(Chapter 29)

After their meeting, Cha Hae-In didn't appear or even her shadow a bit.

"So, when you will depart to Busan?"

"... Before the dawn."

"Alright. I'll watch the Hunter's Association for the public reports about found Gates that I might suspect for my Eight Dungeon Break. If not, I'll start to patrol around 5 miles."

"... Are you really sure about this, Hyung-nim?"

"... If you're talking about my surety, yeah, since I found out where I got these weird abilities in the first place, I can say that these hunches and instincts as a habit were the caused by it too..."

"... Okay, but I'll send Tank and the same four High Guards with you again for your immediate backup."

Shyrveen puts up his thumb on the air and waved his hand before continuing his way to go back to his apartment.

"Thanks, Hyung-nim..."

Sung Jin-Woo said in the entrance of the door and thought about it.

'If it's true then I'll be truly grateful since I decided to use Shadow Exchange to go to Busan in the first place... And now, calculating his countdown... That's around the time where Jin-Ah is in her school and mom is alone in the house... Better use Kaisel to go to Busan...'

Yoo Jin-Ho went back to his work that related to the Guild.

Sung Jin-Woo went outside to spend time with his family.

And lastly, for Shyrveen, went back to his place but decided to stop and went to the nearest park while continuing to train his mind and will to have a better control for the Beast Souls while meddling with it to the state that he can do it subconsciously and instinctively, but he knows it better, that it will take him a lot of time to make it happened.

Soon, the sun is setting to the west and painting the sky with a tinge of orange, red, and yellow, and at the east, stars can be seen slowly crawling to cover the surface of the earth...

Next day.

Shyrveen was warming up since it's less than one hour before the said Dungeon Break, he watch and waited for the associations to find a new Gates around the place but nothing for the whole night.

He didn't sleep since it's a dungeon break and the Genes improved his body, that he can be still fine after not sleeping for three days straight.

Those dungeons that the Hunter's Association found out were out of range already and somehow Go Gun-Hee thank him since they found one dungeon, a silent and hiding in a secluded place, a Peak B-Rank Gate after it was measured, while the other silent dungeons, were below C-Rank Gates.

But that wasn't his objective.

'... I should accompany Jin-Ah to her school first...'

He went out and just at the same time, he saw Sung Jin-Ah stepping out from the apartment building.

"Oppa!"

Sung Jin-Ah run towards Shyrveen while smiling, then wave back to the apartment which Shyrveen saw their mother waving at them in their apartment's balcony, he greets her too respectfully and talk with Sung Jin-Ah while on their way to her school.

They reach the gate and Sung Jin-Ah said goodbye to him and meet up with her friends on the way inside the schoolyard.

'... This school is 3 kilometers away from the Ahjin Guild... I should patrol more here to prioritize the Sung Family, even though I know Jin-Woo already sent shadows to protect them... Fifteen minutes left...'

But then something clicks on his mind and turn around and found some alley to turn on his camouflage and set his place between the school and the apartment building to where Park Kyung-Hye is, so he can respond to one of them that is the nearest to the dungeon that will break soon.

'... It shouldn't be painful if I tried right?...'

Then he summoned Dragon Tadpole and thinking about the (4 stars) besides its name. But decided to test it out for the Black Beetle Beast Soul if he can separate its Soul into two pieces but was failed.

'... Should it be possible for Primitive and above?...'

Then tried again with the Mutant Crimson Iron-Bone Fish Beast Soul but it was another failure again.

'... It leaves me with the Dragon Tadpole...'

He sighed and readied himself for possible pain and willed the Sacred-Blood Beast Soul to be separated and it was that time that he felt the Soul is starting to separate and continued his assumption until he is seeing two Beast Soul of the original Obsidian Dragon.

But only this time that he found something.

Beast Souls gained: Ordinary Black Beetle, Ordinary Illusionist Snake, Ordinary Azure-Tailed Eagle, Mutant Crimson Iron-Bone Fish, Sacred-Blood Adult Obsidian Dragon (3 Stars), Sacred-Blood Adult Obsidian Dragon (3 Stars).

'... There's (3 Stars) beside their names now...'

And continued to breakdown the Beast Soul of the Sacred-Blood until he got eight Sacred-Blood Infant Obsidian Dragon (1 Star).

'... So it's only possible for Beast Souls that have stars to split them and will forever stay on its rank?... But I need to merge the same Beast Soul to have those stars first...'

Then merge them back into a Sacred-Blood Obsidian Dragon (4 Stars).

'... There's still some pain from merging and splitting them but it decreased the pain for how it's strong now... Wait... If I got another (4 Stars) of this dragon... Does it will surpass the Sacred-Blood Rank then, after reaching (5 Stars)?... I will only know this if I went back to God's Sanctuary...'

And at the same, his right hand subconsciously slap his nape and looked at the direction of the school where Sung Jin-Ah is.

'... Damn. Dragon Tadpole.'

He used the Obsidian Dragon as his mount and ordered it to slither faster to go to the school.

Doing so, he got the attention of the people that he is passing by. He decided to send a text for Go Gun-Hee to send backups.

'... That's a Low A-Rank Gate... Shit. Faster.'

He doesn't know for ten years why he can tell when a dungeon will break and it's rank once broke. But now with Irveen, he put it to Irveen's responsibility since he knows well about the Mana than himself, the one who is controlling the mortal vessel.

On his way, Shyrveen willed the obsidian scales to wrapped his feet till his ankles and pulled his melded bow's string to the maximum stretch as his eyes changed into eagles, and three melded arrows were loaded and he fired.

Three arrows flew that almost break the sound barrier that made all the people cover their eardrums after hearing the delayed high pitch sounds after seeing a blurred blue feathered arrows in their peripheral visions.

