108 – In Chunnihyang Village – 6
The situation quickly became a mess.
The quiet dinner time was thrown into chaos, and Hannah, who was sitting on the floor and crying in her Su-ah’s arms, was still unable to break free from her fear.
Sua patted her on the back and cast [Recovery] Using a small amount of mana.
“Huh…. I’m sorry everyone…. Ugh….”
Tears gradually drying up.
Hanna conveyed her apology to Taejin’s party who did not look at her.
If she hadn’t been chased, the situation wouldn’t have gotten to this point and her bodyguards wouldn’t have died.
Moreover, even if there was external pressure, it played a huge part in Reina’s kidnapping.
This would be the worst of all conceivable situations.
Not only did she take the lives of the two bodyguards, but she might also be involved in the lives of Raina or Taejin, so Hanna sheds tears like chicken sh*t.
“… Would it be okay?”
Hye-seo, who was looking down at her with a bewildered expression, asked Na-yeon as she looked at her doorway where Tae-jin left.
Nayeon, who hastily chewed and swallowed what was in her mouth, similarly looked at the doorway Taejin had just run out of.
Nayeon can’t answer easily when asked if she’s okay.
If it were Taejin who was crushing the Blue Witch Lexa, she wouldn’t be worried, but now her hands are tied before she can even wield her sword.
She couldn’t decide easily.
Fighting with a hostage held is the same situation as attacking an opponent holding a sword with both hands tied.
And Hye-seo, who had experienced that situation many times as the head of the villain investigation team at the Monster Management Bureau, could not help but feel anxious.
Because most of the words of the hostage take were tragic.
Just.
“… You have to believe it will be okay.”
She has no choice but to have an optimistic faith.
But then.
“Yoo-Yura-!?”
Suddenly, Mi-Hwa’s urgent voice resounded, and at the end of their eyes, they followed the direction the voice was heading.
– Jump!
I could see Yura opening the door and running out.
“He, why is he really like this-!”
Her mihwa tried to follow suit, but Nayeon took her place.
“I’ll follow you.”
“Ah….”
Beautification doesn’t readily answer.
I hesitated because I felt like my daughter was causing an unnecessary inconvenience, but she had no choice but to agree because objectively, it would be more effective for Nayeon to go than for her.
At that age, isn’t it normal to be more afraid of her older sister than her mother?
“Then…” “Please.”
“Yes. I’ll bring you right away.”
“Oh, I’m coming too. “Just in case.”
“Thank you everyone.”
Hye-seo follows behind Na-yeon who hurries out.
For Hye-seo, who had a habit of guessing what would happen and determining the superiority of risk factors, Yu-ra, who followed Tae-jin, seemed more dangerous than this place.
“Okay. “Let’s go now.”
“Yes.”
Soon.
Nayeon and Hyeseo had to chase Yura outside the restaurant.
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“Oh, oppa-!”
Taejin was just about to leave the entrance to the village when she heard a voice coming from behind her and she stopped and turned around.
And then, she could see Yura running after her, panting.
“Huh? Yura… !?”
“Oppa-! Wait for a sec!”
“Following me is dangerous! Stay with Mom!”
“No! Wait, wait!”
Yura keeps running despite being discouraged from going back.
Taejin waited for a while, and Yura, who arrived in front of Taejin, quickly rummaged through the mana pocket.
And then.
“This, this…” !”
I took out a small device and handed it to Taejin.
A small cylindrical rod device that fits in the palm of your hand. Other than the fact that it had one red button, it was a clunky device.
“What is this?”
“If I had taken Reina hostage, I would have definitely used a magic suppression device.”
“I guess so? Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to hold you hostage.”
“This can temporarily neutralize that inhibitor.”
“Oh, really? So you’re saying you can use magical power?”
“Yes! Instead, it doesn’t take long. About 1 minute at most. It’s an illegal device, but… “It’s not the time to discuss that right now.”
The magical suppression device, aka ‘Mana Dispenser’, is mainly used in the Awakener’s prison, and of course, the use and development of a device that destroys the Mana Dispenser was prohibited for any reason.
