35. Princess Run (10)
bang!
“Curious!”
Minjun flies while holding the screaming princess in his arms. He tears through the ceiling of the car and soars into the sky. A shadow monster appears and is half-fused with his body.
The view changed in an instant. I looked down through the open space. I looked down through the seething shadows.
“!”
The ceremonial vehicle they were riding in was mercilessly penetrated by projectile-like wasps. In just a second or so, thousands of holes were made, and more were being made.
The sight of metal and glass being torn and shattered was fleeting.
Boom!
The sound of air bursting. The vehicle exploded, and a heavy resonance reached the area. Minjun confirmed that all life had disappeared from the burning wreckage. The driver and Olga, who had not been saved in time, died instantly.
‘shit!’
I didn’t have time to feel sorry about that fact.
Wheeing!
Countless swarms of insects clumped together and rose up as one mass. They flapped their wings for a moment, then folded them again and curled their bodies into a ball. And.
Phishing!
Papa Pot!
Another merciless barrage of shells. Minjun stretched his shadow thinly to form a sphere and protected his body. The crocodile in his arms froze and couldn’t move.
‘How many are there!’
At first glance, there were tens of thousands of wasps. If you encounter this number without preparation, it is a disaster that can be used for one purpose.
Boom! Boom! Tutu thump!
The sound of shadows striking each other repeatedly struck his ears, and he felt his black magic drain away. It was like being exposed to the enemy’s concentrated fire. Minjun quickly turned the tables in his head.
It is pointless to fight back with force against wasps engaging in a hand-to-hand fight. It is like throwing a punch at a barrage of shotgun pellets.
‘Or, a curse?’
It was not a situation where I could curse each and every one of them. I couldn’t even draw a huge magic circle in the air and cast a wide-area curse.
‘then···.’
Minjun made a quick decision.
Kwajik!
As his teeth became sharp, he chewed and tore off his own tongue. The principle was the same as the spell the Human Rights Solidarity wizard had made a few days ago when he bit off his arm, but an incomparably powerful magical power boiled over him. The severed tongue immediately recovered, but the magical power remained.
The blood and tongue melted inside his mouth and turned into flames. Minjun tilted his shadow to create a gap and then breathed bloody fire through it with all his might.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A firestorm of the same color as the lithium flame reaction covered the swarm of bugs. The difference from ordinary flames was not limited to color. The fire jumped from bug to bug, from bug to bug, like a beast moving with intent.
The princess was shocked as the suffocating heat spread beyond the shadows. She was only able to hold on because Minjun was protecting her, but the situation outside was literally hell. Heat consumed heat, and flames burned flames.
Because of the control order, the city center was empty, but the sky, which should be empty, was covered with a violent river of fire.
‘This is enough to cook the intestines!’
Just because the outer shell is made of strong metal doesn’t mean the flesh and fluids inside are the same. They can withstand the frictional heat generated by the momentary acceleration flight, but if they continue to heat like they are now, it’s a different story. Soon, their internal organs will boil like meat soup in a cast iron pot.
Minjun didn’t have any doubts about it.
“!”
Phishing!
Until you see a swarm of bugs doing intermittent ‘bullet flights’, continuing to attack while setting themselves on fire.
‘What the heck, you guys?!’
Minjun expanded his senses and carefully observed the condition of the wasps.
And, when I looked at each individual creature, I realized later that there were parts of them that I had not noticed before because they were so small.
Even a creature the size of a thumb had nothing that should have been there in such a tiny way.
vitality.
Minjun ground his teeth.
‘These are undead!’
Over time, the skin and flesh of undead mammals will melt away, leaving only the endoskeleton, turning them into walking skeletons.
What about the insects that have become undead?
Naturally, the inside of the animal rots before the exoskeleton. If time passes like this, only the shell remains, unlike mammals. It is natural that the outer shell, made of a hard material that is not easily damaged, will remain intact.
Minjun understood why the insects, whose insides were boiling, kept moving. They weren’t functioning properly in the first place!
With their internal organic matter damaged, the roles of their sensory and motor organs were taken over by the magical power that had built up within them. As a result, their movements in pursuit of themselves were no different from when they were alive.
Boom! Boom! Tutu thump!
