The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 160

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 160
Bang!
Of course, my opponent was Pee So-won.
Her magic bullet pierced straight through the monster’s eye with perfect accuracy.
“Screeeeeech!”
This time it even speaks.
What appeared to be a mouth and tongue were affixed to what seemed to be its face, shrieking in agony.
The sound was so piercing it bordered on painful.
“I will create the most magnificent egg.”
“No one will steal it from me now.”
“My treasure alone.”
“I am a master jeweler of the Imperial Court.”
“Those filthy revolutionary dogs.”
Each mouth spoke its own words, creating a chaotic cacophony that flooded my mind.
Was it the sea fog?
My thoughts felt sluggish and unfocused.
‘Damn it.’
This wouldn’t do.
I activated Possession’s Memory skill.
‘Focus.’
I used Kwon Ik-seong’s ability.
In an instant, my mind cleared completely, and the countless pieces of information that had been pouring in chaotically were neatly organized and stacked within me.
At that moment—
Tap-tap!
Pee So-won landed beside me, having struck several more of the monster’s eyes while falling through the air.
“Is this what you’d call a boss monster?”
A boss monster?
“I will create it.”
“Only I can create it.”
“Russia’s treasure.”
Based on what this monster’s mouths were saying, it truly believed itself to be a “master jeweler.”
But was that all?
All the bodies we had encountered so far had acted as though they were protecting an egg.
All the information raced through my mind with clarity.
Yulia Kim had continuously given humans to the monster.
The monster continuously needed humans.
The monster wanted to create the greatest egg.
The monster’s name was Fabergé.
The same name as the great master jeweler who created the Imperial Russian treasures.
As if watching a film on fast-forward, I rapidly processed all of this information.
It was the power of an A-rank skill.
The warp and weft, everything coming together as one.
The conclusion came swiftly.
“The monster is creating an egg.”
“I know that. But that—”
“That’s why the monster needs humans.”
“What?”
“It doesn’t need all the bodies here. It’s continuously replacing specific parts. The fragments that fall away become monsters that wander the maze, and through the remaining parts—”
I gazed at the map the egg had created.
At the center of that map, a space hollowed out as if waiting for a jewel to be set.
“It moves its own body. To create the most important egg.”
Monsters from gates and dungeons are generally known to possess only aggression, acting without any specific purpose.
However, not all monsters are actually like that.
Some, like Kang Si-bang, possess a sense of self as individual entities, and monsters spawned in specific locations often exhibit behavior deeply connected to those places.
Like the Zelkova Tree in Incheon.
Like the Sacred Tree in Chungcheong.
“Those revolutionary bastards.”
“They drowned my treasure.”
“They buried my soul here.”
Then what if this place was where the Russian Imperial treasure had fallen?
What if the obsession of a single craftsman that remained in that treasure was buried here and influenced the formation of this dungeon?
The obsession itself to create the most beautiful treasure—it remained and took form as a monster.
Bang!
The sound of Pee So-won’s gunfire rang in my ears.
I realized she was firing at every organ that could be presumed to be eyes.
While moving, continuously readjusting her stance as it changed, zeroing in on her aim—
Bang!
Rat-a-tat!
The skill of shooting while moving.
Truly insane ability.
And I understood what she was aiming for.
Eliminate the monster’s vision first.
Then I could venture inside and discover where the “real egg” was located.
Remove every eye from that massive monster?
It’s insane, but—
‘Pee So-won will do that insane thing.’
Bang!
Rat-a-tat!
Watching Pee So-won fire like a madwoman, I deliberately moved my body in time with the gunshots.
So my footsteps wouldn’t be heard.
And each time, its eyeballs followed.
Pee So-won realized what I was doing and fired at the gaze that clung to me with every movement I made.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
At some point, the monster’s movements became faster.
As if searching for us with its remaining eye.
And the moment I moved my body quietly, the monster raised its arm.
Beneath that arm, a small eye stared at me.
And Pee So-won saw that eye too.
“Hello.”
With a greeting that could have meant either hello or goodbye, Pee So-won fired at that eye.
Bang!
The last eyeball flew away.
Simultaneously, the monster’s movements noticeably dulled.
