Chapter 198 – Who Are You (1)

“Wow! Finally met you!”

The first thing Sun-woo saw upon returning was Mingwei running toward him.

Mingwei tried to grab Sun-woo using what looked like a judo hold technique, but instead rolled on the floor due to Sun-woo’s hand movement deflecting her to the side.

“Ow!”

A beautiful movie actress being slammed on the floor was quite a sight to see.

Sun-woo stopped paying attention to her.

First, he questioned Caroline sitting in one side of the living room.

“Carol, what happened?”

The place Sun-woo returned to was his home living room. In the living room, Yeonhwa, Sun-woo, and Mingwei were gathered.

He heard later that Priest Van was in the Holy Kingdom because of a mission.

Caroline, who’d made a welcoming expression seeing Sun-woo, opened her mouth with a serious expression.

“A contaminated zone appeared in Europe.”

“What?”

Sun-woo questioned Caroline’s words. He was shocked at her sudden statement.

Caroline quickly explained what had happened.

The story of how the Summoner Association headquarters attacked the enemy base Sun-woo found together with NATO forces and the US Atlantic Fleet.

The enemy’s resistance and battle. And the sudden missile attack.

“You could think of it as a kind of biochemical missile. The missiles fell on Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine, and after that the entire Eastern Europe area turned into a contaminated zone.”

Sun-woo listened to Caroline’s story while watching the TV broadcasting news.

The news was continuously broadcasting about the Eastern Europe situation.

[Scenes like those from zombie movies unfolded here in Poland. The scene you’re watching now was captured by a Polish border broadcast camera.]

On the TV screen, the beautiful scenery of Warsaw spread out.

However, it was hard to watch that scene comfortably because of the loud siren sounds and people rushing into their homes.

Moments later, one missile creating white smoke lines in the sky fell downward and exploded over Warsaw.

[A dud? What is it?]

[Anyway, you got it, right?]

[Yeah, but shouldn’t we hide too?]

[Did IS guys shoot it? Even so, it’d only be one or two shots. Look at how it exploded in the sky now, you know? They’re all defective. First, just film!]

From the TV came the sounds of the PD and cameraman chattering in Polish.

[A scoop! No, Anya, are you ready?]

[Yes!]

The camera filming the sky came down, and a female reporter stood in front holding a microphone.

[Just now there was a sudden missile attack here in Warsaw. Citizens are all calmly evacuating to the siren sounds.]

But the people’s appearance shown on the broadcast didn’t look calm at all.

[We don’t know where the attack came from, but fortunately the missiles self-destructed in the sky. We will continue to deliver the situation in real-time from this location. Well…]

[What’s that?]

In the middle of the reporter continuing her words, suddenly the PD shouted from behind the camera.

[Turn the camera! People are rioting!]

The next scene captured on camera was like a scene from a zombie movie.

People who’d been fleeing suddenly screamed and convulsed, then began attacking people around them.

But there was a different scene from zombie movies.

The people attacking those around them weren’t trying to eat them and didn’t even look crazy.

Moreover, other people changing wasn’t through being bitten or anything like that. It just seemed time was needed.

People who fell and blocked the attacks at some point changed like them, looked around, and ran in all directions searching for people who hadn’t changed yet.

[Ahhh! We need to run!]

The reporter who saw that scene screamed and shouted at the camera, but the screen dropped toward the floor without showing her.

[What’s wrong, stop, no!]

Behind the camera facing the floor, the reporter’s screams kept coming then stopped, and it switched to another screen.

This time it was footage of the city shot from the sky. The appearance of a city with smoke rising everywhere.

[The same situation as just now is happening throughout all of Eastern Europe. Most people turned into rioters sweeping the streets, and reporters and soldiers who entered for broadcasting all confirmed to have gone mentally abnormal. Each government is declaring a state of emergency, and the Korean military has also issued combat readiness. The government…]

“They keep repeatedly broadcasting special reports.”

Caroline said while watching the broadcast.

“Don’t tell me, a contamination spreading agent?”

At Sun-woo’s words, Caroline nodded.

“When we analyzed the injection liquid you brought, it turned out their goal was to artificially create contaminated areas. To get more definite information, when you went to the martial arts world, Priest Van took the injection liquid to the Holy Kingdom where the goddess is… but we’re too late.”

Sun-woo sighed. Despite trying so hard, a contaminated zone ended up being created in this world too.

Moreover, a contaminated zone without a contamination formation, he felt at a loss about how to resolve it.

“Did you call me because of that contaminated zone?”

“It’s because of the contaminated zone, but a bit different.”

At Caroline’s words, Sun-woo made a puzzled expression.

“As I said, the Summoner Association headquarters was attacking contaminated summoners by joining forces with the US military and NATO. Right now, the US military and NATO have completely collapsed and the summoners are escaping.”

“You’re saying to help them?”

“Yes, all the main force of the Summoner Association is trapped inside that contaminated zone. If we lose them, it’s clear a much bigger blow will occur than the summoners we lost from our Empire last time. Cleanearth will no longer be able to function as an association.”