Then that was followed by a six-feet Infant Chinese Dragon with a man riding on its head.

The dragon is slithering too fast while dodging the cars that were so slow in its vision.

In a blink of an eye, the three arrows penetrated the heads of three Orcs that were in motion of killing the three students on the ground.

But it didn't stop there, as the arrows changed direction to penetrate their second target's head before coming back to Shyrveen's hand that didn't stop once pulling the string every second.

Shyrveen reached the school that already in a turmoil, and subconsciously splits the dragon into two dragons and orders one two kill Orcs on its way to the Gate and him riding the one dragon to saved students in the school grounds.

He fired three melded brown feathered arrows simultaneously that pierced through the Orcs temples saving the students from their dooms.

"Get out of here now!"

Before jumping from the dragon's head that munching the Orcs here and there while sweeping and piercing the Orcs with its tail left and right, without holding back its strength.

Shyrveen fired another three arrows in midair and after it kills the Orc, he willed it to change direction again before losing its speed that lowers the penetration but still has enough strength to kill, to kill another Orcs near before reappearing on his pulled string in between his fingers before firing it again.

'... I'm glad that I trained this when I'm still in sanctuary. But three arrows are still hard for me to control since they were still too fast for me, or I need to make it slow down in midair before I can will it to where it will fly freely.'

After landing, he used the melded arrow like a dagger and his melded bow as a blunt weapon while sometimes, firing at point-blank range.

'... There are still so many Orcs. Whew...'

He summoned Tank and the four High Orcs to speed up things since he can still see some students being killed left and right.

'... The school is too big for me to clean the monsters alone...'

He thought while firing the Orcs to death that in the building after seeing them hunting that started from the lowest floor continued on to higher floors and drove all victims caught in their wake to gruesome deaths.

'... Jin-Ah.... Damn. I don't know which floor and room for where she is...'

"Jin-Ah!"

He jumped with his strongest power that wielding the Geno Points inside his body in the middle area of school premises.

He did it a couple of times while ordering the dragon to throw him up higher to get a full 360-degree angle as he looked around while he didn't stop firing even for a single second.

"Jin-Ah!!!"

But there's no response no matter how many times he calls for her, and decided to split up the dragon with him into (2 Stars).

'... The Beast Souls can be obtained again, but Jin-Ah's life can't.'

He doesn't care if he lost one or two Sacred-Blood Adolescent Obsidian Dragon (2 Stars) just to find Sung Jin-Ah.

'This is my flaw as not awakened. Damn... Irveen. Can't you lend me a hint or sign to where I will search using the mana signature to Jin-Woo's soldiers?...'

But as expected, nothing happens.

He makes his mind raced to think what's the fastest way to find her, then soon found an answer.

He jumps to the third floor's balcony and orders the (2 Stars) dragons to split into (1 Star) and search in whole floors of the sixth-story building.

After splitting into smaller ones, their speed increases while decreases in terms of strength.

And they became bullets that ramming on the Orc's head like papers, even though they are only (1 Star) creatures, the body of Sacred-Blood is nothing to joke about, and add that these monsters aren't from S-Rank Gate, it's no wonder for Shyrveen to think about this.

Soon, he found Sung Jin-Ah that at the same time, two High Orcs shadow soldiers guarding Jin-Ah appeared and he saw one of them punched the head of the Orc to be like an exploding watermelon.

"Oppa S-Shyr? W-Where's Oppa? Is he here?"

Sung Jin-Ah tearfully asked Shyrveen after seeing him appeared in the door frame, while trying to go to him that once stopped by the High Orcs.

The top priority for these High Orcs was to secure Jin-Ah's safety. They couldn't let her roam around the building when it was packed full of enemies right now, even though they already recognized their King's friend.

But at the same time that she asked him, one of the High Orcs beside her, fluttered and slowly melted to the floor and the darkness sprayed up again like a water before revealing Sung Jin-Woo.

"Oppa! Hic... I'm so scared, Oppa!... Hic..."

Sung Jin-Ah saw his older brother and hugs him tightly as Sung Jin-Woo caress his little sister's hair and back gently.

"Shhh... It's fine now. I'm here, so everything will be okay..."

Shyrveen stared at them for a few seconds before saying.

"Can I leave you the outside? I'll enter the Gate..."

"Yeah, Hyung-nim... And thank you for warning me."

"No worries. Oh, I'll bring the boss alive to you since they were aiming at her, I don't know why but they were like searching for something and I thought they were for her or something like that."

Then Shyrveen walked out of the building and jumps from the sixth floor using the balconies before landing on the ground, and ordered the little dragons to merge again to (3 Stars) dragon, ride and order it to go to the Gate.

While Sung Jin-Woo's eyes glimmer's with rage.

"Come forth..."

The shadow beneath his feet started to expand as his soldiers started to arise and respond to their King's order, and kneel towards Sung Jin-Hoo.

"... Kill every Orc, save humans, and once you're done with it, collect the bodies of the fallen humans to the one location in an organized manner, before going on standby near the Gate..."

Sung Jin-Woo ordered them while laying down orders softly, then went to look to the students.

"Everyone, follow my summons out of the building."

The students nodded their heads, and his soldiers proceeded to pick them up in an embrace.

While outside of the school, the response team from Hunter's Association arrived and saw at the same time how the familiar black armies poured down like a waterfall and covered the school ground from a certain room on the sixth floor.

They went inside and started to clear the perimeter starts from the main entrance of the school.

And soon they noticed the students that being escorted by each dark armored soldier, out of the building.

Back to the Gate.

Shyrveen reached the Gate that has been guarding by another (3 Stars) dragon and order it to come with him inside...