Chapter 756 – 747 Dark Forest
“Then… I will reap my powers.”
Kang Hyuk-Jun, who had been sobbing for a while, gathered his abilities with a much more relaxed face, as if he had cut out part of his heart that had rotted along with his tears.
The lines like purple smoke that flowed from the top of his head stopped, and a haze like purple smoke no longer blooms on the ground dug up by fantasy.
Kang Hyeok-jun, who had been sitting with his eyes closed for about 10 minutes, opened his eyes and saw that the red color filling his iris had greatly decreased.
At first, the red color was filled beyond the aperture, but now it looks like it is only slightly submerged in the lower part of the iris.
“Cool!”
He covers his mouth with his hand and coughs out, but red blood splatters to the left and right of the covered hand.
“Mr. Kang Hyuk-jun. That…”
Kang Hyuk-jun, who has a pale face and a troubled smile.
“It’s a price. The price for using my ability.”
“…”
“My ability is a curse that turns opponents into remote-controlled bombs. If you are cursed…”
When cursed, the skin turns purple. The higher the concentration of the curse, the stronger the purple color, and the stronger the purple color, the stronger the power when it explodes.
“If someone is attacked by a cursed person, the attacked person is also cursed. It’s an epidemic.”
“… What if the curse explodes?”
“There are three conditions for the curse to explode. The one I explode, when the concentration of the curse reaches its maximum, and the last time the cursed person dies. If it explodes when the skin turns purple close to black… Destructive power equal to that of a missile. When it explodes, it infects people around it. The scope of infection is… It will be about the size of an elementary school playground.”
Elementary school playgrounds must secure 2 square meters of playground per student.
A school playground with 500 elementary school students is 2,500 square meters, roughly 750 pyeong, but when converted to meters, the width is approximately 500 meters.
It is similar in scale to Amya’s Tanwang ability, Bomb, but the difference is that Kang Hyuk-Jun’s Spirit Bomb Curse is accompanied by physical force when it explodes.
In addition, Tanwang’s infection bomb also infects the soul, but Kang Hyeok-jun’s curse does not have a soul infection function.
It seems that the reason why the high-ranking soul master couldn’t see the soul was included in the ability variation.
There is nothing wrong with this.
What if the soul left on the earth, filled with resentment, cannot be seen even by the eyes of the spiritual master and continues to rot?
At any time, evil spirits or mixed spirits will corrupt and scatter ash in all directions.
This means that large-scale mixed flooding can occur.
Hwanin said while making notes in his head of the story he was going to tell Daesungnyeo.
“It’s not a problem to erase a city if you want to. Does the explosion range have anything to do with infection stacks?”
“It seemed that the range gradually increased as the infection was repeated.”
As Tanwang’s Soul Bomb stacks, the infection range increases by multiples of the last explosion.
If you infect a large city with a real population of 100,000 and detonate it in turn, the final explosion may cover the entire continent.
However, Kang Hyuk-jun’s curse didn’t seem to be that much. Instead of adding physical power, the increase in range must have been greatly reduced.
Hwanin took out his handkerchief and handed it to him to wipe the blood off his hand.
“That price is… Is it life after all?”
“… Yes. In the future, at least my lifespan is one month… If it’s short, I think it’s about 10 days. It took life and used it to increase its power.”
I guess so.
Hwanin is well aware of how ridiculously fast he has become strong in half a decade.
I’m not stupid and I wouldn’t know.
However, ordinary people tend to have a gentler growth curve.
Kang Hyeok-jun, who has not been awakened for less than 5 years, chose to curse while devoting his life to revenge quickly rather than taking a long time for revenge.
The fact that he found a way to increase his power by dedicating his life is an example that he also has quite excellent qualities.
If his personality had been a little cool and calm, the situation would have developed completely differently.
The incident would have occurred after the return of the Hwanin, and the result would have led to the extinction of the Nionebreth human race.
‘If I was a little late, it would have been a big deal.’
He wondered if his arrival in Colaido at this time was literally guided by God, or should I say it was just a coincidence.
Looking at this kind of tail, the idea that Nionebreath is not a place for people to live is solidified.
Even if you try to get a little closer, your hair will come out.
The world can be ruined by just one terrorist. It’s normal to not want to live unless you get shot in the head.
After wiping the blood off his hand, Kang Hyeok-jun looked at his handkerchief and Hwanin alternately and tried to hide it, but Hwanyeon took the handkerchief and washed it clean with a water spirit.
