Chapter 80 – Under City (5)
by Heavenly CatFacing a contaminated psychic ability user, Michael was extremely irritated.
“Why is everything getting so messed up!”
And while Michael grumbled and raised his gun, there was someone who jumped out first among the party.
It was the first-rate martial artist holding a spear. Having barely survived a near-death crisis from contaminated people above, he reflexively threw his body at the word “contaminated.”
Though he couldn’t compare to the super-absolute Spear Absolute or absolute-level Nan-seol, his spear having reached nearly the end of first-rate was quite frightening.
But the lightning-fast thrusted spear pierced empty air, and instead he was struck in the neck by a frail woman’s fist and collapsed.
At that sight, everyone made surprised expressions. Psychic ability user Silvia had overwhelmed a first-rate martial artist.
Of course, though they said physical abilities and powers were strengthened when contaminated, it was incomprehensible. Moreover, absolute-level martial artists Sun-woo and Nan-seol became even more serious seeing her movements.
Silvia’s movements weren’t trained movements of martial arts or knights. The fight just now between the two people was like a scene from an action movie with choreographed moves.
It felt like Silvia had ducked her body in advance, then the spear passed over her head, and the martial artist offered his neck to the fist she thrust out.
“Damn! She has a trick!”
Ratatatat!
The moment the martial artist fell, Michael’s gun spewed fire. The automatically aimed rifle poured dozens of bullets at where she was, but she was already not there.
The moment the gun pointed at her, she had already dodged.
Bang!
At the same time, the female summoner holding a sniper rifle shot at where she had dodged. Fortunately, having received bullets in advance because the gun was compatible with Michael’s gun helped at times like this.
“This makes no sense.”
But her bullet also didn’t hit Silvia. The bullet flying toward her head just passed beside Silvia’s head as she tilted her head.
“Could she be reading opponents’ minds and moving in advance?”
At Nan-seol’s question, Sun-woo tilted his head. Though Nan-seol’s words seemed reasonable since Silvia was a psychic ability user, it seemed not just that.
While the two spoke, Silvia dodged as if knowing in advance which direction bullets would fly, and though the mage participated midway and threw magic like fireballs, they couldn’t catch her.
Hayden was also using abilities toward Silvia, but Silvia was avoiding places before Hayden used his abilities.
Fortunately, Daniel was guarding like iron in front of the spatial ability user so it looked okay, but Silvia’s appearance dodging attacks from numerous ability users was enough to dishearten the summoners.
“Still, she’s not escaping outside.”
“I blocked all passages going outside the building.”
At Sun-woo’s words, Nan-seol smiled. He was truly excellent regarding combat sense.
“Then, should I move now? I just need to subdue her?”
She had observed the opponent sufficiently. Whether she moved by reading opponents’ minds or had another ability, the moving speed itself couldn’t follow an absolute martial artist.
“Depending on the situation, I’ll join too.”
Hearing Sun-woo’s words, Nan-seol shot toward Silvia, and Sun-woo raised his hand to stop the party’s attacks.
To support matching Nan-seol’s attack speed, Nan-seol’s movements were too fast. Only Sun-woo could barely follow her speed.
An absolute expert’s lightness kung fu and footwork boasted speed where ordinary people could barely grasp the appearance. Nan-seol arrived before Silvia with an absolute expert’s fast lightness kung fu, and her sword was swung like a beam of light toward Silvia.
Though she had told Sun-woo she would subdue her, her sword looked full of intent to shed blood.
It wasn’t attacking with the sword’s back, and the speed wasn’t slow. The sword shooting unhesitatingly toward the opponent’s vital points looked completely unrestrained.
‘Just don’t kill her. Sun-woo-nim’s medicine exists too.’
While thinking carelessly, Nan-seol swung her sword toward Silvia.
But this time too, the sword didn’t touch Silvia’s body.
Nan-seol’s eyes widened. She hadn’t expected Silvia could dodge even her sword.
The swordsmanship just used was swordsmanship where the body followed the head. Such swordsmanship embodied in the body through tens of thousands of swings or more, it wasn’t swung by thinking with the head.
‘She’s not reading opponents’ minds and moving?’
Continuously swinging her sword, Nan-seol felt extremely confused. The other summoners probably felt the same feeling as her a moment ago.
Fortunately, Silvia was busy just dodging Nan-seol’s attacks. Though it was amazing she could dodge with movements several times slower, Nan-seol was an absolute-level martial artist. It was impossible for Silvia to attack Nan-seol.
“My goodness, I had my suspicions, but. Was it all planned?”
Sun-woo looked at the prophet lying beside Hayden with an absurd expression. Hayden had subtly pulled her over with telekinesis during the fight, and fortunately she didn’t seem dead yet.
Though he was uncertain before Nan-seol stepped forward, now it was certain.
Silvia was seeing the future.
Dodging others’ attacks could be possible by stealing thoughts and dodging, but Nan-seol’s attacks were absolutely impossible that way.
The prophet had said she was also a kind of psychic ability user, so it seemed psychic ability user Silvia also became able to see the future when contaminated.
Sun-woo breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn’t blocked the entrances first upon discovering Silvia was contaminated, she definitely would have escaped. And what would have happened after that.
“If it’s the prophet’s plan, there should still be a chance, right? So, then plan 2…”
Sun-woo, who had been gauging several methods to catch Silvia, selected one plan among them. Sun-woo placed his hand on the floor and looked at Nan-seol and Silvia.
