The Player Who Eats Steel - Episode 220
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With a sound, Lee Hyun-wook’s body was shattered..
"........"
At that moment, the whole world was filled with silence..
"......."
No one could make any sound... … The same was true for Lee Hyun-wook's colleagues, including Kim Se-hee, Park Jun-mo, Seo Eun-ha, Woo Seong-moon, and Emilia Müller. They were unable to react, not because they were shocked, but rather because they could not believe it..
The scene where a seemingly absolute hero who has never been defeated before evaporates into a handful of blood... … It never felt real..
"after… … Now, this is our answer to your defiance..”
With that said, the administrator—a woman known by her human name as Nicole—lifted pieces of Lee Hyun-wook's corpse into the air, regenerating the blown lower half of his body..
"—no!”
"What a bastard.!”
Then, belatedly, Park Jun-mo, Kim Se-hee, etc. came out angrily, but the surrounding players stopped them..
Looking at the scene with interest, Nicole began to stir up the mana contained within his body through the power of the 'System', and blood flowed out from within the piece of flesh..
And although the players were not visible, the red nets were moving delicately, collecting the blue mana particles tangled in Lee Hyun-wook's nervous system one by one..
however.......
"uh? how did this happen?”
She tilted her head with a perplexed expression..
This is because the ‘data’ that should have been inside Lee Hyun-wook’s body and that had to be hastily collected was disappearing in real time..
Then a question began to invade her mind and her face turned pale..
Where on earth are they going??
***
‘I am… … dead.’
Lee Hyun-wook sensed that he was dead..
‘No, my body disintegrated..’
In other words, biological death occurred..
However, Lee Hyun-wook was no longer just a living being, and he fully understood the super-substance called ‘mana’ and began to fragment his spirit into mana..
Therefore, other ways of existence other than biological survival have become possible... … He was able to exist fragmented within multiple mana..
He realized in real time how to weave mana into his nervous system more acutely and precisely..
Accordingly, like an advanced computer, his intuition analyzed all phenomena at incredible speed and began to learn how to manipulate all materials..
Furthermore, it was possible to detect invisible areas, such as dimensional walls and the energy behind them.…….
He defined this moment like this:.
'……It's transcendence.’
Yes, he was experiencing a true transcendence now..
But the situation wasn't all that good now..
'……If this continues, my will will evaporate in a few seconds..’
His senses were fading very quickly..
‘This mana, at present, can only maintain its function if it is connected to the nervous system of an intelligent body..’
To describe this point, the data called ‘mana’ could only be input and output if it was stored in a storage medium called the ‘nervous system’..
But since his body was destroyed, his nervous system was also rapidly disappearing..
'……need a body.’
In the future, if we have more time, it may be possible to reorganize the body structure of living things and build a virtual nervous system, but we have not yet been able to reach that level of ability..
‘We need a nervous system that is a storage device to transfer this data, a nervous system that is exactly like mine..’
This is because this ‘data’ that is close to this god was structured solely to suit Lee Hyun-wook’s nervous system..
In other words, proper compatibility was needed..
He moved his mind to a dimensional gap in a split second..
He didn't know where it was or how to get to it until just a few seconds ago, but his will to break free of the shackles quickly allowed him to understand and control everything..
Lee Hyun-wook's mind was immersed in some thick darkness..
‘This… … It's the darkness I saw right before I returned..’
Soon, just like that time, I saw a light somewhere in the distance..
He flew there, put his head into the light.
the next moment—
"......."
He exhaled slowly and sighed..
I raised my hands and looked, and lowered my head to look at the body, and the body that would have been shattered into pieces remained intact..
And this place was quite familiar..
Tick—tick—
Where he served in the military… … It was a living room.
At that time, the door opened and someone came in..
The man was a raven-haired private in a black combat uniform..
He hesitantly approached and said to Lee Hyun-wook..
"Corporal Lee Hyun-wook, are you awake? It's time for dinner.”
Lee Hyun-wook slowly stood up from the bed..
And then I faced Park Jun-mo..
"Junmo Park……."
"Private First Class Park Jun-mo—Yes, please speak.!”
Lee Hyun-wook looked at the scene and smiled. I never thought I'd see this guy's foolish side again..
"uh… … why are you like this?”
Lee Hyun-wook shook his head..
"No, I'll be leaving soon, so go first..”
"Yes, I understand.”
He took a moment to catch his breath in the empty living room, then opened his closet and looked at the mirror inside..
This time, I saw my youthful face again..
‘Is this already my third time seeing this face??’
This is Earth from another dimension, and it was also one of the manager's laboratory flasks..
As he slowly changed into his black combat uniform, he was lost in old thoughts for just a moment..
At this moment in my first life, I did nothing and lived helplessly..
And in this moment of my second life, I swallowed the clip and dreamed of a new future..
And now, third life.......
Then he exhaled and stretched his hand into the air. But this time, what he sensed wasn't metal..
He tore a rift in the dimension and forced it open..
Then a black shimmer appeared in the air..
Go—oh—oh—oh——
It was a dimensional passage, the Black Gate..
Lee Hyun-wook slowly walked inside..
And let's walk out the other side—
Whoa whoa——
Seoul, the ruined city center unfolded before my eyes..
