Chapter 1025 – [Abduction] How Master Chuck Cheok Lives (18)
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Yongin City, Korea. A building without people.
Alan was smoking his cigar while receiving a video call from one of his subordinates.
“How is it? Ledger.”
─Khehehe. Success. I’ll show you right away.
The director, who was filming with his cell phone, stood aside from his body.
—… …
A woman, restrained in an operating chair so that not a single finger could move, was glaring at them ferociously.
A smile crept across Alan’s lips.
“Nice work, Director. And nice to meet you, Miss Francesca Eitrinen. I’m not in the mood for a conversation, and it’s a pity that I don’t have time for that.”
Alan spoke softly to the woman whose mouth was also gagged.
“That’s a magic item I bought at a high price. It’s an item that seals mana. I might be able to release it if I forcibly raise the mana, but… Execute with the determination that the child will miscarry.”
—… …
Her eyes trembled and twitched.
It’s a reaction that can never come out if it’s fake. No doubles or puppets, Alan was deeply convinced.
—… How are you?
The director with a deep smile turned the camera.
Alan puffed out the smoke from his cigar.
“Perform surgery immediately. A precious mother should be returned to her family. Only… Except for the contents of my head.”
The plan devised by the director was an operation with a high success rate if speed and skill were followed.
He kidnaps the most irresistible Francesca, performs surgery on her, and makes her a doll.
And after melting among the targets, it was a plan to lure the key target with dimensional manipulation technology.
“It won’t be difficult to trick you if you just extract the memories. Deception was your specialty.”
In particular, the director’s procedure is a comprehensive art of medicine and magic accompanied by scientific incision.
It wasn’t easy for even a wizard to notice the change.
‘Because I don’t take the head cap off my family just because I’m suspicious.’
What will they do if they feel uncomfortable? Even if it’s a little awkward, if you claim that it’s due to pregnancy, you’ll be able to fool it for a day or two.
And with just a few days of earning, he was able to lure the possessor of dimension magic and extract that knowledge and memory.
“Be mindful. The first priority is to leave no traces.”
─Of course. Please trust us.
“I will. As long as we get dimension manipulation technology, it will be over if I use the media or government officials in the general society to accuse them of murder and put them on a wanted list.”
─I will contact you again after it is over. Then.
The tablet’s screen turned off. Alan grabbed the finished cigar and put it out.
A few of his men armed with firearms laughed.
“Thank you, Chairman.”
“I was lucky. They played mindlessly to make it easier for us to bring them in.”
“These are stupid people. I guess I thought it would be safe if there were a lot of people.”
A wizard’s first priority in modern times was to conceal himself.
Abducting someone while hundreds of people were watching, and destroying the minds of hundreds of people for a while to drive them out were basic knowledge for a high-level wizard.
“Wait for a call. As long as you don’t try to satisfy your own taste, the director’s skill is very swift.”
As he spoke, Alan summarized the sins he would cover up after he was done.
It’s okay to leave the death of a hostage that has become useless, or it’s okay to explode a bombing in this country. He only has to flick his finger to pick one from the list of sins.
If the fruits of civilization cannot be used at all, the enemy’s radius of action is greatly restricted.
Even if the enemy dreamed of revenge and tried to find the unknown culprit, the probability of reaching Alan’s neck was low.
‘In such a situation, if you rely on magic to harm or ostracize ordinary police, you will turn those who try to monopolize magic into enemies. I’ll be a great Admiral Lee.’
Wizards who want to monopolize magic.
Among them, the radicals were those who even incited war between conflicting countries in order to hide traces of magic. If all witnesses and traces are removed, there is nothing to be discovered, right?
There would be nothing better than killing and killing those who oppose him.
What if the enemy cooperates with the Bavarian Magic Society? Rather better.
This is because the organization also has Alan’s hooks.
A person from another world who became a world-class criminal overnight. And the only organization of magicians in the underworld that they can trust with their identity and body.
Whether it was poisoning or alienation, there were many ways.
─Time, Chairman! Big deal!
It was then. The director urgently called Alan. Alan’s eyes narrowed.
“… Did you catch it?”
─That’s right! As if I noticed the barrier magic, a woman is approaching my lair! One of our target, Francesca’s crew!
