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Advance and follow-up units (2) – Cheonwangsan Mountain, Guro-gu, Seoul

Well-maintained hiking trails and lush trees surrounding them.

Seo Ju-won and I were breaking through a mountain path that had been covered in greenery for a while.

The height of Cheonwangsan Mountain is exactly 144m.

A mountain so low that even ordinary people would think of it as a back hill in the neighborhood was nothing more than a small hill to the awakened people.

Seo Joo-won, who is estimated to have quite high stats, was blindly breaking through the hiking trail without even seeing me following him.

However, when I noticed Seo Joo-won’s dark insides, something quite different stood out.

‘This guy is subtly controlling his pace… .’

The speed when I was running on the road and now when I was climbing the hiking trail were strangely different.

Heo-heo- Heo-eok-

To make a more sure check, I deliberately let out a breathy sound and the guy’s speed slowed down very slowly.

I could have thought he was considerate of me, but more than that, I could see that he was willing to drain all of my remaining energy just in case.

‘Ha, indeed.’

Even though I could see the inside, I couldn’t help but laugh at the way it was so visible.

These days, Seo Joo-won was gently touching me, who was living my daily life in a benevolent cult leader mode.

A bastard like this needs the iron fist of justice.

‘okay. Even if a person like that is accepted as a believer, it is obvious that he will become an impure molecule.’

Let’s kill it.

No matter what skill you have.

First, let’s scrape some useful information first.

After making up my mind, I stood there and called out to him out of breath.

“Joo, Joo Won! Wait a minute!”

Hearing my tired call with one ear, he came back to me with a bright smile.

“Ah! Sorry, Mr. Guwon. Was I too fast?”

“Heo Eok- Heo Eok- Mr. Joo Won. What on earth is going on?”

“I was in such a hurry that I couldn’t even explain the situation.”

Seo Joo-won smiled kindly, scratched his chin, and then pointed to the top of Cheonwangsan Mountain.

It was a mountaintop where a brilliant pillar of light could be seen coming down.

“We have to guard the gems generated there for 5 minutes.”

“You want to protect the jewel at all costs?”

“The system itself is like that. It’s easy to think of it as an unexpected mission.”

Kkkk!

The howling of zombies shaking the small mountain was heard.

Seo Joo-won smiled at the roar that came at that moment and added.

“To summarize, you only need to protect the gems from the zombie wave for 5 minutes.”

“Without any compensation?”

“Oh, that’s not it! That jewel itself increases Guro-gu’s dominance rate. And that’s a much higher figure than other missions.”

I gathered the scattered clues from Seo Joo-won’s excited answer.

Special mission gems greatly increase the dominance rate.

Seo Joo-won also has experience performing missions other than special missions.

Baby, if you’ve done other missions, doesn’t that mean you’re a veteran in Guro-gu?

Why would a guy like that possess me as a volunteer and take me with him?

And that too while hiding the black inside.

It was obvious, needless to say.

It meant that they would use me somewhere.

And it was said that somewhere in there was a bait, but even though my balls were so bad, I was able to hook one arm.

“Zombies are probably coming up from below right now. We need to occupy the high ground quickly. It’s very scary at night in Guro-gu, which doesn’t have a safe zone!”

“… Is it night?”

“Yes! You’ll probably find out a little later when the sun sets! I ran fast because I wanted to create a safe zone just for Guwon in preparation for that time… ”

I don’t know if I’m thinking too far ahead… .

I desperately managed my facial expression as I listened to the guy’s voice shrinking as if he was downcast.

This is a very naive protagonist, the protagonist.

If you make that face in front of me one more time, I will kill you right away, information or whatever.

I composed myself, blinked in surprise, and asked Seo Joo-won back.

“You’re giving me that jewel?”

“Of course. Now we are life-sharing comrades! It’s natural to share rewards.”

“… Ah, I’m so grateful that I don’t have anything to say.”

“Hahaha- No, no. by the way… ”

Seo Joo-won suddenly stopped talking and looked at me.

He smiled, looking at me with eyes full of subtle exploration and joy.

“Why don’t you use your skills? Wouldn’t it be more convenient to fly in?”

