Junhyuk didn’t go to the airport. Instead, he flew Elise’s drone. One of them had to sit down while the other flew the drone.

Junhyuk, who was standing since he was flying, looked at Elise. She had a seatbelt buckled and was checking something on her tablet.

“Why are you working?”

“Hm… Whenever I get new ideas, I need to store them.”

He looked at her tablet and saw that she had been writing in runes.

“Are you using runic script?”

“Runes depend heavily on combinations to bring out different types of spells. I studied the magic, but for me to become a mage, I need to learn more about magitek. I taught Gongon about engineering. He’s incredibly intelligent.”

Gongon was a dragon, so for Junhyuk, it was obvious that he would be intelligent. He shrugged and replied, “Right.”

“There are different disciplines being taught at Gongon’s dimension.”

“OK.”

Gongon did not cast spells like a regular mage. He was a magic crafter, but if he stacked intelligence runestones, he would become a genius of absurd proportions.

Junhyuk stopped thinking about that and focused on flying. The two-person drone was new to him, so he had to pay close attention to what he was doing.

While flying, he asked, “Can I speed up?”

“Wait.”

Elise pressed a few b.u.t.tons, and a transparent windshield appeared in front of her. It wasn’t made of gla.s.s, but from special materials.

He laughed and asked, “I don’t get a shield?”

“You don’t while you are standing.”

“What’s its maximum speed?”

“We can break the sound barrier, but we need more items to be safe. You can go 1,100 kilometers per hour.”

“I’m speeding up.”

Junhyuk boosted the speed to as close the sound barrier as possible without breaking it. At that speed, the wind was strong enough to take off their heads, but Junhyuk simply summoned his armor and flew without a care.

He smirked. He wanted to mess around, so he flew in all kinds of crazy patterns. He made a nosedive with the drone at full speed, but he was used to it.

“Ahhh-ahahah!” Elise screamed with a smile. She was enjoying herself. After some time playing, he would fly her to Jeju Island.

He had plenty of time to get there since he had left an hour before everybody else. For that reason, he would enjoy his time with her, so he flew even more chaotically.

—

The hotel was not a regular hotel. It had individual accommodations, like cabins. After being a.s.signed a room, he looked around the place.

Eunseo walked out of the room next door and asked, “Do you want to go swimming with me?”

Before he had a chance to answer, someone rushed toward him, shouting, “Big Brother! Let’s go swimming.”

Sighing, he looked toward the voice. Elise also appeared in front of them. She smiled at him and said, “Let’s go for a swim.”

“Why not…”

He had given up, and they all headed to the sh.o.r.e in front of the hotel. There were only powered people at the beach.

They weren’t playing like normal people. Some of them were using their powers to split the ocean, and those with wind powers were windsurfing with them. They were training while on vacation.

Junhyuk laughed at them. He knew he had to deal with the monster waves for their peace and everyone else’s.

Sarang took off her kaftan and presented her swimsuit. She was wearing a lacy swimsuit and trying to show off her curves.

Eunseo took off her kaftan, and beneath it, was a black swimsuit. Her body was very well toned, and she pulled out a pair of goggles.

Elise wet her hair and removed her kaftan. While Eunseo was athletic, Elise was voluptuous. She was wearing a bikini that accentuated her b.r.e.a.s.t.s, which was more than Junhyuk had ever seen from her.

She walked toward him and said, “We’re here for a swim, so let’s swim.”

Junhyuk touched the three women and teleported. He dropped them all in the middle of the ocean, and Sarang seemed to be have a hard time swimming.

“I can’t swim!”

Junhyuk grabbed her and teleported back to the sh.o.r.e. Sarang pouted, but Junhyuk accelerated and swam out into the ocean.

She kicked the sand and shouted at him, “Teach me how to swim!”

Junhyuk went back to Eunseo and Elise. He could swim faster than a speedboat, so he didn’t leave them waiting.

Elise had pulled out a tube from her Spatial Bag, and Eunseo was floating with her belly up. Junhyuk looked at the tube and saw that it was big enough for two people.

Elise waved at him and said, “Join me.”

Junhyuk shook his head and floated on his back like Eunseo. He was resting.

A moment later, Eunseo swam to him and said, “Tonight’s menu is barbecue.”

“That’s a great idea.”

She smiled at him and said, “The vacation was a great idea.”

