The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 32

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Chapter 32: Mage (4)

The time when Tae-ju went up to Chilheukdong Daldongne to catch the mage.

Lee Jeong-hak was handling work in his office.

Chairman Kim Tae-ju’s words to stop the useless power struggles and focus on Gurye City’s public safety instead – honestly, it was embarrassing.

There was no room for excuses.

Even now, violent crimes like assault, murder, kidnapping, and rape were occurring throughout Gurye.

That wasn’t all.

The number of people going missing each month was also very high.

And that was only counting reported cases – people who disappeared without a trace couldn’t even be tracked.

‘Sigh, we’re too short on Self-Defense Corps members.’

To maintain public safety, they needed at least twice as many Self-Defense Corps personnel as they currently had.

But there was interference from Cheonwang Group Chairman Min Dong-yeol and Empire government liaison officer Ji Gwang-in. They absolutely didn’t want the Self-Defense Corps’ power to grow.

Cheonwang Group was a local company that had grown in Gurye.

Chairman Min Dong-yeol also secretly owned a military organization.

While he couldn’t form a guild due to agreements, he was employing awakened ones and qualified individuals under the guise of personal bodyguards.

Ji Gwang-in, who should have been monitoring this, had close ties with Min Dong-yeol and turned a blind eye.

‘I need to make some kind of move.’

Suddenly.

Bang!

Vice Guild Leader Park Jung-tae burst through the door without even knocking.

“Guild Leader! We have a big problem.”

“Sigh, what now… another murder case?”

“N-no. Look at this. This message just came in through a 113 report.”

“What?”

Emergency hotline 113…

“A mage? A mage report?”

Lee Jeong-hak jumped up in shock.

“Yes, it’s definitely a mage report.”

“Who’s the reporter?”

“Well, that’s…”

“Who is it?”

“It’s Chairman Kim Tae-ju. He sent photos and a message of a mage he photographed in Gurye Chilheukdong Daldongne.”

“…”

This was driving him crazy.

Where did this man find another mage?

Vice Guild Leader Park Jung-tae opened his tablet to show the mage’s photo.

That’s right.

Definitely.

A human transformed into a masu.

Without a doubt, it was a mage.

“That damn bastard!”

A mage had been hiding in Gurye?

After surprise came anger.

Mages who ate the hearts and organs of qualified individuals and awakened ones to raise their levels were enemies of the entire world.

“Mobilize all Self-Defense Corps immediately!”

“Deployment preparations are complete.”

“Let’s go quickly!”

Lee Jeong-hak led the Self-Defense Corps and hurried to Gurye Daldongne.

But there were others who had arrived first.

“You’re finally here.”

“Too late. Tsk tsk, what if the mage escapes at this rate?”

Cheonwang Group’s Min Dong-yeol and officer Ji Gwang-in had brought a bunch of their bodyguards.

‘Sigh, damn bastards.’

113 reports weren’t sent only to the Self-Defense Corps.

They were automatically transmitted to the Autonomous Committee, nearby private guilds, police stations, and military units as well.

Lee Jeong-hak needed time to bring Self-Defense Corps forces, but Min Dong-yeol and Ji Gwang-in only needed to come themselves.

‘Trying to get a piece of the action with this opportunity?’

The process of eliminating mages had to be reported in detail to the Empire government.

Their names absolutely had to appear in the report that the Emperor would read.

“Let’s go quickly.”

“We’ll follow from the rear. The Self-Defense Corps should take the lead.”

“…”

He wanted to curse them out, but now wasn’t the time for that.

But then!

Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud thud…

Three large twin-engine transport helicopters approaching the entrance of Gurye Daldongne from the sky.

‘…Shit.’

The Jiri Mountain Defense Corps’ insignia was clearly visible.

The transport helicopters descended very low as if to land.

Then soldiers jumped straight out of the helicopters without ropes.

Thud thud thud, thud thud thud thud!

“1st Platoon, all clear!”

“2nd Platoon, all clear!”

“3rd Platoon…”

The Special Forces Unit that the Jiri Mountain Defense Corps was proud of.

And of course, Master Oh Jin-hyeong was there too.

“Lee Jeong-hak, we meet again?”

“…Yes.”

“Where’s the mage?”

“We believe it’s at the top of Chilheukdong Daldongne over there.”

“I see? Got it.”

This time he couldn’t argue about Free City status.

Mage elimination was equivalent to a masu wave.

Whether it was a Free City or a provincial territory, anyone could intervene at any time when a mage appeared.

“Oh! Where’s Chairman Kim Tae-ju?”

“We haven’t met him yet. He might be fighting the mage…”

“I see.”

Oh Jin-hyeong stared directly at Lee Jeong-hak.

“Hey, Lee Jeong-hak!”

“Yes?”

“Have you come to your senses now?”

“…Come to my senses?”

“Acting cocky just because of your level, then nearly dying – now you know how scary the world is, right?”

Lee Jeong-hak couldn’t answer.

Because there wasn’t a single wrong word in what he said.

“Let’s do better from now on, okay?”