That moment, Silvia’s red eyes trembled violently. She urgently tried to dodge, but Nan-seol was swinging her sword before her.
“As expected, you can’t see undecided futures well. Try dodging if you can.”
Crash!
The entire place where Silvia and Nan-seol were collapsed downward at once. Naturally, both Nan-seol and Silvia fell underground.
The earth kept collapsing. The earth that collapsed dozens of meters downward finally stopped moving, and people looked back at Sun-woo with absurd expressions.
“No, there was no need to drop Nan-seol too.”
Everyone seemed to agree with Michael’s thoughts, but if he hadn’t done so, they couldn’t have caught Silvia.
And Nan-seol was an absolute martial artist. There was no reason to worry about her.
Swoosh!
Nan-seol burst out of the hole. With absolute-level Huashan lightness kung fu, this height wasn’t difficult.
However, for Silvia who didn’t have great physical abilities, escaping was impossible.
“You worked hard.”
“Sun-woo-nim’s words were right. I would have struggled alone.”
Before Nan-seol stepped forward, Sun-woo had requested she continue holding onto Silvia if subduing became difficult.
And Nan-seol had followed Sun-woo’s instructions to the end.
Sun-woo and the party approached beside the huge hole and looked down.
At the bottom far below, red-eyed Silvia was glaring at the party.
“What now?”
At Hayden’s question, Sun-woo extended his hand toward the hole.
“Crazy! Don’t!”
Silvia shouted in surprise, but Sun-woo didn’t stop. Earth began pouring inside the pit. Silvia kept screaming, but earth continuously poured over her, and shortly after she was buried in earth.
Sun-woo expressionlessly poured earth to fill the hole again, and others looked at Sun-woo with aghast expressions.
“If you’re going to kill her, wouldn’t it be better to kill her nicely with a gun? Ah, she dodges so maybe not.”
“But can we just kill her? The people here will have difficulty believing…”
At Michael and Daniel’s questions, Sun-woo didn’t answer and kept standing with a thoughtful expression.
Time passed, and when people except Nan-seol made bewildered expressions, Sun-woo’s sorcery moved the earth again.
The earth that had filled the hole moved, then shortly after Silvia’s face revealed itself from beneath the earth.
Silvia still wasn’t dead.
Her silver hair and neat face were a mess with earth, and her face turned white from oxygen deprivation began returning to its original color.
She had fainted from fear and oxygen deprivation.
‘Tsk, will this become trauma…’
But seeing contaminated summoners, it was hard to be considerate. Perhaps Sun-woo himself had trauma embedded.
Sun-woo took out his phone and checked the inventory.
A powder icon was blinking in one corner of the inventory.
<Anti-Contamination Spreading Agent>
It was the raw material of the contamination spreading agent the Divine Maiden had changed. Sun-woo had already returned Caroline to normal with this powder medicine.
“It’s not too late, right?”
Though more time had passed than with Caroline, trusting the prophet, he poured the powder medicine into Silvia’s mouth.
Fortunately, having fainted with her mouth open, the powder medicine went down her throat with saliva.
The next moment, Silvia’s face contorted in pain. And screams poured into the party’s heads.
For a while, Silvia eventually fell asleep with a peaceful face.
At the same time, the murky energy disappeared from her body, and her eyes checked by lifting her eyelids had also returned to normal.
“Did all the futures you saw come true?”
Looking at the prophet leaning against Hayden, Sun-woo threw a question.
“Hehe, yes. Barely, barely all came true.”
The old prophet opened her mouth while gasping. She looked clearly exhausted at a glance.
But she was extremely satisfied. The future she had created piece by piece with her own hands was now complete.
This underground city would now be self-sufficient without water worries, and after her death, new prophet Silvia would lead this place.
And the remaining aftermath was work the summoners here had to resolve. She had done everything she could do.
“I’m truly grateful to you all. Unfortunately, we have nothing, so it’s difficult to repay much. Please consider sending you back home as repayment for our gratitude.”
The prophet spoke while looking straight at Sun-woo. Though she probably thanked everyone, it seemed like words to Sun-woo.
For Sun-woo too, that was sufficient. No skill slots remained, and the cost of her skill he secretly checked with his phone was points impossible for Sun-woo to afford.
Though he felt somewhat regretful, just being able to return home was sufficient repayment.
“Preparations are complete. Everyone come to my side.”
The spatial ability user who had opened his eyes at some point called the party to his side. He showed no expression change despite experiencing all this. He seemed to have heard something from the prophet.
The party briefly agonized then approached the spatial ability user.
But one person in the party. Hayden, holding the prophet, didn’t move.
“I will remain.”
At his words, the party all nodded with gloomy expressions. This was his world, everyone had expected he would remain.
“There should still be many people who can be saved. If lucky, we can find more spatial ability users and find an easier way to go back and forth.”
“Cough. You’ll be able to find them.”
At Hayden’s words, the prophet answered.
“Well, it won’t take long.”
“I’ll return soon.”
“We’ll meet again soon.”
People’s farewells continued, and Sun-woo also waved to Hayden.
Shortly after, with Hayden and the prophet in his arms watching, the party crossed dimensions by the spatial ability user’s hands.
Watching that sight, the prophet also ended her life’s journey here according to her foresight with a satisfied smile.
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