Chapter 252: The Thousand Curse Dragon (4)
Tada! Its complete! Sihoo yelled after Ha-eun and Ohjin returned the next week. He handed them a luxurious silver case.
Ha-eun carefully opened the case to see black leather gloves with a simple design. Embedded near the glove's knuckles were red starstones the size of fingernails.
Fwoosh!
Ha-eun put on the gloves and lightly gathered her mana, causing the red starstones to vibrate and heat up, as if resonating with her.
"Wow!" Ohjin reflexively exclaimed. He felt that the heat was stronger than when she usually made the flame with her bare hands.
"This is the relic I got after selling your body, Ohjin" Ha-eun said.
"The expression is very unpleasant." Ohjin, who was standing behind her and observing, frowned.
Sihoo smirked. "I considered Ha-euns characteristics and made a relic that only amplifies Yang energy! It will be less effective if someone else uses it, but you, an Awakener of Draco, shouldnt be able to find anything better!"
"Did you make this in a week?" Ha-eun asked.
"Making it wasnt tricky. Relics with mana amplification properties are expensive because the materials needed are so absurd." Even so, making a relic like that in a week was only possible because Sihoo was a genius.
"Thank you. I'll use it well," she said.
Dont break it every time youre bored, like Ohjin does. If you break it, itll cost at least a few million to repair.
"I'll put it in the cabinet and not touch it!" Wouldnt it be meaningless to spend so much on the relic if she never used it?
"Come visit me again if you have anything else you need! Oh, you can come even if you don't!" Sihoo said.
"Hehe. I'll buy you something delicious."
"Thanks!" Ha-eun stroked Sihoo's head as if she were proud.
Sihoo laughed as if he was in a good mood.
"I'm leaving~!" Leaving the lab behind, Ohjin and Ha-eun headed straight home. Theyd already waited a week for the relic to be completed, so they no longer had time to procrastinate. A Cologrande helicopter was already waiting for them on the roofs landing pad.
-Dudududud!
Isabella, dressed in comfortable clothes instead of her favorite dress, approached Ohjin and Ha-eun. "Did you get the relic?"
"Yeah. I tested it once, and it was amazing." Ha-eun smiled and raised the black leather gloves she wore on her hands.
"That's a relief. Oh, by the way. Everyone, please take one of these." Isabella offered a bag the size of a palm to Ha-eun and Ohjin.
When they looked inside, they saw several amulets with complex patterns on them. "Are these relics effective against curses?"
"Yes, that's right," Isabella confirmed. Isabella had also been preparing over the week of waiting by traveling the world and finding relics that worked well against curses. "First of all, I prepared something for Riak and Vega," she said.
"Tell me when they arrive later," Ohjin said. He intended to call Vega and Riak when they got closer to the nest to make things as simple as possible. Carrying the bag in his arms, Ohjin looked at Isabella. "Thank you for following through with my excessive demand."
From Ha-eun's equipment to talismans that were effective against curses Though Isabella never mentioned it, it was clear that everything cost an astronomical amount. No matter how much wealth the Colagrande family had, nobody could spend millions lightly.
"Haha. I can spend as much as I want on you." Isabella laughed as if nothing was wrong. She was rich, sweet, good at cooking, and even devoted.
"No." Ohjin shook his head. "There's no reason to fight in its home." The Thousand Curse Dragon was a monster who could, as its name implied, cast a thousand cursesthere were probably a lot of curses around its lair. Looking back on Shinhyuk's memories, Ohjin saw that he had a tremendously hard time getting into the nest
"The plan is to lure the enemy to the battlefield in our favor, huh? Riak mumbled. Indeed, that's a good idea for a rookie."
How are you going to bring the dragon out? Vega asked, flying into the sky and sitting on Ohjin's head. It was not easy to bring out a monster hiding deep underground.
"That's"
"Oh! I got it!" Before Ohjin answered, Ha-eun clapped her hands and smirked. "Couldnt I start a fire?" There was nothing like a fire to bring out the enemy forces hiding in their fortress.
"That wont be enough," Ohjin said.
"Not enough?"
"Smoke rises, remember?" It wouldnt work for smoking out a dragon that was deep underground.
"If I go down and set the fire myself" she tried to argue
"As soon as you go down, you will be detected by the Thousand Curse Dragon," Ohjin explained. The dragon was not a monster that only moved on instinct. As expected of a named monster, the dragon was just as, if not more, intelligent than a human. If it had built a lair underground, of course, it would have prepared.
"Then what are you going to do?"
"If a fire doesn't work, you can use water."
"Water?" Ha-eun tilted her head.
"There's a sewage system down there as well," Ohjin said. Shinhyuk had thoroughly investigated the entire Pyongyang area to find the Thousand Curse Dragon's lair, and since Ohjin had the mans memories, he also knew where the sewer system flowed.
"If we redirect the sewage and let the water flood the subway, itll have no choice but to crawl out."
"Is that possible?" Ha-eun asked, narrowing her eyes. Clearly, planning to flood the lair didn't make sense to her.
"Well, I'm a little skeptical, too." Isabella also frowned and shook her head. "Even if you redirect the sewage, you won't be able to flood the entire station." The water would go up to the ankle at most. It was impossible for the subway to flood unless it rained a rivers-worth of water.
"Huh? I never said I would flood the station," Ohjin said.
"What?"
"I told you, all we have to do is 'direct' the water toward the lair."
"Then why would that make it come out? Isabella asked. There was no reason for the Thousand Curse Dragon to run out of its lair when the water wasnt drowning it out. It may be uncomfortable for people to be submerged to their ankles, but considering the size of the dragon, that much water would be like a minor spill.
"No, it will come out," Ohjin said with full confidence. If the Thousand Curse Dragon had the same sort of intelligence as humans, then it wouldnt be comfortable. "When do you think the sewage treatment facility here broke?"
"What?"
The Thousand Curse Dragon destroyed the city lets see, it was roughly six years ago. There was more than just water in the sewage system "That means the water is mixed with filth that has been stagnant for six years."
Ha-eun and Isabella seemed to realize something.
"So" Ha-eun put a hand on her forehead as if she were dumbfounded. "You want to pour six years of poop water into that bastards lair?"
That wasnt the magic plan they were expecting.