novelraw Chapter 51 : Chapter 51
Chapter 51 : Chapter 51
Chapter 51: The Prodigal Son (7)
Leaving the steaming corpse behind.
Ha Do-yeol took his hand off and stood up.
The chief, watching that scene, said.
“Still a terrible power.”
“These guys, they are the police SWAT team, right?”
Ha Do-yeol pointed at the corpses of those he just killed and asked the chief.
The chief nodded.
“Correct. But they aren't my side's kids. These are Park Jae-il’s side's kids.”
“Then, Chief, your members are…….”
“They should be coming now.”
Of course, there was the minor problem that they froze on their way, got electrocuted, and fainted.
Well, if resting on the way counts, they were indeed coming.
The chief said.
“Anyway, these guys, they thrust their muzzles as soon as they saw me.”
“They tried to kill you under the guise of a melee, Chief.”
“Probably so. These lowly bastards with no respect for hierarchy…….”
Tsk, clicking his tongue, the chief continued.
“Anyway, just dispose of them all.”
“Yes?”
“Park Jae-il’s faction guys, burn them all. Treat them as killed during the melee.”
“…….”
Ha Do-yeol turned his head and looked at the chief silently.
Ha Do-yeol’s eyes narrowed momentarily.
The chief said.
“What, you can't hear me?”
“…No. I should handle it.”
Ha Do-yeol maintained a consistently low profile toward the chief.
Considering the power structure, it was inevitable.
The chief was the only backing Ha Do-yeol currently had in the public security power side.
Considering that usefulness, and if he intended to continue his business, maintaining a good relationship was a wise attitude.
Even if he had to bow his head and offer money.
Ha Do-yeol said.
“Then first, please move with me.”
“Must I?”
“Yes?”
“Why do you take even me to the battlefield? Can't you go alone, handle it, and come back?”
“In this situation, staying alone is more dangerous. And you cannot use mana either.”
“Tsk…….”
Ha Do-yeol began to move.
The chief followed behind him.
Now the composition of the battle was reversed.
Inspector Park Jae-il’s side fled, and Ha Do-yeol began to chase behind.
Park Jae-il’s side members were almost in a state of panic.
The scene of colleagues turning into boiled meat alive right before their eyes was quite a shock.
On top of that, other obstacles began to block their escape.
“Over there! Kill them!”
“Damn it……!”
Ha Do-yeol’s gang members residing in other parts of Doban Distilling began to flock in.
Behind their backs, Ha Do-yeol was chasing, and in front of their eyes, his gang members were blocking the way.
A dilemma.
But there is only one way.
Breakthrough.
Rat-a-tat-tat!!
SWAT members and gang members, muzzles of both sides spewed fire.
Of course, the side that took bigger damage was the gang members.
Because the members were wearing bulletproof vests and bulletproof helmets.
But the members were carrying a risk incomparably greater than the gang members.
Ha Do-yeol chasing from behind.
For the members, being held back even for a moment like this was itself a tremendous risk.
And a moment later, the risk became reality.
Sizzle-
“Aaaaaagh!!”
A member standing in the rearmost row screamed and collapsed on the floor.
High heat swallowed his body.
Ha Do-yeol had finally caught up.
The members began to flee, leaving their colleague behind.
It couldn't be helped.
Ha Do-yeol, that guy was a monster who could scorch everything that entered his field of vision.
Hesitating against such a person was exactly a suicidal act.
But even though they chose to flee leaving even a colleague behind, Ha Do-yeol’s demonic hand stretched out faster than that.
Sizzle-
“Ugh……!”
“My back……!”
The rear members sensed burning pain.
They had to escape that spot even a second faster.
But at that moment.
One of the members suddenly turned his muzzle toward Ha Do-yeol.
“Aaaah!”
He fired his rifle in full auto toward Ha Do-yeol.
The muzzle sprayed bullets.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
What was he thinking?
Was it a feeling of trying even a last struggle since he was going to die anyway.
But the struggle really ended as just a struggle.
