Steel-Eating Player Chapter 165

Episode 165 [Yggdrasil, Green Wave, Dragon of Death – 5]

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Lee Hyun-wook was surprised by the heterogeneous power radiating from Moglei and unconsciously let go of Hilt.

Tong——!

A whopping 2 tons of giant sword fell in the direction of gravity and crashed into the ground and the roots of Yggdrasil.

‘…No, it’s not 2 tons.’

He immediately sensed that it had become much heavier than that.

‘I haven’t reached stage 4 of mass liberation yet…’

One of Moglai’s passive skills, ‘mass liberation’, was currently at stage 312t, but Lee Hyun-wook had never reached stage 4 even in his previous life.

But now, Moglei’s weight had clearly increased.

He used his metal control to levitate the Mowglai into the air, calculating its weight precisely.

Wow,

exactly 4 tons, which means it was a double increase.

“Has that big sword been upgraded in some way?”

Emilia Müller, who was standing next to him, also asked as if she felt something, and Lee Hyun-wook nodded.

“Yes, I think I met a certain condition by just breaking Nidhogg’s Life Vessel.”

Lee Hyun-wook grabbed the Mogley’s hilt and lifted it into the air to check the details.

[Item Information]

– Name: Mogley (Legendary)

– Effect

1) Mass Release-Strengthening (1~5): Releases the sealed ‘mass’ and grants the user ‘strong bones’. (Currently level 3)

2) Shockwave-Enhancement: Generates a powerful shockwave. This destructive power is proportional to mass release number 1.

3) Mana Explosive Sword – Enhancement: The blade is given the ‘power of the typhoon’, causing a ‘gust’ in the next strike.

4) Space Cutter – Enhanced: A very sharp blade of wind is fired and cuts a large area.

5) Dragon Slayer (3): With the power to kill dragons, he ignores the dragon’s power ‘to a great extent’. Additionally, ‘Dragon Sword Level 3’ is granted, improving all abilities (+40%) and forming the highest level ‘Mental Barrier’.

6) Barrier Breaker: Ignores a significant portion (50%) of the ‘barrier’ of all large monsters.

In this way, all existing skills were given the name ‘Enhancement’, and ‘Dragon Slayer’ was raised to level 3.

And finally, a passive skill called ‘Barrier Breaker’ was added.

‘Wait a minute, ignoring half the barrier of a very large monster… This will be a much more powerful option than I thought.’

Even now, forebodings of another big event, [Titanomachia], were occurring all over the world.

In other words, soon all kinds of giants will start trampling on human cities one by one…

‘When dealing with them, this barrier breaker skill will become a more powerful weapon than any other.’

To exaggerate a bit, it was like creating a titan slayer.

“What’s with that strange, out-of-place smile… I guess that’s a good option?”

Emilia Müller smiled and poked her head in, and Lee Hyun-wook cleared his throat and nodded.

“Well, since you caught the dragon twice, it must be good. By the way, who was that grumpy man in England now? I’d be embarrassed to even be called DS. “This is where the real DS was born.”

As she said, Edward Woods would no longer be able to even show his business card in front of Lee Hyun-wook.

She smiled brightly and raised her thumb toward Hyunwook Lee.

“By the way, Hyunwook Lee is worthy of the person I entrusted his life to. And please take care of my life in the future as well.”

“I think you should take better care of yourself before making such a request. “Like before, if your arm flies off like a Lego, you won’t even be able to get insurance.”

“Oh, that’s it? Hehe, I’ve never been hit properly before… I didn’t know my defense shield could be penetrated so easily.”

“It wasn’t a situation worth laughing about. Anyway, let’s go.”

Immediately after, the two escaped from the ‘unidentified gap’, a narrow space where the Life Vessel was located.

But the cavity, which was originally a terrible darkness, was suddenly filled with bright light. This is because some lights were streaming in through the cracks in the roots of Yggdrasil on the ceiling.

Perhaps Donald Harris was using the ‘master authority’ of the World Tree manager to bring in the light of Yggdrasil itself.

Thanks to this, my vision was clear, and I could see Nidhogg lying face down at the end of the cavity in the distance.

However, its body was so large that if you didn’t look closely, it would look like a black hill.

Cheeeeeeee——

As I got a little closer, I saw a cloud of smoke near its head. It seemed like the acidic breath inside its mouth was flowing out, melting the floor and producing toxic gas.

And the guy’s red eyes were half rolled back, and I couldn’t feel the slightest bit of life.

At that time, Donald Harris and the Spirit King approached.

Both of them had blood smeared here and there, as if they had been hit by Nidhogg, but fortunately, there seemed to be no fatal wounds.

“It’s new to Steele, but you’ve accomplished another great feat. For me, who couldn’t hide my anger, it’s embarrassing and I still don’t understand. How can a person like this exist… and that such a person can be trusted? I’m fortunate…”

Donald Harris, who had been surprised by Lee Hyun-wook’s performance several times so far, was still feeling that feeling being renewed at every moment.