Only then did Kang Hyuk-jun, who noticed the existence of Hwan-yeon, open his eyes a little wide.
“Has the curse been lifted?”
“Ah yes. It seemed the curse had spread beyond Beltical… I took it all. Except for the Evil Faction in the Dark Forest.”
Is it possible to cancel designation? I also don’t have any qualities.
“Why did you leave Evil Faction behind?”
“It’s a monster that eats people…”
“I think that is a matter for the people of this world to take care of themselves. It would be good to lift the curse on the evil faction as well.”
“Ah… Yes.”
Hyukjun Kang closed his eyes again and this time he opened them faster than before and nodded his head.
“It’s done.”
“Then let’s go.”
As he left the giant tree, Kang Hyeok-jun furrowed his eyebrows as he saw the evil facts strewn all over the floor.
As a result of talking with Kang Hyuk-jun a little more, Hwan-in confirmed that his predictions were roughly correct.
Kang Hyeok-jun awakened his ability as a psychiatrist along with Dark Night’s Tanwang ability.
He devoted himself to the Evil Faction in order to use the Evil Faction for revenge with curses, domination by a mind mage, and brainwashing ability.
“Since they are monsters that prey on their own kind, I thought it was a perfect fit. But… Seeing even newborn babies eat them…”
“It must have been a kind of bait for them that they were aiming for the Memory Stone of Collido.”
“Yes… They were monsters who had suffered great damage from Johann Gunsmith’s interception system after attacking Colado, so it worked well because they were shaking gun production as a carrot.”
Mind control and brainwashing were so powerful that it was said that it was only possible to control about 10 people.
Five out of ten curse it, attack it, and rule it again for the number of dead. And the remaining five were used to control the Evil Faction.
He used the memory stone as bait to control it.
When I saw Kang Hyuk-jun walking down beside me while listening to my story, I thought he was very small.
My height seems to be a little over 150, and my weight has been dragging out my life span, and I have lost weight because I don’t have enough to eat, so I feel like I weigh less than 40kg now.
Wouldn’t it be similar to the weight of a girl in the lower grades of elementary school?
“Mr. Hwanin. That memory stone…”
“I thought it would be a problem if the contents inside the memory stone spread, so I destroyed it in front of people.”
“Yes…”
Hearing that the memory stone was destroyed, Kang Hyuk-jun smiled lightly.
He is Kang Hyeok-jun, who knows how much the Colaido lawmakers cherish him. Breaking it in front of people.
Faith in Hwanin grows stronger. As a result, Kang Hyuk-jun’s original tendency was revealed a little.
His disposition to depend on others well and trust others well.
“You are also a teacher.”
“… Yes?”
“It would have been more comfortable to kill me, but instead of killing me, you worry about my revenge until after death… Millions would have died had it not been for you.”
Hwanin was silent for a moment, then answered.
“The actions of Mr. Kang Hyuk-jun were the actions of a terrorist, but in terms of the order of the right and the wrong, the Fleurs have a big problem. That’s why I took Kang Hyuk-jun’s side.”
“Even so… Normal people blame terrorists.”
“Then let’s just say I’m a bit rational.”
Kang Hyeok-jun laughed at Hwan-in’s shameless tone, then coughed, covering his mouth with his fist clenched.
That figure is a celestial woman.
Looking at him like that, Hwanin came up with a slightly unpleasant hypothesis.
‘The possibility that the sodomy people used their hands…’
I’d love to, but it seems worth going back and checking.
It’s a contract to release his resentment and hatred, so you should dig as much as you can.
As he left the giant tree, Immorel and Norn landed in front of him.
Kang Hyeok-jun opened his eyes wide at his aunt Rel, then looked back at Hwanin, but he seemed to have a misunderstanding and denied that he was Hwanin like a knife.
“Imorell was a Fleur ranger who tried to assassinate me. After she died, she took her redemption line, which left only her soul, and gave it to her core body in the labyrinth to use as a servant.”
“Ah…”
「Hwanin. Who is that human?」
“Said… ?!”
At first glance, it is a beautiful green beast, but Kang Hyuk-jun is surprised to see it talking like a human.
“This is Kang Hyuk-jun. He is the central figure in this case.”
“That bad guy?”
