novelraw Chapter 110 : Chapter 110
Chapter 110 : Chapter 110
Chapter 110 Preemptive Strike
“Yes, Pyo Seok-jung checked the contents of the box.”
A rooftop of a building quite a distance away from Pyo Seok-jung's residence.
A man was surveilling somewhere with binoculars from there.
The place the man's binoculars were pointing at was the direction of Pyo Seok-jung's residence.
He was reporting Pyo Seok-jung's actions to Cha Hak-jun's side in detail.
For reference, this man wasn't the only surveillance personnel Cha Hak-jun attached.
Because surveillance was being conducted from three different directions to monitor all of Pyo Seok-jung's actions.
In other words, there were currently a total of three watchers.
In this way, Cha Hak-jun was grasping every move of Pyo Seok-jung.
Of course, a more convenient surveillance method existed.
Drones.
In fact, using drones would allow monitoring the target from a higher altitude and with freer angles.
But this method couldn't be used on Pyo Seok-jung.
Because anti-drone air defense facilities were equipped in such a rich neighborhood.
So the watchers were performing surveillance missions with analog equipment like binoculars.
“Good, with this, the box is definitely delivered for now... Hmm?”
WHOOSH!
At that moment, he saw an unidentified black object soaring into the sky through the binoculars.
‘Hmm? What is that?’
It was a scene that passed so instantly that at the moment he was about to think ‘Did I see wrong?’ and turn his attention away.
WHIRL!
Something black and long wrapped exactly around the man's neck.
“Guk...!”
What wrapped around the man's neck was Saya's tail.
Saya tightened the man's neck as if she would almost break it.
And at that moment, Riman's magic was transmitted to Saya's body.
[Discharge]
Pitch-black electric current spewed out from Saya's body.
ZZZRT!
The man died instantly without even making a sound.
Saya lightly shook off the limp man's corpse to the floor.
With this, two remained among the three watchers.
But those two didn't even know one of them had died.
“What is that black thing...?”
“What is that?”
Because their attention was focused on Saya's movement that just flew up into the sky.
One took his eyes off the binoculars for a moment and looked around.
It was to find that unidentified flying object he just saw by widening his field of view.
However—
“Hi.”
What appeared right in front of his eyes was a skinny man soaked in fatigue.
The man who was beyond the binoculars just a moment ago.
“Leman White...?!”
CLICK!
The man pulled out a pistol from the holster on his chest.
That movement had not a second of hesitation, and it was graceful and swift.
Even at a glance, it was an agile movement created through countless trainings.
However, he was slower than Riman.
THWACK!
“Kuaak...!”
Something black and long pierced the man's palm.
The pistol rolled on the floor, broken in half.
“This f...!”
It was hard to believe.
Clearly, the guy who was only caught in the binoculars just a moment ago approached in an instant like this?
‘...A monster.’
A strongman he could absolutely never beat.
Once his judgment reached that point, the man pressed the radio button on his ear with his remaining hand.
And sent the last message to the remaining colleague.
“...Run away.”
SWISH!
Something pitch-black pierced the man's heart.
After completely stopping his life activity like that, Riman retrieved the black whip.
WHIRL!
And called Eoduksini back inside the Black Seed Bell.
“With this, two out of three are cut.”
And the remaining one must have chosen to flee after hearing the radio transmission.
“Did I lose him?”
Muttering ‘Well, it doesn't matter,’ Riman took out his phone.
‘Anyway, with this, Pyo Seok-jung's surveillance personnel are annihilated.’
This meant Cha Hak-jun became unable to grasp Pyo Seok-jung's moves for the time being.
So now was the right time to move.
Riman called Pyo Seok-jung immediately.
“It is now.”
“Understood.”
“Ah, and check if you properly packed what I gave you and the pistol.”
“Everything is in my bosom.”
“Yes. Then get out right now.”
VROOOM!
As soon as the contact with Riman was cut, a car came out of Pyo Seok-jung's house.
It was a car carrying Pyo Seok-jung and his wife.
Like that, Pyo Seok-jung fled to the safe house straight away.
To a place Cha Hak-jun would absolutely never know.
After evacuating Pyo Seok-jung like that.
‘With this, Pyo Seok-jung's safety is secured.’
Pyo Seok-jung was definitely a powerful sponsor and backer, but his individual martial power was terrible.
And from now on, a killing war staining blood with blood would ensue.
In this situation, it was best to separate and hide non-combat personnel like Pyo Seok-jung.
‘Now, then what I have to do is...’
WHOOSH-
Riman jumped down below the building.
* * *
SCREECH!
A motorcycle stopped in front of a shabby building.
“Phew...”
The man who came riding the motorcycle let out a big sigh of relief.
He was the sole survivor among the three watchers, and the sole fugitive.
After hearing the deceased colleague's last message to run away, he retreated quickly and succeeded in escaping.
The man entered the building and climbed up the stairs.
The man soon entered the 3rd-floor corridor.
This was a residential building somewhere between a villa and an officetel.
The man went in front of room 303, pressed the password, and opened the door.
CLICK-
“I’m here.”
Inside room 303, there were a dozen men with menacing impressions.
All of them were carrying firearms on their bodies, and lethal equipment including rifles were hanging on the walls.
All were private soldiers working under Cha Hak-jun.
“What? Why did you come alone? Where did the two who went with you go?”
“Dead. Probably.”
“What?”
“That side noticed our surveillance and launched a counterattack. First, I’ll report the current situation to the Mayor’s side, and after that...”
“Wait.”
“Why?”
“Who is that guy behind you?”
“What?”
WHIRL!
The man turned back.
Riman was standing there.