This reaction was very familiar to Lee Hyun-wook, as it was also seen by Kim Kang-seok and Woo Seong-moon.

“Anyway, I didn’t expect to catch that monster so quickly… So… I feel like I made a good investment in you. And personally, I am proud to have found someone I can trust for the first time in a long time, and I should not spare any investment in the future. “I want to tell you that I thought I would do it.”

“Haha—I was able to do it all thanks to Mr. Harris’s help. Oh, and…can I have Nidhogg’s body?”

“Okay, well, this time I was just providing a place, so of course that bastard wouldn’t be yours, right?”

In response, Emilia Müller tapped Lee Hyun-wook on the shoulder and then patted her chest and said proudly.

“Look. I’ve been telling you for a long time that this guy is no joke.”

“I guess so, but I have a bit of mistrust in people, and I especially don’t trust gambling addicts and drunkards…”

Emilia Müller’s face crumpled at those words.

“Ha, really… Sometimes we are friends. “Do you know that I’m worried because you’re showing off too much? Ah! By the way, how could you not tell me that there’s something like that under my feet? Landlord, this is a violation of the contract.”

The two hermits who were hiding in the enclosure called Yggdrasil to avoid the jealousy and intrigues of the world were grumbling.

Come to think of it, Lee Hyun-wook had neatly solved all of their big concerns.

But it wasn’t time to relax yet.

“Now . “We have to move quickly because we haven’t caught those who woke Nidhogg yet.”

Those standing around nodded at Lee Hyun-wook’s words.

“Yes, there must still be a Dark Elf spy somewhere in this city, plotting another plot, right? These rotten things…” We defeated

their plans twice, but they were still hiding somewhere in this city.

The reason we could never feel relieved until they were completely wiped out was because there was no guarantee that such an outrageous thing would not happen again.

“I think we’ll need to search the entire city for a while, so you two will need to do your best.”

Hyunwook Lee said while looking at Donald Harris and Emilia Mueller, and Peter Clark stepped forward.

“Oh, I will take care of that. Since I was of no help in catching that black dragon… I will handle it properly.”

Although the [Wight Tree Guard] itself did not have many troops, it had quite a few security personnel under its command, so it was able to search the entire Yggdrasil under the command of Peter Clark.

“By the way, Peter, aren’t you hurt? It looked like you were flying a bit roughly earlier, so let me know if you need healing. I got hit a little hard too, but I healed, so it’s worth it.”

Emilia Müller asked so casually that a shadow spread across Peter Clarke’s face.

“Ha… I’m sorry, Emilia. I failed to do my duty. Rather, I would like to ask. “It looks like you hurt your arm a lot earlier…”

As the saint’s guardian knight, he seemed to have been greatly shocked by the sight of her arm being blown off.

The saint had been on the verge of assassination for the past few years, and Peter had put all his effort into protecting her. It was Clark.

But it seemed like she couldn’t help but suffer from self-reproach because she had suffered fatal injuries.

“Hey, I can recover as long as my head doesn’t blow off. “But the cut area is a bit sore, so I’m going to have to sleep for the past few days… but I can get drunk on this.”

Peter Clark’s expression worsened at those words.

“…Next time, you really won’t hurt a single finger.”

“Oh, okay, let’s not panic and go to sleep. First, let’s go to the ground and catch the people who planned this, and then we can have a drink.”

She smiled casually and made a gesture of shaking her drink.

However, when her arm flew off, Lee Hyun-wook honestly felt like his heart was sinking. It was

an injury that even most warrior players could not handle, and he had never experienced such an injury before. There must have been no enemies… She seemed to be tougher than expected.

‘She is an essential force in the upcoming battle with the Necromancer, so we must keep her intact.’

In order to do that, it was necessary to find and clean up all the villains around here.

‘Now that the water cleansing of Seoul is over, I wonder if I can now clean up Yggdrasil… It’s so annoying.’

However, when I went to the surface on the Pridwen, there was no need to go looking for villains.

“Hah, what is this?”

Emilia Müller snorted in bewilderment as she looked out of Fridwen’s window. Others could not hide their bewilderment at the scene unfolding before their eyes. Fridwen had just come out of the pit dug by Nidhogg

. .. Isn’t there a group of people dressed in black around the hole, fully armed, preparing to go down into the hole?

“No matter how you look at them, they’re suspicious, right?”

Hyunwook Lee nodded in response to Emilia Müller’s question.

“Well, people who have nothing to do with this incident would not want to tour a hole with a dragon in it when there are undead monsters everywhere.”

“Then are you sure that those bastards are the scum that caused this? I had to catch them all and kill them, but they happened to be gathered together,

and crucially, among them was the villain Mario Lima, whom Lee Hyun-wook had seen in the basement of ‘Hive’.

