Ch.4242. The Villain Alliance Revealed to the Public, Georgius’s Declaration

“Can you activate the ‘equipment’?”

Kang Yerin asked the mechanic as she prepared for deployment. He made a troubled expression.

“The synchronization rate is still… Since these were prototypes even in the US military. We could test some parts, but…”

“Equip as much as possible. Yukyong, Se-hwa.”

Ji Se-hwa nodded and began her transformation right there.

“Yukyong, what about the new switch?”

“It’s ready. I won’t need Excalibur anymore. Yerin, would you like to hold onto it?”

“I will. I’m already keeping Minseo’s Clarent too.”

“By the way, where did Minseo go? …She’s not responding?”

“What did you say?”

Kang Yerin found this strange. The deployment order should have gone out a while ago. She contacted the association president.

“She’s gone, gone! We’ve searched the entire association building, but Minseo is nowhere to be found!”

Kang Yerin clicked her tongue. She quickly made a decision.

“Let’s deploy with just the three of us. Please set everything up.”

Kang Yerin transformed into Yellow Cloaker. The mechanics gathered around her.

“Um, what about me? Heh… hehe.”

Akshi, the new Red, peeked his face out. Kang Yerin frowned at him.

“Seeing the swarm of combat monsters at the scene, can’t you assess the situation? Go fight on your own.”

“Oh, okay.”

Akshi disappeared, scratching his head. Kang Yerin sighed.

After completing the equipment setup, they boarded the mechs. Three mechs instantly cut through the sky.

“Is there a possibility of villains intervening? There have been many reports of heroes clashing with villain organizations at recent monster attack sites.”

Shin Yukyong communicated. Kang Yerin was also aware of this risk.

“Yes. I don’t know what they’re thinking, but especially that Vengeance has been running wild.”

“They seem to attack without distinguishing between monsters and heroes. And according to the latest information, the leader of Vengeance isn’t Dark Matter.”

“The name was Gerogius. A B-class villain.”

“B-class? We’ve never seen such a guy. Where did he come from?”

Ji Se-hwa asked.

“If he was disguised as a regular combatant, he might have been designated as B-class during the general assessment process. He was present at every terrorist attack.”

“Could he be the demon who attacked Akshi?”

“Hmph. If he’s someone who hides so thoroughly, he can’t be much. Just tell him to come out. I’ll cut him to pieces, not just his arms but his entire body.”

Ji Se-hwa gritted her teeth. The phantom pain in her left arm was still tormenting her.

“By the way, what does Gerogius mean?”

Kang Yerin answered slowly.

“…Dragon slayer.”

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“Does Emperor His Majesty still not have the warrior he desires? No matter. The only thing these primitive ones need, sooner or later, is death.”

Cancer muttered, sitting in his chair.

I’m watching him from the airship.

Part of the Yeouido site has entered his barrier. The barrier has formed a dome shape, making it easy to distinguish.

Inside the barrier stand six skyscrapers. They are the headquarters of the country’s six largest financial companies, commonly known as ‘The Hexagon.’

Above the barrier, there’s a giant path of light in the shape of a five-pointed star, with Cancer sitting at its center.

The paths of light are filled with combat monsters. Most are common, but there are quite a few high-ranked ones too.

I knew this would be the stage for the confrontation with Archbishop Cancer, so I had prepared a strategy. Since I couldn’t know the exact timing, I made sure we could respond at any moment.

“Save me!”

“Please! I can’t die here!”

It’s daytime on a weekday. Employees who were working are sending rescue requests through the windows.

However, before defeating Cancer, no one can enter the barrier, and those inside cannot move to different floors within the buildings.

Simply put, it’s a hostage situation.

A time attack.

“Dragon King Sentai, assemble!”

Kang Yerin leads Shin Yukyong and Ji Se-hwa as they jump from their mechs. They probably can’t use mech bombardment because of the hostages.

“The Dragon King Sentai has arrived!”

“The scene is already filled with dozens of heroes battling monsters!”

“The number of hostages taken by the monster executive is estimated at around eight hundred per building, totaling about five thousand…”

The Dragon King Sentai is targeting Cancer directly. They seem to be planning to attack as soon as they land, but…

“I sigh at how primitive you are.”

Cancer doesn’t move an inch. The three who were attempting to attack are repelled by an invisible force. They’re pushed back to the outermost part of the light paths, furthest from Cancer.

The three are separated, each standing on a different path. Each is about 500 meters from Cancer. The light paths are filled with combat monsters. Every path is chaotic with heroes and monsters battling.

“Ugh! What happened?!”

“You should follow the rules. How lacking in intelligence. Tsk tsk. This calls for a penalty.”

Cancer flicks his hand briefly. The top floor of one building is cleanly cut off and falls to the ground.

CRASH!

Through the shattered concrete, flesh and blood can be seen.

“KYAAAAH!!”

“AAAAH! Save us!!”

The screams of the hostages grow louder at the sight.

“Rules?”

Se-hwa still doesn’t understand the rules. I strongly agree with Cancer’s comment about lacking intelligence.

“It’s a simple rule that even primitive beings like you can understand. From now on, I’ll drop one floor every 10 seconds. If you break through and reach me during that time, I’ll stop the collapse and give you the right to fight me.”

As he said, it was a simple rule.

Cancer isn’t a combat-type like Pegasus, but an intelligence-type. His occupation is Archbishop.

He’s an executive specialized in handling and healing his subordinates.

“Kuk. Let’s see about that…!”

Kang Yerin started running. She dived into the dense crowd of monsters.

“Haaah!”

Kang Yerin’s roundhouse kick strikes the group of monsters. Monsters explode with a single blow.

