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  *crushing*

  “Who are you ?!”


  The guy who was watching the area shouted, aiming the rifle towards the sound where it came from.

  They are not in the earth but in the middle of the Elusian Suin Kingdom. The muzzle of the gun trembled at the soldier’s extreme anxiety.

  “Fuck! Move! It’s Powell! ”


  A man passed by, roughly hitting the muzzle.

  Dozens of soldiers tumbled behind him. All of them were in the blood of the Suins. In particular, the leading black man has a strong stench of blood all over his body. They tumbled to where Team A was sitting and sat down.

  “Do we have a healer?! Treat the injured! ”


  Powell’s nasty cry caused the healer of Team A to get up slowly, but James stopped him.

  “Stop! Hanson, your mana should be saved. ”


  Powell’s face was grimly bound by James’s actions.

  “What are you doing ?! Major James! ”


  “Hanson had consumed most of his mana, so our side was treated with the emergency kit. I’m trying to preserve my team’s fighting power, Colonel Powell! ”


  James sees Lieutenant Colonel Powell’s men’s injury as a minor one.

  “Are you not following the orders of your superior?”


  James jumped at his words. Powell was his superior as he said, but he didn’t back down as the head of team one.

  It was then that Charlotte appeared and touched Colonel Powell made his eyes open wide.

  “Did you kill Ana?”


  Ana was the Suin female chief warrior who protected her, she and her warrior corps have been here for years.

  “Yeah! That bitch sold us!. ”


  “No that’s not true! you! She advised you to surrender! ”


  Charlotte had a higher detection skill, and she could see everything from the person she touched. In her head were the words he had said to kill her.

  ‘Die, you disturbed my work. Dirty Suin bitch! ‘


  Powell wasn’t on very good terms with Ana.

  “Shut up! That bitch led us to the Temple Knights!. ”


  “Accurately, they found you out for illegal mana stone trade. I see now why did El’s temple knights attack us so angrily!? Had you not resisted, there would have been room for conversation with the El’s temple! AHHH!!” Charlotte raised her hand to slap him.

  *Boom*

  Charlotte, who was about to attack him, fell to the floor screaming.

  Powell’s fist had reached her stomach first.

  “You bitch! I only followed the orders above! The mana stone deal was the first goal of the United States. You idiots could have succeeded if none of you delayed it!”


  “No, it was possible if you didn’t move hastily. Thanks to you, the pigeon team was killed! ”


  “Hmm, I couldn’t help it!”


  “Because of your eternity!”


  “Bitch!”


  James blocked him when his troops tried to hit her stomach again.

  “What!?”


  “Stop it.”


  “Fucking bitch!”


  *CLANK*

  Powell’s hand went to his waist. He saw a long sword that had not yet cooled down from the blood of the Suin.

  “These in pairs …… you dare stop me!?”


  “Ugh……” At the words of Powell, James hardened.

  Powell was a stronger hunter even before he was his superior. If he decides to kill someone, there would be no place for that someone to escape. He just thought that they should just work together right now.

  Charlotte regretted in tears as the two men confronted each other.

  ‘It was a mistake.’


  She should have spent more of her time to convince the Korean hunters.

  No, that was what they originally intended, however, the US Hunter Secretariat and the US Department of Defense agreed to it when the South Korean hunter refused the offer and invited Colonel Powell to join the mission. Indeed, the Republic of Korea, or rather, the Invincible, had a stake in the mission.

  It was them that saved the girl from the Daehyun Clan and asked for personal protection.

  In addition, the Suin girl also wanted the Korean hunter to go with her. However, the US Hunter Secretariat and the US Department of Defense, who did not want to share what they could get from their exchanges with the Suin, made their own delegation.

  Thanks to that damn Powell, everything went wrong.

  ‘Daimell …… I should have done what you said.’


  Daimell was the name of a Suin girl.

  If the Korean hunters were with them throughout the trip, Powell or his invasion team would not have been necessary, and events like this would not have happened. But did they say regret is regret because it is always late?

  She decided to do her best now.