‘That bastard will later become one of Black Door’s key personnel.’

He was probably working as the right-hand man of the vice president of the current Spiritualist Association.

Anyway, during this awkward meeting, they were unable to hide their mesmerized expressions.

“…….”

He was probably preparing to clean up after expecting that the being that would come out through this hole would be Nidhogg, not Fridwen.

However, the fact that Fridwen came out unharmed was interpreted to mean that Nidhogg would not come out unscathed, so he had no choice but to look more than embarrassed and close to frustration.

Lee Hyun-wook opened Fridwen’s lamp door, went out, and looked down at them.

“Have you come to look for a friend named Nidhogg?”

They couldn’t answer his question. They just looked at their leader, Mario Lima, with a blank expression. But he also had a dumbfounded expression on his face. Then, Emilia Müller, as Lee Hyun-wook, came to the side and gave a vaguely ominous look

. He smiled and looked at them and opened his mouth,

“Hey! Your dragons are so cool! “I’m in there right now with my eyes rolled out. Do you want to go take a look?”

***

After that, no major battles took place.

That’s because they wouldn’t have dared to confront Lee Hyun-wook, who had destroyed Floss Ruber and Nidhogg in succession.

Instead, he chose to run away, but was caught not long after.

After capturing all the villains and dark elves and imprisoning them in another root prison, the party returned to Yggdrasil.

Contrary to its grandiose name, the ‘Central Drawing Room’ of Yggdrasil looked like the living room of an ordinary European home.

If you think about it, there was no way that Donald Harris would normally receive guests, so there was no way that the parlor would have been properly decorated.

Still, since it was inside Yggdrasil, the wounds and fatigue were recovering quickly just by being inside.

Clap, crackle,

four people were sitting by the fire on one side of the wall, including Lee Hyun-wook, Park Jun-mo, Kim Se-hee, and King Jeongryeong.

And Jane Jack Hanna was sitting on the sofa a little distance away and talking… Hanna continued to cry and eventually began to sob.

Not only was the day’s experiences very difficult, but she also found out the shocking identity of her best friend, so she was bound to be psychologically unstable.

‘But there is one thing in their conversation that somehow bothers me.’

Lee Hyun-wook was somewhat bothered by the name ‘Nicole’, which he heard several times after meeting those guys.

‘Hmm, a prophet…’

At first glance, it seemed like Hannah was repeatedly claiming that an unidentified girl named Nicole had predicted this entire situation.

And Jack and Jane seemed to sympathize to some extent…

‘But the prophet died a long time ago, and if I remember, players with the prophetic trait never appeared again.’

Therefore, the ‘prophecy’ they were talking about was just an illusion.

‘If not, maybe it’s on the villain side…’ Lee

Hyun-

wook adjusted his posture and faced him.

“I think it was probably a few months ago when my daughter noticed that she was going out into the human world and scolded him severely… So he ran away from home and got into trouble.”

“Oh, I see.”

“Anyway, back then I thought humans were a race of people who couldn’t be trusted, and that thought didn’t change until yesterday. But…” Well, the

afterword to this cliche line was obvious.

“…I think my thoughts have changed a bit now. “It’s all thanks to you, Lee Hyun-wook.”

He said that and held out his palm. At that moment, a small box appeared in the palm of my hand.

“Please accept this as my expression of gratitude.”

It seemed like a small reward had been given to me as I had unintentionally completed some of the Spirit King quests. Anyway,

the box contained two emerald colored jewels.

[Item Information]

– Name: Stone of Strange Engraving (Hero)

– Effect: Grants a random attribute power to the item.

“Thank you so much for this precious gift.”

This was some kind of ‘orb’.

However, it was unique in that it was ‘random’ rather than having specific properties set in stone.

In other words, unwanted options may appear, while special options that are not easily available may appear.

‘I guess I can just apply it to two fail notes?’

There was a downside to not knowing which option would be applied, but whatever came out was bound to be better than nothing.

“Oh, by the way, there’s one thing I’d like to ask.”

At Lee Hyun-wook’s words, the Spirit King nodded with a benevolent expression.

“I got an item, and I think the Spirit King can appraise it.”

“Well, can I take a look?”

Lee Hyun-wook summoned an AD-2 and took out a black crystal ball from inside.

“Now, this is a pocket space.”

[Item Information]

– Name: Room of Solitude (Special)

– Effect: Unknown

This was an unidentified item obtained by killing Floss Ruber.

It must have been something unusual as it was carried by a dark elf boss monster, but I was reluctant to open it for fear that something dangerous might be inside.

“As far as I know, the High Spirit is the best at manipulating space. Is it possible to find out what’s inside this pocket space without opening it?”

