Chapter 272: The Second Command Entity [R-18]

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“Beware the priest who controls magical beasts.”

It was a saying that had become common knowledge in the underworld back when Chunwon was uniting the various violent gangs across Korea.

This was over a decade ago, during a time of reform when the catastrophic global gravity wave disaster necessitated the largest and most extensive restructuring of Korea’s military and police forces. The unstable situation at home and abroad led to the mushrooming of large-scale criminal organizations, and Chunwon saw a golden opportunity to put down roots in Korea, a hotbed of crime, and build his power.

The Black Star Society was originally a new organization based in China. Chunwon, who had been an executive there, was pushed out in a power struggle and ended up in Korea.

Life in this new land was not easy.

No organization would take him in, and Chunwon still remembered the time he had met the boss of the Black Star Society in person.

The boss was a woman as red as the cheongsam she wore.

This young wench is the boss?

That was his first thought, but he quickly changed his mind.

The boss’s power was the real deal.

“Chunwon, I thought your talent had quite a bit of potential, but you’re not living up to it.”

“Boss, if you’d just give me one more chance!” Chunwon, in his youth, had knelt and cried out desperately.

“There was no chance to begin with. What you see is all there is.”

The boss of the Black Star Society cut him off flatly.

The men who had been his subordinates until yesterday were now coming for his head, so he had no choice but to flee to Korea.

A new land, a new opportunity.

Though he had been all but chased out, Chunwon eagerly awaited the day he would catch the boss’s eye again and make a glorious return.

But it wasn’t that easy.

All he could do was sit at a barbecue table with his few remaining men, pouring soju into his stomach and lamenting his fate.

“Shit, these fucking Korean bastards.”

“Boss, at this point, why don’t we just take them over by force?”

“I don’t think there’s anyone who could beat the boss one-on-one.”

“You idiots. Why would they be desperate enough to fight me?”

He didn’t have the soldiers to wage a war.

Chunwon was a master of martial arts, but his opponents weren’t fools. They wouldn’t agree to a fight with their organizations on the line. From their perspective, he was just some half-wit who had drifted in from China. They could just toy with him, string him along, and then crush him with their superior numbers. There was no way out.

“…”

It was then that a church cross caught his eye.

They say a priest is also called a ‘Servant of God.’

Before long, Chunwon had found a new business model.

He turned his attention to a pseudo-religious cult that was spreading drugs in Korea.

They were a criminal enterprise, but they walked a different path from the violent gangs. He joined hands with a religion called “The All-Together Blue Society,” which had grown its influence by inciting fear among citizens, claiming that the appearance of magical beasts heralded the world’s prophesied end.

Around this time, Chunwon fully awakened his own talent, the “Bell of Nightmares,” and acquired a skill that allowed him to produce a bell tone that could lure or control magical beasts.

Chunwon could even command high-rank magical beasts, albeit with a low probability. In recent times, with the gravity wave incidents stabilized across Korea, it was hard to find minions, but the situation back then was different.

He gathered A-rank to S-rank magical beasts appearing all over the country, waged war against numerous organizations simultaneously, and used the chaos to strike directly at their leadership.

Chunwon, along with the saintess of the pseudo-religion, Syns Beje, was designated an S-class villain.

He offered the top-grade drug she produced, Imperial Blue, to his home base and officially received recognition as the “Black Star Society’s Korean Branch.” He amassed enormous wealth and rose to become Korea’s largest criminal organization. All this happened a mere eight years ago.

It was a story from when Saintess Beje was still in elementary school.

Not stopping there, Chunwon established a system for mass-producing a degraded version of Imperial Blue, leaving behind the dubious achievement of marinating Korea’s underworld in drugs.

The Black Star Society must have realized how profitable Chunwon’s system was, because the boss herself contacted him a month ago.

“Chunwon. How about you come back and take a position now?”

“B-Boss?”

“You’ve worked hard all this time, haven’t you?”

“…It seems all that hardship was for this very moment.”

The young wench he had thought looked no older than a middle school girl had since grown into a woman who exuded a rich feminine scent as she sat before him. Large breasts, sharp features, and fair skin…

And hair as red as blood.

Chunwon felt a lust unbefitting his age. How wonderful would it be to have everything and hold this woman in his arms, too?

“I’ll arrange for a ship. Bring the Saintess with you. We can start talking about compensating you for all your troubles then.”

“Yes. I will obey!”

Now, he was ready to have it all.

He thought everything was going perfectly smoothly.

“Boss! The woman escaped!”

That was, until one of the most infamous and malevolent domains, the “Universe’s Domain,” began to encroach upon Korea.

No one in the Black Star Society’s Korean branch could have predicted such a thing would happen.

Even if Korea’s strongest hero, White Devil, had invaded, she would never have been able to find Beje. For years, she had been hidden away deep inside a Forbidden Zone, her location kept secret. Beje had barely seen the light of day.

As she got older, she had started talking back more often, but she was under 24-hour surveillance. He had thought that as long as a meteor didn’t suddenly crash into their base, his plans would proceed without a hitch.

