60 Chapter 60: Country Development (Final)
Author: This is the chapter for Monday. I want to thanks everyone who had been supporting me! My powerstone ranking is at 260 (highest) before this week ranking is concluded. Thank you very much!!
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Barton is seeing what happened even when he turned his back against the masked man and Silvija as he peeks through broken glass.
He got goosebumps on his skin as he wondered what he was going to do if he is the one with the curse.
'Will he kiss me at that time? Will I allow it? Thank god that it wasn't me. Only Laura can suck things off me'
Ryan already got the curse from Silvija's neck and separated from her. She got a hickey from the ritual.
He is not a pervert. That is the easiest way to remove the demonic energy, by sucking it into his body. He learns it from a book on Ritual Magic from an East Asian country, that he bought in the system marketplace.
Voodoo, how to cultivate Gu, Gu poison, head-shrinking charm, and many more are explained in the book.
Silvija's knees are weak as Ryan touches her life force. Beads of sweat can be seen on her forehead. She feels like the kiss is connected to every part of her body. EVERY part of it.
Before she could get mad and scolds him, she sees that he is spitting out a mouthful of blood.
The blood falls and stains the floor. The black blood sizzled like it was boiling and dissipated in the air. Ryan put his mask back on.
Silvija's eyes widened. "Did you take the curse from me into yourself?" She asks with concern.
He didn't answer.
Coulson, Barton, and Obax turn to them when they know it is over.
Obax asked Silvija. "Are you feeling okay now?" Her friend nods as an answer.
Coulson is looking at the masked man. "Sir, may we please talk. "
The man is the key to fighting the demon. The agent wants to pull him into Shield, or into finding the ice monster.
Ryan ignores Coulson and looks at the broken walls.
Obax realizes what he is going to do, "Are you going to go now?"
"(Yes)" He signs the answer.
"We can help you hunt that thing together," Barton said while fixing his arrowhead. His arrow can be used as a distraction and to cover the man like in their battle before.
"(No need, I hunt by myself)"
The light in the hall flickers again. When it turned back on, the masked man was already gone.
"Show off", Barton is dissatisfied. Silvija takes a water bottle and washes off the place that Ryan kissed.
Coulson's eyes widened by this.
"What? A random man kisses me and I can wash it off?" Silvija said haughtily.
The agent learns that he won't have any help in searching for the man from the girls here. He planned to get the DNA from the kiss as the blood is already gone.
This is also why Silvija washes it off. To help the masked man.
Phil Coulson had another trouble for him as he had to face Obax first before he could leave.
"Can you tell me, why the Americans know about an imminent attack on the Parliament building, against the important political party member, and not warn us about the thing before it happened?" Obax asks calmly.
If she is agitated about the situation, Coulson may get away with it. But her unprecedented calm scares the agents there.
If it's not handled well, it will become a major diplomatic issue between the two countries. Three, if Symkaria is included.
…
Exciting the hall, Ryan is following the trace of the demonic energy. He ran towards it for a few kilometers and ended deep inside the forest. Inside the forest, he runs by jumping from one tree branch to the next, like a ninja.
He reaches the ice monster place. There, he sees an Asian monk holding back the ice demon contractor with an eldritch whip.
Orange whip made of magic coils around the demon contractor, restricting its movement.
Ryan jumps from the tree and lands near the place of battle. He bows slightly at Wong, to which the guy he bowed to returned his gesture.
Wong said, "The sorcerer supreme said this is your responsibility."
"Okay," Ryan said calmly. He goes to the incapacitated man and draws a reverse pentagram around him.
Wolfe asks Wong. "What is he doing?". His partner couldn't answer.
After he is done, Ryan pours divine magic into the structure that he builds. "Arggh" The ice monster screams in pain.
The demonic energy inside the monster congregated on his forehead. Then, Ryan grabs the demon contractor's forehead and pulls away from the demon contract that he signs. He screams in misery, as demonic energy is leaving his body.
