episode_0246

After setting up base camp at a hotel on Pattaya Island, I arrived at the coral island with Hye-ra Yoon.

Sae-Ae-Aek.

There was no one on the shore, and there was only silence.

No matter how much we came in at night to take advantage of the darkness, the cold night air and the sound of the wind made the entire island feel eerie, as if it were an abandoned place.

“This is true. wait for a sec. I’ll turn off the engine and drive it myself.”

“How about approaching by following the waves?”

“Situation report.”

On the contrary, I was so worried that the sound of the boat’s motor would sound, and from the moment I saw the island of the succubus, I made a bat into an oar and drove the boat directly to the shore.

“Can you feel the popularity around the island?”

“No. I don’t feel it. That’s why I get goosebumps even more.”

I ran to the sandy beach holding Yoon Hye-ra.

Getting sand on your shoes wasn’t a big problem.

The real problem is the traces that should be on Succubus Island.

“…There is no sign of an attempt to escape from the island.”

“I don’t think it’s just here. You looked around all the time. There is no other place.”

There was nothing there.

There were no traces of anything to be seen at all.

Before entering the sandy beach, we went around the entire coral island by boat to check the coast, but there was no trace.

“I wouldn’t have erased the traces. Right?”

“Yes. Not much time has passed since the unrest broke out. Of course, you could say that two days is enough time, but…”

“If it had been manpower, it would have moved in large numbers, so it would have been caught in the death-defying surveillance network, and if it had been erased with the power of this ability, we would have read the reverberations of magical power.”

Neither.

Therefore, you need to check it yourself.

“Let’s go in.”

I walked towards the island with Hye-ra Yoon.

“Can you see it?”

“No. at all. There is no pretense of popularity at all. There is no magical response. Right now on the outside…”

I’d have to look a little deeper, but at least there was no sign of anyone near the shore that I approached by boat.

“There must be a being that can escape our detection, or something else. One thing, I feel something.”

Hye-ra Yoon swept the dirt floor with her hands.

“Oppa. Look at this.”

“……I guess this one was closer to the correct answer.”

I couldn’t help but sigh as I saw traces of something wet underneath the dirt pile.

The trace was a red blood stain.

It was a trace of blood, believed to have been shed just two days ago, seeping into the soil.

“I don’t think it’s the blood of someone with superpowers, I think it’s just the blood of an ordinary person.”

“That’s more of a problem. I can’t specify which one it is.”

Who is the owner of this blood?

Judging by the amount of blood, it looks like there was a big wound, but I can’t feel it.

“Considering their tendencies, they must have already escaped, right?”

“Yes. Hyangdan probably took action. Even if that’s not the case… looking at the situation, it seems like the situation was already resolved at the same time when we attacked God’s resting place.”

We wanted to raid one place and sequentially check the other places.

Since Laplace died, Hyangdan was driven out, and General Jeokrang committed suicide, there would be leisure.

What kind of problem could arise in two days?

While I’m recovering my magic power to deal with the Hyangdan that may appear, I’m afraid something big will happen.

I expected complacently.

Because without such expectations and hopes, what happens on this island will be the same as what happens anywhere else.

“Maybe we should have divided the attack into two groups.”

“If that were the case, time would have dragged on and everyone would have died.”

“…Okay. Because we joined forces to attack God’s resting place, it ended with one person’s head exploding, otherwise, they all would have exploded one after another.”

“I’m not saying this about people’s heads, but what is it, like Puyo Puyo?”

“Maybe. Even if we arrived at the fastest speed while united, it would probably have been slower…”

By deploying the magic barrier, Laplace would not have been able to block the signal sent to God’s resting place.

It would not have been able to destroy the missiles fired by General Jeokrang.

He wouldn’t have been able to go inside the facility, quickly remove the bomb bugs from the heads of those inside the prison, and then fly towards Laplace at the fastest speed to deal with them.

“In my head, I know it’s impossible, but my heart doesn’t think so.”

“Oppa. That’s a very hero-like idea.”

“Sometimes I want to be a hero. If you look at something like this.”

There is a long blood stain on the floor.

“It’s so sad and bitter to think that these people will live happily in a world that we will rule someday.”

“…But let’s not give up hope. You never know.”

The long blood trail, which was not just a blood stain, was a sign that someone had escaped from inside, and I followed the blood trail inside with Hye-ra Yoon.

“The villains seem to be more thorough and vicious than we think. If we say that we are people designated as villains by the government, wouldn’t we be able to say that these people are truly ‘villains’ themselves?”

