73. Power can be suppressed with greater power

Someone knocks on the door of the magic arena.

“Who are you?”

-Kiik

Seo Ho-hyeok, who runs the magic arena, opened the door, puzzled by his guest who came late.

A man dressed in a neat suit. At first glance, a man wearing an expensive watch spoke to me with a friendly face.

“Are you Mr. Seo Ho-hyuk, who runs the magic arena?”

The moment when Seo Ho-hyuk hesitated to answer because he felt reluctant.

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Lee Min-hwan, who is quick-witted, spoke kindly again.

“Ah, I’m telling you in case you misunderstand, I was dispatched from the guild. Our guild leader says he wants to sponsor you, but he’s reluctant to reveal his identity. As long as you’re properly identified, they’ll just leave the money behind.”

“That… You don’t have to. It’s okay because we already have enough support.”

– Flinch

Dafeld Guild’s assistant, Lee Min-hwan, did not miss the words of the brief moment and asked back.

“If you are already receiving support… Are you receiving support from Choi Joo-won?”

“That… How? You know…”

-Peruk

Before Seo Ho-hyuk could answer everything, Min-hwan Lee knocked him out by hitting his neck with the blade of his hand.

-Pulseok

Seo Ho-hyeok fell to the ground. Leaving him lying down for a while, Lee Min-hwan called Won Yeo-jeong.

– Won Journey Guild Leader, you have completed checking and securing the target. I will drag you to the basement and tell you about Joo-Won Choi.

– Okay. Thanks for your effort.

– Tuk

The report that came and went in one short word. Lee Min-hwan looked at Seo Ho-hyuk who was lying down.

-Sueuk

Then, I lifted him up and left the scene.

***

The next morning. Magic Arena.

-Jangrang

“Father, I am here!”

Serina opened the door of the magic arena and looked around the inside.

“Father! Because I’m here!”

No matter how much I call my father, he is nowhere to be seen.

It was strange. While running the magic arena, my father has never been in a hurry to lock the door. However, when Serena arrived at the magic arena today, the door was completely open.

At first, she simply assumed that she would be tidying up the inside when her father went to work. But the father was nowhere to be seen.

“Oh, my father… You shouldn’t leave the door open and go somewhere else…”

Even though Serena grumbled, she helped clean the inside of the magic arena. Although she is now living apart from her father, she always stopped by her father’s magic arena before going to work, and she used to help her father often, just like today.

‘Something is strange…’

However, as Seorina was cleaning, her foreign feelings continued to come to her.

She looked around slowly.

Things scattered around, the magic arena not organized properly, and even the open door.

My father goes home with a clean finish by the end of every evening. This is a routine that has never changed. Today, however, it was strangely spread out, with only part of the interior cleared. As if there was a problem while cleaning.

-Kudadadang

Serina hurriedly rummaged through the drawers. She and she pulled out an artifact.

What she took out was a D-class medical artifact.

The effect was simple. It is an artifact that can check the health status of the person connected to the artifact.

Seo Ho-hyeok was usually in poor health, so Seo-rina, who was worried about his appearance, saved up the cost of her part-time job to buy it for a long time. She originally bought it for her father to carry around and check her health, but her father always put it in a drawer, saying that it was a waste to use the gift her daughter gave her.

-Beep

-Beep

A red light was on at the artifact.

– WARNING!

– Your heart rate is getting too high. Watch your breathing!

– WARNING!

– You are bleeding excessively. Stop bleeding at the wound site!

– WARNING!

– A sudden change in mental state is occurring. Be careful not to stress…

‘This… What the hell is this?’

-Parr

Serena looked at the artifact she was holding.

‘Accident… Did your father have an accident?’

She doesn’t know that her father was kidnapped. Therefore, the most reasonable judgment she can guess is to expect that a traffic accident, fall, or similar accident has occurred.

-Kudadadadang

Serina ran out like crazy.

‘Please… Please… Please…’

It’s only a D-class medical artifact, and it doesn’t have any function to tell the target’s location. The moment that such a function was installed, the price would be extremely high, so I couldn’t buy it with the cost of Serina’s part-time job.

That’s why I had to find Serina. She ran like crazy and she had to find out where her father was.

-Turrure

My father doesn’t answer even if I call.

“Heeuk… Heouk…”

She ran. She searched everything from her father’s usual street to the road near her father’s house.

-Quaang-!

“Father!”

Before long, she ran to Seo Ho-hyuk’s house, but Seo Ho-hyuk was not even at home.

‘Please… Dad, please…’

Serina prayed. Please pray that my father is still alive. She didn’t know what had happened, but she prayed earnestly for her life to be intact.

“Heeuk… Heouk…”

She ran on. She shouted as she ran frantically outside.

“Uh… Uh… Daddy… Where are you… Please come out!”

“Kuheuuu…”

She cried and called for her father. But, of course, she couldn’t find her father.

“Kuhhhhh… Dad… Please…”

Serina cried. A father who took care of her. He worked hard for his family all his life. Even if he couldn’t have what he wanted to eat or have, he was the one who tried to make her daughter do everything she wanted. That person was Seo Ho-hyuk.

You have to reciprocate. Now that she was just an adult, she was determined to repay her father for what he had given her. She had vowed to work hard and earn money to enrich herself. I had promised her father a good meal and a nice suit for her, with the money she earned herself, not the money she received from her sponsorship. But something like lightning happened. Father is in danger But he can’t figure out what’s dangerous or where he is.

After running around for a long time, it was late evening for her.