“It’s not such a simple matter to judge. Mr. Hyukjun Kang, this is Norslinen, the queen and divine beast of the Ques. They are my friends and family.”
Kang Hyuk-jun, who had been depressed for a moment at the word bad guy, bowed his head.
In the meantime, Hwanin instructed Imorel to go inside and bring something like a large, sturdy cloth.
Norn would definitely not want to ride Kang Hyuk-jun on his back. That said, being caught by Norn’s feet and flying away is unreasonable given her current state of health.
Immorelle brought her oversized cloth and placed a solid wooden board the size of her cushion, and also brought a leather fur to replace the cushion.
“Mr. Kang Hyuk-jun. Immorell will give you a ride back to Colaido. Go up there in the midst of the cloth.”
“Eh, like this?”
“You’d better sit down comfortably.”
Kang Hyeok-jun sat down on the fur that had been spread like a cushion, and Imorel grabbed the four corners of the cloth, tied them together, and flapped his six wings to fly away.
“How is it?”
“Oh, it’s very comfortable.”
=I can go to Colaido without any problems.
Hwanin nodded at Kang Hyeok-jun’s appreciation and Immorel’s judgment, soared high into the sky on the yolk and dropped the strengthened cheongyeongju into the village of Evil Faction.
Kwakwagwang… !!!
Along with deafening explosions, flashes of light dispelling the darkness of the night color the world for dozens of seconds.
Kang Hyeok-jun, who was being held by his aunt Lel like a baby carried by a stork at the explosion soaring like a pillar of light, could see his mouth slightly open.
Hwanin looked at Kang Hyukjun with a dazed expression and looked down at the traces of the village of Evil Faction that had disappeared without a trace, and the kilometer-wide crater with fire spreading around it.
‘The requirements for awakening are unclear, but just in case.’
One of the prevalent superstitions in Nionebreth is the theory that ‘eagerness’ leads to career awakening.
According to the theory, the evil faction who witnessed Kang Hyeok-jun’s rare job would hope for the awakening of the job with earnestness, and even if not, the abilities of the dark king and the spirit mage could be passed down through word of mouth.
There, that village has a taste for attacking humans.
I don’t know about other evil faction villages, but the answer is to clean up that place.
“Hwanyeon, put out the fire by making it rain.”
“Okay.”
The higher-level spirits of water summoned by fantasy rain locally and slowly wet the forest of darkness that is about to spread with fire.
Thanks to a somewhat leisurely flight, when I returned to Colado, it was dawn when the sky was spreading dark blue like paint.
When I get down to the balcony of the hotel room where I am staying, the women who have been waiting all night open the door and come out.
=Master.=
=Doryeong!=
“I went. Were there any problems while you were away?”
= The market has gone. They said they would completely reinvestigate the case of Kang Hyuk-jun and Yoon Mi-rae and root out the wrongdoings.”
“It’s not like fixing a barn after losing a cow.”
At Hwanin’s sarcastic tone, Anne nodded her head slightly, then turned her gaze to the large sack that her aunt Reel was carefully putting down and asked.
= How did you go? What is that thing Immore brought?=
Pong— Baek Ryeo-gang, who dressed Norn, who returned to the form of a girl by releasing the mythical flower, looked into it and was startled.
Isn’t the dark haired woman crouching down as if she has fainted?
“I am Kang Hyuk-jun. I’ll go in and tell you the details. Imorell, take him to the little room and lay him down and watch.”
=Yes, Lord Seongje.=
Hyeokjun Kang? You said you brought Kang Hyuk-jun?
The wide-eyed women opened their eyes even wider when they saw a little girl coming out of the bag.
You mean that girl is Hyukjun Kang?
= Now, honey? Maybe it’s not Kang Hyuk-jun, but Yoon Mi-rae… ?=
In reality, she is crazy about her husband’s dead grudge and is taking revenge thinking that she is Kang Hyuk-jun, or deliberately planning a revenge play in the name of her husband?
He explains that fantasy is not like that in Yurpa’s chaos.
“That’s right man. I even checked with the spirits.”
=… With.=
Surprisingly, Hwanin, sitting in the living room with the women following her, took a sip of the coffee Isilite brewed and let out a small sigh.
I spent about 5 hours on Norn’s back, traveling about 1,200 km round trip, and spent about 4 hours wandering around the dark forest.
It seems that the strong black coffee awakens the slightly tired body and mind from the use of core power and spiritual energy.
