episode_0088

“Then I’ll do some reconnaissance and come back, Professor.”

“Yes.”

As I watched Yun Shia coming down the stairs with the sound of her footsteps, I let out a small sigh.

I bit my lip as I looked at the tablet that was given to me while I was out scouting.

The world was completely turned upside down, all information and communication was paralyzed, and communication from organizations became less frequent, so information was not coming in as properly as expected.

Sighing, I placed the tablet on the desk, which had been deeply scratched by Yoon Sia’s fingernails, and could not recall any information.

Although there was little information, one thing was clear.

‘Coup d’état in Korea.’

It was something unknown. I didn’t even think about it. I had no idea that the world would pass by with developments like this.

It is said that Taesung Group Chairman Jang Tae-san staged a coup and then formed a provisional government and appointed its leader.

After that, Ellada sent troops to occupy it.

‘I said most of the people had already left.’

Helen bit her lip as she looked at the last message the recruit sent before he was arrested.

When I first heard the news, I immediately threw away everything and rushed to Korea to destroy it.

How dare you try to take what is mine? Even though Jang Tae-san was Jang A-hyeon’s grandfather, that did not mean he could be forgiven.

But in the message Helen sent me.

[Currently, the coup forces are using as their base the overthrow of the government that slandered the Dean and brought down the institution. It’s a sudden incident, but I don’t think it’ll cause any harm to the dean.]

After hearing that, I was able to calm down for a moment.

‘He seems like a sinister old man.’

Of course, I was not the type to not notice that it was just an excuse and an excuse to hold on to power.

Moreover, if they originally had such a goal at the forefront, why did they not contact me after overturning the country? It’s all just excuses.

Isn’t it said that everyone’s ultimate goal is power? Isn’t it for nothing that the ultimate goal of conglomerate chairmen, businessmen, and activists is to advance into politics?

But anyway, if you’re trying to clear up any misunderstandings about me, I’m leaving it at that because it’s not a bad story for me, who is currently tied up in finding the Corruptor.

‘Still, I’m a little uneasy.’

The worldview of the Romance Academy novel, “Kiss: A Sense,” has already become so distorted that information from the original work is no longer available.

In this situation, the future I knew was not helpful at all. The current situation was weighing heavily on my mind.

‘Finding the Corruptor is also slow.’

It’s already been a week since the Corruptor emerged. If we don’t find the Corruptor now, the situation will become truly dangerous.

We found the village that Rania White visited and also found information that a large-scale gate had occurred.

And the disruptor that occurred there had moved somewhere and a search was in progress to find traces of it.

His movements could be identified up to a certain point, but after that, his footsteps became very blurred, as if someone had intentionally erased his traces.

For three days already, we have been wandering around looking for the Corruptor.

As I was lost in thought and looking at the sky outside the door of an empty house, I saw Yoon Si-ah, who had gone out to search, returning.

“I’m back, Professor.”

“Was there any result?”

“Umm… I’m not sure, but there’s something I can point out.”

“Place to point out?”

“Well, I don’t know if I should call it intuition or what. I have a feeling that it might have gone this way.”

It’s intuition.

This child likes the word intuition more than you might think. I pride myself on having a pretty good intuition, but that’s limited to the combat aspect, and my intuition on a daily basis isn’t that good.

According to Helen, her everyday intuition is not at the level of dullness, but to the point of sighing, but she doesn’t really agree with that.

“Well, good job.”

“Hehe.”

When I gave a small nod, Yoon Sia smiled slightly, showing her fangs.

‘This child has also progressed quite a bit.’

Before I knew it, the horns had become thicker and the blood-red vertical pupils had settled into their proper positions, giving the impression of a large garnet.

At first, the horn was soft, so I touched it out of curiosity and the outside crumbled a little, but now it was completely hard and it really felt like a dragon horn.

And, as a result, her intuition, which is unique to this race, may have been greatly developed, but her intuition was often the right choice.

After thinking about it in my head for a while, I decided to go where she said. Since the road was blocked, it was like grasping at straws.

“Then let’s go to the direction you mentioned.”

