You Are Already Dead (1)
After eliminating Gao Xiu, Seon Yul immediately used the third entrance to Absolute Space that he had opened beforehand to move to the outskirts of Beijing, where Xu Tian was located. After quickly preparing the railgun, he once again fired it at Xu Tian with Cheon Li Yu’s assistance.
The time it took from eliminating Gao Xiu to firing the railgun at Xu Tian was less than five minutes.
Naturally, the news of Gao Xiu’s death had not yet reached Xu Tian, and as a result, Xu Tian, who had been confident that he would absolutely never be targeted, ended up getting hit.
From the beginning, an ordinary person like Xu Tian couldn’t withstand the destructive power created by a railgun. No matter how many bodyguards surrounded him, once the entire space itself had been cleanly blown away by the explosion, there was no need to confirm the result.
Rumble!
Of course, not everyone in that space died.
Only one person.
The magic user Overlord Chu barely survived the railgun bombardment and rose to his feet while blasting away the collapsed chunks of stone.
“Ugh…”
Although he survived, he had still suffered tremendous shock. Large wounds covered his body, and blood flowed from both his mouth and nose.
Still, he had managed to survive.
But Xu Tian and the other magic users guarding him were all dead.
If Overlord Chu had been even slightly weaker, he likely would have been caught in the explosion and died as well.
That was how powerful the blast had been.
“…Where the hell did that come from?”
Overlord Chu looked around, searching for the attacker, but there was no trace of the assailant anywhere.
Since the attack had been launched from roughly 50 km away, he couldn’t find Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu.
In any case, with Xu Tian eliminated after Gao Xiu, only one person remained.
The President of China…
Wang Tao.
***
When members of the Chinese Communist Party from ranks 7 to 2 were all assassinated, chaos naturally erupted throughout China.
Chinese citizens, who already had great national pride, began shouting that the criminal must be found immediately and torn limb from limb. They clamored that the heroes of the continent should step forward right away.
The people they referred to as the ‘heroes of the continent’ were China’s magic users.
In reality, most Chinese magic users belonged to the Dimensional Magic Administration Bureau.
And one defining characteristic of Chinese magic users was that their lower bound was high, but their upper bound was low.
In other words, their average level was the highest in the world, but the number of high-level magic users was small.
The reason for this situation lies in China’s policy of managing magic users.
China managed all magic users almost like soldiers, which meant those magic users completely lost their autonomy.
Because the number of magic users was extremely large… just like China’s population, the country valued having many moderately capable magic users over a single exceptional one.
With a few rare exceptions, China mass-produced magic users who were all quite similar.
Up until now, this policy had worked well.
Magic users with high average levels could be dispersed efficiently across China’s vast territory to manage Gates.
Even if a high-grade Gate appeared, it could be cleared purely through the sheer number of magic users.
Occasionally, a powerful magic user was needed, but in those cases, the five strongest magic users in China, known as the Five Sovereigns of the Central Plains, would step in and resolve the situation.
The Chinese system had functioned without any major issues.
But recently, cracks had begun to appear.
The cracks created by Seon Yul’s first punishment prevented them from stopping the Gate Rush, and as a result, those cracks spread severely throughout China.
In that situation, when even the high-ranking officials of the Communist Party began being assassinated one after another, discussions about a national crisis began to circulate inside China.
However, the one who felt the most discomfort and fear in this situation was, of course, China’s President…
Wang Tao.
The leader of the world’s second most powerful nation trembling in fear?
It was an extremely rare situation.
But Wang Tao was still human, so it could not be helped.
Deep down, Wang Tao wanted to flee to the most secret safehouse and hide there for a while.
However, he could not allow himself to appear like a national leader running away out of fear of assassination by a single individual, so he continued living his daily life exactly as usual.
Instead, he kept the strongest of the Five Sovereigns of the Central Plains by his side…
The Extreme King, Li Yixiang.
Among the Five Sovereigns, he held the position of the First Sovereign.
Unfortunately, he was not one of the Seven Stars.
However, he was practically treated as a high-ranker at the same level as the Seven Stars. People even said that if the Seven Stars were expanded from seven to ten, he would unquestionably be included.
But it wasn’t just the Extreme King.
Standing beside Wang Tao was another member of the Five Sovereigns…
Taigong Wang.
Taigong Wang, known as the Third Sovereign, was also powerful enough that if the fifty strongest magic users in the world were selected, he would certainly be among them.
Wang Tao was guarded by both the Extreme King and Taigong Wang.
At this level, assassination truly seemed impossible.
Furthermore, after analyzing the previous assassination methods, they realized that attacks might come from extremely long distances. Because of this, Taigong Wang constantly maintained a ‘Force Field.’
Taigong Wang’s awakened ability was ‘Mana Barrier’
To put it simply, it was like a mana shield.
But rather than merely deploying a protective shield, it would be more accurate to say that it was the ability to create various things using mana.
In any case, as long as Taigong Wang maintained the force field, long-distance attacks were essentially neutralized.
Close-range attacks would be blocked by the Extreme King, a master-type ability user.
Long-range attacks would be blocked by Taigong Wang.
Therefore, Wang Tao firmly believed he was completely safe.
And in reality, his security system was indeed extremely solid.
***
“Looks like it won’t be as easy as expected.”
Seon Yul was currently reviewing the security situation surrounding Wang Tao based on the information Cha Seong Hyeon had provided.
The Extreme King and Taigong Wang, who were guarding Wang Tao at extremely close range, were both well-known high-ranking magic users whose information was widely known.