And slowly, he summarized and explained everything.
After hearing everything that had happened the previous night, the women nodded their heads or furrowed their eyebrows in agreement.
In general, it was as expected by Hwanin, but it should be said as expected. Even in that situation, it is amazing that he avoided the worst and brought out the best with calm judgment.
If it were them, they would have made the situation worse by simply killing Hyuk-jun Kang or capturing him and leaving.
His keen eye and judgment, which did not miss the strangeness of the moment, are astonishing.
Yurpa murmured while blowing away her drowsiness with bitter black tea.
=You used your lifespan to exert such a powerful effect… I only have about 10 days to live…=
=Did you guess Kang Hyukjun’s condition?=
“No. Since there are so many documents left in the archives of Yeongdo, I just thought that King Tan of the dark night might have 7th or 8th grade abilities. I moved based on that. He thinks that if he’s weaker than him, he’s lucky, and if he’s strong, he’s out of luck on this side.”
It is a reasonable decision.
Anne, who nodded her head, revealed her concern a little.
=Doryeong, what would you do if the aristocrat of Syresea denied the allegation? What if the city lord won’t give up the nobility?=
“Then we should rehearse what we are going to do in the passage. If you simply deny the allegation, it is enough to show that you are interrogating with a soul.”
After confirming the crime, you can kill it and make it into a soul to confess the crime.
If you use force, you can make them tell lies, but a transcendental person like Asin says it’s better not to lie, so you should avoid that.
“Isilite. I’m hungry.”
=I’ll have breakfast ready in a little while, can’t you wait?=
“I am very hungry. Said it flew for 5 hours. I put a lot of effort into the Evil Faction Village…」
=Then eat this and bear with it a little longer. I’ll make you something delicious for breakfast.=
“Huh!”
Isilite took out two rice ball lunchboxes from her food bag to the hungry Norn and opened her mouth as she looked at her ghost.
=All that remains is to decide what kind of punishment will be given to that noble?=
= Well, since I am a noble, the punishment will follow the city rules…=
Isilite furrowed her eyebrows at the story of Ah-young, who glanced sideways at the grilled rice balls Norn was eating deliciously.
=If it’s a city rule, it’s written in favor of the nobility. Do you intend to pay a few gold coins and see your pardon?=
=But the punishments my brother does are something that gives me a sense of dignity. Will Hyuk-Jun Kang, who is in that state, be relieved of such punishment?
… Elegance? As her Hwan-in slightly frowned at the tips of her eyebrows, A-young said, “Look,” And starts to pick her fingers one by one.
= Jeok-goong, that idiot… Sorry. Even though that poor bastard did such a thing, you just finished it by sending all the water spirits to Hebült. He was the best warrior in the Qing Dynasty who killed Chi Hong and killed his colleague in the agency.=
After that, Man-Yeop and Cheong were moved to adjust the post-action retaliation, but the method of sanctions was so cool that the effect was felt desperately as time passed without blood staining with hands.
Isn’t that also classy? To the extent that any nobleman in Radsea, Hebült, Heathrond, or Merianol could only admire it = well, that’s a very aristocratic way!
= Using the poisonous teeth of the Savior to make it collapse on its own was also a way to set an example for nobles. Even in Sproul, my brother didn’t act directly, but with a few words, the lord committed suicide, and the citizens acted directly to ensure that the guilty ones were properly punished. In Palatum, even the leader of the knights, whose name I don’t remember, lost his position and status through indirect means without using his hands.=
= The neat way Ayoung organized you and the assassins of Karax is bound to nod her head. =
Ah-yeong laughs awkwardly at Anne’s story and scratches her lavender-colored hair.
= That’s what I said. I thought Kang Hyuk-jun wouldn’t be convinced if I punished him with such a dignified aristocratic style again. Then he will have to leave it to the city rules, but that seems to be like what Ishilite said. =
“Do not worry. Because this time, I’m going to organize it in a way that will stimulate people’s primal hatred. Of course, Kang Hyuk-jun’s opinion should be taken into account.”
This, human’s primal hatred… ? What method are you trying to use?
The women felt a chill run through Hwanin’s calm tone and brushed their arms.
Fleurs have a long lifespan. Usually, it is twice as long as the general race, and three times more than it is long.
That’s why there are many evaluations that I’m relatively relaxed from work to life, but this time I couldn’t show off that relaxed.
