The Player Who Eats Steel - Episode 58
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"Twin—what is that?!”
3Two men were standing on the roof of a building in Gwanak-gu..
They were looking at 'Semi Armageddon', a huge ball of flame floating in the sky..
“Oh my god……."
Soon it crashed down on Cheongryongsan Mountain, a hotbed of ironclad poisonous insects..
The next moment, the entire mountain flew away..
Qua——ah——ah——!
A huge fever raged, and the men on top of the building had no choice but to lie down on the floor..
The dirt fell like rain on their heads..
“Damn, what is this all of a sudden?……."
"Pfft! Captain, are you okay??”
“Ugh, still… … The erosion factor is fine.?”
a man asked, wiping away dirt from the corner of his mouth..
"Fortunately, that seems to be the case. yet… … Quest failure did not appear.”
"Crazy, where did that come from??”
These were Chu Kyo-yong's subordinates, that is, villains..
After confirming the approach of the steel company, they planned to induce 'iron-clad insects' to wipe them out..
This was possible by using the special item given to the villain during this wave. Everything seemed to be going successfully... … Everything was ruined by someone who appeared out of nowhere..
"Ah, if this happens, the problem will get worse.……."
- Chick— Hey! hey!
At that time, someone's yelling was heard from the Mana Messenger placed on the floor..
"omg! Captain… … T, I think I've contacted the team leader..”
The man called the leader grabbed the Mana Messenger, hesitated for a moment, and then pressed the button..
"Yes, team leader, it is me.!”
- Chick— Fuck, what was that? It's an explosion, right? What kind of explosion is that big?—!
A voice full of grumpiness roared..
It was the team leader, Chu Kyo-yong..
"That might be... … Archmage, it seems the man has appeared..”
Archmage, the highest ranked player in the current wave zone..
- what? … … Are you sure?
"Well, there is no other wizard player other than the Archmage who can appear through teleportation and cast magic with such destructive power.?”
- Damn it, I thought that person would be an obstacle! He should have gotten it out somehow.…….
The villains worked behind the scenes to somehow get talented people who could interfere with the wave out of the wave zone before the wave started. As a result, Seoul became emptier than ever..
In this way, a power vacuum is created, and the remaining power is neutralized by striking at the first battlefield..
That was the villain's wave strategy..
However, there were a few people like Choi Jeong-cheol and Kim Kang-seok who did not take the bait..
- Write— But… … This… … Yeah, it actually worked out well.!
For some reason, Chu Kyo-yong started giggling..
"......yes?"
- Choi Jeong-cheol, that person was knocked out in one hit, and it would take 12 hours to use that skill again..
Choi Jeong-cheol was nicknamed 'Arch Mage', or Archmage, but in reality, he was not versatile in all magic. His magic was focused solely on its vast scope and enormous destructive power..
And such skills usually have a very long ‘cooldown time’ after being used once..
It's a whopping 12 hours.
- In other words, if it weren't there, I would have to go through the swarm of insects myself to remove the cause of erosion... … I joined them and pretended to take the lead and go through with them.…….
"oh......."
- ……Kill them all in one go..
The reason why the villain's plan had a high chance of success was because no one knew their true intentions..
"Team leader, is it still the steel company? … Shouldn't the crabs be a little more careful??”
Strangely, all the villains who faced the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Port Horse Brigade, especially the Steel Company, disappeared..
In that regard, they could not find out any details. Not a single one came back……
But Chu Kyo-yong snorted..
- Hey, Oh Taek-jin, you nigga, do you think I'm the same as them??
“ah! Of course that wasn't what I meant. sorry.”
Yes, the A-grade player was definitely on a different level..
Chu Kyo-yong, the devil's trainer, the monsters he commands never die..
***
4It's been three days since the tea wave invaded Seoul..
Important events that occurred in the Wave Zone were transmitted to the world through various channels.,
For the past three days, all the world has been talking about is the 4th wave..
And the thing that was mentioned the most in the story was by far the ‘Steel Company’..
‘Probably almost every news outlet has our name in the headline..’
So, from outside the wave zone, it could be mistaken that the Steel Company was fighting alone..
Until the news of Anyang Duo's attack came, only the Steel Company had any success..
But that wasn't true at all.
Quite a few players were fighting to protect Seoul in different areas..
‘There are a lot of selfish people out there, but there are also quite a few players with a sense of justice and a sense of duty..’
Seo Eun-ha and Choi Young-jun alone have captured two gates in the Namsan area, and other players have been active in various places, and currently about 20 improved gates have been captured throughout Seoul..
In other words, the number of players fighting the wave was definitely not small..
‘And right now, we need to unite the forces of those who have been fighting so hard..’
The final erosion factor was not a problem that could be solved by the Steel Company operating alone..
‘In order to attack this erosion factor, we must penetrate the endless colony of ironclad poisonous insects, and there is only one way... … Powerful and sustainable firepower is needed.’
