Episode 284 [ My name is. ]
Hill 395, northwest of Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do.
This desolate hill, called Baekma Hill since the Korean War, was suffering again after a long time.
Black smoke continued to rise to the north of the ridge, and the awakened men and soldiers guarding the hill looked north with weary expressions.
The bottom of the ridge where the smoke was rising was full of the corpses of monsters.
It was the traces of an Earth-level wave called the cataclysm that started a few days ago and the result of a battle that continued for several days.
A staff re-created in Baekma Hill.
A young man who had not yet grown out of his youth sighed as he looked at the northern ridge.
“I didn’t know that the work of an awakened person was this difficult.”
His face was full of exhaustion.
“My family was happy that I was awakened, and my friends were jealous, but to be dragged into the battlefield like this…”
Another awakened person next to him clicked his tongue.
“You are quite unlucky. You joined a guild as soon as you awakened. “I couldn’t do it and was immediately conscripted.”
An awakened man in his 30s, who seemed to be his gunner, continued speaking with a cigarette in his mouth,
“Being a combat awakened was a pretty popular thing until a few weeks ago. Honestly, I didn’t know I’d end up rolling in this mud.”
As the awakened man spoke, the soldiers in the camp glanced at him.
They all looked unhappy at his expression of mud.
But the awakened man didn’t care at all.
“Forcible conscription… Is this even possible in a democratic society? Hey! The guild and the company are all funny people. They just follow the government’s request. It’s entirely possible for the awakened people to rise up and overthrow the government.”
If he had been a soldier, he was saying words that would have sent him to the brig, but the officer in the trench could not hear him either.
As his words grew louder, the young man quickly interrupted.
“Isn’t compulsory conscription lifted when the cataclysm stops?”
“That’s why I’m staying still. If this continues, will you stay and leave this country?”
Hearing his words, one of the soldiers muttered softly,
“Is there anywhere to go now…”
In just a few days after the cataclysm, numerous countries were being destroyed.
Small countries lost contact on the first day, and South America was also collapsing. And several European countries, China and Russia, were also struggling.
In addition, China and Russia have been forcibly conscripting awakened people for a long time.
The soldier’s voice was barely audible, but the awakener was better than that.
Fortunately, he did not lose his temper at the soldier’s answer.
“There is America. USA.”
Instead, he answered confidently.
As he said, America was still holding up well.
“But this time, the United States is also forcibly conscripting people.”
The young man’s words whetted his appetite.
“Well, that only happens during cataclysms.”
The young man seemed to have regained some strength. He asked the awakened person with a curious face.
“But it’s fascinating. How can we know in advance when a wave will occur and prepare for it? “I guess governments are stupid too.”
The Awakened snorted at the young man’s words.
“Hmph, can it be possible that the government did it?”
“Ah, did the guild tell you? “Did you find out when the wave would occur while hunting?”
“The monsters don’t even have operational documents, so that can’t be possible…”
He scratched his head in confusion.
“…This is just a rumor.”
At his words, not only the young man but also the soldiers standing guard perked their ears.
“Eh, I don’t know either. “There is a rumor that the naturalized awakened person told me about it.”
The young man’s eyes widened.
“You mean a class A space shifter? He moves through space to deal with monsters from east to west…”
He nodded at the young man’s words.
“They say he may not be a space mover but a dimension mover. They say he has obtained wave information from the world of monsters. Words are going around.”
“Wow… is this really true?”
“There is a saying that the person pushed so hard that the guild was unable to move and just listened. “Well, it’s all just rumors anyway.”
The awakened man clicked his tongue as he spoke, but the young man’s eyes sparkled.
“He’s a hero.”
“What is a hero? If you are lucky enough to acquire good traits, you will earn money through hard work. “Running around and doing things… Thanks to that, you and I were all brought in like this.”
But he didn’t seem very angry either. As a Class A awakened person who became a naturalized Korean, he had no choice but to admit it.
He, who had been complaining out of habit, narrowed his eyes.
The awakened man asked the young man.
“Do you feel more energetic now?”
“Ah yes.”
The young man bowed his head at his words.
The words the awakened man had spoken so far were words to cheer up the young man.
The awakened person picked up the hammer that was standing on the trench wall.
