Chapter 105: Independence Approaches (7)

"Russia isn't a playground for sorcerers."

Viktor's face crumpled.

"Remove the obstacles."

As Viktor gave the order, the soldiers waiting behind began to move. They assembled mortars with familiarity and fired them towards the forest on the path to the amusement park.

Boom!

With an ear-splitting sound, the mortars completely shattered the dense forest, and when they judged it to be somewhat safe, they began to move in order, carrying their equipment.

Soldiers holding riot shields moved to surround the group on all sides like building a wall, and soldiers carrying long swords and axes followed beside them. In the center were personnel holding expensive-looking equipment.

And those staying in place were covering them with mortars, sniper rifles, and grenade launchers.

The soldiers leading towards the amusement park signaled that it was safe when there were no hazards up to the entrance, and only then did Viktor draw his sword and walk steadily towards the entrance.

Vroom.

And two armored trucks followed behind him. One armored truck had a large parabolic antenna, commonly called a dish antenna, slowly rotating, and the other had a horn protruding like a lightning rod, emitting electricity with crackling sounds.

[ Noise phenomenon due to spirit body interference! Evil spirit approach confirmed! ]

[ Electromagnetic waves detected! 13 low-grade evil spirits, 2 mid-low grade evil spirits! ]

[ The magnetic field is strengthening! Evil spirits will appear soon! ]

The armored trucks following behind measured electromagnetic waves and magnetic fields respectively and sent warnings to the soldiers, and the soldiers prepared for approaching evil spirits by sprinkling holy water they had received from divine sorcerers for consecration according to the warnings.

And then.

[ How dare you! ]

An evil spirit appeared.

The evil spirit in a guard's uniform was rolling its protruding blue eyeballs in its half-rotten face, and shouted loudly, showing its sparsely attached teeth.

[ Where do you reactionary bastards think you're coming armed! ]

The evil spirit made angry gestures and shouted loudly, and drew the pistol it was wearing on its side.

It was a Tokarev pistol, famous for its nickname "TT pistol".

The evil spirit raised the pistol high and shouted.

[ One step of the great ideology, the flag of the great people! Our people will never submit to the bourgeoisie and imperialists! ]

[ Are you after political prisoners? Have you come to save your comrades?! ]

[ Even if you come armed, we won't back down. Go over our dead bodies! ]

[ But Comrade Secretary will avenge us! ]

[ Ura (Ура)! Soviet Ura (Ура)! ]

Viktor frowned as if annoyed at the evil spirit guard's shouting.

"This is the problem with remote places."

"Yes, sir."

"When you hear about evil spirits popping up because a lot of people died during the World War, it's always these types."

Due to the overwhelming number of deaths, evil spirits appeared quite frequently in Russia as well.

Just the deaths during World War II alone were at least 29 million, up to 40 million.

Moreover, if one considered deaths not included in statistics, prisoners, crime victims, etc., it could be even more.

The fortunate thing was that because most of the reasons for death were related to war, their repertoire was always similar when they appeared, so countermeasures were also widely known.

Viktor nodded to one soldier, and the soldier quietly cleared his throat and stepped forward.

The soldier stood straight, looked directly at the evil spirit, and opened his mouth.

"We've come from the Party."

At those words, the evil spirit that had drawn its pistol and looked ready to charge at any moment became docile.

"We've come for a surprise inspection to see if you're managing the reactionary elements well, so open the gate."

The soldier addressed the evil spirit in an authoritative tone, and the evil spirit put its pistol back. But as if something was suspicious, it rolled its blue eyes and asked him.

[ I haven't heard about any inspection coming... ]

"Ha! If we told you in advance, would that be a surprise inspection? Open the gate immediately!"

As the evil spirit seemed to hesitate, the soldier's expression hardened.

"What are you doing? I said we came on Party orders, what are you doing!"

He burst out in anger.

"How suspicious! Open it right now!"

Then the evil spirits began to open the gate.

To be precise, they made gestures of opening a gate by touching the air as if there was a shattered iron gate. But from their strained movements, it seemed the evil spirits perceived that there was a real gate there.

