## Chapter 54 – Executioner Raid
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“I didn’t want to do this in a crowded place… but I guess I have no choice.”
Despite being hit in the left thigh and side by the agents’ bullets, the Executioner showed no change in expression as he looked in the direction the bullets had come from.
“Wh-What’s going on? Suddenly there’s gunfire?”
“It’s a villain!! A villain must have come!!”
The sound of gunfire reached the ears of the citizens using the rest stop, and everyone, employees and customers alike, thought it was a villain attack and frantically ran out of the rest stop.
“Aaaaaah!!”
In the blink of an eye, the rest stop turned into chaos as people poured out, and the noisy building was instantly transformed into a silent battlefield.
“Did they come from the Union?”
Then, dripping blood from his gunshot wounds, he walked slowly towards the agents who were still pointing their guns at him.
“I know that Union agents don’t move alone. Where’s the hero who brought you here?”
The Executioner had faced Union agents or heroes dozens, even hundreds of times. He had never seen agents attack a villain on their own without a hero.
“What does it matter? You’ll be paralyzed soon. Surrender peacefully.”
The bullets the agent fired at the Executioner were not ordinary bullets but special ones.
They looked like ordinary bullets, but inside they contained enough anesthetic to knock out an elephant in 30 seconds, and the moment they pierced the body, the powerful anesthetic would quickly seep into the bloodstream.
Unlike heroes, most of whom have abilities, agents often don’t have any.
Therefore, they often carry specially made weapons like anesthetic bullets.
“Surrender peacefully… I’ve heard that countless times.”
However, quite some time had passed since the Executioner was hit by two anesthetic bullets, yet he moved his body freely as if nothing had happened.
“Ahem. Is this an anesthetic bullet? A familiar item.”
He stuck his fingers into his thigh and side where the bullets were lodged, and without a painful expression, he pulled out the bullets embedded in his body and looked at them.
“These bullets are useless against me. Tell me where the hero is. I don’t have time to deal with trash like you.”
“Wh-What?! This bastard…!”
– Kwadudududukㅡ!!!!
In that narrow gap between the agent trying to shoot and the Executioner, sharp ice spikes shot up with a cracking sound.
“…That’s far enough.”
Worried that the lives of the agents, who were overconfident in the performance of the anesthetic bullets, would be in danger, Lumi, who had been hiding and waiting for an opportunity, finally revealed herself in front of the Executioner.
“Finally showing yourself? I thought these agents were going to lose their lives.”
“That will never happen again.”
“That’s quite the confidence.”
– Keugeugeugeugeuk… Kkigigigigit…!!??!!
A fearsome blade in the shape of an axe emerged from the gap in his forearm muscles.
“However… I doubt how long that will last.”
He looked at Lumi’s ability and seemed quite interested. A slight change in expression appeared on the Executioner’s face, which had been expressionless all along.
“Haaaaaaah!!!”
– Kwadudududukㅡ!!!!
As Lumi stretched out her hands, a large number of spikes grew from the ground, covering the Executioner, who was trying to get into a fighting stance.
– Seureung… Shuaaaaaatㅡ
Before the ice spikes, like stalactites rising in a limestone cave, could pierce his body, he quickly twisted his body and cleanly cut them down with a single stroke.
The cut icicles fell to the ground with a thud, and shattered pieces of ice scattered on the floor.
“Ice, huh? Threatening.”
– Kwadudududukㅡ!!!!
The Executioner was touching the shattered pieces of icicles he had cut down. This time, a stream of ice extended towards his body.
– Chaengㅡ!!
Lumi tried to freeze the Executioner in the same way she had tried to subdue Chaeryeong, but the axe blade that had sprouted from his arm blocked the stream of ice.
“Blocking it… Doesn’t mean you can stop it…!”
However, the ice wrapped around the axe blade that had blocked the stream, and soon froze the Executioner’s arm and shoulder in an instant.
“…!!!”
– Kwajijijijijikㅡ!!!
Then, the Executioner boldly cut off his right arm, which was being frozen.
He made the bold decision to cut off his arm, guessing that his entire body would be frozen in an instant if he left it as it was.
“Keuhaaaak…!!”
He had shown no change in expression even against Magical Aquamarine’s water pressure blades, but cutting off his entire arm, not just a finger, would be a different level of pain altogether.
As if to prove the pain he was feeling, a huge amount of blood gushed out like a fountain from the end of his severed arm.
“Keueueueu… Euaaaaaaaaa!!!!”
He screamed in agony, enough to shake the rest stop, and then a tremendous sound began to be heard from the severed end of his arm.
– Keugeugeugeugeugeutㅡ!!! Kkigigigigigigik!!!
“Euaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!”
A scream that could be heard all the way outside the parking lot. When the scream ended, the flow of blood pouring from his arm stopped.
“Hoo….”
