Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor - Chapter 101
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Skill Devouring to the 666th Floor Episode 101
101. Korea·China·Japan
‘I can’t let this bastard die peacefully.’
Kuroda Hideki, the overall supervisor of kidnapping, rape, organ trafficking, human trafficking, and prostitution.
I plan to give him the ultimate pain.
How?
With the Scales of Judgment.
[Using the Scales of Judgment.]
[The target’s karma will be placed on the scales.]
I had a guess what verdict would come out.
‘Probably death penalty.’
But I shouldn’t think he’ll die with the same pain as the other subordinates.
The Scales of Judgment is an item that measures even the intensity of pain.
Look, didn’t it deliver a verdict of death penalty with maximum pain?
‘He disappeared without even leaving ashes behind.’
Judging by his screams, he must have suffered the highest level of pain.
Still, that bastard got off easy.
‘Karma is scattered everywhere.’
Black energy rippling from each corpse.
I went around and collected them all.
[Karma has been absorbed.]
[75% until core completion…]
Quite a large amount of karma accumulated.
This level is quite satisfactory.
‘Now I need to rescue the kidnapped people.’
I know where they are since I asked earlier.
Going down to the basement, I see people.
“P-please save us. Please…”
“I want to go home. Sob sob…”
Thinking I was a guard, they trembled just from my appearance.
‘Putting people in cages. Those damn bastards.’
They had them locked up separately in various iron cages like raising animals.
“Don’t worry. I came to help you.”
“What?”
Where are the keys?
I don’t know.
I’ll just tear them open.
Creak!
“Gasp!”
I opened the iron cage with pure strength.
“Uh, uwaaa…”
“P-please… please…”
People getting even more frightened.
I sighed involuntarily from the pity.
“Don’t worry. I won’t harm you. I came to rescue you all.”
Only after repeating these words several times did they regain some stability.
Creak!
Creak!
After opening all the iron cages here and there.
“Follow me. The exit is this way.”
As I slowly walked, people finally felt reassured and cautiously poked their heads out and emerged.
There were 18 people following behind me.
It matches the number of kidnapped people.
After going outside the villa, I called 119 using Takeshi’s mobile phone, the yakuza boss.
When asked for the location, I gave them the villa’s address and hung up.
‘My work here is done.’
Now I’ll just give a few words of advice and leave.
“The yakuza organization that kidnapped you has been completely destroyed. So don’t worry. I called the emergency medical team, so wait until then and you can go. It must have been a mentally difficult time, so make sure to stop by the hospital. Well then.”
Just as I was about to turn around after saying that.
“E-excuse me. Who are you?”
“You’re our lifesaver, so we’d like to know who you are.”
“That’s right. Could you tell me your name?”
Why is he so insistent on knowing my identity?
“Does it matter who I am?”
I said only that and spread my wings to fly away.
I could faintly hear voices from the ground expressing their gratitude.
When the police and emergency medical team arrived, Hiromune quietly slipped away from the scene.
He was a vigilante group called the Night Hunter.
Nothing good would come from being associated with the police.
‘What I did is clearly a crime.’
He knew it himself.
Crippling criminal suspects and imposing private sanctions was wrong.
It was something that couldn’t be tolerated in a nation governed by the rule of law.
But he had done it because he thought it was justice.
He had no regrets.
‘I could even be framed as a murder suspect if I’m not careful.’
There were corpses in the villa.
He had briefly seen them before leaving, and all their necks were twisted.
It was what Amon had done to save the kidnapped people.
Although he hadn’t done it himself, he could be framed as a suspect.
It was only a matter of time before the police checked this place.
‘Bastards worse than animals. Locking people up in iron cages?’
Although Amon had committed murder, it didn’t seem like a wrong action.
He would have torn those yakuza apart too.
In a way, Amon could be said to be more gentlemanly.
He had dealt with the guards by simply twisting their necks.
It was probably consideration so the kidnapped people wouldn’t see.
‘He said he was going to the enemies’ main base?’
He quickly moved to the location Amon had marked.
When he arrived, someone was guarding the entrance.
It was the man presumed to be Amon’s assistant whom he had seen before.
“You’re the one who was with Amon, right?”
“？”
Ah, we can’t communicate.
Unlike Amon, he seems unable to speak Japanese.
At times like this, having a translation app is convenient.
“What’s your name?”
“Liu Weihao.”
Speaking into the mobile phone, they could finally communicate.
“Where is Amon? Is he inside?”
“Inside has already been dealt with. He went to clean up the remnants now.”
“What? Remnants?”
“Looks like he went to uproot them completely. He wants to have all the fun by himself. Damn…”
The Chinese man grumbling.
Death God’s Senses was telling him.
That he was a dangerous man.
‘But not as much as Amon.’
In terms of level, he seemed similar to his own class.
His speech and behavior were rough, but there didn’t seem to be any particular need to be wary.
“Can you tell me where?”
“I don’t know either. He went off by himself.”
“Why are you here then?”
“He left me here to greet you since you’d be coming soon. Damn, who does he think he’s treating like a subordinate…”
“Um, weren’t you his assistant?”
“What did you say?”
The other party’s eyes widened.
“I apologize if I offended you.”
He immediately apologized, but it wasn’t out of fear.
As he said, the man seemed to be of the same class as himself.
Then someone descended from the sky.
The winged being, it was Amon.
“I’m back. Oh? Hiromune-san, you’re here too?”
Amon spoke freely, switching between Chinese and Japanese.
Hiromune felt respect for him in many ways.
