ReLife Player [Re: Life Player] Chapter 102

Relife Player 102

[Chapter 041]

[The King of Lizards

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A small conference room at the Blue House.

No one in the seat said anything.

A suffocating atmosphere permeated the hall.

The people who sat in the empty row in the center were officials from the administration, including the mana management organization and their departments.

Opposite them were players from their own well-known clans.

All of them were staring disapprovingly at the person sitting across from them.

Contempt and disregard for each other prevailed.

It had to be.

Humans who discovered mana became obsessed with phenomena that touched the providence of the world.

< Century Destruction >.

Omnipresence that occurred simultaneously all over the world, the existing order collapsed in vain due to the monsters that appeared in it.

Politicians lost public sentiment and entrepreneurs lost capital.

Finally, the people lost hope.

All the power mankind had achieved was powerless in front of monsters.

Ironically, the power to destroy monsters born from omnipresence was mana, which was the culprit behind all of this.

In a world where the existing order collapsed, mana was power.

The government, which insisted on the existing order, did not have the power to control the players, and the players, drunk with the power of mana, enjoyed a lawless world.

There was a reason why bureaucrats and players ignored and despised each other.

Even if the fairy government came to have control, their relationship did not improve.

-Stand up.

In a situation where only glances were exchanged, the one who broke the silence was the old man sitting in the farthest corner.

The old man himself was a huge mountain and an unbreakable wall.

The old man, who had leaned back against the backrest, closed his eyes, and crossed his arms, stood up as if a huge wall was rising.

Moon Joon, the Minister of Korea Mana Management Organization and the head of the Twelve Seats.

< Cheolong (鐵甕) > is called a living myth in a country that was once destroyed.

If < Shinchang > was an unbreakable spear,

< Cheolong > was an unbreakable shield.

No one could deny that fact.

Everyone was in awe at the name < Cheolong >.

That’s when he opened his mouth.

People who had been silent stood up from their seats with their backs straight.

Their gaze turned to the woman entering the small meeting room.

Invited fairy Lim Ga-eul.

Wearing a bright red dress like an actress participating in an awards ceremony, she looked around the audience and said to the people who stood up.

every. Have a seat.

Lim Ga-eul sat in an empty seat in the center of the line where the officials were standing.

Two escorts followed him.

Eventually, when < Cheolong > sat down, people all sat down as if they had promised.

Let’s start the meeting.

After that, the director of the information bureau of the Korea Mana Management Organization began the briefing.

The area indicated by the map posted on the monitor installed on the wall is Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do.

As the briefing progressed, red circles appeared all over the map. Next to the circle is a list of events that occurred in the area.

Lim Ga-eul put her hand on the cover of the document on the table.

『Gwacheon City Resident Disappearance and

Unidentified Dismemberment Incident』

It was a bizarre incident that aroused fear among the people recently.

The first incident occurred in the middle of last year. A man in his 40s who lived in Gwacheon went missing.

A week later, a woman in her 20s went missing.

The National Police Agency regarded the two disappearances as simple disappearances.

However, the disappearance of residents of Gwacheon did not end twice.

Residents disappeared at intervals of at least three days and at most two weeks for no reason.

However, the National Police Agency did not take the disappearance of the residents seriously.

Because there was nothing consistent about the missing people.

Even before the end of the world, disappearance cases were happening several times a day nationwide.

It is no wonder that the number of disappearance cases increased significantly after the world was destroyed.

The National Police Agency did not have the capacity to investigate these many missing cases. I was short of hands.

So, when a missing person case occurs, it often stops at the line of simply investigating the surroundings and goes over it vaguely or ends it as it is.

…The third remains found were those of a woman who, as a result of forensic identification, went missing in June of last year. And the fourth one….

It was the beginning of this year that the disappearance case that was not allowed to be neglected was re-examined.

A piece of what is believed to be a human corpse was found in the Grand Park area.

As a result of the National Police Agency’s investigation of the Grand Park Station area, more than one piece was found.

It was easy to find fragments that were believed to be human body parts throughout the park.

It was so strange that I hadn’t found it until now.

It had to be.

The fairy government started stabilizing Gangnam from the year before last. A large number of players were put in to subdue the monsters wandering around the city and develop habitats.

In addition, the National Assembly Building was rebuilt and Yeouido Park, which had been transformed into a monster ecosystem, was recaptured.

The same goes for the Grand Park Station area.

Even though the Gangnam stabilization work was completed last year, the development of Gangnam had to be slow.

Even before the fairy government came into existence, most of the cities that collapsed or were in ruins had been neglected for about 30 years after < Destruction at the End of the Century >.

