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The Player Who Eats Steel - Episode 189

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Lee Hyun-wook raised his head and looked at the black gate about twenty meters in the sky..

It was slowly expanding its area like boiling sticky tar..

We're about to welcome the third dimension shifter..

And as far as he knows, the worst opponent…….

- Chick—All units, change key targets to UDD (Unknown dimensional distortion).

- I am on standby for sniper fire, and I am focusing on covering Healer Stillein..

ROK AMT transmissions were heard one after another on his Mana Messenger..

Other players did not know the exact truth of the phenomenon, but as expected, they were very nervous and preparing for battle..

Also, the whole world will be watching this scene.…….

Not a single one of them knew what the situation was, but they must have sensed that Lee Hyun-wook's fight would have a big impact on their fate..

Lee Hyun-wook gave them an order..

"Ah, this is Lee Hyun-wook..”

The whole place became quiet at the sound of his voice..

"Don't come around here, everyone stay back. And please pass this on to all your players. No one should step forward hastily..”

This moment was more important than ever.

‘If you make a mistake, everything will be ruined at once. That's how powerful the necromancer was in his past life.…….'

Therefore, not a single variable could be allowed, and the intention was to block even hasty attacks from friendly forces..

And those who were thought to be allies could have taken off their masks and jumped into this battle under the name of villains, so any unnecessary movement was blocked..

‘This moment will be your best chance to get rid of him..’

Based on his past experience, Lee Hyun-wook knew the moment when dimension shifters were most incapacitated..

That was right after passing through the gate..

‘I, too, had just escaped from the place of death, and I was helpless and had no choice but to take a hit..’

At that moment, it was a shame because his defense was much higher than the enemy expected, otherwise he would have been killed in one hit and torn to pieces by a pack of werewolves..

Anyway, Lee Hyun-wook began preparing to send the necromancer in one strike, calculating all possible cases..

'……But as far as I know, the necromancer has never once allowed himself to be hit..’

Numerous past experiences passed through his mind like a panorama..

‘Not even once…….'

Although it was difficult to break through the Necromancer's undead army in the first place, it was because the Necromancer's own defense measures were truly the strongest..

He was always wearing multiple personal magic shields, and his MAX level bone armor skill was also quite strong..

'but… … It would be different if it was a holy sword. That too if it is the Moghlay holy sword..’

and then—

yes——

Finally, Black Gate was completed.

The area near its center began to tremble, wriggled a little more violently, and then began to shake violently as if it would explode at any moment..

Chuuuu——

From there, a doll jumped out..

Go—oh—oh—oh——

A being with a dark green aura all over its body........

- Quasi-transcendent (unknown))

"under—"

The moment Lee Hyun-wook saw the guy, he felt like he was suffocating without even realizing it. He felt like an old trauma he had forgotten had resurfaced..

‘Those black robes, the skull mask, the giant scythe floating on his back.…….'

That guy was the necromancer, the strongest weapon of the villain who conquered the entire world and in fact the strongest player..

Lee Hyun-wook slowly raised his left hand towards the guy..

however…….

"huh?"

The moment the item he was holding in each hand caught his eye, Lee Hyun-wook couldn't help but sigh..

"Damn that thing......."

The spear and shield he is holding are none other than…….

'……Achilles' armor set!’

If you wear two items at once, you can get the 'Blessing of the River Styx', which makes you invincible for 30 seconds..

In other words, I came out prepared more than anything else..

For 30 seconds from now, no damage can be done.!

"—Everyone, don't let him escape.!”

The moment Lee Hyeon-wook shouted that, black smoke spread out from behind him, and like sea fog, it spread in an instant and began to encroach on the ground..

Tsutsutsutsu———

The good news was that the area was filled with divine power thanks to the 'realm of sacred trees' that Lee Hyun-wook had spread everywhere, and the black fog was partially diluted..

‘But that's just a favorable environment, and it can't completely block his actions..’

- caution! ‘Grand mission’ begins in the region.

It was a technique to place an undead army in a unique pocket space and then take it out..

Soon, remnants of certain shapes began to emerge one by one from within the black smoke, and their green eye lights lit up one by one, reminiscent of the Milky Way..

Tsutsutsutsu——

That phenomenon meant that ‘spatial overlap’ had occurred… … It meant the departure ceremony of the legion that was sleeping in another space..

Immediately after, the undead that were spread across the overlapping space poured down like a landslide..