– Plop

“Ugh …. Father please … Where are you …”

Serina sat down on the ground and cried.

-Parr Leure

I can’t move my legs anymore because my legs are weak. Her heart is beating like crazy, on the verge of bursting. A situation where there was nothing I could do but cry. At that time.

“What? Will it stand? Why are you here?”

“Oh… Oppa?…”

Choi Joo-won often, if not often, went to the magic arena to deliver money or supplies for sponsorship, and he would run into Serina every time. So, the two of them had a one-sided relationship.

She looked at Choi Joo-won with her face covered in tears.

“Brother…? Why are you here…?”

At her words, Choi Joo-won replied as if she was embarrassed.

“This is in front of my house.”

Choi Joo-won went out to get some fresh air because her head was pounding. However, I heard a loud crying sound from afar, so I came to see what was going on.

Serina looked around.

“My… When did I get here?”

There is quite a distance between the magic arena and Choi Joo-won’s house. Surina was frantically wandering from place to place to find her father without even realizing it. She said, unaware that her blisters on her own feet had burst and turned into bloody clots.

Joo-Won Choi, who was looking at Seolina, asked a question as if she was embarrassed.

“What happened? Why are you crying?”

Then, Seorina finally came to her senses and spoke to Joo-Won Choi while crying.

“Brother… My dad is sick… He seems to be hurt a lot, but I don’t know where he is… Kkeuheugh…”

Joo-Won Choi answered Seo-Rina’s words that he couldn’t understand.

“Tell me straight up what is going on.”

Seorina is an empty magic arena. The state of her father’s health as marked on her medical artifact. She explained everything related to Choi Joo-won.

“….”

After hearing her story, Joo-Won Choi talked to Serena while trying to soothe her.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it. Don’t cry, wait.”

“Brother… Can my dad live? Please… If I don’t have Dad, I might really die… Please… Please help me, I’m begging you… Help me, my dad.”

Choi Joo-won looked at her and talked calmly about her efforts. But she couldn’t confirm that she would spare her. I didn’t even know what situation Seo Ho-hyuk was in right now.

“Wait.”

-Hooung

Choi Joo-won used magic in an instant and moved toward the magic arena at high speed. The sound of Seorina crying sadly could be heard from behind.

-Shhhhh

It has not been a very long time. Choi Joo-won came to the magic training ground run by Seo Ho-hyuk.

The reason he came here was simple. No matter where Seo Ho-hyeok disappeared, it was clear that he had started from the magic arena. If it disappeared without even closing it properly, it means there was a problem along the way.

[Sage’s Eye]

▶ You can learn more about objects, creatures, and mana flows.

Choi Joo-won used his unique skill.

Many streams of mana were visible around him, and vague forms of mana began to be seen. Traces of mana are left where people have passed. Choi Joo-won was restoring Seo Ho-hyeok’s mana that remained minutely with the eyes of a wise man.

– Flinched.

Something started to show. Choi Joo-won infused more mana into it. Then, Mana’s form began to change to resemble a human’s.

“Keep it off…”

My eyes start to become bloodshot. Before long, what had been a mass of mana began to appear in the eyes of Choi Joo-won in the form of a person. The image of the past is being played back like a video.

The wave of mana, it was possible to restore even sound. Of course, limitations exist.

1. Remnants of mana remain, and it shouldn’t take a long time.

2. There shouldn’t be many people passing through that space.

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Luckily, less than a day has passed since Seo Ho-hyeok’s mana waves felt here, and there are only a few waves of mana felt in the magic arena.

The sound began to be heard more and more clearly.

-Won Journey Guild Leader, you have completed checking and securing the target. I will drag you to the basement and tell you about Joo-Won Choi.

After hearing the sound, Joo-won Choi stared blankly at the ceiling.

“Ah… The original journey…”

“Ha ha…”

Choi Joo-won started to laugh like crazy.

“What a f*cking bastard…”

Those whom Choi Joo-won supports are those who are poor or living in a really unfortunate environment. They live passionately without losing the will to live, and say that they will help others even in the midst of it. Good man. Choi Joo-won cared for them. However, one of them, Seo Ho-hyuk, was touched by the guild leader of Darfeld.

‘I’m going to kill them all.’

I won’t stand it any longer. Fearing that things would escalate, I ignored the Darfeld Guild of the Original Journey because I was overwhelmed with what had already happened. But not anymore. Now is the time to show what you saw.

-Kadeudeuk

However, Choi Joo-won does not know where they have moved. The sage’s eyes are not omnipotent. It cannot trace the location of people who may have fled tens or hundreds of kilometers one by one.

-Talleureung

So, Choi Joo-won called. She has the best connections she has currently available. A man with power who could of course penetrate the guild’s hideout.

“Oh, who is this? Aren’t you a masked instructor? I heard that you saved our Eunbyeol one more time at Blackgate the other day. Not only my life, but also my daughter’s life… I really don’t know how to repay this favor…”

“Kang Seong-ho, president of the Hunter Association. I’m busy, so I’ll talk about the main topic. Could you please do me one favor?”

“Yes, you can say as much as you like. I will listen to whatever the masked instructor says. Isn’t it a lifesaver for me and my daughter?”

Choi Joo-won was silent for a while before speaking.

“This is an impossible request. However, it is a very necessary request.”

“It doesn’t matter. If it wasn’t for you, I and my daughter would have died anyway. I promise to do any request to the best of my ability.”

Choi Joo-won spoke in a cold voice.

“Today, the Daffeld Guild is about to disappear from the world. Can you help me?”