Now, all that he is, is a husk of what used to be a man.*Cough* Gen coughed heavily and vomited blood. His body is very damaged, but he is still alive for now.
"Don't feel too happy. I only keep you alive to make you answer for your crime." Ryan said to the horrible man. He karate chops the guy's neck, making him unconscious.
He turns to Wong and gives the sheepskin demon contract to him. The master of the mystic art thanked him.
"What will you do with it?" Ryan asks.
"It will be kept inside the Kamar Taj so that it will not harm another person," Wolfe said.
"Why don't you destroy it?" He is confused.
"Although Ikhtalon contact is simple, if we destroy it, it will cause extreme cold weather to the region we destroy it in as part of his curse," Wong explained.
It's like Ikhtalon wants them to destroy it by making a really weak contract. When people die as they are claimed by his ice, then their souls will belong to the demon.
Ryan thought for a while." Why don't we throw it into the sun? "
Wong chuckles a bit. " And how are we going to get there?"
"Just use a spaceship," Ryan said calmly.
"Alright don't joke around. I will seal this in Kamar Taj now." Wolfe said.
"I didn't joke though." He removes his mask to make it easier to talk to them.
"You're…Knight!!" Wong said. He is a fan of Ryan, as the man produced a lot of new songs. He is very shocked that the guy knows magic, and his magic is different from Kamar Taj's magic.
Wolfe, who was more secluded, didn't know who he was. She is confused by Wong's reaction.
"Did you have a spaceship?" Wong asks excitedly.
"Yes, I built one on my own." He answered calmly.
"Wait here a moment!" Wong opened a portal to the sanctum and hurriedly crossed it. He shut down the portal and left Wolfe and Ryan there.
Wolfe asks, "Why did you keep him alive?"
"Well, if he is dead, then the culprit that sold the demon contract to him will get away scot-free. If he is alive, then I can drag out the people behind him into the fire." Ryan said while looking at the unconscious man coldly.
Wolfe is stunned by Ryan's change of expression. 'Although his action is cold, the result will make the human world much better as the demon-worshipping family is arrested.'
The portal opened again. Wong comes back from Kamar Taj with some items on him. He went back to ask the ancient one about the plausibility of the plan.
She said that it will work, only if it's some low-level stuff. She admired Ryan's creativity when he came out with the plan. She gave Wong some stuff that can be thrown in the sun, so that he may dispose of it together.
"So, where is your spaceship? I can open the portal there." Wong said.
"No need, I already called it over." The sky above turns dark. It turns out that his spaceship already hovered about the forest for a while now. The spaceship didn't land, instead, a shuttle did.
They are transported into the spaceship bay by the shuttle. Getting out of the shuttle. Wong is looking around the spaceship excitedly. Yinsen, who is commandeering the ship said "Where to first?"
"We need to send the man into the parliament building. After that, we will go to the vicinity of the Sun."
"The sun?" Yinsen is confused.
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Obax is negotiating the event with Shield. As of now, there isn't any evidence yet for her to get the upper hand. She received a text from her subordinate.
"It seems like Gen is already in our custody. I'm sure that we will find many interesting things from him." Obax said.
Coulson's eyes widened. Obax made a video call with her subordinate, showing the figure of the demon contractor to Coulson.
"Now, we can start over. I want the American Base on XX city to be removed from our country. Then, we will give you Gen." She negotiated a lot of deals that day.
Coulson turned over the negotiation to another agent. He goes to apprehend Gen. At that time, Obax's subordinate had already managed to record a full confession from the guy, and his accomplice.
Even if Shield sent their best agent in the future to retrieve the evidence, they would not succeed. The elf is managing the entire affair.
Obax and Silvija go to rest after a busy day.
"Hey, the kind investor... Is it Ryan Knight?" Silvija asks.
"Yes, he had some condition to help me though, but none of it is detrimental to the country. On the contrary, it will help instead" Obax explained.
She shares the details of the contract. How he is going to build an international university there. The plan for medical assistance and cooperation in farming.
