The President is Going to America! - Chapter 142



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142. Potatoes running through space

Achoo!

A dark space with dust fluttering in the light.

A sneeze was heard in that quiet place.

Then Baek Ji-soo’s expression slightly frowned.

“Why are you doing that?”

“No… no.”

Baek Ji-soo shook her head.

For some reason my ears started tickling again, but it wasn’t the time to care about that.

“Go ahead and finish it.”

As she nodded, the subordinate nodded and swung his hammer, breaking one of the wooden boxes.

After two or three blows, with wooden shards flying here and there, the contents of the box were clearly exposed.

Then the subordinates standing next to him took out what was inside.

Kkudangtang!

“Ugh… Ugh…!”

A man trembling with his hands and feet bound.

He was wearing nothing but a pair of underwear and looked up at her with eyes full of fear.

A man who reacts as if he is about to start a match on Baek Ji-soo’s face, seen in the darkness.

But I couldn’t say anything with my gagged mouth.

“Is this all you got as a gift this time?”

“Yes. They must have sensed something was wrong with the situation they were in, so they stopped all activities and went into hiding. Still, we caught all the key figures you mentioned.”

“Then it doesn’t matter.”

As she turned to the side, her gaze revealed a dozen foreigners being held captive.

They are all spies taking orders from Russia.

“Start by stopping those who touched our citizens.”

A cold word from Baek Ji-soo.

The men moved quickly and, after a brief sorting operation, seated a man in front of an old chair.

The man shut his eyes tightly against the dazzling lights that filled his field of vision.

After a while, the lights dimmed, leaving only Baek Ji-soo and the man in the room.

Chijijik!

The electric skewer in Baek Ji-soo’s hand.

I adjusted the current by manipulating the device next to me, and every time I did, an eerie crackling sound was heard.

It was a bloody object that would make you shiver just by looking at it, but she handled it mechanically without any emotion.

“Ugh… Ugh…!”

The terrified man writhed in agony.

But it was impossible to break free from the tightly bound bonds.

“In Moscow, whatever you do is your business, but here it’s difficult.”

Russia’s Federal Intelligence Service is notorious for its dirty work, even by industry standards.

They have no qualms about arresting and torturing ordinary citizens to obtain information, and are willing to commit even greater atrocities if necessary.

The more you cross the line that others don’t, the easier and more efficient your work as an intelligence agency becomes.

If they do such things to their own people, there is no need to even think about what it would be like in other countries.

“Ugh…!”

The man’s terrified eyes looked up at her as if pleading for mercy, but she felt no pity, only ridicule.

“You didn’t even look back when you threw four innocent civilians into a garbage dump, but now you’re scared of what has happened to them?”

The rules of this industry are simple.

If you kill, you will be killed.

Just waiting for your turn to come someday.

Those who firmly believe that their turn will never come end up dead early.

“Since it’s a request from my senior, I must do it without making any mistakes.”

Phage crackle!

*

Mt. Fog.

This is an area where the turbid air in the atmosphere is so thick that it covers the mountains in a hazy, fog-like manner.

It was a notorious restricted area in Korea where not a single person walked, but in the deepest part of it, an old man was living in seclusion.

Only a very small number of people, including Oh Hyeon-seong, knew about this fact, and fortunately, the secret has continued to this day.

“I’m glad nothing happened.”

Oh Hyeon-seong, trudging down the misty mountain.

He stopped by Noya’s house after the time he had promised to return after entrusting him with the production of the relic had passed.

There was a previous incident where an agent from the Federal Intelligence Service was caught hanging around here, so I was a little worried, but fortunately, nothing happened.

Whether Baek Ji-soo had really been paying attention or not, Noya didn’t even know about the previous incident.

‘I hope that getting involved with the government is only a last resort, so even though it’s not without its risks, I’m sure Jisoo will handle it well.’

There are three countries in the industry that are commonly referred to as the Agent’s Graveyard.

One of them was Korea.

It was thanks to the existence of none other than Baek Ji-soo.

Counterintelligence was, without a doubt, one of her specialties.

Of course, now that I am leading the National Security Agency.

From the time he was a rookie in the special forces, he has played a key role in domestic counterintelligence.

In this day and age, people with all sorts of special abilities are running rampant.

While it may be realistically impossible to block all routes through which informants can enter, it is possible to destroy the human intelligence infrastructure to make normal intelligence activities difficult.

Last time, we caught one of the Russian informants who was wandering around Mt. Misty, so if we just seize the opportunity, we can take them down one by one like dominoes.

Squeak.

Oh Hyun-seong returned home with various thoughts.

As I entered the yard, I greeted the spirits who were fluttered in joy and then sat down on the bench.

He took out the finished relic from his pocket and held it in his hand.

“The ring of Nihil.”

An artifact created after defeating the named monster, Nihil.

As the bastard’s weight class was that of a weight class, a relic of national treasure level was completed.

Even without the help of the status window, it has a strong presence that can be felt at a glance.

But there was something peculiar.

The fact that he was holding not one, but two rings in his hand.

‘It’s not a couple, so I wondered why they gave me two, but it turns out they’re a set.’

