The Late Game Healer Is Way Too Strong – Chapter 124

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟐𝟒: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

“What?”

Yang Hee-ri retorted.

She couldn’t comprehend what the old man was saying.

Master? Regenerator

“Hehehe. As expected, Master’s predictions are always accurate. Aren’t they?”

Red Ear’s words were immediately met with a reaction from none other than Yang Hee-ri’s subordinate.

He moved to subdue the assassins.

But,

Boom! Boom!

Volk’s bullets pierced the subordinate’s forehead and heart first.

“Eeee!!”

A shocked Yang Hee-ri tried to scream.

She had never experienced such an absurd situation in her life.

How dare they pull out weapons in front of her?!

Boom! Boom!

However, this time two gunshots rang out in Yang Hee-ri’s head.

In an instant, two people were dead.

Kim Hui-ho and Cha Byung-chul looked on in horror.

“What the hell is this?!”

“E-Elder! Why are you doing this to us?”

Red Ear scoffed at their questions.

Humans were always lenient towards their own wrongdoings.

“You were plotting an assassination just moments ago, yet you have the audacity to speak such nonsense.”

“What? N-No. Th. . . That woman forced us to do it!”

“That’s right! Do you know who that woman is? She’s the next presidential candidate! How could we possibly win against her?”

Volk, who had been listening to their excuses, grimaced in annoyance.

However, Red Ear had encountered so many of these types that he felt no other emotion.

Red Ear simply recited what he had to say calmly.

“My master has instructed me to do two things. One is to inform you of my master’s orders. The other is to return what the clients have requested.”

“What??”

“You requested my master’s life. Accordingly, we will take your lives.”

W-“Wait a minute!!”

Boom! Boom!! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Volk’s muzzle flared.

He pulled the trigger without mercy.

Clang! Clang! Clang!!

Only after the bullets had run out did Volk’s excitement subside.

Those who didn’t know their place had to pay the price.

“Oh dear. . . This is quite the mess.”

Ah-sul clicked his tongue as he looked at the bodies.

“It won’t matter. As long as no mana is detected, it will be difficult to find out who did this.”

Red Ear and Ah-sul scattered mana potions purchased from Black Heaven here and there.

“It will give the investigators a headache.”

Doing this would make it difficult to search for traces of magic, as mana would be felt everywhere.

They set the last fire and disappeared.

Since it was a sparsely populated area, the fire could only be extinguished after it had consumed the entire building.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

The dinner with Pre and Do Kyung-hoo ended in a drunken stupor.

Siwoo arrived home in a car provided by the presidential security detail.

Perhaps because it was an unscheduled event, he felt more tired than he had expected.

【𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐈’𝐦 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤. . .*𝐦𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞 *𝐦𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞】

“Ugh. You startled me.”

Pre was drooling on his shoulder while flapping one of his wings.

Why does it seem like he’s learning stranger things as the days go by?

Siwoo opened the front door and entered the house.

It was late, but the lights were on in the living room.

Ah-ming and Sion were dozing off on the sofa, apparently having waited for him, knowing that he had arrived in Korea.

Siwoo couldn’t help but smile.

“Cute things.”

He carried them one by one and took them to their room, where he put them to bed.

As he carried Sion, a ghost with large eyes peered at him from the dark kitchen.

“Long time no see, Momo.”

The unidentified ghost that followed Sion nodded.

After tidying up, Siwoo went to his own room.

A cool breeze blew through the open window.

He put his travel bag down and collapsed into his desk chair.

There was a moment of silence.

Siwoo let out a low sigh and spoke quietly.

“Come out, all of you.”

A shadow emerged from the wall next to the window.

“My apologies.”

“Who are you?”

Siwoo asked the other’s identity with a face that showed no surprise.

“My name is Lee Chang, Cheong-doboks.”

“Another Taoist? Tell him to come directly to me next time.”

While Siwoo was grumbling, Lee Chang took out an envelope from his bosom and held it out.

“What’s this?”

“An invitation sent by Dae-sung himself.”

He opened the black envelope to find a white postcard with nothing written on it.

Siwoo instinctively infused the paper with mana.

Only then did strange symbols appear in the empty space.

“. . . . . .?”

“It’s. . . a QR code.”

“What’s that?”

Lee Chang took Siwoo’s smartphone and carefully scanned the QR code.

「Welcome, fighters from all over the country.」

「I am also filled with emotion as I bring you this exciting news after three years.」

「Those of you who have received this invitation are players who have been carefully selected by the organizers. Please proceed to the place designated by your ‘guide’ and fight according to the rules.」

「The rules are simple. The tournament will be held in a tournament format, and you will be automatically eliminated if you lose even once.」

The video continued to show edited highlights of past matches.

Blood splattered, flesh was torn, and bones were broken.

The cheers of the audience, the screams of the losers, and the roars of the winners were conveyed with a sense of excitement.

Free-for-all.

「And in the final, you must fight and defeat the winner of the previous tournament, Dae-sung.」

Dae-sung appeared in a flashy opera costume and mask.

“Xiaolong.”

He had an arrogant look with his head tilted to one side and beautiful women surrounding him.

Then, Siwoo’s eyes fell on one person’s face.

“Kang Yeo-hwa??”

