Chapter 200 – Who Are You (3)

It was certain Adelio didn’t earn his position as the world’s top ability user for nothing.

He noticed Sun-woo bursting out from the opposite side before reaching the ground.

Instantly the Vulcan cannon and armored vehicle barrels turned toward Sun-woo, but they couldn’t follow the speed of a master beyond supreme peak.

Sun-woo, who landed on the ground before the gun barrels pointed at him, threw his sword toward the armored vehicle while charging at Adelio.

Swish!

The sword flying like a beam of light instantly split the armored vehicle in half then shot up into the sky.

Though the armored vehicle’s shell was an incredibly thick lump of iron, it couldn’t block Sun-woo’s sword wrapped in sword energy.

The armored vehicle split in half along with its barrel.

At the same time, Sun-woo charging at Adelio with a fist compressed with sword energy felt a chilling sensation seeing Adelio’s face.

Adelio looking at him had ridicule hanging from his mouth directed at Sun-woo.

‘Don’t tell me, a trap?’

Though he could block bullets, the uneasy feeling remained.

Sun-woo urgently stopped his steps and fully drew up body enhancement and internal energy.

Wrapping internal energy all over his body, Sun-woo’s eyes saw Adelio snapping his fingers.

Sun-woo used transmission to shout strongly in all directions.

‘Take cover!’

The moment Adelio snapped his fingers.

Weapons scattered around and explosive boxes, and magazines and grenades hanging on corpses.

And even the split armored vehicle’s shells all simultaneously emitted bright light.

Kwaaaaang!

With a tremendous explosion, a massive detonation occurred where Adelio was.

Flames soaring over several dozen meters swept surrounding buildings and all windows in the area shattered from the heat.

Simultaneously, one side of the Cleanearth building was smashed, and the adjacent building already heavily damaged from attacking Sun-woo couldn’t hold any longer and started collapsing.

A tremendous explosion.

Looking like several tons of explosives detonated simultaneously, the area instantly turned into chaos.

Moreover, where Sun-woo and Adelio were, flames kept burning with smoke.

Tututututu!

Along with that, attack helicopters appeared from behind the Cleanearth building.

Apache helicopters belonging to US forces stationed nearby.

The two helicopters started pouring their Hellfire missiles toward the main road in front of smoke-rising Cleanearth.

Shushushushuk!

Thanks to both helicopters pouring all 16 Hellfire missiles each toward the flames, the slightly calming heat soared up like fireworks again.

One man walked out through flames soaring like fireworks.

It was Adelio.

An appearance where flames seemed to avoid him.

Like a great being appearing parting flames.

“Tsk, even this much is too much?”

He looked backward with a regretful expression. In his eyes appeared a road section protruding from the center of the flames.

The road that was flat until moments ago, which surged up the moment he used his ability to surround Sun-woo.

Adelio made a regretful expression.

[Firepower Amplification]

His most powerful ability that could control all weapons around him.

An ability gained the moment he was contaminated, that could forcibly detonate explosives and amplify that firepower several to tens of times stronger.

Explosions caused using this ability didn’t harm him so he often used it as a final blow, but even so, this time he couldn’t catch his opponent.

Of course, with an explosion like this, he was certainly quite injured, but no need to risk danger to confirm.

Moreover, all the comrades he brought were certainly dead, so though regrettable, better to pull out first.

“With the Demon Lord descending, no need to take unnecessary risks.”

As he turned his head from the flames and looked at the sky, one helicopter floating in the air descended.

He jumped onto the helicopter hovering 10 meters above ground, forcibly opened the cockpit window, and threw out the slumped pilot.

The pilot fell to the ground already dead or slumped over.

He glanced at the copilot slumped in the back seat then got in the cockpit and started piloting the helicopter.

Though he could control it using his ability, he preferred piloting by hand.

“If I’d known this would happen, should’ve left together.”

Since the space ability user who brought the party here returned, going back immediately was difficult.

He could call via satellite phone, but due to the distance, time was needed for the space ability user to recover ability.

Better to avoid and buy time before returning.

He glanced out the window at the helicopter floating beside him.

When he looked, the helicopter urgently accelerated forward.

Target was the half-destroyed Cleanearth building in front.

Kwang!

Moments later, the helicopter rammed into the Cleanearth building’s side and caused an explosion.

“Tsk, bringing it down is too much.”

The building swayed from continued shocks, but perhaps because it was a cutting-edge building made with strong seismic design, it withstood the impact again this time.

Seemed nothing was going his way this time.

Confirming even revenge for dead comrades failed, he turned the helicopter toward the US military base.

He came too hastily. Though he didn’t plan to fight again anyway, defense preparations needed making until departure time.

With weapons and spare explosives the US forces stationed in Korea had, effects equivalent to nuclear explosion could be achieved.

Whether he himself could withstand that much was unknown, but leaving a gift of massive explosion on departure didn’t seem bad.

“But seems faster and stronger than when I saw before. What kind of growth speed does that guy have?”

When he saw him on monitors before, he was an enemy who seemed sufficiently manageable.

That’s why he rushed here immediately upon hearing news, but losing all subordinates and leaving fleeing like this.