His condition is to help the orphans from the war. To make a foundation for the children. To help the poor. To change the education system. It'll be very hard to do that, but Ryan will help alongside her to do it.
Silvija is shocked to see the conditions. "How did you do it? Connect with him?"
"I got assistance. You want to talk to him too, right? I'll text him for you. Maybe he'll invest in your company."
Before Silvija agreed, Obax already created an appointment for her.
"He said he will come to Somalia tomorrow. He asks you to prepare your presentation." Obax smiles at Silvija. She could run away from the battle with the monster before this, but she stayed and helped her.
"Wait-wait. I need to prepare! " The ruler of Symkaria is very eager and nervous. To find an investor that is loose with his money is rare.
'My lord said Kindness should be rewarded, Evil should be punished.' For Obax, Silvija is kind. She is only thinking about her country. Obax will help her to achieve her dream.
'I thought that my lord would want to accept her as an avatar, but he didn't huh.' She feels blessed, as the Lord picked her before. She is also a little terrified. 'If He reaches his target to help the country, will he leave?'
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The shield is gathering evidence for the incident. Director Fury is on the line at the Triskelion Building in New York, talking to Coulson.
"Have the contract been found?" Fury asks solemnly.
"No sir, we asked Gen. He said the masked guy already took the contract away," Phil reports.
They saw the CCTV footage where the masked guy dropped the man in front of Obax's party building. She is free from suspicion.
"That kind of weapon shouldn't let loose Coulson." Fury is worried.
At that time, all the people in the world stopped what they were doing. They turn to the sky.
A sudden eclipse occurs! The sun turns dark!!
"SOUND THE ALARM. WE ARE NOW AT A LEVEL 7 PREPAREDNESS!" Fury ordered!
While the world is fascinated with the sudden eclipse, Ryan is in space and just finishes chucking the demonic items to the sun.
He attaches the item to a space probe and directs it into the sun. Once in the range of the sun's gravity, his work is done.
"Will the eclipse bring anything to earth?" He asks Wong worriedly.
"No, the demons may want to find who destroyed their things, but he won't find it. If he opens a breach, he will enter the sun directly." Wong explains what the ancient one told him.
"The world must be in chaos now," Ryan said in a low voice. It's true. People are afraid of the sudden phenomena. Scientists had been hired to explain it to the public. Shield is working especially hard for this, to keep the supernatural things away from the public.
Putting the matter away, he had a conversation with Wong.
" Can you get me a Beyonce autograph?" The Asian fan is excited.
"Yeah, I can. Do you want a picture too?" He has Beyonce's number on his phone.
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One week later. In the Triskelion Building.
"Have we found him yet?" Fury asks solemnly.
Hill answered, "Sir, we have been searching everywhere. There is no sign of Eclipse"
Eclipse is the codename for Ryan's persona. His figure is sketched by a professional sketch artist and Barton. His power is analyzed. He is now a threat level 8, above Tony Stark.
They even investigated his connection to Silvija and Obax but found nothing. It annoyed Silvija greatly when she got monitored. They backed off after Obax display the evidence of the incident to them.
Somalia cut a private deal with the United States and gets what they demand. The demon worshipper family all were taken to the Grave, an off-site Shield penitentiary. They died suddenly a week after.
The incident has been making Shield alert for a while, but nothing had happened since. Other than Gen dropping dead in the holding cell, there is no disturbance in the world.
'That is the scariest part.' Fury thought. The calm before the storm. The illusion of everything is good before all turns to shit.
In Symkaria, Silvija is reading the contract she signs with the Knight industry. Or rather, Ryan Knight.
At the time she meets him, she feels he looks kind of familiar. "Especially with his purple eyes"
All the time of the meeting, her eyes went to Ryan's lips, making Gwen that comes with Ryan and May Parker who is negotiating the deal a little dissatisfied with her.
Ryan at that time knows how scary a woman's instinct could be. She didn't go overboard with her glances though.