Hooh.

This is a bit interesting.

“Geo, don’t they seem stronger somehow?”

Lu-a seems to have noticed too.

“It seems they haven’t been just playing around. Look at the equipment attached to their legs.”

“Equipment? They’ve attached some kind of metal.”

“That could be considered over-technology. It’s a powerful weapon. Since they can’t get stronger on their own, they’ve borrowed external power.”

That equipment isn’t originally meant for heroes to wear.

Originally, it’s an android itself, a weapon with AI installed.

In other words, there are parts for the entire body, not just the legs.

Its purpose is to be a weapon for killing ability users.

This is certainly a significant variable.

This technology was supposed to appear in the third scenario for mass-produced machines.

In the third scenario, the main enemy isn’t an evil organization. Well, I’ll sort that out later.

Because I made Kang Yerin, a strategist, into a hero, this technology that was meant to kill ability users has instead been used in hero suits.

“Hap! Huaaah!”

Kang Yerin gallantly defeats monsters and clears a path. The A-class and lower heroes following her are also gaining momentum.

Ji Se-hwa and Shin Yukyong also seem to be performing well, though not as much as Kang Yerin, but…

“Ugh—?!”

BOOM!

Kang Yerin’s equipment overheats and explodes. She disengages the equipment.

Well, that’s about right.

Even in the third scenario, it would take time for those mass-produced machines to be completed, and they needed a specific ability user’s DNA.

“You don’t even provide entertainment.”

Cancer raises his staff to cast a skill. The common combatants that Kang Yerin had defeated revive and instantly surround her.

“This can’t be!”

That’s Cancer’s problem.

You need to block his skills and sweep away his subordinate monsters with area attacks for efficiency.

Even if the main body isn’t strong, he’s a tricky executive.

As long as his subordinates exist, he’s invincible.

The Dragon King Sentai is pushed back into a disadvantage again.

“Ugh! But with this!”

Shin Yukyong attached an additional switch to her transformation device. Judging by its shape, it wasn’t Excalibur.

Is it a newly developed model?

“Haaah!”

Flames burst from Shin Yukyong’s mirror. She seems to be gaining the upper hand again, but a high-ranked combatant stands before her.

The high-ranked combatant charges forward, ignoring the flames. With a body slam, Shin Yukyong is ungracefully knocked back.

“Ugh…! Even with the new model, why?!”

Shin Yukyong angrily pounded the ground with her fist.

CRASH! CRASH!

Meanwhile, buildings continue to collapse, and hostages continue to die.

The first building, which had up to 80 floors, now has only about 30 floors left.

I communicated.

“Deep Dive. Are there any children observed in the six buildings?”

“Hmm…? Under 7 years old? None… it’s an office district.”

“Good.”

Let’s start now.

“Let’s go. Lu-a, Lena.”

“Okay.”

“I’ve been waiting for a while.”

The door of the airship opens. A strong wind greets us.

“Transform.”

[Up a blind alley]

Lu-a puts on her mask, Lena activates her recognition interference equipment. In front of them stands me, a red dragon person.

SWOOSH!

We jumped onto one of the paths of light.

“No! Intruders here! Villains! A villain organization!”

“Is that E.lena?! Holy Tree! It’s Holy Tree, the #1 ranked villain organization!”

“Dark Matter! It’s Vengeance, the #2 ranked villain organization!”

“What is that unidentified red monster?!”

The media broadcasts our appearance.

“Red of war.”

“‘Explode.'”

Lena and I instantly sweep away the monsters. Lu-a, seeing this, complained.

“I’m the only one without a technique name.”

Still, she blasts them away well with dark matter. Good kid.

“A villain organization?!”

“Holy Tree and Vengeance…!”

Shin Yukyong and Ji Se-hwa look at us warily. They’re on different paths, so they have no means to intervene, but…

“Lena.”

I called her.

“Would you like to experience a higher-dimensional command here?”

I handed her the prepared items.

One is a palm-sized device.

The other is Supernova’s switch that I had acquired from Pegasus.

“You should be able to handle it.”

“This will be fun.”

Lena knew what the equipment I gave her was.

There are two ways for villains to use switches.

One is to use an extractor to destroy the switch and absorb its power to convert it into stats.

The other is to use this to directly use the skill.

When Lena brings the equipment to her waist, a belt appears and wraps around her waist.

Lena presses the left button of the switch with her thumb.

[S■PERN■VA]

Click!

Lena attaches the switch to the belt. As she firmly presses the top part, the power of a supernova envelops her.

Sparkling light pouring from the galaxy. Nebulae and red clouds wrap around Lena’s entire body.

Lena closes her eyes and flutters her long eyelashes, enjoying the power for a moment, then extends both arms above her head, crosses them, and instinctively realizes the words she must recite.

“‘Here a star meets its end.'”

At that moment, the sky opened.

A comet forms. Countless stars meet their death and become supernovas, shooting forth.

BOOM BOOM BOOM!!

Star explosions sweep across the path of light.

Everywhere you look, there’s light, light, and more light.

A chain of countless explosions.

At the end, all that remained were the corpses of all the annihilated monsters.

“…My goodness.”

“What in the world.”

Even the media broadcasting the scene lost their words in astonishment.

Lena’s face was flushed with ecstasy after experiencing Supernova’s power.

Now, let’s make a declaration.

Lu-a uses her ability to steal a microphone from the media. The microphone is placed in my hand. Without waiting, I shouted:

“I am Gerogius, the leader of the villain organization Vengeance. I announce to the hostages: from now on, I will save only those companies that pledge allegiance to Vengeance.”