Chapter 50 (2/2)

“If you win, I will give it to you.”

“…No, thanks. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen,” Kang Seung-Cheol said.

“Win him? To this monster in front of me? Absurd!” he thought.

It was a short battle, but he knew something for sure.

Kang Seung-Cheol was the only A-ranked awakener in his team. The other nine awakeners were all B-ranked. It was enough military strength to attack a yellow dungeon. They cooperated and pushed Su-hyeun as if they were one body. But Su-hyeun was not killing anybody. He even didn’t fight back properly. Su-hyeun could enter the highest rank among the A-rank awakeners.

“If we want to catch him… We would have to bring at least twice as many people as we have now. No, that might be not enough either.”

Crack—

Kang Seung-Cheol stepped back from Su-hyeun and looked around. He had heard there would be additional personnel, and it looked like the director worked quickly. Other people already arrived.

“…That is a lot.”

They were awakeners of the civilian guilds who were not put into the dungeon attack. The manpower requested by the director was them. The awakeners from several upper guilds ranged from C-rank to B-rank to A-rank awakeners. The number of awakeners gathered there was close to a hundred units. There were many people, it was enough to attack even a green dungeon. Su-hyeun also knew their existence. He did not feel much embarrassed because he thought that there would be such a large number of people in the first place. However, he could see a familiar mark among them.

“…Ares Guild?” he thought.

He knew some guilds already. But Ares Guild was not supposed to be here. Su-hyeun looked around slowly. His gaze moved to the one side. At that moment, his eyes met with Hak-Joon.

“Why is he here?”

Their joining was certainly not on a schedule.

It was not particularly awkward, but he could not just accept the fact that the future had changed.

“It is 9:30.”

Su-hyeun checked the time with a watch on his wrist. The time had passed pretty much. The stamina went away about that much, but fortunately, his magic was still enough. Additional reinforcements were not necessarily bad news. Even if it would be difficult right now, it would make things easier later.

“So, what are you going to do now?” Kang Seung-Cheol faced Su-hyeun and laughed at him. “Now, will you fight?”

“I think you have been mistaken for a while…” Su-hyeun frowned, but his maks hid it, and he looked at Kang Seung-Cheol. “If I do, you are going to die.”

Shiver—

Kang Seung-Cheol raised his sword reflexively, as soon as he met Su-hyeun’s eyes through the mask. He felt like his neck would be beheaded.

“What, what the hell…”

The concentration of magic he felt at the instance was not something of A-Rank. So far, he had thought Su-hyeun was just out of the common among A-Rank awakeners that he just had excellence in the skill composition and proficiency…

“No way… Is he possibly… S-Rank?”

He thought that would be nonsense. He was only sophomore awakener. Being A-Rank would be far beyond common sense. He thought there would be no way Su-hyeun was S-Rank. Few people in the world ranked as S. In Korea, right at the moment, there were only five S-Rank. One of them was a mercenary and three were guild masters. One awakener belonged to the country, and he was like a leader in his team. As an individual, S-Rank was known as they had equal power of a large guild. That was the power of the S-rank awakeners. Su-hyeun’s gaze turned to the newly showed up awakeners of Ares Guild. And his eyes met Hak-Joon’s eyes.

“Now, 30 minutes left…” Su-hyeun thought.

When he looked up, there was full of clouds in the sky. The clouds gradually turned purple. It was close to the phenomenon, but at this moment no one cared about it. There were close to 130 people gathered.

“Now, I will have some fun,” Su-hyeun grinned as he was thinking.

Rumble, rumble—

Swish, boom, boom—

Numerous sword and spear flew to Su-hyeun. He struck them with his sword or grabbed them. He tried to save his Flame skill. He decided to save his magic rather than his health.

One-too-many fights always gave him a similar feeling. He felt like he fought with a monster of 100 heads and 200 arms. Moreover, he could not even fight back with a fatal attack. Su-hyeun’s eyes cooled down quickly. Other awakeners who were dealing with Su-hyeun felt the same way. It had been thirty minutes since they fought one vs. many. Because of the battle, the buildings around them were smashed and shattered.

“Don’t you think this is strange?” Hak-Joon got closer to Kim do-ui and asked.

“What do you mean?” Kim do-ui asked back.

“I mean this fight. No one actually tries to kill the other side.”

“That is because that man does not have a murderous spirit.”

“You mean, they lost their will to fight each other?”

“You are doing the same, aren’t you? Why do you ask me? I think we never met before,” Kim do-ui said.

“Because you’re just sitting back and watching from afar. You must have been ordered to catch Kim Su-hyeun from the agency, right?” Hak-Joon asked.

“Well, yes. If my thinking was wrong, I will just receive disciplinary measures. That’s all.”

“Thinking?”

“I was not sure but…”

Rumble—

Kim do-ui raised his head and looked up. There were dark clouds over the sky. The cloud continued to change its color, but now it had changed its color to green.

“I guess… It will really happen.”

“Yes?”

“Look carefully—” Kim do-ui opened his mouth.

Even if he did not say that, people started to notice a strange thing. Hak-Joon, who was standing next to Kim do-ui, looked up the sky as well.

“—the thing will happen here from now on.”