Riman had not lost this man.
He had let him go on purpose to find out the base.
Seeing Riman's face, the man turned pale and vomited a shout resembling a death throe.
“You, this...!”
This short shout was his last will.
[Incision]
SLICE!!
SPLURT!
Blood splattered long on the white ceiling, and the man fell on the floor like a block of wood.
A crazy scene where a slash burst just by flicking a finger once.
The people in the room intuitively sensed the seriousness of the situation at once.
CLACK!
CLICK!
The muzzles they held pointed at Riman all at once.
Everyone's fingers were placed on triggers.
And gravity pulled all of that down.
[Weight]
THUD!
CRASH!!
“Huk...!”
“What?!”
“Hup...?!”
Enhanced gravity grabbed their collars and pulled them down.
Unable to prepare for the sudden hypergravity, they stuck to the floor in ridiculous postures.
“This son of a...!”
“Shh.”
Riman brought his finger to his mouth.
At the same time, new magic was overlaid in this room.
[Silence]
“...?”
“...!”
“...?!”
All the bursting curses and screams were muted.
Riman said.
“You shouldn't scream recklessly in a building where many people live together.”
“...?!”
“Anyway, you will become a message. A message I send to Cha Hak-jun.”
CLICK.
Riman entered the room and closed the front door.
It didn't take long to finish what happened after that.
DRIP-
A while later, blood flowed out through the gap under the front door.
Now there was only one survivor in this room.
“...Phew.”
Riman lightly let out a sigh.
Then he rummaged through the pockets and bags of the fallen ones and took their belongings.
Phones, notebooks, crumpled memos, etc.
After roughly stuffing them into his coat pocket.
Riman scanned the corpses scattered on the floor once.
No particular sympathy arose.
It was partly because he became severely cold-blooded being possessed in Riman Solaris's body, but that wasn't the only reason.
CLICK-
Riman opened the room door furthest inside.
As soon as he opened the door, a smell pierced his nose sharply.
It was the smell of pain.
“...Ugh.”
A closed room without a single window.
A blood-stained chair placed in the center.
A bathtub situated out of the blue in the corner.
Clubs standing against the wall in a row.
Transformers, wires, and even metal tongs.
This was a torture chamber.
Cha Hak-jun had been dragging people here to torture and murder them without hesitation whenever necessary.
The personnel in charge of that work were exactly those people massacred by Riman just a moment ago.
Those who dragged innocent people here, tortured and killed them while giggling.
Because they were such people, Riman didn't feel much sympathy while killing them.
Riman closed the torture chamber door and came out to the living room again.
At that time.
BEEP BEEP BEEP- BEEP BEEP BEEP-
The phone placed on the dining table rang loudly.
The words ‘Secretary Kim’ appeared on the phone screen.
Probably one of the secretaries assisting Cha Hak-jun.
Riman left the phone ringing, opened the front door, and came out of the room.
‘If contact continues to fail, Cha Hak-jun’s side will check this place directly. And they will find out that everyone here was murdered.’
WHIRL-
Riman turned his head and looked above the front door.
A small CCTV camera was installed there.
Riman stared at the camera intentionally.
To leave his face clearly.
‘If I do this, Cha Hak-jun will even know that I am the culprit.’
Currently, Cha Hak-jun's targets were two.
Pyo Seok-jung, and Riman.
However, Pyo Seok-jung completely disappeared as of today.
On the other hand, Riman was openly leaving traces like this.
‘Then Cha Hak-jun’s target will converge to me alone.’
Then naturally, the forces possessed by Cha Hak-jun would be concentrated on Riman.
Furthermore, due to that...
‘The Mugan escapees he employs will also move targeting me.’
A situation where wanted criminals roll in on their own feet even if he stays still is created.
Of course, he couldn't just be happy about this.
Because it meant the danger also increased that much.
But he had already set safety measures in this part too.
Joseph Han, currently the most renowned troubleshooter in Korea.
Although currently employed by Cha Hak-jun, he was actually a spy communicating with Riman.
Thanks to that, Riman could continuously receive information related to Cha Hak-jun.
Furthermore, although he hadn't met him yet, Joseph Han's trustworthy close younger brother was also scheduled to join this operation.
‘What was his name again, Knox or something...’
Like this, everything from the information network to the deployment of martial power was set.
Now the thing to do was simple.
‘Smash all of Cha Hak-jun's martial power concentrated on me, deal with the escapees, and finally finish off Cha Hak-jun who lost his limbs like that.’
Beyond that...
‘In the vacuum of power created like that, seat Pyo Seok-jung.’
Of course, Pyo Seok-jung, who retired once, wouldn't return to politics so easily.
However, if his wife's Poison Spasm is cured, the story changes.
‘Ji Byeong-seo is pouring all his efforts only into developing the Poison Spasm cure, putting aside all other work.’
Then, even if not a cure, something equivalent to it would be created.
If he could just definitely subside the wife's Poison Spasm through that, he could sufficiently drag Pyo Seok-jung out to the political world.
‘And if it reaches that point, I will have a definite political backer.’
Not sticking to existing power, but raising my ally to the seat of power.
That was the final goal of this operation.
Of course, Riman had not an ounce of interest in politics.
But apart from that, having political power as a backer secures tremendous convenience.
Whether in terms of financial power or in terms of movement.
CRASH!
Riman shot compressed air and smashed the CCTV camera.
The camera shattered into pieces beyond recovery and scattered.
Now it was irreversible.
Whether Riman dies, or Cha Hak-jun dies.
‘Now then, where shall I start...’
Riman took out a notebook from his pocket.
That notebook he took from the private soldiers who died a moment ago.