Chapter 2011 – 2011. Newtype
It was right in the middle of a drug-fueled sex party.
A nasty sensation, like a needle piercing the inside of my head, hit me. It was so unpleasant that it completely killed my buzz, even while I was high and having sex.
‘Is this a mental attack? What kind of dumbass is trying this…?’
I pulled off the trainee, who was drooling and had even pissed herself, and turned my head towards the source of the unpleasant sensation.
The club manager was kneeling, repeatedly slamming his head into the ground. The floor was wet, and I didn’t want to get close. Thump, thump, thump. He was bashing his head while covered in piss, so his head was getting smeared with filth. I really didn’t want to go near him.
‘Should I just kill him here?’
Crack.
A surge of lightning pulsed, but I suppressed it.
Curiosity also piqued me. He suddenly launched a mental attack on me. Maybe he had some other backing. Getting information was important. I was also curious why he was acting like this after attacking me first.
“Damn it. What the hell are you?”
He lifted his face and looked at me. His face was filled with terror as he spoke.
“M-monster.”
“What’s with the attitude? You bug.”
Thwack!
I kicked his head. He tumbled to the floor, his body twitching. Had the impact awakened his mind? The fear on his face was gone.
“M-Master! Please spare me! I was wrong. I was out of my mind and did something I shouldn’t have! I’ll do anything! Please, spare me!”
He straightened up and started begging with his hands clasped together. There was no trace of a man’s pride in the sniveling mess.
“When did you start calling me Master? What did you do to me?”
“T-that’s… I tried to control Sung Yu-jin’s mind…!”
“You little shit.”
“Eek!”
I didn’t have Absolute Mental Defense right now. I had a rough idea that there were mental ability users. I never dreamed I’d be hit with a mental attack so soon, though.
‘Wait. I can kill this guy later. The important thing is to figure out the extent of his abilities.’
His mental abilities didn’t work on me. In other words, he could be a benchmark for mental abilities.
“Tell me about your abilities.”
The terrified guy spilled everything.
He was a fresh newbie who had just awakened his Force and made a contract with an angel to become a Guardian. A newbie who hadn’t even properly experienced the erosion phenomenon yet.
His ability was mental control. The ability to directly manipulate minds. He said he could control up to three ordinary people. I was his first attempt on a Force Awakener or Guardian. He thought it would be easy to control me since I was high on drugs.
“So, you saw my mind while using mental control?”
“I-I dared not. It wasn’t a mind I could control. Even thinking about it now makes me tremble…”
“What did you see?”
“I don’t know… Just something huge and chaotic… Something I could never understand… I thought it was really dangerous, so I stopped the mental control halfway through!”
It’s a bit annoying that he described my mind like that. At the same time, it’s intriguing. Normally, Absolute Mental Defense protects my mind, so this kind of thing wouldn’t happen. Not unless I allowed it.
‘Should I tell this guy to try again? No. If he really goes crazy, that’ll be annoying. And there’s always that one-in-a-million chance.’
I grabbed the smartphone that was on the desk. I pulled out the Hwaryeon Dagger from my inventory and stabbed the guy in the shoulder.
“Aaaaaaaargh!”
His blood stained the blade, fulfilling the condition. I activated the ability of the dagger. I used mental control on him.
I could feel his mind. There was nothing special about it. It felt rather insignificant.
“Shut up.”
He clamped his mouth shut. The mental control had worked properly.
I looked at the Hwaryeon Dagger. The mental control would only last temporarily, probably not even five minutes. There was a high chance that the mental control would be released when the ability disappeared.
‘Can I imprint my words on his mind so he’ll listen to me even after the ability disappears? I think I can?’
I felt like I could destroy his insignificant mind.
‘I’ll find out by experimenting.’
I tried out everything I could do with mental control.
It wasn’t just simple mind control. It was broader. I could break minds, and I could heal them. I could even alter them to some extent. It was like playing with other people’s minds. But as such, it was completely ineffective against minds that were too powerful.
‘Well, most mental abilities are like that anyway.’
Unexpectedly, the mental control ability disappeared after 10 minutes. It was natural that he was released from mental control. I asked the guy, who had a blank expression.
“Who are you?”
“I am Ji Hyung-cheol, Sung Yu-jin’s slave, doormat, and ability storage.”
It worked.
The result of manipulating his mind with mental control remained even after the ability disappeared.
‘Good.’
A grand plan came to mind.
“Hey.”
“Yes. Please speak.”
Ji Hyung-cheol was bleeding profusely from his shoulder. Neither of us cared. A Guardian wouldn’t die from such a minor wound.
“I’ll give you the chance to contribute to my great plan.”
