Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 139

Chapter 139

“Suho-ssi, why don’t we share information from here on?”
Baek Miho requested right before returning back to the guild after providing all the information she had.
“It’s not like you’re planning to catch every single villain, right? Hm…… if I remember correctly, to meet the requirements for guild establishment, you just need to catch about 50 of them.”
The reason why the number 50 was estimated was because the acknowledged amount of experience comes from the bounty over the villains rather than how many were caught.
With lower ranked villains, 50 was plenty, but with higher bounty villains, catching just a few of them would be enough to establish a guild.
Baek Miho has already heard Suho’s goals of establishing his own guild, so she gave up on trying to recruit him and instead chose to concentrate to take care of this ongoing issue.
“And it’s not like we’re trying to earn more money either. It’s our goal to catch as many villains as we can to ensure the safety of the civilians. We could care less if you were to take all the bounty so why don’t we join forces?”
Suho had nothing to lose out of this deal, so he nodded.
“sure.”
Suho shook Baek Miho’s outreached hand.

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After the meeting with Baek Miho, Suho immediately went towards Pocheon, where the Jisan Prison is located.
[Master, are you planning to start the investigation by starting at the prison?]
Qwei emerged to ask Suho his plans.
“Qwei, if you were them. What would you be doing right now?”
Since Qwei was an ex-villain, understanding the psyche of villains would come naturally to them.
[In my case…. I’d leave the country immediately.]
The villains who are being chased by the association have little choice to make in the first place.
[No matter how strong the villain is, when stronger hunters flock at the same time, there’s nothing to be done. That’s why villains have to remain vigilant to stay under the radar.]
Which is why the 500 escaped villains were not causing such ruckus among the city.
Of course, in the perspective of the ordinary civilians, that was even scarier.
Since a criminal with supernatural powers could be hidden amongst them.
If the villains were to outright cause chaos, all they’d have to do was to run away, but when the villains remained hidden, escaping became an impossible option.
So the potential of danger made the civilians be at unrest.
[as an example, a normal looking woman followed someone else to their homes to kill the entire family and live in that house.]
The criminal labeled as villain committed another crime while running away.
The awakening is not always physically visible, so it was impossible to tell from the unawakened versus awakened.
But the villains now had power incomparable to before the great cataclysm, so the potential threat was even greater.
[But that was only possible because it was back then.]
Currently, it was near impossible to avoid the tracking of the Korean Hunter’s Association.
That’s how vicious their hunting was.
[to avoid the eyes of the association, your best bet is to leave the country altogether. And there’s only two possible routes to achieve that.]
All the passports of villains are immediately stopped.
So in order for the villains to escape Korea, only two options remained due to its unique geographical location.
[Either swim across the ocean like how I attempted, or the only remaining option is through the north.]
“North Korea.”
[Yes. Since the Jisan Prison is located at Pocheon, leaving Korea would be far easier through North Korea than the ocean.]
“But Choi Jongin hunter is in North Korea right now.”
Unless the villains have truly gone insane, there was no way that they’d take the route with the S ranked hunter and the chairman of the hunter’s association.
Qwei nodded at Suho’s comments.
[it’s as you’ve said. Unless they have the ability to cross the ocean by swimming, they’d most likely still remain at Pocheon.]
“Right. Furthermore, the instigator of this entire escape is only a C ranked villain.”
This was the first reason why Suho was heading towards the Jisan Prison.
And the second reason was…….
[Kieeeek! As expected of our young master! Such intelligence! Such wisdom!]
Beru, who remained silent until now, suddenly raised its head with glinting eyes.
[And to rescue that Hwang Dongsu, ‘Greed’ too, must come to Pocheon!]
Suho has already heard about Hwang Dongsu from Beru.
Hwang Dongsu.
In his past life, he was one of the shadow soldiers of Sung Jinwoo with the name ‘Greed’.
But after the time of Earth turned to the past, he went back to the times that he was a human, and continued to live as a human named Hwang Dongsu.
With all the memories of his past life gone.
But that insider intel was not Beru’s concern.
Once Beru found out that Hwang Dongsu was involved in this case, Beru was overly excited.
[What a perfect timing! Let’s kill Hwang Dongsu this time again to have him return as Breed! I am sure that Greed himself desires it!]
“That’s not as easy as you say. You said that he’s an S ranked villain.”
[S rank or E rank, all humans will die if their head gets torn off from their shoulders anyways.]
“My mom is also an S rank though?”
[K-Kiek……!]
Beru kneeled to the ground hurriedly at Suho’s retort.
[This humble slave has committed a grave……!]
“Anyways.”
Suho turned from Beru to stare straight in front of him.
“We’re here.”
Jisan prison.
Suho frowned at the pungent scent of blood just from the entrance.
Just from that scent alone, Suho could imagine how brutal the battles were two days ago.
And there was someone who could smell blood even better than he could.
“Gray.”
Grrrr-
A gray colored puppy that emerged from Suho’s shadows.
[Gray Lv.35]
Fang Wolf
“Start the hunt.”

