Avoid Former Co-Workers

92 – 92. Reversal (8)

Outside, an order is issued to hold on to the collapsing building again.

This means that you checked the signal correctly.

‘It’s thanks to these guys’ hard work that I can send out signals like this.’

The time to break through the second floor was noticeably reduced when they gathered together. Thanks to that, I could have bought a little more time by sending a signal.

Now, the second floor’s monster treatment has come to an end.

“Almost got it…!”

“That’s the last guy! We just need to deal with him!”

“Don’t lose your breath and don’t be convinced that more may appear.”

“Sorry. I’ll focus.”

It wasn’t without mistakes, such as not being able to maintain a poker face like now and shaking like this. At first, there were even those who were frightened and stood still, but in spite of such incidents, all of them did not flinch and stood up again.

Thanks to this, they cover each other’s weaknesses and succeed in eliminating the monsters on the second floor without shaking their formation.

I thought this would be enough, but I ran into a problem right away.

“Wait here. Let’s take a break.”

“Fifty…? Here?”

“Yes. It will be difficult to handle from the top, so you have to make sure.”

While the building is burning and collapsing, does it make sense to rest in this yard, which may spread even further to the splash-out?

You may not understand, but the story is different from the third floor.

Even if they are berserk monsters, they are all normal level. Even if normals have characteristics, they don’t have that threatening characteristics. If there is something lacking, it is a level that can be pushed through with the power of personnel.

However, you cannot deal with the things pouring out from the 3rd floor just by running recklessly like now.

“What is this?”

“Things you must use to survive here.”

“…Are these the only things that will save us?”

It’s not that Junon isn’t unreliable, but everyone has a similar reaction. Just thinking about what use a mat would be on the third floor.

The reason why this is useful is keenly felt by those who deal with it outside Dubegwan.

“Kuh…?! This, this! An attack…!”

The man’s sword attack didn’t work properly. Something in the shape of a turquoise flame, whose shape could not even be said to be constant, tried to devour him.

At that moment, Goden appeared, stabbed the sword, injected mana, and exploded it from within, only then to disappear.

“Go back. You don’t seem to have dealt with spirits before.”

“I can still fight. You said it was a spirit? Just tell me how to attack…”

“Here. You’re already showing signs of poisoning from the neck. Start neutralizing now.”

“Uh…?”

“Contaminated spirits need to destroy the core, which is the source of demonic energy, not mana, so a demonic storm strikes immediately. Since they have already inhaled it once, they must be quickly neutralized.”

“…Oops, that was it.”

Instead of on the 3rd floor, objects that went up to the roof are falling down the building one by one.

“It’s a spirit… And it’s tainted.”

They belonged to a rare case like the healer, and they were entities called spirits commanded by those called elementalists.

A creature that attacks humans. It’s called magic However, on the other hand, there are also beings that are not living beings but are adjacent to them that cooperate with humans to defeat the beasts.

The most representative of them is an entity called a spirit.

However, their characteristics only depend on the presence or absence of intelligence, and their origins do not show much difference from those of demons. It’s literally the difference between a perilla leaf.

In other words, the spirits covered by demons are no different from demonic beasts.

‘The spirit will pop out after a while until the host’s demonic energy is completely gone or complete demonization occurs, so they must be dealing with it from the inside as well…’

As if he had mastered the spirit’s strategy of nuclear destruction, black smoke from the shattered spirit escaped through the window on the third floor.

It meant that someone in that group knew information about the contaminated spirits that even the trained knights didn’t know about.

As well as being aware of the need to be careful when dealing with spirits, the processing speed did not decrease.

It must mean that they knew that the black smoke created when the spirits disappeared was demonic itself, and minimized the effect on the respiratory system.

‘You don’t have to worry about Senia.’

After the safety of his comrades was confirmed, Goden began to wonder who the person inside had such knowledge.

Even if you don’t know who they are, if you can have them as part of your team, they’ll be a tremendous force.

Back inside the building.

The demons are disappearing one by one, and those who fought using what they had succeeded in rescuing the spirit magicians on the third floor.

The only thing left is to go to the designated place to escape and follow the signal to get out one by one.

Outside, they had already made preparations so that there would be no problem even if students jumped off the building.

However, Junon still had some business to do here.

“Junon? Where are you going?”

“Downstairs. Come to think of it, you guys used demon blood to make artificial mana stones, but you didn’t dispose of them properly.”

“Uh… Was it?”

“I don’t remember much… But I’m too busy fighting.”

“Ugh, if left alone, the chain explosions will be a nuisance…”

He said below that there is plenty of time for the building to last, and the spirits don’t come out anymore, so you just have to use your strength to support the building.

It’s not difficult to go down for a while and check to prevent danger.

But there is probably no one who wants to go down to the first floor to escape from this disgusting building. That’s why everyone hates their faces.

However, Junon cleanly relieves the burden on their hearts.

