Chapter 705 – 705. Savior Of The Academy
705. Savior of the Academy
I arrived in front of the old hotel.
For four days, I had Mocha monitor the old hotel. Since I had exposed his identity, he might have stopped what he was doing and run away.
But my worries were unfounded. As if mocking my existence, he stayed put and continued what he was doing.
‘He must be confident.’
And there’s a possibility that he’s not working alone.
Tensing my body, I got out of the car with a dagger in my hand. Sarah, sensing my mood, also got out of the car with a stern face. In her hand was a rapier specialized for thrusting.
“Um, Eugene, sir. If it’s a dangerous place, wouldn’t it be better to request support from the association?”
Sarah asked, carefully watching my expression. She must have sensed the ominous gloom of this place.
“No. We can handle it ourselves.”
“……”
For the first time, Sarah looked at me like I was a child. She seemed to think I was being childish. Knowing how stubborn I was, Sarah gave up trying to persuade me and stood in front of me, gripping her rapier again.
“But is there something in that hotel? What did you see with your spirit eyes?”
“Don’t you feel it? Don’t you feel the wind?”
“Now that you mention it, the wind is unusually strong here.”
“All the wind in Chicago is heading towards the hotel.”
She became serious. If what I said was true, it meant that an unusual event was occurring in Chicago that couldn’t be easily dismissed.
“Is it something related to the wind spirit?”
“That’s right.”
I briefly explained the current situation to Sarah. Sarah’s face grew more and more serious as she listened to me.
“To draw mana with wind and artificially create dragon veins and corrupt spirits… This is no ordinary matter. It would be better to retreat and report to the association.”
“I’m telling you, we’re enough.”
I walked towards the hotel. Sarah, holding her phone, followed me in a fluster. She must have sent a message to the association after all.
‘Ignoring my wishes? I’ll have to punish her with my dick later.’
Well, it doesn’t matter.
It’s not like the association’s heroes will appear right away when they get the call. I should be able to kill him within about 10 minutes.
‘First, I’ll tear down the barrier.’
I had no intention of entering the barrier. I hadn’t fully grasped it yet, and I didn’t know what tricks he might have added to the barrier since then. It’s better to eliminate his advantageous space early on.
“Mocha.”
“Kkuuukk!”
Mocha, summoned, materialized and soared into the sky. Her body was already pure white, but she stood out even more against the dark sky.
I channeled mana into Mocha through the connection. Crackle. Lightning sparked from Mocha’s body.
‘Strike.’
A thick bolt of lightning, enhanced by Mocha’s power, struck the hotel. More precisely, the barrier overlapping the hotel.
The hotel wall shattered, and part of the barrier was torn apart by the lightning.
Flint.
Sarah trembled. A chilling coldness that made her spine tingle leaked out from the torn part of the barrier.
“Eugene, sir! This is…!”
“…It wasn’t enough with one strike. Mocha, one more time.”
I couldn’t finish my sentence and closed my mouth. The guy himself came out from the gap in the torn barrier. An East Asian man with black hair. He glanced around with cold eyes behind his glasses, then looked at us.
“Is that all of you?”
“We know what you’re doing here. Surrender. Kneel there and raise your hands above your head.”
Sarah pointed her rapier at the man and snapped.
“You’re not police, so you must be from the association? How absurd. Just two. And one of them is a kid. You’re far too weak to stop me.”
“Whether we’re weak or not, we’ll have to see.”
Kiiiiing.
With a sharp sound, a cluster of light gathered on the blade of Sarah’s rapier. Sarah thrust her rapier continuously towards the man. Light was emitted from the rapier, flying towards the man.
The man took out a fan from his pocket, unfolded it, and waved it. A black barrier appeared, blocking all the light thrusts. It was as if darkness was devouring light.
“Pathetic.”
The man folded the fan and swung it. Darkness stretched out from the end of the fan, turning into a whip that fell towards Sarah.