For the Korean branch’s independence to be effective, the Cleanearth headquarters needed to exist.

With the world destroyed, independence and everything else would be meaningless.

Thanks to becoming independent anyway, the intact Korean branch stepped forward and made a plan to rescue them.

At Caroline’s words, Sun-woo nodded. This wasn’t something he could pull out of.

“Let’s go together.”

“I’ll go too!”

At Sun-woo’s words, Mingwei raised her hand.

“Yes, we’d be grateful if you’d go together.”

Caroline expressed gratitude to Mingwei.

Though Sun-woo kept ignoring her, Mingwei’s combat power wasn’t that bad.

For the Korean branch that didn’t have many combat-type summoners, Mingwei’s help was just appreciated.

“Right now summoners are gathering at the Incheon branch building. Once everyone gathers, Sophia will space-jump them to a location as close as possible to the contaminated area.”

“Then Yeonhwa is the problem.”

“I’ll go together too. I’ll probably be helpful.”

Yeonhwa, who’d been sitting silently until then, opened her mouth.

Well, Yeonhwa had changed from before too.

Though he hadn’t confirmed her fighting, she’d never been wrong in what she said.

Once the conclusion was reached, Caroline opened her phone and called Sophia.

But at that moment Sun-woo’s eyes scrunched heavily. Sun-woo hurriedly opened the living room window and looked at the western sky.

“Tremendous power…”

While everyone was surprised at Sun-woo’s action, Caroline also became serious.

[Cannot be connected, you will be connected to voice mail after the beep.]

Sophia couldn’t be reached.

While Yeonhwa and Mingwei alternately looked at Caroline and Sun-woo, this time a surprised announcer’s voice came from the TV.

[Breaking news! A terror attack occurred at Cleanearth Korean branch in Incheon. Connecting to the scene.]

Everyone turned their heads toward the TV.

Rat-a-tat!

[This is in front of the Incheon Cleanearth Korean branch building! Can you see! This is a battlefield right now. The building is entirely engulfed in flames from the sudden attack.]

On the wildly shaking screen, the Cleanearth building spewing smoke from everywhere and glass pouring down.

And soldiers shooting guns toward the sky could be seen.

Kaboom!

The building kept exploding and the appearance of a person floating in midair in front of the building also passed briefly.

[That’s floating in the air, right?]

[We need to evacuate first!]

Everyone looked at each other with shocked eyes then dashed outside.

At that moment, one person appeared in the house yard through space-jump.

“Ahhh!”

The person who popped out from thin air was Sophia, completely messed up.

The moment she flailed and hit the floor, Sun-woo snatched her body.

Sophia who’d been stiffly frozen realized the person holding her was Sun-woo and let out a sigh of relief.

“Oh, we need to hurry! The branch is under attack.”

She chattered frantically toward Sun-woo.

“They suddenly appeared from the sky and inside the building and attacked. The gathered summoners couldn’t match them either. The branch director told me to go bring Sun-woo.”

Though it was rambling talk without order, having seen the broadcast, they could understand what her words meant.

Anyway, it was fortunate. No matter how Sun-woo was, going to Incheon with lightness skill took too much time.

“Let’s go.”

“Let’s go together!”

At Sun-woo’s words, the women rushed over hurriedly.

Caroline and Yeonhwa and Mingwei.

Though summoners with large gaps from Sun-woo, they were all people who decided to fight.

Sun-woo and the women placed their hands on Sophia, and Sophia jumped through space again.

The place where they reappeared was Cleanearth’s upper floor conference room.

But the conference room could no longer be called a conference room.

The walls and windows completely collapsed, even the outside and passage couldn’t be distinguished.

“Oh, I’m sorry. I moved hastily.”

Sophia seemed to have made another mistake, but this wasn’t a situation to blame her.

Gunfire sounded from all directions, explosions above the building, and people’s screams came from below.

“I’ll go up.”

Caroline, worried about the branch director, immediately ran toward the director’s office and Sophia chased after her.

“Hmm, then I’ll go down.”

Next, Yeonhwa tilted her head then started walking toward the stairs.

“Mingwei, please help Yeonhwa too.”

Sun-woo gave instructions to Mingwei who didn’t know what to do.

“Yes.”

At Sun-woo’s instruction, Mingwei ran following Yeonhwa.

“Upstairs is offensive type, below is mental type.”

Sun-woo, already grasping the ability users around, could roughly guess the level of enemies where they were going too.

“Need to handle this quickly and help.”

He sent them because the enemies inside the building were the weakest anyway, but it was something that could go either way.

“First, that bastard.”

Sun-woo looked outside that was blown open.

There, one shaman fluttering black robes was floating in the sky throwing black flames in all directions.

[Kyahahaha, everyone meet death!]

Making bizarre laughter sounds, he was a Blood Cult shaman. One of the Blood Cult’s top people not seen in the martial arts world.

Sun-woo’s body shot out of the building.