03. Guild Fair (8)

Boom! Quaang! It was hard to believe that the sound of swords colliding with swords continued.

Every time the shadows of the two collided at high speed, the impact spread in all directions and shook the entire tunnel.

Kwajik! A rock fell from the ceiling and crushed the head of an unlucky demon worshiper.

However, it was fortunate that he died instantly. Most of the demon worshipers were caught in the flying shards of the aura and were bleeding to death on the floor, their limbs severed.

“Ouch… !”

“Sa, help me… !”

Chang! Piling up corpses around them, Cha Soo-hyeok and Ryu Jae-hyeon competed with each other’s swords.

“Are you still wielding the sword for a cause that is not the same?”

Cha Soo-hyeok’s blue aura reflected Ryu Jae-hyeon’s smirking smile over the Levantein’s blade.

“Ten years have passed and you are still stupid! It’s a waste of a sword that met the wrong owner, Cha Soo-hyuk!”

You could feel the turbidity in her purple eyes, colored with distorted obsession.

The mind of Cha Soo-hyeok looking at Ryu Jae-hyeon was like a quiet sleep.

I didn’t need to talk to the criminal. The only thing to exchange is your own sword.

But….

‘The tunnel will collapse at this rate.’

The collapse of the tunnel cannot be avoided even if it is used for one season. Even if the ceiling sank entirely, Cha Soo-hyeok would be fine, but the problem was the people on the ground.

If the ground suddenly collapses and a sinkhole occurs, there will be innocent victims.

That was the reason that made Cha Soo-hyeok passive.

‘I have to change the battlefield.’

It was necessary to bring Ryu Jae-hyeon to another place even if it was too much.

“How long are you going to keep me in check!”

The black aura soars explosively. As Ryu Jae-hyeon swung the Levantein strongly, a sword made of aura flew at Cha Soo-hyeok.

Boom!! The aura hits Cha Soo-hyeok directly, and a pile of stones fall from the ceiling with a strong impact. Rumble! A thick layer of thick dust covers the ground.

The tunnel was stained with suffocating silence to the extent that I wondered if I had been crushed to death by a pile of stones.

“Huh.”

Of course, there was no way that monstrous man would die. Ryu Jae-hyeon turned his head around, keeping alert even though he didn’t know what he was trying to do.

“You must have been ordered to bring the black jade. What are you doing here?”

Facing the demon-like purple eyes, Namgoong-min and Seong Min-soo felt a visceral fear and took a deep breath.

The other party was the top executive of Mann-Ryeon. Seong Min-soo answered politely, barely moving his trembling tongue.

“Ah, the devil worshipers were all beaten by Cha Soo-hyeok. I cannot conduct the ceremony alone.”

“Ha, is that so?”

A blatant contempt that does not hide the feeling of being useless.

“I couldn’t lure Cha Soo-hyeok, I didn’t bring black jade, and I didn’t carry out a massacre….”

How did things go so wrong? The plan must have been thoroughly prepared.

What variables were there?

Well, actually, it was good. If Ryu Jae-hyun could fight Cha Soo-hyeok to his heart’s content, that was enough.

Even so, you will still need a gift to present to Lianzhu.

Ryu Jae-hyun stretched out his left hand and squeezed Seong Min-soo’s neck. The adult male body lifted into the air like a toy.

“Kuk, gaug… ! Wealth, please, forgiveness… !”

“Why can’t I go through the ritual? I have such a large offering.”

His cruel smile caught on. Despair seeped into Seong Min-soo’s eyes as he witnessed the scene.

“Oh no… aaagh!!”

Sung Min-soo’s eyes, nose, mouth, and every hole in his body pours out black demonic energy like a bursting dam.

The demonic energy that escaped from his body pierced the ceiling and soared to the ground. As if sucking up his A-rank magic power was not enough, Seong Min-soo was drying up like a mummy in real time, consuming all of his vitality.

“Kkeok, Kkeuk, Kuk… fat… ryo….”

Seong Min-soo, a mummy with no vitality, becomes a corpse and is scattered on the floor.

It was the effect of Jaehyeon Ryu’s unique skill, [Erosion]. He forcibly interfered with Seong Min-soo’s skill and used him as a sacrifice.

Koo Goong… ! The vibrations felt far away on the ground are transmitted to the underground.

Namgoong Min opens his eyes wide and looks up. Even though it was blocked by the ceiling, he could understand the meaning of the vibration.

“Consciousness… !”

A ritual triggered, albeit imperfectly. Originally, there should have been all devil worshipers, but Seong Min-soo sacrificed his life unwillingly to make his ritual a success.

