Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 349 Infiltration Operation
"Hello, this is our ID."

At a port by the sea, all the people here were driven away by the police. If the people standing at the port had better eyesight and looked out to sea, they might be able to see a shadow floating far away on the sea.

And that shadow was none other than the Fuguang that was held hostage by a group of robbers of unknown origin. Ever since those robbers demanded a ransom, the police had a headache while also contacting all parties to make preparations.

There is a ransom, but we cannot put all our hopes on the robbers releasing the hostages. In fact, the police's final plan is still to send elite troops to deal with the robbers and then rescue the hostages.

However, because the people on the ship were too involved, there were too many obstacles to stop the police's plan. After all, if this plan failed, one can imagine what kind of extreme behavior the robbers would do.

So just when the police were having a headache and a while had passed since the robbers made their demands, the highest person in charge of the police operation received the latest instructions: special personnel will replace the police's operatives, and all decision-making power will be handed over to them.

The simple and outrageous instructions made the port manager completely confused, but the boss's repeated and confirmed instructions forced them to take it seriously.

Soon, three young men really came here and showed their ID cards. After confirming again that these young men, who were about the same age as their son, were special personnel sent by their superiors, they could only follow their instructions.

"This is the ransom and the yacht. Our original plan was to have a few people deliver the ransom to the boat, and then send an elite team to sneak in from the water and find a way to rush to the boat to rescue the hostages. Now all decision-making power has been handed over to you according to the instructions. Please give instructions on what to do next."

Zenin Kei and Itadori Yuji both looked at the leader, Otsutsuki Yuta. Yes, the three of them were the 'special personnel' sent to deal with the robbers on the ship. The reason why they were not Kamigawa Genichi or Gojo Satoru and others was because the former regarded this as a task and assigned it to the three of them.

Otsutsuki smiled gently, and then said something that shocked the police officer in front of him: "Nothing is needed, just leave everything to us from now on. Your personnel should not approach the cruise ship, or they will be discovered by the people above."

The police officer could hardly believe his ears. What the other party meant was that these three young men had to deal with that group of vicious and unpredictable robbers on their own, and they didn't need any police support?
But then he seemed to have thought of something, and his expression suddenly became serious, no longer showing that doubtful look: "Yes, then I'll trouble you three."

……

The small yacht loaded with ransom was not difficult to drive, and all Otsutsuki and his companions needed to do was to complete this distance. After learning the basic operations from the police officer's strange look, Otsutsuki Yuta started the yacht a little awkwardly and drove towards the Fukumitsu.

When they arrived near the cruise ship, Okkotsu stopped the yacht he was operating and looked up at the deck of the cruise ship. This was a place where there should have been crowds of tourists in the past, but now it was empty.

But Otsutsuki knew that his arrival could not be hidden from the curse masters. Just now, he caught a glimpse of several cursed spirits acting as sentinels from a distance. This was a rare case of multiple curse masters committing a crime together.

Ever since more than a decade ago, all organized groups of curse masters in the country were destroyed. Those guys could only act alone or in groups of three or four, and there have been no such large-scale criminal incidents by curse masters since then.

Due to the serious nature of this incident and its great impact, Otsutsuki received the task of killing them all.

There was no need to interrogate or judge all the curse masters. Anyone seen could be killed immediately. Of course, this was on the premise of ensuring the lives of the hostages on the ship. However, the orders given to Otsutsuki by Shenyuanyi in this regard were also very vague.

He did not say definitively that he would save the lives of all the hostages, and even only gave him a vague statement of "don't make the situation too ugly", implying that as long as not too many people died, some casualties were acceptable.

Of course, Otsutsuki understood. There were more than just one or two curse masters on board. Preliminary estimates showed that there were at least thirty or more curse masters on board. Those guys who had survived until now were all very capable and tough opponents who should not be underestimated.

The reason why they only sent three of them was that if there were too many people, they might arouse the vigilance of the curse masters on the ship when they got close, and they might be attacked or harm the hostages on the ship.

Secondly, according to the judgment of the task issuer, Kamigaoka, there are already Otsutsuki who has special strength, Megumi who is the Ten Kage, and Itadori who is the carrier of Sukuna and has made great progress so far.

The three of them are enough to solve this incident, and they also happen to be the first three to become the flag bearers of the first batch of spells to be publicly displayed to the public. Completely solving these "terrorists", establishing their image, and becoming heroes in the eyes of the public is the first official step.

Besides, special-grade magicians such as Shen Genichi and Gojo Satoru, as well as other magicians with high spell powers, are not idle. Since the initial disclosure of information about some spells, curses have naturally shown a sharp growth trend.

Everyone was busy. It was a critical moment and they couldn't let the curse spread and cause panic among the people. This was one of the real reasons why Zuosuo convinced those curse masters.

But the situation is not that bad actually, the first reason accounts for a larger proportion.

Turn your gaze back to reality.

