Chapter 206
< Never retreat >
Seogwipo City, Jeju Island. Golden Lion Guild Leader Hwanggeumcheol swung a huge two-handed hammer at the attacking Merman..
"Sssssha!"
Phew! And with the sound of meat exploding, Merman's head disappeared. Around him, dozens of Mermen had already been reduced to tattered pieces of meat..
"Geumsun-ah!"
"Younger! Younger! Yeonha Hwang! This shit!"
Golden Lion Deputy Guild Leader Hwang Yeon-ha, who was recently promoted to S-class hunter, still took issue with the damnable title of brother even after becoming an S-class hunter..
"Can you contact Team Leader Park? They say monsters have appeared in Jeju City too.."
"They said they got into the car and drove straight away. The airport was secured without any problems.."
"What is this all of a sudden?."
The Golden Lion Guild came to Jeju Island to flex the horse, which can be said to be a symbol of knighthood, as many hunters have recently been ordained knights of the pantheon..
After clearing a few gates and earning travel expenses, something happened just as I was about to go back..
A large number of monsters suddenly landed on the coast of Jeju Island..
"president! This is a message from the Jeju Governor.!"
"Try changing it!"
Golden Cheol received a smartphone from his subordinate Hunter. Then I hear a voice on the other end of the phone..
[Hwa, are you CEO Hwang Geum-cheol??]
"Ah, yes. It’s golden season, Governor.."
[Yes, yes... I am Park Jong-wook, Governor of Jeju Island..]
The voice on the other end of the phone was subservient and cautious. Hwang Geum-cheol knows why he contacted me..
"The fire was quickly put out, and we will go straight back to the airport. Our headquarters was also attacked and we need to clear it up.."
[Well, it can't be······.]
Although there are hunters in Jeju City, their numbers are not large..
This is because the island has its limitations and hunters from Busan were dispatched..
But now the coast of Busan has also been attacked by marine monsters. If the Golden Lion Guild had not been lucky enough to visit the Jeju Island ranch, Jeju City would have been defenseless..
I guess I'm lucky enough for this alone······.
[A coast guard ship has confirmed the monsters' approach! No matter how much money it costs, please protect our Jeju Island.!]
"······."
Hwanggeumcheol hesitated to answer. Normally, I would have received extra money and helped defend Jeju Island..
But now the entire Republic of Korea has been attacked by monsters. It is on a different level from the past large-scale gate incident..
At that time, we were able to reduce the number of monsters released in advance and prevent property damage by attacking the gate, but now, isn't it a situation where monsters are flocking in droves??
The government even issued DEFCON 1 and entered a war state. This means that monsters are not the only enemies..
"I'm sorry. Our family is crowded into Sin Pangyo. We have to jump to their defense right away.."
[Well, it can't be···!]
The headquarters of the Golden Lion Guild is Pangyo. All of the guild's actual assets were concentrated there..
If Pangyo was not immediately protected from monster attacks, the Golden Lion Guild would have to endure not only human casualties but also enormous property damage..
As a guild leader, the decisions he made were never wrong. but──
"Hey brother······."
Yeonha Hwang grabbed Geumcheol’s sleeve. My younger brother received official knighthood from the Pantheon last month. He himself was knighted by King Leon himself..
「Protect the weak and do not do injustice.」
The cheek I got hit back then still tingles. The inside of my mouth was torn, blood was flowing, and my tattered cheek made me realize that there is no such thing as moderation, no matter how good the other person is..
「It means to keep in mind. You should value your calling and duty more than your life. If you follow honor, everyone will follow you..」
At the investiture ceremony, not only he, but also his younger sister and guild members were present..
"······damn."
Golden Cheol picked up the hammer. The star iron hammer on my shoulder is still strong even after blowing up so many monsters..
"Where is the expected landing site??"
[Hwa, Representative Hwang···!]
When Hwang Geum-cheol hung up the phone, his subordinate asked cautiously:.
"Are you okay? If Pangyo is blown away, half of our guild's assets will be lost.."
"money. You can earn that again. There's something more important than that."
People are more important, don't say such unfamiliar things. He patted her sister's head and grinned..
"You can't turn a blind eye to monsters and run away. Because it’s embarrassing."
Due to Golden Iron's decision, the Golden Lion Guild members decided to remain on Jeju Island..
Surprisingly, it wasn't worth the money to lose. The reason is clear──
I guess it's because I know it's more valuable than money..
* * * *
A military technology analysis company analyzed what the most important strategic goals will be in Korea in 2032..
It was an outsourcing request from the Korean Ministry of Defense to analyze objective indicators and apply them to wartime planning, but this year the results were quite different..
Of course, the number one strategic target is Yongsan, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff Headquarters and the ROK-US Combined Forces Command are located..
