Chapter 684 – 684. Guam 2
Whatever it is, their quick response is not a bad thing to me.
I did everything I could anyway, so there’s nothing to lose if you find out sooner.
The three guys who were looking around watched carefully for a while and then immediately opened the gate.
And then one man appeared at the gate and the four survivors we saved earlier.
And about ten guys in suits appear after them.
The survivors lead the man and head towards where they were.
The suits that follow them.
At some point, they stopped.
That’s probably the border of the area where SeAh can’t use skills. Because I told you to install it roughly like that.
The man who stops there takes a step inside and then comes back out.
Then, he gave instructions to the survivors, and they headed back towards the three men who came earlier.
And then ten people in suits approached.
The guys opened the storage and started hitting something like a police line.
Perhaps they are checking areas where skills cannot be used?
Meanwhile, the man rises a little to the sky, and he looks around.
Is that guy looking for me?
But I don’t think they think I’m still in there.
It doesn’t look that serious.
Well, he might be showing that confidence because he’s outside the zone where he can’t use the skill.
Anyway, I really like the Horizon guys’ response.
These guys showed exactly the reaction I expected.
Okay. A detailed plan or a strategy that requires a lot of thought is only worthwhile if the other person accepts it.
Even if I use a plan that predicts several moves ahead, it would be absurd if the opponent didn’t pay any attention and just pushed ahead with ignorance.
Because all the preparations are in vain.
In that sense, it is true that they are responding satisfactorily. The sound of your head turning.
As the guys in suits marked the police line and indicated the size of the area where skills could not be used, the man’s expression became a little complicated.
Barely? This can’t be happening with an expression like this? That expression.
That’s right. Maybe it’s because I’m less active, but I can’t control the range of the skill that increases with passive.
Even if you don’t measure the diameter of the circle directly, if you know the size of some of the circles, you can estimate how big it will be.
That’s why you react like that.
It’s only about the size of Tier 23. You might think it doesn’t make sense.
But what on earth is that guy? Why are you acting like that?
There’s no way that guy would have a Q&A or want anyway.
We haven’t even filmed the 7-member committee yet, so there’s no way that guy exists.
Ah… Is that guy a grandmaster?
It can’t be like that, but… Still, I leave a trace on just in case.
Hmm… When I think about this, I guess I should start taking pictures of my feelings.
In the past, even if I knew the feeling was good, I thought it meant nothing because of the reflex, but not anymore, right?
If you learn emotions and make them passive, you can use them without being reflected, right? Like tracking?
Ah… This guy’s greed for skills doesn’t go away even if he has 45.
There is no real answer. There is no answer.
Even if you use all the skills, won’t you still be greedy? Because it will be a combination?
Anyway, I keep watching… There is nothing special.
For now, it can be said that the threat that briefly loomed over the Ark has disappeared.
Because I killed all the people involved.
No. In the end, the threat is not completely gone until all the Horizon guys are killed.
There may be someone here in Guam who escaped for a while.
Or maybe that guy Philip shared the information somewhere.
But I don’t think they’ve kept information that hasn’t been shared with other committee members somewhere else.
Whatever it is, you can’t be sure.
You didn’t even think that these guys knew the location of the ark and were spying on me, right?
Anyway… I don’t know what conclusion they will come to.
There is a high probability that they know about Unknown.
And now you must be very curious as to how he found out about this place.
You’ll probably wonder why you hit here instead of Africa or Russia.
Whatever it is, the security will be a little stricter.
But what… I do not care. It’s not like my existence was revealed right away.
By the way…
I need to pay a little more attention to the defense of the ark.
You vaguely thought there would be no problem, but you almost got into trouble, right?
If you got caught once, there’s no way you won’t get caught a second time.
In order for that to not happen, I need to prepare a bit…
Can’t the entire ark be torn apart and moved to another location?
How to combine skills… Hmm. That won’t work. That’s impossible.
Rather than doing something like that, it would be quicker to just destroy the Horizon guys.
While I was thinking that, faces I recognized appeared where the man was below.
Reynolds, Anderson, and Miller.
Chairman of Mirage Ocean and in charge of Africa and Russia.
Did you come directly because one of the committee members was upset?
The president didn’t come? Well, the president wouldn’t go around carelessly.
Chloe Evans I don’t think she came to the committee in her name alone.
Ah. So is that guy new to the committee? Where. I guess I should listen to the conversation.
After watching for a while and listening to what they were saying, I think that guy is a newbie.
Was it Matthew Brown? Anyway, the guy with that name.
It’s a good thing I found this guy through Q&A and didn’t track him down. You showed up on your own like this.
Anyway, the Chairman, Africa, and Russia keep asking the newbie various questions, but they are not getting any satisfactory answers.
After all, that new guy hasn’t been here for a long time, right? You have to know something to give me an answer.
Anyway, the chairman seems to be angry after hearing that it seems like the work of an unknown person.
Well, he deserved it because the Kraken headquarters was robbed by those guys in England.
Moreover, this current situation cannot be compared to that.
If one member of the committee dies, it means that they too could suffer.
Everyone doesn’t look good.
Since they couldn’t gain anything by staying here any longer, they quickly left, leaving behind only the new recruits.
Then I don’t have to stay here anymore, right? Anyway, that new guy is also being tracked.
All I have to do is check once in a while and check only what he found out.
This is so… It’s nice because it’s easy to monitor. As expected, tracking is divine! What could be better than this?
I immediately used teleportation and headed to the ark.
They say the crisis has been passed, but something like this could happen again, right?
If something happened to you once, it would be incompetent and irresponsible.
It cannot be helped that we were not prepared earlier. I have to do well now.
Pick up the intercom and call people.
