Episode 132 [Blessing all around (5)]
Basement of the main palace.
Inside the bloody warehouse, an awakened person was screaming with a terrified face.
“No, I can’t die! No, just let me die!”
But those who approached him ignored his cries. The people approaching were the colleagues who had been chatting with him just a moment ago.
The awakened person eventually shot flames at his colleagues. Gorgeous flames burned the surroundings, but the comrades ignored the flames and rushed at the awakened person.
“No!”
The flame died out with a scream. He had died at the hands of his colleagues.
A blood-soaked corpse fell to the ground, and expressionless awakeners stepped aside to the corpse.
“Tsk tsk. Just die comfortably. “What a waste this is.”
The man who had been watching from afar approached, clicking his tongue.
There were too many mangled bodies from what happened during the day. It was okay to refill it, but it was still a hassle.
But he risked the trouble. There has been no word yet that the assassin’s body has been found.
Just in case, he created a corps focused on awakened people this time.
He placed his hands on the body. He was the last slave.
If you just make this corpse move again, you will replenish your broken army.
He poured his mana into the corpse.
“Move. “My slave.”
Wiggle.
The body twitched.
But that was it. The body did not move again.
He looked puzzled. This has never happened before.
The reason he differentiated himself from other awakened people and took over this kingdom was all because of his ability to endlessly raise the dead.
After becoming an awakened person for the first time and reanimating the dead family, Lieutenant General Lee Seong-hyeok came to see how he knew.
And thanks to its different characteristics from others, it was subjected to endless experiments.
But perhaps it was thanks to all those experiments, he became awakened once more.
This time, the number of people who can move has increased to dozens, and even dead awakened people can now move.
With that power, he overthrew this kingdom and took over it, but this was the first time problems arose.
“Why?”
The awakened one, Park Ja-cheol, looked at the motionless corpse with puzzled eyes.
There was only one person who didn’t listen, but it was unacceptable to him.
He searched for memories.
“My corpse was mangled by an assassin in the morning.”
But when they were broken, the mana came back properly.
“And the South Korean soldier whose connection was lost in the middle of the night…”
Park Ja-cheol suddenly raised his head.
When the connection was lost last night, it definitely felt different than other times.
It feels like the mana isn’t coming back because the body is broken, but it’s just cut off. No, it seemed like the mana had disappeared.
At the time, I just thought it was strange, but now that I think about it, it was definitely different from other times.
“Wasn’t the assassin an awakened sniper trait? Or are there other awakened people?”
Park Sa-cheol muttered with a serious expression. His expression gradually became distorted.
It was bad. Although there was still only one person, his legion had been reduced. Moreover, there was no guarantee that it would end with just one person.
He gave orders to the people standing around him.
“find! “Find the assassin even if you have to search through all the piled up stones!”
“Search all of Pyongyang! “There may be more assassin colleagues!”
The managers rushed out at his words.
He looked at the commander of the still remaining Awakened unit.
“trash. What happened to your trait that found me and pulled out the Awakened like tweezers? “How much alcohol do you have to drink for the trait to go away?”
When he first created the Awakened unit, he was the manager who found all the hidden Awakened people with their characteristics and made them members of the unit.
However, that characteristic disappeared after finding Park Ja-cheol. He has turned into an ordinary awakened person without any abilities.
Lieutenant General Lee Seong-hyuk made no protest despite the insulting words.
“I’m alive because of my daughter. “Thank you, daughter.”
Park Ja-cheol insulted him until the end and then led the people out of the underground warehouse.
Only the awakened man and his corpse remained in the warehouse.
The lieutenant general stared at the corpse. His own situation was no different from this corpse.
Alive, but that’s it.
However,
the lieutenant general’s hand, which had been hanging down, was gradually clenched.
The opportunity has finally come to me, who had been buttering me up like a corpse.
His fists were clenched. Tendons protruded from my hands.
Ugh.
Blurry light began to flow from the hand.
His characteristics did not disappear.
It was just hidden.
After seeing the awakened person he brought become a laboratory rat, he never used it again.
And now he has grown one step further.
“The search for mutant humans.”
He quietly muttered the keyword that would activate his characteristic and opened his fist.
Pow.
The moment I opened my hand, mana spread out in all directions.
In the past, he had the ability to check only one area, but now half of Pyongyang city is within his search.
Numerous manas appeared in his mind. The awakened people in the palace, Park Ja-cheol, and those who became his corpse.
The awakened people in the awakened unit building and the newly increased number of awakened people hiding in various places in Pyongyang.
And
“Ugh!”
the lieutenant general stopped detecting with a groan.
“Oh my god. This kind of power…”
Mana so strong that he was shocked just by detecting it was caught in his detection.
It was a power I had never seen before in my life. I don’t believe it exists. “Unknown power. I have never felt this kind of power, not even from mutant monsters.
As soon as it got dark, he left the Presidential Palace. He headed straight for the building where he could feel that enormous power.
***
This is why I came here.”
Lieutenant General Lee Seong-hyeok finished his story with both hands raised.
