Chapter 172: Jaehwang Reveals Himself

#1

“We came here to sort things out. It should be easy to get everything we need through hacking.” The soldier on the driver’s seat said as he passed a big tablet to Jaehwang.

“Hm…” Jaehwang took the tablet and thoroughly checked all of its information. Their plan was all set up and they were ready to go. Everything was planned out so that they would be able to handle any inconvenience without that much trouble. Especially because everything had already been turned inside out.

“Everything looks good.”

“Thanks. Now we should be ready to get started.”

“Good,” Jaehwang said, shaking his head in satisfaction.

“Okay, let’s get going.”

“We’ll start first thing tomorrow morning, it’ll be perfect.”

“Sounds good. I’ll review the places where we have to go. However, I don’t know how freely we’ll be able to get going tomorrow.” Jaehwang said and the soldier in the passenger seat nodded his head. It seems that there would be a lot in store for tomorrow and they had to keep a lookout for surveillance.

“Got it but there’s a lot of things that we can expect. It could also take longer than we thought.”

“That’s fine.”

“Okay, let’s begin,” he said, speeding up the bus so start their long drive from sunrise to sunset.

***

Derek prepared to enter a tranquil lake in the area.

“I did prepare for a safe arrival but now, there’s no need for that. We’ll just continue on as we please.”

“Okay.”

They were near a villa and they could also see a mansion just a few feet away. It was located deep within the middle of the woods. Things didn’t seem to be what he had expected.

“But isn’t this too expensive? It looks like we’ll need a lot of time to set everything up…” Jaehwang said as he looked around in surprise.

There were people casually walking around the neighborhood. It seems that they wouldn’t be able to get their plan started since this place looks like it was filled with people that were discharged from the military. There was about 140 military personnel that were scattered around them and there could be someone strong among them. Jaehwang knew that they had to be careful.

However, after looking at all of the nuances for a moment, he felt like he was able to understand them. Of course, that didn’t mean he liked them but it made things simpler. He knew that he didn’t have to worry about them. “Alright, this shouldn’t be too hard.”

“Good. We’ll get started first thing tomorrow.”

“Alright.”

#2

That night, they found a place for them to park the military bus and relax. After alerting the team of all the information that they knew so far, they got back up and moved on. It was a special American and Korean relationship that kept the information hidden.

“How’s everything going?”

“Just as planned.” The soldier replied.

It wasn’t anything too difficult and they were moving pretty fast. All they had to do was to finish things up and then disappear without leaving any tracks behind. Would they be able to do it? The tracks that they gathered weren’t that bad but they almost got themselves in trouble.

“Why didn’t you tell me before we came all this way?!”

“I didn’t know either. Now after we finish this, we’re going to have to get moving right away.”

“Look at this. Does it look like we’ll be able to get out of here? It looks like they’re ready to chase us down at the moment we do something.”

“Ugh, how could this have happened all of a sudden….”

He was 24 years old and was known as a very popular hunter. Of course, people would be on the hunt for him. After that, they weren’t sure about what to do next. His only guess was that it could have been someone in the military bus that secretly gave out his whereabouts. But, that didn’t add up either as they had only just met so there was no way someone could have ratted him out that quickly.

His skills would be reduced if his information were to be revealed. If they knew about all of his skills and the details on them, Jaehwang would have to change the plan completely. They had to be very careful.

“We’ll be able to go over everything eventually,” he said, looking at all of the security equipment in the room…

But even so, he seemed to be very calm.

“Wow, our American protective system is really slacking today,” he followed.

“It came from the airport… You don’t know how to register to the Oracle system? If you were to go through a normal route then you won’t need to register to that, right?”

The Oracle system was made to help others find hunters more efficiently than any other system. It could track them down even if they were using a hiding skill. However, the hunters did find some way around it. Although it took a lot of work to figure out, Jaehwang was able to bypass it.

“There used to be a top-secret entry on my side where we could use our energy limitlessly. With the data that we have, we can only check the entry to clear everything.”

“What?!”

Tak!

He said in shock as he instantly stood up from his seat, causing it to fall onto the ground. “We should be able to hack the Oracle now. Get ready.”

“Okay… I’ll make sure they can’t find our tracks. The Oracle system is currently in its normal opeating conditions.”

Their capabilties in terms of hacking was limited since the military team has turned analog and of course, they won’t be able to decieve them permanently. They would be found out eventually but luckily, their deception has lasted long enough.

“I can’t believe this…”

He felt that they were going to be perfectly safe. They had already discarded all of the unecessary information that they had gathered through their scientific and systematic systems.

The worst part was that if they failed, then he would have to report it back to this hunter team HQ who had their trust in him. But, luckily it seemed that that wouldn’t be his fate, as everything with the Oracle system was going fairly good.

“Don’t you think that America could be responsible for all the troubles happening in Korea right now?” Jaehwang asked..

Although he was a bit unsure, his smart thinking and small movements already made him a target for danger. Obviously, that fact did scare him because there was an extremely simple way that they could take. Although they did make a mistake with their very broad interpretation of their protection system.

“Why did he come?”

“I don’t know,” he replied.

“Wait, what happened?”

His grief then grew deeper. The Virginia Military team in America had a lot of important installation and industrial incidents. Just hearing about those places sent a shiver down his spine.

“First we’ll meet them. Let’s go get ready.”

“Alright.”

“First we’ll try to figure their intentions. We still haven’t even met him personally. That might be a good thing.”

“Yeah…”

“Ah, his security level is even higher than Gwanjae’s. He’s even a lot more dangerous.”

The soldier said and his assistant looked surprised. Gwanjae’s current security was supposed to be the most sophisticated one he had ever seen. Only a level 8 hunter could beat that.

“How is that possible…” His assistant replied as he had a hard time understanding what it meant. The soldier then replied saying,

“Gwanjae is very safe. He’s an unbelievably talented hunter. This definitely won’t be easy but, that ‘Jaehwang’ person is someone that we definitely had to look out for. However, it shouldn’t be that hard to find a way to defeat him. He is just a young twenty-year-old hunter after all. But even so, he is a level 8 hunter… Do you think he could be as dangerous as we think he is?”

“No way.”

“Alright, let’s go see.”

“Okay.”

As his assistant opened the door and walked out of it, he walked to the left side of the room and opened a drawer which he had some trouble pulling. He put on a pair of gloves and reached for something inside it. It was something sharp with a dark brown wooden handle.

“Darn it… I thought this would be easy to use.”

Tak…

A cloud of blue dust began to surround his hand.

“Woah…” He then closed his eyes to enjoy its feeling and with a bitter smile, he said, “This is making me feel kind of nervous.”

“I had already predicted that something like this would happen…” He mumbled to himself. There was a lot of important information and top-secret files that he had to sort through but he was too stuck in his head at the moment.

“In conclusion, assassination could be totally unavoidable… Darn it… I hope that it won’t be as bad as I think it would be…”

“We’re going to be really careful this time…”

A message then showed up on the monitor in his office.

[Level 8 hunter has arrived in Virginia]

Jaehwang Reveals Himself, The end.