Genius Salsu of the World to Be Destroyed - Chapter 45
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Episode 45
It was beautiful.
The thousands of translucent red petals that covered my head, and the brilliance of the sunlight that shattered like jewels as it filtered through the petals.
As if trying to compensate for the time they had wasted in the war, Young-soo and Gap-seok stared blankly at this beauty for a moment.
Then suddenly, Gap-seok felt something strange in this scenery.
“But wasn’t the number of petals that could create limited to 100?”
“That’s the case with humans.”
“aha.”
Gapseok nodded.
Yeongsu also lowered his head and said.
“Okay, so now the wild defense system is complete. Now I have to move on to the next thing.”
“What’s going on?”
“Reconnaissance before going into cleanup.”
Phew.
Yeongsu disappeared from Gapseok’s sight in an instant.
And then he went out into the wild and started running with lightness.
Towards the Hongryeon headquarters building.
* * *
The area around the wild market was a mess.
Corpses strewn everywhere, abandoned weapons, and broken buildings.
It was the result of the Hongryeon-KPA war that took place a few days ago.
The only fortunate thing was that there were virtually no civilian casualties from this war.
This is because the wild shopping district became a labyrinth and monsters started popping out from time to time, so all the people living nearby withdrew.
Except for the technicians who held out by building a tent village nearby, saying they would return to the commercial district.
So the area where the war took place was virtually a no-man’s land, and thanks to that there were no civilian casualties.
Anyway, Youngsoo quickly crossed this area.
Because it wasn’t a place I had particularly good memories of.
As we left the area that had been a battlefield, an area where people actually lived appeared.
Youngsoo suddenly stood on the roof of a building and looked down at his feet.
How are people living now that the strange phenomenon of the collapse of civilization has swept over us?
‘This is a mess.’
It was as expected.
Abandoned cars all over the streets, broken windows, dead bodies left on the side of the road, signs and streetlights that no longer shine.
As all the cutting-edge elements that supported modern civilization completely collapsed, society rapidly degenerated into an apocalyptic state.
‘I took over the wildness to avoid this kind of thing.’
Going a little further, the situation became even more spectacular.
Several people were seen breaking the shutters of the hole-in-the-wall shop and looting the furniture and food.
The shop owner resisted desperately, but the looters had the upper hand.
Bam!
Boom! Boom!
The looters not only beat the shop owner, they even pulled out a knife with the intention of killing him.
Youngsoo looked over the heads of the looters.
—-
[KP: 3]
[KP: 4]
[KP: 4]
—-
There was a reason to intervene.
Yeongsu took out one of the twin swords from his inventory.
Then he jumped down from the roof of the building towards them.
He swung his sword, putting that tremendous falling speed on the tip of his sword.
The blade flew straight into the crown of one of the raiders.
Shukak!
A blade that slashes down in an instant from the crown to the ground.
The looter who was hit by Youngsu’s sword was split into two pieces.
Vertically, too.
Of course, Youngsoo… … .
—-
[Skill] ‘Mysterious Strike’ activated.
—-
Even after falling from that height, he completely ignored the fall damage with his lightness technique.
Using the light skill, Myogakjeop, which absorbs shock even when falling from a high place.
Phew!
Blood spurted everywhere.
The dead raider’s companions froze in place.
It would be more surprising if the colleague who had been one had become two lumps.
The surprise turned into a curse and came out.
“Fuck… … !”
“What is this bird… … .”
To their questions, Youngsoo answered with his sword instead of words.
Crunch!
The first one disarmed him by cutting off the wrist holding the weapon.
The second bullet struck the vital spot in the middle of the upper body without mercy.
Two of the three raiders lost their lives.
“Eek… … !”
The remaining looters swung the knives they had in their hands indiscriminately.
Of course, such a crude sword could not reach Yeongsu.
On the other hand, Youngsoo’s sword was accurate.
A sophisticated swordsmanship that moves from disarming to killing in one breath.
The third looter also fell, bleeding from the center of his chest.
