Episode 140
Kang Tae-min immediately headed to North Korea as soon as Miss Backdoor tracked the location.
The method was similar to the previous one when chasing the Übermensch. The only difference was that they flew into the sky as soon as they set foot on North Korean soil for a quicker raid.
‘Still, it’s worth coming in a hurry.’
One reason he was in a hurry.
Coincidentally, it was because he learned that a volunteer group from the ‘Healer League Without Borders’ had been dispatched to the city where the apostles of Lunatic Dawn were located.
“Wait, what is this… !”
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Lee Young-mi had an expression that did not understand English at all. However, Kang Tae-min did not explain further.
“Umm, is it the interrupter who subdued Sanghyeon?”
It was because Seraphine had appeared in the fog. Not only her, but also the Awoken, whose pupils were dilated like a herd of animals, were by her side.
“Things got complicated. I don’t particularly like seeing blood, but I can’t help it.”
With those words, the awakened people flinched, then turned their heads and opened their mouths.
“For the apostle!”
“Honor the pale moon!”
The Awoken, whose eyes were undone with the fog, attacked. Only then did the volunteers, realizing the seriousness of the situation, hurriedly withdraw.
“Bo, supplies… !”
“Leave it! Escape comes first! Everyone get in the car!”
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Lee Young-mi screamed and evacuated the others.
“Fire is permitted! Fire back!”
“Damn it!”
“I can’t see very well because of the fog!”
Kang Tae-min had built an iron wall in advance, but the other side was also an Awakener. They easily jumped over the iron wall.
The corps hurriedly tried to fire their mana rifles, but the Awakeners could not be seen well in the thick fog.
Naturally, Kang Tae-min knew that.
“Embrace the moonlight… .”
The Awoken who popped out of the fog tried to catch the fleeing volunteer.
However, before he could finish his words, a human figure jumped out of the iron wall and grabbed the Awakener by the back of his head.
“Ahhh… !”
When the Awakener’s head twitched with a snapping sound, the volunteer retreated in fright.
She looked around with a bewildered expression.
Iron Man was not alone. Something similar was happening. Iron men in the same suit jumped out from behind the Awakeners who had crossed the iron wall.
“Get out of here.”
The iron man’s words brought her to her senses. Then he nodded hastily and ran in the direction of the sound of the engine.
Seeing the situation, Seraphine smiled rather deeply.
“Are you creating an alter ego? You must be confident that you won’t be pushed by numbers.”
While he was saying that, metal blades rushed through the fog from all sides. However, Seraphine did not even move.
A sharp blade lashed at her body, but she didn’t mind. It was thanks to the part the blade penetrated that it faded like fog and then returned to its true form.
“This one is also confident in numbers.”
Seraphine released her will. Some of the Awoken who were chasing the corps suddenly turned around.
In their hands were half black masks. And without hesitation, he put the mask on his face.
“Keep it off… !”
“aaagh!”
Their bodies began to transform with a scream. His hair fell in patches and replaced it with blonde hair, and blood gushed from every orifice of his body, his muscles and bones twisting.
The red blood that covered the whole body became a clean tailcoat, and the face behind the mask became Damian’s.
‘It’s as Miss Backdoor said.’
Taemin Kang was not taken aback.
He already knew that there were multiple black masks. It was an artifact that projected the soul, so I assumed that the blood monster could proliferate.
‘Then, is that white mask acting as a transmitter?’
It was a convincing guess.
Since the mutation began with Seraphine’s words, it was clear that she was handling the mask.
In other words, if the white mask, the transmitter, was destroyed, the receiver, the black mask, would naturally lose its power.
‘The problem is that fog.’
Contrary to appearances, Seraphine’s body was made of mist. And the ‘body’ also included that white mask.
Because of this, Kang Tae-min’s attack only scattered, but the mask was not destroyed.
“Hahyun, will it take so many to deal with that one person?”
“Did I tell you that looking at ‘me’ is unpleasant?”
“Does that mean it’s that dangerous?”
Damians complained. In response, Seraphine shrugged.
“I don’t remember, but Sang-hyeon already lost once. So make no mistake this time.”
He was unable to retrieve Damien’s mask from his encounter with Kang Tae-min, so he could not gain memories and experiences. Taking this into consideration, Seraphine called several Damians.
“All alter egos look the same, so differentiate them well.”
At her words, the Damians nodded and tried to surround Kang Tae-min.
However, contrary to Seraphine’s expectations, he did not summon an alter ego.
‘I’ll take care of escorting the corps.’
In the first place, the reason he created the alter ego was to get the volunteers out of here safely.
There was also a way to evacuate to subspace.
“It’s enough alone to take care of you guys.”
He had other plans.
* * *
At the same time, Miss Backdoor’s pawn shop.
“Huh… tired.”
Unlike usual, she lay down on the sofa with a very haggard face.
Originally, her cats, who would have been indifferent without Chure, came over to treat her, as if they were worried about the very different butler.
“Yes, but the only ones who take care of the butler are the owners…” .”
She stroked the cats’ chins with a slightly pleased look. Mr. Rock looked at her quietly and then opened his mouth.
“Ekaterina, you’d better not take up any work for the time being.”
“yes? It’s a little hard on your body, but it’s not that serious, is it?”
“Rather than that, the request you requested this time was too much.”
The reason Miss Backdoor is tired.
It was because Kang Tae-min entrusted her with the preparation to deal with the apostles.
From the safe return route for the volunteers to preparing preparations for preparations, the sudden pile of work forced her to stay up all night without sleep.
“Because you’re a VIP, you should do that. It’s not like I didn’t pay for it.”
“That is the problem.”
