chapter 20
The strongest freelancer
“What are you going to do now?”
Yujin, who shook off her sword once, approached Siyoon, who was rummaging through the arms of the fallen servants.
“It looks like you got over a hurdle.”
“The warehouses here are all connected to the basement, so for now…”
At that moment, the yong-yeok who thought he was dead jumped up and shouted.
“Dead!”
Si-yoon instinctively pulled the trigger there.
Eugene screamed at the sudden gunshot.
“Wow!”
“…?”
Siyoon narrowed her brows and muttered as she looked back at Yujin.
“Kyaaak?”
“…”
Covering my mouth with both hands, he hiccupped and then let out a timid shout.
“Th-don’t shoot that suddenly! You were surprised!”
“…”
“What, what!”
“no. nothing.”
At that moment, Si-yoon saw that the tape that was tightly wrapping Yu-jin’s sword had been torn a little, probably because of the fight.
He tilted his head at the Chinese character for white lightly exposed above the handle.
‘hundred?’
Then, as if he had waited, a memory passed through his mind.
‘Come to think of it···.’
Wasn’t the name of the magic sword Ia-rin used until she used the holy sword, White Lotus Sword?
Thinking that far, Siyun looked back at Yujin again.
‘no way?’
Looking at it now, if you remove the heel of the shoe, you are very similar in height to Iarin I met before.
“Why, why?”
Eugene took a step back as if embarrassed.
Seeing that, Siyoon touched my forehead without even realizing it.
Arin Lee. Outside director of White Flame. Kim Seo-ah’s best friend. The escape point is Namyangju, where her home is located. A sword similar to the white lotus sword. similar height. From the scream just now, I guess the gender is female.
he didn’t want to know
But his extraordinary mind was putting all the puzzles together even though he didn’t like it.
Siyoon Choi sighed inwardly.
‘Huh…’
I already knew that Lee Ah-rin had a way to go out of her way, but I never imagined that she would come out of here.
“Hey, are you okay?”
He shook his head as he stared blankly at her, who was still sticking to his tone, which was not even funny.
“What did you mean from earlier?!”
“No, nothing.”
‘That Iarin is a concept person.’
It was a side that I had never seen or imagined in the game, so it was rather fresh.
He decided to pretend he didn’t know. The collaborator’s identity as a savior meant that he was strong in terms of power, so there was nothing to think too badly of it.
“Can you move?”
Siyoon looked at the father of the lesser panda, who was already covered in cold sweat.
It was clear that his stamina was rapidly declining, as well as that his condition was gradually deteriorating.
“I’m fine. egg plant.”
“It would be better to lift it up.”
After exchanging glances, Arin Lee and Siyoon Choi carried the father and daughter on their backs and went down the stairs.
“Are you memorizing everything here too?”
“I told you. I remember quite a few places.”
“Is this it? Did you say it’s a memory palace? Some kind of memory method to quickly memorize many things…”
“I was just memorized.”
“Do you know that sometimes you are unlucky?”
Water, fire, wind, earth, electric shock, and even light, it didn’t seem like something a rare scammer would do.
It was time for them to come back down to the first floor and pass through a wide cavity.
“…!”
Iarin, who suddenly lowered her head, passed Siyoon in an instant and shouted.
“An enemy!”
Then, the inner walls of the warehouse were smashed with a roar.
As she swung her white lotus sword, a red flash exploded in front of them.
aaang-!
“Kuh!?”
Obviously, even though Iarin knocked them off, a huge shockwave hit them.
Unknowingly, Siyoon, who was blown backwards, quickly looked back.
The man who had just been carried was lying on his back among the discarded boxes.
‘What happened just now?’
“Wesley!”
Iarin, who had arrived in front of him before he knew it, let out a rough breath.
The lesser panda she was carrying was lying in a corner.
“Be nervous.”
She braced herself and warned.
“You seem like an unusual guy.”
There, Siyoon stared at the wall of the collapsed warehouse.
Standing there was a man dressed as if he had come out of a local convenience store.
However, anyone could tell by looking at the muscular muscles inside that he was no ordinary person.
Eventually, the red flash that Iarin bounced back came back and was caught in his hand.
‘Demonic spear…’
After skillfully turning it around, he held a spear on his shoulder and yawned until his mouth was torn.
Eventually, Siyoon sighed involuntarily at the sight of him dragging his three-stripe slippers into the warehouse.
“this.”
“Do you know someone?”
“…I can’t figure it out.”
A man in a red training suit, wearing a white tank top, three-stripe slippers, and a black hat, wielding a bloody magic spear beyond the red one.
I had no choice but to know even if I didn’t like that persona full of personality.
His name is Junhyeok Kim. Among the names, there were various nicknames such as the mad dog of the Han River and the watchman of the outer wall, but they were generally summarized as follows.
“…the strongest freelancer.”
“The strongest?”
Irene’s face hardened.
