Chapter. 24. The Greatest Creditor (6)
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Raptor Nest. This strange structure, made by dismantling and welding hundreds of pieces of half-destroyed combat equipment, was an impregnable fortress that boasted a defense power as terrible as its material.
Buaaaaang-!
Tank armor in the era of laser weapons and electromagnetic accelerator bombs was built to withstand all kinds of attacks. In several places on the wall where the armor was built, the batteries attached to the armor were still alive, turning their heads irregularly in all directions, and even if the shells that managed to break through the thick wall caused damage to the internal organs, they only destroyed part of them. This could not affect the hundreds of engines and orbital bases.
Kkeeeeeek- Boom
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So, the moment the rhino-like bumper of the armored truck, which had been modified to his taste, hit the outer wall of the Nest, Ian was confident as he pushed away the exploding airbag.
“Hehehe-cough!” “Wow… there’s no way I can handle all of these perverted war weapons, the Vex…”
There is no one on this battlefield who can solve this problem other than him.
Grumble!
When the dented car door was kicked away with a military kick, what appeared was a space inside the outer wall of the Nest where all kinds of equipment parts were connected by spiderweb-like pipe supports.
“Hehehe… Equipment based on the exterior wall at 7 o’clock. Among the equipment used as a basis for external expansion when Nest was less than half of what it is now, the [Rescue 2/7485] vehicle. “During the construction process, the base vehicle could not withstand the load and was damaged, but since it was already complicated and welded, I had no choice but to use this auxiliary support as a solder… Cough!”
I still remembered it clearly. Around the time the Raptor Society was just being created. Requests from engineers that that part should be replaced came in once a day, and reports that that part had collapsed again and needed to be repaired came in once a week, and in Raptor, where only druggies and war addicts gathered, such requests were considered by this gigantic weapon of destruction. Ashfield was the only one with great interest.
“As expected, it was the same as then… Yes, it has to be the same. “Of course.”
Ian had to stand against the wall as the blood poured out more and more violently. Beneath the fresh blood he had spit out, the hard blood that had been caked in oil and dust and covered the wall crumbled onto his fingertips as he touched the wall.
Beneath the blood stains that covered the wall were dozens of corpses that had been dried out by the heat of the engine.
“…Hello, Raptor engineers.”
The moment Ashfield received the report that this vulnerability was impossible to repair, he called all the engineers at the time here. They rushed to the orders of their only communication superior without delay, and following his orders, they covered the exterior with iron plates to make this weak point look the same as the other exterior walls, and erected auxiliary supports to ensure that the steel plates had minimal defensive power.
By the end of the work, They were all shot to death by his hand. At the time, he only took security measures against those who knew Nest’s only weakness. From that day on, Ian was the only one who knew about the gaping hole in the outer wall, so it was natural that no follow-up action was taken.
“I’m sorry.”
In conclusion, it was a dog’s death. Their deaths were labeled as being to protect the Nest, but the person who actually carried it out came into the hidden place to destroy the Nest.
“At that time, I didn’t know anything. “He was a very cold-blooded bastard.”
Clap!
Fishit!
The large gun case that was his symbol was too heavy for a roughly healed wound to handle.
Ian sprinkled the blood that flowed from the wound over the dried corpses, like pouring alcohol on a grave.
“As you can see, it is still slowly cooling down.”
Hehehehehe-
Isn’t this really fun? If Ashfield in the past was a cold and cold-blooded ‘Cold Blood’, the current Metal Joe is actually cooling down to the point where his lips are turning blue. All kinds of doping agents were moving around my body, which should have collapsed a long time ago, and thanks to this, my body, which was losing its function, was cooled to the point where I could feel the vomiting of blood.
Most of my memories of this place are about murder. Those days were spent focusing on war, where he was obsessed with explosions and used them most efficiently. Memories of killing many enemies. Memories of killing more than twice that many civilians. And the memory of the moment his wife and daughter were murdered.
He has now come to place his death in this place where memories of countless deaths rest.
“fate. “It’s fate…”
Beyond the iron wall, the refined footsteps of those wearing military boots quickly approached. The sound of ammunition being loaded. The sound of tapping on the wall to determine location. The sparks of an acetylene welder shot across the wall in a straight line, exactly where he was.
“You came here very late.”
The natural sense of a war practitioner examined the front lines.
