The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 182

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Chapter 182: Beyond Raid (2)

Tae-ju stood on a hill where he could observe the Twin-Headed Demon Dragon with his eyes, alongside the Emperor and Secretary Geum Su-ho.

The Twin-Headed Demon Dragon’s physical characteristics were just like its name – two heads, a body covered in hard green scales, short front legs and long hind legs.

Especially the hind legs.

Very impressive.

Not only long but thick as well.

So long that it was crouching with its legs folded.

Probably…

‘It’s a frog bastard.’

Must be a Beyond that evolved from a frog magical beast.

It wasn’t alone.

Below the hill, elite magical beast subordinates under its command were gathered in black masses.

“That’s the one.”

“Hah, to think I’d see a Beyond with my own eyes in my lifetime.”

“…C-Chairman Kim, can we really catch it?”

“Well, we’ll have to clash with it to find out.”

He knew it was stronger than the Black Demon Dragon.

And that it was emanating a terrifying aura.

So when he first came to scout, it felt quite threatening, but now not so much…

‘Well, seeing it up close, I think I can catch it?’

Dok-seon had confirmed it too.

When he called to say he was going to hunt Beyond Elite magical beasts, what was his attitude?

If it were dangerous, he would have said at least a word of caution.

But he just said in an indifferent voice.

‘Ah! Dragons that failed to become complete dragons?’

That was all.

Dok-seon would know what level Beyond Elite was at.

Since he shared the experience of catching the Black Demon Dragon through soul connection with Tae-ju.

Yet if he didn’t even say to be careful?

It meant he believed without doubt that Tae-ju could catch it easily.

Of course, there were worries.

The burdens that had suddenly joined them.

Tae-ju handed protective talismans to the Emperor and Secretary Geum Su-ho.

To Ilisambaeyi as well.

“Put this inside your clothes and stick it to your chest.”

“Huh? A, a talisman?”

“Think of it as a spare lifeline.”

“Do you believe in such things? You must know some shaman.”

“It’s not written by a shaman, it’s called a protective talisman. What this is…”

The two people’s eyes widened at Tae-ju’s explanation.

“…For 30 seconds you won’t receive any damage whatsoever?”

“Yes. When the protective talisman activates, quickly escape to a safe place.”

“Hehe, I, I have no idea what this is about…”

Their eyes showed disbelief, but they would understand when the protective talisman activated.

Though he hoped such a situation wouldn’t come.

“Then let’s go.”

“Y-yes.”

To catch that thing, he had to deal with the subordinates first.

He could fly up and just catch that one and escape, but…

‘There’s no rush.’

Danggumak was in Samhan territory, and he couldn’t be with him anyway.

Since he had plenty of time.

Let’s take it as slow as possible and play leisurely while awakening his combat senses.

“Ilbaek!”

“Meow?”

“Transform.”

“Meow!”

Swoooooooosh!

Ilisambaeyi transformed into the main body of the Three-Headed White Tiger.

Then the Emperor and Geum Su-ho were startled!

“Wow!”

“…A spiritual creature is indeed a spiritual creature.”

They had known the cat was a Three-Headed White Tiger from before, but this was the first time seeing it actually transform.

Spot!

Tae-ju dashed forward.

The hunt had begun.

The elite magical beasts at the front went pook! chik!

Either pierced or flattened.

It was one of the two.

* * *

Only 10 minutes had passed since the battle began.

The Emperor followed behind the Three-Headed White Tiger with a half-dazed expression, trudging along.

Thud! Thud thud! Thud thud thud thud!

The Three-Headed White Tiger was crushing elite magical beasts by tapping its front paws on the ground.

Thwack thwack! Squish squish, flat.

It wasn’t like a cat catching mice or anything.

It was merciless and cruel.

There wasn’t much to do.

He’d only get in the way if he stepped forward unnecessarily.

Honestly, he thought he’d be somewhat helpful.

