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Swordmaster Healer (Web Novel) - Chapter 53 – Otherworld Entity (4)
Chapter 53 – Otherworld Entity (4)
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TL: Boko
“My lord! Your Dragon Fear may affect your allies as well!” Rishubalt said and Sung Joon withdrew the mana he’d infused into Roel.
There was a chance that his allies would get caught up in his Dragon Fear, so Sung Joon decided to use a different technique.
“Gale Sword!”
A high-speed movement technique accompanied by sword winds. The assassins, who’d gotten through the bombardment, were met by Sung Joon.
“W-When did he…!?”
“He’s fast!”
It was difficult for second class assassins to see Sung Joon’s movements. They were shocked, but at that very moment, they were hit by Sung Joon’s Gale Sword.
“Ugh!”
“Ah!”
The second class assassins used their high-speed movement techniques to barely avoid his attack, but the third class assassins had no such luck.
They weren’t skilled enough to dodge an SS-rank Hunter’s sword winds. A dozen third class assassins fell without resistance, as if they were scarecrows.
They were about as strong as high tier B-rank Hunters, so they hadn’t been harmed by the bombardment. However, Sung Joon was the issue. They couldn’t get through him.
“Attack him together!”
The two first class assassins grouped with the second class assassins and got into formation. However, Sung Joon immediately saw through their tactic, as he already knew what formation they were using.
“Mr. Idun! There are Mage Hunters at their rear!”
Sung Joon, who had broken their formation and was slaughtering the assassins, was being bombarded by a barrage of fire spears and ice blades, so he asked Idun for his assistance.
If he wanted to get to the Magicians, then he’d have to get through the assassins first, but that would take a lot of time.
Rather than use an unfamiliar term like ‘Magician’, Sung Joon used the more familiar phrase, ‘Mage Hunter’.
Idun acted immediately. He distracted the rear guard with an offense spell while radioing the artillery corps to bombard them.
“We’ll get artillery support soon!” Idun yelled.
Even while busily swinging his sword, Sung Joon heard his message loud and clear. The artillery corps bombarded the rear guard, but most of the Mages had cast defensive spells to protect themselves, so they got out unscathed. However, that was enough.
Sung Joon advanced while they were focused on defense, and was soon right in front of them, creating a river of body and blood along the way.
“Stop the bombardment! One of ours is down there!”
Idun ordered the troops to standby. He knew that should the bombardment continue, Sung Joon wouldn’t be able to act freely.
“Use your defensive spells!” the Magician Leader ordered hastily and cast a defensive spell.
His subordinates followed suit and cast their spells, but Sung Joon kept smiling.
“…You really think that’ll be enough to stop me?”
“W-What are you…?”
They couldn’t understand what he meant. His voice had been muffled by the racket and the cold laughter, so they couldn’t hear him.
“I said, do you really think you can stop me with such poor magic?”
“Ugh!”
Once he swung his sword, the defensive spell broke into pieces. It was the Spell-Breaking Sword.
“N-No way…!”
The Magician Leader was shocked. He was a high-rank Magician. And a spell cast by a high-rank Magician shouldn’t have broken so easily.
“Blink!”
The Magician Leader cast Blink and quickly retreated, but the other Magicians didn’t act so quickly. Sung Joon pushed through, swinging his sword.
“Ugh!”
“Ah!”
Whenever he swung his sword, a Magician would spurt blood and fall. A few of them hurriedly cast an offensive spell, but the spells futilely ‘vanished’ before his blade.
The Magician Leader watched this happen from afar and bit his lip.
‘It’s definitely the Spell-Breaking Sword! A technique reserved for the swordmasters of the Knight Brigade was leaked!’
He turned his gaze to the car holding the ‘Righteous Shield’.
“He’s not important right now…” the Magician Leader muttered. At that moment, he felt a presence and a icy gaze from behind him.
“Then what is important?”
“Ah! Blink… Ugh!”
He wouldn’t escape a second time. Before he could even utter the activation words, Sung Joon’s blade decapitated the Magician Leader. Red blood spurted onto his face, and the Magician Leader’s body fell weakly onto the floor.
Sung Joon wiped most of the blood off his face and looked around with a sharp gaze.
Because he’d taken out the Magicians, the enemy’s offensive had weakened noticeably. However, they hadn’t fallen yet. The National Guard, the Central Hunter Bureau, and the U.S. government’s troops had sustained heavy casualties.
They were getting a steady supply of reinforcements, but that wouldn’t heal the wounded.
“You must kill the commander,” Rishubalt said.
Sung Joon agreed with him and nodded his head. Killing the commander was a good way of stopping all resistance.
“Stealth.”
Sung Joon disappeared. It would be difficult to detect someone stealthed on such a chaotic battlefield.
That’s what he was aiming for. He pushed through enemy territory while stealthed. The National Guard’s artillery corps continued to bombard the enemy, and the formation of attack helicopters shot air-to-ground missiles.
This was dangerous, as there was a possibility of friendly fire, but Sung Joon dodged all of the artillery fire and the missiles with ease, and managed to go deep into enemy lines.
“Someone is stealthed!”
“Deal with it!”
Those protecting command weren’t weak. Although the battlefield was so chaotic, they were still able to detect his stealth.
But it seemed like they didn’t know his exact position, as they were looking around sharply.
Sung Joon stared at them and gathered his mana, breaking his stealth. His sword moved before they noticed him.
“Gale Sword!”
“Ugh!”
Two of the three first class assassins that acted as guards fell to his sword, which was like a gale.
