am-books Chapter 213
Chapter 213
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Step, step.
The sound of wet feet echoed, clearing the air.
Wise hated that sound.
It wasn’t just water that soaked his feet.
It was sticky, slippery—
The unpleasant texture of blood.
The vivid memory of surviving alone in a sea of blood, with the mingling of enemy and ally’s blood, still haunted him.
It was hell-like...
“Wise.”
A voice calling his name in concern.
Wise snapped out of his thoughts at Teresa’s call.
“What’s the report from Nozzle?”
“A vehicle approaching. Six ability users detected. They said combat has begun.”
“I see.”
“Are you worried?”
“A little.”
“Don’t worry about the newbie. I got a little curious and did some digging.”
“What was the result?”
“Completely clean. Not a single record of credit cards or messenger chats.”
“Suspicious.”
“That’s why I trust them more. If there’s something they’re hiding, they probably won’t die easily.”
As always, Teresa’s joking remarks helped ease Wise’s tension, loosening the strain in his shoulders.
A thought from somewhere surfaced in his mind.
They say the woman who burdens a man’s back is a princess, but the one who lightens it is a good wife.
It was something that Nozzle would probably say.
“You’re going to be a good wife.”
“What does that mean?”
“Nothing. Let’s move. The sensor in the underground tunnels has detected life signs.”
“Is that a proposal? Are you saying you want to marry me?”
“We’ll talk later.”
“When later?”
“After this mission.”
While Ha Eung Eung was having a carefree moment, two people were silently setting up their death flags.
Surface Checkpoint.
Ha Eung Eung and Nozzle interrogated the man.
“Who are you?”
“I’m the doctor who was taking care of the children at the facility.”
[How many went to the underground?]
“If I tell you, will you let us go?”
“At least you won’t die right now.”
“Everyone except us. There are seven children, and Ron Berger.”
Nozzle pulled out the detector.@@@@
“The detector says you’re Ron Berger.”
“Ron Berger said that if everyone moves together, we’d all die. He asked me to take the role of a decoy.”
“This... it’s the transmitter that should’ve been in the assistive device!”
They were caught.
That thought was the first to come to Ha Eung Eung’s mind after hearing that.
“Wise, are you listening? Wise!”
[Did you respond?]
“Wrong. Communication is blocked. Combat must have started.”
The moment she realized that, the time limit was activated.
[Wise team’s underground squad has fallen into the enemy’s trap.]
[If support is delayed, the team members will die.]
[Remaining time 00:10:00]
A ten-minute time limit.
There was little time for movement.
“I’ve told you everything you wanted to know. Now keep your promise.”
Ha Eung Eung nodded.
Suddenly?Dashman Official > Silent Swordsman officially supports the two-rat faction.This is probably a joke.They must be messing around LOL.If he’s the “Mother Rat,” then yeah, it’s true.Please stop the nonsense and turn the camera around.The camera can’t keep up with Silent Swordsman’s speed...The screen moves, but the player isn’t visible. Magic trick.What’s going on? LOL.Looking at the minimap, the speed is insane.Anyone would think you’re a speedmaster.Silent Swordsman is surprisingly fast too.LOL, he showed up.You were watching, Sensei!Yeah, the Speedmaster won’t be doing any more hidden routes. Silent Swordsman looks ready to hit the one-year mark without finishing the Half-Achievement ending.Sensei, you don’t have to worry about low blood pressure. Silent Swordsman will raise it for you.But you’ll probably collapse from high blood pressure instead!
With a single wave of his hand from left to right, Wise made the ice spikes vanish.
The sharp ice shards, which had been coming at them aggressively, were compressed, and what had been a powerful assault turned into sparkling ice particles, like stars in the night sky.
“This is cheating.”
“All those attacks neutralized in one go?”
An absurd battle where dozens of attacks were neutralized with just one gesture.
Wise’s absolute ability to control multiple abilities made any attack ineffective.
“Don’t be shaken. While you can compress attacks, you can’t bring back the lost heat.”
Ron Berger, the second-in-command, lived up to his name.
He launched attack after attack, only to have them blocked.
However, his true strength wasn’t in the attacks themselves but in the additional effects created through those attacks.
As the ice froze, it sucked the surrounding heat, gradually lowering the temperature.
If the temperature continued to drop, both body and mind would begin to malfunction. Even Wise couldn’t respond to everything under those conditions.
He was confident that, at least once, he could break through Wise’s ironclad defenses.
“Freeze them to death!”
“Block their escape routes!”
“As Ron Berger said, keep lowering the temperature!”
The test subjects shouted aggressively as they pushed forward.
Teresa couldn’t do anything in the face of this overwhelming assault.
“Not yet?!”
“Now!”
Wise, who had been compressing all the attacks one after another, finally clasped his hands together and pushed forward with all his might.
His use of the ability was deceptively simple yet brutal.
He compressed the entire area in front of him and launched it beyond the tunnel.
The icy tunnel and even the air, robbed of its heat, all became useless within his range.
The dark gap between spaces, created by the compression, triggered a powerful sucking force, pulling several test subjects into the gap.
Whoosh—Bang!
The torn space returned.
The body parts of the four ability users sucked into the gap exploded.
“Ahhh! My hand!”
“My leg is gone!”
“Save me...”
The test subjects, desperately begging for their lives, didn’t realize what was wrong until it was too late.
Their heads were compressed into the size of a thumbnail.
Instant death, without a doubt.
‘So this is what the first-in-command’s fight looks like. What an incredibly dangerous ability.’
With compression, suction, and destruction of matter, Wise’s compression ability was like having multiple powers all in one.
The level of the fight was on another level.
Even the Silent Swordsman watching recognized this.
But that was the problem.
Hey, aren’t you going in?How long are you just watching?Hey, come on! Aren’t you helping the underground team?!LOL, I can’t resist watching a fight.How can you not watch when there’s a live ice show right in front of you?
Caught up in the high-level battle, Ha Eung Eung had completely forgotten to enter the battlefield.