With the current manpower, just managing a city that hadn’t collapsed was daunting.

In addition, urban development was necessary not only for the Gangnam area, but also for the Gangbuk area. In addition, stabilization of other areas and recapture of cities remained.

In the end, the area around the Grand Park Station, which had been stabilized, was like a ruin where no one ever set foot.

The fact that the body was discovered belatedly was enough.

After examining the database, the monster was identified as a 6th tier Sharptail belonging to the Lizardman family.

The first piece found had a clean cut surface, as if it had been cut with something.

Even up to this point, people thought it was a man-made act.

However, it was revealed that it was the work of non-human monsters as the fragments, which had become disorganized as if they had been bitten by something, were found.

It was only a matter of time before the story of a monster lurking somewhere in Gwacheon City kidnapping and eating residents spread.

People were terrified.

The fear that swelled as much as it swelled raised its voice toward the fairy government.

The fairy government had to put all their efforts into the investigation in order to alleviate the growing fear over time.

As a result, they were able to discover the habitat of the 6th tier monster, Sharptail.

The habitat of the sharptail was in the Gwacheon Reservoir.

Director Jeong Buk-guk pointed to the Gwacheon Reservoir with his hand.

It was an area adjacent to the site where the body was found.

It was also an area not far from the residential area.

The problem wasn’t that.

Where did the monster come from?

Lim Ga-eul immediately stopped the briefing and opened his mouth to the audience.

It was a reprimand, not a question.

No one knew it, and no one said anything.

She, too, did not expect an answer from them.

spoke as it was.

Wasn’t the Gangnam stabilization work completed properly? Or was the cocoon just not functioning properly?

what do you think?

Cocoon is not perfect.

The cocoon’s function was to block the approach of monsters from the outside.

Reducing the frequency of mana’s ubiquity within Cocoon and weakening monsters were only secondary functions.

Monsters born from the omnipresence of mana do not try to approach cocoon unless it is tolerable because the mana in their bodies is dispersed and weakened the moment they touch the cocoon.

Just as a group of hounds that lived in Uijeongbu the year before last ran away to Bukhansan Mountain due to the appearance of a superior individual.

Of course, the monsters that crossed the cocoon are subject to the detection magic installed in the cocoon.

However, there was not one Sharptail on the monitor, but several.

There was no way the detection magic didn’t work when the group of Sharptail crossed the Cocoon.

Therefore, it was extremely unlikely to judge that Sharptail had invaded from the outside.

It was reasonable to assume that it existed before Cocoon functioned.

And that suggested that the Gangnam stabilization work was not perfect.

Of course, it is not without the possibility that Sharptail was born from the ubiquity that occurred after the stabilization work was completed.

However, the Sharptail was in the 6th tier and formed a group.

There was no way that the omnipresence reaching the sixth hierarchy would not have been observed.

Uijeongbu may have been, but Gwacheon was a normally functioning city.

There was no way observers could ignore the omnipresence, which would have occurred frequently enough to form groups unless it was intentional.

In other words, it means that monsters have been living inside Cocoon from the beginning.

Even so, you thought you would take advantage of the Gangnam area.

Lim Ga-eul scolded the players sitting across from him.

No one raised their heads.

Officials from the fairy government liked this scene. Even though he tried to hide his emotions, his beard twitched.

However, they too could not be free from her reprimand.

What were you guys doing until it got to this point?

Do you have a lot of laughs?

Several bureaucrats clearly showed their displeased faces.

Those who had been involved in political activities before < Destruction at the End of the Century > felt as if they had been insulted.

To them, before she was a fairy who possessed the gift of < silver >, she was nothing more than a mere twenties.

The bureaucrats who had spent a lot more time than her wanted to curse and point at her.

Even so, the reason they couldn’t object was not because she was in the position of a fairy.

The escorts who assisted her were emitting vicious energy.

It wasn’t just the escorts.

< Cheolong > Munjun.

Sitting at the far end, he was a strong wall protecting her.

No one wanted to oppose him.

The briefing is over. It was a fact that everyone knew, so we urgently decided to discuss countermeasures.

How many sharptails live in the Gwacheon Reservoir area?

Currently, only 16 individuals have been identified. The mana management organization understands that monsters belonging to the high ranks are moving such a large group.

Lim Ga-eul nodded.

She recalled the data she had read a while ago that speculated on the existence of a 5th tier monster.

The 5th tier was a monster that could paralyze the city administration.

If you have a cluster, the risk level goes up a notch.

Even after the Gangnam stabilization work was over, the fact that such a group existed inside Cocoon was enough to raise awareness.

