My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 171

#171

Kyushu Crisis (3)

Japan’s Hahoe Mask Tracking Team was indeed a formidable opponent, perhaps because it was a team that had been planned from the beginning.

All of the dozens of people seemed to be elites, and the reason they were not greatly intimidated by Hans’ intimidation was that about five of them, including the man who shouted the name of the skill, were skilled enough to withstand even the barbarian warrior Harley.

Even the fighting power of the man who appeared to be a representative of government agents and the woman leading the Guardians was on a par with that of Cornwell, the commander of the Imperial Guard.

‘Somehow, it seems like the old man always becomes the standard for combat power.’

Of course, this did not mean that the state of those awakened people was the same as his.

This is because they were able to boost their combat power with the special abilities called ‘unique skills’ that each of them possessed.

If we were to really classify it, it could be said to be at the top of the spectrum, similar to Harley.

And that means….

“Kahahah!”

“What kind of monster…”

This meant that they alone could not block the path ahead of Hahoetal Hans.

[Hehehe— It was indeed quite good entertainment. It’s not enough to fight against this body, though!]

The woman dressed as a ninja, who was moving through space at high speed and launching all kinds of extraordinary attacks, was entangled in the threads of the abyss that were spread out in the air like a spider’s web.

The muscular man, who steadfastly attacked as if ignoring all attacks, eventually fell to his knees due to the overwhelming firepower of the black magic that constantly pounded his body.

As the fierce battle continued, two leaders joined the crowd of people scattered everywhere.

Now who’s left….

Kaang—!

At that time, the sudden surprise attack, which had not been felt until just before the attack, was blocked by Hans’ abyss and ended up being a misfire.

“Tsk! shit!”

A young prosecutor in his twenties who first made a deep impression on him.

Disappointingly, he seemed to have finally accepted his situation and stopped shouting out the name of the technique after the first few attacks.

It made me feel a little uncomfortable, as if I was seeing the youth of today’s generation giving up on their dreams by compromising with reality.

[Death’s grip.]

Quang!

“Gyeong!”

Of course, that didn’t mean I was going to kill him.

Also, the fact that he looked the youngest among those here wasn’t that important right now.

‘What’s important is that we finally took down all these annoying guys.’

Trying to subdue it without killing it took a lot longer than expected.

They are just carrying out their duties faithfully according to orders, so you can’t just kill them if they offend you, right?

It only serves to tarnish the cause of Hahoe Mask.

‘I was planning to finish everything today and leave for Kyushu, but I wasted my time on something useless.’

Still, there was only one goal left, so it wasn’t too late.

Eventually, he moved to the outskirts of the battlefield and came into contact with the barrier surrounding him on all sides.

Perhaps because they were concerned about the aftermath of the fight, the barrier they activated at the same time as the attack had managed to survive without breaking.

Before breaking it and leaving, Hans glanced behind him.

The awakened people were lying around miserably, groaning.

He watched that for a while…

[Huh— It was kind of fun. Then I’ll just leave. This time, I did the work for you, but from now on, you guys should do it on your own? Leaving them with sincere words of encouragement, they broke through the barrier and

flew into the sky.

I was a little worried that Hans’ tone of voice might have sounded a bit mocking, but they say sincerity is always conveyed.

His feelings must also have been fully conveyed.

He turned the awakened people’s clothes upside down and quickly moved to his target.

But not everything went as he wanted…

As expected, there was already no one left in their hideout.

‘Well, no matter how much of a barrier there was, there’s no way it would still be there when a fight broke out at close range.’

The unidentified Reaper, who has recently been hunting criminals and has become a special alert for the underworld, and their natural enemies, the Awakened, have collided head-on in the front yard.

It was only natural that I took advantage of that opportunity and quickly escaped.

To begin with, they were an underground organization whose basic purpose was to hide.

‘It’s difficult. This is why I wanted to get things done as quickly as possible. It takes too much time to find and kill these scattered people one by one. ‘Should we just let these guys go?’

Anyway, I came to Japan with the intention of only taking a quick look at the big guys.