After falling to the floor, they kicked off the floor and stood up, spreading out in all directions and intertwining with each other at certain points to build a 'wall'..

If you look at it from the sky, it almost looks like a swarm of ants..

‘That's a necromancer-style defense formation..’

aka wall of corpses.......

rattle- rattle—

‘22seconds, 21 seconds…….'

As Lee Hyun-wook counted down the time until the blessing of the River Styx would end, he devised a way to break down that barrier..

What he brought out was ‘Sudasanar’..

This disk-shaped throwing weapon had the characteristic of spewing out chakra waves and cutting through a fairly large area like a saw blade..

In other words, it is by far the most efficient when dealing with multiple enemies..

Lee Hyun-wook transferred the 'Holy Sword' effect with it, and at the same time, it was fired and passed through a bone barrier..

quaddd——!

In just a few seconds, with just one scratch, more than a hundred undead were reduced to ashes and disappeared..

'This was possible.’

That scene was even emotional for Lee Hyun-wook..

In my previous life, every time I encountered it, the undead army that would not die no matter how many times I killed it was so disgusting and scary. But now it feels easier than I thought.

‘If you have a holy sword, you can neutralize him..’

If I pushed it like this, I could tear down that bone wall and hit him the moment the blessing of the River of Styx ended..

“11candle—"

But then—

Per—uh—uh—uh——!

The whole world suddenly turned red..

My ears were deafened by the explosion that made the air scream. At the same time, a hot breeze hit my skin..

“—Pfft!”

Lee Hyun-wook lowered his posture, gathered the adamant around him, sculpted a metal wall to cover his body, and looked down at this place through Hugin..

Per—uh—uh—uh——!

Here, the inside of the giant's fortress was filled with red flames..

'……It's a corpse explosion..’

It wasn't just a corpse explosion either. It was made using the corpses of titans that were lying around..

They were soaked in holy water so they couldn't be revived as undead, but since they were still 'corpses' they could be exploded..

Previously, the current Necromancer also used Titan Corpse Explosion..

But at that time there were only a few. This was because the amount of mana needed to turn such a huge corpse into a bomb was absolutely not small..

However, a necromancer eight years later would be able to use that much mana without any problem..

But now was not the time to worry about our troops' damage..

‘Now it's only 4 seconds!’

4Seconds later, you only need to place one correct shot..

Then it's all over.

Lee Hyun-wook, with his eyes wide open, chased after the necromancer, a queen ant hiding among the undead teeming with ants, and saw that the bastard was taking out a bead..

And there were some talismans attached to that bead, but the moment he ripped it off,—

- caution! ‘Hundred Ghosts’ begins in the area..

This was a skill that Hyunwook Lee didn’t know about either..

From within the bead, an innumerable number of ghosts began to rise like smoke and scatter in all directions..

Tweet——

"Ugh!"

"Pfft!"

A scream, a surreal tone that seemed to penetrate the eardrums and pierce the brain and heart, covered the entire world, and almost all players in the area complained of pain..

In their eyes, system messages were appearing indicating that they were suffering from various ‘debuffs’..

"Shit, I can't believe I can apply a debuff from this far away, isn't this a scam??”

"Uh-uh—watch out! they come this way!”

As if detecting life, the ghosts began to seek out and attach themselves to the players, causing them to fall into an even greater curse upon touching them..

"—Ouch! Take this off me!”

"Phew, what are priests doing? try something!”

In the rear, many of the player's units that were preparing to support Lee Hyun-wook were immediately neutralized..

‘It’s a ridiculous wide-area curse..’

In this way, the necromancer was like a god of war who could control the entire battlefield to his liking..

‘But it doesn't work for me.’

Still, Lee Hyun-wook was fine..

keeeee——

The most ghosts were attached to him, but they were startled by the divine power rising from his body and scattered in all directions..

Because he was now the 'Great Warrior of Light', he had perfect resistance to most dark curses..

But because they obscured my vision, I lost sight of the necromancer..

‘Damn, it's not good. If you do this, you won't know what he's up to..’

As expected, it was an opponent on a different level..

But then—

- Chick—leave those to me..

This voice was Emilia Müller.

yes—!

Then, a ray of light soared through the sky, condensed into a single point, and then split into several branches, covering the ground with white light..

It was 'Holy Light', the most basic skill in the divine series, but its scale was extraordinary as the saintess put all her effort into it..

It was as if the sun had come closer, with a radiance so strong that I couldn't look straight at it.—

tooth——!

