The Time-Limited Leader Makes the Raid a Success - Chapter 463



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Episode 463

#463. Let me tell you that this is a place where if you act cocky, you die.

Thomas was watching the hunters wandering around the stopped vehicle.

‘If you’re going to do something, now is the time.’

Throwing money into thin air was clearly a ploy to trip up this guy.

But the hunters did nothing. They just loitered around.

Thomas felt uneasy.

At that moment, he saw a small child approaching his vehicle outside the passenger window.

In a straight line, unlike other people who are obsessed with money.

‘The child has a bag in his hand… … .’

Upon closer inspection, it wasn’t just any ordinary bag. It looked like a hip sack, but it was smaller and harder than that. It wasn’t made of cloth or leather, but something that resembled a brick.

As soon as he sensed danger, Thomas used his magic. He intercepted the object in the child’s hand and shot it high into the sky so that the child would not get hurt.

At the same time, Kang Mu-hyeok’s voice was heard on the walkie-talkie.

-Thomas Hunter, lead vehicle… … .

Click!

The sound of something hitting metal and sticking.

The Hunter’s keen hearing detected a sound coming from the opposite driver’s seat.

Thomas could see the child’s smile reflected in the side mirror.

I made eye contact with the child.

The moment when relief, joy, and a bright smile cross over on a child’s face at having accomplished something.

bang!

There were simultaneous explosions in the sky and on the side of the vehicle.

“Whoa!”

“Ahh!”

Screams echoed everywhere. Then explosions erupted one after another.

Car 2, Car 3, Car 4… … .

People were killed when they were caught in the powerful explosion.

‘Sun of Beach!’

Inside the overturning car, Thomas cursed and gritted his teeth.

I would never have thought that a normal person, especially a child, would take advantage of me.

They would have given them dangerous things like bombs and a few dollars and made them do things. They would have promised them more money if they did well. They might have tricked them with food. The most urgent thing would have been food to put in their mouths, not pieces of paper.

‘Whatever it is, it’s way over the line!’

Thomas cut his seatbelt. He deftly turned himself over in the cramped seat and stepped onto the upside-down ceiling. With a wave of his hand, he broke open the car door and got out.

The outside of the car was a disaster.

There were pieces of flesh that had turned into fish meat strewn everywhere, and it was full of corpses rolling around with their limbs missing and people with their faces covered in blood, crying.

The streets where dozens, if not hundreds, of people had fallen were still crowded with people.

Even if you try to leave the scene, it is not easy to do so because so many people have gathered at once.

The crowd that had gathered in the narrow alley was like a sticky liquid. As people who had lost their minds started making a fuss in a place where there was no room to stand, one person lost his balance and fell, and then dozens more fell to the ground like dominoes.

People’s footsteps overlapped on top of it. They stepped on it, crushed it, and covered it with people.

Thomas was filled with anger at those who had created this chaos.

‘Where are you? Over there… . You’re running away.’

He was trying to chase after the five hunters he had sensed a moment ago. He intended to catch them and make them pay the price they deserved.

At that moment, Kang Mu-hyeok’s voice was heard from the radio that had not yet broken.

-Thomas… Hun… People first… … .

Thomas came to his senses.

My body moved before I thought, and my mana surged ahead of that.

He commanded the space.

【Reverse Gravity】

Anti-gravity magic covered the streets. People were lifted into the air.

Suddenly, people screamed as their bodies rose into the sky. Some people were struggling in the air and shouting. In the midst of the chaos, some children let out cheers as if they were amazed by the current phenomenon.

‘Let’s put the people down in a safe place… … .’

That was when.

A familiar explosion could be faintly heard from afar.

Thomas turned his head in the direction of the sound. Dozens of dots were embroidered under the moonlight that was beginning to emerge clearly in the darkness.

‘Firing mortars in the city?!’

Although we don’t know who the attackers were, one thing was certain.

These guys are out of their minds.

