There's a great item right there.

Thomas viciously laughed while not caring about what Ju-Heon might be thinking.

“You’re that shitty thief who stole our treasures.”

‘Well, it’s true that I took them.’

Ju-Heon chuckled. Thomas approached Ju-Heon as if he was annoyed by that chuckle.

Ju-Heon looked at him and snickered.

‘As expected of the United States, the leaders of artifacts at this time.’

They definitely looked different from the Chinese soldiers based on the stuff on their shoulders.

‘They’re quite skilled as well.’

Unlike the soldiers who brought useless weapons into the tomb, Thomas had a flashlight, a blade, and a rope, typical excavation equipment.

‘He also has some useful artifacts on him.’

Thomas shouted again at that moment.

“Hey, are you so dumb that you don't understand English? Answer me if you have nothing to hide, you stinky yellow monkey!”

He was being openly racist toward Asians, slanting his eyes as well. He seemed to know the method to cut down an opponent’s Dominance. Of course, this kind of provocation could not shake Ju-Heon's mental state.

‘I wouldn't be shaken even if you told me that you were my father. You stupid son of a bitch.’

Usually, Ju-Heon would have ignored Thomas. However, things were different right now.

“Hey. That thing looks nice.”

“What?”

Thomas was shocked for a moment after hearing Ju-Heon's fluent English, but he scoffed after realizing that Ju-Heon was talking about his pipe.

“It looks like you can tell what is good, but the important thing right now is that you are the thief who stole our stuff……”

Ju-Heon smiled and shamelessly asked at that moment.

“Why don't you give it to me? I happen to need that right now.”

Thomas questioned if he had heard correctly.

“What did you just say?”

“Are you deaf? Hand it over because I need it.”

Thomas scoffed in disbelief.

“I see, you’re not a damn thief, you're a highway robber!”

Thomas activated the pipe and charged toward Ju-Heon.

It would be different if Ju-Heon was a civilian, but Ju-Heon was the one who stole Vivian's artifacts.

‘His Dominance should have been shaken as well!’

“Hand over the artifacts you stole first!”

Red make-up appeared on Thomas’s face once he activated the pipe and the pipe's surface turned as sharp as a blade.

Swooosh!

The pipe that was sharp enough to cut a person's arm off brushed past Ju-Heon's face. Thomas was extremely quick. However, Ju-Heon used feather-like movements to doge.

“!”

That wasn’t all. Ju-Heon didn't even seem to be feeling threatened as he calmly moved his head as he analyzed the pipe.

‘Lucky. It looks like an A-Grade artifact.’

This would be completely different from the C-Grade knife in his possession.

‘This is extremely useful!’

Ju-Heon, who seemed to have gone crazy at that thought, quickly kicked Thomas in the chest.

Pow!

“Ugh!”

Thomas clutched his chest and fell over. Ju-Heon's physique and muscles were much smaller than Thomas’s, but his attack was vicious. A rock-like fist landed on Thomas’s chin!

Crack!

“Ugh!”

The shock was so strong that Thomas felt as if the whole world was shaking.

"Thomas!”

‘This bastard!’

Thomas let out a quiet groan and channeled a strong amount of Dominance. The pipe released a vicious aura and managed to leave a small cut on Ju-Heon's neck.

“Captain-nim!”

Jaeha must have been worried as he came over with an artifact, but Ju-Heon waved his hand as if he didn’t need it.

‘Hurry up and move the boat.’

Jaeha nodded his head and started to move like a rat while Thomas shouted toward Linda.

“Linda! What are you doing?! Chase him! That bastard is in cahoots with this one!”

Linda nodded her head and quickly chased after Yoo Jaeha. Jaeha gasped in response. He shouted something about how it was nice to have a woman chasing him, but not like this as he ran toward the ship. Thomas used that moment to threaten Ju-Heon.

“I won’t go easy on you anymore for being a civilian, you damn thief!”

“Okay then, give it a go.”

Thomas was an agent who had trained in martial arts. It was only natural that his physique and martial arts skill were different from regular civilians. Using an artifact on top of that made his strength exponentially stronger than normal.

The way Thomas was swinging the sword sounded as if his strength transcended common sense.

However…

‘There’s plenty of bastards like you in tombs!’

Crack!

“Ugh!”

Ju-Heon’s kick landed right on Thomas's shin and his cheap hands poked Thomas’s eyes.

Thomas could only groan from the burning pain in his eyes.

"Ahh!”

Ju-Heon did not miss that opening, took out the silver axe and struck down toward Thomas.

“Rip him to shreds! Go, silver axe.”