Rather than being tied down here just for the sake of one organization, it was much more efficient to move to the neighboring islands of Shikoku or Honshu and continue activities.

‘Something like this could happen again, so from now on, even if it’s a little inconvenient, I need to move within a wider scope. Since you have the “Eye of the Abyss,” it won’t be that difficult to find an unwary target.’

Due to the nature of underground organizations, it was not easy to completely take out the leadership, but in that situation, the “Eye of the Abyss”, which could detect unclean power and evil karma, was of great help.

By combining this skill with the information obtained by wiping out other organizations, an almost perfect search was possible.

It could be said to be the best capability at a time when conditions are lacking to install a wide-scale surveillance network like in Korea.

‘Hmm, but I don’t know, so let’s check it one more time.’

Hans, with his eyes filled with abyss again, slowly looked around the hideout.

In addition, abilities such as “Way of Magic” and “Management of Magic Power” were also linked, and began to search for traces left around.

However, even as he was conducting his research, he did not have high expectations.

Although they may not be as good as Hans, they are experts in survival in each world and even have the resources to form a fairly large force when they return to Earth.

There must have been several special means of erasing traces prepared, and there were many abilities from so many different worlds that it was not easy to overcome even the difference in level.

however.

That’s what I thought…

‘…is this happening?’

He stopped at the sight of some kind of trace leading from the now empty hideout and looked around again.

It seemed as if he had attempted to erase his traces in his own way, leaving a faint trace so faint that it would have been difficult to notice if it weren’t for him.

‘There are a lot of people scattered all over the place, but most of them are miscellaneous. Those with deep evil karma banded together and moved separately. Are these guys executives?’

The “Eye of the Abyss” absorbed light from all directions and extracted useful information from the fragmented traces, and all of his abilities analyzed it in an instant.

No matter how many times I checked, I came to the same conclusion.

‘Shall we go first?’

Just when he was about to give up, a clue appeared and Hans immediately followed it.

If I had just left, I would have been left feeling uncomfortable, but since I had the opportunity to deal with the executives cleanly, there was no reason to hesitate.

‘Is this their safe house? ‘Typical.’

As we followed the trail, we found a small building on a hill near the city where the hideout was located.

Only the presence of those he had followed, perhaps privately owned, could be felt inside the cabin, but no other human energy was felt in the vicinity.

‘There is no need to wait any longer. Let’s finish it quickly and move on to the next area. Next, starting from Hiroshima…’

But the moment Hans rushed to where they were hiding with his future plans.

‘hmm?’

Something felt off in his sensitive senses.

Something different from usual began to stimulate my instincts mercilessly. It was at the same time

that

he heard a subtle bursting sound and reacted as he sensed something abnormal.

Gooooo—!

Black magic bloomed like a flame from Hans’ whole body, and on the contrary, the air around him dropped to below freezing in an instant.

The flowing abyss swirled around him, thrusting its teeth in all directions, and the entire landscape suddenly became dark as if a filter had been applied.

A change that occurred in an extremely split second.

And finally….

Clink! Clink!

With the sound of something cracking, all the surrounding space, including the sky and the ground, shattered like glass.

Also beyond that space.

A group of nearly thirty people in perfect battle stance were glaring at him with sharp energy.

[…If it is, it is space. Was it a trap?]

Hans, who checked the space by secretly flowing magical energy at the unexpected occurrence that had not been detected in advance, clicked his tongue.

This heterogeneous environment, which was still broken in various places, was not a simple barrier.

A closed world where all connections to the outside are blocked.

This place was no different from a small world like his Demon King’s castle, the ‘Labyrinth of Eternity’.

In other words, it meant that it was a trap that could never be escaped unless it was at the level of dealing with the caster or interfering with the dimension.

He brought up his senses and again detected the guys in the cabin who had been following the trail.

As expected, they stayed in one place and did not move despite all this chaos.

‘I think the guys who showed up just brought those to use as bait. Was my arrival at the lodge a signal to attract the entire surrounding area? ‘This level of spatial manipulation ability.’

In fact, it was an assumption I had made when I first discovered the trace and started tracking it, but I ignored it because I was confident that no matter what trap I dug, it would be useless.