Thomas chewed his lip and reached his other hand toward the sky.

* * *

While giving a warning through the radio, Kang Mu-hyeok looked to the side.

Click!

The person who placed the bomb in car number 4 was a woman carrying a child on her back.

Kang Moo-hyuk faced the child’s mother through a window. Her face was innocent and devoid of any malice.

Somehow my eyes were drawn to the woman’s expression rather than the bomb.

In that brief moment, I read the person’s expression.

The joy of being able to provide food for your child.

What can’t I do for this child?

The woman, startled by the explosion in Car 1, instinctively held her child. Only then did she realize what she had done.

The woman’s last expression overlapped exactly with that of her mother, whom Kang Mu-hyeok had buried in his memories long ago.

It was only a matter of seconds before the explosion in Car 1 spread to Car 4.

Kang Moo-hyuk’s heart was torn apart.

“that…….”

“heartbreak!”

Mr. Joe’s screams were drowned out by the explosion.

The car flipped over. Kang Moo-hyuk’s body jerked as if he was riding in a sports car that was accelerating rapidly. The explosion, which occurred between one of the car doors, brought a dizzying shock.

The car flipped over like a turtle on its back.

Kang Moo-hyuk felt warmth in the midst of the crisis. Someone was embracing him. It was Mr. Joe.

She protected Kang Mu-hyeok in a strange yoga-like posture, then rolled on the floor to correct her posture.

Then he shouted while feeling the body of Kang Mu-hyeok, who was hanging upside down on the seat, tied with a seat belt.

“Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

“Oh, the child, that child’s mother… … ?”

“What are you talking about? Are you hurt in the head?”

Mr. Cho carefully examined Kang Mu-hyeok’s head.

Meanwhile, the Eagles also turned around, using the roof of the car as a stepping stone.

“It’s a hunter’s Humvee, so it’s okay for simple bombs. But the priority is to identify enemy locations.”

Kang Mu-hyeok, who came to his senses at the Eagles’ words, gritted his teeth and said.

“People, evacuate first… There will be a follow-up attack. Mr. Joe, radio… … .”

“What, a walkie-talkie? Why that?”

Mr. Joe looked for the radio while questioning. The radio that Kang Moo-hyuk had dropped during the explosion had been blown away to the driver’s seat. The mercenary in the driver’s seat found the radio and passed it to him.

While looking for the radio, Kang Mu-hyeok looked outside the window. The tragedy of Abigyuhwan was unfolding.

Kang Moo-hyuk, still hanging upside down from his seat and holding the walkie-talkie in his hand, tried to contact Thomas.

The radio was in poor condition, perhaps due to the shock from being dropped, so the signal kept cutting out.

“Thomas Hunter. Get the people out first. If we continue like this, there will be more casualties.”

The next moment, people were seen rising into the air. Those who had been trapped beneath them were breathing freely. Some were still terrified and convulsing, but the fire had been put out.

Kang Mu-hyeok struggled with his body hanging upside down and let out a sigh of relief.

“Mr. Joe. Can you please untie this?”

“Deposit. Be careful.”

As soon as I unbuckled my seat belt, I fell down due to gravity.

“Tch!”

Mr. Joe supported Kang Mu-hyeok.

Kang Moo-hyuk tried to open the car door without even sitting down.

“Let’s go outside and check the situation… … .”

“Chief Kang Mu-hyeok, just stay here. It’s still dangerous outside.”

The Eagles stopped him.

“Guns and bombs won’t work inside the Humvee. Tools that use mana can be blocked before they attack. So let’s go out and check first.”

“Yes, Captain Kang. Wait here until safety is ensured. I’ll be by your side, so don’t be afraid… … .”

Mr. Joe couldn’t finish his words because he saw Kang Moo-hyuk’s eyes.

‘What? Chief Kang, is that the kind of person who makes that kind of expression?’

I’ve seen that angry expression on his face a few times. I’ve even heard him say that he was angry.

