I Possess Too Many Characteristics

Chapter 33

Jeonghyeon, who had drawn a single dagger, rolled his eyes.

‘What should I do?’

It was a difficult situation to deal with.

Should I remove the ghoul attached to Seunghyeok’s shield first?

Then what about the ghouls attacking from five directions?

‘I should throw one more while I have time to think about this!’

Jeonghyeon instinctively threw the dagger.

“Kick━”

The ghoul in the front of the leftmost group collapsed at the speed it was running.

The biggest problem right now is that there are too many ghoul approach routes.

I had to reduce it by at least one.

In Seunghyeok’s case,

‘I should hope that Sangjun will do something about it.’

There was no time to worry about that.

Jeonghyeon threw the second dagger, and the two on the far left fell completely silent.

“Hey, you f cker! Get a grip!”

Sangjun finally managed to rip the ghoul off Seunghyeok’s shield by force.

Cutting the neck would have been the surest way, but it wouldn’t have been easy because Seunghyeok was making such a fuss.

The ghoul, whose upper and lower body were almost separated, slid off the shield and struggled.

Crack━

Even that quieted down as Sangjun irritably plunged his sword into its head.

“S, sorry!”

Seunghyeok came to his senses when the ghoul that had terrified him fell off and he even heard Sangjun cursing at him.

He held his shield upright and took the lead, but the problem is,

‘It’s still too late!’

It was already too late to fully function as a vanguard.

Of course, even if he had reacted in time, he wouldn’t have been able to block all eight ghouls.

Jeonghyeon judged that Seunghyeok’s ability was only about four.

If Sangjun helped, it would increase by about two more.

Anyway, the ghouls were cunning bastards who knew how to aim for the rear, and as expected, they attacked, not missing the gap in the vanguard.

“They’re leaking through!”

Seunghyeok shouted almost like a scream.

Only four attacked Seunghyeok and Sangjun.

The remaining four ran straight towards Jeonghyeon and Woojun.

The situation was different from when the two had attacked by surprise earlier.

At that time, there was no burden on the vanguard, so the rear only had to deal with the enemy moderately until the vanguard arrived.

But now?

Quite a few ghouls had flocked to the vanguard as well.

Without the support of the rear, four was quite a burden.

Needless to say, it was impossible for the rear to deal with four without the vanguard holding them off.

‘Ten is too much after all.’

Jin-wook decided to grab his mace and step forward.

It wasn’t that the Hunters’ response was wrong, but the situation was just too bad.

A surprise attack with multiple enemies while one was drawing attention?

‘Were ghouls originally this cunning?’

No matter how high a ghoul’s intelligence was, it was the first time even Jin-wook had seen such a case.

Had his senses dulled from being away from the front lines for so long?

Anyway, the best thing to do in this situation was for one of the rearguards to move forward and form a new front line.

Even if Jeong-Hyeon could fight in close combat, he couldn’t be sure if he had the ability or judgment to do so, and since it was an emergency, it was right for him to jump in from the beginning.

However,

“Mr. Woojun, please support!”

“Yes? Oh, yes!”

Jeonghyeon was already running towards the ghouls, leaving a short message.

‘It’s not an easy thing to do. Who would jump in like that even if they knew?’

“Kik━”

From the ghouls’ point of view, it would look like a piece of prey was running towards them.

The gray, grotesque dolls all adjusted their aim towards Jeonghyeon.

To face ghouls head-on without any means of defense other than leather armor.

If he was sane, there was no way he could do that.

Jin-wook immediately took a step.

His judgment was good enough.

It was sufficiently excellent.

But he couldn’t shake the thought that it was recklessness.

Even Sangjun wouldn’t be able to come out unscathed from four ghouls.

“Huh?”

But Jin-wook couldn’t help but let out an exclamation and stop.

What was happening right now?

Was there a gap between them?

It seemed like he just ran out, but Jeonghyeon had already passed the four ghouls.

“Whew.”

Jeonghyeon gasped for breath.

‘That was really close.’

Even though he could see the attack routes, this time it was so dense that he wondered if there would be any room to escape.

