began to tear through the Hunter’s body.

“...”

In fact, Lee Jun-Kyeong was just as nervous as the others. After all, Horus’ mother, Isis, was behind him as he treated the Hunter.

She was anxiously walking back and forth as she looked between Lee Jun-Kyeong and the place where the explosions were rampaging.

However, Lee Jun-Kyeong was no longer interested in anything else.

“Mr. Jeong. Fenrir. Hyeon-Mu.”

By this point, Lee Jun-Kyeong was even calling out to Hyeon-Mu.

“I trust all of you.”

He would have to concentrate fully from this point on. If an attack took place, then he would be completely defenseless.

"Don't worry!"

"Snort!"

"I have heard your orders, Master!"

Amidst the voices of his part, he could also hear the princess vocalizing, as if to protest that he had not called on her earlier.

“Goongje!”

"I'll help as well."

Moreover, Inebu’s firm voice was heard as well.

The preparations had been finished.

"Mr. Won-Hwa."

When Lee Jun-Kyeong called out to Won-Hwa, the physician put down his acupuncture needles and stepped back.

Horus's bandaged body was completely peppered with long acupuncture needles. He was so covered that it would be impossible to put another needle on him.

Won-Hwa had used his mana to activate them, and they would serve as a link between Lee Jun-Kyeong and Horus.

Shing!

Lee Jun-Kyeong drew Muspel's Spear.

"What?"

"Mr. Underdog!"

Although Isis and Inebu shouted out at the same time, it was already too late.

Squelch!

Isis tried to rush forward with her face filled with rage.

Shing!

Jeong In-Chang’s greatsword.

“Grrr.”

Fenrir.

“You cannot proceed.”

And Hyeon-Mu stopped her.

"Lady Isis."

Inebu also stopped Isis and spoke to her.

"Let us trust Mr. Underdog.”

They had already gone past the point of no return, and a raft on a raging river had no course of return.

As they advised, Isis stopped and just stared at Lee Jun-Kyeong.

His spear had been plunged into Horus’ stomach, but Lee Jun-Kyeong just stayed still, closing his eyes without pulling it out.

Isis, as a Great Hero, could see what was happening before her eyes.

“That, that is…!”

An incredible flow of mana was coursing through the spear. Moreover, the mana that was coursing through the spear was amplified through the link that it had through the needles inserted by Won-Hwa.

“It’s driving out the crimson mana!” she exclaimed involuntarily.

The crimson mana that was emanating from Horus’ body began to flock to a single place: the tip of Muspel’s Spear that was pierced into her son.

As it moved toward that place, the crimson mana began to gather together, forming one mass, turning into a condensed form.

It looked almost like a liquid that was intermixed into Horus’ blood.

Glug.

The liquid then began to flow back into Muspel’s Spear.

Flinch.

Lee Jun-Kyeong opened his closed eyes. Within his pupils…

Swoosh.

…Madness began to appear.

***

Squelch.

For the personal unit of Set, the Jackals, there was no such thing as mercy before their blades.

Whether it was the same people.

The same Hunters.

Almost as if they didn’t know that those before them belonged to the same Nile, they only cut down those blocking their path.

"Cough!"

The number of Hunters who could scream was relatively small.

To be frank, it was quite fortunate that those who had been able to could even scream.

There were many of them whose necks had been cut through with a single blade that seemed almost to caress their necks.

"Get out of my way."

However, even with Set’s declaration, the Hunters refused to stand aside.

“We must protect Lord Horus!”

They knew that he was heading to the sealed room that Horus resided in.

In the end, Set walked out among the Jackals, dressed in black leather.

“…”

He took up his scimitar, and everyone held their breath.

“...!”

Few people had seen the power of the infamous Hero, Set, firsthand.

When he wielded his sword, there would be only death around him.

“We can do this! The blessings of Ra to the Nile!"

The Nile Hunters began to rush forward even though they saw Set standing before them, only a few among them Heroes.

Although some of the countless Hunters that made up the Nile tried to approach Set, their bodies wouldn’t move.

“H, huh…?”

Slowly, their gazes seemed to fall. All they could see were the feet of Set.

On the visible part of Set’s feet, a single drop of blood formed and fell, splashing over his sandals. One lucky Hunter had a good angle of view, so he could see everything as his head fell to the floor. In his last glimpse, he could see the full figure of Set.

His last thought was confusion. He hadn’t realized when Set had wielded his scimitar, but the Hunter’s sword was covered in blood.

"Anubis."

In the midst of the dismembered voices, Set’s voice rang out.

“In the name of Lord Set,” someone said as a figure showed up and knelt in front of Set.

It was a Hero with the mask of a black dog.

Even among the ranks of the countless Heroes of the Nile, this figure was among the top.

“Even Lord Anubis…”

It was Anubis.

He raised his head toward Set as if he wasn’t interested in the other Hunters.

"The great reckoning has begun."

"I understand, Lord."

"You will lead the Jackals to where Horus is."

Anubis nodded as he trembled.

Although Anubis’ loyalty to Set didn’t have a long history, the sight of the man he had sworn allegiance to conducting the reckoning was more than enough to affirm his decision.