“Dodge it!”
Sarah shouted. It was unnecessary worry. I had already finished preparing to dodge when he folded the fan. The black whip slammed into the ground. Sarah dodged it well on her own.
‘He’s too weak to be an A-rank, more like a B-rank similar to Sarah.’
That’s why the man’s arrogance was strange. The fact that he could show such an attitude meant he had something to rely on.
‘Is it that fan? No. It seems like a special item, but it’s just a weapon after all. Could it be that the wind spirit has already fallen?’
Sarah, having confirmed that I was far away, attacked more aggressively. Slashes of light flew towards the man. The man unfolded his fan. The whip disappeared, and a barrier protected him.
‘I roughly understand the fan’s ability.’
Sarah was at a disadvantage in the fight. Sarah’s ranged attacks didn’t work, and when she tried to get close, the whip’s characteristics were activated. It attacked a very wide area with a speed that made it hard to track its trajectory.
‘He’s keeping Sarah in check while glancing at me.’
He probably roughly guessed that I was a spirit user.
‘Mocha. Lightning.’
I gave the order to Mocha and pointed my index finger at the guy, gesturing rudely. Crackle. Blue lightning gathered at the tip of my index finger.
Mocha and I shot lightning at the same time.
It was too late to dodge. Sarah had done a good job of limiting his movements. The man unfolded his fan towards the sky. He chose to block the lightning falling from the sky rather than my attack. He judged that the spirit’s attack was more dangerous.
‘That’s the right judgment. Mocha’s lightning, infused with the spirit’s power, is stronger than my lightning.’
But that didn’t mean the lightning I shot was negligible.
“Kuaaaaaaak!”
The man, hit by the lightning I shot, screamed and knelt on the ground. White steam rose from his body.
‘I need to cancel my assessment of him being B-rank. This guy is C-rank.’
If he were B-rank, he wouldn’t have knelt down from just one lightning strike. I approached the guy with a dagger held in reverse grip. I was planning to slit his throat.
“…Who are you?”
The guy looked straight at me and asked.
“Who are you?”
“I am Wang Xian of the Ghost Fall Valley.”
“What?!”
My steps towards him stopped.
Ghost Fall Valley.
It’s a force somewhere in China. It appears in the original work and is considered one of the most dangerous villain groups in the world. Even the Nine Evils Sect can’t easily look down on the Ghost Fall Valley.
“Ghost Fall Valley?! Good heavens! Why are you people here?!”
Sarah shouted desperately. She seemed to have lost her reason. It was understandable. There was a saying that the Ghost Fall Valley was like a plague.
But Wang Xian didn’t give her any attention and only glared at me.
“Those golden eyes are spirit eyes.”
“You recognized it just by the color of my eyes?”
“Special eyes that spirit users have. It would be foolish not to recognize them. I know what you are.”
I didn’t waver. Just because my identity was exposed didn’t mean the Ghost Fall Valley could do anything to me right away. The same was true even if I returned to Korea. The Ghost Fall Valley would be busy building their power, and they couldn’t ignore Sung Ha-ri and the Jinryeong Sungga behind me.
“I envy you.”
Wang Xian raised his hand and adjusted his glasses.
“Without these glasses, I’m just a half-wit who can’t even see spirits and wraiths. But you’re not. You can see not only spirits but everything else. I envy you. I really envy your talent.”
“……!!”
An eerie aura emanated from him. I was startled and stepped back. It was an aura too strong for me to handle.
“Eugene, sir!”
Sarah jumped in front of me and raised her rapier.
Wang Xian looked at us, then took out a golden bell from his pocket. He grabbed the bell and shook it.
Ting. A clear bell sound rang out. I was momentarily distracted by the sound, which was too pure, even though I didn’t know what his intentions were.
“Come out. Come out and kill them all.”
From the barrier behind Wang Xian, corpses popped out. With pale skin and gleaming white eyes, they rushed out in all directions. There were over a hundred of them.
