Episode 184 [Second Clash – 2]
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“…What suddenly happened now?”
Once again, a terrorist attack targeting Steel Lane occurred in front of everyone.
However, this time too, Steelein showed an uncanny ability to respond and defeated the assassin, Connor O’Neill.
“Wow, I thought I was going to be caught without a move, but they arrested me…” “
But this means that the ruler of the sand castle was a member of that evil organization, right?”
“Wow, is that so? What are these crazy people doing?”
The players who watched the scene were looking up at the stil lane floating in the sky with a fisic
look .
The clock was unclear.
That’s why I couldn’t figure out what kind of strange phenomenon was happening around me….
Gurgling— Gurgling—
It was….
“—Huh? Everyone, step back!”
“yes?”
“Get off the ground you are on right now! Something is happening there!”
When a wizard player sensed a change in mana and shouted loudly, the players looked around with an expression asking what he was talking about.
Gurgling— Gurgling—
Suddenly, the ground around the Giant Fortress where the players had gathered turned into an unidentifiable ‘black mud.’ There was.
“Huh? What is this?”
From there, the foul smell of a rotting corpse began to rise, and the surface began to boil and squirm, a dynamic and threatening movement as if it might explode at any moment.
Gurgling – gurgling –
And the area is getting bigger and bigger.
“Ugh—it smells like rot! What’s happening again?”
“Now that I think about it, wasn’t there some system message that appeared earlier?”
“That’s right. Was it… a place of death? I think I’ve heard about that somewhere…”
They quickly switched to battle stance and were alert to their surroundings.
And…
“Huh? Now wait a minute! Is that thing really alive?”
A titan corpse appeared to be writhing.
He was on his knees with his head down, and the veins near the nape of his neck were moving.
“Oh, that can’t be possible… We confirmed that we killed them all. “Isn’t it like rigor mortis or something like that?”
That statement was soon denied.
“-omg!”
The titan’s neck muscles tensed, and he raised his head and stretched out his hand.
Grrrrrrr….
The guy let out a strange groan and crawled on the floor with blank eyes to snatch the players.
“Huh—Joe Zombie?”
Yes, it felt exactly like a 15m tall zombie.
And they weren’t the only ones like that.
Before we knew it, the titan corpses lying nearby were writhing and waking up, and the players who were investigating the titan corpses as the titans were scattered around due to the looting operation had no choice but to be instantly surrounded by green eye light.
“Oh my god….”
“Oh, we need to get out of here!”
They ran to avoid the giant grip reaching down from above.
The players, who had been moving frantically, soon found themselves treading in the mud again.
And from within—
“Ugh— What is this!”
Black hands sprouted up and grabbed their ankles, and then a denizen of hell crawled out and attacked the players. “
Quaaaaa
—my leg—!”
That was just the beginning, and things like orc skeletons and troll skeletons came out in droves and surrounded the area.
Some of them were carrying huge jars, and when you opened the lid of the jar…
Push-ee–!
Black. The breath of the smoke abyss burst out and spread rapidly.
If you inhale it, you will fall into all kinds of curses and eventually become sluggish in your actions.
“—Boo!”
“My body…”
In that case, the ability to avoid is clearly lost.
“Ugh—oh no!”
Like small dolls being lifted up by the hook of a claw machine, the players’ bodies were caught by giant hands and soared into the sky…..
Right! Right!
Such terrible sounds rang out one after another from outside the field of vision blocked by sand dust and black smoke.
“We have to go up to the wall over there!”
They dodged the hands of the zombie titans, dodged the zombies climbing from all directions, and ran toward the castle walls—the giant’s citadel.The stairs
there were not for humans, so each step was as high as a wall, but not at a level that made it impossible to climb up
. As hundreds of terrified people gathered in one place, a traffic jam broke out and a fight inevitably broke out.
“Huh!” Let’s all calm down and go up slowly one by one!”
“Ugh—I’m going crazy…”
No matter how elite the players were, they were all addicted to the breath of the abyss, so they couldn’t help but fall into a state of out of control.
This was resolved to some extent as the leaders of each group rushed in and attempted to lead the situation, but as the footsteps of the titan zombies got closer behind them, the number of voices losing their senses increased.
Thump—thud—
Their appearance was obscured by the ‘breath of the abyss’, making it difficult to see, so the feeling of fear was much greater.
