I Became a Disaster-Class Sorcery Genius

Raising Hell (3)

To be honest, when Lee Kang first heard from the guards that some lunatic had caused a building in the outer district to collapse, his head was filled with nothing but annoyance.

Because, in the end, it meant there was a new problem he had to deal with.

However, when Lee Kang actually arrived at the site of the incident, all that annoyance vanished.

'There's an heir.'

It was because another heir from the Ryuoh family, just like himself, was present at the scene where he had come to handle the situation.

Of course, the person wore a mask, but even so, Lee Kang knew the heir's identity.

That was because ever since he'd approached the area, his shikigami Tam, which he'd received from the family, had continued to send signals.

Telling him that there was another Tam from the same place as his.

The Tams that the family had bestowed upon the heirs were all designed to react to the presence of another Tam, so he immediately realized an heir was present.

And so, Lee Kang smiled at the thought of being able to take care of one of the heirs here.

Of course, the crazy guy who was collapsing the building alone was also here, but Lee Kang wasn't too concerned about that.

At this point, he had already brought all the sorcerers who had been idling at the administration office, and as a precaution, he'd even requested separate reinforcements from Twisted Evil.

'Even if he turns out to be stronger than expected and hard to deal with, as long as I hold out, it's fine.'

Lee Kang never even considered the possibility of losing.

His shikigami Tam had already undergone two evolutions, reaching the rank of grade 2, and perhaps because he had fought far more sorcerers than mere possessed entities, his endurance was even higher than other grade 2s.

At least, it was supposed to be....

"What...!"

Lee Kang looked in disbelief at the scene unfolding before his eyes.

Tam's massive body was suspended upside down.

Next came the sight of a man in a scorpion mask gripping the enormous body.

"Huurrp!"

"!?"

As if using Tam's huge body as a weapon, the man smashed it down toward the only somewhat intact black market.

KWA-AAAAAANG!!!

With a massive explosion, the black market erupted.

The sorcerers gathered there stood with their mouths agape, unable to tear their eyes away.

But right afterward—

"Uh... uhhhh?"

When Tam's enormous body, which had just wrecked the black market, floated back into the air, all the sorcerers let out panicked cries.

"I-it's falling!"

"Run!"

As Tam plummeted from the sky again, the crowd scattered in utter panic.

And then—

KWA-AAAAANG!

Once again, Tam's massive form smashed into the area where the sorcerers were, the ground bursting apart violently.

But Kim Dojun, clutching Tam's leg, looked as if he was only just getting started.

"HUAAAAHP!"

Using centrifugal force, he began to spin.

BUUUUUNG-!

Tam's body spun with a chilling sound, as if the bones of anything it touched would be pulverized to dust, and the moment Kim Dojun let go—

KWAGAGAGAGAK-!!!

It became a massive cannonball, obliterating everything in its path.

"Hoo."

Kim Dojun, having cleared out Twisted Evil's arena, two black markets, and even the sorcerers Lee Kang had brought, looked at the far-flung Tam with a satisfied grin.

'Nice and sturdy.'

As the Sorcery Killing Technique states, Tam possesses the trait of immortality and cannot be killed.

Even if Kim Dojun beat on it as hard as he could, at this point, it wouldn't even sustain the kind of serious damage it did during the Salvation battle.

But precisely because of that, Kim Dojun could use Tam's body as a weapon, wiping out the sorcerers before they could even wield their sorcery.

'Now is Lee Kang the only one left?'

Turning his gaze to where the ground had been demolished,

He soon spotted Lee Kang, wearing a dumbfounded expression.

He was looking at Kim Dojun, seemingly unscathed as before, not crushed beneath Tam's huge body.

But Kim Dojun was not surprised by Lee Kang's state.

He only clicked his tongue as if a bit regretful.

'Intangibility, huh.'

Intangibility.

That was Lee Kang's unique sorcery technique— the moment it was cast, his body became transparent and any attack that came his way was rendered useless.

In short, it was an invincibility technique.

Kim Dojun already knew from the game that Lee Kang used this invincible move frequently.

'Our affinities really don't mesh well.'

Frankly, Kim Dojun and Lee Kang's abilities weren't a good match.

As long as Lee Kang kept using his intangibility, Kim Dojun had no means to attack him.

But that didn't mean he couldn't deal with him.

'After all, if he wants to move Tam or attack, he has to deactivate intangibility.'