Although it was only a one-shot, Choi Jeong-cheol's 'Semi Armageddon' saved a lot of time..
‘In the meantime, collect as many players as possible, especially as many lightning skill items as possible..’
No matter how many swarms of ironclad poisonous insects gather, they can be destroyed as if they were pests.…….
That was Lee Hyun-wook's plan, and Choi Jeong-cheol supported it..
"Ah, we ask for support from players across the wave zone! today……”
Therefore, the communication soldiers gathered together and sent mana communication in all directions to request support, and those outside the wave also contributed to the spread of this message..
Soon, players in the wave zone began to appear one after another..
"Three vehicles are coming from the west, Euncheon-dong.!”
"11 players in the Heukseok-dong area say they will join..”
20In less than a minute, about 200 people gathered in the playground of an elementary school, the gathering point..
Of course, not all of them were useful forces..
“Write—it seems like everyone is gathering together.……."
At the command post overlooking the stadium, Go Jin-han glanced at the players and complained like that..
He clicked his tongue as he looked at a group of young players..
They have smooth skin with no stretch marks, and unnecessarily dressed up in fashion.,
At first glance, it looked like he had very little combat experience..
Go Jin-han pointed at them with the tip of his chin and looked at Lee Hyun-wook..
"This company commander, have they really been responding to the wave until now??”
“……Well, I guess not.”
He had probably been holed up in a shelter somewhere and came out to try at least eating a spoon. It was a known fact that hero-grade items and large sums of money were at stake in the erosion factor.…….
"Tsk tsk, the situation has completely changed. Well, as I hear news that the erosion factor has been broken day by day, I am starting to feel insensitive to safety... … Damn, they don't know what's going on......."
And there were a few people who looked like reporters. They each held a Mana Messenger and rolled their eyes here and there, broadcasting the situation happening here outside the wave zone..
Although there were quite a few impurities,…….
'……Still, there will be more useful people than idiots..’
Lee Hyeon-wook stood at the stadium's commanding post and turned his head toward Cheongryongsan Mountain, the cause of erosion..
Black smoke was rising. This time it wasn't a swarm of bugs, it was real smoke..
After Semi-Armageddon, Qinglong Mountain was still burning.
‘But that level of heat won't do any harm to the ironclad bug..’
Even now, dozens of them were crawling out of the gate every minute, calling out their numbers..
‘Can't break through yet. The firepower is severely lacking, and above all, there is Chu Kyo-yong..’
But then, someone came running this way..
He was the deputy chief of staff to the brigade commander..
“—Brigadier General!”
Choi Jeong-cheol and Kim Kang-seok, who were talking on one side of the rescue squad, turned their heads..
"Huh— gasp— Huge reinforcements are about to arrive..”
"……huh? Has Anyang Duo already arrived??”
A huge support force, and everyone thought of them with that brilliant description..
But the deputy director shook his head..
"Oh, no. They said it would take about 30 minutes longer due to various reasons.."
"Um, then who came??”
The adjutant swallowed his saliva and opened his mouth..
“Chu Kyo-yong, the devil's trainer, has arrived!”
Chu Kyo-yong, the devil's trainer, was the 68th ranked player in Korea..
In this position, Choi Jeong-cheol would have been stronger than anyone else except for 38th place..
However, no one particularly cheered the news of his appearance..
"It's a great support group, but the problem is that I'm a self-indulgent person.……."
As such, Chu Kyo-yong’s image was not very good..
In particular, Kim Kang-seok frowned blatantly..
Chu Kyo-yong lived up to his nickname, the devil's trainer, and used cruel restraint magic to tame monsters..
And for a while, he appeared in various media and made several remarks criticizing and ridiculing players who give affection to their subordinates, saying that they are stupid.,
Kim Kang-seok was also a druid who communicated with the beasts of his clan, so he couldn't help but like it..
Anyway, Lee Hyun-wook realized why Chu Kyo-yong came here..
‘I'm trying to mix it inside and handle it for my own purpose..’
That was the villain's specialty. Since there was no way for the people around him to know about his evil intentions, it would have been very easy for him to wear an ordinary mask, blend in with the people, and manipulate them to their liking..
'But you probably don't know that I know that I'm a villain.……’
They might find it strange that the villains were attacked by the Steel Company one after another, but they would never have thought that their true identities were discovered..
To that extent, the villain organization of this era was completely shrouded in mystery, and they firmly believed that their identity or purpose would never be revealed..
Beep-beep-beep-beep—
Soon, a truck carrying a huge trailer began entering the elementary school playground..
Right there, there would be a lot of 'zombie monsters' under his control..
‘And there's a heart box somewhere in there.’
Chu Kyo-yong's non-dead relatives,
A secret box containing their hearts…….
Lee Hyun-wook actually knew their location..
‘I beat him, I know better than anyone else..’
Nevertheless, the reason why Chu Kyo-yong’s subordinates were tortured was,
This is because the storage location may have been different in the past..
