Chapter 83: Occupying the Organization (4)

Several clashes of blades rang out.

The bastard blocking my way right now has no intention of suppressing me in the first place.

He is simply stalling for time by being as defensive as possible.

This guy Sieg is definitely strong. Of course, I am stronger.

Yet, the reason I can’t easily push past him is simple.

While his defensive playstyle is part of it, it’s also because he knows me too well.

He knows how I’ll attack and how I’ll try to lure him in.

Because he just keeps clinging to me, time continues to slip away.

Crack!

Thanks to a successful strike to the face while engaging in Sword Wrestling, a crack appears on the bastard’s mask.

Startled, he retreats and places a hand over the mask to keep it from falling off.

“I won’t tease you for being ugly, so take your hand off.”

Surely he doesn’t think he can deal with me with just one hand?

Then, the bastard laughs.

As if he understood my words, he removes his hand from the mask.

Thud, clatter.

The cracked mask falls to the ground.

“To think you are this strong even without the Heavenly Sword.”

The Villain’s face was revealed behind the mask.

A handsome appearance with blond hair and blue eyes.

It was a face just like a prince from a fairy tale.

Ugh, how sickening.

If you’re a man, huh? Like me. Huh?

“It’s truly unfair.”

“Is your new job being a Villain? Do they offer social insurance there? Good benefits? How’s the severance pay?”

“I wonder.”

As expected, it’s Sieg.

A being who was once part of my Order of Knights, like my own hands and feet.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time.”

It was nice to see a subordinate I thought was dead after all this time.

Now it’s time to split him in half.

“I, too, am short on time.”

Contrary to his words, Sieg steps backward.

Did he get scared because he got hit once? That couldn’t be it.

Children are walking up behind him.

I frowned as I looked at the children, whose pupils were unfocused.

“I heard you learned an interesting trick after coming to this world.”

The atmosphere around the children was strange.

Cracks formed on their bodies, and they began to emit light.

I immediately opened my Inventory.

With me at the center, light rises from the ground as the Inventory Hexa Block is laid out.

I begin the extraction to place everything in the vicinity into the Inventory.

“Storage!”

K-boom!

The sound of an explosion that shook the earth pushed all the fog outward in an instant.

Ptu.

Spitting out the dust that got into my mouth, I looked into the Inventory.

Thank goodness.

Was it because the children had no ill will toward me? I saw the children stored in the Inventory.

However.

“…!”

One child’s arm is inside.

I couldn’t save one of the children.

Damn it.

“Is that the Hero’s new power?”

Sieg’s lips moved as if he were reproaching me.

I charged straight at Sieg and swung my sword down.

As if he already expected it, Sieg caught the sword and took a step back.

I grabbed Sieg’s blade.

I felt Sieg flinch for a moment.

In the narrow gap, I engaged in Sword Wrestling.

Unable to escape backward because I stepped on his foot, Sieg was struck in the face with an elbow blow.

I threw a Low Kick at the bastard as he tried to regain his balance while stumbling back.

Sieg lost his balance and fell over.

I swung my Two-Handed Sword down, but he managed to dodge the attack while simultaneously standing up and fixing his posture.

“That surprised me.”

Sieg spoke leisurely. He’s certainly not someone who would be easily defeated, given he was once called the Sword Emperor.

“You’ve crossed the line with this.”

“Please consider the ‘me’ you knew as dead. It will be easier for both of us that way.”

Vrrr, vrrrrrr!

A spatial rift began to form where the child had exploded.

Crack.

With the sound of shattering, a Gate opened.

“I cannot understand you.”

Sieg spoke with a sorrowful gaze.

“With that kind of power, with that kind of ability. Is returning after giving everything up worth only this much?”

He could not understand the Hero.

He had been completely loyal to him. He had dedicated everything to him.

Solely to make him a king.

He wanted to command the Continent alongside him.

But the path the Hero chose was not the path of a conqueror, but the path of peace.

All this tragedy occurred because he was gone.

If he hadn’t brought that false peace in the first place, none of this would have happened.

Monsters began to emerge from the Gate.

Roaring Monsters.

Goblins, Orcs, Kobolds. They came out in every variety.

Besides them, mutated Monsters also crossed the Gate in harmony.