This was one of the behavioral patterns of evil spirits disconnected from reality.

"Tsk. You should have done this from the start. Those working in remote areas are never quick."

The soldier spoke as if reprimanding the evil spirits standing at attention on both sides as if they had finished opening the gate.

"However, as there are many moving to collapse the system, I'll overlook it this time. But if any problems are seen, I'll add this to it and impose severe punishment. Understood!"

[ Yes, sir! ]

[ Yes, sir! ]

With those words, the soldier gestured to the group behind as if to follow, and the soldiers entered the amusement park following the leading soldier.

Even as the soldiers passed, the evil spirits stood stiffly and didn't stop them, and after everyone had entered, they gestured urgently to the ragged evil spirits that had followed them. Then the evil spirits moved their bodies slowly as if performing labor.

Viktor confirmed that all the soldiers had entered and turned on the radio, tapping it three times to send a signal. Then the rear of the armored trucks opened and white smoke began to billow out.

The smoke filled the entrance with an acrid smell.

And when the smoke covered the entire entrance, a soldier got out of the armored truck and took out magnetic field cancellation devices to install them in various places. Then he put down the device he was carrying on his back and activated it by injecting magical power.

The device activated with a sharp beeping noise, and the specially made wet battery inserted in the back of the device made bubbling and rattling vibration sounds.

And when it reached its peak.

Boom-!

A shockwave that temporarily incapacitated evil spirits exploded.

When the evil spirits couldn't come to their senses due to the shockwave, Viktor infused his sword with sword energy and swung it, and the sword coated with silver blessed by divine sorcerers tore the evil spirits to shreds as if tearing paper.

"Indeed, there's nothing easier than killing these things with a surprise attack."

Evil spirits deceived people.

They deceived, defrauded, and manipulated.

This was due to the characteristics of spirits that couldn’t properly exert physical force unlike ghosts.

But as much as they couldn't exert physical force, they were skilled at playing with people's minds, and they used their abilities to show people illusions, deceive them, and seduce them.

When people fall for the seduction, they could possess their bodies and become possessing spirits, or manipulate their minds at will and turn them into demon-attached people who served them completely.

At the level of great evil spirits, they could show terrible and evil miracles such as bewitching thousands or tens of thousands of people to form an army or controlling corpses, so they could be truly threatening beings.

But even con artists could be conned.

People researched ways to deal with them to escape the threat of evil spirits, and in modern times with abundant information, this research bore fruit.

Thus, a manual for dealing with evil spirits was created.

What the soldier just showed was one of those methods.

It was a method of making evil spirits that bewitch and devour weak-minded people let their guard down and then striking them. This method had the advantage of being able to eliminate them instantly without giving the evil spirits a chance to escape.

Of course, there was the disadvantage that if the acting was done poorly, the actor could be in danger, but with soldiers already experienced in dealing with evil spirits nearby and equipped with gear to respond to evil spirits and demons, what danger could there be?

"Your acting skills are improving. I'm satisfied."

"Thank you, sir!"

"I'll give you a bottle of vodka when we get back!"

Viktor praised the soldier and then looked at his sword gleaming in the light from the armored truck with satisfaction. Then he shook his sword in the air a couple of times as if to shake off the remnants of the evil spirits.

But did Viktor's shaking of the sword attract some impurity?

[ They do~ ]

[ Cho... ]

[ They do~! ]

Music could be heard from far away in the ruined amusement park.

Not played through speakers, not sung with the throat.

A sound that seemed to be made by tearing at something like an instrument and squeezing out a voice-like sound.

"Alert."

Snap!

With Viktor's order, the soldiers all formed ranks at once.

Viktor also raised his sword and looked towards where the sound was coming from.

[ Hung-geul! Delicious meal is good! ]

[ Hung-geul! Joyful meal is good! ]

[ When you taste it, spores fall! ]

[ The mushrooms that bloom from the fallen spores say! ]

[ Excellent meal! ]

[ Great meal! ]

What Viktor saw was an army of mushrooms.

Mushrooms as big as human heads were moving their torn gaps like mouths and singing.

"What is this now?"