The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 74
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Chapter 74: Beyond Elite Black Demon Dragon (5)
The Great Wall of China Wave had erupted in earnest, but they were holding it back better than expected.
Awakened forces that had arrived from across the Empire – among them, there were over 100 Masters alone. It could be said that almost all Imperial Forces Masters had been mobilized.
Plus the Masters belonging to the Imperial Household.
However, the Great Wall of China Wave headquarters had a gloomy atmosphere.
If they couldn’t uproot the source of the Wave, this war would ultimately end in defeat.
The topic of the current meeting of key commanders held at headquarters was exactly this. How to deal with the Black Demon Dragon?
The Crown Prince as well as other princes and princesses also attended the command meeting.
A staff officer giving a briefing while looking at the map displayed on the large screen.
“This is the final line. If they cross this line, we must absolutely face them directly.”
If the Black Demon Dragon established itself at that point, or even further up, Beijing Stronghold City would fall within its territory.
Placing a Beyond Elite magical beast at a distance of only about 5 hours by train from New Seoul? Absolutely unacceptable.
Crown Prince Ryu Jin-yeong slammed the desk and said.
“Then what the hell are we doing? We should issue a forced mobilization order for civilian Awakened right now, even reserves! I’ll submit a proposal to His Majesty.”
Then Prince Ryu Jin-su snorted mockingly.
“Forced mobilization of civilian Awakened… Is there any point in inciting rebellion just to catch a Beyond Elite magical beast?”
“You, you bastard…”
“If you have a brain, think a little. Would you participate in the war if you were them? They’d just run away.”
“As citizens of the Empire, protecting the country is a duty that must be upheld.”
“That’s just your opinion.”
“Are you trying to fight me right now?”
“I wouldn’t mind.”
The other princes and princesses watched this scene with interested eyes without saying anything.
Meanwhile, Chairman Kim Song-yeol of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a throbbing headache.
The meeting hadn’t even started yet and the two brothers were already fighting.
He finally had to step in.
“Both of your words are correct. It’s right that civilian Awakened should be mobilized, and it’s also right that we should approach mobilization cautiously. However, this matter can only be decided by His Majesty the Emperor…”
That’s when it happened.
The conference room door burst open!
It was a soldier who had been monitoring the Black Demon Dragon’s movements.
He appeared by throwing open the door without even knocking into a conference room where the Crown Prince, other princes and princesses, and countless stars had gathered.
“I, I have something to report.”
“What? It better be urgent. Otherwise…”
“It, it’s dead.”
“Who? Without any context.”
“…The, the Beyond Elite magical beast Black Demon Dragon.”
The conference room fell silent for a moment.
It was so absurd that their common sense had run away.
“Are you really insane? Where do you get off telling such lies…”
“It’s really true though?”
“Good grief! Do you know where you are!”
“It’s really dead. I confirmed it with footage sent from the reconnaissance aircraft.”
“…”
“…”
“…”
.
.
.
Silence flowed again.
Suddenly?
“H, how?”
“Do you remember that person from back then?”
“Who…”
“The person who stood in the Black Demon Dragon’s path.”
“Ah! That person? Didn’t he die…?”
“He didn’t die. He even appeared with a large magical beast and fought the Black Demon Dragon.”
There was no words again for quite a while.
“…Why didn’t you report it then? You should have rushed here immediately when the battle broke out.”
“Th, that’s because it ended too quickly.”
“Too quickly?”
“It took 30 seconds, the time it took for the Black Demon Dragon to fall.”
Chuckles burst out from the conference room simultaneously.
“Pfft! Good grief! I almost believed it.”
“Hehehe, me too.”
“Oh my, I was tempted for a moment. But isn’t that bastard crazy?”
“Let’s send him for medical evacuation immediately. Giving a surveillance officer position to someone with mental problems.”
“Not medical evacuation, he should be sent to the stockade. He’s pretending to be crazy to get a medical discharge. I’ve seen countless guys like that.”
The Surveillance Officer got angry and shouted.
“I have the recording here too! See it with your own eyes and judge for yourselves.”
