This Villain is Soft - Chapter 79



Only Noblemtl

Episode 79

“Da, how did you… …!”

“Bae An Jae?”

Behind the shocked Haon, a hunter with a confused expression loaded a bolt into his crossbow.

“Don’t come any closer!”

The moment Bae An-jae took a step closer, Ha-on shouted sharply and blocked the hunter’s crossbow with his hand.

“It will be blocked by the shield.”

“That guy really… … .”

“That’s right. A terrorist.”

Haon was sure. When he met Bae An-jae here, he felt a mana that he had not felt before, surging around him.

That man was a terrorist from the same dimension as me, the one I met in the abandoned Halo factory.

I don’t know what device was shaking the building, but I think I know why Blue didn’t detect it.

‘You’ve perfected the mana stealth technique.’

It was a technique that terrorists had tried several times to hide their Mana planes, but had failed every time.

If this place was rich in mana, I could have completed it through trial and error.

“Have you ever encountered the Bae An-jae of this dimension? Did you kill him?”

When Haon asked while holding out her cell phone, he snickered.

“You had your own circumstances. Instead of talking about the dead, let’s have a constructive conversation between living people.”

“… … .”

The tone and atmosphere of the counseling session were completely different. I vividly remembered the few times I had encountered them on the battlefield.

“The only thing I want to talk to you about is Halo’s whereabouts.”

“Why don’t you join hands with me? The war is over anyway and there is no magic engineering here.”

“Don’t say such horrible things. How did you get into this dimension?”

As Haon gathered mana on the tip of his phone and aimed, he moistened his lips with his tongue and followed the flow of mana.

“An explosion occurred inside the dimensional gate, causing a large earthquake there as well.”

What a big earthquake!

Haon’s face turned pale. He believed that the people would be safe since the bomb was taken care of.

“I took advantage of the moment when Mana was shaking unsteadily to release the restraints and jump into the dimensional portal.”

“… … I didn’t know where I would go, and I could have just died?”

“Isn’t that better than being locked up in prison your whole life and dying without even touching a nuke?”

Ha-on, who had been looking at him coldly, knocked on the wall.

‘Aluminum soundproofing wall with built-in sound-absorbing material. Judging from the material of the floor, the sound-absorbing material is probably wood wool board.’

Haon quickly injected mana into the hallway wall and created a strong wall like an iron fortress behind Bae An-jae.

“This is where it ends. Neither you nor I can leave before then.”

“Still fast.”

Bae An-jae stuck out his tongue and took something out of his bosom.

“But would you have come unprepared to face the famous Eunhaon alone, and not someone else?”

What he was holding in his hand was a detonator.

“… … !”

Haon fired a mana bullet before he could even think, and Bae Anjae cut it down with a saw-like mana.

‘no……!’

Before Manatan could completely crumble, Haon rushed towards Baeanjae.

A crossbow bolt flew past his head, aiming for him, but was blocked by a mana shield.

Just before a flash of mana from the cell phone engulfed his arm.

Haon’s moment stretched out like a long bridge.

‘Is it because of me? Because I came to this dimension… …?’

Haon felt the cold sensation in his fingertips that could not reach Bae An-jae.

‘Why did I come to headquarters and all the people here die?’

The screams of nightmare piled up and burrowed into Haon’s ears.

‘Again… … Are you all going to die because of me?’

My cold fingertips trembled and the stretched out time returned to reality.

There was a small click as the detonator was pressed.

“No─!”

Boom! Boom!

With a tremendous noise, all the reinforced glass windows of the hero headquarters burst out.

* * *

Passus─.

Concrete debris poured down from the ceiling like snow.

“Ugh. Huh… … .”

Haon looked around the dark room, gasping for breath.

Bae An-jae was nowhere to be seen, and Hunter was lying down next to me. It seemed like she was wrapping her arms around me.

‘… …If only I had been a little faster.’

Haon looked at the hunter with a complicated expression and then started to cry.

‘still…….’

In the nightmare of the bridge collapsing, we thought of and tried every possible way to save the people.

It was a nightmare because I never succeeded even once.

But what Haon was seeing right now was not a collapsed hallway.

It was a hallway in the headquarters that still maintained its shape, although the ceiling was slightly broken.

‘It was possible.’

If you can’t stop it from falling apart, just glue it back together.

‘It wasn’t useless.’

Even though it was just a dream, the countless attempts to save someone eventually became a solid bridge in front of Haon.

