The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

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“My name is Captain Kim Min-ah, who was in charge of the guidance.”

“Nice to meet you. This is Inspector Kang Jin-woo.”

We shook hands with her.

Minah Kim was the person who acted as a guide on this business trip.

Did I hear in advance that it was in charge of not only Cambodia but all of Southeast Asia?

For reference, she is level 22 in my eyes.

It was not a very high level.

“You came on time for your flight. Oh, you know it’s hot there, unlike Korea, right? And your shingi should be sent separately. therefore-“

Mina Kim conveyed a few precautions and guided us from the airport.

Is this kind of like heaven?

She hadn’t even arrived yet, but she already felt like a travel agent.

Naturally, we got our tickets, put on our shoes separately, passed through the airport security and walked to the boarding area.

It’s been a while since I got on the plane like that.

After flying for 5 and a half hours, we finally arrived at our destination, Siem Reap International Airport in Cambodia.

“Whoa… ”

As expected from the airport, the air was different from Korea.

I heard the temperature is over 30 degrees.

The humidity wasn’t too high, so it was much better than the 30 degrees I knew.

“woah… It’s hot.”

Nevertheless, Han Seong-min from the side made such a noise.

He had just taken off the coat he had been wearing since Korea and was wiping away sweat.

“Ah, what is this? December is the coolest time in Cambodia.”

Mina Kim said that and guided us to one side of the airport.

As I walked along the small orange-roofed airport building, I opened my mouth.

“Are we going to be far from here?”

“no? Don’t worry, you’ll be there in an hour or two by taxi.”

Then, speaking fluent Cambodian, she took a taxi.

And the taxi soon ran on a dirt road in the jungle that was not even paved, and started heading towards Angkor Wat.

Inside, Mina Kim, who was talking with the driver, whom she quickly became close with, suddenly checked something and turned to look at us.

Suddenly, her expression darkened slightly.

“Have you received all the information about the case?”

It was a topic about work.

I glanced at the driver, but I wasn’t in the mood to understand Korean.

Still, I nodded my head, thinking about what to say in case I didn’t know.

“yes. What’s wrong?”

“that is… Unfortunately, there are more victims today.”

“Huh, wasn’t it controlling tourists?”

At Han Sung-min’s words, Kim Min-a let out a small sigh.

“Even with control, it doesn’t work out. This is the time when there are the most tourists. The number of local exorcists is small, so the control is left to the general police, but since they are tourists anyway, they don’t listen, and the police who need to control them often pretend not to know if they give them a little money.”

A guard who accepts bribes for unruly tourists.

In the end, it was said that tourists who entered the ruins without obeying the control were changed.

“I must hurry.”

“That is what I mean. So… Would you like to check the bodies of the victims immediately before going to the scene?”

“You mean the body?”

“yes. In fact, there aren’t many facilities here to store corpses for a long time. Moreover, since these are the bodies of foreigners, they will come to retrieve them from the country soon. So unless it’s right after the incident, like now, there aren’t many opportunities to directly check the body.”

Are you saying we have to go now to look for clues on the body?

If so, there was no reason to refuse.

“I see. Should I go far?”

“That’s not it. It is said that he was placed in a hospital near the ruins. I will go there right away.”

“All right.”

It was the moment when I expressed such a positive meaning.

Even after arriving in Cambodia, the quiet quest button finally started to glow.

Was the quest finally created?

Thinking so, I opened the quest window, but a slightly different quest was created than expected.

＜Repeat Quest – The Blade That Eats Mysteries＞

– Travel around the world to hunt monsters to strengthen your weapons.

– Can be completed repeatedly for each monster of higher grade or higher.

Reward: Strange seal, 1 level increase

“… … ”

It was a weapon-related quest.

Are you giving a quest when you get a legendary weapon?

After all, if you hunt a monster, you give him the seal corresponding to that monster.

It seemed to be a system that strengthened the weapon by engraving it on the blade.

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Judging from the fact that there is a restriction of monsters of higher rank or higher, it seems that you shouldn’t catch any monsters.

Also, the reward given as a bonus is not just experience, but a level increase.

For me, who is already slow in leveling up, this is a reward that cannot be considered as a bonus.

