Chapter 1466 – 1466. Dark Moon
The Invisible Blade’s method of obtaining the password was primal.
She subdued him in an instant, dragged him to a nearby empty container, and tortured him. I don’t know the specifics of the torture, but it didn’t take her even ten minutes to get the password.
‘I guess that’s what you’d expect from a ninja…’
-The password is 1010. It’s ridiculous.
“Better than 0000 or 1234, isn’t it?”
-I asked why the password was like that, and it turns out this boss’s first love was a woman named TenTen. A guy who deals in organ trafficking is so ridiculously sentimental… What?
“Is there a problem?”
-…Just a little surprised. It seems that the woman named TenTen was this gang’s first organ trafficking victim. He killed her in a fit of anger because she didn’t accept his confession. And then he took her organs and sold them. Those crazy bastards.
I saw the Invisible Blade walking out of the container alone. She was holding her ninja sword, which was covered in sticky blood. The guy who was being tortured was probably dead. She approached the white container and entered the password. The door opened, and she went inside.
-Why are there so many boxes? It’ll take some time to find it one by one. If I had known this, I wouldn’t have killed him so hastily and just asked…
“It’s going to take time? How many minutes?”
-I don’t know. If I find it quickly, it won’t even take a minute, but… in the worst case, it could take more than five minutes.
“That’s dangerous. Their main force is coming back.”
The gang was rushing back to their hideout in trucks and on bikes.
“They won’t take long to arrive. Probably within three minutes. They seem to have just finished a job, so they’ll head straight to the warehouse…”
-Ha, seriously…. Things have suddenly started to go wrong. These bastards set up a trap inside the container. It’s a classic trap, so disarming it isn’t a problem, but… it’ll take more time.
“…How many minutes?”
-Ten minutes.
“That’s too long. We’ll be discovered.”
-Just buy me some time. Use magic or something and cause a ruckus. Buy me time to get out with the goods. We were going to take them down anyway, so it doesn’t matter, right?
“Can you definitely secure the goods? That’s the most important thing.”
-Trust me.
I sighed and headed towards them.
It was hard to trust the Invisible Blade. But since we were working together now, I had to trust her.
The trucks stopped at the entrance. I looked down at them from the hill and activated Astral.
[Using Moment. Remaining stacks: 6]
Time slowed down. Or rather, only my mind accelerated. In this slowed-down world, I selected a magic and calculated the spell.
‘To draw attention, it’s best to unleash a big one.’
Whoosh.
Mana surged through the mana rod, turning into lightning, and the lightning became a spell that rose into the sky. The sensation was more than just exhilarating. This feeling of being connected to magic was like having the sky in the palm of my hand.
From the center of the cloudless, dry sky, a blue bolt of lightning crackled. The small bolt of lightning gradually increased in size, and now it shone brightly, emitting its presence. The humans on the ground noticed the anomaly and looked up at the sky.
I looked at those humans and quietly chanted the incantation.
[Thunder Break]
A massive bolt of lightning struck the trucks faster than the sound of thunder. The trucks were completely destroyed, and the impact of the force spread to the surrounding area, creating a small crater. The ground of the crater remained charged with high-voltage current.
The power of the 6th-grade lightning magic, Thunder Break, an upgraded version of the 5th-grade magic Thunder Bolt, was exactly as expected.
‘If it had hit the generator over there, it could have blown up the entire hideout.’
I touched my neck. The mana rod was hot. If the 16 broken mana rods had been intact, the burden on the mana rod would have been less than half of what it was now.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The thunder rumbled a beat later.
I was about to tell the Invisible Blade that the entrance was clear when I stopped. A man was getting up from the crater where the current was still lingering.
“…He survived that? He’s no ordinary guy.”
Half of his face was mechanical. His two mechanical eyes flashed red. His gaze was fixed directly on me.
‘A man with half his face mechanical… That’s Prong, the boss of the Prong gang. A cyborg who can still move even after being hit by lightning magic…’
He must be no ordinary machine. Maybe he spent all the money he made from robbery and organ trafficking on his own body.
Prong raised his right hand. His index finger pointed at me. Immediately after, a laser was fired. It was too fast to react. Still, the barrier I had put up beforehand blocked the laser. The laser light hit the barrier, split, and evaporated. The barrier also shook unstably and then disappeared.
‘Four barriers left. He probably can’t fire a laser this fast and powerful four times in a row. There’s a limit to the output a cyborg can have.’
“What are you doing, you useless eaters! Can’t you see the mage over there? Move it. I’ll kill the slow ones myself!”
Prong’s angry voice echoed through the wasteland. His voice, mixed with mechanical sounds, was very threatening. Prong’s subordinates, who were guarding the base, rushed towards me without looking back. They were afraid of Prong.
-Nice. The number of people has dropped significantly.
“…The situation here is quite serious, though.”
-Want to hear some good news? I found the dress. It was carefully stored in a magic box.
“In a magic box?”
-The dress has magic on it. It’s not for combat. Some crazy bitch put high-level magic on a dress just for fashion.
