Chapter 280
In the Geum mansion, twenty-three classes of traps combined to give rise to a hundred-forty-one unique synergies, all of which were seamlessly inlaid into the walls and floors.
To enter was to plunge into the belly of a whale.
Death should be assured.
It should be only a matter of when and how.
Even National Treasures should die without leaving a corpse behind.
Should, should. Should...
Geum Tae-Byeok pressed his palms into his eyes, as if simply tired. Then he slapped the table.
“No!”
He turned back to the monitor, the glow of which illuminated the red in his eyes.
“I can’t accept this.”
On the monitor, Jae-Hyeok once again tripped a hidden trap, and, once again, Jae-Hyeok vanished into a trail of after-images. The trap fully activated, spraying the ground with poison and criss-crossing the corridor with magic darts, but Jae-Hyeok was dozens of meters away by then.
No matter how powerful the National Treasure, they had to recognize the threat before they could respond; this natural delay between sight, mind, and limbs had informed the design philosophy behind all of Geum Tae-Byeok’s traps and was the source of his confidence in dealing with National Treasures. And yet Jae-Hyeok...