The Spatial Ability User Who Puts Safety Above All Chapter 88

Misunderstanding (1)

 

Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu returned to Korea after nearly 70 days.

During their time in Hawaii, the two had trained extensively, and as a result, Cheon Li Yu’s combat abilities had now become completely different from before.

The Divine Eye ability was definitely not an ordinary power.

Being able to see everything in the world ultimately meant being able to clearly see the opponent’s movements as well. Because of that, she had gained defensive capabilities outstanding enough that she wouldn’t fall behind any high-ranker.

Even Seon Yul evaluated that, when it came purely to defense, she was better than him.

Having achieved what they considered a fairly satisfying training result, the two returned to Korea for a short period of preparation before their next hunt.

In Cheon Li Yu’s case, she had decided that this time she would officially declare a temporary retirement, so she was planning to prepare a press conference and make the announcement as soon as possible.

Naturally, the place the two returned to was Seon Yul’s studio apartment.

Since they had also departed from this place when they left, Cheon Li Yu’s yellow Lamborghini Urus had been parked in the underground parking lot of the building.

In case other people might recognize it, they had covered the car with a protective cover and had also informed the building manager that it would be parked there long-term for several months. Naturally, they had already paid the parking fees, so there was nothing particularly suspicious about it.

As soon as they returned, the two got into that car and headed toward Cheon Li Yu’s house.

Originally, Cheon Li Yu had planned to go alone, but Seon Yul accompanied her to discreetly move the Legendary Shield he had given her as a gift near the end of her training.

After leaving the apartment building in the Urus, the two entered Gangbyeonbuk-ro to head toward Cheon Li Yu’s house.

And during that process, Cheon Li Yu’s Urus was naturally captured by several traffic information cameras.

This information was then detected by a hacker from China’s intelligence agency, who had been searching desperately for Cheon Li Yu and her vehicle.

After discovering Cheon Li Yu, the hacker immediately reported it to China, and China quickly shared the information with Black Mamba’s side.

Having finally located Cheon Li Yu after countless hardships, they did not hesitate even for a moment and immediately moved.

Black Mamba and the Ten Kings received real-time updates on the location of the Urus Cheon Li Yu was riding in and quickly moved ahead of the vehicle’s predicted route.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government caused a major accident on the outskirts of Seoul by overturning a truck loaded with hazardous materials so that the Korean side wouldn’t notice what was happening.

Not only that, they planted a real bomb near the Seoul World Cup Stadium and even reported a bomb terror threat.

On top of that, they mobilized a large number of hackers to disable all the traffic information cameras in Seoul, creating an environment where Black Mamba and the Ten Kings could move freely.

China, which had prepared all of this in advance long ago, laid out the stage incredibly quickly. Thanks to that, Black Mamba and the Ten Kings were able to appear in front of the Urus carrying Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu in the blink of an eye.

The place Black Mamba and the Ten Kings selected as their battle point was Hannam Bridge.

The Ten Kings had already blocked off Hannam Bridge and removed all the other vehicles around it.

And as soon as the Lamborghini Urus carrying Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu entered Hannam Bridge, the four Ten Kings who had been waiting immediately blocked the rear as well and threw every obstructing vehicle off the bridge.

KWA-GWA-GWA-GWAANG!

Dozens of cars fell off the bridge and exploded.

The Ten Kings had absolutely no interest in the sacrifices of ordinary civilians and handled the situation swiftly.

Because of that rapid action, the yellow Urus carrying Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu was instantly isolated in the middle of Hannam Bridge.

Screeeeeech!

Cheon Li Yu immediately stopped the car and looked forward.

“…This is definitely wrong, right?”

“Seems like it.”

The two spoke while looking at several large foreign men standing ahead of them.

“Let’s get out first.”

Seon Yul got out of the car with Cheon Li Yu.

It didn’t feel great to return to Korea only to encounter another ambush immediately, but they had to deal with the situation first.

