Black Badger - Chapter 329



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329. Dokmaek (1)

A few hours ago.

The spirit-lure team was luring the spirits without any interference.

No one tried to stop them from putting the ruins back to sleep. Thanks to that, things went smoothly for the first few minutes. Ami quickly descended to the ground, flying close to the ground and out of the torn defenses.

The ground quickly passed beneath my body.

I feel like I’m flying in the sky, caught in a clear king beetle.

Kairos had such thoughts while he was serving Echo and luring the spirits.

He is truly an outstanding senior.

Now I knew why Hilde had singled her out. Amy was a better flyer than Kairos had imagined. She was fast and had good sense, and she could keep a good distance from the pursuing monsters.

At this rate, there may be no need to use the monster he’s stuffing into his trouser pocket.

It was the pastor’s idea.

He never told anyone about this monster. He was so afraid that it would be caught by his compatriots’ intuition that he hid it in the wasteland where the spirits were sleeping.

Something I had secretly stuffed into my pocket before waking up the spirit.

Even when Hildebert asked about the plan, he didn’t bother to mention its existence.

Kairos measured the distance to the portal device, hoping that he would not have to call upon the monster he had been hiding.

A device that was installed after much planning and overcoming numerous difficulties on the part of Badger.

They ran to the portal device.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ghosts continued to fire their cannons while steadily chasing them.

Doesn’t it seem like the time needed to charge is getting shorter and shorter?

Kairos thought as he estimated the range of the cannon.

Additionally, the charging time varied each time.

“army.”

“know!”

The senior shouted into the wind.

“I’ll widen the distance!”

Kwakwakwakwaang!

The changed situation worked against them. They couldn’t calculate the time when the ruins would spit out the cannon. Every time they were dragged here, they would spit out the cannon right after a certain amount of time. Thanks to this, they could calculate the timing of the cannon’s firing and the location where it would land.

That can’t be done now.

Cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies, cookies!

Fortunately, the device was now within reach.

“Portal device activated!”

Kairos shouted loudly.

“Senior. Just like this… .”

The cannon of the ruined spirit was lodged right behind them.

“Ugh!”

Kuguaang!

A massive shockwave hit them.

They rolled around on the floor. Kairos bounced in the other direction because Amy missed him.

I didn’t get seriously hurt because I reflexively used the falling method.

Fell out with the shooter.

“jack!”

As I groaned and raised my upper body, I heard Ami’s desperate cries.

“I think it’s going to explode again!”

ah.

An explosion at this distance would damage the portal device.

Then things would go wrong. There was a huge distance between the ruined spirit’s hole and here. There was no way I could lure the ruined spirit to the hole without the help of the portal.

The emergency portal device was also quite far away.

Besides, there were Badgers here at the moment. If we fail to put the spirit to sleep, they too will be swept away by the light of the spirit.

Even after the Badgers retreated, the situation did not improve.

The spirit would run rampant without end unless put to sleep. It was an out-of-spec monster that made it impossible to guess how long it would run rampant.

I didn’t feel tired because I didn’t need to rest or eat anything.

So, it must be put back to sleep unconditionally.

Not only for humanity, but also for the Earth itself.

As I opened my eyelids, I saw a ghost nearby, with a frown on its lips.

In front of the ruins stands a giant portal device.

Kairos quickly assessed the situation.

And he made a decision. It wasn’t difficult. Hadn’t he always lived a life where he had to make the right decision under time pressure?

From the moment the tribe faced the imperial army to the moment they lifted the F1 trophy.

Even now, when the abolition of the empire is imminent.

“army!”

Kairos raised his head and shouted.

“Jump into the portal!”

Ami didn’t ask again.

She flew out through the portal.

The senior’s figure disappeared from sight.

So Kairos, left with the ruins and the portal device in front of him, sat up and tapped his pocket with the back of his hand.

A monster stirred in his trouser pocket.

Kairos tapped his pocket again, his gaze fixed on the growing energy cannon of the ruins.

I also hummed a song that called out to the demons.

“Come to me, fire and dry branches, twisted veins, broken bones and severed flesh… .”

{I came to you.}

A voice is heard.

{Where should I set up camp?}

It’s been decades since I wrote this.

It was a monster that was more like something that borrowed power rather than something that served. Usually, those who borrowed its power did not meet with a good ending.

