Episode 123: Deception and Domination (3)
“Target confirmed.”
“Currently unloading vehicle.”
Inside unoccupied houses, building emergency exits, rooftops, and even nearby areas.
They were already seated and waiting for the target.
“Entering the building.”
The target they are trying to catch is Kim Chang-hyun. In and of himself, he is just an ordinary young man. He was not a particularly talented person, nor was he a researcher with knowledge of important technologies or a government official in charge of important positions.
However, he had one title that people like them couldn’t help but keep an eye on: he was Lee Ji-yeon’s close associate.
He wasn’t even just a close associate. It was confirmed that the relationship between the two people, who already seemed particularly close to be considered a normal relationship between an awakened person and a person in charge, was a little deeper as rumored, as Changhyun visited her home alone today and spent time together.
“Capturing them alive and unharmed is the priority.”
“Sounds obvious.”
As soon as their superiors and home country heard this news, they made a bold decision. A rather extreme and indiscriminate plan to immediately attack and subdue Changhyeon and use him as a hostage to summon Lee Jiyeon.
It had to be like this. With the situation around the world already taking a turn for the worse, they have no time left to choose between means and methods.
We needed a way to deal with the continuously accumulating dungeon cores coming out of our home country’s large landmass without diplomatic or financial problems, and that’s why we chose this extreme method.
“Keep your head straight. “If we make a mistake, war could easily break out.”
This is not the war of nerves between the intelligence agencies of each country that has been tacitly condoned and waged for so long.
It is literally a crime and terrorism against civilians. This is something that no country can tolerate. Once you have done it once, you must never fail for the sake of everyone else.
“Suppressed in one blow. Everyone, prepare your weapons.”
“Currently passing the second floor of the target.”
Those waiting inside the house with the task of catching him raised their tension and raised the Taser gun and actual pistol in their hands.
They know Changhyeon as an ordinary person. An ordinary person who can be easily subdued just by scaring them with a gun. So I didn’t think about it any more and just waited for Changhyun to open the door and come into the house.
“······.”
And finally, less than a minute later, the door lock opened and Changhyun came inside.
***
[I sense many presences. [In every corner of the bathroom, small room, large room, kitchen, and living room.]
Changhyun closed the door and stood at the shoe rack, looking at the dark house. At first glance, it looks no different from the moment you left home. However, Lucy’s warnings continued to flow through the wireless earphones he was wearing.
[You can act. Defense ready.]
Lucy reported to him that they had already figured out their ambush and had completed all preparations for defense and attack in that direction.
After hearing that, he took off his outer clothes and walked slowly towards the middle of the living room.
“Stop, if you move, I’ll shoot. Kim Chang-hyun, talk to us.”
And at that moment, everyone who had ambushed him jumped out and pointed their guns at him. This is definitely a situation where an ordinary person would either be shocked or become scared and freeze.
“Who are you?”
However, he just quietly raised his hand and quietly asked about their identities. Thanks to this, the ones who were embarrassed were the gunmen who tried to attack Changhyeon.
Even though he was calm, he was too calm. As if I knew it, or rather, as if I knew it and could deal with it.
“We are from North Korea. I just want to meet Lee Ji-yeon, so please follow me quietly. Then you won’t get hurt.”
[It’s a lie.]
Their leader requested their cooperation with a prepared response. However, due to Changhyun’s unexpected and calm response to this imminent situation, the lie that he had not been able to control before was immediately caught by Lucy.
“What do you mean it’s a lie? Are you from North Korea? You want to meet Jiyeon? Or that it won’t hurt?
“What are you talking about now… Damn it!”
“You just have to find out for yourself.”
“Shoot!!”
The moment he smiled and muttered bitterly, he moved his body. They freaked out and fired their Taser guns. However, Lucy moved the Nano/Omega faster than they could use their reflexes to pull the trigger with their finger.
“Ugh!?”
“aaah!”
His body, or more precisely the clothes he was wearing, shook for a moment and randomly deformed. The needles of the Taser gun fired were all blocked by the hardened parts, and the black tentacles fired in return penetrated their vital parts at once.
“You son of a b*tch!”
“what? Is it Chinese? “It’s North Korea.”
At the sight of their colleagues falling down with blood spraying in an instant, one of them was so enraged that he couldn’t suppress his emotions and rushed towards them swearing.
Changhyun, who understood the language, widened his eyes when he saw the dagger the opponent had drawn flashing and the tentacle he had fired instantly split into pieces.
[Sudden magical response. He is an awakened person. I think I’ve been hiding my power as much as possible until now.]
“Now that I think about it, the U.S. Intelligence Service had a magic detector.”
The opponent unleashed a force so well disguised that not even Lucy could catch him, and rushed towards Changhyun, who clicked his tongue.
“No way…”
However, the Nano/Omega that was already covering Changhyun’s entire body revealed its true identity. A black leather-like substance slowly covering his body.
