Chapter 1446 – 1446. Dark Moon
A grenade flew, hitting the barrier and exploding.
The shrapnel from the grenade savagely battered the barrier. But the barrier didn’t break. My barrier was still solid.
“We’re out of our league! We need to tell the boss…!”
The guys turned to run away.
Of course, I had no intention of letting them go. I waved my hand at them. A wind rose.
[Wind Cutter]
The blades of wind cleanly sliced through the arms and legs of the fleeing men.
“Aaaaaaaagh!”
Their blood stained the alleyway. I did it on purpose.
‘These guys are an example.’
I had to kill them as brutally as possible. That way, the scared riffraff wouldn’t dare to crawl up.
I held out my palm.
Whoosh.
An invisible wind swirled above my palm.
“S-save me…!”
“…”
I released the wind towards them, who couldn’t escape with their limbs severed. The wind ground their bodies like a blender. I turned my eyes away from the corpses, now minced meat, and walked towards the gang’s hideout. The blood splattered on the ground stuck to the soles of my shoes. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling.
I could see the building 20 meters ahead. It was definitely the Havers gang’s hideout. I wouldn’t be stupid enough to walk straight into the hideout.
‘They must have heard their screams when they died, so they know I’m here and have probably set up traps. Honestly, I’m not worried… but I won’t let my guard down, just in case.’
[Detection]
I used detection magic. Mana formulas spread out from me. Information that touched the mana formulas was transmitted to me.
‘First, there are no traps set up in the alleyway…’
I looked at the building in front of me.
‘There are 23 people. They’re surrounding the entrance. All of them are armed. Is the guy in the back the boss, Havers?’
The best option would be to not enter the hideout and use area magic from this distance. It would be best to blow them away with the hideout in one go.
‘But I can’t do that. It wouldn’t leave any fear behind.’
More than anything, there was something I needed to confirm.
I calmly took a step towards their hideout.
I opened the entrance to the hideout with telekinesis and went inside. Hostile gazes pierced me from all directions. The gang members’ faces were fierce. Some of them bared their teeth and growled like beasts.
‘Are they deliberately trying to raise their anger to hide their fear? Pathetic.’
I put my hands in my pockets as if to say, attack if you dare.
I had five overlapping barriers. Even if there was a bomb powerful enough to blow up this entire hideout, it wouldn’t be able to hurt me.
“What’s a mage doing here?”
A black man with a scar on his lip, standing at the back, asked me. He had shaved all his hair, and a red tattoo was etched on his scalp.
“What’s a mage doing here?”
“What are you asking so innocently? You guys started it first.”
“…We’re keeping a low profile. We recently killed some jerk, and it turned out he was a public official. Thanks to that, we’re living here, lying low.”
“Yuyu Chicken.”
“Huh?”
“I’m the owner of that place.”
“……”
“You know why you’re going to die, right?”
I openly raised my hand. A magic circle was drawn in the air.
“W-wait! Wait a minute! There seems to be some misunderstanding. We didn’t plan to kill you! We just wanted to find out your chicken recipe!”
“What were you going to do with the recipe? Start a chicken business?”
“We were going to sell it! My old friend told me! That chicken recipe is definitely worth money! He said he’d buy the recipe himself!”
“Who’s that friend?”
“John Clark! He’s the owner of the fish and chips shop across from your store!”
“……”
My face contorted terribly. I somehow managed to hold back when they spread rumors that I was using dirty oil to sabotage my store. But now they were using a gang to kidnap me and steal my recipe? If I didn’t have power, would it have ended with just kidnapping?
The glowing magic circle disappeared, and Havers let out a sigh of relief.
“Okay. Let’s talk. If there’s a misunderstanding, we can clear it up, right? We admit we were wrong first. If we knew you were like this, we wouldn’t have touched you. It’s all because of John Clark, that bastard, asking us to do weird things. We need to take care of that bastard.”
“Wasn’t John Clark your old friend?”
“Yeah, so he’s not my friend anymore. I heard you killed our guys in the alley… that was a misunderstanding, so let’s just let it slide. We’ll take care of John Clark, so let’s end this here.”
“What if I don’t want to?”
“……You shouldn’t underestimate us too much, spellcaster.”
He started to draw mana. His muscles swelled, and his eyes turned blood red.
‘A berserker.’
It was one of the classes you could choose in the original game.
The core of a berserker is explosion. They drastically increase their physical abilities by consuming mana and life force at the same time. Life force can be recovered through rest.
Click.
I snapped my fingers.
Three magic circles were drawn in the air at the same time. The guy’s face, which had been trying to maintain composure, twisted in an instant.