All ghosts that touched it were instantly extinguished..

It was such a refreshing blow that I wondered if it would be exactly like this if we were to depict a scene where bacteria are disinfected by sunlight during sun drying..

Soon, the necromancer's appearance came into view again, and Lee Hyun-wook caught the necromancer's mouth twitching..

‘That expression... … That's fun.’

Even such trivial emotions came as a strange joy to Lee Hyun-wook..

“……Yeah, I guess I didn't expect that the saint was still alive.?”

Unlike other dimension movers up to now, he showed off the 'Armless of Achilles' set even at the moment he crossed the Black Gate, but it seemed he couldn't even keep the existence of a saint in mind..

That's right, in his previous life, the saint had already been assassinated before he began his activities in earnest..

In other words, the saint barely existed in his memory..

‘This world I created is not a favorable stage for him..’

Lee Hyun-wook exhaled slowly, gave the holy sword to Moglei again, and began zero-aiming..

'……I failed to hit it as soon as it appeared, but that doesn't mean I should be hasty. Aiming for just one shot, the last shot.'

He suppressed his impatience and, like a sniper, focused all his senses on the necromancer..

however… … As Lee Hyun-wook looked at the guy's face, he saw that the guy was muttering something..

‘What are you saying all of a sudden??"

He concentrated a little more and read the guy's mouth..

- ……fail. What should I do now??

It's a little strange, isn't it like speaking a question to someone??

- Should we just release everything and fight head on??

It seemed like it wasn't an illusion. He was really talking to someone, but the way he politely begged seemed like he was talking to his superiors, not to his subordinates..

'If so, then... … Is there someone else??’

However, there was no other existence in Lee Hyun-wook’s senses. And wasn't the dimension shifter an event that was set up to only allow the 'participant' to come over in the first place??

‘But there might be something I didn't expect.’

But right now, focusing only on the necromancer wasn't enough..

Lee Hyun-wook just dispersed his nerves to the surroundings to prepare for any unexpected situation, and then began to find a corner to insert the Moglei again..

‘It's still not enough. need a little more space.’

Lee Hyun-wook tried to create space by pouring in metal weapons and advancing mercenary soldiers..

At that moment, the guy started waving his hands..

Qua—de—de—de——!

Then, hundreds of undead turned into ashes and were absorbed into the body of the creature, and as if sublimating, the body began to turn into black smoke..

Lee Hyun-wook knew what that was..

Also known as 'Twilight Flower', it was a powerful movement technique that was difficult to interfere with by sacrificing hundreds of undead to turn one's body into an intangible form..

Whoa whoa——

Immediately after, its body turned into a whirlwind of black smoke and soared into the sky..

But Lee Hyun-wook was still not impatient..

‘Yeah, I knew you would..’

He took out a weapon as if he had been waiting..

It was ‘Mjolnir’.

Lee Hyun-wook gave it a holy sword effect..

Next, he took out a small jewel and held it against it.…….

- This will reset the ‘skill cooldown time’ of the item..

This is a very valuable consumable item that forcibly resets the cooldown of the item, and I stocked up on a few of them before the battle..

As a result, the 'Rain God's Wrath' skill, which had to wait for 12 hours, can now be used again..

Rumble——

Soon, lightning filled with sacred power began to spread from within the dark clouds that filled the sky..

Park Jun-mo! Spread it out like a net!”

"Yes, I understand!”

Park Jun-mo somewhere responded to Lee Hyun-wook’s words..

Soon, the anger of the Raijin poured out onto the ground, and under Park Jun-mo's command, they were divided into thin pieces and scattered in all directions..

And just as Lee Hyun-wook wanted, it spread out like a net and completely covered the sky..

Pa—ja—ja—ja——!

Nothing could be faster than the speed of light.

The same was true for a line of black smoke rising into the sky in the distance..

It was—the necromancer was wrapped in a blue electric current and began to slowly slow down..

"Pfft......."

In the end, it couldn't hold out and returned to its original body..

Maybe the electric shock just happened to be the first damage the necromancer suffered..

"Yeah, it's an unfamiliar feeling.?”

In this way, Lee Hyun-wook understood all of the necromancer's combat patterns and was blocking every time the necromancer attempted something new..

But he didn't give up.

This time, I opened the 'Grand Order' and summoned all kinds of flying undead, including bone wyverns and zombie griffins, to surround me..

‘Still, they don't take out the dragon.?’