It was definitely Kang Yeo-hwa.

Siwoo’s body moved before his emotions could.

Kwaaaaaaaaang!!

Siwoo grabbed Lee Chang’s neck and pinned him against the wall.

“Cough! Cough!!”

Thud!!

Lee Chang was overwhelmed by an excruciating pain as if his neck was going to snap.

He struggled and tried to pry Siwoo’s hands off with both hands.

Blood and saliva mixed in his mouth, and his face turned bright red.

“F*cking bastard— Did Xiaolong warn you? That showing this video could get you killed?!”

Siwoo’s voice was laced with fury.

“Cough, cough!!”

Lee Chang shook his head desperately.

Siwoo looked at him as if he would tear him apart at any moment.

If the purpose was to provoke him, it had worked very well.

“Huuu.”

Siwoo loosened his grip.

Thud!

“Cough, cough!! Cough! Cough! Cough. . .!”

Lee Chang collapsed to the floor and gasped for air.

If he had been prepared, could he have blocked this man’s attack?

No, not a chance.

Lee Chang realized that the gap between this man and himself was as vast as heaven and earth.

He lay flat on the floor like a frog in front of a snake, his body trembling.

Siwoo replayed the video and checked the part where Kang Yeo-hwa appeared.

It was certain.

No wonder she hadn’t come to the Blue House.

Siwoo called her.

After a few rings, the call connected.

There was no sound from the other end.

“Long time no see.”

Siwoo spoke first in a cold voice.

━Hahaha. Long time no see, master.

The other party’s voice was very cheerful.

“It’s a bit much for a greeting after ten years.”

━A bit much? I’m always sincere.

Siwoo tapped his desk at Xiaolong’s gentle voice.

“My disciple. Could you hand it over to Yeo-hwa?”

━She’s not available to take calls right now.

“Why?”

━Because she’s being controlled.

“I see. What do you want?”

Xiaolong spoke in an excited voice, like a child who had been given a toy.

━Hahahahahaha! Didn’t I send you an invitation!

“. . . . . . .”

━Just come and show me your skills. Show me the overwhelming power of the master, the mad dog of the past!

“Will that do?”

━Of course, you have to fight me in the final match. If you happen to be eliminated before that. . . Yeo-hwa will die.

“. . . . . .”

Siwoo clicked his tongue and then pressed the end call button.

Who would have thought it would turn out like this?

‘𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙤 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙝 𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚. . . 𝙉𝙤, 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙓𝙞𝙖𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜.’

He had always wanted to surpass Siwoo and longed for a life-or-death battle.

However, Siwoo had never treated him as a proper opponent, unlike what he had wished.

At that time, the difference in their abilities was so clear that there was no need to do so.

“Hey.”

“Y-Yes. . .”

Lee Chang replied in a trembling voice.

Siwoo handed him the paper with the QR code and continued.

“Write down the place and date.”

If that’s what he wanted, he would play along.

Just you wait.

Siwoo gritted his teeth.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

“Hyung, are you really going to do it?”

Min Si-joon asked with a worried look in his eyes.

“I’ve never done it properly, so I should do it once.”

“Doesn’t it stabilize on its own if you give it time?”

“That’s true, but I don’t know how many years it will take to wait for that time.”

They were talking about Siwoo’s dantian and mana stabilization.

His physical and mana abilities, which had been in disarray when he returned to Earth from the other world, were gradually recovering to their original condition, but they were recovering much more slowly than expected.

It was something he had been putting off because it was annoying and not urgent. . .

But an invitation had poured gasoline on his mind and set it on fire.

“Don’t you think you’ll damage your dantian?”

“Normally, the probability of that is high. Not if it’s me.”

“Ah.”

The dantian was an organ that was difficult to recover once it was damaged.

That’s why it was a place that should not be touched or handled directly.

However, Siwoo planned to go through his entire body’s mana veins and dantian all at once today.

“Set up a barrier and go out.”

They were currently in Manhae Cave, one of the private properties of the [Imperial Guild].

It was a mysterious place where more pure mana flowed than other areas.

Min Si-joon sighed and nodded.

He was his older brother, but when it came to this, he was like a bull that no one could stop.

As Siwoo went into the depths of the cave, Si-joon set up a triple barrier outside the cave.

It was not a barrier to block intruders, but a skill to block the shock from the inside.

Siwoo went to the center of the cave and poured magic stones here and there.

He didn’t want to do it half-heartedly.

【𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐩 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐝𝐨 𝐦𝐞.𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞.】

Where did he learn such an analogy?

“Be quiet and stay still.”

Siwoo sat down cross-legged.

He opened his dantian and let the mana flow through his body.

He observed the flow in detail, as if he were scanning it with a fine-toothed comb, instead of just checking the general movement as he usually did.

‘𝙄𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚. 𝙄𝙩 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚.’

Checking it millimeter by millimeter required a lot of time and concentration, but Siwoo observed the circulation of mana until the end, even though he was sweating profusely.

Finally, he finished one lap.

It was a tedious task, even for Siwoo, who boasted meticulous mana control.

It felt like almost half a day had passed.

‘𝙈𝙮 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 64%. . . 𝙄’𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙗𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 10%.’

Before starting the actual work, Siwoo began to draw a magic circuit on the floor.

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