Chapter 799 – First Sortie
『Yes~ Yes. I understand. Please tell the people in the city not to be so scared. I’ll have to work hard for about an hour or two… So please don’t get scared and get into trouble!』
『Okay.』
A carefree voice comes from the walkie-talkie. Since there are clearly familiar attitudes and voices coming from there, the guard captain suppresses his anxiety and pretends to be strong towards the technician.
Of course, Seong-il instantly brainwashed people with magic and ethereal stones and made them answer the guard captain, but the brainwashing was so gentle that the guard captain had no idea that the answers were fake.
“Go.”
“Who are you…!?”
The guard captain was waiting for the guards with a slightly anxious look at the final gate into the city due to unidentifiable anxiety. In the meantime, when he hears someone else’s voice for the first time in the approaching darkness, he throws the cigarette he was smoking on the floor, takes out a pulse gun from his pocket, aims it at the place where the voice came from, and shouts.
“Hello? I’m here to take you to a good place~!”
“…!!”
And as if responding to his question, men wearing bizarre masks begin to appear quickly like ghosts, giving bizarre answers. The guard captain tries to press the emergency signal with a shocked expression upon the sudden surprise attack of the monsters, who at first glance appear to be dozens in number.
“Where?”
“Ugh…!!”
Since Seong-il already knows 100% of the security captain’s physical condition through a secretly transmitted response from afar, Seong-il uses his telekinesis to strongly stop him from pressing the button. Seong-il then projects Hwanhae-kyung’s illusion and the power of the Ethereal Stone at the same time to confuse the guard captain’s mind so that he cannot make a proper decision.
『Seongil. Are people quick to notice? Even though there was no signal, they are already trying to run away quickly.』
It seems as if the experience of surviving for a long time in the terrible underground world is not going anywhere. When people who clearly look like supernatural beings attempt to ambush them, the refugees in the underground city scream and quickly try to escape in all directions. Although he seemed to be in a panic, the clones looked quite bothered by his trained and familiar escape route and asked Seong-il for support.
“Hwanhaengyeong.”
In order to support such clones and summoned beasts, Seong-il spreads his telekinetic powers in all directions and then uses the Hwanhaengyeong. Then his telekinesis turns into a fog mixed with the power of extreme confusion, causing intense hallucinations in the minds of the refugees.
“Aaaaah!!!”
In an instant, a strange fog fills the surroundings, and strong hallucinations attack the refugees every time they inhale it. To make matters worse, as the fog thickens and blocks their view, they begin to panic, not knowing what to do.
“Please serve us respectfully.”
To prevent thousands of people from getting hurt, Seong-il orders his alter ego to subdue the refugees as delicately as possible. The knight cursed by the order of such a holy day begins to approach the refugees, dragging his former master with him.
『W~ It’s been a while?』
『Can’t I just shut up…!!』
He is angry that he was subdued by Seongil and became a slave, but after being ridiculed by the undead creatures he created in the past, the demilich feels like he will not be able to control his emotions due to anger for the first time in a long time.
『I’m close with Seongil. Do you want to go into that prison one more time?』
『… I will do my best. Knight.』
However, I was annoyed for a while. When the Cursed Knight threatens, the Demi Lich curls his tail and bows to him as if he had never done anything like that before.
Enjoying the change in attitude of his once enemy-like master, the cursed knight leads Seong-il’s alter ego and begins to subdue the refugees one by one and throw them across the portal.
‘You’re good at it.’
While the clones and summoned beasts are suppressing the refugees, Seong-il focuses on preventing the refugees from escaping by calmly filling the escape route using Jeongcheon Jin-gyeong. After such a short period of time, Seong-il succeeds in completely securing new recruits for the people of the fairly large underground city.
“Whoa… That’s good.”
By the time we finished rescuing the refugees and rebuilding the city they lived in. As expected, the clear alarm of the Eden Hunters, which is welcome this time, begins to pop up violently.
Naturally, as nearly three times as many people as the first sortie were mobilized, the results were overwhelming compared to the previous one, so Seong-il feels much more satisfied.
