The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 40

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Chapter 40: Loot!

The Elite Orc Chieftain was distracted by the blood butterflies fluttering toward him.

They seemed to fly around without any pattern, but they were precisely aimed at his head and eyes.

Naturally, he couldn’t help but be concerned.

“Kuaaa!”

Thwack! Thak thak!

The Elite Orc swung his club, swatting away the blood butterflies one by one.

But even that wasn’t hitting well.

Tae-ju sent several more Storm Rain Flower Needles flying.

Pop pop pop!

Clang clang clang clang clang!

Though they couldn’t penetrate the qi protective barrier, they would serve well enough as harassment.

And a few more blood butterflies too.

Flutter flutter.

“Kyaak! Kyaaaak!”

When the creature charged at him, he gracefully dodged using a mix of Phantom Foresight and Wind Dash. Then he threw various hidden weapons like iron pellets and gold stones.

He had to buy time.

Until Gu Jun-yeong recovered and could rejoin the battlefield.

The Elite Steel-Feathered Owl had already collapsed and was letting out its final weak cries.

“Bua, buaang, buaaaaa…”

Beside it, Colonel Gu Jun-yeong sat kneeling on one knee, gripping his spear.

He had his weapon in hand again, but what was he doing?

Were his injuries severe?

He had definitely seen him take the Taehong recovery potion just moments ago.

Right at that moment!

Thud!

Gu Jun-yeong stood up, gripping his spear with both hands.

His eyes gleamed with fierce energy.

‘He’s recovered.’

Of course he had.

Who did he think made that recovery potion?

Swoosh!

Then he swiftly charged toward the Elite Orc Chieftain.

Dash!

“You bastard!”

“Krruk?”

Clang! Clang!

Club and spear clashed against each other.

Though the orc’s club was no ordinary weapon, Gu Jun-yeong’s weapon was an elite mana crystal weapon crafted with the finest techniques by Imperial Palace artisans.

This side could breathe easier now.

Now for the regular orcs.

Tae-ju leaped alone into the middle of the orc horde.

And finally, ‘Poison Gas Release’.

There was only one type of poison being released.

Mutant three-striped mosquito poison.

All the soldiers had taken the antidote.

Only the orcs would be affected.

Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss!

Colorless, odorless poison gas flowing from the poison reservoir.

The mana-devouring mosquito poison seeped into the air.

Along with hidden weapon attacks too.

For orcs fighting mixed in with soldiers, he used Flash Strike.

Swish! Swish!

Thud thud thud!

For orcs charging in groups, he quickly dashed with Wind Dash.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!

Boom boom boom boom!

Flying Waterfall.

“Kueeeek!”

“Kuik?”

“…Kwaek!”

The orcs were being massacred.

While others killed one at a time with their swords, Tae-ju killed ten at once.

And as the poison reservoir activated, the mosquito poison spread rapidly, slowly entering the orcs’ bodies and beginning its work.

Of course, the same applied to the Elite Orc Chieftain.

* * *

When the Elite Orc Chieftain first appeared, there was one common thought among the unit members.

‘We’re fucked.’

More than half the unit would die here.

This was the first crisis the Sancheong Unit’s elite Special Raid Team faced while conducting the Jirisan Monster Great Subjugation Operation.

Had firing the Hyper Divine Bow anti-tank missile been a mistake?

But they knew well that there was no other way to take down the Elite Steel-Feathered Owl.

And it had actually succeeded.

Master Colonel Gu Jun-yeong’s long spear had pierced the owl’s chest, though the creature’s resistance was formidable, requiring a brief struggle of strength.

Orcs had appeared too.

Creatures drawn by the explosion.

That was also within expected parameters.

In fact, orcs weren’t particularly threatening in the jungle.

What was there to fear from some mutant bipedal wild boars?

But an Elite Orc Chieftain?

Why was that thing coming out from there?

As soon as the Elite Orc appeared, it moved toward Gu Jun-yeong.

