03. Guild Fair (15)

Spatial Transfer is a highly advanced magic that cannot be used recklessly unless it is within sight or has already been to.

If you hear the news that a certain magical hunter has suddenly gone missing, rumors are going around that it may have been buried in the ground due to a failed space transfer somewhere.

An extreme example, but not entirely unprecedented.

Transferring to an unknown space requires that much caution.

Baek Ji-soo’s eyes looking down at the floor gave off a soft light.

“I think about 2m in the vertical phase is enough.”

“What did you just do?”

“Clairvoyance. One wall is enough.”

You know how to write something like that?

Where and from whom did Baek Ji-soo learn magic?

Until now, she thought that as a wizard, hunting monsters with attack magic was all she thought, but instead, she felt more like a wizard because she knew how to use such versatile magic.

If the witch in the story actually existed, would it feel like this?

As the two of them were talking about that, a blonde-haired woman who had been quietly listening to the conversation opened her mouth with a puzzled expression.

“Wait, are you thinking of using spatial transfer now?”

“Yes. You say there’s no way down? It’s part of the barrier anyway, so I can come back.”

“That’s not the problem. If I used space transfer here….”

The woman looked around her and lowered her voice slightly as if to notice. It was a much more cautious tone.

“When the gate first opened, everyone who could use space teleport ran away, so the atmosphere was messed up. Thanks to you, we managed to at least manage it, but if we see someone running away through the spatial displacement, the barely maintained display might collapse.”

“Yes?”

What do you mean it was settled thanks to me?

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t guess.

I didn’t urge Hunters to fight by grabbing them by the collar like Sangwoo Sangwoo and Aran Im.

Perhaps reading my dazed expression, the blonde woman let out a short sigh and supplemented her explanation.

“Because you caught the boss, or at least looked like you did, it created an atmosphere that it was worth trying. I even actually caught the boss a while ago. Are you pretty famous in here, at least now?”

You said that?

No, when I think about it, I somehow understand it. The reason why skilled A-class hunters like Sangwoo Sangwoo and Ahran Im helped me out when I was fighting the Banshee.

I don’t know about celebrities, but I exist… It was clear that the atmosphere was worth trying thanks to the three-man sword.

“Everyone is watching. You.”

“Then if I disappear now….”

Space Transition cannot be unnoticed because of the unique light generated during casting.

A hunter enough to catch the banshee used space transfer in this situation and disappeared?

Whether true or not, or for some reason. That affects the morale of the hunters who are fighting desperately now.

I’ve seen people running away through space shifts long before.

There is no time to explain the situation to the 300 hunters who are fighting right now, and even if they use space transfer with understandable circumstances, there is no way there will be no problems.

There are bound to be people who think that they are running away with plausible excuses. It is because human psychology is originally like that.

Fear or anxiety is contagious. If anxiety is aroused one or two people like that, there might be a person who eventually loses his mind in unfavorable situations.

“… ….”

Then what should I do? I can’t stand by in a situation where I don’t know what’s going on underground.

The blond woman thought for a moment with her arms crossed, then with her enlightened look she hurriedly opened her mouth.

“I fall down.”

“Yes?”

“I’m going to scream and fall down right now!”

–

“Quaaa!!”

I clutched my heart and screamed in as much agony as I could.

“Eh, magic exhaustion… ! My heart beats!!”

Baek Ji-soo slapped the back of my hand.

“There is no cure for magical exhaustion. Just scream.”

“… aaagh! aaa!!”

Twisting her limbs and acting out her seizures with as much fuss as possible.

I was being carried to the rear on a stretcher with the help of the hunters, presumably the blonde woman’s subordinates.

The rear is already full of wounded hunters fighting monsters. The few magicians who could heal were emitting a light made of magical power from their hands.

“Be patient with me. Rapid healing!”

Flash! A light containing healing power shone briefly. Then, the wound that was spitting out blood was quickly sutured, and the injured Hunter let out a more comfortable breath.

The halo definitely looked a bit like space shift.

