The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 197

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 197
‘I thought at most he’d just used some items to release a few monsters, but he pulled off something quite clever.’
Watching Choi Woo-jin refer to a trap reeking of murderous intent between family members as “clever,” I shook my head in disbelief.
That scary bastard…
‘If he used Magical Stones, it’s definitely possible for the E Zone to move this easily.’
And it’s illegal, no less!
The fact that he used Magical Stones meant Choi Jun-gu was indeed skimming off critical items like Magical Stones on top of his slush funds.
Taking control of the Daeyang Guild would reveal much more.
And before that—
‘First, let’s recover it ourselves. The Magical Stone.’
It’s evidence exhibit number one, after all.
‘You sure about this? It could be around A-Rank.’
I tied my shoelaces confidently in response to Choi Woo-jin’s condescending remark.
‘I’m an investigator with items… Hyaaaah!’
Before I could finish speaking, I spotted a reindeer charging toward me and swiftly delivered a kick.
Thwack!
The reindeer crumpled like it had smashed into a cliff face and collapsed on the spot.
-Points: 30
Hmm… is this actually working?
But there was no time to rest.
The E Zone was literally a war zone.
Massive reindeer roamed about, crevasses opened here and there with giant orcas waiting for us, and above all else—
There was an A-Rank Monster.
Staring at the corpse of a polar bear that had to be at least six meters long, I furrowed my brow.
It had only been a few minutes since the crevasse opened and I separated from Choi Woo-jin, yet I’d already encountered a polar bear.
This is bad.
No matter how good my gear is, visibility here is terrible.
“Wow… this is serious. An A-Rank Monster released? Mo Jun-mi, are you okay?”
Mo Jun-mi let out a hollow laugh at my question.
“The one who’s not okay right now is you.”
“Me? Why am I— Ahhhhh!”
I screamed involuntarily as Mo Jun-mi gripped my ankle with surprising force, causing me to collapse onto the ice.
It hurt so much!
“Did you think your ankle would be fine just because you have some items? Using powerful items requires a corresponding price.”
Mo Jun-mi said this while channeling healing into my swollen ankle, then pulled out something like a band from her bag and applied it.
Along with a pleasant fragrance, I felt a warm sensation spreading through my ankle.
‘Is this… an item infused with the essence of an S-Rank Healer?’
“It should hold for at least two hours. To survive…”
Mo Jun-mi gripped my chest area again.
It was the same symptom I’d seen in the sauna earlier.
It seemed Mo Jun-mi had some kind of taboo placed on her—a restriction that prevented any mention of “promises.”
“So you’re saying we have to run to survive?”
Mo Jun-mi could neither confirm nor deny it.
Then.
The collapsed polar bear began to twitch.
At first I thought it was just its paw moving, but its head, which had been completely turned around, snapped back into place with a sickening crack.
Soon after, the polar bear rose onto all fours, then onto its hind legs.
“ROOOAAARRR!”
An enormous roar erupted.
The polar bear’s blue eyes glared at me ferociously.
The polar bear’s front paw flew toward me.
I fired my gun at it.
Bang!
The polar bear’s front paw flew off.
But without the slightest hesitation, the polar bear rose again and lifted its hind legs to crush my body.
I grabbed Mo Jun-mi and rolled to the side.
“Ugh!”
And right beside where we barely landed was a crevasse.
A crevasse where an orca waited in the water, its mouth gaping wide on the ice.
“What is this!”
“What do you think? A points party.”
That was when.
Something like a long wooden vine shot out from behind the polar bear.
The gleaming thing caught the polar bear by the nape of its neck.
The polar bear cried out in pain and collapsed.
“Okay. One hundred points.”
It was Jeon Hwan-su holding the whip that had caught the polar bear’s nape.
Jeon Hwan-su looked at his measuring device and spoke proudly.
“Is this system where such a strong creature keeps regenerating?”
At my question, Jeon Hwan-su shrugged.
“Probably?”
Probably? What do you mean probably!
Isn’t this a trap Min Bo-hee created with magical stones? He didn’t know?
I raised my gun to extract the bright blue magical stone gleaming from the polar bear’s eye before it regenerated again.
