Chapter 632 – Escape
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“Hmm…”
I am surrounded.
Knives, clubs, axes, maces, etc… People with scary faces holding all kinds of tools were glaring at me.
The number seemed to be dozens… No, over a hundred people.
The guys blocking the streets of the slums seemed to have decided on a place where I could possibly escape.
At first, I saw them running away as soon as they saw me, and I thought they were just wasting their money… I had no idea piggy banks would come rolling in droves like this.
Four men step forward from the crowd surrounding me. Each of them had large and small knife marks on their faces.
Looking at their attitude, I expected that they were probably the leaders of this group.
Among them, the man who was holding the weight with a tobacco in his mouth opened his mouth first.
“Huh… Palchigong… You were too outspoken.”
Starting with the words of the man who asked about the beginning of the year, the others also started to add words one by one.
“How dare you cause trouble in our territory.”
“You idiot. I don’t know if you have an idea. Don’t you know that if you mess with people in all organizations, this will happen?”
“Did you really think that this fearless guy would get away with doing something like this, not to mention getting involved in a power struggle?!”
In particular, the faces of the two guys were full of anger.
The discolored face looks like an old bruise.
It seems like he was hit hard by someone.
〈Who was it that hit you? It was you.〉
Cosmos provided unexpected information.
‘I said that? When?’
What she said won’t be a lie.
But am I one or two of the minnows I fan of in the slums? There was no way I could remember all those faces.
‘Still, if you become a leader, you might remember…’
〈When you first came here, you were among the people who beat you up.〉
On my first trip, I was lucky enough to get involved in a power struggle between gangsters. And there was a time when I took advantage of that confusing situation to attack them.
‘It was a bit salty back then.’
With the money he earned at that time, he went out to a sumptuous meal with Nehru.
Looking at the situation roughly…
The story is that four criminal organizations have come together to stop me from trying to maintain security in the slums.
They say even earthworms wiggle if you step on them…
I thought something like this would happen at least once.
‘I didn’t know it would happen today…’
Well… It was common for people who were enemies to come together for a powerful enemy.
It seems like he was determined to take advantage of the opportunity to submerge me.
Of course, it just looks ridiculous to me.
Even if 1,000 or 10,000 people gather together, these minnows cannot possibly be a threat.
The problem is…
The point is that we can’t just wipe out these guys like we want.
The prisoners are basically wearing magic suppressing devices.
What this means is that no matter how much you fly outside Karaz, there is a limit to the power you can use here.
Of course, the magic suppression device did not have any effect on someone like me… But we cannot reveal our true identity yet until we find Helena for sure.
What this means is that combat abilities beyond the Karaz inmate level cannot be used. You must show only an acceptable level of combat ability on the outside.
‘Even if there is a penalty like that, it’s funny to have such a hard time against these guys.’
I spoke to the bosses who couldn’t understand the situation and were acting arrogantly.
“… Let’s compete like men in a fair duel. Shouldn’t men talk with their fists?”
At my request, they look at each other’s faces.
The guy who was smoking a cigarette spoke indifferently.
“This is absurd. Do you think we will fall for such a trick?”
“Are you afraid? As the head of an organization, aren’t you ashamed of your subordinates for avoiding duels?”
“I’m not ashamed. I’m more ashamed of falling for such a stupid provocation. It’s absurd. I guess I’m viewing this world too lightly.”
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Stupid Dwight and the gangsters got caught… Maybe because he rolls around on a dirty floor, he doesn’t even flinch when he says something that hurts his pride.
He probably knew that I was the one who got involved in the fight between the two factions in the first place and made a mess… So he might have felt like I was a tough guy.
“…”
My first plan failed.
“Ugh… Then there’s nothing I can do.”
Of course, I was also planning the next best solution.
That…
I just turned my back on them and started running away.
“No? That guy?! Screw you!”
They must have not predicted my decision to flee right away, so they urgently give orders to their subordinates.
You can see the tomboys building a wall surrounding the area.
