DOOMED TO BE A VILLAIN



'Only heroes play fair anyway,' he thought with a smirk as his hand reached for the bag and pulled out a laptop from inside of it. He opened up the laptop and pressed the power button.

Many would wonder why he chose the moment when he was straining to keep up with Lee Jung in the race to open up a laptop for whatever reason, but his reason for this was linked to his plan to gain an upper hand against Lee Jung.

Davies's words to Lee Jung at the beginning of the race were not just to distract him, he was actually telling the truth. Though he did not own an automobile company, he had been heavily involved in the production methods of quite a few of them. 

The engine he had invented that used mana as a source of energy to run was widely used in a lot of places and a lot of sports car companies had upgraded their cars to begin to use the technology as well… after paying him quite a hefty fee of course. 

Davies being the paranoid person that he was, had always left a trap and a backdoor in every of his technology so he could always control it, or even sabotage it remotely, should it ever be used against him.

As soon as the laptop's screen booted up, Davies put his finger on the finger pad to unlock it immediately and then quickly tapped on an application software at the top right corner of the laptop's screen with his finger, his hand doing all of that in smooth motion before quickly going back to grabbing the steering and changing the gear as they were nearing another turning on the road.

Davies glanced at the screen to see the application had already opened up and had a blue button that said search. Without wasting a second, he tapped on the button.

[Searching for Imperium Tech…]

[Imperium Tech found… 2]

[Select which to connect]

Davies quickly selected the Imperium mana engine that was inside Lee Jung's blue Cesla and watched as the screen lit up with different options, buttons, and sets of information, but still made sure to keep most of his attention on the road.

'When I added this feature into my tech, I never imagined that I'd be using it to win a goddamn race,' Davies thought with a slightly bitter smile, but the bitter smile wasn't because he was annoyed at having to use this feature to cheat in the race, but rather because of the big red button that was on the side of the laptop screen.

As previously said, Davies had left the backdoor in every one of his technology so he could always control it remotely and even sabotage it if it were to be used against him… but the red button on the left side of the screen did neither of those. Instead, it was the trigger for self-destruction for his technology should he ever wish to cause an "accident" to whoever was in possession of said technology.

The self-destruction mechanism in all of his technology had enough power to destroy a three-story building, and even its foundation wouldn't be left unscathed after the blast, so it definitely had enough power to blast a normal human like Lee Jung to kingdom come… even though he was not so normal anymore. 

Davies had to do his best to not squash the bug in his palm… or blow it up in this case and instead tapped another part of the screen that showed information about the tech's performance and a sliding pad-like button that could control how effective the tech would be, which in this case would be how fast the engine could make Lee Jung's car, go.

"What are you doing?" Tisha asked confusedly as she wondered why Davies had brought out a laptop even though he was currently racing.

"Oh, this?" Davies asked back with a smile while motioning towards the laptop screen,

"I'm playing a game," he lied. Tisha couldn't see the screen of the laptop as it was facing him, but she quickly tried to look at the screen of the laptop in curiosity after hearing that he was playing a game.

"What type of game is this?" she asked confusedly as all she saw were a bunch of intelligible words and numbers and a big red button that looked to be inviting her to press it.

"What's this red button?" she asked, but her finger was on its way toward the red button on the screen.

"NOOO!!! Don't t-touch it," Davies managed to get the words out just before her hand reached the screen. He had also reflexively used his mana to form a small ice barrier that prevented Tisha's finger from moving any further and touching the screen.

'... Wait?… did I just end up saving that sucker's life?' his eyes widened at what he had just done.

'Ah, the irony…,' he thought as he used the sliding pad button to reduce the performance of the engine inside Lee Jung's little by little and soon enough it began to show its effect as Davies's vehicle slowly began to take the lead again.

Lee Jung in his own car could not understand what was happening but he did his best to catch up with Davies by doing his best to increase his speed, but it seemed all for naught.

Soon, they were at another turning, and just like before, both Lee Jung and Davies drifted around the corner to maneuver their way around the turning. 

After coming out of the drift and getting back onto mostly straight roads, Lee Jung's Cesla was even further back than before and the distance between them was widening even more as Lee Jung's engine Davies had lowered its performance could no longer perform at the level required to keep up with Davies 'unmodified' Cesla anymore.

Inside Davies's own Cesla, he had already stopped reducing the performance level of Lee Jung's car as he felt that just reducing it this much would accomplish the effect that he required and was just enough tampering for him to be able to defeat Lee Jung without drawing any suspicious eyes to how Lee Jung's car was performing below par.

Davies didn't mind getting caught for something like cheating, but as he was trying to do something to damage Lee Jung's reputation, getting caught while doing so would not have the same effect he wanted it to have.

Since all preparations for his win were complete, Davies immediately closed the laptop and put his full focus back on demolishing the unfortunate racing king in this race. He began to drive even faster and made more ferocious turns around all sorts of corners.

Lee Jung was putting his 'god of driving' skill to full use, but even then the space between them kept widening, yet he kept on in hot pursuit of Davies's vehicle not understanding the reason why he was unable to catch up to Davies's vehicle.

It was actually quite simple. No matter what kind of god of driving was behind the wheel, there was no way he could win against an average racer who drove a Bugatti if he was driving a Toyota. It was simply impossible to make a car go faster than it actually could no matter how good one was at driving.

Davies knew that and that was why he only decreased the performance of Lee Jung's engine by a quarter. He knew he would be able to make Lee Jung bite the dust with just that much of a decrease in performance in his car and that was exactly what he did. 

Just as he thought and had expected, he was currently in the lead and the gap between them was only widening further.

The difference between them didn't show up in turnings where more skill was required than vehicle performance, but the moment they were back on straight roads, Davies's vehicle ate up the space while slowly but surely making Lee Jung bite the dust as he sped after him doing everything possible to catch up, yet it was all for naught and the space between them only kept widening.

… 2 meters

… 3 meters

… 5 meters

They drove through another turn and the distance between the shortened to 4 meters, but the moment they got back to straight roads, the distance began to increase once again,

… 6 meters

… 7 meters

Soon enough, the ending of the race was in sight as they rounded the last corner and sped up toward the finish line. Davies now maintained a lead of ten meters away from Lee Jung, but Lee Jung wasn't giving up and was madly chasing after Davies, pressing the accelerator as hard as he could, but even with how hard he was trying to catch up, the distance wasn't decreasing and yet it seemed to be increasing even further.

He couldn't understand it, how was he losing even though he had the 'god of driving' skill? Especially since they were using the same type of car. 

Did that mean that Davies had surpassed god-level driving skills?

Different thoughts were flying around in Lee Jung's head as Davies finally crossed the finish line and won the race.

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