“I want to do that too, but I used up all my mana… .”

“Aha~ You used up all your mana.”

Crrrraaa~

A familiar roar coming from behind us.

A pounding stomping sound typical of steroids shook the mountain.

Seo Joo-won smiled softly as he watched me flinch on purpose and opened his mouth.

“Don’t be surprised. It is a variant called Sound Stalker. The sound is loud but not very strong.”

“… I see.”

Just by hearing the sound, I can clearly see a monster with big muscles, but is this guy yelling at me?

He had a scared expression, as if he didn’t know anything, and slowly stretched his right hand like a snake.

“That guy is the alpha and omega of the zombie wave. Without that guy, the wave can be blocked very easily. So you… ”

Before he could finish speaking, he held out his right hand.

In an instant, the highest level of telekinetic power was revealed to him along with a blazing white light.

The white mana that clung to him with the intention of tearing his throat apart slowly dispersed.

“You have to become that mutant’s plaything.”

He swung his right hand at me without any problem.

A sharp dagger suddenly appeared in Seo Joo-won’s right hand.

“―!”

I swallowed my embarrassment and hurriedly kicked my legs to avoid the guy’s stab.

Like at Starlight Church, it was effective to prepare for an emergency where telekinesis did not work.

The guy paused for a moment, looking at the distance that had widened in an instant, and started giggling, showing his dirty white teeth.

“What, you said you used up all your mana?”

The guy who was completely unaffected by telekinesis showed his true colors and asked.

“When did you know?”

Naturally, I didn’t trust him from the first time I saw him.

But I had no intention of answering his question in a joking manner.

Seeing me not answering, the guy shrugged his shoulders and moved, using a tree to disturb my vision.

The loud left and right movements are repeated, and the distance between me and the guy decreases.

The blade of a dagger sparkling in the sunlight reflecting from that guy’s right hand.

… I almost got hit.

No matter what the guy’s skills were, the important thing was that he almost lost his blood.

And that too without letting down one’s guard at all.

A stiff face busily followed the guy’s movements.

The arm was swinging busily, aiming at the thing moving around between the trees.

“That doesn’t work!”

A beam of light flew towards me as I floated for a wider view.

I poured my telekinetic power into the dagger filled with mana, but it didn’t stop at all.

The dagger, which he barely avoided by moving his shoulder, was stuck in the tree behind him.

My telekinesis didn’t work on things containing that bastard’s mana.

Is it a nullification series?

The moment you quickly move your head and try to widen the distance back.

Seo Joo-won suddenly stopped approaching and started running up the mountain.

Krraaa!

At the belated roar of steroids, a flash of light flashed in my mind.

‘This bastard—!’

The goal was not to kill me, but to force me to retreat.

As I hurriedly looked behind me, a large object hit me.

“kkieeek―!”

“What a dog!”

With a primal curse that came out for the first time in a long time, I stopped the tangled zombie bastard’s mouth.

My molars were grinding to the point of breaking as I saw them gnashing their teeth while facing each other right in front of our noses.

“… You are not good at searching.”

Seo Ju -won is a dog.

Squeak-

He immediately ripped off the zombie’s head and flew through the air again.

A group of people climbing Mt. Cheonwang caught my eye.

From within the colony, a beam of black light flies toward me again.

Steroid was randomly throwing the zombies next to him at me with a cruel laugh.

Kiiing—!

Mana accelerated after me with both arms outstretched.

Mana, which was running through my entire body along with the white light that bloomed more thickly, came out through my peripheral nerves and out to my fingertips.

Telekinesis crushed the bottom of the mountain.

All the beings that were shaking the mountain stopped.

Zombies that were flying, zombies that were running, even steroids.

I felt my mana draining away at the scene where time seemed to have stopped, but I didn’t hold back even more.

My whole body bloomed into a deep white color with a more brilliant light than before.

Tuk- Tuk- Tuk- Tuk-

The branches of the bushes that fill the mountain break.

The thorns, which shook and broke and became longer and sharper, instantly covered all sides of the zombies.

My pupil, taking in all the thorns in my field of vision, moved dizzyingly from side to side.

The moment I put out my hand, all the thorns started flying.

