Chapter 169 – Pursuit (4)

Her appearance crossing the warehouse while firing guns wildly looked like an action movie heroine.

No, her appearance moving so fast it would be hard to capture on camera might have been beyond an action movie.

If it were Sun-woo from the past before becoming a summoner, he would have watched in a daze, but now he was slowly following behind her and critiquing the martial arts she used.

‘Not orthodox martial arts. Unorthodox? Ah, it’s from the ronin side.’

By now, Sun-woo’s eye for martial arts had considerably improved through various memories and missions.

Moreover, the eyes and senses of a transcendent master could sufficiently recognize a first-class master’s martial arts even without specifically checking the opponent’s memories.

Certainly, as she said, martial arts and firearms had good synergy.

Unlike long-range weapons like rifles, using martial arts and pistols simultaneously in such narrow spaces wasn’t much different from a first-class warrior using peak-level hidden weapon techniques.

“Still, the firepower is lacking.”

While she fought, the enemies also used injections faster than expected and turned into contaminated beings. Thanks to that, her gun could no longer kill enemies in one shot.

Of course, Mingwei, having fought contaminated beings sufficiently, calmly dealt with enemies, but she couldn’t show the overwhelming appearance like before.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

However, Mingwei wasn’t the only enemy of the contaminated. Those who hid in blind spots trying to shoot were hit by coins flying from behind her and fell.

It didn’t matter where they were hiding. Coins flying fast as bullets moved freely in the air to snipe hidden enemies.

The coins Sun-woo threw, unlike the bullets Mingwei shot, brought down enemies in one strike.

Whether strengthened by contamination or wearing bulletproof vests, blocking coins imbued with sword force was impossible.

Mingwei, who had been frantically shooting for a while, looked back at Sun-woo when enemy attacks suddenly stopped.

“Did you learn martial arts from the Tang clan?”

Having seen several enemies fall to coins during the fight, she couldn’t help but think of the Tang clan, the home of hidden weapon techniques.

“Seems I’ve become half enemies with the Tang clan.”

At Sun-woo’s answer, Mingwei made an absurd face. She also knew well what kind of place the Tang clan was.

“That’s impossible. Yet you’re still alive?”

She apparently hadn’t taken missions to the martial arts world recently.

Mingwei’s expression showed she hadn’t heard about the young hero shaking the Central Plains recently—Black Wind.

It was a long story to explain. Sun-woo decided to help her instead of answering.

“Rather than that, as I said before, the firepower is weak.”

At Sun-woo’s words, Mingwei made a gloomy expression.

“Because of that, we summoners from this dimension are always treated like leftovers. When they become contamination sources, their defense becomes several times stronger and speed faster. The speed problem can be overcome by learning martial arts, but firepower can’t be helped. Even if we pour points to carry weapons with good firepower as summoning weapons, they become heavier and slower, especially for women like me with weak basic stamina.”

She was a female summoner from this world who succeeded in learning first-class martial arts, but it seemed she couldn’t help it against ability users from other worlds called superhumans.

“Give me all your remaining magazines.”

“What?”

At Sun-woo’s sudden request for magazines, she took out magazines from inside her coat with a bewildered expression.

It was a curious sight. Even without using inventory, magazines kept popping out from inside her clothes.

Peeking inside the coat, several grenades were also attached.

Sun-woo held the magazines and pondered briefly, then decided to draw magic circles on the magazines instead of bullets.

It seemed faster to draw magic circles on magazines than to put magic into each bullet.

It would have taken quite a while before, but thanks to the barrier magic he invested all his points into in the previous mission, Sun-woo could draw magic circles instantly.

[Enhancement, Penetration]

These were the effects of the magic circles Sun-woo inscribed on the magazines.

He could have added one or two more spells, but then he’d have to spend hours here. And without using reagents separately, they wouldn’t last very long either.

“I put enhancement and penetration magic on them. If you load these magazines, the bullets will automatically be enchanted with magic. I made them in a hurry so they’ll probably only last two or three days, but this should cover the firepower shortage.”

Receiving the faintly glowing magazines, Mingwei looked like a young girl who received a puppy from Santa Claus.

“You’re a mage? Ah, right. Since you’re a mage, you could also change your appearance.”

It was illusion arts, not magic, but Sun-woo left her mistake alone.

“Wo~w! I heard there was a summoner in America who uses magic bullets, but this is my first time actually seeing them.”

Sun-woo also knew someone who used magic bullets.

“Hmm, I guess I can start doing business now.”

It seemed he could now do the magic bullet business he’d been putting off due to insufficient magic ability.

Instead of doing each bullet, if he enhanced magazines like now or put magic circles on guns, the effort would certainly be much reduced.

Mingwei suddenly grabbed Sun-woo’s hands, who was lost in his own thoughts.

“Live with me. I’ll do everything.”

Holding both hands tightly and speaking earnestly to Sun-woo, Mingwei’s eyes were full of longing for magic bullets.

Certainly, a movie actress’s acting wasn’t to be taken lightly. If Sun-woo weren’t a transcendent master, he might have felt sorry and done something.

Perhaps learning martial arts was also thanks to such acting of hers.

Sun-woo chuckled, pulled his hands away, and walked toward the inside of the warehouse.

Mingwei made a sulky expression when her acting didn’t work, but soon relaxed her expression and followed Sun-woo.