“The team that successfully clears the dungeon and rescues the refugees must immediately join and begin the operation to fill the underpass.”
『I understand.』
At Seongil’s order, each hunter team leader takes out the magic potion they had previously received from the Eden Alchemy Workshop and begins to fill the area by using magical treatment on the subway as previously promised.
If Seong-il had to deal with it alone, it would have taken almost three or four days, but since more than a thousand hunters scattered the potion made in Eden all over the Seoul area, the Seoul subway, albeit clumsily, was half filled with rocks in less than half a day. .
『I didn’t clear it completely. Still, we believe that with this level of action, there will be no underground refugees in the future.』
“Okay. Return immediately and join the mission to care for the rescued refugees.”
In any case, the goal was to distract the Transcendental Church by blocking contact with refugees by filling up the subway, and to screw them over, so Seong-il did not reprimand the hunters and returned them to Eden, even though the old underpass was filled in awkwardly. Let’s do it.
‘This is the end of Seoul’s underground.’
Although Seong-il was relatively free from the eyes of the Transcendental Church in the underground, he knew very well that his activities on earth would not be easy.
‘… From the beginning, the basement was a space that the Transcendental Church deliberately ‘neglected’. But, it’s different on the ground.’
Therefore, although Seong-il achieved great results through this surprise attack and succeeded in destroying the Transcendence Church, he did not show any signs of letting down his guard.
‘Let’s think of it lightly as a declaration of war. Sooner or later, we will often have to confront each other openly on the ground.’
In reality, Seong-il was contemplating the future while confirming the return of the Eden Hunter. When he returns to Eden after completing his mission until the last hunter, he lightly breathes a sigh of relief and casts Inner Plane to return to Eden.
***
Tiring!
Despite achieving quite a bit of success, Seong-il did not show any signs of relaxation for a month. He was focusing on understanding the level and personality of each hunter by analyzing the battle videos submitted by all hunter teams.
“Ugh… Did you really analyze all of that?”
Hana says she is sick of seeing the students’ personal details on the huge monitor and Seongil carefully organizing and analyzing them.
“Yes. Anyway, nanomachines, G.E.C.R., And the Gaia system are helping us, so what’s so difficult? While we’re here, can you please call the others? Tell them to come to the conference room. Also, the professors.”
Based on the data he had carefully analyzed over the past 15 days, Seong-il was planning to select a few trustworthy hunters and train them into executives.
While Seong-il was searching through the list, followers and wise men from each world gathered in the Eden conference room. Seong-il shows them the list of hunters he analyzed and asks if there is anyone worth raising as an executive.
“Hmm… I recommend Go Jong-il of the G-17 team. He has a lot of sense and is quite talented.”
Professor Aaron, who read Seong-il’s list, points out the people he has been eyeing through his guidance and recommends Seong-il to raise him as an executive. As soon as his words fall, people from different classes begin to make various personnel recommendations to Seong-il.
“Binseung recommends Jo Joo-seong of the C-03 team. He is not only talented, but also has great courage and great personality.”
Seong-il, who was recommended by his colleagues as a talented person worthy of being promoted to an executive level, tells the story of the Pineapple House he recently acquired and the idea of setting up temporary bases across the country, and asks the wise men what their opinions are. Br〉
“Is that good? If we use the dimensional Pineapple House to deploy 10 spies to each city and province and obtain information, we will be able to use the available troops more effectively.”
As soon as Seong-il’s opinion comes out, Elaine nods her head and immediately appears to give a favorable review. Hana seems to like it too, nodding her head and adding flesh to Elaine’s opinion.
“I also feel like that would be better for harassing the Transcendental Church a little more! We could try something like guerrilla warfare… Wouldn’t it be good to engage in mobile warfare?”
“It’s not necessarily a good thing. Eden’s power is already poor. If they are dispersed like that, the risk of them being defeated individually will increase.”
Not long after positive opinions emerged, negative opinions began to trickle in from some quarters. The negative opinions also had their own truth, so Seong-il listened to them as well and nodded.
