Chapter 24

Chapter 24

24. Sillim-dong (4)

Special Department team leader, Park Junhyeok was flustered.

What on earth is the situation right now?

His head was complicated.

But one was certain.

That the Sillim-dong plan is going awry right now.

‘···How did I come this far.’

“What phone? Did something happen?”

“Ah, no. Nothing special. However, I will have to go myself.”

“···You, directly?”

“Yes. Don’t worry.”

The chairman adjusted his glasses.

Because he knew well what it means that Junhyeok goes.

“Yeah, understood. Don’t disappoint.”

“Yes, there won’t be such a thing.”

Step, step.

Junhyeok came out of the room.

* * *

Destroyed the machine in the west.

After that following the running guys, he found some peculiar place.

An abandoned building with no people.

But several detection-type mages were gathered here.

“···After grasping the situation here they delivered commands?”

“Yes, yes··· th-that’s right···!”

It turned out this was the command headquarters.

Somehow they found his location in one go.

Moreover here there is no communication interference either?

So he made this guy call the ringleader.

‘Special Department team leader.’

He noticed long ago that Future City Construction instructed. Naturally someone at the highest place there would have instructed, but he was curious who the leading figure is.

But he found it.

It is the team leader guy.

“······.”

He thought for a moment.

Although he called and informed, this would have been noticed as time passes anyway.

In other words, having caused an incident to this extent they are not guys who will just quietly get done in.

Ring ring ring—.

“Ah, it’s me.”

Accordingly he also made a few calls.

Where would there be people he can call for a matter like this.

Recently a few appeared.

Like that the calls also complete.

He has to continue the work.

‘The remaining places are three.’

The light pillars also became a bit fainter.

But the barrier still intact.

If he uses magic directly on that can he break it?

He hasn’t tried yet.

Actually there was no leisure for that.

Because these guys really charged without rest.

Fortunately right now a state where some leisure arose.

‘Let’s try.’

Fwoosh.

He lit fire in his hand.

Cast as is on the semi-transparent barrier in the air.

Kwagwagwang!! Kwagwagwang!! Kwagwagwang!!

He continuously used that in succession.

Once, twice···, ten times.

But.

“······.”

Nothing any change?

Then [Lightning Strike]?

‘I deliberately lowered the generation position to use inside the barrier···.’

Rather than that he has to shoot properly directly.

Accordingly he immediately prepared [Lightning Strike].

Kugugung—.

Sparks jumped from the high sky that was becoming pitch black.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Lightning striking in succession.

The flashing didn’t stop.

But···.

‘Why is it this hard.’

As expected the same.

It seemed he wouldn’t be able to break the barrier with a method like this.

Then it can’t be helped.

No choice but to destroy all those machines.

* * *

Sillim-dong, north.

There was a bizarre mage here.

A stained modified hanbok, talismans stuck in every pocket.

And a brush held in the hand.

“Eeng··· who! Who is making a flaw on this masterpiece!”

A barrier mage in his mid-50s but an impression that looked seventy shouted loudly.

“What trash bastard is touching this beautiful masterpiece!”

“S-sorry. I heard some guy destroyed the barrier amplifier in the west··· but currently contact with the command headquarters doesn’t work at all···.”

“Idiot guys! It’s different from what was promised to me! They said they would let me make a masterpiece I have never made even once in my life!”

“······.”

The barrier mage, Byeon Sangguk got angry like fire.

Once a certified mage 5th grade, and the current number one in barrier magic in the Republic of Korea.

Such Byeon Sangguk had severe obsession with barriers.

“No choice!”

Whoosh, whoosh—.

Byeon Sangguk waved the brush held in his hand in the air.

Then the barrier that had become a bit faint was restored to original. The barrier became hard again.

“Hoo, now··· you regained the beautiful appearance.”

Byeon Sangguk smiled broadly.

Yeah. Barriers should be like this!

“Huff, huff··· did you do this?”

At that time, some woman’s voice was heard.

Byeon Sangguk frowned and turned his head.

Long hair and a pure white face. A magic book held in the hand.

Some woman in her mid-20s and a man of quite small height together panting with hands on their knees.

‘That magic book is an artifact given to certified mages?’

Not an ordinary magic book.

It is given to specific certified mages.

In other words, these are certified mages.

“Of all places even if hiding in such a high place··· huff.”

“···Sigh, out of breath.”

“Hoo, more than that you. What are you doing right now? Don’t you know here is all trapped right now due to the barrier you set?”

Suji said sharply.

“Trapped. It is appreciating this beautiful barrier together. When will you be in a place like this? You should know it as glory.”

“···This person is also not in his right mind.”

Shake, shake.

Han Suji shook her head.

Masterpiece? Nonsense should be to a degree···.

“Quickly undo this.”

“Me? Why should I?”

“Do you know how much damage here is right now because of you?”

“Damage! It’s a blessing!”

“This psycho bastard. Then I’ll break it?”

“You? This? Puhat!”

Byeon Sangguk sneered.

Looking it seems a junior who just started acting, very young···.

“Hey, do you know I was also once a certified mage?”

