Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 74:

Chapter 74 – Meeting

 

Woojin tailed him for a long time .

He was already very far from the hotel . Woojin was slowly walking down a backstreet of the inner-city .
The **** started to take a circuitous route . He must have realized Woojin was following him .

“I’ve been found . ”

Woojin had nothing more to gain by following him . The man didn’t seem dumb enough to go straight to his home base when he knew Woojin was on his tail .
Woojin agonized over the decision .

He had already stuck Ggaebi on him .
Should he let the **** go, so Ggaebi could gather information?

It wasn’t as if Ggaebi was undetectable when he hid inside the shadows . A Roused with great senses would realize something was amiss .

In fact, acts such as surveillance, tailing and eavesdropping wasn’t his forte .
Moreover, he was reluctant to kidnap, incarcerate, and threaten someone…

“I’ll just worry about it after I catch him . ”

Woojin walked quickly to close the distance with the **** . When he turned the corner to the alley, Woojin saw a guy holding a large guitar case .

‘It’s that **** . ’

When Woojin started to gradually close the distance, the **** turned to look at him .
Both of them stopped walking, and their eyes met .

<Lv 71 Al Assad>

The **** started running, and Woojin followed after him .

‘7th Circle?’

This was the first time he had seen a Roused past lvl70 .
This meant his opponent was a Rank AA Roused . There were a lot of Roused in the latter stage of level 60 . It would have been strange if there were no level 70 Roused to be found if one scoured over the entire world .
In the future, more Roused would break through the 6th Circle wall to enter into the 7th Circle .

That was in the future . He was currently chasing after a Roused, who was arguably one of the top Ranked Roused of Earth .

‘A **** like that is aiming for me?’

Woojin’s curiosity grew since he wanted to know who was pulling this man’s strings . Maybe he might have to become enemies with one of the great powers of earth .
Woojin increased his speed, but the **** was quite fast . It wasn’t easy to close the distance .

‘It feels like he is purposefully leading me on?’

His speed was just high enough that Woojin couldn’t catch up to him .
There was always a fixed distance between them . Truthfully, the **** wasn’t in a hurry at all . Woojin guessed he was a 7th Circle physical ability Roused . Moreover, he seemed to be well trained . Lee-hyunhwee couldn’t hold a candle to to this guy .

‘This is fun . ’

Woojin was a Necromancer, but he was also a Warrior . He used his Dash Skill and Woojin’s speed increased by several magnitude .

‘I got…him?’

Woojin was about to grab the guitar case, but it seemed the **** also had a similar ability to the one he used . He suddenly sped up, and he created a distance between Woojin once again .

‘Look at this cheeky bastard?’

Was there anyone on earth who had caught Woojin’s eyes like this? Woojin was probably the first strong person this guy had met on earth .
After running away for awhile, the **** stopped in front of a subway station .
The **** wagged his finger as he looked at Woojin .

“Huh . ”

There was only a 2 lane road between them yet this **** was taunting him . When he saw this, a thought flitted through his mind . In recent days… No . In the past 10 years, he’d never seen someone be so daring and provoking towards him .

The **** grinned .
Does that **** think he is Bruce Lee?
After smiling, he immediately entered the Dungeon . Woojin clicked his tongue in dismay as he watched the man .

“This is quite novel . It’s cute . ”

He didn’t care who was pulling the bastard’s string . He was going to kill that son of a **** .
The barrier formed 30 seconds after the man entered the Dungeon .
Woojin passed into the Dungeon’s entrance .

*

Al Assad .
He was born in Afghanistan, and his father had sold him to the militants at the age of 10 .
The moment his eyes witnessed his father being happy as he grabbed a paltry amount of money for selling him Assad decided become a monster .

He was quite good at using the knife, and gun . The children his age were used as bait to absorb bullets, but Assad grew up to be a fantastic militant .
The world he lived in was constantly at war .

The Dungeon Break happened when he was 20 years, and the world turned chaotic . The war was present before the Dungeon Break, and it still continued on afterwards .

The only thing that had changed was his status as a Roused . He was no longer used as a grunt in the war .
He caught the eyes of militant group’s leader . Instead of being sent into a regional warfare against the government forces, he was given more sophisticated assignments .