'After all, a playboy couldn't be that guy…'
'Tony Stark is a playboy before he becomes a superhero right? And that Batman from the comic...'
"What is going on with me!!" She is frustrated.
She spend the day arguing with herself, that she needed to read the contract again.
"His proposition is interesting. And it will put Symkaria on the map. The factory that he planned to open here is also going to give a lot of jobs to the people. And it will not cause pollution either as the guy is extremely attentive about that."
She got a lot of praise from her country management. Her private company also got an investment.
"1 Billion dollars per year provided that I can achieve targeted growth. " She smiles happily.
"Just wait, Silver Sable International will be world-famous!"
…
Ryan at home at that time is chatting with the chat group.
Hydra: It seems reasonable to do that. And it will cut short a lot of time.
Mythic: Are you sure about that. Your action is a little heinous if you plan it incorrectly.
QueenElf: The idea is good. But you need to be extremely careful in the execution. Don't leave any marks at all. Do it yourself, or only let the people you trust on this. Be careful as they are a chance for them to hate you too.
VampireKid: It is what all country does, all he did is shorten the time a little bit. What is wrong with that?
KickBaal: This greatly confuses me. Explain it again.
RetiredMechanic: Basically, he will build a brainwashing machine to brainwash an entire nation.
Hydra: That's too oversimplified. And it's your idea in the first place! @RetiredMechanic
RedWidow: I think it's a good plan, provided that he didn't get caught.
When he settled the external threat to the country, the internal situation gives him a headache.
"It's very hard to change the mind of the traditional people. Some people refuse to accept change. And also, to eliminate the biases of themselves on the other races and countries."
Basically racism and hostility toward outsiders. The education of the country is extremely lacking, making people keep clinging to the old ways. Like piracy on the seas.
He can't keep meeting people one by one and give them knowledge, right? There are 5 million people in the population!
That's when RetiredMechanic said he know a girl.
RetiredMechanic: She had the esper ability, Brainwashing. Or something similar. It's simple for her to change the way of a nation. She did that for a universal civilization before.
RM: This is like a walk in the park for her. I will help you talk to her. But you need to build the device that can transfer her esper power on your own. I will give you the design. It was very expensive. 100,000 tc.
Hydra: Money isn't a problem. But are you sure she could be trusted?
Mythic: Won't the Ancient One intervene in this?
Mephisto: No she won't. She will only intervene if magic is involved. And also, he isn't making them zombies that obey his entire word.
Mephisto: He is making them respect teachers, study hard to improve, work hard to change their life, don't turn into a life of crime, patriotism, be punctual, and do their job with honesty. He didn't touch their culture, religion, or their right to think.
VampireKid: I say it then and I say it again. It is what every country does. Whether it is subtle like propaganda or extreme like a concentration camp.
Mythic: I know, I know, I am worried for @Hydra. If he gets caught doing it, he will become the enemy of the world. As he can brainwash one, who's to say he can brainwash others. That's my concern.
Hydra: I will do this as a last resort. If the country needed it. They have been in chaos for a long period. I hate to let them fall into ruins again after all of my efforts.
RetiredMechanic: You want her CD? Her CD eliminated racism in a few different civilizations. I'm sure earth could use it. (lol.gif)
Ryan sighs. "Will I do it, or won't I do it?"
"Maybe not right now." He stands up and goes to his balcony and looks at the moon. "Why did someone request this anyway? To help a country?"
He becomes curious about the quest. However, he couldn't talk to the guy giving it. Maybe his level is too high.
"This will be a long journey. " He said while smiling. Afterward, he is checking the itinerary for the upcoming expo.
"Stark expo will be in two months. It seems his hearing will be around that time. Some people already tried to get me into the hearing as an expert on the matter."
If he did go, then Tony had no chance if he decided to go against him. The old kid has been testing the waters to see if he is going, but Ryan keeps him in the dark.
" It's really fun to mess with Tony." He pours himself a drink. The next plot shows its shadow.