The Surveillance Officer walked over, plugged a storage device into the monitor and operated the menu.
Soon the footage began playing.
The Beyond Elite Black Demon Dragon moving north while raising cloudy dust.
Suddenly!
The screen turned white and a giant magical beast fell from the sky.
A magical beast with pure white fur and three heads.
“Huh?”
“Th, Three-Headed White Tiger?”
“Why is that guy there…”
“It’s an incredibly huge one.”
“…It’s much bigger than the Elite Three-Headed White Tiger from Jirisan.”
“Then Beyond?”
“W, well.”
Though they didn’t know where it appeared from, the Three-Headed White Tiger crushed the Black Demon Dragon’s body with the same speed it was falling from the sky.
Everyone rushed forward and stood in front of the monitor.
Really?
Could this be CG?
And following the Three-Headed White Tiger’s descent, one human falling.
With a sword shining like a lightsaber, he repeatedly stabbed and slashed the Black Demon Dragon’s armored skin.
The creature couldn’t even properly resist the attacks from the human and white tiger.
“Whoa.”
“Ah…”
“Hmm.”
“Wh, what the hell?”
“Cr, crazy!”
“…Good Lord!”
“This isn’t a scene from a movie, is it?”
As he said, it took exactly 30 seconds.
The Mysterious Man and Three-Headed White Tiger retreated, and the attacked Black Demon Dragon stopped moving and lay flat on the ground.
“Is, is that the same human from back then?”
“It’s blurry but looking at the facial features…”
“The clothes he was wearing were similar too, torn and tattered in places.”
The Black Demon Dragon writhed for a moment.
Soon it went completely limp.
But right at that moment!
Swoosh!
The demon beast and human disappeared as if deleted from the screen.
“Hm? Huh, where did they go?”
“…Are they ghosts?”
“That can’t be, it must be an invisibility skill.”
“The Three-Headed White Tiger disappeared too.”
“It could be an invisibility magic item.”
Anyway, since it’s no longer moving, the Black Demon Dragon is definitely dead.
All the attendees in the conference room looked confused.
Even seeing it with their own eyes, they couldn’t believe it.
How should they process this situation?
They should definitely be happy, but… the bewildered feeling was unavoidable.
In the midst of all this, only Master Oh Jin-hyeong had his head bowed with a serious expression.
It was the moment when his suspicions turned into certainty.
‘…It’s definitely Chairman Kim Tae-ju.’
He knows the face and build are different.
However, Oh Jin-hyeong was someone who had fought alongside Tae-ju during the Jirisan demon beast subjugation operation.
How could he not recognize him?
Those distinctive movements, speed, and habits that came out whenever he moved.
‘I already knew he wasn’t ordinary before this.’
He even took down a Beyond demon beast.
Even bringing along that Elite Three-Headed White Tiger that should be in Jirisan.
‘The fact that he changed his face and build means…’
For some reason he doesn’t know, it means he doesn’t want to reveal himself.
‘I should respect that.’
So Oh Jin-hyeong remained silent without saying anything.
* * *
Tae-ju didn’t rashly approach the now-quiet Black Demon Dragon.
The Three-Headed White Tiger also didn’t transform into a cat and continued to guard against it.
It would die soon.
He had injected every poison imaginable.
Tae-ju suddenly looked up at the sky.
‘Are they still watching?’
They probably are.
The ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft was continuously circling around the Black Demon Dragon, monitoring.
Therefore, the scene of fighting it would have been filmed too.
Tae-ju doesn’t completely trust the Reverse Dragon Technique and Bone Shrinking Art.
People with keen eyes might become suspicious.
Is there such a thing as a perfect secret in this world?
Someday, the fact that he was the one who killed the Beyond Elite demon beast would be revealed.
Still, he’ll do what he can as far as possible.
The Reverse Dragon and Bone Shrinking techniques are also expressions of his will to hide his identity.
Kim Tae-ju, a pharmaceutical company president comparable to a Master.
Just up to that point.
It’s because of the imperial succession struggle currently taking place.
A sticky arena of dark conflict where taking either side would make everyone else his enemy.
