Chapter 10 (1/2)
Collision (2)
got off the black vans parked on the vacant lot next to the road. The eyes of Secretary Kim, who saw their faces, turned fierce.
He immediately got ready for battle. When Secretary Kim subjected Mana on the ring he had been fiddling countless times today, the crude ring disappeared, and a sword made of an integrated blade and handle was held in his hand.
Secretary Kim thusly growled, wrapping the sword in Mana.
“People feed themselves by the swords must be aware of their surroundings to live long. You fellas are finished in that aspect.”
The men’s faces became more mischievous. The sense of death that had been boldly emanating pierced the air.
There were ten in total. I wondered how all of those big men managed to fit in that van. They slowly came out and surrounded Secretary Kim.
When there was no reply, Secretary Kim spoke again in a bitter manner.
“You didn’t even know the identity of the target when you took the job, right? You fellas would not have taken the job if you knew who you fellas were dealing with. Do you know who we are? We are part of the Celestial Dragon Guild.”
Secretary Kim brought out a Hunter certificate. The mark of the guild he belongs to shone clearly above the photo. A striking agitation appeared on the faces of the men who confirmed it.
As he said, they didn’t even seem to know who we were and took the job anyway.
Secretary Kim spoke, throwing his gaze at each of their weapons.
“Looking at your standards, you seem to do anything for a few big ones. Do you think you can mess with the Celestial Dragon Guild and have a good night’s sleep? Can’t you tell your situation just by looking at it?
The men exchanged glances with each other.
Confused emotions were visible in their faces. They took the job without knowing the details, and it was a target that couldn’t be messed with, now that they knew about our identities. Even if they succeeded in the mission, it was obvious that they would receive payback.
The status of the Celestial Dragon Guild in this era was that high.
Hesitation and anguish cast over their faces. Then, suddenly, the one who seemed to be the leader shouted as if to charge for battle.
“Damn, already too late to give up! Let it be the Celestial Dragon Guild or whatever; we will fix it after we’re done with them!”
Secretary Kim said in a low voice, threatening.
“You won’t be able to fix it.”
“Shut up!”
In the end, they chose the opposite option to that proposed by Secretary Kim.
Standing behind him, I compared the heart of Secretary Kim, precisely the Mana core’s vibration, and each of the men.
I could bet that they made the worst choice. The men ran into Secretary Kim with timing in unison without a signal to start an attack.
Secretary Kim lifted the sword. His weapon, which had no sheath and of the crude blade, amplified it from the moment he applied Mana and made violent vibrations.
He clicked his tongue and kicked.
Shh!
The next movement happened so fast that it was difficult to keep up with normal, physical eyes before the body awakened.
I couldn’t even follow his course. When he disappeared from my sight, Secretary Kim stood in front of the man with an ax.
The moment the man’s frozen facial expression turned into panic, Secretary Kim swung his sword.
Flash!
A blue line that sliced the space. At the same time, the sound of tearing air was heard, then the man fell to the floor, holding the ax in his hand.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
The man cried with his arm cut off. The screaming then stopped with an eerie crushing sound.
Whack!
A body with a decapitated head collapsed. Secretary Kim, who got rid of the blood from the blade, threw himself at the next opponent without even looking at the headless man.
The sound of the blade slicing through the wind continued over and over again. The sound of screaming, flesh cutting off, and breaking bones followed suit like background music. Blood splattered all over the place, and the severed limb rolled over. To the cruel music, Secretary Kim threw his body as if to dance on a bloody stage.
I knew it. No matter how he saw Seo Jin-wook as a tool or whatever, he was really good enough to be at the side of Seo Gyu-cheol, who had the potential.
“P-please… h-ahhhhhh!”
When one person was about to fall, another man screamed with his stomach split open. From all over the open wounds of their bodies, the men fell while bleeding out.
Clang! Clang Clang!
It was rare to hear the friction between weapon to weapon. Once the blade of Secretary Kim crossed the others’ weapons, the opponent had already fallen. It was hard to see a proper counterattack.
“Damn it! Rush to them! Rush more!”
The barely conscious survivors growled and wielded weapons at the same time. They blocked the attacks around them and ran. While secretary Kim dealt with two people simultaneously, another man raised his sword and jumped behind him.
But in the next moment…
Splash!
It was too fast to see how Secretary Kim counterattacked. I just saw three people sprinkling blood and falling apart at the same time.
In that manner, Secretary Kim was slaughtering opponents without using a skill once.
“!!!”
While the rest of the people were dying, the leader, who was hiding at the back while standing at the side of the vehicle, turned his gaze toward me.
His eyes flash mixed with despair and malice. He seemed to be convinced this was going to end in annihilation.
He once again checked Secretary Kim’s situation with his colleagues, then suddenly changed direction and began to rush to me.
It seemed that he was convinced that I was non-awakened, whether he have judged from the situation or the information had been given in advance.
In that situation, his purpose was obvious. He was trying to take me as a hostage.
Secretary Kim did not miss his movement. He turned around as if he was trying to block the guy’s movement towards me.
However, I wasn’t waiting dumbly to get attacked.
Wheeeng!
I relocated a small amount of activated Mana that I placed aside to imprint myself to the bracelet.
The potential Mana overflowed, but the amount that could be used now was not enough to implement an attack that would even be considered a skill. To compare, it was a Mana worth picking up a grain of sand from the beach.
However, even a grain of sand could kill a person depending on how one could control it.
I face the guy rushing. As if he was underestimating against a non-awakened, he hadn’t even cast basic defense skills.
A very small needle-hole the size of a ball of Mana flowed on my finger.
Plock!
I flicked my finger.
Whoosh!
The hunter running towards me stumbled. He stopped his steps. Before he could even understand the situation, his pupils loosened, knees loosened, and he fell in the opposite direction he ran towards.
The eyes of Secretary Kim, who saw it, widened. However, he immediately regained his focus and turned his head to continue his enemies’ ruthless slaughter.
After a while, only two people were left standing in the vacant lot next to the road, and that was Secretary Kim and me.
“Are you okay?”
He came to me and checked my condition. I noticed that his well-pressed suit didn’t splatter a drop of blood. After all, he was well experienced.
Just because you have a lot of Mana in your core doesn’t make you a strong hunter. There is a thing called a sense of combat and talent. Secretary Kim showed outstanding skills in that part.
“It’s okay. Thanks to Secretary Kim.”
“It was fortunate that the enemies were insignificant.”
They had rushed without any information on the target, and they did not have enough strength to consider Secretary Kim’s skills. The person who commissioned this job must be in a hurry. If the person had enough time, he or she would have carried on a proper killer.
To prove that they were insignificant, they did not even prepare firearms as they came to deal with non-awakened.
From the standpoint of a non-awakened, a low-level hunter with a gun is far scarier than a low-level hunter that uses skills. Although it is an era in which each bullet is cast with tracking magic to prevent the worst situation of having possessed firearms outside of the dungeon, it would not be impossible with enough effort to find one.
After confirming that I was okay, Secretary Kim immediately turned and saw the man’s state that ran towards me. I also went to see it.
The man, who had fallen back, was lifeless, facing air.
It must have touched a cerebral artery. He died right away.
“Hmm.”
Secretary Kim made a strange sound.
I was convinced that the man was dead. The moment I bounced off the Mana, I confirmed that the Mana core embedded in his heart flickered and disappeared.