Furthermore, at Hwanin’s sentence, “If you don’t finish the nobility case until I sort things out, I’ll throw you all together and ask for your crimes.”
In particular, the members of the City Council really had no choice but to run around like foals when they heard the news that they had returned after arranging an Evil Faction village in the Dark Forest in one day, and that they had even captured Kang Hyuk-Jun.
If I showed a rough-and-tumble, Colaido would end up like that Evil Faction village.
However, the family of Lord Siresea was different.
= Our nobles let someone die… ? What should I do? =
The Lord Syresea and his subordinate nobles, who have a similar status and status to the City Council of Colaido, reacted indifferently to the city council’s request…
Kwagwagwagwang!!! Cuguaguagua… Kwaguagwang——!!!
My soul fled when I witnessed the feast of soul explosions falling ceaselessly as if besieging the city, just 200m away from the walls of Syresea.
A chain of great explosions, as if an 8th grade earth mage was unfolding.
Piles of earth and rock fragments rising from the top of the wall are poured into the city, and the wall is shaken as if it will collapse in the aftermath of the violent explosion.
It was only for a moment that the city, four times the size of Yeouido, fell into panic as the houses beyond the wall would crack or collapse due to the impact transmitted through the ground.
And Hwanin, who committed such a thing in an instant, was facing the lord at the lord’s castle in Syresea.
“Lord Syresea. Do you want to fight me now?”
= That, that, that, that, that…=
“You should have been sufficiently contacted by the Communications Revision and Telecommunications Office with the full story of what happened two days ago in Colado and further requests…”
=Seo, Seongje-nim! Sungjae, wait a minute… !=
“But what did you say, ‘What?’ How can you say what to do with a request with clear evidence? I really wonder how many times I will have to physically hit the lord’s ship for you to understand.”
=Heeik, I’m sorry!!=
Even if there was some fault on this side, it was a job to hand over the nobles belonging to the city.
As a lord, I had to show the level of protecting the nobility, so I tried to respond appropriately after setting up sides and adjusting my responsibilities a little through consultations and talks.
No way, on the same day that the reply was sent, within 20 minutes, Seongje himself came to visit, tear down the wall, and thrust in the light spear!
As I tried to face Seongje to see if it was true that I had reached the top of Asin, my chin trembled and my body wouldn’t stop convulsing as if I were standing naked on the ice in Antarctica.
Beyond the all-glass balcony, the 70m high castle wall collapses in clouds of dust, the lord sees it.
After all, you’re going to fight Passage because you have that kind of power, right?!
The Fleur tribe lord ran away before he knew it, and knelt down in front of Hwanin in the empty reception room, bowing his head and shouting.
=Immediately hand over the culprits, search for those involved, arrest them, and send them to Colaido!! Yes! I’ll move right away!!
“Lord Syresea. I’m running out of patience right now. If the criminal does not arrive in Colado within 3 hours…”
Hwanin smiled softly.
“I think the lord would appreciate it if he knew that he didn’t know what his lack of patience might do.”
=… I will immediately transfer the criminal with the space teleportation method ah… !!!=
In this way, the actions of Hwanin in Syresea were relayed to Colaido in real time, and the city council was upset again.
If you move properly like this, the soul art bombardment of the Holy Emperor will fall on Colaido this time.
It is the mayor who saw with his own eyes that he was in a very bad mood when he met with Seongje on the morning of the day he captured Kang Hyeok-jun.
What does it mean that the culprit has been caught and the situation is ending smoothly, but I am still in a very bad mood?
The story that there is room for error in Colaido.
The mayor declared a state of emergency on a large scale, and declared a general mobilization order, so that all the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th cavalry units, as well as members of the House of Representatives, merchant cooperatives, wizards’ associations, adventurers’ associations, and Mercenaries existing in Colaido Member of the guild… Anyway, I gathered all the workers and raided the back alley organizations in Colaido.
=Even if you resist, don’t kill me!=
=You can cut off your limbs! Kill but don’t!!=
12 hours after the sweeping operation under the special order of the mayor, who urgently mobilized even the priests of the Church of the Earth God with the city reserve.
= Holy priest, all the presumed criminals were tied up in the central square of the city and put on their knees. The same goes for Viscount Syresea, who initiated this incident.=
“Great. Let’s go to put an end to this.”
=Yes.=
The murder of the Kolaido Plane Wanderer was running toward an end.
