Episode 117 [Black market, African civil war – 3]
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About 10 minutes ago…. …
Lee Hyun-wook was flying above the clouds on a Pridwen.
At that time, the sound of someone talking came into his ears.
– Hey, isn’t that a crow?
– Did you leave this baby’s eyes in India? Where would a crow be in this sea?
– No, it’s not true. Look over there! In the clouds…
– Hey, it’s probably just a sea bird. If it’s black, is it a crow?
That was the voice of the deck crew of the Ndoz Alliance’s container ship ‘Black Factory’.
Hyunwook Lee heard voices on the ship even from above the clouds through the Hugin-Mana Messenger hacking connection.
But his interests lay entirely elsewhere.
‘Okay, I can sense it.’
His metal grip began tearing through the containers on the deck.
Inside, a total of 280 pieces of ‘Living Armor’ were chained together. Rather than restraining the giant armored giants, it was meant to keep them in place so they wouldn’t hit each other when the ship rocked in the waves.
‘In other words, it can be easily broken.’
Meanwhile, the moment the presence of Living Armor was ‘detected’, a system message appeared in front of Lee Hyun-wook’s eyes.
– You can secure the ‘master authority’ of the living armor.
‘I’m sorry, but I have all the gifts for the puppeteer…’
– Acquired ‘Master Authority’ of Living Armor. (23/23)
A total of 23 Living Armor units came under Lee Hyun-wook’s control.
Coincidentally, I used the ‘Attribute Bloom’ that I got as a reward for ranking first in the Jeju Island Raid a few days ago, and as a result, the grade of ‘Signal Core’ went up one level from D to C, so this number was possible.
[Skill Information]
– Name: Signal Core
– Grade: C
– Effect
1) Transcendent Sense: Metal control increases. (+40%)
2) Centurion Force: The maximum number of followers increases. (+20)
* The skill grade improves when the hidden conditions are met.
‘The maximum number of followers has increased by 10, so now you can control 23 Living Armor units.’
In addition, the metal control of ‘transcendence sense’ increased from 30% to 40%.
Soon, the Living Armor was activated—the magic circuits engraved on the body began to glow, and a light
blue light could be seen leaking through the gaps in the container even above the clouds.
– huh? What kind of light does it seem to be coming from over there?
– …Oh, what is this? hey! Open this container here!
There was no way the deck crew would not notice it.
At that point, Lee Hyun-wook opened Friedwen’s lamp door.
Fuuuuuu——!
As the cold wind blew into the ship, Sophie and the others looked at Hyunwook Lee in surprise.
“Uh… Lee Hyun-wook, what are you trying to do?”
“I’ll go down first.”
Their eyes widened at that absurd statement.
“No, wait a minute, is that also part of the plan to recapture this ship?”
Lee Hyun-wook nodded once and really jumped out of the airship.
“Uh… did he just jump out without a parachute or something?”
Even a player would die instantly if he jumped from this height.
They held on to the window and looked down.
Before I knew it, Lee Hyeon-wook’s figure disappeared under the clouds.
As a shooter-type player, Sophie sensed heat and chased Lee Hyun-wook’s fall.
However, the speed of his fall was not as fast as expected.
‘…You’re just flying for a moment, right?’
He freely controlled the speed of his fall and flew towards the ship Black Factory.
Then, as the clouds flowed by, his figure was briefly revealed through them…
“Has he disappeared?”
His appearance disappeared in an instant.
“Oh no, now you can fly and hide?”
The types of abilities possessed by one player, Lee Hyun-wook, were so vast that it made no sense.
‘In fact, it’s the same as having the abilities of an entire attack team on your own.’
Have you ever seen…or even heard of a player like that?
There are many players who reach the peak of one system and show overwhelming utilization.
But that doesn’t mean he has the versatility to handle everything by himself.
‘Of course, chaebol players buy all kinds of items and use various skills, but…’
Lee Hyun-wook’s case was clearly different, even if his level was different.
No matter how much money he had, it would be impossible to use such a variety of skills.
‘To put it bluntly, it’s on a different level…’
In the meantime, Lee Hyun-wook lightly landed on the bridge of the Black Factory.
The crew’s attention was drawn to the light leaking from the container on the deck.
