The Player Who Eats Steel - Episode 182
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At that time, the United Human Forces on Othris Mountain were attacking two 'Giant Mountain Citadel' at the same time and were receiving a counterattack..
"一Something comes flying from 11 o'clock!”
At the shout of a guard, the wizard players who were preparing wide-area attack spells stopped casting and raised their heads..
At that moment, something heavy crashed down between the players and a pile of dirt bounced up..
“omg!”
It was a titan's spear, and fortunately no one was hit directly by it........
"Damn, cast rice as a magic shield, change it—”
Pu—huh——!
About 2 seconds later, a mana explosion occurred around the geochang, and a blue air current swept through the area..
Players within that range fell, floating into the air like fallen leaves swept away by a gust of wind, and desperate screams for a healer rang out everywhere..
and…….
"Uh... … Here we come again! Hurry and avoid!”
Like a barrage of missiles, giant spears filled the sky, forming a parabola, and began plowing mercilessly down on the lines of the United Human Forces..
Bur—bur—bur—bur——!
"Shit, it's not like they couldn't attack.?”
"I guess it was just our imagination, uh— avoid it.!”
In this way, it was proven that the Titans also possessed weapons capable of crossing a distance of more than 3 km..
I didn't know why it wasn't used until now, but it seemed like they had decided to attack from there..
That wasn't a good sign.
"Shit! Everyone, don't panic, hurry up and prepare a large-scale magic shield.!”
Soon, the wizard players joined forces to form a dome-shaped magic shield..
Thump—thump—thump—thud—
The large spears were blocked by the dome and bounced off, but it was very unsettling to see tiny cracks created every time they hit..
"How long can I last like this??”
“……4It will take effect in just a few minutes..”
Those words leaked out sighs from everywhere..
"what? Well, only 4 minutes.?”
"Fuck, their magic shields don't break even if you hit them all day, this is totally unfair.!”
4After a few minutes, you will be defenselessly exposed to Geochang's baptism again, if you do this... … I had no choice but to retreat.
"That guy, Alain Giam, was right.……."
"Yes, it was a meaningless operation in the end.?”
It would be strange if I didn't feel pessimistic in this situation..
"Haha, where on earth is Steele Rain doing in this situation??”
“……I didn't run away alone.?”
Steele Lane, a name that was a source of affection just a few hours ago, has now become an object of hatred..
And even, it wasn't just javelins falling from overhead that were targeting them..
coo coo coo coo coo coo coo…….
"Uh oh—why is the floor suddenly moving??”
Kkudduddud——
The nearby ground trembled, then flipped over in an instant, and green vines spewed out like a geyser..
"Uh, um, what is that??”
“……It's a plant?”
Green Wave: Since few people knew of its existence, response was inevitably slow..
In other words, I had no choice but to be helpless..
“Ugh!”
"evil!”
In the blink of an eye, dozens of people were caught by the green wave and dragged into the pile of vines..
I couldn't confirm what happened above, but a terrible scream came out..
Gulp—gulp.—
After a while, when I saw the red-soaked vines crawling out, I could roughly guess what had happened to them..
“Hike! Don't go near those tentacles!”
"What kind of situation is this again?!”
A massive bombardment rains down dozens of meters above your head, and man-eating vines of inestimable size sprout from beneath your feet..
At this rate, it seemed difficult to even avoid annihilation, let alone occupy the 'Victory Flag' within the time limit..
“—Commander, you won't last long.!”
Colonel Kim Kang-seok, deputy commander of ROK AMT, shouted.
After hearing those words, the commander, Lieutenant General Choi Jeong-cheol, held his forehead with an expression of headache..
"What a quandary. Colonel Kim, do you think I should resort to semi-Armageddon now??”
Arch Mage, Choi Jeong-cheol's ultimate magic, 'Semi Armageddon', has a cooldown of 24 hours..
Lee Hyun-wook disappeared somewhere after telling me to save it, so I didn't plan on using it until he came..
However, 14 hours had passed since he disappeared and there was still no news..
"I think those green tentacles are below the ground, so even the strongest attacks can't make a full impact..”
"Hmm, I guess that's it again. To stop them... … Neutralizing spellcasters is the answer, but semi-Armageddon alone won't do it.."
In other words, even if we used semi-Armageddon, this crisis could not have been avoided..
In this way, defectors began to appear one after another from the camp of the United Human Race, which was on the defensive..
"—Damn it, we're done! Hurry and escape!”
Some players opened short-range portals and started escaping..
This was a kind of desertion, but since the United Human Army had an unclear chain of command in the first place, there was no one in command who could stop them..