Minjun collected all the flames that were not working. The red-hot metal undeads crashed into the shadows, continuously striking with their flesh-smashing strikes. The sound of metal clashing rang out sharply and sparks flew one after another.
He gritted his teeth and looked down. The power-users were looking up without even thinking about doing anything. If they interfered without thinking, they would be turned into minced meat in an instant. The swarm of insects did not attack them. There were many other Shutans, but they were only targeting the princess.
‘I can’t stay here any longer.’
It is a troublesome disaster creature even when alive, and even when undead.
Minjun could handle it somehow by himself, but it’s not a situation where he can catch and eliminate her while protecting the princess.
‘A barrier is needed right now.’
A huge protective shield that allows you to escape from this onslaught and catch your breath. A barrier that activates with a magic circle that takes time to build.
=······!=
Minjun planted a thought wave in Bradley’s mind on the ground. It was time to pay for the meal, since he was due a reward four times the amount promised.
Without waiting for an answer, Minjun gathered all his magical power and created a spell.
Super high-speed flight skills.
Phishing!
There was a burst of air. An agent covered in billowing shadows flew across the sky, hugging a crocodile larger than himself.
After that···.
Woohoo!
A swarm of wasps, like a black sand tidal wave, chased them. They couldn’t keep flying like bullets. They had to fold their wings, do a slam, and then spread them out for a while to fly normally, and their pure speed was just a little bit slower than Minjun’s movement speed.
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A chase between tens of thousands of people unfolding above the skies of Seoul.
Drumroll!
Every time he struck the shadow like steel sand, vibrations were transmitted. The black magic distorted and shook every part of his body. The princess also made a strange sound every time and dug into his arms.
Of course, this was a completely unhelpful reaction in this situation.
‘It would have been easier if I had been alone!’
This is the ridiculous situation he ended up in while trying to protect the crocodile. He felt the weight of the blank check he had carefully placed increase exponentially. After returning to Earth, Jenkinson would be better off consulting with the otherworldly bank for a loan.
Thud! Thud!
A dash, a collision, a fight to the death and a run ensues.
At the end of that thrilling chase.
‘I can see it!’
The safest place in downtown Seoul.
Minjun judged that there was a building there with a defense system more thorough than that of the Goryong Lair.
That’s right, it’s a two-story commercial building that he owns.
After securing a distance within which the thought wave could reach, he quickly sent a telepathic message.
‘Boss! Don’t move inside the store with Dong-cheol!’
Minjun squeezed his strength and dove down sharply.
fault!
Finally, I stepped onto the roof of a building that was more than just familiar, it was welcoming.
thud!
He shook his hand roughly and the princess rolled around on the concrete floor.
“Kutttttttt!”
Minjun put his hand on the rooftop floor, ignoring the noise made by the princess who had been thrown away.
Then, activate the trigger that can draw out the most powerful type of barrier placed in this store.
It was Minjun’s own magic.
Wheeing!
A swarm of insects was swarming over the clear sky, which should originally have been clear and had no colors other than blue and white, and was covered with thick clouds like dark clouds.
The outline shakes and collapses without stopping. It pours down, concentrating on one point like a monster opening its mouth. Towards the rooftop where Minjun is standing.
But it was a close call.
Hwaah!
A flash of light, even more dazzling and intense than the ‘Barrier of the Accusers’ that had driven out Edelines, covered the area around the building.
The barrier that Minjun had directly touched and injected magic power into by putting his heart and soul into the magic circle that he had created over a long period of time was bound to be different.
A thick golden barrier surrounds the shopping mall.
Thud! Thud thud!
Tututututu!
There was a sound of metal clashing against the walls of the bunker, like a barrage of missiles. It was like the desperate banging of a madman on a closed door.
The sound didn’t stop for a long time after that.
***
“Ttaaaat …
An old elf in a wheelchair mutters as he looks at a screaming crocodile.
“Hey, this lady… Are your vocal cords damaged from screaming so much? You’ve been making an unusual noise since a while ago.”
Minjun, who was working on the core of the barrier in the office on the second floor, answered calmly.
“That’s the original voice.”
After barely escaping with her life and coming down to the second floor, the princess began to react hysterically and scream in an indecipherable language.
Considering that they were suddenly attacked, people were killed, and they were chased here, it was understandable, but I couldn’t help but feel my ears hurt when I heard it.