In the first place, it would not have been expected that someone would come down from the sky in this vast sea.
Lee Hyun-wook penetrated into the mission as it was.
“…Open the container where that light comes from right now and check what’s going on!”
Inside, a total of five men who appeared to be captains were holding microphones and giving orders to the deck.
‘And around here… there are a total of eight people.’
They had already infiltrated a large number of ‘Clying Eyes’ a few minutes ago, and
had thoroughly identified the locations of enemies not only on the deck but also within the ship.
The zipper of Lee Hyun-wook’s backpack slowly opens and something flies out from inside.
That was a total of 20 Adamant Stars.
At Lee Hyun-wook’s gesture, they scattered in all directions and dug into various parts of the mission. And like a guided missile, he slit the necks of the eight players who were inside his mind.
In that split-second moment, the sailors who had received the unexpected blow were unable to react and collapsed to the ground.
“omg-!”
The only surviving captain drew his pistol, but Lee Hyun-wook’s hand was faster.
Jeok-
He grabbed the captain’s wrist with his left hand and then grabbed the captain’s neck with his right hand.
And he even demonstrated the delicacy of holding the metal control of the pistol’s strike.
“Shh—ke—”
“Shh, don’t open your mouth.”
“K… who are you?”
“If you want to live to hear that, don’t you think it would be better to keep your mouth shut?”
Before he knew it, 10 adamant stars were spinning behind Lee Hyeon-wook’s back.
They were spinning faster and faster, shaking as if they were about to shoot out at any moment.
“From now on, you will broadcast on board as I say.”
“…….”
“But if you try to be brave and spout nonsense, you will die without even being able to say half a word.”
The captain nodded, swallowing dry saliva.
Lee Hyun-wook grabbed the back of his neck and forcibly turned his head out the window.
“I order all crew members to gather on the deck right now.”
“…What? Everything, what are you trying to do?”
Ugh—!
At that moment, two Adamant Stars flew in and stopped narrowly near the captain’s face.
“Ugh!”
If he had been just a little closer, both ears would have been cut off.
Wham—Wham—Wham—Wham——
That sharp spinning sound that rang in his ears… The captain felt like his legs were going to give out.
“…Ah Okay! That’s all you need to do!”
He quickly grabbed the microphone and began broadcasting in a trembling voice.
– Oh, this is the captain… All crew members must gather on the upper deck immediately.
Soon, crew members began to come out from all over the ship.
A total of 31 people had puzzled expressions as if they were wondering what was going on.
“…Except for essential personnel such as those in the engine room, everyone was gathered in one place.”
Following the captain’s explanation, Lee Hyun-wook began the ‘suppression operation’ in earnest.
23 Living Armors walking out of the container with the sound of metal clashing…
“
Huh?”
The flight attendants were staring blankly at that scene.
“How is it moving now?”
“If you’re 23, isn’t that impossible unless you’re a puppeteer?”
At that moment, something fell on the deck one after another and a loud bang rang out.
“Oh, what a surprise!”
A total of 2. It was some sort of iron box.
“…Where did that thing fall from again?”
“Hey! Any of the tanks over there go check it out!”
Following the deck captain’s instructions, a large tanker approached the iron box and said,
“There’s something like a shuriken inside!”
“What commendation? Hey! Who is the guy who uses the commendation? Why don’t you hit that quickly—”
Now—now—now—now——!
A total of 70 adamant stars have risen from within
them, sweeping past the gathered crew members.
“Kwaaaa——”
The attack swept low across the floor and aimed at the legs, causing about a dozen people to fall down all at once.
Slap! Slap!
Then, 23 Living Armor units advanced and began to kill the crew members.
“Ugh—!”
“Suddenly, what is this?”
It was a clean infiltration without a single mistake and perfect suppression.
***
Crunch-clunk-
23 Living Armors are walking on their own feet and entering the container.
What was different from before was that there was a lot of blood splattered on the surface of the armor.
“…Do you even have puppetry skills?”
Looking down at the scene from the bridge, Sophie looked at Hyunwook Lee with a bewildered expression.
“Well, it’s similar, but it’s not like that. But why do you look at it that way?”
“…I just suddenly felt like the world was really irrational.”