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Two days ago.
The atmosphere within the prison was the same as usual.
Clamour.
The prisoners came out to the field for their exercise time to enjoy their own outdoor activities.
Some were at the center of the field to do light exercises.
While some others gathered up at the corners to chatter away.
Even as the best security prison of Korea for the villains, the day-to-day life within it was no different from typical prisons.
At that time.
“Wow. look at that weather!”
Wave of intensity washed over the entire field once someone came out of the building while stretching.
Hwang Dongsuk.
As the true power of the Jisan Prison, he was a C ranked villain reigning supreme amongst the prisoners.
“Ah ah. Don’t worry about me. Go on and continue what you’ve been doing.”
Hwang Dongsuk sat on the benches with a satisfied look seeing all the other prisoners bow down politely when their eyes met.
And as if they were waiting for this opportunity, his underlings also known as the ‘bearded gang’ gathered up near him.
Once the rest of the prisoners noticed that the group got together, they did all that they could to avoid meeting eyes with any of them.
“Beard, stop bullying them.”
“I didn’t do anything! Really, hahaha.”
Even after a sharp command from the correctional officer, Hwang Dongsuk just smiled while stroking his beard.
Although his mouth and speech was laughing, his eyes were chilled to the core whilst analyzing the officer.
The officer felt a shiver run down his body at that snake-like gaze on him, but tried his best to remain neutral.

To tell the truth, the officer had no reason to be afraid of Hwang Dongsuk.
Since he was merely a minor criminal.
Only a c ranked villain.
But the issue was his brother, Hwang Dongsu.
“Ah, right.”
Hwang Dongsuk asked nonchalantly.
“Did my brother get caught yet?”
“…….”
“I see. Your expression told me everything. I hope he gets caught soon so the citizens stay safe.”
“…….”
The correctional officer who knew what those words meant could only grit his teeth and stay silent.
My brother is still outside. Will you be safe at night?
Hwang Dongsuk’s little brother Hwang Dongsu was a s ranked villain.
Still at large as he said.
A dangerous criminal that might never be caught.
So Hwang Dongsuk utilized this fact to live lavishly within the prison.
With a S ranked villain wandering outside in the streets, no prisoner could even dare to offend Hwang Dongsuk.
It wasn’t like that all the criminals here were in here for life, and once they lived their prison years according to their sentencing and went back to the society.
Fear of Hwang Dongsu appearing before their families living outside was what stopped them from putting him in his place.
And that sentiment was also shared by the officers.
“Whistle. The weather truly is nice huh.”
A single word shut the rude correctional officer up while Hwang Dongsuk was snickering and enjoying the sunshine.
A well kept grass.
Colorful field of flowers.
The bees and butterflies freely fluttering about created a peaceful scenery.
However,
Even after becoming the top person of the prison and living comfortably, a prison was still a prison.
No amount of struggling would let him be free as those bees and butterflies.
‘Haha. really now…… what a perfect weather to make an escape.’

His gaze fell on the electric anklet on his leg.
Everytime he looked at the mana restrictor, his mood immediately soured.
But not today.
“Boss.”
The moment the officer left the area, one of his underlings approached him to whisper.
“All the preparations are complete.”
“Haha. good job.”
A knowing smile emerged at Hwang Dongsuk’s face.
Just how long has he planned to escape this damned place?
And that was finally ending today.
The tight security of the prison?
The hunters of the association?
None of that mattered now.
With every villain within this facility causing a ruckus, no amount of officers would be able to stop them.
As long as this damned mana restrictor could be taken care of.
“Tonight.”
Hwang Dongsuk’s eyes glinted.
“We will make our escape.”
And they finally found out.
A method to use mana even with the mana restrictor
So his gang secretly distributed a blue pill to all the villains of the prison.
“Stardust.”
All kinds of methods and procedures were used to smuggle the mana amplifying pills into the prison.
And now it was time to reap what was sown.
10 pm.
All the villains of Jisan Prison took the Stardust to amplify their mana according to Hwang Dongsuk’s command.
And to their surprises, the mana restrictors at their ankles did not react to the amplified mana.
“Phew, so it’s just as he said. How on earth did he manage to discover this?”
The satisfaction of mana overflow throughout the body.
Hwang Dongsuk smiled at the effects of Stardust, finally trying it out for himself after multiple rounds of testing using his underling’s body.
“Now…. let’s get this started.”
And commanded his underlings with a cruel expression.
“Kill all the officers.”
Ringggg-
The riot started.
The echoing sounds of the siren and screams in Jisan Prison.
The sudden eruption of noise caused the bees and butterflies to fly away from the flowers simultaneously.
Ringggg-