The silver axe responded loudly to Ju-Heon’s shout.

[#$&^#$&!]

Roooooar! You damn human, I told you to hand me some women!”

It seemed to have a lot of complaints, but it did not matter.

A large amount of energy struck Thomas and sent him flying.

It was impossible to fully disarm Chairman Kwon because of his Achilles’s Armor, but Thomas did not have such armor.

It was as if he was clothed in newspapers in front of the silver axe.

And then, bang!

“U, ugh!”

Thomas became naked after everything he had been wearing was ripped up.

Jewelry, outerwear, underwear, and artifacts, anything that could be traded for money and is considered property was destroyed.

For some reason, Thomas became extremely anxious and grabbed the spot between his legs at that moment.

“Fuck!”

Ju-Heon didn't care as to why he did that. The weapon had ended up in his hand in the process anyway.

Ju-Heon smiled after seeing the pipe in his hand.

[Valiant Silla Hwarang’s Sword received from the King (A-Grade:Treasure-Grade - Consumable Artifact)]

Remaining Uses (2594/5000)

It looked like a steel pipe on the outside, but based on the Chinese characters on it, it was Hwarang’s Sword as he remembered.

‘It looked like this right now because it was not in its original form.’

Based on his spy skill, it didn't seem to be one of the better known Hwarang Member’s swords. If it belonged to people like Gim Yu-sin, Sadaham, or Gim Won-sul, it would definitely be an S-Grade artifact.

‘Well, it’d be useless since I can’t handle S-grade artifacts yet.’

He then heard his talented subordinate’s voice with perfect timing.

“Captain-nim! Get on!”

“Oh, what great timing.”

Boooooooong, a small motorboat was heading toward him and the engine noise started to wake the people on the ship one by one.

However, Yoo Jaeha seemed anxious for some reason.

"Damn it, stop chasing me!”

Ju-Heon wondered why, but it was because Linda was on the boat as well to hinder Yoo Jaeha who was driving.

Ju-Heon sighed.

‘That idiot.’

Linda put a headlock on Yoo Jaeha while asking where he thinks he's running.

"Stop right now! I can’t guarantee your safety if you don’t!”

“Sure, go ahead and kill me! I'm not scared at all!”

Ju-Heon quickly called out the rope. The bracelet on Ju-Heon’s wrist flashed before quickly turning into the rope and binding Linda.

“Ugh! This thing!”

The rope that was excitedly binding Linda seemed to be saying, ‘human. Are you going to mess with my hot oppa? Are you?’

It seemed to be baring its fangs as it said that.

Ju-Heon tried to leisurely escape the ship and get on the boat.

Thomas, who was busy covering the spot between his legs, started shouting.

“Linda! What are you doing?! Turn the boat! Hurry!”

Linda gasped after barely escaping from the rope's clutches.

“My goodness, why the hell are you doing a strip show?! Did you get raped or something? Uhh……but the size…why did it shrink……”

“Shut the hell up! These bastards are thieves! They are not regular citizens! Stab him if you need to stop the boat!”

‘Stab? Who does he think he is to stab my subordinate?’

Ju-Heon coldly said something in response.

“I guess I don’t need to give you a warning if you can spew such nonsense.”

“What?”

“You might die because the ship is about to flip over.”

Ju-Heon jumped off the ship as he said that and the ship started to sink.

Boom!

It had happened in the blink of an eye. The tomb's owner, that was aiming for humans, used the snakes to sink the ship.

“Ahhhhh!”

The people on the ship screamed as they fell into the ocean.

Most were trained soldiers so they didn't die that easily, but it was still nonetheless a big disaster for them.

“Gaaaaaaaaaaaasp! What the, what the hell is this?!”

Thomas was also a mess from this sudden barrage of water.

“Damn it!”

However, Ju-Heon was able to not get a single drop of water on him. The rope had stretched its body out to become a bar for Ju-Heon to hold onto to float in the air.

People were screaming all around him.

“Ahhhhh!”

"Save me!”

There were fish with sharp teeth charging toward the people in the ocean.

The fish were charging as if they were craving living human flesh.

The people swam toward the lifeboats and urgently shouted.

“Ahhh! Get on quickly! Hurry up!”

“Damn it!”

The tomb’s owner seemed to want to drown all humans here.

It could be even angrier after being tricked by Ju-Heon, but Ju-Heon did not care.

He knew they would not die from just this.

Yoo Jaeha, who was driving, pointed to his side and asked as Ju-Heon easily landed on the motorboat.

"What about this woman? Should we return her to the other guy?”

“No, we don’t have time for that.”