As soon as the swarm leaves its habitat and attacks the city, there will be no more horror like that.

This was also the reason why she urgently summoned people.

Inject personnel under the assumption that there will be high-ranking monsters.

Invest generously in manpower that is available during the stabilization and probation process in the Gwacheon-si area.

If it was to subdue monsters, it would have been a matter of calling only the bureaucrats of the mana management organization and the backbone of influential clans.

However, Sharptails existed in colonies and inhabited fully functioning cities.

Evacuation of civilians and compensation for damage Reexamination of the Gangnam stabilization work was the duty of bureaucrats from all walks of life.

It would be nice if the Twelve Seats also participated in the operation.

What do you think, Minister of the Mana Management Organization?

Lim Ga-eul, who gave simple instructions to the officials, found Mun-jun in the far corner.

Although she could discuss pre-evacuation and post-planning, she took a step back when it came to subjugating the monsters.

It was because there was no talent more qualified than him when it came to things related to monsters.

He was a living witness of < Destruction at the End of the Century > and the head of Shinhwa and Mana Management Organization.

More than anything, she trusted him.

—Judging from the fact that they’ve been hiding so far, they must be formidable.

Moonjun replied.

He glanced at the players seated across from him.

Therefore, 30% of the personnel to be put in should be put on colony search and subjugation, 40% on habitat cleaning, and 30% on remnants.

So, which clan do you think is eligible?

As he scanned the crowd, his gaze stopped at Do Wan-joon, the King of Myeongwang Clanlord.

Even in the middle of a war of nerves between bureaucrats and players, he did not show any emotional fluctuations.

Other players were busy avoiding Mun-Jun’s gaze, but Do Wan-Jun calmly accepted his gaze.

The player who will lead the three groups is Myungwang Clanlord Do Wan-jun.

And the clans that will participate in the operation are the Myungwang clan and the Twelve Seats Bangyeonji players.

< Florist > Bang Yeon-ji.

She was a supporter who occupied one of the twelve seats. He was also a member of the Myungwang Clan.

all right. The Myungwang Clan will take responsibility and complete the colony subjugation.

Do Wan-jun accepted Mun-jun’s instructions.

Moonjun moved his gaze to the side.

On the signpost, the name of Regulus Clan Road Gu Yeon-su was written.

Then Clan Regulus. And Twelve Seats Park Hye-rim player.

All right.

Gu Yeon-soo, who covered his left eye with an eye patch, nodded with a sad face.

Finally…

the players all held their breath.

It was a feeling that most of them did not want to participate in the monster cluster subjugation.

It was the 5th tier.

He had to accept the loss of power to deal with that monster.

However, they did not have the merit of injecting players into Gwacheon City even at a loss.

Together, they avoided Munjun’s gaze.

─Finally.

Mun-jun showed no interest in those who avoided his gaze.

He turned his gaze to the player sitting near the door.

I was dozing. He was leaning against the backrest, arms folded, head bowed and dozed off.

Some officials found him like that and frowned.

However, Mun-jun did not disapprove of the sleeping man.

Instead, I called his name.

─The Blaze Clan and the Twelve Seat Kang Hyeon-chul player.

─What?

The man whose name was called suddenly stood up. With the back of his hand, he wiped the saliva from his mouth.

The man with red hair is Blaze Clanlord.

It was Hyeoncheol Kang, the twelfth seat.

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[The fairy government has announced that it will focus its efforts on subduing the cluster of monsters that have been confirmed to live in the Gwacheon Reservoir.

Minister of Korea Mana Management Organization and head of the Twelve Seat, Moon Jun player, said that he would put the Twelve Seat Bang Yeon-ji, Park Hye-rim, and Kang Hyeon-cheol players in the swarm subjugation operation.

The Myungwang Clan, Regulus Clan, and Blaze Clan expressed their intention to actively cooperate with the swarming operation, and the fairy government—.]

Eunha heard the news while eating dinner, and turned to the TV.

On the screen, there were reports about the disappearance of residents in Gwacheon and the unidentified mutilation incident, which had been buzzing since the beginning of this year.

…it was around this time.

what?

Nothing.

Returning home after a long time, Eun-ah tilted her head and asked.

After entering the dormitory, she came out on weekends every other week, enjoying the dinner prepared by her mother.

Eunha watched the news.

I didn’t think to touch it in the evening.

Gwacheon city monster group subjugation operation.

He knew the operation very well.

How the operation ended and what results it brings in the future.

…somehow.

The military subjugation operation was half successful and half unsuccessful.