Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 286

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

Chapter 286

Molting (3)

Mossad (המוסד).

Israel’s intelligence agency that boasts world-class espionage capabilities and operational power.

This place currently also serves as an awakener agency managing Israel’s awakeners, wielding tremendous influence worldwide.

Especially at its center was Director Gabe Kapler.

A skilled individual who belongs to the top rankers.

He was now watching a junior agent who was clutching his head in frustration.

“Ah, so… right now Jet’s group went on a trip to South Africa, and it just so happened that the Jiseo Order was trying to raid the 【Nest】 there, and the SSA and Draconis Watch were having a standoff because of this, and Russia was preparing to dispatch Zarya when suddenly the Sons of Zeus came and picked a fight with the Jiseo Order, and the Jiseo Order counterattacked causing chaos in Johannesburg, but there also seems to be Gwiroae involved… that’s what you’re saying?”

“Correct.”

“…What the hell is this?”

“What else. It’s a complete mess.”

“…”

“That’s why I’m giving you this order. Go find out what exactly happened.”

“No, how can you suddenly dump something like this on me! Didn’t you tell me to cooperate in establishing ASTRA’s collaborative organization!!”

Maksans Degremont was going crazy.

He had been infiltrating the Sons of Zeus while operating as Rhadamanthys, and had recently returned to Mossad under Director Gabe’s orders.

It was partly to report on various recent developments and to participate in the ‘Awakener Cooperative Organization’ being prepared for establishment centered around ASTRA.

This also meant that Director Gabe trusted him that much, and he had been briefly happy thinking he could finally escape from the tiresome fieldwork.

But suddenly Director Gabe brought some strange information and threw a new order at him.

An order to accurately assess the situation in South Africa, which was on the verge of complete chaos.

‘I wondered why headquarters was so noisy…! If I had known this would happen, I should have just stubbornly stayed in the field!’

“I won’t do it! No, I can’t do it! If you’re going to make me do it, just step on me! I’m already dying from too much work, where exactly do you want me to go!!”

Maksans threw himself down on the floor spread-eagle.

“Should I really step on you?”

“I was just saying that! Fine! Then for the cooperative organization establishment work…”

“Do that too, and do this too.”

“Damn it! That’s basically telling me to die! No, you said you’d really reduce my workload!”

“What can I do. You’re the top expert in this field.”

“Aaaahhh!!”

Maksans actually wasn’t someone who could be very diligent.

But the reason he had lived so earnestly was for one reason only.

Director Gabe was like a mentor to him.

“Gwiroae is involved, isn’t it.”

The problem was that Director Gabe also knew Maksans too well.

“You said it yourself, didn’t you? That from now on, we’d need to check Gwiroae’s movements most diligently. But even Perseus, who we thought was dead, has come back to life? Don’t you want to know how this happened?”

“…Fuck!!”

And Maksans had a condition.

He was a busybody who loved gossip.

If there was something curious, he absolutely had to dig into it and find out.

Director Gabe wore a gentle expression.

After wielding the whip, it was time to offer the carrot.

“I’m not telling you to go all the way to South Africa and run around.”

“…Then?”

Maksans, who had been fooled several times before, looked at him with a suspicious face.

“I’m telling you to investigate the Dionysus side. It seems like Gwiroae played some tricks in the middle, so we need to know what the Sons of Zeus plan to do next so we can prepare countermeasures on our end.”

“Damn it…”

Geographically, South Africa seemed far from Israel, but psychologically it was close.

This was because Mossad served as a lighthouse monitoring the Dark Side of the Moon at ASTRA’s request.

“Understood. I just need to do it, right? Ugh, what has my life become…”

Maksans, who had become a diligent ant worker once again today, pulled out a plaster mask from his chest.

“I’ll go and come back.”

“Be careful.”

“You really mean that sincerely, right?”

Maksans grumbled as he put the mask on his face.

Click-

Whoosh!

[You are invited to the Palace of Dionysus!]

At that moment, Maksans felt his vision twist,

“I was just about to call for you. You came at the right time. I have need of your brain, Rhadamanthys.”

Between marble floors and pillars, Dionysus could be seen tilting a wine glass.

However,

‘He’s seriously angry? This might be…’

Maksans could tell that Dionysus was very different from his usual relaxed atmosphere.

He also served as a strategist among the Sons of Zeus after all.

“I actually had something to tell you as well, so this works out perfectly.”

Instantly, Dionysus’s eyes flashed coldly.

“Are you talking about the Jiseo Order matter?”

“Yes, that’s right. It seems like Gwiroae is trying to sow discord, have you made contact with the Order?”

