Chapter 242: Pandora’s Day

Episode 242

“What’s wrong with you?”

Yoo Jun-ho asked, smiling at Yong Hangil’s reaction.

“You know this isn’t my only ability, right?”

“But still! Do you know how much of a difference it makes in a crucial battle whether the enemy knows your core ability or not?!”

“I apologize, Master. I’ll be more careful in the future.”

He bowed his head apologetically.

Yong Hangil clicked his tongue a few times, glaring at him, and then turned away, ending the conversation.

Team Leader Hong thought to himself,

‘Even Master Yong thinks Vice Master’s judgment was correct.’

He agreed with Yoo Jun-ho’s decision.

That monk had single-handedly pushed the Alpha Clan out of the brink of destruction.

He couldn’t think of any other way to protect the clan members from the monk’s attack than Yoo Jun-ho’s mutual destruction.

“Aaaargh!!”

“T-this bastard is a monster! Ugh!”

“Someone help me! …Argh!”

“Gurk…!”

Screams came from the Birmingham Clan’s location.

They saw another monk slaughtering the clan members.

*Slice!*

“Vice Master!”

“No!!”

Even Henry, the Vice Master, was beheaded by the monk’s sword.

It was a one-sided massacre, like a wolf among sheep.

The other monks arrived, seeing the chaos.

“Subdue him.”

“You can kill him.”

The six monks attacked the rogue monk.

He fought back, but he couldn’t withstand their combined assault.

*Slice!*

His head was severed.

“Target subdued.”

“Returning.”

They said in a robotic tone and flew back towards the Alpha Clan headquarters.

All that remained were the corpses of dozens of Birmingham Clan members.

“Henry! Henry!!”

Richmond, the Master of the Birmingham Clan, cried out, clutching Henry’s head.

He then turned to the Alpha Clan headquarters, his face filled with rage.

“What have you done!! Do you think you can get away with this?!”

He shouted, his eyes bloodshot, his voice hoarse with anger.

And his subordinates behind him had similar expressions on their faces.

The entire Birmingham Clan, one of the top ten Major Clans, was hostile towards the Alpha Clan.

“Damn it…!”

Duke looked at Richmond, his face filled with dismay.

Quinton, the Team 1 Leader, standing next to him, had an even grimmer expression on his face.

‘Henry is dead! Richmond’s prized disciple…’

He had a bad feeling.

He felt that the Birmingham Clan, one of the top ten Major Clans, might leave the alliance.

And he wasn’t the only one who had that feeling.

“…This could be the end of the alliance…”

Yoo Jun-ho muttered to himself, seeing the Birmingham Clan’s hostility and the wary looks exchanged between the alliance troops.

The Alpha Clan, the leader of the alliance, had lost over half of their forces in the monster attack.

They had the monks, who were more than capable of filling the void, but as they had just witnessed, they were a dangerous force that could turn on the alliance at any moment.

It wasn’t a good sign for the ‘alliance’.

‘This is a headache.’

He frowned.

His plan to form an alliance and become its leader was back to square one.

But there was a group of people who were happy about this situation…

“It seems everything is going according to plan.”

Park Do-joon said with a satisfied smile, looking down at the alliance troops from the rooftop.

“Thanks to the monks’ unexpected actions, dismantling the alliance army will be much easier.”

“Richmond won’t let this go. Henry was like a son to him.”

“I know. The Birmingham Clan is known for being independent. They even left the European Union before. This incident could be the trigger that dismantles the alliance army.”

As he was talking to Hong Hyeonjin,

“We’ve done all we can. Let’s go back. We have a lot to do.

Park Do-joon, you continue sowing discord among the alliance troops.”

“Okay.”

“Do we have enough spies left to turn all the alliance troops against each other?”

“More than enough survived this operation. And most of them are surveillance and reconnaissance specialists.”

Kim Jinsung nodded at his answer and then turned to Hong Hyeonjin.

“Focus on expanding the ‘Anti-Government Clan Alliance’. Take control of the four port cities and all the other key locations, except for the roads.

And keep entering dungeons to increase your power level.”

“Don’t worry. The clans in the alliance are already summoning their remaining executives from their home countries.

