Episode 188 [Fortress (3)]
Inside the collapsed building. A wild dog with horns was wandering around.
The horned wild dog was a monster whose territory was this area.
Until recently, it was a monster that roamed around the outside of the building and boasted about its territory, but now it was just wandering around inside the building.
The surrounding area has been very noisy and busy these past few days.
The monarch’s subordinates from the next city rushed in and were killed in droves, and those who controlled the nearby area disappeared one by one.
Although it was a monster that was not very intelligent, it knew well that in times like this, it was better to save oneself.
Is it an invasion by the upper class of wanderers? Or maybe another monarch was fighting over territory with the next city monarch.
Whatever happened, it wasn’t a good story.
Crumble.
As expected, there was no way the danger would pass by just by hiding inside the building.
In front of the hallway, a huge four-legged beast was blocking the monster.
Wings folded over a long mane. And sparkling eyes. Just by looking at it, it was a species superior to him.
Off.
The horned wild dog briefly bowed his head. They say species that reach a certain level choose their food, but I didn’t know if they would save my life if I were that kind of species.
Was it really that kind of species? The newly appeared monster was not attacking. It seemed like the Horned Wild Dog’s strategy had worked.
In times like this, I had to run away quickly.
The horned wild dog slowly turned back. However, on the other side of the hallway stood a piece of scrap metal I had never seen before.
Scrapbook loaded the machine gun.
Crash.
It was a robot called Shane, but the horned wild dog had never seen a robot before.
It was amazing to see the piece of metal moving, but anyway, this piece of scrap metal didn’t look scary.
“Why are you always trying to rush in my direction? Should I try painting some fancy marks or something?”
Shane sighed as the horned wild dog slowly approached him.
Ta-ta-tang!
Shane’s machine gun opened fire.
Bullets shattered around the horned wild dog. The monster that was about to attack the robot flinched and stopped.
The attack just had a mixture of mana. It was an enemy that didn’t seem dangerous, but it seems my prediction was wrong.
At that moment,
the ceiling above the horned wild dog’s head trembled like waves.
And then a girl holding a spear fell from the ceiling.
The horned wild dog could sense the strong scent of mana above its head.
The monster quickly turned its head and
gasped.
A spear swept across the side of the horned wild dog’s face from above its head.
“Ah!”
It was a sneak attack aimed at the nape of the neck, but unfortunately it failed.
Clink.
But the horned wild dog’s defenses were all broken, and the girl who got down next to the monster tried to swing the spear again.
But the monster was faster. The monster’s The head was swung towards the spear. The monster’s horn was shining.
Boom!
The spear bounced off, and the monster rammed the shining horn that bounced off the spear into the girl’s body.
Boom.
But the horn ended up piercing the air.
Before I knew it, a lion monster flew in. That was because it bit the girl’s collar and backed away.
Ta-ta-ta-bang! At the same time, the machine gun ripped through the horned wild dog’s body. Even if it had a shield, it was a mana bullet that was difficult to block. With its bare body in its current state, it was difficult for
the horned wild dog to withstand a few shots.
It was shattered, and mana flowed out and was absorbed into Isabelle’s body.
Isabelle, who had a listless expression for a moment, soon lowered her head with a gloomy expression. She
realized her mistake.
Shane came in front of her.
“First attack . “It was good. It’s not common for an attack to work all at once, so that’s pretty good.”
He praised Isabelle. But the girl didn’t look up.
Shane scratched the camera.
He’d never taught a human girl. Or, if you’re serious, he’d never taught anyone.
I think he should be scolded for his mistake, but the movie he watched. In , he only appeared when bad adults were angry at children.
In the end, he gave up on admonishing them.
“If you think the enemy still has the ability to fight back, retreat immediately. I’m learning how to use mana, but my body and mana level are still not good enough to face a monster of that level.” “It’s impossible.”
The girl raised her head at the robot’s words. There was water forming next to her eyes.
“Aren’t you going to scold me?”