“Is it a problem?”
“Unlike the previous ones, the funding flow for this commission is too large. If you don’t, you risk being tracked down.”
The amount Kang Tae-min spent for this preparation was staggering. Not only the compensation paid to her, but the price of the countermeasure itself was high.
Mr. Rock feared that this would become the cornerstone of his pursuit of her.
“Wow, no matter how tired I was, did I work so clumsily?”
“However… .”
“Well, even if there is a situation, there is inspiration, so don’t worry.”
At those words, Mr. Rock shut his lingering mouth. Instead, he let out a short sigh and added a word.
“I just hope it’s worth the risk.”
“I don’t know. Because I’m not going to use it. I have no idea how to use them.”
Miss Backdoor shrugged her shoulders and focused on rubbing the cat’s tight cheeks.
* * *
“Ouch… !”
In the fog, one Awoken fell down with a scream. Kang Tae-min did not stop there and replaced the mana with poison, rapidly decomposing the corpse.
Tentacles flew out of the fog with a hissing sound. Kang Tae-min immediately cut off the tentacle and grabbed it that was coughing up blood.
‘I wonder if this was also an illusion.’
However, the tentacles in his hands disappeared into the fog, and attacks immediately came from both sides.
But before another tentacle could reach the iron wall, it fell and cut them off.
‘This is real.’
Kang Tae-min judged by looking at the wriggling tentacles that had been cut off by the iron wall.
‘Ha Hyun’s ability is hypnosis, hallucinations, and fog, while Sang Hyun’s ability is the ability to regenerate and transform using a body made of blood.’
Through his workshops, he grasped the abilities of the two apostles.
Ha-hyeon and Seraphine confused Kang Tae-min with an illusion using fog when hypnosis did not work. Taking advantage of that gap, Sanghyeon and Damians attacked in a way that caught them off guard.
Of course, all of those attempts went back to nothing, and Kang Tae-min analyzed them and prioritized the remaining awakened ones.
‘Now there is no one left to become the host of the mask.’
As confirmed by the detection ability, all Awoken people in the area have been dealt with. One by one the conditions for his plan were being met.
“This is the first time a human has endured this long.”
Then Seraphine’s voice came from the fog.
“If Manwol had existed, he would have wanted to make him an apostle. I don’t think it would be bad to receive grace even now.”
Is it to hide the location? A faint laugh was heard from all directions.
‘full moon? If I were to make him an apostle, would he be in the position of a boss?’
For a moment, a memory flashed through his mind.
-Yes, I will give you a chance to receive the grace of God.
The scout who approached Yoo Hwa-rin, the owner of the voice he conveyed through the body of Darren.
‘It could be the full moon.’
The way he spoke was different from the apostles of lunatic money he had dealt with so far.
“It is to get off the yoke of the flesh and live for eternity. You’ll be loved by God under the pale moonlight. Look, now you can’t hurt us.”
Seraphine said in a laughing voice.
In fact, Damian’s body, cut off by Kang Tae-min, turned into red blood and returned to the fog. It must have been reabsorbed by its owner.
“Resisting is pointless. You better grab it when the opportunity comes.”
It seemed that he was trying to placate Kang Tae-min because the situation had become fixed. Maybe it was a trick.
However, it had nothing to do with Kang Tae-min.
“The immortals are all the same.”
After all, he had no intention of becoming a lunatic like them.
“You will meet the same ending as Vernon.”
“If it comes out like that.”
Seraphine let out a sneer.
The fog completely changed with him. The fog that had been thick like a gray wall slowly began to turn red.
‘Is it a hidden number?’
It was a fog made of blood. Kang Tae-min realized that the two apostles had combined each other’s abilities.
It was because the rolling fog had turned into a mass of wriggling tentacles.
Kang Tae-min responded immediately, but the severed tentacles re-established their form in the fog and entangled him.
Sparks flew with Kaga’s crackling sound. The teeth on the tentacles began to gnaw through the surface of the suit.
“Struggle until you die.”
Infinite Hell.
A terrible scene, like the image of hell that is said to be endlessly tormented.
However, Kang Tae-min had no intention of remaining silent. When he manifested his ability, a small dome-shaped iron wall surrounded him.
“You finally succumbed to fear.”
Seraphine laughed at Kang Tae-min. The tentacles immediately began to gnaw through the iron walls.
But that was because I didn’t know him.
“Do you know what fog and blood have in common?”
Kang Tae-min’s voice came humming from inside the dome. The answer came before Seraphine could even express her question.
“They’re both liquid.”
At first glance, fog looks like a gas, but it is actually a liquid. Accordingly, Kang Tae-min placed a special order for Miss Backdoor.
“It’s difficult to cut water with a knife, but.”
A subspace opened above the thick fog. Containers filled with blue solution fell like rain from a subspace wide open like a horizontal gate.
“Ice is easy to cut.”
Each of those containers was an expensive frozen coal that could easily exceed several million won. Kang Tae-min was not satisfied with that and bought all the expensive refrigerants like ‘Yeti’s Blood’ and ‘Frost Giant’s Heart’.
“What… .”
The fallen containers broke and rapidly cooled the surroundings. The bloody mist froze and fell to the floor.
If it seemed to break after falling, it froze again in the container that fell.
‘Thanks to Soyul, I figured it out.’
Damian’s mask could turn into blood, just like Seraphine’s. But at Veritas Labs, he was able to split the mask.
It was because Min So-yul threw ‘Yeti’s blood’ and fixed his body as a solid for an instant.
“It’s not that the Undead don’t die, it’s that they’ve never died.”
The countermeasure prepared by him was the cool-headed taste of capitalism.