It seemed to know who was strongest on this battlefield.

In the end, Gu Jun-yeong’s counterattack failed.

The Elite Steel-Feathered Owl was also injured, but it was still alive anyway.

How could they handle two Elite monsters?

Colonel Gu Jun-yeong was completely exposed to the massive club’s attack.

The regular orcs also went wild.

A buff from the chieftain’s roar.

Even stronger physical abilities.

The awakened officers despaired.

At this rate, they’d be annihilated.

No, annihilation seemed certain.

In that moment of crisis, that man appeared.

Taehong Bio Chairman Kim Tae-ju.

Wearing a gray coat and unleashing dozens of ranged weapons.

He blocked the Elite Orc Chieftain’s attack and finished off the Elite Owl by throwing a dagger through the gap where the spear was lodged.

And then came the dazzling attacks that followed.

Small throwing knives, large throwing knives, pea-sized iron pellets, nail-like objects…

So many items poured out endlessly that no one could tell where he’d been hiding them all.

Moreover, the terrifying accuracy.

Every throw hit its mark.

Not a single miss.

And how fast it was.

He swept across the battlefield at a speed the eye couldn’t follow.

The awakened officers also gained strength.

“Kill them!”

Morale was boiling over.

Officers who had been injured and withdrawn to the rear took recovery potions and were immediately redeployed to the battlefield.

Taehong Recovery Potion.

This was also a medicine made by Chairman Kim Tae-ju.

What would have happened if they didn’t have this?

“I’m back! Fucking pig bastards!”

“Push forward!”

Awakened officers forming groups of three to five, protecting each other while confronting the orcs.

Then when a dangerous moment approached.

Tseupirit!

A projectile flying from somewhere would erase the orcs.

“It’s the Chairman! The Chairman is protecting us!”

“Attack boldly! We absolutely won’t die!”

“If you get hurt, take a recovery potion!”

But something was becoming strange.

As time passed, the orcs were becoming flustered and didn’t know what to do.

Their strength had also weakened considerably.

To the point where they couldn’t even counterattack.

They were even stumbling while trying to flee.

As if their mana had been drained from being bitten by mutant three-striped mosquitoes.

Stab after stab.

Slash after slash.

They died without being able to make any proper response.

Could this be?

‘…Mosquito poison?’

Did Chairman Kim Tae-ju do this too?

They themselves were fine.

Since they had taken the antidote.

* * *

Colonel Gu Jun-yeong also fought hard.

He was fiercely confronting the Elite Orc Chieftain with his mana blade spear.

Though he hadn’t completely recovered yet, he had regained his elite mana crystal spear.

Historically, it had been so.

The reason humans could dominate nature.

It was using tools.

This was an incomparable advantage over magical beasts.

No matter how extraordinary the club was, it was still wood in the end.

Clang!

Clang clang!

The club and spear engaged in offense and defense.

Aura clashed with aura.

Each time, the club was chipped away and broken.

Seizing the momentum, Gu Jun-yeong pressed forward relentlessly.

Tseut tseut tseut, tseut tseut!

A continuous stabbing attack that looked like a skill.

It was power that couldn’t be blocked with a club.

However, he couldn’t land a fatal blow due to the aura barrier surrounding the Elite Orc Chieftain’s entire body.

Each time they exchanged moves, the creature flinched and retreated.

Tae-ju, who was dealing with orcs while occasionally checking on Gu Jun-yeong’s condition, could see it too.

‘Should I lend a hand?’

Tae-ju threw a willow leaf throwing knife at the Elite Orc Chieftain’s back of the head.

Tseupipipit!

Clang!

“Kkyakyak!”

A so-called backstab.

The creature’s concentration was disrupted by it.

Enraged by the weapon flying from behind, it tried to charge at Tae-ju, but.

“Pig bastard! Where are you going?”

Clang! Clang clang!

Gu Jun-yeong stabbed with his mana blade spear to regain aggro.

Tae-ju’s backstab was far from fair and square.