“Okay. If you’ve come this far, you won’t be seen from the front anymore.”

The blonde woman sets me down on the floor.

I finally stopped screaming and took a breather.

“… Binary. I’m really bad at acting.”

No, you should have tried acting or something.

This would have been difficult if you hadn’t felt death-like heart pain from magical exhaustion.

“It should be fine to use spatial shift now. Even if you’re out of sight, you’d think you’d be recovering in the rear.”

Of course, no matter how far you move backwards, you can’t help but notice it disappearing through the transfer.

The blond woman surrounded me with her men and erected a human wall to hide her as much as she could.

“… Thank you.”

“What? I just hope it’s worth it.”

She looked at me with a wink in one of her eyes.

“Thanks to you, I was the only one who didn’t run away, leaving her men behind. Rather, I have been helped by you. Is our name still there? What’s your name?”

“Oh, this is Kim Yi-jin.”

“I am Yuna. Yuna Claprot.”

I held my breath in surprise at the continued name.

I can’t believe it was the president’s daughter. Seeing how she gave away the Claprot equipment for free, she guessed that she might be the one involved, and in the end, she did as expected, but even if she did, it was surprising.

Claprot is an enormous global group that Lee Hyun-woo’s Serim Group can be dismissed as inferior.

It means that the woman in front of you is a direct descendant of the Klaproth family, which created and maintained the company.

She continued with a light smile as the woman who identified her name as Yuna continued.

“Then Mr. Lee. This side is also going to have a limit to endure, so I’ll ask for something below. I want to repay you properly later, so don’t die.”

The woman who said that far puts her sniper rifle on her shoulder again and turns her back and leaves.

At some point not too far away, a bang! Bang! A gunshot rang out.

Now we should leave this to those people and move on.

I looked back at Ji-soo Baek who was sitting next to me in silence.

“… Are you okay even though you moved quite a bit from the spot you saw earlier?”

“Yes. I’ve memorized the coordinates, so it doesn’t matter.”

Baek Ji-su hesitated a little, then reached out his hand and carefully grabbed my hand.

“I’ll go.”

I nodded and closed my eyes without answering. Then, the familiar pure white magic enveloped me.

Flash! Even with my eyes closed, my vision was stained white.

As I slowly opened my closed eyes, a dark space welcomed me.

“This is… Is it a warehouse?”

I could feel the musty smell of dust unique to the space where things are piled up.

I couldn’t see my surroundings well in the dark, so I closed and opened my eyes to adapt to the darkness, and suddenly my vision brightened.

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Ji-Soo Baek was floating an orb of light on his palm.

“Follow me. We have to go further inside.”

“Uh, yes.”

I nodded and followed Ji-soo Baek as I looked around.

I vaguely thought it was a warehouse and it was roughly the size of a room, but the inside was wider than I thought.

And the inside of the warehouse was full of items to be auctioned off.

Of course, we didn’t actually steal anything from the safe, we just made the illusion that it was stolen.

“How did you hint?”

At my words, Baek Ji-soo was silent for a moment as if he was reminiscing about the past, and then slowly continued.

“… I showed the security in the control room a blank CCTV screen. After that, everyone who came in and everyone who came across engraved the same hint.”

“Uh… It must have been hard.”

“Yes. Great job.”

When I was struggling like that, I was talking to Cha Soo-hyeok over drinks at a cafe.

Of course, I also had circumstances, but it is also true that I was in a hurry to satisfy my personal curiosity about my father’s past.

Um… I’m sorry about this.

It is true that Baek Ji-soo suffered, so I thought I should somehow repay him later.

While we were walking together while looking around the inside with that thought in mind, we both stopped at the same time.

“Is that it? No matter how you look at it.”

“Yes. That’s it.”

A mage’s orb equipment in a case with the logo of Claprot Industries.

However, the orb was just an outer shell, and the black orb, which formed the core of the orb, felt a terrible amount of demonic energy.

To the point where the hilt of the three-man sword trembled.