“Thank you! I’ll give my life to make your great plan a success!”
“The plan is simple. You’ll use mental control on the president and take over South Korea. I, your master, will become the de facto ruler of South Korea.”
“Of course, South Korea should belong to Sung Yu-jin! B-but that plan seems difficult.”
“What? What’s wrong with my perfect plan? You better have a good explanation.”
“Politicians and businessmen all have mental defense items. I saw on the internet that the president is like… a moving fortress.”
“……”
That’s right. This was a world where superpowers were rampant. There were also Guardians who specialized in crafting. It was a world where large corporations created coats with better defense than tanks. There would be countermeasures against mental abilities.
‘My grand plan has been ruined by an unexpected variable…’
It was frustrating, but there was nothing I could do.
“Master.”
My secretary, Kang Ji-ho, called me. I wasn’t surprised. I already knew he was there from his presence.
“What is it?”
“The Chairman has ordered you to return to the main house. You must be there by tonight.”
“I’ll go when I want to.”
“The Chairman…”
“What?”
“……Never mind.”
* * *
After a few drug-fueled sex parties with celebrities, I got bored. The celebrities were beautiful, of course, but something was missing. It wasn’t hard to figure out the reason. In this world, celebrities weren’t the protagonists.
‘If we’re talking about protagonists, it’s Jung Su-yeon.’
My first meeting with Jung Su-yeon was the worst. I was high on drugs when we met. But looking at it differently, it could be considered good. Jung Su-yeon would have killed me and taken my abilities, and I would have recovered completely and gotten rid of my drug state.
‘Above all, Jung Su-yeon said she’d give it to me.’
My life for a chance to bang Jung Su-yeon? That was a great deal.
I happily went down to the basement of the Tower Palace. The penthouse was great, but going down was a pain.
My supercar collection was lined up in the underground parking lot. Like the degenerate I was, I had a collection of supercars of all kinds.
“Master.”
Guys in black suits appeared in droves.
About 20 of them. I could feel Force from all of them. They were probably all Guardians.
“Who are you?”
“The Chairman sent for you.”
“You’re just servants. So?”
“We will escort you, Master. Let’s go together.”
“Tell him I’ll go on my own.”
I looked around at the supercars. I saw the yellow supercar I wanted to drive today. The servants had hand-washed it, so it was gleaming like new. It was practically new anyway. I had only driven the supercars myself two or three times since buying them.
I walked towards the yellow supercar.
The head servant blocked my path.
“The Chairman ordered us to bring you, Master, even by force.”
He was more than 20cm taller than me. He was so close that I had to look up to see his eyes. When I looked up, the servant was looking down at me.
“Hey. If you’re a servant, act like one. Why are you looking down on your master? Do you really want to die?”
“We are not servants, but secretaries. And we are not your secretaries.”
He said calmly. His eyes were burning, so he was pretending to be calm, but he was actually pissed.
I frowned and rummaged through my pockets with both hands. My left arm was originally unusable due to the Angel’s Punishment, but it had recovered with the Complete Recovery.
What I pulled out of my pocket was a smartphone and a cigarette case. I opened the cigarette case. There were over 10 drug cigarettes inside. If you looked closely, each cigarette had a mark. That was because they were drug cigarettes with different effects.
I put all 10 drug cigarettes in my mouth. I lit the cigarettes with a spark and inhaled the smoke with all my might.
The guy who was getting secondhand smoke narrowed his eyes. He realized they were drugs.
“The Chairman is very disappointed. You should stop taking drugs.”
“……”
I ignored him and smoked. Even though the drug smoke was getting worse, he didn’t back away. I could feel his determination to take me no matter what.
The drugs spread throughout my body. The effects were kicking in. Although they were drugs, I didn’t feel any side effects right now. Until I paid the price, this was an amazing power.
My concentration increased, and my Force pulsed as if it was expanding. My senses expanded, and my thoughts accelerated. My vision became so clear that I could even see the ants crawling on the floor.
“Heh, this is great.”
“You’re high on drugs. I’ve confirmed that you’re in an insensible state. The Chairman ordered us to bring you in, even if we have to restrain you.”
Swoosh.
I used the Hwaryeon Dagger I pulled out of my smartphone to slice the head off the servant in front of me. Blue sword energy and red lightning crackled on the blade of the Hwaryeon Dagger.
A strange silence fell. The servants stopped, their eyes wide open.
Thud.
The servant’s head fell, followed by his heavy body. That was the signal for the servants to charge at me.
“Kill that bastard!!”
“No!!”
“Don’t kill him! Just cut off his limbs and restrain him! He’s the Chairman’s son! If Master dies, we, and your families, will all die!”
The servants charged at me all at once.