“Ugh, we need to get out of here!”
“Fuck, open a large-scale teleportation quickly—!”
thud–!
At that time, something jumped over the giant’s castle and stood tall next to the players.
「—Everyone, stay calm!」
That was Talos, the metal giant of Steelein.
And the guy had both hands full of spears, all of which were giant spears belonging to titan hoplites.
“I’ll stop here, so hurry and avoid!”
he said, and threw the javelin, piercing one of the titan zombies right in the chest, near the heart.
thud–!.
The guy fell backwards, but immediately got up from the ground.
Ugh…….
Since they are literally ‘undead’, they don’t die.
No, to be precise, since it was already dead, it could not be retired simply by targeting vital points and destroying the organs that could sustain life.
‘And since he is a member of the Necromancer family, no matter how much his entire body is torn apart, it will be reassembled again.’
Lee Hyun-wook looked down at the scene and clicked his tongue.
‘As expected… no matter how much you think about it, it can’t be anything other than a fraudulent ability.’
Lee Hyun-wook’s ability to control metals could also be said to be deceptive. However, there was no comparison to the necromancer’s ability to control death.
He actually had the strongest ability.
‘That’s why we have to put an end to it before it gets stronger than it is now.’
Hyunwook Lee was anticipating and preparing for his second encounter with the necromancer during [Titanomachia].
However, one problem was that he did not know what timing it would be, but Lee Hyun-wook selected the moment he would aim for as much as possible and anticipated one ‘essential condition’.
‘That’s the point at which as many titan corpses as possible were piled up.’
That would be when the Necromancer’s power of death would be at its peak.
So, I predicted that the most likely time for him to appear was immediately after attacking each giant fortress.
And without delay, he appeared right now, right after the first attack was over.
This was the most unexpected timing.
‘I thought you would target me and the United Human Forces when they were more exhausted, but you attacked now… Is this to prevent them from joining Lee Seong-yoon’s side? Or is he up to something else?’
In any case, I couldn’t avoid the fight I was facing.
If we don’t stop it here and now, the titan zombies will form a line and it will become even more difficult to deal with them.
‘Okay, let’s see the end.’
Chik—
He took out the Mana Messenger.
“Ah, this is Lee Hyun-wook. I am speaking to each group leader. Please evacuate all troops to the top of the Giant Fortress as quickly as possible. Then, mobilize a transport aircraft and get out of here.”
– Chick— Are you retreating?
This voice was Brian Thiel, the leader of the Omega team and a rank A analyst.
His figure came into Lee Hyun-wook’s field of vision.
He was already standing on top of the giant’s fortress, looking down at the scene unfolding on the ground.
“That’s not it.”
– So you’re going to fight them? Those… they look like the ones that appeared on Ganghwa Island… they seem to be much stronger than then.
As he is an analyst player, he would have studied what happened during the Ganghwado incident for a long time.
So, no matter how much Lee Hyun-wook was, he seemed to have decided that it would be difficult to deal with that power of death.
He gave advice in a cautious voice.
– Steelein At that time, it was the Black Orcs who used that unidentified death power, but this time it was the Titans. I may be presumptuous, but the situation looks very bad right now.
That was an accurate analysis.
‘Yes, there is a world of difference between Black Orcs and Titans.’
If all the titan corpses lying around there were revived, it would never be stopped.
“I have a plan…”
But then—
Hung——
“Huh?”
A zombie titan was flying in the sky.
That wingless giant couldn’t fly on its own, so someone must have thrown it.
It was heading towards Talos . It flew away and Lee Hyun-wook clicked his tongue.
‘Holy shit…’
He tried to hit the Mogley by flying it, but it was already too late.
Huge
flames burst out as if several tons of high explosive bombs had been detonated. It blew Talos out hundreds of meters and crushed the giant citadel,
and players in the radius were caught in the heat storm and were killed or injured.
– Oh no…
– Ooh, my team was wiped out!
– Please do something. !
The despairing voices of each group’s leaders flowed through the Mana Messenger.
The attack just now was a ‘corpse explosion’ using zombie titans. There
was no time to waste any more. If the giant fortress collapsed further, Lee Hyun-wook’s plan This could have failed.