But this time, something was different. Was the concentration of anger a bit stronger? The normally robotic person was showing his emotions openly. Mr. Joe unconsciously avoided his gaze.

‘They’re about to kill someone.’

A look that seems to be directed at an enemy.

Just then, the sound of firecrackers exploding was heard in the sky. Everyone knew what the sound was. It was the same noise they had experienced earlier.

Kang Moo-hyuk came to his senses at that sound. When he looked next to him, he could clearly see that Mr. Cho was uncomfortable.

‘I was excited for a moment.’

Kang Mu-hyeok closed his eyes and covered his eyelids with his palms.

Then, in less than a second, he took back his heated gaze and carefully separated his lips.

“Eagles Captain, the attack will continue. If you respond here, innocent people will die.”

“It takes a long way around to get to the outskirts… … .”

“There’s no need to go back. Isn’t there a place nearby where there are no people?”

“If it’s a place without people… is it a historic site?”

“Let’s fight there.”

“But it is a historic site, so it is managed by Morocco… … .”

“It’s already a ruin. Even if it gets destroyed a bit more, it won’t be noticeable.”

The Eagles tried to maintain their proper guidance even in critical situations.

Even if the ruins of a historic site were nothing more than a battlefield from a great war, destroying them by others was another matter.

If we explain this part well, we can avoid future headaches related to diplomatic issues and compensation.

“… … .”

But I gave up before I could even open my mouth.

Kang Moo-hyuk’s judgment was correct.

Whether it was a slum or a wealthy area, places where people lived should not become battlegrounds.

What’s the difference between a hunter and a monster when fighting here?

The Eagles picked up the radio.

“This is Eagle One. Eagle One. All. Go to the nearest ruins. Wake up the sleeping car.”

* * *

“Shoot without stopping.”

Gary Dee ordered his mortar-firing hunters to expend all their shells.

As they had prepared generously, there were shells left over. Since there were fewer guns than shells, a few tankers who were confident in their shoulders were throwing shells themselves for fun.

Since mortar shells could not inflict any significant damage on the enemy anyway, it did not matter whether they were accurate or inaccurate.

All you had to do was confuse the enemy and trip them up.

‘That’s why I attacked in a crowded place.’

Gary Dee’s Plan B.

What he asked his secretary to sprinkle was money. The money was divided into two main areas.

One was to gather the people of Harlem to block the road, and the other was to be placed in the hands of those given special missions.

Gary Dee would give a large sum of money to children, their parents, or other low-level vagrants and have them mix in with the crowd and plant bombs on vehicles.

Of course, they didn’t know that the object was a bomb.

Having previously seen how well the wizard responded to Scarecrow’s attack tactics, I judged that he had a strong detection skill.

It was a bomb that had no mana involvement at all, but moved a normal person, not a hunter.

‘I sent five of my men as bait just in case to annoy you. You probably wouldn’t have imagined that an unawakened being would attack you while you were worrying about the Hunter.’

Also known as suicide bombing.

It was once a frequently used operation in the Middle East, Africa and some terrorist hotspots.

‘Trends come and go. Hunters are weak to such things.’

However, no matter how much firearms were used, it was impossible to inflict fatal damage on the hunter.

‘Of course, this was bait. Zhao Keji’s information was helpful.’

That guy named Kang Mu-hyeok was a really funny guy.

It was quite funny to see the unawakened people talking nonsense about saving people and catching monsters.

The Eagles mercenary corps was the same. The money-hungry mercenary hunters prioritized rescue missions.

They say that people talk to each other, but we ended up meeting up with some really bad guys.

Thanks to that, things were going well. As expected, reports came in that they were heading to the ruins.

“They’re going to crawl into the trap on their own. Everyone, get ready.”

The Scarecrow mercenaries boarded the vehicle, leaving only a few men to fire shells.

Gary DeDo got into the car, his eyes shining coldly.

“You idiots. Let me tell you that this is a place where if you act cocky, you die.”