Those who had not yet left the camp were gathered in one place and mainly used fire magic to block the approach of the green wave..
However, they were literally just 'blocking' it, but the siege was gradually narrowing and the number of victims was increasing..
"The magic shield will soon be broken.!”
If things continued like this, no one could deny that hundreds of elite players would be slaughtered without being able to do anything..
“Write—Colonel Kim, this won’t work.……."
Even Commander Choi Jeong-cheol decided that it would be more difficult to endure..
"If I give up on Semi-Armageddon and channel all that mana into teleportation, we'll all be able to escape together..”
"Yes, I think it would be impossible to hold out any longer than this.—”
But then a small strange thing happened..
"......uh? They have stopped!”
Tsutsutsutsu......
Green wave, aren't those vines that used to come in like angry waves now sagging like dried seaweed??
"uh?”
As if someone had turned off the power, countless vines stopped moving in an instant, and even the players who were responding stopped doing the same..
For a moment, there was silence..
Soon one player shouted.
“—What are you doing! Now, gather all your remaining mana and focus it on the magic shield.!”
"Okay, I don't know what's going on, but let's stop the Geochang bombing first.!”
I don't know what kind of change occurred, but I couldn't help but feel fortunate..
And the reason why the Green Wave suddenly stopped was discovered by the reconnaissance team's magic drone..
- Chik— According to the current observation of the Giant Citadel, the Dark Elf forces have suddenly stopped..
“……What does it mean to stop?”
Commander Choi Jeong-cheol asked after hearing the report..
- Yes, it suddenly lowers its head like a frozen robot and doesn't do anything, but the exact cause is still unknown. What is certain is that it appears to be incapable of combat..
I couldn't tell the exact cause from that one scene, but I was certain that that was why those green vines stopped..
and…….
"Doesn’t that seem like something Hyunwook Lee did??”
"Yes, I think so too..”
It was a scene where we could be sure that he wasn't just playing around since he disappeared for some reason without telling us clearly..
But apart from that, the morale of the United Human Forces had completely dropped, which was natural since few people knew what Lee Hyun-wook was up to..
"What are you doing? Let's get out of this time!”
"Yeah, you can never win this.”
A greater number of players left the battlefield, and as they gathered voluntarily, they disbanded quickly..
And Alain Giam also played a part in the dismantling work..
He was still appearing on various broadcasts to express his opinion that siege warfare was crazy..
even…….
- Ah—players, my name is Alain Giam..
His voice rang out above the heads of the players who were engaged in a long battle..
When I looked up and checked, a drone was flying with a high-performance magic speaker attached..
- It's not too late, so hurry up and get out of that hellish scene! In the first place, the operation was nonsense! And Steele abandoned you!
"Okay, now I admit that.!”
"Pfft, Stillane, I really believed it.……."
Even players who until this morning supported Steele Lane, considering Alain Giam's claims to be a political maneuver, could not help but feel that his voice was right in this situation..
There were even voices calling for a retreat from within ROK AMT..
“……Sergeant Ahn Min-tae, shouldn’t our unit also leave??”
A private asked that question, and Ahn Min-tae, now a non-commissioned officer, boldly shook his head..
"No, don't listen to me.”
"Anyway, the current situation……."
"I've been in this situation countless times so far. Trust me, there will be a twist soon..”
"that is… … Is that true?”
In fact, even for Ahn Min-tae, it was just a belief that had no basis..
However, from his experience, he knew that Lee Hyun-wook would not allow his troops to be pushed back like this..
And I believed that no matter how many players were sacrificed, there would be a good reason, that it would be the foundation for a decisive blow..
“……Surely there must be a reason to hang in here.”
- ……Guys, where is Stillane now? If we keep holding on, we will not be able to avoid annihilation.!
"Damn, it's not helpful and it's so loud……."
He felt like shooting down that magic drone that was making noise above his head..
But then—
- Chick— Commander—
A voice came through Choi Jeong-cheol's Mana Messenger..
- Now the time I spoke of has come.
This voice... … It was none other than Lee Hyun-wook..
Choi Jeong-cheol sighed unconsciously and lifted the Mana Messenger..
"Damn it, hoo—this is the first time I feel like being mean to you.."
- .......
"So, when is it coming??”
That moment—
- caution! An ultra-wide teleport ‘Wight Hole’ opens in the area..
Such a system message flashed before the eyes of every player nearby..
- ……It's now.
Soon, a huge white ring formed in the sky, and the space inside the ring trembled as if crumpled.—
T-huh——!
The sky opened with a boom and everyone raised their heads..
Wooooow——
“……uh? Who's coming now??”
"That looks like a forest?”