It was absurd.

“Wanted to finish with these hands but regrettable. Can’t be helped. The Demon Lord will handle it.”

He lowered the flying helicopter’s nose.

Normally he didn’t need to worry even if caught on radar, but now having used [Firepower Amplification] to the maximum, even a few missiles weren’t trivial.

“About 1 hour for ability to recover? By then while returning can leave a few bombs.”

Thud.

As he muttered while lowering the nose for a while, a palm suddenly plopped on his head.

The copilot’s hand from the back seat. Because he lowered the nose, the corpse tipped over this way.

“Seriously, everything’s annoying.”

Perhaps accumulated irritation burst, Adelio’s hand strongly swatted away the corpse’s hand.

But Adelio’s hand couldn’t swat away the corpse’s hand.

Swish!

Rather, Adelio’s swatting hand was severed at the wrist.

“That explosion. You can’t use it now, right?”

The hand on Adelio’s head strongly gripped his head.

Sun-woo’s voice came from behind.

Adelio’s neck slowly turned backward by Sun-woo’s hand.

And instead of a corpse, Adelio saw Sun-woo half-lying on the copilot panel.

“Really didn’t expect you could use such tremendous technique, what can I say. Thanks to that, using transmission to evacuate people, digging tunnels to secretly come up the other side, secretly boarding the helicopter pretending to be a corpse. Was frantically busy.”

Even though Sun-woo was sighing and talking right before his eyes, Adelio couldn’t react at all.

Already suppressed by Sun-woo’s internal energy, he couldn’t budge hands or feet.

Moreover, with one wrist already severed and neck bones on the verge of breaking, even keeping consciousness was hard.

“Lucky I boarded this helicopter or would’ve done useless work.”

While Sun-woo rambled on like that, the helicopter rapidly approached the ground.

Simultaneously, the pistol placed beside the cockpit gradually changed direction toward Sun-woo.

“Tsk, hoped you’d drag out time more but quick to give up.”

The moment the pistol pointed at Sun-woo about to pull the trigger, Sun-woo’s hand gripping Adelio’s head rotated strongly.

Crack!

The sound of neck bones breaking came, and the pistol dropped to the floor.

Simultaneously the helicopter lost propulsion and started crashing to the ground.

“Eek!”

Sun-woo hastily smashed the window and shot upward.

And the helicopter crashed as is into some unknown park and exploded.

Kwang!

“Demon Lord?”

Slowly climbing atop a streetlight beside the park, Sun-woo looked at the western sky rising with smoke.

Sun-woo just saw in Adelio’s past that they were preparing Demon Lord summoning.

Making all of Eastern Europe into a contaminated zone was just these people’s preparatory work for summoning the Demon Lord.

“But can they summon the Demon Lord without contaminating the whole world? It’s just a few Eastern European countries?”

If that degree could summon the Demon Lord’s main body, several Demon Lords would have appeared in the Empire.

But there, the Demon Lord only appeared after contaminating the entire dimension.

“Well, they’re the guys who shot missiles to create contaminated zones, who knows what else they prepared.”

Muttering alone for a moment, Sun-woo let out a small sigh.

His appearance didn’t seem normal. Just moments ago too, though there were other methods, he was rambling toward a dying enemy, and even now wasn’t concerned about civilian casualties.

“Are emotions worn down? Or because of skills?”

But no way to confirm now. Moreover, a situation where he couldn’t take out demonic energy outside contaminated zones.

“First, let’s return.”

Sun-woo glanced at the burning helicopter then leaped toward the west rising with smoke.

***

The Incheon Free Economic Zone where Cleanearth was located was chaos itself.

Sudden explosions and gunfire, and combat including helicopters made countless people fall into panic and scatter in all directions.

And the subsequent massive explosion brought shock to its peak.

Returning to the Cleanearth building at tremendous speed, Sun-woo saw people’s panic with both eyes.

People sitting collapsed with souls gone and people crawling on all fours trying to escape somehow.

And people covered in blood requesting help.

But Sun-woo ignored them and ran to the Cleanearth building on the verge of collapse.

And Sun-woo could let out a sigh of relief.

Because Yeonhwa and Caroline were safe.

Though he informed via transmission, being certain of their safety was difficult.

Since the reason for luring Adelio outside while hiding was them, their safety was more fortunate than anything.

Fortunately, the branch director and Mingwei also seemed to have escaped safely.

However, people gathered outside the building together with Yeonhwa and Caroline weren’t very many.

Though Sophia kept transporting people via space-jump, living people didn’t seem many.

When Sun-woo appeared everyone was glad, but their expressions darkened again hearing Sun-woo’s words.

“A Demon Lord appearing… Doesn’t feel real.”

The branch director’s words were everyone’s feelings.

After such chaotic events, a more severe problem. Almost felt like hating Sun-woo who brought the story.

“Ugh, anyway must notify everyone.”

The branch director raised his injured body then started contacting other branches.

And Sun-woo also jumped into the building to help people rescue the injured.

The moment Sun-woo jumped up, the trigger of a rifle placed on the ground briefly clicked.