Chapter 751 – 751. Connection (2)
Inside the dark cave lit by candles, members of the organization felt that something was wrong.
“… Strange.”
“…”
One member of the organization put the reluctance into his mouth.
“I should have sent you the information I gathered by now, but I haven’t heard back.”
The latest news from her subordinates was that they had successfully kidnapped Runan and began torturing her to gather information about a man named Eunhyeon.
Of course, there is a possibility that Runan’s torture and interrogation lasted for a long time and he could not obtain useful information.
But if that were the case, he should have been persistent and sent a scorpion to report that he hadn’t been able to get the right information.
The case where regular reports are cut off is the most worrying variable that should not exist at all.
“Something must have happened.”
If the variable is due to a natural disaster such as a natural disaster, I would rather be relieved, but the worst and most dangerous variable is if someone leaks their plan.
“… Hmm.”
It was the same for the commander who commanded them, who intuited that the situation was changing differently from the plan.
“Leader. Is this really okay?”
“…”
The captain did not answer the subordinate’s anxious question.
I didn’t find any big variables.
It was the first time that the regular report, which had never been missed, did not come.
It’s just that, but this strange sense of incongruity that stirs in my heart doesn’t disappear, but rather inflates.
Feeling that anxiety was the same for the subordinate who directly expressed it and threw the question.
And that subordinate did not welcome this request itself from the beginning.
“That man named Eunhyun… Dangerous.”
In fact, from the moment he received this order from the Barthel family, he did not take it very seriously.
It wasn’t that I had certainty or information.
“The thing I’m most worried about is that I still can’t figure out what kind of measures were taken against Alteria Corporation in the first place.”
What I felt strange was when I heard that the Alteria Firm, run by the third prince of the Barthel family, was plotting to devour the Duchy of Armitas, and conversely, the firm itself was taken away.
Alteria Corporation is on a different level from a small commercial enterprise run by an individual.
As much as it carries out business with the royal family on its back, its scale is extraordinary and it is a large-scale trading company that is also involved in the national projects of the Bartel Kingdom.
The amount of money invested is enormous, and the profit generated from it doubles the money and fills the pockets of the Bartel family.
The Alteria Firm was literally the heart of the Barthel family’s finances.
However, since more than half of the wealth and authority of the Alteria Firm had been lost to the Duchy of Armitas, it was only natural that the Barthel royal family, who were the real owners of the Firm, would be upset.
The damage was as precious as the blood they actually shed, and it was a colossal blood loss.
“Born in the first place. That nobleman is not stupid even though he has a lot of greed.”
Born, the owner of the Alteria Company, is full of desire to sweep and collect wealth, but he is not stupid.
If he did not have the business skills to realize his desire in the first place, he would not have been able to sit in the representative seat of a merchant association, and would not have been noticed by the Barthel family.
He was a very capable man as far as his business skills were concerned.
“But isn’t that nobleman also missing now?”
After crossing the border of the Fernias Kingdom and collecting information about the Armitas territory and the duke’s family, the owner of the territory, the anxiety gradually turned into confidence.
“It’s certain that the executives of Born and Alteria Firm were all dealt with in the Duchy of Armitas.”
However, he could not grasp the method and process at all.
The important people of Alteria Firm, who had plotted in the dukedom, including Born, had already disappeared without a rumor, and the low-level executives of the firm in the dukedom were already integrated into Jis Firm along with their property, completely unaware of the circumstances.
Having worked as an intelligence member of the Bartell family for over 10 years, his subordinates felt an unknown fear of the Duchy of Armitas, which handled things so neatly and without rumors.
So they took a risky gamble.
He lured the leader and members of the Heilangdan, who were presumed to be moving under Eunhyeon’s order, and led them to a place that was easy for them to attack, and successfully ambush them and capture Runan, the leader of the Heilangdan.
It would be nice if he could torture Runan and find out Eunhyeon’s weakness, but even if he couldn’t, that was fine.
If there is trust between Runan and Eunhyeon enough not to sell information about the one he serves as his owner, he judged that Eunhyeon might rather move to save Runan.
However, there is no regular report from the subordinate who kidnapped Runan.
“Leader.”
The subordinate urged the captain to make a decision.
Feeling an inexplicable fear of a man named Eunhyeon, he insisted on withdrawing from him even now.
However, the captain couldn’t make a decision right away and was worried.
In fact, he also instinctively feels that the mission has failed.
It was because his senses, which had been running an intelligence organization as the dog of the Barthel family for a long time, were strongly appealing that something was wrong.
Even so, the reason why he can’t withdraw his foot and give an order to withdraw is because the order of the Bartell royal family, who is the owner and supporter of this information guild to which they belong, is absolute.