He had sworn not to go anywhere near it.
Power struggles were common occurrences even in Gangho Murim.
Jeoldaedokma Danggumak had experienced them sickeningly often too.
He just wants to live comfortably doing business with good people.
After waiting for a while, the Black Demon Dragon’s life signs completely stopped.
‘It’s dead.’
A new ability gained after reaching the 9th level of Honweonmusangdokryeongong.
Toxin cultivation and combination.
If even the slightest bit of poison enters the body, it multiplies infinitely like a virus.
At the same time, the most effective poisons for the target automatically combine with each other to attack organs and internal cells.
That massive Black Demon Dragon’s body would have been filled with poison in an instant.
Its body was already rapidly rotting away.
Actually, he didn’t defeat this creature with true skill alone.
‘I was lucky.’
The protective amulet and various other talismans, the Swordsman’s sword and other treasures from the Immortal Realm, the Three-Headed White Tiger that had grown one stage, and crucially, the sluggish Black Demon Dragon’s weakness.
All of these factors aligned perfectly.
What if it had been a fast Beyond Elite demon beast?
It probably would have been impossible.
Shall he start harvesting?
Dismantling and taking its entire body would be too much… let’s just extract the essence.
Tae-ju looked at the Three-Headed White Tiger beside him, still maintaining its true form without lowering its guard.
He opened the Infinite Space and attached an invisibility talisman to one of its massive legs.
Swoosh!
“Krung?”
The Three-Headed White Tiger was slightly startled as its appearance disappeared.
“You can turn back into a cat now.”
Psssssss…
The massive aura disappeared in an instant.
“Come here.”
“Meow!”
Something invisible leaped up into his arms.
And he attached one to his own body too.
Swoosh!
Tae-ju approached the creature closely, placed his hand on its body, and quietly channeled his energy.
He could feel intense mana energy.
‘Fortunately, it’s there.’
He cut deep into the corpse with the Ten Thousand Li Flying Sword.
‘…Wow!’
The Beyond Elite demon beast’s mana crystal embedded near the heart.
It was incredibly large.
A feast of brilliant, multicolored light.
‘Will this fit in the Infinite Space?’
If it’s over 1 meter in diameter, it might not fit, and it seems to be slightly over that.
‘I’ll find out by trying.’
Swoosh!
The Beyond crystal disappeared instantly.
‘It went in.’
This is enough.
He doesn’t need other byproducts.
But what should he do with this?
It would probably be the first Beyond mana crystal in history.
Would there even be anyone who could handle it?
There wouldn’t be anyone on Earth.
But somewhere else perhaps?
‘Let’s head back now.’
I’m starting to see magical beasts.
Since the tyrant who dominated this territory has disappeared
The invisibility talisman lasts for 1 hour.
I can just attach another one before the effect ends.
* * *
Emperor Ryu Tae-hyeon of the Samhan Empire.
The Emperor is not called by name.
Because there is only one Emperor.
There’s no need to distinguish.
The Emperor has not shown himself in public for several years now.
Imperial decrees are only conveyed through Secretary Geum Su-ho.
The Imperial Palace’s sickroom.
In a bedroom equipped with various state-of-the-art medical facilities, Secretary Geum Su-ho had an audience with the Emperor.
“Have you come?”
“How is your health?”
“Same as every day. What would be different?”
The Emperor was dying.
It wasn’t due to aging.
He was a first-generation Master who had transcended boundaries.
He had lived for 200 years and could have lived longer.
But a few years ago, in battle with a Mage who invaded the Imperial Palace, he allowed a single strike.
That wound still had not healed.
It wasn’t poison, nor disease.
What was eating away at his life was none other than mana.
The sinister mana left by an unidentified Mage Master.
It had spread to every corner of his body and simply wouldn’t disappear.
“Cough cough, let me see it.”
“Yes, here it is.”
A fresh video just transmitted from the Beijing Great Wall defense headquarters.
The Emperor received the tablet and watched the video intently.
Pausing at intervals, zooming in to look closer.
“Who do you think it is?”
