Chapter 116: 11. Transformation
The black shadow that had twisted through the room slowly shrank and slipped beneath its caster’s feet. The man who deactivated the skill looked around with an emotionless gaze.
Every piece of furniture was smashed beyond recognition. The walls were torn as if scraped by the claws of some massive beast. The only thing left untouched was the window.
When his gaze lowered, he saw the boy collapsed at his feet. His flushed face, red with fever, still bore clear signs of the recent battle.
He was bleeding from cuts all over, utterly exhausted—unable to even lift a finger. Yet even in that state, he continued to glare up at the man.
This was expected. For someone who had harbored “that thing” for so long and still retained his sanity... such resistance made sense.
As the man stared down at Cha Sahyeon, a new voice broke in.
“You done?”
It was a Hunter who’d been dispatched with him to retrieve Cha Sahyeon. She had messy ash-gray hair tied loosely in a single knot and specialized in item crafting.
“Damn, you really wrecked the place.”
The item specialist whistled as she looked around the devastated office, then slung off the guitar case from her back. Without hesitation, she lifted the unconscious Sahyeon and stuffed him into the bag.
The guitar case was smaller than Sahyeon’s body, but it was lined with a spatial expansion artifact, so he fit easily.
“But what’s that?”