Chapter 12

Chapter 12

The Pavoni family could not be said to be skilled in combat. Even when firing at the large shields, less than half of their shots hit.

‘Is it a bad shot or a faulty firearm. Or is it both?

In fact, Kim himself wasn’t a good enough shot to put others down.

K2 [Ivory] is a pistol. I didn’t even know how to grip it correctly.

But the gun’s performance was overwhelming.

“Basic attack hit rate increased by 20%. I didn’t realize this would be so helpful.

The ‘hit rate’ option in Polaris is pretty useless. Because a typical enemy has a 0 dodge rate.

All attacks are guaranteed to hit. It’s a game of attack and defense.

“It’s not completely pointless.

Sometimes enemies with evasion gimmicks come up, and even then I don’t pull out [Ivory]. She doesn’t have any other abilities and her modifiers are low.

‘The riot shields are also ambiguous.

A shield that is comparable to 4-star equipment in terms of ‘physical defense’. However, it has no special abilities and zero damage modifier.

If you’re thinking, “Why not give it to a weaker dealer?” Well, this is another one.

Polaris has a class concept, so you can’t use a shield unless you’re a tank. You can’t give a swordsman a gun to ranged attack.

“In the game, it was.

The difference in degrees of freedom between game and real life. Given this, [Craft Special Weapons] was a more deceptive skill than I thought.

Pavabak!

The bullets from the mafia hit the wall. It was a chilling sound. Kim continued to retreat with his shield raised.

“What are you doing, keep shooting!”

Poof, boom!

There are 10 people left.

Three of them are fumbling with their rifles, as if they hadn’t already loaded them. Pavoni is yelling at them.

As expected, they were mismatched. Despite the openings, Kim didn’t try to force the issue.

There are many opponents. Don’t be overzealous and don’t let your guard down.

If one of them gets hurt while processing, it’s a loss. A little damage can lead to the death of a dog.

“Let’s take it one step at a time.

The door to the warehouse was still half torn off. Kim backpedaled outside, then backed up against the wall to prepare for the chase.

“That bastard!”

Two men. They had a lot of blood in their veins.

Bam!

A bullet lodged in the forehead of the man who came out after Kim. The man’s body slumped over, blocking my colleague’s path.

“Help, help…….”

The trigger was pulled again. The mafioso fell to the ground, his body draped over the windpipe.

Kim fired two more shots. He couldn’t afford to make a last ditch effort to shoot.

The mafia’s shallow, rapid breathing stopped.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, please.”

The recoil in my hand reminded me that I had just shot a man.

Damn, the Polaris world has had its fair share of vomit-inducing events.

This time I held it in. You can’t die throwing up. Thinking soberly.

The door to the warehouse is not very big. The corpses were perfect for obstacles.

“Hey, get a grip. Don’t go separate ways, stick together!”

Pavoni’s voice was shaky as he berated his subordinate.

I must be losing my mind. Apparently, the other person was not as calm as he was.

Kim dropped his riot shield to the ground. A new device appeared in his free left hand.

Something that looked like a grenade no matter how you looked at it. I pulled out the pin and tossed it into the shed.

All eyes were on the flying circular object.

“That’s crazy…!”

Pavoni dropped Asterike’s sword and dragged his men with him by force. The two larger men made a good wall.

Followed by.

Poof.

A rather loud explosion for a grenade.

Pavoni cautiously opened his eyes, which I had secretly closed as well. There was no sign of the destruction I had imagined.

It was just a bunch of mud.

“Hey, what’s this.”

2-star Special Weapon [Clay Bomb].

Can be used once per battle, reducing the armor of enemies hit by 5% for 10 seconds.

Unlike [Sticky Brush], you can’t stack them. It’s really a two-star ambiguity. It’s only used to deal extreme damage with a weak hand.

It’s a great way to grab attention.

Ta-da!

By the time Pavoni realized he had been tricked, the muzzle of the gun was already spewing fire. The bullet pierced his subordinate’s side.

It wasn’t just one person – all three bullets hit.

Two of the men somehow managed to make it to safety, but each suffered gunshot wounds to the arm and hand.

‘Shit. How many people were hit?

Pavoni quickly calculated the damage. Two for the ambush. Two for being chased like an idiot and getting caught in the crossfire. Three for the prank. We’re already halfway there.