  As Powell faced James, she held a small autonomous syringe in her arms. It was a syringe containing a super anesthetic that one always carry in case of emergency. Designed to be concealed in the hand as it was originally intended, she squeezed the safety pin on the syringe and pressed it against Powell’s calf as he stared at James.

  *pshhhh*

  Powell, feeling hot in the calf with the sound of a wisp, looked down at his leg. There, Charlotte looked up at him with a smile.

  “What are you doing!?” Powell’s voice was full of rage.

  He knew what Charlotte injected into his body.

  That shot could even make a Tier 4 monster pass out. She was able to use it through her device designed to pierce through even a monster’s tough shell.

  “You have to come to your senses……Ugh!!”


  “You stupid bitch!”


  *BSSHH!!*

  Powell’s feet crushed her head as if it were a watermelon.

  It happened so fast. James looked up at him as well as Powell’s own subordinates in surprise. Even though she used anesthetics against him, those were non-lethal and he just stepped on her like that.

  It was then, as he looked into Powell’s eyes, James realized that his eyes were strange.

  He had oddly out-of-focus eyes.

  *Ching…… Ching*

  James picked up his weapon, the Bastard Sword.

  “Get ready to fire!”


  *Cheep! Cheep! Cheep!*

  At James’s call, his men quickly aimed the COD at Powell. Powell’s men looked at them with their confused eyes. Charlotte’s death was just as shocking as their captain getting attacked.

  “Lieutenant Colonel Powell is now deprived of his position!” James exclaimed.

  Killing Charlotte rightly deprived Colonel Powell of his posting.

  “Huh, all of you……”


  Powell’s eyes began to turn red, he was bringing up his skills……

  Nervous, James also focused his mana on his weapon. The anesthesia was given, so he slowly retreated to his plan that he had to hold it to some extent. However, Lt. Powell suddenly smiled as he watched him.

  “It’s fun. I don’t know human psychology either. ”


  With that, Powell suddenly grabbed his own head with both hands. And……

  *BRRBRBRR*

  With a terrible shredding sound, he twisted his own head backward.

  “What, what?!”


  Powell fell down right away.

  He was crazy to kill Charlotte, but he’s the strongest hunter in the mission. If they wanted to escape from here…… they didn’t like it, but they needed Powell’s power.

  But he broke his own neck……

  The quickest one to gain sanity was James.

  “Attack! Dense!”


  His call quickly brought him and Powell’s team together.

  “Parmer! Knocker! Psychological buffs! Jake and Harold! Detection! ”


  “Yes!”


  Being in a team for several years, his instructions were quick.

  But James soon faced a ridiculous situation. There was no need to find anything by using their detection skill anymore, their opponent appeared in front of them. It was a small woman, their opponent was a human like them.

  “Aim!!”


  All of Powell’s teams, including James’s team, pointed at her all at once, however, she acted like she did not know how intimidating the gun was. She just stepped forward and stood before them.

  Then, she pulled something out of her arms and placed them in her mouth. She flicked her fingers naturally to create a small flame, which she then placed in her teeth.

  “Hou……”


  “To, tobacco?”


  James had no words in this unbelievable situation. What she took out was not a common cigarette, it was made of paper. At first glance, this pack of cigarettes was written with “Hallasan” in Korean. This place was hundreds of kilometers from earth apart from the dimensional differences, and here she was smoking paper cigarettes……

  *puff*

  “Haaaah……”


  With a sense of familiarity, she breathes into the smoke and stared at them with her drowsy eyes.

  James glanced at her from head to toe with his sharp eyes.

  She seems to be in her early twenties. He cannot tell her ethnicity, but it seems like she was a mix of a westerner and an Asian, and she was beautiful, by far the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

  But he didn’t allow himself to get enchanted by her beauty since for now, around him were Powell with a twisted neck, and Charlotte, whose head had been shattered.

  “Who are you?” He asked as carefully as possible. He felt that he should not make enemies with nasty words.

  “Me? Goddess L.”


  James bit his lips in her short answer.

