The Player Who Eats Steel - Episode 39
39. rain falling on the waves - 6
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Seo Eun-ha, she was like lightning.
Covered in brilliance, it shot out like light and knocked down five Haunted Armors in one go..
In the back of Seo Eun-ha, the search party members saw strong hope..
“Wow, that's the battle of Seo Eun-ha's strategy platoon leader, which I've only heard about.······.”
It was their first time seeing this, and they couldn't help but be amazed..
Of course, I heard it from the executives of the strategy platoon who were conducting operations with her..
If you follow the words of Sergeant Kang Ik-jun, the sniper of the strategy platoon,,
It is said that Lieutenant Seo Eun-ha's fighting style is closer to a 'berserker' rather than a 'paladin'.······.
“It was real······.”
I felt like I could finally understand what that meant..
Ahn Min-tae looked at the scene blankly, then came to his senses and raised his shield..
“ruler! We also follow behind the platoon leader and provide covering fire.!”
Maintaining a guarded position in all directions, I moved forward little by little, following Seo Eun-ha..
The light flowing from her body pushed away the darkness, so she was able to advance towards hell..
They came together tightly and cut off the zombies coming from all directions one by one..
“comes from the right!”
“-concentrated fire!”
Before we knew it, over a hundred zombies were hanging out like laundry behind them..
‘······do! It will happen this time too!’
When I faced that hellish landscape, I honestly thought there was no hope. However, the moment the two most famous players in the 1st Battalion showed their true skills, everything turned around in an instant..
‘Lieutenant Seo Eun-ha is great, but Sergeant Choi Young-jun is also formidable..’
On the right, Choi Youngjun's battle was taking place between the trees..
“-Kak!”
Fedora, who had rushed at Choi Young-jun with a spirit of revenge, was now on one foot and was stumbling backwards, and Choi Young-jun followed him closely and swung his sword..
Cha-ak!
The attack soared from below, cutting off the man's right shoulder to the very tip of his wing, leaving it tattered. The guy had no choice but to jump back and run away. He only mixed the swords twice, and the bastard was already seriously injured..
‘There is a clear difference in skill.’
I had seen Choi Youngjun fight often, but he always cut down his enemies overwhelmingly, so it was hard to gauge his true skills. And even now, the situation is not much different..
“It works too!”
Ahn Min-tae cheered without realizing it..
If I just kept pushing like this, everything would turn out smoothly..
‘It's a miracle that you can survive this level of hell.!’
It was nothing but a miracle that those two strong men were in the same battalion..
however······.
Pu-uong!
An explosion sounded out of nowhere and Ahn Min-tae's thoughts came to a halt..
“Ugh!”
The search party members reflexively lowered their posture..
Flames were rising in the darkness ahead..
Something flew in front of the search party members..
thud-
“uh?”
······That was sad.
Bright red blood flowed from her forehead..
The corners of Ahn Min-tae's mouth slowly lowered..
“Cow, platoon leader?”
“Go back, step back, step back······.”
But for some reason, the shine had disappeared from her body..
“Yeah, that name is probably famous for no reason.?”
A woman's voice rang out in the darkness..
“Do you think I didn’t know about that amazing skill? So like this······.”
Four arms sprouted from behind the woman's back..
And one of them was holding something that glowed black..
“······Even the second gift was prepared properly..”
Wee wee wee--
it was a necklace.
The necklace was making a strange sound and was pushing away the radiance emitted by Seo Eun-ha..
- caution! The curse of ‘Gregory Azazel’ spreads! Holy power in the area is suppressed.!
“Ugh! Ha, of course... the Noble Phantasm of a Fallen Angel······.”
'Grigori', which appears in Judaism, was an organization of fallen angels, and 'Azazel' was their leader. In other words, they were people who originally used divine power, but betrayed that power and took refuge in the power of darkness. The 'Fallen Angel's Noble Phantasm', based on that setting, was an anti-holy power item..
To put it simply, it was an item that was no different from the Achilles' heel for players who used sacred skills..
Something like a dark red stain was spreading over the white letters on Seo Eun-ha's armor, shield, and great sword. Because of this, the white light became lighter and the power of Seo Eunha decreased..
Seo Eun-ha stood up again and staggered forward..
“Ugh, ugh······.”
