#Episode 80
In the end, Arthur had no choice.
He picked up his watch and contacted all the apostles in Mexico.
There’s something urgent, so come here to the Grand Royal Cancun right away.
like that.
The remaining four apostles in Mexico also gathered at the Grand Royal Cancun.
* * *
Helena Myers.
She’s been very busy lately.
It was good to raise the bar. It was all good, but Freemasonry is now halfway down.
The war with the Apostles has begun, and they are still squeezing the Freemasons’ purse strings.
It means that there are difficulties in reconstruction.
However, recently a factory was built.
As Jin Shihou had suggested, the factory was for vampires only, and there were exactly twenty-seven captured apostles there so far.
Those twenty-seven had their limbs cut off and were trapped in the factory, unable to do anything.
Honestly, are apostles ordinary beings?
All of the apostles’ plans are divided into before and after Jin Shihou returns to Earth.
With Qin Shihou’s return, the apostles have suffered a near-destructive blow.
Above all, they were unable to oppose Qin Shihou even once.
There is no one who does not know what happened to the fifth elder who tried something similar.
Some of the apostles had already finished cleaning up the area and left for an uninhabited island.
That’s about it.
There is no way that Jin Shihou would just release the twenty-seven apostles he has captured.
Their mana is limited by being trapped in the factory, and they become ‘normal humans’ with only superior ‘regeneration’ abilities.
At first glance, it seems like a ‘grabbing technique’ that involves touching a few blood vessels, but from Jin Shihou’s perspective, it’s just a grabbing technique, but from Helena’s and others’ perspectives, it’s a top-notch technique.
So now they are drawing blood from those 27 apostles every day.
The amount of blood secreted per day is a whopping 200 liters.
Of course, it’s fresh blood at an incredible level.
When they drank that blood, the vampires became mentally clear and their whole body became filled with vitality.
The blood of monsters? The blood of the Awakened? The comparison itself was impossible in the first place.
This was the holy water itself for vampires.
No, it feels a bit strange to call it a holy water, so let’s say it’s a drug with no side effects.
And now Helena was refining the blood of these apostles to create a ‘potion’.
So when Helena received a call from Jin Shihou, she didn’t even hesitate.
They say they will catch the apostles and give them to her, but if she refuses, Helena will become a woman who is not in her right mind.
Of course, at the request of Jin Shihou, I had asked the president about the locations of the two most likely top-ranking apostles, but he had no idea. Jin Shihou didn’t say much about that.
I wonder if it was because he didn’t expect it, or if he was forgiving and thought I might not know.
I don’t know exactly, but in any case, as long as I need to maintain a close relationship with Jin Shihou, and in the current situation where I need the blood of the apostles, it makes no sense to give up. So, I immediately gave an order to all the vampires in South America.
The reconstruction work was to be stopped for the time being and the current locations of the apostles were to be checked with one’s own eyes at all times.
After that, Helena headed straight to Mexico.
Because I received a call from Jin Shihou asking me to come to Cancun, I also received a call from vampires on my way there.
The number of apostles in South America is currently exactly thirty-four.
The whereabouts of six of them are unknown.
Except for those six, I have located all twenty-eight of them. They hid as best they could, but Freemasons aren’t an organization of neighborhood kids, and even if a few branches were blown away, their base is still the same. I can find more than enough of them.
I had to tell Jin Shihou this.
Entering the Grand Royal Hotel in Cancun, Helena stopped for a moment, her thoughts forgotten.
What is the situation?
“Are you here?”
“… … Yes… … I’m here. But how come they’re all here?”
It was exactly as he said.
First of all, the lobby of the Grand Royal Hotel was a mess. It was almost like a mess, and there were exactly five apostles there.
One was dead, and four others were lying on the floor with their heads down, as if they had passed out. Jin Shi-hoo was sitting on the back of one of the four, smoking a cigarette.
That’s what Helena sees now.
“I politely asked the kid over there to call the rest of the apostles here.”
“Will you just listen to me?”
“I beat you up because you wouldn’t listen.”
“… … .”
“Anyway, take these four. And the apostles in South America?”
“I have located all of them. I would like to tell you the best route. Is that okay?”
Jin Shihou had no reason to refuse. He made a slight nod as if to tell her to try, and Helena continued speaking.
“It would be better to go to Colombia first. There are two apostles there with us now.”
Colombia.
Jin Shihou smiled brightly.
“Colombia is great. The mecca of drug cartels. Pablo Escobar.”
“… … What is that all of a sudden?”
“There was a drama I watched a while ago that I really enjoyed.”
Helena tilted her head.
“Could it be Narcos?”
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“Oh, that’s right. Do you know?”
“I know. I’m one of the investors.”
Helena continued speaking to Jin Shi-hoo, who looked as if he didn’t know.