To target the back of the head of someone in the middle of fighting.

But what could he do?

Even if someone criticized his actions, he wouldn’t feel the slightest impact.

Originally in Gangho, Jeoldaedokma Danggumak was synonymous with villainy. Using poison itself was something to be criticized, an unavoidable fate.

He had truly heard countless times that he was cowardly.

Even from colleagues who called themselves the righteous faction.

Those idiots, hypocrites pretending to be noble.

What justice and cause are you considering in a war of killing and being killed?

Losing parents to those Demonic Cult bastards, losing sons, wives and daughters being raped…

Would you still console yourself saying you were righteous?

Anyway, the tide of battle was definitely turning.

The orcs had weakened to almost rabbit level due to the mosquito poison.

The Elite Orc Chieftain’s aura barrier had also become faint.

‘You’ve weakened too… this might work?’

Tae-ju prepared a willow leaf throwing knife filled with poison.

Gu Jun-yeong was attacking the Elite Orc Chieftain’s barrier with continuous stabs.

Pababababak!

Clang clang clang clang!

At that moment!

Tseupirit!

The willow leaf throwing knife flew.

Clang!

The willow leaf throwing knife bounced off.

It failed.

What was the rush?

He could just do it again.

He went back to dealing with regular orcs, then when they’d forgotten, appeared again to throw another one at that broad back.

Clang!

He did this several times.

Then finally!

Swoosh!

The willow leaf throwing knife pierced through the weakened aura barrier.

Thunk!

It embedded itself in the Elite Orc’s back.

“Kueeeeek!”

The Elite Orc Chieftain let out a shriek and thrashed about as the blade suddenly pierced its back.

A fitting line came to mind for this moment.

You are already dead.

And indeed it was.

The Elite Orc that had allowed the poison-filled willow leaf dagger to penetrate.

Its movements slowed, and it began gasping for breath.

Colonel Gu Jun-yeong’s spear attacks became even more fierce, judging that he had seized the advantage.

It seemed to hold out for a while, but eventually!

Thunk!

“Grrrrrrk…”

It died as Gu Jun-yeong’s spear pierced its heart.

“Huff, huff.”

Colonel Gu Jun-yeong gasped for breath.

And looked at Tae-ju.

Snap!

Simultaneously, up went his right thumb, then his left thumb too.

Followed by finger hearts.

Next, he raised both arms above his head to make a big heart again.

“…”

It wasn’t even a skill or anything.

A continuous sequence of thumbs up, double thumbs up, finger hearts, big heart…

Tae-ju simply responded with a silent bow.

But this was nothing.

The soldiers’ cheers that erupted after the battle ended.

“Kim Tae-ju! Kim Tae-ju! Kim Tae-ju!”

“Long live the Chairman!”

“Attention! Salute! Monster extermination!”

“Thank you!”

“From now on, we’ll only buy medicine from Taehong Bio!”

He felt good, but.

He was dying of embarrassment.

* * *

The Elite Orc Chieftain was dead.

The effect spread to the regular orcs as well.

The orcs scattered and fled in all directions.

The awakened officers desperately chased after them, thrusting their weapons in.

The battlefield was cleared up in an instant.

5th Prince Ryu Jin-cheol finally collapsed onto the ground with a thud.

It was because his tension had been released.

When the large orc horde first appeared, followed by the Elite Orc Chieftain, his thought was.

Am I going to die here?

Of course, he could survive if he ran away alone.

But then he’d have to live with the stigma of being the prince who abandoned the Empire’s citizens and fled alone.

He held out desperately.

He cut down the swarming orcs, and cut them down again.

But it wasn’t enough.

Eventually, even Colonel Gu Jun-yeong faced a life-threatening crisis.

But then the man in the gray coat suddenly appeared.

‘Who is that?’

He instantly reversed the situation and, through cooperation with Gu Jun-yeong, even brought down the Elite Orc Chieftain.

After the Elite Orc fell, the remaining orcs were just a ragtag bunch.

