Episode 125. lawless zone
Kim Jin-seong and Karen pulled out their swords at the same time.
However, unlike Kim Jin-seong, who immediately took an attacking stance, Karen appeared to gradually retreat.
This was because he was currently wearing the hunter shackles that Kim Jin-seong had given him, and he knew best that they were of no help in battle.
“Be careful! “Those guys from the Triunpo side aren’t usually skilled!”
“That’s not right.”
“… … ?”
Karen, who didn’t understand for a moment, looked at the back of Kim Jin-seong’s head.
“Haaaab!”
Before I knew it, the enemies came running in front of me and swung their swords at Kim Jin-seong with enthusiasm.
However, the swords they swung only cut through empty air.
“?!”
“what?”
Enemies look everywhere to find Kim Jin-seong, who suddenly disappears before their eyes.
They soon found Kim Jin-seong standing behind them.
When did you move back?
… The enemies wanted to say, but they couldn’t.
This was because when they turned their heads, their heads were instantly separated from their necks and fell to the floor.
Patter! Heads rolling on the floor after falling.
“Hey Iik… !”
One of the only surviving enemies was scared and hit his butt.
Soon his gaze met Jinseong Kim.
“Ugh, wow!”
At the same time, he started screaming and running away with all his might back the way he came.
but,
Craddangtang!
“100 million… !”
Soon, it made a loud noise and fell forward awkwardly at the same speed it was running at.
He looked down at his ankle as he felt an unfamiliar feeling in his leg.
“W-what?!”
Before he knew it, thick spider webs were wrapped around both his ankles.
When Jinseong Kim approached him and held out his palm again, a huge amount of spider webs were launched again.
After a while.
“Ugh! town… !”
The man’s entire body, including his mouth, was completely covered in white spider webs.
Kim Jin-seong, who was watching that scene, looked back.
“Do you know a good place nearby for interrogation?”
Karen, who was staring blankly, quickly nodded.
* * *
After a while.
Kim Jin-seong and Karen entered an abandoned building in a corner of a residential area.
Kim Jin-seong, who came up to the third floor, began interrogating the man he had captured alive, tying him to a chair.
“… Really?”
Kim Jin-seong, who continued the interrogation for a while, asked the man again.
“You said the attack was purely for money?”
“… yes.”
The man’s eyes were blurry and unfocused as he answered in a drunken voice.
Jinseong Kim asked again.
“You really have nothing to do with the Triunfo Clan?”
“yes… .”
“Look me in the eye and answer properly.”
Jinseong Kim made eye contact with the man at eye level.
▶ Use the skill ‘Hypnosis’. Casts a skill for 5 seconds.
▶ The skill was successfully used.
When he used the hypnosis skill again, the man’s eyes turned green. It was evidence of a state of hypnosis.
Karen was watching the man from behind with an expression of surprise.
‘You know how to use hypnosis… .’
Karen looks at Kim Jin-seong with new eyes.
“You really have nothing to do with the Triunfo Clan?”
At that time, Kim Jin-seong was checking with the man again.
“yes… really… no see… .”
As expected, I received the same answer this time.
Eventually, Kim Jin-seong gave up the interrogation and stood up from his squatting position.
Then he pulled out the dagger from his waist and lightly stabbed it into the man’s forehead.
When the man lowered his head with a loud sound, Kim Jin-seong opened his mouth as he pulled out the dagger again.
“I guess there was no real connection.”
Kim Jin-seong continues speaking to Karen who is looking at him.
“Nothing particularly suspicious was found on the bodies of the dead people… . Above all, the level of those who attacked was too weak. “If it were me, I would have at least sent people stronger than Franco and his group.”
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“I think the same thing.”
Karen responded as if she agreed.
“To me, it looks like we just had an unlucky encounter with a group of robbers that are common in Area B.”
“Common?”
Instead of answering, Karen gestured toward one of the windows with her chin.
Kim Jin-seong walked to the window and looked down.
A large trash can placed at the corner of an alley.
