85 – Collapsing Ice Castle (12)
Even for veteran seekers who have gone through all sorts of battles, it was a rare sight to see thousands of cockroaches swarming.
A frightened member of the Freezing Guild attacked from a distance, but the cockroaches could not be harmed with moderate power.
It was because of the King Roach’s Troop Reinforcement skill.
Strengthening means.
It was a skill that evolved ordinary cockroaches that signed a master-servant contract into creatures that were equivalent to monsters.
“Shouldn’t we retreat?”
“What? Don’t make a fuss about just bugs!”
“Then why is senpai at the very back?!”
The army of cockroaches did not stop their advance.
The members of the Freezing Guild continued to use magic to stop the cockroaches, but in vain.
When the magic fires.
The cockroaches moved forward as they shrewdly dispersed and evaded, repeatedly uniting and dispersing.
Only dozens of cockroaches died in the process.
From the naked eye, it didn’t seem to have shrunk at all.
“Why the f*ck doesn’t he die!?”
“Me, I can’t fight something like that!”
“All retreat!”
“Don’t give orders naturally!”
As the cockroaches approached, confusion and fear encroached on the Freezing Guild members.
It wasn’t just out of disgust.
Elder wheel and King wheel.
It was because of the debuff pheromones that flowed from these two objects.
“Damn it.”
The Freezing Guild executive bit his lip.
“Should I close my eyes and fight…?”
The debuff didn’t work on him.
It meant that the only person who could overcome this situation was himself.
But there was another problem.
The executive was a skilled person who could easily deflect debuffs from 3-star monsters, but he had a constitution that caused a fight even if an insect touched his body.
The executive frowned.
It was an attempt to blur the field of vision and recognize it as a creature other than a bug. Just looking at that disgusting creature made me vomit.
Of course, it was nothing but nonsense.
The closer the cockroaches get.
My mind became hazy and my head became as white as a blank sheet.
The executive, who had tears in his eyes as he watched the tangled cockroaches, finally made a decision.
“Operational retreat!”
The executive turned around and gave the order.
But the other guild members were already running away before the order was given.
“No, these f*cking bastards! Go with me!”
The executive tried to chase after the guild members, but it was too late.
At some point, the cockroaches approached and restrained the executive’s feet.
Sleep-!
Cockroaches climbing up the legs.
“Hee, hee!”
In an instant, the executive’s body was covered with cockroaches.
“Buy, save…”
The executive, who was floundering as if he had fallen into a swamp, soon became quiet without moving.
Cha Yura, who saw that, asked her king wheel.
“Suddenly it doesn’t move. Didn’t he kill you?”
─Syriric!
The king wheel rocked the antennae up and down.
It was an affirmation.
“Did you just faint?”
─Syriric!
After hearing the answer, Cha Yu-ra slowly moved her steps towards the place where the Freezing Guild executives were.
“Bar teacher. Can you let them come out for a while?”
─Syric!
I heard Cha Yoo-ra’s request.
As Mr. Bar gave the command, the little cockroaches parted like the Red Sea.
“·······.”
The image of an executive whose eyes were turned upside down and the whites of his eyes were glistening was revealed. He even had crab foam in his mouth.
Cha Yu-ra touched the body of an executive with her foot.
“Keep it off, uh…”
He wasn’t dead, seeing as he groaned.
Cha Yu-ra let out a sigh of relief and took out the restraint artifact and restrained the body of the executive.
“Just in case you don’t know, you should put about ten of them on your face.”
After squatting.
Cha Yoo-ra, who had placed cockroaches on the face of a fainting executive, stood up with a proud expression on her face.
“Let’s chase after the enemies who ran away.”
Cha Yoo-ra, lightly hanging her butt on the back of an elder wheel, pointed forward and said.
─Syriric!
─Syric!
The chase did not last long.
All members of the Freezing Guild were attacked by cockroaches one after another and reached paradise.
***
Cha Byeong-ho, the guild leader of the Freezing Guild.
Currently, he was on his one knee, coughing up blood.
“…Kuh.”
In the middle of a close battle with the Goguryeo guild.
An official from the Freezing Guild stuck a knife into Cha Byeong-ho’s back.
I did not stand still.
Cha Byeong-ho immediately launched a counterattack and mercilessly slashed the traitor’s neck.
Then I looked around him.
The sight of the deputy guild leader and direct officers of the Freezing Guild being suppressed came into view.
“What…”
It didn’t take long to figure out the situation.
Because more than half of the Freezing Guild executives naturally joined the Goguryeo Guild.
“As expected, no matter how much a seeker can fly and crawl, it seems that there is nothing he can do about a surprise attack in a defenseless state.”
The deputy guild leader of the Goguryeo guild, Ji Min-ho, sneered as he covered his mouth with a fan.
Cha Byeong-ho’s face was distorted.
The Goguryeo guilds don’t care.
His eyes were on the executives who betrayed him.
“…How dare you guys betray me?”
That’s what I said.
The feeling of betrayal wasn’t that great.
In the first place, I wasn’t the type to trust anyone.
Currently, Cha Byung-ho’s mind was filled only with the thought of revenge.
It was always like that.
Until now, humans who betrayed themselves were thoroughly trampled and destroyed.
A friend I’ve been with since childhood.
My wife, whom I once loved, was no exception.
Once you turn around.
Because they were thoroughly classified as enemies, not others.
It was the same this time.
I vowed to twist the necks of those traitors without fail.
The reason for the betrayal was fine.
I’ve already been betrayed countless times, and now I’m tired of thinking about the reason.
It must be a trivial reason anyway.
The ones who betrayed me until now didn’t have any grandiose reasons.
At that time, the betrayed executive spoke in a trembling voice.
