Misunderstanding (2)
Fifteen minutes earlier, Seon Yul had first returned to his studio apartment through Absolute Space.
He immediately engraved Absolute Space [Tatto] onto his body and then used Real Painting [The Door].
The door he targeted was the rear door of the Lamborghini Urus parked on Hannam Bridge.
Click.
Since this was also a car ‘door,’ it was possible to move through it using The Door.
The first thing Seon Yul saw after opening the Urus door and stepping out was Cheon Li Yu in the distance, barely holding on while being attacked simultaneously by eight of the Ten Kings.
The time Seon Yul had spent in the other space after being hit by Black Mamba’s Space Designation was roughly five minutes.
During that time, Cheon Li Yu had naturally been attacked in coordination by the remaining eight of the Ten Kings, excluding the two guarding the front and rear.
Yet surprisingly, despite being attacked by eight hunters-level or higher magic users at once, she continued holding out without being captured or injured.
Of course, from Seon Yul’s perspective, she didn’t look relaxed, and it seemed that if things continued like this for about another ten minutes, she would eventually be caught.
Still, Seon Yul was satisfied even with this much.
It was like he could truly feel the results of the more than two months of training he had put her through.
‘If she just gets a little more accustomed to using Divine Eye during combat, she could really become a master of evasion.’
Originally, he should have gone to help Cheon Li Yu immediately, but the sight of her skillfully weaving around the Ten Kings’ attacks and enduring them was so fascinating that he watched for a moment.
After observing for about thirty seconds, Seon Yul slowly began to move.
To magic users of the Ten Kings’ level, Seon Yul was practically the Grim Reaper.
Against magic users below a certain rank, the various firearms Seon Yul possessed demonstrated overwhelmingly lethal efficiency.
Now, unless someone was truly a Noblesse-class user, enduring Seon Yul’s attacks was difficult.
Especially in a situation like this, where he could ambush them from behind, it was possible to wipe out more than half of them with the very first attack.
The Ten Kings were opponents who had never been capable of matching him to begin with.
Because of that, Seon Yul eliminated them all in an instant.
It wasn’t difficult.
It didn’t take much time.
And during the process, Cheon Li Yu was not injured at all.
Thus, Seon Yul ended the situation in an instant, secured Cheon Li Yu’s safety, and entered Absolute Space together with her.
Just in case, he even placed the Lamborghini Urus inside Absolute Space as well, completely cleaning up the scene.
Up to this point had taken exactly fifteen minutes.
And after that, Seon Yul opened the entrance to Absolute Space again in the space where Black Mamba was waiting.
***
As soon as the hole appeared again, Black Mamba immediately stepped backward and prepared for battle.
‘Right. AbsoluteSafetyFirst didn’t break through the space and escape. He must have just hidden somewhere using that strange ability. It’s impossible to leave this designated space in the first place… I overthought it.’
Black Mamba was making a huge mistake.
He concluded that AbsoluteSafetyFirst simply used some ability to hide, but had reached the limit of staying hidden and thus reappeared.
However….
The hole opened, yet nothing happened afterward.
‘What is this? What’s going on?’
Black Mamba couldn’t help but be confused by the situation.
Meanwhile, in complete contrast to Black Mamba’s confusion, Seon Yul was calmly conversing with Cheon Li Yu inside Absolute Space.
“But do we really not need to attack?”
“We could if we wanted… but since he has to crawl in here anyway, waiting will torment him more.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. If he doesn’t want to starve to death in there, he has to come inside eventually. Just imagine how much he’ll struggle before deciding to step in. His head will probably hurt from thinking too much. And when he finally tries to enter, there’ll be fear too… If we attack, it might make him come in faster, but the thing that really tortures him is just staying still. That’ll drive him crazy.”
Even though Seon Yul could finish Black Mamba more quickly, he deliberately chose not to.
His goal was for Black Mamba to suffer as much as possible.
And to achieve that, leaving the entrance to Absolute Space open and waiting was the correct method.
Seon Yul had already prepared enough firepower near the entrance that the moment Black Mamba entered, he would be destroyed.
Even if it wasn’t Black Mamba but Black Mamba’s grandfather, the result would be the same.
All they had to do was wait for him to come in.
From the moment Black Mamba trapped Seon Yul inside his own space, he had essentially placed himself in a checkmate position.
It was almost the same as placing his own head on the guillotine.
“Come on, let’s sit here and wait comfortably.”
Seon Yul brought over two comfortable chairs and sat down.
“How long do you think he’ll last?”
Cheon Li Yu asked as she sat down beside him.
“Well… maybe about twenty-four hours?”
“If you’re tired, go ahead and sleep first. Even if we both fall asleep, it’ll still be fine because I prepared that thoroughly… but just in case.”
“No, I’m fine. Want some coffee?”
“Oh, nice. I’ll take an iced Americano.”
Cheon Li Yu stood up again to make coffee, and through the still-open entrance to Absolute Space, nothing had entered.
***
“Haah… haah…”
Twenty hours had already passed since Black Mamba had been trapped inside the space he created.
At first, Black Mamba thought this was simply a battle of patience. He didn’t know what ability AbsoluteSafetyFirst used, but he believed AbsoluteSafetyFirst was also just hiding and enduring in the same situation as himself.
Of course, this was a massive misunderstanding.
Because he firmly believed AbsoluteSafetyFirst had not escaped the space, he assumed the other man must also be hungry and exhausted.
‘In the end, if I endure, I win.’
Because of this misconception, Black Mamba continued enduring.
What he was waiting for was the moment AbsoluteSafetyFirst could no longer endure and reveal himself again.
If they met while both exhausted, he was confident he would win.
