๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐: ๐๐๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐
“Ugh.”
BAM!
The Ogre King’s head was crushed, and he staggered before collapsing onto the ground.
RUMBLE!
Jiang Chen was speechless.
The boss monster of an A-Rank Gate was a formidable opponent that even A+ Hunters found difficult to solo.
It was common practice for parties to team up and fight them together.
“Who the hell are you?”
“Just a low-ranking HSIU member.”
Siwoo strode forward and twisted Jiang Chen’s arms, snapping them.
His arms flopped around, making a crunching sound.
“Aghhhhh! Shit!”
“One more squeak out of you, and I’ll cut off your arms.”
“I don’t have that item anymore! Shit!”
“Keep talking and I’ll pull out all your teeth.”
“Groan. . . You punk. . . Just you wait.”
Jiang Chen couldn’t say anything more and just glared at Siwoo’s threat.
As expected, the head of an organization was no ordinary person.
Just looking at him, even in this unfavorable situation, he didn’t lose his nerve.
Siwoo thought about taking him back half-dead, but since he was a non-Awakener, he could die from something like cardiac arrest, so he decided to just leave.
“But the game isn’t over yet. . .”
The moment Siwoo looked away,
The icy prison holding McJester melted away in flames, and
“Whoosh!”
McJester, engulfed in flames, swooped down on Jiang Chen with blazing speed.
Siwoo was more concerned about something else than the fast movement.
‘๐พ๐ค๐ช๐ก๐ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ ๐ข๐๐ก๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ [๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐]?’
It wasn’t a technique that he had used with all his might, but it wasn’t something that just anyone could escape from either.
That meant that his physical abilities and magic were that strong.
“You. . . Are you a fire-type mage?”
Siwoo asked, facing the twisted clown mask.
McJester glared at the one who asked the question, surrounded by yellow flames.
Boiling rage overflowed from his dantian and turned the surroundings into a brazier.
It was an ability that he should never use while wearing the ‘mask’, but he ended up using it because of this bastard whose name he didn’t even know.
“Heh heh. . . damn it, things are going sideways today.”
McJester muttered self-deprecatingly in a low, nervous voice.
He felt like killing everyone he saw. . .
‘๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ช๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ค๐ง ๐๐จ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ข๐ช๐ง๐๐๐ง๐จ, ๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐จ.’
He had no choice but to endure it.
Besides, the guy in front of him was quite strong.
He wasn’t an easy opponent to defeat while hiding his abilities.
“I guess we’ll have to stop here today. Haa, damn it, this pisses me off.”
“You can stop here, but I think I’ll have to keep going. This is also my job.”
Siwoo replied, and McJester nodded as if he knew it.
“Then you can choose one of the two.”
A blazing inferno erupted from him, engulfing the area and creating a wall of fire between Siwoo and McJester.
The heat, unlike ordinary flames, began to devour everything, consuming the mountains and forests.
And McJester threw Jiang Chen into the middle of the firestorm.
“ใ กใ ก!!”
“Either catch me or save Jiang Chen.”
Siwoo flew straight towards Jiang Chen.
Anyone other than an Awakener would be instantly burned to death if they were caught in such flames.
He built a triple-layered mana shield and wrapped it around Jiang Chen’s body before dashing out of the firestorm.
In the meantime, McJester had disappeared.
Siwoo clicked his tongue.
It would have been fine if it weren’t for the stumbling block.
He threw the unconscious Jiang Chen on the floor and made a call.
It wasn’t a fruitless endeavor, so he would be satisfied with this operation.
“Jiang Chen has been captured. Repeat, Jiang Chen has been captured.”
๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท
แดแบฬ๐แธฬ๐ฌ๐แด๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ฐ.๐ ๐จ๐ฆ
“Are you guys f*cking retarded?”
ใ๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ก๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฎ’๐ซ๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ.ใ
“. . . . . .”
“. . . . . .”
Hwang Jeong-gu and Chu Ha-min lowered their heads with sullen faces.
