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21 Snake Hunt (1)
“ You deserve it… … .”
The night street of Hubris, the capital city, where midnight has already passed and even the moon in the sky has hidden behind the clouds.
Ouroboros executive Sharin Mei, who came out of the underground auction house a while ago, murmured as she walked alone through such a night street.
With him, in her head, the image of a man she had talked to a while ago came to mind.
Although more than half of his face was covered with a white mask, a man who could tell that he was handsome enough with the exposed mouth and jaw line.
“ Who are you?”
Judging by the light gray hair, there was a high possibility that he was the one with the surname of Ilones, who was Agnes’ collateral.
But I couldn’t figure out anything more than that.
‘ If anyone can spend that much money at once, he must be known in the capital to some extent… … .’
They had already been secretly in this place for more than a decade and had all the information in the capital.
It must have been that the fact that they were not captured by their information network had not been active at all or had the power to escape their eyes.
Of course, the possibility of the latter was very small, so it is probably the former.
“ Dare you.”
I didn’t like it.
From the eyes that seemed to look down on Sharin who dared to look down on herself, to the cold voice that didn’t contain any emotions.
In particular, they didn’t like the fact that they were unaware of the fountain and interfered with the plans of their own, Ouroboros.
at that time.
“ Shall we find out?”
A sharp voice came from the air beside her, where nothing existed.
“ No, you don’t have to.”
Sharin answered naturally as if she knew it from the beginning.
“ It will be gone today anyway.”
Suddenly, there was a glimmer of murder in her eyes.
“ I see. So, would you like to stop by the branch right away?”
“ later. I have work to do before that.”
Sharin, who had already entered the slum on the outskirts of the capital, shook her head and looked ahead at the continued voice.
Soon after, her vision began to see a group of five or six bullies approaching this way.
* * *
“ Do you think this was blown too ignorantly? Didn’t the explosion flew to the ring?”
The man with the impressive scars all over his face muttered as he looked at the flaming horsepower car, completely smashed.
“ So I told you to control your power. Jeff, you idiot! What if I shoot him even though he hasn’t completely gone out yet!”
A brown-skinned woman with a strong body approached the man and shouted reproachfully.
“ No, was this the best time? If I had waited longer, there could have been a witness nearby!”
At this, a man called Jeff wrinkled his face and countered.
“ Let me go, is this one or two times?”
Dozens of people appearing behind him like that.
Their true identity was none other than one of ouroboros’ special handling squads.
The horse was a special mission, and most of the work was done.
However, their skills were ranked at the top even in the branch they belonged to.
In the first place, taking on such a special mission was difficult without considerable force.
“ Okay, let’s quickly find the ring and open it. Because I don’t want to smell a burnt corpse for a long time.”
Is he still the leader of the processing team?
At Jeff’s words, two of the crew members giggled as they approached the wrecked horsepower car.
“ Huh?”
Soon after, doubts lit up in their eyes as they lifted up the wreckage.
“ Captain, there is no body?”
“… … What?”
“ I can’t even see the bones.”
At the words of the unit, Jeff’s eyes lit up with suspicion.
It was normal for the wreckage of the occupant to remain, no matter how much impact was applied to the car body to be completely crushed.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t see it… … .
at that time.
“I can’t see it.”
A languid voice came from behind.
The moment when people’s heads turn toward the side where the voice came from.
Kwajik!
The head of one member of the unit who was standing at the back disappeared as it was.
“ Because it wasn’t right in the first place.”
A man slowly revealing himself from behind a trooper who collapsed to the floor with his head lost.
It was Zion.
“ What, are you alive? You must have been a guy with a hidden trick?”
Looking at Shion like that, Jeff makes an expression of surprise.
There was no anger in his voice for losing a member of the squad.
“… … .”
Shion did not respond to Jeff’s words and glanced at the building next to him.
Inside were Eileen and the driver, who had escaped before the car was wrecked.
‘ I mean, it doesn’t go beyond expectations.’
‘ Breath of the Frost Queen’, Sion already knew it would be like this.
Because that ‘Ouroboros’ could not give up what they were aiming for just because it didn’t win the bid.
Knowing that fact all too well, I purposely induced this situation.
“ Do you have a ring? If you give it to me now, I will spare your life.”
Jeff smiled at Shion and opened his mouth again.
Even though he had already lost one member of the unit, his voice was full of confidence.
The attitude that he could kill Shion at any time if he wanted to.
“ You talk well without even thinking about it.”
Shion replied with a grin.
In the first place, it was much easier and neater for them to kill Zion himself.
There was not a single reason for them to leave many repercussions by letting them live.
“ Huh? Haven’t you looked into my heart? How do you not know?”
Jeff shrugged his shoulders, speaking skillfully at Shion’s words.
Then he raised one hand and flicked a finger lightly.
Wrath!
With him, a bright light burst from the waists of the other members of the unit, which had spread widely, and began to form a barrier wide enough to cover them and the whole of Zion.
Shion looked at the barrier that covered him with interest.
“ You seem to have prepared a lot.”
“ Oh, you know? It’s a mana blocking barrier. We’re also a little afraid of the ring’s power.”
Contrary to how he looked, he had a rather strict personality.
Jeff, who even had a barrier so that Shion could not use the Breath of the Frost Queen, smiled and beckoned to the other troops.
Until then, Sion stood still without any reaction and looked at Gyeol Gye and Jeff.
“ Don’t be resentful. Isn’t that what the world is all about? I just think I’m a bit out of luck.”
It seemed like that was a signal.
Aww!
Jeff’s troops were shot towards Zion.
A speed that is unbelievably fast for a pure physical ability that does not use mana.
