Become Overpowered CEO of Hero Clan

Become Overpowered CEO of Hero Clan – 210

Martial God (1)

After boldly declaring war, Lee Geon-ha took two steps back with his arms crossed.

He had acted impulsively, but he couldn’t gauge the difference in combat power with his enemy.

The one fortunate thing was.

‘I seem to have regained almost all of my strength.’

As soon as he crossed the threshold, he felt his head spinning. Likely, he had begun to receive the boost from his charisma, ‘Boredom Genius’.

Now that he knew both Final Finish and the King’s Authority were functioning normally, even if that guy possessed specs identical to Hero Isaac, it would be a fight worth attempting.

Steeling himself, Lee Geon-ha readily accepted the course of action his sharpened mind requested.

“Create an opening. So I can approach him.”

Lee Geon-ha’s strategy was for his team members to create an opening, and in the moment the enemy’s attention was divided, he would slip in and purify him with a single strike.

“Understood!”

Hwang Man-deuk, the Asura Amazon who understood his leader’s order, shot out like a bolt of lightning. Even without undoing the bonds of reunion, he could be certain.

That Lee Geon-ha was the true captain they had been searching for.

Guooooo!

Soon, the crimson Asura’s entire body was enveloped in a violet radiance.

The blood-man’s fist, drawn taut like a bow, was imbued with a fierce, explosive energy.

Paaaaaang!

At the punch of the 10-star tank-DPS hero, the shadow realm recoiled with a thunderous roar, but creeping black, slimy masses crawled in, disgustingly trying to fill the empty space.

‘Is he in a constant Unlimited Mode state?’

Even after the Asura Amazon’s strike, the Isaac of the mental world remained motionless high in the air.

However, focused on defense, he couldn’t wield the shadow realm as tyrannically as before.

Just as he was about to swing his arm, he was intercepted by a barrage of main cannons and volleys of advanced missiles that flew in like a waterfall.

Chiiiiiii―

Pububububung!

As a result, the grand inner walls of the art hall came crashing down, revealing that beyond the gaping sky lay the cosmic space outside of time and space.

Suaaaaa―!

As the surrounding scenery changed to a theme befitting a proper boss battle, the perpetrator of this bizarre phenomenon began to emanate an even more ferocious demonic energy.

Observing the figure of Isaac Benjamin Greenwood, the boss of the mental world who freely manipulated the shadow realm, from a third-person perspective, Lee Geon-ha suddenly realized.

Why the heroes of Earth feared Isaac’s display of skill.

That ominous appearance could rightfully be called a dark demon king returned from hell, couldn’t it?

‘A quick resolution, that is.’

All Lee Geon-ha, worn down by company life for the past half year, could do was move his body according to his brain’s commands.

As if judging that dragging out time wouldn’t increase survival probability, the genius’s brain was demanding a swift, forceful breakthrough.

Accordingly.

Paang!

Lee Geon-ha, resolving once again to become a hero, stomped his foot hard.

Chwaaaaaaa!

The timing of his charge was synchronized with the azure sword strike that cleaved the sky in two.

At the very moment when the shadow realm helplessly parted under the swordsmanship of Yeo Jin-soo the Sword God, Lee Geon-ha, shot forth like a beam of light, suddenly closed to within 5 meters of the guy hiding deep within the realm.

‘Danger!?’

Lee Geon-ha, who was about to unleash an instant-kill move, convulsively twisted his waist.

It was because his genius brain, always prioritizing its owner’s survival, had sent a red alert.

However, despite Lee Geon-ha’s efforts to preserve his life.

Puk!

“……!”

An excruciating pain finally pierced through his lungs.

As his consciousness blurred in an instant, Lee Geon-ha threw a punch in a last-ditch effort, but.

Splash.

All he could hit was a sticky, slimy substance. The enemy had been preparing a counterattack of his own.

“Farewell, Team Leader Lee Geon-ha. This world belongs to me, Benjamin.”

“Damn it. Not again……”

The weapon that had pierced through his chest and emerged was probably the spear tip of a shadow soldier.

Before he could even blame his brain for the misjudgment, Lee Geon-ha’s consciousness crumpled to the floor.

[A small ball of light sparkles.]

He felt wronged, embarrassed, and at the same time, empty.

Then, all sorts of memories flashed by in an instant. This must be the famous ‘life flashing before your eyes’.

Is this chaotic rush of memories right before death also a survival mechanism embedded in our genes? Or is it heaven’s consideration, allowing us to recall precious memories even at the end of life?

‘If it’s carelessness, then it is carelessness, but.’

Anyway, now that it had come to this, he just wanted to rest a bit.

Honestly, hadn’t he done enough?

He had used the resources given to him to do his best to screw over Satanael, but in the end, it was a sad ending.

‘What a dog’s life.’

Regrettably, it seemed he had met a similar end this time as well.

Suaaa―

The surrounding scenery, plunged into darkness, had now become completely pitch black, and the sensation throughout his body faded into a distant numbness.

‘So why did they summon someone like me.’

It would be a lie to say he didn’t feel sorry at all for Tetragrammaton, who must have consumed a massive amount of resources to use such an incompetent person.

After all, as Lee Geon-ha the office worker, he had enjoyed luxuries he could never have dreamed of through the body of Hero Isaac.

The romance of meeting in reality the heroes he had raised in mobile games was surely a beautiful memory that no one else on Earth could experience.

‘Though in the end, I was defeated again.’

They say you can’t take it with you when you go.

If he had known it would be such a futile life, coming empty-handed and leaving empty-handed, he wouldn’t have worked so hard to the bone.

If there was any regret, it was dying without getting to spend all that money.

‘By the way, have I become some kind of soul state now? And what’s that?’

Lee Geon-ha, disheartened by his miserable end, blinked softly.

