13. Three ways to kill your boss (10)
A moment of silence.
It was so absurd that I was slow to respond.
‘What did that guy just say?’
I turned my head to see if he was shouting at someone other than me, but there was no one there except for those watching from afar.
Minjun gritted his teeth as he glared at her.
“That chick, whose scales still smell like egg white… has really gone crazy?”
Bam.
At this point, the embarrassment quickly turned to anger.
“What?! How dare you···”
“Hey, you don’t even know who I am?”
Edelines still regarded Minjun as Jenkinson’s subordinate. In fact, it was inconceivable to her that their relationship was anything close to a symbiotic one.
Minjun says, twisting his lips.
“But what can I do? I know you well.”
“!”
The dragon vomited out his old voice.
But Minjun didn’t listen and continued speaking right away.
“Edelines. 64 years old. Moved to Earth six years ago after obtaining conditional citizenship. The reason she was unable to obtain permanent citizenship was due to her family origins.”
The dragon’s eyes were bloodshot.
The human before his eyes was talking about his own shortcomings. It was just as he said. Edelines caused trouble in the world he lived in and fled to Earth.
The fact that the committee was able to obtain approval, even conditionally, was due to the fact that the victim had dropped the case to avoid having to deal with the law, leaving her with no criminal record, and crucially, the active lobbying of Edelines’ parents.
“But you don’t know me. Do you know why?”
He asks sarcastically.
“When was the last time you went to the Dragon Clan Meeting?”
“?!”
Words you would never have imagined coming out of a human mouth.
“Since the topic of Elder Dragons is scary, you should avoid them on your own, so how can you get information?”
She doesn’t know the secret that anyone who is properly acting like a dragon would know.
“This little shit!”
Anyway, Edelines didn’t care what the other person’s identity was. Humans were humans. A weak and lowly race. So she decided not to endure it any longer. The moment she gathered her magic power.
“Are you going back to the main office here? Are you going to debut as the first topic on the 9 o’clock news today? You have no plan, no thoughts… Don’t say anything and just follow me.”
Minjun said as he floated into the air with magic.
“Wouldn’t it be better for you to go somewhere where no one can see you? If a dragon fights with its main body in a residential area and destroys buildings, trampling people to death, the Elders will really like it.”
“······!”
It was a statement that hit the nail on the head. The aftermath of the transformation that would immediately follow after the eyes rolled back was something that Edelines could not handle.
It was unpleasant to be caught up in the other person’s intentions, but there was nothing I could do. Yong-yong spoke, barely able to hear the last shred of reason he had left.
“You… whoever you are, whatever you are, you’re going to regret this terribly!”
“Stop saying the obvious and follow me. Do you know how to do levitation magic?”
The dragon lifted his body, imagining the words of the insolent human a few minutes later, begging him to ‘kill me instead’.
Rather, I decided to think that it was a good thing since he was laying the groundwork for his own death.
***
After a short flight.
The place where Minjun lured Edelines was in the mountains outside the city. It was an open area where hikers could not enter even by mistake because the road was cut off.
As soon as he set foot on the platform, Minjun said.
“Really, are you an idiot?”
“?!”
“I told you to follow me, and you really did?”
Edelines couldn’t hold back her anger any longer.
Kwaaaaah!
Light flashes across his body and he instantly transforms into a dragon.
Looking at that sight, Minjun thought.
‘How long has it been since you’ve been a dragon hunter?’
The dragon takes orbit.
A relentless rush of honesty followed.
‘About 3 meters tall… He’s definitely young. His floating magic is also incredibly clumsy. He’s a kid who’s lived off his body without ever properly studying spells.’
It is common for young dragons to slack off on their training, saying that they have thousands of years to live and there is no need to rush.
Of course, they also had a corner of their faith, the innate weapon of a race that was already like a walking magic fortress the moment they hatched. A resistance barrier that spreads naturally across the body as if they were breathing.
Until you dismantle it, you can’t use Minjun’s specialty, abnormal status curses. You can only deal with it with physical attacks.
Boom!
There was a loud noise.
The cliff Minjun was leaning against shattered into pieces. He bounced back and grabbed a stone knife in his hand.
“Kurrrrrr!”
The left hand was still in a mummified state. Recovery was slow. It was a big order.
‘If I’m not going to be able to use my hands for a while anyway…’
The decision was quick.
Shhh!
A look of bewilderment appeared in the eyes of the dragon that was flying towards me.
“?!”
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Following the black line he swung, Minjun’s entire area below his elbow was cut off.
“I knew he was crazy… but he’s completely lost!”
The greater the sacrifice, the greater the effect of the spell. Minjun had no intention of prolonging this fight.
An arm that disappears into thin air, turning into mist.
Hwaah!
