Chapter 74

Ubermensch couldn’t see through Kang Tae-min’s stomach. Because of this, everyone who aimed at him was a wizard.

Since magic cannot be spiritualized, even Edwin’s ability could not stop it.

“What is this… .”

“What about Edwin?”

That’s why I thought it would be easy to solve, but isn’t there some iron man standing there.

“Kill!”

“Attack again!”

Wizards urgently manifested their magic. Kang Tae-min lightly spread his hands and erected iron walls in all directions.

The magic and iron walls collided and made a roar, but that was all. The iron wall was firmly in place.

“Support… !”

Magic alone is hard. With that thought, they grabbed the walkie-talkie. That action hastened death.

“Knock… !”

“Ouch… !”

It didn’t matter whether it was held in the hand, worn around the waist, or tucked into a vest pocket.

Taemin Kang was able to sense the radio and transformed it into an ability. Metal fragments exploded like grenades and pierced their bodies.

‘It must be difficult to pinpoint the location with only GPS.’

Kang Tae-min thought as he walked among the bleeding and dying members. The size of the underground bunker identified by the detection ability was quite large.

However, the GPS signal does not tell the route to the underground bunker. From now on, it was time to sell our own products.

And he had many feet.

“Let’s be careful not to overlap paths.”

“It would be nice if clones could use their abilities too.”

“Will it be enough for 20 people?”

Clones who cloned consciousness decided which side to search for each other. Kang Tae-min completed the creation and tore off the entrance to the bunker with his ability.

With him, the clones rushed in quickly.

‘I don’t leave a single person behind.’

Kang Tae-min entered last. It was because Scaler was expected to be in the depths.

“It’s an assault!”

“What are these?!”

There was a commotion from the first basement floor. The members of the Ubermensch confronted the invading clones.

However, most of the regular members were Auror users. It was because most of the Awakeners, who had no special abilities and were not recognized in society, sympathized with the ideas of the Overmansch.

Only Awakeners with special abilities like Edwin could become executives.

“Ahh… !”

“My arm, my arm… !”

Clones that replicated consciousness and Kang Tae-min’s combat experience quickly eliminated ordinary members.

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Literally crushing.

Kang Tae-min and the clones ran down the aisle and headed underground.

“for a moment.”

“The corpse is strange.”

It was on the 3rd basement floor that I sensed the abnormality. The speed was slightly slowed by the resistance of the members who responded in advance to see if the news of the raid was known.

However, the result was not different, and the moment I tried to move forward again.

“… Seed?”

Some of the dead corpses trembled as if in a fit, and black blood vessels bulged on the skin, and then black crystals sprouted like scales.

It was similar to the case of Jeon Seung-hwan, who was tricked by Puppeteer. However, the speed was incomparable to the previous one.

“Gag-”

“Gag play-”

After the transformation, the monsters made a strange grinding sound. They immediately pounced on the clones near them.

‘fast.’

Rapidly improved physical abilities and a black aura rising from the whole body. The monsters destroyed the clones too easily.

However, Kang Tae-min was not taken aback. It was because the clones didn’t deliberately avoid it even though they could have avoided it.

‘Is this level?’

Kang Tae-min accepted the memories by absorbing the remains of the fragmented clones. As a result, he was able to obtain information about the strength and destructive power the monsters showed.

‘It’s not dangerous.’

Compared to before the mutation, it was a remarkable growth, but it was not a threat at all. It was because the superiority was obvious whether it was 1 or 10 when compared on the basis of 100.

“She-”

Furthermore, the monsters seemed to have lost their sense. It was just a gesture to blindly exclude a different species.

Kang Tae-min cut the attacking monster with a rip-and-tear. Even the black scales, which looked as hard as armor, were powerless in front of the serrated sword loaded with an aura.

‘I’m a bit concerned about the black aura.’

Kang Tae-min examined the serrated sword with the blood and flesh of the monster. The dark aura blended with his aura and dyed the color.

It didn’t take long, but I could feel the flow of mana being suppressed.

‘It’s a bit different from Guardian’s ability.’

It was distinctly different from Pyo Soo-ho’s white aura. ‘Neutralizers’ offset each other and disappear, but it felt like they were sticking together like pollutants.

‘Anyway, it’s probably getting closer to Scaler.’

Even among the regular members, only a few have mutated. The number of seeds that Scaler secured was limited, and it was probably distributed only to excellent members.

Kang Tae-min headed underground again. As if that prediction was not wrong, people with quite different momentum appeared.

They were executives like Edwin. They blocked Kang Tae-min’s front with ferocious momentum.

“I can’t go to the leader… .”

“I don’t kill lightly… .”

But they were different with Edwin. Kang Tae-min had no reason to keep them alive, and responded with all his might.

Metal blades flew from all sides before the executives could even express their abilities, even before their first words were finished.

It was thanks to the many spaces made of metal inside the bunker.

‘Also.’

Not stopping there, Taemin Kang quickly cut their bodies into pieces. Sure enough, they also started to mutate.

‘It takes time to fuse.’

The bodies that turned into black crystals moved as if they were attracted to each other. However, Taemin Kang had no intention of watching it.

The iron pillar that fell with a crackling sound turned the crystals into powder.

After tidying up, I felt someone move hurriedly from inside. It was a passage undetectable from the ground.

‘Is it a scaler… !’

It was clear that he was trying to escape through a secret passageway. However, because Kang Tae-min dealt with the executives in an instant, it probably didn’t last long.

Kang Tae-min immediately tried to chase him. But suddenly there was a violent shaking as if an earthquake had occurred.

‘Cunning… !’

Scaler has manifested his ability.

His ability was ‘Flexible Scale’, the power to control the gravity applied to the target.