“You.”

“Yes, yep!”

Namgoong-min straightened his back, tensed up at the voice calling him. Ryu Jae-hyun took the ring from my right hand and threw it at him.

It was a ring of long-distance space travel that could only be used by top executives.

“Go get the jet. If you can’t bring it, you know?”

Namgoong Min was terrified and breathless. It is unclear where the jet is, and he could have been killed if he climbed up there while the ceremony was in progress.

But there was no other option. If you refuse, you will lose your life right now.

“Yes! I will definitely bring the black jade!”

Namgoong Min put on a ring and disappeared in the tunnel using spatial teleportation.

It only lasted a few minutes, but everything that had to be done was done. All that was left was to kill and kill Cha Soo-hyuk as much as he wanted.

“Is he really dead? Why are you so quiet?”

Lightly swing the Levantein to release sword energy. Booung! A black sword flying towards the collapsed pile of stones.

At that moment, the blue magic waved around and a strong shock wave blew the pile of stones in all directions. The shock caused even the sword to collide with a few piles of stones before disappearing in vain.

“Suck!”

Faang-! Cha Soo-hyeok released his magic to the fullest while wearing a blue aura all over his body.

A wave of magic that doesn’t feel much physical force. However, the scenery around Cha Soo-hyeok’s magical power swept away was gradually changing.

Suddenly, the two of them were standing on the surface of a calm lake illuminated by the moon in the night sky, not in a dark tunnel.

It is not a spatial transition. They stood still in place the whole time.

Only the world has changed itself.

Ryu Jae-hyun frowned and looked around.

“Image area?”

A barrier that embodies one’s image in the outside world.

It is a magician’s own secret technique to gain an advantage in battle by creating a field with the most favorable environment for oneself.

If the mind sword is the extreme of a swordsman, the image realm is the extreme of a wizard.

That’s not something prosecutor Cha Soo-hyeok can write.

At least when Ryu Jae-hyeon and Cha Soo-hyeok competed, Cha Soo-hyeok had never used the imagery area.

“Since when? How are you, not even a wizard?”

Cha Soo-hyeok raised his Excalibur and calmly recited.

“It is a gift from the witch.”

His planting was very uncomfortable right now.

This image area is not Cha Soo-hyeok’s, but just a borrowed image.

Because of that, it took a considerable amount of time to activate the mental image area, and because of that, I couldn’t stop the activation of my consciousness, and I had to watch as one of them ran away.

But it was better than having Ryu Jae-hyeon rampage in the basement to his heart’s content.

‘Definitely kill.’

Cha Soo-hyeok decided to put up with a few sacrifices and kill Ryu Jae-hyeon on the spot.

Life is getting thicker and thicker. Receiving that intangible aura, goose bumps run up Ryu Jae-hyeon’s spine.

“Heh, hehehe, hahahahaha!! Good! Do you like it… Now let’s kill each other!”

The calm lake rippled greatly due to the wave of magical energy that the two of them raised.

Instantly, swords collided with swords, and fierce spray rose high into the sky.

–

I managed to sort out the shock of the conversation I had with Baek Ji-soo.

Cha Soo-hyeok is a traitor to humanity. It’s definitely shocking. He was so helpless that he couldn’t do anything about it.

But that’s only for the future.

It is not immediately clear why Cha Soo-hyeok betrays humanity, but the future can change at any time, just as he prevented the gate incident and caught the boss.

For now, I’ve decided to think that way.

“Seohee is very late.”

It’s already been a long time since we decided to join. Even if you arrive, the time you should have arrived.

To contact Seohee Yoon, I took out her smart phone and checked her screen.

“Huh? Out of bounds?”

But out of nowhere, an out of range sign appeared.

Why are you doing this? Wasn’t there a problem just a little while ago?

At that time, Baek Ji-soo trembled and turned his head away.

“… Binary!”

Baek Ji-soo tugged at my sleeve as if to look over there. I followed her gaze and turned my head.

“What… Wait, that’s it.”

The walls of the exhibition hall were distorted like a haze.

A phenomenon of condensation of magical power. It was the first time I had seen it with my own eyes, but I knew what it meant.

The hunters around them also shouted out in shock, as if they had noticed the abnormal phenomenon.

“Hey, look over there!”

“It’s the gate! The gate is opening!”

I realized at that moment what large-scale magic the devil worshipers were after.

Artificial generation of gates. I don’t know how, but this was their goal.

「Quaaa!!」

「Kieee!!」

From afar, a ferocious cry of infinite hostility toward humans resounded.