“ Kah ha ha! There will be no pain.”
In such an instant, the first member of the first unit, who reached right in front of Zion, struck down a huge sword the size of his own body.
Finally, just as such a greatsword was about to split the crown of Zion.
tuk-
One of Shion’s fingers, which slowly ascended upwards, lightly slashed the side of such a greatsword.
That moment.
Kwajijijik!
A great sword that shatters like a glass case.
“… … !”
The moment when the eyes of the troopers who were staring at him were colored with astonishment.
Aww!
The fist on the other side of Shion, which was shot in darkness, exploded in his head.
“ What!”
At the unbelievable sight, astonishment erupted from the mouth of the man with the shaggy beard, who had just rushed from behind.
Whoops!
Shion, who reached right in front of such a man with one step, threw out the fist he had pulled without hesitation.
A hairy man defending himself by quickly pulling his double-edged ax in front of him.
Wow!
Such a man’s ax and Shion’s fist collided, creating a loud roar.
Zion’s fist stopped momentarily.
‘ Stopped… … !’
The moment when the light of relief in the hairy man’s eyes was young.
blatantly!
With the explosion of Black Seongha, Shion’s fist pierced the man’s ax and stretched out in a straight line.
Kwajik!
It was smashed right down to his head.
Before the corpse of such a man fell to the floor, a new type of Shion, engulfed in darkness, rushes toward the next opponent.
A barrier that blocks mana from being used?
what does that mean
From the beginning, Zion himself was unable to use mana, and Heukseongha was also not a power made of mana.
So it was not affected in any way.
Suga Gak!
A brown-skinned woman appeared from behind Zion and swung two daggers.
However, as if he had read such a woman’s movements from the beginning, Sion took a step forward and at the same time gently bowed his head to avoid the dagger.
With him, Shion’s elbow, which naturally soared backward, aimed at the woman.
Paang!
The woman’s head disappeared without a trace with the sound of the air bursting at such a speed.
“ Shibaal! Hit them at the same time!”
One of the members of the unit, who was unwittingly frightened by the sight of Shion aiming only at her head so tenaciously, spit out loud swear words as if to shake off that fear, and rushed towards Shion.
Following his cry, the four members of the unit begin to tighten toward Zion from all directions at once.
“ Then I’m comfortable and I’m fine.”
Looking at them like that, Shion, who smiled brightly, gently clenched his raised fist.
dark sea.
A range machine that erased a wave of poisonous insects at once during the previous succession ceremony.
With him, the sea of darkness that erupted from Zion attacked the enemies who were rushing in an instant.
“ aah!”
Because they couldn’t use mana, the troops were torn apart by the waves of darkness.
Bubbly!
Shion’s eyes, which made it easier by bursting the heads of the troops struggling in such pain, immediately start chasing a new prey.
“ Hey, this is… … .”
Jeff murmured as he looked at such a scene with a look of disbelief.
There was no more leeway in his eyes.
Kwajik! Kwajik! Quazy!
One person per room.
One life is lost in exactly one move.
Truly an overwhelming difference.
Troops who came back alive from countless missions like hell were dying too easily.
Where the hell did such a person suddenly come from?
There was something even more incomprehensible.
“ How… … How can I use my mana?”
That darkness that burns brightly even within the mana barrier.
It was obviously something that could not be created if mana could not be dealt with.
“ I just think I’m a bit out of luck.”
Shion takes the lives of all the troops and walks towards Jeff.
The same words he had just said a moment ago came out of Zion’s mouth.
But the feeling in those words was completely different.
at that time.
Taang!
A gunshot rang out.
The sniper, who had been hiding from a distance before the battle started, pulled the trigger towards Zion.
Although it was a non-mainstream weapon that had not yet been invented, it is said to be the strongest weapon in battles that do not use mana.
However.
soo much!
The bullets fired from the sniper’s gun stood still in front of Shion’s temple, unable to advance any further.
The alien darkness that covered such bullets.
“ Ah… … .”
At that desperate sight, the moment when Jeff’s voice came out of his mouth.
Aww!
The pitch-black darkness that rose from the sniper’s shadow along with the little Zion’s gesture engulfed his whole body.
bum bum, bum bum.
Even the sniper completes perfectly, and Shion walks towards Jeff again.
Jeff’s eyes, looking at Zion like that, began to be colored with despair and fear.
‘ How the hell are you going to kill something like that? … .’
can’t win
That’s impossible.
‘ Then… … .’
Jeff, who had finally made a decision, completely broke the mana barrier that had been almost broken and launched a pre-prepared sword attack towards Shion.
The strongest blow he can deliver in an instant.
Aww!
Is he really the leader of the special handling squad?
When Jeff’s sword collided with Shion’s hand, it created a shockwave unlike anything before.
The dust that rises thickly with him.
But that was all.
Shion, who appeared in the dust, was intact without a single scratch.
However, there was one difference.
ride it!
Because Jeff’s new model in front of him was so far away that it could be seen as a dot in between.
From the beginning, he had just fired a blow in order to escape.
“ It really doesn’t matter one inch.”
Shion looked at Jeff’s back, which was getting farther away, and smiled.
Everything was going as expected.
Tonight, Shion had no intention of ending the hunt like this.
‘ If that were the case, I wouldn’t have even started.’
That’s why I lured them here on purpose, and that’s why I purposely let one go.
It would be difficult to make a rational judgment because he instilled fear by showing him how to kill as cruelly as possible.
Surely the guy who escaped will guide him to their hidden base.
“ It would be better to destroy at least one branch.”
Shion’s languid eyes began to follow Jeff’s dark marriage.