## Chapter 148 – 148. End of Revenge
#148. End of Revenge
The fire subsided naturally after about 10 minutes.
However, the explosion left the villa looking as if it could collapse at any moment.
No, considering the power of the magic, it was a wonder the building was still standing.
We re-entered the building to check the office. The smell of burnt corpses was terribly strong everywhere.
As we passed the stairs to the second floor and reached the office, I couldn’t help but be surprised.
“Is that magic too?”
To cut to the chase, the two men were not dead. The office at the back also looked relatively intact.
An opaque barrier was protecting them.
‘A 3-circle level barrier, huh.’
Well, just because I have scrolls doesn’t mean they can’t have them too.
But there’s no way a 3-circle level barrier could completely block a 4-circle fire magic with such outstanding destructive power.
As proof, the barrier looked unstable, as if it would break at any moment, and the men were covered in burns all over their bodies.
“You, you son of a bitch…!!”
“…The director ordered us to torture you until you’re on the verge of death.”
The men noticed our presence, and their eyes flashed with murderous intent.
But none of them rashly charged at us.
They knew how messed up their condition was.
Even A-ranks aren’t invincible.
The fact that their limbs were intact was probably thanks to protecting their bodies with defensive aura.
But the 4-circle fire magic wasn’t so easy to completely block with the defensive aura of those who had just reached A-rank.
In the first place, defensive aura is specialized in blocking physical attacks imbued with mana rather than magic.
“If you managed to survive by using a scroll, you should have run away.”
I pulled out Gillennium from my waist.
The Vajra energy coursed through my body along the meridians.
For your information, I recently reached the 2nd level of the Boundless Vajra Art.
Crack, crack. Thanks to that, the durability of my body dramatically increased just by drawing up the Vajra energy.
‘If it’s now, I can ignore attacks below E-rank without using a barrier.’
I put auxiliary magic on my body. Since the magic power of ‘Pyroblast’ already covered this area, it didn’t matter if I used this much magic.
“Noel, you rest for a while.”
“…You have to be careful.”
Noel looked at me with worried eyes for a moment, then retreated to the back.
“This guy’s desperate to die.”
“Trying to take on both of us alone.”
They seemed to think I was ignoring them, and their momentum became even more ferocious. Just standing still made my skin crawl.
Even if they just reached A-rank, A-rank is still A-rank.
If I made a mistake, my head would be gone.
From the very beginning, I maximized my senses and spread my energy perception. In the excessively clear sensation, I could hear the flow of air and even their faint breaths.
One was a typical spearman with a spear, and the other was a swordsman using a straight sword.
It would have been easier if both were swords, but nothing changed just because the weapons were different.
In the murderous tension, the remains of the building fell to the floor.
Bang!
I rushed towards them.
And they also rushed towards me.
The first thing that flew at me was the sharp tip of a spear aiming for my neck. It wasn’t difficult to avoid. I lightly tilted my head to the side to dodge.
The length of the spear was about 2M, and the reach was a little more than half of that.
While dodging the spear, I responded to the sword strike that came in through the gap with my own sword.
The sword wasn’t that heavy.
Even if they were A-rank, their physical abilities would be similar to mine now that their bodies weren’t in normal condition.
Thanks to that, a chance to counterattack came out, but the spear that stabbed fiercely as if to fill that gap checked me.
Dealing with a spearman was more annoying than difficult.
Since I was deprived of the advantage from the reach, it wasn’t easy to deal with.
The guy must have thought he had the momentum, and stabbed the spear at an incredible speed.
Dozens of stabs per second aimed at the vital points of my body. Between the eyebrows, neck, heart, liver, solar plexus, and dantian.
There was no room to breathe easily.
They must have thought the exploration was over, as sword energy bloomed at the tip of the guy’s spear. The guy who had been watching the situation also created sword energy and joined in.
“You’re saying you’re going to take on both of us at the same time with just this much skill?”
“There’s no idiot like this idiot.”
I also covered my sword with sword energy and moved busily to receive their combined attack.
The tip of the guy’s spear flashed and flew towards my neck. I raised my sword to block it diagonally and twisted my body.
As if anticipating the following downward strike of the sword, I stepped aside and made the blade cut through the air. A sharp metallic sound cut through the air and echoed.
The guy swung his spear again to aim for my waist, but I had already taken a step back.
At the same time, as soon as I swung my sword to deflect the spear, I read the trajectory of the sword falling above my head and lowered my waist to avoid it.
The movement of the spear and sword tearing through the air. I knelt on one knee, avoiding the tip of the spear, and at the same time raised my sword to block the opponent’s sword.
My arm was numb from the rebounding force, but I straightened my posture again and stood up.
In the tension that dominated the space, the spear rushed in as if not giving me any room to breathe.
But I hurriedly knocked the spear shaft away with my sword and took a step back.
‘A-rank is A-rank, huh.’
More and more minor injuries began to appear all over my body.
The guys’ faces bloomed with smiles as if they were already sure of victory.
It wasn’t unreasonable, Noel still didn’t seem to have any intention of intervening, and at this pace, it was only a matter of time before they took my head.
But the exploration wasn’t over just on their side.
The time I could use it was only for a moment, and the range wasn’t that wide either. Besides, my body would suffer from the side effects for a while.
“…I’ll just be hospitalized in the church for a while.”
Hoo, with a short breath, the Vajra energy spread around as if to dominate the space.
Boundless Sword Art (無相劍訣) Limitless (無窮).
“Kuh?! Wh, what is this?!”