‘Come out already. You can’t endure forever either!’
Clinging to this huge misunderstanding, Black Mamba continued the battle of endurance.
While he was shadowboxing by himself inside the space, Seon Yul spent the time comfortably resting, eating, and even taking turns sleeping with Cheon Li Yu.
Honestly, Seon Yul could have waited like this for one year, or even ten.
Around the time, exactly thirty hours had passed, Black Mamba finally began to feel that something was strange.
‘How is he enduring this? Could it be… that he isn’t enduring at all?’
After thirty hours without sleep, food, or proper rest, Black Mamba could not understand the situation.
‘This is impossible!!’
For a moment, the doubt shook him, but he shook his head violently and cast the thought aside.
“Fine, keep enduring! In the end, my stamina is better than yours, so if this drags on, I’ll win!”
Black Mamba shouted as if for Seon Yul to hear, glaring fiercely.
Trusting his own judgment, he waited for AbsoluteSafetyFirst… whom he assumed must be suffering even more. to give up first.
When fifty hours had passed.
Black Mamba finally decided he needed to try something else.
‘If this continues… I might collapse first…’
He had gone more than two days without sleep or food, and he hadn’t even rested properly.
His physical condition had deteriorated rapidly.
‘If I’m this bad, you’re telling me AbsoluteSafetyFirst has endured until now? No… maybe the longer I endure, the worse my situation becomes.’
Perhaps because he had gone so long without sleep, Black Mamba’s mental state was already unstable.
‘I need to decide this while I still have strength. I don’t know what’s inside there, but if it’s just another space inside my own space, then my power should remain the same in there.’
If he had been in a normal state of mind, he might have assessed the situation more calmly instead of interpreting everything in his own favor.
But Black Mamba was not in a normal state.
‘Let’s go in and end it now!’
After running countless hopeful scenarios in his head, he reached one conclusion.
Entering.
Step.
Black Mamba slowly approached the entrance to Absolute Space.
He hesitated briefly, then clenched his teeth and stepped inside.
And… that was his end.
[You have eliminated the magic user ‘Black Mamba’.]
[Calculating your contribution to the elimination of Black Mamba.]
[Contribution: 100%. All experience and spoils are awarded to you. Due to the PvP success bonus effect, experience gained increases, and the quality of the spoils improves.]
[You have gained a large amount of experience. Your level has increased significantly (Lv. 68 → Lv. 70).]
…
…
Black Mamba died the moment he entered Absolute Space.
One of his biggest misunderstandings was believing that Absolute Space would still be part of his Space Designation and that the ‘Room Tyrant’ buff would remain active inside it.
In short, Absolute Space was a completely different space.
Naturally, the moment he entered Absolute Space, the Room Tyrant buff disappeared.
A mere Space Designation could never designate Absolute Space. Their abilities were on completely different levels… Space Designation had essentially been devoured by Absolute Space.
In any case, after losing the Room Tyrant buff, Black Mamba was effectively nothing more than an ordinary Noblesse-class magic user, and a low-tier one at that.
On top of that, he was already extremely exhausted.
Everything was at its worst.
The first thing that greeted him when he entered was a Claymore that had been set up in advance.
The destructive explosion from the Claymore engulfed his body, instantly rendering Black Mamba incapable of combat.
What followed next was the concentrated fire from a three-weapon Gatling gun set.
Minigun, GAU-19, and even the GAU-8.
The moment those three concentrated their firepower, Black Mamba couldn’t endure even ten seconds.
Black Mamba was torn apart while still standing.
Thus, without being able to do anything at all, he vanished like smoke the moment he entered Absolute Space.
With Black Mamba’s death, Space Designation naturally dissolved as well.
At the same time Space Designation disappeared, Seon Yul closed the entrance to Absolute Space.
Space Designation did not block access to a specific area in reality. Instead, it created a new space and overlapped it with the real world.
Therefore, the Hannam Bridge had already been perfectly cleaned up.
However, since the Republic of Korea Gate Management Bureau had been controlling the bridge for several days while conducting an investigation, vehicles had not been passing through anyway.
Because of this situation, even though Space Designation disappeared, no one noticed.
The Urus… the only possible piece of evidence, and the entrance to Absolute Space had both vanished.
There was now no way for anyone to discover the truth of what had happened.
Only China, which had prepared the stage for this incident, realized that something had gone terribly wrong.
“How are you going to handle it?”
Cheon Li Yu asked cautiously while drinking coffee inside Absolute Space after Black Mamba had been dealt with.
Seon Yul understood her question instantly.
“Ah, China?”
“Yeah. China. You’re not planning to just leave them alone, right?”
“Of course not.”
“Then like last time?”
“No. That could create an extremely dangerous situation in many ways… This time I’ll have to warn them differently.”
Just as a cornered rat might bite a cat, if Seon Yul fully used his abilities and destroyed several Chinese cities, China might choose a desperate all-out war.
That would make things extremely complicated and troublesome.
So this time, Seon Yul planned to deliver a warning in a completely different way.
“Are you going right away?”
“Well… there’s no need to rush. Actually, just like what Black Mamba did earlier, giving them some time to tremble in fear might not be a bad idea.”
“Hmm. Then during that time, I’ll announce my temporary retirement and settle some things in my real-world life.”
“Yeah, do that.”
Seon Yul nodded.
He planned to wait about ten to fifteen days.
After China had panicked and made a huge fuss, he would then punish them again using the method he had just thought of.
‘This time I’ll make sure they never even think about touching me again.’
Just because the method was different didn’t mean it would be weaker.
Even if the method changed, Seon Yul intended to punish China as harshly as possible.
In the end, China was going to take a serious beating again.
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