“…”

Min Dong-yeol and Ji Gwang-in also approached Oh Jin-hyeong from the rear.

“Hello there.”

“It’s been a while. Corps Commander, you remember me, right? Officer Ji Gwang-in dispatched from the government…”

However, Oh Jin-hyeong didn’t even acknowledge the greeting.

“Troops advance. The target is demon extermination! Destroy the demons!”

“Destroy the demons!”

“Destroy the demons!”

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* * *

Wang An-pyeong was very satisfied with the scene visible through his gas mask.

The gray-coated brat staggering from enhanced sarin gas poisoning.

Did he think he could fight relying only on demon transformation just because he was a demon?

Enhanced sarin gas was a stroke of genius.

He might be able to endure it if he had an antidote, but there’s no way he’d carry such a thing around normally.

Of course, he had one himself.

He had put it in his bag just in case.

“How is it? Brat! Thrilling, isn’t it? This is enhanced sarin gas. That’s precious stuff. I never thought I’d use it here.”

He probably couldn’t even answer.

His nerves would be paralyzed and he wouldn’t even be able to breathe.

A weapon of mass destruction created to counter demon beast waves when China still maintained some semblance of a nation in the past.

It was something he had secretly brought when crossing over to the Three Han Empire.

Actually, it didn’t have much effect on demon beasts.

Rather, it was devastatingly effective against awakened ones and compatible ones.

“Why aren’t you talking? Move your tongue like you did before.”

Finally, the gray coat fell to his knees.

He hung his head low and didn’t even move.

“Huh? Is he dead…?”

That would be too anticlimactic.

Still, Wang An-pyeong didn’t move.

He might be pretending to be dead.

Meanwhile, Tae-ju finally learned the name of the gas he was absorbing.

‘Ah! So it was enhanced sarin gas.’

Poison gas made from chemical substances.

This was truly precious stuff.

A new poison that even Jeoldaedokma Danggumak had never experienced.

There was no way such poison could have existed in the Gangho Murim world originally.

Even without conscious effort, Honweonmusangdokryeongong naturally circulated.

As the enhanced sarin gas was absorbed into his poison core, its properties were also imprinted.

Tae-ju kept breathing in deeply.

‘Inhale, exhale! Inhale! Exhale!’

He couldn’t let even a bit go to waste.

Why were there only two gas canisters?

Even the small amount of gas escaping through the cave entrance was precious.

When Honweonmusangdokryeongong reached the 5th level, most poisons were like food.

He could instantly accept and adapt to them.

Of course, extremely powerful poisons were still too much.

As long as it wasn’t legendary poisons from Gangho like the Human-faced Spider, Poison Dragon, Thousand-year Imugi, Formless Poison, or poisons made from radioactive materials on Earth… he could consume anything else.

He absorbed the gas through his bronchi and lungs, moved it to his danjeon through his blood vessels, and accordingly his internal organs became stronger.

Right at that moment!

Bzzzzzzing!

‘…Hm?’

The poison core suddenly started vibrating.

‘Could this be…’

He hadn’t thought of this at all.

The poison core was growing.

By consuming the enhanced sarin chemical poison, it was advancing from the 5th to 6th level.

‘6th level? Really?’

Zing! Ziiing! Ziiiing!

The poison core’s vibration reached its peak.

Accordingly, a new vision unfolded.

The Dragon Poison Arts that one realizes upon reaching the 6th level, the various hidden weapon techniques that could be deployed.

All of it passed through his mind like a panorama.

6th level.

Now only one stage remained until the 7th level.

Slurp, slurp!

Despite having absorbed so much, the delicious poison gas was still bubbling up abundantly.

But having reached the 6th level, it was no longer special.

After absorbing everything there was to absorb, the poison core finally quieted down.

Thinking about it quietly, he felt sorry.

When two people are together, it’s not polite for only one person to eat.

Delicious things should be shared.

“Kekeke, pathetic fool, you were so full of yourself earlier…”

The guy came closer.

And tried to grab his hair with his hand.

Grab!

“Gasp!”

Tae-ju caught the demon’s hand.

At the same time, he grabbed the guy’s gas mask.

“Isn’t it hot? Let me take it off for you.”

“Th-this bastard?”

Wang An-pyeong was shocked.

He hurriedly tried to pull his arm free and retreat.

Rip!

In the end, the gas mask was torn off.

“Gasp!”

Wang An-pyeong squinted his eyes and tried to hold his breath.

“It’s okay, breathe, breathe!”

“…!”

He couldn’t understand it at all.

‘What? Why is he completely fine?’

Could it be fake sarin gas?

Unless it was fake…

Slap!

His head spun around instantly.

It was absurd.

He even got slapped in this situation.

“I told you to breathe! You bastard! That’s the only way you can contribute to the world.”

Slap! Slap!

After getting hit two more times in succession, Wang An-pyeong was furious!

Crackle!

Demon transformation.

Wang An-pyeong roared with bloodshot eyes.

“You bastard! I’ll kill you… mmph!”

As soon as he opened his mouth, the enhanced sarin gas entered through his respiratory system.

