EX rank supporting role's replay in a prestigious school

Chapter 964

Starting with Hwang Bo-yoon, it wasn't long before the veteran players noticed a street fight unfolding in the town.

Impatient Tak Geo-san tried to rush toward the town, but before he could take a single step, he sensed something unusual.

Tak Geo-san quietly glanced at the others.

All the players stood there, feeling uneasy.

Hwang Bo-yoon used his insight skill and spoke.

"His grandson was blocking the fire pillar. You must be dealing with the wanted criminal."

"Though the words are the same, they seem to fit."

"Are you saying that the son-in-law’s grandson didn’t help with the search on the mountain and instead went that way?"

"Couldn’t that extraordinary young man have discovered him before us and headed in that direction? It’s a bit strange, but..."

On the mountain, the Hongcheon gunmen were still clearing the fire pillar.

None of them seemed to notice that the wanted criminal was in the village.

If Seong Guk-eon hadn’t gone to the town, it was certain the wanted criminal would have caused significant harm to the villagers.

"The village is far from where they say the criminals escaped, but how did they end up there?"

"They likely created a fire pillar remotely to cause chaos in the village, throwing many players into confusion..."

"Though the escort process was sloppy, it wasn’t something that a player of that caliber couldn’t manage. It’s strange."

Though unspoken, Seong Guk-eon had decided not to join them.

He believed that Seong Guk-eon, who would someday carry the country on his shoulders, wouldn’t fail to stop the wanted criminal.

They trusted Seong Guk-eon’s integrity, so instead of heading to the town, they focused on identifying the source of the dissonance.

Hwang Bo-yoon, who had been scanning the surroundings and checking the ley line status rather than engaging in battle, quickly came to a conclusion.

"There is an accomplice who can use intelligence. That much is true."

"Do you think it’s near here?"

"Is it? Intelligence is useless if it’s too far from the ley lines."

Everyone agreed with the hypothesis that there was an accomplice.

No, it wasn’t a hypothesis; it was simply a fact.

Players with experience in all kinds of battles knew that a bounty couldn’t challenge something of this magnitude alone.

The problem was that they couldn’t identify who the accomplice was or what their goal was.

"The Jinn who have settled on the Korean Peninsula establish their own territories and manage their intelligence. There are Jinn living nearby. Do you think Man-seok and Gyeong-bok know anything about it?"

Hwang Bo-yoon asked Song Man-seok and Hong Gyeong-bok.

Though Hwang Bo-yoon was also from Hongcheon, he didn’t know the area as well as Song Man-seok or Hong Gyeong-bok.

Song Man-seok and Hong Gyeong-bok chose their words carefully.

This was a matter of determining whether the demons settled in the area were the accomplices.

"The locals are not foolish enough to not understand what might happen if they do something like this."

"Man-seok agrees with that. The Jinn are very cautious; they wouldn’t act recklessly in their own territory. They seem sensitive and don't like drawing attention, but right now, this situation has created a lot of noise around them."

Song Man-seok and Hong Gyeong-bok, both of whom had experience with Dark Horse, spoke calmly.

The two couldn’t say with certainty that Dark Horse wouldn’t target humans, but they believed it was unlikely that would happen here.

Hwang Bo-yoon didn’t have enough data to judge the correctness of either opinion and wanted to ask more questions but swallowed his words.

It seemed right to trust what the two had said at this point.

Hwang Bo-yoon nodded.

"If the Jinn isn’t the accomplice, there must be someone trying to make him appear as one."

"Anyway, let’s move. If there’s an accomplice, this won’t end here!"

Tak Geo-san urged.

As he said, we had to hurry now.

Hwang Bo-yoon, holding a map over the hologram, pointed to one spot.

"Let’s go check the ley line point connected to this mountain but far from where the Jinn live. If they want to make the Jinn an accomplice, they’ll target a place within their reach, but it would be hard for the Jinn to notice."

They moved quickly, wordlessly.

Among the four, Song Man-seok led the way.

If I have enough ability to face the Jinn. - I can face the Jinn.

It wasn’t as if he was suddenly pretending to be a priest; his judgment of the situation was quick.

But something seemed to be forgotten.

Shh!

A stiletto was shot at the demon priest’s ankle, and a punch flew into the pit of his stomach.

Considering the direction the elders would come from, Seong Si-wan had already hidden in a place where retreat was expected from the start.

Seeing Seong Si-wan suddenly emerge, the demon priest calmly swung his weapon, looking bewildered.

Seong Si-wan’s martial arts weren’t bad, but compared to Iron Arm’s punches, there were no issues with blocking or dodging.

However, it wasn’t easy to shake off, and it was enough to catch his ankle.

"At least one!"

If he got caught here, escaping would be difficult, and maybe the demon priest was trying to kill Seong Si-wan?

The demon's eyes and the demon’s robe were glowing.

The demon priest’s symbol, the one he worshiped, was death.

The curse’s power was directed toward Seong Si-wan.

You have to stop that. Even if it’s not a death curse, it seems like he plans to use equivalent power."

Beyond the power left by Song Man-seok’s punch, a supernatural gun was aimed at the demon that could be seen.

Seong Si-wan didn’t dodge in time, or if the elders’ contacts didn’t reach in time, I immediately wrote a command.

But before that, someone intervened.

Whoosh!

A two-handed hammer was fired like a cannonball, aiming at the demon’s back.

It was certainly thrown from quite a distance, but despite the distance, it flew without losing speed or strength.

To avoid it, the demon priest stopped chanting the spell and rolled on the ground, watching the hammer flying toward him.

"Someone..."

Gye I-dam, seemingly exhausted, was standing there, panting.

If he had fired the gun from such a distance, he would have missed, but the hammer flew straight toward him.

It might have been better to use Gwanglim, but maybe he judged that he couldn’t focus enough to control it at the moment and threw the hammer.

He narrowly avoided the immediate danger, but his reckless attack didn’t account for his stamina, leaving Gye I-dam empty-handed.

"Yeah, there was one more!"

Instead of Seong Si-wan, the demon priest threw a chain sickle, powered by supernatural abilities, toward Gye I-dam, who was the easiest target.

Gye I-dam stumbled and tried to dodge, but his movements were slow to avoid the blade cutting through the wind.

It was when Seong Si-wan changed his expression and leaped toward Gye I-dam.

Thud!

Before the sickle blade touched Gye I-dam, the weapon lost its momentum and veered off in an unintended direction.

Tak Geo-san, having grabbed the chain part of the weapon, altered its trajectory.

Tak Geo-san had been close enough to grab the chain.

"I'm hot too, so don’t get mad at the kids."

Tak Geo-san pulled on the chain as if engaged in a test of strength.

The demon priest was surrounded.

Song Man-seok and Hong Gyeong-bok also blocked the escape route and prepared to unleash their impressive abilities.

It seemed the demon priest had no escape.

Still, I wasn’t completely at ease.

"Hwang Bo-yoon isn’t visible. The headmaster isn’t an aggressive person, and with the current power, it’s enough, but if a student is facing the demon priest, we should confirm that..."

As if answering my thoughts, Hwang Bo-yoon shouted loudly.

"Watch below!"

I could feel a huge surge of energy stirring beneath the ground.

The source of the energy was in the center of the ley line point where the demon priest had set up his altar.

Several long strands of hair encircled the altar.