The lives of the survivor group were so intense and bleak that it was difficult to tolerate even children’s mistakes.
From a young age, she had no choice but to help adults with their work, and other than her parents, there was no one to protect her from her mistakes.
While she was alone, she became more afraid of making mistakes. Mistakes quickly led to injury and death.
“I think Eve would be good at that… Anyway, I can’t figure it out.”
The robot unknowingly planted a misunderstanding about Eve in the girl’s head.
“Me and Bailey will protect you as much as possible, so try to reduce your mistakes. You are talented at using mana and moving your body, so mistakes will disappear quickly.”
bruise! bruise!
The dog on top of the girl’s head barked in sync with the robot’s words.
The girl wiped her eyes and lowered her head towards the robot.
It was a greeting that Shane had said every time since he started teaching her. Something like a greeting to a teacher.
After hearing that Shane and his group came from Korea, she was saying the same oriental greeting she had seen before.
Shane shook his head at her greeting and then glanced in the other direction.
There was only an old outer wall in place.
He slung the machine gun over his shoulder and walked down the hallway.
“Then let’s go on the next hunt. “We’ve caught everyone nearby, so we’ll have to go a little farther.”
“Yes!”
She answered Shane’s words vigorously. She was the first adult other than her parents who did not scold her.
She really intended to do her best.
*
The rooftop of the building on the other side of the wall that Shane was looking at.
Kyung-Hoon was on that rooftop. I was sitting and listening to the conversation between Shane and his group.
-Do you mind if I take a quick look?
“I’m doing well.”
Shane also knew that the two people had come, but he didn’t pretend to know at Kyung-hoon’s signal and just left.
“Now is the time to upgrade your level, right?”
-Yes. At this rate, I think she will advance to a new level in a few days.
It was a very fast pace. Even with the help of Shane and Bailey, her growth was remarkable.
“Then, after finishing the work on the fortress side, I will slowly move toward New York. “I need to check.”
“It might take some time, even if it’s because of the fortress-related work.”
At her words, Kyung-hoon looked down at his arm.
The skin had turned blue. Although he succeeded in burning off all the poison, the aftereffects remained. To be
honest, the reason he did not meet Isabelle and Shane was because of this changed skin
. “Are you okay? The power almost went out.”
-Even if the power goes out, it just stops for a moment and doesn’t mean she dies. It doesn’t seem to have any effect at all… Is it because the AI and a monster without a body meet? While her mana is taken away in the green fog, she briefly loses the green
mana It was linked to the stone.
In that brief moment, she was able to obtain the image of the mana stone.
The scene of her going increasingly crazy as she ate her own people. And the scene of her gradually losing her body as she absorbed the mana stone.
And the scene of her becoming possessed by the King of Monarchs and becoming a human being. Spraying poison on the army.
The monster that became fog did not understand the memories it had, but Eve could.
– It was not a creature of this world. The place it lived before it became fog was very different from this world. “ Well
, it’s something I expected based on the monsters I’ve seen so far.”
Kyung-hoon had already seen monsters that were very different from the creatures of this planet. The
liquid monster that took over the computer, the tentacled pudding monster he met in Daegu, and even the crazy earth dragon. None of them were things that could have been transformed from the creatures of this world. However, his expectations
and confidence were not there. Another problem was,
“Didn’t you see how it got there?”
-Yes. It was only fragments of small images.
When the brain was lost along with the body, the images that remained seemed to have been mixed in with the fog.
Thanks to that, Eve was able to obtain information, but there were not many images that remained.
“From next time , “I would never approve such an operation. It’s too dangerous.”
-….
Eve couldn’t respond to Kyung-hoon’s words.
It was a good operation and the result was good, but Kyung-hoon was not wrong.
She didn’t want to be destroyed either.
But she didn’t know what choice she would make if a situation like this happened again. I didn’t know.
After a while, it was time to activate the trait again.