A black shadow formed over the sorcerer’s body. It took the form of the same monster that had been seen in the bank robbery. However, its scale was different.
Grrrrr!
A tremendous sense of awe. The dragon was bewildered at the sight of a monster even bigger than himself.
‘Suicide attack?!’
The sorcerer cannot escape death by summoning such a thing with the black magic of self-sacrifice.
‘Is this the last struggle!’
Meanwhile, the shadow’s next appearance was different from before.
The form he had created was crushed. The monster became disorganized and tangled, turning into a black cloud. Then, it was absorbed into Minjun’s nostrils, mouth, and pores.
A tense aura spread from Minjun, who had completely absorbed the shadow into his body. He had absorbed 100% of the monster’s power.
‘If you want to fight a dragon, this is the best.’
Darkness flowed from the stump of his severed left arm, creating a replacement hand.
Phagec!
A bolt of electricity shot out from the dragon’s horn. Minjun twisted his body, reading the obvious flow of magic. He kicked the ground, avoiding the lightning bolt shot by the dragon. The distance between them narrowed in an instant.
“no?!”
Minjun was pierced like a single arrow at a speed that surpassed human limits.
Then, with his left hand, made of shadow, he struck the dragon’s snout with all his might.
Unstoppable uppercut!
puck!
“Kuaaaaaaah!”
A scream that pierced the eardrums. The dragon’s massive body was thrown into the sky. An unintended upward flight.
The stubborn dragon’s body barely managed to keep its balance in the air as it chased the enemy.
“!”
At the end of that gaze, a human is flying and following him.
The dragon was greatly shocked.
‘How… how can a human move like this? How can a human have this kind of power?’
There was no time to think any further.
My mind that had been looking down on others was already shattered. I didn’t even have the presence of mind to properly understand the situation.
So, the dragon instinctively displayed its abilities. A long-range attack that was possible even without memorizing magic. A weapon that anyone born as a dragon could use.
Suuuup!
The surrounding air was rapidly sucked in around Edelines.
A flame at the corner of the mouth.
Minjun’s face turned pale when he saw that scene.
‘Breath!’
He expended a whole bunch of his black magic power and increased his speed as if he was detonating a booster. The wind tore through his ears. The dragon’s face, embracing fire, grew larger in an instant.
As he closed the distance, Minjun shouted in horror.
“This kid is trying to start a forest fire!”
puck!
A kick that hits the snout directly.
“Koooosh!”
A dragon weighing tens of tons falls. It must have been powerful enough to do so.
Minjun recites a spell, aiming at a single point beyond the path that spins like a top and falls.
Then the dragon was suspended in the air like a bug caught in a spider’s web.
“?!”
A powerful gravitational field formed on both sides of her body.
It was waiting between flight orbits and snatching Edelines.
And the attack follows.
“Kuaaaah!”
The dragon just couldn’t come to his senses.
A vortex of gravity centered around Edelines, one on each side, pulled her in opposite directions. A forked form of an invisible hand.
Boom! Boom!
The wings and four legs spread wide. The skin was torn and the scales were pulled out one by one. The long neck was repeatedly bent to the left and then to the right.
And then, there was Minjun flying towards it.
“Ah… no!”
Minjun clasped his fingers together with his dark, rippling left hand and his right hand, which was no different from a normal human’s. He lifted them up with all his might and took a stance.
Dispelling the gravity field, I strike the back of the dragon’s head!
Snap!
“Cough!”
I heard the sound of teeth flying and hard things cracking.
The dragon falls with a single scream.
Boom!
A large crater formed in the mountain as if a meteor had fallen.
Minjun analyzes the trembling dragon with his eyes.
‘Did it work?’
The part he had just struck was the posterior pons, one of the six brains inside the dragon’s skull. The area of the brain responsible for magical power output, reflection, and balance.
There was a reason why they targeted that place.
‘It worked!’
Edelines, who was greatly shocked by the place, temporarily suffered from concussion, and the innate resistance barrier covering her body shook and distorted.
Minjun didn’t miss that opportunity.
After landing on the ground, he aimed at the writhing dragon. Then he threw the ceremonial stone knife he was holding!
Shhh!
A sharp sound cutting through the wind.
The dagger was stuck in the dragon’s wing.
It seemed like a trivial attack compared to its size. It was like being cut by a small cutter blade. So the reaction had to be limited to that level.
But Edelines couldn’t do that.
“——-!”
A terrible scream that cannot be put into words. A scream that feels like the soul is being ripped out.
Minjun laughed.
‘That worked out well too!’
It is unknown how many human sacrifices were made with that dagger before it came to him. The resentment of the sacrifices whose ribs were torn off and whose hearts were ripped out while they were conscious was deeply accumulated on the blade, and after passing through Minjun’s hands, it was completed into a rather vicious curse.