“You couldn’t catch a guy with one arm? Don’t go around saying that you’re my junior or my disciple.”
Siwoo continued, frowning.
“I’m sorry. . .”
“I apologize.”
Well, he understood.
As soon as Siwoo cut off the guy’s arm and went after McJester, about fifteen escapees from had jumped out of nowhere.
They were the ones who had escaped the raid, and they had coincidentally stumbled into the battle scene.
Thanks to them, the clown mask had escaped in an instant, and even after searching thoroughly, they had only managed to find his severed wrist.
“Whatโs the current situation?”
“It seems that the cleanup is almost done. There are still some escapees, but. . . We’ve caught Jiang Chen and his gang, the ones we were aiming for.”
“But we missed McJester.”
Siwoo retorted, sounding annoyed.
“Even so, we’ve busted a drug dealer, so he won’t be able to get drugs from anywhere else.”
“That’s good to hear.”
“What happened to Teams B and C?”
Chu Ha-min, who was standing next to him, asked.
“It seems they did well. Except for Kiryu. . . They were all annihilated.”
“That old man must have spared Kiryu on purpose.”
“Would it have been better if he had died?”
“That’s true.”
Siwoo grabbed the unconscious Jiang Chen by the collar and smiled.
“Let’s go. Time to clean up.”
๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท
๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฃแนกฬ๐ฅศฏฬ๐ณ๐ข๐๐ด.๐๐ฐ๐ช
ใThe Korean HSIU has launched a massive operation called ‘Doberman’ to crack down on and the surrounding slums in Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, and has even arrested a major Hong Kong drug dealer who was distributing drugs into Korea.ใ
ใ. . . There was cooperation from the ใKorea Hunter Associationใ and the [Heptagram]. . . On the other hand, a large number of high-ranking government officials and military generals were caught receiving bribes in exchange for facilitating ‘s crimes. . . ใ
Follow-up news reports and new information continued to emerge.
YouTube and various SNS were busy covering this issue, and as a result, the viewership of the HSIU channel continued to rise.
The scenes of raiding and fighting Awakened criminals surpassed 500 million views.
Among them, the scene of Siwoo using the [Meteor Shower] for the first time became a worldwide issue, surpassing 30 million views.
“You must be busy.”
Seigen hummed as he sipped the green tea in front of him.
“Somehow it turned out that way.”
Siwoo was the biggest contributor to this ‘Doberman’ operation.
Accordingly, upon the recommendation of Edward, Vice President of the ใHSIU International Headquartersใ, Baek Geon-ho, Head of the ใHSIU Korea Branchใ, and the President of the ใKorea Hunter Associationใ,
He was transferred to the ใHSIU International Headquartersใ.
The headquarters officials who saw the video footage of this operation also unanimously approved Siwoo’s transfer.
“So are you moving abroad?”
“Not really. I plan to go back and forth. What are you planning to do from now on, old man?”
“I’m going to go back to Japan. I’ve seen my granddaughter’s face and had some fun, so I should take care of the family business.”
“Is that all?”
“Hehe. Of course, I have some personal business to attend to as well.”
Seigen replied, his eyes twinkling.
‘๐ ๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ก๐ง๐๐๐๐ฎ ๐๐๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐ค๐ช๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฃ๐.’
Siwoo chuckled.
“And. . . This is a gift.”
Seigen placed a wooden box that had been on the floor on the table.
The dark brown box looked simple but sturdy.
“What is this?”
“The ใHayakawaใ family keeps its promises.”
Siwoo opened the lid of the box.
Inside was a thin, golden bracelet.
“It’s a magic item. I promised to give it to you if you saved Hikari.”
“Ah.”
Siwoo had completely forgotten.
Because of the [Kagutsuchi] awakening his powers, and because he had been preoccupied with other things, he had pushed it to the back of his mind.
“Wear it on your wrist.”
Siwoo obediently followed his words.
It was free, so was there any need to refuse?