The Extreme King belonged to the master-type category. Among them, he was known for having reached the ultimate extreme with the halberd, making him famous for unleashing tremendous power using spear-like weapons.
Taigong Wang, on the other hand, had become famous through several incidents, particularly because of his powerful barrier ability.
“Most ordinary sniping or bombardment would probably get blocked by Taigong Wang.”
After calmly reviewing the information, Cheon Li Yu nodded and muttered.
“Looks like Taigong Wang handles long-range attacks, and the Extreme King handles close-range ones… It’s quite a well-structured defense.”
“Then even the railgun bombardment won’t work?”
“Hm… if we enhance it with Powerful Strike and fire it… It might break Taigong Wang’s barrier. But even then, the Extreme King would probably handle the final defense, so it likely wouldn’t work.”
A railgun shot enhanced with Powerful Strike was extremely powerful, but in this situation, the chances of success were very low.
So there was no need to attempt it.
“Then what should we do?”
“There is a method…”
“There is, but it’s difficult?”
“No. It’s not that difficult.”
“Then we just do it.”
“Yeah. We just do it.”
The strategy Seon Yul had thought of was indeed something they could simply execute, just as Cheon Li Yu said.
However, there was one problem.
It might consume a considerable amount of magic crystals.
But that wasn’t a big problem right now.
“But let’s do it after a week.”
“Why?”
“I want Wang Tao to feel the fear of waiting, too.”
“Ah…”
No matter how thorough the preparations were, a deep corner of Wang Tao’s heart still contained fear of death.
Seon Yul planned to make him feel that fear fully for an entire week.
Eliminating Wang Tao?
If Seon Yul used the strategy he had in mind right now, it would be easier than flipping over the palm of his hand.
So Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu returned to Hawaii again.
While Wang Tao spent a week trembling in fear, they planned to relax and continue training comfortably in Hawaii.
A week passed quickly.
And Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu returned from Hawaii to China.
Only a single week had passed, but already in China, people were saying that they had ultimately won and that the assassin had become frightened and fled.
Just looking at a post uploaded to a community a few days earlier showed how excited Chinese netizens were.
[A terrorist who touched Great China should read this post.]
— You dare touch our Great China? I don’t know who you are, but in the end, you cannot defeat us. Well, it seems like you’ve already given up anyway, but honestly, if we were in normal condition, bastards like you wouldn’t even be able to run around causing trouble. Anyway, you coward who ran away in fear… we will catch you eventually. So wash your neck and wait. You bastard from some backwater place.
- Long live Great China!!
- This post is exactly correct! China’s power is great!
- You dared touch our country? Just consider yourself dead.
- Wow, looks like every Chinese guy in the community gathered in this post.
- The only good Chinese person is a dead Chinese person, so those dead Communist officials must’ve been the nicest ones.
- There are too many cowardly terrorist bastards.
- No matter how much you rampage, our Great China remains strong like this!
……
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The Chinese believed the mysterious assassin had given up and that they had ultimately won.
Of course, Wang Tao and the two guarding him, the Extreme King and Taigong Wang, did not think the situation was over yet.
They planned to continue guarding Wang Tao until they were truly convinced he was safe.
In particular, China was currently making efforts everywhere to find the assassin, so the security system would remain in place until they discovered the assassin’s identity and eradicated him completely.
Although it had not been publicly announced, China’s Dimensional Management Bureau currently believed there was more than a 90% chance that the assassin was AbsoluteSafetyFirst.
Because of that, they were attempting to resolve the issue with AbsoluteSafetyFirst through several methods.
One of those methods even included a peaceful agreement.
Of course, for now, their top priority was still to locate AbsoluteSafetyFirst and eliminate him.
But AbsoluteSafetyFirst was an extremely difficult target to even find, so progress in many areas had stalled.
That was why Wang Tao’s security had to be even more thorough.
The Chinese government even believed AbsoluteSafetyFirst might use a technique similar to a ‘meteor fall,’ so they were constantly monitoring the sky above Wang Tao’s location as well.
If anything fell from the sky, the plan was for the Extreme King to immediately grab Wang Tao and escape the impact point at ultra-high speed.
The Chinese government was trying to block every possible scenario to protect Wang Tao at all costs.
But Seon Yul, who was targeting Wang Tao, was preparing to use a completely different method.
A space between the walls of a building exactly 1 km away from where Wang Tao was located.
Tssss…
In that place where no one could be, the entrance to Absolute Space opened.
And naturally, inside that Absolute Space were Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu.
“Li Yu, show me Wang Tao now.”
Following Seon Yul’s request, Cheon Li Yu used her Divine Eye to see through everything and locate Wang Tao, then shared the vision.
However, in this situation, none of the attacks Seon Yul had used up until now could be used.
No matter what he used, it would be blocked.
But Seon Yul looked at Wang Tao with no concern whatsoever and slowly spoke.
“Target Designation!”
Flash.
Wang Tao was designated as the target.
Surprisingly, Seon Yul was using Black Mamba’s ability.
Using the ability ‘The Dead Tell No Tales,’ Seon Yul copied and used Black Mamba’s ability.
In the process, he consumed a high-grade magic crystal to switch to the copied ability, but the magic crystal was not something he felt was a waste.
“And then… Spatial Designation!”
Following target designation, he designated space as well.
The condition for spatial designation was simply to directly see the designated target within 1 km using his own vision.
Naturally, the spatial designation was successfully activated as well.
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