“Do I have to know that?”

“You have to know! I was 5th grade. Kikik.”

“But why are you doing this mess now?”

“Certified mage··· has too many restrictions. Those restrictions interfere with making my masterpiece. Anyway, do you know what this means?”

“······.”

Suji just stared clearly without words.

“It means with your current skill you can’t break this masterpiece. Kikik. Moreover this was made with a barrier amplifier? It means the level of the barrier I made became higher!”

“Uh··· great senior? Hello! 9th grade certified Kim Dongwon! Looking at the face you look quite old so I called great senior! Ah, but··· here this senior might be able to break it?”

“···What nonsense is that. I am the number one in barrier magic in the Republic of Korea!”

“Ah! Great senior! Barrier mage Byeon Sangguk! Still this senior will break it! The first mage who rose from 9th grade to 8th grade in two months! Especially this person is a person with considerably excellent magic analysis······.”

Babble babble babble.

Dongwon chattered without rest.

At those words Byeon Sangguk burst!

“···What? To 8th grade in two months? Nonsense! Normally it takes at least several years!”

He didn’t believe.

What certified is not a driver’s license···.

“Enough. This has to be broken.”

Suji didn’t care much.

Just doing what she has to do.

Whoosh.

Suji’s gaze headed to the sky and her eyes moved quickly.

“Hmm.”

The structure of the barrier was drawn in her eyes.

Tens of thousands of mana lines, complexly intertwined formulas.

“···Found.”

One point among those numerous lines that gathers in one place.

Suji’s eyes saw that.

“Precise for a 5th grade mage.”

“Wh-what? What do you know about this masterpiece that you’re babbling!”

Whoosh.

Suji poked! her finger in the air.

Then.

Crrrack—. Clang!

“······!?”

“······!!”

From one place the barrier collapsed crash.

Seeing that appearance Byeon Sangguk was devastated.

He couldn’t believe it, but instinctively realized.

‘This girl going to 8th grade in two months wasn’t nonsense!?’

Breaking this barrier this easily?

And that strengthened more with a barrier amplifier?

He instinctively felt threat.

He immediately gave orders.

“Wh-what are you doing! N-not killing this girl right now!”

“““Yes, yes!”””

Byeon Sangguk who gave the orders left the place.

Number one in barriers, but attack power was miserable.

* * *

“Catch this bastard······! Kuuuuh!!”

“Kkkkkkkuh!!”

“Kkukukukuk!!”

Crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!! Crackle crackle crackle crackle crackle!!

Mercenary mages blocking the southern path.

He sprayed three [Lightning Orbs] at the guys.

On the floor disgustingly many lightning stems wriggled like snakes and swept the guys.

‘It seems he caught quite a bit here too···.’

Mana overflowed quite a bit.

Even using magic, using still plenty.

But unfortunately the cooldown of [All Things Mana Absorption] is quite long.

If the mana stocked like this disappears he will have to wait again.

Crrrack—. Clang!

At that time.

Huh? What is it?

Suddenly the barrier covering the sky broke.

Fragments of the barrier broken like glass pieces disappeared in the air.

‘···Who broke it?’

He doesn’t know what happened.

However, what is certain is that the barrier broke.

But.

“······.”

A man who was outside the disappeared barrier revealed his appearance. Black suit, black shirt, black shoes. A man dressed all in black stood blankly with both hands in his pockets.

Numerous mercenary mages standing behind such a man.

Just processed, and the guys gathered again.

And that damn many.

“···This idiot bastard.”

The leading guy looked at the broken barrier and spat a curse.

Such a guy glanced at him.

Then the guy lightly gesturing to the men behind.

This bastard by any chance···.

“It’s you.”

Flinch.

The guy flinched.

Soon met eyes with him.

“Special Department team leader.”

Actually he doesn’t know if right.

Just the feeling was like that so he probed.

“···It’s you. The bastard who called me a little while ago.”

Ah, this bastard is right.

Only then the guy examined the numerous mercenary mages collapsed behind him.

“···What on earth is your identity? Why is a guy like you here?”

“Here monthly rent is cheap.”

“···Crazy bastard.”

The guy spat a curse as if absurd.

Then the guy smiling broadly.

···Unlucky.

“Yeah, you that. You also had a penalty. Right?”

“······.”

He didn’t particularly answer.

But why is this guy bringing that up?

“But that is not only you. I am also like that.”

Whooong.

In an instant the guy raised the hand covered in black energy high.

Then.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Black lights dividing into dozens, hundreds of branches and scattering in all directions.

Those lights immediately permeated into the mouths and noses, and ears of the mercenary mages he knocked down behind.

“But what. Behind me there are still this many mercenary mages, and also···.”

The collapsed mercenary mages convulsed.

Fingertips twitched, and toes flinched.

Not only that.

Like moisture evaporating the skin quickly dried and changed color to black.

Creak, creak, creak!! Creak, creak, creak!! Creak, creak, creak!!

“The mercenary mages of the dead guys spread all over the neighborhood I revived like that?”

A sound as if bones fitting was heard and the guys stood upright.