Even if you reject the royal family’s order and run away, what awaits you is the royal family’s pursuit and retaliation.
It would be fortunate if his life was spared, but he did not think that the Barthel family would spare him.
Eventually, he came to a belated conclusion.
“… Step out.”
Perhaps it was because he had gone through a long ordeal, he decided to trust the sense of anxiety that had risen in his heart.
When the captain’s official order to withdraw was given, his other men rose to their relief to pack their belongings.
But at that moment.
The motion of the shadows shimmering in the torch-lit field of view was captured.
“… Uh?”
The subordinate paused and looked at the shadow.
The shadow is moving strongly, like a live fish, as if expressing the rolling waves.
A living shadow, it was the first sight he had ever seen since he was born.
Eventually, the shadow began to act.
“Suck!?”
At a speed so fast that it was impossible to perceive with both eyes, the shadow attacked the subordinate.
By the time his subordinate caught the movement, he had already swallowed his entire body.
The members of the organization who heard the voices of silent astonishment holding their breath turned their heads one by one in the direction where they heard the quiet commotion.
“… !”
All members of the organization, who directly witnessed the sight of a huge shadow unfolding like a curtain enveloping and swallowing their comrades, held their breath in astonishment.
Without any warning, there was no time to doubt the identity of the shadow that started the action.
Just thinking about how to get out of this situation.
But despite that thought, the shadow was faster.
The shadow that swallowed one of the subordinates spread its range in an instant and completely took over the inside of the cave illuminated by torchlight.
“What is this… !?”
The organizers were astonished.
I immediately noticed that this was magic.
However, it is unavoidable that the response is delayed due to the fact that it is a phenomenon and magic that I have never seen before.
Before long, the shadow created five scythes from the floor.
Squeak
The scythe, which was swung silently, decapitated the members of the organization.
“…”
The captain stared blankly at the neck of his subordinate who was rolling on the floor.
He wasn’t fully aware of what was going on.
The only thing he knew was that all of his men had suddenly been decapitated and died.
“What… Days… ?”
The shadow moved again.
“Kuh… !?”
It wasn’t enough to sever all of his subordinates’ necks, this time he hurriedly ran away from the shadows approaching to devour him, but since the entire cave had already been engulfed by the shadows, there was no place he could escape to. .
The shadow that had covered the entire cave finally bound the captain’s entire body.
Before long, the shadow began twisting the captain’s body.
“Nice… Ahhh… !”
As if twisting a wet towel to squeeze out the moisture, the man twisting into a spiral screamed out in agony as his whole body bones were crushed.
His men were instantly decapitated and killed without even realizing their pain or death, but the last remaining captain was not easily killed.
The shadow seems to be trying to squeeze out a desperate scream by inflicting pain slowly.
Then, a human figure entered the cave and appeared.
“…”
Black hair and black eyes.
However, he wore a mask to cover his face.
The captain immediately noticed that this man was responsible for using the shadow to drop his men’s necks to the floor in an instant.
“Nice… Ugh!”
He tried his best to get out of the shadow, somehow entangling himself, but the shadow didn’t budge.
It seems to be covered with flexible cloth, but its strength is stronger than steel, and the more he resists, the stronger the shadow tightens.
Wooddeuk
“Ugh… Ugh!”
The leg that was bound by the shadow was twisted and the bone was broken.
He tried to escape by force, but with the fractured leg, it was impossible to even use proper force.
The black-haired man silently approached him slowly.
“You… Who are you?”
“…”
A man with black hair.
Eunhyun did not answer.
He didn’t even feel the need to answer.
‘Cause he’ll die anyway
But before killing him, he dared to kill all of his men, but the reason he kept him alive was to get the necessary information from him.
Eunhyun stretched out her hand toward his forehead.
He made his index finger touch, connected his body, and activated his authority.
[Eunhyeon’s Unique Ability]
[Memory Opinion]
The ability to spy on a target’s memories by touching a part of their body.
Eunhyun used that ability to collect all the information in the man’s head and put it into her own.
All the moments he experienced while running an intelligence organization belonging to the Barthel family.
It was a long time, easily surpassing 10 years, but it was only a moment that entered Eunhyeon’s head.
Eventually, Eun-hyeon, who had gathered all the information, took her hands off the man.
And he turned his back without any regrets.
“You… Ask who… !”
From the captain’s point of view, he shouted again as he looked behind Eun-hyeon, who was about to leave the cave after doing nothing but acting, but Eun-hyeon cut him off.
“Take care of it.”
He wasn’t talking to himself, the captain realized.
But if so, who is he talking to?
Before he could resolve the question, the shadow that had been entangling his whole body made a scythe and cut his throat.
The captain of the information guild of the kingdom of Bartell did not even realize what he was killed by, and his neck fell to the floor and died.