But an unexpected meteor did fall, Beje did escape, and Chunwon had to recapture the drug-saintess before the true boss of the Black Star Society found out.

Even if it meant combing through a domain teeming with magical beasts and fighting for his life!

……….

…….

Is she out of her goddamn mind?!

Chunwon thought Yuuna was insane as she charged straight at him.

He was already pissed off enough that this young bitch, who still had the greenness of youth about her, had managed to stab him in the stomach. But now she was trying to break through his defenses in a single-minded charge, not even caring about a counterattack?

“Hsssp!”

Chunwon tensed his stomach and sucked in a breath, concentrating to speed up his recovery from the Chained Prisoner’s blow. It had cost him a fair bit of mana, but his organs and bones were unharmed.

Prepare to counter!

Yuuna’s sword swung.

He would dive in, take the blow with his shoulder, and slam his steel-hardened fist into the girl’s soft flank. The picture was perfectly clear in his mind.

I’ll turn all her insides to pulp!

Just as he was about to move in time with Yuuna’s tempo, Chunwon felt a sudden chill and pulled back. It wasn’t a conscious decision; his instincts screamed at him to move.

“Haat!”

The brown-haired student’s initial strike not only tore through the spot where Chunwon had been but also unleashed countless slashes into the space itself. The turbulent atmosphere made his skin tingle as if it were vibrating.

Tch…!

A cold sweat ran down his back at the thought that he would have died instantly if he’d tried to block that with his shoulder.

When did she get so strong?

He knew she wasn’t doing it on her own strength and that she was monstrously fast thanks to a pile of buffs, but…

Did she have an awakening of her own?

It was an nth-degree awakening of her talent.

They said the young learn fast, but this rate of growth was just absurd.

Re-evaluating his opponent, Chunwon dodged Yuuna’s rapid sword attacks.

“Hup!”

Undeterred by his evasion, Yuuna moved nimbly, continuing her barrage of attacks.

Neck, stomach, thigh…!

Each one was a fatal blow.

She’s not just some frail little girl.

An attack like this was impossible for someone who hadn’t faced a life-or-death crisis at least once—a clash of wills where both sides were aiming to kill.

Yuuna had experienced the helplessness of nearly losing Kim Sang-hyeok when they faced the S-class villain, Entic. Until then, her fighting had been limited to hunting magical beasts for money, but now, she was moving beyond that.

She pressed Chunwon with astonishing senses!

But she’s still clumsy!

Chunwon found an opening in her relentless assault and drove his fist right into her stomach.

Thwack!!

“…!”

It was hard!!

The rebound felt like he’d punched solid metal, and the shock made his hand go limp.

Did he shatter his own knuckles!?

“Keuk…!!”

Yuuna’s uterus was filled to the brim with semen, and she was under the effect of the Onahole Conqueror’s defensive buff…

The attack didn’t work!

Chunwon, of course, had no way of knowing this. He thought he had struck her stomach, but all he got back was the damage of his own attack.

“Huh…?”

Yuuna was just as surprised.

She had braced for the hit, tensing her stomach, only to see Chunwon suddenly recoiling in pain.

“Attack, Yuuna!”

Chunwon glared daggers at Kim Sang-hyeok.

It’s him.

Is that his skill?!

Yuuna immediately composed herself and slashed at the stunned Chunwon.

No.

Chunwon gritted his teeth and stood his ground.

My cash cow!!

Syns Beje was the woman who was supposed to be the foundation of his success! Did they think he would let her be stolen by some pretty-faced gigolo and a bunch of girls who grew up in this peaceful country knowing nothing of the real world?

Chunwon caught his breath and created more distance.

Then, as if taking its turn, the Chained Prisoner summoned by Si-eun moved in and began to pulverize him.

Thwack! Thud! Thump!!

Gah, what kind of attack is this…

It was heavy.

And impossible to dodge!

While he was stunned, Yuuna leaped and slashed at him again. He was barely avoiding fatal wounds. If it weren’t for the wide-open park, he would have been cornered against a wall and defeated long ago.

But Chunwon kept thinking. He had experienced countless crises like this.

First, Entic’s prisoner creature…

CRACK!

Gahk!!

Chunwon was sent tumbling to the ground by a powerful body blow from the Chained Prisoner. He looked so pathetic that even Yuuna paused her pursuit.

“Kegh, kegh…”

Yuuna wouldn’t try to kill a villain as long as they were neutralized.

But the Chained Prisoner controlled by Si-eun had a clear objective from the start.

“Kill him.”

Kang Si-eun’s killing intent didn’t stop at ‘good enough’!

KRAAANG!!

The Chained Prisoner brought both hands down to crush Chunwon.

“W-Wait! We can just tie him up and send him to base camp, we don’t have to kill him…”

“Don’t let your guard down!” Si-eun shouted.

Chunwon was no longer where the prisoner’s hands had struck. He had already dodged and was ringing his bell.