“Then are you planning on throwing her into the water?”

Yoo Jaeha gasped as he asked, but Ju-Heon pointed somewhere and gave an order.

“You just steer over there. You see the tree on top of the land? That is the map-type artifact located here.”

“T, that tree?”

“Yes.”

Ju-Heon then looked toward Linda, who was groaning while bound by the rope again.

Linda was glaring at Ju-Heon and shouted for him to untie her.

“Mm, mmmmmmmph! Mmmph!”

However, Ju-Heon just thoroughly caressed her body and casually stole her artifacts.

He then threw her to the back of the boat once he was done with her. He was throwing her as if she was a bag.

“Mmmmph!”

Ju-Heon spoke seriously while Linda was in pain.

“Stay there quietly unless you want to see blood gushing out of your neck.”

She was the victim to the rope’s perverted nature, but what could she do? This was her fate.

Yoo Jaeha started to chuckle with an expression that seemed to show that he was shocked at this development.

"Are you going easy on her because she is a woman?”

“No.”

Ju-Heon then leisurely sat down next to Linda and looked behind him.

“It’s about time they showed up.”

And as he had expected… Booooooong, there was another motorboat chasing after Ju-Heon.

An angry Thomas and Vivian were coming for Linda and Ju-Heon.

“Hey, you thieving bastards! Give Linda back!”

Vivian was tightly hugging a pole on the boat as she was afraid that she might fall off the speeding boat while Thomas was wearing a Chinese soldier’s uniform. He must have stolen it from someone.

The boat fervently followed behind them showing their intentions of catching these thieving bastards.

“Linda! Just wait a bit! I'll save you!”

Ju-Heon then smirked as if he had been waiting for this.

“Time to throw the bait now that the fish are here.”

Ju-Heon then slung Linda over his shoulder as if she was a bag of rice.

Linda gasped and started to turn pale.

‘T, there’s no way this bastard…’

Ju-Heon then lifted the bound Linda high into the air.

“Mmmph! Mmmmmmmph!”

Linda gasped and flailed while on Ju-Heon's shoulder, but Ju-Heon ruthlessly threw her off the boat.

"Take your belonging back! You retard!”

Splash!

“Mmmph!”

“L, Linda! That crazy bastard!’

Thomas and Vivian gasped before heading toward where Linda was drowning.

They knew that Linda was being used as a pawn to get rid of them, but how could she not drown when she was thrown overboard while bound like that?!

An anxious Thomas quickly jumped in and swam toward Linda.

Thomas pulled on the rope binding Linda and tried to pull her toward a land mass, but the rope got in his way.

‘This motherf*cking rope! Ugh!’

After excitedly bothering the two of them for a bit, the rope slithered back to its master as if it was a water snake.

Thomas quickly gave Linda CPR and she miraculously survived. The revived Linda shouted toward Thomas.

“Cough cough! I'm fine, so quickly chase after them!”

“Tsk. I got it.”

But at that moment…

“Ahhh!”

Linda and Thomas, who were by the water, suddenly shot up into the air. Their feet were tied up and they ended up dangling on a tree.

"Fuck, what the hell is this?!”

"I can’t untie it!”

It was the rope that tied them up. Ju-Heon laughed while looking at them.

"What a catch, what a catch.”

The rope bobbed up and down in joy while roaring at the two of them.

[$#&$!]

Hand over your artifacts! Hand them over!

“Aaah!”

They heard some screams along with the voices of the Chinese excavation team.

Ju-Heon, who was leisurely leaving on the boat, started laughing.

‘I still need these fools alive to do something.’

As he had that thought…

“Captain-nim! We're almost there! It’s that area over there!”

“Yes, keep steering. I'm going to slash it while we’re moving.”

“Excuse me? Slash it? What are you going to slash? Wait, you're going to slash that thing?!”

The broadleaf tree that seemed to have been here for hundreds of years was as large as most buildings and looked difficult to cut through.

‘How is he going to slash that tree?!’

Ju-Heon didn't care whether Yoo Jaeha gasped or not as he channeled a large amount of dominance into the pipe he stole from Thomas.

Boom!

The shabby pipe flashed before turning into a Hwandudaedo from the Silla dynasty.

[1]

Red marking appeared around Ju-Heon’s eyes and the artifact screeched as Ju-Heon started to pull the sword out.

He soon had the entire Hwandudaedo drawn.

“Here you go, there is your prey!”

As the boat passed by the tree, the tree where the map-type artifact was hiding was ruthlessly slashed.

1. Hwandudaedo is the modern Korean term for the earliest type of Korean sword, appearing in the Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea.

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