The Mana Dispenser is the only device that can capture awakened sinners.
In addition, unlike the linear effect of mana suppression, the mana dispenser had a complex circuit, so most magicians could not even touch it.
However, Yura learned the principles of the mana dispenser and developed the ability to break the circuit with only her self-education.
And she blindly followed after me to tell it to her brother.
Taejin received it and looked at Yura.
To be honest, she was at a loss.
As Yura said, there is a device to capture Lesha, so he must have taken her as a hostage.
I ran out recklessly, but there was no silver bullet or special move to turn around the unfavorable hostage situation.
It was only a vague promise to save her by arriving within the time limit, but thanks to Yura, her vague promise has transformed into a firm self.
“Thank you. “It’s Yura.”
“I must find my sister… “You have to come back.”
Taejin smiled.
Then, looking at her with her proud eyes, she stroked Yura’s hair as if tousling it.
“Ah… !”
Yura quickly grabs her neck and defends her head like a turtle.
But she had already become scattered.
Of course, there was a shy smile on his face.
The fact that she was helpful to her brother was enough for Yura.
“Okay then. “I’ll come back with Reina, so I’m waiting for you.”
“Uh, yeah… ! Okay… !”
“Don’t worry too much. Tell her mother too. No, tell everyone. “I will use this device to save Raina and return safely.”
“Yes! Good luck, older brother!”
She cheers Yura brightly as if she is going to a tournament, and Taejin smiles and blows away a handful of her tension.
Yes, her excessive tension only makes the situation stiff.
Taejin, whose empty heart is filled with Yura’s support, soon begins to rush to where Lesha is.
After that.
“Yura-ya-!”
At the call coming from behind her, Yura turned her body.
It was Nayeon and Hyeseo.
“Uh, sisters….”
“This guy. What if he runs out so suddenly without saying a word? “You were worried.”
Hyeseo looked around her, and Nayeon immediately started hitting Yura.
Yura lowers her head and mutters hesitantly.
“Oh, I have something to give you…. I feel like I really need it….”
“So. “Did you tell me?”
“Yes. “We just set off again.”
“Really? Where?”
Yura turned her head, and Nayeon and Hyeseo also looked there.
Taejin was already gone.
“I went that way. “You will come back safely, right?”
In response to Yura’s sad question, Nayeon nodded her head without any hesitation.
Even if it was a disadvantageous situation, she was the one who did not doubt that she would come to the rescue of Raina without fail if she was the ‘Elrodon’ who silently went through any adversity and hardship.
Because Eloden is that kind of man.
Elroden is the man who rushed into the rain of thousands of arrows to save himself, who was the hero of another world, Rafia.
And no matter what unfavorable conditions he was in, no matter what unreasonable circumstances he was in, he saved himself.
So instead of doubts and worries, Nayeon only sent firm faith and support.
As if to disprove this, Nayeon’s expression was calm.
“Okay then. I believe it. Taejin will definitely do well.”
“I guess so, right?”
“Okay. Let’s go now. “My mother is worried.”
“Oh, yes.”
Nayeon led Yura back to her restaurant.
All she could do now was to take good care of Yura and her mother so that Taejin wouldn’t worry.
But then.
“Wait a minute.”
Hyeseo began to look around her with ominous eyes.
Hye-seo looks into the air, looks at the floor, and looks aimlessly in all directions.
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The sight was unusual, like an animal that sensed disaster, so Nayeon asked worriedly.
“… Why?”
Nayeon knew after a few weeks of companionship.
What kind of person is Kim Hye-seo as an investigator?
When she stands guard, she is not at all distracted, and she has an excellent ability to immediately identify risk factors around her, analyze them, and prepare for them.
And.
A person whose ability to sense crisis is more outstanding than anyone else.
Her abilities are truly close to superhuman senses, and thanks to those abilities, there were quite a few times when she was able to overcome crises with little concern.
That’s why Nayeon couldn’t help but be nervous.
I know very well that the crisis that Hye-seo sensed was not an illusion or illusion.
She also looked the most serious she had ever seen, so Nayeon immediately unleashed her magic.