However, in a situation where her divine power was limited, there was no way her power could be properly displayed..
Thump-thump-
Three Haunted Armors walked toward her as she staggered..
This time, for some reason, they seemed even bigger..
As if they would crush Seo Eun-ha to death at any moment.······.
Even for Choi Young-jun, things were not going well..
He just succeeded in cutting off all the limbs of a bowler hat vampire..
However, black smoke began to flow from the severed part of the creature and began to replace the body..
“······What is it, smoke?”
If it was in the form of smoke, it would not have been possible to cut it with Choi Youngjun's sword alone..
And the next moment, smoke enveloped the bowler hat vampire's entire body.······.
Go-oh-oh-oh-oh-
“uh? Sergeant Youngjun Choi! Be careful-”
It turned into a gust of wind and hit Choi Youngjun..
His body rose into the air..
Just like that, Choi Youngjun disappeared into the forest far away, engulfed in black smoke..
“······.”
They had no idea how things were going after that..
Two hopes extinguished at the same time.
“Ah, suddenly what is this?······.”
“Now, what do we, uh, do??”
The search party members felt more than just their hearts pounding, they were sinking..
“we are all dead.”
“Even now, I have to run away······.”
Panic soon came..
“hey! Come to your senses and raise your weapon!”
“ah······.”
“You have to keep fighting! 11 o'clock, the zombie hordes are coming again!”
They again looked at the enemies in front of them and reflexively raised their weapons..
That was all I could do.
However, they all knew that if even those two couldn't do it, there was no hope..
“omg! Ha, it happens to come this way.!”
Thump-thump-thump-thump-
While Seo Eun-ha was struggling with the 3 Haunted Armors, the other 2 approached them..
“Shoot! shoot!”
Arrows filled with divine power were fired at them all at once..
Ting - Ting-
However, it only did enough to put a scratch on that massive armor..
“Wow!”
“no! run away!”
Thump-thump-
The shadow of the guy who approached like that was cast over the heads of the tanks..
Ahn Min-tae looked up and raised his shield..
“Oh, it's ruined.”
this is really dead.
I had that thought..
Just today, it felt like this was already the second time I felt this way..
At that time, Sergeant Choi Young-jun appeared like a miracle..
But now he was flying far away..
To be honest, I don't want a miracle like that twice.······.
Teo-ung-
“······huh?”
At the sound of a loud noise, Ahn Min-tae slowly lowered his shield..
palace--
The empty armor began to make a clear sound as if it were a huge bronze bell..
The reason was that something like a silver rod was stuck on the chest of the armor and was vibrating..
Tweet--
A roar, an evil spirit howled within the hunted armor..
It was divine power. That unidentified stick contained divine power..
He put down his weapon and tried to pull out the stick or something.······.
Ter-ung- Ter-ung- Ter-ung-
Then three more shots flew in, hitting various parts of the armor..
More divine power stimulated the inside of the armor..
Then, as if he couldn't bear it any longer, black smoke burst out from everywhere and the armor fell to its knees..
Coo-ung-
The evil spirit had escaped the Living Armor on its own..
“Isn’t that the stake??”
Some search party members recognized what it was..
At that time, lights turned on one by one in the dark forest behind me..
Flash light mounted on weapon,
A number of AMT soldiers stood tall in the darkness..
“It's reinforcements.!”
And the man at the forefront was, of course, Lee Hyun-wook..
“ah! Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook!”
Ahn Min-tae shouted without realizing it..
There was tears in his voice..
Yeah, I forgot about it for a moment..
In fact, the man who is more active in this hell than anyone else,
Lee Hyun-wook hasn't appeared yet.······.
He came over and placed his hand on Ahn Min-tae's shoulder..
“Ahn Min-tae, come to your senses, it’s not over yet..”
“ah! That's right!”
Ahn Min-tae raised his shield as he felt his morale rising..
“What are you all doing? ready to fight again!”
At his shout, the search party members who had backed away came forward again..
And the support troops that followed Lee Hyun-wook began to line up on both sides of them..
2They were female soldiers from the company, and most of them were wizard players..
“ruler! Come to your senses and prepare your link magic.!”
A short female sergeant shouted and led the women..
Kim Se-hee was the most famous soldier in the 2nd Company..
Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-wook slowly surveyed the battlefield and read the system message that appeared before his eyes..
- You can secure ‘master authority’ for the corresponding Living Armor..
* You may not be functioning properly because you have low 'control'!
That was the message that came to mind the moment I defeated the Haunted Armor..
Living Armor was a magically designed combat weapon and a type of automatic hunting item..
Usually, wizards used 'control magic' to secure master authority..
‘But an easier way is to use control..’
Control was one of the rarest and most powerful of the player's abilities..
Inferno controls the flames,
Park Jun-mo, who controls the electric current,
Necromancer who controls death,
And Lee Hyun-wook controls metal, and in terms of the system, Lee Hyun-wook's 'metal control' was also the almighty key to securing Living Armor's 'master authority'..
‘control.’
Then, various magic circles engraved on the surface of the fallen Living Armor began to glow. It turned on one after another as if a machine was running, and soon the blue eye lights came on..
thud-
It raised its body and stood tall in front of Lee Hyun-wook..
- ‘Master authority’ for Living Armor has been secured.
“······As expected, I brought a lot of good stuff..”
Lee Hyun-wook stopped his smile from flowing out..
“Lee, Hyunwook Lee?”
It was Seo Eun-ha’s voice. She was already in complete disrepair..
“I was almost late this time, but I still came on time..”
“you! Is it time for a joke? Ugh······.”
When she stumbled as if she would fall at any moment, Lee Hyun-wook approached her and helped her..
At that time, my eyes met a woman standing in the dark far away..
“Ah, they said there was another person who killed Oh Gwang-muk... and he finally showed up.?”
Lee Hyun-wook knew who that woman was..
‘Carol Choi, leader of the Five Butchers.’
The second child of the Blood Lord, he was one of Ki Baekjun's minions..
Because he was a vampire and could use the magic of death, he was able to control the undead..
Of course, it was nothing compared to the commander of the Legion of Death and the necromancer.······.
Wow······
Behind her, in the wide valley, green eyes were crowded together..
“A lot has gathered.”
Lee Hyun-wook walked forward toward them..
“Looks like we're about to throw a huge party, sorry, but I have to be rude..”
“Phew - I'm sure you're saying this because you know that your head will be on the table at that party.?”
Carol threw her cigarette on the floor and put it out with her foot..
However, Lee Hyun-wook did not even look at Carol..
His attitude was as if he didn't care about things like you..
I just walked forward, raised my head and looked at the sky..
“······By the way, it looks like it’s going to rain. Do you have an umbrella??”
Carol tilted her head at the somewhat unexpected remark..
“······What are you talking about?”
“If not, I'm sorry... but I guess I'll have to end this party..”
Lee Hyun-wook said that and raised his hand..
Then, the wizards of the 2nd company all raised their wands and staffs as if they were waiting..
Then, Sergeant Kim Se-hee’s voice rang out..
“Now! Link)!”
Link was a spell that called upon magic cast from somewhere else..
15Four magicians simultaneously drew a magic circle, and 15 beams of light stretched into the sky..
T-uh-uh-
Rays of light gathered and fused at one point..
everyone looked there.
yes-
A circular shimmer appeared in the middle of the black sky..
Then, as if the lid of the sky was opened,
From there, a faint light began to seep out..
“It's a portal.”
A portal was a dimensional tunnel, a door connected to another ‘somewhere’..
“It's raining... it's coming?”
Carol's eyebrows twitched. Only then did she seem to sense something ominous..
At that time, someone's voice came from Lee Hyun-wook's shoulder-walkie-talkie..
- Chik - Wide-area magic deployment completed at the battalion armory!
It was the regional magic control officer, Major Moon Tae-ho..
“Yes, I checked.”
- Chic - But keep in mind! The duration of the wide portal is only 3 minutes.!
“Yes, I know. And that's enough······.”
Lee Hyun-wook slowly raised his left hand..
The goal was a ‘wide-area portal’ opened in the sky..
he did it,
no,
I grabbed hold of things beyond that, transcending space..
“······Heavy rain is pouring down, enough to wash away the dirty things.”
With those words, his hand dropped,
Hundreds of flashes of light began pouring down from the portal..
- Chik - Drop complete. Good luck.
That day in Seoul, rain made of steel fell.
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