The further you go into the island, the more bloodstains there are.

And next to the blood stains, something like powder is flying.

Should I say it is a trace of a human being?

If there was a body, even a headless body, it would be the same as the slaves in God’s resting place.

But there is no body, only blood stains.

There might be at least one piece of human flesh or body left, but there is nothing.

Really, nothing.

“Oppa, there is a hotel over there.”

“…It is a large-scale facility, as expected from the place that Laplace and General Jeokrang directly managed. It’s almost like a casino, right?”

Although the size of the coral island is not large, it is large enough to build a building.

The size of the island is smaller than God’s Rest, but considering that only VIPs selected by Laplace and his gang can enter this place, this place would be more than God’s Rest, if not less.

“It was Nguyen who decided which island to attack first, but it was we who decided to respect and follow that choice. The good news is that the worst outcome that you thought didn’t seem to have happened.”

“What do I think is the worst?”

“Extermination.”

Hye-ra Yoon said casually.

“For fear that the true identity of those on the island of the succubus would be revealed, they killed and eliminated all those on the island and then burned or buried the island.”

“…I thought you would.”

As most other villains do, I thought Laplace and others would act the same way.

“They thought they would kill everyone on the island, destroy and blow up all the data on the island, and then escape safely from the island. …But I guess cutting off the heads was more effective than I thought.”

Ants with their heads cut off, with only their bodies remaining, wriggle and die according to the pheromones and instincts imprinted on their bodies.

With all the thinking minds gone, the person in charge on this island of the succubus had to make a decision.

“Considering what he has done so far, summary execution is warranted, but first, we need to look at the internal situation and think about how to execute him.”

“…Hey, don’t you feel it slowly?”

“Yes.”

The moment we approached the front door of the hotel, which resembled a large casino, the lens of the CCTV camera moved towards us.

[I got it right.]

[This means there are still people, right?]

Transformation doesn’t take time.

We had already transformed except for our masks, and our faces were not seen by anyone.

But did we wear masks?

That other people are in here.

Kwa-euang!

I ran straight to the front door and kicked it down.

The thick iron door instantly fell inward along with the hinges on the side of the door.

The hotel lobby was gloomy without any light.

It was like looking at a haunted house that had been abandoned for a long time, and Hye-ra Yoon and Gung-ki, who came inside, pointed to the central staircase leading right in front of the front door.

[I can finally feel it. I guess there is a barrier magician? I think the building was made of a material that blocks magical power?]

[You guys are bold. They hide their magical power so thoroughly that it can only be felt when two S-class people enter the building in person.]

I stretched the bat forward.

He placed the tip of the bat down, grabbed the handle upside down, and injected magical power into the bat.

[Cheongeunchu.]

Kuuu!!

The bat fell to the floor like something weighing several tons.

It didn’t just fall and roll to the side, it instantly broke the marble floor and fell down.

And the bat fell further down.

Below the hotel lobby, toward the basement floor.

Coo coo coo.

There was a vibration for a moment.

Ujithong!!

The hotel lobby where I and I were standing collapsed to the ground.

I also jumped up before my archery collapsed, and I landed lightly inside, pushing away the dust with my magic.

[Lee Yeon Cheon Geunchu.]

I stood with my feet together on top of the fallen bat.

Pressing down strongly with his entire body’s magical power, the bat thrust downwards pushed down on the ground deeper and shattered the ceiling of the basement.

[Add a feather.]

[Oh my, what are you saying?]

Ku-euung!

The moment I stretched out my hand to Gunggi and Gunggi grabbed my hand, the space below suddenly collapsed to the point where I went down to the 4th floor underground.

And it was visible.

A group of people at the end of the hallway leading forward, beyond a vertical cavity that looked as if they had come down from an elevator.

[I don’t know if I should say I’m glad I’m alive.]

see.

Those who are scared.

Women who are more scared of encountering a goblin than of being discovered by a person.

All appear to be in their early 20s.

Besides him, no one else is visible.

That’s right, because all of the people here are ‘super-talents’.

[…okay. This is reality.]

Dirty and dirty reality.

Their own patriotism created by the strongest members of the Hero Association and the peak of the military in extreme secrecy in order to take advantage of the desires of those with special abilities and those who want to be patriotic.

The island of the succubus.

The succubus here is a slang term that refers to a person with magical powers of E class or lower.

A woman.

…When everyone tells you to walk the path of HERO, here are those who chose H and the path of ERO.