Kim Jin-seong’s eyes caught the sight of corpses covered in black plastic piled up one after another.
The arms and legs sticking out between the plastic were covered in blood.
“It’s a common sight in Area B.”
Karen’s explanation reached Kim Jin-seong’s ears as he stared in silence.
“One of the two. “He was either robbed by a robber, or the robbery failed and he ended up dying.”
“… “There will be more bodies around here today due to the latter.”
Jinseong Kim recalled what happened before entering the building.
This is the scene where Karen crumpled the corpses that Kim Jin-seong had killed into a nearby trash can.
“No matter what, they let the bodies pile up like that. “Isn’t this a residential area where a lot of people live?”
“I told you. It is said to be the most unsafe area in the city. “It’s not called a ‘lawless zone’ or ‘abandoned area’ for nothing.”
Karen came next to Kim Jin-seong and looked down at the window and continued her explanation.
“To a certain extent, I’ve been through this alley dozens of times, and I’ve never once seen paladins patrolling.”
“You’ve never patrolled?”
“Isn’t that why there are no corpses lying around in the trash can?”
“Is he on patrol over there?”
“… … !”
Karen, surprised by those words, immediately checked the direction Jinseong Kim was looking at.
It was true.
Two paladins were walking towards the abandoned building they were in.
“… what?”
Karen mutters with a puzzled look on her face. The reaction seemed quite shocked by the Paladin’s appearance in this alley.
At that time, Jinseong Kim was looking at the left chest of the paladins.
‘It’s the Daehan Clan guys again.’
This time too, the Taegeuk mark was drawn on the left chest.
“Is this area designated to be patrolled only by paladins belonging to the Korean Clan?”
“I heard paladins didn’t patrol this place… . Anyway, we have to run away first. “He’s walking exactly where we are.”
As Karen said, the paladins were getting quite close.
Karen soon looked around.
“I guess I’ll have to run to the roof. There is only one way out, and the paladins are walking that way.”
“wait.”
Jinseong Kim immediately stretched out his palm toward the sky.
▶ Use the skill ‘Surveillance Eye’.
▶ The summon ‘Surveillance Eye’ has been created.
As soon as the transparent single eye-shaped ‘Surveillance Eye’ was created, it immediately flew out of the window at high speed.
That’s when the watchful eye reached the center of the alley, which was quite far away.
▶ Use the ‘Teleport’ skill, which can only be used when there is a ‘Watching Eye’ summon.
▶ Go to the location where the ‘Surveillance Eye’ summon is located.
▶ The ‘Watching Eye’ summons in that location will disappear.
Soon, Kim Jin-seong and Karen disappeared from the abandoned house.
All that remained was the body of a man sitting helplessly in a chair with his head down.
* * *
After leaving the alley, the two entered ‘Exchange Street’ in District B16.
Unusually, there was only an exchange on the street.
“It’s a street that only those in the know know about. “There is no place in Area B where you can sell loot more expensively than on this street.”
Karen began to move without hesitation in front of numerous exchanges.
Among the numerous exchanges, I could see Karen going into just a few of them and making transactions, and it seemed like they were places that Karen often used.
In fact, the place Karen stopped by was much more crowded than other places.
‘… ‘I’ll have to remember that.’
There was a reason why people flocked to places.
Kim Jin-seong memorized in his head the names and locations of exchanges he visited with Karen.
After completing three transactions, I went to the fourth exchange to trade magic stones.
When the magicite in the bag was poured into the basket, the exchange owner measured the quality and weight with skillful hands and began to calculate the price.
“Okay, so the total transaction amount is…” . uh?”
The owner, who was about to call for the amount, paused with a stiff expression while looking toward the entrance.
Seeing that, Jinseong Kim turned his head towards the entrance and frowned.
‘… also?’
The ones who entered the exchange were none other than other paladins.
As expected, two paladins with the Taegeuk mark drawn on their chests approached Kim Jin-seong and opened their mouths.
“It’s a paladin. “Show me your ID.”
The subsequent process was the same as the situation in area B15.