“We are members of the Jupiter Alliance. Even if you kill us all, that’s not the end of it. If you kill us, the Jupiter Alliance will target you.”
“I can negotiate with the Jupiter Alliance separately. I don’t think the Jupiter Alliance would be obsessed with bugs like you.”
“We are an alliance! We swore loyalty while sharing drinks! The Jupiter Alliance will keep its word!”
“What loyalty are you talking about, you criminals? You yourself just threw John Clark away like trash, didn’t you?”
“That’s different from this!”
“It’s not different. Let’s stop with the tiresome bullshit. Just die now.”
I activated the magic I had prepared. Thanks to his bullshit, I had quite a bit of casting time.
“What are you doing! Kill him!!”
[Gravity]
[Electric Field]
[Wind Cutter]
The gang members faltered due to the increased gravity. Not stopping there, blue currents flowed along the ground, temporarily paralyzing their bodies. Dozens of wind blades flew towards Havers, not them. My plan was to kill the most troublesome Havers first, then deal with the rest slowly.
The mistake was that Havers was more dangerous than I thought.
‘He withstood the Wind Cutter with his bare body. And he’s only level 2… Is this the physical ability of a berserker?’
It was a mistake that occurred because this was the first time I was actually facing a berserker.
“Krooooooooaaaaaaah!”
Clang clang clang!
His right arm transformed into a sword. It was a fairly sophisticated mechanical prosthetic. A thick, blood-red sword aura formed on the blade. He charged and swung his sword. One barrier shattered.
‘There are still four barriers left.’
While he was pounding on the barrier, I leisurely calculated the formulas.
“Kuaaaaaaagh!”
“B-boss! Help us!”
“This crazy bitch…! Suddenly appearing and…!”
Screams and gunshots erupted from behind.
“What the hell is that?!”
Havers’ face twisted horribly. Something was running rampant behind me. I felt both curiosity and alarm. It wasn’t good to take my eyes off the enemy in front of me, but the thing behind me might be a more powerful enemy than Havers. I trusted my barrier and turned my head back.
It was a ninja.
A ninja wearing a silver cyber suit. The suit, which clung tightly to her skin, revealed her voluptuous figure. Her breasts and buttocks were so large they reminded me of watermelons.
Her face was covered by a fox mask, and her dark brown hair was tied in a ponytail.
She was quickly moving through the gang members, swinging her ninja sword. The gang members didn’t seem to be able to keep up with her movements, but I could see them clearly. The problem was that my eyes kept getting drawn to her swaying, ample breasts.
‘That’s not what’s important right now. Focus…’
I kept focusing on her breasts.
I couldn’t help it. It was a man’s instinct. And it was probably her intention too.
“Aaaaaaaagh!”
The female ninja mercilessly slaughtered the gang members and ran towards me. Her skills were so clean that not a single drop of blood splattered on her body, even after she had butchered 22 people.
I used the magic I had prepared on the female ninja.
[Spike]
Giant spikes rose from the ground, piercing the female ninja’s body.
Pop!
With a somewhat deflating explosion, the female ninja’s body burst like a water balloon. Her body turned into water and fell to the floor with a thud.
“Aaaaaaaagh! What the hell are you?!”
I turned back around. The female ninja was standing there, holding her ninja sword. She was slightly leaning forward, which made her large breasts sag down, drawing my gaze again. I tried hard to look away from her and looked at Havers. Havers was trembling, his right shoulder severed.
I made a quick decision.
The female ninja’s target wasn’t me, but Havers. More precisely, the destruction of the Havers gang. I didn’t know why. It could be a personal grudge, or it could be a request. In my opinion, it was closer to the latter.
I reached out my hand.
Not towards the female ninja, but towards Havers.
[Lightning Grab]
I unleashed a level 3 magic. Blue currents lit up the space from the hand that grabbed his head. The electricity evaporated not only his brain but also his blood. Smoke billowed from his body, which had fallen to the floor.
“I was dealing with this guy first.”
“……”
“If you want, you can say you killed him. I don’t care.”
The female ninja relaxed her stance, which had looked like she was about to attack. She straightened her back. Thanks to that, the shape of her ample breasts and hips were clearly revealed. Her figure was so voluptuous that it was embarrassing for the person looking at her.
“Domo. Mr. Eugene Meyer. I am Invisible Blade.”
“Domo. Ms. Invisible Blade. I am Eugene Meyer. …You know me?”
“Hehehe. You’re the rising star in this industry. I’ve heard the stories. You’re the first person in this city to accept my greeting. I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll quietly withdraw.”
“Wait, hold on. The power you’re using is…”
Before I could finish my sentence, the female ninja ran towards the window. Crash! She disappeared, flaunting her large buttocks.