The reason why the massive amount and speed of bleeding had stopped.
Just as he had created an axe blade from his arm, he had pulled out a blade from the severed end of his arm and covered the cross-section.
Moreover, not only was the cross-section covered with blades, but a huge longsword had grown in place of his arm.
“I almost… became one with an ice cube in an instant.”
– Shuaaaaaatㅡ Chaeng!
“Keueueueut…!”
The Executioner instantly flew to where Lumi was standing and swung his longsword to cut her abdomen.
However, the ice wall that Lumi quickly created blocked his blade.
“Excellent speed in both offense and defense. But that’s not enough.”
– Shuaaaatㅡ!!
He pushed the blade against the ice wall, breaking it, then quickly rotated his body to attack Lumi simultaneously with the blade of his longsword and the axe blade.
– Chaengㅡ! Chaengㅡ!!!
Lumi continued to create ice walls just in the nick of time to block the Executioner’s attacks.
– Shwaaaaaakㅡ
“Kyaaaaak!?”
However, an attack that she couldn’t block or dodge grazed her leg and shoulder, and blood spurted out from the grazed areas.
– Teokㅡ
“Euaat?!”
“There’s nowhere left to run now. Hero who controls ice.”
To make matters worse, her back hit the wall with a thud, putting her in a desperate situation where she could no longer retreat.
‘What should I do…? I need to break the wall or the floor, but…
My ice spikes don’t have the power to break it…!’
She could only think of breaking through the wall or the floor to escape his pressure, or breaking through head-on.
However, the walls and floor of the rest stop building were sturdy and seemed difficult to break with ice spikes, and if she tried to break through head-on, she would surely be blocked by his axe blade.
– Shuoooooooㅡ!!!
The Executioner strode towards Lumi, who was cornered, and quickly swung the longsword blade in his left arm.
– Buungㅡ Kwajijijijikㅡ!!!
“Keuheoeok…!”
However, as if an attack had been launched against the Executioner from somewhere, he groaned in pain and crouched down.
The Executioner collapsed to his knees with a huge axe-spear embedded in his back.
“Heoeoeok… I can’t… breathe…!”
He had suffered large and deep wounds from near his right shoulder to his left side where he had been shot, and a huge axe-spear was embedded near his spine as he gushed blood like a fountain.
“Hoo…. This is fucking heavy.”
“Wh-Who are you…?”
A sturdy man with black hair was panting and breathing heavily. It was none other than Siyoon who had plunged the axe-spear into his back.
“Master… No, Oppa! Are you okay?”
Jiwu ran from behind him as he caught his breath. Siyoon had shared Jiwu’s ability ‘Weapon Manifestation’ and attacked the Executioner.
“It wasn’t… one… after all….”
The long and huge axe-spear was driven so strongly that it almost pierced through his back. It was the weapon of the ‘War of Champions’ character that he was the only one who knew how to create.
“Keuhaaaaak…!”
Unlike before when he screamed and cut off his arm, this time the damage seemed more severe as the Executioner couldn’t even get up and was spitting out blood.
The blood gushing from his body dyed his long black hair red, and his corpse-like skin began to turn even paler.
“Keueueueueu… Euaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!”
Even so, the Executioner still had the strength to get up, screaming with monstrous strength and stamina as he charged at Siyoon.
It was a final charge that could be called a last-ditch effort.
– Kwadudududukㅡ!!
However, due to the great damage he had suffered, his movements, which had been like the wind, had slowed down to the point where they were visible.
Lumi quickly caught on to this and fired a stream of ice, quickly freezing the Executioner’s entire body.
“Tha-That’s it. It’s over….”
The Executioner’s body, frozen solid with the axe-spear, fell to the floor of the rest stop with a thud, and Lumi let out a sigh of relief only after confirming that he was completely frozen.
“Wh-Who are you? Are you another hero who came to help me?”
Lumi approached Siyoon, who was staring at the frozen Executioner with a bewildered expression.
“Ah… I’m not a hero. I’m just… close to heroes.
By the way, your injuries look pretty deep. Are you okay?”
She hadn’t taken much damage from the Executioner’s blade, but she had suffered several minor injuries from the few attacks she hadn’t been able to block completely.
“It hurts, but… I’m fine. I need to report the situation to the other agents…?!”
Lumi said she was fine and tried to stand up on her own, but she stumbled and fell. It seemed that she couldn’t put much strength in her legs because they had been cut.
“Kyaaat?! What are you doing?!”
Siyoon picked up Lumi, who couldn’t stand up, and walked out of the rest stop building with Jiwu, leaving the frozen Executioner behind.
From this point of view, Siyoon was no different from a hero who had appeared to save Lumi, but there was a very clear reason why he had suddenly appeared and saved her.
[ Status: Imprint Stage 1 (Subjugation 0%) ]
‘Operation… success…!’
