Chapter 21
Ariel descends to the battlefield
Location: Seoul, Koya
Day 25th of Jan 5027
The Door to the submarine opens and Ken enters.
~ All right, we are ready to leave ~
Daxia looks out of the window and sees the wings that are now attached to the submarine's side.
- Why do I have an ominous feeling you are about to do something dreadfully stupid –
Ken always had the craziest ideas, which is why he was the bounty hunter people dreaded working with the most.
Although he almost never failed his missions and had the best record after Daxia, his partners frequently had near death experiences and they were almost always because of one of his crazy ideas.
~ Come on! you know me better than that. It’s not stupid if I am the one doing it because it will work ~
Ken smiles confidently then moves the gear stick forward causing the back of the submarine to open up and reveal the demon skull.
The demon skull opens its jaws wider than usual and begins to shriek loudly.
Daxia looks through the back windshield at the demon skull, starting to piece together what Ken’s plan is.
- You can’t possibly be serious. –
~ oh! But I am ~
- WE ARE GOING TO DIE –
A black slimy hand comes out of Saiko’s chest made by Argus and interrupts the two bounty hunters.
_ If he says it will work, then I am sure that it will _
Ken looks at Saiko with surprise as he didn’t expect her to take his side.
He then notices his lips had curled up instinctively into a smile making him laugh inwardly at himself.
He looks at Saiko through the rearview mirror and Salutes her military style.
~ Thank you for believing in me captain. You will not regret it ~
Saiko smiles at Ken’s salute.
_ you are welcome. Now get us out of here. _
~Ai Ai sir. but there is something I need your help with ~
Daxia watches the two of them and then slumps her head down in defeat.
- I am stuck with crazy people –
The dokkaebi goblin looks at her with sympathy and then pats her back to comfort her.
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Location: Seoul police chief office.
The chief of police watches as the battle continues to rage on.
The frequency and strength of explosions continue to increase as the government is forced to use more and more powerful weapons.
‘at this rate we are going to be forced to use weapons that threaten the entire city. Should we evacuate the city’
The chief of police slams his fist on his desk and shouts.
- WHERE IS THE STRIKE TEAM WHY DIDN’T THEY ARRIVE YET –
-sir, something is moving inside the giant. We believe it’s the criminal’s vehicle-
One of the dispatchers informs the chief, and then the screen zooms in on a small dot moving through the giant’s chest.
- FOCUS ALL FIRE ON IT. MOBILIZE THE SAUCERS –
Saucers are disk shaped flying vehicles that generate a sphere void of aether around them which allows them to surf over gravity waves.
This makes Saucers the fastest vehicles known to sapiens in this era becoming perfect weapons for assassinations.
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As they are extremely expensive to make each country in the United World can only afford a very limited number of them.
Three blurry lines zoom out from one of the mountains of Seoul toward the water giant.
The giant notices the objects flying toward it but before it can react the three Saucers pierce its chest and zoom toward the submarine.
Unable to catch the Saucers, the giant freezes its chest to entrap them.
Another wave of spells, rockets, and bullets fly at the giant’s chest to break the ice and kill the targets but a large wall of groundwater rises to defend the giant.
The giant sticks its arm inside its chest and grabs the submarine that now looks more like a jet.
The giant moves its arm back twisting its waist, and then violently moves forward twisting its waist back and flicking its arm like a whip throwing the submarine into the air.
A loud whip like popping noise echoes in Seoul accompanied by a powerful gust of wind as the giant’s arm breaks the sound barrier.
- AAAAAAAHHHHH YOU CRAZY BASTARDS I AM TOO YOUNG TO DIE-
Daxia screams inside the submarine as her life flashes before her eyes from the immense speed.
~ RELAX THE AETHER SHIELD WILL PROTECT US ~
Ken reassures Daxia with a wide grin on his face clearly enjoying the flight.
_ IS THIS GOING TO BE ENOUGH? _
Saiko questions recalling how fast those disk shaped flying machines were.
They seemed to move without any propulsion and seemed to somehow evade the resistance of the water.
~ OF COURSE NOT ~
Saiko raises an eyebrow out of confusion but waits for Ken to continue, expecting him to have planned for it.
~ WE OBVIOUSLY NEED TO GO FASTER ~
Ken’s grin grows wider as he pushes the gear stick forward.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE
Saiko and Daxia look behind them to see electric arcs flying behind them coming out of the demon skull.
