Possessing Nothing Novel (쥐뿔도 없는 회귀)

Chapter 189 - Madness (4)

Heoju and Lee Sungmin easily passed the wall inside the realm of his consciousness.

There was a wall that acted as a barrier of the soul that Lee Sungmin had within his consciousness, and Lee Sungmin and Heoju, who walked in, were accepted without resistance.

Lee Sungmin looked down at his empty hand.

When he was conscious, Lee Sungmin was holding a spear. This was the same type of space as Denir's trial and yet a different place altogether.

There, Lee Sungmin was free to use his inner strength. In Denir's space of the trial, he was free to use his strength and use his physical body.

But it was different here. His internal energy could not be accessed here, the same was for Heoju.

He succeeded in creating a spear, but that was all.

No matter how much he tried to bring awareness to his internal energy, his internal energy would not appear.

'You're being unreasonable.', Lee Sungmin smiled bitterly to himself.

All he could use here was his spear and his spiritual body.

If he didn't want to die and lose his body here, he had to make this work. The entity's footsteps which were frantic, stopped.

It stood there and turned its head around to look at Lee Sungmin.

No eyes, no nose, no mouth. It looked like a human being, it had no distinctive features other than it's skin color, which was a dark red.

Lee Sungmin seemed to hear a deafening, unadulterated roar.

The entity crouched on all fours like a complete beast.

When Lee Sungmin saw it, it was already in front of Lee Sungmin's body.

The dark hand reached out and tried to break Lee Sungmin's head like a watermelon.

Lee Sungmin immediately lowered his posture. It was too much to defend that attack now that his internal energy was cut off and he could not draw on any outside power.

A powerful series of fingertips grazed over his head. Lee Sungmin, who lowered his posture, sprung his weight into his calves without hesitating.

There was no explosive acceleration due to lack of internal energy, but even if there was none, this basic maneuvering of his body would be sufficient.

Lee Sungmin, who dug his feet firmly into the ground, thrust the spear in his hands.

Bung!

With a dull sound, the entity was slightly pushed back. The attack was light even though he had stabbed with all his might. The spear blade was obviously sharp, but it couldn't penetrate the entity's body at all.

Lee Sungmin never thought he could finish it with one stroke. There was no disappointment to be seen on Lee Sungmin's face because he didn't expect much at all.

Wha-ak!

As he rushed towards the retreating body of the monstrous entity, Lee Sungmin unfolded a basic spear technique, The Rana technique.

The thrusting attacks of the spear were shallow thanks to the absence of his internal energy, but he hit precisely at where the heart should be on the entity's body.

But the entity wasn't just going to let itself be beaten. It spread its right hand out wide and reached Lee Sungmin's shoulder.

From the moment the entity's shoulders moved in accordance to the arm, Lee Sungmin predicted the movement and avoided it.