Intangibility was indeed a powerful invincibility skill, but it had a flaw: in that state, the user couldn't perform any actions.

'The activation is that fast, though.'

Knowing this, Kim Dojun planned to deliberately take a few hits from Lee Kang's Tam, catch him off guard when he needed to move Tam and thus had to drop intangibility, and then finish him off in one go.

'Well, if all else fails, I still have Haram's Pen.'

Of course, since he couldn't reveal his identity just yet, Kim Dojun would rather not bring out Haram's Pen— the spiritual tool he'd used when catching the sinister evil spirit— but if things got too troublesome, he was prepared to use it and started looking for an opportunity to take Lee Kang out.

"... Just who the hell are you?"

When Lee Kang, recalling his Tam from afar and deactivating intangibility, spoke to him, Kim Dojun tried to act flustered.

But at the very moment Lee Kang called Tam back into his shadow—

KWA-DE-DE-DEUK!

"KRAAAAH!"

Suddenly, a black mouth appeared beneath Lee Kang, opening wide and beginning to bite down on him.

"?"

It happened in an instant.

Kim Dojun stared at the screaming, thrashing Lee Kang, then glanced at the black teeth biting into him and shot a look at Dan nearby.

And then, Kim Dojun—

"??"

He saw Dan, too, staring back at his own shadow with a dazed look.

And then—

CRUNCH!

Lee Kang, desperately reaching upward in a bid to survive, watched as his arm was completely swallowed by the black maw.

Ssssslurp-!

The teeth—or rather, Tam—that had devoured Lee Kang in seconds now appeared in front of Kim Dojun.

[Did I! Do well!?]

Tam asked cheerfully.

####

Right after Tam devoured Lee Kang in an instant,

Kim Dojun and Dan left the Pantheon right away.

'Today's plans are all complete.'

With Lee Kang dead and having looted a few needed items from the black market in the outer district, Kim Dojun had accomplished everything he had set out to do.

'Besides, to be honest, this wasn't even part of the plan...'

[Did I! Do well!]

Thanks to Dan's Tam, things went even better than expected.

'I honestly thought I'd have to take some hits when dealing with Lee Kang.'

Kim Dojun was prepared to take some damage in order to catch Lee Kang off guard because of his intangibility— but Tam made that unnecessary.

'And I had planned to hand Lee Kang over to Tam anyway.'

In fact, one of the two reasons Kim Dojun brought Dan along today was to give the captured heir Lee Kang— or rather, his Tam—to Dan.

All Ryuoh family heirs had a Tam, and Tams got stronger the more they consumed other Tams, or so the lore went.

Although Kim Dojun hadn't completely dealt with Lee Kang himself, Tam seized the perfect chance to strike when Lee Kang was weakest, devouring him along with Tam the very moment he tried to recall it.

The process was different, but in the end, everything worked out perfectly.

Because of that, Kim Dojun patted Tam's head, which was prancing around him, shouting "Did I! Do well!" and turned to Dan.

"Why the long face?"

Kim Dojun asked.

Dan looked at him, let out a deep sigh, and replied.

"... Isn't it obvious I'd look like this?"

"Why? Everything turned out well, didn't it? I got what I wanted, and you killed your brother and got stronger."

Kim Dojun smiled.

But Dan, making a troubled face, responded.

"... It's true I got stronger by absorbing Tam, but the problem is what comes next!"

"What comes next?"

"... We've made an enemy of Twisted Evil. You know what those bastards are like—how much trouble they are! They'll chase us to the ends of the earth...! And when they catch us...!"

Dan groaned, not wanting to even imagine it.

But Kim Dojun calmly answered, watching Dan's expression.

"Well, you've got to make a flashy debut."

"... Debut?"

"Yeah, I plan to take down Twisted Evil and become the boss—needs to be flashy, right?"

"...? What? Wait, what do you mean?"

"? A flashy debut?"

"No, not that. Did you just say boss?"

"So?"

"... What do you mean?"

"It means exactly what I said."

"... Are you saying you're going to be the boss?"

"Why would I? Of course not."

"Really? ... Whew...."

Dan let out a sigh of relief at Kim Dojun's words.

"But you're the one who has to."

"... What do you mean?"

"You have to be the boss."

"???"

Dan found himself mouth agape at the words that followed.