“Yes, Professor!”

As I kick the floor, she starts following me. Yun Sia is getting used to the capture of Mana and is giving off a quiet vibe.

As her transformation progresses, she has already surpassed me in terms of physical ability, who is polymorphed into a human.

I didn’t share my vision with her, but I could tell she would do well.

So we ran down the country road, cutting through the wind.

*

Now we were running down an alley.

After driving for about three hours from the village that Yunsia and I arrived at, we came to a small city.

When a small town named Caranescu came up, I had to admit that Yunshia’s intuition was correct.

Black demonic energy emanating from that city. The thick dark mana that could only be felt when a fairly high-ranking monster appeared was flowing from the center of the city.

This Caranescu was the end of the long journey of the high-class monster we were looking for, the Corruptor.

If he was a high-level monster, he probably already knew that we were tracking him, so he decided to attack Bae Su-jin here.

Then we entered the city and ran through the alleys.

This is not a route that can attract crowds. For some reason, this city was a bit strange in design.

All roads are narrow and narrow.

It was a maze-like village with endless narrow alleys that made it difficult for cars to enter and for two people to even touch shoulders.

Is this a city that grew suddenly due to reckless development? For a European city with a small population, it had a quite strange structure.

We were running endlessly along that road.

After running for a while, I glanced behind me.

My senses were sending out a little tingling signal, but her expression was very bright.

Although I was aware that a battle was about to break out and kept a straight face, the wave of magic I could feel from her was quite exciting.

After a while, no, if it continues like this, a few minutes later.

This huge and dense magic power does not belong only to Corruptor. There must be at least five or six more monsters that are similar to him.

There will be quite a fierce battle. I don’t know, but there is a high possibility that we will face a powerful monster that may be able to end the life of a woman named Yoon Shia.

Even though she must have been feeling this deep dark magic, she did not show any signs of anxiety.

It was then.

Swish,

It was right now that a blade was thrust under my neck.

“Qu!”

I reflexively lowered my body to avoid the small thread-like object. And then I cut down the numerous wires hanging in front of me with my sword.

Ting ting ting, the sound of steel wires being cut is heard and the wall where the wires were hanging is broken.

Quaaaang!

A bomb had been placed at the end of the wire, and immediately a loud explosion was heard and flames appeared.

It was a large explosion that could annihilate an entire company, but the flames were immediately blocked by my mana shield.

“The location is difficult.”

A wire like this, a booby trap like this.

This is nothing to me. I don’t think they would think what they would do to me with an attack like this.

A very crude attack.

However, this is another concept. The space where I am standing right now is holding me back.

A narrow alley, like a huge bomb shelter, and high cement walls.

All I can see is the orange sky of Romania, which is changing to pastel colors as evening approaches.

A hissing sound is heard and once again a rocket launcher comes flying from somewhere.

“It’s dangerous!”

Behind.

Ignoring the sound of Yoon Sia’s screams, I instinctively put out my right hand holding the sword.

By making a quick turn relying on one foot, my weight shifts to the left and my body tilts slightly.

Using that tilted body as an axis, I swung the arming sword held in my right hand in a small motion.

Kigi geek!

There is a sound of metal scraping, like fingernails scratching a blackboard.

The sound of my arming sword and rocket launcher grenades rubbing against each other.

Quaaaang!

The warhead that flew away from me hits the wall and immediately explodes, sending up dust.

The orbit was changed by scraping the outer surface of the rocket launcher to avoid the detonator.

Because you make a big movement in an instant, you feel stiff all over your body due to the lactic acid secreted from your body.

After all, is it difficult for a Trappist to be accomplished with a human body?

“Are you okay, Professor!!”

“No problem.”

Yoon Si-ah opens her eyes wide and looks this way.

As she ran towards me, looking like a mother taking care of her young child, I raised my hand to stop her.

“… I think there are remnants of the circular bridge. There is no way a monster could use a modern machine like this.”

“I see.”

I feel like I made the right day at the ring bridge today.

In that case, I should deal with him properly too.