“This is the ability learned by the people who lost you. Take a look.”

Dozens of Monsters poured out in an instant.

The Monsters rushed forward to swarm the Hero.

The Hero coated his Two-Handed Sword with Ethere energy and swung it horizontally.

Slash—

The charging Monsters were all cut down before they could even scream.

As expected, even without the Heavenly Sword, the Hero was brutally strong.

“What’s up with them? Why aren’t they attacking you?”

At the Hero’s question, the corners of Sieg’s mouth curled into a smile.

Monsters like these cannot kill the Hero.

However, it would be good if they could drain his Stamina. Since a Hero without the Heavenly Sword is not an insurmountable opponent.

Sieg gathered his Magic Power. To ambush the Hero at any moment.

To meet the Hero again.

With that single determination, he overcame death and stood here.

At the very least, he wanted to open the Hero’s eyes.

The Monsters roared and ran wild to destroy everything around them.

Hyunbin swung his Two-Handed Sword, filled with Ethere, at the Monsters.

Splatter! Thud!

Every time Hyunbin swung his sword, hot blood mingled with flesh and Levitation occurred for a moment before falling to the ground like rain.

Dozens of Monsters had already fallen to Hyunbin’s sword.

The blood on the ground looked like a river.

“How much can you do alone?”

At Sieg’s words, Hyunbin curled his lip into a smirk.

“Alone?”

He wasn’t alone.

He just needed time.

-Alpha Team, Beta Team, preparation complete.

-Alpha to Bravo. Requesting handover.

Hyunbin heard the voice he had been waiting for.

“Proceeding with handover.”

-Roger. Commencing cleanup.

Whirring!

The loud sound of helicopter propellers pierces through the thick fog.

Visibility is currently dark due to the unidentified fog. However, the heat sources generated by the Gate can be seen.

Sieg frowned as he saw the attack helicopters that suddenly swarmed in.

To think the great Hero would rely on modern civilization.

“You have to use everything available. Are you stupid?”

As soon as Hyunbin finished speaking, rockets and machine guns began to pour from the attack helicopters.

Boom, bang!

The Orcs that were just stepping out of the Gate were blown apart.

Despite the previous tragedy, Monsters began to pour out of the Gate.

Orcs, Goblins, and Kobolds.

A diverse variety of bastards.

The numbers were no joke. But fortunately, this side was also prepared.

Rat-tat-tat-tat, vroom!

Rat-tat-tat-tat!

The Military, which had been on standby, deployed to concentrate their firepower.

The area was now completely surrounded so that no Monsters could escape.

A giant monster that had just emerged from the Gate, an Ogre, boasted its massive size and roared.

The morale of the Monsters that had emerged from the Gate rose to the extreme at the appearance of a monster with overwhelming martial prowess as a member of the giant race.

Swoosh, kaboom!

Just then, an attack helicopter Cobra fired a domestic Hellfire, the Sky-Sword.

The bastard must have underestimated the anti-tank missile because he didn’t even put up a shield before being blasted apart, scattering pieces of flesh everywhere.

The Monsters were visibly flustered upon seeing that.

Since a top-tier Monster had died so suddenly.

The Military, having established their stance, gave orders as they watched the wave of charging Monsters.

The fire net pouring from the armored vehicle unit’s automatic turrets slaughtered the approaching Monsters, instantly kicking up thick dust.

Lower-rank Monsters like Goblins were instantly turned into bloodied pulps and scattered on the ground. However, there were higher-ranking species that broke through.

“Grrr!”

Monsters with sturdy, muscular physiques charged, ignoring the bullets flying at them.

Some fell as their HP Shield was damaged the more they were hit, but there were those who endured and made it all the way to the encirclement.

A soldier’s pupils dilated in agitation as he saw an Orc trying to strike him down with an axe.

Slash!

At that moment, a greatsword cut through the Orc’s body.

The Ethere energy filling the greatsword was a weapon that only a Hunter could wield.

“Crazy, what is all this?”

“Track the Monsters escaping the encirclement immediately!”

To prevent an emergency, the Military and Hunters stood here as one and began the battle.

“Usually, around this time, the villain says they’ll get revenge next time and disappears.”

“Do you want me to run away?”

At Hyunbin’s words, Sieg smiled and raised his sword.

