Hermit Wizard

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Thanks to the transformation magic and forged passports prepared by the agents, Kim Gyeong-hwan easily boarded a plane to China. After less than two hours of flight, the North Gyeong Airport was waiting for a car, and Kim Gyeong-hwan took it with the agents.

“Get off.”

Soon after, the car door was reopened, which was the indoor parking lot of a building. Kim Kyung-hwan only assumed that it was less than an hour from the airport. However, only one thing was clear about this place.

‘This is not a Gramperi residence. ’

Weird magic that feels everywhere.

Kim Kyung-hwan looks down at a bracelet of metal wrapped tightly around her wrist. It is not intended to restrict behaviour like handcuffs, but it has a more definite effect than that. Kim Kyung-hwan couldn't use magic right now. It was also impossible to remove the bracelet with his own power.

However, Kim Kyung-hwan could not detect the magic power because it did not disappear to the senses. There are signs everywhere that the magic of the first line is created.

It was not the Gramferi method learned through Yoon Min-jun.

‘If it had been a Grampéry residence, it would have been so blatant. ’

Operations vary depending on whether the place of arrival is a Grampéry residence or not.

‘There are no allies here. ’

Kim Kyung-hwan moves according to the guidance of the agents, carving that fact in his head.

Upon taking the elevator connected to the underground parking lot, the elevator went down to a deeper underground instead of going up to the ground. The door reopened as soon as a small display marked the 8th floor of the basement.

The place of arrival was a transverse room with exposed walls and concrete on the floor. There was a chair in the middle, and there was a young Oriental man sitting.

The agents who brought Kim Kyung-hwan stood around as if they were blocking his back.

"Gulp."

Swallow the dried saliva. The tension that appeared on Kim Kyung-hwan's face was not smoke.

“What is it? Who is it? ”

However, unlike so far, the agents ignored Kim Kyung-hwan's question thoroughly. Like I promised.

A face that is completely different from when you put words on it, promising to guarantee freedom, wealth and honor.

‘This is an odd situation for anyone to see. ’

Rather than feeling the anxiety that clouds reason, Kim Kyung-hwan deliberately voices more than necessary.

“Was the person who wanted to talk to you that young? He's not a tall guy? ”

The young man who was sitting arose from his seat. Walk slowly to Kim Kyung-hwan. One step, one step. While approaching the street, no one else in the room opened their mouth.

I stopped close, and then I looked straight in the eye.

Kim Kyung-hwan's face is shaken by the opponent's pupil.

‘· · · What? ’

Kim Kyung-hwan felt a sense of brutality. I suddenly blurred my head as I counted the number of cases I would respond to. Confusion that tickles the surface of the brain.

The opponent seems to be talking to himself even though he can't hear a sound.

‘Aah? ’

Extremely heavy, absolute, irresistible, terrifying.

A voice that resonates in your heart. The power that leaks out of the eye.

It was telling itself to obey.

But it is.

“· · · hmm? ”

A man sounds unsatisfactory.

Kim Kyung-hwan barely swallowed his breath.

‘Oh, I almost moved on. ’

Before he was completely sober, the strange power that was penetrating into his head shrunk and retreated. Something inside Kim Kyung-hwan seems to resist the opponent's attempt.

“Holy shit.”

A man fills his tongue. I took my eyes off Kim Kyung-hwan and looked at the corner of the room ceiling. There was a camera.

“You know, it doesn't work. ”

He was speaking in English, and Kim Kyung-hwan did not fully understand the words, but likened the context to the atmosphere and circumstances.

You will say that you failed.

Then, in the speaker of the ceiling, a thick voice flowed out as if answering a man's words.

But your brainwashing worked for the wizard. How high is the Wizard Kim Gyeong-hwan?

Speaking through the Speaker, this was the Director of National Safety, Jinyen-Gwang. He is watching the situation in the control room in real time through a monitor in another room of this building.

“First of all, he's a much higher level than you know. But right now, this is not about your level as a wizard. Someone else, they put protection on that human mind. ”

Hmm, I can see who did it.

I could easily assume that Yoon Min Joon was unhappy.

So, instead of your fascination, let's take it our way.

Master asks.

“Can you completely conceal a lie? What if I only tell you part of the truth? ”

Proper carrots make it easy to open the opponent's mouth. However, the Chinese government was wary of Kim Kyung-hwan hiding the truth or lying at any motive. I don't want to leave any possibilities behind.

So I brainwashed him through Master's enchantment and then tried to find out about Yoon Min Joon, but unexpectedly that didn't work.

I didn't bring it in the first place for a gentleman's tale. There's a field we're good at.

“Are you trying to get a confession out of drugs and physical damage? ”

Yes. In our world, we are proud to be at the highest level.

Master shook his head.

“There's a lot better than that. Torture doesn't touch unconscious memories. ”

After speaking, Master Ro's face leather twitches with a rumbling sound.

“Ugh! ”

Even Chinese agents swallowed their breath in awe of him. A turbulent air bubble appears to boil under the epidermis over Master's face. After a while, a viscous purple liquid flowed from the left ear and left lacrimal gland of Master.