‘enemy. Judging from the weight of the footsteps, it looks like a cyborg, even heavily armored. Protective clothing of Lv4 or higher to prepare for him who has a high probability of preferring explosives. ‘The 5-minute standby team arrived immediately upon infiltration and reinforcements are planned after 30 minutes.’
‘Friendly. individual. Armed with heavy weapons, mainly explosives. Compound fracture. Upper body thoracotomy. Inability to fight. ‘A middle-aged living corpse.’
“Hehehe, that’s so unfair.”
Chijijijijijik –
The moment when the welder cuts the wall into a square shape.
Ping –
Ian added the sound of a grenade pin on top of those sounds.
The iron plate with red-hot edges falls. Two soldiers wearing thick explosive protective clothing and fire-resistant shields barricaded the entrance, and the round head of a flamethrower peeked out between them.
In comparison, the extremely flimsy grenade drew a light parabola and fell helplessly in a place that did not even reach halfway to the enemy.
The moment when a small anti-personnel grenade exploded between Ian, who hurriedly hid himself, and the Raptor soldiers, who laughed at his fleeting resistance and raised their shields.
Bang-
-Kwaaaaaang! Quang! bang! Kuaaang!
Starting with that small explosion, successive explosions began to explode along the walls of the nest, as if missiles were raining down from under the ground.
Quaaaang!
The explosion spread inside the nest, tearing through soldiers and steel plates.
Kkkeuk kkeikiik-!
The cracks created by the explosion began to tear apart the outer and inner walls that supported each other through the weight of the layers.
-Cow. Coooooo!
Eventually, the left slope of the Nest, which had begun to collapse from the base, began to collapse along with the connected tanks.
Cluck cluck!
“…Heating pipe. “The raptor cubs, who were in dire straits, used the heat coming from the tank engine heat and exhaust to heat the nest.”
The grenade that fell weakly was not initially aimed at the Raptor soldiers, but rather at the heating pipes covering the entire nest exposed in the empty space inside the outer wall.
It is a raptor that uses over a thousand tank engines that have aged for as short as a few years or as long as ten years in a variety of ways. Even the ones used in aging engines are not diesel or gasoline, but impure oils such as ‘biodiesel’, which is a mixture of oil extracted from humans and plants.
“For raptors, who have to spend the winter surrounded by chunks of metal, they have no choice but to recycle the heat of combustion to build a nest, but in fact, what’s inside is half-incompletely burned vaporized fuel. “Hehehe!”
That’s why he paid so much attention to the security of the ‘vulnerability’ that he infiltrated. This place was no different from Raptor Nest, to the point where 30 precious engineer resources were wasted. All other thermal pipes were safely protected within several layers of metal walls, but due to a structural defect, an empty space was created due to the haphazard installation of auxiliary supports, so the gas pipes containing a lot of flammable gas had no choice but to be exposed to the outside.
“…I kept thinking about it. “If you come to destroy the Raptor, this is the only place.”
So it’s unfair.
A living corpse. individual. Personal weapons weighing about 50 kg. No matter how long it is, there are about 90 minutes left in life.
And from the moment he sent his wife and daughter to death, he has spent every night in hatred for the Raptor Society, the worst bomber in human history.
“Hehehehe…. Against that bomber Ashfield, only 5 teams and 30 people will be split…!”
Patter –
Blood poured from his nose and his body stumbled, but Ian forcibly held his knee that was giving out.
Seuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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The deeply inhaled cigarette smoke billowed out from the entire body through holes in the lungs of the cheek and neck.
“…Today is the day I die.”
Only part of the nest collapsed, so drugged Raptor slaves were coming towards him like ants from the areas that did not collapse.
“Ashfield. Ian Desmond. It’s metal. “All three of them will die here.”
Ian spit out his cigarette, including the filter.
I raised my shaking knees, wiped the tip of my bleeding nose, and held the gun in both hands.
“So understand even if it’s unfair.”
Tutaang-!
And then he threw himself towards the approaching human barrier.
he dies In about 90 minutes, maybe right now.
So the Raptor Society he created and all the trash thrown into that gutter die here.
He doesn’t become a monster. There are moments when he desperately wants to go back, but he has long since accepted it as retribution for the murders he has committed. The human Ian Desmond was already a monster.
“You bastards in the world….”
So no matter how much he is dying, no matter how many enemies there are,
Quaaaang!
“…Try killing him. Kill it! “Try killing me!”
This was the fortress he put the most effort into building in the past.
“Hehehehe! Hehehehehahahaha!”
He was the worst bomber in human history, killing the most people with gunpowder.