Fortunately, the purpose this time was only to attract the ghouls’ attention.

If he had tried to counterattack, he would have been seriously injured.

Fortunately, he had succeeded in dampening the ghouls’ momentum by neutralizing their first attack.

The four ghouls turned around and glared at him again.

The attack would start immediately, but a moment’s hesitation was enough of a gap for a D-rank.

Thud━

The arrow that smashed the back of a ghoul’s head pierced through and stopped only after it popped out of its eye socket.

It was Woojun’s arrow.

Now there were only three enemies left.

Sangjun and Seunghyeok weren’t comfortable, but they didn’t seem like they would collapse easily either.

The monsters must have also realized that their plan had failed miserably.

The first sign was that the two on the left were neutralized before they could even enter the battle, and the next was that Jeonghyeon hadn’t even been scratched by a single nail in this encounter.

Jeonghyeon kicked off the ground and ran.

He could have waited for Woohyuk’s shot one more time, but it would have been a loss if the ghouls moved first.

He aimed for the one on the far right.

‘They are fast, after all.’

Jeonghyeon had the upper hand in terms of movement, but it wasn’t easy.

They seemed to be at least half a step above the rock spiders.

When three ghouls attacked Jeonghyeon at once, he turned his body diagonally to the right.

Then he swung his mace hard.

Whack━

However, he sensed that he couldn’t finish it off with one blow.

Not only did he not put enough power into it because he had to change direction,

‘It won’t die from a shoulder hit, right?’

It was because he hit its shoulder blade.

It did roll quite a distance because he put some power into it, but it wasn’t a big blow.

Instead, the gain from temporarily removing one from the front line was significant.

The other two passed right behind Jeonghyeon, who turned further to the right.

Before the ghouls could land and turn around, Jeonghyeon attacked the one closer to him.

The first one to take a stance was the one who got the first attack.

“This time will be different!”

He put his strength into it properly, and its head was exposed defenselessly as it was changing its posture.

He wasn’t sure if he could finish it off with one blow, but at least it would be incapacitated.

Crack━

‘Huh?’

However, the moment the mace and the ghoul’s head collided.

Something happened that Jeonghyeon hadn’t expected.

‘The mace broke?’

The impact itself was fine.

Not only did the ghoul’s neck snap, but because it was in a low stance, its chin was completely smashed into the ground.

But if the mace broke, he couldn’t continue with the next attack he had planned.

No matter how capable Jeonghyeon was, he couldn’t help but be flustered.

‘That crazy Mr. Cheolyong!’

Should he not have trusted the rental equipment so much?

But it was useless to blame Cheolyong.

“Kik━”

Taking advantage of Jeonghyeon’s confusion, the remaining ghoul leaped and pounced on him.

Stab━

“Kuaaack!”

Jeonghyeon instinctively thrust out the broken mace handle.

It roughly pierced the ghoul’s upper body, but that wasn’t enough.

The ghoul’s sharp claws mercilessly scratched Jeonghyeon’s arm.

At first, it seemed to be blocked by the Tadan Orc’s leather, but it was no match for the frantic scratching.

Jeonghyeon’s arm, which had become ragged and exposed flesh, became covered in blood in an instant.

“Uaaah!”

Woojun’s arrow flew, but perhaps because he was flustered, it didn’t accurately hit the head of the rampaging ghoul.

‘F ck, f ck!’

Jeonghyeon, enduring the pain that made him dizzy, somehow fumbled at his side with his left arm.

With his dulled senses, he managed to grab the handle of the dagger.

“Die!”

Jeonghyeon, who pulled out the dagger with his left hand, bent his right arm and thrust his left arm forward at the same time.

Leaving behind the scream of his muscles contracting as the ghoul’s claws dug in,

The dagger’s blade pierced through the eye socket and diagonally into the head.

“Kik━! Kik!”

The ghoul flailed its arms frantically, but nothing properly reached Jeonghyeon.

Even if it did, it would just bounce off the intact parts of his armor.