“Is that surprising? Where there’s demand, there’s supply. If you’ve got it, come out.”
-What about you?
“If the dress is safe, there’s nothing to hold back. I’ll take them down here.”
I looked at the approaching enemies and put my hand in my coat pocket, then took it out. In my hand, I held a handful of blue distortion petals. The blue distortion I had given to Lana Gomez wasn’t all of it. I had kept some for my own research.
‘Blue distortion, which has the effect of distorting mana waves, is an essential material for mana recovery, but… it’s also a good magic material when used as a catalyst for barriers or shields.’
Of course, it can’t be used just like that. Pre-preparation is needed to control the mana distortion effect. The blue distortion petals I held were all pre-processed.
I scattered the petals into the air. The petals, emitting a faint light, scattered in the wind.
[Mana Field]
The petals, scattered in the wind, were drawn in all directions as if by an invisible force. And a mana field spread around this area. The movements of the enemies who entered the field noticeably slowed down.
“Whaaaaatttttt iiiiissss haaaapppppeeeennnnniiiinnnnngggggg mmmmyyyy booooodddddyyy iiiiissss sssllloooowwwwww.”
Their voices were as slow as their slowed bodies. It was so slow that it was painful to listen to. But their consciousness would be flowing normally.
“You have entered my domain.”
The enemies fired their guns. Some even sent their arms flying. It was a rocket punch that only a cyborg could show. They were all distorted and flew upwards.
“Crush them.”
The enemies’ bodies were slammed into the ground. They twitched, trying to move somehow. They were withstanding the gravity, which would have made a normal person’s whole body explode, with the power of their machines. I checked their numbers. Thirteen. If you exclude the few who were in the base, that’s all of them.
“Originally, there were a few things I wanted to test, but…”
I looked straight ahead. Prong, the most dangerous enemy here, was staring intently at me.
“If I’m going to deal with that guy too, I need to conserve as much power as possible.”
I clenched my fist.
The space of the mana field distorted and warped. The distortion affected the enemies who had fallen to the ground.
The hard mechanical bodies broke like twigs, and blood and guts, stirred by the distortion, spun in the air. The space clearly showed the direction of the distortion.
Prong watched the mana field and opened his mouth.
“Impressive. I didn’t expect to see a mage of this level here.”
“I also didn’t expect to see a cyborg who could withstand Thunder Break here. Why did you even settle down here?”
“You’re asking the obvious. Of course, I came here to make money. I’ll make a decent amount here and then move to another place and make a decent amount again.”
“Decent, huh.”
I let out a hollow laugh.
The Invisible Blade’s words about the refrigerator being full of human organs came to mind.
“It seems you know what we’re doing. Do you think you, a hitman, have the right to criticize us?”
“No, I don’t. So I won’t criticize you. I’m just doing my job.”
“Who hired you? Was it that bitch?”
“Do you think I’d tell you?”
“…Just now, a subordinate in the base died. His last words were that he saw a ninja. You’re drawing my attention, and that ninja is looking for something. The only special things in the base are my spare parts and… a noble’s dress with some strange magic on it.”
“Is that so important?”
“It’s not particularly important. What’s important is… that bitch broke her deal with me. She did one of the two things I hate most in this world. Mila Gomez. That bitch will pay the price!”
“A deal? What kind of deal did you make with Mila Gomez?”
“I was going to receive a secret technique from the Gomez family. It would be more valuable than that damn magic dress.”
He answered obediently. It was obvious he was buying time. But I needed time too. The blue distortion, the catalyst for the mana field, was slowly moving, surrounding Prong.
‘A secret technique from the Gomez family…. That’s why Lana Gomez cut ties with her daughter in the original game. If I hadn’t intervened, Mila Gomez would have made a deal with this guy.’
My curiosity was satisfied.
-I’m out. What are you doing? Do you need help?
The Invisible Blade’s telepathy came just in time.
“It’s okay. I’ll finish it and go. Just stay away in case something happens.”
I flicked my hand. Blue petals surrounded Prong. The mana field contracted around him, preparing to cause spatial distortion.
“D-roid!! Drop it!!”
Whoosh!
A fighter jet flew in from the sky. The fighter jet flew across the sky and dropped something towards Prong. What looked like a box transformed mid-fall, taking on a shape similar to a person.
Thud!
A heavy mechanical combat suit, reaching 3 meters, fell. Prong grinned and backflipped into the center of the machine.
The mana field activated spatial distortion.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
The distortion ended with the machine’s surface being warped. It was too hard, excessively hard.
The guy in the battle suit chuckled.
“This is D-roid’s special battle suit. I’ll turn you into mush.”
“Did you join hands with D-roid? Even a human trash would be more normal than you.”
“If it helps me, I can join hands with the enemy of humanity or whatever. You’re no different from me. I smell the same thing from you. You’re the kind of guy who would do anything for your goal, aren’t you?”
“……It’s even more infuriating because I can’t deny it.”
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Lightning danced on my palm.