“You haven’t slept, right?”

Eunseo nodded. Since she had taken over Guardians, she hadn’t had enough time to sleep. She had skilled secretaries, but the work still piled up. The twenty-four hours in the day weren’t enough.

She was enjoying herself, floating on her back.

Whenever Junhyuk thought about Aksha’s Longsword, he learned something new. He wanted to master it and combine it with his own swordsmanship, but that day, he would just rest.

The waves rippled easily around his body, and he stared at the blue sky above.

Everyone was enjoying the vacation. The expenses were being paid by Guardians, and they were able to rest.

That night, they ate barbecue and, the next day, they swam in the ocean again. Some of the powered people were dating each other. Some of them were taken over by the mood and pa.s.sionately expressed what had been on their minds to each other.

“If powered people have babies, will the babies have powers too?” Junhyuk murmured.

Elise grabbed his arm and said, “I want to test that theory!”

He turned to her, and looking up at him, she asked, “Do you want to try?”

“Try what?”

“Having babies. I’m curious about what would happen if a hero had a baby with a champion.”

Junhyuk gave her a wry smile and let go of her. Sometimes, Elise’s jokes went a little far.

“Tsk!”

She clicked her tongue, and he shook his head. Suddenly, an alarm rang from her tablet, and Junhyuk turned to her again. She was frowning.

“Tears will appear.”

“Where?”

“Not that many. About twenty worldwide.”

“South Korea?”

“No. The nearest one will be in China.”

Junhyuk nodded and gathered the group of champions and experts.

“We are on vacation, but we just found out that tears will start sp.a.w.ning. It’s time to move out.”

Everyone had a Spatial Bag, and they all started pulling out their items.

“First, we’ll go to China,” he said. They had to deal with the nearest one.

Once they got to China, he found out that the monsters were wyverns again.

“What are they thinking?”

The wyverns might be stronger now, but it only took the team a short while to kill them all. After the battle, he received a report. It said that the new decomposition compound had been effective against the wyverns around the world.

Suddenly, Elise called him.

“Five tears will appear in South Korea.”

Junhyuk did not hesitate and said, “Let’s go.”

While he went to China, the managers had sent more wyverns to South Korea. After the dragon attack in Korea, Junhyuk was hesitant to divide his team there.

Elise had flown her drone to Samcheong District, and Junhyuk met her there. He formed two teams. One would deal with the wyverns in the sky, and the other would focus on a huge monster on the ground. The monster looked like a dragon, but it lacked wings. It was using its ma.s.sive body to destroy the buildings around it.

The people were being evacuated. The Air Force fighter jets could now deal with the wyverns, so the monster on the ground posed a bigger problem.

“That’s a drake. I doesn’t have magic, but it’s resistant to magic. Its defense is also outstanding. It’s much stronger than a wyvern,” Junhyuk heard Elise say.

After learning that, he got on his drone.

“What about the other tears?”

“Three other places have wyvern-drake combos. The National Defense Force is dealing with them. The last tear is being dealt with by the U.S. Air Force, but I can’t see anything that’s happening in the area. It’s all covered in a dark fog.”

Junhyuk slashed the drake, easily killing it. Compared to dragons, they were much weaker.

Not everyone’s attacks would work, but after clearing the drakes from all of the tears, he shouted, “We’ll head into the fog that’s shrouding everything!”

“Can I come?”

“No need. The army has been deployed there?”

“Yes.”

“Then, I’ll head there now.”

Junhyuk had a bad feeling, so he thought he had to get there immediately.

It had taken him ten minutes to kill all of the drakes around South Korea. The wyverns were also dead.

He took the entire powered force with him after killing the drakes. The wyverns had been dealt with by the armies. Casualties had taken place, but the military could fight now.

Junhyuk reached Dobong Mountain and saw a dark fog covering everything within a two-kilometer radius from the center of it.

Frowning, he said, “Something’s not right.”

Junhyuk hadn’t imagined something like that. He suspected a monster stronger than the drakes was causing it.

“You’ll get a present soon,” he heard Elise say through comms.

He turned toward an approaching noise and saw a red robot flying toward him. The robot stopped suddenly in front of him, and he laughed.

“Ganesha?”

“It feels different to meet you in person.”

Ganesha was covered in Red Dragon scales, and it would be more helpful than the experts.