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< Case study >
“Sir, what’s wrong with your eyes?”
Lily looked at the bruise on the man’s face with a curious expression.
It definitely wasn’t there last night, but when I woke up this morning, one of the old man’s eyes was bruised like a panda’s.
The man gently rubbed his eyes, which were bruised and bloodshot from the egg.
It seemed like the mood was really low.
“···You don’t have to know.”
Then Lily clapped as if she knew what it was.
“Ah! You’re in disguise! Right?”
“No way? Hey! Don’t touch it! It hurts!”
The man sighed as he swatted away the little devil’s finger that was poking at his bruise.
“Tch. I thought the last attack would work···.”
For three days, Daein learned the martial arts of Geomhwangbirok through training with Baek Changsu and being beaten under the guise of sparring.
Yesterday was the last day.
The great man attempted a decisive attack that he had been waiting for.
It was an attack I made with the determination to give her a proper treatment at least once before going on vacation.
The attack of conversion failed, and the price was severe.
Because I got hit so hard that I turned into a night owl.
“What kind of monster is that guy…?”
While Daein was rubbing his bruise with an egg and muttering, Baek Yeong-hee knocked and entered the room.
“Team Leader. Are you ready?”
The man nodded and said.
“What about Yeongshin?
“I’m waiting downstairs.”
After a while, Daein and Lily each took their bags and went down the elevator.
Jang Young-shin was waiting in the building lobby, and familiar faces were there to see them off.
Wang Guho. Sirutteok.
Team 7 leaders.
and···.
“Hahaha! Team Leader Lim! Today is finally the day you go on vacation! Did you sleep well?”
Daein looked at Baek Changsu, who had a big smile on his face, with displeasure.
“···Thanks to you, sir, I slept so soundly that I almost fainted.”
Baek Chang-soo patted the man on the back and laughed heartily. The man was truly in pain.
“I feel good that it’s all thanks to me! Have a nice trip! Achieve all your goals! Don’t go around getting beaten up!”
The man sighed deeply and nodded.
“Thanks to that, I don’t think I’ll be able to go on vacation.”
Three days of special training.
Although it was a short period of time, the person achieved some results.
Our senses have become more acute, and our skills have become incomparably sharper.
The elder briefly greeted each of the people who came to see him off.
“King Guho.”
“yes···.”
Wang Guho had a gloomy expression.
Wang Gu-ho, who was not able to take a vacation with the two people, seemed to be worried about being left alone on the team.
The man tapped Wang Gu-ho on the shoulder.
“When I’m not around, you’re the captain of Team 7. Do your best.”
Wang Guho looked at the man with an anxious face.
“I, I wonder if I can do it well···.”
While Daein and Lily were away, Team 7 was expected to take on the role of supporting the other teams in the guild.
At that moment, the man’s expression darkened and he spoke.
“If you get screwed, all 7 teams will get screwed. If the team is listening to the sound of the screw when I come back… Then you figure it out.”
“···Yes, four!”
The man nodded in satisfaction at the sight of Wang Gu-ho, who was filled with energy.
What Wang Gu-ho lacks is confidence.
With that alone, Wang Guho was already one of the top five tankers in the city.
The man turned his head and looked at the rice cake.
“You keep a close eye on Wang Gu-ho to see how he behaves.”
“Yep! Brother!”
Sirutteok’s fierce appearance could easily filter out those who try to take advantage of Wang Guho.
The man turned his head and greeted the leaders of Team 7.
“Everyone. While I’m away, please take good care of the kids who are lacking.”
Cheon Il-nam, Cheon In-nam, and Cheon Seol-ah nodded at the same time.
“I will do my best.”
“Please bring us a gift when you come.”
“Don’t get hurt.”
Finally, Daein looked back at Baek Yeong-hee next to him.
Baek Young-hee was looking at Dae-in with eyes that were filled with anticipation.
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“Younghee.”
“···Yes, team leader.”
She closed her eyes shyly as she approached the man.
The man spoke with a look of absurdity on his face.
“Why are your eyes suddenly closed?”
Baek Young-hee opened her eyes slightly and spoke. Her face was filled with mischief.
“···Weren’t you going to kiss me goodbye? Now is the perfect time.”