Wasn’t he the strongest Awakened in the Samhan Empire?

No, to be precise, he had been the strongest.

Now he was inferior to even that Three-Headed White Tiger.

Could they even catch the Ilisambaeyi Three-Headed White Tiger even if they mobilized the most elite Imperial Forces?

Probably not.

Actually, the Three-Headed White Tiger was nothing.

Chairman Kim Tae-ju advancing ahead, scattering all kinds of throwing weapons.

Tssss-pip-pit!

Sharp daggers pierced through elite magical beasts’ bodies without any resistance.

Pook! Poo-poo-pook!

Creatures dying in a single blow.

‘This is crazy, absolutely crazy.’

Elite magical beasts.

Magical beasts that required at least two or more master-level Awakened to tackle.

Of course, he could catch them alone too, but only after a difficult battle to barely catch one.

But Chairman Kim killed three, four at a time with each wave of his hand while walking forward leisurely.

Does that make sense?

How can a person do that?

But then.

“Your Majesty! What are you doing right now? We didn’t come here to play around.”

Geum Su-ho was sweating profusely as he moved busily here and there.

“…Ahem.”

“I’m working my bones off right now, but we’re severely short-handed.”

“Ah, I got it.”

The task assigned to The Emperor and Geum Su-ho wasn’t hunting.

Their mission was to extract mana crystals from the elite magical beasts caught by Three-Headed White Tiger and Chairman Kim Tae-ju and collect them in subspace bags.

In other words, they were porters.

There was nothing else for them to do.

Still, as master porters, their work efficiency was very fast.

They had to take comfort in that at least.

* * *

Tae-ju wasn’t in a hurry.

The technique he was currently deploying was Small Manceon Hwau.

He brought out 500 throwing weapons and floated them in the air, then mixed various throwing techniques – some with Flash Strike, others with Flying Waterfall, Phantom Flying Blade, Whirlpool Dart, Single Point Red, and so on – threading the elite magical beasts like sewing.

Slowly controlling the energy of Toxic Spirit as he moved forward, forward.

He just had to walk and it would be finished.

When he spotted a target, he would focus on it, then Toxic Spirit would move the throwing weapons to carry out the mission, and when finished, they would be retrieved and wait in the air again.

Toxic Spirit was like an AI artificial intelligence.

It just couldn’t speak, but when Tae-ju focused, it would do exactly as intended.

Targets were automatically designated, and there was absolutely no way to miss.

They were getting closer and closer.

The distance between Beyond and Tae-ju was now so close that if he fell forward, his nose would touch it.

Most of those numerous elite magical beasts had disappeared as well.

Even though a human had invaded all the way into its territory, the Twin-Headed Dragon wasn’t moving.

It probably knew too.

That it wasn’t to be taken lightly.

Either it was scared, or it was testing the waters.

It was certainly an intelligent creature, unlike the monsters of Sahara Grassland.

But that was all.

‘Should I probe it?’

Ziiing!

He sent a Flash Strike with a single Death Flying Blade filled with poison energy, immortal energy, and mana.

Tspit! Thwung!

The throwing weapon penetrated Beyond’s energy barrier and embedded itself in the main body.

‘Not bad.’

Even an ordinary metal throwing weapon had penetrated the barrier.

With this, he finished his final confirmation.

His energy was much stronger.

“Kururur? Krung, kurururu….”

When the Twin-Headed Dragon took the hit, it seemed flustered and didn’t know what to do.

Right at that moment!

Thud! Paaaaat!

Whiriririririt!

“Oh!”

It flew.

That massive Twin-Headed Dragon took to the sky.

It leaped into the air with its strong, long hind legs to crush Tae-ju.

Its huge body blocked the sun, making the surroundings dark.

“What a spectacle.”

Stupid frog bastard.

What was it thinking, charging in with its belly completely exposed like that?

Swooooosh!

About 50,000 black steel ingots and 10,000 black steel Death Flying Blades poured out from Infinite Space like a storm.