In the empty eye sockets burning glaring colored pupils. Some red, some white, some blue. Lights of various colors flickered.

‘···Skeleton? That’s not it again?’

He has heard there are guys like this.

Precisely black mages.

Among them the necromancy school.

But···.

‘Was there magic like this too?’

Different from the commonly known skeletons.

Clearly it is necromancy-type magic that revives the dead. But not skeleton, almost the appearance of before death as is?

“Amazing, right? This is the unscratched lottery I have. Among black mages I revive the dead even more dirtily. Do you know why more dirty? Because I revive the dead guy as is.”

“······.”

Ah it is more dirty.

Not reviving as bones but as is.

Not for nothing the words of unethical come out.

“But do you know why this is a lottery? These guys, they use the magic they used when alive as is. Unfortunately only guys of lower level than me are possible but···.”

Goosebumps.

Using the magic ability of before death as is?

‘Then it means all the guys eliminated until now all stood up again.’

In front the guy and the approved mages.

Behind the revived mercenary mages.

Front and back surrounded by the guys.

Not only that?

Looking at what that guy said it seems he revived all.

“······.”

What should he do.

Shall he use [Elemental Hyena]?

He quickly turned his head.

“I don’t know how amazing a guy you are. But··· even if so can you handle this many numbers? Moreover I am also here?”

Not wrong words.

Although mercenary mages are riffraff level to him, this guy is different.

‘Just by looking incomparable to those guys.’

Even he who doesn’t know well feels that.

Moreover right now he is surrounded by the guys front and back.

Clearly it was dangerous.

Depending on how much he can use [Elemental Hyena]······.

“Hey—, black mage gentleman! Do you know what kind of mage that friend is that you’re picking?”

At that time.

A familiar voice was heard from somewhere.

“That friend is a real man, real man! Khaha!”

Kang Cheolmin’s voice who liked real men.

Already came? Came faster than thought?

“Hmm, a familiar face. You, aren’t you the Special Department team leader of Future City Construction? Oh my, I got involved in company matters. Sorry. But at our Samha Tech we quite cherish that person.”

Another person’s voice was heard.

The prickly and unlucky ‘was’, but after that completely polite Samha Tech company agent, Choi Hyeonmin.

“Ah, these bastards··· hey! That guy can’t be touched! I already said I would bring an amazing noble person!”

Crackle!

At some moment Seo Jaewon who appeared whoosh! on the roof.

“Oppa! Oppaaa! I said, right? Even our aunties will like oppa! Look at this, look!”

And a group that appeared together with Lee Yuna from the east.

Some nun-like people wearing golden robes gathered in a horde.

‘···Golden Light Priesthood? No, I said only you come!’

Actually he made contacts from the guys’ command headquarters.

Sillim-dong is like this so please come a bit.

Well, what he said to come was only those four···.

“Is the friend you said that guy?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right, hyung. Please look once. That friend is a real man born for war. Khaha!”

“Something looks like he has guts. Now, kids! Did you hear well? A friend who might become a new member of our mercenary office is in trouble! Then shouldn’t we help!”

“““Isn’t it natural!”””

Whoosh!

Muscle guys who appeared in a horde beside Cheolmin.

Some big guys who looked thuggishly rugged full.

···Brought all the mercenary office people?

“Hey, Jaewon. Is that guy?”

“Look well. When have I said nonsense? That guy is not ordinary.”

“Hmm, it does look like that. No harm in knowing competitors in advance.”

Jaewon also brought someone in a string.

People who request once in a while?

Of course, Hyeonmin the same.

“Everyone, that person is a person the company executives specially asked to take care of. You know, right?”

“Yes, it seems so. They even gave [Floating Dagger]··· it wasn’t for nothing.”

Hyeonmin seems to have brought the company agent team.

Like that before he knew it the groups of the people he called surrounded them.

Of course, not only that.

The owners of this turf, Sillim-dong residents.

“These bastard sons! Where do you think this is that you’re touching! Want to die!”

“Ha, damn guys. Because of you guys my convenience store broke!”

“Return my supermarket you bastards!”

Of course the request office owners, even dozens of Sillim-dong residents who are uncertified mages who were hiding here and there.

“···Th-these. Why are mercenary office brats and Samha Tech company agents getting involved here! Moreover what are those! Why is the Golden Light Priesthood coming!”

Seeing that the team leader guy was flustered.

It seems he didn’t expect this?

‘···I also didn’t expect.’

He didn’t know they would come in a horde like this.

Well, anyway it worked out well.

“Hey, you.”

As if he planned all this.

Actually he was also flustered, but without showing that.

With a leisurely smile he said one word.

“I said I would make you pay the price.”

“Th-this bastard··· when th-this much···.”

It worked.

Thinking it’s real the guy is flustered.

* * *

That time, underground of Sillim-dong.

That deep and dark place.

Enormous mana waves due to [All Things Mana Absorption].

Those waves made something that had been asleep for a long time wriggle.

Wooooong—.

Faint light leaked from one mana ore.

Wooong, wooong, woooong—.

The light started to become more and more.

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