What the hell is that?

Master smiles and replies.

“It is the most effective instrument that I have received from him. Surface memory, of course, brings out all the memories under the forgotten consciousness. I'm going to make him tell me whether he really doesn't know where Yoon Min Joon is, as well as all the trivial things about Yoon Min Joon that he didn't even know he was remembering. ”

It is not simply to force obedience. The same technique that an old colleague, Valentine, was subjected to by his current owner.

“There are some side effects of brain injury, but it doesn't matter. If you see Yoon Min-jun letting this human be taken, you can't use him as a hostage, and he has no recyclable use. ”

The purple mucus that extends from his face lengthens and begins to reach towards Kim Kyung-hwan.

Kim Kyung-hwan looked at the scene and stepped back in fear.

“Hey, what's that? And what are you talking about? ”

He tries to flee from the direction the slime is coming, but the agents behind him stop him.

“Hey, let go of me! ”

Kim Kyung-hwan cries out close to the scream. The voice was split.

“You said you guaranteed freedom! Wealth and honor! They make you a star! Oh, fuck, I knew it! ”

Mucus that stretches like a peep of a finger gradually approaches Kim Kyung-hwan's face.

“Oh, no. Help me! I did it wrong! I really don't know where Yoon Min Joon is! ”

On the outside, he cried out in a rush to someone else.

‘Still? There's enough time left to pick up the coordinates! ’

A cry in my heart that I forgot the rest of my respect in haste.

Then, a voice echoed in my head.

The opponent that Kim Kyung-hwan was looking for and shouting so bitterly.

It was Yoon Min-jun.

I got the coordinates. Come on, you motherfuckers. I thought it was a miracle the Chinese and the traffickers were eating together, but you were holding hands with a bigger black tent, right? What did you believe and make this up? ’

Kim Kyung-hwan seemed to cry.

‘No, it's so flat now! ’

I didn't know exactly what that mucus was, but I had a feeling that if I came into contact with it, I wouldn't die equally. Inside, there was an ominous power that was unparalleled.

"Yoon Demon Joo Woo Woo!"

With a slightly stiff voice, Yoon Min-jun said in his head,

‘Sorry. It took me a while to get there. We'll be arriving. Get ready!’

As soon as he heard that, Kim Kyung-hwan memorized the spell by starting the operation in his head. A spell that forms a shield that protects the entire body of the alcoholic.

One of the Chinese agents recognizes and laughs at his attempts.

“Huh. It's no use. The restraint is designed to be broken even if dozens of senior Grampery Wizards run in. It was designed to catch them in the first place. ”

Kim Kyung-hwan completed the spell without hesitating. However, the horsepower does not react in the body. There is no fuel to trigger the order.

“Stop giving up. ”

In Kim Kyeong-hwan's head, Yoon Min-jun's voice echoes.

‘· · · Right now! ’

The moment it fell.

Guuuuuuu!

Like an earthquake, everyone in the room shook.

“Well, what is it! ”

“Khh! ”

Then, the agents who stopped Kim Kyung-hwan are pushed back. Even Master Romulus retreated a few steps. An invisible wall is driving them away.

It was the magic shield surrounding Kim Kyung-hwan that bounced off the agent and the Old Testament's lion.

What's going on?

The Chief of National Security, who confirmed that CCTV agents were making a blunder.

What's that around Kim Kyung-hwan? Explain the situation!

One of the agents in the room looks at the camera and reports.

“All of a sudden, a huge magical force boils around you! I think that shield was also made by Kim Kyung-hwan! ”

What?!

It sounds absurd.

What are you talking about? You filled your hands with magic restraints! Defeat him now!

The Chinese wizards' spell is pouring towards Kim Kyung-hwan. But the shields surrounding him bounced off all those attempts.

What are you doing?

The bracelet with Kim Kyung-hwan in both hands was amalgamated while the speaker continued to communicate and the attack was concentrated. And · · ·!

It's sunny!

The restraints were destroyed because they could not withstand the horsepower absorbed above capacity. Fragments of metal roll on the floor.

“Hey, is that broken? What a great magical power! ”

On the other hand, unlike Chinese agents, Master was looking at the flow of horsepower in detail.

That boiling magic power did not suddenly spring out of Kim Kyung-hwan's body. In the first place, his body had no magical storage artifacts that made that possible. I finished my search.

The shield spell that Kim Kyung-hwan was trying to activate was not originally triggered because of the restraints. But now, the magical power that even the Redeemer could not handle, ‘straightened' his body and lifted up inside Kim Kyung-hwan's body without any resistance, and he fulfilled the spell!

Master opens his eyes.

‘That magic power is being transmitted outside the building! ’

He knew what to call the situation now.

Remote horsepower charge.

‘That's ridiculous! A human being without an artifact in the water as an object? ’

It is common sense that the sender and receiver should be in close contact when transmitting magic power. Conductivity is the worst when the air is conveyed into the medium as it is today. There is no artifact for Kim Gyeong-hwan to induce and store the flow of magic power. 99.9999% of the horsepower the sender is now firing will be lost during the course of the mission. The further the distance, the higher the rate of disappearance.