  He wanted to say that she was crazy, but her appearance was so absurd. Sadly, she was so ridiculous that she had credibility in her words. Besides, she was now…… using English.

  Yes, the goddess El…… The goddess El, who also shared the name of this territory, Elus, which was in front of her.

  It was unknown who first started calling this alternate dimensional place Elus. It was accepted so naturally that at one point, it became official.

  James was in conflict. He was an atheist but now, he met a woman that introduced herself as a goddess. He didn’t know how to react. If he believed her words, it was obvious they were all dead meat.

  “We…… HPPFF!”


  “Shut up.”


  James opened his mouth to find a way to live, but he soon realized that his mouth was not moving.

  “Shut up and stay still. I never allowed you to talk.”


  She sucked the cigarettes at once, dropping its ashes lightly before putting the filter back in her arms. She took out a new one and lit it. She was a heavy smoker.

  “You dare to enter my land and kill my children.”


  “.……!”


  James wanted anyone to step up and speak for him, but the others who turned their heads looked the same. They had also had their mouths sealed.

  At her word, a bargaining weapon called language disappeared.

  “Baeklin’s requested me to do so, so I just ended up watching. He cursed so much about America, saying that their greed has no end. He was right.”


  She nodded as she approached them.

  “!!”


  James went crazy as his body turned numb, he could no longer move even a finger.

  “We don’t need to have a lot of such loud bugs.”


  *STRIKE*

  She wiped her hand as if she was annoyed, and……

  *Fufu …… fufufufu! Ugh! Pew pew!*

  With a sharp noise, everyone except James’ neck flew into the air. All he saw was a bloody fountain in the air, no one else survived that.

  The eyes of those heads remained empty as if they couldn’t believe what just happened as they fell to the ground.

  *heads falling*

  “!!GASP!!”


  The tears of blood flowed from James’ hardened eyes.

  His men, who have been in trouble with him for many years, have all died in vain at the same time.

  L smiled at him and said, “Hooh, are you upset? Tell me what you feel.”


  The moment she said “tell me,” James’s mouth began to burst.

  “You bitch! You’re a dog!!”


  James inflicted her with all the curse he could do.

  One of his team members had a wife and an unborn daughter waiting for him. Another had a 10-year-long relationship who had decided to get married soon after their operation. Even though they shared sorrow and joy, this monster treated their own men as if they were worms.

  But she was not agitated at all……

  Rather, a bright smile appeared on her face.

  “That’s a funny swear word. Baeklin said that Americans swearing was no fun but it was a lie.”


  “Ha ……”


  In response to her, James sighed.

  He swore his best, but the other person just thought that it was funny. He soon regretted his decision, he thought that it would’ve been better if he died with his team.

  “Since my promise to Baeklin was broken anyway, I have to go get the price of the blood of my children? Did you say the USA? ”


  “What do you mean!?”


  James felt a chill all over his body but before he was able to open his mouth, his head flew into the air.

  It was too vain of a death, and the goddess L just said casually as if she didn’t care that she had just taken one life.

  “R! I’m coming,” she said in midair.

  After a while, something gigantic murmured from the air and a huge head, dozens of times larger than her body appeared. It was a dragon and its head was fixated to El.

  [El Natila Diabis Harana Geglidion…… Are you telling me to be a good goddess too?]

  “Please answer accordingly. I can’t help it, I made a pledge with the Suins. I’ll play with you ogres and dracones later.”


  At her words, the giant dragon looked at her eyes for a while and slowly spoke telepathically.

  [Grrr…… 10 cigarettes…… no bargaining.]

  It seems to be used a lot like an exchange means. But L, who would normally try to reduce the numbers even slightly, was happy to accept the condition.

  “Good. Well, it’s me, I can just ransack those easily. Hohoho ”


  Her answer narrowed the eyes of the giant dragon.

  Then, he rolled his eyes around as if he was thinking. He seemed nervous.

  [My…… take mine too. I’m almost finished.]

  “Sure, whatever,” L replied cheerfully and flew into the air before disappearing into a flash of light.