Chapter 37

Chapter 37

Eagle and Phoenix

Honestly it was unexpected.

Thought it was simply used only for tracking.

The maximum level tracking skill was possible even recognizing the opponent's tracking and reverse tracking.

‘...Moreover even linked with the Detection skill.’

Even at this moment, a yellow dot is floating on the board.

Slowly moving.

Heading toward this place, Daerim-dong side.

The vehicle stopped in the middle here and there.

One of the two.

Looking for some trace, or arguing because opinions don't match.

Don't know exactly what.

From my position, much better than just speeding past at full speed.

Leaving the hotel, after widening the distance appropriately, quickly jumped over building rooftops with Mana Thread.

Had to confirm what kind of guys are looking for me.

#

Daerim-dong.

Inside a gloomy alley.

Thud!

“This damn!”

The scar man in the boss seat nervously struck the ceiling.

A fierce roar that rang.

Interior materials and iron plate crumpled, and the color disappeared from the face of the tracking series mage sitting in the passenger seat.

“I-I'll try again.”

The mage tightly gripped the yellowed T-shirt.

Then used the skill.

But unlike usual, no reaction appeared at all.

“...S-sorry. Anyway specifying the location to Daerim-dong seems the limit but···.”

The mage said hesitatingly.

The scar man nodded with an annoyed expression and smacked his lips.

“Too bad.”

“...That's right.”

“Not to me, too bad to you.”

“...Yes?”

Tilted the head at the incomprehensible words.

Suddenly the scar man's thick arms wrapped the mage's neck.

Crack!

The sound of something thick breaking.

Then the mage's neck drooped like an old rubber band.

The man in the driver's seat who immediately opened the door and went out.

Opened the trunk, and took out a long body bag.

The two people together pushed the mage the other man dragged into the bag.

That hand seemed quite familiar.

“Damn bastard, did one job and turned out a useless child?”

The scar man opened the window and twisted a cigarette.

“Still, because it's Daerim-dong, good that no one watches when putting the corpse.”

The men putting the corpse chuckled for a moment.

At that appearance, the scar man furrowed his brow and said.

“Do it properly, these bastards. Where are you laughing and making a fuss-”

Suddenly the man stopped his words.

“What?”

At the bizarre sense of crisis suddenly felt, the body reacted before the head.

Instinctively raised mana stretched time long, and the five senses and detection ability started grasping the surroundings.

The eyes immediately caught the abnormality.

The cigarette fire that heated with the inhale was something strange.

Exactly, as if alive-

Puuk!!

“Kuaaaaaaaak!!!”

Suddenly fire energy that popped from the cigarette fire flew.

Too fast, there was no time to even react.

Something sharp pierced the man's eyeball, and then rushed to pierce even the brain.

The startled man raised mana with all his strength.

Fortunate in misfortune?

Barely succeeded in activating the skill protecting the inside of the body before the brain burned.

“Kkeuk!”

Damn, what fortunate!

One side vision completely disappeared.

The man who instinctively realized being targeted by the enemy opened the door wide and jumped outside.

What the enemy is aiming for is only me.

First hide the body-

Crack!!!

Suddenly the sound of iron plate crumpling filled the alley.

No, not that.

It wasn't the sound of crumpling.

It was the sound of piercing the iron plate.

“Kuaaaaaaaak!!”

“Aaaaaaaaaak!!!!!”

“Wh-what! Kkeuuuk!!!”

Scream sounds rang a lot from inside the vehicle.

The scar man who turned his head to grasp the situation even while rolling on the floor.

Opened his eyes wide.

‘What···?’

Earth spear that soared from under the vehicle.

Earth Spear.

But not an ordinary Earth Spear.

A spear thicker than a person's body pierced the bottom and soared to the ceiling.

The position was also extremely bizarre.

Exactly the seat where people were boarding.

As if perfectly watching their positions from somewhere.

The scar man raised his head.

