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Not long after Seonghyeon put on the hood, a huge energy was felt in front of the door.
“Come on in.”
“…thank you.”
The man who was about to knock on the door just before Seong-hyeon told him to come in, lowered his hand and opened the door.
“Nice to meet you. Pilgrims.”
“yes.”
As if to answer who he was, Seong-hyeon stared at the man even though it was covered with a hood, and the man only revealed his identity.
“Oh, you can call me Envy.”
“…Envy?”
“Do you know me?”
“Oh, no. I think I’ve heard similar names.”
A name in Seong-hyeon’s memory.
The other day, when he visited China because of the academy’s confrontation, he tried to commit a terrorist attack.
I remember finding a large number of bombs underground and facing Envy with those bombs.
“haha. My name is a common name.”
“okay.”
I think I didn’t notice Sunghyun, who was a little embarrassed, so I just wanted to move on, but Envy wasn’t a good person either.
“It’s the first time I’ve seen you so confused. It’s as if you’ve met me before.”
“What if we met, and what if we didn’t? I guess it’s something I can’t even remember.”
It wasn’t easy for Seonghyun as well.
Even if the things they had met before were true, Envy nodded thanks to Sunghyun’s reaction to dismissing it as a trivial matter.
“haha. That’s right. Now is important.”
“therefore. Why did you come all of a sudden?”
After monitoring Seonghyun’s movement for a month, he suddenly showed a movement.
That means something has been decided.
“Before we talk about it, I have something to tell you.”
“yes. do it.”
“I am sorry to the pilgrims, but that happened there. I am like that.”
“…”
It was something I expected to some extent from the moment I first started monitoring Seong-hyeon, but it was outrageous to find out that he had done it so proudly.
“You don’t look so surprised, do you? Did you know?”
“It’s so rude that it’s ridiculous. You’re not expecting a good response from me, are you?”
The pilgrim’s reaction was not what he expected, and Envy said with a small smile down, as if it was very funny.
“Aren’t all those things passing by anyway? Like a pilgrim or me, beings of a different level have to do something that suits them.”
“It’s fun. Let’s do more.”
“The reason I came in person is simple.”
I waited for Envy’s next words, but for some reason Envy stopped talking on the way.
“Before I get to the point… Shall we get rid of the rats first?”
“…?”
For a moment, I wondered what Envy was saying, but there was nothing that Envy could call a rat bastard except for Manager Cha.
“I don’t know who it is, but he’s hiding in the rift and eavesdropping on our conversation.”
After speaking, Envy raised her hand to her side.
At the same time, he concentrated his magic, and immediately began to grab something in the air and tear it apart.
A scene similar to when Manager Cha opened the crack began to unfold, and Envy began to inject her own magic into it.
“I’ve blocked the connection to this place, so don’t worry. Oh, you’re not supposed to be a pilgrim’s companion, are you?”
“…”
Fortunately, Envy was unaware of the fact that there was a manager Cha at Seonghyeon’s side, and thanks to that, the fact that the pilgrim was Seonghyeon was not discovered.
However, he seemed to know that the person he called the rat was already on the same team with the pilgrim.
“Anyway, our point is simple. agreeing with one another. That’s all.”
“I already belong to Russia.”
“Haha, isn’t the pilgrim’s goal to live as Russia’s top hunter?”
There was no answer to what Sung-hyun had expected in the first place.
This Envy in front of him was crazy even if he was crazy.
‘Even if the pilgrim and I were different people, it’s a proposal that is unlikely to be accepted.’
“It’s like it’s taken as if I can’t get what I want if I don’t accept the offer?”
“I don’t mean that, but…”
Even though Envy’s expression was covered with a hood, it was quite predictable.
A face full of confidence.
“It will not be easy.”
It wasn’t unfounded confidence.
Sung-hyeon had doubts at the reaction as if there was something to believe in, but did not show any signs.
“If it was such a conversation, I don’t think we should have met.”
“…that word…”
“I can answer right away without a little thought. It’s a proposition not even worth thinking about.”
“Hmm. Is that so?”
Envy’s reaction was the reaction she had already expected.
“I didn’t want to use this method, but I can’t help it.”
“what…”
Envy raised her hand as if she had just shut the crack in the car manager.
This time, the direction is toward Seong-hyeon, not his side.
In an instant, I began to feel a sense of restraint as if my body was being squeezed.
It feels similar to the seal used by the first-class door boss.
And at the same time, a voice began to ring in my head.
‘You will obey our orders from now on.’
This voice was not audible.
Perhaps it would be similar if one of Seonghyeon’s abilities, edification, was used?
‘answer.’
“…Yes.”
“Tsuk, I didn’t want to use this method for you.”
Unlike other hunters, Envy had only one ability.
Just mind control.
Seong-hyeon instinctively tried to use purification, but stopped.
Envy’s orders will allow us to take a closer look inside this organization.
“From now on, healing will only be used for what I command. Do you understand?”
“Yes.”
