I Woke Up as the Villain

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Thus, there would surely be a moment of battle with the Orc War Chief.

‘The Orc War Chief won ’t fall so easily and…’

Perhaps it was advantageous for Bernard Yoo to follow Yu-Seong at such a rather slow pace.
By the time Choi Yu-Seong and the Orc War Chief were exhausted from each other, it would be possible for Bernard Yoo himself to become the final winner with a coup de grace.

It was the same with sports, such as soccer.
No matter how well the advantageous team played the game, if they didn ’t score in the end, they would lose the game.
Then, even the disadvantaged team could win if they score a goal.
Bernard Yoo ’s current situation was similar to that.
There was only one problem.

‘Ahh… But I don ’t want to win like that.’

It was Bernard Yoo’s competitive spirit.
Taking the last hit of the monster that his opponent had been fighting against wasn’t something he would do.
However, if the distance continued to widen like this, he would definitely lose the match.
Choi Yu-Seong was as strong as he expected and smarter than he thought.

“Did you really have to choose such a sneaky way—not directly fighting the elite monsters?” Without realizing it, complaints he would not normally say escaped from Bernard Yoo’s mouth.
However, his feelings were not toward Choi Yu-Seong but toward himself.
A great conflict lingered in his eyes as he grabbed the approaching Orc Warrior ’s throat and threw it on the ground.

‘If I wear the ancient relics that my grandfather gave me now…’

Bernard Yoo could catch up with Yu-Seong.
This was because, while using the ancient relics—‘Orc Hunt’, even the elite monster, the Orc Warrior, could be defeated and passed by as easily as an ordinary Orc.
However, his pride did not allow him to use it so easily.

‘I ’d rather lose like this…’

By the time Bernard Yoo thought he would rather feel comfortable losing this way, Chairman Yoo’s face, the man who had scolded him with a stern face, seemed to appear in front of him.

– Jae-Yeol, don ’t forget that you have the whole Cheon-Ji Group’s employees and their families on your shoulders.

Due to the conflict between pride and responsibility, Bernard Yoo was struck by the Orc Warrior on the side.
He flew into the air, swearing, ”Dang it! ”

In fact, the answer had already been decided.
If he really did not want to use it, Bernard Yoo shouldn ’t have brought it.
His eyes became hard as his hands squeezed the Oak Hunt that was in his battlesuit’s storage box.

After this match, he might hate himself and wander for a while.
He was even starting to hate seeing his grandfather’s face already.

‘But how could I not?’

With a responsibility to save countless families, Bernard Yoo took off the battlesuit’s gloves at a high speed and wore the Orc Hunt on his right index finger.
He began to run at a breakneck speed.

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Bernard Yoo, who seemed to be getting farther away, began to follow Yu-Seong closely.

‘I thought I had at least three minutes to spare…’

Before he knew it, the difference was reduced to about two minutes.
There was nothing Yu-Seong could do about it.
He was quick-footed, but he also had to sneak through the openings quickly to be ignored by the Orc Warrior.
On the other hand, Bernard Yoo was chasing after him at some point, slaughtering Orc Warriors as if he was only dealing with a stronger general Orc.

Unlike Choi Yu-Seong, Bernard Yoo was pushing the Orcs hard without having to find the gaps.
Thus, his speed was bound to be fast.

‘The Cheon-Ji Group’s secret weapon is an ancient relic.’

Seeing the sudden change in Bernard Yoo, Choi Yu-Seong easily guessed the reason.
At the same time, confusion arose.

‘But why did he start using it now? Is it not an ancient relic, but a kind of secret weapon that’s similar to what I prepared?’

Of course, Choi Yu-Seong had also prepared a trump card.
The first of them was the Lightning Burst, a medicine that had been hidden in a statue of a small shrine located somewhere in the northern tip of Hokkaido, Japan.
It allowed the user ’s physical and mental abilities to significantly surpass the rank as soon as it was taken.
Of course, as great as the temporary effect was, the risk was also equally great.

‘It lasts five minutes at the most.’

Also, when the medicine’s short effect was over, all system stats were locked, and the user would become incapable of combat for about five days.
In the original novel, after the Japanese S-rank hunter Nioh was defeated in a fight with Kim Do-Jin, he discovered the Lightning Burst and dreamed of revenge.
However, he ended up with the conclusion that he could not surpass the main character.

‘But the effect itself was described in a great way.’

In the original novel, the medicine was powerful that Nioh, who had stagnated in the S-rank, was able to cut off the arm of the SS-rank Kim Do-Jin.
Kim Do-Jin had been able to survive because he had an S-ranked alchemist as well as Baek Ah-Rin, who would later be the only SS-ranked restoration-type and support-type in the world, by his side.
Thus, it was clear that there was no doubt about the medicine’s strong effect.

Therefore, Choi Yu-Seong shortly suspected that Bernard Yoo had prepared a means to increase the firepower at the same moment as the Lightning Burst, but he soon shook his head.

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‘Such a medicinal item is not common in this world.’

It was said to be quite common in China, where it was no different from the divergence point of the Martial Arts’ world.
However, it was not commonly used elsewhere since the risks were tremendously terrible.
It ruined people to the extent that they would not be able to recover as a hunter forever.
They couldn’t even recover after lying down for a few days.

Then, could there be two of the Lightning Burst? That was also impossible.

‘The original novel said that the alchemist who made the Lightning Burst hid it in a statue and died.’ 

Of course, there were so many errors in the novel’s setting that there might be a possibility.
However, Choi Yu-Seong was also convinced that it could never happen.

‘The alchemist who developed the Lightning Burst was Kaito Sang, the shrine’s owner.’

And when Jenny ’s hidden team had visited the shrine, Kaito Sang was found dead.