Haon clenched his fists in excitement and took a deep breath.

‘It’s not over yet.’

I wiped away the tears that were welling up in my eyes and checked my phone.

“Blue. Give me a situation report.”

[Mana bombs exploded on all floors of Hero Headquarters. No mana was detected until just before detonation.]

“People?”

[Evacuating.]

“And Juyeol too?”

[The location of the belt is confirmed to be the 1st storage room on the 7th floor.]

Haon’s face turned pale. If he was still there, he was definitely trapped.

I don’t think he got hurt because he had a belt, but I had to hurry.

“First, keep telling me about the composition of the wall. Instead of mana, search for explosive materials or distorted energy. There might be more hidden by the stealth function.”

Haon didn’t stop calculating in his head the whole time he was talking to Blue.

Hero Headquarters was irreparably destroyed.

If Haon hadn’t covered the entire building with mana and solidified it the moment Bae An-jae pressed the detonator, it would have already collapsed.

The problem is that the mana planted by the terrorist keeps changing the composition of the wall to something else.

Because it kept changing like sand or ice and was about to collapse, constant calculations had to be carried out to maintain the shape of the building.

‘We have to hold out until everyone is evacuated.’

The moment you stop counting, the building will completely collapse.

‘Let’s send the hunters out first. This is the third floor, so we only need to go down two floors.’

Haon grabbed Hunter’s shoulder and shook him vigorously.

“Hunter! Wake up!”

But she didn’t move an inch.

[Haon! I sense a distorted energy flow from the second floor above ground. I suspect it is a trace of stealth technology.]

At that time, Blue showed the blueprint of the building with blue mana and informed them.

The place where the mana bomb remained was the server room.

Oh my god. Haon held onto his sanity with a pale face.

“Can’t we disarm the bomb? Throw it outside and let it explode?”

[Both are impossible. The precision scan results show that it is set to explode on impact.]

‘When the building collapsed, the server room was completely blown up.’

It’s creepy! That much data is flying away!

The building is still standing, but the headquarters has already collapsed. This is a bomb that will eventually explode.

An entire server room blown away? That was professionally unacceptable.

“Hunter! The headquarters server is going to blow up. All the data will be blown up!”

Haon slapped Hunter’s cheek and spoke urgently.

“I’ll copy the data from the server as soon as possible. Does Hunter agree? Answer quickly!”

“Ugh… … .”

The hunter groaned, frowning. That was enough of an answer.

“Blue! Copy the data from the server. If you don’t have enough space, store it remotely on the lab server and try to collect all the data as much as possible.”

[Copy data from the Hero Headquarters server!]

Blue mana stretched out from the phone like a wire and dug into the outlet.

At least the work wouldn’t be interrupted by a lack of mana, so Haon decided to move on to the next thing to do.

“And I need to move the Hunter to the cargo lift app.”

[… … Launch the Lift app… … …]

That’s when Blue’s reaction slowed down.

Kururung─.

The sound of bone-chilling explosions assaulted my eardrums. More debris rained down from the ceiling.

“End! Exit the Rift app!”

[… … Closed the Lift app!]

It seemed like my phone’s memory was struggling to handle the task of keeping an entire building from collapsing, copying data from servers, and even running other magic apps.

‘I guess I’ll have to move it myself.’

Haon eventually took off the heavy equipment the hunter was wearing and started to move it while struggling.

I was going down the stairs so hard I thought I was going to faint trying not to fall.

I wanted to hand over the Hunter to someone else, but unfortunately I didn’t meet anyone.

Ha-on, who barely made it to the first floor, collapsed on the floor, panting.

But I kept thinking about it so that the calculations wouldn’t stop.

‘Now, if we just get to the entrance… … .’

Haon, who had raised his head while holding onto the hunter again, ended up collapsing.

The hallway leading to the entrance was blocked by a collapsed ceiling.

‘It collapsed when I lost concentration earlier.’

Haon wiped his sweaty chin with his sleeve and looked at the wall.

‘If only we could make a hole big enough to send a hunter out here… … .’

Then he stopped and deformed some parts of the wall more loosely than others.

‘Can you do it?’

I was so tired from moving the Hunter that my head was starting to hurt. If I made a mistake, not only this wall, but the entire building would collapse.

‘I’d rather have someone destroy this place from outside.’

[Haon! The explosive material is approaching at a rapid rate!]

“what?”

Kwakwaang!

My hair was blown away by the sudden strong wind and dust.