Surrounding a strong enemy is not easy.
First of all, there must be a lot of people.
They achieved that condition.
However, there is something they overlooked.
Their siege is that the country is ridiculously poor at catching big game.
It’s the same as how ants cannot stop the movement of an elephant no matter how hard they bite.
Of course, they don’t know that.
That’s probably why they do this.
It wasn’t their fault.
I haven’t shown any overwhelming power so that they can’t dare attack me.
I kicked the ground and jumped up in front of the human wall that blocked the surroundings.
My large body floats in the air.
Their eyes turn to me floating above their heads.
Without missing the opportunity, dozens of knives came flying at me.
It is not easy to hit a fast-moving target.
Most of them missed, but even then, there was a dagger aiming at me.
-Chae chaeng!
I hit the dagger with the ink stick I was holding in my hand.
The body that does not defy gravity falls down again.
I stepped on the face of a guy who was looking up at me and jumped again.
When I took the second leap, I escaped their siege.
After climbing over the siege and landing on the ground, I quickly entered a narrow alley.
The leaders who saw that shouted.
“That rat guy!!”
“Now, catch it!!”
Their gang members belatedly come to their senses and start moving their bodies.
“Stay there!!”
Numerous people with weapons are shouting and chasing after me.
If you speed up here, it won’t be a problem to shake them off.
But I didn’t do that.
It gave me the opportunity to narrowly distance myself from them and pursue them.
A boring chase has begun.
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The thrilling chase through the alleys of the slums continued for over an hour.
It wasn’t that there weren’t people who jumped out in front and blocked me from time to time, but I couldn’t stop me with just one or two people.
The ink stick in my right hand hit their heads without any chance.
-Bbaak!!
“Keuuk!”
The guys who stopped me rolled their eyes and instantly fell to the floor.
“Gasp!! You little pig… Panting! Why are you so… Panting!! So fast… Panting!”
I can feel the heavy breathing of those chasing me from behind.
The pursuers will be dying now.
The residents of Karaz also basically awakened their magical powers. However, there is no one with high level magical power.
Most of them are at level F.
The reason there are only low-level awakened people may be because they are managed by the Zephyria Army.
In any case, sprinting for over an hour at the level of magical awakening these guys had was a test of the limits of the body.
“There… Hehe!! Stand… Hehe!!”
The sound of panting behind me is getting quieter.
I stopped running and glanced back.
The legs of those chasing me are shaking, making them feel like they are about to give up.
‘I can’t leave it like that.’
-Beetle…
I looked like my legs were a little loose and placed my hands on my knees.
“Heh! Heh! Ji, you look tired?”
“Huff… Sigh… Chase…”
Due to my poor acting, they strengthen their legs again and start chasing me.
But that soon reached its limit.
My legs, which had been running while keeping a distance from them, had already slowed down to the point where I could walk.
Still, they can’t catch me.
This means that their physical strength is limited.
I thought it was about time.
I stopped walking and turned around.
A man staggered towards me, his eyes half-open, almost as if he was about to collapse.
I could feel a little joy in his tired face.
“Hehe!! Hehe!! Okay, gotcha…”
The man who looked up at my face was speechless.
It was probably because he saw my normal face without a single drop of sweat.
“Gulp…”
The man, thinking something was wrong, looked back.
The people who were chasing me had noticeably decreased.
Even that.
There was no one standing properly, either leaning against the wall a little distance away and retching, or stretched out on the floor and breathing heavily.
The man’s head creaks back to its original position when he sees his colleagues falling down from exhaustion while chasing me.
Now there was no one else who could catch me. And he had a mesmerized expression on his face, as if he instinctively realized that he had become the hunted, not the hunter.
Now is the time to break the piggy bank.
The ink stick in my right hand slowly rises upward.
Have I given up?
Even though the ink stick that had gone up was falling on his head, he just stared blankly at the falling ink stick, as if he had no energy to avoid it.
-Boo!!
With a cheerful sound, the man fell backwards, showing the whites of his eyes.
