chapter 30
Episode 30 Metamorphosis (2)
Late afternoon.
Underground parking lot of Sungjin Group building.
Seo Eun-ha was waiting undercover in her SUV vehicle along with three of her own team members.
It was to contact director Kim Hak-yong, whom Kang Seo-jun designated as Mine.
-Tuk.
Mr. Go leaned his head against the window and muttered with dead eyes.
“My weekend….”
Seeing that, Seo Eun-ha, who was sitting in the driver’s seat, said.
“I’ll give you a password starting Friday next week.”
“I will work hard!”
The time is already 8:02.
According to Kang Seo-jun’s words, Director Kim Hak-yong said he would work until 8 o’clock and then leave, so he should have come down to the parking lot any minute now.
“Everyone, get ready. The target will appear soon.”
The team members did not hide their expressions of confusion while checking their weapons.
“Team leader. Do you really believe what that man said? Director Kim Hak-yong is a mine person. No matter what he said, I think this case is a bit absurd.”
Seo Eun-ha shook her head.
“I’m sorry. This is what we were asked to do. And all we have to do is use holy water to confirm the man’s identity. If the man is mistaken, there will be no bloodshed.”
At that time, one of the team members looked ahead and said.
“Team leader. There’s a target over there.”
A middle-aged man, so ordinary that you could never assume he was Mine, was coming out the door, loosening his tie.
“Everyone remembers the briefing, right?”
The briefing content is simple.
If the opponent transforms into a demon, he is immediately surrounded.
After that, they took turns increasing the distance until the demon’s power was exhausted.
“Yes. No problem.”
“I understand everything.”
“Okay. Operation begins.”
Seo Eun-ha dryly announced the start of the operation and the team members got out of the car.
-Tap, knock, knock.
As the sound of several footsteps approached him, Director Kim Hak-yong stopped his steps and looked back.
“Huh?”
Seo Eun-ha walked in front of him, bowed briefly, and introduced herself.
“Hello. Director Kim Hak-yong. Performance Department Team 2 team leader. My name is Seo Eun-ha.”
Kim Hak-yong looked at each team member with a friendly smile and asked.
“Yes, Eunha. I know. But what happened…?”
“Excuse me for a moment.”
Seo Eun-ha instructed her team members to capture Director Kim Hak-yong with hand signals.
“W-what!?”
The process of checking whether the opponent was a demon or a human could never have been gentle.
If you ask for understanding that you will pour holy water from now on, the other person may use some kind of trick.
Assistant Manager Goh and his team held Director Kim Hak-yong’s arms and gave him strength.
Before director Kim Hak-yong could apply strength to shake off his arm,
-Oh my!
Seo Eun-ha poured holy water from a glass bottle onto Director Kim Hak-yong’s face.
“…….”
“…….
-Suddenly. Pop.
Shiny liquid ran down Director Kim Hak-yong’s cheek and dripped from the tip of his chin.
“What is this…?”
But there was no change.
He just didn’t hide his displeasure at the sudden thunderstorm.
With that consistent attitude, Assistant Manager Ko and the team members also sensed something was wrong and relaxed their grip.
“Put this down!”
Director Kim Hak-yong shook off the arm that was roughly grabbed.
The team members just looked at Seo Eun-ha with an expression like ‘I think I got this wrong?’
“I will report this matter to the superiors. What kind of kid… Is this a joke?”
Director Kim Hak-yong shook his head and walked back to his car.
‘Did I guess wrong…? ?’
The time when Seo Eun-ha looked blankly at Director Kim Hak-yong’s receding back.
– Shake it off.
Suddenly, Director Kim Hak-yong fell down on his knees.
“Ah…. Ah…. Ahhh!”
Then he started screaming as if he was on fire, clutching his face.
“Tea, team leader!?”
“Wait! Look over there!”
Director Kim Hak-yong’s back seemed to slowly swell, and then black thorns popped out, transforming into an appearance that was far from human.
“What… What did you spray? Ah…!”
Director Kim Hak-yong’s voice is completely different from before.
It was a voice of denial, thick, low, disgusting, and a mixture of various voices.
Seo Eun-ha quickly assessed the situation and gave instructions.
“It’s a demon! Everyone prepare for battle! Draw your weapons!”
“Yes, yes!”
“Gee, it’s really a demon!”
Even though the team members were embarrassed, their bodies moved calmly according to Seo Eun-ha’s instructions.
“Aaaaahhh――――!”
-Kwakwang! Quang!
Mine, who had grown so large that it reached the ceiling of her parking lot, grabbed her melting face with one hand and overturned the cars around her with her other hand as if to vent her anger.
“Be careful of the debris! Everyone, raise your shields and get into formation! Get into position!”
“To the location!”
