34 Episode 34 - Messiah, Part III (2/2)

They felt that a colleague, a superior, was dying behind them.

”Wasn't it Messiah's way to cut off the head after killing an enemy or a traitor?” Kim Tae-hoon asked them again.

There was no answer, there was no question.

”Then the remaining nine of you are my hunting dogs now.”

The situation was settled.

8.

[The Sword of the Imperator]

- Relic Grade: Grade 2

- Relic Value: Special

- Relic Effect: It grows with the blood of killed monsters. The owner of the Sword is unknown yet.

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[Flame Liquor Gourd Bottle]

- Relic Grade: Grade 5

- Relic Value: Rare

- Relic Effect: It changes Mana into flame liquor; if the owner breathes in the flame liquor and blows it out, the flame comes out. The more liquor the owner makes, the stronger the power of the fire is.]

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Kim Tae-hoon, checked the stats of the relic through his smartphone, and immediately looked at the Sword of the Imperator in his hand.

He didn't know who it belonged to.

However, it didn't matter to Kim Tae-hoon. He did not care about historical records, and he didn't have any knowledge about it.

'It's like the Sword I saw in my dream, only the sheath is different.'

The important thing was that the Sword was different in color, but the shape was the same as the Sword in his dream.

That dream, of course, was the dream of the Golden Glass of Napoleon.

In that dream, Kim Tae-hoon took out various weapons to fight against the dragon.

One of them was similar to what Kim Tae-hoon saw now.

The sheath of the Sword right now was red, and the sheath of the sword he saw in his dream was blue, but the feel of the Sword was the same as the one he saw in his dream.

If it was the Sword that he saw in his dream, it was an amazing achievement. He had a powerful weapon to use against the dragon.

But Kim Tae-hoon could not be happy with the fact. No one knew whether this was the same one or not.

What Kim Tae-hoon saw was only a fragmentary result, and he did not know the process.

And even if there was another process, there was no guarantee that the results would be different.

Lee Jin-sung had given him some meaningful information before he died. He might just have been trying to buy time, but the information he had given out was valuable and strange.

'He said Bucheon is lucky, and the surroundings had become a powerful monster's territory.'

He said that Incheon City, Gimpo City, and Siheung City, which surrounded Bucheon City, were the lands that monsters now owned.

He also said that as powerful monsters settled down and claimed their territory, Bucheon, where the areas overlapped, was rather peaceful.

'It's possible.'

The truth was unknown, but the possibility was sufficient.

Monsters did not just destroy thoughtlessly. It was their survival instincts that moved them.

It's just that in order for monsters to survive; they had no choice but to eat humans and destroy their cities.

'It's the worst.'

However, if Lee Jin-sung was right, the situation was likely beyond Kim Tae-hoon's imagination.

'A million dead.'

The death toll might exceed ten million units, with over one million dead in Seoul alone!

'No, if something unexpected happened in winter, it could be close to ten million dead.''

The current season was winter, a harsh season for mankind to endure without the technology of civilization.

'China must be worse. The casualties would be hundreds of millions.'

Even so, such damage had occurred in South Korea, and it might not be possible to estimate the number of victims in areas where the population exceeded one billion, such as China and India.

At this moment, even Kim Tae-hoon felt skeptical.

It was skepticism about a reality more miserable than he thought, and skepticism about the fact that the human race that had survived in such a miserable reality would be struggling with each other for their own benefit, and would be supposed to just go extinct.

One of Messiah's Awakeners approached Kim Tae-hoon and spoke to him in a frightened voice. ”Sir, as you've ordered, we've put them all together. We've brought all the general survivors, too.”

Kim Tae-hoon rose from his seat at the man's words.

The glitter in his skeptical eyes went cold.

It was good to hope for the future.

No, you have to hope for a better future. It was important from now on to hope for a better future.

Messiah was not yet in Kim Tae-hoon's grasp. Furthermore, the remaining parties would not welcome him.

The survivors were also the same: not everyone who survived was treated as a sacrifice; those who were treated as sacrifices, and those who watched and managed them, would be different in their calculations.

Of course, if he left them alone, they would act for themselves.

Therefore, he had to make them fear so that they could not think of anything else. In this situation, clumsy love and care were meaningless and useless, and Kim Tae-hoon did not know what love and care were. He didn't want to know.

At the same time, he needed to show them hope, what line they must hold to survive, what must be valued as much as their lives by those who survived in the land of Bucheon at this moment.

Lee Jin-sung, the former leader of the Messiah, knew that well.

His actions were obviously not human, but now the world was no longer a world where human beings were common.

'Messiah has made things easier.'

In addition, Kim Tae-hoon knew that fact much better than Lee Jin-sung.

He was not a monster, but he had fought in a world where humanity was ignored enough to compare with monsters.

And he survived in such a world.

9.

”It feels like an eel in the stomach is woven like mayonnaise. Try it that way.”

At Bang Hyun-wook's words, three people, including Kim Soo-ji, began to focus and squeeze the Energy out of their guts.

”It feels like you're squeezing it out and sending it to your fingertips and tiptoes. Go on! How's it going? It's easy, isn't it?”

In the middle of the training, under the guidance of Bang Hyun-wook, the Awakeners were training to deal with Energy, In the corner, Ahn Sun-mi was holding the Cup of Therapy with her eyes closed.

The empty Cup of Therapy began to fill up gradually. Jang Sung-hoon spoke when the Cup was filled to overflowing.

”Okay, that's it! Sister, it is all full.”

Ahn Sun-mi opened her eyes and put it in a thermos bottle that had been prepared for the Water of Therapy from the Cup.

”You're suffering.”

”Yes, I'm the only one who's suffering.”

”I'd like to suffer, but unfortunately you're the only one who can use the Mana on our side. Can I sing for you?”

At the words of Jang Sung-hoon, Ahn Sun-mi closed her eyes instead of answering, and again focused on injecting Mana into the Cup of Therapy.

It was preparation.

Among the Awakeners, those who were able to use Energy trained to handle it more skillfully, and in the case of Ahn Sun-mi, she wanted to secure as much Water of Therapy as possible when she had time to relax.

No one gave up on hard work, because it was a matter of life or death.

”Lieutenant!” Someone came in. He was a soldier. A soldier guarding outside was still covered with snow on his shoulder and head.

The training stopped.

”The Major sent a man.” Everyone looked nervous at his words.

”This is a letter from the Major.” The envelope was delivered to Kim Soo-ji.

Kim Soo-j took out the letter, quickly skimmed its contents, and spoke to everyone around.

”Does anyone have any experience working in a sushi restaurant or filleting raw fish?”

”Yes?” Everyone looked a little strange.

”Did he get a tuna? Why does he suddenly need a filleter?” Jang Sung-hoon asked the question as if he represented everyone.

At his question, Kim Soo-ji said with a steely expression, ”From now on, the Mac Clan is ready to hunt the devil with yellow eyes!”