Chapter 29

Chapter 29

Guys holding guns

Occasionally he has such thoughts. That life doesn't flow as one wants.

Seo I-hyeon as soon as entering the house the anomaly lives had exactly such a thought.

That is why he had such a thought, the moment crossing the door, because he touched something.

What did he touch?

He doesn't know that. Only guessing it's something similar to a barrier.

Since senses are dull he didn't even know there was such a thing here.

Only after passing that did he finally notice. Because that touched Seo I-hyeon's mana.

'So, was someone using the skinwalker or whatever?'

Anyway since he touched the barrier, someone might come. So before that he decided to handle the anomaly first.

Until now Black was active, so this time shall he confirm White's power once?

Seo I-hyeon took out White from the shadow.

White wearing training pants and hoodie, combat boots and gloves, even goggles surged from the shadow. In the hand holding a black sword.

"Go and first handle that."

Seo I-hyeon put White in front and headed to the kitchen.

As soon as entering the kitchen the smell of blood stabbed the nose. Whatever method used this smell didn't go outside the kitchen.

So in the kitchen also something similar to a barrier is installed. Although Seo I-hyeon felt nothing.

White walked big strides toward the skinwalker standing in the middle of the kitchen.

The skinwalker slowly turned its body and stood facing White.

Swish!

The sword strike White unleashed pierced the skinwalker's heart. A clean yet fast single strike.

With one sword strike one could know. White uses the sword better than Black.

Anyway he killed the skinwalker easily to a hollow degree.

Now if only collecting evidence the request ends.

Evidence collection is simple. If becoming a skinwalker part of the skin deforms peculiarly, and the fingernails change, just bringing that is enough.

Since Seo I-hyeon had no thought of doing such work himself he made White do it.

White skillfully carved the skin and cut the finger with the longest fingernail.

As if a human with good hand skills working.

Certainly different from the skeletons he kept in the other world. White too, Black too.

He put the evidence White collected into the shadow. Of course he also didn't forget taking out the smartphone and memoing.

One always has to make the habit of memoing. Otherwise one loses it.

When the work to do ended like that, from outside human voices were heard. Conversation exchanged in a low voice from a place a bit far, but since Seo I-hyeon's hearing was considerable he could hear.

"Ha, bothersome."

"Hey, even if bothersome one has to do what to do."

"What, would there be something special? Someone who doesn't know must have entered."

"Does that make sense? We put a cognition inhibition barrier, how did they enter there?"

"Huh? Right? Then what?"

"What. Mercenary or fixer scum who came receiving a request."

"Ha. Is it gradually the start?"

"Something like that. So now time is not much left, right. Won't they withdraw soon?"

"That is expected. Anyway let's handle quickly and go."

Seo I-hyeon hearing the two people's conversation shook his head repeatedly.

Well, it was as expected.

First he confirmed the appearance of the two people approaching with the shadow eye.

Just looking at the attire it was ordinary. But the equipment held was unusual.

They are wearing guns at the waist.

Somehow these days he seems to see people with guns often. Is it okay for guns to be this common in Korea?

Anyway with the shadow eye he examined the two people's appearance a bit more in detail.

Looking carefully, the clothes also have a somewhat peculiar corner. On the clothes worn underneath peculiar patterns are drawn. Those patterns seem like rune characters?

There's no way that is just a pattern for decoration. Clearly magic using characters.

Looking like that, the shoes worn also somehow seem not ordinary, and the gloves on the hands also seem like that.

Anyway passing nicely is out.

Seo I-hyeon also called Black.

From the shadow Black surged up.

With Black and White standing on both sides, slightly behind, the heart is solid.

Seo I-hyeon stepped. First he decided to go out from here.

The kitchen is too narrow to fight.

While Black and White fight Seo I-hyeon has to be far away, but in a narrow place one can't do that, right.

Going out of the kitchen, fortunately those guys were also entering the yard.

The yard is on the narrow side compared to other houses, but still there was sufficient space to move this way and that and avoid the body.

If really not going outside is enough.

Since a house in a secluded place, nearby there were also many wide open spaces. Going a bit more fields also come out.

Seo I-hyeon was certain there would be no occasion to go that far. Anyway the fight Black and White will do.