And even as Dan reacted in disbelief, Kim Dojun double-checked his plan in his mind and nodded.

'It really is a brilliant plan.'

A genius scheme Kim Dojun came up with while trying to figure out how to raise money.

And that was to make Dan the boss.

More specifically, it would be to overthrow 'Twisted Evil'— a future threat to Kim Dojun— and make Dan the boss of an organization to replace them.

'Either way, twisted Evil has to go.'

Having played the game, Kim Dojun knew just how much of a garbage organization Twisted Evil was.

Not just any garbage— the kind that couldn't even be sorted for recycling.

'If that was all, I wouldn't bother, but the problem is these punks side with a maglignant spirit later on.'

Knowing that, Kim Dojun was determined to wipe out Twisted Evil.

'When that happens, one of the three pillars of the Pantheon will be vacant; then, I'll create a new organization and put Dan in charge.'

If he could pull this off, Kim Dojun would reap many benefits.

First, he could preemptively prevent trash like Twisted Evil— who would later support a maglignant spirit—from rising again.

Second, Kim Dojun and Dan wouldn't have to break their backs finding the other heirs— they could simply put people to work and track them down easily.

With Dan and the now-defeated Lee Kang out of the way, there were still eight heirs to find, and doing it all personally would be exhausting.

'Plus, if the other heirs come after Dan first, recognizing him as boss, we wouldn't have to hunt them down ourselves— pretty convenient.'

And on top of that, Kim Dojun found the idea of gaining legal income(?) and some free labor(?) quite appealing.

Of course, running the organization might be more effort than expected.

'But that's the boss's job.'

And Dan, not Kim Dojun, would be handling that anyway.

For Kim Dojun, just having Dan as the boss brought plenty of benefits, so he settled on that plan.

"... But don't you think dropping that on me out of nowhere is a bit much?"

Dan seemed hesitant.

"You don't have to do it if you don't want to."

"... Honestly, I'm not sure."

"Really? Then you can refuse. But if you say no, who knows— maybe the identity of the fox mask who showed up with the scorpion mask will get publicly revealed tomorrow...?"

"...."

"Oh, of course! You don't have to do it if you really don't want to."

Kim Dojun said nonchalantly.

Dan could feel a "That's blackmail, you bastard!" rising up in his throat, but—

"... I'll do it."

After all, Dan had already been in the thick of things with Kim Dojun when Twisted Evil was wrecked, so saying no now would just be futile— and he ultimately agreed.

"Smart choice. I promise I'll get you that boss seat myself, so take today off and let's meet next week."

Dan nodded and shuffled off with heavy steps.

Watching Dan's dispirited pace, Kim Dojun recalled a sudden, obvious realization.

'Come to think of it, I never needed to gather money in the first place.'

The reason he'd been trying to raise cash was for spiritual tools.

He thought, like in the game, he'd need money to buy items.

But in reality, he had no need to do that now.

Kim Dojun wasn't in a game, but in the real world— and that meant there were easier ways to get spiritual tools than just 'buying' them.

And for free, too...!

'Since I can just beat people up and take their stuff, there's no point in saving money.'

Realizing that, the convoluted plans he'd been contemplating suddenly seemed unnecessary—and he found himself laughing.

Lazy as ever, Kim Dojun just wanted to avoid extra trouble.

'Now, I just have to take down Twisted Evil, nice and easy.'

With that, Kim Dojun's thoughts came to a close.

"All right, let's take a look at the spoils."

Unable to wipe the satisfied smile from his face, he glanced at the spirit pouch he'd brought from the black market.

####

Just then, as Kim Dojun was starting to dig through his spirit pouch,

In a small, indeterminate room within a dark cave somewhere—

"High Priest, I have brought it."

A man presented several documents to a middle-aged man seated in the room.

Receiving the documents, the middle-aged man—

Sssrrk—

Without a word, began reading them.

After some time had passed,

Having finished reviewing every page at length, the middle-aged man finally spoke.

"These are the non-believers who contacted the one destined to be our savior?"

"That's correct. The information was acquired via a spy within the Association."

The man replied smoothly.

Then—

"Arrest all of them. We cannot forgive those who dared to stand in the savior's way."

The middle-aged man—no, the High Priest of the Salvation Society—gave the order.

And so—

"Yes, sir."

"All things, for the savior."

The Salvation Society began to move.

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Soyeon will wipe the Salvation Society out.
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