Monopolizing Skills to the 666th Floor - Chapter 167
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Skill Devouring Up to Floor 666 Episode 167
167. Hostage Situation
Everyone froze at the sudden situation.
No one knew when they had appeared.
They could only hold their breath at the fact that an Assailant was pointing a blade at them.
“Stay still. Supporters. If you move even a little, your families will die.”
When the Foreigner threatened them in English, Park Se Hee translated with a trembling voice.
“D-don’t move and stay still. Otherwise he’ll kill us…”
“Ah…”
Seo Mina looked at her Younger Brother with worried eyes while panicking.
As the cold blade touched his neck, fear crept across Seo Min Su’s expression.
Park Se Hee’s younger brother wasn’t any different.
Park Se-jun was also trembling with a terrified expression since this was his first time having his life threatened.
“If you just stay still, no one will get hurt.”
It was the moment the Foreigner said that.
“H-hey! What are you doing right now!?”
A Middle-aged Man grasped the situation and courageously approached them.
However, one of the foreigners pointed a gun at him without hesitation and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
The noisy Cafe was instantly engulfed in silence.
The Man collapsed, bleeding.
“Kyaaah!”
“Ahhh, what the!?”
Other customers screamed upon seeing this scene.
Not many people could maintain their sanity after seeing a gun.
“Kyaah!”
“R-run!”
“S-someone call the police!”
“G-get out of the way!”
The sound of tables overturning and chairs rolling around filled the Cafe.
It didn’t even take a few minutes for the bustling Cafe to become completely empty.
The Supporters also tried to get up slowly.
“Don’t move! If you move, I’ll slit your throat right now!”
Park Se Hee translated with a pale face at the Foreigner’s threat.
The Supporters couldn’t help but tremble.
Especially Park Se-jun and Seo Min Su, who had blades so close to their necks that they couldn’t even breathe properly.
“Older Sister… what do we do…”
Seo Min Su muttered with a trembling voice.
“Calm down, Min Su. It’ll be okay.”
Seo Mina spoke as calmly as possible, but her pupils were also shaking.
That was the moment.
Whooom!
Suddenly, a faint Protective Barrier surrounded Park Se-jun’s body.
“Wh-what’s this?”
Park Se-jun showed a surprised expression.
The others watching were the same.
Especially the Supporters were the most surprised.
“That’s Lord Amon’s…?”
“Right, that’s the Protective Barrier.”
It was during the past 75th Floor raid mission.
At that time, they were fighting a difficult battle against the Orc Hero, and in a moment of crisis, Amon appeared.
Along with that very Protective Barrier.
“What? What is this?”
The Assailant who was holding Park Se-jun pressed the blade to his neck.
However, the Protective Barrier pushed the blade away.
Even when he applied force, the Assailant couldn’t inflict even the slightest wound against that solid physical barrier.
“Fxxk! It’s those bitches’ doing! They put up the Protective Barrier!”
“You guys! I told you to stay still!”
“W-we didn’t do it.”
Seo Mina tried to explain, but there was no way they would believe her.
“This is the price for not listening to us!”
The Foreigner who said that applied force to the blade against Seo Min Su’s neck.
Ting!
With a metallic clang, the blade was deflected.
It was because Han So Ra had cast an invincibility buff just in time.
“Now!”
At that shout, Seo Mina used her Mind Control Skill as if she had been waiting for this moment.
The foreigner who had been threatening Seo Min Su’s pupils became hazy and unfocused.
“Kill your companion.”
As if responding to that command, the foreigner lunged at his companion.
“You crazy bastard! That’s dangerous!”
The companion who had almost been stabbed with the blade started shooting his gun.
Bang bang!
No matter how much of an Apostle he was, he was no match for a gun.
For an Apostle who had only climbed to the 120th Floor, two bullets were enough to easily bring him down.
“You guys! Do you really want to die!?”
The remaining assailant aimed his gun at the Supporters.