It was because she knew now that if this man spoke so seriously, there was a high probability that it was true.
Is Kim Jun-hyeok there? looked at them with a
“What are you? It’s like seeing both for the first time. Are you a rising star?”
“It’s ridiculous.”
Siyoon Choi muttered.
“I hired you just to catch one of us?”
It was that human being who went in at least a billion units to move.
Even Si-yoon did not expect Choi Jin-sung to do this.
‘It’s dangerous.’
That was a real monster.
No matter how much Lee Ah-rin was there, it was close to impossible to beat Kim Jun-hyeok at this point.
‘If Iarin had awakened as a savior, this would be…’
In addition, at this point, Kim Jun-hyeok must have had one colleague he always took with him.
“Listen.”
Siyun said.
“Never go out of this warehouse. Got it?”
The hero of the archers, Kang Hee-jin. She was originally a freelancer until she became aware of herself as a hero. He also goes with Kim Jun-hyeok.
Most likely outside the warehouse was already within her effective range.
If you go out, you will be shot without stopping.
“I felt like I shouldn’t go out anyway.”
Perhaps thanks to Iarin’s ‘crisis sense’, she also felt a fight.
I could guess that it was thanks to that characteristic that I was able to repel Kim Jun-hyeok’s surprise attack.
“I don’t want to do this to the nasty kids.”
Kim Jun-hyeok spun the spear and lightly straightened his posture and smiled.
“This floor is like this~. Well, consider yourself out of luck.”
“I didn’t expect someone like you to accept a request from such scumbags.”
“Strictly speaking, it wasn’t Zenon who hired me.”
He shrugged his shoulders skillfully.
“I also have circumstances that I can’t help it. After all, shouldn’t we work for what we receive?”
There, Siyoon took out a revolver from Duchum’s holster.
It was a limited edition revolver that I had previously received at a live ammunition shooting range event. Unlike the K36, it was a pistol that had nothing engraved on it except for a magic circuit to use special ammunition.
As he quickly loaded six shots with his speedloader, Kim Jun-hyeok raised his eyebrows.
“gun?”
“Is this your first time seeing a gun?”
Siyoon responded calmly, but his head was spinning furiously.
he thought
‘It’s impossible to win anyway.’
But I didn’t know if it would be possible to ‘lock’ him up for a while.
“Hey, are you kidding me?”
“Isn’t it something we can test to see if it’s a joke or not?”
“Wow, it looks like you don’t even know me. What kind of confidence are you talking about?”
Kim Jun-hyeok shook his head slightly, then sharply opened his drowsy eyes and said.
“You’ll know when you hit it a few times.”
The characteristic Bullet Time is activated on his new model that disappears in front of his eyes.
However, despite how fast Bullet Time was triggered, Kim Jun-hyeok’s speed was different.
Siyoon saw Lee Arin intervene in front of him.
Indeed, the speed at which the main character can react.
However, Siyoon had his own weapon.
Pull the trigger.
Fierce gunshots rang out, but Kim Jun-hyeok didn’t seem to care.
I see bullets rushing in.
‘Because there is something, he must be so confident.’
For him, blocking an honest bullet from a straight line was a piece of cake lying down.
‘Should I avoid it just in case.’
It was at that moment when Kim Joon-hyeok tried to avoid the pistol bullet by lightly turning around.
Siyun revived his previous senses and moved the magical thread connected to the bullet with all his might.
“?!”
There, the trajectory of the bullet bending sideways like a lie.
At that unexpected blow, Kim Jun-hyeok quickly returned the spearhead and deflected it.
But it doesn’t stop there.
The magical power that was injected into the bullet soon activated the magic that was imprinted on it.
‘Barrier Knife’
A barrier that is instantaneously created around bullets. But it was different from the normal barrier.
The defensive spells remodeled based on his high skill comprehension unfolded like a sharp blade and pierced his side in an instant.
“Oops!”
Kim Joon-hyeok, who barely swung the spear stick and bounced it off.
The white lotus sword, aiming for his gap, shoots a sharp arrow from the bottom.
Seeing this, Kim Jun-hyeok lightly pushed the tip of the spear stick with his foot wearing three-stripe slippers to block it.
Chae Ae-Aeng!
“…!”
Indeed, the experience of my sword being blocked with just a trivial movement was quite shocking even for Iarin.
It was all the more so because I had never seen anyone who could block her sword so easily.
But it was the same for Kim Jun-hyeok.
‘What are they really doing?’
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Deep down, it was a pincer attack that surprised him.
The sword-wielding guy was also quite fierce, but what surprised him was the grotesque guy using a gun.
It was strange to use magic or bend bullets with a gun now, but from the beginning, this pincer attack was close to what he induced in line with the swordsman’s movements.
‘This is the realm of sense.’
On top of that, the creativity of using defensive magic as an attack and the understanding of the techniques that make it possible.
Unknowingly, Kim Junhyeok felt the corners of his mouth go up.
