How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 18
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Chapter 18
Twitch.
Except for Gong Cheol-woo, who remained only as a twitching head.
Sigh.
Silence fell over the Teraco building.
“Boss! Praise me! Praise me!”
Envy appeared suddenly, waving two daggers dripping with blood.
“Envy, don’t act cute with the Boss.”
Yoon Seung-ah appeared behind her and glared at Envy.
“Hmph.”
As Envy was about to step back disappointedly.
Swoosh.
Go Johan patted Envy’s head.
Even though it was just that.
“Hehehe.”
Envy smiled triumphantly, seeming satisfied.
It had barely been half of the five minutes Yoon Seung-ah had mentioned.
From the start, there was no intention to use all five minutes.
“The rescued ones are gathered on the first floor.”
After speaking, Yoon Seung-ah extended her hand.
Woong.
What appeared was a staff decorated with a raven’s head.
[Drows’ Staff]
[Legendary]
An item that became Yoon Seung-ah’s.
Its grade was none other than legendary.
Currently, there weren’t even three known legendary items in the whole world.
These items, which had no level restrictions, possessed power befitting their legendary name.
Kuung.
It was already known that even a level 1 player could surpass rankers with just one legendary item.
If an owner of a legendary item were to sell it on the market.
-Its value would be immeasurable.
It was clear that it would require not just billions, but a national budget-level investment.
Envy’s two daggers were the same.
[Sidus’s Dagger]
[Legendary]
[Amdus’s Dagger]
[Legendary]
Treasures whose value was immeasurable.
That’s when.
Woooong!
The Drows’ Staff that Yoon Seung-ah was holding emitted a bright light and began releasing devastating magical power.
“Such amazing magical power as always.”
As Envy spoke almost jealously while looking at the emanating magical power.
Flash!
With the light, everything around had changed.
Go Johan, Yoon Seung-ah, Kim Si-on.
The destruction they had caused to the Teraco Guild seemed to have never happened as the building appeared perfectly intact.
“…!”
Even for Gong Cheol-woo, who was left with only his head, it was astonishing.
As if time had reversed.
But Go Johan’s face showed little change.
“Grid is nearby, right?”
As soon as Go Johan spoke.
“You called me, Boss.”
A girl who looked about six years old appeared, rubbing her eyes tiredly.
She was in pajamas, as if she had been sleeping until just now.
“You must have been tired, I’m sorry.”
“No, it’s fine. *yawn*”
Soon after, others began to appear one by one.
Shin Seul-hye, who acted as Grid’s caretaker, the Moon Hunter who had lost both eyes in the past.
And Kang In, who had lost both legs, appeared together.
“You called for us.”
Shin Seul-hye and Kang In’s appearances had changed quite a bit.
Their appearances had been altered by Go Johan’s intervention in the past.
Gooo.
The magnitude of power felt from them.
Saaah.
Their well-refined presence seemed so powerful that even top-ranked rankers would not take them lightly.
“There’s work to be done.”
Go Johan said.
“Devour the underground.”
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“Devour the underground.”
Go Johan said.
Though it sounded like grasping at clouds, no one responded.
“I must accept it now.”
Go Johan spoke in front of the Teraco Guild.
-The cursed ones keep crawling out.
He had already cleared out those trying to exist in Seoul’s shadows several times.
Yet they showed themselves again and finally laid hands on evil species.
“That the underground cannot be erased.”
Like cockroaches that reappear no matter how many times you clear them out.
He had fought countless battles with them in Travania.
Even when they cowered in fear of Michael and kept their heads low.
‘Persistently.’
They would appear again and spread poison across the continent.
Then.
“Let’s start with Seoul first. How long will it take for everything?”
There was no choice but to devour and keep them under management.
So that whenever evil species raise their heads, they can be uprooted from the source.
“Is one year enough?”
Go Johan asked.
Given the nature of the underground, it would be difficult to subdue and bring everything under control in a short time.
After all, they were as tenacious as Gong Cheol-woo, who remained as just a head.
“Three months.”
Grid said.
“Three months will be enough. *yawn*”
Three months.
“With half a year, we can have everything in Korea under our control.”
Grid said, blinking her large eyes.
If someone else had said this, they would have been laughed at as crazy.
“We’ll need someone to stand as the representative.”
There was no reason to dismiss Grid.
Though she appeared only five or six years old, no one knew her actual age.
Especially those with talents that even great demons would covet had exploded and expanded their potential in the process of becoming vessels for demons.
“I’ll take that role.”
Kang In answered.
“This was part of the plan from the start. We were just waiting for the Boss’s permission. *yawn*”
Grid said while holding onto Go Johan’s hand.