This was pretty good for what I wasn’t expecting.

Thinking so, I closed the quest window, and Han Seong-min, who was next to me, was strangely frowning.

“What’s wrong with your expression?”

“If I had known it would be like this, I would have come a little sooner.”

He didn’t seem to like the fact that there were victims.

If he didn’t know the situation here, he would have thought it was well under control.

“I can’t help it. We have to solve it as soon as possible from now on.”

At my words, Sungmin Han nodded without saying a word.

We soon arrived at the hospital where the body is said to be enshrined.

Siem Reap State Hospital.

It was the largest hospital in the city, and compared to other buildings around it, it was a decent hospital in its own way.

The Korean flag was also visible on the sign, which was unknown to what organization in Korea it was collaborating with.

“Have you ever been here?”

I asked Mina Kim, who skillfully wandered around the hospital.

Then she nodded.

“Sure. Since I have been called in for every case, there are not many places I haven’t been to among the large hospitals in Southeast Asia.”

Eventually she led us to the morgue.

Unlike other places in the hospital where people were crowded here and there, there was only silence in the morgue where not a single ant nest was visible.

“These are them.”

What Minah Kim pointed out were three corpses.

The nationality is American, one middle-aged man and two women of similar age.

Subsequently, Mina Kim began to read the paper on which information about them was placed in the mortuary.

“The cause of death for all three is presumed to be beating with a blunt instrument. Not only the head, but also the whole body has traces of being severely beaten by something, and it is said that it was caused by a force so strong that the skull collapsed.”

As she said, the condition of the body was miserable.

There were broken bones everywhere on the body that had been beaten hard, and there were corpses with clearly visible traces of skulls being crushed.

At this, I tilted my head.

The main weapon of the naga in mythology is a spear or sword.

I remember that there was no tradition of using a blunt weapon.

As Seo In-na said, isn’t the incident caused by Naga?

“Do you have any eyewitness information?”

“hmm… There is no place. wait a minute. I’ll ask right away.”

Mina Kim called somewhere.

Is it a local exorcist?

And after a few words of conversation with the person on the phone, he put down his smartphone and continued talking.

“A police officer patrolling the scene must have seen the murder. He claims to have seen a black naga. The size of the upper body alone is about 3 meters. It is a very large size compared to the lake of the ruins.”

go black

I recalled the information about Naga I received from Seo In-na before the business trip.

Traditions about black naga certainly existed in Indian mythology.

A naga named Takshaka was a naga who appeared mainly as a villain.

However, Takshaka is a naga related to poison to the extent that there is a legend that he tried to kill the family of God with poison.

However, none of the victims died from poisoning.

“And the victims were all said to be naked when they were found. Not just this time, but most of the victims so far.”

What followed confused me even more.

After the business trip to Cambodia was decided, I investigated several suspicious traditions other than Naga, but there was no tradition related to clothes in particular.

Is it because of the lack of knowledge?

It seemed to be a case that could not be solved with just one head.

So I took out the fox beads without regret.

“I will call on my food body.”

At this, Mina Kim nodded and I called the fox.

With a loud cry, a white two-tailed fox appeared.

Then, not only Kim Min-ah but also Han Sung-min opened their eyes wide.

“oh… !”

“No, where did you get this again?”

“How did you get it?”

“It’s not like food souls are saved by chance. By the way, it seems like something keeps happening lately.”

Ignoring Han Seong-min’s cleverly pointed words, I turned my gaze to the fox.

“Trace the smell of the monster here.”

“Keng!”

It didn’t take long for the fox to remember the smell.

But the fox then made a squeaky noise when I held out my smartphone.

“what’s the matter. Can’t you?”

At my words, the fox bowed its head helplessly.

Are you saying that the tracking magic doesn’t work against the opponent?

Even if it was, it wasn’t unusual.

Among the monsters, there were also ones that only appeared at night.

“I can’t help it. I only remember the smell. Let me know when you can track it down.”

“Keng!”

I summoned the fox again and this time I saw an arrow.

The arrow pointing to this hospital a moment ago was looking in a new direction.

It means that everything to be done here is done.

So I opened my mouth.

“Then let’s go to the field.”

