Chapter 252: The Thousand Curse Dragon (4)
Tada! Itsplete! Sihoo yelled after Ha-eun and Ohjin returned the next week. He handed them a luxurious silver case.
Ha-eun carefully opened the case to see ck leather gloves with a simple design. Embedded near the glove''s knuckles were red starstones the size of fingernails.
Fwoosh!
Ha-eun put on the gloves and lightly gathered her mana, causing the red starstones to vibrate and heat up, as if resonating with her.
"Wow!" Ohjin reflexively eximed. He felt that the heat was stronger than when she usually made the me with her bare hands.
"This is the relic I got after selling your body, Ohjin" Ha-eun said.
"The expression is very unpleasant." Ohjin, who was standing behind her and observing, frowned.
Sihoo smirked. "I considered Ha-euns characteristics and made a relic that only amplifies Yang energy! It will be less effective if someone else uses it, but you, an Awakener of Draco, shouldnt be able to find anything better!"
"Did you make this in a week?" Ha-eun asked.
"Making it wasnt tricky. Relics with mana amplification properties are expensive because the materials needed are so absurd." Even so, making a relic like that in a week was only possible because Sihoo was a genius.
"Thank you. I''ll use it well," she said.
Dont break it every time youre bored, like Ohjin does. If you break it, itll cost at least a few million to repair.
"I''ll put it in the cab and not touch it!" Wouldnt it be meaningless to spend so much on the relic if she never used it?
"Come visit me again if you have anything else you need! Oh, you cane even if you don''t!" Sihoo said.
"Hehe. I''ll buy you something delicious."
"Thanks!" Ha-eun stroked Sihoo''s head as if she were proud.
Sihooughed as if he was in a good mood.
"I''m leaving~!" Leaving theb behind, Ohjin and Ha-eun headed straight home. Theyd already waited a week for the relic to bepleted, so they no longer had time to procrastinate. A Cologrande helicopter was already waiting for them on the roofsnding pad.
-Dudududud!
Isabe, dressed infortable clothes instead of her favorite dress, approached Ohjin and Ha-eun. "Did you get the relic?"
"Yeah. I tested it once, and it was amazing." Ha-eun smiled and raised the ck leather gloves she wore on her hands.
"That''s a relief. Oh, by the way. Everyone, please take one of these." Isabe offered a bag the size of a palm to Ha-eun and Ohjin.
When they looked inside, they saw several amulets withplex patterns on them. "Are these relics effective against curses?"
"Yes, that''s right," Isabe confirmed. Isabe had also been preparing over the week of waiting by traveling the world and finding relics that worked well against curses. "First of all, I prepared something for Riak and Vega," she said.
"Tell me when they arriveter," Ohjin said. He intended to call Vega and Riak when they got closer to the nest to make things as simple as possible. Carrying the bag in his arms, Ohjin looked at Isabe. "Thank you for following through with my excessive demand."
From Ha-eun''s equipment to talismans that were effective against curses Though Isabe never mentioned it, it was clear that everything cost an astronomical amount. No matter how much wealth the Cgrande family had, nobody could spend millions lightly.
"Haha. I can spend as much as I want on you." Isabeughed as if nothing was wrong. She was rich, sweet, good at cooking, and even devoted.
Didn''t I destroy the world in my previous life? Ohjinughed at Isabe''s kindness. "If we get the Thousand Curse Dragon this time, I''ll leave all of the starstones and the body to the Cgrande family."
A monster as big as the Thousand Curse Dragon would easily earn at least 7.5 million dors if the remains of the body and starstones were sold. Of course, even if you put that all together, it would be less than half of the amount Isabe spent, but they couldnt just receive, could they?
"Hmph. I''d rather go on a date with Ohjin." Isabe gave an alluring smile, sticking out her pale pink tongue and licking her lipsit looked like she was peering at a delicious dinner.
"Thats" Ohjin swallowed saliva and avoided her gaze.
Dont act like theres just the two of you when the girlfriend is right here, Ha-eun said with a pout as she moved toward the helicopter. "Let''s get going."
"Yes," Ohjin replied.
"Yes, Ha-eun," Isabe said as all three of them got into the helicopter.
"Well, then" Ha-eun, who put out her cigar on a portable ashtray, stretched her arm northward. "Let''s go!"
North!
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They soon arrived in Pyongyang, the city where Barbatos the Thousand Curse Dragon had been photographed, by helicopter. "Drop us off somewhere around here."
"Ugh No matter how much I look at it, I cant get used to this ce." After getting off the helicopter, Ha-eun clicked her tongue and looked around at the ruined city. Pyongyang, formerly the capital of North Korea, was an uninhabited ghost town after being destroyed by the Thousand Curse Dragon and the monsters six years prior.
Seoul wouldve been in a simr state if it werent for the sacrifices of Ha-eun and other Awakeners.
