Terrestrial Savior Archetype - T.S.A Chapter 18 (Part 1): The Price of Power (2)

“Jeong-woo, sir…?”

Sun-woong’s voice trembled as he looked at the fountain pen in fear, and Jeong-woo turned around to face him.

“…..”

There was no trace of compassion in his eyes.

Yet, Sun-woong could sense that this man intended to eliminate all the members of the Neighborhood Watch.

It was an instinct.

Finally, Jeong-woo moved his lips.

“From now on, this will be the way.”

This way…

Sun-woong understood what he meant.

Today morning, Jeong-woo was finally giving an answer to the question Sun-woong had asked him on the road.

“I’m not blaming you, Jeong-woo. I was just curious if things would continue like this in the future.”

At that time, when Jeong-woo subdued the man who was beeping exaggeratedly in the traffic, Sun-woong was so shocked that he couldn’t say a word.

Until then, Jeong-woo seemed equally confused and remained silent…

‘So, this is Jeong-woo’s conclusion.’

Sun-woong sighed inwardly.

The group of Neighborhood Watch members, with swords at their waists, had approached about 30 meters in front of them.

There were eleven of them in total.

It seemed like they had brought all the manpower available.

As seen earlier near the gate, the wave of Jeong-woo’s essences could engulf anything within an 8-meter range.

Of course, that was before he received a large amount of essences from the cats.

‘Ah…’

Sun-woong’s thoughts reached this point, and his expression hardened.

Perhaps they had already fallen under Park Jeong-woo’s control.

However, an unexpected variable emerged.

“Oh, Park Jeong-woo!”

One of the Neighborhood Watch members climbing up the slope recognized Jeong-woo and waved at him.

It was Yang Junho, the leader of the Neighborhood Watch 2nd Team, whom they had met when they first arrived at Haengun-dong.

Sun-woong quickly checked Jeong-woo’s reaction.

The weapon known as the “Essence” couldn’t be used unless the person genuinely desired to use it.

Just like Sun-woong couldn’t use his essence on the fallen men whom he didn’t genuinely want to harm.

Even if Jeong-woo had made a “conclusion,” could he really use essence against normal people?

Sun-woong didn’t think so.

“Those people will all die if they come up here. We should talk to the team leader and leave together…”

As Sun-woong calmly continued speaking, his words dissipated like smoke.

It was because the opponents made their move before he could finish.

“Jeong-woo, sir!”

Sun-woong shouted his colleague’s name.

Jeong-woo was crossing the steep descent at an incredible speed.

Both Sun-woong and the members of the Neighborhood Watch sensed that something had gone wrong with him.

“Hey, stop!”

One of the Neighborhood Watch members raised his restraining baton and shouted, but Jeong-woo had no intention of stopping.

Surprisingly, essence had been bubbling inside him since a while ago.

His head and chest had reached a consensus.

In an instant, the distance between him and the Neighborhood Watch members was reduced to 20 meters.

He now had a total of 1,421 units of essences.

He had never possessed this much essences before.

So it felt like the resources available for combat had increased infinitely.

Until just now, he had been using 128 units of essences.

Now suddenly, he had over ten times that amount.

‘How should I distribute this? Can I use it all for an attack?’

As Jeong-woo collected essences on his fountain pen as he had done before, he felt the heat shifting towards his core.

At the same time, a powerful pressure engulfed his right arm and the fountain pen.

However, warmth still remained in his body.

Or more precisely, essences remained.

‘With this much, I could probably attack while keeping up a defensive barrier.’

Consciously, Jeong-woo directed the pressure of his right arm to remain and spread the remaining essences across his entire body.

In response, an intangible “shield” enveloped his body.

Despite having used most of his resources for an attack, the shield now surrounding him seemed much stronger than when he fought the Cleaners.

Then, in that state, he swung his fountain pen.

Toward the Neighborhood Watch members in the distance.

They couldn’t believe it, even in their final moments.

They had thought that way when they saw Jeong-woo swinging his arm, yet they didn’t even try to retaliate.

Perhaps they were too far away to retaliate anyway.

Hwaaack!

The fine tip of the fountain pen sliced through the air.

From the point where he stopped swinging, an enormous pressure erupted.

At the same time, Jeong-woo let out a cry.

“Huah!”

As always, a wave of essences in the form of an inverted cone shot out from the pen.

Only this time, its color was a faint, pale blue.

More importantly, the two Neighborhood Watch members at the forefront were swept away by the tip of the wave and disappeared.

This was proof that Jeong-woo had released essences in a sphere with a diameter close to 20 meters.

“Ah…”

Sun-woong, who had been watching the scene from behind, couldn’t say a word.

He had no knowledge of the ranking system or the competition among the saviors.

Even so, he could understand this much clearly.

‘This is terrible. It’s a disaster.’

If Jeong-woo had resolved to collect essences even if it meant hurting people, then everywhere he went from now on would become a sea of blood.

“……!”

Finally, Sun-woong realized.

Why he had listed the temple and Gangnam as their next destinations.

Amidst this situation, the nine Neighborhood Watch members who survived Jeong-woo’s initial attack were in a panic.

“Ack!”

“Hyung-gi…?”

In the blink of an eye, their two comrades had been “erased,” leaving only their ankles below.

One of the members who had been close friends with them screamed and collapsed to the ground, while the rest remained frozen in disbelief.

Especially Yang Junho, the leader of Neighborhood Watch 2nd Team, who had greeted Jeong-woo first, stared blankly.

“No, no… Why is this… What…?”

In the meantime, one of the men who quickly grasped the current situation touched his waist with his right hand.

“That crazy bastard!”

It was Kim Song-tae, a sergeant from Nakseongdae Police Station.

He had witnessed the “crazy bastard” who had just killed two of his colleagues leaping down the slope, attempting to narrow the distance between them.

Finally, it was in his hand – a .38 caliber revolver. Normally, it would hold only two rounds of rubber bullets, but ever since the incident that morning, most of the nearby police had loaded only one rubber bullet in their revolvers. The second shot would be live ammunition.

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