Tinkle, tinkle.

“Mister, do you want to die? It’ll be too late to surrender after you’ve lost an arm or a leg!”

“I would rather die than return to a life at the bottom.”

“Ugh, seriously… There’s no talking to villains…! Just don’t do bad things in the first place! Is that so hard?”

Yuuna readied her sword.

“‘Just don’t do bad things in the first place?’”

“That’s right!”

“Would you say the same thing to abandoned children? To children who couldn’t have survived from a young age without stealing, without killing?!”

“You’re…”

Yuuna’s sword slashed across Chunwon’s body once more.

“An adult!!”

Blood splattered.

Just as he ran out of places to run, the galactic magical beasts Chunwon had summoned slithered into view from a corner of the dark park.

“Hmph! A last-ditch effort…!”

A domain teeming with magical beasts also meant it was a place where Chunwon had plenty of minions to control with his “Bell of Nightmares.”

Four Galactic Miners, prepared in advance!

The balls of mana they had gathered to their limits were ready to fire.

Yuuna quickly took a defensive stance, but Chunwon was looking elsewhere.

First, the prisoner creature!

“Ah!”

Zzzzzzzing!!

The heat rays fired by the Galactic Miners targeted Si-eun.

Even while taking hits, Chunwon had been analyzing the Chained Prisoner’s weakness, and the result was simple.

The Chained Prisoner had no weaknesses.

In a physical fight, he would lose unconditionally.

In that case, the weakness usually lies with the summoner. Just as Chunwon predicted, Si-eun was unable to move a single step from the spot where she had summoned the prisoner. A surprise long-range attack was a good tactic to force her to cancel the summoning.

However…

The Galactic Miners weren’t the only ones gathering mana.

“Barrier!”

Just before the heat rays hit Si-eun, a void membrane created by Hena blocked them all.

And…

“Don’t worry about me, just shoot!”

Perhaps because they had already practiced this combination, Yuuna knew exactly what Hena wanted to do.

The [Void: Scattershot] Hena unleashed swept over the four Miners.

Amid the rain of mana bullets, Chunwon could only curl up, shielding his head with his arms.

Countless new wounds appeared on his body, and blood flowed freely.

But his eyes were still fiercely alive.

…I need to lure them in deeper!

Chunwon squeezed out his last bit of strength and fled deeper into the park.

“Wait!” Sang-hyeok shouted.

Everyone chased after Chunwon. They couldn’t let him get away. Surrounded, Chunwon was cornered by the Onahole Squad’s pursuit.

Just when everyone thought it was over, he smiled.

“Did you really think you could catch me just by chasing me?”

Ting, ting.

A clear bell tone rang out…

The Galactic Soldiers that had gathered in the park were even stronger, black, higher-tier versions, and their numbers reached into the dozens.

“You lured us here?”

Sang-hyeok was calm, as if he had anticipated this all along.

Displeased by this, Chunwon strained his neck, his eyes bloodshot.

“If you hand over the Saintess and bow your head right now, I might just spare your lives.”

“Looks to me like they’re going to kill you first.”

“I’ve always enjoyed fighting by controlling monsters.”

“Chunwon. Just give up and run. You’ve lost.”

Chunwon ground his teeth.

“Why are you acting so smug when you’re the one in the trap?”

“Look behind you!”

Ting, ting!

Chunwon rang the bell and commanded them.

“That’s enough. Get them out of my sight!”

Just as Chunwon gave the kill order to the mantises…

Swish!

A black mantis scythe sliced off Chunwon’s right arm.

“Huh?”

Chunwon stared at his severed arm, unable to process the situation, and stood there blankly.

Why? These monsters… I was controlling them with the bell, wasn’t I…?

“Why’re you takin’ another’s soldiers?”

A woman with a thick dialect walked out from among the galactic minions.

A Command Entity of the Domain.

A general-class enemy.

“Who’re you? Think you’re somethin’ special?”

The “bell tone that calls magical beasts” that controlled the soldiers…

From a commander’s perspective, it was an abnormal situation causing mass desertion among their troops. It was one thing for soldiers to die in battle, but when an anomaly like this occurred, a Command Entity had no choice but to come and see for itself.

Chunwon had unintentionally summoned a Command Entity to this very spot.

Fwoosh!!

Blood spurted vigorously from the massive artery, spraying in every direction.

“Guh, kughhh! Save me!! I don’t want to die!” Chunwon screamed as he collapsed forward.

“You not gonna answer my question? What are you? Ha, did you learn human words wrong? This is so difficult. Every fella I talk to just begs me to save ‘em instead of answerin’.”

“Hnghh! It hurts, it hurts… Dammit, dammit! This wasn’t supposed to happen! This can’t be happening!”

“Ah, just end it.”

Schlick!

On the Command Entity’s order, Chunwon’s head went flying.

“Now, who’s gonna answer my questions?”

The Domain’s Command Entity, the successor to Belstid, turned to look at Sang-hyeok’s party.

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Translated By: Meher (RaidenTL)

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