After the cleanup was finished, the name being cheered.

‘…Kim Tae-ju? Ah!’

He knew who it was.

But wasn’t he a pharmaceutical company chairman?

It didn’t seem like he was even awakened…

‘I should at least greet him…’

Ryu Jin-cheol pulled out the dagger embedded in the fallen orc’s head.

‘While returning this.’

A leaf-shaped weapon that was both short in length and narrow in width.

Then he approached Kim Tae-ju in the gray coat, who was having a conversation with Gu Jun-yeong.

* * *

Colonel Gu Jun-yeong walked toward Tae-ju with quick steps.

With a very intimidating presence.

Tae-ju tried to hurriedly escape, but.

Whoosh!

Gu Jun-yeong embraced him.

“Thank you, really thank you! I’m so bad with words that I can only express this much, which is regrettable.”

“Oh, no. It was conveyed well enough. So you can stop hugging me now…”

“You saved me, no, our entire team.”

“What are you saying? Did I catch it alone? We caught it together, Colonel Gu.”

“What ridiculous modesty! Look at our soldiers. They’re all grateful, aren’t they?”

“Hahaha! Yes, yes.”

Tae-ju laughed it off and quietly escaped from Gu Jun-yeong’s embrace.

He needed to leave quickly.

He knew that without him, it would have been almost total annihilation.

Still, it would have been difficult without Colonel Gu Jun-yeong.

The elite owl already had wounds and holes, which allowed the dagger to penetrate, and the Elite Orc was only possible because Gu Jun-yeong played the tank role and drew aggro.

Tae-ju, who barely freed himself from Gu Jun-yeong, first pulled out the willow leaf dagger from the Elite Orc Chieftain’s corpse.

He needed to recycle it.

“Should we collect those things?”

“Yes.”

“Wait a moment. I’ll give orders to my subordinates. To pick up all the projectile weapons they can see.”

Next, Tae-ju approached the Elite Steel-Feathered Owl.

The fatal dagger embedded in its chest.

‘I should pull this out too… hmm?’

But the feathers of the owl’s corpse were extraordinary.

They were all metal.

Tae-ju already knew that the owl’s steel feathers were quite valuable monster byproducts.

Moreover, these were elite steel feathers.

Something as rare as elite mana crystals.

They might even be rarer.

Tae-ju plucked out one feather.

Swoosh.

When he ran his hand over it.

‘Sharp. And hard.’

The luster was also brilliant.

When I grabbed both ends and bent it, the elasticity was incredible too.

However, the center of gravity wasn’t balanced, so it couldn’t be used as a throwing weapon in this state.

What if I melted this down and reshaped it?

What if I mixed in elite mana crystals and refined it?

Tempting.

There are masterpiece throwing weapons too.

The throwing weapons that Jeoldaedokma carried were like that.

Danggumak only used throwing weapons made by Gangho’s finest blacksmiths using meteoric iron and black iron.

Gu Jun-yeong had approached at some point and was staring intently at the sight.

“Why? Do you want it?”

“It would be nice to take a few.”

“Hey! What are you saying? Take them?”

Then he turned his head.

“Hey, Colonel Jang.”

“Yes, Division Commander.”

“Butcher the elite owl and gather all the elite mana crystals and every single feather from its body to give to Chairman Kim.”

“I’ll start butchering right away.”

How grateful I am.

“And the Elite Orc Chieftain’s mana crystal is also for you…”

“No! That should remain as SS Team’s achievement.”

“Achievement? That kind of thing isn’t more important than life. Make sure to take it. Otherwise I’ll throw it away.”

“Hmm, if you insist.”

Every soldier swarmed the owl’s corpse.

Feathers piling up neatly.

If I made throwing weapons with these, how amazing would their performance be?

With this, I’ve gained loot.

I’m excited.

They say martial artists who reach mastery don’t discriminate between weapons, but that’s not quite right.

Having masterpiece weapons – isn’t that another pleasure for a martial artist?

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