The Civil Servant Who Concealed Their True Strength Turns Out to be a Master of Possession - Chapter 95

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A Civil Servant Who Hides His Strength Is Exceptionally Good at Possession – Episode 095
Gray Shirt had just escaped the Succubus’s seductive dream when he witnessed the purple-skinned female monster before him shriek in agony.
‘Kwaaaaagh!’
An axe came crashing down on the Succubus’s waist.
Watching the viscous purple blood-like substance flow across the floor, Gray Shirt was lifted up by Team Leader Han standing beside him.
“You crazy bastard. Can’t you manage the containers properly?”
At Team Leader Han’s words, Gray Shirt clenched his teeth.
I was beginning to piece together what had happened.
For some reason, one of the containers holding the items they’d been trying to steal had been poorly maintained, and because of that, a Succubus had burst out from inside.
Team Leader Han.
He, who oversaw all smuggling operations in this dungeon, slapped Gray Shirt across the face several times while holding him up.
Blood sprayed from Gray Shirt’s mouth, and a tooth flew out.
“Ugh… Ack…! Puke…!”
Team Leader Han was a C-rank Hunter with formidable abilities.
He could assess any situation quickly enough to handle any monster that appeared here without hesitation.
Because of this, Go Cheol-won relied on him as a trusted subordinate.
The Officers standing in the back watched the brutal violence inflicted by such a man in silence.
They were personnel from the local government’s Dungeon Management Department, not Team Leader Han’s people—civil servants who merely wanted to check the situation and leave quickly.
Team Leader Han spoke to the Officers positioned in the back.
“What are we going to do about that?”
What Team Leader Han pointed to was a woman clutching a Slime tightly.
A woman whose face seemed familiar from somewhere.
Team Leader Han had already figured out her identity.
It couldn’t have been otherwise.
She was the ‘Run Run Taekwondo Girl’ who was currently making waves on social media.
She wasn’t merely an influencer.
She was an investigator from the Hunter Investigation Unit who had become known as the second most famous name after Kwon Ik-seong—a woman who had practically saved the entire Hunter Investigation Unit from the brink of dissolution.
Starting with the Kevin Choi incident and continuing through the bus terror incident, there were countless cases she’d resolved in less than a year since joining, and the Go Cheol-won Mayor case was set to be added to that list.
Before the Mayor Go Cheol-won entered into a summons investigation, there had been no plan to move illegally smuggled dungeon byproducts like this.
The Hunter Investigation Unit was only dealing with the items the Mayor had traded in the Sorghum Field, and the local government believed that could be covered up easily enough.
But once the summons investigation began in earnest, and some employee at the Municipal Office spouted nonsense, things got complicated.
Go Cheol-won called Team Leader Han urgently.
[Team Leader Han. We need to dispose of the traded items right away. Sell what we can sell, move what we can move.]
‘Is the situation that bad?’
[That’s not for you to judge. If an internal investigation starts, it’ll be a problem, so just move the items!]
‘The Hunter Investigation Unit doesn’t even know the specific locations of dungeons anyway, so there’s no need to go that far—’
At Team Leader Han’s words, Go Cheol-won’s voice turned cold.
[That’s not your concern. I told you. If you want to stay under me, don’t think for yourself. We do the thinking, not you. You’re just a point, and I’m the line.]
A point. A line.
Every time such words came out, Team Leader Han could sense that Go Cheol-won was being influenced by some external pressure.
Someone at the very top of that pyramid—someone who moved people like Team Leader Han as if they were dots on a board, who wielded high-ranking politicians as lines in a grand design.
That person was the one who moved Go Cheol-won.
And in situations like this, I couldn’t afford to contradict Go Cheol-won’s orders.
‘Yes. I’ll relocate them.’
Honestly, there was no real danger in this task.
The unregistered dungeons hidden in the designated green belt mountains, the warehouses disguised as sewage systems deep within manholes—these were places the Hunter Investigation Unit could never excavate.
How could the Hunter Investigation Unit possibly uncover what the local government had so perfectly concealed?
They couldn’t even enter without the local government head’s approval, and suspicion itself was impossible from the start.