“Teraco, Chimshik, Samyong. They’re the largest guilds in Seoul…”
Grid’s eyes were glowing.
“If we just change the heads first, and do it without drawing attention, we can swallow them quickly. Since Teraco has some shares in other guilds’ business…”
Grid crouched down and looked at Gong Cheol-woo’s remaining head with a grin, seemingly not disgusted.
“With this guy, there won’t be any major problems.”
Poke, poke.
Gong Cheol-woo’s head was treated like a toy.
Swoosh.
Grid lifted the head.
“Please help?”
“Keu, keu… keuu…”
“Grid, first we need to find out where he got the seeds from, and how far he spread them.”
“Okay. Sister can use him first.”
She handed the head to Yoon Seung-ah as if making a concession.
Just as the situation was being sorted out.
“…Huh?”
Go Johan suddenly said with a stupid look.
“Why is she here?”
Outside the window.
He felt a gaze watching the Teraco building from between the buildings.
“Haah.”
It was Go Minji.
Could she have followed him?
No.
If he had been tailed, he wouldn’t have missed it.
It must be just a coincidence.
“I was about to report this…”
Yoon Seung-ah stepped forward apologetically.
“It seems the Association made a small request to your sister.”
Then Yoon Seung-ah stepped forward.
“I’ll buy some time, so Boss should leave.”
“Haah. That’s not helpful. Alright, I’ll leave it to you.”
Go Johan shook his head as he walked away.
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“……”
Go Minji was carefully watching Teraco.
“…Can you tell anything?”
She wasn’t alone.
With her was Kim Da-yeon from the Korean Player Association’s Investigation Department.
Go Minji and Kim Da-yeon were elementary school classmates, and Kim Da-yeon had joined the Association’s Investigation Department.
“Hey, do you think I’m Schmidt or something?”
Lucas Schmidt, ranked in the world’s top rankings.
He was famous not just for his high world ranking, but for his specialized tracking skills and intuition.
Apparently, he had the ability to understand the truth just by looking.
“…We need to know.”
Kim Da-yeon spoke in a heavy voice.
“Over 40 people have been kidnapped. We’ve searched all of Teraco Guild’s facilities but found nothing…”
The Teraco Guild House before them looked like luxury incarnate.
“They must be in there. If we miss this chance… we might never find those people again.”
“But why ask me to do this?”
Go Minji said irritably.
“…These b*st*rds must have spread their filth everywhere. We’ve failed several operations because information kept leaking.”
That’s why they needed Go Minji, who was trustworthy and ranked in the US rankings.
“Everyone here is trustworthy. It has to be today or never. Please help, Minji. I’ll buy you that bag you wanted.”
“You crazy girl.”
Go Minji smirked at Kim Da-yeon’s words.
Though Association player salaries were supposedly enormous, they weren’t close to her level.
It was just a desperate plea for help.
“Get ready.”
Go Minji said.
“If we have to strike today, then let’s strike.”
That’s when.
Flinch.
Go Minji suddenly sprang forward.
In her hands appeared two great swords larger than her height.
Swaaaack!
With a sound like tearing through air.
Paaaaang!
As if breaking the sound barrier, a sonic boom occurred.
Even though it was Go Minji’s strike that could supposedly cut through a B-rank monster Ogre in one blow.
Woong.
Her great swords were caught by an invisible barrier and couldn’t advance further.
What appeared before her was a woman wearing what looked like a magically created raven mask.
The long hair flowing from behind the mask and the voluminous figure visible even through loose clothing proved it.
Flinch.
The great swords stuck in what appeared to be a barrier didn’t budge at all.
‘Where did someone like this come from?’
Go Minji was genuinely shocked.
Even the guild master of the guild she joined to work in America couldn’t block her strike like this.
“I know you’re looking for the kidnapped people.”
Then a pearl-like voice flowed from behind the raven mask.
Swoosh.
She carefully stepped back and.
Kwang!
Only then did Go Minji’s great swords cut through the air and embed themselves in the ground.
“Minji!”
Kim Da-yeon and her subordinates rushed out but.
Kwak!
They couldn’t move as if bound by the raven mask’s extended hand.
“They’re gathered in the back alley, you can take them.”
As the raven mask finished speaking and turned around.
“…Who are you?”
Go Minji said to the raven mask, Yoon Seung-ah.
“…Your voice sounds familiar.”
But.
Ripple.
The raven mask had already disappeared.
“……”
Go Minji stood dazed, staring at where Yoon Seung-ah had vanished for a long time.
Meanwhile.
“We found them!”
Kim Da-yeon’s subordinate came with news that they had found the kidnapped people.