Chapter 145 – Gun & Sword (2)

The contaminated dogs were all killed by the wolf monsters and Snow Cat that Sun-woo summoned.

The wolf monsters also fought well against the contaminated dogs, but Snow Cat’s performance was dazzling.

Despite its small frame, with fast movements reminiscent of an absolute level expert, it bit the dogs’ necks with its mouth and tore them with its claws, cleaning them up one by one.

Sun-woo blew off the lion’s head with his sword, then rushed into where the containers were gathered.

He killed the summoner who remained there and chased the fleeing people, putting them to sleep one by one by pressing their pressure points.

The fleeing people seemed to be workers at this illegal breeding farm, not summoners or contaminated individuals.

Of course, they weren’t decent people.

However, since they weren’t contaminated, leaving them to the local police or association was sufficient.

After putting them to sleep, Sun-woo checked the abandoned cages and containers.

Inside the cages, equipment that automatically injected animals was installed.

Deep inside the container, there was a safe.

When Sun-woo infused internal energy into his sword and cut off just the door, packs filled with injection liquid poured out from the safe.

“From pills, now they’ve advanced to injections? Really, how far are they planning to go?”

Sun-woo, who was examining the injection liquid, had his expression darken at the thought that crossed his mind.

Sun-woo gathered the injection liquids and swept them into an empty backpack, then slung it over his shoulder. He planned to take them to Korea first.

After that, Sun-woo began placing his hands on the containers, cages, and dead summoners to check the past.

***

“Tsk! I saved money to buy magic bullets, but it doesn’t look cool at all. Should’ve just used them.”

Michael walked up to Sun-woo, who was lost in thought in front of the container, and sat down on a rolling box.

“Still, wasn’t it impressive? Putting magic in bullets—I never even thought of that.”

“Right? I saw that in the point shop and desperately saved money. It’s ridiculously expensive, too.”

“Is it that expensive?”

“Of course. Thanks to that, seeing ladies and drinking alcohol got cut in half. Me being abstinent—the world must be ending soon.”

Michael, who had been boasting proudly, made a gloomy expression again, but Sun-woo was picking up a bullet rolling on the ground and examining it from various angles.

“Hmm. So it’s like that?”

Sun-woo, who was examining the bullet, pressed another finger against it and muttered while drawing something.

After a moment, a small magic circle was engraved on the bullet.

Sun-woo threw the bullet toward the opposite container while quietly chanting a spell.

“Explode!”

Bang!

The moment the bullet hit the container wall, with a loud noise, a 1-meter diameter hole appeared in the container.

“Eh? You also have magic bullets?”

When Michael asked in bewilderment, Sun-woo answered.

“It seems the barrier magic and basic magic I learned take time and lack firepower. I think I need to study more and learn inscription magic too.”

“Wait, wait. So you just engraved magic onto that bullet?”

“It’s possible, but the performance is a bit inferior. It’s somewhat disappointing for my use.”

“No, wait. That’s you, but for other people, that… I mean, for someone like me, it’s a different story.”

Michael swiftly stood up and clung to Sun-woo. His sparkling eyes were very uncomfortable.

“Make some for me. No, can’t you make more? You can make them in your spare time. We’re comrades who share our lives.”

“Hmm, how many points per magic bullet?”

“Ugh. You’re planning to sell them?”

“I really like money. And it takes a lot of time to make one of these. Anyway, if I make them, I have to go through Michael, so you can take a cut in the middle.”

“Oh? You’re planning to do it properly?”

At Sun-woo’s words, Michael’s head started working busily.

“Really? How many are you planning to make? Hmm. If you make them in Korea, how do we transport them? Since they’re bullets, we’ll have to smuggle them, and the middle cut is…”

Sun-woo also conceived several magic circles in his head.

‘If I’m going to mass-produce them, I’ll need to learn several types of magic, including inscription magic.’

Even with current magic, he could make bullets sufficient for Michael’s use. However, since he was doing it anyway, he planned to make large quantities and sell them to summoners.

That way, it would greatly help strengthen the firepower of summoners who used guns.

Just by changing all basic bullets to magic bullets, it seemed possible to make the summoners here not inferior to summoners from other dimensions.

Because there were limits to improving weapon performance in this dimension.

‘And make some money in the process.’

Since he was living with Yeonhwa, he’d need a house with proper security systems and a sturdy car too.

Since there would be many places to spend money in the future, he had to earn it in advance.

“Let’s finish this mission first.”

Sun-woo brought Michael’s mind back, who was immersed in selling magic bullets.

“Ah, right. There was a mission?”

[All contamination sources have been eliminated. The sudden mission is over. Settlement will be processed together when the main mission ends.]

Unlike Michael, who was looking into the settlement window for a while, Sun-woo still had the main mission remaining.

Sun-woo recalled again the past scenes he found while checking the container just before.

The people and summoners who visited this place.

And the summoners who met the dead summoners.

This main mission also seemed like it would end soon.

***

Evening. Albert, who was called to the director’s office, boarded the elevator while frowning his sculptured forehead.

Director Garcia was already on the elevator, apparently also called.

“Do you know why we were called?”

“I don’t know either. From the tone, it seems like an important matter, but they didn’t tell me the reason.”

“Sigh, I’m losing my mind with accidents everywhere, and if more work piles up here, there’s really no solution.”

