The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 161

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 161
Munch, munch.
Like a fax machine, the owl swallowed the note I had written straight into its mouth.
‘Everything’s good, but let’s improve the speed a bit!’
I voiced my complaint to the proprietor of the Hatsune Dalnim Workshop.
In the meantime, the real monster began firing a machine gun.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
Bullets as elastic as rubber pellets struck not us, but the giant monster.
The monster’s screaming mouth writhed in agony, spewing blood.
“Are they fighting each other?”
“Seems like it?”
What the hell.
So it uses its body according to its purpose, and now it’s just abandoning it?
That thing really is rotten to the core.
I stared at the real monster with that thought in mind.
The hand hidden behind the monster enthusiastically fed bullets into the monster’s machine gun as if cheering it on.
That sight was kind of cute…
‘…wasn’t it.’
And the monster had no right arm.
Which meant that hand was the monster’s right hand.
A right hand that might soon merge with Pee So-won’s fingers!
“Damn it, I give up.”
With that, Pee So-won began crushing the eggs one by one.
Even as the giant monster continued to be attacked by the real monster and screamed with each careless step it took, she dodged them all without missing a single shot.
Retch.
And then, the owl spat out the note.
Where are you?
Now you’re asking how I’m doing?
I wanted to strangle the owl’s neck, but fortunately the note didn’t end there.
If it’s an S-rank item, that must be incredibly rare… Could you show me later?
This is really… making fun of an adult…
Does the pattern on the surface happen to have a design like this?
Soon a drawing appeared written on the note.
↟↹↯⇹⟿
I quickly wrote my answer.
Yeah. It’s like a map of sorts. It shows the paths inside the dungeon.
Munch, munch.
Retch.
The response came again.
Then it’s an item that uses the mana inside the dungeon. That means there are many of those around, and you need to pick out the S-rank items from among them, right?
I picked up my pen.
Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat!
A severed tongue was crawling around right beside me.
P-please, save me!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Of course, there was someone who fired without flinching whether blood splattered on her face or a tongue flew about beside her.
Psychopath sharpshooter. Pee So-won.
Man, my partner is amazing!
Yeah! Tell me the method quickly!
I urgently sent a message, and Kang Il-yeon’s response arrived very slowly.
Ugh.
There’s a switch next to the owl. ➜⧬
…?
It’s a newly introduced feature. It’s a mana light with five-sense protection in places with strong mana. An owl light that consumes darkness! I made it as a prototype, and Yu Gyeom and Min-joo gave it a new name today.
Min-joo?
That wouldn’t be the Kang Min-joo I know, would it?
Thinking that, I pressed the light-shaped switch next to me.
Then the owl’s eyes glowed yellow.
The murky fog began to disappear wherever that light touched.
Oh.
This is pretty useful.
Even—
When I held it up to the egg, the light inside the egg began crawling out like a worm.
It operates by absorbing the mana inside the dungeon, so it’s convenient to use within the dungeon.
…No matter how I looked at it, that sales pitch sounded like something Lee Yu-gyeom would come up with.
The absorbed mana is reproduced again as light in an eco-friendly structure.
Wow, eco-friendly!
Our Hatsune Dalnim Workshop will be reborn as an ESG company… No, wait!
I need to find an S-rank egg right now, you fool!
Therefore, the strongest light will flow out from the place with the strongest mana and be absorbed by the owl.
Just as I wanted to grab Kang Il-yeon by the collar, fortunately the home shopping ended and the most crucial clue popped out.
‘I just need to find the strongest light.’
I looked at the increasingly numerous tongues around me and climbed along the surrounding walls to avoid them.
Like earthworms, I could see the mana being expelled by the eggs around me being absorbed into this owl.
Since entering this dungeon, I used the brightest vision I’d had to illuminate every corner.
And soon—
‘Found it.’
The place where the most light was emanating.
That place was—
“Team Leader….”
I called out to Pee So-won.
“What.”
“No, Manager.”