I never expected it to be this serious.

“Indeed… I thought you shouldn’t talk nonsense since you are said to be at the level of a demon lord. “It wasn’t completely groundless.”

“Is it time to say something so carefree? “They forced the status quo simply by revealing their presence!”

“…Hey, this is really good, right? That guy really looks like he’s from a demon lord…? “This level of death energy is beyond the level of simply transforming into an undead form…!”

“@#$%#! %$#!”

“Don’t make a fuss. “A sea I had already expected.”

Perhaps this behind-the-scenes world is a unique skill of one of them.

Hans’ eyes turned back to the group talking among themselves.

‘As expected, they are all extraordinary people.’

It was difficult to make a clear distinction because everyone had different unique skills and different standards for each world, but at Hans level, you could gauge the power of the opponent to some extent just by the momentum he gave off

…. Besides, it seems like the five in the lead have reached transcendence.’

Like the two awakened members of the tracking group that we encountered earlier, they had not simply increased their combat power, but their level and status had exceeded the limit.

Even this did not take into account the synergy caused by unique skills, so it was impossible to predict how much their power would be amplified once a full-scale battle began.

It truly looked like it could defeat even the devil… It was the most elite fighting unit that even Outerica had ever seen.

For a moment, I thought they were special forces dispatched by the Japanese government, but no matter how I looked, it didn’t seem like they were them.

‘I’ve been thinking about it ever since I saw the Thousand-Slayer Demon Emperor.’

There were demons radiating evil energy and bad karma all over their bodies, mixed together without any problem, and the ratio was even higher than that of the normal ones.

‘It’s more than I thought. It certainly seems like it hasn’t been long since Beoncheonhoe started working in Korea. I never thought the difference in level compared to guys from other regions would be this much.’

Most of them spoke Japanese, but seeing that there were quite a few who spoke Chinese, it seemed like they had prepared well by dispatching reinforcements in advance.

Moreover, despite the fact that they were using different languages, they seemed to be able to communicate with each other.

[Oh, you guys are from the Buncheonhoe, right? So, is the conversation over?]

After finishing things up to a certain extent, Hans spoke arrogantly towards them.

Those who were wary of this side and sharing opinions among themselves all fell silent, but then they gathered their momentum again and quietly let out a word one by one.

“…They wait for us to have this conversation. “You have all the virtues of a true demon lord, right?”

“Don’t talk nonsense. “They probably needed time to understand the situation.”

“Tsk, I originally planned to attack you as soon as I dragged you here. “The guy reacted so quickly that I missed the timing.”

Among them, the cold-looking man in a suit who seemed to be the leader clicked his tongue as he looked at the abyss that surrounded Hans.

That thing, wriggling as if it had an ego, gave off a deadly aura that made them feel sick just by looking at it, making it impossible for them to dare to act rashly.

“Now it doesn’t matter what the identity of Hahoe Mask is.”

But with the situation set in this way, there is no way I can back down now.

And to leave it out simply because I was reluctant, the power of the Beoncheonhoe that was present here was truly beyond imagination.

Isn’t it a situation where people who would not be surprised to be called the Emperor of the Night in their respective regions have come together and additional reinforcements have arrived from China?

It was ridiculous to be scared with this much power.

“…All you have to do is kill him and check the body.”

“Uhm whatever. “That’s what I came here to do in the first place.”

“Ugh… I’m a little nervous too…”

“@#%$$%#!”

That’s why the man in the suit was able to confidently declare it.

Today’s event will be the last time Hahoetal interferes with their organization’s plans.

‘Hmm… It definitely seems like a bit too much for a comprehensive gift set. I’m not sure what additional abilities it might have. I guess I’ll find out the exact truth after the fight.’

Of course, to Hans, it was just the sound of a dog barking.

Even if they were truly threatening and put him in a difficult situation, wouldn’t that mean nothing to him because of the spatial disconnection?

[Hehehe— Your power is good. Let’s see how long that attitude can last against this body.]

And originally, Hans was a character who couldn’t say anything weak.