“To think the great Hero was so desperate to buy time.”

Though the number of Monsters coming out of the Gate was large, the firepower of modern humans was proving superior.

Unless it was a large Monster like an Earth Dragon, there was no reason to be pushed back when armed turrets were firing and rockets were being supported by attack helicopters.

“Was it all a smoke screen?”

As expected.

Sieg knows that the Hero does not fight reckless battles.

Because he is a person who knows better than anyone what kind of sacrifice a reckless battle brings.

If he’s going to win, he wins decisively.

That is the Hero.

While the Hero was flashily drawing attention here, Rescue Team members had already infiltrated the Agency.

“That’s all well and good.”

Sieg now drew up his Magic Power to its full extent to unleash his full strength.

The Hero, without his Heavenly Sword, has not perfectly regained his power.

He is still a wall that Sieg cannot overcome. However, now that his Stamina has dropped, he might be able to take his head.

“Hero, hasn’t a lot of your Stamina been consumed?”

Sieg felt his heart thumping.

Perhaps. Just maybe, right now.

He might be able to defeat the Hero, whom he had never beaten before.

He readjusted his sword stance and gathered his Magic Power, preparing to attack the Hero.

No long breaths were needed.

A single clash.

He puts everything into one attack.

A majestic Magic Power began to swirl around Sieg’s sword.

At that moment, the Hero raised his hand.

Zip, zip!

Startled by the sharp sound of tearing air, Sieg dodged to the side.

The ground where he had been standing was struck by something and dented.

‘An invisible attack?’

As far as Sieg knew, he didn’t have such a Skill.

This time, the Hero swung his sword first.

Though his strength had waned, it was still heavy.

In that instant, Sieg felt the sound of tearing air again and hurriedly dodged.

Zip!

Something grazed his cheek.

Only then did Sieg realize that the previous attack was not a coincidence.

‘Muyongsi?’

It was Muyongsi, the Ability of the S-class Hunter who had fallen earlier.

The corners of Sieg’s mouth tilted up.

He had heard about it and knew.

They said the Hero had found a new power instead of his lost old power.

That was the Inventory ability as a Porter.

To think that great Hero had a Porter ability.

It was a story close to a comedy.

But seeing it like this now, Sieg could be certain.

It wasn’t a simple Inventory ability.

He stores people and extracts and uses their abilities.

An ordinary person wouldn’t be able to utilize someone else’s ability properly.

Just because you hear an explanation from a master doesn’t mean you can replicate the master’s technique.

But the Hero could.

Swoosh! Bam!

Invisibility arrows flying with a sharp tearing sound were becoming increasingly precise.

As if he were getting more accustomed to it as he went.

‘As expected, insane talent.’

It seemed an S-class Hunter had been stored when he used the Inventory opening earlier.

He didn’t know the Hero would be able to utilize another person’s Skill as if it were his own in such a short amount of time.

The Hero swings his sword.

Sieg barely blocked it and felt the weight.

At that moment, he saw one of the Hero’s fingers unfold.

‘No way.’

The thing he feared would happen, happened.

Thump!

A heavy strike landed on his face.

Thud!

A strike also landed on his abdomen.

Bang!

Sieg was forced to one knee on the ground by an invisible arrow that flew in and shattered his ankle.

“You’re terrifyingly scary as an enemy.”

Smack!

Taking a knee strike to the face, Sieg’s body crumbled like a sandcastle.

“You’re just realizing that now?”

Hyunbin brushed his hands off and checked the surroundings.

The joint deployment of the Military and Hunters was effective.

The Monsters were being quickly suppressed.

Hyunbin placed the fallen Sieg into his Inventory. There were many things he had to ask this guy.

‘Is only this place left now?’

Hyunbin turned his head and looked at the Agency building.

He could feel Karin maintaining a defense Barrier inside the Agency.

Hyunbin and Karin were in communion with each other.

Even if they only thought of each other a little.

It might be because of their relationship as Noble and Territory citizen, or it might be because they had been together for a long time.

He felt Karin’s emotions wavering greatly.

It was the moment Hyunbin was about to take a step.

Whirring!

The entire Agency was engulfed in a flash of light.

Hyunbin knew what that light meant.

K-boom!

An explosion of Magic Stones occurred.