“But what can we do? At least we have to hold on.”

“It would’ve been better if at least the Korea branch stayed quiet, damn it. It’d be nice if the Korean summoners would rise up.”

“Don’t say such things carelessly. If rumors spread and summoners get hurt, that’s a problem.”

She gave Albert a stern warning with a hardened face.

Usually, she had an atmosphere like a kind-hearted lady, but she consistently became serious when it seemed summoners would be harmed.

“Tsk, I’ll be careful. Anyway, it all started because of that slippery summoner named Sun-woo or whatever.”

“Hoho, right. That ninja boy really became famous. There was even talk inside the company about making him a mascot.”

At Garcia’s words, Albert’s face twisted.

“That won’t happen. I’ll definitely block it.”

While the two were talking, the elevator arrived at the floor with the director’s office, and they immediately entered the director’s office.

The director was sitting on the sofa, looking at documents with a serious face.

“Both of you, sit down.”

At Douglas’s words, the two sat side by side in front of the director.

“What did you call us for?”

Albert asked the question as representative, but Douglas didn’t speak for a while.

Douglas, who had his eyes closed and was lost in thought, opened his mouth as if monologuing after a while.

“Yesterday, a mission came down from Summoner.”

He explained the mission’s contents to the two.

Hearing about the mission regarding traitors and brainwashed individuals, the two directors seemed very surprised.

“That’s absurd. A summoner being brainwashed is something we’ve never seen before. Plus a traitor? Could it be something the Korea branch did? It fits perfectly since they already betrayed and most mental ability users are there too.”

Albert, who had feelings about the Korea branch, immediately connected the Korea branch with the mission.

“Aren’t the Summoners mistaken?”

In contrast, Garcia had a very dark expression.

Despite the two’s opposition, Douglas continued speaking.

“After that, I investigated secretly from people, but nothing came out.”

“See? If it’s not the Korea branch, the Summoners got it wrong.”

Albert had an ‘I told you so’ expression, and Garcia breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Douglas’s words didn’t end there.

“The evidence came from elsewhere. Summoner Min Sun-woo, who was summoned when he received the mission, brought the evidence.”

Along with Douglas’s words, Sun-woo’s figure appeared from the shadows of the study.

“You!”

When Sun-woo appeared, Albert jumped up in surprise.

“Sit down first.”

At Douglas’s words, Albert calmed his excitement and sat down.

Sun-woo approached the sofa and explained about the terrorism and what happened at the dog breeding farm.

“With the information found there, we could back-trace the traitors and brainwashed individuals at the association headquarters. Director Douglas confirmed the traced people.”

While speaking, Sun-woo kept looking at Garcia.

As Sun-woo kept looking at her, Garcia smiled thinly and said,

“There shouldn’t have been any traces left there. Is it a superpower after all?”

Albert looked back and forth between Sun-woo and Garcia with a dumbfounded expression.

“What’s this?”

However, the other people in the room weren’t interested in Albert’s reaction.

“Garcia. The moment you entered this room, the operation against the traitors and brainwashed individuals began. Why on earth did you do this?”

Douglas’s tone changed.

It wasn’t the official tone between director and board member, but the tone of colleagues who spent a long time together.

“Huh, it’s been a while. Well, there’s no grand reason. A bit of pity for summoners who lose their lives caught up with the Summoners, some anger about friends who died, a spoonful of personal desire to resolve this situation.”

“It doesn’t make sense that for such reasons alone you’d act together with contaminated summoners!”

“And there’s one more thing.”

Garcia smiled slightly.

“When a mother’s son, who she thought was dead, comes back alive, she can’t help it.”

Douglas’s expression froze.

“Don’t tell me, Adelio is alive?”

Garcia nodded.

“I found out recently. He became contaminated, but the child was living well. Moreover, that child, who was a strong summoner, barely changed. So I tried to make a world where that child and I could live together, where all contaminated and uncontaminated people could live together.”

Her expression after finishing speaking looked very comfortable.

“Why did you commit terrorism against the Korea branch?”

Amidst the other directors freezing at Garcia’s words, Sun-woo asked her.

“That was to help with the publicity Albert and Douglas were doing, and to return the Korea branch, which was occupied by Empire refugees, to Koreans.”

She showed a somewhat ambiguous smile.

“And I wanted to warn everyone about contamination too. Really, it was an ambiguous thought in both ways. Like my situation.”

Then it happened. Summoner’s voice began reaching people’s ears.

[Sanctions begin against Summoner Garcia, who caused great damage to the summoner system and association.]

“I thought it would come someday, and that time is now.”

She looked around at the people in the room.

“Everyone, stay strong. And I’m sorry.”

She looked at Sun-woo lastly.

“If you meet Adelio later, send my regards. Though there’s still a big gap between you and Adelio, you seem to be the only summoner capable of facing my son. Of course I’ll cheer for my son, but… you stay strong too.”

[Various abilities and equipment provided are being deleted.]

[All memories since becoming a summoner are being deleted.]

Amidst the continuing voice, Garcia made a dazed expression.

[Lastly, reverting physical age and returning you to where you were first summoned.]

And she became white powder and scattered into the air.

Having spent as a summoner since the earliest days, she could no longer leave a body.

She returned to the sky.

Screams and fighting sounds faintly echoed from outside the director’s office.