Because Ha Do-yeol dodged all ten or so bullets.
‘He dodged flying bullets… by seeing them with his eyes?!’
He didn't have time left to grasp how such a thing was possible.
Heat was already burning his entire body.
Crack, crunch……!
He collapsed as his joints twisted bizarrely here and there.
A phenomenon caused by muscles cooking and contracting due to high heat.
His end was terrible, but that sacrifice wasn't meaningless.
Because thanks to that, all his colleagues succeeded in fleeing to the 1st floor.
“Going out……!”
Park Jae-il and the surviving members finally reached the 1st floor.
The appearance of the 1st floor was desolate.
Walls were crumbled, and the rebar of the ceiling was exposed clearly.
It was due to the self-destruction of the dump truck earlier.
Because of that explosion, a wide cavity was created on the 1st floor.
And in the center of that cavity, a man stood.
A young man wrapping something similar to a snake around his body.
The moment he saw him, Park Jae-il let out a sigh of relief.
“Mr. Leman……!”
Riman, who had just entered the building, and Park Jae-il’s members finally encountered
each other.
However……
“Mr. Leman?”
Several masses of cold air were gathering at Riman’s fingertips.
Riman muttered.
“Are there four burns?”
“Yes?”
Riman fired four ice spheres toward the members.
[Ice Bullet]
Thud-thud-thud!
Magic shooting spheres of condensed cold air.
[Ice Bullet] hit four of the members directly.
Cold air bursting from the spheres wrapped around the four members.
Park Jae-il felt perplexity and anger simultaneously for a moment.
Betraying like this immediately as soon as we meet again?!
“Leman……!”
“Pull back quickly and get treated. First aid for burns is done with this.”
“…Burns?”
Park Jae-il looked back at his subordinate members.
The members hit by [Ice Bullet] were fine.
No, rather, their condition looked much improved compared to a little while ago.
Their bodies, heated by Ha Do-yeol’s ability, were cooled down by the cold air of [Ice Bullet].
Park Jae-il made an awkward expression and said to the members.
“…Let’s go!”
“Yes!”
Now the baton of this battle passed to Riman.
Just as Park Jae-il was about to lead his subordinates and exit.
“Where do you think you’re going?”
A chilling voice heard from behind.
Ha Do-yeol and the chief had approached their backs before they knew it.
Whir-
Ha Do-yeol’s eyes began to shine red again.
The surrounding atmosphere heats up in an instant.
At that moment, Riman blew mana quickly and strongly under his feet.
[Earth Wall]
Rumble!
A thick earth wall soared from the ground.
A wall soaring between Ha Do-yeol and Riman.
It blocked Ha Do-yeol’s vision.
Ha Do-yeol was flustered.
He could heat and kill targets his vision touched.
Conversely speaking, just obstructing that vision cuts down the efficiency of his ability significantly.
And now was exactly such a moment.
Park Jae-il shouted.
“Now! Run!”
Park Jae-il and the members didn't miss that moment and ran, escaping the scene.
And the earth wall Riman created……
Crack!
Ha Do-yeol broke it with his bare fist and made it crumble.
‘Ho.’
Riman looked at Ha Do-yeol as if interested.
The earth wall Riman made wasn't something an ordinary person could break with bare hands.
Ha Do-yeol broke such a thing lightly with bare hands.
He, who possessed only one superpower, ‘Heat.’
Of course, Riman knew the secret of this.
‘It’s doping using the Heat ability.’
Heat ability possessors also possess their own high heat resistance.
Using these physical characteristics, Ha Do-yeol can explosively boost metabolism, sensory abilities, and motor abilities by heating various organs inside his body.
In this state, the body's muscle strength, speed, and sensitivity of senses increase drastically.
This is exactly Heat Doping.
Being able to see and dodge rifle bullets earlier was also because he used this doping.
‘In the game, I had quite a hard time because of that doping ability.’
Ha Do-yeol’s difficulty level was truly headache-inducing in many ways back then too.