The director seemed to welcome Alan’s quick understanding, then hardened his expression and shouted urgently in a small voice.
Alan, who gestured to his men to prepare for battle, also stood up himself.
“Can’t we use Francesca to fool them? How far did the extraction surgery go?”
─The operation is already over! But you need 5 minutes to install the magic in your replacement brain! Enemy is approaching faster than I can do anything!
As the camera rotated, there was a woman standing there with a bewildered face. Her hard-dressed clothes were bloody with the blood that flowed from her head.
A successful operation means death.
But neither Alan nor the director cared about that one bit.
“Okay. Pretend the hostages are alive and hold out until I arrive. Isn’t that why you called me just in case?”
─Boo, please! I will go straight to defend myself!
His voice, concerned about his life, cut off along with the call.
Alan threw off his coat and ordered his men.
“Do not enter. One more volunteer to be a doll.”
Increasing the number of puppets to two is not a loss. The plan has a better chance of succeeding, and maybe the fool who is comfortable going to the director has dimension manipulation skills.
They immediately moved to a low-level theme park in Dongyang.
Avoiding the reservoir and jumping over the fence that was not an obstacle, they landed in a corner of the theme park.
“The director must be hiding behind a barrier inside the attraction, which is now closed for the night. Roger, use your magic to drive people away. Interrupters must be kicked out.”
“Yes!”
Weiyiing—!!
The subordinate, who turned the gun strap around his waist, performed magic. It was a magic that drove the crowds out of this area.
Instead, ordinary people under the spell receive severe brain damage, but it is enough to disguise it as a gas leak incident.
“Activate, completed safely.”
“You guys get the director. I… Well?”
Alan, who seemed to be running again at any moment, suddenly stopped his feet.
‘… There’s something.’
A feeling of incongruity set off his alarm.
No people? That’s not strange. It was his magic that cleared the way.
As he tried to move forward ignoring the suspicion, he realized the identity of the sense of incongruity.
“… Aren’t you wet?”
A little while ago, there had been a sudden shower that could be felt even in the building he was in.
Even on the way to the theme park, the road was muddy, and all the men except Alan had their pants wet.
However, it is said that there was such a strong shower, but only this place was not wet anywhere.
Even the low-level rides in the oriental countryside, even the vivid flowers as if they had just bloomed.
As if it was a fake background created by someone imitating the real one in order to lure them out.
… Creepy.
Realizing this, Alan raised his head with a chilling feeling of foreboding.
At the top of the central tower, a man was sitting with an umbrella.
“Isn’t the weather forecast too unreliable?”
─Round, round.
Even though not a single drop of rain fell, even though the weather forecast didn’t predict showers, he joyfully twirled the black foldable umbrella he had brought alone.
“Are you still happy? I’m a prophet, so I’m pretty well prepared.”
“… Suck!”
Alan held out his fist without answering. He wasn’t attacking a man.
─Boom!! The entrance to the attraction was destroyed in one fell swoop, revealing its entrails.
Where the director was in contact with Alan, there was no one to sniff.
The operating table he presented to the director is just abandoned without a drop of blood on it.
Even if you didn’t notice everything, it was a sight that didn’t have a problem in recognizing the general outline.
“What is it, Chairman?! Who is that guy–“
─Kwajik!! The head of the subordinate who shouted out was crumpled into his neck.
“Be quiet.”
After silencing the bewildered men by maiming one of his men, Alan asked coldly at his foe, who was playfully squatting atop the spire.
“… So, who are you?”
The man was wearing a doctor’s gown.
The name tag attached to it was the same as Alan’s subordinate.
The face that can be seen at a glance under the umbrella, the hand holding the umbrella, and even the voice speaking were all the director’s. But no one thought he was the director.
“Are you acting like a stranger all of a sudden? We talked on the phone a while ago.”
A cold smile smiling slightly under the umbrella.
However, the voice had become a completely different voice from Alan’s subordinate.
Alan raised his powers in combat readiness.
“I will ask you one more time. Who are you?”
“The voice phishing scammer who called you here.”
Nord smiled playfully and raised an umbrella.
“Thank you for catching me, great man.”