After getting out and looking around, there were about four large foreign men behind them and about five in front.

Among the foreigners in front, one man was particularly huge.

That man was Black Mamba.

He was over two meters tall, and his entire body was made of solid muscle.

Because they were the elastic muscles characteristic of a black man, he looked like a giant gorilla standing upright.

And Black Mamba was now clearly confirming the target he had designated.

‘AbsoluteSafetyFirst!! As expected, you were together.’

When he left the safe house earlier, he had already activated Target Designation, and as he approached the place where Cheon Li Yu was reported to be, he was able to see a person glowing red standing next to her.

This red glow emitted by the designated target could only be seen by Black Mamba.

“AbsoluteSafetyFirst!!!!”

The moment Black Mamba confirmed Seon Yul, he burst into manic laughter and shouted.

At that moment, Seon Yul felt a sense of incongruity.

‘He recognized me?’

Even if he had been with Cheon Li Yu, it felt extremely strange that someone could identify his identity so instantly.

“Li Yu, if things get dangerous, I’ll open the entrance…”

Seon Yul tried to evacuate Cheon Li Yu first, thinking safety was more important than hiding his identity or abilities right now.

But at that very moment…

“Space Designation!!”

Black Mamba stretched out his right hand toward Seon Yul and shouted.

And astonishingly, the space where Seon Yul had been standing changed.

Fwaaaaaaash!

Everything disappeared, and within a circular area only about 20 meters in diameter, only Seon Yul and Black Mamba were standing.

Above them, a hemispherical opaque barrier of unknown nature sealed the space.

It felt like being trapped in a 1-on-1 deathmatch arena.

This was the final technique of Black Mamba’s awakened ability, ‘Space and Target Designation [Space Designation]’.

This technique could only be used on someone he had designated as a target, and only when the target was directly visible to the naked eye.

When activated, both the user and the target would be trapped together inside a hemispherical space 20 meters in diameter and 10 meters in maximum height.

And inside this space, Black Mamba received the buff ‘Room-Corner Overlord.’

Room-Corner Overlord was essentially a physical enhancement buff that allowed him to exercise the power of an overlord within this small room-like space.

And it wasn’t just a slight enhancement.

With the Room-Corner Overlord buff, Black Mamba’s physical strength became comparable to that of Captain A, a member of the Seven Stars and praised as America’s number one hero.

Of course, Captain A hadn’t reached that position with physical enhancement alone, but in any case, Captain A’s physical enhancement ability was nearly SSS-rank, meaning Black Mamba’s current physical capabilities were close to the absolute limit a magic user could possess.

“Nice to meet you, AbsoluteSafetyFirst.”

Perhaps because of that confidence, Black Mamba spoke with an extremely relaxed expression while looking at Seon Yul.

From the start, Space Designation would not be released until one of the two died, so Black Mamba could afford to act completely at ease.

Furthermore, no attack, no matter how powerful, could break the barrier of this space, making escape impossible.

“An awakened ability?”

Seon Yul calmly looked around the space before asking Black Mamba.

“That’s right. An awakened ability.

Designating you. Finding you. Dragging you here. All of it was done through my awakened ability.”

‘A huge muscular black guy and a strange but seemingly powerful awakened ability… who is he?’

Seon Yul looked Black Mamba up and down again before speaking with a confused expression.

“Honestly, I really don’t know. Can I ask who you are?”

“There’s no reason not to tell you. I’m Black Mamba.”

Black Mamba answered readily while observing how calm Seon Yul looked.

“Ah, Black Mamba.”

After hearing the name, Seon Yul nodded as if he finally understood.

Meanwhile, Black Mamba was slightly surprised.

Seon Yul, who should have been extremely shocked and tense, was standing far too calmly.

‘What the hell is this guy?’

Up until now, no one had shown this kind of reaction when Black Mamba used Space Designation.

