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They used to call Cheong Jeong the Little Devil of the Investigation Bureau. The ones below ground whispered it with equal parts awe and disgust. After all, it was a title far too grand for a newly minted assistant manager. Cheong Jeong rose less by talent than by ambition and the cunning use of his superiors’ weaknesses.
Unbeknownst to them, among them had risen a human more cunning and merciless than any devil.
“What the hell are you trying to do?!” Cheong Jeong asked nervously.
“Can’t you tell just by looking?” Eun-Ho replied flatly.
Thud! Thud! Thuuud!
The stench of rot filled the black desert. The sand, dark as ash, churned into a swamp of filth, while monstrous tentacles stabbed into it like bridges of flesh.
“I-I’m gonna die if I get hit by that!”
“Oh? So you didn’t know that before? You didn’t seem to notice when you were binding my legs.”
Cheong Jeong struggled, his face and hands barely above the surface. “T-that was—j-just let me out first! Hurry!”
Sssssh—
Between them, a river of sand flowed, the line where the Death Swamp began and ended.
In that rank darkness, Eun-Ho lifted his blade amid the stench and turmoil. “Sword Force.”
Fwooosh—!
His intent alone seemed to rend the air. A weight so suffocating it crushed the breath. A killing aura so keen it made the soul itself shudder. Terror crawled up Cheong Jeong’s throat; the taste of sand,...
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