It was a curse that inflicted unbearable pain on the one who was stabbed.
“Kyaaaaah!”
Why black magic is illegal in many countries, and why the list of known black magicians is a perfect subset of Interpol’s Most Wanted Fugitives.
The source of black magic is the pain and life force of the living, and it is not a power that can be easily recharged like Minjun. Most sorcerers kidnap their victims, torture them for days and nights, and then kill them to squeeze out their magic power.
On the other hand, Minjun was recharging his black magic through self-sacrificial methods. He was absorbing his own life force and causing himself pain.
In other words, he had to experience similar pain every time he cut himself with a dagger until now.
“Ugh, ugh, kuaaaak!”
Edelines screamed, twisted, and writhed. Her movements were like the iron wheels of a road roller compacting a pavement. Dozens of trees were crushed and crushed in the path of the dragon. After a few seconds of this, Minjun felt that the tone of her scream had changed slightly.
The dragon’s vocal cords, which are said to be tougher than steel, have just been torn.
“Ahhhhh! Stop! Stop it!”
The dragon roared with a hoarse and broken voice. The ritual dagger that had dug through the crack in the barrier had successfully cast a curse.
Minjun approached with calm steps. Blood remained like crooked lines on the marks the dragon had made by scratching and digging the ground.
I have to finish it off neatly before the curse’s effects wear off. A diagram of the dragon’s anatomy unfolded in my head. Points in the nervous system that would paralyze the lower body if damaged.
Phew!
Long, shadow-shaped fingers pressed against the glossy scales.
“Ugh!”
Like a drill, it digs into the skin, puncturing it. The outer skin becomes squashed like mud.
The fingers that had been sinking through the muscles and fat stopped at one point.
The dragon’s body jerked and convulsed at that moment.
Swish!
Minjun pulled out his nerve strands and bloody fingers and shook them into the air. The dragon could no longer roll. And just then, the dagger’s curse had worn off. Minjun took the knife back with a calm gesture.
The two made eye contact.
“······!”
The human gaze looks downward, while the dragon’s gaze looks upward.
Beyond the slanted intersection, the dragon’s mouth opened.
I create sentences that I have never uttered in my life.
“Save me, save me…!”
Swish!
The dragon, whose legs were paralyzed, desperately moved its arms to pull itself away. It was in the opposite direction to Minjun. The dragon trembled, cried, and crawled. Overwhelming fear. Trying to get away from him somehow.
“Don’t come… Go away!”
But Minjun had no intention of ending it like this.
Swish!
The shadow hand that replaced the severed left hand took shape. It grew large enough to hold the dragon’s tail in one hand. As it approached, Edelines desperately pushed the ground. Of course, it was no use.
Minjun said in a flat tone, holding her tail tightly.
“It’s not a crime to be stupid.”
He pulls his hand hard. A short, sharp snap, like retrieving a whip.
The dragon’s body is lifted into the air. It is stretched out stiffly, pulled by centrifugal force.
Minjun grabbed his tail and twisted his shoulders. He put strength into his feet, became the center of gravity of the fan he was drawing, and slammed the dragon into the ground!
bang!
The body, free of the barrier, crashed into the ground defenselessly. The ground split open and the ground beneath my feet shook heavily.
The dragon couldn’t even scream anymore.
“It’s not a crime to be disabled.”
He mutters softly, this time turning his shoulder in the opposite direction.
Dungsil, the dragon’s body rose into the air again, like a balloon that was fixed in place with thread.
Draw a fan shape in the opposite direction and strike the ground again!
bang!
“But… if you’re stupid and retarded.”
Whew!
To the sky once again.
The dragon’s body curved like a bow in the air. The gazes of the human holding the tail and the dragon turned upside down intersected. The dragon was saying something with its eyes. Minjun decided not to understand it.
“You should have at least noticed instead of being a jerk, you damn bitch!”
Boom!
At the last point I landed, the rock on the floor cracked with a crunching sound.
The dragon was already covered in blood.
The scales were broken and dug into the skin, and several bones were broken, causing the body to twist into strange shapes. The breathing became rapid and the chest heaved irregularly. The breathing sound was mixed with a murky bubbling sound.
Minjun had no intention of stopping here.
Wham!
Hold a ceremonial stone knife in your hand.
“How dare you touch my territory?”
He didn’t think he’d let it slide just because he didn’t know about Minjun. He was going to use Edelines as a model. Since the Council made contact with humanity, the dragon population on Earth has been increasing. He couldn’t guarantee that something similar wouldn’t happen again.
So he planned to engrave an indelible warning into the brains of all dragons living on Earth.
Minjun grabbed Edelines’ wings and spread them. Then, the moment he placed the ceremonial dagger at the bottom.
=Don’t go any further from there.=
A mental wave echoed through his head.