Shh …
Yeongsu activated his karma-boosting skill and cleanly absorbed all the KP of the guys.
Then I looked back at the owner of the hole-in-the-wall shop.
The owner was shaking.
A look of fear.
It was a natural thing.
I watched right before my eyes as a man fell from the sky and killed the looters in an instant.
Of course, Youngsu had no intention of killing the store owner.
Because ‘KP: 0’ was floating above the owner’s head.
Youngsoo said.
“mister.”
“Yes! Oh, yes!”
“Cut off their hair and hang it in front of the store. Then these guys won’t come.”
The store owner was dumbfounded at those words.
“just…….”
“If it’s hard, just hang yourself. Then I’ll leave now.”
Phew.
Yeongsu disappeared in an instant before the store owner’s eyes.
The shop owner was too busy thinking about what he had just seen to do anything.
But a moment later, the owner rummaged through the toolbox under the counter, grabbed something, and went out.
He had a saw in his hand.
* * *
widely-
Youngsoo finally arrived near Hongryeon headquarters.
Instead of going in right away, I checked the situation from the roof of another building nearby.
But something was strange.
There was not the slightest sign of life in the Hongryeon building.
Even people were not seen moving in or out of the building.
‘Are they just locked in the building? No, but there must be some people coming and going?’
After thinking for a moment, Youngsoo quickly approached the Hongryeon headquarters building.
Because I couldn’t know anything until I looked inside.
The atmosphere of the building was even more strange when I got closer and saw it.
‘There isn’t a single security spell… …?’
Although it was destroyed by the KPA, it was once the largest guild in South Korea.
There’s no security magic or anything on the buildings in that place?
And there… … .
‘What is this smell of blood?’
A faint smell of blood seeping through the cracks in the building’s windows.
Clearly, something was going on inside.
However, the windows have a special coating, so it is impossible to see inside.
In the end, Youngsoo made a decision.
‘…Let’s go in.’
Youngsoo quickly went inside through a window.
The interior of the building was dark.
It was natural since the electricity was cut off.
There was a separate problem than that.
The smell of blood hit my nose even harder.
The source of the bloody smell was the corpses strewn on the floor.
The building was full of corpses.
Those too, are corpses that were murdered by someone.
Corpses cut off, crushed, and thrown away.
Although various signs were carved into each body, Youngsoo quickly noticed the commonality among them.
‘Magi.’
The spirit of the devil.
It’s the same energy that comes out of Yeongsu’s ‘Demon Sword Cronus’.
‘But in Korea at the moment, the only item that exudes magic is Cronus, so how…?’
Of course, it was good news that all of Hongryeon’s members were dead.
Because we don’t have to fight another war to clean up the mess.
But at the same time, it was also a big problem.
It also meant that there was someone somewhere who killed all of the remaining members of Hongryeon.
‘Is it inside this building?’
I couldn’t figure that out.
It’s a problem that you can only find out by looking into it.
Youngsoo closed his eyes and activated his skill.
—-
[Skill] ‘Echolocation’ activated.
—-
Phew!
A skill that spreads waves made of mana to perceive the surroundings.
It was an absolutely necessary skill to navigate dark places like this.
And the results of this skill appeared sooner than expected.
‘Something is moving.’
From beyond the darkness, something was approaching Youngsu.
Yeongsu quietly took out two daggers from his inventory.
A pair of twin swords in his left hand, and a poison sword in his right.
And he said to the approaching man:
“Who are you?”
“What the fuck, why are you here?”
A young man’s voice.
Apart from the swearing, there was an uncontrollable joy in his voice.
Youngsoo was puzzled.
I’m sure I’ve heard that voice somewhere, but who could it be?
However, it was difficult to completely determine the opponent’s appearance using echolocation alone.
I needed some light.
Bam!
Youngsoo flicked the ring finger of his gloved hand.
A sphere of pure light, without heat or smoke, appeared at his fingertips.
Thanks to that, Youngsoo was able to see the other person’s face completely.
The opponent is… … .
“Ma Hyun-woo?”
