Chapter 151
Although the armed forces had many divisions, one division in particular headed the reputation of the armed forces: the attack squads.
Among their duties, the attack squads were charged with defeating powerful boss monsters—in other words, they constituted Lion’s Castle’s raid teams and were the subject of envy and admiration.
Naturally, the members of the attack squads were no ordinary people.
“The Baus family is really crazy this time!”
“Kuak!"
Kwon Sa-Cheol was the captain of the Second Attack Squad. He was also a senior member of the Association and famous for his bad temper—no one could suppress his personality unless they were the president of the Association, the generals of the military, or a National Treasure.
And right now, he practically vibrated with fury.
Foreigners actually dared to invade his territory? He didn’t care if the invaders were part of a noble family or small fries. He would smash every one of them.
“You insidious bastards playing with corpses! Do you think you can run wild under my watch? Do you take me, Kwon Sa-Cheol, lightly?”
Bang!Bang!Baang!
Kwon Sa-Cheol didn’t ask about the Baus family’s motives for trapping students and blocking the armed forces.
The other side had moved against them. That was all he needed to know.
"Kuaaaak!"
The captain of the Second Attack Squad was said to be the strongest among the armed forces, and the strength Kwon Sa-Cheol displayed indeed lived up to the rumors. In one motion, an S-class knight of the Baus family was torn apart without resistance.
“Y-you killed Sir Heather! Aren’t you afraid of the repercussions?”
The vassals of the Baus family had just been mocking the armed forces with arrogant attitudes. Now they started trembling uncontrollably and unintentionally spoke politely.
Kwon Sa-Cheol laughed.
“You are so stupid. “Do you think that the Baus family or Austria will blink an eye over the deaths of a few bastards like you? And, we’ve got much evidence showing that you used force in the territory of another country first. Would they dare complain about our retaliation?”
“H-hik!”
Bang!
Bang!
Kwon Sa-Cheol’s fist shone with a golden light and smashed apart the vassal’s faces like watermelons. The scene soon fell silent.
A subordinate stepped forward and handed a towel to Kwon Sa-Cheol. As he cleaned his hands, Kwon Sa-Cheol asked with a refreshed expression, “What’s the situation in the other areas?”
“We are cleaning them up. The security forces might struggle, so we sent them reinforcements.”
“Hmph. What about that damn brat, Loren?”
Unless they were an idiot, everyone knew that Loren was directing this incident with the Baus family.
“We are tracking him, but it’s possible that he’s already escaped through the gate.”
The remnants of the Baus family hadn’t retreated even after placing barriers all over the school. Clearly, they remained to buy time against the armed forces for Loren to escape.
“Damn!”
Kwon Sa-Cheol’s bloo-smeared face twisted, and he stomped on the corpse of a Baus knight.
“Damn that White Night!”
No matter how terrible Kwon Sa-Cheol’s personality was, he was still a player. Regardless of faction, he had a heart that respected his country’s National Treasure.
However, at this moment, he only hated Seol Su-Ah.
He knew that she had predicted this incident from the time she accepted Loren as an exchange student. The weak response of the armed forces under Seol Su-Ah’s foundation was proof enough.
At the very least, the First Squad should’ve arrived here around the same time as us.
Kwon Sa-Cheol hated the captain of the First Attack Squad. He automatically felt like killing every time he saw that bastard’s face.
Nevertheless, he acknowledged her skills and knew best how unnatural it was that the first squad’s captain still hadn’t arrived.
It is clear that the White Knight wants the successor of the Baus family to escape safely.
Kwon Sa-Cheol didn’t know what her intentions were. He wasn’t a strategist. Still, he was sharp enough to realize that the situation was bad.
“Contact the Association immediately and tell them to lock down the airport. Seize the Baus family’s private plane, stop all flights to Europe, and post a search for Loren.
“We can’t communicate with the outside world due to the school lockdown.”
“Then follow me out of the gate! You bastards!”
Kwon Sa-Cheol urged his subordinates and took off at full speed. He was determined to catch Loren even if Loren had already escaped through the gate.
Yes, the goal was to capture.
“Hear me! Even if you run into Loren, don’t recklessly use violence! Capture him with as few injuries as possible!”
“Yes!”
Loren was the successor of the Baus family, unlike the bastards he had just killed. Loren might’ve done something wrong, but South Korea would be in a very difficult position if something were to happen to him. Even someone as ignorant as Kwon Sa-Cheol knew this.
***
“Y-young master?”
Wolfgang was dazed.
He finally had a chance to deal the final blow to Shinra Kyeong, who was at his limit, but he didn’t seem to notice as he listlessly lowered his weapons. The sight of Loren collapsing to the ground, unconscious, was simply too shocking.
The coffins by Loren’s side were devices that stored homemade zombies and supplied them with mana twenty-four hours a day to induce growth.
It was Loren’s ultimate passive Skill, allowing him to produce his own Named-class undead that could continuously grow alongside him. There was no greater weapon for a necromancer. In fact, the first thing Loren did after awakening his Bloodline Skill was to retrieve the materials from his magic freezer and create a pair of zombies.
He named them Parent Zombies. They looked as eerie as their names were, and Loren had even shed tears of joy after their creation. For a long while afterward, Loren only slept in the arms of the zombies each night.
The Baus family's elders were deeply worried. Loren’s affection and devotion to the zombies were abnormal, even they could tell. Nonetheless, Loren’s steady care allowed the zombies to grow at a tremendous speed.
However...
The young master was defeated before they could even be used?