It was because the faintly glimmering ball of light in the distance was gradually approaching.

Woowoong.

‘If I touch that, will I be reincarnated or something?’

Tired of the bleakness of the afterworld, which was nothing but darkness, Lee Geon-ha carefully grasped the ball of light that had flown towards him.

And then what appeared was.

Woowoowoong!

[Something that has been dormant within you is finally released.]

[You have reached the state of awakening.]

It was a system message flickering and illuminating the empty space.

Having experienced something similar before, Lee Geon-ha was sick and tired of wondering what kind of trick Tetragrammaton, who governed fate, had prepared this time.

‘Are they reviving me again?’

The internal conflict of not wanting to suffer but also not wanting to die like this didn’t last long.

After all, they say even rolling in a dog’s poop field is better than being in the afterlife.

Muttering almost inaudibly about why they couldn’t have given him this benefit before he died, Lee Geon-ha then carefully examined the glowing object that had come into his possession.

In fact, there wasn’t much to examine.

‘A smartphone?’

The identity of the ball of light was none other than a smartphone with its flashlight function turned on. The very smartphone that could send and receive messages through various applications or play mobile games.

As soon as Lee Geon-ha touched the screen of the familiar model smartphone, the built-in software was activated.

[Do you want to load the save file?]

[Yes/No]

Save file.

A checkpoint that can be saved manually or automatically when playing a game.

The fact that the system mentioned awakening and then this question appeared meant that Lee Geon-ha’s awakening skill was related to the save file ability.

‘I wonder if there’s a limit to the number of times.’

Don’t RPG game users have the ability to move to save points at any time and repeatedly challenge bosses with complex patterns?

Theoretically, if there was no life limit, one could eventually succeed in defeating even a boss monster of impossible difficulty by investing an infinite amount of time.

Could there be a more useful awakening skill for Lee Geon-ha, who had spent two-thirds of his life on games, excluding sleeping time?

After a brief deliberation, Lee Geon-ha’s choice was, of course, ‘Yes’.

[Loading the game.]

Fwooosh…!

With that, the dark field of vision was enveloped in a bright white light.

Just as he was starting to feel excited about the prospect of being revived, even if in the form of loading a save file.

Lee Geon-ha found himself in a past space-time.

“Won’t you regret it?”

The person expressing concern like an NPC was none other than the CEO’s personal secretary, who resembled Secretary Hwang Bora.

She was the being from the imaginary world he had encountered before bidding farewell to the world.

Come to think of it, her persuasion had cost Lee Geon-ha his life.

“No, I won’t.”

However, this time too, Team leader Lee Geon-ha’s choice was not to return to the office, but to burst through the door leading to the CEO’s office.

Bang.

“Why… Why did you come in? Ugh.”

“Ah, let’s all do our best! We’re heroes, aren’t we? We should be able to protect at least one civilian!”

Greeted by Heroes Seo Eun-ha and Gil-seong, Lee Geon-ha, who had loaded the save file, couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of déjà vu.

And not long after.

Fwooosh…!

He was able to confirm the crucial information that there was no limit to the number of uses for the ultimate skill [Save & Load].

It was because the boss of the imaginary world, Isaac Benjamin Greenwood, was stronger than expected.

Stab!

Crunch!

Crack!

[Loading the game.]

Fwooosh…!

Despite Team leader Lee Geon-ha having his heart pierced by shadows, his head deformed by fists, and his entire body ruptured under the gravity of the Thousand Eyes Lotus Technique.

[Loading the game.]

He could die as many times as needed, always returning to the same timeline.

Whoosh!

The shadow’s spear grazed the tip of his chin.

Lee Geon-ha, surrounded by a purple radiance, closed the distance with him.

Fwat!

Fwooooosh!

Lee Geon-ha narrowly avoided the massive shadow that descended upon him right after his leap.

The distance between him and Isaac was just 1m.

Within arm’s reach.

But just before Lee Geon-ha’s fist could strike the other’s face.

Swooosh!

The shadow swamp rose up, and shadow vegetation sprouting from all directions leaned towards Lee Geon-ha.

Crunch!

It was Asura Amazon Hwang Man-deuk who bore the brunt of the merciless gravitational force in his stead.

“Void Dispel Gleam!”

Boom boom boom.

Moreover, Seo Eun-ha interrupted Isaac’s next attack skill, while simultaneously a thick photon cannon penetrated the shadow curtain, and.

Flash─────!

The sword saint’s blade technique split the world.

Only after dying 54 times like this. Lee Geon-ha’s fist was finally able to make contact with the other’s body.

“Stop resisting─”

Just like when he first swung his fist as Hero Isaac. Team leader Lee Geon-ha’s punching, having never learned any martial arts, was terribly clumsy, but.

“─and just die!”

Bam────────!

The Final Finish that finally struck the opponent lived up to its name splendidly.

Swooosh…

The shadow domain, having lost its master, suddenly dissipated.

Team leader Lee Geon-ha was staring with shocked eyes at CEO Benjamin, who now had a large hole in his abdomen.

“Haha, in the end… It came to this.”

At the resigned tone in the other’s voice, Lee Geon-ha felt somewhat relieved as well.

Victory achieved on the 55th attempt after 54 deaths. Because he had pursued short-term decisive battles in all those fights, the total combat time wasn’t very long.

“Lee Geon-ha, make sure you survive. My role ends here.”

“Now you’re pretending to be nice?”

“Satanael’s transcendence is absolute corruption. I was arranged as a shield for him… Lee Geon-ha, I envied you. I still do. I too… wish I could have been… with them…”

The imaginary world’s Isaac, spewing pitiful ramblings, was gradually dispersing into particles of light.

As he was purified, the surrounding cosmic space also began to distort.

It was time to return home.