“Yeah, it’s me.”
Hyunwoo’s eyes, looking at Yeongsu, were burning with both joy and murderous intent.
Youngsoo couldn’t understand English.
“… The only time we met was once in the forest of training.”
“That one time changed my life.”
As Hyunwoo spoke, black magic energy was dripping from his fingertips.
“… Yeah, I think it’s changed a lot.”
“That’s right. Thanks to you, I failed my previous quest and my reputation was ruined. A lot has changed.”
“I… got involved in your quest?”
No matter how much I racked my brain, there was no such thing.
At that time, Youngsoo was too busy caring about the KPA cadets’ quests.
Ma Hyun-woo said.
“Because of you, I tried the quest to save my life and lost everything.”
“So when did I… … .”
“You revealed to me that you were a murderer.”
Youngsoo was speechless.
“… You asked and I answered, right?”
“You shouldn’t have answered.”
“Is it really a life-size figure?”
“Well, it doesn’t matter. It’s thanks to that that I gained this power. I’m grateful.”
Cheeeeeee-
Hyunwoo showed off the dark magic rising from his palm.
Youngsoo’s eyes narrowed.
“… Did you make a deal with the devil?”
“Huh? How did you know?”
“How could I not know when it’s so obvious? And… … .”
Yeongsu said while looking at the black mark engraved on the back of Hyunwoo’s hand.
“… You made a deal with the most dangerous kid.”
“what?”
“Do you think that power is something you can use without any price?”
“Whatever the price, it doesn’t matter anymore.”
Cheeeeeee!
As Hyunwoo clenched his fist, the magic began to burn even more fiercely.
“With this power, I will destroy this world!”
Hyunwoo suddenly felt a sharp shock.
It was Youngsoo’s sword attack.
He rushed in without any warning and stabbed Hyunwoo with his sword.
Quagagagagak!
Hyunwoo was unable to overcome the momentary shock and was pushed far away.
Although he barely managed to defend himself with his magic, he was not seriously injured, but he was inevitably hit by the impact.
Hyunwoo said.
“Hey, you crazy kid! How can you attack someone when they’re talking!!”
“Human? You’re not human, you punk.”
There’s no other word for guys like you.
Those who gained power by making a contract with the devil.
“Mine.”
“Mine… …?”
“Yeah. In other words, a life-size figure.”
“This kid… … !”
The battle has begun.
Ma Hyeon-woo began to attack Yeong-su with a fist wrapped in magic energy, and Yeong-su also began to pour out Salcho without hesitation.
It was a fight that would not end until one side died.
They were fast, aggressive and unstoppable.
The fight continued for a while, fiercely contested across this vast floor.
But after a while, Hyunwoo felt it.
That he had a slight upper hand.
‘This kid is a total piece of shit.’
In reality, Youngsoo was being pushed back slightly.
Hyunwoo suffered a few cuts to his body, but none were fatal, and that was the end of it.
On the other hand, Hyunwoo was completely pushing Yeongsu.
This is because the size of the force showed an overwhelming difference from the beginning.
‘I win… …!’
I can kill the guy who pushed me into the abyss with my own hands!
– Caught up in the excitement, Hyunwoo’s attacks became more and more fierce.
In this way, Youngsoo was pushed into a corner helplessly.
At that moment.
fault!
Youngsu chose to run away.
Hyunwoo followed after her, shouting in delight.
“Are you running away!!”
“You should run away too.”
“what?”
Sarak-
At that moment, Hyunwoo could feel it.
At some point, the atmosphere here was filled with unidentified, fine powders.
“This is… … ?”
“It’s pollen.”
It was pollen created by Youngsoo using his skill ‘Origin of the Forest’.
Even pretending to be pushed back and being pushed around in various places during the fight was an attempt to spread this pollen widely.
Closed spaces, dry air, and abundant fine dust such as pollen.
And the moment fire is added to this… … .
“Have you ever heard of a dust explosion?”
Exactly!
Youngsoo flicked the incendiary glove.