-Tung
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Quang! Kwagwagwaang-!
This place was built with war weapons, and more than 30% of the total area was filled with gunpowder and explosives.
A gun in his hand. grenade. All grenades and such are just fuse.
The bomb he prepared was a huge powder keg named ‘Raptor Nest’.
I know the entire structure and have been thinking about how to break it for nearly 10 years.
It was the biggest bomb in Metal Joe’s life.
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Coooooooooo –
The cutting edge of Spaceship Base Next Space. On the long iron railing that connects the spaceship and the base.
Kwaang-!
OffProfit-
“Amazing. “It’s really amazing…!”
The man, who was wearing a spacesuit with the help of his subordinates, could not take his eyes off the railing, forgetting about the urgency of the situation.
Kwaaaaang!
The massive explosion was enough to shake even the Next Space building behind Nest.
Part of the nest collapses with a dull sound. The sound of hard composite armor being torn apart sharply pierced the wasteland, but the screams of hundreds of people buried in an instant could only come out faintly.
If the left side of the Nest was collapsing majestically, the right side was being taken over in the most standard way. The exosuit unit took advantage of the pause in the offensive and occupied the entrance to the tank, and the Dome’s elite agents armed with optical weapons engaged the troops inside and were gradually approaching the inside. In fact, in infantry battles in such narrow spaces, Dom’s troops armed with personal shields had the advantage.
The front is the starting point of this entire process. Professor Park, who suddenly destroyed the Raptor’s main tank corps with a strange artillery barrage, had crystallized blood growing all over his body and was unable to move properly. If you look closely, you can see that he is slowly moving towards us with his stiff body.
“It’s faster than I thought, and it’s more disappointing than I thought. “The Raptor’s use after today has also been decided.”
He, who is half raptor and half Gedreutz, was both displeased and unable to hide his joy at the development that slightly exceeded his expectations. His eyes were fixed on Professor Park, who looked like a monster from the ‘other world’ whose body was stiffening.
“In the end, I reached an achievement that I could not achieve…! As expected, it was the correct answer. That’s correct! Professor Park! You are the correct answer! This time, I finally found the right result! This is me! Finally!”
Look at that. Look at the author, who has already surpassed the current generation by several levels with his knowledge, but has surpassed him in ways that even he could not have imagined.
Although Raptor is a work of art, it is ultimately nothing more than a tool. The Artists’ Union, the Dome, and this wasteland are all just processes to reach a result.
The result of willingly putting all that into practice. What can be said to be the only achievement of the human Andrei Gedroits is now in full bloom before his eyes, and there is no reason to draw his attention just because a familiar tool is broken.
thud.
Jump up!
“Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop!”
The person who broke the thoughts of the brightest moment of her life was a man who kicked in the door as if it was about to break.
“It’s an intruder!”
“Your Excellency, step back! Enemy-”
Ta-taan-!
The heads of the two adjutants blocking his path disappeared in an instant. Gedreutz, standing between them, spoke without taking his eyes off the railing.
“Congratulations. I didn’t know which of the three would come first, but you came first. Desmond.”
“It’s metal. I changed my name, you bastard-”
Cluck, cluck, cluck! Kahaha!
A man helplessly drops a smoking shotgun.
Ian’s appearance was surprising enough to stimulate Gedreutz’s academic side. To be precise, the fact that he was still standing was very strange.
“Not to mention the burns all over my body. The left eye is missing due to orbital fracture. The protruding eye is suspected to be cerebral hemorrhage, and multiple compound fractures… Oh my. “What on earth did you put in that leg?”
“It’s the same gun as my third wife. It came at me unluckily and blew off my leg, but I have no intention of crawling in front of you.”
“Why do you have to do that?”
“This guy with one side of his balls is acting too wild… I think he’ll end up as a bridesmaid if he keeps acting reckless like this.”
Cough!
“Ah, I can’t remain as a sidekick to my friend. “I put my life on the line, but not everyone wants to be a supporting actor.”
Blood filled his throat every time he took a deep breath, showing that his lungs and internal organs were seriously damaged. Gedreutz was secretly admiring the man who looked suspiciously alive and had a firearm inserted into the prosthetic leg where his shin bone would go.
“A desire for revenge… Ashfield is indeed as great a person as his reputation suggests.”
“That sounds like a joke.”
Gulp! Gulp!
Phew….
Ian swallowed the blood that was welling up and somehow managed to catch his breath with his punctured lungs.