I hear the sound of the hem of my clothes being torn, my shoulders suddenly open, and my vision instantly increases.

He lifted the polymorph and returned to his original dragon body. After swinging my arm for a moment as if I was stretching, I took out my favorite weapon, a huge greatsword, from my inventory and held it.

I was making small fists with my thick hands and assessing the enemies’ positions when I felt something thick behind me, so I turned around.

“What is it?”

“Oh, no.”

I tried to ignore Yun Shia, who was staring blankly at me, who had returned to my red dragon form, and concentrated my mana energy.

The body of the magic swordsman Yongin, whose mana sensitivity is much higher than that of a human, can quickly guess the enemy’s location.

─Can you hear me? Elm Northmund.

Suddenly, a woman’s voice is heard from somewhere.

A familiar voice, heard somewhere before, echoes through the alley through a loudspeaker hanging from a telephone pole.

Because it was a narrow alley, the voice rang out through the streets, creating an eerie atmosphere.

“That’s her! That woman from TV!”

Yoon Shia looks at me in astonishment and makes a fuss.

“If it’s that woman. Is that bright or something like a conductor?”

“Yes, yes! That woman dressed as a nun who asked me to call her B!”

I briefly thought that it was amazing that she was able to identify the other person after hearing a voice that was close to the sound quality of a random number broadcast echoing through a broken loudspeaker that must have been made in the 70s or 80s.

In fact, it was a useless thought, so I pushed it aside and began to figure out their location.

─I don’t think the attack just worked. Still, aren’t you a little surprised, Northmund?

‘Approximately 300 meters ahead from here. The number is about twenty.’

I can feel several huge sphere-shaped magical forces in the center, and one of them is probably a Corruptor.

And I can feel dozens of small energies surrounding it, and they are probably the remnants of the ring bridge.

─You were puzzled by the high wall, right? Caranescu is a military city built by the former Romanian dictator Ceauşescu out of fear of invasion by the Soviet Union. The entire city acts as a kind of bunker or fortress.

‘That’s ridiculous.’

I laughed and mocked them in my heart.

There is no place for shrimp in a whale fight, and they should not be involved.

They make a fuss about using dark mana, but if they meet an opponent who knows how to fight properly, they are just third-rate bugs who will tear apart like tearing paper.

I don’t know what their intention was, but I laughed out loud when I sensed that they were gathering like that to catch me.

I think he’s probably trusting the high-ranking monsters he’s with. Do they know that those monsters are no match for me?

“You still don’t know how to deal with me. Pathetic guys.”

Yoon Sia’s eyes widen when she sees me mumbling as if I’m talking to myself.

Perhaps her senses haven’t heightened enough to detect them yet. Isn’t she someone who had very low magic sensitivity to begin with?

“If you want to deal with Elm, you have to drag hundreds of times that much.”

okay. In order to deal with me, there is at least a chance of pushing the endless monsters as they are.

This means that the most likely method of dealing with it is to cover it with waves of dozens or millions of monsters, like the army of monsters that came from the African continent.

In general, quality is better than quantity, but in my case, it would be best if it were reversed.

“Die!”

I swung my great sword and unleashed a huge half-moon shaped sword energy. As long as the target was specified, there was nothing to hesitate about.

A screaming sound is heard as the wind is torn by a great sword swung at a speed that humans cannot even see properly, and a sword with blazing plasma is fired forward.

─Oh, and as I said, the entire city here is a bomb shelter, so be careful…

A sword that contains the essence of magical power condensed into dozens of layers that contain my true magical power.

No matter how high this place is blocked by a concrete wall, this desperate attack will strike them, destroying everything in front of them.

A tsunami that can never be stopped, that even if they tried, wouldn’t stop is rushing towards them!

Blood profit!

“?”

At that moment, Yoon Sia looked at me with a dumb expression.

Immediately, my pupils opened wide and I instinctively kicked my foot towards her.

My vision went white and a huge flash of light blinded my eyes, and I was rolling around on the floor, hugging her.

My back hits the ground with a dull thud, and I feel dull pain throughout my entire back body.