“What is it, all of a sudden.”
Pee So-won spoke while maintaining her firing stance.
“Well. You were almost going to become Manager, so if you don’t, I thought you’d feel cheated. So I wanted to try calling you by that title beforehand….”
“What? Are you mocking me right now?”
I’m not mocking you.
I’m being serious right now!
I bit my lip.
And I slowly raised the owl light I was holding.
“There’s an egg inside that monster.”
I watched the Craftsman Monster remove its hands from the machine gun as I observed the giant, now unable to even scream and merely spinning in place.
When I illuminated that monster with the owl light, a massive glow streamed from the monster into the owl.
The Craftsman Monster grinned wickedly as it gazed at the light I was shining.
“My legs.”
“…!”
Pee So-won detected the monster’s movement and aimed her gun, but it was too late.
The monster’s hand was already strangling my neck.
The speed was incredible.
I was lifted up and thrashed about in midair.
My breath was literally being cut off.
Pee So-won fired at the monster, but it didn’t seem to help much.
An S-rank item requires an S-rank weapon to eliminate, and while we can detect it, removing it seems difficult.
A note spat out by the owl flickered before my eyes.
S-rank weapon.
My vision grew dizzy.
As a strong grip was applied to my already weakened body, I felt like I would lose consciousness at any moment.
No, rather… I’m losing consciousness right now.
And I won’t be able to get back up.
Time is running out.
There’s only one method left.
Using my skill.
But—
That monster.
That body.
Is everything truly one unified mass?
Just as I couldn’t perfectly control all the other trees simply because I possessed one tree in the Incheon dungeon, if the many body fragments here are separate “monsters” I can possess—
‘Does using the skill even make sense?’
“Die, you bastard!”
Pee So-won fired relentlessly from behind the monster’s back.
Bang!
Bang!
It was useless.
After all, this monster’s body was composed of various bodies.
In the process of continuously replacing humans, it must have kept replacing itself with the hardest outer skin.
And even if that weren’t the case—
‘All of those bodies can substitute for the monster.’
I could tell from the fact that all those bodies possessed an obsession with the egg.
Moreover—
‘The egg is S-rank anyway.’
Unless I eliminate the egg, the monster will continue to be replaced and regenerated.
Bang!
Bang!
Tap….
The gunshots grew fainter and then ceased altogether.
I felt the monster’s hand reach for my leg.
“My leg.”
A sound like something breaking.
The monster’s hand spinning round and round, looking at me with delight.
That was the last sound and sight I witnessed.
‘Your body is my body, my body is my body.’
And in the next moment, all sound vanished from me. My vision was cut off as well.
All that ‘my body’ could perceive was a single thing.
An ammunition belt strung with resilient bullets.
I caressed it with a habit of countless years.
The ‘five’ legs attached to me. Or fingers. Or… tentacles.
‘Beautiful. Ah, truly, what I create is incomparable.’
This smooth surface. This beautiful shape. This sensation of elasticity sliding smoothly into the barrel!
‘I only create perfect things!’
…I would think about such things later.
Following the sensation of an object I had touched hundreds of times over, I crawled spider-like across the surface and lowered my longest appendage onto the trigger.
Hmm…. So beautiful. This curvature. This curvature I had wanted to create exactly… except it wasn’t!
Thinking thus, I pulled the trigger.
An incomprehensible vibration jolted through my body.
I gripped the barrel tightly with my other legs to prevent myself from being thrown back.
But ultimately, I could not prevent myself from being thrown back.
My body flew back and struck the wall.
I felt pain.
But with no eyes or ears in this body, there was no other way to perceive the situation.
Right now, I am a ‘hand.’
‘A monster’s hand.’
If this ‘me’—this hand within the monster—truly struck the egg inside the creature—
If that’s what happened—
Does my possession target die?
Then what becomes of me? What becomes of my existence?
Along with such doubts, even the remaining tactile sensations and pain began to crumble away.
Instead, a certain memory surged into my mind.

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