“Any more than that is dangerous.

Assuming it survives, that’s a problem.

The Pavoni family has about 30 members. If we get any smaller than that, there’s a good chance that other organizations will sink their teeth into us.

Just when I thought I had to do something, I had an idea. The corners of Pavoni’s mouth turned up.

“Let’s do it in moderation, okay?”

Pavoni drew his pistol from his hip. Keeping his head fixed in the direction of the doorway, he pointed the gun behind him.

The muzzle was pointed squarely at Asterike.

“I know who you are, you’re the new immigrant kid who just got over here. I heard rumors of you running around outside the safe zone with food barrels, and I thought you had another stray cat.”

Pavoni chuckled. A little ease was returning to his demeanor.

“By the way, do you fuck that Pekatum bitch? She’s a total asshole, all right. Or have we always known each other?”

It was like spitting in my face. Pavoni was trying to recruit Asterique into his organization.

But Kim didn’t argue. He peeked into the back of the warehouse and cleared his throat.

“This is harder than I thought.

It was extremely draining beyond activity. This was a reaction to crafting three 2-star gear in a row.

“But it’ll be over soon.

Kim removed [Ivory] from his hand. She only picked up her suppression shield again, just in case.

In our judgment, there was no need to take out more weapons.

“Crazy guy. Novel way to kill yourself.”

How dare he take Ast hostage. I wanted to clap her on the back, because ignorance is bravery.

How could he possibly know Ast’s power? Ast should have been Pavoni’s puppet all along.

That is, if it’s on schedule. He was pretty irritated by the state of affairs.

“……I think I know what you’re talking about now.”

Asterike muttered to herself.

“I shouldn’t have put up with it. To the asshole, I should have been an asshole.”

“Huh?”

“I’ve got nothing, I’ve got nothing to give, and the only people I care about are people who don’t care, so I’ll just have to put up with it.”

“What are you talking about? These are pairs…….”

I couldn’t finish my sentence.

Pavoni’s head snapped back and his mouth dropped open. His pupils fluttered wildly, like an earthquake.

-Chapter.

For some time now, fire had been raging at Asterike’s feet, a torrent of blood-red flames swirling around her.

“Ugh!”

Pavoni lost his grip on the gun. The heat had traveled up the barrel and into his hand.

He backed away from the panting Asterike. An ominous hunch ran up his spine and slapped at his brain.

“Fuck it, just kill the bitch!”

He crumpled up his plans for a hit man and tossed them in the trash. When the call went out, the mafia opened fire.

The bullet didn’t hit.

The flames melted them all away before they could reach Asterike. Golden eyes glowed in the flames.

“Now, wait a minute. I didn’t expect this……!”

Kaaaaaah!

A winding Chapter of flame engulfed Pavoni. There was no time to scream. His vocal cords burned before the sound could escape his throat.

The shadows swallowed by the fire grew smaller and smaller, until they were no longer visible. It was enough to make the mafia lose their nerve.

Run, help me.

The words on the tablet were the last words. The mobsters who tried to flee were engulfed in flames, too afraid to turn their backs.

No bodies were left intact. A blinding heat filled the warehouse. Fireballs dripped like blood.

“Shit. We didn’t talk about this.”

The last man standing was the ass-kicker. Ironically, he was the one who had first gotten involved with Asterique.

The man she saved from the monsters. The young man who lent her the magic sword.

There was no second mercy. Only ashes were left where the flames had swept.

It happened in a matter of hours. As she watched, Kim swallowed hard.

“I don’t even think that’s cruel.

The Pavoni family is now half broken. They’ve lost a lot of their power, including the boss, so they won’t be able to strut around like they used to.

It was no one else’s business.

“What am I going to do with that, anyway?”

Even when the enemy was consumed, the fire did not die down. Asterike stood in the center of the raging flames, breathing heavily.

“It’s out of control.

Asterisk. Ast for short.

A 6-Star Agent that’s great for both skirmishes and boss fights. One of the more common human rights characters.

His DPS, especially in skill 2, is in the top five of all playable characters.

“The problem is that it’s uncomfortable to write.

Chapter 2 Skill [Bloodfire]. A 30 second buff that changes your normal attacks to deal magic damage over a large area.