“code······.”
“There’s more out there.”
He was too embarrassed to react and was unable to utter his last words before being cleanly decapitated by the large sword that Changhyun swung with his modified arm.
However, even as Changhyun eliminated everyone who attacked inside the house, he hid himself without releasing Nano and Omega.
[Please send some of them here. At the first meeting, I failed to activate the transmission spell in time while trying to obtain information, but now there is no problem.]
“I will.”
Meanwhile, Lucy asked him to send some of the raiders to her location. Because I can’t leave alone those who dared attack him.
He was confident that the cruel torture methods he had developed would make him divulge everything he knew.
“Alpha, alpha. “Answer me, Dae······.”
“What is this…”
In fact, when he, who was hiding, started to sneak up on them and start blowing them away with Lucy’s transmission magic one by one, they were extremely embarrassed and could not respond properly.
The fact that Changhyeon had the ability to respond to their attack was the reason why the plan went wrong in the first place.
[Power cleaning complete. What do you plan to do now?]
“Well, you should listen to the whole story and then decide.”
Soon, all of those who had been put into this operation were eaten up. Their superiors will be anxiously awaiting news, but those who are no longer of this world can never return here again.
[In that case, we will immediately interrogate them and obtain data.]
By the time they returned home and transferred the corpses, Lucy was already greeting them.
***
“Huh, huh!”
“These are monsters!”
For those who had no information, a sudden dimensional shift, especially the fact that the place so far away was a nest occupied by the Demon King’s army, was like a disaster.
The countless demon lords who appeared before them, unable to wield even a measly weapon, oppressed them with their mere presence, and some of them froze with their mouths wide open at the sight of a giant ship-like flying bell crossing the sky above their heads.
“You chose extremely inefficient methods to throw away your life. “You bastards.”
And the fact that Lucy was truly angry was also proof that this place was turning into hell for them.
With a single wave of Lucy’s hand, the Demon King’s army rushed towards them and suppressed them at a level that was embarrassing to even call a battle.
“All of them have been captured alive and are being interrogated.”
“Tell me right away. “I won’t sleep and wait.”
“It won’t take long.”
Afterwards, Lucy overpowered them at once, dragged them to the nest, and tortured them using any means necessary to extract all information. It was Lucy’s torture that caused even the elf hero, who lived for over 100 years, underwent intensive training and combat, and experienced countless experiences, to collapse.
No matter how harshly trained the special forces were, they were subjected to terrible torture that ripped out each of their brain cells and forcibly manipulated their nervous system. In less than five minutes, their minds collapsed and they began to spit out all the secrets they had to keep secret.
“The purpose itself is simple. Dungeon Core. It’s definitely a problem. “There are still only two ways to handle it.”
He did not react much when he heard the information extracted from those who were miserably begging for their lives. Dungeon cores weren’t that important to Lucy, who was now so big, and to him who had other things to worry about.
However, sometimes there are people who risk their lives for something that is nothing, and the enemies who attempted to attack him this time were such people.
“I will definitely go there and punish those bastards.”
“no. “This is not that kind of problem.”
Lucy declared that she would send agents against him and wipe them off the map of Earth for trying to harm them. But he smiled bitterly and shook his head.
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“They are also fighting fiercely against invasive species. All who were once at war with each other are now in a temporary truce and confronting a common enemy. “It would be crazy to fight among ourselves in these circumstances.”
“But they did that crazy thing.”
“I guess that means we are in a crisis. After all, sometimes you need a carrot. “Only hitting the whip can have a negative effect.”
What he truly wants is peace like the past, so he looked elsewhere for the essence of this incident.
“Is there anything that can be a carrot? “What can we do to help the people of Earth become a little stronger and find some peace of mind?”
He racked his brain for clues. I mobilized all the knowledge I had picked up and glimpsed while watching Lucy so far.
“······Shall we sell magic?”
The thing that immediately crossed his mind was the devil’s style magic independently developed by Lucy. Considering that the root of it was a program written by artificial intelligence, it was possible that Lucy’s magic code could be transplanted to a terminal existing on Earth.
“I don’t know if they will be able to use it properly.”
“It must be difficult. Because no artificial intelligence in this world can keep up with you now. “I just hope and that’s enough.”
“I think it would be quicker if I went over and swept it up myself.”
Lucy didn’t seem to like the fact that he didn’t put her first, but considering that he could only move on in an incomplete state, his thoughts were not unreasonable.
“Let’s settle this matter first.”
However, it is not something that will start right away anyway. Changhyun, who passed this huge incident off as a midnight incident, contacted Jiyeon Lee as soon as daybreak and asked her to meet him.
Anyway, someone has to know what happened. I thought that if Baek Seung-cheol, the president of the association who was connected to Lee Ji-yeon, spoke well to the National Intelligence Service, things could be resolved.