Seo Eun-ha and her team quickly climbed over the rubble and blocked Director Kim Hak-yong from all sides.
“Who are you? Who has a plan that took 25 years to complete?”
Director Kim Hak-yong swung his huge claws at his team members as if he had lost his mind.
Those huge, hideous nails were weapons that far surpassed bear claws.
-Kagagagagak!
Seo Eun-ha managed to dodge it with her shield and stabbed her own favorite sword, her sword, into her counter.
-Tang!
However, Seo Eun-ha’s sword could not pierce his hard armor-like skin.
“What?”
“Put the toys away!!!”
Mine wriggled her huge muscles and gave Seo Eun-ha a bad omen.
-Kagagagak!
Seo Eun-ha’s shield had deep indentations from her fingernails.
If the claws hit like this a few more times, the shield will break.
-Boo!
Once again, the devil’s bad omen is shaken.
-Kagak!
This time, a bad omen was embedded in her shield.
‘That’s it!’
This was what Seo Eun-ha was aiming for.
Seo Eun-ha twisted her shield to keep her evil omen from falling off the shield.
“Go, Darry!”
Then they shouted a signal to bring out the secret weapon they had been hiding.
“Yep!”
Go took out the hilt of a sword without a blade from his chest.
It is the anti-magic weapon that Kang Seo-jun handed over to Seo Eun-ha a while ago.
It was a lightsaber.
Go Daeri infused mana into his sword and ran.
Soon, a long, pure white blade sprouted from the hilt of the sword.
“What—! What?!”
The pure white blade cut wide across the demon’s spine.
-Chaaaaa!
“K-! Kwaaaaa!!”
The armor-like skin that had been repelling the blade cracked long and thin.
Purple liquid gushed out like a fountain from the long wound.
While Mine was struggling in pain, Seo Eun-ha removed the bad omen from his shield, and the other team members also adjusted their positions.
“How…! How on earth-!”
Mine seemed to have lost her mind and swung her bad omen in all directions.
However, the flow of the fight is a repeat of the previous battle.
The shield blocks, Go Dae-ri cuts, and the rest of the team blocks the Majin’s retreat.
Mine, who had been cut several times by the late Deputy’s lightsaber, soon collapsed on the spot.
As the magical energy drained from her wounds, her large body gradually shrunk, drying out and twisting like an old mummy.
“Seo, I can’t believe it’s true….”
The battle was won, but no one on the security team looked relieved.
“The man was right.”
Executive of Sungjin Group. A major incident occurred where a high-ranking official was revealed to be a spy for Mine.
“How on earth do you get this kind of information…!”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Kang Seo-jun’s dormitory.
‘It will be at least tomorrow for Seo Eun-ha to get the necklace from Mine….’
There is still time until tomorrow.
There was only one thing Kang Seo-jun could do.
Mana practice.
[Magic experience increases slightly due to poor mana practice.]
[Magic experience increases slightly due to poor mana practice.]
[Lucky Bonus! Great luck will come into play and inspire your practice! Magic experience increases significantly!]
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If you practice mana every time you have time like this, you will be able to raise [Basic Mana Practice Lv. Low] To the normal level in the near future.
If you raise your mana practice to the normal level, you can learn [Circle Meditation], Which engraves a ring on the heart to supply pure mana, or the Neigong Heart method, which is taught in 2nd to 3rd class sects.
[Strength experience increases by stealing the host’s experience!]
[Durability experience increases by stealing the host’s experience!]
[Strength experience increases by stealing the host’s experience!]
Park Shin-hoo also seems to be putting more effort into training, as if he was stimulated by this afternoon’s sparring.
My magic power and physical ability are steadily increasing, so I think that at this rate, it won’t be long before I reach the level of an ordinary cadet.
The moment I think about that.
-Ding Dong.
“Huh?”
Someone rang the front door bell.
-Ding Dong.
As soon as Kang Seo-jun paused a little, the front door bell rang again.
Kang Seo-jun looked at the clock.
The time is now 3 am.
It was far past the dormitory curfew.
It was not the time for someone to come visit.
-Ding Dong.
The doorbell rang once more.
If Kang Seo-jun doesn’t come, he has the momentum to press until tomorrow morning.
“What kind of bullshit event is this?”
Kang Seo-jun got up with a groan and walked to the intercom.
And the moment I lifted the intercom, the front door camera showed the cute little head of my head.
Kang Seo-jun spoke into the intercom.
“It’s very late. Who are you?”
“……It’s me. Serin.”
The answer that came back was a voice that was far from what Kang Seo-jun had expected.
When the cute little crown lifted her head, Jin Serin’s face was truly reflected on the screen.
“Huh?”
“I found out your identity.”
“What!?”
What on earth is this all of a sudden in the middle of the night?