Chapter 2380 – 2380. Modern Magic War
Just because I was in Japan didn’t mean I couldn’t exert any influence in Korea.
First of all, I was famous in Japan as much as I was in Korea. Since the neighboring country was in an uproar, Japan couldn’t help but pay attention. And I was making a big splash in Japan.
I mercilessly killed every magic criminal I encountered, the Harriers. Of course, there was controversy in Japan too, but it was better than in Korea.
Objectively speaking, the Harriers dying was beneficial for Japan. And Japan is a country that carries out the death penalty. This meant that if a Harrier who committed a serious crime was caught, they would eventually die. That’s probably why there was less resistance.
And in Japan, there weren’t any bastards stirring up public opinion like in Korea. Rather, I even had a fan club forming. Thanks to my activities, the magic crime rate in Japan was noticeably decreasing.
‘Thanks to that, the public opinion in Korea supporting me has become stronger.’
The fact that I fired a railgun during the last battle wasn’t made public. The situation was urgent, and the general public didn’t know it was a railgun even when they saw it. Among my abilities, lightning was still unknown.
‘The Remegeton, which was active in Europe, has become quiet. Are they slowly preparing to come to Korea?’
It’s one or two years earlier than in the original story. It seems that the reason is that Sage, a Remegeton executive, died.
Vrr.
My smartphone vibrated briefly. A message arrived.
It was from Oh Jeon-il, a member of the 8th Division.
Oh Jeon-il: The Korean media is calming down. The Director’s divide-and-conquer strategy is quite effective. It’s a bit of a problem that the Commander has gained extreme supporters, though.
Oh Jeon-il: I guess I’ll be seeing the Commander in Korea soon.
Seong Yu-jin: What about the movements of the 2nd Division guys?
Oh Jeon-il: There’s nothing significant. It seems they’re having a subtle power struggle with the Director, but they’re not on the same level as the Director.
Seong Yu-jin: Are you doing the job I told you to do well?
Oh Jeon-il: Yes. We’ve secretly installed cameras in BK Broadcasting and are monitoring it.
Oh Jeon-il: This is a big deal if we get caught. You know that, right?
Seong Yu-jin: If we get caught, we just deny it.
Oh Jeon-il was doing his job well.
This time, I sent a message to Gu Seo-hwa, another member of the division and my fucktoy.
Seong Yu-jin: Gu Seo-hwa. Did you find out what I asked you to?
Gu Seo-hwa: Uh, well. I did.
Seong Yu-jin: Really? Tell me.
Gu Seo-hwa: The 7th Division Commander, Jo Yun-ha, is definitely a lesbian. The 7th Division members have seen Jo Yun-ha go to hotels with other women several times. They said the atmosphere was very strange, not like friends.
Seong Yu-jin: So, she’s definitely a lesbian? Good.
Seong Yu-jin: Gu Seo-hwa. As your master, I command you. Seduce Jo Yun-ha.
Gu Seo-hwa: You’re not my master, Commander.
Seong Yu-jin: What are you talking about? Have you forgotten that day? The day you swore to be my fucktoy and serve me for the rest of your life.
Seong Yu-jin: I even have video evidence, do you want me to show it?
Gu Seo-hwa: Please delete that video. Please!
Seong Yu-jin: It’s my treasure, I can’t do that. More importantly, do what I told you. Seduce Jo Yun-ha.
There was no reply for a while.
Gu Seo-hwa was probably lamenting her situation and crying… no, she wouldn’t be. Gu Seo-hwa was surprisingly tough and had a mean streak. Besides, we were meeting every night using a space-movement scroll.
Gu Seo-hwa: …I don’t know how to seduce other people. I’ve never done it before.
Seong Yu-jin: You still haven’t grasped your own objective reality.
Seong Yu-jin: Just give Jo Yun-ha a coffee and smile. Then Jo Yun-ha will fall for you.
Gu Seo-hwa: Just with that?
Seong Yu-jin: Jo Yun-ha is a lesbian. Unless she has a peculiar taste and likes ugly women, it’s bound to work.
Gu Seo-hwa knows she’s pretty. That’s why she usually covers her face with a mask. She’s experienced a lot of annoying things because of her looks. But she doesn’t know how pretty she is. She has the looks to become a sensation even if she entered the entertainment industry right now.