“M, my body?!”
The guys’ movements stopped as if the space itself was binding them.
It was only a short time that could only be called a moment, but that was enough.
Boundless Vajra Art (無相金剛訣) Boundless Lightning Body (無相電身).
In an instant, my speed surpassed the guys’ cognitive abilities.
I ran out with the momentum to tear through the air, moved at a speed that their energy perception couldn’t keep up with, and reached their rear.
Just in time, the effect of ‘Limitless’ seemed to have disappeared, and the guys began to move.
They hurriedly swung their spears and swords to check me, but it was already too late.
The Vajra energy scattered around gathered at one point.
The energy that had been compressed to the limit and agitated inside soon became a huge storm and stretched out.
Boundless Sword Art (無相劍訣) Light Dragon (光龍).
The Vajra Light Dragon pierced through the ceiling and ascended.
Kwaaaaaang!!!
***
“…Master, you shouldn’t say you’re a magician anywhere.”
Noel, who was staring blankly at the completely torn-off ceiling, looked at me and said.
I didn’t say anything.
Even I thought it was a bit much. No, in the first place, I couldn’t imagine it would be this powerful.
‘Light Dragon (光龍)’ that I learned when the Boundless Vajra Art reached the 2nd level.
As a price for using it, my internal energy was running low, and my whole body was throbbing from the aftermath, but even considering that, it was an abnormal power.
With this much power, wouldn’t it be equal to a 4-circle magic cast with full power?
Of course, it was also encouraging that I could use ‘Limitless (無窮)’ to a limited extent.
The two A-ranks who were hit by the Light Dragon head-on died.
They seemed to have tried to block it with defensive aura, but they couldn’t have properly deployed defensive aura in a situation where they had already consumed a lot of magic power to block ‘Pyroblast’.
The gap at the end was also the result of unnatural movements caused by injuries.
‘If my body was in normal condition, I wouldn’t have been able to win this easily.’
Of course, if I hadn’t been injured, I wouldn’t have faced two people alone.
“Then shall we go meet the governor now?”
I grabbed the only intact doorknob in the villa that had become a ruin in just a few tens of minutes and turned it. There was no separate lock.
In the office I entered, a man was sitting behind a desk.
“Surely, I told you not to let anyone in…?!”
“Hello, Governor.”
The governor’s face, who was habitually trying to get angry, was filled with embarrassment.
“Who the hell are you! Wh, where are the guards?!”
The governor hurriedly got up from his seat and shouted, but no one answered.
Now, the only people left alive in the villa were me, Noel, and the governor.
“I don’t know if you’re clueless or pretending to be.”
I thought the governor would be a great person, but in reality, he was just a grumpy old man who seemed to be full of greed.
I sighed inwardly and moved towards the governor.
“St, stop! Do you know who I am!!”
“Yes, I know very well. Kang Myungho, Governor of Gyeonggi Province.”
Kang Myungho swallowed hard as he looked at the sword in my hand.
“…Okay. I don’t know who hired you, but I’ll give you twice, no, three times the commission.”
Whether he had finished grasping the situation, he offered a suggestion in a calm voice.
“Do public officials have a lot of money?”
“How much do you want? 5 billion? 10 billion? Just say it. I’ll launder it and give it to you within this week, no, within two days.”
Kang Myungho’s face showed hope, thinking that I was showing interest in his offer.
“1 trillion.”
“…What?”
“The commission I promised to receive is 1 trillion. If you give me 3 trillion, I’ll spare your life.”
Kang Myungho’s face instantly distorted.
“…From the beginning, you had no intention of accepting the offer.”
“Yeah.”
Kang Myungho, who was glaring at me as if to kill me, suddenly reached into his back pocket and pulled out a pistol.
“Die!!”
Bang!
I didn’t bother to avoid it. I could catch a pistol bullet with my eyes closed.
Kang Myungho had a dumbfounded expression as he looked at the bullet stuck between my index and middle fingers.
“…A magic bullet, huh.”
It was a regular automatic pistol, not a large-caliber sniper rifle, but my fingers were throbbing.
It was a specially processed bullet, and if I had been hit head-on, it might have been quite dangerous.
‘I knew he seemed to have something to rely on.’
Crack, I crushed the bullet with my fingers and threw it at him.
“Is it over now?”
“…Save me!”
Thud, Kang Myungho knelt down.
“I, I’ll do anything! I’ll prepare anything you want, so please spare my life…!”
Swish.
No more pathetic pleas for life were heard.
The old body that had lost its head was lying on the floor as it was. Before long, the office floor was filled with blood that had not cooled down.
I stared at the scene for a while, then lost interest and left the office.
“It ended more easily than I thought?”
“Well, yeah.”
It’s not like I have a hobby of listening to the ugly old man begging for his life, and just listening to that kind of thing would only make me feel bad.
“Still, wouldn’t it have been better to tell him the reason for his death?”
“He probably had a rough idea anyway?”
He would have made a rough guess after seeing the guys who had a foot in the redevelopment being murdered one after another.
But judging from the fact that he didn’t mention it in the end, he must have been convinced that it was the work of a political enemy who disguised the motive with the redevelopment project.
Leaving Kang Myungho’s body behind, we left the villa.
Kukukung- Not long after, the villa began to collapse.
This will make it even harder for psychometry to find our traces.
‘Is this the end of this bizarre revenge?’
I felt a mixture of relief and unease, but as I looked at Noel quietly hugging my arm, those feelings soon disappeared.