He was given targets to assassinate, and he carried out terrorist acts . He was successful in all of his assignments, so he gradually made a name for himself . He was able to become a key member of the core personnel . At that point, he realized he wasn’t doing his work for his faith . He realized he was doing it for the money, but it didn’t matter .
He didn’t’ start what he was doing, because of his belief in his **** .

His actions allowed him to punish others, and on top of that, he was able to make money .
Money is what changed the world .

He had never killed any monster before .
He only hunted humans .
Today he caught a Necromancer, who was reported as being Rank AA .

His Rank wasn’t important .

He had assassinated countless Roused, and he was well acquainted with their Ranks . He knew better than anyone that a high Rank didn’t correspond with the person’s combat power . He just had to quietly approach magicians, and cut their’s throat . Even if one were Rank A, one would die immediately .

It was very easy .

When he entered the Dungeon, he gave up his body to the darkness to hide . His ability allowed him to assimilate into the darkness . His specialty was sneaking up on his enemies, and killing them before they realized he was there .

“Hey . Hey . Come out . Are you trying to break bread with me inside the Dungeon?”

Is he speaking Korean?
According to the intel regarding his target, the **** was Korean .

“I guess you aren’t going to come out . ”

The sound of his steps grew distant .
It seemed this guy’s luck was good . His steps steadily grew distant from Assad, who was hidden next to the wall . He moved deeper into the subway station using the staircase .

‘Stupid **** . ’

It seemed he didn’t have any magic associated with the senses . Now he was sure this person was a Necromancer . The **** had carelessly come into the Dungeon after him .
The baiting of his target had been successful . Now he just had to follow him, and his hunt would start .
Al Assad assimilated into the darkness as he head down into the Dungeon .

‘How far did he go?’

This was weird . His target had chased after him into the Dungeon . Assad had baited the other man into doing so . However, this **** acted as if he had forgotten about Assad’s existence . Or maybe the man had too much confidence in his own ability . He slowly descended into the Dungeon .

As Al Assad was carefully walking forward, he came to a stop .

‘There are no corpses here . ’

There were a lot of blood stains in the surrounding, but there were no corpses . A weird sense of danger stimulated his senses .

Hwahhhk .

A light lit up the interior of the Dungeon .

“Ah . You gave me time to recharge my souls . Thank you . ”

Assad’s target appeared in front of him, but the target wasn’t flustered at all .

“Now show me your abilities . Let’s see if it is useful . ”

After his target said some words Assad didn’t understand, the Skeleton Soldiers lining up behind him rushed forward .

‘One, two… . ’

It was useless to count them . There were enough to clog the Dungeon . Assad unsheathed his specialized weapon, the two-handed swords, as he charged forward .

“Ho-oh . You are quite good . ”

Assad was at a numerical disadvantage, but the quality of the Skeletons was low . He methodically cut them down, but it wasn’t an easy task . Each of his specialized skills for the two-handed long sword was put on display in front of his enemy . The information about him was being exposed to his enemy .

“You are an assassin type, and you are quite proficient in using a two-handed sword . One on one fights would suit you more than fighting a group . ”

His Korean words kept grating against his nerves for some time . It sounded as if he was being evaluated… The **** didn’t even lift a single finger as he watched from a distance .

Hook-ook, hook .

Al Assad let his hidden ability explode forth . He started breathing heavily, and his movement couldn’t be compared to before . Every time he swung his two-handed long sword, a large group of Skeletons fell .

“Ho-oh . You are also a Berserker? You are both a Warrior type and an Assassin . Are you a Dual Class?”

He leapt toward his taunting enemy .
His final moved was called God’s Wrath . His anger towards the world poured out without reserve, and it helped power the move . When his two-handed long sword was about to strike the necromancer’s neck, a steel staff was suddenly in the sword’s way .

“You’ll be useful . Quite useful . ”

The Necromancer swung his Steel Staff towards him .

Hoo-ooh, puhk .

He was momentarily confused at the unexpected strength of the impact . Didn’t the intel say he was a Necromancer?
His target’s foot kicked out towards Assad’s chest . He couldn’t do anything against his target’s strength, so Assad grabbed the other man’s foot . He tried to lift it up .

“Let’s see what’ll happen when I turn level 70 . ”

Suddenly, the weapon changed into an axe, and it fell towards Assad’s neck .

Kwah-jeek .

