Han Sang-cheol wore a complex expression upon seeing our appearance. He looked as if he had something he wanted to say.
“Have a safe trip. I feel sorry for the guards who will be beaten by you lot looking like that. I will just stay here and drink alcohol.”
After exchanging greetings with Han Sang-cheol, we jumped off the rooftop just as we were.
Three masked freaks were currently falling through the dark night sky toward the casino, facing the wind.
It was a startling scene that would make anyone who saw it wonder if there was drugs in the drink they were consuming.
“Follow me.”
Han Sang-ah muttered and sprinted through the empty casino interior at an incredibly high speed. All three of us, including myself, moved nimbly while making almost no sound.
We did not head toward the junket rooms. Han Sang-ah immediately swung her dagger toward the casino wall. A clean strike, showing nothing but a momentary flash, created a neat rectangular hole in the wall.
The hole was large enough for a person to enter. Behind that wall lay a hidden passage leading from the junket rooms to the security room.
“I am going down first.”
It was only natural for the strongest person to be deployed first into a dangerous location. I threw myself into the hole Han Sang-ah had opened.
The passage was quite wide. And I was currently falling.
“Ah.”
With a thud, my feet hit the floor. The metal floor became dented. Following behind me, Han Sang-ah and Jung Oh-hoon arrived in sequence.
“Straight. Left, left, right, and straight again.”
At Han Sang-ah’s words, we ran through the passage. Even if someone discovered this place, they had created a maze in their own way to confuse them, but it did not matter since Han Sang-ah had already confirmed the correct path through the GPS tracker.
“Good.”
3 minutes and 12 seconds. I discovered a thick hatch leading below. This was a sufficiently fast speed.
The hatch was locked. I gripped the handle of the hatch tightly with both hands and applied strength.
Along with a creaking sound, the shouting of someone beyond the hatch echoed out.
Soon, the entire door was torn away.
“The proud Rey Mysterio achieves one more feat.”
Ignoring the sound of Mommy Son's babbling from behind, I jumped down the hatch. After immediately dodging a blade flying toward me, I struck the elbow of the guy who swung the knife with my fist.
With a snapping sound, the opponent's arm bent in a direction it was not supposed to bend.
15 people.
The hotel security room was quite large, and inside were 15 hunters in addition to about 30 civilians. I took a handful of iron balls from my pocket and flicked them with my thumb.
The iron balls, flying with a piercing sound, bounced here and there in the air and struck the heads of the civilians. It was just enough force to knock them unconscious.
“You son of a bitch, do you know where you think this is!”
Why would I care. I grabbed the waist of the guy lunging at me, jumped straight up, and made his head and the ceiling kiss violently.
The guy who had lunged with great momentum seemed to find the kiss very pleasant, as he collapsed on the floor with the strength leaving his eyes.
“….”
Han Sang-ah and Jung Oh-hoon, who followed me in, dealt with the hunters without saying a word.
Han Sang-ah defended against attacks with a dagger in one hand while fighting mainly with kicks. Jung Oh-hoon fought using throwing knives. I beat them down with my bare hands.
Even though they were hunters, they were not incredibly strong, so it was possible to suppress them without difficulty even while fighting in a style completely different from our usual way.
Of course, the fighting of Han Sang-ah and Jung Oh-hoon had many shortcomings that were painful to watch from my perspective, but those guys would not notice anyway.
We succeeded in suppressing all of them. 12 minutes and 37 seconds had passed. Han Sang-ah tapped my shoulder and pointed to one wall.
That was the place. Good. I swung my fist grandly. A metallic clanging sound echoed, and the wall was dented.
I swung my fists at that wall repeatedly. Soon, the completely crushed door fell backward with a thud.
While I was smashing the wall, Han Sang-ah and Jung Oh-hoon smashed all the equipment within the security room.
“We should reach it if we keep going straight this way.”
We only opened our mouths after entering the following passage.
“Right. If we go a little further from here, the freight elevator will appear.”
“It will be too late if we take that.”
We had to go down more than 200m underground. I planned to just jump. My body was not weak enough to die from the impact of a fall anyway.
As soon as we arrived in front of the elevator, I thrust my hands into the gap of the door and applied strength to both sides, causing the door to crumple and fly open.
“Now, starting with the prepared guest.”
After saying that, I hopped down. They seemed to have succeeded in communicating the situation above to the smuggled goods warehouse somehow, as the emergency siren grew louder as the floor drew near.
Boom!
The elevator that caught my falling body crumpled like a tin can.
It was quite fancy for a warehouse. After entering the interior, I brushed the dust off my shoulders. At that moment, something moved with a whoosh and spat a mana bullet toward me.
I deflected the flying mana bullet with a swing of my fist and looked in that direction. A gun was floating in the air.
“What kind of bastard are you again?”
I took off my mask, took out the spear I had hidden inside my clothes, and extended it.
“Holy shit. Yoo Chan-seok?”
“What, I have not even introduced myself yet, so why are you acting like you know me.”