“Ugh… Ugh…! It’s okay… It’s okay… It’s okay…!”
Dong-cheol, who came up with the elf, continued to mutter with a pale face.
The princess’s appearance reminded me of some other race with scales, but since she had no natural ‘peer’, it seemed much more bearable than before.
“By the way, I’m sorry for bringing those annoying things here.”
I had expected Lakefield and Dongcheol to be in the store, but I didn’t have time to tell them to evacuate in advance. I thought it would be more dangerous to have them run away after they got close enough, so I sent a thought wave telling them to just stay inside. In this situation, it was safest to stay next to Minjun.
Lakefield said, as if telling me not to worry about it.
“Don’t worry about it. You probably did it because you foolishly thought you could do it all yourself.”
That was actually the case.
“I just spoke to immigration. That swarm of bugs will be taken care of soon.”
The sorcerer who turned tens of thousands of wasps into undead seemed to lack the ability to control them all. So he resorted to a trick of injecting chemicals into the princess’s body. Even if she were released, she would move according to her purpose, relying on the same instincts as when she was alive.
As evidence, the swarm of bugs still did not give up and wasted energy by crashing into the barrier.
“Will other people in the immigration office be capable enough?”
Lakefield, who knows that Minjun is the best agent, tilts his head. He wonders if something will change with the arrival of reinforcements.
Then he answered.
“Those things are undead.”
“······Ah! I see. I understand.”
That meant that someone with the ability to exploit the undead’s weaknesses was coming. Someone in an industry that Minjun could never enter.
“by the way.”
I asked, looking at the princess who had become a noisemaker. With both thought waves and voice.
“=Do you understand what I’m saying? Now calm down a little.=”
But the princess’s excitement did not subside. She continued to scream with bloodshot eyes.
“What is this, since words only go in one direction···.”
He clicked his tongue. Olga, the interpreter, was dead, and Minjun didn’t understand the Shutan language. It was highly likely that he didn’t even understand it before he was taken into custody by the committee. They say that once you learn a language, it doesn’t disappear even after the memory is erased.
Every time the princess screamed, the sound of the iron structure collapsing echoed loudly. It resonated so much that the windows shook. Meanwhile, Minjun’s nerves were getting more and more tense.
“=Calm down and listen carefully to what I have to say. There must be a word we both know in common. Would you please write it down for me? Have you ‘come into contact’ with anyone else today?=”
He tried to figure out where the boiling chemicals inside the princess’s body came from.
‘Everything the princess ate and drank was strictly controlled. Not that one.’
Also, at the scene where the wasp attacked, he confirmed that the insect swarm did not attack other Shutanians. It means that they did not inhale the substance dispersed in the air. If they did, then everyone who moved together would have been poisoned, and what reacts to the substance in the Shutan should react the same way to the attendants.
In the end, it is highly likely that only the princess touched something.
Lakefield, who had been watching the scene carefully, clapped his hands.
“Oh, right! You too… Why are you going through all this trouble right now?”
“yes?”
“Dongcheol. Go to the warehouse over there and get that.”
The goblin quickly went to the storage room next door and brought back what the elf had mentioned. It was a familiar reaction, like his own home. Minjun sighed faintly when he saw the Ego frying pan in Dongcheol’s hand. Then he spoke to Lakefield.
“It’s not that I haven’t thought about that.”
The elf asked back, seemingly surprised.
“really?”
“This alien is noisy, isn’t it? But knocking it out by hitting the back of the head with a frying pan isn’t a fundamental solution. There’s still one thing left to check…”
“What are you talking about? Have you already forgotten the AI inside you always promotes itself and makes a fuss?”
In fact, he never touched it after he left it there. On the other hand, Lakefield had borrowed it several times, saying he missed his hometown cuisine. Minjun never lent it to Cathy, but he often lent it to others.
“This frying pan makes a strange noise when you place it on the fire, but it’s actually a luxury item with some pretty high-end features.”
“I know that too, but···.”
“Hey, did you forget that this product has a psychostimulating function?”
“?!”
Now that I think about it, I remembered something.
That’s what that pervert said to him.
=······Also, you can understand and interpret any language through non-contact mental communication, so don’t worry about communication! Ahhh!=