“The guild leader treats us as guild members… No, have you ever thought of yourself as a human being? No, probably not. You probably didn’t think of it as just a handy tool. Who wants to keep following such a person?”
Then other executives began to open their mouths one by one.
“When my mother passed away, she forcibly sent me to work in time for her funeral. To be honest, I fell out of love with this guild at that time.”
“···Do you remember using me as a human shield in an unexplored special dungeon? My life, dedicated to people like you, is so miserable and desolate. I was thinking of getting rid of this kind of guild anyway.”
“When your father, who was very well-liked, served as the guild leader, there were no people who had this kind of dissatisfaction. Do you understand what I mean? Cha Byung-ho, you are not the right person to be a guild leader.”
“From ancient times, a leader is a position that should be held by someone who understands and cares for those below him. Stop coming down from a spot that doesn’t fit the fountain.”
“The Ice Guild was an ice castle that would collapse someday, even if we didn’t betray it. It was just a foreseen future from the time you took over the guild leader, put bullies into executive positions, and started doing illegal things.”
The executives constantly vomited out the words they had stored inside.
Despite continued criticism.
Cha Byeong-ho didn’t answer, just soaked up arsenic.
As expected, those guys didn’t have a great reason either. You were just scum who betrayed you for not being treated well. If I had any ambitions, I would have evaluated it differently. I was just thinking the same thing.
When the executives, who had spit out everything they had to say, were silent.
Cha Byung-ho slowly opened his mouth.
“The rats are noisy. Looking closely, it seems that there are many of them who have held executive positions since my father’s days… After all, the rotten branch should have been pruned quickly.”
With that said.
Byeongho Cha’s body began to freeze rapidly.
“Don’t forget that the traitor’s words are fixed. I will brutally kill you and all of your relatives, so look forward to it.”
And it melted away without a chance to hold onto it.
No one was surprised.
Although Cha Byung-ho didn’t reveal it to anyone, everyone vaguely noticed that he had participated in the war as an alter ego, not as himself, from the beginning.
“The rest can be left up to Yura to decide.”
Goguryeo guild leader Park A-ra said as she brushed off the dust on her hanbok.
The reason I was so relaxed was simple.
It was because I received a call an hour ago that Cha Byeong-ho’s recruit was secured.
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“I didn’t know they would even make an underground bunker to hide the body… It’s so amazing, that gentleman too.”
“Guild leader. But how did you find the location of the bunker?”
“I heard that Yura has a detective among her friends? I’m not sure exactly how they found it, but that detective friend seems to be quite good at digging behind people.”
“I see. Then we’ll clean up after ourselves.”
“Yes, good job. I must go to Yura right away.”
Park Ah-ra flew up through the sky on the wind.
The destination was an abandoned hospital where Cha Byung-ho was confined.
Cha Byeong-ho’s life-and-death rights were handed over to Cha Yura, but he had to take over Cha Byung-ho’s body in order to end the war, whether alive or dead.
***
Byung-ho Cha, who returned to his body, slowly opened his eyes.
I saw an unfamiliar yet pure white ceiling.
“Eup, Eup?!”
The mouth is gagged.
His entire body was restrained on the operating table.
At that moment, a pink-haired woman pushed his face over Cha Byeong-ho’s head.
“Oh. Are you up already? Yura-sama hasn’t come yet.”
“Eup…!?”
It was a woman that Cha Byeong-ho knew well.
It was Seo Han-bit, a friend of his daughter, Cha Yu-ra, who had declared his separation.
Seo Han-bit muttered to himself, not knowing what to do.
“Ugh. Kidnapping and confinement is a bad thing… Doing bad things to bad people is good in the end, so it’s okay, right? I should have rehearsed in preparation for an unexpected situation… I just have to think positively!”
“Ugh…?”
Byung-ho Cha’s maddened Seohan-colored face felt eerie.
What are all these crazy b*tches?
Rather than that, how did you find the replacement body and bring it back?
At that time, such questions were swirling in Cha Byung-ho’s head.
The door to the operating room opened with an old hinge creaking.
It was Cha Yoo-ra who showed up.
“Sorry. Aren’t you a little late?”
“Ah, welcome! But what is that thing you are holding in your hand?”
“This? It’s an artifact that Bobtong is developing, and I accidentally overheard him saying that he wants to test it on a human body to see if it works. I borrowed it for a while saying I would do an experiment for you.”
Cha Yoo-ra approached Cha Byeong-ho with a nonchalant expression.
“Haa… There are many things I want to ask you, but… I don’t think that would change anything. It must be true that I killed my mother anyway. So I just decided not to talk.”
“Aww…!”
“I’ve been thinking a lot… Even so, he was my real father, and I couldn’t possibly kill him.”
Cha Yoo-ra, who still has a cold expression on her face, lifted the artifact she was holding in her hand. And he added his words in a cold voice.
“By the way, there was an artifact that could make you pay for your crimes.”
“Eup…?”
“This is a job extractor. If you become a normal person, even if I keep you alive, you won’t be able to do anything stupid.”
“·······.”
“…And I don’t know if it works.”
Because you are the first test subject.
If you fail, it’s not murder, it’s just an accident.
After finishing her words, Cha Yura attached a square artifact to Cha Byeong-ho’s left chest.
The job extractor began to vibrate violently, pressing down on Cha Byeong-ho’s body.
“Aww!!!!”
A terrible scream rang out.
This is an abandoned hospital located in Cheorwon, an abandoned area.
There was no one who would come to rescue Cha Byeong-ho.
Moreover.
Cheorwon is currently a lawless zone.
The human body test was also not a problem.
Cha Yoo-ra closed her eyes tightly and held onto the antennae of her buttocks, waiting for Cha Byung-ho’s job to be extracted.