“And as for you, Lord Set…?” Anubis asked in a questioning tone.

In response, Set’s answer was swift and firm.

"I will strike the pharaoh's head."

The Pharaoh.

There was only one person Set would call pharaoh.

“It’s time for me to end my bad relationship with my Hyung.”

Osiris.

He was the strongest of the Nile and its current ruler.

Though.

'My Hyung has also changed.’

It was clear. Even though Set had rebelled and massacred the Hunters, Osiris had stayed absent. That was more than enough evidence.

If it was his Hyung from before, if it had been the Osiris from before, he would have set everything aside at the death of the Hunters and stepped out to deal with him himself.

However.

“It looks like you're just shivering like a coward.”

Set could feel it.

From the top of the pyramid, the energy of Osiris was trembling in his room.

Shing!

As Set swung his sword, the layer of blood that had accumulated disappeared, almost as if it had evaporated.

As only the sand from the floor fluttered about, Anubis rose from his seat.

"I will..."

A curved blade, the same as the one’s wielded by the Jackals, appeared in both of Anubis’ hands.

He declared as he hung the swords on his back.

"Harvest Death."

Anubis had been waiting for this moment, and it was now beginning.

***

“Whew…”

Lee Jun-Kyeong breathed heavily.

The Madness that ruled Horus was flowing into him.

[The Dragon’s Bloodstone is absorbing Madness!]

[The Dragon’s Bloodstone is reversing the flow of the blood it has consumed.]

It was the same thing that he had gone through during the Battle of Champions in England.

At that time, he had been swayed by Madness, and he had almost undergone cultivation deviation because of the reverse flow of the Dragon’s Bloodstone.

However, things were different now.

"Whew..."

Lee Jun-Kyeong breathed heavily.

His eyes were turning red, and the mana in his entire body was fluctuating, almost as if it was jumping from his veins.

The mana, which could be said to look like an aura at this point, was spewing from him ferociously as if it was emitting pressure on everyone.

“Whew…”

Lee Jun-Kyeong tried to manipulate it.

[The weak dragon heart consumes the reverse flow of blood from the Dragon’s Bloodstone.]

Lee Jun-Kyeong already had a dragon heart that one could grow from the Dragon’s Bloodstone.

Although the blood consumed by the Dragon’s Bloodstone had reversed its flow, rather than consuming him, it was contributing to his dragon heart’s growth.

“Whew…”

Whenever Lee Jun-Kyeong breathed hard, red mana rose like a haze.

Everyone held their breath.

Boom!

There were explosions and screams outside, but the people in the chamber had no time to care about it.

“Whew…”

Lee Jun-Kyeong wasn’t the only one affected by the red gem.

Due to his influence, everyone in the chamber was affected by the red gem.

Madness was dominating the stone chamber.

However, the effect it had wasn’t very powerful as it was flowing through Lee Jun-Kyeong.

All it could do was show them a painful vision of some sort.

“Whew…”

Lee Jun-Kyeong breathed heavily again, mana gushing out from his breath.

Horus.

The color of the red bandages wrapped around him was turning white.

Blood was leaking through the bandages around his stomach due to Muspel’s Spear, which had been pierced into him by Lee Jun-Kyeong, but his bandages were still turning white overall.

"Horus!" cried Isis.

She could feel it. Horus was being treated.

However.

"You can't, Lady Isis."

Inebu stopped Isis from approaching Horus.

"The treatment is not over yet, my lady."

As he advised her with reddish eyes, Isis nodded.

She had almost ruined everything by interfering. The red mana had shaken her reason for a moment.

Boom!

Explosions repeated again.

“Stop him! Stop him!!!”

The screams and shouts of the Hunters were getting closer.

"Whew..."

Lee Jun-Kyeong exhaled once more with his back to everything.

He wasn’t able to think about anything else.

Just the mana stream.

Internal qigong.

And Galdr.

He was using them in order to make this powerful force his own.

Lee Jun-Kyeong had said he would treat Horus, and he wasn’t lying. However, he wasn’t satisfied with the benefits of just simply treating Horus.

No, he wanted to consume the Madness.

He was thinking of growth once more at this time, to devour the great Madness that had destroyed Horus.

He would raise his dragon heart by consuming the reverse flow of the Dragon’s Bloodstone.

He was getting stronger.

He would have to get even stronger.

“Ha-a-eup!”

He had only been breathing heavily so far, but now he began to shout, and the overflowing mana only deepened further.

However, at that moment.

“Kya!!”

Someone had fallen near the stone chamber and tumbled through its archway.

“Numek!”

Inebu exclaimed when he saw the Hunter on the ground.

Numek, who had tried to buy time with Bastet, was tumbling on the floor.

As for their other protector.

"Cough!"

Bastet was groaning with her neck in someone's hand.

Isis took a step forward and shouted, "Anubis...!"

The man in a black dog's mask looked into the stone chamber with Bastet's neck tightly grasped within his grasp.

"Jackals,” he ordered, ignoring Isis.

"Harvest Death!"

The men in black leather began to rush in.