A typical ring artifact will only show one ring when discovered.

But the pair of rings now placed on his palm were two relics that were connected as one.

Just looking at him, he could see the ring’s magical powers interacting in a complex way.

‘Then where should we try the experiment?’

Oh Hyeon-seong suddenly got up from his seat.

Then he put one ring on his left hand and put the other ring in a display case in his house.

A view of one side of the ring, located in the center of a room where he has kept all the artifacts he has collected so far, including the cube.

Ugh.

Oh Hyeon-seong put down all the items he had on his other hand, including Rudra’s ring and the two daggers in his bosom, onto the display case.

Then he opened the front door and came out of the house.

‘It’s my first time, but the startup method itself doesn’t seem difficult…’

Oh Hyun-seong began to pour magical power into the ring on his left hand.

The relic that resonated with his magical power slowly began to glow blue, and when Oh Hyeonseong applied force, it took effect.

Pfft!

“oh…”

The dagger he had just left in the room, Danwol, was still held in his right hand.

It didn’t end there though.

When he activated it once more, this time the dagger he was holding disappeared without a trace.

“It really works.”

Oh Hyun-seong looked down at the ring, laughing in vain.

The effect of Nihil’s ring is to leap through space,

When I first heard about it, I was surprised, thinking that the wearer would be able to teleport freely, but unfortunately that wasn’t the case.

Each of the two rings are connected to allow free movement of objects within range.

That was the power of this relic.

‘It turned out to be much better than I expected.’

The ability to manipulate concepts like time and space is extremely rare.

Also, the difficulty and load to deal with are enormous.

Even if a clumsy hunter was born with a special constitution related to something, he would not be able to use it, and the same goes for artifacts.

However, Oh Hyeonseong didn’t feel any particular burden when using the relic’s ability just now.

Since the abilities that the named monster, Nihil, had as a monster have been manifested as a relic, they can be used much more naturally.

Because it wasn’t something that was artificially forced, but rather it was a natural ability that was reproduced as if the monster was breathing from the beginning.

Pfft!

This time, a greatsword was in his hand.

He brought Theranos, a national treasure of earth properties, which had been planted in the field.

It is a national treasure, so the scope is wide enough to cover everything from the house to the field.

‘It’d be great for traveling. You don’t have to pack a big bag, and you can eat Korean food whenever you want without having to pack things like gochujang tubes.’

Oh Hyun-seong chuckled and returned the greatsword.

Of course, it seems like there are some limitations, such as not being able to pull out things like rocks or trees, but let’s check that out slowly.

Oh Hyun-seong returned to his room, grabbed the cube, and attempted to replicate the artifact.

Even if it was a downgraded replica, if mass production of this ring was successful, there would be no need to visit the seed storage in North Korea every day, and there would be many other places where it could be used.

It is an opportunity that could, if desired, bring about miraculous innovation in the global logistics industry.

Tsk tsk tsk!

“hmm?”

But unfortunately, that failed.

A cube that has lost the light it once had.

Even if you try to make it using high-quality materials, there are some artifacts that simply cannot be replicated.

I guess that’s because it’s an ability that delves deep into the realm of space, which is notoriously difficult.

Perhaps it is because, unlike other relics, they are structured as a pair connected to each other.

“Well… I can’t help it.”

Oh Hyun-seong shook his head and placed the relics he had brought as materials back into the warehouse.

And after giving up on mass production of the ring, they decided to test the relic in more detail.

*

About an hour had passed.

Oh Hyun-seong was able to roughly summarize the activation conditions of Nihil’s Ring.

First of all, the first condition is that ‘ownership’ must be clear.

Objects owned by others, not by him, were excluded from the ring’s effect.

I don’t know how this ring guy distinguishes them, but he’s surprisingly accurate.

Since the original relics started out by defying the laws of physics on Earth, there are many objects that are difficult to accurately understand.

And the second condition was that it had to be a ‘relic’.

Normal Earth objects were impossible, and only objects classified as relics, whether weapons or tools, could be used for space jumping.

I don’t know if it’s because objects that transcend space also need to interact with magic, but this condition was also firm and there were no exceptions.

To find out these two conditions, I had to go down to the village and borrow Yun Seol-ha’s relics.

“hmm…”

Oh Hyeon-seong, who was sitting blankly, let out a sigh.

This feeling of being a bit let down.

Of course, it was still a great relic.

No matter how far apart they are, they can travel back and forth through the ring.

Even if you don’t carry the weapon yourself, you can freely summon it anytime, anywhere.

Since he could now utilize the weapons he had planted in the fields for farming purposes, it was safe to say that this alone had directly increased Oh Hyeon-seong’s power.

‘… That’s true, but…’

Maybe it was because I had too high expectations at first.

I couldn’t help feeling sorry.

The first two limitations were too significant to be ignored.

Especially if common items are completely ineffective, the uses of this artifact are bound to be quite limited.

But at that moment.

Pfft!

“hmm…?”

Something was firmly caught on the palm of his hand as he tried to rest his chin.

When I looked down, what I saw was a delicious potato emitting a soft light.