“There is someone I have in mind.”
“Tell me.”
“It seems like Chairman Kim Tae-ju. Well, the face is different, but… his gait, back view, arm movements, standing posture, these things keep reminding me of him.”
“Magic items that change appearance and physique are common enough.”
Geum Su-ho agreed.
“Anyway, it’s fortunate. Thank you, cough! For handling the Empire’s concerns like this.”
“Even if it is him, it would have been impossible with his own strength alone. He received help from the Three-Headed White Tiger, seems to have means to neutralize Beyond Elite magical beast attacks, and moreover, this sword is extraordinary.”
“So what? Items or whatever, it all counts as ability.”
The Emperor returned the tablet to Geum Su-ho as he spoke.
“Anyway, assuming this person is Chairman Kim Tae-ju, does hiding his identity mean he doesn’t want to be revealed?”
“Correct. When I met him, he didn’t seem to have much desire for fame.”
“Then keep it hidden. We should accommodate him.”
“I would like to test him once though…”
“That’s for you to handle, but delete all of this footage. Along with the previous Jirisan Cheonwangbong video too.”
Geum Su-ho was seeing the Emperor’s relaxed expression for the first time in a while.
Was it because a burden had been lifted?
“But we should give him something…”
“An Elite weapon bestowal like before?”
“Can we make something comparable to that sword Chairman Kim Tae-ju was holding?”
“That would be impossible.”
The Emperor pondered for a long while.
“There’s no choice. We’ll have to give him Gurye.”
“What? You mean bestow territory? Chairman Kim has no interest in the military.”
“Issue an imperial decree. How about lifetime mayor of Gurye? With succession rights for the position too.”
“How is that different from territory?”
“The name is different.”
“…I suppose so.”
Geum Su-ho had no choice but to nod.
In fact, his achievements were too great.
The medicine he created alone was sufficient justification for rewards based on merit.
“He’s a precious talent. There are already rumors that the European Empire and American Republic have their eyes on him, so what if we lose him?”
“That absolutely cannot happen.”
* * *
The Immortal Realm.
Danggumak had many concerns when first introducing the gaming console that Tae-ju had sent.
Would the Immortals really like it?
So even when he stopped the movie screening and connected the gaming console, he was half-doubtful.
If the reaction was lukewarm, he could just stop.
But they liked it more than expected.
They liked watching from the side too.
They liked giving advice too.
One Seondo per game.
They formed a line.
The first game he introduced was one where a mustachioed human hopped around, stepping on turtles and eating mushrooms to gain power.
“Hey! You should jump there, what nerve makes you just walk past?”
“Can’t you be quiet? If you’re frustrated, try it yourself?”
“I’m already waiting for my turn.”
“…Ugh! I died because of you!”
“Tsk tsk, making excuses, hurry up and move aside.”
“No way! I’m not moving!”
The second was a fighting game for two players.
“Ugh! Is it proper for an Immortal to be so sneaky?”
“Sneaky my foot! Winning is what matters.”
“Want to have a match?”
“Fine! Follow me behind the tent!”
Among them all, the Swordsman was outstanding.
He’d been playing for two hours straight with just one peach.
“I say, Danggumak! Do something about the Swordsman. He won’t give up his spot at all.”
“Right. Look at all the Immortals waiting.”
Danggumak had no choice but to give the Swordsman 3 Seondo and make him stop playing.
Introducing the games was a good decision.
Since the Immortals were absorbed in gaming, content consumption decreased, and Seondo income was quite good too.
And so the Immortal Realm was peaceful.
Until a massive scale weight fell from the void of the Immortal Realm.
Screeeeeech!
Crash!
The judge’s scale weight.
Taesang Nogoon’s treasure that governs the immortals.
All magical effects inside the theater disappeared in an instant.
“What are all these bizarre things? Do you people have any sense or not?”
Taesang Nogoon appeared.
“They have no sense. Would those who plunder Dowon be in their right minds?”
Seo Wang-mo also appeared.
‘Ah!’
Danggumak squeezed his eyes shut.
‘What had to come has come.’
His business was about to be ruined.
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