At that time, David, who was inspecting the ship, came carrying something. It was some kind of metal box.
“Sophie, can you take a look at this?”
“This is very suspicious. It was in the safe in the captain’s room over there, but the lock was too tight…”
Yep!
Lee Hyun-wook tore off the lock on the box with a metal deformation.
“…It was filled, but it’s gone?”
What was inside was a bracelet.
[Item Information]
– Name: Nameless King’s Bracelet (Hero)
– Effect: The maximum number of followers increases significantly. (+20)
“Wow— It’s a female hero grade item, right?”
The moment she confirmed that information, Sophie couldn’t hide her surprise.
It was true that even if it was only a hero grade, it was difficult for ordinary players to even see it.
They looked around at the item with an expression as if they were wondering what kind of cake this was.
“Oh… this one has the ‘subordinate’ option, right? Sophie, isn’t this a pretty rare option?”
“that’s right. “I guess the Ndoz League bastards spent some money buying bribes to give to the puppet master.”
That was something unexpected even for Lee Hyun-wook. And it was also a coveted item.
“Sophie, in exchange for capturing this ship, I asked you to ask for what was on board, right?”
“Oh, I did, but now… are you really saying that you want to have this?”
Worry slowly spread across Sophie’s face.
On the other hand, Lee Hyun-wook smiled and nodded.
“Isn’t this a good deal? They took the ship cleanly without any sacrifice.”
“And if I use this, it will be of greater help to our allies in future battles. “I will be able to achieve the simple and ignorant breakthrough power of Living Armor that the puppeteer you mentioned earlier demonstrated.”
Sophie reluctantly nodded. She had no choice but to accept Lee Hyun-wook’s argument.
And in fact, this ship was occupied by Lee Hyun-wook alone, so he had no right to present it.
“Ha… David, we’ve never found anything like that. Understand?”
It would be a pain in the ass if the higher-ups found out that she had handed over a hero-level expensive item to Lee Hyun-wook, so Sophie decided to use her discretion to completely erase its existence.
With this, Lee Hyun-wook was able to control a total of 53 Living Armor units.
‘When I return to Korea, I’ll have to ask Kang Jeong-du to modify the Living Armor.’
Now, it seems that the time has come to properly utilize the ‘fellowship’ such as the Living Armor.
And we need to study tactics for the [Demon Machine Corps] that will be born one day.’
Meanwhile, the HPA members who came in the rubber boat were finally getting on the deck.
They wondered how this bloodless entry was possible and could not hide their absurdity.
“…What on earth happened here?”
“Didn’t the Living Armor revolt earlier?”
After a while, a man called HPA’s team leader came into the mission room and asked Sophie about the circumstances of the incident.
She simply answered that she had found a good ally and did not mention the name Lee Hyun-wook.
“Can I ask who you are?”
Soon, Alberto, a middle-aged man who was the team leader, approached Hyunwook Lee and asked.
Even on this ship, my face was covered with a mask, so I was very nervous.
“He’s just a mercenary who works for money.”
Alberto frowned at Lee Hyun-wook’s insincere answer.
However, he did not dare to utter a bitter comment.
It was because he was reminded of the scene that had occurred on the deck a little while ago.
“…Yes, then, have a nice trip.”
That night, Sophie communicated with the CAR resistance and coordinated a plan to join them.
“Okay… the point where we will join the resistance is at the CAR-Sudan border.”
The problem here was how to get through Djibouti, Africa, the ship’s arrival port.
There, a large number of officials from the Ndoz Federation were supposed to be preparing to transport the doll weapons.
“But the truth is that there is no other place for this container ship to dock.”
“We have no choice but to sink this ship off the coast of Africa and land separately.”
That was team leader Alberto’s opinion.
Anyway, their strategy was to prevent the puppet weapon from reaching the puppeteer.
However, Lee Hyun-wook opposed those words.
“That’s such a shame. Having that would be a great help in future battles.”
“Look, if you mess up, we’ll be shipping it to the puppeteer.”
“Yes, that’s true. But… I have a good method.”
After a while, Lee Hyun-wook brought the captain of this ship and said,
“This man will help us.”