‘Her face is innocent, and her body is sexy. Jo Yun-ha, who is a lesbian, can’t help but be drawn to Gu Seo-hwa.’
I’ll use Gu Seo-hwa as bait to catch Jo Yun-ha.
And then 3P sex in bed.
My mouth is already watering.
Gu Seo-hwa: If it’s just that… I’ll try it once.
Seong Yu-jin: Fighting!
I sincerely cheered for Gu Seo-hwa. Because that’s how my lower body will be pleased.
After that, I looked at the situation in Korea and put my smartphone in my pocket. Then I turned around. A man had broken into the accommodation where I was staying.
He was a tall, pale-faced foreigner. His hair was gray, so his impression wasn’t very good.
In fact, he was a corpse.
A moving corpse.
“A corpse has walked in. Ah, I heard there’s a mage in Remegeton who makes corpses into familiars? His name was Necro, wasn’t it?”
I raised my index finger. Wind swirled and compressed above my index finger.
There were two reasons why I hesitated to attack. One was that if I killed him, the corpse would scatter everywhere. The smell of rotting corpses was hard to get rid of. The other was information. Due to the penalty, I lacked information about Remegeton.
“Seong Yu-jin. I am a messenger of Remegeton. I have come to deliver Remegeton’s words to you.”
“You managed to get in here. Necro’s corpse familiars can retain their memories from when they were alive and use magic if they were mages… That’s quite a useful ability. Speak. I’ll listen.”
“Remegeton will not forgive you for killing Sage. However, there is a way to forget the past. Sage said that a capable mage should belong to Remegeton. Even if it is the one who killed him. After a long meeting within Remegeton, they have decided to give you one chance.”
“How boring. Still, I’ll listen to the end. Speak.”
“Remegeton will create a world for mages. The starting point will be Korea. It is an old witch’s prophecy. Seong Yu-jin, join Remegeton and let’s create a world for mages, by mages.”
If I wasn’t the protagonist, I might have accepted that offer. But I am the protagonist. My goal is a happy ending. Remegeton was a clear villain and enemy.
“I refuse. If you’re done talking, die. Ah, you’re a corpse, so you’re already dead? Die again.”
I threw the compressed ball of wind above my index finger at him. Since the suite was going to be dirtied by the corpse anyway, I planned to blow up the entire room.
The corpse opened its mouth wide. A small bead was placed on its rotten tongue. It was ominously sparkling purple.
The compressed ball of wind turned into magic power just before exploding and was absorbed by the purple bead.
‘The wind I control isn’t magic, but its source is the same as magic power. That’s not magic, it’s absorbing the magic power, the source of magic. Magic power conversion and absorption.’
Magic that converts magic into magic power and absorbs it.
‘If the opponent is a mage, they would be flustered. It’s like a perfect counter against mages.’
And since it absorbed magic power, it would naturally use it in some way.
The bead in his mouth glowed, and magic power gathered in front of it, creating a purple light. The purple light was soon fired at me. I wrapped my body in wind, but I was pushed back by the impact and flew out of the hotel window.
I fell in the air and created a cloud with the power of the Divine Cloud Command.
A soft cloud formed behind my back and supported my body. I waved my hand towards the guy who was still inside the hotel.
Whoosh. Flames rose, but they were converted into magic power and absorbed. The guy was preparing to attack again.
‘Well, if I don’t give him a chance to absorb it, that’s it. Explode.’
Bang!
I caused an air explosion without giving him a chance to absorb the magic power. He was caught in the impact and fell to the ground outside the hotel window.
Thud!
Even after falling to the ground, the guy, who maintained his body shape with magic power enhancement, slowly got up. It was natural that he didn’t die. He was already a dead corpse. Panicked citizens around him screamed and ran away.
I used wind to bring the furniture from the hotel room and dropped it on him. Using magic just converts it into magic power? If I use physical attacks that aren’t magic power, that’s it.
Thump, thump, thump!
The guy, who had lost his limbs and had his head half-crushed by the falling furniture, squirmed while being crushed. I landed in front of him. I was about to kick his head to finish him off, but suddenly his head fell off.