“If you’ve seen Narcos, you know the Medellin Cartel.”
“I know.”
“The Medellin Cartel was disbanded after Escobar died. But the Zan Cartel, which was part of Medellin, wasn’t a very popular organization at the time, and the right-wing vigilante group Los Pepes didn’t pay much attention to it. Now, the Zan Cartel rules Colombia.”
Jin Shihou chuckled.
“I see the apostle is there.”
“Yes, that means we might have to fight the cartels a little differently than we do here in Mexico. There are some pretty high-level Awakeners among them, so are you going to kill them all?”
“Look.”
“Then can I handle it?”
I was a little curious.
“What are you going to do?”
“It’s a useful organization. If the Zian Cartel were to be dismantled, another cartel would try to take its place, and that would result in even greater casualties. In that case, it would be better to just keep the Zian Cartel going.”
“The Freemasons are absorbing that cartel?”
Helena smiled vaguely.
If you think about it, all Helena wanted was the blood of the apostles, but other unintended benefits kept coming.
Hanging out with Jin Shi-hoo was beneficial in some way.
“Shall we go right away?”
Jin Shi-hoo stood up from his seat and said, stubbing out his cigarette.
“Okay, let’s go.”
On that day, twenty-six of the twenty-eight apostles living in South America were imprisoned in a blood factory created by the Freemasons, and two apostles died.
Jin Shihou was planning to throw these two apostles into the blood factory, but he made a deal. He made a deal and killed them nicely.
This deal really hits home.
Jin Shihou gained some really useful information from this deal.
The fourth of the top apostles, Yaksha, has figured out who he is pretending to be now.
A unique Chinese awakened person whose whereabouts have been unknown since the moment the gate entered its break period.
People say there is some kind of closed-door training in the world, but it wasn’t that.
He is the fourth apostle Yaksha.
Helena, who had completely taken over all the cartels in Colombia and Brazil, immediately started to inquire about ‘his’ whereabouts.
* * *
In China, there is a man named Li Kang, one of the Seven Awakened Ones.
He is the strongest Awakened in name and reality, and his currently publicly known level is a whopping 680.
Anyone who has played the game even a little bit knows that the more levels you go up, the more experience points you need. This is obvious.
Considering that Jinsong had recently surpassed 600, this level of 680 is truly unimaginably high.
From the early days of the Great Cataclysm when the Gate first appeared until now, Lee Kang, who had a level that was difficult to achieve without spending all day and night clearing the Gate, sat cross-legged naked in a small cave.
His mind was very complicated even with his eyes closed.
To be honest, it’s because of one person.
Jin Shi-hoo.
Ever since he came back from Titan, I had a feeling he’d be a nuisance.
But I didn’t think it would be this bad.
It was beyond imagination.
That crazy guy has already killed over 60 apostles.
If the 60 apostles in the last digit had died, this level of reaction would not have occurred.
Among the apostles who died, there are too many apostles with the first digits.
In addition, the fifth and sixth apostles also died.
Lee Kang opened his eyes.
His name is Lee Kang, but it is not his real name.
His real name is Yasha.
He is the fourth in line among the apostles and serves the first-line monster, Asura.
Because he was such a yaksha, he had no choice but to make a decision.
Today, Yaksha sent a message to Asura through Shadow, the 11th apostle.
Lee Kang slowly stands up from his seat. Then his shadow ripples and a masked man with his entire body painted in black suddenly appears from there.
The reply to the message has now arrived.
“… … After asking his permission, he said he would fully accept the Yaksha’s opinion.”
The opinion expressed by the yaksha was simple.
All the apostles currently active in the world will eventually become targets of Jin Shihou. And is Jin Shihou just an ordinary person?
His older sister is Jin Song, who rules South Korea. He is also friendly with the American Freemasons.
In terms of information power, Jin Shi-hoo can definitely find anything he wants to find.
Then there is only one thing left.
To hide.
The Earth is bigger than you think. You can completely hide in places where you can’t see. The number of apostles remaining is currently about 120.
Hide somewhere like Africa, or, if necessary, cross over to the world where he is.
There are many ways. The answer to this question will come soon.
And the remaining one.
“He said to leave the Underworld of Earth as it is.”
“Why?”
“He said exactly this. ‘These are people who can be used usefully in the future. So leave them alone.’ Lord Asura also told us not to touch them.”
I understand.
It was at that moment that Lee Kang nodded and was about to say something to Shadow.
“Hey, hey, isn’t this too dark?”
Lee Kang’s eyebrows twitched. Shadow, who was next to him, did the same.
This is a very uninhabited place even in China. It is a place where no one would think there would be people.
Lee Kang nodded. Shadow, who was quick-witted, was about to hide in the shadows.