“Where is it?”
“A new eye.”
“It needs a new eye.”
The mouths wouldn’t stop talking, but regardless, the monster could no longer see us.
Realizing this fact, we began moving with minimal sound.
Toward the monster’s back—
Tap.
In that instant, Pee So-won’s gun struck a barnacle protruding from the wall with a sharp sound.
My face contorted.
“Damn it, run.”
Pee So-won said this and remained in place, firing several more shots.
I had no intention of foolishly fighting alongside Pee So-won and simply ran.
‘It’ll catch up soon anyway.’
And as I predicted, Pee So-won quickly caught up to me.
I pointed the way according to the egg map.
Left.
Right.
Right.
Left.
One moment.
The passage suddenly feels much wider.
And soon before us—
“Here…”
Pee So-won tried to say something but closed her mouth.
Behind us, the monster stumbled about, banging and crashing as it searched for us.
If it hadn’t been a monster, I would have known what Pee So-won would have said.
‘She would have cursed.’
I felt the same way.
Before our eyes lay the largest ceiling-less room we’d seen in the maze.
And what filled the walls of that room were countless eggs.
Haha, haha, haha.
…A thousand or so?
‘Find the real one among these?’
A chill ran down my spine.
No. It would be better to just destroy them all.
The problem was that the insane monster was chasing us relentlessly.
‘Forget it.’
I destroyed the nearest egg.
Naturally, nothing happened.
I examined the eggshell.
A clue.
There had to be a clue….
That was the moment.
I felt something.
Rustle.
It was from that wall.
The instant I sensed it, Pee So-won’s rifle fired.
Bang!
The eggs tumbled sideways, and something crawling between them fled rapidly.
It was a hand.
Where that hand reached.
Something inconspicuous stirred at one point in the wall.
As if… from a place that had seemed like part of the wall itself.
“Never mind. Everything is fine… After all, what is imperfect has no meaning.”
A Russian-speaking monster muttering in an incomprehensible tongue.
This creature looked somewhat different from the monsters I’d seen so far.
Rather than a grotesquely assembled form, it bore the unmistakable shape of a human.
But when it turned around—
I understood naturally.
“Only perfection can be called my work.”
That creature, with all the skin on its face patched like rags and its entire right arm missing.
That was the ‘true monster.’
“But now I have no worthy body. I need more perfect fingers, more perfect feet… Legs that can lift me and hold me up.”
And the monster looks at me.
“Perfect… legs.”
The monster laughed.
You can speak Korean?
As my surprise registered, the monster laughed once more.
“Perfect fingers.”
This time it looked at Pee So-won.
Each time it laughed, eyes of different colors gleamed.
‘One of those has to be Yulia Kim’s.’
I bit my lip.
“That woman… taught me. Many humans who entered here taught me too. Of course, most of them just screamed, screamed, screamed!”
The monster shrieked as if fed up, its hands chasing after the sound like puppies.
“Shut up! What’s with all this talking! I have so much to create! I need more perfect craftsmanship! More precision! Anything imperfect is useless!”
“Is that a golem?”
Pee So-won asked me with her usual exhausted expression.
“Probably… I think?”
As if asking whether I knew what that thing was.
“So don’t touch me! Be quiet! I should have cut out all their tongues!”
The real monster shrieked while watching the giant monster that had entered the center of the maze with thunderous footsteps.
Soon the real monster opened a wall like a drawer and pulled out something resembling a massive machine gun from inside.
‘It uses weapons too!’
What was even more shocking was that there were eggs inside that drawer as well.
Faint, but I definitely saw them.
Countless crafted items inside.
‘Damn it.’
I unconsciously spat out the same curse as Pee So-won and furrowed my brow.
So this was the dignity of a craftsman boss monster.
While the monster aimed the machine gun at the giant monster, I pulled out the small keychain I’d been fidgeting with in my pocket.
An owl-shaped keychain.
I quickly wrote characters on the memo I’d kept in my pocket.
You need to recognize S-rank items. The surface is engraved with various patterns and has a magic stone attached, with light emanating from within!
A message to send to Kang Il-yeon.
In other words, this owl keychain is a kind of… pager, you could say?

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