Chapter 19

Chapter 19

19. Beyond the Wall (2)

Beyond the wall, the eroded old city.

Inside an abandoned building a group was visible.

Among them Do cheol leaning on the wall opened his mouth while stroking the ‘magic weapon’ equipped on his right arm. The ‘Geotae Industry’ logo was embedded on the magic weapon.

“Where is our target about?”

“···Forest.”

“Oho, really?”

At Do cheol’s question a woman answered shortly.

Because the face was covered with a hood it wasn’t well visible, but the curved body revealed above the clothes couldn’t be hidden.

“Forest? If forest it’s still far! I’m hungry!”

At that time, Baek Sangeo got excited.

“Blood! I want to eat blood! Blood! Won’t you give? Huh? Hi, hihik···.”

“This crazy bastard, don’t come to your senses. Do you forget where this is?”

“Hi, hiiik··· a-no. I know well! Hihik.”

Baek Sangeo who had a quite large body hunched his shoulders.

“If you endure a little I’ll give work abundantly so stay quietly.”

“···Hihik.”

Baek Sangeo scared at Do cheol’s one word.

Baek Sangeo quietly headed to the railing.

“By the way why isn’t this stupid bastard still coming up!”

Swoosh.

At Do cheol’s shout Baek Sangeo looked down below.

Below there a man over 2m was scratching his head.

“That stupid rock head bastard! Can’t even find the entrance right in front······ u-uh?”

Bang! Bang! Kwaaaang!

“······.”

Baek Sangeo wrinkled his face greatly.

“Stupid bastard. As if not an ignorant guy he smashes and makes a path!”

“Found! Found the path! Hehe! Good!”

A stupid sound was heard from below.

“First wait quietly. Since Sabi is chasing the guys a mark will appear soon. When that time comes we move. Saying once more, the ‘relic’ Geotae Industry told to find is not the top priority. First seeing the taste of blood is the priority.”

“Hi, hihik. Blood! Have to eat blood!”

“···Good.”

Do cheol quietly stood on the railing.

And far away, stared at one guy.

Thud, thud—.

One guy that popped out from inside the abandoned building.

An 8m bipedal walking monster is calmly walking around.

‘Told to catch such an ignorantly big guy? Nonsense.’

It would die from being stepped on.

That those guys will process themselves.

When they move is that time.

“How did this place become the moon is damn big.”

Do cheol said while looking at the giant moon as if swallowing the city.

Such moonlight brightly illuminated the city.

* * *

Crackle, crackle.

Sparks flickered on the floor.

The surroundings were full of the smell of burning.

“This as Jaewon guy said is refreshing! Cleaning up this many guys with that one time! The first time in my life seeing such thrill! Khaha!”

“Ah, hyung. What did I say? This guy is not ordinary? [Lightning Strike] also kills!”

“Wow, oppa··· this is the first time in my life seeing something like this. With lightning-type magic you b-burst the body, right?”

The three people got excited.

He also was a bit like that.

‘I knew the Magic Residue effect of [Lightning Orb], but to this extent···?’

It was almost like releasing hundreds of snakes.

And those were snakes with sparks jumping.

[Chain Lightning] that flowed as if crawling the floor transferred from the guy it rode, and transferred and seared all the surroundings.

That scenery was really a spectacle.

“K-cough. O-one hit··· is certain.”

Swoosh.

Choi Hyeonmin said while pushing up his glasses.

Then he opened his mouth again.

“···Sorry. I didn’t know you were a mage of this level. Sorry for the previous rudeness.”

“······.”

He even apologizes right away.

There is some thrill.

Receiving an apology from a person like this.

Seeing [Lightning Orb] he was keeping his mouth shut.

-Grrrrung···.

Teri also approached close and rubbed its cheek.

“Teri, you did well. If not you I almost got bitten by the ant.”

-Grung, grrung.

This guy was also no joke.

Although not long since he knew this guy, it was a ferocious appearance he hadn’t seen until now. Completely a beast itself.

Ang! bit and tore, chewed, and bit again···.

Completely bit and killed the ants miserably.

As much as that he was reliable.

He grabbed Teri’s giant neck and stroked wildly.

Teri panted saying good.

“Th-then··· let’s continue going. Cough.”

They moved again.

Because they said it takes quite a bit to the destination.

“Hey, let me ask one. I heard Geotae Industry also entrusted a request, is there no information about the guys?”

At that time, Jaewon asked about the opposing request team.

He was also curious, but uncle Jangwon also doesn’t know.

If through a request office he can know right away, but he said no such information came in.

In other words this means···.