The sole remaining assassin managed to block the sword winds, but his stance was crooked. At this rate, the first class assassin would be defenseless against Sung Joon’s follow-up strike.
“Ha!”
In a battle with two skilled fighters, the one who showed weakness would die. Sung Joon didn’t waste this opportunity. He let out a battle cry and swung his sword, cutting the first class assassin’s thigh.
“Ugh!”
His posture was crooked before, but he completely crumpled this time. He counterattacked, but it didn’t reach Sung Joon.
On the contrary, he missed Sung Joon’s counterattack as his poor defense crumbled.
Once Sung Joon’s blade pierced his heart, the first class assassin fell weakly. The guards had been annihilated. Now, all that remained was the commander.
“You use the Knight Brigade’s swordsmanship, I see.”
Sung Joon turned his head towards the direction of the voice and saw the commander. He looked calm, despite all that had happened, and wore an insignia on his armor that Sung Joon was familiar with.
“Are you part of the Noble Order?”
The Noble Order was, as the name implies, an organization of high-ranking noble commanders. They held a high position within the Empire, as only the best of the best could join the organization.
“You know our language as well… and you’re familiar with the crest of the Noble Order. You also use the Knight Brigade’s swordsmanship… You must be a traitor.”
“Think what you want. You’ll be dead soon anyway.”
Sung Joon used his high-speed movement and swung his sword, slicing off the Noble Commander’s right arm.
The Noble Commander had learnt the Noble Order’s swordsmanship and assassination techniques as well, but he was still no match for Sung Joon. Eventually, Sung Joon cut off the Noble Commander’s head.
Sung Joon broke the command flag beside him to notify the troops that command had fallen.
“Command has fallen!”
He didn’t need to pick up the Noble Commander’s severed head and yell that. Lifting up the broken flag and yelling would be just as effective.
All the Empire’s soldiers that had crossed over via the warp gate were elites, but their morale took a nosedive when they heard that command had fallen.
As gunfire rained down on the battlefield, the Central Hunter Bureau’s agents moved covertly in order to capture a prisoner. Then, the high-ranking commanders simultaneously ingested poison and committed suicide.
“Mr. Kang Sung Joon! We’ve won!”
Idun rushed over and reported their triumph.
* * *
Once the high-ranking commanders killed themselves, their subordinates soon followed. The U.S. weren’t able to procure even a single prisoner.
The CIA and the Central Hunter Bureau identified the dead, but couldn’t find the nationality of the enemy, aside from the mercenaries.
Once the battle was over, Sung Joon’s synchronization rate rose to 63%. The enemy had attacked them for the ‘Righteous Shield’, so the event was cancelled. Sung Joon would receive the item privately.
Contrary to its name, it wasn’t actually a shield but a necklace. Sung Joon was already wearing two other necklaces: the ‘Dragon’s Protection’ and the ‘Knight Brigade’s Necklace’. Wearing too many necklaces would be a hindrance on the battlefield, so Sung Joon decided to take off the ‘Dragon’s Protection’ as it overlapped with the ‘Righteous Shield’.
“Mr. Kang Sung Joon.”
There was a short knock on his door. Jennifer opened the door and peeked her head in.
“May I come in?”
Sung Joon, who was sitting down and fiddling around with his smartphone, nodded his head. She then entered his room and sat in front of Sung Joon.
Sung Joon had received the ‘Righteous Shield’, but there was still the matter of his payment for the raid, so he was still staying in the Blair House.
“Are you done processing my reward for the New York raid?”
“Yes. The sum will be deposited into your account within one hour.”
“Nice.”
Sung Joon smiled. Because of the U.S.’s generosity, Sung Joon was able to stay in the Blair House without feeling discomfort, but he didn’t feel as comfortable here as he did back home.
“How much will I get?” Sung Joon looked at Jennifer and said.
He would know once it was deposited, but he wanted to know right away. Jennifer looked into it with her tablet PC.
“$700 billion*.”
*T/N: May be referring to won. If so, it would roughly equal $700 million in U.S. currency. However, there is a possibility that this sum is in U.S. dollars already.
“It’s a lot more than I expected,” Sung Joon said honestly.
He wasn’t the raid’s MVP and he hadn’t received additional payment from the South Korean government.
Therefore, he could understand $500 billion, but the reward was totally unexpected. Perhaps it was because it was a large SS-rank raid.
“You were given a huge payment due to the size of the raid,” Jennifer smiled and said.
Sung Joon nodded his head. It wasn’t like being paid a lot was a bad thing.
They briefly stopped talking and Sung Joon took out his smartphone during the five minutes of silence. He had heard his phone’s alarm go off.
“It’s been deposited.”
Sung Joon smiled, as he could check the payment details.
“Have you checked the amount?”
“Yes. There’re no problems.”
“That’s a relief.”
“More importantly, have you finished investigating the attackers?” Sung Joon asked. The attackers were from the Empire, so Sung Joon couldn’t say he was entirely unrelated to it. That’s why he wanted to know, but Jennifer shook her head.
“Nothing has been finalized, so I can’t tell you anything yet.”
“I see.”
Sung Joon smiled. She was telling him in a roundabout way that she couldn’t reveal what was going on. He could understand her position.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the U.S. itself was attacked, so why would they give Sung Joon, an outsider, the information?
“Mr. Kang Sung Joon.”
Jennifer organized her thoughts and called for him.
“Yes?”
“The president has invited you to a banquet. Would you like to go?”