“Kryuk?”

Black steel.

The metal from hell that magical beasts feared.

The Twin-Headed Dragon sensed the situation wasn’t ordinary and rolled its eyes around, but having already jumped, how could it dodge?

Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwak!

The black steel ingots hammered the energy barrier on the Twin-Headed Dragon’s belly.

Chaechaechaechaechaechaechaeng!

The barrier cracked and shattered in various places.

Countless black steel Death Flying Blades penetrated through those gaps.

They pierced its belly, its back, its legs and heads….

Thunk! Thunkthunkthunk! Thunkthunkthunkthunkthunk!

“Kweeeeeek!”

When the Twin-Headed Dragon landed on the ground….

Its body had already transformed to look like a hedgehog.

The Emperor and Geum Su-ho just stood there with their mouths agape, not even noticing the drool flowing from their mouths.

“…Suho, are you seeing this?”

“Slurp! Y-yes, I’m seeing it. Though I wonder if it’s a dream.”

They too had finished their final confirmation.

Chairman Kim Tae-ju was not human.

* * *

When Immortals come down to the Human Realm to catch demons that have escaped, what do they do first?

Although they do search and wander around Gangho tracking demon traces, they have another main purpose.

Slowly, leisurely touring Gangho, stopping at inns to drink fragrant wine and eat delicious food, and trying to blend into worldly life.

Having come from the stuffy Immortal Realm that was no different from a prison to the vibrant Human Realm, how could they just catch demons and return?

Sometimes they would form connections.

When they met talented and promising people, they would slip them a fragment of their enlightenment, thus intervening in the Human Realm.

Such things often happened in the history of Gangho Murim.

Receiving teachings from an Immortal to become an unrivaled master of all time, or obtaining treasures to become wealthy.

However, the 10 Immortal Thieves who came over with Jecheon Daeseong only moved straight forward.

They didn’t even glance at the Gangho Murim Human Realm.

Their obsession.

Steal the Dragon Pearl.

Insert it into the Soul Medium Mirror Dimensional Gate Generator.

Create gates that are more numerous and last longer.

Thus finally cross over to Earth en masse.

Gangho Murim?

It’s more boring than the Immortal Realm?

There’s a path to the much more exciting Earth?

Don’t get distracted and quickly head to Dragon Palace.

Dragon Palace is located in the East Sea of the Human Realm.

And in the deep depths of the ocean at that.

The deep sea where no light penetrates. And due to the terrifying water pressure, it’s not a place humans can enter.

Even for Immortals, it’s difficult.

Though movement became easier with Danju Seonin’s water-walking talisman attached.

The Swordsman party swimming through the sea and diving downward.

Naturally, Jecheon Daeseong was with them too.

– The promise isn’t wrong, is it?

He shot back at the Swordsman using telepathy.

– Huh? What promise?

– You promised to get me out of here…

– Huh, when did I ever make such a promise? Did you all hear that?

– No? I didn’t hear anything like that.

– Me neither.

Grr!

Jecheon Daeseong held back his anger.

It was his mistake to trust the Immortals.

– Well, anyway, since we’re already here, let’s quickly head to the Dragon Palace.

– ….

The reason the Swordsman forcibly brought Jecheon Daeseong along.

Since he had been to the Dragon Palace before, he also knew the location of the treasure warehouse where the Dragon Orb was stored.

– Right over there.

– What? That’s just a cave.

– Did you think the Dragon Palace would be some fancy tiled house?

– Tsk, how do they live in a place like that?

– Is there land inside when you go in?

– There’s somewhere to step.

Let’s go in for now.

The Swordsman said to Danju Seonin.

– Hand out one invisibility talisman each.

– Here…

Swoosh.

The bodies of Jecheon Daeseong and the Immortals who attached the talismans became transparent.

They carefully snuck into the cave.

The entrance was narrow, but the interior was very large.