The world beyond Whyte Hall seen from here was filled with only greenery..
Few people recognized that it was the 'Green Hell', an erosion area in Berlin..
But at least everyone knew what the two large swords coming down from there were..
"That thing on the left isn't Mogley.?”
Today, it was the most famous and most powerful sword in the world..
With them on both sides, Steele Rain was slowly descending towards the battlefield..
"—Wow, here we come! Stillane, he's finally here.!”
Although the players were deeply dissatisfied with his absence, they couldn't help but feel a strange sense of anticipation just by his appearance..
But there was a huge swarm of bees behind him... … Looking closely, I see that there are dark elves riding on that bee.?
As a result, most players could not help but feel doubt and shock..
As far as they know, the dark elves were always the enemy..
At that time, Stillane's voice rang out through 'loudness' magic..
- Ah—notify the dark elves in the giant's fortress..
The entire battlefield and the world paid attention to his voice..
What he said next was truly shocking and something no one expected..
- I am now on my way to conquer your dark elf kingdom..
"what?”
“that is… … It makes sense?’’
The reason he hasn't appeared so far is because he went to conquer the dark elf kingdom, and does that mean he was successful??
All in all, it was something that was hard to believe, even for an ally..
- This is the proof.
When Lee Hyun-wook stretched out his left hand, an iron plate moved forward. A dark elf wearing armor was tied up there..
Players who didn't know who it was just blinked their eyes, but the dark elves, except for 'Weingard', who was inside the giant's fortress, were in shock..
This is because the dark elf was the boss monster, ‘General’..
There were two silver arrows stuck in the nape of his neck, and the 'Spear of Achilles' was stuck near his heart..
That is, he was dead..
Doesn’t this mean that one enemy general has been captured before a full-scale battle has even begun??
- And you will also know that Weingard has stopped. In other words, you guys are done. However, the royal family, who took power again, asked me to convey to them that they would forgive my sins if I atone now and make a contribution in this war..
Lee Hyun-wook spoke softly, floating Hugin and inspecting the giant fortress one by one..
The majority of the dark elves there are 'Weingard' and will act according to the will of the second prince who is currently sitting on the throne..
However, a significant number of dark elves still had free will, and they followed the 'Great General'..
'And, they are spreading a net to neutralize items..’
Even if that had to be limited, it would be possible to neutralize the magic shield of the Giant Citadel once and for all by dropping the Mowglai..
Whoa whoa——
While Lee Hyun-wook was silent for a moment, the sound of the eerie wind swept across the battlefield..
- therefore… … If you choose to block my attack, you'd better not make it..
After finishing speaking, Lee Hyeon-wook stretched out his left hand forward, and the 100-ton large sword slowly began to rise, with the tip of the sword hanging on the floor..
What it meant was clear..
"Colonel Kim orders the entire army to prepare for march.!”
In response to General Choi Jeong-cheol's shout, Kim Kang-seok raised the Mana Messenger, and soon the ROK AMT troops scattered all over the place, and by extension, all the player troops, raised their weapons in triumph..
Whoa whoa——
Meanwhile, Mowglai soared to a reasonable altitude..
And Lee Hyun-wook sensed that the ‘item neutralization net’ had disappeared..
“good—”
His left hand sank to the floor, and Mogley began a high-speed fall..
Sigh-i-i-i——!
Although there was no time to raise it to a low altitude, 'Hani' attached to the giant sword and gave it acceleration as a whirlwind, and in just a few seconds, it entered the speed of sound with a booming sound and struck the defense shield of the giant fortress like a thunderbolt..
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh——!
The magic shield of the giant fortress, which had not broken even after being pounded with all kinds of magic for 21 hours, stretched like plastic and eventually collapsed..
Chow—now—now—now—now——!
And now, Weingard, which follows the will of the Second Prince, and the Green Wave they control move in reverse and entangle the giant castle, and cracks begin to appear in the castle wall the size of an apartment due to the overwhelming pressure..
Then, it dug into the floor, soared up inside the castle, and began to tie up the limbs of the Titans lined up there..
They began to struggle and resist, but no matter how titan they were, they could not shake off the green wave that had been 'cultivated' for 21 hours..
'Okay, if you tie your legs, you're a much easier opponent..’
Hyunwook Lee lifted up the Mana Messenger..
"Commander Choi, please prepare for semi-Armageddon now. … … It will be swept away at once..”
At that moment, the world could not help but feel wonder once again in front of Stillane's name..
An unbelievable thing happened: the giant's fortress, which had not budged even after being knocked on for 21 hours, fell in just a few minutes after his appearance..
And so, humanity's counterattack began..
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