Some people had tried to pretend to stay calm, but they soon revealed their true fear.

But from Black Mamba’s perspective, Seon Yul was genuinely calm.

It almost seemed like he didn’t even think being trapped here was a big problem.

“You’ve been pretty famous lately… Is that why? You don’t look scared at all.”

“Scared? Why would I be scared?”

Instead, Seon Yul asked Black Mamba why he should be scared.

“Normally, humans are afraid when facing death.”

“So that means I’m going to die here?”

“That’s right. You’re going to die here.”

Black Mamba nodded as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

“Hm… Then this space won’t disappear until I die, right?”

“You’re sharp.”

“Then conversely, it would disappear if you died as well?”

“Oh? You really are smart.”

Black Mamba remained completely relaxed.

He could talk as much as he wanted here. After all, Seon Yul would die soon, and everything would be finished.

“I have a few questions. Can I ask them?”

“Go ahead. I’ll answer anything you’re curious about.”

“First, those guys outside… are they your subordinates?”

“That’s right. My subordinates. They’re probably subduing Cheon Li Yu outside right now. I told them not to kill her immediately because I want to have some fun first, so she’ll probably die later than you.”

Black Mamba spoke shamelessly about doing something utterly vile.

Even so, Seon Yul did not lose his composure and continued speaking.

“And this incident… did you plan it all by yourselves?”

“Plan? It’s more like part of what I usually do… hunting down well-ripened newbies. Though… some guys helped with this.”

“Where?”

“China. It seemed like China had some history with you, so I got a bit of help from them.”

“Ah…”

After hearing this much, Seon Yul roughly understood the entire situation.

“Anything else you want to ask? If not… It’s about time you died.”

Crack.

Black Mamba infused mana into every muscle in his body.

His muscles swelled as if they were about to burst.

The power radiating from him felt strong enough to tear apart anything he grabbed with his hands.

“I don’t have anything else to ask… but you’ll need to wait here for a moment.”

“Hm?”

Black Mamba tilted his head in confusion at Seon Yul’s sudden words.

‘Wait? What does that mean?’

While Black Mamba briefly tried to understand what Seon Yul meant…

Seon Yul casually opened the entrance to Absolute Space beside himself.

Tsssssssss.

The entrance opened instantly.

And when Black Mamba saw it, he was shocked.

‘W-What is that!?’

Naturally, Black Mamba immediately lunged forward to grab Seon Yul.

But Seon Yul disappeared into the entrance of Absolute Space faster than Black Mamba could reach him.

Seon Yul vanished inside Absolute Space.

However, Black Mamba could not follow him inside.

Black Mamba froze for a moment.

And while he hesitated, the entrance to Absolute Space closed.

Flash!

“Gasp!”

Black Mamba hurriedly looked around in shock.

But there was no trace of Seon Yul anywhere.

‘H-He can escape from here?’

Black Mamba stared blankly at the empty air where Seon Yul had disappeared.

He had never once imagined that someone could escape from this designated space.

According to the awakened ability description, even short-range teleportation or long-distance spatial movement could not escape this space.

Of course, in this case, the ability of Absolute Space was far superior to Black Mamba’s Space Designation, and Absolute Space wasn’t a spatial movement ability at all… it was a space creation ability.

Because of that, Space Designation could not block it.

But Black Mamba had no way of knowing that.

So he could only stand there alone in the space with a dumbfounded expression.

‘Then what happens now? The only way to release this space is for someone to die… Does that mean I’m trapped here forever?’

The more he thought about it, the more confusing the situation became.

From the start, even Black Mamba himself could not cancel Space Designation once it was activated.

So if things continued like this, he really would remain trapped here.

Eventually, after about 30 minutes had passed, Black Mamba began to feel not just worry, but fear.

And at that moment…

Tsssssssss.

In the empty air, the same hole that had appeared when Seon Yul disappeared earlier began to form again.