The place he was standing was inside the entrance of the building where he could feel the power.
The moment he was about to enter the building, there was someone blocking him.
It was a high-tech drone that had never been seen in the Republic.
Drone stopped him and asked him why he came here, and he honestly told the whole story. It
was the last fight where he gave everything up anyway. There was no reason to measure this and that.
This and that.
After a while, a man wearing sunglasses came down the stairs.
He recognized it right away.
It was that man. Cold sweat ran down the back of the lieutenant general’s head.
Gyeong-hoon looked at the general with a curious expression. He had never seen anyone look at him like that before.
The general was scared as if he were standing in front of a tiger. He had a eaten face.
Even in front of the king of the dead, his expression did not change and the man who had endured all kinds of insults was shaking his hands when he saw Gyeong-hoon. It
was then.
“Are you okay?”
There was a girl sticking her head out from the ledge of the stairs and speaking.
At that moment, the tension was broken.
The shaking hands stopped and the pressure disappeared.
The general looked at the girl with a puzzled expression. It was a cute girl, younger than his daughter.
Kyung-hoon also looked at Da-hee with a curious expression.
– As she grew, she seemed to have given mental stability to those around her.
This also seemed to be a new trait of hers.
But Kyung-hoon looked at her with a frown.
“I told you to hide, right?”
“…But he looks like he’s not in good condition…”
It seemed like that could be seen as the trait was strengthened.
Moreover, Dahee had tears in her eyes as she looked at the general. It seemed like he had heard everything about the general.
Gyeonghoon gave up scolding him further and looked at the general again.
If you had heard his story for the first time, it would have been hard to believe, but Kyung-hoon had been hiding outside the window yesterday, listening to him drink.
-Reliability is over 90%.
Eve also agreed with his thoughts.
Kyunghoon introduced himself.
“It came from EV. “My name is Kay.”
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The general was pleased to hear Kyung-hoon say that he came out of EV to find out about the situation in North Korea.
The general also knew very well what EV was. Even though North Korea was closed, most people could hear such news once they reached that level.
“Then why did you shoot?”
“Necro… No, an awakened person who moves the dead is dangerous. So, I tried to check what the awakened person’s tendencies were… and he
turned out to be crazy.” The general nodded at Kyung-hoon’s words.
His originally narrow mind was ruined by the continued experiments. As the awakened person from EV said, Park Sa-cheol is crazy. “ So
this student stole his characteristics?”
The general pointed to Dahee. Kyung-hoon also looked back at Da-hee.
When the two people looked at each other, Dahee set her chin and looked smug. But since he wasn’t that big, he just looked cute.
“Honestly, wasn’t it possible to fight more during the day? “Looking at the amount of mana I have, I think I can fight.”
The general, who could see the amount of mana, knew Gyeonghun’s power better than anyone else in this world. With this much mana, it was impossible to estimate how great the shield would be.
“Well, I’ve never fought an armed helicopter before… Moreover, I don’t know how much longer it will stick out.”
The moment the combat helicopter fired a missile, Kyung-hoon gave up on fighting.
I could have continued the fight, but I didn’t have the confidence to kill my target.
Even he couldn’t know what would happen if soldiers and fighter jets flocked in while fighting like that.
However, the general was satisfied with Kyung-hoon’s perplexed expression.
“Then that’s enough. “You need to get his attention.”
“In the meantime, this girl just needs to chip away at his strength. He’s taking over this country with his army of corpses. “If the Legion disappears, we are just ordinary Awakened people.”
Dahee pointed at herself with round eyes.
“Me?”
“that’s right. Let the dead rest. “It’s so pitiful that you can’t rest even though you’re dead.”
The general’s words suddenly reminded Dahee of the corpse she saw at night.
Even after death, it appears to be shaking its body.
Dahee’s face turned a little pale, but she nodded eagerly.
“I will. I could.”
Kyung-hoon was lost in thought for a moment at her words.
The general’s words sounded quite plausible, but it was not easy to deal with Dahee separately.
-As expected, the evolution rate of awakened people in Pyongyang is much higher than in other places. The Necromancer must not be left alone.
However, Eve, who focuses on safety, also stubbornly pushed ahead this time. That said, the situation was urgent.
“There are people who share my thoughts. I will be with them. “This girl will be safe.”
The general spoke again. It seemed like he was worried that Kyung-hoon would reject him.
“What is the probability of success?”
-If there are no other variables, it is more than 70%.
Kyung-hoon made a decision after hearing Eve’s final answer.
He looked at the general. Mana leaked out of Kyung-Hoon’s body.
“As safe as possible. Even if we can’t handle a few people, we will withdraw if it looks dangerous. Well that’s enough. “I will finish it.”
At Gyeonghoon’s words, the general nodded, breaking into a cold sweat.
This time Kyung-hoon looked at Da-hee.
“Are you wearing earphones? I’ll also give you a camera attached to your clothes, so when you hear instructions from your earphones, just follow them and move. “You can promise, right?”
“yes! “I promise!”
Dahee clenched her fists.
