Chapter 13 - The Phone Call (3) (1/2)

The Phone Call (3)

“Okay!”

Il-hyun, struck by the air, rolled on the floor again.

When he ran away, Ghost ignored all the obstacles on the wall and followed him.

Seok Pil-jun and Lee Soo-yeon were staring at him.

“But it’s never going to work.”

Il-hyun was dragged to his original position, and he wondered how it happened.

In the meantime, he had been caught by Ghost three times.

When Ghost disappeared, he couldn’t influence Il-hyun, and conversely, Il-hyun also couldn’t affect him.

If he wanted to attack or stop someone, he had to materialize.

Moreover, if it wasn’t during the moment that Ghost was materialized, he could not touch other people.

Of course, even if he knew his weakness, the situation did not change.

Il-hyun realized that he couldn’t escape from the situation if he continued to hide his ability.

If he was caught and passed over to the police, it would all be useless anyway.

Il-hyun made a sword.

“Isn’t that an ether sword?”

Lee Soo-yeon stared at the sight.

She didn’t know what the principle was, but Il-hyun pulled out a strange sword and assembled it.

“I think it’s past the stage to convince you.”

Seok Pil-jun pulled a sword and went forward.

Then Il-hyun looked around.

Of course, there was nobody there, and there was no trouble with visibility due to the wide control radius. However, the problem was that there were countless surveillance cameras in downtown Seoul.

“Are you hiding anything? When we are active, all CCTVs are turned off, so show your skills with confidence.”

Seok Pil-jun said in a blunt tone.

Il-hyun provocatively rolled his foot.

Around him, ten golems made of concrete appeared with the floor shaking.

The ground was dug by the volume of the golems, which were quite large.

It was a summons conjured by Il-hyun previously.

“What?”

“Monster?”

The awakened were taken aback by the sudden golem.

They have been active all over the world for many years but have never seen such a thing happen. It was the first time in their lives.

Meanwhile, Il-hyun had summoned a hawk and soared into the sky.

As soon as he tried to escape the building forest, Seok Pil-jun jumped several times using the air as his foothold and continued to chase him.

Seok Pil-jun, who had C-rank [Leap], split the hawk’s neck, and Il-hyun crashed onto the ground.

“Ugh! Damn it!”

Il-hyun hit the ground ungracefully and spat out a curse.

It was already his fifth time rolling on the floor today.

“What are you doing?”

Seok Pil-jun, who immediately followed, looked at him with a slightly surprised expression.

Il-hyun replied with a throbbing waist and extended his sword.

“You bastard!”

Ca-en!

Two swords hit each other with a sharp sound.

His opponent’s tremendous power had struck with just the first blow.

Seok Pil-jun gently shed the sword off of Il-hyun, who was stabbed at the chest right under his shoulder.

Seok Pil-jun tried to reach him again quickly.

But it couldn’t be done.

“What is this…!”

A vine with a deformed bottom came out and grabbed his ankle.

Seok Pil-jun lifted his foot and smashed the vine, then attacked again.

And the moment he tried to counterattack one side, Seok Pil-jun felt something strange at his feet and flew to the sky with his jump ability.

Thorns came up from the floor to where he was previously.

Seok Pil-jun did not know what the opponent’s ability was. However, he had reacted instinctively and continued the fight.

In the midst of Seok Pil-jun’s twisting blade, Il-hyun bounced back.

He barely avoided the sword, and he immediately settled down.

However, Seok Pil-jun has been attacking dynamically by using his ability to make a foothold in the air, and Il-hyun was in a hurry.

Paak!

Il-hyun was hit and flew back into the building.

“Ugh…”

As Il-hyun looked up, Lee Soo-yeon and Ghost were walking slowly towards him.

All the golems that were used to buy time had already been shattered.

Il-hyun was forced to admit the difference.

They weren’t opponents he could take on at his current level.

They weren’t even breaking a sweat.

They consistently dealt with him in a relaxed manner and were dominating him with ease.

It was just two weeks after his awakening; he was still a novice and couldn’t beat a member of an elite team.

When Il-hyun was about to give up, he discovered a body that appeared to be a B-ranked monster lying next to him.

He thought of collecting the core from the body of a monster that just died.

“That’s it!”

Il-hyun rushed to it and searched the body to take out the core inside it.

Lee Soo-yeon stared with a puzzled expression.

After all, the opponent had suddenly aimed for the ether of a B rank monster.

When Il-hyun tried to run away with the core, Lee Soo-yeon only watched him calmly because she believed that Il-hyun had no way of escaping the situation.

“Now, what do you want to do with the core?”

Seok Pil-jun asked.

“It’s all useful to me.”

Il-hyun replied briefly, holding the core in his right hand.

The core in his hand had a superior quality from the E-rank cores he’d absorbed so far.

He concentrated power and pressed his right hand as firmly as possible.

And, then, the core collapsed.

“What…? Nonsense! The core…”

The three awakened were astonished when they saw the ether core shattered in front of them.

Research teams couldn’t dismember the core even after adopting all kinds of methods. But now, the core was shattered by the grip of a single person.

The ether of the B-ranked core entered the body of Il-hyun, and momentarily the power flushed all over his body.

However, the force was not fully absorbed.

Rather than accepting it into his body, the power was left intact for immediate use.

“It might be possible now.”

Il-hyun envisioned what to do with this power.