"Even after you lost that much, that powerful magical power? ’

It was an impossible phenomenon unless the horsepower of the sender was infinite.

“Aye!”

Master also attacked Kyung-hwan Kim with magic, but the shield is not shiny.

‘It's a simple order. But the magical power to support it is unimaginable! ’

In the meantime, Kim Kyung-hwan, behind the shield, was just about to get sleepy because of the sensation she had never felt before. The power to fill the horsepower circuit in the body is consumed for the shield and replenished at the same speed as the light. The reaction was more intense as the bowl was smaller.

‘I think my body is on fire! ’

It was the pain of wanting to give up everything.

But! If you pass out now, it's all a waste! ’

I heard a broken tooth. But the pain in my body was so devastating that I was not even aware of it as pain.

Kim Kyung-hwan puts on a shield and prepares his next spell.

Initially, it is impossible to trigger another order, i.e., multitasking, while maintaining one order. Most wizards have common sense, and most of the spells Kim Kyung-hwan has learned.

Except for the kind of magic you're trying right now.

Kim Kyung-hwan was trying the magic for the first time today, which never happened after receiving the order.

Lips sprout and spit out the promised starter language.

“Chain of Termyos! ”

Around Kim Kyung-hwan's protective shield, grey smoke emanates.

“No!”

Through a horrible voice, Kim Kyung-hwan weaves a dozen strands of fog into a rope and shoots forward.

“That's it!”

It was the first attempt, but God's spell is fully implemented without being bound by the caster's experience or knowledge.

With Yoon Min-jun's help, he offered the sacrifice and received the spell, but he never tried it because he lacked the magic to activate it.

It is an order that I have prepared for this moment.

Whirlick!

A chain of fog wrapped around his body. Thanks to more than imagined horsepower, the power of spells was amplified close to its limits.

“Ugh!”

Kim Kyung-hwan pulls the fog chain towards her caster. I was close until I almost touched the two of them.

But Master was also not only being cheated. He struggled with his magic power, and Kim Kyung-hwan's spell began to be shaken by its influence. Situations that cannot be sustained for long.

‘It's okay. You just have to hold on for a few seconds! ’

He shouted at Yoon Min-jun, who was listening.

“Open it!”

At that moment, a huge blue disc appeared in the room. A portal filled with boiling light inside.

Agents shout like screams behind their backs.

“It's a channel!”

Kim Kyung-hwan turns his head. I threw a chilly glance at the Chinese agents who were standing without knowing what to do.

There were only grudges left against China. The Chinese killed all the Bureau agents, the innocent soldiers who were protecting themselves, and they had to live in hiding after fleeing to guard China, even this time brainwashing her and threatening her.

But it's the end of the bad year.

Kim Kyung-hwan cast a cold voice. A calm voice, completely different from when you were screaming while you were shaking. Tell those who will remain here.

“In the future, we won't be able to get involved. ”

Wouldn't you at least have to stay hidden to get involved?

Kim Kyung-hwan threw himself into the channel without delay. He and Master, linked by a magic chain, are also drawn to him and concealed within the portal. As soon as the two disappeared, the channel also disappeared.

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“Hey, what's that? ”

In the same building, the command and control room.

In front of the big screen, National Safety Director Jin Yen Gwang stood dumb. I could not believe what had just happened inside the screen, even though I saw it with two eyes.

“Bo, report! ”

As well as Kim Kyung-hwan's escape, Master Byung-ro, who had passed on the knowledge of martial arts that would be comparable to that of the Gramperi, disappeared. He was dragged beyond the unknown channel, where he had been pierced, the lion of the savior in charge of the transfer.

“What happens when the lions disappear, the ‘them’ we've been preparing for? ”

A car that was confused about how to report this incident to the top.

“Emergency communication!”

News of an agent who jumped heavily.

“There was an armed conflict between our agent and the Grampers at the North Shore residence! ”

Jin Yen Guang felt his legs loosen.

“What are you talking about! ”

“The Grampers have flocked and broken into the no-go zone. To stop them, the Gramferi attacked our agents with magic first. The personnel at the research complex are not enough to fight back. Brigades from the 38th Army are gathering in the field. ”

Jin Yen Guangqang was vicious. For Gramperi, the Chinese plan was strictly confidential so that it would not leak out. But how?

I heard a sharp cry breaking his mind before I even continued to think more.

“Look at that! ”

The screaming agent points to the screen with his finger. One of the dozens of screens installed in the command and control room represented an external view.

Jin Yen Guang opens his mouth.

“What the hell is going on! ”

Upon the secret base of the National Intelligence Department where they were gathered, a huge door was emerging. It covered the peaceful blue sky in the middle of the day, revealing its usefulness and devouring space.

Someone murmured.

“· · · Channel. ”

The circle of light, which seemed to expand endlessly, finally stopped expanding and looked down at the building on the ground.

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