Kyung-hoon moved directly from the fortress to Washington. He could have gone to Jamsil Fortress or the basement of the White House, but while he was in the fortress, he didn’t have time to decide where to go.
Just It flew to the last space movement coordinates.
“Okay, let’s go. We’ll finish it in one go.”
Gyeonghoon took out a spear from subspace.
Isabelle had someone to help her even if she made a mistake, but Gyeonghoon could not tolerate mistakes. -Yes
, the probability of success was more than 50%.
That was enough.
Gyeonghoon made a silver hole in the floor . I made it and jumped in.
***
The underground fortress’s own power generation room.
A green mana stone was floating in the center of the power room.
Three generators were located under the green mana stones.
The mana stone inserted in the center of the generator was shining brightly. The generator was not moving at all.
The mana from the mana stone was being sucked out somewhere else. A
green mana stone, or rather a nameless fog monster without a body, was absorbing as much mana as it could.
The monster had already lost all the mana that had disappeared a while ago. The memory had disappeared.
It had lost its rank, the possibility of evolution had disappeared, and wisdom had disappeared, so the only desire left for the monster was the hunger for mana. That was then. Buuung. Right
below
the
monster, which was absorbing mana for a while.
In the center of the three generators. A silver hole was created.
The green fog did not move and the green mana stone did not stop absorbing mana.
Poop!
Gyeong-hoon holding a spear jumped out of the hole. Gyeong-hoon aimed at the green mana stone like a cannonball fired vertically. It flew away.
In Gyeonghoon’s hand as he flew, he held a spear similar to the one Isabelle was holding.
Papapapap.
Green flames flew all over Gyeonghoon’s body, fog billowed, and the green mana stone stopped absorbing mana.
But it was too late to dodge.
Phew . .
The spear that Gyeonghun held pierced the mana stone.
Baaaaaaaa.
The mana stone pierced by the spear scattered.
Like green smoke. No, it became green smoke and began to scatter in all directions.
The monster of the fog did not die.
The monster. There was no body. Just like the body made of fog, the core was not a solid mana stone.
It just had the image of a mana stone due to the habit of forming a body.
The fog enveloped Kyung-Hoon in the air, and Kyung-Hoon’s entire body was a green flame. The shield surrounding Kyung-hoon began to tremble and his skin turned bluer. But Kyung
–
hoon’s expression did not change. I continued to pour mana into the spear extending into the air.
He believed in Eve.
Eve had already told us that the green mana stone was not solid. And that the spear that breaks the shield is the monster’s weak point.
Squeeze!
A translucent membrane appeared in the empty space where the window was extended.
Four slender arms and a long neck. Thick legs.
The shield that appeared was in the shape of a strange monster I had never seen before.
Blah blah blah.
The next moment, the shield that appeared in the air began to break down.
Blue smoke flowed out between the broken shields.
Grumble.
Blue smoke gathered again. It gathered together, rotated, took the shape of a mana stone, and then spread out again.
The smoke kept moving to maintain its shape.
However, there was no shield left to keep the core in shape.
The smoke finally turned into the shape of a dying monster.
Wow!
The monster eventually dispersed with a scream.
Hwii profit.
The fog that had enveloped Gyeonghoon gradually began to disperse.
The fog that filled the power generation room also disappeared, and the fog that filled the fortress gradually settled to the floor.
Wooooow.
The generator started moving again.
The fortress is back in operation.
However, Kyung-hoon did not know that the generator had moved.
Mana was pouring out like a waterfall. It was a huge amount. It might be bigger than when you catch a monarch-level monster.
[The amount of mana has increased significantly. [There is not much time left until the next level.]
It was the first system message I heard in a long time.
Gyeonghoon, who had finally come to his senses, looked puzzled.
“Is there a next level?”
-There were no awakened people above S rank. However, the current master’s mana amount matches the situation just before the level increased.
As soon as she finished speaking, Eve’s tone changed again. It was a system message.
[The level name does not exist. Please select the next level name.]