As far as Lee Hyun-wook knows, the most powerful of the undead that the necromancer handles have not appeared..

'Be wary of the power of my holy sword and spare high-ranking undead..’

That meant that they had no intention of engaging in a full-scale battle here and that their main goal was to escape..

‘But that's a mistake. They alone won't be able to block my attack.…….'

Lee Hyun-wook’s left hand rose to the sky..

He detected a 'war box' floating in low orbit in the distance and succeeded in operating it..

And then a flash of light struck..

Bur—bur—bur—bur——!

It was a 2-ton Mowglei replica, and it tore through the world, completely destroying the flying undead surrounding the necromancer, and finally striking the guy's body..

Wow——!

At that split-second, Lee Hyun-wook closely observed the necromancer's appearance through Hugin..

'……As expected, dropping 2 tons of Mogley is not enough..’

No matter how much the holy sword was given to him, it bounced off the impact and landed somewhere on Mount Othris, but it still didn't cause any real damage..

That's because the shield surrounding his body was not the power of darkness, but the power of 'Dragon Heart'. That power was coming from the red gem on the necklace he was wearing..

‘That's what Edward Woods had. As expected, it seems that England was eventually conquered after my death..’

Until the point when Lee Hyun-wook met his end, England was preventing the invasion of villains, but it could be seen as a light in the face of a typhoon..

Anyway, that's why that magic shield couldn't be broken by the power of the holy sword..

‘But if you keep hitting it, it will eventually break..’

Lee Hyun-wook had more than enough firepower..

He once again entered commands into the 'war box'.

"Let me make it clear that this is a place where you can't run wild—”

Immediately after—

Hung—!

Another shot, and at the same time as the Mogley fell to the spot where it was, 'Shock Wave' and 'Flare Whip' exploded in succession, completely wiping out the forest in the area..

Kwa-and-and-and——!

The necromancer caught in the storm was tossed around like one of the fallen leaves blown by the wind, and let out a helpless groan as he was hit by all kinds of debris..

"black......."

It was an indignity like nothing I had ever experienced before..

‘As expected, he doesn't anticipate any of my attacks..’

That's right, in his previous life, there was no saint on the stage where he was active. Also, there was no such thing as a 'war box' that dropped weapons from an invisible place, and furthermore, there was only one Mowgli..

'In other words, all of this will be unfamiliar..’

Of course, I knew that the first dimensional shifter, William Bernard, was attacked, so I might have been able to predict two, but I would have never thought of the third and fourth, so I had no choice but to helplessly allow the attack..

And that wasn't all the firepower that drove him... … Suddenly, the rock fragments scattered around rose up, defying gravity, and started crashing down on the undead army that was moving to save the necromancer..

bang-! bang-! bang-! bang—!

It was a scene that looked like meteorites were falling..

The undead fell like bowling pins in that attack..

‘……huh? What is that?’

Even Lee Hyun-wook was puzzled by that scene..

- Chick—you just have to catch that.?

This voice was Kang Seo-yoon.

She was communicating with Mana..

"Uh, CEO Kang.?”

- Yes, we came too. How could I not come when we are fighting like this? When it's all over, you can tell me what that bastard is, right? I don't like it because it's always mystical..

In other words, her colleagues are guilds and guardians… … Among them, it meant that gravity wizard Lee Seong-yoon had arrived..

Soon, several figures appeared in the western sky..

The Guardian members, including Lee Seong-yoon and Kang Seo-yoon, were floating in the sky, defying gravity, looking down at the ground..

Also, King Kwon and Taesan Han, who I don't know when they joined, were also there..

Additionally, Donald Harris and the Spirit King, who had been nearby from the beginning, also stepped forward and began crushing the undead army that was writhing and crawling towards their master..

The whole world was fighting with Lee Hyun-wook..

Even if it wasn't, the overwhelming power added strength to the car that was being driven..

‘If this happens... … I can never lose.’

Lee Hyun-wook also lifted his body into the air and looked down at the necromancer who was standing up from the crushed forest..

'……It's like a cornered rabbit.?’

And the heroes of this world, including Lee Hyun-wook, were hovering over his head like hawks stalking their prey..

"Here, all the heroes you assassinated are alive. therefore……."

Hyunwook Lee clicked his tongue..

“……you are nothing here.”

Then, I lowered my left hand to the ground.,

100t's holy sword fell vertically towards him..

The most destructive execution ceremony in history has begun.