Kairos replied, suppressing the rising flames.

“Use your eyes.”

The awakened monster climbed up his body in one breath.

It crawled into Kyle’s stabbed eye and coiled around.

Swallowing the sharp pain, Kairos looked straight at the ruins.

The beast that had clung to his eyelids and started to flow through his nerves chuckled.

{That?}

The monster called ‘Dokmaek’ in the empire whispered.

The poison sticks to the minister’s mucous membrane and stimulates his sensory nerves, temporarily pumping up his ministerial skills.

{You want to serve that monster?}

There is no time to respond to laughter.

Kairos began to feel the presence of the spirit, aware of his overheated nerves.

The highest of the highest monsters.

A being that no one has even attempted to minister to.

But this too was a monster caught by the sixth sense.

If you can sense it with your sixth sense, it may not be physically impossible to do the work.

As it was once believed that dragons were never ministered to… .

“Even if it’s just 5 seconds.”

If only we could get it to come through the portal device before we fire those energy cannons.

“Even for 3 seconds….”

If the mission of the dead is successful.

Got caught.

In his burning nerves, Kairos clutched the lungs.

***

“Hilde.”

Yehyun said in a calm but desperate voice.

“Please absorb it one last time.”

Up until this point, I was still in a daze.

A dull pain. Blurred vision.

While I was absent-minded, I answered quietly.

“I can’t do it.”

The child’s eyes looked like they were about to cry, but there was nothing he could do.

“Once I start, I don’t have the confidence to stop.”

I barely managed to stop the circuits in my body.

If I inhaled any more, I felt like I would never be able to stop. The fact that I had even stopped inhaling now felt like a small miracle.

A hand supporting my back.

“Then I will administer emergency treatment.”

Ye-Hyeon, the owner of the hand, slowly sat me down on the floor.

“I stabbed too deeply. Like an idiot… .”

If it hadn’t been for that, the rampage would not have stopped.

I sat down and thought. If he hadn’t rushed at me with all his might, I wouldn’t have hesitated. I would never have confused Lee Seung-hyun with the child.

The child has done an excellent job of finishing the work I started.

This time too.

“Carl, Carlock! Get Samuel from the helicopter!”

Ye-Hyeon shouted urgently.

“Ashil, get ready to take off in the helicopter!”

The three seniors quickly ran up the slope.

“…Ye-Hyeon.”

“Don’t move.”

Ye-Hyeon muttered as she twisted her body to get a feel for her surroundings.

“I don’t think I can get on the helicopter like this because of the angle of the sword. I have to get treatment here and go.”

The white clothes were already tattered.

The hand that was tearing the clothes near the stab wound trembled slightly.

I raised my head, putting my pale hands in my eyes.

My mind was completely awake.

My blurry vision became clearer. I could hear the humming sound clearly.

My dull senses came back to life.

The ground collapsed. My seniors running towards me. My compatriots.

A mark left by a sword strike.

Clothes soaked in blood.

The land was burnt black… .

My stomach is turning.

“You went wild.”

Just like back then.

“All of these attacks were my own.”

“it’s okay.”

Yehyun answered hurriedly.

“Everyone is safe.”

I saw people.

The bodies of Ricardo and Yoon, who were running towards us, looked fine.

But they are the owners of enhanced bodies. Even if I had harmed them, their wounds would have healed quickly.

Like Ruta Ayer, who is wary of me even as she walks slowly.

The dried blood on his neck spoke volumes.

I cut it.

“heartbreak.”

Igor was already within reach.

“If you don’t have enough blood, use my blood.”

“You’re hurt.”

I could tell just by watching him walk.

“Did I do that?”

Igor kept his mouth shut.

That was the answer. I had been watching Iza for a long time. I knew that he was not good at lying, and that he was deep inside and would not say anything that would hurt others.

The bookseller was also running towards Igor, searching through his pockets diligently.

“You.”

As soon as Youga stopped panting, he said:

“Your hand.”

“… Well, there have been worse times.”

“I….”

There was a brief pause.

“What did I do to you?”

“Oh, I said it’s okay.”

Youga got irritated.

“It’s nothing compared to the seal stamped on your belly, so put that stupid expression away.”

I don’t think Kyle expected this.

So, I guess he kept Jin around just in case. He figured that if there were hostages, he would tolerate me going wild and rebelling.