“You son of a… *cough*, you, you… *gag*. *urgh*!”

The gas was real.

He had barely inhaled one breath, but the result was fatal.

His vision went dark.

Nausea came naturally.

His breathing was blocked and convulsions occurred.

‘Why is that bastard…?’

There was no time to take out the antidote injection.

Only the thought that he had to escape from here.

Whooooom!

Wang An-pyeong hastily drew up his mana.

Crrrack!

He tried to escape outside the cave using his body strengthened by demonization, but.

“Where do you think you’re going!”

Tae-ju grabbed the hair of the bastard trying to flee.

“Ugh! Let, let go of this… *cough*,”

“I’ll make it easier for you to breathe.”

“What…?”

Thwack!

The Blood Poison Palm exploded into his abdomen.

“Guhaaack!”

Tae-ju decided.

He would beat this bastard to death.

Perhaps because his body had grown larger due to demonization, there were many places to hit.

“W-wait! Uuugh!”

Crack! Thwack!

Tae-ju pounded the demon’s body stuck to the cave wall like a punching bag.

He straightened up the upper body trying to bend with an uppercut, then.

Thwack! Thud thud thud thud!

While beating him, he spoke.

“Do you know why you’re getting beaten?”

“Khik? *cough*…”

“Revenge for the young man who died without even seeing flowers bloom.”

“Kuk! You son of a, son of a…”

“Don’t curse, scream instead! You just need to die as painfully as possible!”

Thud thud thud!

Tae-ju’s fists drove into Wang An-pyeong’s head.

Crack! Crunch!

“Kyaaaak! *gag*!”

Dying from poison gas.

Dying from being beaten by fists.

Which would be faster?

It was a useless question.

* * *

Oh Jin-hyeong led the Special Forces Unit and came up surrounding the Chilheukdong Daldongne.

Following behind were the Self-Defense Corps led by Lee Jeong-hak, Min Dong-yeol, and Ji Gwang-in too.

The entire slum neighborhood was quiet.

With the military intervening, would people come out of their houses?

So they climbed to the top without any particular conflict.

“Ah!”

“Huh…”

“Oh no!”

“Whew.”

The wide courtyard in front of the house at the top.

A scene so miserable it was unbearable to look at unfolded.

“Commander! Over here…”

Oh Jin-hyeong went to where his subordinate was calling.

One demon lying dead on the ground with his buttocks raised up. He had died in a demonized state.

“A projectile passed through the anus and is embedded in that wall.”

“Really? At least one enema was done properly.”

Though it was too miserable to look at, he felt refreshed inside.

“There’s another one here too.”

Another demon.

There were two of them?

This corpse was also terrible.

The joints of arms and legs were bent backwards.

One ankle was half-cut by a sharp blade.

Moreover, black blood was flowing out from the abdomen.

“Be careful when handling the corpse. Don’t touch it with bare hands.”

“Yes, understood.”

Except for Oh Jin-hyeong, everyone had expressions of being overwhelmed by the horrifying scene.

Min Dong-yeol and Ji Gwang-in were retching in one corner of the courtyard.

Someone quietly spoke up.

“S-so cruelly…”

Then Master Oh Jin-hyeong said coldly.

“Don’t have sympathy. They’re bastards who deserved to die.”

And then.

“You and you, dig up the courtyard with field shovels.”

“Where should we dig?”

“Anywhere! You’ll know when you dig.”

Two Special Forces members diligently dug the ground with field shovels.

Actually, they didn’t even dig deeply.

But!

Clunk!

A human skull caught on the field shovel came out.

“Gasp!”

“Ahhh…”

These damn demon bastards!”

This is what demons are like.

The Self-Defense Corps members and soldiers gathered here also witnessed it clearly.

By the way, where did Chairman Kim Tae-ju go?

Could he be inside the house?

That’s when it happened.

“C-Commander!”

A Special Forces officer was pointing toward the foot of the mountain with his finger.

Then a man in a gray coat became visible.

“Oh…”

He didn’t come up alone.

He trudged along dragging one ankle of what appeared to be a corpse – a demonized Mage.

A Mage that devours Awakeners and Compatible ones with its demonized body to grow stronger.

And he had taken down as many as three of them all by himself?

Tae-ju climbed to the top and casually greeted Oh Jin-hyeong.

“You arrived faster than I expected.”

“…No, I’m the one who’s late. If you handle everything by yourself, what are we supposed to do?”

Whoosh!

Thud!

Tae-ju threw the Mage corpse he had brought to one side of the courtyard and said.

“Colonel.”

“…What? Go, go ahead and speak.”

“I didn’t do this.”

Oh Jin-hyeong rolled his eyes as if asking what he was talking about.

“Huh? Oh… Ri, right. You didn’t do it.”

Then Tae-ju looked at Lee Jeong-hak.

“Let’s say the Self-Defense Corps and the Military conducted a joint operation.”

Lee Jeong-hak also nodded.

This was someone who had killed three Mages all at once by himself.

Could he do the same?

Not a chance.

That Mage slaughterer was quietly telling him to keep his mouth shut.

If he says to do it, then he has to do it.

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