“This bastard!”

It was above the building.

No doubt looking down from above.

Leaving the two subordinates whose heads burst and lay on the body bag without even pushing in, the man roughly kicked the ground.

Bang!

Lightly kicked the wall, and landed on the rooftop in one go.

Looked around with eyes bloodshot red.

The densely packed residential area unique to Daerim-dong, and green urethane came into view.

There were no people.

Spread the senses, but nothing is felt.

The man opened his mouth hesitantly.

“What···?”

That was when it happened.

The man's whole body muscles rapidly contracted.

As the heartbeat decreased, the mind became clear.

Mana roughly stirred the whole body and sent a signal.

Dangerous.

Just now, a danger incomparable to the cigarette fire-

Hwaak!

Suddenly the front flashed white.

Tried to blink the eyes but the body didn't listen.

Something flashing seemed to pass too.

The body still didn't budge.

Suddenly small powders scattered before the eyes.

With a bewildered heart, the man looked at the powders.

That···what is it?

Tat.

That was when it happened.

Someone appeared before the eyes.

A youth with a slender build and bright impression.

Didn't make any particular expression, but a feeling as if smiling something.

“As expected, can't react.”

The man still couldn't grasp the situation.

While bewildered, suddenly the inside of the youth's pupils was reflected.

There, his own appearance was contained.

His own appearance turning to powder and scattering in the wind.

Fsss···.

Soon along with the sound of powder flying, even that appearance disappeared.

#

“...Not a joke.”

The man who turned to powder and disappeared without a trace.

Twitched the body for a fleeting moment, but that was all.

It wasn't reacting.

Just the moment instinctively sensing danger, lightning fell.

Call Lightning.

Definitely a monstrous skill.

An ordinary awakener would definitely turn to dust without even reacting.

Thoughts up to here.

It was time to quickly organize the situation.

Ssss.

Lightly stepped on the wind, and went down below the building.

Looked around and lightly furrowed the brow.

Inside the vehicle, awakeners who died miserably.

Beyond the building far away.

Grasped the enemy's position with sensation not the naked eye, and used skills to massacre the hunters.

Exactly at the place I wanted, in the way I wanted.

Probably the enemy didn't even notice my presence.

Truly one-sided massacre.

Confirming this appearance, it was clearly felt.

Just how much stronger I became.

Now it seemed fine not to feel awkwardness at the words high-level mage.

Approached the front vehicle.

Bang!

Tore off the passenger seat door with Mana Thread.

A man bleeding while pierced by thorns.

Lightly snorted, and grabbed the guy with Mana Thread and threw him to the floor.

“Kkeuuuk!!!!”

The man who was pretending to be dead let out a scream.

The man's arm heading to the waist was cut by the wind blade.

Then the floor crumbled, and swallowed the man's below the neck whole.

The man with only the head remaining above the ground shouted with a despairing expression.

“S-save me! Save me!!!”

“...If shutting up, I'll think about it.”

“...”

The man immediately shut up.

Barely blocked the hollow laugh trying to burst.

While taking others' lives as if nothing, is one's own life that precious.

“Who sent?”

“Th-that···.”

“If not speaking, I'll kill immediately. If speaking, I'll release.”

“Received a request from President Park Chan-young. Geumcheon Casting factory manager!”

Unexpectedly, no need for something like torture.

As if the appearance of colleagues lying dead was torture, the man poured out the information he knew.

“Th-this is all I know!”

Seemed real.

The man's pupils were full of the desire to live.

“P-please save me!”

Raised my hand toward the shouting man.

While thinking.

Why me?

“Y-you promised···!!”

Murder.

Killing people isn't welcome.

But.

“You also came to kill me.”

To give myself constraints like no-kill.

I wasn't strong enough yet.

“If coming to kill others, should stake your life too.”

Moreover, since confirmed the target who placed the request is the Geumcheon Casting side, a subcontractor of Taesung Group.

