03. Guild Fair (20)

A quiet underground tunnel locked in darkness.

A wave of magical power rises like a haze at a construction site that doesn’t feel like a human presence.

Kwajik! Clink! A man in a black hooded coat jumped out, scattering fragments as if breaking a glass wall.

He was Ryu Jae-hyeon, who had barely escaped Cha Soo-hyeok’s realm of imagery.

“Quaaa!!”

Ryu Jae-hyeon, screaming in pain and anger, had his left arm cut from the elbow and was spurting blood.

“Keuuu… I’m sorry!!”

In the realm of imagery, Cha Soo-hyeok was too strong. In that lake-like world, it felt like Excalibur’s power had been amplified more than twice.

He felt the need to escape the realm in an increasingly unfavorable situation, and eventually succeeded.

Although he had to lose his arm in return.

Unlike Ryu Jae-hyun, who desperately ran out, Cha Soo-hyeok opened the entrance and walked out leisurely.

“Is the outburst over?”

“Huh… hehehe. This monster bastard….”

Ryu Jae-hyeon bursts into mad laughter while holding the amputated surface of his left arm with the flames of the Levantine.

He had already lost his arm, and fighting more was to hasten his lifeline.

Boom! Kwakwang! Ryu Jae-hyeon swung the Levantein at the ceiling, making a hole and exiting through the tunnel.

“Don’t miss it.”

Cha Soo-hyeok raises Excalibur and chases after it.

The two passed through the tunnel, passed the subway platform and the parking lot, and headed towards the ground.

Cha Soo-hyeok slashed Ryu Jae-hyun without damaging the citizens and underground structures, and Ryu Jae-hyun also desperately wielded the Levantein to offset the attack.

The two of them continue to strike several times.

Soon, at the moment when there was only one floor left to the ground, Cha Soo-hyeok caught up with Ryu Jae-hyeon and swung Excalibur strongly toward his neck.

“Fuck!”

Ryu Jae-hyun swung the Levantein with his only arm.

Kwakwang!! The two masterpieces collided and a violent shock wave swept around the underground shopping center.

“Ouch… !!”

With only one arm, the limit was obvious.

The blade of Excalibur slowly approaches Ryu Jae-hyeon’s neck.

“Kuhhhhh!”

In Levantine, fireworks soared explosively and hit Cha Soo-hyuk and Ryu Jae-hyun at the same time.

Kwaaang!! Cha Soo-hyeok only stepped back slightly without any tang, but Ryu Jae-hyeon flew toward the ceiling with the reaction.

Kwajik! Ryu Jae-hyun, who reached the ground breaking the concrete wall with his body, rolled on the floor a couple of times.

“Cool, cool… ! Whoops!”

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Gazing out of breath from the throbbing pain as if he had been beaten all over, Ryu Jae-hyeon staggers to his feet.

When I turned my head and looked at the exhibition hall, the barrier had already been shattered.

“Ha, sir… Did you break the barrier? The plan is also ruined.”

Cha Soo-hyeok jumps out through the open hole and lands softly on the ground.

“I don’t know what the plan was, but it looks like it didn’t go well.”

Spinning Excalibur, he braced himself with both hands and aimed.

“What will change after coming to the surface? You will die here anyway.”

“hehehe… I have a plan.”

Ryu Jae-hyeon shows a twisted smile.

But Cha Soo-hyeok had no intention of letting him do anything anymore. With the feeling that I would end it this time, I filled Excalibur with a blue aura.

Kwaguagua- The raging magic was like an endless sea.

The moment he took a step forward to hit Ryu Jae-hyeon’s neck.

Damn it!! The air froze and the whole area became a snowfield.

A huge ice barrier completely froze Cha Soo-hyeok.

But it was only for a moment, and all the ice around him melted away, unable to withstand Cha Soo-hyeok’s high-density mana.

‘This ice….’

Only one person in ten thousand could do such a thing.

A silver-haired woman with a bewitching look was approaching Ryu Jae-hyun before he knew it.

Thousands of S+ rank criminals. She was Rachel Bright.

“Oh, Jaehyun. How did it end up like this? If I was a little late, I would have seen the real corpse.”

“Shut up. Have you tried fighting against him alone?”

“Whoops… Are you crazy? Absolute specifications. By the way, what about black jade?”

“I don’t know. How do I know that?”

There was only one reason why Manma-ryun made such a large-scale plan from the beginning.

It was to recover the finished black jade.

That’s why Rachel took the trouble of being her bait and showed up at New Seoul Station, and while the public security hunter and the guild turned their eyes, they planned to operate a barrier in the exhibition hall.

“Hmm. The barrier is broken, and I can’t feel any energy… It’s not something that breaks so easily, so who really ran away with it?”

Rachel tilts her head as if wondering with a bewitching expression.