“I was just going to check it out anyway. I’m going to throw it away, so you guys go down first.”

“…Can I? I know I shouldn’t, but…”

“For some reason, it feels like I’m leaving everything to you, but…”

“All the spiritists have gone down, and now the girls are going down one by one. There’s nothing wrong with that. I’ll be back up by that time when it’s all over.”

Of course, he is also human. I have no thoughts of wanting to stay here forever.

For those of you who have seen the collapse of the Dube pipe in front of your eyes, you will want to get out of here right away.

But Junon saw it.

When I made the artificial mana stone on the 1st floor, took out the magic field, and left the laboratory, the location of the remains was subtly misaligned.

Inevitably, the location is proof that the exit from the inside was blocked from the outside. The place where the person who committed such a thing would be was very obvious.

Actually, it’s been a long time since he personally disposed of the beast’s blood. With each step he descended, the sound of his footsteps somehow seemed to grow louder.

***

“Ha-am, why does it break so late?”

“I’m sleepy. I hope it collapses soon.”

As it is a dangerous building, there must be at least one place where you can escape in case of an emergency.

From noble mtl dot com

This is an underground shelter that can be called the only safe zone in Dubegwan.

Of course, after blocking all exits and entrances, it became a place where no one but them could enter.

Being confined here for a long time is boring for nobles.

“Those bastards, what would they be like by now?”

“Well, if you’re curious, it wouldn’t hurt to go out of the shelter and check.”

“Era, this baby. I have something to say and something to say. That’s just going out and dying.”

“Keuk kuk. It’s a joke. It’s a joke. Could it be that he meant it? Those bastards who will die are those thousand.”

As you can see, they are really laid back.

Since they are in the safe zone of shelter, they are not interested in what is going on inside, nor do they know.

The only thing of interest is the conversations of those who watched those who recklessly climbed up desperately frustrated and collapsed.

We were just wasting our time talking about when the building would collapse, each bringing this up like a saga.

‘Yes. This is it, this is it.’

Kayden, who succeeded in concocting a story, is satisfied and shakes the clown.

Under a collapsed building. The nobles only took refuge in the shelter, and everything that happened was the responsibility of those who created magic stones there.

Now I can properly respond to the orders of the nobles, who have had many complaints about the common people’s spirit soaring day by day.

A couple of times his clown only soared upwards as he pondered what reward he would receive when he returned to the mansion.

Until a person’s portrait was seen there.

Quaang!!

Wheheheheeng—!!!

The door to the shelter, which is a safe zone, is broken, and an alarm goes off. The smiling faces of the aristocrats, who turned their heads for something, disappeared without a trace.

“It must have been a lot of fun chatting and playing around here, you bastard?”

“Junon…!”

A man who appeared through the broken door alerted them just by shining her face.

The one who reacted most sensitively to this was, of course, Caden.

Why is that guy here at Dubekan?

No, was he at the Dubegwan before that?

Then, how did you step into a shelter that could not be reached only with the strength of the avant-garde and support positions?

It doesn’t matter. What difference does it make to know that there is a shelter in the dubai?

Even if a variable had appeared, he wouldn’t have noticed what was going on on this side.

Junon shatters Caden’s thoughts with passion.

“Did you do it very hot? So I’m going to do it too.”

Something rustled in Junon’s hand, which contained magic, and fell to the ground. Something seems broken, but they haven’t noticed yet.

“Put, what is that?”

“There aren’t just one or two rooms where magical power goes in, and if you’re going to intimidate them with something strange, you got it wrong.”

“Even in most laboratories, magic is spinning. We used a lot more duvet tubes than you, so don’t you know something like that?”

“Can’t we be scared of something like that?”

At most, he thought that he was going to destroy something with that mana held in his hand to scare him.

Furthermore, if it was said to cause injury, it was possible to catch the pod after being rescued from the shelter, so there was nothing to lose.

But why?

“Things happen right away. So, do you want to get a sense?”

“…What?”

It might be strange since he’s the same opponent as the original Thunder Naked, but Junon’s attitude was strangely confident.

I was talking about something happening, so unlike the words I just uttered, I couldn’t help but look that way.

It’s not because I don’t know what it is. Just in case… That guy might commit something, that kind of anxiety was the reason for his eyes.

And it comes to reality.

***

-Koogu Palace.

“Uh, uh uh…?”

“Is that collapsing? Wouldn’t it…?”

“It’s collapsing! Get away now, you idiot!”

The side of the building and part of the ceiling literally collapsed.

But this is a shelter. As a place that becomes a safe space for humans in case of an emergency, it was a place where such an accident could not have occurred.

One edge of the shelter collapsed as soon as one person arrived. Their eyes naturally turn here.

“Gee, f*ck…!”

“Magical circulation device…! I was wondering what you broke and you broke that?!”

“What?! Then this place is no longer a shelter…”

Magic circulation device.