With Loren unconscious, the two Parent Zombies had lost their connection to their master and stood motionless.
Wolfgang wasn’t in the mood to laugh at their dumb expressions.
Space Slash.
The sword technique that Kang Jae-Hyeok and Do-Jin had just used together ignored the laws of physics.
The distance between Kang Jae-Hyeok and Loren, and the time it took to cross that distance, by passing the Parent Zombies and Loren’s bone armor...
Somehow, their attack had skipped all obstacles and directly struck Loren’s vitals. It had clearly reached a transcendent realm.
These young ones performed a technique that only National Treasures can use?
Of course, it was most likely a coincidence. Wolfgang didn’t think an attack that relied on the imperfect Flash Steps would succeed often or easily. And right now, Do-Jin was visibly exhausted. Teleporting other people must multiply the mana and mental cost several times. It definitely isn’t a technique that can be used continuously.
Nevertheless, Wolfgang still sensed a crisis.
Kang Jae-Hyeok, Shinra Kyeong, and Baek Do-Jin—if these three people survived to adulthood and steadily leveled up, no one could guess how strong South Korea would become.
I can’t let them live.At the very least, one of them must be eliminated to eliminate future troubles.
In any case, he had to rescue his young master either way. The Yaksha’s son had cruelly aimed for a critical area, but Loren was still alive.
The air around Wolfgang was dyed a deep green as his mana condensed to the point of materialization. Wolfgang was completely shrouded in his aura—it was a feat that could only be performed by S-class or above players.
The ground and trees touched by Wolfgang’s green aura bubbled and rotted away.
A player’s aura carried the nature of their mana, and Wolfgang’s was clearly poison-attuned. Players and monsters below A-class would only be able to resist it with the help of defensive Skills or artifacts.
“You won’t die a clean death!”
Baaaang!
Wolfgang threw a hand axe, and it flew straight for Shinra Kyeong’s forehead. Although his current state rapidly drained mana, his strength was also greatly enhanced.
Shinra Kyeong hastily raised his sword and blocked the blow, but he was thrown back nearly two meters into the air.
This won’t be easy. Shinra Kyeong’s eyes trembled slightly. He had spun his mana in the same way as always, but he barely managed to deflect the force of the axe this time.
His wrists were aching.
His strength has increased too much.In addition... Shinra Kyeong quietly swallowed the blood in his mouth, careful not to let it show.
He was poisoned.
The green aura, which he’d tried to scatter with his rotating mana, had infiltrated his lungs. He hadn’t expected it and hadn’t activated his divinity in time.
“Ah, so that’s how to attack you?”
Wolfgang laughed. As an expert in poison, he immediately saw through the fact that Shinra Kyeong was inflicted. Wolfgang kicked off the ground, startling Shinra Kyeong.
Shinra Kyeong quickly manipulated the air currents around his body, intending to quickly regain his balance and fend off Wolfgang’s attack.
However, Wolfgang didn’t slow and instead passed right by Shinra Kyeong..
“Pay the price for repaying kindness with betrayal!”
Wolfgang’s target from the beginning was Do-Jin. His fury had naturally shifted toward the one who was clearly the weakest and the most exhausted when compared to Jae-Hyeok and Shinra Kyeong.
“What bullshit about kindness!” Do-Jin was so frustrated that he was going crazy. They were the ones who kidnapped him. What price should he pay? It was like a criminal acting as the victim.
Although furious and exhausted, Do-Jin still reacted. With trembling hands, he raised his greatsword to block Wolfgang’s path.
However, he was still too slow compared to Wolfgang.
Slash!
Wolfgang passed Do-Jin, leaving behind a long green trail in his wake.
“Shit!”
Blood gushed from Do-Jin’s split shoulder. If Jae-Hyeok hadn’t thrown his dagger in time, Wolfgang’s axe would’ve sunk deep enough to reach Do-Jin’s heart.
“You can still swear when you are dying?”
Wolfgang turned back to look at Baek Do-Jin, a disdainful expression on his face.
Stagger.
Do-Jin suddenly staggered, and everything in his vision became unfocused.
“I was going to watch you slowly die from poison, but I’ve changed my mind. I will split you apart from the top of your head to your arrogant mouth.”
Wolfgang raised his axe.
“Steady yourself, Do-Jin!”
Jae-Hyeok shouted as he ran with all his strength. But Do-Jin was eighty meters away, even at his fastest, he wouldn’t reach him in time.
“Die.”
“What a profit.” Just as Wolfgang’s axe fell, a hand burst through the ground and grabbed Do-Jin’s ankle.
At first glance, the hand looked to be wearing a white glove, but that wasn’t the case.
It wasn’t a hand at all.
It was a paw.
“I received that mole’s dying words: the ones who helped Elder Song escape are your subordinates, right? Do-Jin, I know you’re the real power behind the Shooting Club. You will tell me the whereabouts of the dragon harpoon.”
“Who—”
Before Do-Jin could respond, he was pulled underground.
“Do-Jin!”
Jae-Hyeok chased after him without hesitation.
Meanwhile, Wolfgang’s face turned red from having his prey snatched out of his mouth. He nearly threw himself into the tunnel as well, but he managed to regain his composure. The priority right now was to escape with Loren.
“Over there!”
Just then, he sensed a large number of people rushing over.
Shit!
Judging from their mana, it was clearly the attack squad, the strongest among the armed forces. Wolfgang quickly grabbed Loren and rushed into the tunnel.
“Some people only know how to be kidnapped,” Shinra Kyeong muttered with disdain as he left the scene like the wind.