70 Episode 70 - Toward Buyeo, Part II (2/2)
”Her blemish is that the way she puts her brain to work is visible.” It was evident from the way she cooperated with him and sometimes looked at the surrounding environment and what would be an indicator when she planned for the future.
Of course, he had already noticed that she was ready to run if she got a chance at any time, although she was now adhering to it.
'Much better than a stupid doll.' It was better for Kim Tae-hoon. There was no perfect manual for the war against monsters. There was no precedent. In moments, subjective judgments determined life and death.
When he thought about it, he opened his eyes. Then he saw a sign on the road showing that there was not much distance left to Suwon.
'Suwon.' Currently, Suwon City had three yellow-grade monsters and a green-grade monster. There was no worry about the monsters. Now, for him, yellow-grade monsters were no longer an opponent, and green-grade monsters could be dealt with according to the situation.
The problem was beyond that.
'If we move quickly to Sejong City, we will arrive in three days.'
They would move along the Gyeongbu Expressway to reach Cheonan City and then would move along the Nonsan Cheonan Expressway. Then, they would naturally pass through Sejong City.
'Blue-grade.'
There was a blue-grade monster that had never been encountered before, and it had settled there.
It was something he was worried about.
Taang! At this moment, the gunshot that sounded was nothing for him to worry.
”Hey, did you hear the shot?”
”I don't think you've never heard a shot before.”
”This is Korea!”
He replied briefly to her question, but she had only heard the situation of the world and had not seen it with her own eyes yet.
”The world we live in has changed, in Korea or anywhere, and the world is better off with shots than with the monsters.”
With those words, he got up from where he was sitting and began to rise in the air.
”Er? Huh? Uh!” Her eyes began to grow wide.
6.
Taang!
A man fell to the ground with the shot. Blood began to spread over the asphalt road. It was a sight to squeeze out a scream. But no one screamed.
”Rob, rob him!” The people who fired the shots rushed over to the dead body, and they began to scour the corpse greedily. They undressed the corpse and began to search the bag the corpse carried.
”God damn it, there's nothing!”
”What about the bag? Anything to eat?”
”There's nothing to eat, but it's so heavy. Did he put stones in it?”
”Oh, son of a bitch. He gives us this much trouble even though he has nothing.”
Taang! At that moment the revolver shot at the dead body, and the other man was surprised by the sound. He shouted at the gunman. ”What the hell are you doing?”
”I'm angry!”
”Save the bullet!”
It was a terrible sight. It was a scene where human life and dignity were not even worth a single bullet and human values became worthless.
It was the man who appeared in the sky that put an end to the scene.
As soon as he appeared, he looked down at his feet, at three men who were working over a dead body like hyenas.
'He's still alive.' It wasn't a dead body, exactly. With two shots, he was bleeding, but he was still breathing. The heartbeat and breathing sound were weak, but Kim Tae-hoon clearly heard them. However, he did not intend to go out to save the man.
”Uh! What is this?”
”What is it?”
”It's a stone, it's like a piece.”
Until he saw it, he did not intend to go out to save the man.
”A statue?”
”No, it's not a statue, it's a sword. That's weird, I'm sure I've seen this somewhere…”
”Yes, I'm sure I've seen this before.”
A stone sword.
'The Gandol Sword?' Kim landed on the ground when he saw the Gandol Sword, one of the representative relics of the Bronze Age.
Thump!
His body landed on the roof of a car on the road. The roof of the car was crushed like a can of soda.
”Uhhh!” His sudden appearance shocked the three, and he extended his right hand, looking at them with black Eyes.
Took! A revolver flew back into his hand.
Three shots fired immediately penetrated three men, two in the middle of the forehead, one in the thigh.
”Aaaaaargh!” Of course, there was only one scream.
Kim walked through the scream filling the highway. He reached out his hand again and recovered the Gandol Sword on the ground with his Telekinesis before looking at it.
==[Gandol Sword]
- Relic Grade: Grade 3
- Relic Value: Rare
- Relic Effect: The injection of Energy produces a sharp blade. The cutting power of the blade depends on the Energy rank.]==
'According to what Jang said, the Gandol Sword should be at the Buyeo National Museum.'
A question passed through his mind. However, he did not dwell on the question. The only way to solve the question was not his thinking, but the man who was nearly shot to death in front of him. Kim approached the man and sat him down.
The focus in his eyes was disappearing, and Kim spoke to the man who was leaking blood from the hole near his belly button where he had been shot.
”What happened to Buyeo?” He asked a question that could not be answered. But when Kim asked the question, the man gave an answer after throwing up a bloody cough.
”Save my daughter and my wife… Buyeo… Gilt-bronze Incense Burner in Buyeo…
the Incense Burner to make monsters… watch out for the Messiah…”
The man, who used all his energy to speak those words, died with his eyes wide open. Kim closed his eyes. Then Kim turned his back and approached the screaming man who was clutching at his bloody leg.
”Aaaaaargh! Aaaaaaargh!”
Kim said to the man in a low voice, ”Let's start talking.”