When he was told that he was from Argentina, he yelled at him not to lie, but when the meter showed that he was not a participant in the Colosseum, he immediately turned around with a suspicious look on his face and left.
“Phew~! I was surprised… .”
As the paladins went outside the exchange, the exchange owner breathed a sigh of relief.
Karen asked the owner.
“I guess paladins wander around Area B a lot these days?”
It hasn’t been long since I arrived in Area B, and I’ve already met Paladin three times.
Considering that previously it was difficult to meet even once a day, Karen had no choice but to wonder if the policies of the major clans had changed.
“Oh, is that possible?”
The exchange owner responded by waving his hand.
“It’s nothing else, it seems like a hunter who was publicly wanted in Korea a few days ago has infiltrated the New Continent.
That’s why it’s rumored that only the Paladins of the Daehan Clan are wandering around the entire Area B with their eyes lit up!”
“ah… .”
Karen, who finally understood, nodded and the owner continued speaking.
“It was actually good, huh! Since Paladins are frequenting the area these days, crime in Area B has decreased noticeably!
Yesterday, for the first time in District B16, no murders occurred?”
“Really?”
The owner nodded his head sharply at Karen, who asked with a surprised expression.
“It’s real! With paladins patrolling around the clock 24 hours a day, how can they commit murder outright? “Isn’t that right?”
“That’s true, but… .”
“In my heart, I hope that the wanted person will never be caught. “Then won’t the paladins keep wandering around?”
The owner of the exchange was excited, spitting and talking.
Jinseong Kim thought to himself as he listened to him in silence.
‘You’re holding on with your eyes lit up.’
Kim Jin-seong remembered Yong Han-gil, who followed him until the end.
It seemed like he had no intention of giving up on himself.
‘I’ll have to take care of myself as much as possible for the time being. Just in case, I should be careful about using Magina skills.’
* * *
Kim Jin-seong and Karen, who sold all their goods at the exchange, began to return to area B15.
“… A total of 63 million blancs.”
Jinseong Kim counted the amount in the envelope and asked Karen next to him.
“Approximately how much is 1 blanc worth?”
“hmm… . A night’s stay in a cheap hotel will cost around 50,000 blanc. “A hamburger set costs about 8,000 blanc.”
Jinseong Kim nodded.
Then it seemed like the money I was holding now wasn’t that small.
As if Karen had read his thoughts, she immediately continued her explanation.
“When I say it this way, 60 million blanc may seem like a lot, but it is definitely not a lot of money for hunters. In this town, the cheapest HP potion costs at least 10 million Blanc.
“Good weapons and armor start at least in the billions.”
“hmm.”
“And don’t take your money out on the street. “Unless you want to see the robbers swarming like flies.”
With those words, Kim Jin-seong put the envelope of money into his chest again.
I wasn’t scared of the robbers, but I hated being bothered.
“Where do we go now?”
“Starting with the bank. “You can’t keep carrying money around, can you?”
After answering, Karen glanced at Jinseong Kim.
To be precise, I asked while looking towards the inner pocket where the money envelope was.
“Are you sure you want to keep all that money for yourself?”
“uh.”
“… … .”
“The price of my life saved in the cave. “There is still a long way to go to get it all.”
Kim Jin-seong immediately asked a question to Karen, who had nothing to say and looked away again with her mouth shut.
“Let’s go to the bank and then have something to eat. “Is there a good restaurant near the bank?”
“Yes. “You can think of the downtown area, B15, as having pretty much everything.”
“good. “In return for your kind guidance so far, I will pay specially for lunch.”
“… “Thank you, it brings tears to my eyes.”
“Nothing much to say.”
They continued walking while talking and soon entered an alley.
“… “It’s that alley from earlier.”
“It’s the fastest shortcut to B15. Above all, you saw the paladins walking around earlier, right?”
Karen continued speaking as she walked down the alley while answering.
“I saw a Paladin walking around, but are there any idiots who want to attack me again?”
Quang!
At that time, a huge explosion exploded right in front of Karen.
(Continued in the next part)
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