The interior of the Assembly had changed beyond recognition.


    The Spider-Type’s architectural instincts had fully kicked in, transforming the entire building into a labyrinth just as intricate as the one that had once imprisoned that Minotaur.


    The clearing teams had used explosives and bulldozers to force open paths, but due to counterattacks from both minions and cultists, they hadn’t been able to carve out a completely secure route.


    In short, we had to conduct our operation while the defensive structure built by the Spider-Type remained intact.


    And to make matters worse, there were cultists inside the building.


    Walking through the dim gray corridors—once adorned with luxurious carpets, now eroded into a dull white—I asked Kim Daram:


    “Doesn’t your side have cultists too?”


    “Yeah, we do.”@@@@


    “Think they’ll get mad if we kill these ones?”


    “Not really? They care more about the monsters we kill than the lives of these cultists.”


    Whichever was true, one fact remained: North Korea had a massive number of cultists. And many of them had disguised themselves as ordinary refugees to slip into South Korea.


    Not all refugees were dangerous. But some had defects so severe that they could never be integrated into Korean society.


    “If it were up to the Director, he’d round them all up and throw them into a gas chamber.”


    For someone like Kim Daram, who usually took a neutral stance, that was an extreme statement.


    The cultist girl I had seen in Sejong was already far from normal.


    If thousands of people like her were running rampant, it was only natural that they’d provoke hostility.


    I didn’t particularly like cultists either.


    Unlike Kim Daram, I wasn’t in favor of gassing them en masse, but on the battlefield, they were obstacles that needed to be removed before the monsters.


    And right now, instead of heading into monster territory, we were moving straight into a cultist-controlled zone.


    The team consisted of me, Kim Daram, and three nameless fighters—one of whom was carrying a flamethrower.


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