“Perhaps because they’re fanatics, they were completely unreasonable. I wanted to tear them all apart.”

Madness flickered in Dionysus’s eyes.

“This… it seems like this will be a long conversation. Do you happen to have another glass of wine?”

Maksans had completely transformed from his whining appearance just moments ago into a sharp-eyed figure.

* * *

“…Even setting aside the hero’s legend, was it possible to disguise even in the Outer Sea? Ha, really!”

In the middle of downtown Johannesburg.

Not far from the Sons of Zeus’s safe house that had become a battlefield due to the monsters’ intrusion.

Yukimihiro let out a hollow laugh while observing Lee Hyeon’s handiwork.

“This should be considered downright sinister…”

Just when he was thinking that perhaps his lord had unleashed an utterly ridiculous monster(?) into this world,

“It’s been a while, Pater.”

“Indeed. Have you been well, Hela?”

Lee Hyeon was shaking hands with Hela, the queen of the dungeon giants, on the other side.

The true identity of the monsters that had just devastated the safe house and were in full retreat. They were dungeon giants wearing the hides of dead sea beasts.

“Phew…!”

“I thought I was going to die from the heat. Why is this thing so uncomfortable?”

“Still, wasn’t it fun running around energetically after so long?”

“Uhahaha! You call that talking! Seeing the faces of humans fleeing in terror!”

“Still, the human who appeared at the end was quite fierce. The one who seemed to be the branch manager. We should be careful if we meet him next time.”

The dungeon giants couldn’t stop smiling while taking off the sea beast hides.

“It might have been an unreasonable request, but thank you for helping.”

“Huhhuhu! Not at all. Rather, we’re grateful that you didn’t forget us and came to find us again. We were actually quite bored.”

Unlike when dealing with the Dijiang Sect, Lee Hyeon didn’t act ruthlessly when attacking the Sons of Zeus. Instead, he focused on ‘imitation.’

He used the dungeon giants to make it look as if the Dijiang Sect had attacked in a fit of rage.

There were two important points to this strategy.

One was to never drag out the time. He had to finish before reinforcements arrived.

And the other was to leave traces of seawater ‘as if from’ the Outer Sea scattered throughout the area.

[Successfully converted the not-yet-fully-absorbed energy of the Outer Sea into lightning!]

[‘Event: Lightning Collector’ has been activated.]

[Currently collected lightning (18/99)]

– Dueoksini (Specter)

– Zeus (Diovis)

…

– ??? (※Cannot read the legend)

Thanks to this, he was even able to obtain gray lightning originating from the Outer Sea.

In fact, the gray lightning was destructive and unstable, making it difficult to handle, but it was still sufficient to leave traces ‘as if the Outer Sea had passed through’ in various places.

Sure enough.

“…This is.”

“A complete mess.”

“The SSA will catch wind of this, what do we do?”

“What do you mean what do we do! Are we just going to leave the Dijiang Sect alone after they pulled this stunt! They didn’t even listen to our side and just went ahead and did this!”

“There are too many eyes watching, let’s get out of here first.”

The masked figures who had been inspecting the scene were all grinding their teeth, but when police cars swarmed in, they tried to disappear.

No, they tried to.

If not for the sudden ambush.

Kwarrrrrung!!

[Lightning from the Outer Sea strikes!]

Gray lightning that suddenly fell from the sky struck down on Kairees’s head.

Before they could leave, Lee Hyeon had thrown Dueokshin’s fang as a final warning.

“…!!”

Before Kairees could do anything, his body exploded along with his mask,

“Th-these crazy bastards!!”

“R-run!”

The subordinates of the Sons of Zeus didn’t even properly confirm the attack and fled in terror.

With the branch leader dead, the chaos would only grow larger.

The main organization would also hurriedly send people to accurately grasp how the situation was unfolding.

Whiiiii…!

「Kekekek! This is definitely going to ignite a proper fight! With the branch leader dead like that, they won’t be able to stay still anymore!!」

‘The Dijiang Sect has such a strong impression of being crazy that it wouldn’t be strange no matter what they did. I used that to my advantage.’

What Lee Hyeon focused on most when planning this operation was to absolutely never give the two sides a chance to have a calm conversation.

The Sons of Zeus knew that Perseus, who attacked the Dijiang Sect, was a duke. So they could somehow try to persuade the Dijiang Sect that they were uninvolved in this matter.

But what if the Dijiang Sect struck back in retaliation first?

Wouldn’t the Sons of Zeus have no choice but to get angry too?

The Sons of Zeus were also an axis of evil that would be second to none in terms of extremism.