The polar bear tried to roar once more—
Bang!
I shot the polar bear.
I heard the sound of points increasing, but it didn’t matter much.
I gouged out the polar bear’s eye, which was now exposed.
And I crushed it in my hand, but—
“There’s nothing there, is there?”
There’s nothing.
All that flowed from my hand was the jelly-like eyeball of the polar bear and some unidentifiable fluid that had burst from within it.
“Oh. Quite clever, aren’t you? You seemed like a fool earlier, but that was just an act, wasn’t it? You even know that regeneration won’t happen without the Magical Stone.”
Jeon Hwan-su grinned wickedly before swinging his whip once more.
In an instant, my leg was wrapped by the whip and dragged toward Jeon Hwan-su.
As I slid across the ice and was pulled toward him, Mo Jun-mi spoke in an angry voice.
“What are you doing! Why are you touching this person!”
At Mo Jun-mi’s words, Jeon Hwan-su responded as if dumbfounded.
“What? Did you two become friends already?”
I stared at Jeon Hwan-su’s whip wrapped around my warm ankle.
‘It doesn’t hurt.’
That looks like an S-Rank skill.
Jeon Hwan-su was famous for channeling electric current through his items, which is why he had that nickname.
Electric eel.
Yet wrapped in a whip wielded by such a person, it didn’t hurt—
‘Mo Jun-mi’s abilities are stronger than I thought.’
“It’s just annoying. I was going to dispose of him anyway, so why.”
Jeon Hwan-su laughed down at me.
“What I mean is… it’s dangerous. We need numbers….”
Numbers?
I narrowed my eyes at Mo Jun-mi’s words.
“You seem to really like your new friend? Too bad. I don’t approve of you making new friends.”
Jeon Hwan-su tightened his grip on my leg before stepping back.
Soon the polar bear’s eyeball that had been in my hand melted away and disappeared.
The polar bear that had collapsed rose to its feet again.
Just as the polar bear’s front paw flew toward me, my feet bound and unable to move.
Mo Jun-mi wrapped her arms around me.
Our bodies flew through the air like cannonballs before crashing down hard.
The sound of bones shattering came from Mo Jun-mi’s body as she held me.
“Mo Jun-mi!”
I cried out, but Mo Jun-mi only let out groans of pain.
Even watching this, Jeon Hwan-su merely chuckled and didn’t approach Mo Jun-mi.
Instead, he simply unwound the whip from my leg and wrapped it around the polar bear’s neck once more, as if intent on finishing us both completely.
“I’m disappointed, Jun-mi. You used to sacrifice yourself only for me, but now you throw yourself away for someone else.”
Thud.
The polar bear with its neck strangled collapsed once more.
It seemed dead.
But it would regenerate again—
“I’m fine, Catherine. Let’s go first.”
Mo Jun-mi, her entire body shattered into fragments, rose to her feet.
Like a polar bear that keeps getting back up no matter how many times it falls.
‘Self-healing.’
Only an S-Rank Healer could pull off something like that.
But did she really just use those abilities for hunting Jeon Hwan-su right now?
Frustration threatened to burst from my chest.
Mo Jun-mi exhaled roughly and glared at Jeon Hwan-su.
“Catherine, if we don’t defeat all the boss monsters in this gate… ugh…”
Mo Jun-mi clutched at her chest again.
Jeon Hwan-su swung his whip once more.
The whip came hurtling toward me again, and Mo Jun-mi twisted her arm to block it.
But instead of gripping the whip, Mo Jun-mi clutched at her chest and collapsed.
This was the power of that ‘promise.’
And right now, Mo Jun-mi was…
“What are you doing?”
“What am I doing? I can’t keep going like this.”
…trying to break that ‘promise.’
Risking her own life.
But that wouldn’t do.
Not just for Mo Jun-mi’s sake, but because I—
‘…have a job where I can’t overlook the wicked.’
-Your body is my body, my body is my body.
I quietly activated my skill.
The moment my eyes opened, I felt electricity coursing through every vein in my body.
Like… well… like I’d become a massive power line?

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