First, the numerous subordinate troops themselves were the first obstacle.
Plus, the moment you encounter him and get caught in his vision, you get roasted.
So if you try to fight while obstructing his vision?
He immediately breaks the obstacle with doping or bypasses it and strikes in.
If you run away avoiding that, he catches up at high speed.
And the moment you get caught, instant death with 100% probability.
In other words, a cheat character capable of covering both long-range and close-range aspects.
That was Ha Do-yeol.
This fact hadn't changed even now.
But Riman had changed.
Because he had prepared all countermeasures against Ha Do-yeol’s abilities.
So even if Ha Do-yeol glared at him with those reddish eyes, he could stand nonchalantly.
Whir!
Ha Do-yeol looked at Riman.
The earth wall collapsed, and now there was no obstacle between the two.
The thing obstructing Ha Do-yeol’s vision disappeared.
His eyes captured Riman precisely, and the mana flowing from him heated the air in an instant.
Like that, after roasting Riman in an instant, Ha Do-yeol intended to track and kill the remaining remnants, but……
“…Huh?”
Nothing happened.
“What……?”
Ha Do-yeol was flustered.
Because Riman, who should have become oven-roasted long ago, stood perfectly fine.
What is it? Is it my fault?
No.
Capturing the target, operating mana, activating the ability.
All of that was perfect.
Nevertheless, the target in front of his eyes was alive too perfectly fine.
“Why……?”
It was the first time.
That his ‘Heat’ was countered this perfectly.
Cold sweat flowed down Ha Do-yeol’s temple.
It wasn't sweat flowing because it was hot.
It was a clear sign of perplexity.
Riman intuitively sensed exactly what that sweat meant.
‘Now.’
Riman assembled the mana he had stored in his palm in advance at once and sublimated it into magic.
[Electric Bullet] 3-shot burst.
Zap!
Three electric spheres flew toward Ha Do-yeol.
Ha Do-yeol, whose body was stiff with perplexity, couldn't dodge those spheres properly.
“Kuh……!”
He barely dodged two shots, and one shot grazed his flank deeply.
Pain felt truly after a long time dug fiercely into his body.
“This fuck……!”
His face, which had been calm throughout, distorted viciously.
From perplexity to anger, from anger to murderous intent.
At that moment when not only the air but even his nerves were about to heat up with anger.
“Hey you crazy bastard! What do you do if you dodge that?!”
A complaining voice flew in from behind Ha Do-yeol’s back.
It was the chief.
“If I told you to follow, you should protect me properly……!”
The clothes on the chief's shoulder part were burnt black.
The [Electric Bullet] that missed Ha Do-yeol had grazed his shoulder.
“Ha, this bastard, anyway losing all the guys he has to catch and letting all his subordinates die…….”
Abusive language poured out from the chief's mouth like a broken faucet.
“Hey Ha Do-yeol, won't you do your job properly?”
“I won't.”
“What?”
Clench!
Ha Do-yeol reached out and grabbed the chief's neck.
Sometimes there are those who commit the folly of overestimating their power.
They fail to properly recognize the territory their power allows and often cross the line.
The current chief was exactly like that.
“Gack……!”
A lump of breath the tightened throat barely spat out.
That was the chief's last will.
Sizzle!
“……!!”
The body fluids inside the chief's body boiled up at once.
Hot steam spewed out from the holes of his body, and the chief's body went limp.
Ha Do-yeol threw the chief's corpse on the floor.
Watching that scene, Riman muttered inwardly.
Congratulations, Jae-il.
‘Your boss is dead, hey.’
Meanwhile, Ha Do-yeol’s gaze turned toward Riman again.
A mysterious opponent against whom his signature technique, long-range heating, didn't work at all.
He said toward Riman.
“…What kind of bastard are you?”
“Headhunter.”
“A fly bastard sticking around looking at the bounty…….”
“But getting bitten by that fly hurts a bit, right?”
Riman smirked and continued.
“Just leave your head cut off and go. Then I will let you go.”