Chapter 887 – Alliance
『Good. I don’t agree. Your strength is at least that of a bishop. In fact, in a situation where power is at a boiling point like now, if you, a strong man at the bishop level, join, there will be an even bigger rift in the war against the church.』
In addition, even if Seongil’s troops do not directly attack important areas such as the South Pole or the North Pole, if they roam around the world and work to rescue humanity, the Transcendental Church will have no choice but to spread its already insufficient manpower around, so Illax is sufficient to protect Seongil. It seemed like he thought the alliance with would be effective.
“I’m glad you think so. Then when do you plan on carrying out the operation?”
『… You want to start a war right now?』
Absurdly, when the being who had engaged in an extreme battle with the bishop a moment ago said that he did not need rest, Illax seemed to think that Seong-il was being reckless.
“I can activate my full power right now. Our numbers are greater than you think and we are quite elite. Even the S-class hunters we have are close to hundreds, so shouldn’t we use every minute as much as possible instead of wasting a second?”
In fact, the number of S-class hunters that Eden possesses is a little over 100, but Seong-il exaggerates Eden’s skills to Illax in order to hide the fact of the time-stopping power.
‘If I bluff like this, it will seem to the guardian of reason that I am attempting a wheel fight.’
Normally, he would have strongly refuted Seong-il’s remarks, but since he seemed confident, Illax missed the time to refute him and answered him in a hesitant tone.
『In fact, what is your main strength? Since the battle with the bishop a little while ago was so intense, the damage must have accumulated a lot?』
‘I should try fishing.’
As Seong-il had already anticipated Illax’s question, instead of answering, he took out the elixir from his pocket and waved it at him.
“If you take the elixir contained in this artifact, all injuries and wasted strength will be completely restored. So don’t worry about my condition.”
Strictly speaking, mental stress could not be recovered even with elixir, so Seongil had accumulated quite a bit of fatigue. However, after making a deal with Illax, he plans to go to Eden for a while, stop time, rest, and then return, so he bluffs to Illax without hesitation.
『… I understand. Originally, I would have stopped him, but since the Transcendence Church may soon achieve its goal, it may be the right answer to do more. Let’s do it like this.』
Illax says that if he is given just one hour, he will call his leader-level comrades hiding in the dimensional gap and broker a meeting with Seong-il.
“Let’s do that.”
『Thank you. Then, please wait in the VIP room while I call my comrades.』
“Sure.”
Seong-il answers Illax’s request with ease. Seeing his attitude, Ilax nods his head and summons his comrades from the Ark again.
『Please help me serve the distinguished guest.』
“Okay.”
Yoo Chang-jin, the president of the Under Hunter Association, guides her holy day to the VIP room, accompanied by her two favorite S-class hunters. Since it is a space that Seong-il is also familiar with, she feels Seong-il falling into emotion.
“Please show me around here while Illax finishes his business…”
“Okay. I’d like you to guide me to a private room where I can rest alone.”
“But…”
Yoo Chang-jin and his subordinates secretly talked with Seong-il and tried to find out at least a little bit about the identity of this mysterious man. However, Seong-il cuts off their demands in one fell swoop with a dismissive tone.
“There is no reversal. Please send me to a quiet space where I can meditate alone. Otherwise, the meeting will be aborted.”
Seong-il, who briefly called out the breakdown of negotiations, unleashed all of her formidable force and put pressure on the three S-class hunters surrounding her.
“Kuh…!!”
As the power of sensitivity, telekinesis, and space are fused and spread out over a huge area, putting brutal pressure on the beings within it, the S-class hunters are overwhelmed by its mighty majesty and appear to have difficulty even breathing.
‘It seems like only yesterday that I had a hard time fighting against that old man…’
Of course, Arunlabe, magic, etc. Although it was a sparring match without using secret techniques. Even so, it could be said that Yoo Chang-jin’s skills at that time were only 1/5 of Seong-il’s, who gave his all.
But now, several years have passed. Seongil was confident that a hunter of Yoo Changjin’s level would be able to play with him and kill him in an instant with just the power of his domain.
‘This is why, no matter how much humanity improved its skills, it had no choice but to be beaten by aliens.’
