I Became a Disaster-Class Sorcery Genius

How to Win Without Fighting (3)

In conclusion, Kim Dojun succeeded in dealing with the Three-Headed Dragon cleanly without fighting a single battle.

'Treasure hunting is a real pain, seriously.'

He couldn't help but let out a deep sigh.

'I should refrain from wrecking buildings from now on.'

Because the building had completely collapsed, it had become annoyingly difficult to find the spiritual tool.

'... Well, to be honest, I already knew this would happen when I was smashing the building.'

Still, when it came time to actually look for it, it was so tiring that Kim Dojun promised himself to avoid demolishing whole buildings from now on as he sifted through the wreckage.

After about three hours of effort—

"Finally found it."

In the end, Kim Dojun found a safe among the countless debris.

A safe battered here and there, plastered with talismans.

'Just like the game's setting.'

He recalled the game settings upon seeing the dented yet still intact safe.

'A special safe made by the Extractor, the boss of the Three-Headed Dragon. It's insanely sturdy, and because of the talismans attached, it supposedly can't be opened by ordinary sorcery.'

Kwa-deu-deu-deu-deuk-!

'But that doesn't matter to me.'

The power he used wasn't sorcery, but brute physical strength.

Thus, Kim Dojun tore the safe's door off and tossed it far away as if he were just opening a can lid.

"Oh."

He couldn't help but exclaim as he looked inside.

Inside the safe, there were valuables that looked expensive at a glance, along with several bundles of dollars, and at the same time—

'Found it.'

He found the spiritual tool that had been his main purpose for coming to resolve this side story.

He immediately reached in and pulled out the spiritual tool.

"Huh?"

He soon stared at the log window that popped up before his eyes.

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Nameless Sorcerer's Necklace.
Grade: High.
Effect: Greatly reduces mental attacks from barriers formed by spirits. Also mitigates other minor mental attacks.
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As soon as he lifted the necklace-shaped spiritual tool, the log window appeared as if it had been waiting for him, making Kim Dojun mutter unwittingly.

"So the description pops up after all?"

Up to now, except for when a spirit appeared or in a few other situations, the log window hadn't appeared at all, so he hadn't paid much attention to it and was genuinely surprised. He soon nodded as he read the explanation.

'Well, this makes things easier and more convenient.'

Thinking that, Kim Dojun stashed away the spiritual tool and was finally able to look a little more closely at what else was inside.

'There's a lot here.'

He had glanced earlier, and had seen the illustration after clearing the substory in the Sorcery Killing Technique, but there was really a lot inside the safe.

'Valuables, starting with rings, necklaces, brooches... some kind of ceremonial dagger, and even some weapons.'

Next to them was a substantial pile of dollars, yen, and yuan, seemingly collected from various sources.

Truly a jackpot of a safe.

'There's even more here than I thought?'

Kim Dojun had assumed he wouldn't make as much as the money he got for clearing the substory in the Sorcery Killing Technique, but—

'Just selling the valuables alone should be a tidy sum. They look a grade above, too.'

In truth, as he wasn't an expert, he couldn't tell if the valuables were real or fake, but based on statistics, if a criminal went to such lengths to hide things in a safe, they had to be quite valuable.

'Even on the outside, the things shady people hide in safes like this usually turn out to be good stuff.'

So, just as he was about to stuff all the contents into the bag he had brought—

'I wonder if there's another spiritual tool in here?'

On a hunch, he picked up each valuable one by one before putting them in the bag.

"Oh."

Soon, he found another spiritual tool.

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Translation Ring
Grade: Low
Effect: Translates human languages.
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'So there was this, too.'

Actually, the translation ring wasn't a spiritual tool that could only be obtained here; it was a rather common item even sold outside, and most sorcerers would have at least one.

Wearing this ring practically erased the language barrier.

As mentioned, while this wasn't a rare spiritual tool, it was still something you normally had to purchase with money.

'Nice.'

He smiled and slipped on the ring, then tried searching for more spiritual power tools, but didn't find anything else.

'Anyway, it's a gain.'

With nothing more to regret, he packed all the items from the safe into his bag and, with a satisfied expression, was about to discard the safe.

'... Now that I think of it, the safe and the talismans are supposed to be expensive, too...'

He glanced at the safe and the talismans attached to it.

As expected from the Sorcery Killing Technique storyline, the phrase 'filthy expensive safe' came to mind—an almost unbreakable safe that endured even as the building collapsed.

But as even the door was smashed in, it didn't seem usable again, so Kim Dojun decided to discard it with no regrets.

'Instead, I'll at least take some talismans.'

He decided to peel off a few of the talismans that were attached all over the safe.

Some were torn, but many were still intact.

After pulling off a few talismans, he smiled satisfactorily, and soon left Hongcheon.

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Yagrat of Ambition is strong.

Of course, as a spirit, he couldn't exert much power before possessing someone, but once he possessed someone, he was confident.

He could wield noticeably stronger power compared to other spirits.

And recently, he found a possession vessel he liked very much.

That vessel was none other than Kim Dojun.

Sensing that Kim Dojun's personality was even more twisted than he had expected, Yagrat developed a strong interest in him and had been secretly following Kim Dojun's daily life.

