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The complete conquest of the ‘smuggling cave’.
And after fending off the attack of <Villain>.
Without even a moment to rest, we hurried back to Korea.
‘The academy might also get attacked.’
It was because of the information that the academy was also attacked while we were being attacked by Cha Soo-yeon and Ji Yoon-jae.
When returning, we received a lot of help from the <Man’s Term> clan, our collaborating clan.
Shimizu Kenzo and Akiba Miyura actively helped us, and additional personnel were also assigned.
Through a special prisoner transport of criminal Holders, a total of 9 members of the <Villain> clan were transferred to Seoul, and they were transferred as-is to the Korea Holders Association.And the party members who were scattered to their respective affiliations.
I ran straight to the academy without even looking further.
In the academy, which was a mess due to the attack, there was Professor Tak Won-ho alone guarding the campus.
“Teacher…!!”
As soon as I saw him, I ran over.
Instead of the title of ‘Professor’ that I usually call him, the title of ‘Teacher’ slipped out.
Of course, his condition was beyond words.
There was a huge stab wound in his chest area, and traces of bloodstains and wounds were engraved here and there.
Not to mention the countless scratches drawn all over his upper body.
In one word, a battered body.
It was a body condition that indicated traces of intense combat.
Anger rises to the top of my head.
I was already angry that we were attacked at the ‘smuggling cave’, but when I saw that the academy was attacked and civilians around were hurt, my anger flared up.
I asked him, clenching my fist.
“What… What bastard is it. Right now…”
“Calm down.”
At that, Professor Tak Won-ho rather calmed me down in a composed tone.
He is already a senior Holder with a lot of experience and long career.
Even in this situation, he never loses his composure.
Thanks to him, I was also able to calmly settle my mind.
Seeing my teacher with a big injury I’ve never seen before, I must have gotten extremely excited without realizing it.
“What’s important is from now on. Anyway, we somehow survived.”
Professor Tak Won-ho asked me continuously with a calm face.
“Yes. Did you find all the evidence on site in Japan, and catch the Villain members who attacked?”
“…Yes. In particular, this site was Villain’s new trading place, so catching them and simultaneously dealing financial damage to the bastards will be quite significant.”
“Well done. You’ve done something really big. Thanks to you, the Villain side must be quite urgent as well.”
Creak-
At the same time as those words, the door of the professor’s office opened.
And soon, three professors walked in.
They were familiar faces.
Yoo Eun-seol, whom I haven’t seen in a while, Kim Myeong-hyun with a rather dark expression, and a professor with a face I see for the first time came in at once.
Like Professor Tak Won-ho, the last professor also had a large wound on one arm.
It seemed to be the professor who took the brunt of the attack within the academy.
“Oh…”
Seeing them, I immediately stood up and bowed my head.
Yoo Eun-seol and Professor Kim Myeong-hyun slightly raised their hands to accept my greeting.
The top brass of the academy and the current strongest at the academy in terms of combat ability.
Very rare figures gathered together.
I briefly wondered if I could be in a seat with such prestigious professors.
“I’ve heard the news.”
Yoo Eun-seol, who was the first to enter, opened her mouth.
Her complexion looked very bad.
Presumably, that’s because she saw the victims of the academy with her own eyes on her way here.
Although Yoo Eun-seol has an image of being cold and stiff outwardly, she actually has a warm heart.
She must have had quite a lot of affection for the students she has taught so far and me, even though she hasn’t shown it outwardly until now.
And at the moment when she was away on an external business trip, many were killed and injured in the attack.
In the original work, she also harbored hatred against <Villain> due to the ‘Academy Attack Operation’, and now that she directly became an instructor…
That emotion was bound to become more intense.
“It happened right when I was away.”
At those words, Professor Tak Won-ho slightly bowed his head.
“I’m sorry. It was clearly an operational failure of the management. It seems… Spies have infiltrated quite deep within the academy. Seeing how the bastards rushed in when Instructor Yoo Eun-seol was out on a business trip, it must be so.”
There are <Villain> spies within the academy.
And this is not just about students.
Clearly, there were also spies hiding among the management and professors.
At the end of 1st semester, the absurd weakness and negligence of the inspectors in Ha Do-kwon’s attempted murder case.
At the beginning of 2nd semester, the Kim Do-yoon assault case, where strangely the three of us, me, Moon Ga-eun and Kim Do-yoon became a team.
And in various other incidents involving <Villain>…
Many suspicious points could be discovered.
That means there are definitely spies on the management side as well.
This was also information that did not come out clearly in the original work.
The reason why I enthusiastically investigated during this Japan exploration was also to properly detect such hidden spies.
“Although late, I will actively participate in the academy’s future plans. I cannot just stand by and watch this social evil that so mercilessly deals with innocent students and ordinary people.”
Yoo Eun-seol declared.
Yoo Eun-seol’s hatred toward <Villain>.
That emotion rolled like a snowball and became the catalyst for her to make an unexpected decision.
The academy had no particular justification to include her as a combat personnel since she was simply recruited as an instructor, but it was as satisfactory as it could get that she voluntarily came out like this.
Professor Tak Won-ho nodded and turned his eyes.
“Professor Kang. May I ask for an explanation?”
“Yes.”
It was the professor with the face I saw for the first time among the three professors who entered the professor’s office.
“I am a former full-time professor of the special division, Kang Dong-wook.”
Ah.
At that name, my head flashed for a moment.