I’m certain that our forces will be much stronger in a few weeks.”

“I trust you.”

She smiled and nodded at his words.

“And I have a favor to ask of all of you.”

He looked at all three of them and continued,

“Gather as much information as you can about secret agents like those monks, who are being trained in secret by certain clans.

It’ll be difficult to obtain such information, so gather even the smallest rumors. We need to know how many of them there are.”

They all nodded and then looked at the monks gathered at the Alpha Clan headquarters.

Those true monsters, with their ‘Allobon’ abilities, were the final bosses he had to be wary of.

‘The problem is that we don’t know how many of them there are.’

Just how many clans had such overpowered secret agents hidden away?

One thing was for sure: the more there were, the worse it would be.

It would endanger not only the ‘Anti-Government Alliance’, but also his own life.

“And…”

They all turned to look at him as he continued,

“Gather as much information as you can about Yoo Jun-ho’s unique ability.”

“Ah, right.”

“I’ll look into it too. I was surprised by what I saw earlier.”

They all agreed.

The image of Yoo Jun-ho, alive and moving even after being decapitated, was still vivid in their minds.

‘He didn’t have that ability during the Colosseum…’

Yoo Jun-ho, like Kim Jinsung, was a winner of the Colosseum survival competition.

He had been a global star, so everyone knew his unique ability.

The problem was that it had been three years ago.

Three years was a long time, especially in the New Continent.

And Yoo Jun-ho was a resourceful man.

He was certain that Yoo Jun-ho had acquired new abilities during that time. He himself had acquired countless new abilities since coming to the New Continent.

‘He’s a dangerous man, every time I see him.’

He always felt a sense of unease and danger when he saw Yoo Jun-ho.

He hadn’t felt that way even when he was facing Hemingston, the strongest man on Earth.

‘It means my instincts are warning me.’

He never ignored his instincts.

His body, which was now powerful enough to defeat Hemingston, was sending him warning signals.

It would be foolish to ignore them.

‘Yoo Jun-ho, Allobon, and the alliance army… Once I deal with these three, there will be no one left to stop me in the Middle Realm.’

He thought to himself and started creating a dimensional travel magic circle on the rooftop floor.

* * *

The aftermath of that day, later recorded as ‘Pandora’s Day’, was significant.

The Alpha Clan’s position was shaken.

Having lost over half of their forces, including their absolute leader, Hemingston, they could no longer maintain their position as the leader of the alliance.

And the ‘monks’ also caused a lot of controversy. It was a similar situation to the ‘Allobon’ incident five years ago, when the test subjects escaped from the Korean Clan’s laboratory.

Duke, the acting Master of the Alpha Clan, personally apologized to the Birmingham Clan, who had suffered heavy casualties.

Richmond, the Master of the Birmingham Clan, had initially refused to accept the apology, but he reluctantly accepted it after learning that the Alpha Clan had also lost Hemingston.

But the Birmingham Clan was still hostile towards the Alpha Clan. Some executives even started advocating for leaving the alliance.

More importantly, the incident created an atmosphere where the alliance seemed likely to collapse.

With the Alpha Clan, the unifying force, weakened, the alliance started to crumble.

The clans that had a bad relationship with each other, such as the Ho Chi Minh Clan and the Manila Clan, used this opportunity to openly express their hostility towards each other.

More and more clans were showing their fangs, but the Alpha Clan, who was supposed to mediate the situation, was struggling to recover from their losses.

And the other Major Clans couldn’t intervene either.

“What? You’re saying the Alpha Clan was the one who attacked us?”

“The Moscow Clan attacked us? Don’t be ridiculous…!”

“Some say it was the Genoa Clan, others say it was the Napoli Clan. Which one is it?!”

“But it seems like the Taiwan Clan was the one who attacked our Triad Clan. Those bastards have always hated us Chinese.”

They were too busy trying to figure out who had attacked them, thanks to the anti-government alliance’s constant instigations.

A large crack had appeared in the dam that was the alliance, and water was starting to leak out.

* * *

And at that moment, Kim Jinsung…

“You found it?”

[Yes.]

“Oh!”

He smiled, hearing Dantalian’s answer.

Dantalian had finally found a way to deal with the ‘Allobons’.

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