20Since the presidential office was moved from the Blue House to Yongsan in the early 1990s, Korea has been devoting sufficient budget every year to its defense, including a large number of military police and hired hunter guilds, as an even more important goal..
In addition, there were several strategic goals, such as the Jeju Island naval base and the 7th Mobile Corps, but somewhat unexpectedly, a target with new strategic value was created in Naju, which could not be called a military goal..
Mansinjeon is the headquarters of Naju.
After the Lionheart King, a survivor of the other world, selected it as a guild site and the epic item Geobrick's Hammer was displayed, the site's transformation into a sacred place accelerated. In less than half a year, it has emerged as a religious holy site comparable to the Vatican on the Italian Peninsula and Jerusalem in Israel..
However, this is not a sacred place with simple religious meaning..
Here, thousands of men-at-arms are trained every quarter, blessed crops that are considered Korea's strategic resources are grown, and it is the base of knights who are specialists in the battle against the great devil..
In addition, the Mokpo coast and the Yeongsan River, the two major habitats of the Krashatriya warriors, the so-called Kikkiru warriors, a large surviving migrant race, are nearby, and star iron, the most important strategic material, is transported every day..
The Pantheon of Naju is truly a religious, economic, political, and military sacred site that guarantees the future of the Republic of Korea..
However, not many people are worried about the security situation here. The Men at Arms and the Kikiruk warriors, with hundreds of knights stationed here and now numbering 20,000, were a force that surpassed the army..
but.
"Battle team assemble! Stand up to prevent dust!"
The main force of the pantheon is the knights. Pre-modern knights riding horses, wielding spears, and shouting the name of God..
Their superhuman strength, which surpasses modern war weapons, is the main force that determines the outcome of the battlefield..
However, if the main force is all overseas,?
"Manager Jinsoo Kim! Those who came up the Yeongsan River are landing! The Kikiluks are blocking it, but they can't respond because their main force is missing.!"
Manager Kim Jin-su, an employee dispatched from the Hunter Association and who followed Hari in becoming a knight of the pantheon, was one of the few knights currently in this position..
He was riding a horse with about thirty knights to deal with the flocking monsters, but the response seemed overwhelming..
The good news is that Yapi has a map hack thanks to the holographic mapping that is always in operation..
"Yeongsangang River is directly connected to Naju City! Send an additional hundred troops! All of the Kikiluk knights are on that aircraft carrier. Take five knights with you.!"
"Ha, but this is already our fourth time sending troops! If power continues to leak, the defense here is······."
After Leon and the main force of the Knights headed to Washington, the Pantheon was steadily attacking the surrounding gates and dispatching troops..
In reality, the only ones residing here are trainees and raiders who have returned for a rest. Even so, it is difficult to move to protect the crowds of tourists..
"What about other guilds? When will Hanbit Palace come??"
What you can rely on in this situation is Prince Hanbit Park Yong-shin and his subordinate hunters..
Although they were not ordained as knights due to charges of following the devil, they were a unit that still had some fighting power in the pantheon where the main force had escaped..
"Hey, he said he's coming now, but he's going to be late because he's on a business trip to Taiwan.!"
"shit!"
Manager Jinsoo Kim was thinking of asking the president of the association for help, but that person would probably have a sharp nose as well. I am grateful that they did not immediately bring back the Association employees who were dispatched to the Pantheon..
"This is ridiculous. I've never heard of a nationwide monster wave like this before.!"
Not only Seoul, but also Incheon, Mokpo, Naju, and Jeju Island... there is no place that has not been attacked..
The association's estimate of monsters is at least 100,000.
This number only counts monsters that have landed in South Korea, excluding marine monsters that are still moving along the coast and monsters that are rushing through the minefields of the cease-fire line..
'At least if the troops sent out return···!'
But I can't hope for even that. The raiders who set out to attack the gate cannot hear any news from inside..
The power vacuum of Manshinjeon, which is actively targeting the gate in terms of people's livelihood, has revealed its vulnerability in this way..
"Wow, Chief...! excuse me!"
Manager Jinsu Kim was dumbfounded when he saw where his subordinate's finger was pointing..
"Gate at this timing?!"
A unique shimmer of the gate was captured in a direction just a few thousand meters away, not far from the pantheon..
And the people at Pantheon, including Manager Jinsu Kim, were not the only ones who saw it..
Tourists and pilgrims visiting the shrine also saw it..
-Okay, it's okay. The gate originally occurred and it took over 10 days for the dungeon to break.!
Manager Kim’s instincts rejected such obvious common sense..
Massive defections and bombings of North Korean troops.
Shooting down of charter plane carrying Pantheon.
Monster wave attacking all of South Korea simultaneously.
Meanwhile, the Joint Chiefs of Staff headquarters, where the president and generals gathered, was raided by armed forces presumed to be spies..
In this worst situation, monsters are rushing towards the pantheon as if they had coordinates. But the gate?