The nape of his neck was stuffed with a metal ‘restraint’ made by Lee Hyun-wook, and
even wiretapping was possible with the ‘fly eye’ he kept in his pocket.
In other words, he would never allow any nonsense to be done.
“…Yes, that’s right! “If you save me, I will help you avoid inspection!”
The captain had decided to help transport the doll weapons on this ship to CAR.
He then explained in detail the process of transporting the doll weapons scheduled for the future.
“When this ship arrives at the port of Djibouti in eastern Africa, it will be loaded onto 12 trucks prepared there and taken to the military base of the CAR Ndoz Federation. At that time, I can fake the transportation plan.”
“…Most of the crew on this ship is dead, so they have no choice but to notice?”
“They won’t notice because they don’t know who the crew members are except for a few managers like me.”
If that were done, all of the living armor on board this ship could be stolen.
“…Instead, could you please help me get out of the African continent safely?”
He must have been afraid of retaliation from the Ndoz Federation.
Sophie put her hand on the captain’s shoulder.
“Don’t worry about that. We, HPA, keep our promises.”
With this, Lee Hyun-wook planned to take all 280 units of Living Armor obtained here with him.
***
It was scheduled to take about 8 days to arrive at the Djibouti port.
During that time, Lee Hyun-wook decided to swallow the Adamant prepared in advance as if he were packing a lunch box.
‘ ‘The time will soon come when we will overtake the control of metal of our previous lives.’
– Current controllable metal weight: 3491kg
* Transcendence Sense (+40%) is being applied.
* Steel Bone (+20%) is being applied.
* World Boss Monster Slayer (+5%) is being applied.
* Seoul This is an area where the Savior (+100%) of was not applied.
Even though it was not Seoul, it reached about 3.5 tons.
‘The maximum I achieved in my previous life was 4145 kg.’
It seemed that he would probably overcome that weight within 8 days.
‘It is worth it while operating the furnace at full capacity. It will be quite a struggle, but…’
For 8 days, Lee Hyun-wook stayed in his room and focused on absorbing metal. .
And 7 days later, around the time we entered the Gulf of Aden….
– Current weight of metal that can be controlled: 4146kg
“Ha… that’s it.”
It was a moment that surpassed everything in my previous life.
But at that moment.
– congratulations! You have achieved a special achievement.
“…what?”
Lee Hyun-wook’s face frowned at the achievement achievement message that appeared at an incomprehensible timing.
[List of Achievements]
5) Those who have surpassed their past life
– Condition: In this life, they have surpassed the ‘core abilities’ they had in their previous life.
– Effect: Core ability—Increased metal control (+20%)
“…….”
Looking at that message, Lee Hyun-wook felt his heart sink.
The name of the achievement is [He who surpassed his past life]. How should we interpret this?
‘What is this… If this happens, the reason I returned to the past…’
This means that all of this is ultimately caused by the system.
‘…Honestly, it’s not that I didn’t have doubts.’
The most reasonable suspicion as to how the miraculous thing called regression happened was, of course… that there was a ‘system’ involved that was ruining this world in an absurd way.
But that wasn’t the end.
– (!) The main quest has arrived.
‘Wait a minute, main quest… what is this again?’
Lee Hyun-wook had never heard of such a thing existing.
‘…This is also related to my regression.’
Lee Hyun-wook exhaled slowly and opened the contents.
[Main Quest]
– A Chance at a Second Life Obligation Destiny….
Congratulations! You are doing great with your chance at a second life.
Thus, we were given the destiny to advance to the ‘ending’.
Witness the key elements of this world and take a step closer to the truth!
1) Track down the ‘Black Gate’ that is open somewhere in this world.
2) Reincarnation—Kill the ‘Dimension Mover’ who will come from the first world.
3) Encounter ‘■■■ who knows the truth of this world.
* When clearing the reward
1st time: Myth grade item exchange ticket
When clearing the above 2 times: Differential payment other than the myth grade item exchange ticket
When clearing the above 3 times: Hint about the identity of this ‘game’
‘The identity of the game….’
Lee Hyun -wook The reason for returning to the past from this death…
Lee Hyun-wook thought resolutely as he felt that inevitable fate slowly being revealed.
‘…It’s coming.’
