The Time-Limited Leader Makes the Raid a Success - Chapter 480



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Episode 480

#480. Did you come to see your friend?

Pedro was hiding under the trunk of a deformed tree whose trunk had grown in a zigzag pattern.

The tree was a thick, old tree that seemed to have grown for thousands of years. Considering that the formation of the Medusa’s Head had only been around for a few decades, it was clearly not a normal growth.

He had been hiding here until the signal dropped. He should have gotten closer and gotten into position, but he didn’t want to put in that much effort just to deal with a bunch of mercenary thugs.

I was planning to slowly go out and show my face after the other guys started attacking.

‘As long as you don’t get caught by the Master, that’s fine.’

Pedro was a wanted criminal hunter in Spain. He committed sadistic crimes by kidnapping and torturing civilians.

Since I was born with a nature of bullying the weak rather than fighting the strong, I didn’t really like this kind of mission.

‘The rest of the guys will work hard.’

It was a time when I was just trying to pretend to work moderately with such a light heart.

The bushes rustled. Pedro tensed and drew his sword. Then a familiar face appeared.

“it’s me.”

“What is it, Jonathan? Why are you here?”

“Why?”

“Huh? Are you slacking off too?”

“Knowing that.”

“Anyway, you too. If you keep doing that and get caught by Master Clown, you’ll die.”

“By the way, where is the Master?”

“It’s over there. Three o’clock.”

“Where are the other guys stuck nearby? I can’t find them at all.”

“What did you do during the briefing? Philip went to the other side, and Gulshan went to the front. Do you have a conscience? Even a country that likes to slacken off should at least be familiar with the operation… .”

Pedro couldn’t continue speaking. There was something stuck in his throat.

“Ugh… Ugh!”

Instead of a voice, only foam rose from his mouth. Pedro felt threatened and tried to fight back. But for some reason, he couldn’t use his strength. He was hit in a vital spot, but he could have attacked once, but he couldn’t move at all.

“Shhh! Shhh… … .”

Jonathan blew softly and carefully laid Pedro down. Pedro glared at Jonathan, making a choking sound.

“It’s not poison. It just causes paralysis.”

Pedro nodded, struggling to keep his eyelids from closing.

‘why?’

Jonathan answered the question intelligently.

“Are you curious as to why I do this? The answer is simple.”

Suddenly Jonathan’s voice changed. It was a woman’s voice, not a man’s.

“Because I am your enemy.”

Pedro died with his eyes filled with resentment, but his questions were answered.

As soon as Pedro died, Hyun Jeong-geon walked out of the bushes where Jonathan had come out.

“Have we finally caught all the pathetic guys who were just trying to survive?”

“Oh. The fourth. But these guys are strange. They’re high-ranking, but their level varies greatly. It feels like they’re all just a bunch of random people gathered together.”

As they spoke, Jonathan’s hair grew longer. He also became shorter, and his once bulky body shrank to a petite size.

Hyun Jeong-geon let out a hollow laugh as he saw Mr. Joe changing.

“This is unfair. With that ability, you can easily assassinate someone without needing any special skills. What do you think? Why not change from being a spy to being an assassin?”

“I don’t really like catching people.”

“But you were poking me so hard for something like that?”

“There’s a prerequisite to that, ‘just don’t touch me.’ It’s childish to hesitate in front of the enemy because you don’t want to kill people, right?”

Mr. Joe shrugged his shoulders and replied, then calmly placed his hand on the corpse’s face.

【Copy】

After a while, Mr. Joe’s figure disappeared and the face of the dead man appeared.

Hyun Jeong-geon silently dragged Pedro’s body and hid it in the bushes. Then, he took out something that looked like a perfume bottle from his hip bag that resembled an ampoule kit and sprinkled it around.

Mr. Joe asked after seeing that.

“What is that?”

“An assassin’s essentials.”

“What is the effect?”

“It gets rid of the smell of blood.”

“Was there something like that?”

“It’s a liquid made from the anal glands of a Blood Mungus. I mix it up a bit, just like the paralytic acid you use on your sword. It’s also useful for removing body odor and other unpleasant smells, in addition to the smell of blood.”

Mr. Joe came closer with interest and sniffed the air.

Not only the smell of blood that had been spreading around, but also the musty smell unique to the jungle temporarily disappeared.

“This is good. Please tell me how to make it later.”

“For free?”

“How about the Paralysis Recipe? Poison resistance skills are useless.”

“call.”

After Hyun Jeong-geon finished cleaning up, Mr. Cho was about to move on to the next task.

At that time, Hyun Jeong-geon stopped her.

“wait for a sec.”

“Why? There are a lot of people to kill. I’m busy.”

“A guy called Master Pierrot. From what I heard from the guys I killed earlier, he seems to be a Mirage executive. There’s no answer if you escape with the teleportation scroll.”

“Then what should we do? Should we call Thomas Hunter? He seems to be making a fuss.”

“He’s not someone who can’t do that. It’s not like he got S-rank overnight.”

Mister Cho felt a pang inside. She had discovered something strange while investigating Thomas after the Gate explosion. The rank listed on his transfer papers was much lower than it appeared on the outside.

The transfer documents could not be falsified because they had to be notarized by the hunter-related organizations of each country.