Coming up above the water surface, there was also land they could step on.

‘Where’s the treasure warehouse?’

‘That way.’

The group walking stealthily and carefully toward the depths of the dark cave.

So far, everything was going very smoothly.

The Dragon Orb seemed to be right before their eyes.

That’s when it happened.

Flash!

A brilliant orb of light rising from inside the cave.

“That’s far enough.”

At the same time, beings blocking the Swordsman and Immortals.

Swoosh!

Their transparent bodies returned to normal.

“Gasp!”

What’s this?

“…Huh?”

The Dragon King glaring with fierce eyes.

Yama shaking his head as if pathetic.

And Sangje letting out deep sighs.

“We, we’ve been caught? H-how?”

“After causing such chaos in the Heavenly Realm and Immortal Realm, did you think we’d just sit still?”

“…Hmm.”

“I thought there was an earthquake.”

“There was a huge hole torn open. We had quite a hard time blocking it up.”

They must have made too much of a commotion when making the hole.

The Swordsman rolled his eyes around.

What to do?

First, grabbing Jecheon Daeseong by the scruff of his neck.

“Th-this is all a m-misunderstanding. The m-monkey was trying to escape the Immortal Realm, so we just came to catch him.”

“….”

“It’s really true, you know? Don’t you trust me?”

“….”

“I’m an Immortal who achieved ascension!”

“….”

He argued shamelessly, but.

“Swordsman, stop it now. It’s disgraceful.”

“…Ah, damn it!”

Would they believe him?

The Dragon King glared at the Immortals with eyes that looked ready to devour them.

“You’ve rolled into your death trap with your own feet. I’ll throw you all into the underwater prison.”

Underwater prison my ass.

Fine.

Since it’s come to this, I’ll blow up the Dragon Palace.

It’s do or die.

Create chaos, then loot the treasure warehouse, grab the Dragon Orb and run.

The Swordsman looked at the Immortals with a determined expression.

The Immortals also nodded.

The Monkey also pulled out a toothpick-like staff from his ear.

But right at that moment!

“Dragon King, leave the handling of these scoundrels to me.”

Yama stepped forward.

“Haha, what makes you think I can trust you? Aren’t you all in cahoots anyway?”

“Tsk tsk, in cahoots? Look what I’ve suffered at the hands of these punks!”

Yama pretended to be angry and continued speaking.

“Dragon King, don’t be like that. Let’s go to our Immortal Realm together and have a detailed discussion.”

“Why would I go there?”

“Even when punishing them, shouldn’t we first confirm the reason why the Immortals did such a thing?”

“…Reason?”

“The answer lies in the Immortal Realm. How about seeing it with your own eyes first?”

Meanwhile, Yama was giving meaningful looks to the Swordsman.

‘Hmm?’

The Swordsman realized Yama’s intention.

‘Aha!’

Right.

Time to modify the strategy.

Forcing disarmament would cause greater side effects.

They had to make him take it off himself.

The so-called Immortal Realm sunshine policy.

If he could convey the desperation that he and the Immortals possessed to the Dragon King too?

If he could intoxicate him with the terrible poison of Earth’s culture, addictive as drugs?

He might even personally bring and hand over the Dragon Orb.

So he bowed his head deeply to the Dragon King.

“Dragon King, I was wrong. I’ve committed a mortal sin. I apologize.”

When he readily admitted his wrongdoing, the Dragon King softened a bit.

“An Immortal who knows that!”

“There’s no room for excuses. As an apology, I’ll spend my own money to treat you to a full course meal from the Immortal Realm.”

“…Immortal Realm full course?”

“You’ll love it. I’ll prepare it with utmost care and sincerity. I’ll treat the Dragon Palace administrators and generals as well, so come together.”

“….”

Please take the bait.

If you take it, it’s over.

The Dragon King would never know.

Once you taste the Immortal Realm’s food, your body changes so you can never go back to the way it was before.

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