๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐: ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐
“You can’t release and restrain at the same time.”
Siwoo passed by the clown mask with an indifferent face.
There was no need to explain that it was a skill disruption.
Just as one cannot drink water while talking, some skills cannot use two functions at once.
[Planar Restraint] to confine objects to a 2D plane.
[Release] to return confined objects to 3D.
These two tasks can be performed within 0.1 seconds of each other, but they cannot be performed simultaneously.
Siwoo simply swung his sword at the moment he intended to release.
Of course, it was incredibly difficult to hit that ‘moment’, but it was possible in a battle of experts where thousandths of a second mattered.
Siwoo moved his body beyond the bushes.
Then he expanded the wavelength of his magical energy to search for everything that was moving.
“They’re over there.”
In the direction he ran, another clown mask and Jiang Chen, who he had seen in the montage, were climbing the slope.
Siwoo approached them without hiding his presence.
Rustle, rustle.
The clown mask, who had been walking, let out a sigh.
He couldn’t understand how he had gotten tangled up with them twice already.
He turned his head and faced Siwoo.
“Oh, it’s nice to meet you. I don’t know who you are.”
A clear, beautiful voice rang out.
Siwoo looked at the opponent’s abilities, which he had identified with his magical energy detection, and asked a question.
“Are you McJester?”
“. . .You know me.”
A clown’s face with slanted eyes and a mouth torn at the corners, and a large blood drop painted on his cheek.
From within that mask, a sinister energy crawled out like a worm.
A natural reaction, like the instinct of insects or beasts to find and kill intruders.
Even though it was just a simple release of killing intent, his face felt hot, as if he had opened his pores.
“Tsk, tsk. It’s strange. I didn’t do anything to leave a trail as McJester. . . How did you know?”
Sharp hostility hidden within a dark smile.
“If you’re curious, follow me and I’ll tell you.”
Siwoo snapped his fingers and grinned.
The best way to provoke a prideful enemy is to scratch their pride.
As expected, a powerful aura erupted from McJester.
A fierce and damp magical energy mixed with an overwhelming aura and stabbed at Siwoo at the same time.
His skin felt like it was going to peel off from the tingling sensation.
Siwoo stared directly at the grotesque clown mask.
“Where did you sell the drugs?”
He had also discovered the domestic manufacturing plant that Jiang Chen had been operating as an experiment, and the drugs that had been distributed in Japan.
However. . . The Awakener drugs that had been distributed domestically had not been identified.
Where had McJester, the broker, sold the drugs?
“Well, unlike my appearance, I’m not a loose-lipped person.”
“You won’t talk, huh.”
Siwoo narrowed his eyes slightly and drew out his magical energy.
He was not an easy opponent.
He was much stronger than Cheol-woo, Liu, or No. 0, who he had fought in .
“If you follow me quietly, I’ll consider it. . . Won’t you come?”
“Tsk, tsk. You’re saying the same thing over and over again.”
Jiang Chen watched them from the side, gritting his teeth.
That HSIU Hunter must have been the one who had confronted his target with .
‘๐*๐๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ญ๐๐จ! ๐๐ค๐ช ๐๐ค๐ช๐ก๐๐ฃ’๐ฉ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐๐ก๐ก ๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ช๐ฎ, ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐’๐จ ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ข๐?! ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐, ๐’๐ก๐ก ๐ ๐๐ก๐ก ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐ฉ!’
Jiang Chen turned his anger toward as he looked at Siwoo.
He hadn’t asked him to get rid of S-Rank Kang Yeo-hwa, but if he couldn’t even deal with this lowlife, he would have to pay the price.
He was risking his life to hunt Hayakawa Hikari!
Just then, McJester took a step forward and opened his mouth.
“Let’s finish this quickly and go. I’m a busy man. I have to take care of my business clients.”
“Likewise. I have a lot of family members who are attached to me, so I have to go quickly.”
As soon as he finished speaking, McJester’s body pierced in like a needle.
Siwoo erected a magical shield first, in response to the unexpected movement.
Just as the shield, which he had erected in two layers, was about to wrap around Siwoo’s body and rotate,
Kwa-jee-ik!!
McJester moved like lightning and shattered the shield, then turned 360 degrees and roundhouse kicked Siwoo.
Ppa-aa-ah!!
Even though his body had been strengthened with magical energy, the opponent’s attack surpassed that defense.
Siwoo’s balance was broken, and his upper body, which had swung heavily to one side, bent forward.
McJester did not miss that gap.
He swung his other foot up towards Siwoo’s face.
At that moment, as the black shoe approached, hundreds of runes shone from Siwoo’s hand and formed a dark magic circle.
[Song of Iron: Divine Shield]
Kwang!!!!
The Divine Shield, which had blocked the opponent’s kick, dented inward, and the shock that it had not yet absorbed was transmitted to Siwoo.
Siwoo clenched and unclenched his tingling palm, unable to help but laugh at his opponent’s speed.
Based on his fast strikes alone, he was better than Choi Dae-soo.
McJester brushed the dust off his suit.
“You’re pretty fast. I was confident in my speed.”
“I should say. I’ve never heard anyone say I’m slow.”
“Is that so? Then shall we increase the speed a little?”
The clown mask tilted its head, but in an instant, it lunged in front of Siwoo.
However, Siwoo, who had confirmed the opponent’s speed, punched McJester in the face first.
Ppa-aa-ak!
At the same time, he resumed his runes with his other hand.
[Song of Iron: Iron Fist]
A black fist emerged from the black magic circle and struck McJester’s body directly.
Kwang!!!!
With a thud, the opponent’s body was embedded in the mountain ridge.
Normally, a fight would end with this level of impact.
If the opponent was an ordinary Awakened criminal, that is.