If sticking tightly and fighting one won't need much movement space either.

The two men entering the yard stopped their steps exactly. The two people's gazes went back and forth several times between Seo I-hyeon and Black, White.

"Three?"

"And the momentum is also unusual."

Black and White boldly stepped forward in front of Seo I-hyeon. Then from the two dangerous momentum poured out sharply.

The two men pushed by the momentum stepped back hesitantly.

"It won't be easy?"

"Not that degree. If just fighting we lose."

The two men immediately sent a support request. Not difficult. Because one can send a signal with just thought.

However, it shows a bit.

The rune characters engraved on the thick bracelets the two people were wearing on their wrists spat light.

And the bracelets shattered.

Although disposable, magic that can be used at the cost of the bracelet itself. Of course the cost is not completely none. But almost the same as none. Because paying a bit of blood in the body is enough.

Seo I-hyeon frowned seeing the rune characters spitting light and the bracelets breaking.

Just now rune magic activated.

In fact rune magic is the first time hearing that concept coming to this world. Of course the source was the community.

A method of using magic immediately just by paying the cost with magic using rune characters.

Rune characters are all public, and so widely spread confirming wasn't difficult. However, knowing rune characters doesn't mean one can use rune magic.

Characters and magic are different. So if wanting to use rune magic one has to learn from an expert. Talent is also needed.

Seo I-hyeon has resolved that someday he will definitely learn rune magic.

No matter who looks isn't it magic for himself. Using magic at the cost of the body.

Of course one has to probe a bit. When paying part of the body as cost, if the pain is severe he has no thought of using at all.

Anyway those guys just used rune magic, but he doesn't know what. But seeing no particular thing happening one could roughly guess.

"Support request."

At Seo I-hyeon's muttering one of the two men grinned.

"Oh, quick at noticing? Or do you know rune magic well?"

Seo I-hyeon didn't respond. Confirming that the guess was right was enough.

At that time, the two men drew guns.

Almost at the same time Black and White charged.

Pew! Pew!

Since guns equipped with silencers the sound was almost none. No, not only silencers but the rune characters engraved on the guns are spitting faint light. Probably a kind of rune magic that removes or reduces noise.

The bullets pierced Black and White's chests. Exactly the place where the heart is. Of course if living humans.

The bullets hollowly pierced only Black and White's clothes and went out behind. Just penetrated.

Of course Black and White had not even a bit of damage. Just the blood Seo I-hyeon stored in the shadow decreased a bit while restoring the clothes.

The problem is the point that the bullets that penetrated like that flew toward Seo I-hyeon.

And no matter how Seo I-hyeon's physical ability slightly exceeded the human limit it wasn't to the degree of seeing the bullets with eyes and avoiding.

Even a pitch-dark night, right. Already hard to see and a situation of seeing even less.

Moreover predicting the bullet trajectory seeing the muzzle direction and avoiding was also impossible. Because Black and White were blocking the field of view.

Thud!

The bullet that penetrated Black's heart flew into the air. Because the position was high. But the bullet aimed at White accurately hit Seo I-hyeon's chest.

The bullet dug all over Seo I-hyeon's chest and stuck inside the body. A problem that arose because the body was too sturdy.

"Keuk! This fuck."

If it had penetrated it would have been much more convenient.

Still no problem. In the process of recovering foreign substances inside the body are all sent outside. However, the regeneration speed becomes a bit slower. That is, the time of pain lengthens.

Seo I-hyeon frowned hard at the extreme pain felt from the chest. But the moment hit he only slightly crouched the body, and as if when did that happen stood straight and endured the pain.

Now is a combat situation. No need to inform what situation this side is.

From Seo I-hyeon's eyes poison flowed continuously. Substituting the pain with poison.

Whether that poison was transmitted to Black and White, the two skeletons' movements suddenly became faster.

The two men mistook the opponent as suddenly doing teleportation or something. To that degree fast.

Black stabbed the opponent's chest with the sword, and White swung gracefully and cut the neck.

Clang!

"Keuk!"

The man stabbed by Black flew back with a whoosh, and the man whose neck was cut by White fell rotating to the side.