“It’s not that difficult, but I think I’ll have to take a closer look…”

The Spirit King took it, held it with both hands, and closed his eyes. Then, the space around his grasp began to tremble.

“Inside this… .”

He slowly opened his eyes and continued,

“…Hmm, it doesn’t seem like an object, but some kind of creature, but it’s not a ferocious monster, and seeing as it’s quite exhausted, I think it’s a prison.”

Lee Hyun-wook was lost in thought for a moment when he heard the words “prison.”

Then, a setting about the dark elf kingdom suddenly came to mind.

‘Their political scene was also quite complicated.’

There was a time when the Dark Elf Kingdom was friendly to humans.

And that was the time when a boss monster called the ‘Dark Elf King’ ruled.

‘But things changed when the villain intervened.’

With the support of the villain, a boss monster named ‘Dark Elf General’ staged a coup and took power, and it was at that time that the Dark Elf Kingdom’s conquest of Europe began.

And judging from the fact that the Dark Elves are now showing hostile behavior toward humanity, it appears that the villains have probably moved a little faster and become deeply involved in the politics of the Dark Elf Kingdom.

In other words, it could be assumed that members of the royal family who were non-hostile toward humanity were being held captive within this pocket place.

***

Lee Hyun-wook was standing in a huge room.

It was the same place where the city vacuum cleaner had been opened earlier and the spirit colony had been persuaded to make a contract.

Hyunwook Lee summoned a bunch of AD-2s there and then took out a black crystal ball, a room of solitude.

And when we added mana to it…

huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu H H h h h H —

Black smoke started to rise out of it, and soon dark elves with their limbs tied came out.

All 12 people had gaunt faces.

“Huh…….”

“How did this happen? Hah.”

They looked at the human standing in front of them with a surprised expression.

Meanwhile, in Lee Hyun-wook’s eyes, at least part of their identity was revealed.

– Dark Elf Guard Knight (LV: 78)

– Dark Elf Guard Knight (LV: 74)

But among them, one dark elf with a particularly high level stood out

– Clypheus Griseo, 2nd Prince of the Dark Elf Kingdom (LV: 109)

Lee Hyun-wook had gathered a certain amount of information by torturing some of the dark elves captured earlier.

‘So… the second prince was dispatched to an area outside the kingdom and was in charge of investigating human civilization, but within the dark elf kingdom, You said that a coup took place and that you were suppressed by your lieutenant, Flos Ruber, and imprisoned in a pocket space, right?’

Step by step, step by step,

Lee Hyun-wook approached the second prince.

“…….”

He looked up at Lee Hyun-wook with eyes full of wariness. However, it was not simple hostility or fear, but he slowly rolled his eyes as if he was analyzing the situation. There was.

The first thing to do was to check Lee Hyun-wook’s armament, then he lowered his head slightly and scanned the surrounding area. It seemed like he was trying to find a way out. “I have no intention of

harming you or imprisoning you… so you can relax. .”

After untying the second prince’s bonds, Lee Hyun-wook offered him water. He took the water and then made his subordinates drink it first.

“…is this the second king’s residence of the Dark Elf Kingdom?”

At those words, the dark elves’ movements stopped and their expressions hardened.

Apparently, that information was quite confidential to these guys.

“It would be useless to pretend not to know…”

So the Guardian Knight, not the Second Prince, stepped forward instead.

“Damn it, Flos Ruber, did she sell us to you humans? What did she buy us to do to us, humans?”

It wasn’t that I couldn’t understand such an extreme reaction.

I had been betrayed out of the blue and had been trapped in a pocket space for quite some time, and when I came out, what I saw in front of me was another unfamiliar race. If you weren’t sensitive, it would have been rather strange. “No, Flos Ruber is

here, Wig . “He was caught plotting to conquer Drasil and died by my hand.”

At those words, their expressions changed strangely.

“I would like to make a proposal for the second prince, would you listen? Ah, I am Lee Hyun-wook… In human society, I am more famous by the nickname Steele Rain.”

When Lee Hyun-wook revealed his identity, the dark elves’ faces turned red, and it seemed like they were aware of Lee Hyun-wook’s fame.

“…I think it’s the prince.”

“Um, Steele… Come to think of it…”

He said that and looked straight at Hyunwook Lee. There was a strange wonder in those eyes, as well as a bit of fear.

“Destroyer of the Kingdom of Stilene Black Orcs…”

That’s what they seemed to call him.

‘Those guys will be concerned that I uprooted the Black Orc Kingdom.’

Although they were completely different races, both countries had something in common: they were monster kingdoms that were born after the Wave.

“Hmm… I’m the destroyer of the Black Orc Kingdom, so is that my nickname among you? Okay, that’s interesting.”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded and took a step forward.

“I think I’ll call it something a little different this time…”

“What does that mean?”

Lee Hyun-wook lowered his posture and was at eye level with the second prince.

“I will restore your kingdom.”