“They entrusted to the ‘Butcher’ mercenary office.”

Yeah, this is it.

Not a request office but another group, mercenary.

But the reaction of the three people who heard the name became serious.

“Th-wait a minute. Did you say Butcher?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Uncle Cheolmin’s expression wrinkled greatly.

“Uh··· wait a minute? Isn’t that a place where extremely scary uncles gather? They say extremely cruel!”

“Yuna’s words are right. That place is one of the places counted on one hand for working dirty among mercenary offices. Ha, fuck. Of all things···.”

Jaewon also had a not good expression.

···How much is it in total?

He lightly asked Jaewon.

“How much is it that it’s like that?”

“Don’t you know? Those bastards are completely crazy guys. The name is not Butcher for nothing. When they take work they prioritize killing the guys related to the work rather than taking care of the mission.”

“So didn’t they say when there is a person who wants to kill someone they entrust to the Butcher mercenary office?”

“Those words are right. To that extent they are bizarre guys.”

Not Butcher for nothing.

Such guys of all things the opposing request team?

‘···Hmm.’

The request difficulty is a bit like that every time.

It seems there are no easy things as it goes.

“But what can be done. If we accepted the request we have to complete somehow. If they interfere just kill them.”

“···Such uncles are scary though.”

Yuna also said while healing Cheolmin and Jaewon’s wounds.

“Now now, let’s go quickly. Whether Butcher or whatever if only we find the relic it’s done!”

As expected everyone seems like that.

This was also the reason they didn’t confirm the opposing team before coming.

Whether like this, or like that.

Anyway because they accepted the request for their own purposes.

Like that each accepted indifferently.

* * *

They came out of the giant forest.

Then another space unfolding, ruined city.

They say this place is called ‘eroded city’?

“Wow, really amazing. How can such a different space exist?”

Yuna also seemed amazed and her eyes became sparkling.

A building tilted and fallen to the side.

Vehicles rusted and neglected.

A convenience store with the entrance covered with a lot of moss.

It was the scenery of the city we commonly knew, but it looked like a very old space.

How can something like this exist in total?

Just a little while ago it was a tropical rainforest that seemed thousands of years old, but right here is a city again?

‘Even besides here they said there are a few more different spaces.’

Clearly this was part of southern Seoul.

And it’s not that hundreds of years have flowed since it changed like this.

It was very peculiar.

“Well there are many various words. Do you know what one of them is, Yuna?”

“What is it, oppa?”

“You know Ancient Magic?”

“Yes, I know! It’s extremely amazing!”

“At the World Magic Society they say there might be some Ancient Magic hanging here. Such spaces didn’t only occur in our country but one each in the whole world.”

“Yes? Ancient Magic is hanging?”

Yuna was greatly surprised.

He also was surprised.

‘Ancient Magic?’

Anyway recently such a thing appeared.

Precisely ‘Ancient Constellation.’

He also saw that extremely precious Ancient Magic point.

“There is still not much revealed about Ancient Magic either. Among them words came out that there might be magic related to such spaces.”

“That guy’s words are right! Ancient Magic is truly mysterious. What I am interested in is also one of them···.”

“What is uncle interested in?”

“Have you guys heard that? Among the transformation-type Ancient Magic, there is magic that can transform into [Great Demon]! Great Demon, Great Demon! Isn’t it manly just hearing the name? Khaha!”

Transforming into Great Demon.

Really an unknowable area.

Thud, thud—.

“······!”

“······!”

At that time.

The vibration of the floor felt minutely.

It seemed something big was passing.

“···It’s the guy.”

Hyeonmin said low.

As if knowing well.

“That guy is the guy guarding the relic.”

“···They said extremely big. It seems really enormous. If vibration is felt to this extent.”

Jaewon said with a stiffened face.

He heard the size is about 7 to 8 meters?

“Actually the company requested hoping you would process that guy, but what the company wants is one. Precisely the relic.”

At that time, Hyeonmin continued some words.

“As you also know, processing a monster like that with this number of people would be unreasonable. The company just wanted to see if they can perform even such an unreasonable request.”

“What are you saying. Surely you tested us!”

Cheolmin showed a slightly sensitive reaction.

Actually it was also a natural reaction.

Entrusting a request and rather deceiving.

But what came out of Hyeonmin’s mouth after was rather not bad.

“First sorry. But I only followed the company’s will so please understand. Actually with the previous exploration the route has been perfectly detected. In other words, if combining your power and my ability, it seems we can sufficiently escape even without processing that guy.”

Swoosh.

This time Jaewon raised his hand.

“Then we can ignore that guy?”