That was the exact place where Lee Hyun-wook was standing just a few minutes ago... .. As I turned my head, players came into view one by one nearby..
They were very frightened, but some of them looked surprised when they saw Lee Hyun-wook..
Among them was Park Jun-mo..
“uh… … uh……”
He shed tears and then looked at Lee Hyun-wook with a blank face..
Lee Hyun-wook turned his head to the other side without even having time to pretend to know..
Then, I saw a woman, Nicole, rummaging through a lump of blood, probably a piece of Lee Hyun-wook's body floating in the air... … She also couldn't help but be shocked when she saw Lee Hyun-wook..
"uh? uh! This, this... … Uh, how……."
She took a step back with a scared look on her face..
That scene, this phenomenon, was something even a manager could not understand..
Lee Hyun-wook approached her and snapped his fingers..
Then, the contents of the floating in the sky began to distort strangely again..
- *&%^$$#@ It ends.
And the red particles that were binding the mana in the area evaporated and all control of the system was lifted..
In other words, the system collapsed..
At the same time, the cosmic mirage was removed as if a veil was being lifted from various parts of the sky, and circular alien craft began to appear one by one..
It was unknown how long they had been there, but there were quite a number of them circling the Earth's orbit. It was so large that it seemed as if the moon had multiplied and surrounded the Earth..
Hyunwook Lee scanned the interior of the aircraft in just a few seconds and discovered that they functioned as relays for operating the system and as bases where administrators resided..
“Uh, uh—uh—”
As Lee Hyun-wook approached, Nicole took a step back..
As Lee Hyun-wook approached her, he slowly raised his left hand and stretched it toward the sky..
coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo coo——
Then the administrator bases in Earth's orbit began to pull towards Earth..
and…….
bang--! bang——!
Before they even reached the atmosphere, they exploded and collapsed..
What it means is simple.
It was the moment when all the chains that had been attached to the Earth and humanity were broken..
Lee Hyun-wook's left hand went toward the aircraft that had crashed earlier. There was the real body of Nicole, this manager..
Going away——
Soon, the outside of the place was torn like a sheet of paper, and a blue figure flew out from inside and stopped in the air in front of Lee Hyun-wook..
"Pfft!"
It was a blue-skinned alien with human-like limbs, but long ears and large eyes..
That was the true face of the alien race called managers..
Lee Hyun-wook dragged it in front of him..
“ruler… … this time… … You seem to have a lot of questions, so maybe I should take them.?”
Lee Hyun-wook joked in a cold voice..
Now the relationship between A and B has completely changed..
So Nicole, the manager really asked a question..
“You, what the hell are you... … Uh, how… … Have you really become a god now??”
“I won't give you such a childish name, but it seems like your intended experiment was successful..”
Even as Lee Hyun-wook said that, he crushed the managers' bases that were falling towards Earth one by one..
The scene where an explosion sounded above his head and debris from a huge aircraft rained down behind him was nothing short of brutal..
Looking at the scene, the manager looked vain..
"This is ridiculous. Oh no, this can't be happening……."
Lee Hyun-wook shook his head..
“No, this can happen, we humans and you as well, all intelligent beings seem to believe that they are in control of something. Whether it's an experiment, a dangerous facility, or even nature.……."
This was an experiment. It was also a very dangerous experiment..
The experiment led to a major accident..
And as it is a big experiment, accidents are bound to be big..
For example, an uncontrollable catastrophe such as a nuclear power plant explosion or a virus leak from a biochemical laboratory..
To put that thought in other words: …….
“……As you said, a bug occurred..”
Bug, it was Lee Hyun-wook himself..
If this disaster was a game, Hyunwook Lee was a bug.,
If this disaster was an experiment, then Lee Hyun-wook was an accident.,
In other words, it could be called a variable..
Hyunwook Lee continues to expand his mana embodiment, and his senses have reached a point where he can control mana from hundreds of kilometers away..
With just a few judgments, he completely destroyed every facility the administrators had spread across the planet..
Bang—— Bang——
All over the world, a roar rang out.
And then I looked back at my dumbfounded colleagues..
They were always surprised by Lee Hyun-wook's performance, but this time it was on a completely different scale..
This is because the power radiating from him was enormous, and precisely because his nervous system had access to all mana, and because of this, he stimulated the mana entangled in the players' bodies and created status ailments, so it felt like an intimidating feeling..
That was the identity of the ambiguous phenomenon called rank..
Lee Hyun-wook looked at them one by one and then opened his mouth..
“……I think I'll have to go somewhere for quite some time..”
Lee Hyun-wook said that and gathered all the mana in the area, and things that glowed began to appear over his head..
Whoosh—Whoosh—Whoosh—Whoosh—
Like the Milky Way blooming, they embroider the sky... … It was none other than the great sword, Mogley. It was all created with just one gesture..
Next, a huge black shimmer appeared in front of Lee Hyun-wook, and Nicole asked with an anxious expression..
“……Uh, where does the door lead to??”
It was a black gate, a portal to another dimension..
Lee Hyun-wook looked down at the manager in bondage..
"From now on… … in your world……."
He raised his left hand and gestured, and the Moglay that had floated in the sky began to pour like a waterfall towards the portal..
“……I plan to make it rain made of steel..”
And at the end of the line, Lee Hyun-wook walked in..
With this, the created god escaped the laboratory..
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