There was something like a black lump of flesh on his neck. It looked like a bug, and it exuded a very terrible and ominous aura.
‘Is that a grimoire separate from the bead?’
The lump of flesh kept squirming and then burst with a pop. A dark energy flew towards me from there.
I, who was on guard, used magic.
Ars Magna, Azure Flame.
Blue flames that burn everything rose and blocked the dark energy. The dark energy could not pass through the blue flames and burned away.
‘That was the real attack.’
If I had been careless, I might have been hit.
‘Even if I was hit, it wouldn’t have mattered since I have complete recovery and Heavenly Mind.’
After waiting for a few minutes, I heard police sirens.
• • •
The atmosphere in Luminus was the worst.
The plans they had been preparing for years had failed one after another, and executives and members of the organization were either captured by the Anti-Magic Force or killed by the 8th Division.
From Luminus’s perspective, the most difficult to deal with was the 8th Division. Other Anti-Magic Forces still move with the goal of capturing them alive. But the 8th Division’s goal was to kill. They were also more powerful in combat than the members of other Anti-Magic Forces.
If that was all, they could have handled it. Even if the members of the 8th Division were powerful, they weren’t at the commander level. Luminus’s executives alone were enough to deal with them.
But the real problem was the 8th Division Commander, Seong Yu-jin.
Even though they threw bait, lured him into a trap, and ambushed him with four executives at the same time, they couldn’t win. On the contrary, the four executives died. So, what about taking hostages? Seong Yu-jin was ruthless. He killed the hostages and blamed it on Luminus.
What about taking Seong Yu-jin’s family hostage and threatening him? Seong Yu-jin had no family.
‘Seong Yu-jin. We’ve been defeated and continue to be defeated by that bastard.’
Luminus was now on the brink of collapse.
Bright, the leader of Luminus, thought that if things continued like this, Luminus would be annihilated and disappear.
‘Luminus is already finished. It’s impossible to join hands with Remegeton. Remegeton has no reason to join hands with Luminus, which is in a state of annihilation. It’s impossible for Luminus to dominate this Republic of Korea. Then, I’d rather… leave a shock in this Republic of Korea and disappear.’
Bright’s final plan.
He plans to forcibly inform the people of this Republic of Korea how rotten the country is by seizing the broadcasting station. He had been collecting data for that purpose for a long time. Corruption of politicians, sexual favors of celebrities, experiments on mages by corporations, and all sorts of immoral data. And even cleverly manipulated data.
The moment this is spread, Korea will definitely be turned upside down.
‘Someone will change this country in my place.’
To prepare for the seizure of the broadcasting station, he used public opinion with the help of Kim Mu-hyung, the traitor of the Order Bureau and the commander of the 2nd Division.
Thanks to that, Seong Yu-jin is currently in Japan. This was actually good. It meant that Seong Yu-jin couldn’t intervene at all.
‘Thanks to the chaos in Korea, I was able to finish the preliminary work smoothly. I will execute the plan before Seong Yu-jin returns to Korea, before the boiling public opinion calms down.’
Even if he dies, someone who has seen the broadcast and inherited his will will appear. He doesn’t know if they will aim for the magic-dominated Korea he desires. But at least they will draw a better Korea than the current Korea.
Before executing the plan, Bright checked his colleagues. Five executives, including himself, and 35 ordinary members. It was a pitiful scale. But this was enough.
“Wait, Bright. Im Hyun-ah isn’t here?”
“Im Hyun-ah is suspected of being a traitor.”
“If she’s a traitor, we should punish her.”
“There’s no evidence of betrayal. Until now, Im Hyun-ah has been the most cooperative with our plans. It’s also true that we benefited quite a bit from the information Im Hyun-ah gave us, isn’t it? Im Hyun-ah’s power isn’t really needed for this plan anyway. We’ll exclude Im Hyun-ah and execute the plan.”
If Im Hyun-ah was really a traitor, she wouldn’t go down without a fight. Rather than the variables that would arise from that, it’s better to exclude Im Hyun-ah.
“Let’s begin.”
They headed to BK Broadcasting, where they had manipulated things in advance.