“···Precisely it is correct that we have no choice but to ignore. According to the company’s analysis, to knock down that guy we had to form about three teams. The company had given up the thought of knocking down that guy from the start.”

“From the start it wasn’t a level we could process.”

“Sorry, but that’s right. In other words, rather than processing the guy think of escaping this place avoiding the guy as the goal.”

Somehow the difficulty lowered a bit.

To knock down a guy whose vibration is felt even from far it would have been a headache.

“Well, anyway if only we receive the compensation it’s done!”

“Okay. Understanding complete.”

“I also don’t care if only I receive the compensation!”

“···What about you?”

Finally he asked his opinion.

What’s there to say.

“Yes, I also good.”

“Good. Then first let’s continue going.”

After resetting the goal the movement continued.

They say that guy goes around like patrolling like that, and if not touching the relic it doesn’t come.

He wondered how far they went.

They stood in front of a half-collapsed building.

“It’s here.”

Hyeonmin stopped the guidance.

···There is the relic the company is looking for here?

‘Just collapsed building ruins.’

What are they trying to find here?

Hyeonmin stepped on the ruins and headed somewhere.

Then he pointed at some fragment.

“The relic our company is looking for is this.”

The rest also stepped on the ruins and went up.

And he saw that thing called relic···.

“What on earth is this? I don’t know what letters at all.”

“Looking it doesn’t seem like a language we know! What is the company trying to do with this?”

Jaewon and Cheolmin asked.

The same even looking at him.

Some earthworms were drawn on the building ruins.

“This place is already not a place we knew. Unknown writings engraved in such a place··· the company has been gathering characters like this from long ago.”

Hyeonmin who seemed like he wouldn’t tell smoothly confessed.

Something seems subtly the attitude changed from the first.

But the company was gathering things like this?

Are they trying to investigate about beyond the wall with this.

“As I said earlier if only not touching this it will be fine. So before doing the work it would be good to take sufficient rest.”

“Kuuuh! Let’s do that! First let’s take some rest and then move!”

Cheolmin who stretched moved to the corner and put a cigarette in his mouth. Jaewon also approached such Cheolmin and smoked together.

‘Let’s rest a bit too.’

He walked without rest from entering.

This is the first time walking this much doing a request.

His legs hurt quite a bit.

But the problem is having to go back like that again.

Moreover he will have to take care of that fragment too.

Moreover he might face those Butcher guys so he has to prepare too.

···There are still many things to do.

Swoosh.

“Huh?”

At that time.

Some strands of bluish light were faintly visible to the eyes.

But the direction that comes out···.

‘Why is this coming out from my body?’

Swoosh, swoosh.

He examined his body here and there.

There is nothing strange, but it is still coming out from his body.

“Why are you like that, oppa?”

“Uh, no. What is this? Something is coming out from the body.”

“What?”

“This. Don’t you see this?”

“???”

Yuna tilted her head and couldn’t understand.

···Surely only I see it?

Swoosh.

He turned his head in the direction the blue light thread was flowing.

It was heading inside the half-collapsed abandoned building.

What is this?

“I’ll briefly go inside there a bit and come.”

“Yes, okay.”

He followed the energy visible to the eyes and saw.

What on earth is this? Why to my eyes···.

The blue thread flowing into the building headed to the upper floor.

‘I have to go up riding the stairs.’

The stairs were half collapsed and concrete had also fallen off revealing rebar. Fortunately it wasn’t to the point of not being able to go up.

“Hupcha.”

He carefully stepped. Crumbs fell under his feet.

-Kya, kyaing···.

“It’s a bit hard to come up here so wait a bit below.”

-Grrrrung.

Teri also tried to follow, but it was unreasonable for that.

He had Teri wait on the lower floor for a moment.

Swoosh.

When he came up to the upper floor the blue thread became thicker.

The thread was heading to the end room of the upper floor as if water being sucked into a drain.

He instinctively followed the thread.

But···.

“What is this.”

The scenery inside the room was somewhat strange.

Until now it was a scenery not greatly different from the place we lived in the past, but the room was a bit very different.

First what stands out is a peculiar engraving shining faintly carved on the smooth stone wall.

And an ancient-style pedestal made by carving stone placed in the middle of the room.

The strands of blue thread coming out from his body were flowing into the ‘orb’ placed on the pedestal.

He slowly went inside and saw.

Every time he stepped a faint ripple occurred.

As if walking on water.

‘What is this···.’

The atmosphere of the room is like that.

The blue strand thread coming out from his body entering inside this is also like that.

He couldn’t understand at all.

But if there is one thing to suspect···.

‘Is this a relic by any chance?’

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