Feeling suspicious, Mr. Joe dug deeper and received a summons from Kang Mu-hyeok, who revealed that he was an S-rank magician, but his doubts still remained.

‘Maybe it happened overnight. Or maybe he was hiding his identity like Nana Hyun and got caught by Team Leader Kang.’

Mr. Cho and Hyun Jeong-geon were spies and assassins respectively, who were discovered and selected after they were found out while hanging around Kang Moo-hyeok.

She guessed that Thomas might be of a similar type. She wanted to find out more, but since he was from an American guild, there was no proper route to get information.

While Mr. Joe was unable to bring himself to tell anyone about Thomas, Hyun Jeong-geon rejoined with Kang Moo-hyeok to devise a way to catch the hunter known as Master Pierrot.

“No matter how much you try to catch the little ones, it’s no use. They keep crawling out. If you’re going to catch them, you have to catch their heads.”

“Well, they are the survival kings who tell those cockroaches to go away.”

Mr. Joe returned to his original form and started walking. As he walked, his large footprints became smaller.

“I really can’t adapt.”

Hyun Jeong-geon frowned. The image of him playing tricks with his face in Shinuiju overlapped.

“Hey, why are you talking about adapting to work? Just do it. When you see me, the most talkative thing is that I’m an assassin. Stop talking nonsense and just follow me.”

Hyun Jeong-geon felt an impulse once again as he looked at Mr. Cho’s sharp back.

‘I guess I’ll have to change the assassination priority.’

From Goeulji, Nosongrin, and Mr. Joe to Mr. Joe, Goeulji, and Nosongrin.

I’m going to kill you someday, Jo Si-won!

* * *

While Mr. Cho and Hyun Jeong-geon pretended to fight and went to eliminate the enemy, Kang Mu-hyeok made the attack force move slowly.

The Eagles suggested that they wait a little longer for the two who had not yet returned, but Kang Moo-hyuk said not to worry and said it was nothing serious.

“They are both capable hunters. They are not children, and they will figure it out and follow along, so don’t worry.”

“Well, if that’s what you say, Captain.’

The Eagles thought that Kang Mu-hyeok was taking the conflicts between high-ranking hunters too lightly, but they could not wait any longer.

For a while now, Hunters Alex and Raven from the Federation have been coming to visit and urging me on.

Kang Mu-hyeok also agreed with their opinion and ordered them to move.

‘It’s right to wait, but if the enemy is following you, staying in one place for too long is like waiting for them to attack you.’

If you move moderately, the enemy will move too, and while they are moving, a gap will be created in the encirclement.

Given the skills of the two Hunters, who were experts at infiltration and stealth, even a little bit of a gap would have been helpful.

Not long after that, Mr. Cho and Hyun Jeong-geon returned.

The two chased the procession, bickering as if they had entered the jungle.

Kang Moo-hyuk wondered why the two hunters returned so quickly, but he asked without revealing his true feelings.

“Did you solve it well?”

“Of course. I won.”

Mr. Joe hit the player. Hyun Jeong-geon glared at him with his eyes wide open.

“What? Why? He won’t surrender?”

“First priority. First priority. First priority.”

No, it’s a zero rank in the death list.

Hyun Jeong-geon muttered softly and calmed down his excitement. There was something he had to do first.

He pursed his lips silently.

‘I killed a few and got information. It’s Mirage. It’s a murder squad called Clown, and the leader is Master Clown… ‘

Mr. Cho suddenly intervened, perhaps feeling frustrated at the sight of him reporting in a monologue.

“Just tell me. I have questions for him anyway.”

Mr. Joe said, pointing to Gary Dee.

“Hey. You came to see your friend? Do you know that guy named Master Pierrot?”

The moment he heard those words, a crack appeared on Gary Dee’s face.

* * *

The terrorist group Miraju’s death squad, ‘Clowns’, was an organization that was virtually unknown to the outside world.

The reason was simple: everyone they were targeting was dead.

Even within Mirage, few people knew who the members of the clowns were or how many there were.

The same was true of Illusion. He didn’t know much about clowns either. No, to be precise, he wasn’t interested.

‘There’s no need for Illusion-nim to know about these lowly guys. They’re just disposable defective products. You can replace them whenever you need to. There are a lot of trash in the world that are good at killing people.’

Master Clown thought he was the only member of the clown troop.

The idea was that as long as he survived, the unit could be revived at any time, even if the rest of the members were completely wiped out.

‘There are two main goals this time.’

It was Gary Dee and Kang Moo-hyuk.

‘Priority is Gary D. First, find out why he was captured quietly instead of fighting. If he has any information to convey, listen and then get rid of him.’

What about the other one then?

‘Kang Mu-hyeok. This guy is the problem… No matter how we capture him, I’m not sure we’ll be able to get him out of here.’

The first thing Master Pierrot saw when he entered Medusa’s head was a giant.

A giant that looked to be hundreds of meters tall was waking up from sleep and causing a ruckus in a military aircraft driven by a clown force.

Fortunately, he fell asleep again and became calm, but knowing that such a dangerous monster existed, he had to be careful.

‘I might be able to shake off the other hunters, but it won’t be easy to get back through the monsters here with my scrotum. If there’s even one more dangerous one like that giant, I won’t be able to guarantee my life.’