But without even having time to worry about it, I deployed over ten layers of shields.

My ears are ringing.

You should be hearing a huge explosion right now.

The only sound that sounded like a high-pitched radio was lingering in my auditory system.

Red flames are pulsating beyond the deployed translucent shield.

The moment my sword energy split the concrete walls, a massive explosion occurred, as if hundreds of tons of TNT had exploded.

“Professor!!!”

Yoon Sia, who is in my arms, looks towards me and calls out to me.

A throbbing pain radiated from the back of my body, but I gritted my teeth and ignored her, focusing my gaze forward.

With a clanging sound, the layered shield cracks and falls apart one by one.

One of them is the Mana Shield, which blocks the attack of a 10-ton truck full of rebar.

At the sight of the layered mesh-like shield being destroyed, I clicked my tongue and concentrated mana on my fingertips.

“Don’t worry! This is not enough to break this shield!”

Mana shield with 13 stacks.

The four pieces in front of it have been shattered, but it’s not even halfway there yet. So it’s still a long way from breaking through this shield and causing any damage to me.

Eventually, the storm of flames pounding the shield subsides and the surrounding area gradually becomes static.

I threw out my right hand as the dust storm caused by the huge explosion, enough to blow up a station, obscured my vision.

The wind arises according to my will and it pushes away the concrete dust.

Eventually, the clear view revealed an alley that had been completely devastated.

And in front of him was a nun wearing a very psychedelic outfit.

“Well, this alone completes my mission. Northmund.”

“… .”

The fashion terrorist chuckled at me.

A woman wearing a nun’s uniform that looked stuffy, like sweatpants, with a strange leather veil and dangling pendants that combined Renaissance and modern Gothic styles came into my field of vision.

If you look at her face alone, she was quite a pretty face, but the clothes were hiding all of her charm.

A woman dressed in an outfit that would make everyone run away after ordering expensive food and saying she was going to the bathroom stops laughing and looks back.

“I expected a hot-tempered person like you to react like this.”

“What you prepared had no effect. That’s an incomprehensible reaction.”

The explosive attack prepared by Conductor Bright did no harm to me at all. Rather, if I had to choose the thing that caused the most damage to me, it would be the ground.

The tingling shock was still running down my back from hugging Yoon Sia and slamming her back into the ground.

In addition, the high concrete walls were swept away by the explosion and collapsed. What was the reason she smiled?

“Oh, of course it looks that way.”

B, who was staring intently at the great sword pointed at him, opened his mouth.

“But didn’t you just use a lot of mana with that, Northmund?”

“… .”

“We know your magic is pretty fuel-efficient. Ah, this is the truth that Impale discovered. Well, you and I have never met, but he knows everything.”

Her eyes meet mine and she smiles slightly.

I hear Yoon Shia purring softly at the look in her eyes as if she is tempting me, and B glances at her and giggles as if enjoying her reaction.

“… You’re not that stupid.”

I clicked my tongue slightly.

Judging from this guy’s happy reaction, it looks like he has no intention of fighting anymore.

He is reacting as if he is a third party, as if he is simply enjoying some kind of entertainment.

And she thinks the main course probably refers to the battle with the monsters behind.

“So is it fun?”

“… Yes?”

As if she hadn’t thought about how to react to my sudden question, her expression suddenly became confused.

They probably thought I was going to curse or swear.

“Kya!”

Paaang!

A sound is heard as if an elastic rubber ball is being hit, and the rubber ball, kicked by an object, flies away with a bouncing sound and lands on the ground.

“Cheeky.”

They seem to have forgotten because the current situation is favorable to their circular bridge.

What she forgot was that the person standing before her was Elm Northmund.

It was clear that I, a monster beyond humanity, was the enemy she was facing.

I didn’t know because I was intoxicated with such a sense of victory.

It’s me.

Who would have thought that I, Elm Northmund, would rush at her at a speed that surpasses the speed of sound and crush her to pieces.

“How dare you react like that with me in front of you? On the topic of trash.”

okay. This time it was my turn to laugh at the convulsing bug on the ground.