After the yacht stopped, a figure appeared from the edge of the cruise ship deck. After looking at the three people on the yacht, the figure gestured. Otsutsuki looked in the direction indicated by the other person. That was where the cruise ship hoisted the lifeboats. One of the lifeboats had disappeared. The other person probably meant for them to hoist the yacht up.

As expected, the slings were seen lowering down. Otsutsuki, Itadori and the others were busy for a while and hooked all the slings onto the yacht. However, the two were not matched after all, so it was quite bumpy when going up, which made people nervous.

What Otsutsuki and the others were worried about was that if the ransom on the ship fell off, it would be terrible if it fell into the sea. As for them...even if the sorcerer couldn't swim, he couldn't be drowned.

When the yacht was hoisted to the end, Otsutsuki and his companions saw a man with strange clothes, pale face and sunken eyes, like a ghost. The cursed aura on him and a raven spirit resting on his shoulder all revealed his identity.

However, Otsutsuki and the others did not pay much attention to the existence of the cursed spirit. Before coming here, Otsutsuki used a spell that he had copied before to temporarily change the appearance and even the aura of the three of them.

Before they mobilized their cursed power to take action again, the three of them looked like ordinary people. The negative cost of such near-perfect concealment was that if they wanted to remain hidden, they could not use any cursed power, and once they took action, their concealment would inevitably be broken.

Therefore, the master of this spell can only pretend to be an ordinary person and cannot disguise himself as a companion of the sorcerer who is chasing him. At the beginning, Otsutsuki discovered him from the abnormal reaction of the person he disguised himself as, and finally killed him. Now this spell has become their reliance to get on the cruise ship safely.

The curse master just glanced at the three people casually, but he didn't care much about them. After all, they were just three ants. According to the surveillance of the Shikigami and curse spirits around the cruise ship, no large armed forces were approaching.

So let alone a few policemen, even if a fully-armed team broke into the ship and was well deployed, they could tear those ants into pieces!
The curser glanced at Ottokotsu and the other two, then waved and turned to signal them to follow him. The ransom money, which was packed in large travel bags on the yacht, suddenly floated in the air.

In the eyes of Otsutsuki and the others, this was naturally because there was a cursed spirit with many tentacles, which used its limbs to pick up the banknotes, gold and other valuables that filled the yacht, but in the eyes of ordinary people, they just floated up inexplicably and followed closely behind the weirdo.

Keeping in mind that they were still in disguise, Otsutsuki and the others showed their shocked reactions at the right time, easily deceiving the curse master in front of them who didn't care in the first place. He believed that he was a "superior" sorcerer, and fundamentally despised these three people who were completely ordinary people in his eyes. However, he never thought that it was the curse, which he regarded as his support for being superior to others, that deceived his perception and was about to bring death to all of them.

……

"Here they are, delivering the money. They are three ordinary people, probably from the police."

In the magnificent hall, the curse master with a gloomy face walked in with the money and said to the strongest curse master among them that these people had some connection in the past because of their identities as curse masters, but it was impossible for them to act together.

Therefore, this time only the strongest people are temporarily allowed to be leaders. After this incident, of course, these will no longer exist.

The temporary leader glanced at Ransom and the three people including Otsutsuki who followed him, and his eyes moved slightly. Otsutsuki and the others' disguise was flawless, but it was only a disguise in appearance after all.

The reason why Otsutsuki was able to see through the disguise of the curse master from the details was because the disguise of this technique was limited to the appearance, and the temperament and thinking were still the same as before.

Otsutsuki and the other two have tried their best to disguise themselves, but whether a sorcerer is exorcising a curse or killing a curser, there is no need for the skill of disguise.

Therefore, when facing these curse masters and seemingly vicious robbers, their reactions are ultimately somewhat different from those of ordinary people.

The leader of the cursers didn't think of this for a moment, but he also noticed something wrong. Why did these three people's emotions not seem so intense when facing him and others? Was it because they had received professional training?

"Forget it, just deal with it. We don't need these three people."

After he finished speaking, he raised his hand, and a large ball of purple-black mist flowed from his sleeves. Then an ugly cursed spirit with the features of both a spider and a lizard crawled out of it. Under his control, this cursed spirit that was refined into a Shikigami rushed towards Otsutsuki and the other two, ready to kill them without the latter realizing it.

Seeing that he and others were being attacked, the disguise naturally could not continue. Otsutsuki quickly gave the two of them a gesture, meaning: the time has come to take action, and everything should go according to plan.

"No, kill them!"

After releasing the Shikigami, the leader of the curse masters discovered that there was something wrong with the gazes of these three people. The focus they were locking on had changed, and they were not in the panic of ordinary people who had died at the hands of their Shikigami in the past.

Instead, they instantly locked onto the Shikigami moving on the ground. They could see that they were not ordinary people, but sorcerers in disguise!

(End of this chapter)