‘Zombies… No, are they Jiangshi?’
Some of them rushed towards us. Sarah blocked in front of me and faced four Jiangshi at the same time. They didn’t seem like ordinary Jiangshi, but she, who used light, was compatible with them. I stood quietly behind her, avoiding the Jiangshi. The Jiangshi had higher physical abilities than I did.
And above all, the one I had to kill was just one guy.
‘Wang Xian! That bastard is running away! Mocha!’
Mocha chased after Wang Xian, who was riding on the back of a Jiangshi. The Jiangshi was clearly running on two legs, but somehow it was moving faster than a motorcycle.
‘Mocha, body slam.’
Mocha spread her wings wide. Crackle. Lightning wrapped around Mocha’s body.
Mocha flew towards Wang Xian like a fired cannonball. Just before colliding with Mocha, Wang Xian threw his fan. The fan caused a black explosion, tearing off one of Mocha’s wings.
‘Damn it. I should have killed him earlier, even if I had to push myself.’
I summoned Mocha.
“Kkuuk kkuuk….”
Mocha groaned. I fed Mocha a spirit stone that I had prepared for emergencies. Mocha’s torn wing quickly recovered. But it seemed difficult for her to move right away.
“Eugene, sir! Are you hurt anywhere?”
Sarah, having dealt with the four Jiangshi, knelt on the ground and checked my body.
“I’m fine. More importantly, don’t you need to notify the association?”
“Ah….”
Her face turned pale, and she hurriedly took out her phone. Nearly 100 Jiangshi had spread throughout Chicago. Chicago would be hell for a while.
‘More importantly, what happened to the wind spirit?’
I left Sarah, who was passionately talking on the phone, and walked into the barrier. A cold chill that made my body tremble washed over me. I glanced at the talismans attached to the wall and walked towards the center of the barrier.
The wind spirit was still bound in the barrier. Unlike when I saw it before, the spirit body was not unstable. Instead, dark things were holding onto the spirit’s form.
‘It’s almost completely corrupted. What should I do?’
Even if I broke the barrier and released it, it didn’t seem like it would return to normal. It would only be like releasing this guy outside.
‘Would killing it raise my good karma?’
I wasn’t sure since it wasn’t 100% completely corrupted.
After pondering for a moment, I took out a spirit stone from my pocket. Maybe I could restore the wind spirit with the spirit stone.
Kaaaaaaaak!
The wind spirit’s reaction to seeing the spirit stone became violent.
“So, you want the spirit stone too. Here, take one. Eat it.”
I threw the spirit stone. Then, a dark mouth-like thing appeared and swallowed the spirit stone.
I watched the wind spirit with anticipation.
The wind began to rage around the wind spirit. I raised my hand to cover my face and watched the wind spirit. The wind spirit was growing larger.
‘It’s not returning to normal, but rather….’
Rather, it was becoming completely corrupted. The talismans inside the barrier flew away and tore apart in the wind. The barrier was gradually collapsing. Feeling the danger, I retreated from the barrier. I had no way to kill that wind spirit right now.
“Eugene, sir! What, what happened?!”
“The corrupted wind spirit has begun to break free.”
I looked at the hotel with a tense face. In the worst case, I might have to summon Yuria here.
Kwa kwa kwang!
The barrier shattered, the old hotel was destroyed, and the wind spirit emerged. No, since the spirit was corrupted, it would be more accurate to call it a demon spirit.
The demon spirit revealed itself above the destroyed hotel. It was a black, small beast-like form, and its entire body was constantly swirling.
“Good heavens….”
Sarah was shocked. The power emanating from the demon spirit was extraordinary. She held her rapier in front of me, but her body was trembling.
The demon spirit looked at me. But it didn’t speak or rush at me. The demon spirit soared into the sky.
-I’ll kill you! Wang Xian!!
The demon spirit flew through the sky of Chicago in search of Wang Xian.