“Everyone, follow my instructions and use all possible methods to rescue the players and bring them up to the Giant Fortress. Then call a transport plane and escape. After that… leave it to me.”
Lee Hyun-wook spoke in a cold voice.
‘If things continue like this, even the players will become victims to my operation.’
At that time, Maru’s voice flowed into Lee Hyun-wook’s ears.
“The work has been completed and blocked. We even took care of the area that had just exploded due to a strange explosion.”
Lee Hyun-wook switched to Hugin’s perspective and the giant fortress came into view.
And the floor completely filled the holes and cracks in the fort that had just been lost in battle.
With this, the Necromancer’s undead army was now trapped within the giant’s fortress.
Of course, destroying it wasn’t difficult, but that wasn’t what Hyunwook Lee intended.
‘…I will make all of them become Buddhas within me.’
He lifted up the Mana Messenger.
Chic—
“…let’s get started.”
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“I killed them all, but they came back to life…”
ROK AMT commander Lieutenant General Choi Jeong-cheol clicked his tongue while standing on top of the giant’s fortress.
As he said, he hunted down over a hundred titans with great sacrifice. They were rising again,
reinforced with undead that couldn’t be easily killed…
Looking down from here, you could see at a glance the advance of the gigantic zombie titans and the enormous number of various undead troops writhing beneath their feet.
That scene was truly amazing . It was more terrifying than any horde of monsters I had ever seen.
“—With this, I rescued all the players!”
Finally, following Lee Hyun-wook’s instructions, all players succeeded in climbing to the top of the giant’s fortress.
However, the number seemed distinctly small.
“Um… are we really all there?”
“Yes, everyone else… became undead.”
Although it was only a short period of time, there were quite a few casualties.
And now they are enemies.
“Ha… I guess this is what the saying ‘mountains beyond mountains’ means.”
At that moment, light exploded in the sky and a white ring began to form.
It was such a famous scene that cheers erupted from everywhere.
“Yes, it is Wight Hall after all!”
Everyone knew that the situation had turned around with the opening of the Wight Hall in Ganghwado Island and the appearance of a saint.
And, according to common sense, the divine power would suppress the dark power of death.
In other words, if the saint came, she would melt that undead army. I believed that I could do it.
“Okay, I have to believe in the combination of the Saint and Steele Rain—!”
“Please trample on those bastards!”
However, Brian Till was still anxious:
‘The owner of the power of death that I can see has grown many times more than before.’ As an analyst, he had special eyes
, and he was able to obtain various information about skills just by looking at them
.
I don’t know if it was posted, but even if she appeared, it would be a much harder fight than before.
He raised his head and looked at Lee Hyun-wook, who was floating near the wight hall that was being created in the air.
‘Steel Rain… You didn’t expect this situation. He wouldn’t have done it, and the reason he’s trying to evacuate all the players and fight alone now is because he has some kind of plan….’
He was excited about what it would be, but also worried.
‘…No matter how much I think about it, I can’t handle that huge undead army. I can’t think of a way to do it.’
At that time, the Wight Hall was completed.
– Caution! An ultra-wide teleportation ‘Wight Hall’ opens in the area.
“……Huh?”
But one strange thing was caught.
Usually, the Wight Hall reflects the scene on the other side. It was bound to be visible, and if you were calling a saint, it would have been normal to see the scenery of Yggdrasil… This time, all you could see was a blue background… Qua—ah—ah—ah——
!
“Oh, that… is water. ?”
Yes, that blue background was all water. It was truly an overwhelming amount of water. They started pouring out of the hole like a waterfall.
‘Surely they opened the wight hole underwater? …why?’
And he caught one more unusual thing.
It was said that a very powerful divine power could be felt in the water.
In other words—_
“…Could it be that all of that is holy water?”
I had never once thought that such an overwhelming amount of holy water could exist.
Then, the stream stopped in the air and began to twist and swirl.
‘What is that…?’
Dozens of streams of water appeared in the distant sky. Whirlwinds were created and they crashed down on the undead army like gliding dragons.
CWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW????A vortex was created and they crashed down on the undead army like gliding dragons. CWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW????A vortex was created and they crashed down on the undead army
like a gliding dragon. Caution! A ‘flood’ of the water spirit’s wrath will begin in the area! ”
… …What on earth has Steele prepared?”
A great flood containing divine power arose and began to wash away all impure forces.