“I heard you went to eliminate the remnants…”
“Yes. I just finished uprooting the organization. I also rescued 18 more kidnapped people.”
“Ah… That’s truly amazing.”
It wasn’t empty words.
He was truly an amazing man.
‘I can’t even compare to someone like that.’
Unlike himself, who played vigilante catching small fry, Amon had completely uprooted an organization that had taken root like a cancerous tumor.
Amon was truly a man who could be called an exemplar of heroism.
‘He’s on a completely different level. To handle all those Apostles by himself.’
If he became stronger, could he exercise such positive influence too?
By eliminating more trash?
Looking at Amon filled him with respect and awe, while simultaneously stirring up a desire for strength.
“What will you do now?”
“My business in Japan is finished.”
“You mean rescuing me and wiping out the organization?”
“Yes.”
Like the other rescued people, Amon was Hiromune’s lifesaver too.
It was sad to part ways.
“Are you returning to Korea?”
“Yes. But before I go, I’m thinking of tackling a Labyrinth.”
“A Labyrinth?”
“I happened to discover a Sinkhole on the way here. It seemed like an undiscovered Sinkhole without any Safety Officers, so I thought I’d go in and take a look. I haven’t been in one for a while, so I’m getting restless just sitting still.”
It was surprising.
He must have been tired from dealing with the Apostles, yet he wanted to enter another Labyrinth.
His dedication to conquering them was evident.
Extending humanity’s lifespan through it was just a bonus.
‘This person is the real deal. Someone truly worthy of respect.’
A wannabe, role model, his hero.
No matter what he called him, Amon was someone who deserved every title.
“Would you like to come with me, Hiromune?”
“What? Me too?”
“Yes. It would be sad to part ways like this, wouldn’t it? We can’t party together since we’re on different floors though.”
“Ah…”
Amon had extended the invitation first.
This person felt the same way as him.
He was also reluctant to part ways.
“That sounds good. Let’s go together.”
It was the moment Hiromune’s heart completely leaned to one side.
‘He’s been won over.’
Before his regression, he had lived a life of watching others’ reactions as a weak person.
Perhaps because of that, he was confident that he was better than anyone at reading emotions.
‘The way Hiromune looks at me is quite extraordinary.’
Respect, reverence, awe, trust, envy, and more.
It was a gaze filled with various complex emotions.
‘I’ve definitely achieved my goal of making Hiromune my ally.’
In fact, the Labyrinth conquest was also suggested with that intention in mind.
I could just return to Korea and conquer one there, so why would I specifically say I’d do it in Japan?
It was to definitively win Hiromune’s favor.
‘I’m also genuinely restless from not being able to conquer anything.’
Conquering almost daily had become routine.
Even in my previous life, I hadn’t conquered at this pace.
‘When proceeding as a party, we had to coordinate everyone’s schedules, and if even one person wasn’t in good condition, everyone had to wait.’
That was the downside of party play.
Moreover, not knowing what the next mission would be, we had approached cautiously.
As a result, the conquest speed inevitably slowed down.
“Let’s go, Hiromune. I’ll lead the way. Weihao, let’s go.”
“I’m going in too?”
“Of course you have to go. Don’t you want to grow stronger?”
“…”
Weihao followed silently.
While walking to the Sinkhole, I asked Hiromune.
“How many floors have you conquered?”
“Ah, I’ve completed up to the 33rd floor.”
“Weihao, how far have you conquered?”
“Me? 33rd floor.”
Huh? They’re both the same?
If that’s the case, they could form a party when they go in together.
“You two are on the same conquest floor.”
“What?”
“You can party together.”
Hiromune looked surprised.
When I said the same thing in Chinese, Weihao’s eyes widened too.
“What? You want me to party with this guy?”
“Yeah.”
“No way, he’ll just get in my way and be annoying.”
As expected, he refused.
However.
“The 30th floor range has trap missions anyway. There’s a condition that you have to clear them without help from others, so he won’t get in your way.”
“Then why bother going in together? We might as well enter separately with a time gap.”
“Even with a time gap, you’ll end up meeting eventually, right?”
People think all sinkholes connect to the same Labyrinth, but that’s not actually true.
‘They look the same on the surface, but each sinkhole connects to a different Labyrinth. Like Instance Dungeons in games.’
That’s why you can’t meet each other unless you enter through the same sinkhole.
Conversely, Apostles who clear the same floor can meet each other.
“Take this chance to go in together. Experience what party play is like too.”
“If he gets in my way, I might kill him. Would that be okay with you?”
“Heh.”
I couldn’t help but chuckle at Weihao’s words.
“Why are you laughing? Don’t think I can do it?”
“Yeah. You could never beat Hiromune.”
“What?”
Death God’s Senses detects threats of death.
Even if Weihao launched a surprise attack, he would detect it early and dodge.
‘That Telekinesis he’s so proud of would be completely useless.’
How could he kill someone who detects Telekinesis in advance and dodges it?
Hiromune didn’t achieve 2nd place in the rankings in his previous life for nothing.
Still, I should give him a warning for safety’s sake.
“Go ahead and try attacking if you want. But know this one thing. If you harm an innocent person…”
Tap tap—
I tapped my temple with my finger.
“The Death God in your head will notice immediately.”
“…”
“Always remember. Reckless actions only lead to death.”
Currently, Weihao is a muzzled dog.
I’m not afraid of him trying to bite.
“Here it is, Hiromune-sama.”
Three people standing before the sinkhole.
“There really was a sinkhole here.”
“Shall we go in then?”
The three nodded and jumped down together harmoniously.
It was the moment when Korea, China, and Japan entered.
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