“For the time being, act as the top hunter in Russia. The time will come soon to use your powers. As a hunter in Russia, you can use your healing powers.”
“All right.”
Envy got up and took off her hood as if she was satisfied.
Again, that person in Seong-hyeon’s memory.
“Welcome to join us. Pilgrims.”
Envy smiled at the docile pilgrim and left the room.
Sunghyun muttered not long after Envy left the room.
“Envy.”
But the voice in my head I can’t hear.
“Envy?”
Again, no voice was heard.
In other words, it controlled the mind, but it was impossible to monitor it.
“Hey, mind control.”
It was a skill I could never have imagined.
Of course, the amount of magical power that supported this was enormous, and the ability itself was an ability with tremendous value that was comparable to that of Seonghyeon.
“It seems impossible to use it for a beast…”
In that case, he would have attained the purpose of the group by controlling all the magical beasts.
And if you look at the amount of magical power used when using Mind Control, the amount was quite substantial.
However, the considerable amount could not exceed the amount of magical power of Seonghyeon, which was set for the person of a pilgrim.
“It can only be used on humans, and it seems to consume a certain amount of mana each time it is used.”
Rather than being surprised by the opponent’s rare ability, Seong-hyeon first analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of that ability.
“Is it impossible for Lich and Padron not to be under mental control if their magical power exceeds a certain level?”
Thanks to the condition of the ability to get more complex the more you predict, Sung-hyun stopped making further predictions.
“First, let’s do what Envy tells us to do, and get to know the insides of the group.”
I don’t know when it will be, but someday this group will all have to be eliminated.
Dealing with them without much knowledge like now could create another danger like the red-eye incident the other day, so Seong-hyeon decided to act more cautiously.
“It’s mental control, so you can adjust it appropriately.”
The moment they lifted their guard from the saints and from the pilgrims would be the day they would perish.
The hunter supremacy group that was the most stumbling block for Seong-hyeon.
Having found and caught the most accurate clue to getting closer to him, he had to prepare for the time to come.
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After successfully recruiting pilgrims, Envy left the hotel and looked at the hotel where they met the pilgrims.
“…something feels uncomfortable.”
Clearly, mental control worked.
However, rather than feeling that the ability worked, I felt strongly that I had accepted the ability.
“I think we need to be more vigilant.”
Like the unidentified hunter in the rift, the pilgrim seemed to be hiding a lot more than he thought.
If you want to completely enslave yourself, pour out almost all of your magical energy when using Mind Control, and if the target has a lot of magic, even this was a probability.
That’s why I put my mind under control just by following orders, and I never imagined that I would regret it as soon as I left the hotel, not even for a day.
Although the pilgrims’ enlistment was over and the power rose sharply, trust in the pilgrims was still insufficient.
“Envy! done? How is it?”
The man who was monitoring Seong-hyeon came to check that Envy had come out.
“Not the best, but sub-optimal.”
“Did you use mind control after all?”
“I can’t help it. I want to be sure to use it in the future.”
“Anyway, what are you going to do with the tamed beast?!”
The man’s eyes looking at Envy were too bright.
Using mind control was like having no reason to monitor anymore.
“I think it will be hard to find.”
At those words, the man’s complexion hardened too much.
“…what?”
“Instead, we will treat the remaining demonic beasts.”
“Jeep… that’s all. I can’t help it. They are not the ones money can buy.”
“However, I think you will have to monitor it in the future.”
“why? Haven’t you entered mental control properly?”
“It is, but something is strange.”
“Well… you’re weird, so I’ll have to keep monitoring you. So, when are you going to treat the beasts?”
Healing the beasts could be done right away, but the problem was that in order to do that, the pilgrim had to be taken to the man’s hideout.
“Can you bring those beasts out?”
“That is impossible. Will it melt as soon as you take the capsule out?”
“Then we need a little more time…”
“Oh, no! I mean, it’s urgent. Even now, they are forcibly preventing the body from collapsing.”
“The pilgrim still needs to be watched. You never know what will happen if you take it to your lab prematurely.”
Envy was vehemently opposed, but it was not the time for men to procrastinate any longer.
“I will take responsibility. If we don’t supply the beasts now, everything we’ve tested so far will be gone.”
“under…”
“yes? It’s been an experiment for 5 years! Just a little bit more and it’s done?”
I did not trust the word “completed” at all, but there were quite a few cases where the results that had failed while conducting this experiment were rather beneficial.
Forcing a door to overflow, or controlling where and when a door appears, etc.
“All right. Instead, please pull the position of the beasts toward the most entrance.”
“Of course! That is quite possible.”
The uncontrollable anxiety continued to dry Envy, but now she couldn’t help it.
“You said it was urgent, so prepare now. I will take the pilgrim by tomorrow!”
“nice! Also Envy! There is only you.”
I didn’t know the time would come so soon to give orders to the pilgrims, but it could have been an opportunity.
‘Give us a chance to quickly build trust. pilgrim.’
So Envy immediately gave orders to the pilgrims.
I’ll use my power tomorrow, so wait at the hotel.