But it was no use.

If Ye-Hyeon hadn’t come, I would have killed everyone here.

If Yehyun hadn’t been swinging my sword in a familiar posture, I might not have recognized it.

So, everyone here must have been absorbed… .

The pottery was dense.

It helped that the pain from being stabbed by the sword was significant.

Now I had neither the time nor the shame to be having a fit. I had not yet finished assessing the situation, and this mission was not yet over.

Have I killed anyone?

In a space with little movement, I turned my gaze whenever people stirred.

True silver from the earth heap.

Rose looks at me with her dazzling eyes from a distance.

Yoon and Ricardo knelt down next to Yehyun and began helping to stop the bleeding.

“Is Samuel around~?”

“To the nearby helicopter. Carl will be there in a moment. Any other casualties?”

“I’m fully recovered.”

Yoon answered.

Then he gave me morphine.

“Hildebert. You’re like a ghost, you only kill wizards, so calm down.”

Couldn’t do that.

I couldn’t even make eye contact. I had no shame in facing these people.

“What the…. Aren’t you going to greet me properly?”

Ricardo said.

He was speaking in a deliberately light voice.

I guess he realized that he couldn’t make eye contact.

I bit my lip and squeezed out my voice.

“sorry.”

Ricardo’s hand suddenly stopped.

A hand that doesn’t move for a moment.

The senior’s voice grew cold.

“Do you think I was asking for an apology?”

I know that’s not true.

“Raise your head.”

I raised my head.

I saw my senior frowning and looking at me. Yoon-do was pushing Ye-hyeon aside, whose hands were shaking.

“Senior. I…”

“If you’re going to talk nonsense, keep your mouth shut.”

A cold voice cut me off.

“Who is the patient now?”

I did as he said.

I kept my mouth shut and lowered my gaze. I knew Ricardo wouldn’t like it, but I was feeling emotionally distressed looking at the people around me right now.

So I kept my mouth shut and looked down at the wound, and silence fell over the surroundings.

The sound of Yoon skillfully stopping the bleeding. The sound of Ruta Ayer standing at some distance, preparing his weapon while keeping a close eye on his surroundings.

Yehyun’s irregular breathing.

I picked up Ricardo’s soft whispers.

“Cover your mouth with your hand….”

Now the senior in the green eye was looking at Ye-Hyeon, who was about to hyperventilate.

Ye-Hyeon nodded faintly, covering her mouth with her hand.

At that moment, a loud voice echoed through the sinkhole.

“hey!”

Samuel Hahn was carried by Carl.

“Choi Yoon! Call the patient’s condition!”

Left left left left

A sword that slides down, kicking up dust.

Sophia followed behind, carrying something like a box.

Yoon just turned his head and shouted something to Samuel.

I didn’t listen to the shooter.

All my attention is focused on Ye-Hyeon, who is on the verge of having a seizure.

This is a child who was traumatized by stabbing his father.

He was also the child who handed over his sword to me, asking me to become like Ray.

How could you make a kid like that do something like this?

What did you do to your seniors?

“It’s chaos.”

As soon as Samuel arrived, he ran towards me.

Yoon suddenly gives up his seat.

Sofaa opened the box she had brought and placed it next to Samuel. She quickly moved away after setting the box in an appropriate place. Then, without even looking at the box, the doctor reached out and picked up an unknown medical device.

I tried to tell him thank you.

Until Igor suddenly intervened.

“Headquarters doctor?”

“uh.”

“I understand the medical helicopter went towards the manned area.”

uh?

“Are there two helicopters? Or have they already been there and come back?”

what?

I looked at the doctor with wide eyes.

Samuel did not answer.

Before I knew it, his expression had darkened. The doctor bit his lip and focused only on looking at my wounds.

what?

My heart sank.

I thought there was nowhere to settle down.

“Samuel?”

My voice trembled as I asked the question.

“What happened to the humanoid?”

What about Kairos and Ami?

Now the spirit should have been put to sleep… .

A medical helicopter went there? Why?

“Are there any casualties? If so, why didn’t they get on board?”

I think that was the only doctor on standby… .

Kairos won’t get better like the Black Badgers.

The sound of my pounding heart filled my ears.

As I ignored it and waited for an answer, I heard the doctor’s soft voice.

“It’s no use going.”

It was a deep voice.

“There is nothing I can do.”