“I was going to use you as hostages, but that’s not going to work. Since it’s come to this, you all die!”
It was the moment the gun fired.
“Huh?”
The bullet that had been fired stopped in mid-air.
“Wh, what’s happening?”
The panicked foreigner fired his gun again.
Bang! Bang!
However, the bullets slowed down like a slow-motion video and eventually stopped in mid-air.
As if they were caught by something.
Then.
Crack!
“Argh!”
With a sickening sound of bones breaking, the foreigner’s wrist twisted in the opposite direction.
As he reflexively dropped the gun, the bullets that had been suspended in mid-air also fell.
And someone stepped on that gun.
Crunch!
The person who stepped on the flattened gun was none other than Amon.
‘Phew, good thing I arrived in time.’
While observing people through Parasite, I happened to be watching the Supporters when I witnessed it.
Park Se-jun and Seo Min Su captured by two unknown assailants.
To help resolve the difficult situation, I used the Wind, Move skill and was able to instantly teleport this far distance along with the protective barrier.
“Are you all okay? Everyone?”
“Ah, Lord Amon!”
“Oh, thank goodness…”
The Supporters let out sighs of relief.
“That person is…”
Park Se-jun, who was seeing Amon for the first time, showed surprised eyes, while Seo Min Su was looking with admiring eyes.
“Ugh…”
The foreigner who got up while enduring the pain in his wrist tried to sneak away.
However.
Whoosh!
“Gah!”
Just like when I had blocked the bullets earlier, I held him in mid-air with telekinesis and approached him to ask.
“Who sent you?”
“Grr…”
The foreigner gritted his teeth and resisted.
“Won’t you talk?”
“We… will never open our mouths!”
“We? Does that mean there are more of you besides yourselves?”
“…”
“Not going to answer?”
Unfortunately, torture is my specialty.
I used telekinesis to force his mouth open and then pulled out one of his healthy teeth.
“Keuuaagyagaek!”
“Answer the question. Who are you? What purpose did you have in planning this?”
“….”
“You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. I have plenty of things to break anyway.”
Then this time I broke his finger.
Crack!
“Keuaaak!”
The guy held out, but that didn’t last long either.
Just as I broke his third tooth and finger, he obediently spoke up.
“W-we are… an organization called Black Circle. An international Criminal Organization composed of Apostles… we came to Korea to capture Amon.”
“Me?”
Seeing me sneer, the guy made a self-deprecating expression.
“We know too… that it’s hard to beat you who cleared over the 500th Floor. That’s why we prepared a kidnapping operation.”
“What despicable bastards. So what’s your reason for trying to kill me?”
“We’re afraid our abilities will disappear if you conquer the 666th Floor… we’re trying to prevent that…”
“Abilities will disappear if the 666th Floor is conquered? Is that reliable information?”
“It’s not certain, but… we can’t take the risk.”
“So that’s why you staged this hostage situation. To draw me out and put me in a difficult position.”
I roughly understood the situation.
“Then you’re saying you investigated the people around me, so where are the other organization members? No, more than that, are there other people you took hostage?”
“There aren’t any… The people here are… everyone.”
[The target is lying.]
Even without the message, it seemed like a lie.
It didn’t make sense that just two of them tried to take the Supporters hostage.
Crack!
“Keu, keuaaaaaaaak!”
The Assailant’s leg floating in the air bent in a grotesque direction.
“You shouldn’t lie in front of me.”
“Keuhheuk, heuuk…”
“Spill everything. What people did you take hostage.”
When the Foreigner hesitated, I moved my finger again.
This time the opposite leg.
Sensing it slowly breaking, the Foreigner became urgent.
“Ah! I understand! I’ll talk! I’m talking!”
“Speak quickly.”
“We’re also targeting the family of a woman named Han So Ra!”
The Foreigner cried out in English.
At those words, Han So Ra’s face turned pale.
She could understand simple English to some degree too.
“Y-you just mentioned our Mother, right? Why Mother?”