ใ๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ๐ง’๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ. ๐’๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ ๐ฐ๐๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐๐ข๐ฅ. ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐.ใ
Pre nibbled on the dumplings on the table and eyed the bracelet.
“I put it on, is that it?”
“No. Pour your mana into it with all your might.”
“. . .Hm.”
Siwoo poured mana into it as Seigen said.
But as soon as he drew mana from his dantian, the bracelet absorbed all of it.
“Huh?!”
“Don’t stop. Keep going! Keep going!”
Siwoo poured out mana from his dantian into the bracelet without stopping, as he said.
No item had ever consumed this much mana.
Siwoo continued to pour in power, thinking that the bracelet might explode.
“Ugh. . . What the hell is this!”
Even with his enormous mana pool, it was the first time he had poured out so much mana into a single item that his dantian was completely empty.
As the last drop of mana left him, Siwoo wondered if he should use a different power.
At that moment, the bracelet emitted a light, and a strange voice began to sound in his head.
ใContract complete.ใ
“What contract. . .?”
“Oh. Did you make a contract with the bracelet?”
“It seems so. What is this?”
“I thought it would succeed. It’s a magic item I brought with me while I was half-hearted, but it’s really something, isn’t it?”
“. . . . . .?”
This old man had given him something that wasn’t even certain.
“That’s another god of our family, Takemikazuchi.”
“Takemikazuchi?”
“He’s the god of war and lightning. He’s a representative war god of Japan. You’ve received a much better reward than you think, so don’t burden yourself with it.”
“If he is such a good god, why didn’t your family make a contract with him? Why me?”
“There hasn’t been anyone with as much mana as you yet. That’s all. That magic item doesn’t need divine power, it only wants mana.”
Siwoo was a little surprised to receive an item that was better than he had expected.
“This is really. . .”
“I won’t force you to marry my granddaughter, so just take it.”
“I understand.”
“I’m glad it worked out. Otherwise, I would have had to bring another magic item.”
“I’ll use it well.”
“Whether you do or not. I’m leaving. Don’t come out.”
Seigen got up and walked out.
A moment of silence, as if a storm had passed.
Siwoo collapsed into his seat.
“Do you still want this?”
ใ๐๐ญ’๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง’๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ญ. ๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ญ.ใ
๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท๐ท
ฬศงฬ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐๐ญศฏฬ๐๐ช๐๐ฌ.๐แด๐ข
A dimly lit room.
A man reclining in a luxurious leather chair.
It was raining outside, and thunder occasionally lit up the room.
CRASH!
Broken ceramics, tables, mood lighting, and ornaments appeared and then disappeared back into the darkness.
Knock knock knock.
Someone knocked and opened the door.
The person who entered glanced at the cluttered room and approached the man who was slumped in his chair.
“I’m back.”
At that greeting, the man’s head turned sharply.
The clown mask with its mouth split open grinned in the thunderlight.
“You’re late.”
“I’m sorry. I went to get some treatment.”
The person who answered looked at his wrist for a moment.
It was bandaged, but the blood seeping through it spoke volumes of the extent of his injury.
“Haaใ ก Shit.”
McJester threw the mask away and took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
White smoke rose to the ceiling and slowly dispersed.
“Who the hell are those bastards?”
“According to the current report, they are from the HSIU. . .”
“I know that, shit!!!”
A fiery rage filled the room, sending shivers down the other’s spine.
After a moment of silence,
“Jin-sik.”
McJester softly called out to his subordinate and secretary.
“Yes.”
Yeo Jin-sik answered flatly and bowed his head.
“That Min Siwoo kid. . . Isn’t he the one who came out of the tower that time?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“I should have caught and killed him then.”
Ryu Ji-hwan, the leader of the [Gold River Guild] and the master of , brushed back his bright yellow hair, unable to hide his murderous intent.
“Shit. . . I’ll kill anyone who gets in my way.”
He muttered as he ground out the cigarette butt on a pile of money.