The only real risk was if Go Cheol-won faced pressure to resign, which could allow the local government to fall into the hands of a rival political faction.
‘In that case, I’d definitely need to clean things up.’
Go Cheol-won probably had this in mind when he ordered the disposal of these items.
Public opinion was deteriorating by the day, after all.
And the Hunter Investigation Unit had played a major role in shaping that opinion—ever since Lee Yu-ji appeared as an investigator, they’d been riding a wave of increasingly positive public sentiment.
That naive investigator who was always bleeding from the nose, getting caught red-handed breaking ribs, and then disappearing.
It was difficult for people to sense any political collusion in an investigation conducted by such an investigator.
For that reason, it was hard to manufacture public opinion accusing this side of political scheming.
So we moved the items out in advance and prepared for the worst-case scenario.
We’d ensure the Hunter Investigation Unit couldn’t touch these items, so even if Go Cheol-won had to resign as mayor immediately, his political career could continue.
That was the plan—
“Damn it. Why is a Hunter Investigation Unit investigator inside here?”
Team Leader Han looked down at Lee Yu-ji with an expression of utter disbelief.
That vacant, lifeless expression matched exactly the face I’d seen on social media sometime ago.
“This crazy bastard is acting so carefree even now.”
And this crazy bastard didn’t even respond to his words. She simply held the Slime close, as if cradling something precious.
Team Leader Han couldn’t understand how this woman had gotten inside here.
Had she searched through each of these designated green belt mountains one by one?
How did she even know there was a dungeon here in the first place?
Behind that seemingly dim face, just how much information did she possess?
Team Leader Han’s mind was spinning.
“Listen. What are you guys going to do about this?”
Squelch!
The sound of an axe hacking into the Succubus played like background noise, and the Officer spoke with an irritated expression.
“Why should we handle that? Dungeon management is your department’s job in the first place. Didn’t you mess up placing the barrier items? How was it even possible for an investigator to get inside here?”
Team Leader Han’s brow furrowed at those words.
He suddenly turned his head to look at the Officer.
Clear bloodstains remained on Team Leader Han’s face as he turned.
“So we’re supposed to solve this? If a civil servant came in here, then a civil servant should solve it. Damn it.”
“That, that’s….”
Team Leader Han silenced the Officer’s mouth. He covered the Officer’s jaw and lips in one motion with his massive hand.
“Anyway, whenever you civil servant bastards show up and start running your mouths, we end up doing all the work, so now we look like fools, right? Huh? And how did this bitch crawl her way in here? Information must have leaked from somewhere. That’s the only way she crawled in here, you bastards!”
It was the moment Team Leader Han finished speaking.
“Team Leader!”
Someone called out to Team Leader Han urgently.
Soon, murmurs began rippling through the gathered crowd.
Team Leader Han furrowed his brow and turned his head to find whoever had called him.
Then a man quickly pointed toward the forest and spoke.
“Sir, that thing… it’s moving?”
“What is?”
Team Leader Han clenched his teeth, feeling a surge of fierce irritation.
He was in the middle of saying something important—what on earth was this interruption about—
In that instant, something hooked around Team Leader Han’s ankle.
“…!”
His vision immediately flipped upside down.
“What the hell!”
Team Leader Han drew a pistol loaded with magic bullets from his waistband with quick reflexes. But in his spinning vision, he couldn’t even tell what he should be aiming at.
The bullets fired into empty air fell uselessly, leaving only shell casings behind.
Team Leader Han then looked down at his ankle.
He saw something like tree roots coiling tightly around his ankle.
“Damn it!”
Team Leader Han pulled a jackknife from his belt and stabbed frantically at the tree roots.
But there was no way tree roots of this thickness would snap from a jackknife.
Instead, the roots began wrapping around Team Leader Han’s thighs and waist.
As his vision grew increasingly blurred, Team Leader Han saw his staff and officers being lifted into the air just as he was.
What bound them appeared to be tree roots and branches.
And remarkably, it was the trees themselves that were extending them.
The trees that had originally existed in this cave.
The background scenery of the cave that had done nothing while Team Leader Han and his staff indiscriminately hunted and swept up the dungeon’s monsters.

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