“Gustave, I heard that that bastard was eaten by a crazy old man. “I’m not so low-class that I want to get revenge on a half-assed asshole who would freeze to death for revenge.”
“Then you really went to that length for the same cause?”
“Damn the cause.”
Slam!
Ian put his few remaining fingers on the trigger.
“It’s a duty. “It’s my last remaining duty as a head of a household.”
Ta-ta-ang!
The bullet, aimed precisely at the head, bounced off the shield created in front of Gedreutz’s nose.
“And a ticket to heaven. No matter how many times I looked at it, it seemed like the only chance of saving someone as many as the person I killed would be to grab them by the hair and twist them.”
It was probably the only way Metal Joe, after thorough calculation, could come up with to reunite with his wife.
His wife was a person who perfectly suited the name Angel in White. If she didn’t go to heaven when she died, heaven wouldn’t exist.
His daughter died before she could face the filth of the world. Of course you will go to heaven.
On the other hand, what about Ian himself? Aren’t you a villain who should compete with Hitler for a hotter bath at the very bottom of hell?
So I had no choice but to do this.
How to save as much as you kill. I don’t know about hell, but at least there is a way to end up in purgatory due to extenuating circumstances. A way to watch the traces of my wife and daughter even from such a distance.
“If I stop you, Professor Park will take this to the server room or something.”
“He’ll probably make it. “It’s proven through experience.”
“…Tsk. Looking at it positively, did the famous Ashfield eventually lose his mind?”
“Hehehe! “What else can a person think before they die other than these!”
Teuong!
Ian took a strong step forward.
Bullets don’t work.
Explosives cannot be used. The moment something explodes on the flimsy iron bridge connecting the base to the spacecraft, the path leading to the spaceship collapses. As long as the professor is coming here, you must not touch this.
So what’s left?
“I guess I have no choice but to give it away.”
It was just a hand-to-hand fight in which this completely broken body was thrown away.
When Ian put his hand into his arms, a bluish shield similar to Gedreutz’s covered his body.
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[Hey, you bastard! So, you come and live in my house?]
[No? I live next to you.]
[….The shield. Is there a shield for a medium-sized residence?]
[Can’t I just use the shield for a small residence that was originally used? You write your own. Because me and Vex will use our own separately.]
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It’s an old fact, it’s not that long ago, but it’s a moment in the past that feels like a long time ago.
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[You idiot! If the same shields overlap, the wavelengths will be confused and neutralized! Don’t you know that this is the most basic doctrine of shield warfare?]
[Ah.]
[Ah… I’m sorry…]
[Ahhhh!]
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When your body gets to this point The reason why I have been saving my shield until now.
His shield was made with the same wavelength as the powerful personal shield that Gustav used, which he discovered after experimenting with different wavelengths one by one with Old Man Woojin to find the same wavelength as the shield’s recoil force that he vaguely remembered at the exact moment he self-destructed on the hill that day.
“Shields are neutralized between similar shields…!”
The last resort that he came up with after pondering over and over his past experience of revenge, which had already failed once, was the most primitive barbaric method that was completely unsuited to the person who was called the devil of the battlefield and those who were at the edge of modern science.
“Hehehe! Gustave! Let’s do it like we did on the hill that day! “This time it will hurt more than before.”
Perfect! Perfect!
“Because I have a better jaw and teeth than before!”
Ian’s smile, with most of the skin on his face burned from the explosion, looked like that of the devil.
Gustave. revenge. Professor Park. The future of the world. Server room. A lot of thoughts passed through my mind, but now it feels good.
“Ah ha….”
“Oh my Ashfield. “Has everything I liked about you now disappeared?”
Because the moment he ran in, Gedreutz’s face, which had the face of a mad scientist, returned to the face of Gustave, who had taken lightly all the infinitely light murders of the past that he could never forget.
“…You were in there after all!!”
The moment Ian, with his arms outstretched like a bear, rushed towards him and Gustave’s fist with his knuckles in his hand flew towards him.
-Rumble!
A loud thundering noise rose from the Dome main unit’s position, and static electricity so strong that it made my head stand on end.
Static electricity similar to that emanating from the gun case hanging on Ian’s back.
“Dom… no way!”
“I told you. There is no one left as a bridesmaid on this battlefield.”
By the time I noticed, it was already too late.
“Boo-M”
Ian’s face, whose skin had burned off, contorted into a wild and joyous look.
Because it was that type of weapon.
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