There was no reason anywhere to leave the guy's life.

Puk!

Fireball smashed the man's head, and even turned the body into an ash pile.

Then the vehicles and corpses filling the alley also turned to powder and disappeared.

#

A while after that.

A woman arrived at the bustling alley.

Took out the badge and hung it on the neck and muttered in an annoyed voice.

“...Huu. These uncivilized bastards, seems they fought again.”

Guro-gu investigation team leader, Nam Yeon-ah.

Let out a deep sigh and entered the incident scene.

Obviously the building is smashed messily, and blood smell is thick···.

“Team leader?”

“Uh, I came.”

The team member who politely greeted raised his head.

Nam Yeon-ah who was waving her hand tilted her head.

Unusually the expression looked okay.

“Why does the mood look good? Turns out murder incident taste, something like that?”

“That's not it, team leader.”

“Then?”

“The scene is very clean.”

Nam Yeon-ah narrowed her brow.

“It's a murder incident?”

“Yes. Completely messed up cleanly, so nothing to do?”

What kind of talk is that.

Nam Yeon-ah jumped over the access control line.

Then entered inside, and the eyes widened.

It's real.

Sticky burnt smell filling the inside of the alley.

Blood scent was almost none.

If not receiving the report, wouldn't have even noticed it was a murder incident.

“Incinerated three different vehicle types, and people seem multiple.”

“Oh···as expected accurate, team leader. Exactly as confirmed by CCTV. People were 12.”

“Accomplices would be two or more. Flame, even earth series mage. Why did mage guys who hate troublesome work kill people in groups in the middle of the city center?”

“Th···three.”

“Three?”

“Yes. Would you like to come this way?”

Following the subordinate, Nam Yeon-ah who lightly kicked the wall rose to the rooftop.

Soon nodded.

“Confirmed carefully well. Even lightning series mage came?”

“That's right.”

“Lightning is rare though.”

Flame series would be the path most mages adopt so nothing special.

Earth series also, thanks to the immediacy of skills, quite many choose it.

But lightning is different.

From the basic skill Electrocution, usable only in super close range.

Even Lightning Boost is a skill used on others.

Call Lightning that left traces on the rooftop now is also a single target skill, so it was common sense that lightning series isn't suitable for tower climbing.

“What···?”

Nam Yeon-ah who furrowed her brow.

That was when it happened.

Zing!

Phone lightly vibrating inside the pocket.

She who withdrew the subordinate with a gesture connected the call.

A man's voice heard from the other side.

“Investigation team leader Nam Yeon-ah?”

Fatigue was buried in the voice.

Clearly looked like a superior, but Nam Yeon-ah wasn't a personality that cares about such things.

“Who are you speaking informally?”

“...Huu. As heard.”

A deep sigh sound heard for a while.

The voice continued.

“I'm Investigation department manager Park Dan.”

Nam Yeon-ah who was about to cast 'so what' immediately paused.

Investigation department manager.

An unexpected position.

“...What brings the investigation department.”

Couldn't dare speak informally.

If investigation department, the department with the strongest influence in the association.

Not even team leader level, manager level personnel.

A person in a high place that couldn't even attach words if before the eyes.

“That incident now, cover it.”

Nam Yeon-ah narrowed her brow.

“Why?”

“Just do so.”

“I need to know the reason.”

“...Huu.”

A deep sigh that popped out again.

Then the next moment, Nam Yeon-ah's phone rang.

Park Dan's voice was after that.

“Check it.”

Nam Yeon-ah nervously checked the phone.

Because the sun was hot, furrowed the brows and raised the screen brightness.

Above the screen.

A familiar eagle shape was visible.

Above that, two phoenixes facing each other.

The head went blank for a moment.

Eagle symbolizing the association president.

Phoenix meaning the president.

“I'll say again.”

Park Dan said.

“That incident. Completely erase it from the file.”

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