“… Mana is gathering. “It’s an unusual current.”
Hyeseo said while looking at her floor.
Nayeon also agreed with that opinion.
“I feel it too. Something… “I think something is coming.”
After a while, small stone fragments on the dirt floor began to vibrate.
It was not a precursor to an earthquake or storm.
It was a vibration created by the torrent of mana, and was also a precursor to a mana explosion.
The mana explosion implied that something big was about to happen.
The vibration gradually becomes stronger.
Stone debris and dust swirl around, creating an ominous wind.
-Sssssuk, hoo….
The wind shows irregular, artificial movements, dying out and blowing again.
-Huung.
-Whoa… !
-Hwiik-!
And finally, when the strong magical wind began to scratch the entire village.
Hye-seo and Na-yeon had to shout out to Yu-ra.
“Run to the restaurant!”
-Ji-ing, crackling!
-Chijijik!
About 100 meters from the village entrance.
In a desolate, desolate vacant lot, sparks like a thunderstorm fly and the gathered magical wind begins to form a whirlpool.
Nayeon held Yura’s arm and ran to the restaurant, looking behind her.
“What on earth is that! Have you ever seen anything like that!?”
Hyeseo tilted her head as if she could guess something about her.
“It’s like a portal to illusion.”
“But! “When a portal is formed, it’s not accompanied by a magical wind like this, right?!”
“….”
Hye-seo was silent.
That was correct.
It made no sense for such a magical wind to blow through just a portal.
But.
“Depending on what comes out through the portal… “It could be so.”
“What?!”
At that time, Hye-seo stopped her steps.
It was because the majestic magical wind felt behind his back had changed.
“Hye-seo! Hurry!”
Nayeon stops behind him and calls for Hyeseo.
Hye-seo looks at the place where the magical wind is condensing as if possessed by something.
“… No way.”
And then he muttered in despair.
The raging magical wind swallows sparks and turns into an oval sphere.
It was an absurdly huge portal that had never been seen or reported before.
The width was wide enough for a ship to come and go, and the height was high enough for the end point to touch when the ship was erected vertically.
“Well, what on earth is that…?” .”
“That…” “A portal?”
Nayeon, who cried out to Hye-seo, and Yoo-do, who was being led by Nayeon’s hand.
She couldn’t even think of moving her feet, which were frozen as if they had been rooted in the ground, and she had to open her mouth at the appearance of that majestic portal.
“aaah! What is that-!”
“Run away!!”
“Ellie, Nasia!! Where are you-!!”
The earth vibrates, and screams and shouts run rampant in the village.
There was an illusion that an alien planet had appeared.
Afterwards, when the super-giant monster slowly emerges through the portal.
Shouts and screams are swallowed up in majestic horror.
“… “f*ck.”
A word of curse came out through the fear that engulfed everything.
It was Hyeseo’s voice.
“No way, the Chimera Project was successful… ? Nonsense…!”
The contents recorded in the secret intelligence of the Monster Management Bureau.
Aka [Chimera Project].
Illusion’s top-secret project to cultivate super-giant monsters by combining disaster grade S giant monsters by section, this was also intelligence obtained through Han Chang-ho’s sacrifice.
And it was said that a super-giant monster that succeeded in culturing would be confined to a place called a cage and grow into an adult.
However, nothing was known about the structure, principle, or substance of the Cage, and renowned magicians and biophysicists unanimously considered it impossible.
The Chimera project was considered a wild fantasy or an unknown experimental plan.
But now.
Hye-seo had to see with her own two eyes how foolish that judgment was.
On the body of the iron beetle Arstel, the wings of the flying giant Radon are spread out, the heads of the Basilisk and the Red Hydra are grotesquely intertwined, and the giant scorpion tail of the scorpion monster Antares is emitting a fierce poison. A giant monster, a chimera.
It had the dignity of being able to convey to future generations that it was truly a disaster and the beginning of the end.
-Cow-!!
《Keeek-!!》
Soon the portal closed, and the chimera’s eardrum-shattering cries signaled the beginning of disaster and the start of an all-out war against Illusion.