“They say they’re targeting Mother too.”
“What?”
“Call her quickly.”
Han So Ra hurriedly took out her Mobile Phone and made a call.
But only the ringtone kept playing.
“Sh-she’s not answering! She must be on another call! What should we do?”
“Please calm down, what’s the Home address?”
At the same time, at Han So Ra’s House.
Han So Ra’s Mother was sitting on the Living Room Sofa looking at a Photograph of her husband.
‘It’s already been 5 years…’
Her husband’s smile in the Photograph was warm.
She remarried promising to live a lifetime together with this person, dreaming of a new life… but he left this world too early in a traffic accident.
The last words he left at the Hospital still echoed in her ears.
―Please take care of… Sora.
With those words, she raised Han So Ra alone from when she was a middle schooler.
Raising a child who wasn’t even her own with affection.
That was a remarkable thing that couldn’t be done easily.
But it wasn’t something she did to be praised by anyone.
She was only caring for her out of her husband’s last words and sense of responsibility.
Perhaps that’s why.
She seemed to have controlled Han So Ra too much.
Though they weren’t blood-related, since she was her only daughter, she ended up interfering in everything.
―Sora, don’t be late.
―Sora, who are you going out with?
―Sora, isn’t that outfit too short?
She interfered like that every time.
Even if Han So Ra was just a little late, she would call repeatedly, and she checked everything about meeting friends too.
As a result, Han So Ra called her Mother and kept her distance.
Though she became successful as a celebrity at a young age, she still worried tremendously about her.
She had carefully selected even the agency.
‘What if bad people approach her? Sora is still young….’
Such worries made her become even more controlling.
Sora’s mother made a phone call today as well.
To the CEO of Han Sora’s agency.
“CEO Kwon, hello.”
―Ah, Sora’s mother. Hello.
“Sora has been very busy with Supporters activities lately, isn’t she overworking herself?”
―Ah, don’t worry about that. Although Sora’s schedule is tight these days, we’re taking care of her health. We also have a team member who can provide healing.
“Still, isn’t Labyrinth conquest dangerous? If Sora gets hurt….”
―Ah, Sora rarely fights directly. With two additional dealers, she just provides support from the back, so you don’t need to worry too much. Sora is also taking good care of herself.
“Is that so?”
She had severely scolded her when she formed a party with team members she had just met.
Seeing how well she was doing now, she felt a wave of regret.
‘She’s a child who can do well if I just leave her alone… Have I been interfering too much?’
Such thoughts came to her during the call with CEO Kwon.
Hearing that Han Sora was surprisingly managing herself well.
“I understand. CEO, please continue to take good care of Sora.”
―Yes. Don’t worry, mother.
She ended the call and put down her mobile phone.
‘I feel sorry toward Sora for no reason…. I should talk to her properly when she comes home.’
She thought she should apologize when Han Sora returned.
It seemed she had been unable to trust her daughter too much.
But suddenly.
Bang bang!
A sound came from the front door.
It was the sound of someone knocking forcefully.
‘Who could it be?’
It wouldn’t be Sora.
She wouldn’t knock on her own home’s door like this.
That’s when it happened.
Crash!
Suddenly the front door was smashed.
“Wh, what?”
While Han Sora’s mother was startled, a foreign intruder entered.
“Wh, who are you?”
“Stay still if you don’t want to die.”
The assailant threatened in English.
He was holding a blade in his hand.
Then the mobile phone rang.
It was a call from Han Sora.
The assailant quickly snatched the mobile phone and threw it to the floor.
“Kyaah!”
“I told you to be quiet!”
The moment the assailant raised his blade.
Stop!
Suddenly the hand gripping the blade lost its strength.
As if caught by something.
Crack!
“Grraaah!”
His arm twisted by itself.
While the assailant was confused by this strange phenomenon.
Someone walked through the open entrance.
“Really, just like Amon said, someone is here?”
It was a Chinese-speaking man.
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