Jeonghyeon didn’t stop at one stab but continued to thrust and swing the dagger repeatedly.

And the ghoul, which he threw away as if shaking it off, along with the mace handle, twitched a few times and then completely died.

“Mr. Jeonghyeon, behind you!”

But at the same time, Woojun’s warning came.

When Jeonghyeon turned around, the ghoul whose shoulder he had hit earlier was already leaping.

At that moment, he was immersed in the sensation that only he and the two ghouls leaping towards him remained in this place.

‘This is too late.’

The red attack path clearly drawn towards the back of his neck.

If he got hit, he would die.

But it wasn’t easy to avoid either.

The only option left was to counterattack.

But his right arm was already a rag, and in his left hand was a dagger shorter than the mace handle.

No matter how you looked at it, the ghoul had the advantage.

Jeonghyeon’s eyes fell on his still intact left arm.

Would he give up his left arm after experiencing that pain in his right arm?

But Jeonghyeon didn’t even consider it.

‘So what?’

Jeonghyeon didn’t even extend his arm.

Instead, he bent his left arm, supporting the end of the dagger handle with his body,

And jumped straight towards the ghoul.

He might die for sure.

But it was better than dying sitting down.

It was the same determination that hadn’t given up even in front of the mutated boss.

The ghoul pouncing at his neck.

Jeonghyeon ducked slightly just before its attack landed.

He burrowed under the ghoul.

With the ghoul’s wide-open mouth in front of him, he stabbed the dagger in his left hand into its solar plexus.

He felt the muscles trying to grab the blade, but once their weight collided, it couldn’t refuse the intrusion.

“Kik-Kik-Kik-Kik-Kik━”

Naturally, the undead ghoul didn’t die from something like a stab to the solar plexus.

Jeonghyeon was in a position as if he was embraced by the ghoul.

Its claws pierced through the armor on his back and dug in.

The ghoul’s teeth aimed for his vulnerable neck.

But Jeonghyeon didn’t avoid the ghoul’s eyes but rather put more strength into pushing the dagger deeper.

‘But are these even eyes?’

A ridiculous question that came to mind at what might be his last moment.

And the next moment,

Thud━

Something happened that erased Jeonghyeon’s worries.

Just before the ghoul’s teeth could sink into his neck, its gray head disappeared completely.

“Huh?”

Jeonghyeon, who was unintentionally covered in ghoul fluids, tilted his head.

He wasn’t dead.

“Are you really crazy, or did you have some kind of plan?”

And Jin-wook’s voice came from beyond the headless ghoul.

It was a calm, low voice, unlike his usual playful tone.

Jin-wook was standing behind the ghoul, which was losing strength and slumping down.

In the same stance, with his mace swung at head height.

Jeonghyeon answered instinctively.

“Uh, I didn’t have any particular plan.”

Jin-wook chuckled and then pointed his chin behind him and said.

“For now, please sit still back there. If your injuries get worse, I’ll kill you.”

“Y, yes……”

I’m really going to die this time.

At Jin-wook’s threat, Jeonghyeon tucked his tail between his legs and retreated behind Woojun, leaning against the wall.

A mace that could blow a ghoul’s head off in one swing.

Wasn’t that an absurd level of power?

“Ugh…… Why does it hurt more now?”

Was it because of the feeling of getting further away from the battle?

Not to mention his right arm, the pain in his back started to intensify.

“Are you alright?”

It was to the point where even Woojun approached Jeonghyeon and asked him.

“Yes, well……”

He answered appropriately, but in other words, it hurt so much that that was his limit.

And even in the midst of all this, Jin-wook, who had jumped into the battle, was literally all over the place.

The vanguard’s tense battle, which had only managed to reduce one enemy so far, ended in an instant.

The sight of Jin-wook mercilessly swinging his mace and killing the ghouls was chilling to watch.

‘Even if he’s a C-rank…… What kind of healer is he?’

Wouldn’t it be more accurate to say that combat was his main job and healing was his side job?

Jeonghyeon seriously began to worry about whether he should equip healing or movement speed if he was to get a C-class.