Baek Young-hee stuck out her lips and closed the distance more aggressively today.
“Okay. Okay~”
Kook.
The man pushed Baek Yeong-hee’s lips away with his palm and said.
“You film the movie alone. Take care of the things I ask you to do.”
Baek Young-hee grumbled, poking out her lips.
“You always take advantage of me. But you have to buy me the most expensive gift.”
“I don’t know how many gifts I have to buy.”
The man sighed softly and then looked back at everyone and said.
“Anyway, I’ll be back.”
Lily and Jang Young-shin also nodded on either side of the man.
“I’ll be back!”
“···I’ll be back.”
And the three of them turned and went on vacation.
Baek Yeong-hee looked at their increasingly smaller figures with a pensive face.
Baek Chang-soo stood next to his daughter and asked.
“My daughter. Why is your expression like that?”
“···I feel uneasy for no reason.”
Even the mischievous pranks he played before leaving were strangely intended to shake off his anxious feelings.
“As if I’ll never see you again…. Am I worrying for nothing?”
The father said, wrapping his arm around his anxious daughter’s shoulder.
“There’s nothing to worry about, Team Leader Lim. He’s a much stronger man than you think.”
Baek Chang-soo said, touching his own neck with the hand that was not wrapping his daughter’s shoulder.
“especially···.”
Thinking back to the last sparring session that took place this morning, Baek Chang-soo felt a chill down his neck.
“···That last black one was really dangerous.”
The three-day training session also gave Baek Chang-su great inspiration.
It felt like I had found a clue that could break down a wall that had been blocking me for a long time.
“Thanks to you, I think this dad can become stronger too.”
Baek Young-hee asked with a surprised face.
“really?”
Baek Chang-soo nodded with a smirk. His whole body was already trembling.
“When Team Leader Lim comes back from vacation, then I’ll really have to give it my all. Until then, this dad is also getting special training!”
If a person had heard it, it would have been something he would have seriously considered returning to Earth.
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The group crossed the restricted area and arrived at the place where they had previously pitched their tent.
The tent was completely torn apart and only traces remained.
Instead, an iron golem that had been moved in advance stood there, boasting its massive appearance.
“You did quite a bit of remodeling?”
Jang Young-shin nodded with a satisfied expression in response to the elder’s question.
“···I got everything you said, everything you needed.”
The iron golem, which was 1.5 times larger than before, had a huge metal box on its back the size of its own torso.
At first glance, it looked like a giant ninja turtle with a huge shell on its back.
“···This thing can also transform.”
When Jang Young-shin took out the remote control from her pocket and pressed the button,
The golem and the metal box on its back changed shape together.
Clank clank clank.
Drrrrrrrr!
A moment later, in its place stood a steel carriage and a huge iron horse pulling the carriage.
Lily screamed, her eyes wide open.
“What happened!”
Jang Young-shin scratched her head, shyly avoiding the girl’s gaze.
“···It’s nothing special. The golem transformation was there originally, I just changed it a little···.”
The man looked at the genius boy with a dumbfounded expression.
“···You’re just as much of a fraud as that brat.”
I asked for a lot of things to make my trip more comfortable, but I never thought it would go this far.
Jang Young-shin, whose face turned red from the compliment, said.
“···Shall I show you other transformations?”
The man shook his head.
“We’ll see later. For now, a carriage will suffice.”
The man who stepped forward focused his consciousness and read the flow of mana around him.
About a year later, an interdimensional fixed gate will be connected here.
The exact location where the gate connecting the continent of Gaia and Earth opens is…
“···Here it is.”
The great man found a place where the flow of mana was artificially distorted and drew a formation there.
After completing the formation, he stood in the center and took out the soul stone.
The Great Man smacked his lips as he looked at the soul stone that still had half of its mana left.
“It’s too expensive for travel expenses, but···.”
As I applied strength to the hand holding the soul stone, cracks began to appear on the soul stone.
Jeez-!
“I have to get that much out of it.”
The man who broke the soul stone quickly escaped from the formation.
The massive amount of mana that burst out after losing the bowl spread out in all directions.
-Poohwaaaaaaaah!
The law of mana is that when a vessel is lost, it disperses into nature.