Before the thick dust had even settled.
The oppressive pressure of an overwhelming aura crushed down on the area, and a fierce killing intent was directed at Siwoo.
It was more than just the desire to kill, it was a surge of anger and rage.
“I guess you’re pissed off.”
ใ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ฌ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฆ๐?ใ
Pre, who was hanging on his shoulder, wagged his tail and muttered.
“You only look at me for foodโKugk!”
Kuuuuuuuung!!
McJester’s kick, which had flown at an incredible speed, slammed Siwoo to the ground.
“Oh, shit.”
As Siwoo tried to get up right away,
Kwa-aa-ang!! Ppa-aa-ak!! Ppa-aa-aa-ak!
A series of kicks followed, crushing Siwoo’s head and body like they were being trampled on.
His bones rattled and his insides churned just from grazing him, so full was he of magical energy.
“Ugh. . . Ugh. . . Ugh.”
As if that wasn’t enough, McJester broke off a thick branch next to him, infused it with magical energy, and swung it like a baseball bat.
Ppa-giiiใ กใ กใ ก!!
A loud thud echoed through the mountainside.
The branch broke a little bit with each swing, and blood spurted from Siwoo’s body.
“Whew. . . Whew. . . Ha. . . .”
McJester threw the broken branch to the side.
His reason seemed to be flying away with his burning anger.
“How dare you. . . How dare you. . . Hurt me. . . .”
No one had ever treated him like this before.
No one!
McJester calmed his rapid breathing and turned his body to face Jiang Chen.
He was annoyed that he had wasted time because of such a guy.
Just then.
“Hey. Stop right there before I break your skull.”
An unbelievably clear voice came from behind him.
Siwoo stood up from his spot, all his wounds healed.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. What the hell is this?”
McJester put his hand on the clown mask and laughed self-deprecatingly.
Because of his torn mouth, he looked like a real clown laughing.
There were days like this.
Days when things went wrong and got tangled up endlessly, making it impossible to unravel.
“That crazy bastard was making a fuss on his own, and now he’s just trying to run away.”
Siwoo drew magical energy from his dantian and spread it throughout his body.
He had thought that the drug dealer was just an intelligent criminal, but he hadn’t known that he would be this overwhelmingly strong.
‘๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ ๐จ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ ๐๐-๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐-๐๐ช ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐ข, ๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ช๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง.’
Siwoo realized that McJester’s abilities were beyond his expectations and decided to change his tactics.
If he had been a little more reckless, he would have tried to take them both away quietly.
Hundreds of letters and symbols intertwined on the ground, forming a shimmering magic circle, and soon a chill began to rise that seemed to freeze everything around Siwoo.
[Snow Tale: Ice Age]
Jje-je-je-je-je. . . Jje-je-je-je-je!!
The bitter cold spread in an instant, freezing the ground and reaching McJester.
“Binding technique. . . .”
McJester quickly removed his body by surrounding it with magical energy.
For him, who boasted incredible speed, such an attack was like a slow-moving centipede.
The moment he thought that.
Pa-ji-ji-ji-ji-jik!!
“Kugk!”
Lightning that had flowed over the ice struck McJester’s body directly, and the moment he flinched, ice covered McJester’s body.
The bone-chilling cold restrained the opponent.
[Kagutsuchi]’s flames had also been frozen by the bitter cold, so it would be difficult to break it with just any amount of force.
Siwoo walked towards Jiang Chen.
“Do you want to get beaten too?”
Jiang Chen frowned.
He was known as the king of Hong Kong’s underworld.
He was not the kind of person who would be dragged away in disgrace by a mere HSIU subordinate.
“Come to think of it, I owe you a debt. Were you the one who ordered Yeo-hwa’s death?”
At Siwoo’s words, which sent a chill down his spine, Jiang Chen began to laugh as if he had lost his mind.
“Kuk-kuk-kuk. . . Kwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha-ha-hat!!”
“Are you crazy?”
“Funny, funny. Me, Jiang Chen, who rules the darkness! To be treated like a petty criminal in this small country.”
Jiang Chen looked at Siwoo with a half-crazy expression.
“If you think about it, all this misfortune is because of you. If you. . . If you hadn’t discovered that factory that day. . . .”
“What are you talking about? It’s your fault for making the drugs in the first placeใ ก.”
“I can’t forgive you. Even if I die, I can’t forgive you. I have to chew you up, bone by bone, to feel at ease.”
ใ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ง’๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ง.ใ
Jiang Chen took out the cross necklace that was hanging around his neck.
“. . .Do I look like a vampire?”
“Kuk-kuk-kuk. I bought it for a lot of money, but I never thought I’d use it here.”
He brought the end of the cross to his arm and made a straight cut.
Blood flowed out and soaked into the cross.
“Goodbye.”
Jiang Chen threw the cross.
It left a blood-red trail in the air, then soon emitted a dark magical energy and transformed into a living being.
Ogre King.
A muscular monster 3~4m tall with fangs as thick as a human forearm, carrying a steel club as big as a person, stalked through the darkness.
“Kuk-kuk-kuk. . . Kwa-ha-ha-ha! It’s the boss monster of an A-Rank gate!! I bought it for a lot of money on the Chinese black market!”
Jiang Chen said excitedly at the imposing sight of the monster.
“It’s the most expensive thing I’ve ever used to kill a single person, so I can be proud of myself.”
“Ah. . . .”
Siwoo couldn’t continue speaking as he looked at the huge monster.
Kuung!
The ground caved in as the Ogre King took a step forward.
โKrrrrrrr.
With its blood-red eyes glaring at Siwoo, the steel club descended vertically from above.
Kyoiใ กใ ก!!
Siwoo climbed up the club that had broken the floor and crushed the Ogre King’s head like a tomato.