“Then it’s time to get to work.”
At his words, both the young men and the soldiers looked towards the northern land.
Beyond the ridge, they could see dust rising in the distance. Monsters were approaching.
“When the hell is this going to end!”
“I just need to hold on a few more times. Cheer up, everyone!”
The soldiers grumbled, encouraged each other, and picked up their guns.
Other nearby trenches all began preparing for battle.
The machine gunners pointed their barrels toward the ridge, the officers shouted at the soldiers, and the
awakened men fired their weapons. Clutching, the radio operator called for support from the rear:
“Call for artillery fire!”
“Requesting!”
Hearing the shouts of the platoon leader and radio operator, the young man also picked up his spear. Although
it has only been a short time since he became an awakened man, he has already experienced more than a few battles.
“But I think you are lucky. Do you know how much my hammer costs? Cataclysm. “If it had happened a few months ago, you would have been fighting without proper weapons.”
At his words, the young man looked at his spear. There was a pattern drawn on the blade of the spear. It
was a mass-produced item spear received after entering the military.
“Well, this hammer was made not long ago, but… I should be grateful to the item makers. one.”
“I heard they are also developing a gun for Awakened…”
The Awakened shrugged his shoulders at the young man’s words.
“I don’t know if guns will help the Awakened. It’s better than nothing. Now more than that…”
The awakened person looked back at the officer.
“The bombardment is late.”
The platoon leader glared at the radio operator.
At that moment, the radio operator raised his head and looked at him. The radio operator’s face turned pale.
“It is difficult for us to provide artillery support. They say they are short on artillery shells.”
“Damn, they sent it all to Gyeonggi-do again! Why are they protecting the access road they opened to North Korea? “What are you going to do if you protect it and it gets breached somewhere else?”
The platoon leader got angry.
The soldiers also turned pale at the radio operator’s words.
The Awakened growled.
“You’re not fucking crazy. “We don’t have air support like in the U.S., so how can we hold out without artillery fire?”
This time, everyone was in the same mood as the awakened ones.
“Shouldn’t we retreat?”
Even a young man who had been through combat in the meantime even said the word retreat:
“This is an order to absolutely defend the position. We will send support as soon as possible.”
However, the platoon leader, who had directly contacted the headquarters, said with a dark expression.
“What about support?”
The awakened man clicked his tongue.
“You probably don’t know the importance of this notice. What on earth are you thinking?”
He looked at the ridge in the distance and bit his lip:
“There are too many.”
Monsters began to appear beyond the ridge.
Monsters resembling insects, monsters mixed with various animals, and even monsters of a type I had never seen before.
Monsters that seemed to never be together were coming all at once.
Among them were monsters that appeared to be elite level or higher. The Awakened
One stood next to the young man and whispered softly,
“You can’t stop this. If you think it’s dangerous, run away. Your life comes first.”
“What about you, senior?”
“I think I’ll just wait and see what happens.”
However, the awakened man did not look like he was going to run away. Contrary to what he said, he intended to protect this place. The
young man also held his spear firmly. He could not run away. His family was behind him.
Monsters began to climb the mountain
. Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa.
He stepped on other monsters on the ground and crushed the broken barbed wire and tripwire with his body as he advanced toward the high ground.
“The minefield has arrived!”
“Shoot the mortar!”
“Shoot the machine gun!”
Kwakwakwakwak!
Anti-personnel mines and anti-tank mines exploded, and mortar shells hit the monsters.
Machine guns rained down on the monsters, and soldiers also fired hard.
But not many monsters fell. The firepower was too much to break the monster’s defense shield. It wasn’t enough.
“I thought it would end up like this.”
The awakened man ran forward holding a hammer. Awakened men also jumped out from other trenches. The
monsters could not be allowed to enter the trench.
The awakened men looked down on the soldiers from time to time, but they had no intention of letting them die.
The young man also held a spear . He ran out of the trench.
Bullets rained down on his side. He was supported by fire. The fire
helped. The
rain of fire made the wild dog-like monster turn its head, and he was able to thrust the spear into the monster’s throat.
But It was only with the first monster that it helped. When
the monsters found out that bullets could not break the shield, they ignored the bullets and rushed at him.