This device, which exists in each building and activates properly only after detecting danger, has the purpose of creating a minimum safety zone for humans.

The ability of a shelter to function as a shelter depends on whether or not the magic circulation device is activated.

But since you threw it right in front of your eyes, you must be panicking at the thought that this place might collapse at some point.

“Hey, this can’t be done… I have to run away… Kuck!”

“Where are you going?”

I kicked the aristocrat who was trying to go outside and sent him back inside.

And at that moment, the fire moved to the collapsed edge, and the flames also began to spread to the shelter.

“That bastard…!”

A nobleman who has been beaten fires magic with a whimper. Of course, it’s not too difficult to deal with his magic because I still have the demonic power.

However, this time, the magic is not treated as a sorcery.

– Hwareuk.

The wrapping cloth is burning in the flames created by magic. Okay. That’s enough.

They, who belatedly realized that they had dropped the magic circulation device earlier, are watching the wrapping cloth I threw, wondering what I threw again this time.

Your curiosity should have been answered surprisingly quickly.

-Sue.

“Uhhhhh!!”

“What was inside…Was it a magic stone?!”

“Lord, you’re going to get poisoned. Open the door… Oh…”

“Where is the door to the shelter!!!”

As black smoke began to rise from the inside of the wrapping cloth I threw, they made a fuss with confused faces.

Yes. I brought an artificial mana stone and a reagent bottle containing the demon’s blood there, and broke the shelter’s mana circulation device to provide an environment identical to that inside the laboratory.

Splash out. Flames. That is two conditions.

Thanks to this, a strong demonic storm is brewing inside the shelter with a concentration incomparable to that of the laboratory.

In this small space, if you take out even the weakest magical energy from this concentration of magic and use magic, everyone will experience mass death.

To make matters worse, the black smoke that could not escape from the ceiling continued to enter their respiratory system. Except for me in the hood.

“This, you crazy bastard…! Do you even know what you’re doing?!”

“Besides, if you’re addicted to Splash Out for a long time, you’ll die the same way. Are we all going to destroy ourselves here?!”

“Self-destruction? Me? It can’t be. How would a person aim to die?”

“Then get out of the way, you crazy bastard!! Everyone here will die!!”

While saying that, he strongly appeals that he wants to live. Truly, they were disgusting bastards.

“Did you quit when the guys in the lab asked you to stop?”

“…!”

It wasn’t a normal collapse, but the traces that seemed to prevent it from escaping from the inside.

It was undeniably the work of these lowly bastards blocking the two entrances to the laboratory.

“And by the way. If you guys said that it didn’t matter whether we died or not, then you should have been prepared to face the opposite.”

“You… What are you doing…”

The remaining one condition. Isolation is made with my own hands.

Quaang!!

Destroy the wall on one side of the door. With a patter, a torrent of rubble fell from the upper base, and now a door can no longer be said to be an exit.

They will be splashed out and surrounded by fire in that space that used to be their shelter, and they will end up in the same situation as the laboratory.

Where are you going to be treated the same way?

-Keuk, keke keke keke keke…!

Now I think it’s time to get out of the building, so I’m about to move my steps, but a guy is laughing in the shelter.

Everybody screams and screams in terror, but only one is laughing. It’s… Cayden.

-If you get out of here… Junon, I’ll make sure to repay you double. Even with everything!!!!

It is a characteristic of a place called a shelter, but it is the safest area, so they do not lose their lives.

That’s why they think it’s possible to recover at any time. But I have nothing more to do with you.

“The limbs are a bit contaminated, so they seem to think that it’s enough to neutralize them. And since only one edge of the shelter was sunk, if they were rescued right away, their lives would be saved. But, you don’t know why splash out is so scary. It seems.”

-Huh, this is a Magi storm. It doesn’t matter if it’s for a few dozen minutes, as long as it doesn’t exceed an hour. If you pay the price, you can call a healer…

“It won’t help. Even if a healer comes.”

-…What?

“It takes about an hour or so for Splash Out to come and go, as you said. However, even 15 minutes of exposure will cause the poisoning symptoms to destroy the magic circuit. Of course, at this concentration, 10 minutes is enough.”

-Ooh, don’t be funny! I’ve never heard of such a thing…!

“Think carefully about why I was wearing the hood. Ah, since I can’t use the magic circuit, would it be better to worry about which path I’m going to take?”

I can assure you that 15 minutes will be more than enough to open the shelter and rescue people.

Yes. It’ll be enough for your life. But, they will lose more than their lives. Because of the splash out.

That narrow space filled with Splash Out will completely take away their symbol, the magic circuit.

Frightened, Cayden finally started scratching the exit where I was standing with his bare hands.

-Wow, if you want anything, I’ll give it to you. Money? Give me as much as you need!! Anything is fine… Me, help me. Open the door and help me!!!!

You stupid bastard.

Will you help?