After that, we moved to Angkor Wat, the site of the incident.

Angkor Wat was inside a square lake that looked like a large river.

However, the depth of the lake was not that deep, so it was an unsuitable place for a 3-meter tall monster to live.

Is that why?

I circled the lake first, but I couldn’t see much in my field of vision.

This means that there is no monster inside the lake at present.

“This is where the victims were found today.”

However, in a corner of such a lake, Kim Min-a said so.

There, there were clear traces of something huge coming ashore from the inside of the lake.

It seems certain that something has come and gone.

So I pointed in the direction where the arrow pointed inside the lake, where the temple of Angkor Wat was.

“I think we should also look inside the temple.”

“Yes, got it.”

Could it be because of an incident that happened today?

The road to the temple was already blocked by three exorcists in police uniforms.

The level isn’t that high, around 30’s.

And Kim Min-a said something to them, and then showed them some documents, and they nodded and opened the way.

“… … ”

After crossing the lake like that, I walked inward surrounded by forest for a while, and soon a large temple with a dark discoloration appeared.

“oh… ”

Looking at the world-famous tourist destination, Han Seong-min exclaimed in admiration.

But when I saw it, I felt a strange sense of déjà vu.

It was because during the war against the demons in another world, a castle with a similar atmosphere had been destroyed.

“Hey, isn’t it cool? This is Angkor Wat, one of the three major Buddhist holy places in the world.”

Kim Min-a said so, but it didn’t seem like there was anything special about the holy land.

“Can I go inside?”

“yes. Of course, if you are a tourist, there are some restrictions… We are not the ones to investigate. Please follow me.”

Mina Kim led us inside the temple.

Even so, every time something came up, she leaked a little bit of tourist information like a guide. It felt like I was on a real trip, albeit briefly.

But when I came inside the temple to some extent.

“hmm… ?”

A new level indicator appeared in my eyes.

It’s level 21, visible from beyond the walls of the temple.

Looking at the level, the risk wasn’t that great.

However, being inside this place where access is controlled by exorcists, there was a high possibility that it was definitely not a person, so I winked at the other two.

“There is something.”

Saying that, I took out a new sword, a sword engraved with a monster, and Han Seong-min also took up a baseball bat.

He was in a small room inside the temple.

Are you going to surprise me when you come in?

I entered the room, wary of his movements.

But the level display didn’t move at all, and what was inside was…

“toad?”

It was a dark brown toad as huge as a man.

Why is there such a toad here?

Besides, the toad was in bad shape.

Seeing the broken eyeballs, the distorted body, and the panting, it looked like he would die at any moment.

“Ah, this… ”

“Do you know what this is?”

“Ghost Toad. It is one of the monsters living in Cambodia that eats children playing alone in the lake. But why is the ghost toad here… ?”

Mina Kim tilted her head as she said that.

Han Seong-min took a step forward at the word monster.

It was to put an end to the dying monster directly.

But I stopped Han Sung-min for a while.

“Why is that?”

“A constable. Doesn’t that look like it got hit by something?”

“uh? Come to think of it… ”

At my words, the other two also took a close look at the toad’s condition.

And I quickly noticed something strange.

“Right. Just like the victims.”

“Then what do you mean? Is it because the black naga beat up even the monster?”

At this, Han Sung-min came up with the same question I had.

It’s not common for Goi to attack Goi, but it’s not uncommon.

But that’s only when they have a special grudge relationship or when they recognize a clearly weak monster as their prey.

There were very few cases where he was beaten up and put in a corner of the temple like this to vent his anger.

This is what vengeful spirits with a grudge do.

“Keng!”

Then, suddenly, a fox came out of the fox marble.

The fox waggled its tail and looked at me.

The gloomy mood from a moment ago was gone.

in other words… It means that the source of the smell he remembered has appeared.

“What, did you come out?”

“Keng keng!”

Besides, as if the destination was not too far away, the fox jumped up in the direction it was supposed to go.

“Guide me.”

I said that as I slashed the ghost toad with my sword.

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Just in case, the monster’s effect didn’t activate.

It was because he was too weak.

At this, I gave up my lingering feelings and ran after the fox to the place where the black naga had appeared.