‘Gather mana, circulate and create a spear.’
He swung his spear, recalling the mana practice he had learned during training. The
new mana practice he had created this time was very helpful to him, even though he talked a lot about it.
The second monster also lost his life after being lured by his spear.
“Kwaaak.” ! New monsters!”
However, not all of them were as active as him.
The Awakened that jumped out like him was smashing the head of one monster with a hammer and having its limbs eaten by other monsters. The same was true in other
places. Monsters that could not be reduced by bombardment were awakened. They couldn’t stop them.
It was the same with the young man. After killing four of them, he ended up being surrounded by monsters.
“Maybe I should have run away…”
A monster resembling a praying mantis rushed at him as he wielded a spear with a gloomy expression. .
Puck!
The spear was cut off by the monster’s scythe-like arm, and another scythe was swung towards his neck. At the
last moment,
the young man saw a blue line pass before his eyes.
It was a beautiful line.
The scythe was cut off, and the mantis head appeared in the sky. Soared. The monster disintegrated into pieces.
“Is it too late?…”
A sad voice was heard.
A man wearing sunglasses was standing where the voice came from. A
man wearing a black bulletproof vest with a burn on one side of his face.
I’m sure I’ve heard something like that somewhere…
While the young man was thinking, the man wearing sunglasses kept moving.
The sword swung and the man’s body moved along with the sword.
It wasn’t moving with force. The man’s appearance looked like flowing water.
He dodged according to the monster’s movements, rode on the monster’s attacks, and cut off the monster’s body.
When he stopped his sword, all the monsters surrounding the young man collapsed to the ground.
It seemed like it took a very long time, but when I came to my senses, it was just a moment.
The man glanced at the young man and launched himself.
He launched his body towards other awakened people as if moving through space and saved them one after another.
And he raised his sword towards the last wave of monsters.
“Overcharge activated.”
The stars engraved on the blade shined brightly.
Mana blades rained down on White Horse Hill, where bombs rained down a long time ago.
Kwagwagwagwagwa!
The mana storm destroyed the incoming monsters one by one.
After a while, the ridge where the storm subsided was left with only fragments of monsters soaked in blood.
Everyone looked at the scene in fascination.
But Kyung-hoon didn’t look very happy.
It was late again. There wasn’t enough time to handle it on my own.
Even though we gave up on all other countries and only worked hard to reduce the monsters in the United States and the Korean Peninsula, there was no end in sight to the monsters that were coming.
If he hadn’t reduced it, it would have been impossible to stop it, but the damage was worse than expected.
At that time, there was someone who asked a question to Kyung-hoon, who shook his head.
“How do you do that?”
Kyung-hoon frowned upon hearing the question.
This was a question I was asked every time I showed my skills and the power of Overcharge.
It was a question that was difficult to give another answer to. All I can say is raise your grade.
Kyunghoon looked at the person who asked the question to get the same answer.
Looking at him, Kyung-hoon couldn’t come up with the answer he always gave.
A young man who still looked young was looking at the dead monsters.
He was the first young man that Kyung-hoon rushed to save.
The monster he was seeing was one he had defeated with reduced mana to save the young man.
Skills gained while fighting in this recently destroyed world. It was a technique to fight enemies with minimal mana.
Kyunghoon grinned.
It was a question I liked.
Kyung-hoon patted the young man on the shoulder.
“One day, when you can see mana, you will be able to do it like me.”
Kyung-hoon left his words and immediately created a silver hole.
I had to go somewhere else right away.
“Tell me your name next time you see me.”
He was a young man I liked. Gyeong-hoon left his words to the young man and jumped into the hole.
The young man opened his mouth as he looked at the disappearing hole.
“This is Hyeokjun.”
The words of the awakened man who had just disappeared remained deeply in Hyukjun’s heart.
Hyukjun knew right away who he was. There was only one awakened person who could move through space.
A naturalized Class A awakened person.
He wanted to hear Hyukjun’s name.
Although it was a brief meeting, Hyukjun made a firm resolution to become an awakened person like that.
When we meet again, I will proudly tell you my name.
….
And in the future, he was able to keep his promise.
In another world, in another person’s body.
Youngcheol said while looking at Kyunghoon.
“My name is Hyukjun.”