‘This is getting interesting.’
Kim Jun-hyeok, who deflected Ia-rin’s sword again, gave strength to his two hands holding the spear.
Then, the magic spear, which was swung at a speed that was incomparable to that of earlier, instantly blows Iarin back.
At that moment, the bullets rushed towards him again.
As if each one of them were alive, they flew in completely different directions, so Junhyeok lightly pulled back and took them all down.
At the same time, artillery fire magic fired from above his shoulder.
‘As expected, this man did the first bombardment magic!’
Siyoon, who captured the moment when the spell was drawn in the air with Bullet Time, was already throwing herself to the side.
The heat of the light attribute passed by him.
“The reaction speed is quite good! Or do you have good eyes?”
Kim Jun-hyeok praised it honestly.
In the meantime, Siyoon, who had emptied the revolver cylinder casing, shouted.
“You bastard’s feet!”
“Okay!”
Ia-rin, who understands his words, explodes her magic and digs into Kim Jun-hyeok.
Instantly, pure white magic that burns and flows over her sword. Eventually, a group of lights that burned like flames were shot out thanks to her magic power.
Wow!
The ground exploded and black dust covered my eyes.
However, at the red spear blade that pierced the dust, Iarin quickly built a barrier.
“Keugh!”
Even though it’s not just a barrier, it’s two stacks of 5th tier defense magic, I’m shocked that it splits like a miracle of Moses.
In the end, Iarin, who received it with the white lotus sword, could not stand the shock wave and bounced off.
Choi Si-yoon received it from behind.
Iarin looked up at him and thanked him.
“Oh, thank you.”
“Can you tie it for 5 seconds, no, 3 seconds more?”
“I will try.”
Taking a small breath, she nodded.
Looking at the back of her rushing towards Kim Jun-hyeok again, Si-yoon remembered what she had said at a book cafe the other day.
[If you use a doll as a medium, the range of magic that can be exercised is wider. In other words, even if you are not a fire attribute, you can ‘able’ to implement fire attribute magic. Of course, the effect is less than half of the original, but…]
Kim Jun-hyeok is a man born with a strong light attribute.
Unlike the other attributes, the peculiarity of the light attribute was that those who possessed this attribute could not have the dark attribute and also had an affinity for the dark attribute.
Light is weak to darkness, and darkness is weak to light. Those two attributes were each other’s weaknesses.
He reloads his revolver with his speedloader.
Of course, his engraving skill is still low-level, so he can only imprint bullets with magic below the 3rd level.
With only a 3rd tier, it wouldn’t work even if I amplified it with the trait ‘God of Mechanical Devices’.
But that was only the case when magic was directly imprinted on the bullet.
Siyoon’s gaze turned to the bullets that Kim Junhyeok had hit so far.
It looks as if it landed randomly on the floor thanks to his slashing, but in fact all the bullets were in their calculated positions.
In addition, Siyoon fired a revolver pretending to assist Iarin.
Kim Jun-hyeok, who once experienced the wide range of the ‘barrier knife’, chose to get rid of bullets rather than avoid them.
That is Choi Si-yoon’s goal.
He naturally controls the bullets he knocked out and drops them to the location Siyoon first thought of.
And when viewed from above, the positions of those bullets were drawn along the axis of a clear magic circle.
‘It’s not about using magic directly through bullets.’
The bullets that fell on the floor began to emit faint magic power.
‘By sending my magic through the medium of bullets.’
“What?!”
Iarin, who received the demonic spear roughly, fell backwards. At that moment, Siyoon focused his consciousness on the bullets that fell.
‘I engrave the spell on the ground.’
At the moment, the bullets that were apart from each other shoot blue magic toward each other as calculated in advance.
With this, his idea that magic of 3rd tier or higher could be used because the magic was not directly imprinted on the object was correct.
“Well?”
The moment Kim Jun-hyeok, feeling unusual, tried to move, Si-yoon fired again and deployed the barrier knife.
“!”
And by the time Kim Joon-hyeok took care of all of them, it was after the complex magic circle had already been completed on the floor he was stepping on.
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Dark magic that Choi Si-yoon glanced at in a book in the library, but remembers vividly with the characteristic ‘complete memory ability’.
‘The hand of the 7th tier devil.’
Originally, as Iarin said, the power that should have been less than half of the nuclear power plant is amplified by a factor of ‘God of Machinery’!
In an instant, a gate was created in the air and grotesque laughter was emitted.
“The devil’s hand?!”
Kim Jun-hyeok, as if genuinely surprised, quickly kicked off his slippers and flung himself.
But the devil’s hand, which has already set its target, pursues him to the ends of hell.
rattle! As the gate opens, what pours out from there are countless black-skinned claws instead of monsters.
The moment the black hands shot in the blink of an eye capture Kim Jun-hyeok, who was backing away.
Kiki Kiki Kiki Kiki!
A gigantic grip protrudes from the gate and swallows him whole.