"Ugh, the smell is already strong. It's not even a zoo.……."
Go Jinhan muttered like that..
Since a monster, a rotting monster at that, was crammed into such a small space, it was natural for a bad smell to arise. The players gathered on the playground also frowned and backed away..
Pushii——
The sound of air pressure stopping the truck was heard, and the men who got out of the truck lifted the octopus of the trailer..
Red eyes appeared from inside the trailer..
thud—
The first to land was the Minotauros, a muscular giant with the face of a cow..
It was probably over 3m tall, so I wondered how it ended up curled up in the trailer..
"Oh, fuck……."
"Wow, I've never seen anything that big before..”
“……That's really safe?”
The players were making a fuss as if they were spectators..
Minotaurs were higher-tier monsters, stronger than trolls and comparable to ogres..
To actually see something like that, you would have to be C grade 1st tier, and to attempt hunting you would have to be B grade or higher..
There were as many as four such Minotamurs..
There were two double-edged axes hanging on their backs..
At first glance, it seemed to be made of adamant..
It's an undying monster that attacks with those two out.…….
‘With those 4, even if 20 trolls attack, they will be turned into minced meat. But that weapon... … It would be perfect if I told it to my Living Armorers.?'
Lee Hyun-wook swallowed his saliva without even realizing it..
The orcs came down afterwards. There were 12 in total..
The orcs' skin was black and they had blue tattoos..
Black Orcs were the highest level of Orcs from the Orc Kingdom in Shanghai, China..
It was a race so powerful that it could not be considered the same race as ordinary orcs..
‘And with all kinds of strengthening spells cast, it is more powerful than it looks..’
Monster Tamers weren't just about controlling monsters.
I was able to grow or strengthen those monsters..
‘I remember them..’
Those 12 were called the ‘Black Orc Assault Troop’..
After the heart is removed, a ‘mana generator’ made of orihalcone is placed in its place..
They are a kind of mana engine, supplying about 25,000 mana..
A powerful assault force with an unstoppable ‘Auror’ all over their body, that was their identity..
‘I don't know about the axe, but I have that one..’
gulp—
He swallowed again..
Thump—thump—thump—thud—
"Uh oh……."
As they lined up on the playing field, players began to feel instinctive fear..
It was obvious.
Even if a wild animal such as a tiger or a lion is tied to a leash, the feeling of intimidation does not disappear. And it was like he was worried that the leash would come loose and lunge at him..
however…….
“—Uh oh.”
There really was a problem.
bang—!
Several minotaurs had crushed the car the players were riding in..
"Hey, what is that doing now?……."
Among them was an AMT armored reconnaissance vehicle..
bang-! bang-! bang-! bang—!
Some guy was hitting an SUV one after another as if he was venting his anger..
Since they were bastards with no sense of reason to begin with, they often behaved unexpectedly like that..
But those who got off the trailer truck didn't care at all and just did their job..
“……Why, why are you doing that?!”
"No shit, what can I do if I don’t stop you??”
Some worse players began to protest.
“No, if it was people like that, they shouldn't have been released.!”
"that's right! Put it back right away.!”
It was then.
"Oh, it's loud, really.—!”
The person who shouted that was a big man who looked like a toad..
He was Chu Kyo-yong, the Black Monster Tamer..
He got out of the black sedan that followed the trailer and walked towards the players..
“No, you can make mistakes! If you don't mind how many cars cost, I'll ask you all.!”
When Chu Kyo-yong shouted like that, the people who were protesting had no choice but to keep their mouths shut..
Because behind his back, the Minotaur and the Orcs began to approach..
"Can’t you see these blurry eyes? huh? It's not strange that these stupid beasts who only know about slaughter can hit and destroy things, and we're all clinking together as if it's nothing special.?”
"......."
"Yes, if you scream in front of animals, they might make a real mistake.?”
When no one objected, he snorted and turned away..
But then, at that very moment, someone muttered something..
"Asshole, something that looks like a rice cake toad……."
It was small, but if you had good ears, you could hear it..
Chu Kyo-yong suddenly turned around..
And glared at the players..
"……hey! you!”
"yes? Me, me?’’
He was a man who looked younger than he was..
"Yeah, you bastard, come here! You thought I couldn't hear you......."
"……That's enough.”
It was Kim Kang-seok who interrupted him..
“what?”
“We're not here to argue.”
So the two giants stood facing each other..
“Ah—Kim Kang-seok? A long time.”
The Minotaurs snorted and glared at Kim Kang-seok..
As if he had read Chu Kyo-yong's emotions, he seemed ready to pull out his double-edged ax at any moment..
And, blue eyes also appeared behind Kim Kang-seok's back..
rooftop of the school,
There, white tigers, black lions, great condors, etc. were standing on the railing and looking down at Chu Kyo-yong..
The beasts of both sides were ready to clash at any moment..
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