02. A visitor from the future (17)

A shadow runs through the streets at night.

Every time I take a step, the scenery around me quickly passes by.

The speed was swift and stealthy, so even though it was running at full speed, not a single footprint was left on the ground, and the sound was as calm as the wind brushing through the leaves.

It was natural considering the identity of the shadow.

He is the first shadow Tita.

The leader of the black shadows, he was the best assassin in the kingdom.

The shadow continued to scan the surroundings as it ran through the city at night.

I wasn’t interested in small pikes. Because he had only one goal.

「Huh, huh… !!」

Where is the king?

Where is the true enemy of the kingdom that sowed the plague on the kingdom!

In order to save the people suffering from the plague, the king had to die.

That’s why he, the greatest assassin, has come out to kill the king while his loyal shadows fight against the king’s soldiers to pass the time.

King! King!

Our King! Where are you!

Where are you, even when your dying people mournfully call you, do you not appear!

If you won’t show up until the end, I’d rather kill you with my own hands.

I will use my blade to show you that the king abandoned the people first, so the people can also abandon the king!

But Tita, the first shadow, did not know.

He knew that he too had gone mad from the plague.

That their kingdom, Eldoras, was destroyed long ago.

The shadow lost his language function, salivated at the corners of his mouth, and searched for his true goal with red eyes that lost reason.

In reality, he had no idea how to find the king, he was just running around the city looking insane.

At that moment, his keen senses sensed the reverberation of his magic not far away.

Is the king!

Were you there, little king!!

「Heuuu!!」

Tita, the first shadow, ran out, holding up her dual daggers, which were stained with the blood of numerous nobles.

Without knowing that it was the massacre of innocents that he despised so much during his lifetime.

–

Byung-Jun Lee sat down on a chair in the library and relieved his stiff neck.

“Ugh….”

His shoulders and arms were shaking from carrying his books all day. No matter how awakened he was, such physical labor was not suitable for an awakened magician like himself.

“Good work, Byungjun.”

A beautiful woman with a graceful impression handed Lee Byeong-jun a can of coffee.

“Was it hard today? It must have been more difficult for one person to make a puncture without permission.”

“Uh, ah, no! It’s okay, it’s okay….”

Lee Byung-jun awkwardly stuttered his words and took the can of coffee with both hands.

She is a librarian by the name of Sujin Kim, and she became close with Byeongjun Lee while doing volunteer work today.

To be close, the librarian noona only talked to him in a friendly way, and Lee Byung-jun, who was awkward dealing with the opposite sex, just did his job mechanically.

Lee Byung-Jun helped Soo-Jin Kim today with the task of classifying old and new books.

As the principle of volunteer work is two people in one group, there should have been another academy student besides Lee Byung-jun, but since that student was absent without permission, the work doubled and Lee Byung-jun had to stay in the library until late.

‘Did I just say I was coming….’

Although he felt a bit regretful to think that because he changed dates with Kim Yi-jin, he doubled his work.

Lee Byung-jun decided not to think that way.

Because of his timid nature and personal complex, he had no friends at the academy. However, he told himself that Kim Yi-jin was a friend without hesitation.

Even if it was a trivial thing for Kim Yi-jin, it was not so for Lee Byung-jun.

That’s why I was able to readily extend my hand to my friend’s troubled appearance.

My older sister paid a lot of attention to me as if I was a young student who had to do volunteer work by myself.

Lee Byung-jun sipped a can of coffee and decided to moderately agree. He said it wasn’t a bad day anyway.

“Is it already this time? The car must have been cut off, but my sister will take you there.”

Sujin Kim took her bag and held up her car key. Lee Byung-jun was embarrassed and quickly shook his head.

“Oh no! That house is around here, so it doesn’t matter if you just walk-“

That moment.

Beep! An emergency alarm sounded simultaneously on both of their smartphones.

Lee Byung-jun checked the disaster notification on his smartphone, wondering what was going on.

“A Class B gate occurs within a 5km radius… uh There’s a curfew. Hey, don’t come out of the building?”

“What?! Really? Why now? Oh, I have to go to work, but I’m in trouble….”

When a gate occurs, a passer-by may be hit by a blind skill, and there are very occasional monsters escaping, so a curfew is issued in the surrounding area.

Because they could be fined if they violated the guidelines, and they could be held responsible if an accident occurred, the two decided to wait in the library.

“It will be solved in about an hour or two, right?”

“Oh, maybe…” .”

This area is under the jurisdiction of the Black Chun League, so if it’s at the level of a B-level gate, there shouldn’t be any problem.

Although Ha Seok-cheol is treated as a laughing stock on the Internet for being dumb, his ability to be a semi-S rank is not false.

The only unexplored tower in this area is the Eldoras Tower, and most of the B-class monsters that appear there are melee warrior types.

As Sujin Kim said, it will be over in an hour or two.

But for some reason, Lee Byung-joon’s mind suddenly came to mind about the drunkenness of his older sister who was working in the special government department while she was drunk and making jokes at her house.

‘Ha Seok-cheol, that old bastard! He used to be condescending, but I don’t know why he’s so quiet these days~! The other day, I took my guild members to the tower, and I couldn’t help but shut up about ruining it?’

“… ….”

Ah, no way… Wouldn’t it?

But did they say that the unbelievable will happen?