But at that moment, the formation set up by the Great Man bound the mana within a certain space to prevent it from dispersing.
The backlash caused mana to swirl within the narrow space.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!
A tremendous storm of magical power raged within the formation.
The man stepped back with the children and watched the scene.
“The passage is still connected. However, the door is closed, so you can’t enter. The door normally opens after a while, but···.”
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!
A concentrated storm of magical power pounded and pounded on the door without stopping.
The powerful magical power contained in the soul stone forcibly twisted the closed doorknob.
at last,
Sizzle-.
The man laughed as he watched the cracks opening in the air.
“If you keep knocking, the door will open for a little while.”
Jeeeeeeek-!
The crack opened wide and soon turned into a black hole.
Crackle, crackle!
The gate, which had been forced open, swayed imperfectly.
It kept changing its shape little by little, creating an ominous feeling.
“eww···.”
Lily shivered.
As if memories she had wanted to forget had come flooding back, the girl crouched down and looked beyond the gate with frightened eyes.
“no···.”
The moment Lily was about to collapse on the floor, the man hugged her waist and put her against his side.
And he spoke in his usual voice.
“let’s go.”
The voice was so reassuring that Lily sighed in relief without realizing it.
“···huh.”
The three of them rode in a carriage and passed through the gate.
As soon as they crossed the gate, what they saw was a village on fire.
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“Search through everything and find it!”
At the shouts of the bandit leader, a group of over a hundred bandits turned the village into a wasteland.
The thieves were merciless. They ransacked the house, dragging out people who were hiding inside and destroying all the household goods.
“Hey, save me!”
“Don’t hurt the child!”
The bandits stabbed the villagers without mercy if they did not listen, and set them on fire if they did not like it.
Whoosh whoosh!
Fires were burning all over the town, and the smell of blood was everywhere.
There was a vigilante group protecting the village, but they were all torn to pieces by a single battle ogre tamed by bandits.
Ugh, ugh.
In the middle of the town square, a battle ogre was enjoying a feast.
The bandit leader grabbed the village chief by the hair and asked him.
“Tell me honestly. Where did you hide it?”
The old village chief, whose face was covered in blood, perhaps from having already suffered greatly, glared at the bandit leader with eyes filled with hatred.
“Didn’t you say you didn’t know?”
At that moment, a cruel smile appeared on the bandit leader’s lips.
“If you keep acting like that, it’ll be difficult.”
As the bandit leader nodded to his men, one of the hostages they were holding was thrown to the battle ogre.
He was a relative of the village chief.
Krrrrrr···.
“Save me, save me! Kkaaaak!”
A battle ogre who discovered a new toy tears the village chief’s relative apart.
Choaaaak!
“These guys deserve to be punished-!!”
The village chief, tied to a wooden stake, screamed and flailed his body.
The bandit leader said with a smirk.
“Next is your child, and then your grandchild. If you want to save them, you have to know something.”
Hawkin watched from hiding as the horrific scene unfolded in the village.
Hawkin muttered in a desperate voice.
“Is it all over···.”
I thought I had barely managed to hide my body, but this is what happened in the end.
“It ended up like this anyway···.”
Hawkin decided to step forward. He couldn’t let his benefactor, the village chief, die like that.
‘Let’s lure them out of town.’
The moment Hawkin made up his mind and appeared before the thieves, a gate opened in the air.
“You guys! I am the one···!”
Woof woof woof!
An ominous black gate opened in the sky, and a giant chariot fell out from within.
Ku-ung!
It was a fairly large and heavy carriage. The moment it hit the ground, the ground around it shook.
Moreover, an iron horse three times larger than a normal horse was tied to the carriage.
Everyone looked at the extraordinary carriage and iron horse with wide eyes.
The bandit leader shouted at his men.
“What are you guys doing! Investigate this immediately!”
At that moment, the carriage door opened and a black-haired young man revealed his face.
The old man looked around the village and frowned.
“The timing is just so bad.”
It was then that Hawkin, who had run to the carriage with all his might, knelt down in front of the carriage and prostrated himself.
“Please help me!”
The man answered with a cold expression.
“Why me?”
“I will be grateful!”
“···how much?”
I thought I’d just come in and take a look.
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