The offense buffs are outrageous. However, there is a penalty.

“There’s a lot of trolling.

After activating [Blood Chapter], Ast blasts even his allies.

You can’t break it manually, and you’re incapacitated at the end of the skill with 0 armor.

This setting says that the spell is too powerful to be moderated.

There’s also a story of a spell that burned down a house and family, and he hasn’t used spells since.

“So, after a few years of being used, they finally had enough and spelled it out, and the Pavoni family was destroyed.

Ast then meets with the professor and is given a spell suppressor when she joins the lab. That is the employment contract between her and Cellbrossix Labs.

The process up to that point is bumped to ‘pluck’.

“It’s not really something that an inhibitor would solve.

It just makes it possible to spell with lower power. It’s a one-skill trigger. The trade-off is a lot less versatility.

When it gets dangerous, he takes off his inhibitors and powers up, which is his secondary skill, Bloodlust.

He goes on a rampage every time he uses 2 skills, so to speak. A typical berserker-type dealer.

At least in games you can just use a skill and let them die, but in real life it’s not so easy.

“Is the duration different from games?

The spell is still there, even though 30 seconds has already passed. It’s bad enough that you’re stretched out after a 30-second spell.

“I won’t be able to use skill 2 for a while.

There is a weapon in the setup that compensates for Ast’s weaknesses… but we can’t make it right now. For now, we’re stuck with suppressors.

In any case, I could see the potential. There is such a thing as fraudulent “talent,” and this was a talent that would shine depending on whether or not Kim developed.

“Let’s leave it alone for now until it calms down.

Ast’s spells do not harm her. If she were to burn herself, Ast would have died at the time of her initial rampage.

“How long will it take.”

Kim stepped back a good distance and sat down on the ground, the walls of the warehouse now melted away, and Asterique could be seen from outside.

He watched for a moment, then turned his head away, his clothes burned and unmanly.

“…… I’ll have to get you some clothes first.”

The reality was that there were a lot of inconveniences.

* * *

After about 10 minutes, Asterike was exhausted and passed out. By the time the flames died down, the neighborhood was in ruins.

Kim took off her jacket and put it on top of Asterique’s, then pondered. She wasn’t sure what to do right now.

“I don’t know if I can take him as he is.”

Where to go in the first place.

There’s a good chance that someone was watching the commotion. The information will reach Ulanz sooner or later.

“They’ll make a move as early as tomorrow.

The remaining members of the Pavoni family, as well as other factions, will not stand idly by. The balance could be tipped and a rebellion could begin.

I don’t want to be associated with that much.

‘Let’s say I wander outside the safe zone. Where was the closest neighborhood to here…….’

You don’t want to knock Asterike out cold to wake her up. I needed time to think.

I’d been racking my brain for a while.

“Huh?”

You hear the exhaust of a car somewhere. It was getting closer. Kim crouched low and followed the direction of the sound with his eyes.

A beat-up pickup truck was racing toward you. The sun had fallen, so I couldn’t see the cab.

Soon a car stopped nearby, and a man with a cigarette stuck his head out the window.

“You guys, what the hell did you do!”

It was a familiar face.

“For your information, what are you doing here? The request is closed.”

“Finish is bullshit. I told you, cut the crap. You’re ruining my life!”

“What are you talking about?”

“What do you think this is? I advised you to stay out of trouble, but you shot and killed the Paboni family and set that Pekatum lady on fire. What do you think this is?”

“Where were you looking?”

“Does that matter right now!”

He kept yelling at me, and I was frantic. When Kim Yi-hyun tried to use his impressions, Roscoe became frustrated and spat at him.

“Don’t you get it yet? That means my head is in great danger for selling you information, because the Pavoni family, the Red Guns, the Svedeniye, and all the other stellar bastards are going to come after me!”

“……ah.”

I suddenly understood Roscoe’s situation.

It was a realistic enough story. In fact, it was Rothko who was most closely connected to Kim in Ulanz.

Roscoe can take two actions here. Sell Kim and Asterique, or.

“So you want me to be responsible?”

“Yes, you son of a bitch!”

Running away together.

“I packed up as soon as it happened, so there won’t be any chasing me, and I’d better get out of here before I become a nuisance, so get in!”

He was a fast man for sure.