Boom!! The front door of the library burst open with a loud bang.

“Wow!”

“Wow!”

Kim Soo-jin screams shrilly.

Lee Byung-jun was also startled by the sound and inadvertently screamed.

“What, what… ?”

Lee Byung-jun got up from his seat and cautiously approached the front door.

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Gulp. The tension sends chills down his spine and he swallows.

But there was no one there, except for the sound of the wind.

“Ah… Bar, it must have been the wind.”

It was only then that the tension was relieved.

He was so frightened that he looked like an idiot and smiled awkwardly and turned his back.

Lee Byung-jun hardened his expression when he saw a stranger appearing behind Kim Su-jin’s back.

There was no one there until just a moment ago.

Perhaps he noticed that gaze, Kim Soo-jin also turned his back and hick! I breathed in with a sound.

“Who are you?”

「Huh….」

A worn-out cloak that looks like it’s wearing rags.

The inside of the face, which is worn with a hood deeply pressed down, is difficult to see because it is shaded.

Only the red eyes soaked in madness shone clearly in the darkness.

“I’m sorry, but the library is closed… If you come back tomorrow….”

The civilian Kim Soo-jin did not notice, but the Awakened Lee Byung-jun could.

An ominous and tainted magic that does not seem to exist in this world.

A person with such magic could never be a human.

“Sister! Run!!”

The shadow spins the dagger and grabs it in reverse.

Swiik – A blade that cuts through the darkness.

“Eh?”

Kim Soo-jin looks at the blade that is getting closer with unrealistic eyes.

Her own two legs running too slow to reach her.

Everything plays slowly, like in slow motion.

Lee Byung-jun cursed at his own clear eyes only at times like this.

‘No… !’

At that time, Lee Byung-jun was despairing of his powerlessness.

In a world where everything slowed down, only one ray of light flew quickly.

Exploding golden magic. A dazzling light followed, followed by a slow sound.

A hundred thunders roared.

Yoon Seo-hee’s unique season.

Baekreo (百雷).

Yoon Seo-hee, wrapped in golden magic, becomes a flash of light and is pierced by the shadow.

「Kkeuheuaaa!!!」

“Haaa!!”

The two collided at tremendous speed, passing Lee Byung-jun and Kim Soo-jin for a long time, knocking down three or four bookshelves and flying to the end of the wall.

A thunderbolt stem split into a hundred pieces at the tip of Yoon Seo-hee’s sword roasts the whole body of the shadow to a crisp.

When I got the chance, I tried to bring out the aura once again to end it once and for all.

Suddenly- The shadow fell and disappeared into the darkness beneath my feet like a person being submerged in water.

“Chit! Was it a bit shallow?”

I was going to stab myself in the heart, but I turned my body in response to the speed. That’s why it’s only on the shoulder.

In terms of instantaneous speed, it was a reflex that could be called a boss level, considering the speed of a white lightning that reached an S rank.

A little later, Baek Ji-soo came inside through the front door of the library.

Perhaps he had run to the fullest, his white skin had a fever and his breathing was disturbed.

“Ha ha ha… too fast.”

“Sorry. I was in too much of a hurry.”

Baek Ji-soo took a slow breath, raised his staff, and looked around.

This is… Library? Why did the boss have to come here?

That question was only answered after seeing Lee Byung-jun staring blankly at the two.

“Yoo, Yoon Seo-hee? And a blank number?”

“What, Lee Byung-jun? What are you doing here?”

“I came here for volunteer work….”

Yoon Seo-hee shook her head as she looked at Lee Byung-jun, who still couldn’t figure out what the situation was and looked at Lee Byeong-jun with a dazed expression. Now was not the time to talk about that.

“We’ll talk about it later. Can you run away with him now?”

Yoon Seo-hee glanced with her chin at Su-jin Kim, who had just saved her life by dying.

She sat on her floor, her face in her panic, her terrified face.

“Uh, yes, I get it. Sorry, I’m begging you!”

Lee Byeong-jun carefully raised Kim Soo-jin from the floor, believing that he would be fine if he was the current combat chief and the soon-to-be chief.

Baek Ji-soo quietly opened her mouth with a firm voice.

“I remembered.”

“What?”

“Memories of the future. That monster… I hunted only the weak Awoken.”

“… What?”

“Civilian is just a sidekick, he must have been the real target.”

To be precise, it aimed only at young awakened people whose magic power was about C-D.

Because of the habit of skillfully avoiding only hunters who chased bosses or relatively strong Awoken, many minor Awakeners, including academy students, died.

“That means.”

Baek Ji-soo aimed his cane at Lee Byung-jun’s back.

A shadow slowly emerged from the darkness beneath Lee Byung-jun’s feet.

Shuwoong! A white magic bullet condensed with magical power hit the shadow.

Boom! The magic bullet collided with the shadow and exploded like a flare, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

「Huh… !”

“Whoa!”

As Lee Byung-jun’s surroundings became brighter and there was no more darkness to hide in, the shadows disappeared as if they were sinking under the ground again.

“I’m going to target him first, not us.”

“… It’s the first time I’ve fought while protecting someone.”

The two girls stood back to back with each holding a weapon, guarding against the darkness.

To think I had to fight to protect against an assassin who might pop out of nowhere.

It seemed like it would be a harder fight than I thought.