As if he was cutting wood, Woojin separated the guy’s head from the body . Before the bastard’s sould could escape, he purchased a Soul Seal Stone, and he put the soul inside .
The **** was only barely over 7th Circle . However, this was the first 7th Circle Warrior’s soul he had obtained on earth .
It was meaningless to torture the **** to find out who was pulling his strings . When Woojin reached level 70, he’ll make this **** a familiar and he’ll naturally find out everything this **** knew .

Woojin put the bastard’s corpse and his decapitated head inside his inventory . Then he gathered the surviving Skeletons around him .

“Why did he have to come into a high rank Dungeon for no reason?”

He couldn’t locate the Return Stone . As he had predicted, a red portal formed when he returned to the entrance .

“Will I be late?”

Didn’t they say the consortium was at lunch time?
Woojin quickly started to hunt .

*

When Woojin came out of the Dungeon, he felt someone’s gaze on him . Someone was monitoring Woojin from afar .

‘Follow me, Ggaebi . ’

[I obey master’s will . ]

After confirming Ggaebi had been absorbed back into his shadow, he started to walk . It seemed the people, who had attacked him, was in charge of this Dungeon . There weren’t anyone guarding the Dungeon . Woojin memorized the Dungeon’s name, then he started walking .

“Ha . Where the **** am I?”

He had mindlessly chased after the man last night, so he had no idea where he was . It would be great if he had his hand phone, but he left it at the hotel .

‘Maybe the store sells English?’

Woojin checked his Point Store just in case, and he looked over the Language drugs . There were drugs that allowed him to learn languages of Alphen… The store had English!
It wasn’t only English . The store had all the languages spoken on Earth .
It was worth 200 Points . Woojin bought it immediately, then he drank it . It was akin to learning a new ability through a Skill book . Woojin learned the English language in an instant . Whether it was an ability or a new knowledge, it took root inside his head, and it felt quite miraculous to Woojin .

“Ha . ”

His ears started picking up the conversations in his surrounding .
He asked for direction from the people in the street, then he headed towards Manhattan’s Titan guild headquarters for the appointed consortium .

‘It won’t take long if I ride a taxi, but I don’t have any money to pay for the ride . ’

If this was Alphen, he would have just stolen it…

‘Well, I did say I wouldn’t cause any accidents . ’

…he just started walking .

The consortium started at 12, so he would be late .
So what if he was late?
Jung-minchan had come to the consortium with him, so he would take care of it . Woojin just had to meet the Holy Maiden .

While Woojin was walking the streets, he caught sight of the news being shown on a large screen mounted on top of a building .

“It’s about what happened yesterday . ”

It seemed someone had filmed yesterday’s missile explosion with a phone . The sight of the missile exploding, and the large crater on the road was being shown .

“Terrorist Attack . Is it a repeat of the 9/11 nightmare? Humanity’s enemy isn’t monsters, but terrorists?”

Woojin read the subtitles on the muted news . The screen changed then an announcer and an Asian man was shown .

“Uh? Minchan?”

The familiar Asian man was Jung-minchan . He was scrunching up his face as if he was a constipated dog . When Woojin turned his head slightly, he could see the same news being shown inside the convenience store located across the street from him .

Ddal-lahng .

When Woojin entered the convenience store, the employee behind the counter glanced at Woojin . After confirming an Asian male in a sweatsuit had entered the store, the employee’s gaze went back to the TV .

[It would have exploded within the hotel . During such harrowing situation, the Korean male Mr . Kanhg-woojin threw his body to block the attack . Currently, the whereabouts of Mr . Kahng-woojin is still unknown…]

At the announcer’s words, Jung-minchan butted in .

[President . I trusted president from the start! Where are you, president? Please come back to me . ]

“Huh . That rascal . If someone saw him like that, one would think he was trying to find a lost child . ”

Still, Woojin’s heart warmed a little bit when he saw someone being worried about him to that extent .
Don’t worry, Minchan . I can speak English now .

[The US government will catch the terrorists . Please just return to us, president . I beg of you . Please before the incident become much larger… . ]

“I already caught him, you dork . . ”

Wooijn grinned as a missing person’s report was shown on top of the screen . Then the news showed the footage where he charged the missile . The missile was deflecting upwards as it exploded, and he saw himself fall to the ground . The news was showing the footage in a loop .

The eyes of the store’s employee turned round, and he alternated from looking at Woojin and the TV .