Cha Soo-hyeok was glaring at her through her transparent ice barrier.

Rachel Bright. She must have been marking her being with Kung Tao at New Seoul Station.

‘It doesn’t matter.’

Kill them both.

As Cha Soo-hyeok swung Excalibur, the surrounding ice shattered.

The flying slashes flew straight toward Rachel and Ryu Jae-hyeon.

“Oh, be impatient.”

Damn it! A dense magical ice barrier enveloped the two.

The slash strongly collides with the ice barrier. However, the barrier, which had been able to withstand for a while, soon began to split like a spider’s web.

An ice barrier that only lasts for a short while.

The two of them needed that moment.

“Let’s just run away. Since I also lost the black jade, I will be very scolded by Yeonju.”

Rachel grabbed Ryu Jae-hyeon’s shoulder and pulled out the ring of long-distance space transfer.

Ryu Jae-hyun gave a twisted sneer at Cha Soo-hyeok with a distorted expression from pain.

“Kuh… Soo-Hyuk Cha. You know you’re the best guy in the world, right?”

Excalibur’s slash that flies additionally instead of returning words.

The second slash shattered the ice barrier….

“You’d better not trust angels too much.”

Flash! Rachel and Ryu Jae-hyun disappear through metastasis leaving only those words behind.

A slash narrowly passed through the empty seat of the two.

And only silence remained.

“… Did you miss it?”

If it wasn’t for support, I could have killed Ryu Jae-hyeon right here.

I was very sorry about that. Cutting off just one arm couldn’t even be called an achievement.

After belatedly using teleportation magic, a woman appears in her place.

Black short hair with curls. Eyes shining golden.

“Mr. Suhyuk!”

She is the deputy guild leader of Suseong and the second master piece holder in Korea.

It was Shin Seo-yeon, a master piece rank magic hunter.

“Are you okay? What about Rachel?”

“I left. With Jaehyun Ryu.”

“Huh?! Is that Jaehyun Ryu?”

Shin Seo-yeon chews her lips and reproaches herself.

“… Sorry. Shinseoul Station was the bait. The real goal was the exhibition hall… I never thought I would have used Rachel and Kung Tao as bait.”

“What happened to Kung Tao?”

“… The moment I was overpowered, I committed suicide. This loss isn’t too bad. In particular, the loss on the public security side is huge….”

“I see.”

Cha Soo-hyeok nodded his head calmly.

“Since the situation is over, let’s call the standby staff here and clear the scene.”

“Okay. Do you?”

He looked in the direction of the exhibition hall, still holding Excalibur in his hand.

“There are enemies left, so I’ll clean up and come back.”

With those words, Cha Soo-hyeok disappeared like the wind in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps he went to deal with the monsters inside the exhibition hall.

As usual, he was an unruly man.

“Haa… It’s me who always takes care of it.”

Belatedly, the members of the Suseong guild, which organized Shinseoul Station, arrived at the scene, and the people trapped inside the exhibition hall gradually escaped.

Injured and exhausted hunters and civilians.

Some of them were happy that they were able to get out safely, some of them were still panicked and terrified, some of them were sad about the loss of someone.

Among the people who escaped to see if Cha Soo-hyuk was running wild inside, there were people who put Cha Soo-hyuk’s name on it.

“Don’t take people in serious condition to the hospital, send a healer right away! A reporter came? No time for an interview! Say you’ll hold an official press conference later!”

Shin Seo-yeon leads the field with a cool attitude.

There were many things to do, such as rescuing the injured, organizing the situation, and listening to the circumstances.

The press will hear the news and flock to it like a herd of dogs….

She already felt her head pounding.

At that time, Shin Seo-yeon heard a familiar voice from the entrance.

I’m familiar and miss it, but it’s someone’s voice that I haven’t heard in person for quite a long time.

“Lee Jin-ah, wake up… ! What do we do? Isn’t that serious?”

“Calm down. I just lost my mind.”

“Rice, hospital… Let’s take him to the hospital!”

A boy who has fallen unconscious but still clasps a knife in his hand.

And a black-haired girl carrying the boy on her back, making a puzzled expression.

Shin Seo-yeon looked at the black-haired girl with surprised eyes at her unexpected reunion.

Yoon Seo-hee also noticed the gaze looking at her and turned her head, and she stopped her steps.

“Yoon Seo-hee? What’s the matter?”

Baek Ji-soo opens her mouth as if wondering at the sudden stop of Yoon Seo-hee.

However, Yoon Seo-hee was distracted from paying attention to Baek Ji-soo’s question due to such a sudden meeting.

“… Sister?”

She thought we would meet someday.

An object of hatred and resentment, but a little bit of longing.

Her only family.

“It’s been a while. My little brother.”

Shin Seo-yeon answered with her short sigh.