Chapter 875 – Great Counterattack
Through this sparring, Seong-il was able to clearly feel how past managers played with S-class hunters. Based on the strong defense power of his tightly built triple domain, he repeatedly effortlessly blocks powerful fusion techniques coming from all directions.
“I’ll lower the level of the shield by one level. Then, increase the number of team members to attack me. Give up your sense of victory! Think of it as fighting against the manager!”
Seong-il is unable to come to his senses and uses his true power to crush some of the hunters who are still showing favoritism toward him, using his telekinetic powers to crush them like flies. When the hunters, who instantly felt the overwhelming gap between them and Seong-il, looked appalled by the attack, Seong-il stopped exercising his skills and in a serious tone strongly advised the hunters to set more realistic goals.
“… Team Oharin! Join!”
In the end, the three hunters who were making a desperate attack against Seong-il joined another team waiting nearby and began to attack Seong-il together.
However, despite being bombarded by as many as six S-class hunters, Seongil’s powerful area defense shield still does not show even a scratch.
Despite downgrading the triple domain to a dual domain, Seongil’s endless internal strength and sophisticated response power easily block the indiscriminate power used by the S-class hunter.
‘It’s easy to do with up to 20 people… But when there are about 30 people, it starts to get difficult, right?’
Seong-il succeeds in identifying the gap between managers and S-class hunters based on countless repeated sparring. Seong-il begins to calmly think about how Eden’s S-class hunters should devise tactics against the administrator in the future.
‘Because it’s me, I can just withstand the power of more than 10 people… If 10 S-class hunters form a team, it will be enough to kill an administrator. Because they don’t have enormous inner strength or sensitivity like me. Rather than killing it, it would be worth trying to simply hold on to level 5.’
Seong-il, who has collected a lot of meaningful data, stops sparring and shares the information he has learned with the S-class hunter. At first, the hunters had their pride hurt, but when they showed the scene of Seong-il killing five or more managers by himself in a bright light, their expressions soon began to be colored with awe.
“I will create an illusion and create an imaginary enemy for you, so you can practice your passing skills.”
Seongil recommends a suitable team based on his reaction and Dana’s analysis, and then creates customized tactics for that team on the spot. As if that wasn’t enough, Seong-il uses the bright environment to create the illusion of a manager and helps the hunter team have a realistic sparring match. And that too, so that more than 100 people can all train at the same time.
As he casually maintains several realistic, powerful illusions, and for a long period of time, even S-class hunters who joined him late and do not know much about Seong-il’s true skills begin to look at him with awe.
For two months, Seong-il continued to help S-class hunters train, and as Eden’s staff suggested, Seong-il calmly planted Withgrasil’s branches around the world little by little, repeatedly creating forward bases.
“Whoa… Everything is finally ready.”
After two months, Seong-il finally succeeded in creating a base in the outskirts of LA. Next to him, Lee Ah-hyeon, now a full-fledged priest of the Earth Mother and a high-ranking official, was sitting next to him, adding puns to his words.
“Yes. Battle preparations are fully completed. Finally, the real counterattack will begin in a little while.”
Although she knew the seeker’s true identity, Lee Ah-hyun repeatedly pretended not to know his identity in order to protect Seong-il’s secret. The two people chatting like that support each other by secretly exchanging secret signals that only each other knows.
『The countdown begins. 30…』
While Seong-il and A-hyeon secretly talk through augmented reality and hand signals, the countdown signaling the start of the operation finally begins to sound.
“Everyone remembers…”
“Yes. While you seek to attract the attention of the enemy elite, we will rescue the people in LA as secretly as possible.”
As Seong-il tries to explain again to his two aides out of anger, the white knight Eileen attacks him, cutting him off halfway through his words. Now that she has become a paladin of the Earth Mother, she has received plenty of powerful blessings from the Earth Mother and has grown into a full-fledged demi-goddess.
“… Are you coming?”
It may be seen as disrespect to the owner, but Seong-il is not particularly offended by Eileen’s bold behavior. He just looks amazed by her realistic actions.
‘The skill to mock fate is truly amazing.’
Although it was clearly a virtual character summoned to reality using the forgotten essence of a god, Seong-il is truly amazed that he can feel that the Aileen in front of her is not much different from the real one. Meanwhile, the countdown has ended, and an intense light appears around the three, engulfing the group and transporting them somewhere.
‘Whew… I hope Lee Ah-hyeon and Eileen hold up well.’
These two people were more likely to be exposed to danger than other S-class hunters, as they were planning to rescue people together in the very center of LA. However, unlike Aileen, who can be resurrected without any problems even if she dies due to her being a fake, Lee Ah-hyeon is her real person, so Seong-il is worried that she may face a serious crisis.
‘But I guess it’ll be okay since I lent you a lot of my artifacts. Let’s believe so.’
In order to ensure the safety of Lee Ah-hyun, who is no different from his real-life lover, Seong-il gave her many precious artifacts such as an incomprehensible ring, a death knight, an evergreen bracelet, and an ethereal stone of spirit. He calmly ascends to the skies over LA, praying that things will go well.
‘It’s terrible.’
The city is truly a dystopia itself. This city, which was rebuilt as the capital after the eastern part of the United States was devastated, had a dark and gloomy atmosphere that was so dark that even the word angel in it was meaningless.
‘Angel… I’ll believe you even if it’s Gotham City.’
The scene of New LA is clearly designed to squeeze people into a narrow density. Unlike the Korean peninsula, which has a narrow land mass, the American continent still had enough land for people to live in, but the politicians ruling the Americas were trying to manage people in small spaces to make it easier for them to manage people in the name of ‘efficient distribution of resources’ in a ruined world. They were committing atrocities that drove them in.
‘Fuck those bastards… I guess they did that because it’s easier to ‘raise’ them if you heard them in. It’s obvious even if you don’t look.’
Seong-il is appalled by the thoughts of the malicious aliens and begins to quickly increase his body’s strength. As an enormous amount of internal energy begins to burst out mercilessly from Seongil’s body, the laws of physics around him begin to collapse and become grotesquely distorted.
“Shall we set off a celebration?”
To declare war and open the festival, Seong-il smiles evilly and throws a huge pure white flame spear at the Neo Empire State Building, which stands tall in the center of LA.
Kwaaaaang…!!!
As the white flame spear overflowing with true pure cruiser energy bursts into the building that was modeled after the symbol of the now-extinct old world America, bloody fireworks begin to explode with a tremendous explosion. And then there were the terrible screams and sirens. Fortunately, the huge building appears not to collapse even though it was hit directly by a terrible bombing, perhaps because psionic techniques were applied.
『You damn bastards who sold humanity to aliens! The seeker has arrived!!』
After Seongil smashes the newly created symbol of domination with Sunyang Ganggi’s spear, he roars with enormous force and declares that he has come here.
His voice was so loud that it shattered all the windows in the entire city. And beings stimulated by the terrible roar and attack that filled the entire city began to quickly flock to the origin of the roar.
“You…!!”
Interestingly, even though Seong-il did not use any technology to explain his identity, one hunter seemed to recognize Seong-il’s identity. Although less than an hour has passed since the incident occurred in real time, Seong-il becomes intrigued when a hunter who appears to be an administrator recognizes him from the other side of the world.
“Do you know me?”
“How dare you kill a manager and expect him not to know who you are?”
Despite hiding their identity thoroughly, the Transcendental Church seems to have grasped some information about the Holy Day in the blink of an eye, perhaps because they are a race with a transcendentally advanced civilization. After seeing the manager’s reaction, Seong-il feels that he needs to be more careful in his future activities.