"Vega" The first thing Ohjin did when they arrived was call Vega by channeling mana into his pendant, bringing out the celestial and Riak in a sh of silver light.
Is this where the nest of the magical Thousand Curse Dragon is? Vega asked.
"Yes."
"Grrrrrr. I cant smell anything, but where is the nest? Riak sniffed and looked aroundthere was no ce for a dragon to hide itself amidst the stumps of ruined buildings.
"Here and down." Ohjin pointed to the cracked concrete ground, which looked to have taken arge impact from something falling on it.
"Under the ground The subway?"
"That''s right," he confirmed. ording to Shinhyuk''s memories, the Thousand Curse Dragon''s nest was located near an underground railway deep beneath Pyongyang.
Pyongyang''s underground railway goes down to a depth of 100 meters for wartime air defense purposes. It was just deep enough to hide the dragons enormous size, and it was made of very sturdy materials thanks to its original purpose. If anything, it was almost ideal.
"It seems like a niceir but Valha couldn''t find it when it was in such an obvious ce?" Ha-eun asked. Valha, which had been searching for where the dragon was, shouldve thought of the subway. Dragon-type monsters liked to build nests in caves and steep canyons, after all, and Valha had also thought of that.
"Even though they thought about the subway, it would have been hard to get to the station," Ohjin said as he narrowed his eyes. The Thousand Curse Dragons nest is located at a station not on the normal route, after all.
In the past, North Korea had a secret station that normal people werent allowed ess to, and the Thousand Curse Dragon''s nest was in that hidden station, which didnt even have a name. It would have been extremely difficult for the members of Valha to find the station since they didnt work for the National Intelligence Service.
Lee Shinhyuk only managed to find it while going around all kinds of railways in personter, Ohjin thought. The Thousand Curse Dragon''sir could not even be essed in a normal way.
"Should we go down to the station first?" Ha-eun asked.
"No." Ohjin shook his head. "There''s no reason to fight in its home." The Thousand Curse Dragon was a monster who could, as its name implied, cast a thousand cursesthere were probably a lot of curses around itsir. Looking back on Shinhyuk''s memories, Ohjin saw that he had a tremendously hard time getting into the nest
"The n is to lure the enemy to the battlefield in our favor, huh? Riak mumbled. Indeed, that''s a good idea for a rookie."
How are you going to bring the dragon out? Vega asked, flying into the sky and sitting on Ohjin''s head. It was not easy to bring out a monster hiding deep underground.
"That''s"
"Oh! I got it!" Before Ohjin answered, Ha-eun pped her hands and smirked. "Couldnt I start a fire?" There was nothing like a fire to bring out the enemy forces hiding in their fortress.
"That wont be enough," Ohjin said.
"Not enough?"
"Smoke rises, remember?" It wouldnt work for smoking out a dragon that was deep underground.
"If I go down and set the fire myself" she tried to argue
"As soon as you go down, you will be detected by the Thousand Curse Dragon," Ohjin exined. The dragon was not a monster that only moved on instinct. As expected of a named monster, the dragon was just as, if not more, intelligent than a human. If it had built air underground, of course, it would have prepared.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"If a fire doesn''t work, you can use water."
"Water?" Ha-eun tilted her head.
"There''s a sewage system down there as well," Ohjin said. Shinhyuk had thoroughly investigated the entire Pyongyang area to find the Thousand Curse Dragon''sir, and since Ohjin had the mans memories, he also knew where the sewer system flowed.
"If we redirect the sewage and let the water flood the subway, itll have no choice but to crawl out."
"Is that possible?" Ha-eun asked, narrowing her eyes. Clearly, nning to flood their didn''t make sense to her.
"Well, I''m a little skeptical, too." Isabe also frowned and shook her head. "Even if you redirect the sewage, you won''t be able to flood the entire station." The water would go up to the ankle at most. It was impossible for the subway to flood unless it rained a rivers-worth of water.
"Huh? I never said I would flood the station," Ohjin said.
"What?"
"I told you, all we have to do is ''direct'' the water toward their."
"Then why would that make ite out? Isabe asked. There was no reason for the Thousand Curse Dragon to run out of itsir when the water wasnt drowning it out. It may be ufortable for people to be submerged to their ankles, but considering the size of the dragon, that much water would be like a minor spill.
"No, it wille out," Ohjin said with full confidence. If the Thousand Curse Dragon had the same sort of intelligence as humans, then it wouldnt befortable. "When do you think the sewage treatment facility here broke?"
"What?"
The Thousand Curse Dragon destroyed the city lets see, it was roughly six years ago. There was more than just water in the sewage system "That means the water is mixed with filth that has been stagnant for six years."
Ha-eun and Isabe seemed to realize something.
"So" Ha-eun put a hand on her forehead as if she were dumbfounded. "You want to pour six years of poop water into that bastardsir?"
That wasnt the magic n they were expecting.