This was why I ran all the way here wearing a mask. Now, people recognized me the moment I showed my damn face.
“To take off your mask after coming all the way here, you are out of your mind.”
“It is fine because it does not matter.”
The guy laughed as if it were absurd after hearing the answer.
“I heard your name value is immense. But you see, there are guys in this world who value other things more than becoming famous, right?”
He said that and took a step closer. At that moment, all sorts of equipment in the warehouse floated up as if they were alive.
Let's see.
“It is not telekinesis.”
It was different from Sung Sihoon's ability, telekinesis. Each and every inanimate object that should have been lifeless was moving as if it were alive.
“Is it something like life bestowal?”
The sight of countless weapons and armors moving as if they were alive and lining up behind him was quite impressive. He was like a general.
“As soon as the siren rang, I finished the preparations immediately. Every piece of equipment in this warehouse moves alive and obeys my words.”
“It is just something like Night at the Museum at best. It is a bit meager to brag about.”
Still, he seemed to have skill.
I had hoped it would end somewhat cleanly. It could not be helped then.
“Han Sang-ah, conduct the surrounding investigation after making contact while I block him.”
“Okay.”
At my words, the guy who had all sorts of equipment on standby behind his back frowned.
“Contact?”
Han Sang-ah, Jung Oh-hoon, and I came to the hotel. But Lee Se-eun did not participate. To be precise, she just did not stay at the hotel.
“Hunter Lee Se-eun will come.”
“…Candy Lady? Why does that woman's name pop up all of a sudden.”
Lee Se-eun was also very interested in this matter. But there was a reason why she did not participate, was there not?
“She is watching our backs just in case. Your support forces will not come.”
Originally, the basic plan was to quietly take what was needed, smash everything, and go home.
But due to the nature of this matter, I could not use my abilities, and familiar weapons were prohibited.
Under these conditions, if an opponent appeared who was difficult to fight without the mask coming off, time would eventually be dragged out.
Then the guys dealing in smuggled goods would surely send additional forces. Someone had to block the support forces.
Hunter Lee Se-eun could sufficiently fulfill that role. No matter how long he waited, his reinforcements would not come.
“Do you even know who you people are messing with right now?”
“Oh, who are we messing with? Tell me in detail.”
There was a grandfather drinking alcohol up there right now, and he might really like it if he heard what you just said.
At my words, the guy immediately shut his mouth. Why are you silent, are you supposed to be Voldemort or something. You fool, why are you talking when you cannot even reveal it with your own mouth anyway.
“Quiet. A guy about to die anyway has a lot to say.”
“You are talking about yourself, right?”
The firearms, which seemed to be several hundred in number, aimed at me all at once. They were all equipment prepared for smuggling.
They might be weak when handled by civilians, but when they fell into the hands of a hunter, a certain level of performance was guaranteed.
Over several hundred pieces of equipment poured mana bullets toward me all at once. Among the attacks, there were those that would cause injury if not blocked, and those that were fine even if I just took them.
Amid the attacks drumming against my body, I moved my spear slightly to block a few of the attacks.
For a moment, over a thousand attacks poured down, but the attacks that had to be blocked were only dozens.
That guy also seemed to regret it now. He probably had not thought someone like me would come. He must have thought he could sufficiently win against hunters of an ordinary level if he utilized his ability.
That was why the guy did not erase the data or evidence. Because blowing all of that away would cause immense loss even to the guys leading the smuggling.
Swords and spears. Guns and bows. All kinds of weapons that could be thought of right now flew through the air as if they were alive and aimed for my life.
Taking advantage of that gap, he lunged at me and threw a kick, hitting my temple. As if waiting, an explosion occurred from the boots he was wearing. Explosive flames momentarily wrapped around my head and then subsided.
There was no injury at all. All those attacks were no different from a school of sardines lunging at a whale.
“Try everything you can.”
Because even if you mobilize everything, it will be far from enough.
“Do not talk bullshit. All the lifeless things in this world are on my side!”
“You sure talk grandly.”
It was a quite confident declaration. It was not a wrong statement. The ability itself looked very good.
All sorts of equipment rushed toward me like a swarm of bees. I swung my blackly burning spear grandly. Flames tangled with the smuggled goods and burned faintly.
The weapons hit by the Paradoxical Flame stopped dead in the air, flinched for a moment, and then fell to the floor, floundering.
“You are like a swarm of wasps caught in a flamethrower.”
The thoughts that inanimate objects forcibly bestowed with life could have were simple. Protect the master and follow instructions. Thoughts as simple as those could be blown away in an instant by the Paradoxical Flame I kindled.
A log takes a long time to burn, but burning dry twigs happens in an instant.
That guy simply wasted his mana.
“You said with your own mouth that my name value was quite high, right?”
With a sound like a bullet being fired, my body accelerated and shot toward him like a meteor.
“Keu… haaaagh!”
He seemed to have blocked the swung spear somehow, but his body, unable to withstand the impact, was sent flying and slammed into the wall.
“There is a reason why my name value is this high.”
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