‘Am I going to completely destroy the bunker?’

That prediction was correct.

A series of dull roars were heard, and a huge crack opened in the ceiling.

* * *

Meanwhile, Miss Backdoor’s pawn shop.

“Are you really okay?”

Mr. Rock asked her cautiously. Miss Backdoor removed the cat’s eyes and averted her eyes.

“what?”

“That customer. Will I be able to face the scaler alone… .”

The cheese-colored tabby cat looked back at him with a sullen look. He yawned profusely and rubbed his face against Miss Backdoor’s leg.

“Why are you worried? He usually complained about being rude.”

“Keuheum, aren’t you an excellent customer? More than 80% of our recent income goes to that customer.”

Mr. Rock said with a clearing of his throat, then added a word.

“Furthermore, considering the value of the information it delivers, the income from that is nothing.”

Miss Backdoor only shot mischievous eyes instead of answering.

“Customer management is an important law from the operating point of view.”

“I know, but it already happened, right? It’s a waste of time to worry about things you can’t change.”

She kneaded the cat’s cheeks and stood up. The playful expression had already disappeared.

“Rather than that, it’s better to look at the behavior of specialists and courtiers. Even if it wasn’t large, one branch disappeared.”

The process of Edwin’s capture has already been heard from Kang Tae-min. Unlike Kang Tae-min, Miss Backdoor was keeping an eye on the palace attendant.

As Mr. Rock said, customer care was a service for top customers.

“You know that man’s personality. If you want to lose money, make up for it somehow.”

“Will the royal courtier’s eyes reach the customer?”

“Well… Since the courtiers are chasing Ubermensch, I don’t know where the influence will go. So, you have to be prepared so that it doesn’t splash out on customers.”

“But isn’t that meaningless when a customer dies?”

Miss Backdoor snorted.

“You’re talking on the premise that you won’t die. And that person will not die easily.”

“that’s… .”

“Think about the cost of trying to determine who you are. A person with such great influence cannot die easily.”

When she said that, she shrugged her shoulders.

“Perhaps, it’s a fate that doesn’t die easily, so maybe it has that much influence.”

Either way, the conclusion that Kang Tae-min will die has not been drawn.

* * *

“Hoo-wook, whoo-wook… .”

Scaler let out a rough breath. I was in a hurry, so I overused my abilities.

‘I almost got buried.’

The rate of decay was faster than expected. Still, just in case, I collapsed the secret passage and escaped.

“under… .”

He turned his head with a confused expression. From the entrance, I could see a bunker that had collapsed. Beneath this, his companions were asleep.

‘All for me… .’

Tears ran down Scaler’s cheeks. And the tears touched the corner of his mouth that was parted to the side.

He was laughing while crying.

‘They’re all dead. dead… !’

The feeling of guilt toward his colleagues who sacrificed himself for him, but the feeling of relief that he lived and that he was freed from the burden of being a leader crossed paths.

Scaler always pretended to be strong in front of everyone, but the inside was still festering.

‘Now what? Occupy other cities and gather members?’

The option of quitting the leader passed through his mind, but soon he was fed up.

‘I’d rather die… .’

Scaler chewed his nails and shook his head. It was an illusion, not an option.

‘Let’s find the hiding place again.’

I had to report the situation to my sponsor. It was the moment he was about to leave.

My head turned around at the sound of a thud.

“what… .”

I wondered if I had hallucinations, but the sound was not the problem.

“how… ?”

A thud, a thump, was heard over and over again. The collapsed bunker shuddered as if breathing.

Down there, he’s still alive.

“Die, die, die!”

Scaler shouted as if in a fit and manifested his ability. The shivering debris was compressed as if compressed.

Red blood oozes from between the torn fingernails.

“Whoops, whoops, whoops… .”

Scaler glared at the bunker with bloodshot eyes. I was no longer excited.

He turned around, frowning at the pain in his fingernails.

In the meantime, a silvery liquid slowly rose through the cracks in the bunker’s ruins. The liquid flowed along the floor and began to collect little by little.

The speed gradually increased and the liquid gradually began to take shape. As if pouring water into a transparent mold, the suit began to be completed from toe.

‘what?’

Scaler turned his body with a creepy feeling. In his field of vision, he could see the suit that should have been buried under the bunker.

But closer than that was the metal goggles flying in front of him.

Scaler urgently tried to express his ability.

“Keep it off… !”

Goggles were faster.

Iron spikes protruded from the goggles attached to his eyes and pierced his retinas.

Scaler struggled in pain and tried to throw off his goggles. However, the goggles did not come off as if they were one body.

‘With this, the eyesight was removed.’

Taemin Kang glared at the scaler. Nome’s ability could only be used by ‘recognizing’ the target, and Scaler mainly used his eyesight.

But now that I couldn’t see, the only thing that mattered was my sense of touch.

“aaa!”

Scaler groaned.

Then, kicking off the floor, he adjusted his gravity and soared into the sky. The decision is that running away is the first priority.

However, there was no way Kang Tae-min would leave it alone.

“Where are you going?”

He muttered, pulling all the metal Scaler was clad in.

“Keep it off… .”

The body that had risen into the sky suddenly stopped. A wire net formed immediately afterward wrapped around him.

If he continued to rise like this, his body would be torn to pieces. In the end, Scaler had no choice but to land again.

“How long have you been waiting for this moment?”

Kang Tae-min did not hide his anger when he saw Scaler wriggling in the net.

-It’s okay… you’re not wrong…

It was because he thought of Yirua, who had died in his arms before returning. I wanted to tear it apart right now.

But.

“You cannot die without my permission.”

There was something I needed to know about him.

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