Nettle liquid!

Tree branches shooting down hit the heads of zombies bound by telekinesis.

The steroids in the center of the zombies came crashing down like a wave and falling again like a wave, creaking and resisting my telekinesis.

Creak drudge-

With a bloody sound, the trembling creature wrapped its arms around its head, protecting its only weak point.

The thorns, who had organized the colony step by step under my command, aimed the steroids again.

Grumble-

Along with my arms slowly opening, his arms also trembled and opened as if reflected in a mirror.

“K, krraaa—!”

No matter how much effort is used, the head of the bastard is gradually revealed, putting to shame its cruel roar filled with anger.

The man’s eyes caught sight of tree branches soaked with the rotten blood of zombies approaching quickly.

Push-

That was the end of it.

As I was watching the body of a man slowly falling to the floor, despite his large size, a system message came to mind.

[You have defeated the mutant!]

[No points are awarded for killing zombies in Seoul!]

Coo!

I started flying towards the top, leaving behind the steroids that were completely behind me, making the ground rumble slightly.

The mountain filled with silence, where the howling could no longer be heard, flashed, and a system message appeared again.

[You have successfully defeated the Cheonwangsan Special Mission ‘Zombie Wave’. (Method: Treatment)]

[Ownership of the ‘Jewel’ is transferred to Awakened Seo Joo-won and Han Gu-won!]

[Special mission contribution: 99%]

[As compensation for contributions exceeding 90%, Guro-gu’s dominance rate increases by 0.5%.]

[Current Awakened Han Gu-won’s Guro-gu control rate: 0.5%]

More than other messages, we focused on the fact that Seo Joo-won also owns the jewelry.

He said that all you had to do was withstand the zombie wave for 5 minutes.

However, I solved the special mission by annihilating the wave itself.

As a result, we achieved an amazing contribution rate of 99%, but the important thing was the jewels.

If the guy who has the gems before me gets stuck in his area again, things get awkward.

And he knew it very well.

I could see why the guy who had failed in the surprise attack had no hesitation and immediately led me into a trap and ran upward.

‘This dog played with me completely.’

Still, it wasn’t completely lost yet.

As long as I kill him, I win regardless of the process.

With the wind quickly breaking, I could see the head of the mountain where the pillar of light had landed perfectly.

And even Seo Joo-won reaches out for the brightly shining red jewel there.

“Seo Joo-won―!”

Seo Joo-won, who was smiling brightly while looking at the jewel, paused for a moment at the sound of my voice.

‘Telekinesis doesn’t work on him. then.’

Doddd!

The mountain reacted to my telekinesis and trembled as if there had been an earthquake.

The lump of dirt that was shaking with this ability was sharpened and shot towards Seo Joo-won’s back.

Seo Joo-won withdrew his hand that was almost touching the jewel and stepped back.

He then placed his hand on the clod of dirt that was advancing with the momentum to pierce his stomach.

Seo Joo-won, who raised his head while the lumps of dirt were slowly collapsing, looked at me and opened his mouth.

“You’re not a flight awakener, are you?”

“Then you said you were a colleague and all, but you were a pure brat.”

“How did you shake off that guy and fly all the way here?”

I realized this when I saw steroids constantly being referred to as ‘bastards’.

This bastard couldn’t get the mutant knowledge because he couldn’t get rid of the steroids.

“Killed them all. And soon you will die too.”

“I’m sorry. The awakened can never defeat me.”

A dagger was created in the hand of the guy who was wary of me and biting the streets.

I watched its movements while keeping an eye on the dark black mana seeping into the dagger.

That guy’s skill neutralizes my skill.

So, naturally, I cannot trust my body to be affected by the [Imitation Eucharist].

A single correct hit immediately leads to a fatal hit.

Creak drudge-

The mountain trembled again, creating countless thorns and shields.

The quivering thorns defending the blind spot within the shield all aim at Seo Joo-won.

Seo Joo-won, who shook himself off from the bloody confrontation and waved both arms, smiled at me.

“The baby is scared.”

He responded to those cheeky words with a bright smile and held out his hand.

The thorns that filled the sky instantly bombarded the ground.