The man who flew urgently caught his posture, and the fallen man rolled back and raised his body and hurriedly retreated.

The rune characters largely drawn on the clothes the two people were wearing underneath blinked and poured light then quieted.

"Cough!"

The two people vomited blood. Paying the cost of the rune magic with the body.

"Fuck, seems about half the liver flew?"

"Me too."

"If hit more it won't do. Dying while paying the cost."

The two people immediately madly fired the guns. Since the shooting skill was so outstanding all bullets hit Black and White.

Pew pew pew pew pew pew!

They shot until the bullets all ran out, and even though all hit Black and White were fine.

Since not even one bullet hit properly it was natural. The guns they shot couldn't touch Black and White's bones at all.

Not coincidence but skill.

Black and White seeing the muzzle calculated the trajectory and slightly moved the body and adjusted so the bullets pass the empty space between bone and bone.

The men were flustered.

"The guns don't work! Those guys don't seem human! The inside is empty!"

In their view it would feel as if the inside is empty. Because they clearly saw the bullets penetrating the body.

"Using impact seems better."

The two people gripped the guns upside down. As if hammers. The rune characters engraved on the guns faintly shone. On the guns there were two rune characters, not the one that reduced sound when shooting guns but light entered the remaining one character.

The two men lowered their posture and charged at Black and White. And at the same time as approaching swung the guns.

Boooooom!

Black and White blocked the guns with swords, and intense shockwaves arose and spread in all directions drawing concentric circles.

Black and White's clothes hems fluttered madly. The clothes of the two men holding guns were also the same.

And the two men floated in the air with the shockwaves and flew back. The rune characters drawn on the two people's clothes blinked again and poured light.

"Cough! Cough!"

Blood poured from the mouth. The two men's faces turned pale.

"Fuck, not good. Seems one lung disappeared."

"Me too."

The shockwave just now was honestly unexpected. While those bounced the impact the guns made with power containing ether repulsive force arose.

As a result shockwaves occurred, and those shockwaves fairly bestowed damage without distinguishing enemy and ally.

It was greater damage than being stabbed and cut with the sword earlier.

Probably if receiving damage a few more times in this way one can't guarantee life.

Now it's only half the liver and one lung flying, but next the kidney will also fly one, and after that this and that internal organs will turn into blood water and disappear one by one.

Later the heart and brain will disappear, and then it's irreversible.

"Let's run."

At those words the remaining man nodded. Now running and informing this fact is important. Even if support comes there's no conviction one can catch those.

Maybe all will get hit. They haven't even fully drawn out those' power yet, the bullets ran out, and organs were robbed two.

The two people immediately took out something from the inner pocket. A round iron ball, with rune characters embossed.

A rune bomb that causes a powerful explosion at the cost of one kidney.

And from a place far away Seo I-hyeon was watching that scenery intact.

So the two men taking out the iron balls from the bosom, and the rune characters embossed on the iron balls he saw all.

Even if those explode one can't actually eliminate Black and White. Even if Black and White's bodies break they restore again. With Seo I-hyeon's blood as material.

The worn clothes and shoes, gloves etc. can also be restored again. Similarly consuming Seo I-hyeon's blood.

But then blood goes in in large quantities.

This is a problem of efficiency. Because investing only a bit of blood one can sufficiently prevent such a situation.

Seo I-hyeon executed what he prepared in preparation for unknown situations.

From under the two men's feet a blood lump rose upward with a whoosh.

They as something suddenly popped up from below, reflexively avoided that.

At that moment Seo I-hyeon recited the spell.

"Bang."

The blood lump exploded.

Thud!

The two men freaked and avoided that, but blood droplets splashing on the body couldn't be helped. Of course it also splashed on the hands holding the iron balls.

Before he knew it under the two men's feet a magic circle made with blood appeared. Magic circle creation using the shadow.

"Cut."

Along with Seo I-hyeon's spell the blood droplets that splashed on the two men's hands turned into sharp blades.

Slash slash slash!

The hands holding the iron balls became a mess. A few fingers were also cut. Of course the iron balls were also missed.

Thud thud!

The remnants of the hands that were chopped and the iron balls fell to the floor.

And Black and White charged aiming at that moment.

© Kim Kang-hyeon #12i09