Sun-woo checked through the people and walked to the very back of the warehouse.

There, a middle-aged man lay on the floor with his body turned, and a coin was embedded in the back of his head.

“Huh? He was trying to escape? And he’s not even contaminated?”

Mingwei looked at Sun-woo with a puzzled expression.

He was a man who appeared to be a middle executive.

A man at the middle executive level escaping wasn’t common, but it wasn’t very rare either.

The problem was that he could have been subdued but was killed instead.

“But is it okay to kill him like this? It’ll be hard to get information.”

“There’s a way.”

“A way… Don’t tell me magic? Can you also do something like soul summoning?”

She moved a bit away from Sun-woo. A mage who deals with souls was a bit creepy.

Sun-woo shook his head.

“It’s a different method.”

Sun-woo placed his hand on the man’s body. This time too, Sun-woo’s ability was properly demonstrated.

Sun-woo scanned through the man’s memories.

Certainly this man was in charge of this warehouse. Moreover, the man was a middleman for the Triad who came from mainland China.

Thanks to that, Sun-woo learned about other Hong Kong branches and Macau branches of the Triad besides this place.

However, such information was nothing compared to information confirmed through recent memories.

“Found it.”

He found out where Chairman Douglas was.

Getting up from his seat, Sun-woo pondered briefly and decided to move with Mingwei.

The place where Chairman Douglas was captured was too difficult to rampage alone. It seemed quite a bit of cleanup would be needed.

Mingwei, unaware she almost got abandoned, had her eyes sparkling even more at the story that Sun-woo just placed his hand and found the target’s location.

However, her face changed to a troubled expression when Sun-woo told her the location.

“The cruise ship Gold of the Seas?”

The place where Chairman Douglas, who came to Hong Kong by the hands of a contaminated spatial ability user, was confined was a super-luxury cruise ship docked in Hong Kong.

“Is it deception within deception?”

Striking at emptiness and scheming at reality. A strategy to deceive the enemy in reverse.

However, the content seen through the dead man’s memories wasn’t such content.

He was just taken to someone on that ship.

“Plus, that ship is also the Triad’s mobile headquarters.”

This dead middleman just went aboard the ship and received orders, not knowing the details.

However, for Sun-woo who could understand words from other worlds, even just small talk became good information.

“No matter how you look at it, gossiping secrets in another dimension’s language because they think people can’t understand isn’t a good habit.”

Sun-woo gave one piece of advice to the back of the dead man’s head and went outside the warehouse.

“Oh no, what should we do? We can’t leave it like this. If I knew we’d move right away, I would have used a different method.”

Mingwei, who also went outside, looked into the warehouse with a troubled expression. The cleanup seemed to be the problem.

She apparently planned to handle this place and guard it until the association came. However, she, Sun-woo, and the Hong Kong Association couldn’t spare attention to this place.

The gunshots the enemies fired already rang out quite a lot, so reports must have been made to the police several times.

If it were just the police, they could somehow block them, but it was difficult to stop people snooping around.

“Is it enough to just avoid civilians’ eyes?”

At Sun-woo’s words, Mingwei nodded with a face full of expectation.

Sun-woo kept showing amazing magic (figuratively speaking). What magic would he show this time?

With the face of a fan watching a performance, Mingwei looked at Sun-woo.

Sun-woo knelt on one knee on the ground and placed one hand on the floor.

And he made the earth spirit run under the building.

Kuguugugugugung!

With a tremendous sound, the warehouse and part of the dock sank below, and soon seawater rushed into that spot.

An entire dock sank into the sea.

***

Shortly after, Mingwei got into the car with a somewhat dazed face.

She kept feeling like something was out of sync with reality.

This time, she was even afraid to ask how it was done.

Following that, Sun-woo also got back into Mingwei’s car.

Of course, running with lightness skill would be faster, but there was no reason to run along the dark seashore looking at a phone map after coming all the way to Hong Kong.

Moreover, they also needed preparation.

Mingwei, who barely came to her senses, made a call on hands-free.

“It’s Grade 1! Performing contamination mission at Hong Kong port!”

[Crazy, what kind of mission is Special Grade? Are you saying a monster appeared in Hong Kong waters?]

The call Mingwei made to the association branch from the running sports car bewildered the other party.

“It’s Chairman Douglas’s rescue operation! I found him. He’s on the Gold of the Seas docked at Hong Kong port.”

[Uh, uh, wait a moment. Uh, uh, confirmed. Damn, is the Destroyer King with you! Hell, this is almost Special Grade! If he’s next to you, please try to stop him.]

At the sound coming from the phone, Mingwei gave an awkward smile toward Sun-woo.

Though she spoke quietly, there was no way a martial artist’s ears wouldn’t hear.

“I didn’t spread it. The mission stories just kept spreading…”

Sun-woo felt wronged.

What did he break on missions that was so much?

Collapsing valleys.

Filling underground bases with water.

Breaking some buildings.

Detonating volcanic islands.

Sinking docks into the sea.

Actually, there was a lot.

“I’ll also ask a favor. If you sink the ship, there’ll be civilian damage, and the port will be paralyzed too…”

Sun-woo let out a sigh while looking at Hong Kong’s splendid night view.

In the distance, a giant cruise ship sparkling magnificently began to come into view.