So they would have no choice but to reflexively retaliate, either suppressing the Dijiang Sect with force to persuade them or doing whatever else.

Then what would naturally follow after that is,

「Nothing but destruction. Kekekekek! As expected of our Chosen One! I can only admire you!」

Lee Hyeon had recently started to think that Sha Wujing’s praise like this wasn’t necessarily all good, but he just ignored it and said.

‘If this situation goes around just a few more times, one of the two will have to foam at the mouth.’

「That’s certainly true. Kekekek!」

After confirming that police were gathering at the scene, Lee Hyeon withdrew to the Eagle’s Nest with the dungeon giants.

To completely remove the influence of the Dijiang Sect and the Sons of Zeus from the South African region, he had to quickly eliminate all the guilds and forces that were in league with them too.

‘South Africa is at the southernmost tip of the African continent. Since it borders the sea, there are many subsidiary organizations and cooperative groups connected to both places.’

What he had Go Jin-woo help him find out was precisely the list and locations of such places.

So….

‘Now I’ll gradually set the trap.’

It was time to trap the Dijiang Sect.

* * *

The sudden clash between the Dijiang Sect and the Sons of Zeus.

And the battle.

This news naturally reached both the SSA and Draconis Watch as well.

Beep beep beep!

Beep beep!

The terminal items of agents from both organizations rang incessantly.

“…The two axes of evil clashed in the middle of downtown Johannesburg?”

“All the Dijiang Sect branches hidden in the Drakensberg Mountains were completely destroyed? What the hell does this mean?”

Both Tabo Mncwolisi and Amandla Khoetsi ended up with equally bewildered expressions.

Wasn’t this the moment when they were fighting over control of the mine and were extremely tense about the Dijiang Sect’s prophet trying to descend?

But suddenly this kind of report?

Why were the Sons of Zeus suddenly beating up the Dijiang Sect out of nowhere?

How did the Dijiang Sect know the locations of the Sons of Zeus’s secret bases?

Moreover, news also came that the underground guilds they had identified as being connected to them were being destroyed one after another.

It wasn’t just ending as a simple clash between two organizations, but was beginning to escalate into a war that touched even their periphery.

The outside was truly in a state of chaos.

Messages asking for urgent instructions were flooding in.

“….”

“….”

Everything was full of unsolvable mysteries.

But the problem was,

Kurrrrrung….

The dark clouds that had been rushing toward the mine stopped their advance.

And,

『Going… back….』

Kiiiiaaaaaak!

The echo that rang out with a terrible wail began to grow distant again.

The fanatics and atypical demons that had been rushing toward the Gate were also retreating as if nothing had happened.

[Sacred Realm declaration has been canceled.]

[The blessing of Dijiang is withdrawn.]

“Ha!”

“…Damn.”

As even the murderous aura completely disappeared, Tabo let out a hollow laugh. Amandla was completely soaked in cold sweat and collapsed onto the ground.

“It seems… something definitely happened over there.”

Just as Tabo was hurrying to return to headquarters to figure out exactly how the situation was unfolding.

Whoooosh!

“…!?”

“Wh-what is that?”

Tabo and Amandiya hurriedly turned their heads at the ominous feeling suddenly emanating from behind them.

Like being startled by a pot lid after being frightened by a toad, they were alarmed by the sudden alien presence even while watching the prophet retreat.

And….

“Who are they…?”

Four humans appeared along with a crack in space.

Tabo, who had been wondering if a Dungeon Break had occurred, soon recognized the four people’s faces and widened his eyes.

They were faces he had already received reports about several times.

Oh Su-heon, Kim Min-jeong, Eom Gi-seon.

White Burn’s new Rankers.

Those called Jet Jang Lee Hyeon’s right-hand men.

But in the place where Jet should naturally have been, there was a completely different person.

An unfamiliar face. But somehow a familiar-looking face.

The problem was… that he boasted an aura no less than Jet’s power as assessed by the SSA.

Moreover, it was a temperament that awakened ones in South Africa could never fail to recognize.

‘No way!’

“Ti-Tiamat!?”

While Amandiya, who had spent over ten years trying to prevent Tiamat’s movements, screamed,

Moon Su-chan cut through the wind and passed by the two people nonchalantly. His golden-glowing eyes were fixed solely on one direction.

The prophet.

From now on, he had to chase after them and drive them to where the ‘trap’ was.

That was precisely,

The specialty that guide Golden Eye had boasted until four years ago.

Now it was time to show it again.

“Blue Thunder.”

The one who had once been the sub-leader of the Thunder Unit spoke.

“Commence the operation.”

“Order confirmed.”

“Order confirmed.”

Swooooosh!

Z Team began to run.

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