To be honest, Yoo Chang-jin’s current skills are not even half of those of Eden’s S-class hunter, whom Seong-il worked hard to train.
Although he is said to have been a powerful triple ability that handles physical enhancement, sensitivity, and space at the same time, he was a half-power who could not use fusion anyway, and like the Hunter of Eden, he was assisted by powerful technologies such as nanomachines, telekinesis, martial arts, and magic imprinting. Because I didn’t receive it.
‘… I can see just how crazy things I’ve accomplished over the past few years.’
Seong-il, wearing a mask, expressionlessly evaluates the hunters, including Yoo Chang-jin, and becomes sentimental. Meanwhile, Yoo Chang-jin is unable to withstand the strange power used by Seong-il, frowns heavily and speaks to Seong-il in a difficult tone.
“I understand… I will serve you with this… Strength.”
“You’re weak.”
At Yoo Chang-jin’s request, Seong-il calmly does as he says and releases the power of the realm. And Yoo Chang-jin must have felt quite humiliated by that evaluation and glared at Seong-il with a venomous look.
“Why?”
“… I recognize that you are strong, but do not ignore humanity.”
“Why are you so weak that you ignore humanity?”
“Ha! I don’t know what happened to you and gave you such power, but I have the highest level of power in humanity. So ignoring me is…”
In response to Yoo Chang-jin’s laughable words, Seong-il cuts him off and responds in an absurd tone.
“Like you? To be honest, among the hundreds of S-class hunters under my command, there isn’t a single one weaker than you, right?”
“Hundreds…!? They’re all stronger than me…?! What…?!”
The number of S-class hunters that a country can have is less than a few dozen, but when Seong-il mocks him with an absurd number, Yoo Chang-jin looks at Seong-il in bewilderment even while he is angry.
“Then I’ll give you a chance to spar soon. Look forward to it.”
Seong-il, feeling playful, decides to show off the S-class hunter he raised to Yoo Chang-jin in a sparring match soon for entertainment.
They appear to be in tears at Seong-il’s provocation, but since they have seen the overwhelming power that Seong-il showed just moments ago, they calmly take Seong-il to a private room for VIPs instead of talking back.
“I will meditate from now on, so get out of the way.”
“But…”
“I warn you, if you interfere with my meditation, I will rip you and your superiors limb from limb.”
“…”
As Seong-il sprinkles a mixture of telekinesis and sensitivity to the surroundings and spreads his lethal force through it, Min Ye-jin, who guided him, begins to look bored.
“Get out.”
“…”
In the end, Min Ye-jin leaves, unable to overcome Seong-il’s cruel pressure. When the situation changes so that there is no one around, Seong-il gently spreads out her territory and asks Dana.
“Dana. Surveillance?”
“There is. There are quite a few.』
Dana, absurdly, tells Seong-il that the entire VIP room is a space under surveillance.
“Can I block it?”
『Of course. Paralyzing a surveillance device like this is easier than eating a snack.』
As if Seong-il’s request is not a big deal, Dana uses his inner power and domain to lock down all the surrounding surveillance devices.
‘Whew… Let’s go soon.’
It will be safer from the eyes of those around you. Without hesitation, Seong-il uses the Inner Plane to move his body from the Ark to Eden.
***
“Whew… I guess I should take a break.”
Since he had already heard through reports that he was the last to return to Eden, Seong-il was not particularly worried about whether any of the hunters might be lost. Therefore, as soon as he returns to Eden, he goes into his office with a tired expression and takes a rest.
“What kind of guy’s message is this…”
After taking a shower in the shower room installed in his office, Seong-il sits down at his desk, eats milk tea and refreshments made by Elysia, and begins to read the large amount of messages accumulated in augmented reality one by one.
“Ho… We succeeded in securing 40% of the citizens living along the western coast of the United States? That’s huge…?”
Of course, this time, the Transcendence Church’s counterattack was quicker than expected, causing the fatal problem of running out of time.
For example, we originally planned to target the inland map, but due to lack of time, we only focused on the coastline where Seongil had planted eggplants.
However, this time, Eden Hunter succeeded in completely targeting part of the western United States and rescuing a population of nearly 7 million people in numbers alone, even in a tight situation, and joy fills Seong-il’s face as he reads the report detailing the outstanding results. .