- oh no –
ROOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-
Daxia screams her lungs out as a plasma beam wider than the submarine erupts from the demon skull propelling the submarine faster through the Air leaving a violent shockwave in its wake.
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Location: police chief office
-s, sir, the criminal escaped -
A dispatcher hesitantly reports to the police chief.
- I CAN SEE THAT YOU FOOL-
The police chief slams his fist on his disk, then sits back on his chair and rubs his forehead in frustration.
‘Is the only solution really to use a nuke? I am not even sure a normal ballistic missile would be enough. Whose dumb idea was it to create these living weapons?’
The police chief furrows his brows as he continues to weigh his options when his thoughts are interrupted.
- Sir, you have a call –
The police chief looks up at his secretary with a curious look.
Obviously, she knows this is not the time for useless calls, so he wonders who it is for her to bring it up to him despite the situation.
- It’s Agent Double 0, sir – she proclaims
-Connect him immediately-
The secretary connects the agent to the police chief’s aether channel.
- Hey Chief –
The police chief hears Claus’s laid back voice in his ears through the aether channel which immediately pisses him off.
- YOU SHAMELESS BASTARD, HOW ARE YOU SO CALM? THE LIVING WE…THE CRIMINALS ESCAPED –
The chief catches himself before calling the criminal a living weapon. He recalls that the agents of the strike force are not informed about the living weapon project.
Claus doesn’t miss the chief’s blunder but pretends not to notice.
- Relax chief. I will catch the criminals –
- hmph, you are late, arrogant bastard. They already escaped. –
-pfft-
The police chief hears a quiet chuckle causing his blood to boil even more.
- YOU BASTARD –
- Relax chief. I am never late. I already know their destination and I am waiting for them there.
- what? -
Claus’s confident claim shocks the police chief.
It’s one thing to know which country they want to go to maybe even what city but he claims to know their exact route.
Despite Claus’s arrogance, the police chief has to admit he is skilled. that is why he is the team leader of Strike Team One. However, that’s on a different level.
- How did you know? –
- I have to go now Chief. The criminals are nearly here –
- WAIT-
Claus hangs up and his lips curl up slightly.
- Sophia, did you notice-
- I did -
Sophia responds to Claus through their team's Aether channel.
- he didn’t seem to be as concerned with the book as much as he was concerned with the individual-
Claus pauses for a moment then asks
-hm, How do you think we should go about this? –
- I am not sure, it seems to be hidden very well-
Claus sighs.
- haaaaa, if only our favorite group of thieves were to share their secrets with us, our lives would be much easier –
Claus recalls his last encounter with the group of thieves.
‘I don’t want to hurt you’
‘If I tell you, you will be silenced’
-pffft –
Claus laughs as he recalls another line.
‘You can’t win’
- Well, we are going to see about that –
Claus’s thoughts are interrupted by Sophia's voice
- By the way, I am curious. How did you know they would pass through here?-
-oh! That. That’s easy. They want to escape Kim sungtae but the border of Kim sungtae is extremely monitored and armed, if you were to try to cross you, would be immediately shot and killed and if you manage to survive then you would become a wanted criminal.
It wouldn’t make sense for them to escape being chased by the world government only to be chased by Kim sungtae, as such it’s easy to assume they either want to work with Kim sungte government or want to get in undetected.
We can dismiss the first option since one of them is a Therian.
That leaves going in undetected as the only option and to do that, they need to come here.
On the surface, Kim sungte is independent and self sufficient but in truth, they still rely on a significant amount of trade but it’s all done through the black market which kim sungte turns a blind eye to.
In order to do that Kim sungte prepared a tunnel system for black market trade and that tunnel system is below us. –
-I see, I didn’t expect you to know so much about the black market but that’s a conversation for another time they are here-
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~ KIM SUNGTE WE ARE COMING ~
Ken grins as he drives the submarine, No, the jet through the air.
~uh oh~
Daxia notices what Ken said and leans forward from the back chair.
-UH OH, WHAT DO YOU MEAN UH OH-
She then sees a golden armor floating in the air, flames erupt from the head of the armor like the mane of a lion, and a golden metal sheet and four golden blades float around the armor.
-CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP-
She shouts.
Ken quickly pulls the gear stick back and presses on the brakes as hard as he can.
The demon skull closes its mouth and recedes back inside the back of the jet.
The wings’ ends bend making air brakes but despite all the jet is still incredibly fast from Its previous momentum.
- Let me help you stop –
The golden armor raises its arm and a portal appears in front of it catching the jet.
The other end of the portal opens above the ground causing the jet to crash.