Kang Dong-wook.
I definitely had a memory of hearing that name before.
Although an insignificant character without much presence in the original work, after coming here myself I heard that he was quite an influential academy professor.
He is one of the most prominent authorities with the best performance in the summoning (taming) division, and is also a celebrity receiving focused interest from academia.
In particular, Kim Chae-eun, who is quite interested in such famous Holders, I think I’ve heard about him a few times through her as well.
“As you all must have heard, this incident involved a large-scale attack by Villain Clan’s submaster Hwang Seong-yeon and many other Villain clan members. And from what I additionally heard, it was also a simultaneous attack on our academy students dispatched to Japan.”
Professor Kang Dong-wook put a report and a phone on the desk.
And he played a video.
In the video, there was a mysterious crystal-like item giving off a hazy green light.
“What you’re seeing now is an item called the Order of Harmony. It’s a special academy-owned item that has been secretly buried externally, evaluated by related disciplines as having tremendous potential value.”
[Order of Harmony].
It was an item name I had never heard before.
Considering Professor Kang Dong-wook’s discipline and position, it seemed to be a special item specialized for the summoning discipline.
“What the Villain aimed for in this attack operation was this item. Despite taking on extremely high risk factors, they infiltrated the academy and managed to steal this item.”
Professor Kang Dong-wook calmly continued.
“The potential value that the Order of Harmony possesses is enormous. Even I, a professional researcher, have not been able to draw out its inherent capabilities, it’s a legendary-grade item with countless unknown abilities still sealed.”
Sometimes a lot of effort is needed to unleash the true power of certain items.
Just for the [Forgotten Stone of a Dragon] that I had, it took considerable time and magic stones to unlock its seal.
The [Order of Harmony] item I just learned about also seemed to have such sealing properties.
“I don’t know how much the Villain Clan will be able to utilize this item, or to what extent they will be able to unleash its power. After all, even our research team hasn’t figured out its real power yet.”
The look in Professor Kang Dong-wook’s eyes darkened as he uttered his last words.
“Just that we don’t know what will happen when that power is fully unleashed.”
Ordinary people’s attack controlling monsters.
Such a disaster could happen at any moment.
Professor Kang Dong-wook assumed the worst case scenario.
“That’s why we need to assemble our forces as soon as possible and reclaim this item from the Villain.”
“How so?” Yoo Eun-seol asked.
It’s easy to say.
Get back the stolen item and take revenge on the <Villain>.
If only it was possible, it would have been a plan that was implemented long before now.
But no one knows the whereabouts of the <Villain>’s base.
As they are composed in a cell-type organization, even the low-ranking clan members don’t know their base…
The clan leaders move their residence using various illegal items.
Unable to locate the exact position, neither the Association nor each clan has been able to launch an annihilation operation so far.
However, Professor Kang Dong-wook’s expression seemed confident.
“It’s through this guy.”
Professor Kang Dong-wook spread his hand.
Seeing that, I cocked my head.
‘What is this guy?’
Because at first glance, there was nothing in that hand.
But when looking closely, I saw something.
Professor Kang Dong-wook slowly held out his hand.
On it, I spotted something very tiny, like a speck.
If you don’t look very closely, it’s something that is completely invisible.
“This thing is a bug called an F-grade monster, a special small-sized monster that can only be found in insect nesting dungeons.”
F-grade monster. Bug.
It was a monster name I had never hunted or heard of before.
Professor Kang Dong-wook talked as he looked around at the monster I was seeing for the first time.
“As you can see, this monster is so small that it’s hard to discern its shape with the naked eye, and it has no magic in its body, making it difficult to detect even with magic sensing.”
That alone proved why the gathered professors and I were unaware of its existence here.
Well, it may be an advantage since it has almost no lethal power, but still.
“In anticipation of such a situation, I had attached a trained bug to the Order of Harmony item at all times. I suppose even Hwang Seong-yeon from the Villain who took the item didn’t notice this part.”
Upon hearing that, I roughly understood why Professor Kang Dong-wook was bringing up this random story.
Not just that the item was simply taken away, but that some special device was installed.
It seemed like he wanted to appeal that point…
In fact, that explanation alone was insufficient.
“What great significance is there in it having no magic? There’s no way to convey the location anyway.”
Having no magic makes it difficult to find.
In other words, it means there is no way for us to locate it either.
The same goes even if it’s a trained monster.
[Summoning] tamed monsters is one of the combat methods of common tamed monster art Holders, but that doesn’t mean they can identify the current location of the tamed monster.
Monster taming is only achieved through a kind of contract and high intimacy, not an affiliation.
However, Professor Kang Dong-wook shook his head at my question.
“There is a way. Instead of combat power, they have some characteristics unique only to themselves. That’s why, for bugs…”
“Characteristics?”
Professor Kang Dong-wook slowly answered me.
“Yes. Bugs are small and weak, but there are many of them and communication with their kind is active. Therefore, despite having no magic, through special signals, they can still let their kind figure out direction and location.”
“Ah…!!”
When that explanation came out.
Everyone gathered in the professor’s office was amazed.
Only then did everyone realize what Professor Kang Dong-wook was trying to say, what it meant.
“That is, through this bug attached to the Order of Harmony item… We plan to locate the Villain’s base.”
At first glance, the monster seems completely useless.
But by taming it, he had planted a spy to identify the <Villain>’s location.
It was…
A kind of biological GPS made through monster taming.
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