Today, Yagrat intended to approach Kim Dojun again to offer possession when he spotted the Extractor, the boss of the Three-Headed Dragon.

Because he had judged that Kim Dojun lacked the power to deal with this criminal organization alone.

The Extractor who stood before Kim Dojun was a sorcerer highly skilled in sorcery.

And not just that.

Inside the hotel were plenty of sorcerers skilled enough, and even though some were not as strong, they possessed ample spiritual power. Plus, there were over hundreds of sorcery formations set up inside the building.

Even an S-rank sorcerer would have a hard time in there—the place was a veritable fortress, Yagrat thought.

Given the circumstances, Yagrat planned to approach Kim Dojun at the moment when Kim Dojun felt the most frustration and humiliation.

But in the end, he didn't get to carry out his plan.

Because Kim Dojun handled everything on his own.

By collapsing the building—and with such absurdity that even Yagrat, who had lived over 300 years, was left speechless.

'I doubted my own eyes.'

Yagrat had seen with his own eyes all the sorcery formations inside the Koteo HOTEL.

As a spirit, there was nowhere he could not go.

'There were definitely dozens of defensive sorcery formations.'

Yagrat certainly saw the defensive sorcery formations there.

Dozens of sorcery formations built to protect against any attack from outside.

But what about Kim Dojun?

He shattered all those dozens of defensive formations as if nothing and brought down the building.

In just a single blow.

'... Is he really human?'

For a moment, Yagrat even entertained that thought.

No matter how he reasoned, it was impossible for a human's spiritual power alone to destroy all the sorcery formations he observed.

But that wasn't the only thing that astonished Yagrat.

'He tore open a safe plastered with "Guaruanteed Protection" (護必) talismans inside and out as if it were nothing...'

Opening the safe door using pure spiritual power, without any hand seal or sorcery formation, left Yagrat's mouth agape, unable to close it.

... Of course, Kim Dojun was just using brute force, not spiritual power.

But Yagrat's common sense—and indeed, the basic common sense of this world—dictated 'a person cannot have that kind of strength'. As such, he could not even imagine that Kim Dojun had used something other than spiritual power to achieve that.

Thus, in Yagrat's eyes from that moment on, Kim Dojun appeared that way.

A "genius" not by talent, but a 'natural disaster'.

So by the time Kim Dojun had looted all the items from the safe and disappeared—

Yagrat made up his mind.

'No matter what, I'll possess Kim Dojun.'

He would, at all costs, charm and possess this impossibly talented Kim Dojun.

With that resolve in mind, Yagrat appeared before Kim Dojun.

[Kim Dojun, let's make a contract. If you make a contract with me, I'll grant you anything you wish...!]

Yagrat proposed loudly, without hesitation.

Kim Dojun looked a bit surprised by Yagrat's sudden appearance and also somewhat annoyed.

"... Hmm."

Soon, as if something occurred to him, Kim Dojun wore an unusually serious expression, contemplating—

"All right."

He answered.

[Heh! Yes! I see you also desire something! Tell me what you want! If you contract with me, I'll give you everything—]

"Die."

[... Huh?]

"Possess someone else and die for me."

[....]

"You don't even have to make me do it; just off yourself. It'd be best if you jumped deep into the ocean to make sure of it."

Yagrat was left speechless at his subsequent words.

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That night, after Kim Dojun finished his first trip out and returned home—

"...."

Han Soyeon was on the deserted path #7, honoring a promise she had made to herself a week earlier.

'... Why am I even here...'

In truth, though she had come on her own, she found herself wondering why she was standing here.

No, it was of course because of her agreement with Kim Dojun, but she still didn't quite understand how she found herself in this situation in the first place.

So today, she made up her mind about something.

'... Today, I'll say it clearly.'

From her perspective, there didn't seem to be much meaning in meetings like this anymore.

Plus—

'Honestly...'

Because Kim Dojun seemed a bit dangerous, Han Soyeon resolutely decided to express her intent to him today.

That it would be better to end this here, for sure—!

She even prepared a list in her notebook of lines that Kim Dojun wouldn't find unpleasant. For a whole hour and a half.

She spent another hour in front of the mirror, practicing to say it in a way that wouldn't hurt his feelings.

"Phew...."

In short, Han Soyeon prepared as best as she could, so she waited for Kim Dojun with a somewhat nervous expression.

"Oh, you came early today."

Not long after, Kim Dojun appeared.

Carrying a convenience store bag, he walked over with a rather self-assured look.

Seeing him, Han Soyeon struggled to open her mouth to deliver the words she had spent a total of two and a half hours preparing to say today.

"Take this."

"... Pardon?"

"I said take it."

When Kim Dojun casually held out the convenience store bag, Han Soyeon, bewildered, took the bag with a question mark practically floating over her head.

"Open it."

At his words, she curiously reached into the bag and pulled out its contents.

"... Th-this is?"

"That's called a handgun."

"?"

"With it, you can kill a person with a single shot."

"??"

For a moment, her mouth fell open in shock at the handgun that came out of the convenience store bag.

-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=
Yeah, Dojun is definitely evil.
Now that I think about it, he's from the world of hunters, where killing and betrayal are prevalent.
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