Indeed, is that gate an ordinary gate??
-Keeeeeeeeeeee!!
Dungeon break at the same time as gate summoning.
The demons that poured out there made eye contact with Manager Jinsu Kim..
"Fuck, fuck······."
There was only one thing he could hope for. subordinates who are not here.
"Assistant Manager Han, come quickly and save me.······."
* * * *
-Kikikick.
The army of demons that landed on the plains of Naju numbered well over 5,000..
However, Helheart, the high-ranking devil who leads them, clicked his tongue as he looked at the men he had dragged in..
"Get in line. The gate size is small because the arrival is urgent. Troops are limited."
Their mission is one. The takeover of ‘it’ in the pantheon. To achieve this, many of the monsters accumulated during the last gate incident were used as bait..
Of course, the monsters thrown as bait will completely devastate this country..
"Hellheart. They... the chaos ones are invisible.."
"Those ghosts are not suitable for such a delicate invasion. Our goal is to seize the objective and then quickly escape. You can't go to war with these."
Helheart lamented that most of the troops he brought were half-demon..
In order for demons to be summoned to the material world, a corresponding sacrifice is needed..
To become a great evil, hundreds of thousands of souls were needed. The damage suffered by the devils in the last great war was too great to exhaust the power of the Great Devils in a bait-and-seek hit-and-run operation..
For now, the demons of wisdom and exploration could only show off with such meager troops..
"But their houses are empty. There is no Lionheart King or knights. Tell the half-demon guys to form ranks and move! Even in times like this, I have to use it.."
A half-demon army marching towards the Pantheon. Hell Heart walked through the field of golden light and pointed his baton toward the target temple..
"Break their resistance! Since there are a lot of civilians, it will be easy to create a hole.."
There are only about 2,000 troops remaining in the Pantheon. Even so, there were less than thirty knights left..
Although the quality of troops on both sides is low due to their own circumstances, the devil's side is overwhelming in terms of size..
"charge···!"
Following Hellheart's orders, thousands of anti-demon legions charged towards the defense line laid out by Chief Kim Jin-su..
However, Helheart, who had accumulated wisdom and experience for a long time, easily cornered the pantheon..
"Ugh...! Hey, how can I stop that?!"
"There are three times more of them! They're targeting civilians, so it's hard to maintain the formation.!"
"These damn devils···!"
It's only been ten minutes since the battle began. Hellheart steadily took down Manager Kim Jin-su and Men at Arms..
In the meantime, the operation to seize ‘it’ is progressing successfully..
"Hehehe, this is easier than you think──"
"Hey you devils!!"
It was the moment when Hellheart smiled in victory. A group of people was approaching from afar..
Even at first glance, they were poorly armed to be soldiers..
Simple farmers armed with pickaxes, shovels, hoes, etc. Or citizens. There, thousands of 'scarecrows' guarding Goddess Demera's farmland are approaching, jumping strangely..
They seem to wake up in anger at the news that the village is in danger, but in the battlefield of these professionals, they are just useless amateurs..
"uh?"
"Oh, no way?"
However, there was a stir among the anti-demon legions..
It's not an article... If those were knight units, then Hellheart would have to worry about his own life before the battle line collapses..
The reason the half-demons were astonished was because they felt that the people approaching from afar were familiar 'compatriots'..
half demon.
i.e. devil followers.
Traitors who sold their souls and compatriots to the devil..
These half-demons, who failed to attain immortality and stopped short of immortality, surprisingly have a strong network with one another..
This is inevitable as they support the devils in their territory and interact with each other..
"Hawk, McGrugger? I heard he's missing?!"
"Wasn't he dead? why over there!"
They also heard about it through rumors. Not long ago, the Demon Grand Duke's territory was attacked, dozens of villages were burned down, and many demons and Demon Grand Dukes died..
It was a very unrealistic incident, but it was overlooked as it happened in another territory..
And the truth of the incident is before your eyes..
"These damn devils!"
Farmers of the goddess Demera. Leon established a pantheon in Naju, and many of those who were the first to benefit and entered the church became priests of the goddess Demera..
Life and abundance. love and mercy. A priest of a benevolent order who feeds the hungry... Old Man Choi, the most senior among them, cried out in the name of the goddess..
"Chun-sik, ask!"
The absolute right of command over the ‘serfs’ from Lionheart King -> Holy Grail Knight -> Knight Commander -> Knight, and Priest has been activated..
Thousands of Chunsik charge 'without sparing their lives'. It was a fierce charge in which not a single person could retreat..
[Grail Knight Gratas' 'How to Kill a Giant with Serfs' grants a buff to serf soldiers..]
-Attack power against half-demon increases by 157.777%.
-Attack power against demons increases by 101.666%.
The Bible, compiled by the Holy Grail Knight Sir Gratas and swallowing the blood of millions of people for generations, ordered fratricide..
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