Manager Jeong, Seung-gyu, Min-hee, and even Aki.
People who suddenly appear and call out to them are puzzled but come right away.
Minhee teleported to my room and smiled charmingly at me, but she didn’t dare to come to me after knowing that she had invited other people as well.
Should you have called Minhee first? It’s a bit disappointing.
“What brings you here this morning? Unbecoming of you, Seongcheol?”
Director Jeong said this with a smile, but I didn’t argue and deliberately held my weight.
But that doesn’t mean Manager Jeong is discouraged.
“Oh my. This looks serious. Talk to me. I’m ready to listen.”
I told them about what happened in Guam.
They were watching the ark, and they could have attacked it at any moment, and if they had done so, the ark could have suffered a fatal blow.
As I tell everything, everyone’s faces harden.
What… For them, it’s like being struck by lightning in a suddenly dry sky.
But I can’t help it. It’s the same as saying you didn’t know about something after being invaded and destroyed by an external invasion.
“That’s what I mean.”
Four people who are all paying attention to what I say.
“Aki will be able to detect people who come close to some extent. What tier are you now? Last I heard, it was 20.”
“23.”
“You need to spur your skills a little more, defense leader.”
He seemed a little moved by what I said, but he didn’t show it.
I heard he also has a taste for scratching. It’s probably because I have a stubborn side.
However, he is as cautious as he is stubborn, so he doesn’t show his emotions or anything.
Anyway, she’s a fun girl. I enjoy dealing with people.
“Anyway, at Tier 23, the skill radius increases by 17… And the detection distance is roughly 1.6 kilometers. At least getting inside it is not a big problem. Is there any external work on the Ark?”
“Hardly any. Even if there is, I get confirmation from Aki before leaving.”
The words of Seung-gyu, the facility manager. I nod and say again.
“Okay. Then it doesn’t matter. Anyway… There’s nothing to worry about as long as Aki is using detection on enemies that come close. The problem is… Clairvoyance and clairvoyance from a distance.”
“What is the range of clairvoyance?”
Seunggyu-hyung’s question.
The range of clairvoyance? But I don’t know that for sure.
“First… By my standards, tens of kilometers are possible. I think even hundreds are possible?”
“So Won… You’re not at a level where you can respond? If Seongcheol sets that as your standard, there’s no way we can stop it.”
“That’s right. Still, we have to do what we can. We’re not the only ones scouting for guys like me. We should be able to catch at least the guys lurking around a 10-kilometer radius.”
“You are ordering something difficult.”
“What can I do? I have to do it if I don’t want to die. Anyway, think of a way. Oh, that doesn’t work? Radar or something?”
“Well, I guess I’ll have to check that out.”
“There must be a way. Think of a way, such as a detector, a thermal imaging camera, or something else.”
“I understand. If Seongcheol tells you to do it, you have to do it. After all, it is related to our safety.”
When Seung-gyu-hyung said that, Manager Jeong and Min-hee laughed.
But why isn’t Aki smiling? I’m going to get scolded.
“Anyway, please pay attention. And… Aki, you should talk to me.”
“Ah. Would you like me to save your seat?”
I nodded at Director Jeong’s words.
Then Manager Jeong, Seung-gyu, and Min-hee stand up.
I was a little concerned that Minhee might think it was strange that I stayed alone with Aki, but that didn’t happen.
Hmm. I don’t know whether I should consider this fortunate or regretful.
Everyone left, and it was just Aki and I who were left in the room.
She’s a bit… I am shy. Why is he like that again? Why are you suddenly shy?
“What more skills have you learned?”
“Do you remember what skills I had?”
“Roughly? The annihilation tree also had a gate tree, invisibility, flight, reflection, shield, damage reduction, superpower storage, and taming, right? There was detection and animal detection, right?”
“How do you memorize all that? Didn’t I just tell you once?”
“Well… It’s like Baduk. It feels like a professional player memorizing the entire Baduk game he played from the first move to the last one? Of course, I’m not that much of a genius.”
“Everything seems great to me.”
“Anyway, what else did you learn?”
“Coin detection and tracking, reduction.”
“Really? That’s good. You learned exactly what you wanted to learn, right? If you learned tracking, did you also learn marking?”
“Yes.”
“I was going to tell you to learn how to shrink, but you’re still a master, right?”
“Yes. I haven’t done it yet.”
“Yes. Master it quickly and learn nanotechnology. Then we can explore outside.”
“Exploring outside?”
“I know this is putting too much pressure on you, but I heard what you said earlier, and you will feel it too. Just staying in here doesn’t mean everything will be resolved. So you need to look around. To do that, you need nanoization. Like this. Reduce it.”
I zoomed out and floated in the air, heading in front of Aki’s face.
Aki looks at me as the size of a fingernail.
“It’s because of detection, right? That’s why I learned reduction.”
I returned to my seat, unzipped and said.
“Good idea. Yes. By the way… If you master the reduction, you will learn to unlock it.”
“Unlock?”
“Uh. If you learn that, you’ll get a passive called Restriction Removal. Then…”
Aki has an interesting expression as he listens to my whole story.
“Is that the secret to their strength?”
“It’s not that grand. But it’s true that it has various effects. Learn about it.”
“Okay… Okay.”
Talking to Aki like that… She keeps thinking about something she did a while ago.
Naked Aki. It was nice to see. Of course, she doesn’t know anything. There was no trace left on her body.
Should we do it again? I had that thought, but it quickly disappeared.
It was thrilling. But more than that, I want to hug Aki properly.
Hmm… But it won’t be easy, right? Ugh.
“Perhaps.”
While I was thinking dirty thoughts alone, Aki spoke.
“Why?”
“Can you spar with me?”
